Month: October 2020

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Byzantium And The Crusades - The Decline of the Crusaders Episode 5 “The Second Attack on Egypt”

In this episode, we hear about the King of Jerusalem, Amalric's alliance with the Byzantines against Fatimid Egypt, where a young man called Saladin has seized power. A large Byzantine fleet and Crusader army converge on the Egyptian fortress of Damietta. But can they succeed in defeating Saladin, the man who will in time become the nemesis of the Crusaders?

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Everything Everywhere Daily - A History of Halloween

On October 31 every year, we celebrate Halloween. It is especially popular in the United States where we use the holiday as an excuse for kids to dress up and ask for candy, and for adults to dress up and drink. But why do we dress up, and what’s the deal with pumpkins, how does this have anything to do with monsters and bats? Learn more about the history of Halloween and how so many unrelated things got lumped together on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily

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You're Wrong About - Halloween Re-Release: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

What if the scariest thing in America is unfettered capitalism and unaccountable corporations?

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The World Is Never Getting Off Government Stimulus

The Breakdown weekly recap looks at bitcoin buying by Iran, JPM Coin and the latest round of lockdowns coming to Europe. 

This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic.

On this week’s weekly recap, NLW looks at:

  • Bitcoin’s resilience in the face of a week where many investors went risk off, causing a drop in stocks and gold
  • JPMorgan’s dramatic three-year attitude shift around bitcoin and crypto 
  • Iran stockpiling bitcoin to be able to pay for imports
  • A new round of COVID-19 lockdowns and the stimulus that will follow


This week on The Breakdown:

Monday | Hedge Funds Failures, Bankruptcies and Pandemic Fatigue

Tuesday | JPMorgan Launches JPM Coin: Welcome to the Private Currency Era

Wednesday | The ‘Everything Crash’ Is Coming? Markets Go Risk-Off as European Stocks See Worst Day in 5 Months

Thursday | Mirage Recovery: What ‘Record’ GDP Growth Tells Us About the Economy

Friday | Why Satoshi Chose Halloween to Release the Bitcoin White Paper

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Canaries in the Coal Mine of Justice

Episode Notes:

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to discuss voting and the crisis of legitimacy facing a Supreme Court embroiled in politics, the election, and an epochal shift to the right. 

In our Slate Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Brian Fallon of Demand Justice to discuss the whys and the wherefores of court reform. 

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Podcast production by Sara Burningham.

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