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Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened down 45-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 21,492 on turnover of $2.9-billion N-T. Taiwan-China interactions continue despite stalled talks: MAC head Mainland Affairs Council head Chiu Chui-cheng says Taiwan and China still maintain some level of interaction, even though official dialogue has stalled. In an interview,Chiu said interactions with China are being carried out in line with the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area. Chiu acknowledged that maintaining "normal dialogue" is currently difficult because Taiwan will never accept China's demand to treat the "1992 Consensus," based on the "One China principle," as a precondition (前提). Nevertheless, Chiu said some interaction continues between the MAC and China's Taiwan Affairs Office, as well as between the semi-official SEF and its Chinese counterpart, the Beijing-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits. Chiu also says individuals across the Strait, including Taiwanese businesspeople, scholars and journalists, frequently travel between the two sides and share information. World Masters Games' closing ceremony The closing ceremony of the 2025 World Masters Games will take place on the evening of May 30 at the New Taipei City Art Museum, featuring a star-studded lineup and spectacular visuals. New Taipei officials said the ceremony will begin at 7:00 p.m. and blend music, light, and live performances. To complement (為…增色) the artistic setting, the outdoor area will feature four major art installations highlighting the magic of light. And a 4.5-minute fireworks display will also light up the night sky, with popular band Energy headlining the event with a 20-minute finale performance. EU Trade Negotiator on US Talks A European Union official says he has had good trade talks with the Trump administration. AP correspondent Mike Hempen reports Amnesty Accuses M23 Rebels of War Crimes Human rights group Amnesty International accused the M23 rebels in eastern Congo of killing, torturing and forcibly disappearing civilian detainees in two rebel-controlled cities. Amnesty says “these acts violate (違反) international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes.” The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January. The Rwanda-backed M23 advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma in North Kivu province followed by Bukavu in February. Amnesty said that between February and April it interviewed 18 civilians who had been unlawfully detained by M23. They reported suffering brutal beatings and harsh detention conditions while their relatives were denied access to the detention sites. Canada King Charles Visit Britain's King Charles III has arrived in Ottawa on a visit that Canada's leader says will underscore (強調) his nation's sovereignty. The king and Queen Camilla were greeted at the airport by Mark Carney, Canada's new prime minister, along with Canada's first Indigenous governor general, Mary Simon. Aside from meeting privately with Carney, the king is scheduled to deliver the speech from the throne, which outlines the government's agenda for the new Parliament. The king is the head of state in Canada, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies. King Charles will return to the U.K. after today's speech and a visit to Canada's National War Memorial. That was the I.C.R.T. EZ News, I'm _____. －－－－以下訊息由 SoundOn 動態廣告贊助商提供－－－－ 【台灣虎航 台中獨家直飛名古屋】 開航價$2,399元起，中台灣虎迷每週3班直飛名古屋，說走就走！ 立即訂購：https://sofm.pse.is/7neb2p -- 你不理財，財不理你！想學理財，玉山罩你！ 玉山銀行全新Podcast節目《玉山學堂》 帶你深入淺出掌握每週市場脈動！ 還有知名主持人蔡尚樺領銜的跨世代對談， 從不同的角度打好理財基本功！ 現在就點擊連結收聽
PALACE WEEKLY: MOTORCADES AND ROYAL TENSIONSThis week's royal scoops! Meghan sparks OUTRAGE with "absolutely abnormal" Broadway motorcade featuring THREE SUVs and NYPD escort! The Duchess sends King Charles peace offering "olive branch" gift box from her brand, invests in $600 MILLION menopause startup, and mysteriously promotes children's clothes identical to those worn by Kate's kids! Harry visits WARZONE in Ukraine despite security court battle in UK, while sources reveal he's COMPLETELY CUT OFF from Charles who's "unavailable" during Harry's visits. William impresses as football pundit with Prince George in Paris, as royal author reveals brothers' relationship started deteriorating when William married Kate! Meanwhile, Donald Trump declares SHOCKING support for U.S. joining British Commonwealth, announcing "I Love King Charles. Sounds good to me!"Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories' with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch! FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there's free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com
Tim, Phil, & Ian are joined by Sharyl Attkisson to discuss Trump announcing a new 25% tariff on all imported cars, hundreds of Canadian steel workers being fired, Trump floating joining the British Commonwealth, and a deranged obese man ramming a four wheeler into a Cyber Truck. Hosts: Tim @Timcast (everywhere) Phil @PhilThatRemains (X) Ian @IanCrossland (everywhere) Serge @SergeDotCom (everywhere) Guest: Sharyl Attkisson @SharylAttkisson (X) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
00:00:00 – Opens with Joe still on vacation, Alex Jones soundboard chaos, and talk about the pyramid dig controversy in Egypt. Wild theories on ancient structures, black ops, and potential pole shifts are thrown around. 00:10:00 – More hilarious Alex Jones clips, including shirtless moments. The guys riff on Trump reportedly wanting the U.S. to join the British Commonwealth and whether it's a serious diplomatic proposal or trolling. 00:20:00 – Deep dive into the Commonwealth idea: pros, cons, trade impact, and cultural symbolism. They debate what joining would mean for U.S. independence and suggest Trump might want to rename it the "American Commonwealth." 00:30:00 – Trump's supposed leaked Signal chat about war plans sparks discussion. They joke about secure communication apps, war strategies via Snapchat, and general tech incompetence among elites. 00:40:00 – Gates predicts AI will replace teachers and doctors. They clown on creepy CDC robocalls about childhood immunizations. Then, they introduce the Bonnie Bridge UFO hotspot story. 00:50:00 – Full-on exploration of Bonnie Bridge, Scotland—a claimed global UFO hotspot. Hundreds of sightings are discussed. Documentary clips and books about the area are reviewed as they joke about aliens and PR. 01:00:00 – Details emerge about Bob Taylor's 1979 encounter: a mysterious spherical UFO and aggressive smaller orbs. The infamous "ripped trousers" incident is discussed along with other alleged alien pants-removal tactics. 01:10:00 – Bonnie Bridge wrap-up: speculation about abductions, spiral UFO footage, and remote viewers allegedly locating the Ark of the Covenant. CIA documents and ancient tech theories come into play. 01:20:00 – Drawbridge of Donations segment. Listeners are hilariously thanked. Industrial-sized “night pickles” and microwave chaos dominate the comedy. Also covered: man sets Big Mac world record. 01:30:00 – AI dependency warning from a new study. Heavy ChatGPT users show emotional reliance and social impact. They joke about AI taking over jobs and minds. 01:40:00 – Wild story of a mistaken drug raid in the UK: cops crash into an elderly couple's home due to heat signatures from regular heaters. The couple is traumatized, and the guys mock the police overreaction. 01:50:00 – More on the Chuck E. Cheese nostalgia rabbit hole. The last location with an animatronic band in California is discussed, sparking memories and lamenting the brand's faded glory. 02:00:00 – Final thoughts include absurd, surrealist riffs about AI-generated poetry, Skinwalker Ranch spin-offs, Space Force, and Alex Jones cameos. The show wraps on a chaotic and comedic high. Mystery of Scottish UFO hotspot Bonnybridge continues to endure https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/385601/mystery-of-scottish-ufo-hotspot-bonnybridge-continues-to-endure Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Phone: 614-388-9109 ► Skype: ourbigdumbmouth ► Website: http://obdmpod.com ► Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/obdmpod ► Full Videos at Odysee: https://odysee.com/@obdm:0 ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/obdmpod ► Instagram: obdmpod ► Email: ourbigdumbmouth at gmail ► RSS: http://ourbigdumbmouth.libsyn.com/rss ► iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/our-big-dumb-mouth/id261189509?mt=2 - Affiliates Links - Jackery: https://shrsl.com/3cxhf Barebones: https://bit.ly/3G38773 - OBDM Merch - https://obdm.creator-spring.com/ Buy Tea! Mike's wife makes some good tea: Naked Gardener Teas: https://www.thenakedgardener.us/store Bags Art Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/BagsDraws/
Recently, Donald Trump had a surprisingly warm reaction to the news that Britain's King Charles would extend a “secret offer” for the United States to join the British Commonwealth, something that the Founding Fathers fought and died to exit nearly 250 years ago. It would represent the clandestine moves by the Monarchy to solidify the kingdom for the reign of the Rex Orbis and is very symbolic for rolling out of the eschaton or the establishment of the Golden Age. Furthermore, with Pope Francis back in the picture, we are beginning to see that the revived Imperial Cult wishes to create an all-encompassing reset in the major religions as well. Tonight on Ground Zero (7-10 pm, pacific time on groundzeroplus.com), Clyde Lewis talks with prophecy researcher and author, Tim Cohen about PAX ANTICHISTI - BEWARE THE SATANIC MILLS. #GroundZeroPlus #ClydeLewis #SatanicMills #AntiChrist #ImperialCult
In light of the recent news story suggesting that King Charles may present Trump with a "secret offer" to have the U.S. join the British Commonwealth, I thought it was pertinent to revisit this episode that was previously for paid subscribers only. Due to the importance of the esoteric connotations of such an "offer", I am making this episode free for everyone. The original broadcast date of this episode was May 23, 2024. The transcript of this episode is also available in book form at the link below (I ran into some roadblocks publishing the book version, quite possibly because of who it's about):https://a.co/d/aPgmRqnWhat is the esoteric meaning behind the now famous portrait of King Charles? We'll dig deep into the hidden messages that a simple portrait can contain. A picture truly is worth a thousand words...www.alchemicaltechrevolution.com
Is America 2025 about to become a rerun of a prophetic box office dud? Even George Carlin's narration could rescue the comedy catastrophe, Americathon, from its own bankruptcy. Will the Trump administration plan to “put our [natural] assets to work” be any better?The financial system's on the brink—gold and Bitcoin clash as commercial real estate crumbles, DoorDash hawks subprime burger loans, and Wall Street plots to sell off America's soul to dodge a $37 trillion debt bomb. Trump's flirting with treason, eyeing a British Commonwealth reunion just in time for 1776's 250th bashAI's storming in, slashing 70% of white-collar jobs, with Swedish robot dogs and Nvidia's humanoid army set to rule by 2030, watching your every move in a dystopian nightmareTed Kaczynski's ghost is cackling—his pre-internet prophecies of a jobless, AI-choked world are hitting hard, with even tech gurus and FBI agents whispering, “Uncle Ted was right!”An app called Worldly zaps Babel's curse, sparking “new Pentecost” hypeUkraine's luring kids to war with cheeseburger bonuses while Trump pumps a $20 billion fighter jet as swarms of cheap AI drones win the real battles.Disney's Snow White flops as a socialist “girl boss” mess, mirroring a society celebrating witches and gender picks for newborns.From subprime rib scams to cultural rot, it's a full-on reckoning—grab your popcorn, because this collapse is blockbuster-sized2:30The Great Financial Reckoning: Gold, Bitcoin, and the Collapse of Everything You Know!The world of money as we know it is teetering on the edge of a seismic upheaval! The whispers are growing louder: the monetary system is primed for a radical restructuring: commercial real estate crumbling under a tsunami of expiring loans, DoorDash peddling subprime hamburger microloans (yes, you read that right!), Doug Burgum, and Wall Street sharks eyeing a fire sale of America's vast assets to keep the ship afloat. It's a wild, desperate gambit that smells suspiciously like bankruptcy dressed up as innovation! 1:00:41Trump's Royal Betrayal: Surrendering America to King Charles' Commonwealth Conspiracy!Just in time for the 250th anniversary of 1776, Trump like the idea of uniting with the British Commonwealth. Trump's fans call it trolling, but critics scream treason as he flirts with making America Great Britain again. Is it because NATO and Five Eyes are working out so well for Americans?Why? And what would be the implications for trade, sovereignty, etc.? 1:18:47 Thank you to supporters and emails about AI Big Brother driver monitoring of ambulances, buses, etc and “Just War” 1:38:58AI's Silent Invasion: Your Job, Your Life, and Your Robot “Agent” Overlords Are ComingGet ready for a spine-chilling wake-up call: Artificial Intelligence isn't just knocking on the door—it's kicking it down and taking over everything! From programmers, to lawyers, to doctors, AI's relentless march is set to obliterate 70% of white-collar jobs. Meanwhile, Swedish robot dogs powered by AI “agents” are learning to hunt goals and Nvidia's CEO says humanoid robots roaming the streets are less than five years away and ready to replace factory workers for a cool $100K a year. it's a dystopian nightmare barreling toward 2030, where jobs vanish, robots rule, and the elite watch and analyze your every move 1:55:45Are You TedPilled? Ted Kaczynski's Terrifying Tech Apocalypse Is HereNow even FBI agents and tech gurus like Ray Kurzweil are nodding, “Uncle Ted was onto something!” His chilling words, scribbled long before the internet took over, predict a world where jobs vanish, AI watches our every twitch, and the masses become “superfluous”—and guess what? It's happening right now. So what DID he predict? Is “Doomerism” the appropriate response? 2:11:30AI's Tower of Babel: Is a Fake Pentecost “Miracle” Something We Should Embrace?An AI app called—get this—Worldly — isn't just a translation tool; it's a high-tech reversal of the Tower of Babel's curse, uniting 60 languages in a flash. Some hail it as a “new Pentecost” or a “miracle”. How SHOULD we view it? 2:18:29Chee-Burgers to Die For: How Many Cheeseburgers Would It Take for YOU to Enlist in Zelensky's Futile War? Get ready for a jaw-dropping plunge into absurdity that'll make your stomach churn! Ukraine's desperate military is dangling a bonus broken down into McDonald's cheeseburgers—to trick 18-to-24-year-olds into the crosshairs of the frontline. As the USA continues to finance the war on a credit card, DoorDash is offering “micro loans” to defer payment of your cheeseburger. Bundle that risky fast food credit into a “subprime prime rib” package, and poof—risk vanishes, just like the 2008 mortgage scam And, Trump announces a $20 BILLION fighter, doubling down on expensive, complex, products of failing military contractor when wars will be won with asymmetrical, low cost AI swarms 2:33:39 Thank you to Zelle supporters 2:34:54Disney's Snow Job: Woke Disaster Unleashes Evil's ReignRe-invented as a “girl boss”, this socialist “disjointed pile of clichés,” is just part of what's wrong with Hollywood and society. New Jersey hospitals push parents to pick their newborns' gender and witches revel in a cultural comeback, and the movies have gone full villain-worship, a stark warning of a culture drowning in spiritual rotIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.
Is America 2025 about to become a rerun of a prophetic box office dud? Even George Carlin's narration could rescue the comedy catastrophe, Americathon, from its own bankruptcy. Will the Trump administration plan to “put our [natural] assets to work” be any better?The financial system's on the brink—gold and Bitcoin clash as commercial real estate crumbles, DoorDash hawks subprime burger loans, and Wall Street plots to sell off America's soul to dodge a $37 trillion debt bomb. Trump's flirting with treason, eyeing a British Commonwealth reunion just in time for 1776's 250th bashAI's storming in, slashing 70% of white-collar jobs, with Swedish robot dogs and Nvidia's humanoid army set to rule by 2030, watching your every move in a dystopian nightmareTed Kaczynski's ghost is cackling—his pre-internet prophecies of a jobless, AI-choked world are hitting hard, with even tech gurus and FBI agents whispering, “Uncle Ted was right!”An app called Worldly zaps Babel's curse, sparking “new Pentecost” hypeUkraine's luring kids to war with cheeseburger bonuses while Trump pumps a $20 billion fighter jet as swarms of cheap AI drones win the real battles.Disney's Snow White flops as a socialist “girl boss” mess, mirroring a society celebrating witches and gender picks for newborns.From subprime rib scams to cultural rot, it's a full-on reckoning—grab your popcorn, because this collapse is blockbuster-sized2:30The Great Financial Reckoning: Gold, Bitcoin, and the Collapse of Everything You Know!The world of money as we know it is teetering on the edge of a seismic upheaval! The whispers are growing louder: the monetary system is primed for a radical restructuring: commercial real estate crumbling under a tsunami of expiring loans, DoorDash peddling subprime hamburger microloans (yes, you read that right!), Doug Burgum, and Wall Street sharks eyeing a fire sale of America's vast assets to keep the ship afloat. It's a wild, desperate gambit that smells suspiciously like bankruptcy dressed up as innovation! 1:00:41Trump's Royal Betrayal: Surrendering America to King Charles' Commonwealth Conspiracy!Just in time for the 250th anniversary of 1776, Trump like the idea of uniting with the British Commonwealth. Trump's fans call it trolling, but critics scream treason as he flirts with making America Great Britain again. Is it because NATO and Five Eyes are working out so well for Americans?Why? And what would be the implications for trade, sovereignty, etc.? 1:18:47 Thank you to supporters and emails about AI Big Brother driver monitoring of ambulances, buses, etc and “Just War” 1:38:58AI's Silent Invasion: Your Job, Your Life, and Your Robot “Agent” Overlords Are ComingGet ready for a spine-chilling wake-up call: Artificial Intelligence isn't just knocking on the door—it's kicking it down and taking over everything! From programmers, to lawyers, to doctors, AI's relentless march is set to obliterate 70% of white-collar jobs. Meanwhile, Swedish robot dogs powered by AI “agents” are learning to hunt goals and Nvidia's CEO says humanoid robots roaming the streets are less than five years away and ready to replace factory workers for a cool $100K a year. it's a dystopian nightmare barreling toward 2030, where jobs vanish, robots rule, and the elite watch and analyze your every move 1:55:45Are You TedPilled? Ted Kaczynski's Terrifying Tech Apocalypse Is HereNow even FBI agents and tech gurus like Ray Kurzweil are nodding, “Uncle Ted was onto something!” His chilling words, scribbled long before the internet took over, predict a world where jobs vanish, AI watches our every twitch, and the masses become “superfluous”—and guess what? It's happening right now. So what DID he predict? Is “Doomerism” the appropriate response? 2:11:30AI's Tower of Babel: Is a Fake Pentecost “Miracle” Something We Should Embrace?An AI app called—get this—Worldly — isn't just a translation tool; it's a high-tech reversal of the Tower of Babel's curse, uniting 60 languages in a flash. Some hail it as a “new Pentecost” or a “miracle”. How SHOULD we view it? 2:18:29Chee-Burgers to Die For: How Many Cheeseburgers Would It Take for YOU to Enlist in Zelensky's Futile War? Get ready for a jaw-dropping plunge into absurdity that'll make your stomach churn! Ukraine's desperate military is dangling a bonus broken down into McDonald's cheeseburgers—to trick 18-to-24-year-olds into the crosshairs of the frontline. As the USA continues to finance the war on a credit card, DoorDash is offering “micro loans” to defer payment of your cheeseburger. Bundle that risky fast food credit into a “subprime prime rib” package, and poof—risk vanishes, just like the 2008 mortgage scam And, Trump announces a $20 BILLION fighter, doubling down on expensive, complex, products of failing military contractor when wars will be won with asymmetrical, low cost AI swarms 2:33:39 Thank you to Zelle supporters 2:34:54Disney's Snow Job: Woke Disaster Unleashes Evil's ReignRe-invented as a “girl boss”, this socialist “disjointed pile of clichés,” is just part of what's wrong with Hollywood and society. New Jersey hospitals push parents to pick their newborns' gender and witches revel in a cultural comeback, and the movies have gone full villain-worship, a stark warning of a culture drowning in spiritual rotIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.
