40 Burst results for "German"
History That Doesn't Suck
147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles - burst 2
"Today is a story of peacemaking, particularly 1919's of six -month Paris Peace Conference culminating in the Allied Powers Treaty with Germany, the Treaty of Versailles. And it has a lot of moving pieces. We'll start with the U .S. midterm elections of 1918, which could impact the Senate's future choice to ratify this treaty or not. From there, we'll join Woodrow Wilson, who's personally representing the U .S. at the conference, to push his 14 points, especially his League of Nations. But can the idealist American out -navigate Georges Clemenceau, who wants to punish Germany and dismantle its military capabilities? What about the smooth -operating Welsh wizard Britain's David Lloyd George? We'll find out as we hear what their conflicting values and goals yield amid talks of a League of Nations assigning quote -unquote mandates in the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific as Georges and Woodrow's timbers flare over German and French territory. And of course, as we learn what this conference ultimately asks, sorry, demands, that the Germans sign in the Palace of Versailles Hall of
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
Fresh update on "german" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
"You it is nine twenty one here in the city of london a check of your markets bonds are bids equities are up european benchmark currently gaining five tenths of a percent that's the european stocks six hundred your across sectors auto storming gaining two point three percent real estate also doing really well in the session adding two percent tech up one and a half percent on the downside energy off by three tenths of a percent us futures also pointing in positive territory s &p e -minis up three tenths of a percent the data around inflation is looking increasingly benign at least if you look at germany and spain you are seeing gains across the bond space yields dropping on german dates at debt 248 on the german year ten yields down four basis points across the u .s treasury curve you're seeing moves of between two to four basis points more more pronounced buying at the front end 469 on the u .s two -year yields
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Rising Venture Capital Investment in Crypto
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Tuesday, November 14th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto as Macro Now newsletter on Substat. On today's show, we're talking about new inflows into the crypto ecosystem, inflation, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto prices were heading down earlier today, but then we got some good news on the US inflation. I'll talk more about this in a moment. This has turned the mood around, with many assets clawing back some of the day's losses. According to CoinDesk indices, at 9 a .m. Eastern time today, Bitcoin was trading at $36 ,546, down almost 1 % over the past 24 hours, although up 1 .5 % over the past hour alone. Ether was trading down 0 .75 % over the past 24 hours at $2 ,043. Elsewhere, Cosmos, Filecoin, and the Lido DAO token were down 9%. Solana and Polkadot were down 3 .5%. Ripple's XRP token had an interesting day yesterday. A tweet reported that BlackRock had filed for an XRP trust in Delaware. This was taken as a sign that the asset manager was planning to file a proposal for a spot XRP ETF, and the asset jumped 12 % in just a few minutes. The news turned out to be fake, however. I mean, it's very, very unlikely BlackRock would file for an ETF based on asset that not only doesn't have a CME derivatives market, but is still in active securities litigation. Needless to say, the XRP price corrected sharply shortly after, with both moves triggering significant losses in derivatives positions. Earlier today, XRP was still up over the past 24 hours, but only around 1%. In macro indicators, the US inflation data for the month of October is in. And it came in soft, which is very good news. To recap, in September, the headline CP index increased by 3 .7%, and consensus estimates for October pointed to a 3 .3 % increase. That itself would have been good. But the number came in even softer, at 3 .2%. Even more relevant for the US Federal Reserve is the Core CPI index, since this strips out the volatile components of food and energy. In September, Core CPI jumped by 4 .1 % year on year, and expectations were for that rate of increase to hold steady in October. The actual figure came in at 4 .0%, the smallest increase since September 2021. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shelter accounted for the bulk of the increase in the Core Inflation Index, but much less so than expected. And it seems lower energy prices are also doing their bit. On a monthly basis, Core CPI grew by 0 .2%, less than expected. This brings the three -month average monthly gain down to 0 .3%, lower than last year's average of 0 .5%. The average needs to come down further to give the Fed some breathing room, but it is progress. A US rate hike at the December FOMC meeting was unlikely anyway, given market tension, geopolitical fragility, and the likelihood of a government shutdown starting this weekend. This release now takes that totally off the table. As we head into record, US yields are heading down fast, with the 10 -year Treasury yield plummeting as investors were holding their breath for the inflation report. The good news in the figures has given the market a jolt of energy, with futures pointing to a very strong open. European indices were more positive yesterday, with the FTSE 100 up 0 .9%, the German DAX up 0 .6%, and the Euro Stoxx 600 up 0 .75%. The US figures are extending this trend for the DAX and the as investors digest the UK cabinet reshuffle. In Asia, stocks were cautiously positive today, with both Japan's Nikkei index and China's Shanghai Composite climbing 0 .3 % and the Hang Seng losing almost 0 .2%. In commodities, oil continues to head up, despite a report out this morning from the International Energy Agency that insists global oil markets won't be as tight as expected this quarter. The agency recognizes that demand is growing, as OPEC said yesterday, but non -OPEC supply apparently is growing even more. The market doesn't seem convinced yet, however, and the Brent crude benchmark is up 0 .4 on the day, trading at $83 .67 a barrel. After falling more than 1 % yesterday, gold today is benefiting from a drop in the $DXY index, as US yields digest the good inflation figures. Earlier today, gold was trading up over 0 .5 % at $1 ,956 per ounce. Stay with us. After the break, we're going to talk about new crypto investment.
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh update on "german" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
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Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Rising Venture Capital Investment in Crypto
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Tuesday, November 14th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto as Macro Now newsletter on Substat. On today's show, we're talking about new inflows into the crypto ecosystem, inflation, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto prices were heading down earlier today, but then we got some good news on the US inflation. I'll talk more about this in a moment. This has turned the mood around, with many assets clawing back some of the day's losses. According to CoinDesk indices, at 9 a .m. Eastern time today, Bitcoin was trading at $36 ,546, down almost 1 % over the past 24 hours, although up 1 .5 % over the past hour alone. Ether was trading down 0 .75 % over the past 24 hours at $2 ,043. Elsewhere, Cosmos, Filecoin, and the Lido DAO token were down 9%. Solana and Polkadot were down 3 .5%. Ripple's XRP token had an interesting day yesterday. A tweet reported that BlackRock had filed for an XRP trust in Delaware. This was taken as a sign that the asset manager was planning to file a proposal for a spot XRP ETF, and the asset jumped 12 % in just a few minutes. The news turned out to be fake, however. I mean, it's very, very unlikely BlackRock would file for an ETF based on asset that not only doesn't have a CME derivatives market, but is still in active securities litigation. Needless to say, the XRP price corrected sharply shortly after, with both moves triggering significant losses in derivatives positions. Earlier today, XRP was still up over the past 24 hours, but only around 1%. In macro indicators, the US inflation data for the month of October is in. And it came in soft, which is very good news. To recap, in September, the headline CP index increased by 3 .7%, and consensus estimates for October pointed to a 3 .3 % increase. That itself would have been good. But the number came in even softer, at 3 .2%. Even more relevant for the US Federal Reserve is the Core CPI index, since this strips out the volatile components of food and energy. In September, Core CPI jumped by 4 .1 % year on year, and expectations were for that rate of increase to hold steady in October. The actual figure came in at 4 .0%, the smallest increase since September 2021. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shelter accounted for the bulk of the increase in the Core Inflation Index, but much less so than expected. And it seems lower energy prices are also doing their bit. On a monthly basis, Core CPI grew by 0 .2%, less than expected. This brings the three -month average monthly gain down to 0 .3%, lower than last year's average of 0 .5%. The average needs to come down further to give the Fed some breathing room, but it is progress. A US rate hike at the December FOMC meeting was unlikely anyway, given market tension, geopolitical fragility, and the likelihood of a government shutdown starting this weekend. This release now takes that totally off the table. As we head into record, US yields are heading down fast, with the 10 -year Treasury yield plummeting as investors were holding their breath for the inflation report. The good news in the figures has given the market a jolt of energy, with futures pointing to a very strong open. European indices were more positive yesterday, with the FTSE 100 up 0 .9%, the German DAX up 0 .6%, and the Euro Stoxx 600 up 0 .75%. The US figures are extending this trend for the DAX and the as investors digest the UK cabinet reshuffle. In Asia, stocks were cautiously positive today, with both Japan's Nikkei index and China's Shanghai Composite climbing 0 .3 % and the Hang Seng losing almost 0 .2%. In commodities, oil continues to head up, despite a report out this morning from the International Energy Agency that insists global oil markets won't be as tight as expected this quarter. The agency recognizes that demand is growing, as OPEC said yesterday, but non -OPEC supply apparently is growing even more. The market doesn't seem convinced yet, however, and the Brent crude benchmark is up 0 .4 on the day, trading at $83 .67 a barrel. After falling more than 1 % yesterday, gold today is benefiting from a drop in the $DXY index, as US yields digest the good inflation figures. Earlier today, gold was trading up over 0 .5 % at $1 ,956 per ounce. Stay with us. After the break, we're going to talk about new crypto investment.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh "German" from The Dan Bongino Show
"This is 890 WLS am Chicago or Chicago's conversations that Start people talking Chris plant Donald Trump use of the word vermin draws more comparisons to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, that's USA today's headline I decided to look up the word vermin In German I could write a poem based I can do a rap song. I think the German German Chris plant weekday mornings starting at 9 on 890 WLS Taking a Look at the roads and 150 inbound Kennedy 35 minutes from O 'Hare to downtown 32 minutes Inbound inbound Ike route 390 to the old post office 31 minutes 34 back out a Half -hour in both directions on the Stevenson between I -355 and DeSaba Lakeshore Drive minimal delays is on the Dan Ryan extra pick up date in 15 minutes Wells
Mark Levin
American Universities' Disturbing Connections to Nazi Germany
"Universities and colleges doing the same thing all over again. For instance chapter The Third Reich has a long history of atomizing Nazism. Harvard University and the Hitler Regime 1933 to 7 chapter 3 complicity and conflict Columbia University's response to fascism 1937 is very sympathetic to it. Chapter for the Seven sisters colleges in the Third Reich promoting fellowship through student exchange. Chapter 5 a respectful hearing for Nazi Germany's apologists the University of Virginia Institute of Public Affairs roundtables from 1933 to 1941. Chapter Nazi 6 nests German departments and American universities 1933 to 1941 just as we have islamo nazi hamasa and other rats nests throughout a university and college system. and in this book Hitler's American friends American universities did little to curtail the influence of pro -German speakers on campus during the obviously Third Reich. Throughout the decade German exchange students whom were Nazi party members and were likely operating as propaganda agents and other speakers were given mostly unchallenged platforms on university campuses. You see that now with the mass network in the islamo nazis. American universities therefore offer the German government a remarkable level of establishment legitimacy in the United States. Even after the violently anti -semitic nature of the regime had become clear. Just as Hitler's corporate friends had showed little reluctance doing business with the Third Reich his friends in academia maintained their own relationship with Hitler's regime. Both the Nazis and the US government were aware of the propaganda potential provided by American universities. Testifying before the DICE committee John C. Metcalfe argued that the German government had a particular interest in American students. He said the purpose of the exchange students on universities has long been to foster goodwill and peace among the nations resulting greater understanding. But this worthwhile aim has been neglected in the exchange of German students for American. Now American students are being indoctrinated with the aims of fascism in Germany both abroad and at home to the detriment of democratic institutions in America. Some of this rhetoric served as the intellectual precursor in the 1950s, they write, but John McCarthy, but they also say some of it, was legitimate. The Nazis did indeed benefit from a dedicated propaganda network within the American academic establishment. Around the country students and faculty alike increasingly became embroiled in unfolding international tensions as the 1930s progressed. Most often it was the vocally anti -Nazi professors, some of whom were themselves Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression who faced the brunt of administrative repression just as professors Jewish and Gentile professors who speak out now are silenced or threatened
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Fresh update on "german" discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Now, I don't think they've had that conversation with a Baghdad, or Yemen. It's half of us would be going back to the Arab world. Pause right there for a second. I've got to take a break for the Salem News Channel and the radio network. And I'll be right back with Haviv Reddy-Gir. Follow him on X, the site known as Twitter. I got to talk to him about Elon Musk. I had to talk to him a lot about, but I'm going to come back and talk to him during the break about the BBC. We'll put it all on the podcast. We'll be back on the radio and the Salem News Channel in just a moment. Stay tuned while I take this break with Haviv Reddy-Gir. We'll continue and we'll put it on the podcast. We'll hear it all and I'll play it later in the program or tomorrow in the program. Stay tuned, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Welcome back. I'm talking with Haviv Reddy-Gir. Haviv, people that I admire and respect, very smart people, people like William Dalrymple, who's been in my studio and I've spent hours talking about him, about Afghanistan. He posted yesterday or Tom Holland posted a note that this is all began with Arthur Balfour. That's so ignorant. It began with the Romans destroying the Second Temple. But I don't know what to do about this when smart people say stupid things about Israel. How do you respond to that? What do you attribute that to? If you believe that the affairs of the world are set down by tiny elites sipping champagne in, you know, halls of power in Geneva, then you think that Balfour created the Jewish state because the British government, because of politics having to do with the Americans and World War One wanted, and a little bit of anti-Semitism wanted to get rid of it. Get rid of its Jews created the Jewish state. The Zionist movement wasn't, imperialist Britain didn't give the Zionist movement the territory. It was used by the Zionist movement. And when Russia, the Jews were fleeing Russia, the Zionist movement used what are called the capitulations during the Ottoman periods, which are immunities given to Russian citizens in the Ottoman Empire to advance Zionism. And when German Jews showed up, they used whatever was available. Small nations trying to survive will use whatever international politics they can to try to survive. And if you then conclude that international politics created them, well, that's very silly. By the time the UN voted in 1947 to establish a state of Israel, the Jews were not moving anywhere. And the Jews of the Arab world were about to be kicked out en masse in the most perfect ethnic cleansing of the 20th century to almost the very last man, woman and child across 20 countries. And so you think that if the UN hadn't voted that way, what would have happened to these people? They would have evaporated, disappeared. Nobody would have had to think about them. The Jews kept in the DP camps after World War Two for three years. They're behind barbed wire, right? American high school kids are taught that the Americans showed up and liberated everybody. But Israeli Jews know that their grandparents were still behind barbed wire on German soil three years later, and that barbed wire was patrolled by British and American soldiers because the world didn't want them. So they had nowhere to go. The Jews created Israel. The world didn't want the Jews and the Jews response was Israel. And no, it wasn't Arthur Balfour.
AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
A highlight from AI Today Podcast: CPMAI in the Real World, Interview with Dr. Philipp Schlenkhoff, CPMAI
"The AI Today podcast, produced by Cognolytica, cuts through the hype and noise to identify what is really happening now in the world of artificial intelligence. Learn about emerging AI trends, technologies, and use cases from Cognolytica analysts and guest experts. Hello and welcome to the AI Today podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen Mulch. And as you can tell from my voice, I'm a little under the weather today. So I will be on today's podcast, but Ron might be doing a little bit more of the talking than me. Yeah, well, sorry to disappoint you. You're here for Kathleen to hear her more than 50%, but you know, she will still be here. You're going to hear her questions, but you know, I'm going to do my best to channel Kathleen's voice when she's not speaking. So I'm your host, Ron Schmelzer. And if you're listening to AI Today podcast for the first time, you should know that this is the place to go to hear all the great interviews and thoughts about what is happening with AI Today. And for those of you that follow AI, you know that every day is like a millennium. You know, here in AI, things just change so fast. And we have been in the midst of a lot of series of different podcast series on talking about different things about AI. Of course, generative AI is like the hot thing of the moment because it's everywhere and in every product. I think it's in a toothbrush I have now, generative AI. You can talk to your toothbrush. It's going to be everywhere. It is everywhere. So we have a generative AI series, but we also talk about AI failures. We have an AI failure series. We have a use case series. We have a trustworthy AI series. We have our glossary series, which actually is now starting to come to an end. I think we've gone through almost all the terms we can get to. But of course, we also have interviews with thought leaders and especially those who have gone the next level and certified in the CPMI methodology, which is a best practice for running AI projects. And on that note, we are really excited to have with us today Dr. Philip Schlenkopf, who is co -founder of the AI Transformation Institute and is CPMI certified. Welcome, Philip. Philip, thank you so much for joining us on AI Today. Thanks for having me, Ron. Great pleasure and quite an honor for me. We're really excited for today's interview. We'd like to start by having you introduce yourself to our listeners and tell them a little bit about your background and your current role. All right. First of all, sorry for my accent. I'm calling in from Berlin in Germany. And my way, how I found to AI is sort of a bit surprising because in the end, I started with business administration and studied that, went into corporate restructuring, went into consulting or that one, and then shifted further into the part of sales and learned that from the very beginning. And then after, you know, in a role managing director of a medium -sized company for which was owned for private equity, after a couple of years, I felt it was time for something new. So then I got to know via a business angel, Hans Utzgerreit, who is a professor at the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, DFKY. The name might be familiar because his son actually was co -publishing the Google paper, Attention is All You Need, Jacob Utzgerreit. And I got to know him and he had a spin -off out of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, which was called Giants Technologies in the field of natural language understanding, relation extraction. And we were doing at that stage, some kind of corporate intelligence service. So I got to know him. I liked the idea. And so I invested into the company, led the company, and we did a lot of things to scale it, you know, having an architectural frame, which would actually do the job, setting up a sales team and doing sales and getting the first customers on board. And that went quite well. So we could sell the company after something like more or less a year to a strategic investor, which was very, very fortunate and very productive. And then I had to stay on board for the post -merger integration for quite a while, another year. And after that was kind of the question, what do we do now? What's generative AI? We saw early, we saw from the very beginning in our job to understand information that we could use transformers to help to get our precision up and our recall up. So that was actually great. And then, you know, then was the phase it was after November last year. And then was the question, what do we do? Do we build a product? And at that stage, our problem was that, you know, we couldn't find a lake, a market, which was not too big, that the big players would go into that market and crush you. And which wouldn't be too small, which could actually sort of, you know, still have where you can have a reasonably scalable business. And in the end, in the application layer, we didn't find the business case who would do the job because we thought, and we saw that, you know, this application layer was very thin. If it's so easy to set up a product based on API, then the problem is everyone can do it. And then the product actually sort of gets less important than the market access. And then we thought, you know, if the product gets less, export and less important than the market access, the market access in the end is the more important thing. And that for that market access, you don't find a startup because market access as a startup is very expensive. So in the end, our analysis led to the fact that in the end, generative AI and the boom which comes along it and all the transformation and change will be something for the existing companies who can just incorporate the solutions into their current offering. So having said that, our solution to that was, yeah, well, that will lead to a massive need for re -upskilling in the field of, well, actually for all professions, more or less. And that's why we founded the AI Transformation Institute where we do, you know, partly something like you do at Cognalytica, training people to better understand the technology and how to use it. And on the other hand, we do quite a few consulting jobs with customers on sort of helping them in their project to challenge them to go into the project management and eventually even take over some coding paths to help them to actually get their product onto the street. Yeah, in the past, I mean, that's fantastic, by the way, and hard for us to disagree with any of what you said, because you're right, AI is so transformational. And as you said, AI will be a core part of every product, right? Even things you would never have expected in the same way that the Internet and mobile have been so core transitional that just selling something general about we will make the Internet work, we'll make mobile work doesn't do anything for you because it's so core to everything. And I like how you think about market access. That's very, very interesting. But yeah, what you were saying about, you know, really trying to implement these for particular industries and particular applications, I think that's sort of the rub. We always are so surprised sometimes when we talk to people in major companies as we spend time, some of our interviews even here, folks who are unfortunate 1000, some of the biggest companies, and you think to yourself, they surely must be implementing, you know, AI at some advanced level. I mean, these are fortunate 1000 companies represent like what percentage of the global economy, like what 90? I don't even know what the percentage is the vast majority of the global economy. So you'd think that they would be well, well, well ahead. And then when you talk to them, you find it's actually the opposite. They're much farther behind in their AI. They tend they're not the leaders as much as the fast followers and the ones that can figure out how to apply AI to their problems. Those are the ones that get ahead, not just some AI experiment. So I don't want to ramble on and on about that, but it's hard to disagree with everything that you've said to that point and actually really sort of like, you know, my question kind of follows up on that. And that is sort of like the the challenges because people see the promises. They kind of get wrapped up in the hype. Maybe they even do some small AI projects. A lot of them are proof of concept that don't really find their way to any sort of long term use. So something kind of gets in the way. Right. So what do you see as some of these challenges in making AI projects work data, advanced analytics, any of that in that realm? Yeah, thanks for the question, Ron, because well, thank for what you said earlier, because that's something I've always thought that was only the case in German large corporates. Yeah, some of them are quite far ahead, but some of them, there's really not happening anything. And if you say it's the same in the U .S., then I'm a little bit relaxed from the European perspective. Yeah, but that's what we see in companies quite a lot. Yeah. That actually the C level is because of their age. Yeah. They're not that innovative. Yeah. They haven't fully understood the impact of the technology. And then sort of they talk to their CTO and the CTOs are maybe not that open towards the technology either. And they say, you have so many projects already in my pipeline. Yeah, I cannot prioritize that right now. And then you talk to the legal departments and those guys as well say, well, yeah, but there are a lot of and, you know, in Germany, you GDPR, you know, data regulation, we are sort of very cautious about all of that. And then the legal your legal team tells you, well, that's kind of, you know, everything is quite unsure and, you know, there's not real legislation, you know, and then sort of things get postponed and there's no active pressure to change that. I'm not talking about all the companies, but there are a few which go in that direction. And then the problem is sort of the grassroots thing works against it. Yeah. People use it anyway. And then exactly what then is happening, exactly what, you know, legal and the tech department wanted to avoid, you know, all the private and the customer data flowing into sort of some model by sort of the open, by the free version of the tools. And that's kind of a challenge. Yeah. So first of all, valid point, it's a top -down approach. Yeah. There needs to be an AI strategy in the companies and that needs to be sort of carefully thought through, always depending whether it's the core value creation process where which is being transformed or whether it's just a support function like sales or marketing, then you'd rather go for a tool option. But if your core value creation processes are going to be transformed, you need to think about something between using tools or maybe sort of build your own AI and that needs to be understood and then implemented. And as you said, you know, it cannot be some kind of a pilot which never goes into operation because then you don't have a success. And if you don't have a success, you will never really put money on it. So it needs to be, and that's something I really love about CPMI, you know, think big, start small, iterate often. It's so true in the projects, yeah, that you cannot tell that often enough. And I know you guys pronounce it a lot, but it's really true. It cannot be said, you know, enough.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "german" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"After working several odd jobs in New York City, Henry Johnson found his way into the National Guard during World War I. Johnson was assigned to the 369th Infantry Regiment, but the all -black unit was better known as the Harlem Hellfighters. The Hellfighters' first task was assisting the French 4th Army. On May 15, 1918, Hellfighter Johnson noticed Germans attempting to break in. Johnson retreated to get backup from the French troops, noticing German soldiers were attempting to kidnap another Hellfighter. Despite standing at only 5 Johnson sprung into action. With only three bullets and a bolo knife, Johnson was able to kill four enemy soldiers and wounded 21 others, causing them to retreat, saving himself and his men. However, Johnson received a total of 21 injuries all over his body, including his left foot being shattered. Johnson was discharged, and his papers did not show his heroism or his injury, leaving him unable to receive any disability compensation, leaving Johnson pettiless at the time of his death at age 36. Johnson's heroism went unnoticed for decades until President Barack Obama awarded him the Medal of Honor in 2015. This is a national health care alert from the 24 -7 diabetic health offline. the U .S. If a family member or loved one has diabetes, listen closely. Now, regardless of your age, if you have insurance,
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Bitcoin Soars Above $37K While Ether Hits a Symbolic $2K. Here's Why
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Thursday, November 9th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about a new big name crypto exchange, Bitcoin fees, GDP growth, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. The crypto market is surging, with Bitcoin at one point today almost reaching $38 ,000. According to Coindesk Indices, at 10 a .m. Eastern Time this morning, the Bitcoin price was up 6 .8 % over the past 24 hours, trading at $37 ,604. Ether is up a stunning 8 .25%, breaking through the symbolic $2 ,000 level to trade at $2 ,036. Other assets are doing even better. Chainlink is up 14%, Solana up 10%, Cardano 9%, Polygon and Avalanche are up 8%. What is behind this strong sentiment? ETF speculation seems to be doing its part. As of today, the public rebuttal period for most of the existing Bitcoin spot ETF proposals has closed, which means a comment from the SEC decision on the Hashtech's strategy change proposal to convert its Bitcoin futures ETF into one based on the actual asset. Also, there's the reevaluation of Bitcoin's safe haven thesis, with the US debt becoming an ever more pressing problem and several renowned investors highlighting Bitcoin's provably hard cap on its supply and its immutable monetary policy. This morning, Coindesk's Omkar Gaboli reported on an options market metric that gives some insight into trader sentiment. It's called SKU and it shows the relative price of calls versus puts expiring in four weeks. Calls are options to buy at a higher price and therefore represent bullish positions. Puts are options to sell at a lower price and so are good vehicles for those who expect the price of the underlying asset to fall. According to Omkar, the SKU is at its highest since April 2021. This means that the premium of calls to puts or bullish to bearish is at its highest in more than two and a half years. Sentiment does seem to have changed. In macro indicators today, let's look again at GDP, but not at the actual growth, the expected growth. I've spoken before about the Atlanta Fed's GDP Now model, which takes in economic data as it is released and spits out a frequently updated growth estimate. They go to pains to specify this is not a forecast, it is an estimate based on actual data. You may recall that for the third quarter US GDP growth, the Atlanta Fed GDP Now model was aiming much higher than the consensus estimates from economists. It was signalling Q3 growth of 5 .4 % versus 4 .4 % average forecast, while the figure came in at 4 .9 % smack in between the two. So the Atlanta Fed figures are worth paying attention to. It updated its Q4 estimate yesterday. According to the Atlanta Fed, Q4 growth in the US will come in at 2 .4%. This is much lower than in Q3, less than half, but it is not yet a recession. Or is it? One misunderstood feature of recessions is that they do not depend on two consecutive quarters of negative growth. I'm not sure where that idea came from, but it doesn't hold. If you look at the annual rate of quarterly GDP growth at the start of the last few recessions, they were 1 .4%, 1%, 1 .7%, 4 .3 % in 1981. So, what determines whether or not a US recession is upon us? The answer is the National Bureau of Economic Research, known as the NBER, which is a private organization entrusted with this call. The reason this organization gets to make this call is to avoid dozens of different dates being declared, which would make it The NBER gets to decide when we are in a recession, and this is especially important given there is no established definition of what a recession even is. The NBER's definition is the following, and I quote, a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months. End quote. If you're wondering what the organization means by decline in economic activity, you're not the only one. It's not just declining GDP. Last year, real GDP declined for two consecutive quarters without the NBER declaring a recession, something that hadn't occurred in the US since 1947. Anyway, given the strength of consumer spending and business activity, although this is declining, we are probably not in a recession yet. Growth is declining, however, according to a lot of data points I've discussed on this podcast, and according to the Atlanta Fed GDP Now model. It's starting to feel like we're in a sort of twilight zone. Maybe we are, maybe we aren't. The rear view mirror will tell us more. Back to markets, where stocks seem to be taking a pause. Yesterday, the main US indices closed more or less flat, and futures are pointing to a tentatively positive opening today. This is despite government bond yields continuing to drop. Yesterday, the US 10 -year yield dipped below 4 .5%, although this morning it is back just above that level. In Europe, the FTSE 100 closed flat yet again. The German DAX index rose by 0 .5 % back up to its highest level in just over a month. The Euro stock 600 was up 0 .3%. So far this morning, sentiment looks more positive, with the main indices up at least 0 .5%. Sentiment was more positive in Asia today, with Japan's Nikkei index up 1 .5%, the Hang Seng up a third, and the Shanghai Composite flat on yesterday. The Brent crude benchmark fell another 2%, dropping below $80 a barrel for the first time since mid -July. Earlier today, it had recovered slightly, up 1 .2%, to trade at $81 .40 a barrel. Gold also continued lower, most likely weighed down by a busy schedule this week of central bankers, reminding us that there could be more rate hikes ahead. Yesterday, the metal dropped almost 0 .75%. So far today, the decline seems more muted, with gold trading down 0 .2 % at $1 ,946 per ounce.
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from Col. Douglas Macgregor: Threat of WWIII, American Dream vs. Foreign Empire, Financial System Risks
"Stop wasting money trying to transform the world into some sort of facsimile of us. Instead, let's look at the rest of the world from the standpoint of mutual respect. If we want people to respect us, we have to respect people who are different from us. Hello and welcome to the Coin Stories podcast, where we get to explore the future of money, business, technology, and Bitcoin's revolutionary promise to boost economic prosperity around the world. I'm Natalie Brunell, and I'm here to learn with you. This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only, none of the discussions should constitute as official investment advice, and you should always do your own research. Please make sure you're subscribed to the show and hit that notifications button so you never miss out on any new episodes. This show is made possible and the content is free thanks to partnerships with companies I trust. I'm very picky about who I choose to partner with, so I hope you take the time to listen to the ad reads throughout the show. Thanks for joining me, and if you're watching this on YouTube and want to see more videos like it, make sure to hit that like button. All right, it's time for the show. Welcome back to the show. I have an important episode this week addressing what's happening in the world, the economy, and the new war. First, I just want to make clear that I don't want to get involved in any discussion about which side is right in the disputes and conflict. I just want to cover in a non -partial and genuinely curious way where things seem to be heading. For the benefit of my core audience who is evaluating the financial system, fiat currencies, gold, and of course Bitcoin, which are all affected by geopolitics and a financial crisis should another one occur soon. With that, here is my guest. Joining me today is Colonel Douglas McGregor, a decorated combat veteran, author, and defense and foreign policy expert. Thank you so much for returning to the show, Colonel. Sure. You started recently a venture called Our Country, Our Choice, and it's aimed at bringing both sides together. Right now, it feels like we can't be more divided politically left versus right, but also over the wars that are going on. The last time you were on the show, we talked about the global economy fragmenting as well as the Ukraine war and how we were really being lied to about what was happening, the fact that Ukraine was losing. A lot of people don't know what to believe about what's happening now in the Middle East. Let's just start by zooming out and setting the scene. Colonel, are we on the brink of another world war? What does that mean? What does the conflict mean given all the issues that the U .S. faces at home? I guess you're saving the easy questions for last. I don't think we're on the brink of a third world war, but of course, I could be wrong. That's happened once or twice in my life. I think what we're really dealing with right now is the potential for something which is localized to become regional. And the problem is this, that you have two irreconcilable sides. You're not going to get anywhere with Mr. Netanyahu and his government, and you're not going to get very far with Hamas and its supporters. So the point is, the best that you can hope for in the short run is some sort of ceasefire that gives us breathing space. But thus far, there's been no willingness on the part of either Mr. Netanyahu or Hamas to let up. Now, why are we saying a regional war? This is a very different set of circumstances from the conditions that existed in 1973, which is really the last time that Israel confronted a major war. instances They've had of fighting in southern Lebanon in 82, and subsequent to that off and on, but not a major conflict on the scale of the 73 war. This has the potential to move in that direction. But the region has changed. Not only is the region more capable, in other words, even the Arab states are more capable, and not only are there new technologies involved, but we now have Iran and especially Turkey standing on the sidelines, both of whom could enter this conflict, and that would have very serious consequences for Israel and for us. So what we would like to do, I think, I think with the Biden administration now a little late to the game, obviously, but what they would like to do is contain the conflict. Unfortunately, their diplomacy has been an enormous failure. Wherever Blinken has gone, he's left things worse than they were before he showed up. I think the situation now is really quite serious, and we don't have any leadership in the White House. Historically, when we were afraid that the Israelis would go too far or their opponents might, we had a president in the White House who personally intervened and said that's enough, this far and no further. We have nothing like that. So the Israelis really have the proverbial blank check from President Biden, similar to what the German emperor gave to the emperor of Austria -Hungary in 1914. That of course was a serious mistake. And that's what we're afraid of right now, that things will rapidly spin out of control.
