We’ve got a bumper episode for you this week. First, we begin our series on Geopolitics by doing a deep dive into trade wars, global commerce networks and China’s One-Belt, One-Road initiative. This covers a lot of ground, from military deployments of superpowers to a new Arctic trade route right through to the many ways that China are expanding their global trade network through debt-funded developments. We also discuss a number of tricky issues presented by our current geopolitical system.
On the news side, we look at the recent police raids on Australian journalists and discuss the consequences of our increasingly Orwellian ‘national security’ laws in the Western World. We also look at the latest in Bitcoin, some new developments out of EOS (including their new social media platform) and discuss the rapid growth in enterprise blockchain consortiums.
In our Privacy and Security segment, we discuss Unroll.me, a service to unsubscribe from all those pesky email lists. Finally, we check in on our intrepid reporter Jordan Cronje, who’s negotiating latrine duty between superpowers in Djibouti. What could possibly go wrong?
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Show Links:
- Lecture by a Physicist Paul Ben-Ishai, PhD on the potential effects of 5G to human health
- Darknet Diaries
- Casefile Podcast
- Understanding Our Slavery
- AFP Raids on Journalists: How Laws Against Terrorism and Espionage Are Actually Being Used
- Everyone’s Hodling Bitcoin: Only 1.3% of Transactions are Payments in 2019
- World’s Second and Fourth Biggest Shipping Firms Join Maersk’s Blockchain Platform
- Episode 35
- EOS (EOS) is now available on Coinbase
- Block.One (the creator of EOS) is Launching a Social Media Platform on the EOS Blockchain
- Big Banks Announce Fiat-Pegged ‘XRP Killer’ Crypto for Settlements
- LocalBitcoins quietly removes in-person cash trades
- Top 4 LocalBitcoins Alternatives in 2019
- LocalCoinSwap
- PayFair
- BitQuick
- Bisq
- Local Bitcoin
- BBC Goes to Conduct Its First Broadcast Over 5G, Immediately Hits Data Cap
- Walmart Joins Pharmaceutical-Tracking Blockchain Consortium MediLedger
- The Entire Semiconductor Market Just Suffered the Worst Downturn in a Decade
- Rolls-Royce guns for electric airplane speed record
- Privacy & Security: Unroll.me
- US-Mexico talks: Trump hails deal on migrants to avoid tariffs
- China’s bugging of ANU building
- China’s Huawei plans to promote smart cities in Africa
- Djibouti: Chinese Base only 12kms from US Africa base
- China’s Xi praises ‘best friend’ Putin during Russia visit
- Huawei signs deal with Russian telecoms firm to develop 5G
- Russia ready to fill China’s food gap left by US in trade war fallout
- Russia keen to sell yuan bonds to deepen ties with China and further reduce US dollar dependence
- U.S. to sell 34 surveillance drones to allies in South China Sea region
- Russia and China to develop Arctic trade route
- India is Trump’s Next Target in the Trade War
- Modi & Solih inaugurate coastal surveillance system in Maldives
- Chinese Silk Road (Belt & Road)
Time Stamps:
00:00 John F Kennedy Discusses Government Secrecy
01:22 Introduction
01:54 What We’re Covering
05:04 What We’ve Been Up To
08:52 What We’ve Been Reading/Listening To
11:12 Disclaimer
13:08 News: Australia Cracking Down On Journos
18:36 Bitcoin News
20:10 News: More Join Maersk
23:11 EOS News
25:43 News: EOS Social Media – Voice
32:01 News: New ‘Ripple Killer’
35:05 News: Local Bitcoin Remove In Person Trades
40:21 News: BBC Hit 5g Data Cap on First Broadcast
42:18 News: Walmart are joining Mediledger
48:50 News: Entire Semiconducter Market Suffers Downturn Since 1930s
55:21 News: Rolls Royce and the Electric Air Record
57:45 Privacy and Security: Unroll.me
61:06 Feature: What’s Going on in Geopolitics?
98:18 Jordan Cronje: The Intermediary
104:00 Wrap Up
105:03 Outtakes
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