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Jake Broe is a United States Air Force veteran who served for six years as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer. But you may know him better as one of the most prominent voices on YouTube throughout the war, someone with absolute moral clarity about who the victim of the war is – spoilers, it's Ukraine – and who brings direct military experience to his detailed analysis of the unfolding conflict. Do please subscribe to his channel for videos updates on the war in Ukraine as well as conversations with engaging speakers, expert guests, and other YouTubers.----------LINKS:  @JakeBroe  https://www.youtube.com/@JakeBroe https://twitter.com/RealJakeBroehttps://www.instagram.com/jakebroe/https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jakebroehttps://www.patreon.com/join/jakebroe----------DESCRIPTION: The Trump-Putin Axis and the Future of Global Democracy | With Jake BroeIn this engaging and intense discussion, Jonathan collaborates with Jake Broe on topics ranging from the current state of global geopolitics under former President Trump, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, and the implications of these events on democracy and human rights. As they delve into Trump's consistent alignment with Russia and potential future moves, the conversation also highlights the critical need for continued support for Ukraine, the threats to democratic values, and the urgency of resisting authoritarian influences. The episode emphasizes the need for activists and democratic leaders to step up and fight for core principles, alongside powerful examples of on-the-ground support for Ukraine, such as Jake Broe's successful fundraiser for essential vehicles.----------CHAPTERS:00:00 Introduction and Current Events Overview01:13 Trump's Alignment with the Kremlin01:52 Trump's America: A Shift in Values03:32 Putin's Imperial Ambitions06:02 The New World Order: Trump and Putin's Vision08:30 The Role of China and Global Implications10:35 The Erosion of Democracy and Free Speech14:45 Corporate Control and Media Manipulation24:11 The Resistance and Call to Action27:00 Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ad Controversy27:55 The Need for Strong Democratic Leadership29:28 Bernie Sanders' Popularity and Democratic Failures31:29 Ukraine's Struggle and the Russian Threat34:43 Trump's Missteps and Diplomatic Blunders39:45 The Future of Ukraine and Russian Collapse43:37 Concluding Thoughts and Call to Action----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUCK FUNDRAISER - GET A SILICON CURTAIN NAFO PATCH:Together with our friends at LIFT99 Kyiv Hub (the NAFO 69th Sniffing Brigade), we are teaming up to provide 2nd Battalion of 5th SAB with a pickup truck that they need for their missions. With your donation, you're not just sending a truck — you're standing with Ukraine.https://www.help99.co/patches/nafo-silicon-curtain-communityWhy NAFO Trucks Matter: Ukrainian soldiers know the immense value of our NAFO trucks and buses. These vehicles are carefully selected, produced between 2010 and 2017, ensuring reliability for harsh frontline terrain. Each truck is capable of driving at least 20,000 km (12,500 miles) without major technical issues, making them a lifeline for soldiers in combat zones.https://www.help99.co/patches/nafo-silicon-curtain-community----------

Send us a textClaire Headley and Ian Rafalko delve into the disturbing similarities between the hit show Severance and their experiences in Scientology, highlighting how the series captures cult dynamics with eerie accuracy.• The "innie" versus "outie" identity parallels the cult versus pre-cult personality split• Corporate control structures in Severance mirror Scientology's hierarchical authority• The "break room" procedure's similarity to Scientology conditioning techniques• How both organizations create scripted responses to outside questioning• The physical control tactics like white glove inspections and constant surveillance• The complex and obstructed process of trying to leave both organizations• Character analysis of Milchick as the conflicted middle-management enforcer• Season two's evolving themes and deeper exploration of institutional control• The disappearance of characters like Gemma paralleling real cult practices• The psychological impact of watching these dynamics play out as former membersIf you'd like to support the channel, check out the merch store link in the description. You can also pick up a copy of my book "Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology" in hardback, Kindle, and Audible versions.Support the showBFG Store - http://blownforgood-shop.fourthwall.com/Blown For Good on Audible - https://www.amazon.com/Blown-for-Good-Marc-Headley-audiobook/dp/B07GC6ZKGQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Blown For Good Website: http://blownforgood.com/PODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2131160 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blown-for-good-behind-the-iron-curtain-of-scientology/id1671284503 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2131160.rss YOUTUBE PLAYLISTS: Spy Files Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtJfniWLwq4cA-e...

