Podcasts about Nassar

In the news today: For our first story of the day focusing on MSU-related news, lawyers who represented MSU amid Nassar scandal quietly handling Title IX complaints.For our second story focusing on city news, human remains found in East Lansing freezer identified as parents of suspect. For our final story of the day focusing on environmental news, students worry about career; environmental concerns after mass firing of National Park workers.

DARVO was coined by Dr. Jennifer Freyd in the 1990s and stands for “Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.” DARVO is a common defense strategy by perpetrators, narcissists, and offenders of both criminal and noncriminal harm when they wish to deflect accountability for their actions.Despite how common DARVO is both individually in relationships as well as on a larger scale (e.g., corporate and government level), it isn't talked about very often. DARVO is highly effective at silencing victims. But I'm hopeful that by sharing knowledge of how DARVO operates, we can empower ourselves and our society to combat it.In this episode, we discuss the dynamics of DARVO, as well as the ways it can suppress whistleblowers and negatively impact their wellbeing.I know it's a weighty topic for this episode, but it feels highly useful for all of us to have this knowledge handy, whether to advocate for ourselves or to better support our clients in identifying DARVO and successfully holding others accountable.You can find the shorter, less in-depth version of this episode here:https://youtu.be/zhAZfcin3YYNational Domestic Violence Hotline:https://www.thehotline.org/Crisis Text Line:https://www.crisistextline.org/"How to Handle the DARVO Method"https://sentientcounselling.co.uk/2023/03/21/how-to-handle-the-darvo-method/Thank you to Paubox for sponsoring this episode. Paubox makes HIPAA-secure email easy and streamlined. Check them out here:https://bit.ly/pps_paubox_spotify*Get $250 off your first year with Paubox with coupon code "SKILLS"*Bonus Deal:* If you add the Paubox badge to your website you get an extra $100 off your first year - that means you can get your whole first year free if you apply both deals! FREE Guide: Start a Private Practice in Counseling:https://tinyurl.com/y9ek9en8"Processing Personal Challenges While Still Being a Therapist"https://youtu.be/KoLn9XeUZ9YChoosing Therapy Article: "DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender”https://www.choosingtherapy.com/darvo/Dr. Jennifer Freyd: “What is DARVO?”https://www.jjfreyd.com/darvoCNN Article: "What others knew: Culture of denial protected Nassar for years”https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/us/nassar-sexual-abuse-who-knew/index.htmlOffice of the Whistleblower Website:https://whistleblower.house.gov/“Whistleblowing and Mental Health” Government Document:https://whistleblower.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/whistleblower.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Whistleblowing_and_Mental_Health.pdfResources for Whistleblowers:https://whistleblower.house.gov/resources/resources-whistleblowers"The Whistleblower's Dilemma: Do the Risks Outweigh the Benefits?”https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/whistleblowers-in-business/Whistleblower Protections (in the U.S.)https://www.dol.gov/general/topics/whistleblowerArticle: "What Makes Whistleblowers So Threatening?”https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4676977/LINKS*Some links are affiliate links. A percentage of purchases come back to me and help my channel immensely!

In this episode of the Mobile Alabama Business Podcast, Michelle Parburner, the director of Nassar Gymnastics Academy, discusses her journey in the world of gymnastics and business. Michelle talks about her father's legacy, an Olympic gymnast who founded the academy, and her own path from Mobile to Colorado and back. She highlights the challenges and joys of running the gym, focusing on the intrinsic motivation of young gymnasts, her innovative business strategies, and the importance of community and mentorship. Michelle also shares personal anecdotes and tips on balancing business with personal well-being, emphasizing the significance of seeking help and continuously learning from peers.

Get clarity on what us stopping you from having a deeply fulfilling life. We'll activate your highest soul path and pave the way to embody your dreams - Book your GIFTED Life Accelerator call: calendly.com/jodydeane/accelerate In this conversation, I speak with Joyce Nassar, also known as Huna Waharina, who shares her profound journey of healing and self-discovery. From overcoming childhood trauma and addiction to experiencing a near-death experience, Joyce discusses the importance of recognizing one's primal power and the ability to heal oneself. She emphasizes the significance of decisions, energy, and the duality of light and darkness in personal growth. Joyce's story is one of resilience, empowerment, and the transformative power of love and support. Takeaways: Joyce emphasizes the importance of reactivating one's primal power to overcome anxiety and panic. Understanding that everything is energy, vibration, and frequency can empower decision-making. Victim mentality can be a significant barrier to healing and self-empowerment. Every darkness has a light, and recognizing this can aid in personal growth. Joyce's near-death experience taught her the value of life and the importance of love. Healing is a journey that requires self-discovery and acceptance of one's past. Joyce's childhood trauma shaped her understanding of love and relationships. Addiction can stem from a desire for connection and acceptance. The healing process involves integrating body, mind, and soul. Joyce's journey illustrates the power of resilience and the ability to create a new life after trauma. Joyce Huna Waharina is a trained Xaman woman in the Mayan solar tradition, a spiritual consciousness Guide, an ancestral healer, a Deer and Wolf Totem Healer, a shamanic trauma healer according to paleolithic shamanism, an ancient sound channel medium and a (vocal) frequency artist, so as a survivor of her own past!Her frequency music is filled with the intentions of love, peace and healing. She is channeling the divine infinite universe of light and the ancient ancestors, star brothers & star sisters and the light energies of the universe and of mother earth singing through her.In addition to relaxation and safety, resistances and blockages can be directly dissolved, as well as sudden healing transformations on a physical and mental level. The first cell is directly activated and immediately begins its powerful, light-filled work for the individual and the entire field!Joyce Huna Wagarina integrates the conscious reactivation of the blueprint on an emotional level, light-language meditations, as well as transformative consciousness work with a higher understanding of vibration, energy and frequency.Joyce's channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCcFtW3x7fIwrD8YoYfHn26QJoyce's website: https://www.souls-life.comJoyce's website: https://www.dein-perspektivwechsel.deJoyce Nassar Huna Waharina on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/joycenassarhunawaharinaChapters 00:00 Introduction to Joyce Nassar and Her Work 04:11 The Power of Decision and Self-Healing 07:04 Understanding Energy and Consciousness 09:52 Joyce's Journey Through Darkness 12:18 Healing and Transformation 15:11 Childhood Trauma and Its Impact 17:48 The Contrast of Light and Dark 20:18 The Journey of Self-Discovery 22:58 Addiction and Recovery 25:32 Living Beyond Suffering 29:52 The Struggle for Control and Identity 34:05 Near-Death Experience and Awakening 42:22 The Escape and Aftermath 47:42 Turning Point: Choosing Life Over Death 54:18 Celebration of Life and Healing Others 57:59 New Chapter

A nove meses da 30ª Conferência da ONU das Mudanças Climáticas em Belém, a capital paraense acelera os preparativos para receber o maior evento do mundo sobre o combate ao aquecimento global. Mas entre as obras previstas para a COP30, algumas entram em contradição com o próprio objetivo da conferência. Lúcia Müzell, da RFI em ParisÉ o caso de dois projetos apresentados como de mobilidade, mas que, na prática, favorecem o uso de carros particulares em vez de transporte público, e ainda atingem áreas florestais preservadas. Os planos de duplicação da rua da Marinha e de construção da Avenida Liberdade visam diminuir os engarrafamentos entre Belém e sua região metropolitana.“Tem obras que não têm nada a ver e que, para mim, são altamente contraditórias sob a perspectiva da agenda da COP e das mudanças climáticas. São obras rodoviaristas e a política para o carro a gente sabe como é: quanto mais espaço você der para o carro, mais carros vai ter”, aponta a diretora da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Roberta Rodrigues, que integra um grupo de pesquisa do CNPQ sobre os impactos de grandes eventos para as cidades-sede, com foco na COP30 em Belém. “E a gente sabe ao que elas estão atreladas: a interesses bem específicos do mercado imobiliário e de grupos específicos daqui”, afirma.Segundo especialistas, as obras não apenas serão irrelevantes para a realização da COP, como ainda pioram a adaptação da capital paraense às mudanças climáticas, ao diminuírem as áreas verdes da metrópole e gerarem aumento das emissões de CO2 pela maior queima de combustíveis. O arquiteto e urbanista Lucas Nassar constata que a sustentabilidade não foi o fio-condutor dos projetos de Belém para realizar a conferência, com financiamento do Ministério do Planejamento e Orçamento, do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) e de Itaipu Binacional. Nassar é diretor-geral da organização Laboratório da Cidade, que ajuda as cidades amazônicas a se adaptarem ao aquecimento do planeta e faz parte do Comitê COP30. A coalizão de 99 organizações mapeou a relação entre importância das obras e a sustentabilidade dos projetos. O estudo conclui que poucos são, ao mesmo tempo, necessários e “verdes”.  “A gente não pode dizer que não houve, mas está muito aquém do que nós esperaríamos de um evento cujo tema é mudanças climáticas. Tem muita obra e muito investimento que está sendo feito que não tem nenhuma compatibilidade com a nova agenda urbana sustentável”, lamenta.Como bons exemplos, ele cita a construção do Parque da Cidade, local onde a conferência será realizada e legado para atividades culturais e de lazer em Belém, a revitalização do Porto do Futuro II, no centro da capital, e a renovação da frota de ônibus municipais – com 700 modelos elétricos ou padrão Euro 6, até 20% menos poluentes do que os que rodam atualmente na metrópole.Animais e quilombo ameaçados por estradaPor outro lado, o traçado da avenida Liberdade corta nada menos do que uma Área de Proteção Ambiental, com mata nativa da Amazônia. “O impacto é gigantesco, numa área que é uma APA e na lei da APA diz que não pode ter. Não poderia. Você compromete um manancial, áreas onde vivem comunidades tradicionais, quilombolas”, salienta Roberta Rodrigues. “Sem falar que é uma área que vai ser rasgada ao meio e, de um lado como do outro, dizem que não vão ter propostas de uso dessas áreas a médio prazo, sendo que vão fazer uma rodovia ali, ao longo? Não existe isso.”A pouco mais de um quilômetro da futura avenida, com quatro pistas e mais de 13 quilômetros de extensão, vive uma comunidade tradicional no quilombo do Abacatal. Uma análise de impacto ambiental feita pelo governo estadual em 2023 identificou dezenas de espécies de répteis, aves e mamíferos que a estrada poderá “afugentar”, com “risco de atropelamentos”.“Para os animais aquáticos poderá haver perda ou morte devido a possível alteração da qualidade da água nos rios e igarapés gerados pelos eventos indiretos de erosão ou ainda podem estar relacionadas a descartes de efluentes”, diz o relatório.O estudo aponta ainda que três espécies de flora e quatro de aves potencialmente atingidos pelas obras são ameaçados de extinção, entre elas o tucano-de-papo-branco, o tucano-de-bico-preto, o choca-preta-e-cinza e o maracanã.Obra foi embargadaJá o prolongamento da rua da Marinha, num total de 3,4 quilômetros entre as avenidas Augusto Montenegro e Centenário, nas proximidades do aeroporto, atende a uma reivindicação antiga de militares instalados na região. Para duplicar a via, o governo do Estado está desmatando uma área de vegetação às margens da rua.No ano passado, a obra chegou a ser embargada pela Justiça, após uma ação do Ministério Público Estadual, mas o Tribunal do Pará acabou autorizando a sua continuidade.“Os militares, as diferentes forças, têm feito isso de uma maneira que eu considero muito irresponsável em relação à cidade, porque eles negociam essas áreas de reservas verdes, que têm uma importância ambiental para Belém gigantesca, e que depois viram shopping center, condomínio fechado de alto padrão”, constata Rodrigues.Os dois urbanistas mencionam ainda o plano de canalização da avenida Tamandaré, na área central. A proposta de criação de um parque linear ao longo do canal aposta em mais concreto, sem vegetalização, e desconsidera o potencial de mitigação dos riscos de inundações.“A gente está perdendo uma grande oportunidade de mudar alguns padrões, e usar não apenas a oportunidade em termos de captação de recursos – porque Belém nunca teve tanto dinheiro sendo investido ao mesmo tempo como agora –, mas para a gente fazer a mudança de chave que toda e qualquer cidade vai precisar fazer”, frisa a professora da UFPA.Governo do Pará e BNDES defendem sustentabilidade de projetosConsultados pela reportagem RFI, o governo do Estado e a Secretaria Extraordinária da COP30, ligada à Casa Civil, não responderam aos pedidos de entrevista. Em nota à RFI somente após a publicação do texto, a Secretaria de Comunicação do Estado do Pará alegou que "todas as ações estão sendo alinhadas com a UNFCCC [Convenção-Quadro da ONU sobre Mudanças Climáticas, que organiza a conferência], para atender aos interesses da organização e do Brasil, e visam não somente qualificar a capital paraense para o evento, mas garantir melhorias para as pessoas que vivem, trabalham ou visitam a região metropolitana de Belém"."A Rua da Marinha e a Avenida Liberdade, citadas na reportagem, fazem parte de um projeto de mobilidade que beneficia a vida de mais de 2 milhões de pessoas", diz a nota. "Todas as licenças para a execução de obras citadas na matéria foram emitidas pelos órgãos competentes, incluindo a supressão vegetal. As licenças contemplam medidas para assegurar a proteção da fauna e flora nativas", complementa. Já o BNDES garantiu que "os investimentos para a COP30 levam, sim, em consideração a sustentabilidade". "Importante dizer que a obra citada no texto, na Rua da Marinha, não tem recursos do BNDES, como esclarecido em entrevista coletiva no último dia 12, em Belém", diz a resposta enviada à redação pela assessoria de imprensa do banco."Pelo contrário, com uma das obras mais importante na cidade, o Banco está promovendo uma transformação histórica, com limpeza, urbanização e restauração completa de nove canais localizados nas Bacias do Tucunduba e Murutucu. Serão cerca de 300 mil pessoas beneficiadas (...), o maior projeto de urbanização integrada de comunidades e baixadas da história do BNDES".Belém leva negociadores a cidade "real"Apesar das falhas do planejamento, o urbanista Lucas Nassar defende a realização da conferência internacional na capital paraense. Ele lembra que o Brasil tem um histórico de conseguir mover as negociações: a Conferência Eco 92, no Rio de Janeiro, formatou as bases para as negociações climáticas, e em 2012 a Rio +20 desenhou os objetivos do desenvolvimento sustentável da ONU.Agora, o urbanista avalia que, ao trazer chefes de Estado e diplomatas do mundo todo para uma cidade “real” do sul global, a COP30 vai pressionar os participantes a chegar a resultados concretos face à emergência climática.“A gente vai fazer o evento mais importante de clima no planeta na cidade que tem estimativas de ser a segunda cidade com mais dias de calor extremo em 2050. Belém é uma cidade que está na costa e que se tivesse preservação da sua mata ou tivesse arborização, poderia diminuir 3ºC da sua temperatura – e é justamente 3ºC a estimativa de aumento da temperatura média da cidade”, ressalta Nassar. “Belém quase não tem esgotamento sanitário, tem infraestrutura urbana muito aquém da sua população, ou seja, ela mostra mais as condições nas quais a maior parte do mundo está vivendo hoje. Isso tem que ser considerado uma mensagem para o mundo”, avalia.Leia tambémO ano de 2025 será decisivo para o clima, em meio a um contexto internacional turbulento

In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with Professors Maha Nasser and Karam Dana. Dr. Nasser is the author of Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World; Professor Dana's new book is entitled To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States. Together, these two studies offer a fascinating account of the historical and present-day formation of transnational Palestinian identities and the way that these complex histories inform today's struggles for Palestinian liberation and rights by both Palestinians and non-Palestinians. They talk about the importance of language, the arts, and especially poetry, as well as contemporary cultural forms. They take on the violence of settler colonialism, neoliberalism, and capitalism and the importance of finding paths of solidarity while never losing sight of what is distinct about Palestine and Palestinians.Dr Karam Dana is a Palestinian American Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington Bothell. He is the Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence and Transformative Research and the founding director of the American Muslim Research Institute. His research examines the evolution of transnational political identities and their impact on civic engagement and political participation, with a focus on Palestinians and American Muslims. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr Dana explores the intersections of religion, identity, and politics, addressing persistent theoretical and policy issues affecting marginalized communities. His work is centered on understanding how ethno-political, socio-cultural, and religious identities are formed, evolve, and adapt under shifting socio-economic and political conditions. He recently published book is titled To Stand With Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States, which examines the evolution of discourse on Palestine and Israel in the United States in recent years. Dr Dana is the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Washington and the 2023 Distinguished Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activities Award. In 2024, the Arab American Community of the Pacific Northwest presented him with the Leadership and Outstanding Service Award.Dr. Maha Nassar is an associate professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona, where she specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of Palestine and the 20th-century Arab world. Her award-winning book, Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World (Stanford University Press, 2017), examines how Palestinian intellectuals inside the Green Line connected to global decolonization movements through literary and journalistic writings. Her scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies,Arab Studies Journal, and elsewhere. A 2018 Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project, Dr. Nassar's analysis pieces have appeared widely, including in The Washington Post,The Conversation, +972 Magazine.As a 2022 non-resident fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, she joined FMEP in developing public programming for their Occupied Thoughts podcast. Dr. Nassar's current book project examines the global history of Palestine's people.www.palumbo-liu.comhttps://speakingoutofplace.comBluesky @palumboliu.bsky.socialInstagram @speaking_out_of_place

Today on Speaking Out of Place I am delighted to have Professors Maha Nasser and Karam Dana in conversation.  Dr. Nasser is author of Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World; Professor Dana's new book is entitled, To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States. Together, these two studies offer a fascinating account of the historical and present-day formation of transnational Palestinian identities, and the way that these complex histories inform today's struggles for Palestinian liberation and rights, by both Palestinians and non-Palestinians. We talk about the importance of language, the arts, and especially poetry, as well as contemporary cultural forms. We take on the violence of settler colonialism, neoliberalism, and capitalism, and the importance of finding paths of solidarity while never losing sight of what is distinct about Palestine and Palestinians.Dr Karam Dana is a Palestinian American Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington Bothell. He is the Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence and Transformative Research and the founding director of the American Muslim Research Institute. His research examines the evolution of transnational political identities and their impact on civic engagement and political participation, with a focus on Palestinians and American Muslims. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr Dana explores the intersections of religion, identity, and politics, addressing persistent theoretical and policy issues affecting marginalized communities. His work is centered on understanding how ethno-political, socio-cultural, and religious identities are formed, evolve, and adapt under shifting socio-economic and political conditions. He recently published book is titled To Stand With Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States, which examines the evolution of discourse on Palestine and Israel in the United States in recent years. Dr Dana is the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Washington and the 2023 Distinguished Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activities Award. In 2024, the Arab American Community of the Pacific Northwest presented him with the Leadership and Outstanding Service Award.Dr. Maha Nassar is an associate professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona, where she specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of Palestine and the 20th-century Arab world. Her award-winning book, Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World (Stanford University Press, 2017), examines how Palestinian intellectuals inside the Green Line connected to global decolonization movements through literary and journalistic writings. Her scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Arab Studies Journal, and elsewhere. A 2018 Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project, Dr. Nassar's analysis pieces have appeared widely, including in The Washington Post, The Conversation, +972 Magazine. As a 2022 non-resident fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, she joined FMEP in developing public programming for their Occupied Thoughts podcast. Dr. Nassar's current book project examines the global history of Palestine's people.  

Amanda spends two years of her impressionable adolescence under the care of Larry Nassar, former family medicine physician and team doctor of the US women's national gymnastics team. Having not fully understood that what she experienced was abuse, it's only later—when Amanda and her husband struggle to conceive—that the details of her painful story come to light. Then, just as the case against Larry begins to hit the media, Amanda becomes pregnant. She steps forward, along with 155 other women, to testify against Nassar in court. Amanda uses her voice for the daughter she's carrying, and in the process re-discovers her own. Content warning: sexual abuse.  At the close of this series, we want to extend a special thank you to each woman who bravely offered their story to the project. If this series impacted you, encouraged you, or opened your heart or mind in some way, please help us spread the word. We'd love for you to share this series with your friends and family, your colleagues, and even your online circles. If you've only got a minute to spare, please leave us a 5-star review wherever you listen to podcasts, which helps other women find our show. “Making a Mother” is a production of Coffee + Crumbs.  Executive Producer, Writer: Ashlee Gadd.  Producer, Writer, Host: Julie Vlahon.  Writer: Sonya Spillmann. Music, Sound Design, Mix Engineer: Scott Vlahon. Special thanks to WDIV in Detroit for permission to use their reporting on the Nassar case and trial. We also want to thank Stacy Kaiser and Dr. Lauren Bouchard for their expertise. To learn more about RAINN or M-Power or any of the information we shared in today's episode visit our show notes at coffeeandcrumbs.net/makingamother. This episode is brought to you by Needed—offering Radically Better Nutrition™. Use CC20 at checkout to get 20% off your first order. This series is also brought to you by the paid Substack Community of Coffee + Crumbs. To support our work in the future, head to coffeeandcrumbs.substack.com. From all of us at Coffee + Crumbs, thank you for listening to Making a Mother. 

No episódio de hoje, Afonso Borges relembra um momento inusitado entre Chico Buarque e Raduan Nassar no encontro deles no Sempre um Papo, realizado no Palácio das Artes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the news today: For our first story of the day focusing on campus news, MSU board leaders encouraged faculty member to sue board, court filings suggest. For our second story focusing on more campus news, another former patient reports abuse by Nassar after MSU cleared him. For our final story of the week focusing on community, daughter of Malcolm X, Ilyasah Shabazz, speaks on continuing father's legacy at MSU forum.

