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Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin

2021 United States Capitol attack, 4chan, affirmative action, Columbine, Donald Trump, false flag, George Floyd, gun show loophole, off-the-grid, Oklahoma City bombing, Pepto Bismol, pre–internet, QAnon, Right to Buy, Ronald Reagan, Steve Bannon, Ted Kaczynski, The Turner Diaries, Timothy McVeigh, white flight, Y2K

This pattern of conspiracy theories tailored for the right and left has continued, both regarding the Oklahoma City bombing as well as for subsequent acts of right-wing terrorism. The right, for example, has never given up on trying to blame Oklahoma City on foreigners. In 2005, Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican congressman from California, issued a report from his Oversight Subcommittee called “The Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There a Foreign Connection?” It stated, “There is serious, yet in some cases circumstantial, evidence that suggests a possible Middle Eastern connection to the Oklahoma City bombing.” In fact, no such legitimate evidence existed, and the report cited fringe sources to suggest that “a small group of recent Iraqi émigrés living in the Oklahoma City area helped McVeigh bomb the Murrah building.”

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On the other, they claimed that because the real threat came from radical Islam, right-wing extremists were not a genuine danger at all. In rewriting the story of the Oklahoma City bombing, one lead was taken by Dana Rohrabacher, a conservative Republican congressman from California. In 2005, he said on the House floor, “I was asked by several people whom I respect to direct my attention to the Oklahoma City bombing and to a possible foreign connection.” As chairman of a House Oversight subcommittee, he later produced a report titled, “The Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There a Foreign Connection?” Rohrabacher’s view recapitulated the knee-jerk reaction of many people to the bombing when it happened, and the idea—that Americans couldn’t have done this—remained politically useful for a long time.

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Strassmeir told the author Ben Fenwick: Ben Fenwick, McVeigh: The Inside Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing (Norman, OK: Harbinger Associates, 2020), p. 85. CHAPTER 7: HILLARY CLINTON’S FACE Once the FBI identified the account: Jon Hersley, Larry Tongate, and Bob Burke, Simple Truths: The Real Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2004), pp. 133–37. The peril of big government loomed larger: Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: Regan Books, 2001), pp. 151–52. The Gulfport rumor had an element of truth: Geoff Pender, “End of a Long, Strange Trip for Soviet Era Military Junk,” Seattle Times, Dec. 10, 2010, https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/end-of-a-long-strange-trip-for-soviet-era-military-junk/.

Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias by Kevin Cook

2021 United States Capitol attack, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Berlin Wall, COVID-19, crisis actor, Donald Trump, Fall of the Berlin Wall, false flag, friendly fire, index card, Jones Act, no-fly zone, obamacare, Oklahoma City bombing, Peoples Temple, QAnon, Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, wikimedia commons

The Michigan Militia, known as the Wolverines, was one of many that suffered after the bombing. Founded in 1994 in the aftermath of Waco, it soon became the largest in the country, claiming ten thousand members. McVeigh and Nichols had attended Michigan Militia meetings. Then, in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, the patriot movement retreated, with the number of active militia groups falling from more than four hundred in 1995 to fewer than forty a decade later. Michigan’s organization disbanded before reemerging in April 2020, when members of a reconstituted Michigan Militia, now an association of more than a dozen local groups, carried long guns into the Capitol Building at Lansing.

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“What happened here was wrong!” he bellowed. “They murdered all the children.” It was “proven,” Jones said, that the FBI had “machine-gunned men, women, and children as they tried to exit” the burning compound. What was more, it was “proven” that Timothy McVeigh was not responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing on Waco’s second anniversary. Bill Clinton was. The destruction of the Murrah Federal Building “was an inside job—a false-flag operation” coordinated by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Asked about the victims of the Oklahoma bombing, Jones said he felt “horribly sad” for the office workers and preschoolers who died that day.

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“And it all goes back to Waco!” Next came 2001’s attack on the World Trade Center. Jones said 9/11 proved he’d been right all along. Like evangelists from Saul of Tarsus to John of Patmos to Koresh, Jones was expert at weaving disparate threads into a vivid narrative that supported his worldview. Like the Oklahoma City bombing, the Trade Center’s destruction was “obviously” an inside job, he said. “Government demolition.” His theories found an eager audience of more than two million as InfoWars became one of the most profitable sites on the internet. Jones became a multimillionaire on annual sales of over $135 million in nutritional supplements, gold, body armor, and other products while spreading his views on Waco to millions of Americans.

The America That Reagan Built by J. David Woodard

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Boeing 747, Bonfire of the Vanities, business cycle, colonial rule, Columbine, corporate raider, cuban missile crisis, Deng Xiaoping, friendly fire, glass ceiling, global village, Gordon Gekko, gun show loophole, guns versus butter model, income inequality, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, Jeff Bezos, junk bonds, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, laissez-faire capitalism, late capitalism, Live Aid, Marc Andreessen, Michael Milken, Mikhail Gorbachev, mutually assured destruction, Neil Kinnock, Nelson Mandela, new economy, no-fly zone, Oklahoma City bombing, Parents Music Resource Center, postindustrial economy, Ralph Nader, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, Rubik’s Cube, Savings and loan crisis, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, stem cell, Strategic Defense Initiative, Ted Kaczynski, The Predators' Ball, Timothy McVeigh, Tipper Gore, trickle-down economics, women in the workforce, Y2K, young professional

Most Americans, who thought such a thing could only happen elsewhere, were left trying to grasp, and then cope, with the enormity of the act. At the time, it was the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. What happened? A stunned nation watched as the bodies of men, women, and children were pulled from the rubble. Speculation on the cause of the explosion Consequences of the Oklahoma City bombing. (# Les Stone/Sygma/Corbis) The Postmodern Nineties 177 was lost in a rush to get the wounded out. Alan Prokop was one of the first rescuers to the scene. ‘‘I could hear water running in the area and I screamed . . . that we had to get the water turned off . . . [and] the rescuer behind the slab hollered that it wasn’t water, it’s blood, and he held up his hands . . . covered with blood.’’

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On April 3, 1996, a family member gave a tip to the FBI that ended the longest and costliest manhunt for a serial killer in U.S. history.47 After seventeen years of anonymity, the ‘‘Unabomber’’ was exposed The Postmodern Nineties 179 by his younger brother. Some thought the family unfaithfulness was rooted in the terror the Oklahoma City bombing brought to light. Within five days of the deadly Oklahoma blast, the Unabomber sent another package in the mail to the president of a California forestry group. For a time in early 1995, it appeared as though the nation was held hostage, in the clutch of dissidents. Theodore John Kaczynski was an American terrorist who attempted to fight what he saw as the evils of technology by sending mail bombs to various people for a period of over eighteen years.

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They found that the bomber used old parts and filed any numbers off incriminating items, 180 THE AMERICA THAT REAGAN BUILT and they speculated that he picked components up at junkyards. He was careful, using stamps long past their issue date and scraping the labels off batteries to erase their serial numbers. The Unabomber fashioned macabre signatures for his handiwork.49 In 1995, the year of the Oklahoma City bombing, Kaczynski mailed several letters, some to his former victims, demanding that a treatise he had written be published. He threatened to kill more people if the ‘‘Unabomber’’ did not get a hearing. The Justice Department recommended publication of the bizarre tract in the interest of public safety, hopeful that its distribution would result in a lead to break the case.

Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn

Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump, no-fly zone, Oklahoma City bombing, operational security, Peoples Temple, QAnon, Ronald Reagan, Timothy McVeigh

The rules, if not written down, are defined by the aggressor. It was brutal, no holds barred. Women and kids were killed at Waco and Ruby Ridge. You put back in their [the government’s] faces exactly what they’re giving out.” Surviving Branch Davidians repudiated McVeigh’s act. Clive Doyle described the Oklahoma City bombing as “a terrible shame… it didn’t do us any good. People have likened Waco to the Alamo, and said it was a wake-up call for Americans about their government, but wise people don’t go out and rectify that with terrorist acts.” McLennan County sheriff Jack Harwell believed that Mount Carmel was an opportunity, rather than an actual motivation, for the carnage in Oklahoma City: “I don’t think that Waco has become a symbol.

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., “Randy Weaver Update,” and “Ron’s Waco Update,” The Freedom Report, Vol. 1 (September 1993). Robert Spoon, a ranch hand: Chicago Tribune (April 23, 1995). Clive Doyle presided: Ibid. “It’s because of Waco”: Michel and Herbeck, p. 318. “I didn’t define the rules”: Ibid., p. 267. Clive Doyle described the Oklahoma City bombing: Chicago Tribune (April 23, 1995). “It’s become an excuse”: Ibid. A pamphlet distributed: Irwin Suall, “Armed and Dangerous: Militias Take Aim at the Federal Government,” Anti-Defamation League (1994). Louis J. Freeh lauded: CNN broadcast, 6/14/1996. “The FBI deserved no special commendation”: New York Times (June 14, 1996).

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Immigration and, 97–98 Waco residents and, 39, 249 Waco Tribune-Herald looking for stories about, 166–167 weapons of, 10, 211–212 on who fired first shots, 203–205 willingness to die, 143–144 Branch Davidian survivors, 302. See also Doyle, Clive; Schroeder, Kathy; biblical prophecy and, 326–327 on legacy of rage, 324 on Oklahoma City bombing, 319 at second anniversary memorial service, 318 at seventh annual memorial service, 322 trial of, 309–310, 317 Breault, Marc, 78, 167 advice to ATF, 158 contacting relatives of Branch Davidians, 119 David Koresh on, 95–96 disdain for Koresh, 94 efforts to bring David Koresh down, 96–98, 113 first meeting David Koresh, 62 Kiri Jewell and, 111–112 leaving the Branch Davidians, 95–96 marriage to Judy, 94 Passover gathering (1992) and, 99 Paul Fatta/Steve Schneider and, 64–65 plant to leave Mount Carmel, 95 recruitment by, 63, 65–66, 68 refuting David Koresh, 96 Robert Rodriguez asking David Koresh about, 193 testimony to Aguilera on weapons, 141–142 Waco Tribune-Herald story and, 99, 167, 193 Brown, Wade, 221 Buford, Bill, 4, 9, 129, 141, 180, 213, 214 Bunds, Deborah Sue, 140 Bunds, Don, 61, 86–87, 94, 97 Bunds, Jeannine, 61, 86–87, 94, 97, 109, 139–140 Bunds, Robyn, 86, 87, 94, 96–97, 113, 139 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media by Cass R. Sunstein

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A number of years ago, the Terrorist’s Handbook was posted on the Internet, including instructions on how to make a bomb (the same bomb, as it happens, used in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which killed dozens of federal employees). On the National Rifle Association’s “Bullet ’N’ Board,” a place for discussion of matters of mutual interest, someone calling himself “Warmaster” once explained how to make bombs out of ordinary household materials. Warmaster observed, “These simple, powerful bombs are not very well known even though all the materials can be easily obtained by anyone (including minors).” After the Oklahoma City bombing, an anonymous notice was posted not to one but instead to dozens of news groups on Usenet (a system of discussion forums), listing all the materials in the Oklahoma City bomb and exploring ways to improve future bombs.

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After the Oklahoma City bombing, an anonymous notice was posted not to one but instead to dozens of news groups on Usenet (a system of discussion forums), listing all the materials in the Oklahoma City bomb and exploring ways to improve future bombs. TERRORISM ONLINE Terrorists and hate groups have long been communicating online, sometimes about conspiracies and (this will come as no surprise) formulas for making bombs. (Often they use encryption on the dark web, the part of the Internet that is not searchable and frequently requires password authentication.) Members of such groups tend to communicate largely or mostly with one another, feeding their various predilections. The two students who launched the attack in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999 actually had an Internet site containing details about how to make a bomb.

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advertising and, 63; appropriately slanted stories and, 62–63; backfiring corrections and, 93–97, 111; balkanization and, 66, 70, 73, 89, 111, 259; behavior and, 59, 61, 65–66, 83; bias and, 63, 92, 97; blogs and, 63, 79; Colorado experiment and, 68–70, 77; communications and, 25, 60, 63–64, 70, 75, 84–86, 89–92; confidence and, 74–75; conservatives and, 61, 64, 68–70, 72–75, 80, 84–85, 90, 94–95; conspiracies and, 124–26; consumer sovereignty and, 89; corroboration and, 74–75; crime and, 64, 92; cybercascades and, 82; cyberpolarization and, 68; Daily Me and, 59; deliberative democracy and, 86, 92; Democrats and, 61, 65, 70, 72, 76, 80–81, 90, 95; depolarization and, 89–92; diversity and, 69, 85–86; echo chambers and, 59, 68, 71, 81, 90, 93; emotion and, 82, 96–97; enclaves and, 85–89; entreprenuers of, 238; extremism and, 7, 67, 69, 72, 74, 76, 78, 86, 88; Facebook and, 64, 71–72, 82–83, 86, 89; fairness doctrine and, 84–85, 207, 221, 227; filtering and, 60–62, 64, 66, 71, 79, 82; fragmentation and, 5, 7, 64, 77, 83–86, 89, 221; 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strong convictions and, 63, 66–67, 72, 95–97; television and, 62, 64, 66, 71–73, 75, 77, 83–84; terrorism and, 234, 238, 240; Twitter and, 59, 64, 71–72, 74, 79–83, 87, 89, 95, 278n16; unbalanced views and, 92–93; unfamiliar issues and, 95–96 Political Turbulence (Margetts, John, Hale, and Yasseri), 105–6 politics: activists and, 80, 82, 178, 234, 235, 242; authoritarianism and, x, 11, 38, 73, 98, 108, 160, 165, 254; campaign finance and, 193–94; Citizens United case and, 193–94; Clintons and, 15, 59, 104, 109, 117; Colorado experiment and, 68–70, 77; communications and, 54; communism and, ix, 4, 80, 164, 189, 248; confirmation bias and, 123; conservatives and, 61 (see also conservatives); cybercascades and, 104–8; democracy and, 4 (see also democracy); Democrats and, 10 (see also Democrats); Dennis v.

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan

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The surprise twist came about because key members of the Critical Infrastructure Working Group and the subsequent presidential commission had come from the NSA or the Navy’s super-secret black programs and were thus well aware of this new aspect of the world. Rich Wilhelm, the NSA director of information warfare, was among the most influential members of the working group. A few months before the Oklahoma City bombing, President Clinton had put Vice President Al Gore in charge of overseeing the Clipper Chip; Mike McConnell sent Wilhelm to the White House as the NSA liaison on the project. The chip soon died, but Gore held on to Wilhelm and made him his intelligence adviser, with a spot on the National Security Council staff.

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CHAPTER 6 * * * THE COORDINATOR MEETS MUDGE IN October 1997, a few months before Solar Sunrise, when the Marsh Commission released its report on the nation’s critical infrastructure, few officials were more stunned by its findings than a White House aide named Richard Alan Clarke. As the counterterrorism adviser to President Clinton, Clarke had been in on the high-level discussions after the Oklahoma City bombing and the subsequent drafting of PDD-39, Clinton’s directive on counterterrorism, which eventually led to the formation of the Marsh Commission. After that, Clarke returned to his usual routines, which mainly involved tracking down a Saudi jihadist named Osama bin Laden. Then the Marsh Report came out, and most of it dealt with cyber security.

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It was during precisely such moments—rare in the annals of this history—that leaps of progress in policy had been plotted: Ronald Reagan’s innocent question after watching WarGames (“could something like this really happen?”) led to the first presidential directive on computer security; Bill Clinton’s crisis mentality in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing spurred the vast stream of studies, working groups, and, at last, real institutional changes that turned cyber security into a mainstream public issue. Now, McConnell hoped, Bush’s pique might unleash the next new wave of change. McConnell had been surveying the landscape since returning to government, and he was shocked how little progress had been made in the decade that he’d been out of public life.

9-11 by Noam Chomsky

Berlin Wall, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Howard Zinn, Nelson Mandela, Oklahoma City bombing, public intellectual, Ralph Nader, Ronald Reagan, War on Poverty, WikiLeaks

There has been virtually no discussion of the option of adhering to the rule of law, as others do, for example Nicaragua, which I just mentioned (failing, of course, but no one will bar such moves by the U.S.) or as England did in the case of the IRA, or as the U.S. did when it was found that the Oklahoma City bombing was domestic in origin. And innumerable other cases. Rather, there has, so far, been a solid drumbeat of calls for violent reaction, with only scarce mention of the fact that this will not only visit a terrible cost on wholly innocent victims, many of them Afghan victims of the Taliban, but also that it will answer the most fervent prayers of bin Laden and his network.

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It is worth remembering—particularly since it has been so uniformly suppressed—that the U.S. is the only country that was condemned for international terrorism by the World Court and that rejected a Security Council resolution calling on states to observe international law. The United States continues international terrorism. There are also what in comparison are minor examples. Everybody here was quite properly outraged by the Oklahoma City bombing, and for a couple of days the headlines read, “Oklahoma City Looks Like Beirut.” I didn’t see anybody point out that Beirut also looks like Beirut, and part of the reason is that the Reagan administration had set off a terrorist bombing there in 1985 that was very much like Oklahoma City, a truck bombing outside a mosque timed to kill the maximum number of people as they left.

Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics by Glenn Greenwald

affirmative action, anti-communist, cuban missile crisis, David Brooks, national security letter, Oklahoma City bombing, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Timothy McVeigh

As Philip Colangelo insisted when Clinton was President in an article prominently posted on Free Republic, The Secret FISA Court: Rubber Stamping Our Rights Seven judges on a secret court have authorized all but one of over 7,500 requests to spy in the name of National Security. They meet in secret, with no published orders, opinions, or public record. Those spied on may never know of the intrusion. Now, Clinton has expanded the powers to include not only electronic, but physical searches. The aftershock of the Oklahoma City bombing sent Congress scurrying to trade off civil liberties for an illusion of public safety. A good ten weeks before that terrible attack, however with a barely noticed pen stroke President Bill Clinton virtually killed off the Fourth Amendment when he approved a law to expand the already extraordinary powers of the strangest creation in the history of the federal judiciary….

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The act is a triumph for our constitutional system of checks and balances, former Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh explained in the twilight of the Cold War. It establishes that the authority to conduct foreign intelligence surveillance in this country will be shared by all three branches of government. In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, Democrats and Republicans are competing to come up with more ingenious ways to erode civil liberties…. Given the current political atmosphere, the Clinton administration’s past support for expanding the FISA court’s authority, as well as a long, sorry history of abuse, the elite legal posse will no longer need to strain very hard to pull the noose right around the Bill of Rights.

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Even as President Clinton has attacked the groups’ claims to patriotism, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and a growing corps of allies from Western states have recently expressed sympathy for some citizens’ fears of encroaching government, called for new scrutiny of federal law officers and rejected demands for investigations of the militias themselves. While none are defending the Oklahoma City bombing or anti-government violence, they are seeking to focus the policy debate stirred by the attack not on the militias but on the government agencies that militia members and their sympathizers consider the enemy…. Last week, Gingrich declared that Sen. Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.) has declared his sympathy for Westerners angry at government, saying: “I don’t disagree with their arguments.”

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson

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Purfield, forty-five, with a history of mental health problems, had by his own admission called, emailed, and posted on the social media accounts of relatives of at least eleven of twelve people murdered in Aurora, most of them many times.[4] He told them that the Aurora shooting never happened and that their loved ones were still alive. When challenged, he grew abusive. On his blog, Facebook page, and YouTube channel, Purfield talked about harassing the family members. He said he believed that Aurora and Sandy Hook had never happened and that the FBI had orchestrated the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Purfield recorded scores of YouTube videos about his efforts. They betrayed his obsessive reading of news reports about the shootings, and a chilling knowledge of their details, including the nature of the victims’ injuries. A large man with a broad face, and at times a graying, well-kept beard, Purfield spoke slowly, breathing deeply and looking at the ceiling between sentences.

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Trump’s claims were so wild, so previously inadmissible, it seemed impossible that anyone would believe them, or elect someone who did. “His latest paranoid fever dream is about my health. All I can say is, Donald, dream on,” she said, as the crowd laughed and whooped and started a chant of “Hillary, Hillary.” Then Clinton homed in on “the radio host Alex Jones, who claims that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs. “He even said—and this, really, is just so disgusting.” Clinton’s voice dropped in revulsion, making sure that her audience grasped Jones’s most loathsome claim. “He even said the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors, and no one was actually killed there,” she said, as a high-pitched exclamation rose from a few people.

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He had his own show, a nightly orgy of conspiracy claims on Austin’s community access station. He had just made his first video, America Destroyed by Design, about the “sacrifice of national sovereignty to global government and the U.N.,” showcasing his false belief that the government plotted the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The films and the cable and radio shows nurtured Jones’s Infowars persona, which Kelly insists is his true self: angry, mendacious, heedless of the wreckage he creates. Kelly was a smart, peripatetic, and lonely young woman who felt unworldly despite her travels, unsure where she fit.

Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Stephen Braun, Douglas Farah

air freight, airport security, anti-communist, Berlin Wall, blood diamond, Donald Trump, en.wikipedia.org, failed state, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, offshore financial centre, Oklahoma City bombing, out of africa, plutocrats, private military company, Timothy McVeigh

They flowed directly from a new spate of spectacular terrorist crimes. In March 1995, the bizarre attempt by Aum Shinrikyo cult members to release nerve gas in a Tokyo subway added biological and chemical attacks as a perceived threat in the terror arsenal—along with growing worries about loosely controlled nuclear materials. A month later, the Oklahoma City bombing by right-wing extremist Timothy McVeigh raised new fears of attacks on government buildings. Clinton responded with a classified June 1995 directive that identified terrorism as the most urgent national security issue, putting all agencies on notice to “deter, defeat, and respond vigorously to all terrorist attacks on our territory.”

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Signing Presidential Directive PDD-42 to combat “International Organized Crime,” he ordered federal agencies—including the NSC, Justice, State, and Treasury—to integrate their efforts against terrorism, international criminal syndicates, drug traffic, and money laundering. The next day, Clinton elaborated during a speech in New York to UN delegates celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the global organization. Linking the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings to narcotics-linked abductions and executions in Latin America and harassment by criminal gangs in Central Europe, Clinton called on the United Nations and allied governments to take on “the increasingly interconnected groups that traffic in terror, organized crime, drug smuggling, and the spread of weapons of mass destruction.”

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See also individual names of NGOs Norse Air Northern Alliance. See also Afghanistan nuclear weapons See also weapons NV Trans Aviation Network Group (TAN Group) Occidental Airlines Odessa (airline) Ofcansky, Tom Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Okapi Air Oklahoma City bombing Omar, Mullah “Operation Bloodstone,” “Operation Firedump,” “Operation Jacuzzi,” “Operation Palliser,” opium organized crime See also weapons Oster, Jeffrey Oxfam Pahad, Aziz Pakistan. See also Taliban Pecos Peleman, Johan The Arms Fixers on Bout’s Ostend operations early intelligence on Bout by on Liberia Sergei Bout interviewed by on UN sanctions against Bout on U.S. contracts with Bout Peres, Shimon Peru Phillipines Pickering, Thomas R.

The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain by Daniel Gardner

Atul Gawande, availability heuristic, behavioural economics, Black Swan, Cass Sunstein, citizen journalism, cognitive bias, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, correlation does not imply causation, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, David Brooks, Doomsday Clock, feminist movement, haute couture, hindsight bias, illegal immigration, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), lateral thinking, Linda problem, mandatory minimum, medical residency, Mikhail Gorbachev, millennium bug, moral panic, mutually assured destruction, nuclear winter, Oklahoma City bombing, placebo effect, precautionary principle, public intellectual, Ralph Nader, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, social intelligence, Stephen Hawking, Steven Levy, Steven Pinker, the long tail, the scientific method, Timothy McVeigh, Tunguska event, uranium enrichment, Y2K, young professional

If it had occurred at a time when the “nuclear accident” narrative had been in place—as it was for years after Three Mile Island and again after Chernobyl—it would have been major news. But in 2006, that narrative was gathering dust, and so the incident was treated as a minor local story and ignored. Terrorism is obviously a major narrative today, as it has been for some time, but a decade ago it was quite different. The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing made terrorism the story of men like the bomber, Timothy McVeigh, a white, paranoid, antigovernment radical. Following that storyline, journalists churned out countless articles about tiny groups of cranky gun enthusiasts who grandly styled themselves “militias.” There wasn’t much evidence that the militias were a serious threat to public safety, but McVeigh had briefly belonged to one, so reporters flocked to cover their every word and deed.

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And finally, number seven: Almost one-half of Americans are worried that they or their families could be killed by terrorists—a level of concern that is actually higher than it was four years earlier, even though there have been no terrorist attacks on American soil. No, this does not add up. The fact that people had wildly unrealistic worries in November 2001 made sense. Psychology can explain that. On a smaller scale, the same thing happened after the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. It also makes sense that the worry slowly declined as time passed and nightmares did not materialize. That, too, happened after Oklahoma City. But psychology alone cannot explain why the decline stopped, or why it crept back up as the United States enjoyed one terrorism-free year after another.

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Mesley, Wendy Mintzes, Barbara Montaigne, Michel de Moynihan, Roy Mueller, John Mueller, Robert Muller, Paul Mullet, Etienne Muskavitch, Marc Mussweiler, Thomas Myers, Richard Nader, Ralph National Center for Missing and Exploited Children National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Throwaway Children (NISMART) Nemeroff, Carol Nixon, Richard nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) nuclear power nuclear weapons O’Connor, Diana Oklahoma City bombing Olbermann, Keith optimism bias O’Reilly, Bill Ownby, Ben Paddock, Paul Paddock, William Palmer, Alexander Mitchell Paracelsus Pascal, Blaise pedophiles pesticides Peters, Ellen Pew Research Center pharmaceutical industry Pinker, Steven politics and crime and the Good-Bad Rule and group consensus and historical trends and marketing fear political advertising and risk management and the road rage panic and terrorism Posner, Richard Pound, Dick Powell, Colin precautionary principle Preston, Richard probability blindness psychology Quick, Jonathan radon gas RAND-MIPT terrorism database Rather, Dan Reagan, Ronald Red Brigades Rees, Martin Reiner, Robert Remm, Larry, Jr.

Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays by Witold Rybczynski

"hyperreality Baudrillard"~20 OR "Baudrillard hyperreality", additive manufacturing, airport security, Buckminster Fuller, City Beautiful movement, classic study, edge city, Frank Gehry, gentrification, Guggenheim Bilbao, Herman Kahn, Jane Jacobs, kremlinology, Lewis Mumford, Marshall McLuhan, megaproject, new economy, New Urbanism, Oklahoma City bombing, out of africa, Peter Calthorpe, Peter Eisenman, rent control, Silicon Valley, the High Line, urban renewal, young professional

President Bill Clinton, whose most prominent addition to the White House was a hot tub, was not known as an architecture buff. But by issuing Executive Order 12977 in October 1995, he set in motion a process that thrust politics squarely into the center of design. The executive order was the result of the Oklahoma City bombing. The day after the destruction of the Murrah Federal Building, which claimed 168 lives and injured more than 680 people, Clinton directed the Department of Justice to assess the vulnerability of all federal facilities to acts of violence. The resulting report, prepared by a large team headed by the U.S.

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Morphosis Morris, William Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas Moses, Robert Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation Mount Royal Park, Montreal Mount Vernon movie theaters: as multiplexes television as threat to Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus multiplexes Munch, Charles Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, bombing of Museum of Modern Art, New York Music, Acoustics, and Architecture (Beranek) Music Center at Strathmore Muthesius, Hermann “Myth of Community Development, The” (Lemann) Nagata, Minoru Napoleon I, Emperor of the French Napoleon III, Emperor of the French Nash, John Nashville, Tenn.

