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"Israel openly threatens to eliminate Iran's Khamenei " "Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has threatened to eliminate Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Calling the Iranian leader “the modern Hitler,” the Israeli minister said: ""A dictator like Khamenei, who leads Iran and has made the destruction of Israel his banner, cannot continue to exist.” The threat comes hours after some 20-30 Iranian missiles targeted Israel's central cities, including Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Holon, as well as Soroka Hospital in the southern city of Beersheba." "Trump to decide if US joins assault on Iran ‘within two weeks' " "US President Donald Trump has said he will decide whether to attack Iran within the next two weeks due to a ""substantial"" chance of negotiations, as Tel Aviv and Tehran traded fire for a seventh day. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said hat Trump was interested in pursuing a diplomatic solution with Iran, but his top priority was ensuring that Iran could not obtain a nuclear weapon. She said any deal would have to prohibit enrichment of uranium by Tehran and eliminate Iran's ability to achieve a nuclear weapon, adding that ""correspondence has continued"" between the United States and Iran." "UN adds Israel to blacklist of worst violators of children's rights " "The UN once again included the Israeli troops among ""parties that commit grave violations affecting children in situations of armed conflict,"" according to a report. The report said: ""In 2024, violence against children in armed conflict reached unprecedented levels, with a staggering 25 percent surge in the number of grave violations in comparison with 2023."" It added that the UN verified 41,370 grave violations against children, with 36,221 committed in 2024 — a nearly 50% rise in deadly incidents compared to the previous year." "Kiev worries Iran-Israel tensions may divert US attention " "Fighting between Iran and Israel could deflect global attention from the Russian incursion into Ukraine and even bolster Kremlin's war effort, Ukrainian officials have said. ""For Ukraine, the challenge is the price of oil, because if prices remain high for a long time, the Russians will earn more,"" a senior Ukrainian political source said. Kiev is concerned that waning attention and support from Washington could lead to a muted US response to further Russian advances or deadly aerial attacks. Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy said that the war between Iran and Israel carried risks for Kiev, adding that they would like to see the aid to Ukraine would not be reduced because of Israel-Iran conflict. " "Türkiye will never forget Azerbaijan's solidarity after earthquakes: Erdogan " "Türkiye will never forget the solidarity of the Azerbaijani people after the earthquakes that hit southern Türkiye in February 2023, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Speaking at the key delivery ceremony of post-quake houses in Türkiye's Kahramanmaras province alongside his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, he said that Azerbaijan was one of the first countries that came to his country's aid after the quakes. He recalled Türkiye's support for Azerbaijan on the issue of Karabakh from the first days of the 44-day conflict with Armenia in fall 2020, expressing Turkish solidarity “gave us additional strength.”"

To suggest confusion reigns in Pretoria is an understatement. Donald Trump's whirlwind start to his second presidency has hit few countries as hard as South Africa - with the shock illustrated by SA's unprecedented UN vote this week FOR Ukraine in a resolution introduced by the US supporting Russia. In this facsinating discussion with BizNews founder Alec Hogg, Russian born and educated Prof Irina Filatova offers practical advice for a nation suddenly “in a very bad place” after being cut loose by long-time ally Russia and abandoned by BRICs partners after its vocal attacks against the USA.

Recorded October 8th 2024. A lecture by Daria Moskvitina (Zaporizhzhia State Medical University) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. For Ukraine, Shakespeare is an iconic figure, a symbol of European culture and European values. This talk will try to give a systematic understanding of how the Ukrainian reception of Shakespeare was formed, and explain its peculiarities at the present stage of development. English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research community since the 1990s. The aim of the seminar series is to provide a relaxed and convivial atmosphere for staff and students to present their research to their peers. The series also welcomes distinguished guest lecturers from the academic community outside Trinity College to present on their work. It is a fantastic opportunity to share ideas and engage with the diverse research taking place within the School.  Learn more at https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

NOTE: Privateer Station is taking a break till August 10. We will resume after a brief vacation. Thank you for staying with us!In today's war diary, Nikolai Feldman and Alexey Arestovich discussed the main news on the 880th day of war (part1):➤ 00:00 Biden is no longer a candidate for US Presidency: what does this mean for Ukraine?➤ 03:40 Do US Democrats have a better chance of winning with Harris?➤ 07:20 Unifying words of Democrats and Republicans for Americans. Real unity or division in the US and Ukraine? Why is Arestovich supporting the right-centrists.➤ 11:30 How can Ukrainian politicians build relationships for bipartisan support from the US?➤ 16:00 Features of American politics. Characteristics of US Vice President Harris.➤ 18:12 For Ukraine now, every election is fateful.➤ 19:22 Was the decision that Zelensky will not participate in the Ukrainian presidential elections made in spring?➤ 21:50 Is Zelensky ready to talk to Putin to end the war in Ukraine?➤ 22:58 Russian and American budget projects do not include funds for the war in Ukraine in 2025. Usurpation of power in Ukraine and the prospect of its change by the end of the year.➤ 26:48 Is unified information policy in Ukraine during the war - a blatant totalitarianism?➤ 28:38 Criteria for betrayal of Ukraine: a draft law on revocation of state awards for propaganda of the aggressor state.➤ 32:28 Initiatives of the peace plan of former British Prime Minister Johnson. American sanctions for the persecution of the church in Ukraine may be introduced in near future.➤ 39:42 State persecution on an ideological basis of the religious organization of the UOC MP is beyond the bounds of normality and qualifies as totalitarian actions.➤ 47:50 Does Johnson's peace plan look realistic? Ukraine's neutral status is the key to signing indirect peace agreements. The rational plan is opposed by the crazy Ukrainian propaganda, which prevents the deal from being concluded.➤ 55:05 Ukraine needs real sovereignty, the basis of which is neutrality. Who from Ukraine will sign the peace agreement and will Russia deceive again?➤ 01:00:40 Ukraine's policy is irrational and is very concerning to the politicians of the collective West.Ukraine War Chronicles and Analytics with Alexey Arestovych and Nikolay Feldman @ALPHAMEDIACHANNELOlexiy Arestovych (Kiev): Advisor to the Office of Ukraine President : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksiy_ArestovychOfficial channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjWy2g76QZf7QLEwx4cB46gNikolay Feldman - Ukranian journalist, social researcher, blogger.

