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For those who haven't heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, and the intertwining careers of Joe Boyd, Sandy Denny, and Richard Thompson. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a forty-one-minute bonus episode available, on Judy Collins’ version of this song. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by editing, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Erratum For about an hour this was uploaded with the wrong Elton John clip in place of “Saturday Sun”. This has now been fixed. Resources Because of the increasing problems with Mixcloud’s restrictions, I have decided to start sharing streaming playlists of the songs used in episodes instead of Mixcloud ones. This Tunemymusic link will let you listen to the playlist I created on your streaming platform of choice — however please note that not all the songs excerpted are currently available on streaming. The songs missing from the Tidal version are “Shanten Bells” by the Ian Campbell Folk Group, “Tom’s Gone to Hilo” by A.L. Lloyd, two by Paul McNeill and Linda Peters, three by Elton John & Linda Peters, “What Will I Do With Tomorrow” by Sandy Denny and “You Never Know” by Charlie Drake, but the other fifty-nine are there. Other songs may be missing from other services. The main books I used on Fairport Convention as a whole were Patrick Humphries' Meet On The Ledge, Clinton Heylin's What We Did Instead of Holidays, and Kevan Furbank's Fairport Convention on Track. Rob Young's Electric Eden is the most important book on the British folk-rock movement. Information on Richard Thompson comes from Patrick Humphries' Richard Thompson: Strange Affair and Thompson's own autobiography Beeswing.  Information on Sandy Denny comes from Clinton Heylin's No More Sad Refrains and Mick Houghton's I've Always Kept a Unicorn. I also used Joe Boyd's autobiography White Bicycles and Chris Blackwell's The Islander.  And this three-CD set is the best introduction to Fairport's music currently in print. Transcript Before we begin, this episode contains reference to alcohol and cocaine abuse and medical neglect leading to death. It also starts with some discussion of the fatal car accident that ended last episode. There’s also some mention of child neglect and spousal violence. If that’s likely to upset you, you might want to skip this episode or read the transcript. One of the inspirations for this podcast when I started it back in 2018 was a project by Richard Thompson, which appears (like many things in Thompson’s life) to have started out of sheer bloody-mindedness. In 1999 Playboy magazine asked various people to list their “songs of the Millennium”, and most of them, understanding the brief, chose a handful of songs from the latter half of the twentieth century. But Thompson determined that he was going to list his favourite songs *of the millennium*. He didn’t quite manage that, but he did cover seven hundred and forty years, and when Playboy chose not to publish it, he decided to turn it into a touring show, in which he covered all his favourite songs from “Sumer Is Icumen In” from 1260: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Sumer is Icumen In”] Through numerous traditional folk songs, union songs like “Blackleg Miner”, pieces by early-modern composers, Victorian and Edwardian music hall songs, and songs by the Beatles, the Ink Spots, the Kinks, and the Who, all the way to “Oops! I Did It Again”: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Oops! I Did it Again”] And to finish the show, and to show how all this music actually ties together, he would play what he described as a “medieval tune from Brittany”, “Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt”: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt”] We have said many times in this podcast that there is no first anything, but there’s a reason that Liege and Lief, Fairport Convention’s third album of 1969, and the album other than Unhalfbricking on which their reputation largely rests, was advertised with the slogan “The first (literally) British folk rock album ever”. Folk-rock, as the term had come to be known, and as it is still usually used today, had very little to do with traditional folk music. Rather, the records of bands like The Byrds or Simon and Garfunkel were essentially taking the sounds of British beat groups of the early sixties, particularly the Searchers, and applying those sounds to material by contemporary singer-songwriters. People like Paul Simon and Bob Dylan had come up through folk clubs, and their songs were called folk music because of that, but they weren’t what folk music had meant up to that point — songs that had been collected after being handed down through the folk process, changed by each individual singer, with no single identifiable author. They were authored songs by very idiosyncratic writers. But over their last few albums, Fairport Convention had done one or two tracks per album that weren’t like that, that were instead recordings of traditional folk songs, but arranged with rock instrumentation. They were not necessarily the first band to try traditional folk music with electric instruments — around the same time that Fairport started experimenting with the idea, so did an Irish band named Sweeney’s Men, who brought in a young electric guitarist named Henry McCullough briefly. But they do seem to have been the first to have fully embraced the idea. They had done so to an extent with “A Sailor’s Life” on Unhalfbricking, but now they were going to go much further: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Matty Groves” (from about 4:30)] There had been some doubt as to whether Fairport Convention would even continue to exist — by the time Unhalfbricking, their second album of the year, was released, they had been through the terrible car accident that had killed Martin Lamble, the band’s drummer, and Jeannie Franklyn, Richard Thompson’s girlfriend. Most of the rest of the band had been seriously injured, and they had made a conscious decision not to discuss the future of the band until they were all out of hospital. Ashley Hutchings was hospitalised the longest, and Simon Nicol, Richard Thompson, and Sandy Denny, the other three surviving members of the band, flew over to LA with their producer and manager, Joe Boyd, to recuperate there and get to know the American music scene. When they came back, the group all met up in the flat belonging to Denny’s boyfriend Trevor Lucas, and decided that they were going to continue the band. They made a few decisions then — they needed a new drummer, and as well as a drummer they wanted to get in Dave Swarbrick. Swarbrick had played violin on several tracks on Unhalfbricking as a session player, and they had all been thrilled to work with him. Swarbrick was one of the most experienced musicians on the British folk circuit. He had started out in the fifties playing guitar with Beryl Marriott’s Ceilidh Band before switching to fiddle, and in 1963, long before Fairport had formed, he had already appeared on TV with the Ian Campbell Folk Group, led by Ian Campbell, the father of Ali and Robin Campbell, later of UB40: [Excerpt: The Ian Campbell Folk Group, “Shanten Bells (medley on Hullaballoo!)”] He’d sung with Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd: [Excerpt: A.L. Lloyd, “Tom’s Gone to Hilo” ] And he’d formed his hugely successful duo with Martin Carthy, releasing records like “Byker Hill” which are often considered among the best British folk music of all time: [Excerpt: Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, “Byker Hill”] By the time Fairport had invited him to play on Unhalfbricking, Swarbrick had already performed on twenty albums as a core band member, plus dozens more EPs, singles, and odd tracks on compilations. They had no reason to think they could actually get him to join their band. But they had three advantages. The first was that Swarbrick was sick of the traditional folk scene at the time, saying later “I didn’t like seven-eighths of the people involved in it, and it was extremely opportune to leave. I was suddenly presented with the possibilities of exploring the dramatic content of the songs to the full.” The second was that he was hugely excited to be playing with Richard Thompson, who was one of the most innovative guitarists of his generation, and Martin Carthy remembers him raving about Thompson after their initial sessions. (Carthy himself was and is no slouch on the guitar of course, and there was even talk of getting him to join the band at this point, though they decided against it — much to the relief of rhythm guitarist Simon Nicol, who is a perfectly fine player himself but didn’t want to be outclassed by *two* of the best guitarists in Britain at the same time). And the third was that Joe Boyd told him that Fairport were doing so well — they had a single just about to hit the charts with “Si Tu Dois Partir” — that he would only have to play a dozen gigs with Fairport in order to retire. As it turned out, Swarbrick would play with the group for a decade, and would never retire — I saw him on his last tour in 2015, only eight months before he died. The drummer the group picked was also a far more experienced musician than any of the rest, though in a very different genre. Dave Mattacks had no knowledge at all of the kind of music they played, having previously been a player in dance bands. When asked by Hutchings if he wanted to join the band, Mattacks’ response was “I don’t know anything about the music. I don’t understand it… I can’t tell one tune from another, they all sound the same… but if you want me to join the group, fine, because I really like it. I’m enjoying myself musically.” Mattacks brought a new level of professionalism to the band, thanks to his different background. Nicol said of him later “He was dilligent, clean, used to taking three white shirts to a gig… The application he could bring to his playing was amazing. With us, you only played well when you were feeling well.” This distinction applied to his playing as well. Nicol would later describe the difference between Mattacks’ drumming and Lamble’s by saying “Martin’s strength was as an imaginative drummer. DM came in with a strongly developed sense of rhythm, through keeping a big band of drunken saxophone players in order. A great time-keeper.” With this new line-up and a new sense of purpose, the group did as many of their contemporaries were doing and “got their heads together in the country”. Joe Boyd rented the group a mansion, Farley House, in Farley Chamberlayne, Hampshire, and they stayed there together for three months. At the start, the group seem to have thought that they were going to make another record like Unhalfbricking, with some originals, some songs by American songwriters, and a few traditional songs. Even after their stay in Farley Chamberlayne, in fact, they recorded a few of the American songs they’d rehearsed at the start of the process, Richard Farina’s “Quiet Joys of Brotherhood” and Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn’s “Ballad of Easy Rider”: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Ballad of Easy Rider”] Indeed, the whole idea of “getting our heads together in the country” (as the cliche quickly became in the late sixties as half of the bands in Britain went through much the same kind of process as Fairport were doing — but usually for reasons more to do with drug burnout or trend following than recovering from serious life-changing trauma) seems to have been inspired by Bob Dylan and the Band getting together in Big Pink. But very quickly they decided to follow the lead of Ashley Hutchings, who had had something of a Damascene conversion to the cause of traditional English folk music. They were listening mostly to Music From Big Pink by the Band, and to the first album by Sweeney’s Men: [Excerpt: Sweeney’s Men, “The Handsome Cabin Boy”] And they decided that they were going to make something that was as English as those records were North American and Irish (though in the event there were also a few Scottish songs included on the record). Hutchings in particular was becoming something of a scholar of traditional music, regularly visiting Cecil Sharp House and having long conversations with A.L. Lloyd, discovering versions of different traditional songs he’d never encountered before. This was both amusing and bemusing Sandy Denny, who had joined a rock group in part to get away from traditional music; but she was comfortable singing the material, and knew a lot of it and could make a lot of suggestions herself. Swarbrick obviously knew the repertoire intimately, and Nicol was amenable, while Mattacks was utterly clueless about the folk tradition at this point but knew this was the music he wanted to make. Thompson knew very little about traditional music, and of all the band members except Denny he was the one who has shown the least interest in the genre in his subsequent career — but as we heard at the beginning, showing the least interest in the genre is a relative thing, and while Thompson was not hugely familiar with the genre, he *was* able to work with it, and was also more than capable of writing songs that fit in with the genre. Of the eleven songs on the album, which was titled Liege and Lief (which means, roughly, Lord and Loyalty), there were no cover versions of singer-songwriters. Eight were traditional songs, and three were originals, all written in the style of traditional songs. The album opened with “Come All Ye”, an introduction written by Denny and Hutchings (the only time the two would ever write together): [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Come All Ye”] The other two originals were songs where Thompson had written new lyrics to traditional melodies. On “Crazy Man Michael”, Swarbrick had said to Thompson that the tune to which he had set his new words was weaker than the lyrics, to which Thompson had replied that if Swarbrick felt that way he should feel free to write a new melody. He did, and it became the first of the small number of Thompson/Swarbrick collaborations: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Crazy Man Michael”] Thompson and Swarbrick would become a brief songwriting team, but as much as anything else it was down to proximity — the two respected each other as musicians, but never got on very well. In 1981 Swarbrick would say “Richard and I never got on in the early days of FC… we thought we did, but we never did. We composed some bloody good songs together, but it was purely on a basis of “you write that and I’ll write this, and we’ll put it together.” But we never sat down and had real good chats.” The third original on the album, and by far the most affecting, is another song where Thompson put lyrics to a traditional tune. In this case he thought he was putting the lyrics to the tune of “Willie O'Winsbury”, but he was basing it on a recording by Sweeney’s Men. The problem was that Sweeney’s Men had accidentally sung the lyrics of “Willie O'Winsbury'” to the tune of a totally different song, “Fause Foodrage”: [Excerpt: Sweeney’s Men, “Willie O’Winsbury”] Thompson took that melody, and set to it lyrics about loss and separation. Thompson has never been one to discuss the meanings of his lyrics in any great detail, and in the case of this one has said “I really don't know what it means. This song came out of a dream, and I pretty much wrote it as I dreamt it (it was the sixties), and didn't spend very long analyzing it. So interpret as you wish – or replace with your own lines.” But in the context of the traffic accident that had killed his tailor girlfriend and a bandmate, and injured most of his other bandmates, the lyrics about lonely travellers, the winding road, bruised and beaten sons, saying goodbye, and never cutting cloth, seem fairly self-explanatory: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Farewell, Farewell”] The rest of the album, though, was taken up by traditional tunes. There was a long medley of four different fiddle reels; a version of “Reynardine” (a song about a seductive man — or is he a fox? Or perhaps both — which had been recorded by Swarbrick and Carthy on their most recent album); a 19th century song about a deserter saved from the firing squad by Prince Albert; and a long take on “Tam Lin”, one of the most famous pieces in the Scottish folk music canon, a song that has been adapted in different ways by everyone from the experimental noise band Current 93 to the dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah to the comics writer Grant Morrison: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Tam Lin”] And “Matty Groves”, a song about a man killing his cheating wife and her lover, which actually has a surprisingly similar story to that of “1921” from another great concept album from that year, the Who’s Tommy. “Matty Groves” became an excuse for long solos and shows of instrumental virtuosity: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Matty Groves”] The album was recorded in September 1969, after their return from their break in the country and a triumphal performance at the Royal Festival Hall, headlining over fellow Witchseason artists John and Beverly Martyn and Nick Drake. It became a classic of the traditional folk genre — arguably *the* classic of the traditional folk genre. In 2007 BBC Radio 2’s Folk Music Awards gave it an award for most influential folk album of all time, and while such things are hard to measure, I doubt there’s anyone with even the most cursory knowledge of British folk and folk-rock music who would not at least consider that a reasonable claim. But once again, by the time the album came out in November, the band had changed lineups yet again. There was a fundamental split in the band – on one side were Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson, whose stance was, roughly, that Liege and Lief was a great experiment and a fun thing to do once, but really the band had two first-rate songwriters in themselves, and that they should be concentrating on their own new material, not doing these old songs, good as they were. They wanted to take the form of the traditional songs and use that form for new material — they wanted to make British folk-rock, but with the emphasis on the rock side of things. Hutchings, on the other hand, was equally sure that he wanted to make traditional music and go further down the rabbit hole of antiquity. With the zeal of the convert he had gone in a couple of years from being the leader of a band who were labelled “the British Jefferson Airplane” to becoming a serious scholar of traditional folk music. Denny was tired of touring, as well — she wanted to spend more time at home with Trevor Lucas, who was sleeping with other women when she was away and making her insecure. When the time came for the group to go on a tour of Denmark, Denny decided she couldn’t make it, and Hutchings was jubilant — he decided he was going to get A.L. Lloyd into the band in her place and become a *real* folk group. Then Denny reconsidered, and Hutchings was crushed. He realised that while he had always been the leader, he wasn’t going to be able to lead the band any further in the traditionalist direction, and quit the group — but not before he was delegated by the other band members to fire Denny. Until the publication of Richard Thompson’s autobiography in 2022, every book on the group or its members said that Denny quit the band again, which was presumably a polite fiction that the band agreed, but according to Thompson “Before we flew home, we decided to fire Sandy. I don't remember who asked her to leave – it was probably Ashley, who usually did the dirty work. She was reportedly shocked that we would take that step. She may have been fragile beneath the confident facade, but she still knew her worth.” Thompson goes on to explain that the reasons for kicking her out were that “I suppose we felt that in her mind she had already left” and that “We were probably suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, though there wasn't a name for it back then.” They had considered inviting Trevor Lucas to join the band to make Denny more comfortable, but came to the (probably correct) conclusion that while he was someone they got on well with personally, he would be another big ego in a band that already had several, and that being around Denny and Lucas’ volatile relationship would, in Thompson’s phrasing, “have not always given one a feeling of peace and stability.” Hutchings originally decided he was going to join Sweeney’s Men, but that group were falling apart, and their first rehearsal with Hutchings would also be their last as a group, with only Hutchings and