The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki

affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, Alvin Toffler, American Legislative Exchange Council, Berlin Wall, computer age, David Brooks, Donald Trump, employer provided health coverage, ending welfare as we know it, facts on the ground, Future Shock, illegal immigration, immigration reform, junk bonds, low interest rates, mass immigration, off-the-grid, Oklahoma City bombing, power law, Ralph Nader, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, Savings and loan crisis, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, Thomas L Friedman, Timothy McVeigh, trickle-down economics, union organizing, War on Poverty, women in the workforce

See also specific individuals after Civil War, 22 Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, 24–25 Bill Clinton and, 135, 184, 190 election of 1992, 175 importance of, in New York, 142–143 importance to Democratic Party by 1988, 26, 54, 55 Jackson candidacy and, 54–55, 56, 61 Mondale and, 55 Perot and, 190 Reagan and, 22, 25 Revels, 23 After Hours, 150 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 302–305, 308–309, 343–345 Alexander, Lamar, 336, 337, 338, 404 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City) bombing, 309–310, 311 Altman, Roger, 259–260, 385 “America first” theme, 153 American Legion, 224 Andersen, Kurt, 5 Andrews, Tom, 279 anti-Semitism Buchanan, 154–155, 412, 413 Fulani, 414 Jackson, 56–57 Apple, R. W., 59, 196, 287 Arafat, Yasser, 55–56 Arkansas and election of 1992, 136–137 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 51–52 armed forces in Bosnia, 360, 361 Clinton and draft, 125–129, 222–223, 227, 360 homosexuals in, 219–221, 222–223, 224–230 Armey, Dick, 107, 237–238, 356 Arpaio, Joe, 337 Aspin, Les, 226, 227 Babbitt, Bruce, 49–50 Baird, Zoë, 215–219 Baker, Howard, 282 Baker, Ross, 79 Balanced Budget Act of 1997, 357–360 Balz, Dan, 91, 373, 398–399 Barbour, Haley, 350 Bauer, Gary, 304 Bayh, Evan, 345 Beasley, David, 338 Begala, Paul, 267, 369 Bennett, Robert, 264 Bennett, William, 290 Bentsen, Lloyd, 62, 82 Biden, Joseph R., 49, 54, 216, 218 Boehner, John, 249 Boland, Edward, 37, 39 “Boll Weevils,” 22 Bonior, David, 297, 354 Boren, David, 239, 279 Borger, Gloria, 410 Bork, Robert, 405 Bosnia, 360, 361 Boston Globe, 79, 94, 117, 137, 139, 228, 285–286, 382 Boston Herald, 114 Boxer, Barbara, 390 Braden, Tom, 150 Bradley, Bill, 82, 418 Bradley, Tom, 25 Brady, James, 242–243 Brady, Sarah, 242–243 Brady Bill (1993), 312 Branch Davidians, 310–311 Breaux, John, 239 Breslin, Jimmy, 125 Brinkley, David, 157, 284 Broaddrick, Juanita, 395–396 Broder, David on Clinton, 212, 247 on Democratic Party identity crisis, 14–15 election of 1996, 82 on election of 1998, 391 on Gingrich, 112 on Michel, 248 on Republicans’ health care reform strategy, 269 on Robb, 47 Brokaw, Tom, 2, 3, 4, 63, 200, 284 Brooks, David, 403–404 Brooks, Jack, 72 Brown, Jerry, 88–89, 90, 136, 139, 140–144, 169 Brown, Ron, 86 Brown, Willie, 171 Brownback, Sam, 324 Bryan, Richard, 239 Buchanan, Patrick J.

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See also health-care reform during Clinton presidency AFDC and, 308–309, 343–345 Baird nomination, 215–219 Bosnia and, 360, 361 budget of 1997 and, 357–360 budget of 1999 and, 397–399 budget showdown with Gingrich, 315–323 on Contract with America, 275–276 election of 1994, 275–276, 278, 284–285, 286–287 election of 1996, 339, 341–342, 348–350, 351 on election of 1998, 391 first budget, 241–247 government shutdown, 324–327, 341, 347–348 gun control and, 312 homosexual rights, 219, 220–221, 222, 224–230 impeachment of, 377–379, 388–390, 391, 394, 395 Iraq and, 360–361 Jackson and, 213 Jones settlement, 391–392 Lewinsky affair, 364–376 lobbying reform bill, 265–266 on Michel, 248 middle-class bill of rights, 287–288 moves to counter Gingrich, 307–309 Oklahoma City bombing and, 310 plurality win and, 212, 213 popularity, 211, 274 as reformer of Democratic Party, 230 Republican strategy toward, 249 role of government, 211 stimulus package, 232–233, 238–240 taxes, 231, 241–245, 287–288, 359 weapons ban and, 313 White House Travel Office firings, 252–254 Whitewater and, 250–252, 256–260, 263–264, 363 Clinton, Bill and election of 1992 Chicago Palmer House Hilton and, 89–92 Cuomo and, 95, 96, 97, 134 debates, 200–202, 203, 204–205, 206 Democratic Convention, 190–192 exploratory committee, 87 extramarital affairs reported, 114–122 fundraising, 113 Gulf War position, 137–138 homosexuals and homosexuality, 195, 219, 220 Jackson and, 174, 175–185 past marijuana use, 141–142 Perot and, 162, 163, 167, 170, 171, 189 primaries and caucuses, 113–114, 117–118, 125, 131–136, 139, 142–144 public opinion of, 137, 138 Sister Souljah and, 180, 182–184 taxes, 130, 232 use of television, 171–172 Whitewater Development, 251–252 Clinton, Hillary Rodham background, 12–13, 252, 380 Bill’s extramarital affairs and, 367–368, 381–383, 392 D’Amato and, 385–387 election of 1988, 51 election of 1992, 118, 119, 120, 123–124 election of 1998, 382–383, 386–387, 388 election of 2000, 422 as elitist, 124–125 as first lady, 6 Gingrich’s mother on, 298–299 on Gingrich’s proposed changes to AFDC, 304 health-care system reform task force, 268 as polarizing, 380–381 as radical feminist, 195 run for Senator from New York, 392 White House Travel Office firings, 253–254 Whitewater and, 250–252, 257–260, 363 Coalition for Democratic Values, 86 Coelho, Tony, 19, 70, 73 Common Cause, 68 Confrontation, 150 Connecticut, election of 1992, 139 Conservative Opportunity Society, 35 Contract with America, 274–276, 306 Conyers, John, 377–378 Cook, Charlie, 351 Cooper, Jim, 270, 280 Cornelius, Catherine, 252–253 corruption/scandals Jerry Brown and election of 1992, 88 Clinton staffers’ past drug use, 295–296 Clinton White House Travel Office firings, 252–254 Clintons and Whitewater, 250–254, 256–260, 263–264, 363, 383–384, 385 Clinton’s extramarital affairs, 50–51, 114–122, 364–376, 381–383, 392, 395–396 Clinton’s past marijuana use, 141–142 Coelho and junk bonds, 70 D’Amato and federal housing program, 384 Democratic perks for big donors, 351 Diggs, 34 during election of 1992, 168 Gingrich’s book deal, 296–297 Gingrich’s college course, 353–356 Gingrich’s race against Flynt, 30 Hastert’s sexual molesting of students, 395 Hyde’s extramarital affair, 379 Morris and prostitute, 348 Wright’s book deal, 67–71, 78 Cranston, Alan, 19 Crenna, Richard, 164 Crossfire (formerly Confrontation), 150, 151 Crowley, Candy, 3–4 Crystal, Billy, 141–142 culture wars abortion, 32, 195, 412, 416 election of 2000 Republican primaries, 416 feminism, 32 homosexuality, 185–186, 188, 195, 219, 220–221, 222, 224–230 religion, 195–196 two-parent families, 195 Cuomo, Andrew, 278 Cuomo, Mario Bill Clinton and, 191 election of 1988, 21–22, 52, 60, 62 election of 1992, 83, 92–100, 113, 122–123, 134 election of 1994, 276–279 as governor of New York, 52–53 keynote speaker at 1984 Democratic Convention, 16–20 labor support, 136 as “old-style” liberal, 17–19, 21 welfare reform and convention of 1996, 345 Cutler, Lloyd, 261 Dale, Billy, 252, 253 Daley, Richard J., 242 D’Amato, Alfonse Marcello background, 384–385 Hillary Clinton and, 385–387 election of 1992, 97, 259 on Fiske, 264 New York gubernatorial election of 1994, 277 Senate election of 1998, 383–385, 386–388, 390, 391 Whitewater and, 383–384, 385 D’Amato, Antoinette “Mama,” 384, 387–388 Darman, Richard, 106, 290 Daschle, Tom, 325, 396 Dateline, 295 Davis, Gray, 391 Dean, Howard, 129 DeConcini, Dennis, 281 DeLay, Tom, 78, 305, 375 Demjanjuk, John, 154–155 Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) Bill Clinton and, 85, 87, 213 Jackson and, 174–175 liberals and, 86 origins, 45–46 Super Tuesday, 54 Democratic Party.

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., 111 Myers, Dee Dee, 252 Nachman, Jerry, 115 Nader, Ralph, 421 NAFTA, 136 Nagourney, Adam, 89 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 221 National Rifle Association (NRA), 312–313, 399, 412 New Hampshire election of 1988, 54, 58 election of 1992, 95, 113–114, 117, 121, 125, 129, 131–133, 152, 155, 156–157 New Orleans Declaration (DLC), 85–86 The New Republic, 186–187 New York, election of 1992, 140 New York Daily News, 141, 325, 387, 410 New York Post, 98, 115 New York Times, 41, 47, 57, 59, 69, 70, 81, 93, 110, 113, 133, 146, 167, 185, 196, 215, 216, 217, 223, 224–225, 227, 238, 257, 259–260, 264, 270, 275, 288, 294–295, 361, 367, 372, 373, 377, 385–386, 392, 414–415 New York Times Magazine, 66 Newsday, 258 Newsweek, 364, 403–404 Nichols, Larry, 114–115 Nichols, Terry, 309–310 Nightline, 117, 128–129 Nixon, Richard Buchanan and, 149–150 Bush taxes and, 110 election of 1972, 29 impeachment hearings, 379 pardoning of, 30 on Perot, 162–163 “silent majority” and, 33 Vietnam War draft and, 125 North, Oliver, 340 Nunn, Sam background, 47 election of 1988, 47–48 election of 1992, 82 first Clinton budget, 246 homosexuals in armed forces, 226, 228, 229 reason for Democratic Leadership Council, 46 Nussbaum, Bernard, 256–257, 261 Nyhan, David, 137, 139 Oakar, Mary Rose, 67 Obey, David, 316 Oklahoma City bombing, 309–310, 311 O’Neill, Tip C-SPAN and, 37 described, 65 Diggs and, 34 retirement, 65–66 showdown with Gingrich and rebuke of, 38–41 on Wright, 72 Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War), 80, 81, 82, 84–85, 91, 137–138, 147–148 Page, Susan, 258 Panetta, Leon, 296, 305 Pappas, Mike, 391 Pataki, George E., 277–278, 402 PBS NewsHour, 366–367 Pelosi, Nancy, 93, 356, 369, 378 Permanent Democratic Congress, 33, 34, 70, 102, 105, 207, 211, 234, 280 Perot, Henry Ross African Americans and, 190 background, 163–164, 165, 170 campaign suspension, 191 characteristics, 168–169 debates, 200–203, 331 election of 1992, 162–163, 167, 169–171, 186–187, 189, 198–201, 208–209 election of 1996, 331–334, 351, 406 election of 2000, 405, 408, 412 first Clinton budget, 241 homosexuality as issue, 185–186, 188 on television, 163–164, 165–166, 185–186, 187–188, 207 Trump and, 6 use of private investigators by, 186–187, 188 Washington scandals, 168 Phelan, Richard J., 70 Phillips, Kevin, 229–230, 399–400 Powell, Colin L., 223–224, 225, 227 Price, Christina, 299–300 Pryor, David, 11 Quayle, Dan, 106, 195, 198, 404 race and racial politics election of 1984 and, 55, 57 Nixon’s southern strategy, 25 Reagan and states’ rights, 25 Reagan Democrats and, 58 of Reagan voters, 22 radio Limbaugh, 261, 280, 291–292, 311 WRC in Washington, D.C., 150 Rainbow Coalition, 175, 176–182 Rangel, Charlie, 61, 379 Rather, Dan, 1–2, 157, 196 Rayburn, Sam, 65 Reagan, Ronald AIDS crisis, 220 Clinton stimulus plan, 238 debt and, 101–102 election of 1980, 21, 145–146 election of 1984, 9, 13, 20, 22 on election of 1994, 286 government as problem, 211 on O’Neill, 65 states’ rights, 25 Reagan Democrats, 45, 58, 211 Reed, Ralph, 290 Reflections of a Public Man (Wright), 67–69 Reform Party, 6, 406–410, 411–415 Reid, Harry, 391 Renewing American Civilization, 353–356 Reno, Janet, 256, 258, 263, 311 A Republic, Not an Empire (Buchanan), 409 Republican Party.

Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat by John P. Carlin, Garrett M. Graff

1960s counterculture, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, Aaron Swartz, air gap, Andy Carvin, Apple II, Bay Area Rapid Transit, bitcoin, Brian Krebs, business climate, cloud computing, cotton gin, cryptocurrency, data acquisition, Deng Xiaoping, disinformation, driverless car, drone strike, dual-use technology, eat what you kill, Edward Snowden, fake news, false flag, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Hacker Ethic, information security, Internet of things, James Dyson, Jeff Bezos, John Gilmore, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, Ken Thompson, Kevin Roose, Laura Poitras, Mark Zuckerberg, Menlo Park, millennium bug, Minecraft, Mitch Kapor, moral hazard, Morris worm, multilevel marketing, Network effects, new economy, Oklahoma City bombing, out of africa, packet switching, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer model, performance metric, RAND corporation, ransomware, Reflections on Trusting Trust, Richard Stallman, Robert Metcalfe, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, self-driving car, shareholder value, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, Snapchat, South China Sea, Steve Crocker, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, Stuxnet, The Hackers Conference, Tim Cook: Apple, trickle-down economics, Wargames Reagan, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Review, WikiLeaks, Y2K, zero day, zero-sum game

Mueller and our team would walk down to the FBI’s command center, known as the Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC), for the morning threat briefings with the attorney general and his deputy. The SIOC, deep in the heart of the Hoover Building, had been an invention in the 1990s, after the Oklahoma City bombing, to help the FBI manage and respond to unfolding crises. It had workstations for dozens of personnel from across the government, as well as a number of high-tech but drab conference rooms for briefings. We spent the first hour of each morning discussing the most dangerous threats facing the country.

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More than twenty years into the challenge, the government was still trying to make sense of the patchwork of roles and responsibilities that agencies had assumed as the world shifted from analog to digital. The prefix cyber-, originally drawn from William Gibson’s book, had entered the government’s nomenclature in the 1996 report of President Clinton’s Critical Infrastructure Working Group, a team originally tasked with examining the post–Cold War terrorism threat in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing and the vulnerability of the nation’s key facilities and networks. Yet rather than just focus on the physical safety of buildings, airports, and government offices, half of the working group’s final report dealt with emerging digital threats. One Justice Department lawyer assigned to the team, Michael Vatis, knew Gibson’s book and recommended the group adopt the term.

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See “National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security” Nu Prometheus League, 97 nuclear counterproliferation efforts, 315 Obama, Barack, 12, 23, 71, 385, 386, 389, 390; on China and international law and norms, 270–271; China hacking presidential campaign of, 31, 167–169; on Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, 345; cyber activities executive order, 343–344; on cyber threats, 198, 338, 340; cybersecurity progress during administration of, 64, 243; on drone strikes, 387; FBI addressed by, 172; inauguration, 171; presidential campaign, 31, 167–169; reset with Russia pursued by, 282–283; on responses to China cyber activity, 367; on Sony hack, 338; Xi meeting with, 368 Obama, Michelle, 19 Obermeier, Otto, 97 Oblivion, Brian, 124 O’Brien, Joe, 93 Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, 188 Office of Management and Budget, 362 Office of Personnel Management (OPM), 46, 352–366, 371 Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, 197–198 Ohmae, Kenichi, 72 Oklahoma City bombing, 144, 174 Oldham, Nick, 202–206, 209, 264, 265, 267 Olsen, Matt, 136 The Onion, 378 online credit card fraud, 26–27 “Open Source Jihad” (magazine), 10 open systems, 79 Operation AURORA, 183 Operation DIGITAL GRIDLOCK, 65, 66, 122, 133 OPM. See Office of Personnel Management organized crime, Russia and, 52, 115–116 Osnos, Evan, 148 p0ison.org, 2 Painter, Christopher, 31, 77, 98n, 108, 112, 113, 133 Panetta, Leon, 224, 282 Pang, Wei, 258–262 Pangang Group, 257 Park Chan-mo, 318 Parker, Sean, 65 Parker, Theodore, 71 Pascal, Amy, 309, 310, 333, 334 Pastebin, 224, 311 Patrick, Neal, 87 patriotic hackers, 59 Paulson, Hank, 155 PDD-63, 101 peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, 65, 67, 68 Penchukov, Vyacheslav Igorevich, “tank,” 288, 289 Peng Dequan, 166 Pentagon.

Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety by Gideon Rachman

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Alan Greenspan, Asian financial crisis, bank run, battle of ideas, Berlin Wall, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Bonfire of the Vanities, borderless world, Bretton Woods, BRICs, capital controls, carbon tax, centre right, clean water, collapse of Lehman Brothers, colonial rule, currency manipulation / currency intervention, deindustrialization, Deng Xiaoping, Doha Development Round, energy security, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial deregulation, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, full employment, Glass-Steagall Act, global reserve currency, Global Witness, Golden arches theory, Great Leap Forward, greed is good, Greenspan put, Hernando de Soto, illegal immigration, income inequality, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, Jeff Bezos, laissez-faire capitalism, Live Aid, low interest rates, market fundamentalism, Martin Wolf, mass immigration, Mexican peso crisis / tequila crisis, Mikhail Gorbachev, moral hazard, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, offshore financial centre, Oklahoma City bombing, open borders, open economy, Peace of Westphalia, peak oil, pension reform, plutocrats, popular capitalism, price stability, RAND corporation, reserve currency, rising living standards, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, shareholder value, Sinatra Doctrine, sovereign wealth fund, special economic zone, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, Tax Reform Act of 1986, The Chicago School, The Great Moderation, The Myth of the Rational Market, Thomas Malthus, Timothy McVeigh, trickle-down economics, Washington Consensus, Winter of Discontent, zero-sum game

Cited in William Greider, Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country (New York: Rodale, 2009), 70. 7. Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (London: Penguin, 2002), 4. 8. Ibid., 21. 9. Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: ReganBooks, 2001), 59. 10. Martin Wolf, Why Globalization Works (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005), 9. 17. POWER: CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER AND THE NEOCONSERVATIVES 1. Charles Krauthammer, “The Unipolar Moment,” Foreign Affairs 70:1 (Winter 1990/91). 2. Charles Krauthammer, “The Bush Doctrine,” Time, March 5, 2001.

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., 16, 18, 221 9/11 in, 90, 96, 161–62, 164, 199, 280 New York Times, 168, 238, 261 Nicaragua, 43, 73, 242 9/11, 10–11, 90, 96, 103, 104, 134, 164–65, 167, 184, 199, 254, 273 antiglobalization and, 156–57 Europe and, 146–47 NonZero (Wright), 124 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 74, 116, 157, 259 North Korea, 159, 168, 186, 229, 273, 275, 311n nuclear deterrence, 183, 272 nuclear disarmament, 222, 287, 288 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 212 nuclear proliferation, 3–4, 5, 9, 10, 176, 198, 199, 220, 223, 224, 226, 227, 229, 241, 242, 243, 248, 249, 280, 286, 287, 288, 311n terrorism and, 211–12 zero-sum future and, 262, 272–73, 275 Obama, Barack, 2, 173, 176, 182, 184–87, 196–99, 203, 222, 240, 243, 285, 287 Afghanistan war and, 230, 252–53, 254, 314n in election of 2008, 170, 179, 245, 268 election of 2010 and, 292 global problems and, 9, 197–99, 210, 211, 212, 224–27, 244, 272, 288, 291 Japanese relations and, 190 at UN, 9, 197–99 Of Paradise and Power (Kagan), 152 oil, 9, 48, 81, 89–90, 125, 175, 204–5, 221, 244, 272, 274, 275, 288 financial crisis and, 192–95 price controls removed from, 37, 39 price of, 204, 236, 242, 247, 248 Soviet, 55, 60, 66 Okinawa, 186, 190 Oklahoma City bombing (1994), 161 O’Neill, Jim, 76 Opel, 195 opinion polls, 140, 158, 165, 170, 196, 238, 245, 254–55, 264, 284, 316n Opium Wars, 17, 135–36 Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, 110, 259 O’Rourke, Kevin, 271 outsourcing, 122, 168 Ozawa, Ichiro, 190 Pacific, 185, 186, 187, 190–91, 274, 280 Pakistan, 10, 208, 251–52, 254, 255–56, 258, 273, 274, 311n terrorism in, 211, 212, 251, 252, 256, 313n Pale Fire (Nabokov), 311n Palestine, 207, 241, 272 pandemics, 9, 198, 199, 225 Paris, 46, 152 Parsons, Sir Anthony, 31 Paulson, Hank, 112 peace, 103, 118, 126–34 democratic, theory of, 5–6, 94, 127–31, 134, 140, 174, 283, 304n globalization and, 5–6, 10, 127–28, 140 peace dividend, 103 peacekeeping activities, 131, 199, 223, 225, 230, 255, 288–89, 316n People’s Daily, 22, 239 perestroika, 54–60 Perot, Ross, 157, 158, 267 Persian Gulf, 184, 193, 205, 241, 247, 272 see also Gulf War Peshawar, 251–52, 254, 313n Peskov, Dmitry, 235–36, 237 Peterson Institute for International Economics, 181–82 Pew polls, 158, 196, 254–55, 284 Philippines, 18, 43, 138, 206 Pinochet, Augusto, 36, 71, 75 piracy, Somali, 209, 210, 256 Pittsburgh G20 summit (Sept. 2009), 217, 218–19, 221, 225 Poland, Poles, 64–67, 100, 146, 147, 149, 150, 158, 165, 235, 270, 279, 280 population, 146, 206–9, 240, 257, 263, 269, 285 Portugal, Portuguese, 72, 147, 165, 188, 235 Post-American World, The (Zakaria), 181, 262 poverty, 27, 80, 81, 109, 115, 118, 138, 139, 149, 175, 189, 238, 272, 281 globalization and, 157, 255 global problems and, 198, 199, 202, 206–9, 220, 229 in Obama’s UN speech, 9, 198, 199 power, 118, 126, 162–70, 248 in Asia, 6, 142–43 of European Union, 151, 160 technological, 93, 94, 128 U.S., 10, 93, 96, 162–70, 173, 174, 176, 179, 180–81, 183–88, 213, 246, 249, 253 Prior, Jim, 31 privatization, 24, 57, 94, 191 in France, 47–48 in Great Britain, 17, 32–35 in Latin America, 72, 74, 75 productivity, 119, 122, 151 progress, 118–26 Project for the New American Century (PNAC), 104 prosperity, 10, 107–18, 133, 134, 140, 173, 194, 196, 249 protectionism, 80, 83, 158, 192, 195, 206, 218, 280 in Latin America, 72–75, 77 zero-sum future and, 262–68, 274 Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), 253 Putin, Vladimir, 146, 168, 235–36, 237, 283 Rand, Ayn, 108–9, 110 Rao, Narasimha, 79–83 Reagan, Ronald, 16, 17, 18, 35–45, 64, 74, 87, 114, 118, 119, 191, 213, 225, 296n defense buildup and, 55 Fukuyama and, 99, 104 Greenspan and, 42, 107 Latin America and, 75, 76 Soviet Union vs.

