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On Being with Krista Tippett
"leopold" Discussed on On Being with Krista Tippett
"A house indeed. You know, I feel like you've already actually done this to some extent, but you know, question I want to ask you is, I'm so aware, and I know you're so aware. We're going to talk about this to we need replenishment and we need imagination to create the possibility and the realities and to just face these callings before us, and I feel like you did kind of offer that with working with your hands, doing something with your hands. And your body and you offered some. But something else that intrigued me is you talked someplace about gift making. Do you remember that? Sure. Yeah. How is that? As a practice, how would you kind of describe that? Well, I mean, I haven't talked about it for a long time. In my first touring show, I did a bit. It was called American ham. And I did a bit about making a card. Because people, again, it ties into consumerism. People think, oh, shoot at somebody's birthday anniversary. What have you? I need to go buy them a card. And I say, make them a damn card. Take a piece of paper out of the printer, fold it in half, take a pencil or a crayon or better and draw a heart and open it up and say, I love you, love Nick. That's the bare minimum. That is worth so much more than any BS hallmark card from the drugstore because it says not only I love you, but it says I took the time. And of course, you should do better than a piece of paper out of the printer, but it would still be better than a hallmark card. Well, that's just it. We've been reduced to the point where if we want to communicate a gesture of love, I mean, Wendell berry says it all turns on affection. If we want to express affection to others which we should, with regularity, we've been taught that that means we need to buy something. And instead, I mean, I have a thing with my wife, where I will leave, if I see her car, sometimes when we go on walks or if we're meeting somewhere, if I ever run into her car without her, I'll Scrabble around and find a piece of litter and make a heart out of it and stick it in her car door. Like, because that's a thing. And it takes me a minute and sometimes, you know, there's like a good word on a Doritos bag that's like, share. And I'll tear a heart around it. And in moments, I've just created a little bit of goodwill and love. And for those, you know, before you get a bunch of letters, I then dispose of the rest of the Doritos rapper in a proper receptacle because I love mother nature as well as my wife. But yeah, make a gift. That's something you can do that doesn't cost any money that doesn't use any natural resources. Express affection to each other. Are you familiar with this phrase from rilke about living the questions that I talk about on it from time to time? Are you familiar with that? Yes, and only because I've heard you talk about it sometimes. I think it's very wise for the time we're living in now because it's the sense that he says you should love the questions themselves as though as though they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. And that if you can't live a question, if to rush to an answer would be to, this is me paraphrasing. But if to rush to an answer would be to deny the enormity and the dignity of the question, then you have to live the question. You have to hold the question, live the question. And I think in a time like hours where we don't have shared answers, and yet we have to figure out what it takes to move towards them, we have to live the questions. And I just wonder if you think about that phrase. What might be a question that you are living now and that you might want to be living alongside others? Oh boy. Sorry I know this is like we've been talking for. I mean, no, that's just a massive mine. The question that I'm living or attempting to live is, how can I come as close as possible to getting it right? And what does that mean? And I've had the great good fortune to learn that chasing wealth is not the answer. I've learned that tangibly have crunched the numbers in a few different ways. And so that was so freeing to then say, ah, okay, it's like sitting in a fishing boat that's cheap with my family is so much better than sitting on an expensive yacht. And so it's checking those boxes and continuing to learn as I travel this life. And it keeps me focused on when I have sort of a mantra and it is running through my relationships in my head in descending order. My wife, my mom and dad, my siblings, my neighbors, my Friends, my wood shop employees, and it's running through those and checking in with them mentally and in my heart, am I okay with him am I okay with her? I owe mom and dad a call because we had a disagreement or I was maybe a little too admonishing about that subject that they were being old fashioned about. And so that's my answer is checking in with the part of me that would be aspiring to wisdom saying how am I doing am I getting any closer to getting it right? That's just lovely. Thank you. My pleasure. You know, I want to ask you one more question. In where the deer and the antelope play so, okay, so Aldo Leopold, he came up a little bit. I always love it when there are echoes between conversations and I was thinking of when I interviewed drew lanham, who's a an ornithologist in South Carolina. Who also had other Leopold as one of his teachers and companions and I love this quote of him that he gave. He said to be oh, this is an admonition. That he has lived by drew to be one of those who can not live without wild things. 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On The Media
"leopold" Discussed on On The Media
"Than at any time since this period you wrote about? It's devastating. I mean, so first I think about the extraordinarily brave journalists, both people who have stayed to report anonymously now inside the Russian Federation. Those extraordinarily brave journalists both Ukrainian and foreign correspondents who are on the front lines and in extraordinary peril now. I think about that. And I'm incredibly grateful to them because this is the way that we're going to know something of what happens. I think that the style of the 1930s was a high emotional style, and that's our moment as well. And at the same time, for those people who are most exposed and journalists really foremost among them, you realize think extraordinary toll that this work takes on people. It's not just the problem of being a bystander, but it's the ways in which the project of authoritarianism is fundamentally to reach into every aspect of private life and to affect it. Well, we appreciate you telling these stories that are compelling and so resonant. Thank you very much for coming on the show. Thanks so much for having me. It's been really a pleasure. Deborah Cohn is author of last call at the hotel imperial. The reporters who took on a world at war, she's also the Richard W Leopold Professor.
The Nicole Sandler Show
"leopold" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"And the government. Is you know fighting the defense attorneys and arguing against any any introduction of evidence that may pertain to their own torture. Amazing all right now. Here's the picture that people now see. Now see and they'll be able to hear us as we talk. There's jason in front of the cab. Justice sign at guantanamo bay. And in fact. I don't know if it was that trip or different trip. You may down there. Which is when we hung out down here. Because i get to the airport and took you to your hotel and we we hung for awhile talked music and t shirts and stuff. That's my tattoo. Oh thing speaking of t shirts have t shirt for you from a listener. I meant to bring it in here to show it to you. It's elvis costello and the attractions. It's listener allen. Who knows i'm a fan knows you're the man of the t shirts and it's a very cool picture of elvis costello attraction so i'm going to put it in the mail to you. That is amazing. Yup i do i. You know what you need to see a shoot. I think listener allen go. Wow that's so cool ever listeners. Think of you jason. Leopold find him at buzzfeed. News dot com on the twitter. That jason leopold. Jason always a pleasure to talk to you. And i'm as always so happy success. Thank you nicole right. Pacha beautiful paints back. Thank you these these are. These are the stained glass collection. The faux stained glass collection. But so this. I've just been playing with it. I came up. We're we're we're done. I think progressive voices. They're gonna leave us in the moment So we can. We can run over a couple of minutes. But i started doing this thing. You know when you're a kid and you'd put like elmer's glue on your hand and you peel it off okay. We've all done that right. Wow now what i did was. They have clear glue. And so i got clear glue and started mixing it up. I i i did it with some paints and then i did it with alcohol inc and i make the vinyl and i cut it up and i draw designs on the glass and then i cut out the colored vinyl. That's really glue with the color. And i pick. I pasted in so it. Looks like a faux stained glass. I just started playing with. So this is my latest thing but still do doing the pet portrait's and things that this is what i do in my spare time. When i'm not doing this i do that. You have to send you. I'll send you something along with The t shirt. Oh please. I'll send you a piece of art prominently displayed it. Someplace awesome by the way speaking of art. I don't know you probably didn't see it because you were in here for the beginning of the show but you know i always put up a Like a show card. Like i do a cover art for each episode and i went looking for another picture of you because i always used the one of guantanamo bay and i found this article from medium from like six or seven years ago and amazing drawing or painting business. That is so fucking cool. Pretty cool yeah cool. I like oh my god. That's jason. yeah. They did this story on me. they actually flew reporter out. I remember that was i. Think five six maybe seven it was like twenty four doing i think yet for based on all the time of all the foyer work outlets right well still. That's that's cool. i like that. yeah i do too. You should have that framed summer. that's awesome. Yeah it's online. It's easy to find. Yeah maybe we'll talk. I paint it. But i don. I couldn't do that justice. That's really cool. Very cool thank you. Yeah so one other thing i was going to tell you. I don't remember what it was but whatever decent it's always great to talk to you all and always thank you and thank you for the work. You're doing it's thanks for taking note of it. You got it all right. I will talk to you soon. Let's not make it too long and plan that trip to get mo and come back and visit again definitely will sounds good bye. Thank you bye all right. Jason leopold everybody and with that new. Where at the end of the program. Sorry i just. I just Messed up the shot All right. I didn't even get to the radio guy all right. I'm going to have to deal with this tomorrow during the regular show. But i got to share with you an email i got from listener tamra And tamra if i can find it. It came in early this morning. And she said i need you to cover this story but what what it is is again. There got a lot of emails each day. My goodness i'm still scrolling back. And i don't delete anything. So they're all here The the the the Co vid denying Let me do it this way. Cova denying right wing hate talk. Radio hosts are dying off like flies. another one dropped a. I think i need to play this one yup so tamaraw from missouri rights. I have a request from all my gay friends who died of aids. She writes bob n. Yard was a piece of shit who celebrated the death of my gay friends from aid. So it's only fitting this song be played as he's buried in the ground today. He used to play another one bites the dust when a gay person died of aids. I for one hope. In hell with this song blasting in his ears fraternity karma is a bitch. She eventually gets you. And you got that tamra they. They should all drop dead i. I'm not as magnanimous to some of my colleagues. I who don't wish illness or death on anyone. Anybody who celebrated the death of people from eighths deserve this. And if you're a cova denier vaccine denier you.
The Nicole Sandler Show
"leopold" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"He's just in the wind somewhere. No nowhere to be found. I think somebody somebody asset question We publish a story last week. Somebody tweeted out photo. I don't know that's a recent photo but it's Know it's a it's it's another piece to the puzzle here you know and i i really do believe it's a. It's a very very important piece of the puzzle. You know this this story or the story you know about the capital riots. The insurrection what was happening. Who knew what and when is a is a narrative that continuously has evolved over. the past. Nine months yet is on multiple dude. Assignments and documents are very very important and so because documents will help. Tell that stories on pleased that we were able to get this. Get this out there and to do so By overcoming the obstacles that were in our lack. Of course and jason leopold again. Congratulations because you you rock You know so so this happened. They were so unprepared. They did that. The intelligence either was lacking or covered up or whatever and now and again i knew that was an important day on capitol hill congresses and session. They were certifying. The vote it was there was there should have been tons of police. A big police presence there while now we have this january eighteenth and what are they calling it that i'm sorry September eighteenth this coming saturday. They're going back. And i guess they have permits again. This time the police are going to be out in force their redirecting the fence around the capital congress. The senate is back in session. This week against the house comes back next week. But it's a weekend so it's not like they're going to be conducting business. But i expect. There's going to be a huge police presence there. What do you know about. What's happening on saturday and i have kind of around. I mean there there will be a big police presence in it. It does appear that you know. They are acting on any all intelligence this time and it's with regard to the capital. It does not appear that they are going to allow As far as i can tell any protester demonstrations there. I can't be a hundred percent. Sure that because i also don't know what the what. The rationale is the reasoning behind if they were to deny any request for permit right but Yeah i mean the the you know. The law enforcement presence is going to be quite big dry the different administration in place to and we know that this is not a friendly crowd to the current administration. so it's also one of the lessons learned. Yeah shit big lesson learned you know and and it will be very interesting to see you know who actually or how many people show up in what that what. It looks like this time around absolutely. Hey jason we've only got a few minutes left. But i'd be remiss if i didn't ask you about what's happening down in guantanamo bay. Now you you did a lot of work covering The torture covering abu zubeida covering the you know what went on in get you were there. Yeah and i was thinking. It's funny that you mentioned abbas better. Because i think we spoke about this many years ago asked his diaries. That's right. we talked lending. His diaries are incredible because it really lays bare the hit his journey from a from an engineering students to this Jihadist abu johnny dean. Who went to afghanistan and he in his diaries. He talks about the arrival of this. You know this new group. The taliban were taking over Afghanistan I mean as far as guantanamo. There's it's it's still a black hole. Secrecy i mean it's it's has stock in time in another time. I mean even though on the outside here we learn so much about you. Know what took place with regard to the cis torture program when you're at guantanamo. That's still something that cannot be discussed been really with the twentieth anniversary of nine. Eleven happens last weekend. The you know the they're they're still arguing over what can be introduced in the you know as far as evidence in the trial of khalid sheikh muhammad And who who has not been tried for the crimes that he's accused of perpetrating or being the mastermind behind the nine eleven attacks. But there's still a few dozen people who are at guantanamo They closed one of the high value. detention facilities there that held the cia detainees right. And it's you know it's it's still it it it it still goes on. I mean it's it's Yeah it's it does not appear. That could be any effort to really close. Oh l. held on. Oh i cut off our audio hold on one second. I got to bring her back on. Sorry yeah i wanted. I wanted to put up the picture of you at at camp justice but i lost audio my war. Why can't we be friends. Insurance little message. I t shirts But yeah guantanamo. Eventually being after the i think to try to return there because january twentieth anniversary that it's been open and like i said. A few dozen dozen detainees are still there and as you can imagine they're getting very very old yes well but now there's a trial trial is finally happening twenty years later or is it going to finish. Our i mean is this action. The trial is ever going to. I don't think it's ever going to happen. I mean there's still you know in the in the pre-trial cafes arguing over what evidence can can be introduced and the government. Is you know fighting the defense attorneys and arguing against any any introduction of evidence that may pertain to their own torture. Amazing all right now. Here's.
