Episode 183: Ukraine's Musical Politics, 9/11 Kitsch, My Dad was the Zodiac Killer and more
Ukraine's Political Pop Star
"We don't expect to have any easy elections. We wait for provocation. We know that Putin is a liar and we know this isn't going to be an easy task.
-Ukrainian singer and activist Ruslana
"The issue at this point is not more uncertainty. There's already a war on ... The values of the Maidan and the values of Ukraine today are democratic, and if the will of the people is to run a second round, we'll have to run a second round."
-Mychailo Wynnyckyj teaches at Ukraine's National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
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My Father Was the Zodiac Killer
"I believe for the first time in the history of this case I have presented something that the San Francisco Police Department won't be able to walk away from."
--Gary Stewart author of The Most Dangerous Animal of All
"This is now the third suspect who has been apparently proven to be the Zodiac based on handwriting .. and you can't have three different Zodiacs."
--Tom Voigt runs the website zodiackiller.com
9/11 Kitsch
"I don't like the idea of combining the commercial aspect of purchasing items.... I don't like the idea of borderline trivializing the memorial."
-Unidentified woman at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum giftshop
"There's definitely an emotional connection to these objects, and they could be interpreted in many different ways but I definitely think... grief and tribute and reflection... ultimately was some of the idea behind the creation and sale of some of these objects."
-Andrew Marietta owner of the world's largest private collection of 9-11 memorabilia
M
alicious Malware Spies
"As time went on, people realized you can do more with this, and it became less of a pranking thing and more of a stealing credit card numbers thing."
-Seth Hardy, Senior Security Analyst at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs on the evolution of RATS
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