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Show notes and Transcript Dr. Sebastian Gorka returns to Hearts of Oak to offer his insights on the importance of personnel in politics, emphasizing the challenges faced by Trump supporters.  He discusses the evolving dynamics within the Republican Party towards a more MAGA-centered approach and the need for alignment with the American people.  We move onto populism in Europe, media landscape changes, challenges in education, and the significance of local politics for societal change.  Dr. Gorka highlights the importance of grassroots activism and community engagement in shaping the future political landscape. Sebastian Gorka, PhD., served as Deputy Assistant for Strategy to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and is currently a presidential appointee to the National Security Education Board at the Department of Defense. He is the host of AMERICA First, a nationally-syndicated radio show on the Salem Radio Network, and The Gorka Reality Check, the newest show on the cable news network Newsmax TV. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book “Defeating Jihad,” and “Why We Fight.” His latest book is “The War for America's Soul.” Connect with Seb... LINKTREE              linktr.ee/sebgorka SUBSTACK            substack.com/@sebastiangorka X                            x.com/SebGorka WEBSITE               www.sebastiangorka.com/ Interview recorded  8.4.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop/ TRANSCRIPT (Hearts of Oak) And I'm delighted to have Dr. Sebastian Gorka back with us again. Dr. Gorka, thank you for your time today. (Dr Sebastian Gorka) My pleasure. Thank you for having me. Great to have you on. And of course, former Deputy Assistant to President, nationally syndicated radio host of America First with Sebastian Gorka and best-selling author. And people can find you obviously @SebGorka. And we'll get into some of your thoughts on your Twitter page in a little bit. But, Dr. Gorka, if I can ask you, maybe first, looking at the GOP, back at the beginning of President Trump's first term in office, he trusts the GOP to fill those, I guess, 3,000-odd positions to keep the system running. And he seems to, I think everyone seems to have learned that there was a concerted effort to push back. But it seems to be that the President has realised he needs to fill those positions himself and there's a concerted effort to fill those positions with the brightest, the best patriots that America have, do you want to just let us know about that because he is going into this with his eyes wide open. Well, absolutely, after what they did to him and to his administration the first time round. And this is my greatest concern going forward, because it is clear the American people want him back. He's trouncing Biden in the polls. If you look at the primary results, we haven't even finished the primaries. He's already broken his record for 2016. So whether it's wars across the world, the state of the economy, 16 million illegals, President Trump, if there is a free and fair election, will be God willing, if we do our part, the next president. However, as Ronald Reagan taught us, politics, you know, personnel is politics. And I am very concerned that we not have what we had last time, which is even at the cabinet level, subversives in the Trump administration. So we can't make that mistake again. However, I give credit to the left. My friend Chris Plant, who has the morning show here in D.C., has made this point very eloquently over the years. Why would a decent person, especially a family man or a family woman, why would you work in a Republican administration, especially a Trump administration? You look at my example. Look, I don't mind getting attacked by the left because, of course, I'm a proxy for the president. But when they came after my wife, I had one journalist write 52 hit pieces on me in three months. And when one of the articles named my 18-year-old son and called him a traitor in the headline, what person wants to actually put up with that? I mean, I'm prepared to do it again. And there's a handful of us who served in the Trump administration who understand America First, who are loyal to the president, are loyal to the mandate he received already, are prepared to do it again. But there are 4,000 positions, 4,000 presidential appointees. What lunatic is prepared to have the inhuman treatment meted out against them from a quote-unquote elite in the media that just dehumanizes. I mean, from Hillary's deplorables comment to Biden last year standing in front of one of the most important buildings in the world for us when it comes to American history, which is Independence Hall, bathed in red light, flanked by two Marines in their dress blues, and he calls half the nation fascists, MAGA extremists. I mean, this is how radical the left has become and how they've dehumanized the others. So, yeah, I mean, you've hit upon my neuralgic point, which is the personnel policy, if we win, God willing, will be second Trump administration. We cannot get it wrong this time. We just cannot get it wrong. What does seem that the left are utterly vicious and ruthless in going after individuals and I had the privilege of watching the president speak twice when I was over last in Pennsylvania and then down South Carolina and it's an hour and 40 minutes of a political speech I've never seen before and I've been involved in politics in many years in the UK but it connects you at a heart level as opposed to the head level and he knocks off those attacks but the left are adamant that they will go after individuals. Let me give you one concrete example, lest, you know, your listeners and viewers think this is just, you know, Sebastian Gorka's axe that he's grinding. So I had a colleague, I was deputy assistant to the president. My colleague, Peter Navarro, was assistant to the president for trade policy. He was one of the key architects of our China policy. Peter was subpoenaed by the infamous January 6th Committee of Congress, which was illegally constituted. So an investigatory, I don't want to get into the weeds, but an investigatory committee of Congress has to have delegates from both parties. It can't just be the majority party. Nancy Pelosi refused the then speaker to accept nominations from the Republican Party. So she picked a couple of the worst Trump haters who are nominal Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. And as such, this was an illegally constituted committee. Peter Navarro receives a subpoena from this congressional committee, ordering him to come and testify. He says, A, it's an illegal committee, I'm not going to comply. B, I have it in writing from President Trump that my work for him is covered by the executive privilege, which is a constitutional statute in America that the discussions between the president and his aides are protected and they can't just be just willy-nilly divulged to anybody. Peter lives one block away from the FBI. When he was in contempt of this subpoena, which is a misdemeanor offense, not a felony, it's a misdemeanor. Instead of the FBI writing to Peter or writing to his lawyer, could your client come to our offices tomorrow morning and we'd like to present him with his breach of congressional subpoena documents. Instead, my colleague, a renowned economist, academic professor, was tracked by the FBI to Reagan Airport, which is the airport for Washington, D.C. And after he boarded a plane on a business trip, he was arrested in public, not only handcuffed. This is when you realize we are in a police state. And I say that with all sincerity. He was handcuffed and put in leg shackles, which meant he had to shuffle out of the airport like some slave on a chain gang. Then he was taken to the FBI headquarters where he was strip searched on a congressional misdemeanour charge. He is now sitting, as of two weeks ago, he is sitting in a federal prison in Florida, serving a four-month sentence for being in contempt of Congress. So, you know, this is the left. This is the left. They talk about President Trump and MAGA is a threat to democracy. Well, the only fascists I see right now are the Democrat Party, Biden's DOJ, and the FBI. A woman, I had her daughter literally text me on Friday, said, my 73-year-old grandmother, who spent 10 minutes inside Congress praying for the nation on January 6th, has just been charged with four charges that will lead her to spend a year in prison. A 73-year-old grandma who's going to be on my radio today has been charged with being inside of Congress and praying, Peter. Yeah, I've seen the praying grandma. I've seen a number of clips of her and Peter's book, Taking Back Trump's America, certainly was an eye opener for me. And I learned a lot reading that. And of course, we've had some of the anniversaries of the J6ers. There's no Jake Lang's now fourth anniversary of him in jail. I mean, what does that mean? How do you see, God willing, President Trump winning the election? Well, not winning, but allowed to win the election in November. What does that mean for, for instance, some of those J6ers in jail, hundreds of them in jail for years and years, simply for going and being part of that event? Well, the president has said this openly just last week. I was with him at Mar-a-Lago, and he said it the week before. All the J6ers who committed no violent crimes, who simply walked through the halls, through the velvet rope, every single one, all the cases will be reviewed, and the president will pardon them. Wow, wow. That's simple and decisive. What you'd expect from Trump as opposed to Biden, and it's like, here's the job, let's get this done. I mean, this is, we could talk about this for hours. This is how he functions. I mean, you don't get to be the most successful entrepreneur in the hardest market in the world, which is Manhattan real estate. You don't have the most successful TV show for 14 seasons in a row unless you're decisive. And I saw this in the White House. You know, when we made the argument, the Iran deal, Obama's Iran deal is bad for America, bad for Israel, bad for the Middle East and actually gives the Mullahs a bomb, he said, okay, we're canceling it. He didn't waffle. He didn't say, oh, let's create a task force or let's have a conference in Vienna. He said, no, we're going to kill it now. Absolutely. Can I ask you about the RNC? Because I've looked at this and the media have billed it as Trump taking charge, taking control of the RNC, which seemed to be one of the biggest pushbacks to his presidency, certainly at the beginning with all those appointments. It's now a very different situation with a lot of good people put in and what does that take over mean? And does that mean that actually moving past November and that he will be in a very different situation Well it's massively significant. I mean I said this when I was in The White House. I said it when I left The White House, Donald John Trump won the election despite the Republican Party, not thanks to the Republican Party. The Republican Party hates him. I mean, it's the same as, you know, Brexit and the Tories. It's the same as establishment politicians and Millei or Meloni. We have these establishment, look, I think Bannon popularized it here. We have the Uni-party. There's really not much difference between this amorphous blob that is the Democrats and the establishment Republicans. Why? Because the Democrats are lunatics who hate America, and the establishment Republicans, we call them RINOS, Republicans in name only, are cuckolds who just facilitate what the left does and never push back even when they're in majority. And they hate President Trump. To this day, the likes of Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney think that 64 million Americans, voting for a man who'd never run for political office before, and him becoming president, they think that's an anomaly. They think that's, oh, just a blip, and we'll get back to business and footsie under the table with the Democrats. They have no comprehension of the global phenomenon that is populism. From Brexit, to Modi, to Maloney, to Orban, to Millei, you know, to Bolsonaro, there is a wholehearted international rejection of what a friend of mine called on my show recently, and I literally just wrote an article on this for my Substack, the un-accountable's. It's, you know, it's not left and right anymore. We've got to ditch that taxonomy. It's not even conservative and liberal. It is the unaccountable elites who are completely cosseted and insulated from anything in the real world. The price of petrol doesn't affect them. They think a six-quid almond latte from Starbucks is a good deal, and they don't give a crap whether manufacturing jobs have been shipped over to China or Mexico. As long as the Wi-Fi signal in Starbucks is good, they can do their job as, you know, chief DEI officer or, you know, head of HR for some woke corporation. And then there's the rest of us, the accountables who, you know, the plumber who, when the price of petrol goes up 300% under Joe Biden, you can't put food on the table for your kids. Or you're the legal immigrants who came here from Mexico 10 years ago, got in line, took the exam, paid the money. And you're a waiter in Dallas, and along comes this Nigerian illegal, one of the 16 million let in by Biden, who tells the boss of that cafe, I'll do Jose's job. For cash, for 50% of what Jose's doing. I mean, these are the people who pay the price of the betrayal of the people who build America, betrayed by the Democrats and their enablers in the Republican Party. So yeah, that's where we are today. And the GOP, look, Lara Trump becoming the co-chair, the firing of Rona Romney McDaniel. OK, let's be clear here. The chair of the RNC, the National Committee, was Mitt Romney, one of the biggest rhino Trump haters, niece. And her loss of eight elections in a row had to have some consequences. Now Lara's in charge. They've hired Scott Press, a friend of mine who's one of the best grassroots activists in America. And finally, the choice of the people will be reflected in the party that is supposed to be his party. So to put it very briefly, the Republican Party will finally be a MAGA America First Party. I saw one of your shows recently, I think it was Scott saying maybe it should be renamed America First instead of the GOP. That was actually my associate producer talking in my ear. He wants me to shut up about that because he wants President Trump to drop that at the convention. I think it's right. Why should we be called the Grand Old Party? I mean, we're not in the 19th century, right? I mean, let's have something that reflects the will of the American people. And I watched that interview with Scott. And that's exciting to bring in a different generation, actually have different ideas. And someone who's done the groundwork for 10 years really should be rewarded with a position to roll out what he's doing in an area actually nationwide. So it's exciting to see that, I guess, the boldness that Trump changing the RNC now can have for going forward. Yeah, yeah. Look, the proof of the pudding will be the convention. The proof of the pudding will be the results. But we're seeing some incredible, I mean, look, it's a little bit arcane and only relevant to American politics. But we have this primary system where state by state you choose the candidate to lead the party for the election. And I know New Hampshire very, very well. New Hampshire is not an America First state. It used to be conservative. Now a lot of hippies and, you know, idiots have moved in. The record for primary votes, for the most votes ever cast in a primary, is held by Bernie Sanders. That tells you just how, you know, woke a state it has become. President Trump broke Bernie Sanders' standing primary record in New Hampshire this year. I mean, these things are unprecedented. The fact that he, as of last week, he's had more people vote for him in primaries than voted for him in the whole primary season in 2016. I think there's a grand awakening. And if just, if only 60, 70% of the reports are true about the Hispanic and black vote. According to the polls, the president now enjoys the majority of Hispanic votes in America. That's just mind-blowing. The man who we've been told by the establishment of media is the racist, bigoted, you know, yada, yada, yada. He's more popular with Hispanic Americans. And I don't want to, you know, tempt fate. He's getting upwards of 28, 30 percent of the black vote if that if that preference translates into actual ballots on November the 5th the democrat party will implode, I mean they've had a lock for absurd reasons, they've had a lock on the black vote for 70 years, the party that created the KKK, the party that was the party of southern segregation and plantations has had a lock on that vote forever and if 20, 30 percent of them leave that's it, there will be a crisis in the democrat party and it will be long overdue. Yeah I'm seeing that break away from the tribal politics, how your parents voted to actually voting with your gut and your conviction which could be a massive change. Does Trump actually need to do debates head-to-head? Obviously, he pulled out of the ones with the Republican field because he said, what's the point, and did his own. And that was genius, pure Trump. But actually, going head-to-head with Biden, what is the point? He's so far ahead in the polls. How do you think he will play it? Because then you fit into the CNN, MSNBC, you fit in the Fox News, you fit into their schedules, and he doesn't need to do that. Well, no, he doesn't need to because they're both known quantities. They've both been presidents, one the most successful president of the modern era, biggest economy we've ever had, no wars for four years, crushed ISIS, stock market rallies literally every other day. I had to watch the ticker tape in my studio because there was a new stock market rally, which isn't just for the fat cats. Your pension is tied to that stock market. So people's 401k pensions are like blossoming. And then we've had what? We've had Biden, record inflation. Petrol got up to $7 a gallon in California. You've got the invasion of Russia, the invasion of Ukraine, the surrender of Afghanistan, war in the Middle East. So it really should be a very stark binary option. So do you need a debate? Not really. But President Trump's great troll comment last week that, yeah, we should have a debate as long as Biden is drug tested, because they found a bag of cocaine in the White House, which the Secret Service, mystically couldn't find any fingerprints on, despite a bag of cocaine being the perfect thing to find fingerprints on, because it's not porous. It's absolutely like a sheet of glass that's plastic, right? And they definitely pumped him full of something for the State of the Union because this is a guy who is not compos mentis. This is a guy who doesn't function. And then, you know, he actually ranted like a lunatic, like on speed or something for an hour during the State of the Union. So it was a perfect troll. Will there be a debate? I doubt it. I doubt they'd let Biden debate with President Trump. But, you know, who knows? politics has been pretty weird for the last 10 years in America. And earlier you mentioned about some of the populism and across Europe, also in Bolsanaro and Brazil. And we're obviously having the European parliamentary elections coming up in June with a massive rise in populism. And you understand this as a Brit, as someone who's Hungarian roots and studied in Hungary and now you're an American citizen. You've got quite a unique perspective and view on this. And I'm wondering how, because with Trump going into the White House, having an open and possible very good relationship with Europe, which wasn't there in the first place, I'm kind of sitting back intrigued watching how this will play out. Because this could be a new, very strong relationship linking Europe and the US. Well, it could. It just depends who wins the elections in Europe, right? I mean, if it's the right people like Meloni in Italy, absolutely. If it's the wrong people like the socialists, the trounce, truth and justice in Poland, then it'll be a different kind of relationship. But people need to understand the president has a very strong soft spot in his heart for Europe because of his family background. But just go back to that video, if your viewers haven't seen it. Go back to the video when the president spoke at the United Nations