The Nicole Sandler Show
"leopold" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Newsom because of voter fraud. Oh hold on. I need to get my scary music out because of voter fraud. The problem is the election is not over yet. He didn't lose yet. He will lose. Please lose but it isn't over yet and then some enterprising eagle-eyed people reading the website realized that the language in the first paragraph and the final sentence of the petition are identical to the text on petitions. That were circulated by trump quote attorney. Lynnwood i in his lawsuit to overturn biden's win in georgia last year. It's just it's it and they look and they just don't care. Here's here's a tweet from. Jank uber says larry elder website says they have evidence of voter fraud even before. Any votes have been tabulated. It's such an over the top lie that fabricated right in front of our eyes but conservatives actively don't care about facts so they won't mind at all they just ignore it. It's like that is not happening. And it's mind-blowing absolutely mind blowing. I've got all this other stuff In the senate. The bill formerly known as the four of the people act has been introduced with a new name because they changed it a little bit. It's now the freedom to vote act and yes it's been introduced in the senate and it's it's basically a pared-down version of the for the people act pared down by come on you know say it joe fucking mansion. He's got to basically right the new bill. The washington post is reporting that the new text retains most of the significant parts of the original including the mandate for national minimum standards for early voting in vote by mail. It's still establishes election. Day is a national holiday. It creates new disclosure requirements for dark money groups that are not now required to disclose their donors but it does cut some other important parts in an effort to placate joe mansion. Now you know. There's a disagreement over voter. Id and in fact. Just i just tweeted back at reverend william barber kind of correcting him because what he said is we who put the voter. Id back in there. We can't have voter. Id well actually. That's not true. The problem isn't voter. Id the problem is voter. Id restrictions so for instance in texas and texas where they can where they tell you that They they they don't you you. You can't use a state issued texas university ide- so if you're a student in one of the texas state university system schools your state issued. Id will not allow you to vote but if you have a gun permit in texas. That's okay stating that's not okay. As somebody who moved around a few times when alison was a little kid and i had to register her at different schools. They are pretty strict. That you send your kid to school in the district where you live and you had to show a photo. Id and something with your name and address on it. So i could show a gym. Id that shows. This is me. That's my picture right and utility bills a phone bill and electric bill with my name and the address on it. That's good enough and if that's good enough to put your kid in school. That should be good enough. So you can vote because after all the reason for the idea is to say your to prove that you're who you say you are and the way these vote restriction restrictive voter. Id laws work. Is they wanna keep you from voting. The difference has to be that you they they wanna let you vote. They're allowing you to say this is who i am. I am that person who's registered to vote. This is me. Here's my picture. Here's my address. Here are some legitimate proof. It shouldn't matter whether it's a status you'd college ide- or you know something with your picture on it and something else that's official. That's an electric bill. That has your name and address printed on it. That's what it should be for. And i believe that's how the the legislation now reads yes voter. Id but national standards without a wide litany of documents. You can use to show to prove that you're who you say you are and if that's how it works. I'm fine with rotor id. I'm not fine with the restrictions on what. Ideally you can use got that. I just want to make a clear because you know the republicans are always so quick to say what. Why are they against voter. Id what's wrong with proving you're who you say you are. That's not the issue the issue is they want to limit what you can use to prove. You're who you say you are so that happened are told you about the reconciliation about hurricane hurricane nicholas. Fuck made landfall on the texas gulf coast. This morning as a category one storm so at least it wasn't a four or five but for someone who's been through a few hurricanes. Let me tell you you don't wanna be in a category one storm. Either people think it's only a one a one can cause some damage especially came a shore. Right we're harvey hit a couple of years ago and things are not could there right so And now it's looking like it's gonna head towards louisiana which is still digging out from ida so Crazy crazy weather. Oh i think. I've a weather song could play for you We'll see if we have time for that before. Jason gets here Let's see if there's anything else. Oh blinken there was a hearing your urine house yesterday. In the senate today with secretary of state they're grilling him over afghanistan and the withdrawal. And i'll tell you something we are. So partisan the the republican members of congress who've questioned these officials who've been testifying yesterday and today are just they're shameless. They're horrible. Marco rubio lectured the secretary of state for seven minutes. Never asked him a question. Just lectured him. These people are just ugly and you know what if you don't mind i'm not even gonna go there right now..
The Nicole Sandler Show
"leopold" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Now might be a good time to say. Hey you haven't contributed to the show lately. Please think about it or if you don't just want to pay to listen to radio. I get it. Because i grew up. I'm i'm old school. I grew up where you didn't pay to listen to the radio. The cost was taken care of in the in the commercials while run commercials either but I- offering a premium. Which is the painting whether it's one of my lovely stained glass creations or a pet portrait or something else Keep me in mind. We got the holidays coming up. So i i'm busy painting when i'm not on the air or sleeping weren't playing with jackson probably painting anyway So that's He'll at the bank cabot. Believe me we're close. And that's the thing i mean. We were still in foreclosure but because of cova everything everything stopped for about a year. So we certainly don't want to put money into the house. Because i don't know how long we'll be here but anyway that's a story for another day. It's it's not a fun situation so let me tell you. What else isn't fun. There's other news going on. I took care of the correction for the day. Let me tell you about our guests before it gets into the news. Jason leopold will be here today. And jason leopold is You know the fbi dubbed him a foia terrorist and he you know he went with it But every time. I'd say it. It bothered me. Because jason's a good guy and i don't want him call terrorist so i decided he is the foia master screw that terrorist talk his protector. He's a superhero. He's a foia superhero so Jason leopold oh thank you gloria in the chat room a so jason leopold our foia superhero will join us today. He broke another big story this week. And that is you know that he he had been trying since january. Six to get Copies of the permits that the capitol police issued on for the the rally or the protest or whatever they called it The thing that turned into the insurrection on january six and hadn't been able to they wouldn't take us calls or anything. Well jason did his foia magic and he exclusively got all six permits six of them and they shouldn't have been granted so we'll get into that when jason joins us to add at the bottom of the hour There are some breaking news. Sad news norm. Macdonald died norm macdonald veteran of saturday night. Live stand up funny guy who sometimes wasn't so funny but you know what the edgy. Comedians often are On the edge you know. There's sometimes not funny. But i'll tell you. The accolades are are Flying into i. I thought i flagged these Let's see. I can't find it but Both bolt john stewart and david letterman tweeted today about the genius of norm macdonald. About how you just. You didn't see it coming until until he had you so. Hit a very deadpan delivery. David and i went to see him once. A down here in florida at the hard rock and he just was not good and i think he was. I think he was sick. He wasn't feeling well he made. He made a few references to it. I think it was on cold medication or something. But he was bombing in the worst way and had just horrible A horrible heckler in the crowd. So that that's my one. Memory of mcdonald live but Yeah it said he was sixty one years old. I'm sixty one years old. That's scary so that happened In other news today is election day in california. Please if you have it yet turned in your ballot. Do it in person today. Yes you can still mail it. It can still be postmarked by tonight by midnight and it will be good to go so if they need to count those ballots they will. I'm sure they will just to have a final tally. But it's looking pretty good for gavin newsom. And i think we might have larry elder to thank for that because it was pretty close until larryelder emerged as the front runner and people saw just how batch shit crazy he is and they're like none of that's not gonna happen here so you know. Fingers fingers crossed knocking on laminate. That all goes well when when polls close tonight it'll be a clear cut winner and we won't have to worry about that for a little while but i'll tell you what i'll tell you these people. They know shame. So larry elder was asked repeatedly by. I forget what show it was on one of the shows a by a uh-huh by jacob sober off of of nbc news. Will you accept the result of this election. And he would not give a straight answer while the reason he wouldn't is because they're already using donald trump's stop the steel playbook now you know they had that stop the steel nonsense ready to go in two thousand sixteen because they were convinced they were gonna lose. We all thought hillary clinton was gonna win and so they had the slogan the the swag that everything else ready to roll for when he lost the twenty sixteen election and then go figure he wins in the electoral college vote. Who would have ever thought i still. I still believe that if you would write that movie script today that you'd be laughed out of the office it would never make it past. The you know the the assistant who reads the scripture and passes along the ones that might have something there anyway. I digress so So he wouldn't say that yes. I'll accept the results of the election. No he wouldn't instead. He jumped the gun. Larry elder's campaign jumped the gun with a new website. That went live. I guess last night urging people to sign a petition saying that he lost the election.
Everything Everywhere Daily
"leopold" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Some point. The enormity of his children's talent dawned on leopold. it wasn't just a father of two musical prodigies. But this was something that could open doors to royal courts all over europe in seventeen. Sixty two the wunderkind siblings performed for the emperor francis the i and empress maria theresa in vienna. This was their big debut in their first significant public performance. It took three weeks to travel from salzburg to vienna with two small children and put the family deepen dead however their performance was a smashing success. Leopold sent home the equivalent of two year salary after only a few weeks of performing in vienna with this success. They set out on a grand tour of europe visiting royal courts all over the continent at the start of the tour and seventeen sixty. Three wolfgang was seven and non role was eleven at the beginning of the tour. Non-royal often receive top billing in a letter home. Leopold wrote quote. My little girl plays the most difficult works which we have with incredible precision and so excellently. What it all amounts to is this that my little girl. Although she was only twelve years old is one of the most skillful players in europe and quote as they travelled leopold basically acted as an agent for his children. It wasn't just the royal courts in large capital cities where they performed they would also try to arrange performances in every city they visited and leopold would often put notices in local newspapers over the course of three years. The family worked their way across germany. Belgium and the netherlands with the furthest point being london on the way back home. They went through france and switzerland. During this trip wolfgang began composing furious pace including writing his first symphony at the age of eight maria. Ana often helps your little brother and writing down the music you wrote. They returned home to salzburg in seventeen sixty six and continued to make side trips to earn money including a return trip to vienna in seventeen sixty nine leopold set out again but this time he only brought wolfgang with him if maria ana had grown up in the present day she undoubtedly would have been one of the world's foremost musicians however she grew up in the eighteenth century and she was subject to the norms and the culture of that period once she reached an age where she could marry. She wasn't allowed to perform in public again. To do so would be
Everything Everywhere Daily
The Other Mozart: Wolfgang's Sister, Maria Anna
"Some point. The enormity of his children's talent dawned on leopold. it wasn't just a father of two musical prodigies. But this was something that could open doors to royal courts all over europe in seventeen. Sixty two the wunderkind siblings performed for the emperor francis the i and empress maria theresa in vienna. This was their big debut in their first significant public performance. It took three weeks to travel from salzburg to vienna with two small children and put the family deepen dead however their performance was a smashing success. Leopold sent home the equivalent of two year salary after only a few weeks of performing in vienna with this success. They set out on a grand tour of europe visiting royal courts all over the continent at the start of the tour and seventeen sixty. Three wolfgang was seven and non role was eleven at the beginning of the tour. Non-royal often receive top billing in a letter home. Leopold wrote quote. My little girl plays the most difficult works which we have with incredible precision and so excellently. What it all amounts to is this that my little girl. Although she was only twelve years old is one of the most skillful players in europe and quote as they travelled leopold basically acted as an agent for his children. It wasn't just the royal courts in large capital cities where they performed they would also try to arrange performances in every city they visited and leopold would often put notices in local newspapers over the course of three years. The family worked their way across germany. Belgium and the netherlands with the furthest point being london on the way back home. They went through france and switzerland. During this trip wolfgang began composing furious pace including writing his first symphony at the age of eight maria. Ana often helps your little brother and writing down the music you wrote. They returned home to salzburg in seventeen sixty six and continued to make side trips to earn money including a return trip to vienna in seventeen sixty nine leopold set out again but this time he only brought wolfgang with him if maria ana had grown up in the present day she undoubtedly would have been one of the world's foremost musicians however she grew up in the eighteenth century and she was subject to the norms and the culture of that period once she reached an age where she could marry. She wasn't allowed to perform in public again. To do so would be
The Nicole Sandler Show
"leopold" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Day was recognized as a holiday back in nineteen eighty three well. Congress has a lot on their plates these days like the fate of the for the people act. Unfortunately senate minority leader mitch. Mcconnell is now again guaranteeing that republicans will filibuster the bill. That chuck schumer is sending to the floor on tuesday. The only remaining question seems to be whether all fifty democratic senators will unite in support of opening debate on the bill and then how they'll react when republicans once again block it senator. Joe manchin the thorn in the democrat side issued a memo this week saying what provision he would support and basically telling the democrats what they needed to do to the bill in order to get his vote. Stacey abrams in an interview said that she could go for that. She could accept mansions suggestions. The perfect way to sum up. Today's republican party is all about comes in their response. A bit of background. I in a leaked zoom call released by the intercept. We heard joe mansion suggests to the obscenely wealthy donors on the call that they offer outgoing senator roy blunt of missouri future income streams as a way to get him to the idea of january six commission and at the same time. Keep the filibuster going in that. Call your joe mansion. Say quote roy. Blunt is a great just a good friend of mine. A great guy while blunt showed. What a good friend. He is by responding to that news. Item saying i think everyone of us look for opportunities to work center mansion. And we've found those opportunities. I actually think win. Stacey abrams immediately endorsed senator mansions proposal. It became the stacey substitute. Not the joe mansion substitute len. Will the democrats get the message. Republicans are not playing ball. Here they're just not into you. And i don't think we're going to get through the news without another shooting. This time. one person was killed. Twelve others injured in eight drive by shootings over a ninety minute spree near phoenix on thursday. A suspect has been arrested. Police say the shooting occurred about eleven ten. Am in peoria with a suspect arrested during a traffic stop in the town of surprise after twelve forty pm. A gun was found in his car. Four of the people wounded had gunshot wounds. The others were injured by broken glass or shrapnel. Investigators couldn't immediately determine a motive for the shootings but they didn't think it was road rage. Just incredible and how about this. Remember mark and patricia mcklusky as a group of peaceful. Black lives matter. Protesters were marching past their missouri mansion. Last june twenty eighth they emerged from their home with guns drawn aimed at the marchers. They later claimed that the protesters were trespassing by their gated. private street. Well they both pleaded guilty he to degree assault she to second degree harassment. They'll pay fines of seven hundred fifty dollars in two thousand dollars respectively and they must surrender their guns to be destroyed. imagine that and finally didn't obama. no something was up with this guy. I'm talking about dr. Ronnie jackson now congressman ronnie jackson from texas. He was trump's white house physician who shared the results of trump's first physical and office claiming that he has great gene that he told the president that if he had a healthier diet he might live to be two hundred years old and oh yeah claimed that trump weighed two hundred thirty nine pounds. Yeah that guy well. He wrote a letter signed by thirteen other republican lawmakers asking joe biden to take cognitive test. The daily kos david muir points out though that the lawmakers had their own mental lapse in drafting the letter repeating align almost verbatim about the president's alleged forgetfulness. The letter reads quote. Unfortunately you're forgetfulness and cognitive difficulties have been prominently on display over the past year. The next sentence says unfortunately. Your mental decline in forgetfulness have become more apparent over the past eighteen months. Someone get ronnie jackson a mirror please. And that's just a bit of what's news for now. I'm nicole sandler appreciate these reports. I hope you'll check out the nicole sandler shope. We're live weekday afternoons at five eastern two pacific here on the progressive voices network and is always available as a podcast. Afterwards from nicole sandler dot com. And while you're there please click on that donate button stone. We have one of the most productive freight rail systems in in the world and that but at the same time we haven't been investing in the long term. It's kind of like we've been deferring sitting on our laurels so to speak.
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"leopold" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"On thursday handed down three of the remaining eighteen cases from this term. They began with the biggest of the bunch. Upholding the affordable care act for the third time. The supreme court ruled seven to that. The eighteen republican leads states. Who brought this suit lacked legal standing to try to overturn the law. The seventeen states that join texas argued that congress's twenty seventeen decision to remove the so-called individual mandate reader. The entire law unconstitutional decision in their favor would have resulted in eliminating the law. And all the popular provision that includes like coverage for preexisting conditions but justice steven brier wrote for the majority that the state's lawsuit was improper because the plaintiffs couldn't trace the legal injury to the individual mandate thus they lacked standing. President biden called the decision. A major victory for all americans benefiting from this groundbreaking and life changing law anti brought back memories of the day. The bill passed by referring to it. As a b es de something he said in its full form to the then president barack obama after the passage in another consequential case the supremes ruled unanimously that a catholic foster carry gency in philadelphia could reject gay and lesbian. Couples is clients in a case that pitted. Lgbtq right against the first amendment's protection of reflecting religious beliefs. Chief justice. John roberts wrote the opinion saying that the catholic agency quote six only an accommodation that will allow it to continue serving the children philadelphia in a manner consistent with its religious beliefs. It does not seek to impose those beliefs on anyone else. He continued the refusal philadelphia to contract with css for the provision of foster care services unless it agrees to certify same sex couples as foster. Parents violates the first amendment. This decision marked the most significant defeat for gay rights activists since the courts twenty eighteen ruling in favor of that colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for same sex couple and the fact that this was unanimous. Kinda of disturbing as was the third decision. Frankly supreme court ruled against six former child slaves from mali in west africa who sued food companies nestle and cargo accusing them of perpetuating illegal working conditions in the global chocolate industry the plaintiffs said in the fifteen year old lawsuit that they were trafficked to cocoa plantations in the ivory coast and forced to work. They said the company's pressure to keep down cocoa prices fueled a system that relied on enslaved children on cocoa farms in ivory coast and ghana. Clarence thomas writing for the court wrote that. The plaintiffs couldn't do because the actions took place in ivory coast. Not the united states. There are fifteen cases.
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"leopold" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"I love you use i. I'm so proud of you when i saw you with the pulitzer finalist okay. You deserve the whole thing but at least it was kept in house. Do you get to touch the metal. Do you get to hold it. I don't know how that works But maybe from afar but more calm more to come. I really really appreciative ungrateful. Fierce important call for a very long time in many many years. So you've always been incredibly supportive in encouraging and you're a great friend and as our year and i'm still i'm so proud of you. I just love watching the work you do. And i got to put in a plug for your book too. Because you've been so honest you Career has been a roller coaster as many of ours. Are you wrote about it in this book called news junkie that i think should be a movie that everyone should read. It's still available and it gives it. Just when i read that i already loved you. You're already my friend. And then i read that i devoured it in about a day and a half and i had this newfound respect for you so and i feel i don't know i don't know why i mean i have nothing to do with your success but i'm so proud of you every time i see your break another big story so i go get him jason. You're the best. Thank you all right back. Gotcha thank you so much and happy father's day. I hope how wonderful wonderful father's day this weekend. And i'll see you soon. I hope so all right. You take care jason. Thanks so much. Bye-bye jason leopold. He really is the best and he's just as nice. I mean you here. That's the conversation. And i adore him all right with that. It's a weekend. Thank god have a happy juneteenth and a happy father's day if you want me to paint your pets portrait..
The Nicole Sandler Show
"leopold" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"Investigating the interference into the election. One thing that they wanted to do is follow the money so they reached out to since then a reached out to treasury. they ask for specific records on The cast a wide net and they asked for records on a number of people and entities that they believed or they got tips on where you know may have been involved in in election violence and You know these individuals were are in some cases. Well known like their pasta. I'm trying to think who. Else all manafort as i mentioned michael cohen and then banks like you mentioned deutsche bank right on some of these suspicious financial j. j. p. morgan chase standard chartered bank deutsche bank and bank of new york mellon. Apparently you came up. They continue to profit from suspect transactions even after they pay fines to us. Authorities for previous misconduct and in some cases signed deferred prosecution deals but they still kept doing the same shit. Which is what you want. And that's exactly what we were trying to figure out here is that you know it took a because the the data that we had it was data was dance. It wasn't as if there were emails saying. Hey let's you know office this dirty money. We have to spend a lot of time with with. Ics j. with all these other reporters to return to build a database to have understand what these filings were and. That's when we realized that we have right now. Unprecedented gained unprecedented insight There's never been stories like this before you've never had an opportunity to see you know first of all these types of records Jesse exactly what goes on behind the scenes in how these suspicious activity reports end up being more of a covering your ass for banks because all they have to do is just file it under the law under the bank secrecy act. And you know that's not and if someone investigates they investigate or if they don't investigate nobody knows right. They still process the transactions. So yeah like. I said i think the biggest thing that was a real real really stunning to me. Is that we publish this in september right before the election. We honestly did not think that we would any attention. You know the fact that we gained any you know any is a lot riding on your needing you know the of a people and it was just it really did. It didn't take off in some ways and you know initially the times and the post in not the not the cable outfits but you know the they reported on it new york reported on it and yeah and then it's wow we pulitzer of yes. That was so when you're the finalists. So you're the first runner up. Basically do you get anything i mean. What is the winner. Get they get a medal or something. Do they get cash com. That's the what you gets. Don't get upset. Sorry that's the mother. The opportunity you get the i guess the ability or you get you know bragging rights. You're a finalist rate and you are twice so the third time has got to be the charm. So do you know what the third call i don't. I don't know what the third one is. I mean. I'll tell you my plan is to take break for bit really. You know. I have ban working nonstop for and i and i really mean nonstop for five years multiple multiple investigation when i say a break. I'm not talking about like a year. You know. I need to recharge a bit and kind of figure out what to tackle next and Yeah you know. And we'll figure out. I mean the thing is there's there's no shortage there's no shortage of stories or issues that need to be investigated And and things are. Things are good at buzzfeed news. A lot of news organizations are having a rough time. How are things there. Yeah things aren't things zero. Can buzzfeed has had some rough times. It's a much smaller newsroom. Than right. When i joined only only four and a half years ago out so i feel that i am of an age these days where. I'm just grateful to have job. You know you know. Get a paycheck. And i'm grateful for that. Well you've proven yourself. Look who else is nicknamed the foia terrorists by the government right and i was looking for a better word. I say foia master but like that. I like it to you. Are the master. Let them say terrorist. I'm gonna call you the forty master from now on good. So jason leopold the foia master. All right you decide what comes next. There's so much i mean. Look you've covered everything i remember. You hung out when you were down here in miami on your way to guantanamo bay. Now there's talk of right remember we. We compared t shirts and music and stuff. I know we need another visit so come to florida. Take a few days off to florida. It's actually been cooler. I do remember going through some. You're right that's right all right. Well we're overdue so we are. It's been too long. Yes it has jason growing old my kid. My kid is twenty two so if anybody wants to read the fincen files go to buzz. Just google buzzfeed news fincen f. i n. c. e. n. It'll come up for you. Or vincent files dot com there. You go vince. Unfiled dot com. That was easy. Jason leopold..
