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Discutimos como as atividades práticas ajudam a ensinar a teoria e a conectar os alunos entre si, com os professores e com a escola. Acompanhamos o treinamento da seleção da OBA (Olimpíada Brasileira de Astronomia e Astronáutica). Contamos a história de Franklin da Silva Costa, único aluno de escola pública dentre os cinco integrantes da seleção brasileira que participou da Olimpíada Internacional de Astronomia e Astronáutica deste ano. O episódio traz a visão de professores que conhecem o potencial do aprendizado mão na massa: João Canalle, presidente da OBA, Guilherme Pereira, orientador do núcleo de física e astronomia do campus Recife do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia, Ednilson Oliveira, mestre em astrofísica pela USP, e Thiago Paulin, do colégio Etapa, líder da seleção brasileira na Olimpíada Latino-Americana de Astronomia e Astronáutica deste ano. Links: Como fazer foguete com garrafa pet - OBA Brasileiros conquistam medalhas em olimpíadas internacionais de astronomiaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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'Baía dos Tigres' é a mais recente longa-metragem de Carlos Conceição. O realizador aclamado em festivais de cinema como Cannes, Berlinale ou Locarno, decidiu apresentar 'Baia dos Tigres', em estreia mundial, recentemente, no festival DocLisboa. Nas palavra de Carlos Conceição, “o filme tenta ir atrás dessa ideia que está a ser gravada uma nova existência por cima de uma existência prévia, mas estão lá fantasmas abstratos, sobrespostos, ruidosos, e que são fantasmas da história do século XX transversais a várias culturas.” Baia dos Tigres foi inteiramente rodado em Angola, país onde Carlos Conceição nasceu e que serviu de fonte de inspiração. A RFI falou com o realizador na capital portuguesa. Carlos Conceição começa por explicar como surgiu o filme 'Baia dos Tigres'. Carlos Conceição: O filme surgiu numa fase que eu, agora, já considero ultrapassada da minha carreira. Uma fase em que eu não tinha grandes perspectivas de como subsidiar o meu trabalho e que, por isso, apostava em ideias que eu conseguisse concretizar com pouco, com elementos que fossem reduzidos, mas intensos, como uma boa malagueta, que é capaz de fazer o melhor por um prato, só aquela malagueta. E a Baía dos Tigres sempre foi um mito para mim. Eu ouvia falar na Baía dos Tigres enquanto sítio desde que era criança. E por volta de 2015, 2016, provavelmente, fiquei, por portas e travessas, familiarizado com duas histórias que acabaram por ter uma grande ressonância na minha vida, ambas japonesas. Uma é o significado da palavra johatsu, que significa evaporação. É uma prática que acontece exclusivamente no Japão e, muitas vezes, com a ajuda de empresas especializadas. Consiste na pessoa eclipsar-se da sociedade, desaparecer. Essa empresa trata do desaparecimento total desta personagem, desta pessoa que os contrata. Isto acaba por ter um contorno que talvez seja comparável aos programas de proteção de testemunhas, porque todas estas pessoas acabam por assumir uma nova identidade, uma nova vida, uma nova história, um novo passado. Escolhem desaparecer pelas mais diversas razões, uma relação fracassada, dívidas de jogo, dívidas ao banco. Aquela coisa muito asiática que é a honra e que nós, na Europa, perdemos no século XV. Parece-me um conceito que, não estando completamente disseminado, não sendo exterior à cultura japonesa, parece-me um conceito interessante para os tempos de hoje. Não me interessa a mim como cidadão, interessa-me como leitor, como espectador, fazer uma história sobre uma pessoa que faz isso, que resolve desaparecer, que organiza o seu desaparecimento. E, paralelamente a isso, a descoberta da história verdadeira do soldado Hiroo Onoda, que foi um soldado japonês que esteve 30 anos perdido numa ilha das Filipinas, convencidíssimo por não ter contato nenhum com ninguém, aliás, inicialmente ele não estava sozinho, mas acabou por ficar, porque os dois companheiros com quem ele estava acabaram por morrer, e ele sozinho permaneceu 30 e tal anos nessa ilha selvagem, nas Filipinas, convencido que a guerra (2ª Guerra Mundial) continuava, e completamente fiel aos seus propósitos e àquilo que tinha sido formado para fazer. Foi uma grande dificuldade convencer o Onoda, quando ele foi descoberto, de que o assunto da Guerra Mundial já tinha acabado, e que aqueles credos todos dele estavam ultrapassados há 30 anos. Isto também é uma ideia que me interessa, como é que uma personagem percebe o tempo quando está isolada. Uma, no caso de uma das personagens do filme, é o desejo que o tempo pare, e, no caso da outra personagem, o desejo que o tempo ande mais depressa. Portanto, acho que o filme é sobre essa diferença, a diferença entre querer que o tempo pare e querer que ele ande mais depressa. RFI: A Baia dos Tigres é em Angola, no sudoeste de Angola. O que é que levou o Carlos Conceição a escolher ir filmar em Angola? Qual é a linha que se constrói que liga Angola a esta personagem? Ou a estes personagens, pois são dois personagens. Carlos Conceição: Podem ser, ou duas versões da mesma personagem. Eu filmo em Angola da mesma maneira que o Woody Allen filma Manhattan, ou o João Rosas filma Lisboa. É natural para mim, porque foi onde eu cresci. É mais fácil para mim filmar em Angola, em particular no sul, em particular no deserto, do que filmar em Lisboa. Para mim é mais difícil enquadrar em Lisboa. Ali sinto que estou muito seguro e, para onde quer que eu olhe, eu sei como é que o plano deve acontecer. E as narrativas que a maioria das vezes me surgem para contar são de alguma forma relacionadas com a minha própria vivência e, como tal, Angola está sempre envolvida de alguma maneira. Portanto, os meus filmes têm tido essa relação com Angola pelo menos os últimos três. O Serpentário, que é a minha primeira longa, e o Nação Valente, acima de tudo, e este filme. Que seria logo seguinte ao Serpentário, mas que estreia depois do Nação Valente, porque a vida dá muita volta, porque as coisas atrasam-se e metem-se pandemias e metem-se prazos e coisas do género. Mas acho que são dois filmes que são feitos num só gesto, de certa forma. Acho que a questão da Baía dos Tigres tem a ver com misticismo. Desde criança que eu ouvia falar da Baía dos Tigres como sendo uma ilha deserta, uma aldeia abandonada, uma cidade fantasma, como algumas que se vê nos westerns, relativamente perto, mas muito inacessível, muito difícil de lá chegar. Sempre foi uma ambição minha conhecer o sítio em si. E quando conheci, a primeira coisa que senti foi ... isto é um filme inteiro, este sítio é um filme. Eu já sei qual é o filme e tenho-o dentro de mim, tenho de o fazer e se não fizer vou morrer. Foi assim que o filme surgiu. Curiosamente, houve duas fases de rodagem. Na primeira nós não chegámos a conseguir ir à Baía dos Tigres. Estivemos na Floresta do Maiombe, em Cabinda. Estivemos no Uige, estivemos em Malanje, nas Quedas de Calandula, as Cataratas de Calandula. Depois filmámos muitas coisas à volta da zona onde eu cresci, que foi no Lubango, na Comuna da Huíla, na zona do ISPT, que é o Instituto Superior Politécnico de Tundavala e que tem uma mata enorme atrás, usámos como backlot. Obviamente, só depois disso é que conseguimos, numa segunda  viagem, organizar a chegada à Baía dos Tigres, que envolve toda uma logística complicadíssima. Entre muitas aventuras possíveis, chegar à Baía dos Tigres, à Ilha dos Tigres, que tem cerca de 30 km de comprimento por uns 11 Km de largura, mas que tem construções concentradas... chegar de barco implicava sair da povoação mais próxima, num barco, que provavelmente seria uma traineira, que levaria 6 a 7 horas a chegar à ilha. Fazer um percurso longitudinal desde o Parque Nacional da Reserva Natural do Iona até ao embarcadouro, que se usa para ir para a Ilha dos Tigres, seria impensável porque a costa continental é toda cheia de poços de areia movediça. Então, a única maneira de chegar ao embarcadouro, sem ser engolido pelas areias movediças, é fazê-lo a uma certa hora da manhã, quando durante cerca de 50 minutos a maré está baixa. Temos de ir quase em excesso de velocidade, em veículos 4x4, pela zona molhada de areia, a partir da cidade do Tômbua, e fazer um percurso que demora mais de uma hora a fazer dentro daquela janela temporal. Caso contrário, ficamos ou atolados pelas ondas ou atolados na areia, onde, aliás, se conseguem ver muitos destroços de experiências fracassadas neste género. Ao chegar ao tal embarcadouro, que é um sítio muito tosco, muito improvisado, está lá alguém com quem nós marcamos. É uma pessoa que se contrata com um barco, uma espécie de lancha. Depois fazemos um percurso de quase uma hora de barco por entre bancos de areia, num mar muito, muito agressivo, cheio de fauna, orcas, focas que espreitam da água a olhar para nós, pássaros que passam rasantes, chuva constante, até que, de repente, começa no horizonte a surgir aquela cidade fantasma, assim, meio embrulhada no nevoeiro.  Vê-se logo uma igreja amarela, uma coisa assim … , parece uma aparição. Há um misticismo à volta da experiência de lá chegar que o meu filme nunca conseguirá mostrar, por mais que eu me esforce, e que é muito difícil de captar. Eu tento, no filme, captar esse misticismo e essa fantasmagoria de maneiras diferentes. Criando alegorias, como o filme tem esta ideia da memória que se apaga. Eu imagino o filme um bocadinho como uma cassete ou uma bobina daquelas antigas, que tem de ser desmagnetizada, mas às vezes não fica completamente desmagnetizada, e, por isso, quando vamos gravar algo em cima, sobram restos de fantasmas de gravações passadas. Fisicamente, o filme tenta ir atrás dessa ideia que está a ser gravada uma nova existência por cima de uma existência prévia, mas estão lá fantasmas abstratos, sobrespostos, ruidosos, e que são fantasmas da História do século XX, transversais a várias culturas. RFI: São fantasmas do período em que a Angola estava colonizada por Portugal? São fantasmas da Guerra da Libertação? Carlos Conceição: É impossível não serem também esses fantasmas. Mas eu acho que são fantasmas do mundo contemporâneo, são fantasmas de 2025, são fantasmas do que está a acontecer em Gaza, do que está a acontecer na Ucrânia, são fantasmas deste ressurgimento da extrema-direita, são fantasmas do novo espaço que as ditaduras estão a ganhar, são fantasmas de coisas que deviam estar enterradas e não estão, e são fantasmas com várias origens. O filme tem, em certos momentos, elementos sonoros que vêm de discursos do Hitler, de Mussolini, de Oliveira Salazar, o Savimbi, a voz da Hanoi Hannah, que era uma vietnamita que transmitia mensagens aos soldados americanos a dizer, “vão-se embora, porque vocês vão morrer, o vosso governo traiu-vos”, e ela também aparece como um fantasma neste filme. Portanto, são esses fantasmas todos que, vindos do passado, constroem o presente. O momento presente que nós estamos a viver no mundo, é todo feito desses restos, na minha opinião, mal enterrados. RFI: O cinema é uma ferramenta para lidar com esses fantasmas? Carlos Conceição: Há uma certa obrigação antropológica em algum cinema, há uma responsabilidade histórica que o cinema deve atentar, mas eu não creio que o cinema deva ser uma arte utilitária exclusivamente. Acho que o cinema é mais interessante quanto mais livre for, e se calhar quanto mais fútil for. Eu vejo o cinema como uma espécie daqueles discos que se gravam e se mandam para o espaço, e acredito que daqui a uns anos, quando nós já cá não estivermos, vai aparecer uma espécie alienígena qualquer, ou uma espécie mais inteligente que nós, que tem estado aí escondida, que não aparece por nossa causa, e que vai descobrir uma carrada de filmes, e vai dizer, olha que interessante que era esta espécie que se autodestruiu. E é para isso que eu acho que o cinema serve. Eu vejo cada filme que faço como uma espécie de filho, até porque fazer um filme é uma espécie de gestação, dura o tempo de uma gestação, alguns mais, alguns trazem as minhas dores de cabeça comparáveis. E às vezes nós perguntamos para quê. Para mim essa é a resposta: é para deixar qualquer coisa, para deixar um legado, para deixar uma marca. Para deixar qualquer coisa que ajude a perceber como é que as coisas eram, como é que deviam ter sido, como é que não foram, por aí fora. RFI: Os primeiros filmes do Carlos Conceição foram curtas-metragens, os últimos três trabalhos foram longas-metragens. Não há uma vontade, não pode haver um desejo de voltar às curtas? Carlos Conceição: Eu penso que o universo das curtas, a existência cultural das curtas, é interessante, mas limitada. Eu fui muito feliz a fazer curtas-metragens, cheguei a dizer que me apetecia fazer curtas para sempre. O meu penúltimo filme, na verdade, não é uma longa-metragem, é uma média-metragem, tem 59 minutos, e eu tenho outro filme com 59 minutos para lançar em 2026. Esse formato de uma hora, para mim, é perfeito. Permite-se uma estrutura de curta-metragem em que nem tudo precisa de lá estar, de ser causa e efeito, nem de estar pejado de consequências, nem hiper-explicado, e ao mesmo tempo também não abusa das boas-vindas que recebe do público.Portanto, gosto de filmes que contêm esse universo mais curto, de certa forma. Para além do filme de 59 minutos que quero estrear para o ano que vem, se tiver sorte, também tenho uma ideia para uma curta-metragem que é toda feita com material que eu já tenho filmado, e que tem a ver com Angola também, curiosamente. Mas é uma curta muito mais sensorial e vai ser como música visual, vai ser baseado em ritmos de planos, e tempos e durações de planos, e o que é que corta para onde. Isso é um exercício que eu sinto que me agrada e que é uma coisa que eu quero fazer, que eu consigo fazer sozinho também. Até porque acho que estou precisando tirar umas férias depois desta maratona que têm sido os últimos três anos, talvez. RFI: Fazer sozinho é? Carlos Conceição: Quando eu digo fazer sozinho, às vezes refiro-me a ser só eu com uma câmera na mão, por exemplo, mas isso não quer dizer que depois a montagem vá ser eu sozinho. Eu gosto de pedir opinião às pessoas e depois já me aconteceu em determinados projetos eu saber exatamente como é que a montagem tende a acontecer, e seria eu dizer à pessoa que está comigo a montar que devíamos fazer assim, devíamos fazer assado, de forma a ir ao encontro da minha ideia. Já me aconteceu, como também acontece em particular no filme Baía dos Tigres, eu ter uma ideia e ficar à espera de ver o que é que a Mariana Gaivão tem para propor dentro da mesma ideia, enquanto montadora o que é que ela me vai contra-propor. E ela diz-me, dá-me dez minutos e volta daqui a dez minutos. E eu volto e ela tem uma proposta para fazer. A maioria das vezes estamos completamente síncronos. Acho que é muito importante essa parceria. Portanto, nós nunca estamos realmente sozinhos. Quando eu digo que posso fazer essa curta sozinho, eu acho que é material que eu fui juntando de outras rodagens, de outras coisas que não utilizei no Nação Valente, de coisas que não utilizei neste filme, e que eu acho que consigo sozinho em casa juntar e criar algo interessante com aquilo. É nesse sentido que digo fazer sozinho. Mas a verdade é que eu dependo sempre, obviamente, do meu colega Marco Amaral, que é o colorista que vai depois pôr aquilo com bom aspecto porque eu não sou diretor de fotografia, por isso ele tem de me salvar, de certa forma. Dependo, obviamente, de quem vai ajudar a fazer a montagem de som e a mistura de som. E, normalmente, eu trabalho com um núcleo muito duro, quase sempre a mesma família. Portanto, quando digo sozinho, às vezes posso estar a dizer que estou a autoproduzir, ou posso estar a dizer que é algo que eu consigo, se calhar, manufaturar, fazer de uma forma menos comunitária, menos convencional, menos industrial. RFI: O Carlos Conceição gosta de trabalhar com um núcleo duro, um núcleo próximo, o ator João Arraias faz parte desse núcleo. O que é que o faz investir nessa relação? Carlos Conceição: Há duas, três dimensões na resposta que eu posso dar. Em primeiro lugar, o João é um ator com capacidades únicas, que eu reconheço como muito valiosas e isso para um realizador é ouro. Pedir a um ator uma ação com meia dúzia de palavras e ele dar-nos exatamente aquilo ou, se calhar, melhor, não acontece todos os dias. Portanto, quando um ator tem esse super poder, nós agarramos nele e nunca mais o deixamos ir. A segunda questão tem a ver com o facto que eu me revejo imenso no João. Ele tem menos de 15 anos do que eu, quase 16, e houve uma altura, quando ele tinha 16, 17, era impossível, para mim, olhar para ele e não me estar a ver a mim. Houve vários filmes que surgiram por causa disso, nomeadamente o Versalhes, o Coelho Mau, e o Serpentário sem dúvida nenhuma. A terceira coisa é que nós somos muito amigos e trabalhar com amigos é o maior prazer do mundo. RFI: Baía dos Tigres teve a estreia mundial no Festival Internacional de Cinema DocLisboa, na origem dedicada aos documentários. Podemos identificar a Baía dos Tigres como um documentário? Carlos Conceição: O Godard dizia que todos os filmes são documentários sobre a sua rodagem, o seu processo de serem feitos. O Baía dos Tigres é uma ficção filmada segundo alguns credos do documentário. É tudo quanto posso dizer. Por ser o realizador do filme e o argumentista do filme, talvez não seja a pessoa mais indicada para o definir nesse sentido. Aliás, os filmes, normalmente, e é uma ideia que eu costumo tentar vender, os filmes não são como são por acidente ou por ingenuidade ou porque a pessoa que os fez não soube fazer melhor. Os filmes são normalmente resultado de um período de deliberação que é longo, ardo, obsessivo e desgastante para o seu realizador. Portanto, não há filme nenhum que seja como é porque o realizador não sabia fazer melhor. Isso quer dizer que, de certa forma, cada filme dita a sua própria gramática. E eu acho que é muito interessante que possa haver fusões entre os sistemas clássicos narrativos e as formas do documentário, o cinema mais contemplativo. Eu gosto, por exemplo, do cinema do Andy Warhol. Eu nunca me sentei a ver o Empire State Building durante oito horas, mas só saber que existe … Eu já vi aos bocados, não é? Mas saber que este filme existe e que pode ser visto dessa maneira, para mim, é uma fonte de inspiração enorme. Da mesma maneira, o James Benning, vários filmes da Chantal Akerman, tudo isso são manifestações cinematográficas de fusão que eu considero que quebram todas as gaiolas e acho que importante, se calhar, para lutar contra o mainstream. Eu acho o mainstream um bocadinho o inimigo principal do crescimento da arte. O mainstream obriga a fazer comparações, obriga a manuais. Acho que não há nada melhor para quebrar com essas gaiolas do que revisitar estes filmes de que eu estava a falar. RFI: Em relação a novos projetos, o que é que está a acontecer? Em off, tinham-me falado de um projeto sobre ópera. O que é que está para vir? Carlos Conceição: Eu tenho, neste momento, três projetos para serem lançados. Um é uma media-metragem de 59 minutos, do qual já tínhamos falado há pouco. O outro é um filme, uma longa-metragem que é uma experiência em linguagem mainstream, por assim dizer, que se chama Bodyhackers. E o terceiro projeto. que é o mais recente, ao qual eu dediquei os últimos 14 meses da minha vida, é um projeto para televisão e para cinema que envolve ópera. São narrativas separadas, autónomas, todas elas com um compositor português, algumas baseadas em fontes literárias, algumas dessas óperas, mas são essencialmente segmentos operáticos que resultarão simultaneamente num filme e numa série de televisão. RFI: O Carlos Conceição nasceu em Angola, viveu em Angola até hoje 22 anos, vai frequentemente a Angola. Qual é a imagem que tem do cinema produzido em Angola? Como é que olha para aquilo que acontece em Angola a nível da produção cinematográfica? Carlos Conceição: Gostava de ver mais, gostava de ver em mais sítios e gostava de ver mais pluralidade. Acho que estamos num momento perfeito para que se revelem novos talentos e comecem a aparecer mais pessoas e mais pessoas arrisquem. Qualquer pessoa com um telemóvel, neste momento, consegue fazer um filme e acho que não deve haver o medo de partir para essa aventura. Hoje em dia temos o HD disponível nos nossos telemóveis, nos smartphones, até nos mais corriqueiros. O que eu acho é que o cinema mais interessante, às vezes, surge daí, surge justamente daquela recusa à inércia. Há um filme dentro de nós, ele pode sair de qualquer maneira e sai. Basta nós queremos que ele saia e ele vem cá para fora. RFI: Já teve oportunidade de visionar algum produto assim feito, feito em Angola? Carlos Conceição: Sim, em particular um filme que eu comprei num semáforo em DVD e que me parece que não era uma versão final de montagem porque tinha a voz do realizador a dar instruções aos atores. Era um filme absolutamente inacreditável sobre uma mãe e umas filhas à procura de vingança por uma coisa que lhes tinha acontecido. Uma mulher que tinha sido injuriada a vida inteira, que usava uma pala no olho e as filhas quando tinham um desgosto morriam com uma hemorragia através da pele. O filme é de tal maneira incrível na sua imaginação que eu fiquei absolutamente estarrecido, senti-me uma formiga perante aquele filme que foi feito num subúrbio de Luanda para ser consumido num subúrbio de Luanda. Eu senti que a genialidade por trás daquilo era uma coisa que devia ser descoberta e valorizada. Ou seja, isso existe em Angola, por isso acho muito importante ir à descoberta disso.