How big is too big? When it comes to corporate concentration many observers raise concerns about the tech industry. However, in the new book, Titans of Industrial Agriculture: how a few giant corporations came to dominate the farm sector and why it matters, political economist Jennifer Clapp draws attention to the overwhelming shadow a small handful of transnational corporations cast over the global agricultural sector. Professor Clapp argues that these corporations hold concentrated power over the agricultural sector that keep industrial agricultural practices entrenched in patterns of production, despite the concerns of the social, ecological and health impacts to society. She explains how we got to this point and what it might take to make changes. Jennifer's work at the intersection of the global economy, food security, and food systems, and the natural environment, looks specifically at issues of global governance. She is currently a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub.  Interview Summary Norbert - Jennifer, let's just jump right in and I'd love for you to help our listeners understand a little bit more about your book. You write about corporate concentration in the agricultural input sector. Can you explain what this involves and what products are we really talking about?    Yes. The book is about what we call the agricultural inputs industry. And that's really four different product types typically, and maybe a fifth that we can talk about. So, one of them is farm machinery, and that's really referring to things like plows and tractors, harvesters, etc. That kind of machinery on the farm. The second industry is the fertilizer industry, which is all about, you know, the nutrients that we bring to the soil through fertilizer products like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash. And the seed industry. That's another industry that is a key input for farmers. And then also pesticides. And when we talk about pesticides, we're referring to things like insecticides, chemicals that kill insects, but also chemicals that kill weeds and fungus. And so those are the four sort of big inputs that I talk about in the book. But also, the book covers a fifth input, an emerging input, which is data. And this is, especially as we're seeing the datafication and digitalization of farming. Increasingly data has now become a commodity that is bought and sold as an input into farming. Norbert - Great. I have to ask, what drew you to the input industry? I mean, let's be honest, that's not the thing that most people get excited about. Why should we be concerned? Yeah, that's a great question. I've actually had a very long interest in the seed in chemical industry. That goes way back to the start of my career because I did studies in agriculture for my PhD dissertation. But then I got quite interested in toxic waste and then that sort of drew me to this question of the global pesticide trade. And when I learned that, you know, oftentimes, like in the US there might be a banning of a pesticide that's no longer in use. But it was still being traded globally. And this, I found this very fascinating and how that industry worked. And that kind of drew me into understanding the connections between seeds and chemicals. And then when the digitalization of farming came along and in recent decades it became really clear that it wasn't just chemical and seed industry involved in that digitalization. It was also the fertilizer and the farm machinery sector. It made me want to understand the interconnections between these industries. I know it's like, maybe a bit specific, but they have huge consequences in terms of the way our food systems look like. And so that really drew me to understand where did these inputs come from? And why are they controlled by just a few large companies? Erika - Jennifer, I want to ask you a question about why this sector, especially related to the inputs, is so important when we're talking about food systems. And especially their social and ecological dimensions. And specifically in the book, you tease out many of the social and ecological costs of inputs such as pesticides. Also the social and ecological consequences of even farm machinery. So it would be great if you could elaborate on their importance.  Thanks, Erika. That's a great question and that's part of the reason why I was really drawn to study these inputs. Because I'm in a school of environmental studies, I'm very interested in these interconnections between food systems and environmental outcomes. I was really interested in learning more about where these industries came from, and as I was teasing out where they came from. And how they became dominated by such large companies, I also learned in much more depth about the ecological consequences of these inputs. I can just say a little bit about some of them because these consequences are so big that we almost forget to talk about them. They become embedded in the product itself. And so, one example is farm machinery. Farm machinery was originally seen as quite revolutionary and that it allowed farmers to harvest their fields much more quickly than they used to be able to before. But that also meant then that to make the equipment efficient and pay for them they might as well extend the size of their farm. And as farmers extended the size of their farm, in the US anyway, they moved west and displaced its indigenous people from the land, in terms of taking that land for farm production. But also, as farms began to consolidate and get larger, as mechanization continued, it also displaced others from the land. Poor farmers, black farmers, those who were renting land and didn't have access to their own. And so, people who were marginalized and we still considered marginalized in society today, were really being displaced from the land as a direct consequence of farm machinery. It's not that farm machinery is like necessarily something that we want to do away with today, but I think we need to recognize those historical connections. And really understand that when, you know, you see a book for a small child about farming and there might be a picture of a farmer and it's usually a white guy sitting on a tractor. We can forget that image has a lot of baggage associated with it in terms of displacement and inequality. And I think we need to recognize that. But it does not just stop there. There's also plowing disturbs the soil, heavy machinery compacts the soil so it can harm fertility of the soil as well. And the machinery part of the equation has long been a source of inequality in terms of being very expensive for farmers. It's been one of the main reasons farmers have often been driven into debt. Farm machinery might have been liberating in one sense to allow increased production, but it did come with costs that we should acknowledge. We also need to recognize the ecological and social costs associated with the fertilizer industry. And this industry goes way back to the 1840s and we saw the rise of the guano trade. And we can think immediately of the working conditions of the workers who were digging the guano in the Chincha islands of Peru. And often they were coming from Asia and facing really harsh working conditions. But then when we saw the rise of synthetic nitrogen in the early 20th Century, the cost shifted in a way towards the cost of fossil fuels. The huge amount of natural gas used in the synthesis of nitrogen. And also, the climate consequences of the nitrous oxides that come from the application of synthetic nitrogen into the soil. So again, there's like enormous ecological and social impacts from that particular input. Similarly, when we talk about seeds, the hybridization of seeds in the 1920s and 1930s also raise huge concerns about plant genetic diversity. And we know that in the last century or so we've lost around 75% of plant genetic diversity for crop genetic diversity. And this is because of the way in which we started to see the uniformity of the genetic makeup of seeds. The monocultural planting of seeds really reduced that kind of diversity. And then intellectual property protection on seeds that came with the hybridization of seeds also led to a decreased ability of farmers to save their own seed and exchange their own seed with their neighbors. So again, social ecological costs. And finally, when we talk about pesticides, we have seen enormous issues with respect to pollution runoff. This kind of bioaccumulation of these toxic chemicals that have enormous health consequences. So, all of these inputs have very large impacts in terms of their social and ecological costs. And we can even extend that to the issue of data today. There's a lot of concern about data platforms for digital farming where farmers are signing away the rights to the data that are coming from their own farms. And they don't have the kind of interoperability with other data sharing systems. And there's also a lack of clarity about who owns that data. So again, there's big issues with respect to these inputs and how they are affecting both social and ecological dynamics within the food system.  Erika - Thank you for helping us understand the social and ecological impacts of these inputs into the farming industry. Norbert - This is a really rich conversation and I want to understand a little bit more. There's a big part of your text that's about the concentration in the input sector. What does it look like today and was it always this way? That's a great question because it's almost a trick question because we tend to assume that this high level of concentration that we see today is something that's new. But what I found in my research is that the high degree of concentration actually has a long history that goes back about a century or more in some cases. And when we're looking at each of these sectors, the farm machinery, for example, is controlled. Most of the market is controlled by about just four firms. And they control around 50% of the global market. But when you look specifically at national markets in the US, for example, John Deere, you know, the largest company that makes farm machinery, it controls over 50% of the tractor market. So that's just one firm alone. It's similar dynamics when we look at fertilizer, seeds and pesticides and fertilizer, for example. Just two firms control a hundred percent of North American potash production. The four key companies control a large amount of the global fertilizer trade. In seeds, it's also very similar and in pesticides. In the seeds and pesticides that's especially interesting because since the 1980s and 1990s, the seed and pesticide companies actually merged with each other. We can't even say there's a set of seed companies and a set of chemical companies. It's actually seed and chemical companies. That's one set. And they control around 60% of the global seed market and around 70% of the global pesticide market. And that's really what prompted me to want to work on this book is that after 2015, there was a set of mergers in the seed and chemical sector that concentrated those firms even further. They used to be dominated by six firms. We used to call them the Big Six, and then they had major mergers where Bayer bought Monsanto, Dow and DuPont merged and formed Corteva. Syngenta group was bought by Chem China, and then bought by Sino Chem, a big Chinese chemical company. And then BASF bought up all the bits that the other companies were forced to sell to pass regulatory hurdles. And so, we ended up with a Big Four. And these companies produce both seeds and chemicals and have a quite an enormous impact in terms of their market dominance. Norbert - Wow. This is really important and I think it's a topic that many of us who look at the food industry aren't paying attention to. And I'm really appreciative of you laying out this concentration that's taking place. Jennifer, when reading the book, I was really struck by the fact that this is not just a book about the farmers themselves and the farming industry and the companies that provide the inputs. But you also touch upon the role of universities and university science and scientists; and also the role of government in helping to fuel or seed innovation in this sector. And, you know, here I was hoping you could talk about this important role for universities and also the government given that we're in a current moment where we're seeing a retrenchment from investments by government, and also the ability of universities to continue to seed innovation. So I was hoping you could share some of your insights.  Yes, it's certainly an interesting time on the landscape of spending on innovation and with a retrenchment of state pulling back away from supporting technological innovation and other innovations. And that's certainly true in the farm sector, and that's very different from the situation if we go back to the 1800s and see, as you mentioned, the role that the state played in terms of really trying to support innovation in these sectors. And what I argue in the book is that these firms, they got big in the first place, and they were able to consolidate in the first place, through a series of what I call market technology and policy factors. And it's kind of messy. I put them in these three big categories. But in terms of these market factors, that's what most people tend to think about when they think, 'oh, a firm got big. Maybe it's just more efficient. It's able to produce products more cheaply and therefore it just grew to be big.' And that's much more complicated than that of course. And that's because, as you said this role of technological change in which universities have played a really important role. And government support and throughout history in the US, a lot of the book focuses on the US because we have good information and data there. And the US set up the land grant college system really to support development in the agricultural sector. And that gave us, you know, a lot of the innovations that led to, for example, the hybridization of seeds. And the corporations that took up that innovation that the state supported through university research, those firms also work directly with universities in many instances, to have these kinds of collaborative relationships, to develop, herbicides, to develop seeds, to develop further farm machinery, etc. So that role of technological innovation is really important, and that innovation doesn't just come from nowhere. It doesn't just pop up. It doesn't just show up one day. Right? It comes from investment. Investment in universities and research and development. And so that has been a really important strand to develop this kind of industrial agriculture. And now we know from university research, etc., that there are some problems associated with it. Yet it's proving hard to get that kind of funding to spur a new transformation towards a more sustainable agriculture because we're not giving that kind of state support, and support to universities to do that research and innovative work to lead us towards more sustainable agriculture. So, I think there's a lot there that we need to work on. And that's some of the recommendations that I make at the end of the book. Is that we need to shore up that kind of public investment in innovation, in alternative systems to address some of the problems. So just let me tag on another question from that. Just what are the consequences then for having just a small number of firms dominating this sector and no longer having these investments in innovation? Yeah, so what we're seeing increasingly as the state has pulled away from supporting agricultural research, is that most of that agricultural research now is being done by private corporations. And the big concern there is that as you have a smaller and smaller number of very large firms dominating in the sector, their incentive to innovate actually weakens. It weakens because if there's not a lot of players in the marketplace that are doing innovative work, there's just not a lot of competition. And so why would you innovate if you don't have to? If you're already a monopoly and you're able to sell your product, there's not a lot of incentive to innovate in a way that might then decrease the sales of your old products. And so, what we're seeing is a shift in innovation from the private sector, away from these kinds of transformative innovations and much more towards what we call defensive innovations. They're innovating in ways that actually enable them to sell existing products. And many would say that the rise of agricultural biotechnology was actually that kind of a defensive innovation. It was modifying seeds to make them resistant to the application of existing herbicides. And so there was innovation, but it was actually spurring further sales in an existing product. And part of the reason for that was that it became very expensive for these companies. The regulatory hurdles became quite expensive for them to develop new herbicides. And so, they were like, 'oh, it's cheaper and faster to work with seeds. Why don't we do it this way and then we'll continue to sell the herbicides.' Which by the way, got them a lot more profit than selling the seeds. So that's why they bought up a lot of the seed companies and really consolidated in that period. And there's a longstanding concern among competition regulators, the regulators that try to prevent a huge concentration in the economy, about this question of innovation. And it's very relevant in the agricultural sector. There's this sense that if you allow too much concentration to happen, it can dampen that innovation and that takes away that dynamic, innovative spirit within the sector. It's definitely a big concern. Norbert - Jennifer, I really appreciate this. Earlier in my career I was a part of some research related to biotechnology and innovation that happens there. And one of the things that I learned about is this idea of building thickets. These sort of patent thickets where you create a series of patents that actually make it difficult for others to be able to innovate in that same way. There are these real challenges of this kind of defensive innovation. And that's just one of the challenges that you bring up in the book. And I am interested in understanding, as sort a last question, what are some of the recommendations? You mentioned public sector funding of agricultural research and many of my colleagues in my discipline have said we need more research for agriculture. Are there other areas of recommendation to address some of the concerns you raised in the book? Thanks, Norbert. Yes, definitely. And I definitely do call for greater public support for agricultural research. And that's something within the agricultural sector. And I think there we really need to focus efforts on alternative agricultural production methods. For example, agroecology, which tries to reduce the amount of external inputs, not to increase them, by using nature's own processes to achieve the same functions of diversity and pest control, etc. And what's troubling is that when the firms don't have that incentive to innovate, you know, they're definitely not going to innovate in ways that would reduce their profits. They're not going to do that. The public sector has to step in if we want to see that kind of research done. But we also need measures outside of that food and agriculture system that will benefit food and agriculture. One area is stronger antitrust policies. Policies that would prevent further mergers and acquisitions that would allow those firms to continue to get bigger and bigger. Those antitrust policies are used largely, we've got merger guidelines, for example, in North America. And in Europe, when two firms want to merge, they have to get regulatory approval to do so. And those merger guidelines really walk the regulators through what would be a merger that might dampen competition, that might weaken innovation, you know, that kind of thing. It's important that we make those rules stronger. They had become progressively weaker after the 1980s. There was this move in the regulatory space that was this kind of idea that maybe it's okay if firms get really, really big because they can benefit from economies of scale. Maybe they can bring down consumer prices and maybe we shouldn't worry so much about these other areas of control. And there's been a bit of a shift in view around this in recent years where we've seen the rise of concern about these very big companies, especially with what we see with the big tech companies taking control over all these aspects of our lives. And people are saying, wait a minute, maybe we don't want to have this just a few companies controlling so much of our lives. And so, you know, we need to think about other ways to enforce antitrust policies to make them stronger so that we foster more competition and not just focus on whether something's more expensive or not. And that's, I mean, it's a bit of a hard thing to explain to some people. Obviously, people want to see lower prices. But the idea that we have to get across is that when competition dies, when it's not there, that's when the monopoly can really raise prices. And so, we need to have that competitive marketplace in order to spur innovation and also to bring prices down. That's really important and that's a kind of agenda item that's involves food and agriculture, but it's outside of the food and agriculture sector. It encompasses more. And another area where I think we can do more is to reign in the kind of undue corporate influence on the policy process. And that's arising out of a concern that as we're seeing fewer and fewer dominant companies in the food sector, and in other sectors as well, they tend to gain more political power to influence the policy and governance process. And so, what we're seeing is heightened lobby activity. Sponsoring of scientific studies and yes, coming back to the question about universities. But as corporations get bigger, they can shape science in ways that can help them win regulatory approval for their products. We need broader policies on conflict of interest to prevent large companies from taking over the policy process. And I know that's a really salient topic in the US right now, given what's going on in the broader politics. And I think it is a broader politics issue that needs to be seriously addressed if we want to support a more transformative form of food and agriculture. These kinds of policies like stronger antitrust, better conflict of interest policies, and also support for public agricultural research are all really important steps. I don't think any one of them on their own is going to do the trick in terms of spurring this desperately needed transformation in our food systems. But together, I think, they can bring us closer to that goal. Bio Jennifer Clapp is a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Clapp is currently a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub. From 2019-2023, she was a member of the Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of the UN Committee on World Food Security, and served as Vice-Chair of that body from 2021-2023. Dr. Clapp has published widely on the global governance of problems that arise at the intersection of the global economy, food security and food systems, and the natural environment. Her most recent research projects have examined the political economy of financial actors in the global food system, the politics of trade and food security, and corporate concentration in the global food system. She has also written on policy and governance responses to the global food crisis, the political economy of food assistance, and global environmental policy and governance. Her most recent books include Food, 3rd Edition (Polity, 2020), Speculative Harvests: Financialization, Food, and Agriculture (with S. Ryan Isakson, Fernwood Press, 2018), Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid (Cornell University Press, 2012), Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment, 2nd Edition (with Peter Dauvergne, MIT Press, 2011), and Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (co-edited with Doris Fuchs, MIT Press, 2009). Her forthcoming book, published with MIT Press (2025), is titled Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters.

Lee Camp digs into the arrest and deportation of Mahmoud Khalil and the new Red Scare. Plus the new budget that cuts $12 Billion from school meals and much more!

Lee Camp digs into the arrest and deportation of Mahmoud Khalil and the new Red Scare. Plus the new budget that cuts $12 Billion from school meals and much more!

Executive Director of National Center's Free Enterprise Project Stefan Padfield joins Blake to dive into the complexities of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and how its implementation has evolved, particularly since 2020. They explore how DEI shifted from preventing workplace discrimination to actively enforcing race and gender-based hiring and promotion policies, often leading to unintended consequences. The discussion highlights how these practices can stigmatize minorities, create workplace divisions, and, in some cases, even reinforce the very biases they aim to combat. The conversation also touches on legal and corporate responses, the role of fear in silencing opposition, and the importance of balancing truth with empathy when discussing these issues. In this episode, you'll be able to… Uncover how government policies have incentivized the breakdown of the family unit and the long-term impact on society. Explore the distinction between equality and equity, and how DEI initiatives have fueled division rather than unity. Learn how corporations are rapidly dismantling DEI programs when exposed to public scrutiny. To connect with Stefan… Website: nationalcenter.org X: @StefanPadfield & @FreeEntProject Thanks to our sponsors! AquaTru - Get 20% off any aqua purifier when you use code BLAKE on AquaTru.com. AirDoctor - Visit airdoctorpro.com and get up to $300 off an air purifier when you using the code BLAKE and get a FREE 3-year warranty! Fatty15 - Take charge of your health by visiting fatty15.com/BLAKE and using the code HEALTHY to get an extra 15% off your 90-day subscription Starter Kit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Andrew Dougall, a departmental lecturer in international relations at DPIR and associate member at St Antony's college at Oxford University. They discuss Andrew's work on global infrastructures and corporate control in the international system, from DOGE to subsea cables. What are global infrastructures? Who, historically, has built them? Are platform companies like Meta and Twitter really so unique, or do builders and controlled of networked infrastructure always have political power? And do states or empires really have the ability to control them?For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at bit.ly/3kuGM5X.You can follow Alina Utrata on Bluesky at @alinau27.bsky.socialAll episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production of the show, subscribe to the newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5X.Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this riveting episode of "Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu," Tom sits down with the dynamic and outspoken Cenk Uygur, founder and host of The Young Turks, to delve deep into the complexities of American politics and media. The conversation navigates through a range of thought-provoking topics, from the inherent flaws in the current political landscape to the impact of media on public perception. Cenk and Tom explore the critical distinction between populism and the establishment, the influence of corporate money in politics, and the pressing issues surrounding regulation and economic policy. They don't shy away from controversial subjects, including the role of foreign influence in American media and the contentious dynamics of the Israel-Palestine conflict. This episode promises not just to inform but to challenge your perspectives on the forces shaping America's future. Tune in for a candid and intense dialogue that unpacks the heart of modern political and social debates. SHOWNOTES: 12:41 Shifting Political Perceptions on Trump 26:12 Pro-Israel Influence on U.S. Policy 32:41 Trump's Potential Yet Unlikely Shift 48:44 Exploiting Resources for Economic Gain 55:12 Impending Massive Financial Deception 1:08:39 Elon Musk and Economic Optimism 1:16:14 Corporate Control of Housing Criticized 1:30:10 Trump's Trade Negotiations Praised 1:34:27 Debating Symbolic Gestures and Intent CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Range Rover: Range Rover: Explore the Range Rover Sport at  https://landroverUSA.com Audible: Sign up for a free 30 day trial at https://audible.com/IMPACTTHEORY  Vital Proteins: Get 20% off by going to https://www.vitalproteins.com and entering promo code IMPACT at check out. Tax Network USA: Stop looking over your shoulder and put your IRS troubles behind you. Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit https://impacttheory.co/TNUSAJan  Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/impact What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here: If you want my help... STARTING a business: join me here at ZERO TO FOUNDER SCALING a business: see if you qualify here. Get my battle-tested strategies and insights delivered weekly to your inbox: sign up here. ********************************************************************** If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast, Tom Bilyeu's Mindset Playbook —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. ********************************************************************** Join me live on my Twitch stream. I'm live daily from 6:30 to 8:30 am PT at www.twitch.tv/tombilyeu ********************************************************************** LISTEN TO IMPACT THEORY AD FREE + BONUS EPISODES on APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/impacttheory ********************************************************************** FOLLOW TOM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us for an engaging episode of the Straight Dope Show, where hosts El uno and TraB The Wonder dive deep into the hot topic of TikTok's potential ban and its impact on creators who rely on the platform for their livelihoods. They explore the fleeting nature of social media, the importance of community, and the ever-changing landscape of digital content. The conversation takes a turn as they discuss the implications of a high-profile lawsuit involving Drake, touching on themes of artistic expression and the music industry's manipulation. Plus, don't miss their take on Kevin Durant's bold statement about basketball supremacy! Tune in for a mix of humor, insight, and thought-provoking discussions that you won't want to miss! [00:01:27] TikTok's impact on creators. [00:09:48] Low vibrational music discussion. [00:12:30] Low vibrational music and marketing. [00:14:16] Music marketing in the digital age. [00:18:54] Content creation and audience engagement. [00:21:54] Distractions from pressing societal issues. [00:26:38] Lawsuit implications on artistic expression. [00:30:35] Healthcare comparison between countries. [00:36:02] Method Man's family protection. [00:39:50] Music credibility in rap beef. [00:44:01] All-world basketball team concept. [00:45:41] Politics in basketball careers. [00:49:38] Education and military options. [00:54:02] Aaliyah's legacy and influence.

Explore the best moments from Vibe Science: Volume 1! In this episode, hosts Ryan Alford and Chris Hansen lead engaging conversations on wellness, longevity, and emotional health. Here's what to expect:Self-Care for Fulfillment: Ryan emphasizes the critical role of self-care in achieving a meaningful and balanced life.Balancing Success and Health: Chris shares strategies for maintaining personal health while pursuing financial success.Exploring Microdosing: Insights on how microdosing psychedelics can support emotional well-being and creativity.Nutritional Wisdom: Discussions on addressing deficiencies and embracing the simplicity of whole foods for optimal health.Destigmatizing Substances: An honest take on the stigmatization of certain drugs, advocating for decriminalization and responsible use.Personal Transformation: Inspiring stories that highlight the power of mindset, spirituality, and holistic wellness.Join us as we unpack innovative ideas and practical tips to elevate your well-being. Don't miss this journey toward a healthier, more fulfilling life! Follow us on Instagram: @Vibe.Science Subscribe to our YouTube Page: www.youtube.com/@Vibe.Science

It's been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it's been co-opted as a form of corporate control and why you might want to rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. This episode originally aired on June 8, 2021.You can find the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript6 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it's been co-opted as a form of corporate control and why you might want to rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. This episode originally aired on June 8, 2021.You can find the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript6 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. William Lazonick is an economist who studies innovation and competition in the global economy, who has recently been focusing on the corrosive role of stock buybacks. We invited him on to explain why this widespread financial practice is such a bad idea in his eyes, and in return were provided with a comprehensive model of what makes a successful economy. In short, Lazonick believes that no economic system can survive without "the firm," the kind of old school corporate organization that maintained a stable a social contract with its workers, sometimes over the course of an entire lifetime. In Lazonick's view, all economic growth and progress comes down to the ability of the firm to honor that social contract, which means he traces the slump we're in to the death of this tradition. But the question is, what caused us to become eternally itinerant workers in search of global opportunties, hopping from job to job every few years? Lazonick's got that answer, too. He points to a radical transformation of our financial and economic system that came to a head in the 1970s. PATREON: get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci FURTHER READING Eric Williams: Capitalism and Slavery (https://amzn.to/4gvd0rW) Alfred Marshall: Principles of Economics (https://amzn.to/49AnpR9) John Kenneth Galbraith: The Great Crash (https://amzn.to/4iuykQp) Edwin Black: IBM and the Holocaust (https://amzn.to/4gwFce8) Milton Friedman: The Social Responsibility of a Business is to Increase Profits (https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctrine-the-social-responsibility-of-business-is-to.html) (00:00) Go!(00:09:21) The Study of Economics: Integrating History and Theory(00:15:21) Capitalism, Innovation, and Economic Growth(00:29:27) Shift from Feudalism to Corporate Structures(00:37:00) Global Capital and Industrial Revolution(00:41:28) Transition to Large Firms in America(00:49:12) Evolution of U.S. Steel and Stock Market's Role(00:52:05) Venture Capital and Initial Public Offerings(00:59:12) Corporate Financial Strategies Pre-Depression(01:03:00) Stock Buybacks and Modern Corporate Strategies(01:09:40) Rise of Mass Unionization(01:20:14) Stock Market Roles and Corporate Control(01:31:10) Managerial Strategy Shifts(01:41:06) Technological Shifts and Corporate Adaptation(01:51:13) Rise of Silicon Valley and Corporate Strategy(01:56:23) Evolution of the Tech Industry(02:02:47) Shareholder Value Ideology(02:18:40) Shift in Investment Strategies(02:26:02) Corporate Focus on Stock Buybacks(02:32:00) Mechanics of Stock Buybacks(02:37:14) Financialization and Market Effects #CorporateHistory, #StockBuybacks, #ShareholderValue, #StockMarket, #Innovation, #EconomicGrowth, #IndustrialRevolution, #TechnologyTrends, #MiddleClassDecline, #SiliconValley, #ShareholderValue, #CorporateCulture, #Unionization, #EconomicInequality, #ModernEconomy, #USEconomy, #LaborMarket, #HumanCapital, #EconomicDecline, #1970sEconomy, #CorporateCollapse,#WealthInequality, #1980sEconomy, #FinancializationCrisis, #StockMarketImpact, #SiliconValleyStory, #VentureCapital, #StartupCulture, #TechInnovation, #Microelectronics, #TechHistory, #CorporateAdaptation, #ShareholderValue, #CorporateStrategy, #MiltonFriedman, #EconomicPolicy, #FinancialMarkets, #CorporateFinance, #StockBuybackDebate, #EconomicAnalysis, #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast

In the early 20th century, a theory emerged claiming that personal identity and financial systems are part of a vast global corporate scheme. The theory suggests that social security numbers and birth certificates reduce individuals to financial assets, with the Federal Reserve playing a key role in this manipulation. The U.S. government, according to this narrative, used its citizens as collateral to secure loans from international bankers, leading to perpetual debt and financial control. The legal system, rooted in maritime admiralty law, allegedly transforms individuals into corporate entities, with birth certificates acting as proof of human stock. This theory encourages individuals to recognize these manipulative systems and reclaim their freedom by rejecting their corporate identity.

