The Australian government is trying to force Facebook and Google to pay Australia news organisations free money; compare the narrative around Aussie journalists in China versus Assange; No, the CDC did *not* say only 6% of people died from COVID; Senate Report about Trump and Russia contains nothing new; who put the Novichok poison in Navalny’s tea? and how?; the Khashoggi trial concludes but what’s happening with the US lawsuit against KSA?

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My old mate Donnie Maclurcan is the CEO of the Post Growth Institute and Affiliate Professor of Economics at Southern Oregon University. He’s one of the smartest and nicest guys I know. I invited him on to chat about his views on the current state of the United States, where he has lived for the past 8 years. We talk about whether or not it’s possible to save the US before it collapses and what comes after capitalism.

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Or is it just failing? Today we break down some of the various definitions of a “failed state” and try to work out how the USA rates against them. And why it matters, even to non-Americans.

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Sean from St Paul joins me for a chat about protests, riots, police brutality and why he has a huge SPQR tatt across his chest.

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Andrew Hout has a degree in history and lives just outside of Columbus in Ohio. We talk about why Americans are so angry and entitled.

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The world’s best travel photographer, Gary Arndt (site) has seen more of the world than most of us ever will. He joins me from his home in Minneapolis to talk about the protests, riots, America and how it is different from the rest of the world.

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I want to focus for a few weeks on the current US protests and riots which started with the death by cop of George Floyd. I’ve invited a number of American friends and fans who live in riot hotspots to come on and share with me their experiences and views on how the country can move forwards.

But I’m starting the miniseries with my favourite American – my wife, Chrissy Dunaway Reilly. She has lived in Australia for nearly eleven years and has a fairly rare perspective on what it’s like to be an American living in a Western country that is similar in many ways – and yet different. And why she no longer wants to return to the country of her birth.

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Mike Snyder, long-time podcast listener, security professional and self-confessed libertarian, Fox News watcher and conspiracy theorist, joined us for a two hour chat today about his fears around the coming of the One World Government, the New World Order, Covid conspiracies, and many other fun topics.

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On this episode, we get into the conspiracies about 5G and the coronavirus – which may have started with Dr. Kris Van Kerckhoven (a Mormon) – then got connected to the new £20 note in the UK – then disgraced American physician, Thomas Cowan, talked about it at a pseudo-science conference – then there was the correlation is causation theory.

More interesting to me is the role 5G is playing in geopolitics. Why Controlling 5G Could Mean Controlling the World – and how, for the first time in a long time, the United States is not the leader in a major technological sector that will underpin future innovation. It’s been called a “geopolitical turning point”.

Then we get into the science – despite many hundreds of studies over the past half century, we have never been able to prove any of these non-ionising waves can cause cancer — and this applies to 5G radiation too.

Who can we trust when it comes to the science around non-ionizing radiation? How about the ICNIRP? Certainly NOT these Fox Nation hosts.

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There are a lot of conspiracy theories going around about 5G – it gives you cancer, autism, changes your DNA, and gives you coronavirus!

So in this episode, we look into the 5G conspiracies as well as the technology itself and the geopolitical battles going on around it.

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