Cutting Off Spoilers (1) (audio) David Eells – 10/29/25 Apostate Leaders Fleecing the Sheep B. A. - 04/01/2012 (David's notes in red) I dreamed I was in some type of city. It was strange because there were no people on the sidewalks nor cars on the streets. There were these strange-looking brick buildings (buildings made by the flesh) everywhere I looked. (Sounds like the people of God slaving to make bricks for Pharaoh's buildings.) I decided to go inside one of these buildings. Once inside, I saw a familiar female TV preacher who was hosting an event. I recognized several other female preachers as well, and others whose faces I recognized but could not remember their names. (Father said, (1Ti.2:12) But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness. Read Word, Women and Authority.) There were elaborate tables set up with all kinds of party foods, and everyone was playing games. (If you are not submitting to scripture, you are just playing Church.) Each time the hostess presented a new game, she was wearing a different outfit. (Like chameleons changing to blend in) I watched this for a while, then I decided to leave and go see what was going on inside one of the other buildings. Once back out on the street, I saw a long, rectangular, brick building, so I went inside to check it out. It was very dimly lit; I could barely see where I was going. The building was huge inside, and it appeared to be a kind of art gallery. There were statues on the floor and statues mounted on the walls. (worshipping those who have no life) Further on up ahead, I saw some people standing around a picture on the wall, so I went to see what they were looking at. As I got closer, I noticed all the people were dressed up like pilots and they were looking at and admiring a picture of various airplanes. Some were elaborate jets and some were small Cessna-type planes. I recognized some of these people to be leaders in the apostate church. (Big-time prosperity preachers can't fly with us common folks. They have to have at least one private jet. Poor Jesus, He walked or rode a donkey.) Further on up ahead, I saw another group of people standing around a picture on the wall. As I got closer to these people, they were all dressed up like gladiators, looking at a picture of a large coliseum (I believe this to be representative of megachurches) and bragging about their own personal coliseum. (The competitive spirit is always trying to best those who are also a part of the body to see who is the greatest, as Jesus rebuked the disciples for.) Then, all the way to the back of the art gallery, I saw several rows of people seated and listening to a man standing at a podium. Behind this man was a large mural of TV and radio stations (the apostate leaderships bragging rights. To them more people is success.). He was teaching these people how to successfully get more money from their viewers and God's people in general. (Using mass media to make mass money and live in luxury while not doing the works of the kingdom. Jesus said, (Mat.10:8) Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons: freely ye received, freely give.) As I stood there listening to this, I cried out to the Lord, “Do you see what they are doing? They are scheming and preparing a plan on how they are going to fleece your sheep during tough economic times!” Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Don't be concerned; their days are numbered”. Then I woke up. (Their greed, debt and sins against God's people will take them out.)   Rescuing the Sheep Lorrie Deeter - 07/22/2007 (David's notes in red) In a dream, a little cat with what appeared to be a cat mask on. (These leaders are self-willed and masking their true selves.) He was seated in a high-backed throne with a crown upon its head. He was seated up high, as on a platform above people. (Like most churches do.) He had a ruler in his hand and was pointing to different people, as if giving orders or instructions. From out of nowhere, a great big lion (Lion of Judah) appeared and leaped upon the throne of the little (rebellious) cat and placed it before him and then under his feet, as a footstool. (The ruler represents measurement. (Mat.7:1) Judge not, that ye be not judged. (2) For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you. (3) And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? (4) Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye? (5) Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.) Next, sheep, cattle and goats, appeared before me, all sitting in rows in what appeared to be a building. Some fat, some skinny and some bloated. Some had blindfolds on, some wore earmuffs, and some had earplugs placed within their ears. Some appeared to be blind and others deaf. A man then appeared before them, dressed in a suit and tie. I could not see his face, but as the sheep would come forth, he would bend down and take from them what appeared to be money and lay hands upon them as he looked up. I then saw the face of a wolf turn into view. (Plundering the body) Then out of nowhere, the sheep were plucked out of his hand one by one, as the eagles swooped down and snatched them from him. (Eagles represent overcomers who spread truth to give wisdom, which sets free like this dream.) Then all the sheep disappeared! (As I went back to lie down, I thought of the cattle and goats... and then this was spoken: “The cattle are raised up for destruction. (Cows only eat grass, which Peter said represented flesh, and they only feed milk. They represent perpetually immature Christians.) The goats are those who pretend to be of the sheepfold. (They represent the rebellious who Jesus separated on the left. (Eze.34:10) Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.) Then this is what was spoken forth: “The fur shall drop and the masks shall be pulled away!” (The true sheep will see the false shepherds for what they are, wolves.)   Word Given: (Luk.6:46) And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? MY daughter, I have many woes and this, MY first of many woes, is to the shepherds and also to the leaders and to those who speak (falsely) in MY name, sayeth the Lord. Woe to those who have raised themselves up, led many, many of my people astray. (Self- or Babylon-ordained preachers, as in Jesus' day) These are they who have erred from MY TRUTH, MY WORD. I shall bring down the crown of their pride. I will bring down the haughty and those high-minded, who have not sought counsel from ME nor sought MY FACE, says the Lord, but of themselves and that of man. To those who have sought counsel from man shall I bring down, for they have not spoken the TRUTH of MY WORD. I, the Lord thy God am sending MY sons and daughters forth, and they shall surely take from the leaders and bring back which is ALL MINE and bring them forth unto ME, says the Lord. (I.e.,The “eagles swooped down and freed them”.) For these leaders are the ones who have deceived MY children and are deceived of themselves, continually deceiving My people, My chosen! These are they who have not walked in MY ways, for they did NOT bring to ME, MY sheep. For they have kept them for themselves and led them away from seeking MY FACE, MY WORD. For I shall surely bring the wicked down and tear down from them all their high places. You are MINE, says the Lord. For BEHOLD, I AM coming quickly and MY reward is with ME! (Eze.34:7) Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah: (8) As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely forasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my sheep; (9) therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah: (10) Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them. (11) For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. ... (16) I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment. (Isa.28:3) The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim (who worshipped the golden calf), shall be trodden under feet: ... (9) Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. ... (17) Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. (Isa.29:10) For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. ... (15) Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? ... (18) And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. ... (30:1) Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:   Separating the Sheep in the Wilderness Donna Gipson (David's notes in red) God has put on my heart to share a vision He gave to me several years ago. I believe it was late 1994 or early 1995. I was a baby in the Lord, saved for less than a year, so I didn't think to write down exact dates or time. This was a type of trance vision that the Apostle Peter described. I was in a prayer meeting with several people praying near me. Separating of the Sheep As I sat and was praying with my eyes closed, a vision appeared like a big movie screen in my mind. I was totally unaware of everything else around me except for what was happening in this vision. I saw what appeared to me as a vast wilderness. The ground was hard and sandy, not a piece of vegetation in sight. There was a long line of sheep walking across this wilderness. As I watched, a lamb would break off from the line and go to the right. These lambs would line up in rows, one behind the other, like a military formation would. They were all lying down resting with their front legs folded underneath them. I noticed there were no big sheep but only small lambs in this resting group. As I again looked towards the line of sheep who had not stopped with the lambs, I felt in my spirit that these sheep were very fat and woolly and were trudging across the wilderness. I did not understand this vision right away. Over time, the Lord revealed to me several scriptures in Ezekiel 34. I'm sure He will continue to reveal more concerning this vision. God Bless. The Lord is indicating He will separate His lambs from the fleshly fat sheep in the wilderness and cause them to rest from their worldly laboring through faith in His Word. Lambs are those who have their youth renewed as the eagle and have become as a child, a kingdom requirement. (Eze.34:15) I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord Jehovah. (16) I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice. (17) And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats. (18) Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? (19) And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. (Misplaced respect for leaders cause their disciples to fall into their sins.) (20) Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep (full of flesh) and the lean sheep. (21) Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; (22) therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. (23) And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. (Jer.31:2) Thus saith Jehovah, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. (Mat.25:32) and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats; (33) and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.   God Will Cut Off the Playpen Crowd Laura Lehning - 03/03/2016 (David's notes in red) I had a short dream that I was in a convenience mart following a person to the checkout; we were leaving the store. The person was very somber and austere in his demeanor. As we left, at the end of the aisle, I was surprised to see an empty playpen set up on the floor. (David has said that religions are like playpens: meant to be outgrown and climbed out of.) Then the man reached down into the playpen, which I thought was empty, and he pulled out a pair of sharp scissors. He said to me, “Remember what you have seen”. I answered, “Yes, a playpen and scissors”. (The playpen represents apostate Christianity, and the scissors represent a future cutting off of those who are perpetual children there who bear no fruit of the true Word.) When I awoke, I wondered if the dream had something to do with the apostate churches being 'cut off'. I prayed for a Bible verse about this dream and my finger came down on the word “reproach” in (AMP)(Psa.4:2) O sons of men, how long will my honor and glory be [turned into] a reproach and a shame? How long will you [my enemies] love worthless (vain, futile) things and seek deception and lies? Selah. Those who do not climb out of the playpen will be cut off. The “cutting off” can represent physical death or spiritual death or both and by many methods: (Eze.14:21) For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon [apostate] Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!   Examples of the meaning of “cut off” (Exo.31:14) Ye shall keep the sabbath [meaning to cease from your own works] therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. (15) Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day [We are now in the 7th thousand year day.] is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah; whosoever doeth any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. (In New Testament terms, this could mean spiritual death.) (Lev.23:29) For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day; he shall be cut off from his people. (30) And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any manner of work in that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his people. (Jdg.21:6) And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. (They were killed for justifying evil.) Those who don't leave their fleshly life behind will be cut off: (Gen.17:14) And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin [meaning ceasing to sow flesh], that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. Those who feed on the religions and their lies will be cut off. (Exo.12:15) Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day [the end of the tribulation 7 day/years], that soul shall be cut off from Israel. ... (19) Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land. (Rom.11:22) Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. All but the true remnant who follow God will be cut off. (Zec.13:8) And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. (14:2) For I will gather all nations against [apostate] Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. The apostate Eli ministry will be cut off: (1Sa.2:27) And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Did I reveal myself unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh's house? (28) and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up unto mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire? (29) Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people? (30) Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. (31) Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house. (32) And thou shalt behold the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever. (33) And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart; and all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. (34) And this shall be the sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them. (35) And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever… Samuel The Saul ministry was cut off too: (1Sa.31:9) And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the tidings unto the house of their idols, and to the people. Like him, all of David Man-child's apostate enemies will be cut off: (2Sa.22:41) Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me. The Lord cut off those who factioned Israel away from the house of David: (1Ki.14:10) therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth away dung, till it be all gone. (14) Moreover Jehovah will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now. All Ahab leaders and those who follow in their steps will be cut off. (2Ki.9:8) For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel. The Beast cut off apostates from Israel: (2Ki.10:32) In those days Jehovah began to cut off from Israel: and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel; Many so-called people of God will be cut off from the Kingdom. (Psa.34:16) The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. (Psa.37:22) For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the land; And they that are cursed of him shall be cut off. (Psa.94:23) And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off. (Pro.2:22) But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it. (Isa.9:14) Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. (Isa.29:20) For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity [to judge others] are cut off; (Jer.44:8) in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? (Jer.50:16) Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land. (Jer.51:6) Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Jehovah's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense. Idolaters among God's people who love the world, religion and apostate leaders more than following the Word of the Lord will be cut off. (Eze.14:6) Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. (7) For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Jehovah will answer him by myself: (8) and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. God will cut off the Edomites, Esau's seed, who are types of the factious who hate and persecute their brothers. (Eze.35:7) Thus will I make mount Seir [their factious leadership- Eve saw them all die at one time] an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth. (Oba.9) And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter. (10) For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. Because factious Esau cut off his brother Israel, he was cut off: (11) In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. (12) But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress. (13) Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither lay ye hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. (14) And stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off those of his that escape; and deliver not up those of his that remain in the day of distress. The two spirits fighting against the righteous the most are Faction and Jezebel, whom God hates. These always go after the true leadership, all the way through the Bible. They will be cut off. (Rev.2:20) But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. (21) And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication. (22) Behold, I cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works. (23) And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works. A factious person is always immature because this spirit causes them to ignore the Word without conscience, and so they are to be cut off from the body. (Tit.3:10) A factious man (is one who blasphemes, rails against, or slanders others to make disciples) after a first and second admonition refuse; (11) knowing that such a one is perverted, and sinneth, being self-condemned. The nature of factious people: (Jas.3:14) But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. ... (16) For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion [Babylon] and every vile deed. These people are commonly unforgiving, judgmental, fornicators, liars, slanderers, thieves, etc. It says, “every vile deed”. Any fellowship with people like this is disobedience and will bring their spirits and sins or leaven into your life. (1Co.15:33) Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals. (1Co.5:6) Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (7) Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ: (8) wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (9) I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; (10) not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world: (11) but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat. (12) For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? (13) But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves. So that you are not infected with their spirits. Those who do not partake of unleavened bread do not have a Passover of the destroyer. Leaven comes from people who pass on lies to separate you from others, as in faction or denominationalism. At the Passover, God's people were warned: (Exo.12:15) Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. (19) Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land. (Rom.16:17) Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them. (18) For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly (pride, lust, selfish ambition, usurping authority); and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent. (19) For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil. All factious spirits cause their victims to disobey. (Mat.18:15) And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. (16) But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established. (17) And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican. All factious spirits disobey (1Ti.5:19) Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses. These people always go after righteous elders because their demons lust after a position of authority. They cause all others to sin and receive their spirits by accusing elders without two witnesses, and the people sin because they do not demand another witness of sin, not just anything. (Mat.6:14) For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. (15) But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Notice the sins of one who does not forgive are not under the blood; they are not forgiven and their sins are not forgotten without repentance. (Mic.7:19) He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. (Heb.10:17) And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. This is for those who are in covenant with God through repentance and faith but God remembers the sins of those who walk in willful disobedience to the Word until they are punished and repent. (Eze.3:20) Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand. You are warned. (Eze.21:24) Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand. (Heb.10:26) For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, (27) but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries. Notice that when God judges someone, it is because He does not forget their sin, because they are not under the sacrificial blood. Because factious people do not forgive, their wives, husbands and children who associate with them are taken into bondage. (1Co.15:33) Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals. Jesus pointed out that the wife and children of a man in unforgiveness are also sold into bondage: (Mat.18:23) Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, who would make a reckoning with his servants. (24) And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed him ten thousand talents. (25) But forasmuch as he had not wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The Lord points out that those who, for selfish purposes, wanted Daniel's position, they, their wives, and children were thrown to the lions. (Dan.6:24) And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki i Francja to kraje wyjątkowe. Oba miały ogromny wpływ na historię polityczną i intelektualną świata zachodniego. W obu miały miejsce pod koniec XVIII w. rewolucje odwołujące się do uniwersalistycznych teorii przyrodzonych praw człowieka, których skutki rozlały się daleko poza ich granice. W obu wreszcie mamy dzisiaj do czynienia z silnymi sporami politycznymi o kształt demokracji i ożywioną refleksją intelektualną na ten temat. Wielokrotnie wzorce demoliberalne promieniowały z USA i Francji do innych krajów, w tym Polski. Dziś możliwe jest jednak czerpanie z nich także pomysłów idących w kierunku dokładnie przeciwnym.Pozostałe artykuły możesz czytać na

V pořadu Echo Prime Time se střetli předseda strany PRO a nově zvolený poslanec za SPD Jindřich Rajchl a předsedkyně poslaneckého klubu Pirátů Olga Richterová. Vypjatá a často emotivní debata se točila kolem kauzy Filipa Turka, volebního výsledku a rozdělení výborů a funkcí ve sněmovně, daní pro živnostníky, emisních povolenek, energetické politiky i stavu veřejných financí. Oba politici představili zcela odlišné recepty na to, jak ulevit českým domácnostem a rozhýbat ekonomiku.

Kup książkę „Chiny jednego dziecka” na stronie Empik: https://www.empik.com/chiny-jednego-dziecka-sochon-piotr-truszczynska-weronika-urban-nadia,p1666533204,ksiazka-p Kup książkę „Chiny jednego dziecka” na stronie wydawnictwa Znak: https://rcl.ink/nyD18 Wycieczka Weroniki: http://grupy.misjago.pl/wtruszczynska Dołącz do grona Patronów tego podcastu na http://www.patronite.pl/maopowiedziane  Sklep Mao Powiedziane https://maopowiedziane.pl/ Posłuchaj dalszej części odcinka na kanale Mao Powiedziane Plus na Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ySk7ZCQPHXRGLeC7IaZkj?si=ciUq8dgETyi4Hw4Zmkl5Ug Jak połączyć konto na Patronite ze Spotify https://patronite.pl/post/71266/polacz-konto-na-patronite-ze-spotify  Ostatnie dekady w Chinach upłynęły pod znakiem nieustannego wzrostu PKB i imponujących inwestycji infrastrukturalnych. Oba te zjawiska są ze sobą nierozerwalnie związane — i coraz częściej krytykowane za marnotrawstwo środków publicznych oraz nakręcanie spirali długu. Symbolem tych wyzwań stała się prowincja Guizhou – region niezwykły, pełen spektakularnych mostów przerzuconych nad górzystymi dolinami, zamieszkiwany przez liczne mniejszości etniczne. W tym odcinku rozmawiamy więc o infrastrukturze, gospodarce, a także o kulturowych i historycznych kontekstach, które sprawiają, że Guizhou jest jednym z najbardziej wyjątkowych miejsc w Chinach. Dołącz do naszego Discorda (dla Patronów) https://patronite.pl/post/59230/jak-dolaczyc-do-naszego-discordaPostaw nam kawę na http://buycoffee.to/maopowiedzianeInstagram: http://instagram.com/maopowiedzianeInstagram Nadii: http://instagram.com/nadia.urbanInstagram Weroniki: http://instagram.com/wtruszczynskaNapisz do nas: kontakt@maopowiedziane.pl 

Josh Howell, LEI President, and Mark Reich, LEI Chief Engineer Strategy, are joined by Jon Armstrong, Co-Founder and CEO of Do It American MFG Company, which produces goods for public utilities. Jon started the company in 2008 and is an advocate for U.S.-based manufacturing. Earlier in his career as a manager at Walker Corporation he learned about the Toyota Production System (TPS) directly from the eminent Hajime Oba while being assisted by the Toyota Production System Support Center (TSSC).   This month The Management Brief explores how leaders transform and rethink traditional management approaches to achieve success with lean. Jon remembers the “wonderful experience” of working alongside Mr. Oba “that honestly changed my life and resulted in some successes and the company that we're building today.”  Jon learned TPS by doing and experimenting because Mr. Oba and TSSC staff would never directly advise a path to improvement: “One of the main things I learned real quick is — especially with Mr. Oba because he didn't really say very much — you really had to work hard and pay attention to what he was paying attention to. That was the key thing, to try to understand in manufacturing and processes what was important. They would tell you, but they wouldn't tell you by telling you. They'd tell you by paying attention to certain things.”  Some of highlights of the trio's discussion includes:  Leadership style learned from Mr. Oba: “I just loved being around him,” says Jon. “He seemed like a nice guy. He took things so seriously, and there was such a sense about him of really caring — about not only the process and transferring the knowledge, but also a real caring for the people that were working within the process. I just really appreciated that. I try to do that as much as I can moving forward with the folks we've got here.”   Living the TSSC mission: Mark, who was a general manager at TSSC, says that Jon has realized the mission of TSSC to help organizations improve and keep manufacturing in the United States. Jon replies, “From TSSC, what they really gave me is that the learning I had gave me the confidence that we could do a manufacturing company and do it better than the people we were competing with. If you apply TPS — just some of the principles — and you do a good job of that, people using traditional methods are not going to be able to compete with you.”  Kaizen learnings from TSSC: The purpose of kaizen is not the improvement that is generated but learning how to improve. Jon says, “People think the way you improve is you do kaizen events; the kaizen event is the improvement. It wasn't. Those are really training events. The kaizen event was to teach us how to do improvement.”  Respect people and promote problem solving: Josh recalls his visit to Do It American MFG, where he saw an “abundance” of respect for the people doing the work. For example, the company uses an andon system to assist employees when problems arise, to which leaders try to respond rapidly with assistance, not blame, to encourage the identification of problems. “If you're responsive and you don't blame them, they are much more willing to share and help become part of the problem-solving solution. It works really well. One thing we've done is we have taken the fear away.” Some employees have come from companies with a bad culture and, says Jon, “it's fascinating how long it takes to unlearn what goes on if somebody works in a bad culture where they get beat up for making a mistake or causing a defect.” 

Co da Ci więcej: Excel z AI czy klasyczny kurs zaawansowany? AI obiecuje automatyzację zadań, które kiedyś wymagały żmudnej nauki. Kursy dają fundamenty, dzięki którym sam tworzysz rozwiązania i rozumiesz proces. Oba podejścia mają sens, a wybór wpływa na tempo pracy i to, jak jesteś postrzegany w firmie. Którą drogę wybrać? Nazywam się Michał Kowalczyk i witam Cię w Excellent Work Podcast.W tym odcinku dowiesz się:

Kniha proroka Zachariáše obsahuje jak historické popisy říší, tak pohled do budoucnosti a k podstatě věci. Oba dva aspekty spojuje 6. kapitola tohoto proroka, do které se dostává Petr Vaďura a Tomáš Molnár.Tento podcast můžete podpořit na https://radio7.cz

Joe Frazier (1944–2011) byl jedním z nejlepších boxerů všech dob. Tak dobrým, že dokázal porazit i legendárního Muhammada Aliho. V říjnu 1975 ve slavném souboji v Manile na Filipínách, kterému se dodnes přezdívá Thrilla in Manila, se mu to ale nepodařilo. Oba excelentní boxeři se tam ocitli na pokraji smrti.Všechny díly podcastu Portréty můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Ljudje se radi smejemo, a težko razumemo, zakaj so klovni pogosto žalostni. Kdo ve, če ga bomo v oddaji Midva, ki se pod okriljem oddaje Odprto za srečanja z oktobrom vrača s tretjim nizom, našli ta odgovor. A morda ga bomo zaslutili skozi pogovor z našima prvima gostoma. To sta "brata v humorju", zamejca - satirika in humorista Boris Kobal in Boris Devetak. Oba poznamo s tv ekranov, odrov, radia. Boris Kobal je znan tudi po aferi "plagiat", ki ga je osamila, a prijatelj Boris Devetak ga ni zapustil. Zdaj skupaj nastopata s predstavo Pandemenca in še vedno se njunemu humorju iz srca nasmejemo. V goste ju je povabila Nataša Benčič.

Vlada je bila danes na delovnem obisku v savinjsko-šaleški regiji. Dopoldne so se seznanili z ukrepi in vlaganji v vodotoke. Osrednja poudarka popoldanskega dela obiska vlade sta bila medtem zapiranje premogovnika Velenje in prestrukturiranje Šaleške doline po letu 2033. Predlog zakona o zapiranju premogovnika so usklajevali z vodstvom, sindikati in rudarji. Soglasja predvsem pri socialnem delu še niso dosegli. Oba zakona sta sicer ključna za prihodnost regije in opuščanje uporabe premoga, s čimer se Slovenija pridružuje evropskim prizadevanjem za podnebno nevtralnost.

Robert Chlebiš a Martin Vašíček jsou každý z jiného kraje a navzájem se neznali. Přesto je spojuje víc, než by se na první pohled mohlo zdát. Oba podnikají v zemědělství a jejich produkty získaly označení Regionální potravina. Zakládají si na tom, že jejich značky Medoo a Dobroty z hor jsou kvalitní a z lokálních surovin. Jak obstát ve velké konkurenci a zachovat si hodnoty značky? Poslechněte si celý Forbes Brandvoice podcast s Robertem Chlebišem a Martinem Vašíčkem.

In this episode of Wolf Theiss Soundshot, Matthias Unterrieder and Sarah Haubmann discuss handling dismissal protection and choice of law clauses in Austria for foreign employers. They touch upon the complexities of dismissal protection for Austrian-based employees working for foreign employers and unpack recent Austrian Supreme Court rulings clarifying that dismissal protection only applies if the employee is part of an Austrian “business unit”.The episode also discusses considerations and risks for the choice-of-law clauses in Austrian employment contracts.The new Wolf Theiss Soundshot episode is available on our website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Amazon Music under the title “Wolf Theiss Soundshot Podcast”.For further information or tailored advice, please contact us at soundshot@wolftheiss.com.*Court cases referenced in the episode: 9 ObA 94/24z, 8 ObA 59/24w, 8 ObA 34/14d.

On tonight's show: Griff Williams and His Orchestra, Saturday Night In Central Park Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Moten Swing Duke Ellington, Satin Doll Glenn Miller Sound, In the Mood Count Basie and His Orchestra, Taxi War Dance Nat King Cole, Baby, Baby All the Time Peggy Lee, Somebody Else Is Taking My Place Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Tuxedo Junction Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra, Annie's Dance Frank Sinatra, Come dance with me Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges, Exactly Like You Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra, Stardust Sergio Mendes, Oba-la-la Billy Taylor, Capricious Zoot Sims, Someone to Watch Over Me Dorothy Donegan, Time After Time Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Maddest Kind of Love

„První díl Žárovek? To byla ta pravá věda a já se při natáčení nových dílů pořád učím. Už to není nervozita, ale respekt a úcta k řemeslu,“ svěřuje se moderátorka vědecko-popularizačního pořadu na Dvojce. Jejím kolegou je Jan Lukačevič. „Známe se dlouho. Oba se snažíme popularizovat vědu. Potkávali jsme se na různých akcích, kde před rokem vznikl i nápad na Žárovky,“ říká moderátorka v Blízkých setkáních. „Mladých vědců a vědkyň je tolik, že bychom mohli vysílat každý den.“Všechny díly podcastu Blízká setkání můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

„První díl Žárovek? To byla ta pravá věda a já se při natáčení nových dílů pořád učím. Už to není nervozita, ale respekt a úcta k řemeslu,“ svěřuje se moderátorka vědecko-popularizačního pořadu na Dvojce. Jejím kolegou je Jan Lukačevič. „Známe se dlouho. Oba se snažíme popularizovat vědu. Potkávali jsme se na různých akcích, kde před rokem vznikl i nápad na Žárovky,“ říká moderátorka v Blízkých setkáních. „Mladých vědců a vědkyň je tolik, že bychom mohli vysílat každý den.“

Lenka a Vojta Fukalovi jsou spolu 25 let. Oba už měli zkušenosti z předchozích vztahů, a tak si před tím, než se dali dohromady, hodně povídali a zjišťovali, jestli se k sobě hodí. Pak ale přišla stavba domu, čekání na dítě a náhlý zdravotní kolaps Vojty s trvalými následky. Jak překonaly nemalé překážky na cestě k vysněnému životu? Co dalšího museli zvládnout? Jsou spíš životními pesimisty, nebo optimisty? A co je pro ně ve vztahu nejdůležitější?

Support our sponsors this week by using the links below for the exclusive Solomonster offers!MINT MOBILE ▶ Get your 3-month UNLIMITED wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at http://www.mintmobile.com/solomonster right now!HIMS ▶ Start your FREE online visit today at http://www.hims.com/SOLOMONSTER for your personalized hair loss treatment options!After a writer for ESPN gave Wrestlepalooza a "C" grade, some fans lost their minds, and even some within WWE were taken aback by this.  Solomonster explains why this is a GOOD thing and why people like JBL saying the writer should just LIE AND PRETEND IT WAS GOOD is a very bad thing.  Plus, news on the alternate match ending pitched by Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre for their main event... an update on a future John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar match and who Cena's final opponents should be... how Cena's match with AJ Styles came together for Crown Jewel and AJ gives us an update on his future... breaking down the Top 25 rankings for the annual PWI 500 list and how Masha Slamovich's ranking sparked an entire controversy EXPOSING a dark side to her that not many knew about... the upcoming NXT/TNA INVASION, thoughts on Oba Femi losing the NXT championship to Ricky Saints and how to bring Oba up to the main roster... a missed opportunity for the 6 YEAR ANNIVERSARY episode of Dynamite this week... Tony Khan introduces AEW Women's tag team titles... ranking four of the most legendary referees... did Bret Hart introduce the table spot to mainstream pro wrestling... the night Vince McMahon interrupted a match between Rhyno and Tajiri... and the wrestlers who wasted their own potential and blew up their careers!***Follow Solomonster on X (formerly Twitter) for news and opinion:http://x.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

In this episode we recap AEW ALL OUT & WWE WRESTLEPALOOZA, also talk about Oba vs Trick Title for Title, Quick Hits & Subscriber Questions

Etnografka Muzea Novojičínska Anna Hrčková žije se svým mužem historikem Josefem ve Štramberku. Jsou vášnivými ochotníky ve zdejším Divadle pod věží, které je velmi populární. Oba hrají a zpívají, Anička, která má u nás v ostravském rozhlase řadu nahrávek píše scénáře a Josef tvoří kulisy. Co nového chystají?

Etnografka Muzea Novojičínska Anna Hrčková žije se svým mužem historikem Josefem ve Štramberku. Jsou vášnivými ochotníky ve zdejším Divadle pod věží, které je velmi populární. Oba hrají a zpívají, Anička, která má u nás v ostravském rozhlase řadu nahrávek píše scénáře a Josef tvoří kulisy. Co nového chystají?Všechny díly podcastu Odpolední interview můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

In Honor of Two Major AnniversariesIn 2025, Operation Bootstrap Africa (OBA)—a Minnesota-based nonprofit organization thatpartners with Africans to strengthen their futures through education, healthcare, agriculture, andother long-term development projects—marks its sixtieth anniversary. Also in 2025, the MaasaiGirls Secondary School in northern Tanzania—one of OBA's flagship projects—celebrates thirtyyears of educating and empowering girls. Coinciding with these milestones, author Juliet Cutlerreleases Lessons in Hope: A New Era for Maasai Women in Tanzania, a moving new book that tellsthe stories of Maasai women whose lives have been transformed by education.Told through the perspectives of the women themselves—graduates of the Maasai GirlsSecondary School—Lessons in Hope is a powerful testament to what happens when girls aregiven the opportunity to learn. Their journeys span fields as diverse as healthcare, government,education, business, and nonprofit leadership, and together they reveal a collective impact that isreshaping communities across northern Tanzania.“Imagine a girl from this remote village going to school,” says Neema MelamiLaitayock, a 2004 graduate. “The Maasai Girls Secondary School changedmy life, and my family's life too. That school is giving girls an opportunity tounderstand themselves, to gain confidence, and to have careers.”Lessons in Hope shines a light on the resilience of young women facing systemic barriers like early,forced marriages, gender-based violence, and poverty—and on their determination to lead, giveback, and uplift others. It's both a celebration and a call to action.A Legacy of EmpowermentFounded in 1965, OBA has championed education across East Africa for six decades. Itspartnership with the Maasai Girls Secondary School has helped thousands of Maasai girlsOPERATION BOOTSTRAP AFRICA612-871-4980 | www.bootstrapafrica.orgBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

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Vlada se torej mudi na obisku v jugovzhodni Sloveniji, kjer se seznanja z aktualnimi razmerami v regiji. Ena od žgočih tem so varnostne razmere na Dolenjskem. Rešitev za izboljšanje varnosti naj bi prinesla predlog zakona o javnem redu in miru, potrjen danes, ter predstavljena novela zakona o prekrških. Oba podrobneje opredeljujeta prekrške, višata globe in ob njihovi neizterjavi uvajata hitrejši ukrep nadomestnega zapora. Drugi poudarki: - Najnovejša kandidatka za guvernerko Banke Slovenije verjetno brez podpore; se zapleta tudi glede novega varuha človekovih pravic? - Preiskovalna komisija Združenih narodov: Izrael v Gazi izvaja genocid; judovska država to zanika. - Evropske države se ne zavedajo, da morajo takoj ukrepati proti zaostajanju svojih gospodarstev, opozarja Mario Draghi.

In Honor of Two Major AnniversariesIn 2025, Operation Bootstrap Africa (OBA)—a Minnesota-based nonprofit organization thatpartners with Africans to strengthen their futures through education, healthcare, agriculture, andother long-term development projects—marks its sixtieth anniversary. Also in 2025, the MaasaiGirls Secondary School in northern Tanzania—one of OBA's flagship projects—celebrates thirtyyears of educating and empowering girls. Coinciding with these milestones, author Juliet Cutlerreleases Lessons in Hope: A New Era for Maasai Women in Tanzania, a moving new book that tellsthe stories of Maasai women whose lives have been transformed by education.Told through the perspectives of the women themselves—graduates of the Maasai GirlsSecondary School—Lessons in Hope is a powerful testament to what happens when girls aregiven the opportunity to learn. Their journeys span fields as diverse as healthcare, government,education, business, and nonprofit leadership, and together they reveal a collective impact that isreshaping communities across northern Tanzania.“Imagine a girl from this remote village going to school,” says Neema MelamiLaitayock, a 2004 graduate. “The Maasai Girls Secondary School changedmy life, and my family's life too. That school is giving girls an opportunity tounderstand themselves, to gain confidence, and to have careers.”Lessons in Hope shines a light on the resilience of young women facing systemic barriers like early,forced marriages, gender-based violence, and poverty—and on their determination to lead, giveback, and uplift others. It's both a celebration and a call to action.A Legacy of EmpowermentFounded in 1965, OBA has championed education across East Africa for six decades. Itspartnership with the Maasai Girls Secondary School has helped thousands of Maasai girlsOPERATION BOOTSTRAP AFRICA612-871-4980 | www.bootstrapafrica.orgBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

Last time we spoke about the surrender of Japan. Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender on August 15, prompting mixed public reactions: grief, shock, and sympathy for the Emperor, tempered by fear of hardship and occupation. The government's response included resignations and suicide as new leadership was brought in under Prime Minister Higashikuni, with Mamoru Shigemitsu as Foreign Minister and Kawabe Torashiro heading a delegation to Manila. General MacArthur directed the occupation plan, “Blacklist,” prioritizing rapid, phased entry into key Japanese areas and Korea, while demobilizing enemy forces. The surrender ceremony occurred aboard the Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, with Wainwright, Percival, Nimitz, and UN representatives in attendance. Civilians and soldiers across Asia began surrendering, and postwar rehabilitation, Indochina and Vietnam's independence movements, and Southeast Asian transitions rapidly unfolded as Allied forces established control. This episode is the Aftermath of the Pacific War Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  The Pacific War has ended. Peace has been restored by the Allies and most of the places conquered by the Japanese Empire have been liberated. In this post-war period, new challenges would be faced for those who won the war; and from the ashes of an empire, a defeated nation was also seeking to rebuild. As the Japanese demobilized their armed forces, many young boys were set to return to their homeland, even if they had previously thought that they wouldn't survive the ordeal. And yet, there were some cases of isolated men that would continue to fight for decades even, unaware that the war had already ended.  As we last saw, after the Japanese surrender, General MacArthur's forces began the occupation of the Japanese home islands, while their overseas empire was being dismantled by the Allies. To handle civil administration, MacArthur established the Military Government Section, commanded by Brigadier-General William Crist, staffed by hundreds of US experts trained in civil governance who were reassigned from Okinawa and the Philippines. As the occupation began, Americans dispatched tactical units and Military Government Teams to each prefecture to ensure that policies were faithfully carried out. By mid-September, General Eichelberger's 8th Army had taken over the Tokyo Bay region and began deploying to occupy Hokkaido and the northern half of Honshu. Then General Krueger's 6th Army arrived in late September, taking southern Honshu and Shikoku, with its base in Kyoto. In December, 6th Army was relieved of its occupation duties; in January 1946, it was deactivated, leaving the 8th Army as the main garrison force. By late 1945, about 430,000 American soldiers were garrisoned across Japan. President Truman approved inviting Allied involvement on American terms, with occupation armies integrated into a US command structure. Yet with the Chinese civil war and Russia's reluctance to place its forces under MacArthur's control, only Australia, Britain, India, and New Zealand sent brigades, more than 40,000 troops in southwestern Japan. Japanese troops were gradually disarmed by order of their own commanders, so the stigma of surrender would be less keenly felt by the individual soldier. In the homeland, about 1.5 million men were discharged and returned home by the end of August. Demobilization overseas, however, proceeded, not quickly, but as a long, difficult process of repatriation. In compliance with General Order No. 1, the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters disbanded on September 13 and was superseded by the Japanese War Department to manage demobilization. By November 1, the homeland had demobilized 2,228,761 personnel, roughly 97% of the Homeland Army. Yet some 6,413,215 men remained to be repatriated from overseas. On December 1, the Japanese War Ministry dissolved, and the First Demobilization Ministry took its place. The Second Demobilization Ministry was established to handle IJN demobilization, with 1,299,868 sailors, 81% of the Navy, demobilized by December 17. Japanese warships and merchant ships had their weapons rendered inoperative, and suicide craft were destroyed. Forty percent of naval vessels were allocated to evacuations in the Philippines, and 60% to evacuations of other Pacific islands. This effort eventually repatriated about 823,984 men to Japan by February 15, 1946. As repatriation accelerated, by October 15 only 1,909,401 men remained to be repatriated, most of them in the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, the Higashikuni Cabinet and Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru managed to persuade MacArthur not to impose direct military rule or martial law over all of Japan. Instead, the occupation would be indirect, guided by the Japanese government under the Emperor's direction. An early decision to feed occupation forces from American supplies, and to allow the Japanese to use their own limited food stores, helped ease a core fear: that Imperial forces would impose forced deliveries on the people they conquered. On September 17, MacArthur transferred his headquarters from Yokohama to Tokyo, setting up primary offices on the sixth floor of the Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Building, an imposing edifice overlooking the moat and the Imperial palace grounds in Hibiya, a symbolic heart of the nation.  While the average soldier did not fit the rapacious image of wartime Japanese propagandists, occupation personnel often behaved like neo-colonial overlords. The conquerors claimed privileges unimaginable to most Japanese. Entire trains and train compartments, fitted with dining cars, were set aside for the exclusive use of occupation forces. These silenced, half-empty trains sped past crowded platforms, provoking ire as Japanese passengers were forced to enter and exit packed cars through punched-out windows, or perch on carriage roofs, couplings, and running boards, often with tragic consequences. The luxury express coaches became irresistible targets for anonymous stone-throwers. During the war, retrenchment measures had closed restaurants, cabarets, beer halls, geisha houses, and theatres in Tokyo and other large cities. Now, a vast leisure industry sprang up to cater to the needs of the foreign occupants. Reopened restaurants and theatres, along with train stations, buses, and streetcars, were sometimes kept off limits to Allied personnel, partly for security, partly to avoid burdening Japanese resources, but a costly service infrastructure was built to the occupiers' specifications. Facilities reserved for occupation troops bore large signs reading “Japanese Keep Out” or “For Allied Personnel Only.” In downtown Tokyo, important public buildings requisitioned for occupation use had separate entrances for Americans and Japanese. The effect? A subtle but clear colour bar between the predominantly white conquerors and the conquered “Asiatic” Japanese. Although MacArthur was ready to work through the Japanese government, he lacked the organizational infrastructure to administer a nation of 74 million. Consequently, on October 2, MacArthur dissolved the Military Government Section and inaugurated General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, a separate headquarters focused on civil affairs and operating in tandem with the Army high command. SCAP immediately assumed responsibility for administering the Japanese home islands. It commandeered every large building not burned down to house thousands of civilians and requisitioned vast tracts of prime real estate to quarter several hundred thousand troops in the Tokyo–Yokohama area alone. Amidst the rise of American privilege, entire buildings were refurbished as officers' clubs, replete with slot machines and gambling parlours installed at occupation expense. The Stars and Stripes were hoisted over Tokyo, while the display of the Rising Sun was banned; and the downtown area, known as “Little America,” was transformed into a US enclave. The enclave mentality of this cocooned existence was reinforced by the arrival within the first six months of roughly 700 American families. At the peak of the occupation, about 14,800 families employed some 25,000 Japanese servants to ease the “rigours” of overseas duty. Even enlisted men in the sparse quonset-hut towns around the city lived like kings compared with ordinary Japanese. Japanese workers cleaned barracks, did kitchen chores, and handled other base duties. The lowest private earned a 25% hardship bonus until these special allotments were discontinued in 1949. Most military families quickly adjusted to a pampered lifestyle that went beyond maids and “boys,” including cooks, laundresses, babysitters, gardeners, and masseuses. Perks included spacious quarters with swimming pools, central heating, hot running water, and modern plumbing. Two observers compared GHQ to the British Raj at its height. George F. Kennan, head of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, warned during his 1948 mission to Japan that Americans had monopolized “everything that smacks of comfort or elegance or luxury,” criticizing what he called the “American brand of philistinism” and the “monumental imperviousness” of MacArthur's staff to the Japanese suffering. This conqueror's mentality also showed in the bullying attitudes many top occupation officials displayed toward the Japanese with whom they dealt. Major Faubion Bowers, MacArthur's military secretary, later said, “I and nearly all the occupation people I knew were extremely conceited and extremely arrogant and used our power every inch of the way.” Initially, there were spasms of defiance against the occupation forces, such as anonymous stone-throwing, while armed robbery and minor assaults against occupation personnel were rife in the weeks and months after capitulation. Yet active resistance was neither widespread nor organized. The Americans successfully completed their initial deployment without violence, an astonishing feat given a heavily armed and vastly superior enemy operating on home terrain. The average citizen regarded the occupation as akin to force majeure, the unfortunate but inevitable aftermath of a natural calamity. Japan lay prostrate. Industrial output had fallen to about 10% of pre-war levels, and as late as 1946, more than 13 million remained unemployed. Nearly 40% of Japan's urban areas had been turned to rubble, and some 9 million people were homeless. The war-displaced, many of them orphans, slept in doorways and hallways, in bombed-out ruins, dugouts and packing crates, under bridges or on pavements, and crowded the hallways of train and subway stations. As winter 1945 descended, with food, fuel, and clothing scarce, people froze to death. Bonfires lit the streets to ward off the chill. "The only warm hands I have shaken thus far in Japan belonged to Americans," Mark Gayn noted in December 1945. "The Japanese do not have much of a chance to thaw out, and their hands are cold and red." Unable to afford shoes, many wore straw sandals; those with geta felt themselves privileged. The sight of a man wearing a woman's high-buttoned shoes in winter epitomized the daily struggle to stay dry and warm. Shantytowns built of scrap wood, rusted metal, and scavenged odds and ends sprang up everywhere, resembling vast junk yards. The poorest searched smouldering refuse heaps for castoffs that might be bartered for a scrap to eat or wear. Black markets (yami'ichi) run by Japanese, Koreans, and For-mosans mushroomed to replace collapsed distribution channels and cash in on inflated prices. Tokyo became "a world of scarcity in which every nail, every rag, and even a tangerine peel [had a] market value." Psychologically numbed, disoriented, and disillusioned with their leaders, demobilized veterans and civilians alike struggled to get their bearings, shed militaristic ideologies, and begin to embrace new values. In the vacuum of defeat, the Japanese people appeared ready to reject the past and grasp at the straw held out by the former enemy. Relations between occupier and occupied were not smooth, however. American troops comported themselves like conquerors, especially in the early weeks and months of occupation. Much of the violence was directed against women, with the first attacks beginning within hours after the landing of advance units. When US paratroopers landed in Sapporo, an orgy of looting, sexual violence, and drunken brawling ensued. Newspaper accounts reported 931 serious offences by GIs in the Yokohama area during the first week of occupation, including 487 armed robberies, 411 thefts of currency or goods, 9 rapes, 5 break-ins, 3 cases of assault and battery, and 16 other acts of lawlessness. In the first 10 days of occupation, there were 1,336 reported rapes by US soldiers in Kanagawa Prefecture alone. Americans were not the only perpetrators. A former prostitute recalled that when Australian troops arrived in Kure in early 1946, they “dragged young women into their jeeps, took them to the mountain, and then raped them. I heard them screaming for help nearly every night.” Such behaviour was commonplace, but news of criminal activity by occupation forces was quickly suppressed. On September 10, 1945, SCAP issued press and pre-censorship codes outlawing the publication of reports and statistics "inimical to the objectives of the occupation." In the sole instance of self-help General Eichelberger records in his memoirs, when locals formed a vigilante group and retaliated against off-duty GIs, 8th Army ordered armored vehicles into the streets and arrested the ringleaders, who received lengthy prison terms. Misbehavior ranged from black-market activity, petty theft, reckless driving, and disorderly conduct to vandalism, arson, murder, and rape. Soldiers and sailors often broke the law with impunity, and incidents of robbery, rape, and even murder were widely reported. Gang rapes and other sex atrocities were not infrequent; victims, shunned as outcasts, sometimes turned to prostitution in desperation, while others took their own lives to avoid bringing shame to their families. Military courts arrested relatively few soldiers for these offenses and convicted even fewer; Japanese attempts at self-defense were punished severely, and restitution for victims was rare. Fearing the worst, Japanese authorities had already prepared countermeasures against the supposed rapacity of foreign soldiers. Imperial troops in East Asia and the Pacific had behaved brutally toward women, so the government established “sexual comfort-stations” manned by geisha, bar hostesses, and prostitutes to “satisfy the lust of the Occupation forces,” as the Higashikuni Cabinet put it. A budget of 100 million yen was set aside for these Recreation and Amusement Associations, financed initially with public funds but run as private enterprises under police supervision. Through these, the government hoped to protect the daughters of the well-born and middle class by turning to lower-class women to satisfy the soldiers' sexual appetites. By the end of 1945, brothel operators had rounded up an estimated 20,000 young women and herded them into RAA establishments nationwide. Eventually, as many as 70,000 are said to have ended up in the state-run sex industry. Thankfully, as military discipline took hold and fresh troops replaced the Allied veterans responsible for the early crime wave, violence subsided and the occupier's patronising behavior and the ugly misdeeds of a lawless few were gradually overlooked. However, fraternisation was frowned upon by both sides, and segregation was practiced in principle, with the Japanese excluded from areas reserved for Allied personnel until September 1949, when MacArthur lifted virtually all restrictions on friendly association, stating that he was “establishing the same relations between occupation personnel and the Japanese population as exists between troops stationed in the United States and the American people.” In principle, the Occupation's administrative structure was highly complex. The Far Eastern Commission, based in Washington, included representatives from all 13 countries that had fought against Japan and was established in 1946 to formulate basic principles. The Allied Council for Japan was created in the same year to assist in developing and implementing surrender terms and in administering the country. It consisted of representatives from the USA, the USSR, Nationalist China, and the British Commonwealth. Although both bodies were active at first, they were largely ineffectual due to unwieldy decision-making, disagreements between the national delegations (especially the USA and USSR), and the obstructionism of General Douglas MacArthur. In practice, SCAP, the executive authority of the occupation, effectively ruled Japan from 1945 to 1952. And since it took orders only from the US government, the Occupation became primarily an American affair. The US occupation program, effectively carried out by SCAP, was revolutionary and rested on a two-pronged approach. To ensure Japan would never again become a menace to the United States or to world peace, SCAP pursued disarmament and demilitarization, with continuing control over Japan's capacity to make war. This involved destroying military supplies and installations, demobilizing more than five million Japanese soldiers, and thoroughly discrediting the military establishment. Accordingly, SCAP ordered the purge of tens of thousands of designated persons from public service positions, including accused war criminals, military officers, leaders of ultranationalist societies, leaders in the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, business leaders tied to overseas expansion, governors of former Japanese colonies, and national leaders who had steered Japan into war. In addition, MacArthur's International Military Tribunal for the Far East established a military court in Tokyo. It had jurisdiction over those charged with Class A crimes, top leaders who had planned and directed the war. Also considered were Class B charges, covering conventional war crimes, and Class C charges, covering crimes against humanity. Yet the military court in Tokyo wouldn't be the only one. More than 5,700 lower-ranking personnel were charged with conventional war crimes in separate trials convened by Australia, China, France, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Of the 5,700 Japanese individuals indicted for Class B war crimes, 984 were sentenced to death; 475 received life sentences; 2,944 were given more limited prison terms; 1,018 were acquitted; and 279 were never brought to trial or not sentenced. Among these, many, like General Ando Rikichi and Lieutenant-General Nomi Toshio, chose to commit suicide before facing prosecution. Notable cases include Lieutenant-General Tani Hisao, who was sentenced to death by the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal for his role in the Nanjing Massacre; Lieutenant-General Sakai Takashi, who was executed in Nanjing for the murder of British and Chinese civilians during the occupation of Hong Kong. General Okamura Yasuji was convicted of war crimes by the Tribunal, yet he was immediately protected by the personal order of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek, who kept him as a military adviser for the Kuomintang. In the Manila trials, General Yamashita Tomoyuki was sentenced to death as he was in overall command during the Sook Ching massacre, the Rape of Manila, and other atrocities. Lieutenant-General Homma Masaharu was likewise executed in Manila for atrocities committed by troops under his command during the Bataan Death March. General Imamura Hitoshi was sentenced to ten years in prison, but he considered the punishment too light and even had a replica of the prison built in his garden, remaining there until his death in 1968. Lieutenant-General Kanda Masatane received a 14-year sentence for war crimes on Bougainville, though he served only four years. Lieutenant-General Adachi Hatazo was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes in New Guinea and subsequently committed suicide on September 10, 1947. Lieutenant-General Teshima Fusataro received three years of forced labour for using a hospital ship to transport troops. Lieutenant-General Baba Masao was sentenced to death for ordering the Sandakan Death Marches, during which over 2,200 Australian and British prisoners of war perished. Lieutenant-General Tanabe Moritake was sentenced to death by a Dutch military tribunal for unspecified war crimes. Rear-Admiral Sakaibara Shigematsu was executed in Guam for ordering the Wake Island massacre, in which 98 American civilians were murdered. Lieutenant-General Inoue Sadae was condemned to death in Guam for permitting subordinates to execute three downed American airmen captured in Palau, though his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1951 and he was released in 1953. Lieutenant-General Tachibana Yoshio was sentenced to death in Guam for his role in the Chichijima Incident, in which eight American airmen were cannibalized. By mid-1945, due to the Allied naval blockade, the 25,000 Japanese troops on Chichijima had run low on supplies. However, although the daily rice ration had been reduced from 400 grams per person per day to 240 grams, the troops were not at risk of starvation. In February and March 1945, in what would later be called the Chichijima incident, Tachibana Yoshio's senior staff turned to cannibalism. Nine American airmen had escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids on Chichijima, eight of whom were captured. The ninth, the only one to evade capture, was future US President George H. W. Bush, then a 20-year-old pilot. Over several months, the prisoners were executed, and reportedly by the order of Major Matoba Sueyo, their bodies were butchered by the division's medical orderlies, with the livers and other organs consumed by the senior staff, including Matoba's superior Tachibana. In the Yokohama War Crimes Trials, Lieutenant-Generals Inada Masazumi and Yokoyama Isamu were convicted for their complicity in vivisection and other human medical experiments performed at Kyushu Imperial University on downed Allied airmen. The Tokyo War Crimes Trial, which began in May 1946 and lasted two and a half years, resulted in the execution by hanging of Generals Doihara Kenji and Itagaki Seishiro, and former Prime Ministers Hirota Koki and Tojo Hideki, for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace, specifically for the escalation of the Pacific War and for permitting the inhumane treatment of prisoners of war. Also sentenced to death were Lieutenant-General Muto Akira for his role in the Nanjing and Manila massacres; General Kimura Heitaro for planning the war strategy in China and Southeast Asia and for laxity in preventing atrocities against prisoners of war in Burma; and General Matsui Iwane for his involvement in the Rape of Nanjing. The seven defendants who were sentenced to death were executed at Sugamo Prison in Ikebukuro on December 23, 1948. Sixteen others were sentenced to life imprisonment, including the last Field Marshal Hata Shunroku, Generals Araki Sadao, Minami Hiro, and Umezu Shojiro, Admiral Shimada Shigetaro, former Prime Ministers Hiranuma Kiichiro and Koiso Kuniaki, Marquis Kido Koichi, and Colonel Hashimoto Kingoro, a major instigator of the second Sino-Japanese War. Additionally, former Foreign Ministers Togo Shigenori and Shigemitsu Mamoru received seven- and twenty-year sentences, respectively. The Soviet Union and Chinese Communist forces also held trials of Japanese war criminals, including the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, which tried and found guilty some members of Japan's bacteriological and chemical warfare unit known as Unit 731. However, those who surrendered to the Americans were never brought to trial, as MacArthur granted immunity to Lieutenant-General Ishii Shiro and all members of the bacteriological research units in exchange for germ-w warfare data derived from human experimentation. If you would like to learn more about what I like to call Japan's Operation Paper clip, whereupon the US grabbed many scientists from Unit 731, check out my exclusive podcast. The SCAP-turn to democratization began with the drafting of a new constitution in 1947, addressing Japan's enduring feudal social structure. In the charter, sovereignty was vested in the people, and the emperor was designated a “symbol of the state and the unity of the people, deriving his position from the will of the people in whom resides sovereign power.” Because the emperor now possessed fewer powers than European constitutional monarchs, some have gone so far as to say that Japan became “a republic in fact if not in name.” Yet the retention of the emperor was, in fact, a compromise that suited both those who wanted to preserve the essence of the nation for stability and those who demanded that the emperor system, though not necessarily the emperor, should be expunged. In line with the democratic spirit of the new constitution, the peerage was abolished and the two-chamber Diet, to which the cabinet was now responsible, became the highest organ of state. The judiciary was made independent and local autonomy was granted in vital areas of jurisdiction such as education and the police. Moreover, the constitution stipulated that “the people shall not be prevented from enjoying any of the fundamental human rights,” that they “shall be respected as individuals,” and that “their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness shall … be the supreme consideration in legislation.” Its 29 articles guaranteed basic human rights: equality, freedom from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, sex, social status or family origin, freedom of thought and freedom of religion. Finally, in its most controversial section, Article 9, the “peace clause,” Japan “renounce[d] war as a sovereign right of the nation” and vowed not to maintain any military forces and “other war potential.” To instill a thoroughly democratic ethos, reforms touched every facet of society. The dissolution of the zaibatsu decentralised economic power; the 1945 Labour Union Law and the 1946 Labour Relations Act guaranteed workers the right to collective action; the 1947 Labour Standards Law established basic working standards for men and women; and the revised Civil Code of 1948 abolished the patriarchal household and enshrined sexual equality. Reflecting core American principles, SCAP introduced a 6-3-3 schooling system, six years of compulsory elementary education, three years of junior high, and an optional three years of senior high, along with the aim of secular, locally controlled education. More crucially, ideological reform followed: censorship of feudal material in media, revision of textbooks, and prohibition of ideas glorifying war, dying for the emperor, or venerating war heroes. With women enfranchised and young people shaped to counter militarism and ultranationalism, rural Japan was transformed to undermine lingering class divisions. The land reform program provided for the purchase of all land held by absentee landlords, allowed resident landlords and owner-farmers to retain a set amount of land, and required that the remaining land be sold to the government so it could be offered to existing tenants. In 1948, amid the intensifying tensions of the Cold War that would soon culminate in the Korean War, the occupation's focus shifted from demilitarization and democratization toward economic rehabilitation and, ultimately, the remilitarization of Japan, an shift now known as the “Reverse Course.” The country was thus rebuilt as the Pacific region's primary bulwark against the spread of Communism. An Economic Stabilisation Programme was introduced, including a five-year plan to coordinate production and target capital through the Reconstruction Finance Bank. In 1949, the anti-inflationary Dodge Plan was adopted, advocating balanced budgets, fixing the exchange rate at 360 yen to the dollar, and ending broad government intervention. Additionally, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry was formed and supported the formation of conglomerates centered around banks, which encouraged the reemergence of a somewhat weakened set of zaibatsu, including Mitsui and Mitsubishi. By the end of the Occupation era, Japan was on the verge of surpassing its 1934–1936 levels of economic growth. Equally important was Japan's rearmament in alignment with American foreign policy: a National Police Reserve of about 75,000 was created with the outbreak of the Korean War; by 1952 it had expanded to 110,000 and was renamed the Self-Defense Force after the inclusion of an air force. However, the Reverse Course also facilitated the reestablishment of conservative politics and the rollback of gains made by women and the reforms of local autonomy and education. As the Occupation progressed, the Americans permitted greater Japanese initiative, and power gradually shifted from the reformers to the moderates. By 1949, the purge of the right came under review, and many who had been condemned began returning to influence, if not to the Diet, then to behind-the-scenes power. At the same time, Japanese authorities, with MacArthur's support, began purging left-wing activists. In June 1950, for example, the central office of the Japan Communist Party and the editorial board of The Red Flag were purged. The gains made by women also seemed to be reversed. Women were elected to 8% of available seats in the first lower-house election in 1946, but to only 2% in 1952, a trend not reversed until the so-called Madonna Boom of the 1980s. Although the number of women voting continued to rise, female politicisation remained more superficial than might be imagined. Women's employment also appeared little affected by labour legislation: though women formed nearly 40% of the labor force in 1952, they earned only 45% as much as men. Indeed, women's attitudes toward labor were influenced less by the new ethos of fulfilling individual potential than by traditional views of family and workplace responsibilities. In the areas of local autonomy and education, substantial modifications were made to the reforms. Because local authorities lacked sufficient power to tax, they were unable to realise their extensive powers, and, as a result, key responsibilities were transferred back to national jurisdiction. In 1951, for example, 90% of villages and towns placed their police forces under the control of the newly formed National Police Agency. Central control over education was also gradually reasserted; in 1951, the Yoshida government attempted to reintroduce ethics classes, proposed tighter central oversight of textbooks, and recommended abolishing local school board elections. By the end of the decade, all these changes had been implemented. The Soviet occupation of the Kurile Islands and the Habomai Islets was completed with Russian troops fully deployed by September 5. Immediately after the onset of the occupation, amid a climate of insecurity and fear marked by reports of sporadic rape and physical assault and widespread looting by occupying troops, an estimated 4,000 islanders fled to Hokkaido rather than face an uncertain repatriation. As Soviet forces moved in, they seized or destroyed telephone and telegraph installations and halted ship movements into and out of the islands, leaving residents without adequate food and other winter provisions. Yet, unlike Manchuria, where Japanese civilians faced widespread sexual violence and pillage, systematic violence against the civilian population on the Kuriles appears to have been exceptional. A series of military government proclamations assured islanders of safety so long as they did not resist Soviet rule and carried on normally; however, these orders also prohibited activities not explicitly authorized by the Red Army, which imposed many hardships on civilians. Residents endured harsh conditions under Soviet rule until late 1948, when Japanese repatriation out of the Kurils was completed. The Kuriles posed a special diplomatic problem, as the occupation of the southernmost islands—the Northern Territories—ignited a long-standing dispute between Tokyo and Moscow that continues to impede the normalisation of relations today. Although the Kuriles were promised to the Soviet Union in the Yalta agreement, Japan and the United States argued that this did not apply to the Northern Territories, since they were not part of the Kurile Islands. A substantial dispute regarding the status of the Kurile Islands arose between the United States and the Soviet Union during the preparation of the Treaty of San Francisco, which was intended as a permanent peace treaty between Japan and the Allied Powers of World War II. The treaty was ultimately signed by 49 nations in San Francisco on September 8, 1951, and came into force on April 28, 1952. It ended Japan's role as an imperial power, allocated compensation to Allied nations and former prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes, ended the Allied post-war occupation of Japan, and returned full sovereignty to Japan. Effectively, the document officially renounced Japan's treaty rights derived from the Boxer Protocol of 1901 and its rights to Korea, Formosa and the Pescadores, the Kurile Islands, the Spratly Islands, Antarctica, and South Sakhalin. Japan's South Seas Mandate, namely the Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, and Caroline Islands, had already been formally revoked by the United Nations on July 18, 1947, making the United States responsible for administration of those islands under a UN trusteeship agreement that established the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. In turn, the Bonin, Volcano, and Ryukyu Islands were progressively restored to Japan between 1953 and 1972, along with the Senkaku Islands, which were disputed by both Communist and Nationalist China. In addition, alongside the Treaty of San Francisco, Japan and the United States signed a Security Treaty that established a long-lasting military alliance between them. Although Japan renounced its rights to the Kuriles, the U.S. State Department later clarified that “the Habomai Islands and Shikotan ... are properly part of Hokkaido and that Japan is entitled to sovereignty over them,” hence why the Soviets refused to sign the treaty. Britain and the United States agreed that territorial rights would not be granted to nations that did not sign the Treaty of San Francisco, and as a result the Kurile Islands were not formally recognized as Soviet territory. A separate peace treaty, the Treaty of Taipei (formally the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty), was signed in Taipei on April 28, 1952 between Japan and the Kuomintang, and on June 9 of that year the Treaty of Peace Between Japan and India followed. Finally, Japan and the Soviet Union ended their formal state of war with the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, though this did not settle the Kurile Islands dispute. Even after these formal steps, Japan as a nation was not in a formal state of war, and many Japanese continued to believe the war was ongoing; those who held out after the surrender came to be known as Japanese holdouts.  Captain Oba Sakae and his medical company participated in the Saipan campaign beginning on July 7, 1944, and took part in what would become the largest banzai charge of the Pacific War. After 15 hours of intense hand-to-hand combat, almost 4,300 Japanese soldiers were dead, and Oba and his men were presumed among them. In reality, however, he survived the battle and gradually assumed command of over a hundred additional soldiers. Only five men from his original unit survived the battle, two of whom died in the following months. Oba then led over 200 Japanese civilians deeper into the jungles to evade capture, organizing them into mountain caves and hidden jungle villages. When the soldiers were not assisting the civilians with survival tasks, Oba and his men continued their battle against the garrison of US Marines. He used the 1,552‑ft Mount Tapochau as their primary base, which offered an unobstructed 360-degree view of the island. From their base camp on the western slope of the mountain, Oba and his men occasionally conducted guerrilla-style raids on American positions. Due to the speed and stealth of these operations, and the Marines' frustrated attempts to find him, the Saipan Marines eventually referred to Oba as “The Fox.” Oba and his men held out on the island for 512 days, or about 16 months. On November 27, 1945, former Major-General Amo Umahachi was able to draw out some of the Japanese in hiding by singing the anthem of the Japanese infantry branch. Amo was then able to present documents from the defunct IGHQ to Oba ordering him and his 46 remaining men to surrender themselves to the Americans. On December 1, the Japanese soldiers gathered on Tapochau and sang a song of departure to the spirits of the war dead; Oba led his people out of the jungle and they presented themselves to the Marines of the 18th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Company. With great formality and commensurate dignity, Oba surrendered his sword to Lieutenant Colonel Howard G. Kirgis, and his men surrendered their arms and colors. On January 2, 1946, 20 Japanese soldiers hiding in a tunnel at Corregidor Island surrendered after learning the war had ended from a newspaper found while collecting water. In that same month, 120 Japanese were routed after a battle in the mountains 150 miles south of Manila. In April, during a seven-week campaign to clear Lubang Island, 41 more Japanese emerged from the jungle, unaware that the war had ended; however, a group of four Japanese continued to resist. In early 1947, Lieutenant Yamaguchi Ei and his band of 33 soldiers renewed fighting with the small Marine garrison on Peleliu, prompting reinforcements under Rear-Admiral Charles Pownall to be brought to the island to hunt down the guerrilla group. Along with them came former Rear-Admiral Sumikawa Michio, who ultimately convinced Yamaguchi to surrender in April after almost three years of guerrilla warfare. Also in April, seven Japanese emerged from Palawan Island and fifteen armed stragglers emerged from Luzon. In January 1948, 200 troops surrendered on Mindanao; and on May 12, the Associated Press reported that two unnamed Japanese soldiers had surrendered to civilian policemen in Guam the day before. On January 6, 1949, two former IJN soldiers, machine gunners Matsudo Rikio and Yamakage Kufuku, were discovered on Iwo Jima and surrendered peacefully. In March 1950, Private Akatsu Yūichi surrendered in the village of Looc, leaving only three Japanese still resisting on Lubang. By 1951 a group of Japanese on Anatahan Island refused to believe that the war was over and resisted every attempt by the Navy to remove them. This group was first discovered in February 1945, when several Chamorros from Saipan were sent to the island to recover the bodies of a Saipan-based B-29. The Chamorros reported that there were about thirty Japanese survivors from three ships sunk in June 1944, one of which was an Okinawan woman. Personal aggravations developed from the close confines of a small group on a small island and from tuba drinking; among the holdouts, 6 of 11 deaths were the result of violence, and one man displayed 13 knife wounds. The presence of only one woman, Higa Kazuko, caused considerable difficulty as she would transfer her affections among at least four men after each of them mysteriously disappeared, purportedly “swallowed by the waves while fishing.” According to the more sensational versions of the Anatahan tale, 11 of the 30 navy sailors stranded on the island died due to violent struggles over her affections. In July 1950, Higa went to the beach when an American vessel appeared offshore and finally asked to be removed from the island. She was taken to Saipan aboard the Miss Susie and, upon arrival, told authorities that the men on the island did not believe the war was over. As the Japanese government showed interest in the situation on Anatahan, the families of the holdouts were contacted in Japan and urged by the Navy to write letters stating that the war was over and that the holdouts should surrender. The letters were dropped by air on June 26 and ultimately convinced the holdouts to give themselves up. Thus, six years after the end of World War II, “Operation Removal” commenced from Saipan under the command of Lt. Commander James B. Johnson, USNR, aboard the Navy Tug USS Cocopa. Johnson and an interpreter went ashore by rubber boat and formally accepted the surrender on the morning of June 30, 1951. The Anatahan femme fatale story later inspired the 1953 Japanese film Anatahan and the 1998 novel Cage on the Sea. In 1953, Murata Susumu, the last holdout on Tinian, was finally captured. The next year, on May 7, Corporal Sumada Shoichi was killed in a clash with Filipino soldiers, leaving only two Japanese still resisting on Lubang. In November 1955, Seaman Kinoshita Noboru was captured in the Luzon jungle but soon after committed suicide rather than “return to Japan in defeat.” That same year, four Japanese airmen surrendered at Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea; and in 1956, nine soldiers were located and sent home from Morotai, while four men surrendered on Mindoro. In May 1960, Sergeant Ito Masashi became one of the last Japanese to surrender at Guam after the capture of his comrade Private Minagawa Bunzo, but the final surrender at Guam would come later with Sergeant Yokoi Shoichi. Sergeant Yokoi Shoichi survived in the jungles of Guam by living for years in an elaborately dug hole, subsisting on snails and lizards, a fate that, while undignified, showcased his ingenuity and resilience and earned him a warm welcome on his return to Japan. His capture was not heroic in the traditional sense: he was found half-starving by a group of villagers while foraging for shrimp in a stream, and the broader context included his awareness as early as 1952 that the war had ended. He explained that the wartime bushido code, emphasizing self-sacrifice or suicide rather than self-preservation, had left him fearing that repatriation would label him a deserter and likely lead to execution. Emerging from the jungle, Yokoi also became a vocal critic of Japan's wartime leadership, including Emperor Hirohito, which fits a view of him as a product of, and a prisoner within, his own education, military training, and the censorship and propaganda of the era. When asked by a young nephew how he survived so long on an island just a short distance from a major American airbase, he replied simply, “I was really good at hide and seek.”  That same year, Private Kozuka Kinshichi was killed in a shootout with Philippine police in October, leaving Lieutenant Onoda Hiroo still resisting on Lubang. Lieutenant Onoda Hiroo had been on Lubang since 1944, a few months before the Americans retook the Philippines. The last instructions he had received from his immediate superior ordered him to retreat to the interior of the island and harass the Allied occupying forces until the IJA eventually returned. Despite efforts by the Philippine Army, letters and newspapers left for him, radio broadcasts, and even a plea from Onoda's brother, he did not believe the war was over. On February 20, 1974, Onoda encountered a young Japanese university dropout named Suzuki Norio, who was traveling the world and had told friends that he planned to “look for Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the abominable snowman, in that order.” The two became friends, but Onoda stated that he was waiting for orders from one of his commanders. On March 9, 1974, Onoda went to an agreed-upon place and found a note left by Suzuki. Suzuki had brought along Onoda's former commander, Major Taniguchi, who delivered the oral orders for Onoda to surrender. Intelligence Officer 2nd Lt. Onoda Hiroo thus emerged from Lubang's jungle with his .25 caliber rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition, and several hand grenades. He surrendered 29 years after Japan's formal surrender, and 15 years after being declared legally dead in Japan. When he accepted that the war was over, he wept openly. He received a hero's welcome upon his return to Japan in 1974. The Japanese government offered him a large sum of money in back pay, which he refused. When money was pressed on him by well-wishers, he donated it to Yasukuni Shrine. Onoda was reportedly unhappy with the attention and what he saw as the withering of traditional Japanese values. He wrote No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War, a best-selling autobiography published in 1974. Yet the last Japanese to surrender would be Private Nakamura Teruo, an Amis aborigine from Formosa and a member of the Takasago Volunteers. Private Nakamura Teruo spent the tail end of World War II with a dwindling band on Morotai, repeatedly dispersing and reassembling in the jungle as they hunted for food. The group suffered continuous losses to starvation and disease, and survivors described Nakamura as highly self-sufficient. He left to live alone somewhere in the Morotai highlands between 1946 and 1947, rejoined the main group in 1950, and then disappeared again a few years later. Nakamura hinted in print that he fled into the jungle because he feared the other holdouts might murder him. He survives for decades beyond the war, eventually being found by 11 Indonesian soldiers. The emergence of an indigenous Taiwanese soldier among the search party embarrassed Japan as it sought to move past its imperial past. Many Japanese felt Nakamura deserved compensation for decades of loyalty, only to learn that his back pay for three decades of service amounted to 68,000 yen.   Nakamura's experience of peace was complex. When a journalist asked how he felt about “wasting” three decades of his life on Morotai, he replied that the years had not been wasted; he had been serving his country. Yet the country he returned to was Taiwan, and upon disembarking in Taipei in early January 1975, he learned that his wife had a son he had never met and that she had remarried a decade after his official death. Nakamura eventually lived with a daughter, and his story concluded with a bittersweet note when his wife reconsidered and reconciled with him. Several Japanese soldiers joined local Communist and insurgent groups after the war to avoid surrender. Notably, in 1956 and 1958, two soldiers returned to Japan after service in China's People's Liberation Army. Two others who defected with a larger group to the Malayan Communist Party around 1945 laid down their arms in 1989 and repatriated the next year, becoming among the last to return home. That is all for today, but fear not I will provide a few more goodies over the next few weeks. I will be releasing some of my exclusive podcast episodes from my youtube membership and patreon that are about pacific war subjects. Like I promised the first one will be on why Emperor Hirohito surrendered. Until then if you need your fix you know where to find me: eastern front week by week, fall and rise of china, echoes of war or on my Youtube membership of patreon at www.patreon.com/pacificwarchannel.

Prezident Pavel označil návrh rozpočtu na příští rok za polotovar. O některých položkách se stále vyjednává, protože několik ministrů má výhrady. Ještě kritičtější je opozice. „Rozpočet by měl být ve volebním roce přijímán transparentně,“ tvrdí pro Český rozhlas Plus poslanec Patrik Nacher (ANO). „Připravuje se přesně podle zákona,“ oponuje poslanec Miloš Nový (TOP 09, Spolu). Oba kandidují do Sněmovny. Všechny díly podcastu Pro a proti můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Mluví spiritualita a psychoterapie o tom samém pouze jinými slovy, nebo popisují jiné zkušenosti? To byla jedna z otázek, kterou kladl publicista Josef Beránek knězi a rodinnému terapeutovi Petru Glogarovi v jejich nové knize Všechno začíná v nás. Oba spoluautoři byli hosty Hergot!u.

Popkulturní novinky nečekají a tak jich dnešní epizoda Slejváku přinesla víc, než spočítáte na prstech rukou: vídeňskou Eurovizi, třetího potomka Trishy Paytas, Mírovy filmové tipy nebo Vilminu červenou knihovnu. Oba zároveň zreflektovali první společnou narozeninovou oslavu, na kterou, díky Vám, nikdy nezapomenou!

Popkulturní novinky nečekají a tak jich dnešní epizoda Slejváku přinesla víc, než spočítáte na prstech rukou: vídeňskou Eurovizi, třetího potomka Trishy Paytas, Mírovy filmové tipy nebo Vilminu červenou knihovnu. Oba zároveň zreflektovali první společnou narozeninovou oslavu, na kterou, díky Vám, nikdy nezapomenou!Všechny díly podcastu Slejvák můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Sam Altman, zakladatel a šéf startupu OpenAI, který stojí za Chatem GPT, a Elon Musk, nejbohatší člověk planety, si jsou víc podobní, než by chtěli přiznat. Oba chtějí měnit svět, oba věří v umělou inteligenci, i když každý trochu jinak, a oba touží vylepšovat lidský mozek. Přesto se nemají rádi.Všechny díly podcastu Názory a argumenty můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

The TFP crew is present and lively.......Arianna is on fire while Nando T and Jonathan stoke the flames!!! We've got some great discussions for you, wild ideas and so much more!!! CHEERS!!!JERKING THE CURTAINROUND TABLE OF TOPICSNEWSNaomi's big announcement and what happens nextWorlds Collide Sept. 12thWrestlePalooza Sept. 20thWWE options to purchase TNA “You Just Made the List” Top 5 Wrestling ManagersSMACKDOWN MFT kicks off smackdown Piper Niven is taking notes and passing the testsNia isn't wrong……but Tiffany and Nia againWWE helping Melo by giving him the Miz Kiana James recruitingIs Drew onto something???…..is Cody anything without his story???Tala Tonga vs Erick Rowan would be epic Motor City Squirt Guns…..how are we feeling about the tag teams since our last conversation Sami vs Solo move the needle???RAWThe World Heavyweight Champion kicks off Monday Night Rollins Jey can't control the crowd Was Asuka's apology sincere? Raquel and Iyo great choice for a match Asuka has mommy problems Which Bayley are we getting???Seth officially has become a nightmare for PunkCongratulations Naomi and Big Jim…..still too soon What an ending to RAW and the build up for Paris!!! NXTWhy Briggs???Saints next for Oba???TNA on NXT is good business When should Sol get a shot at the title??? Mike Santana with the assist Episodes dropping weekly!!!Follow on the gram @the.funkaholiks.pod THEE POD THAT TALKS WHAT THEY LOVE 

Join SP3, Miss Krssi Luv and Tru Draw Josh for an all-new edition of our flagship podcast Tru Heel Heat 342 discussing the latest wrestling news including: - WWE wanting TNA to usurp AEW as #2 & getting a TV timeslot against Dynamite - WWE going head-to-head w/main roster PLE against AEW All Out - WWE SmackDown ft. Drew McIntyre addressing Cody Rhodes - Karrion Kross & Scarlett's apparent WWE exit a work or nah? - WWE Raw on Netflix ft. 4 Way World Heavyweight Title Match for Clash In Paris - Naomi update & rumors? - WWE NXT ft. Dark State vs Trick, Je'Von, Oba & Moose - TNA Emergence & IMPACT - AEW Dynamite ft. Adam Copeland reuniting w/Christian Cage - AEW Collision ft. Kyle Fletcher vs Tomohiro Ishii banger - NJPW G1 Climax 35 playoffs kick off w/ZSJ, EVIL, Takeshita & Yota Tsuji advancing to the final 4 - CMLL Viernes Espectacular ft. MJF vs Zandokan Jr. - Final predictions for NJPW G1 Climax 35 Final & AAA TripleMania XXXIII Plus more! Leave your thoughts on this podcast in the live chat and comments section. Like, share, superchat and subscribe to support! #WWE #AEW #TNA #AEWAllOut #JohnCena #BrockLesnar #KarrionKross #Scarlett #Naomi #TripleH #TonyKhan #CarlosSilva #NJPW #G1CLIMAX35 #CMLL #AAA #AAATripleMania #TripleMania Welcome to the Tru Heel Heat Wrestling YouTube channel where we cover  the sport of professional wrestling including all WWE TV shows (Raw,  Smackdown, & NXT), AEW Dynamite/Dark, IMPACT Wrestling, NJPW, ROH,  Dark Side of the Ring and more. Our weekly podcast hosted by SP3, Top  Guy JJ & Miss Krssi Luv breaking down the weekly wrestling news and  present unfiltered, honest thoughts and opinions for wrestling fans by  wrestling fans, drops every Saturday. We also include PPV reviews,  countdowns, and exclusive interviews with wrestlers from all promotions  hosted by a wide range of personalities such as Romeo, Chris G, Ness,  StatKing, Drunk Guy JJ, J-News and more. Subscribe and enable ALL  notifications to stay posted for the latest wrestling WWE news,  highlights, commentary, updates and more.Become a member of Tru Heels Facebook community: www.facebook.com/groups/1336177103130224/Subscribe to Tru Heel Heat on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC0AmFQmsRyQYPKyRm5hDwNgFollow Tru Heels on Twitter: twitter.com/truheelheatFollow Tru Heels on Instagram: www.instagram.com/truheelheat/Music composed by JPM

Patříme ke dvěma až třem procentům lidí, kteří se hladově vrhají po technologických inovacích. Rádi si totiž rozšiřujeme obzory. Známe rizika, ale jsme s nimi smíření. Neuvažujeme tak pragmaticky. Proto jsme kdysi používali mobily s webOS, Badou nebo Windows Phone. Lukáš si myslí, že Petr je výstřednější. Rozebírá s ním, jaké okrajové produkty používal a proč.I Lukáš má na kontě pár výstřelků. Když začal být populární Facebook, utekl na Google+. Oba redaktoři používali hudební streamovací služby v době, kdy byly u běžné veřejnosti zcela neznámé. Spotify do Česka přišlo relativně pozdě, před ním tady fungovaly Deezer nebo Rdio. Debatu vyhrává Petr s tím, že si v zimě koupil grafickou kartu od Intelu. Hraje na ní a je spokojenější, než očekával.01:22 – Proč jsme průkopníci06:03 – webOS12:05 – Bada15:44 – Windows Phone22:26 – Windows RT25:58 – Komunikátory a sociální sítě31:21 – Firefox37:21 – Kindle a Intel Arc42:51 – Hudba46:01 – RSS

Inštitut za slovensko kulturo v Benečiji je kulturno in jezikovno središče zamejskih Slovencev v Italiji, ki prebivajo od Kanalske doline in Rezije do Terskih in Nadiških dolin. Ustanovljen je bil leta 2006 z namenom, da kot močna krovna organizacija omogoči bolj učinkovito uveljavljanje in ohranjanje slovenskega jezika in kulture v krajih, kjer je pripoved zgodovine v odnosu do Slovencev težka in mračna. “Prišel sem z dežja pod kap.” To preprosto reklo zgovorno označuje razmere v Benečiji takoj po drugi svetovni vojni. S temi besedami se začne knjiga Mračna leta Benečije, ki sta jo pod psevdonimom NAZ napisala duhovnika Marino Qualizza in Božo Zuanella. Knjiga o delovanju tajnih organizacij v Benečiji je izšla v italijanščini leta 1996 v Čedadu, slovenski prevod pa je Cankarjeva založba v Ljubljani objavila dve leti pozneje. Duhovnika sta bila za svoje delo preganjana na sodišču, pogum, s katerim sta prekinila molk, dolg desetletja, pa naj bi vplival tudi na njuni profesionalni karieri. Oba sta v visoki starosti umrla maja 2025. Ravno tisti mesec pa je Inštitut za slovensko kulturo v Benečiji izvolil novo vodstvo sedmih posameznic različnih generacij, vseh izredno dejavnih na raznih področjih življenja slovenske manjšine v Benečiji. Prvi večji dogodek so članice novega vodstva posvetile ravno umrlima duhovnikoma in lokalno skupnost pozvale k skupnemu branju njunih besed. Besedilo je bilo na voljo tako v slovenščini kot v italijanščini, branje pa je spodbudilo tudi marsikatero zgodbo starejših generacij, ki so ji lahko prisluhnili mladi, ki teh časov niso doživeli. Predstavnice vodstva smo povabili k pogovoru o tem, kako vidijo vlogo Inštituta za slovensko kulturo v regiji in širše ter položaju slovenske manjšine v sedanjih časih.

Office-based anesthesia (OBA) is no longer the “wild west” of healthcare. It's a thriving, highly specialized branch of anesthesia practice that's changing the way patients experience surgery. In this episode, Lynn and Garry take you inside the rapidly growing world of OBA, where 10 million procedures a year are now performed outside hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. They explore why patients and providers are embracing this setting, the evolving safety standards, and the anesthetic techniques that make it work. Here's some of what you'll hear in this episode:

We have an extremely fun episode for you today as we introduce a new segment called "You Just Made the List"!!! We list our top 5 ring entrances and man the list is fire!!! Everyone had something different to bring to the table. We get into SummerSlam and so much more!!! CHEERS!!!JERKING THE CURTAINROUND TABLE OF TOPICSNEWSWWE nailed Unreal…….cant wait for more episodesGunther and Roman taking time off…..we will talk about both later ESPN will be showing all PLE's in 2026We are introducing “You Just Made the List” a new segment for the pod Smackdown Cena and Cody toast…..couldn't be more confused before Summer Slam Logan and Drew attacking Jelly Roll doesn't move the needle Giulia has a grrrrreat match with Zelina Vega Mr. Iguana and Pyscho Clown show up on Smackdown Priest and Black ends in DQ…..this should have been a SummerSlam match Get the mic out of Logan's hands SummerSlam Night 1Roman and Jey have one helluva match with Bron and ReedWe have new Women's Tag Team Champions……how's everyone feeling about it???Is Karrion Kross gone from the WWE???Logan Paul continues to impress and highlights a dead matchCM Punk and Gunther give us a grrreat match…….but Seth Rollins gives us another Revolutionary momentSummerSlam Night 2Grrreat TLC match Solo and Jacob give us a match to remember but like we predicted…….MFT is too strong AJ pays homage to a legend but Dom walks away with the IC title What's next for Lyra??? Bayley and Becky move the needle???Naomi wins as we predicted…….lets get Naomi and Stephanie cooking Sooo TFP, what do you want to talk about??? Let's talk Cena vs Cody, results and the return of the beastRAWMonday Night Rollins kicks off the show…..your new Champion!!! Man that belt looks fantastic on him Seth vs LA Knight looks damn good…….stretch the story and let it cook!!!Adam Pierce put everyone on notice Charlotte and Alexa need work on the chemistry, hopefully it comes together sooner than laterDamn Becky went there……so did NikkiRAW ends on a crazy note, the Vision is too strong, Roman loses another pair of sneaks……LA Knight continues to struggle in the storylinesNXTBlake still a step ahead of Jordynne Dark State taking over NXTJazmyn Nyx shining titles now…..be careful champ Will Tatum's character last???Did Dark State channel their inner Kurt Angle???Thea stay away from the Koko Samoa coffee Trick is a self made cut and paste and so are Oba's challengers Please don't say his name No Grace from Arianna Chelsea and Ego is SkookumLash Legends and Nia Jax TOOK OVER NXT Episodes dropping weekly!!!Follow on the gram @the.funkaholiks.podYouTube and Facebook THEE POD THAT TALKS WHAT THEY LOVE 

Vláda zvažuje odvolání proti poslednímu rozhodnutí londýnského odvolacího soudu v případu Diag Human. Spor trvá přes tři dekády a podnikatel Josef Šťáva požaduje po českém státu miliardové odškodné za zmařené obchody s krevní plazmou. „Na peníze nemá věcný ani morální nárok,“ tvrdí v Pro a proti bývalý mluvčí ministerstva zdravotnictví Tomáš Cikrt ze Zdravotnického deníku. „Samozřejmě má,“ namítá novinář Jan Urban, který pro Diag Human pracoval. Oba napsali o kauze knihu.

Não existe maior trivialidade que citar Jorge Amado para falar da Bahia, é exatamente o que farei."Os velhos amigos... tiraram os sapatos, sentiram o calor da areia. Conversavam, riam, bebiam cerveja gelada...; de vez em quando, mergulhavam no mar verde e calmo, voltavam com o corpo salgado, sentindo-se mais vivos do que nunca. Era a Bahia em sua plenitude: o calor, a preguiça boa, a conversa solta, a amizade antiga e o mar ao alcance da mão."Podia ser, tranquilamente, a descrição de um dia de surfe - talvez seja.O sincretismo(Oba!) baiano aceita um personagem como o escritor comunista que venera os orixás e adora os santos, por que recusaria ao velho, o mais pagão dos atos religiosos que é surfar?Com a pele ardida e salgada, o Boia 314 foi gravado na companhia dos filhos da terra, Marcio Arjones e Lucas Passarinho, Bruno Bocayuva no frio do Rio e Júlio Adler torrado e febril de euforia depois duma manhã de ondas decentes.A trilha ambienta o ouvinte com Bonecas Pretas da Larissa Luz, Anarquia do Ronnie Von, Praia do Futuro com BaianaSystem Participação do Seu Jorge e Antônio Carlos & Jocafi) e We've Got A Good Thing Going com Sugar Minott.

In today's episode the team comes up with one helluva a storyline for Cody, the Final Boss and John Cena. Such a crazy but fun idea that Jonathan asks for a time out!!! Nando T and Arianna are battling at the end and Nando pokes the superstar about a certain wrestler that gets under her skin.......all this and so much more!!! CHEERS!!!JERKING THE CURTAINROUND TABLE OF TOPICSNEWSRIP Ozzy Buff Bagwell in recovery after leg is amputated Kevin Owen's neck surgery is successful TNA Slamiversary Smackdown MFT accident???Charlotte and Alexa tag team material???Wyatt Sicks look creepy in VHS Is Solo drawing his inner Rock??? Solo vs Fatu in a steel cage!!! LFGoooooStephanie continues to shine……Devils Kiss is way over Tiffy and Jade feels like a snooze for SSWhat's Cody telling us??? Glasses and watch???RAWWhat the hell Dom…..tip your valet Punk kicks off RAW…..Seth gone other superstars have to step up Naomi is pure fire…..Stephanie vs Naomi…..let's gooooSheamus and Rusev give us another banger Stephanie and Iyo is a match made in heaven…..can watch this match multiple times Lyra feeling heelish…..Bayley is up to something WWE drone showing a lot of empty seats…..can this be a sign tickets are overpriced???AJ killing it, AP is fed up with Dirty Dom Zayn is back…..Kross finish your work Iyo and Stephanie steal the showRoman vs Bronn is sexy!!! Exchange between OTC and Heyman…..priceless….excellent ending to RAWDiscussion…..is the Bloodline the greatest faction/story ever told???NXTTatum steals the light from Izzy……something brewing???Jacy two belts!!! Jada or Lash for the near future of NXT???Jasper Troy gets a WTrick turning into Cam Newton, Taker and his exchange did nothing for me Blake makes easy work of Wren Sinclair Egos heel level going up, Santino coming…..you summuma gun Oba needs help, not sure Evans is the answer Episodes dropping weekly!!!Follow on the gram @the.funkaholiks.podYouTube and Facebook THEE POD THAT TALKS WHAT THEY LOVE 

PAQ Research na začátku léta představil návrh na reformu zdanění OSVČ, která především v pravicové části zvedla vlnu pohoršení. Názorový střet se odehrával i na stránkách našeho Newsletteru, proto si Markéta Malá pozvala dvojici členů NERV ekonoma Aleše Roda a sociologa Dana Prokopa.Probrali jsme, proč ve veřejném prostoru mají přednost návrhy na zvyšování daní a míry přerozdělování oproti škrtům a šetření. Proč nemá PAQ konkurenci a zda je ideově zaujatý? Jsou v Česku správně nastaveny daně? Oba hosté se překvapivě často shodují, největší problém vidí v chybějící odvaze.Partnerem podcastu je advokátní kancelář ROWAN LEGAL, provozovatel zdravotnických zařízení PENTA HOSPITALS.

Nederland gaf na jarenlang overleg 119 van de befaamde Benin-bronzen terug aan Nigeria. Correspondent Eva Oude Elferink was erbij en zag de emotie bij de lokale bevolking. Wat leert deze teruggave ons over de discussie rond roofkunst?Gast: Eva Oude ElferinkPresentatie: Bram EndedijkRedactie: Suzan Yücel en Iddo HavingaMontage: Jennifer PettersonEindredactie: Tessa ColenCoördinatie: Belle BraakhekkeProductie: Andrea HuntjensHeb je vragen, suggesties of ideeën over onze journalistiek? Mail dan naar onze redactie via podcast@nrc.nl.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mass Effect udělal za svou brilantní sérií space oper rozkydlou tečku v podobě Andromedy. Od té doby, aby člověk pořádně epické vesmírné sci-fi pohledal. Na obzoru se ale rýsuje slibný Exodus nebo bombastický The Expanse. Oba se spoustou styčných bodů s Mass Effectem. Podaří se jim prorazit a třeba pokořit chystaný Mass Effect 4? A co jsou vlastně nutné prvky, které by dobrá space opera měla mít? O tom se baví Šárka a Jakub.

Akcie americké společnosti Nvidia trhají na burze rekordy, stoupá také index S&P 500. Oba tituly se po boku Applu nebo Microsoftu staly už dávno hitem i českých retailových investorů. Jenže těm pohled na grafy kazí dolar, který letos prudce oslabil, vůči koruně o 13 procent. Potenciální zisky tak může snadno překlopit do ztrát. Ovšem dá se na něm i vydělat.

On this episode of The Still Real to Us Show:-- We preview a massive weekend of wrestling with NXT The Great American Bash, NBC's Saturday Night's Main Event, AEW All In: Texas, and WWE Evolution! Which show has us most excited, and which one should you be watching first?-- We break down the NXT Great American Bash card — from Oba vs. Yoshiki to Jordynne & Blake vs. Jacy & Fallon — but is it weird that we're most hyped for the Slammiversary contract signing between Trick, Hendry, and Santana?-- We ask the big question: Is Goldberg leaving Atlanta as the World Heavyweight Champion at Saturday Night's Main Event, or is this the final bow of his Hall of Fame career?-- We dive into AEW All In: Texas, featuring huge matches like Toni vs. Mercedes, Moxley vs. Page, Okada vs. Omega, Swerve & Ospreay vs. Young Bucks, and Syndicate/Jet Speed/Patriarchy! Did AEW finally get its swagger back?-- And finally, we discuss WWE Evolution's return! Back in 2018, the message was that the women had arrived — what is the message in 2025, and what does it mean for the future of the division?

Oba and Shango had a few problems in their marriage. Can they solve this problem? Tell us what you thought about this story.Reference: Brown, David H. Patakin: Orisha Stories from the Odu of Ifá