38 Burst results for "NEO"
Crypto Banter
A highlight from This Strategy Will Make MILLIONAIRES In The Crypto Bull Market! (Watch Till The End)
"I want to show you the most powerful tool that I have in this bull market. Trust me, it's the way that I've made the most money since I started trading. We've just had a huge breakout in Bitcoin. I know it doesn't look like it, but Bitcoin has been battling this resistance line for a long time and we've just broken through the resistance line beautifully, beautifully right over there. And what that means is it means that we are getting into the next stage of this raging Bitcoin bull market. The next stage is going to be a much, much, much faster and much more vicious stage of the bull market. Up until now, we've been battling this resistance line, but once we get through it, we get into the next part of the Bitcoin bull market. And if our thesis is right, if our thesis has been right up until now, we are about 30 % of the way in this bull market. The first 300 days were the build up, the accumulation phase of the bull market. And the next 600 days is when all the action happens and we do something like this. So what does that mean? Well, it means that you've got about 600 days to make real life changing money. Because if you don't make real life changing money in the next 600 days, I think the next cycle for crypto is going to be a lot more relaxed, a lot more regulated, and to be honest, a lot less fun. What it means is that we've got 600 days left to make real life changing or wife changing money. Now listen, I've been in crypto for a long time. I've been around for the previous two cycles. I lived through this 2015 to 2017 high. I lost most my money. And then I lived through this 2021 2022 bull market. And if I learned anything in those bull markets, I learned two things. The first thing is that making money in a bull market only happens if you have a plan. If you don't have a plan, you ain't going to make money because what you're going to do is you're going to end up riding this bull market right up to the top and you're going to get flushed out because you don't have a plan. And the second thing I learned is that even if you've got a plan, if you don't have the right tools to execute on your plan, you have got zero chance of keeping your money. I've seen this twice. In 2017, I made fortunes and I landed up losing fortune. In 2021, I ended up making fortunes and luckily I ended up keeping it. So when it comes to making a plan, we have a great plan. And to be honest, we've been executing on our plan and our plan is performing. What we said is we said that we put 80 % of our money into this diversified portfolio, which by the way, up until today is up 60 % in just one month. It's a beautifully diversified portfolio that talks to all the narratives and has a well diversified number of coins. And you can see it's broken up beautifully. So that's our plan and we're executing as per that plan. 80 % of our money is going into that ETF and 20 % is going into a whole lot of small speculative bets that can really, really, really explode your portfolio. Things like the next Casper or the next Kojira. That's what our plan is. And if you want to know more about our plan, I'm going to leave a link to the video below where we actually devised the plan, where we actually made that plan. Today's show though is about the second thing that you need. I want to show you the most powerful tool that I have in this bull market. I built it because of what I learned in the previous bull markets and because of the mistakes that I made. And I want to show you the tool and I want to show you why it's so powerful. So listen, if you're watching this and you want more of this content and you want more plans, subscribe to the channel. Now's a beautiful, great time to subscribe. And if you're already a subscriber, just smash the like button. Let's get everybody else listening and let's get everybody else looking and using these tools to make you guys life -changing money in the next, well, 599 days now. So the tool I want to show you today is Banter Bubbles. And to be honest, when we built this tool, we never realized how powerful this tool was going to be. It's only when we started making real money on this tool that we realized exactly how powerful it is. So what is it? Well, here it is. Or in fact, here it is because it's available on iPhone, on Android, and of course, on desktop. What is it? It's a tool that's designed to show you how tokens are moving very, very quickly. The idea is that you can, with a quick glance, understand exactly what's going on with the bubbles. When the bubbles are green, it means they're going up. When the bubbles are red, it means they're going down. The bigger the bubble, the bigger the move. So you can see on today's bubbles, Neo is up 15 % today, FTT is up 80 % today, and Alluvium is up 30 .62 % today. Now, I always used to use this tool when I used to wake up in the morning, look at my phone, see if it's going to be a good day or a bad day, or if I was going to a restaurant and I snuck off to go to the toilet, I quickly went and looked at the bubbles, and I realized which tokens were going up and which tokens were going down. But that wasn't enough because knowing whether the why they're going up or down. And so what we did was we built a chat in every single one of the bubbles. So when you see a bubble going up, you click on the chat, and it's a place where the community gather and share alpha as to why the token is going up or down. So you can see the whole Casper community is gathered here in the bubbles. And it gave you an idea. The idea was to say, hey, the bubbles are going up, but why are the bubbles going up or down? And that's where the chat came in. But that wasn't enough. We wanted to give you guys more alpha, we wanted to make the bubbles more interactive. So what did we do? Well, we created a general chat. An idea behind the general chat was to say, you can sit down, you can watch every single one of the bubbles. And while you're watching the bubbles, you can see what the community is talking about in response to the bubbles moving. And there's a lot of alpha in this chat. In fact, this is where I'm starting to get a lot of my alpha. That's amazing. We then built a whole lot of features in the bubbles. Like for example, you can add filters. So you can add a filter over here. And you can say, I want to see the performance of gaming coins only. And there we go. It's now showing you the performance of gaming coins only. You can filter it even further by saying I want to see it on the hourly chart. And now I'm looking at gaming coins specifically on the hourly chart. You can add watch lists. So you go over here, you press on lists, you add a watch list, and you can add your tokens that you have in your portfolio. So let me add in Bitcoin. I have Bitcoin in my portfolio add token. Let me add it over there. I have Solana in my portfolio. Solana is doing fantastically well. I have Casper in my portfolio. I'm going to add it there. And so you can add your own, you can create your own watch list with just the tokens that you're interested in watching. So you can block out the noise. You can obviously do a whole lot of other things. You can see the top 100 coins or even go all the way down the list as you see fit. And if you like categories, well, that's simple. Just go to filter, find the categories that interest you, whether they're gaming, centralized exchanges, liquid staking tokens, metaverse, and click here, and you'll immediately see just those coins. So that's what we did. We built an amazing tool, but we weren't happy. We wanted to give you guys even more alpha. And even though our competitors thought we were crazy and the market thought we were crazy, we did something absolutely insane. We took the banter newsroom, the place where we get all of our research, and we added it to the bubbles for free, which means that effectively if you go onto the newsroom, you can see every single tweet, every single article that, that our 40 researchers are looking at real time. As we see them here, we have 40 researchers and what they're doing all day long is they are looking for research that we make our trading decisions with, and that we use to make our content. And it's all available right here for you to see. And to be honest for our competitors to see too, because we don't really care. People said we were crazy, but you know what we decided to do? We decided to double down. Not only did we make our entire newsroom absolutely free for everyone to see so that you can watch the news and watch the effects that the news is happening on the bubbles. We also gave people free access to our research call. This is a call that happens once every day with the entire banter team. And it's where we discuss all the alpha for the day. And we discuss what we're going to put into our shows. It happens about six hours before our shows.
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh update on "neo" discussed on Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"Seven it's going to cost you more than $2400. You can get hotel rooms for under $100, but you'll need to save money somewhere to pay for a ticket to the game. On Ticketmaster, the cheapest seats are going for $547. Or at least all. 110, time for an update on sports from the Beacon Plumbing Sports Task and Bill Swartz. Now more on those familiar foes that will meet in the Sugar Bowl. Washington remembers the Alamo Bowl last year, defeating Texas as a springboard for this sterling 2023 football season. On New Year's Day, the Huskies will face the Longhorns again. The New Orleans Sugar Bowl, one of the national championship semifinal Texas games. former UW head coach Steve Sarkeesian has a month to prepare his team. But it's a heck of an opponent. Washington's a great team. As we all well know, we played them last year in the Alamo Bowl. It's going to take a lot of preparation. It's going to take us playing our best football. Michigan and Alabama play in the Rose Bowl. Some female athletes and coaches have filed a lawsuit claiming the University of Oregon has violated gender equity Title IX. The beach volleyball and rowers want the same facilities male athletes have and varsity status. Oregon says it's not violating Title IX. Maybe a change of scenery will jumpstart Jared Kelnick's baseball career Seattle as Mariners trade their 24 -year -old outfielder along with veteran lefty Marco Gonzalez and first baseman Evan White to the Atlanta Braves. Seattle gets a pair of right -handed pitchers Cole Phillips and Jackson Cower in the field. And the Seattle Kraken's hockey trip has not gone well. The finale is tonight against the Montreal Canadiens. Sports with Schwartz at 10 40 after the hour Northwest News Radio. From ABC News is Tech Trends. Experts are raising the alarm about the rise of extremism in popular online games. Extremism researcher Julia Ebner says hobby groups like gaming communities are specifically being targeted by extremists. Increasingly C -minors and including even school kids being lured into these spaces and not realizing what is happening to them. That they're actually slowly being radicalized towards neo Nazism or towards white supremacy. One way children can be influenced according to Ebner through is mods popular games that can be modified by users to include hateful content. It's often very well disguised as a game although there is a very strong and sometimes even dangerous extremist component ideological to it. The FBI told ABC News online platforms such as gaming sites are one of the biggest challenges the agency faces in its efforts to counter violent extremism. With TechTrends, Debosky, I'm Mike ABC News. As a kid I went over the handlebars of a bike my teeth broken I had no smile when I got older I found the technology and results well some of you have seen my smile. I know of a guy that can do the same for you with a complimentary consultation and CT scan just simply tell them Mark Christopher sent you. Dr. Timmerman, he's in Tukwila, website DrTimmerman .com that's D -R -T as in Tom I -M -M -E -R -M -A -N and you can do this with little to no money out of pocket with Blue Cross Blue Shield. DrTimmerman .com. Look now for a full smile solution. Live professional boxing returns to the event center. A full evening of boxing action Thursday night January 4th. Make it a destination
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from BLACKROCK ETHEREUM ETF CONFIRMED ($10,000 Price Target)
"Could this be what allows Ethereum to finally topple Bitcoin? Is the flippening about to begin? Guys, I was just about to leave the studio today. I am literally packing up the office. There's nobody else here. And as I was leaving, we saw a massive announcement that BlackRock has officially filed to launch a company, an Ethereum trust fund in Delaware. Now, this is obviously sending markets crazy right now. Ethereum was up like over 12 % when I just checked on CoinMarketCap. And the altcoins are also rallying it with this. And this is because if you don't remember when Bitcoin had its first ETF filed by BlackRock earlier this year, they did the same exact thing. They issued a fund. And about a week later, without announcing to the world, they decided to file for that spot Bitcoin ETF. Now, to me, this is kind of coming out of left field. We haven't even gotten close to the clarity on the Bitcoin spot ETF being approved. However, that hasn't stopped markets from over speculating and completely pumping prices over the 36 ,000 mark today. We had this kind of massive repulsive jump after CoinTelegraph just a few weeks ago. I decided to launch an article spreading and sparking the rumors that an ETF was just near approval. In fact, I believe their article was about an approval. So with Ethereum, this is just another, this is adding more fuel to the fire. This is more bullishness coming back into these markets and it's getting more excitement for traders to jump in. So is this the moment that Ethereum is gonna finally break away from Bitcoin? Because this is bringing in a whole new question that I don't think the industry has asked itself, which is institutions haven't nearly speculated on the price action of an Ethereum if a spot ETF were to be approved. You know, we look at Bitcoin as this digital gold and Ethereum can offer right now as it is way more in terms of real world assets, decentralized application, the defi on Ethereum alone is explosive. And now institutions are gonna be exposing this to millions of retail traders and billions upon billions of dollars. This makes a $10 ,000 Ethereum just look inevitable at this point. And what is quite possibly the biggest takeaway from all of this is the history that Ethereum has with the SEC. Financial regulators for years that are part of the SEC like Bill Hinman or Jay Clayton have declared Ethereum not to be a security. We also had the Uniswap lawsuit where the judge said that Ethereum and Bitcoin weren't securities. So could this mean that BlackRock is already expecting the feds and the SEC and the government to issue and approve a spot ETF in the coming months? I think the obvious answer is that you should be expecting the largest bull run we have ever seen. Now, will that mean that Ethereum decouples from Bitcoin? Well, we might see both these ETFs get approved which means all markets are going to be going up and you need to be paying attention to the industries that are gonna be emerging with this. All of the defi in Ethereum, the layer twos being built on top of them, the layer twos being built on top of Bitcoin. And some alpha for you guys is actually a market no one's really talking about. The competition to the United States. We have Hong Kong at the same exact time. All of these bullish announcements, it feels like news that takes place in the morning in crypto is a week old with how many news articles get released to the days right now. Hong Kong is looking to enter this game and beat BlackRock to the punch. And if they do that, this could be an Asian -based blockchains whether it's a Conflux or anything which is essentially called the Chinese Ethereum, a Filecoin, Neo, VeChain, all of the Asian -based projects could be seeing a significant volume themselves and mean we see a lot more price action coming into altcoins. So make sure that you guys strap in and turn on those post notifications. And again, let me know in the comments what videos you wanna see on altcoins because this next season is going to be so explosive that it's not gonna leave us in the position where like last run, when you got all of your friends and families in the crypto and you go back on Thanksgiving and they go, man, how's that thing going? They're all gonna be screaming and asking why they didn't listen to you in the first place. We are in a bull run.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "neo" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
"May have had a few fermented adult beverages right now and i'm sorry if my speech sounds bad but no disrespect i said you know i love you right and paula comes sorry now and and he's like this is the line this is how the call ends the call ends in classic donald trump form he's like dan you sound like you're having a good time you and paula why don't you go do your thing there buddy and i said mr president i will that that's that's i swear to you all my life that's what happened this guy man is the best he says just call me to congratulate me at ten o 'clock on a friday night about the rumble show the guy he is i took paula shooting this weekend too she's like freaking annie oakley who the hell knew i took her on my p365 with the glass on top she shot the hell out of the guy we want to like the human silhouette targets she shot this guy in an adz one time too i'm like what the hell did you do that for she's like i just want to check to see i could do it i'm like you can do it you may not want to practice that too much but i said you know if you got a body armor situation that may not be a bad shot she's like a pistol here so we had an interesting weekend i'm sorry about that i had a gives i know was a long weekend update but that call was really fast and he's a good really guy do got a lot to get to specifically about him so jim you got to give them the back to the tia this my moment is brought to you by damn bungee no thank you again for all the wishes uh... birthday wishes on face but i'm reading them all and he had a buzzer going off in the background that you also thanks a lot i appreciate it folks on a series that we do have a lot to get to um... their election strategy now is going to come on is becoming crystal still clear against donald trump something happened on one of these weekend bill marr shows this weekend um... myself some weekend twice something happened on a weekend show with bill maher that's indicative of how the energy shift is now happening if you read political playbook i believe this morning which is the bible of the left it's an email that goes out every day that basically gives the left all their talking points they're starting in a highlight something that's going dramatically wrong with the joe biden reelect effort and what's going wrong is this nobody gives a damn about joe biden and the more people that do give a damn about joe biden actually attention pay to joe biden are starting to realize joe biden is not for them so i had said to you a couple weeks you know if you're listening to the show you remember it it's not a pat on the back moment it's just true i'd said to you you can expect a gradual shift in the coming weeks the biden team is going to move from strategy one which is celebrate joe biden's presidency to strategy too which is don't celebrate joe biden's presidency because everybody hates it and make donald trump unelectable you saw it this weekend it was a very specific that incident happened on the bill mars show that wasn't an accident jim do we have time is o 'clock isn't really working we have time pleasure so dave rubin who's a friend of mine by the way and a good friend of former liberal dave's aranda santa supporter that's okay we're allowed to have friends with people who don't support our candidates we're not a bunch of leftist d -bags who are like oh yeah i like dave he's a good man dave went on bill maran i have to applaud dave even though he defended his guy ronda santas carville james who is a god on the left small g god they love this guy a political strategist on the left he tries to go after trump with the charlottesville myth giving away the both sides myth giving away the entire left strategy coming up which is going to be what donald trump is racist a and a fascist and if you elect him it's all going downhill dave rubin to his credit defended him but but listen to what happened check this out the kids seem to be with the palestinians and the the generation older seems to be with israel well the kids are with tiktok they're with whatever tiktok tells them to to be be for basically well that is where a lot of good people on both sides of charlottesville i don't know did i hear that or did i make that up that trump said they're good people on both sides he didn't say that he did not he well he said it but a sentence later he said i'm not talking about the white supremacists and but then that's why i think that that that that i love how just laughs at the end like when rubin calls him out as if that's not the pivotal point of the Republicans hey you know what he said the head people on both sides and dave's like yeah yeah but he specifically said he's not talking about the white supremacists and neo nazis i'm going to take it one level further and hat tip dave rubin for doing the right thing there i'm gonna actually take it one level further because jim was nice enough to actually pull all his actual words not only did he say and i'm not talking about the white supremacists or neo nazis he specifically condemned them which is awfully crazy when you hear it jim if you would too cut you're changing history you're changing culture and you had people and i'm not talking about the neo nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally but you had many people in that group other and neo nazis and white nationalists okay and the process treated them absolutely where unfairly they jim it's so it's not this is what they're good carville's given away the entire thing i don't think that was just a flippin comment i don't think it was planned but are going to transition completely from celebrating joe biden to just exclusively attacking trump because they know highlighting the biden record reminds people of their misery they are going to go back to the charlottesville hoax the muslim ban hoax it's all coming back folks i promise you this is all they have it's not just that he didn't say nice things about the white supremacists it's that he condemned them and making it even worse he said i'd condemn them totally all you've got to do is listen to the words but why doesn't it matter because liberals are freaking stupid and will believe anything you tell them anytime because they're crazy it's all right i'm not i'm almost out of time even though my clock here is not working i'm gonna take a break we'll be right taking but after
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from MASSIVE Crypto Market Pump! ($LINK New Yearly Highs)
"What is Chainlink? Chainlink is an oracle. You might ask yourself, what is an oracle? It's not the person that bends a spoon in the first matrix. An oracle is gonna connect to off -chain data with on -chain data. So if you have something off -chain like Travis Kelsey scored two touchdowns, but I have an NFL NFT and it needs that off -chain data to come on -chain, that's where you're gonna see an oracle like Chainlink come into play. And I think as we merge real -world assets with on -chain activity, we're gonna see more and more Chainlink activity. And with Bitcoin pumping, Chainlink is feeling great today, folks. Chainlink is now up. If we refresh, we're up about 10 % today, folks. Chainlink is pumping. We're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about Chainlink. We're gonna talk about Bitcoin. We're gonna talk about Michael Saylor. And we have a very special guest in the corner today, folks. Yeah, hey, I'm back. I'm back in the small little box, pushing the buttons. I'm still rearranging them. Might still push some of the wrong ones, but looking forward to it. Well, let's see if you can hit the right one, and let's roll that intro. Did he? Oh, he already hit the wrong one. I already hit the wrong one. They moved the intro button on me. I don't even know where it is. We'll figure it out, folks. This is discovered crypto. I don't have it. Oh, we don't have it. You know what? You wanna just start the show? You know what? It was a good thing. We started with the monologue, isn't it? All right, folks. Well, this is live tubing. Things like this are gonna happen. All right, well, crypto markets are pumping, folks. We have Bitcoin moving in a serious way. It is up 2 .6 % today, but the alts are the real star of the show today. You can see ETH also really not moving too much. It's up 2 .8%, but then as we start going a little bit further down, you're gonna start seeing some exciting movement. It starts with Dogecoin, oddly enough. Dogecoin up 5 .8%. Then we have Polygon. Polygon is up 7 .4%. Chainlink has cooled off a little bit. It was up 10%. Chainlink is up 9%. What's the entire crypto market doing? The entire crypto market is up 2 .4 % today, and the 24 -hour volume, $56 billion, which is really good for Monday, folks, because this is, most of the data in American time is gonna be mostly Sunday night. For Sunday night to come off and we're at 56 billion, it's looking really good, and gas is way up. It is now 36 Gwei, but still relatively cheap. I moved some Apecoin around today. All right, we keep going down. We got some more exciting movement, so we got Chainlink up 9%. Below that, Polkadot up 4 .5%, and we keep scrolling. Really not too much, but now it's time to look at the top gainers. TJ, is any of your coins gonna be in the top gainers? Yeah, I had a lot of my coins over the, at least over the weekend that were in the top gainers. I was feeling really good. I love Chainlink. I've always loved Solana. I've been a holder of Solana from $5, so seeing that run a little bit was fun. I sold some last cycle. I didn't sell it all. Watched it go all the way back down, so seeing it run back up is always fun. So yeah, and of course, Bitcoin, Ethereum, you know, I always love to see that. Yeah, and then the boring coins. All right, well, speaking of running up, what are the coins that are running up more than any coin in the world, at least in the top hundred? We don't go to the micro caps here. All right, we have Injective leading the way. Injective is up 15%. Let me zoom out a little bit. Injective up 15%. Phantom up 11 .5%. Aave up 10%. Aave uses a lot of Chainlink, folks. Aave uses it a lot for their DeFi protocol. Then we have ThorChain up 9 .3%. A lot of people got to move those stolen funds. I'm kidding. It's used for normal purposes as well. Then we have ImmutableX up 8%. NEO up 7 .8%. Polygon. Yeah, any of these, I know you like Polygon. Any of these other ones up on the top really screaming at you here? Yeah, I like a lot of those.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "neo" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"Trends experts are raising the alarm about the rise of extremism in popular online games. Extremism researcher Julia Ebner says hobby groups like gaming communities are specifically being targeted by extremists. It's increasingly seen minors and including even school kids being lured into these spaces and not realizing what is happening to them that they're actually slowly being radicalized towards neo The way children can be influenced according to Ebner is through mods, popular games that can be modified by users to include hateful content. It's often very well disguised as as a game although there is a very strong and sometimes even dangerous extremist ideological component to it. The FBI told ABC news online platforms such as gaming sites are one of the biggest challenges the agency faces in its efforts to counter violent extremism. With Tech Trends, I'm Mike Debusky, ABC News. It's 527 a leaning Tower in Italy that stood for a thousand years until is on high alert just not that leaning tower the city of Bologna is putting in place a civil protection plan in case the garrison the towers suddenly collapses the towers been an iconic part of the Bologna skyline since the 12th century a protective cordon will be put up to contain debris resulting from a possible collapse as well as protect surrounding buildings and people that's according a to statement put out from the city council after Mark Shepherd is recovering after suffering six heart attacks a supernatural star says he collapsed in his kitchen Friday and had a series of massive heart attacks he says EMTs to had bring him back to life four separate times turns out one of his arteries was 100 blocked says he wouldn't have survived without his wife and the medical professionals top stories in the morning coming right up it is 528 when you think of health where does your mind go to the doctor's office or to your community where you can join kids clubs and local events at your grocery store where an allowance makes it easier to
The Charlie Kirk Show
An America-First Middle East Policy With Vivek Ramaswamy
"Us now is Vaikramaswamy. You know he is running for the presidency and he has some exciting ideas about how to fix this country. Vaik, welcome to the program. I want to just dive right into the Israel situation. How should we think about what happened in Israel from America First perspective, not from the traditional neo -conservative perspective, still having the back of our ally in the region? Vaik, how should we think about this? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the way I think about it, Charlie, is that these were barbaric attacks. They were medieval, inhumane attacks, and it was wrong. And Israel absolutely has the right to defend its own homeland to the fullest extent necessary. And I think the job of the US as an ally is to support Israel diplomatically, to support Israel with the necessary munitions needed to do that. We store some of those munitions in Israel. Intelligence sharing against the UN, which has a habitual response almost always to draw false equivalence between Israel and the terrorists and enemies who target Israel. That's where the US should be leading. But while keeping a clear -headed and cool -headed response that avoids an all -out war, a regional war in the Middle East that enmeshes the US in it, that does not advance US interests. That is the key. And we require, I think, a cool -headed response, a rational response here, Charlie. This was a catastrophe for Israel, and as an ally of Israel, the United States is affected by that too. But we can't make the same mistakes that we have in the face of past catastrophes, say 9 -11 or otherwise, in entering prolonged regional conflicts in the Middle East. And so we have to do both of those things at once, have Israel's back so that they can defend their own homeland while being rational and avoid getting yanked into a broader regional conflict. And I have some very clear and specific ideas of how to do it. I am disappointed in other Republican presidential candidates, like the likes of Nikki Haley, who have been hysterically shouting things like, finish them, that are entirely incoherent, calling this an attack on America. It was a bad attack on Israel, but that is still not an attack on America. That's irresponsible, and this is a for America actual First leadership, and that's what I would bring to the table.
Mark Levin
Part 3: How Freedom Caucus Members Voted on Kevin McCarthy
"Voted for McCarthy Michael Cloud Texas 27 voted for McCarthy Burgess Owens Utah 4th voted for McCarthy Bob Good Virginia 6th voted against McCarthy Ben Cline Virginia 6th voted for McCarthy Morgan Griffith Virginia 9th voted for McCarthy Alex Tony West Virginia 2nd voted for McCarthy Tom Tiffany Wisconsin 7th voted for McCarthy Harriet Hegeman who replaced Liz Cheney Wyoming at large voted for McCarthy she replaced Liz Cheney who urged Mr. Buck one of the 8th to vote against McCarthy I just went through the list of the freedom caucus. I guess they're all neo -cons, rhinos, sellouts, big government leftists too. Now these people are conservatives who understand everything that's at stake now. The existential threats all around us. Where do you think Hakeem Jeffries is today? Think he's having a party? Now the one question Matt Gaetz has not been asked is when is the last time he spoke to Hakeem Jeffries is or there any of the surrogates or any of the others in the Democrat party? Because it's interesting, Hakeem Jeffries puts out a note this morning and tells all the Democrats to vote against McCarthy when he said it was a party. I wasn't born yesterday. I didn't fall off the two. You're intelligent people. You're wise people. You know what the hell is going on too.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Kevin McCullough
"Welcome to the Eric Mataxas Show. Do you like your gravy thick and rich and loaded with creamy mushrooms? If no one was looking, would you chug the whole gravy boat? Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Stay tuned. Here comes Mr. Chug -a -Lug himself, Eric Mataxas. Hey folks, welcome to the program. If you're like me, last night you were able to watch the debate and you deliberately skipped it for your mental health. That's just where I am in life right now. I caught parts of it which made me wince and cringe, sometimes wince and cringe. I never wept, but you know what, it's probably better for me to find out what my guest thought. He may have watched the debate. My friend, Kevin McCullough, we call you votes tridamus because you are a prognosticator, a seer, a prophet politically speaking. Kevin McCullough of that Kevin show, how are you? I'm well and I can see some things very clearly today. There should be no more debates. These exercises in futility, and that's what they've turned into, are becoming embarrassing to the cause of what this election should be about. And last night, it's just hard to put into words how bad this debate was, from its execution to the policies, to the answers. It was just nothing good about it. Some people in my audience care about this. I'm in Irvine, California. I'm in a hotel room you people can see. I'm speaking today, so today's Thursday in Costa Mesa. So if anybody wants to come and hold my hand and hug me about the sadness of the debate, or just talk to me or get book signed or whatever I'm going to be tonight in Costa Mesa, you go to my website, ericmataxas .com, and you can see me and talk to me and hang out and whatever tonight in Costa Mesa. This is Thursday, folks. And tomorrow, there's a prayer breakfast here in Irvine that I'm speaking at. But the reason I bring this up, Kevin, is because I rarely have time to turn on the TV. And last night, I realized, oh, I'm pretty wiped out. Let me turn on the TV. Let me just look at the debate just to see. I literally really couldn't bear to watch it. So as someone who watched it, I'm talking to you. Am I being cruel or unfair? Because it was unfair. What little I saw was genuinely unbearable. No, as I was saying just a second ago, from the way it was structured, to the execution, to the answers to the substance, the format's wild and out of control. There's not really a possibility of getting very deep on any one of the single questions. And I think a lot of the questions that are being asked are not the right ones. And so as I've watched, and I didn't watch all of last night's debate in real time, I caught up on a bunch of it after the fact. But as I've sat through both of them now, it is easy for me to ascertain that no one in this field on that stage last night is serious about becoming president. And they're not biting into the enormous lead that the former president has only built on since the first debate occurred. The first debate, they had 11 million viewers put to put that in perspective, Eric, in 2015. For the first debate, they had more than 15 million viewers in 2020. For the first debate, they had about 18 million viewers. You're talking about a diminishing return a, a much less interested Republican base watching these, and they're not they're not going anywhere. And in the meantime, it's putting even with some of our better idea people on display as amateurs, even with Doug Burgum on the stage, hard to believe. Yeah. That would be like a rematch between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson. You're telling me people, Lisa Hutchinson was not able to be on the stage this time, as far as we know. Yeah, I think he took a, he took a face shot in the early rounds, and he was in his dressing room. Honestly, the thing there, what I said on Twitter this morning, was that they acted like it was 1985. We are living in a time in America, where most people see, we are in freefall, hell has been unleashed. Things have gotten so bad on so many fronts that it is, if you don't believe in God, which I do, and I trust in him, but if it weren't for that, I'd be scared to death. What is happening in this country? And they acted like it's 1985. And we're gonna, we're gonna have this conversation. And I thought, this is this is bad. I mean, the way the the deep state has been weaponized to go after Donald Trump, for example, I don't care if you're running against Trump, if you like Trump, but if that doesn't strike you as, as fundamentally un -American and sick as anything, as though, you know, we were being bombed by China, it's pretty bad. They seem not to be concerned. Well, they're responding to questions that have been supposedly thoughtfully put together by the moderators that are doing the debate. And Ron DeSantis did a little bit more of this last night, all of them to have done more of this, where he actually came with a little bit of an agenda to give little speeches every time that he was given the opportunity to speak. And he got more things out on the record than what he was asked about. But that should be the strategy of every candidate going into every debate. That should be the strategy of every thinker going on every media outlet that you can. Sometimes, Eric, it's better for me to go on Fox or Newsmax or somewhere and have something that I'm more intent on saying that what they want to ask me about. And if you're, if you're running for president in times of crisis, and I don't, I don't view the period that we're in right now as a peaceful time. We're not actively at war with anybody, but we are actively at war with evil on, on almost every front. So we need, there needs to be an urgency. There needs to be a sense of, we cannot phone it in and do it like we've done it in the past, especially knowing that we are going to run up against probably illicit, illegal, cheating schemes, trying to keep the election from actually being determined by the people that have the right to determine it. And before people criticize me for that, we've replaced the population of the bottom eight states in just illegal entries into the country over the last three years. Well, let's do that in a minute, because you wrote an article at townhall .com. That is one of the stunning nightmares that they acted like not, not really a big problem. But what you just said about cheating, I think most Americans know the Democrats cheat at elections. How is that not the most important thing to discuss when you're talking about a presidential election? Are you and I imagining, are millions and millions and millions and millions of Democrats actually cheat? Now they've done it for decades, but now we know that they have turned it into a science. They are at war with we, the people, they don't actually care about winning in a fair way. They just care about winning. How is that not unbelievably important and something that has to be discussed? But the Fox hosts and the Latina from Univision, which is another bizarre thing, they seem to act like January 6 was Trump supporters being violent. They seem to act like the election was fair. Biden won. What world are they living in? All of them. I don't know what to say. And obviously, I think Vivek and Ron DeSantis, they're the only two candidates that I can take seriously. I've got problems with them a little bit. But the whole thing was like, they were all play acting like we're living in a different America than the one most of us are living in. Well, I will hold one exception out to what you just said. And I believe that Nikki Haley had a sense of urgency about her last night. And she did in the first debate as well. And I think that's why she's now out polling DeSantis in several polls, is that people are beginning to understand that as a former governor, she probably has a shot at the VP pick. I don't think the VP pick is going to come out of this group. But if Trump did want one that I'm seeing kind of be serious on the issues that are the most pressing, she's the one that kind of gets the vote in terms of... I think of her as deep state, neo -con, next. All right. That's fine. I'm just saying in terms of her performance thus far. We've got you our wonderfully. I'm so glad that we do. We'll be right back. With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, lots of companies are coming out saying they'll pay for employee abortion travel and expenses. Most of you have heard about some of these companies. 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Crypto Curious
A highlight from 96 - Token2049 Highlights, Binance's SEC Showdown, Yuga Labs Update & Friend.tech on roids!!
"One of the big questions is - What is money? For practical purposes, it exists in a series of heterogeneous databases, very different databases. Do you believe in crypto? Digital currency may be an answer, but it is a highly respectable disaster. I'd go on Bitcoin. There is no second best. Welcome to the Crypto Curious podcast, proudly brought to you by the Bamboo app. Crypto Curious is your go -to source for all things cryptocurrency. Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the world of crypto, we've got you covered. Each week, we'll break down the top news stories of the past seven days, giving you the information you need to stay on top of the latest trends and developments. Plus, we'll share quick bites of news and insights that you won't want to miss. If you're new to crypto, we recommend starting in our early episodes, where we break down the basics and give you a solid foundation to understand the crypto world. Join us as we explore the ever -evolving world of cryptocurrency and educate ourselves along the way. On today's episode, we'll give you a complete rundown on the token 2049 event that Blake and I attended in Singapore last week. Sneak peek, it was pretty amazing. Then we'll get into a number of big stories over the past few weeks, including Yuga Labs producing a movie, Binance are in hot water again, the Friend Tech field day, and we can't miss out on more FTX shenanigans. So stay tuned. My name's Tracey, and I'm joined by my pals, Blake and Craig, as we catch up on the crypto news. Hey guys, how are you going? Very well, Trace. Back in the swing of things this week. How are you? Yeah, good. After a week off. Did you miss us, Craig? Yeah, sure. No. That convincing. was I got an extreme FOMO from the group chat photos that you were sending and the talks that you guys went to that looked like a lot of fun, and I wish I went, but maybe next year. Yeah, definitely. Definitely next year. Maybe we should just dive straight in then and talk all about the token 2049 conference, which is the largest annual digital asset events in Asia and Europe. And this year it was bringing together the leading voices and the most sensational projects in Web3. And we did. We had an awesome time. Singapore is amazing. It was my first trip to Singapore. And Blake, give us your initial impressions and what you loved about the event. Yeah, so this is probably the biggest crypto conference in Asia, really. And I think about 10 ,000 people came to the main event itself, but then there were also about 400 side events, more than you could pick, or even too many, too many, really. And really, I think it's an industry focused event. You know, there weren't that many retail investors coming along. Tickets were priced accordingly. And yeah, it was an incredible event. They brought the who's who of the crypto industry to speak, talk about where the other projects are at and what the future looks like, the state of regulation and where we are in the market cycle. And it was fascinating to be there learning and hearing about how everyone else in the industry is thinking. And there was certainly no indication of us being in a bear market. My God, no, it was money, wasn't it? It was out of control. You know, the big exchanges were, were splashing cash around. The Formula One was on at the same time. So lots of people added a bit of excitement, didn't it? Yeah, we're coming over for that. And yeah, we could probably, you know, maybe give us your high level thoughts, Trace, and then we can get into a couple of the interesting things that we learned. Yeah, look, I think it was a really vibrant atmosphere. There were some excellent speakers. I was impressed with the setup. And the event ran really smoothly trying to get 10 ,000 people in over two days. You know, you'd expect a few hiccups, but there wasn't. I thought it was pretty, it was pretty well done. You know, there was a real big emphasis on, on building. And like you said, you certainly didn't feel like you were in a bear market at all. There was just money being splashed everywhere. Lots of giveaways, you know, certainly went trying to get a bit of merch to make Craig feel jealous. Definitely got a few to pop into the chat. What about the talks, guys? Like, which one was your most impressive project, most impressive person that you saw? Yeah, there's a couple that really stood out for me. Firstly, there was a talk on stablecoins, looking at the data and the adoption rate. What was really interesting is that you're even through this bear market, the stablecoin adoption rate has is increasing as you know, the crypto prices go down and less activity happens on chain and on exchanges. And this is really pointing towards the utility of stablecoins and what they're going to mean for the future. And importantly, what was recognised in that talk was that in the US, US -based stablecoins are being used less and less and offshore and algorithmic stablecoins are being used more and more. And this is really because of the regulatory pressure in the US market. People don't want to interact with US businesses, essentially. And, you know, probably the second most interesting talk that I saw was, you know, the founders Yeah, that was my favourite. Yeah, that was interesting. I didn't think I'd love it as much as I did. But I think me and you both sat there and was like, this is really interesting. Yeah, we had the founder of Polygon, the founder of Arbitrum and the founder of ZK Sync. You can see that the ZK Sync group, probably the most technologically advanced and that's a scaling solution that uses zero knowledge protocols on top of Ethereum. And yeah, definitely the most advanced, you know, scaling solution on top of Ethereum. Secondly, your Arbitrum is very focused on research and creating a really great product that anybody could use. And of course, Polygon's focus is on business development and getting adoption from web two companies. So coming at it from three very different angles there, but all for the same purpose of increasing adoption and scalability of the layer ones. I really like that layer two talk, but much like a music festival, you had to pick who you wanted to see because they're all overlapping. There was, you know, there was a main stage upstairs, another one downstairs. There's a few different talks. I ended up stumbling into the Neo founder, do his chat, which was really interesting. I quite liked that one. And for everyone's information, Neo is a layer one blockchain that was founded in China, very much focused on, you know, being an Eastern kind of competitor to Ethereum or so on. You guys remember the Chinese Ethereum narrative and it pumped Neo like 200X? Been around for a long time. Yeah. So you just kind of, but there was a lot of stans, a lot of people, you know, shilling a lot of different things and, you know, you could kind of get lost there for a while. There was a strong push for mainstream adoption through Web3 and gaming. And I think that was on a lot of panel discussions and a lot of side events were also pushing that. I know Animoca Brands had a lot of big events as well. So I think that was a big focus also. I think we didn't get to see him, but Robbie from Immutable was over there speaking as well. Now, was there one project that you didn't hear of that sort of came across a token at the conference? Like, was there a project that you put into your watch list? Not really. Just the big dogs just reinforcing there. Yeah. Just talking about where the innovation is moving, you know. And one thing that really stood out to me is that, you know, the regulation conversation just isn't that prominent in Asia because the regulation in Asia, the regulation in Asia, there's no issues. And, you know, I think that we can easily have a US -centric point of view sometimes. But in Asia, they're ready to do business there. You know, there's lots of investment happening. There's lots of deals happening. There's lots of growth happening. And some of those stories we'll talk about in today's episode. All in all, the event was memorable one for us and worth attending for our team. And it really did reinforce, you know, our love for the industry and just how far we have all come. And so if anyone's referenced token 2049, the next event will happen in Dubai in early 2024, in April, I believe. So you can check that one out. In April? That's only like six months away. I know. I did say to Blake that I thought that was quite soon. I think they have multiple events. You know, they have them in different regions. There you go. Well, I'll go to that one for the crypto curious community. I'll fly the flag. Cheers. Now, folks, we're going to mix it up a little bit this week, and we're going to cut out our short, sharp news bites at the end, and we're going to go to a few biggest stories because, as you know, we missed our show last week. So we're going to cover off a few biggest stories, starting with Franklin Templeton, a large asset manager who has joined the race for the holy grail, the Spot Bitcoin ETF. As we've previously reported, the aim of many of these leading institutions applying for ETF is to attract large institutional investors, which could potentially bring trillions of dollars into the crypto industry. So Franklin Templeton's ETF will be based on a mix of crypto exchange Bitcoin prices to deter price manipulation. So just another big boy entering the space and solidifying the general thesis that it is inevitable that this Bitcoin Spot ETF will happen. There you go, boys. What else are we going to catch on that's happened in the last few weeks, Craig? Yeah. So last week Vitalik, the Ethereum founder, he had his Twitter or X account hacked, and he shared a malicious link, and it actually led to just under $700 ,000 that was drained from people's wallet. So it was just a scam. People connected their wallet, got drained. But it was coming from his official Twitter. Right. Okay. This was due to a SimSwap attack. Right. These big dogs, even they get hacked. So stay on it. Stay safe, everybody. Yeah, we had that story a couple of weeks ago where your people's private keys were being stolen from their password manager, which had a vulnerability. So even when you're doing best practice activities, you know, sometimes you're still not safe. Can't trust anything. All right. Next up, we have a story that came out on the 13th of September. So received FTX approval from the US bankruptcy court to sell and hedge its crypto holdings valued at $3 .4 billion. That's a lot of bloody crypto. This is when everyone was freaking out about where they were going to drop their salon. Yep. Yeah. So we talked about Galaxy Digital was engaged to help, which is a big crypto focused asset manager to help the liquidators or the administrators sell down these assets. So what they have is $1 .16 billion worth of Solana and they have $560 million in Bitcoin and the rest in other tokens. So, you know, this is a little bit concerning. I think the Bitcoin market could probably absorb, you know, the sell down of $560 million of Bitcoin over, you know, a period of time. But what's the market cap, Craig, of Solana? Well, Solana is still, you know, in the billions. Let me just fact check. They can't sell all the Solana at once or it's going to be $9 .2 million of Solana released for them to sell every month, which I think is fine. So not all the Solana will be dumped in the market, but they have an $8 billion market cap. Yeah. And Solana did take a bit of a dump. I think it dumped around 5 % off this news. It's about 20 % of 15 to 20 % of Solana's market cap. But if they're smart, they're going to do this strategically over time anyway. Yeah, well, the three biggest holdings are Solana, Bitcoin and Ethereum. And then the other ones I've got is APT, Updos, Doge, Tron, Matic, Ripple and BNB. Very minuscule amount of BNB. So, yeah, this caused a bit of a shakeout, didn't it guys? Yeah. But, you know, I'm sure that they'll work on a strategy to release those tokens back into the market over time. I will potentially suppress price, but, you know, hopefully not for too long. Next one. This has happened over the last four or five days. The SEC has gone after the Stoner Cats project. I remember this one from a few years ago and mainly for its connection with Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher because it was, you could buy the rights to, it was a TV show, a cartoon Stoner Cats show. I think they only produced a couple of episodes and Mila and Ashton were the voices of the Cats. I think Jane Fonda was also one of the voices. So the SEC has charged a project for conducting an unregistered NFT offering that raised $8 million and one of the arguments the SEC used was that the entire, the entity promoted the potential for its NFT prices to increase in the secondary market, similar to all NFTs. So Stoner Cats agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and to destroy all NFTs in its possession, but they did not have to admit that it was guilty of the charges. So setting precedent there, so I'm not sure if that was the best way to go for them. And the SEC, you know, are really going for different projects at the moment. This wasn't the first one in recent weeks. So one to watch here, I know Elliot from our marketing team, who you guys see sometimes on our Instagram page, sent an article around talking about the SEC going after NFT projects and Guy from the Coin Bureau also made a big statement about it recently that he's slightly concerned. What are your thoughts, Blake? Well, I think there's a big lesson here. Don't sell cryptographic assets to Americans. Stay the hell away and you'll be fine.
Mark Levin
Mark Levin: Reminder, Vladimir Putin Is the Criminal
"And that's a fair point. But why is it, why is it that if you have the view that the Ukrainian people and the country of Ukraine and the, the criminal here is Putin and his deletion of his army against the people of Ukraine and indiscriminately killing tens of thousands of and citizens kidnapping tens of thousands of children and bringing them into Russia to be taking them from their parents? You can understand, I think, why some people would say is that absolutely repulsive and unconscionable. So, what is this effort that constantly character assassinates Zelensky? First, to call him a neo -Nazi. He met with every rabbi, leading rabbi in the Chabad Orthodox Jewish from movement every community in Ukraine two weeks while the Jews are fleeing Russia, the rabbis are fleeing Russia. So, to call him a neo -Nazi when he lost, as well, family members in the church, it is just sickening. It is sickening. That is number one. Number two, if you stand with me, and if you don't, that is fine, but if you do, all then of a sudden, you are taking the same position
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1406: Bitcoin Will Hit $4 Million, Rising 100x - Peter Thiel
"In today's show, we'll be discussing Bitcoin Bollinger Bands hitting a key zone as Bitcoin price fights for $27 ,000. In breaking news just in, Bitcoin hash rate hits a new all -time high. Let's go. And quoting Stacey Herbert, Bitcoin is pumping on the news of President Bukele's speech to the UN tonight. Can't wait. We'll also be discussing Bitcoin Adoption Fund launched by Japan's $500 billion Nomura Bank. That's right. The Bitcoin Adoption Fund will have long -only exposure to Bitcoin and be available to institutional investors. We'll also be sharing Sam Bankman, Fried's father, dragged his mother into an FTX US salary dispute. You can't make this stuff up, folks. Also in today's show, Bitcoin gearing up for a post -having parabola, according to crypto analysts. I'll be sharing his very bullish all -time high target. We'll also be discussing crypto asset market cap should explode 5 to 10x during the next bull cycle, according to investor Raoul Pal. I'll also be sharing Peter Thiel's $4 million Bitcoin price prediction, and we'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again, that's cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome everyone just joining us. This is pod episode number 1406. I'm your host JV. And today is September 19th, 2023. We have lots to cover as usual. Massive shout out to everyone today in the live chat. Please let me know where you're tuning in from. And at the end of the show, I'm going to be reading everyone's comments out loud. Let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day, the entire crypto market back in the green with Bitcoin back above $27 ,100 and checking out coinmarketcap .com, the current crypto market cap on the climb at $1 .08 trillion with roughly $27 billion in volume for the past 24 hours, Bitcoin dominance at 49 .2 % and the Ether dominance at 18 .4%. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours, we have TonCoin leading the pack up 5%, trading at $2 .57, followed by GMX up about 5%, trading just under 36 bucks, followed by Conflux up 4%, trading at $0 .12. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week, virtually 95 out of the top 100 cryptos are in the green. Some of the top gainers include GMX, GRT, as well as CRV and NEO. And checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated at 46 in fear, same as 37 in fear. So there you have it. How many of you are pretty stoked for this most recent pump? And how many of you agree with Stacey Herbert that this pump is due to Bukele's speech scheduled for this evening? Let me know, fam. And now let's dive into today's Bitcoin technical analysis. Check out the charts and what's popping with the king crypto. Bitcoin could see fresh upside volatility as the price action and the strength revisits a key level according to a classic metric. In a new post, John Bollinger, creator of the Bollinger Bands volatility indicator, says Bitcoin was positioned for a breakout decision. That's right. After hitting new September highs the day prior, Bitcoin has been challenging resistance levels out of reach since mid -August, according to data from Cointelegraph and TradingView. Now for Bollinger, the signs for Bitcoin are encouraging. Bollinger Bands use a standard deviation around the simple moving average to determine both the likely price ranges and volatility. And as Michael Saylor once said, volatility equals life force. Now, currently Bitcoin is putting in daily candles that touch the upper band. And when this happens, it can signal an imminent reversal back to the center band, or conversely, an inbound fit of upside volatility. Now narrow Bollinger Bands seen on Bitcoin recently lend weight to hopes that the latter scenario will now play out, quitting him here. And then there is the first tag of the upper Bollinger Band. After the new set of controlling bars were established at the lower band, he commented alongside this chart, the question is now, can we walk up to the upper band or is it too early to answer? What are your thoughts, chat? Let me know in the comments below. Now Bollinger characterizes the current mood among seasoned Bitcoin traders and analysts on the short -term timeframes. Despite the strength seen this week, caution abounds as various trend lines previously acting as support remain above the spot price. Now discussing the situation, we had on -chain monitoring resource, material indicators share the following. We have heavy technical resistance overhead at the key moving averages and support at the lower low. It is quite possible that we round trip the range. And with any luck, we'll see a legit test of the RS levels that will give us some clarity on where Bitcoin goes from here before the end of the week. And they also shared here in update number two, as noted earlier, it appears the Bitcoin bulls are gaining some momentum, but things are not always as they seem and goes on to share that sometime after last night's candle and close open, we've seen a new trend precognition signal develop on the daily chart and it seems to be bullish. I mean, we are breaking out. We are above 27 ,000. So let's freaking go. And also more strong foundation on the technicals. You can see Bitcoin hits yet another all -time high, which virtually means the network has never been this strong and this secure. Now I'm pretty stoked to tune into President Bukele's speech to the UN this evening. What do you think he has to share besides? I told you so. Let me know, fam. And again, welcome to everyone just joining us for the live show. Lots to continue to cover. So let's continue breaking it down. Next, let's discuss this adoption fund, which is a pretty big deal coming out of Japan. Let's go check this out. Japan's largest investment bank, Numura's digital asset subsidiary, Laser Digital Asset Management, launched the Bitcoin adoption fund specifically for the institutional investors. Bring it. The official announcement noted the Bitcoin -based fund will be the first in a range of digital adoption investment solutions that the firm plans to introduce. Now Numura is a Japanese financial giant with over $500 billion worth of assets, which basically that's half a trillion, baby, offers brokerage services to leading institutional investors. The Bitcoin fund launched by its digital asset arm will now offer investors direct exposure to BTC. The Laser Digital Bitcoin Adoption Fund offers long key exposure to Bitcoin. The financial giant has chosen Kamanu as its regulated custody partner. The Bitcoin fund is a portion of Laser Digital Fund's segregated portfolio company that has been registered as a mutual fund in accordance with the Cayman Islands regulatory authority. Now, Laser Digital Asset Management head Sebastian said the Bitcoin is one of the enablers of this long -lasting transformational change and long -term exposure to Bitcoin offers a solution for the investors to capture this macro trend. Now, the Bitcoin adoption fund might be the first of its kind launched by Numura and the digital asset arm, but the Japanese investment banking giant has been investing in the digital asset ecosystem for quite some time already. In fact, September of last year, the firm launched its digital asset venture capital arm to stay at the forefront of digital innovation. And also won Dubai's virtual asset regulatory authority license to operate in the country. The long -only Bitcoin adoption fund for investors in Japan comes amid a growing discussion around Bitcoin -based investment products from regulated and mainstream financial giants. The United States SEC approved two Bitcoin ETFs, even though there is a delayed decision specifically on the spot. Bitcoin ETFs. What's up with that, Mr. Gensler? Just saying. And apart from the US, Canada and focused investment products over the past couple of years. So there you have it, mass adoption, let's freaking go, especially on the institutional level. How many of you are in Japan? I know we have some in our audience out there. Let me know. And have you ever heard of this company before? Any plans in investing through them? Let me know how you guys feel. And now let's break down the latest. It gets more surprising and shocking every day with what all is going on with Bankman -Fried and FTX. Now his parents are involved. His parents are being sued by FTX. And it's just a nightmare of a mess, to say the least. So let's break down this latest story regarding SBF. Now, Joseph Bankman, the father of the former FTX CEO, Sam Bankman -Fried, complained to his son about the salary he was receiving during his employment at FTX US, turning the issue into a family matter. In a September 18 filing with the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, FTX debtors filed a complaint against Bankman and Barbara Fried, alleging that SBF's parents misappropriated millions of dollars through their involvement in the exchange's business. And according to the court documents, Bankman's contract with FTX US should have provided a $200 ,000 annual salary following a leave of absence from the Stanford Law School in December 2021. However, Bankman seemed to express ignorance about the terms of the contract, claiming to both FTX US and his son that he was expecting a $1 million annual salary. What about all that property in the Bahamas, fam? What about all that? Hundreds of millions worth of properties? Just wanted to throw that out there. The complaint states that Bankman was putting Barbara on this, suggesting that SBF's mother may have been able to persuade her son to follow through with the salary change. Things get even more interesting. So according to the complaint, Bankman's influence paid off, with SBF later providing his parents $10 million from Alameda Research. Can you talk about commingling? A 16 .4 million property in the Bahamas, funded by FTX Trading, the ability to expense roughly $90 ,000 to FTX Trading on the island nation in the Bahamas, and options to purchase company stock. Now, when reached out to the legal team representing Bankman and Fried, but did not receive a response at the time, unfortunately, the legal action brought by the debtors was the latest in the bankruptcy case involving FTX and many of its subsidiaries filed in November of last year. Bankman Fried also faces 12 criminal charges to be spread across two trials, starting in October of 2023, which is right around the corner, fam, and March of 2024, right before the halving, scheduled for April of next year. And since the federal judge revoked his bail in August, Bankman Fried has been largely confined to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Where's Brooklyn at? Before the start of his October trial, then on September 19th, a three -judge panel heard an appeal from SPF's legal team requesting the former FTX CEO to be released from jail in order to prepare for the trial, citing the lack of internet access and first amendment issues. All I got to say is this, I mean, how many people realistically have access to the internet in jail? Why should he? Million dollar question right there. But what are your thoughts, fam? How do you think this is likely to play out? And do you think that Bankman Fried's parents are just as guilty as SPF himself with the commingling and the fraud of going up north of $30 billion, making it the biggest scam in history that we're aware of? Hence why we call him Mini Madoff, because he made off with billions of dollars worth of investors' money, and Gary Gensler and the SEC was protecting him behind closed doors. So it's going to be very interesting to see how all this is likely to play out. Now let's discuss post halving. We all know there is a halving scheduled roughly six months out. We all know post halving, the price action is most likely going to reach a new all -time high and enter price discovery mode. Well, this analyst shares a very intriguing target. So let's break this down, shall we? And welcome to y 'all just joining us. Say hello in that live chat. Let me know where you're tuning in from. I stream live here seven days a week from Puerto Rico. Synonymous analyst Rhett Capital tells his followers on X that Bitcoin can rally above $80 per ,000 coin in the months following next month's event. For the halving, send it. Let's go. The Bitcoin halving cuts the Bitcoin miners' rewards in half, as we all know, expected to take place in April of next year. And while Rhett Capital is a long -term bull on Bitcoin, he notes that it is possible for Bitcoin to continue its downtrend before the halving, putting him here. Hang in there and make the most of any deeper downside in this pre halving period. You won't see the post halving parabola in the outlines here in this chart. It shows you in the yellow, the pre halving period, then in the pink, the post halving resistance, and then in the green, you can see the post halving parabola when we hit those new all -time highs. Now, Rhett notes that Bitcoin may repeat its 2019 bear market cycle when it traded within a triangle pattern before breaking out and starting off the bull market, as he shares here, if Bitcoin continues to form lower highs, could Bitcoin fill the CME, which is the Chicago Mercantile Exchange gap, at $20 ,000 later this year or in early 2024? So it makes a good point. There is currently a gap sitting at that $20 ,000 psychological level. And he continues, if so, the possible path could be consolidation to the apex of the black triangle before finally breaking out to close the halving. And you can see that triangle right here in this chart. Now, looking at the chart, he seemed to suggest that Bitcoin will confirm the triangle breakout in April of 2024, followed by a rally towards his long -term target. Now, let me know your thoughts, chat. How many of you agree that Bitcoin is likely to break out to a new all -time high, entering price discovery mode in 2024, the year of the halving? Let me know. And what are some of your targets? I'd also like to point out that the Stock the Flow model and Plan B, creator of that model, he suggests a $100 to $1 million range price for the King Crypto post halving. We also have some very other bullish predictions, which I cover on a daily basis here on the channel. But I'd love to know your personal prediction. I think we reached the cycle peak personally sometime in 2025, but I think 2024, we enter that price discovery mode. But I'd love to know your thoughts and your opinions in the comments right down below. And now let's break down our next story of the day and discuss the latest from the macro guru, Raoul Pal, who is suggesting that the Bitcoin market cap and crypto market cap as a whole does something between 5 and 10x for this upcoming bull cycle. Now, you do the math. We have a crypto market cap right now. I'm going to ballpark it at a trillion. We have a Bitcoin market cap. I'm going to ballpark it at a half a trillion, which is 500 billion. So hypothetically, if we were to 10x Bitcoin in and of itself, we're talking about a 5 trillion dollar Bitcoin market cap, which would be half the current market cap of gold. Now, with the entire crypto market cap, we can potentially hit 10 trillion. Now, also note, back in November of 2021, when we hit that all time high of 69 ,000 in November of last year, the total crypto market cap was just north of that 3 trillion dollar market cap. So he's so let's break this down and shout out to Raoul Pal. Here we go. Former Goldman Sachs executive Raoul Pal says the next bull cycle can bring an explosion in the market cap of all of the digital assets. That's right. In a new interview with Altcoin Daily, the macro expert says he expects a huge increase in the adoption of digital assets, and that can cause the total market cap of crypto to skyrocket as much as 900 % from its current value during the next bull market. Quoting the analysts here, obviously, I think we'll go well through new all time highs. I think the whole ecosystem of crypto will go from 425 million users where we're at today. And I think at the end of this cycle, there'll be a billion users by that kind of use cases in which we have talked about. And let's not forget, we have got central bank digital currencies that are known as CBDCs and stable coins. There is a lot going on still. So if this entire space is going to grow 2 .5 X in the number of users, well, the market cap of the entire space is five or 10 X. Send it. Let's go. Pal also says he is closely watching development of layer two Altcoin projects for new use cases, which could boost the value of their individual market cap, quitting him again. And then let's see how people value layer twos in this. We don't really know how layer twos accrue much value. Do we have to have a massive amount of transactions in which case then you need stuff like Ticketmaster with millions and millions and millions of transactions to drive value to those chains because they batched them and batched them down to Ethereum. So there you have it. And to watch this interview, he did Raul Pal, the macro guru with Altcoin Daily entitled best cryptocurrency investing strategy into 2024. Check the show notes, blow the video in the description and let me know your thoughts on his personal prediction. Do you feel post having that the market cap for the entire crypto market can likely 10 X from the current valuation along with Bitcoin surging 10 X to roughly a five trillion market cap? And hypothetically, if the macro guru is correct, where do you think that would likely take the Bitcoin price? Well, let's run some hypothetical math. Bitcoin was the 10 X from the current price action of 27 ,000. Well, that's $270 ,000 per coin. Take that. And as we all know, Bitcoin rises like that, the entire crypto market cap would go along for the ride, including the altcoin. So please let me know in the chat, fam, which altcoins, if any, are you most bullish on in the crypto market? And what are your thoughts surrounding Raul Pal being so bullish on Solana? A few months back, I read in an interview he shared that 80 % or more of his portfolio was specifically in an altcoin called Solana. So I'd love to know your thoughts. Obviously, he has a high risk tolerance as I look at that particular cryptocurrency to be very risky, especially with all that went in with the venture capitalists and SPF and FTX exchange pumping that particular all. So I'd love to know how you feel regarding all of that. And with that being shared, fam, now let's discuss Peter Thiel and his $4 million price prediction, as well as rumor has it, and I'll be covering this as well, that he dumps most of his Bitcoin position at the top of the market practically 30 days before the crash. So let's break this down because Peter Thiel was actually one of the keynote speakers at the Miami Conference for Bitcoin. And here's what he had to share as I transcribed his speech, and then we'll discuss him reportedly making $1 .8 billion cashing out on his eight -year bet around the time he was touting these all -time high predictions. So here we go. He says, the enemy's list is a list of people who I think are stopping Bitcoin. He says there is a lot of them. They tend to have nameless, faceless bureaucratic perspectives, which of course is one of the ways they hide. He goes on to share, we are going to try to expose them and realize that this is sort of what we have to fight for Bitcoin to go up, 10x or 100x from here. Now, just FYI, to give you some perspective, at the time he made this prediction on stage at the Bitcoin Miami Conference, Bitcoin was trading at roughly $43 ,000 per coin. So you run the math. 43 ,000 times 100x is over $4 million per Bitcoin. So you know that? Let's continue with what he had to share. The central banks are going bankrupt. We are at the end of the fiat money regime. How many of you agree with that statement? I agree there 100%. The first person on the list is Berkshire Hathaway CEO, Warren Buffett. Thiel put up a picture of Buffett with two of his most famous quotes about Bitcoin. One was rat poison and the other, I don't own any and I never will. I also like to point out now since then, Warren Buffett has much indirect exposure to Bitcoin through Bitcoin mining stock companies and etc. So go figure. If you can't beat them, join them, right? And he goes on. He opined, I think the direct in it. Yeah, and I say also Charlie Munger goes along with him. Now, feel further noted that Buffett has a bias and makes him long on fiat money system and money managers who follow the Berkshire Hathaway executives advice will pretend it's complicated to invest into Bitcoin. I think we call that FUD. Fear, uncertainty and doubt. Now expect nothing less from one of the wealthiest people in the fiat money matrix Ponzi scheme. You know what I mean? So just saying. The next person on the list of Bitcoin's enemies is the one and only JP Morgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon, or as Max Kaiser calls him, Jamie the tapeworm. They'll put diamonds picture up with the following quote. I don't call them crypto currencies. I call them crypto tokens because currencies have rules of law behind them, central banks and tax with authorities. Now you guys already know how I feel personally about JP Morgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon. So I won't go any deeper there. But anyways, we know he's an enemy of Bitcoin and always has been. The next picture he put up was of the BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, with the following quote. I see huge opportunities in a digitized crypto blockchain related currency, and that's where I think it is going to go. Now just FYI, Larry Fink is the CEO of the largest asset management firm in the entire world, which owns a large share in virtually all the companies in the S &P 500, and that is BlackRock. They currently have over $10 trillion in assets under management. And for a long time, he was spreading FUD regarding Bitcoin. But guess what? Like I mentioned earlier, if you can't beat them, join them because they just most recently, a few months ago, they submitted their application for a spot Bitcoin ETF, which ultimately means they're going to be introducing this to the institutions which have trillions upon trillions of dollars as there's currently north of $700 trillion in total addressable market, and they want their piece of the Bitcoin pie. So he goes on to share, the PayPal co -founder added that Fink's quote is somewhat representative of the whole genre of Bitcoin attacks that need further context, stating that pro -blockchain is an anti -Bitcoin term, very typically. Feel then brought up the environmental, social, and governance, ESG standards, elaborating the following, the label they have come up with, and perhaps the real enemy is ESG. I think that ESG is just a hate factory. Also like to throw out there, Elon Musk, he stopped taking Bitcoin payments for Tesla, and he says it's because of the FUD regarding this ESG, and we all know it's not more than FUD, and it's already been proven that Bitcoin is more than 50 % clean energy. So the million dollar question, when will the world's supposedly wealthiest man, Elon Musk, when will he start accepting Bitcoin payments again for Tesla? Isn't that a great question, and wouldn't you love to know the answer to that? Maybe you should ask Elon and tag him on X and see what he says. Anyways, feel stressed. You can always ask the question, what's the difference between ESG and the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party? Well, when you think ESG, you should be thinking of CCP per H. Now, he also goes on to share, it is the finance gentocracy that runs the country through whatever silly virtue signaling or hate factory to them, just like ESG, the billionaire concluded. This is what I would call and what you have to think of as a revolutionary youth movement, and we have to just go out from this conference and take over the world. So there you have it, fam. What are your thoughts surrounding Peter Thiel's prediction that we are likely to 100X, and along with his enemies list, as it seems, a lot of the enemies have come around and now have direct exposure to BTC, but it doesn't stop there because around that time he was making this $4 million Bitcoin price prediction. He allegedly dumped most of his position cashing out and with over a billion dollars in profits for his fund. So let's also break this down as this is also very relevant. How many of you were able to watch the speech he gave at that Bitcoin conference? It was epic, to say the least. I recall it now. So here we go. Check it out. Peter Thiel's venture capital firm reportedly made $1 .8 billion closing out its crypto positions around the time when he was an early Bitcoin bull, still predicting the token's price to surge by 100X. And again, from 43 ,000 price action, 100X means over 4 million. Founders Fund had cashed out almost all of its bets on digital assets by March of 2022, according to the Financial Times report that cited people familiar with the matter. But Thiel was still backing Bitcoin, obviously, when he spoke at the crypto conference in Miami the following month. He went on to share where at the end of the fiat money regime, he said, adding that the token's price could increase 100 fold from its level at the time, which was reported at $44 ,000 per coin. That prediction was proven false and as rising interest rates and failures, the high profile firms like Celsius Network, Three Arrows Capital, FTX, Terra Luna dragged the crypto sector into the prolonged bearish winter. Now Bitcoin plummeted by over 60 % in 2022 and was trading at under 17 ,000 by the end of the year. And I believe the bottom currently for the cycle is 15 ,700. How many of you feel that that bottom is in? Let me know, chat. Founders Fund first started pouring money into crypto all the way back in 2014, when Bitcoin was only trading at roughly $750 per coin. So by the time Bitcoin reached its all time high in November of 2021, it had surged 8 ,500 % from that particular level. Not too shabby for a seven year run, wouldn't you say? Now Thiel has a long track record as one of Silicon Valley's most prominent tech investors. He took early stakes in startups, which include Facebook, Elon Musk's SpaceX, and ride hailing app Lyft, and even co -founded PayPal back in 1998. Thiel is also a high profile supporter of the Republican Party and continued to voice his support for Donald Trump since the former president left office in January of 2021. The fund held around two thirds of his portfolio in Bitcoin at one time, but now not has significant exposure to crypto according to FT's sources. So there you have it. Fam, what are your thoughts surrounding his prediction and him cashing out at around that time he was making those all time high predictions of 100X? Let me know, fam. And don't forget to check out cryptonewsalerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Optimism Announces OP Airdrop 3
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Monday, September 18th, 2023. Optimism announces OP Airdrop 3, Kanto migrates to a ZK chain built on Polygon's CDK, Aztec Network announces its decentralized sequencer selection protocol winner, and Go Ethereum issues a hotfix release for Geth. All this and more starts right now. Optimism announced its third Airdrop distributing 19 million OP tokens to over 31 ,000 unique addresses. The Airdrop rewarded users based on the OP tokens they had delegated with a minimum threshold. The calculation multiplies the number of delegated OP tokens by the number of days they were held. The minimum threshold is equivalent to delegating 100 OP tokens over 100 days. Participants who delegated to an active delegate who voted in at least one on -chain proposal received a 2x multiplier. The maximum reward per address was capped at 10 ,000 OP tokens. This eligibility period extended over 6 months, running from January 20th to July 20th of this year. Approximately 570 million OP tokens remain available for future Airdrops. Kanto, a Layer 1 EVM blockchain focused on DeFi, is migrating to a ZK -powered chain built on Polygon's Chain Development Kit. Kanto's new ZK -powered Layer 2 will focus on real -world assets. The transition provides Kanto with cryptographic security through the adoption of a Plonky 2 ZK -proving implementation. Kanto will also have access to deep liquidity through a shared ZK bridge on Polygon 2 .0. Kanto developers will leverage the ZK bridge for canonical assets, enhanced decentralization, and trustless asset bridging. Kanto aims to further Neo Finance, a concept for enhancing capital efficiency by deploying off -chain assets with protocol rails. Aztec Network announced the winning proposal from its sequencer selection request for proposals. The winner, Fernet, is a sequencer selection protocol distinguished by its permissionless random leader election, enabling anyone to participate in block building on the Aztec Network. Random leader election promotes inclusivity, decentralization, and resistance to censorship. Aztec's decision to choose Fernet over other proposals was based on its straightforwardness, security, and simple implementation. Systems engineering firm Block Science also provided an independent report on the sequencer selection protocol. Fernet employs VRF to assign random scores to sequences. And lastly, GoEthereum released Geth version 1 .13 .1, a hotfix release addressing a bug relating to block production in version 1 .13. The release also addresses active fork detection issues, database corruption during sync -snap, and RPC API gas price calculation. It also introduces support for configuring Geth via environmental variables. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
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A highlight from Optimism Announces OP Airdrop 3
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Monday, September 18th, 2023. Optimism announces OP Airdrop 3, Kanto migrates to a ZK chain built on Polygon's CDK, Aztec Network announces its decentralized sequencer selection protocol winner, and Go Ethereum issues a hotfix release for Geth. All this and more starts right now. Optimism announced its third Airdrop distributing 19 million OP tokens to over 31 ,000 unique addresses. The Airdrop rewarded users based on the OP tokens they had delegated with a minimum threshold. The calculation multiplies the number of delegated OP tokens by the number of days they were held. The minimum threshold is equivalent to delegating 100 OP tokens over 100 days. Participants who delegated to an active delegate who voted in at least one on -chain proposal received a 2x multiplier. The maximum reward per address was capped at 10 ,000 OP tokens. This eligibility period extended over 6 months, running from January 20th to July 20th of this year. Approximately 570 million OP tokens remain available for future Airdrops. Kanto, a Layer 1 EVM blockchain focused on DeFi, is migrating to a ZK -powered chain built on Polygon's Chain Development Kit. Kanto's new ZK -powered Layer 2 will focus on real -world assets. The transition provides Kanto with cryptographic security through the adoption of a Plonky 2 ZK -proving implementation. Kanto will also have access to deep liquidity through a shared ZK bridge on Polygon 2 .0. Kanto developers will leverage the ZK bridge for canonical assets, enhanced decentralization, and trustless asset bridging. Kanto aims to further Neo Finance, a concept for enhancing capital efficiency by deploying off -chain assets with protocol rails. Aztec Network announced the winning proposal from its sequencer selection request for proposals. The winner, Fernet, is a sequencer selection protocol distinguished by its permissionless random leader election, enabling anyone to participate in block building on the Aztec Network. Random leader election promotes inclusivity, decentralization, and resistance to censorship. Aztec's decision to choose Fernet over other proposals was based on its straightforwardness, security, and simple implementation. Systems engineering firm Block Science also provided an independent report on the sequencer selection protocol. Fernet employs VRF to assign random scores to sequences. And lastly, GoEthereum released Geth version 1 .13 .1, a hotfix release addressing a bug relating to block production in version 1 .13. The release also addresses active fork detection issues, database corruption during sync -snap, and RPC API gas price calculation. It also introduces support for configuring Geth via environmental variables. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
The Eric Metaxas Show
The Truth Behind Critical Race Theory With Ryan Girdusky
"I'm talking to Ryan Gerdusky and we're talking about everything. We're talking about America and we're talking about, let's talk for a minute about a critical race theory because I think what's so confusing to so many people is suddenly in a few years various insane ideologies have erupted across the American cultural landscape. At the center of it is this thing called critical race theory and I'm against racism but I'm against critical race theory and the people involved in proponents of critical race theory, they're playing a game. I think this is basically what the woke people do is that they use terms and ideas that you would agree with but they've completely twisted the definition. It's like anti -racism. Anti -racism is actually very much a promotion of racism but who doesn't wanna be an anti -racist because it sounds like opposite as being racist. Yeah, so what happened especially if you read Marx is about the idea that workers would unite against the proletariat and therefore become and take over the government and kick out capitalism. That obviously did not happen because a lot of neo -Marxists out there and said America is just too prosperous for workers to wanna rebel. They own a home, they own a car. It's not going our way. They're not gonna, the workers are not gonna sit there and unite. So it transformed from a worker -based, class -based ideology to a race -based one where college -educated whites and minorities would have this grandiose alliance and conflict the ideas of capitalism. And it basically didn't go anywhere until the fuel that hit the fire, it wasn't even Floyd's being murdered. It was in 2012 when we had the riots in Ferguson. When the riots in Ferguson happened, terms like whiteness, critical race theory, other things like that exploded in our national conversation. You could look at charts and they increased by 1100 % in places like the New York Times and in major outlets throughout the entire country. And it becomes an entire context and conversation about race. During this time period, there are two spikes by the way in the number of African -American men who are being murdered en masse in this country. One is in 2012 following Ferguson and the second is in 2020 following the death of George Floyd when they have, when police scale back because they're being targeted. Let's be clear, isn't this always what happens? In other words, you have these crazy people saying the police are bad, the police are racist. So they create a situation where the cops go, you know what, I don't wanna walk into that situation. I'm gonna back it up because I won't get backed up if I do something controversial. So I'm gonna back up. So the cops back up and who suffers? People in poor communities.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Our Only Hope and Comfort
"Please be seated. Our scripture lesson from this morning is from 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 8 through 7. Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another, love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous, not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit the blessing. For he who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it, for the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayers, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good? But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed, and do not be afraid of their threats nor be troubled. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you. With meekness and fear, having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. In the history of theology, you had the birth of liberalism somewhere in the 1700s, where the it became search of the theologian to find what parts of the Bible were the word of God and which were not. According to liberals, the Bible was the record of man searching for God, not God's revelation to man. But in there, somewhere, there were legitimate truths, and you had to kind of ferret them out and find them, and so you had a canon in a canon that they would give to you. They would tell you the parts of the Bible that were inspired, and not surprisingly, it was the parts that whatever spirit of the age was, those were the parts that were inspired. Then there came a man called Barth, Karl Barth, who dropped a bomb on liberalism with his commentary on Romans, and he seemed to be saying that all of the Bible is actually inspired by an actual God, and it's all true. His new theology was called neo -orthodoxy. Orthodoxy means right glory, and it refers to when you rightly believe what God has given you in relation taught you in the word. Barth was called neo -orthodoxy, new orthodoxy. The reason it was called new was because Barth wasn't quite what he seemed. Barth used theological language that comes directly from the Bible, but Barth would fill up the language with other meaning, so that when Barth talked about the resurrection, you weren't really sure if he actually meant somebody came out of a tomb, or if he were talking about a philosophical or intellectual kind of concept that didn't have anything to do with dead bodies actually coming out of tombs and such. Flash forward to some 30 years ago, and I'm sitting in a seminary classroom studying the history of the evangelical movement, and the professor is talking about theology, but he's doing it from a Barthian kind of perspective. As I halfway listen, because quite frankly at this point I'm kind of zoning out and thinking about other things, but as I'm halfway listening, it occurred to me that this word game he was playing, this using biblical language but filling it with other meaning, could be a rather dangerous kind of thing because I'm actually alive, I'm an actual person, and I actually kind of care about what's going to happen in the future, especially concerning me. As the professor continued to drone on, I raised my hand and I asked a question and said, if I'm not mistaken, you're defining these things in psychological terms, really. Sanctification is not divine influence on the soul so much as it is growing in maturity in a much more natural kind of way. Conversion isn't really a change of the soul, it's maturity. Well, what about death? And the professor went, ah, what about death? Death is the leading psychological concept that is driving the evangelical movement. Evangelicals are a reaction to coming death, and I raised my hand again and said, yeah, but what about death? I'm actually a living person, I think, therefore I am. Some would say I sort of think, therefore I partly are, but I do, I think, I am, I exist. There's going to come a time where my body will cease. So what do your concepts have to say to me? And the professor said, well, really nothing. We don't actually know what happens when a person dies. There might be some sort of supernatural reality. There might not either. Theology can't really help you with that. This is all psychological constructs in the mind. Death is a symbol, and I said, I'm not a symbol, I really kind of care what happens next. Will I be or will I not be? With such language, we have entered into the realm of the definition of the Bible's word hope. Hope is an interesting quality. It's one of the big three. If you know that famous passage from 1 Corinthians chapter 13, you know that now they abide three things. They continue on forever. These three things are faith and love. But in the middle of them is hope. These three things remain, faith, hope, and love. They seem to be the big virtues into which everything else can be plugged, and you find that trinity of virtues several places. The apostle Paul, when he talks to the Thessalonian church, the first thing he says to them is, we give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, your labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, knowing, beloved brother, and your election by God. So Paul would say to the people in the church at Thessalonica, I know you're chosen, and the reason why I know you're chosen is because you have faith, love, and hope. In fact, when he writes to the church at Colossae, he again brings up this big three, and it's interesting where he places hope, writing to the Colossians. We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of your love for all the saints, and this is the interesting part, because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel. So, if you go looking for it all over the New Testament, the apostle sums up the Christian life in these three terms, and here, where does faith come from? Well, it seems to rest on hope. Where does love come from? It seems to rest on hope. Faith justifies, you're saved by faith alone. Love is said to be the big one of the three. Now there remain three things, faith, hope, and love, and the last of that verse is, but the greatest of these is love, so love is certainly the highest. But in Colossians, hope is generative. Where does faith come from? Well, partly, it comes from hope. Where does love come from? Well, at least partly, it comes from hope. What is hope? It is not what we mean usually when we use the term. In English parlance, if I say, I hope it won't rain tomorrow, I am not conveying any sort of major assurance, I'm expressing a desire of the will. You know, it'd be really nice if the event we had tomorrow wasn't rained out, so I hope it doesn't rain. The biblical word doesn't have anything to do with that at all. It's kind of like when we've taken the word grace and turned it into, she moves in a very pretty way. That woman has great grace, which usually means she's a good dancer. Doesn't have anything to do with the biblical term. Well, here, hope is an absolute assurity. It is something that in your spirit, you are convinced of and it lays hold of everything you are, and you're kind of built on this assurance. One might ask how this is different than faith, and if you do, you find out that faith and hope are deeply related. It becomes hard to pull them apart as a concept, but they are not completely synonymous, and the difference seems to be when you boil it down, faith looks back. There is something that has happened that gives you an assurance and a trust, and you look into the past and you say, I know that happened, therefore I am trusting. Whereas, hope is looking towards the future and saying, because of my assurance, I can have assurance that the future is going to be good. This hope fires forward in time, and it really doesn't have an end point. Hope, if it is hope, has to pass every end point we can muster. This week in my classes, I asked my students to define the term nihilism. Not many of them could. In fact, many of them had not heard of the term, which is surprising, because most philosophies that govern our current society are in fact nihilistic. Nihilism is a philosophy that says you were eternally not present in the past. There was a poet when you were born, yes, but there's going to come a time when you die, and when you die, since there is nothing but the world of matter, when you die, it's going to be like when you didn't exist. You're going to not exist again, and effectively, it is infinite into the past, and it is infinite into the future, and you have had at most maybe 70, perhaps 80 years to do and be and feel and think, but honestly, it don't mean nothing, because you're nothing in the beginning, you're nothing in the end, and really, nothing you do lays any significance for anything or anybody, so therefore, there is literally no meaning to be had in the world. If meaning exists, it has to be something that you invent as your own construct, because there is no objective meaning. Nihilism is kind of all the rage in academic circles. If you have only naturalism, then you have nihilism, logically. Nihilism is the opposite of this hope. Christian hope is an assurance that things will get better in the future, and it does not stop at death. The apostle Paul said, if we had only hope in Christ for this life, if Christ had not been raised and death was the end, he says, and he is a writer of Christian scripture, it is written in the Holy Covenant, if that was the only hope we had, we'd have no hope at all. We would be of all men to be most pitied. That is not what Christian hope is. Christian hope is that in coming future ages, infinitum, things will get better because there is an assurance that God will make it better, or in the words of the scripture that I read just a moment ago, there is stored up for you something in heaven, something in the eternity of eternities that will be yours forever. You will exist beyond your physical death here. Things will get better in the future. That is hope.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from M.W.A.E.P.
"Hello there, Dennis Prager with Julie Hartman. Dennis and Julie. Best time of the week. That was sweet. That's true. I love it too. Isn't that something? Okay, we won't wax about our enjoyment of what we do together. It can start grating on people. And for some it has. And we know, we're aware. Well, for those of you who don't know, this has actually preoccupied me. So very recently, and I'm sure all of you, certainly in the United States, are aware of the once in 80 something years, in other words, not since 1939 was there a tropical storm in Southern California or maybe California. We don't get that. I mean, Florida gets it. The East Coast gets it. Other places. So people, namely the National Weather Service, the state of California, the county of Los Angeles, it was like COVID. Schools were shut down. Government offices were shut down. People were warned, constantly stay home unless it is an emergency. This is life -threatening. I have a picture of the notice on my phone. Well, I attended a wedding that weekend. The warnings were for Sunday night. That Sunday night, I was to attend a wedding, which I did. The groom told me, and to his great credit, he was not engaged in self -pity. He just noted 40 people. And I would say the entire number of people there was 100. So there would have been 140. 40 didn't come. Because of this hurricane. Right. So now what everybody listening and watching needs to understand is Sunday night, it rained in Southern California. That's all it did. There were no winds. Not lightning from my part of town. That's an interesting point. Right. And regularly in Southern California, there are heavier rainstorms. It was just raining. That was the entirety. Now, there were parts outside of LA County where people were knee -deep in water. That's also very common. When there's a heavy rain, there's some flooding. It's part of life. So I was thinking, oh, I was very angry at the 40 people who didn't come to their wedding. It's so sad for the bride and groom. I mean, God bless them for enjoying their day. Even if zero people show up, you're getting married. It's a sacred, beautiful thing. But that must have been difficult for them. I would be sad and upset if 40 people, a large percentage, didn't show up. I got to tell you, I would pay any one of them money, good money, to come on my show and explain why they didn't go to the wedding. Well, in fairness to some, maybe they were flying and their flights were canceled or something. But do you think it was primarily local? No, no, no. They were in LA. No, no, no. And some had already arrived a day earlier. Nobody flew in that day. And the flights were not canceled. There was no reason to cancel a flight. Nothing happened. That's true. I actually was going to visit my sister on Sunday. She lives near LAX and I was watching planes take off and land in the rain. Flights were resuming. Resuming is not even the right word. They were going on. Resuming is fine. But they were never paused. Oh yeah, that's correct. So it's not the correct word. Okay. I was trying to bail you out. I know. Thank you. I appreciate it. I know you do. They closed the schools. I know. That's absurd. Truly absurd. How many parents won't complain? Well, you said on your radio show 1%. I would agree, but I actually think a lot more would write emails if they didn't think that they or their children would be penalized for doing so. I think that a lot of parents would fear that they would be labeled as climate change deniers, complainers, not trusting of the government and its supreme wisdom and authority. These parents would be seen as being hard on teachers who may not have access to transportation to get to schools. I mean, that's honestly what I think would prevent the parent more than anything else from sending an email to the school. And that's a whole problem unto its own. Yes, that is. So my very, very dark conclusion is one I wrote about. I actually read it on my radio show. You read my book, Think a Second Time, my book of essays? Of course, yes. I've read all your books. Yeah, you did. Okay. Except Deuteronomy. Except Deuteronomy. Yeah, I haven't read that yet. So I have an essay in there. I mean, I'm very proud of this fact because I wrote this in the late 1990s, a long time ago. And I wrote an essay about an experience I had. And in a nutshell, I was to give a speech in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which is a suburb of Philadelphia. And so I arrived the day before in New York City, stayed overnight at a hotel in Manhattan, had a rental car. All night and when I woke up, do not drive blizzard storm conditions unless it is an emergency. Do not drive. I looked out the window of my hotel room. I remember this so vividly. And it looked to me like there was about one inch of snow on the ground. So I remember thinking, because I still had not yet realized what I now realize, people are so influenced by media that it is more influential than their own experience. Yes. This is critical. This is why it's so dark. So I thought, oh, well, I guess it's in New Jersey. It's horrible. Of course, it was a stupid comment because how far is Manhattan from New Jersey? You know, one of the tunnels or the George Washington Bridge. So I left three hours early and I got there three hours early. There was no traffic. Everybody listened to the radio and TV. And that awakened me to the ease with which people can be brainwashed. You are experiencing the opposite of what we're saying and you believe us. Well, that's the comment that I made. I remember on Dennis and Julie while I was still in college. I one remember day walking in Harvard Yard and this hit me like a lightning bolt, a real one, not a government fake one that may or may not have occurred during a fake hurricane. Anyway, I remember walking in the yard and going, what people are fighting against, what occupies so much of their time, the money that goes to grants and research projects and theses at this university doesn't exist. I mean, not that I shouldn't say doesn't exist, obviously. Small amounts of racism in the United States exist. Climate change does exist. Is it the existential threat? But think about that. This whole complex of thought and money and energy and time and it is given to these boogeymen that aren't real. The average student at the American college or university who says that they are fighting against racism has never seen it before a day in their lives. Isn't that amazing? And so you're right. People can be brainwashed so easily against what they see, against what they see or I mean, in the case of racism, don't see racism is totally rampant. I've never seen it. Wouldn't you think if the United States were as systemically racist a place as the left makes it out to be, don't you think we would have met one racist in our lifetime? I have never met a racist in my entire life. Literally not one. Well, I've lived a lot longer than you. The only one I knew was my grandfather. I know you told that on the air. Which was somewhat of a joke. Right. Because he treated, you said you treated black people beautifully. I have never in my life, not only have I never met a racist, I've never even like seen, I've never seen a neo -Nazi holding up a Nazi flag on the street. I've never, I've never even, I can't name one. It's absurd. Well, tell everybody what you pointed out to me. It's brilliant. I think we said this last week, but it's worth repeating. So when I worked for Dennis one summer, one of the things that I helped him out with was going through his massive volume of mail on email and flagging the most important things. And in all of my days and hours spent going through your mail, which by the way was riveting, it could be a show onto its own to talk about the messages you get. I never saw a singular racist email. That is amazing because as I think I said last week, you're a public figure. Forget that you're a conservative public figure.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Chairman Gallagher on What Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum Should Ask the GOP Candidates About Xi and CCP
"We're proud to announce our brand new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you, our ACLJ members, have told us matter the most to you, life and religious liberty. Join the ACLJ in the fight to keep America free. Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale, Hillsdale dot edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, a listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at Q for Hillsdale dot com or just Google Apple, iTunes and Hillsdale. Morning Glory America Bonjour. Hi, Canada. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Tomorrow night, eight Republicans will meet on the stage in Milwaukee for a debate. I am certain that China will come up the Chinese Communist Party, but I'm not sure how. Brett Baer, of course, coming up later in the program. Martha McCollum, two superb professionals, the equal of anyone else in our business, will be asking the question. But I thought I would talk it through with the chairman of the House Select Committee on Engagement with the Chinese Communist Party. Mike Gallagher, congressman. Good morning. Great to have you. Thank you for joining me. It is great to be with you, Hugh. We're going to come back around to this kind of war, which I finished last night on the recommendation of you. It is a remarkable book. And I had no idea how awful the chai comms were to our American prisoners. I just I didn't know. Did you know that before? Did the Marines teach you that when you were in the Marines? No, there's there's two things that I think, well, a lot of actually our modern thinking about how to prepare people for when they get captured. Think survival of Asian resistance and escape school, which I attended when I was in the Marine Corps actually comes out of the experience of the Korean War, particularly some politically sensitive moments when a few American captives refused actually to go home. There was, of course, this controversy during that time period post Korean War in the 50s about this idea of brainwashing. This is prominently expressed in the fictional book The Manchurian Candidate, which became a major American movie. But a lot of our thinking about how to better prepare pilots in particular because they get shot down for resisting in captivity actually comes out of that period. Well, a couple of takeaways I'll never forget. There are no Turks died in the camps. The Turks are the toughest people in the world, and none of them died in the Chinese Communist Party camps. And the Americans didn't eat everything they could eat because they didn't like it and they died of starvation. But the fact that the Chinese communists treated our men that way is a tell because they've reverted to this mode. They were the hardcore Maoist, Leninist mode in 1950 through 1953, and they've reverted. And that's what I want to talk to you about. I want to ask you at length. We got a lot of time this morning and thank you for the time. If you were advising Brett and Martha based upon your six months, what would you tell them are the major takeaways that you've learned as the chairman of the Select Committee? And how would you suggest they be turned into a question? Take your time, because that's a big that's a big question. What have you learned thus far in six months? And how would you convert that into questions for our candidates? Well, I think the overall thing to realize for these candidates and this advice is worth what they're paying me for it is that there is, in my opinion, something called the commander in chief test. It's not you know, you're not graded A through F. I think it's a pass fail endeavor, but it is absolutely critical. Put differently, I'm not myopic enough to believe that foreign policy or a particular issue of foreign policy is going to win the candidate candidate the election, but it could very well lose them the election. The final thing to say about the assumptions going into this when it comes to foreign policy is that the conventional wisdom is that it doesn't really matter from a political electoral perspective. And there's a lot of social science to support that. I just would say it doesn't matter until it does. It doesn't matter until things go haywire on the world stage and suddenly voters are looking to a prospective commander in chief to communicate, if nothing else, a sense of safety that I have the temperament and the plan to keep America safe in a very dangerous world, which leads, I think, to the answer your question more than anything else. I think these candidates need to communicate that they have a clear understanding of the threat we face in the Chinese Communist Party, the scale and scope of this threat. Why this isn't just a matter of some obscure territorial disputes in the South China Sea. This is indeed a global competition. The CCP has global ambitions. What happens in Xinjiang, what happens in Beijing is not going to stay there. They are intent on exporting their model of total techno totalitarian control, which leads to the second point that you need to find a way to contrast that threat to enduring the and inherently superior American values. And I do believe that this is a contest between two fundamentally incompatible systems of government. And it's unlike anything we've seen since, of course, the old Cold War. So communicating the stakes, communicating who we're dealing with in the nature of a Marxist Leninist regime that will stop at nothing to ensure that they survive at the expense of their own people. And that is the enemy of freedom around the world is the most important thing. In fact, I would say even more important than any particular policy position is just communicating that understanding of the threat and the prioritization of the threat, a recognition that as president, the most important issue that you will be dealing with as commander in chief is how to deter a war with the CCP in the short term and win a new Cold War with the CCP over the long term. So let's put that in the form of a question for Brett and Martha, because I think you're right, I am looking at, of course, I've always looked at every one of these debates as an audition to be commander in chief. Eventually, there comes a choice with the Democrat. But right now, when I vote in the Virginia primary, I will vote based on who will be the best commander in chief. And because that's what matter. 9 -11 matters. What is the W do on 9 -11 that matters? What does W do? The Afghanistan and Iraq. What does anyone do on any moment of crisis? What do they do in the situation room? Figuring out how to elicit that about China is a difficult thing. So you've been doing nothing but this for six months. And by the way, recap for our audience and Pittsburgh Steeler fans what you have been doing for six months, because they may never have heard of the select committee. This might be the first day they're listening to the audience. No acronyms or five dollars in the tip jar for food for the poor. Well, the speaker of the House created the select committee on the CCP to do two things. One is to communicate why this matters, why anybody in northeast Wisconsin or Pittsburgh or Ohio should care about the threat posed by the CCP, to shine a light on all the things that they're doing, whether it's threatening to invade Taiwan, whether it's establishing illegal police stations on American soil, whether it's infiltrating American universities or attempting to build spy bases in our near abroad, to explain why it matters and why your average American should care about it. The second thing is to identify policies and pieces of legislation that can pass even in divided government. In the 118th Congress, what is the center of gravity in terms of steps that we can take in order to put ourselves on a better position to beat the CCP in this short and long term competition? So that's what we've been doing. We've broken it down, essentially, as though this isn't a perfect organization into three main lines of effort. And I do think this reflects our overall lines of effort, our grand strategy against China basically has three main components. One is military competition. What are the things we need to do to deter a war over Taiwan in the near term, as well as ensure that we maintain our dominant military position over the long term? The second is what I call economic statecraft. How do we selectively decouple from China so they don't have a coercive leverage over us so they can't threaten, for example, to cut off the export of advanced pharmaceutical ingredients in order to bring us to our knees? And then the third line of effort is what I call ideological warfare or ideological competition, which is not only how do we rediscover a language for talking about American values and incorporate values and human rights back into American grand strategy, but also how do we better defend our institutions from Chinese Communist Party subversion, from something called United Front Work, from traditional espionage, things like that. So we aren't corrupted and divided from within, which is what the Chinese Communist Party is trying to do. Wang Huning, who's Xi Jinping's top lieutenant in the 90s, wrote a book called America Against America, in which he talks about Americans as greedy, factional. And that that title, America against America, I think reflects their overall strategy, which is to divide Americans against Americans and thereby make it impossible for us to compete. So we've been developing policy recommendations along each of those lines. We've put out two reports, one on military competition, one related to human rights. And we're going to be putting out further reports. So, you know, I think those are useful starting points for for candidates who want to prepare for a debate in terms of where's Congress at on this issue? Where's the bipartisan center of gravity? Where can you potentially build on some of our work? But that's what we've been doing for six months. It's trying to understand and explain the threat and then identify policy solutions that help us to combat that threat. How would you put that in the form of a question by Brett or Martha? Well, there's the overall prioritization question, you know, what is the biggest threat to American national security, which is a bit boring, but no, it's not that's not boring. That that is that is the question, isn't it? Shouldn't that just be asked? What is the number one threat to American national security and why? Shouldn't that be it? Yeah, I think that that's table stakes, right? That's a good diagnostic question. And then it also allows the candidates, if they want to use their full time and I forget how much time they get to really articulate the key distinction between them and the Biden administration, because if you read the Biden administration's national security strategy that they talk about China as a pacing threat, although I'm hearing now that the Pentagon is saying don't say pacing threat, say pacing challenge or competitor, because we obviously don't want to provoke the CCP for whatever reason. I've described this as kind of like a Voldemort phenomenon. There's this belief that the more more we say things like New Cold War or say that the CCP is doing bad things, that it will somehow become more true, which I think is absurd. I'll be right back. Sherman Gallagher is going to stay with me through the break and then we're going to bring him back and then we're going to do that again. And we're going to talk to him for 15 minutes this morning about this. I can't believe I'm doing that. 15 minutes with Mike Gallagher coming right at you, America. Stay tuned. I'm back now with Chairman Mike Gallagher. This is the segment between the radio segments, so you don't get to hear this unless you're watching it on YouTube or on the on the television station. Chairman, in terms of what level should we expect of our candidates knowledge? I see your Green Bay Packers thing yet. Do you know the Browns cleared 38 million in cap yesterday by restructuring Joel Bentonio and Miles Garrett's contract? We have no we have the most cap space in the NFL. We are the team to beat. We will see you. I actually I don't think you're making it to the Super Bowl this year. We are going to be in the Super Bowl this year and you are not ready for this. I'm glad this isn't on the air because this is a serious conversation. But you had to do that little thing. And I'll I'll just go get my brown sweater and just put it on during this segment like that. I'm going to wear this all the time now on the air because we're going to the Super Bowl. Chairman, do you know that we cleared Miles Garrett contract yesterday? You know what we do? Do you follow sports at all or do you just do ChaiCom stuff? I don't follow Brown's contract minutia. I'll confess. I'll confess that, though. I was I was yesterday. Someone said that I had the potential to coach for the Browns after I helped them with a constituent case issue, to which I said I would never coach for the Browns on an Intel. All right. Let me get serious again. I'm going to try to go off the off the rail. We'll get back on the rails. How many times have you guys held public hearings? Oh, gosh, I think 10 at this point, approximately 10. You had at least one set of war games. You have more war games coming. We do. We have we have at least one more coming up that's going to be more focused on economic and supply chain issues. OK. Do you think the candidates know anything about that? I really do want to try and use today to focus their attention on China. Do you think they know anything about what the select committee has been doing? Have you been approached by any of them? I think some do. It's part of the reason I wrote an op ed on this that appeared today in The Wall Street Journal just came out was an effort, maybe shamelessly, to draw attention to some of the things we're doing, because I think it creates some unique opportunities. I mean, to me, you know, the most and this reflects my bias in thinking that hard power is the most important variable on the world stage. I think a candidate who can articulate what we need to do to rebuild the military in general, but really the Navy in particular, which is, as you know, Hugh is really struggling right now. It needs to be our priority force in our priority theater. It's not. We're going backwards. There's questions about focus, warfighting prowess. You know, I wrote a report with the help of Admiral Montgomery about the lack of warfighting focus in the surface Navy with Tom Cotton, Dan Crenshaw and others. I mean, I think that's a massive opportunity for a candidate really to take the ball on defense and go a few layers deep beyond just peace through strength, military good, China bad. You go a few layers deep on that and sort of communicate that you have a coherent plan. Doesn't need to be super detailed. Doesn't need to be a 50 page white paper about everything we need to do. But just as an overall strategy for fiction, I'm going to get your comms team in trouble again. I haven't seen this plan that you and Cotton worked on. How can I not have seen this plan? Well, this is a year ago. You got to blame Cotton's comms team for this because he was OK. And usually it's good to blame Tom Cotton. He's on next hour. I'll do that. Is that widely available? Yeah, it's Cotton did it with four of us in the house. It was over a year, a year and a half ago, kind of in response to all of these ship collisions. Some of the reports that we were getting from active duty sailors and just the changes over the years to training in the surface Navy. We did a deep dive drawing on the expertise of Admiral Montgomery and others. I will give him about that in the next hour and I'll get a link and I'll make sure it's posted out to the candidates. Don't go anywhere. I'm coming right back with Chairman Gallagher. Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, Chairman Mike Gallagher of the House Select Committee on Engagement, the Chinese Communist Party returns. We talked during the break and we got off course because we did a little football trash talk. But now we're back on course. Chairman Gallagher, have you read this book? You had Kabul, the untold story of Biden's fiasco and the warriors who fought to the end. It it made me furious. It absolutely made me furious. Have you had a chance to read it yet? No, but my friend Commander Salamander, who's great in his podcast, Midrats, I highly recommend, just did a podcast with with the authors. So I listened to it. It's not the same, but I am now looking forward to reading the actual hard copy. Well, the end of the book, which I don't know of Commander Salamander got to because I didn't get to it and I talked to him for a long time. It's about how the chai comms came in as soon as we left. They have designs on Bagram. They know what the air raids mean. They know what the strategic minerals mean. It's just a great example of what happens when we retreat in the world. In fact, in the in the this kind of war book you had me read, I wrote down some notes. A retreat once started as the most difficult of all human actions to reverse. And they were talking about the retreat of the Norcs at that point. And then we would retreat later when they counterattack with the chai comms. But we retreated from Afghanistan and they have come in. Have you focused yet on what they're doing there? It hasn't been, admittedly, a subject of a hearing. You know, we have experts, you know, regional experts and Afghanistan experts. I think the key thing to bring it back to the the presidential debate, obviously the obvious thing to do is to connect the surrender to terrorists in Afghanistan, our abandonment of our position, our abandonment of billions of dollars worth of military equipment to then the collapse of deterrence in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, because I do believe that our feckless position in Afghanistan sent a clear signal of weakness to Vladimir Putin. And no wonder Vladimir Putin ignored all of our warnings leading up to the invasion on February 24th because we look so weak on the world stage and we allowed terrorists to completely take over the country. And I think also that has had a negative impact on our deterrent posture in in the Indo -Pacific, across the Taiwan Strait. You mentioned critical minerals. I also think this is a huge opportunity for presidential candidates to articulate a plausible path towards reducing our dependency on China for critical mineral processing. They control 90 percent of the processing. Right now, I think our attempts to wean ourselves off of our to to establish some form of semiconductor manufacturing independence are not going to be successful, in part because the Biden administration has placed so many onerous regulations on grants for chips, fabrication facilities. But if a Republican candidate, particularly one with a business background or with a gubernatorial background, came in and said, here's our strategy when it comes to advanced pharmaceutical ingredients, critical minerals and rare earth processing, tie that to a robust domestic economic agenda. That's a massive opportunity for someone trying to pass the commander in chief test, because the reality is we are going to have to reclaim our economic independence from China in key areas. The progressives are experimenting with one way to do it. We need to identify a way that is fundamentally free market, but not but nonetheless achieves the actual goal of reducing our dependency on China. Chairman Gallagher, there's only one veteran on the stage, Ron DeSantis. Mike Pence has got a son and a son in law on active duty. Of course, Nikki Haley's husband is deployed. Those three know about this in terms of of why is China a threat? Is it a fair question to ask? Why is China a threat? What is it that worries you about China? Is that a fair question? If so, how would you answer that or suggest they answer that if you are one of the people on the stage? Well, first of all, I do think DeSantis has been really good on China and probably the best in the field. I was watching the forum that they did in Iowa. I forget what it's called, the Iowa Faith and Family Forum. And he proactively brought up China as an issue and talked about what he's done in Florida to combat the threat, talked about the threat in global terms. And so the most of the discussion focused on Ukraine. And I understand that that's more of a politically divisive issue on the stage. And so there is a you know, I think the moderators will want to identify the differences between the candidate thus far. Governor DeSantis has been talking in clear and unapologetic language about why the CCP is a threat and what he would do to combat it, which is greatly appreciated. More to your point, as a Navy veteran, I think he has a huge opportunity to be the Navy guy, be the guy who's going to rebuild the Navy and put it in a position where it can it can deter Xi Jinping from attempting to achieve his lifelong ambition was to take Taiwan by force. So to answer your question, Vivek just told me last week, we'll give them Taiwan after we achieve semiconductor independence. In other words, Vivek understands Taiwan is important for its semiconductor. Your colleague on the committee, Ro Khanna, tweeted at me last night when I was already offline that that doesn't do the trick. That's not why we're worried about Taiwan going down. Who's right? Well, obviously, our interests in Taiwan extend far beyond semiconductors. Our interests predate Taiwan's emergence as a semiconductor powerhouse. And if the concern from Vivek and I think it is that our dependence on TSMC for semiconductor manufacturing needs to be eliminated, I just would say two things. It's highly unlikely that we're going to achieve semiconductor independence by 2028. TSMC is investing far more money than the CHIPS Act is investing right now. Even under a Republican president, we would struggle to wean ourself off our dependency. But if the CCP had control of Taiwan, they would still be able to hold the rest of the world economically hostage. And that is the issue. Semiconductors or other or some sort of domain of economic competition. If they had Taiwan, they would be able to completely dominate the region through which trillions of dollars of international trade go. The other thing I would say, it's I mean, we got to go to break. I'll come back to go to break. We'll be right back with Chairman Gallagher during the break and then one more segment beyond. Don't go anywhere. America, I'm Hugh Hewitt. Portions of The Hugh Hewitt Show are brought to you by Food for the Poor. So I'm back with Chairman Gallagher, Chairman Vivek's answer to that is I'm going to get India to cooperate. And if Taiwan closes the Taiwan Straits, we're going to close the Malacca Straits. Ro Khanna says that's that's crazy. That doesn't work. I don't know what the answer is, but I know what Vivek has told me. I don't think he agrees with you, but I'll let him speak for himself. I don't want to put words in his mouth that we have to worry that much about the Taiwan Strait. Well, he's obviously very smart. I would say this with Marxist Leninist regimes, their appetites grow with the eating. So I think it would be a mistake to think that if we just surrender Taiwan on a date certain that we wouldn't have to worry about the problem. If they're the dominant regional power, they're one step closer to becoming the dominant global power. And that, I think, is the answer to your earlier question. Why? Why is the CCP a threat? Because they're trying to destroy our geopolitical position. Primarily by convincing us to destroy ourselves, they believe, as we mince words about whether they're a competitor or an adversary, they certainly believe that they're in an existential war with the free world led by America and that China will win, rendering America and our constitutional system of self -government subordinate, humiliated and wholly irrelevant on the world stage. So you can sort of think of it as as an assisted suicide. You know, they're trying to expedite our collapse. They provide the chemicals, fentanyl, the collapse in prosperity. Covid, IP theft, economic warfare and the self -loathing and depression via political interference and information warfare. So I think the the the threat would not stop after Xi Jinping had taken Taiwan. I think it would only expedite and become greater. So if you could read Xi Jinping's mind, what is he thinking about us? What does he want to see happen to us? I think he wants us to look inward and to abandon our position on the world stage and to be consumed with internal political battles. I also think he likes seeing us embrace this almost the CCP's narrative that America is an evil country. America is a neo colonial racist hellscape. I mean, this is CCP propaganda that a lot of Americans have embraced. I think ultimately he wants us to lose faith in ourselves as a force for good in the world. And ultimately, over time, he thinks the rest of the world is going to Finland dies more in the CCP's direction as an alternative model of government and world leadership, in part because America has lost faith in itself. That's why I think primarily the hard power is the most important variable. This is an ideological competition overall. And ignoring the role ideology plays in the competition is a fatal flaw. And so we need to find a way to press the candidates on that as well. You know, the we got two minutes before we come back. The ideological competition is quite simply not discussed. And I don't think our media is familiar with it. They're not stupid. They're ignorant of the ideological. They don't even believe it exists anymore. Chairman, have you run into that? Do your Democratic colleagues believe that there are such things like Leninist and that that the 20th century ideological competition is back with a vengeance? Well, I think for two and a half decades, we tried to take the communist out of Chinese Communist Party, and this belief persists that, well, they're not really communist. They're not really Marxist. They've embraced forms of capitalism and they're they're rational actors. And I think this is a dangerous way of thinking to go down, particularly under Xi Jinping. The party has embraced its Marxist Leninist roots. Xi's spirit animal is, in fact, Stalin. He looks to Stalin for guidance on how to operate. And so a candidate who understands that and can articulate that, I think, has a massive opportunity to distinguish themselves. The Democrats sort of come at the ideological competition through human rights. And there are a lot who genuinely believe in the cause of human rights. And though there are times when we have to prioritize between security concerns and human rights, this is when dealing with China, that's not an issue at all. We're coming right back. Stand by, chairman.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
"Welcome to Gospel and Life. This may sound strange at first, but in many ways, Jesus is an upside down Savior. He came not in strength, but in weakness. He came not to gain power, but to give away power. As a teacher then, He spoke in a way that turned people's expectations on their heads, calling people to lose their lives to gain them, to die to themselves so they can truly live. Some of His teachings can be difficult to understand or accept. Today, Tim Keller is teaching through one of the hard sayings of Jesus, showing us that while Christ's teachings aren't always easy, they provide the answers to having a meaningful life and a relationship with Him. After you listen, please take a few seconds to rate and review our podcast. Your review can help others to discover our podcast and experience the hope of the gospel. Now here's today's teaching from Dr. Keller. I'm going to read to you from Luke chapter 9 verses 57 to 62. We're in the middle of a, or actually near the end of a series we're doing here, morning and evening sermons on the hard sayings of Jesus, the difficult teachings of Jesus. Luke 9, 57 to 62, and as they were walking by the way, one man said to him, I will follow you wherever you go. Jesus replied, foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the son of man has no place to lay his head. He said to another man, follow me. But the man replied, Lord, first let me go and bury my father. Jesus said to him, let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God. Still another said, I will follow you Lord, but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family. Jesus replied, no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God. This is God's word. There's a sense in which Jesus, it doesn't seem to me if Jesus was a pastor that his church would have grown very fast. Jesus acts in a completely different way than most church leaders do. People come and say, I want to join up and Jesus says, get back, think, he's harsh. He sets them back on their heels. He's so different than, well, not just church leaders, but any leader of an institution, any leader of a movement very much wants to inspire people to come and make commitments. Leaders of movements want people to be attracted. They want to make it easy for them to enter. They want to make it attractive for them to sign up and to buy, buy in. Jesus is very different. In fact, if you really read the scripture, you will see that Jesus is altogether different than anything the human race has ever produced. He's continually surprising you. When you think he's going to be harsh, when you think he's going to be stormy, he's sunny. And when you think he's going to be sunny, he's stormy. When he comes up to the prostitutes and the pimps, he sits down and eats with them. When he sees the lepers, when he sees the woman caught in adultery, with so many of these people, there's exquisite tenderness. But then when he comes up, not only with the religious leaders, but people who come up and say to him, I'm sold out for you, I want to live for you, I want to be with you, he's harsh. He's cold. He almost seems to be wanting to repel them. Now the reason that Jesus does this in this case, in these cases of these three men, is clearly because they do not understand what they are asking for. They don't understand what it means to follow Christ. And therefore, if we take a look at what Jesus answers, how he answers these three men, we're going to learn a great deal about what it means to follow Jesus. This is a very basic text, it's a very basic sermon. What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus? What does it mean? Let's look. First thing, we're taught by the text, is Jesus is showing them that to follow Jesus, to follow Christ, is to enter the kingdom. To follow Christ is to enter the kingdom. Excuse me. See, in every case, the men are talking about following, I want to follow you, and in each case, Jesus keeps talking about the kingdom. They're talking about following Christ and he's talking about, he's making them see following Christ in terms of entering, serving, proclaiming the kingdom. Why? Jesus is pointing out, something that we often point out here, but let's look at it from this perspective again, that being a Christian is not simply a matter of ethical and doctrinal improvement. But rather, Jesus is saying, to become a Christian, to follow me, is not just a quantitative thing, it's a qualitative thing. It's not simply a matter of improvement, but it's a change in status and nature. Put it this way, becoming a Christian means to cross a border. If you're in Texas and you want to go to Canada, how do you do it? You get in a car, let's say, or you get in an airplane, and you go for a long, long way. You may spend a great deal of time getting to the border. And yet, you may have spent, I don't know, now see, I don't know much about the dimensions, I don't know how many hundreds of miles or even how many thousands of miles it is from the bottom of Texas to the border of Canada, but you can go thousands of miles and you could be standing right at the border. However, the fact is, all of that improvement of your location, all of that change, and it's been a massive change, all of that exertion and all of that cost has not gotten you into the kingdom at all. The fact is, before, you were 100 % outside of the Kingdom of Canada, and now you're still 100 % outside of the Kingdom of Canada with all that improvement. What gets you from one kingdom into another kingdom is not tons of improvement, but one step. And Jesus, by continually telling people to follow me means that you're entering the kingdom. What he means is that becoming a Christian is not just a matter of doctrinal or ethical change and improvement, but it's a translation from one realm into another realm. I read recently where somebody, I was reading about a woman who was a scholar who had been a liberal Democrat and it said now she's converted into a neo -conservative Republican, and he used the word convert. Well, you see, I guess that's a conversion, that's a massive change, but that's not what Jesus is talking about. Most people tend to think that that's what Christianity is, that it means changing your ethics, changing your lifestyle, changing your doctrine, and of course all that is entailed. But it's something much more radical and revolutionary than that. Following Christ means you're translated from one kingdom into another kingdom. The Kingdom of God, let's remind ourselves, because a couple weeks ago we talked about this when we looked at the term, we looked at the teaching where Jesus says the Kingdom of God suffereth violence and the violent bear it away. What Jesus is teaching, not necessarily right here, but throughout the New Testament, the Kingdom of God is the power of the outside world, the heavenly world, come into this world to heal it of all of its hurts. And the teaching of the New Testament, which is so radical, is that when you believe in it, comes down into your life immediately. It's like an acorn that's planted that eventually will grow and take over. The Bible tells us, Jesus tells us that the Kingdom of God is here now through Christ so that when you make him your savior and your king, you cross a line. And there is an immediate change. And the power of that kingdom comes in. Now it's partial. It's only spiritual. And at this point, we are not at a place where the Kingdom of God is here in its fullness. And yet, you see, what it means to be a Christian is to say that the Kingdom of God is at hand. It's here and yet it's coming. It's already and yet it's not yet. And we said a couple weeks ago, there's a certain sense in which when old Maggie Smith, you know, in the Steven Spielberg movie, when old Wendy talks to Peter Pan, who's grown up and has forgotten where he came from. And she says, Peter, the stories are true. That's the gospel. What is the gospel? The gospel is that the Kingdom of God is real. See, Peter, there is. It's true. We are going to live forever in a castle. That's what a Christian believes. We are going to fly someday. We are going to wear crowns and live in a place where there's no more decay or death. There is a Camelot. That's what a Christian believes. There is a Never Never Land, you see. There are all these things and there is a kingdom coming, which is even greater than all the fairy tales can even convey. The minute I step over the boundary from being my own savior and king to having Jesus be my savior and king, the power of that future age comes into my life now and begins to change me, begins to renovate me. It's partial, but it's real. It's come, it's here, and yet it's on its way. And Jesus says, therefore, do not think that following Christ is simply a matter of, okay, teach me what are the new beliefs I've got to teach, I've got to believe. What are the new doctrines I have to believe? What are the new ethics I have to do? It's not just that. There is a moment. There is a spot at which you take one step and you cross from one realm into a brand new realm. These men didn't understand that. They still saw following Christ as really pretty much like converting from being a Democrat to Republican or Republican to Democrat. They said, I've left my own party. I'm going to follow you. Jesus says, you have no idea yet the radical nature of what it means to follow me. To follow Christ means to come into a whole new realm. It means to enter the kingdom. Secondly, now, once you understand, say, the doctrine of the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God is something that happens to you immediately as you make Christ your savior and king instead of yourself. And we've said the doctrine of the kingdom is that it's the power of the future age. Come into our lives now, partially, but not fully. That's the doctrine. And you really can't follow Christ unless you understand that. So that's the first thing is to follow Christ is to enter the kingdom. But secondly and thirdly, Jesus is dealing here, the first man and the last two, the first man and the second and third represent two different kinds of misunderstandings of the that kingdom Jesus is heading off at the past. And he's saying to them, you can't follow me until you understand the kingdom properly. The first man doesn't understand the hardness of the kingdom. And the second and third men don't understand the greatness of the kingdom. The first man is precipitous. The second and third men are hesitant. The first man is an idealist. The second and third men are pragmatists. Neither kind of person can enter the kingdom because they misunderstand it. The one kind misunderstands the fact that the kingdom is here only partially. And when the kingdom of God comes into your life, it brings you into conflict with the world and therefore many of the things that you want, like health and status and popularity and wealth may never come to you, nor does it have to because the kingdom of God doesn't consist of those things. Idealists need to be brought down to see the hardness of the kingdom. On the other hand, the realists, the people who say, well, you know, everything is good in moderation, religion, you can't go overboard with religion, you can't, there's got to be qualifications to religion, those people don't understand the greatness of the kingdom. And those people do not understand, as Jesus points out, you must not have any conditions on your obedience or you haven't taken a step into my realm. Now I just gave you a summary, let's look at those two. First of all, you can't be a Christian if you're really an idealist. Idealistic people are not for the kingdom. They don't understand the kingdom. See this man comes to Jesus and he says, I will follow you wherever you go. This is completely different than the last two guys.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from You're 'Running Out Of Time' To Stack These 5 Altcoins | with Jos (Delphi Digital)
"Yo, what's up, everyone? I have Jose from Delphi back here on the show. If you watch part one, you guys would know today we are going to be discussing more of the degen Altcoin stuff going into interesting topics like, you know, roll bit, gamble fight, trading bots, uni bot, all that sort of stuff as well as some of Jose's topics. So welcome back, although it's only been one minute in the real world and let's kick it off. So thesis first I wanted to get your opinion on was this tweet that you did. You said over a long enough timeline, all centralized exchanges will fade into irrelevance and become glorified on the slash off ramps. Pretty strong words, actually. You said the vast majority of trading activity will happen on DEXs, overzealous regulators will just accelerate this transition. Do you want to elaborate a bit on that tweet? Yeah, like I, yeah, I think the future is, at the very least, like non -custodial exchanges. So where you like similar to do IDX or Vertex, where you might have an off -chain order book, but the trading is non -custodial. It's just kind of like, I think, inevitable. It'll take a while for both the tech to get there and then the trust in the tech to get there, right? But yeah, I think it's inevitable because it's like a better system. Like you don't need to give, there's no reason why an exchange should have custody over your assets in order to allow you to trade there, right? Like if you can trade according to rules defined in smart contracts, then like there's really no need to give up custody of your assets. So that applies to like derivatives and spot. So I think, and then also from a regulatory perspective, I just think that regulators are gonna be kind of going after centralized exchange. Centralized exchanges are like one of the easiest places for regulators to go after, right? They have a lot of money. And as we've seen with Binance and then Bitrex and these kinds of enforcement letters, like I just think it's gonna be like the biggest targets that the regulators go after. And in doing so, they end up pushing people more and more towards like decentralized exchanges. And then I think you're gonna have on and off ramps and like crypto native neo banks, right? That serve as the connection point between fiat and the crypto world where you can go on and off. But then in terms of like your trading venues and stuff, I think the most successful ones will be decentralized in future. And I think prices probably will. You mentioned decentralized, sorry, you mentioned centralized regulation. Do you worry about DeFi regulation as well? I know it's hard to regulate, but like, yeah, is there some sort of future where things are just like flat out IP band, I guess, in like multiple jurisdictions for DeFi? Yeah, I think DeFi is much harder, like properly built DeFi is much harder to regulate in that way, right? Like if you build, and it depends exactly how things are built, but like, I think if I built the right way, there is no one you can subpoena to shut it down, right? Like there's not like a Binance you can go after and say, hey, you've been serving like Hamas or whoever they were, whoever they were laundering money for. You guys need to stop doing that immediately. And it's like, well, if it's a smart contract and you've handed over the keys to governance, then it's like, if you want me to stop, you have to make a governance proposal. Like the SEC would have to propose to the Dow that they stopped doing whatever they want to do. It's really the only way. That's pretty funny to think about. Gary gets all like clicking except on his menopause. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's the end game of well -designed DeFi, I think. So I think that the kind of weak link there still is like the front end and to some extent, like the backend, but I think there are solutions coming up for that too. Like Arbit is super interesting, but I think even absent Arbit, like stuff like Liquidy just makes it like, so Liquidy's model for those who aren't familiar, it provides like a fee at the smart contract level to front end operators, right? So you can stand up a front end and you get paid per, I think in their case, it's part of the interest for standing up a front end and serving users. And I think every exchange or decentralized exchange will eventually like adopt a similar model where, and you can also like open source your front end, right? And dockerize it and make it very easy for anyone to deploy. And at that point, it becomes like as hard to stop as Tor. You have these smart contracts running permissionlessly on the blockchain. And then you have a bunch of people all around the world running front ends for it and like a free market, basically of people being paid fees to do that. And so I think like, yeah, properly built DeFi is both very hard to regulate practically and also doesn't fit into regulatory like definitions and like, and this, yeah, like the kind of principles that regulations exist for.
DerrickTalk
A highlight from "Tory Lanez Gets 10 Years ..Wayne Brady Comes Out As Pansexual..Ciara & Russell Having 3rd Child....
"Welcome to another edition of Convo Over Cigars. This is the weekly recap. Let's talk about what happened this week. The big trending news stories. Rapper Tory Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison. This was on Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court for the shooting of Meg Thee Stallion. This was back in 2020. Last December, Tory Lanez was found guilty of shooting Megan in party at the home of celebrity Kylie Jenner. Lanez spoke for several minutes at Tuesday's sentencing. He described the victim as his friend, someone I still care about dearly to this day regardless of her feelings about him. He talked about bonding with Meg Thee Stallion over the loss of their mothers. Meg Thee Stallion did not appear in court for the sentencing, but she did issue a written statement saying for once the defendant must be forced to face the full consequences of his heinous actions and face justice. When the shooting occurred, Meg and Lanez left the party along with a friend of hers and his bodyguard. The artist got into an argument in the car. Tory began shooting at her feet when she got out of the vehicle. She was hospitalized and Wayne Brady is opening up about his sexuality revealing to people that he is actually pansexual. The Let's Make a Deal host said that he initially couldn't settle on a label for his sexuality. Nothing that bisexuality could truly describe how he felt. Well basically he was saying that being bisexual that term did not truly describe how he felt. The 51 year old says he's bisexual with an open mind. To be clear pansexual is defined as being attracted to a person regardless of their sex or gender. So Wayne Brady to me has come out as gay. He's basically a gay man who says that he's pansexual. If you are attracted to both males and females technically you're bisexual. So just to be clear but good for him living his truth. I don't have anything to say about that. I think Wayne Brady is a talented guy. I like watching his shows that he hosts. I think he's a very gregarious very charismatic host but you know living his truth and that's what we're Superstar vocalist Sierra has announced that her and Denver Broncos hubby Russell Wilson are expecting their third child together and their fourth child all together. So this will be their third child together and their fourth child all together. The couple shared the exciting news via a video announcement on Instagram filmed by the NFL star on the couple's anniversary trip to Japan last month. The baby on the way joins three -year -old son I think his name is Nguyen and the daughter her name is Sienna Princess. She's six. Sierra is also mom to future Zaire. He is nine who she shares with the rapper Future. Now Neo is addressing comments that he made about gender identity and allowing children to interview released on August the 5th 2023. Neo initially raised eyebrows during an interview over the weekend with Gloria Velez on Vlad TV in which he said he was you know he had no issue with the LGBTQ community but he questioned gender identity. I just personally come from an era where a man was a man and a woman was a woman and that you know that's just how I rock there were just two genders you know and that's how it was now you can identify as a goldfish this is what he said if you feel like it I don't care that ain't my business it becomes my business when you try to make me play the game with you. Neo who has seven kids also spoke out about what he has seen as a change in regards to how parents raise their kids. I feel like parents have almost forgotten what the role of the parent is it's like okay if your little boy comes to you and says daddy I want to be a girl and you just let him rock with that he's five he said if you let this five -year -old decide to eat candy all day he's gonna do just that when did it become a good idea to let a five -year -old or six -year -old or even a twelve -year -old make a life -changing decision for themselves he cannot drive a car yet but he can decide his sex.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"neo" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"The neo appeasement that's in the water. And everyone takes that as an insult. I don't mean it as an insult. I mean it is a genuine ideology that dominated in the 30s from Stanley Baldwin through Neville Chamberlain, which is you can satisfy dictators. You can actually do a deal with a dictator that they will stick to. That's back and it's deep. We saw Reagan beat it in the 80s with the deployment of the parachutes and the cruise missiles, but it's back and the neo appeasers don't want to deal with you. How is the committee going to get that to change? Well, the Democrats on the committee be vital to that change. Well, we're hoping to have our first set of policy recommendations out next week. We're working towards a strong set of recommendations that are focused on Taiwan, as well as a smaller set of strong recommendations that came out of our hearing on the ongoing Uyghur genocide, which leads to something that we're doing from our night. We're having a hearing tomorrow night on the CCP's ongoing economic aggression globally and how we level the playing field. We have this witnesses roger Robinson who designed and was key to the implementation of Ronald Reagan's economic warfare strategy against the Soviet Union. We have bob lighthizer, who served as U.S. trade representative and we have Eric Schmidt, who obviously was the head of Google and brings a private sector experience. And so we're hoping that hearing will then tee up our broader effort, which is the next phase of the committee's work, which is focused on selective economic decoupling and how we win this economic competition. Because a lot of the sentiment for engagement and appeasement comes from the private sector comes from Wall Street. It comes from K street. It comes from Hollywood. It comes from silly Silicon Valley, and there's this naive belief that we can just go back to the status quo ante that somehow we can go back to the good old days and return to the responsible stakeholder hypothesis or the more theme parks we open up in China, the more the better behaves Xi Jinping will become. I disagree with that, but we need to have a conversation with the private sector and get them to understand that there is no such thing as a private business in China.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"neo" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"We're talking to doctor rima labo, LAI BOW. You can find more at prevent genocide 2030 dot org so doctor lebo continue the narrative that you were sharing about hearing this horrible phrase from this crown head of state in 2002. May I say the purpose of going to prevent genocide 2030 dot org. So you can take action and get your country out of the WHO. So back to The Crown head of state. So this cheery chatty woman informed me that we were ending mercantile era and moving into the neo feudal era. In which there would be the neo aristocrats at the top, surrounded, and this is a quote surrounded by their servants and servitors, and around them their technicians, and that pyramid required only 10% of the world's population, and everyone else was superfluous. We had more discussion, and I've told this story in more detail elsewhere and happy to share it. But the point is she left, and I thought, either, because I was dealing with a physical issue, I'd forgot to check her psychological and mental well state and didn't notice that the woman was crazy as a bedbug or she had given me a great clue. Of course, the answer was both. The woman is a psychopath, has been raised to be a psychopath, psychopaths have no connection with any other being or their welfare, only with their own perceived well-being. And so they can do anything.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"neo" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Been affected by a lot of issues lately Including the listing of DD recently right So neo as a U.S. listed company do you have any plan to shift your listing to Hong Kong following the footsteps of exponent and lead auto for example So we hope political issues won't affect much of the company's growth and we for sure will abide by the local laws and regulations Are you concerned to list yourself in Hong Kong one day I think anything is possible So you've mentioned in you would enter 25 countries by 2025 Could you give us a bit more details For example when do you plan to sell your cars to the U.S. market Neil should say some Jose Neo has set up a research department in San Jose in 2015 with hundreds of staff to develop our global products We started seriously considering entering the North American market since 2017 by making our products and services more competitive Of course we are still working on the plan We will enter Germany Sweden Denmark and the Netherlands next year and more European countries in the following year Our international market entry strategy has always been making long-term plans and staying patient That was the neo CEO William Lee We've got still much more to come This is Bloomberg What's the difference between you and your competition What's.
KOA 850 AM
"neo" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"The bottom of the second inning, the Reds leading two to nothing here in Cincinnati. Hey, you Hey, Neo Suarez, Scott Heinemann and Kyle Farmer. Will be the trio. For Kyle Freeland to get Rockies Lefty's first pitches, a fastball that runs a little bit inside to the right handed batter. He changed nothing. Suarez. Swings and drives at the left, and he's going to have a base hit will get extra bases. He will with all the rain that ball, hit the Elektronik message board out there on the wall and then wanted to hit the warning track. It's stuck. And so Suarez leads off the second with a double. It's going to say he's hitting only 1 60. Now a little more than that, after that. Double, but More than half his hits or for extra bases. The Reds are more than happy to live with that. Thank you. Thank you. Here's Scott Heinemann. He gets the call and center field tonight brought up By the Reds. The right handed batter We saw him. With the Rangers last year. Freeland. Check Suarez and pitches to Heinemann, who hits a dribbler, but it went off the front toe. The front left toe of Front foot left. Oh, there we go. Oh, oh, and one You didn't do this Alright and Oregon Duck. California kid. To see his brother play with the Giants against the Rockies goes after an off speed pitch and Mrs it away. It's no.
The Jose Morales Podcast
"neo" Discussed on The Jose Morales Podcast
"Widow you tuned into that. Jose is podcasts. I am your host. Jose morales alongside kelly chavez. Ricky neo does just random issue. These are my linkages. Oh i am chinese and mexican in japanese so next next one as by in german. I'm not driven off. Vitas in german focus. I hope you guys enjoyed the last episode where we talked about graduating talk about school. Trade schools hope. You guys enjoyed it this week. We'll be talking about vacations will vacation..
Lost in Translationmon - A Digimon Podcast
"neo" Discussed on Lost in Translationmon - A Digimon Podcast
"Sometimes the reason too little too late also saying yeah. But i. I still like this episode and i wish i could remember what that low light was because it was it was a low light. But it's gone. I'm sorry was tax around. Japan killed too quickly. No oh hang on. I remember my low line because several sounds like serafimovska and my lot was that we like fifteen episodes. I think it was. We had like a shot of black shadow Several monochrome shut surfing. Exit will shout Shadow serafimovska and while we had that we didn't have any reference of shadows to raf immonen this episode. Which feels kind of we'd like if we were going to have come on at some point like wouldn't it be shut rafi moan or was that before charvis rocky mon- happened. Why did we say shouted. Sharaf serafim on. I don't even remember shadow. Rafi mon- being in this series vague glitch. Johnson may. It's like he has the same color. Like helmet shadows us moan. And he's i think yes. I think it's in the is one of slowed when paddle moans describing the like the despair that he felt when he was being like soaked in the miasma and how was changing him. If he didn't make took care of he would have become like something evil. And we have like a shot of shadow zarafi moan and his wings. Bain all scary. I just because i really liked the happened but then went on. This seems a dark version of bang. Benjamin or actual dark yvo come out of that for minute. Could save just we we started. I just wish that like lost for a bit. i. I think it might have been a new one. It looked slightly different from neo. Debbie like it could have been like a an animal neo. Debbie on hybrid sort of thing going on which i would have loved to say but no. We're not getting any of that going forward. He's becoming neo devin month. Oh yeah probably but still. Why didn't we get any reference to black salafi mon that would be that was cool khuzestan level haya we. It's still we already got a shot of it in the one it was. So why wouldn't we continue to build on that. Maybe we'll see that. We have devon absorbed. I kinda wanna see an alternate evolution path. That is just yet panama. And can just turn into debbie mon- without being evil now because they're the same person that'd be cool. That would be cool. It will map debbie mon white white on breakfast ice deva essays that the everyone christopher walken ryan is evil in most things. He was in james bond movie evita kill and he was able to he was like the bad guy anyway and he had lowlights. I'm so glad that. I removed my low-life by the way that i feel like that's a good low for me and i don't usually have them but anyway yep any other lowlights. I put at three in the morning to watch this. That he's a low light. The light of hope not wake you up us. Shouldn't a chan that that is a shame. Yeah yeah the. The highlight reel of all the previous from the Really just goes to show. How little previous did she. They fought actually half about the just. Remember this design. Because that's all it was. It was a design for the monster movie. Capitalise on yet oak on is the exception. No villains task like dylan's that mattered on became like not really a villain at that point yet but like one off villains that i would remember six weeks later would be awesome. I wish we knew why he joined. Debbie moon or out what a at amman and volcano on from weeks back. That was fun. Yeah yeah that was cool..
Lost in Translationmon - A Digimon Podcast
"neo" Discussed on Lost in Translationmon - A Digimon Podcast
"Yeah yeah like like whenever the kids together keep that except for the good episodes when that was separated but whatever even even that they can be skipped anyway so we have debbie moans saying that animals rise in power has helped him regain a physical foam and engine isn't surrounded by many debbie moans and then debbie moans says that the hope that angela has actually makes him weak and then we have something pretty cool happen and very like the imagery just ramadi of innovation gillian. It's it's exactly ossika when she's holding her with one hand and reaching out with the other. It's just like a flipped version of that. I posted this in the digital adventure. Cologne channel on the lit a discount server. And it's just it's exactly like it's exactly like it's so weird. It's bizarre how similar that is like. I'm not sure i don't i. I'm not sure there's a reference but it's so similar audience. It was deliberate. If not it was heavily influenced. Like i think just looney the tail modest so yes. Yes very muslim anyway. So we have this really cool. Like dockand angel mom and he's trying to kill tucker and basically everyone's trying to like straight up for saddam evolution on anjouan and. It's it's kind of horrifying but kind of great kind of looks like oh. Yeah i kind of wish it worked too and econ looks like he's looking a bit like near devon a little bit with that swapping coastal going full size. Yeah one more they'd have been sailing but Yeah yeah definitely so. Even gillian like give really was also. There was literally a separate anime. Yes well and it's it's it's it's hits only on justice van galleon always has bean like neo genesee endeavour release angels literally angels literally just which just don't which is doing iva like the step of his Like anime just goes in a circle like it..
Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"neo" Discussed on Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"Because i want to make something nice you know but i like the idea is starting to emerge. I think i would do like magic books. You know like When i think i'm ready for like for example one of the i've been shooting extensively. Coney island At night in the fog last year. And i've done like several series of photos and like it's been like dell my ferrets and deodorants favorite as well and i think this is something you know like a publishing like a book of caen island creepy coney island in the folk like the way people would never think of which is just like a at the beach in the summer amusement fog you know he is like a completely different version. You know at my completely have been in the far like crazy collar and stuff. That's something like. I would like to stay in a future. That's the i think that is a frigging phenomenon idea. You know without the idea of doing princess really cool. But i think just because of your style and the fact again your photos do show a story to a. I think that would be. That's that you're onto something buddy. Those magic books. I mean it's just basically it's almost like the best format you know like storytelling pictures. So definitely like something. I think it's like every photographers dream is like a photo book where like people would say. Well i love that. Artists like works so much that i will buy a piece of their work. Have you sitting in my shed. You know it's like yeah it's like the remodeling things. You can have like photographer so absolutely absolutely so last one is finish the sentence. Okay nicholas is. I have I let you you know. I'll let you that sentencing. How about that okay. Nicholas is an amazing amazing photographer. Would the way you talk about your work and the way you your your your the way. You are to music as you're taking your photos the way the time that you're going out it all comes into your photos like like i. I didn't know about. Obviously i didn't know about you. Listen to music but like it totally makes sense like you. do you brit you. You take that mood of. However you're filling and it shows in your photography and i'm i i love it. I absolutely love it. Buddy and i know why you have such a great following and you're great at what you do so That's a long answer for who nicholas is but for shedded. Yeah your workers phenomenal man. I must much props. Thanks so much. thank you absolutely. And lastly i so as far as platforms if someone wants to get a hold of you socially What you want. What are your your your handles your instagram handles or whatever. Yeah so i mean instagram At nicholas and the does the best way to reach out to mijas no standing. I answer to like literally like much. Everyone and otherwise. You can find me on twitter. At nick miller one But it's like it's Sent him yeah. Yeah so unlike. I'll make sure that your although that information's listed on your your scotch potter story when it comes out and mr miller i would thank you for being on the scotch partner. Podcast could thank you very much in you. If i was a re pleasure to the podcast absolutely absolutely thank you for listening to another scotch potter. Podcast please visit scotch potter dot com to see short documentary videos photos and more podcasts. Episodes of other inspiring creators. And make sure you subscribe to the podcast and check.
Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"neo" Discussed on Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"More like an early riser but seemed stuff that not most people either asleep or they're not seeing and you're in you're capturing that through leads that's the power and the beauty of photography as a whole sure. Sure sure sure. Yeah absolutely so as far as other creative outlets does sound like you're very busy and photography takes most of your time but do you have other creative outlets besides photography. No naturally naturally the talker free and work right now. Executive was telling you i think in the future definitely expulsion like craft fee and things like that At the moment now is not the case. You know i'm. I'm not focused on photography. I think is good also to be like a focused on one discipline that night. Try to excel in that discipline. You know so. I'm like that you know cool. Cool what's to places that you want to shoot at your dream dream places. You would like to take your camera. I mean like this place is that i definitely dream to explore but not not not even related to photography. You know it's like more like just like a canada almost spiritual you know like things that i've wanted to do for a long time like so at some point in my life. I definitely want to climb everest. So it's it's like stephanie. Gonna take time you know and the practice and stuff but i would definitely like take my camera with me not documented journey. I don't think the come out with like go to the summit with me. If i go there at a but something like gets is been one of my longtime dreams and something if you wanna do and some of mean i'm like I'm fascinated by traveling. You know when. I was when i was based in europe. I used to travel a lot like it's much easier in europe know You a lot of like local companies. You can fly flight from your country to any of our country and to so many other countries inches like less than two hours to ship so i was not as busy london like at least once a month i would go to a not necessarily a new country but at this new place you know new city or new region like something something new to explode in over friends.
Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"neo" Discussed on Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"Try to stay focused on like that kind of noice him at vibe you know you it be consistent you know in terms of like the content that you post and also like the frequency that you plus which is not like. That's unfortunately i would say you know like with social media. Wants you to be late consistent in a half daniels which like scana like can be against you know some altruistic values because sometimes this very you're gonna be inspired some periods not going to be inspired authority but yeah but that's advice that we say like try to stay consistent as much as you can. Do you sell prince. I mean i. I do but i don't really advertise eight. It's morning if people reach out to me because they want to buy print lake. I will i will send them like a link. You know what they can buy is more like. I'm i'm not really trying to make a business out of it. You know it's like for me. I always want to compete as a passion and like i love photography and i love taking pictures and that's the way i see it. You know so maybe at some stage of my life you know like will become more important than that will try to leave from there me but right now. It's not the case. So like if someone wants to anger picture of me on their wall and super happy to like faceted that so but it's not something i'm trying to get is either you know okay. Okay yeah so when you kind of luted to this as far as my acronym acronym is woodward like why. I do what i do. So what what. What's your inspiration of why you do what you do is just a passion you know like i mean y did i start photography in the first place. So when i was in london. I was working from seven. Am to nine pm. Every so far like years for for years and i did not find any ob on the week. And i was doing like a little bit over a rock climbing and weekends out of the city. You know like i king and stuff. That's always been one of my best. But i didn't have time to like over passion you know because i didn't like i was working on when i write in york. I suddenly have much multimedia Me because my hours met with much lighter and that just time you know and that was the first that much better mean my professional carrier for longtime so. That's when i was like i was i was almost like i think i like humans. I was just like playing video game. Oth- coal cheadle and like your friend. My girlfriend was actually read about each jamaica. It's just like you gotta creed those video against the section you win. That was like okay. Like i started like photography and that just like just shoot me you know. I just loved it. I loved spending time outside and stuff and that starting to be something that that actually matters a lot to me because that gives me like is just makes me feel better. You know like When when i'm stressed for like whatever reason you know i just let go out. Go shoot walk for hours. Outside is just like something like really nice. Nice i yeah. I know. I totally one of the things that i glove about doing. Photography is is for me as it makes you appreciate you know how beautiful life is and like you know especially i mean new york city. Beautiful new york is but those those little things of seeing things that especially. If you're going out late at night..
Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"neo" Discussed on Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"And i can eat bef- on the phone on the on the laptop him. I like a computer. As what. But i i really don't edit over there here. I'm so used to etching on the on the ipod and phone. Because i stay cool. I basically united like latch from bovine became kind of grew like two years ago. When i doug rafi so i started. We've had that for me was just easier than like on my computer. I was never really computer type of guy you know actually bought a like a good computer like just two months ago that i just had almost nothing. That's why you were trying to. We're trying to do the podcast through your phone. You're like i did exactly. I use my computer. You know in office working computer or they don't say it's fine to spend on the phone on. The computer is just like sitting again on a desk. And looking at a screen hijacked by but yeah and like lightroom availa on the phone. Now i mean it's just so good you know you get like pretty much like ninety percent of the features that you got on the on the on the vista for shun you know And any she gets used to it. I guess. That's that's fine to use it. You know and one of the. So i commute. I spend like maybe an hour. A day commuting. You know like. I just like i love to it when i commute. You know it's like a like a nice way Use my time. Emceeing like whenever i cannot try to escape the city going away like in lake of cds i king national parks and stuff. And like so i will edit you know on the play like basically what like whenever since i'm i can just stick my foot in pictures. You know which is which is nice. That's a move. And yes that's that's that's one of my Aging process and then..
Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"neo" Discussed on Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"Specific routines is like this period of much of asia in good conditions whi-which off and this periods of like boring conditions nomination. While we're just not sure at all four weeks you know but then shooting. And i like it like this. You know like I like it like this. I got when. I feel inspired sometimes. Also when i feel i don't feel inspired just like actually much of eighty icing but that's three photography. Story does like an escape with bashan and i wanna keep it that way you know. I don't want to force myself to be out if i don't wanna be out the aca. It's it's something that really helps me to to relax. Gender your mind to a to be offi so that's like i decided. I decided to do it when i wanted. You know. i don't know if you have other like as far as what you post your pictures besides instagram. i'm sure you buy on other platforms. But does that being on instagram. You know the the consistency of posting. Does that drive you to does kind of make it makes you like. I need to go out there and and take pictures or do you. Just you. don't let you just do it when you want. Wanna do it. I wouldn't said. I did like pushed me to go out like i will go out no matter what you know. But he's just like a when thing about like posting on social media actually. I liked to have a gym there. That's where i'd like to post you like every Let's say once every two days. I was on instagram And just like try to be active. You on the day. That i'm posting. And then maybe taking they offer would not really be on the platform But i i like pushing like a regular schedule and just like the active you know on the platform and they were mentioning abed phones. I actually i started a tweet. Her being at least here Like really like posting pictures and now..
Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"neo" Discussed on Scotch Parlor | Capturing Lifestyles
"Nick and for you to show your creator journey and offer some insights of your of your craft like. I said you're you're like a magician behind that photographer that that camera and you know again. Just thanks for being here buddy. And i'll pass it on to you if you want to just say hi. And maybe any brief intro that you wanna give. Yeah thank you very much for us. Teammates tonight. Yes so my name. Is nick nicholas to be a nest. But i'm not as a knick meter on instagram. i started shooting about two years ago. Is like two years ago just for fun. After after relocating from the cds origin. I'm actually from france I won't let close to peres. I grew up there. I worked a i left from berries to london. Fazon for tina. I lived in london for four years and a half and that relocated to new york city in two thousand eighteen. And basically that's when. I moved to new york that i started really getting into photography because i was fascinated by the city. I just loved like walking in the city especially at night on monday night instead of because of the kind of the atmosphere of the city. And that's what made me pick up a camera in the first place Shooting at two years ago. And so he's been like a elevate journey since then. I started instagram. In two thousand nine hundred which at me to learn more photographers and salsa to like get my exposure to other depot and and yeah so that saw us a briefing dacian me nice nice all right so so you can say you're from france and and so you lived there all your life around that area or so. I needn't saudi in france Basically and sheila two thousand thirteen Xm one year that i spent in the us In two thousand eleven thousand twelve for my studies. I was like doing an exchange program at the university of rochester. Upstate new york com. Which was my i. I mean. I've been in the us before. That was the first time a spitting nixon super of them in the us. And i really loved it. That was like actually going to new york like several times a month Like a lot of friends over there was barring on the weekends. And i just like i really love the vibrancy and always told myself that i wanted to come back to new york from that point and soul So i have a job. Comedian related to a to photography. But whenever it was possible that like some stage of my career to get transferred to new york city. I pushed for eight dollars. And that's what to of fezzan H when i relocate from.
Podcast RadioViajera
"neo" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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KQED Radio
"neo" Discussed on KQED Radio
"And by the listeners of KQED. Partly cloudy tonight with lows in the upper thirties to mid forties. It's 5 20 now. This is all things considered from NPR news. I'm Michelle Martin. We want to turn now to news about a group that's gotten a lot of attention lately. The proud boys Ah, leader of the mostly white male group was arrested for his role in vandalizing signs that to black churches in Washington, D C last year. Others have faced charges for their involvement in the mob attack on the U. S Capitol last month. On Wednesday, the Canadian government moved to add the proud voice their official list of terrorist entities becoming the first country in the world to do so. The announcement called a neo fascist organization that engages in political violence and a spouse is my sergeant mystic Islamophobic anti Semitic, anti immigrant and or white supremacist ideologies. Well, A number of Canadians have applauded the announcement. There are others who say labeling these groups as terrorist is not the solution to the threat posed by them and others like them. We wanted to know more about this designation and the debate over it and whether there might be implications for how the U. S might deal with a proud boys and similar groups. So we've called Ben MCU. He is a national security reporter for vice and has reported extensively on white extremist groups in both the US and Canada. And Michael. Welcome. Thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. So I just want to mention in kind of a weird twist that the proud boys was founded by Gavin McInnis, who is a Canadian and one of the founders of Vice and I want to mention here advice years ago and since has also left the proud boys. I just want to start by asking is the description that the Canadian government used to ban this group accurate is that is that right? And how did they end up on this list? Well, I think they're definitely it is accurate because it is sort of this neo fascist. What extremists Street Fighting gang now how they ended up on it was basically what happened on the six and Capitol Hill. It made a lot of headlines and proud boys being founded by God. McInnis, who himself the Canadian Made a lot of noise in Canada and an opposition leader of the third largest party in Canada. Jug meets in. He basically put forth in motion that the problems be declared a terrorist organization and then from there to have gathered a lot of steam in the public. And it went to Parliament. It passed and then went up to the public safety minister right to decide whether or not it would be designated terror group. And it was And what does being on this official list of terror groups actually mean In Canada. What are the consequences? I want to also mention that this isn't the only group that was added to the list. So what? What happens when you are added to this list with this designation? It gives banks and financial institutions the grounds to seize assets. You not renew mortgages. It's a very effective way. It's stopping support for a group of the ground level. And I should also say that I think one of the things it did was by designating the proud boys, a terror group. Whether you would agree with that or not, it does allow a certain amount of deterrents to happen that you know some regular person. Wants to do on the yellow and black Fred Perry golf shirt might be less inclined to because that could, you know, have them wind up on a list where their bank no longer wants to bank with. Um Is there a U S equivalent? There is it's called the FBO, the foreign terrorist organization list. It's much different because In Canada. We mean, we don't have the First Amendment. We have free speech laws, obviously, but they're not as controlled as in the United States or a zoo, protective and in the U. S. You have It has to be a foreign organization, which has made it quite tricky for law enforcement. To actually put some of these groups on the list. You know, the U. S is only has only recently labeled a white supremacist group. Terror group, and that was in April, and it was AH Russian organization. I think we can all admit that there's several white nationalists, white supremacist organizations that operate in the U. S. We'll do that end, though. I mean this kind of leads to where I wanted to go next. As we said, some are calling this a step in the right direction. Obviously, Parliament agreed. Saying that far right white extremists have been ignored by authorities for far too long. But on the other hand used there is some opposition to this and not by people who are sympathetic to them. So could you just talk about that? Absolutely So, especially in Canada. This came up Canada has many different organizations that you know protest groups like indigenous protest groups that are concerned by this There's you know, black lives matter. Protestors. They're concerned by this. There's a lot of civil liberties watches who are as well because typically when you look at counter terrorism laws, expansion any powers, and I should. I should say that, in this case it isn't expected isn't in an expansion of the terror powers of law enforcement. But it expands the list, which essentially says that law enforcement is looking at empowering themselves when it comes to policing terrorism, And I think whenever that happens if we look at the last few decades of the war on terror, and you know Canada was involved in it as well. A lot of the surveillance that has become overzealous and has infringed on rights has been directed squarely on the Muslim community, for example, or on people of color and it wasn't too long ago, the FBI said. One of the top The top threats with black identity extremism, which I think we can you know, experts in my field would say that that zoo not necessarily very correct. So I think you know when you look at this type of law and if it were to be applied the United States There's definitely some fears that it could then be overreached. And while this is being directed at white supremacists and neo Nazi terror groups, it could end up directed the wrong people. And I should say as well, you know, President Trump in the summer demanded that anti fascist activism Would be declared a terrorist organization, which is completely incorrect..
WMAL 630AM
"neo" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"Want to be allowed to continue to carry concealed even when they go to work. You know what building where they protect and preserve the Constitution of the United States, America and Nancy Pelosi calls them terrorists and threat to the republic. Because they would like to exercise their Second Amendment rights. I would like to ask her whether these members are entitled to their First Amendment rights on Capitol Hill and just stop And see what she has to say. Because these air these air, anti intellectual people, these are very corrupt people. Nancy Pelosi is a very corrupt person, and now they want to build permanent high fences and my best girl and I were down in the capital when it was all fenced out before and then after the inauguration. And my best girl commented, You know, now that these things have gone up there going toe. Never take him down. They're going to make him permanent because you know they're authoritarianism, their orientation. They're anti democratic. They're not liberals. They're leftists. And not only they demanding that permanent fencing be put up there, also demanding that backup forces be continuously stationed nearby. This is a neo fascism, and it's Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden and the Democrats. And when you ask Jen, the fashion train wreck pus AKI about as you are, We're not gonna have any comment on that. Well, I'm sorry. This is the White House here. The head of state. The members of your own party are talking about locking down Washington like it's like it's Baghdad. And the Green Zone and you have no comment. I'm sorry. I'm a reporter. I'm going to say no comment is not an available option. Jen. Um you know that hair color is not really an option, too. But I have no comment on locking down Washington like it's a banana republic isn't really an option. We know Well, the animal maybe send some nameless, faceless drone over to you will Feed you a line of Bs and you'll type it up just like the steno that we know you are from the DNC instead of pool. So wait a minute forces additional forces nearby. Drug slender, just learned to uber run, Liz. This is honestly, as Ronald Reagan said. To have that little short version we shed that short version of President Reagan talking about fascism coming You know it was a book many years ago. Called liberal fascism and got unauthorized of that stuff, right? Can I can tell you and President Reagan had it right decades ago. No doubt about it Never comes to America to kind of name of liberalism. That's a fact. Jack. That's it. I want to make that my ring tone. Maybe we could make that my ring tone. Can we make that my ring tone and be good? These people are there. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I do have a friend who today, Uh, texted me that he's been talking about it for a long time. But now he's talking. He's talking to speaking to communicating online. With real estate agents outside of the country, and and he said this whole Wall Street thing yesterday was probably the final straw. Um But it is It's just It's amazing what is going on in this country and it's the left and there's nothing liberal about these people. No, I'm Abbie Hoffman. Compared to these people. These people are fascists there. There's nothing liberal about any of this. And the sooner that Democrats wake up and start telling the truth. The better chance we're gonna have of saving this really great project called the United States America greatest experiment in in human history. And and maybe the founders were wrong. Maybe we're not capable of governing ourselves in a sane and cogent way. Given the way that the left has sunk their teeth into the body politic attitude, academia and education of the teachers unions. You see these people, you know the teachers unions. You see the Chicago teachers unions there at the front of the line for vaccines. And they've announced you can get more. The vaccines you want. They're not going back to work. Well, what do you mean? What do you mean? You're not gonna use here? One of the teachers was got down in the islands in the Caribbean or somewhere on vacation, doing their classes over line from online from down there and they, one of the more ridiculous There are a lot of very ridiculous episodes. Is this The Chicago teachers here they put out they put this stuff out in public like people going to think this is great. The Chicago Teachers Union put out a tweet the other day six of our rank and file dance teachers come together to use their art form as a voice to express their desire to feel safe. Amidst the Chicago public School teachers return policy and then they I mean, and then there are videos of these nit wits. These dimwits these numbskulls Dancing as like, Maman chancers something blue man group saying This is an expression. I'm going to express myself through dance. No, you're just flailing about like a mental case. You You need a straitjacket, not a classroom this and then this is perfectly normal and liberal circles. They stand in solidarity. You know Lech Walesa Polish rebellion against the Soviet Union, And now they are the Soviet Union. They stand in solid A. With all educators at risk. They're not at risk. They're not at school. You're getting vaccines the front of the line, and now they're talking about going on strike, But first they danced. They Now is the time on sprockets when we dance. What is the matter with these people? What was it that Frank Zappa said that they reporter wanted to interview Frank Zappa about his music. And he said, writing about music is like dancing about architecture. And then he hung up the phone..
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"I'm Ed Donahue with an AP News Minute President. Trump will be in Georgia later today for a rally on the day before two Senate runoff elections majority in the Senate is at stake. Vice President Mike Pence is in Georgia. He says the nation's liberties are at stake for our liberties. For a Senate majority that will respect Most cherished freedoms. Georgia. We need Senator David Perdue and Kelly Leffler back in a Republican majority in the United States. Senate way neo. The president's arrival comes days after he called Secretary of State Brad Rapids Burger about the presidential results in Georgia is that one by 400,000 votes at least That's the real truth. Next time we have a race for president, your Republicans are gonna have to do a better job of raising money and turning out the vote. The president has heard pressuring Rapids Burger to find enough votes to overturn Joe Biden's victory. I'm Ed Donahue count will be counted correctly that you could vote. Actually, you could vote early and tomorrow you can get out to vote it and right now, based on the turnout model that we've seen as a Republican We need to get 900,000 people out to vote, a million baby from better. He just has bad data, and that's what we tried to help him understanding. For example, I mentioned that he had think over 1000 people listed on their records. People had passed away and he said they voted here in Georgia. Records show that there's only two all political eyes are on Georgia a day before Twin runoff elections that will determine Senate control. If either of the Republican incumbents Kelly Leffler or David for do way, and the GOP will keep its Senate majority. Democrats are counting on newcomers John Aasif and Raphael Warnock to give them Senate control and Joe Biden a leg up Once he takes office. Biden will be there today as well. President Trump a day after pushing Georgia Secretary of State Brad Rapids Burger to find enough votes to overturn Biden's win in the presidential race. As the president continues railing without evidence of Georgia electoral fraud, Rapids Burger tells the AP the president's focus should be on turning out GOP voters tomorrow vote will count will be counted correctly. Santorum AGONY Washington Thank you for listening to the AP Radio Network..