Mark Levin
Press Photos of Hamas Terror Raise Ethical Questions
"Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services which publish their photos approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators? Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media like CNN? CNN's always there on the wrong side. And the New York Times, always there on the wrong side. Did they notify these outlets? Judging from the pictures of breaching, kidnapping and storming of Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the has border been breached not only physically but also journalistically. Four names appear on these photo credits from the Israel Gaza border area on October 7th. You ready MSNBC? The Daily Beast? Huffington Post? Mediaite? Hassan Yossef Mossad, Ali Mamand and Hatim Ali. Eslaya, a freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, then captured infiltrators entering the kibbutz kafar on October 7th. Honest reporting has obtained screenshots of Eslaya's now -removed tweets on X, in which he documented himself standing in front of the Israeli tank. He didn't wear a press vest or a helmet, and the Arabic caption of his tweet read, Live from inside Gaza Strip settlements. Shortly after the publication of this article, we were alerted to footage of Hassan Elisha next to the Israeli tank. In addition, a photo has surfaced for showing him with Hamas leader and mastermind of October 7 massacre, Yahya Yabba Dabba Doo, Senwar. In this footage, they have it all there, Elisha, after he crossed into Israel and took photos of a burning tank. He then captured infiltrators and in the area. Hassan, also who also works for the New York Times, he was there as well, just in time to set foot in Israeli territory and take more tank pictures. Ali Mahmoud and Hatem Ali were positioned to get photos of the horrific abductions of Israelis in Gaza. Mahmoud captured the pickup truck the carrying body of German -Israeli Shani Lauk and Ali got several shots of abductees being kidnapped into the strip. Interestingly, the names of photographers, the which appear on other sources, have been removed from some of the photos on AP's database. You know the media is so corrupt. Perhaps someone at the agency realized posed it serious questions regarding their journalistic ethics. So the serious question is this. You went in
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Decoding AIs impact on IoT with Sam Colley, CEO, Pod Group, Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of TR Publications, and I'm very pleased to have with us again, Sam Coley, who's the CEO of Podgroup. Sam, thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me, Doug. Well, we're going to be talking about the dynamic intersection of AI and IoT. I think this is a topic we've been talking about AI all year. We've been talking a lot about IoT. I don't think we've done a lot of work on where these two meet. So I'm really excited that we're able to do this. Thank you, Sam, for joining us and being able to expand our knowledge on this topic. Before we dive into that, could you just tell us a little bit about Podgroup? Yeah, so Podgroup has been in the IT now for over, well, since 1999 in various forms and its most recent form as a global MVNO since 2011. And in 2001, we were acquired by Giskindebrin, GND, a German security company who have kind of led in the field of eSIM and remote provisioning and SIM cards for over 30 years as well. So now kind of managing to combine all of the latest security technology alongside, you know, connectivity to deliver kind of solutions to the IoT to try and help them obviously evolve in a secure manner as possible. So you have a front row seat to the IoT world. Yes, I think it is middle row because I think the connectivity piece is pivotal in all of it. Without connectivity, you can't connect the device and you can't get the data to the cloud to do wonderful things like AI. So I feel like we get to sit in the middle and see all of the sides, which is a good vantage point. So with that, how is IoT changing the way we interact with our devices and the world as you're describing it around us? Well, I think IoT, you know, it's one of the things that kind of it's often unseen or, you know, it wasn't really until maybe five years ago you started to see billboards with IoT written on them. And as software and things became, you know, designed specifically for that vertical. But, you know, it's been around for, you know, 30 plus years probably in what used to be machine to machine. And I think the way in which we now interact with it as consumers has also evolved in that time. I think originally, you know, it was it was mainly for, you know, some sort of industrial applications, etc. I think old SCADA systems and things would be classified as IoT or M2M back then. But now, obviously, there's consumer IT in our in our homes with our smart devices, you know, with your Alexa's, to some extent, or your smart fridges. But also in terms of how you interact on a day to day basis, in terms of where you how you pay a store, how you consume advertising, in terms of digital signage, how you pay for your parking on the street. You know, all of its IoT and essentially it's kind of everywhere and we interact with it all day, every day, more or less if we're out and about or even at home. So I think, you know, it's it's something that maybe we don't recognize as much as we should, but it is pivotal to the way we live our lives today.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from The Decline of Critical Thinking in Education
"All of this just screams that there's a void of leadership, right? There's a void of leadership in our federal government. So things happening across this country and across the world, when America used to be the strongest leader in the world, and the things happening now are because of the void of leadership under this Biden presidency, the void of leadership in states like New York and California and Illinois, cries for defunding the police. That's what has led to all of this. Welcome to another Financial Guys podcast. I'm Mike Hayflick, along with my partner, Mike Speraza. Mike, it is Election Day. We've been waiting and waiting and waiting. And here it is, November 7th. I will say it's a big day, especially here in Erie County. I do want to say, Mike, kudos to you. We used to have some really good bloopers on intros coming into the podcast, and we haven't had one in a while. You've been on your game for like two years straight. We first started this. We would used to do a couple of reboots, you and I. But we've had a good run with the start of the podcast. Old pros, right? We are old pros now. We should pull some of those out. Those are actually fun. Maybe we'll do that. We'll do a little blooper reel of a podcast someday. There's probably some with Mike and Glenn, too. I'm there's sure often some fun stuff happening before we actually record or during recordings. But, yeah. So, Mike, I want to definitely spend some time today on the importance of voting and how people will vote here in Erie County. I mean, one of the things I'd say about that and I'll pick up more on that later. Everyone always wonders, what can I do? I'm only one person. Nothing. You know, I can't make a difference. You know, you hear all the excuses. And honestly, I just give so much credit to like Mike and Glenn. Mike is sending out texts saying, tell your mother, your father, your brothers, your sisters, your aunts, your uncles, your nephews, your nieces, your cousins. Tell them to get out and vote. Like, we have to spread the word. We can't all believe that we can't make a difference because we can. We'll talk a little bit more about that shortly. But, Mike, first, war rages on in Gaza and calls for a ceasefire persist from the left. They just can't acknowledge that these bad guys, these terrorists, these savages all in Hamas have to be eradicated. Yeah. I mean, this is this is a pretty wild revelation for me, to be honest. We've talked about this on this show and our morning show a few times now. But I really I'm kind of at a loss. Right. I mean, you've said it. You know, if Pearl Harbor went and happened right, if America just said, oops, they didn't mean it, you know, what are we supposed to do? You know, if 9 -11 happened in America and said, oh, no big deal. I mean, that's that's what this sounds like. And this idea of ceasefire, Glenn said it when he came on the radio show Saturday, Mike, before you were on the show. He said he goes, people don't realize Hamas has been shooting bombs into Israel for like last three decades. You don't hear AOC talking about that. You don't hear Talib talking about that. There wasn't a call for ceasefire when they were doing that. Right. And that's the part that that to me is is pretty sickening. Like, again, I'm not saying I want America involved in the war. Let me just stress that. I'm not saying put our troops on the ground. I'm saying Israel has every right to do what they feel is right to get Hamas out of their neighboring countries, to get the Lebanese forces that are terrorists out of their neighboring countries. Like, I have no problem with that. I would do this if Canada was this way and we knew there were known terrorist cells in Canada shooting rockets at America. We wouldn't put up with that for 10 seconds, Mike, not one bomb, not one bomb. And we put up with that for no. And there's an Israeli defense system called the Iron Dome. Now, if anyone's listening or listens sometime after today, Tuesday, November 7th, we have never proclaimed to be Middle Eastern experts. OK, I will never proclaim to be that I don't want to be a Middle Eastern expert, but I'll tell you what, if I'm living 10 miles away from some group who just randomly will shoot missiles to try to destroy the group that I'm part of and me, I think we have a right to say those people have to be eradicated. We've got to get rid of them. I mean, I don't I don't know how people can be so dismissive and be so ignorant of that fact. And Mike, look at evil happens. It's happened for millions of years. Right. We can even go back just to 100. We had an Adolf Hitler, right? There were innocent Germans that died in World War Two because of the evilness of, you know, Adolf Hitler. Benito Mussolini, same war, right, was an evil dictator in Italy. Right. Innocent Italians died. I'm an Italian. Innocent Italians died because of the evil of their leader. This and it's terrible. And I hope that no, you know, innocent Palestinian or innocent Israeli dies, just like I hoped that no innocent Russian or innocent Ukrainian would die. But this is what happens when evil happens. There are innocent bystanders to that. That doesn't mean, though, that you can just say, well, we can't let anything happen. So we're just going to let these Hamas terrorists kill our innocent people like it just doesn't work like that. No. And here here are Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini says that he expressed strong regret over the crimes of the Zionist regime. So this is still the stuff you hear from Iran's leader going to talk to Hamas's leaders, going to talk to Hezbollah. I mean, they believe they have every right to eradicate the Jews from this earth. And they are justified in doing what they did on October 7th, one month ago. They have they have no regard for that as as being evil. They think it's completely justified because Jews should not exist. The Israeli state should not exist.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Pesach Wolicki
"Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to listen to a man of grace, sophistication, integrity, and whimsy? Well, so are we. But until such a man shows up, please welcome Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome to the program. It is Monday. Everyone is talking about Israel, and that says it should be, and we wanted to bring somebody in who could help us understand the situation better. We have highly recommended to us by many friends, Rabbi Pesach Wolicki. He is the director of Israel365action .com, cohost of the Shoulder to Shoulder podcast. He's been a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel. Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, welcome. Thank you very much, Eric. Thank you for having me on. It's a pleasure. Tell me what's the first thing we should talk about. I got a report—I didn't want to forget—that I don't know if the Red Cross has gone woke or what, but my instinct would be never to give them a dime again ever because of the way they've been behaving. Am I mistaken there? You're not mistaken at all. The Red Cross has never paid any attention, positively, that is, to any casualties in Israel, and it's not just in this war, but for many years. The Red Cross doesn't care one whit about Jews who are in danger, and they have stayed true to form in this war. That's shocking. Most people don't know that. That's why I wanted to lead with that, because when I understood this, I thought to myself, wow, OK. So the rot is everywhere. Legacy Media, every college with a name you'd recognize, they've all gone to hell. They've all been infected with the woke mind virus, and they can be pretty much expected, guaranteed, to come out on the wrong side of these things. So now we know that the Red Cross, which we would think of as a good organization, as a neutral organization that just cares about human beings and suffering, that we should not be giving them our money. We should not be giving them a cent. Look, the Red Cross, like I said, during the years that Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was held captive for many years by Hamas, was being held, they did nothing about trying to find out how he was doing or to get information to his family, and that is their mandate by the international community. The mandate of the Red Cross is to look after hostages in time of war, to look after prisoners of war, to see how they're doing. At the beginning of this conflict, they claimed that they weren't operating in the Gaza Strip and couldn't get access, which we knew was a lie because we knew that they were operating there and they even put out other statements about what they were seeing on the ground, which showed that they were active in the Gaza Strip. They've been collaborating with their enemies for a long time. But that's no, look, that's no, that's nothing new. You mentioned about the college campuses and about what's going on in the, on the left and in the progressive world, we're seeing something unique and new. A lot of people are comparing this to the Nazis, but it's something new, Eric. And that is this strange marriage between the progressive atheist left and Islamic fundamentalists, which on the face of it looks kind of absurd. And we've all seen the memes like queers for Palestine and all that. But I think as people of faith, we have to have a clarity that there's something very fundamental that these two groups, again, that seem like they have nothing in common, atheist, progressives and Muslim fundamentalists. But there's something very basic that they have in common. And that is an absolute hatred and loathing for the God of the Bible, the text of the Bible and the beliefs of those people who believe in the Bible. They both share that they share. They possibly share it for different reasons. But they've also they've obviously unified around that shared hatred for biblical faith and biblical values in this conflict. I mean, look, we've been seeing this for quite some time, that the the radical left does not denounce the way radical Muslims treat women, for example. Not one word on their the way they treat gays. In other words, they are they are the very different definition, radical Muslims of this caricature that the secular left has created of, you know, mostly serious Christians in America, which is it's obviously untrue to anyone who knows the Christians. But it is, in fact, true of the radical Muslims. And and we know this. I mean, we haven't talked about it much on this program, but we know that the left will not criticize them for stoning women, for the Taliban beating women, for causing women across the Middle East to dress as they force them to dress. I mean, it is it is out of the fevered nightmare of the left with regard to, you know, what they think of as evangelical Christians or right wing Christians. They imagine it. They talk about the Handmaid's Tale, all of this kind of stuff. But this is actually true. This is actually the reality for women throughout the Middle East. And the secular left clearly doesn't care about those women. But they don't only not care about women, they they don't care about gays, all the things they claim to care about, which who are hated by the Muslim fundamentalists. But, you know, this you raise an interesting point about the fact that this is who they're in bed with. They're in bed with each other. And again, I think the only explanation I have for it is that they share an enemy and the enemy is Christians, the enemy is Jews. Look, they they spread this canard that there's that Muslims in America need to be protected from discriminatory violence. Now, when has there ever been can someone please show me a headline, someone please show me an event where Muslims were attacked by Christians in the United States of America? Any any time that I could even think of it, I'm struggling to think of anything. And yet when Joe Biden gave that beautiful speech on behalf of Israel, when he didn't even mention Iran once in the early days of the war, he he in that speech, I don't know, a lot of people didn't notice it. He spoke out about how there's no room for hate. There's no room for acts of violence or hatred in America. And then he said not against Muslims and not against Jews. And he didn't mention anything about Christians. There is a loathing of Christianity on the left that I think informs a lot of their behavior and their loathing of Christianity and their loathing of Judaism and their loathing of the Jewish state, Jewish state, which which is a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. It recognizes the fact that the Jewish people today are the same Jewish people as the Jewish people of the Bible. We have an unbroken chain of our heredity and tradition. We know exactly who we are. The idea that this nation would return from exile after thousands of years and be reconstituted as a nation in our land in fulfillment of biblical prophecy is something that they are terrified of because it testifies to the truth of God and the truth of the Bible. And if they accept that reality, they have a lot of explaining to do. Well, that's very well put. It is an amazing thing. I don't know if you're aware, I wrote a big biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor. OK, well, he spoke out against the Nazis and against anti -Semitism and he spoke out for the Jews. And I was thinking recently that what? The I mean, we have to understand and I want my audience to understand this. There are people who are genuinely confused. There are people there were people in Germany when you told them about the death camps or what's being done to the Jews, they really believed this is Jewish propaganda. This is not true. They genuinely believed it was not true. And so Gebel's, of course, used this idea of it's Jewish propaganda, Jewish propaganda, that's Jewish propaganda. Recently. We're seeing exactly the same thing when you talk about the atrocities done by Hamas, when you talk about any of these things, they're saying it's Israeli propaganda. It's not true. And I want to be clear, there are people on the left marching, you know, the pro Palestinian marches stuff. We have to understand they actually believe that this is nonsense, which is what gives them the ability to tear down posters, whatever they think it's garbage. And I and I think we have to understand where they're coming from. They they have bought the lie that this is propaganda. And if it were propaganda, nobody would care more about that than I would. In other words, I don't want I don't want to be, you know, played by anybody. And and and so this is part of the problem is knowing what is real and what is not real. We come back. We're talking to Rabbi Pesach Wolicki. We'll be right back. Folks, have I told you about Moink, M -O -I -N -K. That's moo plus oink. I get all our meat and our salmon from them. M -O -I -N -K Moink delivers grass fed and grass finished beef and lamb, pastured pork and chicken, sustainable wild caught salmon straight to your door. There is so much that I want to say to you about Moink. I don't know. I could tell you one thing. Shark Tank host Kevin O 'Leary, Mr. Wonderful, said Moink's bacon is the best bacon he's ever tasted. They are people who really firmly believe in the family farm. Some of you know, I've mentioned this 60 percent of U .S. pork production comes from one company owned by the Chinese. I don't need to say any more. 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Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Murderers Manifesto
