Welcome to ORLYRADIO #125A recorded Friday September 9th, 2016 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, David O’Connor, Stephen Griffith, Daniel Atherton, and Fred Sims.
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Potpourri: Guests/Rants/Etc:
http://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/2015544/serious-antivenom-shortage-face-global-snakebite-crisis
North Korea tested its 5th nuclear warhead, this time a 10 kt yield. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37314927
The world is not happy about it, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37317782
Click Bait: Black Lives Matter UK says climate change is racist. http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-09-06/black-lives-matter-uk-says-climate-change-racist
Syrian Conflict: U.S. and Russia Agree. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37324872
Campaigns in Contrast. http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/johnwright/trump_pence_to_speak_at_annual_values_voters_summit_hosted_by_anti_lgbt_hate_group
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This Week in History:
Sources: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
1776 - On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the “United States” of America. This replaced the term “United Colonies,” which had been in general use.
1893 - Frances Folsom Cleveland, the wife of President Grover Cleveland, gives birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House
1971 - Prisoners riot and seize control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York. Later that day, state police retook most of the prison, but 1,281 convicts occupied an exercise field called D Yard, where they held 39 prison guards and employees hostage for four days. After negotiations stalled, state police and prison officers launched a disastrous raid on September 13, in which 10 hostages and 29 inmates were killed in an indiscriminate hail of gunfire. Eighty-nine others were seriously injured.
Top Hi-story: 1919 - The infamous Boston Police Strike of 1919 begins, causing an uproar around the nation and confirming the growing influence of unions on American life. Using the situation to their advantage, criminals took the opportunity to loot the city.
As society changed in the 20th century, police were expected to act more professionally. Some of their previous practices were no longer countenanced. Explanations such as that later given by the Dallas chief of police in defense of their unorthodox tactics–“Illegality is necessary to preserve legality”–was no longer acceptable to the public. Police forces were brought within the civil service framework and even received training for the first time. Soon, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) began to create local police unions.
When the Boston Police went on strike on September 9, the country’s leading newspapers sounded the alarm bells. Some falsely reported that gangs were running wild and attacking women throughout the city. Others saw it as evidence of the spread of communism. In actuality, the strike prompted a lot of property damage but did not seriously endanger the safety of the community-partly due to the quick response of the government.
Calvin Coolidge, governor of Massachusetts at the time, called out the militia to assist Harvard students and faculty who were acting as a volunteer force. (He later used the incident to boost himself to the presidency.) While the Boston Police Strike proved disastrous for unions in the short term, police were eventually allowed to form unions. However, it is illegal for police to go on strike, and even informal work actions such as the “Blue Flu,” whereby large numbers of police officers call in sick at the same time, are seriously discouraged.