Boxing legend and beloved pastor George Foreman passed away at 76, leaving behind a legacy of faith, family, and resilience. Today's TruNews covers the growing MAGA backlash to President Trump's interest in joining the British Commonwealth, rising financial fears among America's elite, and intensifying global tensions from Greenland to Ukraine. Then, to close the show, we honor Mr. Foreman's life with a replay of our 2008 interview—an inspiring conversation with a true champion.Rick Wiles. Airdate 3/24/25Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.com It's the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!https://tru.news/faucielf
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"Fractional Reserve Bankruptcy" Hosts: Darren Weeks, Vicky Davis Website for the show: https://governamerica.com Vicky's website: https://thetechnocratictyranny.com COMPLETE SHOW NOTES AND CREDITS AT: https://governamerica.com/radio/radio-archives/22610-govern-america-march-22-2025-fractional-reserve-bankruptcy Listen LIVE every Saturday at 11AM Eastern or 8AM Pacific at http://governamerica.net or on your favorite app. King Charles wants U.S. in British Commonwealth. Trump bombs the Houthis, flirts with Iran war. EU praises Sharia Syria's progress on the world stage, as Christians are genocided there. NATO leaders make contingencies for possible U.S. withdrawal from pact. Mackinder's theory of global power distribution. What is the real goal of DOGE? Elon Musk and the "magic money" computers. Followup on the lunacy of Curtis Yarvin. Rental price fixing by algorithm and more.
Let's talk about Trump and joining the British Commonwealth....
//The Wire//2300Z March 21, 2025////ROUTINE////BLUF: MAJOR FIRE SHUTS DOWN HEATHROW AIRPORT, ALL AIRCRAFT DIVERTED FOR SOME TIME. UKRAINE AID FLIGHTS CONTINUE.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE------International Events-United Kingdom: This morning a fire broke out at an electrical substation providing power to Heathrow Airport, prompting mass cancellations of all flights. The airport's backup generators were also affected by the fire, leading to a total electrical outage at the airport. All aircraft at the airport were grounded during the crisis, and all incoming aircraft were diverted to other airports or returned to their point of origin.AC: So far, no cause of the substation fire has been released, however British media is reporting that counterterrorism police are leading the investigation into the incident.Ukraine: American military and financial aid to Ukraine has continued, with multiple shipments of arms arriving over the past few days. Several logistics flights have been noted by aircraft watchers since the resumption of aid was announced by the White House two weeks ago. Zelenskyy himself confirmed that a fresh shipment of F-16 fighter aircraft had arrived on Wednesday, however he did not specific their point of origin.-HomeFront-Washington D.C. - Executive actions continue as before. President Trump has expressed interest in the United States joining the British Commonwealth of Nations, which has resulted in many questions regarding what this means. President Trump also signed an Executive Order closing the Department of Education, and returning educational authority to the States.AC: This order is not an outright closure, but phrased in a manner that effectively removes the Department of Education from having any power or responsibilities. As the removal of a cabinet position is a large undertaking, time will tell how this order is put into place.Texas: One Amazon freight transport was looted by locals after suffering a mechanical breakdown on the interstate in Dallas yesterday.-----END TEARLINE-----Analyst Comments: The looting of various logistical means of transportation is by no means a new development, but certainly something to be aware of due to warmer weather increasing the potential for the arrival of looting season. This will probably be a factor that plays into the already complicated (and increasingly expensive) world of logistics. From trade tariffs to missiles in the Red Sea, the costs of moving cargo around the world have become much more volatile over the past year, with wide swings in the costs of moving freight being observed on the Freightos Baltic Index over the past few months especially. Volatility has been a common theme among all markets since the US Presidential election, however now that the last-mile of logistics is becoming increasingly more susceptible to looting, this is yet another factor that will drive up the costs for consumers.Analyst: S2A1Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground//END REPORT//
In today's episode:The Regime attempts to blame Trump for the ostensible downsides of their own Great Reset agendaLunatics attack Elon Musk and Tesla and XformerlyTwitter sustains a massive cyberattack causing multiple worldwide outagesThe aligned interests of the tech oligarchs does not make them MAGAJD Vance becomes an internet memeAfter the market downturn being blamed on tariffs and the delay on tariffs, it's now being blamed on Trump failing to rule out a recessionTrump makes a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve a real thing and ends Operation Chokepoint 2.0Scott Bessent talks re-privatization and maintaining the dollar as the world reserve currency while The Economist attempts to advertise the oppositeUna Panoonah Banka joins AOC in attempting to end usurious credit card interest rates, something Trump already said he would doUsury, the Civil War, and the RegimeMike Johnson shows off his new package - Trump says everyone should approve, but Democrats won't touch itTrump threatens Putin with sanctions and Russia calls London the world's greatest warmongersCanada's Liberal Party anoints a new leader to replace Our Boy TruThe collapsing British Commonwealth celebrates Empire DayTrump talks Australia, Canada, and the Panama CanalPoland, Ukraine, and Starlink...Connect with Be Reasonable: https://linktr.ee/imyourmoderatorLinks, articles, ideas - follow the info stream at t.me/veryreasonableHear the show when it's released. Become a paid subscriber at imyourmoderator.substack.comVisit the show's sponsors:Diversify your assets into Bitcoin: https://partner.river.com/reasonableDiversify your assets into precious metals: reasonablegold.comJoin the new information infrastructure - get Starlink: https://www.starlink.com/residential?referral=RC-1975306-67744-74Other ways to support the work:ko-fi.com/imyourmoderatorDonate btc via coinbase: 3MEh9J5sRvMfkWd4EWczrFr1iP3DBMcKk5Make life more comfortable: mypillow.com/reasonableMerch site:https://cancelcouture.myspreadshop.com/https://cancelcouture.comFollow the podcast info stream: t.me/veryreasonableYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imyourmoderatorOther social platforms: Truth Social, Gab, Rumble, or Gettr - @imyourmoderator Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/be-reasonable-with-your-moderator-chris-paul. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Women make up more than half of university enrolments these days. .. but that might not be the case without New Brunswick's Grace Annie Lockhart. She the first female in Canada - and indeed all of the British Commonwealth - to graduate with a university degree. We reached Mariam Mesbah of CBC Moncton, who has been looking into her story. (Krissy Holmes with Mariam Mesbah)
Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened down 319-points this morning from Thursday's close, at 22,734 on turnover of 13-billion N-T. The market lost ground on Thursday - the final trading day of the week due to the 228 holiday. The main board tumbled nearly 350-points during that session, despite Wall Street closing little changed overnight and Nvidia reporting strong profits for the last quarter. USAID funding cuts could impact Taiwan's health system A doctor at the Taipei City Hospital's Zhongxing Branch is warning that cuts to the U-S Agency for International Development could impact Taiwan's public health system, which "relies"(依賴) on internationally collected data. It comes after the U-S last month announced plans to eliminate more than 90-per cent of US-AID's foreign aid contracts, totaling more than 58-billion dollars. According Chiang Guan-yu, US-AID cuts will reduce (減少) information sharing between American health agencies and international organizations such as the World Health Organization - which in turn could negatively impact Taiwan. The Centers for Disease Control says although Taiwan is not a member of the W-H-O, there are other "friendly countries" besides the U-S that are willing to exchange epidemic prevention information. Another cold front to arrive tomorrow The Central Weather Administration is warning that another cold front will begin affecting (影響) the island from tomorrow - pushing the mercury down once again into the mid-teens. The cold front will see temperatures dropping by about 15-degrees from the highs seen in recent days and the cold weather is forecast to last into the coming weekend. It's expected to bring rain to much of the island from Wednesday - when highs of between 18 and 20 degrees are forecast for much of the island. However, the mercury could drop to as low 13-degrees in the north and center and to 14-degrees in the south. Israel cuts off Gaza aid to pressure Hamas to accept new ceasefire proposal Israel has cut off the entry of all food and other goods into Gaza in an echo of the siege (圍城) it imposed in the earliest days of its war with Hamas. AP correspondent Julie Walker reports Canada PM to Meet with King Charles Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with King Charles III today to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to make Canada the 51st state. Trudeau says he will discuss matters of importance to Canadians and said “nothing seems more important to Canadians right now than standing up for our sovereignty and our independence as a nation.” Charles is the head of state in Canada, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies. The king has come under criticism in Canada after Buckingham Palace declined (拒絕) to comment on Trump's threats to annex Canada. Charles, who met Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has invited Trump to come to Scotland for a state visit. That was the I.C.R.T. EZ News, I'm _____. －－－－以下訊息由 SoundOn 動態廣告贊助商提供－－－－ 台中西屯國安一期社會住宅招租囉！ 3/3到3/31開放申請，社宅位於國安一路，米平方商場旁邊 歡迎年滿18歲，名下無自有住宅，符合財稅規定的民眾，點擊下方連結申請 https://sofm.pse.is/78fs2r 3/22（六）開放現場看屋，歡迎到社宅現場參觀！ 以上廣告由台中市政府住宅發展工程處提供 -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
We're chatting about the comics you liked as a little kiddo this week! The topic was inspired by a thread in the DD forums. This is always a fun topic and I always have to mention Asterix because it was so amazing. This week Tantz had to bow out but we have Gunwallace to replace her, and Banes is back! Gunwallace is a fellow Antipodean, that means he and I share many of the same cultural touch stones, particularity the comic Footrot Flats. (Tantz is still on the Patreon only video) Footrot Flats is a newspaper comic by the New Zealand creator Murry Ball. It's about a working sheepdog called “Dog” who lives on a farm owned by Wal, a single guy who works hard, drinks beer, and loves rugby. It's a comic that Australians saw as very “Australian” because it played into the mythological rural, working class image that we invented for ourselves, New Zealanders who have a similar history and felt the same, hence the shared popularity of this amazing very classically Kiwi comic from New Zealand. Footroot flats comics be seen in many great collected works as well as an awesome animated film from the 1980s called “Footrot flats: The Dog's tale”. I fondly remember it for the hit theme song sung by New Zealand singer Dave Dobbin, “Slice of Heaven” which is one of my favourite ever songs. Gunwallace has even designed a cocktail inspired by it. I will list the recipe here and I urge to try it while listening to that song! Cocktail recipe! Slice of Heaven — Dave Dobbyn & Herbs 50 ml Beerenburg jenever herbal gin 20 ml Drambuie 2 dashes bitters Half-fill an Old Fashioned Glass with ice, pour ingredients into glass. Add dashes of bitters. Stir gently. Garnish with a slice of orange. We used : Sonnema Berenburg, Drambuie, Peychaud's Bitters -New Zealand Music Cocktails by David Tulloch & Michael Sutorius The comics you enjoyed as a kid are determined by what was available to you at the time. For me what I recall most are the newspaper strips like Modesty Blaise, Mandrake the Magician, Wizard of Id, Crock, B.C., Footrot Flats, Hagar the Horrible, Peanuts, Blondie, Denis the Menace (British version), Andy Cap, Torkan,The Far Side, Garfield… The comics I actually bought were the Commando war comics, Scrooge McDuck, Mad Magazine, and The Phantom, which was very popular in British Commonwealth countries. I loved Asterix but would only get those from the library. Looking back a lot of those comics were quite influential on my art style and even my outlook on the world in some cases. My character Pinky has a LOT of modesty Blaise in her look, and I can see that I thought of myself as Torkan! Which comics did YOU like as a kid, which can you say STILL influence you now? This week Gunwallace has given us a theme inspired by Snake in the Office - Chaotic, sexy, rocking, snake charming to layers of groovy electric guitar and a piano tiptoeing around with a charming little tune tying it all together like a fine Persian rug! A sinuous synth clarinet impersonates a snake charming flute while giving us a lovely 1920s feel. Topics and shownotes Links Slice of Heaven, theme song to Footrot Flats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pWejAnLUQ Forum Thread - What comics did you grow up on? - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/179874/ Featured comic: Rebellion the monster inside us - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/jan/28/featured-comic-rebellion-the-monster-inside-us/ Featured music: Snake in the Office - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Snake_in_the_office/ - by Athorist, rated T. Special thanks to: Gunwallace - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ VIDEO exclusive! Become a subscriber on the $5 level and up to see our weekly Patreon video and get our advertising perks! - https://www.patreon.com/DrunkDuck Even at $1 you get your name with a link on the front page and a mention in the weekend newsposts! Join us on Discord - https://discordapp.com/invite/7NpJ8GS
It's a brand new edition of our recap show with only one significant fight card world wide. So, that leaves our host T.J. Rives and insider Dan Rafael with more time to discuss news and some excellent boxing and even, 80s U.S. Primetime TV drama debate! It's all on the "Fight Freaks Unite Recap Podcast!"They begin with the brief Recap of Boxxer card from Sheffield, England, where super middleweight Callum Simpson scored a dubious TKO over Steed Woodall in the second round and retains British/Commonwealth 168 lb. titles. T.J. takes the lead on the referee with a reference to another premature stoppage in a prominent fight in London last Fall.Also, lightweight Caroline Dubois got a technical draw at the start of the 3rd round against an already battered Jessica Camara. Dubois retains WBC women's crown, but there's debate on should this one have been an actual stoppage on the badly swollen eye from punches that had nothing to do with the cut on the other eye. For fight news:Sam Goodman is again cut in same spot over his eye and out of the January 24 Nayoa Inoue undisputed 122 lb. fight. Inoue will instead defend the undisputed junior featherweight title vs. late sub Ye Joon Kim of South Korea. We have more on him.Dan is reporting that the target date for WBC/WBO junior middleweight titlist Sebastian Fundora vs. former three-belt unified welterweight titlist Errol Spence Jr. is March 29 at MGM Grand. T.J. wonders.... well.... you know!With Teofimo Lopez inactive, no fight scheduled, as he turned down several fights from Top Rank, the WBO has upgraded Jack Catterall-Arnold Barboza Jr. final junior welterweight eliminator to the vacant interim title bout on Feb.15th.And, the IBF welterweight titlist Jaron “Boots” Ennis and WBA counterpart Eimantas Stanionis are in talks for a unification fight. Per WBA president Gilberto Mendoza, Stanionis mandatory challenger Shakhram Giyasov has agreed to step aside.Finally some nostalgia: January 14, 2017 – 8 years ago this Tuesday – James DeGale and Badou Jack fight to a majority draw in an epic super middleweight unification fight and in the co-feature sees Gervonta Davis TKO7 then-unbeaten Jose Pedraza to win the IBF junior lightweight title, Davis' first world title. Dan was ringside at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY for this.And, we salute heavyweight hall of famers George Foreman, who turned 76 on Friday and the late Joe Frazier would have turned 81 on Sunday.And, the boys debate some 1980's American TV dramas between "Dallas," 'Dynasty," and "Miami Vice." It's worthwile to stick around for!Hear it all on the "Fight Freaks Unite Recap Podcast" and make sure to rate and review us on Apple/Spreaker/Spotify, etc.!
