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Find me and the show on social media @DrWilmerLeon on X (Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube Facebook page is www.facebook.com/Drwilmerleonctd TRANSCRIPT: Announcer (00:06): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge. Wilmer Leon (00:13): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon. I'm Wilmer Leon. So here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they occur in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historical context in which most events take place. During each episode of this show, my guest and I will have probing, provocative and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between current events and the broader historical context in which these events occur. This will enable you to better understand and analyze the events that impact the global village in which we live on today's episode. The issue before us is anti imperialism in the US today. What is it and what is it not? And for insight into this, my guest for the discussion is the chair of the coordinating committee for the Black Alliance for Peace, an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report and the Green Party candidate for vice president of the United States in 2016. Ajamu Baraka, as always my brother. Welcome. Ajamu Baraka (01:21): Good to be here, Dr. Leon. Thank you. Wilmer Leon (01:24): So today's topic is based on a piece in Oroco Tribune entitled Anti Imperialism in the US Today, what it Is and Is not. It's written by Stanfield Smith and he opens his piece by quoting the late Cuban president, Fidel Castro, saying there is an enemy that can be called universal, an enemy whose attitude and whose actions threaten the whole world, bully the whole world. That universal enemy is Yankee imperialism. Ajamu your thoughts on Castro's assessment, especially in the context of the recent president Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of lawmakers urging the Republican controlled House of Representatives to take up this $95 billion military aid package for Ukraine, for Israel and Taiwan and other allies, especially understanding if the United States wasn't using Ukraine as a proxy, you wouldn't need that money. The United States is funding the genocide in Gaza and is also trying to use Taiwan as the tip of the spear against China. Ajamu Baraka. Ajamu Baraka (02:45): Well thank you so much for that question because it's a very important question and a very important conversation that we have to have. Fidel's position is in alignment with my position, the position I've been advocating or arguing for the last few years that one of the issues among left forces in the US primarily and also in Western Europe is that they seem not to understand the difference between a primary and the secondary contradiction. That is that they don't seem to recognize that for many of us in the colonized world, in the global south, in the northern states, but in those parts of the northern states where we are exploited and nationally oppressed, that for us the primary enemy, if you'll emanates primarily from the US and is Western European allies, we see the US and Western European allies as Fidel sees them as in fact representing an existential threat to the rest of collective humanity. (04:02) Therefore, that enemy becomes the primary objective of our political activity. Now, some western left leftists, they confused by that and so they will look at some of the issues or contradictions and some of the emergent socialists countries or countries with socialist aspirations, countries that are just trying to build some kind of progressive movement in their nations to have some breathing room for development but who find themselves as a consequence in the crosshairs of the US and US policies attempting to undermine their projects and these leftists will focus in on those internal issues, giving left coverage and rationalization for the targeting of those nations. We see that as fundamentally contradictory. We see that as in fact reactionary confusing what should be the primary objective, which is the defeat of Western imperialism with the internal issues in these various states as equal and they are primary and secondary contradictions are in fact that they are different. Wilmer Leon (05:28): You mentioned the United States and its Western European allies and what is even ironic now is many of those Western European allies are finding themselves being victimized by US imperialism. We're looking at over the last seven months to a year a dramatic decline in productivity in Germany as a result of the United States blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline. Now Europe is having to pay exorbitant amounts of money for natural gas. We find that impacting Britain, we find that impacting France. We find that all over Europe and and now for example, for those who may have listened to the interview with Russian president Putin and he's supposed to be the villain and Donald Trump mentions moving away from NATO and folks in the United States were screaming, how can Donald Trump talk about NATO like that in the United States attacked a NATO ally in act of war in blowing up Nord stream. So again, you mentioned the US and its allies and now American imperialism is even attacking its Western European allies. Ajamu Baraka (06:57): Exactly. I mean it's really amazing. I mean look, one of the objectives of the proxy war in Ukraine was in fact to ensure that there would be policies that would disarticulate the Russian economy from western Europe, specifically from the German economy. And the objective there was to weaken the German economy and also by extension various Western economies in order to make the further exploitation and in fact the intensification of the exploitation of the European market more favorable to US capital and the Europeans and the European ruling class fell right into that trap and to make sure that that plan was successful. As you indicated in your question, the US ensured that there would be no backsliding by blowing up Nord Stream two. They knew that once the German workers, once many European workers and even parts of the middle class woke up to the fact that they had got suckered into supporting this aggressive war in Ukraine and that they were being negatively impacted, that there'd be political pressure on these various states to reverse course and to reengage with the Russians. Whether us said, oh no, you're not going backwards. In fact we're going to make sure that by blowing up this pipeline and making sure that you remain now dependent on the importation of liquified natural gas coming from where from the us as Anthony said, the secretary of state of this is a marvelous opportunity. And so that was part of the objective of this war. It was a war to enhance the positionality of US capital in Europe. Wilmer Leon (09:08): In fact, going back to, I made reference to Vladimir Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson and Putin raised the question, he says, well, you blew up part of Nord stream because folks don't know there's Nord stream one and Nord stream two. He said, you blew up part of Nord stream, one of the pipes still works. Why don't you turn it up? He said, Europe can get natural gas from Russia through Ukraine. There are pipelines running through Ukraine that could carry natural gas to Europe. He says, turn it up. He says, there are pipelines that run from Russia through Poland. You can get natural gas through Poland. He says, why don't you turn those up? It all goes back to Western hegemony and imperialism. Ajamu Baraka (09:58): It goes back to the issue of the European ruling class that understanding that they have interest that are really counter those of the US and that irrational policy of allowing themselves to be suckered into this proxy war and not looking out for their own national interests is resulting in real political issues within their countries. Not only the issue of natural gas. You and I talked about on another one of your programs, this issue with using the Ukrainian war, the US capitol that's gone in and basically bought up some of the best land in Ukraine and are now exporting from Ukraine various agricultural products. They are using the war as a battery realm to avoid or to circumvent the requirements of the importation of agricultural products across Europe and imposing the products from Ukraine into various European markets as an act of solidarity. Well, the problem with that of course is it's undermining the positions of European farmers across Western Europe. (11:24) And so you find that farmers and places like France and other countries, I say, Hey, wait a minute, we are now losing money because of our markets now being flooded with wheat and other products coming in from Ukraine. What is this? We have to engage in production by very clear meticulous requirements, regulations, and now using this solidarity issue with the Ukrainian war, you are undermining our position. You're undermining our ability to make a living. And so that's causing real political issues in these various nations. So these policies being pursued by these European nations are really such that they are putting themselves in a position where they are creating issues for themselves politically that they're going to find it very difficult to reverse very soon, as a matter of fact in the next few months. Wilmer Leon (12:34): And in fact to that point talking about agriculture, there are farmers in Germany that have been protesting for weeks. They're dumping manure in the roads, they're doing a lot of activism, real on the ground, practical activism to show their resistance to the policies that you're mentioning. And also they're incredibly angry because a lot of the subsidies that the government was providing to them in order to offset the price differentials that they were experiencing as a result of flooding the market with Ukrainian products, those subsidies have been cut if not totally eliminated as the German government, as the French government, as other EU countries are sending more money to Ukraine, so many of them, many of these Western Europeans are experiencing a lot of the same issues there that many in the United States are suffering here. As our infrastructure is in decline as our schools are underfunded, as healthcare costs are going up and people are, as homelessness is on the rise, we can find 95 billion to send to Ukraine and to send to Israel and to send to Taiwan. All three of those fights are fights that would not be ongoing if the United States hadn't started them. But we can't seem to find the way to take care of Americans here in the United States. Ajamu Baraka (14:05): We can't find the way Dr. Leon because we can't have an honors and open and free national conversation because the same interests that are advancing themselves in Western Europe of the same interests that control the means of communication in the us. And so therefore a conversation with the people of the US around what really makes sense in terms of policy. Does it make sense to have 886 billion devoted toward defense? So-called defense or should we use some of those resources to in fact address issues of homelessness, invest in education, create the conditions where everybody can have access to healthcare pay for free education up to through the university level. US population is paying a price for supporting the policies that only are benefiting a small minority of the population, in fact about 1% of the population. So that kind of understanding that kind of discussion, it's not taking place, it's only taking place in spaces like this in alternative media spaces and as a consequence it makes it very difficult for us to turn the corner with advancing policies that make more sense, that address the real interest of the American people Wilmer Leon (15:49): And in this piece, anti imperialism in the US today, what it is and is not Stansfield Smith, he draws the distinction between progressives and anti-imperialist. He says that imperialism uses human rights and democracy issues in countries that it is targeting for regime change as a rationale for foreign interference and that many progressives swallow and even join in these disinformation campaigns to support these moves where in contrast, anti-imperialist, they focus on uncovering and bringing to light US disinformation and interference in national sovereignty. So can you elaborate a little bit on this issue? He talks about progressives versus anti-imperialist you use in many instances, use the term the left if you could because we hear these references, we hear these terms baned about all the time and many people mistakenly think that they're all the same, but in fact they're not. Ajamu Baraka (17:01): Well, they really aren't and I'm glad you raised that question. I think the way Stanfield is using that term and many others, when you talk about progressives, you're really talking about liberals and maybe social Democrats. That is those individuals who have politics and very similar to say for example Bernie Sanders who's a social democrat, who have a soft socialistic orientations Bernie Sanders, Cornell West, as opposed to elements of the left that are not only anti imperialists but of course politics that suggest that this global system of colonial capitalism has to be transcended and be replaced with a new kind of political economy, one that's organized around socialistic lines. And so that to me constitutes the left, the real left if you will. But even within that camp, if you'll, there's still some issues in terms of how one gets to socialism and that's where you have some of the confusion because even among the left, they will sometimes find themselves inadvertently often providing political cover to the US because they are in opposition to a particular nation's experiment, be it Nicaragua, Cuba or Venezuela, Peru or Bolivia, that if the politics aren't developing in ways in which these western leftists believe they should be developing, if they don't correspond to some kind of imagined model, then they will, they begin to criticize those experiments at the same time, did those experiments find themselves in the crossheads of US subversion? (19:08) That's backward. It's backward and it's contradictory. So that is the issue that Smith is alluding to in that very important article. Dr. Leon? Yes, there's another element to this, okay, (19:25) Even the way in which the bourgeoisie, meaning the bourgeoisie, meaning the ruling class has used and weaponized democracy and human rights in order to obscure real interest in undermining these various nations as a consequence of gods. They're not going to be able to use those weapons like they did in the past because they have now been exposed. It's quite clear to so many people around the world and even people within the US the hypocrisy of those positions. What happened to the responsibility to protect a component of humanitarian intervention in order to protect the human rights of certain collectives? It doesn't exist when it comes to the Palestinians. So they have undermined in their own short-term greed and their own short-term pursuits to undermine a very important and powerful weapon that used to use to be able to obscure their reactionary politics Wilmer Leon (20:39): To that. It is really amazing when you look at how long the been exposed to the genocide, how long that struggle has been ongoing and how quickly things turn post October 6th. One of the ways that I have described it is I tell people that Israel has bombed the world into reality that now that this horror, now that this genocide is playing itself out on your telephone screens, not to mention your computers and your home screens, the atrocities, the reality of these atrocities have just decimated the myths Ajamu Baraka (21:39): Exactly, and they're never going to be able to return back to the ideological status quo. They have exposed themselves, we are seen behind the curtain and we understand now the reality of the naked power that they are exercising to try to maintain their global control. We now see the nature of the settler colonial project in Israel, and by extension we are getting a better understanding of the settler colonial project in the territory called the United States of America. At the core of these projects is the reality of naked violence to establish those regimes and to maintain them. So that understanding of the nature of colonialism coupled with a deeper understanding of the nature of capitalism disconnected is radicalizing millions of people across the globe and millions of people within the US So the politics going forward are going to be fundamentally different, but it's going to be different but even more dangerous. (22:53) Dr. Leon, why without the ideological weapon that they were able to use to impose conformity and support for their policies, now they're going to be more and more dependent on the use of naked force. That's why you find the naked use of force in various local environments. That's why you see in Atlanta, for example, the use of RICO laws to criminalize the opposition to cop city. These are examples of the hysterical reaction from the rulers to this change in consciousness. That's why the O rule three is facing federal prosecution because of their to the policies in Ukraine. So the repressive apparatus and the repressive network of the state is being strengthened and being utilized against this growing consciousness that's being manifested within the United States of America. Wilmer Leon (24:06): And another place where I believe that we're going to see this manifest itself is in the Middle East itself. Hassan Nala, the head of Hezbollah in Lebanon recently gave a speech where he said, and I'll paraphrase, he said, basically for as horrific as all of this is, he said, this is really going beyond the Palestinians and that this is an issue for the entire region. And there have been a number of interpretations of that statement. What that says to me is he is not only speaking to the Palestinians that he and speaking to Anah in Yemen and others, he's letting the United States know he's letting the west know that you all are about to start a global conflict that he's saying everybody in the pool and because they see themselves as facing a common oppressor, they see themselves facing a common enemy and he's saying, you all are about to ignite a fuse, the likes of which you will not be able to exterminate or put out, and it's going to be all adults in the pool, and the result isn't going to be very positive, Ajamu Baraka (25:34): Dr. Leon, and what's going to really like that is if there is in fact a ground assault in Rafa, the Egyptians have already said that that can very easily result in the cancellation of Camp David, the Saudis have said that there's going to be dire circumstances. This is going to see what has happened is that these policies have forced these monarchs and all of these Arab and Muslim right-wing elements to have to respond to the pressure that they're feeling from their own populations. So horrific what is happening in Gaza, they can no longer collaborate under the table with the us. They are being now forced to take more forthright positions in opposition to what is happening in Palestine that you couple, what is happening on the Israeli Lebanon border was Hezbollah. You look at what is happening with the Hutu that have basically shut down shipping as it relates to ships going into and supporting Israel, and you see that these unwise policies are creating a situation that can very easily span out of control and even elements within the US believe that this has gone too far. (27:16) And that's why you find some fleeting commentary from genocide, Joe talking about that the Israelis have gone over the top because now they understand the real possibility of this igniting a regional conflict that they're not going to be able to control. If it does in fact lead to that, and they know that you have leadership in Israel, you have a lunatic that's in power. You have a right wing racist settler regime that is engaged in murder, not only supporting the murder in Gaza, but they are actively murdering Palestinians on the West Bank. Over 400 Palestinians have been murdered by settlers since October the seventh. So this is creating a situation that's untenable, and so there has to be a pullback. Yesterday the Moody credit agency downgraded Israeli stocks and downgraded the economy. So there is a real economic consequence now developing. So it's a very dangerous situation that the wiser elements of the international ruling class is saying, we've got to get a hold of this Wilmer Leon (28:47): And talk about how this hypocrisy of the United States has been exposed, is being exposed and the international reaction, what I mean by that is as we sit and look at the genocide that is taking place in Gaza and the United States is paying for it, the United States is arming it. And on one hand you hear Tony Blinken saying, I'm traversing the region, I'm talking to the leaders. I'm asking them to be very careful. Basically what he's saying is he's asking for a kinder, gentler genocide and Joe Biden is saying that we are concerned about the Palestinians and while in fact he's not telling Netanyahu, I'll just pull the plug on your money and we'll put a stop to this thing in about two or three days, days. What's your take your sense as you travel the world and speak to those around the world, how is that hypocrisy resonating around the world? Ajamu Baraka (29:54): The result of this is that the US has lost prestige, will never regained, that the world understands that the US and Europe is basically finished and that nations are deciding that they're going to put their eggs is a different basket, and that basket is called bricks. This emerging group of nations that now control something like 36% of global GDP as opposed to the G seven that's controlling about 30%, the shift has already taken place materially. Now the shift is taking place ideologically and politically. So it is a shift in momentum is a recognition that for all intents and purposes, the decline of the west is irreversible, but it's also a recognition of the danger that all of this poses for all of us because it becomes quite clear when you see the support that all of the western nations have given to the Israeli fascists that the west is prepared to blow up the world before they voluntarily surrender power. Wilmer Leon (31:19): Now wait a minute. Wait a minute. Elaborate on that because a lot of people will hear you say, blow up the world. Oh, that's hyperbole. Oh, he's just being over the top. Oh, that Aja mu Baraka. He's so dramatic. But no, that's real talk. Ajamu Baraka (31:36): Yeah, it really is because they're still flirty with the possibility of nuclear confrontation in Ukraine. There's still the possibility of some kind of wild and reckless attack by the Israelis on Iran and even the use of a nuclear weapon. There is the situation we haven't touched on yet, that is the unwise policies of the part of the US in providing support to and propping up and encouragement to the government on the island of Taiwan, the provocative moves being made in the South China Sea, the whole pivot toward Asia. There is always the possibility of these situations escalating to a nuclear confrontation. And it seems like that there are elements within the foreign policy community that believe that they in fact can not only escalate, but they can engage in a first strike and win. There are people openly talking like Dr. Strange love and talking about the possibility of winning a nuclear confrontation. (32:55) That's