By SueN
- Guests:
- Paul Rosenzweig, Visiting Fellow at Heritage and a former DHS Official.
- Louis Park, CEO of SecureRF Corporation joins Thom.
- Don Watkins of the Ayn Rand Institute.
- JFK Historian Lamar Waldron, co-author (with Thom) of "Ultimate Sacrifice" and "Legacy of Secrecy".
- Topics:
- Hell no, WTO!! Putin's talking tariffs, why won't Obama?
- Why are the rich protected from government snooping when the rest of us aren't?
- How long before they tattoo your GPS on your forehead?
- What secrets are CEO's keeping and why do they want to keep them from you and me?
- "Did the Mob Kill JFK?"
- Bumper Music:
- I'm Going Left, Eric Clapton.
- Thank God For You, Sawyer Brown.
- You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
- Summertime, Kenny Chesney.
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Frank Sinatra.
- Somebody's Watching Me, Rockwell.
- Every Breath You Take, Police.
- Dirty Little Secret, The All American Rejects.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies." -- Jane Austen.
- Clip: Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961, farewell radio and television address to the American people, Washington, D.C. (transcript)
"Our military organization today bears little relation to that known of any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. ...
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
