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Men In Blazers
"iberian peninsula" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Is queens, New York. This is a story. It's just astonishing and to me this is the beauty of the World Cup, just the sense of profound connection that it forms in moments of wonder across the global Diaspora. And that drew do French 11 tweeted us, how can we forget in 7 11, the Moors made their way north through the Iberian Peninsula and headed to France, the European conquest moves forward. I'll say bravo to a wonderful team with life structure and passion. David, what a sport, what a moment when you see this moment, it's what the World Cup is all about. And having been in those neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn with you, watching the Diaspora in New York City, I'm sure the same thing here in San Francisco. It is just wonderful to see. But Morocco just in pure football in terms of the quality of that football. There were articles before the World Cup saying that we were at the end of national teams finding their own national identity in terms of the way they played football. That hasn't happened. The World Cup is bigger than that. Morocco have played their own unique form of Moroccan football, the blend of the European game with the Moroccan game with the African game with the Arab game, and they've bought something completely different. We're seeing so many different contrasting styles in this World Cup. And it's what's so amazing about this tournament, whatever FIFA do to ruin it. It is so strong that you can't do it. I take great heart as the producer of jeopardy with that is that there's nothing I can do to ruin this great game if FIFA can not ruin football. Anyway, one tiny quick note, because I've got to inject this
WABE 90.1 FM
"iberian peninsula" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
", that led to a debilitating shortage of essential items. Earlier today the small island nation got its first field shipment in weeks. To Europe now where a heat wave has already lasted several days across southern Europe, its ongoing with a hot dry conditions contributing to wildfires in France and the Iberian Peninsula in particular. House and Roberts reports from Lisbon. Today in both Spain and Portugal, it's the northern districts that are at most risk of fires with a red alert issued for large swathes of the region due to the heat alone they have already been hundreds of excess deaths in both countries this month, in Portugal, temperatures have reached local all time highs in many parts of the country this week, and a national record for July of one 17°F, while today is expected to be a little less hot. There's no end in sight to the wildfires this morning there were three dozen burning nationwide with almost 1500 firefighters in action. For pianos, I'm Alison Roberts in Lisbon. The excessive heat not confined to Europe forecasters warning of dangerous conditions with heat indices exceeding 100° across portions of the central and western U.S.. This is NPR. There was a deadly pile up on interstate 90 in Montana at least 6 people were killed in a crash late yesterday that involved 21 vehicles. Police blame strong winds had stirred up a dust storm that limited visibility. State highway patrol sergeant Jade Nelson is a Montana native and he says the severity of the storm was unusual. Although we do have a occasionally, but Montana is not known for severe dust storms like this and especially severe dust storms that cause new blackout conditions. Pile up happened just once have hardened about 40 miles away from billings. In an attempt to end the chaotic scenes at London's Heathrow Airport managers there have suggested that airlines
ESPN FC
"iberian peninsula" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Makes getting haircuts effortless. It's not just any haircut. It's super cut. Check in now on the supercuts app or on supercuts dot com. It's so easy for you, Andrew, because you don't actually have to get your hair cut. You just clip off that LEGO man here you have and put on a different style. I don't go. I remove it. I go to supercuts. I drop it off. I go run my errands. They say come back in ten minutes. Well, we'll fix it up for you. I come back and then they replace it back on my head. It's amazing. Yeah. Couldn't be easier. All right, so we went through the favorites JJ. Let's go for some of the teams that we think actually, maybe are flying under the radar that have a good chance of maybe kind of upending some of these favorites. The dark horses. Now, I've got I've got two here. How do you want to do this? You want to go back and forth, let me just let me just start with a team because I feel weird calling them dark horses when they've been, you know, they've been champions within world champions within the last 12 years. It sounds odd to say that Spain are that. But we did reference them before. And I just think there's a nice, there's a nice marinade happening here. There's something coming together, a mix. You've got elder statesmen like Bush gets married with the youth of gavi and pedri. That span were just like you referenced earlier on so much more watchable. At last summer's European Championships. I mean, Spain versus Croatia probably was the game of the tournament. At the park and stadium in Copenhagen. So they were just a far cry from the dull, stultifying team that passed itself away against Russia in the 2018 World Cup. I mean, that was in ept to performance. You can have in soccer, dominating the ball. I mean, what was it like 1200 passes or something ridiculous across a 120 minutes, and they did nothing. Nothing. This is a different team under Lewis Enrique, and I do feel the optimism coming from the Iberian Peninsula for Spain. So I'd watch out for them, Andrew. Again, Spain, such a dominant force in word football, but with its domestic club competition and its international team for since 2008, really. Yeah. Weird to call them a dark horse, but that's my only thing. I feel like you've cheated a little bit. How? Well, there are fourth in the Caesars betting odds at plus 7 50. So they're kind of like, they're kind of there with England. All right, well, let me do it another way then, before we go to you, I'll just throw you another option. The Dutch, the Netherlands. Like this is a team that we can surely put in the bracket of dark horse considering how hard it's been for them to qualify for anything. In the past few years, although they were at the European Championships last summer, world cups have eluded them. Since 2014. So let's blend what you're saying with what I'm saying. Because JJ, I believe that the first match of this entire tournament for me, I'm calling it the dark horse cup of Senegal versus the Netherlands. And we'll stay with the Dutch for a second as one of those two, but they're going to play each other 5 a.m. Eastern Time on November 21st. It'll kick off the entire tournament. So you're right, the Dutch, the last time we saw them, they were finishing at least in a World Cup. They were finishing third at the 2014 World Cup. They then failed to qualify for the €2016, and then they validated that disappointment with a failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. But they returned to major tournament play last summer at the Euros, made it to the round of 16 where they were hugely disappointed to have gone out to the checks after a bad select red card. And that opened the floodgates to a two zero defeat. It was nil nil when that red card happened in the 55th. And they were the whole game. They weren't playing good anyway. It was not the game where it changed the game though. When album barely, did he get on? I don't think he completed one pass, I think, in 90 minutes or something. It was crazy. But now, that next generation, they kind of have that experience in their back pocket of being in a major tournament getting out of the group. And I think they can, they can really start to think about taking steps forward here. You know, it's funny because what is the thing that we always associate with Dutch football. It's historically what free flowing, it's beautiful. It's fun to watch with lots of attack. And this group could be that too. But when I'm looking at them, JJ, I just can't my eyes just go right to the back of it looks like they're going to play it back three. Nathan aka Matthias delect and Virgil Van Dyke as your back three. That's that's a force. And then in midfield it'll be interesting to see what happens with Frankie de young this summer. It sounds like it could be headed from Barcelona to Manchester United. Where he could reunite with Eric ten hogg his former manager at iax and what will that mean for his continuing development? And that this depay up front has traditionally been a force for them. So yeah, I think this, I think the Dutch and when I say dark horse, it's not that I believe they're going to go on and win this thing. But I think there could be a little bit of like exiting this tournament feeling generally good about what we got from. Maybe a quarterfinal run, something like that. I think that could happen. And I think also he's been through a tough time in his own personal health, but Louis van gaal seems happy. He seems relaxed. He was making jokes about that win the other day where he left Wout vague horsed on the field and he got a last minute winner against Wales. His third goal in 20 games for a good old vote. But the point being that he just, I don't know if you can bottle the spirit of 2014 when they were so enjoyable to watch. And had a good tournament. Maybe Van Halen can.
Caught Offside
"iberian peninsula" Discussed on Caught Offside
"Makes getting haircuts effortless. It's not just any haircut. It's super cut. Check in now on the supercuts app or on supercuts dot com. It's so easy for you, Andrew, because you don't actually have to get your hair cut. You just clip off that LEGO man here you have and put on a different style. I don't go. I remove it. I go to supercuts. I drop it off. I go run my errands. They say come back in ten minutes. Well, we'll fix it up for you. I come back and then they replace it back on my head. It's amazing. Yeah. Couldn't be easier. All right, so we went through the favorites JJ. Let's go for some of the teams that we think actually, maybe are flying under the radar that have a good chance of maybe kind of upending some of these favorites. The dark horses. Now, I've got I've got two here. How do you want to do this? You want to go back and forth, let me just let me just start with a team because I feel weird calling them dark horses when they've been, you know, they've been champions within world champions within the last 12 years. It sounds odd to say that Spain are that. But we did reference them before. And I just think there's a nice, there's a nice marinade happening here. There's something coming together, a mix. You've got elder statesmen like Bush gets married with the youth of gavi and pedri. That span were just like you referenced earlier on so much more watchable. At last summer's European Championships. I mean, Spain versus Croatia probably was the game of the tournament. At the park and stadium in Copenhagen. So they were just a far cry from the dull, stultifying team that passed itself away against Russia in the 2018 World Cup. I mean, that was in ept to performance. You can have in soccer, dominating the ball. I mean, what was it like 1200 passes or something ridiculous across a 120 minutes, and they did nothing. Nothing. This is a different team under Lewis Enrique, and I do feel the optimism coming from the Iberian Peninsula for Spain. So I'd watch out for them, Andrew. Again, Spain, such a dominant force in word football, but with its domestic club competition and its international team for since 2008, really. Yeah. Weird to call them a dark horse, but that's my only thing. I feel like you've cheated a little bit. How? Well, there are fourth in the Caesars betting odds at plus 7 50. So they're kind of like, they're kind of there with England. All right, well, let me do it another way then, before we go to you, I'll just throw you another option. The Dutch, the Netherlands. Like this is a team that we can surely put in the bracket of dark horse considering how hard it's been for them to qualify for anything. In the past few years, although they were at the European Championships last summer, world cups have eluded them. Since 2014. So let's blend what you're saying with what I'm saying. Because JJ, I believe that the first match of this entire tournament for me, I'm calling it the dark horse cup of Senegal versus the Netherlands. And we'll stay with the Dutch for a second as one of those two, but they're going to play each other 5 a.m. Eastern Time on November 21st. It'll kick off the entire tournament. So you're right, the Dutch, the last time we saw them, they were finishing at least in a World Cup. They were finishing third at the 2014 World Cup. They then failed to qualify for the €2016, and then they validated that disappointment with a failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. But they returned to major tournament play last summer at the Euros, made it to the round of 16 where they were hugely disappointed to have gone out to the checks after a bad select red card. And that opened the floodgates to a two zero defeat. It was nil nil when that red card happened in the 55th. And they were the whole game. They weren't playing good anyway. It was not the game where it changed the game though. When album barely, did he get on? I don't think he completed one pass, I think, in 90 minutes or something. It was crazy. But now, that next generation, they kind of have that experience in their back pocket of being in a major tournament getting out of the group. And I think they can, they can really start to think about taking steps forward here. You know, it's funny because what is the thing that we always associate with Dutch football. It's historically what free flowing, it's beautiful. It's fun to watch with lots of attack. And this group could be that too. But when I'm looking at them, JJ, I just can't my eyes just go right to the back of it looks like they're going to play it back three. Nathan aka Matthias delect and Virgil Van Dyke as your back three. That's that's a force. And then in midfield it'll be interesting to see what happens with Frankie de young this summer. It sounds like it could be headed from Barcelona to Manchester United. Where he could reunite with Eric ten hogg his former manager at iax and what will that mean for his continuing development? And that this depay up front has traditionally been a force for them. So yeah, I think this, I think the Dutch and when I say dark horse, it's not that I believe they're going to go on and win this thing. But I think there could be a little bit of like exiting this tournament feeling generally good about what we got from. Maybe a quarterfinal run, something like that. I think that could happen. And I think also he's been through a tough time in his own personal health, but Louis van gaal seems happy. He seems relaxed. He was making jokes about that win the other day where he left Wout vague horsed on the field and he got a last minute winner against Wales. His third goal in 20 games for a good old vote. But the point being that he just, I don't know if you can bottle the spirit of 2014 when they were so enjoyable to watch. And had a good tournament. Maybe Van Halen can.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"iberian peninsula" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"At the same time, there are many Russians who are just who are fleeing just the sanctions and not really they're not really standing up against the war. They're not really standing up against their government and they're just finding a place where they can feel a little bit more comfortable in this situation. So it's a tough period. There's no clear policy either. That's the other thing that Georgians are very worried about from the government side. It doesn't seem to be a coherent policy or even enough information to assure public that the security threats are taking care of and everything is kind of under control. And so finally, when we look at what happened in Georgia, can we predict what Putin wants in Ukraine and is likely to do next? Well, I personally believe that Putin wants to see Ukraine that is not independent. Ukraine can be independent on paper for Putin. But obviously put in ones to be controlling this country's future. But increasingly, as we look at the look at how the situation is developing, it's clear that Putin will not be able to achieve this. And quite frankly, I think Ukrainians are showing a great resolve and great bravery. And I think it will, I think the only country in the post Soviet space that can actually stop Putin's imperialistic ambitions is actually Ukraine. And I think we will probably see the reverse of this trend that Russia has been trying to impose on the region. Obviously, it's very much important for this to happen. To see for us to see a strong united response from the rest of the civilized world and from the western powers and we're very much happy to see that this response, this firm response is out there now, which didn't exist back in 2008, which didn't exist back in 2014. When actually the war started in Ukraine, but we were very much happy that both European powers as well as the United States are imposing a strict sanctions. And I think this course needs to continue. And they support needs to be there to make sure that Putin can not sustain this war for a very long time. They're speaking to us from Tbilisi. Thank you very much indeed. Now, here's what else we're keeping an eye on today. An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council is set to be held today to address the growing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, following the increase in shelling on civilian areas in recent days. The Portuguese government is to change a law that allowed Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich to gain citizenship. Abramovich was awarded citizenship due to his apparent sephardic Jewish heritage on the grounds that he's descendant of Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula 500 years ago. Two people are dead and over 90 injured following a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in northeast Japan, the same region in which the Fukushima nuclear disaster was triggered 11 years ago. And last night, British Iranian aid worker nazanin zaghari ratcliffe and dual national anousheh asuri arrived in Britain from Iran, ending an ordeal during which they became a bargaining chip in Iran's talks with the west over its nuclear program. This is the globalist stay tuned. Now, in recent weeks, the world has watched as countless western leaders governments and companies slam the door in Russia's face in condemnation of its aggression towards Ukraine..
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"iberian peninsula" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene believes that the threat posed by broadly liquid entrees is even more serious than he does. Not only do we have the D.C. jail, which is the D.C. gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police. So we learned though can not say we were all together surprised that MTG struggles to tell the difference between the secret police of Nazi Germany and a delicious cold vegetable broth widely enjoyed across the Iberian Peninsula. In fairness an easy mistake for a complete idiot to make. But leaving aside this new meaning of the phrase from soup to nuts to return whence we arrived, we learned about president Trump's somewhat unorthodox approach to the archiving of official documents. We learned specifically that in defiance of convention and you know the law, Trump was regularly in the habit of tearing official correspondence to bits and flinging it in the bin, leaving, and we are not making this up long suffering staff to sticky tape the scraps back together for posterity. And we learned that this was not the end of it. I saw Donald Trump, you know, looking around. He looked very concerned about whatever was exchanged and shared, and whatever was on this particular paper seemed to be of great concern to him and something that he did not want the American people to see. So many toured up like he usually does. But then he put it in his mouth alley. So, you know, at the time, I know I got a lot of criticism about sharing this story, but it was very bizarre because I've known him for so long. He is a German folk. He never, you know, he never plays. Paper, obviously in his mouth. We do have to bear in mind that we are learning this from one of the kind of people who voluntarily went to work for the big dope in this instance former apprentice contestant omarosa manigault Newman who also has a book to flog, but we did learn that if Trump really was in the habit of chewing on the stationary and.
No Such Thing As A Fish
"iberian peninsula" Discussed on No Such Thing As A Fish
"You know that you started with paddles. Maybe he just felt right except hang on. He was in the nineteen twenties and velcro been invented the time. So maybe he is recognized inventor of velcro we are giving him his glory excellent. Congratulations girl named after jebel. Al tariq who was the general who brought the islamic army from north africa and spain when spain became an islamic country. In whenever that was the eighth century or whenever it was But he was in charge of the whole army they came over. They landed in gibraltar. they took over. Most of the iberian peninsula Him who was chevelle tehreek and there was another guy called mussa who were in charge. These two generals And then for some reason in seven hundred and fourteen they were both accused of misappropriation of funds sent back to damascus and they both died in complete obscurity so they were the ones who brought the islamic invasion into spain. And for the reason. Now that you know. There's a lot of islamic culture still of buildings and stuff but yet they just got kicked out for nickelodeon money roy. Oh yeah fittingly. It's known as a little bit of a tax even now. So i suppose doing hit him. Proud the money nicole. Yeah yeah well. I think money is probably one of the most famous fictional minerals in. The world is kryptonite. I would argue. Kryptonite was invented. An idea for being a fungibility for superman that would make him really sick because when the first radio series happened in america the actor who played superman who obviously had to be there all the time was desperate to have holidays and they couldn't have holidays because he's the main character so if in a previous episode kryptonite was introduced like he was hidden behind the door where kryptonite was holding. It closed the actor bud. Collier could go on holiday and not have to be in the episode and the rest of the cast would be going poor superman. Where's he disappeared too but we all know. He's behind the door anything. How boring episode. Superman wasn't in them. What happens in the several going wonder where he is. Is he better have you seen him. Did you give him. Do you think it works against kryptonite. Oh yeah it's so weird how long we went without dissection human bodies so we we claim responsibility. I've called three weeks. So the first known dissections in the west at least were her office neurosis stratas and this was the third century. Bc and so is quite revolutionary. They thought if we start cutting into human bodies we can figure out how they work what the is and they died and immediately went out. Fashioned people said. We don't need totally unnecessary. It's kinda gross. Ungodly than the christians came along and totally banned. It and we don't really think anyone dissected human body for science for another sixteen hundred years until about twelve thirty one the hurley roman emperor said ashi. We should stop doing. This made a decree that medical students hot to and so there was this rush on bodies and there was such a rush. There was a big old shortage. should abandon supply. Didn't work out. And so there became a situation whereby the fifteenth century in italy medical students have to pay for the funerals of corpses are not that would be their way of saying. I'm gonna pay you but you have to give me a lot co-ops afterwards so basically you get your funeral. Expenses paid by a doctor. They cut you open. Yeah generally plus you over their shoulder and walk off with. I don't think they would. Do i think they played for the cuts across exempt walk. And they're going to eat them. I pay good money for that. Have you guys heard of jacqueline oriole. So she was the daughter-in-law of the presidents of france in the Nineteen forties after the war and she helped decorate some of the rooms of the palace after the wall had. She was known as one of the most elegant women and all of paris and then in nineteen forty eight. She thought fuck this. The say palace is fine. It doesn't need any more work. So she decided to become an aerobatic pilot and she Got into a massive crash and crashed into the san and she had to have twenty two operations to rebuild her face. That was how about the The crush was but then in nineteen fifty three. She became one of the first ever. Test pilots to fly concord and she was the first woman fly concord. Yeah much in that for cv to go from like interior design in the policy in paris and then to that credible. Yeah we believe with the same person because you've got the face off my just not so right. It's not the same person full and for a really obvious. Is it comma where they changed the face of nicholas cage and stuff. Yeah i think so. Yeah face to face off is the same plot as conair as apart for the face off. I think face off and corner the merging. The two is your story. I just have one more recent dog. Nothing i liked. This was journalist in boston. Could juliana matter. Did you see her. She was reporting on dug up and stolen in the local area. Cotton slow news day. She speaking on camera about a missing german short had pointer and she spots a man who matches the photos that have been put out the cd of the documents stolen with the dog. That looks like the dog so she goes up to him and she said hey. Can i just pet your dog checks. It's caller is lo and behold the stolen dog so on camera that you can watch it very good interview she says. Is this your dog. And he's like no snow has been missing for a day for twenty four hours and she says why do you have it. And he says. I won't pasta the car and it was barking and i thought it was the the i was supposed to be walking because i'm adult worker so car and so he was tired of walking so i broke into the car took it and she said. Why didn't you call the number of the person on the dote color and he said tribe at my phone broken than i lost. My phone simha steak. This guys had a horrible day. Well that's an incredible story but also the hell kind of tv station is doing news video packages about lost dog within twenty four hours. Like i say slow news day. I should also say. The verdict is not returned on his guilt. I don't think so jerry is out. There is good luck to him we got done for some judicious things. Do you know where the american fear of sharks. Throughout the general pop place comes from wherever generated no so it wasn't jewish who is for shaw. Ooh okay originate in fact that sharks eat but they don't tend to eat you if you live in montana are basically comes. We think probably from watts. Who were lots of stories especially in the newspapers. This did happen. That planes would kind of crash in the water and then the sharks would get the get the people but it didn't happen that often but the newspapers used to report that it was happening all the time but nevertheless the us military need it's come up with a way to stop sharks attacking not just people who crashed also munition so if you're in a submarine you need to stop them from coming towards the munitions so the office of strategic services which was that kind of Office which kind of came up with lots of wacky kind of dick dusted lee plans. They hired someone called julia child. as part of the team to try them. Workout the chef the chef yes. She became a chef. She was a person who works in the wall to try and come up with ways to stop sharks from attacking people a munitions and she tried things like clo- vile horse year in nicotine. Rotten shark asparagus. Tried all these things to try and sharks from coming near them and in the end none of them really worked that well and so they came up with this thing called shark chaser which was little pell and you put it in the water and it would release like a dye into the water so the shock wouldn't be able to see you so it wouldn't repel it but it would stop it from being able to find you thought is crazy. Confuse julia child recipe with pele. She's anyone who doesn't know how to use the one who basically brought french cuisine to americans so She.
Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu
"iberian peninsula" Discussed on Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu
"Tom. I'm here with somebody. That i think is going to melt your brain. He is a bestselling author. Were correspondent and academy award nominated documentarian sebastian younger. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Dude super excited to have you on the book. Freedom is really really interesting. You talk about a topic that i've been steeped in my entire life as a child of the eighties growing up in america but never really thought about the way that you talk about in the book and i think before we get into what i will say is the most fascinating question from the book which i will spill in the second but i define freedom for people that probably are doing what most of us do which is confused with rights. Yeah so there's a lot of ways of defining it but a lot of different kinds of freedom. I should say there's emotional. Freedom physical freedom but for my purposes. I'm talking about freedom. As a as a core human value that that humans have fought for for tens of thousands of years. In that sense. It means that you are not unfairly controlled by by a greater power yourself that your self defining within the limits of the laws that bind all of us and and you know for a lot of human history. That wasn't always a given their many oppressed peoples There there are many many cultures and regimes and governments that make a practice of over pressing people and enslaving them and killing them and so freedom is the struggle against that That sorry human reality. That's been part of our history for so long okay. So now that people have that sort of northstar orienting idea of what freedom is and i think that will ring really true to people the thing. I found most interesting in the book. Is this idea that you will never be free unless you can effectively defend yourself and i read a quote. One time that i found really sort of on its surface when you don't have society enveloping you in its loving embrace to be sort of self evidently true but also at the same time really horrifying which is that the week. Sorry the strong do was. they will. And the week sufferers they must and i was just like oh god. So what do you mean that You will never have freedom unless you can defend yourself. I mean it was fairly obvious. In history shows that That powerful groups often Subjugate or enslave or annihilate less powerful groups and that and you can see instances of that throughout human history and archaeological evidence of it from prehistory Just as a quick example the um niagara of eastern step five thousand years ago during the neolithic era. They were a nomadic Very aggressive group that fought from horsedrawn chariots at a time when horses really were in widespread use they with battleaxes. They traveled all male groups. You could think of them as the first motorcycle gang and they carve carve their way through europe and they and they invaded the iberian peninsula. Five thousand years ago and in about one hundred years they killed all of the men in iberia all the men right and they wiped male iberians from the from the human gene gene pool and made it with the women. Of course you could say that the iberians because they couldn't defend themselves experienced a radical loss of of freedom. So i if you're if you're vulnerable to predatory groups like that you you may not remain free for very long but if you can defend yourself you and your group have a chance of being free but then what you have to guard against is internal repression which is a whole different whole different matter. Basically if you're well armed enough militaristic enough aggressive enough and well organized enough to defend yourself against a group. Like the yom ni- you're vulnerable to a an errand leader you using that the militaristic machinery to oppress his own people. And that's the eternal human sort of balancing act is to defend themselves but then not wind up being oppressed by their own leaders. Who so this is a really fascinating sort of super high level concept for me. Is that so many things. The magic is in the friction between the two things and even when you take the political parties that we have here in the us. And i'm not a political guy but It's fascinating to me that you talk about this intrinsic desire for freedom I will say that one of the core theses the book is what we just talked about which is sort of as a natural state like people are going to dominate. Those that are weaker. You get this idea of other versus in tribe. But the idea that i'm talking about is that the friction exists between. Let's say on the left. You have people that really lead with compassion and then on the right people that lead with sort of responsibility now if you only have compassion your society's going to devolve into madness if you only have Responsibility your society is going to devolve into tyranny and it's like you need this friction between the two. You need each side to sort of respect each other. So how do we or how do you think about the balance between those two in a modern context as we try to move through life while there's a fair about data that the our our our basic political orientations are partly genetically endowed that they're inherited. And which would sort of make sense. Like if you have a human group Picture a primordial human group of thirty forty fifty people surviving in the natural world If you have half of them that are genetically oriented towards maintaining a hierarchical system. That's faced sort of outwardly. Face to protect against enemies Classic conservative viewpoint and then half half of the group are genetically predisposed towards regulating the internal dynamics so that it's basically egalitarian and that one of the leaders don't dominate and and sort of carve out extra rights for themselves if you have those groups in sort of a rough balance within the within the society within the little group You're probably gonna do pretty well. You know likewise if you have equal numbers of men and women in a group Men and women bring different assets different sensibilities to the table It's a very good very good combination. So you know what i would say. Is that in any society. The nation of three hundred and thirty million or sort of human survival group Fifty thousand years ago that when you have these two things in balance there in a dynamic tension where there's probably sort of low level of of argument argument and conflicts but neither side completely dominates and and and that's where i think that's where humans are like very well tuned up for their environment and do very very well. And how do you think about it at the personal level. So if if i recognize that human history has been this long parade of People clawing their way to power Steamrolling over people with less power. You know thinking back to when in fact this will set this question a perfectly. What is the root of the word freedom light from etymological standpoint. Yeah so Freedom comes from the middle german but lethem v our ideal At a means beloved and basically the term means that the the the people who are considered to be eligible for freedom who cannot be arbitrarily killed or enslaved or the people in your immediate group that people you care about the people in your clan in your tribe in your community and your family and everybody else and just ask the um nyah. everybody else is eligible for you. Know whatever harz you can visit upon them and you know if you think in terms of adaptive behavior It's very clear that armed. Aggression can is very adaptive that that it helps the aggressive group survive and thrive The yum nyas genes are still in the iberian population. The original genes of the male neolithic population have been wiped out right so there is aggression can be very adaptable though in our society. We think i think that's not true. But clearly it's very commonplace thing in the world. If inward adaptive it would have died out so so just from the definition of the word. It's clear that the word that the idea of freedom is really only refers to the people within your own community. And you what happened. With as western society evolved The medieval system of royalty and serfs eventually broke up There eventually there were international norms international laws that protected even small societies from the aggression of largest societies and certainly after world war two after the world suffered the fascist and spain and then in germany tried to do to europe There was an agreement that we must all defend all of us against predatory aggression by an armed state. And you know that's a fairly modern development. It's interesting to me. Is that the way that we do..
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"Yeah so. I think the fall of granada plays in on a whole bunch of different ways so granada falls in fourteen ninety two but it falls after eleven years of more or less continuous warfare in the iberian peninsula. So granada was the last slice left of more spain so there had been muslim polities kingdoms emerets in spain. Since the eighth century and granada was the very last of them they had slowly receded over the process of what was called the nicklen kista so the spanish reconquest of the iberian peninsula from the muslims. It had stalled for a long time for actually a couple of centuries there had been no further progress made until the middle of the fifteenth century. the isabel predecessor captured gibraltar and then isabella herself as part of her appeal to become queen because she had to fight a succession war to become queen in the first place. Part of the reason that she became queen is because she was She made a big point of saying i will carry the war to the muslims. I will do my duty as a good religious monarch and i will go out and fight the muslims. It was a lot harder than they thought it was going to be. Which is why it took eleven years and they ended up spending a lot of money to do this because war in the fifteenth century was getting to be very expensive to buy cannons yet to pay for mercenaries supplies especially for these kind of extended campaigns. And we have to understand. Columbus's voyage in the context of that this long long war where the kingdom of spain is coming into an idea of itself defined in opposition to being muslim on the one hand but also as becoming a really a really efficient financial and warm making machine so columbus is kind of hanging around the fringes of this. He's making his pitch. And you're saying you know. Give me these ships. give me this money. Give me these people. I'm going to go out at the ocean. There's the spanish will were literally fighting a war. We are tapping every available financial resource in.
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"That's similar to john doe in english and it's full nato or flannel Some people also say fulani talk dial and it basically means john doe you know Like hang out with foodline all the time And i was just wondering where that came from since it doesn't really sound like a name for lonzo. Su l. a. In oh right uh-huh a so. You probably your whole life. Yeah my whole life. Yeah and you've probably heard it from other spanish speakers not just cuban cubans americans. Okay and you've perfectly explain it. It's pretty much like john doe in english right. Yeah this has an incredible history. It shows the richness and the depth of the spanish language. Because it not only goes back to arabic. It goes back egyptian. those love. no yes yes. I'm excited i'm very excited. So basically means so and so like we use this in english. We like Yeah so over there. He's gonna. We just mean that a person that we can't really name because either we don't want to name them we don't know their name or we don't it's not important to give their name that sort of thing so it comes from the arabic phoolan probably originally from an egyptian word. Meaning this name. And it's related to words throughout the western smick language groups so it's got this connection to languages that are still spoken throughout north africa. Yeah pretty cool Also there's connections to a word used in portuguese and the smaller similar language is used throughout the iberian peninsula. Do you know. Let me ask you the anna. Do you know the spanish version of tom. Dick and harry when we're talking about like yeah there. You were partying on the street with any tom. Dick and harry have homework to do. Do you know what the spanish version of that is I don't i mean there's obviously some names that are common spanish. I'm this close saying what have you ever heard. Full-on domain gano is donal petting gano pen and say. Oh no those. Those are the ones that you might say. Those might be more iberian. Spanish like in spain and latin american spanish but so full-on in ghana. Donald was the tom dick. And harry what i always heard in. Argentina was fulanis lonnie of under finance. So that the first for the first time. So there's a there's a bunch of those that's what we know about so yeah it's a cool word used throughout the spanish speaking world just kind of like the. It's a placeholder words. But it's one of those core words that come came into spanish from when the peninsula was controlled by the moors. Yeah and that's really interesting. Because usually those words start with a l. Yeah yeah yeah. Thank you guys. This is in great to hear you guys on the other no song thanks commun- sometime provide thank you. Bye-bye bye-bye.
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"Has the distinction of being one of the most strategic places on earth located near the southernmost tip of the iberian peninsula. It situated near the eponymous strait of gibraltar. Which is the narrow entrance that separates the mediterranean sea and the atlantic ocean. The current territory of gibraltar is only six point eight square kilometers or two point six square miles making it one of the smallest territories in the world and only slightly larger than the country of monaco. The distance between europe and africa at this point is only thirteen kilometers or eight. Point one miles. The history of gibraltar actually goes away back to before recorded history there's evidence of neanderthals. Who lived in caves in gibraltar. Going back fifty thousand years. It was one of the last places where neanderthals lived as they were pushed west into the iberian peninsula until they reached the sea and went extinct. The archaeological evidence shows that as soon as neanderthals died out. Humans took over and settling the area. The ancient civilizations inhabited the mediterranean were very familiar with gibraltar. It was considered a sacred site by the phoenicians and the ancient greeks and romans called the straits of gibraltar. The pillars of hercules. The site wasn't of strategic importance to ancient civilizations because they almost never sailed out into the atlantic for them it was effectively the end of the world. The site was important in so far as it was known and revered but holding the straight wouldn't give anyone a strategic advantage. The strait of gibraltar began to grown importance in the middle ages. With the spread of islam. Its importance came not from being the entrance to the mediterranean but rather because it was the closest point between africa and europe when islam began to spread. This was the point where the morsch invasion of the iberian peninsula was launched and sustained the seven hundred year occupation of spain. Gibraltar comes from the java tariq which means the mountain of tariq which refers to the muslim general turk. Bin ziyad the caliph. It was the first group that saw the strategic importance of broader and built the very first military fortifications in fourteen sixty to gibraltar was taken by. The spanish is of the reconquista. This also coincided with the beginning of the age of exploration and europeans began sailing out into the atlantic ocean of sailing to the americas as well as sailing around africa. This completely changed the importance of gibraltar. Now it wasn't the easiest way to go from africa to europe. It became the chokepoint for controlling the mediterranean and the rest of the world in particular gibraltar had a large rock which could serve as a fortification and there was also a large harbour immediately to the west known as the bay of gibraltar. Its importance can be seen in the fact that since thirty-nine gibraltar has been besieged to total of fourteen times. The modern history of gibraltar dates back to the early eighteenth century and the war of spanish succession king. Charles the second of spain died without leaving an heir. This resulted in continent wide conflict as to who should be the king of spain the english and the dutch sided with the holy roman empire which opposed the french in seventeen o four the british sale down and captured gibraltar with very little resistance most of the residents fled and moved to nearby towns when the war was ended with the treaty tract in seventeen thirteen. The english were ceded. Gibraltar as part of the deal to get them to exit the war almost immediately after the treaty the spanish wanted gibraltar back and have been working to get it back for over three hundred years..