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"leopold" Discussed on Dictators
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"leopold" Discussed on Dictators
"Fight back against the accusations unfortunately williams had given leopold some ammunition in the full title of the letter williams referred to himself as a colonel of the united states army though he was a former soldier he hadn't made the rank of colonel which made it easier for leopold to discredit him. Still many newspapers took william's testimonies seriously. One belgian newspaper wrote that a personal absolute and uncontrolled regime whose chief autocrat has never set foot in the country he has governing is fatally bound to produce. The majority of grave deeds pointed out by the american traveler. Williams would have continued his attempts to expose leopold's crimes to the world but as he completed his circuit around africa fell ill with tuberculosis in august. Eighteen ninety one. He died at the age. Forty one had williams survived. He would have seen conditions in the congo. Become even more hellish. Over the next few years the violence oppression and misery increased and it was all thanks to a new resource rubber. A rubber boom began in the early eighteen nineties because of industrial demands for tires to being an insulation unfortunately for the congo's inhabitants much of the colony was covered in rubber trees by the late eighteen. Ninety s rubber head overtaken ivory as the most profitable commodity extracted from the congo collecting. Rubber was difficult painful work which had to be performed over a wide area. Making it virtually impossible for leopold's agents to manage the work directly in order to compel locals to harvest rubber for them. Leopold's men would kidnap people from villages. Typically women children or elders and hold them hostage until a quota was met those who didn't work fast enough for often killed in order to scare the survivors into working harder to prove to leopold's agents that the punishment had been carried out. The victim's severed hands were collected as proof. Leopold's force publique was compelled to carry out the dirty work after the europeans complained that the soldiers were wasting too many bullets on their executions the f. p. started hacking off the hands of men who are still alive but while severed hands became one of the more infamous and memorable punishments. It certainly wasn't the only way to motivate the congolese to meet the rubber quotas. According to historian. Theo aronson villages were burned men. Flogged women mutilated children chained in sheds as hostages or flung into crocodile infested rivers whole clans wiped out tribes fled in terror across the borders. Those who survived lived a nightmare existence. The exact number of people who died under leopold's congo regime is impossible to determine for certain. A conservative estimate is that between eight hundred ninety six and nine hundred ninety six. The population of the congo dropped by three million. However the consensus among most historians is that the number of deaths is probably closer to ten million or about half the population. The king's personality only exacerbated the already exploitative and racist conditions of colonialism in response to the criticism laid against him historian adam hoge shields suggests that the tone leopold sounded was always of annoyance or self. Pity never of shame or guilt after seeing a newspaper cartoon of himself chopping off african hands with a sword. Leopold snorted with derision. He supposedly said cut off hands that city attic. I'd cut off all the rest of them but not the hands. That's the one thing. I need in the congo violence in the congo intensified so too did criticism of leopold and his regime. Many others picked up. Where george washington williams had left off one was a black american presbyterian missionary and reverend named william shepherd starting in eighteen. Ninety shepherd spent nearly two decades traveling throughout africa. Witnessing the many atrocities committed on leopold's behalf unwilling to remain silent sheppard wrote about what he saw for missionary magazines. Inspiring others to take a closer look at the congo. But perhaps the most consequential person to challenge. King leopold was a young clerk for the elder dempster. Lines shipping company named edmund denny morale and at some point in the eighteen nineties. Twenty-something morales stumbled upon the truth about leopold's colony after seeing a report of large quantities of rifles and ammunition being shipped to the congo morale began to wonder why war materials were needed in the colony. Even more concerning was the fact that these shipments were not on the official logs after confirming with his own. Is that the elder dempster ships. Were carrying weapons and ammunition. Morale decided to dig deeper. He then discovered that while massive amounts of ivory and rubber were being taken from the congo. Virtually nothing was being sent back to pay for it. All thus while leopold was painting himself as an anti-slavery humanitarian the king was in effect. One of the world's largest slavers morrell went to his superiors and demanded that something be done. His bosses tried to get rid of him by offering him a promotion in another country but morale refused. He was then offered two hundred pounds a year in consulting fees essentially a bribe for him to stay quiet again. Morell refused finally morale had had enough in one thousand nine hundred eighty one. He quit elder dempster and devoted his time to attacking the unimaginable barbarities being committed in the congo free state. He started his own journal and published hundreds of articles and three books. Throughout europe as the criticism intensified leopold realized that there was finally a legitimate threat against his colonial claim. 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"Welcome to dictators. Spotify original from podcast. I'm richard and i'm kate episodes of dictators and all other spotify originals from park cast for free on spotify this season on dictators. We're exploring the reins of desperate monarchs. Who just before or during world war one. We'll explore king leopold the second of belgium emperor franz josef of austria hungary and the three pashas of the ottoman empire. Last week we discussed leopold the seconds obsession with colonization and how he schemed and conned the rest of the world into giving him land to enrich himself. Today we're exploring the horrific crimes perpetrated by king leopold's regime in the congo which cost millions of lives and destroyed the region and will explore the long and difficult struggle to expose those crimes to the world. We'll have all that and more coming up. Stay with us. This episode is brought to you by progressive. Are you thinking more about how to tighten up your budget. 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Two five seven seven eight zero standard texting rates apply and start planning your oklahoma trip at travel oak dot com slash. Okay go okay here. We go this. Episode is brought to you by zillow. Medella was the official bureau of ufc. Which means is also the official bureau fans with the fighting spirit. That means never give enough even when the odds against so when you're watching the next big. Ufc fight have chris modell especially al within reach but delo through for those with the fighting. Spirit heads adela. Usa dot com to shop delivery and pickup drink responsibly. Beer imported by crown imports chicago illinois by eighteen eighty five fifty year old leopold the second had established the congo free state in central africa. A territory roughly. The size of western europe for decades leopold had angled for a colony in the hopes of enriching himself and glorifying belgium. After years of scheming leopold had his prize but even though he managed to carve out a domain in central africa the belgian government and people wanted nothing to do with it to ease their fears of being forced to deal with colony. Leopold assured parliament that he would rule the congo free state as sole sovereign thus the congo was leopold's own personal fiefdom unconstrained by belgian or any other law. Unfortunately he still had to figure out a way to pay for it. Colonies tend to be expensive ventures. Especially before you're able to extract resources to make them profitable. Since the congo was leopold's personal property he had to fund the whole enterprise himself by the end of eighteen eighty nine the kings finances were stretched to their limits. Bankers in europe refused to extend him loans and even after plundering the inheritance of his wealthy sister. Leopold didn't have the necessary funds. There was only one place where he could get the money he needed. The belgian government parliament had never wanted a colony but by the early eighteen ninety s. They were starting to warm to the idea of having one with ivory coming out of the congo in greater quantities. The government realized there might be money in the jungle. After all at the time ivory was a highly sought after commodity typically harvested from slain elephants. It could be shipped out of the congo free state at a substantial profit once. Leopold dangled that carrot. He didn't hesitate to real parliament in. He said that in exchange for a loan he would draft a will in which he left the colony to belgium to sweeten the deal. Leopold offered that in ten years. Parliament could choose to either accept ownership of colony or demand repayment of the loan. The government agreed and gave the king twenty five million francs one hundred fifty five million. Us dollars today and all of it was interest free rather than thank his countrymen for pulling him out of a jam leopold turn right around and screwed them over sometime after securing. the loan. Leopold broke the news that he had also borrowed five million francs from a banker named brown to teach the security for this second loan required leopold to mortgage a large portion of the colony to detainees and since leopold was unable to repay the loan he would have to soon handover much of the congo to t.j. The same land that was already promised to belgium unwilling to lose a significant area of their congo inheritance. Parliament decided they had to annex the entire congo however when the belgian people learned of this they were furious they had never wanted a colony in the first place and now they're government was dragging them all into the game against this wave of public. Backlash parliament abandoned the annexation. Instead they agreed to pay off. Leopold's five million. Frank loan and for reasons that are unclear they gave leopold an extra one point five million francs. And here's the kicker it turns out leopold had never actually borrowed money from brown to teach. He simply made up the whole story in order to con the belgian government into giving him more money and it worked of course during this long process. Leopold couldn't resist trying to expand his already. Enormous holding the congo free state was gigantic. It was bigger than spain. France england germany and italy combined but not content with what he had one leopold needed. More leopold had his eyes on the nile river. If he could stake a claim on a portion of the nile he would have access to another significant means of transport and solidify his grasp on central africa. His advisors thought it insanity to seize the nile on top of everything he had already won in response. Leopold simply said. Do you consider worth nothing. The glory of being a pharaoh in order to satisfy his appetite for power leopold came up with a cunning plan. the congo's northern lands border sudan. Which in the mid eighteen eighty s was in a state of political upheaval. The ottoman governor. Mehmet eamon pasha was being pressed by rebels and was virtually trapped in the nile river town of lotto. Though the ottomans claimed the region there control was essentially non existent. The british you extensively held joint custody of sudan in fact ran the show. Unfortunately they were juggling too many other conflicts and couldn't help pasha.
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"leopold" Discussed on Dictators
"Leopold convinced president chester a arthur that the free republics were both a great humanitarian project and an opportunity for commercial investment. He assured the president that americans would be able to buy land in the congo and that american commodities there would be duty-free. Arthur was enthused and completely duped congress. The president reported that the objects of the i see our philanthropic. It does not aim at permanent political control but seeks the neutrality of the valley. in april eighteen eighty four. The united states became the first nation to officially recognize leopold's claim to the congo. They assume they were giving recognition to a collection of free states like an african version of the usa with the us sufficiently fooled leopold up france though the french felt they had nothing to fear from belgium itself. They assume that sooner or later leopold's colonizing enterprise with bankrupt. When that happened he might sell the land to great britain. Which was unacceptable. Leopold promised france that if he was ever disposed of his custody of the congo france would get the right of first refusal. The french happily agreed. France granted full recognition of leopold's claim. After that the last moves of the game virtually played themselves. Britain and germany realized that they had to keep the afc in charge because if the i see collapsed than the congo would go to france. So like the us. Germany agreed to accept leopold's claim in exchange for guarantees of freedom of trade. Of course they were unaware that leopold treaties with african chiefs granted him trade monopolies after germany recognize leopold's claim. Britain agreed to withdraw. Its support of portugal which was then forced to retreat from the congo. The aic and thus leopold was formerly recognized as the controller of the new congo state. Not everyone was blind to the scheme. Leopold had just pulled off german chancellor otto fund bismarck. One of the shrewdest difficult matt's to ever play the game publicly praised leopold as the founder of a work which will confer the most important benefits on mankind in the margins of document written by leopold however the iron chancellor scribbled fraud fraud or not. Leopold got what he wanted in may eighteen eighty five. The fifty year old king abandoned the pretense of the afc and named his privately controlled colony the independent state of the congo or congo. free state. now that he had the congo in his grasp leopold could drop the mask at first he considered naming himself emperor of the congo but settled on the slightly more modest king of the kongo but there was still one hurdle to cross the belgian parliament. The parliament had never wanted a colony in the first place. They expressed concern that they might end up saddled with the responsibility for the congo. Or that leopold's attention might be torn between the belgian and congolese parliament's leopold reassured them that there would be no democracy in the congo. He would rule as an absolute king. He had complete and total authority satisfied that the congo wouldn't be their responsibility or feeling that there was no point in arguing. Any further the belgian government agreed to make leopold the king of the kongo. According to the aaronson almost overnight little belgium's constitutional monarch had emerged as the absolute sovereign of a country the size of western europe and with the announcement fifty year old king leopold the second had finally achieved his lifelong dream of acquiring a colony. The only question that remained was what he actually planned to do with it. Few could have anticipated that leopold. The second would create one of the most brutal and horrifying regimes.
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"leopold" Discussed on Dictators
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While the committee's president was another of the king's henchman stanley was completely ignorant of what the king really intended. The explorer had no idea that as historian. Theo aaronson put it beneath the velvet glove of the aa was the iron hand of territorial ambition with stanley as his man on the ground leopold would slither into the heart of africa and like a ravenous python. Squeeze the life out of a land around the size of western europe coming up leopold cons half the world in order to steal an empire now back to the story by eighteen. Seventy eight leopold the second. The forty three year old king of belgium had finally set his eye on a colony the river basin in central africa and to help him carve out his empire. Leopold hired famed british. Explorer henry morton stanley in february eighteen seventy nine stanley returned to africa to begin constructing a line of stations along the congo river. Depending on the audience leopold would offer different decks as to what exactly stanley was building. Sometimes they were hospitals or research labs or forts to fight against the slave trade regardless. The king insisted that his intent was always philanthropy. Cutting roads through the jungle was grueling. Deadly work in the first year six europeans and twenty two africans died during the construction. It wasn't easy for stanley either. During one particularly nasty bout of malaria his weight dropped two hundred pounds and he was too weak to speak at another point. He became so ill that he had to return to europe to convalesce. When doctors told stanley that if he returned to the congo he would probably die. Leopold demanded that he return anyway. Stanley obeyed but of course the african laborers had it. The worst stanley's preferred method of motivation was with a whip and chains. He earned the nickname. Breaker of stones after two years of grueling labor stanley established an important station at the head of the congo rapids which was named leopoldville. It sat at the base of leopold hill. Shortly after there would be a lake. Leopold the second and then a leopold river while stanley was slowly building outposts for leopold. He realized that he wasn't alone. In november eighteen eighty of french explorer named count. Pierre sauvignon dubrovka suddenly appeared on the north shore of the congo river. The french it seemed were sniffing after colonies of their own. Technically belgium didn't own the territory. They were building on. Leopold's whole ploy was to claim the land without actually claiming it using the a as a as a front organization but in order to block the french from swiping the congo out from under him. Leopold would need to acquire sovereign rights over it and for that he had to get the local african chiefs to sign treaties. Stanley was put in charge of collecting the signatures. Chiefs had no clue what they were being asked to sign. But we're happy to do so in exchange for bottles of gin and bolts of cloth. Most likely assumed they were signing treaties of friendship not legal documents handing over their land to the belgian can according to historian. Theo aronson by the end of eighteen eighty. Three over three hundred chiefs had signed away their independence and placed themselves under the dubious protection of the belgians to consolidate his control over the territory. He claimed leopold dissolved the committee for studies of the upper congo on the pretext of bankruptcy the a itself was by now extinct in its place. Leopold started a new company. The international association of the congo known by its french acronym as a is see shins. A is c. Was so close to aa. Everyone assumed it was the same project. Leopold through more mud into the water by using the same flag for the is see as he did for the a a gold star on a blue background. We uphold may have outmaneuvered the french but he wasn't done fighting off competition from other european powers. The portuguese had been the first europeans to visit the congo river and they felt belonged to them. They claimed the mouth of the river and britain's supported portugal's claim to prevent the portuguese from seizing the mouth of the river and cutting off his access to the sea. Leopold played his rivals against each other according to aaronson rather than allow competing empire to control the congo basin. He wrote quote. The european powers would willingly support some week uncommitted regime and this was exactly how leopold plan to present his. Aic by using his very weakness as strength he said about defying the world in other words since leopold claimed that the ai see wasn't a threat to any of europe's empires they could all agree to let the organization control the interior territory. In order to pull off the con- leopold had to have the i see internationally recognized so that his planned federation of free negro republics as he called it would be granted of officials statehood and the first place he turned to was the united states. He knew he could appeal to two things. They angst loved most charity and capitalism.
Dictators
"leopold" Discussed on Dictators
"The colony. He dreamed of the congo river. Basin was first visited by europeans in the fifteenth century when portuguese explorer deal go. Cow sailed into the mouth of the river in fourteen eighty two throughout the early fourteen. Eighty s cow traveled around the area and eventually arrived at the kingdom of kongo. He was astonished. By how complex and thriving the kingdom was. He was especially impressed by zinger. Abu coup the king of kongo also called the manny congo much like his european counterparts. The manny congo sat atop a magnificent throne collected taxes commanded troops and carried a symbol of authority in his case a zebra tail whip. He also appointed governors for his provinces which were supported by an intricate civil service. Of course just because the portuguese were impressed by the african kingdom didn't mean they weren't going to exploit them. The europeans bottomless hunger. For enslaving the kingdom's inhabitants was unprecedented and unfathomably destructive threatening to destabilize the entire region priests masons and teachers who had initially come from lisbon to share knowledge and christianity. All became slavers. Portuguese prese students and converts into slavery but despite holding control of the slave trade in the area the portuguese only controlled the coasts. For three hundred years they never bothered to explore the interior of the continent when king leopold the second convened his geographical conference in september eighteen. Seventy six the interior of central africa remained a mystery. He realized it was an opportunity one. He intended to exploit to the fullest around. Forty people attended the conference among them. Were famed explorers. Geographers philanthropists humanitarian mission aries businessmen and admiral's speaking at the conference leopold remarked on belgians interest in africa to open to civilization the only part of our globe which it has not yet penetrated to appears the darkness which hangs over entire peoples is. I dare say a crusade worthy of this century of progress leopold also assured those listening that he had no other ambitions but to humbly serve the new colony new hospitals and research stations would be founded staffed by unarmed european scientists and aid workers artisans would teach useful skills to the locals laboratories would study the local plants and animals. All of this would be done under the guise of combating the slave trade. The guests responded with enthusiasm and immediately set up on creating the african international association or a and electing leopold as its chairman he a would be a private charitable organization that gave leopold the veneer of goodwill. He needed an observer at the time deemed. Leopold's plans the greatest humanitarian work of this time but in fact what leopold was planning was nothing short of conquest. We uphold put his plans into motion. The next year in august eighteen seventy seven. The catalyst was the reappearance of the british born explorer. Henry morton stanley stanley had just emerged. Half dead at the mouth of the congo river after a roundabout journey of two and a half years and seven thousand miles. Black bear nail lovett cameron stanley had crossed africa from east to west uniquely however he had travelled along the congo river charting. Its course stanley's track was grueling. Of course it was probably even harder on his. Porters whom stanley was in the habit of having whipped for not moving fast enough leopold been following stanley's jennifer months scanning the newspaper daily for updates. One stanley completed his trek leopold immediately. Sent him a telegram of congratulations in stanley. The king saw the key to achieving his dream of a colony in africa the vast expanse of land stanley had just explored until then a blank. Space on the map was ripe. For the picking. In january eighteen. Seventy eight stanley stopped off in the french city of marseille on his journey back to england while they're the explorer found two of leopold's agents waiting for him they asked if stanley would be interested in joining. The stanley initially declined wanting his native. Great britain to enjoy the fruits of his success but after five months of wooing he agreed to visit belgium and sit down for a meeting with the king. Leopold played him like a fiddle. Historian adam hoge shield notes that leopold had taken the measure of stanley's ambition of his immense capacity for hard work of his craving for constant flattery and of his need for a sponsor king was able to provide for all of the above. He offered stanley a contract. That ran for five years. His main job would be to build a series of what he thought. Were trading and research stations along thousand mile stretch of the congo river. Once the contract was complete stanley was allowed to write a book about the experience. But leopold could edit it and make cuts in case. Anything happened that the king didn't want the world to know about stanley would work for the committee for studies of the upper congo which had been recently founded as a subsidiary of the aa officially. The committee had dutch british and belgian businessman as its stockholders. This episode is brought to you by simply by frito life. You have enough on your plate. But now there's one less thing over think with simply five frito lay. It's your favourite. Frito lay snacks with ingredients to feel good about like simply blue corn tostitos sea salted ruffles and white cheddar cheetos puffs all made with no artificial flavors or colors. 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Frontlines of Freedom
Army Awards $50M Contract for New SOF Sniper Rifle
"Looks like we might be getting some new sniper rifles in the U. S military. The U. S Army just awarded a $50 million contract Tow bear firearms manufacturing arm snipers with the multi caliber sniper rifle preferred by special Operation forces. A five year contract will buy 2800 MK 22 multi role Adaptive Design or M. Brad sniper rifles that can be chambered for 338, Norman Magnum or 300 Norm remain them or the 7.6 by 51 NATO ammunition. The award comes two years after U. S Special Operations Command Award. The contract to Bear for the Do em Red Sniper the system. The new rifle were placed the M one or seven separate fel also made by barrack in the M 2010 enhance sniper rifle systems. The M red will. Well, Army snipers to shoot out the 1500 M with the barrel trembled for 15000.338. That's 300 M further than the M 2010 enhance sniper rifle, which is chamber for the 300 Winchester Magnum. The MK 22 is part of the Army's Precision Sniper Rifle program, which also includes the Leopold and Stevens mark five ht scope in a sniper accessory kit. Now. The Marine Corps has also chosen the M wrapped for his advance Sniper rifle program. The M Rad is set to replace the Marines. Current Mark 13 months seven Sniper rifle, which is chambered for the 300 Winchester Magnum. Along with all the other bolt action sniper rifles in the sea service.
Classics for Kids
About Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Hello I'm Naomi Lewin welcome to. Classics for kids. Think of the most brilliant talented kid. You know maybe somebody in your class now imagine if that person couldn't be in class because starting at the age of five he or she was off performing for presidents, kings queens all sorts of world leaders. Well, that's what it was like to be both gung. Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was born in Salzburg Austria where his father leopold was a violinist and composer when Mozart junior was three, he climbed up to the keyboard and just started playing. That's when Mozart senior realized he had a genius on his hands. So he started the touring Mozart show he took his son both gun and his daughter Nano on the road to perform for royalty they went all over Europe. Sometimes staying away from home for years at a stretch everyone was amazed at how well the children played and especially at how well little both gone could improvise. That is makeup music on the spot using whatever tune they gave him. Votes, are composed his first piece when he was five had his first music published when he was seven and wrote his first opera at the age of twelve he was a Whiz at the keyboard and the violin most of Mozart's concertos for those instruments here for himself to play. Lose Friends with the best musicians of the day. So he wrote Concertos for their instruments to, for instance the French Horn. One friend played a newfangled instrument that Mozart. Loved the clarinet. A Concerts that he and other people put on Mozart wrote symphonies. And for celebrations he wrote serenade. When he worked for the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg the man who also employed his father Mozart composed religious music. Having, toured all over Europe as a child Mozart did not want to stay in Salzburg working for the Prince Archbishop when he grew up even though that's put his father wanted. So he moved to the big city of Vienna, which was full of music theatre and opera in Vienna Mozart married Constanza Vaber. He'd actually fallen in love with her older sister I and he tried to find steady work that he thought was worthy of how talented he was. Mozart had a hard time as an adult. He couldn't get over being a child prodigy the very talented kid back. Then grownup musicians were considered servants by the nobles who hired them, but kings and empresses had made a huge fuss over Mozart when he performed for them as a child so he didn't think of himself as a servant. He also never learned how to manage money. He couldn't resist the urge to buy new clothes or a piano or a billiard table whatever he wanted. Mozart. Died just before his thirty fifth birthday. It's amazing. How much incredibly beautiful music he wrote in such a short
Leadership and Loyalty
Interview With Commander Kirk Lippold
"Welcome back. This is two of my interview with Kamenda Cook Leopold retired us. Commend. Commanding Officer of the US ask coal. When When it came under a suicide terror attack. by Al Qaeda back in the port of Yemen and. This was a In many ways the event that foreshadowed to nine eleven we import one we were talking about what happened back in that time we've been talking about leadership and politically how latest. Military has become. Driven by politics I want to expand further into this conversation I'm really grateful. Commend Leopold is with us here because. We are in a very different time as we're having this conversation as recording compensation were in the midst of a pandemic in two, thousand, nine, hundred, twenty however. There is more going on here and I want to dive into the political understandings of what's going on because. Politics, is a very interesting thing when it comes to the military because. The military is famously neutral. One about how serving your commander in chief to protect the country. CETERA. But for the first time, I've been studying politics. And actually American politics for since I was ten years old. and. Fla. First Time I can remember you now getting military leaders coming out and speaking. So yet retired Admiral William mcraven new came out and criticize trump about what was happening with the Kurds you've got general mathis who served under trump coming out and talking about trump and doing militarily, and now you've got trump talking about this the bounty that Russia's put out on American soldiers and saying it's a hoax. First of all, I want to ask you what is your thought on military leaders. Millet certainly retired ones but coming out and actually doing what they've never been I don't remember ever doing before and saying this is out of order. What's your thoughts on? Why I think you're you're crossing the line and I think part of that was driven by decision. The United States made post Vietnam where we chose to no longer have a draft where we would select people to serve in the military for a defined period of time but instead went to the all volunteer force and the way I have always approached it is. When you choose to serve and you'd like, I've mentioned in in part one was you choose that life of consequence in the service to your nation Yes enduring your period of service there may come decisions. That are going to be political in nature and let's face it. You can have the military giving you orders but who ultimately gives that direction? It are political appointees. And if you as a military officer spun to mentally disagree with the direction of those orders being given by your political masters because that's how our nation is designed in, you really get to choices in life. Put Up and shut up or get out. and. At some point in time serving in the military is not supposed to be a job for life. You hang up your Spurs. If you stayed long enough, you'll get a retirement check every single mom and then guess what go find work that contributes positively to the future of our nation, and that's I've tried to do is to give back to teach people those leadership skills. That we need out in the business world, I mean when eighty percent of the retired admirals generals go to work for the defense industry they're not sharing that expertise that they could be sharing with business in the civilian community to make even better and make sure that we understand as Americans how the military works and how we think wire we are the respected institution that we are. I think it's very disappointing when you got a lot of these military officers who choose to speak out against the president of the United States because. If you're going to have a military where they've enjoyed all the benefits including the political benefits of being senior in rank like that, and then they want to use that positional authority still wearing their stars on their callers or on their sleeve to somehow now feel that they are entitled to speak out about the commander in chief. That's fine. If you want to take on the policies, that's one thing when. You attack the individual I don't care what president it is whether it's President Bush. President Obama President Trump Benue are crossing a line at that point that even though you may have come from the civilian ranks served in the military in your civilian again if you want to maintain that professional ethos exemplified by General Marshal. Way Back in post World War Two. Then guess what challenged the policies don't challenge the people.
WBZ Afternoon News
Belgium takes down statue, king regrets colonial violence
"Is expressing regret for violence by the former colonial power. When it ruled over what is now Congo. In a letter to the company's president, Belgium's King Philippe stop short of issuing a formal apology to convey his deepest regrets for the acts of violence and cruelty and suffering and humiliation inflicted on Belgian Congo. The letter was published on the 60th anniversary of the African countries. Independence Phillips Letter is sent mean growing demands The Belgium takes responsibility trust is committed by former King Leopold. The second A bust of Leopold is expected to be taken down from display later Tuesday in the city of Gwent following a decision from local authorities. I'm Charles. The latest five
AP News Radio
Belgian king expresses regret for violence in colonial rule
"For the first time in Belgium's history a reigning king has expressed his regret for the violence carried out by the former colonial power when it ruled over what is now Congo in Africa in a letter to the Congolese president Belgium's king Philippe stopped short of issuing a formal apology who conveyed his deepest regrets for the acts of violence and cruelty around the suffering and humiliation inflicted on Belgian Congo the letter was published on the sixtieth anniversary of the African country's independence Phillips letter is sent I mean going to mom's the Belgium takes responsibility for the atrocities committed by former king Leopold the second a bust of the apple is expected to be taken down from displayed later Tuesday in the city of glens following a decision from local authorities I'm Charles the last month
Hugh Hewitt
Belgian king expresses regret for violence in colonial rule
"For the first time in Belgium's history. A reigning king is expressing regret for the violence carried out by the former colonial power when it ruled over what's now Democratic Republic of Congo. King Philip's letters stop short of an apology, but he has marked the 60th anniversary of Congo's independence from Belgium by acknowledging suffering and humiliation on the Belgian colonization. And acts of violence and cruelty in the Congo free state. That was his ancestor, Leopold's private territory where officials hacked off the limbs of Children and their parents. Quotas for rubber, ivory and minerals. Production were missed. Leopold Statues have been defaced in black lives matter Protests, but only this month King Philip's brother, Prince Laurel, sort to exonerate Leopold. On the grounds that he'd never bean to
Hugh Hewitt
Belgian king expresses regret for violence in colonial rule
"For the first time in Belgium's history. A reigning king is expressing regret for the violence carried out by the former colonial power when it ruled over what's now Democratic Republic of Congo. King Philip's letters stop short of an apology, but he has marked the 60th anniversary of Congo's independence from Belgium by acknowledging suffering and humiliation on the Belgian colonization. And acts of violence and cruelty in the Congo free state. That was his ancestor, Leopold's private territory where officials hacked off the limbs of Children and their parents. Quotas for rubber, ivory and minerals. Production were missed. Leopold Statues have been defaced in black lives matter Protests, but only this month King Philip's brother, Prince Laurel, sort to exonerate Leopold. On the grounds that he'd never bean to
Hugh Hewitt
Belgian king expresses 'deepest regrets' for brutal colonial rule
"For the first time in Belgium's history. A reigning king is expressing regret for the violence carried out by the former colonial power when it ruled over what's now Democratic Republic of Congo. King Philip's letters stop short of an apology, but he has marked the 60th anniversary of Congo's independence from Belgium by acknowledging suffering and humiliation on the Belgian colonization. And acts of violence and cruelty in the Congo free state. That was his ancestor, Leopold's private territory where officials hacked off the limbs of Children and their parents. Quotas for rubber, ivory and minerals. Production were missed. Leopold Statues have been defaced in black lives matter Protests, but only this month King Philip's brother, Prince Laurel, sort to exonerate Leopold. On the grounds that he'd never bean to
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Pulling down statues of racists? Africa's done it for years
"News new campaigns in the U. S. and Europe now following Africa's lead on colonial era statues as we hear from Charles de Ledesma Queen Victoria Cecil Rhodes king Leopold statues honoring these leaders of colonial rule have been pulled down over the years in Africa often countries won independence all new generations said racist relics had to go examples include a boisterous a student led campaign pressed by the university of Cape Town to remove a statue of roads and one of the statute of Britain's Queen Victoria not downtown beheaded in twenty fifteen but on the bundles in Nairobi Kenya now they have to step two lies next to explode in a downtown
Mike Gallagher
Pulling down statues of racists? Africa's done it for years
"New campaigns in the US and Europe following after his lead on colonial era monument street Victoria Cecil Rhodes king Leopold statues honoring these leaders of colonial rule have been pulled down over the years in Africa often countries won independence all new generations said racist relics had to go examples include a boisterous a student led campaign pressed by the university of Cape Town to remove a statue of roads and one of the statute of Britain's Queen Victoria not downtown beheaded in twenty fifteen but on the bundles in Nairobi Kenya now the headless statue lies next to explode in a downtown square
1A
Controversial statues toppled in cities around the world
"Since the death of George Floyd Confederate monuments are coming down in states across America some are removed quietly in the dead of night others are ripped from their pedestals in broad daylight and it's not just here in the US either protesters overseas are toppling monuments to slavers and colonizers as the protests over police racism and brutality rumbled across European cities some activists targeted that own country's colonial history in Belgium demonstrates a spray painted a statue of king Leopold the second Wallenstein U. K. statue of seventeenth century slave trader Edward Colston was toppled and thrown into a rhythm can the push for justice move forward without first looking back maybe the best way to reckon with our racist history is to dump it in the river we're going across America and abroad today as part of our one A. across America project it's a partnership with six public radio stations in various parts of the country we're joined now by someone who once said a great nation does not hide its history it faces its flaws and it corrects them which Landrieu is the former mayor of New Orleans and author of the book in the shadow of statues a white southerner confronts history welcome back to the show image thank you so much exactly also joining us is only a haci nada she's a writer and organizer of black lives matter U. K. black lives matter U. K. has compiled a list of sixty statues that it wants removed because they celebrate slavery Ali I joins us from London welcome hi Larry thanks for having me Mitch you brought down a number of Confederate monuments while your mail it may or you did that legally I wonder what do you make of protests in various cities that are taking down statues and monuments illegally well it again do it up myself and I wasn't the first one to talk about it it's been a long history of people who were leaders in New Orleans who tried to take those monuments down they all legal processes for doing it and there are the process used to do on it a peaceful protest you know the important thing is is that people now are beginning to understand how insidious those monuments are the ones that was specifically put up to celebrate those individuals who've spent their lives protecting slavery and so that's what the Confederate monuments are in the United States of America I can't speak to the ones because I don't know enough about them in other parts of the in the south in the United States of America there are three thousand monuments that will place up with the state and direct purpose of revering and honoring individuals who fought to split the United States and have all the calls of preserving slavery and that's just on the civil war or the confederacy was on the wrong side of that war they were on the wrong side of history and the last thing that we should be doing is honoring what's called a lost cause which is meant that somehow of the confederacy was a noble cause when in fact it was not in these monuments will put in places of public places yeah man on on public on public land and with and will put up with the specific purpose of Riviera the person I general Robert E. Lee Jefferson Davis PGT Beauregard and their whole host of others whose mission it was was to preserve slavery yeah and I felt very strongly being the mayor of a multi cultural city that is historically always prided itself on its diversity as an essential part of who we are as people to have those monuments in public places that was sending messages to people of color that they still want welcome here after all those years and so I couldn't be more thrilled that they're coming down you know we can get we can get kind of caught up in how they coming down and whether we should have long conversations a short conversations but essentially we're all finished with us if you just take the monument down and you don't get to the root of why they were put up in the first place or the ideas that they were trying to perpetuate that manifest themselves in institutions Holly and police and etcetera etcetera then we would have made some progress but not nearly as much progress as we should have this is clearly a hot topic of date debate in the US Stephen wrote on Facebook this is needed and long overdue Tommy wrote on Facebook I assume sarcastically by all means a race history get rid of it that will fix everything and then sailed sailor apes tweeted I say pull them down melt them and resign them to the garbage bin where the losers of history tip Oakley wind up yeah what do you make of this issue of whether a statue comes down legally or illegally doesn't matter in the end to a to a movement I think in my personal opinion whether it comes down legally or illegally is not the conversation we should be hopping Bob why is it being taken down and debated in the first place I think if we get into the legality and illegality over we then can get into a very polarizing conversation of good and bad it wouldn't really that's not what any of this is trying to do is really trying to have a conversation around what to be glorified in these countries and what do we put public money towards glorifying because these statues these plaques all of these things that glorify the slave owners these colonizers all paid for out of the tax pay is pocket and given that we've had two years of austerity I think there are a couple other ways that we might be able to spend this money instead of glorifying
The Frame
As protests grow, Belgium faces its racist colonial past
"As the protests over police racism and brutality rumbled across European cities some activists targeted that own country's colonial history in Belgium demonstrates a spray painted a statue of king Leopold the second Wallenstein U. K. statue of seventeenth century slave trader Edward Colston was toppled and thrown into a rhythm can the push for justice move forward without first looking back maybe the best way to reckon with our racist history is to dump it in the river we're going across America and abroad today as part of our one A. across America project it's a partnership with six public radio stations in various parts of the country we're joined now by someone who once said a great nation does not hide its history it faces its flaws and it corrects them Mitch Landrieu is the former mayor of New Orleans and author of the book in the shadow of statues a white southerner confronts history welcome back to the show image thank you so much I haven't also joining us is only a haci nada she's a writer and organizer of black lives matter U. K. black lives matter U. K. has compiled a list of sixty statues that it wants removed because they celebrate slavery Aaliyah joins us from London welcome hi thanks for having me Mitch you brought down a number of Confederate monuments while you are male you may or you did that legally I wonder what do you make of protests in various cities that are taking down statues and monuments illegally well it I need to involve myself and I wasn't the first one to talk about it it's been a long history of people who were leaders in New Orleans who tried to take those monuments down they all legal processes for doing it and there are the process used to doing it a peaceful protest you know the important thing is is that people now are beginning to understand how insidious those monuments are the ones that was specifically put up to celebrate those individuals who've spent their lives protecting slavery and so that's what the Confederate monuments are in the United States of America I can't speak to the ones because I don't know enough about them in other parts of the in the south in the United States of America there are three thousand monuments that will play stop for the distinct indirect purpose of revering and honoring individuals who fought to split the United States and hand over the cause of preserving slavery and that's just about the civil war of the confederacy was on the wrong side of that war they were on the wrong side of history and the last thing that we should be doing is honoring what's called a lost cause which is meant that somehow of the confederacy was a noble cause when in fact it was not in these monuments will put in places of all public places yeah they got the money and on on public on public land and with and will put up with the specific purpose of Riviera the person by general Robert E. Lee Jefferson Davis PGT Beauregard and there a whole host of others whose mission it was was to preserve
Rush Limbaugh
Statue of Leopold II, Belgian King Who Brutalized Congo, Is Removed in Antwerp
"They're at it the statue of Belgium's king Leopold the second the world's worst imperialist he ran the Congo with slave labor uses family disgusting and totally incompetent imperialist and his statue is now being removed and and twelve today the king king Leopold the second statue has now been taken down all over the world everything now is being seen through the prism of George
Gastropod
Eating the Wild: from the lost primeval forests of Europe to Robin Hood
"Used to be covered in these dense wet deciduous forests which is very different from what we see today where really hardly any of this primeval force exists anymore for her book feasting. Wild jeanneret actually visited one of the last tiny slivers of European primeval forest. It's in Poland. And it really is just a shadow of its former. Self Europe's forests were so vast that actually we think that the root of the word wilderness came from descriptions of these places the roots of the words wild and wilderness. I'll go back to untamed animals. The forest was a place. Teeming WITH ANIMALS UNGOVERNED BY HUMAN HANDS UNGOVERNED BUT NOT UNTOUCHED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. Europeans would go into the forest to find dinner day all kinds of animals wild boar venison there is something called the RMC which is the precursor to domesticated cattle. There was for a spice in moves the animals so abundant here. That really there was no form of hunting restriction it was abundant but it was also really valued killing a huge wild animal and then being able to share it was a sign of how wealthy and powerful you are. King said to have lots of wild game. At all their banquets. Animals would be breezed in rosewater and spices. Sometimes they would be covered in gold leaf and brought to the table hole and kind of carved up in front of the guests so while it was very much a form of status for kings so by the Middle Ages Those Morris. Were already starting to shrink between one thousand. Ad and thirteen hundred thirteen hundred. Europe's population grew by about fifty million people and all of those people needed to eat so there was increasing. Need to cut down the forests in order to grow grain and various crops and then also would was used for everything it was used for building houses and making carts by the fourteen and fifteen hundred. Europeans began sailing around the world. They first set forth to trade and then to stake their claim on foreign lands is colonialism spread across the globe. There was demand for very large old growth trees to create the ship. Masts that were needed and as early as the eleventh century The demand for wood was really threatening the forest where these kings went out and hunted the game meat that was so important to their diets and their status. Gina races that originally European forests had mostly being treated as common land. Anyone could hunt there. But as far back as ancient Rome the elite had sat down laws saying yes anyone could hunt but only as long as they weren't trespassing sort of by Default European kings and noblemen were the ultimate owners of the forest so as European king started to see their game meat being threatened by the need for Forest Land Day set out some very similar conservation measures whereby the king really restricted access to hunting in his forest. This is really the beginning of modern conservation lives whereby people were kept out of the forests. It's weird to think of royalty preserving their hunting grounds and keeping out the poor folk as the blueprint for the conservation movement. But jeanneret says these laws were really some of the earliest forms of environmental legislation forests. Were no longer for everyone to use as they pleased they were just for the Kings. They had very large administrative networks to manage this for so the forest wardens would they would hand out hunting licenses. They would make sure that game. Animals didn't starve winter or in times of drought. Sometimes they would prepare the venison for royal feasts and they would mete out. Punishments punishments were usually for poaching and they were definitely not just a slap on the wrist. If you ignored the game laws you could have a trial by hot iron and if you were found guilty then your eyes would be torn out or you were castrated. So poaching really big deal. The kings went to great lengths to prevent people from poaching and this had an impact on how people related to the natural world around them. The forest said always been wild in earlier centuries in Europe. They'd even been places of spirituality. But at this point the forests started to become scary rather than sacred. The authorities deliberately painted a picture of forests filled with outlaws and rebels dangerous rule breakers people who posed a threat to society with the stories. The authorities told a violent outlaws in the forest. Some of those were based on reality. There were people breaking the rules in the forest but they were breaking them because they thought the rules were unfair and they were hungry for poor people. This was one former getting food. And any time there was an economic downturn hunting would rise poaching would rise in the forests and so people did find it as an active resistance against the sort of forms of power and some of the rebels who broke the rules and hunted in the forest. They actually became folk. Heroes like Robin Hood and his band of Merry men. So Robin Hood was stealing from the rich and giving to the poor but this also came out of this idea that the force were not necessarily landscapes that poor people were allowed to access or use the resources of and so it wasn't active resistance to go in there and to get in game animals and feed yourself on one level. This is a story of power who could hunt and eat the wild game and wendling European forests and who couldn't that it's also the story of the impact that split between rich hunters and bore poachers had on how Europeans thought of wild food and the whole concept of the wild and wilderness. This is a very particular way of thinking of wild meat. As game to be hunted for sport by the elites and otherwise off limits and this is a template that the Europeans took with them as they colonized countries around the world so when the first European colonists arrived in the Congo Basin they sort of carried this cultural baggage of seeing forest as these dark empty wastelands without people so even though there were a long history of human habitation and numerous groups living in the Congo Basin forests. The European comments kind of didn't see them and there was this real sense of Europeans thought of this landscape as Darkest Africa. Take David Livingston. He was a Scottish missionary and explorer. Who is obsessed with finding the source of the Nile? He did a an exploratory expedition across the Congo wilderness. And he described Congress for us as suffocating wilderness and people waste that seem to have an oppressive silence so in May of eighteen eighty five. The you know quote unquote international community. Which is England France Germany Belgium and Italy? They recognize King Leopold the second of Belgium as having a sovereign claim over much of the Congo and five years later these same countries created what was effectively the first international conservation law this lowest passed in the early nineteen hundreds and it was called the Convention for the preservation of wild animals birds and fish in Africa. Local people couldn't hunt or trap or fish in certain areas of the country. The law was modeled. After the way European forests had become protected game reserves for rich people rich people in particular but of course just like in Europe the forests in Africa weren't actually pristine empty wildernesses before there were plenty of people who depended on them. There were a lot of different groups. Living in the Congo forest somewhere. More nomadic hunter-gatherers others were farming communities living within the rain forest but for all of these groups wild meat provided a very essential source of food. So there were all kinds of animals being eaten everything from various kinds of antelope to forest buffalo wild boar monkeys. You know just hundreds of different animals that communities ate in the forest there were cultural. Taboos around eating certain species particularly ones that were long lived and slow to reproduce like elephants which could and did occasionally provide a lot of meat was considered a sacred act to kill an elephant similar with eating bonobos which are great ape. That's very similar to us. There were beliefs that there is a direct link to that ancestral spirit world so all of these cultural beliefs had an ecological basis to really help conserve animals that had large social complex social groupings or were slow growing and thus thunderbolts over
Past Gas
Henry Ford's Rubber Utopia
"It all started in in nineteen twenty five. Henry Ford was having lunch and his Dearborn Michigan Mansion with his good friend business partner entire magnate Harvey firestone Harvey. RV and Ford had been friends and partners since Ford started building cars decades earlier. So yeah just remember like he invented the model t which I like cheap car and basically he brought the car to the mass. Exactly Mr Firestone had begun ranting this time primarily focused on the impending rubber cartel that had been proposing England by one Winston Churchill. I am not a crooked. You know that payments de Yeah with a cigar and he's like on this day I I am not a crook and it will live in infamy. Yep that's him. The purpose of also the was Churchill. The king no the purpose of the rubber cartel was to limit the export of rubber in order to not overextend national resources. In case there was another World World War One thousand nine hundred eighty five probably a good idea but harvey firestone didn't like that idea. He believed that rubber prices were going to spike in the US as a result and therefore negatively affect firestone tires. Not some things never change Harvey firestone was not alone in this fear even even presidential candidate. FDR feared the effects of a rubber tariff. Remember was viewed. As the automotive industry's chokepoint seen as even more crucial than oil it's crazy. The the automotive industry relied on vulcanized rubber for literally everything from tires to hoses gaskets. A price increase of any kind could sink the young business so there there was a legitimate fear of turtles. Pain passing seems somewhat reasonable. Also it's it's it's kind of like okay here newsflash guys. If you're listening to this this might lose some you know in. I believe in climate change. And it's SORTA like yeah making some changes like you know not dumping tons of poisons into rivers and stuff might be more expensive for some people but in the at the end of the day. It's good not to have poisoned rivers and it's also probably good to have like rubber to defeat the Nazis. Yeah Germany was totally destroyed and they were afraid of something all of Europe. Yeah they're afraid of something like that happening again because those wounds had not been healed all and Churchill was just saying like hey fellers hello. Hello how does he talk. Talk like this is how are we talk again elegant. Listen listen fellows. That women's of all are still fresh insulting. I say that maybe we just save some of US supplies in case of fruit bikes out to again rubber. Blow Hurrah. Yes that's always saying always saying. Hey guys the whole world was just at war four. I think it might happen again. Maybe we should just like chill and be ready and these guys are like a money so harvey firestone was fed up with living in constant fear of their so he decided the best course of action would be to grow his own rubber smart. This wasn't the first time he had some some crazy idea. In fact Harvey tried to declare economic independence from the UK and fly rubber under the American flag. A few years earlier but that was truly the ramblings of a madman who doesn't seem to understand that you can't just not claim another country's resources by saying this cheaper so I'm just going to say it's it's American now although now that I think back on it that's kind of how we did a lot of stuff so yeah but harvey actually had a plan. He decided that he was going to start his own plantation in Liberia where the conditions were almost perfect for growing rubber trees by keeping the production in house he could avoid all the access fees associated with importation from other countries. Henry Ford had also tried growing his own rubber a year earlier. In one thousand nine hundred eighty four he had purchased this large quantities of land in the Florida everglades only to eventually do nothing with them. It was cheaper for four to import. The rubber. The idea of dramatic price is increase was still only speculation. But Still Harvey's plans had peaked and reports interests and after the lunch meeting was over. He requested that it's personal aide aide Leopold would find out where the best place to grow rubber Leopold come over here boy. Where's the best place to go? Rob A AH go find out how Liberia was the obvious choice. Harvey firestone discovered. It had the perfect climate when he put his plantation there but unfortunately Henry Ford word was very very very racist and he would not dare step foot in such an uncivilised and African society so they came to the conclusion. I mean that the rubber should be grown where it originated in the Amazon. So rubber comes from both vines and trees and you let it grow and then when you chop it you squeeze the vines and Latex Literal Latex comes out trees yeah so it's a liquid and then they they put out onto like big flat drying areas than when it dries. You can pull it up like a sheet of Latex and then you take a bunch of latex yeah stack stack into bales. And then that's what gets shipped out to like Volkan Ization plants and stuff like that. So these plantations are really only concerned with drawing the vines and extracting latex from okay okay and Liberia had the per client. But what about the Amazon Amazon also. Very clearly great. Climate only problem. It's a lot harder harder to get into the rainforest than it is in Africa. Got You throughout the nineteenth century. The Amazon River Basin supplied all of the world's rubber and made up forty percent of Brazil's exports sports at the height of the rubber boom in the second half of the nineteenth century but the Amazon's rubber room quickly turned to bus as plantations in Asia and England. Were able to go. Rubber and much denser populations and much more efficiently in Amazon many natural species that are not present in other countries limit the growth of trees so but organizing united plantations and other countries the efficiency was greatly increased. Henry had another incentive to go to South America besides his racism in End Theodore Roosevelt's book through the Brazilian wilderness. He accounts his experiences traveling through the Amazonian rainforests. One of his most significant observations is that many fast-flowing rivers could provide an almost perfect power source for any industry bold enough to be born there. He claimed that the right kind of senators such his enterprising businessmen of foresight coolness and suggest city who would be willing to put migrants to work for an advantage that would be mutually beneficial will give rise to a a great industrial civilization money. If anyone thought they could fill that description it was Henry Ford art now. Henry Ford did not really make cars. Henry Ford thought that he made men the maker. Men's like me. This builder of meant the cars they produced produced were simply a byproduct of his training. He was praised as a sociologist manufacturer. If anyone could reshape the native Brazilians into prosperous factory workers it was Henry Ford. They don't want to be or so he thought they don't want that.
This Day in History Class
On This Day in History: Austria-Hungary Annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina
"Today was October nineteen o eight Austria Hungary informed the Ottoman Empire of his annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina this announcement set off what's known as the Bosnian crisis a period of conflict between Austria Hungary and the Ottoman Empire under the eighteen seventy eight treaty of Berlin Austria Hungary gained the right to occupy and administer the Ottoman Empire's provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandjak of Novi Pazar but Austria Hungary always had its sights set on permanent possession of the provinces Bosnia and Herzegovina were widely sought after but Austria Hungary a lot of work into developing infrastructure mines factories agriculture and schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the same time ethnic and the end religious conflict grew within Bosnia and Herzegovina and groups in the two provinces displayed nationalist ambitions the young Turk Revolution broke out in the Ottoman Empire in Nineteen eight and restored the Ottoman Constitution Appear Seventy six and revived the Ottoman Parliament Vienna. I was afraid that the new authorities in the government of the Ottoman Empire would try to restore Ottoman political power in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a WPRO Russia Serbia for control over the Sandjak of Novi Pazar and Bosnia and Herzegovina Russia itself was stabilized after defeat in the Russo Japanese war foreign minister of Austria Hungary alloys graph flex up on Arendal saw an opportunity for Austria Hungary to assert his dominance in the Balkans Austria Hungary's ambassador to Russia Leopold Graf Ferstl set up a meeting between Aaron Paul and the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Petrovich. It is both skis in September nineteen eight at Bouchon Arabia. What actually happened at the meeting is up for debate as no minutes of a meeting where release it is both ski. It says that Russia would not object to the annexation and an exchange Austria Hungary would not object to open the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits two Russian warships is Boesky insisted on an international conference before the annexation took place but on October six the day after Bulgaria declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire Emperor Franz Joseph. I of Austria announced that it was annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina the withdrawal of the austro-hungarian Armie from a Sandjak of Novi Pazar was also announced but is Boesky was not expecting the annexation to happen so soon he said that Aaron Thaw Paul did not tell him the date of annexation and that he did not know Austria Hungary planned on executing it before the matter was settled with other political power opposition to the annexation erupted in Europe Russia and the Balkans France Britain and Italy protested the annexation Pan Slavic nationalists nationalist throughout Europe. Were unhappy with announcement. Serbia insisted that Austria Hungary seed part of the Jack of Novi Pazar to them and Dan is Volsky supported them but Austria Hungary backed by Germany threatened to invade Serbia at the end of the Bosnian crisis ACIS Austria Hungary seemed to have come out on top after a boycott of austro-hungarian goods caused commercial losses Austria Hungary ended up paying an indemnity to the Ottomans and alienating many from Australian policy but the Ottoman Empire recognized the annexation which Russia and Serbia accepted opted in March of nineteen o nine the next month the treaty Berlin was amended to accept the annexation the nation's managed to avoid the war but tense relations between Austria Hungary Russia and Serbia after the latter two faced such mutilation remained and contributed due to the outbreak of World War One and nineteen fourteen.
The Economist: The Intelligence
Putsch comes to shove: Venezuela
"And welcome to the intelligence on economist radio. I'm your host. Jason Palmer every weekday. We provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. After yesterday's dramatic attempt to oust Venezuela's president. We take a look at coups around the world, what makes them happy. What makes them succeed, and what are the risks for coup-plotters fail? And a surprise raid on North Korea's embassy in Madrid reveals just how difficult and thankless it is to be a dissident against the North Korean regime. But I. In Venezuela yesterday, the opposition leader one Guido made his move to try to overthrow the embattled President Nicolas muddle, he claimed his operation. Liberty would be the final push to depose a man who has retained power only through a sham election. Mr. Guido is supported by millions of Venezuelans or suffering from regime inflicted hunger and hardship. But it's the support of the military. He needs in order to take power. And despite promising early signs not enough of them decided to abandon Mr. Muto. Lobue leniency called Pai tau. In a defiant television address, the president called the attempt of failure lambasting those who handed their souls over to the coup mongering, far, right? I was waking up shortly after six AM by the sound of saucepans being bashed, which is a traditional form of protest in Venezuela. Stephen Gibbs rights for the economist he was among the crowds in the capital Caracas yesterday as events unfolded. And it soon transpired what was going on. And that was the one I do was calling for a military uprising. We went over the us. Lootah bell imprinting gynecology perfume in no fuel inter inter one hundred zero as soon became apparent that. This was by no means a normal day all shops with barricaded opposite. As they usually are when there is a protest, but this was not a typical protest because a Hong wide other was out with soldiers. And they were all standing on this a motorway that overlooks the military basement airbase right in the center of Caracas and those soldiers will wearing blue on bans as a symbol of their defection and the crowds grew and grew. An inside that base. The sort of big question was whether the people inside the soldiers, the conscripts inside would he'd what those outside were saying, which is come and join us rebel against the Madora government. Pretty quick it became apparent that. They weren't going to do that it will far in ice towards the crowns toward us that were just on the other side of the barricade. And then things got even uglier the rebel soldiers. Apparently sort of rattled by something began to fire live rounds into the air. That go to whole lot of people running and it was a precarious situation. And then there was a sort of a standoff that lasted for several hours. One of the more striking things that was was. There was Leopold Lopez. He is Venezuela's most famous political prisoner. He's been in jail or under house arrest since twenty fourteen. So to see him walking the streets. Not balking particularly far was quite extraordinary in in. He managed to release himself by a defection of those people that were guarding him. So it was clear that this wasn't as I say a normal protest. Something unusual was going on that went on for several hours until after the tear gas through gone on bearable. Most of the protesters recapped to the square in out mirror here in eastern Caracas. And there was quite oh and Leopoldo Lopez and several members of the national guard who had defected, and they were being sort of hugged by supporters. They were some of them with. With the family, and this was the image. Of course, the opposition was hoping would be repeated massively across the country. This is what they're trying to do. They're trying to do a sort of fell revolution where the feared security forces. Give up put down their arms and say, you know, we're not going to support Madore or anymore where with this new president and everything's going to change. It didn't happen. It sounds like there was good public supports on the streets anyway for Mr. Guido or the people rallying behind him more widely. The short answer is. Yes, I mean, given that he was a relatively unknown figure last year. And now he is unquestionably the most famous opposition leader in Suada. It is probably were saying that a lot of the support for two is a sort of protest vote against Maduro Midori is not popular. But he given that he is saying that he's leading a popular revolu. Nation that in his last a contested election. The one that you know, Guido and the opposition and much of the international community says was rigged last year in a he's standing for reelection. Or he stood for reelection. In the midst of the deepest recession in the world inflation heading for ten million percent, everyone feeling poor more miserable public services here. Collapsing. So, you know, the idea that he could really come on Syria support seems implausible and what about the military whose allegiance has always been the Lynch pin here. What what support does Mr. Guido have from them? I mean, it might be fair to say not as much support as he hopes since he came on the scene in early January. He has repeatedly said look, I can only do this. If the military come with me, I think there's no question in the lower ranks of the army and the forces people know happy head because they're suffering. Exactly the same way the most. Venezuelan's suffering. The problem is that the high ranking generals and the of Venezuela that notoriously has a top heavy army with with thousands of generals a lot of them on a benefiting from the chaos here from the corruption which Unity's that may afford them a new also the whole forces. This is one of the things that were job is Maderas assisted. Did he politicized that institution? Effectively everyone sort of fouls their allegiance to the socialist, revolution and not just Venezuela. So it is a relatively world controlled institution. As as one guy to is is finding out and what will happen to Mr White. Oh, if this fails altogether. If this fails, which is perfectly probable identing it's necessarily the end of quavo. You know, he will probably continue an hope that the drip-by-drip discontent in the military against Maduro. We'll alternate. Really bear fruit. And I think the other person to watch is there Puerto Lopez. He's now out of house arrest. He's going to be living. It seems in the Spanish embassy. That means he's conceive people. He can meet people he can negotiate and that will be an instinct additional little twist to this long-running saga.