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Senior PR consultant at One Plus One Communications, Damien Venuto and host of the Prosperity Project, Nadine Higgins join Franscesa on the Sunday Panel to discuss: Having listened to Ray with Ryan Bridge on ZB on Friday - does Wellington deserve better from its councillors? A climate policy expert has said ending buyouts for weather-damaged properties would be morally bankrupt. Where do you sit on this? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you think the Government and councils would be “morally bankrupt” if they stopped paying people out when their properties are so flood-damaged that they can't live there anymore? And would you feel the same about people living in areas at risk of flooding being forced to pay more for flood schemes and sea walls because they're the ones who benefit most? That's what a panel of experts is recommending to the Government. But a climate policy expert is saying that would be, you guessed it, “morally bankrupt”. And I agree. What's more, I think this approach would let councils off the hook for allowing places to be built in crazy, at-risk locations. What's happened, is an independent reference group set up by the Ministry for the Environment has come up with a list of recommendations to help the Government work on some climate adaptation legislation. Adaptation being what you do when something like climate change and sea-level rise threatens to take-out an area. This group is made up of economists, people from the banking and insurance sectors, local government and iwi. So a wide range of people. And if I there's an overarching theme to their advice, it would be this: “You're on your own buddy.” And instead of looking to the councils and governments for hand-outs and direction, people should have to decide for themselves if they're going to stay living where they are. And if their properties get flooded and there's no way they can keep on living there, then they shouldn't expect their local council or Wellington to buy them out. Talk about hardcore. Talk about morally bankrupt. This group of experts isn't stopping there, either. It's also saying that, if you live in an area where there is a risk of flooding and things like sea walls and flood schemes are needed, then you and your neighbours should pay more for those things because you're the ones who benefit the most. So, if we apply that to some of the things that have happened here in Canterbury, that would mean people in the Flockton Basin area in Christchurch, paying more for the privilege of living somewhere that used to flood at the drop of a hat. Remember that? And how the council poured truckloads of money into a pumping system that stopped the water overflowing in the Dudley Creek area and flooding the streets and houses? The Christchurch City Council spent $49 million on a flood mitigation scheme in Flockton Basin. Elsewhere in town, it spent about $70 million to deal with flooding issues along the Heathcote River. That included buying-out people's houses. Some friends of mine had their place bought out as part of that scheme. But under these recommendations to the Government, the people in Flockton Basin would be expected to pay more than the rest of us because they're the ones who are benefiting directly from their streets and houses not flooding anymore. Also under these recommendations, my mates wouldn't have their house bought out by the council – even though they can't live there anymore because it keeps flooding I would hate to see us take this approach. Which is why agree with climate policy expert, Emeritus Professor Jonathan Boston from Victoria University, who is saying today that leaving people high and not necessarily dry like this would be “morally bankrupt”. He says: "One of the core responsibilities of any government is to protect its citizens and to deal with natural disasters and so on. That is above almost anything else." He's also criticising this group's recommendation that any changes be phased-in within the next 20 years, saying that the risks and impacts of climate change are going to continue evolving beyond this 20-year deadline. He says to put an end-date on it is "Morally bankrupt and highly undesirable". And, as I say, it would let councils off-the-hook. Because for me, if a council gives consent for something to built somewhere, then that same council needs to carry the can if it turns out that that something is somewhere it shouldn't be. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

278: "I am only interested in becoming known for what is true because one day you're going to fucking slip. And I think that is the scariest thing is to paint an entire picture around the most acceptable version of yourself and then fall from that because it's a lie." - Xanthe AppleyardIf you've ever thought you needed 100K followers to "matter" or felt guilty for working weekends while preaching about your “soft girl era”—this episode will rewire your entire approach to online business. Xanthe Appleyard gets incredibly honest about building a successful business on her own terms, from both a financial and energetic lens, ditching the "serious entrepreneur" mask (and why you can still be a silly goose while helping your people), and why leisure and pleasure are just as important as profit and revenue. She may have also single-handedly changed Chelsea's notoriously anti-social media POV!Episode ThemesWhy impulsivity isn't self-sabotage when you're moving toward what you actually wantThe "commitment as trap" myth and how reframing it changes everything about relationships and businessMonotasking your way to sanity: how compartmentalizing tasks prevents burnoutThe follower count lie: why 1K engaged people beats 100K passive scrollers every damn timeTrading "promised freedom later" for "more freedom now" (and why this isn't selfish)Social media as a tool vs. social media as your worth—and how to tell the differenceThe cognitive dissonance of building businesses on platforms we're morally conflicted aboutWhy hiding your "unprofessional" side perpetuates everyone else's shameThis episode isn't about clocking 60 hour work weeks to see results or becoming more palatable—it's about getting so clear on your values that every business decision becomes glaringly obvious. Whether you're sending emails at 5AM or taking two-month sabbaticals, remember: there's no prize for following someone else's blueprint. Your business should energize you, not drain you. PERIOD.Connect with Xanthe Appleyard:Join Xanthe's content creation membership Social Life (at a special price!) until Friday, July 10th!Xanthe's Website Xanthe's IG Xanthe's SubstackConnect with Chelsea:

Today on the Walton and Johnson Show, the boys talk about the flash flood disaster that occurred in central Texas, Democrats having no morals, and how the are somehow blaming Trump yet again.

Guiding Question What's the best way to be morally pure in a world that constantly pulls us the other way? Summary Robert Lewis challenges believers to confront the ever-present pull of sin, not by merely resisting it, but by replacing it—through a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. The message opens with a stark reality: sin is not just around us; it's in us. Using both humor and Scripture, Lewis exposes the deceptive nature of sin and the limitations of simply trying to “fight” it. Drawing from Titus 2:11–14, a passage used as an early church creed, Lewis explains how Jesus not only brings salvation but also purifies lives. The key to moral purity, he argues, is not just in putting off sin but in actively pursuing Jesus. Lewis critiques the legalistic “fight sin” approach common in past generations and offers instead the “freedom-through-pursuit” model—developing new desires by loving and following Christ. He ends with practical applications: one, seek forgiveness through Jesus immediately, and two, commit to a long-term path of spiritual growth through Scripture and obedience. That, he says, is how your story ends in freedom. Outline: Opening Insight – “Sin is not my friend”—but why does it stay so close? Two Reasons Sin Persists – It's deceptive and it's part of our nature. A Missed Target – Illustrating sin as “missing the mark” (harmatia). Titus 2:11–14 – Jesus came to save and purify a people for Himself. What We're Called to Deny and Embrace – Ungodliness, worldly passions vs. self-control, uprightness, and godliness. Wrong Approach to Moral Purity – Fighting sin head-on doesn't work; it wears us out and leaves us vulnerable. Right Approach to Moral Purity – Pursuing Jesus transforms desires, replacing sin's hold with superior joy. Results of Pursuing Jesus – Freedom, joy, influence, and the life we've always longed for. Two Applications – Seek forgiveness now; commit to obeying God's Word as the path to freedom. Key Takeaways Sin is deceptive and internal—it disguises itself as a better way and lives within us. Moral purity cannot be sustained by sheer willpower or prohibition. Jesus came not only to save but to purify His people for good works. Pursuing Christ is the only effective path to lasting moral purity. Right living follows right focus: when Jesus becomes our joy, sin loses its pull. The goal isn't just to be "clean"—it's to live freely, purposefully, and fully through a relationship with Christ. Scriptural References Isaiah 53:6 – “All we like sheep have gone astray…” Romans 7:15–24 – Paul's struggle with the evil within. Titus 2:11–14 – Jesus came to save and purify a people zealous for good deeds. Luke 11:24–26 – A house swept clean but empty is still vulnerable. Matthew 5:8 – “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” Romans 6:23 – “The wages of sin is death…” 1 Timothy 4:12 – Be an example in purity and conduct. John 10:10 – “I came that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.” 1 John 1:9 – “If we confess our sins, He is faithful…to forgive…” Recorded 9/5/04

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With another packed news week at home and abroad, your co-pilots are here to steer you through the carnage with their usual dose of common sense.Allison thinks the PM's weak response to the US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities is once again humiliating the UK on the world's stage, and that Keir Starmer is concerned more about the Muslim vote share than National Security.Meanwhile Liam wonders if Labour's is now deploying a ‘scorched earth' policy as they drop in the polls.Making a special trip in the rocket this week is Conservative Peer and lawyer, Baroness Cash, who shares her thoughts on Labour's Employment Rights Bill and the mythical non-existent worker it's claiming to help.Read Allison: ‘The mistreatment of Lucy Connolly in prison is deeply sinister' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/24/the-mistreatment-of-lucy-connolly-in-prison-is-sinister/ |Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |Read Liam: ‘Labour's 1970s employment rights bill could send Britain over the edge'https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/15/labour-1970s-employment-rights-bill-could-send-uk-over-edge/ |Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |Need help subscribing or reviewing? Learn more about podcasts here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/podcasts/podcast-can-find-best-ones-listen/ |Email: planetnormal@telegraph.co.uk |For 30 days' free access to The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/normal | Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Physician assisted suicide and the economic impossibility of safeguardingFor best results and links to related articles and to read my other work, find this post on Substack: https://shirabatya.substack.com/p/death-affirmative-care.------------------Last Friday, the UK Parliament voted by a narrow margin to legalise physician-assisted suicide.Since then, there has been much discussion of the possibility that the House of Lords could tighten up safeguarding for this bill, which has been criticised widely for lacking sufficient safeguards for people who are mentally ill, anorexic, diabetic, or simply socially isolated and therefore easily suggestible by doctors who, according to this law, will be allowed to raise the topic of suicide with patients who have not raised the issue first themselves.In fact, Parliament explicitly rejected an amendment to prevent doctors from suggesting to patients that they may wish to end their lives, voting only to protect children from such suggestions. Similarly, although Parliament approved an amendment that prevented patients from being deemed terminal due to voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED), this does not apply to anorexics, whose refusal of food is due to a mental health condition and therefore is arguably involuntary.The erosion of safeguarding is not a matter of if, but of when. It is not a bug but a feature.A number of people who have concerns about the bill are hopeful that with the correct amendments in the House of Lords, it will be made fit for purpose and add the safeguards that are currently lacking. Although safeguards are obviously to be welcomed, I believe that such people are failing to recognise a more fundamental problem with this proposal, which comes down to economics. In the end, whatever safeguards are officially agreed, as long as this matter is framed in terms of a “right to die”, over time, practical constraints will lead to an erosion of safeguards as has occurred in places such as Australia and Canada. The erosion of safeguarding is not a matter of if, but of when. It is not a bug but a feature.For those who are in favour of physician-assisted suicide, the discussion about this legislation has been framed in terms of patient choice and the “right to die”. How dare I restrict the choice of somebody else who has freely consented to ending their life? It's their life, not mine. Their body. Their choice.For those of us who have followed the child gender transition debacle of recent years, this conversation is oddly familiar. It is no coincidence that people such as Kathleen Stock and Fred Sargeant who are critical of physician-assisted gender transition, have also been concerned about physician-assisted suicide. In gender critical circles, we know to be careful when people talk about bodily autonomy and choice; we know that the issues of safeguarding or gatekeeping or autonomy are never as simple as people might think.How will the NHS deal with this backlog of people demanding to die, particularly if the service is framed in terms of people having a right to die?Already in recent days, health secretary Wes Streeting has raised concerns about the cost of implementing physician-assisted suicide, possibly topping £15,000 per patient. A whole new service needs to be set up in the NHS to provide this procedure. Personnel need to be trained to assess requests from patients and to determine which patients should be allowed to die, and which should be told “no, not you”. This will also divert resources away from other treatments, possibly away from the important palliative care, provision of which is known already to be inadequate. Adequate palliative care is crucial if patients are to have a real choice between ending their lives and having a dignified death free of excessive pain.Whether or not the House of Lords strengthens safeguards, we know that implementing this legislation will be difficult and costly. The greater the safeguards that may be added, the greater this cost, as savings are generated only after sick people actually do die. We have already seen that practical constraints (economics) have led to changes in the safeguarding process. A shortage of available high court judges forced the bill's proponents to remove the safeguard that such a person would need to approve applications, in favour of a more practical panel without a person of such high legal qualifications.We must ask: What will happen in a few years' time, when there is a backlog of say hundreds or thousands of patients who have requested assisted suicide? What will we do when the safeguards necessary to make sure that their suicide has not occurred under duress or due to inappropriate factors such as mental illness — when these safeguards lead to unacceptable delays because systems are overwhelmed. How will the NHS deal with this backlog of people demanding to die, particularly if the service is framed in terms of people having a right to die?Imagine a few years hence, if careful safeguarding and gatekeeping is in place, if the process has not devolved into the informed consent model in which a patient's “right to die” is simply affirmed and they are pushed down the pipeline towards death. Someone will be frustrated by the delays from “excessive gatekeeping” that interferes with their “right to die” and they will sue complaining that they are being coerced into remaining alive. If strong safeguards are kept in place, this lawsuit will happen (again, not a matter of if but of when). More likely, organisations such as Humanists UK will push for a reduction in safeguards to avoid such delays.Those of us who have been following the issue of gender-affirmative care in medicine cannot help seeing the obvious parallel: the similarity to another story in which gatekeeping was eroded due to the reality of practical constraints or economics. Years ago, when Dutch doctors initially decided to begin to transition a small number of gender non-conforming children in order, theoretically, to provide them better cosmetic outcomes as fully transitioned adults, there were significant safeguards in place.Let's leave aside the question about whether, in principle, we think that one should ever block the puberty of a child and medically transform a young person to look like the opposite sex. Leave aside that question for the moment and simply consider the matter of safeguarding. Leave aside for the moment the very valid criticisms of the Dutch protocol, which I know was severely flawed research. Nonetheless they did have safeguards in place. If you have followed the New York Times podcast, The Protocol, you will recall that one had to undergo several months or years of therapy. There was screening for all sorts of mental health problems that disqualified patients from puberty blockers or medical transition.Thus the “gender-affirmative” care model began to view gatekeeping as a pejorative, something we should not do as we had a duty to affirm patients…So what happened when American and British doctors saw what was happening in Holland and decided to bring these procedures back to their own countries to replicate them so that patients in their own countries could have access to this new apparently ground-breaking treatment protocol? Quickly, in both the UK and the US is, the number of children seeking “gender-affirmative care” far exceeded what clinics they could cope with following the Dutch model, because along with the patients they expected to see (those who had been gender nonconforming from a young age, mostly boys), there came a multitude of distressed adolescents (mostly girls) with no prior history of gender dysphoria. Thousands of patients built up on waiting lists, or in the case of the United States, patients sought treatment at hospitals hundreds of miles from their homes, and so they could not reasonably be expected to show up for months and months of appointments and therapy sessions (See NYT The Protocol, episode 3).As a result, as explained in the NYT podcast, the process was changed. It was streamlined to get through the waiting lists. Months of therapy often turned into a single assessment. And thus we ended up with problems that far exceeded those from the Dutch protocol. Again, I am not saying that the Dutch protocol was itself a good process or defending that research, which is deeply flawed. But certainly, what happened in the USA and UK etc. was far, far worse. It became a free-for-all.You will change the product to fit constraints just like any vendor of any product in a market economy. Therefore, if it is impractical, expensive or onerous, safeguarding gets cast aside.Johanna Olson Kennedy explains on the Protocol (again episode 3) that she realised it actually made no sense to engage in these sorts of safeguarding / gatekeeping procedures in order to decide which patients should be getting gender-affirmative care and which should not. Gatekeeping did not work because, of course, doctors could not easily tell which patients should and should not be transitioned, and patients would simply change what they told doctors in order to get past gatekeepers, thus hiding other mental health problems. Again, this is a matter of economics, of practical constraints and incentives (people may not be honest with doctors if that does not get them what they want).Olson Kennedy therefore decided that patients who wanted to transition should be allowed to transition, should be affirmed. Thus the “gender-affirmative” care model began to view gatekeeping as a pejorative, something we should not do as we had a duty to affirm patients and believe them when they claimed a gender identity. Transition was no longer a treatment which would be provided or not based on medical judgment by a trained professional. Rather, transition became purely the exercise of what was framed as “trans rights.”You could say that this was an ideological development, but I'm going to look at this purely from an economic point of view, since I am trained as an economist. Set aside the culture wars, “woke”, queer theory, all of that. It was inevitable that this would happen. If the resources are not available to do the safeguarding that you would like to implement and you have a backlog of cases, then you will then adapt your product to fit the circumstances so that you can provide a service that satisfies your clients, patients, customers (whatever you wish to call them). You will change the product to fit constraints just like any vendor of any product in a market economy. Therefore, if it is impractical, expensive or onerous, safeguarding gets cast aside.The better safeguarding functions, the more we will hear people criticizing the gatekeeping that prevents people from dying when they want to.Of course, to avoid cognitive dissonance, you will then be attracted to an ideology that justifies your actions. Alternatively, jobs providing this care will attract ideologically compatible personnel — people whose mindset allows them to do this new job and still to sleep at night. Self-selection of compatibly minded people will inevitably lead to group think within these clinics. None of this requires any conspiracy, any neo-Marxist strategy to take over the Academy and inflict queer theory on students. This is a process driven by the economics. Ideology is a secondary result.In short, I don't think that what happened in the States was in any way surprising. It's exactly what you would expect to happen because the only practical alternative to getting rid of all the safeguards would have been what's happening now in so many US States and countries, which is to halt provision of this service completely. You can't transition any children at all because we can't tell which patients should or should not be transitioning as children. Because the reality is that, at any reasonable cost, within realistic practical constraints, it is just not possible to put in place safeguarding or appropriate gatekeeping so that only the correct patients get the treatment. You either have a free for all or you stop doing it completely.This brings us back to physician-assisted suicide in the UK. I predict that if this law gains royal assent, even if the House of Lords agrees extra safeguards, it will not actually make that much difference. Yes of course, it will help if safeguards are put in place. Some vulnerable patients can of course be protected from killing themselves and it is better if the law closes the anorexia loophole, the diabetes loophole, the doctor-suggestion loophole, etc. However, when it comes down to it, whatever safeguarding we do will be constrained not by what the law says those safeguards should be, but by the economics.Safeguarding / gatekeeping will be constrained by the funds available to pay personnel on review panels, meaning quicker decisions by less qualified people. It will be constrained by the ability to train health workers for jobs implementing the service, and these new jobs in death-affirmative care will self-select for those who are ideologically committed to the right to die, just as clinicians in “gender-affirmative youth medicine” self-selected for those who believed in queer theory or had themselves transitioned or had supported the transition of a partner or child. We must expect that gatekeeping will not protect vulnerable patients. When this failure occurs, it will not be a surprise, but an economic inevitability of enshrining a “right to die” and to have this death provided by the NHS.Initially, we may have a good service with careful decisions. Morally problematic, but perhaps analogous to the Dutch protocol. However, over the course of time, as the number of people seeking assistance for suicide increases, as the caseload and the backlog of cases builds up, as the systems in place to provide careful safeguarding become overwhelmed and more ideologues are attracted to the death-affirmative care profession, the death-provision procedure will be streamlined, and safeguarding will be reduced. The better safeguarding functions, the more we will hear people criticizing the gatekeeping that prevents people from dying when they want to: for example, discrimination against the disabled or the mentally ill who all have an equal right to die.Doctors are paternalistic. They offer us treatments that evidence shows to be beneficial, not treatments we demand as our “right”. We are patients, not customers.No matter what safeguards are put in place, the reality will be that these safeguards will not be adequate because they cannot be adequate because to put adequate safeguards in place will simply cost too much and place too many obstacles in front of those who see this as a right. Thus, people will find a way of rationalising why a more streamlined approach is consistent with the intention of parliament, or the law will be amended to solve practical difficulties — meaning to remove safeguards that are practically impossible to implement.There will be lawsuits by patients affected by the delays that will force pragmatism by the NHS. And in the end, we will institute an easy pipeline towards death in the same way that there was, until recently, an easy pipeline in the United States towards gender transition of children. And as we found in the United States to do with child gender transition, the only way to actually stop the abuses of the system will be to abolish the service completely. Except in this case, it is unlikely that a reversal will occur. We will have become efficient at killing off those who are an economic or medical drain on society. The economic cost of reversing this progress will be far too high.There is a deeper lesson here. The fact is that there are some kinds of choices, medical decisions, medical procedures, where theoretically we might say that some people should get them, but where we can't allow this to become normative medicine paid for by the state or by insurance, because we know that the reality is that the safeguards that one would need to put in place are actually impossible. There is no way to make the care widely available to your target group without catching all sorts of other people who may be harmed if this becomes normalised and paid for by institutions, particularly if this care is framed as a human right.This is why it is fundamentally wrong to have physician-assisted suicide in the UK, provided by the NHS, framed in terms of a “right to die”. It cannot be done, and the reason is not because I don't think that it is morally justified for people to be able to end their lives if they so choose. This is not because I feel that I have a moral right to tell other people whether they ought to live or die. Rather, the reality is that if you try to put in place physician-assisted suicide based on a right to die, you will end up with exactly the same problem happening that happened with child gender transition. Because even if you believe that some children should be transitioned, (which I don't), there is no way to offer such a service without being swamped by patients who definitely should not be receiving it.If a service is demand-led, you end up finding it impossible to safeguard patients and to distinguish between those who should be treated, and those who should not. You end up with an assembly line and a free-for-all and a lack of gatekeeping. It is a process driven by the economics, once it receives an initial ideological green light to begin.Does this mean that it is impossible for there ever to be physician-assisted suicide provided to any patient with any health condition? What about people with terminal cancer, suffering intolerable pain in their final days or hours of life? Do we leave them to suffer in agony? I actually believe there may be a way to help such patients. The key is that any such assisted death must not be framed in the terms of the right to die, in the same way that medical alteration of sex development cannot be framed in terms of a “right to transition” — paid for by the NHS or insurance as the case may be.This is because there is no “right” to have any particular kind of healthcare. We do not waltz into a doctors office and demand antibiotics because we feel we have an infection. We require a diagnosis, and if the treatment is appropriate, we get the penicillin. Otherwise, the doctor says no. Doctors are paternalistic. They offer us treatments that evidence shows to be beneficial, not treatments we demand as our “right”. We are patients, not customers. The failure to understand this basic fact lies at the root of the scandal that is gender-affirmative care.Can doctors ever offer death as an option to patients? Possibly yes, but this would have to be offered like any other medical treatment. If there are particular medical circumstances (such as end stage cancer), where evidence shows that even with the best palliative care, a patient cannot control excruciating pain, so that the best treatment possible may be to increase morphine to deadly levels, one might be able to make a clinical argument to offer this. But this would be a very specific clinical judgment, and it is not about whether someone has the “right to die.” It is about caring for a patient who is dying, so that his or her death is less painful.I think this scenario is what comes to mind for those who make the most emotive arguments for assisted dying. In that case, what a law could do is give authority to NICE to look into the possibility of hastened death being elected by patients with that particular health condition, in order to allow their death to be less agonizing.But we cannot frame this in terms of the right to die. It's not about a patient making a choice and then demanding that the NHS provides death to order, with the patient as consumer. Rather, we're talking here about doctors engaging in what effectively is a form of health care for a patient, where medical evidence indicates they may be better served if they are allowed to die sooner, and therefore they are given this as one treatment option.Even here, the offer would be fraught with risk. This would entail legislation that would protect doctors from prosecution when they offer such help but only subject to enormous safeguards, similar to those proposed for the assisted suicide bill, but not framed in terms of a “right to die.” Moreover, if we are talking about just a small number of conditions for which there is solid medical evidence that palliative care alone cannot prevent an agonising death, we may find that the economics does not necessarily lead to an erosion of safeguarding. Even here, we would need to compare a hastened death to the best possible palliative care, so that patients are not effectively forced to choose death because they are not being provided for properly otherwise.The key to understanding this is to avoid a misconception about informed consent: namely the mistaken notion that it is reasonable to offer death to patients if they have capacity to consent to that death. This is not how informed consent normally works in medicine. Rather, even where informed consent applies, doctors act paternalistically. They evaluate which treatments can help a patient, and then a patient must consent to treatment and has a right to refuse treatment. But patients do not have a right to demand treatments that doctors do not deem helpful. There is a right to say no, not a right to demand yes.The problem we have with the so-called “right to die” is similar to what happened with gender-affirmative care. There, treatments were framed in terms of a right to transition as opposed to being framed in terms of evidence-based health care. And that's how we ended up in the mess we're in with a complete free-for-all with the elimination of safeguarding or gatekeeping because patients felt they had a right to the care whether or not there was any evidentiary basis for it.The key here is to realise that, when given by healthcare providers, death is no more a right of patients than any other kind of healthcare a doctor could give. Doctors do not have a duty to give any patient any medical procedure, any outcome that the patient wants. They have a duty to give healthcare which is evidenced and sensible and also cost effective. When a particular kind of treatment becomes a “right”, we throw out of the window the most important question: whether the treatment does or does not benefit patients, based on evidence. Because if it is truly a right, then it is equally a right for a patient dying in agony of cancer, and for a nineteen year-old with anorexia who has just given up on life and wants doctors to end it. This way of framing medicine is a very, very dangerous, dangerous path to take.Thanks for reading Heterodox Jewish Woman! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. https://shirabatya.substack.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shirabatya.substack.com

Welcome to Book Talk for BookTok! Best friends Jac and Amy return to break down Crown of Midnight, the second book in Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series. In this premiere episode, we dive into chapters 1–5, where Celaena Sardothien is no longer just Adarlan's most feared assassin; she's the King's Champion, but not in the way everyone thinks. This is part 2 of this week's episode. Through our signature academic literary analysis (backed by our 13 years of combined literary training), we explore themes of misinformation, identity, shifting power dynamics, and imaginary lines between people, personas, and political loyalties. Spoilers ahead for Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, and Heir of Fire. This season, we're asking: Has Crown of Midnight truly prepared Celaena for her future as Aelin Galathynius? This episode starts with that question and more: – How are Celaena, Dorian, and Chaol navigating their changing relationships? – What role does dissociation play in the early narration? – And why is Celaena's fashion sense so symbolically important? We apply a feminist lens (Jac) and a Marxist lens (Amy) to unpack character arcs, foreshadowing, and major literary breadcrumbs you may have missed. If you love:

As Judges ends, we see perhaps the worst story in all the Bible. I have often been told that in ancient days, Rabbis would not allow youths to read the Song of Solomon until they were “of age” because of the themes. I believe the story of the Levite's concubine is much the same.  It's a story of sexual assault, of evil, of abuse, of just the very worst of humanity.  Reinhold Niebuhr once wrote that the doctrine of original sin is “the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith.”  All you have to do is look around, and you can see it. Judges proves that point to us. And what starts all of this?  Everyone does what is right in their own eyes. Shameless plug: here's a link to Method(ist) to the Madness, our new, hopefully entertaining podcast about church history. - https://methodisttothemadness.buzzsprout.com/Join us for our daily reflections with Andy. In 10 short minutes, he'll dig a little deeper into Scripture and help you better understand God's Word.You can read today's passage here - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%2019-21&version=NRSVUEClick here if you'd like to join our GroupMe and receive this each morning at 7:00 a.m. CST. - https://groupme.com/join_group/107837407/vtYqtb6CYou can watch this in video form here - https://revandy.org/blog/

Welcome to Book Talk for BookTok! Best friends Jac and Amy return to break down Crown of Midnight, the second book in Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series. In this premiere episode, we dive into chapters 1–5, where Celaena Sardothien is no longer just Adarlan's most feared assassin; she's the King's Champion, but not in the way everyone thinks. Through our signature academic literary analysis (backed by our 13 years of combined literary training), we explore themes of misinformation, identity, shifting power dynamics, and imaginary lines between people, personas, and political loyalties. Spoilers ahead for Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, and Heir of Fire. This season, we're asking: Has Crown of Midnight truly prepared Celaena for her future as Aelin Galathynius? This episode starts with that question and more: – How are Celaena, Dorian, and Chaol navigating their changing relationships? – What role does dissociation play in the early narration? – And why is Celaena's fashion sense so symbolically important? We apply a feminist lens (Jac) and a Marxist lens (Amy) to unpack character arcs, foreshadowing, and major literary breadcrumbs you may have missed. If you love:

Colm Boohig & Nathan Murphy are joined by former Ireland international Keith Treacy to talk all things football, reflecting on last night's League of Ireland action and the news that Drogheda United will not be allowed to compete in Europe this season.Off The Ball Breakfast w/ UPMC Ireland | #GetBackInAction Catch The Off The Ball Breakfast show LIVE weekday mornings from 7:30am or just search for Off The Ball Breakfast and get the podcast on the Off The Ball app.SUBSCRIBE at OffTheBall.com/joinOff The Ball Breakfast is live weekday mornings from 7:30am across Off The Ball

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It is common to question whether humans need the teachings of the Bible to truly understand what is morally good versus evil. Stated differently: do we need to rely on the Judeo-Christian ethics of scripture or can we - using our rational and logical minds - objectively determine what is right and wrong without the structure of religion? In this podcast, we look at this question from the viewpoint of scripture itself as well as from an experiential and historical perspective. 

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On this episode we sit down with former English teacher Nina as she talks about why she left the teaching industry in Korea to pursue entertainment instead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mentors, heralds, allies, shapeshifters--today we explore secondary character archetypes, how a side character can be integral to the main character's growth as well as the overall plot itself, and the fact that some of the best secondary characters might not even be human--or living--at all. Some are gone too soon. Some almost die but don't. And some get their just desserts in the end. Whatever the outcome, we love a three-dimensional side character with main character energy and can't wait to hear about your favorites too! Secondary Character Archetypes by Jana Van der VeerK-Pop Rec: "Gnarly" by KatseyeMusic VideoLive Performance"Don't Tell the Boys" by Petey"Nobody's Perfect" by Mckdaddy from Unlock My BossReady to download your first audiobook? Don't forget to click HERE for your free Audible trial.*Audible is a sponsor of Afternoona Delight Podcast*Are your family and friends sick of you talking about K-drama? We get it...and have an answer. Join our AfterNoona Delight Patreon and find community among folks who get your obsession. And check out www.afternoonadelight.com for more episodes, book recs and social media goodness. And don't forget about the newest member of our network: Afternoona Asks where diaspora Asians living in the West find ways to reconnect to Asian culture via Asian/KDramas.Last but CERTAINLY not least....love BTS? Or curious what all the fuss is about? Check out our sister pod Afternoona Army for "thinky, thirsty and over thirty" takes on Bangtan life. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This week's guest is best known for hijacking a panel at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting at Davos, where he told a room full of billionaires to stop avoiding taxes. He now claims that this form of protest has been proven ineffective in the struggle for progress. The last 25 years have seen some […]

Jenny Morris is a psychology researcher with a fascination in ethics, human behavior, and moral dilemmas. She writes high-concept crime novels that explore deep philosophical questions that started off as conversations with friends like, ‘How much would I have to pay you to eat a human toe?' Jenny has completed the Faber Academy ‘Writing a Novel' six-month course, and has won short story contests in both Writing Magazine and Writers' Forum. In 2020, she completed a PhD in Psychology. Jenny lives in Kent. AN ETHICAL GUIDE TO MURDER is her first novel. Thea has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching them. Not only that, but she can transfer life from one person to another—something she finds out the hard way when her best friend, Ruth, suffers a fatal head injury on a night out. Desperate to save her, Thea accidentally kills the man responsible and lets his life flow directly into Ruth. Thea comes to understand that she has a godlike power, but how to use it quickly becomes a question of self-control. Is it really so wrong to take a little life from a bad person—say, a very annoying boss—and gift it to someone who's truly good? Realizing she needs to harness her newfound skills, Thea creates an Ethical Guide to Murder. But as she embarks on her mission to punish the wicked and give the deserving more time, she finds good and bad aren't as simple as she first thought. How can she really know who deserves to live and die, and can she figure out her own rules before Ruth's borrowed time runs out?

Moral ambition is the will to make the world a wildly better place. To devote your career to the greatest challenges of our time. To be one of the best, but measured by a new standard of success.' – Rutger Bregman The brightest minds of our generation may dream of changing the world. But in reality most high achievers will settle for making a lot of money for themselves and their family. World renowned historian and bestselling author Rutger Bregman is on a mission to change that. In April, Bregman came to Intelligence Squared in venues across the UK to convince us that in our age of crisis, we need to stop wasting our talent in jobs that solely provide personal enrichment. Instead if we want to live a successful life we must devote our careers to making the world a radically better place. Bregman discussed why in 2025 social progress is not only stagnating in places but actively going in reverse. He argued that there are lessons from history that can help us overcome this trend and explain that the greatest change-makers have always needed to be both idealistic and ambitious. Drawing from his new book Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference, he discussed why efforts to ‘raise awareness' of social problems are overrated and uncover what he believes are the real qualities that have made change possible. He told the stories of some of history's great changemakers such as the German soldier who refused to salute Hitler or the Cambridge University student who dedicated his life to abolishing slavery. Bregman explained what made these changemakers so persuasive, influential and effective in achieving their goals. He showed how we, too, can lend our talents to the biggest challenges of our time. With moral ambition he argued, we can do more than be on the right side of history: we can start to make history itself. In addition to the book Rutger Bregman will be launching The School of Moral Ambition. To find out more click here --------- If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full ad free conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events  ...  Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SUMMARY Fatherhood isn't about perfection—it's about presence, moral consistency, and showing up when it matters most. In this heart-stirring episode from the vault, Bob Merritt shares powerful stories about those precious moments that define a father's legacy. From confronting hard truths with his college-aged son to the tear-filled goodbye when his daughter left for college, Bob reveals how staying faithful in the small things prepares you for the big moments that matter most. TAKEAWAYS Consistency in three areas—staying married, staying moral, and pursuing God—creates a foundation that enables deeper father-child connections. Only strong fathers have the courage to ask their children where they need to improve; weak men avoid this vulnerability. When your child makes concerning choices, choose thoughtful engagement over passive silence—staying in the battle is more important than saying everything perfectly. The most meaningful moments in fatherhood are earned through years of faithful presence and moral consistency. Choose laughter and joy in your home—a house that hasn't heard genuine laughter in months reveals deeper issues. GUEST Bob Merritt served as Senior Pastor of Eagle Brook Church for over two decades before transitioning to leadership teaching, consulting, and coaching. He is a father of two, grandfather of six, and author of several books on leadership and faith. Bob is known for his practical, down-to-earth teaching style and his passionate commitment to helping people grow in their faith and leadership.   Links mentioned: Send a Voice Message to DadAwesome https://www.speakpipe.com/DadAwesome Apply to join the next DadAwesome Accelerator Cohort: Email awesome@dadawesome.org Subscribe to DadAwesome Messages: Text the word "Dad" to (651) 370-8618 Bob Merritt's website and resources https://www.bobmerritt.com/ Eagle Brook Church

What is the ideological alternative to Trumpism? In The Purposeful Warrior, Michigan's Democratic candidate for Governor, Jocelyn Benson, offers “a road map for shattering the status quo and standing up for ourselves, our communities, and our country”. Benson's book, with its focus on common decency, could certainly be read as an ideological alternative to transactional Trumpism. But The Purposeful Warrior, with its self-help sounding title and laundry list of moral truisms, might alternatively be interpreted as a defense of the status quo by a Harvard Law School educated politician. Five Key Takeaways * Being a "purposeful warrior" means fighting with focus, standing up for what's right even when it's difficult, and building a "bravery muscle" through repeated acts of courage.* Benson's experience defending Michigan's 2020 election results against pressure from President Trump - which led to armed protesters at her home - became a defining example of her standing up for democratic principles.* True strength combines courage with grace and empathy - Benson emphasizes that warriors need both grit and forgiveness to be effective.* Building a personal "board of directors" or trusted circle of advisors is crucial for staying aligned with your purpose when faced with challenges.* Democrats need to focus less on rhetoric and more on delivering tangible results that improve people's daily lives to rebuild trust with voters, particularly around economic concerns.Jocelyn Benson is Michigan's 43rd Secretary of State. In this role she is focused on ensuring elections are secure and accessible, and dramatically improving customer experiences for all who interact with Secretary of State offices. Benson is the author of State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process, the first major book on the role of the secretary of state in enforcing election and campaign finance laws. She is also the Chair of Michigan's Task Force on Women in Sports, created by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2019 to advance opportunities for women in Michigan as athletes and sports leaders. A graduate of Harvard Law School and expert on civil rights law, education law and election law, Benson served as dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. When she was appointed dean at age 36, she became the youngest woman in U.S. history to lead a top-100, accredited law school. She continues to serve as vice chair of the advisory board for the Levin Center at Wayne Law, which she founded with former U.S. Senantor Carl Levin. Previously, Benson was an associate professor and associate director of Wayne Law's Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights. Prior to her election, she served as CEO of the Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality (RISE), a national nonprofit organization using the unifying power of sports to improve race relations. Benson is co-founder and former president of Military Spouses of Michigan, a network dedicated to providing support and services to military spouses and their children. In 2015, she became one of the youngest women in history to be inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Moral ambition is the will to make the world a wildly better place. To devote your career to the greatest challenges of our time. To be one of the best, but measured by a new standard of success.' – Rutger Bregman The brightest minds of our generation may dream of changing the world. But in reality most high achievers will settle for making a lot of money for themselves and their family. World renowned historian and bestselling author Rutger Bregman is on a mission to change that. In April, Bregman came to Intelligence Squared in venues across the UK to convince us that in our age of crisis, we need to stop wasting our talent in jobs that solely provide personal enrichment. Instead if we want to live a successful life we must devote our careers to making the world a radically better place. Bregman discussed why in 2025 social progress is not only stagnating in places but actively going in reverse. He argued that there are lessons from history that can help us overcome this trend and explain that the greatest change-makers have always needed to be both idealistic and ambitious. Drawing from his new book Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference, he discussed why efforts to ‘raise awareness' of social problems are overrated and uncover what he believes are the real qualities that have made change possible. He told the stories of some of history's great changemakers such as the German soldier who refused to salute Hitler or the Cambridge University student who dedicated his life to abolishing slavery. Bregman explained what made these changemakers so persuasive, influential and effective in achieving their goals. He showed how we, too, can lend our talents to the biggest challenges of our time. With moral ambition he argued, we can do more than be on the right side of history: we can start to make history itself. In addition to the book Rutger Bregman will be launching The School of Moral Ambition. To find out more click here --------- This is the first instalment of a two-part episode. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full ad free conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events  ...  Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

https://rabbiefremgoldberg.org/acharei-mos-kedoshim-don-t-go-back-morally Tue, 06 May 2025 14:39:03 +0000 7016 Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Parsha Perspectives - Podcast no

On the morning of April 9, President Trump posted on Truth Social "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT." Around four hours later, he announced a pause on some new tariffs, causing a stock market spike. Now, Democrats are demanding an investigation into possible insider trading. But were Trump's posts actually insider trading?Related episodes:Morally questionable, economically efficient (Apple / Spotify) An insider trader tells all For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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This week Craig and Alex review Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, and look through popular Disney Channel Movies! Next week we're watching The French Dispatch!

A beautiful woman who shows no discretion is like a pig with a ring in its nose.Morally upstanding people care for their animals.And those who spare the rod ruin their children.The Book of Proverbs is not afraid to pull punches and the aphorisms that flow from Solomon's pen are nothing if not colourful.Enjoy the wisdom!Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:00pm- Bill D'Agostino—Senior Research Analyst at Media Research Center—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to breakdown some of the best (and worst) clips from corporate media: a Boston Globe senior opinion writer compares the modern American economy to the 1930s, Dana Bash insists CNN doesn't hate America, Taylor Lorenz describes the man responsible for assassinating healthcare CEO Brian Thomas as “morally good,” and Democrats STILL (somehow) want Kamala Harris to be their presidential candidate in 2028. 4:30pm- Appearing on ABC News, sports broadcaster Stephen A. Smith said he has “no choice” but to at least consider a presidential run in 2028. Rich notes that he has no chance of winning a primary contest—because he isn't sufficiently “woke” for Democrat voters. On his podcast, Bill Maher argued that the Democrat Party has gone too far placating the “woke”—and it risks making the party “irrelevant.” 4:50pm- Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin aerospace company sent an all-female crew into space on Monday—including pop singer Katy Perry! In a clip that has gone viral on social media, Perry tells a journalist about how she reads about string theory in her spare time…but it's hilariously clear she has no idea what she's talking about. Weekday afternoons on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, Rich Zeoli gives the expert analysis and humorous take that we need in this crazy political climate. Along with Executive Producer Matt DeSantis and Justin Otero, the Zeoli show is the next generation of talk radio and you can be a part of it weekday afternoons 3-7pm.

In the 5 AM HOUR: Larry O’Connor and Julie Gunlock discussed: Suspect arrested after arson at Pennsylvania governor’s house forced Shapiro and family to evacuate REPORT: Trump appears to snub RFK Jr.’s wife Cheryl Hines while entering UFC fights Taylor Lorenz defends Luigi Mangione fangirls in glib CNN interview: ‘Morally good man’ Where to find more about WMAL's morning show: Follow the Show Podcasts on Apple podcasts, Audible and Spotify. Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor, @Jgunlock, @patricepinkfile, and @heatherhunterdc. Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Show Website: https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/ How to listen live weekdays from 5 to 9 AM: https://www.wmal.com/listenlive/ Episode: Monday, April 14, 2025 / 5 AM Hour See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You can find Sam at  @transfigured3673   You can find Elizabeth  @thesacredpodcast   00:00:00 - Introduction 00:04:30 - Paul's introduction 00:09:45 - Elizabeth's introduction 00:16:00 - Context collapse 00:20:30 - Collective Effervescence  00:27:00 - What holds TLC together? 00:32:15 - Morally formative communities 00:47:10 - Communion and Fellowship in TLC 01:00:00 - Disagreeing well 01:11:40 - Men and Women being vulnerable together 01:34:45 - Hospitality 01:37:15 - Concluding Remarks   Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg Midwestuary Conference August 22-24 in Chicago https://www.midwestuary.com/ https://www.meetup.com/sacramento-estuary/ My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://calendly.com/paulvanderklay/one2one There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/paulvanderklay To listen to this on ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-vanderklays-podcast/id1394314333  If you need the RSS feed for your podcast player https://paulvanderklay.podbean.com/feed/  All Amazon links here are part of the Amazon Affiliate Program. Amazon pays me a small commission at no additional cost to you if you buy through one of the product links here. This is is one (free to you) way to support my videos.  https://paypal.me/paulvanderklay Blockchain backup on Lbry https://odysee.com/@paulvanderklay https://www.patreon.com/paulvanderklay Paul's Church Content at Living Stones Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh7bdktIALZ9Nq41oVCvW-A To support Paul's work by supporting his church give here. https://tithe.ly/give?c=2160640 https://www.livingstonescrc.com/give

Send us a textRoyce begins with a warning about leftist violence, then makes correlations to leftists in elected positions, especially in New Jersey, where mayors, assemblymen and other Democrats have found themselves on the wrong side of the law. The worst example of this lawlessness in high places can be found in New Bergen, New Jersey, where the police chief, who decides if NJ residents in his city are morally qualified to own and carry guns, has repeatedly committed foul deeds against the officers under him, including defecating on the floor in front of the entire office staff, scraping fluids from his undergarments onto other, shaving his hair all over the lunches of other officers (as well as on them), and even assaulting one officer with a hypodermic syringe....in the man's penis.Support the showGiveSendGo | Unconstitutional 2A Prosecution of Tate Adamiak Askari Media GroupBuy Paul Eberle's book "Look at the Dirt"Paul Eberle (lookatthedirt.com)The Deadly Path: How Operation Fast & Furious and Bad Lawyers Armed Mexican Cartels: Forcelli, Peter J., MacGregor, Keelin, Murphy, Stephen: 9798888456491: Amazon.com: BooksVoice of the Blue (buzzsprout.com)

Yes, medicinally, or no. Those are the options on this question we pose today. Brad says medicinally, and Ryan makes the Biblical case against drug usage. What does Annie say?

In this episode, I discuss the current lull in the political action, but how the enemy keeps panicking.  I also discuss current school-related waste and abuse, and how the moves they make always seek to make them look better than they are, including reinventing the wheel, of which includes something called “visible instruction.” I also briefly end with an obvious fact about how government makes poison and passes it off as a naturally occurring disease.   Book Websites: https://www.moneytreepublishing.com/shop PROMO CODE: “AEFM” for 10% OFF https://armreg.co.uk  PROMO CODE: "americaneducationfm" for 15% off all books and products.  (I receive no kickbacks).

J.R. Jamison is joined by journalist Mike De Socio, an Eagle Scout and adult volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America, whose new book dives into the history of the Scouts, exploring its tangled past with inclusion beginning in the 1970s, all the way through landmark policy changes in the mid-20teens that opened up Scouting for all. 

 Part 2 of our interview with Shannon Eaves. "Her book, Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South, was published by UNC Press in 2024. This study examines how the rape and sexual exploitation of enslaved women created a rape culture that was woven into the very fabric of antebellum society, influencing daily life for both the enslaved and enslavers....Shannon earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently serves as an Associate Professor of African American History here at the College of Charleston. She is a specialist in 19th century U.S. History, African American History, and Slavery and Gender in the Antebellum South" (Faculty page).  "It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free. Shannon C. Eaves unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual exploitation of bondswomen and came to understand what this culture of sexualized violence meant for themselves and others. Eaves mines a wealth of primary sources including autobiographies, diaries, court records, and more to show that rape and other forms of sexual exploitation entangled slaves and slave owners in battles over power to protect oneself and one's community, power to avenge hurt and humiliation, and power to punish and eliminate future threats" (UNC Press). Now available: Liberty in Louisiana: A Comedy. The oldest play about Louisiana, author James Workman wrote it as a celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Now it is back in print for the first time in 221 years. Order your copy today! This week in Louisiana history. March 22, 1976. Reese Witherspoon is from New Orleans and is best known for her role in Legally Blonde and Walk the Line. This week in New Orleans history. Maximilian Ferdinand Bonzano, physician, minter, administrator. Born, Ebingen, Germany, March 22, 1821, arrived in New Orleans, 1835, working first in a printing office as a roller boy and then as printer, which provided opportunity to master the English language. Morally opposed to slavery. Also opposed secession and refused to serve the Confederacy. He was elected from his district as a delegate to the state's 1864 constitutional convention, where he chaired the committee on emancipation and personally wrote the ordinance which freed Louisiana's slaves. He lived in the mansion which had served as the headquarters of Gen. Andrew Jackson. This week in Louisiana. Cane River Creole National Park The Texas and Pacific Railway Depot Oakland and Magnolia Plantations 9:00 am - 3:00 pm daily Natchez, LA Website The Cane River region is home to a unique culture; the Creoles. Generations of the same families of workers, enslaved and tenant, and owners lived on these lands for over 200 years. The park tells their stories and preserves the cultural landscape of Oakland and Magnolia Plantations, two of the most intact Creole cotton plantations in the United States.     The hours of operation for Oakland Plantation and Magnolia Plantation are 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The plantation grounds, trails, outbuildings, and visitor restrooms are open daily. Guided tours are available Wednesday through Sunday at both sites. The park store, located in the historic Oakland Plantation Store is also open Wednesday through Sunday. The Oakland Plantation Main House is only open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for self-guided tours. The park does not offer visitors services, such as guided tours and shopping at the park store on Mondays and Tuesdays.     The Texas and Pacific Railway Depot in Natchitoches serves as the park visitor center. The depot is open Wednesday through Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.    The park is open daily year-round with the exception of ALL federal holidays. Postcards from Louisiana. Medicare String Band in Natchitoches.  Listen on Apple Podcasts. Listen on audible. Listen on Spotify. Listen on TuneIn. Listen on iHeartRadio. The Louisiana Anthology Home Page. Like us on Facebook. 

Ghislaine Maxwell was able to get away with her activities for years according to authorities and now, when the bill comes due those who spent time with her are claiming ignorance.Join me as I dive in.(Commercial at 11:42)To contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comSource:https://www.rt.com/op-ed/527798-epstein-shadow-ghislaine-maxwell/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

Send us a textThe cultural landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. Politically. Socially. Morally. But are Christians properly equipped to meet this cultural moment with the gospel? We had the honor of sitting down with Dan Trippie who is working on a new project that will help believers do just that. Find more of Dan's work at dantrippie.com. The website for the Center for Christian Thought and Ethics launches later this year at thinkchristian.com. WatchSupport the show

In the first "A24 vibe discussion" of our sixth season: we have on motion graphics designer, video editor, film historian, and fellow podcaster (of The Morally Offensive Podcast) Bill "Netherlands" Holland to talk about Robert Eggers' 2024 remake of cinema classic Nosferatu. The modern remake of Nosferatu stars Lily Rose-Depp, Bills Skarsgard, Willem Dafoe, and Ralph Ineson. It was released to critical acclaim but mixed audience reviews. Bill and the A24 rocks crew discuss why some people don't enjoy the film, including horror fans that are more into terror and gore, rather than gothic horror. We also discuss the performances of each actor, and the historical production and costume design in Nosferatu. Caution: movie spoilers. Check out The Morally Offensive Podcast podcast here: https://morallyoffensive.podbean.com/Also, check out Eric's YouTube channel, his latest video is on the folklore of The Ada Witch of Western Michigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDtv09Z3t4&ab_channel=FirelakeMediaIntro- 0:00 to 6:53.Film Discussion- 6:53 to 1:17:05.Film Ratings- 1:17:05 to End. Upcoming Podcast Release Schedule-3/26: The Hole in the Ground (2019).4/2: Anora (2024).4/9: Climax (2019).4/16: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973).

The 20th century saw unprecedented change: nuclear weapons, satellites, the rise and fall of communism, third-wave feminism, the internet, postmodernism, game theory, genetic engineering, the Big Bang theory, quantum mechanics, birth control, and more. Now imagine all of it compressed into just 10 years.That's the future Will MacAskill — philosopher, founding figure of effective altruism, and now researcher at the Forethought Centre for AI Strategy — argues we need to prepare for in his new paper “Preparing for the intelligence explosion.” Not in the distant future, but probably in three to seven years.Links to learn more, highlights, video, and full transcript.The reason: AI systems are rapidly approaching human-level capability in scientific research and intellectual tasks. Once AI exceeds human abilities in AI research itself, we'll enter a recursive self-improvement cycle — creating wildly more capable systems. Soon after, by improving algorithms and manufacturing chips, we'll deploy millions, then billions, then trillions of superhuman AI scientists working 24/7 without human limitations. These systems will collaborate across disciplines, build on each discovery instantly, and conduct experiments at unprecedented scale and speed — compressing a century of scientific progress into mere years.Will compares the resulting situation to a mediaeval king suddenly needing to upgrade from bows and arrows to nuclear weapons to deal with an ideological threat from a country he's never heard of, while simultaneously grappling with learning that he descended from monkeys and his god doesn't exist.What makes this acceleration perilous is that while technology can speed up almost arbitrarily, human institutions and decision-making are much more fixed.In this conversation with host Rob Wiblin, recorded on February 7, 2025, Will maps out the challenges we'd face in this potential “intelligence explosion” future, and what we might do to prepare. They discuss:Why leading AI safety researchers now think there's dramatically less time before AI is transformative than they'd previously thoughtThe three different types of intelligence explosions that occur in orderWill's list of resulting grand challenges — including destructive technologies, space governance, concentration of power, and digital rightsHow to prevent ourselves from accidentally “locking in” mediocre futures for all eternityWays AI could radically improve human coordination and decision makingWhy we should aim for truly flourishing futures, not just avoiding extinctionChapters:Cold open (00:00:00)Who's Will MacAskill? (00:00:46)Why Will now just works on AGI (00:01:02)Will was wrong(ish) on AI timelines and hinge of history (00:04:10)A century of history crammed into a decade (00:09:00)Science goes super fast; our institutions don't keep up (00:15:42)Is it good or bad for intellectual progress to 10x? (00:21:03)An intelligence explosion is not just plausible but likely (00:22:54)Intellectual advances outside technology are similarly important (00:28:57)Counterarguments to intelligence explosion (00:31:31)The three types of intelligence explosion (software, technological, industrial) (00:37:29)The industrial intelligence explosion is the most certain and enduring (00:40:23)Is a 100x or 1,000x speedup more likely than 10x? (00:51:51)The grand superintelligence challenges (00:55:37)Grand challenge #1: Many new destructive technologies (00:59:17)Grand challenge #2: Seizure of power by a small group (01:06:45)Is global lock-in really plausible? (01:08:37)Grand challenge #3: Space governance (01:18:53)Is space truly defence-dominant? (01:28:43)Grand challenge #4: Morally integrating with digital beings (01:32:20)Will we ever know if digital minds are happy? (01:41:01)“My worry isn't that we won't know; it's that we won't care” (01:46:31)Can we get AGI to solve all these issues as early as possible? (01:49:40)Politicians have to learn to use AI advisors (02:02:03)Ensuring AI makes us smarter decision-makers (02:06:10)How listeners can speed up AI epistemic tools (02:09:38)AI could become great at forecasting (02:13:09)How not to lock in a bad future (02:14:37)AI takeover might happen anyway — should we rush to load in our values? (02:25:29)ML researchers are feverishly working to destroy their own power (02:34:37)We should aim for more than mere survival (02:37:54)By default the future is rubbish (02:49:04)No easy utopia (02:56:55)What levers matter most to utopia (03:06:32)Bottom lines from the modelling (03:20:09)People distrust utopianism; should they distrust this? (03:24:09)What conditions make eventual eutopia likely? (03:28:49)The new Forethought Centre for AI Strategy (03:37:21)How does Will resist hopelessness? (03:50:13)Video editing: Simon MonsourAudio engineering: Ben Cordell, Milo McGuire, Simon Monsour, and Dominic ArmstrongCamera operator: Jeremy ChevillotteTranscriptions and web: Katy Moore

Morally, the surrender of Ukraine will cost us. The Russell Moore Show is bringing Russell's weekly newsletter to all streaming platforms. Listen to his most recent newsletter every Monday! Subscribe to Russell's weekly newsletter here! Do you have questions for Russell Moore? Send them to questions@russellmoore.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rachel and Chelsea are back with their first Spotify video podcast! They kick things off with the latest Bravo news, starting with Ben Stiller, who admitted to being a ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' theorist, winning him dad of the year (02:52). They then discuss Venita's terrible portrayal on ‘Summer House' by the producers (12:21) and the allegations regarding Stacey's paid boyfriend (23:41). Finally, we go to Chelsea's corner, where she explains the Hannah Berner ‘Summer House' lore for viewers that may have started after her time (32:10). Host: Rachel Lindsay Guest: Chelsea Stark-Jones Producer: Olivia Crerie Additional Production Supervision: Isabella Roman Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you feel unlovable because of past mistakes? You are not alone—many grapple with crippling guilt and shame, convinced they have strayed too far for God to care still. But that is not true! Chip emphatically sets the record straight in this powerful program. Dive into James chapter 5 and discover how to release yourself from condemnation and embrace God's limitless love and forgiveness. Learn today the transformative steps you can take for a fresh start.Main Points When Christians "Go Astray" --Proverbs 14:12 So what do you do when someone you know... Morally falls? Isn't walking with the Lord? Deserts their spouse? Shows signs of spiritually drifting? God's plan for spiritual healing. --James 5:19-20 The Problem: "Wandering from the Truth" The Solution: "Bringing them back to God" God's two-part strategy for restoration: Pray for them. Care enough to confront! --Galatians 6:1-2 Four keys to confronting in love: Prerequisite - Spiritual maturity Aim - Restoration Attitude - Gentleness Action - Don't give up! The Result = Life and healing Conclusion: A word to the "wandering." Three lies you must refuse to believe: I'll come home later. --Luke 15 I'm too far gone. --John 21 God could never accept me now. --Isaiah 1:18-20 Broadcast Resource Download Free MP3 Message Notes Additional Resource Mentions Prayer Journal About Chip Ingram Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways. About Living on the Edge Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus. Connect 888-333-6003 Website Chip Ingram App Instagram Facebook Twitter Partner With Us Donate Online 888-333-6003

Watching someone you care about turn away from their faith can be truly heartbreaking. But there is hope! In this program, Chip unveils a practical pathway to guide that friend or family member back to a genuine relationship with Christ. Grasp why people spiritually drift, how to support them without judgment, and what you can say to gently point them back to Jesus. Discover why no one is beyond the reach of God's love.Main Points When Christians "Go Astray" --Proverbs 14:12 So what do you do when someone you know... Morally falls? Isn't walking with the Lord? Deserts their spouse? Shows signs of spiritually drifting? God's plan for spiritual healing. --James 5:19-20 The Problem: "Wandering from the Truth" The Solution: "Bringing them back to God" God's two-part strategy for restoration: Pray for them. Care enough to confront! --Galatians 6:1-2 Four keys to confronting in love: Prerequisite - Spiritual maturity Aim - Restoration Attitude - Gentleness Action - Don't give up! The Result = Life and healing Conclusion: A word to the "wandering." Three lies you must refuse to believe: I'll come home later. --Luke 15 I'm too far gone. --John 21 God could never accept me now. --Isaiah 1:18-20 Broadcast Resource Download Free MP3 Message Notes Additional Resource Mentions Prayer Journal About Chip Ingram Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways. About Living on the Edge Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus. Connect 888-333-6003 Website Chip Ingram App Instagram Facebook Twitter Partner With Us Donate Online 888-333-6003

What does Hamas hope to accomplish with their psychological warfare? Should we be swapping live Hamas terrorists for the bodies of captives? Does international law or world opinion halachically govern how the IDF acts?  Do the Laws of War (e.g., avoid non-combatants) mean that you can never use a weapon of mass destruction? Host: Ari Wasserman, author of the newly published, revised and expanded book Making it Work, on workplace challenges You can pre-order "Halachic Q & A on the Job” at https://mosaicapress.com/product/halachic-q-a-on-the-job/ with Rabbi Mayer Twersky – Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yitzchok Elchanan – 10:15 with Itamar Marcus – Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch – 33:57 with Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody – Executive Director of Ematai and author of “Ethics of Our Fighters” – 50:57 Conclusions and Takeaways – 1:20:26 מראי מקומות  

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Liberty Dispatch - Episode 311 ~ January 23, 2025In this episode of Liberty Dispatch, hosts Andrew DeBartolo and Matthew Hallick show how broken Canada is morally, medically, and legally. Subscribe or Follow our new Substack page: https://ldcanada.substack.com/;Chapters: 00:00 Opening00:48 Intro 00:55 Welcome 01:52 Mailbag Questions17:08 Rocklinc AD18:04 Segment 1: Canada's Moral Bankruptcy30:00 SalesNexus AD31:34 Segment 2: Canada's Flat-lined Medical System52:30 BullBitcoin AD53:58 Segment 3: Canada's Judicial Injustice01:20:12 Canada's Identity Crisis 01:37:47 Outro Segment 1 - Canada's Moral Bankruptcy:Liberals’ DEI Justice Commission Passes Senate: No More Than Half Allowed to Be Actual Lawyers | Western Standard: https://www.westernstandard.news/news/liberals-dei-justice-commission-passes-senate-no-more-than-half-allowed-to-be-actual-lawyers/60484; Canadian Pastor Convicted for Protesting Drag Queen Story Hour Events Files Appeal | LifeSiteNews: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-pastor-convicted-for-protesting-drag-queen-story-hour-events-files-appeal; Ottawa Is Well on Its Way to Becoming a 15-Minute City | Ottawa Citizen: https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/lai-ottawa-is-well-on-its-way-to-becoming-a-15-minute-city; Segment 2 - Canada's Flat-lined Medical System:Woman with Right Leg Amputated After Post-Surgery Infection | BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j1z14p57po;Woman’s Right Leg Amputated After Post-Surgery Infection in Manitoba | CBC News: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/woman-right-leg-amputated-post-surgery-infection-1.7411886;19 Ontario Women Sent to U.S. for Abortions, Costing Taxpayers Over $300,000 | LifeSiteNews: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/19-ontario-women-sent-to-us-for-abortions-costing-taxpayers-over-300000; Segment 3 - Canada's Judicial Injustice:Federal Court Grants Urgent Hearing in Case Against Decision to Prorogue Parliament | JCCF: https://www.jccf.ca/federal-court-grants-urgent-hearing-in-case-against-decision-to-prorogue-parliament;Nova Scotia Supreme Court Dismisses Judge’s Complaint That Her Privacy and Independence Were Violated | JCCF: https://www.jccf.ca/nova-scotia-supreme-court-dismisses-judges-complaint-that-her-privacy-and-independence-were-violated; SHOW SPONSORS:Invest with Rocklinc: info@rocklinc.com or call them at 905-631-546; Diversify Your Money with Bull Bitcoin: https://mission.bullbitcoin.com/dispatch;BarterPay: https://barterpay.ca/; Barter It: https://www.barterit.ca/;Get freedom from Censorious CRMs by singing up for SalesNexus: https://www.salesnexus.com/; SUBSCRIBE TO OUR SHOWS/CHANNELS:LIBERTY DISPATCH PODCAST: https://libertydispatch.podbean.com; https://rumble.com/LDshow; CONTACT US: libertydispatch@pm.me STAY UP-TO-DATE ON ALL THINGS LD:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberty_dispatch/; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LibertyDispatchCanada; X: @LDCanada - https://x.com/_LDCanada; Rumble: https://rumble.com/LDshow; YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@libertydispatch Please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW, and SHARE it with others!