General Assembly, long before Biden and the invasion of Ukraine. And he said, very declaratively said, by way of wanted to help, he said, Germany, Europe, why are you buying energy from Russia? It makes you dependent on a dictatorial regime that has military goals against NATO members or border countries. And then the camera panned from the president warning Europe not to do that to the German delegation. And the German delegation was tittering and giggling, saying, what does he know about geopolitics? Well, isn't it funny that when we leave the office? Vlad does what he did, puts a stranglehold on the energy of the Baltic states, Hungary, the Ukraine, and then Germany has to literally do a 180 and say, oh, we like nuclear energy now, and we're going to stop shutting down our nuclear energy plants. So, you know, which part of Europe are we talking about? The unaccountable asshole elites who are arrogant and don't give a fig for the people? Are we talking about politicians like Nigel Farage who understand that the political elite has been roundly rejected by the people of Europe? That's what will affect relations. Who's in charge? Are they the, what is it, the Klaus Schwab fanboys and fangirls? Or are they people who believe in the sovereignty of their own individual nations? Well, it could be rewritten with AFD in Germany and Freedom Party in Austria. Yeah, but look at the UK. Look at the UK. The UK's a disaster. I was with Steve Hilton yesterday in California, and I'm like, this is a guy who worked in 10 Downing Street, and I said to him, so what is it with the Tory party? And he said, he can't even explain it to me. How does, he said, Sunak is just so wet, so pathetic, and this is the best the UK can do. So Nigel, get busy. A hundred percent. It's depressing looking at every other green shoot across Europe and looking at the UK and having zero. But yeah, I know Nigel is seriously considering his political future. But he's involved in media. And I want to ask you about media. Nigel, of course, very involved in media and in GB News, probably the star on GB News. and in the States, I think it was an Axios article a few weeks ago talking about a MAGA media juggernaut that seems to eclipse, no pun intended for today, but eclipse any influence that Fox ever had. You're right in the centre of that, as is Bannon, Charlie Kirk. I mean, the list is wide of the names of individuals who have stepped up to the mark and helped the public understand. Tell us about that, because to me, that will be part of winning this war and getting the message out over the next six months. Well when it comes to the media there's only one mass media platform that conservatives control and that is of course talk radio, the left has tried talk radio and it's always recuperative and bile filled and nobody can listen to it for more than three minutes. I mean, my show's only five years old. I've got three and a half million daily listeners. You look at the Rush Limbaugh slot that is now divided between Dan Bongino and a couple of other hosts, Buck Sexton and his partner. And Rush was getting 20, 22, 23 million people listening. Fox doesn't even do that. I mean, before Tucker left, Tucker had the most popular show. And on a good night, that was 5 million, which tells you why television is kind of irrelevant. I mean, 5 million in a nation of 340 million, and radio is multiples of that. Now, since then, of course, we have what in the last few years, the rise of the Breitbarts, Newsmax doing incredibly successfully, pushing Fox out. But the hope, I don't know if you can can pull it off. The renaming was the dumbest thing ever. But Elon's buying of Twitter, I mean, he's been very open about he wants to make Twitter, the multimedia platform, he wants it to be the the Twitter, YouTube, Google, Spotify, all in one information platform. And we'll see what happens with you know, the next thing is going to be video long form videos on that platform. And God willing, power to his elbow, absolutely do it. And then President Trump, I don't know how the left failed to sabotage him, but with the SEC giving him permission to have that merger of the Truth Social and the SPAC on the stock exchange, President Trump just affected a, what was it, $8 billion deal. I mean, I don't try a lot. I mean, I put my segments from my radio show on Truth Social, and then I kind of cut and paste whatever I'm putting on Twitter on Truth Social. So I'm not, you know, really working on Trump's platform. And without trying, I got 900,000 followers. Now, that tells you, and this is a free speech platform that's not full of bots that are being generated for political purposes. This is a true free speech platform in accordance with the First Amendment. So I don't have a crystal ball, but the media environment is, it is being shook up something fabulous. You look at how wokeism, I mean, you look at what wokeism has done to the likes of Netflix and HBO, and along comes Angel Studios with the Call of Freedom and that mega series on Jesus, that reinterpretation of Jesus. Chosen? Chosen, yeah. This is like a boiling cauldron of things that are forming and shaping. And it's going to be, I mean, look, I'm not a fan of Tucker. Tucker's become a clickbait animal, in my opinion. But the figures he's getting for his videos, that presages something very interesting for the future. It's funny when the left think they've got rid of a problem like Trump, like Tucker, and they come back to haunt them. I love it. And I love it when they say, oh my gosh, President Trump's running out of money, and then the SPAC merger is approved, and he garners $4 billion himself from that deal. It's like, oh my gosh, Biden and Obama and Clinton, they're so cool. They had a fundraiser in Manhattan last weekend and they raised 25 million and president Trump had a fundraiser by himself, this weekend and raised 50 million, you just, you gotta laugh. You do, you read the headline, there was a guardian hippies think on the RNC takeover saying oh well you know it hasn't gone as planned, you're thinking, well actually he's really, he's taken over the apparatus, the party machine and actually, it's going to take a little bit of time to get smooth running when you're taking over. But it was the headline was anti. And then you read and you think, wow, that's bloody good. Well, it's at the tactical level. So my wife, who hates politics because she's sane, she, because it's a long story, but there was a drag queen story hour at our local community center that provoked her to run for the board of that community center. And then she became an election officer because she was worried about the integrity of the election. So she became the chief election officer for our part of Virginia. And then on Saturday, because she's fed up with the... We are in the richest county in Virginia. It's the second richest county in America. And it's run by... The RINO class at the RNC under Rona used us as a piggyback. They took all the money from Fairfax County. And then they never gave any money back to our candidates. So my wife was convinced to run for the chair of the GOP in Fairfax County. And I thought, oh my gosh. I mean, she'd never mentioned my name once. She didn't mention in any of her campaign promotional material. She trounced. It was a primary to other candidates. She defeated the second-placed loser by 40 points on Saturday. And then, the hit piece is, oh, my gosh, MAGA, wife of Trump, takes over GOP. It's like, you know that's how democracy works. When 68% of the delegates, 68% said, yeah, we want her. It's so weird how the left really hates the will of the American people now. But that's what it's about. It's about winning. And it's easy in some ways to say, let's all move to West Virginia and get an area of freedom. But actually to stay and fight, that's what's difficult. And that's what's required to win. Right, right. It's like, who's that guy who wrote Liberal Fascists, that conservative who went lunatic, anti-Trumper? There's this, I can't believe he actually said it live on television. He's become, you know, the quasi-Republican on CNN. And here it's, oh yeah, so it's Jonah Goldberg. Jonah Goldberg was bashing Trump again on CNN or whatever, and he actually said out loud, all these small donors that President Trump is getting, it's a real problem because they don't understand the world, and it should be the policies of the mega donors that shape the Republican Party. I say, Jonah, did these words just come out of your mouth that the plebs, the plebs are stupid? How dare the people's desires like wanting to have a border and jobs in manufacturing? How dare, leave it up to the billionaires because they really care about America. Jonah Goldberg actually said that live on television. And he didn't apologize. He didn't catch himself and say, oops, I said the quiet bit out loud. These people believe it, Peter. They believe it. How dare, how dare the American people vote for Donald Trump? How dare they? I've seen a number of your tweets and you've been pointing that out, Biden at war, not with America's enemies but with America itself and America last, you put war on common sense, war on Christians, it's war on our children war on free speech. Think of this I was speaking in front of about a thousand conservatives yesterday in California and I think, this is so, to diagnose the situation we live in the most perverse of ages because never before has a society or a civilization been run by those who hate their own country. I mean, Obama said it. He said, I wish to radically transform, fundamentally transform America. Well, you don't love anything that you wish to radically transform. And it sounds extreme, but look at what just happened. The federal government, the federal government, whose number one duty is the safety of our citizens, That's its number one thing, is now suing the governor of Texas because he deployed his National Guard elements to put container boxes along the border to stop it. The feds were letting in the illegals, 10,000 a day. And the governor, Abbott, said, OK, well, I've got to do something because I'm responsible for the citizens of my state of Texas. In the Texas Constitution, it says he must secure his state if there is an invasion. So he moved the Conex boxes to just put a barrier along the Texan border. Biden is suing Texas for trying to secure the territory of America. It's like that's when you realize these people truly hate their own country and hate their own people. 100% and that's what seems to be the big two issues are the border and the economy and there are many other issues but I guess those two are simple election but then when the election is won you've got a much, well you've got a whole litany of issues that then need to be sorted out. Well yes I mean here's the massive irony. I'm going to write a piece on this today or tomorrow that, this is the delightful thing about the left. They're evil bastards. They hate Judeo-Christian civilization, but they're really quite stupid. Why did Donald Trump win in 2016? If you have to boil it down to one univalent answer, he won because of illegal immigration. I mean, the most powerful mobilizing slogan of 2016 was build the wall. I mean, that really was, if you had to choose one, it was build the wall. What have they just done in the last three and a half years, if there's one issue if you know you're running against him again, what's the one issue Peter, you shouldn't give to Donald Trump a second time round, you probably shouldn't give him the issue he won on the first time, you probably shouldn't give immigration back to him as a weapon and they haven't given it back to him as a weapon. They've given it back to him as a nuclear bomb. When you let in 10,000 illegals a day, and there's this guy who actually sealed the border eight years ago, you're actually re-electing Donald Trump on the same issue that you helped him to get elected on the first time. These people are cretins. I mean, they really are cretins. Completely, can I just finish off on education because it was your wonderful Oxford Union speech, I think it was the beginning of this year and it was Sebastian Gorka explains why America and the world needs president Trump back in office and you realize this is a battle for education for the next generation for children to actually rediscover the American dream that their parents fought for and strived for. But let me just tell, what was that like going into an arena where you are hated because you stand up for the best of a country itself? And then what are your thoughts on, actually, it is about reclaiming the education system? Well, look, I thought twice about it, because it's got to be as, a heart of darkness when it comes to wokeism but I've got to give them full credit, I mean really, it's not part of the University but it's affiliated to it and it's run by the students of Oxford so, and look when the Oxford Union invites you to debate on any subject you have to go, when you see the photographs of Einstein, Maggie Thatcher, Ronald Reagan who've all debated in that beautiful building, you don't say well sorry, I'm not, I'm too good for that, And so they believe, you may not have it in the British system, but they believe in a First Amendment and freedom of speech. And I'm just absolutely stunned that I had 120, 130 students vote for President Trump after I gave my speech. But let me tell you a story. So it's run by this committee who, interestingly, are mostly classic scholars. So the dinner beforehand was, you know, debating the Pliny versus Tacitus. I felt like I'd arrived in some Evelyn Waugh novel. It was quite, quite funny. But one of them, because you can only go and listen if you're a member of the union. One of these students, after I gave my pitch, he stood up, took the microphone, and he was a perfect exemplar of what we face. And he said, in front of hundreds of people, I mean, it was a packed crowd, standing room only, and I've literally just given my speech and I've traveled, what, 8,000 miles on my own dime. And he says, I hate you and everything your former boss stood for. And I'm an American. He was like an exchange student or whatever. And he said, I would rather vote for a dead twig than to vote for President Trump. And I accosted him afterwards over the little, you know, cocktails we were having. And I said to him, you do realize how privileged you are, that you're an American at Oxford, and you really shouldn't dehumanize other people. And to say in public that you hate a man you've never met before, and you'd rather vote for a piece of wood than a human being, you're actually dehumanizing at the level that the Nazis dehumanized somebody they politically disagreed with. And then to his credit, he apologized. He said, yes, you're right. And then literally 40 seconds later, he did it again. And he made an ad hominem attack against me in front of witnesses as we're drinking. And he just, the level of indoctrination is stunning. And I had the president of the Heritage Foundation on my radio show the week he was appointed. And he's a former president of a college in Texas. He's a fourth-generation educator, PhD in history. And my wife, who worked for Heritage at the time, smuggled me a question to ask him at the end of the hour. And I said, so, Dr. Roberts, it's exciting to see Americans take back the schools, the mama bears rising up against the insane COVID mandates, the masks, the CRT, all this garbage. That's cool. But what about higher ed? What about the colleges? What about the universities? You've run one of these. Can we salvage them? Can we rebuild them? Live on air in front of three and a half million people, he said, it's brand newly minted president of the Heritage Foundation. No, we have to burn them to the ground. Now, when he says that, you think, you know, let me think about that. And then what happens? Three years later, the president of the most famous college in the world says, genocide of the Jews, that's a contextual statement and may not be hate-filled. Then he's right. I mean, I got in an argument about this with a fellow conservative who said, well, we've got to save the colleges. I said, you can't save that. I mean, when it's so ingrained that calling for genocide on Harvard campus is something the president thinks is OK, you can't change that unless you change everybody who works at Harvard, because they're all like that. I mean, maybe there's two professors left who aren't woke, but you can't build it with thousands of people who hate America. It's like, let me make an analogy that you're not supposed to say. It's impolitic. My thing is national security and people tell me, well, Israel has to do what it has to do and it has to crush Hamas and then it'll be okay. And they have to do whatever it takes. Civilian casualties, yes, we get it, but they just got to crush Hamas. And I say, You can't crush Hamas. The polls say 70% to 80% of Gazans support what Hamas did on October 7th. When 70% of a population says murdering beautiful young women at a rave in the desert is okay. Unless the population is removed somewhere else, and Egypt built their wall with God. You cannot fix that by killing the people who did October 7th because you'll just find more recruits. You can't fix these colleges. And that's why home-schooling is enormous, why Hillsdale and the like of Grove City, conservative colleges that don't take one cent from the feds. So the feds can't force their CRT and equal rights garbage on them are so thriving. But, my parents escaped communism. And it's the idea that we're in that situation where in every communist nation that had a semblance of resistance, the kids would come home from school and then the parents would put the radio up loud and then deprogram their kids at night. And say, okay, what did that commie teachers tell you about Stalin? Let me tell you what the truth is about the West and capitalism. And to think that we might be in a similar situation without a Berlin Wall, without bipolarity, but where we need to deprogram our kids. That's why I tell people it's cool to work in the White House. Don't get me wrong. As an immigrant, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool to be president. It's pretty cool to be a senator. But it's mostly irrelevant. I mean, the founding fathers were very clear. Federal government should be irrelevant. It should deal with two things, war and interstate trade. That's it. Alex de Tocqueville understood America better than anyone, of course, because he's a foreigner. And he said, where's the locus of power? Where's real America? It's locally. It's at the county commissioner. It's at the school board. That's why when you want to take back a country, that's where you take it back. Why is George Soros funding local school board races and local prosecutors at the county level? I mean, people like Fani Willis. What the hell is the billionaire who broke the Bank of London doing funding local prosecutor races? Well, because that's how you steal a country. And we kind of just snoozed past it for 40 years as bit by bit, the real locus of power at county, at a municipality level was taken over. I mean, Tip O'Neill famously had this phrase in the 90s, the Democrat speaker, he said, politics is local. And it became this kind of bumper sticker for the Democrats. Oh, oh, all politics is local. And we kind of laughed and said, oh, that's cute. Well, they actually meant it. They understood that you capture a nation not with a presidential election. You capture a nation. When I arrived to Virginia, I moved from Europe 2008. And we put our kids into the local schools. And we looked into the local school district, school board. There were nine members of the school board. Every single one of them was a raving left-wing loony. And here's the important thing. None of them had a child in the public schools of the county. And you go, what? Then why are they running the board? Because it's about controlling my children, right? This is what we have to wake up to. Dr Sebastian Gorka it's wonderful having you on, it's an honour and I know you are, what three hours a day is it? Three hours of live radio every day and then a weekly tv show on Newsmax. On Salem media group, on Rumble, on Spotify, any place you want to watch it, all the links are on Sebastian's twitter feed at the top, so I appreciate your time thank you so much, Dr. Gorka. Thank you. And check out my Substack, Sebastian Gorka, one word, sebastiangorka.substack.com We will put it in the description. Thank you so much.

