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Send us a textWhat happens when we strip away centuries of religious interpretation and confront the actual teachings of Jesus of Nazareth? This Jesus isn't the gentle, apolitical figure often presented in modern Christianity, but rather "a holistically spiritual freedom fighter" deeply concerned with poverty, exploitation, and injustice. In this episode, Bishop Wright has a conversation with Dr. Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., research scholar at Columbia University and former professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. Their conversation reminds us that Jesus as a radical social reformer whose message has been systematically diluted. Dr. Hendricks draws on St. Paul's emphasis on individual spiritual experiences to convey his message. "Paul transformed Jesus' concern for collective social, economic and political deliverance into an obsession with personal piety," Hendricks explains, suggesting that many Christians today understand Jesus primarily through St. Paul's interpretation, which fundamentally altered the trajectory of Jesus' radical message. Listen in for the full conversation.A lifelong social activist, Obery Hendricks is one of the foremost commentators on the intersection of religion and political economy in America. He is the most widely read and perhaps the most influential African American biblical scholar writing today. Cornel West calls him “one of the last few grand prophetic intellectuals.”A widely sought lecturer and media spokesperson, Dr. Hendricks' appearances include CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, Fox Business News, the Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC, NHK Japan Television and the Bloomberg Network. He has provided running event commentary for National Public Radio, MSNBC, and the al-Jazeera and Aspire international television networks.Learn more about Dr. Obery Hendricks and subscribe to his substack.Support the show Follow us on IG and FB at Bishop Rob Wright.

Felix sits down with writer & journalist Peter Korotaev for a wide ranging conversation on the state of the Russo-Ukranian War in the wake of the Trump administration's spat with Zelensky & attempts at a peace deal, and loads of context on the politics of Ukraine, Russia, various oligarchs, the Atlantic Council, and other non-state actors that have led to this point. You can find Peter's writing on Ukraine here: https://substack.com/@eventsinukraine And some other writing of note: For al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/1/23/why-is-ukraine-struggling-to-mobilise-its-citizens-to-fight Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2022/07/ukraine-neoliberalism-war-russia-eu-imf Canada Files: https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles?author=645e6f082224bb01e8f3f37c Arena https://arena.org.au/ukraines-borderline-disorder/

Marzo, sigue lloviendo, la Orense sigue haciendo de las suyas y parece que lo seguirá haciendo durante los próximos días. Esto no cambia, hoy digamos que la alerta sube desde Andalucía hacia la Comunidad Valenciana, Cataluña, fundamentalmente el noreste de la península. ¿Dónde tenemos la atención puesta? En Gaza. ¿Por qué? Porque en Gaza finalizó la primera parte del acuerdo, desacuerdo de alto el fuego, y esta noche el ejército de Israel ha lanzado ataques aéreos contra posiciones de Hamas en la franja de Gaza. Uno dice que habrían fallecido 240 personas en un al-Jazeera, más de 300. Israel ...

