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AP correspondent Laurence Brooks reports on a meeting between 30 NATO countries over Ukraine's future; a prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington; a meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and the British King and Queen.

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for Episode 559 of the Chasing Tone Podcast - Brian's wife pranks him and this legendary music institution is no more?  Richard had some fun with his band this weekend which resulted in some horn related activity that made him smile muchly. What was your favorite 1980's theme tune? The guys discuss this, Brian's teenage sobriety, and finger pain. Richard also found a musical relic in an old email account and realized he had been hard on himself.Blake has a meltdown and talks about his early recordings. A music institution has seemingly disappeared and the guys look into it. Brian has said something that set a chain of events in motion with both positive and negative results. Brian offers some sage advice to the British King of Fuzz.We recorded on April 1st and we reflect on some of the hilarious (and not so hilarious) jokes on the interwebs. Meanwhile Brian's wife played a joke on him and he tells us all about it. It was Eric Clapton's 80th birthday and the guys discuss a somewhat controversial figure in the guitar world. Arpeggiated harmonic thingamajigs, Tyler Childers, Thorpy's blowing stuff up, Windows '92, Mandate, Taffee ...it's all in this week's Chasing Tone!We are on Patreon now too!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/chasingtonepodcast)Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/@chasingtonepodcastAwesome Course, Merch and DIY mods:https://www.guitarpedalcourse.com/https://www.wamplerdiy.com/Find us at:https://www.wamplerpedals.com/https://www.instagram.com/WamplerPedals/https://www.facebook.com/groups/wamplerfanpage/Contact us at: podcast@wamplerpedals.comSupport the show

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-britains-outsized-malign-role-in-global-chaos-13872084.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialBeing a keen observer of the United Kingdom, I have lately noticed a few apparently unconnected events with dismay. If I were to connect the dots, it begins to appear that Britain has had an outsize influence on international affairs. Maybe the James Bond meme isn't the total fantasy I had assumed it was: a juvenile wet dream about nubile maidens and irresistible heroes bumping off sundry villains.The reality appears to be quite impressive. This tiny, rainy island off Northwest Asia has been running quite a number of worldwide schemes. Its administrative center, Whitehall, manages a global web of intrigue and narrative-building, and has created a number of ‘imperial fortresses', thus punching above its weight-classOne of their principal assets in gaslighting others is the BBC (not to mention their plummy accents that, for example, make Americans just melt). The BBC has a sterling reputation which does not seem well-deserved. There have been many instances of motivated bias (eg. in their Brexit or India coverage), lack of integrity (eg. sexual transgressions by senior staff) and so on. In reality, it is about as unabashed at pushing its agenda as Al Jazeera is about its own.Admittedly, Britain has made one major blunder along the way, though: Brexit, which left them in trisanku mode, sort of adrift mid-Atlantic. They were distancing themselves from the European Union, counting on their so-called ‘special relationship' with the US to sustain them, away from what they perceived, correctly, as a declining and disunited Europe. They also thought they could dominate their former colonies again (see the frantic pursuit of a Free Trade Agreement with India?) without onerous EU rules. Sadly, none of this quite worked out.The reason is a fundamental problem: there is not much of a market for British goods any more. Indians once coveted British products as status symbols, but today, with the possible exceptions of Rolls Royce cars and single-malt whiskey, there's very little anybody wants from them. They still do good R&D, make aircraft engines (India could use that technology), and their apparently for-hire journalism is well-known, but that's about it.On the other hand, they have managed to stay entrenched in the international financial system, starting with colonial loot, especially the $45 trillion they are believed to have taken from India. It is rumored that they used stolen Indian gold to buy distressed assets in the US after the Civil War. It is possible they had the same game plan for Ukraine: acquire rich agricultural land and mineral deposits at distressed prices. Some point to the port of Odessa as another targetUkraine: bad faith actor?It is remarkable how Boris Johnson, then PM of UK, is alleged to have single-handedly ruined the chance of a ceasefire in April 2022 during his visit to Kiev in the early days of the Ukraine war, when there was a chance of a negotiated cessation of hostilities with all parties adhering to the Minsk 1 and 2 agreements.In January, just before President Trump took office, UK PM Starmer signed a minerals agreement with Ukraine as part of a “100-Year Partnership” that appears to pre-emptively undercut Trump's proposed $500-billion US deal. That lends credence to allegations about the UK's coveting minerals, as well as its not being interested in ending the tragic war.Gold: is it all there?The UK does have a thing for tangible assets, including gold. A lot of the world's gold (5000 metric tons) is supposedly held in secure custody in London. But there are fears that this may not physically be there in the vaults of the Bank of England any more. They may have indulged in ‘gold leasing', where the actual gold ends up being replaced by paper promises after it is lent out to bullion banks, from where it may be moved around and be inaccessibleExtraordinary delays in gold deliveries in 2025 (on withdrawals to New York triggered by tariff fears) increase this concern. There is a lack of transparency in transactions in the metal in the UK. Spooked, many countries are taking their gold back. India repatriated 200+ tons of its own gold from London in 2024. Venezuela is fighting a court battle to get its gold back.Then there are concerns raised by the arguably unfair freezing of Russian assets held abroad as part of Ukraine-war sanctions: Starmer recently promised to give Ukraine $2 billion, basically the interest generated by those assets. This doesn't sound quite right, and has dented the image of London as a reliable financial hub. Brexit was a blow; the rise of Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai and Zurich all threaten the City of London, but it is second only to New York, still.Imperial Fortresses galoreAnother win for the British was the selection of Mark Carney, a former Bank of England governor, as the Prime Minister of Canada. The Anglosphere continues to be dominated by the UK, although the Commonwealth is a club that serves no particular purpose any more, except as a curious relic of the British empire.This highlights the concept of ‘imperial fortresses': far-flung outposts that have helped sustain British military power and diplomatic clout despite the loss of empire. Traditionally, these were naval bases/garrisons such as those in Malta, Gibraltar, Bermuda, etc. that allowed Britain to keep an eye on the ‘restless natives'. However, I contend that the entire Anglosphere has been treated as imperial fortresses by them.Canada, Australia and New Zealand still continue to have the British King as their Head of State, which is astonishing for supposedly sovereign nations. But it's far more interesting that, in effect, the US has been treated as another vassal by the Brits, pillow-talked into doing things that are generally only in the interests of Britain. All that pomp and circumstance has beguiled poor Americans. Whitehall, I assert, have been Svengalis to Foggy Bottom.Master Blaster blowback?The other metaphor is from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), where "Master Blaster" is a literal duo: Master, a cunning dwarf, and Blaster, his brawny, enforcer bodyguard. The Americans unwittingly have provided the muscle to the calculating dwarf's machinations, which generally end up mostly benefiting the latterBut there is yet another imperial fortress that we should consider: Pakistan. It was created expressly to be a geographically well-placed client state for the Brits to continue their 19th century Great Game from afar to checkmate Russia, and incidentally to contain India. From that point of view, Pakistan has been a successful imperial outpost, notwithstanding the fact that it, despite decades of US largesse, is a failing state (see the Baloch train hijack recently).This is part of the reason why Americans have a hard time explaining why they get involved in Pakistan and Afghanistan again and again to their ultimate regret, with painful exits. They have been induced to do this by the clever Brits, who, quite evidently, sided with Muslims against Hindus in the sub-continent, for instance in the British-led merger of Gilgit-Baltistan into Pakistan, contrary to the Instrument of Accession.There is considerable irony in all this, because one could argue that Pakistani-origin Brits have now done a ‘reverse master-blaster' to the Brits. That sounds eerily like the ‘reverse-Kissinger' that Trump is supposed to be doing. Or maybe it is a ‘recursive master-blaster', although the mind boggles at that.Consider the facts: UK rape-gangs are almost entirely of Pakistani origin; several current mayors (including Sadiq Khan in London) and past mayors are of that ethnicity, indicating a powerful vote-bank; they have at least 15 MPs and a large number of councillors.There's Pakistani-origin Sir Mufti Hamid Patel, the chair of the Office of Standards in Education; Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary; Humza Yusuf, the former First Minister of Scotland. This imperial fortress is fighting back, indeed, and winning. The UK may not have quite anticipated this outcome.The American vassal-state is also beginning to rebel. Trump was personally incensed by the fact that Starmer sent 50 Labor operatives to work against him in the 2024 US elections: their interactions have been a little frosty.Khalil, an embedded asset?Then there is the case of a current cause celebre in the US, Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born Algerian citizen of Palestinian descent. He has been accused of leading violent anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, and detained on that count. Interestingly, he had a security clearance from the UK, and was part of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, living in Beirut and leading a scholarship program for Syrians. Yes, Syria.And then Khalil suddenly showed up with a green card (not a student visa), got married to a US citizen named Noor Abdalla, finished his program at Columbia, and so on. To me, all this sounds like it was facilitated, and that he has certain powerful foreign friends. No prizes for guessing who they were.Iraq, Libya and Syria: Humanitarian crisesSpeaking of Syria, Whitehall spent at least 350 million pounds sterling between 2011 and 2024 in regime-change activities targeting the Assad government, according to Declassified UK.The UK's meddling in the Middle East, going back to the Sykes-Picot carving up of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, and mandates in Palestine and Iraq, and even earlier to the antics of T E Lawrence, was clearly intended to advance and sustain British interests in, and influence on, the region. Which is not unreasonable.The sad fact, though, is that it appears the British have actively fomented, or been deeply involved in, a lot of the military misadventures that have turned the region into a mess of human misery. To take relatively recent history, the invasions of Iraq, Libya, and now of Syria were arguably dreamt up or at least actively supported by Britain.The invasion of Iraq was certainly endorsed by Tony Blair's infamous September 2002 dossier about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which turned out to be imaginary, but then, lo! Saddam Hussein was overthrown and killed.The invasion of Libya saw Britain take on an even more active role. David Cameron and France's Nicolas Sarkozy in effect prodded a somewhat reluctant Barack Obama to invade, even co-drafting the UN Security Council Resolution 1973 in 2011 that was the formal permission for the war. The net result was the killing of Muammar Gaddafi.In the case of Syria, Britain began covert operations in 2012, with MI6 allegedly organizing arms shipments, training and coordination of groups opposed to the Assad regime. The sudden fall of Assad in December 2024, driven by groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that Britain indirectly supported, underscores the successful outcomes of this policy.In all three cases, a secular dictatorship was overthrown and religious extremists took over. Earlier, civilians had reasonably prosperous lives; women were generally educated and present in the workforce. After the regime changes, all three are bombed-out hellholes, with no rights for women or religious minorities. In particular, the latter have been consistently subjected to massacres, as in the recent large-scale executions of Alawites in Syria.Even though Americans were the principal players in all these cases, the impression is that British Whitehall's gaslighting of their US counterparts in Foggy Bottom could well have tipped the scales and turned skirmishes into outright war and disaster.Thus it is clear that Britain is still a formidable player in the world of international relations, despite the loss of empire and relative decline. It is unfortunate, however, that the net result of its actions is to add to entropy and chaos and the loss of human lives and rights. Perfidious Albion it still is.1950 words, Mar 16, 2025AI-generated podcast from NotebookLM.google.com: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/subscribe

