The Politically Incorrect Podcast

A great conversation with my guest Dr. Eric Roe on his brilliant new book Iran’s Reconstruction Jihad: Rural Development and Regime Consolidation after 1979. You can get it on Amazon or wherever you get your books online.

Some brief background on the book from Dr. Roe:

Based on extensive fieldwork in Iran and Lebanon, this book examines how the Islamic Republic
of Iran (IRI) instrumentalized rural development to consolidate power at home and project
influence abroad. A cornerstone of the IRI’s domestic consolidation and overseas influence was
the significant, yet understudied organization and ministry, Reconstruction Jihad (RJ). The term
“jihad” in RJ’s name constituted a powerful recruitment and mobilization tool that referred to a
sacred struggle to improve society and the self through rural development and other positive
pursuits beyond the military sphere.

Our guests are Avneet Singh and Randy Shrewsberry who together feel that “Demilitarizing the Police,” is the smart way to go. That is not defunding, disbanding, or in anyway doing away with police in this country.

Singh is the founder of the Los Angeles based the “Voice of Mankind.” It is a non-profit Think Tank working to influence public opinion on issues that affect us all. We are here to make sense of this changing world.

As for Shrewsberry he is a former police officer, Crash Reconstruction Investigator as well as a Certified Fire & Explosion Investigator. Mr. Shrewsberry has spent nearly 30 years in both the public and private sector criminal justice field.

He has been a lecturer on criminal justice matters and has been admitted as an expert on several occasions in the State of California, State of South Carolina and the State of Indiana in Criminal and Civil court. His most recent work has received national attention including cited at The New York Daily News, The Washington Post, NBCSports, USAToday, and more.

He is the founder of he Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform exists to save lives and reduce injury among the public and the police by reforming the deeply-flawed, inadequate, and antiquated training models, policies, procedures, and legislative standards for employees in the United States' Criminal Justice Reform.

My guest is author Dr. Saqib Qureshi who has peened a must read book titled The Broken Contract: Making Our Democracies Efficient, Representative, and Accountable

Dr. Qureshi digs into the data to show that a large number of elected representatives are mostly rich, male, and political lifers, and as such frequently out of touch with a changing society and its demographics. Dr. Qureshi proposes that rather than allowing bureaucrats protected employment for life, some 2% of all underachieving government employees should be regularly removed from their jobs. Some might find this unfair, but Dr. Qureshi points out this is below the annual turnover of a private sector company. Conversely, he argues that we should meaningfully reward the top 5 percent of public sector employees.

This is something that he suggests can be done if employees are given effective evaluations each quarter, providing the necessary comparative data.

We talk one of the most interesting characters in modern Olympic history Rulon Gardner. He is the subject of a fascinating Olympic Channel documentary “Rulon Gardner Won't Die.”

We see that he had a tough childhood as one of nine children with a loving family but he grew up on a farm working hard day in and day out.

As a young man he survived a number of close call accidents but he was always out to do his best and work hard for his family. He attended the University of Nebraska where he would establish himself as a top notch college wrestler.

Be sure to check out “Rulon Gardner Won't Die," on the Olympic Channel streaming now on demand.

Avneet Singh is the founder of the Los Angeles based think tank Voice of Mankind and we discuss the issue of wearing masks in this COVID 19 world. We are seeing a clash over "Civil Liberties and Civil Decency."

Be sure to check out www.voiceofmankind.org for all of the great content that Aveet and his team offer free of charge.

We discuss a wide range of topics from politics to global warming in a very interesting conversation. Be sure to check out their website at voiceofmankind.org for more information.

Voice of Mankind is a non-profit Think Tank working to influence public opinion on issues that affect us all. We are here to make sense of this changing world. We provide original analysis, provoke thought, and enlighten on issues relevant to all of us. Our ideas are battle-tested in the real world every day by us. You should too.

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Saafir Rabb is an up and coming star in the Democratic Party and he faces a uphill battle to win the seat vacated by the death of Congressional Icon Elijah Cummings. There are some very high profile names vying for a chance to represent the 7th District of Maryland, including Cumming widow Maya Rockeymoore Cummings and Kweisi Mfume but don’t count Rabb out just yet.

He is a fighter and has strong roots in the community where he is a business strategist, community developer, and advocate for cultural competence. Born in Baltimore City and growing up between Baltimore and Howard County, he has spent his life working behind the scenes in the communities of Maryland’s 7th district, promoting social enterprise, expanding addictions recovery efforts, building low to moderate income housing, and creating jobs for residents. Saafir went on to build a business career with global philanthropic reach.


Throughout this career, he has remained committed to changing the circumstances of District 7 for the better. Saafir is proud of his Maryland heritage and is dedicated to improving the apparatus through which communities connect with their representatives. 

Check out his website o find out more about his campaign

https://saafirforcongress.com

Follow him on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/Saafir4Congress/

Twitter - @Saafir4Congress

Instagram - @Saafir4Congress

Have questions or comments?

No problem just ask away on social media Twitter @JWMediaDC Instagram – Jimwilliams200 and email at [email protected]

Dan Maduri and Jim Williams in this edition of The Politically Incorrect Podcast talk about the rampant problem of Tribalism. We share with you a few excerpts from a recent article from the Pacific Standard titled America's Seven Political Tribes


Americans are best divided into seven distinct tribes: progressive activists (about 8 percent of the population), traditional liberals (11 percent), passive liberals (15 percent), the politically disengaged (26 percent), moderates (15 percent), traditional conservatives (19 percent), and devoted conservatives (6 percent).


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My guest Alan J. Steinberg is never at a loss for good, smart and well thoughtout observations. Today we tackle the issues on If you are Jewish vote for a Democrat are you being disloyal to Israel?


Also, is the water we drink killing us slowly?


Steinberg served as Regional Administrator of Region 2 EPA during the administration of former President George W. Bush and as Executive Director of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission under former New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman. He also has worked on a number projects with the Israeli governments well as environmentalist groups in the country over the years.

He also is a political comentator on i24 News Israel as well as regular columnist for

https://www.insidernj.com/


Be sure to follow him on Twiter at @Asteinberg613


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Jim Williams and Dan Maduri talk about the mass shooting attacks that took place in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. There is pressure on the White House, the House and the Senate to do something about the rash of gun violence in this country.

The duo talk about what if anything that Congress, or the White House will do anything to curb the growing gun violence in the United States. There are many plans that the American people support like the ban on assault rifles, enhanced background checks, closing the loopholes at gun shows and Internet sales.

These common sense gun laws have support by both those who aren’t gun owners and those who all agree that the time has come to move forward on gun laws. But are state legislators both on a statewide and in Washington ready to make a bold move?

But year in and year out there seems no way that politicians on both sides of the political community statewide and in Washington who are willing to give up the gun lobby money. Until the money comes out

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