Guantanamo, Gaza, and Boko Haram

Guantanamo, Gaza, and Boko Haram

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 23 , Segment 1

Episode: Guantanamo and Gaza, Movies in China, Drones

  • Mar 11, 2015 9:00 pm
  • 32:20 mins

(1:05) Guest: Eric Jensen, Law Professor at BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School  As the United States begins to “normalize” relations with Cuba and President Obama winds down his final term in office, the detention center he promised to close at Guantanamo Bay remains open and very much a political hot potato. Cuban officials would like to take back the 45 square miles of their island that have been controlled by the U.S. since 1903.  Guantanamo is America’s oldest overseas military base, but it’s become better known as the detention center for “foreign terrorism suspect.” Treatment of those detainees has drawn international criticism and lawsuits from the prisoners themselves. In fact, this week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear two appeals involving detainees who claim they were tortured at Guantanamo.  “Al-Nashiri has been held by the U.S. government for 13 years. I’m not sure I can predict a time when this all will close,” says Jensen.  “Gaza is the most densely populated place in the world. It is at least in the minds of the Gazans, a true prison,” says Jensen.

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American Heritage: Federalist Papers, no. 10

21 MINS

Guest: Grant Madsen, BYU History Professor  Marcus Smith joins Grant Madsen to discuss the background of the Federalist Papers, written by James Madison to argue for the Constitution’s ratification. Madison essentially wrote the “rough draft” of the Constitution. He wrote Federalist Paper number 10 to discuss some of the key features of the new document.  Madison ran for his local state house back in the day and lost to a tavern-owner, who gave all the voters free beer. Federalist paper number 10 considers this problem: how elites can “buy” votes and wield disproportionate power.  “The term he used was cancelling ‘local faction’—you can overcome the powers of small groups through large groups.” This contradicted common theories of republican governments, which insisted that functioning Republics must be small

Guest: Grant Madsen, BYU History Professor  Marcus Smith joins Grant Madsen to discuss the background of the Federalist Papers, written by James Madison to argue for the Constitution’s ratification. Madison essentially wrote the “rough draft” of the Constitution. He wrote Federalist Paper number 10 to discuss some of the key features of the new document.  Madison ran for his local state house back in the day and lost to a tavern-owner, who gave all the voters free beer. Federalist paper number 10 considers this problem: how elites can “buy” votes and wield disproportionate power.  “The term he used was cancelling ‘local faction’—you can overcome the powers of small groups through large groups.” This contradicted common theories of republican governments, which insisted that functioning Republics must be small

Never Lose Your Child Again With This Student-Made Smartband

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Guest: Spencer Behrend, BYU MBA student  When you take a toddler to a crowded public space, you better be prepared to keep one hand on the kid at all times, or risk just the kind of scare that prompted my next guest to invent a new technology.  After Spencer Behrend temporarily lost his 2-year-old son in a massive Fourth of July parade, he invented a Bluetooth device called “Kiband” \[pronounced “Kie-band”], to help parents keep track of their kids without needing a leash.  “There’s no GPS in this version of the Kiband, it’s just for localized supervision of the child,” says Behrend. It only goes as far as the Bluetooth radius of your phone. When a child goes further than the set range a parent sets, an alarm will go off on the Kiband bracelet.  “The problem isn’t ‘when’ is that child getting too far away, but ‘where’ is that child getting too far away,” says Behrend

Guest: Spencer Behrend, BYU MBA student  When you take a toddler to a crowded public space, you better be prepared to keep one hand on the kid at all times, or risk just the kind of scare that prompted my next guest to invent a new technology.  After Spencer Behrend temporarily lost his 2-year-old son in a massive Fourth of July parade, he invented a Bluetooth device called “Kiband” \[pronounced “Kie-band”], to help parents keep track of their kids without needing a leash.  “There’s no GPS in this version of the Kiband, it’s just for localized supervision of the child,” says Behrend. It only goes as far as the Bluetooth radius of your phone. When a child goes further than the set range a parent sets, an alarm will go off on the Kiband bracelet.  “The problem isn’t ‘when’ is that child getting too far away, but ‘where’ is that child getting too far away,” says Behrend