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"Of seventy not just about their past but about their lives right now. It's a show about how we make the most of the time we have left with max. Linski co host of the long form. Podcast you'll get in-depth emotional conversations about the big questions. We all ask ourselves no matter how old we are. What does it mean to live. Well what are we still searching. And how do we learn to let go. You know meaning of life stuff stuff that will get you through. Seventy over seventy is available now. New episodes air every tuesday. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. The other point you make. The i think is well said and it's important all the time but particularly now and i wonder if you were commenting more specifically on what's been going on in the country in the last year or two and it seems like in various places you are the you're referring to universal principles. That's a good way of going about it. You say on this issue of freedom quote for most of human history freedom had to be at least suffered for if not died for and that raised its value to something almost sacred in modern democracies however ethos of public sacrifice and you talk about sacrifice over and over again. We'll talk about it. Ethos of public sacrifice is rarely needed. Because freedom and survival are more or less guaranteed. That is a great blessing but allows people to believe that any sacrifice at all rationing water during a drought for example are forms of government tyranny. They are no more forms of tyranny than rationing water on a life boat. And then you say which i like very much the idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return is literally infantile only children own. Nothing what other things were you talking about there. Well i mean. I was writing this in the middle of the great. You know a mask controversy attersee whether the right the government has the right To the legal right the political right to enforce a mask ruling during a pandemic and the point. I don't come down on either side of any specific debate. But what i would say. Is that the the idea. Just on principle. Broadly speaking the idea that you can accept the benefits of being part of a group. Any group b. at united states. Or you know your outward bound expedition you know and everything in between that you can be you can receive the benefits of being in a group but then turn around and say but you can't tell me what to do. I'm going to do whatever i want like. That is a relationship that children have with adults. It's not a relationship that adults have with each other that individuals have with the group and that for most of human history that position would be completely insane and the person picked up and thrown out of the life raft and It what what. I would say we just just a follow on just moments interesting story. Real world example. I looked at a street gang in chicago. In the nineteen sixties Called the vice lords in the law nail section of chicago which was extremely violent. And and maybe it's still i don't know but The the vice lords were formed because the african american community and the young man in that community were really at risk of being attacked or killed by other street gangs in the area so they formed the the vice lords and in that in that group they all found a sort of mutual defense. That can most of them fairly safe. Most of the time the one and most important criterion for being a member of the vice lords is that if another vice lord was under attack by a rival group that no matter how bad the odds were ten to one. I don't care you run towards that guy and you help them out and if you go the other way you're just not vice lord and so what they do when you know. Of course people get scared. We're not all infinitely noble or courageous or whatever so what what would happen. Is the guy that the guys that turned turned tail and ran the other way and didn't help out there. Brother in the fi in the street fight there were just track that the vice lords track that guy down. They wouldn't beat him up. They wouldn't put a hand on them. They were just put him in the back of a car and they drive them into the middle of the enemy. Gang's territory and just make them get out of the car walk home. You're on your own. You're not part of this group then. You're not part of this group. You're on your own so that's to my point. If you enjoy the benefits of a group you do. Oh it's of the you might even so. Do you owe it where you have to stop at a red light. Yes you do. You don't have the right to run red lights right because you're part of the group because there's a communitarian aspect to it and to follow the rules of the group that are for the common good i guess is the point that you and many many people have is not to be denied freedom as you have these people. I think in some cases on the edge of society or on the edge of sort of mainstream thinking who say all taxations tyranny right. I guess if you start a society in that way you can make some argument for that. Then you have to figure out how you take care of the common good and you do things that individuals can provide roads bridges etc. But i think some of these folks don't realize it free rider when most people follow the rules of the group that are meant for the common good does not mean that you were a freedom seeker and the other problem is gonna ask you to talk about it. This word freedom. It's not that it's devoid of meaning but lots of people have different views about what that means. And so in certain instances they will take a certain position and then other things. They don't like they whether it's wearing a mask or something else were paying taxes. They will say well to be free. I need not be forced to do this. Particular thing and people can flake the freedom to do what they want with You know what freedom corporations have to they want people to understand the first amendment. In this regard sometimes people were conflating. Legal freedom with personal freedom or financial freedom were other kinds of freedom that are not part of sort of you know legal policy or the social contract and that was a rambling way of asking the question. Do you think part of the problem in these debates is that nobody knows what the hell anyone else is talking about when they say freedom. Well i think there's a number of problems you know. First of all freedom is one of the few things along with community wants children that people will readily die for your on too many things on that list and freedoms shortlists and freedoms one of them. It's very very potent word. That goes but i. I don't have the quote in front of me but it was a powerful one which bears on what you just said. And it's something like you know. People will will readily sacrifice and even die for a member of their family to remember their family but to die for and do something for a group requires something more that right. I'm not exactly sure. I i know what i mean. I know what we're talking about. I mean humans die immediately. When they're on their own they die in nature immediately. Humans only survive in fact thrive because we're social primates we function in group extraordinary animal and we get our safety and ultimately our autonomy and our in in closely related to autonomies are sort of human dignity we get that from being within the protection of the group and if the group can't protect itself people's autonomy their freedom dignity is quickly trampled. I mean i cite an example of the young nyack who are a a fierce nomadic tribe Off the eastern step in five thousand years ago the invite invaded the iberian peninsula and within one hundred years there were they. They fought on strong chariots with battleaxes. There was sort of like the first motorcycle gang right. They traveled without women. They invaded europe. They cruise right into iberia. Within about one hundred years they killed all the men in iberia five thousand years ago and clearly made it with other women and so you know the iberian men were not able to defend their various period. We're not able to defend their territory from the radical loss of freedom. So your freedom comes from the ability to defend yourself and then not finding yourself in a society where the powerful or then oppressing the less powerful like the the double edged sword of the human endeavor. So what i would say about the word freedom is that it's so potent and powerful people often use it to justify doing doing things that are immoral or illegal and they well defending my freedom. You know so do invade the capitol building or i'm going to pay my taxes. Whatever it's it's not where the mass it's right for me..
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"Returning to Spain. El Camino paths after the pandemic easies. Committing to the Pilgrims Path has for centuries been a source of renewal for those willing to put their lives on hold to cross Spain along the Camino de Santiago, a journey that takes hikers to the reported burial place of the Apostle Saint James. But after a year of travel restrictions, soul searches are once again strapping on backpacks and following trails to the city of Santiago, the Compostela. The Camino is actually a series of pass the finance beyond the Iberian peninsula and spread across Europe. Whichever Route one takes they all end at sandy ago's Brock Cathedral. I'm Charles de La Decima. The first cruise ship leaving Venice since the pandemic is the parting amid protests by activists demanding the ship be rerouted out of the fragile lagoon. Critics say the enormous vessels weighing over 90,000 tons Whose jobs depend on having thousands of visitors flowing through one of Italy's top tourist destinations. Italian Premier Mario Draghi's government pledge this winter to get cruise ships out of the Venice Lagoon, but it will likely take years. Kids are being organized for a viable alternative outside the lagoon, which should be posted any day now. I'm Charles de la Decima. The United Nations says famine is imminent in Ethiopia's embattled Tigre region and in the country's north. The UN's humanitarian chief, Mark Lo Kok warns. There's a risk that hundreds of thousands of people or more will die. He says Tigres economy has been destroyed along with businesses, crops and farms and the international community needs to really step up, including through the provision of money. No one knows how many thousands of civilians or combatants have been killed. Since months of political tensions between Ethiopian President Abe Hamas government and the Tigre leaders who once dominated Ethiopia's government exploded into war last November. I'm Charles Dillon. AP News I'm to McGuire Facebook suspends former President Donald Trump until at the earliest, January 7th 2023 Social media site says Trump stoked violence ahead of the January 6th.
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Pilgrims Return to Spain’s 'El Camino' Paths After Pandemic
"Still dreams of returning to Spain to El Camino pops off of the pandemic eases committing to the pilgrims Poff has the sentries being a source of renewal for those willing to put their lives on hold across Spain along the Camino de Santiago a journey that takes hikers to the reported burial place of the apostle Saint James but after a year of travel restrictions soul searches a once again strapping on backpacks and following trials to the city of Santiago de Compostella the comedian was actually assumes a pause the farm out beyond the Iberian peninsula and spread across Europe whichever route one takes they all end at Santiago's rock cathedral I'm Charles de Ledesma
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"Role peck was born. Instead of the busting ports of the east india columbus came upon a tropical paradise populated by the people what is now began from the iberian peninsula came merchants mercenaries criminals and peasants they seize the land and property of indigenous peoples and declared the territories to be extensions of the spanish in august eight. These acts were confirmed by the monarchies.
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The History of Muslim-Controlled Spain
"In the early eighth century the iberian peninsula was populated by the visigoths who are dramatic people who entered and populated the peninsula after the collapse of the roman empire. During the reign of the caliph will lead the first general. Tariq iban ziad lead moore's forces across the mediterranean and landed in gibraltar on april thirtieth in the year seven eleven. This began a seven year campaign. Where the moore's brought most of the iberian peninsula under islamic control the term moore should probably be explained as i've used it here. In several previous episodes there really are no people called. Moore's the term more was used by europeans to describe muslim inhabitants. From north africa included people of different ethnicities including berbers and arabs. The term isn't too dissimilar from the term francs which was used by muslims in the middle east to describe all europeans. The term comes from the roman province of mauritania which is where modern day morocco is located. The current country of that name is not located exactly where the ancient province of mauritania is located. The invasion began a period where muslim rulers controlled at least part of the iberian peninsula for almost eight hundred years the moore's never completely conquered the peninsula however even at its greatest extent just eight years. After the invasion there was still a part of the peninsula that remained under christian control in the far north the kingdom of asturias remained independent and it was never conquered that being said one of the reasons why they had such an easy time is because they gave very generous terms to the people who they did. Conquer one example of this is theodomir the visigoths chief of america. He agreed to terms where he could still continue to be the leader of his people and practice christianity. All they had to do was pay an annual tribute. The entire region of iberian muslim rule was known in arabic as al
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"iberian peninsula" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"In the early eighth century the iberian peninsula was populated by the visigoths who are dramatic people who entered and populated the peninsula after the collapse of the roman empire. During the reign of the caliph will lead the first general. Tariq iban ziad lead moore's forces across the mediterranean and landed in gibraltar on april thirtieth in the year seven eleven. This began a seven year campaign. Where the moore's brought most of the iberian peninsula under islamic control the term moore should probably be explained as i've used it here. In several previous episodes there really are no people called. Moore's the term more was used by europeans to describe muslim inhabitants. From north africa included people of different ethnicities including berbers and arabs. The term isn't too dissimilar from the term francs which was used by muslims in the middle east to describe all europeans. The term comes from the roman province of mauritania which is where modern day morocco is located. The current country of that name is not located exactly where the ancient province of mauritania is located. The invasion began a period where muslim rulers controlled at least part of the iberian peninsula for almost eight hundred years the moore's never completely conquered the peninsula however even at its greatest extent just eight years. After the invasion there was still a part of the peninsula that remained under christian control in the far north the kingdom of asturias remained independent and it was never conquered that being said one of the reasons why they had such an easy time is because they gave very generous terms to the people who they did. Conquer one example of this is theodomir the visigoths chief of america. He agreed to terms where he could still continue to be the leader of his people and practice christianity. All they had to do was pay an annual tribute. The entire region of iberian muslim rule was known in arabic as al
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The History of Spanish Africa
"I say that there are parts of spain and africa. I'm not trying to be tricky and play with words. I'm not saying that. Spain used to have colonies in africa. Although that's true. I'm also not trying to define the canary islands. Which are part of spain off the coast of africa as being in africa. I mean in the most literal sense possible. That part of spain is in africa. There are two very small spanish cities located on the peninsula which are on the african mainland ordering morocco and malia and their very existence as you probably would expect are due to historical quirks happenstance due to geography. Spain has always had a close relationship with africa finishes based in carthage in. What is today. Tunisia established settlements on the spanish coast. The roman province of hispania was part of a greater empire that included all of north africa. Which bordered the mediterranean after the roman empire fell islamic moors from north africa conquered and controlled spain for over seven hundred years. So there's always been a back and forth between north africa in the peninsula and malia both spanish territories in africa have different yet similar histories despite being about one hundred and thirty miles apart from each other. Sita is located directly across the sea from gibraltar. So if you ever want stump someone asks them. What country lies. Directly south of gibraltar and what country lies. North of gibraltar. answer is the same. Spain is on both ends. Sierra makes the counterpart to gibraltar for the pillars of hercules which the ancient names of the two promontories which guarded the strait of gibraltar. As with most everything in the region it has an ancient history. Carthage martina and numidians all control the area. Before the romans the you me add caliphate controlled it for centuries when the caliphate of cordoba fell in ten thirty one it was then passed between various north african kingdoms with support from various kingdoms in the iberian peninsula.
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"Line from NPR News in Washington. I'm Louise Schiavone as 2020 ends what was incomprehensible this time 12 months ago continues to rage is a global health crisis. The Corona virus pandemic has taken 1.8 million lives globally, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the U. S. 345,000 people have died. With a total of 20 million cases now identified across the nation. Equally impressive researchers around the world have now created and rushed into production. Several vaccines. The supply chain challenges, though, are significant and today adding to the difficulty of dispersing the vaccine comes a story from Grafton, Wisconsin, where a pharmacist is accused of destroying dozens of vaccine vials. Shuck corn, Bach reports. Detectives say the pharmacist that Aurora medical Center and graft in new the Moderna vaccine would be useless after being removed from refrigeration and that the company's health care employees would think they had received their first dose to protect against the coronavirus. Police say the pharmacist is now being held in jail on possible felony charges over a healthcare president Jeff Barr says his firm has checked to make sure no other vaccine was harmed. We're confident these were the only 57 vials impacted. Bar also says there's no evidence the workers who received shots face any health risks from the degraded doses. For NPR News. I'm Chuck Wambach in Milwaukee, Britain and Spain have reached a last minute Brexit deal to keep the border open between Gibraltar in Spain. As of tonight, the UK is leaving the European for good. NPR's Frank Langfitt has more to make sure people can flow easily between the British overseas territory and neighboring Spain. Gibraltar will join Europe's border free Schengen zone and follow EU rules while still remaining part of the United Kingdom. Gibraltar, voted by an overwhelming margin to stay in the U in 2016. About 15,000 Spanish workers across the border to the rock as it's known daily. The deal to keep people flowing easily between Spain and Gibraltar does nothing to address the difficulty issue of the territory sovereignty. Britain has ruled the territory on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula for more than three centuries. But Spain which seated Gibraltar to the British in 17, 13 wants it back. Frank Langfitt. NPR NEWS London The calendar has now turned a page to the New year in Europe. Fireworks exploded over Moscow..
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"88.5 San Francisco and kick you Ei 89.3, North Highlands and Sacramento. It's seven o'clock from wh y y in Philadelphia. I'm Terry Gross with fresh air. Happy New Year as many of us gladly say goodbye to 2020. And look forward to a new year. We'll celebrate with a performance by an interview with singer and songwriter Loudon Wainwright and Vince Giordano, who leads the band the night Hawks and place tuba base and bass saxophone. Musically there from pretty different worlds. Wainwright is known for his confessional songs about dysfunctional family. Giordano is known for playing music of the 19 twenties and thirties, but they've come together on the new album. I'd rather lead a band, which features songs by Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Harold Arlen, Fats Waller and others. Giordano and Wainwright previously worked together on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. And Martin Scorsese's film The Aviator, You know that I haven't AM missions Fall love Depots, Asians first news. Line from NPR News in Washington. I'm Louise Schiavone as 2020 ends what was incomprehensible this time 12 months ago continues to rage is a global health crisis. The Corona virus pandemic has taken 1.8 million lives globally, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the U. S. 345,000 people have died. With a total of 20 million cases now identified across the nation. Equally impressive researchers around the world have now created and rushed into production. Several vaccines. The supply chain challenges, though, are significant and today adding to the difficulty of dispersing the vaccine comes a story from Grafton, Wisconsin, where a pharmacist is accused of destroying dozens of vaccine vials. Shuck corn, Bach reports. Detectives say the pharmacist that Aurora medical Center and graft in new the Moderna vaccine would be useless after being removed from refrigeration and that the company's health care employees would think they had received their first dose to protect against the coronavirus. Police say the pharmacist is now being held in jail on possible felony charges over a healthcare president Jeff Barr says his firm has checked to make sure no other vaccine was harmed. We're confident these were the only 57 vials impacted. Bar also says there's no evidence the workers who received shots face any health risks from the degraded doses. For NPR News. I'm Chuck Corn. Bach in Milwaukee, Britain and Spain have reached a last minute Brexit deal to keep the border open between Gibraltar and Spain. As of tonight, the UK is leaving the European for good. NPR's Frank Langfitt has more to make sure people can flow easily between the British overseas territory and neighboring Spain. Gibraltar will join Europe's border free Schengen zone and follow you rules while still remaining part of the United Kingdom. Gibraltar, voted by an overwhelming margin to stay in the EU in 2000 and 16 and about 15,000 Spanish workers across the border to the rock as it's known daily. The deal to keep people flowing easily between Spain and Gibraltar does nothing to address the difficulty issue of the territory Sovereignty. Britain has ruled the territory on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula for more than three centuries. But Spain, which seated Gibraltar to the British in 17, 13 wanted back. Frank Langfitt. NPR NEWS London The calendar has now turned a page to the New year in Europe. Fireworks exploded over Moscow, Big Ben rang out to hollow crowds in London.
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Gibraltar Gets Its Own Brexit Deal With Spain
"Britain and Spain reached a last minute deal to keep the border open between Travolta and Spain. Now that Brexit is complete, and as of tonight, the UK is leaving the European Union for good. NPR's Frank Langfitt has more to make sure people can flow easily between the British overseas territory and neighboring Spain. Gibraltar will join Europe's border free Schengen zone and follow EU rules while still remaining part of the United Kingdom. Gibraltar, voted by an overwhelming margin to stay in the EU in 2016. About 15,000 Spanish workers across the border to the rock as it's known daily. The deal to keep people flowing easily between Spain and Gibraltar does nothing to address the difficulty issue of the territory sovereignty. Britain has ruled the territory on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula for more than three centuries. But Spain which seated Gibraltar to the British in 17, 13 wants it back. Frank Langfitt. NPR NEWS London
5 Minutes in Church History
The Plague of Justinian I
"Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in Church history. On this episode, we're talking about a very dark moment in church history and history the plague of Justinian. The first first let's talk about just in the first he was born in four eighty seven. He came to be Roman emperor in five, twenty seven and he reigned until his death in five sixty three at the time of becoming Roman emperor the barbarian tribes controlled much of what was the Roman Empire The ostrogoths controlled Rome in the boot of Italy that extends down into the Mediterranean Sea the visigoths controlled Spain, the vandals controlled what was formerly North Africa the Roman empire was a fraction and a mere shadow of its former self just Indian ruled from capital at Constantinople. He was determined to bring back the glory that once was the Roman Empire. To do so he would need to launch military campaigns to the east into the Iberian Peninsula to the south and the vandals to the West and the ostrogoths into the north. He had to launch military campaign literally in every direction. And he was very successful after a decade or so of military campaigns warfare. Then in five forty, two Justin faced a new invisible enemy. Well, we'll get to that in a moment first a few more points on just in the first, he is known as giving us the Codex Justinian us it's also sometimes called the Corpus juris civilised. This is the body of civil law. Someone took the time to count it. It's somewhere around the neighborhood one million words. It was a massive rule of law to govern the Roman Empire contains laws on criminal and civil matters on trade, but it also controls laws regarding heresy and Orthodoxy, and even laws regulating paganism. Another thing about just in the first is that he is the creator of the Huggy Sophia he was not the architect though he had significant conversations with the architect and was very influential in the plans but it was under his watch that the Haganah Sophie was built from five, thirty, two to five, thirty seven the old basilica had fallen during riots in that city and just in use the occasion to build what was the biggest church the Roman Empire ever saw its length was two, hundred, sixty, nine feet. Its width was two hundred and forty feet and extended a height of one hundred and eighty feet. It was a massive structure. The HAGIA Sofia. Well, that's just any in the first. Now, briefly on his plague in five, forty to the bubonic plague broke out. This is the your cineas pestis. What came to be known as the black plague. It would come again in the thirteen hundreds and it would manifest throughout the Middle Ages and the time of the reformation. Back in five, forty, two, it is believed to have started in Egypt. This plague then carried on merchant ships too many nations and to three continents. Africa Europe Asia it is credited as the first pandemic in recorded history. It brought all of the efforts of Justinian one to a stop it ended the military campaigns devastated the economy. It ended up killing millions at its height. It would take five thousand lives a day in the city of Constantinople alone. Even. Just any in the first contract. Did it. But he survives one of the stories from that time PRA copious notes of the effect of the plague on the people it caused them to shake off the unrighteousness of their daily lives and practice the duties of religion with diligence but sadly, he also notes. That as soon as they were rid of the disease, they went right back to their old ways. Well, that's just any in the first, and that's the justinian plague five, forty two
BrainStuff
Do Beaches Need Seashells?
"Today's episode is brought to you by starbucks. They say that starbucks nitro does for cold coffee. What music does for workouts road trips in grand. Romantic gestures sound too good to be true. Guess we'll just have to try it for yourself. Starbucks nature cold brew. It's called coffee that subtly sweet lush and velvety smooth only at starbucks welcome to brainstorm a production indivi- heart radio. Hey brain stuff. Lauren vogel bomb here. We humans tend to enjoy the ocean so it makes sense that we'd want to take a piece as of at home with us but be warned beachside souvenir hunting can land you in prison. If you go overboard case in point early in summer of two thousand eighteen a texas access woman was fined five hundred dollars and sentenced to fifteen days in jail by a florida judge for illegally harvesting forty. Queen conch shells her key west vacation. Queen conches are marine greene's nails who live in gorgeous shells of their own making florida allows people to collect the vacant shells but it's illegal to take one. That's still occupied by alive conch. The shells of the aforementioned i mentioned texan took had living breathing molluscs in them. Florida has a vested interest in these nautical treasures on the shell loaded island of santa bell a barrier community near fort myers beach coming as a major draw for tourists and when residents noticed their precious commodities were vanishing. They took action in the late. Twentieth century local local started worrying that out of towners repelling too many shells as a conservation measure. Santa bell banned the collection of any shells with their original mollusks still living inside as well as does any sand dollars starfish and sea urchins. The ban took effect in nineteen ninety five and has since been extended throughout santa bell's home county. If you've noticed shell depletion on the beaches he visit know that it's not just a matter of light fingered vacationers organized poaching has become a serious global concern. We spoke by email with vincent instant nyman an anthropology professor at oxford brookes university in the united kingdom and a twenty fifteen study he co authored nyman documented the illegal trade of indonesia's protected shells calls the indonesian government keeps a list of molluscs that are illegal to trade or collect within the republic's jurisdiction chambered nautilus triton's trumpets and some giant clams are among the creatures ostensibly protected by law there yet poaching is rampant. Neiman's paper tells of twenty illegal shipments were intercepted by the indonesian authorities between in two thousand eight and two thousand thirteen but together these busts yielded more than forty two thousand shells a protected species valued at seven hundred thousand dollars nyman even said it's very important to note that we're not talking about individual tourists collecting a couple of shells on the beach putting them in their suitcase and bring them home. We're talking about a large scale commercial trade where the shells are collected by active fishing scuba diving cages etc and where entire sections of the ocean floor are emptied he stresses the poachers like to grab occupied shells and then destroy animals within them. He explained that when the animals are alive their shells are usually excellent condition as opposed to shells that have been discarded and washed washed up on the beach which are often damaged mosques aren't the only animals who've been hurt by the reckless over hunting of sea shells when sales nautilus and other sea animals die of natural causes other creatures like to move into their former shell homes we also spoke by email with michael kousky an ecologist at the university of florida he he said the most obvious examples are hermit crabs which use empty shells as protective armor. There are in fact many marine habitats. It's hard to find an empty shell because hermit crabs inhabit but almost all of them when there aren't enough shelters go around hermit crab populations are curbed and housing is just one service that unused shells offer some sea creatures creatures and birds eat them for mineral supplements calcium carbonate others use the sturdy shells as anchors from other mollusks barnacles and many more the harvest of these shells isn't just bad for the local ecosystem. It's also bad for the environment and ultimately for the humans who live and visit their take yoga beach a lovely slice of the iberian peninsula tesla located in sao paulo spain hot vacation destination. That's enjoyed increasing popularity wanting to know more about how this rise and human activity was affecting the ecosystem colo. The ski rolled up his sleeves and hit the scene from july of nineteen seventy eight through july of nineteen eighty-one. He and his colleagues put together monthly catalogs of all the seashell material they could find on your a beach kulakowski returned decades later for a new round of surveys beginning in two thousand eight and ending in two thousand ten. His discoveries weren't encouraging tourism data revealed field an almost three fold increase in visitation between one thousand nine hundred and twenty ten during that same period the number of seashells on your beach fell by more than sixty percent coincidence incidents probably not other beachside communities should be worried about the same kind of decline in seashells and not just for environmental reasons shells tend to break up into particles that are bigger than typical sand grains these shell fragments helped beaches fight erosion by locking up making it harder for winds waves and water currents to move shoreline shoreline sediment around if we moved to many sea shells it'll become harder for beaches to resist the forces of erosion and that it affects short side buildings roads and other infrastructure so what's the solution nyman notes in many countries. There are excellent laws in place to prevent overharvesting companies and individuals should follow the existing existing regulations and the authorities should enforce them. It is an economic crime and should be handled such he added the prosecutors. Judges must take large-scale poaching operations more seriously. Today's episode was written by mark manzini whose name i've been mispronouncing for about about two years now and it was produced by tyler clang brain stuff is a production of iheartradio's. How stuff works for more on this and lots of other multidisciplinary topics visit our home planet has works dot com and for more podcasts from iheartradio iheartradio app apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows today's episode is brought to you by the capital one venture card when you earn unlimited double miles on every purchase your next trip is closer than you think. What's in your wallet.
BBC World Service
Melania Trump praises LeBron James after her husband bashes him
"The news Hello I'm race Marie creek with. The BBC news then as, Wayne, and officials say two explosive drains have, detonated near President Nicolas Maduro as he was speaking as a military event in. The capital Caracas, Katie Watson reports President Nicolas Maduro had been speaking as a military parade held to celebrate the eighty first anniversary of. The Venezuelan army suddenly the. Audio went dead the television pictures continued to roll showing officials, behind miss Madero, looking up concerned the state broadcaster then cut to an aerial shot of soldiers standing in formation with the sound, of, panicked officials shouting dozens of soldiers began running and then the broadcast was cut a couple of hours later Mr. Madero. Paid, on television again he said the president of Colombia and unnamed financiers in the United. States were responsible it'll. Known rebel groups all data's day Fennell said it strains have been shot down by army snipers before they could reach. Their, target hundreds Thousands of, people in Argentina have marched through. The, streets of the capital Buenos Aires urging the. Senate to reject a proposal, to, legalize abortion Patti McGuire has this report, safe the two lives has become the slogan of those Argentinians who reject the. Proposed new legislation, to legalize abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy local media reporting that more than half a million people gathered. From across the country to. Make their voices heard the head of the senate's final vote, on August the, eighth they responding to a call alliance of fifteen thousand evangelical churches and many Catholics the country's predominant religion joined, the, March to show their support the lower house of congress already approved the measure in June two wildfires in northern California. In, the US have grown in size to cover nearly a thousand square kilometers of land. The blazes to the. North of San Francisco stretch from the coastal city of Mendocino to Kalisa county Joanna joy reports the authorities in California Say the scale of the Mendocino wildfires is, unprecedented so early in. The fire season they've ordered thousands of residents to evacuate their homes and say the fires are only about one third contained in the meantime attendee, owed blaze affecting a large area west of the city of reading his only gradually being brought under control six people died here four of them firefighters both areas remain under. A red flag warning as hot and windy conditions for the fires to spread, continue Joanna jolly with that report more than one thousand firefighters, tackling blazes in Portugal and Spain where temperatures have climbed to forty, six degrees approaching the all time record red alerts have been issued across the Iberian peninsula with one fire near. The Spanish city of better horse declared out, of control vulnerable people of all ages have been advised sustained, doors world news from the BBC The US first lady Melania Trump has expressed support for the basketball player LeBron James hours after her husband made insulting remarks about. Him on Twitter BBC's Chris Buckler, has more LeBron James is without any doubt one of the, biggest stars in American sports but he's found. Himself in the, news again because of his criticism of Donald Trump on CNN he accused the president of using sport to split. The US apart in, an angry tweets Mr.. Trump fired back at both of basketball star on the news network but LeBron James has a surprising ally Mr. Trump's own wife a statement by the first lady's spokeswoman said Melania Trump was impressed, by LeBron James is work to do good things on behalf of the. Next generation police in the US city of Portland in Oregon have been trying to separate a rally by too far right groups patriot. Prayer and proud boys from counterprotest as police used, stun grenades to disperse the Testers saying rocks and bottles have been. Held at the police had warned the demonstrators to leave their gums attain, the. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has met the Indonesian. President Joko Widodo in Jakarta on the last, day of his five-day trip to Asia they were expected to discuss advancing security ties bilateral trade. And investment goals earlier Mr. Pompeo said diplomatic and economic pressure must be maintained on North. Korea to achieve denuclearization the Russian foreign ministry says it has appointed the. American actress Steven Seagal as a special. Envoy for humanitarian ties. With the United States making the announcement on, its official Facebook page the ministry said it would be an unpaid position similar to that of a United Nations goodwill ambassador Steven Seagal he's martial arts prowess helped to make him an international film star in the late ninety. Nine hundred and early nineties was granted Russian citizenship in nineteen twenty sixteen Phoebe scene News.
All Things Considered
Hamas and Israel ceasefire talks
"Not also the dipping unemployment rate has made it harder for some manufacturers to fill open jobs. There are very few employees available to hire right now and those that don't have jobs either don't want them or are not hire those stories after this news. Live from NPR news in Washington I'm Jim hawk in south western. Virginia residents of one hundred fifty homes remain evacuated as thority check out a rain-swollen damn to Mitchell Lindbergh's director. Of water resources says the dam is currently stable but he's asking, people who were evacuated to stay out of their. Homes until there's dry weather we want to get past this weather, system is coming up before we allow people to return to their homes but once we get past. That, and determine the dam is safe we will prevail out of an abundance of caution we will be providing a twenty four hour seven day a week continuous monitoring of the dam just. To. Be sure that it's safe out of an abundance of potion again the college lake dam began overflowing Thursday when heavy rain swept through the region. In Gaza the Islamic group HAMAs says it's holding high level talks about a possible cease fire with Israel NPR's Daniel estrin says it's aimed at ending months of Violence HAMAs says it's holding a major meeting of its. Political leadership in Gaza including some leaders who are based in other parts of the region indicating the seriousness of. The talks a HAMAs website says Egypt has brokered efforts to reach, a ceasefire with Israel it's also attempting a reconciliation. Between HAMAs and the rival Palestinian Authority government in the West Bank, and trying to ease Gaza's humanitarian crisis which includes water and electricity shortages Israeli officials said Prime Minister. Benjamin, Netanyahu cancelled a trip abroad he's reportedly discussing the talks with his cabinet Sunday meanwhile there were renewed Palestinian protests at, the fence separating Gaza and Israel Palestinian health officials say Israeli troops. Killed. At least one Palestinian Daniel estrin NPR news Jerusalem A federal judge in New York. City has dismissed to lawsuits against Fox. News channel over its botched coverage of the death of a young, Democratic Party staffer named Seth, rich as NPR's David. Folkenflik reports, the judge said the plaintiffs failed the state of valid. Legal claim FOX's story alleged that, an FBI, source and a private investigator working on the case had found evidence Richard been linked to the leaking of Democratic Party emails during the two thousand sixteen presidential campaign and suggested his death might. Be related to the, leaks the private investigator is rod Wheeler he'd been hired. By Dallas investment manager intent on rebutting official findings that Russia had the emails hacked to help candidate Donald Trump Wheeler sued saying FOX, put words in his mouth FOX. Withdrew the story, after an, outcry the, judge said Wheeler could. Not avoid his own role in quote perpetuating a. Politically, motivated story not having any basis in fact the judge dismissed the second lawsuit by, Seth, rich parents they intend to appeal David Folkenflik NPR news New, York On Wall Street Friday stocks closed, up after a solid jobs, report the s&p five. Hundred index, gained thirteen points the Dow climbed one hundred thirty six. The NASDAQ composite up nine points, this is, NPR news Houston's police chief says. A man accused of killing one of former President George h.w Bush doctors killed himself when confronted by police, authorities say sixty two year old Joseph James Pappas died from a single self inflicted shot. Friday morning he'd been the subject of an intense manhunt since July twentieth the pro football. Hall of fame in canton Ohio will. Enshrine eight new members on Saturday from member station w. k. SU Kabeer body I reports it's a class that's. Generated interest both on and off the field wide receiver Terrell Owens will not, be in canton for, this year ceremony citing a perceived lack of respect for having to wait till his third year of eligibility Ray Lewis Welby there. Honored for an impressive seventeen seasons with the Baltimore Ravens but during his career he also pleaded guilty to obstruction of Justice in connection with the. Stabbing deaths of two men during a Super Bowl after party the senior committee this year selected. Jerry Kramer who played for the Green. Bay Packers team that won the. First two Super Bowls Robert doctor doom Brazil rounding out this year's class are linebacker Brian. Urlacher receiver Randy moss defensive back Brian. Dawkins and executive Bobby Beth for NPR news I'm Kabeer Bhatia in canton Ohio eight places in Portugal broke local. Temperature records Friday as a wave of heat from North Africa swept across the, Iberian peninsula forecasters are, predicting the scorching temperatures could get even worse over the weekend temperatures built to one hundred thirteen degrees Friday and many inland areas. Of Portugal and we're expected the top one hundred sixteen degrees in some places on Saturday I'm Jim hawk NPR news in Washington Support for. NPR comes from the Lemelson foundation committed to improving lives through invention in the US and in developing countries and working to inspire and enable the next, generation of inventors more information is available at Lemelson dot org and the Robert. Wood Johnson foundation at RWJF dot org.