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Disney Plus Streaming Sets 'Artemis Fowl' Premiere Date
"Disney set the streaming -only premiere date for live -action sci -fi fantasy Artemis Fowl on its Disney Plus service worldwide, hoping it gives more juice to the subscription VOD product while all of the theaters are closed. Artemis Fowl, directed by Kenneth Branagh, will be exclusively available on Disney Plus beginning on Friday, June 12th. It had originally been set for a May 29th theatrical debut. Based on the best -selling book by Irish author Ian Culfer, Artemis Fowl follows the journey of a 12 -year -old criminal mastermind as he desperately tries to save his kidnapped father. Artemis must infiltrate an ancient underground civilization of fairies and track down the Oculus, the fairies' most powerful and coveted magical device, to pay the ransom. In a statement, Branagh said that Artemis Fowl would be as proud as I am that families around the world will now be able to enjoy his first amazing screen adventures together on Disney Plus. Artemis Fowl stars newcomer Ferdia Shaw in the title role, alongside Laura Macdonald, Josh Gad, Tamara Smart, Nonso Anozzi, Josh Maguire, Nikesh Patel, and Adrian Scarborough, with Colin Farrell and Judi Dench. Branagh and Judi Hofflin are producing, with Angus Moore Gordon and Matthew Jenkins serving as executive producers. Connor McPherson and Hamish McCall wrote the screenplay. Amid the COVID -19 crisis, Disney has postponed nearly every one of its forthcoming movie releases, including Black Widow, Mulan, The New Mutants, The Eternals, Jungle Cruise, and Indiana Jones 5. The media conglomerate is betting that Artemis Fowl will draw more subscribers into Disney Plus, which surpassed 50 million paying customers worldwide in its first five months of service.
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"Hello everyone! Welcome to your weekly tech update, the show that explores the newest, coolest, and sometimes mind -boggling side of tech available on the interwebs. I am your host, Ray McNeil. Coming up on the program today, Google Meet video calls are getting a Zoom -like layout. Impossible Foods rolls out to nearly one thousand new grocery stores and supermarkets, and will take your mind off the world and put a smile on your face with this week's Moment of Joy. That and a whole lot more coming up on today's edition of your weekly tech update, next. Google Meet will undergo huge changes over the next few weeks as the tech giant rushes to make it a more viable alternative to Zoom. To start with, the video conferencing tool is now directly accessible from within Gmail for business and education users. Those who prefer Zoom for its gallery -like layout that can show up to 25 participants at once would probably be more excited to get another feature coming later this month. Google will roll out a new layout option that can display up to 16 participants. There's already a Chrome extension that can mimic the Zoom feature for Meet, but its official release means there's no need for a workaround anymore. The company will also enhance Meet's video quality in dim lighting and its ability to filter out background noise in the coming weeks. In addition, an upcoming feature will allow users to display a specific tab open on their Chrome browser during a call. Zoom recently enjoyed a surge in popularity due to a shelter -at -home order, but it suffered from various privacy issues that has prompted a lot of organizations. including several school districts in the U .S. to ban it outright. With these changes, Meet could become a new decent alternative to Zoom, especially since its premium features are free to use until September 30th. Disney set the streaming -only premiere date for live -action sci -fi fantasy Artemis Fowl on its Disney Plus service worldwide, hoping it gives more juice to the subscription VOD product while all of the theaters are closed. Artemis Fowl, directed by Kenneth Branagh, will be exclusively available on Disney Plus beginning on Friday, June 12th. It had originally been set for a May 29th theatrical debut. Based on the best -selling book by Irish author Ian Culfer, Artemis Fowl follows the journey of a 12 -year -old criminal mastermind as he desperately tries to save his kidnapped father. Artemis must infiltrate an ancient underground civilization of fairies and track down the Oculus, the fairies' most powerful and coveted magical device, to pay the ransom. In a statement, Branagh said that Artemis Fowl would be as proud as I am that families around the world will now be able to enjoy his first amazing screen adventures together on Disney Plus. Artemis Fowl stars newcomer Ferdia Shaw in the title role, alongside Laura Macdonald, Josh Gad, Tamara Smart, Nonso Anozzi, Josh Maguire, Nikesh Patel, and Adrian Scarborough, with Colin Farrell and Judi Dench. Branagh and Judi Hofflin are producing, with Angus Moore Gordon and Matthew Jenkins serving as executive producers. Connor McPherson and Hamish McCall wrote the screenplay. Amid the COVID -19 crisis, Disney has postponed nearly every one of its forthcoming movie releases, including Black Widow, Mulan, The New Mutants, The Eternals, Jungle Cruise, and Indiana Jones 5. The media conglomerate is betting that Artemis Fowl will draw more subscribers into Disney Plus, which surpassed 50 million paying customers worldwide in its first five months of service. That's been buoyed by its recent launch in India and eight Western European countries, along with the early release of Frozen 2 on the subscription service. In the U .S., Disney Plus is $6 .99 monthly, or $69 .99 for a one -year subscription.
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"Hello everyone! Welcome to your weekly tech update, the show that explores the newest, coolest, and sometimes mind-boggling side of tech available on the interwebs. I am your host, Ray McNeil. Coming up on the program today, Google Meet video calls are getting a Zoom-like layout. Impossible Foods rolls out to nearly one thousand new grocery stores and supermarkets, and will take your mind off the world and put a smile on your face with this week's Moment of Joy. That and a whole lot more coming up on today's edition of your weekly tech update, next. Google Meet will undergo huge changes over the next few weeks as the tech giant rushes to make it a more viable alternative to Zoom. To start with, the video conferencing tool is now directly accessible from within Gmail for business and education users. Those who prefer Zoom for its gallery-like layout that can show up to 25 participants at once would probably be more excited to get another feature coming later this month. Google will roll out a new layout option that can display up to 16 participants. There's already a Chrome extension that can mimic the Zoom feature for Meet, but its official release means there's no need for a workaround anymore. The company will also enhance Meet's video quality in dim lighting and its ability to filter out background noise in the coming weeks. In addition, an upcoming feature will allow users to display a specific tab open on their Chrome browser during a call. Zoom recently enjoyed a surge in popularity due to a shelter-at-home order, but it suffered from various privacy issues that has prompted a lot of organizations. including several school districts in the U.S. to ban it outright. With these changes, Meet could become a new decent alternative to Zoom, especially since its premium features are free to use until September 30th. Disney set the streaming-only premiere date for live-action sci-fi fantasy Artemis Fowl on its Disney Plus service worldwide, hoping it gives more juice to the subscription VOD product while all of the theaters are closed. Artemis Fowl, directed by Kenneth Branagh, will be exclusively available on Disney Plus beginning on Friday, June 12th. It had originally been set for a May 29th theatrical debut. Based on the best-selling book by Irish author Ian Culfer, Artemis Fowl follows the journey of a 12-year-old criminal mastermind as he desperately tries to save his kidnapped father. Artemis must infiltrate an ancient underground civilization of fairies and track down the Oculus, the fairies' most powerful and coveted magical device, to pay the ransom. In a statement, Branagh said that Artemis Fowl would be as proud as I am that families around the world will now be able to enjoy his first amazing screen adventures together on Disney Plus. Artemis Fowl stars newcomer Ferdia Shaw in the title role, alongside Laura Macdonald, Josh Gad, Tamara Smart, Nonso Anozzi, Josh Maguire, Nikesh Patel, and Adrian Scarborough, with Colin Farrell and Judi Dench. Branagh and Judi Hofflin are producing, with Angus Moore Gordon and Matthew Jenkins serving as executive producers. Connor McPherson and Hamish McCall wrote the screenplay. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, Disney has postponed nearly every one of its forthcoming movie releases, including Black Widow, Mulan, The New Mutants, The Eternals, Jungle Cruise, and Indiana Jones 5. The media conglomerate is betting that Artemis Fowl will draw more subscribers into Disney Plus, which surpassed 50 million paying customers worldwide in its first five months of service. That's been buoyed by its recent launch in India and eight Western European countries, along with the early release of Frozen 2 on the subscription service. In the U.S., Disney Plus is $6.99 monthly, or $69.99 for a one-year subscription.
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A highlight from Your-Weekly-Tech-Update-EP-132
"Hello everyone! Welcome to your weekly tech update, the show that explores the newest, coolest, and sometimes mind -boggling side of tech available on the interwebs. I am your tech therapist, Ray McNeil. I'm here to take your mind off of the current state of the world and my prescription? Technology. Coming up on the program today, Google's Tilt Brush virtual painting app is coming to the PlayStation VR. This has me so excited. Valve's first entry into the Half -Life world in 13 years is now available and it's in VR. And happening in this week's What The... We're actually going to rename the segment this week to give you just a moment of joy. That and a whole lot more coming up on today's edition of your weekly tech update, next. Hi everyone. Google's Tilt Brush painting app is conquering one of its few remaining frontiers. We're talking about consoles. The search giant has teamed up with Outerloop Games to release the 3D creative tool for the PlayStation VR. To no one's surprise, it's the same experience just in your living room. It turned your PlayStation Move controllers into virtual brushes that you can use to create pretty much any immersive masterpiece that you can dream up. And yes, Sony is aware that Move controllers aren't always easy to find. It's actually selling a $100 Tilt Brush bundle that includes two wands plus a code for Tilt Brush. That kit doesn't include the PlayStation VR headset itself, but it beats having to scrounge for controllers at other stores or even shops like Goodwill. However you complete your setup, it could be worth the expense if you need another creative tool to help you relax during a particularly stressful time. Dragon's Lair was a technological marvel when it was released way back in 1983. Instead of using conventional graphics of the day, which were not great at all, it featured real animation by ex -Disney animator Don Bluth enabled by beefy laser disc storage. It wasn't a particularly good game. Alright, it was horrible, but those stunning visuals turned it into a five -star quarter eater and inspired home versions on a variety of platforms. The original is on Steam right now if you wanted to play it, and GOG picked up the Dragon's Lair trilogy back in 2018. In 2015, Bluth and Gary Goldman launched a $550 ,000 Kickstarter project to help fund the creation of Dragon's Lair the movie. It tanked, so they cancelled and went to Indiegogo looking for $250 ,000 slightly over what was pledged on Kickstarter. At this time, they were actually successful, achieving their goal in just a couple of weeks and ultimately pulling in more than $350 ,000. And now, according to The Hollywood Reporter anyway, the project has been picked up by Netflix, with none other than Ryan Reynolds in talks to star as Dragon's Lair hero, Dirk the Daring. Bluth, Goldman, and John Pomeroy, another animator who left Disney to work with Bluth, are producing this. Netflix confirmed the report on Twitter. Dragon's Lair isn't very big on plot. Princess Daphne has been kidnapped by the Dragon Singe and is being held in the fortress of the evil wizard Marduk. And Dirk the Daring, a bold, vaguely dumbwitted knight, crashes the castle to rescue her. The game itself doesn't provide any greater depth because it's basically a series of rapid -fire quick -time events. That means the writers have the freedom to run with pretty much whatever they want. But whether that's actually a good thing, we'll have to wait and see. Hopefully it will be better than Reynolds' last collaboration with Netflix, the Michael Bay -directed cinematic fiasco Six Underground. Honestly, I can't imagine it being any worse. However, I am an action fan and I did find some mild entertainment out of that movie. Tesla is preparing to release an update to its Autopilot system that will enable it to finally automatically stop at traffic lights. And a video of the system at work has already been released. The automaker is supposed to induce more advanced driver assist features meant to help city driving, the same way Autopilot has been helping Tesla drivers for highway driving. It's part of what CEO Elon Musk calls the feature -complete version of its full self -driving capability, which Tesla was supposed to push at least to its early access owners by the end of last year. Instead, Tesla pushed what Musk called a full self -driving preview, which was the integration of stop signs and traffic lights in Tesla's Autopilot visualization. When the automaker pushed the update in December, Tesla's Autopilot system didn't act on those traffic lights. Now, it looks like Tesla has started to push an Autopilot update with the actual ability to handle intersections to its early access fleet, a group of owners who beta test new software updates from Tesla. Out of Spec Motoring on Twitter, who apparently has access to a Model 3 with early access software, released a video of the new Autopilot software in action. It shows the Model 3 detecting the red light and stopping the car on its own with some new driving visualizations. The driver assist feature for city driving is part of a promise that Tesla has made since starting to sell its full self -driving package many years ago now. It's going to be available to owners of Tesla vehicles with the latest Autopilot hardware and who paid the $7 ,000 full self -driving capable package price, which has been listing these two upcoming features, recognize and respond to traffic lights and stop, and automatic driving on city streets. The fact that the feature is in early access right now means that Tesla is closer than ever to releasing it to its broader fleet, but the timeline is not exactly clear. Sometimes Tesla only takes days between pushing a feature to its early access owners and the larger customer fleet, while at other times it can take weeks. While Tesla Autopilot will be able to automatically operate at intersections like with Autopilot on the highway, Tesla still says that drivers must keep their hands on the steering wheel at all times and, of course, be ready to take control. The driver is still always responsible for driving a Tesla vehicle.