In the weeks leading up to the attack on Larry Nassar at Coleman Correctional Facility in Florida, the public learned that another notorious pedophile had contacted him. That other notorious sicko? Jeffrey Epstein himself. Now, just a few weeks after the existence of that letter was revealed, Nassar is brutally attacked and stabbed mulitple times.In hindisight of that, the question most certainly now is, were Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Nassar friends? Or was the letter Epstein sent to him just one sick deviant reaching out to another?Let's dive in and check it out!(commercial at 9:56)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:The mysterious connection between Larry Nassar and Jeffrey Epstein | The IndependentBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

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Tonight, on a live in-studio edition of Trackside with Kevin Lee and Curt Cavin, they talk about the midday notes from today's testing from The Thermal Club with the new rookie drivers. They also talk about the filming of a new Honda commercial in Las Vegas with Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda driving IndyCars. Later, they talk about the mutual split of Arrow McLaren and Gavin Ward.   Later in the first hour of the show, Kevin talks to Curt talk with Gabby Chaves to talk about his recent test at Texas Motor Speedway with Andretti Global and how the deal came to be.   To wrap up the first hour of the program, Kevin talks with Dr. Nassar Hanna of the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center to talk about November being lung cancer awareness month.   To start the second hour of the show, Kevin and Curt talk about Penske Entertainment purchasing the Long Beach Grand Prix and how F1 or NASCAR could play in the future of the event. They also talk about the F1 Monaco Grand Prix getting a switched and nonconflicting date with the Indy 500 starting in June 2026.   Later in the second hour of the program, Kevin and Curt look at the 2025 IndyCar and NASCAR TV schedules and start times. They also talk about the results from the Thermal Club rookie test and talk with Hunter McElrea to discuss how his test sessions went and preview his next season in LMP2.   Then to wrap up another addition of the show, Kevin and Curt talk about Scott Dixon, Alex Palou, and Felix Rosenqvist competing in the 24 Hours of Daytona for Meyer Shank Racing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Dalia Nassar, author of Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Cambridge UP, 2022) among other works.  Dr Dalia Nassar works at the intersection of the history of German philosophy and environmental philosophy and ethics. She has written on the tradition of romantic empiricism, including its significance contemporary questions of ecology and environment. She has also worked to promote women in the history of philosophy, especially in the German tradition. They discuss collaborations with nature, lawfulness and contradiction, presentation and representation, and unity in diversity. A transcript of this episode is available on the Concept : Art website (www.conceptart.fm). Concept : Art is produced on muwinina Country, lutruwita Tasmania. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Dalia Nassar, author of Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Cambridge UP, 2022) among other works.  Dr Dalia Nassar works at the intersection of the history of German philosophy and environmental philosophy and ethics. She has written on the tradition of romantic empiricism, including its significance contemporary questions of ecology and environment. She has also worked to promote women in the history of philosophy, especially in the German tradition. They discuss collaborations with nature, lawfulness and contradiction, presentation and representation, and unity in diversity. A transcript of this episode is available on the Concept : Art website (www.conceptart.fm). Concept : Art is produced on muwinina Country, lutruwita Tasmania. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Dalia Nassar, author of Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Cambridge UP, 2022) among other works.  Dr Dalia Nassar works at the intersection of the history of German philosophy and environmental philosophy and ethics. She has written on the tradition of romantic empiricism, including its significance contemporary questions of ecology and environment. She has also worked to promote women in the history of philosophy, especially in the German tradition. They discuss collaborations with nature, lawfulness and contradiction, presentation and representation, and unity in diversity. A transcript of this episode is available on the Concept : Art website (www.conceptart.fm). Concept : Art is produced on muwinina Country, lutruwita Tasmania. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Our topic today is resilience in performance, overcoming obstacles to make it in the performing arts. Tasi and Steven talk with up-and-coming star Anna Dreslinski, a singer/dancer who is currently performing in the opera Ainadamar at the Met in New York. She straddles the worlds of opera and musical theater, performing in shows such as West Side Story, Amadeus, and others, but she's had to overcome many different issues along the way. This includes hip surgery, injuries keeping her out of rhythmic gymnastics, and abuse at the hands of Dr. Larry Nassar, the imprisoned US Gymnastics physician. Her life lessons are inspirational, and you won't want to miss this episode.WARNING: This episode discusses sexual abuse, and although no graphic detail is described, the topic may be sensitive for some of our audience, so we want to issue this warning in advance.For Anna's page with the Met Opera, go to: https://www.metopera.org/discover/artists/soprano/anna-dreslinski/Instagram @adreslinskiFor more on Athletes and the Arts, go to http://www.athletesandthearts.com

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In the weeks leading up to the attack on Larry Nassar at Coleman Correctional Facility in Florida, the public learned that another notorious pedophile had contacted him. That other notorious sicko? Jeffrey Epstein himself. Now, just a few weeks after the existence of that letter was revealed, Nassar is brutally attacked and stabbed mulitple times.In hindisight of that, the question most certainly now is, were Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Nassar friends? Or was the letter Epstein sent to him just one sick deviant reaching out to another?Let's dive in and check it out!(commercial at 9:56)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:The mysterious connection between Larry Nassar and Jeffrey Epstein | The IndependentBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

En Caracol Radio estuvo Hassan Nassar detallando que va a actuar frente a las afirmaciones sobre Pegasus.

In the news today: For our first story of the week focusing on environmental news, year-long pollinator garden project hosts grand opening. For our second story focusing on campus news, ASMSU demands MSU take accountability, apologize for revelations in Nassar documents. For our final story focusing on MSU sports, celebrating 60 years of the 1964 MSU-UNC game that revolutionized college football.

On this episode of the Sumud podcast, we uplift, empower, and amplify Palestinian American professor and author Maha Nassar. Dr. Maha is a cultural and intellectual historian of the 20th century Arab world, focusing on Palestinian history. She authored the book Brothers Apart, Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World.  Dr. Nassar discusses the cultural challenges she faced, how these shaped her career, and her mission to demystify Palestinian identity through writing and historical research. She also previews her forthcoming book on the history of global Palestinian steadfastness and emphasizes the continued importance of advocacy and education in the Palestinian liberation movement. Stay tuned with all things Sumud on our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sumudpod Connect with Dr. Ed Hasan on Instagram @DrEdHasan or LinkedIn to join the conversation. Connect with Dr. Maha Nassar on Instagram @Maha_Nassar_history and X @MtNassar. Keep up with her work at https://linktr.ee/MahaNassar. Chapters 01:26 Early Life and Formative Experiences 07:06 Academic Journey and Influences 19:29 Themes and Impact of 'Brothers Apart' 33:24 Groundbreaking Research on Media Representation 38:58 The Significance of 'From the River to the Sea' 45:19 Historical Rhymes and Modern Struggles 55:03 Cultural Resistance and Future Projects

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In the news today: For our first story focusing on campus news, MSU lawyers attempted to quash legislation expected to inflate settlement with Nassar survivors, documents reveal. For our second story focusing on student life, students brought together by bow and arrow. For our final story of the day focusing on community events, first annual Lansing Lit steals the hearts of bookworms.

Join Pastor David Nassar as he shares his powerful testimony of transformation—from being an outcast Muslim kid who once hated Jesus, to discovering Him as Lord and Savior. In this heartfelt message, David reflects on the importance of gratitude in God's kingdom and gives thanks for the incredible work Jesus has done in his life and family. Don't miss this inspiring story of redemption and thanksgiving! (09/22/2024)

In the news today: For our first story of the week focusing on city news, truck strikes pedestrian, crashes into Curious Book Shop, flees scene. For our second story focusing on campus news, MSU president says Nassar docs are an opportunity to learn from the past. For our final story focusing on MSU athletics, six athletes, two teams inducted into MSU Hall of Fame.

September 12, 2024 ~ Todd Flood, Attorney and Managing Partner at Flood Law, Attorney General Dana Nessel closes investigation into MSU's handling of Larry Nassar investigation.

Get ready to rethink everything you know about the Democratic Party! In this explosive episode of Connecting the Dots, I sit down with historian and author Jeremy Kuzmarov to reveal how the party's messaging has quietly embraced militarism—and what it means for America's future. This isn't just another political chat; we're diving deep into the hidden history behind today's headlines, exposing the bipartisan grip of the military-industrial complex on both parties. Jeremy and I break down how Democrats have shaped U.S. foreign policy, fueling wars and global interventions that have real-world impacts on immigration and international relations. If you're ready for a raw, eye-opening conversation on how our political system prioritizes power over peace, you won't want to miss this! Tune in for insights that challenge the status quo and uncover the urgent need for a more balanced, humane approach to politics, both at home and abroad. Watch or Listen now to join the conversation! Find me and the show on social media. Click the following links or search @DrWilmerLeon on X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Patreon and YouTube!   Hey everyone, Dr. Wilmer here! If you've been enjoying my deep dives into the real stories behind the headlines and appreciate the balanced perspective I bring, I'd love your support on my Patreon channel. Your contribution helps me keep "Connecting the Dots" alive, revealing the truth behind the news. Join our community, and together, let's keep uncovering the hidden truths and making sense of the world. Thank you for being a part of this journey! Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:00:00): Hey, here are a couple questions. Has the messaging from the Democrats changed over the past few years? Is the messaging more jingoistic, more saber rattling, have they become the party of militarism? Let's find out Announcer (00:00:22): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:00:30): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon. I am Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they happen in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historical context in which they take place. During each episode, my guests and I have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between these events and the broader historic context in which they occur, thus enabling you to better understand and analyze the events that impact the global village in which we live. On today's episode. The issue before is militarism and messaging. My guest is a man who holds a PhD in American history from Brandeis University. He's the managing editor of Covert Action Magazine. He's the author of five books on US Foreign Policy. He's the author of a piece at Covert Action entitled DNC Convention Features former CIA director who was in charge of drone programs that killed thousands. He is Dr. Jeremy Komaroff. Jeremy, welcome to the show. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:01:39): Thanks so much for having me. Great to be with you. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:01:41): You open your peace in covert action as follows, Leon Panetta was drowned out by anti-war activists when he spoke at the 2016 convention, but not this time. Former CIA director, Leon Panetta, who was the director from 2009 to 2011, was among the featured speakers on the final day of the DNC in Chicago on August 22nd when Kamala Harris accepted the party's nomination as its presidential candidate. Jeremy, does this represent just a shift in rhetoric, or is this a shift in policy and a shift in direction? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:02:25): Well, I think we see a lot of continuity. I mean, Panetta was there in 2016. He's giving the same kind of speech eight years later. In 2016, he was really promoting these anti-Russia themes, anti Putin. This was the forerunner of the Russia gate. They were already attacking Donald Trump as a Russian agents. And his speech in 2024 was the same kind of thing. It was really very jingoistic militaristic in that speech. He was invoking the glory of the Obama administration assassination of Osama Bin Laden or alleged assassination because there are a lot of different theories about what really might've gone on there. And the official story was shown to be a lie. Seymour Hirsch had a piece that was very good, and he compared it to Alice Wonderland, and their rhetoric was so far out there as to what really is known to have happened. And yeah, there are a lot of question mark or they dumped the body at sea, so there are no autopsy and some question if that was even Bin Laden. (00:03:31): Some people believe he died years earlier from renal failure. But in any event, that's the kind of thing they were doing just touting the War on terror. The US military Panetta said something that America made mistake of trying to be isolationist in the 1930s. And there's this kind of insinuation, you can't appease Putin as if he the new Hitler and America was not really isolationist. It was a global empire starting the late 19th century when it acquired the Philippines and Puerto Rico and Cuba and function as a global empire from that time period. So it never really isolationist. And FDR had this major naval buildup in the Asia Pacific that essentially provoked the Pacific War. It was a horrific war. So I mean, he obviously doesn't know his history that well, but this is just theater. Yeah, it's a very hawkish theme. He's a dancing and his speech echoed Kamala Harris' speech, anti-Russia themes, pro-military themes. (00:04:36): So that's what you get nowadays out of the Democratic party. And yeah, I mean there were booze of Panetta in 2016, but it was quiet this time around. It seems that people are just trying to mobilize around Harris and the EM of the anti-war movement. I mean, there were protestors outside of the convention. A lot of that centered exclusively on Israel Palestine. So I don't know. I mean, I think the protestors in 2016 were part of the Bernie Sanders faction. Maybe they had some hope in the party then, but now I think anti-war people have no hope in the Democratic Party. So they left or somewhere outside protesting. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:05:21): Well, in fact, that was really the crux of my question, Panda's rhetoric versus the convention's response. And does the convention's response, or some might say lack of response, indicate that there's a serious shift in the party, particularly as we look at how easily war mongering legislation gets passed through Congress, through the democratic elements of Congress as it relates to funding for Ukraine and funding for Gaza and more jingoistic rhetoric as it relates towards China? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:06:01): Absolutely, and I think it's telling that Robert Kennedy and Tulsa Gabbard are considered more peace candidates and they've made a lot of statements critical of US foreign policy, especially regarding Ukraine. Less so for Kennedy, and I think also Gabbard, Israel, Gaza, but definitely Ukraine. They've both been very critical and called for easing of relation with Russia. And they've warned about the threat of nuclear war and that we're in an era and new Cuban missile crisis, they've compared it to, and they were booted out of the party. I mean, Tulsa, they were treated horribly beyond just debate. I mean, Gabbard, she was in one of the CNN debates or televised debates in 2020 as she was running in the primary. And she was viciously attacked by Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris and others who dominate the party in kind of Neo McCarthy I term, and they called her a Putin stooge. (00:07:01): And a Bashir saw theologist because she wanted to, she was against the covert operations in Syria and the escalation of conflict. And somehow they called her all these kind of names and really treated her in the way that Joseph McCarthy would recognize or victim of McCarthyism with reminiscence of that. So she was totally driven out of the party. Now you find they're more on Fox News. I mean, I think the Republican, they're trying to capitalize on the disinfection of many pacifists and peace oriented people with the Democrats, and they're trying to recruit them and draw them into the fold. And that's why they brought in Kennedy and gather. But personally, I think that they're just, they're very cynical operative and their Republican party are just trying to get that vote. But they're not really peace oriented party either. And Trump's foreign policy was very bellicose and aggressive in many ways, certainly toward Latin America. (00:08:00): The drone war, Trump escalated the drone war, escalated war in Somalia, and he's very aggressive and very xenophobic and threatens a major escalation, I think with China. So I think it's just a cynical ploy by the GOP to try and get these disaffected people are disaffected with the Democrats and by recruiting Kennedy and Gabbard to create this persona as a new peace party. But I don't think they really are a peace party. And so those of us who are really committed to pacifism, anti imperialistic politics really have nowhere in the mainstream American politics, and I think we should work on developing our own independent parties. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:08:47): Before I get back to your piece, you mentioned in your earlier answer a reference to people trying to compare former President Trump to Hitler. And I was at the RNC when JD Vance was, his name was placed in nomination and he accepted the nomination. And I was doing my standup after the nomination. And I was saying as I was closing my analysis, I said, I find it very interesting, if not ironic, that a guy who just a couple of years ago was comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler is now his vice presidential nominee, and we'll be standing next to him on stage. I said, how does that happen? And when I said that, there was a guy standing next to me who turned to my cameraman and said, you guys have to leave. You have to leave right now. He was allowing us to use his space, so he was able to tell us that. But my point is, as soon as I said that, you guys got to go, you got to go right now. Explain that because I find it amazing. And only now would something like that happen in our politics. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:10:11): Yeah, well, I think it is increasingly out of the Twilight Zone. I mean, well, firstly, I think a lot of the rather is a bit overblown. I mean, I think Trump, there are a certain fascist theme in the GOP and there are concern about ascendant fascism and authoritarianism both among both parties. I mean the scapegoating of immigrants in the GOP, the extreme nationalism, ultra militarism like veneration of the military, that bears fear that the GOP leaning the fascist direction. I mean, I think some of the rhetoric about Hitler may be overblown, but yeah, it's totally ironic that he was calling him Hitler, as you say, and then he's the nominee. So that's just insane. But why did they kick you out? I mean, you were just repeating a fact that is known to be a fact, and that goes to the growing authoritarianism we see that can't, the kind of conversations we're having are not tolerated in the mainstream. And just a journalist doing his job and just reporting on something is being removed that Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:11:22): And can get you arrested and detained in airports and have your home raided by the FBI, as with Scott Ritter and O'Malley Yella and the three, Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:11:37): Yes, this is, yeah, I think what we're seeing is, yeah, more overt form of authoritarianism. And I think it's showing the flaw of American democracy. I mean, on paper there has been a democracy, but in reality for years and generation dissidents have been ostracized and marginalized and faced a lot of persecution, maybe not physical violence, although I mean under FBI Cual Pro, there were a lot of victims of state repression, people who were unjustly incarcerated sometime for decades, there were people killed. I mean the FBI infiltrated leftists in radical groups with the goal of destroying them and creating divisions. And in the Black Panther, they orchestrated murders. So I mean, there very violent, undersized underbelly of American politics. And that's coming more to the surface more and more. And I mean, you see, look, mark Zuckerberg said that Biden administration told him to censor Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:12:45): The Hunter Biden laptop story. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:12:47): Yeah, well, the hunter bought laptop and relate to COVID-19. And without your view on that, people should have a right to express it, but Zuckerman was told to censor viewed that criticized the government position. And then yeah, you have these raids going on Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:13:04): A minute, a minute, a minute because it's important. I think that people really clearly understand that the point that you just made about Zuckerberg, that's not your opinion. He stated that in a letter that he wrote to Congressman Jim Jordan. And so those who want to wait a minute, what is Jeremy talking about? Right? Google it. You can read the letter for yourselves. It was sent last week and Zuckerberg made those very clear statements and was apologetic for having done what he did in censoring those stories on Facebook because he has since come to understand that contrary to, as he was told, those were not Russian propagandist talking points. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:13:56): Exactly. Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. And another fact is that Tim Waltz made statements supporting censorship if it was related to misinformation, and that seems to be the line in the Democratic Party, but they use misinformation. Could be anybody who's simply critical of the government. They call it somebody who criticizes government policy in Ukraine or vis-a-vis Russia. They say he's promoting misinformation or Russian propaganda, or the same for the Covid narrative. They question the dominant narrative. And I found the review of waltz's statements. He promoted misinformation. So for instance, he claimed that carried out chemical attacks on his own people, and that was refuted by scientists like Theor Postal did a very detailed scientific study, and I did an article and I interviewed postal and he showed me his data and this guy, the top flight MIT scientist, and he repu these claims, his analysis, and he was very neutral. (00:15:02): He wasn't really on any side of the war, and he wasn't even particularly political. It was a very objective scientific study that based on the angles, those attacks had to have occurred from certain areas that were controlled by the rebels, not the Assad government. And that other attacks didn't think that there were chemical attacks, one of those bombing of a fertilizer plant. In other case, some stuff may have been planted like dead animals to make it look like an attack because people would've been dead. He said, he showed me photos and he had images of photos where people who were on the scene would've immediately been killed if there was actually a chemical weapon attack the way they described it, and they weren't affected or sick in any way. So in any event, that's just an example of waltz can be seen to have promoted misinformation. (00:15:57): So based on his own statements, he should censor himself. But the broader point is the American constitution and the American Republic was founded on the deal to free speech, and that's what we should have. And this cancel culture. I think too often on the left, people support censorship under the GU of a cancel culture. And I think that's very dangerous, and I think people are smart enough to see which ideas are good or bad for themselves. They don't need to have this censorship. It serves no purpose, even for somebody who is promoting bad things or false information, you don't have to censor because people are smart enough to see there's no evidence behind what he's saying, which is often true, sadly, of the US government, and that's why they lose credibility. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:16:45): I've asked this question of a number of guests, Caleb Moin and I think Dr. Gerald Horn and a few others that talking about censorship in the United States, engagement in censorship, that if you look over history, particularly since World War I, this whole idea of censorship really comes to a height when the United States feels threatened. And then once the perceived enemy is vanquished, then the whole focus on censorship tends to wane if not go away. And so I'm wondering if now because we're seeing heightened censorship, if that's an indication to you how threatened the United States empire feels? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:17:34): I think so. Yeah. Censorship goes hand in hand with war. War is the enemy really of democracy. And we've been in a state of permanent war since nine 11, and I think they've manufactured this new Cold War for sustaining the military complex police state, which has to go hand in hand with censorship. And we've seen more authoritarian forms of government, even toward the domestic population, heightened militarized policing in inner cities. We've seen the government stripping funding from vital social programs, and that's automatically going to generate more and more dissent and dissatisfaction with the government and living conditions. So they have to ratchet up censorship and more authoritarian, greater authoritarianism, and that's the only way they could sustain their power, and they've really lost their governing legitimacy. People, if you talk to people from all walks of life, whether in liberal areas, conservative, you find almost universally people distrust the government and they're not happy with the direction of the country, and more and more are speaking out. So they have to censor them and try and control the media and channel any descent they want to channel it and co-opt it. And that's why a lot of the media has been co-opted their CIA or FBI, infiltrators and media, even alternative media. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:19:06): In fact, to your point about people being dissatisfied with the direction of the country, if you go to real clear politics, those polled 26.9% believe the country's heading in the right direction. 63.4 believe that the country's on the wrong track. So again, I try my best to give as much data as I can to support the positions that are being stated so the people can understand that this is substantive analysis that we're providing because talk without analysis is just chatter, and we don't chatter here. Let's go back to your piece you write, Panetta said that Harris would fit the bill as a tough commander in chief to defend the USA against tyrants and terrorists, according to Panetta. Harris knows a tyrant when she sees one and will stand up to them, unlike Donald Trump, who Panetta suggested had coddled dictators such as Putin and effectively told them they could do whatever they want. Why is that exchange or that recounting by Panetta troublesome to you? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:20:18): Well, firstly, yeah, and the statistics you're citing indicate that many Americans are increasingly seeing their own government as tyrannical. And this is the kind of tired rhetoric we've seen over and over to justify these foreign adventures and unjust and unnecessary wars that further divert our treasury away from actually solving the problem in our society. And yeah, we see, Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:20:45): Wait a minute, and many will tell you, because I've been having this conversation for at least eight years, that that's the intent, that the objective has always been to heighten the sense of insecurity within the country so that social program funding social safety net funding could be shifted away from the public to the private military industrial complex. And they talked about this when Obama came into office, they talked about this, I know I have it backwards. When Clinton came into office, they talked about this when Biden came into office, they said the narrative is more subtle with the Democrats, but the objective is still the same. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:21:32): And the rhetoric, as you see, they're really attacking Trump from the right and they're positioning themselves as more hawkish. And that's why a lot of the neoconservatives have moved into the Democratic party. And William Christol, who this neo-conservative, intellectual, and a great cheerleader for the Iraq war, he sent out a tweet, Leon Panetta quoting Ronald Reagan at the Democratic Convention. This is my Democratic convention or a CIA director quoting Ronald Reagan. And yeah, you see from that statement you read, Trump is somehow soft on the Russian, but if you actually look at Trump's policy toward Russia, he pulled out of the INF treaty, which is a very good arms limitation treaty. He ratcheted up these sanctions from hell on Russia. He ratcheted up arm sales to Ukraine, for instance. He sold javelin anti-tank missiles, which Obama had up to that point hadn't sold. So he would not soft at all. (00:22:31): And he was plotting regime change. I mean, there's a lot of continuity in foreign policy. You see a lot of continuity among administration. So Trump's approach really was not very different from Obama. He's just kind of expanding on things Obama was doing. And then Biden takes it to a further level of provoking all out war and attacking Russia directly. So the rhetoric is meaningless, but yeah, it's designed to inculcate fear. I agree with your analysis that they just try and make us fearful and on edge whether it's of the next disease pandemic or the next threat. I mean, they're always playing up the threat of North Korea or Iran. I mean, look at North Korea. I mean North Korea was bombed back to the Stone Aid by the United States during the Korean War and the US pumps South Korea with weaponry and stores nuclear weapons there. I mean, obviously North Korea is going to respond. (00:23:27): I mean, developing a nuclear weapon is their only way to save their country and survive as a nation. I mean, they see what happened to Libya, but our media doesn't present it in that way, or our political elites, they present it like North Korea as some major threat to us led by this crazy dictator. But they give no context for why North Korea would invest in nuclear weapons or missiles and how a lot of their weapon development is just designed to protect themselves from the threat of renewed invasion and being destroyed again, that they were in the Korean War, but they never give the history of the context. So the public who believes that rhetoric as in fear of North Korea one day, Iran, another day, Putin is presented in the most demonized way, conceivable a totally kind of cartoonish way as this evil Hitler type figure. So we're supposed to fear him one day, and that's how they do it, and that's how they justify this huge military budget that's approaching a trillion dollars now. And yeah, I mean the government spends a pittance on social welfare programs and education and healthcare infrastructure. I mean, that's what the government should be doing, should be helping to create a better society, better living conditions here at home. But instead, they spend a trillion on weapons. And that comes back. And now you have the law like the USA Patriot Act and 1290 D program where all that Pentagon weaponry gets put into our police forces who become more like occupying armies in inner cities and their mistreatment minority groups. So it's an ugly picture. Yeah. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:25:13): You mentioned Libya, and I think we can tie this to your piece. You mentioned Libya, and people need to remember that the execution of Libby and leader Muammar Kadafi took place under the Obama administration. Hillary Clinton was his Secretary of state, and it was Hillary Clinton, and I believe Samantha Power that convinced then President Obama to execute Kadafi. And so if we understand a lineage of thought from Hillary Clinton, her predecessor Madeline Albright, she was a student of Brzezinski who was a Russia phobe. And so there's a lineage of thought within the State Department, and now we have to understand that Vice President Harris is an acolyte of Hillary Clinton. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:26:18): And Hillary Clinton is a very dangerous figure. And I wrote a book on Bill Clinton and I did a lot of research on their career bill's career as the governor of Arkansas. So I learned a lot about Hillary, and even from that time, she's very corrupt individual. Clinton was tied with the national security establishment. He oversaw a major covert operation in Arkansas to the Nicaragua and Counter-revolutionaries, and they laundered a lot of money through illicit Proceed, and they were bringing back drugs as part of these arm smuggling operations. And Hillary worked for the Rose law firm and was representing clients who were involved in money laundering in Arkansas banks. And she was always known as a hawk. So she very unprincipled corrupt person who was involved in also all kinds of shems to raise money for Clinton's campaigns that should have put her in prison. (00:27:16): And then she was always known as a warhawk. She evolved into a major warhawk. There was a very good article in the New York Times, the Rare Good article, New York Times magazine called Hillary the Hawk, and it surveyed her career going back to the Kosovo War. She was a big proponent of the bombing there. She supported the Iraq war, every war she supported, and her hawkishness came out on Libya where she was gloating after Kadafi was lynched. She gloated, we saw he died and she was so happy about it and giggling. And I mean that was a disgrace comparable to Iraq. I mean, Libya was a well-functioning country under CA's rule. I mean, he may have had certain authoritarian features, but he used Libya's oil resources to develop their economy to invest in education. I met a number of Libyans who were able to get free education abroad that Libyan government paid for their education abroad, and they came back to work to develop their country. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:28:20): Wait a minute, wait a minute. To that point, I was teaching at Howard University at the time, and I came across some Libyan students and I asked them who was paying their tuition and they didn't understand the concept of tuition. They were saying, well, wait a minute. Why would you pay to go to college? Help us understand. They could not put their head around Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:28:50): Paying Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:28:51): For tuition. And I believe, I don't think it's a stretch for me to say that at the time that Kadafi was the leader of Libya, that Libya was the most one of, if not the most stable country on the continent. It had one of the strongest economies on the continent. And Kadafi was developing his country, developing his agriculture. He was, as they called it, greening the desert. Libya had some of the purest water in the world, some of the deepest water, the water table. And one of the big issues was he saw himself as an African, not an Arab. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:29:36): And I visited Zambia, my ex-wife was from Zambia, and I visited there in 2007 and Kadafi came during my visit and he was greeted as a hero because he was using Libby as well, resources to promote development projects across the African continent. And he was seen as somebody who stood up for African and was carrying on the tradition of Pan-Africanism figures who revered in Africa like Kwame Nama and Nelson Mandela. And he was seen an heir to that tradition. And then he was overthrown and treated worse than a dog. And Libya has now seen the return of slavery, violent extremism has come into the country, just pure chaos. And a lot of Libyan have had to flee to Europe and then the European under perilous conditions in these boats. And then Europeans complain about immigration. I mean, they turn Libyan to a hellhole and the cost in lives, and it's just sickening. (00:30:38): And Clinton was just laughing all about it and thought it was funny. And I think Kamala Harris seems to be on that intellectual level. She laughs at inappropriate moments. I've seen her. She doesn't seem to have a good grasp of world affairs, and she's close with some terrible leaders around the world, like the Washington Post report that she has developed as vice president, an unusually close relationship with Ferdinand Marcos Jr. And he's the son of one of the worst dictator of the US support in the Cold War Fernan Marco Sr. Who looted the Filipino treasury and killed who knows how many dissidents. And his son seems to be picking up where the father left off. He jailed Walden Bellow, who's a great intellectual in the Philippines, who is running for an opposition party, and they're building up US military bases in Philippines to confront China. And Harris went to ink some base deal a couple of years ago, and there were a lot of protesters for her visit. But yeah, this is one of the dictators she's very close with. So she's following this imperialistic tradition, and yeah, there should be, well, again, a lot of people have left the Democratic party. They see no hope in it, but it's troubling when this is supposedly the more liberal and humane party and this is what they're doing. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:32:07): And folks, we're connecting the dots here. That's the purpose of this podcast, is connecting, linking dots, linking historic events so that you can see the trend, you can see the pattern, you can understand what's really going on behind the scenes. Let's go to Vice President Harris's speech at the convention. She says, as commander in chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world, and I will fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families. She'll always honor their sacrifice as she should, but the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world that now Jeremy seems to be really throwing good money after bad because the issue now, at least in terms of the geopolitical landscape, is economic. It's not militarism. It's the United States that seems to be using militarism as its only weapon. And I use that euphemistically against this unipolar to multipolar shift with the rise of bricks and the Chinese cooperation organization, their fighting an economic war with militarism. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:33:40): Yeah, and actually it was ironic that she made those statements and that week the New Yorker published these photos from 2006 Haditha Massacre where the US military massacre, all these Iraqi civilian, and there were these horrible photos you may have seen of children who had been shot by us Marines or soldiers. So having the most lethal military force in the world, what does that mean? You go into a country like Iraq and shoot up women and children. I mean, is this something to strive for? And then as you say, this military force is getting us nowhere. I mean, it's just causing backlash against the United States. I mean, yeah, look, in Africa, all these new governments have come in and they're kicking out the US military. They don't want the bases in their country. Like in Niger, for example, a huge drone base that was removed. And I mean Ukraine Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:34:40): Just recently, a couple of soldiers within the last couple of days were harassed Incaa. And Dr. Horn was saying that this is not an isolated incident, that when you see something like this happening on the streets of tur or as many still know it as Turkey, that this is an indication that the people are rising up, not the leadership, the people. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:35:08): Absolutely. And we see, yeah, the United States is a paper tiger. I mean, look at Ukraine, billion and billion, the weaponry and Russians are gaining more and more territory every day. It's reported that even as Ukraine is taking the war into Russia, Russia's taking more territory in Eastern Ukraine every day than they were before. Israel is doing nothing in Gaza. They just leveled the place killed. According to the Lancet report, now it's about a month ago, 186,000 civilians. Now they're attacking people in the West Bank, but they've achieved nothing militarily and the United States wars were all failure in the last generation. You have Libya. I mean, they turn countries into chaos, but it's ultimately they don't achieve the broader goal they set out. I mean, look at Afghanistan 20 years and they achieved nothing, and the Taliban came back in and it's just Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:36:04): Money. Well, Lockheed Martin and McDonald Douglas made a hell of a lot of money in Afghanistan. They achieved something. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:36:10): Yeah, that's all they Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:36:11): Achieved. Stock value went pretty high. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:36:15): And I think the public needs to channel their revolt against those company in the military industrial complex. Their hard-earned taxpayer dollar. They're getting absolutely nothing for it. People are getting killed around the world that weaponry has coming, being sent to us police forces after the military used equipment. It's creating a more authoritarian environment here. And a few fat cats, what they used to call merchants of death are getting rich. And there should be a revolt against those people because they've grown rich off the misery and death of other humans. And it's not a way to run an economy or society rooted in violence and just the wealth of tiny number off the misery of everybody else. And horrific weapon we've never seen in human history, the kind of horrific weapon they're developing now. It's unfit for humanity, and there is movements to try and get universal bans on certain kinds of weapons, and that should certainly be supported as well Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:37:17): In her speech. She also said, let me say, I know there are people of various political views watching tonight, and I know you know, I promise. Oh no. And I want you to know, I promise to be president for all Americans. You can always trust me to put country above party and self to hold sacred America's fundamental principles from the rule of law to free and fair elections to the peaceful of power. Well, when you look at the data and you look at the polling, an overwhelming majority of Americans, even Jewish Americans, want an end to the United States involvement in the genocide in Gaza. Now, she's saying that she promises to be the president of all Americans, but she and I put this on her because this was her convention, would not allow a Palestinian spokesperson, a representative of that position on the stage. Is that tone deaf or is it evidence that she's a Zionist and she's down with the, Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:38:37): Or both? Well, I think it's an illusion. They were trying to claim at the convention that she was working tirelessly for a ceasefire and for peace in the Middle East. And that's simply a lie the Biden administration has. It's been a joint US Israeli operation in Gaza. And we should recognize that Israel is basically a proxy of the United States empire in the Middle East that the US has used Israel. The reason they've given all those weapons to the Israelis over years now is that Israel has served the key function for the US Empire in the Middle East and accessing Middle East oil. Israel provides US military bases, and it does a lot of the dirty work for the US Empire going back years. For instance, in the six day war, the Israelis humiliated the US nemesis, Kamala del Nassar, who was like Kadafi, started as a pan arabist, and he was in the mold of Nassar who had moved to nationalize the Suez Canal and nationalize the oil resources and was forged alliances with Syria and forged the United Arab Republic with Syria and was promoting Arab unity so the Arab states could go strong in the face of Western imperialism and reclaim control of their chief natural resource oil. (00:39:58): And obviously the CIA tried to overthrow Nassar. They even sent in Kermit Roosevelt, a coup master who had been in Iran, but he failed. But Israel did the job in the sixth day war. They humiliated Nassar. And by that point, Israel was getting a lot of the US weapons already starred in the Kennedy administration where he basically opened the spigots. And Johnson was a huge supporter militarily of Israel. And Israel also carried a lot of covert operations in Africa that have served US interests, including countries like in Congo where they help access the mineral wealth of the Congo. So Israel has gone after the Assad dynasty was an enemy of the United States and West because they were more alive with Nassar in whose day and the Soviet Union, and they're more nationalistic so that the regime the US doesn't like and they've used Israel to Israel has been bombing Syria for a long time now and has tried to gone after Asad. (00:40:57): So these are just examples of how Israel does some of the dirty work of the United States and functions as a proxy of the United States. So the country basically are arm in arm together, and they may pay for public relations purposes. If Netanya has seen a bit extreme among some of their base or among some of the electorate, they may try and take a public distance or say they're trying to moderate his behavior, but I think that's more for public relations. They continue to provide him the weapons he needs, and they're not going to do anything. The last president who had a kind of even handed approach in the Middle East was to some extent with Dwight Eisenhower, who when Israel and Britain and France invaded Egypt, and after Nassar nationalized the Suez Canal, Eisenhower imposed sanctions on Israel and threatened why their embargo and even to punish Israel and the United Nations, but they would never do that today. (00:41:55): They're just giving cover and the weapons and diplomatic support in the UN for Israel's conduct and ethnic cleansing or genocide, whatever you want to call it. And I think they support the US imperialists support the project of a greater Israel, the Israeli far right that their goal is to expand the Israeli polity to basically remove the Palestinian and to use their land for broader projects, canal building to increase the water resource in Israel, access offshore oil. And the US supports that. Could they want a stronger Israel because that's their proxy in the Middle East and the US wants to dominate the Middle East and its oil resources for the next several generations, and they need Israel for that. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:42:46): We could spend a whole nother hour on this next question, but if you could just clarify a point that you made that you just made. You mentioned Kermit Roosevelt, you mentioned the United States going in and overthrowing Nassar, and you said they failed in, oh, you said they failed in Iran. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:43:09): Sorry. They failed in Egypt. They succeeded in Iran. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:43:12): See, okay, see that. Okay. Kermit Roosevelt and Norman Schwartzkoff Sr went in and overthrew Muhammad Ek and installed the S Shah. That's why I wanted clarification. I thought you said, and I could have misunderstood you. I thought you said they failed in Iran. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:43:32): No, and my point was they succeed in Iran, Kermit Roosevelt with a coup master. Then they sent him to Egypt to get rid of that thorn in their side, Albu master, because his pan-Arabism. But there he failed. Nassar was very popular, and he couldn't work the same magic, or they didn't have the right people to get rid of him. So that's when Israel stepped in and it was beefed up by us armed supplies. And in six days, they humiliated him and they provoked that war. It's been admitted by top Israeli leader than generals that they provoked that war. They humiliated Nassar, and three years later he died. And he was replaced by Anmar Sadat, who was much more west and abandoned his Pan Arab ideology. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:44:16): And also, again, this could be a whole nother show, but just quickly, you were talking about Israel being a US proxy, and you've mentioned this before, but I think it's folks, we're connecting the dots here, pay attention. We're connecting the dots. Ukraine is operating in a similar fashion as a US proxy in that part of the world as Israel is acting in the Middle East. And so because look, folks, the Ukraine war is lost. It's lost. And people say to me, Wilmer, you said that the war would be over in two years. And I was right as Putin wound up negotiating with, I'm drawing a blank on the Ukrainian president's name, Zelensky, vmi Zelensky. And he holds up the paper and says, we negotiated a settlement. The US sends in Boris Johnson to say, we're not going to accept this. The West will not. Hence the war is ongoing. Ukraine has no tanks of its own. They're now having to go into their prisons and empty their prisons to send convicted murderers to the frontline. They don't have an army of their own anymore. They don't have artillery of their own anymore. They don't have jets of their own anymore. Everything they're using comes from NATO and comes from the West. And it's a very same situation in Israel. Again, that could be a whole show of itself, but I just wanted to quickly connect the dots between the proxies in Israel and the proxies in Ukraine. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:46:05): And I would add the point that the United States and the people of those countries should understand, and I think this is American Jews should understand that the United States doesn't care about the people. They're using them for their own agenda. And look, Ukrainian has suffered terribly through their lines with the United States. They never would've gone to war with Russia, Ukraine and Russia got along. They had some issues, but they resolved it. And maybe the Ukrainian felt slight in some way toward the Russians, but they weren't stupid enough to take up arms against the Russians and annihilate themselves. But they thought because they had the United States and all these weapons that they could take on the Russians, and they made the same mistake as Napoleon or Hitler. I mean, the Russians are, I spent time in Russia. They're very patriotic people, and they will defend their country. (00:46:58): And this was a war provoked by the United States that basically used, and the Russians know this, that the US was using Ukraine, a battering ram against Russia, and they're going to defend themselves. And the Israeli case, look, the Israelis Israeli security has suffered tremendously. Now they're inviting attacks from all their enemies and they've shed so much blood, they're going to invite vengeance and retaliation against them, the security situation, very poor in Israel. I would not want to live in Israel, and they could invite one day their own destruction. Already, they've compromised the moral of their society. Israel was founded as a haven for Jewish people, and a lot of the very idealistic people were part of the original Zionist movement. I mean, the kibbutz was a concept of a cooperative model of an economy. But look at Israel today. It's this armed military state that is pariah around the world because of the atrocity that's carried out with support by the United States doing the United States dirty work. (00:48:05): And it's eviscerated its own democracy. I mean, it's become very repressive there. Journalists who are trying to report on what's going on in Gaza have been, I don't know. I think they've been certainly blacklist, if not jailed or shot. I mean, it's just a evolved, a violent authoritarian state. That's king of assassination. Mossad carries out assassinations around the world. It's hate and fear. It has an extreme right-wing government, this is not the ideal of a lot of the original Zionists. And a lot of American Jews are very uncomfortable the direction of that society they should be, and it could invite their own destruction one day. So I mean, that's a lesson you can take. If you lie with the empire, they'll use you for their own purpose and ultimately they'll spit you out. I mean, ask the Kurds, ask the Hmong and Lao, they've used proxies in other countries, and those proxies got totally destroyed like the Hmong and Laos or the Kurd, and they'll abandon them when it doesn't suit their agenda. They may find somebody else. And Ukrainian society has been destroyed. 500,000 youth have been killed. They don't even have enough people. How are they going to run their economy when all the youth of the country have been killed? Others had to flee. They don't want to fight the front lines. Yeah, they've sacrificed them as ponds in this war. It's sad. And Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:49:29): Lindsey Graham, Senator Lindsey Graham goes to Ukraine and encourages the Ukrainians to fight and to continue to fight. And let me just give you a quick analogy. Imagine a boxing match, and one of the cornermen is getting paid not for the win, but for the number of rounds his fighter engages in. And so that's Lindsey Graham, he's the corner man, his guy. Both of his eyes are damn near shut. He can't breathe. His lips are swollen. His head has all kinds of knots on it, and he keeps sending his guy out there to get slaughtered because he gets paid by the round instead of the knockout. Is that a fair analogy? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:50:20): Absolutely. Yeah. And I studied the history of the Vietnam War, and one thing I remember and I used to show students the TV history of the Vietnam War, and they had one, it was made in the eighties. They had one segment on the Secret War in Laos, like what I was saying with the Hmong who they used to fight the left-wing, Beth Lao and William Colby came on, was interviewed some years later. He was the CIA director. And he said, oh, well, that was a great project for us. The Hmong lasted 10 years is exactly what you're saying. Yeah, they lasted 10 round, but then they got killed. All of them. The Hmong were decimated, and they had to send, that's what the Ukrainians are doing, the hm. Had to send 14 year olds to the front lines. And a sea operative said, started to feel bad. (00:51:06): He is like, we're sending these 14 year olds on these planes to be killed, and I know they'll be killed. And I'm telling their parents, I'm patting them on the back and they'll be killed next week. And that's what's happening with Ukraine. And Graham won't send his own kids. I mean, if they're the real reading the fight, fight a war, you have to fight. If you're a real man, you'll fight it because there's a real reason your community's under attack or there's a real threat of Hitler. But instead they manufacture these wars and cowardly send and manipulate other people to fight and die. And that's the worst form of cowardice and manipulation I could think of in human society Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:51:45): As we wrap this up and folks we're connecting dots. And if you don't like what we're saying, if what we're saying makes you angry, as Malcolm said, if my telling you the truth makes you angry, don't get angry at me. Get angry at the truth. And you can look all of this up. I want to get back to your piece you quoted, and you mentioned this earlier, but Panetta quotes Ronald Reagan at a speech at the DNC, and he emphasized the isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to government. You write, Panetta ended his speech by highlighting that Harris was a good choice to reinvigorate American world leadership as she worked with 150 foreign leaders as vice president served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, worked closely with VMI Zelensky of Ukraine to fight against Russia. And you go on a number of things. You say that Panetta provided a litany, my word, not yours, of misinformation and disinformation in that part of his speech. How so? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:53:00): Well, I mean, the whole speech is disinformation because he has this mythical, romantic view of the killing of bin Laden that's not rooted in the reality. And then, yeah, he's claiming the US was an isolationist in the thirties, but the US was a global empire starting the late 19th century. And in the 30, the FDR had been the head of the secretary. I forget his position, but it was with the Navy, and he headed the Navy and he was a big naval enthusiast, and he initiated a massive naval buildup in the Asia Pacific. And then he historian believed that the key factor that provoked a Japanese counter response and led to the Pacific War. So where's the isolationism? I mean, it's not the accurate history, but I mean these conventions just about political theater. But I mean, yeah, quoting Reagan. I mean, Reagan is the icon of the Republican. That's not even your party. So what is he doing quoting Reagan? Reagan? Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:54:04): Well, he's Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:54:05): The thing that bar a right wing extremist. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:54:07): Barack Obama said that Reagan was his favorite Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:54:09): President. I know. And it shows how far to the right the whole American spectrum has been because Reagan, when he came up in the sixties, was viewed as a right wing extremist, certainly by people in the anti-war and countercultural movement. And his whole theme was to attack the mess at Berkeley. And the student, how dare they question the Vietnam War. And then when he came in, he veered American politics sharply to the right. He cut the corporate tax rate and he ramped up us militarism in Central America, and he wanted to avenge the Vietnam War. They call them Rambo Reagan. And you can't get, this is like an icon of militarism and fascism, and they're quoting him. So I mean, what kind of party is this? And we have two right-wing parties in our country. The political spectrum has shifted so far to the right, and it's created dystopia. (00:55:04): We're discussing here where we invest trillion dollars on warfare, these morally bankrupt wars. And our own societies is filled with pathologies and majors, social ills, and we never address them. So they grow worse and worse. And we're not investing in our youth and education. I mean, where I live, the teachers are so poorly paid, it is just a disgrace. And you have third world conditions like the schools. They were protests in my state a few years ago, and I covered those protests for local newspaper. And there were people showing me on their phone who taught in schools in rural areas. I traveled in Africa and third world country. Then what they're showing me is from a third world country. There were no proper sanitation in their school. There were not enough seats for the students. And these are high school teachers trying to keep them in school. So I mean, the government is failing its citizens, and this is Reaganomics 1 0 1, so we've got to get beyond that. But they're touting this guy as a hero. That's terrible. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:56:06): And again, I think this will be the final question, but the longer we talk, the more questions because of your insight, you mentioned that we're dealing with two right wing parties. Are we dealing with two right wing parties that are representing different interests of the right winging elite? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:56:30): Yes, absolutely. The GOP has always been rooted in the oil industry, the extractive industry, because their environmental policy is very favorable to big business and extractive industries and big oil. I think the military industry that hedged their bets now with both parties traditionally, like in the Reagan era, the Republican and the Reagan Republican got a lot of support in states that had big military industry. Like California used to be a center of the Republican domination and states like Arizona and the Southwest. But I think the Democrats under Clinton started courting the military contractors, and now they hedge their bets on both parties. I mean, there are a certain cultural issue, the right wing, the evangelical churches who were very gung-ho about things like against abortion. That's a certain spectrum that supports the Republican party. The Democrats go for this diversity, and they court the African-American vote, but they do so really based more on symbolism than actually delivering for the black population. (00:57:45): I think something that the black population, I think we'll see more and more than maybe leaving the Democrat. They're not getting anything. They're just getting the symbolism of some black elected officials, but they're not getting benefits to their communities. And there have been studies about this, and I heard Michael Eric Dyson, who was it? Yeah, it was Michael Eric Dyson came to where I live, and he gave a talk. He had done a study, it was him, it was, sorry, TVIs Smiley who used to work for PBS. He did a big study on black America in the state of black America, and he found it got worse under Obama, a certain core thing like income and business ownership and education because the Democrat weren't delivering on concrete social program that would benefit their community. So it's more of the symbolism and that's how they get votes. Dr. Wilmer Leon (00:58:38): And as we get out, I want to read this quickly because again, folks here on connecting the dots, we connect the dots, we provide data to support statements made. You talked about the defense industry funding both parties and Dave Calhoun, who was the CEO of Boeing. When asked in July of 2020 who Boeing would prefer Trump or Biden Boeing, and this is from CNBC, Boeing CEO. Dave Calhoun said that he was confident that whoever wins the White House in November, whether it's Donald Trump or Vice President Biden will continue supporting the defense industry. I think both candidates, at least in my view, appear globally oriented and interested in the defense of our country. And I believe they will support the industries. They'll do it in different ways and they'll have different terms, different teams for sure. But I don't think we're going to take a position on one being better than the other. And Dr. Jeremy Komarov, that I think is clear evidence of the points you made that we're dealing with two wings on the same bird. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (00:59:56): Absolutely. And viewers can go to open secrets.com and look at, well-known politician where they get their money. I mean, look up Joe Biden because I've done it. You'll see he gets a ton of money from Lockheed Martin. And yeah, the Democrats in some, I think they're getting more, Democrats now are getting more from the military contractor because they're even more hawkish, especially on Ukraine. That's been a big boon for a company like Boeing and Lockheed and surveillance industry. So I think they like Democrats even more now. And Democrats are positioning themselves to the right and more hawkish on foreign policy and even the border. I have an article next week on the border issue. Democrats are more to the right than Republican as far as spending on border surveillance. And that's a big, big industry, border surveillance drones, and that's part of the military industrial complex. Dr. Wilmer Leon (01:00:53): So I said, this was the last question. This is the last question, and you can just answer this, yes or no, all this conflation of the border, whether you're Donald Trump or whether you're Kamala Harris, whether you're Joe Biden or whoever, all of this talk about the border building, the wall security systems, drones a lot of money on the border. They don't talk about the US foreign policy that is driving people from Columbia, from Guatemala, from Mexico to the border because the United States policy is decimating their economies. And quick point people, you can look this up. About three weeks ago, Chiquita Brands was convicted in federal court in Florida of sponsoring death squads in Columbia. And now Chiquita Brands has to pay millions of dollars in reparations and damages to these victimized families in Columbia. Kamala Harris isn't talking about that. Donald Trump is, you want to deal with the border, deal with the decimation of these. Why are, ask the question, why are Haitians coming here? Because the United States is trying to rein, invade Haiti again, Jeremy, that in and of itself is another show. 30 seconds, am I right? Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (01:02:16): Yeah, absolutely. And there's no debate about that, and it's been a bipartisan in foreign policy that caused that vast immigration. And also you have to look, that caused the wreckage in those economies and societies, and you have to look at the free trade agreement. The Clinton administration promoted the nafta, and that helped decimate Mexican agriculture and forced a lot of the Mexicans to come to the United States. So nobody questioned the free trade laws. That's a big factor inducing immigration, including, especially from Mexico. So they ought to address revising those laws and creating a fairer world economy, but that might erode us primacy and the primacy of dollar, and they don't want that. So it's better to beef up the border, boost the coffer, the Lockheed Martin, instead of doing that, Dr. Wilmer Leon (01:03:10): Dr. Jeremy Komarov. In fact, here's one of the books. War Monger. I got it. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (01:03:17): Oh, great. Thank Dr. Wilmer Leon (01:03:17): You. Oh, hey, man. Great. Great work. Great, great work. Dr. Jeremy Kumar, thank you so much for joining me today. Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov (01:03:25): Thank you. Great conversation. Dr. Wilmer Leon (01:03:28): Hey folks. Thank you all so much for listening to the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wimer Leon. Stay tuned for new episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share the show, follow us on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. Remember, this is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge, talks without analysis is just chatter, and we don't chatter here on connecting the dots. See you again next time. 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In the weeks leading up to the attack on Larry Nassar at Coleman Correctional Facility in Florida, the public learned that another notorious pedophile had contacted him. That other notorious sicko? Jeffrey Epstein himself. Now, just a few weeks after the existence of that letter was revealed, Nassar is brutally attacked and stabbed mulitple times.In hindisight of that, the question most certainly now is, were Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Nassar friends? Or was the letter Epstein sent to him just one sick deviant reaching out to another?Let's dive in and check it out!(commercial at 9:56)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:The mysterious connection between Larry Nassar and Jeffrey Epstein | The IndependentBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

Jennifer Gates Nassar, daughter of Bill Gates, is a successful show jumper who recently graduated from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Both Jennifer and her husband Nayel Nassar work out of her International Show Jumping Stable, Evergate Stables. Jennifer began working with horses at the age of 6 in the hunter/jumper world and she now competes on the global circuit at the top of the sport. In addition to riding, Jennifer is a MD, MPH. resident physician, avid book reader, mother, and more. In this episode we asked Jennifer to answer listener submitted questions about all things lifestyle as well as her personal horses, and she delivered! This episode originally aired July 30, 2020 as episode 71. Listen in!

In prison slang, to "get turned out" typically means to be coerced or forced into sexual activity, often as a result of threats, manipulation, or physical violence. This phrase is commonly used to describe situations where an inmate is compelled to engage in sexual acts against their will, usually by more dominant or aggressive inmates.Key points about this term include:Coercion and Force: Inmates who are "turned out" are often subjected to various forms of coercion, including physical threats, actual violence, or psychological manipulation. This can involve gang pressure or intimidation by individuals seeking to exert control over them.Sexual Exploitation: The term usually refers to non-consensual sexual activities. The victim may be forced into a sexual relationship, often becoming the "property" of another inmate or group.Power Dynamics: The practice of turning someone out is deeply tied to the power dynamics within the prison environment. It reflects the brutal hierarchy and the ways in which power and dominance are established and maintained among inmates.Psychological Impact: Being turned out can have severe psychological consequences for the victim, including trauma, depression, and a profound sense of helplessness. The experience often leaves lasting emotional and mental scars.Survival Strategy: Sometimes, inmates may submit to being turned out as a means of survival, trading sexual favors for protection, food, or other necessities within the harsh prison environment.Who is Larry Nassar?Larry Nassar is a former American gymnastics doctor who was convicted of multiple counts of sexual abuse and other crimes. His case drew significant public attention due to the high profile of his victims and the extent of his abuse.Key points about Larry Nassar and his crimes include:Professional Background: Nassar worked as a sports physician for USA Gymnastics, the organization responsible for selecting and training national gymnasts, and Michigan State University (MSU).Criminal Acts: Nassar was convicted of sexually abusing hundreds of young female athletes under the guise of medical treatment. The abuse occurred over several decades, with many victims being minors at the time.Investigations and Convictions:Federal Child Pornography Charges: In July 2017, Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.State Sexual Abuse Charges: Nassar was also charged in Michigan state court for sexual assault. In two separate trials, he pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Ingham County and three counts in Eaton County. He was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison in January 2018 for the Ingham County charges and an additional 40 to 125 years in February 2018 for the Eaton County charges.Victims: Over 300 victims came forward, including well-known Olympic gymnasts like Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and McKayla Maroney. Their testimonies were crucial in bringing Nassar to justice.Impact and Aftermath:Institutional Failures: The case highlighted significant failures within USA Gymnastics, MSU, and other institutions that failed to act on reports of Nassar's abuse over the years.Reforms: In response to the scandal, there have been calls for and implementations of reforms in how institutions handle allegations of sexual abuse, particularly in sports organizations.(commercial at 8:25)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Disgraced Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar is 'paying gangsters with sexual favors for prison protection' | Daily Mail Online

Tesla Securities and Wire Fraud Investigation:The episode kicks off with a deep dive into the ongoing investigation surrounding Tesla's marketing efforts and statements made by its CEO, Elon Musk, regarding the company's self-driving capabilities. The Department of Justice and the SEC are scrutinizing Tesla's claims about full self-driving features and the timeline for their release. The investigation raises questions about market manipulation and the impact of Musk's statements on Tesla's stock price.DOJ Settlement in Larry Nassar Case:The episode also covers a $138.7 million settlement reached by the Justice Department over the FBI's failures in the Larry Nassar case. Nassar, a former doctor, was accused of sexually abusing hundreds of women and girls, including athletes. The settlement covers 139 claims from survivors who alleged that the FBI failed to investigate or take action despite being aware of Nassar's crimes. The settlement aims to provide some compensation to the survivors and highlights the need for accountability and systemic changes within law enforcement.Analysis and Reflection:The hosts delve into the complexities of these legal cases, discussing the challenges of proving liability and the implications of the settlements. They explore the impact on the victims, the government's response, and the potential for improved training and protocols to prevent similar failures in the future. The episode concludes with a reflection on the importance of recognizing and addressing systemic failures in the legal system.Tune in to Litigation Nation for insightful discussions on the latest legal issues and updates across the nation. Subscribe to get the latest episodes, and stay informed with the ever-changing legal landscape. (00:00) - - Intro (00:50) - - Tesla Under Investigation for Securities Fraud (05:30) - - Tesla's Full Self-Driving Claims (09:30) - - Shareholder Suits Against Tesla (16:45) - - DOJ Settlement Over Larry Nassar Case (22:30) - - Impact of Settlement on Nassar Survivors (28:50) - - Comparison with Other DOJ Settlements (38:27) - - Outro

In prison slang, to "get turned out" typically means to be coerced or forced into sexual activity, often as a result of threats, manipulation, or physical violence. This phrase is commonly used to describe situations where an inmate is compelled to engage in sexual acts against their will, usually by more dominant or aggressive inmates.Key points about this term include:Coercion and Force: Inmates who are "turned out" are often subjected to various forms of coercion, including physical threats, actual violence, or psychological manipulation. This can involve gang pressure or intimidation by individuals seeking to exert control over them.Sexual Exploitation: The term usually refers to non-consensual sexual activities. The victim may be forced into a sexual relationship, often becoming the "property" of another inmate or group.Power Dynamics: The practice of turning someone out is deeply tied to the power dynamics within the prison environment. It reflects the brutal hierarchy and the ways in which power and dominance are established and maintained among inmates.Psychological Impact: Being turned out can have severe psychological consequences for the victim, including trauma, depression, and a profound sense of helplessness. The experience often leaves lasting emotional and mental scars.Survival Strategy: Sometimes, inmates may submit to being turned out as a means of survival, trading sexual favors for protection, food, or other necessities within the harsh prison environment.Who is Larry Nassar?Larry Nassar is a former American gymnastics doctor who was convicted of multiple counts of sexual abuse and other crimes. His case drew significant public attention due to the high profile of his victims and the extent of his abuse.Key points about Larry Nassar and his crimes include:Professional Background: Nassar worked as a sports physician for USA Gymnastics, the organization responsible for selecting and training national gymnasts, and Michigan State University (MSU).Criminal Acts: Nassar was convicted of sexually abusing hundreds of young female athletes under the guise of medical treatment. The abuse occurred over several decades, with many victims being minors at the time.Investigations and Convictions:Federal Child Pornography Charges: In July 2017, Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.State Sexual Abuse Charges: Nassar was also charged in Michigan state court for sexual assault. In two separate trials, he pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Ingham County and three counts in Eaton County. He was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison in January 2018 for the Ingham County charges and an additional 40 to 125 years in February 2018 for the Eaton County charges.Victims: Over 300 victims came forward, including well-known Olympic gymnasts like Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and McKayla Maroney. Their testimonies were crucial in bringing Nassar to justice.Impact and Aftermath:Institutional Failures: The case highlighted significant failures within USA Gymnastics, MSU, and other institutions that failed to act on reports of Nassar's abuse over the years.Reforms: In response to the scandal, there have been calls for and implementations of reforms in how institutions handle allegations of sexual abuse, particularly in sports organizations.(commercial at 8:31)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Disgraced Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar is 'paying gangsters with sexual favors for prison protection' | Daily Mail OnlineBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

"This type of work gives us agency — things become a choice versus us becoming victims of life led on autopilot.”  Roula Clerc-Nassar is an seasoned leader and coach - as well as an expert on human understanding and insightful research. Roula's focus is growing people and building high performing teams, as well as applying neuroscience to coaching to help create transformation and lasting change. Before founding Ellumine Consulting & Coaching, Roula spent 24 years in 2 leading Multinational companies:  PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble, where she began her career in Morocco before moving to the UK and later Switzerland. Her last position was Vice President of Insights at PepsiCo Europe. She is a national of 3 countries in 3 different continents and has worked with clients and teams across the globe. You'll enjoy this candid coaching conversation on how to reconcile values that comes into conflict, and makeing thoughtful, intentional choices for work and life.  This is a continuation of our series with P&G Alumni Coaching where leading Alumni will dive deep on relevant topics. Just as professional athletes have a coach to help them perform at their best, coaching can help you thrive in career and life life, through powerful questioning, exploration, and action planning. P&G Alums can learn more and sign up for their first free first session @ coaching.pgalums.com.

Have you ever wondered what is going on in your child's brain? Hanna Nassar a Children's Pastor at OKC Community Church and Licenced Professional Counselor takes the mystery out of our wondering. Hanna explores the idea of the “Upstairs Downstairs Brain” and the value this wisdom brings to you as a single mom.   View Hanna's Equip Video: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/786376981

I'm delighted to have Mike Nassar, a distinguished leader, join us. His journey, from various managerial positions to the presidency and then the COO role of a major international company, is a shining example of strategic leadership and value-driven management.  In this episode,  we delve into the crucial topic of aligning personal values with organizational goals. Don't miss this conversation, as Mike's wisdom will provide invaluable insights for aspiring leaders and seasoned professionals. It's essential for businesses to align their personal values with those of the organization during transitions. In addition, middle managers should stay true to their core values and choose employment that aligns well with their personal beliefs. This will allow you to make the right decisions for the company and yourself. During the transition phase, provide updates to every employee under your guidance. A leader who ensures good communication represents the company effectively to the staff. Amidst the changes, it's crucial to remember the value of employee feedback. While it may seem challenging with the many tasks at hand, taking the time to listen and respond to your team's input not only upholds company standards but also makes them feel valued and heard. Connecting with as many employees as possible is essential for those leading large organizations. Mike shares insights on the importance of connecting with people face-to-face across various locations and the challenges and rewards it brings. Promote an employee only if he or she meets specific criteria. Mutual success only happens when employees' and managers' goals align. Go to https://www.tammyjbond.com/podcast to learn how to build up your management skills. We'd love for you to join us for our next episodes by tuning in on Apple Podcast, Amazon Podcast, or Spotify and subscribe to our Youtube channel. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios.

Braves vs Padres, Austin Riley on I.L.? Scottie Scheffler goes rogue! Falcons rookie signs, Michigan fans can now legally drown their sorrows at games, KC mayor in hot water for doxxing Chiefs PK Harrison Butker, Mahomes family needs to shut the f up, Lionel Messi's very expensive napkin, Dick Butkus napkin, gamblers attacking college players on social media, Bat Speed analytics (kind of) explained, Paul Skenes is the new Kerry Wood, Tiger and Daly miss PGA cut, Tim Horton's donuts, Dale Jarrett's last race, FBI blows Nassar case, Zip Zabel, The Grey Eagle, Connie Mack, 4 straight days of rainouts, Hank Greenberg is Jackie Robinson's hero, Hank Aaron Mr. 3000, Luis Tiant's greatness, Ralph (Beep Beep) Garr sets MLB record, Bobby Valentine's career cut short, Dodgers trade gay player after he refuses sham marriage, David Wells perfecto, Brian McCann's big night, Fredi Gonzalez fired, Pete's Tweets, This Day in Sports History, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, plus baseball quotes from Leo Durocher and Dave Smith!

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The New York jury weighing criminal charges against Donald Trump has now heard from the trial's first witness. Elon Musk's Tesla is running into a whole lot of red lights: slumping sales, mass layoffs, and now a 55 percent drop in profits. And more than 100 people who reported being abused by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar will share a nearly $140 million settlement. Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter.Today's episode of Up First was edited by Krishnadev Calamur, Emily Kopp, Cheryl Corley, Jan Johnson and Ben Adler. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Ben Abrams and Nina Kravinsky. We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott, and our technical director is Zac Coleman.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Lefties are obsessed with DJT and his NYC trial, Biden decides to pay workers more overtime, the Senate signed the bill for foreign aid and TikTok, and the DOJ settles with the Nassar victims. Plus, when a government agency changes name - it is always worth a heads up. Today's podcast supported by https://CatholicVote.Org (Get in The LOOP) Use PROMO CODE "KYLE" at these sites: https://contingencymedical.com/ (Emergency Antibiotic Kit!) https://4Patriots.com/KYLE (Survival foods) http://The-Suspendables.com (Show Merch) http://PatriotCoolers.com/ (Tumblers & Coolers) http://MyPillow.com/Kyle (Pillows/Towels/Bedding) https://matthatjerky.com/kyle (premium Beef Jerky)

1. Update: Columbia University to Hold Remote Classes Through End of Semester (1:07)2. Supreme Court Hears Starbucks v. McKinney; Here's What The Case Is About and Why Some Headlines are Misleading (2:03)3. DOJ Reaches $138.7M Settlement with Larry Nassar Victims Over Failure to Investigate Claims (9:07)4. Biden Administration Issues New Rule Increasing Overtime Pay Salary Threshold (10:51)Get EXCLUSIVE, unbiased content on Patreon.Watch this episode on YouTube.Follow Jordan on Instagram and TikTok.All sources for this episode can be found here. 

We start with the Justice Department's settlement over the FBI's handling of the Larry Nassar investigation. Prosecutors are looking to establish how former President Donald Trump benefitted from his relationship with former tabloid executive David Pecker. The Senate is on track to vote on a foreign aid package this week after months of delay. We have new developments in the classified documents case involving Trump and his co-defendants. New home sales surged in the US despite elevated mortgage rates. And, the British royal family released a new photo after a photo-editing scandal last month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The FBI has signaled that they are ready to play ball with the numerous women who were abused by Larry Nassar and who allege that even after they told the authorities what Nassar was, they were ignored. Now, they are suing the FBI for close to a billion dollars. Meanwhile, back at Quantico, nobody has lost their job or taken responsibility.(commercial at 7:36)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/fbi-could-settle-claims-leveled-by-gymnasts-abused-by-larry-nassar/

Jennifer Gates Nassar is the eldest daughter of Bill and Melinda French Gates. She has grown up with privilege but is paving her own path as a medical student and soon-to-be doctor and mother. For this Finding Joy episode, I welcome her on to discuss: How her parents instilled work ethic and grit in her despite growing up with privilege The single most important thing her parents did in raising her that she's grateful for How she's found her own identity and calling What she hopes her daughter sees in her as she grows up Follow Jenn on Instagram @jenngatesnassar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices