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How Shameem Shah Is Helping Businesses Win With Agentic AI | XpentorShameem Shah | Founder & Tech Advisor, Xpentor (Bud Lake, NJ)LinkedIn: Xpentor (search E-X-P-E-N-T-O-R)Website: www.xpentor.comConnect & Inquire: via LinkedIn or the Xpentor website"AI is just refrigeration for us. Now, are you going to create your own Coca-Cola?" — Shameem ShahWhat separates a real, scalable AI build from something you slapped together on a no-code tool? On this episode of Diversified Game, Kellen Coleman sits down with Shameem Shah, founder of Xpentor, a software and technology consulting firm out of New Jersey serving insurance, higher education, NGOs, and government since 2008.Shameem breaks down the shift from generative AI to agentic AI, why most no-code builds fail to scale without the right data model and architectural foundation, and how his team uses AI to crush compliance and speed-to-market in the insurance industry.We get into his internal tool Cognax, real use cases from medical colleges to underwriting, why an MVP at $2,000 to $5,000 beats a blind $100,000 commitment, and his big-picture take on where AI is taking all of us.No surface-level hype. Real architecture, real problems, real solutions.Learn the mindset and moves that lead to real results. Please visit my website to get more information: http://diversifiedgame.com/

In this powerhouse episode of the Battleground America podcast, the hosts break down a massive wave of monumental headlines. First, we celebrate a historic milestone as a Reuters report confirms the United States has officially surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world's number one oil exporter, reaching a record-breaking 10.5 million barrels per day. We look at how global shipping reroutes away from the Strait of Hormuz have hyper-charged our economy and sent the US dollar to a dominant 51.1% share of global transactions. Then, we dive into absolute outrage over the breaking election results from Los Angeles, exposing how progressive City Councilwoman Nithya Raman erased a massive lead to lock insurgent Republican Spencer Pratt out of the mayoral runoff. Finally, Senator Ron Johnson drops a massive COVID-19 bombshell on health data hidden by federal agencies, while the hosts contrast Elon Musk's historic wealth creation at SpaceX with the way the Left funnels taxpayer cash into corporate NGOs. Custom Labels Battleground America Podcast, US Oil Export Milestone, Energy Independence, Strait of Hormuz, LA Mayoral Primary, Spencer Pratt Campaign, Mail-In Ballot Controversy, Senator Ron Johnson, COVID Data Scandal, SpaceX IPO Millionaires

In this comprehensive, blockbuster compilation of the day's transcripts from the Battleground America podcast, the hosts break down the massive forces colliding across the country. First, we celebrate an monumental economic victory as the United States officially eclipses Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world's number one oil exporter at a record-shattering 10.5 million barrels per day—driving world transactions to a historic 51.1% petrodollar dominance and sparking a massive domestic economic boom. Then, the gloves come off. The host tears into the establishment political machine, slamming the newly brokered Trump-Iran peace deal as "pallets of cash" for unlocking $25 billion in frozen assets. We then expose the intense political theater surrounding the federal SAVE Act after Mitch McConnell blocked voter integrity measures from his hospital bed. Turning to local battlegrounds, we unpack the absolute outrage over the Los Angeles mayoral primary after progressive Nithya Raman erased a 40,000-vote deficit to edge out populist outsider Spencer Pratt from the runoff. Finally, we expose a terrifying COVID-19 medical bombshell as Senator Ron Johnson reveals documented evidence of hidden vaccine adverse events buried by federal agencies, contrasting genuine wealth creation against the Left's network of corrupt corporate NGOs. Battleground America, US Oil Export Record, Energy Independence, Petrodollar Dominance, Iran Peace Deal Controversy, SAVE Act Vote, LA Mayoral Primary, Spencer Pratt Campaign, Senator Ron Johnson, COVID Data Scandal

In this conversation, Minter Dial welcomes Kerry Halferty Hardy, a seasoned bridge builder across cultures, sectors, and knowledge silos. With a rich background spanning public, private, and nonprofit leadership, Kerry shares her journey as what she calls a “human Swiss army knife,” adept at navigating the intersections of civil society, healthcare, international affairs, and education. In their deep and wide-ranging exchange, Kerry articulates the nuanced reality of living between cultures as a Franco-American, unpacking the complexities and rewards of a multi-national identity. The discussion moves fluidly across the importance of critical thinking, the power of civil society as the connective tissue in resilient, free societies, and the challenges of aligning incentives—whether across governments, businesses, or NGOs. The conversation also delves into education and parenting in a rapidly evolving world, as Kerry shares her perspectives on nurturing curiosity, agency, and adaptability in the next generation. Drawing from her experience on numerous nonprofit boards—including the American Club of Paris and the World Anti Extremism Network—she offers fresh perspectives on defending freedom, combating extremism, and the responsibility that comes with liberty. For anyone grappling with how to operate meaningfully across borders and disciplines, empower young people, or defend the values of an open society, this episode is rich with practical wisdom and lived insight. Listen in as Minter Dial and Kerry Halferty Hardy explore what it takes to build bridges where others see barriers, and why fostering resilience, openness, and responsibility matters now more than ever.

Ben Corbett is a US Army veteran, former State Department contractor working within the intelligence community, and founder of Legacy Relief Project — the only nonprofit organization with legal authorities to run counter-human trafficking operations on behalf of the Haitian government.In this episode, Ben reveals what he witnessed on the ground in Haiti, Iraq, Uganda, and right here in the United States: the real pipeline of child trafficking inside Christian orphanages and NGOs, the Kanakuk Ministries money laundering scheme and sex tourism operation, the evidence he handed to the DOJ in Miami — and discovered the prosecutors were named in it, how his team rescued 27 children from a Port-au-Prince gang in 72 hours, and why organ trafficking and satanic ritual abuse are the most depraved networks he's ever encountered. Ben also shares his personal story: joining the Army at 17, serving as a fire team leader in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush at 19, breaking his neck and back, medical retirement, near-suicide, and how faith transformed his life and led him to found Legacy Relief Project.TOPICS COVERED:• Human trafficking vs drug trafficking: the real cartel revenue model• How Epstein operated as an intelligence honeypot• Why the US government enabling trafficking of Ugandans in Baghdad• Haiti's history, Moïse assassination, and gang warfare• How orphanages and NGOs become trafficking pipelines• Kanakuk Ministries, sex tourism, and money laundering• The $350M law enforcement budget vs $2.2T trafficking industry• Organ trafficking and satanic ritual abuse in Haiti and the Dominican Republic• Online grooming platforms: Roblox, Discord, OnlyFans, PayPal• CIA reform and FBI corruption in the trafficking space• Legacy Relief Project's operations in Haiti, Uganda, Sudan, ColoradoFOLLOW BEN CORBETT:Legacy Relief Project: https://legacyreliefproject.comCHAPTERS:00:00:00 - Intro: Colorado's Push to Legalize Prostitution00:09:26 - What Modern Slavery Actually Looks Like00:15:27 - Meet Ben Corbett00:16:42 - Military Roots: Growing Up to Serve00:22:55 - Afghanistan: When War Shatters Your Identity00:35:25 - Seeing True Evil: Kids Executed by the Taliban00:53:44 - Inside the Trafficking Industry00:55:34 - Why Cartels Are More Powerful Than Drugs00:59:21 - Epstein Files & Government Cover-Up01:09:23 - Haiti: What Ben Has Witnessed Firsthand01:20:29 - ISIS, Northern Iraq & State Department Work01:29:00 - Founding Legacy Relief Project01:32:28 - Ben's Lowest Point: Gun in His Mouth01:44:48 - Orphanages as Trafficking Pipelines01:47:09 - Kanakuk: Christian Ministry Cover-Up01:53:47 - Taking Evidence to the DOJ (Prosecutors Were Named)02:03:38 - Rescuing 27 Children in Port-au-Prince02:13:47 - Uganda Mission & US Government Passport Scandal02:23:01 - Organ Trafficking Network Deep Dive02:25:36 - The Fire Chief's Family Sold Their Own Daughter02:26:58 - Satanic Ritual Abuse: What It Actually Is02:28:03 - The Voodoo Bonfire (What Ben Witnessed)02:56:19 - $350M vs. $2.2 Trillion: The Impossible Fight03:08:25 - How to Help: Legacy Relief Project#crime #military #podcast #reedmorinshow

Dreaming  about taking a huge bike adventure? Then this episode is for you.Ellie Mitchell-Heggs shares her insights from her solo journey where she cycled 10,000 kilometres  across Africa from Rwanda to Cape Town. All up her trip was nine months long and took her across ten countries. It was also a ride that was layered with both a personal family connection to Africa and loaded up with a huge sense of purpose as well.Alongside the cycling, Ellie spent time in every capital city meeting with over 100 local NGOs, social enterprises and community organisations working in education, youth empowerment and gender equality. Ellie shares how those conversations, got her through the toughest stretches on the road.In this episode we cover:How Ellie got into bikepacking starting with the Vélodyssée down the west coast of FranceWhy she chose to start in Rwanda and ride south The communities and landscapes that shaped each country, from Uganda's warmth to the brutal isolation of Botswana's flat roads70 kilometres being swarmed by tsetse flies in a Tanzanian national parkCanoeing four days down the Zambezi river as a mid-trip resetGrieving her father on the road Cycling through Namibia with two fellow bikepackers.Food poisoning two days from Cape Town, and the unicycle escort into the cityWhat made those NGO conversations so energising Find Ellie on Instagram: @ProjectCycleAfrica Check out Old Man Mountain's new Manzanita Handlebar Cradle  Support the showBuy me a coffee!I'm an affiliate for a few brands I genuinely use and recommend including:

In this special re-release of Episode #2, Corinna Bellizzi revisits an early conversation with social change strategist Genevieve Smith that feels remarkably relevant today. Show Notes: What if the choices we make every day, from the words we use to the conversations we avoid, are shaping the world more than we realize? Originally recorded during a period of heightened social and political tension, this discussion explores how our values show up in our actions, why "nothing is neutral," and how we can engage in difficult conversations without sacrificing either accountability or compassion. Genevieve shares practical insights for navigating disagreements around race, gender, faith, politics, and social change while remaining connected to our shared humanity. Together, Corinna and Genevieve examine the challenges of values alignment, both in our personal lives and within organizations, and discuss how humor, curiosity, and self-awareness can help us build bridges across difference. As public discourse grows increasingly polarized, this conversation offers a timely reminder that meaningful change often begins with our willingness to listen, learn, and stay engaged. In This Episode:  What Genevieve means by being a "professional bummer" Why difficult conversations are necessary for meaningful social change How compassion differs from endorsement The concept that "nothing is neutral" and how it applies to everyday life Finding common ground across political, social, and cultural differences Why accountability should not be confused with punishment The role of humor in lowering defenses and opening minds How organizations can align business practices with stated values The importance of defining what values like integrity, inclusion, and equity actually mean Practical ways to engage more thoughtfully with people who see the world differently Key Takeaways: Every action—and every inaction—communicates values. Whether we're making decisions as individuals, leaders, consumers, or organizations, our choices have consequences that extend beyond ourselves. Genevieve argues that meaningful progress requires both courage and humility: the courage to engage difficult topics and the humility to recognize that we all have more to learn. By approaching disagreements with curiosity instead of a desire to win, we create opportunities for understanding, accountability, and growth. This episode is an invitation to examine how our values show up in our daily lives and to consider how we might contribute to a more equitable, compassionate, and sustainable future. GUEST BIO: Genevieve Smith is an independent consultant specializing in organizational behavior, social change, values alignment, and systems transformation. She works with international NGOs, corporate leaders, mission-driven organizations, and communities to connect people, ideas, and strategies in service of more equitable systems and outcomes. Genevieve began her career as a data analyst within a disability services organization, where she discovered that meaningful impact could not be measured without aligning data practices to mission and values. Since then, she has helped organizations design business practices, cultures, and decision-making frameworks that reflect their purpose—not the other way around. Known affectionately as a "professional bummer," Genevieve helps individuals and organizations navigate uncomfortable but necessary conversations that lead to deeper understanding, stronger values alignment, and more effective social change. CONNECT WITH GENEVIEVE: Website: https://www.gv-advisory.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gvadvisorygv/ LET'S BUILD A GREENER FUTURE: Together, we planted 36,044 trees in 2025 through our partnership with ForestPlanet. We screamed past our goal of planting 20,000 trees thanks to subscribers like you! CAUSE PARTNER: If you value open dialogue, sustainability, and social equity, I invite you to support our new cause partner — Prescott College. To learn more about this effort and to support the show, visit: https://caremorebebetter.com/support/ Follow Us on Social Media YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/caremorebebetter TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@caremorebebetter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caremorebebetter Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareMoreBeBetter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-more-be-better Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode we explore some of the emotional and psychological life of international governance. Professor Daniel Laqua, Professor Dan Gorman and Dr. Anne-Isabelle Richard talk about GLO, a transatlantic research project examining how civil society, activists, and NGOs have campaigned to build, shape, reform or put an end to international organizations from the early 20th century to the early 2000s. They discuss findings from the project about emotional experiences such as love, hate, trust, and sense of belonging in this context, and consider the way people relate to and through international institutions through psychodynamic concepts of projection and transference. Listen to examples from the League of Nations, United Nations Associations, Jubilee 2000, and the Council of Europe. Learn about the archival research methods, and what grassroots diplomacy suggests about the possibilities of change. Resources: Ask a Librarian! Ask an Archivist! Global Governance Trust and Democratic Engagement in Past and Present (GLO) Project website: https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/glo The podcast was recorded on the occasion of the conference ‘Love, Hate, and the Fate of International Organisations: The Psychological Life of Global Governance (1900–Present)', held at the Geneva Graduate Institute https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/love-hate-and-fate-international-organisations-psychological-life-global   Where to listen to this episode  Apple podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-page/id1469021154 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/10fp8ROoVdve0el88KyFLy YouTube: https://youtu.be/ Content    Guests: Professor Daniel Laqua, Northumbria University, UK. Professor Dan Gorman, University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Anne-Isabelle Richard, Institute for History, Leiden University. Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva 

Episode 4143 │ June 11, 2026 Mike Lindell: "God just shattered the Minnesota GOP's 30-year candidate machine." Now he's polling number one and the primary is wide open. WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS Scott Kesterson sits down with Mike Lindell for a full update on the Minnesota governor's race — and what just happened at the Duluth state convention is unlike anything the state Republican Party has seen since 1994. Lindell opens by crediting God's timing and his own prayer discipline as the operating foundation beneath every strategic decision in the campaign, describing a deliberate choice to release the need for Trump's endorsement before the convention and trust the outcome to providence — a posture he says produced results no political consultant could have engineered. He then walks through the entire sequence: how the Minnesota GOP endorsement system has functioned as an establishment candidate selection machine for three decades, consistently producing nominees who then lose to Democrats; how he was barred from debates, denied the delegate list, and publicly flagged as a "qualified with reservations" candidate to taint his standing before the convention floor vote; how the voting machines used by delegates broke down for three hours at the critical moment — validating Lindell's core election integrity argument in real time and turning the arena floor into a visible demonstration of exactly what he has been warning about for years; how he redirected his delegates to Kendall Qualls to break Lisa Damuth's path to the endorsement; and how the party then allowed Damuth to ignore the endorsement outcome she had pledged to honor — inadvertently producing the most open Republican primary Minnesota has seen in a generation. With Damuth, Qualls, and Lindell all now on the primary ballot, Lindell argues the establishment vote splits and his base — spanning inner city Minneapolis to rural farmers to teachers — carries him through. He announces Phil Parrish as his lieutenant governor pick, describing the partnership as a direct answer to prayer, and outlines his first-day budget priorities including eliminating 400 NGOs, cutting Minnesota's highest-in-the-nation corporate tax rate, and ending welfare fraud running into the billions. KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED How did Lindell's faith posture — specifically releasing the need for Trump's pre-convention endorsement — shape the outcome at Duluth in ways no political strategy could have produced? How has the Minnesota GOP endorsement system functioned as an establishment candidate pipeline since 1994 — and how did the Duluth convention break it? What happened when the delegate voting machines failed for three hours at the exact moment Lindell was poised to deny Damuth the endorsement? Why does Lindell believe a three-way primary split between Damuth, Qualls, and himself is the best possible outcome for his campaign? What are Lindell's day-one budget priorities as governor — and how does he plan to turn inner-city Minneapolis Democrats into Republican voters? ABOUT BARDSFM BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,100 episodes and 50 million lifetime downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com MYPillow promo code: BARDS >> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.  EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS >>> TheFoundersBible.com Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here... DONATE: Click here Mailing Address: Xpedition Cafe, LLC Attn. Scott Kesterson 591 E Central Ave, #740 Sutherlin, OR  97479  

Helen Meech is Executive Director of the Climate Coalition, the UK's largest group of organisations dedicated to action on people, climate and nature. Over 130 member organisations, from the National Trust to Oxfam to Save the Children, plus a network of around 3,500 community organisers across the UK. And yet most people have never heard of them. As Helen explains, that's deliberate.We talk about Great Big Green Week, the Coalition's flagship campaign, running this year from 6 to 14 June. It has more than doubled in size every year for three years: 250,000 people, then 600,000, then 1.2 million last year, with around 2 million expected this year. The stat that matters most: over a third of attendees had never engaged with climate or nature before. They came because someone they knew organised something, or because it was free to do with the kids on a Saturday.We also dig into where power actually sits. Helen's framing, "creating the space for politics to move into," challenges the idea that change is something politicians do to us. And we compare notes on the People's Emergency Briefing, which we recently screened at the Grange Hub, and the tension every communicator in this space wrestles with: realism versus hope.The post-interview chat gets into Tom's view that the era of being polite about the emergency is over, Chloe's case for hope grounded in community rather than technology, and why we still don't have a Help for Heroes equivalent for the climate movement.About the guestHelen Meech is Executive Director of the Climate Coalition. She has spent 25 years in environmental campaigning and movement-building, including roles at the National Trust and the RSPB, where she was Head of Movement Building and led the development of the People's Plan for Nature. Her work is built on a single belief: people are powerful, especially when they come together.The Climate Coalition: theclimatecoalition.org Great Big Green Week: greatbiggreenweek.comChapters00:00 - Welcome and intros 01:30 - Grange update: screening the People's Emergency Briefing at the Hub 04:30 - Watching hard truths in community, and why that changes the experience 06:55 - Tom's case: the days of being polite about the emergency are over 07:30 - Wilder Connections summer programme: co-design with young people 10:57 - Who is the Climate Coalition? 14:59 - Why most people haven't heard of the Climate Coalition (on purpose) 17:24 - "Creating the space for politics to move into" 20:05 - Everyone has power: protest, community organising, media, culture 22:18 - Great Big Green Week: nightclubs, litter picks, fetes and school assemblies 23:59 - The infrastructure behind 6,000 local events 29:54 - Flooded pitches: why grassroots sport is organising 30:30 - The unexpected challenge: keeping the big NGOs on board 32:43 - Greenwashing and a brand with a life of its own 34:15 - The Coalition's three policy asks 36:50 - The five million target, and matching Children in Need for awareness 39:43 - Helen's reaction to the People's Emergency Briefing 42:28 - Rebecca Solnit and hope as an action 44:35 - How to get involved in Great Big Green Week 46:03 - Tom and Chloe debrief: community action vs direct action 48:27 - The 3.5% rule, and whether the research still holds 50:45 - The school drop-off apology problem: why we need a safe movement to belong to 53:40 - Hope vs fear: did the briefing get the balance right? Key takeawaysOver a third of Great Big Green Week attendees have never engaged with climate or nature before. They come because the event is organised by someone they know, connected to a community they're already part of, or simply free to do with the kids. Over 80% of those newcomers wanted to do more afterwards.Great Big Green Week has more than doubled in size every year for three years, and reached a media audience of over 60 million last year. Around 11% of the UK population recognises it when prompted, on a par with campaigns that have run for decades.Helen's core argument about power: if we say politicians are the only ones with power, we're handing ours to them. The Coalition's job is to make the public mandate visible so politicians have space to move into.The Coalition's three policy asks: climate finance flowing where it's most needed, fairness at the heart of climate action (bills, jobs, just transition), and the urgent protection and restoration of nature.Fear needs to be combined with agency. Helen cites the Branding Biodiversity report: hard-hitting information without a path to action paralyses people. Twenty-five years into her career, the People's Emergency Briefing still made her cry. Her response was to write a to-do list.Hope is an action, not a mood. Rebecca Solnit's framing: pessimists and optimists both excuse themselves from doing anything.Resources and links mentionedOrganisations and campaignsThe Climate Coalition: theclimatecoalition.orgGreat Big Green Week (6-14 June 2026): greatbiggreenweek.comNational Emergency Briefing / People's Emergency Briefing, including the screening map and how to host one: nebriefing.orgWilder Connections, Chloe's charity growing a movement for nature connection in young people: wilderconnections.charityClimate Psychology Alliance (facilitation training Chloe mentioned): climatepsychologyalliance.orgMore in Common (audience segmentation partner): moreincommon.org.ukBristol Stepping SistersNational Trust, RSPB, Oxfam, Save the Children, Co-op (Coalition members referenced)Ideas and referencesRebecca Solnit, Hope in the DarkJoanna Macy, Active Hope: activehope.infoBranding Biodiversity report (Futerra): fear combined with agencyThe 3.5% rule (Erica Chenoweth's research on nonviolent resistance)The People's Plan for Nature: peoplesplanfornature.orgCome and stay with usIf this conversation has you craving time somewhere slower, our off-grid cabins sit in a quiet corner of Monmouthshire surrounded by 80 acres of recovering nature. 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This week on The Food Professor Podcast, co-hosts Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois welcome two special guests for a wide-ranging, no-holds-barred interview: Axel Schwan, President of Tim Hortons Canada & U.S., and Duncan Fulton, Chief Corporate Officer of Restaurant Brands International (RBI). With Dunkin' Donuts announcing its return to Canada and Canadians passionately debating the future of their most iconic coffee brand, Axel and Duncan showed up ready to answer the tough questions. In a candid 40-minute conversation, Schwan and Fulton open up about Tim Hortons' "Back to Basics" strategy — the largest consumer research project in the company's history — and the quality overhaul that followed: freshly cracked eggs replacing frozen patties in breakfast sandwiches, 40% more apple in the apple fritter, more Venetian cream in the Boston cream, and the removal of artificial colours, flavours and preservatives across the menu. They share how Tim Hortons serves four million guests a day across 4,000 restaurants owned by 1,500 Canadian franchisees, why traffic is the one metric Axel watches daily, and how the brand is winning younger consumers with its Quenchers platform — including the imminent launch of Popping Quenchers — plus celebrity partnerships with Justin Bieber and Ryan Reynolds. The duo also tackles the controversy head-on: Is the wave of announcements — 400 restaurant renovations, 80 new builds, a national hiring campaign — a reaction to Dunkin's arrival? Fulton sets the record straight on the temporary foreign worker debate, noting roughly 4,000 of 110,000 restaurant team members are part of the program, and explains how AI is being deployed to improve the team member experience, from labour scheduling to order accuracy. A rapid-fire round covers everything from the biggest public misconception about Tim Hortons to the products Canadians want back, while Michael shares his own fun factoid: he helped invent Roll Up the Rim during his Dixie Cup days. But first, we start with the food and agriculture news of the week. Sobeys gets served as the Competition Bureau flexes its new Competition Act powers to investigate property controls in Canadian grocery. We break down Ottawa's newly published AI strategy and what it means for agriculture and food, where Canada's persistent data deficit threatens to undermine even the best intentions. Then, the screwworm fly resurfaces in Texas, prompting the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to take targeted action — and sending cattle futures and already-high beef prices climbing. Sylvain also reports from Delaware, where he keynoted a healthcare conference on food as medicine and discovered a surprising threat to American farmland: hundreds of AI data centres being built on fertile soil. About UsDr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Visiting Professor in Food Policy and Distribution at McGill University and a Professor in Food Distribution and Policy in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University.Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He is one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability with over 775 published peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Charlebois is also an editor for the prestigious Trends in Food Science Technology journal. He co-hosts The Food Professor podcast, discussing issues in the food, foodservice, grocery and restaurant industries and which is the most listened Canadian management podcast in Canada. Every year since 2012, he has published the now highly anticipated Canadian Food Price Report, which provides an overview of food price trends for the coming year. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, nationally as well as internationally. He has testified on several occasions before parliamentary committees on food policy-related issues as an expert witness. He has been asked to act as an advisor on food and agricultural policies in many Canadian provinces and other countries.With extensive experience collaborating with businesses, governments, and NGOs, Dr. Charlebois combines academic rigor with practical expertise, making him one of the most influential voices in the global agri-food landscape. His work continues to advance the understanding of food systems, fostering innovation and resilience in a rapidly evolving industry. In 2025, he received the prestigious Charles III medal recognizing his tremendous work in informing Canadians about food issues. Michael LeBlanc is a senior retail advisor, keynote speaker and media entrepreneur. Michael has delivered keynotes, hosted fire-side discussions hosted senior retail executive on-stage in 1:1 interviews worldwide. Michael produces and hosts a network of leading retail trade podcasts, including The Remarkable Retail Podcast, The Voice of Retail, The Food Professor, The FEED powered by Loblaw and the Global eCommerce Leaders podcast. He has been recognized by the National Retail Federation (NRF) as a global Top Retail Voice for 2025 and 2025, and continues to be a ReThink Retail Top Retail Expert for the fifth year in a row.

When the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, they didn't just alter the country's political landscape—they systematically dismantled the legal and social reality for all women and girls. Through a continuous rollout of oppressive edicts, women and girls have been banned from universities, barred from working for NGOs, and forbidden from even speaking aloud in public spaces. International legal experts and activists are increasingly calling this reality gender apartheid. In this episode, we sit down with Rina Amiri, top diplomat and former U.S. Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights. Having spent decades navigating the complex world of conflict resolution and international peacebuilding at the UN and the State Department, Amiri brings an unparalleled level of insight to one of the most critical human rights crises of our time. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Arun Chauhan is an expert in investigations and fraud-based litigation in London. His company, Tenet Law, is a major disruptor in the field of fraud investigation and litigation, and as part of our ongoing innovation series, we wanted to find out from him how and why his firm is so successful. Today on the podcast we cover: The limits of employee trust as a compliance tool Arun's idea of a cutting-edge compliance playbook, And why NGOS and not for profits are uniquely at risk for financial crime. About the Show:Hosted by Hanjo Seibert, a leading expert in compliance, anti-financial crime and fraud, BCG on Compliance features interviews with heavy-hitters propelling compliance to the forefront of the industry. From crime prevention gurus to ethics champions, we'll ask provocative questions and bring you rich insights from the global players shaping the future of compliance, all in a dynamic and compact 20-minute episode.Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the field, BCG on Compliance is your quick, comprehensive guide. Join us as we explore the profound ways compliance is altering industries around the globe. And connect with us at bcgoncompliance@bcg.comNew episodes are released monthly. You can also find BCG on Compliance on YouTubeResearch LinksHanjo Seibert LinkedInBCG LinkedInBCG websitewww.tenetlaw.co.uk

Moderation Martin Gross/ Gesendet in Ö1 am 10.6.2026++Finanzminister Markus Marterbauer von der SPÖ hat heute Vormittag seine Budgetrede für das Doppelbudget 2027/28 gehalten. 5 Milliarden Euro müssen demnach eingespart werden, betroffen sind nahezu alle Bereiche. Die katholische Caritas und die evangelische Diakonie sehen beim nun vorgelegten Budget Licht- und Schattenseiten.++Vor der Fußball-WM warnen kirchliche Organisationen in Mexiko und den USA vor einem erhöhten Risiko von Menschenhandel und sexueller Ausbeutung. Zugleich bietet das Fußball-Weltereignis freilich auch enorme Chancen, etwa in Sachen Völkerverständigung oder im Bereich der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. (Andreas Mittendorfer)

Episode #551: Fred Stockwell arrived in Mae Sot by accident more than twenty years ago while traveling through Thailand to photograph temples, a wrong bus dropping him off in what was, at the time, a bustling border town filled with NGOs and young volunteers. Someone told him to visit the garbage dump, and a man drove him there by a route that felt deliberately hard to retrace. “It was like it was a secret where it was,” he recalls. At the dump, Burmese migrant families survived by salvaging and selling recyclables, building shelters from whatever they could pull from waste. “They were living on top of the garbage!” he says. “Everything they built was what they found in the garbage.” Before Mae Sot, his life had already been shaped by self-taught risk and logistics—having introduced paragliding in the U.S. through early testing and instruction, and later becoming the first person to fly in and photograph the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, doing so from the air, when ground access had largely collapsed. And now back in the United States after that first Mae Sot visit, the contrast stayed with him: a comfortable life at home, and a border world where small failures—transport, housing, medical access—could turn fatal. His mind now made up,he returned to Mae Sot, and the first step he points to is concrete: “You've got to start somewhere. I started with one kid,” he says, describing a girl “as close to death as you're ever going to get” and taking her to the hospital, then building outward through routines that held children in school, kept housing standing, and kept people connected to services they otherwise could not reach. The critique that follows stays procedural. People arrived wanting to help and then stalled, not from cruelty but because they lacked a method for what came next, and the same problem appeared in organizations that could arrive with structure and still fail to change the conditions at the dump, or elsewhere in the town. “I saw a lot of people here, no disrespect to them, that came in to help but didn't have a clue what to do.” He ties effectiveness to the pairing of resources and competence, and reduces the mismatch to a single blunt line. “There's a very large gap between the people that want to help and the people that need help. That gap is huge.”

In Nürnberg machen Migranten offenbar gezielt junge Mädchen drogensüchtig, um sie in eine sexuelle Abhängigkeit zu zwingen. Hintergrundinformationen hat die „Nius“-Journalistin Janina Lionello. Recherchen in Österreich legen nahe, dass steuerfinanzierte NGOS gemeinsam mit Behörden und Justiz ein Asyl-Netzwerk gesponnen haben. Über das Thema berichtet Dr. Friedrich Kinzlbaur, ehemaliger Asylrichter am Bundesverwaltungsgericht. Der Konflikt zwischen China und Taiwan spitzt sich weiter zu. Den Stand der Lage erläutert China-Experte Jonas Greindberg. Und Dr. Thomas Hartung kommentiert den „Hitzesommer“, der uns auch im Juni als apokalyptisch und brandgefährlich verkauft wird.

(0:00) Intro (0:02) Khutba, aakhri aayaat Surah Ma'arij aur dua (0:39) Eid ul Azha par zyada gosht khane ke sath lemon ka istemal (1:05) Nashukri: gumrahi ki bunyad (1:35) Mufti Taqi Usmani sahab ka shaitan ke bare mein qoul (2:59) Shaitan ka tareeqa-e-wardat (3:35) Mohsin ke maqrooz hona (4:06) Qarza lene walay damad ka case (5:07) Kisi ko qarza de kar wapas milne ki umeed na rakhna (7:06) Nashukri ka marz (7:34) Mohsin se dabna insani fitrat hai (8:30) NGOs ka tareeqa-e-kaar: logon ko apne mazhab par lana (9:20) Allah ka ehsan pehle hai, logon ka baad mein (9:40) Shaitan ka challenge: insan ko nashukra banana (10:51) Liberalism ka hasil: jis ke ehsanaat sab se zyada, uski nashukri sab se zyada (12:27) Nashukri ke darjaat (12:41) Nashukri ka pehla darja: ehsan ka badla delay karna (13:21) Nashukri ka doosra darja: ehsan ka badla kam dena (14:00) Nashukri ka teesra darja: ehsan ka badla na dena (14:59) Nashukri ka chautha darja: mohsin ka ehsan na maanna (15:38) New generation ka walidain se takabbur wala sulook (18:03) Nashukri ka bara darja: mohsin ke ehsan ka inkar (18:43) Nashukri ka badtareen darja: mohsin ka ehsan bhool jana (19:16) Mannat aur kanjoos se paisa nikalwane ka zariya (23:35) Walidain ki nashukri (23:55) Shohar ki nashukri (24:56) Adalti khula ka business (26:22) Allah ke inkari logon ke liye Surah Kahaf ki second last aayat (27:01) Allah ki ne'matein (28:48) Allah ke ehsanaat ka badla: 5 waqt farz namaz (29:03) Sood se bachna (29:09) Zina ki offer ko nikah mein badalna (29:37) Allah ki ne'maton mein dooba insan nashukra kyun? (29:59) Educated liberals ki shaitani chalein (30:26) Allah ki qudrat ke shahkaar (31:28) Nanga Parbat ki pahariyon par Mufti sahab ka tajziya (31:47) Allah ke inkari logon ka nazriya (33:47) Shukar guzari ki ne'mat (34:53) Iftari ke waqt Allah ka shukar (36:04) Khulasa bayan aur dua (37:00) Eid ul Azha ke 4th day roza rakhna? (38:14) Sunnat rozay (39:03) Rozay ka asool (40:21) Musalsal rozon mein multivitamin khana (41:12) Rayyan: rozedaron ke liye Jannat ka darwaza (41:46) Behen ki adopted beti ka aqeeqa kis ke zimay? (42:14) Ulama-e-Soo ki pehchan kaise karein? (43:50) Non-duty mobile ka jugaarr? (44:26) Jis kaam ki taqat ho woh kaam karo — hadith ka matlab (45:45) Har waqt kamai ki fikr karne wala (48:52) Tablighi Jamaat (49:21) Khawateen ka tabligh mein jana? (50:22) Imam Abu Hanifa (RA) ke 40 saal Isha ke wazu se Fajar parhne ka matlab (51:51) Mufti sahab kursi par baith kar masail kyun batate hain? (52:52) Waseem Akram ne Hajj par rami bowling style mein kyun ki? (57:50) Shadi par lifafay dena? (58:22) Nabi ﷺ se zyada Ibrahim (AS) se muhabbat ka waswasa (59:01) Qarzdar qarza ada na kare aur qurbani kare to? (59:07) Agar biwi shohar ko qareeb na aane de to? (59:26) Bachay ko baap chhor kar chala jaye to? (1:08:31) Pakistan ki mojooda hukumat taqat ke bawajood Islam nafiz kyun nahi karti? (1:10:23) Zameen se mila mobile bechna? (1:10:59) State ke khilaf baghawat ki jaiz surat? (1:12:13) Sahil Adeem ko jawab (1:15:08) 313 ne 1000 se ladai ki, to humein hukm kyun nahi? (1:16:38) Ghazwa-e-Uhud, Ghazwa-e-Khandaq aur Sulah Hudaibiya mein Nabi ﷺ ki strategy (1:17:55) Difaai jihad vs iqdami jihad (1:18:52) Mufti sahab ko sarkari molvi kehne walay (1:19:07) Imam Hussain (RA) aur Hazrat Musa (AS) ki baghawat ka hawala dene walay (1:20:08) Pakistan mein khilafat ke naam par nafrat phelane walay Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Allied Health Business Brilliance, Cathy Love is joined by Layland Webb, Business Manager at Nacre Consulting, for a timely conversation recorded during a significant week of sector change, policy discussion and budget anticipation.Cathy and Layland unpack the early signals emerging from the New South Wales procurement model, the likely implications for Thriving Kids, and what Allied Health Business Owners need to be thinking about now.This conversation goes beyond clinical service delivery. It looks at governance, evidence, risk exposure, diversification, subcontracting opportunities, government expectations, and the growing need for Allied Health businesses to operate with stronger commercial sophistication.For business owners watching NDIS reform, Thriving Kids, state budgets and procurement decisions unfold, this episode is a clear reminder: waiting quietly is not a strategy.Topics covered on clinical governance, business exposure, and diversification of Allied Health business:Governance is non-negotiable – Allied Health businesses need clear structures, reporting, evidence and risk management to be taken seriously in future contracting environments.Knowing your business risk exposure – why owners need to understand their revenue, referral, workforce and service model risks before reform impacts land.Diversification requires strategic business mindset – Explore future opportunities across schools, government, NGOs, subcontracting and existing business IP beyond direct clinical delivery.P.S. If this episode is hitting on pain points you're facing, let's chat. We can support you.Book a 20-minute complimentary call with us, and let's talk about how we can help you achieve your vision for your Allied Health business.Midroll Message: Have a great podcast idea or know someone who should be part of the conversation? Email podcast@nacre.com.auConnect with Nacre Consulting:Let's connect on InstagramFollow us on FacebookLet's connect on LinkedInJoin our Facebook Group online communityMore about The Allied Health Business Brilliance Podcast:The Allied Health Business Brilliance podcast (previously known as Private Practice Made Perfect) powered by Nacre Consulting features authentic conversations that offer real-life stories and expert perspectives for Australian Allied Health Business Owners. Cathy Love, our engaging host, gathers wisdom from Allied Health professionals and industry supporters alike.We dive into the real experiences of running and growing Allied Health businesses in Australia, revealing both the rewards and the inevitable challenges along the way. It's raw, sometimes vulnerable, but always valuable. Join us and stay tuned to keep up with every inspiring story and lesson shared.

This episode is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks the US government is just enforcing laws without bias. The speaker delves into the world of the Department of Homeland Security and the recent Delaney Hall ice facility incident, where Antifa and other radical groups are involved in violent protests. You'll hear about the funding behind these groups and how they're using taxpayer dollars to spread chaos. The conversation touches on the importance of understanding the protest industrial complex and how it's being fueled by NGOs and billionaire donors like George Soros. The speaker also discusses the need for a harsher law enforcement effort to tackle these groups, comparing it to the January 6th insurrection. You'll hear about the role of politicians like Governor Murphy and the governor of New Jersey, who initially didn't want to help law enforcement, but eventually came around after being threatened with consequences. The speaker also shares a clip from the White House, revealing the names of NGOs funding Antifa and the riots. You'll learn about the network of organizations involved and how they're using taxpayer dollars to fund their activities. The conversation also touches on the need for a mass-scale law enforcement effort to crack down on these groups. If you're concerned about the state of our country and the influence of radical groups, this episode is a must-listen. The speaker shares a wealth of information and insights that will leave you questioning the true intentions of those in power. Tune in to hear the full conversation and learn more about the protest industrial complex and its impact on our society. Follow Carl Jackson:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carljacksonradioX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/carljacksonshowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecarljacksonshowWebsite: http://www.TheCarlJacksonShow.comStore: https://CarlJacksonStore.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks the US government is just enforcing laws without bias. The speaker delves into the world of the Department of Homeland Security and the recent Delaney Hall ice facility incident, where Antifa and other radical groups are involved in violent protests. You'll hear about the funding behind these groups and how they're using taxpayer dollars to spread chaos. The conversation touches on the importance of understanding the protest industrial complex and how it's being fueled by NGOs and billionaire donors like George Soros. The speaker also discusses the need for a harsher law enforcement effort to tackle these groups, comparing it to the January 6th insurrection. You'll hear about the role of politicians like Governor Murphy and the governor of New Jersey, who initially didn't want to help law enforcement, but eventually came around after being threatened with consequences. The speaker also shares a clip from the White House, revealing the names of NGOs funding Antifa and the riots. You'll learn about the network of organizations involved and how they're using taxpayer dollars to fund their activities. The conversation also touches on the need for a mass-scale law enforcement effort to crack down on these groups. If you're concerned about the state of our country and the influence of radical groups, this episode is a must-listen. The speaker shares a wealth of information and insights that will leave you questioning the true intentions of those in power. Tune in to hear the full conversation and learn more about the protest industrial complex and its impact on our society. Follow Carl Jackson:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carljacksonradioX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/carljacksonshowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecarljacksonshowWebsite: http://www.TheCarlJacksonShow.comStore: https://CarlJacksonStore.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Talking with extraordinary artist, futurist, and shitposter Daniel Keller to tell the tale of the LA Mayor race and why this election is truly definitive of our time. It's got it all: * Wildly swinging prediction markets * Independently created AI viral ads* Public unions* “The West Coast Mamdani” * Ballot Harvesting and Mail In Ballot Shenanigans like the world has never seenAlso, check out this Carousel story from four long years ago breaking down the public unions and NGOs behind the Karen Bass machine. Freshly unpaywalled. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecarousel.substack.com/subscribe

Exploring Hidden Histories, Technology, and Cultural Quirks - June 3rd, 2026 Discover a wide-ranging conversation covering everything from ancient symbolism and controversial historical insights to modern tech innovations and societal oddities. This episode unpacks complex topics with a mix of humor, skepticism, and curiosity, appealing to those interested in deep dives into conspiracy theories, cultural observations, and technological breakthroughs. 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In this episode of Capital for Good we speak with Bob Steel, partner and vice chairman of Perella Weinberg Partners, whose career has spanned the pinnacles of business, government and nonprofit leadership. Following nearly three decades at Goldman Sachs, Steel held senior roles at the US Treasury, as Under Secretary for Domestic Finance under President George W. Bush, and in New York City government as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development under Mike Bloomberg; was CEO of Wachovia Corporation and Perella Weinberg; and along the way has served on numerous boards, corporate and civic, including at major universities like Duke, important ideas and policy organizations like the Aspen Institute, and several of New York City's anchor institutions. We begin with some of the formative individuals and institutions that would shape Steel's trajectory: his parents, who set an example of service to their North Carolina community; the attention of Dr. Joel Fleishman, a Duke Professor who challenged Steel to become a more engaged student; and the opportunity to join Goldman Sachs in 1976 when John Whitehead and John Weinberg took over the leadership of the firm. "I got on the bus at the right time," Steel says. Steel describes what it was like to work at Goldman Sachs in a period of extraordinary growth and globalization. Over close to three decades, he built several businesses across the US and Europe — "multiple careers in one institution" — and ultimately served as the firm's vice chairman and member of its management committee. "The moral of the story," he observes, "is that well-led firms that are growing create opportunities that are pretty special." In 2006, at the urging of fellow Goldman Sachs partner — and recently confirmed US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson — Steel went to Treasury to serve as Under Secretary for Domestic Finance. Within a year, the country was in the throes of the financial crisis, and with the support of Paulson and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, Steel and his colleagues labored to prevent the worst impacts of the crisis on the American people, and to begin to steer the economy to more stable ground. After Treasury, Steel returned to the private sector as CEO of Wachovia, where he led the bank's sale to Wells Fargo. Soon after Mike Bloomberg recruited him to serve as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, where he would oversee the administration's five borough economic development strategy and job creation efforts across more than a dozen city agencies: tens of thousands of employees and billions of dollars in annual operating budgets. We discuss a number of the major initiatives that Steel and the Bloomberg team undertook, among them the creation of the Cornell Technion campus, today a center of applied science in the city and region. We also discuss Mayor Bloomberg's vision for long-term investments, and the latitude given to an exceptional and collegial cohort of talented commissioners. "It might be my best job ever, I learned so much," Steel says. Through these experiences, Steel has come to understand the distinct but complementary roles of the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, and their respective and mutually supportive "vectors of leverage." "You can't have successful business without government," he believes, "and you can't have good government without successful businesses. And then you add NGOs that provide exceptional seasoning and consciousness that is beneficial." Although no longer at city hall, Steel remains deeply involved in the life of the city, with board roles at Lincoln Center, Rockefeller University, the Hospital for Special Surgery, the Economic Club of New York, the Partnership for New York City, The Morgan Library, and the New York Climate Exchange. We touch on New York's recovery from the pandemic; why some of today's challenges, including affordability, are a function of the city's success (i.e., not enough housing for all the people who want to be in New York); the competition from smaller cities across the country as attractive places to live and work; and the opportunity and imperative to make long-term investments in the city's future: schools, infrastructure, arts, parks, among them.  We conclude where the conversation began: "I'm so appreciative of the organizations and people that helped me grow," Steel says. "If you did a balance of trade, I've gained so much more than I gave that I feel incredibly fortunate."   Mentioned in this episode: Cornell Tech  

Today on Steel News, Ann Vandersteel is joined by Arizona court watcher and disability-rights advocate Malinda Sherwyn for a critical investigation into the machinery of America's family courts.Using the Geovanna Holton case out of Pima County, Arizona as an illustrative example, this episode examines allegations of denied due process, coerced psychotropic drugging, ADA accommodation violations, denial of kinship placement, and the devastating consequences of court-ordered treatment when parents are labeled “incompetent,” “unstable,” “noncompliant,” or “a danger to themselves or others.”This is not just one family's story. This is a window into a much larger system involving juvenile courts, CPS, DCF, guardianship courts, court-appointed professionals, NGOs, medical contractors, psychiatric evaluators, foster-care networks, adoption pipelines, and government-funded actors who may profit when families are separated.The question today:Is the family court system broken — or is it operating exactly as designed?

In this episode of 50 Shades of Green, hosts Adam and Katie chat with Cecilia Brenner, Managing Director of Design for Good, about how design skills are being mobilized globally to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Design for Good is a global non-profit that convenes a global alliance of companies, design schools and NGOs to co-create open-source solutions for real community problems. Cecilia explains their two-year SDG cycles (past: clean water & sanitation; current: quality education; upcoming: people and planet health combining SDGs 3 & 13), and how local NGOs provide briefs and community access while volunteer designers form cross-functional task forces to prototype, validate and implement solutions.Key themes:Open-source approach: How alliance members waive IP so solutions can be adapted and scaled, shifting from ownership to shared impact.Practical impact: Learning about campaigns like a water-saving social media initiative which reached millions;Design practices: How they co-design with communities, systems thinking, life-centered and regenerative design, and treating climate impacts as design constraints rather than afterthoughts.Capacity-building: Updates of how a partnership with the Royal College of Art and the Design for Good Academy has trained over 1,200 designers to design for measurable impact, including sustainability and AI ethics topics.Scale and ambition: Find out how over 2,000 designers mobilized across 30 countries with a goal to improve 10 million lives and help regenerate the planet by 2030. You can find out more about Design for Good here: https://www.designforgood.org/Fifty Shades of Green is produced by Climate Group North America and recorded in New York City. Climate Group is a non-profit with a global impact. You can support this podcast and our wider work here: https://support.theclimategroup.org/give/280085/#!/donation/checkout Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sam Rose, Director of Planning at UNRWA, provides a frontline assessment of the humanitarian situation in Gaza and reflects on the immense challenges facing humanitarian organisations operating in the territory.Drawing on his experience working in Gaza between early 2024 and March 2025, Rose examines the realities facing civilians after nearly three years of conflict, the pressures on humanitarian agencies, and the wider political context shaping the crisis.The session explores:The continuing humanitarian emergency in Gaza despite the reduction in large-scale hostilities.The role of UNRWA and the challenges it faces in maintaining services under political, operational and financial pressure.Conditions experienced by displaced Palestinians, including shelter, sanitation, water and food insecurity.The long-term impact of displacement and the cumulative effects of years of conflict on Gaza's population.Public health concerns, including disease outbreaks, malnutrition, environmental hazards and the collapse of basic infrastructure.The difficulties humanitarian agencies face in delivering assistance and restoring essential services.The importance of education and the efforts made to return children to learning despite extraordinary obstacles.The humanitarian consequences of territorial restrictions, displacement and loss of access to agricultural land and resources.The pressures facing international NGOs, UN agencies and humanitarian workers operating in Gaza.The relationship between humanitarian conditions and the broader political realities of occupation, sovereignty and self-determination.Rose argues that while humanitarian organisations continue to provide essential support, the crisis cannot be understood solely through a humanitarian lens. He emphasises that the conditions facing Palestinians are rooted in broader political questions relating to rights, accountability, self-determination and international law.He also reflects on the resilience of Gaza's population, describing efforts by families, teachers, healthcare workers and humanitarian staff to maintain daily life and essential services despite extraordinary hardship.The presentation concludes with a warning that the consequences of policies and practices tested in Gaza may have implications far beyond Palestine, making accountability and international legal protections increasingly important for humanitarian work worldwide.Recorded at the Britain Palestine Project annual conference, Recognition is the Beginning, held at the Greenwood Theatre, London, on 2 June 2026.Sam Rose is Director of Planning at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). He has worked extensively on humanitarian operations, emergency response and development programmes across the Middle East and has spent significant periods based in Gaza. Through his work with UNRWA, he has become a leading voice on the humanitarian situation facing Palestinian refugees and the challenges confronting international relief efforts in Gaza and the wider occupied Palestinian territory.

This week on The Food Professor Podcast, Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois sit down with Don Hill, Chairman of Sucro, for a rare inside look at one of the most significant investments in Canada's food manufacturing sector in decades. Sucro has quickly become one of North America's fastest-growing sugar companies, and its newly built Ontario refinery marks the first major new sugar-refining investment in Canada in generations. Don explains why Canada became Sucro's first major international investment market, how the company is challenging conventional thinking in a traditionally conservative industry, and why innovation, reinvestment, and operational efficiency are becoming critical competitive advantages in food manufacturing. The conversation explores the strategic role sugar plays in food production beyond sweetness, including shelf life, texture, functionality, product formulation, and cost management. Don also discusses how Sucro is navigating labour shortages, global trade disruptions, tariffs, supply chain volatility, and geopolitical uncertainty while building what he believes is the most modern and competitive sugar refinery in North America. Michael and Sylvain also dive into the impact of GLP-1 weight-loss medications on food consumption with Don, the opportunities and limitations of artificial intelligence in manufacturing, and why Canada remains an attractive destination for food production despite growing trade tensions and policy uncertainty. Don shares his perspective on the future of food manufacturing investment, North American competitiveness, and Sucro's plans for growth over the next decade. Before the interview, the hosts tackle another packed week of food and agriculture news. They discuss Canada's economic outlook and the debate over recession terminology, new research comparing household food spending across G20 countries, and the ongoing rise in food insecurity and food bank usage across Canada. The discussion also covers soaring tomato prices linked to North American trade disruptions, new revelations surrounding the Canada Royal Milk infant formula facility in Kingston, and concerns about transparency within Canada's supply-managed dairy sector. The episode also reflects on Metro CEO Eric La Flèche's retirement announcement, examining his lasting impact on Canadian grocery retailing and congratulating the highly skilled and experienced Marc Giroux on becoming the new CEO. Finally, Michael and Sylvain explore how some farmers are finding new revenue streams through YouTube and digital content creation, demonstrating the remarkable adaptability and entrepreneurial spirit of modern agriculture. About UsDr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Visiting Professor in Food Policy and Distribution at McGill University and a Professor in Food Distribution and Policy in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University.Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He is one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability with over 775 published peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Charlebois is also an editor for the prestigious Trends in Food Science Technology journal. He co-hosts The Food Professor podcast, discussing issues in the food, foodservice, grocery and restaurant industries and which is the most listened Canadian management podcast in Canada. Every year since 2012, he has published the now highly anticipated Canadian Food Price Report, which provides an overview of food price trends for the coming year. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, nationally as well as internationally. He has testified on several occasions before parliamentary committees on food policy-related issues as an expert witness. He has been asked to act as an advisor on food and agricultural policies in many Canadian provinces and other countries.With extensive experience collaborating with businesses, governments, and NGOs, Dr. Charlebois combines academic rigor with practical expertise, making him one of the most influential voices in the global agri-food landscape. His work continues to advance the understanding of food systems, fostering innovation and resilience in a rapidly evolving industry. In 2025, he received the prestigious Charles III medal recognizing his tremendous work in informing Canadians about food issues. Michael LeBlanc is a senior retail advisor, keynote speaker and media entrepreneur. Michael has delivered keynotes, hosted fire-side discussions hosted senior retail executive on-stage in 1:1 interviews worldwide. Michael produces and hosts a network of leading retail trade podcasts, including The Remarkable Retail Podcast, The Voice of Retail, The Food Professor, The FEED powered by Loblaw and the Global eCommerce Leaders podcast. He has been recognized by the National Retail Federation (NRF) as a global Top Retail Voice for 2025 and 2025, and continues to be a ReThink Retail Top Retail Expert for the fifth year in a row.

This is the first time in 18 years that Christoph Hilligen sees a possibility to radically change the way NGOs operate.As the CEO of World Vision Germany, he's already using AI to launch emergency appeals in HOURS and build personalized donor journeys. One of the most fascinating examples? His team uses predictive models to flag which donors may be at risk of canceling, so they can step in earlier and build stronger relationships.AI is definitely no longer optional, and the nonprofits who move faster, personalize better, and use their data to guide decisions will raise more and create more impact without risking falling behind. This is exactly the kind of case study I could have talked about with Christoph forever!Resources & LinksConnect with Christoph on LinkedIn and learn more about World Vision Germany on their website.Bloomerang is the proud presenter of Missions to Movements. See how one team surpassed a $1M match and raised $2.25M for their mission with Penny, Bloomerang's AI-powered fundraising strategist. Learn more at bloomerang.com.The Monthly Giving Builder: Generate your comprehensive monthly giving plan and build your program step by step - with a guided companion working alongside you from start to finish. Let's Connect!Send a DM on Instagram or LinkedIn and let us know what you think of the show!My book, The Monthly Giving Mastermind, is here! Grab a copy here and learn my framework to build, grow, and sustain subscriptions for good.Want to book Dana as a speaker for your event? Click here!

Sec. Scott Turner, former NFL player, former Texas State Rep, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, joined us on the Guy Benson Show today to discuss the record of failures from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to prevent homelessness and what he and the Trump administration are doing to bring results to the issue. Sec. Turner discussed why HUD is moving to a "merit based" system for providing funding, and why this system is meant to provide results to the homelessness issue. Listen to the full interview below! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

//The Wire//2300Z June 1, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: MASS WAVES OF MIGRANT CRIME REPORTED THROUGHOUT EUROPE. UNITED STATES CONDUCTS ADDITIONAL TARGETING OF IRAN, IRANIANS RESPOND BY TARGETING KUWAIT AGAIN. STABBING ATTACK REPORTED ON TRAIN IN ATLANTA. HENRY NOWAK MURDER BODY CAM FOOTAGE RELEASED.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE------International Events-Persian Gulf: Over the weekend, more mutual targeting efforts continued throughout the region. The targeting efforts began after an unidentified drone entered Iranian airspace, which was downed by the Iranians. Around the same time, the United States conducted an airstrike on the radio tower at the Iranian base on Sirik Island in the eastern Persian Gulf. An unidentified location in Gerak was also struck as well, which CENTCOM claims was serving as a drone launch site. After this wave of attacks, the Iranians launched two ballistics missiles toward the airbase that the attack was launched from, which they claim was Ali Al Salem Airbase in Kuwait. CENTCOM claimed that both missiles were intercepted. After the tit-for-tat targeting efforts were conducted on Saturday and Sunday, the United States and Iran continued their targeting efforts this morning. One merchant vessel (the MSC SARISKA V) was struck by an Iranian munition in the northern Persian Gulf, off the coast of Kuwait. Several hours after this first strike, the SARISKA reported being hit by a second munition, which caused a fire.Strait of Hormuz: Following the suspected mine detection off the coast of Oman that was reported on Friday, Omani Naval forces made visual contact with the mine, confirming it's coordinates at grid: 40RDQ3450820703. The mine appears to be a Maham-1 type device, a moored contact mine domestically produced within Iran.Lebanon: This afternoon President Trump stated on his social media accounts that he conducted a phone call with Prime Minister Netanyahu, which resulted in Israeli forces halting their advance to Beirut.Analyst Comment: It is extraordinarily unlikely that the advance has actually stopped, however the reference to Beirut itself is odd because the IDF is currently nowhere near the city and there was no indication that they were headed there anyway (the invasion has so far been confined to mostly the areas near the Israeli border, with the main line of advance crossing the Litani a few days ago). It would be no surprise whatsoever if the Israelis actually did want to occupy the entirety of Lebanon (as this has been stated by politicians many times). However, aspirations are harder to achieve on the battlefield and the IDF has been getting hit hard by FPV drones for weeks. Likewise, the large-scale bombing of Beirut has been the main retaliatory measure for these FPV drone attacks, and regardless of President Trump's phone call, the war continues as before. About 20 minutes after President Trump's post, Hezbollah launched rockets and Israeli forces bombed targets in Lebanon again, with neither side expressing interest in halting the fighting.France: Mass civil unrest broke out over the weekend, following the UEFA Champions League soccer match resulting in a win for France. Large scale riots were reported throughout Paris, which carried on into Sunday evening. Dozens of assaults were reported, including some reports of individuals being dragged from their vehicles by mobs of migrants and assaulted.Austria: Yesterday a woman was attacked by an unidentified assailant on a train in Vienna. Local witnesses state that a woman of foreign origin attacked a local Austrian woman in an unprovoked attack while on the subway. No arrests have been made so far regarding this attack.Germany: This morning a migrant mob attack was reported in the small town of Tuttlingen. The mob attack was reported in the vicinity of a bus stop in the town, and resulted in a mob attempting to beat a man to death in the street. The status of the victim remains unclear.Analyst Comment: Extreme levels of violence have become very common in small European towns, even quaint villages tucked away in the foothills of the Alps. Many of these towns are now serving as an above-ground railroad of sorts, funneling migrants en masse northward into Germany. Tuttlingen has become one of these such towns. The bus stations at many of these villages are now effectively no-go areas for many locals, as large volumes of migrants tend to congregate at the facilities as they are transported by NGOs throughout the continent.United Kingdom: This afternoon the bodycam footage of the murder of Henry Nowak was leaked. The footage is worse than what was described in court, and has already resulted in increased calls for police accountability regarding this case.Analyst Comment: While everyone is rightfully calling for police accountability in this case, it is important to remember that people who directly caused the murder are still free. Only the murderer and the chief accomplice (Digwa's mother) were convicted. Per the official press release from the Southampton Constabulary, two other people were arrested that night; Digwa's family members that even the police have admitted lied on the night of the attack, causing the delay that contributed to Nowak's murder. These two other family members have not been charged with any crime.-HomeFront-Georgia: Over the weekend another subway murder was reported in Atlanta. Local authorities state that one assailant stabbed a woman to death on a MARTA train in the vicinity of Oakland City station. The victim died at the scene, and locals claim it was an unprovoked random stabbing attack. The suspect has been identified as John Elijah Matthews, who was arrested at the scene shortly after the murder.Florida: A street takeover mob attack was reported in Clearwater Beach over the weekend. One individual shot another individual during a street confrontation on Coronado Drive, wounding one person.Analyst Comment: Other than the shooting, roving bands and mobs swarmed through Clearwater over the weekend, which is likely to get the attention of much more substantial crowd-control efforts due to this area being a very big vacation area at the height of tourism season.-----END TEARLINE-----Analyst Comments: In the Middle East, a pattern is beginning to emerge with regard to American targeting efforts in the region. CENTCOM is now conducting "self-defense" strikes on targets that are really stretching the definition of "self-defense", as per all prior CENTCOM targeting guidance. CENTCOM is claiming that since a radio tower was used at some point to support a drone strike, they can strike it in self-defense. The drones that are being launched by the Iranians throughout the region are very likely not being controlled from Sirik Island, but this outpost is probably being used by forward observers. This site was also probably used as a radio base to communicate with merchant shipping, and issue notices from the Iranians via radio.More broadly, these more recent targeting efforts also serve as an indicator for what the United States might be trying to do at a more strategic level. Within the past few days, the United States has twice launched offensive targeting efforts, while claiming to conduct a strike under "self-defense" criteria. This has now slipped into more of a "mowing the lawn" approach to targeting Iranian infrastructure, whereby every couple of days the US bombs something, then the Iranians counterattack, and the US clutches pearls and pretends like CENTCOM didn't start it in the first place. How long the Iranians will put up with this is purely up to them, but they also know that these smaller targeting efforts by the United States are probably intended to provoke a knee-jerk reaction and re-ignite the large-scale bombings of the war. Right now, the Iranians have a very powerful position, so they might not want to jeopardize kicking things off again based on a handful of strikes, but that option is always on the table. How things progress from here is anyone's guess, but every bomb that lands in Iran, and every missile that lands at an American base, is another step farther from the negotiating table.Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report. //END REPORT//

Episode 187 is a full call-in show, and the audience brings a lot. Jon Herold and Zak Paine open with the leaked Axios report claiming Trump called Netanyahu "fucking crazy" and told him he'd be in prison without him, plus a pointed takedown of Mark Levin's selective outrage about leaks only when they damage Israel. Max Southwest Patriot calls in with a tightly reasoned theory that the viral tick-box psyop was deliberately seeded to build demand for the Pfizer Lyme disease vaccine, walking through the week-by-week timeline from the first X post to Hannity to RFK Jr., and arguing NGOs are the laundering mechanism behind health scare operations. Rebelnator calls in to ask the question a lot of people are quietly thinking: have the Q drops and devolution framework made the MAGA movement dangerously passive? Jon and Zak give a layered, honest answer rather than a cheerleader response, including a frank acknowledgment that the movement must survive and outgrow Trump himself. Later callers dig into Art Bell's mysterious final broadcast in 2016, the NESARA grift, what the Founders would actually prescribe for fixing the republic, and a firsthand Brown Mountain Lights sighting from a Badlands cofounder who has footage.

On today's episode of The Alan Sanders Show, we expose the Grievance Industry: why government-funded NGOs are incentivized to manage problems rather than solve them, creating a self-perpetuating cycle of taxpayer waste and political kickbacks. We break down the Cobra Effect and lessons from the Founding Fathers. Plus, Megyn Kelly's latest "black pill" moment, Paul Krugman's unhinged call for "DeMAGAfication" of America, and Democrats cosplaying as serious leaders while avoiding real accountability. With fresh Trump administration fraud crackdowns gaining momentum, we discuss why the Left is panicking. Packed with analysis, history, and unfiltered commentary you won't hear anywhere else. Tune in for Ep. 106 and join the conversation. Please take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, X, Instagram, GETTR, TRUTH Social, TikTok, YouTube and Rumble by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. And, consider becoming a sponsor of the show by visiting my Patreon page!

On today's episode, we discuss a whirlwind of legal and political stories ranging from local elections to global power shifts, all filtered through the crew's characteristic mix of law, history, and sarcasm. They open with Tina Peters' possible commutation in Colorado and then dig into how vice presidential powers, Senate customs, and the “Garner precedent” could let the sitting VP wrest real procedural control from nominal leaders like John Thune. From there, the conversation ranges across 2028 primary polling (with “undecided” leading Democrats), Ken Paxton's Texas Senate run against a progressive pastor who says God is non‑binary, Florida's post‑DeSantis governor's race, and how NGOs and dark‑money networks allegedly reshape elections, from Colombia's surprise populist win to E. Jean Carroll's Trump lawsuit. The middle of the show hits culture‑war flashpoints—Oregon's proposed hunting and fishing ban, California NGOs handing out needles and fentanyl, a Democratic candidate with a Hitler tattoo, and Trump's idea to harden mail‑in voting by using his authority over the Postal Service to police envelope handling. In the final stretch, they contrast Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin struggles with Elon Musk's “Swiss‑Army‑knife” engineering approach at SpaceX and Starlink, argue that rocket science is the ultimate practical discipline, and close by inviting listeners to email the show with news topics, critiques, and conspiracies for future episodes. Don't miss it!

Spencer Pratt just took the lead over Karen Bass in a shocking new poll one day before the LA mayor's primary — and then sat down with Bill Maher and absolutely dismantled the homeless industrial complex on camera. Pratt exposed tax-funded NGOs caught handing out fentanyl needles and crack pipes to addicts on LA streets, revealed that 60% of LA's homeless were brought in from out of state by body brokers, and delivered the line of the campaign when Maher tried to lecture him about solar panels. For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 580-308-0975 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go https://askchapter.org/oconnor *Paid Partnership* SHOP OUR MERCH: https://store.townhallmedia.com/ BUY A LARRY MUG: https://store.townhallmedia.com/products/larry-mug Watch LARRY with Larry O'Connor LIVE — Monday-Thursday at 12PM Eastern on YouTube, Facebook, & Rumble! Find LARRY with Larry O'Connor wherever you get your podcasts! SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7i8F7K4fqIDmqZSIHJNhMh?si=814ce2f8478944c0&nd=1&dlsi=e799ca22e81b456f APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/larry/id1730596733 Become a Townhall VIP Member today and use promo code LARRY for 50% off: https://townhall.com/subscribe?tpcc=poddescription https://townhall.com/ https://rumble.com/c/c-5769468 https://www.facebook.com/townhallcom/ https://www.instagram.com/townhallmedia/ https://twitter.com/townhallcom Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of The First Day from The Fund Raising School, Bill Stanczykiewicz, Ed.D., welcomes Neelam Makhijani, Director of Strategy and Operations for SUVIDHA, for a lively and practical conversation about blended financing; bringing different kinds of funders together to create long-term social impact. Neelam explains that blended financing combines private capital, government support, community resources, philanthropy, and sometimes market investment so nonprofits can use one source of funding as a catalyst to attract others. In other words: one dollar walks into the room, brings friends, and suddenly impact has a much bigger dance floor. Bill and Neelam explore why this approach is a gamechanger for nonprofits and NGOs. Unlike traditional grants, where organizations often receive money upfront and then report back later, many blended financing models focus on outcomes. The pressure shifts from “Here is what we plan to do” to “Here is what we actually achieved.” Neelam notes that investors may accept smaller financial returns because they also want social good, using tools like impact bonds, guarantees, and revolving funds. The key is designing the model well and defining outputs clearly, because “behavior change” may sound lovely on a brochure, but investors still need something more measurable than vibes in a spreadsheet. The conversation comes alive through examples. Bill shares the story of a donor who invested $300,000 to help an NGO build three affordable homes. Families rent the homes below market rate, eventually buy them, and then the money goes right back into building more houses. That is not a one-time gift; that is a philanthropic boomerang with a hard hat. Neelam offers another example from Mumbai, where women received small amounts of startup capital, sometimes just $300 or $400, to launch shops, salons, embroidery businesses, or poultry enterprises. By combining donor support, personal investment, and bank loans, these women became credit-ready, built income, gained dignity and decision-making power, and created ripple effects for their children and communities. Bill and Neelam close by turning to what nonprofits need in order to participate in blended financing responsibly. Neelam emphasizes that organizations need enough size and financial stability to absorb some risk, strong strategy, solid technical expertise, and robust monitoring and evaluation systems. Boards may need more business experience, staff may need stronger financial skills, and leaders must be willing to think like entrepreneurs without losing sight of mission. The takeaway is clear: blended financing is not just another fundraising trick hiding in a nonprofit magician's hat. Done well, it can diversify revenue, attract new partners, recycle dollars for ongoing impact, and help nonprofits move from “please fund our project” to “invest in our mission.”

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The Tenpenny Files – Rachel Ehrenfeld joins Dr. Tenpenny to examine The Soros Agenda under George Soros, tracing alleged influence networks tied to politics, prosecutors, NGOs, media narratives, immigration activism, criminal justice campaigns, terrorism financing, and free speech. The conversation raises urgent questions about coordinated institutional pressure, public trust, sovereignty, and America's future direction..

In this episode of John Solomon Reports, we delve into the implications of Ken Paxton's recent victory in the Texas Senate runoff, highlighting the significant influence of President Trump's endorsement in shaping the political landscape. Texas Congressman Brandon Gill joins John to discuss the importance of accountability among elected representatives and the ongoing efforts to expose institutional fraud through the newly formed House GOP task force. They explore the alarming revelations regarding NGOs that misuse taxpayer funds and the need for stricter regulations to combat immigration fraud, particularly in the context of birth tourism.The conversation shifts to the role of the courts in restoring sanity to the electoral process, with a focus on recent victories for Republicans in redistricting cases in Missouri and North Carolina. C.J. Pearson, a Gen Z activist and political strategist, shares his insights on the evolving dynamics within the Republican Party and the necessity of addressing issues like credit card swipe fees that impact everyday Americans.Lastly, John welcomes Dr. Chad Walding, co-founder of NativePath, who sheds light on the often-overlooked issue of hydration and its critical importance for overall health. Together, they discuss how chronic underhydration can affect various bodily systems and the benefits of using Native Hydrate to improve hydration efficiency.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Linda, Noah and Judah Ari Gross talk about the war with Iran and the peace with Gaza, and how US President Donald Trump's diplomatic ADD makes it close to impossible for anything good to come of our miserable wars. For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: The last time our dollars bought so few shekels (and our shekels bought so many dollars), it was before we could dial up the internet, and around the time Mario first got his Kart. What's it mean (hint: diminished retirements for some, and boarded-up NGOs). Plus: Drawing hope from frogs, philanthropists and hotel buffet breakfasts. And some great new music.

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The coming political upheaval: Deep State, the NSA, and global secrets 94:18 - The significance of Trump's recent posts about control and disclosure 97:37 - AI sentience, gene editing, and the future of human-machine integration 104:23 - The increasing influence of cartels, drug labs, and secret operations in the West 107:54 - Wrap-up: societal control, secret societies, and the future of freedom

DESCRIPTION New fraud revelations continue pouring out as the Trump administration and DOGE uncover billions in questionable payments, fraudulent loans, and alleged abuse of taxpayer-funded programs. Tara and Lee break down shocking welfare overpayment figures, fraudulent PPP loans, controversial California legislation critics call the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” and growing battles over redistricting in South Carolina and Texas politics. Plus, explosive claims about NGOs, food stamp fraud, and why conservatives say the political establishment is panicking as investigations ramp up. OPENING TEASE Every single day another jaw-dropping fraud number drops — billions in welfare overpayments, fraudulent PPP loans, fake nonprofits, and now even allegations of food stamp scams stretching overseas. Meanwhile critics say Democrats are trying to criminalize citizen journalism and silence investigators exposing the system. Tara and Lee unpack the latest political firestorm. SEGMENT BREAKDOWN SEGMENT 1 — DOGE STILL OPERATING? Discussion about Elon Musk confirming DOGE operations continue behind the scenes Claims that fraud investigations are accelerating daily Stephen Miller statement suggesting fraud crackdowns could significantly reduce national debt Debate over Medicaid and welfare “overpayments” versus outright fraud SEGMENT 2 — SHOCKING FRAUD NUMBERS $186 billion in alleged welfare and Medicaid overpayments discussed Claims of trillions lost to fraud since 2003 SBA announcement regarding fraudulent PPP loans Discussion of criminal prosecutions and recovery efforts underway SEGMENT 3 — CALIFORNIA'S “STOP NICK SHIRLEY ACT” Criticism of proposed California legislation targeting citizen journalism Debate over nonprofit oversight and investigative reporting Concerns raised about penalties for sharing investigative footage online Discussion surrounding immigrant nonprofits and transparency SEGMENT 4 — SOUTH CAROLINA REDISTRICTING WAR Shane Massey criticized over opposition to Republican redistricting efforts Debate over congressional maps and party representation Hosts argue Republicans are failing to maximize political advantage Discussion of South Carolina tax policies and state leadership frustrations SEGMENT 5 — TEXAS CULTURE WAR HEATS UP Debate over Texas candidate James Talarico and church library materials Discussion of gender identity books and LGBTQ topics aimed at youth Vegan campaign clip controversy revisited Broader conversation about cultural battles inside American politics SEGMENT 6 — FOOD STAMP FRAUD & NGO NETWORKS Allegations involving food stamp fraud schemes in Massachusetts Discussion about NGOs allegedly avoiding federal oversight Claims that Democrat-controlled states resist sharing program data Debate over immigration, welfare systems, and taxpayer accountability KEY TALKING POINTS DOGE investigations allegedly uncovering billions in fraud Welfare overpayments versus organized fraud operations PPP loan fraud prosecutions increasing California bill targeting investigative journalism sparks backlash South Carolina Republicans divided on redistricting strategy Texas political and cultural battles intensifying Food stamp fraud allegations tied to immigrant communities NGOs and government accountability under scrutiny QUOTE OF THE DAY “Every single day another shocking fraud number drops — billions here, billions there, and nobody can believe how deep it goes.” THUMBNAIL TEXT OPTIONS BILLIONS STOLEN? DOGE UNCOVERS MORE FRAUD THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE THIS MASSIVE WELFARE SCAM? DEMOCRATS IN PANIC MODE THE FRAUD NEVER ENDS SEO KEYWORDS DOGE fraud investigation, Trump administration fraud crackdown, PPP loan fraud, Medicaid overpayments, welfare fraud, California journalism bill, Nick Shirley Act, Shane Massey redistricting, South Carolina politics, Texas politics, James Talarico controversy, NGO fraud allegations, food stamp fraud, Elon Musk DOGE, JD Vance fraud investigation SOCIAL MEDIA CLIP TITLES “DOGE Just F ...

DESCRIPTION Today's broadcast dives into explosive new allegations of government waste, fraud, and abuse uncovered by the Trump administration and DOGE investigators. Tara and Lee break down jaw-dropping figures involving welfare overpayments, fraudulent SBA loans, fake nonprofits, Medicaid abuse, and taxpayer-funded NGO schemes that allegedly siphoned hundreds of billions from the federal government. The show also covers California legislation critics say would criminalize investigative journalism targeting nonprofit fraud, plus growing outrage over activist groups receiving taxpayer money while journalists and whistleblowers face intimidation. SUMMARY This episode focuses on the Trump administration's aggressive anti-fraud campaign and the staggering amounts of taxpayer money allegedly lost through government programs over the last two decades. Tara highlights claims that trillions may have been stolen through welfare fraud, Medicaid abuse, fake nonprofit organizations, and fraudulent COVID-era SBA loans. The conversation also examines the political implications of the crackdown, including accusations that Democratic officials ignored or protected fraud networks tied to activist organizations and NGOs. Tara argues new legislation in California targeting citizen journalists and nonprofit investigations reflects growing panic among political elites as public scrutiny intensifies. The show closes with discussion about DOGE operations continuing behind the scenes, federal prosecutions expanding nationwide, and the broader debate over government accountability and taxpayer transparency. KEY TOPICS DOGE fraud investigations SBA loan fraud allegations Medicaid and welfare overpayments NGO funding controversy California journalism legislation Government waste and abuse Federal fraud prosecutions Immigration nonprofit scrutiny Biden administration oversight criticism Trump administration anti-fraud efforts SEGMENT HIGHLIGHTS “DOGE Never Went Away” Tara discusses claims that DOGE investigators are still actively uncovering major fraud operations inside federal agencies. “$186 Billion In Overpayments” Breakdown of massive welfare and Medicaid overpayment figures reportedly tied to ineligible recipients. “The $200 Billion SBA Bombshell” Reaction to new allegations involving fraudulent PPP and SBA loan programs. “California's War On Citizen Journalists” Discussion about controversial legislation critics say would punish investigative reporting targeting nonprofit misconduct. “The NGO Money Pipeline” Tara explains claims that taxpayer money was routed through activist organizations and nonprofits with little federal oversight. QUOTE OF THE DAY “They are trying to criminalize journalism because the fraud is finally being exposed.” SOCIAL MEDIA TEASER Every day brings another MASSIVE fraud revelation. Tara breaks down the exploding DOGE investigations, billions in alleged government waste, California's push to silence citizen journalists, and why Democrats are panicking as prosecutions ramp up.

In this episode of 50 Shades of Green, Adam and Katie sit down with Jamil Wine, founder of the Hazelwood Network, for a wide‑ranging conversation about climate finance and climate tech—from the fast‑moving innovation hubs of the Middle East to the practical realities of scaling solutions in vulnerable countries. Jamil traces his accidental entry into climate work, explains why regions like the Gulf are both urgent hot spots and hubs of ingenuity, and lays out the “ecosystem” ingredients—talent, diverse capital, governance and markets—needed to build climate tech at scale. He shares lessons from advising governments, NGOs and corporations, reflects on how necessity drives invention in the world's most affected places, and offers actionable career advice for young people: build social capital, embrace networking, and be willing to fail. The conversation also spotlights adaptation and resilience as growing investment priorities and ends on an optimistic note about cross‑sector collaboration and the role events like Climate Week NYC play in accelerating action. Practical, hopeful and full of on‑the‑ground insight, this episode is a must‑listen for anyone curious about where climate innovation is happening—and how to get involved. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DESCRIPTION Tara breaks down what she calls the final destruction of the Bush-era globalist machine after Ken Paxton's landslide victory over John Cornyn in Texas. From open borders and NGO investigations to corporate donor influence and GOP establishment politics, Tara says the movement that reshaped Republican politics for decades was finally crushed where it began. PODCAST SUMMARY On today's AMPERWAVE DAILY, Tara reacts to Ken Paxton's overwhelming primary victory over Senator John Cornyn, describing it as the political annihilation of the Bush-era globalist movement inside the Republican Party. Tara argues the race was never simply about one Senate seat, but about the survival of a political machine built around open borders, corporate donor influence, and internationalist policies dating back to George W. Bush's time as governor of Texas. According to Tara, Texas became the birthplace of modern Republican globalism when border enforcement policies changed under the Bush administration, creating what she describes as a pathway for mass illegal immigration. The episode details the enormous financial effort mounted against Paxton, with establishment GOP donors reportedly spending over $100 million to protect Cornyn and preserve the remaining influence of the Bush political network. Tara says Paxton became the establishment's biggest threat after targeting NGOs accused of facilitating illegal immigration and voter registration operations inside Texas. The show also revisits Paxton's impeachment battle, investigations involving the Biden DOJ, and tensions between Donald Trump, Senate Republicans, and the SAVE Act. Tara praises Paxton's political strategy, arguing he exposed establishment resistance to voter integrity reforms and forced national Republicans into a difficult position. Attention then turns to South Carolina, where Tara claims remnants of the Bush political machine still dominate Republican politics through establishment leadership, open primaries, and donor influence. Lindsey Graham, Henry McMaster, and other establishment Republicans are accused of preserving the same political structure that voters rejected in Texas. The episode closes with a warning that establishment Republicans are attempting to regroup nationally, but Tara argues the Texas result may signal the irreversible collapse of Bush-era globalism inside the GOP. KEY TOPICS Ken Paxton vs. John Cornyn Bush machine collapse Republican globalism debate Open borders controversy SAVE Act and voter ID NGO investigations in Texas GOP establishment donors Karl Rove and Bush-era politics South Carolina Republican politics Lindsey Graham criticism Henry McMaster backlash Donald Trump and Senate Republicans SEGMENTS Segment 1: “Absolute Annihilation in Texas” Tara reacts to Ken Paxton's massive victory and says the Bush political machine suffered a historic defeat. Segment 2: How Globalism Started in Texas A breakdown of the Bush-era border policies and internationalist politics Tara says transformed the Republican Party. Segment 3: Paxton vs. The Establishment Discussion centers on impeachment efforts, DOJ investigations, and establishment attempts to politically destroy Paxton. Segment 4: The SAVE Act & Senate Resistance Tara explains why Paxton's challenge to Senate Republicans over election integrity became a defining issue in the race. Segment 5: South Carolina: The Last Bush Stronghold Tara argues establishment Republican influence remains deeply entrenched in South Carolina politics. QUOTE OF THE DAY “Globalism was born in Texas, and it died in Texas last night.” SEO KEYWORDS Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, Bush machine, globalism, Tara Servatius, SAVE Act, Texas politics, Donald Trump, Karl Rove, Lindsey Graham, Henry McMaster, GOP establishment, border security, conservative talk radio, AMPERWAVE DAILY

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Ken Paxton's landslide victory over John Cornyn is being called the final blow to the Bush-era globalist machine inside the GOP. Tara breaks down the political earthquake in Texas, the collapse of the establishment donor network, and why the fight is now shifting directly to South Carolina. Plus: explosive allegations involving Democrat activist groups, Chinese Communist Party influence campaigns, AI data center sabotage, and the growing battle over election integrity and open primaries. FULL SHOW SUMMARY A political earthquake rocked Texas as Ken Paxton delivered a crushing defeat to longtime establishment Republican John Cornyn despite more than $100 million being poured into the race by GOP donor networks aligned with the Bush-era political machine. Tara argues this wasn't simply a primary loss — it was the symbolic collapse of the globalist wing of the Republican Party that originated in Texas during the Bush governorship years. The show traces the roots of modern globalism, open-border politics, and international trade governance back to the Bush family's influence in Texas politics. Tara claims Paxton became the biggest threat to that political infrastructure after aggressively targeting NGOs accused of facilitating illegal immigration and voter registration efforts in Texas. The discussion expands into South Carolina politics, where Tara argues the same establishment political network still dominates through figures like Lindsey Graham, Henry McMaster, and legislative leadership. The show heavily criticizes South Carolina Republicans who opposed redistricting changes and calls for conservative primary challenges. The episode also dives into claims of coordination between Democrat-aligned activist groups and entities connected to the Chinese Communist Party. Tara highlights reports involving opposition campaigns against AI data centers and references commentary from investor Kevin O'Leary regarding alleged online influence operations tied to Chinese interests and progressive activist organizations. Additional segments cover: The SAVE Act and election integrity battles Open primaries and Republican establishment politics Allegations surrounding activist funding networks Communist rhetoric in New York housing policy debates The future of the Republican Party after the Texas political shift KEY TALKING POINTS Ken Paxton defeats John Cornyn in a political landslide GOP establishment reportedly spent over $100 million defending Cornyn Tara argues the “Bush machine” lost its remaining grip on Texas Debate over globalism, immigration, and GOP identity South Carolina Republican infighting intensifies Criticism of open primaries and establishment conservatives Discussion of SAVE Act voter ID legislation Allegations involving Democrat activist networks and CCP influence AI infrastructure and data center political battles Calls for major conservative primary challenges in South Carolina SEO KEYWORDS Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, Texas GOP, Bush machine, globalism, Lindsey Graham, South Carolina politics, SAVE Act, voter ID, Donald Trump, Republican primary, Karl Rove, CCP influence, Kevin O'Leary, Democrat Party, Texas election, open borders, MAGA movement, GOP establishment, election integrity

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks about Spencer Pratt's campaign to become LA Mayor gaining momentum after Elon Musk retweeted and confirmed his exposing of how Karen Bass and Democrat-run NGOs exploit the homeless crisis in LA; Gad Saad surprising Joe Rogan with how suicidal empathy really works in humans and in the animal kingdom; Donald Trump's reaction to Stephen Colbert's horribly unfunny ending sketch with Jon Stewart on the final episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert"; Dan Bongino explaining to Fox News' Laura Ingraham how desperate the Democratic Party has gotten in trying to regain voters from the middle class; Bill Maher explainging to "Club Random" guest Paul Anka why he supports the Iran War and the most likely outcome for how Donald Trump will end it; Newsmax' Rob Finnerty humiliating the Democratic Party for their horrible attempt to politicize Memorial Day to attack Donald Trump; and much more. Join me for a LIVE Event with Governor Ron DeSantis, plus special appearances by Jillian Michaels, and Adam Carolla on June 11th! Get Tickets Here: https://daverubin.com/events WATCH the MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE segment of the show here: https://rubinreport.locals.com/ Check out the NEW RUBIN REPORT MERCH here: https://daverubin.store/ ---------- Today's Sponsors: Relief Factor - Relief Factor is an alternative to help your body's natural inflammatory response causing the achy, soreness, stiffness, and discomfort from daily living that keeps you from doing the things you love. Try Relief Factor's 3-Week QuickStart—just $19.95.  Go to: https://www.relieffactor.com or call 800-4-RELIEF. Mars Men -  A potent and natural testosterone stack that optimizes your body's ability to forge usable testosterone. For a limited time, our listeners get 50% off FOR LIFE AND 3 Free Gifts at Mars Men when you use code RUBIN . Go to: http://Mengotomars.com Polymarket -Go to http://polymarket.com to trade on the outcomes of live events from politics, pop culture, to sports and more!

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In today's episode, I'm speaking with Makenzie Darling, a Movement Architect who has spent more than a decade weaving together social impact, community development, spiritual awakening, and strategy that actually moves people. She has worked with NGOs and pioneering startups, helping small organizations grow into thriving movements with millions of followers and global reach. And she brings something deeper than strategy to the table. Through her work as an Entheogenic Minister, and her travels with Indigenous healers around the world, Makenzie has learned how to listen to the old wisdom. The kind of wisdom our bodies remember. The kind of wisdom that asks us to stop extracting, stop controlling, and begin leading from a place of devotion. In a world that feels fast, polarized, exhausted, and hungry for something real, this conversation is a powerful reminder. Makenzie and I dish on: • Bringing ancient wisdom and modern strategy into your business • The difference between lineage and leadership • Why releasing control can open the door to a bigger movement • Movement building, and why it begins with identifying your assignment • How plant medicine can support ancestral excavation and healing • Karmic assignments, and why they may be part of the reason we are here   This episode is an invitation to look at your work through a bigger lens.   Subscribe now so you'll never miss an episode and leave us a review! It really helps us know which content resonates with you the most.   Join our Feminine Business Magic Facebook Group (https://tinyurl.com/ygdkw7ce)  with your host, Julie Foucht. This is a community of women dedicated to connecting, supporting, and celebrating each other in growing businesses that honor their Divine Feminine while filling their bank accounts abundantly.   Resources mentioned:   Take the Witchpreneur Quiz and discover which Feminine Magic is your Key to Financial Success. (https://bit.ly/witchpreneur-quiz)   Purchase Love-Based Feminine Marketing (https://tinyurl.com/ydmzb6qz)    Listen to Makenzie's "The Call to Rise Podcast" at https://globalmovementmaker.com/podcast       Makenzie Darling's Free Gift:  My movement maker archetype quiz that depicts which type of revolutionary leader you are meant to step into and both the gifts and the challenges of that archetype at: quiz.globalmovementmaker.com       **Contact Makenzie Darling via Facebook or https://globalmovementmaker.com/** **Connect with Julie Foucht via Facebook (https://tinyurl.com/yeb82uuj) or email at https://juliefoucht.com/**

So Eric Trump is suing Jen Psaki. And I don't even care what the lawsuit is about. Seriously. At this point, if a Trump sues a Democrat, I assume somewhere there's a fax machine crying and three MSNBC producers stress-eating hummus.But I love the symbolism of it. Because for years these people weaponized government against Trump, weaponized the courts, weaponized intelligence agencies, weaponized leaks, weaponized social media. Democrats turned America into the world's first bureaucratic escape room. Every day under Trump was another clue: “To continue your presidency, solve this puzzle hidden inside a subpoena wrapped in a Russia hoax.”Now? Eric Trump says, “Cool. Your turn.”And suddenly the Left discovers legal fees are expensive when USAID isn't covering them.That's the beauty of MAGA. It's not just political anymore. It's cultural gravity. Trump didn't simply survive. He turned political persecution into a franchise model. Democrats thought they were building his prison cell. Instead they built a gymnasium where conservatives learned how to fight.And spare me this media fairy tale that MAGA is “falling apart.” They've been predicting the death of MAGA longer than Al Gore's been predicting the death of the planet. According to cable news, MAGA has died more times than Kenny on South Park.They tell us conservatives are furious with Trump over war policy, personality, tariffs, tone, Truth Social posts, golf scores, the angle of his tie, and probably the migration pattern of geese. Yet somehow, every Republican who publicly betrayed Trump politically evaporated like cheap cologne in Phoenix.Ten out of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump? Gone.Five Republican Senators tied to impeachment efforts? Gone, including Bill Cassidy.The Bush dynasty? Politically taxidermied.Cheneys? The political equivalent of Circuit City.Romneys? Finished.Pence? Mike Pence has less support in the Republican Party than gluten-free biscuits at a Texas rodeo.And this matters historically because the Republican establishment used to operate like a country club with a velvet rope. You got approved by donors, consultants, think tanks, and guys named Whitaker who own loafers without socks. Trump bulldozed that system. MAGA voters looked at decades of “managed decline” from polished Republicans and said, “Maybe the billionaire from Queens screaming at CNN is onto something.”And here's the part the Left still cannot process: MAGA isn't held together by government dependency. That's why it survives attacks.Leftism? Different story entirely.Leftism would collapse inside a month if it had to survive without taxpayer subsidies and foreign influence money. One month. Thirty days. The political equivalent of a juice cleanse.Because modern Leftism produces almost nothing organically anymore. Every institution props it up artificially: academia, entertainment, NGOs, government grants, corporate DEI departments, media partnerships, foreign donors. It's the ideological version of a patient connected to fourteen machines going beep-beep-beep while MSNBC doctors stand around saying, “Vitals look strong!”No they don't.Imagine if Leftists had to balance a budget. Imagine if they had to run cities without deficits, corruption, or dependency. Imagine if they couldn't endlessly siphon taxpayer money into “equity initiatives” that somehow always end with consultants buying vacation homes.Meanwhile, conservatives already do what Leftists only hashtag about. They donate more privately. Volunteer more. Build businesses. Create jobs. Show up after disasters with chainsaws and bottled water instead of interpretive dance and pronoun worksheets.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Illness has overtaken Will again, but that doesn't mean the conversation stops. With President Donald Trump wrapping up his China summit, we've opened up the vault for you with some of our most relevant conversations about the CCP in this ‘Best Of...' edition of 'Will Cain Country.'First up, Author of ‘The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon' Peter Schweizer joins Will to expose how Democratic operatives, elite-funded NGOs, and foreign powers weaponized illegal immigration to reshape U.S. politics. The most shocking example? China's use of “birth tourism” to secure long-term influence inside America.Plus, Chinese Cultural Revolution Survivor and Author of ‘Made In America' Xi Van Fleet explains how today's Left-wing protests mirror the events of Mao's Cultural Revolution in the late '60s, and how American influence set the stage for the CCP's takeover.Subscribe to ‘Will Cain Country' on YouTube here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch Will Cain Country!⁠⁠⁠Follow ‘Will Cain Country' on X (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), Instagram (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), TikTok (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), and Facebook (⁠⁠⁠@WillCainNews)Follow Will on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WillCain⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices