The "Holiday Hangover" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, News, Government, Politics, Middleeast

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott go guestless as they sat down to discuss the week's national security news, including:

“Show Me Your Omicron Face”: Scientists have identified a virulent new strain of the coronavirus, leading governments to enact travel bans and other restrictions. What does this tell us about our future living with the virus?
“Iran Aground in Vienna?”: A new round of talks seeking to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement kicked off this week. Are the parties stuck or is there hope for progress?
“Did You Know That 1 in 5 Former Federal Employees Suffers from Premature Publication?”: A new lawsuit asks the Supreme Court: are the prepublication review requirements imposed on former federal employees consistent with free speech?

For object lessons, Quinta endorsed Colson Whitehead's latest book, “Harlem Shuffle.” Alan continued the literary trend by recommending J.B. Libscomb's philosophical history, “The Women Are Up to Something.” And Scott urged listeners to check out The Lazarus Heist, a podcast series from BBC World on North Korean cybercrime.

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0:00.0	Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, taking in the views,
0:09.6	instead of taking on the road, maybe even taking a nap. That's the bliss of getting where you
0:15.5	need to go without worrying about driving. Book your train journey via avantiwascoast.co.uk
0:23.0	and we'll take you there. Avantiwascoast, feel good travel.
0:30.1	Well, yeah, if you look behind me, you'll see not only some Christmas decoration,
0:36.5	you'll see a live fire. Wow. Cozy. Hold her back there in the fireplace.
0:42.3	That is crackling. Mostly because our heat system is actually quite cold today.
0:48.7	So we're actually doing that. Well, do you know what's got? The fires can actually make the room
0:52.1	colder. This is a true factor. Really? I don't know. Somehow it sucks the heat in or...
0:58.8	No, no, it sucks the heat out. If you have a fire in a chimney, all it does is it draws the air
1:03.8	from the room into the chimney, heats it up, and then it goes out of your chimney. You have to get
1:07.6	like a stove. There's insulation. There's a whole... My wife and I are in the process of thinking
1:13.2	about maybe one day replacing our profoundly busted fireplace with like a nice gas insert.
1:19.2	The technology is very advanced. This is a gas fireplace in Italy, so we have that. We do not have
1:25.0	that problem with the actual chimney, the way it's like vented. It gets very warm very fast. So we
1:30.8	are wearing good shape. As I'm in a sotin, I was just going to say, I am skeptical of your
1:35.2	DC swamp winter. It was snowing here this morning. We had snow. Wow. We're going to have a light
1:42.6	Christmas guys. It's going to be crazy. That's not going to happen. Meanwhile, Alan is buried under
1:47.8	20 feet of snow. There's no snow. It is totally, it is totally bare. Sunny? It's like in the
1:54.0	high 40s today. It's great. Everyone move to the upper Midwest.
2:04.2	And hello, everyone. Welcome to Rational Security 2.0 aka Rational Security, the lost rationale.
2:12.9	Because I am very happy to be here with my co-host, Quijitresic.
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