Brian, Blake, and Richard are joined by NAMM President John Mlynczak for Episode 548 of the Chasing Tone Podcast - Everything you wanted to know about NAMM but were too afraid to ask... The guys welcome a very special guest this week - John Mlynczak, president and CEO of NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) - and he gives us an in-depth and candid history of his involvement with NAMM and what that actually entails. We all know about the show (that Richard will never be allowed to go to) but NAMM stands for so much more for the music community. John gives us a fascinating breakdown of his personal musical and work history, how he landed the job, and just how many hats he wears. We couldn't have recorded this episode without discussing the tragic fires that are currently raging in LA. John gives a passionate and emotional response about what the fires mean for the show, what they mean for the wider community, and what NAMM are doing to help. He also confirms exactly what the situation is with regards to the show this January so if you have read any rumors, and are unsure about what's going on, John sets everything straight. Finally we ask some of those difficult questions that you always wanted to know about NAMM. Will the noise police be there? Will Brian be forced to sit next to the cymbals for 3 days straight? Will Blake eat his entire bodyweight in barbecued meat? Yes to all three - maybe! The British King of Fuzz gets dealt a serious blow and there is much laughter.This is a very special episode and we would like to thank John and his team for helping to set this up. If you are going to the show you will find Wampler pedals represented at the Boutique Amps stand!Nobody needs trumpets at 9:30am, PreSonus, Captain NAMM, Public day, Brian's insomnia...it's all in this week's Chasing Tone!NAMM Foundation website - Donate here to help the LA communityhttps://donate.nammfoundation.org/give/655087/#!/donation/checkout We are on Patreon now too!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/chasingtonepodcast)Awesome Course, Merch and DIY mods:https://www.guitarpedalcourse.com/https://www.wamplerdiy.com/Find us at:https://www.wamplerpedals.com/https://www.instagram.com/WamplerPedals/https://www.facebook.com/groups/wamplerfanpage/Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdVrg4Wl3vjIxonABn6RfWwContact us at: podcast@wamplerpedals.comSupport the show

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for Episode 539 of the Chasing Tone Podcast - Hello Kitty, the ground-breaking Wampler Catacombs, and how guitars work!  Richard has made a rookie error and ended up buying a new guitar and tells the guys all about it while Brian thinks of a new knock off product he can release. There is some excitement in the old country as the British King of Fuzz has finally figured out how guitars work thanks to friend of the show. He has also got a custom wiring harness from the amazing Gun Street Wiring and is very excited.Wampler released their latest DSP based pedal, the Catacombs, and so Brian and Richard talk about the 2 year+ development process, the science, and the mean things the people of YouTube have said. Richard made a dad joke and explains how the new Syntax switcher was made to be “Brian proof”. In order to get the exacting reverb sounds Brian wanted the team at Wampler had to enter new territory by reverse engineering the sound of impulse response models and Brian is very happy with the results. The worst dating site ever is unveiled and there were some queries about a new pedal. Finally the guys weigh in on the debate about Guitar Magazines - they are closing down fast and this may or may not be a good thing for us players...listen to the very end for a MASSIVE pedal hint.Good luck - I'm British, Gotoh, The Bearded Butcher, Disney mistake, Wangler pedals, Notafuzzbender, Black Friday details, Image enhancement...it's all in this week's Chasing Tone!We are on Patreon now too!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/chasingtonepodcast)Awesome Course, Merch and DIY mods:https://www.guitarpedalcourse.com/https://www.wamplerdiy.com/Find us at:https://www.wamplerpedals.com/https://www.instagram.com/WamplerPedals/https://www.facebook.com/groups/wamplerfanpage/Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdVrg4Wl3vjIxonABn6RfWwContact us at: podcast@wamplerpedals.comSupport the show

In this episode, we dive into Australia's ongoing debate over whether to remain a constitutional monarchy under King Charles III or transition to a republic. After the government's recent defeat on the “Voice to Parliament” referendum, plans for a republic vote have been shelved. With a divided public and cost-of-living concerns taking priority, what does the future hold for Australia's relationship with the monarchy? We explore historical context, current political dynamics, and public sentiment in this timely discussion of national identity and governance.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mark-and-pete--1245374/support.

In this episode, we dive into Australia's ongoing debate over whether to remain a constitutional monarchy under King Charles III or transition to a republic. After the government's recent defeat on the “Voice to Parliament” referendum, plans for a republic vote have been shelved. With a divided public and cost-of-living concerns taking priority, what does the future hold for Australia's relationship with the monarchy? We explore historical context, current political dynamics, and public sentiment in this timely discussion of national identity and governance.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mark-and-pete--1245374/support.

