Vanessa Beeley on Biden's Escalation of War on Syria Amid the Pandemic

3/12/21 by Vanessa Beeley

https://www.mintpressnews.com/vanessa-beeley-biden-war-against-syria-amid-pandemic/276129

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/120336655
Episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/284746/8130138-vanessa-beeley-on-biden-s-escalation-of-war-on-syria-amid-the-pandemic.mp3?blob_id=36640996

Welcome to MintCast -- an interview series featuring dissenting voices the establishment would rather silence. I’m your host Mnar Muhawesh Adley. Within just three months in office amid a global pandemic, the Joe Biden administration recently ordered an airstrike that dropped 1.75 tons of explosives on a town in Syria near the Iraq border. The move is re-inflaming tensions between Washington and Damascus as the war enters its 10th year. Joining me today to discuss the latest on the ground in Syria is Vanessa Beeley. Vanessa is an independent British journalist based in Damascus and specializing in Middle Eastern affairs. She is perhaps best known for her coverage of the Syrian Civil War and the Western media propaganda machine drawing up support for a so-called humanitarian war against Syria. This program is 100 percent listener supported! You can join the hundreds of financial sponsors who make this show possible by becoming a member on our Patreon page. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud. Please leave us a review and share this segment. Support the show (https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/)

March 19, 2021. We are looking for Pgh-area drivers with chemical-free vehicles to co-pilot our Traveling Tabernacle. We bring daily aid and emergency supplies to survivors of severity while broadcasting Intuitive Public Radio Pittsburgh. You are invited to co-host and talk with us about your projects if desired. Interested? Better investment than Lyft or Uber! Enjoy mobile community collaborations, save lives, prevent homelessness, relieve suffering, and co-create income streams. Contact t.me/maxmorris right away for most up-to-date information. • 20210319-081934 • https://t.me/s/PittsburghIPR/2371 •°`

March 21, 2021. Kindweavers and kindnessweavers now gathering each strength to support craftily-cosmic artistree: We are knitting fully-inclusive kindness practice into our oghamniverse. Share your work and art --- any and every kind --- or sit, rest, and share cared-for timespace with us. We meet asynchronously in private workgroups or in public Telegram spaces, right here, every 7 days. Bring your weaving stitching painting singing grieving strengthening emergent dreaming, dearest sisters and friends, and all we will mend. • Msg t.me/maxmorris to join our activities. • 20210321-063849 • https://t.me/s/SpontaneousCosmology/4603 • https://Intuitive.pub/cosmology •°`

"I have at various points warned of the dangers of medical crises as vehicles that tyranny can exploit to justify suppressions of civil rights. Today, a much-hyped medical crisis has taken on the role of being used as a pretext to strip us all of core freedoms, that fears of terrorism did not ultimately achieve…" --Naomi Wolf, https://www.aier.org/article/the-end-of-america

Naomi Wolf:

"In 2008, I wrote a book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. I warned, based on my study of closing democracies in 20th century history, that America needed to beware of a slide toward totalitarianism.

I warned that would-be tyrants, whether they are on the left or the right, always use a map to close down democracies, and that they always take the same ten steps. Whether it’s “Invoke a Terrifying Internal and External Threat,” “Create a Thug Caste,” “Target the Press,” or the final step, “Suspend the Rule of Law,” these steps are always recognizable; and they always work to crush democracies and establish tyrannies. At that time, the “global threat” of terrorism was the specter that powers invoked in order to attack our freedoms."

https://www.aier.org/article/the-end-of-america/

"...The fact that tech stocks rose by 27% in one quarter of the pandemic shows one driver of this war against human freedoms and human society: every minute human beings spend in a classroom, at the pub or restaurant, or in a church or synagogue, is time that tech companies lose money by being unable to harvest that data." --Naomi Wolf, https://www.aier.org/article/the-end-of-america

I did my intense burst work out this am, how about you? https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/short-bursts-exercise-slow-cognitive-decline 😃

Sisu, the Finnish Art of Strength

3/24/21 by The Art of Manliness

https://omny.fm/shows/the-art-of-manliness/sisu-the-finnish-art-of-strength

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/120852590
Episode: https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/6081eee7-c459-4e12-a1ab-aadc000fc4a7/b716c76b-3f14-4612-93ed-acf500fb8629/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=413a6904-4d72-4be8-9421-aadc000fc4ba

In Finland, "sisu" is a concept that, while it can't be strictly translated into English, roughly corresponds to a combination of bravery, resilience, grit, and determination. My guest today will help us unpack it further, and offers advice on how everyone can live life with more sisu. Her name is Joanna Nylund and she's the author of Sisu: The Finnish Art of Courage. Joanna explains what sisu is and how it was exemplified in the David and Goliath story of the Finns facing down the Russians during the Winter War. We then talk about what it is about Finland that birthed the quality of sisu and ways to develop it even if you're not Finnish, including embracing discomfort, getting out despite the weather, and seeking silence and solitude as a way to develop inner strength. We also talk about the Finnish practice of retreating to a rustic cabin in the summer to reacquaint oneself with simplicity, manual labor, and nature. We end our conversation with the sisu way of communication, and how to foster sisu in children. Get the show notes aom.is/sisu. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I mirrored my Youtube Channel to Odysee as a back up. So far it's only the content on my own channel, not interviews I've done on other people's platforms for the most part. Will work on getting that sorted. Here's the link if you spend time over there. https://odysee.com/@WrenchInTheGears:b