"And Another Thing With Dave" by Dave Smith In this episode: special guest, Boston Nick Barry Main Topics Covered: Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris as Future Political Figures: Discussion about the potential of Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris forming a White House team in the future. Examination of Newsom's fall from grace due to COVID-19 policies and the French Laundry scandal. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Controversies: Gavin Newsom's controversial dinner meeting with PG&E executives. PG&E's criminal negligence in causing wildfires and explosions, leading to deaths and massive property damage. Legislation limiting damages for wrongful deaths caused by PG&E to $10,000 per person. Homelessness in California: Newsom's failed promises to end homelessness, with numbers rising significantly during his tenure. The contrast between Newsom's environmentalist stance and his actions favoring big corporations. Corporate Control and Real Estate: Discussion on major corporations like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard owning large percentages of real estate. The impact of this ownership on housing prices and living conditions. Living Conditions and Micro Apartments: The concept of micro apartments in Tokyo, likened to living in tubes. The future possibility of similar housing conditions becoming widespread in the U.S. Satirical commentary on the downsizing of living spaces and the acceptance of substandard living conditions. U.S. Bombing in Iraq: Mention of recent U.S. bombing in Iraq and the deterioration of President Biden's cognitive abilities over time. Thank you for tuning in! If you are digging what I am doing, and picking up what I'm putting down, please follow, subscribe, and share the podcast on social media and with friends. Reviews are greatly appreciated. You can leave a review on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Links below  Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/and-another-thing-with-dave/id1498443271 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1HLX3dqSQgeWZNXVZ1Z4EC? Thanks again!!! Follow me and find More of My Content with link below https://linktr.ee/andanotherthingwithdave Thank you to my listeners throughout the world. Now heard in 65 countries. According to Spotify my podcast is in the top 20% of podcasts shared internationally. Listener locations: 71% USA 8% Canada 6% United Kingdom  3% India 3% Australia  1% Ireland 1% Germany And less than 1% in 50 plus countries THANK YOU all !!! #Gavin Newsom future, #Kamala Harris White House, #PG&E controversy, #California homelessness crisis, #Corporate real estate ownership, #Micro apartments Tokyo, #U.S. bombing Iraq, #President Biden cognitive decline

I discuss why corporate control of the Internet threatens society and humanity. This is a very serious topic that hardly anyone talks about and is another manifestation of "the commodification of everything".I also briefly discuss how this relates to the transits of Pluto through Capricorn and Aquarius. This episode was published on July 31, 2024 at 6:50pm EDT.SPECIAL: 15% discount on astrology readings (limited time offer, conditions apply).You can support my work and this channel ⁠⁠by booking an astrology reading⁠⁠. Check my "Community Tab" where I comment, and share astrological updates and links that I find interesting:Please ⁠⁠add yourself to my contact list⁠⁠.There are transcripts of some episodes at my website.Related episodes:AI and the Death of the Internet - Feb 1, 2024Pluto in Aquarius - Dawn of Global Consciousness⁠ ⁠- Feb 14, 2022Pluto at 29° Capricorn - A Karmic Reckoning - Jan 26, 2023Natural vs Transactional Reality - Being in the Flow of Authenticity - July 11, 2024Pluto Transit Capricorn - Lessons for HumanityInfants in Power - Nov 15, 2022An Ode to the Divine Feminine - July 5, 2024The Spiritual Seeker vs the Collective - July 4, 2024The Myth of Consensus Reality - Jul 2, 2024Don't Look Down (too much) - Jun 4, 2024A Prayer for You - June 2, 2024Miracles, Love, Abundance - Potent Manifestation in early June 2024 - June 1, 2024Angst and Illumination - Let Go to Level Up - May 31, 2024It's Happening - The Wheel Turns - Apr 21, 2024Judgement Is Upon Us - Apr 18, 2024Hold The Line Against The Darkness - Mar 28, 2024The Great 2020's Timeline Split - Feb 28, 2022The Die Has been Cast - June 3, 2023The Never-Ending Tragedy of Spineless Complicity - Dec 12, 2023Lightworker Activations - Pluto in Aquarius 2nd ingressThe Stunning Transit of Neptune in Aries: 2025-2039The Dramatic Astrology of 2028Purging and DecompressionNorth Node transit Aries / South Node transit Libra: 2023-2025Saturn, Chiron, Collective Trauma and DarknessSaturn transit Pisces - Reality CheckOther episodes of mine featuring Pluto—You can also support this channel with ⁠a monthly membership⁠.⁠#AgeOfAquarius #Internet #PlutoInAquariusErrata

Did you know that corporations control the world? “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” We live in strange times, where mythology is actually history, where instead of teaching history, we obfuscate it, history is written by the victors as they say. If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed. Join me around the digital campfire as we explore the cosmos, and uncover hidden gnosis. LINKS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LibraryofGnosis/ Odyssey: https://odysee.com/@Library_of_Gnosis:e Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Library-of-Gnosis-102241851413980/ Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/mvPf2ntAUShO/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1387156 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Nr8DYq9PhhcIzEaMQcquB?si=FsNuxvo9TsqxXwu-Ge32fg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/library-of-gnosis/id1608143632 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Libraryofgnosis Paypal https://paypal.me/LibraryofGnosis?country.x=SE&locale.x=sv_SE --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/library-of-gnosis/message

Is Star Wars art or just more content? As Star Wars continues to thrive as a Disney franchise, can it maintain any artistic integrity, or was it always simply another product in the marketplace? We explore these questions and more, including: The transition from George Lucas's vision to Disney's corporate ownership. The impact of capitalism on artistic endeavors within the Star Wars universe. Whether the new era of Star Wars can still produce meaningful–even subversive–art.

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On this episode of WSTR, we discuss fan fiction and deepfake technology in the upcoming Star Wars Theory series. We explore the ethical considerations of using AI to replicate the likeness of actors and the ownership of art in the public eye, as well as parody, copyright, corporate control of art, and fans' place in the creative space of the Star Wars franchise. Later, we talk about the LEGO Star Wars 25th anniversary and Ewan McGregor's experience with the Star Wars films. Unsurprisingly, we also talk about UFOs, Godzilla movies, and modern Cthulhu tabletop gaming with Delta Green. You won't want to miss it! Chapters 00:00 Introduction 03:28 The Phenomenon of 'Not My Star Wars' 08:42 Using Deepfake Technology in Fan Films 18:49 Ethical Considerations of Using AI in Art 23:03 Public Figures and Art Ownership 27:03 The Slippery Slope of AI and Art 29:27 Sampling and Remixing in the Music Industry 33:45 Parody and Transformative Works 34:22 AI Impersonations 35:21 Corporate Control over Art 36:25 Controversy and Attention 39:34 Fan Works and Copyright 44:20 The Role of Star Wars Theory 50:35 Ownership and Art 58:45 Taylor Swift and AI 01:01:42 Wrap-up and Future Discussions 01:04:04 Twitter Trash Compactor 01:05:07 News of the Week 01:06:51 LEGO Star Wars 25th Anniversary 01:07:20 Ewan McGregor's Experience with Star Wars 01:14:08 Cantina Chat

Most would agree it is a farmer's right to save, replant, share, breed, and sell seed. This fundamental right is rapidly eroding globally as multinational seed companies push for the worldwide expansion of restrictive seed laws, patents, and intellectual property rights. Multinationals–like Monsanto/Bayer, DuPont, and Syngenta--account for about half of all commercial food crop seed sales (also the singular largest producers of pesticides and herbicides) and continue to consolidate control. However, it is the independent farmer who has historically been the basis of food security for local communities; they are often the first line of defense against hunger. Many new vegetable varieties (especially lettuces) are now being patented; with use-restricted seeds, a farmer is unable to plant a new crop without purchasing new seed from an outside supplier. Enter the global movement to maintain free access to plant genetic resources. The Open Source Seed Initiative or OSSI [https://osseeds.org/] was created to counterbalance the trend towards patenting and restricting the use of seeds and the rights of farmers and gardeners who buy them. In this episode, Jack Kloppenburg shares how we can create and sustain an equitable food system that celebrates the legacy and potential of a single seed. For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio Jack Kloppenburg is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has studied the social impacts of biotechnology, the controversy over control of genetic resources, and the prospects for framing food sheds as an analytical basis for developing sustainable food systems. He is the author of First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology from Cambridge University Press. He is currently inspired by the potential of food sovereignty and by the possible application of open source principles to plant breeding. He is a founder and board member of the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) [https://osseeds.org/] which advocates the use of ”copyleft” approaches to “free the seed” from corporate control. Carry Kim, Co-Host of EcoJustice Radio. An advocate for ecosystem restoration, indigenous lifeways, and a new humanity born of connection and compassion, she is a long-time volunteer for SoCal350, member of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, and a co-founder of the Soil Sponge Collective, a grassroots community organization dedicated to big and small scale regeneration of Mother Earth. Resources: available at https://osseeds.org/resources/ Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Executive Producer and Intro: Jack Eidt Hosted by Carry Kim Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats Episode 194 Photo credit: Jack Koppenburg

Corporate Control of Superhero Classification. (17 Jun 2023) Story inspirattion credit: /r/WritingPrompts/comments/xxv699/wp_the_league_of_super_heroes_cant_help_but/ Story created using OpenAI ChatGPT with propietary prompts. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we sat down with Dianne Koehler, owner and director of the Nutrition Therapy Institute (NTI) to discuss why so many Americans struggle to find accurate nutrition information. We unearth the links between corporate influence and the recommended dietary guidelines including the Tufts University food compass. Tune in to hear Dianne's top nourishing foods and the best ways to decipher science-based nutritional advice. A full breakdown of the Tufts University food compassFind the Nutrition Therapy InstituteInstagram // @ntischool Website // https://ntischool.com/Podcast // NTI Podtalks Find HomegrownInstagram // @homegrown_education, @lizhaselmayer, @joeyhaselmayerWebsite // homegrowneducation.orgNatural home goods  // shoptheh.com

Multiplayer titles like Minecraft encourage creativity, but prototype games built on the blockchain claim to give players more meaningful independence. Read this story here.

