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WE’RE BACK! We had to take a while off because of some real life stuff, but were back and OH BOY did we pick a good week to come back. Norfolk Southern nuked a town in eastern Ohio AND NORAD shot down TWO UFOs this week (one over Lake Huron and one over Alaska). We dive into all the details and oh my God there are so many details so lets jump into it!

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Derailed Train in Ohio Carried Chemical Used to Make PVC, ‘the Worst’ of the Plastics | Inside Climate News

Norfolk Southern Corp. | Fintel

Yesterday there was a major derailment in Houston, and another in Enoree, South Carolina. | More Perfect Union Twitter

After the Ohio Train Derailment: Evacuations, Toxic Chemicals and Water Worries | The New York Times

Statement from Regional Administrator Debra Shore on the East Palestine Train Derailment | United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Drone video shows aftermath of Ohio train derailment, explosion | WBNS 10TV

Radio Audio From F-16 Shoot Down Of Object Over Lake Huron | The War Zone Youtube

Statement on Today's Actions by North American Aerospace Defense Command | US Department of Defense

FAA temporarily closed Montana airspace after UFO shoot-down in Canada | The Washington Times

US shoots down another ‘high-altitude object’ over Alaska | The Hill

China Ready to Down Object Flying Near Naval Base: Paper | Bloomberg

Mystery surrounds objects shot down by US military | BBC

Rik is joined by Rich Sedei to talk entrepreneurial spirit and starting your own business.

Dr. Rich Sedei was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He attended Texas A&M University (TAMU) in College Station, Texas for his undergraduate degree. There he played lacrosse for the men's team and completed a degree in biology. After college, Dr. Sedei moved to Portland, OR for chiropractic school at the University of Western States. While attending chiropractic school, he was in a horrific car crash, which caused him to suffer multiple fractures in his neck, in addition to disc and ligament injuries throughout the remainder of his spine. He has since recovered well from his injuries with the help of conservative care, rehabilitation exercises, and regenerative medicine. His experience prompted his pursuit of becoming a specialist in traumatic injuries related to auto accidents. In his practice, he draws from his personal and professional experience to help guide his patients, staff, and attending physicians through the nuances of significant physical injuries and the hurdles imposed by insurance companies. In addition to a doctorate degree, Dr. Sedei holds a master's degree in sports medicine, is a certified federal medical examiner, and also holds advanced certifications in whiplash & traumatology. He is currently the Medical Director for Accident Care Chiropractic, which spans across the pacific northwest, specializing in auto injuries. Dr. Sedei is often asked to testify in medico-legal cases as an expert witness in his field. In his free time, Dr. Sedei continues to enjoy coaching and playing lacrosse at a competitive level, doing jiu-jitsu, exploring Portland’s restaurant scene, and traveling.

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Accident Care Chiropractic | Official Website

Italy’s recent elections have seen the rise of the “Brothers of Italy” party led by Giorgia Meloni. Billed as “center right”, the Brothers of Italy have raised several alarms.
With Meloni at the head of a coalition whose other members include Matteo Salvini’s League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, these members were each once the main force on Italy’s populist right. In the words of today’s guest Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, the Brothers of Italy have “an underlying and sinister familiarity.” Although fascism is not an exclusively Italian problem. The world is going through a kind of fascist renaissance and the United States isn’t immune. Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins us to sound the alarm on rising forces in American politics including Donald Trump and everyone’s favorite wanna be dictator Gov. Ron DeSantis (FL).
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a historian who writes about authoritarianism, democracy protection, and propaganda. She is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, the recipient of Guggenheim and other fellowships, and Advisor to Protect Democracy. She is an MSNBC opinion columnist, a regular contributor to CNN and The Washington Post, and provides live commentary on CNN, MSNBC, and other networks. She publishes Lucid, a newsletter on threats to democracy. Her latest book, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, looks at how illiberal leaders use propaganda, corruption, violence, and machismo - and how they can be defeated. You can find more about Ruth on her website ruthbenghiat.com and on Twitter @ruthbenghiat
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Official Website
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present | W. W. Norton & Co.
Lucid Newsletter by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Substack
The Return of Fascism in Italy by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | The Atlantic
PAUL MANAFORT, AMERICAN HUSTLER by Franklin Foer | The Atlantic
Hackers Leak Thousands Of Photos Exposing China's Uyghur Camps | AJ+
How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days by Lawrence Wu | NPR
1928 Poster of Hitler with tape on his Mouth Claiming he is Being Censored | r/PropagandaPosters
Indian politician morphs into hologram to reach millions of voters by Chris Welch | The Verge
Paul Manafort: Handmaiden to dictators by David Hoffman | The Hill
Donald Trump and Steve Bannon’s coup in the making by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | CNN
Ruth Ben Ghiat Profile | Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist
What is Germany's 'Reichsbürger' movement? by Rina Goldberg | DW
The Prince, the Plot and a Long-Lost Reich By Erika Solomon and Katrin Bennhold | The New York Times

Friend-of-the-show Ford Fischer joins us to discuss recent events pertaining to “The Twitter Files” and the recent activities of extremist groups in the United States. If you haven’t heard our previous episode with Ford ( Episode 83), Ford is a video journalist, primary source documentary filmmaker, and the Editor-in-Chief of News2Share.com, where he primarily focuses on political activism and extremism in the United States. His work has been featured on every major news network as well as Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe winning films. You can find more about Ford on his Twitter and News2share.com

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News2share | Official Website

News2Share | Youtube

Ford Fischer | Twitter

News2Share | Twitter

Bari Weiss “The Twitter Files Pt 2” | Twitter

Former NYT columnist Bari Weiss releases ‘Twitter Files Part Two’ | The Hill

‘Twitter Files’ Touted by Musk Reveal How Execs Debated Decision to Block NY Post Account Over Hunter Biden Articles | Variety

Rep. Ro Khanna pushed back on Twitter suppression of Hunter Biden laptop story | San Francisco Chronicle

Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk | The Intercept

Man killed trying to break in Ohio FBI office appeared to threaten agents in social media posts. | PBS News Hour

Bomb Threat at Boston Children's Hospital; Police Give All-Clear | NBC 10 Boston

A Russian Facebook page organized a protest in Texas. A different Russian page launched the counterprotest. | The Texas Tribune

The FBI Calls It An 'Extremist Militia.' What Exactly Is 'This Is Texas Freedom Force?' | Texas Public Radio

Proud Boys, white supremacists protest of canceled drag story time event in Ohio among several across country | Cleaveland.com

Patriot Front | ADL

THOMAS ROUSSEAU: Profile | Southern Poverty Law Center

Black FedEx driver shot at by white men draws parallels to Ahmaud Arbery case | The Guardian

Devil’s Punchbowl — An American Concentration Camp So Horrific It was Erased from History | SPMG Media

THREE SHOT, FIVE ARRESTS AS MILITIA GROUPS AND PROTESTERS CONVERGE ON LOUISVILLE | News2Share.com

The Not F*****g Around Coalition Is America's Largest Armed Black Militia | VICE on SHOWTIME

7 sick days a year & a fair schedule. That is all the Railroad workers of the United States have asked for.
Despite this, President Biden and Congress have seen fit to force a contract on the railroaders. Both the Senate and House voted for the contract. However, 52 senators (all of which have unlimited sick time and make $174,000) saw fit to vote down the sick time amendment to the contract. This left all the rail workers stuck with a hellish scheduling system (Precision Scheduled Railroading) and a contract that the rank and file have resoundingly rejected over and over.
To really understand this battle, we needed to call in support. Luckily, friend-of-the-show Dr. Andrea Haverkamp came in clutch. Andrea takes us all the way back to some of the earliest railroad strikes in US history to help us get the whole perspective of the incredibly nuanced topic.
Dr. Haverkamp is a Labor organizer for the American Federation of Teachers as well as a professor of Climate justice, queer student experiences in STEM, and engineering ethics at the University of San Diago. She has extensive experience in workplace organizing in higher education and healthcare, as well as coalition political organizing for environmental and social justice in the Pacific Northwest. Her research and teaching centers intersectional queer, trans, and feminist frameworks and an organizing approach towards social transformation. Her primary topics of research and teaching are climate justice, trans and gender nonconforming student experiences in STEM, and engineering ethics.
Her engineering experience prior to academia and the labor movement includes environmental engineering positions in the federal government, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She has also served as a chemistry and physics high school teacher in Kolahun, Liberia in the Peace Corps.
Dr. Haverkamp holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering with a doctoral minor in Queer Studies, a graduate certificate in College and University Teaching, and a Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from Oregon State University. She also holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas.
The whole Rik’s Mind family wants to express our HUGE support for the railroaders in this fight against the Feds. Godspeed and give’em hell
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Dr. Andrea Haverkamp | University of San Diago
Great Railroad Strike of 1877 | Encyclopedia Britannica
The Pullman Strike of 1894 | US National Park Service
Eight Hour Day (1916) | US Library of Congress
Great Railroad Strike of 1922 | Wikipedia
From an 8-hour workday to Labor Day: Rail strikes that changed America | The Washington Post
Adamson Act | Wikipedia
Railway Labor Act | Wikipedia
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 | Wikipedia
1992 United States railroad strike | Wikipedia
The Postwar Strike Wave of 1945-46 | American History USA
For Minimum Decency, a Maximum Wage | Institute for Policy Studies
Huey Long | Encyclopedia Britannica
Lawmakers consider how a Kroger-Albertsons merger would affect consumers | NPR
What the proposed Kroger and Albertsons merger could mean for shoppers and food prices | PBS News Hour
Wealth Inequality in Oregon Is Extreme | Oregon Center for Public Policy
Income inequality in Oregon hits new record | Oregon Center for Public Policy
How European-Style Public Housing Could Help Solve The Affordability Crisis | NPR
Imagine a Seattle that can house all of our neighbors in a collective effort | House Our Neighbors
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Global Warming is the biggest reckoning the human race has yet to encounter.

As the United States is still caught in the throes of denial of climate change and “doom & gloom” reigns, there are groups that are trying to solve this problem. One of those groups is the Club of Rome. Building on their groundbreaking report “The Limits to Growth”, released in 1972, the Club has convened a new group to help humanity grow out of our fossil fuel addiction. Their new report “Earth4All” started as a vibrant collective of leading economic thinkers, scientists, and advocates, convened by The Club of Rome, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Norwegian Business School.

With more and more people and organisations joining, Earth4All has become a platform to connect and amplify the chorus of voices that want to upgrade our economies. We are not starting from scratch. The momentum is growing. Communities and policy makers across the world are already changing the way we think about economics.

Earth4All builds on the legacies of The Limits to Growth and the Planetary Boundaries frameworks. Science is at the heart of their work. They rethink capitalism and move beyond GDP for a safe, secure and prosperous future in the Anthropocene.

To help us work our way through Earth4All, we are joined by the Club of Rome’s Till Kellerhoff. Till is the Program Director of the Club of Rome and Coordinator & National Engagement Lead of the Earth4All initiative as well as contributing author of Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity. Before joining The Club of Rome, he studied Politics, Economics and International Relations at the University of Erfurt (Germany), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico) and the London School of Economics (UK). He is mostly working on themes around "Rethinking Economics" and concepts around societal wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries. You can follow Till on his Twitter @TKellerhoff and the Club of Rome on their twitter @ClubOfRome.

About the Club of Rome:

Most influential organizations begin with the meeting of a few like minds. In 1965, Aurelio Peccei, an Italian industrialist, made a speech that proved inspirational to Alexander King, the Scottish Head of Science at the OECD. The two found that they shared a profound concern for the long-term future of humanity and the planet, what they termed the modern ‘predicament of mankind’.

Three years later, King and Peccei convened a meeting of European scientists in Rome. Although this first attempt failed to achieve unity, a core group of like-minded thinkers emerged. Their goal: to advance three core ideas that still define the Club of Rome today: a global and a long-term perspective, and the concept of “problematique”, a cluster of intertwined global problems, be they economic, environmental, political or social.

At the group’s first major gathering in 1970, Jay Forrester, a systems professor at MIT, offered to use computer models he had developed to study the complex problems which concerned the group more rigorously. An international team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a study of the implications of unbridled exponential growth. They examined the five basic factors that determine and, in their interactions, ultimately limit growth on this planet – population, agricultural production, non-renewable resource depletion, industrial output and pollution.

In 1972, the Club’s first major Report, The Limits to Growth was published. It sold millions of copies worldwide, creating media controversy and also impetus for the global sustainability movement. This call for objective, scientific assessment of the impact of humanity’s behavior and use of resources, still defines the Club of Rome today. While Limits had many messages, it fundamentally confronted the unchallenged paradigm of continuous material growth and the pursuit of end