Virtually Speaking

Bruce Schneier returns to talk about his new book, Liars and Outliers.  He and host Jay Ackroyd discuss the nature of trust and its relationship to a well functioning and stable society.

Two yrs ago, Schneier spoke with James Fallows. Listen here.

Links

http://www.schneier.com/book-lo.html

http://www.schneier.com/

http://www.techsoc.com/liars.htm

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2010/03/26/virtually-speaking-with-jay-ackroyd-james-fallows-

Host Tom Levenson - filmmaker, author and professor of science writing at MIT - talks with print and radio journalist Cynthia Graber. She writes about science, food, culture, international development and the environment. They talk about her ebook 'Electric Shock' and biology, regenerative medicine and electricity.

Follow @cagraber @TomLevenson

Read

http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/i-sing-the-body-electric-program-notes-this-afternoon-at-5-est-8-pst/

https://www.readmatter.com/a/electric-shock/

https://www.readmatter.com/electric-shock-preview/

http://www.cynthiagraber.com/home/Welcome.html

Political writers Joan McCarter and digby, and investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler talk about drones and the US government's argument for murdering Americans overseas if they (the CIA) are acting in an official capacity.  Then automatic spending cuts, deficits and social insurance.  

Culture of Truth satirizes the Sunday Morning 'news' shows at the Bobblespeak Translations. Each week, CoT provides us with a pre-recorded segment: the most ridiculous moment from that Sunday.

Follow @digby56 @emptywheel @JoanMcCarter @bobblespeak

Links:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/02/09/article-ii-or-aumf-a-high-level-official-aka-john-brennan-says-cia-can-kill-you/

http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Joan%20McCarter

http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2013/02/meet-press-february-10-2012.html

Stephanie Kelton discusses Modern Monetary Theory with Jay Ackroyd. They begin with the platinum coin and the nature of fiat currency.

A Professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, she blogs at New Economic Perspecitves:  http://bit.ly/LFG3bq

Their June 2012 conversation is here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2012/06/15/stephanie-kelton-virtually-speaking-with-jay-ackroyd

Follow @deficitowl @JayAckroyd

Drawing from The Bobblespeak Translations, each week, political satirist Culture of Truth presents 'the most ridiculous moment' from Meet the Press. Read today's full transcript here: http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2013/02/meet-press-february-3-2012.html

 

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Richard (RJ) Eskow reads his Jan 14, 2013 essay: Aaron Swartz Was Gifted and Brave. Too Bad He Wasn't 'Too Big to Fail.' Read the text, and find the links, at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/aaron-swartz-was-gifted-a_b_2473455.html     Follow @RJEskow

https://twitter.com/aaronsw

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-did-the-justice-system-target-aaron-swartz-20130123

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/01/everyone-interesting-is-a-felon.html

https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget

http://blog.ourfuture.org/20100601/law-and-order-aig?q=blog-entry/2010062201/law-and-order-aig

"It's the economy, stupid."

Host Jay Ackroyd talks with historian and composer Stirling Newberry, a regular contributor to articles on Economics, Philosophy, Classical music and Social movements, including Gold standard, Hyper-inflation, Romanticism, The Age of Enlightenment, Postmodernism, Modernism and History of sonata form.

Stirling has been cited as an expert on blogging and the social forces involved in the flowering of internet politics. He is working on a book on the transformation of political and economic models.

Follow @SSNewberry @JayAckroyd

Matt Stoller reads his Jan 14, 2013 essay: Aaron Swartz's Politics. Read the text at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/aaron-swartzs-politics.html Follow @MatthewStoller

Related Links:

https://twitter.com/aaronsw

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-did-the-justice-system-target-aaron-swartz-20130123

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/01/everyone-interesting-is-a-felon.html

https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget

Political & social commentators Dave Johnson and Dave Waldman - aka KagroX - discuss developments of the week. Likely threads: filibuster, collapse of the debt ceiling threat with  attendant shifts in power and collaboration.

Political satire from Culture of Truth on the most ridiculous moment from Meet the Press. Jay Ackroyd moderates.

Follow @DCJohnson @KagroX @JayAckroyd

http://www.congressmatters.com/

http://seeingtheforest.com/

http://www.remappingdebate.org/article/journalists-service-pete-peterson

http://www.modernmoneyandpublicpurpose.com/

Stuart Zechman comments on the 2nd Amendment:

Excerpted from a longer conversations with Jay Ackroyd, here:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

His text is in comments, here:

http://avedoncarol.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-devil-details.html#comment-form