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How to keep you and yours safe from the perils of the modern world. In today's increasingly hostile climate, people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe. Chris Ryan is an expert in dangerous situations, and here he tells you how to keep yourself and your family safe from the perils of modern urban life.

For the first time, once-secret government records and interviews tell the full story of the thousands of Nazis—from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich—who came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. Many gained entry on their own as self-styled war “refugees.” But some had help from the U.S. government. The CIA, the FBI, and the military all put Hitler’s minions to work as spies, intelligence assets, and leading scientists and engineers, whitewashing their histories.

Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people. Even though we all have heard that the odds of being struck by lightning are greater than the odds of perishing in a plane crash, it still doesn't feel that way. Airplane crashes might be rare, but they do happen, and they’re usually fatal. David Soucie insists that most of these deaths could be prevented. He’s worked as a pilot, a mechanic, an FAA inspector, and an aviation executive. He’s seen death up close and personal - deaths of colleagues and friends that might have been prevented if he had approved certain safety measures in the aircrafts they were handling.

Decorated Navy SEAL and successful businessman Brent Gleeson shares his revolutionary approach to navigating and leading change in the workplace - with a foreword by New York Times best-selling author Mark Owen. Inspired by his time as a Navy SEAL and building successful organizations in the business world, Brent Gleeson has created a revolutionary approach for today's existing and emerging business leaders and managers to improve their ability to successfully navigate organizational change.

In 1948, a young Australian mining engineer named Ben Carlin set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe, by land and sea, in a single vehicle. The vehicle in question was an amphibious jeep developed by the U.S. Army, which Carlin christened Half-Safe, after a deodorant slogan. It was a mechanical mongrel that was supposed to move with equal ease across land and water but in practice wasn't much good for either one. Undaunted, Carlin and his wife Elinore set off across the Atlantic Ocean with dreams of fame and fortune, and of carving a small notch in history.

A safe space for open discussion about the world before us. Three regular bozos do armchair analysis of politics, movies, music, sports and fascinating personal stories. Every tangent is a possibility. New episodes drop every Thursday evening. Email the show any time at isitsafepod@gmail.com

Gwenda and Douglas Brady were among the millions of British children sent to live with new families for their own safety during the Second World War, leaving behind their parents, their friends and all that felt familiar and safe. Evacuation could be a scary experience, but five-year-old Gwenda and her brother were lucky enough to be housed with a kindly schoolmaster and his wife, and soon the realities of the war felt very far away.

For 200 years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist-populist movements. This timely book offers the first full account of liberal internationalism’s long journey from its 19th-century roots to today’s fractured political moment.

Allô, vous êtes bien sur SAFE en Parle,le podcast de l'association S.A.F.E., où chaque épisode met en lumière un nouveau sujet célébrant l'égalité des genres. Plongez dans des récits inspirants de femmes qui ont bravé les normes et se sont brillamment imposées dans des domaines traditionnellement masculins. Les thématiques abordées sont aussi variées que captivantes, allant de la place des alliées dans le féminisme à celle des femmes dans l'industrie automobile ou le domaine du streaming.Notre ...

Leeds is the home of the UK’s first Hand Transplant Unit and across this new series, you’ll hear about the incredible, physical and psychological complexities faced by people who have lost their hands and how this remarkable procedure has changed their lives.

The controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII. Safe Haven considers for the first time why and how convictions failed to follow investigations. Within the broader context of war crimes investigations in the United States, Germany, and Australia, the authors reassess the legal and investigative processes and decisions that stymied inquiries, from the War Crimes Act itself to the restrictive criteria applied to it.

Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1.25 trillion operate. How is it possible that the United States Government gets it so wrong on so many critical issues, and so often? And if our expensive national security machine is not working, what can be done?

Ain’t Safe

A Safe Space is a podcast show for men of color to freely and unapologetically express themselves without fear, bias, or judgment. We cover an array of topics that affect our daily lives. As we plow through matters of the heart, our featured guest experts build upon the conversation, providing strategies and tips on how we as Black men can thrive from the current space we're in with hopes of collectively impacting the next man. We have a voice. Our voice matters. And we're making it count.

Memories of Abdo Reza Alboghobeish from the Iran-Iraq war, compiled by Javad Kamvar Bakhshayesh.

Would you like to have the ability to know your future? In this essay, we'll look at a few traditional Japanese ways that can help you with this. From a game that allows you to summon the spirit Kokkuri-san, to ancient mediums called Itako, who spend their last years at the gates of the underworld. We'll also briefly touch on some of the most famous mediums of the second half of the 19th century – the Fox sisters and their séances

Former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano offers an insightful analysis of American security at home and a prescription for the future.

Hello and welcome to the Mold Safe Podcast and video series by Moe Bedard that was created to help you identify, test, eliminate, and prevent mold in your home or business safely. If you want to learn how this whole process works, then these podcasts will help you get started.

Are you Marked Safe? Join friends Brianne and Melanie as they come together to share some of the worlds most incredible disaster stories and delve into the details and fallout from them.

Marc Thiessen knows more than almost anyone outside the CIA about what went on at CIA “black sites” and at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As chief speechwriter for President Bush, he was given unprecedented access to some of the most sensitive intelligence our government possessed on al Qaeda terrorists. He has since spent countless hours interviewing the men and women involved in the interrogations at every level—from Vice President Dick Cheney to the interrogators themselves.