Dr. Vandana Shiva bringing light to the challenges of our New World Order: Bill Gates, The Great Reset, Patented Seeds & our agriculture crisis, Corporatocracies, Globalists & the 1%, and all things captured industries and institutions alike. Dr.Shiva is a scientist, environmental & anti-GMO activist, eco-feminist, and anti-globalisation author is here to spread some truth. She has written over 20 books, and is the founder of the Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology: a movement in defence of biodiversity & small farmers. In this episode of Stars & Destruct, Juliana Spicoluk and Mark Spicoluk tune in with Dr. Vandana Shiva to ask questions about the globalist agenda, the environmental crisis & our broken system, and to shed light on how to grow from here. In an illusion-shattering conversation on the poison cartels, GMOs, Nazi-Germany Monsanto, Silicon Valley, fake food, the social credit system, disconnection, Impossible Burger, the unemployment crisis, farmers committing suicide in India, food-related diseases, synthetic fertilizers, the digitalisation of money and much more, Vandana awakens us to the roots of The Great Reset and plants seeds for a sovereign future for all of life. Show Notes: BOOKS: » Vandana Shiva - Terra Viva: My Life in a Biodiversity of Movement - https://chelseagreen.biz/product/terra-viva/ » Vandana Shiva - Soil Not Oil - https://www.soilassociation.org/media/4964/policy_report_2008_soil_not_oil.pdf » Vandana Shiva - Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom - https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/oneness-vs-the-1/ » Vandana Shiva - The Vandana Shiva Reader (Culture Of The Land) - https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813153292/the-vandana-shiva-reader/ » Vandana Shiva - Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy: A Global Citizens Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture - https://www.amazon.com/Philanthrocapitalism-Erosion-Democracy-Technology-Agriculture/dp/0907791913 » Larissa Zimberoff - Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley's Mission to Change What We Eat - https://larissazimberoff.com/book » Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capitalism » Wendell Berry - The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146191.The_Unsettling_of_America **** Guest Links: DR. VANDANA SHIVA: NAVDANYA INTERNATIONAL: https://navdanyainternational.org TWITTER: https://twitter.com/drvandanashiva The Seeds Of Vandana Shiva The Movie : https://vandanashivamovie.com Team Stardust: Juliana Spicoluk: https://www.julianaspicoluk.com/ https://www.instagram.com/juliana.spicoluk/ Mark Spicoluk: https://www.markspicoluk.com/ https://www.instagram.com/mark.spicoluk/ Heidi Souffriau -producer : https://www.heidisouffriau.com/ https://www.instagram.com/unfold.yoursoul/ stars+destruct. https://www.starsanddestruct.com/ https://www.instagram.com/starsanddestruct/ JOIN THE STARWALKER MOVEMENT: Get news, updates, offers, insight, and more dirrect to your email box from stars+destruct. https://www.starsanddestruct.com/starwalkers

“As far as eating nutritionally, the less amount of processing, the better.” -Jim MundorfWhat do consumers need to know right now about how to become more informed and make better decisions about feeding their families?Have you ever wondered whether or not you have access to high-quality meat in your diet?The whole farming and ranching industries have taken a big 180 turn, and it's not for the better. In this episode, we had the chance to chat with Jim to spread awareness about where food actually comes from and what it really takes to stock store shelves with high-quality foods, particularly meat products. He also explains how the beef industry is structured, the corporate takeover of the independent farmer and rancher so you understand who is behind the reason you cannot afford to buy groceries, especially American beef for your family.Jim Mundorf is an artist who owns and operates The Drover House. He designs and builds all of the longhorn products that The Drover House offers. Jim grew up on a farm in southwest Iowa, working the land and livestock. He grew up working cattle, fixing fences, and dreaming of a time and a land where there were no fences, a time where the cattle had horns and ran wild. He had a passion for everything cowboy, and his mother bought him his prize possession, a pair of old mounted horns that she found in an antique shop. He received his Associates Degree in Marketing and a Bachelor's Degree in Communication.Check out these episode highlights:-Changes in the farming industry since the 90s-Industrialization of our food supply and why it's a problem-Hogs went from living outdoors in the sun to being confined in buildings-How processed foods have been pushed so hard-Farm-to-table is now a thing-What the community must do to support local farmers and ranchers -Free-range eggs are the latest example of fraud-What is the best way to eat nutritionally-How much people spend on food vs. income  Tune in to learn more values from this episode!Know more about JimWebsite: https://www.lonesomelands.com/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA_8aR2_4A_FIfzIOAnRRJQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lonesomelands/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lonesomelands/Subscribe and leave us a rating and reviewApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deborah-peters-show/id1612307739Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Z3JQWX9S4LRWSE6mPOIkMYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKQKlzS81RqvYZbpu63mRdAConnect with Deborah PetersWebsite: https://neimind.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deborah.peters.754Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nei4change/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahpetersnei4change/

The Fintech Nexus weekly news show covers the top stories in fintech.Get ready for this week by catching up on last week's top stories:New Chief Calls FTX's Corporate Control a ‘Complete Failure'Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himselfWill the FTX crash hurt fintech overall?U.S. banks to pounce on fintech deals as valuations plungeTreasury calls for more fintech oversightHow Chase Plans to Revolutionize Rent Payments with a Digital SolutionCustodia Bank's master account lawsuit against Fed advancesHow deep of a banking threat is Walmart's One?Shopify, Balance teaming up to modernize B2B paymentsWhy the Investing Pros Were Such Suckers for FTXConnect with PitchIt: Tweet me @ToddFintech Connect with me on LinkedIn Find previous PitchIt episodes Email me at todd@fintechnexus.com Until next time.

Embracing nature, loving the land, and teaching how you can embrace regenerative agriculture and cryptocurrency, Tristan Scott, is the author of the recently released Bitcoin and Beef: Criticisms, Similarities, and Why Decentralization Matters.  Both the regenerative agriculture space and the supporters of Bitcoin have many things in common, such as a disdain for large corporations that only seek to maximize profit, a lack of nuance in local problems and solutions, and deception of the masses.  Tristan brings a factual based argument to many of the myths and solutions that are facing the world today.  Bitcoin and Beef, The Book   BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   SHOW NOTES: [0:20] - Bitcoin & Beef: Why and What? [9:00] - What is Bitcoin and why should you care? [15:30] - What are the downsides to Bitcoin? [21:20] - What is the one thing that could go wrong with Bitcoin? [30:10] - Food systems, global reserves, and food subsidies  [38:45] - The Beef Initiative and the US Beef Market [45:45] - Should we be buying grocery store meat? [53:20] - Can we do this large scale? Stats on Regenerative Agriculture [1:05:50] - Climate, Pollutants and Beef Emissions [1:17:00] - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and African Farming [1:21:40] - 1971 and the getting off the Gold Standard [1:26:00] - How to get involved with your local farmers and get involved in decentralization at an individual level https://www.sovereignhumans.org   BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

Variants for Form 1099. As of 2020, several versions of Form 1099 are used, depending on the nature of the income transaction: 1099-A: Acquisition or Abandonment of Secured Property. 1099-B: Proceeds from Broker and Barter Exchange Transactions. 1099-C: Cancellation of Debt. 1099-CAP: Changes in Corporate Control and Capital Structure. 1099-DIV: Dividends and Distributions. 1099-G: Government Payments. 1099-H: Health Insurance Advance Payments. 1099-INT: Interest Income. 1099-K: Merchant Card and Third Party Network Payments. 1099-LTC: Long-Term Care Benefits. 1099-MISC: Miscellaneous Income. 1099-NEC: Nonemployee Compensation. 1099-OID: Original Issue Discount. 1099-PATR: Taxable Distributions Received From Cooperatives. 1099-Q: Payment from Qualified Education Programs. 1099-R: Distributions From Pensions, Annuities, Retirement or Profit-Sharing Plans, IRAs, Insurance Contracts, etcetera. 1099-S: Proceeds from Real Estate Transactions. 1099-SA: Distributions From an HSA, Archer MSA, or Medicare Advantage MSA. 1042-S: Foreign Person's U.S. Source Income. SSA-1099: Social Security Benefit Statement. SSA-1042S: Social Security Benefit Statement to Nonresident Aliens. RRB-1099: Payments by the Railroad Retirement Board. RRB-1099 R: Pension and Annuity Income by the Railroad Retirement Board. RRB-1042S: Payments by the Railroad Retirement Board to Nonresident Aliens. 5498 Series. Form 5498: IRA Contribution Information. Form 5498-ESA: Coverdell ESA Contribution Information. Form 5498-SA: HSA, Archer MSA, or Medicare Advantage MSA Information. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/law-school/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/law-school/support

In this episode of For the Wild, Ayana and returning guest Dr. Vandana Shiva discuss the crumbling of the colonial paradigm and the promise of re-commoning the commons for our collective future. Situating us in the exigency of food and seed sovereignty for our present time, Dr. Shiva reminds us that seeds and living systems are not open access systems to be privatized, patented, or exploited. Rather, the commons are central to all of life. In this multifaceted episode, we discuss threats to the commons by Big Tech; the brilliance and sophistication of Indigenous seed cultures and breeding, the toxicity of GMO crops for our bodies and the planet, the benefits of agroecological farming, and the need for diversity in our ecosystems and justice movements. Tying the green-washed quest by tech barons to digitalize the world to legacies of colonialism and imperialism under a similar “civilizing” mission, Dr. Shiva warns that the ruling class operates from a place of fear of any being alive and free on their own terms. We end this conversation with a call to a paradigm shift away from capitalism, control and fear to one of partnership with the earth. Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, a leader in the International Forum on Globalisation and of the Slow Food Movement. Founder of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and a tireless crusader for farmers', peasants', and women's rights, she is author and editor of many influential books, including two from Synergetic Press, Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Indigenous Wisdom, and the Rights of Mother Earth (2020) and the forthcoming Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy: A Global Citizens' Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture, which is slated for release in February 2022. Music by Peals, Peia, and Kaivalya. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

Dr. Vandana Shiva joins us on Nonviolence Radio this week to discuss her latest book from Synergetic Press, Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy: A Global Citizens'  Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture. 

This week, we present part one of a special broadcast where we try to convince you the listener an opportunity to donate what you can to keep CKUW 95.9fm our ground-base radio station continuing to keep diversity alive on the airwaves and allow resistance to thrive. Featured on this program will be activists from across the country talking about their work and the various important projects they are involved in. We will also convince you to donate whatever you can.

Corporate Quiz. How well do you know the corporations that own your world? David administers a shockingly difficult quiz. Let us know how many answers you got right! Other Topics Include: Emily Von Edmondson vies for the title as our #1 Fan!, Rolling Stone Interviews, De La Soul, Minnie Riperton, #TimesUp, Joe Biden, Cuomo, Roberta Kaplan, Children of the Corn, Twitter, Walmart, Larry The Bird, Ikea, Coke, Taco Bell, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Cars and Cereal, Amazon, IMDB, Audible, Candy Crush, Bill Gates, Marlboro Man, iPhone, Rubik's Cube, Lung Cancer, Coca-Cola, Disney World, Mickey Mouse, Vaseline, U.S. currency, gambling, and Lesbians, but nothing about how Republicans & Democrats are ruining our country, just the corporations. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the most downloaded podcast in the world! The Unimaginary Friendcast! The Unimaginary Friendcast is hosted by David Monster, Erin Marie Bette Davis Jr. and Nathan Von Edmondson. https://unimaginaryfriend.com/podcast/ And find us on Facebook!