"We get it. You're busy. You don't have time to waste on the mainstream media. That's why Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, the next D 'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch any time on any screen for free 24 -7 at snc .tv and on local now channel 525. Hello, my friends. I'm Dennis Prager, and I hope you had a good weekend. I have delved into the question of how good a weekend or a good any day one could have when the world is so filled with evil and one has to try despair as a sin, as I have noted on a number of occasions based on my Bible commentary. Hi, everybody. Good to be with you. This is late breaking. I normally don't have the show driven by news as it breaks, but this is an important—many of them are important, but this is, I believe, worthy of immediate attention. This is from Newsweek. Conservative social media personality Steven Crowder teased the release of a manifesto allegedly written by an accused school shooter in Nashville, Tennessee, where six victims died earlier this year. Boy, I'll tell you, Newsweek is really—this sentence is so gingerly phrased. Let's see. The manifesto is allegedly written by an accused shooter, not the shooter. Six million victims died, not were murdered. In a video posted Monday, that's today, to YouTube, Crowder said the manifesto was leaked and shared screenshots of portions of the document which was believed to be written by Audrey Hale, 28, whom authorities identified as the shooter. They also said Hale, who died at the scene, once attended the school. By the way, that is interesting that they say allegedly. You say allegedly when somebody is about to stand trial, but if the person was shot at the scene, you don't say allegedly. What was Audrey Hale doing there? Checking out school curricula? No, it's a little too ginger. Anyway, I will be reading the manifesto here on this show. I wish that I wouldn't have to, Crowder said in the video. In a post to X, formerly Twitter, Crowder shared other images of the manifesto, including one part that said, I hope I have a high death count. Newsweek has been unable to independently verify that Metro Nashville Police Department spokesperson told Newsweek that the police are unable to confirm the manifesto, but said they are actively looking into the matter. Here's a question for Nashville police. Why didn't you release it immediately? Some authorities had it, and my suspicion is because the manifesto reveals, as was suspected, a left -winger and it was a trans person. So the left sort of has the view, padona misa gosh, there are no enemies on the left. And whereas if the manifesto were some racist, anti -black screed, we would have known about it immediately. So three children and three adults at Nashville's Covenant School were murdered. She later died from gunshot wounds. Shortly after the shooting occurred, this is again from this Newsweek article, police said that they had recovered a manifesto believed to have been written by hell. So why, why was it never released? The ongoing investigation into the March 27 murders of six persons inside the Covenant School continues to show, from all information currently available, that killer Audrey Hale acted totally alone. That's not the question. Well, I'll report to you. There is a report somewhere, but since I haven't seen it, I can't, I won't report it yet, about what it revealed. And it seems to me that if the report is correct, it was a big anti -white kid screed. All right. So we live in an age of moral confusion, as I have warned all of my life. And the charge against Israel that it commits genocide against the Palestinians which a charge that has been made for decades, this is not new to the current war against Hamas, is another gigantic lie of the left. But the truth is not a left -wing value. So I have data here from Statista, which has no political bias that I know of. You agree with me? I don't know. Okay, fine. Statista Infographic Newsletter. Statista puts out statistics. So this is from 2020. Growth of Palestine. Let's see now. The need for peace continues to grow in urgency as Palestine's population is growing at a larger rate than Israel. Jewish and Arab populations are on a collision course of parity in the coming decades, with Arab Israelis also growing faster than Jewish Israelis and gaining more voting power. Then there's a chart, Growth of Palestine. It begins in 1960, and the green is Palestine, the blue is Israel. They have gone from 1 .1 million to 5 .1 million in 2020. So there is a growth of essentially five times growth quintupled since 1960. The Jewish population has quadrupled, has gone up four times the Arab population of the area five times. Have you ever heard of a genocide where the people being genocided have a population growth of 5x? The lie is so grandiose, but you have to know something. The people screaming it believe it, especially those who are Palestinian or from other Arab or Muslim countries. They believe their lies. Read David Price Jones' book, The Closed Circle. You'll see that he's an Arab expert. He lived an exaggeration and lies as being very frequently in the public sphere conflated. Anyway, we're catching up. The truth is that a left wing value in the left wing dominates academia and the media. So much for the charge of genocide. The only attempt at genocide of the Palestinians and their Muslim supporters around the world, they wish to commit genocide against the Jews of Israel, perhaps all Jews in the world, but certainly Jews of Israel. That is the only genocide that can be alleged in the Middle East. Well, there was one, but I don't know. Yeah, I guess you'd call it the Middle East, of course. Do you remember the Yazidis, how they were wiped out by ISIS? Well, virtually, yeah. There was a real, let's put, an ethnic cleansing, let's put it that way. Genocide. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free is a call for genocide. It is a call for the eradication of the Jewish state. There are 22 Arab states, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, but there's no room for a Jewish state the size of New Jersey. People just always need to remember that. Should there be a 24th Arab state, one that never existed in the history of the world? I hear some Palestinian speakers actually saying, we are the descendants of the Canaanites. Did you know that? You can meet a living Canaanite. Can you meet a parasite and a Jebusite? He said he was a Jebusite? Is Arafat said he was a Jebusite? I didn't know the man had a sense of humor. And this is what your kids are learning at college. We return. Gold dealers are a dime a dozen. They're everywhere. What sets these companies apart and whom can you really trust? This is Dennis Prager for AmFed Coin and Bullion, my choice for buying precious metals. When you buy precious metals, it's imperative that you buy from a trustworthy and transparent dealer that protects your best interests. So many companies use gimmicks to take advantage of inexperienced gold and silver buyers. Be cautious of brokers offering free gold and silver or brokers that want to sell you overpriced collectible coins, claiming they appreciate more than gold and silver. What about hidden commissions and huge markups? 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The moral difference between the allies and the Nazis and the allies and the Japanese was no greater than the moral difference between Israel and Hamas. We live in the age of moral relativism. It's infected almost the entire intellectual class. I saw it when I was at graduate school at Columbia University, and professors generally equated the U .S. and the Soviet Union. It was not a battle, the Cold War in their view, between freedom and tyranny, or between, if you will, light and dark, with all the darkness that exists, obviously, in everyone and in every country. There was an unbridgeable gulf between light and dark between the United States and the Soviet Union, but they would not agree to that. It was a superpower battle or a battle of two economic systems, communism and capitalism, as if they are morally equivalent, let alone just equally effective. Well, there are people who build their society with communism and slaughter tens of millions of their people while doing it, and there's another free society which is infinitely wealthier. I remember that when I wanted to get soda from a soda machine when I was there during the Cold War, and I as know that I speak Russian, and so the machine would say, госированая вода, gas gaseous water, meaning like sparkling water. The machines were quite common in Moscow, I don't know about the rest of the Soviet Union, and there was a plastic cup like you would have in a house there, and everyone who got the sparkling water used that cup. Isn't that fascinating? One cup. I drank from it, you know me, I mean, you know, they reported internationally that I, for fork drops in a restaurant, I will actually use it. I am not, shall we say, a hypochondriac, struck but it me as an example, they didn't have the money to have a paper cup used every time and thrown away. Incidentally, I'll tell you what else moved me. I will acknowledge this, because truth is the number one obligation. Nobody stole the cup. I found that fascinating. Here's this former aide to take in the whole truth, unquote. This is Barack Obama this weekend, seemingly attempting to strike a balance between the killings on both sides. What Hamas did was horrific and there's no justification for it, Mr. Obama said, and what is also true is that the occupation and what's happening to Palestinians is unbearable. Really, what is happening to Palestinians that is unbearable? I'm not talking about the current war in Gaza, which they brought upon themselves just like the Germans did and the Japanese did. Unbearable? Really? Has he or anybody he talked to gone to visit the West Bank? Is life on the West Bank unbearable? Didn't strike me as that way, been there a number of times. All I remember was a lot of cranes building new buildings. And they're obviously having a lot of kids. Generally, having a lot of kids in an unbearable situation tend not to go hand in hand. What is true is that there are people right now who are dying, who have nothing to do with what Hamas did. There were Germans who died who had nothing to do with what Hitler did. That's correct and you blame Hitler for their deaths. You blame Hamas for the death of Palestinians in Gaza. All their money is used to buy rockets and dig tunnels everywhere, including right under hospitals. If there is such a thing as evil, Hamas is it. But after all, if you raise a generation to believe that America is evil, then evil loses its meaning, doesn't it? That is what has happened. Okay. There are no comments. It's interesting they don't have comments on me on this particular story. Dennis Ross is a major figure in Middle Eastern diplomacy. For 35 years, this former U .S. envoy to the Middle East, who has generally been critical of Israel, not anti -Israel, but critical of Israel. For 35 years, I've devoted my professional life to U .S. peacemaking policy and conflict resolution planning. Nothing has preoccupied me like finding a peaceful and lasting solution between Israel and the Palestinians. In the past, I might have favored a ceasefire with Hamas during a conflict with Israel, but today it is clear to me that peace is not going to be possible now or in the future as long as Hamas remains intact and in control of Gaza.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Insights from Coinbase's Q3 Earnings Report
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Monday, November 6th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Cryptos Macro Now newsletter on Substat. On today's show, we're talking about trading volumes, layer 2 blockchains, business activity, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. Just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto markets had a relatively quiet yet positive weekend. According to Coindesk indices, at 9am Eastern Time today, Bitcoin was trading at $35 ,066, up 0 .04 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was trading at $1 ,904, up 1 .5%. Elsewhere, Ripple's XRP token is up more than 13%, Uniswap and Stellar are up more than 7%, and Avax and Filecoin are up over 5%. A more optimistic sentiment does seem to be consolidating, and when it comes to Bitcoin, the gentle upward slope of the price trajectory over the past couple of weeks suggests that the increases are from a steady inflow of new demand. This is more organic, as opposed to the sharp moves that we have seen recently, many of which were triggered by derivatives -related repositioning. Hopefully this also means the trend is more sustainable than other upward moves we've seen so far this year. In macro indicators, we need to look at a point from Friday that was somewhat overshadowed in the excitement about the soft employment report. We need to talk about the US Purchasing Managers Index, or PMI, specifically that for services. There are a few PMI series published, but one of the main ones comes from the Institute for Supply Management, which measures business activity on a monthly basis via an index that reflects responses from purchasing managers as to whether the market conditions are expanding, staying the same, or contracting. Anything above 50 is expansion, below 50 is contraction. On Friday, we got the Institute for Supply Management's PMI for the services industry. Services PMI is especially interesting given that services contribute almost 80 % of US GDP, and it is services -related inflation that has proven particularly hard to bring down. Well, in October, according to the index, services activity in the US declined for the second consecutive month. It is still expanding, but at its weakest pace in five months and notably less than economists had forecast. It's too soon to say this deceleration will last. A separate gauge of new orders increased in October after a sizable drop in September, so we could see activity pick up again next month. The reading does highlight that the economy is looking a bit choppy, though, and it makes the next few monthly PMI readings all the more relevant. In stocks, as expected, the US indices continued their upward march on Friday, as softer -than -expected jobs data brought forward expectations of a rate cut and pushed bond yields down further. The US 10 -year yield on Friday almost touched 4 .5 % for the first time since September, having been at 5 % just a few days earlier. The S &P 500 was up almost 1%, the Nasdaq closed up 1 .4%, and the Dow Jones rose two -thirds of a percent. Futures this morning are pointing to a mixed opening. In Europe, stocks were largely mixed to flat on Friday in spite of the US enthusiasm, but they closed out a strong week with the German DAX and the broader Eurostox 600 posting their strongest weekly gains since March. The FTSE 100 showed some weakness, closing four -tenths of a percent lower but still breaking a two -week losing streak. So far this morning, sentiment is still looking mixed. In Asia, sentiment in today's trading was decidedly bullish. Japan's Nikkei index jumped 2 .4%, the Hang Seng closed up 1 .7%, and even the recently beleaguered Shanghai Composite Index rose almost 1%. In commodities, oil prices settled more than 2 % lower on Friday as supply concerns eased. This morning, the Brent crude benchmark was recovering slightly, trading up 0 .5 % at $86 .50 the barrel. Gold is again holding steady, trading at $1 ,986 an ounce. Stay with us. After the break, we're going to take a closer look at some intriguing insights in Coinbase's Q3 earnings. Introducing PayUSD, PayPal's stablecoin. Designed for digital payments and Web3 transactions, PayUSD is the only stablecoin supported by PayPal. Built on Ethereum, it's compatible with widely used wallets, exchanges, and dapps, and fully backed by US dollar deposits and cash equivalents. Eligible US PayPal customers who purchase PayPal USD are able to transfer PayPal USD between PayPal and external wallets. Send PayPal USD to friends in the US on PayPal or Venmo without fees. Shop with PayPal USD on millions of sites. Convert any of PayPal's supported cryptocurrencies to and from PayPal USD. Whether you are a crypto expert or a newcomer, PayPal provides a secure and convenient platform for your crypto transactions. Start exploring at PayPal .com slash P Y U S D. Welcome back. Crypto exchange Coinbase released its third quarter earnings last week. Now that I've had a chance to go through them, there are a few things worth highlighting. Revenue fell by almost 5 % from the previous quarter, a smaller drop than most analysts were expecting, and the net loss shrunk from almost $100 million in the second quarter to around $2 million in the third quarter. Unsurprisingly, most of the revenue drop was due to a decline in transaction fees, which of course accompanies a drop in trading volumes. According to Coinbase, global spot volumes were down 24 % in the third quarter, which is, you know, ouch. Coinbase's volumes fell by less. Retail trading volume was down by 21 % and institutional trading volume was down by 17%. Nevertheless, this obviously hurt, but less than many other crypto trading businesses since trading revenue accounts for less than half of the company's income. An interesting insight is that it's not just trading volumes that impact exchange revenues, it's also crypto asset volatility. With higher volatility, traders trade more. According to Coinbase in the third quarter, crypto asset volatility reached its lowest point since 2016. Well, if you've been following the Bitcoin price recently, you'll have noticed that it has picked up. According to data from the block, 30 -day historical volatility for Bitcoin is roughly three times what it was at August's low point. This is good news for exchanges, especially since spot volumes should follow volatility up. Together, they should increase overall liquidity, which would be very good news as that could encourage more new large investors to enter the numbers. I want to mention something Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in the earnings call. He opened with what he himself acknowledged was a provocative statement about the future of blockchain development. I quote, on chain is the new online end quote. He goes on to elaborate how blockchains are extending the impact of the internet on the way we interact by bringing back the decentralization that was the original part of the internet manifesto. But not only that, blockchains also introduced the concept of ownership, which the internet was missing. But how can blockchains become as ubiquitous and flexible as the internet? According to Armstrong, it's through layer twos, which are scalable blockchains that anchor to layer one security. Layer one in this case refers to base layer blockchains such as Bitcoin and has this to say about layer twos. I quote, the transition from layer one networks to layer two networks can be likened to the transition from dial up internet to broadband. That's an evocative comparison for sure. Some could accuse it of being somewhat commercial since Coinbase launched a layer two network this summer. Called base, it anchors to Ethereum and aims to provide a fast and reliable platform for developers to work on practically any type of application. Activity has declined since the initial hype, but base is still doing pretty well. According to DefyLama, total value locked, which is the amount stored in smart contracts on the network is around $300 million with roughly 55 ,000 daily active addresses. For context, that's slightly less than half the number of daily active addresses on Arbitrum, the largest layer two in terms of value locked. But we should remember that base has only been open to the public for a long time. However, rather than dismiss the comparison of layer twos to the advent of broadband as a self -serving framework, we can look at the investment in base as an extension of a loftier goal to rethink what we want the internet to be. Here we have an exchange focusing on more than trading volumes. And while Coinbase will earn revenue on its layer two through sequencer fees, there are no plans to issue a token as yet that could centralize the monetization of network growth. Will layer twos become the new internet only with greater decentralization and a new concept of digital ownership? Obviously, I hope so. There's a long way to go though, in terms of usability. And there's the danger we end up with what we have now, a concentration of power and dubious monetization strategies. A big difference is the transparency of layer two development. And there's a lot of us watching and rooting for it to succeed. That's it for today's show. For more crypto podcasts, check out the Coindesk Podcast Network. You can reach us at podcasts at coindesk .com, follow us, and if you like the show, please leave us a five star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and produced by Coindesk. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Insights from Coinbase's Q3 Earnings Report
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Monday, November 6th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Cryptos Macro Now newsletter on Substat. On today's show, we're talking about trading volumes, layer 2 blockchains, business activity, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. Just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto markets had a relatively quiet yet positive weekend. According to Coindesk indices, at 9am Eastern Time today, Bitcoin was trading at $35 ,066, up 0 .04 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was trading at $1 ,904, up 1 .5%. Elsewhere, Ripple's XRP token is up more than 13%, Uniswap and Stellar are up more than 7%, and Avax and Filecoin are up over 5%. A more optimistic sentiment does seem to be consolidating, and when it comes to Bitcoin, the gentle upward slope of the price trajectory over the past couple of weeks suggests that the increases are from a steady inflow of new demand. This is more organic, as opposed to the sharp moves that we have seen recently, many of which were triggered by derivatives -related repositioning. Hopefully this also means the trend is more sustainable than other upward moves we've seen so far this year. In macro indicators, we need to look at a point from Friday that was somewhat overshadowed in the excitement about the soft employment report. We need to talk about the US Purchasing Managers Index, or PMI, specifically that for services. There are a few PMI series published, but one of the main ones comes from the Institute for Supply Management, which measures business activity on a monthly basis via an index that reflects responses from purchasing managers as to whether the market conditions are expanding, staying the same, or contracting. Anything above 50 is expansion, below 50 is contraction. On Friday, we got the Institute for Supply Management's PMI for the services industry. Services PMI is especially interesting given that services contribute almost 80 % of US GDP, and it is services -related inflation that has proven particularly hard to bring down. Well, in October, according to the index, services activity in the US declined for the second consecutive month. It is still expanding, but at its weakest pace in five months and notably less than economists had forecast. It's too soon to say this deceleration will last. A separate gauge of new orders increased in October after a sizable drop in September, so we could see activity pick up again next month. The reading does highlight that the economy is looking a bit choppy, though, and it makes the next few monthly PMI readings all the more relevant. In stocks, as expected, the US indices continued their upward march on Friday, as softer -than -expected jobs data brought forward expectations of a rate cut and pushed bond yields down further. The US 10 -year yield on Friday almost touched 4 .5 % for the first time since September, having been at 5 % just a few days earlier. The S &P 500 was up almost 1%, the Nasdaq closed up 1 .4%, and the Dow Jones rose two -thirds of a percent. Futures this morning are pointing to a mixed opening. In Europe, stocks were largely mixed to flat on Friday in spite of the US enthusiasm, but they closed out a strong week with the German DAX and the broader Eurostox 600 posting their strongest weekly gains since March. The FTSE 100 showed some weakness, closing four -tenths of a percent lower but still breaking a two -week losing streak. So far this morning, sentiment is still looking mixed. In Asia, sentiment in today's trading was decidedly bullish. Japan's Nikkei index jumped 2 .4%, the Hang Seng closed up 1 .7%, and even the recently beleaguered Shanghai Composite Index rose almost 1%. In commodities, oil prices settled more than 2 % lower on Friday as supply concerns eased. This morning, the Brent crude benchmark was recovering slightly, trading up 0 .5 % at $86 .50 the barrel. Gold is again holding steady, trading at $1 ,986 an ounce. Stay with us. After the break, we're going to take a closer look at some intriguing insights in Coinbase's Q3 earnings. Introducing PayUSD, PayPal's stablecoin. Designed for digital payments and Web3 transactions, PayUSD is the only stablecoin supported by PayPal. Built on Ethereum, it's compatible with widely used wallets, exchanges, and dapps, and fully backed by US dollar deposits and cash equivalents. Eligible US PayPal customers who purchase PayPal USD are able to transfer PayPal USD between PayPal and external wallets. Send PayPal USD to friends in the US on PayPal or Venmo without fees. Shop with PayPal USD on millions of sites. Convert any of PayPal's supported cryptocurrencies to and from PayPal USD. Whether you are a crypto expert or a newcomer, PayPal provides a secure and convenient platform for your crypto transactions. Start exploring at PayPal .com slash P Y U S D. Welcome back. Crypto exchange Coinbase released its third quarter earnings last week. Now that I've had a chance to go through them, there are a few things worth highlighting. Revenue fell by almost 5 % from the previous quarter, a smaller drop than most analysts were expecting, and the net loss shrunk from almost $100 million in the second quarter to around $2 million in the third quarter. Unsurprisingly, most of the revenue drop was due to a decline in transaction fees, which of course accompanies a drop in trading volumes. According to Coinbase, global spot volumes were down 24 % in the third quarter, which is, you know, ouch. Coinbase's volumes fell by less. Retail trading volume was down by 21 % and institutional trading volume was down by 17%. Nevertheless, this obviously hurt, but less than many other crypto trading businesses since trading revenue accounts for less than half of the company's income. An interesting insight is that it's not just trading volumes that impact exchange revenues, it's also crypto asset volatility. With higher volatility, traders trade more. According to Coinbase in the third quarter, crypto asset volatility reached its lowest point since 2016. Well, if you've been following the Bitcoin price recently, you'll have noticed that it has picked up. According to data from the block, 30 -day historical volatility for Bitcoin is roughly three times what it was at August's low point. This is good news for exchanges, especially since spot volumes should follow volatility up. Together, they should increase overall liquidity, which would be very good news as that could encourage more new large investors to enter the numbers. I want to mention something Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in the earnings call. He opened with what he himself acknowledged was a provocative statement about the future of blockchain development. I quote, on chain is the new online end quote. He goes on to elaborate how blockchains are extending the impact of the internet on the way we interact by bringing back the decentralization that was the original part of the internet manifesto. But not only that, blockchains also introduced the concept of ownership, which the internet was missing. But how can blockchains become as ubiquitous and flexible as the internet? According to Armstrong, it's through layer twos, which are scalable blockchains that anchor to layer one security. Layer one in this case refers to base layer blockchains such as Bitcoin and has this to say about layer twos. I quote, the transition from layer one networks to layer two networks can be likened to the transition from dial up internet to broadband. That's an evocative comparison for sure. Some could accuse it of being somewhat commercial since Coinbase launched a layer two network this summer. Called base, it anchors to Ethereum and aims to provide a fast and reliable platform for developers to work on practically any type of application. Activity has declined since the initial hype, but base is still doing pretty well. According to DefyLama, total value locked, which is the amount stored in smart contracts on the network is around $300 million with roughly 55 ,000 daily active addresses. For context, that's slightly less than half the number of daily active addresses on Arbitrum, the largest layer two in terms of value locked. But we should remember that base has only been open to the public for a long time. However, rather than dismiss the comparison of layer twos to the advent of broadband as a self -serving framework, we can look at the investment in base as an extension of a loftier goal to rethink what we want the internet to be. Here we have an exchange focusing on more than trading volumes. And while Coinbase will earn revenue on its layer two through sequencer fees, there are no plans to issue a token as yet that could centralize the monetization of network growth. Will layer twos become the new internet only with greater decentralization and a new concept of digital ownership? Obviously, I hope so. There's a long way to go though, in terms of usability. And there's the danger we end up with what we have now, a concentration of power and dubious monetization strategies. A big difference is the transparency of layer two development. And there's a lot of us watching and rooting for it to succeed. That's it for today's show. For more crypto podcasts, check out the Coindesk Podcast Network. You can reach us at podcasts at coindesk .com, follow us, and if you like the show, please leave us a five star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and produced by Coindesk. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
"History That Doesn't Suck is a bi -weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HGDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck. It's a cool autumn morning, November 3rd, 1918. We're aboard one of the Imperial German Navy's pre -dreadnought battleships. The SMS Lothringen, currently lying at anchor in the harbor of Kiel, Germany. And Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf is heading to his quarters to put on his parade uniform. Once dressed appropriately, he intends to go ashore and into town to join his fellow frustrated sailors. They will parade. They will march. They will demand better. And Richard is here for it. Okay, time out. Let me fill you in on the situation. For years now, the German Navy has underfed and overworked its average sailors. Meanwhile, these somewhat abused seamen have little to show for their suffering. Indeed, apart from submarine warfare and the 1916 Battle of Jutland, German warships have largely spent this war hemmed in by Britain's effective blockade. With a coming armistice then, one that may well effectively end the German Navy, the Imperial Naval High Command believes that the answer is to sail forth and meet the Brits in battle. Better to meet a glorious death and a watery grave than to be ended by an armistice. Ah, but their hungry mistreated sailors see it differently. Why on earth would they want to go on a suicide mission merely to save the pride of their egotistical admirals? Thus, upon receiving orders a few days ago to engage the Brits in an epic but deadly throwdown at sea, Stokers aboard a few ships responded by intentionally allowing the Boilers fires to go out. Full on mutiny sees the dreadnought class SMS Hegoland and SMS Thuringen. The crew of the latter even locked up their petty officers. The Navy answered by locking up hundreds of these mutinous sailors and keel. And that's why today, Richard and hundreds of other sailors are taken to the streets to protest the incarceration of their naval brothers. And with that background, let's return to the story. Down in his quarters, Richard and other sailors are nearly done dressing. But as they buckle belts and button coats, a few officers enter asking what they can do to appease the men. Sympathetically, Richard answers, we have nothing against our officers. Nevertheless, we shall parade in the streets to obtain our rights. Nearly the whole crew agrees. The SMS Lothringen all but empties as sailors make for shore. Reaching Keel's Old Port Barracks later that afternoon, Richard is astounded. Everywhere he turns, he sees endless droves of sailors and on one side, a long line of rifle bearing Marines who've joined them. Damn, this parade has gained traction. Departing from the parade ground, the sailors and Marines make their way to the flagship now at port, the SMS Baden. After a brief shouting match between the crowd and the captain, a full third of this dreadnought battleship's crew join its ranks. Continuing on, an impromptu marching band gives some semblance of order while another 40 men fall in as they reach Pieterstraße, that is, Peter Street. But soon, our narrator, Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf, realizes that they do indeed only have a semblance of order. That they're turning into a leaderless mob, and he worries that things might get out of hand. It's now 6 p .m. The boisterous throng of servicemen are in front of the city's Marine barracks. Within a moment's time, they rip the gate off its hinges. The flustered, angry sailors then pour through the opening. One elderly major dares to oppose them. Several men surround him, take his gun and ride his epaulettes. Richard looks on, aghast. He feels sympathy for the elderly officer only trying to do his duty. This isn't what Richard had in mind when he came to heel to march for his rights. Freeing a few men being detained at the barracks, the mob of sailors continues on. Politically on the right, Richard grows uneasy as one speech giver calls out that they should hang the Kaiser. His discomfort grows as red cloths and a red bed sheet make for impromptu flags. He's appalled at a dock worker who takes the quickly raised speaker stand near station headquarters to call for the establishment of a Soviet republic. But despite his fellow sailors communist sympathies, or should I say Bolshevism, as these communist minded Germans are inspired by the recent Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Richard is pleased to see how relatively nonviolent things have stayed. Well, if only he knew what was going on elsewhere in Kiel. It's now just past 7 p .m. Among the thousands marching through the streets tonight, a different group far from Richards is approaching the military prison where the stokers who let their ship's boilers go cold are being detained. And these marchers are determined to see these men freed. They howl, shout and yell. Their angry cries are greeted by soldiers loyal to the Kaiser. Troops quickly choke off the street. The commander orders the advancing sailors to stop, but they ignore him. The officer then orders his men to fire above the sailors heads. The throng is undeterred by these warning shots. The endless mass of men continues to advance toward them. The commander orders another volley, but this one is no warning. Bullets tear through flesh. Some sailors fall dead, others screaming agony, while still more return fire or throw stones. This is no longer a mere parade through Kiel. This is the start of the German revolution. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. That violent confrontation on the streets of Kiel left eight sailors dead and 29 more wounded. But the Kaiser soldiers weren't without their losses either. Their commander and one lieutenant died, both taken out by knives and stones. Clearly, Germany isn't only struggling on the front, it's struggling at home. It can no longer sustain this war. And that brings us to today's story. The armistice that, after four long, blood -soaked years, will finally silence the guns of World War I. To properly contextualize this hallowed moment, we'll start at the same place Germany does as it seeks peace, by looking to US President Woodrow Wilson's proposed path to peace, his 14 points. I'll remind you what these are before we listen to Woodrow pitch them in a September 1918 speech. We'll then follow his back and forth with the Germans and follow other discussions among allied leaders, all of which will ultimately lead us to a cold and fraught moment of diplomacy between four Germans and four allied leaders, and Marshal Ferdinand Foch's train carriage, somewhere secret, in France's Compiègne forest. With no leverage and a revolution consuming their nation, the German delegates are in a tough spot. But ultimately, we'll see an armistice struck. We'll then end this war, this brutal, awful war, as we watch it continue to take lives right up to the moment that the armistice takes effect at 11 o 'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. But having done all of that and taken stock of all the loss, we'll see the joy and relief that washes over all the soldiers, allied and German alike, as their nightmare ends. Well, ready to experience one of the most intense moments in the history of diplomacy? Then let's get to it, and we start with our professorial president, waxing eloquent with his 14 points. Rewind. Woodrow Wilson is no fan of war. On the contrary, the former New Jersey governor and Princeton professor and president turned US president is a proponent of peace. We've seen that in several past episodes. In 132, we heard that effective, if boring, campaign slogan, he kept us out of war, and witnessed how pained the professorial president was to ask Congress to declare war. In 133, we caught the full contrast between him and his hawkish predecessor, former President Theodore Roosevelt. And in 136, we got a taste of Woodrow's 14 points, which, if adhered to, he hopes will ensure a lasting peace after the Great War. But do we remember just what these 14 points are? Well, here's a quick refresher. Woodrow first presented his 14 points while speaking to Congress at the start of this year, on January 8th, 1918. The professorial president called them, quote, the program of the world's peace, the only possible program, close quote. His right -hand man, Edward House, better known by the honorary title, Colonel House, described the 14 points as, quote, a declaration of human liberty and a declaration of the terms which should be written into the peace conference, close quote. The first five points are rules that Woodrow wants all nations to follow. No secret treaties, freedom to navigate the seas, free trade among all nations, signing the coming peace, arms reductions, and finally, an adjustment of all colonial claims that takes the will of colonized peoples and questions of their own sovereignty into mind. Points six through 13 call for specific changes to the map of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, none of which are surprising if you recall the territorial throw downs that helped cause the war. They include the central powers evacuating Russia, Germany evacuating a restored Belgium, Germany returning Alsace -Lorraine to France, an adjustment of Italian borders along nationalist lines, self -determination in the Austro -Hungarian Empire, new borders drawn in the Balkans, a Turkish state with free trade in the Dardanelles, and finally, an independent Poland. As for his last 14th point, Woodrow wants to see an end not just to this war but to all wars. He wants an organization, say a league of nations if you will, to ensure that everyone, big countries and small, are treated fairly. Huh, that's very New Jersey plan of you, Professor Wilson. Constitutional convention jokes aside, Woodrow Wilson believes his 14 points are the way to a lasting permanent peace. In fact, he's so sure of it that as the beleaguered central power of Austria -Hungary tries to initiate peace talks on September 14, 1918, Woodrow quickly rejects them. In the president's mind, there's nothing to discuss. He's already made the terms clear. Austria -Hungary can get back in touch when they want to agree to his 14 points. But is it wise to take such a hard stance on these points, especially when his points are well -meaning but vague? After all, who decides what a quote -unquote impartial adjustment of colonial claims looks like? Who defines self -determination and other such terms? Those questions aren't important to Woodrow. As America enters the Meuse -Argonne campaign, its largest battle to date, one that will send tens of thousands of young doughboys to their graves, Woodrow wants their blood sacrifice to mean something. This war must be, to borrow a phrase recently coined by English author H .G. Wells, the war to end all wars. Thus, the idealistic president is ready to pitch his 14 points to everyone, including the American people.
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A highlight from 146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
"History That Doesn't Suck is a bi -weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HGDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck. It's a cool autumn morning, November 3rd, 1918. We're aboard one of the Imperial German Navy's pre -dreadnought battleships. The SMS Lothringen, currently lying at anchor in the harbor of Kiel, Germany. And Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf is heading to his quarters to put on his parade uniform. Once dressed appropriately, he intends to go ashore and into town to join his fellow frustrated sailors. They will parade. They will march. They will demand better. And Richard is here for it. Okay, time out. Let me fill you in on the situation. For years now, the German Navy has underfed and overworked its average sailors. Meanwhile, these somewhat abused seamen have little to show for their suffering. Indeed, apart from submarine warfare and the 1916 Battle of Jutland, German warships have largely spent this war hemmed in by Britain's effective blockade. With a coming armistice then, one that may well effectively end the German Navy, the Imperial Naval High Command believes that the answer is to sail forth and meet the Brits in battle. Better to meet a glorious death and a watery grave than to be ended by an armistice. Ah, but their hungry mistreated sailors see it differently. Why on earth would they want to go on a suicide mission merely to save the pride of their egotistical admirals? Thus, upon receiving orders a few days ago to engage the Brits in an epic but deadly throwdown at sea, Stokers aboard a few ships responded by intentionally allowing the Boilers fires to go out. Full on mutiny sees the dreadnought class SMS Hegoland and SMS Thuringen. The crew of the latter even locked up their petty officers. The Navy answered by locking up hundreds of these mutinous sailors and keel. And that's why today, Richard and hundreds of other sailors are taken to the streets to protest the incarceration of their naval brothers. And with that background, let's return to the story. Down in his quarters, Richard and other sailors are nearly done dressing. But as they buckle belts and button coats, a few officers enter asking what they can do to appease the men. Sympathetically, Richard answers, we have nothing against our officers. Nevertheless, we shall parade in the streets to obtain our rights. Nearly the whole crew agrees. The SMS Lothringen all but empties as sailors make for shore. Reaching Keel's Old Port Barracks later that afternoon, Richard is astounded. Everywhere he turns, he sees endless droves of sailors and on one side, a long line of rifle bearing Marines who've joined them. Damn, this parade has gained traction. Departing from the parade ground, the sailors and Marines make their way to the flagship now at port, the SMS Baden. After a brief shouting match between the crowd and the captain, a full third of this dreadnought battleship's crew join its ranks. Continuing on, an impromptu marching band gives some semblance of order while another 40 men fall in as they reach Pieterstraße, that is, Peter Street. But soon, our narrator, Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf, realizes that they do indeed only have a semblance of order. That they're turning into a leaderless mob, and he worries that things might get out of hand. It's now 6 p .m. The boisterous throng of servicemen are in front of the city's Marine barracks. Within a moment's time, they rip the gate off its hinges. The flustered, angry sailors then pour through the opening. One elderly major dares to oppose them. Several men surround him, take his gun and ride his epaulettes. Richard looks on, aghast. He feels sympathy for the elderly officer only trying to do his duty. This isn't what Richard had in mind when he came to heel to march for his rights. Freeing a few men being detained at the barracks, the mob of sailors continues on. Politically on the right, Richard grows uneasy as one speech giver calls out that they should hang the Kaiser. His discomfort grows as red cloths and a red bed sheet make for impromptu flags. He's appalled at a dock worker who takes the quickly raised speaker stand near station headquarters to call for the establishment of a Soviet republic. But despite his fellow sailors communist sympathies, or should I say Bolshevism, as these communist minded Germans are inspired by the recent Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Richard is pleased to see how relatively nonviolent things have stayed. Well, if only he knew what was going on elsewhere in Kiel. It's now just past 7 p .m. Among the thousands marching through the streets tonight, a different group far from Richards is approaching the military prison where the stokers who let their ship's boilers go cold are being detained. And these marchers are determined to see these men freed. They howl, shout and yell. Their angry cries are greeted by soldiers loyal to the Kaiser. Troops quickly choke off the street. The commander orders the advancing sailors to stop, but they ignore him. The officer then orders his men to fire above the sailors heads. The throng is undeterred by these warning shots. The endless mass of men continues to advance toward them. The commander orders another volley, but this one is no warning. Bullets tear through flesh. Some sailors fall dead, others screaming agony, while still more return fire or throw stones. This is no longer a mere parade through Kiel. This is the start of the German revolution. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. That violent confrontation on the streets of Kiel left eight sailors dead and 29 more wounded. But the Kaiser soldiers weren't without their losses either. Their commander and one lieutenant died, both taken out by knives and stones. Clearly, Germany isn't only struggling on the front, it's struggling at home. It can no longer sustain this war. And that brings us to today's story. The armistice that, after four long, blood -soaked years, will finally silence the guns of World War I. To properly contextualize this hallowed moment, we'll start at the same place Germany does as it seeks peace, by looking to US President Woodrow Wilson's proposed path to peace, his 14 points. I'll remind you what these are before we listen to Woodrow pitch them in a September 1918 speech. We'll then follow his back and forth with the Germans and follow other discussions among allied leaders, all of which will ultimately lead us to a cold and fraught moment of diplomacy between four Germans and four allied leaders, and Marshal Ferdinand Foch's train carriage, somewhere secret, in France's Compiègne forest. With no leverage and a revolution consuming their nation, the German delegates are in a tough spot. But ultimately, we'll see an armistice struck. We'll then end this war, this brutal, awful war, as we watch it continue to take lives right up to the moment that the armistice takes effect at 11 o 'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. But having done all of that and taken stock of all the loss, we'll see the joy and relief that washes over all the soldiers, allied and German alike, as their nightmare ends. Well, ready to experience one of the most intense moments in the history of diplomacy? Then let's get to it, and we start with our professorial president, waxing eloquent with his 14 points. Rewind. Woodrow Wilson is no fan of war. On the contrary, the former New Jersey governor and Princeton professor and president turned US president is a proponent of peace. We've seen that in several past episodes. In 132, we heard that effective, if boring, campaign slogan, he kept us out of war, and witnessed how pained the professorial president was to ask Congress to declare war. In 133, we caught the full contrast between him and his hawkish predecessor, former President Theodore Roosevelt. And in 136, we got a taste of Woodrow's 14 points, which, if adhered to, he hopes will ensure a lasting peace after the Great War. But do we remember just what these 14 points are? Well, here's a quick refresher. Woodrow first presented his 14 points while speaking to Congress at the start of this year, on January 8th, 1918. The professorial president called them, quote, the program of the world's peace, the only possible program, close quote. His right -hand man, Edward House, better known by the honorary title, Colonel House, described the 14 points as, quote, a declaration of human liberty and a declaration of the terms which should be written into the peace conference, close quote. The first five points are rules that Woodrow wants all nations to follow. No secret treaties, freedom to navigate the seas, free trade among all nations, signing the coming peace, arms reductions, and finally, an adjustment of all colonial claims that takes the will of colonized peoples and questions of their own sovereignty into mind. Points six through 13 call for specific changes to the map of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, none of which are surprising if you recall the territorial throw downs that helped cause the war. They include the central powers evacuating Russia, Germany evacuating a restored Belgium, Germany returning Alsace -Lorraine to France, an adjustment of Italian borders along nationalist lines, self -determination in the Austro -Hungarian Empire, new borders drawn in the Balkans, a Turkish state with free trade in the Dardanelles, and finally, an independent Poland. As for his last 14th point, Woodrow wants to see an end not just to this war but to all wars. He wants an organization, say a league of nations if you will, to ensure that everyone, big countries and small, are treated fairly. Huh, that's very New Jersey plan of you, Professor Wilson. Constitutional convention jokes aside, Woodrow Wilson believes his 14 points are the way to a lasting permanent peace. In fact, he's so sure of it that as the beleaguered central power of Austria -Hungary tries to initiate peace talks on September 14, 1918, Woodrow quickly rejects them. In the president's mind, there's nothing to discuss. He's already made the terms clear. Austria -Hungary can get back in touch when they want to agree to his 14 points. But is it wise to take such a hard stance on these points, especially when his points are well -meaning but vague? After all, who decides what a quote -unquote impartial adjustment of colonial claims looks like? Who defines self -determination and other such terms? Those questions aren't important to Woodrow. As America enters the Meuse -Argonne campaign, its largest battle to date, one that will send tens of thousands of young doughboys to their graves, Woodrow wants their blood sacrifice to mean something. This war must be, to borrow a phrase recently coined by English author H .G. Wells, the war to end all wars. Thus, the idealistic president is ready to pitch his 14 points to everyone, including the American people.
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Allied Powers Were Unresponsive About the Deaths of Millions of Jews
"And this is how Biden shows that he supports Israel well we said two fleets what do they want you late December 1942 British Foreign authorities the German not content with denying to persons of Jewish and all the territories over which their barbers rule extends the most elementary human rights are now carrying into Hitler's effect off repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people and now we have others who want to exterminate the Jewish people they said it Hamas and our administration is telling the Jewish government in Israel ceasefire says we're destroy going to you no matter what we're never going to stop day in and day out they unleashed this horrific atrocity and now our administration is telling the Israeli step down when the Israelis are the enemy and then they're pushing a two -state solution you you and these you see are the people that Jeremy Barr serves and regurgitates and works with wonder what Andy Bates thinks about that the United States Dr. Wyman asserted quote two or three clear statements from Franklin Roosevelt would have moved this news into public view and kept it there for some time but the president was not so inclined did Washington reporters press him? in retrospect it seems almost unbelievable he said in Roosevelt's press conferences normally held twice a week not one word was spoken about the mass killing of European Jews until almost a year later and the president had nothing to say to reporters on the matter and no correspondent
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A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Bitcoin vs. Ether Investment Theses
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Friday, November 3rd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Cryptos Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about market reactions to the employment data, gold buying, Bitcoin versus Ether investment theses, and more. Be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications so you don't miss an episode. Just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto markets started off weaker today as traders caught their breath after some wild moves this week. But then the US employment data turned things around and prices started claw back some of the day's losses. According to Coindesk Indices, at 9am Eastern Time this morning, Bitcoin was trading down 2 .6 % over the past 24 hours at $34 ,450. Ether was falling by slightly less, down 2 .1%, trading at $1 ,799. Other corrections earlier today were even steeper. Solana, whose year -to -date up performance I spoke about yesterday, was down over 9%. The Flow Token was down almost 7%. Sui's Synapse and Compound were down 6%. In macro indicators, today was a big day for data releases. One of the most significant metrics in terms of interest rate expectations is the US employment data. A stubbornly strong jobs market has kept consumption high, which makes it harder to bring down inflation. Any signs of weakness in the job market could be taken as a sign that the US interest rate hikes are finally starting to bite. This is what we got today. The three key figures to watch are the increase in non -farm payrolls, the increase in average hourly earnings and the unemployment rate. All three came in softer than expected. The number of net new jobs created in October was expected to be 180 ,000, which was already a big step down from September's initial report of 340 ,000. The increase came in at 150 ,000. It's also worth noting that the net new payrolls for the previous two months was revised down by 100 ,000. The average hourly earnings increase decelerated in October to 0 .2 % month -on -month from 0 .3 % in September. On a year -on -year basis, the increase was 4 .1%, down from September's 4 .3%. And the unemployment rate ticked up to 3 .9%, its highest rate since January of last year. Average forecasts had been for an October unemployment rate of 3 .8%, which would have been flat on September's number. You're probably thinking that the weakness isn't much. Jobs still grew by a hefty amount, and a 10 basis point increase in the unemployment rate is hardly indicative. You'd be right. But the thing about the unemployment rate is that when it starts to turn, it tends to turn fast. Higher unemployment impacts spending, which impacts company revenues and profits, and generally leads to more layoffs and higher unemployment in a very sad spiral. Not surprisingly, markets are liking this, as the softening of the labour market does reinforce the thesis that peak rates are in. It may feel awkward to celebrate more people losing their jobs, but markets have been eagerly waiting for signs of an economic slowdown because of how it could impact the timing of interest rate cuts. While those are still a ways off, if this week's FOMC statement and press conference is anything to go by, the Fed's decision matrix just got a bit easier. The Fed will no doubt be weighing the risks of hiking too much and triggering a deep recession, with the risks of doing nothing for a while to see what happens to the data. Today's release suggests that the latter is more likely. As we head into record, US bond yields are falling fast. The US 10 -year yield is almost at 4 .5%, having touched 5 % just a few days ago. The 2 -year yield is below 4 .9%, the lowest point since early September. In stocks, US markets were cheerful yesterday, with the S &P 500 rallying 2 % its strongest session since April. The NASDAQ and the Dow Jones each rose around 1 .7%. This morning, futures were pointing to a good reception of the employment data I just spoke about. In Europe, the main indices also all rose yesterday for the fourth consecutive session. The FTSE 100 was up 1 .4%, the German DAX was up 1 .5 % and the broader -year stock 600 was up 1 .6%. This morning, stocks were largely flat up until the US employment data, but have been picking up since then. In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was up a whopping 2 .5%, while the Shanghai Composite rose 7 .10%. Japan's market was closed today for a holiday. In commodities, oil prices were also lifted by the positive market mood yesterday, with the Brent crude benchmark registering an increase of just over 1%. So far this morning, Brent is up a further 0 .5 % on the day, trading at $88 .33 a barrel. Gold continues to hold relatively steady, trading at $1 ,990 per ounce. Staying with gold for a second, earlier this week, the World Gold Council published its quarterly report, which showed that central bank buying of the metal was up 14 % year -on -year. It seems more central banks are reducing their holdings of US treasuries and increasing holdings of gold. China was by far the largest purchaser, with Poland and then Turkey trailing a distant second and third. Stay with us, after the break we turn to some listener questions.
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"german" Discussed on Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"Precise because the cologne based startup offers an open source. Sql database once from cologne by. We have like one the number but an nc so the o of the word becomes the one is the first joint investment from vegetative comments softbank. It's an intended startup raising in total. Forty three million euros fifty million. Us dollars policies flooded little phone intervention here and remove onto constance where fruit core robotics grabs seventeen million euros in funding constance of course to the southern south western most end of germany. I'm whether lake constance connect the dots and austria. Where there we also have one tiny news bit being the new v jn. It giant this. Ma who bought the vienna-based cloud accounting startup poolside Net and you might have already figured it out because australia obviously is an independent country in germany anymore. Bud german-language country just like switzerland and so we like to have a look at them to in switzerland. We see that co next postponed their ipo at six in switzerland which was originally planned for early october due to unfavorable market conditions. They said we have looked at t- Workplace analytic startup that raised seven point one million euro. We have to eat h spin off skew vo. Sei w they raise a point five million swiss francs which is roughly seven point. Eight million euros of venture capital for their stair climbing wheelchair fronta fi a company that got fifty million stars from investors like they are high sage ventures as well as existing investors for their platform on which companies can manage their brand presence of one million dollars for a sport. The startup called coach better to digitize football coaching and we have volkswagen's wagner air and one of elon musk's investors who invest in switzerland based car subscription startup. Carry fi so we also looking at this idea of why not make car ownership a subscription service so much about what's happening in the different startups all over german language the legion as we say d. a. c. h. Don't devesh fights back to you thank you. Let's fill up with the general news. Company stinks to germany company. I'll child spelled eight u. d. a. r. q. may just have surpassed tass la with their solo roof tiles. Talking about bags here. This one article fact bulks major. Your pins back listing this year. The market seemed to cool day are writing. Europeans backs have raised six point. Six billion you as polish so far this year according to riffing it if data whether it's up just five hundred million from twenty twenty. It's still only about five percent of the value of this back. Deal stunt in the united states. Twenty twenty one. There's another piece of news on specs. New specs g f aged as g acquisition as e is announced it shall be listed in frankfurt to by start ups and tech companies in sustainable technologies. The company is initiated by well known founders and corporate. Cfo they want to raise one hundred fifty years go. Puff the philadelphia-based quick immerse startups enters the german market adding to an already hot competition with joke And others cubic cure. That went a hope. A germany for developing corona vaccines stops the development of the current corona vaccine and starts hct within you approach. The first vaccine candidate did not fulfill the expectations and then we have a multiple. P. funds are still fighting over the out of seat so plus so plus the takeover.
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"german" Discussed on Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"We give you the results and recommendations in my understanding is that actually you use a. I actually recognize the picture. And what are you plant in the future. Willie stick with this cart or are there like other plans to the puck line. Yes so the first plan will be to expand the card offering. So i mentioned right. Now we have these ten parameters but we want to include more Vitamins minerals and hormones. That you can test from your urine and make specific Card packages that are focused on needs that that our customers are having Perhaps prenatal or Elderly focused cards that look at specific biomarkers for those for those groups and yes. We haven't ai that is able to detect the card and measure the density of the color change for each of the pads in order to give you the values so this all happens very very quickly. That sounds really fascinating and Just out of curiosity When did you learn that. Got the germ stuttered awards foot new. Come out of the year and how they feel. I actually don't what what was the day that the that the startup awards rondos end of april. I remember but I don't remember exactly. The i guess the only thing that was a bit a bit surprising well many things a bit surprising i found out i was nominated. I think in december. I not a german speaker and the email was all in german until i ignored it. Actually for a for about a week or two and then they they picked me again and they're like hey. Did you see this email. You've been nominated for the award and i was like. Oh that's the hugo. Yeah yeah. I was like. Oh that's definitely did not translate that would crack up so that was back in december and then I knew that the award ceremony was going to be coming. But we did the filming for the actual awards before the rest of the public knew. We had with corona and and we had to do certain social distance. And so i knew a week before anyone else knew which was a bit was also a little bit of funny because i've forgotten that no one else knew and so i was like. Oh yeah i just won't be award keeping it to myself and then a week later you know. It goes public and all of the congratulations. Come in online. And i it was just i. I think i missed that. Not having the live event. Because i yeah i. It was very kind of anti-climactic at the at the moment the german startup association made a nice event where they gave the the awards. But you know you don't have the group of people around you and then all of that kind of came in later when they When they announced it online how does it actually feel a. I assume there have been many people present at the awards ceremony right right. That's that's exactly it. There was only the other nominees for each category. So the nominees for founder of the year and investor of the year and social impact and so it was very small group and.
Everything Everywhere Daily
"german" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Communications have always been a problem in warfare. In ancient times just sending commands from outside of a battlefield to another was extremely difficult. Flags and horns would often be used to send commands because there is no other way to send communications over that distance in that amount of time even with the advent of radio when world war battlefields were spread out over much larger distances and communication could still be difficult with that being said. Let me summarize the timeline of what happened at the end of world war two in europe in the spring of nineteen forty five is the allies. Were closing in hitler. And his cronies were in his bunker in berlin and the russians began inching closer many of his top generals who saw the writing on the wall began surrendering individually and hitler. Accuse them of being traitors as the wall started caving. In on april twenty fifth mussalini was killed by a mob in italy april. Twenty ninth all of the german forces. In italy surrendered. Hitler killed himself. On april thirtieth after that things began to fall apart very quickly. Technically the leadership of the third reich fell to admiral. Karl don. It's not that there was really anything to rule over on may second. The german forces in berlin surrendered to the soviets on may fourth german troops in the netherlands. Mark in germany. Surrender to feel marshal. Montgomery on may fifth germans. Various render to american general jacob devers on may sixth surrenders general. Carl spots head of the american air forces in europe on may seventh that shape. The supreme headquarters allied expeditionary force in reims france chief of staff of the german armed forces high command general alfred yodel signed the document of unconditional. Surrender of all german forces. The same day. General franz bom announced the surrender of all german forces in norway with the phrase quote all forces under german control to cease active operations at twenty three zero.
Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"german" Discussed on Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"Hundred witnesses and we assume they will wrap things up before the next federal election. Take place on. September twenty six here in germany. This only a little not philippines. File criminal charges against former where kat c. f. young masonic which is still on the run. This is small nuisance. Mr masonic already faces charges in germany and if of a found may up end may end up serving a longtime germ moving onto the german ecosystem as a whole And we can. You can already tell that. Probably the biggest issue here are the big topic he is. The germany is approaching a general election in fall on september. Twenty six germany's going to elect a new parliament and also new chancellor after sixteen years. Angela merkel is gonna step down so This may also mean that there will be changes to laws and regulations regarding startups regarding companies and We will keep you updated about this. Jimmy might have a new government when we hear When you hear from us the next time or a new chancellor before christmas but could also be that. We are a bit optimistic with this the last time. It took quite a while. It's all depending on the results Related to the end of merkel's term digital trade association. Bitcoin in germany analyzed promises analyst merkel's promises to the german startup scene For example the administration wanted to start twenty five steps have measures in two thousand eighteen which should have been fulfilled after two years. That was the initial plan. Fifteen of them have been finished as kind so ten promises. Broken related to that. We've already recorded another bonus episode on the upcoming ten billion startup investment program from the german federal government with digital commissioner that recording will be published uring the summer when this podcast here has its regular break than there are fintech trends for the region. Daphne d. a. c. h. And giving you a hint that this deutschland austria switzerland The funding balances beck and twenty twenty. Actually so it seems as if the covert crisis here is not as as everyone had initially thought and european fintech startups with oversee ambitions. Who fill their watch us at record clip more about that in pitchbook we are now getting into the hub sake. Jim as always. It's more about when we discovered the news than any other measure off. sorting Frankfurt eight point five million for frankfurt-based sas fintech crowd desk. Of course you can learn more about them. In our show notes down here we have interviews with both of the founders and there is the co living startup habit closes twenty four million And they merged with frankfurt-based hopefully of course we have an interview with. Hopefully you can find down here in the show notes. Munich-based insured tech finance chef. Fiennes funds leaks. You have twenty four wins new based mark style as investor we I was wondering. I you currently using a cherry mechanical notebook chris. Applegate r k as of today twenty-ninth off June they just out the company behind cherry a turkey. Boats cherry argue ipo frankfurt. They stay in looks. Pretty good for them. And another niece from munich..
Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"german" Discussed on Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"Cart on there is a still invested investigative comedy ongoing They hurt more than one hundred witnesses and we assume they will wrap things up before the next federal election taking place on september. Twenty six here in germany. This only a little philippines file criminal charges against former wildcard c. f. yon masonic which is still on the run. This small nuisance. Mr masonic already faces charges in germany and if found may end may end up serving a longtime germ moving onto the german ecosystem as a whole And we can. You can already tell that. Probably the biggest issue here. The biggest topic is the. Germany is approaching a general election in fall on september. Twenty six germany's going to elect a new parliament and also new chancellor after sixteen years angela. Merkel's gonna step down so This may also mean that they will be changes to laws and regulations regarding startups regarding companies. And we will keep you updated about this. Germany might have a new government when we hear when you hear from us the next time or a new chancellor before christmas but could also be that. We are a bit optimistic with this last time. It took quite a while. It's all depending on the results Related to the end of miracles term digital trade association bitcoin. Germany analyzed Promises analyst merkel's promises to the german startup scene For example the administration wanted to start twenty five steps trying to have measures in two thousand eighteen. Which should have been fulfilled after two years. That was the initial plan. Fifteen of them have been finished as kind so ten promises. Broken related to that. We've already recorded another bonus. Episode on the upcoming ten billion sought up investment program from the german federal government with the digital commissioner that recording will be published during the summer. When this podcast here has its regular break then. There are fintech fintech trends for the region. Data's d. a. c. h. And giving you a hint that this deutschland austria switzerland The funding balances spec in twenty twenty. Actually so it seems as if the covert crisis here is not as great as everyone had initially thought and if european fintech startups with oversee ambitions who fill their watch us record clip more about that in pitchbook. We are now getting into the hub sake chin as always. It's more about when we discovered the news than any other measure of sorting Frankfurt eight point five million for frankfurt-based sas fintech crowd desk. Of course you can learn more about them. In our show notes down here we have interviews with both of the founders and there is the co living startup habit. Close twenty four million you as End they merged with frankfurt-based. Hopefully of course we have an interview with. Hopefully you can find down here. Denotes munich-based insurer. Tech finance chef fiennes funds leaks. Cfo twenty four wins new.
Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"german" Discussed on Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"The german startup. Seeing with new interviews and live events helen. Welcome everybody. this is joe from scuttled breaker. They're bringing you another episode of this month in german startups for the people watching this on youtube. They can tell. I'm wearing a hawaiian shirt. So it's these summit episode june twenty twenty one and christmas. They're posing as what. Can you do that again chris. Lewis floral arrangement. Yes and for everybody used just listening to this guys you up very fortunate here and quick reminder. We are doing this. Always christmas and new york. I'm in frankfurt. Frank l. the founder stone. Going on outside so you may hear some background noise. Plus journey is playing a england as we recording this. So maybe you also hear some noises from there as well but nonetheless we keep going here for you guys As i said this is this month in startups june. Twenty twenty one. And we are reporting life from germany's largest unicorn way. Ever we announced two new unicorns for germany. Scalable capital and fourtou formerly known as freight hop and germany's first decacorn. Salinas bellied at eleven billion. You as dollars the twenty nineteen unicorn. We fox race allot funding. Round of five hundred thirty six million years. Six hundred fifty million dollars a about you. Ipo's at twenty three years a share at full building yours valuation which is four point five billion. Us dollars end. Austria become the next most valuable startup with go student. Bellied at one point four billion euros one point six seven billion. Us dollars after. They just had their first unicorn in march plus solarisbank assume to being talks of a one hundred million physi- deal which would make them a unicorn as well to buy up. A competitor especially active in this frenzy of unicorns creation are softbank from japan and tencent from china. We have a special episode on the unparalleled unicorn. Creation which is available on the same channel if you want to know more about the new day cut corn and unicorns in germany austria. You may want to listen to this episode. This well we keep here the coverage of the unicorns. To midi moment this will be last. Recording off. startup is before the summer break. There will be no regular news in july or august. But we'll be back with news at the end of september wrapping up. Summon us and we're so looking for what she the summer you can follow us on link trie and there is just a little bit to say time to brag housekeeping. We will go back to a weekly publication scheduled. This means only one episode each week starting in week..
American Revolution Podcast
"german" Discussed on American Revolution Podcast
"Sent out patrols toward own adila to warn of any potential attacks on september sixteenth. A patrol of nine militiamen marched toward adila but ran into an ambush. Two of the men were killed outright and the rest scattered one of those men who escaped ran back to german. Flatts to warn the people of the impending raid. The man had to run many miles to deliver this message. Meaning that the raiding party would still be at least a few hours away after he delivered his warning. Colonel beringer sent word out to all the area homes to have people gather inside the two forts or safety over the course of the night. The families made their way. To the forts raiders arrived at german flatts. The following morning september seventeenth. The attackers were several hundred. Strong comprised of native warriors primarily mohawks under the command of joseph brant but also some tory militia from butler's rangers under the command of captain william caldwell. The attackers threatened the two forts but found that the walls were too. Well defended ride then. Assault the forts directly. The raiders formed groups that spread into the area. Around the forts burning homes driving off horses cattle and other animals whatever animals they could not take with them they killed. They also burned grain stored up for winter. Use and pretty much anything else value. Aside from the forts the only buildings that they did not destroy were a church and two houses of by known loyalists. More than seven hundred. People were left homeless as a result of the damage. The raiders made efficient work of their destruction by noon. They had left the area prior to the attack. Colonel barringer had sent out a request for reinforcements to four o'clock further down the mohawk river about twenty miles away. Those reinforcements under colonel. Jacob clock did not arrive until the afternoon of the seventeenth hours. After the raiders had left the combined militia force set out after the raiders but never caught up with them. They called off the pursuit and returned. Home captain caldwell who led the loyalists on the raiders. Later commented that his men lately would have massacred many of the residents had they not received advance warning and taken shelter in. the fort's is men were mostly former neighbors who had to flee for their lives because of their support for.
American Revolution Podcast
"german" Discussed on American Revolution Podcast
"Hello and thank you for joining the american revolution this week. Episode one ninety seven cobo skill and german flatts the mohawk valley in upstate. New york had been the scene of repeated fighting even before the war. Fighting with the french and indians had accustomed the inhabitants to a regular threat of violent attack beginning with the capture of fort ticonderoga in seventeen seventy five divisions between patriots in the area as well as internal divisions among the indian tribes led to some of the most brutal and merciless combat of the war most of the loyalists in upstate. New york had fled to quebec. Many of them had joined the burgoyne campaign to return to the mohawk valley and retake the area for the king many indian tribes joined the british effort notably as i've mentioned in previous episodes the mohawk and a few other members of the iroquois confederation threw off their traditional neutrality to support the british other iroquois including many warriors from the oneida and the tuscaroras tribes back the patriots. This division lead to a civil war. Not only between local communists but also within the era confederation one of the leading mohawk chiefs. Who introduced was joseph brant also known as de negga. Brandt was mohawk war chief but also comfortable in the world of the english. He had visited london and was a mason. He was also a relation of the johnson. Family which had lived and served as indian agents in upstate. New york for decades. Brandt had been one of the primary leaders to convince the mohawk to shed neutrality and joined the british effort to crush the rebellion he had led an army of warriors. Under general barry saint leger to capture fort wicks in seventeen. Seventy seven working with brent. Was lieutenant colonel. John butler of butler's rangers. I've mentioned butler back. In episode one ninety two at the wyoming valley massacre he was a longtime resident of the mohawk valley and an associate of the johnson family. As well as friends with joseph. Brant like other tories. Butler had been forced to flee new york for quebec and had organized a regimen of loyalists to fight for the king after the failure of the saratoga campaign and the capture of goings army. The british all been abandoned upstate. New york they destroyed fort ticonderoga and withdrew back to quebec. While the regulars left the indians and settlers from upstate. New york who had back the lowest. 'cause we're not ready to give up their homes quite so.
Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"german" Discussed on Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"Low and welcome everybody this joe from celebrated oh again with this month in german startups joined by chris from new york. How you doing man. I'm very good freshly vaccinated. Awesome to hear. We have some this month in german startups for you coming to you with a march twenty twenty one news welcome to this month in german startups by sta though in transatlantic news recording with chris in new york city and mead joe from frankfurt am mine. Today we are wrapping up much twenty. Twenty one for you. We talk about australia's first unicorn. Bid panda and sumba attempt yesterday. Rocket internet zander's at a german tesla specs indoor fawning open positions at twenty six. And much. more you can now full of us all of our social media channels our podcasts as well as our internet radio station plus our newly approved alexa skill with a link tree..
Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"german" Discussed on Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"Can find the link. Of course. Chris i totally do think you have some top news for us right so we have two new tech billionaires because the ipo of off a one went spectacularly well and skyrocket on the first day of on february fourth surging forty five percent We took a look at the data and realized that this was the first tech. Ipo invade longtime generated new tech billionaires. In germany i guess probably here all the Covert and corona affect. A lot of people probably might be thinking about getting themselves. A car might have helped as well We have a couple of background and more detailed articles about this. For example with bloomberg who's headline was southbank backed off a one sores in debut after two point two billion dollars. Ipo hortas had little had coverage saying oughta one shares. Go into top gear and franco debut and we have some moines our own blog post at recording this audio one. Ipo turns found us into billionaires the story from Told by side of from the angle of one of the first investors how vc fund Capital invested in car marketplace auto eight years ago and later leonard an eight billion. ipo winner. also for this. We have a link in show notes moving on to end twenty six a bank. We've been talking about quite often on this podcast used to be direct bank now trying to establish a new way of banking whilst Having some growth pains along the way every now and then and now We have news of then getting some More control the german regulator stung by past failings extends oversight of n twenty six sources. Say this is an article also from us and We have better news for them. Coming from cnbc Who have a story written saying. The german model in twenty-six is thinking of making its first acquisition and Giving some more detail about twenty six example the fact that they raised so far eight hundred million dollars in investment money and That the company is planning to high in additional two hundred employees this year whilst also having their eyes on probably expanding to brazil bacteria and q as it.
Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"german" Discussed on Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"News interviews and live. Hello and welcome everybody. This is joe from star rated a whole year startup podcast that youtube block from germany again in transatlantic news recording welcome to this month in german startups again with christian in new york. And if you're watching this youtube you will totally notice and hopefully also when you're listening that we do have a neutral so basically you can. We don't have the issue that somebody's That we cannot do cross talk but we can talk at the same time we can edit it together no more doing stupid stuff and making the other laugh. Right chris yeah so yeah definitely a feature that so many people were lacking wondering one can these two dudes finally talk simultaneously apart from that. Welcome from new york after. Apologize for my really weird mask near think. I should like sit like this time for people watching this out more people. Just listen to audio anyway. that that also means you get out a lot right talked to blow you do a lot of reporting out there with with masks at least yes and nonetheless correctly appreciate it there. You go yes. Let's start let's start today. We are wrapping up february. Twenty twenty one on the twenty third of february. Yes it's not the whole month but the next the news we still find would go into the march news this news. Jim startup scene the much anticipated of other one generated to new tech billionaires in dobie debts. I in a very long time. Your first europe's first tech spec special acquisition company listed frankford more wake-up details merch. Talk about right. Tried to republican game. Stop as well as the billion exit of berlin-based at just you can find us here on instagram linked in on twitter. If the to you're using this to watch or to listen to this. And we now have google calendar where we post even a few weeks ahead all the content we'll be publishing housekeeping. Time to brag. First and foremost stay safe everyone. This is the We were cutting this that it became public knowledge. That half a million americans passed away From corona so guys..