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Mark Levin: Reminder, Vladimir Putin Is the Criminal
"And that's a fair point. But why is it, why is it that if you have the view that the Ukrainian people and the country of Ukraine and the, the criminal here is Putin and his deletion of his army against the people of Ukraine and indiscriminately killing tens of thousands of and citizens kidnapping tens of thousands of children and bringing them into Russia to be taking them from their parents? You can understand, I think, why some people would say is that absolutely repulsive and unconscionable. So, what is this effort that constantly character assassinates Zelensky? First, to call him a neo -Nazi. He met with every rabbi, leading rabbi in the Chabad Orthodox Jewish from movement every community in Ukraine two weeks while the Jews are fleeing Russia, the rabbis are fleeing Russia. So, to call him a neo -Nazi when he lost, as well, family members in the church, it is just sickening. It is sickening. That is number one. Number two, if you stand with me, and if you don't, that is fine, but if you do, all then of a sudden, you are taking the same position
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"kidnapping" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"1-8-prager-776-877-243776. And let's see. Let's see, what do you say? I'll take that one. Weatherford, Texas. And Jay, hello. Good afternoon, Dennis. How are you, sir? Thank you, Will. Good. Real quick, just want to tell you, I think you're one of the most intelligent men that I've ever heard speak. I listen to you every day. Thank you. And as a Christian, man, I love you so very much. Thank you. Anyway, I did want to let you know that. It means a lot. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm glad it does. I think I'm saying the same thing, but I'm saying it in a little bit of a different way, because God is good, and Satan is evil. God will not go into the evil realm except for as a Christian. I believe Jesus came to earth, put himself in that evil realm to save, to give the opportunity for mankind to be saved. And I say all that to say that I think the most important thing is the same thing you're saying in a lot of senses. Yeah, is love. I'm going to react to that. Forgive me for anticipating. Ultimate issues hour, and what is it God most cares about is my subject, and I say, based on biblical arguments I gave. God most cares about good and evil, that we do good and we resist evil. Those of you who love God must hate evil. I have a whole series. I gave seven or eight arguments that that's what God most cares about. A lot of religious people don't agree with me, and secular people don't think that you need God for goodness. But, only secular people say men give birth. Only secular people believe America is systemically racist. I mean, there are a few religious people who claim it as well, but not believers in the divine nature of the Bible. We need both. We need God and we need goodness. So, all right, my caller in Texas, Jay, thank you, and he was arguing that we basically hold similar views. He's Christian, I'm a Jew, but he would use the word love. I don't use the word love because it is much less precise than good and evil. In any event, to be perfectly honest, this is a personal note, if you will. I don't mean about me personally, but it's my view more than I'm giving you a biblical basis, just a reasonable one. I don't care if you love me. I care if you hurt me. If you don't treat me bad, or treat me good, if you really, and I mean me, anybody, I know it says love your neighbor as yourself. It is a phenomenally great general view. It is almost impossible to love your neighbor as yourself, as we all know, but it doesn't matter. It is a beautiful thought. And it really is truth because the Hebrew has the word to. It's really love to your neighbor in Hebrew. For those of you who know Hebrew, V'ahavta lit tu reyachah, not et reyachah. Good and evil, that's the biggest thing. You know, it's amazing. I'm looking at this newspaper here in front of me. So, where was this article on what's happening? Oh, bummer. I wanted to read you something here. Yeah, sexual violence still rampant in Ethiopia, writes panel reports. Canada expels India envoy amid slaying inquiry of a Canadian Sikh. Slovakia front runner wants to end Ukraine aid, and he's a leftist. Iran frees five Americans who were kidnapped by the Iranians for six billion dollars. Suspect held after deputies slaying. That's just the first two pages. God made a really, really flawed creature when he made human beings capable of being magnificent and angelic. But they are outliers, let's be honest. Okay, Lake Elsinore, California, and Bruce. Hello, Bruce. Hi, Dennis. How are you? Well, thank you. I've admired you for a long time, but I need to challenge you a little bit. You have a moral compass. Putin is an evil dictator. I think we agree on that. He has done evil to Ukraine. I think we agree on that. Why would you compromise when all the great leaders like Churchill and Roosevelt would never compromise to give up territory ever? And I must say this. Israel should never give up territory to give up to evil. So, why would you advocate that? I don't understand that. You can't use them as good examples in that. I'm sorry, and I love them both. Back in a moment and don't go away. Subscribe at PragerTopia.com. Progressive Country Insurance Company and Affiliates Roadside Assistance subject to policy terms and limits and they require comprehensive coverage.
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"kidnapping" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Whatever I talk about is of universal interest as well as Jewish interest. I gave a sermon, two sermons actually, on what does God most want. That is my column in today's town hall. Then we'll go to Daily Wire and American Greatness and many other sites. What does God most care about? Why would you answer that question? Before I give my answer, whether you're religious or not religious, even if you're an atheist, you could just answer, what do you think if there is a God, God most cares about? Everybody can offer their own answer. You're Christian, you're a Jew, you're a Muslim, you're a Hindu, you're an atheist, you're an agnostic. What do you think? What does God most care about? I have an answer and it's biblically based. It's not my answer. It matters what the Bible says because the Bible gave us this God. If the Bible didn't invent God, the Bible revealed God. If the revealer of something says something about what it revealed, it's pretty, I think, dispositive. That's the answer. You want to know what God most cares about? It's in the Bible. Here is my answer. The answer is good and evil, how human beings treat each other. That's what God most cares about, good and evil. So I have some proofs. I offer, let's see, one, two, three, four, I number them, five, six, seven, eight. The article is up at dennisprager.com or townhall.com. What does God most care about? The answer is good and evil, how we human beings treat each other. Here are some proofs from the Bible, the book that gave us God. One, the reason the Bible gives for why God brought the flood that destroyed the world, saving only knowing his family, is that humans were evil. Virtually every ancient society had a flood story. But as far as I could deduce, only in the Bible's story, did God destroy mankind because people were evil. For example, according to the contemporaneous ancient Near East Babylonian story, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the gods destroyed humanity, except for a man named Utnapishtim, because humans made so much noise they kept the gods awake at night. I want you to know, that is by far my favorite pagan tale. The gods in the Babylonian world destroyed the world, killed all human beings except for Utnapishtim and some others who could climb high mountains, because they made so much noise they kept the gods awake. When you realize how different the Bible is from the world in which it developed, the only rational answer is that something above humans created it, which is what I believe. I make the case repeatedly in the rational Bible, my Bible commentary of the first five books. How do you know God cares more about good and evil than anything else? He destroyed the world because of evil. By the way, even if you think it's a myth, it doesn't matter. That's the way the story is presented. This is a God who most cares about good and evil. In every flood story, God saved an individual and a mate, otherwise the flood would have ended human life. The only reason God saved Noah was that he was caught a righteous man in his generations. Again, the sole concern in the Bible's flood story is moral. 3. God is repeatedly described as a moral being. Here's one example from Deuteronomy. The Lord your God is mighty and awesome, not partial, and takes no bribe, executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and loves the stranger, providing them with food and clothing. God is repeatedly described as good. 4. The fundamental human division in the Hebrew Bible is not between Jew and non-Jew, but between good and bad people. That is why the Hebrew Bible describes so many non-Jews as good, in addition to Noah, the daughter of Pharaoh, Jethro, a Midianite priest, Caleb, whose ethnicity is not Hebrew but Kenizzite, Rahab, the Canaanite prostitute who hid the Hebrew spies, and Ruth, the Moabite who becomes the ancestor of the Messiah. And so often criticizes the Jews for their bad behavior. If this were an ethnocentric book, the Hebrew Bible, the Jews would look great, the Israelites, the Hebrews, whichever term you wish to use, and the non-Jews would look bad. But so many non-Jews are depicted as good, and so often the Jews are not depicted as good or as not good. The division of the Hebrew Bible, which gave us God, is between the decent and the indecent, not between religions or races or anything else. No holy work is so critical of the people of that holy work's religion as the Hebrew Bible is of the Hebrews. Again, that is because God is preoccupied with moral differences, not with differences of ethnicity or even of religion. As Viktor Frankl wrote in his seminal book, Man's Search for Meaning, there are only two races, the decent and the indecent. I got this idea from the Bible. I got the words from Frankl, but I got the idea from the Bible. The only division that matters is good and bad. That is why I hate the left. It is the opposite of biblical morality. It divides the world between rich and poor and between black and white, not between good and evil. It is disinterested in promoting the good. It is in promoting by race or by class. The Soviets by class, the left wing in America by race. All whites are racist. It is an inconceivable comment in the Bible. Inconceivable. All indecent people or all racists are indecent. Dennis Prager here, Ultimate Issues Hour. What does God most care about? That is my article today at DennisPrager.com and Town Hall. It will migrate to many other sites in the course of the week. Daily Wire, American Greatness, Jewish Press, Jewish World Review, which is good. I wouldn't write so often if I didn't think I had people reading it. I offer proof of my argument that the thing God most cares about is good and evil, how we treat other people. The Hebrew Bible and therefore God is also preoccupied with moral treatment of animals. Most people do not realize that treatment of animals is included in the Ten Commandments. Not only must one's animals be allowed to rest every week on the Sabbath, but there are also laws in the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, that prohibit muzzling animals while they work in the field so that they are free to eat while they work, yoking animals of two different species and therefore having different gaits and sizes to the same plow, and eating the limb of a living animal. 6. While slavery was not outright banned, three thousand years ago the Torah prohibited returning a slave to his master, kidnapping people to sell them as slaves, that alone should have made Bible believers abolitionists, and sentence a master who murdered his slave to death. That is what the punishment avenged must likely mean. 7. The prophets, the Hebrew word means spokesman, God's spokesman, were preoccupied with moral behavior. 8. God is repeatedly depicted as more interested, more concerned with moral behavior than anything else. 9. God has told you, O humans, what is good and what the Lord demands of you, only to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God. 8. Hate evil and love good and establish justice, Amos. Those of you who love God must hate evil, Psalms. And I conclude with two paragraphs. If rabbis, priests, and ministers are to be true to the Bible, they need to emphasize that what God demands most from their co-religionists is good behavior. That is not only obvious from the Hebrew Bible, but from the New Testament as well. Yes, the New Testament teaches that there is no salvation without right faith, i.e. faith in Christ, but there is no right faith without right behavior. Did you get that? There is no right faith without right behavior. That is why Christians, when challenged, look at all the atrocities Christians committed against Jews and others in the Middle Ages and later on Protestants and Catholics slaughtering one another. And so the answer is, well, they weren't really Christians. They're not real Christians to act that way. Okay, so you're agreeing. You know somebody believes by their behavior. So my thesis is right. As James puts it, I write, faith without works is dead. And as Jesus quoted and Matthew put it, in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the law and the prophets. The religious tragedy is that too often religious people have placed something above moral behavior, ritual practice among Jews, and theology among Christians. Both are very important because goodness will not survive the death of Judeo-Christian values. Just look at the moral chaos in large parts of secular America today. The most secular institutions of our society, the universities, have become moral and intellectual wastelands. And finally, we need God and concern with goodness. God without concern with goodness leads to evil, and so does concern with goodness without God. Okay, what do you think? That's my argument. It's at dennisprager.com and townhall.com until they migrate elsewhere.
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"kidnapping" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Hello everybody, Dennis Prager here with you. Six billion dollars given by the government for American hostages, six of them in Iran. So what Iran does is just arrest people and then gets billions of dollars. Why this will not increase the chances of more Americans visiting Iran, usually of Iranian background. I feel for these people, needless to say, I have to admit that I feel, it's an interesting analogy that comes to my mind, but it's a feeling, so you're allowed it. I don't claim in this case that it is completely analogous. But I think that anyone, especially of Iranian extraction, who visits Iran is doing something very foolish, just as I think most people who send their kids to a regular American school today are doing something foolish. Overwhelmingly, the odds against your being kidnapped if you go to Iran are quite high. The odds against your child becoming a bad human being with sick values is actually much greater than being kidnapped if you go to Iran. But people really do walk through life thinking bad will not happen to them. That's what you must think if you're an Iranian-American and you visit Iran. Nothing will happen to me, but why? It's six billion dollars to Iran. We don't have the money. It just increases the chances of others doing it. The truth of the matter is, maybe the United States kidnaps six Iranians. These people are innocent. They didn't do anything wrong. Why will Iran not do it again? And why will Iranian-Americans continue to visit Iran? Maybe because they are convinced that so long as Joe Biden is in office, they'll pay any price and do this. I'll tell you, it takes a lot to get me scared, and there is an article in the New York Times that did make me scared. It's with regard to the United States budget. We are now at, what is it, thirty trillion dollars? What is the sum? Thirty-three trillion dollars. I think most of you will recognize that there is a point wherein the economy of this country will be in deep jeopardy. Now there is a line in this, America's gross national debt—again, this is from the supporters of this debt, the New York Times. They want all this money spent. I'll tell you, there are so many amazing things in this article. America's gross national debt exceeded thirty-three trillion dollars. That's thirty-three thousand billion. I don't know how to make it clear how big it is. You can't. That's a good point. Yeah, you can't. That's right. Let me see. From here to the moon? That's right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. When Washington faces the prospect of a government shutdown this month and another fight over federal spending, Congress appeared to be faltering in its efforts to fund the government ahead of a September 30th deadline. So of course, what happens is if the Republicans insist that we have to spend less, and that's the condition of keeping the government open, then the Republicans are blamed for hurting people. The inherent flaws of democracy when you have a people, many of whom have been weaned at the breast of government, is an insoluble problem. Vote for us. We'll hire you or we'll pay you. The expansion of the government is analogous to the expansion of college budgets on staggering numbers of administrators. Do you know that Stanford University has as many administrators, deans, vice presidents, and the other—the other useless—I wish they were useless positions. They're harmful positions.
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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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A highlight from DC28-Hildegarde-pt1
"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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Game of Crimes
A highlight from 115: Part 2: Ric Prado Hunts Osama bin Laden and Leads the CIA Response after 9/11
"Our case is more like what the FBI did, you know, infiltrating the mafia or something like that. We have to maintain a clandestine and secure relationship, but also a very healthy relationship. We have a motto in the business that says you never fall in love with your agent, but you make them think that you're in love with them. You're always stops testing them, you're always double checking, you always put them under surveillance to make sure that they're doing what they say that we're doing, but it is very different because it's a very different goal. We don't work on problems, we work on intelligence. Well let's use that as a good springboard to start moving forward because a lot of your world starts changing, we start talking about the Cold War, you start talking about terrorism starts rearing its head, but at some point you became, worked with Michael Schur and Alex Station, the bin Laden unit. Tell us about that. Yeah, I had just come back from Korea, I had just gotten my GS -15, and I was the head of the Palestinian branch for CTC, our counter -terrorist center, and I got called into the front office by the chief of ops, and he said, look, you know, your name has been raised to be deputy chief of station for this virtual station targeting terrorism. I had never heard of virtual station, we were the first, and talking to my boss I said, well thank you boss, I mean of course I'll, you know, deputy chief of station, hell yeah, but who are we going after? And he said Osama bin Laden. And I said, who? And he goes, exactly. Mike Sawyer, Sawyer was the analyst that had been following this, so he was the chief of station for Alex Station, I was his deputy chief of station, and I was the senior ops officer, we only had two other case officers, the rest were analysts, incredible analysts and targeting officers. And by the way, that's the very same unit that eventually got bin Laden, you know, geo -located and allowed under our authorities for the SEAL team to go shoot him in the face. Excellent. Room temperature was a good result for that, but yeah, and the sad part is too, I did some work with the state department over in Islamabad training their police, their federal investigative agency, special investigative group, and while we were there at that time is about the time they figured bin Laden ended up in Abbottabad, and that's just about 30 clicks north, 30 or 40 clicks north of Islamabad, you know, right under literally everybody's noses. I just, I still have some heartburn over how much cooperation he got from the Pakistani government. Did you have concerns about that or am I just off in left field here? No, the Pakistani government is completely dual purpose. You have people that love us and people that love to kill us, meaning Americans. They're the ones that created the Taliban, for God's sake. The ISI. Their intelligence service literally was the ones that actually helped create the Taliban. So that penetration was always there. We did have, according to people that worked there, I never did, we did have some very good relationships liaison with some Pakistanis, but they were infiltrated from the other side too quite a bit. Yeah, we ended up kicking a couple people out of our training that had, once some tenuous connections came to light, it was like, yeah, I think it spells ISI is what you should have put down as your organization, but what I'm interested in, let's go back to that because that, you know, like you said, bin Laden who, not many people took him seriously. He issued his fatwa, you know, he said, here's what we're going to do. And then we started getting the bombings. We got some bombings of the embassies, right? That's correct. Well, you know, yeah, that is one of the things that set us all off because we had, when bin Laden was still in Khartoum, when we opened up the station, when we started Alex Stationing, and we had recorded intelligence from a very dear friend of mine, a Green Beret legend and CIA legend by the name of Billy Waugh. Billy was the head of security for Black in Khartoum at the time when he was there. He's also the guy that saw and helped arrest, helped capture Carlos the Jackal, the renowned terrorist from the 70s in Europe, but he was the guy in charge of doing surveillance of bin Laden. And he had him, you know, he knew what he was going to have for lunch. He knew what car he drove. He was in the white. He was not concerned because, you know, in Khartoum at the time, it was like a terrorist hotel and he was putting, pouring all kinds of money. So we came up with several plans to kidnap him, to kill him, whatever it took. And the then administration kept saying, well, we don't have enough proof. And our argument was we got overhead from satellites of the kind of training that he's facilitating with former jihadists in these other countries. We're getting all source information from all kinds of different governments that he's extorting money from the Saudis. He's doing this. He's doing that. He's bringing people in from Afghanistan when, you know, the motto of CTC is supposed to This is what we do. And the administration never, ever bought off on that. And what I always tell people is that imagine in 1997 or late 96, early 97, if we would have been able to neutralize bin Laden, the coal, the bombings of our two embassies and maybe even 9 -11 could have been derailed. You know, and I'll give away a little bit of your book here, Chapter 28, where you talk about that. You know, I mean, you just lay it out and I love it. You know, the answer is clear, thanks to the history and hindsight. Those 4 ,000 people killed in one of the U .S. Embassy attacks in Africa will still be alive today. Untraumatized, unscarred by their terrible luck, USS Cole would never have been attacked. The Pentagon would have never been hit by the American Airlines flight. The Twin Towers would still be standing. The 3 ,000 people who died in the World Trade Center still be with us. Families wouldn't be unaffected. I mean, it just goes on and on. It's amazing how much destruction, terrorism, chaos, anarchy he caused, and the point from all of this is that our administration at the time didn't have the cojones to take care of business. That is the bottom line. I mean, you do a very good job explaining that in the book. I really appreciated that. Thank you. I'd say it was definitely a fact. You know, at the time the agency was supporting us. They were carrying our water across the river, but we were definitely not getting the traction there. And a lot of people took that very personal, especially I was Chief of Officer of the Counter -Terrorist Center when 9 -11 happened. So that really stuck in my craw. Well, I can't imagine. Well, and there's an interesting... Some of it, maybe it's a little bit lower, but when the original World Trade Center attacks happened, they tried to bomb them, the idiots, which thankfully they returned the van trying to... They tried to report it stolen. That's how we ended up getting the guys. But one of the things that came out of this, I think that helped them with their future planning is when they were in court, they bring in some of the structural engineers. You come to find out the World Trade Center, the twin towers were designed to withstand the impact of a 737. So then you start... So why are the 757s and 67s targeted? Why? Because unfortunately, you never know what kind of information is going to be used by somebody later. And that's... I don't know if that helped formulate some of his planning, but it's definitely some of the stuff that came out when you find out what they're designed to withstand. And then, like you say, you get... We see... I think part of our failing is we tend to think too short -term. Why would they think like that? That's not the point. You need to think like your adversary. Your adversary doesn't think like you. That's why they win. That's why they're able to pull off a lot of the stuff, because they're thinking differently than us. I want to get into 9 -11 and what you see there. But up until that point, what do you think was the biggest impediment other than political? Was it the way that we had been trained that we didn't really understand Islamic law? We didn't understand what bin Laden... that he really meant the fatwa that he did? Were there some other things that contributed to this other than political? Political is the number one problem that you have. You cannot run operations, military or intelligence, through an optic of politics. It's two different worlds.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Is the DOJ Simply Targeting Trump Supporters?
"Guarantee you there are many, many people who have murdered, who have raped, who have kidnapped, who have done horrific things, who got less than 22 years. You know, the phrase political prisoners is hard to shake off, isn't it? And the difficulty for me over this conversation is I'm not trying to make heroes out of the people who committed acts of violence on January 6th. They did enormous damage to this country. And giving the left and the Democrats this weapon against Trump is infuriating to me. And if that hadn't happened, they had nothing. You had thousands of people that showed up on January 6th and heard Trump give a speech. The end. And we'd be on to the next thing. I'm going to advance the theory and then I'm going to go to your calls. There's one reason, one reason alone this is happening. They're targeting Trump supporters. And it's happening all over the country. And it's happening from Trump on down. And they're weaponizing the Justice Department. They're weaponizing law enforcement as political actions. They're targeting Trump to stop him from running and winning in 2024. They're targeting Ken Paxton, the attorney general in Texas, because he's a staunch Trump supporter and a hardcore conservative and a big MAGA guy. They're trying to take him out through impeachment. Forget that the voters overwhelmingly elected him in a landslide. They're trying to impeach him and remove him because he's a Trump supporter, I believe. And of course, the people who are being sentenced to many, many, many years behind bars, it's because they're Trump supporters.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 113: Part 2: Tye Holand is Saving Children with Operation Underground Railroad
"That's the devaluation of life. That's what's hurt us in so many different areas. Well, let's start setting the stage for a little bit because we want to talk about Operation Underground Railroad. So as you're going through this career, was it just time for you to retire? I mean, did you max out on what you get from retirement? Or did you say, I've had enough, I got to go do something else? What was your decision on pulling the pin? Well, I think we all got to a point or get to a point where you kind of know you're done policing, but I wasn't done serving. And so that's where I was kind of conflicted. And since 2006, I've been in kind of this human trafficking realm. I worked with a group, International Justice Mission, and I was a contractor with them. And so I did a lot of work in Southeast Asia, infiltrating organizations and bars and nightclubs and finding trafficked victims. So I did that for many years. And then in 2016, I got hooked up with Operation Underground Railroad. And so I was doing work with them on a contract basis. So I would go to any number of countries and do cases and stuff like that. So in late 2021, we started talking and they needed a director of special operations. And so it kind of worked out where I said, okay, it's time, I can go do this and still serve and be a part of a fantastic, fantastic organization. Hey, so let's set context for this. But just out of curiosity, you've been looking at this subject for a long time. What are the top five worst countries for this? You know, shoot, top five worst countries. Because everybody thinks about things like Thailand, you know. Kind of areas. I mean, there's, I would say more areas. I mean, you got Southeast Asia, you got Central America. You got a lot going on in the Caribbean. You have a lot going on in South America. I mean, name the spot. The sad thing is it's going on everywhere. Because human trafficking is, I think it's $150 billion a year industry. It's second only to narcotics, the drug trade. Human trafficking is, and it's true. The cartels. Well, it's becoming more lucrative for the cartels with less risk than trying to, you know, narcotics, you know, drug smuggling. Oh, absolutely. I mean, they're not, the cartels aren't stupid. And they know, they know that, you know, a kilo of cocaine can be sold one time. You've all heard this analogy. But, you know, you get a 14, 14, 15 year old girl, and you can sell her 10 times a day, 10, 12 times a day for umpteen years. And look how much money you made off of one person. Well, let me ask you, when you're talking about the worst areas of the world, is that where the kidnappings are taking place? Or is that the people who are partaking of these innocent victims? Well, the vast majority of, or a large majority of trafficked kids are from a known person to them. Whether it's their family, family, friend, clergy, any number of different things. But they're of a grabbing person in that, absolutely. But the majority of it, or a large, large section of it is by people that they know. And what do they get, and what are the folks that are doing it, getting out of it? Are they, this is the, it's a money transaction for them, right? They get something for this? Oh yeah, they get the money. No, I mean, but the person like you said, a clergy or a family member, like the girls introduce a girl into something, and she ends up being used. Is this a money transaction for the girls? It's a money transaction for the person that did it. The mom, the dad, the cousin, the uncle. Wow. And so, taking that just a little bit further, what are the worst countries or locations of people who subscribe to, you know, sex acts with underage children? I would say the United States is the number one purveyor of it. I would say, you know, you have United States, Britain, or, and then, you know, Australia, you have those. When I was in Southeast Asia, I mean, I can't tell you the amount of Americans and Brits and Australians that I saw over there. That's where they coined the term sex tourism from. You'd go over there. And now the one thing, the only thing that came out of that, I mean, they did finally end up passing some laws to make it a federal crime. It was tricky to establish jurisdiction, you know, how do you have jurisdiction over something that happens in Thailand, you know, or Australia or places like that. But have those laws been effective at all? You think it's slowing this down? Oh, there's been absolutely, there's been people held accountable that were caught in a foreign country doing.
ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
A highlight from TBGP #402 Exclusive Atlas Fallen Impressions, Does Size Matter, Armored Core 6, Industry News, No Console War Crap
"What's up everybody, this is me talking on my own. We tried to do a stream on YouTube earlier today, had a bunch of issues with it technically, which is weird because on my side it was fine. But on YouTube side this time, you guys know that when we do YouTube streams, we just always seem to run into some weird debacle. But it didn't seem to be on my side this time, which was nice. But we ended up having to stop the stream about 20 minutes in. You didn't really miss much. We talked a little bit about games. We talked a little bit about Diablo. So what you're going to see at the starting of this is probably just a cut directly into us discussing games. And I do want to say a special thanks. I didn't get to do this during the stream, but a special thanks to everybody who subscribed were at, I don't know, one million forty thousand or something, a crazy number. Thanks to people who've helped me figure out all the issues I've had on YouTube. You guys rock. But I definitely appreciate getting to a million subscribers. It's been fantastic. That was it. I just absolutely appreciate it. So we're going to cut to the starting of our podcast with all of the guys. Hope you enjoy it. Moving on from there, I want to talk about remnant to so remnant to a bunch of us have been playing it. I've returned to it, which is, like I said, just absolutely astonishing for me because I just don't. Johnny's been playing at a bunch because I see him pop up a lot. You're playing with your friend, I'm assuming, or are you doing solo, mostly solo at this point? What are you thinking as a solo player? You know, sometimes I struggle because the the resurrection from the dog is not reliable. There are times. Yeah, there are times when he just won't do it and I don't understand the logic in it, but that's just playing solo. You're basically you can't die, right? Right. Sometimes you'll get bailed out by the dog, but that's about it. I like it. I like that the bosses have actual mechanics you have to figure out. So, you know, when you run into a boss. There are some tricky things where you have to see, oh, OK, like, you know, he's doing this with the ground and I have to to do so it will take some tries and people I think have to be ready to to die a few times until you figure it out. And the other thing is you have to be extremely thorough in exploring locations because I've found so many secrets and I played a little bit with a friend and he showed me like, oh, you can drop here and then you find this and like there's so many things. So whenever you look at the map, if you have like a black area, you know, undiscovered in your map, definitely go check it out because there's just a ton of secret stuff. One of my favorite things to do in ARPGs is just is just like wipe at the map. You know what I mean? Like clean it all. Every single edge needs to appear. It's like power washer for a HUD. Yeah, exactly. Power washer. But you're just cleaning your mini map. It's funny with Remnant 2, Silver, are you going to do Remnant 2? I think you said no last time. This was two weeks ago or two or three weeks ago. Probably not. So, I mean, I bought Diablo. So if somebody convinced me, right. If somebody if some if Lemon Streak's like, come on. So the thing about Remnant dude that like there's that one slime mold. I don't know if you saw that, Johnny. But there's like a tunnel that if you smash a slime mold and wait ninety nine minutes for the water to fill up, you can go you can then go into the water, jump onto a platform, get a special weapon. I was like, oh my God. Yeah. I get purposely kidnapped by a bad guy that comes in. And if they kidnap you, they take you a spot. If you go to that spot and kill them, you can get a new weapon or get a new archetype that isn't unlocked any other way. There's like it's like types that's made in thing as well. Yeah. It's killed by a guy and get transported somewhere in a weird way. It's a more in -depth Red Dead 2 where you don't have to you don't just look at somebody building that, you know, a railroad track. You actually have to do stuff and then you get rewarded for weird things. And a lot of them are random. But the guy who did the mold thing said he looked at a tunnel and he was like, why is this the only tunnel with shootable mold? So he made a sandwich. He just shot. He saw the water was raising imperceptibly. And he's like, hmm, I'm going to make a sandwich, come back and see. And it just kept filling. It's like, I'm going to wait. And he just waited and waited and waited and then did it was like, oh, man, yes, I feel like remember last time I talked about how the Internet would create metas and stuff. I think this is one of the it's like, you know, going to school until your friend telling your friends, like, holy shit, have you tried this and that? And you can, you know, you could totally do this. I'm not lying. And this is the one of the things where the community just gets together and, you know, you know, discovery happens on a more global scale. And everybody just pushes. Dude, I love how even many days in the community was still discovering the different classes you can. Oh, yeah, dude. I'm sure there are types that they don't even know. Yeah. They don't even know that they've discovered all the classes. Yeah. Like they don't have confirmation that that doesn't feel like they took the replayability to like 11. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's what it's crazy. That's what that's what excited me about. The first remnant is the replayability and the procedural generation. I think that's like the bread and butter is there the replayability because that's the whole thing. Sorry to cut you off, Abzi, just like excited because I discovered so many little things talking to my friend. Like there are alternate killing modes for bosses. Yeah. If you kill a boss, like in a particular way, you can then get a different drop, maybe from weapon drop or something. It's there's just so much. It's so rich. You know, I got to ask, what's Jack Jones, Johnny, your shirt? Just a brand. Just a clothing brand. Oh, OK.
Six Minutes
Time for a Refresher Course in Brynleigh's History
"Are kids in this world who are different. Special. They go to school in a place you can't find on a map. And they're about to get a new classmate. Anders, you've got another visitor. Really? This late? Guess you've got friends in high places. Well, I mean, my teenage daughter does own a multinational corporation. Uh -huh. This way prisoner. Have a seat. Your visitor is on her way. Monica? Hello. Did they send you to the wrong prisoner? No. I'm here to see you, Mr. Anders. I'm sorry. Do I know you? My name is Casey. And it's an honor to finally meet you. Thank you, Jude, for staying with me. To be honest, I wasn't thrilled with the idea of jumping back into the water. I hope Ben and Remi are alright. Yeah. Was I too hard on the kid? No. Well, perhaps. But I understand. I mean, I don't understand why his presence would cause your memory to slip away, but... I hope they're okay too. I suppose, since we're down here, we should keep looking for this interdimensional passageway. It sounds very serious when you say it. You don't think it's serious? The kids at this school might have arrived from a different universe. No, it's just... maybe I want to believe anything other than the truth. About Cyrus. My mother. You're very brave to have come here. And even braver to have decided to stay. You were nearly kidnapped, eaten by an alligator. You had to sleep in the same room as Casey. That was the scariest of all. Point is, you stuck it out. And now I couldn't leave even if I wanted to. So you might as well find the answers you seek. It seems like every road I've gone down since I arrived at Elixir has just led to more questions. Like, remember those creeps on the boat who kidnapped me and Casey? What do they even want from us? And where did they disappear to? I guess that's what we're trying to figure out. What if what we're trying to figure out is just a big fat distraction staged by Dr. Solstice? Or our elusive Headmaster? For what reason? So we don't actually figure out anything. Alright, I now understand water torture. The dripping has not stopped since we got here. Hmmm... What? Nothing. That grunt wasn't a nothing grunt. That was a... I don't like this grunt. I'm sure it's no big deal. What is no big deal? It's just... the water dripping from the ceiling seems to be forming cracks up there. Cracks like... it could crack and come down on our heads? Perhaps we should think about following Pen and Remy's lead and head up to the surface? There's a wall coming down! We're getting locked in! I'm your wife's new assistant. You're the new Brinley, but named Casey. Well... Sorry, I didn't mean it to be insulting, I just meant... I understand. Seems like this Brinley left an impact on a lot of people. Yeah. So, what brings you down here to my current place of residence, Casey? Did Monica send you? No, I came here on my own. Okay... I'm not sure if anyone told you, but that woman who tried to hurt Cyrus? The one in the hoodie? What about her? Well, on the day I came to Holiday Corp for my job interview with Dr. Anders, that woman ran me over in the stairwell. I'm sorry, did you get a look at her face? Not at the time. At least I didn't think so. I'm not sure I understand. I thought about telling this to Dr. Anders, or Birdie, or Cyrus, but they're all so busy and... I know you were leading that investigation, so... What is it, Casey? I've been having these nightmares, Mr. Anders. That woman pops up out of nowhere, runs me down. Sounds like you're reliving a traumatic moment, and it's stuck in your head. Yeah, well... The last time it happened, I decided to try to sketch her face. I thought maybe it would help. Did it? Did you remember something? Maybe... I'm not the greatest artist in the world, but... There's a compartment to slide it through. You can put it in there. Here you go. This is the face I saw in my dreams. Casey, I know who this is. Guard! Guard! I need to call my wife! Keep it down, Anders. It's an emergency. I need to make a call. No more calls tonight. You're going back to your cell. Please, it's important. I don't care. Casey, get this picture to Monica. Hey, get your hands off me! She'll know what to do! Show it to Monica! I just might. And thank you for your fingerprint. Hello? Is anyone there? Hello? Maybe there's something down here that... Huh. Brinley? What are you doing? Those backpacks Pen found down here in the caverns. Maybe there's something that can help us. Good idea. Who do you think left all this stuff behind? The backpacks? The books? I don't know. It was a surprise to me that any of this was down here. But you have a theory. You always have a theory. I suppose. We've been focusing on the possibility of people coming through from other dimensions. Yeah? What about the other direction? You mean people going from our world to others? You said it yourself. Yes, kids show up here sometimes, but sometimes they also disappear. Like Casey and her old roommate. For example? But if that were true, then... Brinley, what is it? This backpack. There's a journal in it. Whose journal? I have a new lead on the gate. It's on an island off the Florida Keys. Check, partner. Someone investigating! There's more. I'm applying for the job as assistant headmaster at the Elixir Academy. If I can get myself hired, I'll have unlimited access to the campus. Plenty of time to figure out what's happening there. Assistant headmaster? Is this Dr. Solstice's journal? How did this get in here? An old family photo. Is Dr. Solstice in it? No. But I am. What? The picture. That's my dad, my mom, and the little girl? That's me!
AP News Radio
U-Haul truck driver who crashed into security barrier at park near White House is arrested
"A man who crashed a U haul truck into a security barrier across from The White House is under arrest. The Secret Service says investigators believe the driver may have intentionally hit the barriers at Lafayette park last night. Police searched the truck and W USA TV posted video showing one officer going through evidence, including a Nazi flag. There were no injuries and authorities have not released the man's identity nor a motive. The park police say he faces multiple charges, including threatening to kill kidnap or inflict harm on a president. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Five go on trial in Germany over far-right plot to kidnap health minister, topple government
"5 people are on trial in Germany, accused of planning a far right coup and plotting to kidnap the country's health minister. The four men, aged from 44 to 56 and a 75 year old woman, are accused of founding or being members of a terrorist organization and treason federal prosecutors say for groups linked to the Reich citizens scene that rejects the legitimacy of Germany's post war constitution and has similarities to parallel movements in the U.S., prosecutors say the Germans intended to create conditions similar to Civil War by using explosives to cause nationwide blackouts, and were then kidnapped, health minister carlotta back, a prominent advocate of strict coronavirus measures, however, there are no indications the group which calls itself United patriots was close to launching the coup. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Man With 44 Prior Arrests Punches Elderly Woman and Gets Released
"So you've researched this more than I have. Am I right about 44 or 41 prior arrests? Yeah, I think everything I've read has said 44 arrests, including many violent one was the punch he punched an elderly woman in the face and she was hospitalized. Yeah, and he also punched, she broke bones in her face, and he was released. He was given some medication, and he wasn't even put in a hospital. I think one of the only times he served time was when he tried to kidnap a 7 year old girl, dragged her down the street, and he got four months. And that was it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Passes Trans Sanctuary Bill to Defy Parents
"Kidnapping Bill that's going to be passed in California that if you're 13 years old and you say you're trans and your parents disagree with that or they think you might be going through a phase. By the way, those are your parents, you know, phases, come and go. Right? You know what we now call a phase? Go get surgery. Yeah. That's literally what the trans thing is telling kids. What is the biggest mover of the trans thing is not men actually want to be women. The biggest mover is young ladies that are going through puberty. It's understandable to have anxiety, you know, doubt such totally understandable. It's misdiagnosed puberty anxiety where they think that there's something they're not going to go look on TikTok and they say, wow, maybe I'm actually a man. Well, they might have been something called a tomboy when I was growing up. And then again, it's a phase. You grow through it and you struggle with it. You don't go in for surgery and give them lupron. This is not an isolated thing, right? You know, in ten years from now, because of the silence of pastors, we are going to have about a 100,000 kids that are going to be suing. That are going to say, I never had puberty. I and my breasts removed all because of a lie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Mass Demoralization Campaign Targets Conservatives
"Middle of a mass demoralization campaign. They want you to give up. They want to demoralize us from within by surprise terrorist sabotage. This is exactly what they try to do. And it's working. Try to take out our figureheads, try to take out our best players. As I've said before, they're coming after turning point USA hard. Kidnapping our speakers coming after us with weapons, everything you could imagine. They're going to come after this program. They've come after this program a lot. So yes, keep us in your prayers and hopefully we'll be ready and we'll do this show until they take us off air until they censor us from the pullet bureau, or they send us to some sort of other place. Let's just put it that way. But we're not going to give up. And you shouldn't give up either. That's not the point of my message. I mean, sometimes what you say is not always what people here. We're getting a lot of emails. People, Charlie, you're trying to say that to give up. It's so negative. No, I'm being honest. I'm being real. You might need a lie? You go to the doctor, you want him to tell him, do you want to hear that you have a tumor or not? Yes, we have a tumor and we have to remove it. The tumor is the American Democrat party. It's a virus, the contagion, the bacterial infection on the country. Let's remove it. It's a parasite. And so the honest truth is, they have a lot of momentum. They think they have figured it out, and they are relentless. We are not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Inside the Trans Mob's Attack on Riley Gaines
"The moment that we're in today, when it comes to the trans stuff, and they're kind of imperialist conquest, that's right. I was talking about victimized men Victor. Let me finish the point, which is the Riley gained situation. She speaks at a turning point USA chapter at San Francisco state university. She gets assaulted, members of our turning point staff were assaulted, and then they were held hostage, pseudo kidnapped when the violent mob held that was outside of the room, all trans people, right? Demanding money, payment, saying we want her to miss her flight, she did end up missing her flight. There's worse things that can happen. But they were there for three hours. The police decided to do nothing until the San Francisco police come in. But the most horrifying thing is not a bunch of delusional people that are on testosterone replacement therapy that are acting erratic and aggressive, right? That's what happens when all of a sudden you put 22 year olds that have mental problems on just pharmacological agents. They're going to act insane, okay? Shouldn't be surprised when all of a sudden you're on a routine of TRT and human growth hormone and benzodiazepines and zoloft and prozac all of a sudden they start punching people. Like, yeah, maybe you shouldn't be putting these mind altering substances into a 22 year old that already has some a predisposition towards mental illness, probably not a good idea, but no one ever wants to say that out loud, but it's true. So they're holding her hostage. That's bad. The leadership of San Francisco state university came out. And said, we want to applaud our students for how wonderful that they acted. True story. They said Riley gaines provoked this. For coming on our campus and spewing, hey. They said, we were proud of how peaceful they were. They were not peaceful. They kidnapped her, held her hostage, and assaulted her and our turning point members. In fact, they said, if anyone needs counseling services for the damage and the trauma that you had to endure, that's the leadership of San Francisco state university.
The Officer Tatum Show
"kidnapping" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"You can get it on demand or you can buy the DVD. Get it on demand. I'll get you that DVD at the house, and when you think about Netflix and chilling, just put on a DVD of innovation race and you will probably, I would argue you will have a better night. All right, so let me get on. So you don't make no mistake that'll let that last forever. All right, so let me get to this topic here at Mexico authorities arrest the suspect in the kidnapping and murder of U.S. nationals. And, you know, just kind of listening to the story as it unfolded. It seemed like this was an accidental or not accidental, but a misdiagnosis. Or a misidentification. I'm a read this article real quick, it's Mexico authorities arrest the suspect Tuesday alleging alleged ties to the kidnapping of four Americans last weekend leaving two dead after crossing the U.S. Mexico border. Jose Guadalupe with an inn, I don't know what that means. A Mexican national in his early 20s was guarding a small wooden house outside the city where cartel members held the Americans when authorities detained him. Authorities have not confirmed if Guadalupe is involved in the cartel suspect or suspected of kidnapping the U.S. nationals.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kidnapping" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The gunman is being held without bond on 7 counts of first degree murder, while in New York, bob Howard tells his police have killed two men in unrelated police involved shooting Saturday. The first happened on 116th avenue in Queens, where police say a man had threatened to quote blow the head off the first police officers he saw. When police arrived and made curse to them refused to show his hands, then allegedly pulled out a firearm and pointed it at police. A man died during an exchange of gunfire with 6 officers. The second shooting was an hour later in Brooklyn, when a man ran from a traffic stop at Devin street and flap was avenue and reportedly pulled a gun on an officer following a brief chase. That officer shot the man of the chest. Police weren't injured in either shooting. Police in Long Beach, California killed an armed man on a rooftop Saturday after police were called to a residential neighborhood on a report a man was holding a firearm on the top of a building officers reportedly tried to convince the unidentified man to surrender. Eventually, police opened fire on him killing him, before say the man had kidnapped and assaulted a victim prior to officers arriving on the scene. The mega millions jackpots now up to $440 million. Nobody's won it since April and nobody matched all 6 numbers in Friday night's drawing, a winner who takes a cash option would get a windfall of nearly $248 million. I'm Scott Carr. The FBI is looking into a potential threat against a Texas synagogue. Agents say in a statement, they're still working to determine the credibility of the threat sharing information with police and the Jewish community, the head of the anti defamation league has an unidentified Texas synagogue was the target of threats that became more specific and credible within just the last day President Biden is having to defend his upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia. Brad Siegel tells us more. In an op-ed published Saturday by The Washington Post Biden said the U.S. has to engage directly with Saudi Arabia and other countries to make sure it's strong and secure. Biden said the U.S. has to counter Russia's aggression, put itself in a position to outcompete China and work for greater stability in a consequential region of the world. The president is set to visit the Middle East starting Wednesday, making stops in Israel, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia. There have been objections to his visit after U.S. intelligence concluded that the Saudi crown prince gave approval of the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi along with concerns over human rights. The national highway traffic safety administration is having to open a 37th probe into a crash involving a Tesla after another deadly car accident to California couple died Wednesday when the Tesla they were driving on a floor to interstate exited for an unknown reason than rear ended an 18 Wheeler in a Walmart parking lot. It's the second fatal Tesla crash this week, NFL star Duane Brown is facing charges after TSA agents found a gun in his luggage at Los Angeles International Airport yesterday. The 5 time pro bowler was arrested at a TSA security checkpoint. He's charged with possession of a concealed firearm he was being held on a $10,000 bail ticket. The big hit at the box office this weekend is the new Thor installment He was a God. Jane? Thor: Love and Thunder is the fourth installment in that marvel God of thunder saga, projected to rake in a $150 million in the
Radio Survivor Podcast
"kidnapping" Discussed on Radio Survivor Podcast
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Radio Survivor Podcast
"kidnapping" Discussed on Radio Survivor Podcast
"His first case is first criminal. Case is cross examining bruno richard. And that's the dramatic moment that we've all been trained from zillions of hollywood movies that we want him to break down on the standing confess he's been kind of very stoic on pleasant kind of arrogant character and we all want to see him. Can it occurs to me too. I wonder what the limbic case what impact it had on the cultural product of of courtroom dramas like there had been some courtroom drama prior to the limerick as but it sounds like it must have had a huge impact on on. How the fictional. Oh yeah we had loved. Courtroom drama sits at least the turn of the century and in fact one of the best reporters on the scene a woman. I really came to love. She was on radio as well reporting for the new york evening. Journal hearst paper who gave to my mind the absolute best day to day coverage of the lindbergh trial is a woman named adela. Rogers st john's her father was earl. Rogers who is kind of the. I don't know clarence darrow. Of his day the best courtroom reporter in in san francisco jennifer in fact. That's where they came from the san francisco examiner being the the hers paper There and adela was a hard-boiled reporter. She had watched her father in action. Since the age of nine she was a real daddy's girl and and dad used to take her to all his cases. She didn't get along with her mother and so she had been in court. You know watching the best guy in the business for fifteen years. And then she goes into journalism and she's a woman so she can play the female angle the way the boys can't did you say that. She appeared on the radio as well as being a print journalist. Yeah that's really interesting so this is You you've been telling us. Thomas dirty a story about the lindbergh baby kidnapping and how what kind of how it played out on radio a new medium in the united states at the time and how newspaper reporters as well as news real news. Real news photo journalists. Were sort of out in front of radio at this moment. But i i it. Of course some of these print journalists are gonna use radio to further for their own reasons. So what what can you us about. Adela rogers saint john how she would use radio or audio she and of course the other big name. There is walter winchell. They're all engaged in now this cross media pollination so wind chill has his syndicated column which is all over america. He has his national broadcast on sunday nights. And he's in the courtroom is well and then he also gets into hollywood rights hollywood scripts and he's Kind of Plays the hollywood angle himself and adela. Rogers saint john same thing. She's a print journalist who that night is on. The nightly radio shows that the new york herald new york evening journal is broadcasting in tune with the trial so when the trial ends they all walk over to a radio transmitter transmission booth and have a postmortem various reporters at. It's very typical. Of what tv does today. The first papers get a cut of this..
Radio Survivor Podcast
"kidnapping" Discussed on Radio Survivor Podcast
"That's how they get the kidnap murder limburg baby bruno richard hope and in september of nineteen thirty four then into the trial. If you wanna go there jennifer. Let's let's go to the trial because my understanding is that radio. There's certain things that radio wasn't allowed to do and so they they take a very creative approach to how they present the results of the trial. Which sort of reminds me of you know if i think about it modern day. Oh yeah same. Podcast app Or the oj court tv. I mean whatever press or a successor you wanna think about absolutely of course. Radio wants to cover the trial of the century and they figured they could do it fairly unobtrusively. You just put mics into the courtroom and everybody in america would listen because now we have nationwide on. Cbs or nbc of bluer. Red network or the mutual radio network. All of would add to have just one mike there and come to a pool arrangement So radio the radio equipment wouldn't be too obtrusive and disrupt the dignity and decorum of the american a court system. But the governor of new jersey says immediately once the help and his expedited to new jersey. That there'll be no radio allowed into the courtroom so there's no live recording on radio of the courtroom preceding the trial of bruno richard helpmann. Who is this illegal. German immigrant unemployed carpenter. Who's accused of kidnapping the lindbergh baby. And there's a lot of controversy about whether did earn an off. You can go on the web and go all kinds of rabbit holes share. Yeah the web the web right. But i think the consensus opinion and you can always disagree with the consensus is that helpmann committed the crime people who believe that can see that he might have had an accomplice and we've never found out who that person might have been somebody to hold the ladder in the crime. Tell us about the tells about how radio got around this challenge. They wanted to bring microphones into the courtroom. Yeah what radio did is. They did what you would expect. Which is they have reenactments of the trial testimony they hire actors and actresses to reenact the transcripts of the trial whi- on radio and then they have talking head commentators and going over the The trial and kind of doing the post game analysis every day. And if you're old enough to remember the oj case in ninety four ninety five..
KTTH 770AM
"kidnapping" Discussed on KTTH 770AM
"The tower. Get on the ground for the last two weeks or so. So it's so to ask if there you're going to continue coordinating with them. In this case against Isis K isn't hypothetical. Will you continue? To coordinate with the Taliban after August 31st. I beg to differ. I actually think your question is entirely hypothetical about something that is entirely different than what we've been coordinating with the Taliban on over the last two weeks, which has been Help help us get as many people on to that airport as possible. I do appreciate the sense of the question. I'm not trying to market we kind of are. It's just that I don't think it's helpful for us to talk about what over the horizon. Counterterrorism capability is going to look like going forward and how we're going to executed. You're not going to execute it. Here's the deal Secretary Blinken Spoke about how he trusts the Taliban. Suddenly they trust the Taliban again and that people who want to leave Afghanistan will have the freedom of movement. That's what Secretary Blinken set Just a few hours ago. Well, our friend Laura Logan over at Fox News tweeted out not long ago. Video from a senior source in Afghanistan. Who says Right now. The Taliban is going house to house. And committing executions. Now that the military is out. They're going. House to house To kill people. And the source says there are no words for what this administration has done to all of us, Afghan and American. Do you trust this Taliban to protect Americans? You still need to get out. The interview. After 20 years. The mission in Afghanistan has officially come to a close but obviously with some significant tragedy due to the incompetence of the Biden administration, and it seems clear That we have, in fact left Americans behind. Joining me on the line with his reaction is a congressional candidate who, you know, he served four tours in Afghanistan. Jesse Jensen joins me on the line, You know, just first. Jesse. Big picture. Big reaction as this all comes to a close. This is a complete disaster. Yeah. Summarized quite quite bluntly, Jason. Um it seems it seems clear to me that from the beginning the soul directive coming out of this administration Was to exit. On a certain time crank. Um, I mentioned to you just before we came on that I'm proud to be part of an effort called Task Force Pineapple. That group's mission is to step into the void. And X fill people safely from Afghanistan. So it's our feeling that there is the intrinsic job that the Department of State that the federal government has to do. And they're failing to do it. So we are honoring the promise sort of our hashtag and our message that we are going to step up and we're going to execute on this. So we're we're beyond frustrated. Um And we're executing it on our own. I think to put this in context The Iran hostage situation was 52 Americans behind enemy lines. We have hundreds People that are American citizens that we know Emphatically that they will not get out. Not to mention the special immigrant visas holders, P one p two passport holders, folks that I served with overseas that put their life on the line that presented their face. They knew their family was there were helping to get out. Prosecutors, judges, interpreters that work. With special operations forces with our partners in the special operations forces in Afghanistan that are left behind and oh, by the way, we failed to get the bat high system out of Afghanistan in time. So now every single person that ever served with us in Afghanistan, their name their their fingerprints, retina. Is there and we're getting reports of the Taliban going door to door with that equipment and ensuring that that everyone that served is getting taken. Taken away. We've gotten reports of people getting executed on their front steps, their family disappearing, kidnapped, kidnapping an entire bus. Full American citizens getting beaten, tweeted out footage of an American passport holders sitting in her car, her Children's passports trying to get onto the Hamid Karzai International airport unsuccessfully. I've seen pictures of American citizens who have been beaten by the Taliban. And if you go to my Twitter feed, you also see footage of the Taliban shooting over the heads of American citizens in in Kabul, Um And it's unconscionable it truly is and what it's hard to believe is that this administration is still pretending that they didn't have a colossal screw up yesterday. The president not wanting to take any questions having to do with Afghanistan. Same today you have folks who just Jen Psaki just a few days ago, said that they weren't stranding American citizens. And then she says, Well, we can't guarantee that everyone who wants to be out will be out. By August 31st. So in the minute or so we have left. How should the process have been? So it's called a Neil a noncombatant evacuation operation. I used to do this. When I was in joint Special operations command. It takes a lot of coordination there should have been planning. They should have immediately immediately started X filling people as students. President Biden announced that artificial timeline back in April, so this is criminal liability at all levels of the senior administration. And what they then did answers. The State Department email inbox was went unanswered when NGOs tried to step in and private citizens try to step in this task force Pineapple Group is full of people that are currently serving that have served in the path that are trying to do backdoor channels. And you know, we're actively being blocked in some instances were actively being helped and others, and I think that you know that's that's fantastic. Um, but, you know, I think just to close it's clear that this effort is going to be mostly a private effort. And it's going to report required to support the American people, because if we don't mobilized and establish the resolve to do what the government will not, it will be a long term moral injury. And that's just not on the soul of our combat veterans. But America writ large and this is absolutely true. I think you see the calls into You know the VOC going up dramatically for veterans. I know. Before I became part of this effort. I just I didn't know what to do. I think the task force pineapple. It's an outcropping of that. We're trying to solve a failure. That is a staying on our country. And by the way, this was all preventable. Had we had an actual plan, but I guess they didn't think that that was important. Jesse Johnson is running for Washington's eighth congressional District. His website Jesse Johnson, the number four congress dot com Jesse Jensen for congress dot com..
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"kidnapping" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Afternoon. Let's go back to the news here for a moment and in Worcester, two people charged with kidnapping of four day old baby have appeared in court. Cassidy Lazier quit Vez of Milford and Daikin Jefferson of Worcester were arrested over the weekend. Charges include kidnapping and reckless endangerment of a child. They say the newborn was kidnapped by the woman who was the baby's mother had just met on Facebook. Believe it or not in fall River of former Harbour Master files a lawsuit over allegations he was forced to leave his job. Mayor Paul Coogan. Among those named in the lawsuit by Bob Smith, who resigned over the summer, Smith says in 2019, he got a message on behalf of the mayor, telling him to resign from the R D a board. According to the Fall River charter, no person can hold more than one city office at a time. Middlesex County is now under a tornado warning until 12 30 this afternoon and now parts of Worcester County as well. And again earlier, the National Weather Service in Boston advised us that there would be of flood watch for parts of Worcester County and going out west with new storms moving into the region. Seek shelter. If you're Middlesex County right now, until 12 30 this afternoon, parts of Worcester County will be joined live shortly by our media, Raul meteorologists keep here. Loop. A short podcast from WBZ NewsRadio. That's nothing but new a five minute listen that's updated throughout the day. Get in the loop on the I Heart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts,.
Strange Brew Podcast!
"kidnapping" Discussed on Strange Brew Podcast!
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Strange Brew Podcast!
"kidnapping" Discussed on Strange Brew Podcast!
"No it shows a lot of cool footage from the seventies and what happened in the eighties with david berkowitz and it's very interesting. Because they go through all the seventy s and they've always footage is and where the capture him and stuff and we're eventually going to get in the sam so it's a good thing for you to watch but they're taking it like the way they like. You know took the richard mir's documentary. It's more based on the scary. Oh my god. Canadian satana called. It's just like they should have gone the back in the background and understand the serial killer before you make speculations go deep but it's not a bad thing but look how they kind of you know he when he went after the when he went to prison. And that's a he started a holy man. Now realize my mistakes noticed bunch. I could see that being a very easy cop-out for everybody to true. So eventually realized cameron was unable to give up his sadistic and sadomasochist and everything else cruel ways so she told her pastor about what happened. Because it's just it's always crazy to me to be religious. And i get it because that's where you find. Solitude is in that religion after you've done horrible things. But i always find people that are horrible to other people end up turning to religion or go to save myself rush. Maybe i shouldn't have done this in the first place. i think a lot of those are just. You don't have faith in yourself or faith in your parents so you need. You need someone to say like everyone needs a fucking hit in the back of the head when they're stepping out of line and that can be some people's hit in the back of the fucking ahead. I actually agree with that. Yeah so we're pastor encouraged her to contact law enforcement and on november eighteen thousand nine hundred ninety four months after colleen stands escaped from captivity authorities. Arrest cameron even though janice helped her husband capture call these stand and kept her in prison for like as a prisoner for seven years. She wasn't charged with the crime. Carla mocha six nine six nine snitching spa. I know literally while cameron was tried and convicted of several counts of kidnapping and sexual assault. The court granted janus full immunity because she agree to testify against him. Prosecutors believe cameras. Weren't they married that you can't you can't testify against married while they. I'll must've waived that right at that time. This is the seventies. Yeah you sure. That's a correct statement. There really. are you a lawyer actually do know that all one hundred percent correct statement right now but for the seventy. I don't know looking quick. Well like they tried. Camera was tried on and convicted of several counts of kidnapping and sexual assaults. The court's grand janice full immunity. Because of that she grew testified. He mentally and physically abused janice making it. Nearly impossible for her to defy her husband and stopped a horse that they made call in and doer. so all i can find for the seventy s and one lady said. She refused to do it so obviously it wasn't a law against it have a man confesses to his wife that he murdered somebody that could be. It could be the case that the spouse could not testify against her husband in court could if she choose but it sounds again. That's a lot of other great now specifically there's a there's a pretty serious case going on with say one of my friends families and their white can't the wife can't do anything even if she wanted to share power in the courtroom whatsoever if she went out and just screamed be stricken from the record. Goodbyes no it's not even like five. She's saying he did it. He did this horrible thing. Please lock them up there. I can't fucking acknowledged that all that's interesting so we wanted us canadian court systems because the united states say states might be different. I'm pretty. I always thought that was kind of like a north american thing so i guess when the during his trial and nine hundred ninety five the chance did reveal that her husband actually captured somebody else a nineteen year old maria elizabeth span hockey. That's how i'm going to pronounce it on january. Thirty first in nineteen seventy six year before the offered a ride colleen and the couple picked up. Elizabeth spent hockey spend whatever when she was hitchhiking in chico california chickasaw. I was kind of weird. Some of the states in the guy in tiktok canadian. He's a funny. I can't remember his handle whatever they call it nowadays but showed a male but he does that comedy ship based on he tries to fucking funny expunge hook and all these weird place. They ended up finding on the map. So that canadian is based off because they felt so bad about what they did to the indigenous people that start naming stuff after the orange. Now here he goes. Sorry died because brantford is based off joseph brant which was native american fellow and yeah so they just try to do that to cover up and abuse of indigenous people so the crazy thing is according to chance. They took the young woman home to their home when they had in red bluff and cameron physically harmed and eventually murdered elizabeth. Maybe she and comply what he was saying. And all that stuff like. How colleen kind of just submissive almost in those situations and might be a better idea because you might be able to survive that trauma dough might linger for a long time Put her body was never found in authority are not able to find evidence to actually prosecute cameron for elizabeth. Especially when they moved like. It's i know and it's it's hard to determine and get away with murder one person and it's ten years later like it might be a nuclear. I know a hard thing to do to because yeah because this is a long time. Yeah and the wife. I would think would be telling the truth. You never know you never know if she just wants to make sure he stays locked up for a long time. But i don't i'm not. I probably did do it so so. Despite being convicted of multiple counts of kidnapping and assault in one thousand nine hundred five. He was sentenced to more than one hundred years in prison for his crimes. Cameron was given a parole hearing. And two thousand fifteen. The state of california has approved program for elderly inmates to allow prisoners over the age of sixty took request a parole after. They assert twenty-five years of their sentence. However that paul parole board deny cameras request and he will not be eligible for another hearing until the year. Twenty thirty and he will be seventy six. And you won't you won't get it. It will just be like the thing it's like. Here's your parole hearing. I know we offered it back. But i always find funny. How many years they did give charles manson court like. Yeah man you like. you don't need more. Stand the complex things of my mind. I traveled through dimensions. You hear you court people you even understand what is going on the world. They have corrupt corporations need would just like go like crazy literally and he would never be like three. I've seen a lot of the footage of it when we talk about him. I'll probably play somebody. I just it's just crazy. How he would just like he. He would talk to almost like fifty seconds staring at me and i love chills. Manson still though how love him as a character in a humane society love. I just find his character interest.
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"Fucking bad or something. And i was like all we went off. You don't need a condom everything inside you has died but somehow it keeps you alive still kind of like a zombie. Mummy thing i turn from so yeah so instead of raping her badgley oh and ainley. He did it with implements sexual okay. So he didn't bring kinjo with his own us he would stick like what get no better puck in the cow branding sticks in her china that just interested circles like burning hot. Just sick mind man. What's up. I was just thinking like he just got like an eggplant was like you've never had like this before. That's not good. Don't don't nobody look up in insertion porn. It's really fucked up for all the people out there that have. I would love to make one of those. I'd love to make one of the trailer clips for it. Before like panning. The woman actually getting some inserted or the guy or whatever it's just like a quick teaser. Clips of all the other episodes napa wine bottle. That is step aside. I wanna make it the most ridiculous thing ever be like yeah big shampoo bottles and then it might pan to a dog really quick and then wade off. I can make a pontiac be good. So yeah the in nineteen seventy eight. Jas gave birth to a second child on the waterbed above calling. That's water but it didn't talk. I know she's screaming pushing out a fucking seat and child so for the first years of her captivity cameron and janice only allowed calling out for like an hour or two each day. Outside of the box often just to clean or babysit their children. The couple had two of the box sipakit home to it's like they're in the other room or something. Maybe like they kids going to the movies. We're going to movie playing in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight going to go. See deer hunter disney movies. Yeah but they're stuck snow. Wait started like a couple though. That likes torturing stuff. I wish i had a list of nineteen seventy eight movies. There's a quick trivial fact. The i heard this on the radio the other day the very first animated movie ever made her animated yet. Four movie mickey mouse. Nah snow eight. I knew that i told you that. Remember we argue. That one know chemo eighties. And i was like no that movies. Like from the nineteen thirties. Or i heard it. I heard it literally. Ask you down the radio. Billy when billy gets a little buzzed. And when we do long episodes he forgets that pictures were could be made in the nineteen sixties color. Pictures were a thing before the sixties barney and betty hill thirties. Did he not know that when we were talking. You know things either and everyone's knowledge okay. I know literally so. That's so fucking funny. I hope i'm saying that dude's name right when we mentioned him because he's a big longtime fan and he always gives us ideas and stuff like that but i hope it's it's gotta be magnus or magnus something like that but i only proper english in general so that's fine. The couple had two young daughters. Neither of the girls realize what the parents were doing with calling against her will. The funny thing is in fact. The couple's daughter didn't even know calling lived after house much less under their parents bed in a wooden box because cameron and janice told them that she went home every night. The kid who went home every night. Yeah yeah the kids didn't even fucking realize which is very young and there's masochists As far as they're concerned their bedroom there's a door that leads out of their bedroom. Yes the outside world you know i. I wonder i didn't look into it. But the fact that i look into what we're the daughters are now because i bet it's a. Wow daddy did that now. He's in jail so yeah wonder be weird. Her extensive extended confinement couple with physical suffering from her captors that the inflicted left her with chronic medical problems. Well no shit including severe back. Pain and shoulder damage. I was thinking like colin problems. Your bum bum. Yeah you bama's on the cheese eight. They probably shoved long horrible things up there. Would they do. It hurt her. She got her own. But for only fifty cents a day you can say would only fifty cents a day. You can save the girl in the box hope. She never listens to this because she is still alive. I highly doubt is actually any episode. Came out a boat. You on podcast. I'm interested probably enough news coverage back in the day. Though after cameron had appa cameron hell calling captive for several months he actually coerced into signing a slave contract which effectively forced colleen to give up her own. Free will allow her to be treated as the couple's personal property. He's got a fucking slave contract that we're here in the states when you are now. My slave after slavery was abolished to have contracts that like they like slowly. Abolish it in that way. Ask as the as the chinese government. That's just outside of canada and they're fucking shops shops like factories just outside the fringes of the united states. Right now technically. It's in the united states and there's no they don't fly that can american flag up there. Man get paid twenty cents an hour. Can you willingly become a slave. Voluntary slavery in theory is the condition of slavery entered into a point of voluntary consent in practice. However the terms often emphasized us to hide conditions of which are slavery he could do. That is a slave go to dubai or the philippines. You can get yourself. Oh damn cheap. Oh fuck fuck in the first. The first thing. I'm reading about like slave contracts. What the like the her pretty much came from. Korean government doing that to their k pops. Hearse real dobro. The k pop stars don't even exist aspiring fucking shut the fuck up aspiring k pop bottles known as a sign contracts with management agencies. When they're as young as twelve or thirteen years old and they make it about a ten year agency agreement to groom the trainee and debut on stage pretty.
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"The scum of the earth. So not that bad when they've originally captured her they in red bluff house. The couple regularly like whipped her when she was naked beat. Her burned her electrocuted her. I wonder how that wendy cut a cord. Half and then fucking power to like shocking. Schalke shocked them at home during. Yeah so they would They also stretch on iraq. It was fucking medieval times. That's fun like shaking her head. The zero hats africa fucking like people do that to other people they have to. I genuinely think like even if they get caught like. Oh well i know i. I'm just gonna ask myself now. You hustle. I care really living anymore to do something like that to somebody. I almost believe more or less. Because how young janice was the wife that she was truly just brainwashed and never given a type of attention from a man before she was not allowed to date and cameron hooker like convinced her parents somehow to let her date him and then they kind of took off. But it's like it's kinda like what karla homolka claimed but she was definitely just as part of it. So there's that difference right like the women that are into women that were scared for their lives against. Yeah i think they were all into it thin line. I don't care how naive you were when i started like you. You wake up one day like this. I don't think they can't we tell. Our neighbors about walker. Doing holiday won't understand. I heard someone told me that if people like you know the star things you hang from your like house and shit like decoration and people put like a star by their war or like hang one. I heard that those are swingers. Somebody told me that that stars invitation that their swingers kind of letting the community know that's already been debunked though that's not true not true. It's not true. And they're not talking about the star decorations for inside the house. Talking about those big as barnes stars that go on the outside outside the doors like like you guys have one. Don't you outside outside of your fence. Yeah that's what they're talking about those stars and that was told you that too yes. So in addition and making her suffer physically. The couple deprived colleen food and engaged in a ritual rape and richard realistic reap. We'll get into. He was doing because this is guzzi us creep list rape. I never heard that. I'm going to rain for the god every day. That's ritual. it's like every day at the same time he's down there. Oh okay. I thought you meant. He's doing it. Like as part of a ritual like like to god the thing that people like that because there are some people that did some rate for god. Yeah that's that's a new one kill has been a a stone are landmarks but cameron reportedly wanted call to be like a female character and the nineteen fifty four french erotic novel story of o and soon started raping her which consisted of oral rape. And also the story of. Oh i'm pretty sure is like a seventies porno maybe eighties. I feel like. I've seen that. I've never read the book. It sounds creepy. But i think it was just like a softcore porn film now it used to be on the ifc and shit. I may be wrong now. No idea i don't wanna google it either. Yeah the porn daddy. So cameron didn't want to have vaginal sex with colleen because he considered that a breach of the agreement with his wife so she really wants to have a kid. Can you believe that one. That one's sacred do i don't break his bond would would have been fine. I guess it has to be you said oral probably just fucking else good. She won't have a kid and then so their agreement even before. I think they got lean the first time. But we'll get into it. They may have also stugotz stolen somebody else. But they made it kind of agreement where was like you know. As long as the sexist for me so we can have a child again and she really wanted to have kids. Obviously all women against you but now it's not sure to just one girl sharing cancer isabel for fox's yeah she's people's minds singer twenty four twenty one. You don't know it's too late now. She's got the vaccine. I always that that me and my post on the hosts pulled out right and it's like happy mother's day i've been saying for like the past year things like she's she's pretty fucking over it almost every time we have sex. It's like at the end of the. Oh i don't. I think that all just went shit ever shadow mangoes for saying you're fucking also crazy for for pulling out during every sexual encounter. He said he's like what the fuck are you guys yelling about on. No one of the episodes about fucking you pull it out and shit.
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"Privacy simplified And by the listeners and members of KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM in San Francisco and 89.3 of them in Sacramento. I'm Dave Freeman. Good morning now, 7 35. This is morning edition from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep. Rudolph Giuliani has worn many hats over his decades in public life. Federal prosecutor mayor of New York City presidential candidate President Trump's personal attorney, and now he's facing possible legal trouble after FBI agents executed a search warrant yesterday at his Manhattan apartment and office. NPR Justice correspondent Ryan Lucas has covered Giuliani for years and is on the line, Ryan Good morning. Morning. So one of the investigators doing We've known for a while that investigators in New York were probing Giuliani's business dealings in his work related to Ukraine, and now that's taken a significant step forward with a search warrant. What you're on a half dozen FBI agents executed early yesterday at Giuliani's apartment and Upper East Side Manhattan offices. Well, Giuliani's lawyer, Robert Costello, told me, the agents took Giuliani's electronic devices. Costello said the search warrants indicate that investigators are looking into possible violations of foreign lobbying laws related to Giuliani's Ukraine work. Giuliani, of course, had business dealings in Ukraine going back many years, but he famously Played a central role in the Ukraine scandal that led to President Trump's first impeachment now and so now they've executed these search warrants and not only on him right? There's an associate that has also been a target here. That's right. It's a lawyer that Giuliani worked with on Ukraine matters. Her name is Victoria Tensing. Our colleague, Carrie Johnson has learned that two agents from New York showed up at 10 Sean's house outside Washington with a warrant for her cell phone, which she handed over the warrant mentioned foreign lobbying violations. Canteens law firm put out a statement, which said that tension is not the target of this investigation. But as you said Tensing did collaborate with Giuliani on his Ukraine claims. You may remember two of Giuliani's associates left partners and Igor Frumin. Were indicted in 2019 on campaign finance and other charges. They helped Giuliani try together damaging information in Ukraine about Joe Biden. Parnaz also worked with Victoria Tensing. Now. Giuliani's lawyer told me that investigators are seeking Giuliani's communications with Parness and Frumin and others. One of those others is John Solomon, who is a columnist to help amplify Giuliani's Ukraine claims Giuliani's lawyer and his son have complained about this treatment because he is a lawyer. Is it unusual for prosecutors to execute a search warrant on a lawyer? It's unusual, but it's not unheard of for investigators to do this. Something like this normally requires approval from senior officials at the Justice Department because of concerns about attorney client privilege. It's obviously a huge deal when the attorney worked for the former president of the United States. I remember a federal judge has to sign off on a search warrant like this as well. So that means investigators were able to convince a federal judge that a crime was likely committed and that there would be evidence of it in the specific location. All of this suggests former prosecutors tell me that this investigation is pretty far along What's Giuliani himself, saying he's normally quite talkative. He is normally quite talkative. He has not said anything. He tweeted out a statement from his attorney late last night, but that's it. His son, Andrew, As you mentioned, has talked about this. He talked briefly with reporters on his way into his father's building. Hey, said it was absurd. It was disgusting, he said. If it can happen to the former president's lawyer, it can happen to anybody. It's important to say that Giuliani hasn't been charged with a crime. At this point. I've spoken with him in the past about his foreign lobbying, he said. He always followed the law, his lawyer told me the same yesterday. Nevertheless, this is a remarkable change of fortune for Giuliani. He was America's mayor. After 9 11. He was deeply involved in some of President Trump's controversies, including Of course, perpetuating the falsehood that Trump lost the election divided because of fraud. But some people may forget that he was a hard charging US attorney in Manhattan, the 19 eighties and now he's being investigated by that very same office. He wants 11. Brian. Thanks. Thank you. NPR's Ryan Lucas Mm. Three U. S. Justice Department is bringing hate crime charges against the three men who are in custody for the killing of Amador Bree last year. Armory was jogging through a Georgia neighborhood in February, 2020 when the men allegedly chased him in pickup trucks, confronted him and shot him. All three of the men are white Arboria was black. Georgia Public Broadcasting's Emily Jones is with us now. Good morning, Emily. Good morning, Emily. What are these new federal charges? Exactly? How are they different from the case against these men already? Well Before this, they only face state charges, which included murder and assault and false imprisonment charges. But many people on the ground here in Georgia and nationwide have been calling this a hate crime. From the very beginning. Here's the mods. Aunt Thea Brooks. Had to be Nothing but hate. It had to be because, um Skin color. But Georgia had no state hate crime law on the books at the time of this shooting. Esso, What's new now is a federal grand jury has now indicted them on several federal counts. Including using force and threats of force to interfere with our Berries right to use a public street because of his race, and that is a hate crime. The U. S. Department of Justice has also charged these men with attempted kidnapping as well. So, as we've said the shooting happened back in February of 2020, But the men charged in his death weren't arrested for several months after that. Explain why S so there are a couple reasons for that. One of the men, Gregory McMichael worked for a long time as an investigator in the local district attorney's office s O. On a practical level. The case went through several district attorneys who had to recuse themselves with conflicts of interest because of that work that he did. And of course, you know the accusation from activists and from our Berries. Family has also been that there was there was an attempt to kind of protect their own back on the half of law enforcement locally. But then in May of 2020 a couple things happen, Sort of all at once. This video came out showing the shooting, and that really sparked protests over this and also right around the same time, state investigators stepped in, and once the state was involved, it only took a couple of days for them to arrest these men. It's now been more than a year since I'm a debris was killed nearly a year since since that video came out. Just explain what has happened in that time. Well, there have actually been several changes. The D. A. That I mentioned to Gregory McMichael worked for she was voted out. Georgia also did pass a hate crime law last summer and also repealed its citizens arrest law, and both of those legal changes were in response to the protests that broke out over the killing of Ahmad Armory. So the federal case is just beginning. What is next at the state level? There isn't a trial date yet. But there are a couple of hearings next month on several motions in that case, and also after a long delay because of covert 19, Georgia courts are now allowed to hold jury trials again. S so all of that does bring this case. Just a couple steps closer to at some point going to trial. Right? Georgia Public Broadcasting's Emily Jones. Thank you So much for the update. We appreciate it. Thank you. This afternoon on all things considered. We learn about President Biden's choice to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Tell your smart speaker to play NPR or your member station by name. Excuse me. This is NPR news. We're learning of a new traffic.
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"From NPR News. I'm Janine Herbst. Congressional Democrats and the White House say they're moving ahead with the next round of coronavirus relief legislation. MPR's Windsor Johnston reports. Negotiations are expected to begin as early as next week. The White House is proposing in nearly $2 trillion measure that includes $1400 relief checks where Americans who qualify. The administration says it's hoping to reach a bipartisan deal with congressional Republicans, but warns it's not willing to split up the legislation in order to reach a compromise. GOP leaders have questioned the price tag of the bill, arguing it's too expensive. NPR's Windsor Johnston, The acting Capitol police chief wants to install permanent fencing around the capital after a pro trump mob stormed the building earlier this month. From member station W A. M U W TRUNK has more Acting Capitol Police chief Yoga Nanda Pittman says the fencing and many other improvements are necessary to fortify the capital. Pittman says she will work with Congress to identify safety improvements. The call for permanent fencing drew swift rebuke from local D C leaders, D C. Council member Charles Allen heads the council's Public Safety committee failures on January 6th. But rather than turn Inward and try to find out what went wrong with US Capitol police his ability to prepare their using. There's an excuse to just hard in the perimeter to build a fortress around the People's House. D. C. Mayor Muriel 1000 also tweeted she would not support permanent fencing. For NPR news. I'm Debbie trunk. And officials says Pakistan's government has lodged a petition to the Supreme Court. Reuters is reporting that they're asking the court to review its decision to free a man once convicted of killing American journalist Daniel Pearl. MPR's DEA. Hadid has more from Islamabad. Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in the southern city of Karachi. He was beheaded on video and the tape was broadcast on the Internet. Ah British national called Omar chef was convicted of his kidnapping and murder. That was 19 years ago. Last year, a provincial court overturned the murder conviction. And yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld that decision on appeal. Now a Pakistani attorney general has lodged a petition to review the case. It could take years to process and it has little chance of succeeding. Following chefs acquittal, The Secretary of state Antony Blinken said the U. S was ready to prosecute share in American courts do you indeed NPR NEWS ISLAMABAD officials from the World Health Organization are in Wuhan, China, to meet with their counterparts in the fact finding mission into the origin of the Corona virus. The W. H O will meet with early responders and some of the first covert 19 patients. The team spent the past two weeks in required quarantine, holding media meetings rather by videoconference. U. S futures contracts or trading lower at this hour. Dell futures contract down 7/10 of a percent NASDAQ futures contracts down just over 1%. You're listening to NPR. This is W when my C in New York four minutes after eight o'clock Good morning. I'm David 1st 15 degrees now in Central Park going up to 23. Today we're seeing delays of up to one hour on New Jersey Transit rail service in and out of Penn Station, New York due to signal issues. C Street ferry has canceled all service today between New York and New Jersey due to high winds. Mayor de Blasio gave his final state of the city address last night. The speech was delivered in a 20 minute pre recorded video and focused on the mayor's plans for his final year in office. The theme of the speech was recovery for all Me tell you a.
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