The podcast above was made by the Google Gemini AI via notebookLM.A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-narrative-building-of-west-and-the-threat-of-regime-change-13827231.htmlWhile we can all laugh at the absurdities mouthed by Justin Trudeau in his crusade against India and Hindus, there are meta-questions that really beg for an answer: what the heck is going on? Who is behind all this? Why now? What other precedents do we look at? What do we see as immediate fallout?I am a student of narrative building. I wrote of information warfare a couple of months ago in https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-131-information-warfare-narrative and pointed out that this particular method of creation of narratives, while it has long been popular, now functions at warp speed, and the targets of such narratives often get blind-sided, or worse.I spoke of the sudden U-turns that ended up deposing erstwhile friends like Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega; and I pointed out that something along those lines had happened with Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh in August. There are other examples: for instance, the Maidan Revolution courtesy Victoria Nuland that ended up in the overthrow in Ukraine of Viktor Yanukovych, the installation of Vladimir Zelensky, and… well, you know the rest. There is a pattern: you unilaterally label somebody a terrorist, and then you proceed to topple him/her. In the old American idiom, “give a dog a bad name, and hang him”. With our supine obeisance to Big Tech and Western media, and thus the gaslighting, we (that is, anybody other than the elites running the West) just believe this, and blame ourselves for not noticing this all along. Total mind-control, in other words.That makes me quite nervous about what's going on with the Canadians. It's true that the Trudeaus, pere et fils, have simply ignored the Khalistani terror problem, both before and after the tragic downing of Air India Kanishka, Flight 182, almost 40 years ago, and the deaths of 329 people. Since those 329 were mostly brown people, it appeared to be not an issue. There was dissenting opinion: the Major Commission report from 2021 https://www.majorcomm.ca/en/reports/finalreport.html  excoriated the Canadian government for incompetence and complacency. Here is an excerpt.But nobody has ever been brought to book for the bombing. And this has gotten worse over time: Khalistanis like US citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun regularly threaten to blow up Air India planes, and warn that this will happen on specific occasions where he suggests people should avoid flying on Air India. These are acts of transnational terror and intimidation, but he gets a pass.Maybe it's a coincidence, but after Trudeau's outburst earlier this week, there have been at least a dozen incidents of bomb threats against Indian-owned aircraft. One circumpolar Air India Delhi-Chicago flight ended up landing in an obscure Canadian airport in Iqualuit in the Great White North because of an online bomb threat. It's possible that Khalistanis are involved.Furthermore, there is some kind of a summons issued against Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in a lawsuit filed by Pannun (who is a lawyer himself) in the comical case of an alleged plot to bump him off, wherein an alleged Indian operative allegedly tried to pay an alleged hitman money to do the deed. The latest round of the hoo-haa has Canadians targeting Home Minister Amit Shah. Dutifully, the Washington Post with its old US State Department links has made a whole series of serious allegations, which would be funny if they weren't noir. The fact that the Ministry of External Affairs reacted sharply to this circus, alas, does not mean there is some new-found spine, but simply that the bureaucrats were peeved that one of them, the senior IFS officer who was Ambassador to Canada, was humiliated. Normally, most bureaucrats have children in the US, or are eyeing lucrative Western sinecures. They tend not to do anything that might damage their personal interests. But this time it IS different. Things are coming to a head. The sum and substance is that, after the long-running attack on social media on Hindus as ‘pajeets' and ‘street defecators', now the stage is set to declare “the Modi regime” a “rogue government”, as though fascist, brutal, anti-minority, and other epithets they habitually use were not enough. The next step would be regime change, of course. Is India prepared to defend itself?All this is strictly from the Deep State playbook, so a priori I would blame either Foggy Bottom or Langley, but right now, in the middle of a grueling Presidential election? Don't they have bigger fish to fry? So I started to wonder if it was some other entity that had prodded Trudeau. It was interesting to see the closed ranks among the Five Eyes, which is to say English-speaking white countries or Anglosphere. Keir Starmer of the UK, again dutifully, supported Trudeau with alacrity, so much so that I began to wonder if this assault on India is actually a British plot, considering two things.Brits must have been really annoyed that an Indian-origin PM, Rishi Sunak, ruled them for a while, and they think India is insufficiently respectful of the British King, who, oddly enough, is Canada's Head of State, and probably Australian and New Zealand's as well. Maybe they blame India for Chagossians finally getting out of brutal colonial control (which by the way means the end of the grandly named “British Indian Ocean Territories”) which has an impact on the US naval base at Diego Garcia, for which Chagos islanders had been displaced. The Five Eyes have exalted opinions of themselves. For instance, one of the Biden administration's many unfathomable decisions was to downgrade the sensible Quad (the brainchild of Abe Shinzo) and instead plump for AUKUS (which is all, well, white) with the remarkable story of wanting British technology transfer to Australia re submarines. Let me repeat that: British. Technology. Transfer. And here I was, thinking the objective was to contain a rampaging China!Then there are other little episodes that need to be remembered. Sheikh Hasina stated that the US wanted an island near Chittagong for a naval base, and more alarmingly, that there was a plan for a Christian Zo state that would include territories in India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. This is again a Deep State modus operandi, see East Timor and South Sudan. Furthemore, the US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, has been hyperactive in “sub-national diplomacy” along with other US officials, meeting a Tamil supremacist M K Stalin one day, doling out funds paying special attention to the restive Northeast the next day.Not content with that, here's more from the energetic Garcetti:Assuming these tweets are authentic, things do look a little bleak for India and the “Modi regime” at the moment. Balkanizing India has long been a goal of the Deep State, reflecting the wishes of its proxies in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. I hate to be a Cassandra, but a rising and strong India is not on the agenda of anybody but Indians, and that too only some Indians. Others, and you know who they are, are quite happy to revert to the status quo of the pre-1991 era, when India, the alleged socialist paradise, steadily lost ground and became poorer and poorer relative to other countries.These are dangerous times. I have been nervous about Deep State intent since the days of Madeleine Albright and Robin Raphel, and I am concerned about the coming Kamala Harris Presidency (yes, she will be POTUS). I am worried about a faction of the US establishment that is congenitally anti-India. Given the looming threat of China, I would much prefer a good working relationship between the US and India, my two favorite countries, and I'd like to take the protestations of common interests (including a very large purchase of Predator drones by India) at face value, but as Ronald Reagan said memorably, “Trust, but verify”. 1325 words, 17 Oct 2024 This is a public episode. 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This week I am graced by the British King of Fuzz aka Richard Oliver! This is the third time Richard has came on the show but I think this is the best so far. Hope you enjoy the episode! Check out Wampler Pedals here https://www.wamplerpedals.com Check out all things Man The Helm here https://linktr.ee/manthehelm

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for Episode 533 of the Chasing Tone Podcast - Fuzz news, a summit of guitars, and behold - the QuieteningBrian is goading Richard once more and provokes him into an admission about some tickets he has bought. Blake has attachments. Do you ever calibrate your string bends? The guys talk about how they practice perfect bends. A feller smashed a guitar with a hammer and it made the news. Richard is upset that he didn't get invited to the party.There's a new Phil X pedal out, the PX0, and the guys check it out and Blake gets frisky before Richard makes various strange claims. The guys also reflect on the recent passing of Kris Kristofferson and what it means not just to country music, but to the world of entertainment on the whole. The British King of Fuzz has been active and has breadboarded a new pedal. He made a number of noob errors and Brian had to help him whilst stifling his laughter. All is not lost, he finally created an awesome pedal, but there were many hiccups along the way. Jim Indiana, Whammy bar tips, Ryan Burke, The Cure, Guitar Summit, Bensonfest, the anti-booster..it's all in this week's Chasing Tone!We are on Patreon now too!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/chasingtonepodcast)Awesome Course, Merch and DIY mods:https://www.guitarpedalcourse.com/https://www.wamplerdiy.com/Find us at:https://www.wamplerpedals.com/https://www.instagram.com/WamplerPedals/https://www.facebook.com/groups/wamplerfanpage/Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdVrg4Wl3vjIxonABn6RfWwContact us at: podcast@wamplerpedals.comSupport the show

This week our guest is author and JAR contributor Shawn David McGhee. The first Continental Congress expressed a desire to change American life, while also preserving its cultural foundations. In his new book, Shawn David McGhee discusses its lasting impact. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com. 