what makes it so incredibly dangerous because when you have missiles in western Europe, for example, in and Poland and Romania and other places that are theoretically defensive according to the us, but the Russians know that they can be recalculated if you'll or refitted in a matter of minutes and to become offensive, which means that you have the ability to strike from say, Poland to Moscow in six minutes. Now you have the Russians who are on a head trigger alert, they have to launch on warning because you can't allow your nuclear arsenal to be caught in the silos. So when you had situations in the past where there were computer glitches where one side thought that the other side had launched, launched, we had 30 minutes to correct it, we have documented situations where that in fact happened at least on two or three occasions. How do you do that when you are on a trigger hair launch or warning in six minutes? So it's very, very dangerous. So that's what we are referring to. This is not hyperbole. People talk about in five years I'm going to be doing so and so and so I'm like, are you sure you're going to be here in five years? Yeah, I'm being dramatic because I'm being for real. We can see the possibilities of these maniacs escalating a situation to the point of a nuclear confrontation because the amateurs, Dr. Leon, (34:36) The gap between the leadership in places like Russia and China and the US and in western Europe, it's never been bigger before. They don't know what they are doing and that's what makes us so incredibly dangerous for all of us. Wilmer Leon (34:54): You just mentioned the mistake being made, and that is not theoretical. I want to say it was 1983, a Russian, I don't even know what his title is, but he's in a silo in a Russian silo. His name is Stanislav Petrov, and he is a missile technician, I'll call him, sitting in a Russian silo looking at his screen and he sees a blip on his screen. And the protocol is when you see this blip, you push a button and when you push that button, silos open, missiles come up, we're ready to launch. But he thinks that there's something wrong with the blip on his screen. And thank God he did because by his taking just a couple of minutes to be rational and to think, what he found out was it wasn't an incoming missile. It was a mistake in a software program that miscalculated or misinterpreted something that was transpiring. (36:05) So that was 1983. Folks can look this up. Stanislav Petrov is his name, and if it hadn't been for him, we would've been in a nuclear conflict. What you just talked about in terms of missiles in Poland and Yugoslavia and other places, that's one of the big reasons why Russian president Putin is so hell bent on Ukraine not becoming a part of nato because he says, and he's right, if Ukraine becomes a part of nato, NATO will put missiles in Ukraine. You've now cut my response time from seven or eight minutes to three minutes, which means Stanislav petrov, God bless his soul, that doesn't work anymore. Launch on notice. And the other point is Putin has made this point a number of times saying, look, you guys got to understand something. I got missiles too. I got missiles like you got missiles. And in the west that gets spun as Vladimir Putin is threatening to use nuclear weapons. No, what he's telling you is if you think you can come in here and punch me in the face, understand I can punch back. I have what you have. And now what we're seeing from a technological perspective is what they got is a little better then what we're used to seeing. So this is not hyperbole, this is not fantasy. This is real talk. Ajamu Baraka (37:59): Yeah, no, they have demonstrated with supersonic weapons that they have Wilmer Leon (38:04): Hypersonic Ajamu Baraka (38:05): Hypersonic weapons. They have a technological advantage of us and not been able to catch up with yet. It's very dangerous Wilmer Leon (38:14): Minute. Wait a minute. To that point, when President Biden, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I want people to understand this isn't theoretical high hyperbole. When Joe Biden sent the USS Gerald Ford into the Mediterranean Sea as a show of force to Hezbollah and to the Houthis, Vladimir Putin said, Joe, why are you doing this? You're not scaring anybody, you're not scar. He said, these people don't scare, and oh, by the way, we can sink your aircraft carrier from the Black Sea with our armed missiles, the Ken Jaw missiles, he said, and they're hypersonic. You won't even know they're coming until your aircraft carrier is sinking. That's real talk. Ajamu Baraka (39:19): And what's also kind of funny but tragic at the same time is that while they are engaged in provocative activity in the Endo Pacific region outside of Taiwan and in the Taiwan straits, the Pentagon has war games, a confrontation between the US and China, and I think we talked about it before, and they were lost every time, Wilmer Leon (39:48): 25 out of 25. Ajamu Baraka (39:50): So it's like, what are these people doing? What are you doing? The whole concept that was coming out of the project for a new American century in which they argued that the US had the capacity to fight two theater wars simultaneously that should have been put to rest when they lost both in Afghanistan and in Iraq, basically global solve nations. But now they are actually a few months ago you thought they were really going insane because they are fighting in Ukraine and they are fighting in Ukraine. Make a mistake about that is the Ukrainians are dying, but this is a Western and US ward, while at the same time they were needling the Chinese. So it's like what? You all are going to fight the Russians and the Chinese at the same time? It wasn't making and they Wilmer Leon (40:48): Are allies. Ajamu Baraka (40:51): Yeah, well, part of the conflict, Wilmer Leon (40:54): You got to throw North Korea in there too. Ajamu Baraka (40:56): Well, part of the conflict water of the element that we didn't talk about, when you talk about what's happening in Ukraine in terms of the secondary objectives of this proxy war, it was to weaken the Russians to the point where they would not be a very effective ally to the Chinese. The target was not just Russia, it was Germany as we talked about, and the Chinese. So they were creating a situation where they were going to win regardless of what happened in their own imagination. Wilmer Leon (41:27): There are some neocons that thought you could go at China directly. There were some neocons that believed that you could go at Russia directly, and then there were others who believed the way you get to China, you've got to go through Russia. Ajamu Baraka (41:42): Yes, exactly. All Wilmer Leon (41:44): Are wrong. All are wrong. Ajamu Baraka (41:47): They were proven wrong. I mean the Russian economy was supposed to be destroyed, be destroyed as a consequence of this conflict. And as Putin indicated in that interview that the Russian economy is stronger than there's ever been. Every time they have imposed series of sanctions against the Russians. Even Putin said this a couple of years ago, it allowed him to impose economic reforms that he couldn't have done without the sanctions. He made the oligarchy disengage from the European economy and reinvest and the Russian economy. So they have become more economically independent as a consequence of these sanctions. So it's always been counterproductive and you have some realists in the US foreign policy community that predicted that. But the realists have had to take a second, have had to stand back and allow these neocons who have been driving policy in both parties for the last 20 years basically or more. And the result is the US is weaker than it's ever been since the end of the second imperialist war that we call World War ii. Wilmer Leon (43:14): Another example, and I think a more practical example, and what I mean by practical is it doesn't involve the oligarchs. It involves the everyday Russian person. One of the things when President Biden told us that as a result of this Ukraine conflict that he was going to turn the ruble into rubble, and by imposing sanctions on the Russian economy, one of the things that they were projecting was or predicting was that the Russian citizens would run to the Russian banks and take their money out of the banks and put their money other places. And what Putin did was he raised the interest rates. One of the things that he did was he raised the interest rates that the banks would pay on deposits. So the Russian citizens found, oh, I'll make more money if I leave my money in the bank. And what a lot of people don't know about him, dude has a PhD in economics. Not only is he an attorney, he has a PhD in economics. So he has a little bit of understanding. He has a better understanding of econ than Joe Biden. Ajamu Baraka (44:41): I mean Joe Biden's a moron. I mean most of the US leadership are morons. One thing we can say about Barack Obama, though he was not in that same category. He was just a slickster. And same thing with Bill Clinton. But the quality of the leadership in the US state has been a mean, been dangerously. Frighteningly are incompetent. And that's the thing that scares me the most, that we are going to trip up into a situation that the US is not going to be able to reverse and all of us will suffer as a consequence. Look, when you hear no matter what your opinion may be a Putin or a President Xi when they speak and even the way they comport themselves, these are adults, these are statesmen. If you'll, and you compare that to these idiots in the US started with genocide jokes and these idiots who are making policy both in the Democrat and Republican parties, there's no gravitas, there's no worldly sophistication. They're just like country bumpkins. They are so incredibly unsophisticated and adolescent. That's the term that I use to describe US culture. It's an adolescent dangerous culture. And because it has so much power, that's what makes it so incredibly dangerous to all of us that people need. If you haven't seen this check out that interview, you can have your views about Putin and the cartoon characters that's been drawn up for you by your bosses, but you cannot conclude that this is not a states person with a sophisticated understanding of the world. Wilmer Leon (46:46): If you look at a couple of examples of what you're talking about, particularly as it relates to the Chinese, I'm not even going to get into Secretary Lavrov because that dude is oh, just brilliant. But Wang Ye, the foreign secretary of China early in the Biden administration, Tony Blinken was supposed to meet with the Chinese delegation in Anchorage, Alaska. And so they all convene in Anchorage and Blinken starts lecturing the Chinese and they look at him and they say, whatcha doing? You have no idea who you are talking to. We didn't come here to be lectured by you. We're China, we hold your debt. You don't hold out out. Ajamu Baraka (47:52): What was so incredible about that was this was the clumsy attempt on the part of the Biden administration to assert their white maleness. They're going show it was whiteness. We going to show we running the show with these Chinese. I mean it was incredible. And like you said, the Chinese Wilmer Leon (48:17): Said the sick men of criticize, Ajamu Baraka (48:19): You're not competent enough to criticize us, Wilmer Leon (48:21): Right? Our culture is thousands of years old. And then you've got the whole spy balloon. What a lot of people don't understand is Tony Blinken said, I'm going to China to meet with President Xi. He was not invited. He said, I'm going to China. And G said, no, but he said, I'm coming to China. So usually diplomats are welcomed in Beijing. President Xi said, okay, well if you're coming, I can't remember the name of the city, but there's another city where they send lesser caliber diplomats and folks that they really don't want to deal with. He said, I'm going to send you here. I'm not going to meet you in Beijing and I'm not even come see you there. And Blinken got embarrassed and that's when the balloon comes in the jet stream, the weather balloon comes in the jet stream as weather balloons will do. (49:30) And they used that calling it a spy balloon as the basis of, oh, you're sending a spy balloon, therefore I can't come see you. No, it was, Xi didn't want to totally embarrass Blinken by saying, I'm not going to let you in my country. What he said was, I'm going to send you off to the hinterlands and you can go on a tour if you want to. And Tony Blinken said, well, no, I ain't doing that. I mean, those are just examples and they don't get explained as such by Western media, but that's what really happened. Ajamu Baraka (50:10): Look, Dr. Leon, I was in China a couple of months ago. Wilmer Leon (50:14): There we Ajamu Baraka (50:14): Go. Wilmer Leon (50:16): Am I right? Ajamu Baraka (50:18): You are absolutely right. I'm going to tell you they can't can't be defeated. This what they are building there is absolutely incredible. I'm sitting on this bullet train going from Beijing to Shanghai, and I had a cup of water and I was doing something and I put it down and I realized, oh, the water's on the floor cause fly when you do Amtrak. You know how that on Amtrak, (50:52) They have this tick or take thing on the end of the car that tells you how fast the train's going. We sitting there going 325 miles an hour. It's like you're not even moving. You're going across the countryside is flat plains. And then you look up and then there's a city with skyscrapers, and I don't want to go into it too much, but what I saw in just those few days I was there was incredible. And so they're not keeping allowing people to understand what's happening in China. They have an urban development policy that when they create these cities and these communities, every social service in that community has to be within a 15 minute walk. The hospitals, the schools, the elder care, 15 minute walk is fully integrated everything that you need. So you compare this and what I saw in terms of infrastructure, it made the US look like, unfortunately, like a developing country and see the bourgeois there, they know this, but they're not telling the US population how far behind the US has fallen. Wilmer Leon (52:18): Well, and a perfect example of that is 5G technology. The Chinese approach, the United States, I'll say now, 15 years ago about working with the Chinese on developing 5G, and the United States said, no, we don't need to work with you on that. And so China went ahead and developed 5G. And with that we're talking about the internet of things and the ability of your refrigerator to talk to your cell phone to talk to your car, all of that kind of stuff. And so now when you turn on your phone, it says 5G, but the United States does not. All we really have is faster 4G. It's not truly the 5G technology that Huawei and other Chinese companies have developed. And they're now, they're on their way to six and seven G. We just don't get it. Ajamu Baraka (53:26): And the funny thing about it too, the US thought that they were going to undermine the Chinese by undermining the ability to have access to advanced Chips, chips. But they are rapidly developing their own capacity for that. And see, people don't understand as part of the struggle with Taiwan, also the home of one of the largest semiconductor chip factory in the world. Wilmer Leon (53:55): Psc, is that what? It's Ajamu Baraka (53:56): Something like that, yeah. Right. And that reincorporation of Taiwan into China would be a nonviolent and relatively seamless if it wasn't for the agitation on the part of the us. This notion that Chinese want to invade Taiwan militarily is all complete and utter nonsense. There is a political process there. There was developing in favor of the Chinese until the last few years when the US really began to ramp up is meddling within the Taiwanese political system. So that's part of the issue that basically the technological advances that the US has, and they still have some, that gap is being progressively narrowed down. Wilmer Leon (54:50): And as we move on to our final segment, there have been studies and reports put out by various elements within the government that if China were to invade Taiwan, and that's not on anybody's drawing board, I always challenge folks that want to have this conversation with me, show me one time where President Xi Jinping has said that they're planning to invade China. You can't find it because they're not going to do it. But the United States says if that were to happen, the United States would blow up the TSC, I think it's TSC chip manufacturing facilities so that they would not fall into the hands of China. And now China has designed its own chips, it's on its way. Necessity is the mother of invention, and China is on its way. I want to tie something else into coming back to the northern hemisphere, and that is this immigrant conversation. (56:01) All of this conversation about the Republicans in the house are trying to hold up this defense bill because they say there's not enough money for the immigration bill. But in all of this bipartisan discussion about immigration, nobody talks about the American foreign policy in the region as in Central America and South America that is basically forcing these people to leave their homes and come here. The analogy I use is if you're sitting in your basement watching a game and water starts coming down your stairway, you want to close the basement door instead of going upstairs and figuring out, oh, either your tub is overflowing or your sink, your kitchen sink is overflowing. They just want to close the, they don't want to turn off the spigot. And the way you turn off the spigot is by changing your policy. That is decimating the economies of Nicaragua decimating the economies of all of these other countries in central and South America. They never talk about the US foreign policy policy that creates the motivation or motivates these folks to want to come here. They just talk about building a wall to keep 'em in Mexico. Ajamu Baraka (57:31): No, they don't talk about that. And what's interesting too is that you remember at one point the Democrats pretended to be the party of progressive immigration policy, but who talks about that now? Now they are the party that has embraced the same kind of policies of Donald Trump border security expanding a wall. So there is consensus now among both wings of the ruling class represented by the Republicans and the Democrats on this issue of so-called border control. And they're never going to talk about the kinds of imperialist policies that are decimating the economies of Central America and parts of South America driving immigration. That's not part of their analytical framework. And so an understanding of these forces, again, has to come from sources like your show and other alternative sources that help people to understand the complexities of the world and sometimes how simple some things are. Like you destroy an economy and people have to find a way to survive, and they are a few hundred miles away from the most powerful and richest country on the planet. We need to go there. It's quite simple. So this is what has to be dealt with a better understanding on the part of people in the US to these issues and understand that you have more in common with understand. Understand that basically if we're able to put a break on these imperialist policies, these exploitative policies in Latin America, in South America and in the us, then we have the material basis for all of us to live a little better. So that's really where we need to be going. That's the level of understanding we have to arrive at. Wilmer Leon (59:47): And you talked about, I'll use these words, the misinformation and the disinformation in western media. I want to hit on one more thing, but before you go, if you can just give me two or three more minutes, and that's Haiti, and that could be three hours on its own, but this is from the Washington Post this week, rebel leader who ousted risid set sights on Haiti's current leader. The crisis here keep compounding armed. Gangs have forced more than 300,000 from their homes. The police are outgunned and overmatched. Half the people don't have enough to eat. This Caribbean nation of 11 million has no dramatic democratically elected officials. The National Assembly is empty, the presidency is vacant. That's left Arial Ri, the unelected and deeply reviled prime minister in charge appointed by president jovial Moise days before. Moise is still unsolved assassination in 2021 on re was due to leave office on Wednesday, but is so far successfully stymied a political transition. They're talking about GI Philippe coming back into Haiti. And this is written as though the United States has had absolutely no involvement in the decimation of Haiti. And so people read this from the Washington Post and they go, oh, these poor, ignorant, silly Haitians, they just can't seem to do anything for themselves. We must intervene and save them from theirselves. Doesn't talk about GI Philippe. And he was an American operative and how much time he spent in American prisons and how, by the way, does he get back into Haiti after none of that ajamu Baraka? Ajamu Baraka (01:01:37): You're absolutely right. And the situation in Haiti has become almost untenable. And that's how they wanted, he was reinserted into Haiti to intensify the chaos, to make the situation even more ripe for outside intervention. They don't trust him. He doesn't trust them. But there is a convergence of interest, short-term interest that is Wilmer Leon (01:02:05): Financial interest, Ajamu Baraka (01:02:07): Financial interest, political interest, right? Is it terrible situation in that country and one that we have to continue to monitor because the result of this situation is the possibility of more violence inside the country as the consequence of those issues. Wilmer Leon (01:02:23): And this is another example of the United States through what it created called the Global Fragilities Act. It is creating the fragility and then claiming we now have to use the US military to go in and resolve the chaos that we created in the first place. Ajamu Baraka (01:02:41): Exactly. That is the objective. That could be the end result if we don't stop it. Wilmer Leon (01:02:50): Brother Ajamu Baraka, I want to thank you so much for joining me today. Ajamu Baraka (01:02:54): My pleasure. Thank you so much Dr. Leon. Wilmer Leon (01:02:57): I want to thank you all for listening to the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wilmer Leon. Please stay tuned for new episodes every week. Also follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share the show, follow me on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. I'm going to see you again next time. Until then, I'm Dr. Wilmer Leon. Have a great one. And remember that this is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history, converge talk without analysis is just chatter and we don't chatter on connecting the dots. Peace and blessings. I'm out

New York'ta yılbaşı konserinden çıkanların üzerine dalan araçta bulunan yakıtın patlaması sonucu üç kişi öldü 9 kişi yaralandı. Polis olayla ilgili olarak terör bağlantısı araştırıyor. New York'a girişleri kontrol altına alınan göçmenler çözümü New Jersey'de buldu. Körfez'de gerilim artıyor. ABD Husi saldırılarına hava operasyonuyla cevap verirken İran'a ait bir savaş gemisi Basra körfezine açıldı. ABD'nin İsrail'e destek için Akdeniz'e yolladığı USS Gerald Ford uçak gemisi geri çağırıldı. Almanya yeni yıla savunma bakanı tartışmalarıyla Savunma bakanı değişiyor mu?

2023 startet med at en Wagner-avhopper ble arrestert på grensen til Russland av vernepliktige soldater. Vi har i gjennom hele året stått i økt beredskap på grunn av den alvorlige sikkerhetssituasjonen i Europa. Krigen i Ukraina preger arbeidet vårt og vi har donert materiell, utstyr og ammunisjon til ukrainerne. I tillegg har vi lært opp ukrainske soldater og evakuert skadde ukrainere til sykehus rundt i Europa. I sommer kom USS Gerald Ford til Norge for å trene sammen med våre soldater. Finland har blitt med i NATO, og Sverige står for tur. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: Bryan Clark—Senior Fellow and Director at the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute & former U.S. Navy Submariner—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the Pentagon's decision to move the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier, and its strike group, to the Middle East in support of the USS Gerald Ford as a deterrent to Iranian aggression. Will this be enough to dissuade Iranian proxies, like Hezbollah, from asserting themselves into the war between Israel and Hamas? Rich notices something new at Wegmans—preferred pronouns prominently displayed on employee name tags. PLUS, did Matt unknowingly eat sheep cheese while vacationing in Italy? Speaking of Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has separated from her boyfriend of 10-years after he was caught on tape propositioning another woman for a “threesome or foursome.” During civil-fraud trial proceedings on Wednesday, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron fined Donald Trump $10,000 for comments that violated a previously established gag order. Earlier this month, Judge Engoron barred Trump from criticizing members of the court after the former president jokingly referred to a law clerk as Chuck Schumer's girlfriend in a social media post. You can read more about the story here: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/trump-called-to-witness-stand-fined-for-out-of-court-comments-30a3f1ea?mod=hp_lead_pos8

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (10/25/2023): 3:05pm- On Wednesday, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) became the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives with a 220 to 209 floor vote—ending three-weeks of Republican infighting with unanimous support for his candidacy. In his first speech as Speaker from the House floor, Johnson vowed to “ensure that our republic remains standing as the great beacon of hope, light, and freedom in a world that desperately needs it.” 3:15pm- During civil-fraud trial proceedings on Wednesday, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron fined Donald Trump $10,000 for comments that violated a previously established gag order. Earlier this month, Judge Engoron barred Trump from criticizing members of the court after the former president jokingly referred to a law clerk as Chuck Schumer's girlfriend in a social media post. You can read more about the story here: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/trump-called-to-witness-stand-fined-for-out-of-court-comments-30a3f1ea?mod=hp_lead_pos8 3:35pm- While accepting the House Republican nomination to be Speaker of the House, following an internal vote on Tuesday night, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) told the press that “democracy is messy sometimes” but ensured that House Republicans are once again “united.” On Wednesday, he earned all 220 House Republican votes to become the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives. 3:50pm- While leaving a New York City courthouse, former President Donald Trump congratulated Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA)—telling reporters Johnson “will be a great Speaker of the House.” 4:05pm- Phil Kerpen—President of American Commitment—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his most recent editorial, “FCC Chair's Bad Wi-Fi is Not a Reason to Regulate the Internet.” Kerpen writes: “For two years, starting in 2015, the FCC regulated Internet service providers as public utilities in the name of net neutrality. When the Trump FCC under Chairman Ajit Pai proposed to repeal those Obama-era regulations, the media and other Democrats unleashed a series of apocalyptic predictions.” Disturbingly, earlier this month, “[FCC chair Jessica] Rosenworcel announced a new proposed rule almost identical to the short-lived Obama rule…The new proposal even explicitly reserves the right to engage in ex-post rate regulation, deciding after the fact that a company charged too much for a service.” You can read Kerpen's editorial here: https://www.americancommitment.org/fcc-chairs-bad-wi-fi-is-not-a-reason-to-regulate-the-internet/ 4:25pm- Has Governor Phil Murphy (D-NJ) actually done something good? According to a report from Brady Knox of The Washington Examiner: “Earlier in October, Dr. Ronald G. Taylor, superintendent of schools for the South Orange-Maplewood School District, sent a letter to parents announcing that no Halloween celebrations would be held by the school district, claiming that doing so may ‘violate the dignity of some of our students and families, either culturally or religiously.' The cancellation of the holiday was bashed by the governor.” You can read the full article here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/new-jersey-murphy-slams-school-canceling-halloween 4:40pm- Dave McCormick—Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania & former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs during the George W. Bush Administration—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to talk about his campaign to unseat Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA). During the interview, he emphasizes the need for continued U.S. support for Israel as the country wages war against Hamas terrorists. McCormick also reacts to news that Rep. Mike Johnson has been elected Speaker of the House. You can learn more about his campaign here: https://www.davemccormickpa.com 5:00pm- Bryan Clark—Senior Fellow and Director at the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute & former U.S. Navy Submariner—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the Pentagon's decision to move the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier, and its strike group, to the Middle East in support of the USS Gerald Ford as a deterrent to Iranian aggression. Will this be enough to dissuade Iranian proxies, like Hezbollah, from asserting themselves into the war between Israel and Hamas? 5:30pm- Rich notices something new at Wegmans—preferred pronouns prominently displayed on employee name tags. PLUS, did Matt unknowingly eat sheep cheese while vacationing in Italy? Speaking of Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has separated from her boyfriend of 10-years after he was caught on tape propositioning another woman for a “threesome or foursome.” 5:40pm- During civil-fraud trial proceedings on Wednesday, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron fined Donald Trump $10,000 for comments that violated a previously established gag order. Earlier this month, Judge Engoron barred Trump from criticizing members of the court after the former president jokingly referred to a law clerk as Chuck Schumer's girlfriend in a social media post. You can read more about the story here: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/trump-called-to-witness-stand-fined-for-out-of-court-comments-30a3f1ea?mod=hp_lead_pos8 6:05pm- On Wednesday, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) became the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives with a 220 to 209 floor vote—ending three-weeks of Republican infighting with unanimous support for his candidacy. In his first speech as Speaker from the House floor, Johnson vowed to “ensure that our republic remains standing as the great beacon of hope, light, and freedom in a world that desperately needs it.” MSNBC condemned the selection of Johnson citing his expressed doubts about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. However, didn't MSNBC spend years expressing similar doubts about the legitimacy of Donald Trump's election victory in 2016—baselessly blaming Russian interference? 6:10pm- Many progressive media outlets and politicians, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, have denounced Mike Johnson's speakership—referring to him as an “election denier.” On X, President of American Commitment Phil Kerpen highlights the hypocrisy, noting that following the 2016 election Jeffries' tweeted: “The more we learn about 2016 election the more illegitimate it becomes. America deserves to know whether we have a fake president in the Oval Office #RussianInterference.” 6:15pm- While accepting the House Republican nomination to be Speaker of the House, following an internal vote on Tuesday night, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) told the press that “democracy is messy sometimes” but ensured that House Republicans are once again “united.” On Wednesday, he earned all 220 House Republican votes to become the 56thSpeaker of the House of Representatives. 6:20pm- Brooke Singman of Fox News reports: “The FBI maintained more than 40 confidential human sources on various criminal matters related to the Biden family, including Joe Biden, dating back to his time as vice president, according to information obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley…Grassley learned that an FBI task force within the Washington Field Office sought to, and in some cases, successfully, shut down reporting and information from those sources by falsely discrediting the information as foreign disinformation. That effort ‘caused investigative activity to cease.'” You can read the full report here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-received-criminal-information-40-confidential-sources-joe-biden-hunter-jim-grassley 6:25pm- During a campaign in Derry, New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recalled when Joe Biden threatened to “take [Trump] behind a barn.” In response to the comment, Trump joked that Biden had a fake nose and that if the two ever fought there “would be plastic everywhere.” 6:40pm- In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, more than forty states allege that Meta—parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has harmed children, fueling a national mental health crisis in the process. The lawsuit accuses Meta of violating state consumer protections. You can read more here: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/24/states-sue-meta-addictive-features-kids-00123217

Connaissez-vous notre site ? www.lenouvelespritpublic.fr Une émission de Philippe Meyer, enregistrée en public à l'École alsacienne le 15 octobre 2023. Avec cette semaine : Jean-Louis Bourlanges, président de la Commission des Affaires étrangères de l'Assemblée nationale. David Djaïz, essayiste et ancien secrétaire général du Conseil National de la Refondation. Béatrice Giblin, directrice de la revue Hérodote et fondatrice de l'Institut Français de Géopolitique. Nicole Gnesotto, vice-présidente de l'Institut Jacques Delors. HAMAS-ISRAËL, UN CAUCHEMAR À DEUX FACES Pearl Harbour, octobre 1973, 11 septembre israélien, pogrom, razzia… les médias peinent à qualifier les attaques conduites par le Hamas en Israël, le 7 octobre. Les hostilités ont commencé à l'aube par un déluge de roquettes tirées depuis la bande de Gaza, vers les localités israéliennes voisines mais aussi plus en profondeur jusque vers Tel-Aviv et Jérusalem. Profitant de l'effet de surprise, des combattants du Hamas se sont joués de l'imposante barrière de sécurité érigée par Israël autour de la bande de Gaza, attaquant des positions militaires ou des civils en pleine rue. Des actes de sauvagerie ont été commis et filmés. Selon les derniers décomptes quelques 1.300 Israéliens ont été tués et environ 150 binationaux et étrangers, hommes, femmes et enfants, en majorité des civils, sont retenus en otage par le mouvement islamiste. En trente ans, l'État d'Israël a libéré près de 7.000 prisonniers palestiniens pour obtenir en échange la libération de 19 Israéliens et récupérer les corps de huit autres. Les enlèvements actuels placent l'État hébreu dans une position inédite et complexe. Quarante-huit heures après le choc de l'attaque du 7 octobre, Israël a déclenché une offensive militaire de très grande ampleur contre la bande de Gaza, visant à en éradiquer le Hamas. Ses autorités comptaient hier plus de 2 200 morts palestiniens et neuf otages tués dans les bombardements israéliens. Elles ont menacé d'exécuter un otage à chaque fois qu'un civil gazaoui serait tué par une frappe israélienne. L'armée israélienne a demandé aux habitants du nord de la bande de Gaza d'évacuer vers le sud. Comme l'Ukraine, la question palestinienne provoque une vive opposition entre le bloc occidental qui condamne sans réserve les massacres du Hamas et le bloc des pays du Sud, qui oscille, à quelques exceptions près, entre ambiguïté quant aux responsabilités et appel à la désescalade comme le font la Chine, la Russie et l'Afrique du Sud et soutien clair aux terroristes du Hamas comme l'Iran, l'Algérie, la Tunisie ou le Soudan. Seul dirigeant de l'Otan à ne pas avoir condamné l'attaque menée par le mouvement terroriste, le président turc Erdogan a dénoncé les « méthodes honteuses » d'Israël. Au Liban, des scènes de liesse ont accueilli les attaques du Hamas. Les États-Unis, qui ont déployé en Méditerranée orientale le porte-avions USS Gerald Ford, le plus gros navire de guerre du monde, ont mis en garde lundi le Hezbollah de ne pas ouvrir un “deuxième front” contre Israël. L'Arabie saoudite a suspendu le14 octobre les discussions sur une possible normalisation avec Israël. *** LE 7 OCTOBRE ET LA FRANCE Le chef de l'Etat, Emmanuel Macron, a condamné le 7 octobre sur X, anciennement Twitter, « les attaques terroristes qui frappent Israël ». Parmi les partis d'opposition, la plupart ont manifesté leur soutien à l'État juif. Toutefois, La France insoumise a renvoyé dos à dos le Hamas et Israël, bien que, dès le 7 octobre, quelques voix se soient démarquées comme celles de François Ruffin et d'Alexis Corbière qui ont condamné, sans ambiguïté, l'acte terroriste du Hamas. A gauche de l'extrême gauche, le Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste NPA a pris parti pour le Hamas. L'attitude des « insoumis » inquiète l'exécutif qui redoute que le conflit ne s'importe en France. Le ministère de l'intérieur rappelle que 10 % de la population se déclare musulmane. Gérald Darmanin avait annoncé, dès le 8 octobre, un renforcement de la sécurité des lieux de culte et établissements scolaires juifs dans plusieurs villes de France. Parlant d'un « djihad d'atmosphère », il a alerté sur l'existence de « relais politiques du Hamas en France ». Depuis samedi, plus de deux cents actes antisémites ont été recensés. Vendredi dernier, Dominique Bernard, professeur de français au lycée Gambetta Carnot d'Arras a été poignardé à mort par un jeune homme fiché S, membre radicalisé de la communauté tchétchène. Trois autres personnes ont été blessées. Dans son allocution télévisée, jeudi soir, Emmanuel Macron avait appelé les Français à rester « unis comme nation et comme République » assurant que « c'est ce bouclier de l'unité qui nous protégera de tous les débordements, de toutes les dérives et de toutes les haines ». Selon un sondage Elabe/BFM 68% des Français pensent que le conflit au Proche-Orient « présente un risque de tensions en France ». Le président de l'Union des étudiants juifs de France (UEJF), Samuel Lejoyeux, estime que « les élus Insoumis comme ceux du RN sont tous deux dangereux pour les juifs de France ». Celui-ci s'appuie sur le baromètre Ifop pour l'UEJF paru en septembre, qui indique que 83% des étudiants de confession juive estiment qu'il existe une montée de violences d'extrême gauche au sein des universités, et 53% concernant les violences d'extrême droite. La France compte à la fois la plus grande communauté juive d'Europe et la plus forte communauté musulmane. Après l'attaque à caractère terroriste qui s'est produite vendredi à Arras la Première ministre, Élisabeth Borne, a décidé d'élever la posture du plan Vigipirate sur l'ensemble du territoire national au niveau « Urgence attentat ».Chaque semaine, Philippe Meyer anime une conversation d'analyse politique, argumentée et courtoise, sur des thèmes nationaux et internationaux liés à l'actualité. Pour en savoir plus : www.lenouvelespritpublic.fr

Alle maktdemonstrasjoners mor seilte inn gjennom Drøbaksundet og ankret opp i Oslofjorden onsdag. Horder av mennesker var møtt opp for å bivåne det 330 meter lange amerikanske hangarskipet USS Gerald Ford. Forsvarsminister Bjørn Arild Gram (Sp) kunne nærmest smøres på veggen av stolthet og glede. Men hva må Norge betale tilbake for denne vennlige og massivt mektige amerikanske nærheten?Og regjeringen synes ikke lenger det er «gift i økonomien» å bruke oljepenger, slik den argumenterte ved fremleggelsen av statsbudsjettet i høst. Nå er det bare om å gjøre å være «ansvarlig». Og det lar seg visst fint kombinere med å bruke 56 milliarder flere oljekroner i vårens reviderte statsbudsjett. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I dag har Anja, Astrid og Andrea snakket om amerikanerne som inntar Oslo. Enda en gammel kjenning som inntar Oslo er Hvaldimir! Vi har også diskutert om Dubai er camp. Tusen takk til Kronk på teknikk!

Join Carlos, Matt and Armando for this week's episode. In this week's show one aircraft does a VERY short field landing, another A380 is re-born & one suitcase goes on its very own airport trip without any human interaction     In the military we get an update on the ongoing development of the newest Air Force One and the USS Gerald Ford, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, gets under way.  Don't forget you can get in touch with us all at : WhatsApp +44 757 22 491 66 Email podcast@planetalkinguk.com or comment in our chatroom on YouTube. Here are some of the links to the stories we featured this week : COMMERCIAL Ryanair says Malta air traffic control 'misbehaviour' causes fuel wastage https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/ryanair-chief-says-malta-air-traffic-control-misbehaviour.1019395 First Airbus A380 redelivered to Etihad after pandemic grounding https://www.flightglobal.com/fleets/first-airbus-a380-redelivered-to-etihad-after-pandemic-grounding/152440.article Saudi Arabia launches new national airline https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2023-03-13/saudi-arabia-launches-new-flag-carrier-riyadh-air Skytrax Awards; World's Best Airports https://skytraxratings.com/singapore-changi-airport-is-named-the-worlds-best-airport-2023 Los Angeles startup Universal Hydrogen successfully completes 15-minute test flight https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/13/successful-test-flight-of-hydrogen-powered-plane-gives-sustainable-aviation-a-lift Helicopter heist goes awry: Thief crashes stolen chopper at Sacramento Executive Airport https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-helicopter-theft-attempt-crash-sacramento-executive-airport/43327803# US airports now have software to prevent aircraft from landing on taxiways by mistake https://www.engadget.com/us-airports-now-have-software-to-prevent-aircraft-from-landing-on-taxiways-by-mistake-173646341.html Airline Fined $225,000 After Police Had to Free Passengers From Flight in Florida https://jalopnik.com/airline-fined-225-000-after-police-had-to-free-passeng-1850212742 Carbon Cub Pilot Takes STOL to The Extreme With Helipad Landing https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/pop-culture/2023/03/14/pilot-makes-heart-stopping-plane-landing-on-burj-al-arab-helipad/ https://www.flyingmag.com/carbon-cub-pilot-takes-stol-to-the-extreme-with-helipad-landing/ 'Crazy' man adds jet engines to biplane in garden shed https://www.richgoodwinairshows.com/g-jpit Run-away Luggage https://www.insider.com/video-runaway-luggage-wind-san-francisco-airport-2023-3 MILITARY Airforce One New Livery Revealed https://simpleflying.com/new-air-force-one-delivery-pushed-back-new-livery-confirmed/ Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall reveals that the USAF Plans to buy 200 NGAD Fighter Jets and 1,000 Collaborative Combat Aircraft https://theaviationgeekclub.com/secretary-of-the-air-force-frank-kendall-reveals-that-the-usaf-plans-to-buy-200-ngad-fighter-jets-and-1000-collaborative-combat-aircraft/amp/ The US Navy's newest supercarrier is underway with all its available airpower for the first time https://www.businessinsider.com/newest-us-navy-supercarrier-underway-with-all-airpower-first-time-2023-3?amp

Live from the No Panic Zone—I'm Steve Gruber—I am America's Voice— Always Delivering an Equitable Diverse and Inclusive Broadcast— using only Environmentally just topics that maintain maximum sustainable, socially correct and earth friendly conversations— and for the record no animals were harmed in the production of this program! But it's still early!   Here are three big things you need to know right now—   ONE— The big squeeze is on to get Don Lemon fired from the nations former news network Chicken Noodle News—the demands come after a series of sexist remarks aimed at Nikki Haley—   TWO— The staff at Vanderbilt—is apologizing and there has been a staff shake-up following an AI generated a campus wide email on the shooting at Michigan State—   THREE— It is time to go shopping—we are going to go on a make believe shopping spree today and we will start with an incredible amount of American taxpayer dollars— just to see what we can buy with this kind of fortune—and to give you a very clear understanding of the size and scope of the money we are sending into a war—that is not ours to fight—   How much money?   $200 Billion dollars to be exact— which came as a shock to me—because I thought we were at about half that amount and all of sudden it doubled—and nobody seems to care—   Well, I care!   $200 Billion dollars is the amount of money that Joe Biden along with compliant, war mongers from both the Democrat and Republican side of the aisle—have already pledged to one of the most corrupt governments on earth, Ukraine.   The money train keeps rolling into Kyiv from Washington to ostensibly help the Ukrainians stave off the Russian invasion that began a year ago—but the money doesn't appear to have any strings attached—and because Ukraine is the number one money laundering nation on earth—there is simply no way to honestly or accurately monitor the money to have any idea where it is ending up—   We are literally throwing money into a deep blackhole and hoping for the best—AND as I often say—HOPE is not a plan—in fact it's nothing at all—   We have learned this week from Joe Biden who made an alleged surprise visit to Kyiv yesterday—that we will be paying for Ukraine's pension plans, welfare programs, rent and more—and at the same time the people in East Palestine Ohio are told to pound sand after the train disaster—BUT maybe I am just nitpicking—    So, are you ready for the shopping spree?   I told you I would give you some examples of how America could invest the $200 Billion dollars we are giving to a country in Eastern Europe; that we have no defense treaty with—that is not in NATO and that should be getting supported by its European neighbors—BUT like always—we get the bill— meaning you and me, the American taxpayers get the bill!   OK, here we go:   The last US nuclear aircraft carrier put into service was the USS Gerald Ford—that was about 5 years ago—and it cost $13 Billion dollars—so with the money we are sending to Ukraine—we could buy about 15 of those—and with China's navy getting bigger, more powerful and more dangerous every single day—that sounds like something we could really use—   We all know that nuclear energy is expanding all over Europe—in fact France is building 14 of those right now—and its funny BUT the United States could build 14 of those too—for $200 Billion dollars—   We all know the southern border is a disaster—and that more than 100,000 people are dying a year from the illegal drugs flooding into our country along with millions of illegal aliens—well a state of the art border wall would cost—on the high end about $12 Billion dollars—so we could build 17 border walls for the kind of money we are shipping to Hunter Bidens pals in Ukraine—   Oh and the list goes on—because just about everyone agrees that we need better healthcare in America—well listen to this—a brand new state of the art hospital like the one that Stanford University opened a couple years ago was $2 Billion dollars—so we could buy a hundred of those to treat Americans—BUT we sent the $200 Billion dollars to Ukraine instead—   How about infrastructure—we could build 25,000 miles of brand new interstate highways in America—and maybe more with $200 Billion dollars—and instead we gave it away—   We gave away $200 Billion dollars for a proxy war—another war the majority of Americans want nothing to do with—   And you could think about it this way—we could buy the Border wall for $12 Billion dollars—pick up five nuclear power plants at $14 Billion dollars each, add 5 more nuclear aircraft carriers at $13 Billion a piece and toss in 25 brand new state of the art hospitals sprinkled all over America and 500 miles of new interstate highways—and still not spend $200 Billion dollars—in fact we would have about $3 Billion dollars or more left over—because I would certainly ask for the volume discount!   Do you understand now—how much money we have given to a country that Joe Biden and their President Volodymyr Zelenskyy strolled through yesterday—even with air raid sirens screaming—sirens they ignored—because they were only for show?    The more money we give the more I ask—is this the biggest hush money payment in world history? I mean none of this makes sense—none of it.   I thought we had learned the painful lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan—but it doesn't look that way—because the feeble war monger in chief was at it again on Tuesday—beating the drums of war—this time in Poland—  

Слава Україні, Героям Слава, Донатьте на ЗС України в фонди: СЕРГІЯ ПРИТУЛИ ТА ПОВЕРНИСЬ ЖИВИМ, ПРИСОРЮЄМО ПЕРЕМОГУ РАЗОМ!ДЛЯ русских на територии УКРАИНЫ «Ты пас коров. Ни о какой пенсии даже не заикайся»российские солдаты, уезжающие в Украину совершать военные преступления, абсолютно уверены, что «Родина их не забудет». Но в реальности все происходит как всегда: власти России относятся к своим солдатам как к отработанному материалу и забывает о них в тот самый момент, когда боец гибнет или получает ранение. Ни о какой поддержке семьи солдата или его самого по возвращению домой и речи не идет. заранее заучить наизусть фразу телефончик:Номера горячей линии «Хочу жить»☎️ +38 066 580 34 98☎️ +38 093 119 29 84(круглосуточно)или воспользуйтесь чат-ботом «Хочу жить (https://t.me/spasisebyabot)»ЕС готов поставлять Киеву электроэнергию в случае ее дефицита в результате российских обстрелов, — заявила Еврокомиссар по энергетике Кадри СимсонСША передадут Украине суммарно восемь систем ПВО NASAMS, сообщили в Пентагоне:«Две из этих систем будут в Украине в ближайшее время, а еще шесть - будет предоставлено позже. Мы также обязались предоставить средства противодействия беспилотникам, включая систему VAMPIRE».Россия планирует разместить иранские ракеты на северной границе Украины. Против них у нас нет защиты, — спикер Воздушных сил Юрий Игнат300 км одна ракета, другая ракета — 700 км по дальности. Это баллистические ракеты. Сбивать их теоретически можно, но фактически это очень трудно сделать теми средствами, которые у нас есть на вооружении. У нас есть средства противовоздушной обороны, а не противоракетной", — сообщил он.Отметим, что по данным CNN Иран готовится отправить России около 1000 единиц вооружения, включая ракеты малого радиуса "земля-земля" и ударные беспилотники Основатель «Тинькофф банка» Олег Тиньков отказался от российского гражданства"Я принял решение о выходе из российского гражданства. Я не могу и не буду ассоциироваться с фашистской страной, которая начала войну со своим мирным соседом и ежедневно убивает невинных людей. Мне стыдно продолжать держать этот паспорт", - написал бизнесмен.СБУ провела обшуки у керівництва УПЦ МП у Кіровоградській області За даними спецслужби, окремі представники цієї громади причетні до поширення ідей, що посягають на територіальну цілісність України та розпалювання релігійної ворожнечі. Обшуки проходили в Кіровоградській та Олександрійській єпархіях, а також за місцями проживання фігурантів. Серед іншого у них виявлено листування митрополита Кіровоградського і Новомиргородського з патріархом московським кирилом та вилучено велику кількість виготовлених у рф антиукраїнських матеріалів. У їх текстах містяться ознаки вчинення кримінальних правопорушень, передбачених двома статями ККУ. Ці матеріали активно поширювали серед священнослужителів і вірян, щоб сформувати серед них позиції, вигідні країні-агресору. Автор однієї з книг – Андрій Новіков, екссекретар Одеської єпархії УПЦ МП, який у 2014 році виїхав до рф. Зараз він веде власний Телеграм-канал, де просуває російські наративи. Всі вилучені матеріали відправлені на експертизи. россия на ЗАЭС спровоцировала экологическую катастрофу В результате остановки энергоблоков станции теплая вода не попадает в пруд-охладитель ЗАЭС, в результате чего температура воды упала до около +13 градусов. Это привело к массовому мору рыбы в пруду. Если температура воды в водоеме не поднимется в ближайшее время, на берег выбросит около тысячи тонн дохлой рыбы. Глава адміністрації міста Бєлгорода Антон Іванов подав заяву про звільнення у зв'язку з (обстрілами рф по своїй території) переходом на іншу роботу, — губернатор Гладков. Уламки російської ракети впали на території Молдови в місті Наславча, — уряд Молдови. Жертв немає, проте пошкоджено кілька будинків. кацапи намагались атакувати дамбу Дністровськ1, яка знаходиться в 10 кілометрах від міста Наславча. Молдова — ваш вихід чи знову «тєріпім»? За утро 31 октября ВСУ сбили 44 крылатые ракеты над Украиной В 7:00 31 октября российские оккупанты осуществили несколько волн ракетных атак по объектам критической инфраструктуры Украины. Из самолетов-ракетоносцев стратегической авиации Ту-95/Ту-160 было выпущено более 50 крылатых ракет Х-101/Х-555 с севера Каспийского моря и Волгодонска (Ростовская область). 44 крылатых ракеты были уничтожены силами и средствами Воздушных Сил в зонах ответственности воздушного командования IRIS-T сегодня отработала по воздушным целям на 100%, — пресс-секретарь Воздушных сил Юрий Игнат Нічого незвичного, просто на Одеській митниці намагались перевезти гелікоптер Мі–2 у морському контейнері, пише Одеська прокуратура. Його знайшли під час проведення обшуків вантажного відділення в рамках кримінального провадження за фактом зловживання службовим становищем посадових осіб митниці. Мі–2 лежав там з 2007 року, а тепер поїде до ЗСУ. Как сообщает украинская разведка, на военно-воздушной базе с РФ «Веретье» (Псковская область, остров-5) ночью 31 октября произошел мощный взрыв. Два российских ударных вертолета Ка-52 «Аллигатор» полностью уничтожены. Еще два – существенно повреждены. С целью ликвидации последствий взрывов, а также поиска диверсионных групп личный состав воинской части поднят по тревоге, в воинской части проходят следственные действия. За інформацією Генерального штабу ЗСУ, загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02 до 01.11 орієнтовно склали: — близько 72470 солдат;— танків — 2698;— бойових броньованих машин — 5501;— артилерійських систем — 1730;— РСЗВ — 383;— засобів ППО — 197;— літаків — 276;— гелікоптерів — 257;— автомобільної техніки та автоцистерн — 4143;— кораблів /катерів — 16;— БПЛА оперативно-тактичного рівня — 1415;— крилатих ракет — 397. В Европу из США идет ударная группа кораблей во главе с атомным авианосцем USS Gerald Ford. Они прибудут в Портсмут (Англия) в ноябре, сообщает UK Defence Journal. Авианосец следует вместе с ракетным крейсером и ударной атомной подлодкой. На его борту – 90 самолетов и вертолетов, включая истребители F-35C. Вероятно, США наращивает военное присутствие в Восточной Европе как сигнал для рф на фоне ее ядерного шантажа.

美國最新的下一代航空母艦傑拉爾德‧R‧福特號（USS Gerald Ford）剛剛裝載了54.1萬磅彈藥，水手們將這一大批彈藥裝入艦載彈藥匣中。此舉釋放這艘最新航母一個巨大的成功信號。 更多內容請見：https://www.epochtimes.com/b5/22/4/16/n13713327.htm 大纪元,大纪元新闻,大紀元,大紀元新聞, 福特號航母, 福特級航母

David Walker is a past Comptroller General of the United States, professor at the US Naval Academy, former Defense Business Board appointee, and author. He's on the Cold Star Project to discuss the role of culture in government operations, including with his own experience in the Government Accountability Office and on the Defense Business Board. Host Jason Kanigan asks: // Defense Business Board // - what is the purpose of the Board, both the official wording and from your point of view? Do you believe it is meeting that purpose? -What are some of the projects that you worked on? -what changes or initiatives can the Board make? -What are some of the biggest business challenges facing the DoD? -what did your experience as US Comptroller General allow you to bring into the appointment to the Defense Business Board? What perspective do you believe you brought; what were you most “on alert” for? -what most surprised you in your service on the Board? Was it people- or process-based? // US Comptroller General 98-08 - 15-year, non renewable term appointment, Government Accountability Office (audit institution, part of the legislative branch) // -roles like this often don’t have a “rules manual” and you must create the role “your way” as you go. Did you find this to be the case? How did you adapt to the situation if so? -you have a supposedly non partisan bureaucracy working for you as the GAO. How did you find that and how did information flow to you? What kind of decisions did you make? What were your main accomplishments at GSP? // America In 2040: Still A Superpower? book // -tell us about the book and your main premise or argument--reviews talk about “fiscal sanity” and government spending -We think “America’s fine; we still have all the tools”, but what do you think about the constant underestimation of costs and overestimation of capabilities? eg. USS Gerald Ford setbacks...latest is unable to launch planes, $13B price tag for non-functional platform -Will America still have the financial power to fund itself as a superpower? -Do you believe space is an important theater for America to remain a superpower? What are other major security theaters? Useful Links: America In 2040: Still a Superpower? book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L4KBPX5/ [NOT an affiliate link] GAO website: https://www.gao.gov/about/what-gao-is/ DFB website: https://dbb.defense.gov/ Disclaimer: We were not remunerated in any way by David Walker for discussing his book or any other topics. OpEx Society: https://www.opexsociety.org Talk to Cold Star: https://www.coldstartech.com/bookcall

The US Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, is so over-budget and riddled with errors that it's practically useless. Never is it asked whether we need such a ship for the defense of this country. It is about spending and maintaining steady growth in the defense industry. Our own safety and security are completely irrelevant to the military spending juggernaut. And it's not just this carrier...

BR 3-2-17; With Trump great speech to a joint session of Congress and his great speech to the Navy on the USS Gerald Ford the President is proving to all the doubters and critics that he can be very Presidential. Yaffee talks about what he liked and didn't like about Trump's speech AND also gives his take on the Sessions Russia controversy. Listen to the latest podcast here!

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BR 3-2-17; With Trump great speech to a joint session of Congress and his great speech to the Navy on the USS Gerald Ford the President is proving to all the doubters and critics that he can be very Presidential. Yaffee talks about what he liked and didn't like about Trump's speech AND also gives his take on the Sessions Russia controversy. Listen to the latest podcast here!

Join us each week for Coffee with Andrew and Rob, the official podcast of Coffee with Rob. Every show will involve casual conversation between myself, my good friend, Andrew Amat, and guests as we tackle opinions on the news featured here on the blog. Please join us for one hour of round table discussion. Would you like to ask a question or have your opinions mentioned on air? Email theshow@coffeewithrob.netPacked show for you guys this week with a full 4 stories to talk about. Last week had a lot of news so we felt it was a good idea to talk about that stuff as well as the two posts that were up on the blog. So I hope that all of this discussion and news makes up for the fact that the podcast is over a day late. I do have to apologize for this as well as for not having a blog post up yesterday but either way, here's your show!We started off talking about Hosni Mubarak's resignation which happened on Friday. He definitely took us by surprise with this and it was completely unexpected so we had to talk about it. Then we moved on to talking about America's priorities with the construction of the USS Gerald Ford to replace the 5th USS Enterprise and our future for space exploration. After the break, we spoke a bit about unemployment and a proposed Florida law that could help fix this problem. Finally, we wrapped it up by discussing the $53 billion that President Obama put forth for the creation of a new high-speed rail infrastructure in the United States. As you can see, it was a lot to say; so much so that the we nearly passed the one hour mark and had to cut a few things out.Music used: Cold Funk by Kevin MacLeod as the outro and intermission.P.S. Yes, I know I accidentally left a 3-4 second gap between the intro and the start of the show. Sorry about that.Get the podcast:[iTunes] Subscribe to the show on iTunes[BlackBerry Podcasts] Search for us on the BlackBerry Podcast app for BlackBerry smartphones[RSS] Subscribe to the show via RSS[MP3] Download the MP3 and listen on any playerOr listen here on the page:Stories covered this week:Mubarak steps down.America's priorities are fine...Florida bill to help unemployment ratesObama's plan for high-speed rail.