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Daily Crypto Report
A highlight from "Shanghai makes moves to boost blockchain adoption." Sep 27, 2023
"It's 8 a .m. Eastern, September the 27th, and this is your Daily Crypto Report. Bitcoin is up slightly at $26 ,789, ETH is up slightly at $1 ,626, and Binance Coin is down slightly at $215. The second intermediate people's court in Shanghai recently has called Bitcoin a unique and non -replicable asset. This move represents a shift from China's typically strict anti -crypto policy, providing Bitcoin with a newfound layer of legitimacy. Despite a nationwide crypto ban in China, the court's ruling indirectly acknowledges the financial nature of digital currencies. It delves into the complexities of Bitcoin's legal status, emphasizing its monetary and property attributes. The ruling came just before the Shanghai municipal government unveiled an action plan to boost blockchain development in the city by 2025. The plan aims to achieve breakthroughs in blockchain system security, cryptographic algorithms, smart contracts, and more. These advancements will support the municipal blockchain basic service platform and various sectors like government affairs, cross -border trade, finance, metaverse, and data circulation. The plan emphasizes talent development in the blockchain industry, encouraging institutes and companies to hire blockchain professionals and nurture young talents. This initiative aligns with China's ongoing focus on blockchain technology despite banning crypto transactions in 2021. While Binance is selling its entire Russian business to ComX as part of its exit from the market due to compliance concerns, Binance's chief compliance officer stated that operating in Russia no longer aligns with the exchange's compliance strategy. ComX, a recently launched crypto exchange, will take over Binance's Russia operations. Binance's exit from Russia includes the discontinuation of all exchange services and business lines in the country. Unlike some international companies in Russia, Binance will not retain any ongoing revenue split or an option to repurchase shares in the business. More on Binance, the firm has reopened its crypto exchange platform for registration and access in Belgium three months after the country's financial regulator ordered it to cease operations. Now to continue using Binance, Belgian users must accept Binance Poland's terms of use and resubmit KYC verification per Polish regulatory requirements. The move follows Binance's regulatory challenges in various European countries, including France, where it's reportedly under investigation for money laundering. And finally, Sam Bankman -Fried won't be able to tell the jury about his pretrial detention in jail, among other factors. During his upcoming trial, a district court judge ruled on what can be discussed during the trial. SBF can't bring up his family background, health, age, or the fact that he's been in jail awaiting trial. The trial itself will focus narrowly on the specific allegations against him, avoiding hot -button topics related to FTX's bankruptcy and his prior good acts. However, evidence of his alleged illegal campaign finance scheme will be allowed as it's directly related to the charged offenses. He has, though, been granted the ability to ask Department of Justice witnesses about the recreational drug use, provided his lawyers notify the court in advance. Additionally, the prosecution can introduce evidence related to FTX's bankruptcy during the trial. The trial will also delve into the FTT token and whether it was manipulated by other FTX insiders. SBF's lawyers are still attempting to secure his release from jail, where he has been held since August. The trial is set to begin in early October. Well, that's all for us today. Visit us at dailycryptoreport .io for sources and links. And listen to us, everyone else you podcast under Daily Crypto Report. you We'll see then. It's pretty eerie, you know, you're in a place that no human's ever been before. This is Armchair Explorer, where the world's greatest adventurers tell their best stories from the road. And four of us were swept down the side of the mountain, and then I knew there was no way out of this thing. From the heart pounding to the inspiring and the downright insane. Find Armchair Explorer, a part of APT Podcast Studios, wherever you get your podcasts. Go and find what it is in the world that matches that wildness in yourself.
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh update on "belgium" discussed on Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"Potentially warmer now in right Seattle just those same old clouds as we've seen all day long and showers it's 57 degrees a NASCAR crew member was hit by a racing truck but lived to tell the story NASCAR driver Zane Smith's number 38 loves truck skidding off the track into the pit stop the crew rambling to get out of the way but the back of Smith's truck striking tire carrier Charles Plank sending him into the air I see the rear end just kick around so I decided to the ditch tire that was holding on with my right hand and jump up and I just ended up hitting it with my hip that took most of the blunt force miraculously he walks away I was always told if you're going to get hit just kind of let your body go limp and just you know fall with it wherever it goes that's did. what I The speed for truck drivers at the Talladega Speedway race can be upward of 100 miles per hour with the average weight of a racing truck roughly one and a half tons. Plank grateful and with quite a story to tell. It's an unfortunate circumstance I just laugh about it I mean there's no sense in being mad I'm having fun with it I'm going to change it for the world. Charles suffered a gash on his hand and bruises on his knee heel and foot but incredibly he was back at work just hours after this crash. Zane Smith saying this is any driver's worst fear as you can imagine and his heart sank when he saw his truck hit Charles. All All of of this may have been the result of possibly an issue with that trucks clutch ABC's Ariel Reshef Simone Biles once again making gymnastics history the 26 year old became the first woman to do the Yurchenko double pike at the World Gymnastics Championships in Belgium yesterday to pull off the maneuver a gymnast needs immense strength and precision to pull their body around twice if miles were to bail out in the middle of a twist she'd likely land on her head or her neck the skill will now be named after Biles as skills in gymnastics are named for the first person who does them at a major international competition ABC News is next. News Hi Bill Yand for Frank Lumber the door store as we move into fall the push to get your projects done is important we here at Frank Lumber continue to work hard to make sure you get your door order quicker anywhere than else our bargain barn has a variety of different interior and exterior prehens ready to up load and drive away with also great prices on barn door kits and so much more visit our showroom and bargain barn in Shoreline and as always don't forget to check us out online at FrankLumber .com why do dogs eat grass why do cats like boxes pet lovers often have lots of questions find the answers during pause and listen Saturdays at 2 p .m. on Northwest News Radio hi I'm dr.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Mike Signorelli
"Trump calls Florida heartbeat bill a terrible mistake, and Mike Pence talks war with Russia. So I think if you will allow me to speak critically of Donald Trump for five minutes, I will speak critically. No, no, no, no. Look, you know, and I know, everybody listens who to this program knows that I don't think Trump is perfect. I think he ought to be the next president. And I think that, as you know about me and about many people listening to this program, that we are radically pro -life. We think it's a moral issue. And I think that Trump has made, I think he misspoke. I think it was, I don't know. Well, talk about it so people understand what we're talking about. Donald Trump went on face the nation and said that the heartbeat bill Ron DeSantis bravely signed in Florida was a terrible thing, a terrible mistake. And he said that he wouldn't commit to supporting any kind of federal restriction on the taking of unborn life. And he said with characteristic real estate bravado, well, I'm going to have policies that are going to make everybody happy. Everybody's going to walk away happy from the table. That is not how things work. When you're talking about life and death issues, Mr. President, that is how things might work. If you're negotiating over ownership of a golf course. All right. All right. Each of you is going to get nine holes. Okay. You'll each get nine holes. It's wonderful. You got, you've got half a golf course, half a loaf is better than none. But we remember from the story of Solomon, half a baby is not better than none. In this case, we're talking about cutting the baby in half. Literally we're talking about should abortion, should the pro -life position be, we want a bad abortion after maybe 15 weeks, which would only get rid of maybe 8 % of the abortions in America. If that's the pro -life position, it's not worth a damn thing. That's the law in Germany. That's the law in France. That's the law in Belgium. All these countries where euthanasia is now taking over. Having a 10 week, a 15 week abortion ban solves absolutely nothing. It just means the women who are so dopey, they don't even know they're pregnant until like 18 weeks won't be able to get abortions. That's all it means. He's really just punishing the stupid. It's not saving a significant number of babies. I don't know who Trump is getting his advice from on the abortion issue, but they're not on our side. They are like the Jared Kushner. They're not on our side. What Trump is saying is a complete loser position. It's like saying we're going to build the wall. We're going to build the wall with the Mexican border, except every 20 feet there's going to be a gap. We'll get most of the wall built. There'll guess who will come. I think a couple of things need to be said. First of all, I already said it. Trump is not perfect. So he often has done things that I think are harmful to himself. And saying that I think just politically is a mistake. But we also have to say without a doubt he has been the most pro -life president we ever had in this country. Because of him and standing up for Kavanaugh, Roe v. Wade was overturned. I want to remind people of that. I also want to remind people that he spoke at the March for Life. No other president had done that. And so right now, I guess I find everything with him, not everything, but a lot of stuff just funny. It's almost like he'll say anything Ron DeSantis says, he'll say the opposite. I know. You could be triggered and tripped into that. And it's his Achilles heel that whatever Trump, whatever DeSantis says, Trump will somehow try to spin it. Trump even said that Andrew Cuomo did a better job on COVID than Ron DeSantis. That is literally the most insane thing any American politician has said since Jefferson Davis said I want to secede from the union. It's up to that level of crazy. But Trump, I mean Trump does this stuff for effect. In other words, for political effect to drive people crazy. That's why I guess I find it at least partially entertaining that he'll go out on a limb and say something like that just to trigger DeSantis. The problem is this stuff isn't cute. There were thousands of people murdered in those nursing homes in New York. Abortion isn't cute. This is not something funny. This is not like letting Jared and Ivanka turn the White House into their own little party hut. This is really serious. And our only leverage over Trump is right now during the primaries. If he gets the nomination, he can do whatever he wants because he will be elected president unless they assassinate him, which I do not put past that. I do not put that past the deal. Oh, I know that there have been attempts that we haven't heard about, but obviously they would do anything to get rid of him. We have our leverage now, especially before the Iowa caucus. Trump needs to be told if you keep saying this weak, rhino, wimpy garbage about abortion, maybe we'll hold our noses and vote for you against Joe Biden because we don't want to be put in prison camps. But we're not going to go to the mattresses for you. We're not going to go to the wall for you. We're not going to be fanatical, devoted supporters. We will hold our nose and vote for you the way we held our noses and voted for George W. Bush. Do you want to be the next George W. Bush? Well, no, John, I think it's worse than that. I think what will happen, what will happen is many evangelicals, pro -life evangelicals simply won't vote, which I think is an unbelievable mistake because they feel it's principled not to vote for Trump because he said this about what DeSantis's view. On the other hand, let him think that and maybe it's true and let him act accordingly. It's like if we are so on the reservation, Eric, that they know they have our votes no matter what they do, the Republican Party will keep treating evangelicals and pro -lifers the way the Democratic Party treats blacks. That is, you have no choice where you're going to go, take whatever scraps we throw you. So no, I think it's good. Let him be a little afraid that we will go off the reservation. No, that's why I just said that. That's why I just said that. In other words, I actually believe that that's true because when you look at what happened in the last number of elections, there are many evangelicals who are so pious in the negative sense that they would say, I'm just going to sit home and I'm not going to vote because Trump had three wives and I'm going to let Hillary Clinton or Satan or Adolf Hitler take over America because I'm so pious that I won't pull the lever for somebody who doesn't agree with me on everything or who puts out mean tweets or says things I disagree with. That is effectively how we got Biden because we didn't have a serious situation that we're in. On the other hand, Mike Pence is saying that unless we give long range missiles to Ukraine so it can kill lots of Russians, we'll have to go to war with Russia because it will invade Poland. So in order to avoid war, we have to fight a war. It's exactly what George W. Bush said about Iraq, that we have to fight the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them over here so they won't do 9 -11 again. Now we know now Iraq had nothing to do with 9 -11. It had no weapons of mass destruction. So he lied us into the Iraq war. In Vietnam, they told us we had to fight the Vietnam war so that the communists wouldn't take over Japan and then Hawaii. The whole domino theory is something that warmongers and the military contractors they work for, they whip it out every time they want to get us in a useless war. They say, well, remember Neville Chamberlain? Remember 1938? And I always say, remember August, 1914, when they blundered into World War I and destroyed all three of the main governments involved in it, all based on nothing, based on lies, based on garbage. Sometimes it's November, September, 1938. Sometimes it's August, 1914. And you're the idiot warmonger about to plunge the world into destruction because of your silly fantasies private about being a big man. Mike Pence is one of those warmongers and he's very dangerous right now. There's never enough time to talk to you, my friend. We'll get you back as soon as possible. Thank you, folks. We'll be right back. Thank you. For 10 years, Patriot Mobile has been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. And when I say only, trust me, they're the only one. Glenn and the team have been great supporters of this show, which is why I'm proud to partner with them. 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The Breakdown
A highlight from WSJ Says Binance Facing Trouble Over Sanctions Violations
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, August 23rd, and today we are catching up with all the latest intrigue around Binance. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, welcome back to The Breakdown. When we survey the landscape, the wreckage, some might say, of this industry after the last year or year and a half, it is pretty clear what the biggest hanging chad or threat left is. One might argue that there's still contentiousness around DCG and whether it will be able to successfully get itself out of this Genesis situation. There's obviously a lot of jawboning about that and recriminations flying back and forth between Barry and the Winklevosses, but the bigger threat, at least that most people identify, or perhaps not threat but concern, is whether Binance is really doing as okay as they say they are. CZ has been quick to wipe away story after story with his customary four, indicating that everything is just FUD, and it is certainly the case that there has been an extraordinary amount of leakage from various US government offices around their investigations into Binance in ways that have led some to assume that they don't actually have the goods on Binance and so are just trying to try them in the court of public opinion. This week we got even more of all of that when on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Binance is still facilitating large amounts of Russian transactions, raising the question of whether the exchange is flouting Western sanctions. The article claimed that, quote, via layers of intermediaries, clients can turn funds at sanctioned banks into balances at Binance, while Binance also enables peer -to -peer trades of rubles for digital tokens that frequently involve banks that are on Western blacklists. A spokesperson for Binance said, Binance follows the global sanctions rules and enforces sanctions on people, organizations, entities, and countries that have been blacklisted by the international community, denying such actors access to the Binance platform. They added that in operating their peer -to -peer service, Binance has, quote, no relationship with any banks whatsoever, in Russia or elsewhere. Now, of course, US sanctions have not been imposed on Russian citizens generally. However, most of the Russian banking and financial system is subject to sanctions, which prohibit US citizens and firms from dealing with them. The EU and other US allies have similar levels of sanctions in place. In October, the EU tightened restrictions on crypto transfers to Russian wallets, removing a 10 ,000 euro limit to prohibit crypto transactions to Russian residents and entities entirely. The claim made by the WSJ is that Binance is facilitating international transactions for Russian citizens who have been cut off from the global financial system through their peer -to -peer platform. According to the Bank of Russia, around $428 million in peer -to -peer crypto transactions are taking place each month. The reporting claimed that there are hundreds of active peer -to -peer sellers willing to buy and sell rubles for crypto with a significant market for Tether. The main centralized exchange is also seeing significant volume in rubles. Volume is massively down from its peak of $80 billion per month in May of last year, but still processed $8 billion in ruble to crypto trades in July according to data from CC Data. Tatian Maksimenko, a Russian businesswoman who formerly worked at a crypto exchange, said, Now, according to a recent review of Binance's peer -to -peer services, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, the platform allows Russian clients to receive payment at at least five sanctioned Russian banks. Crypto sellers on the platform provide payment details to Binance, who allegedly disbursed funds out of escrow after the on -chain transaction has been completed. The article raised further concerns that payment provider Advanced Cash continues to facilitate ruble -denominated transactions with Binance through additional intermediaries. The Belize registered payments provider said it had severed ties with sanctioned Russian banks in March of 2022. However, its website provides links to, quote, Now, of course, the report comes after months of speculation that the DOJ is investigating Binance for money laundering and sanctions evasion, but to date, no charges have been filed and it's unclear whether any charges will be forthcoming. The reaction from the crypto community is basically one of, if this is true, it's a big deal. Investor Adam Cochrane writes, Can you imagine the sheer level of chaos if Binance is hit with OFAC violations? Like how do they deal with that seizure? If they blacklist the hot wallet, then your deposits are effed would be way worse than any regular DOJ action. Travis Kling writes, Sheesh, $428 million per month of P2P ruble to crypto, $8 billion per month of ruble to crypto trading on the main exchange. If you think the US government isn't going to drop the hammer hard on that kind of scale of sanctions violations, you've lost your mind. Now, as with basically every story that we've had on Binance this year, there are two possible explanations. One is, though, where there's smoke, there's fire. And these things are leaking out because there's just so much to leak out that it's coming out of all sides and that we're still just in the period before some action comes. The other possibility, however, is, as some have claimed, that because the DOJ or OFAC or whomever don't actually have a good enough case to bring charges, they're instead trying Binance in the court of public opinion and in so doing feeding sourcing for these types of articles. I don't know what the case is, and I think everyone is right, especially after the last 18 months, to be extraordinarily skeptical. A default position at this point in crypto of assuming there's fire where there's smoke is definitely sensible. But we're coming up on a year now of rumors of DOJ or criminal action. We still haven't seen anything yet. So I guess for now, we just have to wait until the next article comes out with all sorts of its accusations, just so that CZ can say four. The people who are concerned can say they are concerned. The people who are Binance stans can just say four as well. And we're right back to the beginning where we started. Now elsewhere in the Binance empire, some customers are reporting difficulties withdrawing euros. In response to a user complaint on Sunday, the Binance help desk responded that, quote, we have temporarily suspended euro withdrawals and deposits via SIPA. SIPA is the Single Euro Payments Area Network, a bank transfer protocol similar to ACH. Now Binance later deleted and revised this public statement, stating that the SIPA deposit and withdrawal service will continue until September 25th, as originally communicated. The customer service message was sent in error. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we will have alternatives for our users in place before then, so stay tuned. Making their feelings known, the user experiencing the problem simply replied, lies. The issue comes a few months after Binance informed users that its European banking partner PaySafe would be discontinuing services on September 25th. A Binance spokesperson addressing the specific users issue said, some users may occasionally be asked for more information as part of routine compliance checks, which could lead to early closure of their accounts. They said that Binance will have alternatives for our users in place before the end of the SIPA service. Now, trouble processing euro payments comes just a few days after news broke that Binance were also being cut off by London -based credit card processing company Checkout .com. Binance were the single largest customer for the payments firm. Forbes reporting cited letters sent in early August, which cited concerns over anti -money laundering, sanctions, and compliance controls at Binance. The letters said termination of service would occur on August 17th, and a Binance spokesperson said that the exchange disagreed with the reasoning for the cutoff, but stated that it would have, quote, no impact on our services. Finally, making everything so much the worse for Binance, their native token BNB has been on a renewed slide. The token reached a low of $204 on Tuesday, but has since recovered and is now trading at around $217 as of Wednesday afternoon. Tuesday's level was BNB's lowest point since June of last year and represented a 14 % drawdown in under a week. Part of the downwards pressure on BNB relates to a massive $150 million loan on Binance smart chain lending platform Venus Protocol. The position was opened up by a hacker in October of last year. After exploiting a cross -chain bridge to mint a half a billion dollars worth of BNB, the hacker took a loan against some of the fraudulently created funds, presumably as an exit strategy with no intention to ever repay the debt. In November, a governance vote was taken on how to avoid a massive impairment accumulating on Venus Protocol. The BNB core team proposed becoming the sole liquidator of the position to ensure they could prevent any liquidation cascades. On Thursday night, the liquidation began with $33 million worth of BNB cleared to shore up the loan. Venus Protocol tweeted out that the account was quote, made healthy, but there's still another $126 million in outstanding debt sitting on the Venus Protocol waiting to be liquidated if the BNB price continues to fall. Now, summing up all of the chaos, Travis Kling, who it should be noted