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A two-hour solo broadcast from Paul English, recorded "in my hut in the south of England" and mirrored by Global Voice Radio Network. It is the fifth show in the series, built around the recurring theme the host calls "the money power", his framing of finance and central banking as the common thread running through political upheaval from the English Civil War to the present day.
Hour one is mostly a reading hour. Paul opens with the episode's cover art by French-American Western painter Marc Maggiore, detours into Thomas Goodrich's frontier history Scalp Dance, then settles into the show's current preoccupation: Nesta Webster's The French Revolution, which he is reading ahead of Ridley Scott's Napoleon. He pairs it with Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, reading the famous "men think in herds" passage, then reads several pages describing Louis XVI being escorted into Paris in July 1789, arguing the crowd was manipulated rather than spontaneous, and drawing a parallel to information management during the Covid period.
Hour two opens with an announcement: the show has been picked up by WBN324.com (World Broadcasting Network) and Freefall Radio in South Africa, and moves to a new 8pm UK slot the following week. The hour turns to technocracy, central banks, CBDCs, Agenda 2030, via a five-minute clip of a citizens' delegation to the council of Aurora, Ontario on Agenda 21 and 15-minute "smart cities", where SMART is reframed as surveillance, monitoring, analysis, reporting, technology. A US listener, also called Paul, calls in and stays for the rest of the hour: neighbours as informants, the decline of the English pub and the post-war folk clubs, refusing to live in fear, and, after a Daily Telegraph promotional film about the automated home of 2030, Roger Scruton, Michelangelo, and Dostoevsky's "beauty will save the world".
Concepts and terms
UN Agenda 21 / Agenda 2030 · ICLEI · World Economic Forum · World Health Organization · 15-minute cities · SMART = surveillance, monitoring, analysis, reporting, technology · CBDCs and digital ID · universal basic income · social credit · Bentham's Panopticon · the 2022 Ottawa trucker convoy and the Emergencies Act · "the money power"
Marc Maggiore · Thomas Goodrich · Nesta Webster · Charles Mackay · Ridley Scott · Napoleon Bonaparte · Louis XVI · Marie Antoinette · Robespierre · Danton · the Duc d'Orléans · Jean-Sylvain Bailly · Charles I · Oliver Cromwell · Yuri Bezmenov · G. Edward Griffin · Archibald Maule Ramsay · Klaus Schwab · Justin Trudeau · Brian Mulroney · Patrick Wood · Osho · Van Morrison · Hilaire Belloc · G.K. Chesterton · Jeremy Bentham · Roger Scruton · Michelangelo · Picasso · Mark Rothko · Gustave Doré · Fyodor Dostoevsky · Arthur C. Clarke
Nesta Webster: The French Revolution: A Study in Democracy. The book being read on air.Charles Mackay: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.Thomas Goodrich: Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879. (06:33)Thomas Goodrich: Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947. (08:13)Capt. Archibald Maule Ramsay: The Nameless War. ~105 pages.G. Edward Griffin: The Creature from Jekyll Island.Patrick Wood: his writing on technocracy and the technocratic control system.Ridley Scott: Napoleon (2023). The film the French Revolution reading is building up to. (12:47)G. Edward Griffin's interview with Yuri Bezmenov on demoralisation.Osho: clip on democracy. ~1 minute, played at 50:12.Aurora, Ontario council delegation: ~5-minute address on UN Agenda 21, ICLEI, the WEF.The Daily Telegraph: ~5-minute promotional film on smart homes, IoT and domestic life.Roger Scruton: Why Beauty Matters (BBC).Marc Maggiore documentary: a 30-40 minute film on YouTube of the painter at work.Van Morrison: "They Own the Media". Played at the top of the hour, 59:28.paulenglishlive.com: the show's home; paulenglishlive.com/call for web call-ins.Rumble and Odysee: where the show is streamed and chatted; YouTube for replays.WBN324.com: World Broadcasting Network, which picked up the show from this episode.Freefall Radio (South Africa): also carrying the show.Global Voice Radio Network: mirror stream host.GyanBooks.com (India): reprint house that made the host's leather-bound Webster volume.archive.org: free scan of the Webster book.Stand in the Park: UK Sunday-morning meet-up movement discussed at 1:27:03.NEOM "The Line", Saudi Arabia: 175 km long, 500 m high, 200 m wide.The Franklin Arms: the pub near the host that was Hilaire Belloc's local. (1:24:47)