Podcasts about Damocles

A manipulative "dark guru" assaults women in your community while event organizers ignore reports. How can safety be restored? It's Feedback Friday!And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1141On This Week's Feedback Friday:If you've ever wanted to hear Gabriel discuss feet, thumbs, and hot tubs with another J. Harbinger, you're going to love how this episode begins!Your arts community should be a safe haven, but it's been infiltrated by a predator who uses spiritual "shadow work" (à la Carl Jung) as a cover for assault. Multiple women have shared their stories with you, but event organizers won't act. How can you protect these women while ensuring this shady manipulator faces consequences without putting yourself in danger?Your mother-in-law threw you a baby shower featuring strangers from her MLM "tribe" who didn't follow registry instructions. The event felt more like her show than your celebration. Now you're anticipating boundary battles when the baby arrives — especially around her anti-science beliefs. You don't want to seem ungrateful, but what can you do to gain control of this awkward situation?As a federal employee during massive governmental "re-alignment," you're watching colleagues get "released" after lifetimes of civil service. With the sword of Damocles hanging over your own head daily, how do you process the potential loss of purpose, the anxiety of uncertainty, and the feeling that important work might remain undone? What's next if your mission suddenly evaporates?Your intellectually disabled sister-in-law attempted suicide in front of your young son after refusing an apology. Without legal guardianship established, paramedics couldn't force treatment, and your in-laws seem unwilling to address the situation properly. How do you protect your children, handle familial responsibility, and prepare for her eventual care?Recommendation of the Week: Strrrrrrrrretchiiiiiing!Remember the 27-year-old daughter who refused to leave her parents' home on Feedback Friday episode 1127? After discussing this "failure to thrive" case, listeners offered their perspectives on potential autism, cultural norms around adult children living at home, and the delicate balance between support and enabling. What does true parental love look like?Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger.Connect with Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi and Instagram @gabrielmizrahi.And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors: jordanharbinger.com/dealsSign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This Lenten talk from Psalm 32 is about weight; internal weight upon the conscience; let it be an act or a past behavior that worries your heart, that you cannot get off your mind. It hangs over your head like the Sword of Damocles. Exhausting you; robbing you of living; stealing from you your peace; you can't really enjoy life as your eyes are always darting to see if the sword is yet in motion; and maybe some days you might even pray that the thread would go ahead and break and put you out of your fitful misery. But there is a way out... As the Talmud says: “God's forgiveness is the opening of a door to the light. If we only crack that door, God will then throw it open as wide as a highway...Confession is the hinge on which the door of repentance turns.” Your hinges may be a little rusty, but you just have to make a start; give it a little nudge - and God opens the door.

In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert, who is the Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford about solar geoengineering. He and Professor Michael E. Mann from Pennsylvania University coauthored an article in The Guardian on the 12th March 2025 titled:‘The UK's gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer'."We shouldn't be actively creating harm. And the first line of defence is to actually not at least have governments and philanthropy funding these outdoor experimentations."Professor PierrehumbertHere we delve deeper into Ray's overt objections to the UK's Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA). ARIA is the UK's version of the mysterious US Defence Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA). ARIA has recently allocated £45mn British Pounds to fund solar geoengineering projects including outdoor experiments.

Las negociaciones para un alto el fuego en Ucrania no han conseguido, de momento, un freno en los ataques a infraestructuras energéticas. Hablamos con Rafael Grossi, director general del Organismo Internacional de la Energía Atómica (OIEA), en el informativo 24 horas de RNE. "Un cese del fuego implica una disminución de la actividad militar en torno a la central de Zaporiyia (Ucrania) lo que más nos preocupa desde el tema nuclear", nos cuenta Grossi, a lo que añade: "Ha habido muchos momentos que nos hemos acercado a un accidente nuclear".El director de OIEA ha declarado que "ha habido episodios involucrando la presencia de drones en casi todas las centrales nucleares". La situación es clara, "hasta que no haya una situación estable, acordada por todos los actores, siempre va a haber una espada de Damocles pendiendo sobre la cabeza de esa central". Sobre la posibilidad de que Estados Unidos se haga con el control de la planta: "No habrá ninguna automaticidad en el traspaso de esa planta eventualmente a los americanos o a quien fuera", sentencia. Escuchar audio

Mike, Manny and Dan return to talk the Flyers' plans with their post-deadline cap space, what is Konecny doing here, poor asset management re-signing players early, a "pain avoidance rebuild" and more!

Donald Trump's Department of Justice officials have been trying to dismiss the criminal prosecution against New York City Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice, meaning they could continue holding the prosecution over his head as leverage. Judge Dale Ho appointed an outside attorney to brief and argue the issue, given that the DOJ prosecutors and defendant Adams are lockstep in their positions and no one is truly representing the interests of the American people. The outside lawyer, Paul Clement, has filed a 33-page brief arguing that the DOJ should not be permitted to dismiss the case without prejudice - meaning they could indict Adams again on the same charges any time they wanted. Clements said this is like DOJ "hanging the sword of Damocles over Adams' head."Glenn takes a look at this new court filing in the Eric Adams case.If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you can become a Team Justice patron at: / glennkirschner If you'd like to support Glenn and buy Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise visit:https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkir...Check out Glenn's website at https://glennkirschner.com/Follow Glenn on:Threads: https://www.threads.net/glennkirschner2Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glennkirschner2Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glennkirsch...Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/glennkirschn...TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/glennkirschner2See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Donald Trump's Department of Justice officials have been trying to dismiss the criminal prosecution against New York City Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice, meaning they could continue holding the prosecution over his head as leverage. Judge Dale Ho appointed an outside attorney to brief and argue the issue, given that the DOJ prosecutors and defendant Adams are lockstep in their positions and no one is truly representing the interests of the American people. The outside lawyer, Paul Clement, has filed a 33-page brief arguing that the DOJ should not be permitted to dismiss the case without prejudice - meaning they could indict Adams again on the same charges any time they wanted. Clements said this is like DOJ "hanging the sword of Damocles over Adams' head."Glenn takes a look at this new court filing in the Eric Adams case.If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you can become a Team Justice patron at: / glennkirschner If you'd like to support Glenn and buy Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise visit:https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkir...Check out Glenn's website at https://glennkirschner.com/Follow Glenn on:Threads: https://www.threads.net/glennkirschner2Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glennkirschner2Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glennkirsch...Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/glennkirschn...TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/glennkirschner2See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The week of March 8th, 2020 began with a recommendation to wash your hands and don't touch your face, and it ended with "oh my God, the world is ending." That, of course, was a hysterical reaction, but that reaction continued on for well over two years. In his annual recap of the 2020 insanity, Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur lays out everything from the mandates like wearing masks in swimming pools and filling skateparks with sand to getting tattoos of your vaccine card. He then takes the listener/viewer to today, where there is some accountability directed towards the corrupt bureaucrats and actors who pushed this, though not enough have met the Damocles of justice.   Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio, $5 gets video AND audio, and $10 has all of the above, as well as bonus podcasts per week. Visit Patreon.com/TonyMazur. Tony is also on Rumble! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.   Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.  

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Pese a la prórroga en la imposición de aranceles a México hasta el 2 de abril, la agenda proteccionista del presidente Trump sigue vigente como una espada de Damocles. Cualquier escenario es posible, como lo analiza en este episodio Eduardo Saucedo, director del Departamento de Finanzas y Economía de Negocios de EGADE, y las empresas mexicanas deben estar preparadas.

