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I always thought the phrase "the revolution will not be televised" was a cliche, until 2022 and the Canadian Truckers. There is something approaching a soft revolution happening in Canada right now, truckers, farmers, and other supporters drove a convoy of 10s of thousands across Canada to the capital and have blockaded the area surrounding the parliament for 3 weeks now. They have stated they wil...

Spencer Jakab, author of The Revolution That Wasn't, all about the GameStop/Memestock saga in January 2021, was my guest on today's show. Don't worry, Spencer hasn't dented my belief in GME. However, this book is well worth a read for anyone interested in the GameStop story! I learnt a lot and felt that, whilst the conclusions were not the ones I was drawing from this story he is clearly knowledge...

I think I mention the work of Mark E. Thomas on this show almost as much as I reference Naomi Klein and The Shock Doctrine, so it was a pleasure to have Mark back on the show. In this episode we talked through the privatisation of the NHS, the implications of the Health and Social Care Bill, the authoritarian drift of the UK, whether we live in a one party state, and how we reconcile emergency pow...

*For the purposes of not being banned and as a disclaimer I will say: The views represented here do may not represent the mainstream scientific view on the issues presented. Nothing in this show should be taken as medical advice. We are simply trying to explore the figures and data we're being given by our governments and understand what they mean as we try to reflect on the past two years.*  If y...

Consciousness is one of the strangest parts of our universe. It's a mind-bogglingly complicated and difficult topic to discuss seriously and almost impossible to measure, let alone define. Where on earth does consciousness come from? However, luckily for us Mark Solms amazing new book, The Hidden Spring: A Journey To The Source Of Consciousness, addresses many of these questions. In this fascinati...

Melissa Ciummei first came across my radar after I saw her speak at an anti-vaccine passport protest in Belfast. Once I delved further into her work, I saw that Melissa was discussing ideas of good and evil, financial reset, and above all, she was warning about the dangers of digital ID and a centralised system of control from the government based around smart cities and the promise of integration...

Andrew Feinstein is Founding Director of Shadow World Investigations (formerly Corruption Watch), an NGO that undertakes path-breaking investigations into cases of grand corruption, corporate malfeasance and militarism, predominantly but not exclusively in the global arms trade. Andrew was a former African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa for 7 years before resigning in...

Does power corrupt? Or do those prone to corruption end up in power? It's an age-old question answered by Dr Brian Klaas in his brand new book "Corruptible: Who Gets Power And How It Changes Us". I was lucky enough to get a copy and read the book over Christmas. In the middle of a world in which I have witnessed politicians do horrendous damage as they try to help, I have often wondered whether it...

Evergrande has been discussed at length during the GameStop saga. Many apes, both smooth and wrinklebrained, have pointed to Evergrande as a potential catalyst for a global economic crisis that could trigger... the MOASS. So I decided to get in tough with Dr Marco Metzler, who's company bought Evergrande bonds to discover more details on the debt situation and are currently filing to have Evergran...

There have been several disparate but converging forces operating within the UK over the past few years - a creeping authoritarianism, increasing polarisation and politicisation, and the pandemic and all it's associated problems. The issue for me is that too often the first two are dismissed as irrelevant due to the pandemic, when in fact, I argue that this crisis is the exact moment we must fight...

Is the establishment collapsing? With Boris and Prince Andrew coming under major scrutiny, I wanted to talk about whether the establishment might be on their last legs. The real question is will they suffer consequences! Back for round two is Klaudia Fior.  Klaudia is a 23 year-old journalist & PR/advertising MA graduate. She works for Bywire News, Britains only blockchain news network, aggregatin...

Austria is a country very close to my heart, so it has saddened me greatly to see what has become of such a wonderfully free place. It was my pleasure in this episode to get the time to speak to Austrian Bitcoin and privacy advocate Der Gigi - who has sadly left the country due to fear over covid restrictions. In this episode we dived into how Austria became one of the strictest countries in the w...

I've been having a lot of conversations with people about Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies and blockchain technology and about how they are going to change the world of finance. However, it wasn't until I got the chance to read Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks by Steven Boykey Sidley and Simon Dingle that I really understood the full scope of how this space threatens t...

Ted Reese is a Marxist and the author of: Socialism or Extinction, Humanising Production, and the upcoming book The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman. In this podcast Ted and I talked through the left wing or "Marxist" case against more covid restrictions, particularly the vaccine passports. We talked about why a lot of the left fail to see the damage being caused by lockdowns, the...

Paolo Gerbaudo is a political sociologist and the director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King's College London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets (2012), The Mask and the Flag (2017), and The Great Recoil (2021). In this podcast we talked through GameStop as a blueprint for revolution, online crowds and mobs, transparency in finance and on the internet, why GameStop was a backlash...

Gavin O'Toole is writer and editor with a long background at the UK's leading newspapers, including eight years at the Observer, six years at the Financial Times, and six years at the Guardian. Has written for Reuters IFR, Al Jazeera, Guardian, Futures and Options Association, Markit Magazine, NACLA, Global Government Forum, Public Finance International, Latin America Business School/Ebanx (Brazil...

NFTs, the Metaverse, and digital real estate are all concepts that fascinate me. I've had discussions with a few people about this topic and now I decided to get a true expert on the show! I'm lucky enough to be joined by Dave Carr of Parcel (formerly of Decentraland)! He's here to explain to me how and why we should be looking at digital real estate, why he believes it is an amazing investment op...

Max Hillebrand is free software engineer an economist who started reading Keynes when he was 9 and got into Bitcoin at the age of 16. He says “Bitcoin is for everyone”, even his grandmother runs a Lightning node. Max came across my radar as a Bitcoin enthusiast, but he really peaked my interest when he proposed writing a book on Cypher Punk philosophy! We talked through the ideas of ownership, int...

Emma Reilly is a former UN employee and whistleblower who uncovered that the UN was handing names of dissidents to the Chinese government. Emma said, "One of the first issues we had to deal with was a request from China to know whether specific individuals were planning to attend the session. I had received a similar request before and the answer has always been NO." She added she thought it would...

Johnny McCamley, founder of CryptoClear, is back for round two on my podcast! Johnny is a fellow Northern Irishman who is making incredible strides in the crypto space. Not only did he achieve a 17x return from May to September on his trading portfolio, he is about to launch Europe's first crypto ETI alongside a Swiss bank, investing in BTC, ETH, ADA and more. But that's only the start, there's pl...

Why can't we get medicinal marijuana in the UK? The UK accounts for 70% of the export market around the world for medical cannabis and yet it seems there is no way to legitimately get a marijuana prescription. THANKFULLY, Alan Robinson, better known as NICannaguy on Instagram, is pushing the boat out and has opened the very first medicinal marijuana cafe in Northern Ireland. Don't be going in expe...

Over the past weeks and months I have endlessly heard about the migrant crisis in the channel and about untold numbers of folks crossing into Britain in order to seek asylum. I have had so many questions about the crisis that are simply not mentioned or addressed by those who are covering the issue - whether than is the papers or the BBC. So I decided that the absolute best thing I could do, would...

Michael Yardley was born in Denmark and educated in England, Switzerland and the US. He has a psychology degree from London University, conducted post-graduate research into direct action and terrorism at the LSE, and is also a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Michael is well known as a security and sporting journalist, often broadcasting on these topics. The author of 10 books an...

Greg Foss spent 32 yrs trading in the credit markets at a hedge fund before he left and found the wonders of Bitcoin. He believes that fiat currency is a ponzi scheme, that it will continue to debase, and that the current system is simply borrowing future prosperity. We got into some really intriguing discussions on GME, bonds, debt, Bitcoin, and the end of the fiat system! One of the funniest and...

I am delighted to have Peter McCormack, Bitcoin Maximalist and host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast on this episode of the show. I have been thinking a lot about the crumbling of the 20th-century institutions across the world, such as media, government, and finance, and wondering how we might achieve some sort of bloodless revolution. It's a difficult idea to fathom, but we need to find ways to re...