On this "cold infected" episode of Ford News:Johnathan and Brian discuss the Manhattan trial of former president Donald Trump. A jury has been seated and opening statements are set to begin. We now know who Witness 1 will be, and you guessed it, it's David Pecker! Judge Merchan has some decisions to make on Trump violating the gag order in place and will be very strict regarding juror intimidation. Segment two brings us to the often chaotic House of Representatives where Speaker Mike Johnson faces the prospect of losing his job as he got the spending bill geared towards Ukraine and Israel passed in the House. More than half of the Republican members of the House voted against the bill as Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene has threatened to have the Speaker vacated. And, we have a BRAND NEW SEGMENT on the show: Ford Fact Check. Johnathan takes us through the Oversight Committee's bumbling investigation into Hunter Biden. Has there been any evidence that President Biden did anything illegal? Johnathan lays it all out. It's a must-listen-to segment. Here is the X Thread that Johnathan refers to in the Fact Check:  CLICK HEREAnd here are This Week's Important Stories that we have been reading-For Ukraine, Israel, Indo Pacific funding. US House passes $95 billion Ukraine, Israel aid package, sends to Senate | ReutersCriminal Case ManhattanBreaking down Trump's attacks on the daughter of the judge in his New York hush-money trial | CNN PoliticsExpanded Gag orderJudge expands gag order after Trump's attacks on his daughter in hush money case (nbcnews.com)Juror intimidation Judge warns TrumpHush money judge warns Trump against intimidating jurors | The HillTrump could most likely avoid jail.Will Trump go to prison if he is convicted in NY hush money trial? (usatoday.com)Jury selection Full jury seated at Trump trial on third day of selection process - CBS NewsOpening statements on Monday Opening statements in Trump's historic trial set to begin Monday after tense day of jury selection (nbcnews.com)First Witness David PeckerDavid Pecker to be first witness in Trump's hush money trial: New York Times | The Hill

I look back at 2022 and realize that I didn't put out the "usual" amount of mixes for the HC podcast. This is indeed because right after the celebration of the music from the year before, I was utterly preoccupied with the thoughts turned towards Ukraine. As a result, there were two "For Ukraine" mixes by Brian Housman of Stationary Travels and Peter can Cooten of Ambient Blog. In the last two weeks, with the annual Best of the Year tradition, I managed to broadcast and archive a few of my selections from each list, showcasing appearing artists. You can stream these via my Mixcloud account. But it's not the same as the typical fair. So today, I'm back, along with the amazing Mike Jedlicka of Optic Echo, to share his favourite vinyl selections of 2022. This is that one particular tradition that I refuse to let go of, with today's mix being the 12th instalment in the series. There is not much left to say, and we both hope the music speaks much louder. Please enjoy!

What effect would ratification of the WHO Treaty create?  Physicians who challenge the globalist Covid mantra are threatened with revocation of their _____.  Will "Corona Insanity" become a global license for institutionalization?  Why are so many life forms being filmed walking, crawling, swimming in circles?  Are the globalists pleased with the numbers of covid shot uptake?  What does the Treaty, above, give license for governments to implement re shot uptake?  How long will we be able to be on the air?  Please join Steven and Bonnie for insights into the wild but glorious paths before us. NWO Macron, “We need a single global order.”: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/emmanuel-macron-comes-clean-we-need-single-global-order Global passport: https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/global-news-a-global-passport-for WHO Pandemic Treaty overrules Constitution: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-22-who-pandemic-treaty-in-final-stages-overrule-us-constitution-medical-dictatorship.html China is the NWO poster child: https://t.me/GeneralMCNews/2265 (11.23) SFPD considering giving lethal force to robot “cops”: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23475817/san-francisco-police-department-robots-deadly-force China is our role model, says Schwab: https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/11/wefs-klaus-schwab-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-theyre-not-even-hiding-it-anymore/ref/8/ Flip off switch and 60,000 Chinese QR codes go yellow so they herd for a PCR “test”: https://t.me/VigilantFox/7483 (11.26) Chinese drones spray at close range: https://t.me/TrumpTeam45/1176 (11.27) SF gives robots deadly weapons: https://t.me/GeneralMCNews/2380 (11.30) AI trial in electric car: https://t.me/FlatEarthAndMore/9846 (11.23) Polish troops fighting FOR Ukraine attack Orthodox churches in Ukraine, burn Bibles:  https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/polish-mercenaries-fighting-for-ukraine-burning-bibles-of-russian-orthodox-church Will “mark” confer longevity, euphoria, and super powers?  https://theappearance.com/new-page-10.htm During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.  Rev. 9:6 Problems w digital ID: https://www.skywatchtv.com/?nltr=MzE3OzEwNzQwO2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNreXdhdGNodHYuY29tLzIwMjIvMTEvMjUvbmF0aW9uYWwtZGlnaXRhbC1pZC87OzI1Mzc4ZTQ4YjA5MzE5YTg3MzUxNzkyMTEyMDlmYTk5 Chinese lockdowns to expand worldwide: https://www.infowars.com/posts/bombshell-video-klaus-schwab-says-chinese-lockdowns-to-expand-worldwide/ Freezing Bank accounts of Brazilians who refuse to accept election results: https://t.me/RWMaloneMD/5725 (11.24) GEO-VULCAN Dual volcanoes on The Big Island:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11483547/Hawaii-volcano-eruption-alert-draws-onlookers.html Threat of Hilina Slump:  https://seismo.berkeley.edu/blog/2018/05/07/a-slow-emergency-and-a-sudden-slump.html JAB Why we need the gift of healing back in the body: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/peter-mccullough-medical-certifications-censoring-rfk-jr-podcast/ $52 million to embedded Pfizer PR firm for CDC?: https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/cdc-spent-52m-embedding-pfizers-pr-firm-into-its-vaccine-communication-advisory-operation-2e53c9a0 Dr. David Marin – Jab is Bioweapon to take out humanity: https://t.me/covidbc/6556 (11.18) Autopsy of brain hemorrhage: https://t.me/GeneralMCNews/2190 (11.18) Refuse jab? = mentally ill: https://t.me/AltSkull48/6441 (11.19); https://dailyclout.io/report-canadian-doctor-says-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario-suggests-unvaccinated-patients-are-mentally-ill-and-should-be-put-on-psychiatric-medication-video/ Canada - give psychiatric drugs to jab deniers: https://t.me/AltSkull48/6455 (11.20)) Canadian Bill C-36. Forced vaccines/psych referrals: https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/11/canadian-psychiatric-association-targets-anti-vaxxers-greg-reese-video/ref/8/

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Vladimir Putin's announcement of a partial military mobilisation in Russia reinforces the idea that the Ukraine war will not end quickly and that Ukraine and its partners need to prepare for a long war. The Kremlin is sending a clear signal to the West that it will do whatever it takes to succeed—or at least not to fail. For Ukraine to survive and thrive in the long-war, the EU and its member states should formulate a comprehensive mechanism to support their eastern neighbour. In doing so, Europeans can lay the foundations for a functioning Ukraine, deter Russia from further aggression, and perhaps even point the way toward a settlement of the conflict. In this week's episode, Mark Leonard is joined by ECFR's Piotr Buras, Gustav Gressel, Kadri Liik, and Jeremy Shapiro to describe and debate the potential military, security, and economic aspects of the long-war plan. Why is investment in industrial warfare supply chains so crucial? How can security assurances for Ukraine enhance deterrence and reduce the potential for escalation? And finally, why should the EU provide medium-term access for Ukraine to the European single market? This podcast was recorded on 20 September 2022. Further reading: Survive and thrive: A European plan to support Ukraine in the long war against Russia, by Piotr Buras, Marie Dumoulin, Gustav Gressel & Jeremy Shapiro https://ecfr.eu/publication/survive-and-thrive-a-european-plan-to-support-ukraine-in-the-long-war-against-russia/ Bookshelf - “Essays” by George Orwell - “Jerusalem: The Biography” by Simon Sebag Montefiore - “The Habsburg Empire: A New History” by Pieter M. Judson - “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin” by Ursula K. Le Guin

We’re not huge celebrity news watchers, but we just couldn’t avoid the coverage of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial. This week, a jury sided with Depp and awarded him $15 million in damages. Today, we’ll unpack how the case played out on social media platforms and what it could mean for the future of the #MeToo movement. Plus, the baby formula shortage is still really bad. And Ukraine might be headed to the World Cup. Gooooal! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Amber Heard-Johnny Depp Trial: Survivors ‘Sickened’ by Verdict” from Rolling Stone “Depp-Heard verdict will hold back #MeToo movement, advocates fear” from The Washington Post “Monica Lewinsky's Verdict on the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard Trial: We Are All Guilty” from Vanity Fair “Why the Depp-Heard trial is so much worse than you realize” from Vox “Baby Formula Shortage Worsens to 74% Out of Stock in US” from Bloomberg “US Will Airlift Baby Formula From Abroad as Shortages Grow Worse” from The New York Times “For Ukraine the World Cup looked unthinkable. Now they’re 1 game away after spirited win over Scotland” from ESPN “Do Swedish People Feed Their Guests?” from The New York Times What cultural norms have you become smart about? Email us makemesmart@marketplace.org or call us at 508-827-6278 or 508-U-B-SMART.

We’re not huge celebrity news watchers, but we just couldn’t avoid the coverage of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial. This week, a jury sided with Depp and awarded him $15 million in damages. Today, we’ll unpack how the case played out on social media platforms and what it could mean for the future of the #MeToo movement. Plus, the baby formula shortage is still really bad. And Ukraine might be headed to the World Cup. Gooooal! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Amber Heard-Johnny Depp Trial: Survivors ‘Sickened’ by Verdict” from Rolling Stone “Depp-Heard verdict will hold back #MeToo movement, advocates fear” from The Washington Post “Monica Lewinsky's Verdict on the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard Trial: We Are All Guilty” from Vanity Fair “Why the Depp-Heard trial is so much worse than you realize” from Vox “Baby Formula Shortage Worsens to 74% Out of Stock in US” from Bloomberg “US Will Airlift Baby Formula From Abroad as Shortages Grow Worse” from The New York Times “For Ukraine the World Cup looked unthinkable. Now they’re 1 game away after spirited win over Scotland” from ESPN “Do Swedish People Feed Their Guests?” from The New York Times What cultural norms have you become smart about? Email us makemesmart@marketplace.org or call us at 508-827-6278 or 508-U-B-SMART.

This mix presents a selection from the two benefit compilations For Ukraine 1 & 2, curated by Mike 'Headphone Commute' Lazarev and Hollie Kenniff. All proceedings from these albums will be donated to International Rescue Committee (rescue.org) to support displaced children and families with vital supplies during the Crisis in Ukraine. To avoid redundancy with these two albums, I edited or shortened EVERY track in this mix: none of them are included in their original full length! Think of it as 'preview edits'.Furthermore, only 27 of the 48 tracks are included, so that leaves another 21 ‘musical incentives' to buy the compilations! 00:00 Kiev Ambiance Intro by Stanislav Teterevlev00:53 Madeline Cocolas - Emergence03:48 Marine Eyes - Heart Held06:38 Rachel Grimes - Patsy (instrumental)08:35 Heather Woods Broderick - Monarch11:03 Benoît Pioulard - Rasping Descend13:02 Slow Reels - Interference14:16 Simon Scott - Ember16:57 Helios (feat. Hollie Kenniff) - Enfold18:57 Christopher Willits - The Unknown Sea21:48 Gailes - 7.8325:35 Ryuichi Sakamoto and Illia Bondarenko - Piece For Illia27:45 IKSRE - Seeds28:59 Nailah Hunter - Palace30:30 Sachi Kobayashi - Sakura31:22 Karen Vogt - Light Must Come32:56 Lea Bertucci & Lawrence English - This Heavy Rock34:30 Mike Lazarev - Incoming36:17 Endless Melancholy - A Peace Once Lost37:39 Julia Kent - Spring Snow40:33 Zakè & 36 - Rodych43:14 Hammock - Displacement44:54 Claire Deak - A Million Cloaked Ghosts47:14 Joe Trapanese - Introspection49:53 Rhian Sheehan - We Found Ourselves Beneath A Dark Sky52:29 Rose Riebl - Near Dark53:50 Aisha Burns and Jake Woodruff - The Reservoir57:33 Hollie Kenniff and Anna Phoebe - Ways Of Seeing

Rosa Miyake e MJ comemoram 2 anos do programa e trazem uma playlist com 5 artistas japoneses que participaram da compilação “For Ukraine” organizada pela revista Headphone Commute com a curadoria de Hollie Kenniff. O programa +81: Aeroporto de Hakodate é uma seleção musical apresentado por Rosa Miyake. Semanalmente, uma nova playlist é elaborada com uma variedade de músicas do mainstream japonês, mas também de outras vertentes: jazz, rock, experimental, folclórica, erudito, eletrônico, post-rock e outros gêneros. Nas principais plataformas de podcasts. Procure por plus81. PLAYLIST #76 1-) Marika Takeuchi - Brighter Days /　竹内まりか「Brighter Days」 2-) Midori Hirano - Years Later /平野みどり「Years Later」 3-) Sachi Kobayashi - Sakura / 小林祐「Sakura」 4-) Hinako Omori - cloudpaiting/大森日向子「荒城の月」 5-) Ryuichi Sakamoto and Illa Bondarenko - Piece for Illa / 坂本龍一「Piece for Illa」

This is episode #002 of the FuturePerfect Podcast where we talk with compelling people breaking new ground in art, media, and entertainment. This podcast is produced by FuturePerfect Studio, an extended reality studio creating immersive experiences for global audiences. Episodes are released every two weeks, visit our website futureperfect.studio for more details.The text version of this interview has been edited for length and clarity. Find the full audio version above or in your favorite podcast app.This week we interview Team Rolfes, a digital performance and image studio led by Sam and Andy Rolfes. The studio specializes in figurative animation, VR puppetry, and mixed reality collage. They create works across multiple formats, including livestream improvisational comedy, live motion capture animation on large festival stages and in underground rave bunkers, print design for fashion collections, album covers and music videos. They have collaborated with Lady Gaga, Danny Elfman, Danny L Harle, Nike, Netflix, Adult Swim and performed at music festivals across the world. On June 4th, 2022, they will premiere their live 3D musical 3-2-1 RULE at Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia. The work is being developed together with writer and net artist Jacob Bakkila and artist songwriter Lil Mariko.I first encountered your work as an online video in 2020 as a part of the Lunchmeat Festival of electronic music and art based in Prague. I think it was called Sam Rolfes 360° AV experience. I watched it on my Oculus headset and the work was so exhilarating, but also disconcerting and humorous at the same time. It was like a fever dream complete with moving walls, objects melting, spaces constantly changing sizes, and yet was extremely beautiful. For me, the work exemplified this intriguing in-betweenness that you embrace: part puppet show, theme park ride, sculpture, live performance, gaming, and installation. And this makes absolute sense because you've been making experiences across media and genres for a very long time.You were both originally trained in painting and fine art. How did you get from there to the work that you're doing now?Sam Rolfes: Yes, Andy and I both come from a painting background. Our mom was a painter. She ran a little 3D studio when we were kids. She had these big huge books on Blender and 3ds Max laying around.Andy Rolfes: It was a long path back to 3D. We played around with 2D a lot more. We read about musculature systems in the 3D books and wondered how in the world people can even set this stuff up.SR: There was also a lot about wireframes. When we were kids 3D was just kind of boring. It felt like math and I didn't want to do math I just wanted to make a cool race car. AR: Yeah a lot of math. I remember making a sword in Blender when I was 12. It's a pretty linear shape, but it was the most taxing process. So I went back to 2D. I could just play with a plane and an abstraction and it was more fun.These 3D tools, along with game engines and other design software, have become some of the most significant toolsets for conceptualizing and building your work. What happened in terms of your training where you suddenly realized you needed to leave painting and watercolor and shift into 3D?SR: I don't remember how I came across it, but I came across ZBrush, a 3D sculpting program where you can mash things around like digital clay. That was the big aha moment for me. A lot times it hides (honestly oftentimes to its detriment) the mathy elements and we found that it was actually in keeping with our painting background where it allows for semi-improvisation, but with an impressionistic sculptural object. Andy started playing more with Maya and Blender as well. And we both slowly got into it just because it was fun.AR: I went through the whole watercolor track and was doing semi-pro photography and developing an interest in photogrammetry. As I was seeing Sam play around with ZBrush, I got into it and jumped back into 3D. I actually went back to 3ds Max. I was putting photogrammetry scans in there and throwing grass around and rendering that out and realized it had gotten way better. And I started bringing in my 2D stuff and playing with ways to collage that in. I played around with that and Cinema 4D before I ended up going back to ZBrush.SR: This was in tandem with the 2012 to 2016 era of internet art and post internet art. There were a lot of people doing 3D art. They would kind of kludge something together in Maya and make it shiny and spin around. And that stuff still exists to some extent these days, but was increasingly present in Chicago where I was living at the time. I had just moved back from Austin after being there for a year after graduating art school. I was starting to do more show flyers and stuff like that and I was trying to find whatever scene existed in Chicago. You wouldn't know it because none of the people would actually hang out in person, but a lot of interesting things in the glitch scene and post internet scene were coming out of Chicago. I was trying to engage with this new community and was finding our perspective within that. I realized we could take a different approach because of our painting background. All these other people were coming more from a digital art or computer science background. They had an art game program at SAIC where I went to school, but I was so turned off by it because everybody was making these white box gallery experiences and they were all the same. That was one reason why it took me a while to get into Unreal Engine. I was still traumatized by having to virtually walk through all these terribly designed spaces. And then I started doing music videos. Our first one was for this group Amnesia Scanner. And I started using ZBrush as a live visual performance tool and did visuals for shows. I would make characters for every musician performing. There's no real rigging in ZBrush, but I managed to make the characters bounce around like marionettes. From there I got a bit of an understanding of realtime performance.And then Amnesia Scanner kind of blew up on the internet. We don't reach out to musicians like this, but I just like sent them an email. They're very mysterious and I didn't know where they were based. I sent them an email that was in four different languages that was like, please let's work together. And they responded to me. So I spent two months with an initial dev trying out both Unity and Unreal. And Unreal ended up being better.I got in contact through a friend of a friend with this guy Eric Anderson, who was running a three-story punk venue in Chicago called The Keep. We met and he had a prototype Oculus Rift. This was back in 2015 or something like that. And I went to this DIY spot and then stayed there for a week and we just banged out this crazy video. I just palmed the prototype Oculus headset to do the camera. There was no sequencer and there was nothing rendered in Unreal. This was all recorded. I exported it all and took it to my painting mentor's place and uploaded it to his 12 year old daughter's gaming computer. And it took like 24 hours for it to load on that computer and then we performed it there and just recorded it straight from the screen. It felt good enough that we kind of just kept running with it for everything after that.So in terms of music, your past works have a long dialogue with rave culture, hyperpop, and new forms of media that circulate on the internet. Tell us more about that dialogue and how it informs some of your current work.AR: I was kind of plugged into, or at least aware of, both vaporwave and glitch and everything in between that, like the acerbic visuals and everyone realizing 3D is a lot more approachable. The communities I've engaged with have definitely been varied and scattered. It's a lot of pulling things together and trying to figure out what works. Up until recently not many friends or people I've know have directly engaged with 3D. But I show them what I'm working on and try to connect different communities together and see how we can work together.SR: And more recently you've been more active in the visual artist communities than I have. I've been more interested in those rave cultures. I have a long career of DJing and producing. I've been in the turntable scene, the glitch hop scene, the witch house scene, and now it's hyperpop. It all ends up being the same. The through line is just experimentalism basically. It's just like a certain amount of interest in a new sound.Hyperpop is an interesting illustration of this to talk about because it's this weird thing where underground culture was made mainstream and at the same time, at least initially, was not diluted upon becoming mainstream. I guess this has happened all the time, but it's the most recent occurrence that I participated in. Hyperpop is this weird sound that somehow a ton of people know about and it became a meme and a joke because of course it was gonna be. But watching that dynamic was very interesting. We've had a long history with different music scenes. Both me performing as a DJ, but also us doing stage performances with musicians on big festival stages with mocap (motion capture) VR performances that are kind of accompaniments to their music. We've got an opera and a kind of a 3D musical in the works right now. But where it all started was album covers and then music videos. It was about participating in those communities and finding a way to, as visual artists, be a part if it more than just fans, but actually help shape the ideas and shape where everything is going. What are the ideas you're shaping? What's the content and the substance of what you're trying to shape right now?SR: Generally we try and get in and maybe expand the visual dynamic range. With a lot of experimental approaches, especially in the music scenes, it ends up being a lot about vibe or the nerdy tech or kind of esoteric stuff. For us, we can use all these esoteric tech tools, but use them hopefully for a compelling overarching narrative.And I'm sure we'll talk more about the performative aspects of our work with using digital tools. But in these electronic scenes it ends up losing a certain humanity. A lot of it for us has been trying to reconnect to this live, in-the-moment feeling. Our work is trying to hit the same subconscious feeling of being in the moment and having all these things happening rather than have some kind of contrived tech demo construction or something.AR: Especially nowadays where people are like—oh yeah I need to touch grass. We want to somehow bring that back to the digital and think how can we make this more physical? We're combining that with strong motivations and guiding lights in theater, performance, athletics, heavy physicality. And we're thinking what can we really do with having our bodies fling around, often literally, and have that cascade and become a deeper narrative that also has its own motivations of speaking to the community or wherever our eyes are fixated at the moment.Performance in front of a live audience is super central to you guys. Give us a sense of the infrastructure you need to build in order to create one of your dynamic realtime performances. How does it work compositionally, dramaturgically and technically? What does it take to put together and create a realtime dynamic performance in front of a live audience.SR: Right now, one of our projects is this stage adaptation for this short film, this bigger thing 3-2-1 RULE that's going to debut in Australia in a month. That one is going to be significantly more structured and quality controlled beforehand rather than being a crazy thing where it's incredibly improvisational. Often times each show is purpose built to a certain extent. Most of our projects inherit worlds and characters and assets from previous projects, but they they build on each other. We'll have a collection of scenes that are modular and existing in the same world. Each one is setup for a specific type of camera shot and a specific type of motion capture or VR mechanic.AR: Before we get into designing the motion, we also have to figure what the arc of the performance is. What's the energy, what modes want to fit where? Is this going to be a soft moment or is it going to be more excitable? We chart the long arc and mini arcs of the scene.SR: Oftentimes we're not able to meet with the musicians until we get to whatever country we're going to. Prior to meeting them we set up these modular scenes, each with their arc in terms of mechanics and scene dynamic. We have a whole collection of things and plug them together to an extent. Because the performances are so improvisational, it's kind of like acting the part of a good DJ who's watching the audience, watching the musicians, listening, and deciding what's right in the moment.We work this way when we're making music videos as well. Where we build the environment in VR and then kind of feel out where the choreography of a scene is supposed to go. This big Australian debut of 3-2-1 RULE is going to be pretty regimented. We're going to have everything planned, but there's still going to be a fair amount of improvisation since it's all realtime. I would never want to cut out the potential for those kind of magical moments to happen.It sounds like 3-2-1 RULE is a very important transitional project for you where you're in control of the narrative and you're not in service of some other musicians. Tell me where the title 3-2-1 RULE comes from and give me a sense of what you're producing.SR: The name comes from this backup strategy in tech where you're supposed to have three backups. I'm gonna get this wrong, but one is local, one is on the cloud, and one is offsite. The staged work is an adaptation of a short film and will eventually be either a feature film or a playable game. It's one of the major projects for us this year. It's kind of a parody of both the metaverse stuff and the contemporary moment. But also a way to talk about memory and people's relationships and history together on the internet and what happens when you use the cloud platforms as a prosthetic brain or a prosthetic memory where you're offloading moments together. The work follows these gig economy workers who respond to listings posted on an app that gathers memories for people in a metaverse space. If someone wants to remember the best day they ever had or the way their dad danced around when he made breakfast they would use this app and the gig economy workers dive in and play these genre parody games to unlock the memory for them. The conceit is that AI can obviously go in and scan your brain or scan the internet and grab this stuff, but it could never recreate the senses that really make up the core of what the memory is. So you have these gig economy workers who kind of chemically collage and assemble these things together for their clients.The stage adaptation served the dual function of giving us an excuse to start building out everything for this broader narrative project really fast. And to start developing this format that's closer to a musical. The debut in Australia will be with the musician Lil Mariko, but the idea is that we would put this on all over the world, and it could be any musician friend that would star in this role. It might be customized for each musician a bit. There are moments where there's narrative and there are moments were they could just perform their songs. This is kind of our pitch for a new performance format that could be replicated elsewhere and could really bring variety to the music performance world. Because I mean I love music shows. I love venues. I love playing them. I love going to them. I'm at them all the time. But I'm sick of music shows and the format has hardly changed. There exists this potential to unite all these different formats including visuals, sound, music, and narrative. And it takes a little more work. But I think we might be good people to try it out.You're working with writer and social network artist Jacob Bakkila. What is he bringing to the work?SR: We initially brought Jacob in on our now defunct Netflix project we were developing. He has a whole career of performing as bots on the internet or doing genre parody things and all these satirical things that are really brilliant. The project was going really well, but there was too much red tape and it got canceled. But we were talking afterward about working together and we had a kernel of the idea for 3-2-1 RULE. He said, okay I think I can do this and went away for a few days and came back with the base concept for 3-2-1 RULE. And it just threaded the needle between stuff that our team had already been working on for our game and other projects. I work directly with Jacob on the broader concepts and the story and where it goes, but he can churn out hilarious writing very quickly. It's a mishmash of different online references from every generation and he's so conversant in that kind of dialogue that he can make it feel genuinely realistic. He's able to sit in this incredibly online space that I feel is very essential to this story. He just generally knows how to fit everything together in a very nice way and was able to bring the emotion to the project.Do you have a sense of what you want the audience to experience? What do you want them to come away with? What kind of impact do you want to have on them?SR: Maybe it varies a bit between the live show, the eventual short, and then whatever the final big project is. I want it to be jarring, but funny. I want it to reflect upon our online relationships and what we've given up in terms of community, interpersonal dialogue, memory and moments together. How much are we sacrificing for platforms?Would it be safe to say that you obviously have a fraught relationship with these platforms? You've experimented in these spaces, you draw inspiration from these spaces, you post in these spaces, and simultaneously, you're frustrated and critical of these spaces. SR: We're participating in them because there really is no alternative. I have friends who are making their own distributed web3 based platforms like people doing Channel and people doing other projects, like more horizontal lefty things here and there. But they still have to promote it on platforms because that is just where all this stuff exists. So much of our stuff, especially if it has any narrative, does have a platform critical element to it because I can't think of anything else to comment on. It feels so absurd to be forced to fit this art that we do, that could take so many different forms, into a box that's 1080 by 1080 pixels and lasts a minute. There's always been constraints to art, but with platforms it's not a meritocracy, and the best stuff does not rise to the surface. The platforms themselves do not promote things that are in keeping with the value system of anybody within their right minds. It promotes things that will do well on the platform for its own good. I don't think that's a healthy thing for an artistic community, or for an artist, or for anything. I think most people recognize this to an extent. In a sense, critiquing it and putting it in my little skits is just coping. It's like acknowledging it, but I only have so much ability to actually do anything about it. It's also just generally frustrating with the moment we're in. The trick is speaking to that moment and then not getting too trapped in the Twitter style riffing on the discourse of the day. That stuff will do better, it is incentivized because you will get better metrics and the platforms want that kind of momentary ephemeral thing. But then if you go back a week later, it doesn't hit the same. So that's also a trap. Having things be somehow engaging with the contemporary moment, acknowledging where we are right now, and what our relation is to these platforms and to the economy and to how they have basically become the air we breath. Doing that and then also figuring out how you have it be something that lasts longer than 10 minutes is always a struggle artistically.In all of our discussion we haven't touched on the literal politics of the day. I mean, we haven't talked about Ukraine, we haven't talked about Russia. We haven't talked about the elections. We haven't talked about any of that. What's your relationship to these events and the work you're doing? Is it something you avoid, something you engage with, or something you don't wanna participate in?SR: All the political discourse, at least between the conservative and liberal sphere, I don't give a s**t about. My interest is in the working class relation to their power, and collective bargaining and what we can do about it. I have opinions about imperialism and being against it and what the US should be doing abroad. But a much more tangible thing to engage with is union and platform issues.AR: It feels more actionable. Stuff that doesn't feel like beating the same drum. We're not trying to be Beeple where we just do modern day political cartoons.SR: That's that momentary discourse thing I'm talking about where it's like oh, I'm going to make an Elon thing. Like who cares?AR: It feels far too ephemeral. And there's a time in place for that, the political art.SR: And I have done some stuff like that, I mean I've thrown Zuckerberg into some s**t, but I don't know.AR: But that's also trying to keep things contemporary and keeping with a sense of immediacy. I feel like we usually try to tie things down to more. Not really universal, well sort of universal because working class issues are fairly universal outside of maybe the top 1%. But try to speak to the broader issues, and try to speak more to the individual themselves rather than trying to talk to political issues that will come and go all the time. Even if they don't seem like they ever go away.SR: Talking about the news of the day and making art about the news of the day is both a symptom of a broader issue that is very much not the discourse in the mainstream media or however you wanna phrase it. Not to sound like too much like a post-left guy, but it's a liberal trap to make your art about an issue that is being discussed by the media that you have no control over. It's a liberal trap in that it is a culture war fabrication that art can change the world. Like if we make the most moral Disney movie, then everybody will be good. It ignores people's relation to their labor and all these other things. It's like, if we have no more bad villains who do problematic things on TV, then everybody's gonna be okay. And I think a lot of artists end up in that trap, feeling the push to have to make work about things like this. Both because it's incentivized by the platform, and because again it's the churn of the daily discourse you're supposed to plug into. And just morally they feel like oh, I have to be saying something. And I'm not saying that my stuff is not cope because there's a left version of this that is just cope too. But it's just like posting on Twitter. It's not doing anything. We've all been trained to be cultural commentators. All we are doing is quote tweeting people endlessly while the same structural system continues. And I just have no interest in participating in that. It's entertainment at the end of the day and it's entertainment for some people and my stuff is entertainment for lefty types and I'm not necessarily accomplishing anything more, but I at least think that the topics that I'm interested in maybe are more realistically accomplished.AR: I usually just look to the actual items. I just made an artwork for the Queer Museum of Digital Art, which is part of the whole web3 sphere. They're trying to fundraise.SR: Just to clarify, I was not talking about that kind of stuff. I'm not saying that fundraising's bad or anything like that.AR: I know. I know. For Ukraine or other huge issues, I'm just going to donate or help however I can. If sharing something might help connect one or two other people, I'm aware of my presence as a node within this whole network. If i'm one of a thousand other people sharing this, but there are three other people in my network who didn't see this it's cool if it's actionable. Not if it's just hot takes.SR: That community building is also way more important than making art about it. Communities can make art and have that steer people in a certain direction. Just to self roast a little bit, if I made the most perfectly leftist take down of whatever, that doesn't accomplish anything either. So making these alternative structures, not to get into dual power talk, but building community structures that exist outside of these platform capital dependent things, I think is the most important thing.What communities are you working with specifically?SR: I have yet to start helping them really in a way that I can give myself credit for, but Jaded is a new organization. It's some people from the Black Socialists in America, Zack Fox, and a bunch of comedians have started this artist co-op and community. They're building a venue, they're going to be funding scripts, they just debuted this podcast they're doing. Black Socialists in America also have all these other projects like The Dual Power App, which helps give people tools for building co-ops and horizontal things and community structures that don't rely on basic finance capital. They are a great example.And then Channel, I did some work for them. They're a web3 venture. I don't want to over explain their thing because I will probably do a bad job. They've done a lot of platform critical work, podcasts, and they're a bunch of lefty artists. But from time to time they would get shadowbanned. And they are still, regardless of how critical they are, dependent on these platforms to a certain extent. They're working to untether that. In the same way that people are tethered to their jobs because they can't get universal healthcare, they have to stay at the job for healthcare. To give themselves a life raft or a way to untether from that toxic situation, the idea is that basically their followers are on the chain so that they can move to whatever platform. You don't lose followers when you jump somewhere else. It's a first step towards an alternative platform structure or an alternative community structure that does not rely on passing through AWS and Google and relying on this huge stack from just a couple companies. Both of them, Channel and Jaded are awesome examples, and we help where we can.That's great. This really helps fill in a whole other part of your practice that I'm learning more and more about all the time. So I'm super excited to hear you talk about that.We have so many things in common and we have some really interesting overlapping happening between Team Rolfes and FuturePerfect Studio. It's very exciting and I can't wait to see more of your work and have more conversations with both of you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit futureperfect.substack.com

Myles Goodwin is a Canadian musician and songwriter who was elected to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member the legendary April Wine. In addition to founding the long-running band, Myles has recorded and released solo material including his new single For Ukraine. He talks about it including it on his new album Long Pants, whether artists have a responsibility, charity singles and touring after a pandemic. Long Pants comes out June 23rd. Subscribe: Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Anchor, Pandora, Deezer Social: @EndeavoursRadio --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dan-mcpeake/message

Several weeks ago I was on a Zoom call with over 50 kirtan artists to hear more about something called the Auricle Collective — this is a project spearheaded by Dave Stringer, Seán Johnson and several other Kirtan artists. Singing kirtan connects us by the thread of sacred music as a spiritual path. The goal […] The post For Ukraine first appeared on New World Kirtan > Calming Chants for a Crazy World.

About a week ago, in collaboration with Hollie Kenniff who curated the roster of artists, Headphone Commute released the first volume of the benefit compilation For Ukraine with 100% of all proceeds being donated to the International Rescue Committee (rescue.org). This is one of those things, folks, that does not need to be written about, promoted, or sold. Nevertheless, with the help of Brian Housman of Stationary Travels, I am happy to share with you an hour-long compilation teaser, featuring some of Brian's favourite pieces. It's only about half of the entire content, which you can now stream as part of our mix series and podcast, but we still ask you to share and help in any way that you can to support our message. Thanks in advance, and stay tuned for Volume Two!!! For Ukraine : https://hcdi.gs/ForUkraine

This morning Natalie spoke on 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 Afterwards Natalie led a time of prayer, praying • For Ukraine - for miracles to be done in that place • For the HTC Breakfast Club - for the guests to build relationships with each other and know that it is a place of safety • The Lord's Prayer

Det gule og blå ukrainske flag ses allevegne i solidaritet med Ukraine - i butikkernes udstillingsvinduer og fra flagstænger - de to farver symboliserer en solbeskinnet gul kornmark med klar blå himmel over. For Ukraine er et landbrugsland. Men nu kan krigen betyde at alt det korn, ukrainerne plejer at eksportere til verdensmarkedet, kommer til at mangle. Et flertal af EU-landene er klar med en løsning: vi ophæver braklægningen af marker i Europa - og sår dem til. Den russiske præsident truer kritikere med "udrensning " - formålet er at skræmme befolkningen fra at blive kritiske, når sanktionerne begynder at få konsekvenser for deres levestandard, lyder analysen. Samtidig løber antallet af civile ofre i Ukraine op, i takt med at flere og flere russiske angreb rammer civile mål. Landets kommuner skulle diskutere klima og velfærd til det kommunalpolitiske topmøde i Aalborg i dag, men Ruslands krig i Ukraine og det stigende antal ukrainske flygtninge stjæler billedet. Vi ser nærmere på, hvordan kommunerne forbereder sig på at tage imod, hvad regeringen i dag kalder en historisk stor integrationsopgave. Brita Kvist og Henrik Lerche er værter, Tine Møller Sørensen er dagens redaktør. www.dr.dk/orientering

In this episode of The Silent War:Mayorkas Releases New Rules on Extremism – DHS Will Target Anyone Who Believes Election Was Stolen or Who Challenged Fauci's Everchanging COVID Narrative. UN Chief In 'Bone-Chilling' Statement: Nuclear War Back "Within Realm Of Possibility" Over Ukraine. Russia Ups Their Accusations – Blames Deadly Outbreak of Swine Flu in Ukraine that Killed 364 People on US-Funded Biolabs. Elon Musk Challenges Vladimir Putin To "Single Combat" For Ukraine. REPORT: Israel Comes Under Largest-Ever Cyber Attack in History. “The Fake News Said My Personality Would Get Us Into a War. But Actually, My Personality Is What Kept US Out of War” – President Trump in Florence (VIDEO)Breaking news: No 2022 Morgan or Peace dollars. EU Parliament Votes Against A Crypto Proof of Work ban. Pelosi Refuses to Hand Over Emails and Videos from Jan 6 Claiming “Sovereign Immunity”. This Is Big: Naomi Wolf Confirms Big Pharma Was Adding Varying Amounts of Active Ingredient to Batches of COVID Vaccine (VIDEO). Children in China Diagnosed With Leukemia After Taking Chinese Vaccines. Thailand Pays Out $45 Million as Compensation to 15,933 People Following Covid-19 Vaccine Adverse Reactions.All of this, and more.For breaking news from one of the most over the target and censored names in the world join our 100% Free newsletter at www.NemosNewsNetwork.com/newsAlso follow us at Gabhttps://gab.com/nemosnewsnetworkNemos News is 100% listener funded. Thank you for your support in our mission to Break the Cycle of Fake News.If you value our work please consider supporting us with our vetted patriot sponsors!www.NemosNewsNetwork.com/sponsorsShop Patriot & Detox the Deep State with www.RedPillLiving.com, Home of Sleepy Joe - the world's most powerful all natural sleep formula & The Great Awakening Gourmet Coffee for Patriots."Our Specialty, is Waking People Up."Other LinksJoin our Telegram chat: https://NemosNewsNetwork.com/chat

Collaborations galore on this week's Independent Music Podcast, and some true meeting of favourites old and new. Uruguay's Lila Tirando a Violeta bringing a certified banger to the table alongside Ecuador's Nicola Cruz, old favourite Clap! Clap! combining with percussionist and fellow Italian Domenico Candellori, Northampton grime MC FFSYTHO making a sweet return over a Glitch production, and the every global Tapes combining with recent favourite Nikolaienko, whose Nostalgia Por Mesozoica made it onto this podcast just a few weeks ago. The world has changed since a few weeks ago, and the Tapes meets Nikolaienko record is raising money for humanitarian organisation For Ukraine!, we also have Russian producer Dasha Rush's track from a fantastic Ukrainian charity compilation on Sweden's Northern Electronics. Money from that release goes to UNICEF Ukraine. Tracklisting Torozebu – Runaway (Black Acre, UK) Claire Rousay – Everything Perfect is Already Here (Shelter Press, France) FFSYTHO – Yeah Yeah (self-release, UK) BIPED – Silence (Avon Terror Corps, UK) Lila Tirando a Violeta & Nicola Cruz – Cuerpo Que Flota (N.A.A.F.I., Mexico) El Khat – La Sama (Glitterbeat Records, Germany) Dasha Rush – Mental Highway (Northern Electronics, Sweden) Chambre Claire – Les Bateaux (Z Tapes, France) Tak Kawakubo – Killing Time Himatsubushi (Z Tapes, France) Tapes meets Nikolaienko – Countryside Emergency (Porridge Bullet, Estonia) The Allegorist – Moving Forward (Awaken Chronicles, Germany) This week's episode is sponsored by The state51 Conspiracy, a creative hub for music. Head to state51.com to find releases by JK Flesh vs Gnod, Steve Jansen, MrUnderwSood, Wire, Ghost Box, Lo Recordings, Subtext Records and many more Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston.

Words and Voice: Rev'd Jon SwalesMusic. Classical Sad Piano [No Copyright Sound] [FREE USE MUSIC] - Scott Buckley - Undertow (320 kbps).mp3Father of Creation,The Covenant God who spoke of blessing to the nations,We weep anxious tears,Not only for Ukraine,But also with a forboding fear,Of what may be.Lord have mercy,Christ have mercy. Father of Creation,God and Father  of our Lord Jesus Christ,Within the storm of war,We long to hear afresh the words of your Son, saying‘Do not be afraid'We long to hear the the words of your Son, saying  ‘Be still, The War is over,Lord have mercy,Christ have mercy.And so we pray,For Russian soldiers to lay down their swords,For Tanks fueled by violent intent to stop in their tracks,For missiles and bomb to fail to detonateLord have mercy,Christ have mercy.We conspire with compassion,And hope against hope,For the cessation of violence, &The flourishing of peace. Lord have mercy,Christ have mercy.And so we pray,For the hurt and the wounded,The scared and the brave,For Ukraine and Russia.For mercy and grace.And so we pray,For world leaders,Those fleeing for their lives,Those moving at the command of the violent warmongers,For mercy and grace. We conspire with compassion,And hope against hope,For the cessation of violence, &The flourishing of peace. Lord have mercy,Christ have mercyAnd so we pray against nuclear threats,Against the trigger of terror,And the the barbarity of man.Lord have mercyChrist have mercyFather of Creation,God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,Your Son said to ‘love our enemies'And lived and loved with self giving sacrificial love,May we too, whatever the cost,Be those who are blessed for making peace.God, our refuge and strength,bring near the day when wars shall cease and poverty and pain shall end,that earth may know the peace of heaven through Jesus Christ our LordAmen

When words fail, we sing. For Ukraine 💔🎧

The fight of our time is here. For Ukraine, for Europe, for the US, for our collective future. Now, more than any other time in our lifetime, is a time for us all to stay vigilant.  And now is also a time for us to fight. In whatever way we can. The war in Ukraine is the most significant global moment of conflict since 9/11. Maybe since World War Two. And we will focus on it on this show until further notice. We're going to talk to analysts, politicians, fighters, and leaders. And we're going to support Ukraine in any way we can. Starting now on #IndependentAmericans, we bring you the first #UkraineWarReport episode. We'll intensify our unique focus on national security, military operations and foreign policy to bring you more independent content to help you meet this moment, stay ahead of the curve, and #StayVigilant.  NATO is not moving fast and creatively enough. And Putin's taking advantage of it. It's time to do more than cheer Ukraine from outside. It's time to get inside and truly #StandWithUkraine️. It's a time to improvise, adapt and overcome. For the US, for NATO, for Ukraine, and for anyone who is serious about defending and protecting freedom, defeating evil and building toward a brighter future.  And we'll do that with this show. And with this episode. And with this important, iconic and inspiring guest.  Bianna Golodryga  (@BiannaGolodryga) has been a thoughtful and trusted fixture in the media for two decades. She is CNN's dynamic Global Affairs analyst, an expert on Russia, a native Texan, a mother, and an inspiring American immigration story.  After migrating to the US as a child from Moldova, in the former Soviet Union, Bianna grew up in Houston, and started her journalism career as a producer for CNBC. She's interviewed newsmakers including President Clinton, Condoleezza Rice and Warren Buffett. She also went to High School with Beyoncé. She's smart, experienced and real. Bianna understands the war and the players from all sides. A clear voice of reason and experience in a world of chatter and hot air. She joined us last March for an amazing Episode 106. And she's back again to break down this historic moment.  Bianna joins Independent Americans and our host Paul Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) for a fast, fascinating and unique conversation about the war in Ukraine, how to talk to your children about the conflict unfolding, and what country Putin might invade next.  Every episode of Independent Americans is pulled from the most important news stories–and offers light to contrast the heat of other politics and news shows. It's independent content for independent Americans. And delivers a blast of the Righteous Media 5 Is: independence, integrity, information, inspiration and impact. Always with a unique focus on national security, foreign affairs and military and veterans issues. This is another insightful pod to help you stay vigilant. Because vigilance is the price of democracy. In these trying times especially, Independent Americans will continue to be your trusted place for independent news, politics, inspiration and hope. Stay vigilant, America.  -Get extra content, connect with guests, attend exclusive events, get merch discounts and support this critical show that speaks truth to power by joining us on Patreon.  - Check out Paul and Bianna's conversation here. -Check the hashtag #LookForTheHelpers on Twitter. And share yours.  -Find us on social media or www.IndependentAmericans.us.  -Check out other Righteous podcasts like The Firefighters Podcast with Rob Serra, Uncle Montel - The OG of Weed and B Dorm.  Independent Americans is powered by Righteous Media.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With one month to go until Scotland's massive World Cup Playoff Semi-Final v Ukraine, I've brought in two experts, one for each side. On the Scotland side, it's Jordan Campbell - the Rangers & Scotland writer for The Athletic. For Ukraine, it's Andrew Todos from Zorya Londonsk. I really hope you enjoy the episode.