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is Paul Marden.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website SkiptheQueue.fm.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter  or Bluesky for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcast.Competition ends on 19th March 2025. The winner will be contacted via Bluesky. Show references: https://www.ajah.ae/https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-griffiths-63432763/Kelly's final episodeThe transformation of Painshill Park, with Paul Griffiths, Director of PainshillWhat it really takes to launch a podcast. With Kelly Molson and Paul GriffithsPaul Griffiths has worked in the Heritage, Museums and Tourism world now for nearly 30 years.After spending 16 years working in various role for English Heritage, in 2012 he moved to the Mary Rose Museum as Head of Operations to oversee the opening and operations of the multi award winning museum, welcoming over one million visitors before in 2018 taking on moving to the Painshill Park Trust in the role of Director of Painshill. Paul spent 6 years there before his move in December 2024 to Ras Al Khaimah one of the seven Emirates that make up the UAE. In this exciting brand new role Paul is Chief Executive Officer of the Al Hamra Heritage Village, part of the Al Qasimi Foundation. Transcriptions: Paul Marden: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in and working with Visitor Attractions. I'm your host, Paul Marden.Longtime listeners will remember my guest today, Paul Griffiths, when he was CEO at Painshill Park, from when he was interviewed back in season one by Kelly. In today's episode, Paul comes back to talk about his new role as CEO of Al Jazeera Al Hamrah Heritage Village in Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE. Now, I'm always interested in the first 90 days of people's experience in a job, so we'll be talking more about that and his for the future. Paul Marden: Paul, welcome back to Skip the Queue. Paul Griffiths: Hello. Thanks for having me, Paul. Great to be here. Paul Marden:  Long time. Listeners will know that we always start with an icebreaker question and our guests don't get to know that one in advance. I think this one's a pretty kind one. I was pretty mean to Paul Sapwell from Hampshire Cultural Trust a couple of weeks ago because I asked him whether it was Pompey or Saints and for political reasons, he felt that he had to abstain from that.Paul Griffiths: Testing his interest. I'd have gone Pompey at the time because that's where we live. Well, did live. Paul Marden: Oh, there you go. There you go. So you've moved over from Portsmouth. You're now in the UAE. Tell listeners, what is that one? Home comfort that after three months away from Blighty, you're missing? Is it proper English marmalade? Paul Griffiths: Do you know what? I've been able to get hold of most things, but I've not been able to get. I know people who cook properly, so I should be able to do this myself, but I haven't. Cauliflower cheese, one thing I'm missing from home, that doesn't sell it anywhere in a sort of pre pack or frozen form. I can even get hold of Yorkshire puddings in Spinny's supermarket, but I can't get hold of cauliflower cheese. Paul Marden: Can you get cauliflowers? Paul Griffiths: Can get cauliflowers. I'm sure I can make cheese sauce if I knew what it was doing. But you normally. I'm so used to normally buying a pack of cheese, cauliflower cheese to have in my Sunday roast. Paul Marden: Okay. So if I ever get to come out, I need to bring out a plastic wrapped, properly sealed so that it doesn't leak on the plane. Cauliflower cheese? Paul Griffiths: Yes, please. Yeah, absolutely. Paul Marden: So your last episode was actually. Or your last full episode was back in season one, episode 22. So five years ago and the world has changed a lot in five years, but most recently it's changed a lot for you, hasn't it? So why don't you tell listeners a little bit about what's happened to you since you were with us in season one? Paul Griffiths: Wow. Yeah, well, season one seems an age away, doesn't it, now with all the wonderful guests youu've had since on Skip the Queue, it's been a different program completely. But, yeah, no, well, back then I was at Painshill, were coming out of a pandemic and I remember, you know, Kelly and I were chatting over all the different avenues that everyone had gone and what we've done at Painshill and that continued brilliantly. And however, my life has taken a change in. In sense of where I am, but I'm still doing the same sort of work, so. Which is, you know, when our industry, and it's such a fabulous industry, it's great to stay in it. Paul Griffiths: So I am now over in the United Army Emirates in the Emirate of Ras Alhaima, which is the third biggest of the seven emirates that make up the UAE, behind Abu Dhabi and, of course, Dubai. So I was approached, God, nearly always, this time last year, about a call over here. Yes. My recruitment company got in touch and went through, you know, had a good look at the job description and thought, well, actually, we'll throw my hat into the ring. And applied, went for a series of online interviews with the recruitment company, then an online interview with the people over here at various departments within the Al Kassimme Foundation and the Department of Museums and Antiquities. Paul Griffiths: So, yeah, looking at this brand new job, which I'm now lucky enough to be in, I then was flown out in August for a round of interviews, met all the team. You know, one of those things that you later discover, the whole real four days was one big interview, although there was. There was a central one. But of course, everyone you were meeting along the way was being asked to feedback, And I love chatting to people and enjoying people's company. So actually went for dinners and lunches and all sorts, which was just a lovely four days and almost felt like a free hit in many ways, Paul. Well, this is going to be a brilliant experience. Paul Griffiths: If I don't get the job, I'm going to have a great four days in Rasta Taima, seeing it, meeting everyone, enjoying the time here. And, you know, the more time I spent here, the more time with the team, the more time, you know, going and visiting sites. I just became more and more that this would be an amazing job. Obviously gave my absolute everything, did loads of research, gave everything in the interview. The interview took a rather unusual turn. After the sort of hour and a half of questions and my questions, I was asked to leave the room for a short period. Not unusual in that sense because I was, you know, I wasn't just going to leave and go because obviously I was in their hands for four days. Paul Griffiths: But the doctor, Natasha Ridge, the executive director of the foundation, came out the interview and said, “Right, that's all gone really well. We're really pleased. We're now off to the palace for you to meet His Highness Sheikh Saud, who is the ruler of Ras Al Khaimah and on the Supreme Council of the UAE.” So I was sort of, I went to one of the small meeting rooms you. Now I know that. Now I know where I was, where I went. But at that point I had no idea. One of the lovely. There's a very much a service thing here. Paul Griffiths: So, you know, we have in the Heritage Village as well later we have a wonderful member of our team, Geraldine, who does lots of cooking, prepares stuff and just had a wonderful fish taco lunch because we're four hours ahead of you, of course, here in Alaihi. So, yeah, so one of the guys came in with, gave me an English breakfast tea and sort of, you know, sat there reviewing what, thinking what on earth was I going to be asked by His Highness. And then was put into one of the drivers and we drove up through Rat Sahma City, through into the palace, up the long driveway and there I was sort of eventually, after about 20 minutes, presented with. Presented to Sheikh Sword who asked me, chatted, asked various questions. Paul Griffiths: I don't think there could be many interviews that you end up with His Highness in the second half of it. You know, it's sometimes a presentation. Yeah. So that was. I was there for about half an hour and that's your time over and off he goes. And off I went back to then go and have dinner with some of the team. So it was a very surreal afternoon. Paul Marden: Being interviewed by royalty. But when you're not expecting that as part of the interview process, that must be quite unnerving. Paul Griffiths: I had a heads up that at some point in my trip I might meet him, but there was no formal arrangements. I had me had to get in a diary. So it hadn't even crossed my mind that's what was about to happen. When I was asked to leave the meeting room, I just thought maybe they wanted to come back with more questions or, you know, say I hadn't gone well, whatever. But, yeah, no, that was the. I took that as a good sign. I thought, well, actually, if I'm being whisked up there, the interview must have gone relatively well because I'm sure they would present me to shake sword if it hadn't gone so well. Paul Marden: Yeah. You'd hope that he would be towards the end of the cycle of the interview round. Paul Griffiths: Yeah. Paul Marden: Not doing the early sifting of CVs. Paul Griffiths: No. He certainly had seen who I was because he asked me some questions about where I'd worked and. Okay, things like that. So he'd obviously seen a CV. He's a very. I mean, I've met him subsequently a few times. I've been fortunate to be a dinner hosted by him a couple of weeks ago. But he is a very, very intelligent man. Works really hard. I mean, work. He, you know, for him, he spends every minute working on the emirate. He ruled, he. He's the ruler. But he's almost a. It's a sort of combo, I guess he's all Prime Minister at the same time as being the ruler. So he is constantly working. You know, I'm really committed and I'm lucky in many ways that where I am working at the Heritage Village is his real. Paul Griffiths: One of his real pet projects that he's really driving forward. So, yes, we come with sort of royal. Royal approval, if you like. So. Yeah. Paul Marden: Excellent. So I. I've not been to the Emirates before, so for those of us that have not been, tell us a little bit about Ras Al Khaimah, of course. Paul Griffiths: Well, Ras Al Khaimah is one of the quieter Emirates mentioned. Sheikh Saud there, he's really driving a sort of, you know, a sort of agenda of bringing in more tourists. But he wants to use culture and territory as part of that. So, you know, it's a more relaxed, low level, if that makes sense. It's not Dubai, it's not full on, it's more relaxed Emirate. It's relaxed in cultural and many of the ways it's not, as you know, some of the other Emirates are, for example, completely dry. Ras Al Khaimah has given licenses to hotels and big restaurants in hotels for serving drinks. And there are a number of sellers where you can purchase for your consumption your own home, whereas Sharjah, you can't purchase any alcohol, for example, so it's a bit more chilled like that. It's a lovely place. Paul Griffiths: We're very fortunate to have the heavier mountains go through the far side of Ras Al Khaimah. So where I'm based is more on the seafront but then not, you know, I can see the mountains behind and there's a number of drives up into the mountains which are absolutely fabulous. Up to the Jebel Jais, which is the highest point in the UAE, we have the world's longest and fastest zip wire. I have not gone anywhere near that yet. Goes up to 100km an hour and is the longest over from the top of the mountain, whisking you off to the other side. I think it looks terrifying. But my. Paul Marden: I'm more interested in cables that take you to the top of the mountain. Maybe with some skis on my feet than I am attaching myself to a cable and going down the mountain. Doesn't sound like fun to me. Paul Griffiths: There's a toboggan ride as well up there as well.Paul Marden: Oh, I'd love that. Paul Griffiths: So that's the toboggan ride's on my to do list when the family get off, I'll save it for then and take my son Barney on that. But you know, there's all this sort of venture sports up on the top of the mountain and driving up there is remarkable. They put a proper road in. It's not the scary driving up the Alps, terrified what's going to come around the other corner. It's very like driving up a road, you know, normal sort of dual carriageway, two lanes each way and then right going through the mountains to the other side to one of the other Emirates for Jazeera , for example. So you're over on the Indian Ocean side Gulf Vermont. That road is just beautiful. There's no traffic on it, you know. Paul Griffiths: So Ras Al Khaimah is only about an hour and hour to an hour and a half from Dubai airport. And Dubai is a sort of people go to Dubai in the same way that we, you know, you'd go to London, I'd go to London when I was in Port Soviet, we would. It's now, you know, it's not considered a. There's always someone from work who's in Dubai every day almost for some reason. So nipping up to Dubai, I was like, I went to a dinner there last week and you know, it just seemed very normal that he jumped in a car and drove up to Dubai and came back that evening. Whereas. Seems remarkable actually to be doing that. But yeah, so because of where we are, Abu Dhabi is about two and a half hours away.Paul Griffiths: And we are the northern point of the Emirate, So we border on to Oman, split into a number of areas. Again, I didn't know any of this till I got here, but there's a part of Oman that's at the top of Ras Al Khaimah. And so, yeah, so it's a beautiful Emirate with nature, with mountain areas, which does get a bit chillier when you go up the mountains. I looked quite silly in my T shirt and shorts when I went up there on a Sunday afternoon. People were going past me like they were going skiing. You know, people wore coats and hats and looking at me as if I'm really daft. But I was still. It's interesting that because it's winter obviously everywhere here at the moment and at home, but it's. Paul Griffiths: People here are often telling me it's a cold day when I'm still standing. I still feel really quite warm. But yeah, finding that sort ofPaul Marden: Talking 30s at the moment for you, aren't we? Paul Griffiths: Yeah, it's a little bit. The last couple days have been down in the lower 20s, really comfortable. But when we last weekend, people were getting a bit nervous that summer had come very early because it was hitting the early 30s last week. So I don't know how for me, when we get to August, when it's in the mid, late 40s with real high humidity, I think I'm just going to go from aircon building to aircon building to aircon building.Paul Marden: I am such a Goldilocks when it comes to that sort of thing. Not too hot, not too cold, it needs to be just right. So I would definitely struggle in that kind of heat. Look, let's talk a little bit about where you are in the new job. So you've taken on the role of CEO of Al Jazeera Al Hamra Heritage Village. So tell me a little bit about the village. Why is this village so historic? Paul Griffiths: Well, it's a really interesting one, Paul, because it is very important, but it's not that old. And that's why what coming to me about making it more alive is something that's going to be crucial to us. So the village has been lived in for many years. It was a pearl farming village. So most of the people who worked here were doing pearl farming, which is pretty horrible job to do. You were, again, learning about this. You were jumping off boats, going to the ocean depths for up to three to four minutes. No protection really, apart from a very light shirt and some little bits on your fingers. But actually you're nothing on your eyes. Paul Griffiths: So you're having to look through the salt water, find the pearls come up and they were going up and down sometime 15, 16 times or more a day. And there's a fascinating exhibition in Dubai at the Al Shindagha Museum which really does focus on how this worked and how these guys were living. So, so it's a real. So that was the village. So the village had that, it obviously had then had fishing men, merchants making boats, merchants selling, trading wares. And Ras Al Khaimah has been quite a strategic part as all of the UAE really for the sort of trades coming from the Middle east and out into the Gulf. So the villages was being lived in up until the very early 70s. Paul Griffiths: Up in the 1970s the Al Za'abi tribe who were based here were offered I guess a new life is the only way to look at it in Abu Dhabi with new jobs, with land, with housing and it's just a better way like pearl farming was now being done so much cheaper and easier in the Orient in Japan mainly. So that was, that dropped away. There wasn't the other merchant trading going on. So actually the oil boom basically led the tribe to almost one up sticks and head to Abu Dhabi. And in many ways good story because we're still in touch with quite considerable amounts of the tribes people who were here. Lots of the elders have done wonderful oral histories, videos talking about their lives here. But this village survived as just fell into ruins, but actually wasn't developed. Paul Griffiths: And where it becomes important is this would have been what all of the Gulf would have looked like before the oil boom. The UAE wasn't a wealthy nation before then. You know, when I went up to Dubai and spent some time at the Etihad Museum, which is based around which Etihad Union is the not Around Man City Stadium should point out very much around about how the UAE had come together and how, you know, so it wasn't the wealthiest nation, but actually they discovered oil. They then brought seven Emirates together. It then has flourished in the ways that we now know what Dabi and ifwe looks like and even Ras Al Khaimah in some parts and really quite glamorous. But this village survived. Paul Griffiths: So although it fell into ruin, all the other fishing, farmhome fishing, pearl farming villages across the Gulf had become, just got destroyed, knocked down, you know, turned into hotels and high rises. And actually when you visit the other Emirates, lots of them are now recreating their historic areas or re purposing some of the historic buildings and they're doing it very well. In Dubai, Sharjah has actually completely rebuilt. It's what it calls the Harp Sharjah, which is. Which was its historic sort of areas, but. Paul Marden: Right. Paul Griffiths: But this survived. Many of the buildings had fallen into disrepair. And what we've been doing for the last few years, as the Al Qasimi Foundation and the Department of Antiquities and Museums is restoring a number of these buildings, we've then sort of gone into a sort of activation so you can walk around. So we've got, you know, carving now. Only a year ago it was mostly sand. We've now got a path going through it, so you can walk in. And the job that I've really been asked to do initially on arrival here is to really push that activation forward and really look at my sort of. What I've done in the past and what we've seen other places do and think about what can we do to bring this bit more to life? Paul Griffiths: Because it's the sort of storage village is around the 1970s. Well, it was abandoned in the 1970s. Well, you know, for us from the UK, from lots of other nationalities, actually, something in the 70s isn't very old. It's in our lifespan. You know, we are looking at this going well, actually. So when I was talking to a lot of. So RAK TDA's basically visit RAK tourism authority. So they are really supportive in wanting to push Al Jazeera Al Hamra Heritage Village, which will from now on abbreviate to AJAH to save me. Keep saying that. Long tanned. So they are really keen that we're doing more stuff. So why would a tourist want to come? What is there to see once you're here? Paul Griffiths: On top of some abandoned and now beautifully restored houses, mosques, you know, things that you would have expected in a village of, you know, a thousand or so population, 500 houses, you know, so more than a thousand people, really. So that's the sort of plan in that way. So in many ways I've got a sort of blank canvas to play with. But, you know, money's not unlimited, so it's about. So working closely with local communities, working with, you know, local traders, looking at what could we bring into the village on the back of the art fair. I know we'll talk about later, but it's, you know, this has been a. This is a real challenge for me to. How do I take this sort of place forwards.Paul Marden: In my mind's eye, we go to the Weald & Downland Living Museum so open air museum, lots of houses recreating life through the ages. Is that the sort of experience that I'm going to get if I come to the village of I'm going to see the properties and I'm going to see this previous way of life come to life in front of me?Paul Griffiths: Well at the moment you'll see you just see in the houses and the buildings but you're walking around looking at historic buildings but we have got a number of the houses we've put in. Each video is at the moment showing the audio visuals so you can walk around and listen to members of the tribes chatting about their youth and what's happening and you can see the buildings in real life. I guess what I'm looking for this is telling the story a little bit of the village which we don't initially do that well at the moment that's no criteria. Yes, this is what we need to do going forward. There's been several stages of activation When I came last August part not many the paths weren't all finished. We didn't have anywhere for visitor services to be at the front.Paul Griffiths: We only had a very small sort officey area which has now been built up to where I'm. Where I'm sat today. So I think what you're going to get is a multi as a blend of traders who will be in our suitcase. The Souk is fully restored sooke and shopping market area so that's my first point is to move some people in there. So I've already got a goldsmith and move to her studio in got some handicrafts we've got some textile people moving in the. Paul Griffiths: The main gallery of Nassau Heyman Design Gallery which is the one big gallery where artists can go is going to have a sort of satellite shop if you like not shop a satellite so there will be pieces of work there are in here with their little souvenir store which they sell because they get people a lot of what the design gallery does is making souvenirs of Ras Al Khaimah that are all handmade so quite special gifts. So what we're hoping is tying up with our local hoteliers who many of which have not been so it's bringing them in and they need something more to see to send their guests here. Paul Griffiths: So you know talking to some of them over lunch when I hosted some of them on Saturday it was a case of you know actually, can they send their clients and say, you can do all your holiday shopping because at the moment they're sending people to the shopping malls which are just, you know, nice, but actually merchandise them to go to a heritage village, get that experience of what the golf would have been like and bags of shopping at the same time. Paul Marden: So who doesn't love a. A museum gift shop at the end? So, you know. Paul Griffiths: Exactly. And we don't really have that here at the moment from an Al Jazeera perspective. So on my plan for this year is to put in. We've got an info booth, as it's called at the moment. It's not a world. It's not the best customer service friendly. It's like a caravan but with some windows. And yeah, it's probably a better. Now it's got air conditioning. Yes. But it doesn't work very well for customers. You're trying to talk through little windows because you can only have small windows to keep the air con working, not have too much open to. It's just passing out. Paul Griffiths: So, yeah, so I'm looking at building this summer, hopefully. Fingers crossed, touch wood, a visitor welcome centre, which is something we're really pushing along with, which will be lovely because that will be that proper visitor welcome with a shop with an induction into an introduction. Sorry, into the Al Jazeera story. And then let people go. And then when they get to the far end, they'll be the souk full of. He says again, hopefully slowly filling them out, but full of traders and local craftspeople and people who are. Even if they're not originally local, they're based in rack, so they are considered local. The UAE is built up of a lot of expat population. When I say expats, I mean just English people from around the world. It's a really accepting, welcoming community. I've been really. Everyone says hello to you as you're walking into the supermarket shops. There's no. Whoever they are where you're from. Paul Griffiths: Everyone's talking to each other because the local population know they've had to bring people in because there's thousands more jobs than there are Emirati population in Ras Al Khaimah. So, you know, it's always been. And when you look at the foundation of the UAE, it was about, we will need to bring people in to bring this. To build this nation with us. So, you know, it's been always a sort of welcome and melting pot of different people. Paul Marden: Yeah, amazing. Look, you mentioned when we had our initial chat. You've been there now three months, you've been doing lots of visiting of other attractions. Because I think you said to me, which I thought was quite interesting, that you were. There's lots that you bring with you from the UK in your experience, but there's lots of best practice and good practice happening within the Emirates already. So you've been kind of going out and visiting a lot of cultural venues and attractions in the Emirates. Tell me a little bit about those. Paul Griffiths: Yeah, so it's been a minute of a manic last month in February, because we've had the art festival. I know we're going to keep hinting at it, we'll get to it at some point, but when I've had some time away, what's been fabulous, it's just sort of. And I think as well, because the family aren't here in my own at the moment, said, “All right, I've got some time off, let's go and explore.” Yeah. So I've sort of driven across to Fajera, spent time in Sharjah and took myself up for a weekend in Dubai, which was fantastic. Booked a very reasonably priced hotel and just spent a weekend flowering around everywhere and just really immersed in my. So and only scratch the surface. There's so much more to see. So, yeah, so I've been going and looking at. Paul Griffiths: Well, you know, I don't want to do something that's not. There'll be alien to, obviously, the culture here. And that's been really. What's been great fun in the last few months is it's not just going into a new job, you know, and learning that. It's actually been a terrifying, at some points, fabulous experience. I was learning new cultures, new working lives. You know, things are working. It's done very differently here. You know, there's a different hierarchical process we have in the UK and permissions are needed in different places. And that's not. I'm not saying any of this is a bad thing, it's just learning those different things. So I've been learning all these different cultures. You know, we're just coming into Ramadan, which I've had no real experience with before. And that is. That is a massive thing here. You know, it's the month. Paul Griffiths: Every billboard you go past is someone trying to sell something for Ramadan, whether it be a new chest of drawers, you know, your family needs this new dining table for Ramadan. It's a bit like, you know, you will see at Christmas at home, everyone catching on, you know, IKEA will be saying, new table and chairs for Christmas. You know, it's. It's not. It's a sort of different repeating itself. You know, those sort of signs you have around the supermarket. Christmas back home. They're all up now in supermarkets here for Ramadan. Paul Marden: Right. Paul Griffiths: Encouraging what people are going to buy for when they break the fast at sunset Iftar. So, you know, so it's all sort of promoting. You need this for. So it's a real. We're going to a massive thing. And that's been a real sort of learning, cultural thing for me, which has been great because actually I've always enjoyed, when I'm traveling, learning about other cultures, you know, it's always been for me, I always try and visit museums, galleries, learn about the place I'm at. And so actually living somewhere and learn about someone who's been. I think it's added to the fun of the experience. But back to your question. Paul Griffiths: Yes, I've been traveling wherever the possibility to start to look at other historic venues, looking at where they've, you know, restored historic markets and souk areas and what sort of things are going in there, what are people doing there. Up in Dubai, there is a place called Al Shindagar Museum, which is where they've. Some of the historic buildings that have been saved by the creek of Dubai have been turned into the most amazing series of museums, is the only way I can describe it, because each house is a different gallery or different theme. So you have the story of the creek being built up, the story of Dubai seafarers. There was a faith and. Faith and religion room, talking about Islam and different cultures, how that's worked around Dubai. Paul Griffiths: Dubai being built up as a city, lots about the rulers and families, but every house you went to is a different place. What was so impressive there from a visitor experience perspective was the training that Stafford had was sensational. You know, you go into someone, you think they're obviously being managed really well because obviously this is. You don't just train. So obviously someone oversees this really well. But clearly the training, everywhere you went, the customer service was exceptional. People