Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Dec. 1, 2023

The Illinois primary is 109 days away. The Ed Burke trial is heating up. And the city of Chicago teams up with churches to house migrants. We’ll break down those stories and more in WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap with panelists Monica Eng, reporter for Axios Chicago, Michael Loria, reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, and Dave McKinney, WBEZ state politics reporter.

CBS News Roundup - 12/01/23 | Israel/Gaza, Climate Summit, & Bayard Rustin

On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup," host Allison Keyes has the latest on hostages being released amid the Israel-Gaza conflict from CBS's Robert Berger in Jerusalem. We'll leaarn about the urgency of the UN climate talks underway in Dubai from CBS's Pamela Falk. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, a discussion about the life and legacy of the late, openly gay, civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.

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CrowdScience - What is brainwashing?

*Warning* This episode includes references to suicide.

When listener Ben heard about a Kenyan “starvation cult” in the news, he wondered whether the members of this group had been brainwashed. Is it possible to control someone’s mind?

In this episode presenter Caroline Steel learns how easily people can be influenced. She hears what it’s like to be part of a cult, and gets to the bottom of a decades-long debate: does brainwashing exist? And, if so, how does it work?

Presenter: Caroline Steel Producer: Florian Bohr Editor: Richard Collings Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris Studio Managers: Donald McDonald and Emma Harth

Featuring:

Anthony Pratkanis, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz Alexandra Stein, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sussex Eileen Barker, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, London School of Economics

(Image: Washing a brain. Credit: Cemile Bingol / Getty Images).

Federalist Radio Hour - Amazing Stories Of Christians Who Survived Communist Oppression

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Kristen Van Uden, editor of Catholic Exchange and author spokeswoman at Sophia Institute Press, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to share the stories of Catholics around the world who survived persecution by communist regimes.

You can read Van Uden's book "When the Sickle Swings: Stories of Catholics Who Survived Communist Oppression" here.

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SCOTUScast - United States v. Rahimi – Post-Argument SCOTUScast

On November 7, 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Rahimi. The Court considered whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), prohibiting the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic-violence restraining orders, violated the Second Amendment on its face
Join us as we break down and analyze how oral argument went before the Court.

Featuring:
Professor Mark W. Smith, Presidential Scholar and Senior Fellow in Law and Public Policy, The King’s College

CoinDesk Podcast Network - UNCHAINED: Why Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Is So Pro-Crypto

The GOP presidential candidate also talks about how pegging the dollar to a basket of commodities that could eventually include Bitcoin would help the U.S. economy, and why he hates the idea of a CBDC.


Vivek Ramaswamy is likely the biggest supporter of crypto among the current crop of presidential candidates. But his enthusiasm comes not from an inherent love of the technology or its principles themselves, but a dissatisfaction with what he calls the “administrative state” that’s stifled innovation in a number of important industries, crypto among them. 

On this episode of Unchained, Ramaswamy discusses his radical plan to slash the number of people working at federal agencies; his three-point crypto policy plan based on the freedom to code as a protected form of expression, the freedom of financial self-reliance, and the freedom to innovate free from regulatory overreach; why the current orientation of the U.S. government towards regulation of the crypto industry by enforcement isn’t helping anyone; his plans to stabilize the U.S. dollar by pegging it to a basket of commodities that could eventually include Bitcoin; why he’s so opposed to central bank digital currencies; and what industries he thinks could benefit from the use of blockchain technology.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Show highlights | 

  • How Vivek, who has a background in biotech, fell down the “crypto rabbit hole”
  • How the administrative branch of government doesn't work like it's supposed to, according to Vivek
  • Why he believes the government poses a threat to the future of crypto
  • How he would respond to a situation in which the code of a smart contract is exploited
  • How Vivek would prevent the use of crypto for illicit ends
  • Why he thinks that the current status quo in terms of crypto regulation is the “worst of all worlds”
  • Vivek’s plan to stabilize the U.S. dollar by pegging it to a basket of commodities, potentially including Bitcoin
  • Why he is so against the creation of a central bank digital currency in the U.S.
  • How blockchain technology can be used to help the U.S. maintain its technological supremacy


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Guest

Vivek Ramaswamy, 2024 U.S. Presidential Candidate

Vivek on The Chopping Block: Why Vivek Ramaswamy Wants Less Crypto Regulation

Links

Original speech unveiling his crypto policy plan at the North American Blockchain Summit 2023

Unchained: GOP Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Makes the Case for Reduced Crypto Regulation

Bloomberg: Ramaswamy’s Crypto Deregulation Plan Is Scaring the Industry

CoinDesk: Ramaswamy Shares Crypto Plan, Making Him the Only GOP Candidate Who Has One

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the memory palace - Episode 210: Smoky and Bill

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

Music

  • I Believe in the Night by Keith Kenniff

  • Improvisations sur les folies d’Espagne (extraits) from Marin Marais and Jordi Savall

  • Finally by Lambert

  • Voltige by Marin Lizotte

  • Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick

  • Fratres fur violin und klavier by Avro Part as played by Ursula Schloch and Marcel Worms

  • Dungen by Henrik Lindstom

Notes

  • There are plenty of places to go to read about Smoky and Bill but why would want to go anywhere else than his book, Yorkie Doodle Dandy?

CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Would Lower Oil Prices Be Good or Bad for Bitcoin?

Noelle Acheson, the mind behind the Crypto Is Macro Now newsletter, explores the crypto market rally, energy prices, how oil prices impact bitcoin and more.

Today's episode is sponsored by CME Group and Harpie.

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Today’s Stories:

Bitcoin Rises to $38.8K for the First Time Since May 2022 

Bitcoin - Monthly Return 

GDPNow - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 

China’s Xi Seen Delaying Key Economic Plenum, Defying Norms - Bloomberg 

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Israel Goes In, Blinken Goes Wobbly

Today's podcast is a hybrid. The first part, about the appalling rhetoric used by Antony Blinken about Israel and its conduct of the war that has now restarted, was recorded Friday morning, December 1. The second half, about the passing of Henry Kissinger and my trip to the massacre site in Israel, was recorded Thursday afternoon, November 30. Please be understanding as you give a listen.

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