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Robert and Lynda receive a bad review from their disgruntled B&B guest after last week's events. When the invoice from the Brookfield sheep attack arrives, they are forced to relook at their finances. Robert becomes frustrated at the coldness of Brookfield's email and Lynda has to soothe him. Robert points out they've accepted responsibility and lost Monty but the use of “sincerely” make him question everything they've done for the village. After spending the day sitting in Ambridge Hall lounge, they discuss how Ambridge has changed them both when their day gets worse when the bad review is posted to six more sites.At Lower Loxley, Rex and Lily are missing the cricket. Lily is trying to make sure her mum isn't working during Vince's Sunday lunch whilst Rex is checking on his pigs. Rex lets slip that Fallon is starting her new job at Lower Loxley tomorrow which puts Lily at unease. Lily gets flagged down by Fallon who was admiring the grounds but would love a cheeky lift back to her car. Lily agrees reluctantly. Fallon rambles on about her plans for Lower Loxley including the Cruck Barn workshops. Fallon offers to take them all to the tearoom but Lily uses the Flower and Produce show as an excuse. Rex notices and questions Lily who confesses she kissed Harrison.

Following a horrific attack on a 23-year-old morning walker in Brookfield, over 2,000 residents gathered for a solidarity walk to support the victim and take back their streets. Organiser Emily Hall joined Jason Matthews on 4BC Breakfast to share how the emotional event allowed locals, emergency services, and political leaders to channel their outrage into a unified stand against violence.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Khalil bumps into Ruth, who wants to chat with him. He thinks there's nothing left to say, except to apologise for his rant at Brookfield last week. Ruth in turn apologises for showing him the photos. She feels wretched about it. Khalil assures her the nightmares are easing; he forgives her. She tries to make it up to him by offering him work experience on the farm. Khalil declines, asserting he'll need to concentrate on his schoolwork this year. Raising animals to make money seems wrong to him. He seeks Ruth's assurance that they won't need to speak of the sheep photos incident again. He's still annoyed with Keira for blabbing about it, and tells her so later. Keira counters she was just worried about him, and she's sorry. Khalil feels like he's now under surveillance from his family. He cuts Keira short, heading off to Henry's for tea.Lily's surprised to see Harrison at her Argentine tango class. He's looking for Taekwondo. Lily explains those sessions finished a while ago – why doesn't her join her for tango? Reluctant Harrison eventually agrees, and whilst he picks up the steps well, he admits it's all a bit intimate and it's hurting his brain. They laugh as they throw themselves into the intense moves. Later over tapas Lily declares she was excited to have Harrison as a partner; he's in great shape. Harrison's flattered but reckons he'll stick with Taekwondo. He's enjoying her company though. She's a breath of fresh air – funny, clever and beautiful. Lily returns the compliment, and they kiss.

Azra sympathises with Lynda's plight over Monty – she must have had a horrible couple of weeks. Lynda hopes Monty will be rehomed rather than the unthinkable alternative. They agree they're both worried about Khalil, and Azra probes as to what really happened at Brookfield last week. Lynda states she wasn't there for long and didn't see anything herself, but she recalls David did mention something about photos. Azra's grateful Lynda followed Khalil there, and resolves to talk to him. Later having spoken to Khalil, Azra goes with Akram to see David and Ruth. Ruth admits she showed Khalil the photos. Azra acknowledges Khalil was rude to barge into Brookfield, but Ruth's actions have only worsened his distress. He's not coping. Ruth's mortified and apologises; she really regrets what she did. When they've gone Ruth admits to David that she can completely see their point of view. She fears Azra will never forgive her.Amber and George note their antenatal class is getting smaller; babies are starting to arrive. They speculate on when it will be their turn. George takes Lynda some flowers from Clarrie. Lynda's touched, admitting she's not sure what other villagers think of her. George asserts his grandma's not the judgy type. After the antenatal class George tells Amber he feels inadequate compared to the other dads – he can't provide for his family while he's off sick. Amber's having none of it, and gets him to focus on the positives. They have a roof over their heads and a loving family.

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Dvorak on Twitter Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter Warm-Up - Oil Reserves taking a hit - Getting to the recent high profile earnings - Market Top Calls (again) Markets - ALL TIME HIGHS - Then some consolidation - Lets round out earnings - Situational Awareness Update - SpaceX Bounces... Etsy - Layoffs With Better Numbers - Etsy is cutting about 220 jobs, or 12% of its workforce. - Management said the cuts were not primarily about cost savings or AI. ----- CEO Kruti Patel Goyal stated the restructuring aims to simplify the organization, remove management layers, and speed up decision-making to better compete against massive rivals like Amazon, Temu, and TikTok Shop - Q2 revenue was about $668 million and core marketplace sales improved. - Etsy also authorized another $2 billion share buyback. - Comes after selling Depop to eBay for about $1.4 billion. Polysilicon - Tariffs Plus Price Floors - U.S. policy adds a 15% tariff and minimum import prices on polysilicon and solar products. - Goal is to protect domestic production from low-cost foreign competition. - U.S. share of global polysilicon capacity fell from about 50% in 2005 to under 2% in 2024. - First Solar and T1 Energy jumped on the announcement. ---- The same playbook - rinse and repeat Chipotle - Salmonella Returns - Minnesota officials linked a salmonella outbreak to jalapenos served at Chipotle. - Chipotle removed the affected pepper supply and switched growers. - Shares fell roughly 8%-10% as investors remembered the company's earlier food-safety problems. - This is on top of the lettuce situation with Sweetgreen- look at  STOCK CHART FOR SG Michael Burry - Calling a Major Top - Michael Burry says the market may be near a "major top." - Warned of the possibility of a 1987-style market drop. - He is short names including Nvidia, Palantir, Tesla and semiconductor stocks. - Main concern is stretched valuations and crowded trades unwinding quickly. - This may be the 100th top he has called since the GFC ---- NVIDIA TURNS GPUs INTO AN ASSET CLASS - Nvidia signed preliminary agreements with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. - The Wall Street firms would create dedicated pools of capital to finance Nvidia-based data centers and compute infrastructure at what Nvidia calls attractive rates for customers. - Jensen Huang: “This is really the first time that technology chips have become an investable asset class.” Nvidia says the compute assets now generate revenue and can increasingly be financed like infrastructure. - Nvidia could backstop as much as 25% of individual investments on a case-by-case basis - potentially up to about $125 billion if applied across the full program. STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE BREAKS 300 MILLION - The Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell by 6.1 million barrels to 298.7 million barrels for the week ended Aug. 7 - below 300 million for the first time since January 1983. - The SPR started 2026 around 415 million barrels, meaning more than 100 million barrels have already come out this year as releases were used to offset disruptions from the Iran conflict. - The reserve's authorized storage capacity is roughly 714 million barrels, leaving current inventories at about 42% of capacity. - Oil on the rise last week Earnings and such Toyota - Big Buyback, Better Outlook - Toyota raised its annual operating-profit forecast 13%, helped by the weaker yen. - Announced a share buyback worth up to $6.3 billion. - Quarterly operating profit still fell 9%, hurt by China weakness and higher Middle East-related costs. McDonald's - Value Problem - U.S. same-store sales rose just 0.8%, below expectations and well below last year's 2.5% growth. - Management blamed weak execution of value promotions and fewer digital deals. (and probably because everyone is taking weight loss drugs - see above) - Lower-income customer traffic remains a major pressure point. - McDonald's is bringing back more digital offers and loyalty promotions to drive traffic. Eli Lilly - Weight-Loss Machine - Lilly crushed Q2 expectations as Mounjaro and Zepbound drove most of the growth. - Mounjaro sales hit $9.94 billion; Zepbound brought in $4.93 billion. - Raised 2026 revenue guidance to $85-$87 billion. - Verzenio, its major breast-cancer drug, remains one of Lilly's biggest non-obesity products. - Lilly continues widening its lead over Novo Nordisk in the obesity-drug market. Disney - Parks Keep Printing Money - Quarterly adjusted EPS rose 28% to $2.06, beating the $1.86 estimate. - Parks and experiences revenue increased 10% to nearly $10 billion. - Global park attendance grew 4%. - Disney is selling its 50% stake in A+E Networks to Hearst for an estimated $1.2 billion. Oil - OPEC Adds Barrels, Maybe - OPEC+ agreed to raise September production targets by another 188,000 barrels per day. - The increase completes the rollback of a 1.65 million-barrel-per-day supply cut dating back to 2023. (In other words - planned so not a surprise) - Actual supply remains constrained because several producers are already pumping below quota. - Any normalization around the Strait of Hormuz could suddenly make OPEC+'s additional barrels much more important. Berkshire Hathaway - Greg Abel Starts Spending - Q2 operating earnings rose 16% to about $13 billion. - Berkshire bought $23.5 billion of stocks and sold just $3.7 billion - its first quarter as a net stock buyer in 14 quarters. - Bought back $4.5 billion of Berkshire shares, versus only $235 million in Q1. - Cash dropped from roughly $380 billion to $365 billion as Abel starts putting the massive cash pile to work. - Important shift: Buffett is still chairman, but this is one of the clearest signs yet of how Greg Abel may allocate capital differently as CEO. Situational Awareness - Nearly Blows Up, Investors Want Back In - The fund lost 67% in July after leveraged AI bets collapsed and forced a major stock sale to Citadel. - Despite the blowup, Situational Awareness was still up about 80% for 2026 because of huge earlier gains. - Bloomberg says Silicon Valley investors are already asking to put more money into the fund. - Situational Awareness is currently telling prospective investors it is not accepting new capital. - The fund has also continued making large private investments even after the near-collapse. --- Most recent was a $400B ---- There is some talk that Citadel made out like a bandit on the rescue Mercedes AMG - The Car Literally Brands You - Two Mercedes AMG owners filed a class-action lawsuit claiming the metal AMG logo embedded in the seat becomes dangerously hot in the sun. - One driver says he suffered first- and second-degree burns, with a dermatologist describing the injury as "AMG inscribed." - The lawsuit wants Mercedes to cover damages and remove the metal logos from affected vehicles. - Hard to beat this one: pay AMG money and get the logo branded into your back. Europe's Drought - History Starts Popping Out - Extreme drought and low river levels are exposing things that have been underwater or hidden for decades or centuries. - In Serbia, sunken German World War II warships have reappeared in the Danube. - In Britain, dry ground revealed outlines of medieval buildings; mammoth remains and ancient structures have also surfaced elsewhere. - Serious drought story, but visually one of the strangest side effects of the summer. Golden Toilet - $6 Million Flush - The 18-carat gold toilet was ripped out of Blenheim Palace in a five-minute raid and has never been recovered - but there is a conviction. - Prosecutors used phone data, forensic evidence and planning activity to link the gang to the theft. - One defendant had cased the palace beforehand and photographed entry points; another man had already pleaded guilty and admitted helping move the stolen gold. - Prosecutors believe the 98-kilo toilet was quickly cut up or melted down and sold as gold. - So the conviction was based on evidence of the robbery and disposal - not on recovering the actual toilet. 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“Anthropic will be a $3 trillion company, SpaceX $2 trillion, and OpenAI $1 to $1.5 trillion by Q2 of next year.” — Dave McClure Yesterday, Keith Teare and I debated the circularity of the AI economy. Today, two of Silicon Valley's most experienced investors, Dave McClure and Aman Verjee, not only straighten out this supposed “circularity” but also burst the pessimism bubble that envelops so many conversations about AI. Verjee is not only McClure's partner at Practical Venture Capital, but also the author of the newly published A Brief History of Financial Bubbles. According to him, today's AI-stoked economy is not an unusually large bubble. It may not even be a bubble, given that AI revenue — from Anthropic's $70 billion to OpenAI's $50 billion — is real. The irrational exuberance lives elsewhere — in companies “draping themselves in AI magic sauce” and in the “SaaSpocalypse” that is decimating software-as-a-service companies. They are both bullish about our AI future. McClure predicts that by the first half of next year, Anthropic and OpenAI will have joined SpaceX as public companies. Together, these three AI darlings will be worth $7 trillion. That's seven thousand billion reasons to be optimistic about 2027. Five Takeaways •       Not a Bubble — a Repricing. Both partners reject the bubble call, on the numbers: Anthropic at roughly $70 billion in revenue on under two gigawatts of compute, OpenAI at $40–50 billion, SpaceX guiding to $100 billion with more than half from AI — real revenue, increasingly real profits. The froth is specific: companies “draping themselves in AI magic sauce” without the substance, and the SaaSpocalypse — cloud-software companies whose cash flows are suddenly perceived as far less durable as AI encroaches on design, legal, and medical verticals. Michael Burry's warning gets Aman's definitive treatment (“he's called nine of the last two bubbles”), and the Aschenbrenner blowup was leverage — running four-x in volatile chip stocks — not AI: he kept his Anthropic position, is married to Dario's chief of staff, and “will be just fine.”•       The $2 Trillion Filing. The week's news, baked into the episode: Anthropic has filed to go public, with a very intentionally leaked $2 trillion valuation hinging on a $190–200 billion 2028 revenue forecast — which Dave suspects is conservative. Eight months ago, when these two last visited, the show was about Elon and Sam and Dario was the bit player; then came the weeks when decades happen: Anthropic's bet on coding agents — reportedly inspired by watching Cursor — captured the revenue engine of the entire application layer. Aman's sequencing: SpaceX is absorbing $75–85 billion of IPO capital, Anthropic goes next, and if both trade well, 2026 breaks every record for money raised — leaving 2027 for OpenAI at a $100 billion revenue guide. Google, he reminds us, went fourth after Yahoo, Lycos, and Excite: better to do it right than to do it first.•       The Fastest Pivot in Corporate History. Dave's account of SpaceX's transformation: the $250 billion xAI merger (a largely private transaction Elon approved with himself), the acquisition of Cursor that closed Friday, Colossus data centers scaling from two gigawatts toward ten, and compute deals renting capacity to Anthropic and Google — former competitors — all executed in roughly six months. The S-1, with unprecedented forward projections of $300 billion in annual revenue, mentions artificial intelligence over 1,100 times (“I used AI to count it,” Aman admits). The result is an economy Andrew calls incestuous: SpaceX's valuation now rests on Anthropic's progress. On Elon himself, Dave separates the art from the artist — terrific products, dubious politics — and on OpenAI: more board changes than Spinal Tap had drummers, a team still storming and norming, but Sam is savvy and the IPO lands by Q2 next year at $1–1.5 trillion.•       Circularity as Asset Class. The New York Times sees a vulnerability in tech giants funding their own customers; Aman, a former CFO at eBay and Sonos, sees asset-backed finance. His analogy: buying a Corvette with GMAC financing isn't a conspiracy as long as the terms are commercially reasonable — and NVIDIA's $500 billion backstop, syndicated with Goldman Sachs, Apollo, Brookfield, and KKR, brings third-party money that validates the asset. GPUs, he argues, are cars rather than smartphones: financeable over eight to ten years, not obsolete in three. The red flags to watch are rebates and self-dealing on non-commercial terms; the current evidence looks more like aircraft leasing than Enron. Dave's deeper worry isn't the AI economy at all — it's the national deficit, whose interest payments are now the largest single line item in the federal budget.•       The Luddite Summer Meets the Long Boom. Aman's sharpest historical observation: this may be the first technological revolution whose leaders are the doomers — Sam prophesying idleness, Dario predicting half of entry-level white-collar jobs destroyed within five years (already wrong at eighteen months, with no 10–20 percent unemployment in sight). Against the WSJ's jobless-boom and nation-of-Luddites anxieties, the book offers the long view: of ten historical bubbles, the two positive ones — Britain's 1845 railway mania and America's 1997–2000 internet boom — overbuilt, crashed, and left the world a valuable technology. Buy every stock founded in the boom and hold, and you'd have owned NVIDIA, Amazon, Google, and PayPal. The 1970s wiped out four to six million secretarial jobs in a decade; women's participation rose from 52 to 77 percent. And on China, the free-trader's answer: partners in progress — there's more to gain than lose if we do this right. About the Guests Dave McClure and Aman Verjee are the co-founders and managing partners of Practical Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley firm specializing in venture secondaries. Dave founded 500 Startups, invested at Founders Fund, and ran marketing at PayPal; Aman was COO of 500 Startups, led strategy at PayPal and eBay, served as CFO of Sonos and of eBay's North American marketplace — and wrote the first draft of PayPal's S-1. Aman's new book, A Brief History of Financial Bubbles (out this week), is available at bigbubbletrouble.com. References: •       A Brief History of Financial Bubbles by Aman Verjee — ten manias from the tulips to the subprime crash, out this week at bigbubbletrouble.com.•       Reuters on Anthropic's IPO filing — the $2 trillion valuation and the $190–200 billion 2028 revenue forecast it hinges on.•       “The Summer That America Became a Nation of Luddites” and the “jobless boom” — the Wall Street Journal pieces threading this week's episodes.•       The New York Times on tech giants' circular AI economy — the piece that framed yesterday's TWTW debate and today's rebuttal.•       The SpaceX S-1 — forward projections of $300 billion in ann...

Brookfield and La Caisse closed a $6.5 billion acquisition of Boralex, according to Yahoo Finance. The deal adds an established wind and solar developer to long-horizon institutional ownership. A consortium structure aligns return targets with long-lived assets and enables portfolio standardization. Independent developers face higher bankability expectations and may need to partner earlier or specialize. Corporate clean power buyers may see tighter pricing bands and more standardized PPA terms, with reduced counterparty risk. Suppliers and EPCs could benefit from multi-year procurement frameworks, while higher rates and policy incentives continue to drive consolidation.Learn more on this news by visiting us at: https://greyjournal.net/news/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Akram's excited for what he might enter in the Flower & Produce Show, and invites Khalil to come to the allotment to help him choose. Khalil declines; he and Keira will be gaming instead. Azra and Akram agree Khalil isn't himself, probably still affected by the situation with Lynda's dog, Monty. They speculate that he might be feeling guilty about his rant at Brookfield last week. Azra resolves to go over there and apologise on Khalil's behalf. Later she and Ruth chat about Pip and Stella's wedding before Azra gently broaches the subject of the attack offers her apology for Khalil's actions. Ruth tells her not to worry, brushing the incident with Khalil aside. She admits she's still feeling shocked over the attack on the sheep. Azra sympathises, and they agree it's a horrible situation for everyone. Meanwhile Khalil complains to Keira that his family is breathing down his neck, whilst admitting he's having flashbacks to the images of the sheep. He loved Monty like a friend and can't get his head round what he did. Keira suggests Azra might be able to help, but Khalil's adamant his family mustn't know he's seen the pictures. They already worry too much about him. Later Azra and Akram agree it's a relief how understanding Ruth and David were about Khalil. There's an awkward moment for Keira when they quiz her about what might be bothering Khalil, but she successfully diverts them. They hope they're worrying about nothing.

Amber is at Grange Farm trying to talk to Keira, who has been ignoring her messages. When the baby visibly moves, Keira is amazed by it and compares to an alien. Amber wants to only focus on the baby so she wants to sort out what happened with Brad and the fact Keira knows. Amber insists nothing really happened, and it was a bad time for her with George's behaviour. Keira thought Amber was one of the cleverest people she knew but it turns out she's just like everyone else. She won't tell anyone, as she knows George would overreact, but makes Amber promise to not disappoint her again.At Ambridge Hall, Lynda and Robert are worrying over Monty when Khalil turns up to walk him. They're forced to tell him the truth about the sheep attack. Khalil becomes agitated and insists that Monty wouldn't hurt a fly. It's a police matter now and they've got to wait to find out the resolution. Robert becomes upset when talking about possible options. Khalil rushes out to head to Brookfield, and Lynda is forced to chase after him, breaking the no-contact rule.At Brookfield, Ruth and David are chatting in the kitchen when Khalil storms in. David says they're not allowed to talk about Monty but Khalil's loud insistence that Monty is innocent makes Ruth snap and show Khalil pictures from the sheep attack. Khalil becomes overwhelmed at the images. Lynda arrives and comforts upset Khalil.

Harrison pops home for lunch and finds Fallon in the middle of domestic chores. She starts to point out to Harrison his share of the jobs, but before an argument can start Harrison receives an email from a Darrington letting agent with property rental options. They're all small and expensive. Harrison declares they will just have to be pragmatic as he quotes the advice Alistair gave him. Freddie calls to question Fallon about her new job. He asks about the recruitment process and Fallon's experience, making Fallon feel uneasy. Later at Lower Loxley, Fallon asks Elizabeth if Freddie is okay with Fallon working there. Elizabeth promises to have a word with him. Fallon vents to Elizabeth about the difficulties of her separation. Elizabeth catches Freddie in between online training and asks why he's been quizzing Fallon. Freddie reckons Elizabeth could have employed him instead. He confesses he's worried that he won't inherit Lower Loxley until he's 100 if he can't prove himself capable. Anna is at Brookfield, venting about Richard's memorial service to sympathetic David. She needs somewhere to catch up on her cases but is avoiding the Tearoom after yesterday. David suggests The Orangery to Anna, who's grateful for his suggestion. Harrison arrives at Brookfield to give an update on the sheep attack. David can't quite wrap his head around Monty being responsible. Harrison explains one option is that Monty could go home if David and Ruth are prepared to accept a community resolution order.

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Rassegna stampa economico-finanziaria del 12 Agosto 2026, strutturata per macro-temi e basata sulle principali testate giornalistiche nazionali.Conti con l'estero, export e commercio internazionaleTestate: Il GiornaleIl dato più solido della giornata arriva dall'export italiano. A giugno le esportazioni crescono del 9,8% su base annua e dell'1,6% sul cumulato di fine giugno, consolidando il percorso che ha portato l'Italia fino alla quarta posizione nell'export mondiale.L'avanzo commerciale raggiunge 4,2 miliardi di euro a giugno, contro i 5,3 miliardi dello stesso mese dell'anno precedente, mentre il surplus complessivo del primo semestre sale a 24,5 miliardi di euro.I settori più dinamici sono prodotti in metallo +25,8%, cantieristica navale +45,1%, mezzi di trasporto +13,3% e autoveicoli +17%. Sul fronte geografico spiccano Germania +22,9%, Paesi Bassi +22,4%, Svizzera +10,5%, Spagna +9,4% e Francia +6,8%.Negli Stati Uniti la crescita delle esportazioni si ferma invece allo 0,4%, mentre il Regno Unito registra un calo dell'8,5%. La crisi energetica legata all'Iran ha inoltre favorito temporaneamente l'export italiano di prodotti raffinati.Fisco, Manovra e contributo straordinario sulle bancheTestate: Il Sole 24 Ore / Il Fatto Quotidiano / Il Giornale / Domani / La Verità / Il FoglioIl principale dossier pre-Manovra riguarda l'ipotesi di un contributo straordinario sul settore bancario. La proposta rilanciata prevede un prelievo triennale del 5% sugli utili delle prime dieci banche italiane.Le risorse raccolte verrebbero destinate soprattutto a pensioni e riduzione dell'IRPEF. Il progetto divide però la maggioranza e non dispone ancora di un consenso politico definitivo.Sul fronte governativo, l'obiettivo dichiarato per l'autunno resta alleggerire la pressione fiscale, sostenere il potere d'acquisto delle famiglie e rafforzare l'occupazione.Viene inoltre valutata l'ipotesi di un prelievo sugli extraprofitti delle società petrolifere per contrastare eventuali speculazioni sui carburanti.Per le imprese fornitrici della Pubblica Amministrazione, lo split payment viene prorogato fino al 30 giugno 2029. I tempi medi di rimborso ordinario sono scesi da 74 giorni nel 2024 a 68 nel 2025, mentre per lo split payment la media tra istanza e liquidazione è di circa 60 giorni.Energia, bollette e infrastrutture idricheTestate: Il Sole 24 Ore / Il FoglioIl costo dell'energia torna a rappresentare uno dei principali rischi per famiglie e imprese. Secondo le stime riportate, a settembre le bollette potrebbero aumentare del 23% per le famiglie e del 54% per le imprese.Per una famiglia tipo l'impatto complessivo potrebbe raggiungere circa 515 euro entro fine 2026, salendo fino a 876,8 euro includendo anche i maggiori costi dei carburanti.Per il gas industriale viene stimato un rincaro del 65%, con il prezzo che passerebbe da circa 43 a 71 centesimi per metro cubo.La pressione deriva soprattutto dal quadro geopolitico e dal livello delle scorte: lo stoccaggio europeo del gas è intorno al 59%, contro una media storica del 76% per questo periodo.Sul fronte infrastrutturale restano bloccati circa 7 miliardi di euro destinati a dighe, invasi e acquedotti anti-siccità. Il Piano nazionale comprende 418 opere per circa 12 miliardi, ma quasi tre quarti delle opere commissariate risultano in ritardo.Rinnovabili, industria strategica e dossier PirelliTestate: Il Sole 24 Ore / La Stampa / MF-Milano FinanzaNel dossier Pirelli prosegue il ridimensionamento della presenza cinese. Sinochem, già scesa dal 34% al 20%, starebbe valutando un ulteriore disimpegno, con una plusvalenza potenziale vicina a 1 miliardo di euro.La partecipazione originaria del 34% era iscritta a circa 1,6 miliardi, a fronte di un investimento di 1,9 miliardi, mentre oggi viene valutata circa 2,4 miliardi. Una cessione ai prezzi correnti potrebbe generare circa 800 milioni.Michal Strnad è entrato nel capitale con il 14%, investendo oltre 987 milioni, mentre Camfin è risalita al 26,5%. Il Golden Power ha contemporaneamente ridotto i poteri del socio cinese.Sul fronte delle rinnovabili, per raggiungere gli obiettivi energetici italiani servirebbero circa 48 GW aggiuntivi rispetto agli 83,5 GW oggi installati.Il principale ostacolo resta la burocrazia: vengono citati circa 300.000 progetti bloccati, mentre un nuovo decreto per ridurre i tempi autorizzativi è atteso in Consiglio dei ministri a settembre.Intelligenza Artificiale, Nvidia e infrastrutture digitaliTestate: MF-Milano FinanzaIl capitale internazionale continua a concentrarsi sulle infrastrutture legate all'Intelligenza Artificiale. Nvidia stringe un'alleanza con Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, KKR e Goldman Sachs per mobilitare fino a 500 miliardi di dollari.Nvidia potrebbe garantire fino al 25% del finanziamento dei progetti selezionati, riducendo il rischio per gli investitori e facilitando la costruzione di data center e infrastrutture di calcolo.Prosegue inoltre l'intesa con OpenAI per almeno 10 gigawatt di capacità, con Nvidia pronta a investire fino a 100 miliardi di dollari nella società.Il messaggio è chiaro: la fase successiva dell'AI non riguarda soltanto i modelli, ma soprattutto chip, data center, energia, reti, raffreddamento e capacità finanziaria. Il valore si sta quindi spostando verso l'intera infrastruttura necessaria a sostenere l'adozione dell'AI.Cina, commercio globale e nuovo equilibrio industrialeTestate: Il Sole 24 Ore / La Stampa / Italia OggiLa Cina continua a mostrare una dinamica commerciale molto favorevole nei confronti dell'Europa. A luglio le esportazioni cinesi verso l'UE crescono del 16%, mentre le importazioni dall'Europa scendono dell'1,4%.Bruxelles interpreta sempre più Pechino come concorrente sistemico e rafforza quindi dazi, politiche di de-risking e strumenti destinati a ridurre le dipendenze strategiche.La leadership cinese resta particolarmente forte in terre rare, elettrificazione, ricerca scientifica e alcuni comparti avanzati della medicina e della tecnologia.Per l'Europa la sfida consiste nel ridurre la dipendenza senza interrompere completamente le relazioni commerciali con il principale polo manifatturiero mondiale.BCE, politica monetaria ed euro digitaleTestate: La StampaSi riapre il dossier sulla futura successione alla guida della BCE, con la possibilità di un'uscita anticipata di Christine Lagarde già in autunno.Tra i profili indicati figurano Klaas Knot e Pablo Hernández de Cos, mentre Joachim Nagel viene considerato un possibile outsider.La futura leadership dell'Eurotower dovrà gestire contemporaneamente inflazione persistente, una Federal Reserve più aggressiva, protezionismo americano e sviluppo dell'euro digitale.Per mercati e imprese la direzione della BCE resterà quindi decisiva per costo del credito, investimenti, mutui e valutazioni finanziarie.Regolazione UE, imballaggi e AI governanceTestate: La Stampa / MF-Milano Finanza / Il RiformistaL'Unione Europea prepara una nuova stretta sugli imballaggi. Dal 2030 è previsto lo stop alle bustine monodose di zucchero, sale e ketchup, con obiettivi di riduzione dei rifiuti da imballaggio del 5% entro il 2030, 10% entro il 2035 e 15% entro il 2040.Per ristorazione, food service, packaging e distribuzione si apre quindi una fase di adeguamento industriale che richiederà nuovi materiali, formati e processi produttivi.Sul fronte digitale, il Comitato europeo per la protezione dei dati ha adottato nuove linee guida sull'anonimizzazione, mentre il Digital Omnibus punta a semplificare alcuni aspetti del GDPR rilevanti per l'industria AI.La distinzione tra dato personale e dato realmente anonimo diventa centrale perché determina se i dataset utilizzati per addestrare i modelli debbano essere sottoposti agli obblighi completi del GDPR.Il risparmio italiano resta infine una delle principali risorse del Paese. Invecchiamento, digitalizzazione e transizione energetica rendono però sempre più importante l'educazione economico-finanziaria, per trasformare il risparmio in investimenti produttivi.

Ben and Tom discuss the $500 billion private-capital AI infrastructure fund unveiled on CNBC by Jensen Huang, David Solomon, Larry Fink, Jonathan Gray, and the heads of Apollo, KKR, and Brookfield, Fink's comparison of financing GPU purchases to the early days of 1970s mortgage-backed securities and the underlying assumption that Nvidia chips won't depreciate, a breakdown of how asset-backed lending structures like aircraft bonds could apply to GPU financing, Tom's "Through the Looking Glass" thesis arguing markets remain captive to Bernanke-era assumptions that no longer hold in a supply-side, fiscal-dominance framework, tomorrow's CPI report and whether a firm print could test Warsh's rate stance, and NFIB Small Business Optimism hitting its highest level since last August with hiring plans at a four-year high even as actual employment remains soft.Join our live YouTube stream Monday through Friday at 8:30 AM EST:http://www.youtube.com/@TheMorningMarketBriefingPlease see disclosures:https://www.narwhal.com/disclosure

Die Wall Street startet uneinheitlich in den Handel, hält sich aber bemerkenswert stabil angesichts eines Brent Ölpreises von fast 90 US Dollar und erneut steigender Renditen. Im Mittelpunkt steht heute Nvidia: Der Konzern will gemeinsam mit Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs und KKR mehr als 500 Milliarden US Dollar an Fremdkapital für den Ausbau der KI Infrastruktur mobilisieren. Nvidia investiert diese Summe also nicht selbst, sondern will KI Rechenzentren als finanzierbare Anlageklasse etablieren und damit verhindern, dass fehlendes Kapital zum nächsten Flaschenhals des KI Booms wird. Genau darin liegt aber auch das Risiko: Je stärker GPU Käufe durch externe Finanzierung ermöglicht werden müssen, desto lauter wird die Frage, wie organisch die tatsächliche Nachfrage noch ist. Gleichzeitig erhöht Intel seine Kapitalerhöhung überraschend von 15 auf 20 Milliarden US Dollar und platziert 210,5 Millionen Aktien zu 95 US Dollar. Microsoft wiederum will die Produktion eigener KI Chips massiv ausweiten und damit die Abhängigkeit von Nvidia reduzieren. Bei den Quartalszahlen überzeugen Hims & Hers und Rocket Lab weitgehend, während Upwork wegen sinkender Kundenzahlen und einer gesenkten Jahresprognose enttäuscht und On nach einem seltenen Umsatzmiss sowie einer reduzierten Prognose unter Druck steht. Geopolitisch bleibt die Straße von Hormus der entscheidende Unsicherheitsfaktor, wobei die Chancen auf eine Verständigung zwischen den USA und Iran trotz der härteren Rhetorik weiterhin bestehen. Morgen folgt mit den US Verbraucherpreisen für Juli der wichtigste Makrotermin der Woche. Abonniere den Podcast, um keine Folge zu verpassen! ____ Folge uns, um auf dem Laufenden zu bleiben: • X: http://fal.cn/SQtwitter • LinkedIn: http://fal.cn/SQlinkedin • Instagram: http://fal.cn/SQInstagram

Hier soir, Nvidia a annoncé avoir signé avec six des plus gros gestionnaires d'actifs de la planète — Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs et KKR — pour mobiliser plus de 500 milliards de dollars. Destinés à financer ses propres clients. Pour qu'ils achètent des produits Nvidia. Avec Nvidia qui se réserve le droit de garantir jusqu'à 25% des prêts si ça tourne mal. Le vendeur. Le banquier. Le garant. Et le patron de BlackRock qui trouve que ça ressemble aux MBS des années 70. Ses mots, pas les miens. Sauf que ce n'est même pas le truc le plus inquiétant de la journée. AU PROGRAMME DE CE MORNINGBULL LIVE : → Trump affirme que le détroit d'Ormuz est « ouvert à 100% » et protégé par un « mur d'acier ». → La réserve stratégique de pétrole des États-Unis est passée sous les 300 millions de barils. Plus bas niveau depuis janvier 1983. Ce qui s'est volatilisé depuis février représente 58 supertankers pleins à ras bord. → L'emploi américain détruit 23'000 postes quand le consensus en attendait 85'000. Réaction de Wall Street : record historique. Parce qu'en 2026, on n'achète plus une bonne nouvelle, on achète l'absence d'une mauvaise. → Le marché ne parie plus sur une baisse des taux de la Fed. Il parie sur une HAUSSE. 81% de probabilité pour décembre. → Et pour finir : le joke de l'évacuation de Trump. Demain 14h30 : l'inflation américaine de juillet. 3,4% attendus. Trente ans que je regarde ce cirque. Il y a des matins où le décor se craquelle et où plus personne ne prend la peine de faire semblant. On est un de ces matins.

AI and Wall Street titans combine forces: NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, Goldman Sachs' David Solomon, BlackRock's Larry Fink, Blackstone's Jon Gray, Apollo's Jim Zelter, Brookfield's Bruce Flatt and KKR's Waldemar Szlezak discuss with our Becky Quick their new agreement $500B between the companies to fund AI infrastructure projects. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Brookfield's Galloping Ghost Arcade co-founder Doc Mack joins Wendy Snyder (filling in for Bob Sirott) to talk about how he discovered his passion for video games and building up the largest video game arcade in the world. He also discusses his upcoming appearance at Fan Expo Chicago and what games you’ll be able to play […]

Football is back and we choose our own adventure for the Hall of Fame Game (00:00:00-00:09:14). We talk training camp stories, LeBron trusting the process and PCA's MVP bid (00:09:14-00:39:08). Mt Rushmore of things to open (00:39:08-01:02:27). Former All Pro Center Ryan Kalil joins the show to talk about his new documentary about owning the Monterrey Osos, our ownership in them, training camp stories and what football means to him (01:02:27-01:34:36). Tarik Skubal joins the show to talk about being traded to the Dodgers, becoming a villain, his joy of being boo'd and more (01:34:36-02:13:02). Brookfield Zoo's Kimberley Skelton joins us to break down the zoo trade she executed with Columbus last week featuring 4 gorillas (02:13:02-02:30:00). We then finish with Fyre fest of the weekYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Netflix. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take

As we take a short production break for summer we'll be re-releasing some old favorites, including this episode from back in June, featuring Mike Silvestrini, the co-founder and Managing Partner of Energea. Enjoy! Show Notes:Investing in clean energy infrastructure in emerging markets sounds more altruistic than profitable. But today's company shows that doing the right thing can also be incredibly lucrative.Mike Silvestrini, co-founder and Managing Partner of Energea, a US-based renewable energy investment platform. Mike's a seasoned renewable energy professional who has played a central role in developing over 500 solar projects across the US, Brazil, and Africa, contributing meaningfully to the global transition to clean energy. Today, we talk to Mike about how Energea evaluates investment opportunities, how they mitigate risk, and the incredible differences he's been able to make in different regions around the world. Highlights:Where the idea for Energea came from (2:20)How the platform functions (5:58)The types of deals Energea pursues (7:30)The minimum investment in Energea (9:52)Investment portfolios (11:53)Brazil (13:33)Investor Relations (15:27)Energea's Wealth Management Channel (18:32)Vetting new deals (19:45)Big institutional partners — Brookfield & Goldman Sachs (22:20)Community impact (24:23)Life perspective (28:16)Emerging Markets (30:11)Goals for '26 into '27 (31:37)Links:Mike Silvestrini LinkedInEnergea LinkedInEnergea WebsiteICR LinkedInICR TwitterICR WebsiteFeedback:If you have questions about the show, or have a topic in mind you'd like discussed in future episodes, email our producer, joe@lowerstreet.co

Brookfield CEO Bruce Flatt joins Squawk on the Street after the company announced plans to help develop a $100 billion AI data center campus in Kentucky, discussing the next phase of infrastructure investment powering artificial intelligence. Plus, markets react as the U.S. intervenes in the Japanese yen, and we break down a Financial Times report that AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers have discussed a potential mega-merger and what it could mean for the pharmaceutical industry. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode of Meet the Investor, Joey Mouracadeh sits down with Candace Myung, Managing Director in Oaktree Capital Management's Special Situations Group, part of one of the world's leading alternative investment managers with over US$220 billion in assets under management. What exactly is a "special situation"? And why has Oaktree built one of its flagship strategies around it? Candace explains how the strategy has evolved beyond its distressed investing roots to invest across debt and equity, using bespoke structures to capitalise on opportunities created by company-specific challenges rather than relying solely on broader market cycles. The discussion also covers Oaktree's approach to downside protection, operational value creation and where special situations may sit within a private markets portfolio.   Please refer to Brookfield disclosures here.   Music provided by: Autumn Trumpet Background Corporate by LesFM | https://lesfm.net/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Any advice contained in this publication is general advice only and does not take into consideration the reader's personal circumstances. Any reference to the reader's actual circumstances is coincidental. To avoid making a decision not appropriate to you, the content should not be relied upon or act as a substitute for receiving financial advice suitable to your circumstances. When considering a financial product please consider the Product Disclosure Statement. Stanford Brown is a Corporate Authorised Representative of The Lunar Group Pty Limited. The Lunar Group and its representatives receive fees and brokerage from the provision of financial advice or placement of financial products. The Lunar Group Pty Limited ABN 27 159 030 869 AFSL No. 470948 

Arthur Herman reframes the Gilded Age not as an era of greed, but as a period of unprecedented opportunity and connectivity driven by the railroad. James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway fostered regional prosperity and negotiated fairly with Native American tribes. Meanwhile, Thomas Edison's relentless competitiveness and "restless mind" led to the electrification of the nation and the invention of the phonograph, inspiring future generations of founders like Elon Musk. (12)1806 BROOKFIELD

Plus: Nuclear company Westinghouse Electric has confidentially filed for an IPO. And New York sues Kalshi, saying the company is running an illegal gambling operation. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for WSJ's free What's News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Future of Fusion Magnets, Deep State Politics, and Geopolitical Shifts: Unpacking the Latest from Darren and Graham In this episode, Darren and Graham explore groundbreaking advancements in magnetic fusion technology, delve into the political intricacies surrounding federal hearings, and analyze demographic shifts and geopolitical maneuvers shaping our world today. If you're curious about the secrets behind nuclear fusion, covert political strategies, and the changing face of nations, this is your must listen.   Key topics: China completes the world's largest superconducting magnet, a feat resembling sci-fi technology that may revolutionize nuclear fusion. The science of nuclear fusion explained: the magnetic bottle concept and containment without physical walls. Discussing the Chinese Institute of Plasma Physics' milestone in humanity's pursuit of controlled fusion — potentially the star containment tech seen in sci-fi. Deep dives into the Fauci hearings, where invoking the Fifth Amendment revealed possible legal and political vulnerabilities. Critique of the American legal system, presidential pardons, and the potential cover-up of COVID origins. Analyzing the shifting demographic landscape of Canada and the United States, including the decline in white populations and implications for society. The controversial role of organizations like the Bill Gates Foundation in environmental issues and unintended ecological consequences. The manipulation of public narratives through fear, media, and political propaganda, including references to movies, memes, and conspiracy theories. The rise of digital misinformation, social media censorship, and the legacy media's role in shaping perceptions. Insights into ongoing geopolitical power plays, from trade negotiations to military and resource allocation strategies.   To gain access to the second half of show and our Plus feed for audio and podcast please clink the link http://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca/support. 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On this episode of Deal Debrief, Anuj Ranjan and David Bonasia from Brookfield's private equity business join the podcast to unpack Brookfield's investment in the OpenAI Deployment Company. They explore the bottlenecks currently slowing AI adoption and how combining OpenAI's technology with Brookfield's operating expertise can support AI enterprise deployment at scale. Read disclaimers (https://www.brookfield.com/brookfield-perspectives-podcast-disclaimer) for this episode.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that a new $100 billion data center campus built by NextEra energy and Brookfield will be powered by a nuclear and gas supply built on federal lands and will provide its own water. Wright also discussed the state of energy prices as the Iran war heats back up, and said it's not possible to forecast where gas prices will be by Labor Day.Wright spoke with Bloomberg Balance of Power hosts Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Music has vinyl. Literature has hardcover editions. Movies have the 70MM format.Used in decades past for sweeping epics like Lawrence of Arabia and 2001: A Space Odyssey, the preferred presentation of film purists has found modern boosters in luminaries like Quentin Tarantino and — more relevant for this episode of Cinebuds — Christopher Nolan.Booking the British-American director wasn't really an option for a little-podcast-that-could like ours. So when we decided to combine our review of The Odyssey with some insight to the 70MM format, we tracked down two ideal local guests: Milwaukee Film technical manager Kelsey Parks and projectionist Spencer Tye.The organization's Oriental Theatre is one of just two locations in the state of Wisconsin capable of unspooling a 70MM film (the other is the Marcus Majestic Cinema of Brookfield), and our guests revealed exactly how big of an undertaking that is — literally. The Odyssey requires five reels to cover its 172 minutes, with the heaviest one tipping the scales at nearly 50 pounds.Aside from the technical calisthenics, we get into the quality of the movie itself, including the director's aesthetic choices (like the giant animatronic cyclops) and several standout performances (John Leguizamo's in particular). If you want to catch The Odyssey in 70MM, the Oriental Theatre is showing it through Aug. 5.#####Cinebuds is sponsored by Joe Wilde Garage Doors.

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.We sat down with Brookfield Private Equity CEO Anuj Ranjan. We were live from Berlin, which becomes the “capital of private capital” in June as private equity industry leaders make the annual pilgrimage to the city for one of the marquee private equity conferences, SuperReturn Berlin.With Prosek Partners and former Bloomberg TV journalist Deirdre Bolton as my producer, along with her team, we took over a Tiny Space cabin to hold big conversations with some of the industry's leading alternative asset managers.Brookfield has a rich legacy as an asset owner and operator of some of the “businesses that drive the global economy.” Brookfield is a firm where skin in the game (~25% of every fund includes an investment from Brookfield's balance sheet) meets scale and synergies across its investment platform, which spans private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and energy.Now, they are looking to own what's next.What will the next era of private equity require? A different approach, according to Brookfield Private Equity CEO Anuj Ranjan. The conversation that Anuj and I had in the Tiny Space cabin covered big themes.Brookfield is investing in the megatrends that are driving the world's economy across its platform, from digitalization to decarbonization to deglobalization. The firm's focus on industrials in its private equity business makes it well equipped to invest in essential companies, as Brookfield aptly describes their investment focus as “own[ing] the boring that makes exciting possible.”Anuj and I had a fascinating conversation about the current state of private equity and what it will take to drive value in a new era for the industry where “12 is the new 5.” We covered:Brookfield's history as an owner-operator.How the firm's long-term perspective informs its investments in and ownership of private equity-backed companies.Anuj's experience investing in India was an exercise in patience.Why is today the era of “roll up your sleeves private equity?”How Brookfield is approaching value creation in industrial companies.Where Brookfield believes it can leverage AI to create post-deal operational value.Why Brookfield partnered with OpenAI to create DeployCo in order to scale enterprise AI deployment.Where are we in the adoption curve of physical AI and robotics?BioAnuj Ranjan is Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield's Private Equity Group and Brookfield Business Corporation. In this role, Mr. Ranjan is responsible for the investments, operations, and expansion of the Private Equity business, in addition to managing Brookfield's external strategic partnerships. He is a member of Brookfield's Executive Committee.Mr. Ranjan joined Brookfield in 2006 and has held various positions within the company and its affiliates. He established and previously led Brookfield's India and Middle East operations.Mr. Ranjan holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Ivey Business School at Western University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alberta.Thanks, Anuj, for sharing your wisdom, expertise, and passion about private markets and how to create value through operating companies better.Show Notes00:00 Welcome to SuperReturn00:07 Meet Anuj Ranjan00:55 From Software to Finance02:03 Building India and Mideast02:48 India Deal Frenzy03:17 Five Years of Patience03:22 Learning Before Buying03:28 First True Buyouts04:06 Profits and Team Growth04:16 Taking Model Global04:32 Growth Amid Headwinds04:58 Roll Up Sleeves Private Equity Era05:06 Operational Value Creation05:12 Brookfield Platform DNA05:33 Balance Sheet Advantage05:54 Long-Term Investing06:12 Patience Gets Rewarded07:14 Testing Tech on Balance Sheet07:32 Owning What's Next07:41 AI Needs Hard Assets07:58 Brookfield at the Center09:09 One Firm Collaboration09:51 Platform Informs Deals11:27 Westinghouse Nuclear Bet15:19 Picking the Right Carve Outs16:34 Pricing Power Example17:51 From Five to Twelve18:59 Why Carve Outs Win Now20:05 AI for Industrial Ops20:53 Data Before AI22:12 Predictive Maintenance Story23:31 Physical AI and Robotics24:52 Digitizing the Physical World25:33 Humanoid Robotics Timeline26:28 Deploying AI at Scale26:56 Execution Beats Innovation27:52 Best AI Investment Thesis28:00 Buying Boring Businesses28:52 AI Ready Leadership Team29:30 Hiring Real Tech Leaders30:00 Blockbuster vs Netflix30:43 Closing Reflections

This week on The Necessary Conversation, Chad, Haley and Mary Lou dig into day 149 of Trump's war with Iran. 18 American soldiers dead. And the bill just keeps climbing.

In this episode of the Smashi Business Show, we examine President Donald Trump tying a civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia directly to the Abraham Accords. We then break down a historic $16 billion foreign investment in Kuwait's oil pipeline network by Blackstone, KKR, and Brookfield. Finally, we cover Iraq's strategic decision to construct new Mediterranean export pipelines through Syria alongside new energy development tenders.

Saudi Arabia's tallest ambition is rising again as Prince Alwaleed bin Talal confirms Jeddah Tower has reached another major construction milestone. Kuwait signs the largest foreign direct investment in its history with a $16 billion pipeline deal involving Blackstone, Brookfield and KKR. Plus, prediction market giant Kalshi, founded by Lebanese entrepreneur Tarek Mansour, takes on Netflix over claims made in an upcoming documentary. Here's what it all means for business, investment and the Middle East.

Philippa and Katie cover the week in Ambridge so far - Sunday 19th to Tuesday 21st July - and the theme of the week is spectacularly clear: nobody in Ambridge is talking to anybody properly.Rex is moving in with Alice without any discussion about money, children, or who is going to cook. Chris finds out via Fallon rather than Alice. Harrison and Fallon are barely communicating and the awards ceremony could be the moment everything falls apart. Fallon hasn't told Jolene she wants to leave the Bull. And nobody has told Martha she might be going to Gozo.Elizabeth returns and there is apparently an event space being renovated at Lower Loxley — which came as news to us. Alan reappears. Bert has his first shift at the village shop and is surprisingly good value. And people are charging five pounds to get into the Ambridge fete.Plus: thoughts on the Barn event space and what it means for Brookfield, Carol and Alan's very odd moment, whether Bert is the new Jim, and a plea for absolutely nothing to happen during the two week summer break.Back on Wednesday 13th August.Topics covered: Rex Fairbrother | Alice Carter | Chris Carter | Harrison Burns | Fallon Rogers | Elizabeth Pargetter | Bert Horrobin | Susan Carter | Alan Franks | The Archers July 2026 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Molly Brookfield's book, Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Harassment in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) explores the historical, legal, and cultural history of street harassment in the United States. Historically, Brookfield identified the "masher panic" (late 19th–early 20th century) when reformers and municipalities labeled male accosting of women a public problem and enacted anti-masher ordinances or applied disorderly-conduct laws. On law and policy, the book highlights primarily local legal responses against harassment, with municipal codes and reinterpretations of existing ordinances more common than coherent federal action that criminalizes mashing. In Watching the Girls Go By, street harassment is situated on a continuum with other gendered and sexualized violence, with the argument that street harassment normalizes and underpins more extreme harms against women. The book portrays historical scholarly perspectives to street harassment including those of Cheryl Bernard and Edith Schlaffler. Also, the book builds on diverse historical sources and employs varying terms for similar behaviors. The author uses "intrusive behaviors" as a more precise analytic category while preserving period-specific terms when discussing particular historical contexts.  Mariam Olugbodi is a university teacher and a writer, she is the author of the monograph titled: “Stylistic Features in the 2011 and 2012 Final Matches Commentaries in the UEFA Champions League”, published by Grin Verlag. Mariam's greatest dream is seeing a world where knowledge is accessible to all. She does this through her volunteering roles on open knowledge platforms as a host and an editor. As part of her effort to maintain inclusion and diversity in knowledge transmission, she volunteers as a teacher in crises contexts. Learn more and connect with Mariam through her social links: LinkedIn, ORCID, Meta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Molly Brookfield's book, Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Harassment in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) explores the historical, legal, and cultural history of street harassment in the United States. Historically, Brookfield identified the "masher panic" (late 19th–early 20th century) when reformers and municipalities labeled male accosting of women a public problem and enacted anti-masher ordinances or applied disorderly-conduct laws. On law and policy, the book highlights primarily local legal responses against harassment, with municipal codes and reinterpretations of existing ordinances more common than coherent federal action that criminalizes mashing. In Watching the Girls Go By, street harassment is situated on a continuum with other gendered and sexualized violence, with the argument that street harassment normalizes and underpins more extreme harms against women. The book portrays historical scholarly perspectives to street harassment including those of Cheryl Bernard and Edith Schlaffler. Also, the book builds on diverse historical sources and employs varying terms for similar behaviors. The author uses "intrusive behaviors" as a more precise analytic category while preserving period-specific terms when discussing particular historical contexts.  Mariam Olugbodi is a university teacher and a writer, she is the author of the monograph titled: “Stylistic Features in the 2011 and 2012 Final Matches Commentaries in the UEFA Champions League”, published by Grin Verlag. Mariam's greatest dream is seeing a world where knowledge is accessible to all. She does this through her volunteering roles on open knowledge platforms as a host and an editor. As part of her effort to maintain inclusion and diversity in knowledge transmission, she volunteers as a teacher in crises contexts. Learn more and connect with Mariam through her social links: LinkedIn, ORCID, Meta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

Molly Brookfield's book, Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Harassment in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) explores the historical, legal, and cultural history of street harassment in the United States. Historically, Brookfield identified the "masher panic" (late 19th–early 20th century) when reformers and municipalities labeled male accosting of women a public problem and enacted anti-masher ordinances or applied disorderly-conduct laws. On law and policy, the book highlights primarily local legal responses against harassment, with municipal codes and reinterpretations of existing ordinances more common than coherent federal action that criminalizes mashing. In Watching the Girls Go By, street harassment is situated on a continuum with other gendered and sexualized violence, with the argument that street harassment normalizes and underpins more extreme harms against women. The book portrays historical scholarly perspectives to street harassment including those of Cheryl Bernard and Edith Schlaffler. Also, the book builds on diverse historical sources and employs varying terms for similar behaviors. The author uses "intrusive behaviors" as a more precise analytic category while preserving period-specific terms when discussing particular historical contexts.  Mariam Olugbodi is a university teacher and a writer, she is the author of the monograph titled: “Stylistic Features in the 2011 and 2012 Final Matches Commentaries in the UEFA Champions League”, published by Grin Verlag. Mariam's greatest dream is seeing a world where knowledge is accessible to all. She does this through her volunteering roles on open knowledge platforms as a host and an editor. As part of her effort to maintain inclusion and diversity in knowledge transmission, she volunteers as a teacher in crises contexts. Learn more and connect with Mariam through her social links: LinkedIn, ORCID, Meta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Molly Brookfield's book, Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Harassment in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) explores the historical, legal, and cultural history of street harassment in the United States. Historically, Brookfield identified the "masher panic" (late 19th–early 20th century) when reformers and municipalities labeled male accosting of women a public problem and enacted anti-masher ordinances or applied disorderly-conduct laws. On law and policy, the book highlights primarily local legal responses against harassment, with municipal codes and reinterpretations of existing ordinances more common than coherent federal action that criminalizes mashing. In Watching the Girls Go By, street harassment is situated on a continuum with other gendered and sexualized violence, with the argument that street harassment normalizes and underpins more extreme harms against women. The book portrays historical scholarly perspectives to street harassment including those of Cheryl Bernard and Edith Schlaffler. Also, the book builds on diverse historical sources and employs varying terms for similar behaviors. The author uses "intrusive behaviors" as a more precise analytic category while preserving period-specific terms when discussing particular historical contexts.  Mariam Olugbodi is a university teacher and a writer, she is the author of the monograph titled: “Stylistic Features in the 2011 and 2012 Final Matches Commentaries in the UEFA Champions League”, published by Grin Verlag. Mariam's greatest dream is seeing a world where knowledge is accessible to all. She does this through her volunteering roles on open knowledge platforms as a host and an editor. As part of her effort to maintain inclusion and diversity in knowledge transmission, she volunteers as a teacher in crises contexts. Learn more and connect with Mariam through her social links: LinkedIn, ORCID, Meta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Philippa is back with Lucy Speed, who plays Stella Pryor in The Archers, for part two — and this time the Facebook group gets their say.Lucy answers questions on everything from whether Stella would save Rosie or Cleo in a disaster (the answer is very clear), to whether a prenup would make life easier for everyone at Brookfield. She talks about not knowing Stella and Pip would get together when she first joined, what Stella's wedding outfit might look like, and whether the baby question could derail the wedding entirely.Also: Thor the miniature dachshund makes his podcast debut, Lucy reveals she played thirteen different characters in Radio 4's Don Quixote, why she has loved radio since childhood, and who Stella would choose as her Race Across the World partner — with a strong case made for Rex.Part one of this interview is available now if you missed it.Topics covered: Stella Pryor | Pip Archer | Lucy Speed | Thor | Rosie | Cleo | Wedding | Prenup | Race Across the World | Rex | Radio 4 | Don Quixote | The Archers 2026SUPPORT ALL ABOUT THE ARCHERS:You can BUY US A COFFEE here: buymeacoffee.com/allaboutthearchersYou can buy our MERCH here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/aboutthearchers/shopDo join our FACEBOOK Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1127587031446013/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gerard and Laurent first welcomed David Scaysbrook to the podcast in Episode 66, back in January 2022, for a conversation about the future of 24/7 power. Four years later, it felt like the right moment to reconnect and take stock of how profoundly the market has evolved.  Since then, Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has continued to establish itself as one of the leading specialist investors in the energy transition, orchestrating and deploying billions of dollars of capital through project finance structures and platform companies.   As of today, the firm has participated in more than $27 billion of transactions, developed or acquired over 240 projects, and built a portfolio exceeding 40 GW across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.  Our discussion traces Quinbrook's own transformation alongside that of the broader energy landscape. We revisit the firm's strategic exit from wind generation, marked by the sale of its Scout platform to Brookfield in 2023 for more than $1 billion, and explore how its focus has shifted toward utility-scale solar and long-duration energy storage across the United States and Australia.  More fundamentally, David explains how Quinbrook has moved beyond the era of single-technology investment funds. Instead of financing isolated generation assets, the firm now builds integrated, multi-technology platforms designed to solve specific customer problems. The objective is no longer simply to inject generic electrons into the grid, but to work backwards from the needs of large electricity consumers—particularly hyperscale datacenter operators—and develop bespoke energy solutions around them.  This philosophy is illustrated by Rowan, Quinbrook's datacenter development platform, which attracted a $1 billion co-investment from Blackstone. As hyperscalers race to deploy new computing capacity, speed has become the defining constraint. Waiting for the grid is no longer an option, making "bring your own power" an increasingly compelling proposition.  The conversation also explores how advances in software and long-duration energy storage are improving behind-the-meter performance, allowing energy infrastructure to become more resilient, flexible, and economically attractive.  Ultimately, David argues that we are witnessing a profound shift in thinking. In a world increasingly captivated by virtual technologies and digital intelligence, the greatest opportunities may lie in investing in the physical infrastructure that makes them all possible.“Let's get Physical”  

A wide-ranging episode covering surveillance, digital control, Canada's political landscape, MAID, and geopolitical corruption. The conversation moves from China-made EVs in Canada to EU in-car monitoring laws, Flock cameras, AI surveillance, and the growing normalization of state oversight. Highlights A title mix-up turns into the opening banter and sets the tone. World Cup conspiracy talk and the strange way narratives spread. Chinese EVs arriving in Canada at luxury-car prices. The EU's new in-car driver-monitoring cameras. Flock cameras and the expansion of vehicle surveillance. AI-powered municipal enforcement and trash-truck camera programs. A digital bill of rights and the fight over AI-era civil liberties. Canada's Ukraine spending, Brookfield condo controversy, and political accountability. MAID, organ donation, and concerns about public messaging. A viral AI music video tied to JFK, free energy, and symbolism. Charity fraud, garbage dumping on Crown Land, and disturbing park behavior. Key Themes Surveillance creep Technocracy and digital control Government overreach Media distrust Canadian politics and corruption Civil liberties in the AI era Closing Thought This episode argues that the technology itself is only part of the problem; the deeper issue is how governments use it, normalize it, and expand it over time.   To gain access to the second half of show and our Plus feed for audio and podcast please clink the link http://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca/support. 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How do principals serve in Northern Illinois? Kevin Becker (Principal of Immanuel Lutheran School in East Dundee, Illinois) and Kate Thoelke (Principal of St. Paul's Lutheran School in Brookfield, Illinois) join Andy and Sarah to talk about their paths to becoming church workers, some of the key figures who encouraged their formation, the schools each of them serve in today and their paths to their current vocations, why it's important to each of them to invest in Lutheran education, and how Lutheran teachers and principals can cultivate a culture of church work formation and recruitment in our Lutheran schools. Christ's church will continue until He returns, and that church will continue to need church workers. Set Apart to Serve (SAS) is an initiative of the LCMS to recruit church workers. Together, we pray for workers for the Kingdom of God and encourage children to consider church work vocations. Here are three easy ways you can participate in SAS: 1. Pray with your children for God to provide church workers. 2. Talk to your children about becoming church workers. 3. Thank God for the people who work in your congregation. To learn more about Set Apart to Serve, visit lcms.org/set-apart-to-serve. Have a topic you'd like to hear about on The Coffee Hour? Contact us at: listener@kfuo.org.

Lowell Baron and Brandon Sedloff trace the evolution of Brookfield's real estate business from a small balance sheet investor into a global platform managing roughly $300 billion in assets. Baron shares how he joined what was then called Brascan in 2005 with fewer than twenty people on the real estate team, initially working on a modest credit fund while the firm owned just a stake in an office company. He explains how the decision to avoid overheated deals in 2006 and 2007 positioned Brookfield to capitalize on opportunities after the global financial crisis, eventually launching the consortium model in 2009 that became the foundation for committed funds starting in 2012. They discuss: - Why Brookfield built operating platforms with 30,000 employees instead of relying on third-party operators - How the firm expanded methodically across property types and geographies, including a ten-year process to enter India - The bifurcation in office markets and why Class A space in major cities now faces supply constraints - How diversifying across housing sub-sectors from student housing to senior living reduces risk while improving returns - The role of AI in creating operational efficiencies and unlocking predictive insights from Brookfield's proprietary data This episode on The Distribution offers insight into how scale, operational depth, and patient capital can coexist in a single platform when grown deliberately over decades. Topics: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:02:46) - Journey from law to banking (00:04:18) - Cold calling your way into real estate (00:10:24) - Joining Brookfield in 2005 (00:16:08) - Brookfield's transformation from balance sheet to investment manager (00:20:18) - Discipline during the 2006-2007 boom (00:22:11) - Geographic and sector expansion (00:25:12) - The 2009 consortium and the first committed fund (00:29:17) - Brookfield's scale today (00:32:44) - Operating expertise at scale (00:43:27) - Housing strategy across the continuum (00:48:18) - AI and the future of real estate (00:52:00) - The office market bifurcation (00:56:26) - Leadership philosophy and people development Links: Lowell on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lowell-baron-23146913/ Brookfield - https://www.brookfield.com/ Brandon Sedloff on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonsedloff/ Juniper Square - https://www.junipersquare.com/

Die Frage kommt immer mal wieder: "Was wäre, wenn du deine Aktienanlage auf nur zwei Aktien beschränken müsstest? Welche Unternehmen würdest du dann kaufen?". Im Kern ist das nichts anderes als die Frage nach meinen absoluten Lieblingsaktien. Vorweg aber ein wichtiger Hinweis: Ich empfehle niemandem, der in Einzelaktien investiert, sein Portfolio tatsächlich auf nur zwei Werte zu beschränken. Diese Fragestellung dient vielmehr als Gedankenexperiment, um den Fokus auf Unternehmen zu lenken, von denen ich langfristig besonders überzeugt bin. Genau darum soll es heute gehen: Welche zwei Aktien würde ich auswählen, wenn ich mich auf nur zwei Positionen festlegen müsste? Für diejenigen von euch, die schon länger dabei sind, ist das gleichzeitig ein Update und enthält zudem einen zusätzlichen Tipp.
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Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner's life had all the makings of a tragedy long before there was blood in the snow. Born into privilege as the favored daughter of Loyalist Brigadier General Timothy Ruggles, Bathsheba married wealthy farmer Joshua Spooner and settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Behind the facade of status and respectability was a deeply unhappy, allegedly abusive marriage—and a woman who would come to say she felt “an utter aversion” toward her husband. In March 1777, a teenage Continental soldier named Ezra Ross fell ill near the Spooner home. Bathsheba took him in, nursed him back to health, and began an affair that led to pregnancy in the middle of a war where divorce was nearly impossible and public flogging was the penalty for adultery. When two British deserters, William Brooks and James Buchanan, appeared at her door seeking shelter, Bathsheba saw her chance. Within weeks, a murder plot was in motion. On the night of March 1, 1778, Joshua Spooner was ambushed near his own well, beaten to death, and dumped into the water. The conspirators burned his clothing, split his valuables, and tried to pass off his disappearance as an accident. They underestimated their neighbors, the blood in the snow, and a community already suspicious of the Loyalist general's daughter. This episode follows the case from plot to gallows: Bathsheba's upbringing in an influential Loyalist family and her isolation in Patriot‑dominated Massachusetts The breakdown of her marriage to Joshua and the arrival of young Ezra Ross How the affair, pregnancy, and a failed poisoning attempt escalated into a murder‑for‑hire scheme The roles of British deserters Brooks and Buchanan, hiding in the Spooner barn The night of the murder, the disposal of Joshua's body in the well, and the quick unraveling of the cover story The investigation, confessions, and the lightning‑fast trial before Chief Justice William Cushing Defense arguments about Bathsheba's mental state and the political climate surrounding the daughter of a notorious Loyalist Bathsheba's claim that she was pregnant, the examination by midwives and matrons, and the authorities' decision to proceed with execution anyway The July 2, 1778 public hanging of Bathsheba, Ross, Brooks, and Buchanan—and the grim autopsy that confirmed she was five months pregnant We also dig into the bigger questions: Was Bathsheba a cold‑blooded killer, a desperate woman with limited options, or someone whose mental state and politics made her an easy target for a new nation eager to prove its resolve? How did Revolutionary‑era law treat pregnant women, and what does this case reveal about gender, power, and justice in early America? This is a narrative‑driven, heavily sourced deep dive into one of the most extraordinary crimes of the 18th century—blending courtroom drama, wartime politics, and true crime analysis to tell the full story of Bathsheba Spooner and the murder of Joshua Spooner. Sources used for this podcast Join the H2H In-laws & Outlaws Follow H2H on Instagram Follow H2H on X Send Kris and Rob a Text or Message Subscribe now and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode. #TrueCrimePodcast #HistoricalTrueCrime #BathshebaSpooner #EzraRoss #RevolutionaryWar #ColonialAmerica #MassachusettsHistory #AmericanRevolution #LoyalistsAndPatriots #EarlyAmericanLaw #18thCenturyCrime #TrueCrimeYouTube #PodcastEpisode #NewPodcastEpisode Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Brandon Sedloff and Aaron Gershenberg sit down in California's wine country to explore three decades of venture capital evolution. Aaron, CEO and managing partner at Pinegrove Venture Partners, shares his unconventional path from economic development work and real estate consulting to building SVB Capital into a $10 billion platform, then relaunching after the bank's collapse as Pinegrove, backed by Sequoia Heritage and Brookfield. They discuss: - How Aaron used Monte Carlo analysis to project fund performance and justify additional capital during the dot-com crash - Why he structured distribution-only fee models for anchor LPs instead of traditional management fees and carry - The mechanics of becoming a FOIA blocker to attract pension fund capital - How Pinegrove positions across seed, Series A, Series B, credit, and secondaries to capture alpha at different stages - Why the 2024–2026 vintage may deliver the fastest value creation Aaron has seen in his career This episode offers a roadmap for institutional investors navigating venture exposure, LP sentiment shifts, and the structural innovations that have reshaped fund economics over the past 25 years. Topics: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:03:20) - Growing up between Uganda, Kenya and New Jersey (00:10:50) - Africa's influence and giving back (00:15:40) - Question authority and the unstructured path (00:18:30) - Real estate consulting and the sales pivot (00:21:10) - Breaking into venture in the mid-'90s (00:32:00) - Joining Silicon Valley Bank (00:33:30) - Building community through cycling and kiteboarding (00:37:00) - Launching SVB Capital (00:40:15) - Innovative fund structures and FOIA blockers (00:44:20) - Scaling through three eras: 2000–2023 (00:49:00) - SVB's collapse and rebuilding as Pine Grove (00:50:20) - Partnering with Sequoia Heritage and Brookfield (00:56:30) - Pine Grove's platform and strategies today (01:02:30) - AI conviction and the 2024–2026 vintage (01:09:10) - What keeps you up at night Links: Aaron on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-gershenberg-7361b23/ Pinegrove Venture Partners - https://pinegrove.vc/ Brandon on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonsedloff/ Juniper Square - https://www.junipersquare.com/

A regular nineteen-year-old with no criminal record stabbed his landlord to death with a pocketknife, then later claimed the demon he'd taunted into possessing him — instead of his fiancée's eleven-year-old brother — had crawled out of a well and into his body to commit the murder.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/arnejohnsonREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8n97s9FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The third Conjuring film is based on the true story of Arne Cheyenne Johnson who claimed he committed murder because a demon made him do it. But how much truth is there to that story? (The Devil Made Him Do It) *** A tribe living in the Amazon Jungle tells about a strange encounter they had with an extraterrestrial and a strange beam of light. (That Time An Alien Visited the Kayapo People) *** An elderly man decides he needs to hire someone to help him care for his property… but who he chose would bring only death and a mystery that still goes unsolved. (The Wonnangatta Station Murders) *** Lizard people. Reptilians. It's one of the strangest and most controversial conspiracy theories in existence – and we'll look at some of the history behind the idea, as well as what science says about the possibility of it being a reality. (The Myths and Modern Science of Reptilians) *** A nun who wasn't very good at being a nun ended up being a nun without a head. (The Headless Nun of Watton Priory) *** We've all been asked the question, “How do you want to die when it comes your time?” Aside from the boring but realistic answer of “quietly in my sleep” some would prefer to go out in a blaze of glory, doing something heroic to save a person or persons from imminent doom. But of course that does not happen for most of us. In fact, there are probably more people going out in a blaze of stupidity! (Dumbest Deaths) *** In 1995 Mike Marcum got it in his head to build a time machine. Did he succeed? We may never know – because he disappeared without a trace. (The Mike Marcum Time Machine)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:00:16.342 = Show Open00:02:43.182 = The Devil Made Him Do It00:13:06.595 = The Wonnangatta Station Murders ***00:21:13.768 = That Time An Alien Visited The Kayapo People00:31:32.636 = Myths and Modern Science of Reptilians ***00:36:18.232 = Headless Nun of Watton Priory00:50:09.790 = Dumbest Deaths ***01:02:12.268 = The Mike Marcum Time Machine ***01:06:33.695 = Show Close & Bloopers*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Myths and Modern Science of Reptilians” from Anomalien: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/b7m27fbr“The Devil Made Him Do It” by Marco Margaritoff for All That's Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/pxfxa423“That Time An Alien Visited The Kayapo People” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/sauzjxp2“The Wonnangatta Station Murders” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ceycy3k“The Headless Nun of Watton Priory” from Esoterx: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/x4sknt6r“Dumbest Deaths” by Katie Chilton for ListVerse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/sm6mwmj7“The Mike Marcum Time Machine” from Earth Chronicles: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/hytc7552(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: November 17, 2021Weird Darkness host Darren Marlar leads listeners through seven dark tales spanning a courtroom plea of demonic possession, an unsolved double murder on a remote Australian cattle station, an Amazon tribe's memory of a sky visitor, the serpent-race conspiracy of reptilians, a centuries-old English haunting, history's most absurd deaths, and a Missouri man who vanished after trying to build a time machine.It opens with the 1981 killing of forty-year-old landlord Alan Bono in Brookfield, Connecticut, the first murder in the town's 193-year history, committed by his nineteen-year-old tenant Arne Cheyenne Johnson with a five-inch pocket knife. Johnson's attorney Martin Minnella attempted a plea of not guilty by reason of demonic possession, tracing the violence to months of torment suffered by eleven-year-old David Glatzel, the brother of Johnson's fiancée Debbie, who described a tormentor with black eyes, animal features, and hooves. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren declared it a genuine possession and claimed David levitated and stopped breathing across three exorcisms overseen by priests, while psychiatrists countered that the boy had a learning disability. Judge Robert Callahan rejected the supernatural defense as unprovable, Johnson was convicted of first-degree manslaughter on November 24, 1981, and the case later inspired the film The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.From there the episode travels to the remote Wonnangatta Station in Australia's Victorian Alps, where caretaker James Barclay hired English handyman John Bamford in 1917, a man rumored to have killed his own wife. After the two rode to Talbotville to vote on the Reinforcement Referendum in December 1917, mailman Harry Smith found the homestead empty but for the words "Home Tonight" chalked on the kitchen door, and weeks later he and Jack Jebb uncovered Barclay's decomposed body in a shallow creekside grave, dead from a shotgun blast to the back. The following November, Bamford's body surfaced in a log pile on the Howitt Plains with a bullet in the head, leaving investigators with a recently fired shotgun, traces of strychnine in the kitchen pepper, and no answer as to who killed the second man.Next comes the legend of the Kayapo people of the Brazilian Amazon, who tell of a sky visitor named Bep Kororoti who descended from the mountains of Pukato-Ti amid thunder, wielding a weapon that reduced trees and stones to dust and a beam of light that paralyzed anyone who fled his lessons. The being neither ate nor drank, taught the villagers practical skills, and eventually ascended back into the sky, and the account drew international attention when young Kayapo men touring Rio de Janeiro reportedly pointed at an Apollo 11 astronaut display and shouted that he had returned. Erich von Däniken cited photographs of Kayapo men in straw ritual costumes resembling spacesuits, taken by Joao Americo Peret in 1952, nearly a decade before Yuri Gagarin's 1961 spaceflight, as supposed support for the ancient astronaut theory.The discussion then turns to reptilians, tracing serpent-race myths found across Sumeria, Babylonia, India, China, and Mesoamerica, alongside the modern claims of David Icke that some humans are disguised lizard people. Set against the folklore, researcher Bjarke Jensen of Aarhus University lays out the actual biology: the human reptilian brain that governs heart rate and breathing, eyes structured much like a reptile's, and conductive heart tissue whose molecular building blocks Jensen's team located hidden in the spongy hearts of lizards, frogs, and zebrafish.The episode then visits Watton Priory in East Riding of Yorkshire, a Gilbertine community where, according to the twelfth-century account of Saint Aelred of Rievaulx, an orphaned girl named Elfleda fell in love with a young lay brother, was beaten and chained in a dungeon by the nuns, and was forced to watch as the man was mutilated. A second tragedy fastened itself to the same site after the 1644 Battle of Marston Moor, when Parliamentarian soldiers beheaded the Catholic Lady of Watton and killed her child, and over the centuries the two women blurred into a single spectral figure remembered as the Headless Nun, said to stand at the foot of the bed in blood-stained garments before vanishing.From there the show catalogs history's most absurd deaths, beginning with English Channel swimmer Matthew Webb, who drowned in the Niagara rapids in 1883, and the Spartan general Pausanias, sealed inside a temple of Athena and starved until he died moments after his release. The roll continues with Draco of Athens, smothered around 600 BC beneath cloaks and hats thrown in tribute; Sir Arthur Aston, beaten to death with his own wooden leg; the philosopher Heraclitus, who buried himself in cow dung hoping to cure his dropsy; lawyer Clement Vallandigham, who fatally shot himself in 1871 while demonstrating how a victim might have shot himself by accident; the Viking Sigurd the Mighty, killed by an infection from the sev