Jewish History Matters
"german" Discussed on Jewish History Matters
"Welcome to jewish history matters. I'm jason la steak and jay. Geller is joining me on the podcast today to talk about his book. The show alums a history of the german jewish bourgeoisie from emancipation to destruction. It's a fantastic book. That tells the story of german jewry as a whole through the history of one family and in particular the four scholem brothers each of whom followed their own political and historical path gerhard or gershom scholem the zionist who is most widely known for his scholarship on jewish mysticism alongside. His brothers. varner the communist. Reinhold the nationalist and eric the liberal. It's a multilayered approach towards thinking about jews in germany as well as the broader possibilities of history and its contingency the scholem brothers really showcase the myriad possibilities for political and cultural activity of jews in germany prior to the second world war as well as the different outcomes of the jews in germany verner was murdered by the nazis at involed gershom immigrated to palestine and eric and reinhold made their way toss. Australia altogether sketches the outlines of the german jewish cultural and political millea as the diaspora of the jews of germany after the holocaust and so the scholem family is simultaneously an eminent middle class. Jewish berlin family and at the same time. It's also distinctly normal quotidian every day it showcases through this microcosm the whole story of choose in germany in the lead up to the second world war and the holocaust as well as aftermath jay. Geller is the samuel rosenthal professor of judaic studies at case western reserve university's department of history in addition to the show alums which will talk about. Today he has also written jews in post holocaust. Germany nineteen forty five to nineteen fifty three. I'm so excited that jay is able to join us on the podcast today to discuss the show alums and german jewish history in the largest terms the book and the issues that it raises helps us to think through both the history of jews in germany as well as the legacy of german jewish culture on a wider scale. Thanks for listening in. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks thanks for having me. This book is is such a fascinating. Approach the micro history really that is focusing on the four scholem brothers. You know obviously gershom. Scholem is definitely the most well known of these figures who are studying you as a major figure in jewish intellectual history jewish scholarship. But i think that part of what you've done here which is so interesting is to bring forward a handful of people who each represent different pathways through german jewish history and this really illuminates a lot of important issues. Do you maybe want to explain briefly about these different trajectories About these different figures in the show family and what they represent in the eighteen ninety s arthur bitty show-me who are the owners of a print shop berlin had four sons reinhold arish varner and gerhard litter known gershom and in time they viewed the travails of german society and experience the ambiguities of not the difficulties of german jewelry and they chose for different political paths. Brian whole the oldest was a national liberal or right liberal. Eric was a liberal democrat or a left liberal van was a social democrat and later became a communist in gershom of course was zionist so in this one family among these four brothers we see four political paths taken by german jewry in the first decades of the twentieth century raven. These weren't the only pads but they were by far the most common covering most of the political spectrum verner began his career as a socialist but he joined the communist party at the time of the The merger of the independent social democratic party but the communist party and he quickly rose to become the second most powerful member of the german communist party. He was a personal rival of of stalin and the stalinist clique in german communism in the mid nineteen twenty s when stalinist is attempting to take over the other communist parties in the commoner
The Cities of Refuge Podcast
"german" Discussed on The Cities of Refuge Podcast
"Minimal successes. I think particularly as you as you said. In the beginning because outside germany miracle angela merkel is still celebrated as a champion of progressive migration politics. I always find it fascinating to see that. In the netherlands doing solidarity manifestations even activists really really celebrate miracle praised exemplary german approach and there seems to be very little insight in or knowledge about the fact that american federal german government faced constant scrutiny and criticism these productive tensions and shannon. Just like this court case. So i think we need to be mindful and critical of these minimal. Minimal successes point are very well taken. The grass is obviously always greener on the other side and it's also important to manage expectations when it comes to looking at at these movements such as the safe harbor initiative the get back to one of the very interesting questions in your research funds esca. You did look at some of the points of contention and how different actors involved local authorities on the other hand and some of the civil society organizations most notably of course on the other one do not always agree on the best course of action. Could you tell us a little bit more about that. You can see that. There are a lot of points of contention on the civil societies april and the local authorities disagree on a lot of these points. Basically all of the points of the decorations so for example when it comes to how many refugees for example burden should take in the secretary of state in my opinion said something very interesting. He said that he has two hearts beating and and his chest and one of them wants to take as many refugees as possible unfulfilled -tarian duties help these people but the other hard also wants to provide the adequate integration on the adequate circumstances for them in order to be able to integrate well and they were criticizes that they're always should be more. They should take in more refugees. They should more actively support. High sierra rescue they. They're very very critical of everything. The cities during which of course is good because it pushes the discourse but they are they do disagree on a lot of these things and what a lot of numbers of told me is that they are often viewed as too radical..
EV News Daily - Electric Car Podcast
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EV News Daily - Electric Car Podcast
"german" Discussed on EV News Daily - Electric Car Podcast
"It's martin lee guy through every av story so you don't have to and eight ton of news today. It's been hard. just whittling. It down to what is going to be very long podcast day. There is just so much positive avenues. Out there to do is because the show is on but also end of year. Twenty twenty results all came flooding in. Tonight let's get to them. Vw group but the brand the group the parent company have been highlighting the success of the ev models. Two hundred thirty one thousand six hundred all electric vehicles puree vs handed over to customers. I mean that's not sure not far short of quarter of a million puree vs handed over to customers in the year. Twenty twenty more than three times the twenty nine teen figure and plug in hybrids did well for the group as well one hundred ninety thousand. That's up one hundred and seventy-five percent in western europe. Of course covid has shut down. many economies. The share of electric vehicles surged for vw group to ten point five percent of overall deliveries and. That's up from the previous year of one point nine percent up to over ten percent now. The volkswagen group handed over in total nine point three million vehicles to customers last year. That was a decrease because of covid like i say the bright star electric models. So what did well for the group you might be thinking and if you want maybe you on now well let me fill you win. The number one car. The vw group sold last year in twenty twenty walls. Guess is yes the. Id three that first car bill on their new platform and only went on sale in september. So there was four months or three and a half months of sales and it was the biggest selling puree the fifty six and a half thousand of those were sold around the world's of course it's just a european kalfa. Now the audi tron was second selling over forty seven thousand. The gulf was in third place. A car that was meant to stop production a year ago but people just kept buying it. It's a really solid evi. The volkswagen e up got a bigger battery. Recently that so twenty two thousand units and the porsche take on at twenty thousand and ask for the plug in hybrid models. Maybe you are or maybe you're not interested in plug in hybrids place. Volkswagen passat was their most sold plug in hybrid the audi q. Five the porsche. Cayenne sh go to superb on the votes wagner gulf plugging walls the fifth biggest seller. I'll probably stu the press releases from the volkswagen media center. Send today if you wanna have a look deep dive into the numbers if you do them in the show notes let's talk about the vw brand itself. Then with every sales rose two hundred percent year on year last year the brand delivered maury vs worldwide than ever before unsurprisingly. When the three was they handed over two hundred and twelve thousand electric cars with a vw. Bad on the fronts and one hundred thirty four thousand of those were pure battery electric volkswagen. The the brand launched nine new electric and plug in models lost year. That brought the share of plug in cars in europe. Vw to twelve point four percent. That's up from two percent in two thousand nine the most popular model like i've mentioned the three fifty six thousand sold in just the space of a few short months any really selling towards the end of september in any numbers. Now the id three walls the most delivered car. Sorry the id. Three was the most delivered electric car in finland in slovenia illinois in december in sweden the id three was the top selling car in december. Not the top selling ev. I mean the top selling car. Full stop regardless of the type of drive in the netherlands and germany. Volkswagen as a brand left the number one spot in pure electric car sales for the full year in twenty twenty in germany. They had a twenty three point. Eight percent sharon that howie market of germany. A pure battery electric cars twenty three percent in the netherlands for instance and following closely on the heels of the threes. The kind of. I recommend everybody should get the. Id three is good. My wife loves it. Because we've had two gulfs the id three is the size of a gulf think gulf. It's her choice but you know with the little one. She kind of knows that we need a little bit more room for all the paraphernalia. That comes with a little fella. And so i've been showing how the guam and saying the id four is going to be about the size of a big one and she so guys were a lot. I really want an suv. Jeep reluctantly makes sense. When you need more room the four is coming. And i'm telling everybody look if you really want to have a look at this just white robin getting an ninety three. It's nicer inside. it's going to have specs. it's more expensive. But i think you'll get a lot more utility for your money because let's face it depressingly. Everybody wants across or an suv. Well it's the brands. I all electric world car. The four will be sold around the world for vw as a brand. And it's an suv coming right at the right time. Suv's in terms of volkswagen's lineup went from thirty percent. Thirty five percent in twenty twenty and so they're selling more of them. It's a great car and it's getting some good early reviews from the. Us reviews that have driven it and saying look. You know it's call. It's ten grand cheaper than a model. Why and is a great family cough for people who wanna do not sixty and melt face so we'll wait and see how many they can make. And how many they can get around the world like i say is a world car being built in europe in china and in two thousand twenty two when chattanooga opens up. It'll be built in north america as well. Then it will have that supply to go across Hopefully avalanche three places where it's going to be built by twenty twenty two and the cells being built as well by the way in those places the audi of course our depot of w group the h. Ron sold fifty thousand units last year. Yeah fifty thousand eight. Drums were sold. That is a brilliant number. It's an eighty percent growth year on year. Audi is continuing that transformation into an e. v. mak- the each one model and the over here. We have the transport back as well. Which is the us is it. Nothing sure if it's on cy ila with dealers double check that had an eighty percents Growth to forty seven thousand. Three hundred and twenty four cast. So you know we'll call it fifty thousand because you know we can the audi. Yvonne is a global top seller amongst in premium segments in norway. It's the best selling electric car. Full stop the norwegians. Love if you watch beyond me new orleans videos he is always talking about. Oh there's an on again josh and look you know. He turns out to a charity status. Four in a row and so the norwegians love the in germany they love it as well. They doubled sales volume in the final quarter for instance in germany. Although audi europe was down because of covid the on and the transport back were both up this year we look forward to the q. Full a smaller car and cheaper. And the tycoon. Rivaling east ron. Gt bill on the same platform but the porsche. Audi engineers forked. I said folks Early on in the development program. So it's very much an audi even is built on the same platform different battery size. The same eight hundred architecture many similarities into the skins of porsche tycoon. But it is its own car. It is an audi and arrives this year. And i love the look of it. Call whites to see them on the roads. Talking of the tycoon. We got the numbers for them as well porsche delivered. Twenty thousand of them in twenty. Twenty and Tycoon deliveries total. Twenty thousand and fifteen last year despite six week pause in production just as the model was ramping up in many markets. They.
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"How <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> <Silence> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Music_Male> <Music> it again. <Speech_Male> I've done several <Speech_Male> episodes on other <Speech_Male> operations from world <Speech_Male> war. Two and i'll <Speech_Male> probably do more in the future. <Speech_Male> Most <Speech_Male> of these operations were <Speech_Male> military operations <Speech_Male> with the intent of invasion <Silence> <Advertisement> or espionage. <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> How <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> roughly translates <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> into old veteran <Silence> <Advertisement> soldier in german <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> with <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> him. Like that. you'd think <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> that this was probably some sort <Silence> <Advertisement> of commando operation <Speech_Male> actually. <Speech_Male> It was an operation <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> to set up weather <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> stations. <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> Men involved in the operation <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> were mostly. <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> Scientists <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> as germany <Speech_Male> expanded their empire via <Speech_Male> conquest. They got <Speech_Male> some tiny bits. That <Speech_Male> really didn't stand out. <Speech_Male> On a map of europe <Speech_Male> in particular <Speech_Male> when they conquered norway <Speech_Male> they also control <Speech_Male> of the far northern <Speech_Male> islands of this falls <Silence> apart archipelago <Speech_Male> operation. <Speech_Male> How'd again <Speech_Male> was a project by <Speech_Male> the german navy <Speech_Male> to set up weather stations. <Speech_Male> In the far north <Speech_Male> to provide information <Silence> for the german military <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> in late nineteen forty-three <Speech_Male> sixty men began <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> training for a secret <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> project. <Speech_Male> They didn't know what their mission <Speech_Male> was. But they knew it would <Speech_Male> probably be something. <Speech_Male> In the arctic <Speech_Male> they underwent training and <Speech_Male> skiing repelling <Speech_Male> cold weather. 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There <Speech_Male> were even taught how to pull <Speech_Male> teeth perform other <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> emergency medical <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> procedures while <Silence> <Advertisement> they were in isolation <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> in <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> december nineteen forty <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> four ten men <Speech_Male> boarded a u boat <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> in the city of trump's <Speech_Male> stone norway and <Speech_Male> traveled to the remote <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> falls barred archipelago <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> <Speech_Male> arrived. <Speech_Male> They had to quickly <Speech_Male> unload everything from the u <Speech_Male> boat and set up operations <Speech_Male> in the middle <Speech_Male> of winter. <Speech_Male> They had enough food and supplies <Speech_Male> to last them <Silence> <Advertisement> for two years. <Speech_Male> The head <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> of the project was <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> dr phil helm <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> dinky. <Speech_Male> He and his team <Speech_Male> began raiding <Speech_Male> the reports back to <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> german high command <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> five times a day <Silence> <Advertisement> every single day. <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> As <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> nineteen forty-five continued <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> the team falls <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> vard heard reports on <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> the radio and the reports <Silence> <Advertisement> weren't good <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> by april. <Speech_Male> They were instructed. <Speech_Male> Prepare landing strips <Speech_Male> so an airplane could <Speech_Male> come and pick them up. <Speech_Male> They created what <Speech_Male> they could for a landing strip <Speech_Male> but no airplanes <Speech_Male> ever came <Speech_Male> on may eighth. <Speech_Male> They heard the news on the radio. <Speech_Male> The surrender of germany <Speech_Male> from their commander <Speech_Male> in trump's on norway. <Speech_Male> They were told <Speech_Male> to destroy all secret <Speech_Male> documents and wait <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> for instructions. <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> They did is. 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"A battlefield to another was extremely difficult plagues and horns would often be used to send commands because there is no other way to send communications over that distance in that amount of time even with the advent of radio in world war. Two battlefields were spread out over much larger distances and communication could still be difficult with that being said. Let me summarize the timeline of what happened at the end of world war two in europe in the spring of nineteen forty five is the allies. Were closing in hitler. And his cronies were in his bunker in berlin and the russians began inching closer many of his top generals who saw the writing on the wall began surrendering individually and hitler accused him of being traders. As wall started caving. In on april twenty fifth mussalini was killed by a mob in italy. April twenty ninth. All of the german forces in italy surrendered. Hitler killed himself. On april thirtieth after that things began to fall apart very quickly. Technically the leadership of the third reich fell to admiral. karl donuts. not that there was really anything to rule over on may second. The german forces in berlin Soviets on may fourth german troops. In the netherlands denmark northern germany surrendered to feel marshall montgomery on may fifth germans in bavaria. Surrender to american. general jacob. Devers on may. Sixth hermann goering surrenders to general carl spots head of the american air forces in europe on may seventh at shape. The supreme headquarters allied expeditionary force in reims france chief of staff of the german armed forces high command general. Alfred yodel signed the document of unconditional. Surrender of all german forces the same day general franz bom announced the surrender of all german forces in norway with the phrase quote all forces under german control to cease active operations at twenty three o one our central european time on may eighth nineteen forty-five unquote on may eighth field marshall helm titles surrendered in person to soviet field marshall zubkov in berlin pretty much all german forces ceased activity. The warren earp was over and v. e. day was celebrated around the world and random people started kissing each other in times square except not everyone in the german army was able to surrender. Not the men who were part of operation. How it again now. You're probably wondering what was operation..