Putting lives back together after the battle.By FinalStand. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.Either you embrace Change and are destroyed by it, or you resist Change and are overwhelmed by it. What is your choice? (The Politics of 'Not' Being Dead)The rest of the trip was made in silence. They dropped us off at the edge of Miercurea Ciuc, home base of the 61st Mountain Troops Brigade, of Professor Loma and from whence all this craziness had originated. The meeting was already awkward before I arrived. It only got worse. Where to begin? Well, Russia, the United States, the UK, Romania, Hungary and Ireland were now all interested parties. And I had gained two personal distinctions:1.) Not only was I now heralded (and not really joking anymore) by some sources as Magyarorszag es Erdely Hercege, I was thereby re-awakening old nationalistic and territorial fears. Hungary didn't want a Prince, yet they did have an anemic Monarchist party. I might not be a Hapsburg (the last royal house of Hungary), but I could possibly be misconstrued as a long-lost Árpád scion (first King and founder of the Hungarian state), which would be even better.A crisis was looming in my ancestral crucible. It seems I already had a webpage in Budapest and six hundred "friends" within 24 hours. Worse, they had some pictures of me. Besides being 'of regal bearing' in the descriptions, I was sexy-hot and a soldier of fortune, a modern day 'Wild Geese, (Goose?)' who was wanted for questioning in a, or perhaps multiple, murder(s) involving either a duel over a woman's honor or killing a dozen armed gangsters who prayed on young innocents newly arrived to the big city.I wasn't alone. My trusty companion was A.) an ascetic Jedi Mistress (my own, personal Yoda), B.) an ancient witch schooled in the necromantic arts (apparently the reason I couldn't die), or C.) a Cold-War Era SMERSH (too much James Bond) assassin repaying an old debt to the descendent of an anti-communist partisan she'd killed years ago, eerily close to the truth for once. That, plus the TEK investigation, were Hungary's main points of concern involving me.2.) I was now a person involved in significant events for half a dozen nations on the world scene.Let's start with Romania. Okay, foremost, I was responsible for the single deadliest day in modern (post-WWII) Romanian Land Forces history. There was no covering this up. Close to one hundred men and women had died in combat, and then you added the forty-some dead Amazons, many of them apparently tortured, and this was a political and public relations nightmare.No one doubted their troops behaved heroically. That wasn't the problem. The political conundrum was how could they explain Ajax and his fifty seasoned killers penetrating into central Romania with no one being aware of the danger? A few politicians wanted to blame Székely nationalists (by that, they meant the ethnic minority who 'vaguely' wanted Transylvania to rejoin Hungary), except they had me, the Hungarian Prince, leading the charge.Life would have been so much easier for them if I had died. Yes, I could read the minds of those politicians. Screw a girl, then her younger sister, and then his wife, who all say they love me, and you'll recognized the emotional intent a father directs your way. (I'd only done that once, and once was enough.) I was getting that vibe again.Unfortunately for them, I wasn't dead and three big time foreign governments (and Ireland) seemed really curious about me, my performance and my mortality. So dragging me out back for a firing squad wasn't going to happen. Riki Martin of the US State Department was there and she told me a representative of the US Military Mission was on his way up to debrief me. Russia's sexy military attaché was still on site and looking happy for some reason. Flaviu, who had some experience with me, was soon to be gone; replaced by some person who had some serious lettuce before his actual name and didn't know me from didly. Not good.The UK had one of their diplomats coming up as well, just so I didn't get lonely. They weren't driving up with the Irishman, or the American. No one considers their carbon footprint in a crisis, I swear. But wait! It gets better. My Romanian Special Force dudes had brought the rest of their company (around a hundred new buddies) with them, they seriously didn't want me to get homesick and wander off (because, you know, I liked living and freedom).The Romanian army shouldn't have worried. It seemed that there were some US Army Rangers with NATO in Kosovo, Albania, or Bosnia and Uncle Sam was expressing a desire for them to 'stop by'. Maybe they could share their C-130 with the British paratroopers who were equally concerned about my well-being. I just hoped everyone was going to play nice when the Spetsnaz arrived. Putin was suddenly (and surprisingly to me, anyway) my new pal. I had a feeling I'd soon be discovering my secret Russian heritage if I wasn't careful. I was thinking maybe I could squeeze an Order of Lenin, or a Hero of the Soviet Union out of him. I heard they both looked nice, were obsolete and came without an actual pension.If Katrina wouldn't let me write off this calamity as PTO, I was going to be irate. I was on the verge of having a large family to support after all, unless you considered me marrying a billionaire's heiress to be compensation enough. The only group involved who weren't trying to actually see me was the Khanate.Temujin most likely had some shamanistic mojo that would let him know if I croaked. That bit smacked of paganism, so it was kept under wraps because he had to appear dutifully Islamic for the masses. Still, some koumiss would have been nice. Heck, right then I could have gone for an 'atta boy', perhaps even a 'two thumbs up'.Oh yeah; the general of the 4th Romanian Division wanted me to stop by when I had the chance (if I didn't, he'd send men to kill me, or so it was insinuated). The 61st Mountain Troops was part of his division's combat command and if the General Staff went looking for someone to crucify, he was making damn sure it wasn't going to be him.It occurred to me that I could send a handsome-looking Spetsnaz (if there was such a thing) to go in my place. They were brother Slavs, right? I was sure that between the 'Fall of the Berlin Wall', Moldavian Independence and Romania joining NATO, they would have much to discuss. Out of the blue, Pamela smacked me on the back of my head, Jethro Gibbs' style. My 'more-evil Russian doppelganger' idea must have been poorly thought out.Before I could implement that silliness, or trigger the big brouhaha, there was a preamble: I had three compatriots. Of greater importance, I had three heavily armed/gravely-serious bodyguards who wouldn't surrender their weapons and/or abandon me. So I thought "play nice" thoughts to myself.Diplomacy, sovereignty and legality all reared their ugly heads. I wasn't really an Irish diplomat. My paperwork was still valid, but the Romanian government hadn't permitted my entry into their country under the standard diplomatic protocols. Ireland wanted to talk to me about that, why was I running around armed and killing people in two Central European countries? I was acting more like an Irish adventurer from the 17th century, than a genteel civil servant from the 21st.Then there was the niggling little complication that involved me, my friends and our criminal possession of military-grade hardware. Chaz had the dubious excuse of being an official British government agent on assignment. That meant he could hope for a prisoner exchange within the next decade. Rachel and Pamela were private citizens with painfully sketchy proofs of US citizenship.When the Romanian legal system finished buggering them, it would be off to Hungry and its serious inquiry into all the dead bodies we'd left in our wake. Who was I kidding? What I was really worrying about was how many members of the Romanian penal system would die when they escaped. Their flimsy identities gave no clue to how dangerous they actually were. Hell, they'd beat me home.I had the added difficulty of Ireland and their questions about who the fuck I was and why I had their gold filigree on something I didn't deserve sitting snugly in my back pocket.So first off, this new band of 'Eagles' wanted to disarm and separate us."Don't insult me," I scoffed. "I am your Prince. Don't make me explain it to your widow.""I'm not married," the Lieutenant snarled back, daring me."Well, rush out and marry somebody. I haven't got all day. We don't want me to be caught in an idle boast now do we?" I grinned. Verbal sparring apparently wasn't in his repertoire."What?""Shut the fuck up, Carl," Chaz blithely inserted himself into the conversation."But you don't even speak Romanian," I countered. "How do you even know what I said?" The Romanians didn't know English, but they knew Carl. The tension between us ebbed."By the expression on the officer's face, Hercege," he winked. "It's universal to the brotherhood.""Who is he with?" The officer questioned me."You and he are the same," I answered."You cannot go any farther armed," he returned to his mission parameters."I don't envy you going in and telling the Colonel to come out here, but so be it," I held my ground."We could kill you and take them off your corpses," he studied my reaction."You are the second handsome man to tell me that today," I shook my head. "I'll tell you what I told him: 'you sure are cute, just not my type'." Pause then laughter."You are a madman," the lieutenant snorted. "I'll go talk to the Colonel."I was a jerk, loved maidens and was a master of bullshit. Did that make me a modern day Minotaur? The lieutenant came back out, then ushered me inside; Riki had to wait for the moment. He motioned my team come along. In the staff room of the 61st were a handful of officers and several suits."Mr. Nyilas," the Colonel gazed upon me. "I don't know what to make of you.""You and my Mother both," I mumbled. Despite the somber atmosphere, a few of the men and women let their moods lighten. They didn't hold my levity against me. I'd been there, on the battlefield and if humor was how I dealt with the experience, so be it."Ha," the greying man mused. "It is wholly my fault that I disregard most of the information you supplied my staff. You were unerringly accurate in your assessment of our enemy's capabilities. I know my men and I know how good they are. Veteran commanders can barely describe what my troops endured. You warned us and I didn't believe you. I was wrong and my men died because of it," he sighed."Sir, I do not believe you could have done anything else and succeeded," I interrupted."Succeeded? Is this what you consider success?" he hardened."Absolutely, Sir. Had you been slower to respond, those men would have most likely come here, to Miercurea Ciuc, and you would have fought the same battle, except your civilians would have been caught in the mix," I lied.If Ajax had escaped he'd have hunted me down. The location would have been irrelevant to him. How he knew where to be was a question for later and something to be presented to smarter, more experienced minds."Perhaps," he allowed. "They were heading north when we encountered them.The Alal in me was going back over the plan. It had been sound."Sir, you had every reason to doubt my military experience and to believe I exaggerated the threat. I was right and I take no joy in that, nor do I think anyone can hold your decisions against you," I stated.Now he gave a bitter laugh. Yes, they could hold all the deaths against him."We both know your men and women didn't die for their country, they killed for it. Quite frankly, I believe they killed some of the most vicious creatures to ever walk the face of the Earth. Fuck them for taking so many of us. Pile their bodies up and burn them," I suggested."They deserve no more Romanian soil than a spot to inter their ashes," I concluded."You do not sound like any diplomat I've ever met," the Colonel regained his gruff exterior."I'm not. I'm a fraud. I know as much about Ireland as I do about being a prince," I confessed. "That said, I didn't come here to kill anyone. I came to save lives.""How has that worked out for you?" a sitting woman in a suit questioned, in Romanian. She was slender, waspish and didn't sound comfortable speaking English, though she knew enough to get by."I am not a fortune-teller. I don't know how this is going to work out," I said."That's not what I asked," she prodded."Yes it was," I corrected her. "You wanted to know if I thought the price of your dead countrymen was worth the life of me, my friends and the lives of your countrymen I came to save. I can't measure the promise of those lives against the loss of all the dead. Don't play games with me. I'm have a degree in Philosophy and I eat morally ambiguous people like you for lunch."Pamela laughed aloud and lively."Kimberly and Katrina would be so proud of you right now," she chortled."I don't think you grasp the deep pit your find yourself in, Friend" the suit stayed chillingly calm."Oh, I think we all know we both screwed the pooch big time," I smirked. "The difference is me and mine are all happy to be alive after two of the most trying, fun-filled days of our lives. You want to throw us in prison. The Hungarians want to throw us in prison. I'm sure if I get back to the States, they will want to put us in prison too. Have I missed anyone?""I'm glad you will confess. It will make it easier on us," she grinned like sexy weasel."Wait," Rachel put a restraining arm on me. "I've wanted to say this for some time." To the weasel, "Blow it out your ass, dipshit.""Rachel, you don't know what she said," Pamela faux-gasped."I don't know the words, but I know what he meant," Rachel glowered. She missed Charlotte so much, she was willing to court pain and death. "I want to go back in time and slap her mother repeatedly for not strangling her in the crib. Is that succinct enough?""I apologize for ever meeting you, Rachel. I've brought you to a bad end," I gave her a tender look."It's okay. I never thought I'd live long enough to sleep with you anyway," she smiled back.Phifft, sigh. It was so sad that I recognized the sound of a low-caliber, silenced round."Listen up, dipshit," Pamela snickered. "Good one, Rachel. If you don't believe the next one is going through your skull, you clearly haven't been listening to us. You are fucking with the wrong monkeys. You have this bizarre idea that if I kill you, your government won't replace your worthless, bullet-riddled hide with someone we find more agreeable. My grandson sent in motion a half million combatants a few hours ago, he nearly died leading your soldiers against your nation's enemies and you want him to kiss your shoes as if you matter at all in the grand scheme of things?" she snarled. "Think again."No one was moving because Pamela had her silenced 22 Beretta out and pointed at Weasel's head. The SF's were caught flat-footed, as was everyone else. No guards came rushing in because the closed doors further muffled the sound. "I think this is a good time for us to get a drink," Chaz advised as he slowly reached out and lowered Pamela's gun hand.It was Pamela's gunboat diplomacy yet again. She hadn't meant to kill the women. Hell, she'd been a random target of opportunity. What Pamela had done was clear up the doubts in the room. Everyone on the staff could self-consciously let themselves off the hook for not being in the front lines, risking themselves with their comrades. Thanks to Pamela, they too had confronted violence.'Crazy' Grandma had fired off her piece and everyone sighed with relief when Chaz got her to lower it. I was pretty sure Chaz was in on this dangerous game. It resided with the Colonel as to how to resolve this hiccup in our dispute."Mr. Nyilas, why don't we take a walk outside, just the two of us?" he 'requested'.I nodded because I'm not always as dumb as I look. He was letting my people off with incredible temperance and I could honorably send them away. They'd scoped out the scene and believed I'd be safe enough. He, in turn, had an excuse to take a step away from his political watchdogs."I think that is for the best," I nodded. "Do you want me to leave my guns behind?""No, Mr. Nyilas, we might run into trouble out there and one of my Captains has suggested you are a man who can take care of himself," he replied. That was very nice of him indeed. If I did do something stupid, he had a ton of troops about who would make my regrets rather temporary. I decided to behave as if I had a passing acquaintance with sanity.His first questions were about the fighting at the ruins. I peppered our exchange with my interest in what had happened to the advance force of the 22nd. It was bleak news, yet the Colonel felt a sense of relief. He was coming to accept the lethality of his enemies, which in turn, led to an understanding, if not acceptance, of the carnage his men had been subjected to.He was in a cycle of context, grief, context. He'd gambled on me and men died. Once the battle was joined though, his soldiers had done precisely the right thing under considerable stress. He could be proud without dishonoring the dead. Only Pamela and I had engaged Ajax earlier. Only I had talked with the man.The Colonel had to look into my eyes to get the spark that led to understanding the mind and ruthlessness of his opponent. The name 'Ajax' never came up. That was more than a rational mind could accept at the moment. He knew his men had fought and killed the best and that helped him cope a tiny bit. Our interview ended when the first of the unwanted guests arrived.Only when I walked inside did it occur to me that this had been my first soldier to soldier chat. We had respected one another and discussed matters like men who knew the score. That was depressing in its own right. It was well passed nightfall when we went back inside. In our absence, Riki had started to redeem my existence. My salvation lay in Romantic Americana Symbolism.Translation: I was a Horatio Alger, a working class kid raised by a widower father, who earned a scholarship to a quiet New England college, graduated near the top of my class and gotten an excellent job (salary and benefits not disclosed). That was the was the first part of the Americana, proof positive that America was still the land of opportunity and a place where poor children could still reach the highest levels of society (umm, okay?).The second Americana Part: my Father had been murdered in a case of mistaken identity. Those heavily-armed foreign corporate/rogue governmental-sponsored terrorist mercenaries (their exact origin was shrouded in double-dealing misinformation) had ruthlessly murdered my Pa to cover up their error. Like any true Son of the American Dream, I had sworn vengeance.The Symbolic Part: My compassionate, understanding government (the good governmental servants of Republican Democracy, not the bad, hires the covert, secret, black-bag, unaccountable private contractors/ pawns of the Wall Street Elite bureaucrats) allowed me to participate in a multi-national taskforce. These selfless guardians of the freedom had formed a coalition which had hunted down the villains.With the priceless assistance of two Central European countries, who currently had to remain nameless (cough: Hungary and Romania), we'd achieved a final, violent confrontation in which my allies and I had emerged bloody, scarred, yet victorious. Once more, free men and women had answered the call of duty and some had made the ultimate sacrifice.See, I had a good government that cared enough about me to let me become a gun-toting menace to the civilized world. Like a Hollywood Western hero of the 1950's, 60's and 70's, I had taken personal revenge against the forces of wickedness, exit the railroad tycoons and cattle barons, enter the shadowy world of private security forces and uncontrolled corporate capitalism.

Welcome to "The Collective," where we embark on the journey of daily betterment and living our best lives. Join our diverse panel discussions with individuals from various backgrounds, all striving for personal growth.In this episode, we're honored to host Justin Sheehan, a former Navy SEAL Team Six operator, now a tactics and firearms instructor as well as a jiu-jitsu black belt; and Seb Lavoie, a former RCMP ERT Sgt. Maj., now a public speaker and BJJ black belt. Together, they share invaluable lessons on "The Sword of Damocles."We explored the many layers of this ancient metaphor—fear, leadership, and the weight of responsibility. The conversation led us to a powerful realization: the sword hangs above us all. Each of us is the ruler of our own universe, with a single thread suspending the blade above. But here's the truth—we get to decide how we perceive it.A reminder? A danger? A gift? A curse? A weight? A definition?Every morning, we wake up and choose. Does the sword paralyze us, or does it sharpen us?This episode challenges you to reflect on your own perspective and how embracing uncertainty, responsibility, and risk can redefine the way you move through life.With weekly 2-hour releases, "The Collective" offers casual yet profound discussions, drawing from personal experiences to inspire collective wisdom. Tune in and join our community dedicated to positivity, growth, and informed dialogue. #TheCollective #PersonalGrowth #Creativity #Podcast

La reciprocidad entre México y Estados Unidos no existe. Éste no va a cambiar su política de armas ni un milímetro. Tendremos encima la espada de Damocles porque en México se niega la narcopolítica. En ese tema no reculamos. En estos días aciagos, México no realiza una operación a nivel económico con la voluntad de todos actores para aprovechar la negociación del tratado porque su paradigma ideológico les lastra y les imposibilita avanzar con la debida prisa y apertura a corregir lo que está mal en PEMEX, en CFE. 

Hoy la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum, para personalizar, y México todo, para dimensionar, tienen sobre la cabeza una espada, no de Damocles, sino de Trump.

With the threat of U.S. tariffs hanging over Canada like the sword of Damocles, Alberta's commodity groups including Alberta Canola are coordinating efforts to advocate against, and prepare for, tariffs. Roger Chevraux, Alberta Canola Region 11 director, says they're working behind the scenes, contacting U.S. governors, senators, and representatives to emphasize the importance of the two countries' relationship regarding food. "We a big customer of their production, and they're a big customer of our production," Chevraux noted. "Food is important. If you put a tariff on it, it's going to cost your consumers a whole lot of money and you're going to have explain to them why the cost of food is going up."

Una semana más de principio de año con sólo una competición activa: el Dakar. Pero la Fórmula 1 sigue dando noticias, y muchas. La más impactante, el fichaje de Colapinto, que todos esperábamos y deseábamos. Pero hay más, y de todas esas noticias se hablará en el primer episodio de la semana del Podcast Técnica Fórmula 1. 5 años para Colapinto. El lunes se dio la noticia para goce y disfrute de los aficionados a la F1 y, especialmente, de los argentinos: Colapinto ha firmado por 5 años por Alpine. Muchos apuestan a que en 5 ó 6 carreras lo vemos subido al coche para el resto de la temporada. Nadie pensaba que el argentino pudiera estar en 2025 en un coche de F1, pero la magia de Briatore parece haberlo hecho posible. Pase lo que pase, de momento, el piloto argentino será piloto reserva y de simulador. En este programa se analizará el papel del Briatore en el cambio de Alpine así como la situación de Doohan con la espada de Damocles sobre su cabeza ya desde su primera carrera. Otras noticias importantes de la semana. Pero no sólo se hablará de Colapinto y de Alpine (aunque es lo que más apetece e ilusiona). También se hablará de una noticia que completa la renovación de Spa, noticia que apareció la semana pasada: la F1 sólo quiere ocho carreras en Europa. Y esta noticia se ha revelado desde Spa. Por otra parte, siguen los cambios en los equipos, sobre todo en Aston Martin: Andy Cowell toma el rol de jefe de equipo, frente a Mike Krack. ¿Qué cambios se esperan? Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Samen met Amerikakenners Roan Asselman en David Neyskens bespreken we de actualiteit aan de overkant van de oceaan. Deze aflevering: het overlijden van voormalig president Jimmy Carter, de openingszitting van het Huis van Afgevaardigden, de nog lopende rechtszaken tegen Donald Trump en de heisa over H-B1-visa en legale migratie naar de VS.Roan Asselman blikt terug op het leven van Jimmy Carter. Klopt het beeld dat van hem geschetst wordt, wat is zijn betekenis en was hij belangrijker na dan tijdens zijn presidentschap? David Neyskens vult aan en brengt een aantal van Carters belangrijke verwezenlijkingen onder de aandacht.Ondertussen zijn de voorbereidingen voor het nakende presidentschap van Trump in volle gang. Een belangrijke horde is de installatie van een nieuwe voorzitter van het Huis van Afgevaardigden. Mike Johnson is de Republikeinse kandidaat die ook door Trump naar voor wordt geschoven. David Neyskens verduidelijkt welke rol die voorzitter speelt en wat dit betekent voor Trump als toekomstig president.De nog lopende rechtszaken tegen Donald Trump blijven als een zwaard van Damocles boven zijn hoofd hangen. David Neyskens geeft een stand van zaken en schetst de mogelijke scenario's.We sluiten af met de hetze rond migratie die de laatste week de kop opstak. Elon Musk en Vivek Ramaswami, die het nieuwe Departement of Government Efficiency (DOGE) gaan leiden, pleiten voor meer legale arbeidsmigratie via H-B1-visa. Dat zorgt voor controverse en Roan Asselman legt uit waarom. Waarna we nog even kijken hoe het zit met de populariteit van Trump als toekomstig president. Die lijkt hoge toppen te scheren.https://youtu.be/EHep3l-CfzYSupport the show

Renowned rapper, Sean Combs, popularly known as Diddy, had a remarkably tumultuous year, with his life unraveling in ways he could hardly have imagined. Caught in a whirlpool of legal trouble, financial loss, and a social defamation attack, the seasoned musician found himself on shaky ground.A tirade of lawsuits and a federal indictment quite literally snowballed Diddy's life into a turmoil. Battling extensively on legal fronts, his freedom teetered on edge. Lawsuits seemed to pour in relentlessly, escalating the intensity of his predicament and tugging his survival instincts into overdrive.One of the most prominent legal battles Diddy encountered stems from a federal indictment. This not only threw him into the forefront of public scrutiny but also served as a potential threat to his freedom. Given the seriousness of federal indictments, this introduced an unshakeable uncertainty about his future, hanging over him like a Damocles sword.Complementing the legal issues, Diddy's reputation suffered a serious dent. The exposure of his personal and professional issues in the public domain led to an image crisis that could have far-reaching implications on his career. The reputation he had meticulously built over many years seemed to be crumbling, making it harder for him to navigate his misfortunes.This roller-coaster of a year also took a massive toll on Diddy's finances. With multiple lawsuits requiring substantial funds for defense and potential penalties looming large, the rapper's financial health started to decline. This financial drain was furthered by the loss of revenue caused by reputational damage and withdrawal of certain endorsements.In summary, Diddy's world spiraled out of control in what could arguably be labeled as his hardest year. Dealing with an onslaught of lawsuits and a federal indictment, the rapper found himself under attack from all angles. Coupled with a hit to his reputation and a drain on finances, Diddy's life witnessed a significant shift. These events reveal that even the most accomplished individuals are not immune to life's harsh twists and turns. Diddy's experiences serve as an unforgettable reminder of the highs and lows that can punctuate a life lived in the public eye. The rest of his journey will undeniably be watched with bated breath as he strives to regroup, recover, and rebuild.

Last week we had an overview of weapons throughout history and how it's a constant game of balance and oneupmanship. Now we're looking at future weapons and Scifi stuff! There's a lot of potential and a lot of interesting ideas you can use in comics and stories. We talk about a few of these and some of our faves, as well as our own inventions. Future weapons can take all different forms, many kinds of directed energy weapons, energy propelled projectiles, satellite based weapons, drone and robot technology, autonomous weapons systems etc. Biological and chemical weapons are super scary but generally pretty useless in reality, even as terrorist weapons because they're so imprecise and uncontrollable and take a lot of work to set up and deploy. This means they will hit people who aren't your target and they also have an excellent chance of not even working at all despite all the preparation and cost, so we're not even bothering with these in the discussion. One future Scifi weapon concept that always comes up are “plasma” weapons. These are super undefined and no one really knows what they are because they can be so many things. When it comes to weapons what we mean by “plasma” is the very hot gas that has free ions so that it's electrically conductive like metal. We know dangerous plasma mostly from its use as a cutting torch in welding and also the gigantic planet sized solar flares that seem to erupt from the surface of the sun are plasma that's following the huge loop of a magnetic field projecting from the sun, because it can be controlled by magnetic fields. Given this it can be used in a few different ways as a weapon: you can use it like an explosive chemical propellant for firing bullets, you can use it as a sort of flame thrower (especially effective if you can direct it with a magnetic field), you can contain balls of plasma with magnetic fields and throw them like canon shells, or you can use the plasma as an electrically conductive medium to direct lightning bolts. Directed energy weapons are very traditionally SciFi but have only ever seen limited practical usage despite the old popularity of the “Death Ray” and lasers as weapons. They're attractive because the only limiting factor is your energy source, you don't need to carry ammunition so theoretically you can have unlimited shots, they travel at the speed of light so you can't miss, they're not affected by friction or gravity so there are no ballistics to work out either, there's also no loss in energy like there is with traditional guns where the propulsive explosion badly transfers energy to the projectile. The trouble is that they don't work very well as weapons because you need to put in a LOT of energy to do any damage over a distance because they don't work well in an atmosphere, you also have to hold it on a target for a long time. This category includes the aforementioned lasers, microwave weapons, electron beams, particle beams etc They have a lot more potential as space weapons where atmosphere isn't an issue and their lack of recoil is a huge advantage. Electrically accelerated projective weapons known as “mass drivers” are another category. They are capable to much higher speeds than traditional guns or missiles because they're not limited by the compression of gasses. In this group we have Gauss guns aka coil guns, rail guns and some other variations. They use magnetic or electrical fields to accelerate projectiles. The main advantage is speed, increased safety because they don't need dangerous propellant, and shots only limited by your electrical capacity. The disadvantages of these systems is that they're very complicated, they can't use explosive projectiles, and they have a high failure rate- Railguns are the most promising system but each time they fire they produce clouds of burning fire, which is caused by layers of metal being stripped from the rails inside them, which means they degrade very quickly and the rails have to be replaced constantly. We all know the potential of drones, but the use of autonomous self directed weapons where the drones can pick their own targets is where they become scary. Autonomous weapons are already a reality in large defence turrets on ships, around army bases, and important buildings (like the Whitehouse). They can be set to radar directed target acquisition, which they need for defence against fast moving missiles. Machine gun turrets on the defences along the DMZ between North and South Korea also work like this. Even cruise missiles are somewhat autonomous in that they can find their own way to their targets. What we're really worried about though are things like predator drones or tracked bomb disposal robots coming after us with weapons like mounted machine guns, both are possible and have been tested. Satellites have limited weapon capability, none have enough power onboard to carry useful energy weapons, while mass drivers and traditional projectile weapons introduce the problem of recoil which is extremely hard to cope with for a satellite in orbit. They can carry missiles like nuclear weapons be they're extremely vulnerable to attack for such an expensive weapon. successful experiments have been made using traditional guns against other satellites but they're very messy and dangerous to everything in orbit. A stupid idea that was proposed were the “rods of god”: giant tungsten poles which the satellite could drop as destructive gravity driven bombs, The trouble is that would be super expensive to get into space, the accuracy is extremely bad and the energy needed to aim them would be too costly. It would only be useful as a “sword of Damocles” if you had them always hanging over specific targets, but even then they'd be very easy to disable. We came up with our own future weapons. Mine was a marshmallow gun that would spray masses of harmless sugary marshmallow fluff all over your enemies, then use a microwave emitter to massively expand the marshmallow and heat it to debilitating levels. This would envelop people in masses of injurious, burning gooey muck, which would then harden on them and any surface it touched. It would also be terrible for the insides of electronics and machinery. I could talk about a LOT more but let's leave it for now. Listen to the cast! What are YOUR fave future weapons and how do they work? This week Gunwallace gave us a theme inspired by Kaiju Valentine - Stomp meets a big stomping monster woman as she bops and bounces heavily to this cool, percussive and yet somewhat ethereal sound. It's party time here is Kaiju land! This is an infectious dance number! A comic by our very own Banes! Topics and shownotes Links Featured comic: Hell Monkey - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2024/nov/12/featured-comic-hell-monkey/ Featured music: Kaiju Valentine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Kaiju_Valentine/ - by Banes, rated M. 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Bienvenidos una vez más a un Spaces donde hoy hablare de mi. Decir la verdad me ha convertido en un paria, pero prefiero ser un desterrado en la luz que un cómplice en la oscuridad. Los que me conocen saben que llevo 8 años enjuiciado por haber hablado de un caso donde personas poderosas supuestamente estarían envueltas en temas de pederastia. Mi vida cambió de raíz aquel 24 de febrero de 2016 cuando dos policías del grupo EDITE de Castellón, el grupo de la guardia civil de delitos telemáticos, entraron en mi casa gracias a un auto dictado un dia antes por el juzgado de instrucción numero 5 de Vinaroz. Recuerden que entró la policía judicial al domicilio familiar para registrarlo ¡por una denuncia de injurias y calumnias! ¡Algo que no podrán encontrar en ningún otro caso aqui en España! Ese fin de semana celebramos el cumpleaños de mi hija, imagínense. Mi espada de Damocles me ha hecho morir y renacer ya unas cuantas veces, la ultima con la renuncia de mi penúltimo abogado el 13 de mayo de 2024. Les recuerdo “a los malos” que ajusticiar en dia 13 de mayo es cómo hacerlo cuando fusilaban madrileños los franceses pero sumando un 10, esto es, el numero de Dios. Y Dios tiene unos planes inescrutables. Hable largo y tendido sobre todo esto en tres podcast titulados: UTP297 13 Malditos secretos, UTP298 Bar España y los fusilamientos del 13 de mayo y UTP299 13 cervezas con torreznos. Para el que no lo sepa y venga de nuevas les aviso que estoy con medidas cautelares desde el primer momento que me entrevisto la jueza que lleva el procedimiento y aún lo sigue llevando hasta que se inicie el juicio oral. Estamos hablando que desde el 4 de junio de 2019 se me prohibió manifestar o expresar cualquier opinión sobre los hechos a que se refiere este procedimiento por cualquier medio o procedimiento, incluidas las redes sociales mientras que dure la tramitación del presente procedimiento y hasta que recaiga resolución firme que ponga fin al mismo salvo dictado de nueva resolución modificando la presente. Dicho esto, queda poco margen para decir nada más. Ademas de que en todos y cada uno de los papeles que mi penúltimo abogado ponía en mi conocimiento provenientes del juzgado numero 5 de Castellón se me recordaba el cumplimiento del Reglamento Europeo 679/2018 y la Ley 50/1981, de 30 de diciembre, avisándome de que todo el procedimiento es confidencial, que quedaba prohibida su transmisión o comunicación publica por cualquier medio…o sea, que no puedo contar absolutamente nada. Sin embargo, todos hemos sido testigos de cómo en televisión se divulgan todo tipo de datos de los procedimientos judiciales más diversos. Los periodistas afines al sistema pueden publicitar prácticamente cualquier cosa sin trabas, mientras que los que estamos fuera de ese círculo nos enfrentamos a restricciones constantes. Una vez dictada la apertura del juicio oral, como ha sucedido en mi caso, el procedimiento deja de ser secreto. Es entonces cuando es legal hablar de ello, siempre respetando la protección de datos sensibles como nombres completos, DNIs, domicilios o información personal. Yo sin haber sido sentenciado ya he sido “juzgado” entre comillas por algunos medios periodísticos que han publicado mi nombre y los dos apellidos completos, parece que ese dia no habían iniciales para los parias. Yo ni siquiera puede contestar a los medios escritos que cuentan medias verdades, datos inexactos o incluso mentiras tan gordas como la Luna. Mis labios están sellados gracias a las medidas cautelares, por eso no se que pretendían los de Equipo de investigación conmigo, investigación negra que curiosamente, no impidió que dicho equipo de La Sexta localizara mi domicilio y tratara de sonsacarme información que, como ya he explicado, no podia compartir ni con ellos ni con nadie. Así me encuentro en esta situación lamentable: no puedo contaros las múltiples peripecias judiciales y vivenciales que estoy atravesando, muchas de ellas tan variadas como pintorescas. No soy el Lute, pero siento que hasta las gallinas me miran con recelo, como mirarían a un auténtico paria. Me hago la pregunta de porque, tal y como se comenta en mi primer libro, “Blasco Ibáñez desvelado”, en el caso Dreyfus apareció un periodista, Emile Zola con su carta “J ́accuse” que tanta importancia revistió en el “affair Dreyfus” y en el que yo denomino “caso maldito” no aparece ninguno. La wikipedia, esa herramienta del mal, dice sobre este caso: ”Es el Caso Dreyfus, la injusta condena de un militar, de origen judío, envuelto en el deshonor de una acusación de traición fraguada a base de pruebas falsas y silencios “. ¿Quizás al no ser yo judío, masón, del Opus Dei, jesuita, liberal, multimillonario, un erudito, satanista o cualquier otra cosa impide que ningún periodista ni ningún medio se digne a dirigir sus ojos en tan delicado procedimiento? ¡Qué la jueza ha rebajado la petición de pena del fiscal a unos 40 años y se me exige la presentación de una fianza conjunta y solidaria entre los 9 acusados que quedamos de mas de 2 millones y medio de euros! ¡Y se nos da la friolera de un dia para reunir tal cantidad! ¡Y eso no es noticiable! Larga y afilada es la espada de Damocles que ya roza mi sien, mientras yo, arrodillado y en silencio penitente, espero el momento en que atraviese mi carne, brote mi sangre y esta riegue el suelo como un tributo inevitable. Estoy condenado a entregarme como alimento a sus demonios, esos que se disfrazan de dioses, a sus tertulianos “expertos”, a su codicia insaciable y a su deseo de aplastar mis pensamientos y esparcirlos como cenizas. Y yo, sin embargo, debo envainar mi propia espada, someterme al escarnio, recibir las patadas en las costillas, y callar, como si la dignidad no me perteneciera. Eso es lo que nos sucede a los parias. Me pregunto dónde están esas cuentas con miles y miles de seguidores, esos youtubers famosos, esos disidentes de renombre que inundan las redes sociales con su presencia. ¿Por qué ninguno de ellos quiere entrevistarme o contar conmigo para algún programa, podcast, articulo, no sé? Y no me refiero a los falsos disidentes, esos que desde sus programas en horario estelar atrapan en sus telarañas a los pobres que, medio despiertos, caen en su campo de influencia. No mencionaré sus nombres, porque poco a poco la gente empieza a darse cuenta: todos repiten el mismo discurso, todos actúan al unísono, como en Fuenteovejuna. Nunca mejor dicho, porque tratan a su audiencia como si fueran un rebaño de borregos. Todos esos falsos disidentes nunca contarán conmigo, con un paria al que no pueden moldear ni utilizar para sus fines. Mi presencia les es incómoda, porque no encajo en su teatro de apariencias. La búsqueda de la verdad no está entre sus intereses; lo que realmente persiguen es el prestigio, el dinero fácil, los lujos que tanto desprecian de palabra pero ansían en secreto, y sobre todo, alimentar un ego desmesurado. Mientras predican justicia y libertad, se aseguran de no poner en riesgo su posición cómoda y privilegiada. Para ellos, la verdad es un medio para el espectáculo, no un fin en sí misma. ¿Y vds, que pueden hacer vds? Pues hacer de adivinos y explorando mis visceras repartidas por el suelo dictaminar a través de los omentos como hacían los antiguos oráculos romanos. Deben fiarse mas por su instinto que por lo que yo pueda contarles ya que lo que puedo contarles es…nada. A todos esos oídos infames que estarán escuchando esto, a todos esos correveidiles que harán de correos para el mal con mayusculas que se oculta en este llamado caso Bar España, en este caso maldito, solo puedo decirles que hoy no sacaran nada de este técnico preocupado. Mi corazón está con los niños que siguen siendo abusados, no solo aqui, en todo el mundo, y mi alma está en paz con Dios. Podéis seguir torturandome, clavando en mi costado vuestros poderosos puñales pero nunca extraeréis de mí nada mas que la verdad y la compasión. Sí, os compadezco porque vuestros corazones duros como el acero son fríos también como dicho metal y nunca entenderéis porque una persona como yo, que no tenia absolutamente ningún problema en su vida y vivia holgadamente, haya terminado inmolándose ante vuestros duros y fríos corazones. Allá vosotros con lo que hagáis en esta vida porque el castigo eterno lo tendréis mas que merecido. Series los jefecillos en el infierno, y allí no se ficha, allí se trabaja eternamente en una desidia sin principio ni final. Vosotros seréis los funcionarios que nunca se cansan de comer gusanos y putear a la gente por siempre jamas. Asi que lo siento en el alma pero mi espada envainada, no en señal de rendición, sino en ademan de cambio de ciclo, de punto de inflexión, que haga que muchos más guerreros no den su brazo a torcer. Son muchos los ya fallecidos en el caso maldito, Reinaldo Colas, Nuria Carque y otros, el ultimo Joaquin Crespo Marques, Ximo para los amigos, el cual falleció el 30 de septiembre del 2022 y el cual sigue apareciendo en los autos del procedimiento en la zona de acusados…no habéis tenido la decencia siquiera de retirar su nombre. Me callo ya. No entrarán moscas en mi boca por contar absolutamente nada del caso maldito y su interminable procedimiento, que ya roza los 10.000 folios. Una vez abierto, ya no es secreto... aunque para la prensa, en toda esa montaña de papel, no hay nada que consideren digno de titular. Porque para la prensa, hablar de un paria como yo no tiene ningún interés. Al fin y al cabo, cientos de miles de parias mueren cada día, millones son encarcelados, silenciados, vilipendiados y borrados de cualquier memoria colectiva. Somos la letra pequeña en la gran historia de sus telediarios. Mi caso maldito no es más que otro punto invisible en el vasto lienzo del olvido. Y, como paria, eso es exactamente lo que soy para ellos: invisible. Así que, esto es todo lo que tengo que deciros, que no puedo contar absolutamente nada de un procedimiento del cual ya se dictó apertura del juicio oral el 13 de diciembre de 2021. Sí, otro 13. Mi segundo abogado, voy ya por el cuarto, me decía que hasta que el procedimiento no tuviera la altura de un niño de diez años no había que preocuparse. De momento tiene la altura de uno de 9. Ya saben la querencia que tienen con ese numero los oscuros. Jakim Boor, seudónimo utilizado por Francisco Franco decía esto en el diario oficial del régimen, «Arriba», 26 de marzo de 1950: «La masonería no tiene prisa; sabe esperar, recuenta sus fuerzas, mueve sus peones, los previene y el día tal a la hora prevista y en el distrito elegido, generalmente el de un juez afecto, realiza su crimen. Un agente, o varios, de Policía masones estarán prevenidos en los lugares próximos al suceso. Lo demás es fácil: se borran las huellas, se falsea el atestado y el juez extrema su celo masónico desviando la justicia, así como la Prensa o la opinión. Y si aun así se fracasase, se cuenta con hermanos en las altas esferas para poder evitar lo irremediable. Los indultos, las amnistías y hasta las fugas preparadas hacen el resto«. Una supuesta cita bíblica dice tal que así: “Dios le da las peores batallas a sus mejores guerreros.” No existe tal cita en la Biblia. La única cita que nos habla sobre algo parecido la encontramos en Corintios 10:13: “No os ha sobrevenido ninguna tentación que no sea humana; pero fiel es Dios, que no os dejará ser tentados más de lo que podéis resistir, sino que dará también juntamente con la tentación la salida, para que podáis soportar.” Se suele decir que Dios nos prueba y el demonio nos tienta. Pero “pruebas” y “tentaciones” realmente son la misma palabra griega, “peirasmos”. Buscando su etimología veremos que significa prueba, situación difícil o reto pero también tentación o incitación al mal y por último calamidad o sufrimiento. Todo va unido y todo proviene de Dios. Todo. Estas últimas palabras marcaron el final de mi primer libro, Blasco Ibáñez desvelado, una obra de la que me siento profundamente orgulloso. No solo por lo que representa para mí, sino por lo que simboliza para todos aquellos que creyeron en un paria como yo y me ayudaron a transformar mi conocimiento en palabras, mi lucha en tinta, y mis pensamientos en un legado. Este libro no es solo mío; es también de esas almas generosas, maravillosas, que, a su manera, participaron en darle vida. Hoy tengo el honor de contar con algunas de esas personas que confiaron en mí, que me dieron la oportunidad de convertirme en escritor, que no es poca cosa decir. Porque en este mundo, donde las palabras han dejado de ser meros sonidos para convertirse en las armas más potentes de las guerras modernas, este humilde paria logró empuñarlas. Este libro es mucho más que una obra; es un testimonio de resistencia, un acto de fe compartida, y el sueño cumplido de alguien que, a pesar de todo, se atrevió a escribir su verdad. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Libres o esclavos de Manuel Valera Jamás hemos vivido tiempos como los presentes, tiempos en que el poder ejerce con violencia su influjo para no permitir bajo ningún concepto voces que pongan en duda las afirmaciones hechas desde las instituciones, todas ellas en manos de las élites que gobiernan el mundo. Ni siquiera es necesario negar -el término negacionista lo han empleado hasta desgastarlo queriendo señalar con él a cualquiera que no baile el agua al discurso oficial-. Basta con ejercer un mínimo de actitud crítica, escéptica, racional, normal… para ser censurado, silenciado o tachado de loco o conspiranoico -otro insulto de diseño-. Las redes sociales no escapan a este mecanismo. Twitter está tomado por el discurso oficial. La libertad es vigilada, otorgada, luego no es libertad, sino sucedáneo de la misma: o sea, mentira. El poder exige una masa babeante que rumie todos los mensajes que se inoculan mediante los medios de comunicación y demás plataformas del discurso oficial -aquí debemos incluir la ficción, tan sufragada y censurada como los telediarios o los comunicados oficiales-. Así las cosas, no hay experto independiente al que se le dé voz. Sólo lo que ellos digan. A pesar de que el discurso oficial es la voz de unos criminales que mienten, promueven el odio, lanzan mensajes encaminados a la destrucción de la sociedad y hasta presionan para que los incautos que siguen atendiendo a la oficialidad se dejen matar. No hay más que libres o esclavos. No queda término medio. Son las dos partes en que ha quedado dividida la sociedad, sin vuelta atrás ya. Una masa de atemorizados, desinformados, obedientes a las órdenes genocidas de los de arriba. Y enfrente, los apestados por el sistema. Los libres. Los que dicen que todo cuanto se afirma en materia económica, social, sanitaria, bélica, climática, racial, educacional, política, histórica… todo es mentira. Libres o esclavos. Y en cada esclavitud, recordemos, existe una asunción de la misma. A los libres nos pueden matar, pero no esclavizar. Para ser esclavo, hay que estar de acuerdo en ser vilipendiado por el criminal de arriba y por sus miserables empleados. Hay que salir a aplaudir a las ocho a los balcones de la vergüenza. Aplaudir a los que te están asesinando. Libres o esclavos. No hay más. Muchas gracias Manuel, nos despedimos con tu articulo recordando a nuestros oyentes que no tengan miedo y cuiden de sus familias. Nos vemos. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Conductor del programa UTP Ramón Valero @tecn_preocupado Un técnico Preocupado un FP2 IVOOX UTP http://cutt.ly/dzhhGrf BLOG http://cutt.ly/dzhh2LX Ayúdame desde mi Crowfunding aquí https://cutt.ly/W0DsPVq Invitados Dra Yane #JusticiaParaUTP @ayec98_2 Médico y Buscadora de la verdad. Con Dios siempre! No permito q me dividan c/izq -derecha, raza, religión ni nada de la Creación. https://youtu.be/TXEEZUYd4c0 …. Fernando Beltrán @nenucosinpanial Astrólogo y dibujante y poeta a ratos y criticón a veces y miles mundos más, todo para no bostezar. @venusmelibra …. ToniM @ToniMbuscadores …. Conocimiento para el alma | Editorial @ConluzEditorial Literatura, Arte, Historia, Opinión... las humanidades ponen luz a nuestra existencia, volvamos a estudiarlas con otra mirada #conluz ………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: AYUDA A TRAVÉS DE LA COMPRA DE MIS LIBROS https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2024/11/16/ayuda-a-traves-de-la-compra-de-mis-libros/ UTP297 13 Malditos secretos https://www.ivoox.com/utp297-13-malditos-secretos-audios-mp3_rf_128737399_1.html UTP298 Bar España y los fusilamientos del 13 de mayo https://www.ivoox.com/utp298-bar-espana-fusilamientos-del-13-audios-mp3_rf_128824891_1.html UTP299 13 cervezas con torreznos https://www.ivoox.com/utp299-13-cervezas-torreznos-audios-mp3_rf_129022962_1.html Libres o esclavos https://mvalera.es/libres-o-esclavos/ ………………………………………………………………………………………. Música utilizada en este podcast: Tema inicial Heros ………………………………………………………………………………………. Epílogo DLD - A PARTIR DE MAÑANA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaXpUjdN5G4

Episode 35 of Key Frames: Inbetweens, a mini-podcast about anime. Have you felt like something strange and terrible has been hanging over your head for four years, maybe more? Does today seem like it could be the moment when it all comes crashing down? Does it seem at the same time like it could stay up there forever, a sword of Damocles under which you'll be forced to live your life just out of the universal indignity of being born? Will today be the day you make a change, something proactive for once, and avert the disaster that you can't help but see in your future? Will you listen to us talk at last about the works of Inio Asano, the brains behind the recent movie duology and ONA series Dead Dead Demon's DeDeDeDe Destruction? It's not likely to help with all of the above, but it might make you feel like someone else gets it. The post Inbetween 35 - Sonic Screwdriver Vigilante first appeared on Key Frames.

All this has happened before, and it will all happen again. Threads weave together as our favourite witches try to avoid needing stitches as swords of Damocles dangle above their heads. Pull up a chair and draw a card because this ep is always a winner. Dan Moren, John Moltz and Guy English.

All this has happened before, and it will all happen again. Threads weave together as our favourite witches try to avoid needing stitches as swords of Damocles dangle above their heads. Pull up a chair and draw a card because this ep is always a winner. Dan Moren, John Moltz and Guy English.

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Our Head of Corporate Credit Research and Global Chief Economist explain why they're watching the consumer savings rate, tariffs and capital expenditures.----- Transcript -----Andrew Sheets: Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Andrew Sheets, Head of Corporate Credit Research at Morgan Stanley.Seth Carpenter: And I'm Seth Carpenter, Morgan Stanley's Global Chief Economist.Andrew Sheets: And today on this special episode of the podcast, we'll be discussing what could cause our optimistic view on the economy and credit to go wrong.Andrew Sheets: It's Friday, Oct 11th at 4pm in London.Seth Carpenter: And as it turns out, I'm in London with Andrew.Andrew Sheets: So, Seth you and your global economics team have been pretty optimistic on the economy this year. And have been firmly in the soft-landing camp. And I think we've seen some oscillation in the market's view around the economy over the course of the year, but more recently, we've started to see some better data and increasing confidence in that view.So, this is actually maybe the perfect opportunity to talk about – well, what could go wrong? And so, what are some of the factors that worry you most that could derail the story?Seth Carpenter: We have been pretty constructive all along the whole hiking cycle. In fact, we've been calling for a soft- landing. And if anything, where we were wrong with our forecast so far is that things have turned out even better than we dare hoped. But it's worth remembering part of the soft-landing call for us, especially for the US is that coming out of COVID; the economy rebounded employment rebounded, but not proportionally. And so, for a long time, up until basically now, US firms had been operating shorthanded. And so, we were pretty optimistic that even if there was something that caused a slowdown, you were not going to see a wave of layoffs. And that's usually what contributes to a recession. A slowdown, then people get laid off, laid off people spend less, the economy slows down more, and it snowballs.So, I have to say, there is gotta be just a little bit more risk because businesses basically backfilled most of their vacancies. And so, if we do get a big slowdown for some reason, maybe there's more risk than there was, say, a year ago. So, what could that something be is a real question. I think the first one is just -- there's just uncertainty.And maybe, just maybe, the restraint that monetary policy has imparted -- takes a little bit longer than we realized. It's a little bit bigger than we realized, and things are slowing down. We just haven't seen the full force of it, and we just slowed down a lot more.Not a whole lot I can do about that. I feel pretty good. Spending data is good. The last jobs report was good. So, I see that as a risk that just hangs over my head, like the sword of Damocles, at all times.Andrew Sheets: And, Seth, another thing I want to talk to you about is this analysis of the economy that we do with the data that's available. And yet we recently got some pretty major revisions to the US economic picture that have changed, you know, kind of our basic understanding of what the savings rate was, you know, what some of these indicators are.How have those revisions changed what you think the picture is?Seth Carpenter: So those benchmark revisions were important. But I will say it's not as though it was just a wholesale change in what we thought we understood. Instead, the key change that happened is we had information on GDP -- gross domestic product -- which comes from a lot of spending data. There's another bit of data that's gross domestic income that in some idealized economic model version of the world, those two things are the same -- but they had been really different. And the measured income had been much lower than the measured gross domestic product, the spending data. And so, it looked like the saving rate was very, very low.But it also raised a bit of a red flag, because if the savings rate is, is really low, and all of a sudden households go back to saving the normal amount, that necessarily means they'd slow their spending a lot, and that's what causes a downturn.So, it didn't change our view, baseline view, about where the economy was, but it helped resolve a sniggling, intellectual tension in the back of the head, and it did take away at least one of the downside risks, i.e. that the savings rate was overdone, and consumers might have to pull back.But I have to say, Andrew, another thing that could go wrong, could come from policy decisions that we don't know the answer to just yet. Let you in on a little secret. Don't tell anybody I told you this; but later this year, in fact, next month, there's an election in the United States.Andrew Sheets: Oh my goodness.Seth Carpenter: One of the policies that we have tried to model is tariffs. Tariffs are a tax. And so, the normal way I think a lot of people think about what tariffs might do is if you put a tax on consumer goods coming into the country, it could make them more expensive, could make people buy less, and so you'd get a little bit less activity, a little bit higher prices.In addition to consumer goods, though, we also import a lot of intermediate goods for production, so physical goods that are used in manufacturing in the United States to produce a final output. And so, if you're putting a tax on that, you'll get less manufacturing in the United States.We also import capital goods. So, things that go into business CapEx spending in the United States. And if you put a tax on that, well, businesses will do less investment spending. So, there's a disruption to actual US production, not just US consumption that goes on. And we actually think that could be material. And we've tried to model some of the policy proposals that are out there. 60 per cent tariff on China, 10 per cent tariff on the rest of the world.None of these answers are going to be exact, none of these are going to be precise, but you get something on the order of an extra nine-tenths of a percentage point of inflation, so a pretty big reversion in inflation. But maybe closing in on one and a half percentage points of a drag on GDP – if they were all implemented at the same time in full force.So that's another place where I think we could be wrong. It could be a big hit to the economy; but that's one place where there's just lots of uncertainty, so we have to flag it as a risk to our clients. But it's not in our baseline view.Seth Carpenter: But I have to say, you've been forcing me to question my optimism, which is entirely unfair. You, sir, have been pretty bullish on the credit market. Credit spreads are, dare I say it, really tight by historical standards.And yet, that doesn't cause you to want to call for mortgage spreads to widen appreciably. It doesn't call for you to want to go really short on credit. Why are you so optimistic? Isn't there really only one direction to go?Andrew Sheets: So, there are kind of a few factors the way that we're thinking about that. So, one is we do think that the fundamental backdrop, the economic forecast that you and your team have laid out are better than average for credit -- are almost kind of ideal for what a credit investor would like.Credit likes moderation. We're forecasting a lot of moderation. And, also kind of the supply and demand dynamics of the market. What we call the technicals are better than average. There's a lot of demand for bonds. And companies, while they're getting a little bit more optimistic, and a little bit more aggressive, they're not borrowing in the kind of hand over fist type of way that usually causes more problems. And so, you should have richer than average valuations. Now, in terms of, I think, what disrupts that story, it could be, well, what if the technicals or the fundamentals are no longer good? And, you know, I think you've highlighted some scenarios where the economic forecasts could change. And if those forecasts do change, we're probably going to need to think about changing our view. And that's also true bottom up. I think if we started to see Corporates get a lot more optimistic, a lot more aggressive. You know, hubris is often the enemy of the bond investor, the credit investor. I don't think we're there yet, but I think if we started to see that, that could present a larger problem. And both, you know, fundamentally it causes companies to take on more debt, but also kind of technically, because it means a lot more supply relative to demand.Seth Carpenter: I see. I see. But I wonder, you said, if our outlook, sort of, doesn't materialize, that's a clear path to a worse outcome for your market. And I think that makes sense.But the market hasn't always agreed with us. If we think back not that long ago to August, the market had real turmoil going on because we got a very weak Non Farm Payrolls print in the United States. And people started asking again. ‘Are you sure, Seth? Doesn't this mean we're heading for a recession?' And asset markets responded. What happened to credit markets then, and what does it tell you about how credit markets might evolve going forward, even if, at the end of the day, we're still right?Andrew Sheets: Well, so I think there have been some good indications that there were parts of the market where maybe investors were pretty vulnerably positioned. Where there was more leverage, more kind of aggressiveness in how investors were leaning, and the fact that credit, yes, credit weakened, but it didn't weaken nearly as much -- I think does suggest that investors are going to this market eyes wide open. They're aware that spreads are tight. So, I think that's important.The other I think really fundamental tension that I think credit investors are dealing with -- but also I think equity investors are -- is there are certain indicators that suggest a recession is more likely than normal. Things like the yield curve being inverted or purchasing manager indices, these PMIs being below 50.But that also doesn't mean that a recession is assured by any means. And so, I do think what can challenge the market is a starting point where people see indicators that they think mean a recession is more likely, some set of weak data that would seem to confirm that thesis, and a feeling that, well, the writing's on the wall.But I think it's also meant, and I think we've seen this since September, that this is a real, in very simple terms, kind of good is good market. You know, I got asked a lot in the aftermath of some of the September numbers, internally at Morgan Stanley, 'Is it, is it too good? Was the jobs number too good for credit?'And, and my view is, because I think the market is so firmly shifted to ‘we're worried about growth,' that it's going to take a lot more good data for that fear to really recede in the market to worry about something else.Seth Carpenter: Yeah, it's funny. Some people just won't take yes for an answer. Alright, let me, let me end up with one more question for you.So when we think about the cycle, I hear as I'm sure you do from lots of clients -- aren't we, late cycle, aren't things coming to an end? Have we ever seen a cycle before where the Fed hiked this much and it didn't end in tears? And the answer is actually yes. And so, I have often been pointing people to the 1990s.1994, there was a pretty substantial rate hiking cycle that doesn't look that different from what we just lived through. The Fed stopped hiking, held out at the peak for a while, and then the economy wobbled a little bit. It did slow down, and they cut rates. And some of the wobbles, for a while at least, looked pretty serious. The Fed, as it turns out, only cut 75 basis points and then held rates steady. The economy stabilized and we had another half decade of expansion.So, I'm not saying history is going to repeat itself exactly. But I think it should be, at least from my perspective, a good example for people to have another cycle to look at where things might turn out well with the soft landing.Looking back to that period, what happened in credit markets?Andrew Sheets: So, that mid-90s soft-landing was in the modern history of credit -- call it the last 40 years -- the tightest credit spreads have ever been. That was in 1997. And they were still kind of materially tighter from today's levels.So we do have historical evidence that it can mean the market can trade tighter than here. It's also really fascinating because the 1990s were kind of two bull markets. There was a first stage that, that stage you were suggesting where, you know, the Fed started cutting; but the market wasn't really sure if it was going to stick that landing, if the economy was going to be okay. And so, you saw this period where, as the data did turn out to be okay, credit went tighter, equities went up, the two markets moved in the same direction.But then it shifted. Then, as the cycle had been extending for a while, kind of optimism returned, and even too much optimism maybe returned, and so from '97, mid-97 onwards, equities kept going up, the stock market kept rallying, credit spreads went wider, expected volatility went higher. And so, you saw that relationship diverge.And so, I do think that if we do get the '90s, if we're that lucky, and hopefully we do get that sort of scenario, it was good in a lot of ways. But I think we need to be on the watch for those two stages. We still think we're in stage one. We still think they're that stage that's more benign, but eventually benign conditions can lead to more aggressiveness.Seth Carpenter: I think that's really fair. So, we started off talking about optimism and I would like to keep it that you pointed out that the '90s required a bit of good luck and I would wholeheartedly agree with that.So, I still remain constructive, but I don't remain naive. I think there are ways for things to go wrong. And there is a ton of uncertainty ahead, so it might be a rocky ride. It's always great to get to talk to you, Andrew.Andrew Sheets: Great to talk to you as well, Seth.And thanks for listening. If you enjoy the show, leave us a review wherever you listen, and share Thoughts on the Market with a friend or colleague today.

¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2024! Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Bienvenidos a otro Podcast sobre Novelas Clásicas de Warhammer 40k en TERRAESCRIBIENTE. "ESTRELLA DE DAMOCLES " El patriarca comerciante rebelde Lucian Gerrit y su familia se ven envueltos en una cruzada imperial para rastrear y exterminar a una nueva raza alienígena subversiva conocida como los Tau. Después de cruzar las vastas extensiones del Golfo de Damocles, la flota finalmente llega a las fronteras del espacio Tau y se embarca en su tarea de extinción. Las fuerzas imperiales pronto descubren que han subestimado enormemente la escala y el ingenio de esta nueva raza y ahora la cruzada debe confiar en el coraje y la astucia de Gerrit para salvar el día cuando se encuentran superados en número y armamento, a miles de años luz de casa. Escrito por: Andy Hoare. Por favor sigue las redes y grupos: Canal de Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaCcO2s1NCrQqLpfFR3u Twitter: https://twitter.com/TerraEscriba Telegram: https://t.me/+62_TRJVg-3cxNDZh Instagram: www.instagram.com/terraescribiente/ Tik tok: www.tiktok.com/@terraescribiente Youtube: www.youtube.com/@Terraescribiente También subscríbete a TERRAESCRIBIENTE en IVOOX, ITUNES Y SPOTIFY! Dale me gusta a cada Podcast y coméntalos! Ayuda mucho! Gracias! Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de TERRAESCRIBIENTE. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/747547

“LMEs buy time for the sponsor, but I'm increasingly seeing that that's all it really does.” Jon Weber, founder of JFW & Co., doesn't mince words regarding the effectiveness of the popular restructuring strategy. Liability management exercises leave executives with a “sword of Damocles” over their heads, failing to really fix anything and with an aftermath that remains a management distraction, Weber told Bloomberg Intelligence's Phil Brendel, in October's feature interview for the State of Distressed Debt podcast. Weber shared his perspectives, honed at Icahn Enterprises, Goldman Sachs and Elliott Management, on running effective boards and companies post-reorganization (6:30). Prior to that, BI's Noel Hebert and Phil discussed the complete dearth of distressed-debt inventory, as the distressed ratio plummeted to a 5.2% 28-month low in September. The podcast concludes with BI's Negisa Balluku joining Noel and Phil for a roundtable discussion covering J&J's latest Talc news, Hertz make-whole appeal, Audacy, Yellow, Tupperware, Telesat and what qualifies as a consensual release these days (59:00). This podcast is part of BI's FICC Focus series.

France's public debt is very much in the spotlight. The country's recently appointed prime minister, Michel Barnier, calls it a "sword of Damocles" hanging over future generations. Indeed, for many countries, paying interest on the national debt deprives them of investing in education, healthcare, research and so on. Similar debates are happening across the EU, as the European Commission asks member states to submit their debt reduction plans. We ask Jean-Claude Trichet, former president of the European Central Bank (ECB), for his read on the debt situation, and on prospects for an overall European recovery. We also touch on EU-China relations, as a tensions come to a head over the issue of China subsidising the electric vehicles that it exports to Europe.

In which X-Force is kind of silly; that really isn't what “quantum” means; polite and lawful are two entirely different things, and Sam Guthrie is only one of them; Selene vogues; and the Hellfire Club plays the dead girlfriend card.

In this episode of The High Route Podcast, we speak with Lou Dawson. As much as anyone in North American ski mountaineering, Dawson has been a cornerstone of the sport and the broader culture. Last spring, he released his memoir, Avalanche Dreams. Already reviewed on the site, here's what our writer Alex Lee had to say:Lou Dawson, pioneering American ski mountaineer, climber, and writer, dissects hard-earned wisdom of the mountain in Avalanche Dreams: A Memoir of Skiing Climbing and Life. Avalanches are, as Lou puts it, the "sword of Damocles," whispering "rocks, snow, people—all fall." Lou's story of his "unrecoverable addiction" to the mountains is a hero's journey of facing dragons and overcoming Herculean trials to find comfort beneath that sword through partnership and family. He also catches literal rattlesnakes, managing to get his elementary school evacuated when the sheriff comes to kill them. If you know who Lou is, or if you don't, his story is a gripping wallop of adventures, family, and gravity. Alex joins the podcast as we discuss the writing process with Lou and converse about his decades-long life and continuing adventures in the hills.  You can find more information about Lou here, where you can also learn how to purchase the book. If you are new to The High Route, we are a reader and listener-supported enterprise focusing on human-powered turn making. Our mission is simple, but it takes real deal calorie burning to piece it all together.We are also excited to announce Issue 1.0 of The High Route magazine is in the works. Fancy paper. Good reads. High-octane photos. And some fine mountain ranges. And turns. You can learn more about our subscription options here.The theme music for The High Route Podcast comes from Storms in the Hill Country and the album The Self Transforming (Thank you, Jens Langsjoen). You can find a link to the album here—there are so many good songs on this album. And if you think you've spotted a UFO in the past or visited the 7th dimension, "Beautiful Alien" is a good tune to start with.Thanks for listening,The High Route Team   

"He intentado ser el mejor enfermo posible". Gabriel Rubio, doctor en psiquiatría y jefe del Servicio de Psiquiatría del Hospital Universitario 12 de octubre de Madrid, nos cuenta cómo ha vivido su cáncer de páncreas. "La verdad es que casi me lo diagnostiqué yo por los síntomas que tenía", explica Rubio que le dijo a su médico y amigo que creía que tenía cáncer. Rubio ha querido grabar este podcast para que el cáncer deje de ser un tabú. De hecho, contó a su alumnado de la universidad que tenía cáncer y que iba a estar retirado un tiempo. Y cuando ya estaba recuperado, les avisó de que al principio no estaría "no porque esté muerto, sino porque voy a estar un tiempo de vacaciones", relata entre risas. Pero en este podcast el doctor también nos describe la angustia con la que se vive el cáncer, además de los dolores después de la operación, aunque sin perder el humor que le caracteriza a Gabriel Rubio. Pese a que en las revisiones siempre siente la espada de Damocles, está muy agradecido por haber sobrevivido al cáncer de páncreas. Rubio nos cuenta todo el proceso vivido tras la operación, las ganas de acabar con su vida por el dolor durante algunos momentos, las dudas sobre si tomar antidepresivos... Sin embargo, también recuerda las risas de su hijo cuando le escuchaba cantar a Serrat y Mocedades, que tanto le ayudaron en el proceso. Y por supuesto, esos momentos donde reúnes a la familia para contarles que las cosas pueden ir bien o mal y tratar de dejar todo organizado por si faltas. No te pierdas este podcast de Gabriel Rubio, que con tanta generosidad nos ha contado su enfermedad.

Francia avanza en busca de una salida a su crisis política y el nuevo Gobierno de Michel Barnier ya ejerce pese a encontrarse en una posición delicada. En una Asamblea Nacional fragmentada, solo cuenta con el sostén explícito de macronistas y de su propio partido, Los Republicanos. Acorralado entre la izquierda y la extrema derecha, el nuevo primer ministro tiene ante sí dos grandes desafíos: Conseguir apoyos para lograr un gobierno estable y aplicar políticas difíciles sin perder aliados.  El nuevo Gobierno de Francia, con Michel Barnier como Primer Ministro a la cabeza, comenzó su andadura con varios desafíos y con un apoyo limitado de partidos de centro y derechas.Sobre él pende la amenaza de una moción de censura, cual espada de Damocles, procedente tanto de la izquierda, que quiere hacer caer la reforma de las pensiones, como de la extrema derecha, que presiona para que aplique políticas próximas a su programa en materias como la inmigración.Una situación delicada que para Emiliano Grossman, director del Centro de Datos Sociopolítocs de la Universidad Sciente Po de París, complica su estabilidad y longevidad: "El principal desafío va a ser quedarse en el poder. El partido que representa Barnier ocupa apenas 66 escaños. En estas condiciones, un año sería un éxito, pero va a tener mucho que ver con la habilidad política de Barnier de asegurar también a los otros partidos que escucha, que están en un diálogo constructivo. Acaso eso se decide ahora. Yo pienso que, si no cae ahora, en los primeros dos meses o tres meses, ahí un año parece perfectamente probable"."El momento crítico va a venir ahora, cuando tenga que adoptar las primeras leyes y confronte su primera moción de censura, que va a ser depositada rápidamente, porque la izquierda ya anunció que va a llamar a una moción de censura. Después, efectivamente, más allá de un año, todo es muy teórico, porque de acá a un año van a empezar también las tactaciones ya en previsión de la elección presidencial de 2027. Entonces ya los juegos y las estrategias van a empezar a ser muy diferentes que las que están en el lugar hoy", prosigue el politólogo y profesor universitario. Leer tambiénEl nuevo Gobierno francés comienza a trabajar con la amenaza de mociones de censuraPara conseguir mantener el apoyo en la Asamblea Nacional, Barnier propone un programa orientado a la derecha con menos gasto público y más firmeza en la inmigración, pero qué plantea desafíos en su aplicación: "El desafío político va a ser ese, cómo reducir el déficit sin ir al conflicto social abierto. Eso va a ser algo difícil, porque los lugares que más cuestan, como la Salud o la Educación, son puestos donde hay mucha politización y donde los conflictos son bastante difíciles. Ahí hay un desafío en sí mismo, que es lograr hacer recortes sin estallido social".Grossman continúa: "Otro tema que él mismo puso en adelante fue el tema de la inmigración, el tema en el cual Agrupación Nacional dijo que lo esperan, porque es verdad que durante las primarias de la derecha hace dos años, entre los candidatos conservadores, Barnier era claramente el más antiinmigración"."Después también pienso que en su propio campo hay una cosa que es interesante, que casi la mitad del Gobierno actual votó en contra de la inscripción del aborto en la Constitución. También votaron en contra del casamiento gay y claramente eso son cosas que el presidente jamás aceptaría que vuelvan a ser cuestionados”, concluye. 

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Like the sword of Damocles, the cybersecurity maturity model certification program … known has C-M-M-C … has been hanging over the heads of defense contractors for several years. Well, it's about to fall and companies doing business with the Defense Department must be ready. Analysis now from Haynes Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Due to the busy schedule your normal bat rat program has been interrupted by more space robot fun enjoy. Check out our archive of episodes @ https://feed.podbean.com/readysetroll1/feed.xml Support us @ https://www.patreon.com/ReadySetRoll1 Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/readysetroll1 X http://twitter.com/readysetroll20   We all like shirts get yours at http://rsrmerch.com  Get your set of Dice at http://diceenvy.com/readysetroll and get 10% off  Minnect with me at  http://app.minnect.com/expert/CraigThomas   Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe & share!  

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Geoffrey Thorne is an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and actor.Thorne was born in Washington, D.C. After a successful career as a television actor including portraying police officer Wilson Sweet in the television series In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1993, Thorne began writing professionally, winning Second Prize in Simon & Schuster's sixth annual Strange New Worlds anthology with his story "The Soft Room." He went on to publish more stories in several media tie-in anthologies as well as the Star Trek: Titan novel Sword of Damocles.Other stories he has written include contributions to Flying Pen Press's anthology Space Grunts, MV Media's Steamfunk anthology, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.As a screenwriter, Thorne was a writer for season 9 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, multiple episodes of the Ben 10 and Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man franchises was a writer on season 3-5 of TNT's Leverage and a writer-producer on the Electric Entertainment's The Librarians.In 2014 Lion Forge Entertainment and NBC-Universal tapped Thorne to reboot the global fan favorite TV series, Knight Rider in comic book form. Thorne is also the co-creator of Phantom Canyon, an audio drama from Pendant Productions.In 2017 Marvel Entertainment tapped Thorne to be head writer and showrunner of the animated Avengers series, retitled Avengers: Black Panther's Quest, and in 2019 he became Co-Executive Producer of Ghost, the first spinoff of the STARZ network global smash hit, Power.Thorne is also a co-founder and writing partner of GENRE 19, a studio he formed with artist Todd Harris in 2008. For More from Comics Are Dope:Get This Week in Comics, our weekly e-mail newsletter: http://thisweekincomics.comSubscribe on YouTube: http://youtube.com/@comicsaredopeJoin our online Discussion Communities:Facebook - http://bjkicks.link/communityDiscord - http://bjkicks.link/discord

Today on social media, you can be accused, tried, condemned, and sentenced all in one day. Yet this is light compared to the devastating condemnation of Almighty God. The good news is this: “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1). Redeemed sinners are freed from God’s wrath and eternally secure in Him. So, if you’re a believer, praise God that nothing will be held against you when you reach the Final Judgment. Though Satan accuses you day and night, you can live in freedom, for Christ has paid your debt!

It's well known that we signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1967 with other countries but did we sign treaties with extraterrestrials in the 1940s and 50s? Were our newly-built intelligence agencies used to hide the reality of alien life? It appears that a cosmic sword of Damocles hangs above us and that it could drop at any time. On tonight's show, Clyde Lewis talks about DAMOCLES - PER ASPERA AD ASTRAOriginally Broadcast On 8/20/19

Specs lets the rest of the team know what he knows after he calms down from Charley and Skye wanting to show Damocles what the Krell are. In the chaosContinue readingTo Morrows End Ep99 – Bad Moon Rising

(2:31) Don't Get Fooled Again by the WHO — conservatives are getting scared to death by GOP politicians and al-right media selling prepper products just like 4 yrs agoWHO says Mexican man died from BirdFlu — NONSENSEGain-Of-FEAR just like spring of 2020The holes in their story of the Mexican caseMcCullough is pushed fear and productBirx wants EVERY COW, EVERY DAIRY WORKER TESTED, WEEKLYBirx's long ties to Gates and other globalist organizations(32:25) Listener's warning about societal breakdown in New Caledonia and other comments and questions(47:07)  A.I. Billionaires at War — With Each Other and The PeopleBilderberg's biggest topic this year was AIBilderberg and the rise of 133 political leaders and the fall of a couple of themBilderberg regular, Alex Karp, wins Pentagon contract for AI for his company PalantirThe new DAGIR (Dagger) program — a sword of Damocles hanging over usThe surveillance state takes a leap forward as Pentagon awards AI contract to the Geospatial Intel company created by CIA's venture capital firm.  How/when was Palantir put together and what is it's purpose?Microsoft's partnership with Intel Community and Military Industrial ComplexIs AI so dangerous that we need to restrict development to a public/private partnership?Or is AI just software and profits?The fight within OpenAI for control and money(1:29:37)  INTERVIEW Saudis Abandon Petrodollar?Tony Arterburn, DavidKnight.gold, joinsWill Saudis officially abandon the petrodollar in the next couple of daysFinancial foundations are shaking with countries moving to BRICS and away from the dollar as the world reserve currencyAccumulating gold and silver in small or large pieces(2:12:48) United States of BabylonFed Grants to push atheism and San Francisco Porn FestivalFBI marches in Pride Parade, Memphis Police join Pride Parade(2:16:37) Gen Z leaving church — can you blame them? The church abandoned God for a marketing outreachWATCH Saddleback Virtual Reality Church"Seeker Friendly" Feminism and LGBTJulie Green has another "thus saith the Lord" — this time for Alex JonesTrump gets another question about his relationship with God, this time about prayerHeterosexual Awareness Month(2:31:36) Children Are Gifts, Not Projects …but if they're a gift, who is the giver?  A "supernatural force" or God?  (2:45:48) Ads, Antartica, and Alarmism for the Climate MacGuffinBillionaires buy local politicians to push stricter NET ZERO — POLITICS IS LOCAL!Ads on City Buses About Plane, Ship, and Car Travel BannedThe dire false UN prophecies about Antartica from decades agoThe earliest aerial photos of Antarctica found from nearly a century ago…guess what they showJust as Mexico is trying to shut down all US gun manufacturers with frivolous lawfare,  Hawaii is trying to do the same to fuel with lawfareFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

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In the culmination of a high-profile legal saga, lawyers of former President Donald Trump are preparing to deliver their final blows in the hush-money trial against Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, as reported by The Guardian. The criminal case, which has been the center of much media attention, implicates Trump in attempts to stifle negative reports alleging sexual encounters with adult film star Stormy Daniels and others--a move which has further stirred the political waters surrounding the ex-president. Trump's defense looks set to deliver a blistering assault on the credibility of Cohen, whose actions have added to the cloud hanging over Trump's presidency and his subsequent post-presidential career. Cohen pled guilty in 2018 to campaign finance violations and other crimes related to the payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. Trump's alleged involvement in the payment is at the heart of the ongoing hush-money trial.This high-stakes courtroom drama has raised important legal, political, and moral questions. Strikingly, the case underscores an often thorny issue in American politics and democracy: the power and influence of money and its potential misuse. Moreover, the case highlights the increasingly fraught relationship between politics and the media. It underscores the extent to which some political individuals may go to control or suppress unfavorable narratives from seeing the light of day. The allegation that a then-presidential candidate influenced the media landscape to suppress negative stories is as alarming as it is newsworthy.The outcome of this trial could have profound implications. A conviction could significantly damage Trump's reputation and future political prospects. Conversely, an acquittal could bolster Trump's narrative of being subjected to a "witch hunt," a claim he has often made in the face of the numerous probes and allegations surrounding him. As the trial unfolds, the world awaits the final verdict, which continues to dangle above the political landscape like a sword of Damocles. Regardless of the outcome, this case has already marked a significant chapter in American political history, reminding us yet again of the contentious and often unpredictable relationship between political power, personal conduct, and the law.

Ch. 7–8 take us into the next stage of this book: prolonged warfare. We talk about Rebel With Claws, UN Meeting Bouncer, a Damocles' Sword but Positive, the Bond of Brotherhood, the Horn of Valere Heist, and our Upcoming Bones Podcast. 

We bring you four stories today: Icarus and Daedalus- James Baldwin- an ancient Greek tales about a son who forgets his father's instructions; The Sword of Damocles- about the close friend of a wealthy man who wishes he could spend one day in his friends place living the good life and gets his chance by James Baldwin The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson- describes the courageous but costly cavalry charge of the Light Brigade, knowing that they were rising into sure death F. Scott Fitgerald's letter to his daughter, reminding her what's important in life Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices