As the shareholder revolution takeover continues, Boeing builds a plan that tries to crash itself and fixes it with software that also tries to crash the plane. Hundreds die.

Sources:

Boeing CEO Out in Sex Scandal

As Boeing Agrees to Plead Guilty to Fraud, a Look Back at What Led Up to the 737 Max Crashes That Killed 346 People

SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck in space until next year

Whistleblower Joshua Dean, Who Raised Concerns About Boeing Jets, Dies at 45

How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer

Key events in the troubled history of the Boeing 737 Max

The inside story of MCAS: How Boeing’s 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards

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As Boeing workers strike and airplanes are grounded for new and terrifying reasons, Mia looks back at how the shareholder revolution crushed Boeing's engineers.

Sources:

The Utopia of Rules

Liquidated An Ethnography of Wall Street

The 1997 Merger That Paved the Way for the Boeing 737 Max Crisis

The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course

Harry Stonecipher Speech

Requiem for a Dreamliner

Seeing like a CEO

How Jack Welch’s Reign at G.E. Gave Us Elon Musk’s Twitter Feed

The Merger That Brought Boeing Low

Rise of the Red Engineers 

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Margaret reads you even more William Morris, but this story has swords in it

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

1. How Bread Bloc Feeds Unhoused People In San Diego

2. Anarchism In Brazil, Pt. 1 feat. Andrew
3. Anarchism In Brazil, Pt. 2 feat. Andrew
4. Gig Economy Terror: What Israel's Pager Bomb Attack Means for You
5. Wild Faith: A Conversation with Talia Lavin

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Molly Conger sits down with Talia Lavin to talk about her new book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America. Pre-order Wild Faith now, available in hardcover, audiobook, and e-book October 15.

Pre- order: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/

Talia's Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich

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

Sources:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sources:

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

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

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Margaret reads you a story about decoration. Really.

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