Think for a moment about how much influence the food and agriculture industries have over food policy. Too much influence, too little influence, maybe? People look at this in very different ways. One thoughtful voice in this discussion is today's guest, Gary Sacks, a person who has written extensively on corporate influence on food policy. He has considered corporate control of the food system, running the gamut from global brand consolidation to lobbying and direct involvement in policymaking to actual litigation against country governments, seeking to curb corporate influence. He asks a very key question, is it pastime to question the outsize role of food corporations in our lives?   Dr. Gary Sacks is associate professor at the Global Obesity Center at Deakin University in Australia. His research focuses on policies for improving population diets and preventing obesity and he has coauthored international food policy reports, such as the Lancet Commission on Obesity and several reports for the world health organization on obesity prevention.   Interview Summary   Let's start with this question then: what are some of the ways that food companies do influence public health policy in their favor?   We can group those into five strategies. So, the first one is company lobbying of politicians. That's when they meet directly with politicians or they get involved directly in the policy process, like being on government committees that develop policy. The second one is what we call coalition building. That's when companies fund charities, build relationships with professional associations and that's about winning public support and building relationships that makes it hard for governments to regulate. The third category is their influence on research. They might fund research particular topics and they might host scientific conferences and fun prizes and fellowships in the research area. A fourth strategy we've seen is legal strategies. That's when companies might litigate against governments or have influence over trade agreements, which sets the regulatory framework for how markets operate. And the final way is what we call framing the debate. That's through the way industry talks about things in the media and through their communications. It changes the focus to things that favor the industry. They might shift the blame away from their products and promote individual responsibility for health. So, that's how we've grouped the categories and the ways that food industry influence policy.   So interesting to hear you lay this out and it's an issue near and dear to my heart and I'm thinking back to a paper that I wrote with a colleague, Ken Warner, an economist at the University of Michigan in 2009, comparing the behavior of the food companies with the tobacco companies. And it was just as said, if you look at the tobacco industry playbook and then put next to it, a list of the strategies of food companies used back in 2009, it was check, check, check, everything was quite similar. It's interesting to hear an update on that issue. And what appears to have occurred in those years is that some of the same strategies are still being used, but there are even newer ones and that the companies are becoming increasingly sophisticated at doing these things. So, I guess the big question is, what impact do these strategies have and do they actually work?   Well, they do work. Globally, there's really a lack of action to address unhealthy diets. And yes, there are some success stories, some countries have taken some good actions. But on the whole, across the globe, there's not enough happening to address the nutrition issues we face and it's industry's preferred solutions that have the run. Industry likes self-regulation of things like marketing to kids and product reformulation and they prefer the predominant focus to be on education. So, trying to educate people into what's healthy. But the public health evidence shows that those strategies alone aren't enough. We need much stronger government action. And unfortunately, that's severely lacking.   That is very consistent with the way I've seen things too because there are case after case of industry fighting off, needed government actions, stalling thing, planting doubt with respect to the science and taking all these actions that you mentioned that really are having a big impact. And it's not surprising, government generally doesn't invest money in an unwise way. And they're spending, as you said, billions of dollars doing this kind of thing and obviously it's having an impact and I'm glad that you could point out how. So, what can be done about this?   There are a range of strategies that governments and researchers and health organizations can use to limit the influence of industry. A clear one is to limit industry involvement in policy making. And so, when governments are developing policy, they need to keep industry off the table. While there could be a role to consult with industry about how to implement a policy, they need to get out the policy table, leave that to the public health experts and the policymakers. A second way is much clearer disclosure of lobbying activities and things like political donations. Ideally, with some limits on corporate political donations. Some countries have actually really good disclosure laws, but many countries lobbying is not transparent at all. The third way would be independent funding of research, so that researchers don't need to take money from food industries and universities and research institutions to have better conflict of interest policies. And that's just some of the ways, but really, the conflict of interest needs to be front and center of both policymakers, researchers and even media organizations.   Thanks, those are really innovative ideas. And let me talk about one of them in just a little bit more detail. You mentioned that the food industry shouldn't be at the table when these policy decisions are being made. Now, I know the food industry says, well, wait, we're that stakeholder here. And you'd like to have stakeholder involvement when you're making decisions. And also, we happen to know a lot about issues, but they also very often will claim that disclosure is the solution here. As long as we're transparent about who's on these committees and who might have industry ties and things like that, we're okay. Do you think that disclosure is anywhere near a meaningful solution?   No, I don't. I think disclosure is a start, but actual management of conflict of interest and the risks associated with that needs much more than disclosure. So, as I said, if there's a policy getting developed that is really about regulating harmful products, it's a clear conflict of interest to have the makers of those products at the table. And so, stronger steps need to be taken to manage those risks.   That makes sense. So let's talk about the food industry itself. And I know you've thought about the market power that a surprisingly small number of multinational companies can have. Can you tell us a little bit more about that?   The factor that enables companies to have an influence is that they have a huge amount of power. Globally, it's just a handful of multinational food companies that have enormous market power. And that's grown over the last 30 years through things like mergers and acquisitions and marketing and whole range of strategies companies use to ensure they have this tremendous market power. And so, really, if we're thinking about limiting corporate influence, we need ways to reduce the power of these corporations. We may need to consider stronger policies around merger control and trading practices that enable these companies to have the sort of power that means they have influence.   It's interesting to hear that so many companies have become so much bigger over the years and you're right, that those concentrate power in a small number of hands. So, I know you've also thought about the role that investors play in this picture.   Yeah, we've seen recently that large institutional investors, so your big hedge funds and big asset managers, are starting to play an increasing role in shaping corporate behavior. We've seen examples where these large investors push the companies that they invest in to adopt more responsible practices. And so again, I think if you're looking at leavers for change, if more of these investors push companies to adopt globally recommended public health measures and I guess, refrain from lobbying against them in the first instance that could be an important lever for change.   That's a good way to draw this to a close because you're ending on an optimistic note that if the industries aren't showing much willingness to do this kind of thing on their own and it looks like, in fact, they're doing the opposite, investors can have an important role in industry behavior. And it looks like there are more signs of that happening.   We are seeing investors focus on things like the sustainable development goals and really taking a long-term view to what kind of behavior we want companies to have. And I think if those investors take up the challenge of trying to address nutrition issues and engage with companies to push them to take recommended global actions, then we may see some improvements.   Bio   Gary Sacks is an Associate Professor based at the Global Obesity Centre at Deakin University, Australia. Gary's research focuses on policies for improving population diets and preventing obesity. Gary has co-authored several international reports on food policy, including the Lancet Commission on Obesity and several reports for the World Health Organization on obesity prevention. Gary co-founded INFORMAS (International Network for Food and Obesity / non-communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support) – a global network for monitoring and benchmarking food environments. Gary leads the component of INFORMAS dedicated to monitoring the actions of food companies in relation to obesity prevention and population nutrition. Gary led the first-ever studies to benchmark progress on obesity prevention by Australian governments and food companies.  

America's medical system, along with most doctors, was not prepared to think outside the box to treat COVID, according to today's guest. Dr. Mobeen Syed is founder of DrBeen, a medical education program designed to train today's doctors in medical innovation. He is one of the doctors who has promoted ivermectin and other therapeutics to treat COVID and has faced censorship. He believes that the corporate/government monopoly on medicine has boxed out the doctors who seek to innovate. He also discusses the mechanics of ivermectin and some of the growing concerns about the vaccines and the way they are marketed. Dr. Syed is working on a plan to create alternative information sources outside the polluted pipeline of the medical establishment.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it's been co-opted as a form of corporate control, and why you might want to rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. You can find the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript6

Midnight Madness Radio Episode 118 with Midnite City, StruckDown, Among You, Belvedere, Blud Red Roses, Dead Soul Revival, Pistols At Dawn, HogNox, KAVANAGH, Divinity Rise ft Daniel Byrne, Corners Of Sanctuary, Flight of Icarus, Mutant Thoughts, Moanaa, Sudler's Row, RETCHED, Smash Into Pieces, Neofelis Nebulosa, Karen Bella, Corporate Control, HotBreath, and The Velvet SuperSloths.

Corporate Control features AOR heavyweight Paul Sabu and Bassist Barry Sparks (Yngwie Malmsteen, Scorpions, Dokken). The debut album “Whatever It Takes” is an American-German collaboration with Marcus Boeltz producing and the band’s legendary vocalist Paul Sabu co-producing. CD now available worldwide, so take a listen to find out just what makes Marcus and Corporate control […] The post WTMusic: Marcus Boeltz From Corporate Control appeared first on We Talk Podcasts.

Corporate Control features AOR heavyweight Paul Sabu and Bassist Barry Sparks (Yngwie Malmsteen, Scorpions, Dokken). The debut album "Whatever It Takes" is an American-German collaboration with Marcus Boeltz producing and the band's legendary vocalist Paul Sabu co-producing. CD now available worldwide, so take a listen to find out just what makes Marcus and Corporate control so special. Some great ways to subscribe to We Talk Podcasts. Try us on iTunes. For those of you looking for an alternative we’re now available on Stitcher Radio. You can also check the show out on the versatile TuneIn radio. And join the We Talk Conversation on Twitter @wetalkpodcasts. Plus give us a like now on Facebook. Ancheck out the WTM archives for more amazing interviews,  

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Programa #1018 | AOR Diamonds #247 | Doble capítulo, doble episodio con doble de todo, doble o nada!! Pues eso! En la primera hora nuevos redondos de Crowe (con miembros de H.E.A.T y Art Nation), Easy Action, Farcry, Escape, Valentine, Temple Balls, Corporate Control, Sweet Oblivion (con un gran Geoff Tate!), Robin McAuley y otros, amén de algún que otro clásico de Gun, Hardline y Xtasy. Hablamos de noticias y actualizamos algunas fechas de la Agenda. Una hora plagada plagada de musicote! Y una segunda hora donde las que mandan son ellas, 60 minutazos con algunas fe las voces femeninas que más me han fascinado a lo largo de los años. Hablo de Phantom Blue, Fiona, Alanah Myles, Romeo's Daughter, Heart, Wilson Phillips, Roxette, Device, Animotion o las conocidísimas Vixen. UN gustazo de sesión para reivindicar la importancia de las mujeres en el mundo musical. Ojalá haya más presencia y el 8M sea una celebraci´ñon residual y anécdótica en un futuro. Hasta entonces, nuestro puño bien alzado por ellas! Rock on!!Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de AOR Diamonds. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/75094

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Programa #1018 | AOR Diamonds #247 | Doble capítulo, doble episodio con doble de todo, doble o nada!! Pues eso! En la primera hora nuevos redondos de Crowe (con miembros de H.E.A.T y Art Nation), Easy Action, Farcry, Escape, Valentine, Temple Balls, Corporate Control, Sweet Oblivion (con un gran Geoff Tate!), Robin McAuley y otros, amén de algún que otro clásico de Gun, Hardline y Xtasy. Hablamos de noticias y actualizamos algunas fechas de la Agenda. Una hora plagada plagada de musicote! Y una segunda hora donde las que mandan son ellas, 60 minutazos con algunas fe las voces femeninas que más me han fascinado a lo largo de los años. Hablo de Phantom Blue, Fiona, Alanah Myles, Romeo's Daughter, Heart, Wilson Phillips, Roxette, Device, Animotion o las conocidísimas Vixen. UN gustazo de sesión para reivindicar la importancia de las mujeres en el mundo musical. Ojalá haya más presencia y el 8M sea una celebraci´ñon residual y anécdótica en un futuro. Hasta entonces, nuestro puño bien alzado por ellas! Rock on!!Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de AOR Diamonds. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/75094

On this episode of Making Contact, we look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. People around the world have been organizing against this privatization in the face of climate change and rising sea levels that threaten to contaminate our limited drinking water supplies. 

On this episode of Making Contact, we look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. People around the world have been organizing against this privatization in the face of climate change and rising sea levels that threaten to contaminate our limited drinking water supplies. 

Paris Marx is joined by David Banks to discuss how tech solutions to increase corporate control in cities will be sold to us as fun and convenient, and what that will actually means for access and equity in urban life.David Banks is a visiting assistant professor at the University at Albany. He’s the editor-at-large at Real Life, and has written for The Baffler, e-flux architecture, and Current Affairs. Follow David on Twitter as @DA_Banks.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:Read David’s articles for Real Life on the subscriber city and e-flux architecture on software as infrastructure.Paris wrote about the end of the Paramount Decrees, including what it could mean for the future of cinemas.How people are fighting back against landlords attempts to use tech against tenants (“proptech”).Slavoj Žižek gives a father/son example of totalitarianism (from ~0:00-3:00).David Harvey’s “Right to the City” essay mentions how homeownership makes people more conservative.Red Vienna remains a great example of public housing.Kevin Rogan wrote about how smart-city technologies are designed to hide human labor.Books in this show: “Radicalized” by Cory Doctorow, “Urban Warfare” by Raquel Rolnik, “Capital City” by Samuel Stein, and “Loft Living” by Sharon ZukinSupport the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

In this episode of Building Local Power, host Jess Del Fiacco is joined by Zach Freed, researcher with ILSR's Independent Business initiative, and John Farrell, ILSR co-director. The three discuss the Fighting Monopoly Power guide, ILSR's latest release, which spans the banking, broadband, electricity, food and farming, pharmacy, small business, and waste sectors. … Read More

On this episode of Making Contact, we will look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. We will look at the ways people around the world have been organizing against this privatization in the face of climate change and rising sea levels that threaten to contaminate our limited drinking water supplies.

On this episode of Making Contact, we will look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. We will look at the ways people around the world have been organizing against this privatization in the face of climate change and rising sea levels that threaten to contaminate our limited drinking water supplies.

( Bad sound, but good info! Will try to fix audio when i have my copuer back but i wanted to get this up. Enjoy.) In this episode host Fletcher Kade talks to friend and fellow comedian Murphy Mejorada about comedy, weather manipulation, and how to cripple the corporations that control us.

In this episode, we talk about being a chain store owner or franchisee, which has a large company training and assistance in managing daily business, sounds like a pretty deal. However, what's behind the scenes is that, the corporate company is taking profit every day from small business owners in various ways. And how much do you know about the controlling the profit of these franchisees by the corporate? There are no free lunches in the world, when it seems like a great deal, and there must be a price to pay. #卡加利 #移民 #Calgary #Franchise #Immigrants #連鎖店 #做生意 #移民 #加拿大生活 #移民資訊 Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cantalkcantalk/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLmR5fq7rXjQj4tDiQGndLQ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5NVN0JsjC35AzvSWIQzThC Google Podcast: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMWRjMDRiOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== RadioPublic: https://radiopublic.com/cantonese-talk-canadian-talk-WRlde1 Pocketcast: https://pca.st/lpg8nc3w Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1503761632/cantonese-talk-canadian-talk Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/cantonese-talk-canadian-talk **** Other gears I use in studio**** Audio-Technica ATH-M50x Professional Headphones, Black https://amzn.to/3aAekYb Shure SRH840 Professional Monitoring Headphones (Black) https://amzn.to/2y3dXrS Apex 435 microphone https://amzn.to/2VrhyIj BLUE yeti USB microphone https://amzn.to/34mOcP7 Native Instruments 21066 Komplete Audio 6 MK2 https://amzn.to/2JPUduj Logitech C922x Pro Stream Webcam 1080P Camera https://amzn.to/2x55p3C Neewer 2 Packs Dimmable Bi-Color 480 LED Video Light and Stand Lighting Kit https://amzn.to/2JSfpQc Neewer 2 Packs Dimmable Bi-Color 480 LED Video Light and Stand Lighting Kit (with bag) https://amzn.to/2z0zP7L KRK Studio Monitor https://amzn.to/2KuYYKa Yamaha HS5I Studio Monitor with Mounting Points and Screws, Black https://amzn.to/3ePxVqF Rockville RVSM1 Pair of Near-Field Studio Monitor Stands with Adjustable Height https://amzn.to/3cMgo0L AKG K 701 - Open-Back Reference Class Stereo Headphones https://amzn.to/3cJAeKf Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 Mk2 Keyboard https://amzn.to/3cSWXDP Presonus DAW Controller FADERPORT 16 https://amzn.to/2VWBZNt Promise Pegasus32 R6 24TB (6x4TB) Hybrid Thunderbolt 3 or USB32 Direct Attached RAID Storage, High Performance External Hard Drive https://amzn.to/2S4yxPK Arrowzoom Soundproofing Insulation Wedge Acoustic Wall Foam Padding Studio Foam Tiles https://amzn.to/2S9fNyp Microphone Isolation Shield https://amzn.to/3cEF77k Chauvet SlimPar 64 RGBA LED DMX512 Par https://amzn.to/2Y1f6ep motionVFX plugin for FCP https://motionvfx.sjv.io/c/2228624/760654/10011 https://motionvfx.sjv.io/c/2228624/760657/10011 https://motionvfx.sjv.io/c/2228624/767040/10011

Corporate Control of Reliability Program Abstract James and Fred discussing one of the perils of a corporate-run tops-down reliability program Key Points Join James and Fred as they discuss Topics include: Is there a best way to organize and operate a reliability program? The problem with the one size fits all approach Finding the balance […] The post SOR 497 Corporate Control of Reliability Program appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

How corporate control dominates the smartphone industry and thrives on child-labor and poor working conditions

Is there a big revolution about to start in healthcare?We think yes. And we saw it – thanks to a directive by President Trump – that requires hospital transparency when it comes to patient billing.Even if you are not a fan of this President, you need to hear this podcast.Because – we think -- this is game changing -- when it comes to your healthcare and healthcare costs.We will speak to the doctor who spoke at the White House with the President -- about the executive order.Her name is Dr. Elaina George.So the executive order forces hospitals and payers to release information based on their privately negotiated rates. Plus, providers would have to give patients estimates of their out-of-pocket costs before a procedure.Elaina is an ear nose and throat specialist in Atlanta. Her book is one we recommend. It is Big Medicine: The Cost of Corporate Control and How Doctors and Patients Working Together Can Rebuild a Better System. You can get the book here. http://drelainageorge.com/

Douglas Lain of Zero Squared Podcast and Zero Books joins Adam in conversation today to discuss the development of “platform capitalism,” specifically as it relates to the increasing control exerted by mega-platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter over the means of communication. We discuss a recent act of censorship on the Zero Books YouTube channel and wonder whether this might be a harbinger of things to come re: online media platforms and censorship of political content. We close out our discussion by musing over the notion of "platform capitalism" and draw some historical parallels with previous movements that reclaimed the privatized commons for the masses. *** Join the Dead Pundits Society for access to the B-Side, which will be landing for patrons on Friday: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** Find all of our content here: http://www.deadpundits.com ------------------- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deadpunditssociety Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deadpunditssociety YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl_Xg

Today we have two local topics and one national topic. Interestingly, our local ones intersect national issues as well. Change only comes with an activated grassroots, and they are doing an excellent job of it.

Life after 9/11 The US has become a Police state, censorship, Corporate Control, war based on lies, Congress votes to go to war, could we wind up with four more years of Trump? Gerald talks about that Global Economic Slowdown and makes us wonder, “How Low Can It Go?”

In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux.Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)!Links to some of the things discussed in the showLinux Sucks Forever - The latest in the "Linux Sucks" videos talking about corporate control of Linux and Free Software in generalThe Halloween Documents - The documents describing Microsoft's strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing - Benjamin Mako Hill discussing CouchsurfingOn Usage of The Phrase "Open Source" - Bruce Perens describing the origins of Open SourceHow I coined the term 'open source' - Christine Peterson discusses how she invented the term 'Open Source'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - The book from the 1980s describing the origin of the Hacker movementF-Droid - A software repository of Free and Open Source Software for the Android platformReplicant - A 100% Free Software operating system for mobile phonesLineageOS - A Free and Open Source operating system for mobile devicesLibreM 5 - A new 100% Free Software, Privacy Oriented Mobile Phone coming soonOpenMoko - A project to create a Free mobile smartphone in/around 2007/2008 that never fully took offOrg Mode - A system for keeping track of everything in your life in plain text through EmacsOrgzly - An Org mode compatible editor for AndroidThe Hipster PDA - The Hipster PDATime Management for System Administrators - The book where Serge learned the Cycle system for time managamentRudel - Distributed real-time editing editing in Emacs; apparently supports the Gobby protocol and others (we haven't tried this ourselves!)The Agenda VR3 - The first Linux-based Personal Digital AssistantSharp Zaurus - A more capable Linux-based PDAEmacs appointment notifications via XMPP - A pretty good notification setup in case you can't project org-mode straight into your eyeballs

In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux.Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)!Links to some of the things discussed in the showLinux Sucks Forever - The latest in the "Linux Sucks" videos talking about corporate control of Linux and Free Software in generalThe Halloween Documents - The documents describing Microsoft's strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing - Benjamin Mako Hill discussing CouchsurfingOn Usage of The Phrase "Open Source" - Bruce Perens describing the origins of Open SourceHow I coined the term 'open source' - Christine Peterson discusses how she invented the term 'Open Source'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - The book from the 1980s describing the origin of the Hacker movementF-Droid - A software repository of Free and Open Source Software for the Android platformReplicant - A 100% Free Software operating system for mobile phonesLineageOS - A Free and Open Source operating system for mobile devicesLibreM 5 - A new 100% Free Software, Privacy Oriented Mobile Phone coming soonOpenMoko - A project to create a Free mobile smartphone in/around 2007/2008 that never fully took offOrg Mode - A system for keeping track of everything in your life in plain text through EmacsOrgzly - An Org mode compatible editor for AndroidThe Hipster PDA - The Hipster PDATime Management for System Administrators - The book where Serge learned the Cycle system for time managamentRudel - Distributed real-time editing editing in Emacs; apparently supports the Gobby protocol and others (we haven't tried this ourselves!)The Agenda VR3 - The first Linux-based Personal Digital AssistantSharp Zaurus - A more capable Linux-based PDAEmacs appointment notifications via XMPP - A pretty good notification setup in case you can't project org-mode straight into your eyeballs

In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux.Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)!Links to some of the things discussed in the showLinux Sucks Forever - The latest in the "Linux Sucks" videos talking about corporate control of Linux and Free Software in generalThe Halloween Documents - The documents describing Microsoft's strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing - Benjamin Mako Hill discussing CouchsurfingOn Usage of The Phrase "Open Source" - Bruce Perens describing the origins of Open SourceHow I coined the term 'open source' - Christine Peterson discusses how she invented the term 'Open Source'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - The book from the 1980s describing the origin of the Hacker movementF-Droid - A software repository of Free and Open Source Software for the Android platformReplicant - A 100% Free Software operating system for mobile phonesLineageOS - A Free and Open Source operating system for mobile devicesLibreM 5 - A new 100% Free Software, Privacy Oriented Mobile Phone coming soonOpenMoko - A project to create a Free mobile smartphone in/around 2007/2008 that never fully took offOrg Mode - A system for keeping track of everything in your life in plain text through EmacsOrgzly - An Org mode compatible editor for AndroidThe Hipster PDA - The Hipster PDATime Management for System Administrators - The book where Serge learned the Cycle system for time managamentRudel - Distributed real-time editing editing in Emacs; apparently supports the Gobby protocol and others (we haven't tried this ourselves!)The Agenda VR3 - The first Linux-based Personal Digital AssistantSharp Zaurus - A more capable Linux-based PDAEmacs appointment notifications via XMPP - A pretty good notification setup in case you can't project org-mode straight into your eyeballs

This November, Oklahomans will decide if big box stores, like Walmart and Target can offer eye exams. But some optometrists say corporate involvement will lead to conveyor-belt eye exams.

How do we free ourselves from the controlling influence of multi-national corporations? "We are swimming in a sea shaped by corporate desires. They are not thinking beings they are structures shaped by blind reductionist thinking and ever larger scale and greater speed." ~ Helena Norberg-Hodge In this episode Amisha meets author, filmmaker and big-picture activist Helena Norberg-Hodge. Together they discuss the influence of multinational corporations in all areas of our lives, and what we can do as individuals to create systemic change. Helena's big-picture activism reveals the interdependent systems of corporate control and urbanisation that are behind our greatest challenges. She explains how the current epidemics of anxiety and depression, climate change and plastic pollution are caused directly by the actions of multi-national corporations and how a shift to localism holds the antidote to what ails us. Links from this episode and more at www.thefutureisbeautiful.co

Join host, Greg Carlwood, of The Higherside Chats podcast as he talks legislation 2017 with returning guest, Jen Briney. While we can all recognize that the scales have continued tipping in favor of powerful politicians, criminal corporations and the aristocratic elites, many of us avoid getting into the gritty details of these closed door deals, because frankly, it can be a confusing maze of information. From congressional hearings to corporate lobbying, keeping tabs on what the Washington machine is up to is more than a full-time job. Fortunately, today's returning guest, Jen Briney, has dug deep into the inner workings on Congress. Pouring over every piece of major legislation written in the five years since beginning her podcast, "Congressional Dish", Briney has undertaken a task not many are up to and today she joins The Higherside to fill us in on what the fuck our government is doing. 3:00 With the first year of his presidency in the books, Greg and Jen bypass the media circus surrounding Trump and take a look into what little this year has yielded legislatively. Jen breaks down the upcoming agenda for Congress and expresses some of her concerns with not only the poor timing, but the last minute push to pass 10,000 page bills into law before Congress can read and debate what's in them. Jen also describes the rampant corporatism in government and what this influence means for the average working-class citizen. 12:00 Continuing with the conversation about corporate welfare, Greg and Jen discuss the slew of corporate friendly laws signed by Trump and covered on her episode "Trump's First Laws". As Jen explains, although Trump is signing these one-sided bills into law, the real blame lies at the feet of the people writing these bills, Republicans in Congress. And, least we not forget, Greg and Jen cover the biggest overhaul in government policy in 30 years: tax reform. 20:00 Greg and Jen dive into Net Neutrality, and discuss Briney's Congressional Dish episode where she breaks down some of the nuances that have been lost among the bitter arguments and disinformation surrounding this topic. As Jen explains, the current laws involving internet governance were established under a completely different landscape, using different objectives, and "internet laws" as we need them, have yet to written. 32:00 Focusing on one of America's biggest corporations, Greg and Jen discuss the history of AT&T, their long running pattern of consolidating companies and monopolizing industries, and their involvement in First Net and Net Neutrality. As Briney points out, with AT&T stepping up to provide a communication network for first responders across the US, we have again allowed corporate infiltration of our government. 42:00 With almost the entire American populous victimized in the Equifax breach, and little to no consequences for the flagrant lack of security, Greg and Jen turn their attention to the scandal that will haunt many of us in the years and decades to come. Become a Plus Member at www.TheHighersideChatsPlus.com/subscribe to hear a second hour of all THC episodes. This week's included: - Puerto Rico coverage and disaster relief - tracking the tug of war over healthcare this year and where we now stand - the Democrats' obsession with making a Russian scandal stick instead of running the country - changes to Veteran treatment and programs - Impeachment: is it all hot air, or are the wheels in motion? - the government funding bill, scheduled for Dec 22nd - the weed issue, and the clauses keeping Jeff Sessions at bay, also subject to change in the latest government funding bill A few valuable resources from the interview: Jen Briney on The Higherside Chats "The Corporate Control of Congress, The Federal Budget, & Privatization Propaganda": https://www.thehighersidechats.com/jen-briney-the-corporate-control-of-congress-the-federal-budget-privatization-propaganda/

Hostess, Logan Hailey expands on information presented in the previous episode. She discusses how the Green Revolution and industrialization of agriculture have created corporate control of the food system. The second part of the podcast details her response to these problems: the decision to work towards self-sufficiency, build an off-grid tiny home, and pursue a career as an ecological farmer. As always, thanks for listening! Read full blog post: http://farmer-v.tumblr.com/post/168556300617/host-logan-hailey-farmer-v-expands-on

In today's episode, host Marc Clair is joined by Dr Elaina George, a board certified otolaryngologist and author of the book “Big Medicine: The Cost of Corporate Control and How Doctors and Patients Working Together Can Rebuild a Better System”.  In the show you'll hear Marc and Dr. George discuss: Why Dr. George became a doctor, and why she very quickly began to see the delitiriuos effects of government regulation on the medical industry.  How Obamacare picked winners and losers, why the doctors and patients became “losers” under the bill, and just who became the “winners?” What sort of health care reform does Dr. George recommend for the patient that is the U.S. health care industry? Plus! Marc answers a couple “Letters of Liberty” from fans of the show! For show notes head over to Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s episode, host Marc Clair is joined by Dr Elaina George, a board certified otolaryngologist and author of the book “Big Medicine: The Cost of Corporate Control and How Doctors and Patients Working Together Can Rebuild a Better System”.  In the show you’ll hear Marc and Dr. George discuss: Why Dr. George became a doctor, and why she very quickly began to see the delitiriuos effects of government regulation on the medical industry.  How Obamacare picked winners and losers, why the doctors and patients became “losers” under the bill, and just who became the “winners?” What sort of health care reform does Dr. George recommend for the patient that is the U.S. health care industry? Plus! Marc answers a couple “Letters of Liberty” from fans of the show! For show notes head over to

We are honored that Dr. Elaina George, practicing Otolaryngologist, has agreed to return to our show to outline the problem with growing government involvement in our healthcare system and offers solutions as to what can be done to restore the traditional doctor/patient relationship.  Dr. George presents her case in her new book "Big Medicine: The Cost of Corporate Control and How Doctors and Patients Working Together Can Rebuild a Better System".   Listen in and call in with your questions, or comments on this critical issue 646-652-4620.  Look forward to hearing from you. 

A review of the week's major US international tax-related news. In this edition: Senior House Ways and Means Committee members released an “innovation box” discussion draft -- Senate subcommittee held a hearing on “Impact of the US Tax Code on the Market for Corporate Control and Jobs.

This show page is now the updated version containing all links provided by @MsAmyMacPherson during the show, specifically on the secret plan for health care in Canada. It was a very revealing episode. You are invited to listen to the audio archive, then are invited to look at this paste, which is not able to be edited or deleted. https://www.cyberguerrilla.org/paste/?d21cab60608be612#DyMg5hJ4Inf3TCnHuPIouVWsSZm7U/kvsRl3xqAxLIQ= Please be advised the first section of the show deals with the Jesse Brown/Toronto Star/CBC/Jian Ghomeshi circus, which Amy has dug deeper into than every mainstream media platform in Canada.    

Food labels are the cause of much debate these days, especially when trying to understand what they are actually trying to convey to us, the consumers. In this episode we explore the term natural—what we think it means and how that’s been co-opted by the last two decades of corporate takes overs of small natural food companies. Clarissa Leon, Food Editor of Alternet.org, joins us to share her thoughts on this trend, as well as the details of a recent lawsuit against Kashi and Kellogg over their use of the natural label and what this could mean for other food processors.

How trying to control your life leads to forgiveness? How the three C's are the greatest ambitions and listless limiters of our lives. The three C's are Corporate Control, College Education and Computers. How these three are limiters and how people in this country have become afraid to get dirty and be innovative.