 This week Murray and Brian discuss Trump, CPAC, Republicans and the IVF controversy New study shows rising crimes against American churches while Catholic bishops continue to suppress TLM Lines are being drawn —Greece and same sex unions, Bolsanaro faces criminal prosecution, Ukraine and NATO. US Airman commits public suicide over Gaza Remember to support CFN by purchasing books from Angelico Press https://angelicopress.com/catholicfamilynews Sophia Institute Press https://sophiainstitute.com/product-category/books/ref/63/ and TAN Books at https://tanbooks.com/?rfsn=7859550.9cf541. Consider the Great Spiritual work, Christ the Life of the Soul https://collabs.shop/imfsja Reasoning Through the BibleReasoning Through the Bible is a verse-by-verse style Bible Study podcast. Follow us todayListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Think like the EnemyA podcast that delves into the heart of the critical issues in our nation and the world.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

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No Podcast Folha Noticias desta terça-feira (17), no bate-papo da âncora Patricia Breda com a repórter Pupi Rosenthal estão os temas locais como a aprovação na Alepe da reforma administrativa proposta pela nova governadora Raquel Lyra; a extensão do fundo estadual de equilíbrio fiscal; a criação dos três auxílios destinados aos deputados para a próxima legislatura. Sobre no cenário nacional elas conversaram sobre a fala do Ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal em um seminário em Coimbra, Portugal, sobre fake news, atos golpistas e ainda tornar Bolsanaro e General Heleno inelegíveis.

John, Todd, and Chris discuss the many lies of geroge santos, anti-coup protestors in Peru that attempted to take over an airport, a general strike brewing in Peru, Bolsanaro is back in the hospital yet again, this time in florida, Brazil does their own version of january 6th, IRS audits, Eric Adams rolls out his horrific plan to just lock up mentally ill and homeless people, and a guy who escaped the cops in a motorcycle chase but then narcs on himself by posting it to Tik Tok   //  to hear the full episode and many more, check out our patreon at patreon.com/beepbeeplettuce

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We jump back into the studio after a weekend of sparse news with large implications. We talk about Dana White assaulting his wife, the failure of infrastructure in Buffalo, a major failure of administration in New York, and did Bolsanaro try to perform a January 6th? Let's chop up all these topics together! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/khary-robertson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/khary-robertson/support

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In this episode, Alex starts with some good news about plans in Northern Europe to create a renewable energy sector that could make Europe energy independent. Then he discusses reports that both Germany and the United States are going to send armored vehicles to Ukraine in a decision that had previously been avoided due to fears of angering Russia. Alex also discusses how escalation may be occurring and what to expect from these events. Later, he discusses new updates in the House of Representatives. As of now, Kevin McCarthy has failed ten votes to become the speaker. Alex notes that while this is entertaining, these events show that his detractors are willing to hold public policy and legislation hostage. Finally, Alex discusses the inauguration of Brazil's new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula, as he is sometimes called, was president before, and staged a political comeback to beat Jair Bolsanaro. Bolsanaro broke from tradition and did not attend the inauguration, instead, he went to Florida. 

Lula beats Bolsanaro to win Brazil's 2022 election, but Bolsanaro's supporters protest claiming that the election wasn't fair. Meanwhile YouTube blocks videos claiming the 2022 Brazil election wasn't fair. #brazil #bolsonaro #lula 

In this episode of The Silent War:New Zealand Government Seeks Guardianship of a Baby After Parents Refuse to Use Vaccinated Blood for Their Son's Surgery. Brazil's rightwing military supports Bolsanaro and just decapitated the leftwing cartels leaders - possibly preventing the launch of a leftwing civil war. NPR is implementing a fake news hiring freeze! Rejoice. FTX Sent over a billion dollars to the left and helped steal an election - Are you pissed yet? Twitter is still censoring rightwing voices and tampering in elections - Including Kari Lake (and my own..)

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Nuacht Mhall. Príomhscéalta na seachtaine, léite go mall. * Inniu an cúigiú lá de mhí na Samhna. Is mise Barra Mac Giolla Aoláin. Bhí an bua ag Lula da Silva sa toghchán uachtaránachta sa Bhrasaíl. Ag an deireadh ní raibh mórán idir Lula, atá ar an eite chlé, agus an duine sa phost faoi láthair, Bolsanaro. Fuair Lula nach mór 51%, agus 49% ag Bolsonaro. Tá imní ar an saol mhór nach mbeidh Bolsanaro sásta glacadh leis an toradh seo agus go ndéanfaidh sé iarracht an post mar uachtarán a choinneáil. D'iarr Lula ar mhuintir na Brasaíle teacht le chéile go síochánta i bhfianaise thoradh an toghcháin. Is beag foréigean le feiceail go fóill ach tá teannas ag méadú in áiteanna sa tír. Chuir Uachtarán na hÉireann Micheál D. Ó hUiginn teachtaireacht chomhghairdis chuig Lula ar son mhuintir na tíre. Leanann fadbhanna polaitiúla an Tuiscirt ar aghaidh leis an Tionól dunta agus na hairí as a bpost. Bhí go dtí meán oíche Déardaoin seo caite ag na páirtithe polaitíochta ó thuaidh réiteach a aimsiú agus Stormont a bhunú arís. De réir an dlí tá sé de dhualgas ar an Státrúnaí toghchán a eagrú agus vótáil a rith taobh istigh de thrí mhí. Theip ar an Státrúnaí dáta an toghcháin a fhógairt agus buailfidh sé leis an Aire Gnóthaí Eachtracha Simon Coveney níos deireanaí sa tseachtain. Tá milliún pas Éireannach eisithe go dtí seo i mbliana. Ní dhearnadh ach 634,000 pas anuraidh san iomlán, líon réasúnta íseal i gcomórtas le 935,000 pas in 2019 roimh an phaindéim. I ndiaidh deireadh le srianta Covid bhí méadú suntasach ar an líon daoine ag lorg pas nua, de réir na Ranna Gnóthaí Eachtracha. Tá sé tugtha le fios ag Oifig na bPasanna go bhfuil nios mo foirne tugtha isteach chun freastal ar an éileamh seo. * Léirithe ag Conradh na Gaeilge i Londain. Tá an script ar fáil i d'aip phodchraolta. * GLUAIS an eite chlé - the left wing teannas - tension Státrúnaí - Secretary of State Aire Gnóthaí Eachtracha - Foreign Affairs Minister méadú suntasach - significant increase éileamh - demand

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Welcome to another episode of Outrage + Optimism! Co-hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson catch up on the whirlwind political news from the last few weeks. They cover the defeat of Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro by former president (and prisoner) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva aka “Lula,” the upcoming COP27, and the U.S. midterm elections. First up, Brazil. The news of Lula's presidential win is a victory for the planet. Deforestation skyrocketed under Bolsonaro but declined under Lula's first stint as president. However, it won't be easy to reverse Bolsanaro's trends. Lula doesn't have a Congressional majority, and Bolsonaro's party just picked up a few more legislative seats. What will this mean for Brazil's regeneration initiatives? Next, the team discusses COP27, the upcoming UN climate conference. This year's theme will be implementation rather than high-stakes, multi-governmental negotiation. But that has our trio wondering about what that means for the private sector? With $20 trillion in income, they're essential to hitting net zero targets. What role will they play? On to U.S. and U.K. politics: Republicans一with their climate denial stance一seem poised to win both legislative houses in the upcoming American midterm elections. And across the pond, the U.K. continues to flounder in its ongoing leadership crisis. How does this affect the U.S. and U.K. climate agendas, wealthy western oil companies, or climate finance commitments to developing countries? You won't want to miss the team's insights! Finally, enjoy the amazing British-Asian fusion sound of Nikhil Beats with an exclusive performance of his song 'Wisdom ft. Eclipse'.   NOTES AND RESOURCES    To learn more about our planet's climate emergency and how you can transform outrage into optimistic action subscribe to the podcast here. Learn more about COP27 Participate in the COP27 Civic Imagination Lab – REGISTER HERE   Nikhil Beats Soundcloud | Spotify | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube   Get Tickets to Nikhil's Headlining Show in London on Nov 16!   -   Watch Sister True Dedication's Ted Talk Listen to Sister True Dedication on 10 Percent Happier with Dan Harris

Brazilian citizens are reeling after this week's election that saw the politician formerly known as Lula da Silva return to power and defeat right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsanaro by less than 2% of the vote. The results reflect Brazil's growing resentment of Bolsanaro's leadership. WTBU's Garrett Adamtsev sat down with Sao Paulo native Andre Lima to discuss the country's reaction to the change of leader.

Lee Camp talks about the elections in Brazil, where Lula defeated Bolsanaro and why he might not leave. 

Read on for today's agenda below prepared by David (thank you very much). - Retired US Diplomat to 5 different nations  David Hunter shares his knowledge, passion, interest, and experience.1)  Israel Is Having It's Fifth Election in Four Years?:  Israel seems to be in seriously unstable condition.  It can't keep a coalition government in office more than a year.  The last one was a grouping of moderate, right wing, and Arab parties.  It collapsed and Yar Lapid, the Foreign Minister, was 'caretaker' until new elections held this Tuesday.  Benjamin Netanyahu has formed a bloc with Far Right Zionist parties and could win  the election.  What will happen next? 2)  How Important is Ukraine's Wheat in World Supply?:  Russia is now reversing it's earlier agreement to allow Ukraine grains to be exported.  Much goes to needy nations of Africa, so this blockade may lead to massive starvation.  But Putin claims Ukraine is not supplying grain to needy countries, just rich EU nations.   Is this situation solvable? What other nations are capable of making up Ukraine's shortfall? 3) Is North Korea  A Nuclear Weapons State?:  In 2018 and 2019,  Pres. Trump arranged to meet at two 'summits' with  NK leader Kim Jung Un to discuss 'denuclearization' of North Korea.   Those meetings-- while providing photo ops and legitimizing NK's leader--- did not  produce progress towards denuclearization.  Three years later, Kim is now expected to do a  new nuclear bomb test.   What is going on here? 4)  What Is The Result of Brazil's Presidency Race?:  Last Sunday, the far-right conservative President Jair Bolsanaro was neck in neck with socialist Lula de Silva for race to rule the fifth most populous nation on earth, Brazil.  It's more that 200 million citizens are split down the middle,  with the poor and minorities supporting de Silva, and the rich ranchers and miners backing Bolsanaro. Who won?   Why does it matter to us?

Lee Camp talks about the elections in Brazil, where Lula defeated Bolsanaro and why he might not leave. 

Brazillians have elected a new president - but outgoing president Jair Bolsanaro refuses to acknowldge the voters' decision. Since the results came in yesterday Bolsanaro has remained silent, neither conceeding defeat nor challenging rival Lula's win. There is a two-month transition period before Lula is due to be sworn in, and concerns that the transition may not be a smooth one are mounting. Lorry drivers in Brazil loyal to President Jair Bolsonaro blocked roads across the nation after election results were announced - federal highway police reported 342 such incidents, with the biggest protests in the country's south. Brazil correspondent Mary Triny Mena spoke to Māni Dunlop.

The Brazilian presidential election looks decided, with a narrow victory for former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. After a fractious campaign which saw two bitter rivals on opposite sides of the political spectrum go head to head, Lula won 50.9 percent of the votes. But as Bolsanaro is yet to concede it appears unlikely the divisions exposed by the election will disappear any time soon. Brazil correspondent Mary Triny Mena spoke to Morning Report.

Kia ora,Welcome to Tuesday's Economy Watch where we follow the economic events and trends that affect Aotearoa/New Zealand.I'm David Chaston and this is the International edition from Interest.co.nz.Today we lead with news international inflation is still raging, while the economic slowdown needed to quell it is starting to show in some parts.There were two regional factory surveys out overnight in the US. The Chicago PMI was little changed and that was an unexpected disappointment because an improvement was expected. It remains quite negative. And the Dallas Fed factory survey for October was also disappointing. Output rose there but the level of new orders didn't and the firms surveyed said the outlook isn't as positive. The Dallas Fed factory survey has been more negative than anywhere else in the rest of the country.The official Chinese factory PMI unexpectedly fell to 49.2 in October from 50.1, missing market forecasts of 50.0. This was the lowest reading since July, and comes amid the return of strict pandemic restrictions in several big cities with output, new orders, and export sales all falling. Their service sector PMI's turned negative too, largely for the same reason.And here's an indication of just how tough China's anti-Covid measures are. It locked crowds in the Shanghai Disneyland after a case there was suspected. And it is not the first time they have done something like that.Meanwhile, the Hong Kong economy is going backwards faster, down a sobering -4.5% from the same period a year ago. This is its steepest contraction since the 2020 pandemic period, and before that the worst since the GFC.Japanese industrial production was up +9.8% in September from a year ago, but that is artificially enhanced by a weak base. From August, there was slippage, down -1.6% which is rather a sharp negative change.Japanese retail sales rose by 4.5% in September 2022, compared with an expected +4.1% gain. This was the seventh straight month of increase in retail trade there and the steepest pace since May 2021, and interestingly higher than CPI inflation.The overall inflation rate in the EU rose to 10.2%. It was the first time it has been in double figures since the EU was formed. Yesterday, we reported Germany's +11.6% rise, today we can note France is up +7.1%, Italy up +12.8%, and Spain was up +7.3%. Germany retail sales rose in September from August (in 'real' terms), an improvement analysts were not expecting.Despite those pressures, the EU is still expanding, even it it is slower. It grew +0.2% in Q3 from Q2 and up +2.4% year-on-year. It's a creditable result given all the challenges the region is facing. Portugal and Spain are both doing the best in this bloc.Australian retail sales rose more than expected, and that is the 9th month in a row of gains. However, almost all of the recent monthly gains are likely due to higher prices rather than volumes. Fashion and dining led the uptick. But year-on-year the gain was more than +17%, mainly because of a very weak base.The RBA will likely raise rates this afternoon; markets expect a tame +25 bps rise to 2.85%. Anything else will be a surprise. But Australia does face a rising inflation threat, so +25 bps is probably inadequate as an inflation-fighting response.In Brazil, the Presidential election result gave ex-President Lula the win by a small but clear margin of some 2.1 mln votes. But that probably won't stop the loser Bolsanaro from "doing a Trump". Lula doesn't officially take over until January 1, so there are probably some extremist events to play out until then. Markets seem to respect these results.The UST 10yr yield starts today up +4 bps at 4.05%. The price of gold will open today at US$1636/oz. This is down -US$10 from this time yesterday.And oil prices start today -US$2.50 lower than this time yesterday at just on US$85.50/bbl in the US while the international Brent price is just over US$91/bbl.The Kiwi dollar will open today at 58.1 USc and little-changed since yesterday. Against the Australian dollar we are firm at 91 AUc. Against the euro we are up +½c at 58.8 euro cents. That all means our TWI-5 starts today at 68.7 and +30 bps higher.The bitcoin price is now at US$20,390 and down -1.1% from this time yesterday. Volatility over the past 24 hours has been modest at just on +/- 1.4%.You can find links to the articles mentioned today in our show notes.And get more news affecting the economy in New Zealand from interest.co.nz.Kia ora. I'm David Chaston and we'll do this again tomorrow.

Brazilians cast their vote in a bitterly-fought election today. Leftist challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the slight favourite to put an end to four years of destructive government by the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. However, polls before the first round underestimated Bolsanaro's numbers and there is no guarantee he will not spring a surprise and win another four years in power. Brazil correspondent Mary Triny Mena spoke to Corin Dann.

Pending the results of Brazil's highly contentious, high-stakes presidential election, our Latam Deep Dive podcast returns to consider the political fallout and outlook for Latin America's largest economy.      Ranked among the top forecasters in Brazil, Juliano Ferreira, Head of Macro Strategy at BGC Liquidez, joins host Benito Berber, Natixis CIB Chief Economist Latin America, for a discussion that touches on the drivers of recent economic resiliency and growth coming out of the pandemic—with the unemployment rate, mentions Ferreira, being among the most impressive surprises as it continues to drop to its lowest in almost seven years—to more election-focused considerations including: What would future GDP growth look like under a Bolsanaro vs. Lula administration?  

ORN Matthew Ehret show notes 10/10/22 90% of the land in Canada is owned by the British Crown. 25% of everything that comes in from the Crown Estate goes to King Charles III and family. Crown Agents was established in 1833. They control the energy and healthcare systems of the British Commonwealth, which encompasses 22% of global surface area. Hong Kong still participates in Commonwealth Institutions. Do Klaus Schwab people have control over the Crown? The oligarch's idea of what should be done has been infused into the ideals of morality. Does the WEF want to take over Russia? Dick Cheney wanted to destroy Russia as an entity. Russia is highly heterogenic. Oligarchs want to inflame tribal passions in Russia, leading to internal break up. We're trying to contain Russia and China. Brzezinski wanted to divide Russia into 12 microfederations. Same strategy to break up China. Did Putin just not want NATO on its border? He wanted a buffer to prevent the historical attacks on Russia. NATO missiles in Ukraine are only 7 minutes away from Moscow. Putin wanted to stop that threat. West wants to kill Putin and says it has encircled Russia. But Russia has advanced hypersonics, underwater drones, technology beyond what the west has. Do the oligarchs really want nuclear winter? Kerch Strait bridge was partially destroyed on Saturday. Underwater drone coincided with truck with explosives passing by on bridge. Zelensky calling for preemptive bombing of Russia. Russia realizes the existential threat and need to change strategy. Nazis have a strong presence in Ukraine. Maintained by propaganda over many years. Led to creation of Azof battalion. Putin's speech on 9/30/22 called the west satanic. Realizes the West is morally bankrupt and delusional. The US is failing - can't even overcome Syria. Russia is calling out the West for its uncomfortable history. Opium wars in China, terror in Vietnam. Trying to wipe out entire civilizations. Transhumanism, destroying family structure. Trauma in Korea, Japan, Germany, Iraq from unnecessary bombing. Japan is still a client of the West. As is Germany. Can be a homosexual in Russia. But can't promote it. How about bioweapons in Ukraine? At least 46 labs. Created after Cheney's 2004 Project Bioshield Act which was enacted after fake anthrax attack. Georgia and Ukraine chosen to host facilities. Obama created additional labs. China and Russia know the western banking system is set to blow, and then there will be a set of blows on the west's enemies. Were the scenes of Chinese suddenly collapsing at the start of the pandemic faked? Matthew says no, that something was targeting them. Gazprom said it could stabilize pressure in at least one of the Nordstream lines. Some Brits say they will try to go entire winter without heat because energy is so expensive. What happens if Brazil's Bolsanaro loses to the leftist candidate? Brazil is only 3% of GDP of the BRICS. Has been a supporter of BRICS development bank. Into big infrastructure projects. Is the end goal of the Greens nuclear power? They would prefer it would never have been discovered, nor electricity. But they will coopt and try to use it for themselves and not have it accessible to the masses. Are Russians trying to flee their country so they don't have to fight? More so in Moscow and cosmopolitan cities, but media overstates it. Western colonists still control sectors of banking. Russian media allows some opposition views. Ukraine has shut down any opposition in the press.

Katy joins us from Brazil, where Jair Bolsanaro has confounded expectations by forcing a run-off vote against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the country's Presidential election. He got 43 percent of the vote, while Mr Lula got 48, just short of the 50 percent needed to avoid a second round later this month. The run-off election is later this month.

In this episode, Liz Darrow talks with Edgar Franks about an upcoming statewide tour with Familias Unidas por la Justicia and Aline Prata about the super close election between Bolsanaro and Lula last week in Brazil.Songs in this episode:Negro Nagô by Banda Pj e RaizAmarElo by EmicidaSupport the Farmworker Solidarity tour! Members of Familias Unidas por la Justicia are taking a week off from the fields to join the tour and spread awareness about the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. Help make their participation in the tour possible  by making a one-time donation today! Donations are also needed to cover the costs of venues, materials, housing and food. Donate here.The current Brazilian election runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro is one of the most crucial elections in the world. At stake is not only the future of the Amazonian rainforest and the Indigenous people who live there, but also the future of democracy in Latin America. Ballot locationsfor Brazilians in diaspora in the US are extremely limited. As Aline mentions in this podcast, she will have to go to Washington D.C. to cast her ballot. You can provide solidarity support for this local peace and justice organizer by contributing to her Venmo @Aline-Prata.Support the show

Lula wins round one.. nevertheless, a surprise showing by Bolsanaro sends Brazil's election into overtime.. Ukraine and Russia.. the fear of nuclear war intensifies.. and an insurgent socialist wants to lead the United Auto Workers.

Authoritarians are on the rise again in Latin America from left wing Socialist rulers like Maduro in Venezuela, Xiomara Castro in Honduras and former guerilla Gustavo Petro in Columbia to right wing populists like Bolsanaro in Brazil.  Listen as Chapman professor Dr. Kyle Longley breaks it all down and talks about the implications for the whole region. Summarizing the recent talk he gave here in Orange County on behalf of the World Affairs Council. On this week's OC SPOTLIGHT.

In this episode, Alex talks about how gas prices in the U.S. are lower than a month ago, but still much higher than a year ago. He also mentions that the U.S. is still in much better shape than most of Europe as a fuel crisis looms. Alex then discusses the new subvariant of COVID and why he worries we are entering a forever pandemic. The vaccines are always trying to catch up to the new variant, immune responses are quickly dwindling, and political and public apathy are constant. Later, Alex discusses how Jair Bolsanaro is losing by double digits to Lula for the election in October. Now he is claiming that voter fraud could be possible. Much like Donald Trump, Bolsanaro is creating uncertainity and challenging democracy. Finally, Alex takes a deep dive into the complex and radical life of Clarence Thomas. He poses the questions on how a radical black activist in the 1970s became the most conservative judge on the Supreme Court. Justice Thomas is a flawed and problematic man, but he is fascinating. 

Author Eve Darian-Smith discusses her new book, Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis, which describes and analyzes the environmental policies of authoritarian governments, including the Trump and Bolsanaro administrations in the U.S. and Brazil, as well as Australia's recently deposed Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. She is chair of the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Eve has documented the growing crisis for democratic nations as authoritarian leaders blend anti-environmentalist populism with increasingly aggressive approaches to governing. Climate change is a global problem that nationalists and populists resist actively. With the United States headed into a contentious mid-term election season, we wanted to discuss what voters should be on the watch for when choosing candidates they expect to represent them in global negotiations in response to climate change. You can find Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis at Amazon (https://amzn.to/39QBgZ0), Audible (https://amzn.to/39OR26R), and Powell's Books (https://www.powells.com/book/global-burning-rising-antidemocracy-the-climate-crisis-9781503631083).

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Things You Should Stop Worrying About This WeekHow Grey's Anatomy may have caused harm to real-life cancer patientsWhy Meghan and Harry won't make a balcony appearance with the queen for her jubilee next monthWhat Big Agriculture is doing to our chickensThe Brazilian President's beef with Leonardo Di CaprioThis episode is sponsored by…Microdose GummiesEver tried Microdosing? To learn more about microdosing THC just do a quick search online or go to Microdose.comMicrodose Gummies deliver perfect, entry-level doses of THC that help you  feel just the right amount of good.  For 30% off your first order + Free Shipping, visit Microdose.com and use code: TINY  Do YOU have a tiny victory to share?  Call the Tiny Victories Hotline: (323) 285-1675We want folks to share their tiny victories on our hotline because, frankly, we'll assume we're just talking into the void every week and nothing matters. Prove us wrong. Did you finally do that thing you were putting off? Tiny victory! Reconnect with someone you haven't been in touch with for ages? Victory! We only ask that you try to keep messages to under a minute so we're able to play it on the show. If you prefer, you can record a tiny victory on your phone and then email us the audio.  Email: TinyVictories@maximumfun.orgHOW TO @ USTwitter@GetTinyPod@LAGurwitch@ImLauraHouse@Swish (producer Laura Swisher)Instagram@GetTinyPod

John and Chris talk Elon Musk brain chips, Evo Morales, Bolsanaro needing five covid tests to meet Putin, and the X files. then around 20 minutes in Brynn pops by for the rest of the episode, and they talk Ukraine and the CIA for a while, the next evolution of Q-anon candidates, and whether the dems will ever run another bernie-type candidate.           to hear the full episode and many more, check out our pateron at patreon.com/beepbeeplettuce

Is Russia About to Invade Ukraine?, Upcoming Presidential Elections in Brazil, US Pulling Patriot Missiles out of Saudi ArabiaRetired US Diplomat to 5 different nations  David Hunter shares his knowledge, passion, interest, and experience. 1) Is Russia About to Invade Ukraine?:  The Ukrainian chief of  Military Intelligence, Brigadier General  Budanov, stated on Nov 20, 2021 that he expects Russia to attack Ukraine  again next January or February. The conflict, which  began in 2014, already  has seen some 14,000 Ukrainian troops killed.  Putin has just moved 93,000 Russian troops back to the border of Ukraine, after withdrawing them last Summer.    Does  Putin might think Biden is weak after  the Afghanistan defeat and US and NATO  won't respond? 2)  Upcoming Presidential Elections in Brazil?: In 2022 Brazil will hold next Presidential Election.  The current Pres. Jair Bolsanaro is a far-right conservative populist running against far-left socialist Lula de Silva.  Silva, a former President,  was imprisoned on corruption charges in 2017  by Bolsonaro's  supporter.  But all charges were dropped by Brazil's Supreme Court and he is free to run.  Recent polls show Lula likely to win, and so Pres. Bolsanaro is claiming the election will be 'rigged' if he loses.  Steve Bannon is giving him  advice. What do you think? 3)  US Pulling Patriot Missiles out of Saudi Arabia:  Why did the Biden Administration suddenly withdraw Patriot Missile defenses from Saudi Arabia, after Trump had just sent two Patriot batteries there in 2019?  Is it a signal the US no longer sees Saudi Arabia as an important ally?  Your JUNK MONKEYS are just a click away! Don't let your junk drive you bananas!

W Hondurasie zbliżają się wybory prezydenckie. 28 listopada w I turze wyborów największe szanse mają prawicowy kandydat rządzącej Partii Nardowej Nasro "Tito" Asfura i lewicowa Xiomara Castro, żona odsuniętego od władzy prezydenta Manuela Zelayi i przedstawicielka partii Libertad y Refundación. Kandydaci przerzucają się oskarżeniami. Xiomara Castro zarzuca swemu kontrkandydatowi kontynuowanie polityki obecnego prezydenta Juana Orlando Hernandeza, oskarżanego o związki z kartelami narkotykowymi. Z kolei Partido Nacional atakuje panią Castro jako komunista i zwolenniczkę chavizmu. Za zabezpieczenie wyborów odpowiadają policja i wojsko. Zwierzchnik sił zbrojnych, generał Tito Livio Moreno wzywa do zachowania spokoju. Zostawmy za sobą podziały, egoizm, zło i ciemne interesy, które mogłyby naruszyć spokój naszego narodu. Tymczasem w Chile trwa konflikt z Mapuczami. Do 11 listopada prezydent Chile Sebastián Piñer przedłużył stan wyjątkowy na południowych obszarach kraju, zamieszkanych przez lud Mapucze. Mapuche są największym ludem tubylczym w Chile. Domagają się ziem należących do wielkich firm rolniczych. Stan wyjątkowy obowiązuje od 12 października w prowincjach Araucanía i Biobío w regionie Biobío oraz w prowincjach Malleco i Cautín w La Araucanía. Trzecie przedłużenie będzie wymagało zgody Kongresu. Stan wyjątkowy nie jest przeciwko temu ludowi. Prowadzący audycji „Republica Latina” zauważa, że Mapucze nigdy nie zostali podbici przez Hiszpanów. Dopiero w XIX w. weszli oni w skład niepodległego Chile. Komisja Senatu Brazylii zarekomendowała we wtorek postawienie zarzutów karnych prezydentowi Jairowi Bolsonaro za działania i zaniechania związane z drugą (po Stanach Zjednoczonych) co do wielkości na świecie liczbą zgonów spowodowanych wirusem COVID-19. Jest to konkluzja sześciomiesięcznego śledztwa ws. działań rządu wobec pandemii. Ponad 600 000 osób zmarło na Covid-19 w Brazylii. Jej prezydent nie przyznaje się do stawianych mu zarzutów. Bolsanaro musi się mierzyć jednak nie tylko z krytyką ze strony swych krajan. Ostatnio imbecylem i błaznem nazwał go Nicolás Maduro. Ten ostani jednak, jak zauważa Zbigniew Dąbrowski, nie za bardzo ma prawo krytykować kogokolwiek. Przeciwko Maduro może świadczyć kolumbijski handlarz narkotyków Dairo Antonio Úsuga, pseudonim Otoniel, którego schwytanie ogłoszono w ostatnią sobotę. Otoniel jest głową Clan del Golfo, a USA oferowało za jego schwytanie do pięciu milionów dolarów. Otoniel zostanie prawdopodobnie wysłany do Stanów Zjednoczonych z Hiszpanii, która nie udzieliła mu azylu politycznego. Według doniesień prasowych współpracownicy Otoniela rozważają pójście na ugodę z amerykańskim wymiarem sprawiedliwości. Otoniel może dostarczyć informacji na temat przemysłowego przemytu kolumbijskiej kokainy przez Wenezuelę. Przywódcy chavistowskiego reżimu: prezydent Nicolás Maduro, przewodniczący Konstytuanty Diosdado Cabello, i szef MON Vladimir Padrino López są domniemanymi członkami Kartelu Słońc. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/radiownet/message

New Zealand fired a wizard. Self-driving cars begin to eerily congregate in San Francisco. Big Tech & bellicose billionaires more generally decide to also help create the impending water wars in addition to all the rest the contribute to the world. Jair Bolsonaro is being indicted on 24 criminal counts, including crimes against humanity linked to his mass murderous handling of coronavirus. Somehow removing unemployment benefits didn't kickstart the economy and the employment rate has decreased even further since then. Joe Manchin rubs it in all our faces and we suggest fun ways for he and his disgusting family to "accidentally" be neutralized. The never-ending news of the spending bill provokes a vision that when all is said and done the thing will literally just be two nickels rubbed together by Manchin and Sinema while they belly laugh in all our faces on national TV. Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpodGeneral RecommendationsJD's Recommendation: Locke & KeyJNM's Recommendation: Station ElevenFurther Reading, Viewing, ListeningA New Zealand city is taking its official wizard off the payroll after over 2 decadesSelf-driving Waymo cars gather in a San Francisco neighborhood, confusing residentsBig tech data centers spark worry over scarce Western waterBolsonaro charged with mass murder for COVID-19 herd immunity policy in BrazilWhere are the workers? Cutoff of jobless aid spurs no influxTrump and Miller attempted to deploy 250,000 troops to US-Mexico border in Spring 2020Joe Manchin Is American PoliticsBiden Announces New Reconciliation Deal That Slashes Bill Nearly in Half'Pressure from US, EU could destabilize Ethiopia'Record 1.7 Million Migrants Arrested on Southern Border During 2021 Fiscal YearLocationless Locationsheatdeathpod.comEvery show-related link is corralled and available here.Twitter: @heatdeathpodPlease send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: heatdeathoftheuniversepodcast@gmail.comAlso, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it

A Senate inquiry in Brazil says President Jair Bolsonaro should be charged for crimes against humanity over his handling of the covid pandemic. It accused the president of deliberately acting too slowly and exposing Brazilians to the virus. Mr Bolsanaro says he is guilty of nothing. Also, the European parliament has awarded the Sakharov human rights prize to the jailed Russian opposition figure, Alexei Navalny. We hear from the Russian author, Boris Akunin. Plus, the Afghan evacuees in the UK who say their lives are on hold, and the Myanmar political prisoner let out of jail and remaining defiant. (Photo: With over 600,000 fatalities, Brazil has the second-highest Covid-related death toll in the world behind only the US. Credit: Reuters)

A Brazilian congressional panel is set to recommend that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with "crimes against humanity," asserting that he intentionally let COVID-19 rip through the country and kill hundreds of thousands of people in a failed bid to achieve herd immunity and revive Latin America's largest economy.

David Gornoski opens the show by commenting on Brazilian president Bolsanaro's defiance at the UN. Why are people mad at a two-year-old for not wearing a mask and yet okay with Fauci's funding of gain of function research at Wuhan? Listen to the full episode to find out. Plus, joining David Gornoski is Polk County Commissioner Neil Combee who comments on the Polk Commission's backing off from signing a letter approving Ivermectin in treatments against COVID. Visit A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com

The Firehose of Falsehood is every autocrat's dream and it was crafted by the Soviet Union to sow chaos and division without direct force. According to researchers at the RAND Corporation, it describes a phenomenon where a nation's leading class flood the news and information cycle with so much misinformation that it doesn't matter if it is right or wrong, it merely confuses the population and causes chaos. It creates political cynicism and a pure distrust in discourse. “While the bulk of firehose claims are false or misleading or even mutually contradictory, a skilled propagandist may salt the mix with statements that are partly valid, lending apparent plausibility to the rest.” In this episode, Drew and Alex look into how Donald Trump may have used this tactic better than most and it eroded the shared truths that were prevalent in the US. They look into the COVID-19 pandemic, the “Big Lie” and more. They also look into the current situation in Brazil and how this can also relate to the firehose of falsehood. Some questions posed in the episode are -  Can misinformation be halted? Will Bolsanaro in Brazil lose popularity?  Can political discourse be useful anymore? Is the recent Arizona fraud audit just a dress rehearsal for 2022 and beyond? 

In Episode 10, P-mo updates us on the the heat wave that's striking the Pacific Northwest. Portland and Seattle are experiencing record-high temperatures. Meanwhile, a great white shark attacks a man off the California coast. Mary reports on the extreme weather conditions in the Amazon, which is suffering from deforestation. The West-Central African country of Gabon, meanwhile, is paying people to protect its forests - will it work?

En seriemorder er blevet fanget i Mexico. Hårrejsende anklager tordner sig op mod manden, som også har spist dele af sine ofre. I USA bliver Donald Trumps juridiske problemer større og større og nu er der øget snak om hvorvidt den tidligere præsident kan ende i fængsel. I Barcelona har gadesælgere lavet deres eget skomærke og i Venedig demonstrerer de imod krydstogtskibene. Vi hører en fortælling om en mafiaboss, som har startet en youtube kanal hvor han kommer med voldsomme anklager mod den tyrkiske regering. Mafiabossen sidder i Dubai og uploader beskyldninger om blandt andet korruption og narkosmugling. En ny dokumentar viser kontorhotel-kæden WeWorks fald fra tinderne. Båret frem af en karismatisk leder blev firmaet overhypet for derefter at miste milliarder af dollars i værdi. I Marokko må krukke- og pottemagere lægge asfalt i ørkenen istedet for at lave krukker fordi turisterne har været væk. I Jordan er der debat om en speciel lyd fra vogne, der sælger gas spiller fra højtalere og i Brasilien har præsident Bolsanaro fået en bøde for ikke at have mundbind på til et stort motorcykeltræf.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I spoke to Dr. Rodrigo Nunes on Neoliberalism, Denialism and the question of what political forms and economies may exist in the near future. We also discuss the paradoxical popularity of leaders like Trump, Bolsanaro and Neoliberalism itself. For more w. Dr. Nunes, I highly recommend his essay for Public Books 'Are we in Denial about Denial?" , and look out for his new book ' Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization' out May 2021 on Verso. Public Books Essay can be found here: https://www.publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial/ Verso Book Here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3810-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal You can also follow Dr. Nunes on Twitter: @OrangoQuango Music by Prod Riddiman: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdSuKogXJOZld5Dzw_9285w

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Support for populist right-wing parties and candidates has increased considerably across the globe in recent years. In addition to this overall rise in support, receptiveness towards the exclusionary, reactionary rhetoric and policies of Bolsonaro, Trump, Modi or their European counterparts all have their own distinct electoral geographies. On Tuesday, February 23rd, Ash Center Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow Pauliina Patana and a global panel of experts discussed how to make sense of these deep geographic divides, similarities, and differences in spatial patterns across countries, strategies parties are using to mobilize voters across space and place, and other pertinent questions.Panelists included:Dr. Terri Givens, Founder and CEO, The Center for Higher Education LeadershipProf. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, School of Political Science, Diego Portales UniversityProf. Tariq Thachil, Associate Professor and Director of Center for Advanced Study of India and Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and SciencesDr. Pauliina Patana (Moderator), Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy SchoolThe transcript for this episode is online here. About the Ash Center The Ash Center is a research center and think tank at Harvard Kennedy School focused on democracy, government innovation, and Asia public policy. AshCast, the Center's podcast series, is a collection of conversations, including events and Q&As with experts, from around the Center on pressing issues, forward-looking solutions, and more. Visit the Ash Center online, follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook. For updates on the latest research, events, and activities, please signup for our newsletter.

New revelations show how the FBI was truly connected with Black Panther leader Fred Hampton's Assassination. Also a look how Leftist Academics are censored on Youtube and Jair Bolsanaro faces charges in the ICC. #BlackPanthers #Censorship #Brazil Written, Edited & Filmed by Krish Mohan Music: "Blue" by Old Game Download their album: https://oldgame.bandcamp.com Follow, Subscribe & Donate: https://linktr.ee/KrishMohanHaha Thanks to our current Patrons: Adam & Swarna, Aiden, Lee & Eleanor, Eduardo, Gregory W., Gregg, Hayley, Jason, Joseph, Michael, Uli, Vickie, Jay, Kathryn, Zack, Patrick, Bharat, Andrew S., Jay Jackson, Martha, Sara, Teri, Marisa & Don!

New revelations show how the FBI was truly connected with Black Panther leader Fred Hampton's Assassination. Also a look how Leftist Academics are censored on Youtube and Jair Bolsanaro faces charges in the ICC. #BlackPanthers #Censorship #Brazil Written, Edited & Filmed by Krish Mohan Music: "Blue" by Old Game Download their album: https://oldgame.bandcamp.com Follow, Subscribe & Donate: https://linktr.ee/KrishMohanHaha Thanks to our current Patrons: Adam & Swarna, Aiden, Lee & Eleanor, Eduardo, Gregory W., Gregg, Hayley, Jason, Joseph, Michael, Uli, Vickie, Jay, Kathryn, Zack, Patrick, Bharat, Andrew S., Jay Jackson, Martha, Sara, Teri, Marisa & Don!

This week Look Forward, Jay and Andy return to discuss purposeful lies about herd immunity, Balsanaro's bizarre vaccine behavior in Brazil, new COVID-19 relief bill deal, Trump refuses to say Russia did the hack, Biden plans for Russian hack retaliation, Jared authorizes shell corporation to steal money from own followers, and Bernie manages to break Jay once and for all! SHOW NOTES Fire up the solar-powered electric chairs, baby!!!! Brazil’s Bolsanaro is helping to kill his citizens with bizarro COVID vaccine comments We got ourselves a deal From Russia with Cucks Biden response potential for Russian hack Dear Bernie, SHUT UP! Jared Kushner set up a shell corporation to steal money for the Trump family

Ruth Ben-Ghiat joined me on the podcast to discuss what modern authoritarian leaders have in common and how they can be stopped. We discussed the strongman playbook from Mussolini to Putin, Johnson and Trump.Subscribe to History Hit and you'll get access to hundreds of history documentaries, as well as every single episode of this podcast from the beginning (400 extra episodes). We're running live podcasts on Zoom, we've got weekly quizzes where you can win prizes, and exclusive subscriber only articles. It's the ultimate history package. Just go to historyhit.tv to subscribe. Use code 'pod1' at checkout for your first month free and the following month for just £/€/$1. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat joined me on the podcast to discuss what modern authoritarian leaders have in common and how they can be stopped. We discussed the strongman playbook from Mussolini to Putin, Johnson and Trump.Subscribe to History Hit and you'll get access to hundreds of history documentaries, as well as every single episode of this podcast from the beginning (400 extra episodes). We're running live podcasts on Zoom, we've got weekly quizzes where you can win prizes, and exclusive subscriber only articles. It's the ultimate history package. Just go to historyhit.tv to subscribe. Use code 'pod1' at checkout for your first month free and the following month for just £/€/$1. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Grace is joined by Raquel Rolnik, former Minister under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, author of the brilliant book Urban Warfare, and currently Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Sao Paolo. They discuss the rise of Bolsanaro, the looming evictions crisis in Brazil, the UK and around the world, and the struggle to build a global tenants' movement. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/aworldtowinpod

Recent years have seen a resurgence of right-wing nationalism and authoritarian political movements, from Trump in the US to Bolsanaro in Brazil and to Modi in India. How are we best to grasp the nature of these contemporary political trends? Are Trump and the movement to support him usefully understood as a form of neo-fascism? Right-wing populism? Something else? What are the political, economic, social, and cultural drivers of this trend, and how can they most effectively be countered and defeated? How does contemporary right-wing authoritarianism compare with classic fascist movements of the past? What lessons for today can be found in the arsenal of historical anti-fascism, and what needs updating? How does the way we think about the threats we face shape the necessary political response? How can grasping the roots of current right-wing movements help us build the movement to defeat them, from the ballot box to the workplace to the streets and beyond? Shelter & Solidarity (9/3/20) took a deep dive with activist-thinkers who have been studying historical and contemporary right-wing movements as well as fascism and anti-fascism for decades: Bill V. Mullen, Chris Vials, and Bill Fletcher Jr. Bill V. Mullen and Chris Vials are co-editors of The U.S. Antifascism Reader (2020). Bill Mullen is former Professor of American Studies at Purdue University. He is the author most recently of James Baldwin: Living in Fire (Pluto Press, 2019). His other books include Afro-Orientalism (University of Minnesota Press) and (as co-editor with Ashley Dawson) Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities (Haymarket Books). He is a member of the Organizing Collective for USACBI (United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) Christopher Vials is a Professor of English and Director of American Studies at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. He is the author of Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States (2014) and has appeared on public forums such as NPR, PBS, and CBC radio to discuss the history of fascism and antifascism in the United States. Bill Fletcher Jr. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com, and is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice. Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web.

