News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:
- Danish Islam revert goes on spree in Norway with bow and arrows
- Large fire broke out in abandoned Taiwan flop house style building, killing dozens
- Protests in Beirut, and the murder of six protesters by sniper rifles
- The long lasting consequences of the Beirut explosion
- Israeli housing developments being constructed in West Bank and East Jerusalem
- British MP David Amess stabbed at a constituency meeting
- Four Russian tourists discovered dead at an Albanian resort
- Conflict flares up between the Kosovo government and ethnically Serbian Kosovars
- Three movie reviews: No Time to Die, It (2017), and Hubie Halloween
- The Guatemala Genocide: the prolonged genocide and asymmetric civil war between military dictators and indigenous farmers
- CIA and United Fruit Company intervention in Guatemala
- The series of in-fighting, rigged elections, and coups in Guatemala
- Right wing death squads with full immunity to kill anyone the perceived to be an "insurgent" or "collaborator"
- Complete massacres of Maya villages because they could only be labeled as collaborators
- Many people abducted and "disappeared" in Guatemala City after curfew implemented
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
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