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Episodes
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Special Message ~ 7.28.2022
Update on the show, and when we'll be back ~ until then visit us at bandwidth.productions for updates on our upcoming app launch and long-form show.
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School counselors report highest mental health issues ever ~ 7.21.2022
With the CDC reporting marked increases in suicide rates for teen girls.
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India taking over China as world's most populated country ~ 7.20.2022
Globally however, population is slowing.
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China's economy continues to shrink, with worst performance since 2020 ~ 7.19.2022
Due to another surge of lockdowns, China is recording less growth than originally expected, and is seeing their economy shrink.
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Half of the E.U. at risk of drought ~ 7.18.2022
As much of Europe is in the middle of a sweltering 100+ degree heat wave, much of the continent is also facing drought conditions.
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Over 250,000 troops are facing discharge from the U.S. military ~ 7.15.2022
If these troops will be discharged, or have a disciplinary action is unknown. This number comprises over 13% of the total troop level, at a time as we reported a few days ago, the military is having the hardest time recruiting since the ending of the draft.
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Dutch farmers protest climate change bill ~ 7.14.2022
The bill will put most of them out of business, with little effort other than a ban to encourage better practices.
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Microplastics detected in meat and livestock blood for the first time ~ 7.13.2022
Found in nearly every meat sample tested, in every blood sample tested and also in the animal feed; potentially giving way to how it's entering the animals.
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Is China trying to take over the moon? ~ 7.12.2022
According to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, China is looking to setup a base and takeover the moon, leading to a military strategic advantage in space.
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US armed forces, struggle to meet recruiting goals ~ 7.11.2022
With less than three months left in the fiscal year, the US army is only recruiting 40% of it's targeted goal, with all but the Space Force equally struggling.
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Japan's former Prime Minister assassinated ~ 7.8.2022
Shinzo Abe assassinated in a large blow to Japan and the world.
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Indonesian president meets with Zelensky and Putin in an attempt to broker peace ~ 7.7.2022
Apparently getting not much movement on peace, the Indonesian president did get guarantees for the free flowing of Ukrainian and Russian grain and fertilizer exports.
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China sends warships in a show of force around Japanese islands ~ 7.6.2022
A flotilla of war ships went around an archipelago in Okinawa Japan, some 277 miles east of Taiwan.
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Argentina and Iran look to join BRICS ~ 7.5.2022
Looking to join the international economic organization with Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, further throwing a larger international divide between the West, and the increasing counterweight of China and Russia.
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Inflation is hitting hourly workers in America the hardest ~ 7.4.2022
The hardest hit are those households making under $50k a year, who have seen the littlest amount of increase in wages, and are at most inflicted from rising costs.
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25% of the world's population at risk of historic flooding ~ 7.1.2022
According to a new report, China and India are most at risk for once in a 100 years flooding, categorized as 6 or more inches of water.
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Should TikTok be banned in the US? ~ 6.30.2022
An F.C.C. commissioner is pushing for harsher regulations or outright banning TikToc, while recent leaked audio shows that TikToc in spite of insisting otherwise, has their data available to China.
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Massive flooding displaces half a million in China ~ 6.29.2022
Flooding has intensified in Southern China, hammering cities, displacing many and punishing agriculture across the country with both extreme rain and heat.
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Biden Admin sanctions 3 US companies over blueprint sales to China ~ 6.28.2022
3d printing companies in the space and rocket field, are sanctioned over sales to China as US government warns of thin divide between private and military parts of the Chinese economy.
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Sri Lanka shutsdown everything but essentials due to fuel shortage ~ 6.27.2022
After following the government shifting to remote work, and mere days left in their fuel supply, only essentials will stay open.
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FDA bans Juul vapes ~ 6.24.2022
The FDA stating that Juul products don't match the health standards, they'll be forced to be taken off the shelf.
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African Union pleads with E.U. to allow payments to Russia for fertilizer and grain ~ 6.23.2022
The chair of the African Union is claiming that banning Russian financial institutions from the international SWIFT payment system, is furthering the food crisis in Africa.
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New research shows China is spying through coffee machines ~ 6.22.2022
Research is now pointing to China embedding software in it's coffee machines to collect data on the users of both commercial and residential machines.
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Fiji defense secretary calls out climate change as bigger threat then war ~ 6.21.2022
For the nation of islands, flooding, massive tropical cyclones and rising sea, stoke more fear for a prosperous future, then war and conflict.
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Chinese province uses COVID quarantine app to quell bank protesters ~ 6.20.2022
In the Henan province, members of the four banks being protested for a billion dollar scandal, suddenly saw their health codes turn to red, forcing them into quarantine camps. Quickly after public outlash, the codes were flipped back green, supposedly because of a "database glitch."
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Weapons manufacturer Raytheon, set to move its HQ closer to D.C. ~ 6.17.2022
In order to better serve their customers, Raytheon, is moving to Arlington Virginia, highlighting the role arms makers have in the current conflict in Ukraine and how the West chooses to send arms over diplomacy.
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Despite hash rhetoric, Mexican president to visit the White House in July ~ 6.16.2022
President AMLO of Mexico snubbed the Biden Administration by not joining the Summit of the America's in protest of those countries not invited to join. Now he's planning on visiting the US in July, to push for a North & South American superstate, akin to the E.U.
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International politics hits PGA Golf tour ~ 6.15.2022
The PGA tour has suspended 17 players, including superstar Phil Mickelson, for participating in a Saui Arabian backed golf event.
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President Biden's Summit of the Americas mocked internationally ~ 6.14.2022
The summit between countries in North and South America hosted in L.A. last week, is being slammed internationally by the Mexican President and Chinese propaganda.
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Former Wisconsin Judge killed at home in an apparent targeted attack ~ 6.13.2022
The suspect in the attack was found with a self-inflicted gun shot wound upon police entering the Judge's home, and the suspect had apparently more targets in line. Could this be a troubling sign of things to come?
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Sriracha shortage a sign of food scarcity to come? ~ 6.10.2022
Beloved condiment Sriracha is going to be out of stock until at least September of this year, due to many conflating factors chief of which, is crop failure.
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China doubles down on aggression towards US' allies spy planes. ~ 6.9.2022
China is now saying, in our previously reported story about Canadian spy planes getting shaken by Chinese fighter jets in North Korea, that Canada best stand down or face consequences. While at the same time, an Australian plane was forced to land after an encounter with a Chinese fighter in the...
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Policy makers and business leaders signal continued high inflation ~ 6.8.2022
Blackrock CEO says inflation likely to last years, as White House signal high inflation numbers ahead.
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China launches important 3rd mission to space station ~ 6.7.2022
China launched their space station in April 2021, which marks an important point in their space development.
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Canadian spy plane gets repeated close encounter with Chinese fighter jets ~ 6.6.2022
A Canadian plane flying in North Korea in order to impose U.N. sanctions on the country, is getting numerous close enough calls with Chinese fighter jets, for their pilots to be able to exchange glances.
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Since 2017, over a million American youth pick up a smoking habit 6.3.2022
With the majority of the growth unseen in the market since the early '90's, comes from vape products.
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Inflation is hitting farmers hard ~ 6.2.2022
The costs that farmers are paying overall is up year over year, while certain production like poultry, are up 94%, as recent Department of Agriculture report for April paints a stark picture.
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According to new poll, majority of Americans don't want Trump or Biden for President ~ 6.1.2022
A new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll, says that 58% of American's surveyed would rather support a moderate 3rd party candidate than either of the main party candidates.
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Mexican President bans vapes ~ 5.31.22
By presidential decree, citing their appeal to youth and detrimental health effects, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, bans vape sales by October 2021.
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The scene is set for a water crisis in the Horn of Africa ~ 5.30.2022
Ethiopia, while in the middle of a civil war, is also in a water dispute with neighbors Sudan and Egypt, over the building and use of a water reservoir.
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Water crisis deepens in the Middle East ~ 5.27.2022
Countries throughout the region are pointing fingers for their water use, which underlines that if Iraqi experts are correct, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are expected to dry up by the year 2040
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Patriot Act co-author to lead review of Biden's disinformation board ~ 5.26.2022
In order to increase trust in the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Board, a bi-partisan review will be conducted by former head of D.H.S., Michael Chertoff.
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San Diego Couple plead guilty to giving information to Chinese competitor ~ 5.15.2022
A married couple who worked as scientists plead guilty to stealing confidential vaccine research and smuggling hazardous materials.
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G7 announce compulsory 50% rise in WHO funding for future pandemics ~ 5.24.2022
Last week in Berlin, the G7 announces an increase in funding and a new data center in Berlin to manage future pandemics.
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Canada bans Huawei from installing their 5G network in the country ~ 5.23.2022
Last week Canada joined several other western nations on banning the Chinese telecom giant over security concerns, while Huawei has seen a 14% decline in their sales as they cited U.S. sanctions as the cause, as well as an increased spend on R&D.
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British ship attacked off the coast of Yemen ~ 5.20.2022
In a sign of the often forgotten about war in Yemen ongoing since 2015, a British ship had an attempted boarding off of the country's coast.
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U.S. Justice Department charges casino exec for ties to China ~ 5.19.2022
Former CEO of Wynn Resorts, Steven Wynn, is being charged for not registering as a foreign agent for alleged lobbying he did on behalf of members of the Chinese CCP, in an attempt to get a Chinese citizen extradited for corruption charges.
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Serbia receives first arm shipments from China ~ 5.18.2022
The European Union has an embargo on all arms sales for its member states that come from China, this is in response to the Tienanmen square protest in 1989. Testing the resolve of this embargo, Serbia an E.U. candidate state, receives it's first shipment of missile right after the war in Ukraine...
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China's largest city sold zero cars in April due to covid lockdowns ~ 5.17.2022
Shanghai, entering it's 7th week of lockdowns, sold no cars last month, and China as a whole was down almost 50% in car sales.
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War in Ukraine and subsequent effects from it, are leaving many in Africa to starve ~ 5.16.2022
Many countries in the Horn of Africa ( Eastern Africa ), are reliant on wheat and fertilizer exports from Ukraine and Russia in response to a climate crisis in the region. But with the war, they're likely not to receive anywhere near their need.
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