Japanese Emperor Naruhito said Thursday that he had "a very heartwarming time" with King Charles III and Queen Camilla during his official visit to Britain.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako bid farewell to Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Buckingham Palace in London on Thursday, wrapping up their official visit to the European country.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hi, 安澜.Hi, Lulu, hi, everyone. Can I propose a topic today? Okay.Don't worry, it's nothing weird. Are you sure? I'm pretty sure. Okay. Lately also on Chinese social media, you see a lot of articles about your Princess of Wales, Kate, because there was a lot of gossip and discussion about how she is recovering from cancer and she hasn't really had any public appearance. She finally appeared for the first time in months at a very important ceremony apparently called... was it something color? The Trooping of the Color. The Trooping of the Color, troop as in army, military? Yeah. 中文里我看到过有很多不一样的翻译版本, 有人把它翻译成什么彩旗飘扬, 彩旗游行, 或者只要按这个意思说是皇家阅兵式. Yes, it's a very unique ceremony. I don't think it happens in many countries. I'm not sure if anyone does know, please correct me. It's very ceremonial. It is. The Troop of the Color marks the official birthday of the British sovereign. So like the British King or Queen, 这个皇室的要不是国王, 要不是女王的official birthday, 官方生日. So that's not their real birthday?The King or Queen has two birthdays, their real one and their official birthday in June. Why in June, for any special reasons? Mainly because of the weather. I can understand. 我们之前聊英国的天气的时候, 就说特别是伦敦, 基本上你唯一能保证天气比较好, 也就是6月后半段7月前半段这个时候. So no matter what the weather is like, the ceremony still goes ahead. So the last Trooping of the Colour last week was actually done in pouring rain. It was really really heavy rain in London but they still carry on the ceremony. They just get wet. Even in June? Even in June.So no matter what their real birthdays or when their real birthdays are or were, they always had the same official birthday? It's normally a Saturday in June. So it's not a set date? It's not a set date. I see. It looks like a pretty traditional historical ceremony. It is. It dates back to the 18th century. So the color or colors refer to the regiments' flag.Regiments, what does that mean? A regiment is a unit of soldiers.Like, for example, infantry? Yeah, so you have an infantry regiment, you have...Navy maybe?Navy, you can't, navy doesn't really have regiments because you have a ship. Ok. 这是不是有点兵团那个概念? It is. 什么团步兵团这样. So everybody has it's own name. For example, the regiments that take part in Trooping of the Color are the King's own personal regiments. He's guards. I'm getting really confused. So not your military force? Okay, this is why it gets a bit confusing. You said the King's own military force.

Brian, Max, and Richard are back for Episode 513 of the Chasing Tone PodcastOur good buddy Max is back once again, as Blake is out of town on important string business, and he has a new job which causes some speculation before the guys chat about the gear they have been gassing over. Richard attempts to describe a form of small British boat and Brian is most confused by both Richard and Artificial Intelligence. David Gilmour is going on tour and the British King of Fuzz tries to get tickets - and this leads to a discussion about ticket prices, free pedals, and naughty romps. Richard has been sent a pedal as a gift from an old friend and tells us all about it and he also has a theory about the re-release of a certain pedal. He is of course wrong. Max and Brian discuss the classic Danelectro pedals and reflect on the used market for them and Richard has fallen in love with the new Thorpy FX WOPR purely for aesthetic reasons. Do you use an attenuator with your amplifier? The guys discuss the pros and cons of a few different models. Richard grills Max for dirt on Brian.   Vintera Guitars, Saucerful of Secrets, Desitone Pedals, McDonalds, 70th Stratocaster...it's all in this week's Chasing Tone!Thanks to all our supporters - you are awesome!We are on Patreon now too!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/chasingtonepodcast)Awesome Course, Merch and DIY mods:https://www.guitarpedalcourse.com/https://modyourownpedal.com/Find us at:https://www.wamplerpedals.com/https://www.instagram.com/WamplerPedals/https://www.facebook.com/groups/wamplerfanpage/Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdVrg4Wl3vjIxonABn6RfWwContact us at: podcast@wamplerpedals.comSupport the Show.

It's happened again. Paula's gone down another history rabbit hole. This one started with wondering why holding your pinky out while drinking makes you “fancy”, led to Syphilis and a fruitless search for which British King had gout, and ended in the resignation of a Prime Minister.  You can find the Full Video version of the show over on YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/@RememberRememberPodcast Contact us at  - RememberRememberShow@gmail.com  Twitter - @RememberCast https://twitter.com/RememberCast Instagram - @rememberrememberpod https://www.instagram.com/rememberrememberpod/ Find everything about the show over on our Website - https://www.rememberrememberpodcast.com/ Artwork and logos were made by Mary Hanson @MermaidVexa

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for episode 499 of the Chasing Tone Podcast!Blake is back with us after an extended stint at NAMM and his voice is registering somewhere between Bane and Batman. Richard makes his feelings known much to Brian's amusement. Was this the best NAMM for several years? It sounds like it might have been and the guys chat about what this means for the guitar industry in general. Richard talks about some of the things he spotted including what he believes to be one of the world's biggest rude jokes.  Brian has a new mixer and he and Richard have a new pedal - the Keeley Muse Driver - and they both love it.  Richard is a big fan of the design and tells us why. The guys try and pull a prank on Brian and it fails miserably so they make more NAMM observations. Brian loses his mind. Whats the first brand you would recommend to a beginner of the electric guitar? The guys ponder this very question and attempt to explain the internet badly again.The British King of Fuzz was denied access to a certain pedal so he decides to make his own. He also tells us about why he is a very old man via a nostalgic trip to his hometown. Brian recently ran a video and asked viewers to guess a the identity of a very popular pedal and the results may surprise you. Victory amps have gone high end with their new release and the guys are very excited by this. Jack White, Cockney Rhyming Slam, Family Guy, Fame, the Feds...it's all in this week's Chasing Tone!We are on Patreon now too!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/chasingtonepodcast)Brian's new online courses are here:http://www.guitarpedalcourse.comAwesome Merch and DIY mods:https://modyourownpedal.com/collections/booksFind us at:https://www.wamplerpedals.com/https://www.instagram.com/WamplerPedals/https://www.facebook.com/groups/wamplerfanpage/Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdVrg4Wl3vjIxonABn6RfWwContact us at: podcast@wamplerpedals.comSupport the show

World News in 7 minutes. Tuesday 6th February 2024.Today: NATO Hungary parliament. Italy migrant centre arrests. British King cancer. British crypto case. Philippines hacked. S Korea Saudi Arabia cooperation. Senegal election protests. Sudan Zamzam camp. El Salvador Bukele elected. Colombia ceasefire. Brazil Interpol candidate. Taylor Swift Grammy record.With Juliet MartinIf you enjoy the podcast please help to support us at send7.org/supportSupporters can read the transcripts at send7.org/transcriptsSupporters can try our weekly news quiz at send7.org/quizContact us at podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7Please leave a rating on Apple podcasts or Spotify.SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) tells the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Ben Mallett and Juliet Martin every morning. Transcripts can be found at send7.org/transcripts. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated stories in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they listen to SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.For more information visit send7.org/contact

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast!Brian heralds this episode in with a very royal fanfare and there is much merriment and delusion filled laughter as we hail the British King of fuzz. Brian hasn't been sleeping because he's been coming up with a multitude of crazy new ideas and he tells us about that as the guys trade age and caffeine based tales.Richard tries to give the episode a Halloween theme against a backdrop of mild protestations and we discover that Brian has been out gigging on the Chickin' Picken' circuit. Brian tells us about the scary movies he has seen and the guys talk about scary music and wax lyrical about John Carpenter's musical chops.  Richard discusses "Diabolus in Musica" as the discussion on spooky music threatens to become intellectual but the guys quickly rectify that. Have you ever struck your elbow with a telecaster? It really hurts and the guys talk about guitar related mishaps before discussing a recent controversy in two parts starting with a discussion about "mojo" components and then the evil practice of dressing up newer components to look exactly like vintage ones. Meanwhile Brian has some unhygienic plans for the holiday season and makes a proclamation that has both his co-hosts questioning reality. Ai Gandalf reads the credits.  GuitarVivo, Unpopular Guitarpinions, Helloween, Polymorphia, Digital readouts, Cthulhu...it's all in this week's Chasing Tone!This episode is sponsored by the fine folk at Stringjoy.comThanks to all our supporters - you are awesome!We are on Patreon now too!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/chasingtonepodcast)Awesome Merch and DIY mods:https://modyourownpedal.com/collections/booksFind us at:https://www.wamplerpedals.com/https://www.instagram.com/WamplerPedals/https://www.facebook.com/groups/wamplerfanpage/Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdVrg4Wl3vjIxonABn6RfWwContact us at: podcast@wamplerpedals.comSupport the show

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Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb. 2. Instead of a sperm and egg, the starting material was naive stem cells which were reprogrammed to gain the potential to become any type of tissue in the body. 3. Synthetic human embryo raises ethical issues 4. The British King, Jamaica's current head of state, should be replaced by a Jamaican head of state, thus establishing Jamaica as a republic. 5. The British Privy Council should remain as Jamaica's final court of appeal. 6. The head of state should be appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister, or elected by the Jamaican people. 7. Ministers of government should be appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister alone, or by him jointly with both chambers of Parliament. . Whether there should be fixed term limits for holders of the office of prime minister. 10. Whether national elections should be held according to fixed dates. 11.Whether there should be 12 months of education on the reform of the Constitution before a referendum is held.

William Cooper was a remarkable Yorta Yorta man from Victoria, born in the 1860s who sought justice for his people by petitioning the British King for black representation in parliament. He believed that it was necessary to ‘think black' to understand and implement justice for Aboriginal people. When he heard about the persecution of the Jews following Kristallnacht, he took a petition to the German consulate in protest. An eloquent and distinguished activist, he is the subject of a scholarly biography by historian Bain Atwood, who examines Cooper's life and influence in the context of colonialism and the Aboriginal experience of dispossession and the impact of a Christian mission education.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Unexpected Elements is all about finding surprising stories and nuggets of science in everyday news. Each week we start by taking a news story that's floating around and use that as a launchpad for three other science stories that become increasingly unexpected. This week, the team squints at the recent lavish ceremony and ritual of the British King's coronation and asks: What does it all mean? Why is ritual so important to us humans, and why does it always seem to involve precious objects? That's where we start - but in this show, our global panel of science journalists can take us to all sorts of places. We'll be touring the ocean floors with the scientist who wants to map all of them, soaring in the skies of India to discover why one of the country's biggest birds might be in trouble, and we're even going off planet to find out about an asteroid with enough gold in it to build a nice shiny house out of the stuff – for every human on Earth.

This week's topics: • Stav's family Arsenal trip • The resolution with the 'only white's allowed' situation at Stav's daughter's school • Singing 'God Save The King' in school • The British King's Coronation • Queen consort or Queen • Dealing with a married somebody • Mac n Cheese • Is someone ungrateful if they're tricked into someone doing something nice for them and not appreciating it • Men wearing and appreciating fragrances • Imitation fragrances • Being a shopaholic • Drop boxes for unwanted babies • Multi-racial adoption • Giannis Antetokounmpo's interview about failure • Is it a failure for a sports team if they don't ultimately win the championship • Football talk • AITA for not telling my girlfriend that I have two Dads • #StavrosSays: Rising Tide Studio [https://rising-tide.org.uk/] Connect with us at & send your questions & comments to: #ESNpod so we can find your comments www.esnpodcast.com www.facebook.com/ESNpodcasts www.twitter.com/ESNpodcast www.instagram.com/ESNpodcast @esnpodcast on all other social media esnpodcast@gmail.com It's important to subscribe, rate and review us on your apple products. You can do that here... www.bit.ly/esnitunes

Hear ye! Hear ye! Katy Perry shall be performing for the British King. Do with that what you will.In other news we watched Godfather 2 and 3 DVDBeef - NetflixThe Menu - Disney+Kakegurui - NetflixSurprised you with the switch up didn't I, now you know how some of the Katy Perry fans are feeling?Ok we also did the usual and watched a load of music videos including two from Tyler the Creator - Wharf Talk and Sorry Not Sorry as well as Jaz Elise - Rice & Peas, Jack Black - Peaches, Labrinth - Never Felt So Alone, Joey Bada$$ - Fallin'Davido - Unavailable, Tunde - Bruce Lee, Metro Boomin, Don Toliver, Future - Too Many Nights and a whole lot more, including our favourite video.We finished off with performance reviews of Jonas Brothers on SNL and Raye on NPRs Tiny Desk Image courtesy of YouTubeFind us at www.popgram.co.ukEmail us at : popgrampodcast@gmail.comInstagram: @popgrampodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/PopgramPodcast

Hear the terrifying testimony of a commander from the brutal Russian military group, Wagner, as he admits to cold-blooded killings in Ukraine...and then declares a desire to return to the front-line.Also the shocking twist in the tale of a pro-Russian Youtuber, whose reality is rather closer to home.Plus Musk reveals just how far the US Government may be delving into what we once thought were private conversations, we discover the official dish of the new British King's coronation and the cash some tech firms will pay simply to keep celebrities from the clutches of their rivals!AND the story of a teen from Britain, Lukas Skinner, who tells us what it's like to become the greatest young surfer on the planetLukas is a brand ambassador for leading change robe brand, dryrobe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 668, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Oz 1: This character gets a ride (likely to his home in Omaha) in the balloon meant to take Dorothy to Kansas. the Wizard. 2: The Wicked Witch's golden cap allows her to summon these to do her bidding 3 times. the flying monkeys. 3: Dorothy followed the Yellow Brick Road to this place, the capital of Oz. the Emerald City. 4: One chapter is called "The Magic Art of the Great" this 6-letter word meaning a hoax or fraud. humbug. 5: In L. Frank Baum's original book, this, not ruby, is the color of Dorothy's slippers. silver. Round 2. Category: Classic Pop Groups 1: When this group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Mike Love gave the acceptance speech. The Beach Boys. 2: In 1963, with "Walk Like a Man", this group became the first to score 3 straight No. 1 singles in the U.S.. The Four Seasons. 3: After Smokey Robinson left this group, they had a No. 1 hit in 1975 with "Love Machine (Part 1)". The Miracles. 4: This girl group followed up their No. 1 hit "Please Mr. Postman" with "Twistin' Postman". The Marvelettes. 5: "Nights In White Satin" appeared on their 1968 LP "Days of Future Passed" 4 years before the reissue hit the Top 10. The Moody Blues. Round 3. Category: God Save The British King Or Queen 1: All 3 of the kings with this name died violently. Richard. 2: At her death, aged 81, she was the oldest British monarch ever. Queen Victoria. 3: It has been reported that he was once seen having a conversation with an oak tree. George III. 4: John Bradshaw presided over the high court that sentenced this British king to death in 1649. Charles I. 5: In 1603 he became the first British monarch of the House of Stuart. James I. Round 4. Category: A River Runs Through Them 1: Georgetown and Alexandria. the Potomac. 2: Montreal and Quebec. the St. Lawrence. 3: Vientiane and Phnom Penh. the Mekong River. 4: Knoxville and Chattanooga. the Tennessee River. 5: Hyderabad and Sukkur. the Indus River. Round 5. Category: Bumps On The Globe 1: If Montana invaded Idaho, its forces would cross the Bitterroot range of these mountains. Rockies. 2: This country's Cordillera Cantabrica is even tougher to get across than the nearby Pyrenees. Spain. 3: The Kjolen Mountains, on the Norway-Sweden border, extend north into this people's "land". Lapps. 4: Eastern Russia's Stanovoy Mountains form a watershed between the Pacific Ocean and this one. Arctic Ocean. 5: The Elburz Mountains, on the Caspian Sea's south shore in this country, rise to over 18,000 feet at Mt. Damavand. Iran. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Most of us think of the fabled summer of 1940 in terms of spitfires, the London Blitz and Churchill promising to fight on the beaches. But Andrew and Phil take a different view. And they want to bust a few long-cherished myths and reveal some scandals. In this episode they explore two scandals that occur BEFORE the Battle of Britain even began, and yet may have had just as great an impact on the course of the second world war.Set amid a fevered few fevered weeks of intrigue, defeatism, treason and fear, this is the story of two momentous but little understood events. Firstly the British attack on the French fleet. Some say this was was an act of brutal necessity, but others regard it as a betrayal, even a war crime. And secondly the fate of the Duke of Windsor, a former British King who is uncomfortably close to Hitler's Germany. Together these linked stories make for a fresh and fascinating re-examination of ‘The Finest Hour'. Andrew's book on the Duke of Windsor, and Phil's book and documentary on 1940, are in the links below.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Finest-Hour-bestselling-Battle-Britain-ebook/dp/B008K5TFLWhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Traitor-King-Scandalous-FEATURED-DOCUMENTARY/dp/1788704878Churchills Darkest Decisionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyku1lSRiFUAndrew Lownie.twitter.com/andrewlowniePhil Craig.twitter.com/philmcraigYou can now get in touch with the show...team@podcastworld.org (Place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading)This show is Part of the PodcastWorld.org network.Recorded in Kentish Town, London.Production byTheo XKerem IsikDavid KurzerAvailable on YouTube, Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music, Googleplay and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In this episode Neil takes us to the beautiful coast of Cumbria as it's attacked by a warship from the United States of America. Angry and dissatisfied with the punitive taxes and harsh rule of the British monarchy the people of America rise in rebellion. Intent on helping his new adopted country throw off the shackles of colonial rule, John Paul Jones captains an American naval ship of war, and in an audacious move crosses the Atlantic to attack Britain.Guns primed and at the ready he sails with his crew to the thriving industrial port of Whitehaven on the northwest coast of England, and under the cover of darkness launches his attack. This first shot across the bow caused panic in government and gave a bloody nose to the British King.To help support this podcast and get exclusive access to new videos packed with history, current affairs and a whole lot more sign up to Neil Oliver on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/neiloliverThe series Instagram account is – Neil Oliver Love Letter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Time Running out – Save Moore StAt the beginning of June the British-based property company Hammerson lodged three planning applications for major developments on and around Moore Street. The applications will effectively destroy much of the 1916 Rising Heritage of the site. Some of the buildings in the terrace that runs for 10-25 Moore Street and where the last meeting of the 1916 leaders was held, and scores of those evacuated from the burning GPO took shelter, will be demolished under the Hammerson plan.The Aghadavoyle Train Ambush.One lesser known aspect of the visit to Ireland by George V occurred in South Armagh two days after the Belfast pomp and ceremony of the opening of the Parliament in Belfast City Hall.  On the 24th June three trains carrying the trappings for the opening of the Parliament, as well as members of the 10th Royal Hussars Regiment, a cavalry unit which had acted as the personal bodyguard to the British King, were heading south to the Curragh British military camp in County Kildare. Volunteers from the 4th Northern Division of the IRA, mostly from South Armagh, under the direction of Frank Aiken ambushed the last train which was carrying the Hussars and their horses in the townland of Achadh Aileóg, a few miles from the Aghadavoyle train station.

George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover from 1727-60, was considered short-tempered and uncultivated, but during his reign presided over a great flourishing in his adoptive country - economic, military, and cultural. In this talk, Norman Davies places George II in the unfamiliar framework of a composite state, stressing the monarch's conviction that his native German possessions were no less important than his British ones, together with the unfamiliar story of how his German Electorate was governed from St. James's Palace in London. He also discusses his book, George II: Not Just a British Monarch, and its use of unconventional terminology, calling the monarch 'George Augustus' (not just George II), insisting that he was 'King-Elector' not just a mere King, that he belonged to the dynasty of Von Welf (the Guelphs) not to the invented tribe of 'Hanoverians', and that his coat-of-arms, which, inter alia, bore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire, was 'royal and electoral', not just, as the British always say, 'royal'.Speaker: Professor Norman Davies FBA, Professor Emeritus of History, University of London; Honorary Fellow, St Antony's College, University of Oxford; Honorary Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge

The Government of Ireland Act was signed into British Law by a British King on 23 December 1920. In 1998 Sinn Féin succeeded in having this act scrapped - I will write about that process and its implications in the New Year.Partition was born out of violence and the threat of greater violence by unionism supported by the British government. In July 1920 nearly five thousand Catholics who were working in the two Belfast shipyards were expelled from their jobs. Over the following days more Catholic workers were expelled from the engineering works and many of the textile mills across the city. Around 93,000 Catholics lived in Belfast at that time, many existing in poverty and in overcrowded unsanitary conditions. The financial and human impact on families and communities of so many Catholic workers losing their jobs was devastating. In October 1920 unionist paramilitary organisations were recruited almost to a man into the Ulster Special Constabulary of A, B and C Specials – which eventually formed the bulk of the Royal Ulster Constabulary RUC). Michael Farrell, in his definitive ‘Arming the Protestants of Ulster' concludes: “The USC was effectively a Protestant force from the very beginning and the British government made no effort to avert this …”Those who built the Southern State turned their backs on the North. They turned their backs also on the ideals of independence and a genuine republic. As James Connolly predicted, a carnival of reaction followed partition.In the decades after the signing into law of the Government of Ireland Act and the establishment of two states the Unionist establishment in the North solidified its control through the imposition of an apartheid regime in which nationalists and republicans were reduced to the status of non citizen. This was done through the systematic gerrymandering of electoral boundaries, the denial of the vote to hundreds of thousands of Catholics in local government elections, and the extensive use of structured sectarian discrimination in housing and employment.  In every decade in the North there was conflict; internment and repression.In July 1966, as the English Queen visited Belfast, the Sunday Times wrote a rare article about the north. Under the headline ‘John Bull's political slum' the article described the northern state as ‘a part of Britain where the crude apparatus of political and religious oppression, ballot rigging, job and housing discrimination and an omnipresent threat of violence co-exists with intense loyalty to the Crown.'                    In the 1960s groups like the Campaign for Social Justice, the Wolfe Tone Societies, the Derry Housing Action Committee and then the Civil Rights Association campaigned against the injustice of the unionist regime at Stormont. The Unionist government responded with violence against the civil rights campaign. The first people killed in 1966 and in 1969 at what some define as the start of the so-called troubles were killed by the RUC, the B Specials and Loyalists.Today the adverse political, economic and societal consequences of partition and of those policies are still with us. They exist in the poor state of the northern economy; the disproportionate number of Catholics on the housing waiting lists; unionist resistance to the construction of new housing in nationalist areas; the denial of Irish language rights; the continued opposition by political unionism of basic human rights for all citizens; a biased approach to the issue of victims; and resistance to the full implementation of all aspects of the Good Friday Agreement.This is partition. A disastrous British government policy. It is time for a new Ireland, a new future - a United Ireland.

Shakespeare’s play King Lear is based upon the story of the ancient British King who founded Leicester in England, written by Geoffrey Monmouth. Monmouth based his story on real elements of Leicester’s history, including the Jewry Wall and ancient roman tombs, some of which are still there in Leicester today. For the 16th century, this story was already hugely popular when Shakespeare decided to adapt it for his play version. The story was so tied up with the city of Leicester, that historians believe the visit of the King’s Men to Leicester in 1606 was specifically to perform King Lear, which had been written that same year. While the framework of Shakespeare’s version does seem to follow in Monmouth’s footsteps, there are specific elements in Shakespeare’s version which  are strikingly similar to actual court cases in 17th c England which were captivating the cultural mindset at the time. There were real court cased being heard in 1605-1606 involving men accused of madness by their daughters, and the names of these daughters are just a few letters off from the name Cordelia which Shakespeare named one of Lear’s daughters in his play. Details like these are tantalizing to explore, and we have invited our guest this week, Mathew Morris, who knows the archaeological history of Leicester best, to help us sort out the real history from the legend of King Leir.

It has been two months since I last spoke to Charlie Ward and a lot had happened in that time. Charlie has grown from 75 subscribers to over 20,000 on youtube in 8 weeks! We talk about black lives matter, Antifa, Q, Trump, Nesara/Gesara and more. I have a lot of respect for Charlie and the work that he is doing to bring information to the world.  Charlie's Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/drcharlieward Alex Hickman https://selfsovereignty.co.uk/

What in the world does the British Monarchy have to do with marketing? You might be surprised but back in 1917, a British King did something that would result in the rise & growth of the British Monarchy as we know it today. In fact, it could be argued that his decision was a marketing & positioning brilliance. In this episode, we discuss the decision and how it can be applied to marketing in the modern world. SUBSCRIBE to get all the latest: actiondrivenpodcast.com

Camelot was the first play I ever saw. I still remember the magic of that experience. It led to a life-long fascination with King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, The Knights of the Round Table and, of course, Merlin. This interest even carried into the next generation with my oldest daughter's love of the Arthurian legend. When I opened the email with Inner Traditions' latest publications, I was delighted to discover that these people and places were actually real. It was a bit like a childhood fantasy coming to life. If part or all of the Legend of King Arthur is real, then maybe other fanciful beliefs that we think are myths, are actually real. It opens one's imagination to possibilities, even the possibility of miracles that are not so much miracles as they are every day occurrences--depending on your belief system. Please join us Thursday for a fascinating journey into the discovery of King Arthur as an authentic British King, Camelot as a real place and Excalibur as a real sword.

おかげさまでHiroshima University's English PodcastはSeason 5に突入しました。リスナーの皆様には今後とも本ポッドキャストをご愛聴いただけますよう、よろしくお願いいたします。 ９月から11月までの毎月第１週は「異文化ディスカッション」をお届けします。アメリカはフロリダ出身のハンナ（Hannah）と、ミネソタ出身のザック（Zack）です。第１回はお二人に、「アメリカのおすすめ観光スポット」について話してもらいます。 聞き手：Joe Lauer（広島大学外国語教育研究センタ―） ＊毎月第１週は「異文化ディスカッション」をお届けします。 ＊エントリーの「スクリプトを見る」をクリックすると、番組内で使われている表現を見ることができます（スクリプトは表示されません）。 Download MP3 （17:54　10.4MB　中級～上級）+++この番組で使われている主な表現（Traveling around the United States）+++ to be used to = to be accustomed to, to feel comfortable in to remind (someone) of (something) =（誰か）に（何か）を思い出させる by far = clearly, undoubtedly, without question paradise = heaven, the best place 60 degrees Fahrenheit = 60°F = 16°Celsius 80°F = 27°C room temperature = about 21°C, 70°F all year round = throughout the year a volcano = 火山 lava = 溶岩 hardened = (material) which has become hard to go = to say (Note: conversational and frequent, followed by a direct quotation) to pour out = to come out, 流れ出る about 2 feet = about 60 cm to go snorkeling =シュノーケリングをする coral reefs = 珊瑚礁 Humuhumunukunukuapuaa = a brightly colored fish, also called a reef trigger fish (Comment = Wow! Try to memorize and spell that correctly! Ha ha.) a state fish = Note: Each American state has special official animals and plants, including birds, insects, flowers, trees, etc. a fish-related industry = 漁業 Pike's Fish Market = a popular tourist spot in Seattle Washington State = the area around Seattle fish mongering = fish cutting and selling slimy = ぬるぬるした suburban = 郊外の Montana and Wyoming = 2 large states in the Rocky Mountains wildlife = animals not controlled by people an elk = ヘラジカ a geyser = 間欠泉 to shoot = to go quickly, 噴出する the Upper Midwest = the area in the US ranging from about Ohio in the east to Iowa in the west, and Minnesota in the north to Kansas in the south North Dakota = a state on the Canadian border Mt. Rushmore = a huge monument carved into a mountain, made in the 1930s, featuring the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln a carving = 彫り物 to go into = to be used when doing (something), to be involved in (Example: "A lot of planning went into the project.") New England = the area which includes the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and Rhode Island. jaggy = jagged, rough, ギザギザした cuisine = food which is usually expensive a clam = はまぐり would take trips = often took trips encourage = recommend, suggest, 促す a skyscraper = a very tall building densely = 密集して Pennsylvania = a large state featuring the city of Philadelphia to be granted to = to be given to (by a powerful person), 授与される King Charles II = a British King in the second half of the 1600s. William Penn = a leader in the British American colony, who strongly supported democracy and freedom of religion the Founding Fathers = the first male leaders (in the US, including people such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin) to draw up = to make and write (usually a legal document) the Declaration of Independence = アメリカの独立宣言 the constitution = 憲法 the temporary capital = 一時的な首都 to highly suggest = to recommend very much the three branches (of government) = the three main parts (of a government) the judicial branch ＝司法府 the legislative branch ＝立法部門 the executive branch = 行政部内 (includes the president or top leader) the National Mall = the grassy area in Washington D.C., around the George Washington Monument, next to other sites such as the Smithsonian Museums the Lincoln Memorial = a huge building which looks like a Greek temple, dedicated to the president who helped "free the slaves" the Library of Congress = one of the largest libraries in the world, holding important documents the Capitol = the building in which laws are made (Note: the spelling is different from "capital") the Old South = the southeastern states, including South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee a marshland = a swamp, 沼地 New Orleans = the main city in Louisiana, featuring French culture; it was partly destroyed by a hurricane in 2005, but has largely recovered the Mississippi Bayou = the Mississippi River's delta area Creole = a cultural group in Louisiana, involving French, Spanish, African and Native American cultures, known for spicy food ancestry = 先祖 indigenous = native, （その土地の）特有の、生～ the slavery period = about 250 years, ending in the US in the 1860s, 奴隷制の時代 jambalaya = a food made with chicken, sausage, rice, tomatoes, celery, and spices. Originated in the Caribbean area 110°F = 43°C in the shade = 日陰の中 humid = 湿気の多い a cactus = サボテン other than = except for Californiaesque = similar to California culture (adjective) Disneyland = located in the suburbs of Los Angeles at times = sometimes a celebrity = a famous person, especially a movie star Napa Valley = a famous wine-growing region as long as = if, when

おかげさまでHiroshima University's English PodcastはSeason 5に突入しました。リスナーの皆様には今後とも本ポッドキャストをご愛聴いただけますよう、よろしくお願いいたします。 ９月から11月までの毎月第１週は「異文化ディスカッション」をお届けします。アメリカはフロリダ出身のハンナ（Hannah）と、ミネソタ出身のザック（Zack）です。第１回はお二人に、「アメリカのおすすめ観光スポット」について話してもらいます。 聞き手：Joe Lauer（広島大学外国語教育研究センタ―） ＊毎月第１週は「異文化ディスカッション」をお届けします。 ＊エントリーの「スクリプトを見る」をクリックすると、番組内で使われている表現を見ることができます（スクリプトは表示されません）。 Download MP3 （17:54　10.4MB　中級～上級）+++この番組で使われている主な表現（Traveling around the United States）+++ to be used to = to be accustomed to, to feel comfortable in to remind (someone) of (something) =（誰か）に（何か）を思い出させる by far = clearly, undoubtedly, without question paradise = heaven, the best place 60 degrees Fahrenheit = 60°F = 16°Celsius 80°F = 27°C room temperature = about 21°C, 70°F all year round = throughout the year a volcano = 火山 lava = 溶岩 hardened = (material) which has become hard to go = to say (Note: conversational and frequent, followed by a direct quotation) to pour out = to come out, 流れ出る about 2 feet = about 60 cm to go snorkeling =シュノーケリングをする coral reefs = 珊瑚礁 Humuhumunukunukuapuaa = a brightly colored fish, also called a reef trigger fish (Comment = Wow! Try to memorize and spell that correctly! Ha ha.) a state fish = Note: Each American state has special official animals and plants, including birds, insects, flowers, trees, etc. a fish-related industry = 漁業 Pike's Fish Market = a popular tourist spot in Seattle Washington State = the area around Seattle fish mongering = fish cutting and selling slimy = ぬるぬるした suburban = 郊外の Montana and Wyoming = 2 large states in the Rocky Mountains wildlife = animals not controlled by people an elk = ヘラジカ a geyser = 間欠泉 to shoot = to go quickly, 噴出する the Upper Midwest = the area in the US ranging from about Ohio in the east to Iowa in the west, and Minnesota in the north to Kansas in the south North Dakota = a state on the Canadian border Mt. Rushmore = a huge monument carved into a mountain, made in the 1930s, featuring the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln a carving = 彫り物 to go into = to be used when doing (something), to be involved in (Example: "A lot of planning went into the project.") New England = the area which includes the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and Rhode Island. jaggy = jagged, rough, ギザギザした cuisine = food which is usually expensive a clam = はまぐり would take trips = often took trips encourage = recommend, suggest, 促す a skyscraper = a very tall building densely = 密集して Pennsylvania = a large state featuring the city of Philadelphia to be granted to = to be given to (by a powerful person), 授与される King Charles II = a British King in the second half of the 1600s. William Penn = a leader in the British American colony, who strongly supported democracy and freedom of religion the Founding Fathers = the first male leaders (in the US, including people such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin) to draw up = to make and write (usually a legal document) the Declaration of Independence = アメリカの独立宣言 the constitution = 憲法 the temporary capital = 一時的な首都 to highly suggest = to recommend very much the three branches (of government) = the three main parts (of a government) the judicial branch ＝司法府 the legislative branch ＝立法部門 the executive branch = 行政部内 (includes the president or top leader) the National Mall = the grassy area in Washington D.C., around the George Washington Monument, next to other sites such as the Smithsonian Museums the Lincoln Memorial = a huge building which looks like a Greek temple, dedicated to the president who helped "free the slaves" the Library of Congress = one of the largest libraries in the world, holding important documents the Capitol = the building in which laws are made (Note: the spelling is different from "capital") the Old South = the southeastern states, including South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee a marshland = a swamp, 沼地 New Orleans = the main city in Louisiana, featuring French culture; it was partly destroyed by a hurricane in 2005, but has largely recovered the Mississippi Bayou = the Mississippi River's delta area Creole = a cultural group in Louisiana, involving French, Spanish, African and Native American cultures, known for spicy food ancestry = 先祖 indigenous = native, （その土地の）特有の、生～ the slavery period = about 250 years, ending in the US in the 1860s, 奴隷制の時代 jambalaya = a food made with chicken, sausage, rice, tomatoes, celery, and spices. Originated in the Caribbean area 110°F = 43°C in the shade = 日陰の中 humid = 湿気の多い a cactus = サボテン other than = except for Californiaesque = similar to California culture (adjective) Disneyland = located in the suburbs of Los Angeles at times = sometimes a celebrity = a famous person, especially a movie star Napa Valley = a famous wine-growing region as long as = if, when

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Transcript -- How a British King's art collection became a French King's art collection.

How a British King's art collection became a French King's art collection.

Transcript -- How a British King's art collection became a French King's art collection.

How a British King's art collection became a French King's art collection.

I did not wait with baited breath for the President's long-anticipated speech on a "new strategy" for Iraq. For I knew, with chilling certainty, that no matter the 'strategy', it would hardly be 'new.' I knew that more didn't mean new -- just more. And I knew that this president was incapable of little more, than more of the same. More troops -- more war -- more death -- more disaster. There may be a new phrase -- but after "Bring 'em on!", "We're winnin'!", or "War Against Terror", what can a new phrase mean, but more b.s.? Wars aren't fought with phrases; they're used to sell wars; to stir the blood; to quicken the pulse; and to enliven the bloodlust in men. This is no different. I fought my journalistic urge to watch the President's press conference. It's a lot like watching Elmer Fudd stuttering something about catching that 'wascally wabbit' (Bugs Bunny). I can actually hear Bugs laughing at Elmer's latest antic, saying, between guffaws, "What a maroon!" Madness! And yet, as is often the case, the journalistic urge wins out, so as a compromise, I turned on the local NPR affiliate, and listened to the speech. And despite advance billing by party and PR flacks about the contents, Bush managed to do it again. Within moments of his latest offering came appeals to the events of Sept. 11th, which he blamed on "extremists." Like Iraq had a damned thing to do with 9/11! Once again, he sprinkled his speech with calls to supporting 'liberty', and essentially said the problem was 'too few U.S. and Iraqi troops, and too many restrictions.' And the solution? 21,000 more troops. With each twist and turn of administration policy, I've scoffed. This 'new strategy' evoked the same old emotion. This too is destined for failure. Why? Because the U.S. Army hasn't an ounce worth of trust in the Iraqi forces. Because Iraqi insurgents" (or dead-enders" -- or "extremists", or whatever we're calling them now) have seeded themselves within the Ministry of the Interior -- the Army, the police -- you name it. If the U.S. delivers new arms to the Army, it will be in the hands of the so-called 'insurgents' by dawn. And what is this American antipathy against 'extremists' or 'insurgents', anyhow? The U.S. was formed by armed groups of insurgents -- and yes, 'extremists.' Those who stood against the British King in 1776 were opposing the biggest, baddest superpower of the era. The Crown was the seat of legality, order, and power. To dare to challenge them -- to fight the mighty British Empire, was -- well, extreme. The U.S. did it, and at least one 'founding father' -- Thomas Paine, had to flee Britain, or face time in the Tower awaiting the national noose. (It was just his bad luck that he fled to France, where the Robespierre-led National Assembly tried to feed his head to the guillotine -- but that's another story.) The point? A war against extremities, or terrorism, is misleading and stupid. It's a war against an idea. It's now approaching 4 years of this madcap and illegal war -- now is hardly time for a 'new strategy.' Failure leads to failure. Disaster leads to disaster. This 'new strategy' is kinda like putting lipstick on a pig. Its other flaw is its obvious tilt towards the Shia, with Sunnis targeted by the U.S.-Iraqi forces for a kind of 'super-occupation.' What will this lead to? Everything that the administration has done -- from Day One -- has made more enemies, not less. It has made the threats facing the U.S. more dangerous -- not less. Good work, Elmer ( or should I say, Daffy -- as in 'Lame' -- Duck?).