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In the morning, a tariff war; in the evening, a declaration of a truce in the tariff war. If there's no tariff war, was there ever going to be a tariff war? Were we silly for taking it seriously? And what does this portend for the talks with Israel on its war with Hamas, now currently quiescent? Give a listen.
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President Donald Trump has said he will cut all future funding to South Africa over allegations that it was confiscating land. South Africa's President Ramaphosa says that is not true.
Concerns that the conflict in eastern DR Congo could spread deadly diseases.
And what is are the reasons behind Namibia's high unemployment.
Presenter: Blessing Aderogba Producers: Frenny Jowi and Charles Gitonga in Nairobi with Victor Sylver and Nyasha Michelle in London. Senior Producer :Paul Bakibinga Technical Producer: Francesca Dunne Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi
Samí journalist and author Ann-Helén Laestadius offers readers a glimpse into the government-backed school system for the Indigenous children of Sweden that has parallels with the U.S. Indian Boarding School Era. Her novel, Punished, follows five Sami children forced to attend a nomad school in the 1950s. The story stays with them into adulthood, where each copes with the physical, mental, and cultural abuse scars just below the surface. Originally published in Swedish, the English translation of Punished is now available. Laestadius joins us for this month’s Native Bookshelf discussion. How does the Buckeye state view Bitcoin? We dug in with the head of Ohio’s Blockchain Council!
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Andrew Burchwell from the Ohio Blockchain Council
joins us to discuss Bitcoin mining in Ohio. From groundbreaking state
legislation and strategic reserve bills to the challenges with utility tariffs, Andrew shares insights
on building Bitcoin-friendly policy at the state level. He also dives into Ohio's energy future, the
role of natural gas and nuclear power, and how Bitcoin mining fits into the state's industrial
development plans.
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Notes:
• Ohio Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill
• Energy Policy Transformation
• Utility Tariff Challenges
• State-Level Bitcoin Advocacy
• Trump Administration Impact
• Education & University Programs
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
03:37 Andrew bio
05:29 Ohio Blockchain Counsel
08:58 Mining & legislators
12:15 Miners in Ohio
14:00 North American Blockchain Assoc
16:42 Trump & Regulations
21:22 Ohio Strategic Bitcoin reserve
23:32 Current state of BTC lobbying
27:35 What topics to focus on?
29:51 BTC & anti-state sentiment
35:56 How to get involved
38:15 Electricity tariff
40:17 Pushback from utility providers
41:16 Unlikely allies
44:04 Degrowth policy
45:06 Energy policy in Ohio
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From media-studies dropout to international jihadist to Syria’s ruler, Ahmed al-Sharaa has an unlikely résumé. He speaks with our editor-in-chief, sharing hopeful-sounding hints of his vision—but precious little detail. Japan’s economy has been hobbled by low inflation for years; is that now in the past (14.05)? And the lucrative media gigs of Britain’s lawmakers (21.30).
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Did you know that Joseph Stalin could sing with perfect pitch? Or that he was so scared of his wife that he would hide from her in the bathroom? Did you know that Peter the Great liked to surround himself with naked dwarfs? Did you know that Catherine the Great—long smeared as a nymphomaniac—was actually a lovelorn monogamist? Or that King Herod’s genitals once exploded with maggots?
Most historians bore you with dry accounts of battles and treaties, and it’s hard to remember any of it. But not Simon Sebag Montefiore, who writes 900 pages that you cannot put down.
Sebag is one of the most important historians alive today. His many books, like Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great & Potemkin are essential to understanding power, politics, revolution, dictatorships, and above all, human nature.
While most of Sebag’s books are biographies of people, Jerusalem is a biography of a city—a city, as he writes, that is “the house of the one God, the capital of two peoples, the temple of three religions, and the only city to exist twice in heaven and on earth.” The book takes you through Jerusalem’s 3,000-year history, from King David to Bibi Netanyahu. It is a must-read. It has sold more than a million copies, and it has just been reissued in paperback.
With the ceasefire deal underway in Israel and with Trump a few weeks into his second presidency, we could not think of a better person to talk to than Simon about this moment and how to understand it.
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