Month: December 2023

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The Gist - The Slings And Poop Maps Of Outrageous Fortune

Eliot Cohen, Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies and former Counselor to the Secretary Of State has always thought Shakespeare had great insights about great leaders. His book is The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. Plus, George Santos gets bounced, and Ron DeSantis has a crap map.


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State of the World from NPR - The Israel-Hamas cease-fire ends and fighting resumes

After a week-long pause, Hamas again fired rockets into Israel and Israel resumed airstrikes in Gaza. A report on why the fighting resumed.

And were Gaza's hospitals able to resupply and catch up on treating patients during the cease-fire?

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The Daily Signal - Santos Removed From House, Fighting Resumes Between Israel and Hamas, Sandra Day O’Connor Dies | Dec. 1

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:


  • Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., and Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., faceoff in a fiery debate.
  • Fighting between Israel and Hamas resumes. 
  • Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., is ousted from Congress in a bipartisan vote of 311 to 114. 
  • UN climate conference underway in United Arab Emirates amid scandal. 
  • Retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor dies at the age of 93.


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Debate Night: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/11/30/4-takeaways-from-newsom-desantis-debate/ 


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Consider This from NPR - Big Oil Leads at COP28

Every year world leaders gather at the Conference of the Parties, or COP, to devise solutions to what amounts to a growing existential crisis for humankind: our rapidly heating planet.

The United Arab Emirates is hosting COP28 this year. The goal of the conference is to decrease emissions and protect the planet. But leading the climate talks is the head of one of the biggest oil companies in the world, in a nation that derives much of its wealth from oil. Are the goals of this meeting truly in sync with the goals of the hosts?

NPR's Miles Parks speaks with NPR international correspondent Aya Batrawy from COP28.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - World AIDS Day 2023: Honoring Lives Lost And Forging A Future Free Of Stigma

Since the start of the AIDS epidemic, what’s changed? The medicine. What’s continued? The stigma. Reset brings together two people living with HIV in a conversation crossing generations and speaks with Dr. Sadia Haider of RUSH University Medical Center about efforts to educate heterosexual women about HIV transmission.
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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.
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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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Motley Fool Money - Did the Santa Rally Start Early?

November was a party for stocks and bonds, but is Jerome Powell about to turn the lights on?


(00:21) Jason Moser and Matt Argersinger discuss:

- The market’s incredible November and why we may not be out of the woods yet on rate hikes.

- Why Apple and Goldman Sachs are breaking up their credit card partnership.

- Thoughts on Tesla’s Cybertruck and the new details we have after this week’s showcase.


(19:11) Adobe Insights Vivek Pandya talks through the trends he’s seeing so far in holiday spending and whether it makes sense to buy now or wait for some of the items on your list.


You can catch Adobe’s holiday shopping tracking here.


(34:10) Jason and Matt break down two stocks on their radar: Docusign and EPR Properties.


Stocks discussed: AAPL, GS, TSLA, BRK.A, BRK.B, DOCU, EPR


Host: Dylan Lewis

Guests: Jason Moser, Matt Argersinger, Vivek Pandya

Engineers: Dan Boyd


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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).

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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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