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This week our guest is the incomparable Mark Sleboda! You can find me and the show on social media by searching the handle @DrWilmerLeon on X (Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube. Our Facebook page is www.facebook.com/Drwilmerleonctd All our episodes can be found at CTDpodcast.com.   Transcript: Dr Wilmer Leon (00:48): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon. I'm Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they occur in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historical context in which most events take place. During each episode of this podcast, my guests and I will have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between current events and the broader historic context in which they occur. This will enable you to better understand and analyze the events that impact the global village in which we live. On today's episode, we will discuss the recent belt and road form for international cooperation. Recently, over 500 people were killed as a result of an Al Ali Arab Hospital bombing in Gaza. And the US has provided Ukraine long range attack s missiles for insight into this. Let's turn to my guest. He's a Moscow based international relations and security analyst, mark Sloboda. Mark, let's connect some dots. Mark Sleboda (01:58): Pleasure to on connecting the dots. Dr Wilmer Leon (02:02): So Russian President Putin recently went to Beijing to participate in the third Belt and Road forum for international cooperation. Mark, how significant was this meeting? Mark Sleboda (02:17): Yeah, so I think that this meeting was significant for a number of reasons. First, for President Putin on a personal situation, it is the first time that he has left Russia since the Wess pushed international criminal court charged Vladimir Putin with the crime of helping families and caretakers in East Ukraine move their own children out of the range of Kiev regime artillery that had been bombing them for the last 10 years, also known as abducting children, which evidently is a crime when Russia does it in a time of conflict, but is not a crime when the US does it, when they move thousands of children out of Afghanistan and many thousands of children out of Vietnam in a previous generation of conflict. But besides that, the Russian Chinese relationship bilaterally, I think is probably the most important bilateral relationship for both countries. And both presidents seem to have a good working relationship, often described as a friendship and a deep understanding with each other. (03:47) And each time one of the others has been reelected to their positions. The first country that they go to is each other's, and I think that is a symbolic sign of the relationship, how important it is with each other's countries. But in a wider perspective, this Belt and Road Forum summit, it is actually the 10th anniversary of China's launching of the Belt and Road Project with the goal of which is to build deep infrastructure all along certain geographic pathways along a lot of what could have been considered the old Silk Road to facilitate trade and connections between the countries of this part of the world. And this is something that China does wherever it goes and does business is build infrastructure because it considers that as a long-term investment, not only in the process of conducting trade, but of helping their trade partner develop to a level where they can better trade with each other. (05:09) So physical infrastructure, but also schools, hospitals, things like this. Now a lot of Russian and Chinese and many other countries, leaders have done a lot about talking about the construction of a new, more multipolar, fairer and more equitable world order. And this would stand, I think, in contradiction and an obvious opposition to the current rules based orders. We make the rules, we give the orders of US led Western global hegemony, but in this emerging, shall we say, nascent being born multipolar world order, there are several countries that come to the fore as the first among equals, but certainly China and Russia, our foremost political drivers amongst that. And China stands of course head above the rest if only in terms of their population and their economic strength, which by many measures already exceeds that of the United States. And if there is a meeting and a display of this alternate world order of which China is playing such an important part, a China centric world order, if you want to call it, that was on display in this Belt and road summit. (07:00) It was a bringing together of all the countries participating in this physical implementation of a more multipolar world order. The only Western leader in attendance, very interestingly is the right wing prime minister of Hungary, the foreign policy black sheep, victor or Bond who has refused to participate in the West's proxy war in Ukraine. And its existential economic war of sanctions weaponizing its control of the global financial and economic architecture against Russia, primarily from a Hungarian national interest perspective rather than any great love of Russia or the Russian president, which is I think a position that most people would agree is something that should be something that every world leader should aspire to, that they put their own nation's interest and people above all others. Although in the current world that's not even specific. It's not, we know that it's not the case. Dr Wilmer Leon (08:25): Just asked Olaf Schultz in Germany that question you mentioned each time gee and Putin get elected, we keep hearing from Western narrative, particularly from Biden authoritarians, authoritarians G is an authoritarian, Putin is an authoritarian, can just briefly explain the fact that they're elected, they don't control their elections. They have different electoral processes than we do. They have different democratic constructs than we have, but that doesn't mean that they're authoritarian. Mark Sleboda (09:14): Yeah, I mean this is a label that is tapped on essentially to any country now that lies outside of US-led western global hegemony that does not align itself and does not meet the West's self-reflective standard of what democracy looks like. And it really, it is a way of exerting moral superiority. The idea that we are both morally and systemically superior than those people over there who are our adversaries in a different time. It was communists of course, and there have been other labels in history and certainly labels are applied to the Western countries. They are imperialists. They are hegemons. This is a standard othering device. I live in Russia, I immigrated to Russia from the United States, and I have lived here for most of two decades. And I have to be honest, after having some experience as a volunteer for the US Democratic Party, I find that politics in Russia on a whole is no more or less substantive than the democratic nature beneath the sheets of politics in the United States. I don't want to go out of the way to make it seem like it's a democratic utopia or anything like that far from it. But on a whole, knowing the warts inside and out of political systems in US and Europe and now Russia, I think that over in a general context that they're expressed themselves roughly equally. There is Dr Wilmer Leon (11:18): Politics plus they also reflect the intricacies of their cultures. And so I was having a conversation with some folks a couple of days ago and I said they were, oh, well G is an authoritarian. And I said, well, I've seen polls from Harvard and Princeton and some other western universities that show like 96% of Chinese people like their government. And I think it was 87% of Russians polled like their government support government. So if it's working for them, then who in the world am I to say that it's not good, it's not right, or what we have is better. I know Joe Biden would love to see 60% approval rating, let alone 96% approval rating. Mark Sleboda (12:15): Yeah, I think not only approval of the current government, but I've seen similar polls that asking peoples of different countries whether they think they live in a democracy and quite overwhelmingly, certainly over the 50% margin, the people of Russia feel they live in a democracy and certainly the people in China do as well to an even greater degree. Again, it doesn't look like western liberal democracy, but perhaps you could consider it of a more technocratic bureaucratic nature. But as you point out, there is a thousand multi-thousand year history of Chinese bureaucratic constructs that they are laying their future and their choices on top of. Meanwhile, in the United States, people generally feel that they don't live in a democratic system, that their government is not responsive to their needs and interests. And you could say that that is, oh, I mean all the people in Russia and China are ignorant. (13:35) They don't know the real situation of what they live and what we live in. And I got to tell you, Russian people, even Chinese people, despite the great Chinese firewall, their coordinate of the internet generally have a far higher degree of reading and understanding western media than the other way around. That is they hear our perspective and thoughts, but as Westerners, you quite often don't hear at least on your own media unless you go actively looking for it, the opinions and perspectives of other countries. So I think that assumption that all the people over in that other part of the world, they don't live in a real democracy and that they think they do is only a sign of how brainwashed and ignorant they are compared to us enlightened people on the shining city on the hill. That is a hallmark of the supremacist ideology of exceptionalism that unfortunately has come to dominate not American political culture, but I think far more important, the American political elite, the ruling class. And that has disastrous consequences for us foreign policy and the world. Dr Wilmer Leon (15:05): You are absolutely right. I've been to Iran twice and was very blessed to lecture at probably somewhere between 10 and 15 universities throughout the country. And as I traveled throughout Iran, I was amazed at how well informed the questions that these students asked me. They were right on it, man, in terms of an understanding of the politics of the moment. And again, the questions that they asked me were spot on. It indicated that they were going beyond the rhetoric, they were going beyond the talking points. And it was shocking to me how well-informed in spite of the wall that you talk about in terms of the internet, they were on point, man. Mark Sleboda (16:11): Yeah, I think it's interesting that this label is applied to adversaries like Russia and China, Russia, which has opposition parties and elections. They don't do very good right now because since the economic catastrophe of the nineties, I think the Russian population has been more united in their political vision of a path out of that and forward and retaking what they see as their place in the world after the self dissolution of the Soviet Union. That will not last forever. And a lot of people question whether it will last after Putin at all. But there is opposition political structures. The biggest opposition political party in Russia is the communist party of the Russian Federation, which polls generally somewhere around 15% of the population. And in foreign policy, it must be said, they largely agree with the current government of Vladimir Putin, but in domestic issues, they constantly fight for the Duma for things that leftist parties always fight for, more social benefits, more spending on education and medicine and other things. And if anything, I think probably the communists would probably, if they were leading the country, would probably take a more hard line foreign policy position than the current government. I think that when the US Dr Wilmer Leon (18:02): Speak to that, because a lot of people listening this will say, wait a minute, a harder line than Vladimir Putin. Oh my God. You can't get a harder line than that when the people making those observations have never listened to the man, have never read any of the speeches that he's given. And so they, again, he's evil, he's insane, all of these, he's a dictator, all of these kinds of things. Mark Sleboda (18:36): Yeah. Again, the fact that they don't hear what Vladimir Putin has to say for himself because the western media specifically does not reproduce it for them. And I have to say that Russian media does this. I mean, there are still government funded projects in Somi that translate word for word western articles in print media and televised and put it out there for Russians to listen to, not only from the United States and Europe, but from all over the world. That tradition doesn't exist on the west. It's not that it is banned, although in some cases in Europe, Artie and Sputnik are banned, aren't they? Or everything is done to take them off the airwaves as is done in the United States, and of course not just with RT and Sputnik, but now with press TV from Iran. And there are calls of course to do the same to the Chinese CCTV and now even Al Jazeera in the current climate because as the state media arm of Qatar, they are now seen as being anti-Israeli. (19:55) So a very similar phenomenon is now taking place. And in a previous conflict, there was very much the same argument being made about Al Jazeera over the situation in Iraq. So this rears its head regularly, but why is the authoritarian label not linked to actual authoritarian countries? That is dictatorships, that are politically geopolitically allied with the United States, right? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, these are states that are starting to diversify their foreign policy. Saudi joining Brix and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a dialogue partner and identifying China as their most important trade partner, but still they are very much linked to the United States, and certainly they have been for decades. Qatar has a giant US army base, similarly in Kuwait, the UAE. Why are the actual monarchic oligarchic dictators of these countries not referred to as authoritarian? Because the label is more about oppositional geopolitical alignment than it is in domestic, Dr Wilmer Leon (21:27): Domestic government leadership, Mark Sleboda (21:29): Any real assessment of their domestic political system. And I have to Dr Wilmer Leon (21:34): Say mbss is chopping heads. I mean Mark Sleboda (21:38): Literally as a chopping more than heads, these bones aren't sorry. Right. As a veteran, well, I'm both a military, a US military veteran and shall we say a veteran of the US political system with all the warts that the US political system has with its systemic suppression of third party movements. And I'm talking, I mean Americans don't even know this for the most part, but their own two parties of power, the Republicans and Democrats regularly sue third parties to keep them off the ballot, right? I mean, they regularly go to court every election cycle to keep them off the ballot and the whole structure of 50 separate elections and the intricacies run by the party in power, either the Republicans or the Democrats in the state does everything possible to prevent the emergence of any other voice than those two and the electoral college and the eternal problems with campaign finance and lobbying. But Americans somehow feel their political systemic superiority so strongly that they don't even think when their political and media elites judge the political system of another country. And as far as most Americans reflexively are concerned, they think they are the only democratic country on earth and the only good people, which is really kind of another iteration of we are the chosen people of God, political meme throughout history. Dr Wilmer Leon (23:35): What is more authoritarian than not having a presidential primary in a system that is based on primaries? What is more of a dictatorship than imposing Joe Biden upon Democrats instead of holding a primary look at what the Democrats did to Bernie Sanders during the Hillary Clinton campaign, hence Julian Assange's email leaks, which demonstrated all the machinations that the Clinton campaign went through to see to it that Bernie Sanders could not become the Democrat nominee. What is more authoritarian than that? Mark Sleboda (24:28): I got to tell you. Dr Wilmer Leon (24:31): Am I right? Mark Sleboda (24:32): Yeah, you're absolutely right. And I don't want to go too much myself into US domestic politics because Dr Wilmer Leon (24:40): I just raised that Mark Sleboda (24:40): As examples myself from that. I don't want to cast stones. I don't necessarily feel that it's my place to, but I'm actually a confession. I'm originally from Scranton, Wilkesboro, Pennsylvania. That's where I was born. Anyway, that's also Joe Biden's hometown, where he was born. And I distinctly remember the video. I mean, I was too young at the time to remember it politically, of course, but I've seen the videos of Joe Biden running for Congress admitting open, right, that the system is corrupt, that corrupt people are elected to office, and that at the time, the only reason he wasn't corrupt is because he wasn't given the money by the oligarchs, by the rich of the country that he had asked for because he was too untested of yet, but that if he was, he would've taken, I mean, I think there is no greater condemnation of the US political system than admissions like that coming from the very seat of the president, or I mean, shall we take the words of prior presidents Jimmy Carter coming right out and saying, America is no longer a democracy. It is an oligarchy. Dr Wilmer Leon (26:11): You mentioned that President Putin went to China for the conference and that this was the first time that he had left the country in quite a while. That to me speaks volumes in how comfortable he must be in the midst of the Russia, Ukraine conflict. His country is at war, and he feels comfortable enough to leave his go to China for a couple of days. That to me says that he's comfortable not only in his position domestically, but he's also comfortable in his country's position internationally. Mark Sleboda (26:59): Yeah, I don't think Putin does. He perfectly understands, I think as a leader what he knows and what he doesn't know. And he has made it quite clear that he does not micromanage his generals in the conflict and in the intervention, the special military operation as they call it in Ukraine, the intervention in the Ukrainian civil conflict that has been going on for a decade. Also, of course, neither Russia nor China, nor it must be said, or the United States or India, are signatories to the Rome statute of the international criminal court. So that is not an issue on the trip. In fact, when the international criminal court tried to bring charges against the US, US leaders and military leaders for crimes, alleged crimes, yeah, committed in Afghanistan, in Iraq, they sanctioned the court, they sanctioned the judges, they sanctioned the prosecutor, they threatened to remove funding from the United Nations. They put arrest warrants out for the judges and the prosecutor until the issue was withdrawn. From my understanding is there were even threats made against the families and lives of Dr Wilmer Leon (28:44): SDA was the judge. Yes. I don't remember her first name, but her last name is sda, and her family was sanctioned and threatened. Mark Sleboda (28:54): Yes. So I don't place any credits to that. And one of the reasons I don't place any credits on these charges is anything more than an instance of geopolitical capture of a un institution, which unfortunately happens far more often than it should. But my full disclosure, my wife is from Crimea, which is considered, at least according to the us, to still be part of Ukraine. And we have family all over East Ukraine, and there are some 5 million Ukrainians living and working in Russia. And that is a side of that conflict. The fact that there has been a civil conflict in that country since the openly US backed overthrow of the government there in 2014 is the internal divide in that country. And again, I know Americans think that through their propaganda bubble of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the ancient three networks and Fox and CNN, that they have a better idea what is going on in Ukraine than most Russians do. No, they don't because there are 5 million Ukrainians living in Russia who tell them all the time on tv, in media and in person because of how much families are interrelated on both sides of the border, they know far, far more about what is happening and has been happening politically in that country, not only for the last year or two, but of course going back decades. And it is the height of hubris, I think, to think otherwise. Dr Wilmer Leon (30:48): Switching gears a bit, recently, over 500 people were killed as a result of the Al Ali Arab Hospital bombing in Gaza. And we are seeing this escalation of the conflict in occupied Palestine. As I've been listening to President Xi, as I've been listening to President Putin, they have been trying to find a way to first of all bring about a ceasefire and second of all, negotiate a settlement. I listened to Joe Biden talk about peace, but all he really seems to say is we back Israel a hundred percent. We'll provide more weapons into the region, but we need to have peace. So Mark Sleboda (31:44): Go ahead. Joe Biden has also said, you don't need to be Jewish to be a Zionist. And I think Dr Wilmer Leon (31:49): And has said very clearly that he is a Zionist Mark Sleboda (31:52): And has said that if Israel did not exist, then the United States would have to create it to pursue its interests in the Middle East because it serves such as a convenient platform for the US projection of power into the Middle East. Dr Wilmer Leon (32:11): Wait a minute, lemme throw one more in there. Tony Blinken said the last time that he was in the region, he said, I am not only here as a Secretary of state, I am here as a Jew. So forget independent thinking. Forget being a neutral arbiter here in a Jewish state. That sounds more like imperialism and Mark Sleboda (32:38): Neocolonialism than anything. Mark Sabota. Yeah. Tony Blinken also by the way, mentioned that his family were originally from Russia and that they left the country, his grandfather because of pilgrims in Russia. And I'm really interested in the timing of pilgrims and his grandfather because certainly in the distant past there were pilgrims against Jews in Russia as there were many countries, but within the lifespan of his grandfather, it would make me really seriously question that characterization and feel he's inflating his family's political disagreements within the country. But that certainly also says in the current tensions with Russia in Ukraine and the proxy war there, that he also has a personal ax to grind as do so many people driving US foreign policy on the region like Victoria Newland, whose own family is originally from Ukraine, so there is that as well. But Putin, the Russia has already put forward at the UN Security Council a resolution calling for immediate ceasefire, and this was shot down by the US and Western countries with the US saying that the resolution could not, they couldn't vote for it because it did not criticize Hamas enough, which is obviously the most important thing when you're trying to craft a ceasefire to stop people from actively killing each other. (34:24) Russia and China have been in lockstep on their calls from this. They to a certain extent have been trying to be neutral in the sense that they are refraining from, I think overt criticism of one side or the other in the interest of attaining that ceasefire. Brazil, by the way, also put forward a UN security council resolution calling at least then for humanitarian ceasefires. And that was actually vetoed by the United States as well as France and the UK in lockstep there. Russia and China have been clear, while they don't support the tactics of Hamas, they feel that this is just the latest consequence of a long-term policy of a pretense of a peace process while backed by to the hilt by the us. Israel goes about its process of what it calls settlers, which is a policy of ethnic cleansing and colonization of Palestine, of the Palestine. (35:41) America, of course, does not recognize the state of Palestine, Russia and China both do, and they think they've made it clear that this is a result of the West, the world, but most importantly the West because they're not do it, not recognizing the Palestinian state, not granting its sovereignty and its own borders, and its right, of course, to defend its own country and borders and people a right that they extend to Israelis, but not to Palestinians. Because you'll hear from multiple US politicians and political elite that they don't believe that the Palestinians are a people to, which I would say you really, really need to go visit Gaza or the West Bank then. And Americans also seem to not understand, and I'm not so sure it would make a difference, maybe it would that a third of the Palestinians are actually Christians. I mean, would that help their perception, help them get past the inherent Islamophobia involved in the issue? (36:54) I don't know, but maybe people should point that out to them that it might help the situation some. But yeah, Russia and China have been quite clear net. Putin has talked to Netanyahu. He has also of course talked to the Palestinian leader, ABAs in the West Bank, and his government has been in contact with Hamas and the other political factions in Gaza. He's also been nonstop on the phone with every major Arab and other world leader that has interests in this conflict, Iran, Hezbollah the like. And he has been trying to do his best towards trying to come to some kind of sane cessation of hostilities. But instead, what we get obviously from the Biden administration, from the eu, the Western countries in general, is they have obviously given a green light to Israel to do a ground operation in Gaza. And Israel has demanded of the, it's a city of some more than 2 million people that has been rightly called the world's largest concentration camp or an open air prison with walls built around it. The real solution is the recognition of the Palestinian state, and that's the only way to relieve the pressure of the people in Gaza. Dr Wilmer Leon (38:59): One of the things that I found incredibly telling and quite a contrast was as Tony Blinken was on his Middle Eastern tour talking to US allies, the foreign minister of Iran was on his tour of the region talking to Iranian allies. In fact, lemme take a step back. When Trump assassinated Qem soleimani, the revered Iran in general, Iran said, we will retaliate. And a lot of people thought that that meant, oh my goodness, well, over the next few days, Iran's going to do something and Iran didn't do anything. Now we've got Tony Blinken, he was on his trip. Joe Biden was there on his trip, and at the same time, the Iranian foreign minister was talking to Iranian allies, and now the Iranian foreign minister has come out and said, Israel, your time is up. Talk about what an even height, another escalation of this conflict could mean in the region and what it could mean in the world. Mark Sleboda (40:21): Yeah, there was an interesting article out yesterday in the Financial Times where an anonymous US official acknowledged that as a result of the US and the rest of the West, so wholeheartedly backing Israel in this to the degree that they have, and this obvious green light for the ground operation, which is a ethnic cleansing of Gaza, of the Palestinian population, ordering 1 million people to get out of the way. Of course it's an impossibility, where would they go is the most obvious question, even if you were able to order a million people at a time to leave their houses. But there is an alignment of global sentiment and forces, political forces going on the financial Times. This US official and the Financial Times laments that as a result of this, that this is incredibly damaging to us influence in what the US usually likes to call the global south, where if you think of the West, you think of the rest and he says they will never listen to us again. I mean, if they were already, then we've lost them, not just the Islamic world, but more broadly. And because of the recent reproach month between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the normalization of diplomatic relations, thank Dr Wilmer Leon (42:18): You, China. Mark Sleboda (42:19): Yeah. It's brokered by China and not all peaches and cream. But the last week saw the first direct phone call between the president of Iran and the Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, and they both agreed, they expressed a common position on what is happening in Palestine, in Gaza, and is what Israel is doing and how unacceptable it is. And that is already an amazing geopolitical change. Like the world has shifted, and I have to constantly ask myself, is this real right that the world has changed so much? And there's a saying attributed to Lenin that decades pass and nothing changes. And then at other times in weeks, decades pass decades of change ensue. And we're I think, living in one of those periods, one of those latter periods now where things are changing so fast and we Dr Wilmer Leon (43:37): Minute, wait a minute, a minute. Because to that point again, China helped to broker the reproach mon between the Saudis and the Iranians and the United States was in the process of brokering a reproach mon between the Saudis and Israel, and then Hamas attacks Israel and the Saudis say out Israel, that conversation we were about to have, let's put that on hold because that decade of change has taken place in the matter of a day. Mark Sleboda (44:17): Yeah, Saudi Arabia was really looking for under, shall we say, a newly foreign policy mature Moham bin Salman, who has obviously changed himself a lot in recent years from what he was when he first came into power as the heir to the ailing king who has really been running the country. He is looking for a multi-vector foreign policy with a minimal amount of conflict. So he wanted to have the foreign policy options with bricks, with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, but it doesn't mean that he wanted a complete severance of relations with the United States either. And since the Trump administration, the US has been pushing very, very hard on their policy of trying to get Arab countries to recognize in Israel and to normalize relations, diplomatic relations, and others, which would also be tantamount to accepting Israeli occupation of large parts of Palestine and ever increasingly more so, you can see where the Palestinians probably regarded a normalization deal being pushed by the US between Saudi Arabia and Israel as an existential issue for them. (45:55) Because as by many standards, the most important Sunni Islamic country, because of its holding not only of world's energy reserves with oil, but also the two holy mosques, the way Saudi Arabia goes, the rest of the SUNY Arab world would inevitably follow, and that would end any hope of Arab support for them if this deal went through. It. Also, by the way, the sweetener is a security guaranteed deal with Saudi Arabia, which would effectively elevate Saudi Arabia in security technical terms to the status of the relationship between the US and Israel, IE preferential deals on weapons systems, access to more advanced military technology, full access to intelligence training. Everything that the US provides now to Israel would also be provided at the same level, the same prices and so forth, more or less to Saudi Arabia. That was the sweetener of the deal, and I believe that Hamas' motivation in the, they killed civilians. I mean, there's been a lot of, I think, obvious beheading of babies. That's Kuwaiti incubator, baby type disinformation ized to, but that's not to excuse that they use terrorist tactics. They killed civilians. On the Dr Wilmer Leon (47:36): Other hand, wait a minute, and don't forget the Russian killing of babies in the Ukraine, the women's hospital that wasn't a women's hospital. Mark Sleboda (47:48): That is I think, a case for the point, again, for the way the US wages information war mostly against its own people, which is another fascinating at a rabbit hole to go down. But I mean, it's not to say that Israel doesn't routinely kill, I mean, on an essentially daily basis, Palestinian civilians through its process of settling, ethnic cleansing, political Dr Wilmer Leon (48:18): Oppression, it bulldozers, villages, indiscriminately arrests, detains people without charge, and basically Mark Sleboda (48:29): Regularly summarily executes people who resist that, Dr Wilmer Leon (48:34): Right? Mark Sleboda (48:35): So anyway, I believe that Hamas' primary motivation in launching this attack, a wasting military resources that they had spent years building in secret plans that they had. The timing of this tells me that it was to prevent that Saudi Israeli reproach month deal being pushed by the US from going through, because they saw it as existential for them. And if that was the goal, then it has been successful because as a result of Saudi's disproportionate response to, if Israel had said, we are going to do a targeted anti-terrorist operation in Gaza against the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad leadership who were responsible for this, and the people who carried it out, I think there would've been a very different global reaction to this. If instead we didn't have Israeli leaders saying that we're going to destroy Gaza, that we're going to wipe Gaza off the face of turn it to Dr Wilmer Leon (49:54): Dust, Mark Sleboda (49:54): Dust, and that all Palestinians civilians are the enemy. We heard that from Naftali Bennett. That would've been a very different situation. And there is, I think a much more substantial reaction, not only from the usual suspects, we've heard that from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the Sufi, sorry, the Shia organization there. That is demonized wrongly in this particular case because it doesn't use terrorist tactics by the US and Israel, and no country in the world really outside the West as a terrorist organization that if Israel goes a ground operation and begins cleansing Gaza, then Hezbollah will open up a second front war on the Israeli north, and then there will be a two. Iran has voiced very similar that prospects that if the Israeli government's atrocities against the Palestinian people, which as a result right now are approaching 4,000 dead, which by the way is almost four times the number of people that the Hamas' operational s of flood attacks killed four times. (51:35) So obviously proportionality is not an issue when it comes to Israel, but that Iran would feel the need to intervene. We've heard even further, surprisingly, from the government of Jordan and the king of Jordan, right? Not called authoritarian by the way, but because he was educated in Oxford, I mean, he's largely regarded across the Arab world as a western puppet, as a western aligned Arab leader with a very large Palestinian refugee population, and a people who feel very close to that situation. Jordan has come out and said that if Israel looks set to drive the Palestinians out of Gaza as they appear to be planning to do, then Jordan would consider it an act of war. Which I mean, that totally surprised me coming from the modern. Now, a lot of it is probably motivated out of self-interest of the Jordanian king. If I don't react the way my people want me to, they will overthrow me in order to be able to do something. (52:53) But regardless of his personal motivations for it, it is certainly something I did not expect. And if Jordan does, so other countries around will become involved, and then there's the prospect of other countries or say Hezbollah as an organization becomes involved, that the US becomes involved. The US has two aircraft carriers. Well, the second one's steaming on its way to the Israeli coast right now, as well as a marine amphibious expedition ships with some at least 2000 Marines. And Joe Biden has kind of, I don't know on some type of idiotic loop reel, been saying about Hezbollah and Iran don't even, as it shovels tens of billions of dollars of emergency military support of crucial military supplies into Israel. And Biden is calling for 10 billion in military emergency, military or financial aid, sorry to be transferred as well. Russia is sitting there. Russia has military bases in Syria, naval base, several other military bases where it helped prevent a US backed jihadi overthrow of the Syrian government there with the us it must be said, still illegally occupying eastern Syria, east of the river, Syria's oil fields and wheat fields, and Turkey still sitting in northern Syria with a hundred thousand Jihadists still on its payroll. (54:46) But Russia has these military bases in Syria, and it sees the US just down the coast a little bit with two aircraft carriers. And Putin has asked the question, what are you going to do with those two aircraft carriers? And they're resulting fleets, Hezbollah seriously. And Putin was obviously expressing that he doesn't believe that. So Putin ordered that Russian jet fighters, they're most modern variants, fifth gen fighters will now be patrolling the Black Sea, the extent of it with al hypersonic long range missiles that have a range of a thousand kilometers. And he very directly pointed out that fired from the Black Sea that those missiles can hit US aircraft carriers where they're sitting in the Eastern Mediterranean and again, hypersonic. Hypersonic, yeah. So very, very hard to shoot down, if not impossible. And he said, this is not a threat. This is a response. (56:03) And basically he is saying, if you attack Syria, and it has to be said that Israel has already bombed Damascus airport very heavily again, and they've been shelling Southern Lebanon, if you attack our military bases in Syria, then will take out your aircraft carriers, right? I mean, you see where this spiral of escalation is leading, right? Israel goes into Gaza, Hezbollah, maybe Iran go in, Israel conducts cleansing operations in Gaza and Jordan and probably half of the rest of the Arab world join in. They join in, and the US joins in the US attacks Syria as part of this, because Iran power projects through Syria, Russia has bases in Syria. Russia bases get attacked. Russia attacks the US boom. We're in World War III in another conflict, right, that is going on simultaneously with ripple effects from the geopolitical tension and the conflict going on in Ukraine. So all of this has me feeling very much as my used to say, as a long tailed cat in a room full of Dr Wilmer Leon (57:22): Rocks, rocking chairs, and I want to reiterate hypersonic missiles. That means that Joe Biden has basically sent two targets for Russia to attack. Mark Sleboda (57:40): Now, Russia is not going to just attack American aircraft carriers Dr Wilmer Leon (57:45): World Mark Sleboda (57:46): War ii realize. No, I realize that it's meant as a deterrent, Dr Wilmer Leon (57:50): Which, so what is a deterrent that does not deter? Mark Sleboda (57:55): That's a good question. Unfortunately, I think Russia has seen several red lines be crossed in the recent years with the US escalation in Ukraine and hasn't responded, which has led numerous White House officials to say outright, we don't believe in Russian red lines. That means that we can keep poking the bear. And no matter what they do, they won't respond because they fear a nuclear conflict more than we do. That is, well, it's more than madness. It is the death of mad. It is the death of mutually assured destruction, which takes us back to a very early Cold War era that we should all be afraid of. Dr Wilmer Leon (58:44): Just really quickly, we have just about two minutes left, and I'm glad you made that point, because whether it's Ukraine, whether it's Syria, whether it is the Black Sea, the United States seems to continue to believe a, when Vladimir Putin or when Xi Jinping says something, they don't mean it. And when they make a commitment, they will not honor it. And what I have come to see over the years is they don't bluff. They don't play, they don't joke. We got a minute. Mark Sleboda (59:22): Yeah. So how to mesh that difference between, I think demonstrable reality and what the US ruling administration as seeing as their politicized reading of their opponents, that does not match up with reality. That's a recipe for disaster, Dr Wilmer Leon (59:46): Really. Wow. Well, I want to thank my guest, mark Sloboda. Mark, thank you for joining me today. Mark Sleboda (59:54): Thanks for having me, Dr. Leon. It's been an honor and a pleasure to be on the show. Dr Wilmer Leon (59:58): Thank you, mark. Big shout out to my producer, melody McKinley. Thank you so much for joining the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wimer Leon. This is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history, converge talk without analysis is just chatter, and we don't chatter on connecting the dots. Stay tuned for new episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share my show, follow me on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. I'll see you next time. Until then, treat each day like it's your last, because one day you'll be right. I'm Dr. Wier Leon. Peace and Blessings. I'm out.

The Glassford Hill Road Project will shift again on Tuesday, December 19, 2023. At this time the Glassford Hill Road and Florentine Road intersection will reopen and the lane restrictions will move south of Florentine Road in both directions. View the Glassford Hill Repavement Informational Map As of December 19, the construction zone will be shifted to the south between Centre Court and Pav Way, resulting in left-turn restrictions at Centre Court. Over the next few weeks, the work zone will be against the median for both northbound and southbound traffic. Please note that there will be no construction activity... For the written story, read here >> https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/glassford-hill-road-project-shifts-tues-dec-19/Check out the CAST11.com Website at: https://CAST11.com Follow the CAST11 Podcast Network on Facebook at: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network

MDJ Script/ Top Stories for Dec 14th       Publish Date:  Dec 13th     Commercial: Henssler :15   From the Henssler Financial Studio, Welcome to the Marietta Daily Journal Podcast.  Today is Thursday, December 14th, and Happy heavenly Birthday to MLB player Bill Buckner. ***12.14.23 - BIRTHDAY - BILL BUCKNER*** I'm Dan Radcliffe and here are the stories Cobb is talking about, presented by Credit Union of Georgia.  Marietta School Board Bans 23 More Books Cobb OKs More Probate Court Positions Amid Staffing Debate Cobb Commission OKs Project List for 30-year Transit Tax with Republicans Opposed Plus, Bruce Jenkins sits down with Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets to discuss donating food. All of this and more is coming up on the Marietta Daily Journal Podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen and subscribe!  BREAK: CU of GA  STORY 1: UPDATE: Marietta School Board Bans 23 More Books The Marietta Board of Education voted 6-1 to remove 23 books deemed "sexually explicit" from the Marietta High School library, including "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl." Superintendent Grant Rivera's decision to deny a parent's appeal for the book's removal was also upheld. The decision followed a review by a committee that focused on sexually explicit content. The list of books faced criticism for targeting themes related to race and LGBTQ issues. The board voted to sunset the directive on January 11, 2024. A parent plans to appeal the decision, raising concerns about the removal of diverse perspectives. STORY 2: Cobb OKs More Probate Court Positions Amid Staffing Debate Cobb County commissioners voted 4-1 to approve three new staff positions for the Probate Court after the chief judge, Kelli Wolk, highlighted the court's "dramatic understaffing." The approved positions include a hearing officer, a court support supervisor, and a deputy clerk. Wolk argued that the lack of personnel has led to logjams in workflows, causing delays for litigants. The decision faced criticism from Commissioner Keli Gambrill, who opposed approving additional staff positions outside the normal budgeting process. The three positions will be funded through the end of this fiscal year using fund balance. STORY 3: Cobb Commission OKs Project List for 30-year Transit Tax with Republicans Opposed The Cobb County Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 along party lines to approve a project list for a proposed 1% sales tax referendum for public transit improvements over 30 years. The estimated $11 billion tax, if approved by voters in November, will fund a new rapid bus system and other transit projects across the county. The Mobility Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (M-SPLOST) envisions 108 miles of bus rapid transit (BRT) and arterial rapid transit (ART) routes. The Republican commissioners criticized the tax for its length and cost, questioning whether the system would be used enough to justify its expense. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.799.6810 for more info.  We'll be right back  Break: ESOG STORY 4: Mableton Mayor Participates in Harvard Program for New Mayors Mableton Mayor Michael Owens was one of 27 American mayors invited to Harvard University as part of the Bloomberg Center for Cities' First 100 Days Program for New Mayors. The program, in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, provided training on strategic priority setting, building effective city hall organizations, and delivering promises to constituents. Owens found the experience "priceless," learning from Harvard academics, former mayors, and his peers. He emphasized the importance of the valuable network gained and the opportunity to exchange ideas for better city governance. STORY 5: Local Historic Preservation Group Gets Bench Honoring Enslaved Residents of Cobb The Friends of the Concord Covered Bridge, a historic preservation organization in Cobb, has been awarded the Toni Morrison Society's "Bench By the Road" project to honor former enslaved residents. The organization plans to install a commemorative bench in the Concord Covered Bridge neighborhood to recognize all previously enslaved people in Cobb County, particularly the family of Matilda Ruff. The bench will be the 33rd location worldwide and the first in Cobb County under the Bench by the Road Project, aimed at providing a reflective space to remember the enslaved, their forgotten lives, and Toni Morrison's writings. We'll be back in a moment  Break: DRAKE – INGLES 4 STORY 6: LEAH MCGRATH And now here is Bruce Jenkins' conversation with Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets to discuss donating food. STORY 7: LEAH INTERVIEW Break: Henssler :60  Signoff-   Thanks again for hanging out with us on today's Marietta Daily Journal podcast. If you enjoy these shows, we encourage you to check out our other offerings, like the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast, the Gwinnett Daily Post, the Community Podcast for Rockdale Newton and Morgan Counties, or the Paulding County News Podcast. 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Tell us what you think of The Bunker in our Listener Survey – five respondents will get the Bunker mug or t-shirt of their choice.  It's been ten years since China launched its colossal Belt and Road initiative, intended to usher in a new era of trade and economic growth. Has it achieved what it set out to? Or is progress starting to ebb? Alex Andreou is joined by George Magnus, an associate at the China Centre at Oxford University and author of Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is In Jeopardy, in The Bunker.  • “People thought that the Belt and Road was a very planned and thought out centralised project from Beijing - it's really nothing of the sort.” - George Magnus  • “China sees the Belt and Road as fertile ground to get countries to align with its own governance priorities.” - George Magnus  www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard and Liam Tait. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A KIA Anantpa camp in Fakang Township, Kachin State was attacked by air. China's One Belt One Road Project meeting." Myanmar Spring Chronicle 17th Oct 2023 (Moemaka Article) Saw Des Lu Nae.This item belongs to: audio/opensource_audio.This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Metadata, VBR MP3

Hello again! Friday, Aug. 25, was a bittersweet day. The old Schraub red brick building at the corner of Chihuahua and Seguin streets came tumbling down. (See “Schraub Store falls into history, and dust,” Aug. 31 La Vernia News.) There were many emotions that day. I know so many folks are saddened by the disappearance of this historic structure. I have heard many stories of personal and family memories in that building, and am aware of its more recent use for graduation pictures and such. While it is a shame that it had to come down, it did allow the...Article Link

I've reported to Ejisu Police to arrest individuals wrongly insulting me for stealing their lands – John Kumah

The Grove Hill City Council held an abbreviated meeting Monday, attending to only two items of necessary business, applying for a Community Development Block Grant and approving the bid for the Love Road project. Other agenda items were postponed due to the death of Councilman Kossie Powell. Mayor Ross Wood noted Powell's passing and offered condolences to the family. The council will appoint someone to the position at some point in the future, in the time required by law. Pine Hill Contracting LLC' s bid of 7,097 for resurfacing and making other improvements to Love Road, from Highway 43 to...Article Link

On this episode, Anita interviews Dawn Murphy, an Associate Professor of National Security Strategy at the US National War College, specializing in research on China and the Global South. We talk about China's Belt and Road Project, its relationships in the Middle East, and China's use of multilateral organizations.We begin the episode by discussing the recent Turkish elections, where hopes were high for the opposition to oust the autocratic President Erdogan. As the country heads to a runoff, what are the odds of the opposition succeeding?Biden attended the G7 meeting in Japan but cut the rest of the trip short to deal with the debt crisis at home. What does this say about US commitments in the Pacific and the confidence of these nations in dealing with the United States?Topics Discussed in this Episode00:00 Anita takes on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom04:00 Turkish elections19:00 G7 Meeting in Hiroshima and US Debt Crisis Distraction36:00 Interview with Dawn Murphy: China and the Global SouthArticles and Resources Mentioned in EpisodeTurkish ElectionsFour Takeaways From Turkey's Nail-Biting Presidential Election (NY Times)Erdogan triumphed by vowing to Make Turkey Great Again (WaPo)Here's How to Read Turkey's Election Results—So Far (Council of Foreign Relations)G7 Meeting and US Debt Crisis DistractionCan the West win over the rest of the world? (The Economist)The debt ceiling crisis is distracting Biden from his geopolitical agenda (Financial Times)To Counter China, G7 Countries Borrow Its Economic Playbook (NY Times)Talking China in the Global South with Dawn MurphyNational Defense UniversityChina's Rise in the Global SouthTwitter (@DawnMurphyChina)Follow Us Show Website: www.kelloggsglobalpolitics.com Show Twitter: @GlobalKellogg Anita's Twitter: @arkellogg Show YouTube

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has approved a proposal to construct a road between two neighboring southern provinces — Binh Phuoc and Dong Nai.

In this latest publication in the TII Heritage series, the long prehistory of Kells and its hinterland is shown to be written on the landscape in foundation trenches and boundary ditches, pits, post-holes, hearths, and myriad other marks of human life, which were discovered along the route of the M3 Clonee to Kells motorway project and recorded by an archaeological team from Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd. The story begins with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and continues, chapter by chapter, over a span of c. 5,000 years, recording the homes, burial grounds, work and worship of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age communities and bringing us at last to the threshold of history, in the Iron Age/early medieval transition period. Kells was not yet the seat of a famous monastery at that time but had already become a central place in the region, with a tribal capital at Commons of Lloyd, on the hill that overlooks the town today. The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3 Navan to Kells and N52 Kells Bypass Road Project, is available now through Wordwell Books and Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Fintan Walsh has been a professional field archaeologist for over 20 years. He studied Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1997. He has published numerous papers and reports on his fieldwork in Ireland and is especially interested in Early Neolithic and early medieval archaeology. Fintan currently works as a full-time archaeological project manager and lives in Limerick City. Dr. Danica Ramsey-Brimberg is a multidisciplinary researcher of the early medieval period, who is the Coordinator for Digital Engagement of the International Society of Medieval Art and an Adjunct Professor at Roger Williams University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this latest publication in the TII Heritage series, the long prehistory of Kells and its hinterland is shown to be written on the landscape in foundation trenches and boundary ditches, pits, post-holes, hearths, and myriad other marks of human life, which were discovered along the route of the M3 Clonee to Kells motorway project and recorded by an archaeological team from Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd. The story begins with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and continues, chapter by chapter, over a span of c. 5,000 years, recording the homes, burial grounds, work and worship of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age communities and bringing us at last to the threshold of history, in the Iron Age/early medieval transition period. Kells was not yet the seat of a famous monastery at that time but had already become a central place in the region, with a tribal capital at Commons of Lloyd, on the hill that overlooks the town today. The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3 Navan to Kells and N52 Kells Bypass Road Project, is available now through Wordwell Books and Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Fintan Walsh has been a professional field archaeologist for over 20 years. He studied Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1997. He has published numerous papers and reports on his fieldwork in Ireland and is especially interested in Early Neolithic and early medieval archaeology. Fintan currently works as a full-time archaeological project manager and lives in Limerick City. Dr. Danica Ramsey-Brimberg is a multidisciplinary researcher of the early medieval period, who is the Coordinator for Digital Engagement of the International Society of Medieval Art and an Adjunct Professor at Roger Williams University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this latest publication in the TII Heritage series, the long prehistory of Kells and its hinterland is shown to be written on the landscape in foundation trenches and boundary ditches, pits, post-holes, hearths, and myriad other marks of human life, which were discovered along the route of the M3 Clonee to Kells motorway project and recorded by an archaeological team from Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd. The story begins with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and continues, chapter by chapter, over a span of c. 5,000 years, recording the homes, burial grounds, work and worship of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age communities and bringing us at last to the threshold of history, in the Iron Age/early medieval transition period. Kells was not yet the seat of a famous monastery at that time but had already become a central place in the region, with a tribal capital at Commons of Lloyd, on the hill that overlooks the town today. The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3 Navan to Kells and N52 Kells Bypass Road Project, is available now through Wordwell Books and Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Fintan Walsh has been a professional field archaeologist for over 20 years. He studied Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1997. He has published numerous papers and reports on his fieldwork in Ireland and is especially interested in Early Neolithic and early medieval archaeology. Fintan currently works as a full-time archaeological project manager and lives in Limerick City. Dr. Danica Ramsey-Brimberg is a multidisciplinary researcher of the early medieval period, who is the Coordinator for Digital Engagement of the International Society of Medieval Art and an Adjunct Professor at Roger Williams University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this latest publication in the TII Heritage series, the long prehistory of Kells and its hinterland is shown to be written on the landscape in foundation trenches and boundary ditches, pits, post-holes, hearths, and myriad other marks of human life, which were discovered along the route of the M3 Clonee to Kells motorway project and recorded by an archaeological team from Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd. The story begins with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and continues, chapter by chapter, over a span of c. 5,000 years, recording the homes, burial grounds, work and worship of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age communities and bringing us at last to the threshold of history, in the Iron Age/early medieval transition period. Kells was not yet the seat of a famous monastery at that time but had already become a central place in the region, with a tribal capital at Commons of Lloyd, on the hill that overlooks the town today. The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3 Navan to Kells and N52 Kells Bypass Road Project, is available now through Wordwell Books and Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Fintan Walsh has been a professional field archaeologist for over 20 years. He studied Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1997. He has published numerous papers and reports on his fieldwork in Ireland and is especially interested in Early Neolithic and early medieval archaeology. Fintan currently works as a full-time archaeological project manager and lives in Limerick City. Dr. Danica Ramsey-Brimberg is a multidisciplinary researcher of the early medieval period, who is the Coordinator for Digital Engagement of the International Society of Medieval Art and an Adjunct Professor at Roger Williams University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this latest publication in the TII Heritage series, the long prehistory of Kells and its hinterland is shown to be written on the landscape in foundation trenches and boundary ditches, pits, post-holes, hearths, and myriad other marks of human life, which were discovered along the route of the M3 Clonee to Kells motorway project and recorded by an archaeological team from Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd. The story begins with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and continues, chapter by chapter, over a span of c. 5,000 years, recording the homes, burial grounds, work and worship of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age communities and bringing us at last to the threshold of history, in the Iron Age/early medieval transition period. Kells was not yet the seat of a famous monastery at that time but had already become a central place in the region, with a tribal capital at Commons of Lloyd, on the hill that overlooks the town today. The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3 Navan to Kells and N52 Kells Bypass Road Project, is available now through Wordwell Books and Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Fintan Walsh has been a professional field archaeologist for over 20 years. He studied Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1997. He has published numerous papers and reports on his fieldwork in Ireland and is especially interested in Early Neolithic and early medieval archaeology. Fintan currently works as a full-time archaeological project manager and lives in Limerick City. Dr. Danica Ramsey-Brimberg is a multidisciplinary researcher of the early medieval period, who is the Coordinator for Digital Engagement of the International Society of Medieval Art and an Adjunct Professor at Roger Williams University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In this latest publication in the TII Heritage series, the long prehistory of Kells and its hinterland is shown to be written on the landscape in foundation trenches and boundary ditches, pits, post-holes, hearths, and myriad other marks of human life, which were discovered along the route of the M3 Clonee to Kells motorway project and recorded by an archaeological team from Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd. The story begins with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and continues, chapter by chapter, over a span of c. 5,000 years, recording the homes, burial grounds, work and worship of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age communities and bringing us at last to the threshold of history, in the Iron Age/early medieval transition period. Kells was not yet the seat of a famous monastery at that time but had already become a central place in the region, with a tribal capital at Commons of Lloyd, on the hill that overlooks the town today. The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3 Navan to Kells and N52 Kells Bypass Road Project, is available now through Wordwell Books and Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Fintan Walsh has been a professional field archaeologist for over 20 years. He studied Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1997. He has published numerous papers and reports on his fieldwork in Ireland and is especially interested in Early Neolithic and early medieval archaeology. Fintan currently works as a full-time archaeological project manager and lives in Limerick City. Dr. Danica Ramsey-Brimberg is a multidisciplinary researcher of the early medieval period, who is the Coordinator for Digital Engagement of the International Society of Medieval Art and an Adjunct Professor at Roger Williams University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

In this latest publication in the TII Heritage series, the long prehistory of Kells and its hinterland is shown to be written on the landscape in foundation trenches and boundary ditches, pits, post-holes, hearths, and myriad other marks of human life, which were discovered along the route of the M3 Clonee to Kells motorway project and recorded by an archaeological team from Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd. The story begins with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and continues, chapter by chapter, over a span of c. 5,000 years, recording the homes, burial grounds, work and worship of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age communities and bringing us at last to the threshold of history, in the Iron Age/early medieval transition period. Kells was not yet the seat of a famous monastery at that time but had already become a central place in the region, with a tribal capital at Commons of Lloyd, on the hill that overlooks the town today. The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3 Navan to Kells and N52 Kells Bypass Road Project, is available now through Wordwell Books and Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Fintan Walsh has been a professional field archaeologist for over 20 years. He studied Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1997. He has published numerous papers and reports on his fieldwork in Ireland and is especially interested in Early Neolithic and early medieval archaeology. Fintan currently works as a full-time archaeological project manager and lives in Limerick City. Dr. Danica Ramsey-Brimberg is a multidisciplinary researcher of the early medieval period, who is the Coordinator for Digital Engagement of the International Society of Medieval Art and an Adjunct Professor at Roger Williams University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/archaeology

A short take on the Toni Morrison Society's Bench by the Road project.Written by Howard Rambsy IIRead by Kassandra Timm.

In this episode of TishTalk, I speak again with historian Matthew Ehret (www.canadianpatriot.org) about the historical influences of the Khazarians with the silk road commerce and the Venetians with maritime commerce. We discuss the secret family empires that have controlled world events throughout the ages and end by a brief discussion into the current influences of China and Russia with the Belt and Road initiative and the BRICS monetary alliance.

This episode pays a visit to the new downtown Austin bar Electric Shuffle, which aims to make shuffleboard cool with the help of craft cocktails. Plus, Community Impact reporters Katy McAfee and Zara Flores stop by to discuss tension between Hays and Travis counties regarding the SH45 gap road project. The Austin Breakdown is a production of Community Impact. This episode was produced by Olivia Aldridge with editing by Marie Leonard. Weather and allergy reports are sourced from www.weather.com and AccuWeather. ***PATRON PROGRAM SIGN-UP: www.communityimpact.com/patron

#lakeforestillinois #lakeforestpodcast #lakeforestlawsuit #mckinleyroadproject Lake Forest Illiinois Citizens comments regarding the proposed settlement in the lawsuit of 361 Westmoreland project Alderman Melanie Rummel Alderman Raymond Buschmann Alderman Looby Weber dan dorfman mayor george pandaleon lake forest illinois lake forest illinois city council --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lakeforestpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lakeforestpodcast/support

Some residents in Green Bay may be asked to take part in a phone survey from the police department in the coming weeks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ray, spokesperson for the Narre Warren North Road Action Group, told Tom Elliott it was an accident waiting to happen.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The HCMC government has proposed the State Audit of Vietnam (SAV) audit a road project connecting Vo Van Kiet Avenue and the HCMC-Trung Luong Expressway this year to complete procedures to end a BOT contract for the project ahead of time.

Deputy Director City Engineer Andrea Klopfenstein at Peoria Public Works joins Greg and Dan to discuss the city's current road projects and upcoming plans for the rest of the year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here are your top InForum stories for the evening of May 9, 2022. InForum Minute is a product of Forum Communications, brought to you by reporters from The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and WDAY TV. For more news from throughout the day, go to InForum.com.

Limerick Today hears audio from the Oireachtas Committee meeting of Eamon Ryan and Kieran O'Donnell speaking about the Northern Distributor Road project See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A short episode in which you'll hear about the basics of a new endeavor announced by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados. Called the ROAD Project (Reclaiming our Atlantic Destiny), it includes a massive digitization project, the creation of a memorial to enslaved people by Adjaye Associates, and the planning for a new heritage district to incorporate a museum and archives, performing arts venues, and associated amenities. Stay tuned to the Barbados Government Information Service to follow this compelling project.

A short episode in which you'll hear about the basics of a new endeavor announced by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados. Called the ROAD Project (Reclaiming our Atlantic Destiny), it includes a massive digitization project, the creation of a memorial to enslaved people by Adjaye Associates, and the planning for a new heritage district to incorporate a museum and archives, performing arts venues, and associated amenities. Stay tuned to the Barbados Government Information Service to follow this compelling project.

How will a rare disease diagnosis affect your family? Today's Few & Far Between episode features Bo Bigelow, Chairman at the Foundation for USP7-Related Diseases and Co-Founder of DISORDER: The Rare Disease Film Festival, and Trish Flanagan, President at the Yellow Brick Road Project.

At the Jackson City Council meeting Tuesday, Oct. 12, Mayor South reported that the Cemetery Road project is complete and will have a final inspection Friday morning. He asked Jackson Police Chief Jerry Taylor to look into adding more street lights there for increased safety. The mayor and District 1 council members Jane James and Kedrick Bettis were pleased with the completed project. The council voted unanimously to approve an increase in the amount the city pays for housing municipal inmates in the county jail. The city currently pays per day for housing. The amount will increase to ...Article Link

CBC's provincial affairs reporter Jacques Poitras takes a look at the race in Miramichi-Grand Lake.

The future of a highway project to connect Manukau to Drury South looks bleak.The Government's unveiled an almost 25-billion dollar transport plan for the next three years - including 7.3-billion for Auckland.Some funding has only been roughly allocated to projects so far, but Mill Road is notably off the list.Transport Minister Michael Wood says the cost of the original plans had inflated to 3.5 billion dollars.LISTEN ABOVE

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Activists are concerned about the placement of large rubbish containers near the Shamash Gate section of the Nineveh Wall, months after parts of the ancient partition were bulldozed as part of a road expansion project.

On this episode of the American Valor podcast, we were joined by Jon Hancock, a Marine veteran and documentary filmmaker as well as the co-founder and president of the Bastards' Road Project. Jon Hancock was born in Honolulu but moved all over the world until he ended up moving to Maryland for good. Early on in his life, Jon Hancock realized that he wanted to be a Marine. He worked with a team called the Magnificent Bastards and later moved on to work counterintelligence operations. Following his time as a Marine, he came home and attended the University of Maryland. He later took on mountain biking and made the decision to walk across the country to meet with fellow members of his unit along with gold star families; he took off on this journey on September 11th in 2015. This journey led Mr. Jon Hancock to make a documentary called Bastards Road which is all about his journey and how he learned about himself while on this journey. In this episode, he talks about his journey and some of the hardships that he faced while on his walk across the country.Support the show (https://customcoinholders.com/product/walk-of-heroes/)

In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Max Thompson covers the latest stories and trends across the market: StanChart has signed an ECA-backed loan to finance a Ghana road project Masdar has announced plans to develop 2GW of solar in Iraq Bahrain Development Bank has announced the launch of “tijara” – a new digital banking platform for SMEs that enables businesses to apply for loans online for the first time in the kingdom Like what you hear? Hit subscribe to stay up to date and for all the latest news online visit www.txfnews.com today.

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कानपुर स्मार्ट न्यूज़ के इस एपिसोड में सुनिए, विस्तृत परियोजना रिपोर्ट से लेकर आउटर रिंग रोड के नोटिस तक की समय सीमा जल्द की जाएगी जारी, पीडब्ल्यूडी अगले माह से शुरू करेगा टूटी सड़क व जलभराव का काम और इंजीनियरिंग कॉलेजों में पहली बार हिंदी मीडियम में अध्यापन को मान्यता।

This is the audio recording of the inaugural Fork Talk event that took place May 13th 2021. The Fork In The Road Project is named after Buckminster Fuller and was initiated in early 2021 by futurists David Houle, Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard. The Fork Project is aiming to start a global narrative that brings 4 existential issues (climate change, capitalism, exponential technological change and human enhancement) into a sharper and wider public focus, and ultimately catalyses real action by leaders around the world. This inaugural, free FORK-TALK event featured the 3 initiators as hosts, and 4 world-renowned keynote speakers presenting a short talk each, followed by Q&A: Brenda Cooper on the Role of Science Fiction as a Visionary Tool David Houle on Facing the Climate Crisis Bronwyn Williams on Re-Writing the Social Contract Philip Kotler on Is World Capitalism Ready for Nordic Capitalism? More about the #forkintheroadproject and the manifesto: https://forkintheroadproject.com/manifesto/

Former Iraqi MP Joseph Sliwa provides an update on his campaign urging authorities in Mosul to abandon a road expansion project which has destroyed a section of the ancient Wall of Nineveh.

SPECIAL PREMIERE! This is a very special audio-version derived from a video session in my living room here in Zurich / Switzerland, in a very personal and more intimate setting. In a conversation with my producer Rob Holub I reflect on the theme of my next film (which will be shot in beautiful Lanzarote / Canary Island in May this year) called THE GOOD FUTURE, such as: What kind of methods do I use to find and formulate my key foresights, and how do I 'come back from the future'? Why do you think that the future is a MINDSET not a time-frame? Why are we at the pivot point of exponential change; why is NOW so different, and why will the next 10 years bring more change than the previous 100 years? Who will define what GOOD actually is? How will we agree on how to design 'the good future'? If capitalism as we know it is unfit for the future failing us, what are the alternatives? The Future isn't something that just falls down on us; it is something we create, every day, by action or by inaction. The future is ours to win or to lose. We will have all the tools, but will we have the TELOS (the wisdom and the purpose)? Watch the full video version: - on YouTube:https://youtu.be/AQ4PLkRvv9Y - on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/528448679 Find out more about my Good Future topic (and my upcoming film): https://www.futuristgerd.com/topics/c...​ Have a look at the Fork in the Road Project: https://forkintheroadproject.com/

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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Max Thompson covers the latest stories and trends across the market: Singapore-based trade and trade finance fintech group Triterras has signed a letter of intent to acquire Invoice Bazaar StanChart has agreed an ECA-supported financing for a Ghana road project The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has signed a seven-year $350 million term loan facility to provide financing to Moroccan phosphate mining and fertilizer company OCP Group Like what you hear? Hit subscribe to stay up to date and for all the latest news online visit www.txfnews.com today.

Parks Director Dave Bietz for The Fargo Park District and Dave Leker Executive Director for Fargo Parks join Dan Michaels to talk about the controversial Lindenwood Park Project that has drawn criticism from the public set the record straight about the details of the project. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Live 95's Maxine Bramley speaks to Moyross residents about how they feel about the project going ahead after it was announced by Minister Ryan on the show that morning See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joe chats to the Minister for Transport and Leader of the Green Party Eamon Ryan about the Northern Distributor road project See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joe chats to Fr Pat Hogan and Ray O’Halloran about the news announced on the show that the Coonagh-Knockalisheen road will be going ahead as planned See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joe chats to Cllr John Sheahan on behalf of the Fine Gael Oireachtas members and County Councillors for Limerick & Clare about the meeting they had last night about the Coonagh Knockalisheen road See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joe chats to Paddy Flannery Manager of Moyross Community Enterprise and member of Moyross Partners about his thoughts on the plan for the Northern Distributor road project and what its completion would mean for Limerick See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joe chats to Green Party TD Brian Leddin about the Northern Distributor road project and whether there are changes to the original plans for it See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joe chats to FF TD Willie O'Dea about what he thinks about the delays in the Coonagh- Knockalisheen road project and the government's plans to stay in lockdown until March 5th with full restrictions See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joe chats to Fine Gael TD Kieran O'Donnell and Cllr Frankie Daly about the Northern Distributor road project and news there may be changes to it after Eamonn Ryan spoke with a group of Moyross representatives last Friday See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's show is in two parts: 00:25 First, Kwame Kilpatrick, the former Mayor of Detroit, will be a free man due to a presidential commutation. We'll get into the difference between a pardon and a commutation and why that really matters. Plus, a bit of Detroit history you might not have known. 03:07 Second, Diane Cross from MDOT joins us to break down the upcoming road projects in 2021. This includes work on I-94 and the intersection of Telegraph and 8 Mile, installing a somewhat new thing in Metro Detroit: A double diverging interchange. Thanks for listening! Love the show? There are two ways to help. 1) Leave a review on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-detroit/id1220563942?mt=2 2) Support us with your hard-earned dollars. We do a value-for-value model to keep this free for all to listen to: http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit  

कानपुर स्मार्ट न्यूज़ के इस एपिसोड में सुनिए, बिल्डिंग अप्रूवल हेल्पडेस्क के बारे में, एन एच 91 सड़क निर्माण की स्थिति और छत्रपति शाहू जी महाराज विश्वविद्यालय द्वारा आत्मनिर्भर अभियान के बारे में |

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Joe chats to caller Ray O’Halloran who claims Eamonn Ryan is holding up works on the North distributor road project connecting Coonagh to Knocklisheen and also chats to TD Kieran O'Donnell who raised the issue in the Dáil recently See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

कानपुर स्मार्ट न्यूज़ के इस एपिसोड में सुनिए, गंगा बैराइज पर हो रहे रस्ते विकसित, जल्द मंजूर  होगा रिंग-रोड प्रोजेक्ट और कानपुर में सिखाया जायेगा अभिव्यक्ति का तरीका। 

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Narcoossee Road project update, Boxi Park and October Belfry Restaurant Events.

One of the most threatening issues our world is facing is Human Trafficking. Although this has been discussed, most people are unaware of the dangers that it poses to our society. This podcast explores the story of how Amy Kuruvilla, Co-Founder of The Ruby Road Project, decided to do something about it. This podcast explores the story of what Amy has been doing with Ruby Road and how they are expanding their vision in the near future. Check out these links to Amy and Ruby Road Project : https://www.instagram.com/amykuruvilla/ http://rubyroadproject.org/ https://www.instagram.com/therubyroadproject/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bellwethers/support

The recent completion of a new rail overpass bridge put the focus back on a huge project called the Southern Feeder Road. This week's Council meeting gave the go-ahead for a future stage to happen.And also, Orange City Council hosted its first 'COVID-safe' citizenship ceremony in quite a while.

Elizabeth Dykstra interviews Jonathan Hillman and Alessandro Arduino to discuss how the economic impacts of coronavirus will impact the Belt and Road Project, China's cornerstone foreign policy, and the wider implications of this on Chinese global power and regional security. This was presented and edited by Elizabeth Dykstra-McCarthy with lead researchers for this episode, Kevin Schwartz and Bilal Rahmani. The Executive Producer is Elizabeth Dykstra and Associate Producer, Max Klaver, with Rachel Carp as Assistant Editor. Many thanks to this week's interviewees, Jonathan Hillman and Alessandra Arduino. Opening music is Tango de Manzana by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4460-tango-de-manzana License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Robert Borsak, NSW Upper House Member & Leader of the Shooters Fishers & Farmers party, who plans to work together with the crossbench to enforce a short term suspension for Mr Harwin from the upper house over his failure to provide documents relating to a road project and grilled him over the trip to his Pearl Beach home during COVID-19 lockdown.   Premier Gladys Berejiklian reinstated Mr Hawin after his fine was dropped due to insufficient evidence which has enraged members of her own team, even though police commissioner Mick Fuller stood by the infringement notice. They also intended to refer the Pearl Beach matter to a parliamentary committee allowing witnesses to be called to fully examine Mr Harwin’s activities at the height of the pandemic.   “The motions reflect the dissatisfaction the SFF have with the way the Premier handled the potentially harmful actions of one of her ministers,” says Mr Borsak. “Along with the irresponsible behaviour of Mr Harwin which could have resulted in catastrophic circumstances for the community of Pearl Beach, his government and cabinet colleagues.     “Mr Harwin was selfish and inconsiderate of others and acted as if the laws simply didn’t apply to him.” See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Max Thompson covers the latest stories and trends across the market: ADB approves $3 million grant to Sri Lanka The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has re-appointed Prof Benedict Oramah as President for a second five-year term Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $3 million grant from it's Asia Pacific Disaster Relief Fund to support Sri Lanka's Covid-19 response UKEF loan secures Benin road project contract for Sogea-Satom   Like what you hear? Hit subscribe to stay up to date and for all the latest news online visit www.txfnews.com today.

Topic: A small community of Khada and a big road project Khada valley is a beautiful place of natural, cultural and historical value in Georgia, where the project "Zhinvali - Larsi Road Kvesheti - Kobi section" is planned. Host: Lali Pertenava Invited guests: Mariam Davidze - Green Alternative Giga Chokheli - a resident of Khada Peter Nasmyth – The founder member of the National Trust of Georgia ხადას პატარა თემი და დიდი გზის პროექტი ხადას ხეობა ბუნებრივი, კულტურული და ისტორიული ღირებულების მქონე ულამაზესი მხარეა, სადაც „ჟინვალი - ლარსის საავტომობილო გზის ქვეშეთი - კობის მონაკვეთის“ პროექტი იგეგმება. წამყვანი: Lali Pertenava მოწვეული სტუმრები: მარიამ დევიძე – მწვანე ალტერნატივა გიგა ჩოხელი – ხადას მკვიდრი პიტერ ნეისმიტი – საქართველოს ეროვნული ფონდის გამგეობის წევრი DUENDE On the 14th of February, in the bar Budka, an event of WET (Weird Erotic Tensions) took place. Several poets, musicians and multimedia artists took part in it. We talked to the organizer of WET, musician Alexandra Zakharenko, poet Claire Morse and artist Felix Kalmenson. We listened to the poetic/sound works that hey have performed at the event. Information about WET itself can be found here: WET https://soundcloud.com/itswet Listen to us live - Mixlr.com/community-radio-tbilisi Find Archive of Duende -https://soundcloud.com/communityradiotbil…/sets/wky80wynrif0

Cooperation between nations in the gold market and in international finance, along with further internationalization of the Renminbi, just got a boost… Mike & Half Dollar are your hosts for Silver Doctors Live. […] The post Belt-N-Road Initiative Gets Boost As China Opens Newest “Gold Road Project” appeared first on Silver Doctors.

Radio Sweden Daily brings you a round-up of the main news in Sweden on November 5th 2019. Presenter: Eva Corijn Producer: Frank Radosevich

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Former Prime Minister John Key met with China's President Xi Jinping this week, where the Chinese leader reportedly spoke highly of Key's contribution to the New Zealand/China relationship.The pair met in the Chinese capital of Beijing on Wednesday where, according to media site Xinhuanet, Xi noted the situation in the world had undergone profound and complicated changes.Xi said China had become even more willing to co-operate with other countries, given this change.China sticks to the path of peaceful development, Xi is reported as saying, adding that China's door will be open even wider to the world.The purpose of the meeting is still unknown. The National Party knew it was happening, but Simon Bridges and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not.International relations expert Stephen Hoadley told The Weekend Collective that protocol would have been to let the embassy know it was happening. He thinks that this may be a way of the Chinese government trying to get New Zealand on board with the Belt and Road Project. "I think Xi Jinping is reaching out to the National Party through John Key as he sees this as the more sympathetic party." Hoadley says that Labour will say that they are in close touch with their Chinese counterparts, and likely won't mind what John Key has done. This meeting comes as China faces pressure as it ramps up efforts to crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong.Last week, China's foreign ministry threatened unspecific "strong countermeasures" if the US Congress enacted legislation which would support the protesters in Hong Kong.Despite this, Chinese media reported that Xi said China welcomed all countries and their companies to "grasp the opportunity provided by China's development to better realise mutual benefit".Xi reportedly spoke highly of Key's contribution to the China-New Zealand relations in his capacity as Prime Minister and said he hoped Key could continue to enhance the friendships between the two countries.Key congratulated China on its 70th anniversary and said he would continue to play an active role in promoting the "understanding and cooperation" of the two countries, according to Xinhuanet.When Key was Prime Minister, he made regular trips to China and often spoke highly of the two countries' relationship.In 2018, two years after he resigned as Prime Minister, Key said: "Xi Jinping's going to go down in history as a good leader of China."

Former Prime Minister John Key met with China's President Xi Jinping this week, where the Chinese leader reportedly spoke highly of Key's contribution to the New Zealand/China relationship.The pair met in the Chinese capital of Beijing on Wednesday where, according to media site Xinhuanet, Xi noted the situation in the world had undergone profound and complicated changes.Xi said China had become even more willing to co-operate with other countries, given this change.China sticks to the path of peaceful development, Xi is reported as saying, adding that China's door will be open even wider to the world.The purpose of the meeting is still unknown. The National Party knew it was happening, but Simon Bridges and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not.International relations expert Stephen Hoadley told The Weekend Collective that protocol would have been to let the embassy know it was happening. He thinks that this may be a way of the Chinese government trying to get New Zealand on board with the Belt and Road Project. "I think Xi Jinping is reaching out to the National Party through John Key as he sees this as the more sympathetic party." Hoadley says that Labour will say that they are in close touch with their Chinese counterparts, and likely won't mind what John Key has done. This meeting comes as China faces pressure as it ramps up efforts to crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong.Last week, China's foreign ministry threatened unspecific "strong countermeasures" if the US Congress enacted legislation which would support the protesters in Hong Kong.Despite this, Chinese media reported that Xi said China welcomed all countries and their companies to "grasp the opportunity provided by China's development to better realise mutual benefit".Xi reportedly spoke highly of Key's contribution to the China-New Zealand relations in his capacity as Prime Minister and said he hoped Key could continue to enhance the friendships between the two countries.Key congratulated China on its 70th anniversary and said he would continue to play an active role in promoting the "understanding and cooperation" of the two countries, according to Xinhuanet.When Key was Prime Minister, he made regular trips to China and often spoke highly of the two countries' relationship.In 2018, two years after he resigned as Prime Minister, Key said: "Xi Jinping's going to go down in history as a good leader of China."

Former Prime Minister John Key met with China's President Xi Jinping this week, where the Chinese leader reportedly spoke highly of Key's contribution to the New Zealand/China relationship.The pair met in the Chinese capital of Beijing on Wednesday where, according to media site Xinhuanet, Xi noted the situation in the world had undergone profound and complicated changes.Xi said China had become even more willing to co-operate with other countries, given this change.China sticks to the path of peaceful development, Xi is reported as saying, adding that China's door will be open even wider to the world.The purpose of the meeting is still unknown. The National Party knew it was happening, but Simon Bridges and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not.International relations expert Stephen Hoadley told The Weekend Collective that protocol would have been to let the embassy know it was happening. He thinks that this may be a way of the Chinese government trying to get New Zealand on board with the Belt and Road Project. "I think Xi Jinping is reaching out to the National Party through John Key as he sees this as the more sympathetic party." Hoadley says that Labour will say that they are in close touch with their Chinese counterparts, and likely won't mind what John Key has done. This meeting comes as China faces pressure as it ramps up efforts to crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong.Last week, China's foreign ministry threatened unspecific "strong countermeasures" if the US Congress enacted legislation which would support the protesters in Hong Kong.Despite this, Chinese media reported that Xi said China welcomed all countries and their companies to "grasp the opportunity provided by China's development to better realise mutual benefit".Xi reportedly spoke highly of Key's contribution to the China-New Zealand relations in his capacity as Prime Minister and said he hoped Key could continue to enhance the friendships between the two countries.Key congratulated China on its 70th anniversary and said he would continue to play an active role in promoting the "understanding and cooperation" of the two countries, according to Xinhuanet.When Key was Prime Minister, he made regular trips to China and often spoke highly of the two countries' relationship.In 2018, two years after he resigned as Prime Minister, Key said: "Xi Jinping's going to go down in history as a good leader of China."

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Skip Montreux and Dez Morgan discuss China’s Belt and Road initiative. Audio script available at downtobusinessenglish.com Visit Apple Podcasts to subscribe to Down to Business English, rate the show, and leave a comment. Visit our website or Facebook page to ask a question, post a comment, and sign up for the Down to Business English Newsletter. Contact Skip, Dez, and Samantha at downtobusinessenglish@gmail.com Follow Skip & Dez Skip Montreux on Twitter Skip Montreux on Instagram Skip Montreux on Facebook Dez Morgan on Twitter RSS Feed

See the video here: www.beltandroad.ventures/podcasts/ Ankur Shah (安然) is a Yenching Scholar at Peking University and National Geographic’s Young Explorer. He earned a degree in Chinese and Russian from the University of Edinburgh. During his studies, he spent 15 months living between Sichuan and St Petersburg and worked on the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Vladivostok. Afterward, Ankur worked at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris on the organization’s Silk Road Online Platform. The desire to explore saw Ankur partake in a 23,000 km Silk Road expedition, sponsored by the National Geographic, driving from Venice to Xi'an. Ankur spent 4 months retracing the footsteps of Marco Polo across 16 Silk Road countries, researching China's Belt and Road initiative, interviewing key stakeholders and visiting 16 Belt and Road projects across Eurasia. On this podcast, Ankur Shah shares his observations from his visits to Belt and Road Project’s sites and stories from his expedition following footsteps of Marco Polo along the Silk Road.

See the video here: www.beltandroad.ventures/podcasts Ankur Shah (安然) is a Yenching Scholar at Peking University and National Geographic’s Young Explorer. He earned a degree in Chinese and Russian from the University of Edinburgh. During his studies, he spent 15 months living between Sichuan and St Petersburg and worked on the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Vladivostok. Afterward, Ankur worked at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris on the organization’s Silk Road Online Platform. The desire to explore saw Ankur partake in a 23,000km Silk Road expedition, sponsored by the National Geographic, driving from Venice to Xi'an. Ankur spent 4 months retracing the footsteps of Marco Polo across 16 Silk Road countries, researching China's Belt and Road initiative, interviewing key stakeholders and visiting 16 Belt and Road projects across Eurasia. Following the expedition, Ankur returned to London and worked as an analyst at a leading political risk consultancy in the firm's Former Soviet Union team. Now based in Beijing, Ankur is researching the Sino-Russian strategic partnership, and more specifically, how the BRI will collaborate and compete with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union.  On this podcast, Ankur Shah shares his observations from his visits to Belt and Road Project’s sites and stories from his expedition following footsteps of Marco Polo along the Silk Road.

Opinion is divided for now about whether or not China's one-trillion dollar economic corridor project known as One Belt, One Road will be a plus for the countries it passes through, as Rosslyn Hyams reports. In the meantime, Sri Lanka which has been trying to recover economically, politically and socially from its drawn-out, three-decade-long civil war, owes China billions of dollars. The International Monetary fund chief Christine Lagarde has alerted China and countries potentially benefitting from the Chinese One Belt infrastructure development, to possible increased debt in the process. Spotlight on Asia considers why some countries may be more vulnerable to such unwanted possible side-effects of China's plan to harness the region's economic potential.

Broadcast Originally Aired April 20, 2015Clare Sheridan interviews Bill Batson to learn about the Bench by the Road Project, a memorial history and community outreach initiative of the Toni Morrison Society. Bill Batson, artist, author and Trustee of the Historical Society of the Nyacks, will return to the radio program to discuss the exciting news that Nyack has been selected as a location for inclusion in this globally significant project commemorating African American history.On May 18, 2015, the commemorative monument, in the form of a bench, will be installed in Memorial Park in Nyack honoring Underground Railroad conductor Cynthia Hesdra (1808–1879), a Nyack woman who became an entrepreneur and abolitionist. Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning author and resident of Grand View-on-Hudson, inspired the Bench by the Road Project and will be invited to the dedication ceremony in Nyack, which will become the fifteenth Bench by the Road location around the globe.In conjunction with this important monument, the Historical Society of the Nyacks will mount an exhibition titled "An Underground Railroad Monument Comes to Nyack," inspired by Toni Morrison and honoring Cynthia Hesdra. The exhibition will be open on 1-4 pm on Saturdays from March 14 through May 30. The Historical Society of the Nyacks is located at 50 Piermont Avenue. The exhibition will be curated by Bill Batson and Jennifer Rothschild.To learn more about the Nyack Bench by the Road Project, visit http://nyackbench.org.To learn more about the Toni Morrison Society and the Bench by the Road Project, visit www.tonimorrisonsociety.org/bench.html.To learn more about the Historical Society of the Nyacks, visit http://nyackhistory.org/welcome.html.To learn more about Bill Batson, visit https://sketchflashmob.wordpress.com.The April 2015 episode of "Crossroads of Rockland History" is sponsored by the Town of Ramapo, Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence, and the Ramapo Town Board.Crossroads of Rockland History, a program of the Historical Society of Rockland County, airs on the third Monday of each month at 10:10 am on WRCR Radio 1300 AM (live streaming at www.WRCR.com). Join host Clare Sheridan as we explore, celebrate, and learn about our local history, with different topics and guest speakers every month.  www.RocklandHistory.org

GYST DO IT! With On The Road Guests are Danielle Rago and James Michael Tate, two of the originators of On the Road Project.On the Road (OtR) is a yearlong series of exhibitions and conversations that highlights contemporary architectural practice in Los Angeles. OtR is a platform for new ways of thinking and making that engages both a discipline and culture with contemporary ideas about architecture, design, and art.Hosted by Kara Tomé

This week's guest was Chris Gordon, one of the creators of the Down the Road Project and the documentary Down the Road. The film documents the journey he took with his friends exploring the beauty and tragedy of Central America. Tune in to hear how the trip changed his life forever and inspired him to share his experiences with others.