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On this WPN Call #389, Dr. Jim Garlow is joined by Dr. David Speicher,  a molecular virologist and epidemiologist passionate about accurately detecting and monitoring infectious diseases. He has conducted research in Australia, Africa, Asia, and North America, and his work has had a global impact and has been highlighted in USA Senate and European Parliamentary hearings. He discusses in depth the scientific reasons for why the COVID-19 vaccine was so dangerous.      Website: https://davidspeicher.com/     Dr. Jim Garlow has partnered with Pastor Mario Bramnick and Adam Schindler to bring you World Prayer Network (WPN), which seeks out Holy Spirit given strategies for how to be an effective and contagious Christ-follower in our present national situations. WPN hosts weekly prayer calls to seek out strategies for the transformation of nations, including our own. During these live calls, we share briefings from key leaders and then pray into what we see and hear from the Lord.     Follow us on social media:  facebook.com/wellversedworld twitter: @wellversedworld instagram: @wellversedworld www.wellversedworld.org

This is a special TWO PART episode with Historian and Jacobin Europe editor David Broder. In Part I (recorded July 10th 2024), we discuss recent European Parliamentary and French election results, how both the right and left fared in the outcome, and the implications of these results for Europe, EU expansion and more. In Part II (starts at 50:45), through a discussion of David's 2023 book Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy we explore how the current right wing political imagination in Italy and Europe at large are mobilized through historical memory. We also examine how anti-communist memory politics in Western Europe relate to anti-communist memory politics in post-communist countries. David Broder is a historian, writer, translator and editor of Jacobin Europe. Check out David's book Mussolini's Grandchildren here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348025/mussolinis-grandchildren/

Today, Jamil, Jess, Les, and Jeffrey discuss two pivotal elections - the French Parliamentary and the Iranian Presidential Election. French President Emmanuel Macron, after his party was trounced in the European Parliamentary elections, called for a snap election. In which after the first round of voting on Sunday saw Marine Le Pen's right-wing National Rally party take first place with all eyes on the run-off on Sunday, July 9th. In Iran, elections were held in the wake of the death of President Ebrahim Raisi. After the first round of voting, two candidates remain for the Presidency - with ostensible “reformer” Masoud Pezeshkian leading over Saeed Jalili, a former nuclear negotiator for Iran who is viewed as the more hawkish of the two, and with another round of voting to follow. How does the French election impact support for Ukraine and the wider EU? What are the implications of Iranian elections on regional stability? How should the next President prepare for the outcome of these elections?Check out the answers to these questions and more in this episode of Fault Lines.Check out the sources that helped shape our expert's discussion!https://apnews.com/article/france-election-far-right-macron-193233ade08821a71731980d8a17eb4a https://apnews.com/article/france-election-far-right-macron-f07061a929ed8eaad0e714e948159cab https://www.politico.eu/article/france-legislative-election-marine-le-pen-emmanuel-macron-national-rally-jordan-bardella/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-presidential-election-pakeshkian-jalili/ https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/06/29/irans-supreme-leader-is-terrified-of-people-power https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/world/middleeast/iran-election-president-voters.html Follow our experts on Twitter: @lestermunson@NotTVJessJones@jamil_n_jafferLike what we're doing here? Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe. And don't forget to follow @masonnatsec on Twitter!We are also on YouTube, and watch today's episode here: https://youtu.be/NicQDXSPF_M Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Show Notes and Transcript We are honoured to welcome Kevin Sorbo to Hearts of Oak.  He is known for his roles in Hollywood, and he joins us to discuss two new, 'must see' Christian based films that are coming in August, Firing Squad and Reagan, and his career, highlighting his faith as a driving force.  Kevin shares insights into overcoming challenges with faith and family support, his stance on conservative beliefs and his production company Sorbo Studios for family-friendly films are also discussed. He expresses criticism towards COVID-19 control measures and social media censorship.  His dedication to faith-based films, such as 'God's Not Dead,' and advocacy for upholding beliefs in the industry are emphasized.  The conversation also touches on societal and political topics like cancel culture, education, and climate change, promoting balanced perspectives.  Kevin's future projects, interactions with figures like Donald Trump, and his endeavours in promoting authentic storytelling and historical accuracy are explored.  This podcast encourages informed citizen participation in shaping the future and covers various personal anecdotes and societal issues. REAGAN in theaters nationwide August 30   reaganmovie.com Starring Dennis Quaid, Kevin Sorbo, Jon Voight, Penelope Ann Miller, Mena Suvari and Lesley-Anne Down  THE FIRING SQUAD In theaters nationwide August 2  firingsquadfilm.com Starring  James Barrington, Kevin Sorbo and Cuba Gooding, Jr. Kevin David Sorbo was born in Mound, Minnesota, on September 24, 1958, At the end of 1986, he settled in Los Angeles. Kevin began to make guest appearances on such popular shows as Murder, She Wrote (1984). Kevin was a natural for the title role in what would become his signature series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995). Kevin became internationally famous, and he learned the craft of film-making well enough to direct and co-write some of the episodes. Kevin even studied martial arts in order to do many of his own stunts. In real life, Kevin's heart is as big as Hercules'– he leads “A World Fit for Kids!” as the chair and spokesperson. Kevin devotes much of his time to “A World Fit For Kids!” which is a successful mentoring model that trains inner-city teens to use school, fitness, sports and positive role models for themselves, and then become the coaches and mentors for younger children. In 1998, Kevin married lovely actress Sam Sorbo, best known for her dual role on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995) as Serena/the Golden Hind Connect with Kevin and Sorbo Films... X/TWITTER             x.com/ksorbs WEBSITE                 sorbostudios.com/ INSTAGRAM            instagram.com/ksorbo Interview recorded  19.6.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER        x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop/ *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on X/Twitter x.com/TheBoschFawstin TRANSCRIPT (Hearts of Oak) I'm delighted to have Kevin Sorbo with us today. Kevin, thank you so much for your time. (Kevin Sorbo) My pleasure. Good to be here, sir. Great to have you. And obviously people can follow you @KSorbs on Twitter or X, whatever you want to call it. And it's always fascinating looking into the background of guests. And I had no idea you'd starred in over 150 commercials. I kind of see you as in the movie sector, in Hollywood. but 150 commercials and then over 100 films and TV shows and a voiceover in obviously many video games. And of course, you first shot the stardom back in the 90s in Hercules. And more later, you've, I guess, become known as a Christian in Hollywood for your role in God's Not Dead. And then we'll get on to the latest one, the latest two coming up, actually, Regan film where you play president Regan's pastor and the firing squad which I saw you discussing the firing squad and that intrigued me, but I actually never saw Hercules it wasn't something I actually saw when was younger. It's more your faith your Christian faith and how that's engaged with with the whole Hollywood industry but I mean that happened as a break art rule. You weren't a kid, you were a bit older. I'm wondering how you were ready for that fame. What was that like? Fame with Faith-Based Movies or Hercules? No, back in Hercules, because that was the breakout. So what was the fame like? Yeah, you know, initially it was going to be five two-hour movies, and it was part of a thing called the Action Pack Wheel at Universal Studios. And it was Hercules, it was Tech Wars, which Shatner was producing and directing on. It was Vanishing Sun, which is sort of a Kung Fu thing. They had BJ and the Bear, which was a big movie or a TV series at one time. They're going to make movies out of it. And there was one other thing. I can't remember what it was. But anyway, that's what it's going to be, five two-hour movies down in New Zealand. It was fantastic to be down there. Anthony Quinn played Zeus. So, I got a whole year working with, you know, Anthony Quinn from the golden age of Hollywood. You know, the guy was nominated six times for Oscars, won twice. And then halfway through the third movie, I get a call from my manager and said, Universal Studios loves what they see. They want to try to make it a TV series. Well, by season three, we were in 176 countries and became the most watched TV show in the world, which is crazy. And it ran for seven years. It's still out there in like 50 countries even to this day. I still get fan mail coming in through Sorbo Studios. That's always a good place to go, sorbostudios.com. But after that, I went straight into Andromeda and being a huge fan of the original Star Trek series through reruns. When Majel Roddenberry, Gene's widow called me up and said, you know, Gene wrote this show back in 1969. And if he were still around today, I think he'd be honored to have you as the first captain he ever created after Captain Kirk. So, I had five years on that show, shooting in Vancouver, Canada. So, I was pretty much out of America from 1993 till 2005, living in either New Zealand or Canada. And then I just started doing a bunch of independent movies. And that's kind of how the road sort of brought to where I am today. But it was sort of forced on me in a way because Hollywood, my manager and agent of decades, both said they couldn't work with me anymore about 10, 11 years ago because of what I was posting on the Internet. I said, oh, you mean the truth? was posting the truth on the Internet. God forbid you do that in today's world, apparently. So, I formed Sorbo Studios and said, I'm going to do movies that Hollywood used to do. They don't necessarily have to be faith movies, but just family-friendly and movies that have a good message instead of this woke crap that Hollywood wants to keep forcing down our throats. So, Hollywood booted me out. Apparently being a conservative is a horrible thing, but being a Christian in Hollywood is even worse. I'd be better off being a paedophile Islamic radical terrorist, and I'd probably get an Oscar for playing that in a movie. That does tick a few boxes, I understand. You had a health crisis back whenever you were filming Hercules. You had multiple strokes. What was that like? Because you obviously fought through that. You've come through stronger than ever. But what was that like at the time? Because you don't know what's happening to yourself if that is happening, that health issue. No, no, look, I'm everything opposite of what stroke victims have. They're overweight, alcohol, high blood pressure, All kinds of different things everything I was opposite of that. I was pretty ripped up on her Achilles ears I was in great shape, but I had an aneurysm way up here in my my left sub-clavicle. I didn't know about I always had weird things sort of feeling in the arm I couldn't figure what's going on, but ultimately that didn't being the problem when it opened up It sent hundreds of clots in tomorrow, but unfortunately a series of four clots from my brain and obviously very lucky I wasn't killed or paralyzed rest of my life, but it took me four months to really learn how to walk and balance again. I got my speech back fairly quickly, thank God. I still have a 10% loss of vision in both eyes, in the upper right quadrants of both eyes. So, yeah, it was brutal. It sucked, you know, because my career was really taken off. I just done my first big-budget movie called Call the Conqueror, which was the prequel to Conan the Barbarian. And we shot that for like $40 million over in Eastern Europe. So, yeah, it was a little frustrating. that this was taking place. And it obviously hurt me within the Hollywood world in terms of doing movies anymore, but they kept the Hercules going. I went from a 15, 16 hour day to about a three hour day just to try to keep the show going in any kind of way. But I appreciate that because it was, to me, it motivated me and gave me some light at the end of this really long, dark tunnel. I wrote a book. It's called True Strength. People can pick up a copy. It did very well in its first printing. And my wife and I did a follow-up book called True Faith. And all of a sudden, I got started doing all these speaking events, which I thought I'd never be doing. I do about 12 to 15 speaking events a year now for the last 12 years. I've already done five this year. I've got another seven lined up. So, it's sort of a sideline job for me that I never thought I'd be doing. It's been quite interesting. But the book is very motivational for people to stop blaming the world for your problems. God never promises an easy life. We'll always have obstacles. How do you get past those obstacles? The book has a lot of humor in it, it's autobiographical, and it's just, I think it's a good ride. It surprised me how well it went over the people. Obviously, you had two focals for you that helped you through that. You had, I think you were just a newly engaged at that time. I was. But you had, and I've met Sam numerous times, and she has a strong character. And obviously, you need that whenever you're going through that. But then your faith. I mean, tell us about kind of those two and how they work together to pull you through that difficult situation. Well, I think I went through what most people go through and they have something like that happen to them, because I think more than the physical aspect of it, the psychological aspect was huge for me because everything was cruising pretty well for me. And I was starting to break in to be the next big action hero guy for Universal Studios, sort of replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger. And to have that happen to me, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. I went through that, you know, God, why me, you know, sort of thing. But, you know, the faith was there. I mean, I never stopped believing. I never stopped, you know, questioning what happened to me. Sam was tough. She's a top Pittsburgh, New York, New York gal. And every time I got down, she said, Kevin, it happened. What are you going to do about it? You know, so it was like, yeah, you know, stop blaming the world for your problems. The reality is look in the mirror. That's where you got to start. And I kept saying to myself every day, I'm getting better. I'm getting stronger every day. I kept saying to myself and I pushed through it. The first first two years really did suck. I'll be honest about it. I always said I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. And I go, I don't know, I'd give it to the Taliban. They can have it. But yeah it's like I just... The third year sort of started really some good things started happening I started getting some good hope and a lot it just really sort of the, recovery accelerated I still have side effects that I know like I said the blind I have spot and have each I'll be playing ping pong with my kids and sometimes the ball just disappears so that you know quarter of a second. So, I use that as an excuse so I didn't return the ball, but I still have balance issues that most people wouldn't be able to see because I still work out every day. I do cardio every day. I lift every day. Not like I did in Hercules, but I still work out every single day. I've already got my work on this morning before talking to you. And yeah, so to me, it's like you just got to fight on. ad things happen. That's the way life is. But I looked at it as a positive instead of a negative to push beyond and make myself better. I think the only other concerted Christian involved in Hollywood. I've ever sat on and talked to is Dwight Schultz. And he told me about his struggles as a Christian supporting Reagan, specifically that story and how he was kind of ostracized soon after. And you've talked about your faith and being cancelled because of that. Tell us more about that and why you choose God over career. Career because for some people that could be a difficult choice. Oh, no question. Look every movie I've been doing so I do about four or five movies independent movies a year. I've already shot two this year I got three more lined up and every movie I've been doing like I said about six last six seven years I I'll get another actor maybe, I'll get a director, I'll get a lighting person, I'll get a makeup, whatever they come up to me privately and say hey they look around like we're doing a drug deal. I say, hey, thanks for being a voice for us. And I'm going, you know, be a voice for yourself. People, but fear is an amazing weapon, you know, and every government in every country used it to control their lives during COVID, right? Every government used fear to control their lives. And I got taken, I lost 4 million followers on Facebook because I was posting the truth about COVID. I was posting what doctors in Europe were saying or doctors in other countries, really just saying, look what they're saying. Why can't we look at both sides of this? Why is ivermectin bad for you? Everything that I posted that they called misinformation or conspiracy theories, of course they all came true. And where is that Wussy Zuckerberg and my 4 million followers again? You know, these guys, they're just, they use it to control our lives. And there's so many people, I mean, I travel a lot and I still see that 1% still wearing masks. So they wear their liberal banner on their sleeve. And I want to stop them and not laugh at it, but I want to say, okay, you see 99% of the people around here not wearing masks. What goes through your brain when you're still covering your face? I mean, I want to find out that answer. I really do, because it's just incredible that the fear factor has been controlling so much of everything in the world. Now, you saw what New Zealand did, their prime minister. You saw what they did in Australia. It was bad enough here in America. We got the heck out of Dodge. We left we left California about a year and a half before this whole thing even started. We've been in Florida now for five and a half years and we barely wore masks here. The only time I really wore a mask in Florida is when I went to the airport and I'd have to be 10 people coming up to me that worked at the airport to say, please put your mask on before I finally did it. And then when I got on airplanes, I would have a bag of beef jerky and take it down and I'd eat for two hours. So, I found ways to get around this stupid thing. And now we realize even Fauci came out and said the six foot thing was made up. We all knew that. And the masking didn't do anything. And we all knew that. But guys like Fauci and Bill Gates should be in prison for what they've done to the world because we're still seeing those shots played out what they're doing to people's lives every single day, what it's doing. Anyway it's horrific what they did and they don't care they did it on purpose. Yeah, it's never ending and I find whenever I look at someone wearing a mask as they're walking down the footpath or sidewalk for you my kids say: no, no, no, just move on move on, don't get involved. You only get involved I get that. Yeah, I do, I want to say something but I just oh my god you know what let them live in their in let them live in their fear what a horrible way to go through life every single day and ahh. But the world has changed forever because of it now. Oh, completely. Let me jump forward to you doing God's Not Dead in 2020, 2014 and literally that newsboy song is just it's fixed in my head I think everyone knows that song god's not dead. You in that were a professor and this whole with the students standing up for their faith and whether they will stand up or bend over. And a lot of maybe individuals, especially younger people in the education system, think, actually, it's easier. I'm here to get an education. My faith can be sidelined. But that was a hugely successful film on a low budget. Big turnover coming in what was that kind of seemed to be a turning point for you or give you the I guess the ability to stand up and say actually this has given me the options now of doing more wholesome Christian-based films. I mean tell us about that the film and then actually being a success and being told actually this won't work and yet it actually turning out very well yeah well. I'm gonna go back to even a bit earlier with that I've been a Christian my whole life I've been a conservative my whole life first time I could vote, it was 1980. I was old enough to vote. I voted for Ronald Reagan, but that's another story. But I got to say in Hercules, even though it was a mythological show, it wasn't biblical in any way. The writers, which I had nothing to do with it. Sure, I made my calls as, hey, can we try this? Can we do that? So, yeah, but they even wrote moral messages within Hercules. Hercules never looked for fights. I'll try to talk people out of it. We put a lot of humor in it because we needed to, because it'd be a show, otherwise it'd be easy to make fun of it. So, we really like, wink, wink, let the audience in and have a good time. But they put a lot of moral messages in there. I like that. So, if I go back a couple years before I did God's Not Dead, I did a movie called What If. I've shot about 90 movies. And I would put What If in my top three. And What If was written by the same guys who did God's Not Dead. In my book, What If is a much better movie. And God's Not Dead is a very good movie. But it shows you the independent world and how we got to get lucky. We need word of mouth. You know, when you're shooting budgets of two, three million dollar movies, that's catering budget in Pirates of the Caribbean. They have three hundred million dollar budgets, a hundred million dollar advertising budget. And we got to compete against that. So, when when I did “What If” and that the reason that even happened, the guy who gave me the script to read is a good friend of mine, Dallas Jenkins. Well, Dallas now is huge with The Chosen. And Dallas Jenkins is the son of Jerry Jenkins, who was the co-author with Tim LaHaye for the “Left Behind” books that were huge back in the 90s and my latest movie last year, I had two movies that I directed last year, one was called Left Behind Rise of the Antichrist. So, I knew that that was the kind of movies I wanted to do when I did What If? So, that was through Pure Flix, Pure Flix came to me two years later and said: hey we got this other movie and, don't know if you're interested. You got to play a pretty bad guy. I always joked I played an atheist college professor, which is redundant. All you have to do is say college professor and you got that covered already. But I read the script and I said, yeah, I want to play this. I know people like this. But what I liked about that story, even though I was a bit of a jerk, there's redemption. And I like movies that have redemption at it. They say, look, no matter how bad your life is, how bad things are going for you, there's still a chance in your life to become a good person. And that drew me to that story. And that little $2 million movie, talk about word of mouth. That thing made almost $70 million just in U.S. box office alone. It made $140 million worldwide with streaming and DVD sales and merchandise and everything. So, that movie was just crazy. And to me, and from there, I did Let There Be Light that Sam wrote and I directed. Miracle in East Texas. Left Behind Rise of the Antichrist. My gosh, Abel's Field. I mean, I've done a lot of movies in that vein, but they don't all have to be, like I said, faith-based. I mean, I think every movie is a faith-based movie. If you're an atheist, pretty strong faith to believe in absolutely nothing. Kind of sad way to go through life in a way, but I think I just want to do movies that are more of a positive message instead of a negative one, and that's what I've been doing ever since. No, with my friends who are atheists, I always say I could never have your faith to believe in nothing and look at the complexity of the universe. It's an impossible end to looking at the world. So, yes, I agree. Sorbo Studios, how did that come about? Because it's probably easier just to be in the industry, to get paid as an actor, to actually set out and start that yourself. Yourself is is probably it's quite a thing because you're going against you're providing something different and you're going against the grain. How did that start and tell us a little bit about that? Well, it really came off when Hollywood gave me the boot, because I still love the industry. I love the creative process, I love being on the set, I love directing. I started directing back my hierarchy of these years. So, Sam and i talked about it I said let's form Sorbo studios. We're very fortunate that we do get funded every so often, but a lot of the movies that come my way are from other independent producers and movie makers. They look, I've got this role. We are funded. We'd love you to play in this role. So, in fact, the three movies I'm filming later this year are all coming in from different indie producers. So, every time I've raised money for my own movies, when I send my own scripts that came to me that people want me to be the production house of it, it's always been a God thing. And I've got a very important meeting this weekend. I got a gentleman flying in from Atlanta to meet with me here at my house. And they've already offered us a three-year picture deal that if it does come true, this will be a godsend. So, I feel so highly confident about this, because I know the guy's real, because I know a couple of the people behind him. And if this does happen, we'll know by Saturday night for sure. And that'll fund three of my movies for the next three years. So, it's nine movie package. And so Sam and I are freaking out because we've got amazing scripts that are in that $3 million to $5 million range. And that to me is, look, I get stopped every day, whether it's at the grocery store, whether it's at the airport, the lobby of a hotel, and people say: "we love what you're doing." We know that you got kicked out of Hollywood. We know that you get attacked. But we know if we see a Kevin Sorbo name on a movie, it's a movie I can bring my family to. So that to me is high praise. And, yeah, I could have kissed butt in Hollywood and kept my mouth shut, but I don't care. I don't like the road they're going down. I don't like the stuff they're putting out there. I don't understand this woke agenda, this cancel culture world. We've created this massive divide here in the world, not only in America, but around the world. And we got so much anger and hate coming out, especially from the left. I mean, I don't know how they live their lives like that. They hate themselves for kind of, you look at Antifa, they cover their faces. They're like terrorists. I call them just a bunch of cowards. They feel brave when they got another hundred of them with them. But I would love to do a documentary on their lifestyle. I would love to get them unmasked and talk about their lives and I bet there's a common denominator with each one of them and I got a feeling that that common denominator is not a very happy life growing up and leading into where they are now as adults. Well, I was just on The Legal Entity today about doing some work on a similar organization we have here, the most art-spoken Antifa-like. So, it definitely has to be done. But you're, I mean, Chris, you kind of look around, especially when you have kids, and you see what they're watching. And you think, actually, it wasn't like this in my day. You know, 12 meant something. Now, whoa, what's that doing? And it's the difficulty of parents allowing their children to consume media. And parents sometimes feel powerless. I mean, as a Christian parent, then, you want this to happen because you're a parent, because you're a Christian. But also you want to make a difference in the industry. Tell us about the options there are for parents who are concerned about what their kids are watching and consuming. [Well, as you know my wife's a big home-school advocate and I know she told you you should be homeschooling as well. I know But you know, it's to us it's I think one of the blessings of Covid is that two million more families are now home-schooling, because they woke up and looked to see my god look at the school boards, look at our education system. We all knew new American education has been falling down. It's been falling since the 1960s. It's just accelerated on itself since then. We took the Bible out of school in 1964. Look where we are now. I think most of the kids, adults 30 years old and younger down to grade school level, have just been indoctrinated by our school system. We're rewriting history, or they are rewriting history, and we're allowing it. We're tearing down statues of our forefathers. I mean, I look at this and go, every country has good and bad history. Every country does. And to sit there and not, this is where history repeats itself when you forget it, right? We're not teaching history in school anymore. We don't teach civics here in America anymore, because we don't want children to learn earlier that it's we the people. And it's not we the people anymore. Our government thinks they're God. That's the thing. They don't believe in God. They think they're God. One of the first things they did when COVID hit is what? Shut down the churches. Church God is not essential. But liquor stores and strip clubs they left open they closed down all these little stores that you know, five generations little grocery stores in some corner of some big city close it down, but keep Costco open, keep target open, keep all these other major... What's going on? It's all about money, it's all about power, it's all about control. We got Chinese buying up hundreds of acres of our farmland. We've got Bill Gates doing the same thing, because they want us all to eat bugs now because occasionally, apparently farting cows are destroying the atmosphere. I mean, don't get me going on climate change. Yes, climate does change. It's called seasons. I t's called weather. Don't get me going on this crap. I can bring in, for every scientist they bring in saying the world's coming in because of climate, I can bring in another scientist and say the totally opposite thing. But we don't ever let the other side speak up. I did a documentary called Climate Hustle 2, and they won't even let it show on Amazon anymore. It's just it's so silly and so petty but it's all about money. That's why you can't talk about these things on the networks or even on cable, because who owns all that? Oh, Pfizer does there's a Pfizer commercial and every every cable in television show all the time. It's just it's it's crazy what we're doing and people are sheep in this country, we need to wake the sheep up somehow. The lions better wake up to and. A hundred percent. And you don't hold back. I mean, I see you don't hold back, but when I follow you on Twitter, you speak your mind. My Twitter account's funny. Go to @KSorbs Follow me on Twitter. I know, but tell me. You saw my one. You saw the one I said, you want to get rid of COVID. Tell the Clintons COVID's got something on them. It's so good, but you don't, I mean you get people in the in the public eye maybe hold back and decide actually my career and this may affect it, you don't give a damn and you really want to speak your mind. I mean did you not make a kind of balance a judgment call on actually I've got a career should I speak my mind? How does that fit together because you speak truth and you don't hold back. Well, I didn't even think about it to be honest with you. I remember years ago, I was at I was at a, it was like 2008 or nine. And I was at a, I was at the Emmy Awards and with the Governor's Ball afterwards, we're heading to the ball. And Tom Selleck walked up to me, who's a conservative and he's not just as vocal as I am. And he told me I better tone down my rhetoric. And I went, this is 2008. I said, what do you mean tone down my rhetoric? I didn't think, you know, I didn't think Barbara Walters like 10 feet in front of me, you know. What am I doing that's so wrong? I didn't quite get it. And my wife kept warning me, Sam kept saying, they're gonna blacklist you, Kevin. I said, but I'm not saying anything horrible. I'm just saying, hey, isn't this great Ronald Reagan quote, what he said about abortion when he said, I've noticed everyone who's for abortion has already been born. I think that's an awesome quote for that. And all of a sudden that was negative stuff. I said, this is so weird. You know, Peter I want to meet these people. I need to meet these people that cancel you, cancel me, they need to come talk to us, because obviously they have led perfect sin-free lives and they need to really show us how to be people that are just as forgiving as they are and if people cannot detect the amount of sarcasm dripping out of my mouth right now then, I apologize. Sarcasm doesn't always come over online, I get that I have to explain. I want to touch on the two films you have coming up. You've got Reagan on August the 30th, you've also got firing squad August the 2nd; two very different films, but Reagan is I mean I has there been film really done on Reagan? I mean, I've looked and I don't see that. So actually, this really did catch my eye. Tell me how that came about? And I think your Reagan's pastor, Dennis Quaid, is in it. Tell us a bit about the film? Well, it came about, there have been Reagan miniseries, documentaries and stuff on him, but they've never done a full-scale movie like Oliver Stone did for JFK back in the day. And that's what this movie does. This really covers is his entire life. And Dennis Quaid and I worked together before. We did a wonderful movie called Soul Surfer, the life of Bethany Hamilton, the little 13 year old girl who lost her arm in a tiger shark attack. And Sean McNamara, who directed us in that, directed this movie as well. And Howie Klosner, who was a good friend of mine, he wrote the Reagan movie as well as writing Soul Surfer. And he just wrote the script off a book that I'm gonna be directing and starring in, hopefully early next year as well, called Four Seasons. It's a wonderful, touching, touching true story. You know, they came to me with it. I played the pastor when he was younger. So, it's David Henry, plays the younger Reagan. o, I'm in like the first part of the movie. Dennis did a great job. I've only seen bits and pieces of it. I've been invited to a couple of the screenings of it. But every time they've invited me, I've been off filming somewhere. So, the timing's always been bad. So, I'm looking forward to it. Coming out August 30th when it comes out in theaters. I'm going to go see it with everybody else. I like being in a theater with those kind of movies, those big epic movies. So, I'm looking forward to that. It just came about by that reason and that reason only. They called me up and said, hey, we got this role. I read it. And I said, heck, yeah, anything to do with Reagan, I'm going to be part of it. So I'm looking forward to it. Look, Reagan was a brilliant guy. Yeah, he was an actor. But he was always a politician. He was very smart. He used to be a sports broadcaster back in the day. He became the SAG president, the Screen Actors Guild president, before he became governor of California. And I just remember seeing the stuff he says. I challenge anybody to go online, look at Ronald Reagan's speeches, and tell me if he speaks better than Joe Biden or Joe Biden speaks better than Ronald Reagan. I mean, where we are right now, it's just, it's a comic book and it's just, but you know, we're coming up with another big election here. And I just think if you cannot have, you'll, we'll, we'll never have honest. Voting with mail-in votes. It's impossible. And I'm not just saying the left only, both sides can cheat. Who's going to cheat better? Because it's insane what we're doing right now. Now, to me, it's like you vote on the day of the election. I say make the election day a holiday. Go and vote. And you get one vote and show your bloody ID. There's nothing racist about showing an ID. It's so immature you say that. So, you're saying, oh, so a black person is too stupid to be able to get an ID. So, when they travel, every time I travel, there's any African-Americans in front of me. They show IDs. I feel like saying, was it difficult for you to get the ID? So, it's just silly. The reasons they come up with. And Biden, Uncle Joe, has let 15 million people across our border. You wait. We've already had all kinds of repercussions of the crime. You wait and see what happens with the amount of terrorists we've let into America. You think 9-11 was bad? It's going to be a massive 9-11 on scale in 30 cities on the same day in the next couple of years unless we do something about it. And I honestly believe that. I mean, Trump, I mean, I've had the privilege of seeing Trump speak three times and meeting him. And you watch a Trump rally and it's something to behold. He's great. We went to his birthday. His birthday party. We had 6,000 people. The room was packed for his birthday. And he was born on Flag Day here in America, which I find quite interesting. It's so good. But he connects with people like no other. And when you kind of see him speak, it kind of is that Reagan-esque. Because Reagan wasn't in politics. Can I tell you something to make people angry? That's me golfing with him right there. That's to give me a few more haters I love that. The guy is a really nice guy. I've known him for almost 20 years now. We met back in 2005. And I'll tell you something. He is so nice to people. They've spent the last nine years trying to find dirt on him. You know, they are slowly finding, okay, he had affairs. So did Clinton. So did everybody. There's hush money everywhere around. I don't advocate that, but to find stuff on his kids, they can't find nothing on his kids. He's a great father. We golf together, and we go out there. He thanks everybody on the course for being there. He walks up, gets out of his golf cart, shakes everybody's hands. He's very nice. He's got a sharp, sharp memory. And the only thing I want them to do when they have these debates coming up is shut the hell up. Let Biden talk. Let him just talk. Don't do what you did last time and cut him off every half a sentence. Let the guy talk and let America know. Look, I think there should be a drug test after the debates too, because all they're going to do is jack him up with B12 and whatever. They're going to put a human growth cell. I don't know. They'll do anything to make Biden coherent for about an hour. They've done that every time. We've seen enough on the news how he looks. And it's kind of, to me, it's sad. To me, it's like elderly abuse at this point. How does that, because, yeah, they need to sell that stuff, whatever it is they put them with, that actually is gold dust. It does seem to work for a time and then it malfunctions. And we see that over here. But it's the right, because we've seen a rise of opposition towards mass immigration, especially in the whole LGBT agenda across Europe and the European Parliamentary elections. We are seeing with Nigel Farage, suddenly excitement in the UK general election, 4th of July. And then you've got in November. And it does seem to be that people are waking up. It does seem to be the pendulum has swung too far one way. Yeah, people are waking up. It's just, you know, when you get, we get strong names out there. When you get like a Shaq, the basketball player, O'Neal, you know, Shaq O'Neal. You get Charles Barkley. And you know these are very wealthy very powerful African-Americans everybody knows they are, because of the sports world they even coming out and saying look what have the democrats done for us last six years? How they made our lives better? How they made poverty go away? How they how they made education get better? How they made job opportunities get better? They have not, so this is like people need to wake up and start going okay you know I'm tired of this voting this way for this reason, because I'll be honest, I voted for Clinton the second time around. I thought he did a pretty good job. He was more of a centrist. He was working with both sides of the aisle. I voted him for the second time around. So, I'll admit to that. I mean, I've always been a truly independent guy to look at things. But I think people just need to be honest about where is your life better? I mean, when Biden got in office, he took away everything that Trump did. Trump made us energy independent. Gas is $1.80 a gallon. It's still anywhere between $4 and $8 a gallon, depending what part of the country you're in here in America. He got rid of all that so we could buy oil from countries that hate us in the Middle East. So, we keep funding our own wars against ourselves. It's unbelievable. unbelievable and every time we do another 60 billion dollars to Ukraine. How much of that actually gets to Ukraine? I swear to god that comes back and they put a lot of that in their own pockets. It's just it's crazy what's going on in our country right now. It is so evil, it is so diabolical and we got a country here that just goes, oh well what can we? So apathy is what's ruling in America right now people need to wake the hell up. I agree, and for UK viewers they need to pray that actually the result in November is the result we want, because everything is indicating that way which makes me concerned. Can I, just one question on Reagan, how is Reagan viewed in the US, because Reagan and Margaret Thatcher they were kind together. Margaret Thatcher has been attacked certainly in the UK and maligned and ridiculed and her huge stature has been a topic of ridicule really with our media and our education system. What about President Reagan? Does he still have that stature that he had or is that under attack from the establishment? All I can tell you is that when we lived in California, we lived only eight miles away from the Reagan Library. So, we were home-schoolers. We had yearly subscriptions there. Every three or four months, we would go out there to see what was going on. Every time we went, that library was packed, was packed. And I was in Arkansas one time, so I went to see the Clinton Library just out of curiosity. It wasn't that crowded. I mean, it's interesting to see what these people are doing out there right now. Kevin, I saw you put a short video out talking about Firing Squad that's coming out on August the 2nd. Very different film than Reagan. And you were talking about not only the story itself, but the opportunity for people to respond to a salvation call to actually become Christians. I thought that's intriguing. I get the Christian movie but actually allowing people to respond to Christ, that's something different. mean tell us about the film and why you kind of want to use it to actually point people to Christ? Well first of all that was Tim Chey, the director, who came up with that he wants to save a million souls through the movie. So, that was his sort of his tagline is that I want to bring a million souls back to Christ or to find you know have Christ become a part of their lives. And I thought, it's great when they do it? Look, they did on God's Not Dead. It was amazing free advertising. They would Willie Robertson, you know, one of the Duck Dynasty guys at the end of the movie, he had sort of a cameo role in God's Not Dead. At the end of the movie, he looks at the audience and he says, take out your phones right now, text everyone you know, God's Not Dead. Brilliant free advertising. So, they just millions of more people said, what is this? The God's Not Dead thing. And then, but they were, what a way to get out to people. I He brought me the script and, you know, we tried to work together in a couple of the moves before. The timing was never right for either of us where he would, I'd be busy or he'd be busy, whatever. So, this one finally worked out. I read the script and I said, this is an amazing story. It's another true story, which I love these true stories. And it's about an American, I'm sort of one, it's Cuba Gooding Jr. is in the movie as well. And it's really, a three-way story but the main characters this other character that comes in that he is sort of the last guy that I try to save his soul, because I play a guy that in my 20'surfing in Indonesia. I saw a guy flirting with my girlfriend and he paddles in there he was angry, got in a fight with the guy, and he killed him. Whether it was on purpose or accident I don't know the full story behind it, but he got killed during the fight. He got the life imprisonment he got the death penalty in Indonesia, so during the next decades while I was in there this angry guy in his 20s found God, found Jesus, became a pastor, went through the whole thing, schooling, become a pastor. And we preach all the time within the prison. And he saved a lot of souls, the inmates and guards alike. And near the end of the movie, because it's more of the end of the movie after my ending, because he did get executed in 2015. He was actually executed by firing squad. So, they still have that in Indonesia. He refused to wear the mask because all the guards is a new one now because they became friends in a way. He wasn't a threat to anybody in the prison. He talked to everybody. And that was his home. And he realized that was going to be his home. And he took the mask off, just put it down. He smiled at him before they shot him and said, remember that God loves you and I love you too. And then they shot him. And it's just an amazing story. And August 2nd, that comes out. People go to film. It's called firingsquadfilm.com. It's firingsquadfilm.com. And they can see the trailer for the movie and get information. I hope it makes it over there across the pond. I'm hoping it does. We'll see what happens with it. I know they have plans for it. But, you know, it's just a wonderful story. And I was proud to be part of it. For the Reagan and Farrant Squad, do you have, like, premieres where you're at, where you show up beforehand? Because it is a conveyor belt in one way. You're doing so many, but it's not just the film. Actually, you have to promote it to let people know what's happening. So, what's your involvement with, I guess, both of those, firing squad beginning of August and then the end of August, Reagan? Well, firing squad is kind of because it's coming out almost four weeks before Reagan does. That's the one they've kept me really busy on. And I've been out, I mean, I think I've already done. Gosh probably least 150 interviews on it. Wow You're 151 so long it's and I've gone to about eight cities to show to talk about the movie and screen the movie. We've had like you know Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, wherever we go, and we have a screening for the movie. And I've been to other places where I do my normal speaking events but then we show a trailer for the movie. So, we're getting exposure out there, which is good. I think we're going to open here in America on 2,000 screens. I think that was the game plan. And, you know, we'll see what happens. But we need, once again, word of mouth. You know, we got a budget for promotion. But, you know, it's mostly guys like me and Cuba Gooding that are out there, you know, doing what they're doing, like interviews like this to try to bring some, you know, word of mouth. We can't afford to show a commercial at every sporting event or sitcom or soap opera here in America that shows the trailer. So, once again, we're battling against the behemoth of Hollywood and the divisive, angry, woke culture. You know, it's weird to me. I mean, I love when they call me homophobic. I'm going, well, I'm not afraid of people who are gay, so I'm not homophobic. And I've been in the industry for 40 years, and pretty much every movie I've been on, there's been a gay or a lesbian, somebody on set. You will not find one of them. You won't find one that say, oh, my gosh, he was so evil. He was so mean. Because I treat everybody the same. I like having a great time on the set. I like to keep it loose. I like to have a lot of laughs in between setups. And you just won't find one. But, you know, this is the culture we live in now. We live in a world that if your point of view is different than theirs, boom, they attack you. And you're guilty now before being proven innocent. And it's just crazy land right now. And these are people, I said, these people hate themselves. They do not like who they are. They don't like the direction they've taken in life. But they want to drag you, Peter, and me right down the black hole that they live in. And their attacks on me don't affect me at all. It doesn't make me think one way or another at all. I'm doing what I'm doing, because I love what I'm doing. And I look in the mirror and I like the life that I'm leading. These are people that hate who they are and they just want to spread their hate to the rest of the world. And it's a really sad and pathetic way to live every single day like this. Where because they failed in their life, they've just given up on life. I'm a 13-year overnight success, okay? I failed many times, but I never gave up. I kept plugging along, and that's what you got to do. Failure is a good thing. You learn from these things. But unfortunately, most people just want to blame the world for their problems, and they just give up. No, it's right you see the Antifa you see the LGBT and lobby and there when you look at it and it shows you good and evil because you see the evil you see it has to be demonic because, the anger the vitriol, the hatred, they have of a different viewpoint has to be demonic there's no other way of explaining it. Yeah, well pride pride is one of the deadly sins it's the most biggest is deadly sin. And here in America, we have pride month. Give them pride day. I don't care about that. But we give our vets one day. We give pride a month to a population that is, what, 3% of the population in America? They get a whole freaking month. Why? To me, it makes zero sense. And our vets get one day. One day. And these are the people, just like they did for the Brits, these are the people that have given people the right to have a free life, to have freedom of expression. And yet pride gets a whole month. It's crazy. Go back. You were saying that Maggie Thatcher had all these attacks on her. What did she do for England? She did amazing stuff for England. She brought it, I mean, she, yeah, that's socialism, but she brought it into the world of capitalism as well and opened so many doors for people and cleaned up neighborhoods and cleaned up crime. But that's the left. They're doing the same thing in America. They're attacking that. I remember meeting a guy, Giuliani, he cleaned up New York City. New York City became walkable again. Look at now. It's just a dirt hole. Every city in America, my home state of Minnesota, is just as bad as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Salem, all these places. I mean, Seattle. They're all horrible now. Every single one are run by Democrats. What does that say to people? People now look at that and go, here we go. Look at all these things, and they're all run by Democrats. All right, Detroit, Detroit in the early 1950s was the number one economy in America, mostly because of the car industry. Number one economy, three million people living there. They have not had a Republican mayor since 1954. Look at them now, 600,000 people in that city now. They lost 2.4 million people, moved the hell out of there. They said, this city is, hey, forget it, we're out of here. And it's just sad. And yet people sit there and still vote the same way. You know, we got 8 million people have left the state of California in 10 years. 8 million have left the state of California. They're filling in Nevada. They're filling in Texas. They're filling in Tennessee, filling in Florida. And all the posts, you know, these posters are up saying, don't California our state. You know, because they leave that state. There's liberals leaving that state in droves. They moved to another state, and yet they vote the same way. And then they see that state start to fall, and they're going, huh, I wonder what the problem is here. So it's like, wake the hell up. That's true. I mean, just on the political side, to finish off with, I remember going to L.A for the first time ever in 2022, going twice and thinking: I wish I was here whenever Reagan was governor. I wish I was here to actually experience what the state was like, because what it is now is a world away. Azerson, I think L.A and D.C being the only places in the states that I felt unsafe. yeah You go to Florida, you go to Texas, even Virginia, lots of other places Colorado and and it's it's beautiful, it's lovely. You don't have that fear where actually I remember vividly on the subway in D.C and L.A and thinking: I don't want to do this again this isn't good. No, it's horrible. It's horrible what they've done. There's a, there was a buddy of mine left San Diego; this is like two or three years ago, he got it. He said, I'm done. He went to get a U-Haul, a truck to move all his stuff out of his house. He was moving to Texas. He took a picture of Employee of the Year, and it was Governor Newsom for the UL company, because so many people left that state. And he'll probably be the one running for president next go-around. I mean, it's just like, what, because he's got good hair? He was horrible at what he's done to that state. And how are they dealing with homeless people now? They're walking around giving them shots of vodka. That's their answer. Give them clean needles and shots of vodka and everything will just be fantastic. Oh, I agree it's a disaster and I mean we're praying for a result in November. Kevin I really appreciate you coming on I'm really looking forward to the Firing Squad and to Reagan the end of August. I hope they make it over the water over to the UK and Europe. I hope so too and I appreciate being on there. Go to sorbostudios.com, a lot of good stuff at sorbostudios.com and follow me on twitter. You want a good laugh every day follow me on twitter. I'll 100% agree with that, but all the links are in the description Twitter and sorbostudios.com Kevin thank you so much for your time. All right thanks Peter appreciate it.

Speakers: Natasha Kaneva, Head of Global Commodities Research Tracey Allen, Head of Agricultural Commodities Research Gregory Shearer, Head of Base and Precious Metal Research   We believe the recent pullback in commodities is just that—a pullback—and we continue to see a 10% appreciation in the broader BCOM Commodities index by year-end. Underpinning our constructive BCOM and sectorial recommendations is the expectation that in addition to supportive fundamentals over the next two and a half months commodities would be likely exposed to a confluence of forces, among them weather-related volatility and pests, but also European Parliamentary elections, China's Third Plenum and the onset of the Fed's rate cutting cycle.   This podcast was recorded on 21 June2024. This communication is provided for information purposes only. Institutional clients can view the related report at https://www.jpmm.com/research/content/GPS-4717019-0 for more information; please visit www.jpmm.com/research/disclosures for important disclosures. © 2024 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. This material or any portion hereof may not be reprinted, sold or redistributed without the written consent of J.P. Morgan. It is strictly prohibited to use or share without prior written consent from J.P. Morgan any research material received from J.P. Morgan or an authorized third-party (“J.P. Morgan Data”) in any third-party artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems or models when such J.P. Morgan Data is accessible by a third-party. It is permissible to use J.P. Morgan Data for internal business purposes only in an AI system or model that protects the confidentiality of J.P. Morgan Data so as to prevent any and all access to or use of such J.P. Morgan Data by any third-party.

Tommy and Ben discuss the success of far-right parties in the European Parliamentary elections and debate whether French President Emmanuel Macron's call for snap elections in France is bold or disastrous. Then they talk about British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's shocking decision to skip a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the latest developments out of Israel and Gaza, including ceasefire negotiations, Benny Gantz leaving Netanyahu's war cabinet, and the ethics of an Israeli hostage rescue in Gaza that resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties. They also walk through the horrific state of affairs in the civil war in Sudan, a foreign election interference scandal rocking Canada, a Chinese waterfall getting a little help from the government, and why Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is still very, very dumb. Then Ben interviews Dr. Rosa Balfour, the Director of Carnegie Europe, about the broader implications of the European Parliamentary election results on issues like climate change. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that legislative elections will take place with two rounds on June 30 and July 7. This followed the conclusion of European Parliamentary elections with far-right parties advancing in France, Germany and Italy. Prof. Peter McPhee at the University of Melbourne analyses why this is happening at this time and what the outcome might be.Image Credit: Shutterstock.com

France's President Macron plays political poker after a thumping in the European elections, gambling on snap elections for the national parliament. And as the far right makes gains across much – if not all – of Europe, we ask, where next for the European Union?Also in the programme: as the US secretary of state begins his latest Middle East tour, what's changed in Israel? And the widow of the Islamic State leader says she couldn't stop her husband's crimes.(IMAGE: Supporters watch French President Emmanuel Macron's speech on a large screen at the electoral party after the announcement of the results of the European Parliamentary elections in Paris, France, 09 June 2024 / CREDIT: Christophe Petit-Tesson / EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

One of the biggest exercises in democracy this year is filling 720 seats from 27 countries in the European Parliamentary elections. As results continue to flood in, a split-screen image is emerging. Establishment parties did well in many countries and EU Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen's centrist European People's party will remain the largest group. But in France, Marine Le Pen and her far-right allies won twice as many seats as centrist President Emmanuel Macron's party. Italy's former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, whose centre-left party failed to win any seats, joins the show from Rome, and journalist and author Christine Ockrent joins the show from Paris.   Also on today's show: Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; author Ernesto Londoño  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

//The Wire//2130Z June 10, 2024////ROUTINE////BLUF: DENMARK PM SHOVED IN COPENHAGEN. POLITICAL TENSIONS RISE AMID ELECTIONS IN EUROPE.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE------International Events-Denmark: Local reports indicate Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was assaulted in Copenhagen on Saturday. AC: Though the PM's office has refused to provide a name or the description of the assailant, local eyewitness testimony suggests this may not have been a targeted attack. The man was allegedly walking in the opposite direction, “shoulder checked” the PM, and continued walking until her security detail apprehended him. Based on these details it's possible that the man didn't know who she was (and therefore was just socially impolite), or otherwise was simply interested in pursuing random street violence.Europe: Over the weekend, the European Parliament election results have caused significant ire throughout the continent due to allegedly far-right (by European standards) candidates or parties expanding their held seats throughout the continent.In France, President Macron has dissolved Parliament and called for a snap election in a bid to keep control amid his opponents' rising (and already dominating) support. In Germany, Chancelor Scholz was dealt a similar blow as the AfD party won out over 16% of the vote, up from 11% in 2019.AC: Though an elective body completely foreign to the United States, the European Parliamentary elections can sometimes serve as indications and warnings of political leanings throughout Europe, especially if European citizens are exceptionally unsatisfied.Much of the political turmoil mounting around the world surrounds the issue of immigration (legal or not), which has become a very important consideration for voters in 2024. By American standards, this latest European Parliament election resulted in what Americans may refer to as a “red wave”, with conservatives sweeping many seats. However, it also must be noted that by American standards, many of the conservative parties central to Europe are not entirely conservative on issues that may be important to voters.-HomeFront-Washington D.C. – Over the weekend, pro-Palestine supporters (along with self-described Hamas supporters) conducted their latest “direct action” event at the White House. Taking cues from previous far-left organized demonstrations, pro-Palestine demonstrations are becoming less and less organic.-----END TEARLINE-----Analyst Comments: As the protest season ramps up in the United States, it's important to consider that mission creep has likely taken place with regards to the Palestinian issue…mission creep which probably has a few origins and explanations. For instance, various funding sources will seek to de-legitimize the issue itself by funding demonstrations that are increasingly hostile to an American audience. In the beginning, pro-Palestine demonstrations could have appealed to common American social norms and mores by expressing legitimate concerns. However at this point, the staunchly pro-Jihad/anti-American nature of the protests is so out-of-touch with the measures needed to gain support with the average American that it's probably intentional in some situations and locales. Out of all of the legitimate complaints Palestinian supporters could be raising, the majority of pro-Palestine demonstrations usually take on the characteristics of being politically far-left rallies against civilization at large. If the goal of this was to delegitimize the Palestinian cause, that mission has fairly well been accomplished as many Americans have become fatigued with the entire conflict. However, whether the situation is best represented by Israel amplifying content showing the bad behavior of various “Palestinian” supporters with the goal of de-legitimizing their issues, or if the situation is simply many Palestine supporters revealing their true goals ove

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit paulpodolsky.substack.comSummary:* Keep an eye on Serbia.* No US easing.More below:Over the weekend, the hard-right made gains in European Parliamentary voting. Last week, Senator Tuberville (R. Alabama) said Putin “doesn't want Ukraine.” That extreme rightwing leaders are gaining even while we can see what the hard right looks like—Putin invading Ukraine—tells you something odd is afoot. If I had to reduce the rise of the hard right to one cause, I'd point to wildly disruptive technology. Yes, immigration plays a role in some places, but that clearly doesn't apply to Russia and China where people are trying to get out. More likely is the more we delight in new tech—computers that “think” for us—the more something deeply emotional rebels and seeks to preserve “tradition.” For some those traditions are found in religion for others in fixed gender roles. The contradiction between a delight in novelty and an affinity for the old is in each of us. It's just a matter of degree. While I embrace modernity, I've also taken to shutting down my phone on Saturdays. The difference is that I do this voluntarily and anti-modernist strictures impose such orders. If forced to turn off my phone, I'd probably turn it on. How does this tie to a podcast on Serbia?Serbia is a tiny country—6 million people—on the fault line of this modernism fissure, an ally of Russia but supposedly aspiring to be part of the EU. A belligerent in the 1990s Balkan wars and the home of the person who assassinated Arch-Duke Ferdinand (see my Letter from Sarajevo) to start World War I, Serbia is in a sometimes bloody dispute with Kosovo, which has declared independence from Serbia but which Belgrade does not recognize. It isn't hard to imagine this conflict spiraling, Russia backing Serbia and NATO and the EU backing Kosovo and, bam, Ukraine squared.The EU represents money and modernity, Russia past (Soviet) norms. I was researching the sequel to Master, Minion and came upon Mark Montgomery and Ivana Stradner, two people who know a lot about Serbia and US foreign policy and were kind enough to share their insights. Ivana grew up in Serbia and teaches at Johns Hopkins' SAIS and Mark spent over 30 years in the US Navy, retiring as a Rear Admiral. Both are now with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Investment Outlook

Too Long: https://www.toolong.newsWelcome to the TLDR News Daily BriefingIn today's episode, we run through the results from the European Parliamentary elections, bringing you the major stories from France, Germany, Hungary, the Nordic countries and more.

Rates strategists Francis Diamond, Fabio Bassi and Aditya Chordia discuss some current key themes and topics for European rate markets. They cover the upcoming May ECB meeting, valuations in swap and bond space views on swap spreads, the upcoming French ratings review and the relevance of European Parliamentary and the UK general election for rate markets.    This podcast was recorded on 31 May 2024. This communication is provided for information purposes only. Institutional clients can view the related report at https://www.jpmm.com/research/content/GPS-4713356-0 for more information; please visit www.jpmm.com/research/disclosures for important disclosures. © 2024 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. This material or any portion hereof may not be reprinted, sold or redistributed without the written consent of J.P. Morgan. It is strictly prohibited to use or share without prior written consent from J.P. Morgan any research material received from J.P. Morgan or an authorized third-party (“J.P. Morgan Data”) in any third-party artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems or models when such J.P. Morgan Data is accessible by a third-party. It is permissible to use J.P. Morgan Data for internal business purposes only in an AI system or model that protects the confidentiality of J.P. Morgan Data so as to prevent any and all access to or use of such J.P. Morgan Data by any third-party.

The European Parliamentary elections will take place next month, and with anti-aid and anti-migrant parties poised to make big gains, there are fears for the future of the world's second-largest development budget. According to one senior Brussels politician, the controversial swiping of €2 billion from the development pot to fund a crackdown on illegal migration could just be the start of the European Union's reduced focus on supporting global development initiatives. We explore how Europe's political landscape is changing, as well as what it could mean to the EU's approach to foreign assistance. In South Africa, we found that the country's politics is preventing NGOs from effectively delivering health services to refugees and migrants. Aid groups and civil society organizations are trying to untangle the snarled problem of how to guarantee access to health services for all people who are far from home — whether that home is in another country or somewhere else in South Africa — without creating disparities in health care services that enrage local communities. On the topic of the continent, Devex obtained a copy of an African Union audit that examined accusations against Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention's Director General Dr. Jean Kaseya. The audit, which was finalized in March, analyzed over a dozen allegations in a February whistleblower email. We dig into the claims, including allegations of misusing funds, flouting rules, and exhibiting favoritism, among others. For the latest episode of our podcast series, Devex President and Editor-in-Chief Raj Kumar sits down with Managing Editor Anna Gawel and Senior Reporter Sara Jerving to discuss these stories and others. Sign up to the Devex Newswire and our other newsletters: https://www.devex.com/account/newsletters

The 2024 Sustainability Regulation Outlook report is now live! It covers the key implications of sustainability related regulations across financial services and non-financial services. The report contains key insights on pivotal topics with crucial consequences for financial services and the real economy such as decarbonisation, greenwashing, sustainability reporting and circularity. In this episode, Isha Gupta from the EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy is joined by authors of the report and senior managers in Deloitte's Sustainability Regulation Hub, Magda Puzniak-Holford and Ramon Bravo Gonzalez to discuss what firms should be focusing on to prepare for the deluge of sustainability related regulations. The trio are privileged to be joined by Jane Gimber, Head of Sustainability from Fleishman Hillard a consulting firm based in Brussels, who provides key insights on the impact that the upcoming European Parliamentary elections will have on all of this.

The far-right has seen its popularity grow across Europe in recent years and is expected to gain a quarter of the seats in the European Parliamentary elections this year. In this episode, Dr Georgios Samaras, Assistant Professor in Public Policy at King's College London's International School for Government, looks at what is behind the rise of the far-right, its wider implications and what society and individuals can do to halt or reverse this trend.If you are interested in gaining further insights from Dr Samaras and other experts across King's around this extraordinary year of elections, check out our Poll to Poll 2024 series of comment pieces and events. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Portugal's election leaves the country uncertain of its future but heartens Europe's radical rightSummary: The general election Portugal held over the weekend has ended inconclusively, but a far-right party that's only been around for about five years—the Chega, or “Enough” party—gained a substantial amount of power, surging from just 12 parliamentary seats in 2022 to 48 seats this time around.Context: It'll likely be several weeks before one of the country's main parties is able to form a coalition government, but the rise of more extreme versions of conservative politics in Portugal over the past few years mirrors what some other European nations have seen, and that rightward lean could substantially impact the European Parliamentary elections that will be held in June, possibly tilting the whole of EU policy toward a more populist, traditionalist orientation.—The Associated PressOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Russia sacks naval commander after humiliating Black Sea lossesSummary: Russian President Putin has reportedly fired the country's naval commander, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, following a series of very public, at times quite substantial losses to Ukrainian attacks in the Black Sea. Context: Evmenov has been in charge of Russia's navy since 2019, and he's being replaced by the commander of Russia's Northern Fleet, Alexander Moiseev; Russia has tallied a series of small, but symbolically important victories on the ground in Ukraine in recent months, but their offensive push has reportedly stalled over the past few weeks, and their performance in the Black Sea has been a lot less impressive, Ukraine managing to sink and shoot down several high-value warships and aircraft, in turn forcing the Russian navy to move its fleet from the area to avoid being targeted, which has significantly reduced the fleet's value in the conflict.—Financial TimesBoeing whistleblower John Barnett found deadSummary: A former Boeing employee who became a whistleblower, John Barnett, was found dead of what seems to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound over the weekend.Context: Barnett retired from the company in 2017 after working at Boeing for several decades, and he filed a whistleblower complaint about quality-control and safety issues that same year, also alleging that Boeing had retaliated against him for his complaint; in 2022, a judge denied a motion from Boeing to dismiss Barnett's complaint about the harassment campaign the company purportedly deployed against him, and all of this is especially newsworthy right now because of all the issues planes made by Boeing have faced in recent years, and because of speculation by some that Barnett's death may not have been a suicide—though it's important to note that there's currently no evidence at all that foul play was involved.—The Washington PostAs the US invests in further efforts to get aid to Gazan citizens (in the face of counter-efforts by the Israeli government that have kept aid from flowing at a scale necessary to stave-off starvation), there are questions as to whether air-drops and an impending influx of maritime shipments will make much of a dent in the burgeoning humanitarian crisis in the region.—Financial Times$1.4 billionValuation of canned water company Liquid Death after closing a $67 million round of financing.This is a company that sells water in cans with a heavy metal-inspired design, and the company says they had $263 million-worth of retail sales through registers in 2023, alone.—Food DiveTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to our weekend edition of free speech and straight talking as Godfrey Bloom is back with us for some news driven chat and discussion, giving his unbridled opinions on some of the top stories bouncing around this week on the web, in the tabloids and on his social media. Topics under the spotlight... - Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved bitcoin ETFs.  - Why it seems like everyone is sick right now? — and Covid isn't to blame. - Thousands of Polish patriots take to the streets of Warsaw to protest the illegal jailing of conservative MPs by globalist puppet Tusk. - Not my King? Royal Family faces breaking point as support drops below 50% for the first time. - How disgraced ex-Post Office chief nearly became the Bishop of London after being 'supported' by the woke wet-wipe, Archbishop Canterbury Justin Welby. - Huge blow to EV car revolution as sales to Brits plummet – with electric cars just a quarter of new purchases. - Bus go BANG! Electric double decker bus in London bursts into flames after huge 'bang' heard. - WHITEWASH: Covid inquiry postpones vaccine investigation. - Almost 4,000 migrants caught pretending to be kids to sneak into Britain — with some in their thirties. Godfrey Bloom is a libertarian author with six books published on both military history & Austrian School Economics. He worked in the City of London where he won an international prize for fund management (fixed interest) with Mercury Asset Management. Bloom finished his city career as General Manager of a life assurance company. He represented Yorkshire & Lincolnshire in the European Parliament & was a staunch campaigner for Brexit for twenty five years. During his term of office he attracted over sixty million views on his chamber speeches exposing State bank & tax malpractice on Facebook & You Tube. Thought to be an all time record. He brought experience if not influence to the mainly lay EU Parliamentary Monetary & Economic Affairs Committee, putting both members & European Central Bank President under unaccustomed pressure. Godfrey Bloom passed out of Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1976 & served as logistics liaison officer to 4th Armed Division in Germany. He is an Associate Member of the Royal College of Defence Studies & has presented papers & lectures to The RCDS, Joint Services Staff College, National Defence University Washington & too many universities to list. His speciality is procurement & geo political military strategy. Godfrey Bloom is holder of the Territorial Decoration & bar, Sovereign's Medal, Armed Forces Parliamentary Medal & European Parliamentary silver medal. Connect with Godfrey... WEBSITE:              https://godfreybloom.uk/ X:                           https://x.com/goddersbloom?s=20 SUBSTACK:          https://godfreybloom.substack.com/ Interview recorded 12.1.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... WEBSITE               https://heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS           https://heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA     https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Support Hearts of Oak by purchasing one of our fancy T-Shirts....  SHOP                  https://heartsofoak.org/shop/ Episode links... bitcoin https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/11/bitcoin-etf-approved-sec-explained-meaning-securities-regulator-tweet everyone is sick https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/07/seems-like-just-everyone-a-cold-right-now-20077354/ Polish patriotshttps://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1745461397037998519?s=20 https://x.com/EvaVlaar/status/1745425877461037509?s=20 Royal Family https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1853699/royal-family-support-drops-poll-king-charles Post Office chief https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12944243/How-disgraced-ex-Post-Office-chief-Paula-Vennells-nearly-Bishop-London-supported-application-Archbishop-Canterbury-Justin-Welby.html EV car https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/25269522/electric-car-sales-decrease/ bus banghttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12950765/London-electric-double-decker-bus-fire-Wimbledon.html Covid inquiry https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67935037 migrants https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25273358/migrants-pretending-kids-britain/#:~:text=NEARLY%204%2C000%20asylum%20seekers%20have,turned%20out%20to%20be%20adults.&text=That%20includes%20887%20rumbled%20from%20January%20to%20September%20last%20year

In this episode of the Vienna Coffeehouse Conversations, host Ivan Vejvoda engages with Alberto Alemanno, a leading voice on Europe's democratization. The discussion focuses on the state of democracy in Europe and the European Union, emphasizing the rise of far-right parties and the challenges of upcoming elections, including the 2024 European Parliamentary elections. Alemanno provides insights into electoral trends, the role of conservative parties, and the narrative of a Europe of nations. The conversation also covers the European Council meeting in December 2023, touching on decisions regarding Ukraine and Moldova, and institutional reforms within the EU. Alemanno expresses skepticism about the meeting's potential outcomes due to the complex geopolitical landscape and internal EU politics.The discussion further explores the EU's handling of rule of law issues, the implications of a potential Russian victory in Ukraine for Europe, and challenges in addressing migration and climate change. Alemanno stresses the need for a reimagined European political process that aligns with sociocultural transformations within the continent. The podcast concludes with reflections on the evolving European identity and the disconnect between the political system and the lived experience of Europeans.Guest Bio: Alberto Alemanno is a Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris since 2009, a permanent visiting professor at the University of Tokyo's School of Public Policy and the College of Europe in Bruges​​ and a 2023/24 Europe's Futures Fellow of ERSTE Foundation and IWM Vienna. He began his academic career as a teaching assistant at the College of Europe in Bruges in 2001, later pursuing a PhD at Bocconi University. Alemanno is a qualified attorney in New York and has worked as a law clerk at the Court of Justice of the European Union and the General Court of the European Union. He is a Global Clinical Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he directs the HEC-NYU EU Public Interest Clinic​.​Alemanno advises NGOs, governments, and international organizations on various aspects of European Union law, international regulatory cooperation, international trade, and global health law. He has been involved in several significant advocacy campaigns and initiatives, including co-launching Newropeans, one of the first transnational political parties, and campaigning for plain tobacco packaging and other public health initiatives​.He has received awards such as Ashoka Fellow 2019, BMW Responsible Leader 2017, and Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum in 2015​​. Alemanno has published extensively in leading international law journals and is the founder and editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Risk Regulation​.Find Alberto Alemanno on X: @alemannoEUAlberto Alemanno's Book "Lobbying for Change" can be found on his official website at albertoalemanno.com/advocacy-lobbying/lobbying-for-change-find-your-voice-to-create-a-better-society​​.The Good Lobby's official website at thegoodlobby.eu​​. Ivan Vejvoda is Head of the Europe's Futures program at IWM implemented in partnership with ERSTE Foundation. The program is dedicated to the cultivation of knowledge and the generation of ideas addressing pivotal challenges confronting Europe and the European Union: nexus of borders and migration, deterioration in rule of law and democracy and European Union's enlargement prospects.The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) is an institute of advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences. Founded as a place of encounter in 1982 by a young Polish philosopher, Krzysztof Michalski, and two German colleagues in neutral Austria, its initial mission was to create a meeting place for dissenting thinkers of Eastern Europe and prominent scholars from the West.Since then it has promoted intellectual exchange across disciplines, between academia and society, and among regions that now embrace the Global South and North. The IWM is an independent and non-partisan institution, and proudly so. All of our fellows, visiting and permanent, pursue their own research in an environment designed to enrich their work and to render it more accessible within and beyond academia.you can find IWM's website at:https://www.iwm.at/

In her remarks to the IIEA, Dr Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan reflects on France's 2023, and discuss possibilities for 2024. She reflects on President Macron's second term, the challenges posed by civil unrest in France, and the country's experience with migration. Looking to 2024, Dr Schon-Quinlivan discusses France's preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, France's European Parliamentary elections as well as the possibility of a referendum on EU enlargement. About the Speaker: Dr Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan is a lecturer in European politics in the Department of Government, UCC. She was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in Active European Citizenship in 2021 and a Jean Monnet Teacher Training grant, one of only 20 Europe-wide, in 2022. She teaches European policy-making and institutional politics as well as French politics. She is the Director of UCC's Hub in Active European Citizenship.

Show notes and Transcript Godfrey Bloom is well known for his time as a UKIP MEP in the European Parliament where he served 3 terms, but he joins Hearts of Oak today to discuss all things finance.  Godfrey's career was in the military, financial economics and he spent many years as an investment banker.  He has written many books including 'The Magic Of Banking: The Coming Collapse'.  Godfrey discusses how he has managed to fuse together a life in the army, in politics and in finance.  He then then delves into the shadowy financial institutions which control all our lives and have pushed every government into a spiral of debt that will sooner or later collapse the global financial system.  We finish by looking at gold and why Godfrey believes it is the perfect store of wealth. Godfrey Bloom is a libertarian author with six books published on both military history & Austrian School Economics. He worked in the City of London where he won an international prize for fund management (fixed interest) with Mercury Asset Management. Bloom finished his city career as General Manager of a life assurance company. He represented Yorkshire & Lincolnshire in the European Parliament & was a staunch campaigner for Brexit for twenty five years. During his term of office he attracted over sixty million views on his chamber speeches exposing State bank & tax malpractice on Facebook & You Tube. Thought to be an all time record. He brought experience if not influence to the mainly lay EU Parliamentary Monetary & Economic Affairs Committee, putting both members & European Central Bank President under unaccustomed pressure. Godfrey Bloom passed out of Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1976 & served as logistics liaison officer to 4th Armed Division in Germany. He is an Associate Member of the Royal College of Defence Studies & has presented papers & lectures to The RCDS, Joint Services Staff College, National Defence University Washington & too many universities to list. His speciality is procurement & geo political military strategy. Godfrey Bloom is holder of the Territorial Decoration & bar, Sovereign's Medal, Armed Forces Parliamentary Medal & European Parliamentary silver medal.  Connect with Godfrey... WEBSITE:     https://godfreybloom.uk/ X:                  https://x.com/goddersbloom?s=20 SUBSTACK: https://godfreybloom.substack.com/ Interview recorded 19.9.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Support Hearts of Oak by purchasing one of our fancy T-Shirts.... https://heartsofoak.org/shop/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Godfrey Bloom, it is wonderful to have you with us today. Thank you so much for your time. (Godfrey Bloom) A pleasure to be here.  Great to have you and people can follow you @GoddersBloom on Twitter. Godfreybloom.uk is the website and godfreybloom.substack.com. On the website you can get about gold and your wealth, the great reset, climate and green energy, COVID, military, all topics that I know our viewers and listeners will be interested in. But for our viewers who may not have come across Godfrey Bloom, he has a long and varied career encompassing financial services, army, politics. It was the politics where I first came across you serving two terms, I think for UKIP in the European Parliament. And one of Godfrey's books, all available on the website, but is The Magic of Banking, the coming collapse paperback. Now Godfrey, how did you manage to fuse together finance, military and politics? It's an interesting mix. Well, of course, it's the only advantage of being very old is that you get lots of opportunities to do lots of stuff. So it's not because I'm particularly clever, it's because I'm particularly old. So just to bear in mind my background in the 1960s, I went into the city with a very prestigious Broking House in the 1960s, about 1966-67, in those days. Now, in those days, if you were going to get anywhere in the city, it was, first of all, you had to wear a bowler hat. You had to have a bowler hat, and it seems a long time ago now, but you didn't have to wear it, you just had to make sure you had it on the hat stand. I still got it. And the other thing, a couple of things, all the senior directors were wartime officers. All the middle management were National Service officers. So you had to have some kind of military connection. Shore Service Commission, Territorial Army Commission, perhaps with a prestigious regiment. And so on and so forth, and you had to play rugger, as we called it in those days. I ticked every box in a fairly modest kind of way. That all fused together. As you go through life, something pops up. My main life was an investment fund manager, a pension investment fund manager, specializing in fixed interest with a view to pension investment. Dull, very un-prestigious. The equity boys were the glamour boys. It was a bit like the difference between a fighter pilot in the war and coastal command. I was more coastal command. So that's what you had to do. And then I was in a territorial regiment and I was then attached, I did a short service with regular back to the territorial army, so on and so forth. Started in life armoured reconnaissance with 4th Armoured Division in Germany. Where we had the sort of stuff that you see now in old black-and-white movies was actually state-of-the-art stuff when I was soldiering. It was all a very long time ago. Then, when I worked for a very prestigious investment house in the city, I was asked to investigate the implications of becoming the common currency, as it was called then in the late 80s and early 90s, what did it entail, so on and so forth. I had a very good team of statisticians and people. I looked at that and I saw the implications. I dug deeper into the implications of our membership of the European Union. And the deeper I dug, the smellier the whole thing got. And that drew me into politics in 2004, where I resigned from the board of financial service companies and went into politics, which was an eye-opening experience. So that's why I came to do all these things. You couldn't do that now, I don't think, because the world has changed and everything is really too focused on micromanagement and micro career patterns and so on and so forth. So I was very lucky to be born when I was, you could have a really holistic kind of career pattern, which gave me my army and politics and business. So I had all three. I don't think you could do that now.  Very true. And I think that connection with the military and our politics public service has gone as well. And I think that's a shame for our country. But let me talk to you. Many people think they are free to vote for what they want. They're free to go where they want. They're free to use their money as they want. But it's that financial freedom or maybe lack of it. I want to talk to you about. There are financial institutions that can operate in the shadows that control our lives. And I know you've written about this, you've done videos about this. Do you want to kind of touch on that and maybe pull the veil slightly back on that? Well, I think it was Jacob Rothschild who actually got it dead right, for better or for worse, and I would suggest worse. And that was, he said, it doesn't matter who you vote for, it's who controls the money. And of course it's been the Rothschilds being part of the cabal that controls money. Since I don't know, probably 120, 130 years at least, not just in this country, in Europe as well. So he who controls the money. And of course, as we become a more secular society, money becomes the primary goal. It is the religion. It is the religion of Western Europe, it's the religion of North America. It's how much money. In a secular society, of course, you lose any form of moral compass. If indeed, perhaps there was any moral compass, I don't know, but I'm sure there was more moral compass in yesteryear than there is now. So the deal is, and which means you can buy any journalist and you can buy any politician. And almost every single journalist and every single politician is bought. There are very few exceptions. It isn't always overt, but you've only got to look at certain responses from journalists. And I'll give you one very easy example of that. In Syria, for example, when the CIA and the Washington neo-cons are trying to destabilize Syria in order to get their pipeline coming from Qatar, it's all about money, it's all about money and influence, and this is what was happening. Then of course you would find the CIA would put out a press release saying Assad has dropped poison gas on his own people and he's a very bad guy. That would be a CIA press release. Now, people like Andrew Neil on BBC TV would read that out within hours of it being circulated. There was no possible question of us checking whether it was true or not. And Andrew Neil, who was a sort of dwyan of supposedly independent broadcasting, joke, joke, would read that out with a straight face, which meant everybody watching BBC would believe that to be true. And of course, subsequently, we find out that it wasn't true at all. It was CIA propaganda. Or indeed, I have to say, sadly, MI6 or MI5 propaganda. So you're getting a constant stream of lies from legacy broadcasting, and people believe that it was the same in the fake pandemic. 80% of people in this country will believe it if it's on the BBC, and psychologically, I did a course with the Smithsonian Institute on trying to get to the bottom of this psychologically. 80% of the people, I don't think it's just true of Britain, I think it's 80% of most of the Western industrialized countries, will believe anything they're told, and people do. The people who push back against it are kicked out or de-platformed. I mean I'm de-platformed. I used to be a regular speaker at Cambridge University and various other universities. I can't get on now. I haven't been interviewed by the BBC now for years. Dissent is verboten. So there's no concept of dissent. But if you do an audit trail of all of it and you if you go right back and find out why is this. You will find it's about money or political power. There are no exceptions and there are no good guys left in politics. Well obviously in finance we've seen, I mean Nigel Farage just talked about his issues with banking, it's happened to many many others and it seems as though banks can punish people for whatever reason and I think that's a world away from the traditional view of the bank being someone who kind of looks after your money, it's safe, it's cared for, it's maybe invested well, and I think what we've seen in the last few months has been a completely different side from the banks. Yes, but of course the banks have been politicized as well, have they not? You're looking at concepts of ESG, so your ratings for stock holdings by BlackRock and Vanguard, who are the biggest investors in the world, together they own the world, basically. They actually own each other, but that's another long story. So you have Larry Fink and people of this Vanguard, of course, and people you don't even know who voted, because it's not publicly quoted, so you don't even quite know who really owns it. So, it's highly politicized. And, of course, the situation with Nigel Farage was interesting, because NatWest and Coutts are 38% owned by the government. So, you couldn't get more to be more of a political bank than NatWest. It is a government bank. And the chief executive was put there because she was a government appointee. She has no knowledge of anything, finance, whatever. I mean, laughable. I mean, when I was the director of a main investment bank years ago, I wouldn't have employed her to clean the cars. She's utterly hopeless. She's a political agitator with a clean, squeaky-clean record, common purpose, WEF, the whole tutti-frutti. Of course. Expertise went out, and so did discretion and confidentiality. She had to go because she broke confidentiality, which is at the basis of banking, and Coutts in particular, where I also used to be a client when I had enough money to be a client of Coutts Bank. So you have all these problems. Of course, it's interesting enough, she's gone. She went with £2.3 million payoff. And I bet you anything you like, in two or three months, she'll pop up somewhere else in a very senior, very highly paid appointment. That's how the game plan works, all right? So, it's all about money and so on and so forth, but of course, I have to say... This has been going for some time. They did the same thing to Tommy Robinson, they did the same thing to Britain First, they did the same thing with the political platform of For Britain. They were debanked, which means it's very difficult to function in modern society if you have no form of bank. You can't collect subscriptions, you can't do anything. Interesting though, I have to say, this has been going on for some time. But when it happened to Nigel? That's a different game, is it? Oh, that's a much different game. It happened to Nigel. Nigel wasn't bothered about this until it happened to him. It's the old theory, isn't it, of Winston Churchill. You placate the crocodile on the basis that you hope he will eat you last. No, it's true. I thought exactly the same, although I was thankful for a high-profile figure to highlight the injustice. But you're right, it's happened to most individuals don't have the ability to have a nationally out program or a newspaper column to talk about this injustice. So at least it is being aired. But as you pointed out, the madness of a bank being partially government owned and the government said, it's not our fault. And you wonder, well, whose fault is this? And they were blaming past regulation. You mentioned some of those companies, BlackRock and Vanguard, and these are shadowy companies. They own parts of many companies. They're very large shareholders of many institutions. Kind of how has it got to that? Should that worry people? Is this just how financing capitalism works or is there a darker side to this? No, one has to just remind everybody, certainly the younger generation, the difference between mercantilism and capitalism. Capitalism is laissez-faire. It means that you invest, you pretty well do what you damn well like, and the only demonstration of true capitalism post-war, of course, was Hong Kong under John Cooperthwaite, where his view was, it's my job to make sure the drains work and the police aren't corrupt, nothing else is my business. That's capitalism and of course that produced one of the most successful territories on the face of the planet in a very short period of time with no natural resources. Hong Kong has no natural resources. What we have now is mercantilism, which is sometimes referred to as crony capitalism, but it's got nothing to do with capitalism. Now, in a nutshell, how these sort of things work, I used to work for a company called Mercury Asset Management, which was part of the Warburg Empire. It was the biggest pension fund manager in Europe. I was the representative of the National Association of Pension Funds, the institution there, as well as being a fund manager. I wasn't on the main board, incidentally. I was on a junior board, but believe me, I knew how the game worked. Now, when you're doing that, Merck Asset Management then owned 4% of the European stock market. That's a very significant number. It doesn't sound like much, but 4% of the stock market is big. Then they were acquired by Merrill Lynch, a big American investment house, and then Merrill Lynch were acquired by BlackRock, and so it goes on, and so it gets bigger and bigger, almost like a sort of an astrophysicist would talk to you about a black hole. It becomes bigger and bigger, and the gravity pull is beyond human imagination. And then of course the oligarchs are part of that, and they're rich beyond most of our dreams. I mean the George Soros's of this world, the Bill Gates of this world, the Mark Zuckerberg's of this world, all these people are wealthy beyond imagination. And so you'd have to go back to the Rockefellers, to find people who were that rich in comparison. And what is interesting then, they would produce organizations, institutions, like the Bill and Melinda Gates and so on and so forth, and the Rockefeller Foundation. And these also get hijacked politically, and you can go back to the Quaker side in this country, to Roundtrees, for example. Quaker, and they were very good to their employees, and they had an ethos, a Quaker ethos. And now there's a very wealthy Roundtree Foundation, which is hijacked, politically, completely. It's woke. The National Trust is woke. Everything has become woke. And woke is really just part of the World Economic Forum's game plan. And this grows and grows in power. So you end up now with a prime minister who is World Economic Forum, no shame about it. No conspiracy theory yet. You know, somebody's always conspiring. That's absolute nonsense. Look at their website. It's perfectly up front. They boast about this. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the leader of the opposition, Starmer, when asked, do you think Parliament or Davos, which was the most important, he said, Davos. The King who gives royal assent to our laws now is World Economic Forum agent. In fact, as far as I understand, he could be the top man. I'm never quite sure whether Klaus Schwab reports to him or vice versa but the principle is the same. So now, of course, they control everything, and Bill Gates is the biggest farmer in the United States. He owns more land in the United States than anybody else. It's very difficult for ordinary people to fight against this, and they certainly can't fight against it with a vote. Vote is totally meaningless, and so you have these huge power blocs, and our elected politicians, are simply stooges. Penny Mordaunt, for example, is a stooge to Bill Gates. He wrote a forward for her book. She's an advocate of Bill Gates. All these people are paid, and we have a CIA, who, with a huge budget, an unaudited budget, they could pay you to interview certain people or not interview certain people in a Swiss bank account. Very significant amount of money. And most people have a price. Most people can be bought. And those who can't be bought are people like Neil Oliver, on a much smaller scale, me. You can't buy me, but I'm few. I'm one of the very few, and you can't buy me because money is not my God. I don't know whether you could buy me with other things. I can't imagine what they would be. So some people are incorruptible, but that's a tiny minority, and that certainly doesn't work in politics. How have you seen, looking back at the industry, how finance works, kind of, how have you seen a change? Has part of it been more scrutiny? Has part of it been the internet opens up the ability to question, with the public going direct? I mean, Neil Oliver, obviously on GB News, but having a huge reach on social media. Kind of, how have you seen a change? and how has social media affected the people's awareness of maybe what is happening? Well, social media is a wonderful thing. You know, it's a wonderful thing that you can get a significant footprint on that. But again, most people, it's still sadly legacy TV. It's still the BBC or ITV or whatever it happens to be that calls the shots. People who follow social media of course are the most informed but then if you look at my whole, just let's take me, my whole footprint is probably, I probably in total have overall something like 160,000 subscribers. That really isn't very many. Obviously, Neil Oliver is much bigger, and I'm glad of that because he's, in my view, a great man, a great historian, and a great leader of thought. So I'm a huge supporter of his. But there's still most people, most people go with the flow, they half watch BBC, they half watch ITV, doing something else, putting a shelf up, doing the ironing, whatever it is. So most people accept what they're told. Most people, of course, when it comes to things like pandemics or so-called pandemics, listen to their doctor. People have this divine faith in the National Health Service, which is, of course, ludicrous if you dig down into it, but most people do.  Again, it's a legacy thing, and it goes back to people being brought up on Doctor in the House, black and white, Ealing movies, funny enough, where you are now. Wonderful things when it worked and when it was incorrupt. Now, of course, that's all gone. The Bank of England, central banks are now political appointees. You have your head of your central bank, Carney is a classic example, brought in as a Canadian, ex-Goldman Sachs, most of them are ex-Goldman Sachs, which is known as the vampire squid in the city. Even hard-nosed investment bankers like mine used to regard them as beyond the pale. These are the sort of Vlad the Impaler of the investment banking world, but they're all political appointees, so Carney was a political appointee. So that this nonsense of the Bank of England being independent. So it doesn't work like that and they go on to other political appointments with the UN or the International Monetary Fund or the Bank of International Settlements which of course nobody ever told us about, which is the most powerful institution in the world. So all these things come together to thwart the ordinary guy. In my experience in Britain, and I don't know what your experience is Peter, but my experience is the true guy who questions anything of this nature is what we used to call the artisan class. You're sparky, you're bricky, you're joiner. People who actually do real stuff for a living, they actually put kitchens in, shelves in, drive a cab. People who actually do a real job for a living are very much more highly critical and much better informed. So for example, my window cleaner is simply miles more informed than my friends who read history or law at Oxford. You know, the dinner party set, your English middle class are so gullible and naive. It's unbelievable. A working man having a pint in the pub who's a sparky or a chippy, he's not so gullible because he does a real job and sees stuff every day. So the divide, you have this divide. And people make a big mistake if they think, and people do, that the divide is somehow between class, particularly, or skin colour, or wealth. Well, it isn't. I can tell you. And 10 years in politics showed me this campaigning for Brexit, for example. The people who really understood these matters were the artisan class, but your divide in society is between those in the wealth-creating sector and those in the public sector. Your public sector, your civil servant, your man at the town hall, anybody who works for the government is protected. They have index-linked pension funds, which have long since gone from the private sector. These people are virtually unsackable, the Quangos. All these people are entitled and have the arrogance of office. There's your divide. It's not old or young or black and white. It's who works for the government in some form and who doesn't. There's your divide. Of course, in the last five years, we've seen over 100,000 new civil servants. One might imagine that they won't be happy until everyone is a civil servant and therefore everybody can be controlled. If only we had a conservative government, but I see the same difference in conversations with friends, with colleagues, and I echo what you said. Everything we knew about finance seems to have gone out the window, gone out of fashion. I mean, saving money, don't spend more than you earn, invest wisely, make sure your repayments are manageable, have cash in hand for a rainy day. Now every government worldwide seems to be in a rush to see who can run the biggest deficit, who can get the biggest debt. And governments, maybe at one time, would have been common sense. It's this rush to spend much more than any other government. What are your thoughts on kind of how we have got to that state of financial madness? Well, the problem we've had is Keynesianism. That's from the 1930s, where personal savings were regarded as a bad thing. Public spending and private spending and consumption was regarded as a good thing, and debt doesn't matter. This is your Keynesian theory which has been taught now to generations of people in universities and schools and they don't teach alternatives, they don't teach Austrian school economics, they don't mention some of the great names of yesteryear like you know some of the great French economic philosophers. So they don't talk about this. Debt doesn't matter. They can print money. Of course, in 1971 when America came off the gold standard, the dollar came off the gold standard, which was the reserve currency in 1971, Nixon closed the gold window, which was the technicality of the problem. You see the spending power of the United States dollar from 1971. That 1971dollar now would buy you six cents worth of services and goods, a complete collapse of paper currency. And of course, sterling's worse, and so on and so forth. So it's the degradation of money and it's the unseen tax inflation. So who does inflation hurt? It holds people on fixed income, old-age pensioners. Mainstream society suffers from inflation, but not your public sector. For example, if you're in the public sector, and certainly if you're a pensioner, I have a small pension for the Ministry of Justice, because I worked for them for a while. I won't go into the details there. It's very small. But last year I got an 8.5 percent increase, and I'll get another 8.5 percent, so I'm protected. I live in a small village, but we have retired civil servants in the village, totally protected. Always got new cars, expensive holidays, and extensions to their cottages or houses. Money is no object to them because they're protected. But if you're on fixed income, you're stuck. And it gets back to what I say, there's this divide in society, some people who are affected by inflation and some who are not. So when you consider debt doesn't matter, and of course, to keep up, try and give a modern veneer to it, they've taken away the term Keynesianism by calling it modern monetary theory. There's nothing modern about it. And that somehow, and this is the great key, and I tried to explain this to undergraduates when I was allowed to speak at universities. And the faculties who don't understand it, believe me, the faculties at universities have absolutely no more idea about the economic supply to the moon. So they have these thoughts that debt doesn't matter, that somehow an individual like you or me or a small businessman. Debt doesn't matter. Debt matters. You can't get into debt because debt will catch up with you and your business will go out or you'll go bankrupt. They'll come and take away your furniture, etc. That's for us. Somehow a government doesn't have this problem. Apparently, governments go on spending and spending more money, and borrowing and printing more money with no great effect. It really doesn't matter. Of course, it does matter as we're beginning to see because actually now in the United States, servicing the national debt is exactly the same amount of money as their military budget, which is $1 trillion a year. They're spending $2 trillion in the United States a year, to no purpose, $2 trillion. And then mainstream media, which of course is bought and paid for by the state, the BBC in particular, if you don't pay the BBC you go to prison and that's a government-sponsored idea. Nobody challenges it. For example, you get to the chancellor of the exchequer interviewed. We now have the highest tax regime that we've had basically since the war. Nobody ever suggests, in either political party or in mainstream media, nobody ever suggests that they cut government spending. It never happens. Nobody stands on the platform of cutting government spending. So you have high-speed rail, 100 billion. You have OECD, which incidentally is unaudited, 1 billion pounds a month. Five billion pounds to the Ukraine. God alone knows where that goes. And so on and so forth. So we spend quangos, probably 600 or 700 billion pounds a year in all these things. They could halve income tax. They could standardize income tax. They could halve VAT if they stopped spending. But stopping spending doesn't happen. It doesn't occur to them to stop spending. So when they say, oh, more money for the national health, we need more money for the national health because it's crumbling and breaking down. They don't need any more money. The national health system is rolling in money. Their problem is that out of the 1.2 million employees that they have, half of those aren't medics of any sort. They're not radiographers, physiotherapists, nurses, doctors, surgeons. Goodness knows what they all do. Yes, you need some administrators, you need some sparkies, you need bits and pieces, but do you need 600,000? Procurement. Procurement. My sister used to work for the Norwich Infirmary. She said, I can buy mattresses online, exactly the same, for a third of the price that we spend on them, because nobody's in charge of procurement. Nobody cares about public money, because it's not their money. We have waste on an unprecedented scale. The concept has gone of the public purse. If you went back to before the Great War, if you were a councillor, first of all, you'd be unpaid, there'd be no expenses, and there was a very serious concern about the public purse, taken very seriously from a moral dynamic. Nobody cares about the public purse now. Nobody cares. Does debt matter? Well, yes, it does matter, and we are going to see in the next few years, we're going to see a collapse of the banking system, and we're going to see a collapse of fiat currency. It's paper. It's intrinsically worthless. Then the people who survive that will be the people who have the foresight to buy gold, gold coins.  Well, I want to finish off on gold, but let me just pick up on the move away from fiat, the restrictions on using cash, often in shops and businesses. It's coming more and more, closing of ATMs, closing of bank branches, and this move towards central bank digital currencies, this move towards a new government control. I mean, how have you viewed this? Give us a little bit more of your thoughts on where it's going. Well, the key, of course, to central bank digitalization, which we have to an extent already, of course, nobody, De La Rue do not print notes anymore. It's created electronically. And, of course, I explain this in my book. If you go in and want to borrow £60,000 for an extension, or you want to buy 20,000 pounds of gold, the bank clerk, if you're a good customer, and they know you, they will simply create that electronically by tapping it out and crediting your account. That's digital money. That's electronic money. It doesn't really exist. Of course, then you send it to somewhere else, the person who's sending you a car, so on and so forth. If you look at the international regulation Basel III, for example, and you have to keep 10% reserves. If you put your money, if you put 100,000 pounds into the bank, they only have to keep. 10,000 pounds of that back as a reserve. They can lend it on. Of course, it doesn't matter to whom they lend it. This is one of the problems that we have. It isn't good lending. It's not sound lending. For example, the Euro bond buying process, when I was there and I was trying to look at what they were actually buying, oh, well, it's Asset Bank. Sell them. No, Mr. Bloom, these are asset-backed bonds. Well, they're not. You get BMW or VW Finance, for example. What you're actually buying is a bond and the asset is an aging BMW or Volkswagen. It's not asset-backed at all. We found this out in 2007, did we not, where people thought they were buying a mortgage from a doctor in Washington with a nice big house at Springpool in Arlington. They weren't, they're buying trailer trash in South Chicago. I didn't fall for it. I was in the game at the time, but I knew what I was doing, because I'm an old man. The children that run the city and run pension funds in some of these councils, they fell for it because they simply didn't do their homework. You can't avoid homework. You have all this degradation of everything, bonds, stocks, deposits, not backed, not guaranteed. You have all these problems. The only way it can go is to destroy itself, to collapse. We saw this in 2007 and 2008, but did we change anything? We didn't change anything. Nothing changed. It's the same thing. They've just printed more and more money and borrowed and spent more and more money. Now we're in a situation where it simply must collapse. They want digital currencies so they can control it. They can program it, and for those of subscribers who aren't familiar with the concept, I'm sure they are, otherwise they wouldn't be watching this program, but let's just take it from there. It's programmable. The World Economic Forum, in line with the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of International Settlement will not want you to spend money on travel or petrol or meat. Are all these things that they think are bad under the cover of saving the planet, which of course we all know is absolute nonsense, its fake, its fake science. But they've got to frighten people to comply with it. The planet will boil if you don't do this. And of course most people don't have the benefit of traditional education. So they're being conned by people because a, they can't be bothered to do the homework, and b, they've probably in the main gone to a state school, this generation or the generation before, where they haven't really had an education at all. They're not educated at all. I mean, I speak at universities. Nice kids. Like a beer, play rugby, play cricket. I love going there. Educated? They're not educated at all. They don't even pretend to be. So these are the problems. You have an uneducated workforce. Programmable. So when you go in and it's programmable and the state can control it, the bank can control it, they will say you've had your ration of petrol this month. Just like the war, you've had your ration of meat this month. You've had your holiday, Mr. Bloom. You've had your holiday. You can't go on another holiday. Think of the planet, you nasty man. Of course, you look around and you see the King flying around in his private jet, the Royal Air, and all of them, Candy, all these people, Soros, Bill Gates...  Sadiq Khan, who's just done a transatlantic flight with his entourage to talk about climate change.  Exactly, so, everybody sees this, the question is what can you do? Now in London they reap what they sow. I have very little sympathy for Londoners. It's the second time this man's been elected. So whose fault is it? Well, did you vote against him? The answer is, you clearly didn't. That's why he's there, it's the same as Mark Drakeford, isn't it? In Wales, beautiful country, just got back there, hosted walking. I love Wales. Wales is a wonderful, wonderful country and they've got an idiot running. Well, why is he there? Who put him there? Well, the Welsh voted for him, didn't they? So it's as simple as that. And they've got a Muppet in Scotland. And who voted for him? The Scots voted for him. So stop whinging. Voting doesn't do much good, but it might because you can make more of an effort for whom you vote. And so it's programmable and we know it's going to be programmable, don't we? Because that's the whole point of it. And if you look at the World Economic Forum's spokesman on banking, they say it will be programmable. We'll know exactly how you spend it and what you can and cannot spend it on and they'll cancel it so you can't save because they are modern monetary theorists they will want for you to consume they will want you to consume so if you've got a hundred thousand pounds worth of savings or fifty thousand they say if you don't spend it by the end of the year it will disappear so that will encourage spending which they think is a good thing not saving but if you look at countries with the most successful systems over the years and over generations. It's savings. We built the biggest empire the world's ever seen and led the industrial revolution from about 1815 to 1913. The British led it, but it was based on sound money. And savings and interest rates, which outpaced inflation, although there wasn't hardly any inflation in those days. Savings made a point. Saving money made a point. There's no point in you saving money now. There's no point in you saving money in the traditional sense of saving money because you know if you were saving money for a car, which costs £30,000 today, it'll be £40,000 next year. You might as well buy it now. That, of course, degrades your entire financial system.  I want to finish off on gold. On your website, one of your tabs is gold. People can find it forward slash gold on godfreybloom.uk. It's intriguing, the more control that is being pushed upon us, the more people have talked about gold, also about crypto looking forward, but gold looking at that traditional store of wealth. Tell us why you believe that gold is an important store of wealth and why people should be taking advantage of that personally. Well, gold is a store of wealth. It's not an investment and it's not get rich quick. And as I always say to my undergraduates at universities, I always hold up a sovereign coin. The date on it is 1905. The date isn't really relevant, but it happens to be 1905. I explained that a gold sovereign in 1905 would buy you bed and breakfast in quite a good hotel in Paris, London, New York, or Berlin. It will today, because a sovereign is worth just under 400 pounds, so it will today, and it will in 100 years' time. Then we went back on to the gold standard after the Napoleonic Wars in 1860 and 1817. The Gold Sovereign became money. That was money. That was a preservation of wealth. That was a medium of exchange, which is what money is. I say, I try to explain money in the book. Most people don't know what money really is. They think they do, but they don't. Now let's just take your staple commodity in the 19th century. Let's go from 1816 or 1817 to 1913, a loaf of bread was the same price in 1817 as it was in 1913. You can't have inflation because if politicians and bankers can't print money, you can't print gold. That's the beauty of gold, but it's not an investment, it's not get-rich-quick. It's where you protect your wealth and you have to squirrel it away to protect your family because nobody can bugger it for you. They can't degrade it. Cryptocurrency like Bitcoin has some of the same attributes. It's significantly more volatile and there are all sorts of, situations where that might not do what you want it to do. But I'm not going to go down that route because there are bigger experts than me on Bitcoin, but gold, it's free of VAT. There's no capital gains tax on it because it's coin of the realm. If, let's say, for example, you are 60 years old, you're retired, you're coming up to retirement, something like that, you've worked hard all your life. Let's say you've got about £100,000 worth of saving or £50,000 worth of saving. It doesn't quite matter what it is. You don't need it at the moment. You've got a bit of a pension. You've got a bit of this, you've got a bit of that. You're perfectly okay. What you're worried about is what happens when you get to my age and you're dribbling down your cardigan and you can't recognize your in-laws and you're deaf as a post and all the rest of it, you've got all these things, then you're going to need care, you're going to need private medical care, you can't drive anymore so you're going to need a cab if you're going to go anywhere, so on and so forth. What you want with that £100,000 or £50,000 when you're 60 is the same purchasing power when you're 75. Only gold will do that for you. Only gold, and it's been proven to do that for you, for 5,000 years. If you dig up a Roman gold coin today, or a Saxon gold coin today, it'll buy you just what it bought when it was buried in the ground or sank in the boat. That's your key. And that's where gold comes in, as it has done for 5,000. There really isn't anything else, to be brutally frank. Some people argue for silver, but it's an industrial metal, some for Bitcoin if you can cope with the volatility, so on and so forth. But that's why I'm a gold bug and I've been a gold bug since Gordon Brown sold our gold at something like 270 pounds an ounce to buy Euros. He's still sometimes brought on TV as an elder statement. The man is a buffoon. He's a buffoon. It's £1,600 an ounce now. And he got rid of our reserves. That's your reserves and my reserves. And anybody watching this clip who's British. That was our gold. So, he got rid of it and, of course, now if you look across the world, BRICS nations, Russia and China, are beginning to view perhaps gold as being the medium of exchange for countries and trade. Not buying a newspaper, not buying a pound of sausages, you'll use whatever the currency of the day is for that, of course, that will continue. For us in smaller gauge, it used to be coppers, copper pennies, silver pennies, all that. Yeah, that won't change. But for big deals, for big deals, for individuals, an exchange of trade and goods, it will be done in gold because that's the way it's been done for 5,000 years and nothing's going to change that. Certainly not Muppets like Jeremy Hunt. There's no bigger Muppet than Hunt. We will end on that. Godfrey, I appreciate you coming on and people can follow you on Twitter godfreybloom.uk on the website and godfreybloom.substack.com Are those the best places to find you? Yeah, absolutely. Yes, you can find me and I just, if I may just put a word in quickly here. It is a not-for-profit website. Everything I do is not-for-profit. I do not turn a buck on anything that I do recommending. Even my books are virtually at cost because I don't need to make any money. Now another advantage perhaps of being an old knacker is that I've got nothing to spend my money on except beer at the rugby club. Well thank you, I've looked at the website and your Twitter and thoroughly enjoy them both for the information they provide. So thanks so much for coming on and sharing your thoughts on finance. Great, Peter. Thank you for inviting me.

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. **Tai-Ex opening ** The Tai-Ex opened down 14-points this morning from Friday's close, at 17,274 on turnover of 3.1-billion N-T. The market lost ground last Friday after hitting a 14-month high the previous session - as it bucked the regional upward trend despite a broad-based rally on Wall Street overnight. **EU Parliamentarians And Polish Lawmakers Visit Taiwan ** The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says a seven-member delegation (代表團) from the European Parliament and a 10-member delegation from the lower house of the parliament of Poland are visiting Taiwan this week. According to the ministry, the European Parliamentary group is being led by by the vice-chair of the E-U Parliament's Subcommittee on Security and Defense and includes members from subcommittees of Foreign Affairs, Economic and Monetary Affairs, among others. Meanwhile, the Polish delegation is being led by the vice chairwoman of the Polish lower house's Foreign Affairs Committee. That delegation includes parliamentarians across from across Poland's major political parties. They are all slated to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen and other senior government officials this week. **Temperatures Likely to Top 36 Degrees Today ** And, The Central Weather Bureau has issued "yellow" heat alerts for 13 cities and counties today, as the mercury is forecast to rise above 36-degrees. The heat alerts cover Taipei, New Taipei and Keelung, all areas south of Taichung as well as Hualien and Taitung. The heat alert will remain in affect through this afternoon. According to the weather bureau, sunny to partly cloudy skies can be expected across most of the island from today through Friday. However, occasional morning showers could affect areas in the center and south, while residents (住戶, 居民) of mountainous areas could see some thunderstorms. **Pakistan PM Declares Day of Mourning for Capsized Migrants ** Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has declared a national day of mourning (喪、哀) for citizens who died when a fishing trawler packed with migrants sank off the Greek coast. As many as 750 people from Syria, Egypt, the Palestinian territories and Pakistan were on board the vessel, trying to reach relatives in Europe. The Greek coast guard has defended its response to the tragedy that has left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned. The vessel sank Wednesday. Sharif expressed his grief over the tragedy and said today would be observed as a day of mourning, with the national flag flying at half-staff. **US Washington Shooting Leaves Dead and INjure ** Two people were killed and three injured in a shooting near a Washington state campground hosting people attending a nearby music festival. AP correspondent Julie Walker reports. **Switzerland Votes for Climate Measures ** A majority of Swiss citizens have voted in favor of a bill aimed at introducing new climate measures to sharply curb the rich Alpine nation's greenhouse gas emissions. Sunday's referendum was sparked by a campaign by scientists and environmentalists to save Switzerland's iconic glaciers, which are melting away at an alarming rate. Campaigners initially (最初) proposed even more ambitious measures but later backed a government plan that requires Switzerland to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050. The nationalist Swiss People's Party, which had demanded the popular vote, had claimed the measures would cause electricity prices to rise. Swiss glaciers experienced record melting last year, losing more than 6% of their volume and alarming scientists who say a loss of 2% would once have been considered extreme. That was the I.C.R.T. news, Check in again tomorrow for our simplified version of the news, uploaded every day in the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm _____.

Godfrey Bloom is a libertarian author with six books published on both military history & Austrian School Economics. He worked in the City of London where he won an international prize for fund management (fixed interest) with Mercury Asset Management. He represented Yorkshire & Lincolnshire in the European Parliament & was a staunch campaigner for Brexit for twenty five years. During his term of office he attracted over sixty million views on his chamber speeches exposing State bank & tax malpractice on Facebook & You Tube. Thought to be an all time record. He brought experience if not influence to the mainly lay EU Parliamentary Monetary & Economic Affairs Committee, putting both members & European Central Bank President under unaccustomed pressure. Godfrey Bloom passed out of Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1976 & served as logistics liaison officer to 4th Armed Division in Germany. He is an Associate Member of the Royal College of Defence Studies & has presented papers & lectures to The RCDS, Joint Services Staff College, National Defence University Washington & too many universities to list. His speciality is procurement & geo political military strategy. Godfrey Bloom is holder of the Territorial Decoration & bar, Sovereign's Medal, Armed Forces Parliamentary Medal & European Parliamentary silver medal. He is married to one of Europe's leading equine physiotherapists. His climate web site: https://godfreybloom.uk/climate/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/goddersbloom — Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html Notes for climate skeptics: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html ClimateGate emails: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Beyond the Bubble: How Artists are Leveraging Non Fungible Tokens to Engage their Audiences and Build a Loyal, Dedicated Fan Base, with Jillian Godsil Jamil Hasan tackles this timely topic with Irish Tech News in-house expert Jillian Godsil. More about Jillian For the 2021 international Women's Day, Jillian was nominated one of 100 global women in leadership awards Last June, she was awarded the 2020 Blockchain Journalist by Uptrennds (largest blockchain social platform). In 2019 Jillian was nominated for the national IMRO radio awards for her EastCoastFM Saturday morning show and was awarded the 2019 AI and Blockchain Journalist of the Year at the CC Forum in London. She is a passionate advocate for blockchain, a seasoned professional in fintech and internationally recognised champion for equality – whether in homelessness, gender or the law. Jillian has held senior positions with global PR companies in Sydney, Singapore, London and Dublin. She was PRO of Iona Technologies (Ireland's first company to float on NASDAQ). She changed the law in Ireland in 2014 and is a former European Parliamentary candidate (as an independent). She is a co founder and journalist in the Blockleaders.io. She freelances for Irish Tech News, Irish Central, The Irish Independent and The Irish Times. She has her own radio shows on DublinCityFM and EastCoastFM – she was nominated for a national radio award, the IMRO, in 2019. Her first job after graduating from Trinity College was as a systems analyst with JP Morgan. She is advisor to several ICOs, has been named a Crypto Queen by In Zero Conferences as well as listed in the 50 most influential women in the global blockchain rollcall. She is named amongst the top 10 people in Blockchain in Ireland. She was voted into the top 20 global Hedera Hashgraph Ambassadors in 2018. She is a board member of EOS Dublin. She is a community leader for Algorand. She is chain agnostic while she loves blockchain. She has been shortlisted for the Image Business Woman of Year and also shortlisted for Woman of the Year by Women in IT in 2018. She made the top 100 Global Blockchain Leaders list for 2019 for Lattice80 report. She is passionate about getting women into blockchain – democratising opportunity for all women. She was awarded the Order of Merit by the President of Liberland. Pre COVID - She keynotes and chairs blockchain events around the world – including Kiev, Austin, Muscat, Columbo, Dubai, Capetown, Liberland, Malta, Amsterdam, Vienna, Dublin and London. Now this work is virtual from her sleepy backwater village in rural Ireland About Jamil Hasan Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation's financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crypto-hipster-podcast/support

Beyond the Bubble: How Artists are Leveraging Non Fungible Tokens to Engage their Audiences and Build a Loyal, Dedicated Fan Base, with Jillian Godsil Jamil Hasan tackles this timely topic with Irish Tech News in-house expert Jillian Godsil. More about Jillian For the 2021 international Women's Day, Jillian was nominated one of 100 global women in leadership awards Last June, she was awarded the 2020 Blockchain Journalist by Uptrennds (largest blockchain social platform). In 2019 Jillian was nominated for the national IMRO radio awards for her EastCoastFM Saturday morning show and was awarded the 2019 AI and Blockchain Journalist of the Year at the CC Forum in London. She is a passionate advocate for blockchain, a seasoned professional in fintech and internationally recognised champion for equality – whether in homelessness, gender or the law. Jillian has held senior positions with global PR companies in Sydney, Singapore, London and Dublin. She was PRO of Iona Technologies (Ireland's first company to float on NASDAQ). She changed the law in Ireland in 2014 and is a former European Parliamentary candidate (as an independent). She is a co founder and journalist in the Blockleaders.io. She freelances for Irish Tech News, Irish Central, The Irish Independent and The Irish Times. She has her own radio shows on DublinCityFM and EastCoastFM – she was nominated for a national radio award, the IMRO, in 2019. Her first job after graduating from Trinity College was as a systems analyst with JP Morgan. She is advisor to several ICOs, has been named a Crypto Queen by In Zero Conferences as well as listed in the 50 most influential women in the global blockchain rollcall. She is named amongst the top 10 people in Blockchain in Ireland. She was voted into the top 20 global Hedera Hashgraph Ambassadors in 2018. She is a board member of EOS Dublin. She is a community leader for Algorand. She is chain agnostic while she loves blockchain. She has been shortlisted for the Image Business Woman of Year and also shortlisted for Woman of the Year by Women in IT in 2018. She made the top 100 Global Blockchain Leaders list for 2019 for Lattice80 report. She is passionate about getting women into blockchain – democratising opportunity for all women. She was awarded the Order of Merit by the President of Liberland. Pre COVID - She keynotes and chairs blockchain events around the world – including Kiev, Austin, Muscat, Columbo, Dubai, Capetown, Liberland, Malta, Amsterdam, Vienna, Dublin and London. Now this work is virtual from her sleepy backwater village in rural Ireland About Jamil Hasan Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation's financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X.

Join Joe and Simon as they chat with special guest Jillian Godsil.Jillian is a *Blockchain* Chair, Keynote, Journalist, Broadcaster, CEO, Writer, Former European Parliament Candidate and Law Changer.She was named one of 100 Global Women Leaders in COVID and named as one of the 50 Most Influential Women In Blockchain.She changed the law in Ireland in 2014 and is a former European Parliamentary candidate (as an independent). She is advisor to a number of ICOs, has been named a Crypto Queen by In Zero Conferences. Jillian has been featured in Several broadcasting channels both here and abroad. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

My guest in this episode is Jillian Godsil. Jillian has held senior positions with global PR companies in Sydney, Singapore, London and Dublin. She was PRO of Iona Technologies (Ireland’s first company to float on NASDAQ). She changed the law in Ireland in 2014 and is a former European Parliamentary candidate (on an anti-austerity ticket). She is a freelance journalist with CryptoCoin.News, The Irish Independent and The Irish Times. She has her own radio show on DublinCityFM. Her first job after graduating from Trinity College was as a systems analyst with JP Morgan. Interview Links: Block Leaders Jillian Godsil Website Resources: Create A Strategy Become The Bank Join Our Community

Interesting conversation with Jillian Godsil, Blockchain Chair, Keynote, Journalist, Broadcaster, CEO, Writer, Former European Parliament Candidate, Law Changer. We discuss her own voyage of discovery to reach the place of experience and influence that she now holds. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jilliangodsil/ Named 2020 Blockchain Journalist of the year at Uptrennd.com Awarded 2019 Blockchain Journalist at CC Forum London https://irishtechnews.ie/irish-tech-news-jillian-godsil-blockchain-ai/ Named as one of the top 100 Blockchain leaders globally by Lattice80 https://www.lattice80.com/lattice80-2019-blockchain-100/ Short listed for the 2019 IMRO national radio awards https://www.imro.ie/industry-news/imro-radio-awards-shortlist-revealed-for-2019/ https://www.blockchainmagazine.net/in-conversation-with-jillian-godsil-founder-blockleaders/ Named as one of the 50 Most Influential Women In Blockchain, https://blockleaders.io/2018/10/05/the-fall-and-rise-of-an-irish-woman-jillian-godsils-tale-of-success-against-all-odds/ https://humansofbc.com/interview-with-the-founder-of-blockleaders-jillian-godsil-humans-of-blockchain/ https://www.coinrivet.com/comment-on-international-womens-day-what-is-there-to-celebrate/ Jillian has held senior positions with global PR companies in Sydney, Singapore, London and Dublin. She was PRO of Iona Technologies (Ireland's first company to float on NASDAQ). She changed the law in Ireland in 2014 and is a former European Parliamentary candidate (as an independent). She is a co founder and journalist in the Blockleaders.io. She freelances for Irish Tech News, Irish Central, The Irish Independent and The Irish Times. She has her own radio shows on DublinCityFM and EastCoastFM. Her first job after graduating from Trinity College was as a systems analyst with JP Morgan. She is advisor to a number of ICOs, has been named a Crypto Queen by In Zero Conferences as well as listed in the 50 most influential women in the global blockchain rollcall. She is a board member of EOS Dublin. She keynotes and chairs blockchain events around the world – including Kiev, Austin, Muscat, Columbo, Dublin, Dubai, Amsterdam, Malta and London She has been featured in Al Jazeera, Russia Today, BBC2 Newsnight, UK Telegraph, RTE, TV3, Huffington Post, New York Times The Irish Times, Vogue Italia and the Irish Independent amongst other publications. https://medium.com/swlh/top-influential-women-in-blockchain-and-crypto-space-15f9a108066b https://thenativeinfluence.com/contributor/jillian-godsil/view/

In 2019 Jillian was nominated for the national IMRO radio awards for her EastCoastFM Saturday morning show and was awarded the 2019 AI and Blockchain Journalist of the Year at the CC Forum in London. She is a passionate advocate for blockchain, a seasoned professional in fintech and internationally recognised champion for equality – whether in homelessness, gender or the law. Jillian has held senior positions with global PR companies in Sydney, Singapore, London and Dublin. She was PRO of Iona Technologies (Ireland's first company to float on NASDAQ). She changed the law in Ireland in 2014 and is a former European Parliamentary candidate (as an independent). She is a co founder and journalist in the Blockleaders.io. She freelances for Irish Tech News, Irish Central, The Irish Independent and The Irish Times. She has her own radio shows on DublinCityFM and EastCoastFM – she was nominated for a national radio award, the IMRO, in 2019. She is advisor to a number of ICOs, has been named a Crypto Queen by In Zero Conferences as well as listed in the 50 most influential women in the global blockchain rollcall. She is named amongst the top 10 people in Blockchain in Ireland. She was voted into the top 20 global Hedera Hashgraph Ambassadors in 2018. She is a board member of EOS Dublin. She is a community leader for Algorand. She has been shortlisted for the Image Business Woman of Year and also shortlisted for Woman of the Year by Women in IT in 2018. She made the top 100 Global Blockchain Leaders list for 2019 for Lattice80 report. In 2019 she was awarded the Blockchain and AI Journalist of the year in London at the CC Forum. She is passionate about getting women into blockchain – democratising opportunity for all women. In todays episode, we discussed the Blockchain space as a viable career choice and how it could be a sustainable source of income. We touched on the most profound barriers to entry for women in technology sectors in general. We also reviewed the main impact that Blockchain is making on societies and we concluded with Jillian's practical tips on how to overcome the common challenges that many women face, build their online presence in Blockchain and successfully transition into the space. ------ You can get in touch with Jillian on her Website | LinkedIn | Twitter ------ You can find our more about Blockleaders.io here ------ You can read Jillian's content on Medium | Hackernoon | Uptrend ------ Cointelligence Academy Check our website for latest updates and free Blockchain courses Join our Telegram group and start meeting people in Blockchain and Crypto Follow us on Twitter ------ If you are interested in sponsoring the show or have any other questions, please feel free to drop me an email on: lora@cointelligence.com

Miguel Arias Cañete (@mac_europa) was the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy and led the EU negotiations of the Paris Agreement.He’s now involved with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation which has launched the Prize for Humanity, an annual €1m award for people or organizations from all over the world focused on mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change.Miguel has served the Spanish Government as both the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and Minister for Agriculture, Food and Environment before being selected to head his Party List in the European Parliamentary elections.In today’s episode we discuss:- The unique challenges that went into crafting the Paris Accord- What the US’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement means for climate policy- How hard it is to ensure collective action on big problems- China’s role in addressing the environment- Why Miguel thinks the US will rejoin the Paris Accords- How the EU is leading the effort on decarbonization- What to think about nuclear energy- The reason transportation is so hard to go green- What happens if we don’t reach climate goals- The problems of bureaucracy and why the EU is actually pretty efficient- Which agritech areas are most important to reduce global warming- How business can be used as a force for good- Are we headed for a future of mass migrations- Why democracy is a stronger governance system than centralized economies in the long run- How China’s policy on coal could crush climate goals

The attempt by the media and the political elites of the three major political parties in the United Kingdom to heap contempt on Euroskepticism no longer possesses the same power. With the victory of the United Kingdom Independence Party in local and European Parliamentary elections, the prospect of the UK leaving the European Union is […]

Video/Podcast #5: Ex European Parliamentary assistant to UKIP and Nigel Farage, Alexander Shaw, gives his opinion and speaks candidly about Nigel Farage and How a few things work behind the scenes in European Circles in the parliament and commission.

In this episode our guest Jillian Godsil, World Diplomat of Liberland, discusses: 1) Thrills she experienced during the first annual Floating Man Festival 2) How she is getting more women involved with the growth of Liberland 3) Her story on how she ran for the European Parliamentary elections in 2014 Contact Jillian: linkedin.com/in/jilliangodsil Follow the Liberland Show: iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/liberland-show/id1442988844?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6oGiaY901GlfWbaFqgEEaF Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83YzY0ODFjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz *Our show is hosted by Adam J. Carswell

Dóra Győrffy and Péter Krekó discussed Russia’s information influencing attempts connected to the 2019 European Parliamentary elections. They analyze, among other topics, the vulnerability of traditional media and of the populations, the links between narratives of Euro-skeptic forces and Russian di

Two interviews on the results of the May 26 European Parliamentary elections, which did not cleanly match predictions that there would be a further shift to to authoritarian hard-right parties. The biggest losers across the continent were the center-right neoliberal mainstream parties, but the shift to the Right was not as pronounced as feared. First, Sebastian Budgen, contributing editor for Jacobin, analyzes the election across Europe, especially in France, where the failed policies of the center were critical in understanding the results. We also get his take on the continuing protest and promise of the gilets jaunes social movement. Then Kevin Ovenden takes a deeper look at the vote in Great Britain, where the upset couldn’t have been more pronounced in the wake of the repeated failure by the Tories’ Theresa May to implement Brexit. The Conservative Party had its worst result in history, but Labour also lost votes, as Jeremy Corbyn tried to bridge the divide between those in favor and those against Brexit. The newly created “Brexit” Party of Nigel Farage took first, with the center Lib-Dems in alliance with Scottish and Welsh nationalists and Greens doing very well.

In this second part of the two-part special podcast, Talk Eastern Europe dissects the results of the European Parliamentary elections in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.On Lithuania: Maciek interviews Mariusz Antonowicz from Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science;On Poland: Adam discusses the results with Daniel Tilles, editor in chief of Notes from Poland;On Bulgaria: Adam has a conversation with Radosveta Vassileva from University College London;Thank you to all of our listeners for your support and feedback. And please support the podcast by pledging via our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=19190530& Resources:Part I of this special series via “In Between Europe”Five Key Takeaways from the European Elections in Poland – Daniel Tilles, Notes from Poland   Support the Notes from Poland crowdfunding campaign – click hereBulgaria’s dangerous flirtation with the far-right – by Radosveta Vassileva

Is Trump trying to get one of our spies inside the Kremlin outed as a favor to Putin? And what details are emerging from the continued analysis of the Mueller report?.. Plus Luke Vargas on corporate tax evasion. and Cole Stangler with the results of the European Parliamentary elections.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Neil Clark, a journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Week, and Morning Star.Elections for the European Parliament are over and the results are not nearly as clear cut as many observers had expected. In the UK, the results held true to public opinion polls, with Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party finishing first with more than 35 percent of the vote. Elsewhere around Europe in the European Parliamentary election, the anticipated right-wing tide never materialized, and although more nationalists were elected to the body, the Greens also finished very strongly. In the end, pro-Europeanists still control the majority. Independent journalist Diani Barreto and Alexander Mercouris, the editor-in-chief of The Duran, join the show. Cybercriminals--extortionists--have terrorized Baltimore over the past three weeks, freezing thousands of city computers, freezing emails, and disrupting everything from real estate transactions to water bills. But the kicker in this computer ransom attack is that the malware being used to do it was developed just down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway at NSA, which lost control of the program in 2017. Brian and John speak with web developer and technologist Chris Garaffa. Fighting in the last rebel-held stronghold in Syria continued today. Syrian government forces have been closing in on Idlib for the past month, and the United Nations estimates that nearly 1,000 civilians have been killed or wounded there in that period. Idlib is controlled by the Tahrir al-Sham group, formerly known as the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s military wing in Syria. And the group’s leader is calling on Turkish forces for assistance. Meanwhile, the Syrian government and Israel had an especially intense exchange of fire over the weekend. Rick Sterling, an investigative journalist and member of the Syria Solidarity Movement, joins the show. During a trip to Japan over the weekend, President Trump insisted that the peace talks with North Korea are still on and made a series of comments that generated major controversy in the United States. Simone Chun, a fellow at the Korea Policy Institute and a member of the Korean Peace Network, joins Brian and John. Tuesday’s weekly series is False Profits—A Weekly Look at Wall Street and Corporate Capitalism with Daniel Sankey. Brian and John speak with financial policy analyst Daniel Sankey.Today’s regular segment that airs every Tuesday is called Women & Society with Dr. Hannah Dickinson. This weekly segment is about the major issues, challenges, and struggles facing women in all aspects of society. Hannah Dickinson, an associate professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and an organizer with the Geneva Women’s Assembly, and Loud & Clear producer Nicole Roussell join the show.

Philosopher and writer Eleanor Gordon-Smith came in to chat about her new book, Stop Being Reasonable, which explores the features and limits of rational argument and what really changes our minds. Dr Chiara De Lazzari from The University of Melbourne discusses the results of the 2019 European Parliamentary elections and what it means for the European Union and member states. Amy and Chiara explore the rise of movements on the left and right of politics, including populism in its many forms, and the DiEM25 movement led by former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. Plus Ben Eltham from New Matilda on federal politics.

[For the full episode, please subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] On the European Parliamentary elections. Is this the day the 20th century truly died? Traditional social democratic and conservative parties took a pounding. The Greens surged. The populists didn't surge - but are now entrenched. And the radical and populist Left has not capitalised. What's the meaning behind what are often purely symbolic euro elections? Readings: [pieces by Anton & Catarina coming shortly]

Europeans head to the polls starting tomorrow for the European Parliamentary elections. This is the second-biggest election in the world, and has been a bit of a snoozer in the past. But this year people are watching very closely because of a surge of far-right groups. We’ll explain. Meanwhile in DC, President Trump and Democratic leaders had a short meeting on infrastructure today that didn’t go exactly as planned. We’ll break down why both sides are throwing mud. Also on today’s episode: the Department of Education is breaking down student loan debt by college … and college major, and NASA wants to send your name to the Red Planet.

Marcus Stead returns with a Brexit Briefing special in the week the United Kingdom goes to the polls in European Parliamentary elections that weren’t supposed to happen. Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party is polling nearly twice as many votes as their nearest rival. If the polls are correct, British politics is about to experience a massive earthquake. Marcus’s guest is businessman, blogger and veteran anti-EU campaigner Greg Lance-Watkins, who has been an active eurosceptic for nearly SIXTY years. In a wide-ranging discussion, they look at the history of euroscepticism in the UK, the rapidly declining influence of the traditional media, the rise of the Brexit Party, what this all means for the future of British politics, and Greg makes some grim predictions as to where Britain will be in ten years’ time, Brexit or no Brexit.

Andrew Marr interviewed Damian Hinds (he’s the current Education Secretary-nope me neither) and Nigel Farage on his show this Sunday. Both were on to talk about the European Parliamentary elections. Both had to try and do this without the benefit of their parties issuing manifestos. Lesley picks apart the significance of this and the flaws at the heart of the UK's political system which mean the party of government and the party leading in the polls for that election can get away with it. Sticking with the Euro elections, the Sunday Mail recently endorsed the Scottish Green Party, breaking a long tradition of supporting Labour. We discuss, even if this was a cynical vote splitting move by the Sunday Mail, why Yes supporters could vote Green, and how quickly the political landscape on the climate emergency has changed. As the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the return of the Scottish Parliament roll on two former First Ministers, Jack McConnell and Henry McLeish both came out in favour of reform. McConnell, perhaps seduced by his time in the Lords, wanted the creation of a non-elected second chamber. McLeish, hankering after a more European style assembly, suggested moving to an increased number of MSPs by bringing in the Single Transferable Vote system. We reflect on both these proposals, more favourably on one than the other. Theresa May will be bringing back the EU Withdrawal Bill to Westminster on June the third. This " Great Repeal Bill" is the one that enshrines the power grab from Holyrood. We return to, not just to the specifics of the bill, but the underlying message it contains about Scotland's place in the UK. As per usual there's a smattering of other nonsense, mainly on Highland League football, Chinese takeaways and clip on sunglasses. Wee note from Lesley; I checked on who controls Oil and Gas Licensing and I was wrong. It's still the UK Government via the Oil and Gas Authority quango they set up — it's licensing for onshore oil and gas (basically fracking) that was devolved in 2018. Apologies.       

Europa United's Chief Editor Ken Sweeney chats with Roger Casale about his work with civil rights organisation New Europeans and his recent decision to run as a candidate for the forthcoming European Parliamentary elections in May for Change UK.

It's an extra-long (time for two sets of ironing) podcast this week and we spend most of it discussing Nicola Sturgeon's statement on Indyref2 in Holyrood this Wednesday. While we look at the reaction to it from across the political spectrum Lesley focuses on the questions arising from the broader Yes movement. In particular how can a narrative be created which moves the debate away from aridity to positivity and the role of a Citizens' Assembly. Scotland in Union published a poll which the right-wing press claimed as a "bombshell blow" to the SNP. Lesley drills down into the actual figures to reach a somewhat different conclusion. I pitch in on the European Parliamentary elections and the latest Survation Westminster voting intentions statistics. This week saw the loss of Billy McNeil, and Lyra McKee and we reflect on what we can learn from their life and death. Along the way we both regret our early morning BBC radio listening and get quite irate about pronunciation.  

MEET JILLIAN GODSIL Blockchain Advocate, Founder, Conference Chair, Women in Blockchain Advocate, Keynote Speaker, Crypto Journalist, Broadcaster, CEO, Writer, Homelessness Advocate, Former European Parliament Candidate, Law Changer, Mother, Choir Member, Hill Walker, Dreamer Jillian has held senior positions with global PR companies in Sydney, Singapore, London and Dublin. She was PRO of Iona Technologies (Ireland’s first company to float on NASDAQ). She changed the law in Ireland in 2014 and is a former European Parliamentary candidate (as an independent). She is a co-founder and journalist in the Blockleaders.io. She freelances for Irish Tech News, Irish Central, The Irish Independent and The Irish Times. She has her own radio shows on DublinCityFM and EastCoastFM. Her first job after graduating from Trinity College was as a systems analyst with JP Morgan. She is an advisor to a number of ICOs, has been named a Crypto Queen by In Zero Conferences as well as listed in the 50 most influential women in the global blockchain rollcall. She is named amongst the top 10 people in Blockchain in Ireland. She was voted into the top 20 global Hedera Hashgraph Ambassadors in 2018. She is a board member of EOS Dublin. She is a community leader for Algorand. She is chain agnostic while she loves blockchain. She has been shortlisted for the Image Business Woman of Year and also shortlisted for Woman of the Year by Women in IT. She is passionate about getting women into blockchain – democratizing opportunity for all women. She keynotes and chairs blockchain events around the world – including Kiev, Austin, Muscat, Columbo, Dubai, Capetown, Dublin and London. LINKS: https://jilliangodsil.com/ (https://jilliangodsil.com/) Confessions of CryptoManiac, Part I by Jillian Godsil (https://amzn.to/2UTNDe4) https://jilliangodsil.com/index.php/category/erotica/ (https://jilliangodsil.com/index.php/category/erotica/) SUPPORT THE PODCAST AND GET GREAT CBD OIL! If you’re looking for a high-quality CBD Oil click on the link and try out zilis. I’ve been using them for a few weeks and I’m sleeping better and have less joint pain. Zilis CBD Oil (https://shop.zilis.com/#/shop/from/7143366) This podcast is brought to you by Audible. I have used Audible for years, and I love audiobooks. Click on the link to get a 30-day free trial, complete with a credit for a free audiobook download Audible.com (http://www.audibletrial.com/Yuri)

According to Sir John Curtice, Europe bears the most strongly in people's minds during the European Parliamentary elections. People have very clear views on remain and leave, which could draw people to the polls to express their views. Find out more on whether Nigel Farage's Brexit party and the newly established ChangeUK could make an impact in the elections as John Curtice gives his analysis.

It was the Scottish Greens' party conference last weekend and we spend a fair amount of time looking at Tommy Sheppard's suggestion that some form of electoral pact be reached between them and the SNP in the 2021 Holyrood elections. How far should the Greens, their supporters, and other nonaligned "Yessers", subsume their values within an SNP dominated drive for independence? This leads us on to the, seemingly inevitable, European Parliamentary elections. Lesley believes that we are crying out for a move beyond simplistic sloganeering during the campaign and that real, detailed exposition of key ideas, in particular freedom of movement, is required. I ask what hope might there be of a united, progressive, electoral Yes front. The recent Hansard Society report has shown a majority of those surveyed would favour a strong leader willing to break the rules in order to get things done. Lesley reflects on this, not merely on a UK/Brexit basis, but in terms of Scottish independence. As promised last week I try my darndest to unravel the complexities of the #weareirish controversy. We also manage to shoehorn in Damascene conversions, SNP bungs, and Scotland beating Brazil at football.  

When Steve Bannon left his position as White House chief strategist less than a week after the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally in August 2017, he was already a notorious figure in Trump's inner circle, and for bringing a far-right ideology into the highest echelons of American politics. Unconstrained by an official post - though some say he still has a direct line to the White House - he became free to peddle influence as a perceived kingmaker, turning his controversial brand of nationalism into a global movement. Alison Klayman’s THE BRINK follows Bannon through the 2018 mid-term elections in the United States, shedding light on his efforts to mobilize and unify far-right parties in order to win seats in the May 2019 European Parliamentary elections. To maintain his power and influence, the former Goldman Sachs banker and media investor reinvents himself - as he has many times before - this time as the self-appointed leader of a global populist movement. Keen manipulator of the press and gifted self-promoter, Bannon continues to draw headlines and protests wherever he goes, feeding the powerful myth on which his survival relies. Director and Cinematographer Alison Klayman joins us for a conversation on gaining access and the confidence of a man who has maneuvered his way into the darkest corners of white-wing global brinksmanship. For news and updates go to: thebrinkfilm.com For more information on Alison Klayman go to: alisonklayman.com/the-brink Social Media facebook.com/TheBrinkFilm twitter.com/TheBrinkFilm instagram.com/thebrinkfilm

Colombe Cahen-Salvador is 24, and trained as a human rights lawyer. She fought & won cases for clients unjustly detained or sanctioned in Egypt & Sub-Saharan Africa. She loved her job and growing up that was what she'd always seen herself doing. But then Brexit happened. A French woman educated in England, Colombe had come to think of the UK as an integral part of both Europe and her life plans. But unlike most Europhile progressives her age, she didn't just end up writing a Facebook post about how democracy sucked when you lose and going back to her life, instead, she decided to do something about it. And that something was Volt: the first progressive pan-European party. Fast forward a year and a half, and the movement groups over 20,000 members from 32 countries and is a registered political party in 12. 4,000 people commit at least 5 hours a week and over 100 have quit their jobs to focus solely on the campaign. Because not only is she the policy lead for Volt, Colombe is also leading Volt's French list into the European Parliamentary election, where they are looking to secure 25 seats. In this episode, we cover Colombe's journey, her ambitions for Volt, what it's like to start & run a political party & her views of Europe.

Freelance journalist Cindy Pom reports from the streets of Paris on the “yellow vest” protests. Dominique Moïsi, founder of the French Institute for International Relations and special advisor to the Institut Montaigne, comments on the domestic political challenges President Macron faces in the wake of the protests. Jan Techau, senior fellow and director of the Europe Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, talks about the possible repercussions of the gilets jaunes protests on other countries in the EU leading up the European Parliamentary elections in May. More info at cpac.ca/perspective

EN - Interview w/ actress and candidate for the European parliament Katerina Moutsatsou, running with the United Popular Front (EPAM). She discusses her entry into politics, EPAM's positions, current political issues. In English. Aired May 15-16, 2014.

EN - Interview w/ economist, candidate for the European parliament with the ANTARSYA political party Leonidas Vatikiotis, who discusses ANTARSYA's positions and analyzes the current political/economic situation in Greece. In English. Aired May 22-23, 2014

GR - Interview w/ economist, candidate for the European parliament with the ANTARSYA political party Leonidas Vatikiotis, who discusses ANTARSYA's positions and analyzes the current political/economic situation in Greece. In Greek. Aired May 17-22, 2014

This event is sponsored by the Center for Intermarium Studies and the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies at IWP. About the Lecture: The European Union is facing immense internal pressures as well as complex external dilemmas. The migration crisis, Brexit, and the rise of new political ideas have put the debate regarding the future of the EU integration in focus. The upcoming European Parliamentary elections in May 2019 will be a milestone in this debate. Hungarian Ambassador László Szabó will discuss the political and cultural vision of Central and Eastern Europe, and its implications to the region's relations with the United States. About the Speaker: Mr. László Szabó, M.D. physician, businessman, politician and diplomat who is the current Hungarian Ambassador to the United States since 2017. In 1990, Ambassador Szabó graduated from Debrecen Medical University, Hungary with a degree in medicine and practiced as a transplant surgeon for couple of years. In the early 1990's he shifted to the pharmaceutical industry. He spent more than 20 successful years in the pharma field, held several local and international leadership positions, such as country manager for New Zealand and the South Pacific, vice president of China Human Resources at Eli Lilly; later he became CEO of the Hungarian operations of TEVA. In 2014, when the Government of Hungary decided to put foreign trade and investment to the forefront, and looked for a seasoned business leader, Ambassador Szabó was approached to join public service. He served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, building up the trade pillar of the Ministry until his appointment as Ambassador to the U.S. in July 2017.

Here's why the upcoming European Parliamentary elections may be the beginning of the end for the EU!!! Support me on PATREON and get exclusive access to even more video and podcast content: https://www.patreon.com/drsteveturley or Tip me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/drsteveturley PLEASE SHARE AND SUBSCRIBE!!! https://www.youtube.com/c/DrSteveTurley Here's the article: https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2018/10/great-schism-could-pull-eu-apart

Podcast 1: Maurice Vergeer  from Radboud University Nijmegen, talks about web campaigning in the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. Read the associated articlehere.

Last weekend brought bad news from Europe: Far right parties in France, Denmark, Austria and elsewhere won big in the European Parliamentary elections. And in Brussels, four people died after a shooting at the city’s Jewish Museum. The attack came in a spring punctuated by anti-Semitic violence in France, the U.K., and elsewhere. All of these incidents have elicited the question: Is it time for Jews to leave Europe? To find out if things are as hostile for Jews in Europe as they seem from the vantage point of U.S. shores, Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry speaks with two young European Jewish leaders. Andi Gergely grew up in Hungary and is the chairperson of the World Union of Jewish Students. Though now based in... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.