In this episode, we talk with climate and finance campaigner Pendle Marshall-Hallmark (@PendleTheWitch) of Amazon Watch (@amazonwatch) about the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest. Last year saw some of the worst fires in record for the region and this year's fire season looks to be no better. The problem is made much worse by the Bolsanaro government's deregulation of Brazilian environmental protections. increased industry efforts at deforestation and the financing of it all by U.S. asset managers and banks like Blackrock and JPMorgan Chase. Pendle also talked with us about her experience doing human rights accompaniment in Colombia. And social and racial tensions in her hometown of Rochester NY. We also share few words and thoughts remembering scholar, author and anarchist David Graeber who passed away suddenly on September 3rd. CORRECTION: Scott incorrectly said that Blackrock was privately held, not publicly traded. It is in fact publicly traded. Bio: Pendle Marshall-Hallmark is a Climate & Finance Campaigner at Amazon Watch, an Oakland-based human rights and environmental advocacy organization focused on protecting the Amazon rainforest and the rights of Indigenous peoples. Prior to joining Amazon Watch Pendle lived in Colombia for two years, where she accompanied Indigenous and campesino activists resisting corporate, paramilitary and state-led invasions of their lands. She has completed a Fulbright scholarship in Mexico City exploring US-Latin American business relations, and previously worked as a community organizer in Philadelphia around issues of immigration, healthcare access and labor rights. She studied Sociology at Swarthmore College and has completed Master's level coursework in Business Administration at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Read More: More than 260 major, mostly illegal Amazon fires detected since late May: https://bit.ly/3bv2sJg BlackRock Faces Criticism for Role in Climate Crisis, Amazon Deforestation: https://bit.ly/3jLoVVl **Brazil Fires Burns World's Largest Tripical Wetlands at Unprecedented Scale: https://nyti.ms/358LaAu Amazonwatch page on Blackrock: https://amazonwatch.org/news/2020/0904-climate-activists-ramp-up-pressure-on-blackrock-during-fires-week-of-action David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59: https://bit.ly/2F2SnY5 Also, follow us on any of these social media channels: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ Donate to Green and Red Podcast! Become a recurring donor at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob (@bobbuzzanco). "Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.

Hi, friends! Today we talk about the price of books in Brazil as the Bolsanaro government prepares to remove the tax-free status of this already pricey item. But why are books so pricey if they aren't taxed? How does piracy work in Brazil? Well, this episode is free, so listen to find out! Also, would you wanna go on the first manned mission to Mars??? #terraformersneedbeans As always, we'd like to thank Uoster Zielinski for our graphic design. We also wanna thank essential workers for keeping us safe and, protesters everywhere, for fighting for a better world. #stayhome #blacklivesmatter #vidaspretasimportam

Brezilya'da Başkan Bolsanaro'ya toplum karşısındaki demeçleri verirken maske takmadığı için 340 avro para cezası kesildi. Pandemi her gün daha şiddetleniyor ve bu göz ardı ediliyor.

Meanwhile, in Brazil… Extreme populist President Jair Bolsonaro's dismissive response to the Corona crisis makes even Trump's look vaguely reasonable. Could the anti-lockdown sentiment he's fomenting push Brazil into real crisis? And how does this homophobic, military fetishist, formerly marginal far-right figure maintain power? Rio-based British journalist DOM PHILLIPS talks to Dorian Lynskey about wild times in the world's sixth-largest country. “A professor in Rio once described Bolsanaro as just a troll… but he has a very popular touch. And he's very, very extreme.” “The stuff I saw during the elections, it's absolutely staggering that a mainstream politician would say these things.” Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the vassals sell off their Exxon stocks, Amish explains why he prefers Eastern authoritarianism and Drew dishes on Brampton’s underbelly.  __________ Based out of the Duchy of Toronto, Drew Picklyk and Amish Patel serve as vigilant vassals of the Late Capitalist West. Join them as they look into the cultural insanity that surrounds us on a daily basis in an attempt to find some common ground amongst all warring factions. 

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Lisa Kiefer: [00:00:01] This is Method to the Madness, a bi-weekly public affairs show on K-A-L-X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area Innovators. I'm your host, Lisa Kiefer. And today, our first show of 2020 will feature Layla Salazar-Lopez, the executive director of Amazon Watch. Most people know what Amazon Watch is, but for some people who may not know, can you review the mission?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:00:31] Sure. Thanks for having me. Amazon Watch is a Bay Area based nonprofit organization. We were founded in 1996. Our mission is to protect the Amazon rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the Amazon basin. The Amazon rainforest is the biggest tropical rainforest on the planet. Most people know and think of the Amazon as the lungs of the earth. All those trees, all of that life, absorbing carbon and producing rain for not just the Amazon, but for the world. This massive rainforest, an ecosystem, actually helps to create the weather systems throughout South America and also around the world. So it is a vital organ of the earth's ecosystem. And so we're working to protect the rainforest to avert climate chaos. And our theory of change is that the best way to do that is by working with, standing with, supporting the rights and the voices in the territories of indigenous peoples.Lisa Kiefer: [00:01:44] And is that because they live there, they are on the front lines of i?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:01:48] Of course! indigenous peoples have been living in the Amazon rainforest for thousands of years, over 400 distinct nationalities, groups and even uncontacted peoples. Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and throughout the world are the best protectors of the natural places that we still have left on this planet. Eighty percent of the biodiversity around the world is on indigenous people's lands. So if we are concerned about climate change or chaos, I would say, or if we concern about the extinction crisis that we're facing, one of the best ways that we can do all we can to protect what we have left, is to support indigenous people's territories being protected. Those are the places that have the biodiversity and have the trees that create the much needed rain.Lisa Kiefer: [00:02:43] Well, you just got back from the Madrid climate summit, the 25th summit, and it was supposed to be in Brazil. And Bolonaro nixed that. And there have been many challenges, but it did come off. I wondered if you could give us sort of a a summary of what what you talked about.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:03:00] You know, as you mentioned, COP 25, which is a conference of parties on climate change, world leaders, government leaders, elected leaders, negotiators that represent governments. Nearly 200 governments around the world attend the cops, plus civil society, NGOs, affected communities and also corporations. Unfortunately, the COP for decades has been primarily dominated by governments and corporations. That's why we've had 25 years of inactivity, really, of doing the minimum. And yes, we could praise the Paris Climate Agreement. Amazon Watch was there with indigenous peoples from around the world, from the Amazon to Alaska, to ensure that the voices of of the community that are most affected are heard. Our focus at COP 25 was to amplify the voices of indigenous peoples. There are very few spaces for indigenous peoples, people who are protecting biodiversity on our planet, for them to speak, for them to share their concerns and share their solutions. And so our mission is to ensure that they have a space not only to have space, but they are promoting their solutions and their solutions are heard. And one of those solutions is the Sacred Headwaters Initiative. So we released a report, at COP, a threat assessment on the sacred headwaters. And we spoke to global media and got a lot of attention on this region. It's in Ecuador and Peru, which is the most biodiverse part of the Amazon. It's Yasuni National Park. The scientists, the conservationists who are on the ground in the Yasuni, the indigenous peoples who live there, say that this is the most biodiverse part of the Amazon. It's under threat by massive oil development. This region, the tropical Andes region of the Amazon, is mega-biodiverse. We need our governments and true leaders to really take the action that's needed, right now, which is to make commitments to really take us off fossil fuels.Lisa Kiefer: [00:05:05] So what does the COP 25 conference hold people to?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:05:08] All of the governments, 196 countries have made commitments to reduce emissions. I mean, that's really the language spoken at COP, to reduce emissions, to deal with mitigation, adaptation. Governments have made commitments to reduce emissions. The big elephant in the room is what about stopping extraction? What about a phase out, a full phase out of fossil fuel extraction and a complete commitment to a transition to renewable energies, to renewable energy economies, green jobs? Like what we're talking about in the Green New Deal. The Green New Deal is a recipe for what, not just the United States, but world governments can be doing around the world to do what's really, really needed. Because if we only focus on reducing emissions, we are not going to get below 1.5 degrees. 1.5 degrees is really what we need to aim for. We've already surpassed 350 parts per million. We're on a track to go way beyond 2 degrees and way beyond 2 degrees is is what we're seeing. We're seeing the signs of it now. We're seeing Australia. We're seeing California. I mean, right here in our own backyard for three years, for three summers and falls, we have felt the effects of climate change and climate chaos. We have had massive wildfires, massive forest fires. And not just in the forest. Right? They've all also affected communities, you know, from Santa Rosa to Paradise. We're not just seeing fires, you know, in forests in California. We're seeing fires in the Arctic. We're seeing fires in the Amazon. We're seeing fires in Australia right now. It's not 10 years away. It's not 20 years away. It's now.Lisa Kiefer: [00:06:59] I'm curious if Black Rock was at the COP 25 conference. Do they show up?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:07:05] Representatives of Black Rock. Representatives of Exxon. Representatives of agribusiness or the fossil fuel and agribusiness industries? The financiers. I mean, they're definitely there.Lisa Kiefer: [00:07:17] And do you feel that you had success this time or is it just sort of a stalemate?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:07:21] I think COP 25 was a major failure for the state of the planet right now. Major failure for global governments, considering the urgency of what we're facing.Lisa Kiefer: [00:07:32] We have so many distractions right now, the assassination of Soleimani, the impeachment proceedings, those are attention grabbers. With those challenges of distraction, what is your strategy at Amazon Watch for 2020 to keep you in the news cycle?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:07:48] At the end of August 2019, the world woke up to what was really happening in the Amazon. It's what we've been seeing for decades, which is, the Amazon is under major, major threat by governments, including, you know, the Bolsonaro government in Brazil, by corporations, primarily agri-business in Brazil, and the fossil fuel and mining industries in the western Amazon and also by the banks that invest in these destructive projects and destructive practices. You know, warning after warning, report after report, protest after protest, we were doing everything that we could to sound the alarm. And it wasn't until the news story broke that the Amazon is on fire. And the visuals people saw the rainforest on fire, that people started to say, what is happening? You know, not only the Amazon is on fire, we should stop the fires, but why? Why is Amazon on fire? The Amazon is not on fire because it was an accidental wildfire. The Amazon was set on fire. The Amazon was set on fire by intentional government policies to set the fires, to clear land, to make way for agri-business. And that's why over 3 million hectares of forest burned in Brazil and over five million burned in Bolivia. And while people will say there's always fires, yeah, there's always a dry season and a wet season in the Amazon. But the fires are not like this. And the reason they're not like this is because, one, there is a drought-- for many years. And two, there was an intentional, deliberate, malicious intent behind this.Lisa Kiefer: [00:09:31] If you're just tuning in, you're listening to Method to the Madness, a bi-weekly public affairs show on K-A-L-X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area innovators. Today, I'm speaking with Leila Salazar Lopez, the executive director of Amazon Watch, an organization that protects and defends the bio cultural and climate integrity of the Amazon rainforest.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:10:00] There's always been fires in in Australia during the dry season and they're wildfires. They're not intentionally set. But why have millions of hectares of Australia burned and are burning at the same time? Because there has been a massive drought caused by climate change. Basically what I'm saying is making the connection between the Amazon and Australia's drought caused by climate change and there's governments behind policies that are ignoring the reality of what's happening.Lisa Kiefer: [00:10:28] Bolsonaro's argument is to the world that 'this is my country. Don't tell me how to run my country.'Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:10:35] Well, he prides himself on calling himself the Trump of the tropics. Bolsonaro is a far right president who was elected last year in Brazil. You know, we're talking about a fascist, a leader, and, you know, I hesitate to say that because I think, you know, a leader should be thinking about all of their people they're representing. People like Bolsonaro were elected on a platform of stability and security. The prior government was deemed corrupt, inefficient. And so what the government ran on was, you know, we need security. We need jobs and we need to better our economy. And under the Lula administration, under the prior socialist, the Worker's Party platform, the government of Brazil was on top. The National Development Bank had money and they were, you know, constructing and building and had plans to have zero poverty, zero hunger, zero deforestation. They had a soy moratorium. They had lots of policies in place. But they also, because there were the Workers Party, they also were promoting jobs that were mostly engineering construction jobs like huge industrial construction, including the Belo Monte Dam, which is the third largest mega dam in the world. And it was built in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. So, you know, while we had many, many concerns, environmental and human rights concerns, with the prior government. They are nothing in comparison to what's happening with this government. The Bolonaro government is in an all out attack on civil society, is an all out attack on indigenous people, on human rights, on women, on Afro-Brazilians across the country, the environment. And we've seen it since day one in office. A year ago when Bolsonaro was elected, he immediately merged ministries, the agriculture, the environment ministry. He defunded the FUNAI, which is like the Bureau of Indian Affairs, de-funded IBAMA, which is the Environmental Agency, like the Environmental Protection Agency. How is IBAMA and FUNAI going to do their work in protecting the rainforest and defending indigenous people's rights if they don't have any funding? And it was intentional, if you defund them yet there's no forest guards, there's no there's no monitoring. I mean, Brazil is the most dangerous place to be an indigenous or human rights activist. And that was even before Bolsanaro. But now it's even worse. On a weekly basis, we're getting reports of indigenous people primarily being assassinated, not only threatened, but assassinated on their lands for protecting their lands, for protecting forests from cattle ranchers, from people paid by agri-business, people paid by corporations, to take their land and land grabbers.Lisa Kiefer: [00:13:29] So what do you, as an organisation, what are you going to do about this?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:13:32] So Amazon Watch has been working since 1996, protecting the rainforest, defending human rights, indigenous rights. And our mission isn't going to change. Our strategies are really to hone in on the major threats and who's causing those threats. So, for example, we are naming and shaming the governments, companies and banks that are responsible. We actually released a report last April with ipb, which is the articulation of indigenous peoples of Brazil, because remember, Brazil has the world's largest rainforest, tropical rainforests, the world's largest tropical savanna and the world's largest wetlands, the Amazon, the Sahado and the Pantanal. It is a massive, interconnected ecosystem protected by indigenous peoples and very threatened by industry and government. And so we are organizing campaigns, organizing actions, coordinating with our NGO allies, with indigenous allies, with human rights organizations around the world to act for the Amazon. And immediately after the news of the fires broke at the end of September, we called upon allies around the world and said, let's all work together. Let's all work together. This is the time to work together.Lisa Kiefer: [00:14:48] And who are those allies?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:14:50] Extinction rebellion, Greenpeace, Avaaz, Rainforest Action Network, and here locally in the Bay Area, Brazil Solidarity Network. Every month, there's an action at the Brazilian consulate since Bolsonaro was elected, there's been actions to respond to the attacks on the rainforest, attacks on indigenous people, attacks on Afro-Brazilians. Attacks on women. And so if we continue to coordinate actions at the Brazilian consulate, the government, we continue to organize actions at BlackRock, which we have done many times over the last year. And we also engage with the governments and these corporations when possible. We're writing them letters. We're going to their headquarters. During the U.N. Climate Week in September with a delegation of, you know, over 50 people, we went into BlackRock's corporate headquarters in New York and delivered over 500000 thousand letters from around the world to say BlackRock stop investing in the destruction of the Amazon, the destruction of our climate. BlackRock is an asset manager that is the biggest investor in climate destruction around the world. They invest in oil and gas. They invest in mining. They invest in agro business. And so there's a network called "BlackRock's big problem" that we're a part of, that is organizing, you know, writing reports and writing letters to BlackRock and engaging with BlackRock, going to their shareholder meetings. Before two years ago, no one had ever been to a BlackRock Shareholder meeting. It was just 30 people sitting around a table in suits. And over the last two years, they've had to face criticism. They've had to face indigenous peoples in their boardrooms. They've had to face, you know, NGOs and questioning.Lisa Kiefer: [00:16:36] Has this resulted in any changes?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:16:38] Not yet, to be totally honest. You know, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock every January, puts out a letter to clients saying how they're committed to the environment, how they're committed to equality. You know, we're going to continue to call him out on that and hold him to those words, because if you're saying you're committed to the environment and climate change, we don't want minimum action, as Greta Thunberg so eloquently says. You know, we have to act as if our house is on fire because it is. We are responding to the needs and requests of our partners, primarily in the Amazon.Lisa Kiefer: [00:17:18] So how often do you go down there?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:17:20] I go a couple times a year to to meet with our partners and actually be in the forest and get inspiration for, you know, why we're doing this work. And we also lead delegations down to the Amazon. We have field coordinators in the Amazon, in Ecuador and Peru and Brazil. And we're a pretty small organization. And our strength really lies in the partnerships, the long term partnerships that we have with the indigenous communities, organizations, national organization, national indigenous organizations and regional organizations, and as well as our NGO allies throughout the Amazon. So those long term partnerships are what help us define like what we need to do this year. You know, respond to the fires, respond to new oil development projects, respond to China in the Amazon, and then from there develop strategies. Also work with local movements such as the Sunrise Movement that is really led by the youth. The youth right now are really showing the leadership.Lisa Kiefer: [00:18:22] Who do you think of all the candidates is the most, would be the most reliable partner in terms of climate mitigation and adaptation?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:18:31] Amazon Watch doesn't officially endorse, but personally, there's only two candidates that even come close. And that's Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.Lisa Kiefer: [00:18:40] Well, they're the only ones who even talk about the Green New Deal.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:18:43] Yeah. Think about how much energy and resources governments put into war. We invest a lot of our tax money in, you know, it's all in. But when it's time to think about the future of our children, grandchildren, seven generations and all life on this planet, what we need is a war effort to turn, not only turn emissions around, but turn extraction around and a complete commitment by government and civil society and the private sector and companies. If we have any kind of future left on this planet, we need to really turn around the way that we're living our daily lives. And, you know, that may be scary for people to hear. But when I say we need to, we need to change our economy, we need to change our daily way of life. It's not inconceivable to think that civil society can mobilize a new economy, a new way of life, new policies that could protect us and and our future. Nationalism and the rise of nationalism is the opposite of what we need to be doing. You know, we need to be looking at planet Earth like a system. We're all on this earth together. We have no other, even though there's some people who want to build, you know, space stations and think they can get away from our problems. The majority of the people can't. We are the Majority. We're way more than them. We can demand and make the changes that we need.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:20:04] I'm curious how you got involved in the Amazon. Was there a moment where you were inspired to do that?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:20:10] Well, I grew up in Southern California, near the border. My family's from Mexico. I grew up pretty traditional Mexican family. We grew up near the beach. And one summer there was a medical waste spill on our beach. We couldn't go on the beach for a while. And that was my kind of wakeup call to environmental awareness. You know, because the beach was like, oh, you know, it's where we go to to play, to rest, enjoy. And it's free and it should be open and accessible to everyone. And when it wasn't, that was my wake-up call. And then from there, you know, we we started up an environmental group on our high school campus and, you know, started doing beach cleanups. And that was kind of the beginning of activism. We started our environmental group and we started or organizing our own Earth Day festivals and Earth Day events. One of the guest speakers I will always remember because he gave a slideshow about the rainforest and it was so beautiful. And I'd never seen anything like that. And I just thought one day I want to go there. Fast forward a couple years. I'm at UC Santa Barbara and student advisor says, you know, you're going to need to do an internship in your second year. And, you know, you could volunteer at a local environmental organization or a local government representatives office. And I said, well, I wanna go to the rainforest. I said, okay, that's pretty far and pretty expensive. And I said, well, I'll take out a student loan. And I did that. And that changed my life. That changed the path and the direction of my life. Because, one, I'd never been to South America. I'd never seen the rainforest. I'd never seen the beauty and also the destruction and the threats. The summer of 1995 was when I connected with the forest and realized that it was indigenous peoples who were protecting it and that they were a library of knowledge that could not be replicated in any way. You know, just walking in the forest with someone who has lived there all their life and has a spiritual connection to the forest. I mean, you could walk 30 meters and they will know every single plant that you walk by and know what its properties are. Know what it's used for and whether it's used to build a house, or to cook with, or to use as medicine, or to build a canoe. They know how to use everything and they do it with respect. And that, just that, was like a huge lesson in what is really needed to protect the forest. On my way out of the forest, I saw an oil spill. The trans Ecuadorian pipeline had ruptured and crude oil from the north east Ecuadorian Amazon was just spilling into the river, into the main water source of the city of Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. It was my, you know, my second kind of wake-up call to how could this be happening? Who did this? Why is this happening? Who allowed this? Why aren't they shutting it off? Why isn't it stopping? That really enraged me. And I found out that it was Texaco who had set up the infrastructure, who had basically found oil in the Amazon, set up the entire infrastructure, convinced the government in the 1960s to allow them to set up the infrastructure and drill and dump. And there were no environmental or human rights or indigenous rights laws in the country or even in the world. At that time, there weren't conventions on, there was a declaration on human rights, but there wasn't the declaration on indigenous rights. But still, during this time, Texaco drilled and dumped on the indigenous territories of five indigenous nationalities. And also where uncontacted peoples are and created what we called a rainforest Chernobyl. And still to this day, even though Chevron, which Texaco is now Chevron here in the bay, even though Chevron was found guilty in 2012, they still have not paid a dime, and probably have paid more in legal fees in the last 25 years to fight this than to resolve it. They've never denied that they did it, that they drilled and dumped. They don't wanna set a precedent that if you do this, you'll be held accountable. When I got back from the Amazon the first time, I said, I'm going to dedicate my life to doing everything I can to prevent this from happening again. And I will do everything I can to hold this company accountable. And so in 2002, when I first started working for Amazon Watch, we launched a campaign called the Chevron Cleanup Ecuador Campaign. And so we've been doing a lot of.Lisa Kiefer: [00:24:34] That was very successful.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:24:34] The Chevron lawsuit was a major, major victory when we heard news of of the judgment. It was one of the proudest moments of...Lisa Kiefer: [00:24:46] We can do this.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:24:47] We can do this. Like this is one of the biggest just a very typical David Goliath story. Right. We're going up against one of the biggest corporations on the planet. We beat them. Also another Oil victory was Occidental Petroleum. Occidental Petroleum did very similar to what Chevron, Texaco, now Chevron did in the Peruvian Amazon. And after seven years of attending their shareholder meetings, also filing a lawsuit against them with the Otwar people of Peru. We we actually settled a lawsuit with Occidental Petroleum and they agreed to pay a settlement to the Otwar people for the contamination that they had caused in the Peruvian Amazon and also with Oxy, one of the first and most proudest victories of Amazon Watch, is working with the Ottawa and a whole network that wide defense coalition around the world to get Occidental Petroleum out of what territory in Colombia. Many of our victories, the last one I'll mention is in Brazil. Actually, it's the Tapajos dam and we were not able to stop the Belo Monte mega dam construction. The following dam proposal was Tapajos mega dam on one last free flowing blackwater rivers in the Amazon, in Brazil. And just a few years ago, the Brazilian government announced that they were not going to build it. They were actually going to change their dam building policy and begin to invest in renewable energy. That's now all changed with Bolsanaro.Lisa Kiefer: [00:26:18] Are the dams back on the table?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:26:20] Everything's back on the table. I mean, their policy is the Amazon is open for business. And I think that's shameful. It's completely shameful.Lisa Kiefer: [00:26:28] What are some of your immediate plans as an organization?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:26:32] Funny that you mentioned it. Amazon Watch has been a pretty small organization for the last 23 years. I mean, we've been around 10 people plus field consultants plus, you know, working with our partners across the Amazon. One result of the attention on the Amazon is that there's been a lot more interest in supporting organizations like ours. And so we are growing. There is a lot more attention on organizations such as Amazon Watch and a lot more offers for financial support and a lot more offers for volunteers and people who across the world who want to volunteer, who want to help. And so right now, we're at a moment, we're actually at a moment of strategic planning to really envision what we want the next five to 10 years, the focus of our next five to 10 years, to be. Our mission is to protect the rainforest, defend indigenous rights and advance climate justice. We're going to continue to focus on those strategic areas with campaigns, but we have to do it with more urgency because the Amazon is at a tipping point. Scientists say that the Amazon will reach its tipping point when the deforestation and degradation is over 20 percent. It's about 17 to 18 percent now. And so what we need for the Amazon is a full scale commitment to protect, defend and restore it. Protect means protecting what's left. Anything that's still left standing, whether it be indigenous peoples territories, whether it be protected areas, national parks, private lands, anything that's still left standing needs to be protected and defended. And promote solutions of indigenous peoples, promote on the ground solutions for restoration, for alternative energy. We need to invest and increase the use of solar energy, the use of renewable energy.Lisa Kiefer: [00:28:19] And show some solutions.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:28:21] And show those solutions. And so we are working on promoting indigenous led solutions, promoting protection and defense of indigenous territories with our people in Peru. We're fighting Geo Park to get them off territory this year and in years to come. Our focus really is going to be on protecting and advancing the sacred headwaters and beyond. Who is complicit in the destruction of the Amazon? Let's call them out. Let's engage with them. Let's pressure them. We're also getting ready for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the establishment of the environmental movement around the world. I'm a UC Santa Barbara alumni. It's where the first environmental studies department was in the whole world. And why was that? Because there was a giant oil spill in 1969 in Santa Barbara. And what that sparked was a movement, that sparked environmental studies department at UC Santa Barbara. It sparked environmental laws across this country. It sparked Earth Day. When we reflect on 50 years ago and everything that's happened, we've made progress and we've also majorly rolled back progress with the Trump administration. Here in the United States, we need to defend all of the achievements over the last 50 years. We need to defend our laws. We need to defend our rights and our democracy. And that's very similar to what Brazilians are saying. We're at a turning point, a very important election that, you know, could really turn things around. We have to do everything we possibly can.Lisa Kiefer: [00:29:55] If you could just tell people how they might get a hold of you?Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:29:57] Amazonwatch.org. Follow us on social media for all the latest reports and news and updates and opportunities to get involved. We're located in Oakland. You can call us up, visit us. We would really encourage youth and students and anyone who wants to get involved to make the connections between California and the Amazon. The oil and the Amazon, while it comes from the Amazon, the majority that's exported comes right here to California. We are very connected to the Amazon. It's it's it's real. Learn more. Go to our Web site. We have to do this together.Lisa Kiefer: [00:30:36] Thank you, Leila, for coming on the program.Leila Salazar-Lopez: [00:30:38] You're welcome. Thank you.Lisa Kiefer: [00:30:41] You've been listening to Method to the Madness, a bi weekly public affairs show on K-A-L-X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area innovators. We'll be back again in two weeks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Anirudh Kanisetti and Utkarsh Narain join Aditya Ramanathan to discuss the most interesting stories of the week: China and the US are undergoing a divorce in hi-tech industries, Brazil's Bolsanaro might have some upsides, and Australia is experiencing wildfires that could accelerate climate change. You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app. You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, attended Sao Paolo's 1-1 draw at Santos on Saturday inciting a mixture of boos and applause from the crowd. This upcoming weekend he plans to go to the Copa Libertadores final between Brazilian side Flamengo and Argentinian side River Plate.   Since he was elected last year he's been the centre of attention at numerous Brazilian football matches around the country. Today we ask Joshua Law (@JoshuaMLaw), how is Bolsonaro using football for his political advantage and we profile a club battling his views.   Follow us on Twitter: @FT_podcast_   www.FootballTodayPodcast.com

Guest:  Leslie Eastman, contributor to Legal Insurrection....We will look at several stroies:   The completed G7 meetings, Bolsanaro and the fires in Brazil.....the latest from ,Hurricane Dorian, Hong Kong, and #Brexit........and other stories...... Please check our blog or follow me on Twitter...... Check Carlos Guedes' schedule this week in Dallas.......  

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast Mayor Fred Eisenberger met with the LGBTQ advisory committee, and says that the city will be looking at setting up a ‘positive space' for LGBTQ people. Bill finds out what happened, and what needs to happen next. Guest: Cameron Kroetsch, chair of the LGBTQ Advisory Committee - Ontario is taking up the fight against the carbon tax again, filing for a Supreme Court Challenge against it. How is this going to play out? Guest: Richard Brennan, retired journalist with the Toronto Star. Covered Queen's Park and Parliament Hill. - An op-ed in the Globe and Mail opines that the ‘leaders' we thought we elected have turned out to be ‘man children'. This comes as Macron and Bolsanaro allegedly insulted each other. Does this misrepresent our leaders of the past and the present? Guest: Peter Graefe. Professor of Political Science, McMaster University

Dat komt in de eerste plaats door de achterhaalde opzet. De G7 Amerika, Canada, Japan, Duitsland, Groot-Brittannië, Frankrijk en Italië noemen zich de grootste economieën ter wereld. Dat is flauwekul. Italië staat op 8, Canada op 10. China staat op 2 en India op 6, maar die mogen niet meedoen. Als het belangrijkste thema, de Amerikaans-Chinese handelsoorlog, terecht wél op de agenda staat, maar Amerika wil er niet over praten en China zit niet eens aan tafel, dan weet je als deelnemer dat je hooguit hete lucht verplaatst. De G7 ontstond na 1973, toen de wereld in een recessie was geraakt door de oliecrisis. De praatclub bestond bij de gratie van Amerika, dat de rol vervulde van belangrijkste en grootste land, en daarmee de leider. Donald Trump heeft, om Bloomberg te citeren, een chaos gemaakt van zijn wijze van regeren en de internationale Amerikaanse leiderschapsrol afgezworen. Uit elk woord en elk gebaar blijkt zijn cynisme over de wereld, en zijn minachting voor Europa. Daarmee valt in feite ook de nummer 1 bij de G7 af. Het waren vooral Frankrijk, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Duitsland die de toon zetten, en dat zijn, in het grote geheel, feitelijk dwergen. Resultaat? Niets. Noodhulp voor Brazilië voor de bestrijding van de bosbranden in de Amazone, waartegen Bolsanaro zijn middelvinger opstak. Een stuntbezoek van de Iraanse minister van buitenlandse zaken Zariv in een poging de relatie met Amerika de verbeteren, wat hooguit een ontmoeting oplevert, bijvoorbeeld volgende maand, tijdens de Algemene Vergadering van de VN, maar niet meer dan dat. Jemen? Syrië? Myanmar? Dreigende recessie? Noord-Korea? Geen woord. Het was opnieuw Trump die in de schijnwerpers stond, door er in feite niet echt te zijn. En natuurlijk nog een relletje aan het slot. Hij nodigde de leiders uit om volgend jaar naar resorthotel Doral in Miami te komen. Toplocatie, zei hij. Klein detail: het hotel is van Trump en staat er financieel beroerd voor. Daar een G7 houden is waarschijnlijk ongrondwettelijk en in elk geval immoreel. Maar een kniesoor die daarop let. Helemaal geen G7 meer dat is de oplossing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maria Beraldo has the word “Trouble” emblazoned in bold black letters on her bright red leggings. For this Brazilian lesbian singer-songwriter, speaking openly about political issues is just part of who she is.Beraldo's first solo album, “Cavala,” is a feminist anthem that presents a strong counter-balance to Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, notorious for his anti-woman and homophobic remarks. For Brazilian lesbian singer-songwriter Maria Beraldo, speaking openly about political issues is just part of who she is. Credit: Sonia Narang/The World Beraldo is gaining fans with her provocative, opinionated lyrics, and has found a niche audience in Brazil, especially among young women and girls and many in the LGBTQ community.“We have something like a dictator,” Beraldo says. “Our government is being closed. One of the most powerful technologies of oppression is to silence a lot of stories. In Brazil, we have a lot of artists and people and everybody thinking and talking about freedom and putting [themselves] out.”While Brazil has relatively strong legal protections for LGBTQ people, anti-gay violence runs high. And Beraldo fears it's getting worse under Brazil's recently-elected leader.Related: Activist Marielle Franco's followers seek justice for her murder“We are actually in a moment now that is really complicated,” Beraldo says. “It's really hard in Brazil now, [homophobia] is growing.”In the poignant, direct lyrics of her song “Maria,” Beraldo creates a world revolving around women, telling her story through the lives of her mother and grandmother.Beraldo says men have long been telling stories through their own perspective, leaving women out. “A lot of histories are being silenced,” she says. “My album is telling my history, and I think it is really powerful for a lesbian woman to say her history.”São Paulo-based sociologist and music researcher, Pérola Mathias, says this music can have an impact on Brazilian society.“Traditionally, we don't have so many singers that [sing] as a lesbian, putting this kind of voice in the lyrics ... Maria Beraldo is doing this."Pérola Mathias, sociologist and music researcher“Traditionally, we don't have so many singers that [sing] as a lesbian, putting this kind of voice in the lyrics,” Mathias says. “Maria Beraldo is doing this. When she passes this kind of message, it's [a] kind of resistance forming in the public, in an artistic way, in an aesthetic way, and in a political way.”Beraldo started as a classically-trained clarinetist, then went on to study music at the prestigious University of Campinas — São Paulo, where she became immersed in the city's music scene. Now 31, Beraldo says she's been playing music for as long as she can remember.“I actually started in my mother's body, because she's a musician,” Beraldo says. “My parents are musicians, so I always had this at home. My mother opened a music school when I was 6 years old so I started to study there, and I had this privilege of having a music school as my house.”Related: Will Brazil's women writers lose progress under Bolsanaro?Beraldo's album is titled “Cavala,” which is also the name of the first single she recorded on her album. The word “cavalo” is masculine and means horse in Portuguese. But the word “cavala” can be used as an offensive term for women who are attractive by common societal standards, but considered robust or too strong, like a man.In her song “Cavala,” Beraldo reclaims the word.“I think that word [cavala] has the strength of the animal and the strength that was taken from us.”Maria Beraldo, Brazilian musician“I think that word has the strength of the animal and the strength that was taken from us,” Beraldo says. “Like, men are strong, men are brave, men are like the horse. And, actually, we are that. We are supporting everything. Women had that strength much more than them ... So, it was a word that started to come out in my life because of this music.”Pérola Mathias, the Brazilian sociologist and music expert, says Beraldo's music sends a message to girls and young women, especially in an era when they're growing up “hearing the most important power of the country saying women [are] not good to [be in certain roles.]”“Maria Beraldo can be an example of a free woman for them, and I think it's important in this conservative moment."Pérola Mathias, sociologist and music expert“Maria Beraldo can be an example of a free woman for them, and I think it's important in this conservative moment,” Mathias says. “This music can say to them, “You can do whatever you want being a woman.'”Related: Brazil's first transgender Afro Brazilian lawmaker Record label executive Gui Jesus Toledo, who runs RISCO, the label that signed Beraldo, says Beraldo's songs are reaching young people across Brazil.“Maria receives many messages from young girls, mainly from Instagram, saying ‘Maria, thank you very much, you made me realize how I can be a lesbian girl in this male chauvinist era and society,'” Toledo says. “So, I think it's really, really important."Beraldo's live concerts attract thousands of people across Brazil, and she spreads her message through social media as well. Her Instagram following has grown to more than 16,000 people.“I think that a lot of women and a lot of lesbian women listen to my history and identity, and that gives a lot of strength [to] those people,” Beraldo says. “The way that we can start to change things is to let each person tell her history.”

Maria Beraldo has the word “Trouble” emblazoned in bold black letters on her bright red leggings. For this Brazilian lesbian singer-songwriter, speaking openly about political issues is just part of who she is.Beraldo’s first solo album, “Cavala,” is a feminist anthem that presents a strong counter-balance to Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, notorious for his anti-woman and homophobic remarks. For Brazilian lesbian singer-songwriter Maria Beraldo, speaking openly about political issues is just part of who she is. Credit: Sonia Narang/The World Beraldo is gaining fans with her provocative, opinionated lyrics, and has found a niche audience in Brazil, especially among young women and girls and many in the LGBTQ community.“We have something like a dictator,” Beraldo says. “Our government is being closed. One of the most powerful technologies of oppression is to silence a lot of stories. In Brazil, we have a lot of artists and people and everybody thinking and talking about freedom and putting [themselves] out.”While Brazil has relatively strong legal protections for LGBTQ people, anti-gay violence runs high. And Beraldo fears it’s getting worse under Brazil’s recently-elected leader.Related: Activist Marielle Franco's followers seek justice for her murder“We are actually in a moment now that is really complicated,” Beraldo says. “It’s really hard in Brazil now, [homophobia] is growing.”In the poignant, direct lyrics of her song “Maria,” Beraldo creates a world revolving around women, telling her story through the lives of her mother and grandmother.Beraldo says men have long been telling stories through their own perspective, leaving women out. “A lot of histories are being silenced,” she says. “My album is telling my history, and I think it is really powerful for a lesbian woman to say her history.”São Paulo-based sociologist and music researcher, Pérola Mathias, says this music can have an impact on Brazilian society.“Traditionally, we don’t have so many singers that [sing] as a lesbian, putting this kind of voice in the lyrics ... Maria Beraldo is doing this."Pérola Mathias, sociologist and music researcher“Traditionally, we don’t have so many singers that [sing] as a lesbian, putting this kind of voice in the lyrics,” Mathias says. “Maria Beraldo is doing this. When she passes this kind of message, it’s [a] kind of resistance forming in the public, in an artistic way, in an aesthetic way, and in a political way.”Beraldo started as a classically-trained clarinetist, then went on to study music at the prestigious University of Campinas — São Paulo, where she became immersed in the city’s music scene. Now 31, Beraldo says she’s been playing music for as long as she can remember.“I actually started in my mother’s body, because she’s a musician,” Beraldo says. “My parents are musicians, so I always had this at home. My mother opened a music school when I was 6 years old so I started to study there, and I had this privilege of having a music school as my house.”Related: Will Brazil's women writers lose progress under Bolsanaro?Beraldo’s album is titled “Cavala,” which is also the name of the first single she recorded on her album. The word “cavalo” is masculine and means horse in Portuguese. But the word “cavala” can be used as an offensive term for women who are attractive by common societal standards, but considered robust or too strong, like a man.In her song “Cavala,” Beraldo reclaims the word.“I think that word [cavala] has the strength of the animal and the strength that was taken from us.”Maria Beraldo, Brazilian musician“I think that word has the strength of the animal and the strength that was taken from us,” Beraldo says. “Like, men are strong, men are brave, men are like the horse. And, actually, we are that. We are supporting everything. Women had that strength much more than them ... So, it was a word that started to come out in my life because of this music.”Pérola Mathias, the Brazilian sociologist and music expert, says Beraldo’s music sends a message to girls and young women, especially in an era when they’re growing up “hearing the most important power of the country saying women [are] not good to [be in certain roles.]”“Maria Beraldo can be an example of a free woman for them, and I think it’s important in this conservative moment."Pérola Mathias, sociologist and music expert“Maria Beraldo can be an example of a free woman for them, and I think it’s important in this conservative moment,” Mathias says. “This music can say to them, “You can do whatever you want being a woman.’”Related: Brazil's first transgender Afro Brazilian lawmaker Record label executive Gui Jesus Toledo, who runs RISCO, the label that signed Beraldo, says Beraldo's songs are reaching young people across Brazil.“Maria receives many messages from young girls, mainly from Instagram, saying ‘Maria, thank you very much, you made me realize how I can be a lesbian girl in this male chauvinist era and society,’” Toledo says. “So, I think it’s really, really important."Beraldo’s live concerts attract thousands of people across Brazil, and she spreads her message through social media as well. Her Instagram following has grown to more than 16,000 people.“I think that a lot of women and a lot of lesbian women listen to my history and identity, and that gives a lot of strength [to] those people,” Beraldo says. “The way that we can start to change things is to let each person tell her history.”

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Yale University philosopher Jason Stanley, author of the edifying and essential Random House volume “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” Stanley told Dana Milbank of the Washington Post that the Trump rendition of these tactics “uses emotion to circumvent reason, to overwhelm reason, wanting us to get the situation in which there's such fear and suspicion that the only happiness is winning over his enemies.” These are Jason Stanley's words and he added in an interview with Vox, “I think of fascism as a method of politics. It's rhetoric, a way of running for power. Of course that's connected to fascist ideology because fascist ideology centers on power. But I really see fascism as a technique to gain power.” At this year's philosophy conference for high school and undergraduate students at Stony Brook University I was so pleased to interview Jason and eager to continue that exchange.

#43.  The article that inspired this episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/world/americas/brazil-cuba-doctors-jair-bolsonaro.html We present to you a story of international politics, of medical care gone awry, of presidents and paupers, of Cuban doctors in Brazilian courts.  We attempt to dissect how a complicated political spat has led to Brazil's doctor shortage, rising infant mortality rates, and general lack of health care.

This bi-week - Caster Semenya! US Supreme Court dissected! Brazil needs help! Trans woman sues The Times! - 16 beautiful songs by 16 amazing trans music creators! - Joined in the bedroom by Husk! All links and references are here: https://whatthetranspod.tumblr.com/post/184735819785/episode-21-notes-and-references Like our podcast? You will LOVE our social media! twitter.com/whatthetrans facebook.com/whatthetrans whatthetranspod.tumblr.com Please donate to our GoFundMe! GoFundMe.com/WhatTheTrans

As Theresa May bows to the inevitable and asks for a short delay to Brexit, we ask what it’ll mean when a merciful EU insists on rather a longer one. Do the hard Brexit headbangers have what it takes to bring her down or are the ERG now fatally split? Were the Lab-Con talks just about optics? What is “perfidious Albion” anyway? And when a Hansard survey says a great many Britons would be happy with a “strongman who breaks the rules”, do we really have to worry about Britain falling into the hands of our own Orbán, Bolsanaro or Trump? Our special guest this week is barrister and writer JAMIE SUSSKIND, author of the fascinating exploration of the digitally-dominated society we’ll all be living in. Listen and find out why, in the age of Big Data and AI, Brexit is the last thing you need to worry about. Hey, you didn’t come to this show to be cheered up now, did you? Presented by Ros Taylor with Nina Schick and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Audio production is by Sophie Black. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get every new episode of Remainiacs a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform . You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoanSupport us at our Patreon page – http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscasthttp://www.REMAINIACS.comGet your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. https://www.ampleplay.co.uk/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Episode 46, we talk with striking UIC grad worker Josh Bergeron. On our regular Free Detroit segment with Tharron Combs we discuss the case of Marc Peeples who was targeted by racists for gardening while Black. ** Editorial: Christchurch massacre and the global threat of white supremacy ** News & Views: Golan, Bolsanaro, U.S. protests and actions in solidarity with Bolivarian revolution ** Working Class History: Remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Listen, share and support! Support UIC GEO! https://twitter.com/uicgeo https://www.facebook.com/uicgeo/ Donate to and Follow CTS! www.patreon.com/CrashingtheSystem www.gofundme.com/crashing-the-system-podcast twitter.com/CrashingDSystem www.facebook.com/CrashingtheSystem/

This Week on The Earth Wants YOU! We are joined by Brazilian Activists and Anthropologists; Rafaella, Marcelo and Black 7 to talk about the Bolsanaro governments aims to open the Amazon up to mining and agribusiness which will have terrible effects on the planet. We talk about the Animals which have been extinct over 2018, we hear the News from the Natural World, Activist News: Drums of the Revolution and Reverend Billy gives his Sermon.

Store deler av verden har fått kollektiv bekymringsrynke i panna etter valget i Brasil. Den nyvalgte presidenten, Bolsanaro, har kommet med illevarslende meldinger om at han vil endre politikken i landet, som gjør at vernet av Amazonasregnskogen, verdens grønne lunge, igjen skal svekkes. Miljøvernminster Olav Elvestuen, Lars Løvold fra Regnskogfondet og Leonardo Doria. Programleder Ragna Nordenborg

This week, Kumars is joined by Wendi Muse for a primer on Brazilian politics and the lessons from the recent election of fascist president Jair Bolsonaro. Wendi is the host of the Left POCket Project podcast and a PhD Candidate in History at New York University whose dissertation analyzes Portuguese Africa’s impact on the Brazilian left through intellectual and political exchange during the Cold War. Wendi begins by providing necessary historical context, discussing how Brazil remains indelibly shaped by slavery and the military dictatorship that purged leftists and workers’ institutions and kept poor people, most prominently the sizeable Afro-Brazilian population, in fear and misery. Wendi and Kumars discuss how the wealthy and middle class in Brazil chose the unfettered economic and racial domination of Bolsanaro over the tangible but moderate reforms of imprisoned former President Lula and his successors, including the Workers’ Party (PT) candidate Fernando Haddad. Wendi explains how the Brazilian right’s co-optation of protests over increased bus fares led to the impeachment, on trumped-up corruption charges, of PT President Dilma Rousseff, and outlines the US role in legitimizing this 2016 coup. After discussing what Bolsonaro’s open bigotry and nostalgia for the dictatorship represents in Brazilian politics, how he differs from Trump, and why he should be considered a fascist, Wendi shares her thoughts on the outlook for social movements and the Workers’ Party in Brazil, and how concerned people in the US can show solidarity. Follow Wendi on Twitter @MuseWendi and keep up with the Left POCket Project at @LeftPOC. A transcript for this episode will be provided upon request. Please send an email to deleteuracct @ gmail to get a copy sent to you when it is completed. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon page for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!!

Suzi talks to political economist Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos about the October 28 election that brought the ultra-right wing Jair Bolsonaro to power. Bolsonaro promised to cleanse Brazil of crime and corruption by killing tens of thousands — and won formidable support from the poor who have been left behind by the neoliberal policies of successive governments, and whose neighborhoods are riddled with violence and crime. They turned away from the Workers Party (PT), tainted by its austerity policies and corruption, like the other political parties. But what can the working class and the poor actually expect from Bolsonaro, who represents a violent extreme of authoritarian neoliberalism, on the rise across the world? We get Pedro Paulo's analysis of the vote, Bolsonaro’s political-economic strategy, and what Bolsonaro’s victory means for Brazilian democracy and Latin America as a whole.