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Former Mexican police officer and security specialist Ed Calderon discusses the drug war in México and how it's strategic location lends itself to continual interventions by the United States (e.g. Mexican presidents as CIA assets). He sees cartel power structures rising up in México and organizing themselves into federations, with some being funded by foreign governments (e.g. China, USA). He thinks America's influence is declining, especially in México, where China is making inroads (illegally mining iron ore). Lithium is playing an increasing factor. México has become a proxy battleground in the New Cold War. He doesn't think cartels will be classified as terrorists, though that's what they are by definition. We are living through one of the most violent presidencies. The true power in México is in the military, who runs policy at a deep level. He gives his thoughts on the culture war, expatriation, and how Americans are causing violence in México by bringing their drug habits with them. He gives his take on the Ukraine conflict and points out how during the first 72 hours of the Ukraine conflict, México still outperformed in terms of death. He leaves us with some tips on surviving the road ahead.

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About Ed Calderon

For over a decade Ed Calderon worked in the fields of counter-narcotics, organized crime investigation, and public safety in the northern border region of Mexico. During this period he also coordinated and worked executive protection details for high-level government officials and visiting dignitaries — often in some of the most dangerous parts of the country.

Ed Calderon's study into the indigenous Méxican criminal culture, from occult practices to endemic modus operandi have lead him to be recognized as one of the world’s preeminent researchers and trainers in the field of personal security that has come out of Mexico. Ed has had the privilege of sharing his expertise with members of federal law enforcement agencies including the FBI and BORTAC, Navy SEALS, Indonesian Kopaska, Mexican and United States intelligence service agents, and members of special forces groups from all over the world.

Currently, Ed travels North America doing security consulting and conducting seminars and private training courses in anti-abduction, escapology, unarmed combat, region-specific executive protection work, and unconventional-edged weapons work.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Physicist, startup founder, and polymath Steve Hsu discusses the end of the unipolar moment, the return of geopolitics, and the U.S.-China New Cold War. He believes China is not as fragile as some say. We talk Taiwan, how Beijing has caught up in military tech, and how the nature of naval warfare in the next war will be very different. On the technology and AI front, he feels the U.S. and China are at parity, but that the long-term trend is in China's favor. He feels the social credit system is advancing just as fast in the West as in China and that the digital yuan is rapidly gaining in stature. He gives his view on the Ukraine crisis and how it has been a huge strategic error by the U.S. because it has cemented the Eurasian alliance. He's concerned about a systemic financial meltdown, discusses being a victim of woke cancel culture, and knowing Richard Feynman.

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Show Notes

On Ukraine: the return of Multipolarity and Hard Power https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-ukraine-return-of-multipolarity-and.html

Strategic Calculus of a Taiwan Invasion https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2021/08/strategic-calculus-of-taiwan-invasion.html

Websites

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Information Processing Blog https://infoproc.blogspot.com

Manifold Podcast https://www.manifold1.com

About Steve Hsu

Dr. Stephen Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and held faculty positions at Yale and the University of Oregon. Hsu was founder and CEO of SafeWeb, a Silicon Valley technology startup acquired by Symantec for $26 million. He is a scientific advisor to BGI and a member of its Cognitive Genomics lab.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Nathan Carson discusses the overturning of the unipolar status quo by way of military strength by revisionist powers (e.g. Russia, China). After the collapse of the Soviet Union the West unsuccessfully attempted to supersize and globalize the neoliberal international order, and instead we're looking at the return of history and the last Davos man. The world as we knew the past 30 years is over. Nations are now trying to carve out their own spheres of interest, to find the new equilibrium in the international system. People are trying to find out what this brave new world looks like. The world is moving toward a more regionalized bloc system. China is having numerous problems and is attempting to solve them via automation, which is expensive. We're seeing rising food price inflation, food insecurity, and input prices. The U.S. is very food self-sufficient, there you might see localized shortages. The developing world could be on the brink of famine. Globalization is dead, we can't save the system. Localized resilient systems need to be built.

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Geopolitics & Empire · Nathan Carson: We're Looking at the Return of History & the Last Davos Man #272

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About Nathan Carson

Nathan Carson is the head of supply chain/ops for a fertilizer blender. Food security is national security. He write about geopolitics and makes populist hot takes in his free time. His Shatterpoints Substack is about examining historical mega-trends, the challenges we face, and the forces constraining future actions. Utilizing systems thinking, Shatterpoints outlines how economics, politics, demographics, security, environment, geography, and culture are interacting to drive events over the next decade.

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Doug Casey talks Great Reset, says we're in for a tough time, that trends in motion tend to stay in motion, and fears the stage is being set for some authoritarian leader to rise to power. He feels the people who love liberty (e.g. libertarians) are an anomaly or rounding error compared to the rest of society. He gives his thoughts on being an international man in the brave new world where air travel has collapsed and authority has become more digital and centralized. We discuss Ukraine…he believes the Russians are on the right side of all this. The U.S. Government is a collapsing empire and has become the greatest danger in the world today. We could be looking at real chaos over the next decade or two. He gives us some tips on surviving the apocalypse.

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Geopolitics & Empire · Doug Casey: U.S. Empire Collapsing, Greatest Danger in World Today #271

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Best-selling author, world-renowned speculator, and libertarian philosopher Doug Casey has garnered a well-earned reputation for his erudite (and often controversial) insights into politics, economics, and investment markets.

Doug is widely respected as one of the preeminent authorities on “rational speculation,” especially in the high-potential natural resource sector.

Doug literally wrote the book on profiting from periods of economic turmoil: his book Crisis Investing spent multiple weeks as #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and became the best-selling financial book of 1980 with 438,640 copies sold; surpassing big-caliber names, like Free to Choose by Milton Friedman, The Real War by Richard Nixon, and Cosmos by Carl Sagan.

Then Doug broke the record with his next book, Strategic Investing, by receiving the largest advance ever paid for a financial book at the time. Interestingly enough, Doug’s book The International Man was the most sold book in the history of Rhodesia. And his most recent releases Totally Incorrect (2012) and Right on the Money (2013) continue the tradition of challenging statism and advocating liberty and free markets.

He has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including David Letterman, Merv Griffin, Charlie Rose, Phil Donahue, Regis Philbin, Maury Povich, NBC News, and CNN; has been the topic of numerous features in periodicals such as Time, Forbes, People, and the Washington Post; and is a regular keynote speaker at FreedomFest, the world’s largest gathering of free minds.

Doug has lived in 10 countries and visited over 175. Today you’re most likely to find him at La Estancia de Cafayate (Casey’s Gulch), an oasis tucked away in the high red mountains outside Salta, Argentina. Cafayate most resembles the isolating beauty of Bryce Canyon, Utah combined with the lush vineyards of Napa Valley. Residents enjoy economic and social freedoms not found in the US and some of the best wine and golf on the planet.

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Alasdair Macleod explains how major central banks are completely insolvent, the ECB being in the most trouble, and that this dire situation is yet to be uncovered by the markets. He thinks the financial war between the West and Russia as a result of Ukraine may be what pops the debt bubble. He discusses the rise of the World Island (China and Russia) and the retreat of the West. China and Russia have the gold, the West doesn't. World War III is a financial war taking place on a virtual battleground and he feels we've run out of time. He provides some suggestions on weathering the financial storm.

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Geopolitics & Empire · Alasdair Macleod: US-Russia Financial War Could Pop Debt Bubble #270

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Show Notes

When normality is exposed as a Ponzi https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/when-normality-is-exposed-as-a-ponzi

How Ukraine fits into the global jigsaw https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/how-ukraine-fits-into-the-global-jigsaw

Central banks are now insolvent https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/central-banks-are-now-insolvent

Websites

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About Alasdair Macleod

Alasdair Macleod started his career as a stockbroker in 1970 on the London Stock Exchange. In those days, trainees learned everything: from making the tea, to corporate finance, to evaluating and dealing in equities and bonds. They learned rapidly through experience about things as diverse as mining shares and general economics. It was excellent training, and within nine years he had risen to become senior partner of his firm.

Subsequently, he held positions at director level in investment management, and worked as a mutual fund manager. Mr. Macleod also worked at a bank in Guernsey as an executive director.

For most of his 40 years in the finance industry, he has been de-mystifying macro-economic events for his investing clients. The accumulation of this experience has convinced him that unsound monetary policies are the most destructive weapon governments use against the common man. Accordingly, his mission is to educate and inform the public in layman’s terms what governments do with money and how to protect themselves from the consequences.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Dr. Paolo Urio discusses the roots of American Empire, how the U.S. has always been an 'aristocratic republic,' and how since inception it has used bully and provocation tactics, planning to conquer both the northern and southern continent, which demonstrates the essence of U.S. foreign policy. Washington lacks the capacity to read the intentions of the other side and how America's position in the international system has long since declined. BRICS and initiatives like Belt & Road will soon surpass American dominance and be able to attract other countries seeking to escape U.S. Empire. Dr. Urio suggests that historically China never wanted to conquer the world. In the new multipolar world, the U.S. will not go away, but it will need to change the way it manages its international relations.

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Geopolitics & Empire · Paolo Urio: American Empire Needs to Adjust to New Multipolar World #269

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George Galloway: Prof Paolo Urio explains why America fears China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWUOV_7R3co

Websites

AMERICA AND THE CHINA THREAT: From The End of History to the End of Empire https://www.claritypress.com/product/america-and-the-china-threat-from-the-end-of-history-to-the-end-of-empire

ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paolo-Urio

Academia https://unige.academia.edu/PaoloUrio

Europe-China Management Improvement Foundation http://www.ecmi.ch

About Paolo Urio

PAOLO URIO holds an MA in international relations and a PhD in social and economic sciences from the University of Geneva, where he directed the Masters in Public Management program and managed a training program for senior Chinese public officials on behalf of the Swiss government, that gave him access to Party’s officials, universities and Party schools. He has published several books on China’s reforms and its relations with the West, including China Reclaims World Power Status (Routledge) and China 1949–2019: From Poverty to World Power (Springer).

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Hard-hitting investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva discusses her groundbreaking work uncovering diplomatically protected international arms traffic from Western governments to terrorists as well as her discovery of Pentagon-funded bio-laboratories scattered throughout Eurasia. She learned how the whole of Eastern Europe was involved in a network for arming terrorists with weapons paid for by the USA, UAE, and Saudi Arabia, all under diplomatic cover. She visited numerous bio-labs and found they were located in residential areas where people subsequently complained of pollution, death, and disease. She even interrogated Robert Kadlec. The Pentagon funded 11 bio-labs in Ukraine and has been seeking the DNA and blood samples specifically of Russian nationals. We discuss media censorship and the latest development in Europe where questioning the narrative now can land you in jail.

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Geopolitics & Empire · Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Why is the Pentagon Funding Bio-Labs in Ukraine & Around Eurasia? #268

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Show Notes

Documents expose US biological experiments on allied soldiers in Ukraine and Georgia http://dilyana.bg/documents-expose-us-biological-experiments-on-allied-soldiers-in-ukraine-and-georgia

The Pentagon Bio-weapons http://dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons

Arms traffickers under diplomatic cover supply Syrian terrorists http://dilyana.bg/diplomatic-cover-for-international-arms-traffickers

Journalist discovers Bulgarian weapons in Al Qaeda warehouse in Syria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66_zbFrC3wQ

Websites

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Twitter https://twitter.com/dgaytandzhieva

TRANSCRIPT

Geopolitics & Empire:

The Geopolitics & Empire podcast is joined by a Bulgarian journalist and middle Eastern correspondent, Dilyana Gaytandzhieva. Her websites are Dilyana.bg and ArmsWatch.com. She has been carrying out explosive investigative reporting from on the ground on biological warfare, bio labs, as well as the supply of arms by the West to Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists. Thank you for joining Geopolitics & Empire, Dilyana. How are you doing?

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva:

Thank you for having me, and I much appreciate the interest that you are taking in my stories.

Geopolitics & Empire:

Your work is amazing and I'm amazed that you haven't done more interviews. But before we start, I would tell listeners as well, if they want to get more of a backstory, they can go to some of the Geopolitics & Empire archives where, for example, I spoke with Jeffrey Kaye and he was discussing US bio warfare against North Korea and China in the 1950s. And of course, as well, there is my interview with Dr. Francis Boyle from 2020 where we discussed biological weapons. Dilyana, before we get to the bio warfare and the current events, you ... Earlier in your work, you uncovered a covert international weapons shipment network which worked through diplomatic flights to arm terrorists in the Middle East and Africa, and you say this was organized by US Southern Command, I think. SOCOM? Saudi Arabia and the UAE among other actors, I'm sure. Many of us have long known how the West has funded extremists, Al-Qaeda and ISIS. I often reference, for example, there was an Iraqi general who said, I think last year, that if the West stopped funding, arming, supporting training ISIS, ISIS in Iraq would disappear tomorrow. And so, you've revealed some groundbreaking details and information, such as how diplomatic cover was used to protect this very illegal behavior of our governments. Could you first tell us a bit about the work you've done on this?

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva:

I was a war correspondent and international correspondent for Bulgarian media. At that point, it was in December of 2016. I was covering the Battle of Aleppo, and when the terrorists from [inaudible 00:02:33] this is the Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, retreated from their positions. I was able to enter, along with my cameraman and producer, to enter one underground warehouse which was full with weapons. And to my dismay, most of the weapons were with the country of origin being my country, Bulgaria. I filmed everything, I broadcast this video with so many pieces of evidence, including documents and footage proving that my country Bulgaria was arming terrorists. I broadcast this report, I returned to my country, and I continued my investigation. And a few months later, I published a bigger investigation, about 350 diplomatic flights with weapons originating from Eastern Europe. And all these flights, diplomatic flights with diplomatic clearance, were chartered by the US Special Operations Commands or the US Government, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

According to these documents, these documents were internal memos, official letters, requests for diplomatic clearance with attached documents about weapons being shipped to different locations around the world, but mainly these were weapons destined for Syria and also for Yemen. And these documents proved that the whole of Eastern Europe was involved in an international weapons shipment network for arming terrorists using diplomatic flights. These weapons were paid for by the US government, the Saudi government, and the Emirate government. We are talking about 350 diplomatic flights from 2015 to 2017. After I published this investigation, the company that was involved ... It is a serious state-run air company, Silk Way Alliance, they confirmed that they were exporting weapons for NATO or for their allies, but they denied that these weapons were destined for terrorists. However, the documents showed that this air company or its aircraft made technical landings. For instance, Incirlik Air Base. This is NATO-shared air base in Turkey, very close to the border with Syria. So the weapons were offloaded there and then smuggled to Syria.

This was the scheme, how they did it, because diplomatic flights are exempt from checks, inspections, and air [inaudible 00:06:06]. Nobody knows what exactly was transported on these 350 diplomatic flights, but the documents that I obtained proved the whole scheme or the whole international weapons shipment network, who are the sponsoring parties, who are the exporters, the importers, on papers. But they also proved that all these supplies were under diplomatic cover. And we are not talking about accidental supply or flight, no. This was well organized international weapons shipment network involving many countries. My country Bulgaria, including ... After I published this investigation, I was interrogated by the Bulgarian National Security Agency, and they wanted to know my source. They didn't investigate this crime, namely arming terrorists. They wanted to know my sources. And I probably didn't cooperate with them in the way they wanted. I was fired literally one hour after I was interrogated. I received a phone call from the secretary in the newspaper where I worked, and she told me that my contract was terminated. The next week I was supposed to travel to Syria to continue my investigation on the ground. This never happened. And the editor in chief didn't provide or even didn't meet me and didn't provide any explanation as to why my contract was terminated.

So no investigation was launched in Bulgaria into the crime, arming terrorists with Bulgarian weapons. No. They just launched an investigation into how these documents were made public. This was the only issue that's they wanted to investigate. Nothing more.

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Dmitry Orlov discusses the Ukraine situation and Russia undoing 30 years worth of accumulated damage, while the West punishes itself attempting to thwart Moscow. He discusses the legality of Russia's military incursion which is absolutely necessary in terms of its security. Putin's goals are to militarily neutralize Ukraine, get rid of the Nazi extremists, and form a new legal structure. Regarding energy, the U.S. can't go without Russia for more than a few months, Russia can go without the U.S. practically forever. Western hysteria threatens escalation of the conflict. Dmitry reveals the mystery of why Putin sits at the far end of the table. He feels the U.S. is destroying the dollar which will destroy American living standards. Western leaders are losing their electorate and he's concerned of the mental damage that has occurred throughout the West and thinks living in a place of social cohesion will be important.

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Geopolitics & Empire · Dmitry Orlov: Russia's Incursion Into Ukraine Necessary for Security #267

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About Dmitry Orlov

Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and a writer on subjects related to “potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States,” something he has called “permanent crisis”. Orlov believes collapse will be the result of huge military budgets, government deficits, an unresponsive political system and declining oil production.

Orlov was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and moved to the United States at the age of 12. He has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MA in Applied Linguistics. He was an eyewitness to the collapse of the Soviet Union over several extended visits to his Russian homeland between the late 1980s and mid-1990s.

In 2005 and 2006 Orlov wrote a number of articles comparing the collapse-preparedness of the U.S. and the Soviet Union published on small Peak Oil related sites. Orlov’s article “Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US” was very popular at EnergyBulletin.Net.

Orlov’s book Reinventing Collapse:The Soviet Example and American Prospects, published in 2008, further details his views. Discussing the book in 2009, in a piece in The New Yorker, Ben McGrath wrote that Orlov describes “superpower collapse soup” common to both the U.S. and the Soviet Union: “a severe shortfall in the production of crude oil, a worsening foreign-trade deficit, an oversized military budget, and crippling foreign debt.” Orlov told interviewer McGrath that in recent months financial professionals had begun to make up more of his audience, joining “back-to-the-land types,” “peak oilers,” and those sometimes derisively called “doomers”.

In his review of the book, commentator Thom Hartmann writes that Orlov holds that the Soviet Union hit a “soft crash” because of centralized planning in: housing, agriculture, and transportation left an infrastructure private citizens could co-opt so that no one had to pay rent or go homeless and people showed up for work, even when they were not paid. He writes that Orlov believes the U.S. will have a hard crash, more like Germany’s Weimar Republic of the 1920s.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Cynthia Chung does a deep dive on the roots of the dystopian technocracy and scientific dictatorship that ruling elites are attempting to bring about. She covers the waterfront with the Huxleys, Darwin, Wells, Russell, and more. We get into Blavatsky, Bailey, and Crowley. She discusses how they have long desired a scientific dictatorship to curb the population as well as human creativity. Yuval Harari is a disciple of H.G. Wells and Bertrand Russell is very important to understand in the context of The Great Reset which is centered around transhumanism and cybernetics.

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Show Notes

Who Will Be Brave in Huxley’s New World? https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/10/17/who-will-be-brave-in-huxley-new-world

Who Will Brave in Huxley's New World: The War on Science and the 20th Century Descent of Man https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/who-will-brave-in-huxleys-new-world

The Origins of the Counterculture Movement: A Gathering of Anarchists, Occultists and Psychoanalysts for a New Age https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/the-origins-of-the-counterculture

Huxley’s Ultimate Revolution: The Battle for Your Mind and the Relativity of Madness https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/12/11/huxleys-ultimate-revolution-the-battle-for-your-mind-and-the-relativity-of-madness

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Strategic Culture https://www.strategic-culture.org/contributors/cynthia-chung

About Cynthia Chung

Cynthia is Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation. She has lectured on the topics of Schiller’s aesthetics, Shakespeare’s tragedies, Roman history, the Florentine Renaissance among other subjects. She is a writer for Strategic Culture Foundation, and is a contributing author to the book series “The Clash of the Two Americas.”

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

David McHutchon is the leader of the newly founded Scottish political party Restore Scotland, whose aims include: Scottish independence, liberty of the individual, the sanctity of human life, and the wellbeing of the people of Scotland. He gives us a crash course on Scottish history, how the Scottish National Party (SNP) blew the 2014 referendum on independence, how all current political parties have become indistinguishable from each other, and how the government is actively seeking to restrict civil liberties. He discusses the dual struggle of Scotland becoming free from Britain as well as staying out of the EU and NATO. He discusses globalism and how elites are attempting to condition the population to accept absurdities and the jackboot. He emphasizes the importance of action. We also talk Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, and apocalyptic geopolitics.

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About Restore Scotland

Restore Scotland is a Scottish political party, which was founded in 2020 on the 700th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath. The party stands for the independence of Scotland; the liberty of the individual; the value and the autonomy of the family; the sanctity of human life; and, the health and wellbeing of the people of Scotland.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)