Month: July 2024

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Pentagon’s Anti-Vax Program, Part Two: The Conspiracy Goes Global

So why would the US government push so hard for people to get vaccinated domestically, then turn around and wage an anti-vaccination propaganda war on the Philippines? In the second part of this week's special two-part episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore the bizarre motivation behind this insidious scheme: the idea that allowing China to supply vaccines could upset a delicate balance of geopolitical power. It wasn't that they planned to kill innocent people -- they just didn't care whether those people died.

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Focus on Africa - Does an Ecowas court ruling on police brutality on protestors in Nigeria go far enough?

Nigerian authorities guilty of violating protesters rights during mass demonstrations against police brutality, known as #EndSars, in 2020. Why hasn't police behaviour changed?

Can Africa's booming population be harnessed?

And can anyone stand in the way of another presidential term for Rwanda's  Paul Kagame?

Presenter: Audrey Brown Producers: Charles Gitonga and Frenny Jowi in Nairobi. Nyasha Michelle and Joseph Keen in London. Technical producer. Philip Bull Senior Journalist: Paul Bakibinga Editors : Alice Muthengi and Andre Lombard.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: What Mining Shareholders Should Look For With Patrick Fleury

What should mining stock shareholders look for in a stock? We chat with TeraWulf CFO Patrick Fleury.


Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today we are joined by Patrick Fleury, the CFO of publicly traded mining company TeraWulf to discuss public mining markets, TeraWulf itself and how mining shareholders should think about Bitcoin mining companies!


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:24 Patrick's background

05:08 Terawulf partnerships

09:17 Financials

16:38 Nondisclosure is bull$#!T

20:15 Shareholder dilution

27:01 Issuing equity at a terahash value

35:27 Current lab projects

40:58 Terawulf lines of business

46:48 Cloud & GPU contracts

52:44 Energy contracts as assets


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Native America Calling - Friday, July 12, 2024 – Are the economic benefits of tourism worth it?

Tourism is big money for many tribes and individual entrepreneurs. But it also has the potential to diminish people’s quality of life. Residents in Juneau, Alaska are considering a limit on the dozens of cruise ships that unload thousands of visitors there every summer. Among other things, critics say the steady stream of outsiders detracts from what they enjoy about living there. Some tribes have closed off tourist attractions altogether. We’ll find out about “overtourism” and ways to avoid it.
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CBS News Roundup - 07/12/2024 | World News Roundup

President Biden insists he's running to finish the job, but more Democrats call on him to drop out. Oppressive heat grips much of the nation. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Celebrating 50 Years Of Chicago’s Iconic Patel Brothers Grocery Store

Fifty years ago, Mafat and Tulsi Patel opened their first grocery store off Damen and Devon avenues. Fast forward to 2024, and Patel Brothers is the nation’s largest Indian grocery chain with 52 stores across the country. Reset learns how the iconic grocer came to be and the impact of connecting the community with South Asian foods and ingredients with one of the partners, Swetal Patel. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - An officer and a gen AI: the future of war

Artificial intelligence is already making a difference in the theatre of war, and more involvement will certainly come. That raises a host of thorny ethical issues. In some cases, scientists just clocked, extinct beasts’ DNA can be extraordinarily well preserved—revealing once-inaccessible biological secrets (10:43). And remembering Pål Enger, who never quite knew why he felt compelled to steal “The Scream” (19:25).


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Up First from NPR - Biden Press Conference, Presidential Poll, Gaza City Evacuation Orders

President Biden held a press conference on the sidelines of the NATO summit and his performance was closely watched by Democratic lawmakers, European allies and the American public. A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll measured public opinion about President Biden post-debate, and Israel ordered hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza City to evacuate.

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Today's episode of Up First was edited by Dana Farrington, Roberta Rampton, Mark Katkov, Janaya Williams and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Ben Abrams and Kaity Kline. We get engineering support from Arthur Laurent. And our technical director is Carleigh Strange.

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