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch by Lewis Dartnell

agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, clean water, cotton gin, Dava Sobel, decarbonisation, discovery of penicillin, Dmitri Mendeleev, flying shuttle, Ford Model T, global village, Haber-Bosch Process, invention of movable type, invention of radio, invention of writing, iterative process, James Watt: steam engine, John Harrison: Longitude, Kim Stanley Robinson, lone genius, low earth orbit, mass immigration, Nick Bostrom, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, nuclear winter, off grid, Oklahoma City bombing, Richard Feynman, safety bicycle, tacit knowledge, technology bubble, the scientific method, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Timothy McVeigh, trade route

., 20–21 New York City, 256n, 266–67, 268, 270 nitrates, 237, 238, 243, 247, 248 nitric acid, 121–22, 159, 238, 247, 250 nitrocellulose, 238 nitrogen, 69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 88, 115, 178, 238, 247–51 in Haber-Bosch process, 57, 232, 248–51 nitroglycerin, 238 nitrous oxide, 159, 250 Nobel, Alfred, 238 north pole, 263–65, 264 North Star (Polaris), 263, 269 nuclear war, 22 oats, 60, 66, 67 Off-Gridders, 48 oil, crude, 116, 119–20, 189, 279 oil lamps, 108–9, 184 oil paints, 219 oils, see fats and oils Oklahoma City bombing, 250n opium, 156 oral rehydration therapy (ORT), 148 Oryx and Crake (Atwood), 103 oscillator, 257–58, 271 oscillator circuit, 224–25 oxen, 195, 196 oxidizing agents (oxidants), 104, 236, 238 oxygen, 232, 233, 279 explosives and, 236 “Ozymandias” (Shelley), 209 pain relief, 155–57, 158–59 paints, 118 oil, 219 pandemic, 23 Pantheon, 29 paper, 210–13, 215, 218, 232, 238, 243, 276 pasteurization, 92 pathology, 154 pellagra, 84n Pelton turbine, 181, 181, 182 pen, 214 pendulum, 283 clock, 257–59, 271, 289–90 Foucault’s, 256n penicillin, 12, 162, 163–64 periodic table, 234–35, 242 pesticides and herbicides, 57, 77n, 279 Petri dishes, 161, 162 pharmaceutical compounds, see medicines phones, 3–4, 13, 50–51 phosphorus, 57, 75–76, 110 photography, 104, 114, 122, 235, 238, 239–42 observing stars and, 263, 265 pickling, 84, 89, 91–92, 118 piezoelectric crystal, 226 piston, 173 pitch, 119 plastic bottles, for solar water disinfection, 37–38 plastics, 49–50, 116, 118, 235n, 279 plate tectonics, 279 plow, 58, 60–61, 62, 63, 195 Polaris, 263, 269 polyethylene terephthalate (PET), 50 poppy, 156 population, 24–25 potash, 17, 76, 114, 115, 120, 139, 212, 233, 234, 237, 243–44, 249 potassium, 57, 75, 76, 114, 233, 234 bitartrate, 226 carbonate, 114 hydroxide, 115, 190, 249 nitrate (saltpeter), 237–38, 248, 250 sodium tartrate, 226 potatoes, 60, 65, 67 potter’s wheel, 125, 203, 206 pottery vessels, 80–81, 95, 124–26 POW radios in World War II, 226-27 power, see energy and power Preppers, 21, 33, 48 pressure gauge, 284–85 printing, 214–20, 276 printing press, 12–13, 215–19 prisons, 21–22 propane, 191 pyrites, 121 pyrolysis, 116–20, 117, 192 quicklime (calcium oxide), 110–12, 139, 140, 233, 245 quinine, 155 rack and pinion mechanism, 205 radio, 51, 221–29 amplitude modulation in, 223 earphones or speakers for, 225–26, 227 location determination and, 273 microphone for, 225–26 oscillating circuit in, 224–25 receiver for, 222, 225, 228 transmitter for, 222–23, 225 radioactivity, 279 railways, 188 rapeseed, 60, 109, 171, 190 razor blade rectifier, 227, 228 Read, Leonard E., 4 reaper, 69 rectifier, 227, 230n razor blade, 227, 228 recycling, 49–50 refrigerators, 93–95 Renaissance, 11, 275, 276 rennin, 85 repopulation, 24–25 resin, 219–20 resonance, 224 rhinovirus, 147 rice, 65–66, 66, 67 Road, The (McCarthy), 2 roads, 187–88 Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 33 Rochelle salt, 226 Roman Empire, 11 Röntgen, Wilhelm, 153 rubber, 193–95 “Ruin, The,” 79 rye, 60, 66, 67, 86 sailing ships, 198–200 salicylic acid, 157 Salon of 1767 (Diderot), 253 salt (sodium chloride), 82, 113, 121, 232, 240, 244, 245, 247 in food preservation, 82–83, 91–92 in oral rehydration therapy, 148 producing, 83 saltpeter, 237–38, 248, 250 saltwort, 244 sand, 138–39, 140, 144 saponification, 84, 112–13, 114–15, 211–12 satellites, 42, 239n sawmill, 171, 206 scales, balance, 283, 284 science, 275–91 experimentation in, 287–89 measures and units in, see measures and units as process, 289 roots of, 280–81 socioeconomic environment and, 277–78 technology and, 289–91 tools of, 281–86, 287 scientific method, 278–81, 286–89 scientific revolution, 259, 276 screw press, 218 scurvy, 157n scythe, 61, 67, 68 sea level, 31, 45 seaweed, 114 seed drill, 62, 64, 195 seismometer, 287 sewage systems, 57 sewage treatment, 75 sextant, 269–70, 269, 273 Shampoo Planet (Coupland), 231 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 209 shelter, 33, 34–35 ships, 198–200 shipwrecks, 30 Shirky, Clay, 9 sickle, 61, 67, 68 silica, 138, 139–40 silver chloride, 240 silver nitrate, 240 Sirius, 261 smallpox, 147 smelting, 135–36, 137, 140, 249 soap, 112–16, 190, 243 saponification in, 84, 112–13, 114–15, 211–12 social contract, 20–22 soda, 243–47, 246 ash (sodium carbonate), 114, 118, 120, 139, 140, 212, 226, 243, 244, 245 caustic (sodium hydroxide), 115, 190, 212, 232, 233, 234, 243, 244, 244n sodium, 233, 234 acetate, 118 bicarbonate, 245 carbonate (soda ash), 114, 118, 120, 139, 140, 212, 226, 243, 244, 245 chloride, see salt hydroxide (caustic soda), 115, 190, 212, 232, 233, 234, 243, 244, 244n hypochlorite, 212 thiosulfate, 240 soil, 57, 58–64, 70–72, 76, 110 solar power, 13, 47 solar water disinfection (SODIS), 37–38 solstices, 255–56, 261 Solvay process, 245–47, 246 solvents, 119 soot, 219 sorghum, 66, 67 south pole, 264 Soviet Union, 3n, 198n speakers, 225–26 spectrometer, 287 spinning, 96–97, 277 spinning wheel, 97, 97 Staphylococcus, 162 stars, 239n, 261, 262, 263–65, 269, 270 Barnard’s, 262–63, 263 constellations of, 261 latitude and, 268 North (Polaris), 263, 269 steam engine, 170n, 172–73, 182, 197, 201, 277, 290–91 steampunk, 15 steam turbine, 182–83, 185, 206–7 steel, 29, 49, 124, 130–32, 136–38, 277 steering wheel, 205 Stephens, John Lloyd, 145 stereotype, 218n stethoscope, 152 Stonehenge, 256 strontium, 233 substances, 102, 103–22 acids, 82, 84, 92, 104, 113, 116, 120–22 alkalis, 82, 84, 104, 113, 114, 116, 120, 212, 234, 243 lime, see lime soap, see soap for thermal energy, 104–9 wood pyrolysis, 116–20, 117, 192 sugar(s), 82, 89, 90, 190, 240n in oral rehydration therapy, 148 sulfur dioxide, 240 sulfuric acid, 120–22, 159, 214, 238, 241 sulfuryl chloride, 121 Sun, 269, 270 coronal mass ejection from, 22, 24 equinoxes and, 259 proving Earth’s orbit around, 260n solstices and, 255–56 sundial, 256–57, 259–60, 270–71 superglue, 42–43 surgery, 151, 155, 158–59 Svalbard Global Seed Vault, 55, 55 tallow, 191 tea tree oil, 155 technology, 289–91 telegraph, 220–21 telescope, 140, 143, 161 temperature measurement, 285–86 thermometer for, 141, 144, 152, 285–86, 287, 288 Texas City, 250n textiles, 212–13, 232, 276, 277 for clothing, 98–101 linen, 96, 211 spinning yarn for, 96–97, 277 spinning wheel for, 97, 97 weaving, 98, 277 weaving loom for, 98–100, 99, 101–2 thermal energy, 104–9, 166, 172, 182 thermionic emission, 228–29 thermometer, 141, 144, 152, 285–86, 287, 288 Three Gorges dam, 180 threshing, 68 threshing flail, 61 Thwaites, Thomas, 4 time telling, 253–60, 266 calendar for, 253, 260–65 clocks for, see clocks hourglass for, 254–55 sundial for, 256–57, 259–60, 270–71 toaster, 4 tooth fillings, 174n tractor, 63, 197–98 trade, 198 train lines, 188 transformer, 183–84 transmission, car, 204 transport, 185, 187–208 electric vehicles for, 206–7 fuels for, 188–93 gasification and, 191–93, 192, 194 keeping vehicles running, 188–95 and loss of mechanization, 195–201, 197 powered, reinventing, 201–8 roads for, 187–88 rubber for, 193–95 trees, 17 triode, 229 trip hammer, 171, 171, 179, 203, 276 tuberculosis, 147 turpentine, 119, 219–20 type setting, 216–18, 217 urea, 115 urine, 73, 74, 115 vacuum, 284 vacuum tubes, 141–42, 153, 227–30 Varro, Marcus Terentius, 161n vinegar, 84, 118, 120 violence and crime, 20–22 vitamin B3, 84n vitamin D, 72, 84–85 vitriol, 120 voltaic pile, 175, 178 walkie-talkies, 51 Washington, DC, 45 waste, human, 73–75 Waste Land, The (Eliot), vii, 10 water, 81, 103 for apartment buildings, 44–45 destruction caused by, 28–30 water, drinking, 33, 36–38, 109–10, 124, 148 oral rehydration therapy, 148 water clock, 205, 206, 254 water turbine, 180–82, 181 steam, 182–83, 185 waterwheel, 166–68, 167, 170, 171–72, 178–79, 180, 203, 213, 276 Watt, James, 170n weaving, 98, 277 weaving loom, 98–100, 99, 101–2 welding, 131–32 wet collodion process, 241 wheat, 53–54, 55, 60, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73, 86, 89 wheelbarrow, 12, 276 Wikipedia, 9 willow, 155, 157 wind, 168–70 windmill, 46, 169, 170, 171–72, 178–80, 179, 213 windows, 140, 141 winnowing, 68 Wiseman, John “Lofty,” 33 wood, 17, 123–24 ashes, 17, 76, 113–14, 115 charcoal from, 106–7, 116, 124, 135, 184 firewood, 106, 165, 176 gasification of, 191–93 paper from, 211–13 pyrolysis of, 116–20, 117, 192 smoking food with, 83, 91–92 wood alcohol (methanol), 118–19, 190 wool, 96–98 World Health Organization, 37 World War II, POW radios in, 226–27 writing, 210–14, 215 Wyndham, John, 53 X-rays, 12, 141, 153, 221, 239 yeast, 89–91 yogurt, 84, 85, 88 Zeer pot, 93 CREDITS Text 1: Excerpt from Rameau’s Nephew and Other Works by Denis Diderot, translated by Jacques Barzun and Ralph H.

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The immediate response of the soda plants was to scrub this soluble gas by sprinkling water down the inside of their chimneys and discharge the resultant hydrochloric acid straight into the nearest river, deftly sidestepping the legislation by turning air pollution into water pollution! * More than two tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer were packed by Timothy McVeigh into the back of a truck for the Oklahoma City bombing, and one of the world’s largest non-nuclear explosions occurred in 1947 when a fire caused a ship carrying more than 2,000 tons of the compound to detonate in the port of Texas City. * The parallel streets of Manhattan’s grid-like layout are aligned along a bearing of 30 degrees east of celestial north, and twice a year (in late May and mid-July, evenly flanking the summer solstice), this grid behaves like a city-size Stonehenge, with the sun setting right down the centerline of the canyon-like streets

Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World by Michal Zalewski

accounting loophole / creative accounting, AI winter, anti-communist, artificial general intelligence, bank run, big-box store, bitcoin, blockchain, book value, Buy land – they’re not making it any more, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Carrington event, clean water, coronavirus, corporate governance, COVID-19, cryptocurrency, David Graeber, decentralized internet, deep learning, distributed ledger, diversification, diversified portfolio, Dogecoin, dumpster diving, failed state, fiat currency, financial independence, financial innovation, fixed income, Fractional reserve banking, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Haber-Bosch Process, housing crisis, index fund, indoor plumbing, information security, inventory management, Iridium satellite, Joan Didion, John Bogle, large denomination, lifestyle creep, mass immigration, McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit, McMansion, medical bankruptcy, Modern Monetary Theory, money: store of value / unit of account / medium of exchange, moral panic, non-fungible token, nuclear winter, off-the-grid, Oklahoma City bombing, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, paperclip maximiser, passive investing, peak oil, planetary scale, ransomware, restrictive zoning, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk tolerance, Ronald Reagan, Satoshi Nakamoto, Savings and loan crisis, self-driving car, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, supervolcano, systems thinking, tech worker, Ted Kaczynski, TED Talk, Tunguska event, underbanked, urban sprawl, Wall-E, zero-sum game, zoonotic diseases

But much like Europe, the United States bears many more scars from other harrowing terror campaigns. The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the shooting of Ronald Reagan in 1981 reshaped the very institution of the presidency—and likely cemented the support for the sweeping expansion of the country’s gun laws, as enacted in 1968, 1986, and 1991. The devastating Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, itself purportedly a reprisal for the grotesquely mishandled standoffs at Waco and Ruby Ridge, catalyzed radical militia movements and fed into the enduring siege mentality across many law enforcement agencies. The decades-long bombing campaign carried out by Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant Polish-American mathematician with a mix of apocalyptic and pro-environmental beliefs, sowed fear throughout the nation’s institutions well into the 1990s—and in the end, salvaged the reputation of the scandal-plagued Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Heater, 157 MREs (meals ready to eat), 144 muggings, 112–113 Multi-Use Radio Service (MURS), 188 municipal sewers, 145–147 Mylar, 149 MyLife.com, 110 N N95 respirators, 174 N-acetylcysteine (NAC), 179 Nagasaki, 31 Nakamoto, Satoshi (pseudonym), 66–67 nasal glucocorticoids, 150 National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 14 National Security Agency (NSA), 109 natural disasters, 18–19, 34–35 neonicotinoids, 176 neurotoxins, 176 New Deal, 22 New York Times, 37 Niebuhr, Reinhold, 43 9-11 attacks, 26–27 9mm Luger, 214 nitrates storage accidents, 20 non-fungible tokens (NFTs), 87 NRC ADM-300, 179 NSA (National Security Agency), 109 nuclear disasters and nuclear fallout, 20, 31, 39–40, 178–180 nuclear electromagnetic pulse, 40–41 Nuclear War Survival Skills (Kearny), 39 nuclear winter, 30 nutrition, 139–140 O obesity, 115–118 OFD Foods, 141 Oklahoma City bombing, 26–27 Olympic Park bombing, 26 One Child Nation, 8 OneRep, 110 online fraud, 106–108 online privacy, 109–111 optimism, 44 opting out, 110 oral antibiotics, 151 outages, 12 oximeters, pulse, 150 P pain medications, 99–100 pandemics, 25–26, 32, 174–177 pantries, 140–144 paperclip maximizer parable, 42 paperwork, 166–167 passive infrared (PIR) motion sensors, 201 passwords, 108 pathogens, 32–33 “peak oil” hypothesis, 35 pepper spray, 205, 207 Perhach, Paulette, 49–50 perimeter security devices, 201 Permian extinction, 34 personal hygiene, 149 pessimism, 44 pests, 177 phishing, 107 phones, 155–156, 181 physical cash, 75–76 physical fitness, 115–118 physical violence, 13 pickpocketing, 113–114 PIG Sock, 147 Piketty, Thomas, 72 PIR (passive infrared) motion sensors, 201 pistols, 212–213 pit latrines, 147 planetary catastrophe, 34 planning documents, 121–125 plumbing, 145–148 poisons, 177 pollinating insects, declines of, 35 poor countries, 33–34 Population Bomb, 7–8, 30 porch piracy, 111 portable generators, 155–156 portfolio design strategies, 88–90 power outages, 152–159 power puller, 162–163 power tools, 101–103 precious metals, 83–85 predictions of apocalypse, 30–31 prepping community, 119–120 prescription drugs, 99–100, 150 PRI-G, 156 Primatene, 150 prion diseases, 32 privacy online, 109–111 propane, 157–158 property crime, 13–14, 199–202 prophecies, 30–31 proportionality of self-defense, 204–205 pry bars, 112, 163 pulse oximeters, 150 pyrethrin, 176 pyriproxyfen, 176 pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ), 179 Q Quick Dam, 147 R Radaris, 110 radiation, 30, 39–40, 178–180 radios, 182–190 rainy-day savings, 49–55 rats on Christmas Island, 33 Raven Rock (Graff), 40 Reagan, Ronald, shooting of, 26 real estate, 85–86 recessions, 22 recreational drugs, 100–101 recreational shooting, 219 Reddit, 52, 109 refrigerators, 152–153 regimes, totalitarian, 36–39 rehydration salts, 150 REITs (real estate investment trusts), 86 renter insurance, 11, 201 repairs, 162–163 repeaters, 185 representative currency, 63 respiratory diseases, 150 revolvers, 213–214 revolving loans, 53–54 rifles, 215–216 riots, 21 risk mitigating, 74–88 mitigation costs, 5–6 quantifying, 5–6 risk-rank formula, 6 risk-taking, 95–96 statistics on, 3 robberies, 112–113 rodents, 176–177 Romero, George A., 30 Rothbard, Murray, 61–62 Ruby Ridge siege, 26 Ruger LCP, 214 S Sabin, Paul, 8 sanitization, 175–176 SARS, 26 satellite communications, 182–183 savings, 10, 49–55 Savings and Loan Crisis, 22 saws, 162 scams, 106–108 Scepter brand cans, 133 Schneier, Bruce, 3 science, 30 science fiction, 29–30 security devices, 201 self-defense firearms, 211–219 legalities of, 204–206 property crime, 199–202 robberies, 113 semiautomatic pistols, 212–213 September 11 attacks, 26–27 Serenity Prayer, 43 sewers, 145–147 shelter, loss of, 11–12 shotguns, 216–217 (S)-hydroprene, 176 sieverts (Sv), 178 Sig Sauer P229, 214 Simler, Kevin, 7 situational awareness, 13, 112 skin conditions, 150 skin staplers, 150 sleeping bags and pads, 167–168 sleeping sickness, 25 slugs, 217 smallpox, 32 smoke, 177 snow chains, 163 social media, 109, 110 social unrest, 20–21 sodium dichloroisocyanurate (NaDCC) tablets, 134 soft-point ammunition, 217 SOG Seal Pup Elite, 170 solar storms, 36 SOS, 143 space weather events, 35–36 speeding, 96–97 spinosad, 176 Spokeo, 110 Springfield EMP, 214 STA-BIL, 156 stalking, 14 The Stand (King), 32 stock market, 79–81 stock options, 81–83 stockpiled foods, 140–144 stockpiling, 73–74 Stop the Bleed program, 151 storm cleanup equipment, 162–163 “A Story of a Fuck Off Fund” (Perhach), 49–50 street violence, 112–113 student loans, 50 stun guns, 205, 207 submersible pumps, 148 subscription services, 51 suffocation, 104 suicides, 196–197 supervolcanoes, 34 supply issues, 137 Svenson, Ola, 96 swine flu, 26 System Fusion, 188 system of prices, 59 T Taser pistols, 207 tech upgrades, 52 technician class license, 189 tents, 167 terrorism domestic, 26–27 fear of, 26–27 industrial accidents and, 20 statistics on, 3 Texas City Disaster, 20 thermal underwear, 156 thermonuclear war, 39–40 .38 Special, 214 3M gasmaks, 177 3M respirators, 175 3M Vetrap, 150 TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities), 77 tires, 163 toilets, 145–147 Tomcat, 177 tools, 161–164 topical lidocaine cream, 150 totalitarian regimes, 36–39 transfer-on-death directives, 125 transportation disruptions, 12, 158–159 TransUnion, 110 travel expenses, 76 Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), 77 triamcinolone acetonide, 150 A True Story (Lucian of Samosata), 29 TruePeopleSearch.com, 110 28 Days Later, 32 Twitter, 109, 155 two-factor authentication (2FA), 108 two-way radios, 183–190 U umbrella policies, 88 unemployment, 10–11 unintentional injury, 12–13 unrest, 20–21 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 13 US Geological Survey (USGS), 19 usury, 63 utility outages, 12 V valuables, 201 vandalism, 111 Vanguard Group, 80–81 vehicle accidents, 96–98 vehicle repairs, 163–164 vertigo, 150 vinegar, 148 violence, 13 Virex II 256, 176 virtual private network (VPN) software, 106 visa requirements, 11 vitamin C, 179 volcanoes, 34–35 vomiting, 150 Vox Magazine, 25 W Waco siege, 26 wages, 50 war, 20–21, 39–40 waste disposal, 145–147 water and water outages, 12, 131–135, 145–148, 169 WaterBrick, 133 wealth taxes, 73 weather, 18, 156–158, 168 Weathermen, 27 weight loss, 115–118 West Nile, 26 Westinghouse generators, 156 wet wipes, 149 “What Has Government Done to Our Money?”

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty by Benjamin H. Bratton

1960s counterculture, 3D printing, 4chan, Ada Lovelace, Adam Curtis, additive manufacturing, airport security, Alan Turing: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem, algorithmic trading, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Robotics, Amazon Web Services, Andy Rubin, Anthropocene, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, basic income, Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL), Berlin Wall, bioinformatics, Biosphere 2, bitcoin, blockchain, Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, call centre, capitalist realism, carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon tax, carbon-based life, Cass Sunstein, Celebration, Florida, Charles Babbage, charter city, clean water, cloud computing, company town, congestion pricing, connected car, Conway's law, corporate governance, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, dark matter, David Graeber, deglobalization, dematerialisation, digital capitalism, digital divide, disintermediation, distributed generation, don't be evil, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Engelbart, driverless car, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, Eratosthenes, Ethereum, ethereum blockchain, Evgeny Morozov, facts on the ground, Flash crash, Frank Gehry, Frederick Winslow Taylor, fulfillment center, functional programming, future of work, Georg Cantor, gig economy, global supply chain, Google Earth, Google Glasses, Guggenheim Bilbao, High speed trading, high-speed rail, Hyperloop, Ian Bogost, illegal immigration, industrial robot, information retrieval, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), intermodal, Internet of things, invisible hand, Jacob Appelbaum, James Bridle, Jaron Lanier, Joan Didion, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, Joi Ito, Jony Ive, Julian Assange, Khan Academy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kiva Systems, Laura Poitras, liberal capitalism, lifelogging, linked data, lolcat, Mark Zuckerberg, market fundamentalism, Marshall McLuhan, Masdar, McMansion, means of production, megacity, megaproject, megastructure, Menlo Park, Minecraft, MITM: man-in-the-middle, Monroe Doctrine, Neal Stephenson, Network effects, new economy, Nick Bostrom, ocean acidification, off-the-grid, offshore financial centre, oil shale / tar sands, Oklahoma City bombing, OSI model, packet switching, PageRank, pattern recognition, peak oil, peer-to-peer, performance metric, personalized medicine, Peter Eisenman, Peter Thiel, phenotype, Philip Mirowski, Pierre-Simon Laplace, place-making, planetary scale, pneumatic tube, post-Fordism, precautionary principle, RAND corporation, recommendation engine, reserve currency, rewilding, RFID, Robert Bork, Sand Hill Road, scientific management, self-driving car, semantic web, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, skeuomorphism, Slavoj Žižek, smart cities, smart grid, smart meter, Snow Crash, social graph, software studies, South China Sea, sovereign wealth fund, special economic zone, spectrum auction, Startup school, statistical arbitrage, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, Stuxnet, Superbowl ad, supply-chain management, supply-chain management software, synthetic biology, TaskRabbit, technological determinism, TED Talk, the built environment, The Chicago School, the long tail, the scientific method, Torches of Freedom, transaction costs, Turing complete, Turing machine, Turing test, undersea cable, universal basic income, urban planning, Vernor Vinge, vertical integration, warehouse automation, warehouse robotics, Washington Consensus, web application, Westphalian system, WikiLeaks, working poor, Y Combinator, yottabyte

Similarly, for Morphosis's Los Angeles CalTrans building, dynamic expressionistic forms look like public sculpture but perform as martial security program: decorative camouflage precisely. It is ostensibly an open, green democratic building in which the virtue of architectural innovation and artistry is on display for public edification. The building's footprint is defined in relation to post–Oklahoma City Bombing guidelines against vehicular proximity, a gigantic concrete skirt opening only along one corner, where pedestrians encounter outsized expressionistic metal fingers as they try to enter. Housing the higher administrative functions of California's network of roads and freeways, it is not without reason that the CalTrans headquarters is a kind of fortress, but it does not really look like one exactly.

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See also design; megastructures Anthropocenic, 182 apparatuses, 164–166 of biology, 196, 288 city without, 151 communication through, 148, 161 defined, 201, 391n30 dynamic expressionistic forms of, 322–323 geopolitical, 3, 27, 38, 65, 98, 300–302, 309–310 illumination in, 408n34 innovation in, 184, 322 Interface design, 166–167 interiority/exteriority, 23, 185, 220, 303, 323–324, 391n30 mega-utopian, 179 new forms of, 2–13 perspectival scale, expanding, 181 politics of, 166–167 post-Oklahoma City bombing guidelines, 322 power symbolized by, 325 Stack models, 52–54, 357 of and for things, 188–189 User layer, 296 violence and, 357 Architecture Machine Group, 201 Archizoom, 86, 150–151. See also No-Stop City Arcology (Soleri), 178–179 Arendt, Hannah, 379n12 Aristophanes, 109 artificial currencies, 127 artificial intelligence (AI), 78, 225–226, 262, 268, 277–279 artificial personalities, 277–278 artificial reality.

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See also User AI User, 277–279 algorithmic hardware, 348–349 animal User, 274–277 as co-User, 276–277, 349 designing for, 339 enrollment and motivation, 297–298 identifying, 345 machine User, 279–284 rights of, 345 nonpersonhood, 173–175 nonplace, end of, 16 non-state actors with nation-state functions, 10–11 nonvisual interfaces, 341, 424n41 Nortel patent bid, 134 North American Free Trade Agreement, 443n23 North Sea wind farms proposal (OMA), 181 No-Stop City project (Archizoom), 149–151, 160, 178–179 notational systems, 383n4 NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center, US, 441n8 Obama, Barack, 98, 180, 322 Obi-Wan Kenobi, 176 object identifiers, universal, 214–215 object-instruments, computational, 227 objects addressability, 214–215 agency of, 131 defined, 402n59 essentials of, 260 identifiers, digital, 207, 214–215 interface design, 230–235 memory of, 212, 215 non-citizen User, 188 object-to-object communication, 197, 210, 212, 216, 338 object-to-object spam, 216 reordering by, 206 semantic relations, 202–203 SPIME designation for, 201–204 as symbolic artifacts, 212 ocean exploration, 30 oceanic data centers, 113–114, 140 Oculus, 127 Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), 53, 99, 170, 178, 180–181 offshoring, 443n23 oil geopolity, 99 Oklahoma City Bombing guidelines, 322 “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” (Turing), 78 One57, New York, 311 One Riverside Park, New York, 311 OOZ (Jeremijenko), 276 Open, The (Agamben), 273 OpenFlow, 437n58 open government movement, 121 Open Stack, 174 open systems interconnection (OSI) network model, 61–63 Operation Centurion, Dr.

The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World by Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Paul Slovic

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Alan Greenspan, An Inconvenient Truth, Andrei Shleifer, availability heuristic, bank run, behavioural economics, Black Swan, business cycle, Cass Sunstein, classic study, clean water, cognitive dissonance, collateralized debt obligation, complexity theory, conceptual framework, corporate social responsibility, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, cross-subsidies, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, endowment effect, experimental economics, financial innovation, Fractional reserve banking, George Akerlof, hindsight bias, incomplete markets, information asymmetry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, Isaac Newton, iterative process, Kenneth Arrow, Loma Prieta earthquake, London Interbank Offered Rate, market bubble, market clearing, money market fund, moral hazard, mortgage debt, Oklahoma City bombing, Pareto efficiency, Paul Samuelson, placebo effect, precautionary principle, price discrimination, price stability, RAND corporation, Richard Thaler, Robert Shiller, Robert Solow, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, social discount rate, source of truth, statistical model, stochastic process, subprime mortgage crisis, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Bayes, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, too big to fail, transaction costs, ultimatum game, University of East Anglia, urban planning, Vilfredo Pareto

It illustrates their lack of concern with this risk prior to 9/11 and their reluctance to provide coverage after the attacks occurred. Until 9/11, insurers did not exclude damage from a terrorist attack in their policies covering property damage to homeowners and commercial firms. Moreover, they did not attempt to price this risk despite the terroristic attempt on the World Trade Center in 1993 and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. In other words, insurers behaved as if a future terrorist attack would not cause any serious losses to their portfolio. Following 9/11, insurers were reluctant to offer coverage unless they were able to charge an extremely high price because they now felt the potential losses would be too costly to them.

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Neuroeconomics scientific/social development of Neuropsychology Neuroscience economics and New Orleans hurricane risks for Katrina and natural disaster coverage in (fig.) Newton, Isaac Nixon, Richard: environmental issues and Normative approach Northridge earthquake Nuclear waste Nudge (Thaler and Sunstein) Nurius, Paula Objectives short-term/long-term Oklahoma City bombing Olson, Mancur Onay, Selcuk Öncüler, Ayse Organization theory Outcomes achieving actions and ambiguous desirability of policy severity of surprise bad underestimation of Overseas Highway Pan Am 103 catastrophe. See also Lockerbie disaster Pandemics Pareto, Vilfredo Patt, Anthony Pauly, Mark Peace of mind Plague, The (Camus) Plato Policy changes decisions understanding structure of Policy makers decision sciences concepts and research and social scientists and Pollution Poor insurance for weather extremes and Possible selves, theory of Poverty Power, Samantha Prayer Precautionary principle Predictions Preferences choices and social stable-over-time, orderly Premiums, insurance changes in climate change and Prescriptive solutions Prevention.

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle

4chan, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, affirmative action, anti-communist, battle of ideas, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, capitalist realism, citizen journalism, crony capitalism, death of newspapers, DIY culture, Donald Trump, Evgeny Morozov, feminist movement, Gabriella Coleman, game design, Hacker Ethic, Herbert Marcuse, hive mind, John Perry Barlow, Julian Assange, Kickstarter, lolcat, mass immigration, moral panic, Nelson Mandela, Norman Mailer, Occupy movement, Oklahoma City bombing, open borders, Overton Window, post-industrial society, pre–internet, Ronald Reagan, sexual politics, Silicon Valley, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, The Wisdom of Crowds, WikiLeaks

Cernovich admitted that his wife earned millions of dollars in stocks and that he received ‘seven figures’ of her money in the divorce settlement, which explains his ability to build an independent media career. Another important figure in this milieu is conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, founder of Infowars, whose tagline is: ‘There’s a war on for your mind!’ The Alex Jones Show airs on the radio across the US and online. He has accused the US government of orchestrating the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11th attacks and a fake moon landing. Somewhat like a right-wing version of the anti-capitalist anti-globalization movement the rose up in the 90s, he believes that globalists have colluded to create a New World Order. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes him as ‘the most prolific conspiracy theorist in contemporary America’ and though his crazed shirt-ripping style is easy to laugh at, his YouTube channel gets millions of viewers, now reaching a mainstream audience.

And Never Stop Dancing: Thirty More True Things You Need to Know Now by Gordon Livingston

Charles Lindbergh, Columbine, desegregation, follow your passion, Maui Hawaii, Oklahoma City bombing

They were stock brokers, secretaries, maintenance people, restaurant employees, and others who simply showed up for 143. 0738212494-text.qxd:0738212494-text.qxd 7/10/08 9:35 AM Page 144 And Never Stop Dancing work. Again, they did not choose to put themselves in jeopardy and so fail this crucial test for heroism. (And did their families deserve all that money, an average of $3.1 million? Why not do the same for the equally unlucky families who lost relatives in the Oklahoma City bombing, or in hurricanes and other natural disasters?) How about the 460 firemen and policemen who died trying to save civilians? The choice to take on this work represents an acknowledgment of its risks. Those who do so are, in general, brave people to be willing to protect and save the rest of us if necessary.

Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life With Self-Help Techniques From EMDR Therapy by Francine Shapiro

Columbine, D. B. Cooper, epigenetics, fear of failure, financial independence, longitudinal study, meta-analysis, Oklahoma City bombing, randomized controlled trial, traumatic brain injury

HAP provides very low-cost EMDR training, in their own community, to therapists working in public and nonprofit agencies. US or international agencies that wish to sponsor such training should contact HAP directly. In addition to training, HAP’s Trauma Recovery Network coordinates clinicians to treat victims and emergency service workers after crises such as the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, a growing network of EMDR-HAP volunteers has responded to the calls for healing that come from all over the world, be it after Hurricane Katrina, severe flooding in North Dakota, earthquakes in Turkey, India, China and Haiti, hurricanes or floods throughout Latin America, or volcanic explosions and tsunamis in Asia.

Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda by John Mueller

airport security, Albert Einstein, Black Swan, Cass Sunstein, classic study, conceptual framework, cuban missile crisis, Doomsday Clock, energy security, F. W. de Klerk, failed state, guns versus butter model, Herman Kahn, long peace, Mikhail Gorbachev, mutually assured destruction, nuclear taboo, nuclear winter, oil shock, Oklahoma City bombing, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, Seymour Hersh, side project, Strategic Defense Initiative, Suez crisis 1956, Timothy McVeigh, uranium enrichment, William Langewiesche, Yom Kippur War

The Dynamics of Nuclear Proliferation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Michel, Lou, and Dan Herbeck. 2001. American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing. New York: ReganBooks. Milhollin, Gary. 2002. “Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?” Commentary February: 45–49. Milward, Alan S. 1977. War, Economy and Society, 1939–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. Mlakar, Paul F. Sr., W. Gene Corley, Mete A. Sozen, and Charles H. Thornton. 1998. “The Oklahoma City Bombing: Analysis of Blast Damage to the Murrah Building.” Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 12(3) August: 113–19. Morgan, Patrick. 1977.

The Pentagon: A History by Steve Vogel

Berlin Wall, Charles Lindbergh, City Beautiful movement, cuban missile crisis, Dr. Strangelove, East Village, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ford Model T, military-industrial complex, New Journalism, Norman Mailer, Oklahoma City bombing, pneumatic tube, Ronald Reagan, Seymour Hersh, Strategic Defense Initiative, Works Progress Administration

The Mall annex was deleted from the plans later that year to gain Congress’s approval to start renovation; there was little support to expand the Pentagon at a time of military cuts elsewhere. Cooke did not give up. He and the head of the Pentagon police force, John Jester, raised alarms after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 that killed 168 people in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Center, the deadliest terrorist attack yet on American soil. They did so again after an enormous truck bomb exploded in front of the Khobar Towers housing complex in Dhahran in 1996, killing nineteen U.S. servicemen. Still no funding was available, and eighteen-wheelers backed into the Pentagon every day.

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When the call came from the Pentagon late in the morning, Kilsheimer already had a request from New York asking him to help at the World Trade Center. The calls were not surprising. Kilsheimer, founder and president of KCE Structural Engineers, was often called when disaster struck; he had worked the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. He was expert at quickly assessing a damaged building, figuring out what had to be demolished, what could be saved, and how to fix it. Kilsheimer was a maverick, a profane sixty-one-year-old with a reputation for enormous energy. He summed up his management style simply: “I take charge of shit.”

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Paul Mlakar, a blast-resistance expert with the Corps of Engineers, was among those intrigued. Mlakar, lead investigator for a team dispatched to the Pentagon by the American Society of Civil Engineers, walked through the rubble a few days after the attack, slipping chunks of concrete and steel into his pocket. Mlakar, who conducted a similar inquiry after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, had found that the damage caused there by the bomb was somewhat small compared to how much of the building actually collapsed. Here was just the opposite: The collapse did not extend beyond the area hit by the airplane. It was clear to Mlakar that the Pentagon had survived an extraordinary event far better than might have been expected.

The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

Alan Greenspan, Columbine, cuban missile crisis, David Sedaris, financial independence, Michael Milken, Oklahoma City bombing, Ralph Nader, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, slashdot, stem cell, Upton Sinclair, white picket fence

My personal favorite was the one in 1997 in which you proclaimed, “America is far more than a place. It is an idea—the most powerful idea in the history of nations. And all of us in this Chamber, we are now the bearers of that idea, leading a great people into a New World.” There was one paragraph in your speech at the Oklahoma City bombing memorial service that actually made me want to be a better person. You said, “When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it. In the face of death let us honor life,” And I always thought one of your loveliest moments as president was one of your smallest.

The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior

Aaron Swartz, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, American ideology, barriers to entry, clean water, corporate personhood, crowdsourcing, David Brooks, David Graeber, disinformation, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, gentrification, George Santayana, glass ceiling, income inequality, independent contractor, low skilled workers, Lyft, Marshall McLuhan, Mohammed Bouazizi, new economy, obamacare, Occupy movement, Oklahoma City bombing, payday loans, pink-collar, post-work, public intellectual, publish or perish, Richard Florida, ride hailing / ride sharing, Sheryl Sandberg, side hustle, Silicon Valley, the medium is the message, trickle-down economics, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, unpaid internship, Upton Sinclair, urban decay, War on Poverty, WikiLeaks, women in the workforce

Ask why things are the way they are, why things are not working out for working Americans. And when they do not give you an answer? Start demanding one. —Originally published September 23, 2013 A Government Shutdown, a Social Breakdown In December 1995, the United States government shut down for twenty-one days, ending a year marked by violent fringe politics—the Oklahoma City bombings, the Unabomber manifesto—and the televised train wreck of the O. J. Simpson trial. In 1995, Americans watched fistfight talk shows and government conspiracy dramas and sitcoms about the pointlessness of living. The shutdown seemed of a piece with the era, idiocy ascended to a higher plane.

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon by Rosa Brooks

airport security, Albert Einstein, Berlin Wall, big-box store, clean water, cognitive dissonance, continuation of politics by other means, different worldview, disruptive innovation, driverless car, drone strike, Edward Snowden, facts on the ground, failed state, illegal immigration, information security, Internet Archive, John Markoff, Mark Zuckerberg, moral panic, no-fly zone, Oklahoma City bombing, operational security, pattern recognition, Peace of Westphalia, personalized medicine, RAND corporation, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, technological determinism, Timothy McVeigh, Turing test, unemployed young men, Valery Gerasimov, Wall-E, War on Poverty, WikiLeaks, Yochai Benkler

20 Like Wittgenstein’s duck-rabbit, the 9/11 attacks can be viewed as crime, as war, or as isolated armed attack—and just as the duck-rabbit may strike the viewer differently when surrounded by a backdrop of rabbits versus a backdrop of ducks, a great deal depends on whether one views 9/11 against a backdrop of crimes or a backdrop of military attacks. Considered alongside the Oklahoma City bombing, the murderous activities of Mexican drug cartels, or the Rwandan genocide, the 9/11 attacks look like crimes: crimes on a massive scale, even crimes against humanity, but crimes all the same. Considered alongside the 1976 hijacking of an Air France jet or the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the 9/11 attacks might look like isolated violent incidents that could nonetheless trigger a temporary right to respond with armed force in self-defense.

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., 143, 145, 160 Barbary pirates and, 48–49 counterpiracy operations of, 45–47 strategic vision of, 161 as tech-heavy, 160–61 Navy SEALs, 40, 41, 120, 121 Nawab of Bengal, 257 Near, Holly, 272 necessity, principle of, 288, 405 Nek Mohammed, 106 Neolithic era, 264 New York Times, 55, 94, 106, 107, 116, 128, 147, 296–97 NGOs (nongovernmental organizations), 71, 82 drone strikes investigated by, 107 humanitarian aid by, 96 Nicaragua, 26 Nigeria, 12, 45, 345 9/11 Commission report, 119, 126 nonstate actors, 41, 133, 161, 193–94, 219, 227, 232, 250, 253, 263 Northern Alliance, 60, 99, 119, 121, 329 North Korea, 259 nuclear weapons, 263, 265 Nuremberg tribunals, 192, 193, 215 Obama, Barack, 85, 98, 113, 119, 169, 266, 278, 292, 316, 328–29, 363 Afghanistan War and, 103 CIA secret prisons closed by, 62 drone “kill lists” and, 116 foreign policy of, 261 Guantánamo and, 61–67 interrogation policies of, 62 Iraq War and, 103 preventative detention policy of, 64–65, 66–67 Syrian civil war and, 248 torture banned by, 34 and unrestricted war, 294, 347–48 war on terror and, 34 Obama administration, 121, 220 in Afghanistan War troop-level debate, 311–14 AUMF law as interpreted by, 293–95 drone strikes and, 284–85 Kyrgyzstan and, 307–9 Sudan and, 309–11 Obangame Express, 45 obesity epidemic, military and, 321–22 Ocean Shield, Operation, 45 Odierno, Raymond, 143–45, 146, 148, 149, 150, 155, 156 Odyssey Dawn, Operation, 85 Office of Legal Counsel, 55 Office of Naval Research, 46 Oklahoma City bombing, 219, 223 Old Norse literature, 9, 172 101st Airborne, 182 Ordinances of War (English), 185 organized crime, 41 Otterbein, Keith, 173 Oxfam, 263 Pacific Command, U.S., 72, 147, 389 Padilla, Jose, 33 Pakistan, 5–6, 12, 60, 226, 349 U.S. drone strikes in, 106–7, 113 U.S. military intervention in, 251 Pakistani Taliban, 278, 279 Paleolithic period, 264 Panetta, Leon, 119–20 Papua New Guinea, 9, 21, 175, 350 Paris Declaration (1856), 49 pattern analysis, 303, 304, 414 peace: blurred line between war and, 8–9, 13, 21–24, 35–36, 141, 143, 148, 213, 225, 267, 273, 276, 305, 333, 334, 338, 341–42, 343, 345, 350, 351, 366 as exception in history, 348–49, 352 “space between” war and, 352–54 Pearl Harbor, Japanese attacks on, 11 Pentagon: as physical environment, 39–40 see also Defense Department, U.S.; September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks People’s Liberation Army, Chinese, 10 Perino, Dana, 61 Perry, John, 299 Persia, ancient, 255 personalized medicine, 132 Peru, 173–74 Petraeus, David, 5, 66, 94 Phase Zero, 7, 82, 143–44, 148–49 Philippines, 12, 349 Phillips, Richard, 40 Pilica, Bosnia, 206 Pinochet, Augusto, 271–72, 273 pirates, piracy: Barbary coast and, 47–49 Defense Department policy on, 42–45 international law and, 42–43, 49 Maersk Alabama seized by, 40–41, 45 state-sponsored, 47–49 “PlayStation mentality,” 109–10 plebes, 182 policing: civil liberties and, 354 war on terror and, 298–99 policymakers, misunderstanding and mistrust between military and, 305–6, 362 “Politics of the Geneva Conventions, The” (conference), 199 polonium-210, 273 population, global, 262 post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of drone pilots, 110 Power, Matthew, 115 Power, Samantha, 67, 234 power grid, cyberattacks on, 11 precision weapons, 129 Predator drones, 105, 106, 112, 135, 199 president, U.S.: constitutional powers of, 294 inherent powers of, 200, 202 preventive detention, 63–65, 66–67 rule of law and, 63–64, 65 Prins, Brandon, 46 prisoners of war, 63 privacy, war on terror and, 303–4 private contractors: laws of war and, 123 U.S. reliance on, 123–24, 258, 326 war on terror and, 297–98, 300 Problem from Hell, A (Power), 234 “proportionality,” in law of armed conflict, 196–97 proportionality, principle of, 288, 405 Pro Publica, 119 proxy conflicts, 339, 349 Pruitt, Gary, 304 public education, 322 Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB), 126 Purchas, Samuel, 256–57 Putin, Vladimir, 273, 280 Qiao Liang, 10, 11, 12, 22, 341 RAF, see regionally aligned forces Railway Wood, Battle of (1916), 114 Ramallah, West Bank, 242 Rasul v.

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

airport security, Bob Geldof, City Beautiful movement, company town, David Sedaris, desegregation, Frank Gehry, gun show loophole, Ida Tarbell, Lewis Mumford, Oklahoma City bombing, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, Timothy McVeigh, Upton Sinclair, Wayback Machine, white picket fence

However, careful readers who are also symbolism devotees would have noticed that the date in 1861 when the Baltimore mob clashed with the Massachusetts soldiers was April 19 — Patriot’s Day — the anniversary of Lexington and Concord, when the first shots were fired in the Revolutionary War. It is also the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. When Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, he was wearing a T-shirt. On the back of the T-shirt, perhaps as a nod commemorating Patriot’s Day, was the famous quote from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande, clean water, discovery of penicillin, facts on the ground, medical malpractice, moral hazard, Oklahoma City bombing, private military company, randomized controlled trial, stem cell, Timothy McVeigh

I have no illusions that the death penalty deters anyone from murder. I also have great concern about the ability of our justice system to avoid putting someone innocent to death. However, I believe there are some human beings who do such evil as to deserve to die. I am not troubled that Timothy McVeigh was executed for the 168 people he killed in the Oklahoma City bombing or that John Wayne Gacy was for committing thirty-three murders. Still, I hadn't thought much about exactly how the executions are done. And I have always instinctively regarded involvement in executions by physicians and nurses as wrong. The public has granted us extraordinary and exclusive dispensation to administer drugs to people, even to the point of unconsciousness, to cut them open, to do what would otherwise be considered assault, because we do so on their behalf--to save their lives and provide them comfort.

Humankind: Solidarity With Nonhuman People by Timothy Morton

a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Anthropocene, capitalist realism, David Brooks, Georg Cantor, gravity well, Ian Bogost, invisible hand, means of production, megacity, microbiome, mirror neurons, Oklahoma City bombing, phenotype, planetary scale, Plato's cave, Richard Feynman, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Slavoj Žižek, trolley problem, Turing test, wage slave, zero-sum game

Hermann Scheer, The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy and a Sustainable Future (New York: Routledge, 2004). 3.Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State (English translation, 1883), chapter 2, marxists.org, accessed November 5, 2016. 4.Jason Van Vleet, dir., Terror from Within: The Untold Story Behind the Oklahoma City Bombing, (Los Angeles: MGA Films, 2003). 5.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel’s Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, 2 vols., trans. T. M. Knox, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 1.516–29; Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, trans. Bernard Bosanquet, introduction and commentary by Michael Inwood (London: Penguin, 1993), 85–86. 6.Slavoj Žižek on Alien: Resurrection in Sophie Fiennes, dir., The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (ICA Projects, 2006). 7.Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, trans. and introduction Martin Nicolaus (London: Penguin, 1993), 111. 8.Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Mask of Anarchy,” in Poetical Works, ed.

Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security by Daniel J. Solove

Albert Einstein, cloud computing, Columbine, hindsight bias, illegal immigration, invention of the telephone, Marshall McLuhan, national security letter, Oklahoma City bombing, security theater, the medium is the message, Timothy McVeigh, traffic fines, urban planning

See also specific technologies New York City, 38, 137, 140; colonial, 147; September 11 attacks, 11–12, 38; subway search program, 38–39, 44–45 New York Times, 67, 81, 104, 184, 218n10 9/11 Commission Report, 79 Nixon, Richard, 10, 63; abuses of surveillance, 10, 63–64 no-privacy-in-public argument, 174–81 North Briton, The, 147–48 nothing-to-hide argument, 21–32; injury and, 29–31; problem with, 26–29; silencing, 31–32; understanding privacy and, 24–26 nuclear weapons, 34, 43 national security, 7–8, 62–70; argument, 62–70; Cold War, 7–8; constitutional Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 8 Ohm, Paul, 226n24 12–13, 36–40, 51–52, 81–90, 156–81; rule of, 40, 81–90; suspicionlesssearches argument, 123–33; third party doctrine, 102–110 law-and-technology problem, 164–73; solving, 170–73 leave-it-to-the-legislature argument, 164–73 library records, 163 Lincoln, Abraham, 58 London, 147, 148, 174; subway bombing, 38, 180 Luddite argument, 199–205 Lyle, Roy, 97–98 241 Index Oklahoma City bombing, 65, 187 Olmstead, Roy, 97–98 Olmstead v. United States, 6–7, 9, 97–98 organized crime, 5 Orwell, George, 177; Nineteen EightyFour, 25–27 Padilla, José, 65 Palestine Liberation Organization, 74 Patriot Act, 12, 76, 155–63, 167, 230n4; Internet privacy and, 156–62; Section 215, 162–63; symbolism of, 163 pendulum argument, 55–61 Pen Register Act, 157, 161–62, 167, 168, 170 Pentagon Papers, 66–67, 218n10 personal data, 25–26, 96, 202–203; biometric identification, 199–205; data mining, 182–98; nothing-to-hide argument, 25–32; third party doctrine, 102–110.

Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah E. Lipstadt

anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, belling the cat, Black Lives Matter, Boycotts of Israel, Cass Sunstein, Donald Trump, en.wikipedia.org, epigenetics, fixed income, ghettoisation, Jeremy Corbyn, microaggression, Oklahoma City bombing, Stephen Hawking, Steve Bannon, Steven Pinker, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, Timothy McVeigh, union organizing, WikiLeaks, zero-sum game

After the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 (at the time, the deadliest attack on American government property since Pearl Harbor), the government became more vigilant about monitoring the activities of white power groups. Nonetheless, it still took the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime close to six months after the Oklahoma City bombing to hold a hearing on militias. No other committee took up the issue. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was seen more as a lone wolf terrorist than as someone who had been influenced by a white power movement. Although some white supremacist groups were stripped of their resources, their members simply scattered to other small groups, formed new organizations, and became increasingly active on newly emerging social media.12 They did not go away.

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David Hoffman

Able Archer 83, active measures, anti-communist, banking crisis, Berlin Wall, Boeing 747, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, crony capitalism, cuban missile crisis, disinformation, failed state, guns versus butter model, It's morning again in America, joint-stock company, Kickstarter, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, launch on warning, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, mutually assured destruction, nuclear winter, Oklahoma City bombing, radical decentralization, Robert Hanssen: Double agent, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, Seymour Hersh, Silicon Valley, standardized shipping container, Stanislav Petrov, Strategic Defense Initiative, Thomas L Friedman, undersea cable, uranium enrichment, Vladimir Vetrov: Farewell Dossier, warehouse robotics, zero-sum game

The study identified approximately one hundred sites handling sizable quantities of weapons-usable nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union. 27 Then, to drive home their point, Bunn and Holdren lobbied for, and won, permission to give a briefing to President Clinton and Vice President Gore in the Oval Office. They stayed up until 2 A.M. the night before preparing. On May 1, 1995, just weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, they told Clinton and Gore the fissile material crisis was one of the gravest national security problems the country faced. Holdren described to Clinton the serious gaps: how Russian facilities had no idea, or precise records, of the amount of uranium and plutonium lying about; the weak links in buildings, fences and guard forces; and the threat that terrorists could walk off with a bag or bucket of uranium or plutonium.

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The institute had no monitors to stop someone from carrying one out in their pocket. Bunn thumped on the table a two-inch stack of press clippings he'd assembled, including a Time magazine cover with the headline "Nuclear Terror for Sale." At the end of the presentation, they showed Clinton a diagram of what would happen to the White House if the Oklahoma City bomb had been set off on Pennsylvania Avenue--superficial damage. Then they showed what would happen if it was a one-kiloton nuclear "fizzle"--a bomb that didn't work very well. In that case, the White House was at the edge of the crater. Clinton said he realized that security was bad, but he had no idea that the Russians didn't even know if something had been stolen.28 In the weeks after Clinton's briefing, a delegation from the United States Department of Energy arrived in Ukraine, including a young logistics assistant, Erik Engling.

Bureaucracy by David Graeber

a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, airport security, Albert Einstein, Alvin Toffler, banking crisis, barriers to entry, borderless world, Bretton Woods, British Empire, collateralized debt obligation, Columbine, conceptual framework, Corn Laws, David Graeber, Future Shock, George Gilder, High speed trading, hiring and firing, junk bonds, Kitchen Debate, late capitalism, Lewis Mumford, means of production, music of the spheres, Neal Stephenson, new economy, obamacare, Occupy movement, Oklahoma City bombing, Parkinson's law, Peter Thiel, planetary scale, pneumatic tube, post-work, price mechanism, Ronald Reagan, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, South Sea Bubble, stock buybacks, technological determinism, transcontinental railway, union organizing, urban planning, zero-sum game

There is assumed to be a kind of tacit alliance between what came to be seen as the parasitical poor (in America usually pictured in overtly racist terms) and the equally parasitical self-righteous officials whose existence depends on subsidizing the poor using other people’s money. Again, even the mainstream Left—or what it is supposed to pass for a Left these days—has come to offer little more than a watered-down version of this right-wing language. Bill Clinton, for instance, had spent so much of his career bashing civil servants that after the Oklahoma City bombing, he actually felt moved to remind Americans that public servants were human beings unto themselves, and promised never to use the word “bureaucrat” again.12 In contemporary American populism—and increasingly, in the rest of the world as well—there can be only one alternative to “bureaucracy,” and that is “the market.”

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior

4chan, Bear Stearns, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, borderless world, Brexit referendum, Cambridge Analytica, Carl Icahn, Chelsea Manning, Columbine, corporate raider, desegregation, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, drone strike, Edward Snowden, Evgeny Morozov, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, gentrification, Golden arches theory, hiring and firing, illegal immigration, income inequality, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, Julian Assange, junk bonds, Michael Milken, military-industrial complex, Mohammed Bouazizi, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, new economy, Oklahoma City bombing, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, payday loans, plutocrats, public intellectual, QAnon, Robert Hanssen: Double agent, Ronald Reagan, side hustle, Silicon Valley, Skype, Steve Bannon, Thomas L Friedman, trickle-down economics, Twitter Arab Spring, unpaid internship, white flight, WikiLeaks, Y2K, zero-sum game

Sympathy was a junk bond emotion. Sympathy was reserved for only the most virtuous victims—and even then, they always implied, it must have been the victim’s fault. Occasionally a great horror would shake Americans out of their smug voyeurism, a tragedy so awful it could not be sold as spectacle—the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine massacre—but these were dismissed as anomalies instead of sparks for future flames. Their predecessors—Ruby Ridge and the school shootings that first emerged in the early 1990s—were minimized outside the fringes, where they were immortalized with a cult-like intensity. The 1990s was a paranoid era, relentlessly unsentimental.

Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum

anti-communist, AOL-Time Warner, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, British Empire, collective bargaining, Columbine, disinformation, experimental subject, Fall of the Berlin Wall, it's over 9,000, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph Schumpeter, land reform, military-industrial complex, Monroe Doctrine, Nelson Mandela, Oklahoma City bombing, profit motive, Ronald Reagan, Seymour Hersh, Timothy McVeigh, union organizing

Osama bin Laden Something fundamentally peculiar has happened when the US government fires cruise missiles at an individual, Osama bin Laden. When has a government ever declared war on an individual? The survivors A study by the American Medical Association: "Psychiatric disorders among survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing": Nearly half the bombing survivors studied had an active postdisaster psychiatric disorder, and full criteria for PTSD [posttraumatic stress disorder] were met by one third of the survivors. PTSD symptoms were nearly universal, especially symptoms of intrusive reexperience and hyperarousal.4 Martin Kelly, publisher of a nonviolence website: We never see the smoke and the fire, we never smell the blood, we never see the terror in the eyes of the children, whose nightmares will now feature screaming missiles from unseen terrorists, known only as Americans.

Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut by Nicholas Schmidle

Apollo 11, bitcoin, Boeing 737 MAX, Charles Lindbergh, Colonization of Mars, crew resource management, crewed spaceflight, D. B. Cooper, Dennis Tito, Donald Trump, dual-use technology, El Camino Real, Elon Musk, game design, Jeff Bezos, low earth orbit, Neil Armstrong, no-fly zone, Norman Mailer, Oklahoma City bombing, overview effect, private spaceflight, Ralph Waldo Emerson, risk tolerance, Ronald Reagan, Scaled Composites, Silicon Valley, SpaceShipOne, Stephen Hawking, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, time dilation, trade route, twin studies, vertical integration, Virgin Galactic, X Prize

In early 2000, he and Joan and the kids moved into a two-level stucco home with a terra-cotta roof in Camarillo, to be closer to the L.A. airport. But Stucky had other family concerns. His mother reappeared in his life all these years later, after walking out on him when he was eight. She struggled with mental illness and was obsessed with the Oklahoma City bombing, claiming that she had seen the conspirators on the side of the road earlier that day mixing chemicals in a drum barrel. Stucky tried to disabuse her with established timelines and known facts about the case, but this merely deepened her convictions; she accused her son of covering up for the bombers.

Global Catastrophic Risks by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic

affirmative action, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, anthropic principle, artificial general intelligence, Asilomar, availability heuristic, backpropagation, behavioural economics, Bill Joy: nanobots, Black Swan, carbon tax, carbon-based life, Charles Babbage, classic study, cognitive bias, complexity theory, computer age, coronavirus, corporate governance, cosmic microwave background, cosmological constant, cosmological principle, cuban missile crisis, dark matter, death of newspapers, demographic transition, Deng Xiaoping, distributed generation, Doomsday Clock, Drosophila, endogenous growth, Ernest Rutherford, failed state, false flag, feminist movement, framing effect, friendly AI, Georg Cantor, global pandemic, global village, Great Leap Forward, Gödel, Escher, Bach, Hans Moravec, heat death of the universe, hindsight bias, information security, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of agriculture, Kevin Kelly, Kuiper Belt, Large Hadron Collider, launch on warning, Law of Accelerating Returns, life extension, means of production, meta-analysis, Mikhail Gorbachev, millennium bug, mutually assured destruction, Nick Bostrom, nuclear winter, ocean acidification, off-the-grid, Oklahoma City bombing, P = NP, peak oil, phenotype, planetary scale, Ponzi scheme, power law, precautionary principle, prediction markets, RAND corporation, Ray Kurzweil, Recombinant DNA, reversible computing, Richard Feynman, Ronald Reagan, scientific worldview, Singularitarianism, social intelligence, South China Sea, strong AI, superintelligent machines, supervolcano, synthetic biology, technological singularity, technoutopianism, The Coming Technological Singularity, the long tail, The Turner Diaries, Tunguska event, twin studies, Tyler Cowen, uranium enrichment, Vernor Vinge, War on Poverty, Westphalian system, Y2K

Apostates and the peddlers of mistaken versions of the salvific faith are even more dangerous than outright enemies, since they can fatally weaken and mislead the righteous in their battle against Evil. So the tendency to demonize those who deviate can unnecessarily alienate potential allies and lead to tragic violence. The Jones Town suicides, the Oklahoma City bombing, Al Qaeda, and Aum Shinrikyo are contemporary examples of a millennia! logic in which murder is required to fight evil and heresies, and wake complacent populations to imminent millennia} threats or promises (Hall, 2000; Mason, 2002; Whitsel, 1998) . Whenever contemporary millenarians identify particular scientists, politicians, firms, or agencies as playing a special role in their eschatologies, as specific engineers did for the Unabomber, we can expect similar violence in the future.

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H . 76 nuclear extortion 404 nuclear facilities, monitoring 454 nuclear free zones 398, 400 nuclear nations 396 nuclear proliferation good news 396-7 prevention 397-9 nuclear reactions, first self-sustaining reaction 324-5 nuclear sanctuaries 374 nuclear terrorism 22, 402-3, 441-2 consequences physical and economic 427-8 psychological, social and political 429-32 implementation challenges 546 Index nuclear terrorism (Continued) H E U availability 412-1 3 improvised nuclear devices 41 1-1 2 , 414 intact nuclear weapons 414- 1 6 infliction b y non-nuclear means 426-7, 433 motivations 406-1 1 probabilities future supply opportunities 422-6 interest in nuclear weapons 416-19 present supply opportunities 419-22 recognition of risk 403-6 risk of global catastrophe 432-6 risk reduction 4 36-7 immediate priorities 437-40 long-term priorities 440-1 nuclear tests 394 Nuclear Theft: Risks and Safeguards, Willrich, M . and Taylor, T. 404-5 Nuclear Threat Initiative 436 The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices, Campbell, K. et al. 401 nuclear war risk vii-viii, 5, 20- 1 , 381-4, 399-401 comprehensive approach 397-9 current nuclear balance 392-5 global 388-9 instigation by terrorists 426-7, 433 limited 386-8 regional 388, 390 nuclear weapons 347 acquisition by terrorists 414-16 nuclear weapons stockpiles 381, 382, 395 Russia 385 United States 384-5 nuclear winter 208, 381, 390-2 Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program 406 Nunn, S. 384 objective risk 5 observation selection effects 10, 1 20-1 , 140 Doomsday Argument 1 29-3 1 Fermi's paradox 1 3 1-8 past-future asymmetry 12 1-2 anthropic overconfidence bias 1 24-6 applicability class of risks 126-8 simplified model 1 22-4 value of astrobiological information 128-9 Simulation Argument 1 38-40 occurrence exceedance probability (OEP) 175 oceans acidification 274 effect of asteroid impact 230 effect of volcanic super-eruptions 2 10-1 1 oil price shock, perceived risk 1 69 Oklahoma City bombing 85, 428 Olson, T., Mil!enialism, Utopianism, and Progress 86 Olum, K. 1 3 5 'Omega point' 80 On the Beach, Shute, N. 381, 401 Oneida Community 76 'one rotten apple' syndrome 17, 302 On Nuclear Terrorism, Levi, M. 442 Oort comet cloud 225, 256 Oppenheimer, J . R. 399-400, 403 oppression, as result of global governance 494 optimism, grounds for viii optimization processes 3 1 5-16 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 454 organized crime, perceived risk 169 orphan drug legislation 473 Orwell, G., 1 984 506-7, 508, 5 10, 5 1 1 , 5 1 7 Our Molecular Future, Mulhall, D. 500 outsourcing, DNA sequencing 465 overconfidence 1 07-9 oversight of biotechnology research 460-2 ozone layer effect of cosmic rays 249, 254 effect of gamma-ray bursts 247 effect of nuclear war 392 effect of supernovae 246 ozone layer depletion 28 Paisley, I. 400 Pakistan nuclear tests 395 nuclear war risk 390, 392-3, 400, 426 nuclear weapons security 4 1 5 Pakistan earthquake, financial losses 164 palaeontology, Signor-Lipps effect 120 Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Porter, K.A. 304 Paley, W. 309 Palumbi, S.R. 69 pandemics 1 6-17, 27, 287, 303 causation 289 Index future threats 300-2 historical 290 H IVJAIDS 298-9 perceived risk 1 69 see also infectious diseases particle collider experiments 5, 18-19, 347-8, 356-7 black hole risk 348-50 RHIC, cost-benefit analysis 1 89-90 strangelets 350-4 vacuum instability 1 2 3-4, 354-6 partitioned multi-objective risk method (PMRM) 1 5 5 , 1 56-9 partitioning values, P M R M 1 5 7 past-future asymmetry 12 1-2, 140 anthropic overconfidence bias 1 24-6 applicability class of risks 1 26-8 simplified model 1 22-4 value of astrobiological information 1 28-9 pathogens 289 pathogens research dual-use challenge 458-60 regulation 460-1 Pauli exclusion principle 3 5 1 Payne, S . , A History of Fascism 518 perceived risk 12, 168-9, 1 70 perinatal mortality rates 288 periodicity, impact craters 223, 224, 225 Perkovich, G . et al. 394 permafrost melting, methane release 274 Permian-Triassic extinction 8, 52, 255-6 Permissive Action Links (PALs) 415-16 permits, role in carbon dioxide emission reduction 280 Perry, W. 423 personal risk 3 phantom system models (PS Ms) 1 54-5 phase transitions 355-7 philosophical failure, AI 18, 3 1 8-20 Phoenix, C. and Treder, M . , Productive Nanosystems: From Molecules to Superproducts 500 photosynthesis, effect of volcanic super-eruption 209-10 physical catastrophes 1 66, 1 67 physical eschatology 33-4 physics, catastrophe scenarios accelerator disasters 347-8, 356-7 black holes 348-50 strangelets 350-4 vacuum instability 354-6 547 anticipation 346-7 runaway technologies 357-8 phytoplankton, effect of ocean acidification 274 picornaviruses, effect of humidity 292 Pierce, W., The Turner Diaries 418 Pinatubo eruption ( 1 99 1 ) , environmental effects 2 1 1 Pinto, J .

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

3D printing, Abraham Maslow, access to a mobile phone, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alignment Problem, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-communist, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Eddington, artificial general intelligence, availability heuristic, Ayatollah Khomeini, basic income, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, biodiversity loss, Black Swan, Bonfire of the Vanities, Brexit referendum, business cycle, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon footprint, carbon tax, Charlie Hebdo massacre, classic study, clean water, clockwork universe, cognitive bias, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, conceptual framework, confounding variable, correlation does not imply causation, creative destruction, CRISPR, crowdsourcing, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, dark matter, data science, decarbonisation, degrowth, deindustrialization, dematerialisation, demographic transition, Deng Xiaoping, distributed generation, diversified portfolio, Donald Trump, Doomsday Clock, double helix, Eddington experiment, Edward Jenner, effective altruism, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, end world poverty, endogenous growth, energy transition, European colonialism, experimental subject, Exxon Valdez, facts on the ground, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, first-past-the-post, Flynn Effect, food miles, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, frictionless, frictionless market, Garrett Hardin, germ theory of disease, Gini coefficient, Great Leap Forward, Hacker Conference 1984, Hans Rosling, hedonic treadmill, helicopter parent, Herbert Marcuse, Herman Kahn, Hobbesian trap, humanitarian revolution, Ignaz Semmelweis: hand washing, income inequality, income per capita, Indoor air pollution, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of writing, Jaron Lanier, Joan Didion, job automation, Johannes Kepler, John Snow's cholera map, Kevin Kelly, Khan Academy, knowledge economy, l'esprit de l'escalier, Laplace demon, launch on warning, life extension, long peace, longitudinal study, Louis Pasteur, Mahbub ul Haq, Martin Wolf, mass incarceration, meta-analysis, Michael Shellenberger, microaggression, Mikhail Gorbachev, minimum wage unemployment, moral hazard, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, Nate Silver, Nathan Meyer Rothschild: antibiotics, negative emissions, Nelson Mandela, New Journalism, Norman Mailer, nuclear taboo, nuclear winter, obamacare, ocean acidification, Oklahoma City bombing, open economy, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, paperclip maximiser, Paris climate accords, Paul Graham, peak oil, Peter Singer: altruism, Peter Thiel, post-truth, power law, precautionary principle, precision agriculture, prediction markets, public intellectual, purchasing power parity, radical life extension, Ralph Nader, randomized controlled trial, Ray Kurzweil, rent control, Republic of Letters, Richard Feynman, road to serfdom, Robert Gordon, Rodney Brooks, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Rory Sutherland, Saturday Night Live, science of happiness, Scientific racism, Second Machine Age, secular stagnation, self-driving car, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Simon Kuznets, Skype, smart grid, Social Justice Warrior, sovereign wealth fund, sparse data, stem cell, Stephen Hawking, Steve Bannon, Steven Pinker, Stewart Brand, Stuxnet, supervolcano, synthetic biology, tech billionaire, technological determinism, technological singularity, Ted Kaczynski, Ted Nordhaus, TED Talk, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, the scientific method, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, The Wisdom of Crowds, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Thomas Malthus, total factor productivity, Tragedy of the Commons, union organizing, universal basic income, University of East Anglia, Unsafe at Any Speed, Upton Sinclair, uranium enrichment, urban renewal, W. E. B. Du Bois, War on Poverty, We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters, women in the workforce, working poor, World Values Survey, Y2K

Population estimates for the world and Western Europe are from the European Union’s 2015 Revision of World Population Prospects (https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/); estimates for the United States are from US Census Bureau 2017. The vertical arrow points to 2007, the last year plotted in figs. 6–9, 6–10, and 6–11 in Pinker 2011. The death rate for American terrorism for the year 2001, which includes the 3,000 deaths from the 9/11 attacks, dominates the graph. Elsewhere we see a bump for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 (165 deaths) and barely perceptible wrinkles in other years.9 Excluding 9/11 and Oklahoma, about twice as many Americans have been killed since 1990 by right-wing extremists as by Islamist terror groups.10 The line for Western Europe shows that the rise in 2015 came after a decade of relative quiescence, and is not even the worst that Western Europe has seen: the rate of killing was higher in the 1970s and 1980s, when Marxist and secessionist groups (including the Irish Republican Army and the Basque ETA movement) carried out regular bombings and shootings.

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See sex differences; women mental health and illness cognitive behavioral therapy, 175, 282 depression, 280–83, 284, 476n74 disease mongering/concept creep, 281–2 drugs for, 281, 282 and freedom, 285 paradox of, 282 as percentage of global burden of disease, 282 rates of depression and anxiety, 282–3, 476n74 See also anxiety; suicide mental models, 22–3 Mercier, Hugo, 380 Merton, Robert, xvii–xviii methane (natural gas), 136, 143, 147, 183 methodological naturalism, 421–2 Mexican-American War (1946–48), 163 Mexico agriculture in, 76 homicide rates in, 169, 170, 172 literacy in, 236 Mexican Revolution, 199 social spending in, 109 Trump and immigration from, 336 women’s rights in, 222 Meyer, Bruce, 116 microwave ovens, 252 Midas, King, 299 Middle Ages accidental death rates in, 180–81 belief in external forces, 9–10 cost of artificial light in, 253, 253 homicide in, 43, 168 poverty and, 79–80 private militias as ubiquitous in, 197 racism and slavery of, 397 middle class globalization and effects on, 112, 113, 118–19, 339, 340 worldwide increase of, 86, 459–60n18 Middle East and North Africa carbon emissions of, 144 communist governments in, 200 education in, 236–7, 237 emancipative values in, 227–8, 227, 439 imperialist interventions in, 439 literacy and, 236 refugees from, and European populism, 338 See also Arab countries; Muslim countries; individual countries Milanović, Branko, 104–5, 111, 112, 113 military governments, 200 military spending, 162, 467n18 Millennials, 225 depression and, 476n74 digital technology and, 244 happiness and, 273 as increasingly liberal, 217 low voter turnout in Trump’s election, 343 secularization and, 437 suicide and, 280 well-being of, 283 Miller, George, 314 Mill, John Stuart, 373, 417 Milošević, Slobodan, 447 mind-body dualism, 3, 22, 422, 427 mining safety and working conditions, 185, 230 minority rights, populist disregard for, 333, 340 misanthropy of cultural criticism, 34, 247, 446 of traditional environmentalism, 122, 134, 154 Mishima, Yukio, 446 Missouri, capital punishment in, 211 mobile phones/smartphones, 94–5, 257, 331 Mokyr, Joel, 82–3, 332 Molière, 411 Monbiot, George, 264 Mongolia, 85, 86 Monitoring the Future (youth survey), 185 monotonicity, 44 Montefiore, Hugh, 465n76 Montesquieu, 8, 10, 12, 13, 223 Monty Python’s Flying Circus, 392 Mooney, Chris, 387 Moore, Patrick, 465n76 Moore’s Law, 46, 298, 330 morality as balancing desires conflicting with others’, 414 basis of, 412–15, 419 capital punishment abolition and, 211–12, 213 deontological, 416–18 evolution as selecting for, 415 humanism and, 395, 410 impartiality and, 412–13, 415 progress in, as cumulative, 327 relativists vs. realists, 429–30 and safety regulations, 190 social contracts against harm, 27–8 sympathy and, 415 utilitarian, 415–19 and violence, vulnerability to, 414–15 See also theism and theistic morality moral sense abstract reasoning and honing of, 243 deficits in, 26, 140 root-causism and, 169–70 sacrifice and, 140–41 Morgenthau, Hans, 309 Morrison, Philip, 308 Morton, Oliver, 154 Moss, Jonathan, 402 Mothers Against Drunk Driving, 178 motor vehicles accident deaths, 42, 176–8, 177 deaths in, vs. terrorist deaths, 192, 193 decline in demand for, 135 drunk driving, 178 robotic cars, 180 safety, development of, 177–8, 190 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 200 Mozambique, escape from poverty of, 85, 86 Mozgovoi, Aleksandr, 479n93 Mueller, John, 205–6, 263, 305, 310–311, 313 Mugabe, Robert, 91 Mukherjee, Bharati, 284 Muller, Richard, 313 multiethnic communities, 405, 448, 450 multiverse theory, 424–5 Munroe, Randall, 127, 128, 430, 489n52 music, 260, 407 Musk, Elon, 296 Muslim countries atheists in, 435 cohorts, 442, 491n106 cruel punishments in, 439, 440 emancipative values weakest in, 223, 227–8, 227, 240, 439, 442 female genital mutilation in, 439 fertility decreasing in, 126, 436 homosexuality as crime in, 223, 439, 440 “honor killings” of women in, 439 and humanism, lack of progress in, 439–42 humanistic revolution in, 442–3, 491n106 human rights violations and, 439 separation of mosque and state, 441 theocracies and, 201 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 418–19 women’s rights in, 222, 439, 442, 491n106 See also Arab countries; Islam; Islamist extremists; Muslims Muslims conspiracy theories and, 67, 336 hate crimes targeting, 219–20, 220 literal readings of Quran, 440, 490n96 percentage of world population, 436 sharia law and, 440, 490n96 as strongly religious, 440 Trump and immigration of, 336 Mussolini, Benito, 445, 446, 447, 491n118 Mutar, Faisal Saeed Al-, 442 Myanmar (Burma), 203, 419 Myhrvold, Nathan, 477n20 Naam, Ramez, 298, 477n20 Nabokov, Vladimir, 261 Nader, Ralph, 177 Nagel, Thomas, 351–2, 412, 413, 427, 429, 482n4, 488n43 Nalin, David, 64 Namazie, Maryam, 443 Namibia, 203 NASA, 295, 300 Nasr, Amir Ahmad, 443 Nasrin, Taslima, 443 nationalism as counter-Enlightenment value, 30–31, 448 political ideologies and, 31 romantic nationalism, 165–6, 447, 448, 449–51 Russian, 159 vs. social contract, 31 See also populism National Science Foundation, 356–7, 387 nation-states cyber-sabotage accomplished by, 304 as putative units of group selection, 31, 448, 450 romantic nationalism, 165, 447, 448, 449–51 tribalism and, 450 natural disaster deaths, 187–9, 188 destruction of civilizations, 295–6 extinction of human species, 294–5 natural gas (methane), 136, 143, 147, 183 naturalism, 392, 421–2, 486n17 Natural Resources Defense Council, 465n76 natural selection, 18–19 homeostasis discovered by, 22 human intelligence and, 297 humanism and, 413–14 reality as selection pressure, 355 See also evolution nature competition and arms races in, 19, 24–5 environmentalism, traditional view of, 122 purpose in, science as refuting, 8, 24, 394–5, 434–5 as robust, 133 Romanticism and, 30, 121 See also natural selection Nawaz, Maajid, 443 Nazi Germany Christianity of, 430 counter-Enlightenment ideology of, 397 eugenics and, 399 Holocaust, 161, 397, 399, 430 intellectual fans of, 447 Nietzsche as influence on, 445 public health invoked by, 399 “scientific racism” of, 397–8 See also Germany; Hitler, Adolf Negativity bias, 47–8, 293 Negroponte, John, 310 Nemirow, Jason, 140 neo-fascism, 419, 448, 451 neo-reaction, 419, 451 Nepal, 203 Netherlands commerce, embrace of, 84–5 emancipative values in, 225–7, 226, 227 happiness ranking of, 475n30 homicide rates in, 169, 170 life expectancy in, 95 literacy in, 236 populism repudiated in, 338–9 secularization and, 436 social spending in, 108 New Deal, 107–8 New England, homicide rates in, 169, 170 New Peace, 43 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, 317, 318 Newton, Sir Isaac, 24 New York City, 172, 286–7, 380 New York Times, 44, 50, 74, 97, 151, 280, 292, 373, 409, 420 New Zealand economic freedom in, 365, 483n39 education in, 237 and escape from poverty, 85 happiness and, 451, 475n30 IQ gains in, 241, 241 secularization and, 437, 438–9 social spending in, 365, 483n39 well-being and, 438–9, 451 women’s rights in, 222 Nicaragua, 158 Niebuhr, Reinhold, 311 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 443–7 cultural pessimism, advocate of, 39–40, 406 intellectuals and artists as fans, 445, 446–7, 452 quotations from, 444–5 See also romantic heroism Niger, 203 Nigeria democratization of, 203 famine in, 73 killings by Boko Haram in, 162 polio in, 65 secularization and, 436 terrorist deaths in, 193 Nisbet, Robert, 40 Nixon, Richard, 119 Nobel Peace Prize, 203, 232, 240, 316 Nomani, Asra, 443 Non-Proliferation Treaty (1970), 316–17 No Nukes concert and film (1979), 147 nonviolent resistance, success rate of, 405 non-Western Enlightenments, 29–30, 419, 439, 442–3, 456n2 Norberg, Johan, 54–5, 68, 79, 125, 203–4 Nordhaus, Ted, 122, 141–2, 147, 253–4 Nordhaus, William, 138, 253 Nordic countries egalitarian income distribution in, 98 emancipative values in, 225–7, 226, 227 environment of, 130 and escape from poverty, 85 forced sterilization laws of, 399 human rights in, 208, 208 Norma Rae (film), 113 Norris, Pippa, 224, 340 North, Douglass, 83 North Korea Arduous March, 78 as autocratic, 201–2 conflict with South Korea, 158 democratization and, 206 famine in, 78 human rights in, 208, 208 nuclear weapons and, 317, 320 poverty in, 90 Norvig, Peter, 477n20 Norway emancipative values in, 225–7, 226, 227 happiness ranking of, 475n30 human rights in, 208, 208 income per capita in, 271 populism and, 341 nostalgia, 48, 113, 256 Nozick, Robert, 99 nuclear power, 144–5, 146–50, 330, 465n76 nuclear war, 307–321 balance of terror, 315 ban on (Global Zero), 315–17, 320–21 close calls, 310, 312–13, 318, 479nn93,95 deterrence and, 312, 314–15, 317 fear, failure to mobilize public, 308–311, 479n80 Graduated Reciprocation in Tension-Reduction (GRIT), 318, 320 historical pessimism and, 308 and international relations, 312, 315 launch on warning (hair trigger), 315, 319–20 Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), 315 nations with capacity, 313, 317–18, 318 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), 317, 318 no-first-use pledge, 320 Non-Proliferation Treaty (1970), 316–17 nuclear winter, 308, 310 probability of nuclear war, 312–13 proliferation limited, 313 reduction of arsenal, 317–19, 318, 480nn113,117,121 second-strike capacity, 315, 319 security dilemma (Hobbesian trap) of, 315 Trump and, 336–7 nuclear weapons arms race during Cold War, 291, 308, 311 complacency about, 286 Hiroshima bombing, 305 Manhattan Project and development of, 314 terrorism as threat, 310–311, 313–14 treaty banning atmospheric testing, 133–4 uranium extracted for power plants, 149, 317 Nunn, Sam, 316, 319 Nussbaum, Martha, 248, 264, 413 Nye, Bill, 434 Nyerere, Julius, 447 Obama, Barack approval rating on departure, 338 bullying as issue for, 49 conspiracy theories about, 336, 358 farewell speech and Enlightenment, 338, 481n30 as first African American U.S. president, 214 health care and, 109 on income inequality, 97 on “now” as best time to be born, 37 and nuclear weapons, 316, 319, 320–21, 336–7 racism and, 217 Republican obstructionism and, 432 theoconservatives and, 449 Obamacare, 109 Obama, Michelle, 214 obesity epidemic, 69 objective measurement actuarial formulas outperforming experts, 403–4 as goal of scientific literacy, 403–5 as morally enlightened, 43 Naomi Klein’s dismissal of, 139 resisters of scientific thinking objecting to, 403 See also data occupational safety and accident deaths, 185–7, 187 Occupy Wall Street, 97 Oceania, postcolonial governments of, 201 oceans acidification of, 137, 138, 153 and carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, 136, 150 deep-sea vents as biological energy source, 19 desalination of water, 129, 149 fisheries, 325 geoengineering and, 150, 152–3 marine conservation areas, 132–3, 133 sea level rise, 137, 138 species extinctions and, 463n32 Oklahoma City bombing (1995), 194 Olds, Jacqueline, 274 O’Neill, Eugene, 446 O’Neill, William, 286 Ono, Yoko, 166 On the Waterfront (film), 113 opioid overdoses, 184–5 Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 308 optimism attacks on, 39, 49 complacent vs. conditional, 154–5 enlightenment as, 7 historical improvement as basis for, 51, 327–8 Optimism Gap, 40, 115, 225–6, 268 perceived as salesmanship, 49 rational (pessimistic hopefulness, possibilism, protopia, opti-realism), 52, 344–5, 482n55 See also pessimism order improbability of, 15–16, 24, 25 life as, 18–19, 20 meaning of life as creation despite entropy, 17 self-organization, 17–19 Orlando nightclub massacre, 215, 216 Orlov, Vadim Pavlovich, 479n93 Osgood, Charles, 318 Osler, William, 63 Ottoman Empire, 430, 439 Our World in Data (Web site), xviii, 52 Pacification Process, 43 pacifist’s dilemma, 166, 414, 488n10 Paddock, William and Paul, 74 Pagden, Anthony, 482n6 Pagel, Mark, 477n20 Paine, Thomas, 409 Pakistan agriculture in, 76 climate change and, 151 as democracy, 207 and literacy, female, 239, 240 nuclear weapons and, 307–8, 317, 318, 320 polio in, 65 terrorist deaths in, 193 Palin, Sarah, 374–5 Pan-African Parliament, 222 Panama, 85, 86 pantheism, 8, 422 paradox of value (income statistics can mislead) definition of, 82 globalization and, 117 increasing with humanism, 332–3 inequality and, 117 technology and, 117, 332–3 paranormal phenomena, 422, 427, 428 Parfit, Derek, 429 Paris, terrorism and, 219 Paris Agreement on climate, 134, 152, 335, 449 Paris Peace Pact (1928), 163–4 Parker, Dorothy, 248, 277 Parker, Theodore, 223 Pascal, Blaise, 162 Pasteur, Louis, 63 Paulsen, Pat, 332, 365 peace, 13–14, 156–66 democracy as fostering, 162–3 education as fostering, 235 as inherently worthy, 164–5, 166 peacekeeping forces, success of, 404–5 romantic militarism giving way to, 165–6 as self-reinforcing, 164 See also Long Peace; war Peak Car, Carbon, Children, Coal, Paper, Timber, 144 Peak Farmland, 76, 144 Peak Oil, 135 Peak Stuff, 135–6 Peanuts (comic), 377 Pearl Harbor, 196 pedestrian deaths, 179–80, 179 Pelopidas, Benoît, 316 period (zeitgeist) effects, 224–5 happiness and, 272–4, 275 religious belief and, 437–8 See also age (life cycle) effects; cohort effects permafrost, melting, 136 Perry, William, 316, 319 Persia, ancient, 23, 398 Peru, 158, 160 pessimism, 33, 39–52 about democratization, 201 about human rights, 207 about life expectancy, 53 mistaken for moral seriousness, 49 as one-upmanship, 49 and populism, xvii, 50, 343–4 about racism, sexism, and homophobia, 215 and sympathy, expansion of circle of, 49 about terrorism, 191 and Trump’s election, 340 See also fatalism; intellectuals; media; optimism; romantic heroism —CULTURAL PESSIMISM, 33 doomsday scenarios from, 293, 294 German, 165 and happiness, lack of, 263–4, 268 and the humanities, malaise of, 406 quality of life, 247 and romantic militarism, 165–6 about science, 400 —HISTORICAL PESSIMISM, 33 and democracy, 201 and nuclear war, 308 root-causism, 169–71 petroleum carbon-to-hydrogen ratio of, 143 deaths caused by, 146–7 new technologies for use of, 330 See also climate change; coal; energy Pew Research Center, 216, 222 pharmaceutical drugs.

Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica by Nicholas Johnson

Apollo 13, Easter island, intentional community, Joan Didion, job satisfaction, Milgram experiment, Neil Armstrong, Oklahoma City bombing, PalmPilot, post-work, Ronald Reagan, telerobotics, trade route, young professional

The result of watching them was that over time we became jaded about safety warnings and numb to the carnage that results from ignoring them. Since we had depleted the supply of safety videos from the Safety Representative, Jane had begun hitting up the Fire Chief for videos. So we went from watching videos about slippery floors and proper lifting techniques to watching bodies being pulled from the wreckage left by the Oklahoma City bombing. One day we watched a video called Alert 3: The Crash of United 232. The back of the video case called the story “a tragedy turned to triumph,” which meant, in Emergency Response lingo, that the flaming carcass of the airliner was subdued with extinguishing agents, an impromptu morgue was established (chosen for the presence of floor drains), and the bodies were successfully tracked through the forensics process without losing any of them.

Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra

anti-communist, Asian financial crisis, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Boeing 747, Brexit referendum, British Empire, classic study, colonial rule, continuation of politics by other means, creative destruction, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Evgeny Morozov, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Fellow of the Royal Society, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, George Santayana, global village, Great Leap Forward, Gunnar Myrdal, informal economy, invisible hand, liberal capitalism, Mahatma Gandhi, Marshall McLuhan, Martin Wolf, mass immigration, Nelson Mandela, Oklahoma City bombing, Peter Thiel, Philip Mirowski, planetary scale, plutocrats, power law, precariat, public intellectual, Republic of Letters, Scientific racism, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley billionaire, smart cities, Snapchat, stem cell, technological solutionism, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Timothy McVeigh, trade route, traveling salesman, urban planning, Vilfredo Pareto, wage slave, women in the workforce, zero-sum game

Napoleon imperialism invasion/occupation of Germany nostalgia for era of secular universalist project ‘narcissism of small difference’ nation states implosions of in Africa/Middle East legacy of imperialism nineteenth-century rise of postcolonial nation-building ideologies rise of in Africa and Asia social democracy in post-WW2 era nationalism Arab Chinese cult of sacrifice and martyrdom cultural economic and emphasis on duties English fin de siècle fin de siècle celebration of violence/virility French German invention of concept Italian Khomeinism Mazzini’s non-European disciples messianic fantasy of redemption and glory nineteenth-century adaptations worldwide poet-prophets post-9/11 toxic nationalists post-Cold War resurgence of in post-colonial states present-day as product of men of letters religiosity of sentiment ‘rise again’ rhetoric and Rousseau and twentieth-century world wars us-versus-them/demonization of ‘other’ white nationalists in USA see also Hindu nationalism Nazism Hindu nationalist admiration for Nechaev, Sergei negative solidarity concept Nehru, Jawaharlal neo-liberalism axioms of autonomy and interest-seeking conflation of free enterprise with freedom crony-capitalist regimes New York Review of Books Newsweek Newton, Isaac Niebuhr, Reinhold Nietzsche, Friedrich death of God on development on French Revolution the last men and Napoleon nihilism rejection of German nationalism and ressentiment superman idea and Voltaire-Rousseau battle and Wagner will to power concept nihilism see also anarchism Nordau, Max, Degeneration (1892) North Korea Northern Ireland Norway, Breivik massacre in (2011) Novalis Obama, Barack oil industry Oklahoma City bombing (1995) Oriani, Alfredo Orlando massacre (2016) Ortega y Gasset, José, The Revolt of the Masses (1930) Orwell, George, Nienteen Eighty-Four (1949) Ottoman Empire Polish émigrés in revival of Ottomanism Paine, Thomas Pakistan Pal, Bipin Chandra Palestinian militant groups Papini, Giovanni Pareto, Vilfredo Pascal, Blaise Patel, Vallabhbhai Paul, Saint Paxton, Joseph Paz, Octavio, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950) Pea, Enrico Perovskaya, Sofia Peter the Great Petöfi, Sándor Philippines philosophes material comfort and hedonism as not democratic notion of self-expansion patronage of autocrats and religion as shapers of society trahison des clercs philosophy German phrenology Pol Pot’s Year Zero Poland partition in late eighteenth century present-day nationalism in uprising (1831) Polanyi, Karl, The Great Transformation (1944) Pope, Alexander popular culture Posivitism post-colonial states autocratic modernizers in see also individual countries brutal police/intelligence states growth of ressentiment in insurgencies since mid twentieth century and Islam and Naipaul’s ‘mimic men’ nation-building ideologies post-Cold War period Western inspired national emulation and ‘Western Model’ progress, Enlightenment/modern notions of assumed spread eastwards era of US hegemony and fin de siècle thinkers and First World War as fundamentalist creed in West as globalized fantasy post-Cold War and Marxist universal utopia and nineteenth-century French literature notion of self-expansion and the philosophes present-day constraints/doubts and reason religion of secular progress Rousseau rejects and Russian literature and Social Darwinism ‘propaganda by the deed’ Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph Prussia defeat at Jena-Auerstädt Franco-Prussian war (1871) Frederick II pseudo-science public sphere Pushkin, Alexander The Bronze Horseman (1836) Eugene Onegin Imitations of the Quran (1824) Putin, Vladimir al-Qaeda Qutb, Sayyid racism after Brexit vote Californian Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) institutionalization of by colonialism Islamophobia in late nineteenth century scapegoats and invented enemies scientific on social media white supremacists worldwide upsurge of see also anti-Semitism radicalism and militancy, historical as conjoined with globalization ‘decade of regicide’ (1890s) emergence in nineteenth century influence of Nietzsche local defences of autonomy martyrdom, sacrifice and death and mass migration in nineteenth-century Russia politics of flamboyant gestures pre-1848 conspirators and insurgents and quests for transcendence revolts in Spanish American colonies revolts of 1820s revolutionary period (1830) revolutionary period (1848–9) and rise of mass air travel shared aspirations across movements in space between elites and masses spread of socialism see also anarchism; ressentiment; terrorism radicalism and militancy, present-day Bakunin as forebear of craving for unlimited despotism eruption of ‘global civil war’ identity as neither stable nor coherent nineteenth/early twentieth-century antecedents and paradox of individual freedom social backgrounds and urbanization violence as end in itself volatile desire for creative destruction see also ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria); Islamism, Radical; ressentiment; terrorism Rai, Lala Lajpat Ramdev, Baba Reagan, Ronald reason and cult of progress fantasy of a rationally organized world and French Revolution and philosophes’ support of despots and principle of equality theoretical rationalism and triumphs of capitalist imperialism see also individual, liberal universalist ideal of Reclus, Élisée Red Brigade in Italy refugees religious faith and French Revolution ideal of transcendence and nationalist sentiment in nineteenth-century Germany pseudo-religions in 1815–48 period see also individual faiths and religions Renan, Ernest Republican Party, US ressentiment alienated young man of promise in Austria-Hungary characteristics of in colonial India and conflicted/contradictory identity as default metaphysics of modern world disaffected educated classes and Dostoyevsky German Romantics growth of in post-colonial states and jingoism and Kierkegaard and mimetic desire and ‘narcissism of small difference’ and Nazism and Nietzsche and political spectrum present-day and Rousseau in Russian literature Max Scheler’s theory ‘superfluous’ groups/people ‘superfluous’ men in Russian fiction in unified Germany in unified Italy unsatisfied fantasies of consumerism white male Rhodes, Cecil Rice, Condoleezza Rida, Rashid right-wing extremism Rimbaud, Arthur Robespierre, Maximilien Roca, Mateo Morral Roman Empire Romantics see also German Romantics Roof, Dylann Roosevelt, Theodore Rostow, W.

Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland

3D printing, Airbnb, airport security, bitcoin, Burning Man, delayed gratification, dematerialisation, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, Google Glasses, Guggenheim Bilbao, index card, jimmy wales, junk bonds, Lyft, Marshall McLuhan, Maui Hawaii, McJob, Menlo Park, nuclear paranoia, Oklahoma City bombing, Pepto Bismol, pre–internet, Ray Kurzweil, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley, Skype, space junk, Stanford marshmallow experiment, tech worker, Ted Kaczynski, TED Talk, The Future of Employment, uber lyft, young professional

My TV On April 19, 1995, I bought my first genuine adult TV set—a twenty-seven-inch Sony Trinitron. I remember the date because two delivery men brought it to the house at about eleven in the morning. We installed the TV in a nook in the bookshelves and turned it on, and on the screen came images of the Oklahoma City bombing. The three of us stopped for an hour and watched the news. I made coffee, we talked a bit and then the day progressed. I used to watch TV back then. By that I mean I’d go into the living room and turn on the TV set, saying, “Gosh, I wonder what’s on TV right now? I think I’ll run through the channels.”

On the Road: Adventures From Nixon to Trump by James Naughtie

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alistair Cooke, anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Bear Stearns, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, centre right, collapse of Lehman Brothers, Donald Trump, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, gentrification, Haight Ashbury, illegal immigration, immigration reform, Julian Assange, Mikhail Gorbachev, Norman Mailer, obamacare, Oklahoma City bombing, plutocrats, post-work, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, Seymour Hersh, South China Sea, Steve Bannon, trickle-down economics, white flight, WikiLeaks, Yom Kippur War, young professional, zero-sum game

I was working with my producer, Terry O’Neill, when we were interrupted by a commotion, and round the corner tumbled two men, apparently one in pursuit of the other, pushing everyone aside as they raced through, like schoolboys having a prank. One was Roger Stone and the other Alex Jones, prince of the conspiracy theorists, who believes, among other things, that 9/11 was a put-up job, the federal government planted the Oklahoma City bomb that killed 168 people in 1995, the Sandy Hook massacre of schoolchildren in 2012 was an elaborate hoax, and that elements of the moon landing were faked for some dark bureaucratic purpose. That scene summed up the weirdest of conventions. Hillary Clinton’s, by contrast, was a traditional affair.

Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures With Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives by John Elder Robison

Asperger Syndrome, centre right, intermodal, Mason jar, neurotypical, Oklahoma City bombing, pre–internet, sealed-bid auction, theory of mind

“They have a schedule conflict with Kirk Yeager.” I could not believe what I was hearing. Perry was actually bringing in the head of the FBI explosives lab to testify in a case about a teenager’s chemistry experiments in the woods. Yeager was the guy who had been assigned to investigate the Oklahoma City bombing case. Didn’t the FBI have more important things to do? The prosecutor asked for a new date, April 6, but they moved that too, when Yeager had to investigate a real crime on the day he’d planned to be here in court. Finally, after everyone had had enough of continuances, the judge set a firm date of May 21.

The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World From Cybercrime by Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden

2021 United States Capitol attack, Amazon Web Services, Bellingcat, Berlin Wall, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, Brian Krebs, call centre, centralized clearinghouse, company town, coronavirus, corporate governance, COVID-19, cryptocurrency, data science, disinformation, Donald Trump, fake it until you make it, Hacker News, heat death of the universe, information security, late fees, lockdown, Menlo Park, Minecraft, moral hazard, offshore financial centre, Oklahoma City bombing, operational security, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Picturephone, pirate software, publish or perish, ransomware, Richard Feynman, Ross Ulbricht, seminal paper, smart meter, social distancing, strikebreaker, subprime mortgage crisis, tech worker, Timothy McVeigh, union organizing, War on Poverty, Y2K, zero day

lava lamps lawsuits LeChiffre Lee, Bruce Lee, Michael Lenin, Vladimir Lewis, Gwyneth LG Electronics Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln College LinkedIn Lloyd’s of London Lorenz Macaw Locker Mairoll, Christian Malcolm, James MalwareHunterTeam Manfra, Jeanette Mason Lietz & Klinger Maze McAfee McCann, Eric McCarthy, Mike McCraw, Gabryella McGregor, Andre McVeigh, Timothy MegaLocker Microsoft Minder, Kurtis Mission Health MonsterCloud Mr.Dec Mueller, Robert Muhumuza, Joshua Muid, Robert Edward Mularski, Keith Muroni, Francesco Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) Napier, Sam National Cyber Security Centre National Health Service National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) National Security Agency Nazi Germany Nefilim Nerds on Call Netherlands; HTCU in Netwalker New Cooperative Nmoreira No More Ransom Noriega, Manuel North Korea Northwave Nozelesn number sieve Office Depot offline keys oil industry; Colonial Pipeline Company Oklahoma City bombing Okumu, Martin Olympus Operation Bleeding Cloud Orendez, Mara Yan Orendez, Ray OrthoVirginia Orwell, George Ouroboros Owler Padres, Bret Pantagraph, The Pargman, Randy Patel, Milan PayloadBIN PayPal PC Business World PC Cyborg Corp. PC USA Computer Solutions Providers Pekin, Ill.

Why geography matters: three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism by Harm J. De Blij

agricultural Revolution, airport security, Anton Chekhov, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, British Empire, colonial exploitation, complexity theory, computer age, crony capitalism, demographic transition, Deng Xiaoping, Eratosthenes, European colonialism, F. W. de Klerk, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, global village, Great Leap Forward, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, Internet Archive, John Snow's cholera map, Khyber Pass, manufacturing employment, megacity, megaproject, Mercator projection, MITM: man-in-the-middle, Nelson Mandela, Oklahoma City bombing, out of africa, RAND corporation, risk tolerance, Ronald Reagan, social distancing, South China Sea, special economic zone, Thomas Malthus, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, UNCLOS, UNCLOS

See also natural resources Africa, 271-72,277 al-Qaeda as threat to, 277 Angola, 271,272 Chad, 271,272 China, 143 demand for, 132, 271-72, 277 and environmental issues, 102 Iraq, 189, 190, 277 and Islam, 162, 163 Kuwait, 114, 165,277 Mexico, 277 Nigeria, 271-72 Russia, 132, 234, 239, 252 Saudi Arabia, 277 Sudan, 271, 272 and terrorism, 50 United States imports, 271-72 Oklahoma City bombing (1995), 178 Oligocene era, 59, 64, 64-65, 67 Olympics in Munich (1972), 153 Oman, 164 Omsk, Russia, 238 "One Child Only" policy, 138 opium-poppy cultivation, 159 Oppenheimer, Stephen, 85 orangutans, 66-67 Ordovician period, 59 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 210 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC), 209 organized crime, 187 orphans, 103, 262 Ottoman Empire, 162, 162, 168 Outer Seven (European Free Trade Association), 210 Pacific Islanders, 24 Pacific Rim.

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg

carbon footprint, citizen journalism, classic study, deindustrialization, digital rights, fixed income, gentrification, ghettoisation, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jane Jacobs, longitudinal study, loose coupling, mass immigration, megacity, New Urbanism, Oklahoma City bombing, postindustrial economy, smart grid, smart meter, social distancing, The Chicago School, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, urban renewal, War on Poverty

More than twice as many people died in the heat wave than in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, when approximately three hundred people perished. More recent U.S. environmental disasters, such as California’s Northridge earthquake of 1994 and Florida’s Hurricane Andrew in 1992, caused the deaths of one-tenth and one-twentieth the heat wave total, respectively. The Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995, which killed 168, and the crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996, which killed 230, were several times less fatal. Reporters, public officials, and scientific authorities have developed compelling and straightforward accounts of the reasons that so many people died in these other environmental or technological disasters.

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman

1960s counterculture, 4chan, Aaron Swartz, Amazon Web Services, Bay Area Rapid Transit, bitcoin, Chelsea Manning, citizen journalism, cloud computing, collective bargaining, corporate governance, creative destruction, crowdsourcing, data science, David Graeber, Debian, digital rights, disinformation, do-ocracy, East Village, Eben Moglen, Edward Snowden, false flag, feminist movement, Free Software Foundation, Gabriella Coleman, gentrification, George Santayana, Hacker News, hive mind, impulse control, information security, Jacob Appelbaum, jimmy wales, John Perry Barlow, Julian Assange, Laura Poitras, lolcat, low cost airline, mandatory minimum, Mohammed Bouazizi, Network effects, Occupy movement, Oklahoma City bombing, operational security, pirate software, power law, Richard Stallman, SETI@home, side project, Silicon Valley, Skype, SQL injection, Steven Levy, Streisand effect, TED Talk, Twitter Arab Spring, WikiLeaks, zero day

Poulsen, Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground (New York: Broadway Books, 2012), 113. 6. For the definitive account of Operation Sundevil, see Bruce Sterling’s The Hacker Crackdown (1992). 7. “Document Management in the FBI,” ch. 2 in An Investigation of the Belated Production of Documents in the Oklahoma City Bombing Case,” US Justice Department, March 19, 2002, last accessed June 16, 2014, available at http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/0203/chapter2.htm. 8. Since the FD-302 provides a summary of an interview instead of a transcript, activists and lawyers have long criticized it for being biased. Civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate encapsulated the issues in an op-ed: “Frightened and confused interviewees, who, if they deny they said what any 302 report claims they uttered, can then be indicted for making false statements” (Silvergate, “Unrecorded testimony,” bostonglobe.com, May 11, 2013).

Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist by Michael Shermer

Alfred Russel Wallace, anthropic principle, anti-communist, anti-fragile, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Black Lives Matter, Boycotts of Israel, Chelsea Manning, clean water, clockwork universe, cognitive dissonance, Colonization of Mars, Columbine, cosmological constant, cosmological principle, creative destruction, dark matter, deplatforming, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, fake news, Flynn Effect, germ theory of disease, Great Leap Forward, gun show loophole, Hans Rosling, heat death of the universe, hedonic treadmill, helicopter parent, Higgs boson, hindsight bias, illegal immigration, income inequality, intentional community, invisible hand, Johannes Kepler, Joseph Schumpeter, Kim Stanley Robinson, laissez-faire capitalism, Laplace demon, luminiferous ether, Mars Society, McMansion, means of production, mega-rich, Menlo Park, microaggression, military-industrial complex, moral hazard, moral panic, More Guns, Less Crime, Multics, Oklahoma City bombing, Peter Singer: altruism, phenotype, positional goods, power law, public intellectual, race to the bottom, Richard Feynman, Ronald Coase, Silicon Valley, Skype, social intelligence, Social Justice Warrior, stem cell, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, Suez crisis 1956, TED Talk, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Timothy McVeigh, transaction costs, WikiLeaks, working poor, Yogi Berra

., 201 Menon, Latha, 287 Merckx, Eddy, 286 Merkel, Angela, 2 methodological naturalism, 224 #metoo movement, 132 Meyer, Stephen, 55, 57–59 microaggressions, 68–70 Miele, Frank, 21 Mill, John Stuart, 92, 136, 139, 231On Liberty, 4 Millennials, 65 Miller, Geoffrey, 209–210 Mill’s Maxim, 4 Milton, John Areopagitica, 3–4 Min Yongjun, 166 Miscavige, David, 93 Miscavige, Ron, 93 Miscavige Hill, Jenna, 93 Mlodinow, Leonard, 124–125 Montesquieu, 230 moral progress, 71–72 moral realism Is-Ought fallacy, 236–242 moral values common ground, 142–143 morality atheism and, 87–88 Divine Command Theory, 231–232 getting from is to ought, 228–235 moralization gap, 35 More, Sir Thomas, 8–9, 22 Morgan, Kathryn Pauly, 131 Mormons, 315 Moss, Thelma, 271 multiple creations cosmology, 122 murder individual homicides statistics, 163–165 Musk, Elon, 145, 146–147, 148, 149 National Firearms Act (1934), 191 National Mental Health hotline proposal, 170–171 natural selection (Darwin), 204–205 naturalistic fallacy, 103, 228–235 Navarick, Doug, 271 Nawaz, Maajid, 75 Nazism, 31social Darwinism, 60–61 Nelson, Paul, 55 neo-Darwinism, 62 Network (film), 88 New Atheist movement, 86, 289 New York Times, 177 Newtonian clockwork universe, 223 nihilism, 269 9/11, 23, 34, 41, 78, 89, 192, 245, 251, 278, 280 nonoverlapping magisteria (NOMA), 294 nonskeptical realism, 306 Norberg, Johan, 130 Norway Breivik killings, 29 nothing as something, 113 explanations for, 113–120 God created the universe out of (ex nihilo), 115–117 inconceivable nature of, 113 would include God’s nonexistence, 113–115 NRA, 162 See also gun control Nurturant Parent metaphor for the nation as a family, 193–197 Obama, Barack, 162, 253, 258–259 Objectivism, 134 Oklahoma City bombing (1995), 30 Old-Earth Creationists, 51 On Liberty (Mill), 4 ontological argument for the existence of God, 114 ontological realism, 306 Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 26–27 Oppression Olympics, 131–132 origin myths of religions and cults, 101–102 Ortega, Tony, 93 Orwell, George, 137 O’Sullivan, John, 5 OurWorldinData.org, 130 Outer Space Treaty (1967), 150 Owens, Candace, 33 Page, Larry, 260 Paine, Thomas, 83, 92, 139, 226, 280The Age of Reason, 4 Paladin (Have Gun – Will Travel television show), 298 Paladin archetype, 298–301, 310 Paley, William, 294 paranormal beliefs temptation of, 269–275 patternicity, 318–319, 325 Paul, Gregory S., 88 Pearcey, Nancy, 49 Penrose, Roger, 124 Pentagon Papers, 2 Perry, Rick, 81, 83 personality birth order and, 261–262 personality traits, 260–261 Peters, Ted, 221 Peters, Tom, 264 Peterson, Jordan, 297–310antidote to chaos, 308–310 Archetype Theory of Truth, 304–307 architecture of archetypes, 307–308 Bill C-16 and freedom of speech, 300–303 Christchurch massacre and, 31–33, 35–36 on gender pronouns, 300–303 Paladin archetype and, 298–301 truths in great literature, 306–307 worldview, 308–310 PewDiePie, 33–34, 35–36 physiocrats, 230–231 Pierce, William, 30–31 Pinker, Steven, 15–16, 35, 78, 130, 174, 185, 226, 238–239, 240, 241, 287 Plato, 231 polarization of politics, 136–139case for classical liberalism, 138–144 political tribalism, 243–246 politicians efforts to appeal to Christian voters, 81–85 politics case for classical liberalism, 138–144 freedom of speech, 19–27 polarization of, 136–139 responsibility to represent all beliefs and none, 81–85 Popper, Karl, 23, 321–322 positive assertions power of, 90 Prados de la Escosura, Leandro, 142 Prager, Dennis, 34 Principle of Freedom, 91–92 Principle of Interchangeable Perspectives, 78 Principle of Moral Good, 232 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 57 Progressive Creationists, 51 Prometheus Books, 269 protectionism economic effects, 250 Protheroe, Donald, 58 Provine, William B., 55, 62 pseudoscience view of Richard Dawkins, 292–294 Psychopathic Personality Index (PPI), 167 psychopathy, 165, 166–167 Pullman, Philip, 287 puritanical purging in social movements, 74–75 purpose in life, 103–108 Quesnay, François, 230–231 Quillette online magazine, 28, 129, 136, 145, 255 racial group differences research on, 19–20, 23 Rand, Ayn, 74–75, 134 Randi, James, 271, 272 rational consciousness raising, 91 Rawls, John, 231, 240 Reason magazine, 284 reciprocal altruism, 106, 208 Reed College, Oregon, 136–137 Rees, Martin, 112 Regressive Liberalism (Regressive Left), 75 Reiner, Rob, 245 Reitman, Janet, 93, 98 religion basis for skepticism about evolution, 47–50 case for belief pluralism, 81–85 numbers of nonreligious American, 84 origin myths of religions and cults, 101–102 separation from science, 62–63 variety of religions in America, 84 view of Richard Dawkins, 293–295 religiosity charitable giving and, 89–90 relationship to societal health, 88 religious skepticism challenging religious beliefs, 86–92 Remini, Leah, 93, 102 representational democracy, 149 representative bias, 24 Richardson, Lewis Fry, 36 Ridley, Mark, 287 Ridley, Matt, 104, 130, 287 rights revolutions, 72, 130 Robbins, Anthony, 100 Robinson, Kim Stanley, 152–153 Roe v.

The Science of Hate: How Prejudice Becomes Hate and What We Can Do to Stop It by Matthew Williams

3D printing, 4chan, affirmative action, agricultural Revolution, algorithmic bias, Black Lives Matter, Brexit referendum, Cambridge Analytica, citizen journalism, cognitive dissonance, coronavirus, COVID-19, dark matter, data science, deep learning, deindustrialization, desegregation, disinformation, Donald Trump, European colonialism, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, Filter Bubble, gamification, George Floyd, global pandemic, illegal immigration, immigration reform, impulse control, income inequality, longitudinal study, low skilled workers, Mark Zuckerberg, meta-analysis, microaggression, Milgram experiment, Oklahoma City bombing, OpenAI, Overton Window, power law, selection bias, Snapchat, statistical model, The Turner Diaries, theory of mind, TikTok, twin studies, white flight

Following a separate federal civil rights case in April 1993, two police officers were found guilty of violating King’s civil rights and served thirty months in prison, and two were fired from the LAPD. The spikes in anti-Muslim hate crime between 1993 and 2001 in the US were all preceded by terror attacks perpetrated in the name of radical Islam: the World Trade Center bombing on 26 February 1993, the Oklahoma City bombing on 19 April 1995 (which was initially blamed on Islamic fundamentalists), and 9/11 in 2001. Each attack was individually associated with a sharp rise in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate crime, with 9/11 exhibiting the strongest effect. During the days and weeks following each attack, anti-black hate crimes remained stable, indicating a distinct targeted effect – US citizens were taking out their revenge on people who shared similar characteristics with the perpetrators (or presumed perpetrators) of the attacks.

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2011 by Steve Coll

airport security, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Boeing 747, Boycotts of Israel, centre right, colonial rule, computer age, disinformation, energy security, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, illegal immigration, index card, Islamic Golden Age, Khyber Pass, Mikhail Gorbachev, Network effects, Oklahoma City bombing, operational security, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, Timothy McVeigh, trade route, upwardly mobile, urban planning, women in the workforce

“Everybody says it’s hard to put your finger on it,” she replied, “but it’s the growth in the importance of stuff that shouldn’t matter relative to stuff that should.”8 THE CIA'S COUNTERTERRORIST CENTERE began to emerge as a modest exception to the agency’s downward trend. For the first two years of the Clinton presidency, budgeting and policy making about terrorism had been dispersed and confused. The shock of the Oklahoma City bombing in the spring of 1995 created a new sense of urgency at the National Security Council, however. The bombers turned out to be a domestic cell of antigovernment militia. But their audacious strike coincided with a shocking chemical weapons attack by a Japanese-based cult in Tokyo.White House terrorism analysts believed the Japanese case showed that the United States was vulnerable to terrorists using weapons of mass destruction.

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He shook his head modestly and said he was just trying to bring people together. One of Clarke’s talents was to sense where national security issues were going before most other people did, and to position himself as a player on the rising questions of the day. By 1997 he gravitated toward counterterrorism. In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the downing of TWA Flight 800 (mistakenly believed at first to be a terrorist incident), the White House requested and Congress wrote enormous new appropriations for counterterrorist programs in a dozen federal departments. In an era of tight federal budgets, terrorism was a rare bureaucratic growth industry.

Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History by Thomas Rid

1960s counterculture, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, Alistair Cooke, Alvin Toffler, Apple II, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, back-to-the-land, Berlin Wall, Bletchley Park, British Empire, Brownian motion, Buckminster Fuller, business intelligence, Charles Babbage, Charles Lindbergh, Claude Shannon: information theory, conceptual framework, connected car, domain-specific language, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Engelbart, Dr. Strangelove, dumpster diving, Extropian, full employment, game design, global village, Hacker News, Haight Ashbury, Herman Kahn, Howard Rheingold, Ivan Sutherland, Jaron Lanier, job automation, John Gilmore, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, John von Neumann, Kevin Kelly, Kubernetes, Marshall McLuhan, Menlo Park, military-industrial complex, Mitch Kapor, Mondo 2000, Morris worm, Mother of all demos, Neal Stephenson, new economy, New Journalism, Norbert Wiener, offshore financial centre, oil shale / tar sands, Oklahoma City bombing, operational security, pattern recognition, public intellectual, RAND corporation, Silicon Valley, Simon Singh, Snow Crash, speech recognition, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, systems thinking, technoutopianism, Telecommunications Act of 1996, telepresence, The Hackers Conference, Timothy McVeigh, Vernor Vinge, We are as Gods, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Review, Y2K, Yom Kippur War, Zimmermann PGP

Days later, on the morning of January 22, 1999, the president raised the cyber security stakes. Clinton gave a major speech at the National Academy of Sciences, five blocks from the White House. It was a carefully chosen spot. He spoke about keeping America secure for the twenty-first century. He mentioned the nearly devastating World Trade Center bombing of 1993, the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, the Khobar Towers attack in Saudi Arabia, and Pan Am flight 103. “The enemies of peace realize they cannot defeat us with traditional military means,” the president said. “So they are working on two new forms of assault . . . : cyber attacks on our critical computer systems, and attacks with weapons of mass destruction.”75 By now the federal government was coming to terms with the fact that it had been at the receiving end of the biggest and most sophisticated computer network attack against the United States in history, Moonlight Maze.

Liars and Outliers: How Security Holds Society Together by Bruce Schneier

Abraham Maslow, airport security, Alvin Toffler, barriers to entry, behavioural economics, benefit corporation, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Sanders, Brian Krebs, Broken windows theory, carried interest, Cass Sunstein, Chelsea Manning, commoditize, corporate governance, crack epidemic, credit crunch, CRISPR, crowdsourcing, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, David Graeber, desegregation, don't be evil, Double Irish / Dutch Sandwich, Douglas Hofstadter, Dunbar number, experimental economics, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial deregulation, Future Shock, Garrett Hardin, George Akerlof, hydraulic fracturing, impulse control, income inequality, information security, invention of agriculture, invention of gunpowder, iterative process, Jean Tirole, John Bogle, John Nash: game theory, joint-stock company, Julian Assange, language acquisition, longitudinal study, mass incarceration, meta-analysis, microcredit, mirror neurons, moral hazard, Multics, mutually assured destruction, Nate Silver, Network effects, Nick Leeson, off-the-grid, offshore financial centre, Oklahoma City bombing, patent troll, phenotype, pre–internet, principal–agent problem, prisoner's dilemma, profit maximization, profit motive, race to the bottom, Ralph Waldo Emerson, RAND corporation, Recombinant DNA, rent-seeking, RFID, Richard Thaler, risk tolerance, Ronald Coase, security theater, shareholder value, slashdot, statistical model, Steven Pinker, Stuxnet, technological singularity, The Market for Lemons, The Nature of the Firm, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, The Wisdom of Crowds, theory of mind, Timothy McVeigh, too big to fail, traffic fines, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, ultimatum game, UNCLOS, union organizing, Vernor Vinge, WikiLeaks, World Values Survey, Y2K, Yochai Benkler, zero-sum game

Chayes (2008), “A Statistical Model of Criminal Behavior,” Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 18 (Supplement):1249–67. Beth Pearsall (2010), “Predictive Policing: The Future of Law Enforcement?” NIJ Journal, 266:16–9. Nancy Murray (2011), “Profiling in the Age of Total Information Awareness,” Race & Class, 51:3–24. Timothy McVeigh's van Associated Press (28 Sep 2009), “Attorney: Oklahoma City Bombing Tapes Appear Edited,” Oklahoman. reduce car theft Ian Ayres and Steven Levitt (1998), “Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113:43–77. Marco Gonzalez-Navarro (2008), “Deterrence and Displacement in Auto Theft,” Center for Economic Policy Studies Working Paper.

Women Leaders at Work: Untold Tales of Women Achieving Their Ambitions by Elizabeth Ghaffari

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Albert Einstein, AltaVista, Bear Stearns, business cycle, business process, cloud computing, Columbine, compensation consultant, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, dark matter, deal flow, do what you love, family office, Fellow of the Royal Society, financial independence, follow your passion, glass ceiling, Grace Hopper, high net worth, John Elkington, knowledge worker, Larry Ellison, Long Term Capital Management, longitudinal study, Oklahoma City bombing, performance metric, pink-collar, profit maximization, profit motive, recommendation engine, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, thinkpad, trickle-down economics, urban planning, women in the workforce, young professional

All six of the states in the Tenth Circuit, plus the federal government, had the death penalty, so we got a fair amount of capital litigation. __________ 3 “Hearing Her Story: Reflections of Women Judges,” see: http://law.pepperdine.edu/newsevents/events/hearing-her-story/ When I was in the circuit, there were a lot of tragedies—horrible things happened. We had the Oklahoma City bombing, the Los Alamos Labs case, and the Columbine case, to name just a few. Even so, it felt as if the time went by in an instant. Ghaffari: When you were on the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, what was that experience like? Tacha: That was from 1987 to about 1993 or 1994.

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", Airbnb, Amazon Web Services, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, call centre, carried interest, cloud computing, cognitive dissonance, company town, coronavirus, COVID-19, data science, death of newspapers, deindustrialization, Donald Trump, edge city, fulfillment center, future of work, gentrification, George Floyd, Glass-Steagall Act, global pandemic, Great Leap Forward, high net worth, housing crisis, Ida Tarbell, income inequality, information asymmetry, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, Jessica Bruder, jitney, Kiva Systems, lockdown, Lyft, mass incarceration, McMansion, megaproject, microapartment, military-industrial complex, new economy, Nomadland, offshore financial centre, Oklahoma City bombing, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, plutocrats, Ralph Nader, rent control, Richard Florida, ride hailing / ride sharing, Robert Mercer, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco homelessness, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, social distancing, strikebreaker, tech worker, Travis Kalanick, uber lyft, uranium enrichment, War on Poverty, warehouse robotics, white flight, winner-take-all economy, women in the workforce, working-age population, Works Progress Administration

” * * * At 9:37 a.m. on September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 bound from Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles flew into the western side of the Pentagon. The crash killed 125 people, in addition to the 64 on the plane. This would have been the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, with an even greater toll than the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, but it was overshadowed by the much deadlier and more visually arresting attacks that same morning in New York. Further cloaking the deaths at the Pentagon was the discretion inherent to the military—seven of the victims were from the Defense Intelligence Agency, while others were contractors with varying levels of classified status.

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire by Jeff Berwick, Charlie Robinson

2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013, airport security, Alan Greenspan, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, bank run, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, big-box store, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, bread and circuses, Bretton Woods, British Empire, call centre, carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon tax, Cass Sunstein, Chelsea Manning, clean water, cloud computing, cognitive dissonance, Comet Ping Pong, coronavirus, Corrections Corporation of America, COVID-19, crack epidemic, crisis actor, crony capitalism, cryptocurrency, dark matter, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, drone strike, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, energy transition, epigenetics, failed state, fake news, false flag, Ferguson, Missouri, fiat currency, financial independence, George Floyd, global pandemic, global supply chain, Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid, illegal immigration, Indoor air pollution, information security, interest rate swap, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, Julian Assange, Kickstarter, lockdown, Mahatma Gandhi, mandatory minimum, margin call, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, megacity, microapartment, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, new economy, no-fly zone, offshore financial centre, Oklahoma City bombing, open borders, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, pill mill, planetary scale, plutocrats, Ponzi scheme, power law, pre–internet, private military company, Project for a New American Century, quantitative easing, RAND corporation, reserve currency, RFID, ride hailing / ride sharing, Saturday Night Live, security theater, self-driving car, Seymour Hersh, Silicon Valley, smart cities, smart grid, smart meter, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, South China Sea, stock buybacks, surveillance capitalism, too big to fail, unpaid internship, urban decay, WikiLeaks, working poor

What it really boils down to is that once a government uses false flag events to terrorize their population in order to get what they want from them in terms of a reaction, they can never stop. They will always have to keep the lies and the propaganda going, and the United States has been either authorizing, or actually conducting false flag terrorist events against their citizens since at least the Oklahoma City bombing, and more than likely before that. A society that is built on a foundation of lies and self-directed terrorist attacks by their own government is a society that will eventually crumble once a critical mass of the population awakens to the reality of their situation. The United States is at that point.

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher

2021 United States Capitol attack, 4chan, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, Airbnb, Bellingcat, Ben Horowitz, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Bill Gates: Altair 8800, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, call centre, centre right, cloud computing, Comet Ping Pong, Computer Lib, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, dark pattern, data science, deep learning, deliberate practice, desegregation, disinformation, domesticated silver fox, Donald Trump, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Engelbart, end-to-end encryption, fake news, Filter Bubble, Future Shock, game design, gamification, George Floyd, growth hacking, Hacker Conference 1984, Hacker News, hive mind, illegal immigration, Jeff Bezos, John Perry Barlow, Jon Ronson, Joseph Schumpeter, Julian Assange, Kevin Roose, lockdown, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Max Levchin, military-industrial complex, Oklahoma City bombing, Parler "social media", pattern recognition, Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, profit maximization, public intellectual, QAnon, recommendation engine, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rutger Bregman, Saturday Night Live, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, social web, Startup school, Stephen Hawking, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, Susan Wojcicki, tech billionaire, tech worker, Ted Nelson, TED Talk, TikTok, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks, Y Combinator

One channel sat conspicuously in the network’s center, a black hole toward which YouTube’s algorithmic gravity pulled: Alex Jones. An FM shock jock since the 1990s, Jones had long cultivated an audience of cranks, overnight truckers, and the simply bored. Animated and gravelly-voiced, he spun out conspiracies crafted not so much to persuade listeners as to hold their attention: the government did the Oklahoma City bombing; the government dumped chemicals in the water supply to turn people gay. He staged attention-grabbing stunts, shouting down a speech by then-governor George W. Bush to demand he abolish the Federal Reserve. He sold bogus health supplements and survivalist gear, making a fortune. Then he hit YouTube and became, quite suddenly, influential.

The Rights of the People by David K. Shipler

affirmative action, airport security, computer age, disinformation, facts on the ground, fudge factor, if you build it, they will come, illegal immigration, mandatory minimum, Mikhail Gorbachev, national security letter, Nelson Mandela, Oklahoma City bombing, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, RFID, risk tolerance, Ronald Reagan, Skype, Thomas L Friedman, union organizing, working poor, zero-sum game

The report found his assertions “deeply flawed” and concluded, “His testimony about the defendants’ capacity exceeded his expertise, was unscientific and speculative, was based on improper non-scientific grounds, and appeared to be tailored to correspond with his estimate of the amount of explosive used in the bombing.” He performed the same backwards reasoning in the Oklahoma City bombing case, where he “did not draw a valid scientific conclusion” when identifying the explosive used in the attack as ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO), the investigation found. He relied not on forensic evidence from the scene “but rather speculated from the fact that one of the defendants purchased ANFO components.”

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", "World Economic Forum" Davos, anti-communist, Anton Chekhov, Berlin Wall, blood diamond, BRICs, colonial rule, crony capitalism, Deng Xiaoping, Doha Development Round, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial deregulation, Firefox, forensic accounting, friendly fire, glass ceiling, Global Witness, Great Leap Forward, illegal immigration, joint-stock company, low interest rates, market bubble, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Nick Leeson, no-fly zone, offshore financial centre, Oklahoma City bombing, Pearl River Delta, place-making, rising living standards, Ronald Reagan, Shenzhen special economic zone , Skype, special economic zone, Stephen Hawking, trade liberalization, trade route, Transnistria, unemployed young men, upwardly mobile

Addressing the Fiftieth Commemorative Assembly of the UN, the president called for a worldwide “assault on terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, and nuclear smuggling.” Clinton said that “no one is immune,” as he listed crimes such as the Aun Shinrikyo “poison gas attacks on the Japanese subway, suitcase bombings in Israel and France, mafia gangs in Russia, and the Oklahoma City bombing” that had shaken America in April that year. Because of the concentrated Russian presence, Washington turned its gaze to Israel, and by the mid-1990s, the long if arthritic arm of American law enforcement was knocking on Jerusalem’s door for information on a number of oligarchs and alleged criminals, such as Mogilevich and Mikhailov.

The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? by David Brin

affirmative action, airport security, Ayatollah Khomeini, clean water, cognitive dissonance, corporate governance, data acquisition, death of newspapers, Extropian, Garrett Hardin, Howard Rheingold, illegal immigration, informal economy, information asymmetry, information security, Iridium satellite, Jaron Lanier, John Gilmore, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, John von Neumann, Kevin Kelly, Marshall McLuhan, means of production, mutually assured destruction, Neal Stephenson, offshore financial centre, Oklahoma City bombing, open economy, packet switching, pattern recognition, pirate software, placebo effect, plutocrats, prediction markets, Ralph Nader, RAND corporation, Robert Bork, Saturday Night Live, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, telepresence, The Turner Diaries, Timothy McVeigh, trade route, Tragedy of the Commons, UUNET, Vannevar Bush, Vernor Vinge, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Review, workplace surveillance , Yogi Berra, zero-sum game, Zimmermann PGP

In other words, from the perspective of the ruling clique, it was imperative to make sure that boxes 1 and 2 in the accountability matrix were maximized, while boxes 3 and 4 were savagely repressed. 87 ... each new heinous act will be followed by government appeals for greater surveillance powers ... This happened after the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings. In each case a small but significant “antiterrorism” bill passed the U.S. Congress. While the legal effects were minimal, elected representatives felt impelled to be seen “doing something.” As such crimes proliferate in the future, this trend will continue ... so there had better be a countertrend—one establishing ever higher levels of citizen vigilance and control over the officials enforcing these new laws. 88 ... people choosing different boxes depending on point of view ...

Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide by Joshua S. Goldstein

Albert Einstein, Ayatollah Khomeini, Bartolomé de las Casas, Berlin Wall, Black Swan, blood diamond, business cycle, colonial rule, cuban missile crisis, death from overwork, Doomsday Clock, failed state, immigration reform, income inequality, invention of writing, invisible hand, land reform, long peace, microcredit, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, no-fly zone, Oklahoma City bombing, purchasing power parity, RAND corporation, selection bias, Steven Pinker, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, Tobin tax, unemployed young men, Winter of Discontent, work culture , Y2K

In this case it was ineffective. But the point that is completely lost in the frenzy of finger-pointing about this rape attack is that this kind of atrocity is much less common now than during the war a decade earlier, when the UN arrived. This was a single atrocity with hundreds of victims, on the scale of, say, the Oklahoma City bombing. The UN’s failure to eliminate all atrocities is not a “crowning failure,” or even its biggest failure, which would probably be Rwanda where the UN pulled out and let extremists massacre more than half a million people (and rape many of them). In early 2011, another series of rape attacks occurred in eastern Congo, with at least five incidents and more than 150 victims.

Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism by Sharon Beder

American Legislative Exchange Council, battle of ideas, benefit corporation, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, business climate, centre right, clean water, corporate governance, Exxon Valdez, Gary Taubes, global village, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, John Elkington, laissez-faire capitalism, military-industrial complex, oil shale / tar sands, Oklahoma City bombing, old-boy network, planned obsolescence, precautionary principle, price mechanism, profit maximization, Ralph Nader, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, scientific management, shareholder value, telemarketer, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, the market place, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, two and twenty, urban planning

According to the New York based Village Voice and the environmental journal Sierra, Ron Arnold was on the council of a Wise Use group called the National Federal Lands Conference (NFLC) which “enthusiastically endorsed the creation of militias in its October 1994 newsletter”. However, since the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995 the Wise Use Movement has done its best to distance itself from the militias; Arnold says that the NFLC is the only Wise Use group that he knows which supports militias. Nevertheless environmentalists claim that anti-environmental, property rights literature is distributed at various militia meetings and that the militia groups use Wise Use groups as an organising base.52 Another group that has been bringing disrepute to the Wise Use Movement is the American Freedom Coalition (AFC).

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett

accounting loophole / creative accounting, airport security, Albert Einstein, anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, biofilm, clean water, collective bargaining, contact tracing, desegregation, discovery of DNA, discovery of penicillin, disinformation, Drosophila, employer provided health coverage, Fall of the Berlin Wall, germ theory of disease, global pandemic, Gregor Mendel, illegal immigration, indoor plumbing, Induced demand, John Snow's cholera map, Jones Act, Louis Pasteur, Mahatma Gandhi, mass incarceration, Maui Hawaii, means of production, Menlo Park, Mikhail Gorbachev, mouse model, Nelson Mandela, new economy, nuclear winter, Oklahoma City bombing, phenotype, profit motive, Project Plowshare, RAND corporation, randomized controlled trial, Right to Buy, Ronald Reagan, sexual politics, Silicon Valley, stem cell, the scientific method, urban decay, urban renewal, War on Poverty, working poor, Works Progress Administration, yellow journalism

In 1991 it passed an export controls law, soon put in force against Iraq, that barred U.S. companies from trading with countries believed to be developing bioweapons. In 1989 it passed the Biological Weapons Act, which made it illegal for any American to possess, trade, sell, or manufacture a biological substance “for use as a weapon.” After the Oklahoma City bombing, Congress passed the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996, which allowed federal authorities to arrest anyone who even “threatens” to develop or use biological weapons. And the following year, by order of Congress, the CDC named twenty-four infectious organisms and twelve toxins as “restricted agents,” use or possession of which required a federal permit.

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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen

affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, animal electricity, anti-communist, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, augmented reality, back-to-the-land, Bernie Sanders, British Empire, Burning Man, California gold rush, Celebration, Florida, centre right, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, corporate governance, cotton gin, Credit Default Swap, David Brooks, delayed gratification, dematerialisation, disinformation, disintermediation, disruptive innovation, Donald Trump, Donner party, Downton Abbey, Easter island, Edward Snowden, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, failed state, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, God and Mammon, Gordon Gekko, greed is good, Herman Kahn, high net worth, illegal immigration, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, John von Neumann, Kickstarter, large denomination, Mark Zuckerberg, market fundamentalism, McMansion, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, Minecraft, moral panic, mutually assured destruction, new economy, New Urbanism, Norman Mailer, off-the-grid, Oklahoma City bombing, placebo effect, post-truth, pre–internet, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, Ralph Waldo Emerson, RAND corporation, reality distortion field, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, smart meter, Snapchat, South Sea Bubble, Steve Jobs, sugar pill, Ted Kaczynski, the scientific method, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Timothy McVeigh, trade route, transcontinental railway, urban renewal, We are all Keynesians now, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks, Y2K, young professional

I could fill pages with examples from the 1990s on, but a small sampling should do. Crossing Over with John Edward, a program purporting to let people communicate with the dead, was a big hit for the USA Network. Back then, when TLC was still called The Learning Channel, the taglines for a show during its Conspiracy Week were “Did they really catch the man behind the Oklahoma City bombing? Or was there a conspiracy?” In this century, especially in the last decade, TV really gave itself over to the wanton retailing of fantasies as realities.*3 ABC News created brand extensions of its blue-chip shows, both 20/20: The Sixth Sense and the limited series Nightline Primetime: Beyond Belief, with episodes including “Battle with the Devil” and “The Miracle Mysteries.”

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey West

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anthropocene, Anton Chekhov, Benoit Mandelbrot, Black Swan, British Empire, butterfly effect, caloric restriction, caloric restriction, carbon footprint, Cesare Marchetti: Marchetti’s constant, clean water, coastline paradox / Richardson effect, complexity theory, computer age, conceptual framework, continuous integration, corporate social responsibility, correlation does not imply causation, cotton gin, creative destruction, dark matter, Deng Xiaoping, double helix, driverless car, Dunbar number, Edward Glaeser, endogenous growth, Ernest Rutherford, first square of the chessboard, first square of the chessboard / second half of the chessboard, Frank Gehry, Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute, Great Leap Forward, Guggenheim Bilbao, housing crisis, Index librorum prohibitorum, invention of agriculture, invention of the telephone, Isaac Newton, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Bezos, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John von Neumann, Kenneth Arrow, laissez-faire capitalism, Large Hadron Collider, Larry Ellison, Lewis Mumford, life extension, Mahatma Gandhi, mandelbrot fractal, Marc Benioff, Marchetti’s constant, Masdar, megacity, Murano, Venice glass, Murray Gell-Mann, New Urbanism, Oklahoma City bombing, Peter Thiel, power law, profit motive, publish or perish, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Feynman, Richard Florida, Salesforce, seminal paper, Silicon Valley, smart cities, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, Suez canal 1869, systematic bias, systems thinking, technological singularity, The Coming Technological Singularity, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the scientific method, the strength of weak ties, time dilation, too big to fail, transaction costs, urban planning, urban renewal, Vernor Vinge, Vilfredo Pareto, Von Neumann architecture, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Review, wikimedia commons, working poor

This means that a difference of two orders of magnitude in the amplitude, that is a change of 2.0 on the Richter scale, is equivalent to a factor of three orders of magnitude (1,000) in the energy released, while a change of just 1.0 is equivalent to a factor of the square root of 1,000 = 31.6.4 Just to give some idea of the enormous amounts of energy involved in earthquakes, here are some numbers to peruse: the energy released by the detonation of a pound (or half a kilogram) of TNT corresponds roughly to a magnitude of 1 on the Richter scale; a magnitude of 3 corresponds to about 1,000 pounds (or about 500 kg) of TNT, which was roughly the size of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing; 5.7 corresponds to about 5,000 tons, 6.7 to about 170,000 tons (the Northridge and Fukushima earthquakes), 7.7 to about 5.4 million tons (the 2010 Sumatra earthquake), and 8.7 to about 170 million tons (the 2005 Sumatra earthquake). The most powerful earthquake ever recorded was the Great Chilean Earthquake of 1960 in Valdivia, which registered 9.5, corresponding to 2,700 million tons of TNT, almost a thousand times larger than Northridge or Fukushima.

Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age by Leslie Berlin

AltaVista, Apple II, Arthur D. Levinson, Asilomar, Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA, Bear Stearns, beat the dealer, Bill Atkinson, Bill Gates: Altair 8800, Bob Noyce, book value, Byte Shop, Charles Babbage, Clayton Christensen, cloud computing, computer age, Computer Lib, discovery of DNA, Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life?, don't be evil, Donald Knuth, double helix, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Engelbart, Dynabook, Edward Thorp, El Camino Real, Fairchild Semiconductor, fear of failure, Fellow of the Royal Society, financial independence, game design, Haight Ashbury, hiring and firing, independent contractor, industrial robot, informal economy, Internet of things, inventory management, Ivan Sutherland, John Markoff, Kickstarter, Kitchen Debate, Larry Ellison, Leonard Kleinrock, manufacturing employment, Mark Zuckerberg, Menlo Park, Minecraft, Mother of all demos, Oklahoma City bombing, packet switching, Project Xanadu, prudent man rule, Ralph Nader, Recombinant DNA, Robert Metcalfe, ROLM, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Snapchat, software as a service, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, Ted Nelson, Teledyne, union organizing, upwardly mobile, William Shockley: the traitorous eight, women in the workforce, work culture

Eldridge Cleaver, in Marcia Eymann and Charles M. Wollenberg, What’s Going On?: California and the Vietnam Era (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2004): 53. 5. Al Alcorn describes Rackarock as a potent combination of ammonium nitrate and nitrobenzene similar to the explosives used in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Alcorn, interview by author, Oct. 25, 2011. 6. Alcorn, interview by author, Oct. 25, 2011. 7. Alcorn’s size: résumé in tabbed business plan, tabbed business plan, Atari Business Plans Collection, SUSC. 8. Statistics for and accounts of People’s Park have been checked across a number of sources.

The Tylenol Mafia by Scott Bartz

AOL-Time Warner, Donald Trump, en.wikipedia.org, independent contractor, intangible asset, inventory management, Just-in-time delivery, life extension, Oklahoma City bombing, Ronald Reagan, Ted Kaczynski, the scientific method, too big to fail

Justice Department released a report on the findings of an investigation into the FBI lab by the Office of Inspector General. The report, written by General Michael Bromwich, delved into fewer than two dozen cases from just three of the FBI’s 35 specialized units, but that was enough to cast serious doubt on the credibility of all the findings produced at the FBI labs. The Oklahoma City bombing case was the biggest of those cited by the 500-page report. It strongly criticized explosives experts involved in the bombing investigation, particularly David Williams, who, according to the study, “reached conclusions that incriminated the defendants without a scientific basis.” The report further chastised Williams for his management of the on-site investigation of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, saying that he “began with a presumption of guilt upon which to build inferences.”

The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations by Sebastian Mallaby

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Alan Greenspan, Alvin Toffler, Asian financial crisis, bank run, battle of ideas, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Bretton Woods, capital controls, clean water, Dr. Strangelove, Dutch auction, export processing zone, failed state, financial independence, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, gentleman farmer, guns versus butter model, Hernando de Soto, Kenneth Rogoff, Kickstarter, land reform, land tenure, lateral thinking, low interest rates, market bubble, Martin Wolf, microcredit, oil shock, Oklahoma City bombing, old-boy network, Paul Samuelson, plutocrats, purchasing power parity, radical decentralization, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, special economic zone, structural adjustment programs, the new new thing, trade liberalization, traveling salesman, War on Poverty, Westphalian system, Yom Kippur War

., 12, 379 alliance with Bank of, 305 Bono and, 309 contempt for Bank of, 4, 123, 287, 312, 363, 389 Monterrey summit and, 307–8 September 11 terrorist attacks and, 11, 14, 303–4 unilateralism of, 362 Business Week, 53 Camdessus, Michel: debt relief and, 115 on long-term development, 209 Suharto meeting of, 189–90 Cape Verde, 148 Care, 265, 286 Carlson, Sam, 96–97, 100 Carnegie Hall, 3, 32–33, 52–55, 175, 374 Carter, Jimmy, 40, 42, 49 Castro, Fidel, 26 Centers for Disease Control, 158 Central Intelligence Agency, 318 Chad, 341–56, 359, 368–73 agriculture in, 345 author’s trip to, 368–73 Bank’s oil revenue plan for, 352 Chicken Price Index in, 345 Congressional Black Caucus and, 355 Dutch disease and, 350–51 Ellen Brown in, 344–47, 353 Environmental Defense Fund in, 347–48, 353–56 Exxon in, 342–50, 368–73 human rights record of, 353 IDA money and, 343, 352 mangoes in, 349 military clash in, 347–48 NGOs and, 343–44, 346, 348–49, 352–54, 356, 369–71, 373 oil in, 342–56, 369–73, 387 pipeline completion in, 369, 372–73 political dissent in, 348 politics in, 342, 351–52 population of, 341 poverty in, 342, 345 Pygmies in, 342–43, 346, 353 road construction in, 344 Chase Bank, 29 Chenery, Hollis, 71 on “optimum growth,” 35 Cheney, Dick: unilateralism of, 362 Wolfensohn and, 287 Chevron, 354 China, 179, 270–85, 290, 359–61 arrest of journalists in, 278 Bank loans and, 27, 73, 111, 120, 148, 270, 334 dam project in, 271–85, 340–41, 348–49, 354–356 economic boom in, 382, 392 Ministry of Finance of, 359 NGOs and, 273–77, 279–83, 388 poverty reduction in, 214, 270, 311 private capital in, 120 Chirac, Jacques: AIDS and, 326 Exxon and, 349 Christopher, Warren, 129 Chrysler, 3, 37–39, 49, 52, 108, 310 Wolfensohn’s work for, 38–39 Clausen, Alden “Tom,” 69 background of, 42 McNamara’s antipoverty rhetoric downgraded by, 46–47 Preston and, 57 Clinton, Bill, 64, 65–66, 72, 82, 116–17, 143, 255–57, 286–88, 297, 374, 389 debt relief and, 249 Oklahoma City bombing and, 302 Qinghai dam and, 274 and search for Bank president, 69, 71, 73–75, 77–81 State of the Union 1996 speech of, 262 Clinton, Hillary, 300 CNN, 302 coffee, in Uganda, 213–14, 220, 229–30 cold war, 26, 130 Collier, Paul: criticism of Bank by, 384 Museveni and, 254 communism, 2, 16, 26 Community Driven Development, 323, 330 Comprehensive Development Framework, 235–38, 248, 254–55, 257, 259, 287, 299, 311–12, 328, 381 Conable, Barber, 55, 69 appointment to Bank of, 43 emphasis on poverty by, 47 failed management reform under, 157 ignorance of Bank of, 43, 49 managerial reform by, 150 Concert of the Americas, 65–66 Congo: AIDS in, 314–15 bank loans to, 148 Ugandan invasion of, 258 see also Zaire Congo-Brazzaville, 96 oil in, 347 Congress, U.S.: AIDS in, 326 debt relief and, 249 Iraq reconstruction and, 366 World Bank Inspection Panel and, 276 see also House of Representatives, U.S.

The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall by Mark W. Moffett

affirmative action, Anthropocene, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, California gold rush, classic study, cognitive load, delayed gratification, demographic transition, Easter island, eurozone crisis, George Santayana, glass ceiling, Howard Rheingold, invention of agriculture, invention of writing, Kevin Kelly, labour mobility, land tenure, long peace, Milgram experiment, mirror neurons, Oklahoma City bombing, out of africa, phenotype, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, shared worldview, Silicon Valley, social intelligence, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, the strength of weak ties, Timothy McVeigh, World Values Survey

So when an American citizen with Afghan parents shot up a Florida nightclub in 2016, killing 49, the horrors set off a different and stronger outrage than if a majority person had pulled the trigger: one directed at a whole group of people perceived by many to share responsibility for the offense. Meanwhile a white committing such an atrocity, like Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, is more often seen as a deviant individual, personally accountable for what happened.42 Throughout the history of nations, one loathed group has replaced another in endless succession, their trustworthiness, indeed their merit and citizenship, called to question in a roller-coaster of perceptions.

The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland by Ali Winston, Darwin Bondgraham

affirmative action, anti-communist, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Bear Stearns, Black Lives Matter, Broken windows theory, Chelsea Manning, cognitive dissonance, collective bargaining, COVID-19, crack epidemic, defund the police, deindustrialization, desegregation, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Ferguson, Missouri, friendly fire, full employment, gentrification, George Floyd, global pandemic, Golden Gate Park, mass incarceration, Nelson Mandela, Occupy movement, Oklahoma City bombing, old-boy network, Port of Oakland, power law, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco homelessness, Silicon Valley, sovereign wealth fund, transcontinental railway, urban renewal, W. E. B. Du Bois, War on Poverty, white flight, WikiLeaks, Yogi Berra

They watched in horror as Mixon gunned down the officers and ran around the corner of Seventy-Fourth Avenue while trying to shove the pistol into his waistband. It was one of the deadliest days in the history of American law enforcement. Aside from the 9/11 Al Qaeda attacks, when seventy-two officers were killed, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that claimed eight officers’ lives, and the 1993 Branch Davidian compound raid in Waco, Texas, when five officers died, nothing comparable had happened to law enforcement in the previous thirty-six years. But further tragedy wasn’t foreordained. In anguish over the loss of their fellow officers, the OPD commissioned a rare, brutally honest independent investigation that identified rampant failures in the manhunt and SWAT raid that left three more dead.

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't by Nate Silver

airport security, Alan Greenspan, Alvin Toffler, An Inconvenient Truth, availability heuristic, Bayesian statistics, Bear Stearns, behavioural economics, Benoit Mandelbrot, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, big-box store, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Black Swan, Boeing 747, book value, Broken windows theory, business cycle, buy and hold, Carmen Reinhart, Charles Babbage, classic study, Claude Shannon: information theory, Climategate, Climatic Research Unit, cognitive dissonance, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collateralized debt obligation, complexity theory, computer age, correlation does not imply causation, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, disinformation, diversification, Donald Trump, Edmond Halley, Edward Lorenz: Chaos theory, en.wikipedia.org, equity premium, Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis, everywhere but in the productivity statistics, fear of failure, Fellow of the Royal Society, Ford Model T, Freestyle chess, fudge factor, Future Shock, George Akerlof, global pandemic, Goodhart's law, haute cuisine, Henri Poincaré, high batting average, housing crisis, income per capita, index fund, information asymmetry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet Archive, invention of the printing press, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, Japanese asset price bubble, John Bogle, John Nash: game theory, John von Neumann, Kenneth Rogoff, knowledge economy, Laplace demon, locking in a profit, Loma Prieta earthquake, market bubble, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moneyball by Michael Lewis explains big data, Monroe Doctrine, mortgage debt, Nate Silver, negative equity, new economy, Norbert Wiener, Oklahoma City bombing, PageRank, pattern recognition, pets.com, Phillips curve, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato's cave, power law, prediction markets, Productivity paradox, proprietary trading, public intellectual, random walk, Richard Thaler, Robert Shiller, Robert Solow, Rodney Brooks, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, savings glut, security theater, short selling, SimCity, Skype, statistical model, Steven Pinker, The Great Moderation, The Market for Lemons, the scientific method, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, The Wisdom of Crowds, Thomas Bayes, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Timothy McVeigh, too big to fail, transaction costs, transfer pricing, University of East Anglia, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, Wayback Machine, wikimedia commons

., 8, 13, 17, 60, 81, 133, 145, 154, 162, 163, 173, 185, 196, 285–86, 295, 327, 340, 371–73, 388–89, 390–91, 404, 448, 451, 453 in stock market, 368 “Noise” (Black), 362 no-limit hold ’em, 300–308, 309–11, 315–16, 316, 318, 324n, 495 nonlinear systems, 29, 118–19, 120, 376–77 Nordhaus, William, 398 North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), 423 Norway, 31 NRSROs, see ratings agencies Nuclear Cities Initiative, 512 nuclear weapons, 434, 436, 438 see also weapons of mass destruction null hypothesis, 260 see also statistical significance test Nunn, Sam, 434 Oakland Athletics, 87, 92, 99–100, 106, 471 Obama, Barack, 40, 49, 55, 59, 252, 358, 379, 444, 468, 473 obesity, 372, 373 objective truth, 14 objectivity, 14, 64, 72–73, 100, 252, 253, 255, 258-59, 288, 313, 403, 453 observer effect, 188, 472 Occam’s razor, 389 Odean, Terrance, 359 Oklahoma City bombing, 425, 427 Okun’s law, 189 Omaha, Nebr., 396 O’Meara, Christopher, 36 Omori’s Law, 477 On-base percentage (OBP), 95, 106, 314, 471 O’Neal, Shaquille, 233–34, 235, 236, 237 options traders, 364 order, complexity and, 173 outliers, 65, 425–28, 452 out of sample, 43–44, 420 Overcoming Bias (blog), 201 overconfidence, 179–83, 191, 203, 323–24, 386, 443, 454 in stock market trading, 359–60, 367 overeating, 503 overfitting, 163–68, 166, 191, 452n, 478 earthquake predictions and, 168–71, 185 over-under line, 239–40, 257, 286 ozone, 374 Ozonoff, Alex, 218–19, 223, 231, 483 Pacific countries, 379 Pacific Ocean, 419 Pacific Poker, 296–97 Page, Clarence, 48, 467 PageRank, 291 Pakistan, 434–35 Palin, Sarah, 59 Palm, 361, 362 panics, financial, 38, 195 Papua New Guinea, 228 Pareto principle, 312–13, 314, 315, 316n, 317, 496 Paris, 2 Parkfield, Calif., 158–59, 174 partisanship, 13, 56, 57, 58, 60, 64, 92, 130, 200, 378, 411, 452 Party Poker, 296, 319 patents, 7–8, 8, 411, 411n, 460, 514 pattern detection, 12, 281, 292 Pearl Harbor, 10, 412–13, 414, 415–17, 419–20, 423, 426, 444, 510 Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decisions (Wohlstetter), 415, 416, 418, 419–20 PECOTA, 9, 74–75, 78, 83, 84, 85–86 scouts vs., 88–90, 90, 91, 102, 105, 106–7 Pecota, Bill, 88 Pedroia, Dustin, 74–77, 85, 89, 97, 101–5 penicillin, 119 pensions, 24, 27, 34, 356, 463 P/E (price-to-earnings) ratio, 348, 349, 350–51, 354, 365, 369, 500 Perry, Rick, 59, 217 persistence, 131, 132, 132 personal income, 481 Peru, 210 Petit, Yusemiro, 89 Petty, William, 212 pharmaceuticals, 411 Philadelphia Phillies, 286 Pielke, Roger, Jr., 177n pigs, 209 Pippen, Scottie, 235, 236 pitchers, 88, 90, 92 Pitch f/x, 100–101, 106–7 Pittsburgh, Pa., 207–8, 228, 230 Pittsburgh, University of, 225–26 plate discipline, 96 Plato, 2 pneumonia, 205 Poe, Edgar Allan, 262–64, 282, 289 Poggio, Tomaso, 12, 231 point spread, 239 poker, 10, 16, 59–60, 63, 66, 256, 284, 294–328, 343, 362, 494–95 Bayesian reasoning in, 299, 301, 304, 306, 307, 322–23 boom in, 294, 296, 314–15, 319, 323 competition in, 313 computer’s playing of, 324 fish in, 312, 316, 317–19 inexperience of mid-2000s players in, 315 limit hold ’em, 311, 322, 322 luck vs. skill in, 321–23 no-limit hold ’em, 300–308, 309–11, 315–16, 316, 318, 324n, 495 online, 296–97, 310 plausible win rates in, 323 predictions in, 297–99, 311–15 random play in, 310 results in, 327 river in, 306, 307, 494 signal and noise in, 295 suckers in, 56, 237, 240, 317–18, 320 Texas hold ’em, 298–302 volatility of, 320, 322, 328 PokerKingBlog.com, 318 PokerStars, 296, 320 Poland, 52 Polgar, Susan, 281 polio vaccine, 206 political partisanship, see partisanship political polls, see polls politics, political science, 11, 14–15, 16, 53, 426 failures of predictions on, 11, 14–15, 47–50, 49, 53, 55–59, 64, 67–68, 157, 162, 183, 249, 314 small amount of data in, 80 polls, 61–63, 62, 68, 70, 426 biases in, 252–53 frequentist approach to, 252 individual vs. consensus, 335 margin of error in, 62, 65, 176, 252, 452 outlier, 65 prediction interval in, 183n Popper, Karl, 14, 15 Population Bomb, The (Ehrlich and Ehrlich), 212–13 pork, 210 Portland Trail Blazers, 234, 235–37, 489 positive feedback, 38, 39, 368 posterior possibility, 244 power-law distribution, 368n, 427, 429–31, 432, 437, 438, 441, 442 precision, accuracy vs., 46, 46, 225 predestination, 112 Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction (Hough), 157 prediction, 1, 16 computers and, 292 consensus, 66–67, 331–32, 335–36 definition of, 452n Enlightenment debates about, 112 in era of big data, 9, 10, 197, 250 fatalism and, 5 feedback on, 183 forecasting vs., 5, 149 by foxes, see foxes of future returns of stocks, 330–31, 332–33 of global warming, 373–76, 393, 397–99, 401–6, 402, 507 in Google searches, 290–91 by hedgehogs, see hedgehogs human ingenuity and, 292 of Hurricane Katrina, 108–10, 140–41, 388 as hypothesis-testing, 266–67 by IPCC, 373–76, 389, 393, 397–99, 397, 399, 401, 507 in Julius Caesar, 5 lack of demand for accuracy in, 202, 203 long-term progress vs. short-term regress and, 8, 12 Pareto principle of, 312–13, 314 perception and, 453–54, 453 in poker, 297–99, 311–15 probability and, 243 quantifying uncertainty of, 73 results-oriented thinking and, 326–28 scientific progress and, 243 self-canceling, 219–20, 228 self-fulfilling, 216–19, 353 as solutions to problems, 14–16 as thought experiments, 488 as type of information-processing, 266 of weather, see weather forecasting prediction, failures of: in baseball, 75, 101–5 of CDO defaults, 20–21, 22 context ignored in, 43 of earthquakes, 7, 11, 143, 147–49, 158–61, 168–71, 174, 249, 346, 389 in economics, 11, 14, 40–42, 41, 45, 53, 162, 179–84, 182, 198, 200–201, 249, 388, 477, 479 financial crisis as, 11, 16, 20, 30–36, 39–42 of floods, 177–79 of flu, 209–31 of global cooling, 399–400 housing bubble as, 22–23, 24, 25–26, 28–29, 32–33, 42, 45 overconfidence and, 179–83, 191, 203, 368, 443 overfitting and, 185 on politics, 11, 14–15, 47–50, 49, 53, 55–59, 64, 67–68, 157, 162, 183, 249, 314 as rational, 197–99, 200 recessions, 11 September 11, 11 in stock market, 337–38, 342, 343–46, 359, 364–66 suicide bombings and, 424 by television pundits, 11, 47–50, 49, 55 Tetlock’s study of, 11, 51, 52–53, 56–57, 64, 157, 183, 443, 452 of weather, 21–22, 114–18 prediction interval, 181-183, 193 see also margin of error prediction markets, 201–3, 332–33 press, free, 5–6 Price, Richard, 241–42, 490 price discovery, 497 Price Is Right, 362 Principles of Forecasting (Armstrong), 380 printing press, 1–4, 6, 13, 17, 250, 447 prior probability, 244, 245, 246, 252, 255, 258–59, 260, 403, 406–7, 433n, 444, 451, 490, 497 probability, 15, 61–64, 63, 180, 180, 181 calibration and, 134–36, 135, 136, 474 conditional, 240, 300; see also Bayes’s theorem frequentism, 252 and orbit of planets, 243 in poker, 289, 291, 297, 302–4, 302, 306, 307, 322–23 posterior, 244 predictions and, 243 prior, 244, 245, 246, 252, 255, 258–59, 260, 403, 406–7, 433n, 444, 451, 490, 498 rationality and, 242 as waypoint between ignorance and knowledge, 243 weather forecasts and, 195 probability distribution, of GDP growth, 201 probability theory, 113n productivity paradox, 7–8 “Programming a Computer for Playing Chess” (Shannon), 265–66 progress, forecasting and, 1, 4, 5, 7, 112, 243, 406, 410–11, 447 prospect theory, 64 Protestant Reformation, 4 Protestant work ethic, 5 Protestants, worldliness of, 5 psychology, 183 Public Opinion Quarterly, 334 PURPLE, 413 qualitative information, 100 quantitative information, 72–73, 100 Quantum Fund, 356 quantum mechanics, 113–14 Quebec, 52 R0 (basic reproduction number), 214–15, 215, 224, 225, 486 radar, 413 radon, 143, 145 rain, 134–37, 473, 474 RAND database, 511 random walks, 341 Rapoport, David C., 428 Rasskin-Gutman, Diego, 269 ratings agencies, 463 CDOs misrated by, 20–21, 21, 22, 26–30, 36, 42, 43, 45 housing bubble missed by, 22–23, 24, 25–26, 28–29, 42, 45, 327 models of, 13, 22, 26, 27, 29, 42, 45, 68 profits of, 24–25 see also specific agencies rationality, 183–84 biases as, 197–99, 200 of markets, 356–57 as probabilistic, 242 Reagan, Ronald, 50, 68, 160, 433, 466 RealClimate.org, 390, 409 real disposable income per capita, 67 recessions, 42 double dip, 196 failed predictions of, 177, 187, 194 in Great Moderation, 190 inflation-driven, 191 of 1990, 187, 191 since World War II, 185 of 2000-1, 187, 191 of 2007-9, see Great Recession rec.sport.baseball, 78 Red Cross, 158 Red River of the North, 177–79 regression analysis, 100, 401, 402, 498, 508 regulation, 13, 369 Reinhart, Carmen, 39–40, 43 religion, 13 Industrial Revolution and, 6 religious extremism, 428 religious wars of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 2, 6 Remote Sensing Systems, 394 Reno, Nev., 156–57, 157, 477 reserve clause, 471 resolution, as measure of forecasts, 474 results-oriented thinking, 326–28 revising predictions, see Bayesian reasoning Ricciardi, J.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker

affirmative action, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, anti-communist, behavioural economics, belling the cat, British Empire, clean water, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, conceptual framework, correlation coefficient, correlation does not imply causation, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, Defenestration of Prague, desegregation, disinformation, Dutch auction, epigenetics, Exxon Valdez, George Akerlof, germ theory of disease, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, Gregor Mendel, Hobbesian trap, income inequality, invention of agriculture, invisible hand, Joan Didion, language acquisition, long peace, meta-analysis, More Guns, Less Crime, Murray Gell-Mann, mutually assured destruction, Norman Mailer, Oklahoma City bombing, PalmPilot, Peter Singer: altruism, phenotype, plutocrats, Potemkin village, prisoner's dilemma, profit motive, public intellectual, QWERTY keyboard, Richard Feynman, Richard Thaler, risk tolerance, Robert Bork, Rodney Brooks, Saturday Night Live, Skinner box, social intelligence, speech recognition, Stanford prison experiment, stem cell, Steven Pinker, tacit knowledge, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, the new new thing, theory of mind, Thomas Malthus, Thorstein Veblen, Timothy McVeigh, twin studies, Tyler Cowen, ultimatum game, urban renewal, War on Poverty, women in the workforce, Yogi Berra, zero-sum game

Noble Savage communalism and evolution and feminism and neuroscience and radical science defense of rape and violence and nonrival goods Non Sequitur (comic strip) Not in Our Genes (Kamin) Nozick, Robert nuclear weapons number sense Nurture Assumption, The (Harris) Nussbaum, Martha Oakshott, Michael Ofili, Chris Oklahoma City bombing (1995) olfactory (smell) system Onion, The orangutans Ortega y Gasset, José Orwell, George Ozick, Cynthia Paddock, Paul Paddock, William Paglia, Camille Paine, Thomas Painted Word, The paleontology Palmer, Craig Papert, Seymour Parallel Distributed Processing (Rumelhart, McClelland et al.)

Parks Directory of the United States by Darren L. Smith, Kay Gill

1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy, Asilomar, British Empire, California gold rush, clean water, company town, Cornelius Vanderbilt, cotton gin, cuban missile crisis, desegregation, Donner party, El Camino Real, global village, Golden Gate Park, Hernando de Soto, indoor plumbing, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, oil shale / tar sands, Oklahoma City bombing, Ronald Reagan, Sand Hill Road, Southern State Parkway, Torches of Freedom, trade route, transcontinental railway, Works Progress Administration

Location: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, between Robinson and Harvey streets on the east and west, and between Sixth and Fourth streets on the north and south. Facilities: Rest rooms (u). Activities: Group tours (reservations available). Special Features: Memorial honors the victims, survivors, and rescuers of the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995. Site includes three separate components: the Outdoor Symbolic Memorial, the Memorial Center, and the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (www.mipt.org). by the New York AFL-CIO on behalf of the American Labor Studies Center (ALSC). Under the authorized bill, the property is designated an affiliated area of the National Park System, which will provide the center with technical and financial assistance for planning, development, interpretation, and preservation of the site.

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Fish Hatchery: AK 1402 Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center: PA 4044 Nolin River: KY 233 Norbeck (Peter): SD 1246 Norris Dam: TN 4263 Norse Peak Wilderness Area: WA 1261 North Bridge: MA 242 North Cascades Scenic Highway: WA 535 North Country National Scenic Trail: MI 5187; ND 590, 3641, 3658; PA 451; WI 469 North (Frank and Luther): NE 3143 North-South Trail: RI 4094 North Umpqua River: OR 1237 North West Company: MN 159 North-West Company: MN 1196 Northern Plains Indians: MT 225; ND 211 Northumberland Strait: NB 426 Northwest Passage: ID 1159 Nowitna River: AK 888 O Oakes and Blanche Ames: MA 2670 Oakhurst Links Golf Course: WV 1270 Oakley House: LA 2514 Ocumlgee Heritage Greenway: GA 652 Odiorne Point: NH 3272 ’Ohe’o Gulch: HI 172 Ohio & Erie Canal: OH 1227 Ohio River: IL 1170; IN 1172; OH 1228 Ohio River Museum: OH 1228 Okefenokee Swamp: GA 2104 Oklahoma City bombing: OK 397 Oklahoma Territory: NM 1075 Old Block House: MI 2827 Old City Hall: PA 188 Old Faithful: WY 376 Old Fort House Museum: NY 1217 Old Fort Niagara: NY 3450 Old Fort Phoenix: MA 2691 Old Fort Steuben: OH 1228 Old Great Northern Railway: WA 1265 Old Lead Belt: MO 3025 Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse: MI 2789 Old Mission: ID 2189 Old North Church: MA 39 Old Oak Trail: ND 3652 Old Orchard Museum: NY 306 Old Oregon Trail: ID 589; OR 530 Old Petersburg/Addison Tollhouse: PA 1240 Old Point Loma Lighthouse: CA 45 Old Post Office Tower: DC 280 Old Saint Andrews Church: SC 1242 Old Spanish National Historic Trail: NM 1067 Old Speck Mountain: ME 2576 Old State House: MA 39 Old Stone Fort: TN 4264 Old Stone House: DC 300 Old Town Pasadena: CA 1134 Old Tucson Studios: AZ 4992 Ole Bornemann Bull: PA 4048 Oliver H.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

1960s counterculture, affirmative action, Alan Turing: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem, Albert Einstein, availability heuristic, behavioural economics, Berlin Wall, Boeing 747, Bonfire of the Vanities, book value, bread and circuses, British Empire, Broken windows theory, business cycle, California gold rush, Cass Sunstein, citation needed, classic study, clean water, cognitive dissonance, colonial rule, Columbine, computer age, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, conceptual framework, confounding variable, correlation coefficient, correlation does not imply causation, crack epidemic, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, David Brooks, delayed gratification, demographic transition, desegregation, Doomsday Clock, Douglas Hofstadter, Dr. Strangelove, Edward Glaeser, en.wikipedia.org, European colonialism, experimental subject, facts on the ground, failed state, first-past-the-post, Flynn Effect, food miles, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, fudge factor, full employment, Garrett Hardin, George Santayana, ghettoisation, Gini coefficient, global village, Golden arches theory, Great Leap Forward, Henri Poincaré, Herbert Marcuse, Herman Kahn, high-speed rail, Hobbesian trap, humanitarian revolution, impulse control, income inequality, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of the printing press, Isaac Newton, lake wobegon effect, libertarian paternalism, long peace, longitudinal study, loss aversion, Marshall McLuhan, mass incarceration, McMansion, means of production, mental accounting, meta-analysis, Mikhail Gorbachev, mirror neurons, moral panic, mutually assured destruction, Nelson Mandela, nuclear taboo, Oklahoma City bombing, open economy, Peace of Westphalia, Peter Singer: altruism, power law, QWERTY keyboard, race to the bottom, Ralph Waldo Emerson, random walk, Republic of Letters, Richard Thaler, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, security theater, Skinner box, Skype, Slavoj Žižek, South China Sea, Stanford marshmallow experiment, Stanford prison experiment, statistical model, stem cell, Steven Levy, Steven Pinker, sunk-cost fallacy, technological determinism, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, the long tail, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, theory of mind, Timothy McVeigh, Tragedy of the Commons, transatlantic slave trade, trolley problem, Turing machine, twin studies, ultimatum game, uranium enrichment, Vilfredo Pareto, Walter Mischel, WarGames: Global Thermonuclear War, WikiLeaks, women in the workforce, zero-sum game

Nobel, Alfred Noble Savage myth nonstate societies: cooperation in data sources of deaths from warfare in emergence of fighting in violence rates in norepinephrine normal distribution norms: of civilized society and crime rates of etiquette evaluation of informal internalized and morality in 1960s counterculture of nonviolence of purity social tacit territorial integrity of war as immoral see also etiquette; moral sense; taboos North Korea noses: blowing cutting off Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty nuclear peace theory nuclear taboo nuclear terrorism nuclear threat nuclear weapons Nunberg, Geoffrey Nunn, Sam Nuremberg Trials nursery rhymes Nurture Assumption Nussbaum, Martha Oatley, Keith Obama, Barack obedience; see also Milgram, Stanley Odysseus Oklahoma City bombing Olds, James Oneal, John One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (film) openness to experience Operation Ceasefire Opium Wars Oppenheimer, Robert opponent-process theory of emotion optimal foraging orientation, long- vs. short-term Orwell, George Otterbein, Keith Ottoman Empire Ötzi the Iceman overconfidence Owen, Wilfred oxytocin Oz, Amos Pacification Process civilization human societies introduction of concept logic of violence use of term violence in human ancestors violence in state and nonstate societies Pacific Northwest pacifism Pacifist’s Dilemma and empathy and feminization and gentle commerce and Leviathan and reason Pakistan Al Qaeda in and India and terrorism Pale of Settlement Palestine Panksepp, Jaak Papua New Guinea; see also New Guinea Parachini, John paramilitaries Pareto, Vilfredo Pareto Principle Parker, Theodore Parks, Rosa Pascal, Blaise pastoralism Pate, Amy Patrick, Saint patrilocal societies Patterson, Orlando Patz, Etan Pauling, Linus Paul IV, Pope Payne, James L.

The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey by Emmanuel Goldstein

affirmative action, Apple II, benefit corporation, call centre, disinformation, don't be evil, Firefox, game design, Hacker Ethic, hiring and firing, information retrieval, information security, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, late fees, license plate recognition, Mitch Kapor, MITM: man-in-the-middle, Oklahoma City bombing, optical character recognition, OSI model, packet switching, pirate software, place-making, profit motive, QWERTY keyboard, RFID, Robert Hanssen: Double agent, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, satellite internet, Silicon Valley, Skype, spectrum auction, statistical model, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Telecommunications Act of 1996, telemarketer, undersea cable, UUNET, Y2K

You can get a copy via ftp/wais/gopher/www from cpsr.org /cpsr/privacy/communications/wiretap/ hr4922_final.txt. 561 94192c13.qxd 6/3/08 3:34 PM Page 562 562 Chapter 13 News Items (Summer, 1995) You don’t need encryption to blow up a bomb. That’s the lesson the Clinton administration seems to be having trouble learning. Almost immediately after the Oklahoma City bombing, there were cries on Capitol Hill for “broad new powers” to combat terrorism. According to FBI Director Louis Freeh, one of the biggest problems facing us today is that of criminals communicating on the Internet using encryption. “This problem must be resolved,” they say. According to White House aides, Clinton will seek new FBI powers to monitor phone lines of suspected terrorists as well as more access to credit and travel records.

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk

Albert Einstein, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Boycotts of Israel, bread and circuses, British Empire, call centre, clean water, colonial rule, cuban missile crisis, disinformation, dual-use technology, Farzad Bazoft, friendly fire, Howard Zinn, IFF: identification friend or foe, invisible hand, Islamic Golden Age, Khartoum Gordon, Khyber Pass, land reform, Mahatma Gandhi, Mikhail Gorbachev, music of the spheres, no-fly zone, Oklahoma City bombing, Ronald Reagan, Seymour Hersh, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, the market place, Thomas L Friedman, Timothy McVeigh, Transnistria, unemployed young men, uranium enrichment, Yom Kippur War

Later, perhaps because they attacked the world’s only superpower so ferociously, we gifted them with the title of “insurgents.” 144 Among the many thousands of Americans who were decorated for their role in the Kuwait liberation was a young gunner on a Bradley fighting vehicle who received the Bronze Star and several other medals. Timothy McVeigh, a promising young soldier, then tried to join the U.S. Special Forces, but dropped out and left the army embittered on 31 December 1991. He was executed on 11 June 2001 for the 19 April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 167 Americans. 145 As so often, American “intelligence sources” had contributed to this mind-set. As early as 2 February, Douglas Jehl of the Los Angeles Times, a “pool” journalist with American forces in Saudi Arabia, was referring to “intelligence reports issued to commanders last week warning that more than a dozen Palestinian terrorists were known to be operating in the sector now occupied by [the] 1st Armored Division.”