guitarist and mandolin player Terry Woods left in the band. They added Woods’ wife Gay, and another couple, Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, and formed a group called Steeleye Span, a name given them by Martin Carthy. That group, like Fairport, went to “get their heads together in the country” for three months and recorded an album of electric versions of traditional songs, Hark the Village Wait, on which Mattacks and another drummer, Gerry Conway, guested as Steeleye Span didn’t at the time have their own drummer: [Excerpt: Steeleye Span, “Blackleg Miner”] Steeleye Span would go on to have a moderately successful chart career in the seventies, but by that time most of the original lineup, including Hutchings, had left — Hutchings stayed with them for a few albums, then went on to form the first of a series of bands, all called the Albion Band or variations on that name, which continue to this day. And this is something that needs to be pointed out at this point — it is impossible to follow every single individual in this narrative as they move between bands. There is enough material in the history of the British folk-rock scene that someone could do a 500 Songs-style podcast just on that, and every time someone left Fairport, or Steeleye Span, or the Albion Band, or Matthews’ Southern Comfort, or any of the other bands we have mentioned or will mention, they would go off and form another band which would then fission, and some of its members would often join one of those other bands. There was a point in the mid-1970s where the Albion Band had two original members of Fairport Convention while Fairport Convention had none. So just in order to keep the narrative anything like wieldy, I’m going to keep the narrative concentrated on the two figures from Fairport — Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson — whose work outside the group has had the most influence on the wider world of rock music more broadly, and only deal with the other members when, as they often did, their careers intersected with those two. That doesn’t mean the other members are not themselves hugely important musicians, just that their importance has been primarily to the folk side of the folk-rock genre, and so somewhat outside the scope of this podcast. While Hutchings decided to form a band that would allow him to go deeper and deeper into traditional folk music, Sandy Denny’s next venture was rather different. For a long time she had been writing far more songs than she had ever played for her bandmates, like “Nothing More”, a song that many have suggested is about Thompson: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “Nothing More”] When Joe Boyd heard that Denny was leaving Fairport Convention, he was at first elated. Fairport’s records were being distributed by A&M in the US at that point, but Island Records was in the process of opening up a new US subsidiary which would then release all future Fairport product — *but*, as far as A&M were concerned, Sandy Denny *was* Fairport Convention. They were only interested in her. Boyd, on the other hand, loved Denny’s work intensely, but from his point of view *Richard Thompson* was Fairport Convention. If he could get Denny signed directly to A&M as a solo artist before Island started its US operations, Witchseason could get a huge advance on her first solo record, while Fairport could continue making records for Island — he’d have two lucrative acts, on different labels. Boyd went over and spoke to A&M and got an agreement in principle that they would give Denny a forty-thousand-dollar advance on her first solo album — twice what they were paying for Fairport albums. The problem was that Denny didn’t want to be a solo act. She wanted to be the lead singer of a band. She gave many reasons for this — the one she gave to many journalists was that she had seen a Judy Collins show and been impressed, but noticed that Collins’ band were definitely a “backing group”, and as she put it “But that's all they were – a backing group. I suddenly thought, If you're playing together on a stage you might as well be TOGETHER.” Most other people in her life, though, say that the main reason for her wanting to be in a band was her desire to be with her boyfriend, Trevor Lucas. Partly this was due to a genuine desire to spend more time with someone with whom she was very much in love, partly it was a fear that he would cheat on her if she was away from him for long periods of time, and part of it seems to have been Lucas’ dislike of being *too* overshadowed by his talented girlfriend — he didn’t mind acknowledging that she was a major talent, but he wanted to be thought of as at least a minor one. So instead of going solo, Denny formed Fotheringay, named after the song she had written for Fairport. This new band consisted at first of Denny on vocals and occasional piano, Lucas on vocals and rhythm guitar, and Lucas’ old Eclection bandmate Gerry Conway on drums. For a lead guitarist, they asked Richard Thompson who the best guitarist in Britain was, and he told them Albert Lee. Lee in turn brought in bass player Pat Donaldson, but this lineup of the band barely survived a fortnight. Lee *was* arguably the best guitarist in Britain, certainly a reasonable candidate if you could ever have a singular best (as indeed was Thompson himself), but he was the best *country* guitarist in Britain, and his style simply didn’t fit with Fotheringay’s folk-influenced songs. He was replaced by American guitarist Jerry Donahue, who was not anything like as proficient as Lee, but who was still very good, and fit the band’s style much better. The new group rehearsed together for a few weeks, did a quick tour, and then went into the recording studio to record their debut, self-titled, album. Joe Boyd produced the album, but admitted himself that he only paid attention to those songs he considered worthwhile — the album contained one song by Lucas, “The Ballad of Ned Kelly”, and two cover versions of American singer-songwriter material with Lucas singing lead. But everyone knew that the songs that actually *mattered* were Sandy Denny’s, and Boyd was far more interested in them, particularly the songs “The Sea” and “The Pond and the Stream”: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “The Pond and the Stream”] Fotheringay almost immediately hit financial problems, though. While other Witchseason acts were used to touring on the cheap, all packed together in the back of a Transit van with inexpensive equipment, Trevor Lucas had ambitions of being a rock star and wanted to put together a touring production to match, with expensive transport and equipment, including a speaker system that got nicknamed “Stonehenge” — but at the same time, Denny was unhappy being on the road, and didn’t play many gigs. As well as the band itself, the Fotheringay album also featured backing vocals from a couple of other people, including Denny’s friend Linda Peters. Peters was another singer from the folk clubs, and a good one, though less well-known than Denny — at this point she had only released a couple of singles, and those singles seemed to have been as much as anything else released as a novelty. The first of those, a version of Dylan’s “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” had been released as by “Paul McNeill and Linda Peters”: [Excerpt: Paul McNeill and Linda Peters, “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”] But their second single, a version of John D. Loudermilk’s “You’re Taking My Bag”, was released on the tiny Page One label, owned by Larry Page, and was released under the name “Paul and Linda”, clearly with the intent of confusing particularly gullible members of the record-buying public into thinking this was the McCartneys: [Excerpt: Paul and Linda, “You’re Taking My Bag”] Peters was though more financially successful than almost anyone else in this story, as she was making a great deal of money as a session singer. She actually did another session involving most of Fotheringay around this time. Witchseason had a number of excellent songwriters on its roster, and had had some success getting covers by people like Judy Collins, but Joe Boyd thought that they might possibly do better at getting cover versions if they were performed in less idiosyncratic arrangements. Donahue, Donaldson, and Conway went into the studio to record backing tracks, and vocals were added by Peters and another session singer, who according to some sources also provided piano. They cut songs by Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band: [Excerpt: Linda Peters, “You Get Brighter”] Ed Carter, formerly of The New Nadir but by this time firmly ensconced in the Beach Boys’ touring band where he would remain for the next quarter-century: [Excerpt: Linda Peters, “I Don’t Mind”] John and Beverly Martyn, and Nick Drake: [Excerpt: Elton John, “Saturday Sun”] There are different lineups of musicians credited for those sessions in different sources, but I tend to believe that it’s mostly Fotheringay for the simple reason that Donahue says it was him, Donaldson and Conway who talked Lucas and Denny into the mistake that destroyed Fotheringay because of these sessions. Fotheringay were in financial trouble already, spending far more money than they were bringing in, but their album made the top twenty and they were getting respect both from critics and from the public — in September, Sandy Denny was voted best British female singer by the readers of Melody Maker in their annual poll, which led to shocked headlines in the tabloids about how this “unknown” could have beaten such big names as Dusty Springfield and Cilla Black. Only a couple of weeks after that, they were due to headline at the Albert Hall. It should have been a triumph. But Donahue, Donaldson, and Conway had asked that singing pianist to be their support act. As Donahue said later “That was a terrible miscast. It was our fault. He asked if [he] could do it. Actually Pat, Gerry and I had to talk Sandy and Trevor into [it]… We'd done these demos and the way he was playing – he was a wonderful piano player – he was sensitive enough. We knew very little about his stage-show. We thought he'd be a really good opener for us.” Unfortunately, Elton John was rather *too* good. As Donahue continued “we had no idea what he had in mind, that he was going to do the most incredible rock & roll show ever. He pretty much blew us off the stage before we even got on the stage.” To make matters worse, Fotheringay’s set, which was mostly comprised of new material, was underrehearsed and sloppy, and from that point on no matter what they did people were counting the hours until the band split up. They struggled along for a while though, and started working on a second record, with Boyd again producing, though as Boyd later said “I probably shouldn't have been producing the record. My lack of respect for the group was clear, and couldn't have helped the atmosphere. We'd put out a record that had sold disappointingly, A&M was unhappy. Sandy's tracks on the first record are among the best things she ever did – the rest of it, who cares? And the artwork, Trevor's sister, was terrible. It would have been one thing if I'd been unhappy with it and it sold, and the group was working all the time, making money, but that wasn't the case … I knew what Sandy was capable of, and it was very upsetting to me.” The record would not be released for thirty-eight years: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “Wild Mountain Thyme”] Witchseason was going badly into debt. Given all the fissioning of bands that we’ve already been talking about, Boyd had been stretched thin — he produced sixteen albums in 1970, and almost all of them lost money for the company. And he was getting more and more disillusioned with the people he was producing. He loved Beverly Martyn’s work, but had little time for her abusive husband John, who was dominating her recording and life more and more and would soon become a solo artist while making her stay at home (and stealing her ideas without giving her songwriting credit). The Incredible String Band were great, but they had recently converted to Scientology, which Boyd found annoying, and while he was working with all sorts of exciting artists like Vashti Bunyan and Nico, he was finding himself less and less important to the artists he mentored. Fairport Convention were a good example of this. After Denny and Hutchings had left the group, they’d decided to carry on as an electric folk group, performing an equal mix of originals by the Swarbrick and Thompson songwriting team and arrangements of traditional songs. The group were now far enough away from the “British Jefferson Airplane” label that they decided they didn’t need a female vocalist — and more realistically, while they’d been able to replace Judy Dyble, nobody was going to replace Sandy Denny. Though it’s rather surprising when one considers Thompson’s subsequent career that nobody seems to have thought of bringing in Denny’s friend Linda Peters, who was dating Joe Boyd at the time (as Denny had been before she met Lucas) as Denny’s replacement. Instead, they decided that Swarbrick and Thompson were going to share the vocals between them. They did, though, need a bass player to replace Hutchings. Swarbrick wanted to bring in Dave Pegg, with whom he had played in the Ian Campbell Folk Group, but the other band members initially thought the idea was a bad one. At the time, while they respected Swarbrick as a musician, they didn’t think he fully understood rock and roll yet, and they thought the idea of getting in a folkie who had played double bass rather than an electric rock bassist ridiculous. But they auditioned him to mollify Swarbrick, and found that he was exactly what they needed. As Joe Boyd later said “All those bass lines were great, Ashley invented them all, but he never could play them that well. He thought of them, but he was technically not a terrific bass player. He was a very inventive, melodic, bass player, but not a very powerful one technically. But having had the part explained to him once, Pegg was playing it better than Ashley had ever played it… In some rock bands, I think, ultimately, the bands that sound great, you can generally trace it to the bass player… it was at that point they became a great band, when they had Pegg.” The new lineup of Fairport decided to move in together, and found a former pub called the Angel, into which all the band members moved, along with their partners and children (Thompson was the only one who was single at this point) and their roadies. The group lived together quite happily, and one gets the impression that this was the period when they were most comfortable with each other, even though by this point they were a disparate group with disparate tastes, in music as in everything else. Several people have said that the only music all the band members could agree they liked at this point was the first two albums by The Band. With the departure of Hutchings from the band, Swarbrick and Thompson, as the strongest personalities and soloists, became in effect the joint leaders of the group, and they became collaborators as songwriters, trying to write new songs that were inspired by traditional music. Thompson described the process as “let’s take one line of this reel and slow it down and move it up a minor third and see what that does to it; let’s take one line of this ballad and make a whole song out of it. Chopping up the tradition to find new things to do… like a collage.” Generally speaking, Swarbrick and Thompson would sit by the fire and Swarbrick would play a melody he’d been working on, the two would work on it for a while, and Thompson would then go away and write the lyrics. This is how the two came up with songs like the nine-minute “Sloth”, a highlight of the next album, Full House, and one that would remain in Fairport’s live set for much of their career: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sloth”] “Sloth” was titled that way because Thompson and Swarbrick were working on two tunes, a slow one and a fast one, and they jokingly named them “Sloth” and “Fasth”, but the latter got renamed to “Walk Awhile”, while “Sloth” kept its working title. But by this point, Boyd and Thompson were having a lot of conflict in the studio. Boyd was never the most technical of producers — he was one of those producers whose job is to gently guide the artists in the studio and create a space for the music to flourish, rather than the Joe Meek type with an intimate technical knowledge of the studio — and as the artists he was working with gained confidence in their own work they felt they had less and less need of him. During the making of the Full House album, Thompson and Boyd, according to Boyd, clashed on everything — every time Boyd thought Thompson had done a good solo, Thompson would say to erase it and let him have another go, while every time Boyd thought Thompson could do better, Thompson would say that was the take to keep. One of their biggest clashes was over Thompson’s song “Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman”, which was originally intended for release on the album, and is included in current reissues of it: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman”] Thompson had written that song inspired by what he thought was the unjust treatment of Alex Bramham, the driver in Fairport’s fatal car crash, by the courts — Bramham had been given a prison sentence of a few months for dangerous driving, while the group members thought he had not been at fault. Boyd thought it was one of the best things recorded for the album, but Thompson wasn’t happy with his vocal — there was one note at the top of the melody that he couldn’t quite hit — and insisted it be kept off the record, even though that meant it would be a shorter album than normal. He did this at such a late stage that early copies of the album actually had the title printed on the sleeve, but then blacked out. He now says in his autobiography “I could have persevered, double-tracked the voice, warmed up for longer – anything. It was a good track, and the record was lacking without it. When the album was re-released, the track was restored with a more confident vocal, and it has stayed there ever since.” During the sessions for Full House the group also recorded one non-album single, Thompson and Swarbrick’s “Now Be Thankful”: [Excerpt, Fairport Convention, “Now Be Thankful”] The B-side to that was a medley of two traditional tunes plus a Swarbrick original, but was given the deliberately ridiculous title “Sir B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For The 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie”: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sir B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For The 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie”] The B. McKenzie in the title was a reference to the comic-strip character Barry McKenzie, a stereotype drunk Australian created for Private Eye magazine by the comedian Barry Humphries (later to become better known for his Dame Edna Everage character) but the title was chosen for one reason only — to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the song with the longest title. Which they did, though they were later displaced by the industrial band Test Dept, and their song “Long Live British Democracy Which Flourishes and Is Constantly Perfected Under the Immaculate Guidance of the Great, Honourable, Generous and Correct Margaret Hilda Thatcher. She Is the Blue Sky in the Hearts of All Nations. Our People Pay Homage and Bow in Deep Respect and Gratitude to Her. The Milk of Human Kindness”. Full House got excellent reviews in the music press, with Rolling Stone saying “The music shows that England has finally gotten her own equivalent to The Band… By calling Fairport an English equivalent of the Band, I meant that they have soaked up enough of the tradition of their countryfolk that it begins to show all over, while they maintain their roots in rock.” Off the back of this, the group went on their first US tour, culminating in a series of shows at the Troubadour in LA, on the same bill as Rick Nelson, which were recorded and later released as a live album: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sloth (live)”] The Troubadour was one of the hippest venues at the time, and over their residency there the group got seen by many celebrities, some of whom joined them on stage. The first was Linda Ronstadt, who initially demurred, saying she didn’t know any of their songs. On being told they knew all of hers, she joined in with a rendition of “Silver Threads and Golden Needles”. Thompson was later asked to join Ronstadt’s backing band, who would go on to become the Eagles, but he said later of this offer “I would have hated it. I’d have hated being on the road with four or five miserable Americans — they always seem miserable. And if you see them now, they still look miserable on stage — like they don’t want to be there and they don’t like each other.” The group were also joined on stage at the Troubadour on one memorable night by some former bandmates of Pegg’s. Before joining the Ian Campbell Folk Group, Pegg had played around the Birmingham beat scene, and had been in bands with John Bonham and Robert Plant, who turned up to the Troubadour with their Led Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page (reports differ on whether the fourth member of Zeppelin, John Paul Jones, also came along). They all got up on stage together and jammed on songs like “Hey Joe”, “Louie Louie”, and various old Elvis tunes. The show was recorded, and the tapes are apparently still in the possession of Joe Boyd, who has said he refuses to release them in case he is murdered by the ghost of Peter Grant. According to Thompson, that night ended in a three-way drinking contest between Pegg, Bonham, and Janis Joplin, and it’s testament to how strong the drinking culture is around Fairport and the British folk scene in general that Pegg outdrank both of them. According to Thompson, Bonham was found naked by a swimming pool two days later, having missed two gigs. For all their hard rock image, Led Zeppelin were admirers of a lot of the British folk and folk-rock scene, and a few months later Sandy Denny would become the only outside vocalist ever to appear on a Led Zeppelin record when she duetted with Plant on “The Battle of Evermore” on the group’s fourth album: [Excerpt: Led Zeppelin, “The Battle of Evermore”] Denny would never actually get paid for her appearance on one of the best-selling albums of all time. That was, incidentally, not the only session that Denny was involved in around this time — she also sang on the soundtrack to a soft porn film titled Swedish Fly Girls, whose soundtrack was produced by Manfred Mann: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “What Will I Do With Tomorrow?”] Shortly after Fairport’s trip to America, Joe Boyd decided he was giving up on Witchseason. The company was now losing money, and he was finding himself having to produce work for more and more acts as the various bands fissioned. The only ones he really cared about were Richard Thompson, who he was finding it more and more difficult to work with, Nick Drake, who wanted to do his next album with just an acoustic guitar anyway, Sandy Denny, who he felt was wasting her talents in Fotheringay, and Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band, who was more distant since his conversion to Scientology. Boyd did make some attempts to keep the company going. On a trip to Sweden, he negotiated an agreement with the manager and publisher of a Swedish band whose songs he’d found intriguing, the Hep Stars. Boyd was going to publish their songs in the UK, and in return that publisher, Stig Anderson, would get the rights to Witchseason’s catalogue in Scandinavia — a straight swap, with no money changing hands. But before Boyd could get round to signing the paperwork, he got a better offer from Mo Ostin of Warners — Ostin wanted Boyd to come over to LA and head up Warners’ new film music department. Boyd sold Witchseason to Island Records and moved to LA with his fiancee Linda Peters, spending the next few years working on music for films like Deliverance and A Clockwork Orange, as well as making his own documentary about Jimi Hendrix, and thus missed out on getting the UK publishing rights for ABBA, and all the income that would have brought him, for no money. And it was that decision that led to the breakup of Fotheringay. Just before Christmas 1970, Fotheringay were having a difficult session, recording the track “John the Gun”: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “John the Gun”] Boyd got frustrated and kicked everyone out of the session, and went for a meal and several drinks with Denny. He kept insisting that she should dump the band and just go solo, and then something happened that the two of them would always describe differently. She asked him if he would continue to produce her records if she went solo, and he said he would. According to Boyd’s recollection of the events, he meant that he would fly back from California at some point to produce her records. According to Denny, he told her that if she went solo he would stay in Britain and not take the job in LA. This miscommunication was only discovered after Denny told the rest of Fotheringay after the Christmas break that she was splitting the band. Jerry Donahue has described that as the worst moment of his life, and Denny felt very guilty about breaking up a band with some of her closest friends in — and then when Boyd went over to the US anyway she felt a profound betrayal. Two days before Fotheringay’s final concert, in January 1971, Sandy Denny signed a solo deal with Island records, but her first solo album would not end up produced by Joe Boyd. Instead, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens was co-produced by Denny, John Wood — the engineer who had worked with Boyd on pretty much everything he’d produced, and Richard Thompson, who had just quit Fairport Convention, though he continued living with them at the Angel, at least until a truck crashed into the building in February 1971, destroying its entire front wall and forcing them to relocate. The songs chosen for The North Star Grassman and the Ravens reflected the kind of choices Denny would make on her future albums, and her eclectic taste in music. There was, of course, the obligatory Dylan cover, and the traditional folk ballad “Blackwaterside”, but there was also a cover version of Brenda Lee’s “Let’s Jump the Broomstick”: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Let’s Jump the Broomstick”] Most of the album, though, was made up of originals about various people in Denny’s life, like “Next Time Around”, about her ex-boyfriend Jackson C Frank: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Next Time Around”] The album made the top forty in the UK — Denny’s only solo album to do so — and led to her once again winning the “best female singer” award in Melody Maker’s readers’ poll that year — the male singer award was won by Rod Stewart. Both Stewart and Denny appeared the next year on the London Symphony Orchestra’s all-star version of The Who’s Tommy, which had originally been intended as a vehicle for Stewart before Roger Daltrey got involved. Stewart’s role was reduced to a single song, “Pinball Wizard”, while Denny sang on “It’s a Boy”: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “It’s a Boy”] While Fotheringay had split up, all the band members play on The North Star Grassman and the Ravens. Guitarists Donahue and Lucas only play on a couple of the tracks, with Richard Thompson playing most of the guitar on the record. But Fotheringay’s rhythm section of Pat Donaldson and Gerry Conway play on almost every track. Another musician on the album, Ian Whiteman, would possibly have a profound effect on the future direction of Richard Thompson’s career and life. Whiteman was the former keyboard player for the mod band The Action, having joined them just before they became the blues-rock band Mighty Baby. But Mighty Baby had split up when all of the band except the lead singer had converted to Islam. Richard Thompson was on his own spiritual journey at this point, and became a Sufi – the same branch of Islam as Whiteman – soon after the session, though Thompson has said that his conversion was independent of Whiteman’s. The two did become very close and work together a lot in the mid-seventies though. Thompson had supposedly left Fairport because he was writing material that wasn’t suited to the band, but he spent more than a year after quitting the group working on sessions rather than doing anything with his own material, and these sessions tended to involve the same core group of musicians. One of the more unusual was a folk-rock supergroup called The Bunch, put together by Trevor Lucas. Richard Branson had recently bought a recording studio, and wanted a band to test it out before opening it up for commercial customers, so with this free studio time Lucas decided to record a set of fifties rock and roll covers. He gathered together Thompson, Denny, Whiteman, Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks, Pat Donaldson, Gerry Conway, pianist Tony Cox, the horn section that would later form the core of the Average White Band, and Linda Peters, who had now split up with Joe Boyd and returned to the UK, and who had started dating Thompson. They recorded an album of covers of songs by Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Johnny Otis and others: [Excerpt: The Bunch, “Willie and the Hand Jive”] The early seventies was a hugely productive time for this group of musicians, as they all continued playing on each other’s projects. One notable album was No Roses by Shirley Collins, which featured Thompson, Mattacks, Whiteman, Simon Nicol, Lal and Mike Waterson, and Ashley Hutchings, who was at that point married to Collins, as well as some more unusual musicians like the free jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill: [Excerpt: Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band, “Claudy Banks”] Collins was at the time the most respected female singer in British traditional music, and already had a substantial career including a series of important records made with her sister Dolly, work with guitarists like Davey Graham, and time spent in the 1950s collecting folk songs in the Southern US with her then partner Alan Lomax – according to Collins she did much of the actual work, but Lomax only mentioned her in a single sentence in his book on this work. Some of the same group of musicians went on to work on an album of traditional Morris dancing tunes, titled Morris On, credited to “Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick and Barry Dransfield”, with Collins singing lead on two tracks: [Excerpt: Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick and Barry Dransfield with Shirley Collins, “The Willow Tree”] Thompson thought that that album was the best of the various side projects he was involved in at the time, comparing it favourably to Rock On, which he thought was rather slight, saying later “Conceptually, Fairport, Ashley and myself and Sandy were developing a more fragile style of music that nobody else was particularly interested in, a British Folk Rock idea that had a logical development to it, although we all presented it our own way. Morris On was rather more true to what we were doing. Rock On was rather a retro step. I'm not sure it was lasting enough as a record but Sandy did sing really well on the Buddy Holly songs.” Hutchings used the musicians on No Roses and Morris On as the basis for his band the Albion Band, which continues to this day. Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks both quit Fairport to join the Albion Band, though Mattacks soon returned. Nicol would not return to Fairport for several years, though, and for a long period in the mid-seventies Fairport Convention had no original members. Unfortunately, while Collins was involved in the Albion Band early on, she and Hutchings ended up divorcing, and the stress from the divorce led to Collins developing spasmodic dysphonia, a stress-related illness which makes it impossible for the sufferer to sing. She did eventually regain her vocal ability, but between 1978 and 2016 she was unable to perform at all, and lost decades of her career. Richard Thompson occasionally performed with the Albion Band early on, but he was getting stretched a little thin with all these sessions. Linda Peters said later of him “When I came back from America, he was working in Sandy’s band, and doing sessions by the score. Always with Pat Donaldson and Dave Mattacks. Richard would turn up with his guitar, one day he went along to do a session with one of those folkie lady singers — and there were Pat and DM. They all cracked. Richard smashed his amp and said “Right! No more sessions!” In 1972 he got round to releasing his first solo album, Henry the Human Fly, which featured guest appearances by Linda Peters and Sandy Denny among others: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “The Angels Took My Racehorse Away”] Unfortunately, while that album has later become regarded as one of the classics of its genre, at the time it was absolutely slated by the music press. The review in Melody Maker, for example, read in part “Some of Richard Thompson’s ideas sound great – which is really the saving grace of this album, because most of the music doesn’t. The tragedy is that Thompson’s “British rock music” is such an unconvincing concoction… Even the songs that do integrate rock and traditional styles of electric guitar rhythms and accordion and fiddle decoration – and also include explicit, meaningful lyrics are marred by bottle-up vocals, uninspiring guitar phrases and a general lack of conviction in performance.” Henry the Human Fly was released in the US by Warners, who had a reciprocal licensing deal with Island (and for whom Joe Boyd was working at the time, which may have had something to do with that) but according to Thompson it became the lowest-selling record that Warners ever put out (though I’ve also seen that claim made about Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle, another album that has later been rediscovered). Thompson was hugely depressed by this reaction, and blamed his own singing. Happily, though, by this point he and Linda had become a couple — they would marry in 1972 — and they started playing folk clubs as a duo, or sometimes in a trio with Simon Nicol. Thompson was also playing with Sandy Denny’s backing band at this point, and played on every track on her second solo album, Sandy. This album was meant to be her big commercial breakthrough, with a glamorous cover photo by David Bailey, and with a more American sound, including steel guitar by Sneaky Pete Kleinow of the Flying Burrito Brothers (whose overdubs were supervised in LA by Joe Boyd): [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Tomorrow is a Long Time”] The album was given a big marketing push by Island, and “Listen, Listen” was made single of the week on the Radio 1 Breakfast show: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Listen, Listen”] But it did even worse than the previous album, sending her into something of a depression. Linda Thompson (as the former Linda Peters now was) said of this period “After the Sandy album, it got her down that her popularity didn't suddenly increase in leaps and bounds, and that was the start of her really fretting about the way her career was going. Things only escalated after that. People like me or Martin Carthy or Norma Waterson would think, ‘What are you on about? This is folk music.'” After Sandy’s release, Denny realised she could no longer afford to tour with a band, and so went back to performing just acoustically or on piano. The only new music to be released by either of these ex-members of Fairport Convention in 1973 was, oddly, on an album by the band they were no longer members of. After Thompson had left Fairport, the group had managed to release two whole albums with the same lineup — Swarbrick, Nicol, Pegg, and Mattacks. But then Nicol and Mattacks had both quit the band to join the Albion Band with their former bandmate Ashley Hutchings, leading to a situation where the Albion Band had two original members of Fairport plus their longtime drummer while Fairport Convention itself had no original members and was down to just Swarbrick and Pegg. Needing to fulfil their contracts, they then recruited three former members of Fotheringay — Lucas on vocals and rhythm guitar, Donahue on lead guitar, and Conway on drums. Conway was only a session player at the time, and Mattacks soon returned to the band, but Lucas and Donahue became full-time members. This new lineup of Fairport Convention released two albums in 1973, widely regarded as the group’s most inconsistent records, and on the title track of the first, “Rosie”, Richard Thompson guested on guitar, with Sandy Denny and Linda Thompson on backing vocals: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Rosie”] Neither Sandy Denny nor Richard Thompson released a record themselves in 1973, but in neither case was this through the artists’ choice. The record industry was changing in the early 1970s, as we’ll see in later episodes, and was less inclined to throw good money after bad in the pursuit of art. Island Records prided itself on being a home for great artists, but it was still a business, and needed to make money. We’ll talk about the OPEC oil crisis and its effect on the music industry much more when the podcast gets to 1973, but in brief, the production of oil by the US peaked in 1970 and started to decrease, leading to them importing more and more oil from the Middle East. As a result of this, oil prices rose slowly between 1971 and 1973, then very quickly towards the end of 1973 as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict that year. As vinyl is made of oil, suddenly producing records became much more expensive, and in this period a lot of labels decided not to release already-completed albums, until what they hoped would be a brief period of shortages passed. Both Denny and Thompson recorded albums at this point that got put to one side by Island. In the case of Thompson, it was the first album by Richard and Linda as a duo, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight”] Today, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, and as one of the two masterpieces that bookended Richard and Linda’s career as a duo and their marriage. But when they recorded the album, full of Richard’s dark songs, it was the opposite of commercial. Even a song that’s more or less a boy-girl song, like “Has He Got a Friend for Me?” has lyrics like “He wouldn’t notice me passing by/I could be in the gutter, or dangling down from a tree” [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “Has He got a Friend For Me?”] While something like “The Calvary Cross” is oblique and haunted, and seems to cast a pall over the entire album: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “The Calvary Cross”] The album itself had been cheap to make — it had been recorded in only a week, with Thompson bringing in musicians he knew well and had worked with a lot previously to cut the tracks as-live in only a handful of takes — but Island didn’t think it was worth releasing. The record stayed on the shelf for nearly a year after recording, until Island got a new head of A&R, Richard Williams. Williams said of the album’s release “Muff Winwood had been doing A&R, but he was more interested in production… I had a conversation with Muff as soon as I got there, and he said there are a few hangovers, some outstanding problems. And one of them was Richard Thompson. He said there’s this album we gave him the money to make — which was I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight — and nobody’s very interested in it. Henry the Human Fly had been a bit of a commercial disappointment, and although Island was altruistic and independent and known for only recording good stuff, success was important… Either a record had to do well or somebody had to believe in it a lot. And it seemed as if neither of those things were true at that point of Richard.” Williams, though, was hugely impressed when he listened to the album. He compared Richard Thompson’s guitar playing to John Coltrane’s sax, and called Thompson “the folk poet of the rainy streets”, but also said “Linda brightened it, made it more commercial. and I thought that “Bright Lights” itself seemed a really commercial song.” The rest of the management at Island got caught up in Williams’ enthusiasm, and even decided to release the title track as a single: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight”] Neither single nor album charted — indeed it would not be until 1991 that Richard Thompson would make a record that made the top forty in the UK — but the album got enough critical respect that Richard and Linda released two albums the year after. The first of these, Hokey Pokey, is a much more upbeat record than their previous one — Richard Thompson has called it “quite a music-hall influenced record” and cited the influence of George Formby and Harry Lauder. For once, the claim of music hall influence is audible in the music. Usually when a British musician is claimed to have a music ha

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Welcome to another enlightening episode of 'Reflecting Light'. Today, we delve deep into the annals of Islamic history, shedding light on a contentious hadith that has been a subject of debate for centuries. Who was the misguided aggressor? What role did Muawiya play in the grand tapestry of Islamic events? And how do familial ties with the Prophet SAWW influence our understanding of these figures? Join us as we unravel these mysteries, backed by authentic sources and a passion for truth. If you're keen on understanding the nuances of Islamic history, this episode is a must-listen. Don't forget to subscribe for more insightful episodes!

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Mengapa Maulid Nabi Haram Bagi Kaum Wahabi Oleh Buya Arrazy Hasyim

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Syekh Idahram menegaskan bahwa kaum Sufi sejatinya menghidupkan Sunnah nabi yang banyak orang tinggalkan, bukan seperti tuduhan yang mengatakan bahwa kaum sufi adalah pelaku bid'ah. Al Qur'an dan Sunnah memang jadi pedoman utama bagi setiap muslim, tapi menurut Penulis buku "Ulama Sejagad Menggugat Salafi Wahabi", hal itu tidak lah cukup. Seperti apa penjelasan lengkapnya? Saksikan Podcast Tasawuf hanya di TQN News!

Dr. David Wurmser who is Al Qaeda and what do they believe. Who are the Wahabi and what is their relationship to the Saudi Royals? How did Khashoggi play a role in the conflict? Muslim Brotherhood role in Sunni and their conflicts. Illegitimacy of Palestinian claims and their Russian connection. Iran and its nuclear ambitions and plan to attack New York.

Dr. David Wurmser who is Al Qaeda and what do they believe. Who are the Wahabi and what is their relationship to the Saudi Royals? How did Khashoggi play a role in the conflict? Muslim Brotherhood role in Sunni and their conflicts. Illegitimacy of Palestinian claims and their Russian connection. Iran and its nuclear ambitions and plan to attack New York.

Ustadz Zainal Abidin Al Masyhuri menjelaskan bahwa yang menyebabkan tarekat dianggap sesat ialah kesalahanpahaman mengenai bid'ah. Pengurus JATMAN DKI Bahtsul Masail Thariqiyah ini menyebut kekeliruan masyarakat memahami thariqah karena minimnya pengetahuan atau salah menerima informasi tentangnya. Bagaimana selengkapnya? Saksikan Podcast Tasawuf persembahan TQN News!

Ustaz Engku Ahmad Fadzil - CARA NAK KENAL FAHAMAN WAHABI

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Tokoh yang sudah mati tetap sudah mati. Kita peduli dengan mereka adalah demi mengambil teladan daripadanya untuk kehidupan hari ini. Kita tidak seharusnya mencakar dan merobek si mati, seolah-olah si mati yang telah mati, tetap mahu dibunuh dan dimatikan lagi, berkali-kali. وما فات فات ومن مات مات “Apa yang telah pergi, telah pergi. Siapa yang telah mati, telah mati!” Kita sanggup bermati-mati, untuk membuat keputusan terhadap si mati, seolah-olah kita mahu mengambil alih kuasa Tuhan, menentukan nasib si mati di alam kedua. Kita belajar daripada sejarah, catatan hidup generasi yang sudah mati, kerana mahu mencari teladan dan panduan bagi yang hidup. Atas dasar itu, saya sentiasa mengingatkan diri, supaya jangan celupar mengkritik generasi yang telah pergi. Yang baik pada si fulan, saya ambil jadi panduan, yang kurang dan cacat cela, saya pulangkan ia kepada Tuhannya yang juga Tuhan saya. Nasib mereka sudah pasti. Cela kita terhadap mereka tidak menambah hukuman derita. Puji kita tidak mengangkat mereka ke darjat mulia. Kita puji atau kita cela, mereka sudah melengkapkan sirah hidup mereka, dan kepada Allah jua kembali segala ketentuan. وَٱلَّذِينَ جَآءُو مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا ٱغْفِرْ لَنَا وَلِإِخْوَٰنِنَا ٱلَّذِينَ سَبَقُونَا بِٱلْإِيمَـٰنِ وَلَا تَجْعَلْ فِى قُلُوبِنَا غِلًّا لِّلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ رَبَّنَآ إِنَّكَ رَءُوفٌ رَّحِيمٌ Dan orang-orang (Islam) yang datang kemudian daripada mereka (berdoa dengan) berkata: “Wahai Tuhan Kami! Ampunkanlah dosa kami dan dosa saudara-saudara kami yang mendahului kami dalam iman, dan janganlah Engkau jadikan dalam hati perasaan hasad dengki dan dendam terhadap orang-orang yang beriman. Wahai Tuhan kami! Sesungguhnya Engkau Amat Melimpah Belas kasihan dan Rahmat-Mu” [Al-Hashr 59:10] Tidak menjadi lebih mulia seorang abid sufi yang mencaci saudaranya dengan label Wahabi. Tidak menjadi lebih sejahtera seorang abid salafi yang mencaci saudaranya dengan label bid'ah, Mazhabi dan Hizbi. Yang mencela Imam Syafie bukan kerana dia Wahabi. Yang mencela Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab bukan kerana dia Syafie atau Sufi. Pencela itu adalah pesakit yang berpenyakit lisan.Yang ilmunya tidak dapat menjinakkan perkataan. Yang perkataannya meliarkan umat Islam. Hawa nafsunya puas pada mencelah sirah si mati. Daripada Abi Umamah radhiyallahu anhu, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam telah bersabda: “Tidaklah sesat sesuatu kaum itu setelah mereka mendapat petunjuk dan mengamalkannya, melainkan dengan kaum itu gemar berdebat berbantah-bantah” Lalu baginda sallallahu alayhi wa sallam membacakan firman Allah: مَا ضَرَبُوهُ لَكَ إِلَّا جَدَلًا ۚ بَلْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ خَصِمُونَ Dan (sebenarnya) mereka tidak mengemukakan perbandingan itu kepadamu (wahai Muhammad) melainkan kerana membantah semata-mata (bukan kerana mencari kebenaran); bahkan mereka itu adalah kaum yang suka sekali mengemukakan bantahan. [Al-Zukhruf 43: 58] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hasrizal/message

Baru-baru ini, sahabat di tanahair memberitahu bahawa Prof Dr Basri Ibrahim al-Azhari hafizahullah ada menulis buku baharu beliau bertajuk Label dan Pelabelan Wahabi. Menariknya, di dalam bab keempat, ada satu topik berbunyi "Pelabelan Berfahaman Wahabi Terhadap Ustaz Hasrizal Abdul Jamil". Selalunya seseorang itu dibincangkan mengenainya selepas beliau meninggal dunia. Tetapi Allah izinkan saya untuk meneliti hal sebegini semasa masih hidup. Cuma telah meninggal juga, iaitu meninggalkan Malaysia. Saya bukan people pleaser. Golongan yang memfitnah dan melabel saya (dan berpuluh-puluh yang lain di senarai media sosial itu) dengan tuduhan sebegini bukanlah sepenuhnya orang asing yang tidak mengenali saya secara peribadi. Sebahagian pelopornya adalah sahabat dan kenalan sendiri, sepengajian, yang menempuh susur galur proses menuntut ilmu bersama-sama. Malang buat umat Islam yang berilmu, setelah belajar tinggi, berguru, berkitab, sujud meletak muka di tanah dan berikrar Allah Maha Besar pun, tetapi seperti tiada takut kepada Allah. Sedangkan ada pelbagai isu kompleks di belakang label Wahabi ini. Selain fakta berbalas fakta dan kupasan membidas kupasan, kita juga perlu melihat jurang semantik yang wujud antara bahasa Arab dengan bahasa Melayu dan Inggeris, pada mengungkap dan menghuraikan konsep-konsep kontroversi seputar istilah Wahabi itu. Isu ini juga rumit kerana jawapan yang benar sering diminta menggunakan soalan yang salah. Saya sudah pun beberapa kali menulis mengenai hal ini di dalam buku-buku terdahulu. Antaranya: Isu Wahhabiyyah: Tingkap Yang Disangka Pintu (2006 / 2016) | https://saifulislam.com/2016/04/isu-wahhabiyyah-tingkap-yang-disangka-pintu/ Keraguan: Adakah Ia Jalan Islah (2006) | https://saifulislam.com/2016/04/keraguan-adakah-ia-jalan-islah/ Iconoclasm di Bumi Haramain (2012) | https://saifulislam.com/2012/10/iconoclasm-di-bumi-haramain/ Lima Tiang Pensejarahan Dakwah Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (2014) | https://saifulislam.com/2014/02/lima-tiang-pensejarahan-dakwah-muhammad-ibn-abd-al-wahhab/ The Otherness: Pengitlakan Istilah Mengundang Musibah (2014) | https://saifulislam.com/2014/04/the-otherness-pengitlakan-istilah-mengundang-musibah/ Sindrom Menyerang ‘Ex' Merentas Sejarah (2015) | https://saifulislam.com/2015/03/sindrom-menyerang-x-merentas-sejarah/ Hidup Berpendirian, Jangan Peduli Apa Orang Kata (2020) | https://saifulislam.com/2020/06/hidup-berpendirian-jangan-peduli-apa-orang-kata/ Wahabikah Aku? (2021) | https://saifulislam.com/2021/11/wahabikah-aku/ Terima kasih Prof. Dr. Basri Ibrahim Al-Azhari kerana mengulas mengenai hal ini. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hasrizal/message

Syekh Thariqah sesat dan wajib dibunuh adalah salah satu bahaya pemikiran Wahabi yang dibongkar oleh Syekh Idahram dalam buku terbarunya “Membongkar Kedok Jihad Wahabi”. Sebuah buku yang berisi pemikiran dan praktik jihad Syekh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab langsung diteliti dari seluruh karyanya sendiri. Menurut Syekh Idahram, banyak pengikutnya sendiri yang tidak mengenal Syekh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab. Padahal embrio ISIS lahir dari pemikiran tokoh utama pendiri sekte Wahabi tersebut. Lalu bagaimana perkembangan dan dinamika dakwah Salafi Wahabi di Indonesia? Simak selengkapnya dalam Podcast Tasawuf dari TQN News!

KAJIAN KITAB AL WAHABI || BANTAHAN TERHADAP DALIL WAHABI || DR ARRAZY HASYIM, MA

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Tempat ke-40 Wahabi di Malaysia, Hasrizal Abdul Jamil. Pernahkah anda mendapat senarai berkenaan? Senarai itu sudah lama berlegar di media sosial dan saiznya bertambah panjang dari semasa ke semasa. Jika senarai itu mahmudah, baik, berkebajikan, maka banyaklah pahala di sisi Allah orang yang menghasilkannya. Tetapi jika senarai itu mazmumah, dusta dan bermaksud melemparkan tuduhan sesat atau fasiq, atau kafir ke atas sesama umat Islam, maka amat besarlah ancamannya di sisi Allah dan Rasul yang kita kasihi, sallallāh ‘alayhi wa sallam. Pesan Nabi sallallāh ‘alayhi wa sallam: ‎لا يرمي رجلٌ رجلاً بالفسوق، ولا يرميه بالكفر، إلا ارتدت عليه، إن لم يكن صاحبه كذلك Barang siapa menuduh fasik atau kafir terhadap seseorang lain adalah dia sendiri yang akan menjadi fasik atau kafir jika tuduhan itu tidak benar. (Riwayat al-Bukhari).

[Podcast KMIB x KMFM] Assalamu'allaikum KMIBersss!!! Podcast Kastrat kembali nih! Yuk dengerin podcast kali ini yang membahas tentang Islam Syiah dan Islam Wahabi, sebuah bahasan yang kiranya sering kita dengar namun masih cukup menjadi pertanyaan bagi kita. Gak hanya itu, di podcast kali ini KMIB ber-kolaborasi dengan KMFM dari FMIPA loh. Wah, seru banget pastinya nih. Yuk langsung cus dengerin podcast Kastrat kali ini! Narasumber:

The growth of Taliban is a risk for all humanity. It is a consequence of the policies adopted by the extremist regime of Saudi Arabia. Wahabism is the official sect of Saudi Arabia and is fully supported by the Saudi government since the very beginning. It has been exported to the entire world. Illegitimate custodianship of Makkah and Madinah has been a big reason why people have accepted their ideology. While anyone can do whatever they want, but creating chaos and producing killers should not be allowed. However, that's what this Wahabi mentality has done. If one argues that this is not the case, let's just see the history of Muslim extremist / terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Taleban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, all of which adhere to the extremist sect of Wahabism. Therefore, in order to cull the support of terrorism, the Muslim Ummah should come together to liberate Hijaz from the clutches of Aal-e-Saud and the true essence of Islam should be propagated through the Holy cities of Makkah and Madinah.

Potongan kajian Ustadz Firanda Andirja tentang Wahabi

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Eps 207

Jawaban atas tuduhan tanpa fakta yang dilontarkan oleh seorang yang terindikasi benci dg perkembangan salafi di Indonesia.

KH Said Aqil Siraj menyatakan ajaran Wahabi dan Salafi yang kerap menyalahkan atau mengkafirkan kelompok lain menjadi pintu masuk lahirnya terorisme. Di Radio Elshinta, Ketua OIAA Cabang Indonesia sekaligus ketua umum NWDI TGB HM Zainul Majdi menyebut, apa yang disampaikan Kiai Said harus menjadi perhatian. Untuk itu Ketua Umum Nahdlatul Wathan Diniyyah Islamiyah (NWDI) ini mengingatkan pentingnya memilih guru. Tidak boleh sembarangan mencari guru. Selain itu, belajar agama tidak cukup hanya dengan membaca buku saja. Penjelasan lengkap oleh TGB bisa anda simak secara utuh lewat Video rekaman yang di ambil dari radio Elshinta. Untuk Versi Podcast bisa di simak Bagi penikmat Podcast Dakwah silahkan buka Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3XrZcIW9hkX6vyEV6NZQpm Breaker https://www.breaker.audio/tuan-guru-b... ... Anchor https://anchor.fm/loper-media Google Podcast https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed... Podcast Cast https://pca.st/k8lcjdv8 Radio Publik https://radiopublic.com/tuan-guru-baj... ... *Untuk Instagram silahkan Follow* https://www.instagram.com/tgbdakwahnu... * Video* : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpVRu... *Ingin dapat Info terbaru Dakwah TGB via telegram silahkan gabung di* https://t.me/joinchat/HNbIQvAxt5sntW0y #NahdlatulWathanDiniyahIslamiyah #NWDI #OIAA #TGBdakwahNusantara #DakwahNusantara

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Kitab-kitab karya ulama klasik terbukti dimanipulasi untuk mengakomodir paham Salafi Wahabi. Upaya penyelewengan ilmiah terhadap puluhan kitab tersebut dibukukan oleh Syekh Idahram dengan judul "Mereka Memalsukan Kitab-Kitab Karya Ulama Klasik". Kitab apa saja dan seperti apa model pemalsuan dan penyelewengannya? Saksikan selengkapnya hanya di Podcast Tasawuf.

Sebagai seorang akademisi, Syekh Idahram banyak mencurahkan waktunya untuk meneliti seputar sekte salafi wahabi. Atas keprihatinannya, tak kurang sudah 4 buku yang ditulisnya. Termasuk disertasinya yang membahas jihadnya pendiri sekte salafi wahabi. Syekh Idahram, ingin memastikan melalui karya-karya Syekh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab ini, apakah ia ikut terlibat dalam pembunuhan atau tidak? Bagaimana fakta menarik yang ditemukannya? Saksikan selengkapnya hanya di Podcast Tasawuf dari TQNN.

Eps 198

Bismillah, Bahasan kajian ini terkait aqidah ahlusunnah wal jamaah yang menisbahkan diri kepada as-salafushaleh dengan aqidah yang sesuai Quran dan Sunnah dengan kepercayaan bahwa Allah ber istiwa di arsy

Ngobrolin seputar siapakah sebenarnya wahabi, siapa pencetus istilah wahabi, benarkah wahabi radikal dan keras, apakah sama wahabi dan salafi, dan membenarkan stigma tentang wahabi. Bersama Ustadz Abu Ghozie As Sundawy Podcast Surabaya Mengaji Tayang tiap Rabu dan Sabtu Insyaallah

Orang-orang biasa menuduh “Wahabi ” kepada setiap orang yang melanggar tradisi, kepercayaan dan bid'ah mereka, sekalipun kepercayaan-kepercayaan mereka itu rusak, bertentangan dengan Al-Qur'anul Karim dan hadits-hadits shahih. Mereka menentang dakwah kepada tauhid dan enggan berdo'a (memohon) hanya kepada Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala semata. Wahabi yang sebenarnya merupakan firqah sempalan Ibadhiyah khawarij yang timbul pada abad kedua hijriyah (jauh sebelum masa Syaikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab yang sering dituduhkan orang padanya), yaitu sebutan Wahabi nisbat kepada tokoh sentralnya Abdul Wahab bin Abdurrahman bin Rustum yang wafat tahun 211 H. Wahabi merupakan kelompok yang sangat ekstrim kepada ahli sunnah, sangat membenci syiah dan sangat jauh dari Islam.

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In this episode, we discuss Yasir Qadhis' breakdown of the Wahabi movement as well as the founder (Muhummad ibn Abdul Wahab), the phases it went through and moving away from it. We also talk about the current crisis in China and the atrocities being committed against the Uighur Muslims there, and the lack of response from Muslim countries around the world & a brief look into Pak politics.   ----more----   You can also follow us on; Website: www.noapologiesgiven.com Twitter: @noapologiesgivenpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NoApologiesPod/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noapologiesgivenpodcast/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/NoApologiesGiven   You can also e-mail us on noapologiesgivenpodcast@gmail.com if you have any queries.

Catherine Shakdam, my guest this week,is a geopolitical analyst and commentator on the Middle East with a special focus on Yemen and the Gulf countries, and was recently named head of the Yemen Unit at the Next Century Foundation in the UK. She writes for Citizen Truth, New Eastern Outlook, Huffington Post, the website of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the Katehon think tank, among others.  She is the author of a number of books including “A Tale of Grand Resistance: Yemen, the Wahhabi, and the House of Saud”, “Arabia’s Rising: Under The Banner of the First Imam”, and “From Mecca to the plain of Karbala”.  Her website is http://www.catherine-shakdam.com/ In this broadcast, we discuss her recent article “How Yemen’s War Stands to Redefine the Region’s Future” in New Eastern Outlook. Since the topics we discussed are complex, I am providing a full transcript below. Charles: Catherine, you've just taken a new position at the Next Century Foundation. Maybe you can tell us a little bit about the foundation and what your role is there Catherine: Sure. The Next Century Foundation is essentially a peace building organization. So we are a think tank, and we are particularly interested in curating good and healthy relationship between different actors in the Middle East, but not just the Middle East , some of our interests extend to Africa, and I'm serving as the head of the Yemen unit.  We have launched a peace initiative recently, and what we're trying to do, because people tend to get a little bit confused when I say peace initiative, they just assume that we have those ambitions, thinking that we can actually broker peace in Yemen and bring everybody to the table. That is not what we are trying to do. What we're trying to do is act as a soundboard for all the different local and regional actors.  The team and the think tank in general has enough gravitas and enough connections across the Middle East to force certain conversations, and maybe gently nudge people to look at the conflict a bit differently, and to act as advisors as well, to try to find some kind of common ground and some consensus as to what needs to happen in Yemen in order to not launch the region into complete disarray.  If there is a consensus about one thing, it is that things cannot continue as they are, and if they do, we will face hell. And when I say we, I mean not just the immediate region, but the international community because Yemen is a very sensitive country by its geography. And if we don't want to see a repeat of Afghanistan, Libya or potentially something worse, we need to really get things together now. The humanitarian catastrophe is just one of the areas where we could see things devolve quite rapidly into an ugly, ugly vacuum of we don't know what, and I don't like not knowing what could happen when it comes to politics. We try to avoid black swans, and I think that Yemen is fast becoming one. We don't want to get suddenly blindsided and then say, "Oops, we didn't see that coming". So this is what we are trying to do. We're trying to reassess the situation differently in that we're trying to look at Yemen not from the who's right/who's wrong perspective, but rather how can we make sure that all the parties get something and that the people are offered a good future. We want to be there for the Yemenis, not so much for their political parties or the various factions involved in this war. We want Yemen to get a chance at being reconstructed and people getting out of poverty and away from the humanitarian crisis they're facing right now. This is our view because we don't want to be political. We don't want to defend one party or the other. We just want Yemen to be offered the chance to decide what it wants for its future. Charles: Excellent. I want to get back to that a little bit later, but certainly Yemen is in the news. Of course, the latest thing is this bombing of a Saudi Aramco facility that's in the empty quarter of Saudi Arabia. So we have the rebels in Yemen saying that they are responsible. We have the US saying that Iran is responsible and of course, Iran says is not responsible. What's your take on this particular event and what is going on? Catherine: I need to back up a little bit. If you recall, this is not the first time that the Houthis have claimed an attack on Saudi Arabia, or even on the Emirates for that matter. A few weeks ago, they, there was an attack launched against Saudi Arabia and the Houthis claimed it as well. There were rumors that this attack actually came from Iraq, from one of the PMU bases in Iraq. As you know, the PMU has supported the Houthis, if not directly, at least ideologically Charles: PMU stands for Popular Mobilization Units. Catherine: The ones that were created by Ali Sistani. So ideologically, they are in line with the Houthis in that they do not like foreign boots on the ground. They do not like idea of Saudi Arabia promoting any form of terrorism, whether by way of it's war coalition or using ISIS or al-Qaida elements, etc. It's not difficult to imagine that there would be an alliance of sorts between the PMU and the Houthis because essentially they are quite similar outfits. I mean, they are militia-ish even though now they have become somewhat legitimized by just being on the ground.  So given that there were precedents when it comes to such attacks,a lot of people are now saying that this particular attack actually came from Iraq and not from Iran. Now some other people have argued that it came from Iran, but that it came from Iran without the direct knowledge of the regime and that it could be that there are various factions within Iran and Iraq who are not particularly in alignment with what Tehran is doing and saying right now in terms of its foreign policy and how it wants to weigh in on the Yemen conflict against Saudi Arabia.  There have been different rumors, but I will say this and I think it's of importance, is that only a few weeks ago the Israelis conducted a series of attacks against the PMU bases. Now you know very well that Saudi Arabia is acting as a buffer and almost a client state to Israel. So it's interesting to see that now Israel is actually looking not at Iran so much or even Yemen, but actually looking at Iraq and the PMU in particular as its next most immediate existential threats. So I just found it interesting that there's somehow a little bit of a shift. It's a possibility that other players are coming into the Yemeni war theater and maybe the Saudis did not plan on coming in to this equation. So all I'm saying is that I could well be wrong, but Iran said they didn't and they don't have a problem taking ownership of what they do. So I would take their word for it. That being said, it's very possible that a rogue element within the regime decided to act to force their hand. Iran has it's war hawks as well. America is not the only one. There are various scenarios that we need to consider, but I wouldn't jump to conclusions too quickly. Charles: No. I heard Professor Mohammad Morandi speaking from Tehran on RT the other day making the point that the US has very major defense installations all through Iraq and in the Gulf states that one would assume would have intercepted anything coming from the direction of Iran. There were apparently Patriot missile batteries near the site of the bombing, but from whatever direction this came, it got through, which is ... Catherine: It's interesting isn't it? Because bear in mind that the Saudis have literally spent billions and billions and billions of dollars to be made safe within their borders. And Aramco is a very strategic place that they need to protect. It is a matter of national survival for them. This is their bread and butter. So the idea that drone could actually hit and not miss is actually somewhat troubling to me. And again, we need to ask the question. It's not so much as to who fired as to who would benefit from either an escalation or a disintegration of Saudi Arabia's sovereignty because an attack on Aramco is an attack on Saudi Arabia's sovereignty and Mohammed bin Salmon's direct authority because this is an extension of his power. Without the oil, he has nothing. Charles: Right, and there are probably quite a number of elements who would like to see his power diminished. Catherine: Well, yes. America could be playing Riyadh and and saying, "Oh look, this could happen, you do need to spend more money". Orit could be that someone somewhere wants to weaken Saudi Arabia, or it could be America saying she's done with Saudi Arabia and thinking, well we milked you for all you got. Maybe we want to make new friends in the region. I don't know.  Everything is possible when it comes to Donald Trump. I mean, he's not exactly very loyal to his friendships or even to the treaty that he's predicted to sign anyway. So I think anything goes right now, which is very dangerous because it's very difficult to predict what's going to happen or who did what, or on whose authority. Charles: I think one of the things that our government certainly is saying is that the Yemeni group - and maybe we should stop for a moment right here. As to the nature of the group in Yemen that is doing the fighting here, the western press tends to call them either the Houthis or more likely the Iran-backed Houthi rebels or something of that nature. Catherine: That actually infuriates me because if you want to be precise, and I understand that people want to cast a shade against your Iran and say they funded those militias in those groups across the region and they're fomenting instability. Iran is not funding them. And I mean they are not funding the Houthis for one very simple reason, they don't have the money for it. They are under sanctions, they are suffering greatly within their own borders. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever for them to fund a war in Yemen or any kind of war effort in Yemen when Yemen is not even sharing a border with them.  So if you're talking for example about Iraq, I would say yes, if you're talking about Syria, I would say yes, because it makes sense from a strategic perspective. Yemen doesn't make sense for Iran in the immediate term. And bear in mind that Iran's economy has shrunk so much that they really can't afford any kind of frivolity right now and Yemen's war would be classified under frivolity as far as the Iranian government is concerned.  Right now I think Iran is more concerned about feeding its people and ensuring that they don't end up with some kind of an unrest on their hands because people are going hungry, than actually playing with the Houthis. By the way, anyone who knows anything about Yemen, will tell you that the second you start pumping money into that country, it disappears into black holes. Yemen is really not an easy country to handle even if you have a good relationship with people there, because there's so much corruption. There are so many entanglements between the tribes and the religious factions and the political factions and the military and so on. It's very complicated and very, very expensive. And I don't think that the Iranians have time for it. So if you want to call them something, call them rebels if you want to. They're not, but you can call them that. But they're not Iran funded or Iranian backed at all. Charles: And they are at this point, the de facto government of at least part of Yemen. Catherine: Exactly and so they might want to change the adjective that they're using. The thing is the Houthis are not even technically in charge of everything. It's a coalition government. So what you have is a resistance movement within which you have the Houthis and you have -- I mean, look, if you look at the war, the war has lasted for four years now. It would be ridiculous to think that the Houthi who by the way account for about two to five thousand men tops because they're from one city inside the northern province of Yemen. There are not that many. They're not even a tribe technically, they're just a movement,okay? They have about five thousand fighters. So you're telling me that five thousand people for four years have managed to push against several military super powers, including Saudi Arabia? Come on. They were helped by the military in Yemen, which is by the way, loyal to the former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. They aren't exactly pro-Houthi they just understand that they have to align themselves with the Houthis right now because they need all the help they can get to prevent foreign boots to bridge into their country. So it's really just an act of self defense and you have various factions who maybe don't like each other very much. but who right now have to make do because someone is batting them on the head. So they have to be friends right now. But people need to stop thinking that this war in Yemen is being led by the Houthis, they are just part of it. But it's easier again for the media to demonize an entire country by saying, “Oh, the bad Shi'a rebel Houthis, who are backed by the bad, bad Iran people”. No, it's not the case and it's, trust me, there's not even one Iranian boot on the ground in Yemen, you would like to think that they would send a few just to keep an eye on their interest. I mean, they've done it in Syria and in Iraq. Why not in Yemen? If they are in fact there but they're not! Otherwise trust me, you would have pictures everywhere of Iranian generals leading the show and the Saudis would say see, see we told you they were there. They're not there. People need to get over it. Charles: Exactly. We don't hear that at all in the western press at this point. Catherine: Because they don't know Yemen. I'm not berating the journalists, but they need to do a bit more research when they cover Yemen. Yemen is complicated. I mean, take the time to research the country for God’s sake before you start slapping adjectives on people. Charles: Right. I think they just take the State Department press releases. Catherine: In this case, if they want it to be balanced, then when they talk about President Hadi, for example, they should say “Former undemocratically elected Sunni-borderline-Wahabi president who resigned twice then ran away from his country to ask a foreign power to declare war on his people.” - if you want it to be accurate. And I don't see anyone saying stuff like that. When they talk about the Saudis, do they say “The Wahhabi regime of Saudi Arabia”? No. So why do they have to say “the rebels”,the “Shi'a fighters”. Let's be balanced. Why don't you call them for what they are as well. If you want to do the sectarian game, play to the end. Charles: Great. Only this morning, I read an article of yours in the New Eastern Outlook. In that article you said that Yemen's war is now precipitating a profound geopolitical shift in the region. So maybe you can expound on that a little bit. Catherine: Well, it's complicated. But I'm going back to what I was saying about the Iraqis having entered the war theater. And you need to understand that when we talk about the Middle East, we have to talk about the Islamic World, and when we talk about the Islamic world, we need to understand that there are various schools of thoughts within Islam, and that those schools of thought have been in competition with one another for centuries. And this is not something that's going to go away anytime soon. And for people who say that, oh, it doesn't really matter, people love each other and respect each other, it's simply not true. People are competing for power. And we know it to be true,that people, including clerics will use religion as a means to gain more power and to justify their actions. For the longest time, the Shi'ite Islamic world has been oppressed and its voice repressed by the Sunni world. This is not an accusation. This is just a historical fact, and that has been the case for centuries and centuries, 1,500 years, more or less, during which Shi'a have been systematically oppressed and they were never really given any political platform of their own. Now the war in Iraq changed that dramatically because suddenly this silent majority, the Shi'a majority in Iraq was suddenly given a platform and they formed a political polity and not they run the country but they are part of the government and they are a very heavy part of the government by the demographic of Iraq. And I think that the little movements that started in Lebanon with Hezbollah, for example, resistance movements that were essentially created on the back of Iran's 1979 revolution ,who were following a very revolutionary ideal. Ayatollah Khomeini was basically telling people that they had to resist any form of oppression, whether foreign or national oppression by their leaders, to embrace political self-determination and decide what is it that they wanted for themselves. He molded his political thoughts on Shi'a Islam and that gave in Iran the governance of the jurists. Now we know that this model of governance cannot be exported anywhere else but Iran, for the very simple reason that you need to have a very large majority Shi'a population for this form of government to even work or even be accepted by the people. So you could not do this, for example, in Lebanon, you cannot do this in Syria. You cannot do this in Yemen, you cannot do this in Iraq. And I think that everyone understands that. So when people were saying Iran is trying to export its revolution - No! It was trying to export an ideal , a political ideal that can then take any shape or form depending on the country's history and demographics.  Now, and this is important, in Iraq, right about the same time as Ayatollah Khomeini was formulating his system of governance, it was Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr who came up with something called Wilayat al Umma, which is the governance of the people. So rather than have the governance of the jurists, he wanted the people to have sovereignty. He wanted the source of power to come from the people. And that formula was adopted by the Da'wah party in Iraq. The Da'wah party was very largely funded by Iran at the very beginning in the 1970s. For obvious reasons, Iran was not particularly friendly to Saddam Hussein and Iran was more than happy to try to boost Shi'a revival movements next door because, there was this sense of brotherhood almost. I mean they wanted to help shape Shi'a political thought. They started off as friends, but naturally things evolve, things change. You could be friend on Monday and then on Friday you're going to be not enemies, but you're going to be competing for space.You're gonna be competing for power.  And I think the Da'wah party now is looking to stamp its own political thought, not just in Iraq but across the Middle East because it can export its ideology. Something that Iran cannot do because of the nature of the system of governance that it's promoting. You can promote the governance of the people more easily than that of the jurists because that would imply that the entire state has to be absolutely Shi'a. With Wilayat al Umma, it's a very different political formula. So that could be adapted to a great many different countries in the Middle East, and I think this is why Yemen has become so important because Yemen does not want to have an Iranian model. However, now it's paying attention to the Iraqi model because it's thinking, okay,that we could do. And of course as far as the Da'wah party is concerned, that would be a tremendous, tremendous win. Bear in mind as well, the Da'wah party is quite close to the Ayatollah Sistani camp. And I don't know if you're familiar with the way that Shi'a Islam is organized, but you have Maraji, which are the equivalent of the pope and each Maraji gives his own religious jurisprudence that people may choose to abide by and follow. So it's almost an allegiance that people make to a particular cleric saying, I'm going to follow you and whatever religious edicts that you're going to issue. I'm going to listen to you and only you. Now if you look, we have about 300 million Shi'a Muslims across the world spread out everywhere. About 70% of those follow Ayatollah Sistani. They do not follow Ayatollah Khamenei. Ayatollah Khamenei is the head of state of Iran and within Iran itself, you actually have a majority of Iranians following Ayatollah Sistani for their religious advice as opposed to Ayatollah Khamenei. So Ayatollah Sistani has much more power religiously speaking in numbers than Ayatollah Khamenei, and I think that this is giving a few people a few ideas because they are thinking, there is one top power here. And you have to understand that generally speaking, there is competition between the Sunni world and the Shi'a world. I'm not saying that they're trying to start a war because I don't think that's what they're trying to do. What they're trying to do is to operate, to shift -- for centuries that they were told to shut up and be quiet and not move and be oppressed and like it because nothing's going to change. Now they want to have a say in what happens in the region and create a network that will immobilize the likes of Saudi Arabia because if you look at Pakistan and India for example, there are more Shi'a Muslims in India than there are in Iran, and those Shi'a Muslims follow Ayatollah Sistani and no one else. So it's interesting to see that Najaf could potentially wield something like 100 million people to its name, which is not negligible. Those are big numbers. I think that we need to take this into account when we look at the way that Yemen is going or when we look at how allegiances are being re-formed in Lebanon, in Syria, in Iraq through the PMU .You have suddenly those little bubbles of militias being formed here and there. And those little bubbles are coming together and they're forming bigger bubbles. And I think, and I actually wrote this years ago, that we are seeing before our eyes, the formation of the pan-Arab-Shi'a-Islamic revival movement. Something similar to what we saw in the 1950's with Abdul Nassar, where it was born in Egypt but exported everywhere in the Middle East. And it was a very powerful movement. I think we see these being created from Najaf and not from Tehran, which is interesting again, because everybody is barking at Tehran and Tehran is not doing anything. Tehran is actually trying to stabilize the region and grow its economy. It doesn't need more territory. It doesn't need to have more political influence other than that it needs to protect itself in order to prevent any potential war or attempt to destroy its government. Charles: Well, I know it's complicated, but I think what you're saying here is, let's try to paraphrase this, kind of a loose alliance of Shi'a Muslim groups throughout the region that are beginning to put pressure on the Sunni groups that have been oppressing them, particularly at the Saudis, I would assume. Catherine: Yes. But it's not religious pressure per se. Those Shi'a communities are formulating their own political thoughts. It's coming from a place where they identify as a religious oppressed minority within the Islamic word , and they're slowly organizing themselves as a political force in order to compete against the likes of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf countries and everything. And you also need to bear in mind that, for better or for worse, often for worse, natural resources happen to be sitting under Shi'a communities across the Middle East. Qatif in Saudi Arabia is majority Shi'a and this is where the oil is, this is where Aramco is, this is what was attacked. North Yemen for example, is Shi'a territory and you know, guess what, this is why they wanted to invade it. I mean, Bahrain, all of these different countries.  And it's interesting because I'm thinking that there is a lot that is now coming to the surface because of religious subsets because of the fact that for many centuries they were politically silenced. And so they never really had time to think politically. Now they have this wealth that they are literally sitting on and they're thinking, why should we allow other people to take advantage of it or why should we be exploited? Why can't we take charge for once? So I think that all this is coming together and I do really think that Yemen exploded that because Yemen resisted. And so it gave people an idea thinking, well, if they can do it, why can't we gang up with this resistance movement that is standing up to Saudi Arabia and doing it so well? It's like vultures circling Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have left themselves completely exposed because of Yemen. And I think that the cracks that are starting to appear are being exploited by other actors, and not necessarily, as everyone seems to be thinking, Iran. I don't really think that Iran has anything to do with it because it's not in its immediate interest or not even long-term interest. It's not interested. Iran is not a colonial power. It doesn't need to be. Charles: That's true. Yeah. I think the colonial power that's sticking its nose in here, other than Israel, of course, is the United States. I think perhaps if we would reduce the number of western actors involved in this, we might come to some resolution a little quicker.   Catherine: Well, yeah, that's true. I had an interesting conversation this week with different people and I don't think that the Saudis are stupid. I think they understand that Yemen has become a very real problem for them. But they cannot change course and they will not change course until Washington tells them to, that's the problem. Because Saudi Arabia is owned. I don't think it has any real independent policy. I'm always the first one to blame Saudi Arabia when it comes to the atrocities that they committing. That being said, even though they are pulling the trigger, again decisions are not being made in Riyadh, they are being made in Washington. And so I tend to think that actually the Saudis will be the next victim. I mean, they are in a way victims here as well. This is not to take away from the horror that they're doing. I'm not excusing them in any way, shape or form. I'm just saying that again, I think we are barking at the wrong tree asking the Saudis to stop. They won't stop until the Washington says, yes, you can stop now. So I think they stuck as well. Charles: Well, I wish we had more time to talk but we're already probably a little over the time limit, and again, I always appreciate having you on the show. Catherine: Always a pleasure. Whenever you want. I'm always willing to talk. Charles: That's wonderful. Thank you.  

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Who are the Wahabi? The Muslim Brotherhood? ISIS? Hamas? We are hearing the names of a lot of terrorist groups in the news but who are these organizations? Listen at Pat presents a brief overview of the terror groups in the headlines today.

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The Inquiry heard evidence from Natasha Elcock who lived on the 11th floor. Firefighters didn't reach her and her family until 4.30 in the morning. She made 14 calls to the emergency services while she was trapped in her flat. Hanan Wahabi lived in Flat 66 on the 9th floor. After she and her family escaped the tower, she called her brother Abdulaziz El-Wahabi who lived higher up the tower. Producers Kate Lamble and Elisabeth Mahy Researcher Olivia Beazley Contact us via email: grenfellpodcast@bbc.co.uk

Darrell Castle talks about a new world of artificial intelligence being developed in Saudi Arabia. Transcription / Notes THE NEW SAUDI ARABIA Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today's Castle Report.  Today is Friday, November 17, 2017, and on today's Report I will continue the discussion of Saudi Arabia that we began a few weeks ago.  This is an important topic today as Saudi Arabia moves rapidly to consolidate a trans-generational change of power for the first time in 50 years.  The founding King has no more of his 36 sons left after the current one, King Salman, and therefore, power must pass to a grandson. King Salman, 88 years old, has selected his favorite son and close advisor, Mohammed bin Salman, age 32, as Crown Prince. It was assumed that King Salman would name Mohammed bin Nayef, head of the Interior Ministry, as his successor but instead, he selected Mohammed bin Salman.  Bin Salman is apparently the favorite son and top advisor to the King and, at age 32, is young enough to rule for many years.  He represents the King's effort to restructure the House of Saud, and along with it, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he represents the global world that is being built for us. The Crown Prince says that he is not into radical Islam at all, especially the Wahabi sect of radical Islam.  Instead, he wants to modernize and bring the Kingdom and bring it into the 21st century.  The King started the process with a decree that women would be allowed to drive cars. The Crown Prince decided to kick off the new Saudi Arabia with an international conference, which we will discuss at length in a minute, but for now the conference was held last week at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Riyadh.  Billionaires from around the world came, as did several of the Crown Prince's rivals including high profile billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.  He, along with 11 or 12 other Princes, were arrested on corruption charges.  They are still confined to the Ritz-Carlton, which is a pretty nice place if you have to be confined. I predicted dire things for the Kingdom in my last podcast called The Rape of Yemen, including the monarchy falling to radical forces.  The Crown Prince apparently intends to prevent that from happening by using force and changes designed to modernize the country.  His changes, he hopes, will bring ordinary Saudis into the camp of the new country and out of the camp of the radicals. That there is more to the changes than just consolidation of power is obvious from the economic crises threatening the country.   Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938, and since that year the seemingly inexhaustible thirst of the world's internal combustion engines for oil has made the Kingdom extremely wealthy.  But what goes around comes around as they say and now the price of oil has fallen and shows no sign of relenting anytime soon.  The low oil prices, competition from American fracking technology, and expected long term reduced demand for oil, have sent shock waves through the world's oil producers. Ninety-five per cent of Saudi GDP comes from oil, which will eventually put the country into a death spiral if something isn't done.  Very soon, the Saud family, will not be in an economic position to pay the forces of radical Islam to avoid revolution.  King Salman is forward thinking enough to understand this, so he has spent his last years as King grooming the new Crown Prince to take the country in a different direction. Transitioning from complete dependence on oil revenue will not be easy, but the effort to wean the Saudi people off subsidies has already started.  The future plans, however, are to take the Kingdom into the new global world as a full partner with those seeking globalization at whatever price.  Vision 2030 is the name of the new initiative that seeks to leverage the massive financial reserves held in the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund toward global investment.  Still, it's not at all clear how the young Prince will pull it ...

Hindirrush Policial, Madres Chinas, Ruina Discapacitada, Veggie desterrada, Fontanerias Bassar, AmazonTimon, Ibex Global, Blackwater Refugees, Borbon Saud, Dodon el Moldavo, Quatto Nipon y mucho mas... ENLACES --Hindurrush policial http://m.europapress.es/internacional/noticia-determinan-16-casos-victimas-violaciones-parte-policia-chhattisgarh-india-20170108071306.html --Ruina escalada asturiana http://m.europapress.es/asturias/noticia-escalador-rescatado-urriellu-29-octubre-tendra-pagar-6000-euros-intervencion-20170107202603.html ---Primera dama nigeriana http://punchng.com/32000-spent-landing-fees-ex-first-ladies-jets-aisha-buhari/ ---Carmena Parkingfato http://m.telemadrid.es/noticias/madrid/noticia/un-parking-de-opera-denunciado-por-exigir-una-estancia-minima-para-anular-la ---Camioncito Jerusalen http://m.20minutos.es/noticia/2928630/0/muertos-heridos-atropello-camion-jerusalen-ataque/ --Madres chinas http://m.20minutos.es/noticia/2928691/0/abuelastra-china-atropella-repetidas-ocasiones-nieta-seis-anos-asustarla/ http://m.20minutos.es/noticia/2928502/0/nino-muere-ahogado-piscina-china-madre-mira-telefono-movil/ ---Ruina Discapacitada http://diario16.com/asociaciones-del-ambito-de-la-discapacidad-en-quiebra-por-recortes/ --Mk ultra aeropuerto Florida http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AIRPORT_SHOOTING_FLORIDA_THE_LATEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-01-06-19-48-59 --Gira china x Africa http://prensa-latina.cu/index.php?o=rn&id=55247&SEO=canciller-chino-inicia-gira-por-africa-primer-destino-en-2017 --Hermano de Bassar arregla lo del agua http://spanish.almanar.com.lb/46748 --CocaCola es valenciana http://www.efe.com/efe/espana/entrevistas/un-libro-sobre-curiosidades-documenta-el-origen-valenciano-de-la-coca-cola/10012-3135534 --Ticket compra x mail Carrefour Exigir ticket de papel q es tu derecho x ley http://www.ideal.es/sociedad/201701/05/adios-ticket-carrefour-20170105091813.html --Estatuas manchurianas http://www.efe.com/efe/espana/sociedad/abe-pide-a-seul-retirar-la-estatua-de-homenaje-las-esclavas-sexuales-tras-tension-diplomatica/10004-3142595 ---Cumbre paraguas Taiwan http://www.efe.com/efe/espana/mundo/grupos-prochinos-protestan-por-la-llegada-a-taiwan-de-activistas-hong-kong/10001-3142589 ---Guardia chino heroico http://ru.gbtimes.com/novosti/v-kitae-poyavilsya-svoy-zabytyy-chasovoy ---TImoAmazon http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4100446/How-Amazon-s-gadget-blows-cash-listening-TV-Owners-left-pocket-device-ordered-dollhouses-discussed-news-show.html ---DieselFAto http://www.eleconomista.es/ecomotor/motor/noticias/8070296/01/17/EEUU-detiene-a-un-ejecutivo-de-Volkswagen-por-el-dieselgate.html --Suciata Gafas Azules hipotecado http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/politica/noticias/8070237/01/17/Una-conversacion-telefonica-de-Antonio-Hernando-revela-el-verdadero-motivo-de-su-traicion-a-Sanchez.html --HIstorietas de risa sobre el Califa http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/751554/ISIS-leader-SAS-target-dead-man-walking-Islamic-State --Sanciones a Viktor NUclear http://www.eleconomista.es/energia/noticias/8070177/01/17/Bruselas-salpicada-por-el-proyecto-de-la-planta-nuclear-pagada-por-Rusia-.html --Supermarkets Albion http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4101000/Women-shamed-shopping-Tesco-pyjamas-brand-critic-racist.html --Kurdos atlantistas https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/los-peshmergas-kurdos-bloquean-ayuda-una-ciudad-cristiana-de-irak-segun-informes/ --Mano Obra alemana http://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/8070162/01/17/La-oferta-de-mano-de-obra-alemana-se-estanca-segun-Deutsche-Bank.html --Rey mago secuestrador http://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2017/01/07/5870c1a9e2704e2f028b4629.html --Comandos contra el Gran Lider http://m.yna.co.kr/mob2/en/contents_en.jsp?cid=AEN20170108000400315&site=0300000000&mobile ---Bernoglio viejo verde http://www.msn.com/es-es/noticias/internacional/el-papa-pide-a-las-madres-amamantar-a-sus-hijos-en-p%c3%bablico-sin-miedo/ar-BBy2Der?li=BBpm69L&ocid=mailsignout --Ibex global https://www.google.es/amp/economia.elpais.com/economia/2017/01/05/actualidad/1483633831_721553.amp.html --Blacwater Refugee http://www.globalresearch.ca/blackwater-founder-returns-to-save-europe-from-refugees/5566903 --Apaches en Manchuria https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/227989-eeuu-helicopteros-ataque-apache-corea-sur -- Padres magufos criminales http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sick-seven-year-old-boy-dies-seth-johnson-plymouth-minnesota-parents-pray-instead-call-911-ambulance-a7512461.html --Rupert Censura http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sky-news-cuts-short-interview-after-rupert-murdoch-criticised-live-on-air-a7516111.html --Piden solo 4 años Para Blesa http://m.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-fiscalia-pide-cuatro-anos-carcel-blesa-barcoj-sobresueldos-caja-madrid-20170109153256.html --Copago sanitario http://www.elmundo.es/salud/2017/01/09/58737841468aeb60748b4656.html --OTANfato anti-calefaccion http://www.telesurtv.net/news/Daesh-dinamita-la-mayor-planta-petrolera-siria-20170109-0011.html --Ukroartilleria hackeada http://defense-update.com/20161223_trojan-2.html --Borbon wahabí http://www.eldiario.es/economia/Rey-Arabia-Saudi-aplazada-noviembre_0_599840532.html --Alcaldesa morada y trincona http://www.eldiario.es/madrid/Imputada-San-Fernando-Henares-Podemos_0_599840230.html ---Basurero nuclear italiano http://www.lastampa.it/2017/01/09/italia/cronache/il-governo-non-decide-e-saluggia-resta-prigioniera-delle-scorie-nucleari-EmXDmH7czNJH5TbWZuTajL/pagina.html --Calendario deportivo https://mundo.sputniknews.com/fuerzasarmadas/201701101066114636-army-juegos-rusia-dmo/ --Colorismo antiLukashenko https://mundo.sputniknews.com/politica/201612131065537498-eeuu-clava-ojos-bielorrusia/ --Dodon el Moldavo http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/12/29/actualidad/1483028396_163722.html --Dodon limpiando el pais http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20170104/413095698160/nuevo-presidente-de-moldavia-retira-ciudadania-moldava-al-exmandatario-rumano.html --Previsiones Stratfor sobre Rusia https://mundo.sputniknews.com/rusia/201612271065859545-analistas-stratfor-posicion-rusa/ --Invasion USA de Europa http://www.librered.net/?p=48629 --Bulgaria vota a Radek pero la gente es ama-europeismo http://aguasdigital.com/actualidad/leer.php?idnota=12458474&efenew=1 --FFCC chino en Serbia http://spanish.peopledaily.com.cn/n3/2017/0106/c31620-9163547.html --Extradicion kosovar http://es.euronews.com/2017/01/05/serbia-pedira-a-francia-la-extradicion-del-exprimer-ministro-kosovar --Prensa decente en Serbia http://www.radioreloj.cu/es/noticias-radio-reloj/internacionales/repercusion-serbia-aniversario-la-revolucion-cubana/ --Gripe Balcanica http://spanish.xinhuanet.com/2016-12/31/c_135945466.htm http://www.radiohc.cu/noticias/salud/117486-croacia-en-alerta-por-fuerte-epidemia-de-gripe --Fiesta serbo-bosnia http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/internacional/los-serbios-bosnia-desafian-sarajevo-celebrando-propia-fiesta-nacional-5732296 --Actor bosnio vende su oso de plata para comer. http://www.latribuna.hn/2017/01/06/actor-gitano-bosnia-vende-oso-plata-sobrevivir/ --BosnioFato https://mundo.sputniknews.com/europa/201612291065925094-ano-nuevo-ley-seca-islamisacion/ --Gripe aviar checa http://spanish.peopledaily.com.cn/n3/2017/0105/c31618-9163054.html --Muere rata polukra http://www.elespanol.com/mundo/europa/20170108/184481949_0.html --Mercenarios en Ukrolandia https://mundo.sputniknews.com/defensa/201701091066100610-ucrania-conflicto-unidades-especiales/ ---UkrOposiciones a criminal https://www.ukrinform.es/rubric-politic/2153297-avakov-64-personas-solicitan-el-puesto-de-jefe-de-la-policia-nacional.html ---Fallece heroico cosmonauta soviético y era ucraniano http://actualidadaeroespacial.com/default.aspx?where=5&id=1&n=19415 --Venganza rusa en Ukrovisión. http://www.lavozdigital.es/cultura/eurovision/abci-eurovision-aleksander-panayotov-nacido-ucrania-favorito-para-representar-rusia-territorio-enemigo-201701091020_noticia.html --Ukrofato: Asesores del DAESH en Ucrania. http://www.elpais.cr/2017/01/08/las-milicias-de-lugansk-denuncian-la-presencia-de-ex-asesores-de-daesh-en-donbas/ -- Buitreukradas. https://noticias.terra.es/mundo/latinoamerica/argentina-destaca-vinculo-con-ucrania-en-25-aniversario-de-relacion-bilateral,f091cd55aefa5de21cb03b74ed3d2dfcnx2c29jb.html --ECONOMIA ATLANTISTA https://mundo.sputniknews.com/industriamilitar/201701051066037192-otan-ucrania-produccion-armas/ --Ukros antiaéreos http://www.hispantv.com/noticias/ucrania/329107/guerra-rusia-avion-derribar -- Pelo naranja se pira de Georgia. http://vtv.gob.ve/trump-organization-se-retira-de-proyecto-inmobiliario-en-georgia/ --Ya se puede viajar a Kazajistán sin visado. http://www.traveler.es/viajes/tendencias/articulos/ya-se-puede-acceder-sin-visado-a-kazajistan/10010 --Kazajo insulton https://es.globalvoices.org/2017/01/04/el-largo-brazo-del-kremlin-un-kazajo-va-a-la-carcel-por-insultar-a-vladimir-putin-en-facebook/ --Takbir Uzbeko https://mundo.sputniknews.com/seguridad/201701091066089273-seguridad-uzbekistan-daesh-terrorismo/ REVISIONISMO PROSOVIETICO --Albion reconoce (aunque con su berborrea habitual) la victoria sovietica en el espacio. http://www.bbc.com/mundo/38028270 --La realidad Georjukra desde que salieron de la URSS, la caridad como unica politica social (y encima sacan pecho). http://www.heraldo.es/noticias/internacional/2017/01/07/los-georgianos-ofrecen-regalos-los-pobres-procesion-navidena-alilo-1152192-306.html EL TRAIDOR DE LA SEMANA --Stanislav Shushkevich http://www.eldiario.es/theguardian/caceria-Yeltsin-acabo-Union-Sovietica_0_590041282.html --Apartamentos militares http://www.vozpopuli.com/actualidad/Defensa-destina-costear-apartamentos-militares_0_987801214.html --Marisco belico https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2016/12/30/pdfs/BOE-B-2016-67685.pdf --Cospe Pujolista http://www.elplural.com/politica/2017/01/05/la-udef-relaciona-al-marido-de-cospedal-con-el-testaferro-de-rato-en-el-caso --Medicinas RamoVerde http://www.lamarea.com/2016/07/13/la-esperpentica-historia-las-medicinas-recogidas-madrid-venezuela/ --Prensa Sorista española http://www.eldiario.es/juanlusanchez/filantropia-periodismo_6_558254179.html --Conflicto trosko-trinquista http://www.elmundo.es/comunidad-valenciana/2017/01/03/586abb5c22601d182c8b45dd.html --Pedofilia femenina http://www.elespanol.com/espana/20170106/183981990_0.html --Wahabi-rrush http://www.alertadigital.com/2016/01/01/arabia-saudi-siete-hombres-violan-a-una-mujer-y-los-tribunales-la-condenan-a-ella-a-6-meses-de-carcel-y-200-latigazos/ --Cumple del Gran Lider https://mundo.sputniknews.com/foto/201701091066092199-kim-jong-un/ --Misiles jusanos Polonia http://theduran.com/poland-acquires-missiles-us-can-strike-deep-inside-russian-territory/ --Soros Trans http://www.elcorreo.com/bizkaia/sociedad/201701/09/ninas-pene-ninos-vulva-20170109132933.html --nwo ikastolo http://www.elcorreo.com/bizkaia/sociedad/201506/02/combate-finlandia-acoso-escolar-20150602210732.html --Buitremedico http://www.clarin.com/sociedad/pami-evaluara-jubilados-casa-casa-definir-cobertura_0_H102H3WLg.html --BuitreSopa http://www.clarin.com/ieco/economia/miercoles-premium-superara-20_0_rkXConWUl.html --Gripe aviar Chile-Bolivia http://www.eldiario.net/noticias/2017/2017_01/nt170110/principal.php?n=71&-bolivia-cierra-frontera-para-productos-avicolas-de-chile --Mutaciones niponas http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20170109/413211334933/tumor-ovario-cerebro-teratoma-japon.html --Gorro blanco Gambia no se pira http://guardian.ng/news/african-leaders-apply-pressure-as-jammeh-faces-isolation/ http://guardian.ng/news/gambian-government-closes-fourth-radio-station-as-political-crisis-escalates/ http://guardian.ng/news/gambias-jammeh-fires-12-ambassadors/ --Colegas de Jammeh (gorro blanco) http://www.liberianobserver.com/news/yeaten-helping-jammeh --Zika en Angola http://guardian.ng/news/angola-records-first-zika-cases/ --Inmobiliaria acuatica http://www.diariosur.es/malaga/201701/09/gobierno-permite-empresarios-construir-20170108213053.html --B52 en Siria https://mundo.sputniknews.com/orientemedio/201701101066116386-eeuu-rusia-ataque/ --Fmi dumpeer http://www.hispantv.com/noticias/economia/329839/fmi-inmigracion-aumenta-riqueza-pais-receptor-europa --Selficidio Hindu https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/228190-personas-hospitalizadas-india-selficidio ---Paki misiles http://spanish.almanar.com.lb/48072 --Islam infantil http://www.friatider.se/caf-vattenpipa-h-r-h-lls-kvinna-som-sexslav-i-k-llaren --Tagarrusher BAr http://madworldnews.com/syrian-refugees-hookah-shop-cops/ ---Zumbao Orense http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/galicia/2017/01/12/panico-supermercado/0003_201701G12P17992.htm --Version inglesa de zumbao orensano http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4110542/Gunman-screaming-Allahu-Akbar-opens-fire-Spanish-supermarket.html?ito=social-facebook --Suiza no quiere veggies https://ca.news.yahoo.com/swiss-town-denies-passport-to-dutch-vegan-because-she-is-annoying-125316437.html --C ampus Radoja http://www.moiceleste.com/2017/01/radoja-apadrinara-el-campus-del-celta.html --Hezbola iraqui http://spanish.almanar.com.lb/48321 --Impuestos piratas http://www.elmundo.es/economia/2017/01/11/58766f6422601dc76d8b4574.html ---Basura revisionista francesa anti Assad http://www.abc.es/historia/abci-nazi-alois-brunner-habria-muerto-sotano-damasco-2001-201701111152_noticia.html --Montoro clausulas suelo http://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/8076114/01/17/Economia-Los-importes-devueltos-por-clausulas-suelo-tributaran-por-la-deduccion-por-vivienda-e-intereses-de-demora.html

On Father's Day, Gary and Dad sat down over some baklava to discuss the change in culture of Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries over the course of the 20th century through modern day. What was once a relatively relaxed liberal atmosphere in Dad's home country has become socially oppressive as religiously conservative values have spread out from Saudi Arabia and taken hold in many surrounding countries. We try to explore why.

In the second hour Chuck is joined by Andrew Bostom, author of the new book: Iran's Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi'ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran. Synopsis: Dr. Andrew Bostom presents yet another superb compendium of scholarly evidence drawn from primary sources, some translated for the first time here, to document how Jew-hatred is every bit as intrinsic to the Shi'ite legal tradition as to Sunni Islamic jurisprudence as well as practice. While much counterterrorism effort has been directed towards Sunni jihad groups, like al-Qa'eda, for some reason Iran, Hizballah, and the rest of the Shi'ite jihadis have escaped the same kind of focus. No matter that Iran's revolutionary leadership, from the Ayatollah Khomeini and his mentors to current regime figures like the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, were steeped in lethal antisemitism over the many decades of their theological formation. What Dr. Bostom explains in this latest of his extensively researched works is how that Islamic antisemitism is every bit as much a legacy of Shi'ite jurisprudence as its Sunni counterpart. This book traces the history of that doctrine through the bloody centuries of Shi'ite jihad. It is intensely difficult but essential reading.

This is my second podcast.

The history of Islam in Mali is a long one. The faith, brought by traders, was adopted slowly over the centuries until the French colonisers arrived, after which its spread was accelerated. The recent conflict in Mali has been portrayed as a struggle between a home-grown "tolerant" Islam and an aggressive Wahabi influence from outside. How accurate is this picture? Ernie Rea is joined by journalist Celeste Hicks, academic Marie Rodet and the South African Sheik and academic Michael Mumisa.

The history of Islam in Mali is a long one. The faith, brought by traders, was adopted slowly over the centuries until the French colonisers arrived, after which its spread was accelerated. The recent conflict in Mali has been portrayed as a struggle between a home-grown "tolerant" Islam and an aggressive Wahabi influence from outside. How accurate is this picture? Ernie Rea is joined by journalist Celeste Hicks, academic Marie Rodet and the South African Sheik and academic Michael Mumisa.

Sunnah & Bid'ah by Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller   A classic exposition on the true understanding of Sunnah & Bid'ah - two terms plagued by misunderstanding. Whilst not a new talk by any means the issues contained within and moreover the principles illustrated could not be more relevant for people today. 

APOSTLE TALK - Future News Now! WWW.REALMIRACLES.ORG with Prince Handley A DREAM VISION ABOUT THE USA – AND THE ANSWER You can listen to this podcast NOW. Click the center of the pod circle (top left). Give it 30 seconds to load. Listen now  ... or download for later or LISTEN NOW >>>  LISTEN HERE After you listen to this message, you can scroll down for all messages previously in the LibSyn Archives (with Show Notes). Please forward this posting to friends and acquaintances. You may post it on your own lists or on the web as well.Sign up for the FREE Prince Handley Teachings & Newsletter here: SUBSCRIBE MUSIC / INTRO A DREAM VISION ABOUT THE USA – AND THE ANSWER I realize many people reading this posting live in countries other than USA. However, this message is extremely relevant to all readers.  THE DREAM VISION I HAD WAS AS FOLLOWS: In the night I was awakened with a dream or night vision. I prefer “vision” because the prophet Joel said, "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.”  (Joel 2:28) In the vision I saw a band of paramilitary men in black uniforms and face masks with assault rifles. They were standing guard, taking over, a local community shopping area. It could have been a downtown metropolitan shopping area . . . or a small town local community shopping area. There were about eight or ten of them. I was made to KNOW in the vision that this was in the USA. They had their weapons ready at waist level with straps around their shoulders. One of the men [citizens] in the crowd resisted, and said: “This is the USA and you cannot do that here; this is our country!” Immediately one of the paramilitary men walked to the man, aimed his assault weapon at the man’s face with the end of the barrel about three inches from the man’s face, and shot at him. Nothing came out of the weapon but air. After that, I realized that I was in the crowd. I went to the man who shot and told him: “I challenge you. You can NOT do that here. This is our country. I will defeat you myself.”  MUSIC After that statement, I grabbed an iron bar and started after the man. He then jumped into a cement stairwell, or encasement. I began pounding into the stairwell to attack the man, attempting to strike him; however, he never came out. I then began to challenge the other paramilitary men. They were powerless. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE DREAM VISION IS THIS: Today, in the world, there are TWO churches: 1. The Western and European church. 2. The persecuted church (most of which is underground). Today, in the world, there are TWO major OVERT militant spiritual forces in the world: 1. The evangelical soul winning church (having some members from all arenas of Christendom: Protestant, Catholic, non denominational, transdenominational, independent, non affiliated, house church, cell groups, and underground churches). These are militant spiritually, but NOT physically, operating in the Spirit of God. 2. The fundamentalist Islamic factions (such as Wahabi and terrorist groups). These are militant physically, operating in the spirit of Satan. The purpose of the enemy in Islamic fundamentalism is to QUIET . . . or STOP . . . THE VOICE of Christian witness, especially the Good News, but also including all types of freedom. Islamists have NO joy. Their services do NOT manifest shouts of praise or exuberance. There is NO animation or liveliness in their services, because nothing about which to be animated. You know a tree by its fruit. Islam kills, binds, tortures, and oppresses. This is the fruit of Satan. Christians, real Christians, shout with joy and praise God because of the saving, healing, delivering, real miracle working power of Jesus, the Messiah. This is the fruit of the Spirit. Acts 13:52 says, “They were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.”  MUSIC The message of the dream is this: Do NOT let the enemy STOP your voice . . . (or your shout, for that matter!). If you lose your shout, you lose your victory! Several forces are at work in the USA to stop FREE speech. Political correctness is one of them. Already, in Canada and New Zealand there are laws in place to prohibit speech (even from houses of worship) against such things as homosexuality and false religions. Do everything you can to resist this: First, start with intercession daily, and fast as the LORD leads. Second, resist with your words. Never let the devil quiet your voice. When Peter and the apostles were released from prison by the angel of the LORD, they then went into the Temple and preached.  “When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The Kohen Gadol [High Priest] questioned them, saying, ‘Didn't we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Yerushalayim [Jerusalem] with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us.’ But Kefa [Peter] and the emissaries [apostles] answered, ‘We must obey God rather than men.’”  (Acts 5:27-29) The last great bastion of Christian freedom is in the USA. However, the persecuted church in Communist, Islamic, Asian and third world countries is growing rapidly because of bold witnesses who are willing to face death, extreme persecution, and torture, if necessary. The old adage at weddings, “Speak now, or forever hold your peace,” is quite applicable in this situation.  Pray and fast. Speak.  Speak to Satan (bind him) from taking inroads into your family, nation and community. Speak out and witness for Christ. Speak out to community leaders and vote. Speak in prayer and loose the Holy Spirit as a standard against the evil one and his forces.  MUSIC "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him." (Isaiah 59:19) “It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.”  (Isaiah 10:27) In the olden days, the standard bearer always began the battle by first attacking (striking at) the enemy.  The Holy Spirit of the God of Israel is our standard bearer, and we can loose Him to strike first. In the dream vision of the night, I went out to attack with iron: symbolic of the sword of the LORD. The enemy can NOT stand against the Word of God and the Holy Spirit. Go out against the enemy with the ANOINTING and the WORD OF GOD. Remember, in Isaiah’s day when the Assyrians were threatening King Hezekiah, and the Angel of the LORD killed 185,000 of the enemy in one night, according to the word of prophecy spoken by Isaiah the prophet.  “The angel of the LORD went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Ashur (Assyria, close confines of present day Iraq). When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.” (Isaiah 37:36) THE ANSWER: If the USA - and this applies to Israel, also - will let the Holy Spirit be their banner, or standard, God will give victory. Any community, or country, or government who does NOT allow the Holy Spirit to be their banner will fall. It is time to be militant in spiritual battle as well as in soul winning. “They who go against sin and Satan with the Holy Spirit at their head are sure to win the day.” (Isaiah 59:19) (Kimchi: Adam Clarke’s commentary) MUSIC Podcast time: 12 minutes, 24 seconds (with music) If you have a friend who is sick or demon possessed, tell them about The Healing and Miracle Podcast: www.healing.libsyn.com. If you have been helped or received a miracle as a result of this study, email us and let us know what God has done for you. You may contact us by email at: PrinceHandley@gmail.com You may contact us by postal mail at: Prince Handley - P.O. Box 1001 - Bosall, CA 92003 USA Remember to tell your friends about the Apostle Talk Podcast. You can subscribe to Apostle Talk podcast and receive previous shows and all new ones automatically downloaded for you. 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