coming out from behind counters, giving you introductions, making sure you had everything needed, you know, as you were leaving. Have you got any questions? All those things we try and all have tried to teach over the years, and in many ways we've all been different levels of success of that. Paul Griffiths: But what was amazing was they also got the security guards in on the act as well, because there's a real culture here that there's a separate, they're secure, they're very different. You know, there's, we've got them here, they're in very much brown security, clearly marked, you know, protecting places. But what they've done there is they had clearly trained those security guards as well, because every security guard you came across was getting in the act of chatting to visitors, even if their English wasn't brilliant, they were really keen to direct you to the next. Come this way. So the next place, oh, you finished that room, you must go upstairs. And you know, that sort of. Paul Griffiths: And whether they, you know, really just said, look, you can have a much more interesting day than just standing, staring at people walking around. You can actually chat to visitors from around the world and get talkative. And I just had the most amazing. I ended up in this museum for over five and a half hours or something silly like that. And I thought I was going to be there an hour because it was priced very reasonably. You know, when you judge a museum on, well, actually I paid this, I'm probably going to be here for that amount of time. And actually it was just, you know, I found myself stopping for a coffee, stopping for lunch. But I was so impressed by the way the staff interacted. Paul Griffiths: They also had a number of cultural local guides as well, who really were, you know, in the full sort of Emirati national dress, but wanted to press on. This is where. This is what I'm doing. So I've some, you know, I traveled across to Fujairah every week and was in a, an old, what was the ruler's summer house. And the guy, and the guy who ran it just took me on a tour. I didn't ask for a tour. He just said, would you. Well, he said, should I take you around? Yes, please. And we had this great hours experience as he was just chatting about all the rooms. And I think people here are very keen to share their culture and their heritage and very welcoming. Paul Griffiths: So, yeah, so I've done quite a bit traveling around the other parts of the UAE. I can't go out of the UAE because I've only got a hire car at the moment, so I can't go out to Omar, that's on my list. You get yourself a car. I can travel north of the border into Oman and explore that. But for now, seven emirates to. So no shortage of places. And I've not been up to Abu Dhabi yet, so still with that on my list. So yeah, Paul Marden: Wowzers. Okay. So I guess, and this is completely, what would I feel like if I was in your position of going to this new country, immersing myself in this relatively new place that you're leading? How do I say this without flattering you? You were a well connected guy. If I went to events, everybody knew you. You had this wide network of people having worked in the UK in the attraction sector for a long time and you've now jumped over to the UAE. What's happened to the network? How does that feel? I mean it must feel slightly kind of worrying or nerve wracking. What have you done to build the network in this new place? Paul Griffiths: There's a number of points to that. Right, so let's answer in a few minutes. So the world's a smaller place so I'm still occasionally having teams call zoom calls with really close ex colleagues, friends, you know, I'm sure, I mean I always say I'm sure but everyone keeps saying, “Oh I'm really loving the journey so please keep posting. So I am going to keep posting and probably going to start to annoy people after a while”, but the feedback so far is everyone saying we're loving the journey and following you with it and feel like we're on the journey. So I will carry on. I'm sort of keeping writing stuff up and sharing it and also I don't know how long I'll be here for. You know, probation is massive over here. I have to keep my fingers crossed. Paul Griffiths: I pass probation which is a six month period because it's a real right the UAE all not just off and across the UAE. It's a real big, you know, much more than at home, much more structured. On day one was given a series and this isn't a bad thing at all, a series of probation tasks, you know, around reports that are around other historic parts because the job that I've come over will eventually evolve into a wider heritage role. But at the moment the real focus is on Al Jazeera Al Hamra, which is great. Get one site, get it going, then see where we go next. So I think I'm still connected to lots of people back home. I'm still looking, seeing everyone's posts and enjoy. Paul Griffiths: I mean my usual jealousy of not being part of the ALVA network anymore as they're all having that great time in Belfast in the last couple of days and seeing everyone's post, not just one or two, but everyone you know, Bernard down with you know everyone's post. I wish I was there with them.Paul Marden: The FOMO was real. So I had Andy Povey in the office with me yesterday and we're both saying the FOMO about that ALVAe vent was very real for both of us having. Paul Griffiths: Having spent. You know I was at the Mary Rose few years where we joined ALVA and go experiencing those council weeks and knowing just hey how much they are great for networking A. You get very spoiled because every host wants to really show off what they can do and I think the Titanic always do that because we go there before for a council meeting but it's. Yeah. So you still see this stuff. So it's still sit home and there's still people I can reach out to.Paul Marden: Of course.Paul Griffiths: If we need to and I'm still calling on people things, you know, different projects we're doing here. But then again it's about slowly building up that network here and I think there's a slightly. You know, there's a. Within Ras Al Khaimah I've started making connections with lots of other people in the Heritage world and. And outside that. So we're already, you know, connecting up with different people from different parts of Ras Al Khaimah, the work we're going to do moving forward and for me I think it's been just a. I'm sort of still pinching myself I'm here and that sort of. So many things keep happening and you know. The weather's been gorgeous because I've come out of a grim English weather to this quite nice winter here where it's mostly been late mid-20s. Paul Griffiths: You're in she and shorts when you're off duty. You know, there's other things. The thing that really surprised me is how smart actually the dress code is for business over here. Paul Marden: Okay. Paul Griffiths: So I had to sort of all the usual brands that from home Mount Marks is next everything here so you could order online and get it delivered quite quickly. So I had sort of came out of one wardrobe thinking I was going to be far more in polo shirt and linen trousers are sort of very sort of summer at Painshill look, you know outdoor. But actually yeah my colleagues are still. Because of the aircon atmosphere. Lots of colleagues particularly in the head office are in suits. A bit like where I would have been when back in my London days. When we're in the office you were in a shirt tie. So yes, I had to sort of buy A back home wardrobe almost once I got traveled out with very lightweight clothing. So yes, it's a bit different in that sense. Paul Marden:  Yeah, absolutely. Let's talk a little bit about life as an expat. How have you found the transition? Paul Griffiths: Fine so far. I say there's lots of bits around work and practice and you know, no amount of inductions will be able to help you on some little faux pas you can make about not realising where you need approvals for staff. And obviously coming from the. For the last six years of being director of Painshill and only from feeding into a board of directors, board of trustees who we'd see quarterly and you know, I chat to the chairman every week. There was a lot of me sort of making those sort of decisions instantly was here, you know, particularly as were part of the foundation and we are representing Sheikh Saud as his name's in the title of the organization now, making sure we're going through those tick sheets. Paul Griffiths: You know, if I want to do anything that needs to spend more money, that's out budget, that is going to his Highness to be signed off. So any projects we're doing, we're needing to make cases to the highest man in the country to actually get those, you know, sign offs and things. And I'm not, that's not a bad thing. But you know, it's just that from an expat I guess it's getting used to. Everything's available here. Not the big supermarket up the road sells Waitrose and Marxist products and has a room at the back for non Muslims where you push the button, door opens, it's like a little bit of a naughty boys room. Paul Griffiths: You push back door open, slides you walk in and there's the pork heaven, you know, there's bacon, there's pork scratching, patays, you know, all because it's a real, you know, it's not just there's so many expats here, particularly from the Philippines and stuff who obviously pork is a big part of their diet. So yeah, that's available. I said earlier on there's cellars where you can pick up a great beer or a couple of glasses of bottle of wine or whatever you want. So actually it's not that I found myself flying into this really different world and I'm not really. Paul Marden:  It's a melting pot, isn't it? Paul Griffiths: Yeah. And I'm not someone who's ever been since very young, you know, going off to nightclubs or anything like that. But if you wanted that There is that. The hotels. So actually, if you're a younger person coming out and you wanted that nightlife, the hotels, particularly on Margin island and Minnal Arab, the tubing hotels have really nice restaurants, fully licensed clubs and stuff. But, you know, actually I found sort of the work is busy. Everyone's, you know, lots going on, actually, just going back to, you know, I was in a hotel for the first two months, which wasn't a dreadful thing because it was an apartment hotel. So, yeah, I had enough and now we've moved. I've moved into a villa ready for the family. Come out hopefully in about a month's time.Paul Marden:  Oh, that'd be exciting. Paul Griffiths: Yeah. So that's nice. So we've got the back onto the golf course. It's quite, you know, it's a nice place to be. It's going to be nice and, you know. Paul Griffiths: Yeah, so I've not struggled adapting because it's not. It's not that, you know, normally I've got a wonderful team here, Asia, you know, so with one Emirati and some Filipinos and other people from around the. From around the world. So that's been nice. And it's melting pot of learning their cultures as well as the local culture and. Yeah. And then they eat rice with everything. So it's. Yeah. Every lunchtime there's a bowl of rice, big bowl of salad in the main course and there's me pouring on the one on the salad, everyone else on the rice. But, yeah, it's been great, Paul. I mean, I can't. It's been one of those. Every moment you think this is just a great place to be. Paul Marden: Good. Let's go back to Al Jazeera and talk a little bit about some of the events that have been going on. So I know you're coming to the end of the Ras Al Khaimah Art Festival. Tell me a little bit about that and how well that's gone. Paul Griffiths: It's been brilliant. I know. I had no idea what to expect. First time for this. So this is the 13th International Art Fair. It started off back in the small museum back in the city of Central Town, moved to here, I think, five years ago is what I'm saying, and slowly grown every year since then. So this is the biggest one we've done, really. Lots of massive sponsors on board from across the Emirates, actually fully supported by His Highness, who's been here at least four times, if not five, since we've had the vessel. He was here at the opening ceremony for the big launch, you know it was, and it was like a proper opening ceremony. Paul Griffiths: Everyone sat round with a band and speakers and you know like not quite Olympics but you know it was a proper event. This is the opening of it and it felt like a big event. Yeah. All my female members of my team had, were given time off in the day to do hair and makeup. It was proper. Everyone looked, everyone looked the business, it was lovely. You know everyone was scrubbed up from the maintenance team to, you know, our executive director looking fabulous in a brand new dress. You know it was really was. No, I've had a new suit, I got a new suit for the occasion. Paul Griffiths: So yeah, it was a lovely evening and then it's rolled ever since and for me it's been wonderful because I've seen people in this village which has been quite quiet since I'd arrived and it's sort of been okay, how are we going to get this? But actually clearly putting something on has attracted a complete cross spectrum audience. So you know, we have people coming in, absolutely fascinating, obsessed with the art, beautiful and it's artists I should say from around the world. It's all exhibited outside or inside the little houses. So you know lots of the pieces have been blown up quite big and quite impressive. I mean do look at it on the website, you know people, you know if you go to ajah.ae you can then click on from there.Paul Marden: We'll put the links and everything in the show notes so people be able to find that. Paul Griffiths: It's been, but it's been, for me it's been fabulous because we've seen so many people in, you know I was, you know, we've had, we've got pop up restaurants so this won't mean anything to people back home but the restaurant called Puro P U R O has a restaurant at the top of the mountain at Jebel Jais. Really almost impossible to get booking, you know you have to book months advance for lunch or dinner. It's the place that everybody, both locals, internationals and tourists want to see and often frequented by his Highness. They've got a pop up restaurant here which just is fabulous. Paul Griffiths: They we've had a lovely couple, Kelly and Paolo in running a restaurant called Antica which is a sort of the chef's Italian Paolo but he's lived in Australia so it's a fusion of Australian middle Italy, sort of historic villagey type cuisine with an Emirates twist. But you're just served four or five courses without there's not a menu. It's not a restaurant as such, so it's sort of a sharing experience. But you know, the food is amazing. So I was fortunate to have dinner. Well, I've actually been fortunate enough to have dinner in Antica twice and lunch there as well. But one of the dinners I was then wandering around the village about 10 o'clock at night was full of people, you know, families just. Paul Griffiths: There is a different culture over here that people do more stuff in the evenings because of the temperature and a different way of life because the local people aren't obviously, for obvious reasons, down the pub on a Friday night, they're doing stuff with the family and you go past cafes and even outside of the village, you know, 9, 10 o'clock on a Friday night, they're full of people sitting very beautifully dressed in their finest, drinking coffee and eating desserts. That's a big thing. People seem to love coffee and desserts. Paul Marden: Okay. Paul Griffiths: But, but then of course it's because because of the heat most of the year we'll spend more time indoors resting in the day and then ready to go out at night and do some more stuff. So yeah, so we've had this sort of here in the evenings. It's really fun. What was interesting is our hours for the festival were meant to be midweek. So Monday we always close. Tuesday to Thursday we're meant to be open till 6 o'clock and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday open to 11:00. Often struggling to get people out then the first night. So the Tuesday night was the first night. Medusa goes at 6:00. 5:45, I had a queue of at least 40 people trying to get in. So we just had to make an on the hooves decision. Paul Griffiths: We're going to stay open later. And then we just opened till 8:00 in the midweek. We didn't want to push it too much because of obviously from the staff welfare perspective, an hour's work. But actually that first night were just. Myself and Sikrat, who's the director of the festival, Emirati. Wonderful. Emirati has been my cultural bodyguard in many ways because he's been the person, my go to person for what should I do here? What about this person? How should I do this? So Spencer Crouch just stood there. Look at this crowd. We both just said, “Well we can't turf them away. This would be daft.” So yeah, so we've had. And we've had about 40, 000 visitors will have come through the door by the end of the festival in 28 days. Paul Griffiths: The artworks then going to stay up in place for Ramadan. So we'll be working different hours again during Ramadan and this is the first time Al Jazeera will ever do. Has ever done anything special for. Because before now it's just been a come and visit, walk in, do what you like, leave now. We're trying to structure that visitor experience. So we're going to be for Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, because Thursday's the sort of Friday night in many ways. Because a lot of people have Fridays off here. Yes, because of the day of prayers and so a lot of people in Ras Al Hamah go to Dubai and Abu Dhabi for work. So Thursday nights they'll travel back. So actually we're going to be open till midnight on Thursday, Friday, Saturday for Ramadan. Paul Griffiths: So people will break the fast with the families and then they want to do the sort of head top of activity. They've now got food back in them and an energy source. And out they come. So again, first time we've done it, hopefully see numbers with the artwork will still be in place. We're then working on some different options around cuisine, food, coffee and hopefully get some musicians in as well, just to give a bit of an atmosphere. But it is a holy month, so it's not. It's not parties, but it's enjoying the family. Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely. So what does the future look like for the Heritage Village and for tourism and attractions more generally in RAK? Paul Griffiths: I think for RAK itself, we're trying to bring more tourists in then trying to get the most hotels. Interestingly, as they had a lunch with five of our local big hotels at the weekend using. Using our Antico restaurant, this is excuse to have another lunch there and invite some people in and just take on their views, which is great. So just chatting and getting their thoughts on it. They were saying what. What happens in Iraq a lot at the moment is people are finding the hotels through travel agents, through, you know, searches. I know when were looking before I came out here, I know Ras Al Hamra came up on a Thomas Cumbin telescope. Yeah, similar. What am I thinking of? Probably Tui, I guess, or someone like, you know, someone like that. Paul Griffiths: I was doing a search for when went to Canary, but up came Ras Al Khaimah as a hotel and what they were saying. A lot of people will book that and have no idea really what Ras Al Khaimah is, other than it's part of the UAE. Some people think it's part of Dubai, you know, actually, because it's not, they don't realize it's seven emirates, etc. So a lot of people are booking their sort of tourists, their hotels. Our job is to try and then get them out and attract them to do other stuff. So there's lots of adventure tourism going on at the moment. We talked about the zip wire and lots of hiking, walking, camel rail, camel riding, you know, trips to the desert where you can zoom around in 4x Fours and go karts and stuff. Paul Griffiths: So from my perspective of the Heritage village is about bringing it more alive, bringing more people in, promoting it, more linking up with these sorts of hoteliers, concierges. And this is really early days for us because this has always been sort of slightly done but not really pushed yet. And sort of listening to what their advice is and seeing how we can act upon it, you know, and what sort of stuff we can take forward because, you know, there's a lot to be done. And there's lots of other heritage sites across rat about 90 on the list of actual heritage sites. And some of those are real ruins that you're never going to be able to do anything with. Paul Griffiths: Those sort of English Heritage free sites, you know, the ones you stumble across with a little brown sign and you pull up with a lay by, have a potter around and off you go without seeing anyone. There's a bit like that. But then there's a number of sites that will work well with some activation. You know, we've got Dyer Fort, which is on the World Heritage site tentative list and we're working on projects to slowly take that forward to World Heritage status. Touchwood because it's a really important for, you know, and it's perfect for visits. You climb up to the top, you get the most gorgeous views. You know, really is a gorgeous little site. So more interpretation, more things there is what's needed. But you know, again, this is all early days. Paul Griffiths: So it's all about sort of, you know, each day's excitement. What can we do, what can we push forward, who can we talk to? And what's been great is as the festival's gone on, more people have been coming and chatting to me. Mine have become more, well known. That sounds wrong, goes back to your sort of earlier question about, you know, people are sort of learning about, oh, this person's here now. Paul said, although people can call me sir or Mr. Paul, which is fine. I can deal with that. Keep saying now, people, I keep saying, please don't call me sir. You really don't need to. But it's so culturally great. But Mr. Everyone see everyone externally, she's called Mr. Paul, so I can put up with that. But I was there. Although when we host his. Paul Griffiths: His Highness hosted dinner that I was invited to, I then got even pushed up to His Excellency, which was a title. I want to go. Paul Marden: That's quite nice. Paul Griffiths: Yeah, I love that. Apparently. I always thought that someone else I knew was his title. His Excellency was part of the family, but actually it's. Once you get to a CEO director level in royal that circle, you immediately become His Excellency, so. Paul Marden: Well, there we go. I will correct myself in future communications. Paul Griffiths: Please do. Yeah, but I thought it was wonderful. That's why it's just been lovely, the funny comments coming from people back home saying, oh, well, I've amended my entry in my phone to now shake your he status. But yeah, so. But there's a sort of cultural things. It's just. Okay, right, lovely. That's fun. Paul Marden: It's been a whirlwind for you. It's been really interesting actually, talking about it and understanding more about. About what's happening there, about how exciting it is, this huge opportunity that you've got to make a something out of this beautiful historic village and then that, you know, the remit will grow from there. So I think. I think this has been lovely. We always wrap up our interviews with a book recommendation and you've had this privilege once before. So have you run out of recommendations or do you have something ready for me? Paul Griffiths: Well, I was going to recommend the Red island, an Emirati story, because it's based on Al Jazeera Al Hamra, but I thought that might be a little bit too niche. This guy. So, again, little things have come across. This guy's written a book, Adil, and he's going to be coming to Al Jazeera to do a book reading signing. These little opportunities. I have read the book, I promise. It was actually fascinating because it's all about local culture. It went off in a number of tangents, but actually from a point of view of how the Emirati local culture works and families, it was actually quite a really good induction. But now I've decided to go with a more book for management or book for running. And I don't think anyone's given this before, but if they have, I'm nervous. Paul Griffiths: But this book, Fish!, which is one of my favourite books. I've actually launched this as the Al Jazeera Book Club for the spring. So all the team have a copy. Book clubs are massive over here for work. Every department has one here in the foundation. So this book, Fish, is based around the Seattle fish market. My colleagues who've worked me in the past, both. I can hear them groaning now because they've forced everyone to read this, but it's basically around having fun when you're at work. And it talks about the story of the Seattle fish market, how they were just flogging fish, but actually one day decided, we need to liven this up. We need to want to be here. So introduced, sort of involving the crowd, fish flying through the air. Paul Griffiths: But It's a more of a story about a woman joins, it moves up in a company into a department that no one's been able to manage. She gets to the bottom of using the fish market. And it's just a really fun, easy reading book. And so I recommend it to. To listeners and viewers. Paul Marden: That's brilliant. So listeners, if you would like a copy of Fish,Paul Griffiths: It's quite a cheap book as well, Paul, so please, you have to give one away. So it's not too much money. It's just 9.99 in the non fiction section. So, yeah, cheaper. Paul Marden: Bargain. Bargain. That's the trouble with. So I've been doing a few live events where we have panels, four people with book records, recommendations. That's going to bankrupt me. No, not today. We got a bargain this time. So I like this. Yeah. If you'd like a copy of Fish, if you'd like a copy of Paul's book, head on over to Bluesky and when Wenalyn posts the show note, go over there and repost it and say, I want Paul's book. And the first person to do that will get a copy of the book. Paul, delightful as always. Three times on the podcast, at least. Paul Griffiths: I think this would be number. This would be number four because we had the original episode where Kelly grilled me about life at Painshill. Then we did the Turn the Tables episode when I grilled Kelly on setting up podcasts. And then we did. Then we did the Goodbye to Kelly, whatever it was. 100 episode. And then this. Yeah, four Skip the Queues. Which is always a pleasure and I'm so delighted as you're my favourite podcast, obviously.Paul Marden: It's, oh, you say the nicest things. That must be a record. I need to go back and check that I think four times on the podcast is pretty impressive. Paul Griffiths: I think I should get to add all mine up into one as a total so I can beat Dominic Jones, who's always had the biggest number, isn't he? Paul Marden: So, yeah, so he does and he still does. So, yeah, I think aggregating the number of listens for across all of your episodes, I think that might be within the walls. Let me see what I can do and I'll add everything up and we'll see if you can take Dom's crown. Paul Griffiths: Sorry, Dom. Paul Marden:  Because he's not competitive at all. Paul Griffiths: No, he's not, mate. He's a great guy, though. So, yeah, a friendly rival. Paul Marden: Exactly. Thank you very much, Paul. I would love to keep in touch. Paul Griffiths: Let's keep talking. Paul Marden: I want to hear what happens not just after the first 90 days, but I want to hear what happens in a year's time and two years time. So thank you so much for coming on and telling us about Ras Al-Khaimah and the Heritage Village. It's been lovely. Paul Griffiths: Yeah, thanks for having me. It's great. Been a real pleasure. Paul Marden: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. 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This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, France 24, NHK Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr240927.mp3 (29:00) From GERMANY- The Israeli army raided and closed the bureau for news network al-Jazeera in the West Bank, following a close down of their offices in East Jerusalem. Thibaut Bruttin the General Director of Reporters Without Borders discusses the importance of the only network supplying footage from Palestine without being imbedded in the Israeli army. Then Mirav Zonzien from the International Crisis Group talks about Netanyahu's rejection of a ceasefire in the wars on Palestine and Lebanon. She also describes the probable outcome of an Israeli ground attack on Lebanon. From FRANCE- Press reviews from Tuesday and Wednesday on the war on Lebanon from both Israeli, Lebanese, and international media. Then a report on what Europeans think about another possible Trump presidency in the US. From JAPAN- Two reports from the gatherings at the United Nations- first the preliminary summit on a proposal called the Pact for the Future, which aims to rebuild trust among nations to move forward, and reforms to the make up of the Security Council. At the opening of the General Assembly Secretary-General Guterres criticized the level of impunity in the world, saying it is intolerable. From CUBA- Large scale demonstrations against the wars in the Middle East and their funding were held in major cities around the world last weekend. The Palestinian Minister of Health updated the numbers of medical workers killed and kidnapped in Palestine. Available in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml PODCAST!!!- https://feed.podbean.com/outFarpress/feed.xml (160kb Highest Quality) Website Page- < http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml ¡FurthuR! Dan Roberts “Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates." --Vandana Shiva Dan Roberts Shortwave Report- www.outfarpress.com YouthSpeaksOut!- www.youthspeaksout.net

Incursione israeliana, chiuso per un mese e mezzo l'ufficio di al Jazeera in Cisgiordania. Israele e Libano: scambio infinito di razzi. Sri Lanka: leader di sinistra diventa presidente. Bolivia: scontri tra manifestanti rivali. Venezuela: Maduro rafforza la relazione con la Russia.  Questo e molto altro nel notiziario di Radio Bullets a cura di Barbara Schiavulli 

IDF rescues 4 hostages. Biden says US provided intel. Israel says 3 hostages held by "journalist" who worked for US-based organization, and also al- Jazeera. Margot from Israel offers analysis. Why was Zelenskey invited to D-Day anniversary, but not Netanyahu? VTA special report.

Ingelaste podcast met het laatste nieuws over de bevrijding van vier gegijzelden en in internationale reacties daarop: de Nederlandse commandant der strijdkrachten zakt bij Buitenhof door het ijs, voormalig al-Jazeera nu NOS-correspondent Fleur Launspach deed dat bij WNL, en EU-speciale gezant buitenlandse zaken Josep Borrell gaat zijn boekje ver te buiten. Conclusie: Zo lang in het Westen niet wordt gezien dat dit in de basis een strijd is tussen een doodscultus en een beschaving waarin het leven het hoogste goed is, is het niet in staat werkelijk te duiden wat hier gaande is.”

Il presidente cinese Xi Jinping è arrivato a Parigi nel pomeriggio del 5 maggio per una visita di stato di due giorni, che proseguirà in Serbia e in Ungheria. Il 5 aprile il governo israeliano ha votato ha approvato all'unanimità una legge per chiudere tutte le attività dell'emittente del Qatar al Jazeera in Israele.CONCecilia Attanasio Ghezzi, giornalista esperta di CinaLorenzo Trombetta, giornalista che vive a BeirutViaggio Xihttps://tv.cctv.com/2024/05/05/VIDESNKA7QFrmsTxD5CkQVP7240505.shtml?spm=C31267.PXDaChrrDGdt.EbD5Beq0unIQ.5Al Jazeerahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG08x5dAIZEArticolo: Serena Smith, I ricchi hanno smesso di mangiarehttps://www.internazionale.it/magazine/serena-smith/2024/05/02/i-ricchi-hanno-smesso-di-mangiareRaiPlayMolliche, le interviste di Vincenzohttps://www.raiplay.it/programmi/mollicheleintervistedivincenzoSe ascolti questo podcast e ti piace, abbonati a Internazionale. È un modo concreto per sostenerci e per aiutarci a garantire ogni giorno un'informazione di qualità. Vai su internazionale.it/podcastScrivi a podcast@internazionale.it o manda un vocale a +39 3347063050Consulenza editoriale di Chiara Nielsen.Produzione di Claudio Balboni e Vincenzo De Simone.Musiche di Tommaso Colliva e Raffaele Scogna.Direzione creativa di Jonathan Zenti.

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Congressman Steny Hoyer warned this week that, in light of Qatar's enabling of Hamas intransigence in Gaza ceasefire negotiations, “The United States must reevaluate its relationship” with that Middle Eastern nation. The Qatari prime minister peevishly responded that his country is undertaking a “comprehensive evaluation” of its mediating role.  While these statements smack of political theater, they should be seized to end Washington's practice of overlooking Qatar's myriad malign activities in the interest of maintaining a huge military presence in that nation.  In fact, the Qataris relentlessly support Sharia-supremacism worldwide, promote jihad via their news outlet, al Jazeera, and underwrite subversive influence operations here. Recently, they even blocked the use of our air base there.  Qatar is not our friend, let alone a reliable “major non-NATO ally.” Stop pretending otherwise and treat it accordingly. This is Frank Gaffney.

Granskar medier och journalistik. Går bakom veckans rubriker och spanar i framtidens medielandskap. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Mediejätten Al Jazeera förbjuds i Israel I veckan kom nyheten att Israel röstat igenom en ny lag som tillfälligt kan begränsa utländska medier från att rapportera i landet - om de hotar landets säkerhet. Det blev snabbt uppenbart var udden var riktad när premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu gick ut och skrev på X att “terrorkanalen Al Jazeera inte längre kommer att få sända från Israel.” Men vilken roll har egentligen den Qatarägda mediejätten Al Jazeera spelat för bevakningen av kriget? Reporter: Freddi RamelKritik mot rysarrubrik i Aftonbladet om covidvaccinI slutet av februari skrev Aftonbladet en artikel om en ny stor studie om riskerna för biverkningar från olika covidvaccin. Redan då fick artikeln kritik för att i rubrik och ingress dra på allt för hårt och för att spela vaccinkritiska grupper i händerna.Men flera veckor senare lever den här artikeln fortfarande i allra högsta grad på Aftonbladets sajt. Hur kommer det sig att Aftonbladet vinklade såhär och varför har just den här artikeln ett tillsynes evigt liv?Reporter: Erik PetersonLottojournalistik på inmarsch?Kan man lura slumpen? I en till synes växande journalistisk genre, låt oss kalla den, lottojournalistik, så kan man faktiskt få intrycket av att det med smart taktik och hemliga knep går att överlista den så lynniga slumpen.I en rad artiklar i Aftonbladet guidas läsarna till vilka nummer man bör hålla sig borta ifrån, vilka som är smarta att välja och när chansen är som störst till vinst. Men kan man verkligen lura slumpen? Går det att vara bra på lottospel? Följ med på en djupdykning i lottojournalistikens mystiska värld. Reporter: Martina Pierrou

Le Parlement israélien a voté, lundi 1er avril, une loi permettant d'interdire la diffusion en Israël de médias étrangers portant atteinte à la sécurité de l'État. Ce texte vise un média en particulier : la chaîne qatarienne Al-Jazeera.  Ceux qui attendaient un sursaut démocratique en seront pour leurs frais : ce n'est pas un cessez-le-feu que la Knesset a voté le 1er avril par 71 voix contre 10, mais l'interdiction d'Al-Jazeera, à travers une loi accordant au gouvernement le pouvoir de fermer les médias étrangers portant atteinte à la sécurité de l'État.Alors bien sûr, Benyamin Netanyahu s'est empressé de dire qu'il allait agir immédiatement pour arrêter cette chaîne, qu'il qualifie de « terroriste » et qui est regardée par les 21% d'Israéliens arabes. Il a accusé Al-Jazeera d'être un organe de propagande du Hamas et même d'avoir participé aux massacres du 7 octobre. Des accusations qualifiées de « mensonges dangereux et ridicules » par la chaîne qatarienne. Et qui n'estompent pas une réalité : Al-Jazeera est une cible.On se souvient de la présentatrice vedette Shireen Abu Akleh tuée en Cisjordanie en 2022, ou du tir de char israélien en octobre dernier au sud Liban qui a tué un journaliste de Reuters et blessé deux reporters d'Al-Jazeera. Puis, c'est le chef du bureau de la chaîne à Gaza qui a été blessé par une frappe qui a tué un de ses cameramen. Son fils et un autre journaliste, qui travaillaient tous deux pour Al-Jazeera, ont aussi été tués en janvier par une frappe aérienne en étant accusés, déjà, d'être des « agents terroristes ».À lire aussiIsraël: Benyamin Netanyahu indique qu'il va «agir immédiatement» pour interdire al-Jazeera en IsraëlUne chaîne qui dérange l'armée israélienneL'ONG Reporters sans frontière demande aux autorités israéliennes de cesser leur « acharnement violent » contre Al-Jazeera. La Maison Blanche comme l'Union européenne ont jugé « préoccupante » la nouvelle loi visant Al-Jazeera. Alors, on peut bien sûr reprocher à la chaîne d'être proche des intérêts du Qatar. Ses détracteurs disent qu'elle parle de « martyrs » à propos de combattants palestiniens ou que la chaîne en arabe est très différente de la version en anglais, en diffusant des vidéos du Hamas.Mais les journalistes savent que c'est surtout une chaîne d'information qui dérange l'armée israélienne, car elle est la seule à documenter l'ampleur des souffrances et des pertes civiles à Gaza. Elle le fait d'ailleurs avec une grande crédibilité, puisque c'est elle qui a fourni en octobre les images prouvant qu'un bombardement de l'hôpital Al Alhi Arabi n'était pas le fait de l'armée israélienne.En fait, estime dans Mediapart Claire Talon, auteure d'un livre sur Al-Jazeera et chercheuse au Centre arabe de recherche et d'études politiques de Paris, la rédaction de la chaîne « jouit d'une grande liberté et représente un spectre politique large ». Elle a fait de la Palestine, dit-elle, le cœur d'un contre-récit à la vision occidentale en « représentant la violence vécue dans le sud et invisibilisée en Occident ».

durée : 00:03:18 - Un monde d'avance - En Israël, le Parlement a ratifié lundi une loi visant à interdire la diffusion de "programmes étrangers portant atteinte à la sécurité de l'État". Aussitôt, le Premier ministre a annoncé vouloir "agir immédiatement" pour arrêter la retransmission de la chaîne qatarie Al Jazeera.

A new al-Jazeera documentary finally offers the most definitive story of that fateful day - and I talk through the shocking claims of real atrocities and false claims with journalist Richard Sanders.Watch the documentary here: https://i-unit.io/October7Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A life long social activist, Obery Hendricks is one of the foremost commentators on the intersection of religion and political economy in America. He is the most widely read and perhaps the most influential African American biblical scholar writing today. His recent book, Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith (Beacon Press, 2021) has gathered wide acclaim. Cornel West calls him “one of the last few grand prophetic intellectuals.”A widely sought lecturer and media spokesperson, Dr. Hendricks' appearances include CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, Fox Business News, the Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC, NHK Japan Television and the Bloomberg Network. He has provided running event commentary for National Public Radio, MSNBC, and the al-Jazeera and Aspire international television networks. Dr. Hendricks has served in the Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group at the U. S. Department of State under Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry; was a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee, for whom he delivered the closing benediction at the 2008 Democratic Convention; served on the National Religious Leaders Advisory Committee of the 2008 Democratic Presidential campaign. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative in Washington, DC; has been an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for American Progress; was a Senior Fellow at The Opportunity Agenda social justice communications think tank; is on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Christian Socialism; and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). Dr. Hendricks has been a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and Salon.com, a former editorial advisor to the award-winning Tikkun magazine, and a contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. The Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation has called his work “the boldest post-colonial writing ever seen in Western biblical studies.”Hendricks' award-winning book, The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted (Doubleday, 2006), was declared “essential reading for Americans” by the Washington Post. Social commentator Michael Eric Dyson proclaimed it “an instant classic” that “immediately thrusts Hendricks into the front ranks of American religious thinkers.” The Politics of Jesus was the featured subject of the 90-minute C-SPAN special hosted by the Center for American Progress, “Class, Politics and Christianity.” The tenth anniversary of its publication was acknowledged at a major 2016 panel at the American Academy of Religion at its annual convention in San Antonio, TX. Governor Howard Dean, former chair of the Democratic National Committee, has called his book, The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church and the Body Politic(Orbis, 2011), a “tour de force.”A former Wall Street investment executive and past president of Payne Theological Seminary, the oldest African American theological seminary in the United States, he is currently a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in the Department of Religion and the Department of African American and African Diasporic Studies; a Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; and Emeritus Professor of Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary. An Ordained Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Hendricks holds the Master of Divinity with academic honors from Princeton Theological Seminary, and both the M.A. and Ph.D. in Religions of Late Antiquity from Princeton University.     

"⁠What is it that you call home? For a queer Palestinian in diaspora the answer can be complicated. From Beiti to Beitak, Chicago to Naarm, I try to find out. Featuring interviews with Nourah of Salon Kawakib and Mirna of Aywa Syndicate." Kal Jazeera is a queer Palestinian creative currently based in naarm by way of potawatomi land Chicago. They orbit many fields across performance but the heart of their work is grounded in community. Their sense of joy, depth and love was distilled in all our conversation and something you will feel throughout their work.

In this episode, Zachary Kallenborn discusses the arguments made in his article on why a nuclear weapons ban would threaten humanity. He highlights that while nuclear weapons present an existential threat, there are other existential risks such as extreme biological weapons, planet killer asteroids, artificial intelligence, and super volcanoes. Removing nuclear weapons could potentially lead to a return of great power war, which would worsen these other risks. The breakdown of global cooperation, diversion of resources, damage to infrastructure, and potential renuclearization are some of the concerns discussed. The interdependencies between nuclear weapons and nuclear power, as well as the need for a better understanding of second and third order effects, are also emphasized.Zachary Kallenborn is an adjunct fellow (non-resident) with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government, a fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies, a research affiliate with the Unconventional Weapons and Technology Division of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), an officially proclaimed U.S. Army "mad scientist," and a national security consultant. He has published over 50 articles on autonomous weapons, drone swarms, weapons of mass destruction, and apocalyptic terrorism in a wide range of peer-reviewed, wonky, and popular outlets, including the Brookings Institution, Foreign Policy, Slate, Defense One, War on the Rocks, the Modern War Institute at West Point, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Parameters. Journalists have written about and shared that research in the New York Times, the AP, NPR, Forbes, Popular Mechanics, Politico, al Jazeera, the Independent, Newsweek, the New Scientist, WIRED, and the BBC, among dozens of others in dozens of languages. He is on the board of advisers of the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies at the University of Akron.Article: https://thebulletin.org/2024/01/why-a-nuclear-weapons-ban-would-threaten-not-save-humanity/Socials:Follow on Twitter at @NucleCastFollow on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/nuclecastpodcastSubscribe RSS Feed: https://rss.com/podcasts/nuclecast-podcast/Rate: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nuclecast/id1644921278Email comments and topic/guest suggestions to NucleCast@anwadeter.org

*) Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks hits 20,057 The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza has soared to 20,057, according to the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave. The ministry added that at least 53,320 others have been injured in Israel's attacks since October 7. “At least 390 people have been killed and 734 others have been injured in the last 48 hours in which communications were disrupted in the Gaza Strip," it said in a statement. *) UNSC to vote on new Gaza resolution The UN Security Council is expected to meet on Friday to vote on a draft resolution penned by the United Arab Emirates, which reportedly calls for "urgent steps" to allow the safe and unhindered delivery of aid to civilians in Gaza. Intense closed-door negotiations have been carried out all week by the Council to avoid a US veto. According to a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale: "The entire population of Gaza – roughly 2.2 million people – are in crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity." The World Health Organization has said that northern Gaza has been left without a functional hospital due to a lack of fuel, staff and supplies. *) UN says up to 300,000 Sudanese fled their homes after a notorious group seized their safe haven Fighting between Sudan's military and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group has forced up to 300,000 people to flee their homes in a province that had once been a safe haven for displaced people, according to the UN. The fighting erupted in the city of Wad Medani, the provincial capital of Jazeera province, after the Rapid Support Forces attacked the city earlier this month. The RSF said that it took over Wad Medani earlier this week, and the military said that its troops withdrew from the city, and an investigation has been opened. *) Ukraine says downed 24 of 28 Russian drones overnight Ukraine says it had downed 24 out of 28 Iranian-made drones launched by Russia overnight as two Kiev residents were reported injured by a drone attack on a residential building. Air raid sirens were heard in Kiev late Thursday and residents heard loud explosions. City hall initially said air defences were in action, calling on people to stay in shelters. Russian missiles and drones frequently target the Ukrainian capital but are usually shot down by air defence systems. And finally… *) France to close its embassy in Niger for an 'indefinite period' France will close its diplomatic mission in Niger, according to a letter sent to embassy staff and seen by The Associated Press. The news that the embassy in the capital Niamey is to close comes as France prepares to withdraw its last remaining military forces from the Sahel state this month. Relations between France and Niger have been in crisis since the coup d'etat in July against democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, and Paris' refusal to collaborate with the military junta ruling the country.

Sur fond de guerre entre Israël et le Hamas, les Houthis yéménites ont détourné un cargo en mer Rouge dimanche 19 novembre. Le Galaxy Leader a été capturé alors qu'il naviguait au large de l'Arabie saoudite. Les rebelles disent avoir attaqué « un navire israélien », pour soutenir leurs alliés palestiniens. Un détournement qui a suscité de nombreuses infox sur les réseaux sociaux, à commencer par de fausses images de l'attaque. Dès les premières heures après l'annonce du détournement du Galaxy Leader en mer rouge, une vidéo sortie de son contexte est devenue virale sur les réseaux sociaux. Durant trente secondes, on y voit trois embarcations rapides aborder un cargo en pleine mer. Des hommes armés grimpent sur le pont à l'aide d'une échelle. La légende, en arabe, précise : « la marine yéménite au moment où le navire sioniste a été arrêté ».Des internautes ajoutent que parmi les membres de l'équipage, vingt-deux Israéliens auraient été pris en otages. Une affirmation démentie par Benyamin Netanyahu qui a évoqué une « attaque iranienne contre un navire international ». Selon Israël, des Ukrainiens, des Bulgares, des Mexicains et des Philippins figurent parmi les otages.En réalité, cette vidéo n'a aucun rapport avec l'attaque des Houthis. Le bateau visible sur ces images n'est pas le Galaxy Leader, tout comme les hommes armés ne sont pas des rebelles yéménites. En zoomant sur l'image, on remarque un drapeau rouge et blanc à l'avant des embarcations d'assaut : celui de la Pologne.L'analyse de la tenue des hommes en armes confirme qu'il s'agit de soldats de la marine polonaise. Une recherche d'image inversée permet de retrouver cette vidéo publiée sur YouTube en juin 2022. D'après certains commentaires, elle montre en réalité un exercice de la marine polonaise.Une autre vidéo, massivement relayée notamment en arabe, prétend montrer le moment où les Houthis ont détourné le navire. On y voit un imposant cargo blanc et bleu arriver dans un port.D'après une enquête de l'AFP Factuel, il ne s'agit pas du Galaxy Leader. La vidéo en question a en effet été publiée avant le détournement du navire commercial, par une chaîne allemande spécialisée dans la publication de contenus sur les mouvements de navires. Cette publication date du 11 novembre 2023, soit plusieurs jours avant l'attaque du Galaxy Leader.Des armes retrouvées dans le cargo ?Un autre récit très partagé en ligne affirme que le Galaxy Leader, naviguant sous le pavillon des Bahamas, transportait des armes. Un narratif véhiculé avec deux photos sur lesquelles on voit un cargo à quai avec du matériel militaire sur le pont. Plusieurs bateaux pneumatiques, des véhicules et des caisses de transport sont notamment entreposés.Des internautes affirment que ces clichés montreraient les prises de guerre des rebelles Houthis sur le Galaxy Leader. Vérification faite, cette photo est sortie de son contexte. Grâce à une recherche par image inversée, on la retrouve publiée dans plusieurs articles de presse dès le mois de janvier 2022. Des articles dans lesquels on apprend qu'il s'agit en réalité du cargo Rawabi. Un navire émirati détourné, là encore par les rebelles yéménites, mais il y a plus d'un an, en janvier 2022.Ce qui n'a pas empêché le média qatarien al-Jazeera d'utiliser cette photo pour illustrer l'un de ses sujets sur le détournement du Galaxy Leader. Un cargo détenu par une société britannique dont l'un des propriétaires serait un Israélien.Ce que disent les véritables images Jusqu'ici, il n'y a aucune preuve de la présence d'armes dans le Galaxy Leader. À ce sujet, la vidéo de l'attaque publiée par les rebelles yéménites apporte des informations intéressantes.Les images montrent un commando déposé par hélicoptère sur le pont du navire. Les hommes armés se filment ensuite à l'intérieur du cargo. On y voit alors le hangar totalement vide, alors que - normalement- c'est là que sont stockées la majorité des marchandises.Autre élément important, la ligne de flottaison du Galaxy Leader est visible sur la vidéo. Autrement dit, le bateau est peu enfoncé dans l'eau ce qui signifie qu'il n'est presque pas chargé.

Blinken in Turchia: il Segretario di Stato americano Blinken è arrivato in Turchia per discutere della situazione in corso a Gaza, delle questioni regionali e delle relazioni bilaterali con i funzionari turchi. Dopo essere stato ieri in Cisgiordania e in Iraq, tra i crescenti timori che la guerra possa degenerare in un conflitto regionale più ampio, Blinken ha incontrato il ministro degli Esteri turco Hakan Fidan ad Ankara. Blinken ha comunque ricevuto una fredda accoglienza nella capitale turca, scrive al Jazeera. Non è stato ricevuto da nessun diplomatico turco di alto livello all'aeroporto e anche il presidente Erdogan non lo incontrerà. Facciamo il punto con Alessandro Marrone, analista di geopolitica, responsabile del programma “Difesa” dell’Istituto Affari Internazionali.Mentre in Toscana si fa la conta dei danni a causa dell'alluvione di qualche giorno fa, due punti da analizzare: oggi il Sole24Ore ci illustra lo stato dell'arte per quanto riguarda la messa a dimore di nuovi alberi necessari sia per il clima sia per la tenuta del territorio in caso di alluvioni, nel frattempo l' Italia rimane uno dei pochi paesi a non avere un piano di adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici. Con noi Antonio Nicoletti, Responsabile nazionale aree protette e biodiversità di Legambiente.

An al Jazeera podcast has been looking into stories of environmental activists using the courts in the US and abroad to hold their governments to their carbon emissions commitments. On Today's Show:Amanda Burrell, executive producer and correspondent of Al Jazeera English's series earthrise, explains how activists are turning to the legal system to achieve climate-related goals, and reflects on climate solutions more broadly.

An al Jazeera podcast has been looking into stories of environmental activists using the courts in the US and abroad to hold their governments to their carbon emissions commitments. On Today's Show:Amanda Burrell, executive producer and correspondent of Al Jazeera English's series earthrise, explains how activists are turning to the legal system to achieve climate-related goals, and reflects on climate solutions more broadly.

Austin Petersen is a creative executive, producer and entrepreneur. Currently he is the host of the Wake Up America Show at WakeUpAmericaShow.com every Monday-Friday from 7-9am central time.  Writing, video editing, producing, and managing massive social networks is his forte, as is building healthy communities, as well as fundraising. Petersen is a former 2016 Presidential and 2018 US Senate candidate. Petersen was Director of Production at FreedomWorks, and was also an Associate Producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano's show, “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Owner and publisher of The Libertarian Republic, as well as CEO of Stonegait LLC. Mr. Petersen has been featured in Getty, Reuters, Fox News, Fox Business, the LA Times, NBC and Time Magazine, Reason, the Kansas City Star, Russia Today, al Jazeera and hundreds of local and nationally syndicated radio shows. Petersen has turned his website The Libertarian Republic into a powerful online news source for the public, with an average of 1 million unique visits monthly. As a publisher and professional pundit, Petersen grew The Freedom Report podcast into a top audio news source, with an average of one million monthly downloads. As a creative content producer, business executive, and successful political organizer, Stonegait's CEO has a lifetime of activism ahead, with decades of professional experience in a wide variety of industries. His work has appeared in Getty, Reuters, the LA Times, NBC and Time Magazine. His famous “Toy Gun March” and charity fundraiser was an international news story, raising thousands for the U.S. Marines charity Toys for Tots. Petersen made his feature film debut as an Executive Producer through Stonegait with the famous science fiction novel Alongside Night, starring Kevin Sorbo. As a product demonstrator and Toy Soldier at FAO Schwarz in Manhattan, Petersen moved from the sales floor to management in six months, and was again promoted to the corporate office's buying team less than six months later. He even appeared on the Conan O'Brien show. Find out more about Austin at: Website: https://wakeupamericashow.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-petersen-5b41353/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AP4Liberty Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ap4liberty/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP4Liberty YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AP4Liberty Check out our YouTube Channel:Jeremyryanslatebiz See the Show Notes:https://www.jeremyryanslate.com/1109 You may watch the FULL Video Episode also via my Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/c/JeremyRyanSlate

Austin Petersen is a creative executive, producer and entrepreneur. Currently he is the host of the Wake Up America Show at WakeUpAmericaShow.com every Monday-Friday from 7-9am central time.  Writing, video editing, producing, and managing massive social networks is his forte, as is building healthy communities, as well as fundraising. Petersen is a former 2016 Presidential and 2018 US Senate candidate. Petersen was Director of Production at FreedomWorks, and was also an Associate Producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano's show, “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Owner and publisher of The Libertarian Republic, as well as CEO of Stonegait LLC. Mr. Petersen has been featured in Getty, Reuters, Fox News, Fox Business, the LA Times, NBC and Time Magazine, Reason, the Kansas City Star, Russia Today, al Jazeera and hundreds of local and nationally syndicated radio shows. Petersen has turned his website The Libertarian Republic into a powerful online news source for the public, with an average of 1 million unique visits monthly. As a publisher and professional pundit, Petersen grew The Freedom Report podcast into a top audio news source, with an average of one million monthly downloads. As a creative content producer, business executive, and successful political organizer, Stonegait's CEO has a lifetime of activism ahead, with decades of professional experience in a wide variety of industries. His work has appeared in Getty, Reuters, the LA Times, NBC and Time Magazine. His famous “Toy Gun March” and charity fundraiser was an international news story, raising thousands for the U.S. Marines charity Toys for Tots. Petersen made his feature film debut as an Executive Producer through Stonegait with the famous science fiction novel Alongside Night, starring Kevin Sorbo. As a product demonstrator and Toy Soldier at FAO Schwarz in Manhattan, Petersen moved from the sales floor to management in six months, and was again promoted to the corporate office's buying team less than six months later. He even appeared on the Conan O'Brien show. Find out more about Austin at: Website: https://wakeupamericashow.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-petersen-5b41353/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AP4Liberty Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ap4liberty/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP4Liberty YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AP4Liberty Check out our YouTube Channel:Jeremyryanslatebiz See the Show Notes:https://www.jeremyryanslate.com/1109 You may watch the FULL Video Episode also via my Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/c/JeremyRyanSlate

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Wednesday, May 31st, 2023. https://www.christiantoday.com/article/archbishop.distressed.by.attacks.on.christians.in.india/140278.htm Archbishop 'distressed' by attacks on Christians in India The Archbishop of Canterbury has lamented violent attacks on indigenous tribal Christians in north-eastern India. Archbishop Justin Welby said he was "distressed" by the reports of violence coming out of Manipur state in recent weeks. Writing on Twitter, the Archbishop said he was praying that "justice and peace would prevail" in the region. The violence, carried out by Hindu nationalists, has killed dozens and displaced around 10,000 people, mostly Christians. Many churches and buildings belonging to Christians have also been destroyed. The Archbishop said he was praying "that regional authorities would protect all minority groups, including Christians and their places of worship, and that justice and peace would prevail". Open Doors last week shared reports from Christian partners on the ground fear that the violence will lead to a civil war. They have expressed disappointment at what they see as a lack of action by the Indian government and local authorities to quell the violence. According to Open Doors, at least 300 churches have been burned or demolished and 1,000 Christian homes have been destroyed in Manipur in the last few weeks. The NGO is providing support to Christians caught up in the violence but has warned that conditions are "grim", and many are still fearing for their lives. "If the situation continues civil war is inevitable," said an Open Doors partner who cannot be named for security reasons. "If there is a civil war the situation will only become more gruesome, more lives lost, properties destroyed and further open persecution of religious minorities." https://taskandpurpose.com/news/taliban-humvee-m240-iran-fight/ The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight a border skirmish with Iran A gunfight broke out between Iranian border guards and Taliban fighters along the border between Iran and Afghanistan this weekend. Fighting killed three people in the biggest escalation between the two countries over water. And the Taliban brought out a big gun to help. Video posted to social media offered an up-close view of the skirmish, inside an unexpected place: an Humvee kitted out with an M240 machine gun. If that looks familiar it’s because those are some of the pieces of military equipment captured by the Taliban, now put into use for fighting other parties. Other accounts shared online reported heavy machine gun fire, as well as purported use of mortars and other explosives. Outside of the Humvee, Taliban fighters were spotted using AK-style rifles and RPGs to attack the Iranian position on the border. At least three people are confirmed to have died in Saturday’s gunfight, although accounts vary on how many belonged to each side. The Taliban claimed at least one of its fighters was killed, while an Iranian paper said all deaths were on Iran’s side, per al-Jazeera. The fighting took place in the Nimroz province of Afghanistan. As a result, the border crossing between Milak and Zaranj in Iran and Afghanistan, respectively, closed (it was not where the fighting took place). Both nations accused the other of starting the gunfight. The fighting between the two nations broke out amid political fights over water rights. Drought has been a serious issue in Afghanistan for the last three years. The Helmand River flows from Afghanistan into Iran and is dammed on the Afghan side. Earlier in May, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on the Taliban not to restrict the flow of water. More than a year since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the group is using all kinds of seized American and NATO weapons. It’s not a new development. The Taliban regularly used captured American-provided equipment when fighting the U.S.-backed government. In the later years of the war, special Taliban units were spotted wearing American-style driving Humvees and even wielding weapons belonging to special operations units. During the fall of Kabul in 2021, Los Angeles Times reporter Nabih Bulos captured footage of Taliban fighters in the city dressed like special operations forces. When the U.S.-backed government fell and the Afghan security forces collapsed, the Taliban got its hand on a lot of leftover weapons and equipment. A 2022 report from the Pentagon’s lead inspector general for Operation Enduring Sentinel and Operation Freedom’s Sentinel found that approximately $7.12 billion in equipment was still in the country when the Taliban took over. That included everything from rifles to aircraft. https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/africa-uganda-gay-rights/2023/05/29/id/1121533/ Uganda Signs Anti-gay Law With Death Penalty for 'Aggravated Homosexuality' Uganda's president has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in this East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni does not criminalize those who identify as LGBTQ, a key concern for campaigners who condemned an earlier draft of the legislation as an egregious attack on human rights. But the new law still prescribes the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality," which is defined as cases of sexual relations involving people infected with HIV as well as with minors and other categories of vulnerable people. A suspect convicted of "attempted aggravated homosexuality" can be imprisoned for up to 14 years, according to the legislation. Parliamentary Speaker Anita Among said in a statement the president had "answered the cries of our people" in signing the bill. "With a lot of humility, I thank my colleagues the Members of Parliament for withstanding all the pressure from bullies and doomsday conspiracy theorists in the interest of our country," the statement said. Museveni had returned the bill to the national assembly in April, asking for changes that would differentiate between identifying as LGBTQ and actually engaging in homosexual acts. That angered some lawmakers, including some who feared the president would proceed to veto the bill amid international pressure. Lawmakers passed an amended version of the bill earlier in May. Homosexuality was already illegal in Uganda under a colonial-era law criminalizing sexual activity "against the order of nature." The punishment for that offense is life imprisonment. The U.S. has warned of economic consequences over legislation described by Amnesty International as "draconian and overly broad." The leaders of the U.N. AIDS program, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund in a joint statement Monday said they "are deeply concerned about the harmful impact" of the legislation on public health and the HIV response. "Uganda's progress on its HIV response is now in grave jeopardy," the statement said. "The Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 will obstruct health education and the outreach that can help end AIDS as a public health threat." That statement noted that "stigma and discrimination associated with the passage of the Act has already led to reduced access to prevention as well as treatment services" for LGBTQ people. Anti-gay sentiment in Uganda has grown in recent weeks amid news coverage alleging sodomy in boarding schools, including a prestigious one for boys where a parent accused a teacher of abusing her son. The February decision of the Church of England 's national assembly to continue banning church weddings for same-sex couples while allowing priests to bless same-sex marriages and civil partnerships inflamed many in Uganda and elsewhere in Africa. Homosexuality is criminalized in more than 30 of Africa's 54 countries. Some Africans see it as behavior imported from abroad and not a sexual orientation. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-oversight-committee-taking-steps-to-hold-fbi-director-wray-in-contempt-of-congress-over-biden-document Republicans to hold FBI Director Wray in contempt of Congress over Biden document House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is taking steps to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress after the Bureau notified the panel it will not comply with its subpoena related to a possible criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden. The FBI, though, said Tuesday evening it remains committed to cooperating with Congress, and will provide access to the document "in a format and setting that maintains confidentiality and protects important security interests and the integrity of FBI investigations." Comer, R-Ky., has subpoenaed the FBI for a document that allegedly describes a criminal scheme involving Biden and a foreign national and relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions. The document is an FBI-generated FD-1023 form. Comer first subpoenaed the document earlier this month. The FBI did not turn it over and instead explained that it needed to protect the Bureau's confidential human source program. Comer set another deadline last week, giving Wray until Tuesday, May 30, to turn over the document. After the deadline was set, Wray set up a call with Comer for Wednesday, May 31. However, the FBI notified the panel it would not provide the document to the committee by the Tuesday afternoon deadline. He added, "Americans deserve the truth, and the Oversight Committee will continue to demand transparency from this nation’s chief law enforcement agency." In response, the FBI told Fox News Digital that the bureau "remains committed to cooperating with the Committee in good faith."

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Wednesday, May 31st, 2023. https://www.christiantoday.com/article/archbishop.distressed.by.attacks.on.christians.in.india/140278.htm Archbishop 'distressed' by attacks on Christians in India The Archbishop of Canterbury has lamented violent attacks on indigenous tribal Christians in north-eastern India. Archbishop Justin Welby said he was "distressed" by the reports of violence coming out of Manipur state in recent weeks. Writing on Twitter, the Archbishop said he was praying that "justice and peace would prevail" in the region. The violence, carried out by Hindu nationalists, has killed dozens and displaced around 10,000 people, mostly Christians. Many churches and buildings belonging to Christians have also been destroyed. The Archbishop said he was praying "that regional authorities would protect all minority groups, including Christians and their places of worship, and that justice and peace would prevail". Open Doors last week shared reports from Christian partners on the ground fear that the violence will lead to a civil war. They have expressed disappointment at what they see as a lack of action by the Indian government and local authorities to quell the violence. According to Open Doors, at least 300 churches have been burned or demolished and 1,000 Christian homes have been destroyed in Manipur in the last few weeks. The NGO is providing support to Christians caught up in the violence but has warned that conditions are "grim", and many are still fearing for their lives. "If the situation continues civil war is inevitable," said an Open Doors partner who cannot be named for security reasons. "If there is a civil war the situation will only become more gruesome, more lives lost, properties destroyed and further open persecution of religious minorities." https://taskandpurpose.com/news/taliban-humvee-m240-iran-fight/ The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight a border skirmish with Iran A gunfight broke out between Iranian border guards and Taliban fighters along the border between Iran and Afghanistan this weekend. Fighting killed three people in the biggest escalation between the two countries over water. And the Taliban brought out a big gun to help. Video posted to social media offered an up-close view of the skirmish, inside an unexpected place: an Humvee kitted out with an M240 machine gun. If that looks familiar it’s because those are some of the pieces of military equipment captured by the Taliban, now put into use for fighting other parties. Other accounts shared online reported heavy machine gun fire, as well as purported use of mortars and other explosives. Outside of the Humvee, Taliban fighters were spotted using AK-style rifles and RPGs to attack the Iranian position on the border. At least three people are confirmed to have died in Saturday’s gunfight, although accounts vary on how many belonged to each side. The Taliban claimed at least one of its fighters was killed, while an Iranian paper said all deaths were on Iran’s side, per al-Jazeera. The fighting took place in the Nimroz province of Afghanistan. As a result, the border crossing between Milak and Zaranj in Iran and Afghanistan, respectively, closed (it was not where the fighting took place). Both nations accused the other of starting the gunfight. The fighting between the two nations broke out amid political fights over water rights. Drought has been a serious issue in Afghanistan for the last three years. The Helmand River flows from Afghanistan into Iran and is dammed on the Afghan side. Earlier in May, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on the Taliban not to restrict the flow of water. More than a year since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the group is using all kinds of seized American and NATO weapons. It’s not a new development. The Taliban regularly used captured American-provided equipment when fighting the U.S.-backed government. In the later years of the war, special Taliban units were spotted wearing American-style driving Humvees and even wielding weapons belonging to special operations units. During the fall of Kabul in 2021, Los Angeles Times reporter Nabih Bulos captured footage of Taliban fighters in the city dressed like special operations forces. When the U.S.-backed government fell and the Afghan security forces collapsed, the Taliban got its hand on a lot of leftover weapons and equipment. A 2022 report from the Pentagon’s lead inspector general for Operation Enduring Sentinel and Operation Freedom’s Sentinel found that approximately $7.12 billion in equipment was still in the country when the Taliban took over. That included everything from rifles to aircraft. https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/africa-uganda-gay-rights/2023/05/29/id/1121533/ Uganda Signs Anti-gay Law With Death Penalty for 'Aggravated Homosexuality' Uganda's president has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in this East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni does not criminalize those who identify as LGBTQ, a key concern for campaigners who condemned an earlier draft of the legislation as an egregious attack on human rights. But the new law still prescribes the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality," which is defined as cases of sexual relations involving people infected with HIV as well as with minors and other categories of vulnerable people. A suspect convicted of "attempted aggravated homosexuality" can be imprisoned for up to 14 years, according to the legislation. Parliamentary Speaker Anita Among said in a statement the president had "answered the cries of our people" in signing the bill. "With a lot of humility, I thank my colleagues the Members of Parliament for withstanding all the pressure from bullies and doomsday conspiracy theorists in the interest of our country," the statement said. Museveni had returned the bill to the national assembly in April, asking for changes that would differentiate between identifying as LGBTQ and actually engaging in homosexual acts. That angered some lawmakers, including some who feared the president would proceed to veto the bill amid international pressure. Lawmakers passed an amended version of the bill earlier in May. Homosexuality was already illegal in Uganda under a colonial-era law criminalizing sexual activity "against the order of nature." The punishment for that offense is life imprisonment. The U.S. has warned of economic consequences over legislation described by Amnesty International as "draconian and overly broad." The leaders of the U.N. AIDS program, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund in a joint statement Monday said they "are deeply concerned about the harmful impact" of the legislation on public health and the HIV response. "Uganda's progress on its HIV response is now in grave jeopardy," the statement said. "The Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 will obstruct health education and the outreach that can help end AIDS as a public health threat." That statement noted that "stigma and discrimination associated with the passage of the Act has already led to reduced access to prevention as well as treatment services" for LGBTQ people. Anti-gay sentiment in Uganda has grown in recent weeks amid news coverage alleging sodomy in boarding schools, including a prestigious one for boys where a parent accused a teacher of abusing her son. The February decision of the Church of England 's national assembly to continue banning church weddings for same-sex couples while allowing priests to bless same-sex marriages and civil partnerships inflamed many in Uganda and elsewhere in Africa. Homosexuality is criminalized in more than 30 of Africa's 54 countries. Some Africans see it as behavior imported from abroad and not a sexual orientation. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-oversight-committee-taking-steps-to-hold-fbi-director-wray-in-contempt-of-congress-over-biden-document Republicans to hold FBI Director Wray in contempt of Congress over Biden document House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is taking steps to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress after the Bureau notified the panel it will not comply with its subpoena related to a possible criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden. The FBI, though, said Tuesday evening it remains committed to cooperating with Congress, and will provide access to the document "in a format and setting that maintains confidentiality and protects important security interests and the integrity of FBI investigations." Comer, R-Ky., has subpoenaed the FBI for a document that allegedly describes a criminal scheme involving Biden and a foreign national and relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions. The document is an FBI-generated FD-1023 form. Comer first subpoenaed the document earlier this month. The FBI did not turn it over and instead explained that it needed to protect the Bureau's confidential human source program. Comer set another deadline last week, giving Wray until Tuesday, May 30, to turn over the document. After the deadline was set, Wray set up a call with Comer for Wednesday, May 31. However, the FBI notified the panel it would not provide the document to the committee by the Tuesday afternoon deadline. He added, "Americans deserve the truth, and the Oversight Committee will continue to demand transparency from this nation’s chief law enforcement agency." In response, the FBI told Fox News Digital that the bureau "remains committed to cooperating with the Committee in good faith."

  Debt Ceiling Compromise Means Cuts to Assistance The recent debt ceiling deal in the US Congress includes a significant shift in the funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The program's funding will move from a contingency fund to the regular budget, potentially providing more stability. However, some advocates worry that this change could make it easier for Congress to cut SNAP funding in the future. The deal also alters the way SNAP benefits are calculated, which may lead to some households receiving less assistance. Additionally, the agreement will gradually increase age limits for work requirements, reaching a maximum age of 54 by 2025, but this provision will expire in 2030. The article highlights the importance of the SNAP program shift as a result of the debt ceiling deal. Read more ➝   Summary Democratic Inputs to AI | openai.com  Microsoft Reveals New AI Capabilities For Nonprofits | Nonprofit Technology News US charges two over China-backed plot against Falun Gong | l Jazeera      

  Debt Ceiling Compromise Means Cuts to Assistance The recent debt ceiling deal in the US Congress includes a significant shift in the funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The program's funding will move from a contingency fund to the regular budget, potentially providing more stability. However, some advocates worry that this change could make it easier for Congress to cut SNAP funding in the future. The deal also alters the way SNAP benefits are calculated, which may lead to some households receiving less assistance. Additionally, the agreement will gradually increase age limits for work requirements, reaching a maximum age of 54 by 2025, but this provision will expire in 2030. The article highlights the importance of the SNAP program shift as a result of the debt ceiling deal. Read more ➝   Summary Democratic Inputs to AI | openai.com  Microsoft Reveals New AI Capabilities For Nonprofits | Nonprofit Technology News US charges two over China-backed plot against Falun Gong | l Jazeera      

To celebrate the publication of Grounded, a new middle-grade novel surrounding four kids searching for a lost cat in an airport, Huda Al-Marashi discusses the art of writing and publishing collaboratively. She sheds light on the technicalities of the collaboration process, the value of writing friendships, the commitment required to finish a book, writing for adults vs. kids, her advice for writers at two distinct parts of their careers, and more.   Grounded is coauthored by Al-Marashi and Aisha Saeed, S. K. Ali, and Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow.   Huda Al-Marashi is the author of the bestselling memoir First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story. Her other writing has appeared in various anthologies and news outlets, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, and al Jazeera, and she is a fellow with the Highlights Foundation Muslim Storytellers Program. Grounded is her first novel for young readers.   Page Count is produced by Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library. For full show notes and a transcript of this episode, visit the episode page. To get in touch, email ohiocenterforthebook@cpl.org (put “podcast” in the subject line) or follow us on Twitter or on Facebook.

Barrett Brown is a journalist, activist, and media critic whose work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The Intercept, Huffington Post, Wired, Vice, The Daily Beast, al-Jazeera, and dozens of other outlets. In 2011 he began overseeing an investigation into the private intelligence contracting industry via his research collective Project PM, which the Department of Justice subsequently labeled a “criminal organization”; in 2012, he was arrested and charged with a variety of offenses that Reporters Without Borders and other entities denounced as retaliation for his work. He served four years in federal prison, from which he won the National Magazine Award for commentary and other awards. On this week's podcast, Jason and Matt talk with Barrett about a shift in media and the narrative he watched unfold from inside prison. Barrett expounds on the vast influence Peter Thiel wields over media and government and how he uses that influence to usher in a technocratic dystopia. Barrett also delves into the role Elon Musk is playing in this push toward technocracy and how many of today's ostensible "independent" voices could actually be funded by these very forces. You can follow Barrett Brown at the following links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProjPM Medium: https://barrettbrown.medium.com/ Byline Supplement: https://www.bylinesupplement.com/

Max Blumenthal is a multi award-winning author and investigative journalist and the founding editor in chief of The Grayzone -- one the most insightful and well-documented sources for commentaries addressing America's perpetual state of war and its geopolitical activities.  Max's articles and video documentaries have appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, Salon, Huffington Post and many others. He has also frequently appeared on national TV and radio broadcasts including Bill Moyers, Tucker Carlson, RT, CNN, MSNBC and al-Jazeera. His books include the New York Times best seller Republican Gomorrah and his latest is The Management of Savagery -- which connects the relationships between the rise of global extremism with the US imperial agenda. His video documentaries, notably Killing Gaza have been viewed by millions.  Max' and his colleagues Aaron Matte's investigative articles can be found at TheGrayzone.com, and their video reports and interviews can be found on Youtube and Odysee. You can also follow him on Telegram and the restored Twitter

Bankitalia boccia la manovra sul contante. Ne parliamo conLina Palmerini, quirinalista del Sole 24 Ore. Iran: il procuratore generale annuncia l'abolizione della polizia morale, ma secondo al Jazeera non ci sono conferme. Con noiFarian Sabahi, giornalista, docente universitaria e scrittrice iraniana. Le ultime sulla guerra in Ucraina con il generale Maurizio Fioravanti. Mondiali di calcio in Qatar: oggi gli ottavi Giappone-Croazia e Brasile-Corea del Sud. Ci aggiorna Carlo Genta.

Hör om mutorna, kontrakten och korruptionsanklagelserna som ledde till att lilla Qatar fick fotbolls-VM. När Qatar år 2010 utsågs till värdland för fotbolls-VM 2022 blev många förvånade eftersom landet var en nästan okänd fotbollsnation. Men bakom beslutet låg en väl utförd kampanj från kungadömet där stenrika Qatar gjorde enorma och strategiska investeringar i bland annat Frankrike. I stort sett alla de personer inom internationella fotbollsförbundet FIFA som fattade beslutet blev senare misstänkta för korruption och några har i efterhand sagt att de ångrar att Qatar får anordna VM. Flera personer i FIFAs ledning fick avgå i spåren av skandalen.Döda arbetare vid bygget av arenor till fotbolls-VMInför fotbolls-VM har Qatar byggt ett antal extraordinära arenor och ett nytt tunnelbanesystem. Arbetare har dött vid bygget av arenor. Människorättsorganisationer kritiserar bristen på rättigheter för utländska arbetare i det så kallade kafala-systemet som ses som en form av modernt slaveri i Gulfstaterna. Myndigheterna i Qatar hävdar däremot att arbetsvillkoren förbättrats.Lilla Qatar är diplomatisk stormaktTrots att Qatar är ett litet land så har kungadömet stor makt. Qatar har lett förhandlingar med talibanerna i Afghanistan, med Hamas i Gaza och har samtidigt goda relationer till både USA och Iran. Genom tv-kanalen al-Jazeera som ägs av Qatar har landet ytterligare stärkt sitt inflytande världen över. Under den förre ledaren Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thanis styre blev Qatar det rikaste landet i världen i förhållande till folkmängden. Qatar har enorma fyndigheter av naturgas och olja vilket lagt grunden till landets rikedomar. Landet har exklusiva shoppingvanor, till exempel har Qatar via sin investeringsfond köpt varuhuset Harrods i London samt världens då dyraste konstverk, Kortspelarna av Cézanne.Medverkande: Cecilia Uddén och Johan Mathias Sommarström, Mellanösternkorrespondenter, Richard Henriksson, fotbollsexpert Radiosporten. Sen podden spelades in har Richard Henriksson slutat på Sveriges Radio.Programledare: Johar BendjelloulProducent: Katja MagnussonTekniker: Sandra PetterssonAvsnittet publicerades första gången i januari 2022.

Con l'imminente inizio dei primi “mondiali arabi”, andiamo a scoprire insieme la ricca e variegata storia del Qatar, il paese che li ospiteràTrovate tutti i link qui: https://linktr.ee/mediorientedintorni, ma, andando un po' nel dettaglio: -tutti gli aggiornamenti sulla pagina instagram @medioorienteedintorni -per articoli visitate il sito https://mediorientedintorni.com/ trovate anche la "versione articolo" di questo video. - podcast su tutte le principali piattaforme in Italia e del mondo-Vuoi tutte le uscite in tempo reale? Iscriviti al gruppo Telegram: https://t.me/mediorientedintorniOgni like, condivisione o supporto è ben accetto e mi aiuta a dedicarmi sempre di più alla mia passione: raccontare il Medio Oriente ed il "mondo islamico"

Dr. Obery Hendricks comes on the show to talk about ethics and how they play out in the real world. Links from the show:* Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith* Connect with Dr. Hendricks* Subscribe to the newsletterAbout my guest:A life long social activist, Obery Hendricks is one of the foremost commentators on the intersection of religion and political economy in America. He is the most widely read and perhaps the most influential African American biblical scholar writing today. His recent book, Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith (Beacon Press, 2021) has gathered wide acclaim. Cornel West calls him “one of the last few grand prophetic intellectuals.”A widely sought lecturer and media spokesperson, Dr. Hendricks' appearances include CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, Fox Business News, the Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC, NHK Japan Television and the Bloomberg Network. He has provided running event commentary for National Public Radio, MSNBC, and the al-Jazeera and Aspire international television networks. Dr. Hendricks has served in the Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group at the U. S. Department of State under Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry; was a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee, for whom he delivered the closing benediction at the 2008 Democratic Convention; served on the National Religious Leaders Advisory Committee of the 2008 Democratic Presidential campaign. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative in Washington, DC; has been an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for American Progress; was a Senior Fellow at The Opportunity Agenda social justice communications think tank; is on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Christian Socialism; and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). Dr. Hendricks has been a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and Salon.com, a former editorial advisor to the award-winning Tikkun magazine, and a contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. The Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation has called his work “the boldest post-colonial writing ever seen in Western biblical studies.”Hendricks' award-winning book, The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted (Doubleday, 2006), was declared “essential reading for Americans” by the Washington Post. Social commentator Michael Eric Dyson proclaimed it “an instant classic” that “immediately thrusts Hendricks into the front ranks of American religious thinkers.” The Politics of Jesus was the featured subject of the 90-minute C-SPAN special hosted by the Center for American Progress, “Class, Politics and Christianity.” The tenth anniversary of its publication was acknowledged at a major 2016 panel at the American Academy of Religion at its annual convention in San Antonio, TX. Governor Howard Dean, former chair of the Democratic National Committee, has called his book, The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church and the Body Politic(Orbis, 2011), a “tour de force.”A former Wall Street investment executive and past president of Payne Theological Seminary, the oldest African American theological seminary in the United States, he is currently a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in the Department of Religion and the Department of African American and African Diasporic Studies; a Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; and Emeritus Professor of Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary. An Ordained Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Hendricks holds the Master of Divinity with academic honors from Princeton Theological Seminary, and both the M.A. and Ph.D. in Religions of Late Antiquity from Princeton University.      Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with FMEP Fellow Jehad Abusalim about the aftermath of the most recent escalation, the relationship between the Nakba and the ongoing violent realities of Gaza, and questions of how to talk about and envision Gaza within broader frameworks of Palestinian liberation and freedom.  Jehad Abusalim is the Education and Policy Coordinator of the Palestine Activism Program at the American Friends Service Committee. He is completing his PhD in the History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies joint program at New York University. His research focuses on Arab and Palestinian intellectual discourse on Zionism, antisemitism, and the plight of the Jewish people in Europe between 1870 and 1948. Jehad also studies the social and political history of the Gaza Strip, focusing on the continuing impact of the Nakba on life in Gaza before and after 1948. Mr. Abusalim has been published in the Washington Post, al-Jazeera, the New Arab, and Vox.  Sarah Anne Minkin, PhD is FMEP's Director of Programs & Partnerships. She leads FMEP's programming, works to deepen FMEP's relationships with existing and potential grantees, and builds relationships with new partners in the philanthropic community. She is an affiliated faculty member at University of California, Berkeley's Center for Right-Wing Studies.  Resources from Jehad Abusalim:  Twitter profile: @JehadAbusalim, and his threads about the recent Gaza assault.  Most recent publication, the co-edited anthology Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, published by Haymarket books.  May 2021 Washington Post article, The Gaza cease-fire is no excuse for the world to look away May 2020 Journal of Palestine Studies article, The Great March of Return: An Organizer's Perspective An AFSC resource for learning more about Gaza: https://gazaunlocked.org/ Original Music by Jalal. Yaquoub.

Veteran al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot and killed by the Israeli army during an IDF raid in Jenin earlier this month. Asa Winstanley and Nora Barrows-Friedman are joined by Jon Elmer to discuss Shireen's murder and the armed struggle in Jenin. This episode is a joint effort with the Electronic Intifada podcast.

Ben and Tommy talk about the latest news from Ukraine, including the latest from Mariupol, Finland and Sweden's application to join NATO, and Mitch McConnell's visit to Kyiv. Then they explain why countries are threatening to boycott the Summit of the Americas, changes to Biden's Cuba policy, news of a major covid outbreak in North Korea, the upcoming elections in Australia, Eurovision and rocking out at the Queen's Jubilee. Then Tommy talks with Palestinian writer Jalal Abukhater about the killing of al Jazeera journalist  Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank.

Cette semaine, parmi les évènements marquants : la cérémonie militaire russe du 9 mai, présidée par Vladimir Poutine, pour célébrer la victoire de la guerre patriotique contre les nazis de 1945. Ce même jour, Emmanuel Macron a évoqué à Strasbourg le soutien des démocraties européennes à l'Ukraine. Egalement, la mort de Shireen Abu Akleh, journaliste star d'al-Jazeera, tuée à Jénine. Enfin, le Premier ministre, Jean Castex, a fait ses adieux à son gouvernement, avant une démission dès lundi. 

durée : 00:04:27 - Comme personne - Les employés palestiniens de la chaîne Al Jazeera ont connu deux traumatismes. Mercredi, l'une de leurs reporters était tuée à Jénine, en Cisjordanie. Le 15 mai 2021, leurs locaux de Gaza étaient détruits par un bombardement israélien. L'emblématique correspondant gazaoui Wael Al-Dahdouh fait face.

Palestina: uccisa giornalista di al Jazeera. Liberato attivista di Taiwan detenuto in Cina, ringrazia per l'aiuto globale. Afghanistan: scontri in Panshir L'Iran ha detto che giustizierà lo scienziato iraniano svedese. Brasile: HRW, sotto attacco l'educazione di genere e sessualità Questo e molto altro nel notiziario di Radio Bullets, a cura di Barbara Schiavulli Se vuoi sostenere l'informazione indipendente www.radiobullets.com/sostienici

Palestina: uccisa giornalista di al Jazeera. Liberato attivista di Taiwan detenuto in Cina, ringrazia per l'aiuto globale. Afghanistan: scontri in Panshir L'Iran ha detto che giustizierà lo scienziato iraniano svedese. Brasile: HRW, sotto attacco l'educazione di genere e sessualità Questo e molto altro nel notiziario di Radio Bullets, a cura di Barbara Schiavulli Se vuoi sostenere l'informazione indipendente www.radiobullets.com/sostienici

En af de meste kendte journalister i den arabiske verden, Shireen Abu Akleh, er blevet dræbt på Vestbredden. Hun er det seneste offer i kampene mellem israelere og palæstinensere, som i den seneste tid er blusset op. Vi tegner et portræt af den kvindelige al-Jazeera korrespondent og ser nærmere på den tilbagevendende konflikt. I dag er der tre uger til vi skal i stemmeboksene og sætte kryds ved et ja eller nej til at afskaffe forsvarsforbeholdet. Indtil nu har det været en svag og mat valgkamp fra begge sider, mener en kommentator, vi taler med, og en ny meningsmåling fra DR viser, at der stadig er mange tvivlere. Vi dykker ned i valget, befolkningen står over for, og spørger om nej-partierne kommer på hårdere arbejde i valgdebatter end ja-partierne. Taleban har igen beordret landets kvinder tilbage i burkaerne. Det er en udvikling, som i morgen vil blive drøftet i FN's sikkerhedsråd. Nanna Muus Steffensen er journalist og bor i Kabul. Og hun har et bud på, hvorfor Taleban går mere op i kvinders beklædning end landets økonomi og humanitære situation. Mette Vibe Utzon og Astrid Berg er dagens værter, Tine Linde er redaktør. www.dr.dk/orientering

Photo: #Syria: #UAW: #Russia: #Ukraine:  Assad sending homicides to Ukraine.   Jonathan Spyer @jonathan_spyer ; Fellow, Middle East Forum; travels extensively in Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan.  LSE Ph.D.    Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://www.jns.org/after-assad-visit-uae-could-play-role-mediating-between-syria-and-israel/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/24/how-russia-is-using-tactics-from-the-syrian-playbook-in-ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/bashar-al-assad-visits-uae-in-attempt-to-build-arab-relations https://nypost.com/2022/03/29/no-one-believes-biden-has-a-red-line-in-ukraine-after-syria-debacle/ Dr. Jonathan Spyer is one of the few Western/Israeli experts to have travelled extensively in Syria, Iraq and the Kurdish areas during the recent years of conflict. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics & an MA in Middle East politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London: is a Fellow at the Middle East Forum.        .Spyer is  a regular contributor to Jane's Intelligence Review, has published in leading journals and media outlets including Middle East Quarterly, Times (of London), Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Haaretz, Atlantic, Australian, National Post, Globe and Mail, Jerusalem Report, Jerusalem Post and others; and has appeared on CNN, al-Jazeera, Fox, BBC, Sky, and other outlets.

Het is het verhaal van de aangekondigde vernietiging: de slag om de Oekraïense hoofdstad Kiev. Een colonne Russische tanks omsingelt de stad en vanuit de lucht worden al woonwijken bestookt. Ongeveer de helft van de inwoners is gevlucht, de rest kan of wil niet. In podcast De Dag een gesprek met twee journalisten die net met pijn in het hart uit Kiev vertrokken zijn. Step Vaessen sprak dit weekend voor al Jazeera met president Zelensky midden in dat bedreigde bastion. En Bruno Beeckman van de VRT stapte na drie intense weken in Kiev gisteravond op een overvolle trein met vluchtelingen naar Slowakije. Beiden zijn zeer aangedaan door wat ze gezien en gehoord hebben. Reageren? Mail dedag@radio1.nl

Tusentals migrantarbetare tros ha omkommit vid arbetet med att bygga de nya arenorna inför VM i fotboll. Hör om mutorna, kontrakten och korruptionsanklagelserna inför att lilla Qatar fick fotbolls-VM. När Qatar år 2010 utsågs till värdland för fotbolls-VM 2022 blev många förvånade eftersom landet var en nästan okänd fotbollsnation. Men bakom beslutet låg en väl utförd kampanj från kungadömet där stenrika Qatar gjorde enorma och strategiska investeringar i bland annat Frankrike. I stort sett alla de personer inom internationella fotbollsförbundet FIFA som fattade beslutet blev senare misstänkta för korruption och några har i efterhand sagt att de ångrar att Qatar får anordna VM. Flera personer i FIFAs ledning fick avgå i spåren av skandalen.Döda arbetare vid bygget av arenor till fotbolls-VMInför fotbolls-VM har Qatar byggt ett antal extraordinära arenor och ett nytt tunnelbanesystem. Enligt undersökningar från tidningen the Guardian har minst 6500 arbetare omkommit i byggarbetet. Människorättsorganisationer kritiserar bristen på rättigheter för utländska arbetare i det så kallade kafalasystemet som ses som en form av modernt slaveri i Gulfstaterna. Myndigheterna i Qatar hävdar däremot att arbetsvillkoren förbättrats.Lilleputtlandet Qatar är diplomatisk stormaktTrots att Qatar är ett litet land så har kungadömet stor makt. Qatar har lett förhandlingar med talibanerna i Afghanistan, med Hamas i Gaza och har samtidigt goda relationer till både USA och Iran. Genom Tv-kanalen al-Jazeera som ägs av Qatar har landet ytterligare stärkt sitt inflytande världen över. Under den förre ledaren Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thanis styre blev Qatar det rikaste landet i världen i förhållande till folkmängden. Qatar har enorma fyndigheter av naturgas och olja vilket lagt grunden till landets rikedomar. Landet har exklusiva shoppingvanor, till exempel har Qatar via sin investeringsfond köpt varuhuset Harrods i London samt världens då dyraste konstverk, Kortspelarna av Cézanne.Medverkande: Cecilia Uddén och Johan Mathias Sommarström, Mellanösternkorrespondenter, Richard Henriksson, fotbollsexpert RadiosportenProgramledare: Johar BendjelloulProducent: Katja MagnussonTekniker: Sandra Pettersson

In today's episode, we take a look at the government's denial of a minister assisting a foreign national to obtain a Cypriot passport, as alleged in a new expose by the al Jazeera media network. In other news, the nameplate of Demetris Christofias avenue in memory of the former president has been vandalised. All this and much more in today's news briefing.

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On all podcast platforms. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include: - In-depth dig into the causes of the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Israel's role as a settler colonial and apartheid state - Israel's far-right groups like Lehava, and far-right politician and lawyer Itamar Ben-Gvir - The history of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem and the religious significance of al-Aqsa Mosque - Israel bombed Gaza high rise, where AP News, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Eye, among many other places - Top 10 Ways to solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Joe Biden considers making Rahm Immanuel ambassador to Japan - Japan goes forward with already postponed-Olympics, despite Covid - Macron's party pulls support for a candidate for wearing Muslim head covering in political ad - Mass school shooting in Russia kills 9 - High speed rail, and why the neoliberal critiques of it are bad, specifically from Ben Dreyfuss and Sean Trende - How terrible and disgusting instant coffee is - All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show! Visit the website: societyshow.net Leave a message on the Society Show voicemail: (917) BETH-1EU [(971) 238-4138 Follow the show on twitter: @society_show

Show Notes and Links to Huda Al-Marashi's Work On Episode 26, Pete is honored to speak with Huda Al-Marashi, fellow Santa Clara Bronco alum and writer extraordinaire. They discuss, among other topics, the process of writing and publishing her novel, the writer's daily life, target audiences in writing, the "white gaze," and Huda's inspirations in life and in literature. Huda Al-Marashi is the Iraqi-American author of First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story, a book the Washington Post called "a charming, funny, heartbreaking memoir of faith, family, and the journey to love. If Jane Austen had grown up as a first-gen daughter of Iraqi parents in the 1990s, she might have written this.” Excerpts from this memoir have also been anthologized in Love Inshallah: The Secret Love Lives of Muslim American Women, Becoming: What Makes a Woman, and Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women and Extreme Religion. Her other writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, al Jazeera, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Cuyahoga County Creative Workforce Fellowship and an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writer Fellowship. First Comes Marriage was longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize and a finalist for the Southern California Independent Booksellers' Award. Huda currently resides in California with her husband and three children. Huda Al-Marashi's Website “A Birthday at the Cemetery” Huda's essay published in 2020 in The New York Times Pete discusses the chill-inducing ending of “A Birthday at the Cemetery” on Episode 16 Huda reads “An Index of Small Stings,” Oct. 2, 2020, as part of “Voices of California” Buy Huda's Wonderful Book Here-First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story Buzzfeed Video Features Huda Discussing Debunking Stereotypes about Arranged Marriages   Authors/Books Mentioned and Allusions Referenced During the Episode: Edward Said's Orientalism Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, Writer of The Cairo Trilogy