is warning, and intentionally so about Binance after being caught up in the FTX collapse, tweeted, Pretty wild price action in BNB. Not sure what's going on. It's almost as if Binance was sued by the SEC on numerous charges with damning evidence, Was sued by the CFTC on numerous charges with damning evidence. Had three senior executives quit in the same week? Had a billion -dollar -plus collateral hole in Binance peg BUSD? Had Paxos forced them to wind down BUSD? Got kicked out of Canada, Germany, Netherlands and Belgium? About to be charged by the DOJ's strong evidence of massive money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions violations? Under investigation in France for aggravated money laundering? Had their auditor quit and remove attestation? Lost multiple banking partners and payment processors can't process fiat in most countries? Had Binance US effectively closed? Laid off thousands of employees? Cut benefits for remaining employees? Dot dot dot. Oh. Wait. Like I said, I don't know what the truth is. The fog of war is thick. But a default position of defensiveness, and assuming that things are as bad or worse than they seem, is probably the safest approach right now. Speaking of things being as bad or worse as they seem, let's close on a quick Sam update. Sam Bankman -Fried has pleaded not guilty to a superseding indictment. Prosecutors formally presented the indictment during an arraignment hearing before a magistrate judge. The fraud and money laundering charges remain the same, but the campaign finance charge has been dropped. The details of campaign finance violations will be folded in as evidence for the remaining charges. Prosecutors said they were required to drop the campaign finance charge due to complications with their extradition arrangement with the Bahamas government. This was Sam's first appearance in court since he was remanded to jail earlier this month. The judge has not yet dealt with Sam's request to be released to prepare his defense at the However, Sam was allowed to meet with his lawyers on Tuesday until 3 p .m. when he was transported back to the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. During Tuesday's hearing, the issue of Sam's inability to review documents due to a lack of internet was raised, with his lawyer stating, Prosecutors noted that the matter had already been briefed to the judge overseeing the case. The magistrate responded to Sam's lawyer by noting that, Sam's lawyers also bemoaned conditions at the jail. He said that Sam had been denied vegan food options and stated that, The lawyer also noted that in the past 11 days of confinement, the jail has not provided Sam with Adderall, a drug for treating ADHD, and according to his lawyer, Sam is also running low on his supply of MSAM, which is a depression treatment. Prosecutors quibbled over the suitability of the jail conditions to enable Sam to prepare his case ahead of an October 2nd trial date, with ultimately the magistrate saying they would look into the issues once the hearing was adjourned, hoping to resolve them that day. Sam is still yet to provide details of legal advice regarding his conduct at FTX, despite prosecutor requests. He is seeking to rely on this as an advice of counsel defense. The judge set a deadline of documentation of this advice to be submitted by Wednesday. Now also the night before the arraignment, prosecutors and Sam's lawyers submitted competing sets of jury instructions for trial. The DOJ's document laid out the basis for each charge in detail and explained the difference between substantive crimes and crimes of conspiracy. Prosecutors outlined what jurors would need to determine if they decide to convict, specifically that there was a scheme to defraud, that Sam knowingly and willfully participated, and that the defendant used interstate wires to conduct the scheme which includes the internet. SPF's filing suggested that he may argue that he had an honest belief that use of customer funds was not unlawful. The filing suggests that his behavior amounted to honest mistakes in judgment and errors of management rather than crimes. It leaned heavily on the idea that unregulated crypto firms are in something of a gray area. Sam's filing said, If Mr. Bankman -Friede acted in good faith with respect to the use of FTX customer funds and with the belief that as a business matter FTX would be able to cover all customer withdrawal requests, he did not act with specific intent to defraud. It is also not relevant whether you believe certain conduct should have been regulated even though it was not regulated at the time. Now to put it mildly, the community does not have a lot of sympathy. However somewhat more sympathy is being extended for Nate Chastain, OpenSea's former head of product who was convicted of fraud and money laundering in May and has now been sentenced to three months in prison for insider trading. Chastain was responsible for deciding which NFT collections would be featured prominently on OpenSea's homepage. The scheme involved him purchasing NFTs ahead of them being featured on the website. All told, Chastain was accused of making over $50 ,000 in profits from this scheme across dozens of trades in 2021. At the time of his arrest, authorities referred to this case as the first ever insider trading scheme involving digital assets. Chastain's lawyers argued that the case should be dismissed because NFTs are not securities and Chastain leveraged information that was not confidential. The judge however was unconvinced and allowed the case to proceed to a jury trial in May, ultimately ending in his conviction. In addition to the three months behind bars, Chastain has been ordered to serve three months of home detention, to conduct 200 hours of community service, to pay fines of $50 ,200 and to surrender 15 .98 ETH, the spoils of his crime. US Attorney Damian Williams said, Nathaniel Chastain faced justice today for violating the trust that his employer placed in him by using OpenSea's confidential information for his own profit. Today's sentence should serve as a warning to other corporate insiders that insider trading in any marketplace will not be tolerated. So there you have it friends, that's the update from here. Another set of dreary but important events as we try to close the door on the last chapter of this industry and move to something hopefully a little bit better. Thanks for listening as always and until tomorrow, be safe and take care of each other.
American Memoirs
A Deeper Look at Warren G. Harding's Fascinating and Scandalous Presidency
"Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919, which left the door wide open for someone else to come in and take the reins. And so that person ended up being Warren G. Harding. Now, Harding was a lesser -known Ohio senator who had made himself a fortune and fame as a businessman. He was specifically good with newspapers. He had bought a newspaper back in his local town of Marion, Ohio, and he generally was more of a compromise candidate. He met more checked boxes than the other candidates that were presented in the stead of Roosevelt. And so people backed Harding as their candidate, but he quickly captivated the American people. So most of the times compromise candidates may not work out as well due to their lack of strong base. But Harding wasn't really like that. He captivated the American people. And at the time, I think the populist movement was a desire for a more isolationist foreign policy and stronger mandates back home. So we had joined World War I. We didn't like it, and we didn't want that to be the status quo from here on out. So Harding easily defeated the Democrat up for election. His name was James Cox. And fun fact of history, which I didn't know leading up to this, was that James Cox's vice presidential candidate was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR. So back in 1920, FDR got his first taste of national electoral campaigns as VP, which would play a strong part in his eventual election up to As the economy soared under Warren Harding's administration, by 1923, he was probably one of the most popular presidents ever during his presidency. So the aftermath of war, it's historically, it's a great time for technological advancement. So if you think about war in the aftermath of it, people are forced to innovate basically for the sake of their own lives. They want to get a technological advantage over their opponents. And so they start to invest more heavily in technology and in research and just ensuring that they understand as best as possible what edge can we get on our opponents. So examples of that is going to be investments in vehicles or investments in radio, which were all or both of those were strong investments and inventions within this era of history. So they were receiving engineering attention. It was allowed to be built more in mass and at scale. And so as a result, society became faster, more informed and culture evolved, which effectively made the 1920s a very fun time. So during the presidency of Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover was appointed Secretary of Commerce. So Hoover made his mark during World War I. He was the leader who spearheaded the Belgium Relief. And I will probably make an episode on the Belgium Relief because it's a really great story coming from World War I. But the footnotes, the summary of it is basically Belgium was starving because the French and Germans and the British were fighting just south of their country. And so Hoover, who had just happened to be happened to be in London at the time when World War I breaks out, he kind of just takes control of this Belgium relief. He starts to gain funds for it. And it was a very neutral affair. The Germans condoned it. They allowed basically the Belgian population to survive during these years of war. And as word got out of his efforts in that, he grew very popular. So he was almost one of the strongest war heroes at the time, despite not being a general or really partaking in the war at all, besides the volunteerism efforts. But Hoover had been away from the country for several decades. He had been in London. He had been in Australia and China. And so when he did come home, he wasn't as politically in the know in his homeland. And he didn't know really who was deserving of trust. So there was a couple of people who did want Hoover to run for president in 1920. And he ultimately decided against it for various reasons. But he did join the administration for Harding. And so Hoover recounted in his memoirs that when he joined President Harding's administration, he kind of thought of it that there was a lot of undesirable characters in it. And the characters, they would eventually be known in history as the Ohio Gang. So Ohio Gang was basically just a big ol' corruption ring. So Harding, he was a boy's boy kind of guy. So it felt to me, reading about him and trying to understand this, that he was the 1920s version of a big partier. So upon becoming president, Harding took a very strong nepotism track. He appointed many of his friends from back home into prominent cabinet positions.
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak Unpacks the Chaos of Biden's Open Door Policy
"Trump had put in place a policy that slowed down fake refugee plane from coming to America? It said they have to remain in Mexico and make their application for asylum. The pretenses that these people are all being politically persecuted by the government of Mexico, which is a democracy with a constitution and free speech and an ally of the United States and we in no way treat it. It's not a dictatorship. It's not a country that persecutes people. So the whole idea that people can show up and claim I am being persecuted by the Mexican government is utterly absurd. It's like people coming from Belgium, okay? The only pretext they offer is that there are drug games. There are narco cartels. There is chaos prevailing over large parts of Mexico. And what the Biden administration has done is decide to simply import this chaos into the United States. We've had mass shootings several mass shootings this week in Texas, all involving immigrants, most of them illegal. We are subject the chaos that is below the border that is tragic for the people of Mexico is coming north. This does no good for anyone. It doesn't help the immigrants who came here legally, they left Mexico because they didn't like the chaos. They applied the ones who got in legally, they're playing by the rules. They want to live in an order of the country. Biden has said, no, no, we are going to make the border states Mexico north. We are going to turn everything into the same royaling pot of chaos where the only people who are safe are the people rich enough to take private private car services.
Mark Levin
Gov. Richard D. Lamm: How Great Nations Commit Suicide
"From the late governor dick lamm Democrat liberal State of Colorado And on the issue of immigration it was a great man Great man And so he was speaking in Washington D.C. 2005 and he stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America If you believe that America is too smug too self satisfied too rich then let's destroy America It's not that hard to do No nation in history has survived the ravages of time Arnold toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall And that an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide Here's how they do it lame said How they destroy how you destroy America Turn America into a bilingual or multilingual and bicultural country History shows that no nation can survive the tension conflict and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures To blessing for an individual to be bilingual but to curse for society to be bilingual Said the historical scholar Seymour lipset put it this way The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate Our histories of turmoil tension and tragedy Canada Belgium Malaysia Lebanon all face crises of national existence Which minorities press for autonomy if not independence
AP News Radio
Miller High Life penalized in Europe for "Champagne of Beers" slogan
"Calling beer champagne has left officials in Belgium, frothing. An American beer, Miller high life is for years out of famous slogan. A well over 115 years. He's been called the champagne of beers. This week a shipment of more than 2000 cans of Miller high life arrived in Belgium, destined for Germany. The trade body defending the interest of champagne makers says it infringes the protected designation of the origin champagne. The cans of Miller were emptied and crushed. Christian van der Werner and his Belgium's customs general administrator. He
AP News Radio
German officials seize cooked bats near Belgian border
"German officials have seized cooked bats, and nearly a ton of unrefrigerated fish after police stopped a van entering the country from Belgium. Federal police say a patrol on Monday stopped the vehicle at a highway exit and found the bats under the fish, a vet from the local consumer protection office was sent to the scene and ordered the bats and fish confiscated. Please seize the van too, which was uninsured. The 31 year old driver faces administrative proceedings for violations of food hygiene rules and local authorities were looking into whether he violated conservation laws relating to the bats. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Russia: Ukrainian drone caused blast far from border, 3 hurt
"Ukraine's government on Sunday, called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to counter what it is called the Kremlin's nuclear blackmail after Russian president Vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus. One Ukrainian official said that Russia has taken Belarus as a nuclear hostage, but Moscow said it was making the move in response to the west's increasing military support for Ukraine. Putin announced the plan in a television interview that aired on Saturday, saying it was triggered by a UK decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor piercing rounds containing depleted uranium, Putin argued that by deploying its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Russia was following the lead of the United States. He noted that Washington has nuclear weapons based in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and turkey. Russia has stored its weapons at dedicated depots on its own territory and moving part of the arsenal to a storage facility in Belarus would effectively up the ante in the Ukrainian conflict in response, Ukraine's foreign ministry condemned the move, stating that the world must be united against someone who endangers the future of human civilization. I'm Sarah Napa
AP News Radio
UK bans TikTok on government phones on security grounds
"British authorities say they're banning the Chinese owned video sharing app TikTok from government to mobile phones on security grounds. Following similar moves by the U.S. and the EU. Cabinet office minister Oliver Daven has told parliament the ban will apply to work phones and other devices used by government ministers and civil servants. It does not apply to personal phones and devices. The moves were prompted by growing concerns that TikTok's parent company ByteDance would give user data such as browsing history and location to the Chinese government or push propaganda and misinformation on its behalf. The U.S. government, mandated last month that employees of federal agencies have to delete TikTok from all government issued mobile devices, while Belgium and some other EU countries have also temporarily banned the app from employee phones. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Death penalty phase of trial looms for NYC bike path killer
"A jury is set to begin hearing witnesses in the death penalty phase of a trial for an Islamic extremist who killed 8 people on a New York City bike path. New York hasn't had an execution in 60 years but last month it was on the table when syphilis was convicted of intentionally driving a truck down a Hudson River path, mowing down bicyclists, the same jury that found him guilty will decide if he is put to death or spend the rest of his life in prison, while New York doesn't have capital punishment, sai pals trial is in federal court which does. Sai pals killing spree took the lives of two Americans 5 friends from Argentina and a woman from Belgium. Julie Walker, New York
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak: You Fight Where the Enemies Are Attacking
"John Z rack, we're talking about the articles you've written at stream dot org. We're talking about the nation. I still am astonished that most in the governing class, even the good guys have been silent about what happened on January 6th. It's though the pressure to be silent has never been stronger on anything. And that is precisely how you know this is where to fight. The Germans were pouring through the Ardennes forest. That's where the pressure was. That's where the French and British Army should have been in 1940. Instead, it was up in Belgium and the Netherlands accomplishing nothing. And that's how you ended up with the Dunkirk evacuation. When the enemy and let's be clear, they are our enemies. When our ruling class are enemies, wherever they are putting pressure, that is where you push back. When the Nazis are pouring in through the Ardennes, you go fight in the Ardent. Are Nazis here in America, are domestic Nazis who want to steal our rights, who want to like George W. Bush equate the January 6th peaceful protesters with the September 11th hijacking murderers when our enemies are pressing on January 6th. That is where we have to press back. You send your troops to fight, we're the Nazis are attacking you. You don't go fight where it's easiest where they're not fighting. You don't go man the Maginot line. You fight where they are attacking.
AP News Radio
Vatican: Benedict in stable condition, participated in Mass
"Pope America Benedict is still in a stable condition after experiencing a health decline and was able to take part in a private mass in his room according to Vatican officials. The Vatican provided an update on the retired pontiff's health, saying he was able to rest well for a second night. Meanwhile, faithful have gathered in churches in Rome to pray for the 95 year old Pope emeritus, sister Mary kamani, a medical doctor, did not go home to sleep after a night shift. So that God will accompany him. He needs all of us at this time. Guna Reeves from Belgium attended a mass at the tomb of St. John Paul the second. This
The Dan Bongino Show
Axed Balenciaga Campaign Featured Artist Who Painted Castrated Toddler
"But there's another ad that also came under a controversy from balenciaga recently And it's this picture of this image it's part of their now canceled spring 2023 ad campaign showing this French actress Isabel Hubbard I think is their last name I've never heard of her before But she's in this Manhattan office with a stack of books behind her feet up on the table And some things in the background just like in some of these other images you can spot the teddy bears with bondage or you can see the Supreme Court case on child pornography But some things in the background it's this book So what's in the book What is the book It's this book featuring a Belgium artist This painter And what's the kids of that you ask Where you probably can't hear it but I imagine you're asking So it's this Belgian painter whose work includes a 2017 series of images depicting naked toddlers This series is titled fire from the sun and shows young children with blood soaked skin and some castrated So we're talking about different images for balenciaga all showing a common thing Sexually exploiting children in such a depraved and derogatory way
Garret Lewis
Hotel Rwanda Hero Paul Rusesabagina Convicted on Terror Charges
"Who inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda is found guilty of terrorism charges They're accused of being in a group that launched deadly attacks and want in 2018 and 19 Paul recess. A beginner called the trial a sham and says he was kidnapped from Belgium, where he lives and taken to Rwanda against as well. He saved hundreds of people during a genocide by hiding them in his hotel.
SpaceTime with Stuart Gary
New COVID-19 Variant of Interest Might Be Resistant to Vaccines
"World has a new covert nineteen very of interest with a would hogan association pointing to the new new variant of the disease which is off in south america. There of fish this ukraina virus vary could be better at evading vaccines thereby increasing concerns of making covered nineteen endemic in society scientists. Say the muir be one six to one variant. As a number of mutations would suggest it could be more resistant. Vaccines early studies. One five vaccine is less effective against the variant. Compared to other mutations in fact it's already been found in thirty nine counties and as a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape these include a mutation called p. Six hundred eighty one age which was first reported in the alpha variant and his potentially responsible faster transmission meal also has the mutations e four eighty four k and k four seventeen n which are associated with being able to evade antibodies against the corona virus and various other mutations include arthur forty-six k. And why one forty four t is consequences. Arizona known music already been reported in ten percent of cases sequenced by the university of miami and reuters reporting that seven fully vaccinated residents in a nursing home in belgium dying from emile outbreak. At this stage the global prevalence of the various among sequence covered nineteen cases is still below zero point one percent but it has consistently grown in countries such as colombia with thirty nine percent and ecuador with thirteen percent increase. Something to worry about
Cracking Aces
How ESPN's Poker Programming Has Failed
"I do think that's where poker on. Espn has failed. Recently is developing new characters in new storylines and getting the introducing the common dive flipping channels. Oh maybe i'll turn on wwl and scotty win as example. Is this the first thing that always comes to mind. Where i was put on the third feature table when i had a ton of chips because scotty winner greg raymer would ever had to be on. The main table was like it's twenty twenty. What we still follow me like. What are you still doing here like. Why are we still just doing these. Same guys over and over and over instead of developing especially getting like the twits guys onto the feature tables who they have already developed a following and now they can expand it. And that's my one. Hope is that was idiots from northern europe. New new blood is always better here. This stuff you talk about all the time. I like some of those old older school. Pros are still entertaining. Some are not useful talking about them adding that much the broadcast. It's just like are. We really going to beat off miss belgium forever. I think some of the new school pros that people are like robots really. Aren't you just have to give him a chance to get like overpowered by the loud guy like a personality season example. Is nick betraying below. The students hull. But he's not allowed like his beer reviews and stuff are some of the funniest things are seen But he's not going to be the guy who's like very obviously funny. You have to get him in an interview to see something. Funny like I wanna make those people more famous. I wanna give them more time. Because i think that poker needs new blood and we can't just keep relying on like. Oh yeah you're on. Tv two kids go and everyone cared more. Let's just keep feeding this to people. I think they're kind of tired of it. We need some new
Mornings on Maine Street
UK, US Warn of 'Imminent' Terrorist Attack at Kabul Airport
"Americans still waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan where they're growing warnings of possible terrorist plots. The White House says. From three a.m. yesterday to three AM today about 13,400 people were evacuated from Afghanistan. British, French and Danish militaries have given stark warnings about the security situation at the Kabul airport, where evacuations are taking place. The British Armed Forces minister told the BBC today that there is quote very credible reporting of an imminent attack at the airport. Poland and Belgium have already ended their evacuations boxes. Tony T Powers Canada, also announcing its ended evacuations and
ESPN FC
"belgium" Discussed on ESPN FC
"I was thinking. Steve was talking about that bringing a big name. Yeah absolutely and of course they would love to which big name. How much does he costs. And how much money do you have for now. Of course we know that rummages strategy has been drawing egg in nba that strategy revolves around the possibility of setting sandra man that he doesn't want to continue them what happens. He has a year left on his contract. So you wait till the end of the year and you get in for free although close. He's never completely free. Because what you save on transit figure partly paying salary when a plant comes free and then the other option is that you you leverage the fact. There's only eight athletes contracting probably leave for free at the end of it to site department. Ashland hey listen you might as well let him go now for a small fee but at least take something while you can and so those are the two scenarios which row majaida working at my of course as you say they got too bad to fall to pay from and right now they calling. Let's just go back bicycle. Come back from. Loan remedied have ramadan. You'd have a thirty seven man squad at the moment. Either you've got you've got to deal with this now. Obviously if you find the money sign up a or thirty eight men squad move. Just get rid of one more than we were going to get rid of. Question is harder. The new sometimes. Imagine it's not that easy to place all these players and clubs and still less to get the money for these players and so ravaging. I think have a very very difficult task ahead of them to be up to create the conditions in which they can sign kilian. Mbappe this summer. I suspect that what what they'll do is is is leverage this and try and hope that they get him cheap or if not white into next summer and of course in.
ESPN FC
"belgium" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Handle players. Who's very good in terms of that. Solve that dressing room. They're making to follow up a little bit. On some of the stuff that steve was talking about the back of the galapagos film. Angela is a manager. That hasn't always been popular with his president but tends to be popular. Movies plays there was a reason why not with sexually full. There is a reason. Why slightly baffling these back now. But obviously fundamentally it comes down to well. It's still real madrid. Still the place where you want to be even if you know there. They're certain flaws in a relationship. I think he is probably a good man to get the best out of jail if of course by his committed to that if ballots really really keen on doing that if the other pieces fit into places while i think one of the things that was really clear about chelsea's first presentation is around your manager. When he came back was that he made it absolutely clear that he will work with the squad that they gave him. He's not going to be demanding signings. He's not going to be demanding departures. He's there to get their best album. And if that means bringing back players because you've got no choice but to bring them back and trying to get them play again like our file. That's what you do. If that means that the young kids have to play a bigger role finishes for example over three ago or even brought him if he was to come back from from milan. then yet you give them a role and you try and find a way for them but ultimately what will happen is that caught on. Sheltie will do what he thinks. He's right to win games now. Knowing the has a political lines dread as well as a footballing one that will be the bottom line and so if he starts by. I think he will. I'm bell doesn't respond. Then no you won't get the best violin bio will slip away from the site again. And would you say for balance as well. I hope he goes back. I hope he's given the chance by carlo until cnn plays really well prove people wrong. The only thing you would say is if flood unseen or wants him off the payroll carlo. Ancelotti say in mata il just wants him out the fact that the thinking about that. But i must go of courses left or this concept when i want to talk about iran leaving. Yeah a lot of people are going to come back. To god's gonna come back the all the lights on and are gonna come back if they want effectively. Want to save money because they're in debt and they need to pay for the rebuilding of the stadium because of the pandemic got it might be showing love and see you know he might want them out. And then it's up together whether he wants to stay not play or stain. Just get paid and sit in the house. you know. it's going to be that standoff again. I think we're going to have. I wish him all the best evenings lock. Yeah he's one zero for here will take problem isn't got it got says. I'm fine. I just want to stay here. We still still has to be paid. And that's it. I mean we saw glimpses in the euro's before we was of a guy who zafy module but but then sort of interest. Just you know. He's not going to be the bail of five six years ago when he was flying for various reasons injuries on i would say desire israel but when he finds it could do job by is the politics of it goes back and and you know there's a fight again with peres and he's tried to force them out then has heads going to be all over. The show is free. You stayed in what she's been doing all along. he's not going to be much use to call the lunch. You oughta as a room you're going to have to bring somebody in the realm They're going to have to bring a name and to appease the funds he's just been voted in he. Let's city. i must go rough. I'm mike go after eight engines know the way they finished the season last year. The not the not the not any better not going to get better than what they were last year. The actually weaker so the people are going to come back in. He's he's going to look at them in the preseason and then they're gonna start leaving the again luca your which is going to go. He's going to go all out on loan china money and so unless they begin a big name shining here. They're going to really difficult year chairman. Crack me up during that time. Where the i don't want that guy anymore but is that guy is not good enough or he doesn't play injured all their chairman. We want to know what nobody wants. Guys available. I mean you have to be to. I've been blinded for like the last two years or three years to say. Oh no guys based a fantastic player. i'm sorry with all due respect to garis val. It's more done than herbs that we saw from him and no big clubs will want gary spare full first of the money and that for the performance is so he stuck in real madrid. Well anybody watched last year. We'll turn around and say okay. Should we go for belan loan or he's try totem around on loan. Real realm are probably going to have to pay a portion of his wages wages. but still. it's less than what have to pay him if he stays. But anybody watched a majority of the season and some people say well that was marino not baobab. But clearly i mean i i would hasten the i'd if got bill was absolutely flying a manager wouldn't put them in the team joel merino. Adam sat on the bench pleased with not even half talent planning ahead of so anybody watching. Think well del wanted to be a hundred or one hundred fifty thousand a week to pay a portion of his wages when actually it might not joe. Bring me much dependent headers. But i don't think be boiled. He's been seen. It is eleven and a great seti. They've given a contract. It doesn't say sit to micheals point of injured. Got any money to bring in a big name. That's exactly what.
Dictators
"belgium" Discussed on Dictators
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Dictators
"belgium" Discussed on Dictators
"Welcome to dictators. Spotify original from podcast. I'm richard and i'm kate episodes of dictators and all other spotify originals from park cast for free on spotify this season on dictators. We're exploring the reins of desperate monarchs. Who just before or during world war one. We'll explore king leopold the second of belgium emperor franz josef of austria hungary and the three pashas of the ottoman empire. Last week we discussed leopold the seconds obsession with colonization and how he schemed and conned the rest of the world into giving him land to enrich himself. Today we're exploring the horrific crimes perpetrated by king leopold's regime in the congo which cost millions of lives and destroyed the region and will explore the long and difficult struggle to expose those crimes to the world. We'll have all that and more coming up. Stay with us. This episode is brought to you by progressive. Are you thinking more about how to tighten up your budget. 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Two five seven seven eight zero standard texting rates apply and start planning your oklahoma trip at travel oak dot com slash. Okay go okay here. We go this. Episode is brought to you by zillow. Medella was the official bureau of ufc. Which means is also the official bureau fans with the fighting spirit. That means never give enough even when the odds against so when you're watching the next big. Ufc fight have chris modell especially al within reach but delo through for those with the fighting. Spirit heads adela. Usa dot com to shop delivery and pickup drink responsibly. Beer imported by crown imports chicago illinois by eighteen eighty five fifty year old leopold the second had established the congo free state in central africa. A territory roughly. The size of western europe for decades leopold had angled for a colony in the hopes of enriching himself and glorifying belgium. After years of scheming leopold had his prize but even though he managed to carve out a domain in central africa the belgian government and people wanted nothing to do with it to ease their fears of being forced to deal with colony. Leopold assured parliament that he would rule the congo free state as sole sovereign thus the congo was leopold's own personal fiefdom unconstrained by belgian or any other law. Unfortunately he still had to figure out a way to pay for it. Colonies tend to be expensive ventures. Especially before you're able to extract resources to make them profitable. Since the congo was leopold's personal property he had to fund the whole enterprise himself by the end of eighteen eighty nine the kings finances were stretched to their limits. Bankers in europe refused to extend him loans and even after plundering the inheritance of his wealthy sister. Leopold didn't have the necessary funds. There was only one place where he could get the money he needed. The belgian government parliament had never wanted a colony but by the early eighteen ninety s. They were starting to warm to the idea of having one with ivory coming out of the congo in greater quantities. The government realized there might be money in the jungle. After all at the time ivory was a highly sought after commodity typically harvested from slain elephants. It could be shipped out of the congo free state at a substantial profit once. Leopold dangled that carrot. He didn't hesitate to real parliament in. He said that in exchange for a loan he would draft a will in which he left the colony to belgium to sweeten the deal. Leopold offered that in ten years. Parliament could choose to either accept ownership of colony or demand repayment of the loan. The government agreed and gave the king twenty five million francs one hundred fifty five million. Us dollars today and all of it was interest free rather than thank his countrymen for pulling him out of a jam leopold turn right around and screwed them over sometime after securing. the loan. Leopold broke the news that he had also borrowed five million francs from a banker named brown to teach the security for this second loan required leopold to mortgage a large portion of the colony to detainees and since leopold was unable to repay the loan he would have to soon handover much of the congo to t.j. The same land that was already promised to belgium unwilling to lose a significant area of their congo inheritance. Parliament decided they had to annex the entire congo however when the belgian people learned of this they were furious they had never wanted a colony in the first place and now they're government was dragging them all into the game against this wave of public. Backlash parliament abandoned the annexation. Instead they agreed to pay off. Leopold's five million. Frank loan and for reasons that are unclear they gave leopold an extra one point five million francs. And here's the kicker it turns out leopold had never actually borrowed money from brown to teach. He simply made up the whole story in order to con the belgian government into giving him more money and it worked of course during this long process. Leopold couldn't resist trying to expand his already. Enormous holding the congo free state was gigantic. It was bigger than spain. France england germany and italy combined but not content with what he had one leopold needed. More leopold had his eyes on the nile river. If he could stake a claim on a portion of the nile he would have access to another significant means of transport and solidify his grasp on central africa. His advisors thought it insanity to seize the nile on top of everything he had already won in response. Leopold simply said. Do you consider worth nothing. The glory of being a pharaoh in order to satisfy his appetite for power leopold came up with a cunning plan. the congo's northern lands border sudan. Which in the mid eighteen eighty s was in a state of political upheaval. The ottoman governor. Mehmet eamon pasha was being pressed by rebels and was virtually trapped in the nile river town of lotto. Though the ottomans claimed the region there control was essentially non existent. The british you extensively held joint custody of sudan in fact ran the show. Unfortunately they were juggling too many other conflicts and couldn't help pasha.
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"Going in. The are the athletes really benefiting from their success. I don't know if george how about some quick hits instead go gob. Kumon will be in charge of barcelona next season jewels considering the radio silence i guess this was inevitable but you must be happy from your face. It can tell you so. Happy is going to be the first season with. We're not you know. Let's see why he comes up with this time at the other matter. If you're happy matters is messy is happy. Happy show how the find basis happy either. I'm even though show will apologize. Happy because clearly kuban was not the first choice. This is by default. I still haven't been linked with anybody else. i assume. but there's still there's still declined quarterly. Maybe they can't afford anybody else. But it's like that tweet kumons agents are saying like oh yeah. Let's get married bellas. Wait for two weeks. If i can find right where they couldn't find a better groom bright so they kept kumon stop that pushed onto new kante. God was about the salary or the budget or the number of stuff could bring in or maybe defined. It just couldn't afford him for stop. Look i mean is always happens when these things break apart and by the way like just a remind shining is still on track to director. Football dot confirmed yet I think. I think that this deal is frozen for now. I don't think it is one hundred percent dead but right now. They've stopped talking and they're going to look at other options. I refuse to believe refuse to believe that it was about his salary or his staff. Because you should know how much until you're going to manage always demand a ton of money because that's how he rolls and he thinks he's worth it and others think he's worth at two so going in there and trying to negotiate when you own. Oh wait how much money you want. Equally with his staff they. That's the one thing he'd rather compromise on his on his salary on staff. I don't get this weird. He's the only country where you hear it in like. Oh well yeah well. You can only bring two staff members. Three staff members five members. You're paying the guy fifteen million or whatever let him bring the dudes that he wants to take it out of his salary. Which is what people have done in the past. You know these guys. These assistant makes big like fifty eighty k. A year. They're not the ones you're going to bankrupt you so i assume it's down to budget in him thinking you know it was reported today. Obviously the spurs version of events that he wanted one hundred million pounds to spend netspend this summer that he was expecting. And that's not possible a possible. That is the only valid reason. I think the main valid reason why this should go further once. You've spoken him. England be romania one nil jaws still no city and chelsea players in the squad. Because they're all tired from the champions league final yet a ton of rotation people like godfrey in there. who don't things going to go to euros. My attitude definitely don't going. Did you learn anything from this game. You know why learns. And i think he's south. I don't like southgate. I don't think he's very good. You like him as a person. Learn resume nausea phil for him in the sense that he he's how two friendly matches to prepare for this year. Which is a big euros. You say it's on home soil for pretty much the whole way if they go to the final and and yet he hasn't been able to play. He's zero preparation. Yeah he's eleven. Not even the best back for now even the president training. Nothing and as you think there's a point where even if whether you like him or not this this ideal and fit for him. I think this is an under reported stories because you want to go to excuses in early. I'll say this is a fair. Excuse gareth southgate eh. Excuse me you can make. I haven't had time to do my job as england manager. It's not anybody's fault but to get it to him. Completely and i think defensively still looked a bit dodgy for many remedy team is not very good yet. Played well and some. Johnston made some big saves in gold. And also in that game gab jordan henderson pulls rank on dominica the lewin to england's second penalty and missed. That was a bit weird. It was very weird Apparently like i was watching on television. Commentator said oh and jordan henderson never scored in fifty six games england. So maybe that's why wants to take the penalty to get his confidence back. I don't know but if you're not a penalty taker ward prowse's and radford where ahead of him in the pecking order. Neither one was on the pitching. I'm assuming southgate's pecking order goes further than just two names and henderson not supposed to just really bad. Updates is going over and taking the ball from him. I mean i'm sorry who do you. Who are you you know. You're still jordan henderson. Right either agree this beforehand with manager. Or don't do it. Just look at the look at. The bench wants to penalties said. Give it to give it. We'll give it to so. And so i don't do it on your own. Jewels more booing players taking a knee from the fans and to remain players refusing to take the knee and coming up and saying we were making statement about taking the. Yeah yeah. I mean. I'm more upset by the middlesbrough crowd of some of them and those digits who booth their own players for doing then did the romanian players as we've said it should come to individual decision anywhere we've always said govern and i think that's fair but the booing archers don't get it and maybe if you booed you're part of the reason why taking the knee and you know my thoughts. I'm not gonna go into that. One of the romanian players statue saying that it was out of solidarity to andrea del Of course was involved in yet. He was banned for ten days for getting ten games by on the balance of probabilities rather than kind of beyond the burden of reasonable doubt which obviously annoys a lot of players. He's entitled to his view. I suppose most nipping between eventers president andrea. Nearly prison alexander's staffer rains nipping sniping. Sniping sniping sorry. I really says the superbowl wasn't a coup d'etat. But rather a for help. That was so badly needed and suffering says that he's dead to him considering his godfather of one of his pretty bad. Obviously this is very very personal. I don't think shefrin house himself when he says stuff like that. I know food into pointed equally. I and saying this is a cry for help. And you know uefa wasn't listening. Come on man come on. You're on the uefa executive committee. You're the president of the european clubs association right. Why don't you come out and tell me what you did to fix things from the inside. Also why don't you come out and address. The fact that i go back to this. The entire system was profitable for two years before the pandemic. When you go out and explain that rather than saying it's a cry for help. I know he doesn't look good in. This boost gets test positive for kovic spain after go into self isolation play the under twenty one's in their next friendly warning. This is to be taken seriously of what could happen. And i think that's more of a warning than the scotland case that we have to remember. John jake the week before and some place how to sell hard to self isolate as well but this is so close to the tournament style of the tournament. Nineties happens during the tournament. Yeah but it'd be the same and now how do you know that some of these span players who after his negative. Because bush is the only one amongst fifty-one squawk.
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"Yeah have you. You didn't check out your run-up diddy. Ron needed oil policy. Oil would help you had your uncalled-for yeah and if you change your mind in the last minute about going to a club during your playing career a nightclub well no chocolate yes What's the end of my career. Frankford i i. I wanted to move home. I'm wants to move home just before i went. I got enough from noon baggage. Who was also wounded. We'll be good. I was thirty four alpha mid to your i went old. Should i say yeah probably show. She was time after twelve years abroad. That so i went home and played for coach starbucks on that was not a great this thing i've done in my life but i did it final question of course a very sad day between non tobago. Yesterday they managed to nil nil. Draw against the bahamas. Meaning they not be going to the world cup Shocking now tobago. Being eliminated from qualifying no longer visit the bahamas. Has the palm eliminated as one of your favorite cajun spots to enjoy the night. I'm trying to think i've ever been to bahamas. New up to put on the now anything say about last night's nope nothing of this. This is this is as low as we have ever been for. Bowling-wise on the worrying thing is i think i was saying you said to you before that there will be no repercussions for this for that result to get told this stage of the competition. Nothing will happen. I guarantee go read. We have to pay to qualifies well. I'm i'm still for everything you just say. Thank you very much. Everyone will be back tomorrow for more be joined the countdown. Continues to the start of the european challenge. Everyone this is zach lowe. Check out my podcast. The low post. Where i talked to people in and around the nba about everything going on in the basketball world the one and only nicoli yokich the most watchable telegenic player in the nba players trends an under the radar teams. Everything longtime older. All the devon booker stock combined. I'm not trashing. Because i think he's getting better. Listen subscribe to the low post wherever you listen to podcasts..
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"Have a host lasting. It comes follow power. But i was trying to be professional asking what it means is what it means to say well. Today's down some injuries guy still have from last things problems then from original said injury. Joel spot his name. That's working fine. Steve. you can eat no problem after breaking. That can eat no problem again. I'll be neck and neck with them. Drivers account can't get monette. Halfway can only get not fuck off. I'm like bell often was scouting minutes of standing because you basically started doing this and after ten minutes minett which just frees up. Your couldn't even get speak. The media kept put injuries from stevie procedure almanac. Cutting remembered exactly what the diagnosis was. B- had some some steroids putting me neck fucking bit. Nineteen ninety-one right. Just love a number of this year. Wow yeah ooh hokey couple go. After that time show anything i object. Different knee remember just after i retired fame and my youngest. I couldn't carry her and everything about doing. Okay no cv look at me. I'm moving. look. Around adam yeah i. I don't really lasting that troubles me. I still have a plate in my left ankle. Just kind of acts up sometimes but nothing serious problems hans later on in life fourteen. We'll have some issues young shock the baby looking everywhere. This evolve type. I've never heard a goal. Give trump my career. Just like senator rebound game. My goodness me right Not about how liverpool manchester united the prospect of ants united signing sancho scary is jaden sanchis. Sanctuary set mashes united and their sources. Say that they are negotiating. Problem dot is not negotiating so who they share with. We don't know but hey don't have set up accepted the same month last last season this year last year remember. The deadline was tenth of august when it goes trend this this time. Twenty third of july expected the price dominates under this gentleman's agreement between sort of sport and sancho that he can go If these things are met and that is stunned right now. I just talked to the people that the full show on that is standard and the rest restless fits with most of the country experiencing a heatwave. Do the boys have any stories. They'd like to share around. The hottest game ever played in one must assume they were. No water. breaks. In the days of y'all stephen as a famous picture of yuping on some freemen the world cup and eighty six altars place. Six six was just horrendous. I mean if you had to run zook. Problem for the best. We can disagree. But i told you this story before was when the whistle win halftime clean gemini. We go into the dressing room and the thank six oxygen masks on the wall and it was like a bunch of puppies. Try to get to the mother's teats to get on the oxygen tank robin each other chuck in each other the road and climbing over. It's all than to try and get him alter gymnast days. I'm just every you. If you ran it took two three minutes to get your breath box soho. You couldn't breathe just an absolute nightmare world cup talking about that. I was the same. Thank thank god. I didn't run little. So i made my. I made my first game for norwich in the caribbean was the hottest. Have a play off team coming from our snow and temporary eight. Eighty six west western bummed. When came started. And i remember. Some of the players had troubled. Forget their shirts on because it was so. Some book didn't help that. Our physiotherapist gave his life to to protect from not good. Wow what a great decision. That's ninety one checkup every single game in dallas right. I mean sometimes. The caribbean and i've never played in any containing condition as us..
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"Got a community of guests. Did you feel like are your closest friends in not time to subscribe to the right time with bomani jones. Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. He pays your state jane. Extra time is next. Thank you very much shocked and the boys force on extra time. Speaking about turnout tobago abilities. Welcome delay of extra time. Everyone paying attention ready. Stay with us shock. Yeah as well yan take us through those new shirts. that's an addition that we haven't seen before i think mine. Yeah swaps now. Go hold original into euros drive cattle. You'll have tony adams and you have the famous give say that no way we were saying really ugly and ninety four world cup. We did the week in usa. It's enough poll around. At least you were there by right. Stevie now that scotland of tie netherlands and in the mighty luxembourg. How much more faith do you have in them to finish at least third in that group. Faith listen to the truth if you if he has to burke's netherlands What sex favorites so can't be done to buy. If you beating the favorite team in europe. German take italians the czech republic. I'll watch middle of the. And i thought they were absolutely awful. So we've got john. Sabine them so yeah. A lot more hopeful than the was Certainly six months ago. No process Yeah of all the national teams in europe. Which one do you expect a crash out of the year rose early germany. Yep i can put. Germany isn't a difficult group. Talking about group of death with with bullets golf for france and hungry being the weakest team that through but i pull up the game against denmark germany. There are some problems that are around there and this is going to be last tournament and everybody hope you get a great health evita sand but but i can't see this tiny balancing the team so they could be the team go in. I'll only having sat down because we'll probably see will be first. The cliche with germany's always good installments. hello from. Russia is any chance an english club manchester city chelsea and could get their hands on holland. This summit good one because they're developing things going on there ten days ago over for the champions league final said i would respect my contract on expect him to stay indoors for that things moving on because maybe one of those clubs. I've seen serious have series ideas to get a new number nine which one young both us we say we see them but Let's let's put it this way. I wasn't forced. So i'm jailed sakes so we'll see what happens. Could be developing coming off. But i just have to have one hundred percent confirmed but they need strike of both of them on. They have the money. And then we'll see how jordan would be on money coming up this summer. Given shocker almost toys hamstring last night trying to show his size. Nineteen shoe injuries. The guy still have goodness. That's a word words with six. I'll pretty shoney's united states word. What are some of the guys still say again. Yes but what what is how do you say the word jay. We get some last quarter. On the week we have a host lasting. It comes follow power. But i was trying to be professional asking what it means is what it means to say well..
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"Yoga. Just take us into his mindset. What's he thinking just as a manager going into tournament. You always have kind of different options. One is you go with i eleven and you get them going and get them in a rhythm or maybe because based off some players still tie up from the end of the season or maybe some minor minor injuries. you decide then to give some young players that are coming mainly from the bench and you want to get a last look at those players. That's the other way to go. And that's what he decided. I think overall did fine. There should have scored a couple more goals. England in that in that game romania mainly was playing the whole ninety minutes on a counter. Break tactic understandably So i don't think he gets a lot of Input or out of this game gave southgate but in the end he decided that way and Obviously you know. We can't wait until they stopped the tournament. I it's weird in stevie because nervously which ronald drill any conclusion from these people. Like james will has to go house to take the place for alexander arnold because the livery from set-pieces we know that gareth southgate is no not all season. That will is good at set-pieces this sort of performance won't change his mind whatsoever. No not at all than jogging. Probably knows this better than the rest of its. When you're taking you say into championship and your and your and you got squad of twenty six right. The only thing you know as the guy expected twenty isn't getting again and if he is getting a game. Something's gone horribly wrong. So you know to to take ward pros as actually not about whether he can take a free kick or not the type of guy. Here's your twenty-six probably probably from from two thousand eight hundred twenty six as having decent quality. That's not going to affect and then the quality is going to be good on your tatum field. You six guys who you nor will be cheerleader. Who are quite happy to be there. They're not going to upset the apple cart and who have got a great where boat in a good teammate. Because you're gonna wait for four six weeks where a bunch of a bunch of players twenty six players. Listen some of us can't cut me boiler to spend the weekend with the whole family and we start knowing each other people who are good travelers so You're twenty-six guy. That's probably going to be what pros has nothing to do with them. Taking free kicks the person he does that make sense. Yagan absolutely make sense. It's really about chemistry. I mean they go now obviously to have a short preparation because read for longer than than it usually does They have only two friendlies in those two that. Try the best that can make out of those two friends. I personally prefer to have my my starting lineup. Already presented their give them sixty minutes and then bring in a lot of subway as maybe this except to that you have and but it it is. The tricky part is to chemistry. Tricky part is you know. I got a form a group of players for four to six weeks in a tournament that they don't kind of after three weeks run out of steam. You know emotionally you know. Maybe you go at each other's noves some arguments so you gotta stay focused. You gotta go all the way to the end. And so it's it's a huge huge job for manager. Basically unmanned management about nor on the social side than actually what happens on on the field and therefore it's tricky and it will be very interesting. How every individual manager now is your european championship will handle that topic. It's something that you never really think about is fine watching this but obviously the dynamic amongst the group very important for that length of time. Yeah it is on a on germany with yogi being here representative for jovi as well. They they have done this into a science over the over the years and over the championship. I think germany's the team. From the moment they meet up after league and they have an unbelievable good preparation before most tournaments a yoga being a positive in south in two thousand six for their home world cup. And you see it so often that all these preparations yes. Socially is very important bestow. Are all preparations going into at world. Cup or the euro november backing so that. Forget to world cup when germany played england. I mean the german team had played with the match ball of of the world cup for like months and england has gotten the same week so this should not be underestimated team. That time they uc no before the year is yours is so important. Also at the fact that they're coming from a very difficult than different season with the pandemic going into that seasons so gathered southgate made a choice today that he wanted everybody to feel evolve. Everybody would get get a cop on go on from there and then we know if you win to post game you do everything rights and if you you made may be wrong but the social thing is important but so is the practical stuff going into a championship expectation high around the inland side going.
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"Now i agree. And then if if from organizational to a regulator perspective or an oddity perspective. How would you put the tiers of gdp are a. How do you see from an authority specter. Actually the same. I mean that also there a lot of immaturity and sometimes it's their fault sometimes it's not They do good job. I think they work ferhat goods if you see we. We have a lot of decisions in in belgium too. Many i think that the go-to Try dryden english to the market marked on the in belgium. Yeah that's that's too much. You really need to understand that when they take a decision. They need to explain this decision and why they took that. That kind of decision So we see this also in other countries that a lot of fines are reduce or even that That the case is The higher court On throws away the case that said also something about immaturity. And i think they will grow together. Gdp are in this this maturity From a from a data protection Officer point of view. I think The data protection authorities are not helping enough as a data protection officer. We need help. Sometimes we need a discussion with data protection authority and Sometimes you get an answer as you don't get an answer and i don't understand the criteria that are there. When do i get an answer when i can. I communicate with them and when we did not respond to me. I'm at of course this is also something to do with the with the financial side of Being data protection authority. If i look at the the the small data protection authority in flanders. I have to say there. There's a lot of discussion. If llamas can have data protection authority but if you see The people the word that that we need to do and the people that we have. That's too much work to do..
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"Leopold convinced president chester a arthur that the free republics were both a great humanitarian project and an opportunity for commercial investment. He assured the president that americans would be able to buy land in the congo and that american commodities there would be duty-free. Arthur was enthused and completely duped congress. The president reported that the objects of the i see our philanthropic. It does not aim at permanent political control but seeks the neutrality of the valley. in april eighteen eighty four. The united states became the first nation to officially recognize leopold's claim to the congo. They assume they were giving recognition to a collection of free states like an african version of the usa with the us sufficiently fooled leopold up france though the french felt they had nothing to fear from belgium itself. They assume that sooner or later leopold's colonizing enterprise with bankrupt. When that happened he might sell the land to great britain. Which was unacceptable. Leopold promised france that if he was ever disposed of his custody of the congo france would get the right of first refusal. The french happily agreed. France granted full recognition of leopold's claim. After that the last moves of the game virtually played themselves. Britain and germany realized that they had to keep the afc in charge because if the i see collapsed than the congo would go to france. So like the us. Germany agreed to accept leopold's claim in exchange for guarantees of freedom of trade. Of course they were unaware that leopold treaties with african chiefs granted him trade monopolies after germany recognize leopold's claim. Britain agreed to withdraw. Its support of portugal which was then forced to retreat from the congo. The aic and thus leopold was formerly recognized as the controller of the new congo state. Not everyone was blind to the scheme. Leopold had just pulled off german chancellor otto fund bismarck. One of the shrewdest difficult matt's to ever play the game publicly praised leopold as the founder of a work which will confer the most important benefits on mankind in the margins of document written by leopold however the iron chancellor scribbled fraud fraud or not. Leopold got what he wanted in may eighteen eighty five. The fifty year old king abandoned the pretense of the afc and named his privately controlled colony the independent state of the congo or congo. free state. now that he had the congo in his grasp leopold could drop the mask at first he considered naming himself emperor of the congo but settled on the slightly more modest king of the kongo but there was still one hurdle to cross the belgian parliament. The parliament had never wanted a colony in the first place. They expressed concern that they might end up saddled with the responsibility for the congo. Or that leopold's attention might be torn between the belgian and congolese parliament's leopold reassured them that there would be no democracy in the congo. He would rule as an absolute king. He had complete and total authority satisfied that the congo wouldn't be their responsibility or feeling that there was no point in arguing. Any further the belgian government agreed to make leopold the king of the kongo. According to the aaronson almost overnight little belgium's constitutional monarch had emerged as the absolute sovereign of a country the size of western europe and with the announcement fifty year old king leopold the second had finally achieved his lifelong dream of acquiring a colony. The only question that remained was what he actually planned to do with it. Few could have anticipated that leopold. The second would create one of the most brutal and horrifying regimes.
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"The colony. He dreamed of the congo river. Basin was first visited by europeans in the fifteenth century when portuguese explorer deal go. Cow sailed into the mouth of the river in fourteen eighty two throughout the early fourteen. Eighty s cow traveled around the area and eventually arrived at the kingdom of kongo. He was astonished. By how complex and thriving the kingdom was. He was especially impressed by zinger. Abu coup the king of kongo also called the manny congo much like his european counterparts. The manny congo sat atop a magnificent throne collected taxes commanded troops and carried a symbol of authority in his case a zebra tail whip. He also appointed governors for his provinces which were supported by an intricate civil service. Of course just because the portuguese were impressed by the african kingdom didn't mean they weren't going to exploit them. The europeans bottomless hunger. For enslaving the kingdom's inhabitants was unprecedented and unfathomably destructive threatening to destabilize the entire region priests masons and teachers who had initially come from lisbon to share knowledge and christianity. All became slavers. Portuguese prese students and converts into slavery but despite holding control of the slave trade in the area the portuguese only controlled the coasts. For three hundred years they never bothered to explore the interior of the continent when king leopold the second convened his geographical conference in september eighteen. Seventy six the interior of central africa remained a mystery. He realized it was an opportunity one. He intended to exploit to the fullest around. Forty people attended the conference among them. Were famed explorers. Geographers philanthropists humanitarian mission aries businessmen and admiral's speaking at the conference leopold remarked on belgians interest in africa to open to civilization the only part of our globe which it has not yet penetrated to appears the darkness which hangs over entire peoples is. I dare say a crusade worthy of this century of progress leopold also assured those listening that he had no other ambitions but to humbly serve the new colony new hospitals and research stations would be founded staffed by unarmed european scientists and aid workers artisans would teach useful skills to the locals laboratories would study the local plants and animals. All of this would be done under the guise of combating the slave trade. The guests responded with enthusiasm and immediately set up on creating the african international association or a and electing leopold as its chairman he a would be a private charitable organization that gave leopold the veneer of goodwill. He needed an observer at the time deemed. Leopold's plans the greatest humanitarian work of this time but in fact what leopold was planning was nothing short of conquest. We uphold put his plans into motion. The next year in august eighteen seventy seven. The catalyst was the reappearance of the british born explorer. Henry morton stanley stanley had just emerged. Half dead at the mouth of the congo river after a roundabout journey of two and a half years and seven thousand miles. Black bear nail lovett cameron stanley had crossed africa from east to west uniquely however he had travelled along the congo river charting. Its course stanley's track was grueling. Of course it was probably even harder on his. Porters whom stanley was in the habit of having whipped for not moving fast enough leopold been following stanley's jennifer months scanning the newspaper daily for updates. One stanley completed his trek leopold immediately. Sent him a telegram of congratulations in stanley. The king saw the key to achieving his dream of a colony in africa the vast expanse of land stanley had just explored until then a blank. Space on the map was ripe. For the picking. In january eighteen. Seventy eight stanley stopped off in the french city of marseille on his journey back to england while they're the explorer found two of leopold's agents waiting for him they asked if stanley would be interested in joining. The stanley initially declined wanting his native. Great britain to enjoy the fruits of his success but after five months of wooing he agreed to visit belgium and sit down for a meeting with the king. Leopold played him like a fiddle. Historian adam hoge shield notes that leopold had taken the measure of stanley's ambition of his immense capacity for hard work of his craving for constant flattery and of his need for a sponsor king was able to provide for all of the above. He offered stanley a contract. That ran for five years. His main job would be to build a series of what he thought. Were trading and research stations along thousand mile stretch of the congo river. Once the contract was complete stanley was allowed to write a book about the experience. But leopold could edit it and make cuts in case. Anything happened that the king didn't want the world to know about stanley would work for the committee for studies of the upper congo which had been recently founded as a subsidiary of the aa officially. The committee had dutch british and belgian businessman as its stockholders. This episode is brought to you by simply by frito life. You have enough on your plate. But now there's one less thing over think with simply five frito lay. It's your favourite. Frito lay snacks with ingredients to feel good about like simply blue corn tostitos sea salted ruffles and white cheddar cheetos puffs all made with no artificial flavors or colors. 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"They're gonna give him a new coach more attack minded coach and they they are setting up. I will say. I think the the coaching hire. They've done the players. They are starting to sign. They are definitely setting up him up to succeed at this point. I think i think you can make that argument. Now if he doesn't succeed this year Than they then you can't really fault. Dc for what they've done to sort of bring in bringing the supporting staff around him so he'll eager to prove as well. We got to crank through these next seven questions in six minutes at rich. Dcu ninety six says probably a dumb suggestion but swans could use a better keeper. Bill hamid. I think that bill meade is not going anywhere i think bill has tested the waters. I think bill likes it here. I think he knows where all the good food is. I think he's got a good apartment. I think he's saying here. yeah. I think. I think he is. He has signed For the here for the foreseeable future. I don't think there's any chances of him moving Which is great. We love bill and we. We love to have him back when he's on this team is. This team is really good. So i- producer brian. I don't think you have instagram questions. I'm just gonna You can go back to the to box. I'm going to read them. Jeffrey cook says goths jesse we might play three in the back. I like pines brilliant and bomb on the pitch at once. I think that's probably. That's that's more of a statement than a question. But i think that's probably who would Who would likely start. that was. That was what golf also said. Sort of from a setup perspective panama. Nancy says any concerns about picking up. Emily sonnet after yesterday. Or does she get past. Because marta i think i think i m emily would not have would not be happy with the way that game went. I think that her and Was adult temper that splaying next to her Had communication problems They were they were getting targeted and it did not go well. That's a position. As i understand that that is very much open In the olympics right back is is is a as area that they are looking at. So i thought you also you have to take into sorta take into account She's not going to be going up against marta every week. She's gonna gets it. But i mean i'm not overly concerned about her for for the for the washing spirit after last week. So i think i'll skit producer. Brian money on the spot here. zach fischer says is orioles loan to swansea more likely to become a permanent move with morris recent injury. I don't think i don't think affects it..
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"belgium" Discussed on RFK Refugees Podcast
"Khurana was picked picked by one of the teams in the draft. Which i was like. How do i watch this. I need to watch this. I don't think he actually sell the field. Unfortunately but yeah Soccer is great. There are so many options On this fanatics find if i can get a referral bonus i can start getting you guys the buy in but it's great aim at show sponsors. Well i'm sure this is. I think a very small time operation we might be able to do we got about. We got about fifteen minutes. We had a huge segue our. Let's talk let's talk. Us women's national team. She believes cup. they are in a tournament with candidate canada. Brazil and argentina. They have played canada brazil. let's just say. I think the problem with the us. Women's national team is not that they played terribly. It's that will number one the ultimate two. They have not. This is like the first competitive games they had in while so let's you know against real opponents to are now. I want to say real opponents against strong opponents. Let's say I know. I don't want to say that but like actual competition And yes they looked rough it. Things looked rough Emily sonnet has did not have the greatest game against brazil It only in contrast to the fact. That i miss lewis rose lavelle Crystal done another former spirit player was fantastic in in brazil. She had a particular moment when brazil had a breakaway and she jogged all the way back may the tackle with he has with that s an smacked the boulder hand will the hand i thought. Oh yeah oh yeah okay. Well hand not not not handling. I'm going to go ahead and call that but But she she played really. Well outs morgan out on. The left was interesting to me. She was almost playing as a winger. out there and that that was in there i think she kinda switched to the right at one point two. I kind saw that Action roosevelt again has moments of great I think sometimes she's. He's holding the ball a little too much. I think she needs to utilize your teammates. She was trying to run at some defenders which is great and some players. Don't go out and do those types of things but that was really good She's still working her way into fitness yester- after baby and very short time overseas. Also i forget who said it on twitter. Alex morgan is the team leader in getting smacked around for the team or dying for the team. Like she is..
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"belgium" Discussed on RFK Refugees Podcast
"Layers. So that's good to know Mayer is a goalkeeper also local silver spring drafted by the ribs in twenty twenty played for their Their us to decide for eight eight games. He's going to be another backup on. Which i think means my buddy My my my buddy miller My instagram friend is maybe not back this year unless they're going to carry for goalies And semaka defender played with. Asec mimosas which is a great team name in the ivory coast another you. Twenty-three player It's it's a whole new rosser very very few guys coming back last year. There's obviously going to be some more signings announced here. We've not yet made a full side. Us all sides are always huge Because they play five thousand games so we'll keeping that updated. I think ryan when he comes on coach. Martin will give us a little bit more context about what he's hoping to do this year. I asked head On our interview last week and this is probably a better question. For coach. it was. Oh it was always said that the loudon team and ben olsen worked very tightly as far as what they were gonna do from a style formation perspective. I imagine that will continue. Airman's going to have to speak his mind on that. I wonder if that competitions happened yet. And if not probably will happen. Pretty soon yeah. It'll be curious with i. If we get ride martin on the show. Sort of how that out. I mean i imagine they will have to have had some conversations. I know Announced probably still trying to find out where outfield is and where his offices and everything But be interesting to see what that sort of relationship is going to be like and and And how and how that's going to grow So i think i'll be. I'll be very very curious to talk to iran morton sort of about about how. How does that relationship is going in Lot all these all these players are on like one year contracts rate throughout the the. Yeah that that's something I i don't know i. I did not put this in the rundown. So make a little aside. But i watched Joe gherardo score and absolute banger. Former richmond kickers player score banger for curatorial in league amax and i had to sit here and wonder as i watched that. I'm like you know he's out there playing in a league. He played on a uso lead to team three years ago. Then on the kickers in in in lee one then he was actually sold at one of the very few actual transfers in us l. When he was sold. I think for like ten thousand dollars. The real monarchs didn't play very much and then goes to league. Max is getting appearances On these not blowing the doors off. But i see that i'm like man that there there..
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"belgium" Discussed on RFK Refugees Podcast
"But i think still not ready for games We have we have. We need more depth than the middle regardless of what system we play we need more more centreback so This also looks this is. This is golf obviously I it's it seems to be saying this is getting pretty close That'd be great. I think that's a i think. That's a people been asking for defenders. I know that arun in on the interview on dc united kingdom said he wanted a signing at every level so we wanted a forward and midfielder and defender So sounds like two of those Are are satisfied. And you know senator backed up this team I think was hurting a lot last year towards the end of the season and depth and potential starting potential. If you wanna look at a player that can potentially push you know. Every year we always there. Everybody already talks about you know when winning team going to move on for fred brilliant this feels like a guy that they're going to potentially move on from with red brilliant so As soon as someone moves him off his spot you can take spot. He's mountain until someone finally does it. We'll see But we don't have. We don't have a lot of video. I guess we'll be The belgian league is now of course on. espn plus. Maybe we'll see if he if he plays for game doesn't look he's getting someone. Put sizzle reel for a third centre-back on a belgian non top tier. I will have a great faith in youtube and the internet. So i will. We'll pick it up someone. Let us know in the comments If that has happened. I doubt it with the the interesting thing about him is that he was. He was drafted by montreal and then left for europe and did not and basically so but whoever is a montreal do not hold his right still I don. I guess i who knows how that works i..
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"belgium" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"So we've heard Belgium's echo collective before playing music by the late Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson, Um they are able to adapt to the situation in terms of size and how many instruments But for their album called the Sea Within. They just went with the core members. Violin, viola cello, harp. And the MRP, the one of a kind magnetic resonator piano. There is only one of these contraptions. They use it on this record, and it's basically a grand piano. So it has the usual 230 or so strings inside. But it also has an extra pedal and inside a set of Magnets. Essentially, that caused these metal strings to vibrate as if they're being bowed. So you know, for centuries when violinists and jealous played with piano, you had two separate sound worlds, bowed strings and struck strings. But now Everything is bowed. It's not Elektronik. Magnetic. Um, But at times the MRP does sound almost like a synthesizer. And at other times, it sounds just like a string orchestra. So from this album, called the Sea Within, will hear a piece called Respond are several of the members of the Echo collective are composers. So in terms of who wrote the music? It's very much with the band's name suggests a collective effort. Yeah. Hmm. Oh, Mm. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. That's.