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Send us a textPat Leahy is a giant of the US Senate...the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Vermont...the third longest serving Senator in US history...the Senate President Pro Tem...Chair of Appropriations, Agriculture, and Judiciary...and 8 terms in the US Senate. In this conversation, we talk his roots in small town Vermont, overcoming the state's deep Republican roots in a 1974 upset, entering the Senate in his mid 30s, and his favorite stories, lessons, and proudest moments from nearly 50 years in the US Senate.IN THIS EPISODEGrowing up in small-town Montpelier with a love of reading...How his service as District Attorney propelled his successful run for Senate in 1974 as the first Democrat to win a Vermont Senate seat...Early days in the US Senate in his mid 30s...How he won 8 terms in what was initially a very Republican state...The interesting story behind his 1998 re-election, his first true landslide...The most tense and high-stakes moments during his career in the Senate...Passing anti-land mine legislation...A day in the life of the Senate President Pro Tem...How trust among Senators one late night saved lives during a mid 80s Capitol bombing...Senator Leahy receives a tip he received from an "anonymous jogger" during the Iraq War debate...When Vice President Dick Cheney swore at Senator Leahy on the Senate floor...The Senator who gave the best Senate floor speeches...The most effective Majority Leader he saw...When his colleague Jim Jeffords switched parties and changed control of the Senate...His views on the rise of Bernie Sanders as a national figure...Why he didn't run for re-election in 2022...How he received the Order of the British Empire designation...His connection to the Batman character and appearing in several Batman films...His status as the Senate's leading Grateful Dead Head...The status of his wife Marcelle as his political secret weapon...AND anatomical impossibilities, Howard Baker, James Baker, Leonid Brezhnev, Dale Bumpers, George H.W. Bush, Robert Byrd, George Clooney, DC Comics, designated survivors, Charles Dickens, John Durkin, Jim Eastland, Jerry Ford, Jerry Garcia, John Glenn, holy water, Hubert Humphrey, John F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Heath Ledger, Mike Mansfield, Miranda Rights, Mitch McConnell, Bobby Muller, Christopher Nolan, Sam Nunn, Barack Obama, organic farming, Colin Powell, Quebec City, Hugh Scott, secret weapons, Alan Simpson, Bob Stafford, Ted Stevens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Fred Tuttle, Mark Twain, Vincent Van Gogh, Wayne Industries...& more!
A couple of years ago Andy and I decided we would turn Razorback the real story by Ted Stevens into an audiobook. So we got permission to do that and this is the result. It's a story that every Aussie truckie should know. It is true Australian history. The largest act of insurrection in Australia, even bigger than the Eureka Stockade. We hope you enjoy this unabridged version and f you think it's worth a donation to the podcast please go to www.ontheroadpodcast.com.au and follow the link.
During the first two weeks of March 1989, the U.S. Senate debated President George Bush's nominee for Defense Secretary, John Tower. Among the Senators who spoke about former Senator Tower – one of his former colleagues -- Alaska Republican Ted Stevens … "my mind went back again to some Senators I have known here in the Senate who have been impaired. I saved one Senator one day who almost fell in the path of a subway, he was so intoxicated. I have spent time in the steam room with Senators who were intoxicated. One of my great friends from the past, who is now deceased, the first day I was in the Senate, he was so intoxicated he had to lean on my shoulder to walk over to the other building, to the Senate Office Building." Why did Senator Ted Stevens talk about drunk Senators during debate over John Tower? Which other Senators talked about alcohol during floor debate over the Defense Secretary nominee? Which legendary Washington DC watering holes were mentioned during the debate? And why did Senators repeatedly cite Winston Churchill? Find out in the latest episode of C-SPAN's podcast "The Weekly" – As we prepare for Senate debate over Donald Trump's nomination of Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary, it's a look back at the lengthy and angry debate in 1989 over George Bush's pick … Senators citing reports of John Tower drinking ––asking whether it was relevant to his nomination – and pointing fingers at each other. Find C-SPAN's "The Weekly" wherever you get podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On Thursday, January 16th Alaska's News Source was told of and reported a confirmed case of measles in Alaska. The state department of health says an infected passenger passed through Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Friday, January 10th. Officials have confirmed that infected passenger arrived in Anchorage on Alaska Airlines Flight 228 inbound from Seattle. The original time provided for when the person was in the airport was incorrect. The State Health department corrected the time saying people who were in Ted Stevens between 10 p.m. and Midnight on January 10th could have been infected. Reporter Quinn white spoke with Dr. Joe McLaughlin, Alaska State Epidemiologist, about how concerned Alaskans should be. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On Thursday, January 16th Alaska's News Source was told of and reported a confirmed case of measles in Alaska. The state department of health says an infected passenger passed through Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Friday, January 10th. Officials have confirmed that infected passenger arrived in Anchorage on Alaska Airlines Flight 228 inbound from Seattle. The original time provided for when the person was in the airport was incorrect. The State Health department corrected the time saying people who were in Ted Stevens between 10 p.m. and Midnight on January 10th could have been infected. Reporter Quinn white spoke with Dr. Joe McLaughlin, Alaska State Epidemiologist, about how concerned Alaskans should be. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Send us a textIn this episode we look back at a triumphant week for President Donald Trump as he held a pre Inaugural press conference on the transition and his plans for a second Trump term. In this episode we will listen in on all the various themes and issues he touched on in his hour and 20 minute press conference and then delve into the historic legal proceeding in New York State. In our opinion, that action by the New York State Court was exactly the type of overreach that we hope the President will remember as he takes office on January 20th. Our podcast, has dove in deeply into our examples of how lawfare has created a rift on our national body politic for over a half century and how desperately we believe this evil needs to be stopped. History, fate, or circumstance, has given Donald Trump an unparalleled opportunity to destroy this evil political ploy that no one in our history has ever been handed. The use of lawfare destroyed the Presidency of Richard Nixon, helped end the career of George H. W. Bush, crippled the remainder of the Presidency of Bill Clinton, and while Senator Ted Stevens would be eventually totally exonerated that all occurred when he wasn't a Senator any more. Donald Trump has been afforded the opportunity to right this wrong after being its victim for the entire time he was out of office between January of 2020 and literally, last week. This episode is also dedicated to President Donald Trump's biggest fan here in Horry County, a woman instrumental in his success in our State of South Carolina. Gerri McDaniel was a force of nature who exploded onto the local political scene almost 18 years ago as a leader in the Tea Party movement, she would go on to help engineer Newt Gingrich's victory in South Carolina's Primary in 2012, and was the early leader here for President Donald Trump throughout his time in politics. She passed away suddenly this week and we thought it only fitting she share in this moment of triumph for President Trump. This show is dedicated to Gerri McDaniel's memory. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956) Directed by Dan Milner Written by Lou Rusoff from a story by Dorys Lukather Produced by Dan and Jack MilnerCast: Kent Taylor as Dr. Ted Stevens, alias Ted Baxter Cathy Downs as Lois King Michael Whalen as Professor King Phillip Pine as Agent George Thomas Rodney Bell as William Grant Vivi Janiss as Ethel Hall Helene Stanton as Wanda Michael Garth as the LA County Sheriff Pierce Lyden as Andy the Janitor Norma Hanson as the PhantomA Milner Brothers Production for Centaur StudiosDistributed by American Releasing Corporation Stream The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues on Tubi, Pluto, Plex, Pluto, MGM+, Fawesome, or rent on Prime Video. View The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues trailer here. Visit our website - https://aippod.com/ and follow the American International Podcast on Letterboxd, Instagram and Threads @aip_pod and on Facebook at facebook.com/AmericanInternationalPodcast Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955).
Michelle Macuar Sparck is the director of strategic initiatives of the organization Get out the Native Vote. Get out the Native Vote is a non-partisan effort in Alaska to mobilize Alaska Native and American Indian Voters. Michelle Sparck is a member of the Qissunamiut Tribe of Chevak but grew up in Bethel. After graduating from Bethel High School, she moved to DC to attend American University. While there she worked for Senator Ted Stevens and later Congressman Don Young. After her work in DC she returned to Alaska to work with Tribes and subsistence activities with the Association of Village Council Presidents. She has been the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Get out the native vote since 2022.Visit Get out the Native Vote, here.
Rear Admiral (RET) Matthew Bell and Dr. Christine Duprow, both with the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies, Anchorage, Alaska, discuss the unique security challenges in the Arctic and what considerations operational planners need to take into account when planning and executing Arctic operations.
Blamison actually talk about the Alien films. They cover Alien³ (Assembly Cut), Alien: Resurrection, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. Also talked about: just how bad Aliens is and they rank the franchise sans Alien: Romulus. Clip from Sen. Ted Stevens describing the internet.
Jeff was joined by Aaron Saunders, owner of Drumfire Public Affairs. They discuss his time working as a staffer for the late Senator Ted Stevens in Washington D.C., including during the bogus FBI/DOJ investigation into him, a bit of talk on sports betting, why he decided to move to Seward, Alaska after college, his time working at the Sea Life Center, how he ended up getting a job with Senator Stevens, and some of his thoughts and experiences with the investigation into Senator Stevens before the 2008 election.
Send us a question or comment by textRuth Rosewarne Kimerer from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport joins Jennie to talk about aviation in Alaska as well as navigating arriving and departing in Anchorage.Support us on Patreon as a free or paid subscriber Shop all our Alaska Travel planners and premade itinerariesBook a trip planning session with JennieLet Jennie plan your trip for you!Follow Jennie on InstagramMusic credits: Largo Montebello, by Domenico Mannelli, CC.
Episode: 2117 The Internet of Tubes: In which a gaffe evokes the history of communication. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd and the Internet of Tubes.
On June 5th this year – 2024, it's hard to believe that 20 years have passed since we laid President Ronald Wilson Reagan to rest. In this podcast, we'll reflect on the ceremonies and speeches celebrating his life and legacy. In his honor, President George W. Bush declared June 11, 2004, a national day of mourning. A ceremony at the Capitol began with tributes from Senator Ted Stevens, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, and Vice President Richard Cheney. Let's listen to a few excerpts, starting with Senator Ted Stevens.
In this one, Cody talks to Buddy Bailey. In the late 1990s, Buddy became the face of his dad's furniture business, Bailey's Furniture. He was 7 years old when he appeared in his first commercial — the crew filming it realized that the furniture itself didn't have much character, so they suggested that Buddy get in front of the camera. He was a natural — his charisma and affability came easy. He'd chat about furniture and deals, and he'd even spin a basketball on his finger while he did it. As the years went on, he became a local child celebrity. He continued being in Bailey's Furniture commercials, and he was becoming a rising basketball star. When he was 15 or 16 years old, he remembers the Anchorage Daily News came out with a list of the most recognizable faces in Alaska and Buddy was number two, right behind U.S. Senator Ted Stevens. He says the lessons he learned from working at Bailey's Furniture helped him on the basketball court. In basketball, like in retail, you're dealing with personalities and egos, but you're not always worried about money. So, basketball was easy. All he had to do was focus on scoring points and winning. This mentality, as well as his skill on the court, brought him all the way to playing college ball. Today, he no longer works at Bailey's Furniture, he quit in 2013 to pursue a career in finance and then in 2020 he founded a virtual lease-to-own business. He no longer plays ball semi-professionally either, but he does play recreationally. He says he's probably a better shooter than he ever was and a better overall basketball player. He plays one-on-one almost every day at his local gym. He also coaches both of his kids' basketball teams, teaching them that it's not always about winning, it's about learning life lessons and values — accountability, work ethic, the ability to fight for what you believe in, and how all of that will eventually filter over to your family.
In the late 1990s, Buddy Bailey became the face of his dad's furniture business, Bailey's Furniture. He was 7 years old when he appeared in his first commercial — the crew filming it realized that the furniture itself didn't have much character, so they suggested that Buddy get in front of the camera. He was a natural — his charisma and affability came easy. He'd chat about furniture and deals, and he'd even spin a basketball on his finger while he did it. As the years went on, he became a local child celebrity. He continued being in Bailey's Furniture commercials, and he was becoming a rising basketball star. When he was 15 or 16 years old, he remembers the Anchorage Daily News came out with a list of the most recognizable faces in Alaska and Buddy was number two, right behind U.S. Senator Ted Stevens. Buddy says the lessons he learned from working at Bailey's Furniture helped him on the basketball court. In basketball, like in retail, you're dealing with personalities and egos, but you're not always worried about money. So, basketball was easy. All he had to do was focus on scoring points and winning. This mentality, as well as his skill on the court, brought him all the way to playing college ball. Today, he no longer works at Bailey's Furniture, he quit in 2013 to pursue a career in finance and then in 2020 he founded a virtual lease-to-own business. He no longer plays ball semi-professionally either, but he does play recreationally. He says he's probably a better shooter than he ever was and a better overall basketball player. He plays one-on-one almost every day at his local gym. He also coaches both of his kids' basketball teams, teaching them that it's not always about winning, it's about learning life lessons and values — accountability, work ethic, the ability to fight for what you believe in, and how all of that will eventually filter over to your family.
We discuss whether TikTok and other social media with links to hostile governments should be banned or regulated. The House bill doesn't ban TikTok but it comes close. The insidiousness of social media algorithms. Alex Jones offers to "eat leftist ass." Trump knew that insurrectionists were armed. Flashback to Ted Stevens's "series of tubes" rant. Lauren Boebert walks into her own propeller. Alexander Smirnov was paid by allies of Donald Trump. Katie Britt lied about Karla Romera a bunch of times. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Dreamkid, Samantha Emme, and more!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In our final show to air before the South Carolina Presidential Primary election, our Host Randal Wallace , will discuss what he believes is the root cause of much of the division our country faces today. It is the criminalization of politics and the weaponization of Justice in America. It is the legacy of the worst and least qualified Attorney General to ever hold the position, Robert F. Kennedy, and it has morphed into a tragic way of administering Justice in this country that has left a legacy politically of extreme bitterness that may, with a combination of a number of other factors, be driving the collective meltdown our nation seems to be facing. This episode will cover the history of how the Justice Department began the targeting of individuals with the goal to find a crime instead of chasing crime where it occurs, and how that weaponization has mostly been aimed at Republican Officials when it has been used in the political sphere. But, understand this method is not JUST being used in the political sphere, nor at JUST the Federal level, it is being used across the board to incarcerate people who run afoul of overzealous prosecutors and people with political agendas all across the nation. It is also, I believe, being used in an attempt to prevent former President Donald Trump from getting re-elected President of the United States. However, as horrible as what is happening to Mr. Trump has obviously become, it is ripe with possibilities that now this evil that has beset our country, divided us into tribes, and created such anger and bitterness can be changed. For the first time, the collective strategic takedown of a political figure has so far not worked, as it did in the cases of Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Ted Stevens, and countless other lesser known figures, and if Donald Trump is re-elected after the $500 million dollar onslaught of unequal justice he has been subjected too, there is a real possibility that he may very well take the actions to end, what Maurice Stans, a victim of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office rightfully titled, the "Terrors of Justice" . For that reason, among many, we here wholeheartedly endorse Donald Trump for President just the day before the South Carolina Presidential Primary. Theme song is Produced by Danya Vodovoz, link to my song https://youtu.be/NRxduUMZcdw Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!
Suspense's "The Burning Court" was the second episode of the series. It aired on June 17, 1942, two years after the pilot episode of the series began with "The Lodger." Burning Court"The Burning Court" was adapted from the controversial 1937 novel of the same name by John Dickson Carr, master of the "locked room mystery." What made the book controversial was the inclusion of supernatural elements. By picking this particular story and author, the producers of Suspense set the tone for the series. In the introduction to this episode, the announcer, Berry Kroeger, gives an overview of what could be expected from Suspense in the coming weeks. (Little did they know the show would go on for another twenty years.) Their radio adaptation does not follow the book exactly, but it left in the supernatural element at the end. As the episode opens, the writer, Gaudan Cross, is a guest in the home of Mr. Despas. He finishes a glass of sherry and addresses the people assembled there. He claims that he knows who murdered the uncle of Mr. Despas! What is he saying? How does he know? Mr. Cross tells them that it all began after he finished his book about famous poisoners. The manuscript was then given to Mr. Ted Stevens, who works for his publisher. Mr. Stevens began reading the manuscript and opened to the section about a 17th poisoner named Marie D'Aubray, and there he saw a picture...of his wife! How could that be? Mr. Cross will explain...
In this episode we take a look back at one of the biggest environmental disasters of all time. The Exxon Valdez oil tanker hit the Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989 and dumped 10.8 million gallons of oil into the water. Prince William Sound was so remote that it could only be gotten too by boat or air, and that made getting to it in order to clean the spill up nearly impossible for Exxon and the Government. The result was that the oil drifted everywhere, eventually covering 1300 miles of the coast affecting dramatically a habitat for salmon, sea otters, seals , and various bird, and other wildlife. President Bush was forced to act as fast as possible to reverse the damage before it laid waste many of the natural resources Alaska needed to survive. All of this tragedy was blamed on Captain Joseph Hazelwood who was accused of being drunk at the time of the accident. That proved to be untrue, and Hazelwood won a criminal case in 1990 ending that widely believed mythology. He was , in fact , not even on the bridge at the time of the accident. He had not been drinking while on the job and the accusations stemmed from a DUI arrest he had received some 6 months earlier while off from work. Years later , Exxon was found to have been negligent in how it operated its supertankers. Three factors would eventually be listed as the cause. They were : (from Wikipedia) Exxon Shipping Company failed to supervise the master (ship's captain) and provide a rested and sufficient crew for Exxon Valdez. The NTSB found this practice was widespread throughout the industry, prompting a safety recommendation to Exxon and to the industry.[13]The third mate failed to properly maneuver the vessel, possibly due to fatigue or excessive workload.[13]Exxon Shipping Company failed to properly maintain the Raytheon Collision Avoidance System (RAYCAS) radar, which, if functional, would have indicated to the third mate an impending collision with the Bligh Reef by detecting the radar reflector placed on the next rock inland from Bligh Reef for the purpose of keeping ships on course. This cause was brought forward by Greg Palast and is not presented in the official accident report.[14]It would be the Bush Administration that would supervise the clean up of the Sound, and implemented the reforms that helped make the oil industry far safer after the spill. This is that story, and the story of the nearly two decades of struggle for the Alaskans who had to try and pick up the pieces after the spill was over and the attention of the world had moved on. This show also discusses our host , Randal Wallace's own involvement in the debate over offshore drilling in the Carolinas, where he supported drilling for Natural Gas in an era before electric cars had so transformed the energy market in America. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!
Few people have shaped Alaska as much as the late Senator Ted Stevens. He helped push through landmark laws to settle Native land claims, develop the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and establish federal fishing policy. He also sent billions of federal dollars to Alaska to build infrastructure. Stevens would have been 100 years old this month. We'll discuss his legacy, how he worked across the aisle and his fall from politics on this Talk of Alaska.
On November 9, 2023, The City of Myrtle Beach opened its new World War 2 Memorial on the grounds of Warbird Park, just past the front entrance going into the Market Commons area of Myrtle Beach. This was, for nearly a half century, the front gate of the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base until it closed in 1993. In the years since the city of Myrtle Beach has tried to preserve its history as a military town. This Memorial was the brain child of Myrtle Beach City Councilman Dr. Phil Render, whose father was a World War 2 Veteran, who aided at the landing at Bougainville in the Pacific. This Memorial was very special to us at this podcast as we have been trying to educate people on the great leadership lessons that the Greatest Generation showed us in the half century they ran the American Government. In this episode, we actually use materials from the various episodes we have done covering the military events of the era. We use footage from interviews with Senators Dan Inouye, Strom Thurmond, and Bob Dole, we also feature George H.W. Bush and survivors from the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Much of this audio materials is mixed in with the recent event in Myrtle Beach. At that event the city was able to gather together 11 World War 2 Veterans for an amazing moment to share with the last living links to this incredible era. The Former Mayor of Myrtle Beach Robert Hirsch spoke at the event and we have his speech in its entirety on this broadcast. Mayor Hirsch, who served as Mayor from 1973 to 1977, was also a World War 2 Veteran and American fighter pilot, who served in Europe and met General Patton among many of the giants of the era. He tells that story and many more in his speech at this event. Mayor Hirsch just recently celebrated his 100th birthday. This episode is a real treat, and an honor to have been able to put together , as we honor the Greatest Generation both on our show and with a beautiful Memorial in Myrtle Beach. Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!
Alaska State Senate President Gary Stevens has been working on a play about US Senator Ted Stevens for almost a decade. That play Uncle Ted premiered at Cyrano's theater in Anchorage on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. I was at opening night, and we discuss the play and Gary's relationship with Senator Ted Stevens as well as Ted's oldest son Senator Ben Stevens: the three Senator Stevens's, although it is important to note that Gary is not related to Ted or Ben. We also discuss why Gary first came to Kodiak in 1970 and his launch into local politics, before completing his PhD in American History. To purchase tickets for Uncle Ted which is showing through Oct. 22, 2023, click here:https://centertix.com/events/uncle-ted
In celebration of the deluxe edition of Cursive's DOMESTICA, we take an in-depth look at how the record was made. Following the breakup of the Omaha band, Slowdown Virginia, Tim Kasher reunited with his former bandmates, Matt Maginn and Stephen Pedersen, to start a new project called Cursive. They brought in drummer Clint Schnase and released their first 7 inch on their friends' label, Lumberjack Records, which later became Saddle Creek. Two full-length records followed, but when THE STORMS OF EARLY SUMMER was released in 1998, the band had already called it quits. Kasher had gotten married and moved to Portland, Oregon for a fresh start. As his marriage fell apart, he returned to Omaha and decided to reform Cursive. Pedersen had left for college at this point so Ted Stevens of Lullaby for the Working Class took over on guitar. Feeling like they had to make up for lost time, Cursive quickly put together an album's worth of songs and entered the home studio of A.J. and Mike Mogis to record the album over nine days. In this episode, Tim Kasher describes his vision of a concept album about a failed relationship that took inspiration from his recent divorce. With songs written from the perspective of both the male and female characters in the relationship, Kasher was writing in a fictional style but couldn't help but include elements from his own life. When the album was released in 2000, Saddle Creek wrote a bio mentioning Kasher's divorce that impacted the overall perception of the album, which Kasher still maintains is not a “divorce record.” From an attempt at being evenhanded in the storytelling to the Mogis brothers production skills to taking inspiration from the films, Eraserhead and Rosemary's Baby, to a lifelong journey of understanding metal to fans asking Kasher for relationship advice, we'll hear the stories around how the album came together.
Jeff was joined by political consultant Art Hackney. They talk about his history working in Alaska politics, his dad's time serving in the Alaska Legislature, past campaigns he's worked on including the late Ted Stevens and the late Don Young, the cultural shift in politics, Alaska's political history, the inner workings of the Legislature, and the art of reaching voters with campaign messaging.
Matthew Prince, Co-founder & CEO at Cloudflare, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how and why Cloudflare is working to solve some of the Internet's biggest problems. Matthew reveals some of his biggest issues with cloud providers, including the tendency to charge more for egress than ingress and the fact that the various clouds don't compete on a feature vs. feature basis. Corey and Matthew also discuss how Cloudflare is working to change those issues so the Internet is a better and more secure place. Matthew also discusses how transparency has been key to winning trust in the community and among Cloudflare's customers, and how he hopes the Internet and cloud providers will evolve over time.About MatthewMatthew Prince is co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks, which spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries. Matthew is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, winner of the 2011 Tech Fellow Award, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law. Matthew holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a George F. Baker Scholar and awarded the Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Illinois Bar, and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago and B.A. in English Literature and Computer Science from Trinity College. He's also the co-creator of Project Honey Pot, the largest community of webmasters tracking online fraud and abuse.Links Referenced: Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/eastdakota TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. One of the things we talk about here, an awful lot is cloud providers. There sure are a lot of them, and there's the usual suspects that you would tend to expect with to come up, and there are companies that work within their ecosystem. And then there are the enigmas.Today, I'm talking to returning guest Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO and co-founder, who… well first, welcome back, Matthew. I appreciate your taking the time to come and suffer the slings and arrows a second time.Matthew: Corey, thanks for having me.Corey: What I'm trying to do at the moment is figure out where Cloudflare lives in the context of the broad ecosystem because you folks have released an awful lot. You had this vaporware-style announcement of R2, which was an S3 competitor, that then turned out to be real. And oh, it's always interesting, when vapor congeals into something that actually exists. Cloudflare Workers have been around for a while and I find that they become more capable every time I turn around. You have Cloudflare Tunnel which, to my understanding, is effectively a VPN without the VPN overhead. And it feels that you are coming at building a cloud provider almost from the other side than the traditional cloud provider path. Is it accurate? Am I missing something obvious? How do you see yourselves?Matthew: Hey, you know, I think that, you know, you can often tell a lot about a company by what they measure and what they measure themselves by. And so, if you're at a traditional, you know, hyperscale public cloud, an AWS or a Microsoft Azure or a Google Cloud, the key KPI that they focus on is how much of a customer's data are they hoarding, effectively? They're all hoarding clouds, fundamentally. Whereas at Cloudflare, we focus on something of it's very different, which is, how effectively are we moving a customer's data from one place to another? And so, while the traditional hyperscale public clouds are all focused on keeping your data and making sure that they have as much of it, what we're really focused on is how do we make sure your data is wherever you need it to be and how do we connect all of the various things together?So, I think it's exactly right, where we start with a network and are kind of building more functions on top of that network, whereas other companies start really with a database—the traditional hyperscale public clouds—and the network is sort of an afterthought on top of it, just you know, a cost center on what they're delivering. And I think that describes a lot of the difference between us and everyone else. And so oftentimes, we work very much in conjunction with. A lot of our customers use hyperscale public clouds and Cloudflare, but increasingly, there are certain applications, there's certain data that just makes sense to live inside the network itself, and in those cases, customers are using things like R2, they're using our Workers platform in order to be able to build applications that will be available everywhere around the world and incredibly performant. And I think that is fundamentally the difference. We're all about moving data between places, making sure it's available everywhere, whereas the traditional hyperscale public clouds are all about hoarding that data in one place.Corey: I want to clarify that when you say hoard, I think of this, from my position as a cloud economist, as effectively in an economic story where hoarding the data, they get to charge you for hosting it, they get to charge you serious prices for egress. I've had people mishear that before in a variety of ways, usually distilled down to, “Oh, and their data mining all of their customers' data.” And I want to make sure that that's not the direction that you intend the term to be used. If it is, then great, we can talk about that, too. I just want to make sure that I don't get letters because God forbid we get letters for things that we say in the public.Matthew: No, I mean, I had an aunt who was a hoarder and she collected every piece of everything and stored it somewhere in her tiny little apartment in the panhandle of Florida. I don't think she looked at any of it and for the most part, I don't think that AWS or Google or Microsoft are really using your data in any way that's nefarious, but they're definitely not going to make it easy for you to get it out of those places; they're going to make it very, very expensive. And again, what they're measuring is how much of a customer's data are they holding onto whereas at Cloudflare we're measuring how much can we enable you to move your data around and connected wherever you need it. And again, I think that that kind of gets to the fundamental difference between how we think of the world and how I think the hyperscale public clouds thing of the world. And it also gets to where are the places where it makes sense to use Cloudflare, and where are the places that it makes sense to use an AWS or Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure.Corey: So, I have to ask, and this gets into the origin story trope a bit, but what radicalized you? For me, it was the realization one day that I could download two terabytes of data from S3 once, and it would cost significantly more than having Amazon.com ship me a two-terabyte hard drive from their store.Matthew: I think that—so Cloudflare started with the basic idea that the internet's not as good as it should be. If we all knew what the internet was going to be used for and what we're all going to depend on it for, we would have made very different decisions in how it was designed. And we would have made sure that security was built in from day one, we would have—you know, the internet is very reliable and available, but there are now airplanes that can't land if the internet goes offline, they are shopping transactions shut down if the internet goes offline. And so, I don't think we understood—we made it available to some extent, but not nearly to the level that we all now depend on it. And it wasn't as fast or as efficient as it possibly could be. It's still very dependent on the geography of where data is located.And so, Cloudflare started out by saying, “Can we fix that? Can we go back and effectively patch the internet and make it what it should have been when we set down the original protocols in the '60s, '70s, and '80s?” But can we go back and say, can we build a new, sort of, overlay on the internet that solves those problems: make it more secure, make it more reliable, make it faster and more efficient? And so, I think that that's where we started, and as a result of, again, starting from that place, it just made fundamental sense that our job was, how do you move data from one place to another and do it in all of those ways? And so, where I think that, again, the hyperscale public clouds measure themselves by how much of a customer's data are they hoarding; we measure ourselves by how easy are we making it to securely, reliably, and efficiently move any piece of data from one place to another.And so, I guess, that is radical compared to some of the business models of the traditional cloud providers, but it just seems like what the internet should be. And that's our North Star and that's what just continues to drive us and I think is a big reason why more and more customers continue to rely on Cloudflare.Corey: The thing that irks me potentially the most in the entire broad strokes of cloud is how the actions of the existing hyperscalers have reflected mostly what's going on in the larger world. Moore's law has been going on for something like 100 years now. And compute continues to get faster all the time. Storage continues to cost less year over year in a variety of ways. But they have, on some level, tricked an entire generation of businesses into believing that network bandwidth is this precious, very finite thing, and of course, it's going to be ridiculously expensive. You know, unless you're taking it inbound, in which case, oh, by all means back the truck around. It'll be great.So, I've talked to founders—or prospective founders—who had ideas but were firmly convinced that there was no economical way to build it. Because oh, if I were to start doing real-time video stuff, well, great, let's do the numbers on this. And hey, that'll be $50,000 a minute, if I read the pricing page correctly, it's like, well, you could get some discounts if you ask nicely, but it doesn't occur to them that they could wind up asking for a 98% discount on these things. Everything is measured in a per gigabyte dimension and that just becomes one of those things where people are starting to think about and meter something that—from my days in data centers where you care about the size of the pipe and not what's passing through it—to be the wrong way of thinking about things.Matthew: A little of this is that everybody is colored by their experience of dealing with their ISP at home. And in the United States, in a lot of the world, ISPs are built on the old cable infrastructure. And if you think about the cable infrastructure, when it was originally laid down, it was all one-directional. So, you know, if you were turning on cable in your house in a pre-internet world, data fl—Corey: Oh, you'd watch a show and your feedback was yelling at the TV, and that's okay. They would drop those packets.Matthew: And there was a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of data that would go back the other direction, but cable was one-directional. And so, it actually took an enormous amount of engineering to make cable bi-directional. And that's the reason why if you're using a traditional cable company as your ISP, typically you will have a large amount of download capacity, you'll have, you know, a 100 megabits of down capacity, but you might only have a 10th of that—so maybe ten megabits—of upload capacity. That is an artifact of the cable system. That is not just the natural way that the internet works.And the way that it is different, that wholesale bandwidth works, is that when you sign up for wholesale bandwidth—again, as you phrase it, you're not buying this many bytes that flows over the line; you're buying, effectively, a pipe. You know, the late Senator Ted Stevens said that the internet is just a series of tubes and got mocked mercilessly, but the internet is just a series of tubes. And when Cloudflare or AWS or Google or Microsoft buys one of those tubes, what they pay for is the diameter of the tube, the amount that can fit through it. And the nature of this is you don't just get one tube, you get two. One that is down and one that is up. And they're the same size.And so, if you've got a terabit of traffic coming down and zero going up, that costs exactly the same as a terabit going up and zero going down, which costs exactly the same as a terabit going down and a terabit going up. It is different than your home, you know, cable internet connection. And that's the thing that I think a lot of people don't understand. And so, as you pointed out, but the great tragedy of the cloud is that for nothing other than business reasons, these hyperscale public cloud companies don't charge you anything to accept data—even though that is actually the more expensive of the two operations for that because writes are more expensive than reads—but the inherent fact that they were able to suck the data in means that they have the capacity, at no additional cost, to be able to send that data back out. And so, I think that, you know, the good news is that you're starting to see some providers—so Cloudflare, we've never charged for egress because, again, we think that over time, bandwidth prices go to zero because it just makes sense; it makes sense for ISPs, it makes sense for connectiv—to be connected to us.And that's something that we can do, but even in the cases of the cloud providers where maybe they're all in one place and somebody has to pay to backhaul the traffic around the world, maybe there's some cost, but you're starting to see some pressure from some of the more forward-leaning providers. So Oracle, I think has done a good job of leaning in and showing how egress fees are just out of control. But it's crazy that in some cases, you have a 4,000x markup on AWS bandwidth fees. And that's assuming that they're paying the same rates as what we would get at Cloudflare, you know, even though we are a much smaller company than they are, and they should be able to get even better prices.Corey: Yes, if there's one thing Amazon is known for, it as being bad at negotiating. Yeah, sure it is. I'm sure that they're just a terrific joy to be a vendor to.Matthew: Yeah, and I think that fundamentally what the price of bandwidth is, is tied very closely to what the cost of a port on a router costs. And what we've seen over the course of the last ten years is that cost has just gone enormously down where the capacity of that port has gone way up and the just physical cost, the depreciated cost that port has gone down. And yet, when you look at Amazon, you just haven't seen a decrease in the cost of bandwidth that they're passing on to customers. And so, again, I think that this is one of the places where you're starting to see regulators pay attention, we've seen efforts in the EU to say whatever you charge to take data out is the same as what you should charge it to put data in. We're seeing the FTC start to look at this, and we're seeing customers that are saying that this is a purely anti-competitive action.And, you know, I think what would be the best and healthiest thing for the cloud by far is if we made it easy to move between various cloud providers. Because right now the choice is, do I use AWS or Google or Microsoft, whereas what I think any company out there really wants to be able to do is they want to be able to say, “I want to use this feature at AWS because they're really good at that and I want to use this other feature at Google because they're really good at that, and I want to us this other feature at Microsoft, and I want to mix and match between those various things.” And I think that if you actually got cloud providers to start competing on features as opposed to competing on their overall platform, we'd actually have a much richer and more robust cloud environment, where you'd see a significantly improved amount of what's going on, as opposed to what we have now, which is AWS being mediocre at everything.Corey: I think that there's also a story where for me, the egress is annoying, but so is the cross-region and so is the cross-AZ, which in many cases costs exactly the same. And that frustrates me from the perspective of, yes, if you have two data centers ten miles apart, there is some startup costs to you in running fiber between them, however you want to wind up with that working, but it's a sunk cost. But at the end of that, though, when you wind up continuing to charge on a per gigabyte basis to customers on that, you're making them decide on a very explicit trade-off of, do I care more about cost or do I care more about reliability? And it's always going to be an investment decision between those two things, but when you make the reasonable approach of well, okay, an availability zone rarely goes down, and then it does, you get castigated by everyone for, “Oh it even says in their best practice documents to go ahead and build it this way.” It's funny how a lot of the best practice documents wind up suggesting things that accrue primarily to a cloud provider's benefit. But that's the way of the world I suppose.I just know, there's a lot of customer frustration on it and in my client environments, it doesn't seem to be very acute until we tear apart a bill and look at where they're spending money, and on what, at which point, the dawning realization, you can watch it happen, where they suddenly realize exactly where their money is going—because it's relatively impenetrable without that—and then they get angry. And I feel like if people don't know what they're being charged for, on some level, you've messed up.Matthew: Yeah. So, there's cost to running a network, but there's no reason other than limiting competition why you would charge more to take data out than you would put data in. And that's a puzzle. The cross-region thing, you know, I think where we're seeing a lot of that is actually oftentimes, when you've got new technologies that come out and they need to take advantage of some scarce resource. And so, AI—and all the AI companies are a classic example of this—right now, if you're trying to build a model, an AI model, you are hunting the world for available GPUs at a reasonable price because there's an enormous scarcity of them.And so, you need to move from AWS East to AWS West, to AWS, you know, Singapore, to AWS in Luxembourg and bounce around to find wherever there's GPU availability. And then that is crossed against the fact that these training datasets are huge. You know, I mean, they're just massive, massive, massive amounts of data. And so, what that is doing is you're having these AI companies that are really seeing this get hit in the face, where they literally can't get the capacity they need because of the fact that whatever cloud provider in whatever region they've selected to store their data isn't able to have that capacity. And so, they're getting hit not only by sort of a double whammy of, “I need to move my data to wherever there's capacity. And if I don't do that, then I have to pay some premium, an ever-escalating price for the underlying GPUs.” And God forbid, you have to move from AWS to Google to chase that.And so, we're seeing a lot of companies that are saying, “This doesn't make any sense. We have this enormous training set. If we just put it with Cloudflare, this is data that makes sense to live in the network, fundamentally.” And not everything does. Like, we're not the right place to store your long-term transaction logs that you're only going to look at if you get sued. There are much better places, much more effective places do it.But in those cases where you've got to read data frequently, you've got to read it from different places around the world, and you will need to decrease what those costs of each one of those reads are, what we're seeing is just an enormous amount of demand for that. And I think these AI startups are really just a very clear example of what company after company after company needs, and why R2 has had—which is our zero egress cost S3 competitor—why that is just seeing such explosive growth from a broad set of customers.Corey: Because I enjoy pushing the bounds of how ridiculous I can be on the internet, I wound up grabbing a copy of the model, the Llama 2 model that Meta just released earlier this week as we're recording this. And it was great. It took a little while to download here. I have gigabit internet, so okay, it took some time. But then I wound up with something like 330 gigs of models. Great, awesome.Except for the fact that I do the math on that and just for me as one person to download that, had they been paying the listed price on the AWS website, they would have spent a bit over $30, just for me as one random user to download the model, once. If you can express that into the idea of this is a model that is absolutely perfect for whatever use case, but we want to have it run with some great GPUs available at another cloud provider. Let's move the model over there, ignoring the data it's operating on as well, it becomes completely untenable. It really strikes me as an anti-competitiveness issue.Matthew: Yeah. I think that's it. That's right. And that's just the model. To build that model, you would have literally millions of times more data that was feeding it. And so, the training sets for that model would be many, many, many, many, many, many orders of magnitude larger in terms of what's there. And so, I think the AI space is really illustrating where you have this scarce resource that you need to chase around the world, you have these enormous datasets, it's illustrating how these egress fees are actually holding back the ability for innovation to happen.And again, they are absolutely—there is no valid reason why you would charge more for egress than you do for ingress other than limiting competition. And I think the good news, again, is that's something that's gotten regulators' attention, that's something that's gotten customers' attention, and over time, I think we all benefit. And I think actually, AWS and Google and Microsoft actually become better if we start to have more competition on a feature-by-feature basis as opposed to on an overall platform. The choice shouldn't be, “I use AWS.” And any big company, like, nobody is all-in only on one cloud provider. Everyone is multi-cloud, whether they want to be or not because people end up buying another company or some skunkworks team goes off and uses some other function.So, you are across multiple different clouds, whether you want to be or not. But the ideal, and when I talk to customers, they want is, they want to say, “Well, you know that stuff that they're doing over at Microsoft with AI, that sounds really interesting. I want to use that, but I really like the maturity and robustness of some of the EC2 API, so I want to use that at AWS. And Google is still, you know, the best in the world at doing search and indexing and everything, so I want to use that as well, in order to build my application.” And the applications of the future will inherently stitch together different features from different cloud providers, different startups.And at Cloudflare, what we see is our, sort of, purpose for being is how do we make that stitching as easy as possible, as cost-effective as possible, and make it just make sense so that you have one consistent security layer? And again, we're not about hording the data; we're about connecting all of those things together. And again, you know, from the last time we talked to now, I'm actually much more optimistic that you're going to see, kind of, this revolution where egress prices go down, you get competition on feature-by-features, and that's just going to make every cloud provider better over the long-term.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Panoptica. 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You don't have the track record on that as a company the way that you do for being the network interchange that makes everything just work together. There are areas where I'm thrilled to explore and see how it works, but it takes time, at least from the sensible infrastructure perspective of trusting people with track records on these things. And you clearly have the network track record on these things to make this stick. It almost—it seems unfair to you folks, but I view you as Cloudflare is a CDN, that also dabbles in a few other things here in there, though, increasingly, it seems it's CDN and security company are becoming synonymous.Matthew: It's interesting. I remember—and this really is going back to the origin story, but when we were starting Cloudflare, you know, what we saw was that, you know, we watched as software—starting with companies like Salesforce—transition from something that you bought in the box to something that you bought as a service [into 00:23:25] the cloud. We watched as, sort of, storage and compute transition from something that you bought from Dell or HP to something that you rented as a service. And so the fundamental problem that Cloudflare started out with was if the software and the storage and compute are going to move, inherently the security and the networking is going to move as well because it has to be as a service as well, there's no way you can buy a you know, Cisco firewall and stick it in front of your cloud service. You have to be in the cloud as well.So, we actually started very much as a security company. And the objection that everybody had to us as we would sort of go out and describe what we were planning on doing was, “You know, that sounds great, but you're going to slow everything down.” And so, we became just obsessed with latency. And Michelle, my co-founder, and I were business students and we had an advisor, a guy named Tom [Eisenmann 00:24:26] in business school. And I remember going in and that was his objection as well and so we did all this work to figure it out.And obviously, you know, I'd say computer science, and anytime that you have a problem around latency or speed caching is an obvious part of the solution to that. And so, we went in and we said, “Here's how we're going to do it: [unintelligible 00:24:47] all this protocol optimization stuff, and here's how we're going to distribute it around the world and get close to where users are. And we're going to use caching in the places where we can do caching.” And Tom said, “Oh, you're building a CDN.” And I remember looking at him and then I'm looking at Michelle. And Michelle is Canadian, and so I was like, “I don't know that I'm building a Canadian, but I guess. I don't know.”And then, you know, we walked out in the hall and Michelle looked at me and she's like, “We have to go figure out what the CDN thing is.” And we had no idea what a CDN was. And even when we learned about it, we were like, that business doesn't make any sense. Like because again, the CDNs were the first ones to really charge for bandwidth. And so today, we have effectively built, you know, a giant CDN and are the fastest in the world and do all those things.But we've always given it away basically for free because fundamentally, what we're trying to do is all that other stuff. And so, we actually started with security. Security is—you know, my—I've been working in security now for over 25 years and that's where my background comes from, and if you go back and look at what the original plan was, it was how do we provide that security as a service? And yeah, you need to have caching because caching makes sense. What I think is the difference is that in order to do that, in order to be able to build that, we had to build a set of developer tools for our own team to allow them to build things as quickly as possible.And, you know, if you look at Cloudflare, I think one of the things we're known for is just the rapid, rapid, rapid pace of innovation. And so, over time, customers would ask us, “How do you innovate so fast? How do you build things fast?” And part of the answer to that, there are lots of ways that we've been able to do that, but part of the answer to that is we built a developer platform for our own team, which was just incredibly flexible, allowed you to scale to almost any level, took care of a lot of that traditional SRE functions just behind the scenes without you having to think about it, and it allowed our team to be really fast. And our customers are like, “Wow, I want that too.”And so, customer after customer after customer after customer was asking and saying, you know, “We have those same problems. You know, if we're a big e-commerce player, we need to be able to build something that can scale up incredibly quickly, and we don't have to think about spinning up VMs or containers or whatever, we don't have to think about that. You know, our customers are around the world. We don't want to have to pick a region for where we're going to deploy code.” And so, where we built Cloudflare Workers for ourself first, customers really pushed us to make it available to them as well.And that's the way that almost any good developer platform starts out. That's how AWS started. That's how, you know, the Microsoft developer platform, and so the Apple developer platform, the Salesforce developer platform, they all start out as internal tools, and then someone says, “Can you expose this to us as well?” And that's where, you know, I think that we have built this. And again, it's very opinionated, it is right for certain applications, it's never going to be the right place to run SAP HANA, but the company that builds the tool [crosstalk 00:27:58]—Corey: I'm not convinced there is a right place to run SAP HANA, but that's probably unfair of me.Matthew: Yeah, but there is a startup out there, I guarantee you, that's building whatever the replacement for SAP HANA is. And I think it's a better than even bet that Cloudflare Workers is part of their stack because it solves a lot of those fundamental challenges. And that's been great because it is now allowing customer after customer after customer, big and large startups and multinationals, to do things that you just can't do with traditional legacy hyperscale public cloud. And so, I think we're sort of the next generation of building that. And again, I don't think we set out to build a developer platform for third parties, but we needed to build it for ourselves and that's how we built such an effective tool that now so many companies are relying on.Corey: As a Cloudflare customer myself, I think that one of the things that makes you folks standalone—it's why I included security as well as CDN is one of the things I trust you folks with—has been—Matthew: I still think CDN is Canadian. You will never see us use that term. It's like, Gartner was like, “You have to submit something for the CDN-like ser—” and we ended up, like, being absolute top-right in it. But it's a space that is inherently going to zero because again, if bandwidth is free, I'm not sure what—this is what the internet—how the internet should work. So yeah, anyway.Corey: I agree wholeheartedly. But what I've always enjoyed, and this is probably going to make me sound meaner than I intend it to, it has been your outages. Because when computers inherently at some point break, which is what they do, you personally and you as a company have both taken a tone that I don't want to say gleeful, but it's sort of the next closest thing to it regarding the postmortem that winds up getting published, the explanation of what caused it, the transparency is unheard of at companies that are your scale, where usually they want to talk about these things as little as possible. Whereas you've turned these into things that are educational to those of us who don't have the same scale to worry about but can take things from that are helpful. And that transparency just counts for so much when we're talking about things as critical as security.Matthew: I would definitely not describe it as gleeful. It is incredibly painful. And we, you know, we know we let customers down anytime we have an issue. But we tend not to make the same mistake twice. And the only way that we really can reliably do that is by being just as transparent as possible about exactly what happened.And we hope that others can learn from the mistakes that we made. And so, we own the mistakes we made and we talk about them and we're transparent, both internally but also externally when there's a problem. And it's really amazing to just see how much, you know, we've improved over time. So, it's actually interesting that, you know, if you look across—and we measure, we test and measure all the big hyperscale public clouds, what their availability and reliability is and measure ourselves against it, and across the board, second half of 2021 and into the first half of 2022 was the worst for every cloud provider in terms of reliability. And the question is why?And the answer is, Covid. I mean, the answer to most things over the last three years is in one way, directly or indirectly, Covid. But what happened over that period of time was that in April of 2020, internet traffic and traffic to our service and everyone who's like us doubled over the course of a two-week period. And there are not many utilities that you can imagine that if their usage doubles, that you wouldn't have a problem. Imagine the sewer system all of a sudden has twice as much sewage, or the electrical grid as twice as much demand, or the freeways have twice as many cars. Like, things break down.And especially the European internet came incredibly close to just completely failing at that time. And we all saw where our bottlenecks were. And what's interesting is actually the availability wasn't so bad in 2020 because people were—they understood the absolute critical importance that while we're in the middle of a pandemic, we had to make sure the internet worked. And so, we—there were a lot of sleepless nights, there's a—and not just at with us, but with every provider that's out there. We were all doing Herculean tasks in order to make sure that things came online.By the time we got to the sort of the second half of 2021, what everybody did, Cloudflare included, was we looked at it, and we said, “Okay, here were where the bottlenecks were. Here were the problems. What can we do to rearchitect our systems to do that?” And one of the things that we saw was that we effectively treated large data centers as one big block, and if you had certain pieces of equipment that failed in a way, that you would take that entire data center down and then that could have cascading effects across traffic as it shifted around across our network. And so, we did the work to say, “Let's take that one big data center and divide it effectively into multiple independent units, where you make sure that they're all on different power suppliers, you make sure they're all in different [crosstalk 00:32:52]”—Corey: [crosstalk 00:32:51] harder than it sounds. When you have redundant things, very often, the thing that takes you down the most is the heartbeat that determines whether something next to it is up or not. It gets a false reading and suddenly, they're basically trying to clobber each other to death. So, this is a lot harder than it sounds like.Matthew: Yeah, and it was—but what's interesting is, like, we took it all that into account, but the act of fixing things, you break things. And that was not just true at Cloudflare. If you look across Google and Microsoft and Amazon, everybody, their worst availability was second half of 2021 or into 2022. But it both internally and externally, we talked about the mistakes we made, we talked about the challenges we had, we talked about—and today, we're significantly more resilient and more reliable because of that. And so, transparency is built into Cloudflare from the beginning.The earliest story of this, I remember, there was a 15-year-old kid living in Long Beach, California who bought my social security number off of a Russian website that had hacked a bank that I'd once used to get a mortgage. He then use that to redirect my cell phone voicemail to a voicemail box he controlled. He then used that to get into my personal email. He then used that to find a zero-day vulnerability in Google's corporate email where he could privilege-escalate from my personal email into Google's corporate email, which is the provider that we use for our email service. And then he used that as an administrator on our email at the time—this is back in the early days of Cloudflare—to get into another administration account that he then used to redirect one of Cloud Source customers to a website that he controlled.And thankfully, it wasn't, you know, the FBI or the Central Bank of Brazil, which were all Cloudflare customers. Instead, it was 4chan because he was a 15-year-old hacker kid. And we fix it pretty quickly and nobody knew who Cloudflare was at the time. And so potential—Corey: The potential damage that could have been caused at that point with that level of access to things, like, that is such a ridiculous way to use it.Matthew: And—yeah [laugh]—my temptation—because it was embarrassing. He took a bunch of stuff from my personal email and he put it up on a website, which just to add insult to injury, was actually using Cloudflare as well. And I wanted to sweep it under the rug. And our team was like, “That's not the right thing to do. We're fundamentally a security company and we need to talk about when we make mistakes on security.” And so, we wrote a huge postmortem on, “Here's all the stupid things that we did that caused this hack to happen.” And by the way, it wasn't just us. It was AT&T, it was Google. I mean, there are a lot of people that ended up being involved.Corey: It builds trust with that stuff. It's painful in the short term, but I believe with the benefit of hindsight, it was clearly the right call.Matthew: And it was—and I remember, you know, pushing ‘publish' on the blog post and thinking, “This is going to be the end of the company.” And quite the opposite happened, which was all of a sudden, we saw just an incredible amount of people who signed up the next day saying, “If you're going to be that transparent about something that was incredibly embarrassing when you didn't have to be, then that's the sort of thing that actually makes me trust that you're going to be transparent the future.” And I think learning that lesson early on, has been just an incredibly valuable lesson for us and made us the company that we are today.Corey: A question that I have for you about the idea of there being no reason to charge in one direction but not the other. There's something that I'm not sure that I understand on this. If I run a website, to use your numbers of a terabit out—because it's a web server—and effectively nothing in—because it's a webserver; other than the request, nothing really is going to come in—that ingress bandwidth becomes effectively unused and also free. So, if I have another use case where I'm paying for it anyway, if I'm primarily caring about an outward direction, sure, you can send things in for free. Now, there's a lot of nuance that goes into that. But I'm curious as to what the—is their fundamental misunderstanding in that analysis of the bandwidth market?Matthew: No. And I think that's exactly, exactly right. And it's actually interesting. At Cloudflare, our infrastructure team—which is the one that manages our connections to the outside world, manages the hardware we have—meets on a quarterly basis with our product team. It's called the Hot and Cold Meeting.And what they do is they go over our infrastructure, and they say, “Okay, where are we hot? Where do we have not enough capacity?” If you think of any given server, an easy way to think of a server is that it has, sort of, four resources that are available to it. This is, kind of, vast simplification, but one is the connectivity to the outside world, both transit in and out. The second is the—Corey: Otherwise it's just a complicated space heater.Matthew: Yeah [laugh]. The other is the CPU. The other is the longer-term storage. We use only SSDs, but sort of, you know, hard drives or SSD storage. And then the fourth is the short-term storage, or RAM that's in that server.And so, at any given moment, there are going to be places where we are running hot, where we have a sort of capacity level that we're targeting and we're over that capacity level, but we're also going to be running cold in some of those areas. And so, the infrastructure team and the product team get together and the product team has requests on, you know, “Here's some more places we would be great to have more infrastructure.” And we're really good at deploying that when we need to, but the infrastructure team then also says, “Here are the places where we're cold, where we have excess capacity.” And that turns into products at Cloudflare. So, for instance, you know, the reason that we got into the zero-trust space was very much because we had all this excess capacity.We have 100 times the capacity of something like Zscaler across our network, and we can add that—that is primar—where most of our older products are all about outward traffic, the zero-trust products are all about inward traffic. And the reason that we can do everything that Zscaler does, but for, you know, a much, much, much more affordable prices, we going to basically just layer that on the network that already exists. The reason we don't charge for the bandwidth behind DDoS attacks is DDoS attacks are always about inbound traffic and we have just a ton of excess capacity around that inbound traffic. And so, that unused capacity is a resource that we can then turn into products, and very much that conversation between our product team and our infrastructure team drives how we think about building new products. And we're always trying to say how can we get as much utilization out of every single piece of equipment that we run everywhere in the world.The way we build our network, we don't have custom machines or different networks for every products. We build all of our machines—they come in generations. So, we're on, I think, generation 14 of servers where we spec a server and it has, again, a certain amount of each of those four [bits 00:39:22] of capacity. But we can then deploy that server all around the world, and we're buying many, many, many of them at any given time so we can get the best cost on that. But our product team is very much in constant communication with our infrastructure team and saying, “What more can we do with the capacity that we have?” And then we pass that on to our customers by adding additional features that work across our network and then doing it in a way that's incredibly cost-effective.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to, basically once again, suffer slings and arrows about networking, security, cloud, economics, and so much more. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you?Matthew: You know, used to be an easy question to answer because it was just, you know, go on Twitter and find me but now we have all these new mediums. So, I'm @eastdakota on Twitter. I'm eastdakota.com on Bluesky. I'm @real_eastdakota on Threads. And so, you know, one way or another, if you search for eastdakota, you'll come across me somewhere out there in the ether.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to that in the show notes. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it.Matthew: It's great to talk to you, Corey.Corey: Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an angry, insulting comment that I will of course not charge you inbound data rates on.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. 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Join our PATREON for bonus episodes. This week we have the host of the After The Deluge podcast Justin Cox on to talk about the divisive Bright Eyes record "Lifted or The Story is in the Soil so Keep Your Ear to the Ground". In this episode we also discuss: can I get a goddamn timpani roll?, Jackson Browne is not Van Morrison, podcast origins, anti-vaxxers, Paul Simon, The Offspring discography, Orcas Island, Killer Whales against capitalism, facebook fan groups, your art saved my life, Tim Kasher, The Hard Times, Todd Fink, skipping opening tracks, one sided 7”s, Dead Oceans and the Saddle Creek split, Ted Stevens, the kissy bitch drama (again), Evan Dando, Jawbreaker, Flea, W, and so much more. // Follow us at @danbassini, @mysprocalledlife, @routinelayup and @runintotheground. Listen to our RITG Mixtape Vol. 12 Best of 2022 here.
I talk to Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes about Jackson Browne, emo, being a child among the Saddle Creek teens, showing ambition in a slacker scene, Pitchfork reviews, a wild story behind “Soul Singer in a Session Band," his songs making sense to him but maybe not to you, Conor's media diet, listening to audiobooks about feathers, do people pay too much attention to politics now?, AI and Chat GPT, The Faint being ahead of their time, could he write “First Day of My Life” on command?, long songs and “Let's Not Shit Ourselves,” using SAT words in lyrics, that perfect Waxahatchee record, the next batch of companion EPs, opening for Paramore at the Emo Fest, that cancelled Houston show, writing songs to impress Tim Kasher, Todd Fink and Ted Stevens, leaving Saddle Creek, how to get into the band Superchunk, what does Conor Oberst think of 311?, Rage Against the Machine vs. Limp Bizkit, Down in the Weeds, feeling like The Beatles on the Wide Awake tour... not so much on the Digital Ash tour… and then we meet his dog Petra and say goodbye! Support the pod/get the zine: www.patreon.com/afterthedeluge Follow Justin: twitter.com/routinelayup Follow Bright Eyes: twitter.com/brighteyesband --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support
HOUR 1Kroger and Albertsons / (MB) https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/shares-of-albertsons-jump-on-report-of-potential-merger-with-grocery-giant-kroger.html?National Senate races / Two anti-oil protestors Dylan, Sarah, Tom A talk about museums, zoos, and aquariumsHOUR 2Blood Bank of Alaska has a shortage of O-positive O-negative / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/10/14/alaska-blood-bank-faces-critical-need-o-positive-o-negative-blood/Paul Asay from Focus on the Family's Plugged In reviews the latest Halloween movie and also Black AdamDave Stieren from Gov Dunleavy's Office / Tom and Dave talk about the passing of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens's son Ben Stevens Gary from East Anchorage on homelessFormer State Senator Bill Stoltze on Ben Stevens's passing
Are Kelly Tshibaka's election chances gutted? Just how wrong is a constitutional convention pushed by the right? What's the hold up with body cams? Has anybody seen Governor Mike Dunleavy? How did we go from Ted Stevens to Ted Baxter?
John Quick sits down with Senator Jesse Kiehl of Juneau to talk about how he was an intern with Senator Ted Stevens and what led him to run for office in the first place.
A new Department of Defense regional center for security studies based at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage will track the region's shifting priorities and changing climate.
We have another music podcast guest! Say hello to Andrew from Life Was Peachy, a Nu Metal Podcast! Together we're listening to Pikes 232-234 (Lightboard, 22222222, Coupon) we also discuss: The 6 degrees of Nu Metal tangentiality, Faith No More - The Real Thing was released right after Tiananmen Square, Godsmack's “Voodoo” is a minimalist metal masterpiece, Senator Ted Stevens, Godsmack kept on playing in Anchorage for some reason, Sully says 'never' 71 times on the Godsmack - S/T, a Star Trek talking Borg head lunchbox, Jar Jar Binks real doll, Fieldy's Dreams, elevator pitch about a Slipknot bank heist, Clown from Slipknot is the RZA of metal, “Elevated Goth”, Spenser gets into emulators, Buckethead's collaborations with Shin Terai, Britain does it with the fez on, as long as Duff gets a Dr. Pepper we're good, you can't say ‘cracker' on Twitch, praising Buckethead's diversity, Jay Z used to be great, getting fun at the gas station, Steve Vai on KoЯnTV, Guy Fieri (Guy Ferry), the Coors were nazis, Magellan's giant hog, BuQhea, Star Trek Computer Games, Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, Running the Light by Sam Tallent, Greet Death, Rumpleforeskin, Coal Chamber - S/T, Stabbing Westward, Shelly Miscavige is still missing, and some Epic Ralph Battles involving Dave Mustaine, David Ellefson, and trial of Jesus Christ. Check out Andrew's podcast Life Was Peachy wherever you get podcasts and follow him @lifewaspeachy on Twitter and IG! Also check out Andrew's comedy at:https://andrewcahak.bandcamp.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/abucketcast)
During the time I was a City Councilman in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and was active in the National League of Cities I was befriended by a number of Alaskans. They are great people, who often helped me with issues related to Beach Re-nourishment and in turn I was always a big supporter of their issues mainly oil drilling in ANWR, the Artic National Wildlife Refuge. I was no where near as successful in helping them as they were with helping me in our roles as members of the Energy , Environment, and Natural Resources Committee. But it was through those relationships that I became familiar with the work of the Alaskan Federal Delegation. Though I always considered Senator Ted Stevens one of my favorite political figures, it was during this time I grew far more familiar with Senator Lisa Murkowski and Representative Don Young. This episode features both, but it is in tribute to Representative Don Young.Don Young, the Dean of the House, is one of American History's great characters and on top of that one of Congresses most effective legislators too. He was always fun and always in the middle of debates important to his home state of Alaska and in turn to our country too. He set a fine example of how our political leaders should act by being able to argue, often aggressively on an issue, but still maintain the type of relationships that can get things done. Young had his moments , like pulling a knife on Speaker Boehner or chewing historian Douglas Brinkley out on C-Span, but always he was able to effectively take care of the needs of his people in Alaska, especially the Native Americans so in need of the Federal help he and his collogues Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski fought to provide them. They were a tiny delegation but packed a mighty punch and got an enormous amount of things done on behalf of Alaska. Don Young was a central part of that effort, the only member of the House of Representatives from Alaska and the only one most Alaskans have ever known. When he passed away suddenly, on his way back home, on March 18, 2022, he had served in Congress 49 years. Don Young was the longest serving Republican in the history of Congress, the oldest member of the house at age 88, and the last person serving who had been elected in the 1970's. Don Young had also been chosen as the single most effective legislator on Capital Hill and hands down he had the best office décor in all of Washington D.C. In this episode we look back at his remarkable career, through his own words, and in the words of Senator Lisa Murkowski as she addressed the Senate on Don Young's life just after he passed away. There is no question that whomever is elected to the Alaska at Large U.S. House seat, they will have a great example to follow and have enormous shoes to fill. The Don Young Office tour courtesy of Roll Call https://youtu.be/bAsMKV6TSRw
Mary Landrieu served 3 terms in the US Senate from Louisiana, after a term as State Treasurer and time in the State Legislature. In this conversation, she talks growing up in New Orleans as the daughter of Mayor Moon Landrieu, the equation that drew her to political service, several rough-and-tumble statewide campaigns, memories from 18 years in the Senate, and what she's focused on since leaving the Senate in 2015.IN THIS EPISODEGrowing up the eldest of 9 siblings to New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu…The process of elimination that led to pursuing a political career…A 23-year old Mary Landrieu serves in the virtually all-male Louisiana legislature…Senator Landrieu remembers Louisiana political giants Russell Long, Lindy Boggs, and Edwin Edwards…Memories of her first US Senate win in 1996 as an underdog…What happened when the New Orleans Archbishop declared it would be “a sin” to vote for pro-choice Mary Landrieu…What surprised her upon entering the US Senate…Her memories of serving 12 years in the Senate with Joe Biden…What it's like being a swing vote in the US Senate…Her strategy to winning 3 tough statewide in Louisiana…The current work that excites her the most…Senator Landrieu provides the agenda for the next time you're in New Orleans…AND 5,778 votes, baloney, Valerie Biden, Kathleen Blanco, Hale Boggs, Donna Brazile, Broadmoor, Robert Byrd, chutzpah, the Dinosaur Age, Chris Dodd, David Duke, EMILYs List, Dianne Feinstein, Head and Master Laws, Dan Inouye, Jim Crow, Bennett Johnston, John Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Blanche Lincoln, Gillis Long, Barbara Mikulski, Chep Morrison, Lisa Murkowski, playing fort, Jamie Raskin, Ann Richards, Norman Jane Sabiston, smart cookies, Olympia Snowe, societal sheddings, Ted Stevens, the Superdome, Donald Trump, Ursuline nune & more!
One of a series of interviews conducted by Donald Mitchell with people involved in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. This interview is with Ted Stevens and was conducted on December 2, 1993. Funding for the digitization and transcription of this recording was made possible by the Atwood Foundation. For more information about this collection of interviews and for a text transcript of the interview, please see the guide to the collection: https://archives.consortiumlibrary.org/collections/specialcollections/hmc-1099/
One of a series of interviews conducted by Donald Mitchell with people involved in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. This interview is with Ted Stevens and was conducted on December 18, 1989. Funding for the digitization and transcription of this recording was made possible by the Atwood Foundation. For more information about this collection of interviews and for a text transcript of the interview, please see the guide to the collection: https://archives.consortiumlibrary.org/collections/specialcollections/hmc-1099/
Ep.209 Dear Democrats Across The Trenches: A Prayer for Truth and Freedom in 2022 In this episode of The Scalpel, Dr. Rose reflects upon an event that happened in 1914 between British and German soldiers. In the days leading up to Christmas, British troops heard German soldiers singing "Silent Night." They joined in. What followed was a truly unique and unexpected moment in the middle of a war. In the political war of our current day, can we apply any lessons learned from 1914? Do we want freedom enough to stop attacking each other and seek truth and freedom? There are a number of sources of information that recount the Christmas Truce of 1914. https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-truce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce https://www.britannica.com/event/The-Christmas-Truce https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-of-the-wwi-christmas-truce-11972213/ https://time.com/3643889/christmas-truce-1914/ https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/christmas-truce-of-1914 There are even songs - like this one. Paul McCartney - Pipes of Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwyFTRGiIUU Trump: ‘On Behalf of the Entire Trump Family We Wish Everyone a Joyous and Merry Christmas' https://grabien.com/story.php?id=266129 Summary Date Source Ugly, bloody scenes in San Jose as protesters attack Trump 06/03/2016 The Washington Post Police: Clinton Supporter Lights Flag on Fire, Attacks Trump Supporter 07/31/2016 CBS2 Pittsburgh Trump Supporter in NJ Attacked with Crowbar on Street, Police Say 08/09/2016 New Jersey 101.5 Tennessee Man Attacked at Garage Sale for Being Trump Supporter 08/18/2016 The Daily Caller Some protesters got aggressive at the end of the night as Trump supporters left Minneapolis fundraiser 08/19/2016 Minneapolis Star-Tribune Leftist MOB Beats, Kicks, Pummels TRUMP Supporter for Wearing #MAGA Hat 09/28/2016 The Gateway Pundit Republican headquarters in N. Carolina firebombed: ‘Nazi Republicans leave town or else' 10/17/2016 New York Daily News Vandals throw bricks through windows at Delaware County Republican Party office 10/18/2016 Fox 59 Indianapolis Twitter Erupts with Calls for Donald Trump To Be Assassinated 11/09/2016 The Daily Caller Student Trump supporter attacked at Woodside High School 11/10/2016 KTVU Fox2 Police: Florida student punches classmate carrying Trump sign 11/11/2016 Palm Beach Post Female anti-bullying ambassador, 23, arrested at Trump Tower protest for pushing man, 74, to the ground in fight over Trump 11/11/2016 Daily Mail 11-Year-Old Boy Badly Beat up for Voting Trump in Mock Election 11/11/2016 The Daily Caller 'You voted Trump' yelled at man while he's beaten in Chicago streets 11/12/2016 CBS News 2 Men Attack Trump Supporter in Meriden, Conn.: Police 11/13/2016 NBC Connecticut Student attacked for wearing 'Make America Great Again' hat at anti-Trump protest 11/16/2016 WUSA 9 Cornell College Republicans president assaulted, called ‘racist bitch' 12/15/2016 The College Fix Four anti-Trump activists in custody after mentally disabled man tied up, tortured on Facebook Live 01/05/2017 Fox32 Chicago Shocking moment Trump fan is attacked after putting out fire sparked by inauguration protesters 01/24/2017 The Sun Protesters block streets, attack Trump supporter's car in Eugene after peaceful rally 01/29/2017 The Oregonian Trump Supporter Knocked Unconscious After Being Hit by Airport Protesters 01/31/2017 The Washington Free Beacon Riot Forces Cancellation Of Yiannopoulos Talk At UC Berkeley 02/01/2017 KPIX 5, CBS San Francisco Anti-Trump Protesters Block Ambulance Rushing to Hospital 02/06/2017 Lifezette Rohrabacher Staffer, 71, Knocked Unconscious By Protesters Delivering Cards 02/15/2017 CBS Los Angeles ‘Bell Curve' author attacked by protesters at Middlebury College 03/05/2017 The Boson Globe Ann Coulter speech at UC Berkeley canceled, again, amid fears for safety 04/26/2017 The Washington Post Portland Rose Parade canceled after ‘antifascists' threaten GOP marchers 04/27/2017 The Washington Post Prosecutors file new charges against inauguration protesters who rioted, torched immigrant's limo 04/28/2017 The Washington Post Message to GOP Rep.: 'This is how we're going to kill your wife' 05/10/2017 Politico Police: Woman followed then threatened Congressman David Kustoff 05/11/2017 WREG CBS 3 Two tossed from rowdy town hall in Mandan 05/11/2017 The Bismarck Tribune FBI arrests Tucson man over threats to U.S. Rep. Martha McSally 05/15/2017 Arizona Daily Star Former professor suspected in Berkeley bike-lock attack enters plea in Oakland court 05/29/2017 East Bay Times Congressman Steve Scalise Gravely Wounded in Alexandria Baseball Field Ambush 06/04/2017 New York Times 'One down, 216 to go': New York representative receives threatening message after congressman shooting 06/14/2017 New York Daily News Several shots fired at truck flying ‘Make America Great Again' flag on I-465 06/15/2017 FOX 59 Indianapolis Anti-Donald Trump campaigner 'shoots Republican neighbour twice in the head' 08/16/2017 The Independent Missouri Senator: 'I Hope Trump Is Assassinated' 08/17/2017 The Daily Caller Threats Against EPA Employees Up 50% Under Trump Admin. 10/06/2017 NBC Washington Trump supporter attacked by 2 women at DC restaurant, police say 04/02/2018 FOXNew.com Trump supporter says she was attacked by two women at a DC restaurant over her political views 04/03/2018 DailyMail.com Here are some of the death threats made against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt 04/11/2018 CBS News Climate skeptic Marc Morano details his career of death threats 04/25/2018 ClimateDepot Stuart man charged with threatening Rep. Brian Mast's children over Trump policy 06/19/2018 TCPalm (USA Today) Increasing threats to Homeland Security include burned animal carcass left on staffer's porch 06/25/2018 WTOP.com Dem Party Volunteer Charged With Threatening to Kill GOP Rep's Kids 06/27/2018 Townhall California man arrested for threatening to kill FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's family over net neutrality 06/29/2018 The Verge Man allegedly threatens to chop up Rand Paul and his family with an ax 07/02/2018 Courier Journal ‘ABOLISH ICE': Nebraska vandals cause $1,200 in property damage at state GOP headquarters 07/03/2018 Conservative Review Random Stranger Takes Kid's MAGA Hat, Tosses Drink on Him 07/04/2018 Daily Caller ‘Irate' man arrested for threats against Trump supporters, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) 07/07/2018 New York Post Someone untied Betsy DeVos's yacht in Ohio. Damage ensued. 07/26/2018 The Washington Post Hit & Run Victim Says He Was Targeted Because Of Trump Bumper Sticker 08/01/2018 CBS 4 Boston Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor's Blessing 08/03/2018 Wall Street Journal Cambridge man facing charges for cash offer to kill ICE agent 08/09/2018 boston Herald Trump Backer Claims Social Distortion Singer Punched Him Over Politics 08/15/2018 CBS13 Sacramento Student Who Took Classmate's MAGA Hat Says She Was Making Political Statement 08/27/2018 CBS 13 Sacramento Castro Valley Man Accused Of Switchblade Assault On GOP Congressional Candidate 09/11/2018 CBS San Francisco 'Threats of Rape and Strangling' Force D.C. McAllister Into Hiding After Anti-Abortion Tweet 09/11/2018 pjmedia.com Las Vegas professor shot himself in arm to protest Trump 09/11/2018 Las Vegas Review Journal Secret Service looking into ‘Where is John Wilkes Booth' comment by Broadway actress 09/12/2018 MSN.com Georgetown Professor Says White Republicans Should Be Castrated, Fed To Swine 10/01/2018 The Daily Caller A man sent letters with ricin to Pentagon, and suspicious letters to Pentagon, Ted Cruz 10/02/2018 NBC News Antifa Arsonists Vandalize Pro-Trump Truck — Then Torch It 10/09/2018 KPTV Antifa vandalizes New York GOP headquarters 10/14/2018 ABC7 NY Dem Operative Arrested in Nevada After Assaulting Female GOP Staffer 10/17/2018 The Washington Free Beacon Two GOP Candidates Assaulted in Minnesota 10/17/2018 The Washington Free Beacon Man arrested for threatening Kavanaugh-supporting senators 10/19/2018 NY Post Left-wing Wisc. man accused of attempting to buy radioactive material with intent to kill 10/24/2018 WTMJ Democrat arrested after threatening to assault black GOP campaign worker 10/25/2018 WBTV Trump-Hating Former Porn Star Engages In Shootout With Cops 10/25/2018 The Daily Wire Federal authorities offer reward for Wyoming suspect who set fire to local GOP headquarters 10/25/2018 Associated Press Four shots fired into Volusia County Republican Headquarters, police say 10/29/2018 WFTV Seattle City Council Candidate Drops Out Of Race, Citing Left-Wing Harassment Of His Wife 11/14/2018 The Daily Caller Trump supporter assaulted while wearing MAGA hat 11/16/2018 The Hill Vandals Throw Giant Boulder Through Rep. McCarthy's Office Window 11/22/2018 The Daily Caller A North Dakota Man Pleaded Guilty To Planning To Flip Trump's Limo With A Forklift 12/01/2018 BuzzFeed Antifa activist facing assault charges was tied to Democratic policymakers 02/11/2019 Fox News Man accused of pulling gun on victim wearing MAGA hat 02/17/2019 WBKO Man says he was attacked for wearing MAGA hat in Manhattan 08/01/2019 NY Post Antifa protester who attacked Trump supporter pleads guilty to assault 10/05/2019 NY Post Felony charge filed in punching of man leaving Trump rally in Minneapolis 10/24/2019 Star Tribune Florida Man Arrested After Allegedly Spitting on a Man and Slapping His MAGA Hat 10/29/2019 Newsweek Florida man in Trump costume punched in face by 14-year-old girl: cops 10/29/2019 NY Post Child hospitalized after beating on school bus for wearing Trump hat 11/21/2019 NY Post Summary Date Source At the DoJ, Comey relentlessly pursued a banker for financial charges; when he couldn't find any criminality, he charged him with obstruction of justice "because of a single ambiguous email" (a conviction later overturned) 09/01/2000 The Federalist Despite knowing who leaked Valerie Plame's identity to a reporter, Comey tasked a special counsel to investigate the Bush Administration for years, eventually ensaring a non-leaker with a process charge 09/26/2003 The Federalist During the Valerie Plame leak investigation, Comey demanded AG Ashcroft recuse himself for conflict of interest; he instead chose the godfather of his daughter, Patrick Fitzgerald, to run the probe 09/26/2003 The Wall Street Journal As Bush's deputy AG, Comey schemed to become the AG himself when Ashcroft was hospitalized; he did so to stop an NSA counterterror program and set himself up for future political career 03/01/2004 The Federalist As deputy AG, Comey badly bungled the anthrax investigation, largely destroying the life of an innocent man (who later won a large settlement against the feds) 03/01/2004 RealClearPolitics After Comey assumed for himself the role of attorney general, he did not tell President Bush 03/02/2004 The Federalist Comey aggressively targeted Martha Stewart for insider trading; when he couldn't find wrongdoing, he charged her for “having misled people by denying having committed a crime with which she was not charged" 07/16/2004 CATO Institute As deputy AG, Comey used "bogus 'secret' information to entrap two lobbyists for the pro-Israel group" AIPAC; the case was later dropped, but not before two reputations were destroyed 08/27/2004 The Wall Street Journal During Comey's probe Valerie Plame probe, reporter Judith Miller was jailed for 85 days for refusing to divulge sources; she says crucial information was withheld from her 06/27/2005 The Wall Street Journal During a 2007 hearing into the firings of U.S. attorneys, Comey coordinated with Sen. Schumer and Preet Bharara to make a surprise appearance and attack Gonzales with a (disputed) account 05/24/2007 The Federalist After the NSA scandal exploded in 2013, Comey's FBI was exposed conducting its own data mining on innocent Americans; the agency retains that material for decades (even if no wrongdoing is found) 06/30/2013 Bloomberg The father of the radical Islamist who detonated a backpack bomb in New York City in 2016 alerted the FBI to his son's radicalization but the FBI let him go 08/28/2013 NJ.com Comey's FBI was warned about the Boston bomber but let him go 03/25/2014 NBC News In 2015, Comey's FBI conducted a controversial raid on a Texas political meeting, finger printing, photographing, and seizing phones from attendees 03/01/2015 World Net Daily Comey created diplomatic chaos with Poland after saying the country was an "accomplice" during the Holocaust. 04/21/2015 The Daily Mail Comey was forced to apologize after an error in the FBI's background check system allowed Dylann Roof to buy his gun 07/10/2015 The Atlantic During the FBI's Hillary probe, "A technician who destroyed evidence lied to FBI investigators even after he received immunity, and Comey did nothing" 04/01/2016 The Federalist; The Wall Street Journal Comey promised transparency into the investigation into the Pulse Night Club terrorist, but almost immediately redacted from transcript the killer's reference to Islam 06/12/2016 The Federalist Comey's FBI twice interviewed the Pulse Night Club terrorist but let him go 06/13/2016 The New York Times Under Comey, the FBI blew its highest profile corruption investigations (into Sen. Ted Stevens); a federal judge blamed the "worst prosecutorial misconduct" he'd ever seen 07/01/2016 The Federalist Under Comey, the FBI authorized informants to break the law 22,800 times in just four years 08/23/2016 The Daily Dot During its investigation into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified material, the FBI made an unusual deal in which Clinton aides were both given immunity and allowed to destroy their laptops. 10/03/2016 Fox News Comey's FBI was embedded with the ISIS-affiliated terrorists who struck the 'Draw Mohammad' event but failed to act 03/26/2017 CBS News Comey claimed in Senate testimony he didn't feel compelled to memorialize his meetings with presidents besides Trump; however, that's untrue 06/10/2017 Powerline James Comey's Trump memos contained classified information, likely meaning he violated his own agencies security protocols 07/09/2017 The Hill Comey drafted an exoneration statement for Hillary Clinton months before the FBI even investigated her 10/16/2017 Newsweek Under Comey, the FBI's database for gun buyers lost millions of records 11/10/2017 The Washington Post Under Comey, the FBI's case against Cliven Bundy was destroyed after the feds were caught deliberately withholding evidence 12/21/2017 The Oregonian Sexual misconduct was rampant at the FBI under Comey's watch, with at least 14 agents sanctioned 02/25/2018 The Daily Caller Comey's FBI blew its case against Omar Mateen's wife due to agents' misconduct 04/03/2018 USA Today Agent Peter Strzok was considered so hostile to Trump, Robert Mueller dropped him from the Russia probe; Comey, however, found him fit to lead the Clinton probe 04/17/2018 RealClearPolitics On the FBI's Hillary probe, Comey claimed there was no coordination between the DoJ and FBI, but texts and emails later showed that to be untrue 04/19/2018 The Washington Examiner The memos Comey leaked contained classified material, prompting the DoJ inspector general to investigate his illegal leak 04/20/2018 The Wall Street Journal Comey's memos reveal that he briefed Trump on the Steele dossier specifically so it would leak to the media 04/20/2018 The Federalist During the Hillary probe, the FBI lost track of Hillary's server for months 05/05/2018 Jack Posobiec During his book tour, Comey claimed he didn't know the FBI thought Michael Flynn believed he was telling the truth CONTACT THE SHOW Website: https://scalpeledge.com Email: KFR@scalpeledge.com Twitter: @TheScalpelEdge Instagram: @TheScalpelPodcast #TheScalpel
It was the campaign of my lifetime. A chance to work for not one but three of my heroes in one year, Bob and Elizabeth Dole and Strom Thurmond. 1996 was a great year. Some people have been critical of the campaign Bob Dole ran in 1996, but I doubt anyone could have done any better. The economy was booming and Bill Clinton was the master of campaigning. But Bob Dole gave him a run for his money and did something very impressive, in a year clearly trending toward a popular President, he kept him under 50%, and both houses of Congress stayed in Republican control. The work Bob Dole did in California, in districts of congressmen who were in trouble is what saved our majorities. As I remember CNN analyst William Schneider saying, "He helped save the Republican cause even if his own cause fared badly"Bob Dole's character shined throughout the campaign and I learned so much just watching from the sideline on how to act and treat people, how even on the Presidential level, you could still be a thoughtful, considerate candidate and stay true to your principles as a human being. Most importantly, I saw the price of freedom, every time he used his left hand to shake hands or held a pen in his right. Bob Dole said over and over on the campaign trail "I am certainly not Dwight Eisenhower, but I have always been proud of the vote I cast for Eisenhower and you want to be proud of the vote you cast, 10 years, and 20 years and 30 years from now" well I still am proud of the vote I cast for Bob Dole, it is the proudest vote I ever cast. In this episode we shall hear his announcement, his visit to the Greenville Christmas parade, a profile from ABC News just before the Iowa Caucus, and his resignation from Congress. Plus speeches from the most prominent members of the august body in which he served, the United States Senate. Thad Cochran, Ted Stevens, Strom Thurmond, Tom Daschle and Robert Byrd all take to the floor to talk about this giant of the Senate they considered it a privileged to have served with.
Episode #040 - Please welcome Chief Financial Officer Gwendolyn Sykes. Ms. Sykes began working with the Secret Service in May 2012, bringing with her a wealth of financial management skills and talent for organizational transformation and enhancement. Among her many accomplishments, Ms. Sykes is the first African American female to serve as the Chief Financial Officer at NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate, she was responsible for the financial management and health of this $16 billion agency. Ms. Sykes led more than 500 finance professionals, located across ten geographically dispersed locations throughout the United States, in the development and execution of financial policies, processes, and procedures. She has also served as Yale University's Chief Financial Officer, the first in that university's 306-year history, and Chief Financial Officer for Morehouse College. Previous government experience includes working within the Department of Defense and in the office of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens. Gwendolyn Sykes holds a Bachelor of Arts in accounting from Catholic University and a Master of Public Administration from American University, where she also serves as an adjunct professor in the School of Public Affairs. She has been recognized for her achievements by Black Enterprise, Newsweek, the Today Show, and the National Black Caucus of State Legislators. Hosted, Produce, and Edited by: Cody Starken Associate Producer and assistant editor: Starr Vazquez This episode is sponsored by the United States Secret Service. www.secretservice.gov Special thanks to CFO Sykes for her time and support and to CFO for their support. Music is “Nova Police” by Hermelin, found here: www.hermelin.bandcamp.com/track/nova- police. The music used in the podcast was altered from the original soundtrack by cutting specific sections of the music to create the intro and outro of the podcast. This work Attribution-Noncommercial-sharealike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US), which license definition is located here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 Want to join the Secret Service? Click here to start your journey https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/?k=USSS Please visit us at: Twitter@secretservice, Instagram@secretservice, Facebook @UnitedStatesSecretServiceOfficial, YouTube@US Secret Service, and LinkedIn @U.S. Secret Service Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.com and find it at www.secretservice.gov/press/social-media/
U.S. Senator Ted Stevens was a pilot who had dreams of losing his life by plane. Follow the path Alaska's Uncle Ted took until his fatal last flight. Thank you for listening. This a Patreon episode from Inches in Mercury as a bonus to the end of Season Two https://www.patreon.com/join/tc49 Visit our website https://truecrime49.libsyn.com/ Find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. R E S O U R C E S https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20100809-0 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna38637072 https://www.newsweek.com/ntsb-warned-about-alaska-pilots-risky-ways-and-ted-stevens-argued-217190 http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Stevens-1978-N77RS.htm https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19781204-0 https://www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article1041803.html https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/profile/120068 Alaska Travel Industry Association M U S I C Lake sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxquG5pb9To Kenmore Air DHC-2 take-off Seattle Lake Union https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdpNDM4v4Zw Infados by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Alarms, T-CAS and GPWS of Boeing 737 AerolinersHD- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Z-d1Zx02o Author: KeysOfMoon Source: https://shorturl.at/gjqBS Silhouette of War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2pXrtewWlE JAPANESE VINTAGE ORCHESTRAL MUSIC royalty free Music by Giorgio Di Campo for @FreeSound Music http://freesoundmusic.eu https://www.facebook.com/freemusicfor... https://youtube.com/freesoundmusic original video: https://youtu.be/lUZ4VqKhJAM "Hayden Folker - The Constellation" is under a Creative Commons (CC-BY 3.0) license https://soundcloud.com/hayden-folker Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/fSaHNiMPy7A Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. PLEASE NOTE: ALL NAMES, TRADEMARKS, AND IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. AFFILIATE LINKS USED WHENEVER AVAILABLE The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of True Crime 49.
Some of the 20th Century's most consequential figures all served in the last quarter of the 20th century with the man who is now the President of the United States, Joe Biden. They may have had very little in common, and disagreed often, but they all figured out ways to get things done by reaching across the aisle and finding that common ground so necessary in making government work successfully. Strom Thurmond, Ernest Hollings, Dan Inouye , Ted Stevens , Robert Byrd and Frank Lautenberg all helped build the American Century. They also had one other thing in common, Joe Biden did their eulogies at their funerals.Over the next three episodes we look back on the lives of these giants of the Senate and the marks they left on their States and their country. We also will listen to Joe Biden as he speaks at each of their funerals. Biden was known as the eulogist of the Senate long before he was a Vice President or President of the United States. In this episode we look at the two giant figures of South Carolina politics in the 20th century, a team that served together for nearly 4 decades and helped transform our State into its modern day form as a tourism an economic powerhouse. Today both men are enshrined in the South Carolina Hall of Fame, Strom Thurmond and Ernest Hollings.
Dan Inouye and Ted Stevens, they were like brothers. Dan Inouye won a Medal of Honor fighting for his country in Italy. He would serve 59 years in Congress and he would be the example our leadership should always look to for building consensus and reaching across the aisle in a bipartisan fashion. He had two famous cross party friendships we can examine with Bob Dole and with Ted Stevens. The friendship with Ted Stevens was legendary and together they built modern day Hawaii and Alaska and the modern military too from their places on the Appropriation's Committee and the military subcommittee they shared chairmanships of together. But the greatest test of their friendship came when Stevens was wrongfully accused, tried, and convicted for lying on his ethics forms. Throughout it all his friend stayed loyal to him even taking on his own party in a tight reelection fight that Stevens eventually lost. Here we look at these two giants of the Senate and hear their friend, now President, Joe Biden give their eulogies.
Matthew Friedrich (husband of Judge Dabney Friedrich who scolded the team defending the Russians that Robert Mueller thought would never show up for court) was a specialist at burning people by coaching witnesses, cutting secret witness deals, and then concealing that Brady material. He was taught by friends Andrew Weissmann and Kathryn Ruemmler. Judge Dabney is also deciding the fate of the Jan 6th protestors (being investigated by the same seditious FBI that needed the expertise of 200 people over three plus years to go after President Trump without any evidence) so what could go wrong? Q: Hey I thought this was about Congressman Gaetz? A: It is, but I'm afraid a Marxist criminal like Judge Sullivan or Judge Dabney Langhorne Friedrich is going to allow Brady material to be suppressed (like Judge Sullivan did to Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska in 2008). Matthew Friedrich deceived the court so bad that Judge Shiftless Sullivan hired Henry Schuelke III to investigate the investigators--except Judge Sullivan made sure Matthew Friedrich was NOT to be investigated. Nick Marsh knew he'd been set up by Friedrich, and after Sen. Stevens died in a plane crash Marsh committed suicide. Are you tired of being lied to by the highest levels of the federal government? P.S. The entire FBI/DOJ apparatus can be a weapon.
Senator Ted Stevens was charged in federal court right before his election. He turned the famed criminal defense firm of Williams & Connolly to defend him. Rob Cary, who tried the case with Brendan Sullivan, discusses defending a well-known political figure at trial and also what turned into one of the biggest cases of prosecutorial misconduct in this Nation's history.
World War 2, the main event of the 20th century. It shaped the lives of all who lived through it. 10 United States Presidents and countless numbers of other public servants shaped American policy, both foreign and domestic, for the next half century. It moderated their stands and kept emotions in check. They came back from the war and very sensibly went about creating the most dominant and prosperous nation in the history of the human race. Let's look back at Why? What did they see and live through that made all that they achieved possible. What did they see that motivated them to make sure the world was safe from ever having to see it again. Listen as Senator Strom Thurmond talks about liberating a Nazi Concentration camp at Buchenwald , landing at D-Day, and moving in towards victory in Berlin. Listen as Senator Ted Stevens talks about Pearl Harbor and the shock of the start of the warand relive with Senator Daniel Inouye as he scales a mountain to attack a Nazi division at breakfast, or fighting the elite of the Italian troops, losing an arm an earning the Medal of Honor.
The extraordinary relationship of Senator Dan Inouye of Hawaii, a Democrat, and Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska , a Republican. Together they traded places on the Senate Appropriations Committee Leadership and the Senate Appropriation Armed Services subcommittee leadership, and they made sure that no matter who was in charge of Congress and the White House, each others states had a friend to make sure they were never hurt. They built the modern day states of Hawaii and Alaska, and they funded up the modern military. They showed the world what can be accomplished by two friends, even if they were often on opposite sides of political issues and in opposite political parties. They often called each other, brother.
Aerovía repasa el enorme impacto de la borrasca Filomena, que obligó a cerrar durante dos días el aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas. Además de analizar lo ocurrido durante el fin de semana, el primer capítulo de 2021 se adentra en la polémica sobre el vuelo 2800 de Iberia, el chárter que trasladó a la expedición del Real Madrid a Pamplona y que fue el último en despegar desde el aeropuerto madrileño antes del cierre por la nevada. ¿Hubo trato de favor? ¿Por qué pudo salir ese vuelo y no otros? Después, nos interesamos por cómo se gestionan las operaciones aéreas durante grandes nevadas en el aeropuerto que, según la industria, mejor se enfrenta a este fenómeno meteorológico. Para ello, entrevistamos a Zaramie Lindseth y Jeremy Hans, responsable y capataz de Mantenimiento, respectivamente, del aeropuerto Ted Stevens de Anchorage, en Alaska (Estados Unidos). En la segunda parte del capítulo, el experto en temas espaciales Juan Pons nos acompaña en una nueva edición de ‘La frontera infinita', nuestra sección para analizar la actualidad en el ámbito del espacio. No te pierdas el 27º capítulo de Aerovía: ‘¿Es inevitable cerrar los aeropuertos cuando nieva?'.
Like a fine musician performing a complex work before a discerning audience, practicing law at an elite level can be as much art as science. Today, we take a breather from complex business issues in this bonus episode of Law, Policy & Markets featuring Milbank Global Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance partner Allan Marks and Litigation & Arbitration partner Alex Romain, who compare notes on how their years of classical piano training and passion for playing music inform their approaches to practicing law. They explore how coaching, creativity and collaboration translate into discipline, depth and distinction and how crafting a musical performance is similar to structuring and presenting a cogent legal argument that leads to persuasive communication, authentic personal relationships and positive action. We hope you enjoy our final episode of the year. See you in 2021!Alex Romain is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Milbank LLP and a member of the firm's Litigation and Arbitration Group. Mr. Romain is a leading national trial lawyer with more than 20 years of experience representing individuals and corporations in high-stakes complex commercial litigation, white collar defense, and internal investigations. Mr. Romain's relentless advocacy has led to exemplary results for his clients. He was a member of the trial team that exonerated the late Sen. Ted Stevens, playing a key role in pursuing the exculpatory evidence that ultimately led to the senator's exoneration. The American Lawyer described his team's work on the case as “one of the best criminal defense performances in memory, resulting in a heightened scrutiny of prosecutors that will affect the Justice Department for years to come.” Mr. Romain successfully represented the Baltimore Ravens and several of its senior personnel in connection with the independent investigation conducted by former FBI Director Robert Mueller into the National Football League's handling of the Ray Rice domestic violence incident. Read MorePodcast host Allan Marks is one of the world's leading project finance lawyers, with special expertise in the power and renewable energy, transportation and airports, oil and gas, water, and telecommunications sectors. He advises developers, investors, lenders, and underwriters around the world in the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects, as well as related acquisitions, restructurings and capital markets transactions. Mr. Marks also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley at both the Law School and the Haas School of Business.More details at Milbank.com.Disclaimer
Today's Flash Back Friday was originally published in October 2014. Jason Hartman speaks to author and former Department of Justice attorney, Sidney Powell. Together, they dive into some of the most scandalous and outrageous cases which have based through the Department of Justice in recent decades. Step-by-step, they overview several of the cases featured in Powell’s book Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice and consider the true state of our society. Key Takeaways 01.00 – Sidney Powell’s book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, deals with some of the most scandalous and historic events to come out of the United States’ Department of Justice. 09.20 – Within the Merrill Lynch case, it got to the point where favorable statements were hidden for six years while four Merrill Lynch executives were sent to prison without even a listed criminal offense. 13.00 – Sometimes there are two sides to a story and you need to dig a little deeper to find out what really happened. 16.55 – You have to question when a judge says he’s never had such a fine person before him for sentencing, and then passes a sentence. 20.20 – www.pogo.org (Project on Government Oversight) has identified over 400 instances of misconduct by prosecutors in the last decade. 22.00 – Despite having a criminal conviction against his name a few days before the re-election, Ted Stevens only lost his place on the Senate by a few votes. 27.45 – The Bar associations are less than useless in these situations because they just give the same response. 32.00 – Judge Sullivan is turning around the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS and doing his best to achieve a just result. 34.10 – There are too many aspects of the IRS case that just seem conveniently timed for it to be believable. 34.40 – Many of Sidney’s articles about these issues can be found at www.Observer.com 36.40 – If the IRS is being used to target political opponents, who gave that order? 38.45 – Information about the book and how to purchase it can be found at www.LicensedtoLie.com. Tweet Sidney using the handle @SidneyPowell1 and be sure to ‘like’ Licensed to Lie on Facebook. Websites: jasonhartman.com/protect JasonHartman.com JasonHartman.com/properties Jason Hartman Quick Start Jason Hartman PropertyCast (Libsyn) Jason Hartman PropertyCast (iTunes) 1-800-HARTMAN
Today's Flash Back Friday comes from Episode 231, originally published in October 2014. In today's Holistic Survival Show, Jason Hartman speaks to author and former Department of Justice attorney, Sidney Powell. Together, they dive into some of the most scandalous and outrageous cases which have based through the Department of Justice in recent decades. Step-by-step, they overview several of the cases featured in Powell's book Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice and consider the true state of our society. Key Takeaways 01.00 – Sidney Powell's book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, deals with some of the most scandalous and historic events to come out of the United States' Department of Justice. 09.20 – Within the Merrill Lynch case, it got to the point where favorable statements were hidden for six years while four Merrill Lynch executives were sent to prison without even a listed criminal offense. 13.00 – Sometimes there are two sides to a story and you need to dig a little deeper to find out what really happened. 16.55 – You have to question when a judge says he's never had such a fine person before him for sentencing, and then passes a sentence. 20.20 – www.pogo.org (Project on Government Oversight) has identified over 400 instances of misconduct by prosecutors in the last decade. 22.00 – Despite having a criminal conviction against his name a few days before the re-election, Ted Stevens only lost his place on the Senate by a few votes. 27.45 – The Bar associations are less than useless in these situations because they just give the same response. 32.00 – Judge Sullivan is turning around the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS and doing his best to achieve a just result. 34.10 – There are too many aspects of the IRS case that just seem conveniently timed for it to be believable. 34.40 – Many of Sidney's articles about these issues can be found at www.Observer.com 36.40 – If the IRS is being used to target political opponents, who gave that order? 38.45 – Information about the book and how to purchase it can be found at www.LicensedtoLie.com. Tweet Sidney using the handle @SidneyPowell1 and be sure to ‘like' Licensed to Lie on Facebook. Websites: jasonhartman.com/protect JasonHartman.com JasonHartman.com/properties Jason Hartman Quick Start Jason Hartman PropertyCast (Libsyn) Jason Hartman PropertyCast (iTunes) 1-800-HARTMAN
Today's Flash Back Friday was originally published in October 2014. Jason Hartman speaks to author and former Department of Justice attorney, Sidney Powell. Together, they dive into some of the most scandalous and outrageous cases which have based through the Department of Justice in recent decades. Step-by-step, they overview several of the cases featured in Powell’s book Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice and consider the true state of our society. Key Takeaways 01.00 – Sidney Powell’s book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, deals with some of the most scandalous and historic events to come out of the United States’ Department of Justice. 09.20 – Within the Merrill Lynch case, it got to the point where favorable statements were hidden for six years while four Merrill Lynch executives were sent to prison without even a listed criminal offense. 13.00 – Sometimes there are two sides to a story and you need to dig a little deeper to find out what really happened. 16.55 – You have to question when a judge says he’s never had such a fine person before him for sentencing, and then passes a sentence. 20.20 – www.pogo.org (Project on Government Oversight) has identified over 400 instances of misconduct by prosecutors in the last decade. 22.00 – Despite having a criminal conviction against his name a few days before the re-election, Ted Stevens only lost his place on the Senate by a few votes. 27.45 – The Bar associations are less than useless in these situations because they just give the same response. 32.00 – Judge Sullivan is turning around the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS and doing his best to achieve a just result. 34.10 – There are too many aspects of the IRS case that just seem conveniently timed for it to be believable. 34.40 – Many of Sidney’s articles about these issues can be found at www.Observer.com 36.40 – If the IRS is being used to target political opponents, who gave that order? 38.45 – Information about the book and how to purchase it can be found at www.LicensedtoLie.com. Tweet Sidney using the handle @SidneyPowell1 and be sure to ‘like’ Licensed to Lie on Facebook. Websites: jasonhartman.com/protect JasonHartman.com JasonHartman.com/properties Jason Hartman Quick Start Jason Hartman PropertyCast (Libsyn) Jason Hartman PropertyCast (iTunes) 1-800-HARTMAN
On this episode of the “It's Only Rock And Roll PODCAST”, we talk with legendary record producer JOHN BOYLAN, who helped pioneer the California Country Rock sound, working with Rick Nelson, Poco, and Linda Ronstadt, who because of him, hired the musicians who would later become The Eagles as her backup band. He also discusses his role in developing one of rock's biggest acts Boston and their self-titled LP - the best-selling debut album of all-time. Also back once again is co-host Ted Stevens, who gives an update on being a working live act in Florida amidst Covid-19 . Also we discuss the greatest singles recorded live, that outshine their respective studio version. Visit the 'It's Only Rock And Roll PODCAST' online at: ° Homepage – www.ItsOnlyRockAndRollPodcast.com ° Facebook - facebook.com/ItsOnlyRockAndRollPodcast/
PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 1: Appeals court rules in favor of Flynn case dismissal, but that doesn't mean Judge Sullivan will obey. What Sullivan might do to delay the Flynn dismissal past November. New handwritten note from Strzok proves Flynn was set up, in Oval Office meeting, Biden mentioned using Logan Act to go after Flynn, Obama instructed Comey and Yates to use "right people" to go after Flynn. Barr outraged by biggest political scandal of our time. Trump can't run for reelection on same theme as 2016. Biden's role in the Flynn setup. Sullivan ruling in Ted Stevens case makes his behavior in Flynn case puzzling. Washington establishment fears Michael Flynn. Sidney Powell saved Michael Flynn. Andy McCarthy says don't gloat over the Flynn ruling. Rush had same advice to GOP when they won the 2002 midterms, but now thinks it was the wrong advice. Democrats always gloat, they shout from the rooftops and so should we. WSJ: COVID fatalities are still lower per capita in the states that opened. PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 2: Tulsa rally got Rush thinking about what Trump's 2020 theme should be: Preserve the American Way of Life. Michael Goodwin column on how Trump can recover. Thomas Klingenstein column on preserving the American way of life. Multiculturalism destroyed respect for American way of life, assimilation to the American culture stopped, concept of American Exceptionalism has been undermined by the left for generations. The New York Times 1619 Project. Audio of angry white Millennial woman yelling at black police officers at BLM protest. Gloria Steinem proud that women are behind BLM. The American way of life is unique and worth preserving. Lt. General Flynn calls the show, reacts to ruling, thanks Rush and EIB audience. PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 3: Black Lives Matter was founded by angry black lesbians. Jim Jordan defends Barr at hearing, focuses on Obama/Biden spying. Barr is sickened by coup against Trump. Oregon county tells black people they're exempted from mask rules. Defund the police. Companies leaving blue states in wake of coronavirus shutdowns, violence. Maude Behar and her husband drive around looking for people not wearing masks. ESPN's Black Lives Matter-themed ESPY Awards bomb with record-low rating. How will this moment of radical Marxism end? CNN interviews CHOP leader as if he's a head of state. Obama did nothing to contribute to the Trump economy. Under Obama we were dependent on foreign oil; Trump turned that around. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
A man finds his wife looks like a 17th century poisoner. Another man's uncle is murdered. The locked room mystery takes front and center on this SUSPENSE. Based off the story by John Dickson Carr, this Suspense has the air of a locked room mystery surrounded by the supernatural. Sean Klodnicki stars as Ted Stevens, with special guest Shari Ambord as Gaudin Cross and Megan Klodnicki as Marie D'Aubrey. CAST Shari Ambord - Gaudin Cross Sean Klodnicki - Ted Stevens Megan Klodnicki - Marie D'Aubrey A.J. Carey - Additional --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/retrostaticradio/support
On this episode of “The It's Only Rock And Roll PODCAST”, Don DiMuccio and co-host Ted Stevens discuss being a working musician under the COVID-19 shutdowns, backing legendary oldies acts in the Las Vegas circuit, the passing of Little Richard, and more. Also legendary hit-maker Shel Talmy discusses producing classics for The Who, The Kinks, The Easybeats, and a slew of major acts in the 1960s and beyond. Visit the 'It's Only Rock And Roll PODCAST' online at: ° Homepage – www.ItsOnlyRockAndRollPodcast.com ° Facebook - facebook.com/ItsOnlyRockAndRollPodcast/ ° Twitter – twitter.com/ItsOnlyRockAnd2
Hillary and Tina cover former US Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska and former Boise, Idaho mayor H. Brent Coles. For show notes and links to our sources, please click here (https://themuckpodcast.fireside.fm/articles/ep19notes).
Based on John Dixon Carr’s novel of the same name. On a commuters train, manuscripts are read, and a picture from the 17th century bares a startling resemblance to his young bride. The original woman was a poisoner, and was beheaded. Is there any relation to the young Marie? Should Ted be worried when the picture disappears once he gets home? News arrives that Mark’s uncle has been murdered. poisoned. Mark describes why he thinks its poison, and not due to failing health of the elderly uncle. Is there good reason to link Marie to the crime? Is it enough to make Ted Stevens doubtRead More →
Jeff was joined by Karina Waller, the Executive Director of the Ted Stevens Foundation. They discuss her time in D.C., including being there during 9/11, going to law school, her time working for Senator Ted Stevens, her time studying abroad in Russia, some stories about Ted Stevens, how politics has changed since Stevens was in office, and some projects the Ted Stevens Foundation is currently working on.
Today's Flash Back Friday comes from Episode 504, originally published in October 2014. In the today's Holistic Survival Show, Jason Hartman speaks to author and former Department of Justice attorney, Sidney Powell. Together, they dive into some of the most scandalous and outrageous cases which have based through the Department of Justice in recent decades. Step-by-step, they overview several of the cases featured in Powell's book Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice and consider the true state of our society. Takeaways 01.00 – Sidney Powell's book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, deals with some of the most scandalous and historic events to come out of the United States' Department of Justice. 09.20 – Within the Merrill Lynch case, it got to the point where favourable statements were hidden for six years while four Merrill Lynch executives were sent to prison without even a listed criminal offence. 13.00 – Sometimes there are two sides to a story and you need to dig a little deeper to find out what really happened. 16.55 – You have to question when a judge says he's never had such a fine person before him for sentencing, and then passes a sentence. 20.20 – www.pogo.org (Project on Government Oversight) has identified over 400 instances of misconduct by prosecutors in the last decade. 22.00 – Despite having a criminal conviction against his name a few days before the re-election, Ted Stevens only lost his place on the Senate by a few votes. 27.45 – The Bar associations are less than useless in these situations because they just give the same response. 32.00 – Judge Sullivan is turning around the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS and doing his best to achieve a just result. 34.10 – There are too many aspects of the IRS case that just seem conveniently timed for it to be believable. 34.40 – Many of Sidney's articles about these issues can be found at www.Observer.com 36.40 – If the IRS is being used to target political opponents, who gave that order? 38.45 – Information about the book and how to purchase it can be found at www.LicensedtoLie.com. Tweet Sidney using the handle @SidneyPowell1 and be sure to ‘like' Licensed to Lie on Facebook.
Parham Eftekhari: Is Government Cybersecurity Broken? … the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. -- former Senator Ted Stevens, 2006 This photo… is not a photo of the internet… in case you were wondering. Do we really want to trust that our elected officials have the slightest idea of what to do with regards to cybersecurity? Whether it is election meddling, attempts to hack voting facilities or data breaches of personnel records… this is territory that needs detailed research and expert analysis. The current administration proposed an overall federal cybersecurity budget of $17.4 billion, which is an increase from the estimated $16.6 billion in fiscal 2019. Under this proposal, Civilian agencies overall would receive $7.79 billion which is roughly 1.5 percent below current levels. If that number seems odd, that’s probably okay considering how much attention cybersecurity is attracting. However, it could have been worse, given the current administration’s general desire to trim civilian-agency spending. The White House is proposing to reduce overall non-defense spending by 5 percent. With just a little bit of focus, we can discern that an agency was more likely to be proposed for an increase if it works on national security in some way. Cybersecurity efforts at the Departments of Energy, Justice and State all saw increases of over 7% or more. Cyber programs at the Office of Personnel Management, which is under close scrutiny for how it protects the data of federal employees, saw a 4% increase to $47 million. You may recall the famous OPM data breach a few years back that put over 21 Million records into the wild Oh… and… not for nothing… but it was Cylance that fixed that one… In this episode of the InSecurity Podcast, Matt Stephenson welcomes ICIT Executive Director Parham Eftekhari for a chat about what is happening in Washington when it comes to American policies on Cybersecurity. We take a look at the key pillars of Technology, Budget, Lobbying/Partisan politics and Legislation. Wanna drain the swamp? Take a listen first. About Parham Eftekhari Parham Eftekhari (@icitorg) is the Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), the nation’s leading cybersecurity Think Tank whose mission is to improve the resiliency of the country’s 16 critical infrastructure sectors and empower generations of cybersecurity leaders. Leveraging 15 years of technology industry experience, Parham advises the world’s top public and private sector cybersecurity leaders, manages strategic alliances, executes business strategies, and builds meaningful thought leadership and educational programs. Parham has organized, led or contributed to over 100 cybersecurity briefings and events at institutions including Congress, TEDx, C-SPAN and the World Bank, and regularly speaks to the media on cybersecurity issues. About Matt Stephenson Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson (@packmatt73) leads the Security Technology team at Cylance, which puts him in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. He is the regular host of the InSecurity podcast and host of CylanceTV Twenty years of work with the world’s largest security, storage, and recovery companies has introduced Stephenson to some of the most fascinating people in the industry. He wants to get those stories told so that others can learn from what has come Every week on the InSecurity Podcast, Matt interviews leading authorities in the security industry to gain an expert perspective on topics including risk management, security control friction, compliance issues, and building a culture of security. Each episode provides relevant insights for security practitioners and business leaders working to improve their organization’s security posture and bottom line. Can’t get enough of Insecurity? You can find us at ThreatVector InSecurity Podcasts, Apple Podcasts and GooglePlay as well as Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, I Heart Radio and wherever you get your podcasts! Make sure you Subscribe, Rate and Review!
If you're a senator, a military leader, or a business executive accused of wrongdoing, Brendan Sullivan is the lawyer you probably want to call. Sullivan is considered one of the greatest trial lawyers in the country, and has represented some of the most high profile defendants of the past fifty years, including Oliver North, Ted Stevens, and the Duke lacrosse players. But he began his career defending a group of soldiers during the Vietnam War, who dared to peacefully protest conditions in the stockade. Sullivan talks here about his cases and the abuses of government power he has unearthed. And he explains why he has such a pessimistic view about the state of our judicial system.
In the past 5 years, Iceland has become a major tourist stopover destination. Can Alaska do the same? Jim Szcesniak seems to think so. Watch the video of the presentation here https://youtu.be/hd8whxHs29Q
Today on @ChosenGenerationRadio Richard Manning joins Pastor Greg to talk about the latest inside the beltway. Corey Lewandowski joins Pastor Greg to Enemies of Trump his new explosive book that takes you inside the efforts that are attempting to take down the President. Sidney Powell exposes License to Lie and the inner workings of the Mueller probe and how they are using the same tactics used against Ted Stevens. Dan Gainor @newsbusters @MediaResearchCenter media madness even attacks on George HW Bush.
I realized this morning that I know Mira Ricardel, the woman Melania Trump is trying to get fired from the National Security Council. Mira Ricardel (then-Baratta) and I worked together in the US Senate in the late 1980s and early 1990s when we both handled arms control issues, she for Bob Dole and me for Ted Stevens. I wanted to talk a bit about my memory of Mira -- she wasn't terribly nice back then either -- but also about an incident that happened to her when we were on my first arms control congressional delegation (codel) in December of 1989, when a top US embassy official openly discriminated against Mira for being a woman. All of this colors my views of Mira today. Hope you'll find it interesting. You can subscribe to our podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/UnPresidentedPodcast?
Jeff was joined by Jack Ferguson. Jack is a well known lobbyist in Washington D.C. Jack was the chief of staff for both Congressman Don Young and Senator Ted Stevens. We discuss his history in politics and in D.C., how Washington has changed over the years, and some great stories about Don Young.
Sources used for this podcast: The other side of the Enron story: https://ungagged.net Senator Ted Stevens dies in plane crash: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38637072/ns/us_news-life/t/former-sen-ted-stevens-dies-alaska-plane-crash/ Steven's conviction to be reversed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7977960.stm Some Convictions of 4 Merrill Execs Reversed: http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/03/business/fi-enron3 Former DOJ Prosecutor "Poster Boy for Misconduct" http://iotwreport.com/former-doj-prosecutor-andrew-weissmann-is-the-poster-boy-for-misconduct/ Lawyer Sidney Powell: Prosecutor's Record Destroys Credibility of Mueller Probe https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/robert-mueller-andrew-weissmann/2017/06/07/id/794685/ Former Federal Prosecutor Says Mueller’s Team Are “Creeps on a Mission” to Destroy the President http://www.independentsentinel.com/former-federal-prosecutor-says-muellers-team-are-creeps-on-a-mission-to-destroy-the-president/ John Stossel: Bully prosecutors ruin lives, get big promotions http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/opinion/columnists/2014/10/25/columns-stossel-proecutors-abuse/17917401/ Anderson conviction overturned http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/31/news/midcaps/scandal_andersen_scotus/
Subscribe via Podcast RSS | DONATE | Contact Hosts Beer: Gulden Draak | Brouwerij Van Steenberge N.V. Net neutality is legislation for business advantage Where did the money come from? The original Net Neutrality story, Ted Stevens. Support the Shows! Some one trying to censor rather than submit a change or open a discussion. A series of tubes. Date: 2017-08-03 Time: 01:21:26 Download - torrent
Jason Hartman speaks to author and former Department of Justice attorney, Sidney Powell. Together, they dive into some of the most scandalous and outrageous cases which have passed through the Department of Justice in recent decades. They also delve into several of the cases featured in Powell’s book Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, and consider the true state of our society. Takeaways – Sidney Powell’s book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, deals with some of the most scandalous and historic events to come out of the United States’ Department of Justice. – Within the Merrill Lynch case, it got to the point where favourable statements were hidden for six years while four Merrill Lynch executives were sent to prison without even a listed criminal offence. – Sometimes there are two sides to a story and you need to dig a little deeper to find out what really happened. – You have to question when a judge says he’s never had such a fine person before him for sentencing, and then passes a sentence. – www.pogo.org (Project on Government Oversight) has identified over 400 instances of misconduct by prosecutors in the last decade. – Despite having a criminal conviction against his name a few days before the re-election, Ted Stevens only lost his place on the Senate by a few votes. – The Bar associations are less than useless in these situations because they just give the same response. – Judge Sullivan is turning around the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS and doing his best to achieve a just result. – There are too many aspects of the IRS case that just seem conveniently timed for it to be believable. – Many of Sidney’s articles about these issues can be found at www.Observer.com – If the IRS is being used to target political opponents, who gave that order? – Information about the book and how to purchase it can be found at www.LicensedtoLie.com. Tweet Sidney using the handle @SidneyPowell1 and be sure to ‘like’ Licensed to Lie on Facebook.
DEEP CABLES: Uncovering the Wiring of the World. The 8th event of the Disruption Network Lab. Keynote: The Internet, Really. Behind the Scenes of Our Everyday Lives with Andrew Blum (writer & journalist, USA). Respondent: Bernd Fix (computer security expert, Wau Holland Stiftung, DE). In the book Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (German title: Kabelsalat), journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the Internet's physical infrastructure, revealing an utterly fresh look at the online world we think we know. What is the Internet physically? And where is it really? The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Connecting a shockingly tactile realm of unmarked compounds, from the room in Los Angeles where the Internet first flickered to life to the caverns beneath Manhattan as new fiber-optic cable is buried; from the coast of Portugal, where a ten-thousand-mile undersea cable just two thumbs wide connects Europe and Africa, to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have built monumental data centers, Andrew Blum chronicles the dramatic story of the Internet's development, explains how it all works, and takes the first ever in-depth look inside its hidden monuments. Is the Internet in fact “a series of tubes” as Ted Stevens, the late senator from Alaska, once famously described it? How can we know the Internet's possibilities if we don't know its parts? www.andrewblum.net (http://andrewblum.net/) www.disruptionlab.org/deep-cables (http://www.disruptionlab.org/deep-cables) Photo: Maria Silvano Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com
Brought to you by Timelonel, the best cure for time travel headaches and Ted Stevens, Time Gigolo This week Sam brings in one of his favorite movies from his childhood called Biggles. It's a time travel movie that desired to combine Indiana Jones with Back to the Future. Sounds like a recipe for success to us! Fans, we want to hear more from you and so we're giving you a task. Send us a story from back in the day of VHS tapes. Did you have an interesting story about renting one? Did you mistakenly record an episode of Transformers over your father's video presentation? What about good ol' porn mishaps. We want to hear it. Send us an email to talk@stinkermadness.com and the best stories we get we'll read on the air. Streaming Do's and Don'ts The Messenger - Amazon Prime The Masked Avengers - Netflix Men of War - Netflix Nemesis - Hulu Plus The Great Superpower Debate Thermal Spectrum Invisibility
CROM 3D Live at O'Leaver's with Ian Douglas Terry, Zach Reinert, Adam Cayton-Holland, Stephanie Hasz, Katie McVay, Tommy McNamara and Ted Stevens of Cursive Part of the CROM Comedy Festival. Ian Douglas Terry and Zach Reinert for CROM Adam Cayton-Holland for High Plains Comedy Festival Stephanie Hasz and Katie McVay for The Comedy Exposition Tommy McNamara […]
Last August, from Louisville, Kentucky into the studio comes Ted Stevens. My first take was here's a Rocker dressed up and ready to take the stage. I thought, this is gonna be fun, and I was not disappointed. Ted, the leader of "Ted Stevens and the Third Rail", just had that look where if you saw him walking down the street you'd say to yourself "that guy has to be a rock star". Well, guess what, you would be right with one exception, he is not an asshole.
Last August, from Louisville, Kentucky into the studio comes Ted Stevens. My first take was here's a Rocker dressed up and ready to take the stage. I thought, this is gonna be fun, and I was not disappointed. Ted, the leader of "Ted Stevens and the Third Rail", just had that look where if you saw him walking down the street you'd say to yourself "that guy has to be a rock star". Well, guess what, you would be right with one exception, he is not an asshole. He is one of the nicest guys I have met in ten years of recording these shows. Perhaps the 4 years he lived and played in Scotland had a positive influence on his persona, but, make no mistake; this musician is a credit to Louisville. Here he is in a stripped down solo acoustic set that kicks ass! Obviously, I love this guy! Enjoy!!!Check out all 4 videos from Ted's show on the CAU Vimeo Channel
In the today's Holistic Survival Show, Jason Hartman speaks to author and former Department of Justice attorney, Sidney Powell. Together, they dive into some of the most scandalous and outrageous cases which have based through the Department of Justice in recent decades. Step-by-step, they overview several of the cases featured in Powell's book Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice and consider the true state of our society. Takeaways 01.00 – Sidney Powell's book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, deals with some of the most scandalous and historic events to come out of the United States' Department of Justice. 09.20 – Within the Merrill Lynch case, it got to the point where favourable statements were hidden for six years while four Merrill Lynch executives were sent to prison without even a listed criminal offence. 13.00 – Sometimes there are two sides to a story and you need to dig a little deeper to find out what really happened. 16.55 – You have to question when a judge says he's never had such a fine person before him for sentencing, and then passes a sentence. 20.20 – www.pogo.org (Project on Government Oversight) has identified over 400 instances of misconduct by prosecutors in the last decade. 22.00 – Despite having a criminal conviction against his name a few days before the re-election, Ted Stevens only lost his place on the Senate by a few votes. 27.45 – The Bar associations are less than useless in these situations because they just give the same response. 32.00 – Judge Sullivan is turning around the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS and doing his best to achieve a just result. 34.10 – There are too many aspects of the IRS case that just seem conveniently timed for it to be believable. 34.40 – Many of Sidney's articles about these issues can be found at www.Observer.com 36.40 – If the IRS is being used to target political opponents, who gave that order? 38.45 – Information about the book and how to purchase it can be found at www.LicensedtoLie.com. Tweet Sidney using the handle @SidneyPowell1 and be sure to ‘like' Licensed to Lie on Facebook.
In the today's American Monetary Association Show, Jason Hartman speaks to author and former Department of Justice attorney, Sidney Powell. Together, they dive into some of the most scandalous and outrageous cases which have based through the Department of Justice in recent decades. Step-by-step, they overview several of the cases featured in Powell's book Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice and consider the true state of our society. Takeaways 01.30 – Sidney Powell's book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, deals with some of the most scandalous and historic events to come out of the United States' Department of Justice. 9.50 – Within the Merrill Lynch case, it got to the point where favourable statements were hidden for six years while four Merrill Lynch executives were sent to prison without even a listed criminal offence. 13.30 – Sometimes there are two sides to a story and you need to dig a little deeper to find out what really happened. 17.25 – You have to question when a judge says he's never had such a fine person before him for sentencing, and then passes a sentence. 20.50 – www.pogo.org (Project on Government Oversight) has identified over 400 instances of misconduct by prosecutors in the last decade. 22.30 – Despite having a criminal conviction against his name a few days before the re-election, Ted Stevens only lost his place on the Senate by a few votes. 28.15 – The Bar associations are less than useless in these situations because they just give the same response. 32.30 – Judge Sullivan is turning around the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS and doing his best to achieve a just result. 34.40 – There are too many aspects of the IRS case that just seem conveniently timed for it to be believable. 35.10 – Many of Sidney's articles about these issues can be found at www.Observer.com 37.10 – If the IRS is being used to target political opponents, who gave that order? 39.15 – Information about the book and how to purchase it can be found at www.LicensedtoLie.com. Tweet Sidney using the handle @SidneyPowell1 and be sure to ‘like' Licensed to Lie on Facebook.
In the second half of today's Creating Wealth Show, Jason Hartman speaks to author and former Department of Justice attorney, Sidney Powell. Together, they dive into some of the most scandalous and outrageous cases which have based through the Department of Justice in recent decades. Step-by-step, they overview several of the cases featured in Powell's book Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice and consider the true state of our society. Takeaways 01.00 – Sidney Powell's book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, deals with some of the most scandalous and historic events to come out of the United States' Department of Justice. 09.20 – Within the Merrill Lynch case, it got to the point where favourable statements were hidden for six years while four Merrill Lynch executives were sent to prison without even a listed criminal offence. 13.00 – Sometimes there are two sides to a story and you need to dig a little deeper to find out what really happened. 16.55 – You have to question when a judge says he's never had such a fine person before him for sentencing, and then passes a sentence. 20.20 – www.pogo.org (Project on Government Oversight) has identified over 400 instances of misconduct by prosecutors in the last decade. 22.00 – Despite having a criminal conviction against his name a few days before the re-election, Ted Stevens only lost his place on the Senate by a few votes. 27.45 – The Bar associations are less than useless in these situations because they just give the same response. 32.00 – Judge Sullivan is turning around the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS and doing his best to achieve a just result. 34.10 – There are too many aspects of the IRS case that just seem conveniently timed for it to be believable. 34.40 – Many of Sidney's articles about these issues can be found at www.Observer.com 36.40 – If the IRS is being used to target political opponents, who gave that order? 38.45 – Information about the book and how to purchase it can be found at www.LicensedtoLie.com. Tweet Sidney using the handle @SidneyPowell1 and be sure to ‘like' Licensed to Lie on Facebook.
Today, Rob Cary, a defense attorney for Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, released a new book – Not Guilty: The Unlawful Prosecution of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (NACDL Press/Thomson Reuters) – recounting the trial six years ago of a powerful senator. On Oct. 27, 2008, Stevens was wrongfully found guilty of allegedly failing to disclose gifts, leading him to lose reelection just eight days later by 3,953 votes. But in April 2009, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan vacated the verdict at the request of Attorney General Eric Holder after it was revealed that prosecutors had withheld evidence of innocence from the defense. More than the story of a trial, Cary details how a federal prosecution team conspired to bring down Stevens by hiding evidence and manipulating facts. I caught up with Rob in his office last week here in Washington, DC. Learn more about NACDL. Ivan J. Dominguez, host; Isaac Kramer, production assistant. Music West Bank (Lezet) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 and Walkabout (Digital Primitives) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Running time: 11m 33s.
In this episode, I am joined by members of the Omaha Roller Girls. Mae Kit Rain, Crash Heartless, Daisy Mayhem, and Eblastigirl talk derby to me and all about their upcoming season, new recruits, new venue, and worst injuries. The ORG online Songs: "Roller Derby Queen" by Mydols "Roller Derby Girl" by Ted Stevens
Host Marie Hulett talks with Ted Stevens, the manager of the Long Beach Animal Shelter. This shelter has come a long way since 1991 when it forst connected with the Pet Place and our old TV show. Ted has some very cool stories about all the success they are having with adoptions. Then, after our halftime break, author Howard Van Es will delight dog lovers with details of his new book, Doggie Love, Why We Love Dogs so much. The books includes the history of dogs and their human connection, why they make us laugh and feel happy, and their general cuteness factor.
Wouldn't it be great if the City had its own weekly radio show to give residents the lowdown on what's going on with local government and city event news? Chances are, there are about five of you who just said yes to that question. For the record, we love each and every one of you. For those of you who might not be quite as enthusiastic about a radio show, what if we promised that it won't be boring (we'll try...seriously) and that you can listen to it whenever you like on your computer, smartphone, or mp3 player ... through the voodoo magic of the Internet? (Warning-gratuitous Sen. Ted Stevens link .) If you know about these kinds of things, you might say that 2005 called, and it wants its Internet breakthrough back. Then again, you might still be intrigued. You might even think that a local government willing to produce a podcast to keep you in the loop on what your City's leaders are up to while also offering information on the latest new initiatives and events around town is pretty responsive, maybe even — dare I say it — innovative. That's what we're hoping to do with this podcast, using every tool at our disposal to help keep our citizens informed and engaged. So listen to the podcast below or subscribe to it in iTunes. Once you've listened, let us know what you think by leaving a comment and joining in on the conversation.
Ted Stevens, Chairman of the National Self Build Association in the UK, gives his advice on how to find a good plot of land at a reasonable price. Plus, why Almere in Holland could be a blueprint for other large scale self build developments across the world.
This week's podcast takes you to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing featuring special counsel Henry F. Schuelke testifying about his investigative report on the wrongful prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Stevens. In this podcast, we also explore an important constitutional issue argued last week before the U.S. Supreme Court – child sentences of life without the eligibility for parole. After hearing a bit of the argument before the Supreme Court, including Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative arguing on behalf of the petitioners, we speak with Kim Dvorchak, the Executive Director of the Colorado Juvenile Defender Coalition. Learn more about NACDL. Music West Bank (Lezet) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 and Walkabout (Digital Primitives) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.
The Problems: John’s commercial opportunities; Dio’s “Oh, Holy (Diver) Night”; the steer’s troubled path from dandelion field to doily thingee; ★★★★ men, kneeling to be all they can-can be; dialing down the ping-pong talk; harmonica convergence with Blind “Melon” Jefferson; directing John towards the third hole; Spokane’s Amityville Horror; Clapton and Beck concerns; a natural assumption of Englishness; bad judgement re: Merlin’s sailor suit; band-to-drug preferences; many metal memories; finding consolation in an orange flight suit; benefitting from Scorpions’ hop to Asia; John bist rocken mit Matthias Jabs; again with The Cold War; speculation on J. Edgar Hoover’s head games; Locke v. Hobbes and kayfabe v. omertà; what goes unsaid in the South; backronymous Arby’s and their liquid meats (yes, sir!); John’s complex relationship with BMs and BMI; return of The Simple Butcher; the exponential problems of dander; locavore fistfights hit the PNW; a more plausible explanation for how truckers probably pee; regional penetration on the Trail of Steers; the Patty Hearst place near the Phở; Synchronicity and Diversity; the real secret behind conspiracy theories; yet more talk about dander, pee, and steer; John struggles with a bespoke jacket from the Blitz; leathery Grinder on trial; John formally falls back on this lucrative podcast racket; at length, John’s intimacy with the corridors of power; and, just really so much talk about “Pump Chili.”[Special thanks to our pal, Jonathan Coulton, for generously inviting John to use his studio–and for not minding some gentle blow-suck in his baby-powdered bass harmonica.]“The Last Boy in the Dander Chain” by Ted Severson.
This week: Irish President is an Atheist, Skeptoid on 10 worst websites, Chuck Norris on Vaccines, Chicken Pox and Lollypops, Personhood Amendment, Net Neutraliy, Herman Cain on China and groping, Rick Perry's 3 favorite things, Protester shot with rubber bullets, Gay Nurse preached to, Transgender burned alive, Burn an evolution book petition. Clips used: Irish National Athem, Quackery PSA, Walker Texas Ranger, Anderson Cooper 360, Ted Stevens, Rick Perry get's played off by Keyboard Cat, Cspan on OWS, The Simpsons, Bachmann on homosexuality, Huckabee on Evolution, Shows: Skeptics with a K Irreligiosophy
This week: Irish President is an Atheist, Skeptoid on 10 worst websites, Chuck Norris on Vaccines, Chicken Pox and Lollypops, Personhood Amendment, Net Neutraliy, Herman Cain on China and groping, Rick Perry's 3 favorite things, Protester shot with rubber bullets, Gay Nurse preached to, Transgender burned alive, Burn an evolution book petition. Clips used: Irish National Athem, Quackery PSA, Walker Texas Ranger, Anderson Cooper 360, Ted Stevens, Rick Perry get's played off by Keyboard Cat, Cspan on OWS, The Simpsons, Bachmann on homosexuality, Huckabee on Evolution, Shows: Skeptics with a K Irreligiosophy
Today's Topics: The Death of Sen. Ted Stevens; Obama Reminding People how he is good at politicking; No Just For Men on the campaign trail; Iran preparing for a US attack with what??!!; Waters refuses to be a sacrifice; Hillary for VP or Maybe more??!!; Department of Homeland Security issues warnings in DC area
27:30 - Two presidential candidates and the CATO institute / 49:50 - Listener Feedback / This week, Daniel and Will try to make sense out of the Petraus show that took place in Congress. They also find out why Dianne Feinstein can walk the walk while talking the talk. In segment 2, the Ted Stevens vigil continues and we find out why Mike Huckabee ended up with his foot in his mouth on MSNBC.Will delves into the CATO Institute's report on para-military incidents, and listener e-mails and voicemails are answered.The next live call-in show will be September 27th at 10pm EST.Download
22:30 - Down Under Fun w/ AmeriNZ52:05 - Listener FeedbackWill steps it up this week by bringing "Project Censored" to our attention. Daniel and Will discuss 5.5 of the top 10 censored news stories from 2007. Attention is then turned to Senator, Entertainer, and Global Warming expert Ted Stevens as he explains why everything will go away if we just wish really hard.Arthur from the AmeriNZ podcast (amerinz.blogspot.com) joins Daniel and Will in segment 2 to discuss Bush's trip to Australia and life as an ex-pat in New Zealand. The show ends with Daniel and Will playing voicemails and e-mails.Download
28:15 - Faux and Friends /55:30 - Listener FeedbackThis week, Will and Daniel continue their Ted Stevens watch and catch you up on the latest news about the honorable Senator from Alaska. In segment 2, we find out that Carl Rove thinks George Bush is "simple" and Fox News admits to tampering with Wikipedia.The show ends with listener feedback and the announcement of a live "call-in" show that will be recorded next Thursday August 23rd at 10pm EST.Download
Pre-election roundtable with Chris, Earl, and Patrick joining Dan and John this week.Show opens with the Sarah Palin prank and comments about it.Mail Bag:One from Rebecca commenting on last weeks story "Al-Qeada would like McCain to win."The Rest of the Show:1) Joe the plumber.2) Does Sarah Palin believe she is qualified?3) Ted Stevens.4) Three reporters booted off Obama's campaign plane.5) CBS News poll - Obama leads.6) Predictions.Next week post game show with the same group.
Mail Bag:Just one this week from Earl - Now the sky is falling; Sunscreen for fruits and vegetables.The Rest of the Show:1) Follow up from show 102 on a Priest's publicity stunt gone very bad.Dan apologizes for his inappropriate laughing jag.2) German court overthrows a smoking ban.3) White supremacist's wife, Chloe Black employed by the Glades Academy.4) Roberto Gonzales and his cohorts in the news again.5) Ted Stevens indicted.6) Other members of congress indicted.7) Senator Sam Brownback.8) More on the story from last week in the case of a man tazered to death.9) Church shooting suspect frustrated over inability to find a job.10) Postville, Iowa immigration raid.11) Dr. Edgar Mitchell, moon walker, claims aliens exist.
On Tuesday, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted for failing to disclose gifts he received from VECO Corporation, an Alaska-based oil services company. But his indictment is only the latest news -- and perhaps the tip of the iceberg -- in an ongoing political scandal that's rocking the state. NOW goes behind the breaking headlines to shine a bright light on the scandalous connection between VECO and Alaska's old-boy political network. Three state legislators have already been convicted in Federal court for accepting bribes from VECO, and the FBI has video and audio evidence that reveal VECO executives shockingly handing out cash to those legislators in exchange for promises to roll back a tax on the oil industry. And more lawmakers -- including Senator Stevens' own son, former Alaska State Senate President Ben Stevens -- are being eyed in the growing scandal.
April 10th, 2008 - It felt like such a slow news week, but we were able to dig up some interesting things to talk about. Kevin, Jeff, Pete, and Chris are all present at this show and we even have a surprise guest at the end of the show: Senator Ted Stevens. Pete is back with his brand new headset, and if his voice sounds like pure pwnage it's because he's using the fatal1ty headset. This week we discuss the Rick Rolling of the New York Mets, Walmart.com DRM free, Internet safety vs sex education, Strong Bad coming to the Wii, and much more. You can provide feedback to the show at www.techtalkshow.com. - Show Notes - News Stories: All your baseball are belong to Rick Astley Verizon's spectrum plans: Speedier wireless broadband Wal-Mart Going Hardline on DRM-Free Online Music Store Virginia 1st state to require Internet safety lessons Yahoo's new, bold anti-Microsoft plan: clusterfoooock! Episodic 'Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People' coming in June Upstart Gamer Doc to take on GameStop with themed stores Amazon, Wal-Mart jump on the HD DVD rebate bandwagon Backhaul woes put Xohm launch on ice for a couple of months Policing internet 'not ISP's job' Senators still sweating digital TV switch Weekly Picks: Ted Stevens: How the Internet Works and My Music Video Jeff: Portal Chris: Sins of a Solar Empire Kevin: MediaCoder Direct MP3 Download iTunes Subscription RSS Feed
Look out, Dan's pumped for this show.Mail Bag:DennisMore on less than no confidence.John S. Koppel.We're all going to die.PatrickFinish up on Jesse Jackson from last week.(Dan goes off on integrity in Sports.)"Idiopathic Seizure" Fells US Chief Justice.The Rest of the Show:GOP Senator David Vitter is very, very sorry.Ted Stevens and the Veco Corporation.FBI's raid on William Jefferson's office.Bottom Line " MISTAKES WERE MADE ". (again)
A satirical take on current news with commentary by former President Bill Clinton. Today we discuss William Jefferson and Ted Stevens corruption charges, the Edwards call to refuse money form Newscorp, the Obama/Pakistan controversy, Bush and global warming, Sean Penn and his love for Venezuela.
Welcome to the show it is July 8th and this is our 155th show. Today will be an interview with Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska talking about Net Neutrality
Welcome to the show it is July 8th and this is our 155th show. Today will be an interview with Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska talking about Net Neutrality
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