It's a brand new edition of our recap show with only one significant fight card world wide. So, that leaves our host T.J. Rives and insider Dan Rafael with more time to discuss news and some excellent boxing and even, 80s U.S. Primetime TV drama debate! It's all on the "Fight Freaks Unite Recap Podcast!"They begin with the brief Recap of Boxxer card from Sheffield, England, where super middleweight Callum Simpson scored a dubious TKO over Steed Woodall in the second round and retains British/Commonwealth 168 lb. titles. T.J. takes the lead on the referee with a reference to another premature stoppage in a prominent fight in London last Fall.Also, lightweight Caroline Dubois got a technical draw at the start of the 3rd round against an already battered Jessica Camara. Dubois retains WBC women's crown, but there's debate on should this one have been an actual stoppage on the badly swollen eye from punches that had nothing to do with the cut on the other eye. For fight news:Sam Goodman is again cut in same spot over his eye and out of the January 24 Nayoa Inoue undisputed 122 lb. fight. Inoue will instead defend the undisputed junior featherweight title vs. late sub Ye Joon Kim of South Korea. We have more on him.Dan is reporting that the target date for WBC/WBO junior middleweight titlist Sebastian Fundora vs. former three-belt unified welterweight titlist Errol Spence Jr. is March 29 at MGM Grand. T.J. wonders.... well.... you know!With Teofimo Lopez inactive, no fight scheduled, as he turned down several fights from Top Rank, the WBO has upgraded Jack Catterall-Arnold Barboza Jr. final junior welterweight eliminator to the vacant interim title bout on Feb.15th.And, the IBF welterweight titlist Jaron “Boots” Ennis and WBA counterpart Eimantas Stanionis are in talks for a unification fight. Per WBA president Gilberto Mendoza, Stanionis mandatory challenger Shakhram Giyasov has agreed to step aside.Finally some nostalgia: January 14, 2017 – 8 years ago this Tuesday – James DeGale and Badou Jack fight to a majority draw in an epic super middleweight unification fight and in the co-feature sees Gervonta Davis TKO7 then-unbeaten Jose Pedraza to win the IBF junior lightweight title, Davis' first world title. Dan was ringside at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY for this.And, we salute heavyweight hall of famers George Foreman, who turned 76 on Friday and the late Joe Frazier would have turned 81 on Sunday.And, the boys debate some 1980's American TV dramas between "Dallas," 'Dynasty," and "Miami Vice." It's worthwile to stick around for!Hear it all on the "Fight Freaks Unite Recap Podcast" and make sure to rate and review us on Apple/Spreaker/Spotify, etc.!
In this episode, we see how Japan marched and bicycled their way across the Johor Strait and proceeded to quickly defeat the British Commonwealth troops. Then we see how Japan carried out a brutal and repressive occupation. Massacres at Alexandra Hospital and against the local Chinese residents of Singapore (Sook Ching Massacre) will also be introduced. After Japan's defeat, the British will attempt to resume business as usual. We'll see how the independence movement in Malaya had other plans and why the Malayan Union failed. In Singapore too, the politicians and the people had other aspirations than what the British had in mind. A new leader will emerge in Singapore who we we'll look at in the next few episodes. His name was Lee Kuan Yew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, we see how Japan marched and bicycled their way across the Johor Strait and proceeded to quickly defeat the British Commonwealth troops. Then we see how Japan carried out a brutal and repressive occupation. Massacres at Alexandra Hospital and against the local Chinese residents of Singapore (Sook Ching Massacre) will also be introduced. After Japan's defeat, the British will attempt to resume business as usual. We'll see how the independence movement in Malaya had other plans and why the Malayan Union failed. In Singapore too, the politicians and the people had other aspirations than what the British had in mind. A new leader will emerge in Singapore who we we'll look at in the next few episodes. His name was Lee Kuan Yew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, we see how Japan marched and bicycled their way across the Johor Strait and proceeded to quickly defeat the British Commonwealth troops. Then we see how Japan carried out a brutal and repressive occupation. Massacres at Alexandra Hospital and against the local Chinese residents of Singapore (Sook Ching Massacre) will also be introduced. After Japan's defeat, the British will attempt to resume business as usual. We'll see how the independence movement in Malaya had other plans and why the Malayan Union failed. In Singapore too, the politicians and the people had other aspirations than what the British had in mind. A new leader will emerge in Singapore who we we'll look at in the next few episodes. His name was Lee Kuan Yew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, we see how Japan marched and bicycled their way across the Johor Strait and proceeded to quickly defeat the British Commonwealth troops. Then we see how Japan carried out a brutal and repressive occupation. Massacres at Alexandra Hospital and against the local Chinese residents of Singapore (Sook Ching Massacre) will also be introduced. After Japan's defeat, the British will attempt to resume business as usual. We'll see how the independence movement in Malaya had other plans and why the Malayan Union failed. In Singapore too, the politicians and the people had other aspirations than what the British had in mind. A new leader will emerge in Singapore who we we'll look at in the next few episodes. His name was Lee Kuan Yew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From 1939 to 1945, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan oversaw the training of tens of thousands of pilots, air crews and instructors. It altered Canadian communities forever and helped the Allies win the war. Artwork/logo design by Janet Cordahi Support: patreon.com/canadaehx Merch: https://www.ohcanadashop.com/collections/canadian-history-ehx Donate: buymeacoffee.com/craigu Donate: canadaehx.com (Click Donate) E-mail: craig@canadaehx.com Twitter: twitter.com/craigbaird Threads: https://www.threads.net/@cdnhistoryehx Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cdnhistoryehx YouTube: youtube.com/c/canadianhistoryehx Want to send me something? Craig Baird PO Box 2384 Stony Plain PO Main, Alberta T7Z1X8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Like us, Canada is part of the British Commonwealth - yet parts of the country also speak French.To get an idea of how Canada as we now know came to be, we're going to look at something that happened on this day back in 1864.
Fr Calvin Robinson returns to Hearts of Oak to reflect on recent events in the UK, emphasising the importance of unity and common sense discussions amidst rising anger and protests. Calvin discusses the role of media in shaping narratives and advocates for accurate reporting. He stresses the need for righteous indignation without violence and raises concerns about the government's response to current issues. Fr Calvin highlights patriotism, British identity, challenges of mass immigration, and the role of churches in addressing spiritual needs. Encouraging critical thinking and spiritual awareness, he urges prayer, reflection, and deeper faith connections in facing societal challenges. The Rev'd Fr Calvin Robinson is a political adviser, TV anchor, radio presenter, conservative commentator and parish priest. A priest with Old Catholic orders, serving in an Anglican parish. Founding member of the Anglo-Catholic confraternity, Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity. Connect with Calvin... X/TWITTER x.com/calvinrobinson SUBSTACK calvinrobinson.com/ FOX & FATHER x.com/media_reclaim youtube.com/c/ReclaimTheMedia_ Interview recorded 5.8.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP heartsofoak.org/shop/ Transcript (Hearts of Oak) And hello, hearts of oak. I am delighted to have a good friend of ours, and that is Father Calvin Robinson. Calvin, thank you so much for your time today, as always. (Fr Calvin Robinson) Peter, it is always a pleasure. thanks for having me on. Although, the thing is, we're pre-recording this, so by the time this goes up, the country might not even still be here. It could be, we could be both in the States by then. Who knows what happens by Thursday? Or locked up. But there's literally so much to discuss. And you and I both talked prior to recording this about the interest in the US of what is happening here. And lots of media slots for both of us on the US side as they see what is happening. Happening but over the last week from last Monday from the individual I will get into that actually stabbing three girls killing them and a number of others being severely I think there was about 11 who were injured in that we have seen since last Tuesday a rise of individuals, very angry at what has been happening and there's lots of point of conversation in this. But can I ask you just first generally what have your thoughts been um as a brit living here what is happening over the last week in the UK. That's a big opening question. I don't feel safe. I just today as we're recording this moved out of Cambridge moved over to Oxford and on the way I was thinking I don't feel safe. I don't want to go into London. I don't want to go into the city. I don't want to be around where there are big gatherings of people I don't feel like I'm safe. Now I shouldn't feel like that in my own country. Why do I feel like that? Well, there's a two-pronged approach here. On the one hand the prime minister seems to be stoking the flames he's doing everything he can to make things worse it's bizarre. I've never seen anything like it. Every single press statement he releases or at least has released over the last few days has been: this is all a fault of of the far right and the agitators online, and he's basically pointed fingers at Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage, you, me, and people who are pointing out the problem. But this has been the problem; these are we're problem a lot here, but the problem all along has been that people who point out the problem are perceived as the problem rather than the problem itself. So, you on the one hand we've got the government saying things like we're going to clamp down on these these far-right thugs. We are the far-right thugs and their online agitators for all that's us. And then on the other hand we've got the Muhammadans out there with the machetes and the planks of wood beating Britain's left right and centre, and so I don't know if I'm going to get arrested by the state or beat to death by a Muhammadan. What, so how do you, because you have a responsibility as someone who is a high profile individual in the media, and I feel I have a responsibility of someone who's less high profile in the media than yourself. But we have responsibility to discuss what is happening and not to throw petrol on the fire, but to have a conversation of what is happening to bring some common sense, but not to ramp up for the sense of clickbait which I think is a danger in the media. So how do you; you've got a a number of different hats. Let's stick your media hat on, how do you see it in terms of media? Well, we do have to report on events, we have to cover the events of course, we don't have to we have to not stoke the events, but my my personal message is be angry. We should be angry. We should have righteous indignation, but we should not be violent. We as brits are not violent we're civilized people and actually we want to protect our country. The reason we're angry is because we feel the establishment is disconnected from us, working against us, and have imported a hostile force who hates us and want to kill us and replace us. And so we're angry on two fronts, but we're angry because the other people are violent, not because we're violent. So, we don't meet violence with violence. And so my message over this past few days has been, do not resort to violence. Because actually, I think we're being stirred up for a reason. I honestly believe the government cannot be this incompetent they must be riling people up in order to clamp down on our freedoms we're already seeing, you know, there was a conflict of interest in the media this week. Where we had former minister Ed Balls on Good Morning Britain interviewing his wife Yvette Cooper who happens to be the home secretary. Having a very cordial conversation about clamping down on Twitter and clearly Twitter is the only free speech platform we have left, you know, we've got rumble in the video space, but in social media space we've only got Twitter. So, if they clamp on twitter they control the narrative and all they have to do to clamp down on Twitter is say; well these these riots are being stirred up by by Peter and Calvin and Tommy and Nigel therefore we've got to stop them talking. The prime minister was lost a question by the media again as we record today should Tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate be allowed on social media. Should they be allowed on social? Should they be allowed to have a voice? It's absolutely crazy the conversations that are being had right now and so of course the far left who think themselves to be reasonable centrists are saying well no of course they shouldn't we should stop all these people. These people are the problem, but they will even if they do manage to censor us they will never realize that we are just highlighting the problem. We are not the problem itself, the problem is still festering. Those people out with the sticks and machetes are not your everyday ordinary common British folk. So, the problem for our war room posse and our US audience who may not get what's happening is that last Monday, three girls were murdered and many others were injured at, I think, a Taylor Swift kind of concert event in a school. And this individual has now been arrested. Details put out. And but it's so that's the situation we find ourselves in to this event, which seems to have been the spark that has angered people. Why have people been angered at that? Is it the event? Is it the response? Is the media? How has that been the spark that set off this anger that we've seen across the UK, even to Northern Ireland, which surprises me? When you have the nationalists and the Republicans, the Protestants and the Catholics, Irish flag and Northern Irish flag together, I don't think I've ever seen that in all my time. So, it's been something that's unified people. What has it been about this event that's actually unified people and got them angry? First of all that unity is great to see. This is... So, God takes bad things and turns them into good. He takes evil events and works them for good. That's what we're seeing here; the Catholics and the Protestants marching arm by arm in arm side by side. I honestly have never thought I'd see the day in Northern Ireland that's amazing, but it's coming from and you're right this this one incident is a spark, but it's almost a catalyst. It didn't start the whole thing. You know, we saw riots in Leeds and in Whitechapel before this incident as well. So, it's been stirring up for a while. And actually, the three girls, Alice, Elsie, and Bebe, were –, It destroys us. It breaks our hearts. As Brits, we take the lives of innocents and the vulnerable seriously, and we believe in the sanctity of life, and we want to protect the vulnerable and the innocent. So, when three girls are murdered viciously for no reason, it's horrible and it destroys us. And so, of course, it's going to be a catalyst. But the problem is that the media and the establishment try to cover it up, as they always do. So, it's not just saying that this is who the perpetrator was, this is what he believed in, this is why he did it. They say well let's talk about this, and that instead, let's talk about this, and that it's like distraction projection, distraction projection, and people see through it people aren't stupid. And when they release pictures of of the perpetrator as a seven-year-old or 11-year-old or something to make him look cutesy and and to make you empathize when... People don't start to empathize with him. They don't start to think: okay the perpetrator is actually the victim. What they think is, why? Why are you peddling this? This was a fully grown 17-year-old chap who killed these girls. He does not look like that. What message are you trying to tell us? That we should feel sorry for the boy over the girls? And so people have had enough of the media manipulating them and the establishment manipulating them, and that the police never release the reports, and not just in this stepping, but continually. We never get the manifestos. We never get the motivations. And so people have said enough is enough. And this is why they're sick and tired of it all. This is why they got out and started protesting. But of course, with any protest, there are always false flags. And there are always people trying to capitalize on these events and try to make it look worse than it is. And so it's been incredibly disappointing to hear our own government try and paint all these ordinary, upset, frustrated Britons as far-right thugs. There's no far-right in this country. We'd know if there was a far-right. We would have seen them long ago when when we're needed, but the problem is just to paint ordinary people as far right, demonizes them and paints paints the frustrated as the bad guys. I'm beginning to get at a loss for words, because it's when the establishment is against you to that degree, when the media and the politicians are colluding together. What outlet do we have other than public civil disorder order and this is why people are out in the streets. Hearts of Oak: Well, it is, because Alice - nine-year-old girl, and Bebe was six year old, Elsie - seven, these are children, they do not choose to be involved in some fight, in some war, that we have in the UK and of course eight other children and sustained knife wounds on that and you're right. The shocking thing was the media putting the picture of Axel, and I can't pronounce his surname, I don't have in front of me, Radha Kubane, his parents from Rwanda. He was born here in Wales so he's Welsh and that whole conversation of the media seemingly trying to hide to say this was a Welsh child, a Welsh boy, Welsh kid had carried this out, but actually there's a wider picture and it's not just on this individual. It's a wider conversation, but it seems to be that at every turn the media have tried to fall over themselves to make sure and give a narrative that fits in with the government narrative, similar to what we've seen in Covid tyranny I guess. For the sake of diversity. Yeah, a rush to follow that so have you seen that kind of the media falling over themselves as someone in the media, someone who was on GB News, now with Lotus Eaters, wonderful Lotus Eaters. But as someone in the media, how do you see that as the media rushing, falling over themselves to hide a story instead of expose a wrongdoing? Well, this is why we started GB News. This is why we got involved in our project to offer an alternative voice. It hasn't worked out. It has become as controlled as the rest. But the problem was we saw everywhere else you looked, there's a controlled narrative. and people, it's not even always controlled, it's that people subscribe to this narrative. So, lots of people who work at the BBC, for example, or The Guardian or The Telegraph, they are on board with we must protect diversity, everything for the sake of diversity. And so when they discover that the perp may be of a different ethnicity maybe of a foreign nationality or his parents maybe with foreign nationality they have to cover it up they have to disguise it, because they want people to think it's because of that. And maybe in this instant it wasn't because of that maybe it wasn't anything to do with his ethnicity or his culture or his parents nationality. Maybe it had maybe had nothing to do with it whatsoever, but the fact that they tried to hide it makes us suspicious, because quite often it does have something to do with it. Quite as often the attacks are because there are Muhammadans in this country who hate us. Hate our way of life. Want would love to have sharia here, would love to have the Islamic law, would love for this to be an Islamic caliphate, and so do want to harm us. Most of our terrorist incidents in this country are from the Mohammedan ideology. And so when they cover it up, what they're doing is they're becoming complicit. We've seen this for years now, decades now, with the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs, where we saw Pakistani Muslims, as part of their culture, not seeing white British girls as the same or as equal or as even a person. In our tradition, we'd see them as made in the image of God. In their tradition they see them as lesser than. And so they've been grooming and raping these young girls for years, but have been covered up by the councillors, by the police, by the MPs, by our government. All for the sake of diversity, and this is exactly this is the same pattern day in day out with anything that involves anyone that may be at least slightly brown. We've got to move past if we truly want to be a multicultural society and I don't, but if people on the left say we want to become a multicultural society, then we have to get to a stage where actually we can have discussions about ethnicity, about culture, about religion, without being shut down or being accused of being a racist, a bigot, or far-right. And we're not there. We are clearly not there. Multiculturalism is not working, and diversity isn't our strength. Diversity is our Achilles heel. Diversity is the thing that is causing a lot of these issues and a lot of this polarisation, these riots that we're seeing, these protests that we're seeing, all for the sake of diversity. And of course, here's the individual who's going to be tried in January. We'll discuss why they don't have 24-hour courts to actually deal with that trial, because I think justice has to be done swiftly and not held over for months and months. And we've seen this delay in the grooming gangs, where some of them take a year to actually carry out, and it's irrespective of that the individual is held in custody. Actually, you need justice to be done, and to be done swiftly. But I'm glad that Keir Starmer suddenly found out that he can deal with these individuals quickly, but the individual Axel is his parents from Rwanda, Christian country, but 55 percent Christian minority, Muslim, but to me that the issue separately is people fitting into this country. That's the first thing, but secondly it is and whether or not this individual will find out, whether or not Axel was caught up in Islamic ideology or Muhammadism. I've talked to many church leaders and they've said they are losing many young people to Islam because it comes across as a strong muscular, confident faith. Where Christianity comes across as weak, pathetic, and liberal. So, young people want to have that confidence as an individual and Islam seems to have that. Christianity doesn't have that, so that's a conversation I want to have with you in a little bit. But that whole thing of people coming from abroad and just fitting in to the country, and what actually means being part of this country. And we don't seem to have that conversation of people when they step here. And that seems to be massively lacking in helping people actually know what it means to be British. That is the key. That's what we've been missing for all these years. At the start of all of this mass immigration, which we have for decades now, that really took off in 1997 under Tony Blair. We should have said, look, if we're going to have people coming here, we've got to understand who we are and what we're about before we take on board anyone else's values or cultures. Us and we should have said, look this is this is what it means to be British: the English language the Christian faith. Faith, hope and love as values and stretched it out from there, but we couldn't even when the Tories got into power they were like, what are British values? Democracy, the rule of law. It's like these secular nonsense, that's not who we are as a people. And so we should have described it and outlined it from the beginning and then said we're going to have assimilation for the people that do come over to Britain. They assimilate into our culture into our faith, into our way of life. And that's how we bring people together. That's how we have unity. That's how you have true diversity, actually, under unity. If we all said, look, this is a monarchy, a constitutional monarchy, a democracy. And so under our flag, under our king or queen at the time, then that's how we unite. But people who do not like that we are a constitutional monarchy, do not like that we're a democracy, do not like our flag, do not like our values they should not be an allowed entry. But it's too late for that they've been allowed in, and so now we have these conflicting ideologies these conflicting cultures that do not get on. And never will get on, because people swear allegiance to to something else or someone else before us, and it's the great test. It always has been the test, now it's the Muhammadans, and now it's the fact that the Islamic faith comes before everything including Great Britain. But even before then, even when we had mass Pakistani immigration; even before that when my family came over, we had the mass Caribbean immigration. It was still, the easy test is when the cricket's on, who do you support? I mean, you laugh, but it's true. That you can tell someone's agenda and someone's allegiances by who they'll support. No, completely. And I was, I mean, today we've seen, or maybe yesterday, today, I mean, the days blur into one, but we've seen Keir Stammer, who sadly, please pray for us, all the war in Posse, we have Keir Stammer as our PM for the next five years. But he was giving his well he was giving a statement and what he would do the far right have nowhere to hide. We will come and find you they'll regret your actions. I think someone posted a video of Keir stammer when making statements on the BLM rats in 2020 after George Floyd had a drugs overdose and the difference in then it didn't seem to be we will come and find you and target you it's seemingly leniency on one side and aggression on the other. I don't know if you've seen that or want to speak into that. Peter, are you suggesting that there's some kind of two tiers to Kier? I love that he's getting known as two-tier Kier now by the way, because it's really exposing him for who he is. You're right. Absolutely, there's a different approach to to different demographics and if anyone brown is involved it's like you know, soft gloves, kiddie gloves. And then if anyone, white or British is involved or Christian is involved, then it's, we will find you and we will get you. It's like, whoa, how did it go from Care Bears to Stormtroopers? Where's the in-between? Where's the policing without fear or favour that we knew and loved? This is, I mean, we introduced policing to the rest of the world, pretty much from our standards. And that's all gone. Our police forces have been corrupted with liberalism as well as this diversity above all. If it's black lives matter, if it's Muhammadansm, if it's something that's seen as approved by the narrative then they get away with it. If it's the default if it's white British Christians then they're stumped down upon. So, what is that is that is that meaning that we treat people differently based on their ethnicity and their religion, if so then that's racist discrimination and that's essentially what our police forces and our government is getting up to. It's racial discrimination and or religious discrimination at the moment. We have the equalities act for that purpose to make sure that everyone is treated say equally under the law and that's always been our way. We strive for equal opportunities not equal outcomes. We profess to live in a meritocracy where anyone can become anything as long as they work hard enough, it doesn't matter your race or your religion in this liberal democracy. I mean it's not the way I would have it that's the way we've been told it's supposed to be and it's notworking anymore. How do you bounce up? Because, I come with this from someone born in Northern Ireland and living in London. So, I've got that Northern Irish mix, which is extremely proud and strong and sectarian, which is good and bad. And then finding myself in London, which isn't England, as Lozza has told us. But you also come from that mixed side of having a Caribbean background, English background. How do you see that diverse? Because I've kind of been in one way perplexed living in England, having a strong identity from Northern Ireland and realizing that English people don't necessarily have that strong identity. How do you kind of see that in a kind of similar mix? Yeah, it's been scrubbed out over the years, it's very bizarre. So, I've always been proud to be British. My father was born here but his father was born in Jamaica and when they came over from Jamaica during Windrush they were very proud to be British too, because they were part of the British Commonwealth of nations they were like coming to the mother country so essentially. They still believed in the empire, they thought it was great. Most Jamaicans still do, according to the last poll taken over there. So, it's really weird when the native English don't. So, I'm only half English, I'm half Caribbean. So I suppose it's my Caribbean half that's more patriotic, that's proud to be British, because the English people have lost some of that. And I think it's been taken out of them on purpose by design. Most people are told these days, you can't be proud to be English, because it's nationalistic. It seems to be something that came out of World War II. It seems to be the lesson we took from World War II too, that to be nationalistic is a bad thing. It leads to Nazism. Of course, that's nonsense, lot a nonsense. National socialism was fascism. It was the extreme end of the political spectrum. Having pride in your nation is something that unites us, not something that divides us. And actually, if it's done right, patriotism is done right, it's a good thing for all of us. And so I feel sorry when I see a lot of English people that feel that the Scots have their identity, the Northern Irish have their identity, the Welsh have their identity. They're like, Like, what are we? We're told we're just British. Well, the thing that unites all of us is that we're British across the whole of the United Kingdom. But the English are still English too. And actually, there is an English, a distinctively English culture that's different to the Welsh culture and the Scottish culture and the Northern Irish culture. But there are things that we share in common as British. And so we've got to be able to take the distinction between the two and celebrate the two and say, yes, yes, I'm English. Yes, I'm British. They are both good things. And of course, when we do that, we'll get called racists and FOB bigots. But we've got to accept that. We've got to take that. Just dust it off. It doesn't matter. The far left hate themselves and they hate us because we don't hate ourselves. So, we've just got to show them love, really, and show them it's okay to love our country. I've read you being called names along with Tommy, along with Lawrence, and I will not get into the personal stuff, but I've seen Majid Nawaz getting involved in that attack and others, so it's not just on that side. But I don't understand the attacks, because it seems to be that you, Tommy, Lawrence, many others are concerned at this erosion of British identity and are concerned at how mass immigration changes this and are concerned of how the government understands the left behind that many communities feel. So, as I've looked online, as I've gone into Twitter, as we all go into that Twitter spiral, and I've been confused at that attack on yourself and others because it doesn't seem to stand up, doesn't seem to have merit. I'm high of, I know for you it's water off a duck's back. I get that, but what how are you targeted as someone who simply wants to stand up for British values and understands the anger that many English people feel. I think it's different from different people. So, Merchant Noah's is a good example of Muhammadan's always put Muhammad first. And so you know he wrote this book radical from from extremist Islamist to secular Muslim. And he's claimed to be a secular Muslim for a while now, but it seems he's reverted back to his extremist ways or he's reverted back to putting Islam above Britain, because the people who are standing up for Britain or at least try to are getting attacked by him. I mean, he called me a globalist Chill. I've literally done everything all my life to fight against globalism. You know, I was in part of vote Leave to fight against the Federalist European Union. I fight against globalism in terms of Islam along trying to take over Britain. And try to fight against the one state, the one nation, the one world government, the one world religion, all that stuff but I think he's he's seeing it from an Islamic point of view rather than the British point of view. That's that's his his downfall. That's his Achilles heel unfortunately, but it's not just him there is there we're getting divided amongst ourselves. So, the people who have been traditionally fighting for freedom and traditionally fighting against you know covid, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates and stuff people who were aligned are being separated now, and it's a great shame, but this is part of the design of the enemy. Whether we're talking about the enemy in terms of the state or in terms of Satan himself, the enemy does not want us working together for good. But during the COVID, I've seen that divide and conquer. I've seen individuals attacking each other. And my line on the COVID tyranny is it doesn't matter if it's taken you a year, two years, three years to catch up. Hey, that's fine. It's important that individuals wake up. And the same on mass immigration, the same on Islam. The same on however you want to tackle this. So, I don't understand this attack from within, because surely we should understand the role of the state to divide people up and therefore control individuals. It seems to me that some of the individuals that attack, surely they should know better. But yeah, maybe they don't. And it kind of you look at people you think surely you should know better how this works. [Yeah, and I mean we have to kind of curate our own side as well, because it gets to the point where, you know we were just talking about my mixed heritage for example. Now, we said certain elements of the right that are edging onto the far right now and saying well we're ethno-nationalists and actually we just think Britain should be entirely white. So, it's like okay well what about those of of us who were born here, and our parents were born here, and we're not 100%, English, like I am half English, half Afro-Caribbean, then where do we go? And where do we fit into all of this? And so, it's become puritanical about all this, because they've been pushed to the extremes. They've been pushed for so long and so hard that their only defence is to fight back and say, we want none of it, and say, we don't just want rid of Islam, we just want rid of brownness. And it's like, of course, that's unrealistic. It does eventually lead to racism, but I can understand where it's coming from. And this is, because we're being divided further and further. And we've got to fight against the division. We've got to come back to unity. And this is why the rallies that we've been holding in London, one on June the 1st and one on July the 27th, were about uniting the kingdom, because we've got to come together. Tell me about that July the 22nd because frustratingly I was away, because I had a wedding anniversary and I was away. I couldn't join you in London and I was so sad to watch the huge demonstration. The tens of thousands, certainly 50,000, some put 100,000, and that coming together and that preceded what we have seen in the outpouring of anger at the stabbings. But there does seem to be a patriotism that's building up in Britain that I haven't seen for quite a while. I mean, how did you see that demonstration back in the 1st of June and then in July? It does seem to be a reinvigorating of what it means to be British and champion that once again, that we haven't seen that patriotism for a while in Britain. It's amazing to see, actually. We talked earlier about how English people tend to lack that sense of patriotism or not be able to display it these days without being castigated. But these rallies have been reuniting people and allowing people, giving people the permission that they feel the need for some reason to be able to be patriotic again. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it either because the date was set. And it's not about me, it's not about any individual, so we all just have to... But this has been the great thing about these rallies, It's the thing that Lawrence often says. It's amazing how much you can get done if no one wants the credit. And that's what these rallies have been about. So, I remember seeing you at the organising committee. We all come together to help do what we can and contribute how we can. If we can make it on the day, fantastic. If we can't, so be it. We still put our two pence in. But the people who turn up, they are what it's all about. British people waving that, whether it's the Union flag or St George's Cross or St Patrick's Cross or the Red Fist or the Red Dragon. And this is what it's all about. So it's not a fist, it's a hand. The red hand. Red hand of Ulster with a crown in the middle. That's the howl. But tell me from your point of view as a Christian leader, and we all are called into positions by God. We all, maybe because we want to, because we don't, because our choosing, because of simply calling, but we end up in positions of responsibility. And your position of responsibility is not only a media figure but also a Christian figure a religious figure. A church figure. How do you look on what is happening with that hat if I can ask you to put on that hat of Christianity and how do you see what's happening in terms of the rallies, but in terms of what we've seen over the last week? Over the last week I've felt a darkness come over this country. Now I've spoken to friends who've visited recently of last few weeks and months and they've said it feels like your country has a malaise over it and that malaise I think has turned into maleficence. I think in the last few days in particular there's a spiritual heaviness a spiritual darkness on this country that we can only get through if we pray we can. You know, to get through with him and his help. Unfortunately, I don't think many of us are at that stage yet. Thankfully, people are waking up at a political level. People are getting out and protesting and people are making their voices heard. But people aren't necessarily waking up at a spiritual level yet. And so this is why on Sunday just gone, I started my first online prayer session for the nation, where I'm going to do every Sunday at 5 p.m. People can tune in. We're just going to do evening prayer, just praying together for this country because we need it. We cannot do anything good on our own without him. He is everything that's good. And so, yeah, we're dark, but the darkness helps us see the light. So, we just need to turn to the light and head towards that. And how do you see churches being involved? Because we often see churches not understanding the conversation that's happening in public, because of the desire to protect ourselves with a midweek meeting and a Sunday sermon. And therefore, we are doing our duty as Christians behind our walls. How do you see churches' involvement? The churches have been disappointing, but we've seen this throughout modern history. Actually, we saw this through Covid where they closed their doors and instead of saying we are an essential service and the sacraments are vital there's no health in us without them. And people need to pray together to be to be Christian to come together to worship God and glorify God. Instead of saying that they closed their doors on people and it's been the same ever since to be honest you know Church attendance dropped by a third across the board in this country. So, lots of people have not returned because they haven't felt supported spiritually. Their spiritual well-being hasn't been taken care of. But even the people that are good, even the church leaders that are good, have their heads buried in the sand. So many of them are worried about image and optics. And we can't seem to be saying that. Even if they believe it, they can't seem to be saying it. And so when I talk to people about the church, I'm not talking about that church anymore. The hierarchy, the visible church, I'm not interested. We are the church, and that's what's important. Me, you, everyone tuned in watching, the professors of their faith in Jesus Christ, through our baptism. We are the church, the faithful masses. And so we come together in prayer. We come together in worship of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And that's what bishops do. Leave the priests, leave the archbishop, do their wokeness and their liberalism. because they are important. He is what's important. As long as we come together with Him on our hearts, we are doing what we're called to do. And it's interesting how God raises people up. And I always want to sit back as a Christian and say and pray, God, who are you going to raise up? What are you going to do in this current climate? What is your will? And see people like me. I watched Elon Musk's interview with Jordan Peterson, and it was intriguing. Speaking not only that Jordan Peterson interviewed himself as opposed to Elon Musk, but that's a whole other conversation, but actually learning a little bit about Elon from that conversation obviously someone having the platform of Twitter someone who is not a Christian and said to Jordan how he's not a Christian. Very different from Jordan Peterson who's someone who seems to be searching for something more. Elon is not necessarily at that, but he is willing to speak out and he sees what's happening in the UK. And even today, he talked about Keir Starmer and said, surely you should be concerned about all communities and not just about one community protecting mosques or attacking far right. Or he sees that as a divide and conquer. How do you see as a media figure, but probably as a Christian, how God kind of raises individuals up to speak common sense and truth whenever the church is not really doing that. Yeah, that was an interesting clip where Keir said: you should not feel attacked because of your faith or the colour of your skin. And he wasn't about white people or Christians. He was talking about brown Mohammedans. And this is what Elon rightly pointed out, that we shouldn't be, you know, and Keir said, we're going to put more money. I think recently they announced £170 million for the protection of mosques, but he said we need more money to protect the mosques. It's like, why is this one particular demographic being put on a pedestal above all the others? What's it about that? But you're writing that God uses people in different ways and calls us to different things, that even when we don't know about it ourselves. And I think Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson are both being called right now to lead people to Christ. Elon Musk recently said he appreciates the cultural Christianity of the West and finds it important, similar to what Richard Dawkins, the chief atheist said recently. But also we know that Jordan Peterson's been on this faith journey for some time now. When you and I saw him in London recently, he had his blazer on with Mary all over it, which I thought was a bit on the nose. But it's like, come on, just come here, just come out. I mean, we all have different barriers in our way when it comes when it comes to faith. So, all we can do is pray for these people to find Christ and hope that he changes their hearts and converts them. Yeah, I mean, lots of people are being called, lots of people are being raised up right now, and it's about separating the weak from the chaff, and it's about finding who's true and not jumping to conclusions. We saw this in America with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Clearly a miracle, clearly saved. But then people are like, oh, he's the anointed one of God, he is the prophet Trump. It's like, wait a minute, calm down a minute, let's not go too far. You know my personal take on that is that he was he was he was definitely saved it was definitely a miracle but we don't know why. We don't know what god's plan is, you know, it could be that if Donald Trump had been assassinated there'd be civil war in America right now because there are a couple of them would have taken up arms against the democrats who clearly would have killed him. And so maybe in saving his life God has saved the nation it's the nation that's anointed rather than than Donald Trump. So ,I mean it's just speculation but that's all we can do it's not to to jump on bandwagons of making false idols out of people. No, it tells that we see things through what a dark glass or darkly and don't always see things clearly. And we don't know what the mind of God is. And one day we will see that. But the Jordan, I mean, seeing Michaela, his daughter, talk about her faith and of how a number of things lined up within one day. And she said the only thing that could be is God and then Jordan's wife, I think Tammy being very open. I mean it is exciting, because I don't understand why people don't question things. As a Christian I am confused why people how people can look at the complexity of the world and think actually it's just luck and chance and a big bang and here we are and we all die and that's the end. And yet some people are in that elk to not actually question things, people who are questioning by nature. So, it is exciting to see people questioning and questioning. That's, in effect, that's part of your calling under God to actually, and mine is a Christian, but you have a dog collar, I don't. But to actually point people towards, is God in this? What does that mean? Surely this complexity of the universe and life means something more. I think we're having that conversation in the UK separate from maybe the established church. But still, there are those conversations happening one-on-one and online. Yeah, I think it's just a case of encouraging people to think. And the enemy would say, well, thinking is the opposite of religion. You have to not think to be. No, it's not. It's clear. The problem is we live in a world where there's noise constantly, or we're surrounded by distraction 24-7. So, we don't actually take any time out to think. And God is working very actively in our lives, in this world, in his creation. Our living God is a good God who doesn't sit by. So, there are miracles happening in our lives every day if we're open to seeing them. But that means we've got to think about it. You're right, some people will think, oh, it's just a coincidence. They won't even stop to think about it. They'll just continue with the noise and the distraction and keep the blinkers on. But the moment we stop and reflect and pray through what has happened in our day, in fact, it's a good habit to build up in our life to have that at the end of the day to just take time out to things and reflect about what's happened in the day. To repent of any sins we may have committed, but also to thank God for the beauty that we've experience. And that's kind of what we're avoiding, because we're avoiding the silence. And we hear God's voice in the silence. That's where he is. So, that's why we spend all our lives and all our days running away from it. And so I suppose my job is just to encourage people to stop. Stop running. Stop being distracted. And just think. Stop and think. Hearts of Oak: Oh, and I've talked to many people who said, you know, I'm not religious, Peter, but I have prayed more. I have thought more. And I think that's something we're seeing more and more. And certainly I'd encourage our audience, whether you're a watcher listening to, as you see things, to take time and ask God what he means in that. Because what we see around us is often a pointer to something. So, do take a moment and do ask God, are you saying something in that? And he says, call to me and I will answer you. So have a go, have a try, I do ask God. But Cam, how do you, going forward, what is your message to Brits at the moment, to those living on this island in England and over there, the water in Northern Ireland, who've been involved in a lot of these demonstrations? Administrations, I am concerned that a lot of people involved will get sucked up and locked away. The state will try and remove those who are against it. I'm trying to think how we can be smarter and more effective in combating what we see. So, I mean, publicly, what's your message to people in this current environment? My message is to be cautious and to be careful. We've got to make redundancies, make plans. The state could be coming for us. The Mohammedans could be coming for us. We don't know if we're going to be locked up or if we're going to be killed. And so have backup plans, whether that's downloading VPNs, so you've got ways to communicate with people, being in emergency chat groups of people that you can flag that you are safe. Build redundancies into your life, but also build prayer habits at the start of the day, at the end of the day. Build a way of life that is centred around prayer, that is centred around Christ, and not just around the politics. We have to do both. We've got to address the political situation that's going on in this country, and that means not sitting back and just watching. That means being active, whether that's getting out and standing for election, or if that's just forming a local community group to look out for each other. But also, on the other side, we've got to look after our spiritual wellbeing, which means going to church every single Sunday without exception. I mean, starting and ending your day in prayer of thanksgiving for the one true God. I'll be doing that, going to church on Sunday, starting my day in prayer. I think it's essential. Calvin, it's a perfect end to the conversation. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom on what is happening on not only the political understanding, but also the spiritual element which is what we so need to today. So, thank you for your time today. Thank you Peter.
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He declared that the predominant subject matter of the record was “directed to the ‘dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind.” WORD OF THE DAY: Neufchâtel [ noo-shuh-tel ]https://thebigwordsproject.morebettermediacompany.com/neufchatel-6-6-2024/a soft, white cheese similar to cream cheese, made from whole or partly skimmed milk in Neufchâtel, a town in N FranceShe spread a generous layer of Neufchâtel on her bagel, savoring its creamy texture and mild flavor. DAILY AFFIRMATION: Every Day I Discover Interesting And Exciting New Paths To Pursue.Boosts Creativity and Openness: Embracing this affirmation encourages a mindset that is always on the lookout for new opportunities and ideas, thereby enhancing creativity and openness to novel experiences.https://www.amazon.com/100-Daily-Affirmations-Positivity-Confidence/dp/B0D2D6SS2D/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3IFJQT937CKKN&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GfRO6urYEuEwqsTvS7BKS-pq7BPDUsE962mzC8Tvne8._x0WlWanM5yNPS9_hkHrvqTHzZakFxXZCtS-rEJ9RHQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=100+affirmations+payne&qid=1717404771&sprefix=100+affi%2Caps%2C200&sr=8-1 PLUS, TODAY WE CELEBRATE: D-Dayhttps://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/world-war-ii-d-day-invasion-normandyThe D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. The beaches were given the code names UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, and SWORD. The invasion force included 7,000 ships and landing craft manned by over 195,000 naval personnel from eight allied countries. Almost 133,000 troops from the United States, the British Commonwealth, and their allies, landed on D-Day. Casualties from these countries during the landing numbered 10,300. By June 30, over 850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies had landed on the Normandy shores. Fighting by the brave soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied forces western front, and Russian forces on the eastern front, led to the defeat of German Nazi forces. On May 7, 1945, German General Alfred Jodl signed an unconditional surrender at Reims, France.
The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. The beaches were given the code names UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, and SWORD. The invasion force included 7,000 ships and landing craft manned by over 195,000 naval personnel from eight allied countries. Almost 133,000 troops from the United States, the British Commonwealth, and their allies, landed on D-Day. Casualties from these countries during the landing numbered 10,300. By June 30, over 850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies had landed on the Normandy shores. Fighting by the brave soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied forces western front, and Russian forces on the eastern front, led to the defeat of German Nazi forces. On May 7, 1945, German General Alfred Jodl signed an unconditional surrender at Reims, France.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This Day in Legal History: South Africa EstablishedOn May 31, 1910, the Union of South Africa was established, marking a significant moment in the nation's history as it unified the previously separate colonies of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal, and the Orange Free State under British dominion. This union created a self-governing dominion within the British Empire, granting it considerable autonomy while still recognizing the British monarch. The formation of the Union set the stage for a centralized government, which would later play a crucial role in the institutionalization of apartheid.Exactly fifty-one years later, on May 31, 1961, the Republic of South Africa was proclaimed. This pivotal event signified South Africa's transition from a dominion of the British Commonwealth to an independent republic. This move was largely driven by rising nationalist sentiments and the desire to break free from British influence. The establishment of the Republic came after a referendum in 1960, where a narrow majority of white voters supported the change.The creation of the Republic also marked South Africa's exit from the British Commonwealth, reflecting its increasingly isolated position on the global stage due to its apartheid policies. These policies would continue to draw international condemnation and sanctions, leading to significant internal and external pressure for reform. The legal and political landscape of South Africa underwent dramatic changes during this period, shaping the country's future and its eventual path towards democracy and the end of apartheid in the early 1990s.Yesterday, on Thursday May 30, 2024, Donald Trump made history as the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. A New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business documents to conceal a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. The jury deliberated for two days before delivering a unanimous verdict on all 34 felony counts. Trump remained stoic as the verdict was read and later declared the trial a sham, asserting his innocence and vowing to appeal.Sentencing is scheduled for July 11, just before the Republican Party's nomination process for the November election. The crime carries a maximum sentence of four years, but Trump will not be jailed before sentencing. This conviction adds complexity to the upcoming election, with Trump aiming to reclaim the White House from President Joe Biden. Despite the verdict, Trump's legal troubles do not disqualify him from running for office.The case revolved around Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen's testimony about a $130,000 hush money payment to Daniels, which was disguised as legal expenses. Cohen's credibility was a major focus during the trial, but the jury believed the evidence supported his claims. The swift verdict indicated strong juror consensus on Trump's guilt.The Biden campaign emphasized that the verdict demonstrates no one is above the law, urging voters to reject Trump in the election. Meanwhile, Trump's campaign labeled him a political prisoner and hinted at selecting a female vice-presidential candidate. This landmark case, though deemed the least consequential of Trump's legal challenges, significantly impacts his political future and the nation's political landscape.Donald Trump becomes first US president convicted of a crime | ReutersA lawsuit filed by a Twitter investor claims that Elon Musk ignored repeated warnings about U.S. securities disclosure obligations while secretly amassing shares in Twitter in 2022. According to the lawsuit, a Morgan Stanley executive who assisted Musk in this process repeatedly informed Musk and his aide, Jared Birchall, about the need to disclose when their stake exceeded 5%. Despite discussing these requirements, Musk and Birchall allegedly delayed disclosure to buy shares at lower prices, saving Musk over $200 million.The Oklahoma firefighters pension fund accuses Musk of defrauding investors by concealing his growing stake, thereby acquiring shares at "artificially depressed prices." The lawsuit claims that Birchall falsely assured the Morgan Stanley executive that legal advice had been sought when it had not been until Musk's stake exceeded 9%.Musk eventually acquired Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022, renaming it X. The lawsuit contends that Musk and Birchall deliberately ignored disclosure requirements to avoid increased costs and public scrutiny. Musk's lawyers have argued that any failure to disclose was inadvertent, attributing it to Musk's busy schedule. This incident is part of Musk's ongoing conflict with the SEC, which began in 2018 over a misleading tweet about taking Tesla private.Musk disregarded warnings, hid Twitter stake, US lawsuit claims | ReutersOn May 30, 2024, U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts denied a request from Democratic Senators Dick Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse for a meeting to discuss Justice Samuel Alito's recusal from cases related to the 2020 election. The senators raised concerns after reports that flags linked to former President Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election were displayed at Alito's homes. They argued that Alito's impartiality was compromised, citing the flags' association with the "Stop the Steal" movement.Roberts responded that chief justices rarely meet with lawmakers and emphasized the need to maintain judicial independence. He noted that meeting with senators from only one party would be inappropriate, especially concerning matters currently pending before the court. Durbin's spokesperson disagreed, stating that the intent was to restore the court's credibility.Alito, in letters to the senators, refused to recuse himself, asserting that the flag incidents did not warrant recusal under the justices' guidelines. He clarified that the flags were flown by his wife, exercising her free speech rights, and that he had no involvement. Alito's refusal to step aside drew criticism about the Supreme Court's ethics standards and lack of enforcement mechanisms.The two cases in question involve Trump's claim of presidential immunity from prosecution for his actions related to the 2020 election and an obstruction charge against a participant in the January 6 Capitol riot. Both cases have already been argued, with rulings expected by the end of June.US Supreme Court's Roberts rebuffs senators' call for Alito meeting | ReutersThis week's closing theme is by Franz Joseph Haydn, who died on this day in 1809. Franz Joseph Haydn, often hailed as the "Father of the Symphony" and the "Father of the String Quartet," was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Born in 1732 in Rohrau, Austria, Haydn's career spanned the late Baroque and early Romantic periods, marking a significant evolution in the structure and style of classical music. His innovative approaches to form and harmony laid the groundwork for future generations of composers, including Mozart and Beethoven.One of Haydn's most beloved works is his Symphony No. 94 in G Major, famously known as the "Surprise Symphony." This nickname comes from the sudden, unexpected loud chord that punctuates the otherwise soft and gentle second movement, designed to startle the audience. Premiered in London in 1792, this symphony is part of Haydn's twelve "London Symphonies," which he composed during his highly successful visits to England.The second movement, Andante, is particularly famous for its charming theme and variations, showcasing Haydn's wit and creativity. The "Surprise" element reflects his playful personality and his desire to engage and delight listeners. As you enjoy this week's closing theme, let the elegance and ingenuity of Haydn's composition remind you of the timeless beauty of classical music.Without further ado, Symphony no. 94 in G 'Surprise', H. I:94 - II, by Franz Joseph Haydn. Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe
Philip Salom began publishing in 1980 and since then has written fifteen books of poetry and six novels. His book Sky Poems won the British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize in London for the overall Best Book of Poetry in the British Commonwealth and his first book The Silent Piano won the earlier Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Book. He has published two collections of poetry written through heteronyms. The Keeper of Fish and Keeping Carter feature strongly lyric author-characters Alan Fish and M A Carter respectively and these two books complete the poetry trilogy begun with Keepers (2010). Keepers is a hybrid verse-novel set in a Creative Arts School. Salom's poetry collection The Well Mouth features poems, voices, portraits and an underlying narrative in prose. The Well Mouth was named a Sydney Morning Herald Book of the Year and an Adelaide Review Book of the Year.In 2015, Salom's poetry collection Alterworld completed the trllogy made up of Sky Poems, The Well Mouth and new work – Alterworld. His collection Hologrammatical was published in 2023. His highly acclaimed novels Waiting, The Returns and The Fifth Season have been listed for awards including the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2017, 2020 and 2021. His earlier novel Toccata and Rain was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the WA Premiers Prize for Fiction, and Playback won the WA Premiers Prize for Fiction. In 2003, he was recognised with the Christopher Brennan Prize which is Australia's most prestigious lifetime award for poets – for "poetry of sustained quality and distinction".His poetry collection Hologrammatical can be purchased here: https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/hologrammatical-poems-2012-2022/(link is external)His novel Sweeney and the Bicycles can be purchased here: https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/sweeney-and-the-bicycles/(link is external)Production and Interview: Dr Tina GiannoukosPicture: Meredith Kidby
Philip Salom began publishing in 1980 and since then has written fifteen books of poetry and six novels. His book Sky Poems won the British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize in London for the overall Best Book of Poetry in the British Commonwealth and his first book The Silent Piano won the earlier Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Book. He has published two collections of poetry written through heteronyms. The Keeper of Fish and Keeping Carter feature strongly lyric author-characters Alan Fish and M A Carter respectively and these two books complete the poetry trilogy begun with Keepers (2010). Keepers is a hybrid verse-novel set in a Creative Arts School. Salom's poetyry collection The Well Mouth feature poems, voices, portraits and an underlying narrative in prose. The Well Mouth was named a Sydney Morning Herald Book of the Year and an Adelaide Review Book of the Year.In 2015, Salom's poetry collection Alterworld completed the trllogy made up of Sky Poems, The Well Mouth and new work – Alterworld. His collection Hologrammatical was published in 2023. His highly acclaimed novels Waiting, The Returns and The Fifth Season have been listed for awards including the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2017, 2020 and 2021. His earlier novel Toccata and Rain was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the WA Premiers Prize for Fiction, and Playback won the WA Premiers Prize for Fiction. In 2003, he was recognised with the Christopher Brennan Prize which is Australia's most prestigious lifetime award for poets – for "poetry of sustained quality and distinction".His poetry collection Hologrammatical can be purchased here: https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/hologrammatical-poems-2012-2022/His novel Sweeney and the Bicycles can be purchased here: https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/sweeney-and-the-bicycles/ Production and Interview: Dr Tina Giannoukos Picture: Meredith Kidby
This Day in Legal History: Republic of Ireland ActOn April 18, 1949, a significant transformation in Ireland's political and legal landscape occurred with the enactment of the Republic of Ireland Act. This pivotal legislation marked the culmination of Ireland's progressive move towards full sovereignty, severing the last formal ties with the British monarchy. Previously, the Executive Authority Act had designated the King of England as the head of state in Ireland, a symbolic vestige of the colonial relationship that had long influenced Irish governance.The Republic of Ireland Act, passed by the Irish parliament, Dáil Éireann, in 1948, came into effect on Easter Monday, 1949, resonating symbolically with the 1916 Easter Rising, a key event in Ireland's struggle for independence. By declaring Ireland a republic, the Act definitively removed the role of the British monarch in Irish affairs and also led to Ireland's exit from the British Commonwealth. This move was both a statement of national identity and a reflection of Ireland's desire for complete self-governance.The Act also had profound implications for the legal system in Ireland. It entailed the establishment of a presidential office, replacing the governor-general, a representative of the crown. The first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, thus assumed a role that was more clearly defined in terms of national rather than imperial allegiance. Furthermore, the Act necessitated adjustments in the Irish constitution and prompted a series of legislative revisions to align national law with the newly affirmed republic status.Internationally, the Republic of Ireland Act altered Ireland's position on the world stage, allowing it to establish and maintain foreign relations as a fully sovereign state. It represented a shift towards non-alignment and neutrality in international affairs, a stance that Ireland has maintained since.The enactment of the Republic of Ireland Act was met with mixed reactions. While it was a moment of patriotic pride for many, symbolizing a definitive break from colonial rule, it also provoked concerns among unionists in Northern Ireland, exacerbating tensions that were already present.Today, the Republic of Ireland Act remains a cornerstone of Irish constitutional law and a testament to Ireland's enduring commitment to self-determination and independence. Its anniversary serves as a reminder of the long and often tumultuous path to establishing a republic that stands as an equal on the international stage.The criminal trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump in New York faced a significant development when a juror was excused after expressing feelings of intimidation due to her identity being partially exposed by the media. This incident highlights the intense scrutiny and pressures surrounding this high-profile case, which marks the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. The judge, Justice Juan Merchan, took steps to protect jurors' anonymity and issued a partial gag order on Trump following his criticism of court officials and witnesses.The trial centers on allegations that Trump falsified business records to conceal hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. Trump, who is concurrently facing three other criminal prosecutions, has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts in the Manhattan case. His legal team argues that no willful violations of the gag order have occurred, despite accusations from prosecutors of repeated breaches by Trump, particularly on social media.The jury selection process reveals the polarized opinions about Trump, complicating the search for unbiased jurors in heavily Democratic Manhattan. The trial's outcome holds significant political stakes, with a Reuters/Ipsos poll indicating that a conviction could sway voters' opinions in the upcoming election. As the trial proceeds, the focus is on forming a complete jury, with opening statements anticipated next week if the jury is fully seated. The entire trial is expected to last six to eight weeks, potentially concluding before the November presidential election.Trump hush money trial loses juror who felt intimidated, judge says | ReutersA federal appeals court has ruled that U.S. Circuit Judge Don Willett does not need to recuse himself from a case involving a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that caps credit card late fees, despite his son owning stock in Citigroup. The ruling came after concerns were raised about a potential conflict of interest given Citigroup's stake in the outcome of the case, as the company is significantly involved in the credit card industry and is a member of the groups challenging the CFPB's rule.The issue surfaced when Politico reported on Willett's financial interest following a court decision he authored, which moved the case from Texas to Washington, D.C. In response, Willett disclosed that the contested stock was part of his son's education savings account, valued around $2,000. The Judicial Conference's Committee on Codes of Conduct, after reviewing the matter, advised that the connection to Citigroup's performance in the stock market was too indirect to necessitate Willett's recusal.The committee's opinion, authored by U.S. District Judge Gerald McHugh, emphasized that the potential effect on Citigroup's stock was speculative and did not directly impact Willett's impartiality in the case. The CFPB rule at the heart of the case seeks to limit what it terms "excessive" late fees charged by credit card issuers, which reportedly cost consumers approximately $12 billion annually. It mandates that issuers with over a million accounts can charge no more than $8 for late payments unless they justify higher fees. This significant reduction from the previously allowed fees aims to curb financial burdens on consumers. The legal battle continues as part of broader discussions about regulatory oversight and consumer rights within the financial sector.US judge in credit card fee rule case doesn't have to recuse, panel says | ReutersCorizon Health Inc., a distressed prison health-care company, has utilized a controversial bankruptcy strategy known as the Texas Two-Step, affecting inmates who face legal challenges due to limited access to resources. This maneuver involves spinning off liabilities to a new entity, Tehum Care Services Inc., which then filed for bankruptcy, impacting hundreds of inmates with pending personal injury claims. These inmates are now in a precarious position as they await Tehum's decision on how to handle their claims, further complicated by their confinement and limited legal knowledge.A recent judicial decision underscored the challenges faced by these inmates; a judge rejected a proposed $54 million settlement for medical malpractice claims, noting that it was unclear if the affected inmates were even aware of the settlement. This situation highlights the broader issue of inmates' difficulty in accessing timely and accurate legal information, a problem exacerbated by their reliance on the prison's mail system, which is notoriously slow and unreliable.Additionally, the case brings attention to the broader implications of such bankruptcy strategies on the prison health-care sector. If Tehum's strategy succeeds, it might set a precedent for other troubled medical providers to follow suit, potentially affecting more inmates. Critics argue that approving such settlements without proper consent from all parties involved is unfair and deprives inmates of their rights to seek further legal recourse.The case also reflects the systemic issues within prison healthcare services, as other companies like Armor Health Management LLC and YesCare Corp face similar challenges with legal claims and financial instability. The ongoing legal battles and the potential setting of a precedent with Tehum's bankruptcy case highlight the urgent need for reforms in how medical care and legal issues are handled in the prison system, ensuring fair treatment and access to justice for incarcerated individuals.Prison Health Company Bankruptcy Poses Unique Hurdles to InmatesA Texas federal jury has determined that Samsung Electronics must pay $142 million to G+ Communications for infringing on G+ patents related to 5G wireless technology used in Samsung's Galaxy smartphones. The jury specified the compensation amounts as $61 million for one patent and $81 million for another. This verdict follows a retrial on damages ordered by Chief U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, who questioned the clarity of the previous $67.5 million award given in January, debating whether it should be a lump sum or a running royalty.The lawsuit was initiated by G+ in 2022, accusing Samsung of using its patented technology in 5G-capable Galaxy phones without obtaining the necessary licenses. G+ holds patents that have been recognized as essential for meeting international 5G standards. In defense, Samsung contested the validity of these patents and argued that G+ had not offered licensing terms that were fair and reasonable as required by standards organizations.The case underscores ongoing legal battles over patent rights in the rapidly advancing field of 5G technology, highlighting the significant financial stakes involved. The outcome of this case could have broader implications for technology companies and the enforcement of standard-essential patents. This verdict marks a notable development in intellectual property law, especially concerning the telecommunications industry.Samsung owes $142 mln in wireless patent case, jury says | Reuters Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe
Did you know the words to “God Save the King”? It's the national anthem of the United Kingdom and it's also the royal anthem of many of the nations which form the British Commonwealth. Do you know the words? It's a well known song around the world and it's actually a prayer. On Psalm Sunday the crowds cried out, “Hosanna!” Chances are good that you sang it last Sunday in church. And this too is a prayer – but it's a very different and remarkable prayer.
This Day in Legal History: Jamaican Independence On this day in legal history, February 9, 1962, marks a significant milestone for Jamaica as it achieved full independence, breaking away from the Federation of the West Indies. This pivotal moment in Jamaican history was the culmination of a long journey towards sovereignty, reflecting the island nation's desire for self-governance and control over its own destiny. Despite its newfound independence, Jamaica chose to remain a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, signifying a continued, albeit altered, relationship with the United Kingdom.The transition to independence was not merely a political formality but a transformative legal and social shift that laid the foundation for Jamaica's future. As a fully independent nation, Jamaica adopted its own constitution, which established the legal framework for the government and guaranteed the rights and freedoms of its citizens. This constitution reflected Jamaica's unique identity and aspirations, incorporating both the legacy of British legal traditions and the influences of Jamaican culture and values.The decision to remain within the Commonwealth underscored Jamaica's commitment to maintaining ties with other nations that shared a common history and set of values, while also asserting its autonomy on the world stage. This dual approach allowed Jamaica to forge its path in international relations, trade, and legal cooperation, benefiting from the solidarity and support of the Commonwealth network.Jamaica's independence day is not only a celebration of its past struggles for sovereignty but also a recognition of the legal and democratic principles that continue to guide the nation. It serves as a reminder of the importance of self-determination, the rule of law, and the ongoing quest for justice and equality. As Jamaicans reflect on their journey since 1962, they celebrate the resilience and spirit that have defined their nation's history and look forward to a future shaped by their own hands.In the years following independence, Jamaica has made significant strides in developing its legal system, economy, and social structures, striving to address the challenges that face a modern nation while preserving the rich cultural heritage that is uniquely Jamaican. The anniversary of independence is not just a moment to reflect on the past but an opportunity to renew the commitment to building a just, prosperous, and equitable society for all Jamaicans.The recent affirmation of the suspension of 96-year-old Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman has sparked debate over the ethics laws governing the evaluation of federal judges for potential disability and misconduct. This decision, upheld by the US Judicial Conference's Committee on Conduct and Disability, marks only the third written decision in over three years by the panel, emphasizing the rarity of such actions. The Committee found no error in the investigation led by Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore, indicating thorough compliance with procedural standards. However, this has led to discussions about whether the deference shown to the Judicial Council's decision was appropriate, particularly in the context of suspending an Article III judge.Legal experts are divided on the matter. While some, like Professor Arthur Hellman of the University of Pittsburgh, suggest that the standard of review might need to be more stringent when suspending a judge appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, others like Professor Paul Gugliuzza of Temple Law School see the Committee's deferential standard as fitting within typical appellate review practices. The case has also highlighted concerns over how the judiciary handles investigations of its own, with some arguing that there is generally too much deference to judges investigating peers, yet acknowledging that the Newman case is an example of the judiciary attempting accountability.Aliza Shatzman, from the Legal Accountability Project, pointed out broader issues related to the aging federal judiciary and the silence often maintained by judicial clerks and employees due to fear of reputational damage. The Newman case involved complaints from a former judicial assistant and a clerk about being assigned personal tasks, which Judge Newman allegedly dismissed as insignificant.Jeremy Fogel, a retired federal judge, suggested that the judiciary lacks a sophisticated system for assessing judges' cognitive functions, leading to ad hoc and confrontational situations. He proposed a regular assessment protocol to avoid personal conflicts and ensure fair evaluations. The controversy surrounding Judge Newman's suspension underscores the need for a more refined system to address the challenges posed by an aging judiciary, balancing the need for accountability with respect for the complexities of judicial service.Judge Newman's Upheld Suspension Has Some Questioning Ethics LawAt the U.S. Supreme Court, former President Donald Trump's legal challenge against being disqualified from the Colorado ballot for his alleged role in the 2021 Capitol insurrection appeared likely to succeed. During the proceedings, justices from both conservative and liberal wings expressed skepticism toward the argument that Trump could be removed from the ballot under the 14th Amendment, which prohibits individuals who engaged in insurrection against the U.S. from holding office. The case, triggered by a Colorado court's decision, has significant implications for the 2024 presidential election, where Trump is a leading Republican contender.The justices grappled with the application of the 14th Amendment's Section 3, questioning whether a state could unilaterally impact the national election outcome by disqualifying a presidential candidate. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan highlighted the potential for a few states to dictate election results, emphasizing the national scope of presidential eligibility. Meanwhile, Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed out the democratic principle of allowing people to choose their candidates, suggesting that disqualifying Trump could disenfranchise voters.The attorney for the plaintiffs, Jason Murray, argued that Trump's actions to undermine the 2020 election results justified his disqualification, whereas Trump's lawyer, Jonathan Mitchell, contended that even if a candidate admitted to insurrection, Section 3 would allow them to run and potentially win, leaving any sanctions to post-election congressional action.Trump, speaking in Florida, expressed confidence in the Supreme Court and his legal arguments, viewing the case as part of a broader attempt to exclude him from the ballot. This Supreme Court case echoes the institution's critical role in the 2000 presidential election, with the justices revisiting historical precedents to interpret Section 3's enforcement.The debate also touched on the nature of the January 6 Capitol riot, with Mitchell asserting it was a riot rather than an insurrection, a point challenged by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The case underscores the complex interplay between constitutional law, electoral politics, and the judiciary's role in adjudicating disputes that have far-reaching consequences for American democracy.Trump ballot disqualification bid gets skeptical US Supreme Court reception | ReutersGenesis Global, a cryptocurrency lender, has reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, marking a significant step in resolving its legal challenges amid bankruptcy proceedings. The lawsuit, filed last year by James, accused Genesis, along with its parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG) and the crypto firm Gemini Trust Co, of defrauding investors out of over $1 billion through the Gemini Earn program. This program allowed customers to lend their crypto assets to Genesis in return for interest.The settlement, pending approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, entails Genesis agreeing to halt its business operations within New York state. This development follows closely on the heels of Genesis settling another lawsuit with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission concerning the same Earn program. As part of that settlement, Genesis agreed to a $21 million fine, contingent upon its ability to fully reimburse its customers during the bankruptcy process.These legal resolutions represent a crucial phase for Genesis as it navigates through bankruptcy, aiming to alleviate its legal entanglements and financial obligations. The outcomes of these settlements could significantly impact Genesis's future operations and its efforts to address the claims of its creditors and customers. Bankrupt Genesis Global settles NY Attorney General's lawsuit | ReutersThis week's closing theme is by Luigi Boccherini. Born on February 19, 1743, in Lucca, Italy, Boccherini was a distinguished composer and cellist of the Classical era, celebrated for his significant contributions to chamber music. His rich musical legacy is characterized by elegance, lyrical beauty, and the sophisticated use of the cello, an instrument he profoundly mastered and elevated in the classical music canon. Boccherini's extensive body of work includes over one hundred string quintets, quartets, and trios, alongside numerous symphonies and concertos. Despite his substantial output and unique style, Boccherini's compositions were somewhat overshadowed by his contemporaries, such as Haydn and Mozart. 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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1042, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: HayEs. With Hay in quotes 1: A type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes. hay fever. 2: A huge punch that usually results in a knockout. a haymaker. 3: Out of control, disordered, crazy. haywire. 4: To glide or move nonchalantly across the floor. sashay. 5: This revolt, chiefly by farmers, took place in Massachusetts in 1786. Shays' Rebellion. Round 2. Category: Slogans And Mottoes 1: The FBI's motto is "fidelity, bravery," this. integrity. 2: "With a name like" this one, "it has to be good!". Smuckers. 3: A flag of the American Revolution featured a coiled rattlesnake above this 4-word motto. dont tread on me. 4: A Republican slogan of 1856 mentioned, among other things, free soil, free press and him. Fremont. 5: "Because I'm worth it". L'Oréal. Round 3. Category: Beloved Poems 1: "If I should die" wrote WWI poet Rupert Brooke, "... some corner of a foreign field ... is forever" this jolly old place. England. 2: Completes the final lines of a Longfellow poem: "Thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life some ...". rain must fall. 3: Auden's "Funeral Blues" became a favorite of mourners after it was featured in this Hugh Grant film. Four Weddings and a Funeral. 4: "Breathes there the man, with" this "so dead, who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!". soul. 5: 19th century bard George Pope Morris wrote the poem urging, "Woodman", do this. spare that tree. Round 4. Category: Weapons 1: An AA gun is a weapon designed as anti- this. aircraft. 2: These machines work like giant slingshots; medieval men used them to hurl stones at and over walls. catapults. 3: In the Marine Corps the next rank up from PFC has this weapon in its name. lance. 4: According to legend, you can destroy a vampire by driving one of these thru his heart. stake. 5: In the 1600s, Phineas Fletcher called it "the coward's weapon". poison. Round 5. Category: Adjectival Country Names 1: It's the island of Great Britain plus a bit more. the United Kingdom. 2: In 1961 this nation withdrew from the British Commonwealth over member criticism of its apartheid policies. South Africa. 3: Caribbean country bearing the name of an order of Catholic priests. Dominican Republic. 4: The Cook Strait separates the 2 main parts of this Southern Hemisphere country. New Zealand. 5: The adjective in its 2-word name comes from the nation's position near 0 degrees latitude. Equatorial Guinea. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used
In examining some Messianic Jewish teaching materials, they explained to me that the Commonwealth of Israel is made up of both the Jewish people and the Church, sort of like the British Commonwealth. They have actually said that as a non-Jewish Believer, I am really not a part of Israel, only the Commonwealth. Does this viewpoint have any legitimacy?
Remembrance day is observed tomorrow across the British Commonwealth and United States where we will all be subjected to painful displays of virtue signalling from political figures and talking heads that have done nothing but undermine and destroy the values those men believed they were fighting for. If any of them could have been shown the state of their homes today, not one soul would have volunteered. The betrayal of our people spans generations with the current crop of "leaders" selling off the last pieces of what remained for a bigger pool, fatter pension and more time at the podium for votes. I hate them all. So should you. https://www.givesendgo.com/lysakdefensefund
In the summer of 2022, coin expert Brian Iseman stumbled on a trove of long-forgotten personal military possessions belonging to the family of Lt. Myer Tutzer Cohen. Cohen, from Toronto, was the first Canadian Jewish soldier to win the Military Cross for bravery in the Great War—and possibly the first in Canadian history to do so. Iseman quickly realized he needed to buy the collection to save it from being sold off, even though at the time, he didn't know who Cohen was, nor was he aware of the young soldier's remarkable achievements fighting against the Germans on the western front during the First World War. Cohen was the son of one of the founders of Toronto's Holy Blossom Temple, and attended Harbord Collegiate high school. He was killed holding the line and badly outnumbered on the rain-soaked, muddy battlefields at Passchendaele on Nov. 3, 1917. His death came just a few weeks after he had been awarded the British Commonwealth's second-highest military medal, the Military Cross, for taking out two German patrols in no man's land in France, then capturing the rest as prisoners. Iseman has rescued an important piece of Canadian history, and connected with Cohen's surviving family in Israel while documenting the young officer's life. Now, he is looking for suggestions on where he can best share Cohen's colourful story with the world. As we approach Remembrance Day this Saturday Nov. 11, The CJN Daily host Ellin Bessner visited Iseman at his Richmond Hill office to see the lost Lt. Myer Tutzer Cohen collection. What we talked about Learn more about Lt. Myer Tutzer Cohen in The CJN archives. See a display about Lt. Myer Tutzer Cohen in the lobby of Beth Tzedec synagogue in Toronto until the end of this week. How Canadian Jews contributed to the country's military history, in The CJN's “Northern Lights” book. Credits The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our theme music is by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To subscribe to this podcast, please watch this video. Donate to The CJN and receive a charitable tax receipt by clicking here.
Show Notes and Transcript New York Times bestselling author and award winning journalist Richard Poe always gives great context and depth to news stories so he returns to Hearts of Oak for a leftfield conversation concerning Britain and Africa. Last year, Italy's Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni suddenly started denouncing French neo-colonialism, blaming them for keeping Africa poor and forcing the inhabitants to flee to Europe. Richard asks if she is focussing in the right direction, is it not the British who are destabilising Africa through economic levers and intelligence operations? We have seen African governments falling like dominoes with 7 coups in just three years. What lies behind these and are they connected or just purely random? Richard Poe is a New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He has written widely on business, science, history and politics. His books include The Shadow Party, co-written with David Horowitz; The Einstein Factor, co-written with Win Wenger; Perfect Fear: Four Tales of Terror; Black Spark, White Fire; the WAVE series of network marketing books; and many more. Richard was formerly editor of David Horowitz's FrontPageMag, contributing editor of NewsMax, senior editor of SUCCESS magazine, reporter for the New York Post, and managing editor of the East Village Eye. Connect with Richard... WEBSITE: https://www.richardpoe.com/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RealRichardPoe?s=20 SUBSTACK: https://richardpoe.substack.com/ BOOKS: https://amzn.eu/d/18lNMtp Interview recorded 8.9.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20 To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more...https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! Subscribe now Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Hello, Hearts of Oak, and welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with Richard Poe, who re-joined us. He was last with us when we looked at his book, The Shadow Party, looking at George Soros and his control, power, and influence. And today we look at something completely different, and that is a thread that he put up on Twitter titled, Are the British Destabilizing Africa? And this is from a video that Giorgia Meloni, the Italian PM, put up denouncing French neo-colonialism and I often think well the Brits did good in Africa but maybe the French and the Belgians and the Germans and they were a bit naughty. But Richard brings his deep understanding, his delves deep into this subject and, exposes maybe why that thinking is not necessarily correct, how the British have been closely involved, look an economic side of it but also the intelligence services and how they operate and look in some of the recent coups, maybe what lies behind that a little bit. So much to pack into this huge subject. Richard Poe, it is wonderful to have you back with us again. Thank you so much for joining us again today. (Richard Poe) Thanks, Peter, it's great to be here. Great, and we're going to go through quite a bit. Just before we jump in, I'll just say to the viewers, that Richard is well worth following because his tweets actually bring something quite different. Bring the historical side to a lot of what happens and I think the conservatives movement can often be guilty of kind of in your face what's happened that morning and by the afternoon it's old news and just for our viewers and listeners I think Richard brings context often to stories that are happening but whenever Richard is last on we look through his book The Shadow Party. How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and the 60s radicals seize control of the Democratic Party. That is in the description for you to go back and have a look at and delve deeper into that topic. But he is a bestseller on many other books but that's what we stuck on and of course former editor of Front Page Magazine and we've had David Horowitz on with us before. But Richard there, people can obviously find you @RealRichardPoe, richardpoe.com, the website, and Richard Poe on Substack. Everything is in there for the viewer and listeners to take advantage of. Richard, one tweet that caught my eye, and we will delve a little bit into that, is on Africa and the Brits. And as much as I like blaming the French for everything as a Brit, that is our national pastime, sometimes the British have been at fault over history for a few things. If it hasn't been the French, it's probably been the Brits or the Belgians maybe. But there was a statement I think by Georgia Meloni, the Premier of Italy, and she had started denouncing French neo-colonialism and you had put up about the British destabilizing Africa. Do you want to maybe just begin with that and set out why we can't point the fingers solely at the French? Right. Well, basically, I knew something about, let's call it the neo-colonial infrastructure of Africa, because I was actually hired by a think tank, oh, more than 10 years ago to do a paper on that subject. And for various reasons, it was never published, but it was extremely eye-opening. What I basically discovered, to my astonishment, was that the EU, and in particular Great Britain, France as well, but really Great Britain more than anyone else, had essentially continued their colonial relationship beyond the date when these various African countries supposedly became independent, that what they actually did, they being the various European colonial powers, is they simply set up alternate structures through various kinds of diplomatic channels and the UN system as it was being set up. So that the UN today. Really is a neo-colonial structure. And that's really what I discovered in this research, which again, never saw the light of day. A topic I may write about someday in my memoirs. But so I had studied this in some detail, these NGOs and international treaties and such that had been set up for the very purpose of making sure that those European countries which had formerly owned colonies in Africa continued to maintain that relationship. So specifically the Anglophone colonies that were English speaking, maintained their relationship with Great Britain. The Francophone colonies maintained their relationship with France and so on. And in the 1957 Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Commission, or community. This relationship was actually formalized, whereas the countries which had been former colonies, and I think the way they put it in the treaty, they didn't call them colonies, but they said countries in Africa having a special relationship to members of the EEC, would have a certain kind of membership in the EEC. I think they were called associated members. And they would have a special diplomatic and economic relationship with the EEC, trade privileges and so forth. So maybe because I researched this so deeply, I don't want to bore your viewers with so many details, but the bottom line is, so in the last few weeks on Twitter, we've suddenly seen an uproar from, especially from certain influencers with these coups that have been happening in Africa. In particular, there have been six coups in three years. In a number of countries, most of which are former French colonies. In fact, all of which are former French colonies except Sudan, and the cry has gone out that at last the freedom-loving people of Africa are getting on their feet and overthrowing the yoke of French colonialism. This map has been getting wide circulation and all this enthusiasm from people on Twitter about overthrowing French colonialism. So I thought this was remarkable for a couple of different reasons. First of all, I thought French colonialism was overthrown a long time ago, or at least that's the official story. I remember as a kid, you know, in the 1960s, that was the big thing. The end of colonialism. It's all over. And, you know, these nationalist leaders in Africa who had become, you know, the first presidents of the newly independent countries. These were big pop culture heroes in the 60s. And so now so many decades later to say, finally at last French colonialism is being overthrown. So on the one hand I thought that was interesting because it broke with the pop culture narrative that we were all brought up with that colonialism ended decades ago. All of a sudden it's here, it's now, and it's being overthrown in the year 2023. But the other thing that caught my attention is that they were specifically referring to French colonialism, when in fact there were several colonial powers, in Africa. There was Great Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, the list goes on. And in the case of Italy and Germany, their colonies were taken away because of world wars. But still, there were several colonial powers that remained, which still considered themselves officially, quote unquote, responsible for their former colonies, which meant, especially in the case of France, that they would intervene militarily in those countries when they felt there was some need to do so. And the French in particular have done this probably more than any other quote unquote former colonial power, but the British do it too. They just have a more subtle way of doing it. And so this is what I discovered that think tank research had done more than 10 years ago. So that was the second reason that I was, or the third reason that I was surprised by this sudden enthusiasm for throwing off the yoke of French colonialism, because I knew that in fact there was such a thing as French colonialism, and there was in fact such a thing as EU colonialism. The EU itself as a bureaucratic entity has directly involved itself in the management and admin of the African continent. And so I knew all these things, but most people don't. And it just was surprising to me to suddenly see this acknowledgment of that colonial relationship which in the past had been very controversial and hushed up and denied. Can I ask, because I've been reading a book on tax havens and delving into that world, understanding about money flows, and the book basically starts with the French, takes Gabon as an example of how the French set up the president there, and the coup has supposedly removed his son Ali Bongo and they use this as an example of how the French control large parts of Africa and I read that as a Brit thinking you see France have been really bad we're actually Africa should be thanking the Brits for what we've done for education roads and is is that a very simplistic view of Africa. Well, when you say simplistic you mean the view that Africa was actually better off under colonialism? Yes, because I know I've seen stuff and I've seen even you retweeted the thought that actually what Africa needs is for those colonial powers to go back and to fix it once again. That obviously would not be a popular view in many parts of Africa with the whole conversation about payments, colonial payments, repatriations, all of that. But my simplistic view is, well, Britain could actually fix that, build a few more roads, a few more hospitals, a few more schools, and life would be good again. Is that view extremely simplistic? Well, I would simply have to confess that I don't know, in answer to that question. The fact is, what I'm learning now, excuse me, the research that I'm doing now about the American Revolution and the economic and financial reasons for, the reasons why our founding fathers wanted independence from England in the first place, I'm really learning a lot about the colonial system and how it works. And you know, there are people in America who say essentially the same thing. We're not quite in as bad of a fix as Africa yet, although we seem to be headed that direction pretty quickly. There are people in America who are monarchists and who are questioning whether we were better off under the British, as strange as that might seem to you. And you're seeing that more and more. I think it's being pushed a little bit on social media in some quarters as a kind of PSYOP, and the fact is, you really have to dig to some extent to try to figure out, you know, why did the founding fathers feel so strongly that they needed to get away from England? And there actually were some really compelling reasons, most of which had to do with an extremely oppressive economic system that was enforced by law, in particular by the so-called Navigation Act, whose effect was basically to keep the colonies by force of law in a situation where we had to produce raw materials, food, crops, tobacco, cotton, things like that, and to sell them very cheaply in England and then to get all of our manufacturers from England, where they were beginning to have their industrial revolution and we had to buy them more expensively. And this is the heart and soul of the colonial relationship. The colony produces raw materials and food and sells them to the, very cheaply. The mother country then sells us, the colony, everything that we need in terms of manufactured goods, but they sell them quite expensively. And so there is a permanently enforced balance of trade, which is wildly disadvantageous to the colonized state. And this system is enforced by local corruption, because in order to make such a system work, you have to get local people to support the colonial relationship, and you make them very, very rich, but at the expense of the majority of people. And the best illustration for that in the United States is the pre-Civil War South, the Antebellum South, where you had a cotton-producing economy, which was almost entirely run for Britain. Almost all the cotton was sold, I think more than 80 percent, was sold to Great Britain, which was, of course, at that time the leading producer of cotton textiles in the world. And so some people, like our little Harris family in Gone with the Wind, got very, very rich selling cotton to England. But the way they did it was by enslaving people and making them work for free as slaves. And it was argued at the time of the American Civil War and in the years leading up to it that this colonial system, that essentially the American South had been recolonized by England and that slavery was the result of that. This was argued by certain economists at the time who were sympathetic to the Northern position. They were saying that the institution of slavery in the South was a direct result of the elite southern planters whose livelihood depended on Great Britain, on trading with them. Always having to try to please their British buyers by keeping the price low because the British did have other places where they could go. They were constantly trying to develop other sources of high-quality cotton in Brazil, in India, in Egypt, in other places. And so the southern planters who were what modern scholars would call a colonial elite, they were a small portion of the population who enforced essentially a British colonial system because it made them rich personally, but it was at the cost of everyone else, where the black slaves and the poor whites as well, essentially there wasn't much left for them at the end. And they weren't allowed to develop an industrial economy because that's not what the British wanted. They wanted the South to remain an agrarian society that devoted itself to selling cotton. So this situation actually led directly to the American Civil War, which was the most terrible episode in our history. And I wrote an article about this called How the British caused the American Civil War. What happened is the North started to, trying to impose tariffs on overseas trade for the specific purpose of discouraging the southern planters from selling to England and the British did what they do when their colonial interests are threatened. They sent in their secret agents and their provocateurs and one in particular named Thomas Cooper, who was a British, apparently, intelligence agent. He had first gotten his start going to France and helping to stir up the French Revolution. Then he moved to South Carolina. He became a very prominent, respected person. He was a judge. And in 1828, he delivered a speech calling for secession of the South. And this speech is widely recognized by historians as having been the beginning of the Southern secession movement. So because of that and various other manoeuvres, including material assistance, which Great Britain gave to the South during the Civil War. It is very clear and in fact undeniable, although it's been scrubbed pretty much from our history books. It is undeniable that Great Britain caused and instigated the American Civil War and did everything in their power to help the South win. And you can see British newspapers and political speeches by British statesmen. There was no question that they were on the side of the South and they wanted the South to win and they tried very hard to intervene, including having the French put a very large army into Mexico, putting a lot of British troops into Canada. So, what I'm saying by this, Peter, is that when you look behind the scenes, when you look at the surface, you might think that colonialism, or British colonialism, is seemingly benign, and that it actually helps people who are in a lower phase of development to develop infrastructure and trade and education and health and all these things, that it brings in money, it brings in expertise, and all of that. But when you look a a little deeper, you realize that the intention of the colonializers or the colonizers, whatever. Is not fundamentally a good intention. That what they want is to set up economic relationships that are actually disadvantageous to the colonized country in the long run. And to maintain those relationships, even if it means tearing apart a country in civil war, and in our case a country of people of European and British and Irish stock, especially at that time. It wasn't even a matter of race, you know. It's just when those economic interests are threatened, the colonizing power becomes very ruthless and the colonial elites become loyal to a foreign country instead of to their own country, which is what happened in our South. So, on the one hand, yes, I would agree that this question of were certain parts of the world under colonialism, I don't want to answer with a knee-jerk response to say, oh, out with the colonizers, it's racist, it's sexist, it's homophobic, it's whatever. Yeah, I just threw in homophobic just for the heck of it. Actually, I don't even say that. But I mean, what I'm saying is I hear what you're saying, I hear your question and I absolutely don't go with the knee jerk. Woke or politically correct, autumn idea that colonialism was totally bad. I don't go with it. I think it's a complicated question. But I also think that my research into the colonial past of my own country, the United States shows that our relationship with England was in fact terribly damaging to our country. Even though there were good aspects to it as well, because our own industrialization of the building of the Great American Railroads, all of that was funded by British capital. So it's two sides of the same coin. But if you have a foreign country meddling in your affairs and doing things like causing secessions and civil wars, that's a very serious matter. So what would, what would Africa really be like? The narrative now is, well, look, it's in a hopeless condition. The dictators, genocides, wars, constant military coups, and so forth. And if the colonizing powers came back, maybe everything would be better and nicer. But it's not always in the interests of the colonizing powers to make everything nicer and better. And I guess that's what I'm saying. And I also would raise the question as to what extent, these troubles that we're having today are actually caused by covert interference, by the West and by the former colonial powers. And, I think in this case that we're talking about now with these former French colonies, there's some kind of psy-op going on where, for reasons, let's say reasons unknown. Whoever controls the political discourse on Twitter is pretending to be all excited about these military coups and pretending that it all has to do with some mass movement from the ground level of people who want to throw off the yoke of French colonialism. But the fact is, first of all, these countries, most of them have had many, many coups. It's not at all unusual. They're showing this map, they're saying, oh my gosh, six coups in three years. That's actually not so unusual, for those countries or others in Africa. And the other thing that's kind of weird about it is, are these really French colonies or former French colonies, or are they just nominally French colonies and actually some other countries among whom is Great Britain are actually calling the shots there. And so it gets into this, and so I guess on one level I'm saying yes it is it is simplistic if we assume that whatever the news tells us is correct that once upon a time there was colonial Africa then the colonial powers all left for some unstated reason, which is never really adequately explained. And then supposedly these African countries were on their own and then supposedly all hell broke loose and they all started killing and massacring each other. I think it probably is a little naïve to accept that narrative at face value. I am not at all convinced that that's exactly what happened. And what instead appears to have happened is that the old colonial system was replaced by a new colonial system, basically run by the United Nations system, and that these disorders were allowed to go on. And in fact, in some cases, encouraged to go on for all kinds of reasons. I'll give you one example. Yeah, give me an example and then I'll bring up another piece you had up, so go with your example. One famous example, of course, was the Rwandan genocide in 1994, where now Rwanda was a French colony and, in fact, while the genocide was happening, there were French troops there who were supposedly trying to stop it, and they were very sharply criticized for being strangely ineffective in not being able to stop it, especially since they were modern troops with modern weaponry and these people who were committing the genocide were supposedly armed with only machetes. So there were questions about the French handling of it. But even beyond that, the result of this genocide was that Rwanda, was subsequently taken into the British Commonwealth. Whereas before it had been in the French sphere of influence. And the normal traditional rule of the Commonwealth is that countries who are admitted to it are supposed to be former British colonies, but Rwanda wasn't. It was taken as a special case because the French had supposedly done such a terrible job of not protecting their people that it passed into the proprietorship of Great Britain. And so, I'm not the only person who has to raise an eyebrow and ask the question, qui bono? I mean, if Rwanda passed from French control to British control, and if the pretext for that passage, was the Rwanda genocide, would it be out of line to ask, what caused the genocide in the first place? And to what extent was it possibly even instigated by some foreign power, as was the American Civil War, as we're now learning more than 150 years after the fact. So that's one example. I could give others, but you said you had a point you wanted to make. Well, because you obviously, in a lot of the information you put out, you're talking about the intelligence services of the West and how they work behind the scenes. But then also there's the economic side. And this was, this is kind of the article I was touching on, let me bring up, this was a Daily Mail article, Recolonize Africa. And you said that it seems to be saying, and this is an old article, 2005, but it gives historical context once again, says it appears to say that Africa's become so violent and lawless that most African countries will welcome, kind of the West, colonial powers coming back in again. But then you mentioned the kind of colonial economic side, I think, when you look at the EU and how the EU keeps a lot of the countries poor through their tax and tariff systems is, yeah. I'm wondering where does, again, the fault lies at the economic side? Is it still the intelligence services working very much within those countries? Is it a mixture of those two? Yeah, what are your thoughts on that? Well, I would go so far as to say that I don't believe that the colonial powers of Europe specifically, ever let go of their colonies, especially France and Britain. I think they simply found a different way to administer them and actually a cheaper and more efficient way where they didn't have to physically occupy these countries anymore and they didn't have to be held responsible for things like mass murders and genocides and coups and so forth, that they could have a more rough and ready kind of environment and they didn't have to worry about looking good in the face of world opinion. So in some ways it's actually a better situation for them than the situation they had before where they really had to make everything look good because their flag was flying over these various countries and if they committed terrible atrocities or allowed atrocities to be committed there would be consequences. Other European countries would criticize them and would take advantage. And we see that, for example, in the ruckus that the British propagandists made at the turn of the century over the Belgian Congo, where terrible atrocities were committed by King Leopold II in the push to harvest rubber, and he basically enslaved the whole people of the Congo and subjected them to terrible, inhumane practices. And the British, for their own reasons, made a huge, big deal about that. This was back in the turn of the century, of the 20th century, in the 1900s. And they made a huge ruckus about it and said, oh, how terrible, look how badly he's treating these people. The part of that story you never hear about is that the British themselves, British interests were heavily involved in the rubber trade in the Belgian Congo and were taking part in all of it. That part is never mentioned. Likewise, there was a similar ruckus in Peru, again over rubber harvesting. Now Peru was officially never anyone's colony since its independence from Spain, but in fact a lot of people don't know that the British basically exercised an informal control of Peru and some say that they still do to this day. And there was another big public relations ruckus over cruelties related to the rubber trade in Peru, which again British missionaries and human rights activists were leading. And it was somehow effectively concealed that the British themselves were deeply involved in committing these atrocities. So it's really a world of smoke and mirrors, where propaganda and psychological operations have really been part of the whole toolkit of colonialism really since the very beginning, and I believe that the reason the British became the greatest and most successful colonizers in the world is specifically because they are the best propagandists and the best at psychological operations. They basically invented modern psyops, and they're the very best in that field to this day, and that's really what it's all about. It's all about how to do things in foreign countries without seeming to be doing them, or to blame other people for doing them, such as blaming King Leopold II of Belgium for all these atrocities, and he certainly was guilty of them, but leaving out the part that British financial interests were in there very heavily, helping him to commit them. So this continues to go on today, where we have now a very fluid situation, a neo-colonial situation, as the left, as the Marxists named it decades ago, where the colonial colonizing countries are still there, and they're still probably just as much in control as ever were, but no longer held responsible to keep order in the same way they used to be. So it's really kind of a better situation for them. They can get away with a lot more. Now in these, the interesting thing in that article by Andrew Roberts, the British historian, he wrote that article in 2005. A lot of people in our, as you pointed out, in our social media culture think 2005 was, you know, like the last millennium or something. But actually, it's very important to understand what was happening then because, what actually happened is that the EU was in the process then of setting up an elaborate neo-colonial structure which basically controls Africa to this day. And now I mentioned that in the original treaty of Rome setting up the EEC back in 1957, they already had a formal relationship with past and present colonies in Africa which they recognized in that treaty. They call it a special relationship. And in the 1990s, some strange things started to happen. Which is that as the EU became activated and the Maastricht Treaty and the Eurozone, and it started becoming a reality, this thing that people have been talking about since the 1890s and before, It started becoming a reality in the 90s and immediately the cry went up to form an African union. And there was a strategy developed called the Joint EU Africa Strategy. And the motto of this EU Africa group was one Europe, one Africa. And what they wanted was a United Europe dealing one-on-one with the United Africa. So they wouldn't, that is so the European countries would not have to negotiate separately with each little country in Africa. They would have one authority controlling the entire continent with whom they could make their deals and their treaties, whatever those were. So interestingly, Muammar Gaddafi, the late dictator or president of Libya. He came out in, I forget what year it was. It could have been, it was around 19, in the late 1990s, I think. He made a very controversial speech in Libya where he said that the Arab Maghreb Union was a farce. That now the Maghreb is basically all of North Africa except Egypt. And in 1989, I think they had come together to form a regional economic structure called the Arab Maghreb Union. And Gaddafi had been one of the leading people pushing that. It was actually his brainchild, supposedly. But then, I think it was 15 years later, he gave this speech saying, let me tell you the truth. The reason we formed this Maghreb Union was because the EU forced us to do it. They said, we're not going to do business with you anymore because it's too burdensome dealing with each country unless you, unless all the Maghreb countries of North Africa come together in a union, we're not going to even talk to you. So on that basis, Gaddafi got up in circa 1989, and using the language of third world-ism and the non-aligned movement and Arab nationalism. Said that what we need to do is form this union so we can all be strong, all us Arab-speaking countries in Africa together. But then 15 years later, he openly and publicly confessed actually the EU is the one who wanted us to get together, had nothing to do with Arab nationalism, and they basically forced us to do it. And so then he said, let's dissolve this union, let's get out of it. Oh, it was in 2003, I just remembered. It was in 2003, so this was post 9-1-1, it was after Afghanistan and Iraq had been invaded, so things weren't looking too good for Arab nationalism at that moment. And so Gaddafi, getting with the spirit of the time, said the Arabs are finished, they're a laughingstock, and we want nothing to do with Arabs anymore, even though we're Arab speaking. We are now African. And then he came up with a new idea. Let's have an African union, he said. Now, actually, he had already proposed the African Union. It came into being in the year 2000, and supposedly Gaddafi was the one who thought of it and was the founding father of this African Union. But, you know, in 2003, he confessed that the last time he pulled that manoeuvre with the Arab Maghreb Union, it was the EU forcing him to do it. Should we imagine that on the second go-round with the African, that he suddenly became the third world Nationalist that he always claimed to be or was he simply like Scarlett O'Hara and all those southern planters in the United States in the antebellum South, was he simply, lining his own pockets by doing business with the colonizers and going where he thought the power was. Well, it looks like the latter. And that's how colonial elites work. You know, people are not that idealistic, unfortunately. I wish they were, but let's face it, they're not. You know, people will go where the money is, and that's just how it is. And so they formed this African Union to the cries from the EU of one Europe, one Africa, And they started signing all kinds of treaties and putting forth all kinds of policies that were completely mysterious and unknown to the African people who have enough of a struggle trying to get democratic government as it is. But now all of a sudden, whatever democratic structures had been set up at a national level in the individual countries had suddenly become obsolete because now the EU was talking directly to these officials in charge of this thing called the African Union. And the African Union was empowered to make treaties that could be enforced on all African countries. Imagine that. So, now that we've had the African Union since the year 2000. And one of its rules, supposedly, is that you're supposed to have free elections which are monitored by international authorities and absolutely no military coups. Military coups are strictly not allowed. And yet, since then, we've had the Arab Spring. These colour revolutions and civil wars in the Western powers, and now we're having these, continuing to have these coups, which everybody is cheering about on Twitter. All of this is supposedly, supposed to be impossible and illegal under the African Union and should trigger military interventions by the African Union. I think they call it the African Union Peace and Security, something or other, which basically mobilizes peacekeeping troops and also arranges to have European troops to come in, in order to fix problems, whatever they are. And so the mechanism actually exists in Africa probably better than anywhere else in the world where you have a transnational authority, the African Union, which actually has the real power and the real willingness to bring in heavy military force whenever they like, to stop things like military coups from happening, and yet they're still happening. Why is that? Why is that? I'll pick up on one thing as we finish. Realizing the Gaddafi started African Union changes my whole concept of it. That blows me away. But the fact that when you look at the EU, the EU, European Union, has been hugely successful at control within Europe economically. There are lots of questions that the EU has never been able to rise above and be a economic bloc, I guess, to rival the US, which was always the dream, probably, of the EU and the European Economic Community before that. But it's full control of EU members and if the EU can punish and has done with those in Eastern Europe for many violations on tax, on faith, on immigration. But the African Union, you don't hear of it as having that much say or power. It hasn't brought together those countries. Can we just finish just maybe touching on that, that kind of comparison between one bloc in Europe that has worked certainly for control, the African Union, is that by design or are there other reasons behind that? Well, I think it's by design that the African Union is weak. Is that what you're saying? That it really doesn't exercise the authority it's supposed to. I think it's by design. I think it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do, which is to create a central authority for European powers, especially Great Britain, which really masterminded the whole thing, in my opinion. And if you, I would just like to leave your audience with one point, which, is that article you showed by Andrew Roberts, where he said it's time to to recolonize Africa. That was in 2005. That was right after Tony Blair had done his African, Africa commission and they had mapped out this whole plan for basically re-colonizing Africa through the African Union and through other regional structures. Now in that article, Andrews actually says, he actually states that the French and the Germans will not be allowed to re-colonize Africa, that only English speaking countries. He actually says the United States and Great Britain, and with the support of New Zealand, Canada, and Australia, will be the ones to make this happen. The French, because of their cruelty in the past and their mishandling of all kinds of colonial situations, will not be allowed to have anything to do with it, nor will the Germans, because look what they did when they were colonialists back before World War I. You think 2005 was a long, long time ago, but he, Roberts actually evoked what the Germans did before World War I as a reason why they will not be allowed to take part in this great project of colonizing Africa. So now all of a sudden we're getting all this propaganda from Giorgia Meloni of Italy and from big influencers like Ian Miles Cheong. I don't mean to single him out, but he wrote this extraordinary tweet saying, yes, the people of West Africa are rising up against French colonialism. We're going towards a multipolar world. Hooray. Some words to that effect. He linked it to the whole idea of multi-polarism. And what is that all about? That's about overthrowing the global hegemon, the USA, which is supposedly the cause of all evil in the world. Overthrowing the USA, stripping us of our power, so then power can be decentralized among various countries. And so certain influencers such as Ian Miles Cheong is out there celebrating and saying, yes, out with the French, out with the French. Is it just a coincidence that Andrew Roberts, when he first publicized this recolonization plan, he expressly said the French are out. We will not allow the French to take part in this now, all of a sudden, so many years later we're hearing that cry again that the French are out. And some of these French countries, French colonies, so-called, one of them Guinea, maybe on another, we don't have time to talk about it now, but I have massive evidence that the British are really effectively in control in that country, Guinea, and running things in an extraordinary way, quite openly, including Rio Tinto, the mining company, the Anglo-Australian mining company, and Guinea has more than one half of the world's bauxite deposits, aluminium ore. And Rio Tinto has been trying to get in control of that, working with the Chinese. And it's interesting that, you know, the cry goes out, you know, from all the usual sources, the US State Department and what have you, oh the Chinese are taking over in Africa, that's one of the reasons why we have to go back in there and otherwise the Chinese are going to take over everything. But I notice whenever the British get involved with something, they somehow bring the Chinese with them. I'm not sure why they do that, but it's a little strange, what can I say? Well, we'll leave it on a cliff-hanger, that, about the British involvement there, and we'll pick up on that. Richard, I really do appreciate coming on. As I said at the beginning, I love reading your tweets and how you expand on so much. So thank you for joining us today and going through that Africa tweet, which is one of your latest ones. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Peter. Always a pleasure.
The Third British Empire. Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879–1957) was an English classical scholar, historian, and political scientist writing on international relations. His book, The Third British Empire, was among the first to apply the expression “British Commonwealth” to the British Empire. He is also credited with the phrase “welfare state”, which was made popular...
Wrapping up a four-day trip to China, US climate envoy John Kerry said no new commitments on climate were made, but the world's two biggest climate polluters have agreed to work together at major international meetings this year. And, today, protests against the rising cost of living resumed in Kenya. The demonstrations are organized by Kenya's opposition leaders, who say the country's new government is not doing enough to improve the economy. Also, since 1930, countries that make up the British Commonwealth have gathered every four years to compete in the Commonwealth Games. But the Australian state of Victoria has abruptly canceled its hosting of the next scheduled Games in 2023 — citing the extraordinary cost of hosting it — leaving the fate of the competition in question. Plus, this Israeli rapper is aiming high.
Great Britain settled four major, english speaking colonies around the world: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. The coins of the first three, to this day, continue to bear the likeness of Queen Elizabeth II (new issues will feature Charles III). Why was America different? If George III had not been so prideful, was there ever a chance that the USA would still be a member of the British Commonwealth? Friends, this is the week we celebrate our beloved country's Independence from totalitarianism, and today, more than ever we need your help in keeping this message alive and independent from creeping totalitarianism as well. You can join our family of Citizen Producers, or simply make a deeply-appreciated one-time donation by clicking here: https://billwhittle.com/register/
Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with with a question: Is it safe to go to the mall in a red state? Mass murder has become a regular occurance in red states like Texas, as Republicans apparently keep trying to gaslight us about how the guns somehow have nothing to do with it. Joy and her panel discuss how to demand common sense gun reform now. Plus, we have new information on the eight victims, including three children, in the tragic mass shooting that just took place in Allen, Texas. Also in this episode, the reportedly new and more conversative CNN has decided to host a town hall for Donald Trump at the same time that he is being investigated for fometing an insurrection, among other alleged crimes. Our media experts bring their analyses. Plus, we highlight the blowback from parts of the British Commonwealth, especially in the Caribbean, following this weekend's lavish and anachronistic coronation. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.
Get ready to laugh out loud with R. Scott Edwards as he interviews legendary comic ventriloquist, David Strassman on this episode of Standup Comedy "Your Host & MC". They start by discussing how Strassman got his start in ventriloquism and how he became a successful comic ventriloquist with his own TV show in Australia and New Zealand. They also delve into his early days in the comedy world, sharing anecdotes about hanging out with famous comedians like Seinfeld and Eddie Murphy. The podcast covers Strassman's journey to success in the US, Australia, and the British Commonwealth, where variety acts are respected on par with musicians and actors. You'll get to hear about his unique techniques for bringing his puppets to life, including creating an animatronic Chuck, his famous character who smokes pot on stage. They also discuss his current show called "The Chocolate Diet", a massive production that's taking Australia by storm. But the podcast isn't just about comedy. Strassman's background in paleontology is also discussed, including his new podcast, "Paleo Nerds", which he hosts with preeminent paleontological artist Ray Troll, and the exciting dinosaur dig he's going on with his son. This episode also provides an insight into the world of comedy shows and the process of creating new characters for puppet shows. Plus, the guest shares his impressive skills in creating animatronic puppets and controlling their movements.By the end of this episode, you'll not only be laughing but you'll also be left feeling inspired by Strassman's journey to success in the entertainment industry. Don't miss out! Listen to Standup Comedy "Your Host & MC" now.Hosted by: R. Scott Edwards A brief explanation about the subscription service and why it is there and what it offers. In addition, a direct way to contact me and share viewpoints and ideas.Support the showwww.StandupComedyPodcastNetwork.comhttps://www.facebook.com/scottscomedystuffWrite a Review: in-depth walkthrough for leaving a review.
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A lot has changed since the last episode of Born to Rule was released. After Queen Elizabeth's death on September 8, 2022, Prince Charles became King Charles III and thereby fulfilled his destiny. But some things haven't changed – like the relationship between Prince Harry and the rest of the British royal family. Since excerpts from Prince Harry's much anticipated memoir, Spare, became public, the book has made headlines around the world. We're taking a look at the impact of this bombshell book. Keir Simmons sits down with Katie Nicholl, author of The New Royals and royal editor at Vanity Fair, and journalist and royal commentator, Afua Hagan, for a candid conversation about the impact this memoir could have on the reign of King Charles III.
On Today's Patron Trivia Tournament: We are excited to have Round 7 of our Patron Tournament! We have Richard vs Robin in this shortened version of the show. We challenge them to some hard questions like: No doubt having pristine gums, American chemist Linus Pauling advocated nutritional therapy by taking 3 grams of what every day? The Star Trek canon includes the Original Series and nine spin-off television series. Three of those are animated, including Star Trek: The Animated Series. Name either of the other 2 animated series. How many Greek Gods were said to reside on Mount Olympus? Julia Child took classes at what French culinary school whose name in English means "The Blue Ribbon"? What 5 symptoms does Pepto Bismol claim to relieve? Amber Midthunder plays the character Naru in what 2022 film? What was the collective name of the series of 5 novels featuring the character Natty Bumppo by 19th c. American author James Fenimore Cooper? What is the biggest British Commonwealth country by area? If you liked this episode, check out our last trivia episode! Music Hot Swing, Fast Talkin, Bass Walker, Dances and Dames by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Don't forget to follow us on social media for more trivia: Patreon - patreon.com/quizbang - Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Check out our fun extras for patrons and help us keep this podcast going. We appreciate any level of support! Website - quizbangpod.com Check out our website, it will have all the links for social media that you need and while you're there, why not go to the contact us page and submit a question! Facebook - @quizbangpodcast - we post episode links and silly lego pictures to go with our trivia questions. Enjoy the silly picture and give your best guess, we will respond to your answer the next day to give everyone a chance to guess. Instagram - Quiz Quiz Bang Bang (quizquizbangbang), we post silly lego pictures to go with our trivia questions. Enjoy the silly picture and give your best guess, we will respond to your answer the next day to give everyone a chance to guess. Twitter - @quizbangpod We want to start a fun community for our fellow trivia lovers. If you hear/think of a fun or challenging trivia question, post it to our twitter feed and we will repost it so everyone can take a stab it. Come for the trivia - stay for the trivia. Ko-Fi - ko-fi.com/quizbangpod - Keep that sweet caffeine running through our body with a Ko-Fi, power us through a late night of fact checking and editing!
The British Commonwealth is a political organization of 56 countries across the globe. It accounts for 2.5 billion people, with India making up more than half of that number.But its future following the queen's death remains uncertain. Barbados left the organization last year and both Jamaica and Belize are considering departures.The history of British colonial rule in the Caribbean and the possibility of reparations are hot topics of discussion among regional advocates and leaders.We discuss the Commonwealth's history, why countries join, and why they leave.
Queen Elizabeth, the British Commonwealth's longest-serving monarch, died this week at the age of 96 having spent 70 years on the throne. 15 different prime ministers - ranging from Winston Churchill to the very new PM Liz Truss - served under her reign. Her son, the former Prince of Wales is now King Charles III. In just the span of three days, Britons mourned the loss of their queen, acquired a new king, as well as saw a new Prime Minster appointed. Who better to discuss these changes, as well as British monarchs and the concepts of monarchy itself than Briton Dr. Nick Cull, a professor at the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy. What is the role of the British royal family in the modern age? How can a monarchy stabilize a democracy? How will Britain's new leadership forge a path forward?
Her Majesty the Queen of England died today at her Balmoral mansion. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest reigning monarch in the history of her nation. Her death was published on the Buckingham Palace website. Her eldest son is now king, having acceded to the throne immediately upon her death. He will reign as King Charles III and will be formally proclaimed as the new sovereign tomorrow at St James' Palace. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 9/8/22It's the Final Day! The day when Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick's book, Final Day! https://rickwiles.com/final-day
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