Unusual Practice

Charli | Cultural Disruptor
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Unusual Practice (UP) explores the human condition through science, spirituality, culture, and consciousness. Host Charli - hypnotherapist, author of Pronoia Prescription, and founder of PracticeCharli.net - leads curious minds into deep dives on belief systems, personal growth, cultural psychology, and the soul's role in modern life. With humor and edge, each episode challenges assumptions, upgrades your worldview, rewires the mind, and offers an UP-lifting lens on life. Rethink what you think you know.

  1. The Arrangment - The Bill (Part 8/8)

    6D AGO

    The Arrangment - The Bill (Part 8/8)

    Series Finale. If this is about security ...why does it keep requiring more land? If it's about nuclear weapons ... why does the only undeclared nuclear power face no consequences? If it's about terrorism ... why did a former Al-Qaeda commander get a presidential handshake? And if it's about religion ... whose God exactly keeps winning? Because it isn't the God of the people dying. It never was. In this final episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we close the complete account and then we say the honest thing that most closes with poetry instead of truth. This series was made because enough people asked for clarity in a landscape of noise. It was an honour to try. Follow Unusual Practice wherever you listen. Sources: 1. ICJ ruling Israeli occupation illegal July 2024 — International Court of Justice    https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192 2. Israel nuclear weapons — estimated 90 warheads — Federation of American Scientists    https://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-forces/ 3. IAEA assessment on Iran — no organised weapons programme pre-strikes    https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/statements/iaea-director-general-statement-on-iran 4. Iran nationwide protests 2025 — Human Rights Activists News Agency    https://www.iranhr.net/en/articles/ 5. Netanyahu identifies with Greater Israel vision — Times of Israel August 2025    https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-greater-israel-vision-2025/ 6. Yemen humanitarian crisis — UNHCR ongoing documentation    https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/yemen-emergency.html 7. US national debt $36 trillion — US Treasury    https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/ 8. Peace Now — Israeli settlement annexation as central goal    https://peacenow.org.il/en/ 9. Eisenhower farewell address full text    https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/farewell-address

    19 min
  2. The Arrangement - The Patient (Part 7/8)

    6D AGO

    The Arrangement - The Patient (Part 7/8)

    Part 7 of 8. Russia has not fired a missile. China has not moved a soldier. Neither has spent a dollar on this conflict. Both of them are winning. The most dangerous player in any conflict is the one not fighting, because they have already calculated how it ends. In this episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we examine the patient strategy: how Russia profits from every barrel of disrupted Middle Eastern oil, how China has built energy independence from three sanctioned nations at below-market prices, why the sanctions designed to contain America's adversaries are inadvertently enriching them, Turkey's extraordinary multi-vector foreign policy that nobody in Western media discusses seriously, and the structural evidence that what we are watching is not a war America is winning... but a symptom of a decline it is accelerating. Sources: 1. Russia oil revenue as % of federal budget — IMF Russia Article IV    https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/CR/Issues/2024/russia-article-iv 2. China's sanctioned oil imports — Russia, Iran, Venezuela 33% of mix — S&P Global    https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/china-crude-imports-sanctioned-nations 3. China Belt and Road Initiative scope — World Bank    https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/regional-integration/brief/belt-and-road-initiative 4. Turkey S-400 purchase, F-35 suspension — NATO / US Department of Defense    https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/1876821/ 5. UN report on Uyghur human rights situation in Xinjiang    https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ohchr-assessment-human-rights-concerns-xinjiang-uyghur-autonomous-region 6. America's share of global GDP decline — World Bank data    https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD 7. Two-state solution made structurally impossible — UN OCHA West Bank report    https://www.ochaopt.org/location/west-bank

    22 min
  3. The Arrangement - Monroe's Revenge (Part6/8)

    MAR 11

    The Arrangement - Monroe's Revenge (Part6/8)

    Part 6 of 8. While the Middle East burns, Trump was threatening to seize Greenland, demanding Panama return its canal, deploying warships to Venezuelan waters, and formally reviving the Monroe Doctrine ... a 200-year-old claim to American dominance over the entire Western Hemisphere. In this episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we leave the Middle East to prove that this conflict was never regional. Venezuela holds the world's largest proven oil reserves. Greenland sits above rare earth minerals that determine who controls the technology of the next century. The Panama Canal handles 5% of all global maritime trade. And NATO functions, in significant part, as the world's most lucrative guaranteed defence procurement contract, where American instability generates American weapons sales. Eisenhower warned you in 1961. Specifically. On his last day in office. Sources: 1. Monroe Doctrine in 2025 National Security Strategy — White House    https://www.whitehouse.gov/national-security-strategy-2025/ 2. Venezuela oil reserves — largest on earth — US EIA    https://www.eia.gov/countries/analysispdfs/Venezuela.pdf 3. Greenland rare earth minerals and Arctic shipping route — US Geological Survey    https://www.usgs.gov/centers/gggsc/science/greenland-rare-earth-elements 4. Panama Canal global trade significance — Panama Canal Authority    https://www.pancanal.com/en/about-canal/ 5. China rare earth processing dominance 85% — International Energy Agency    https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions 6. Global arms industry $2.2 trillion — SIPRI Arms Transfers Database    https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers 7. Eisenhower farewell address military-industrial complex — Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library    https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/farewell-address

    20 min
  4. The Arrangement - The Snake Room (Part 5/8)

    MAR 11

    The Arrangement - The Snake Room (Part 5/8)

    Part 5 of 8. On the same day Jordan's Foreign Minister publicly condemned Israeli military action, Jordan's air force was in the sky shooting down Iranian missiles. In this episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we go inside the Arab world's impossible position: the Sykes-Picot lines that made unified resistance structurally impossible, Jordan's water dependency on Israel, the Sunni-Shia split as a management tool used by every outside power that ever needed a reason to divide the region, the Abraham Accords as the moment the performance of solidarity ended, and Saudi Arabia's oil, the weapon that is also a hostage. Sources: 1. Jordan shooting down Iranian missiles — Associated Press    https://apnews.com/article/jordan-intercept-iranian-missiles-israel 2. Jordan-Israel water and energy agreements — Al-Monitor    https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/jordan-israel-water-gas-deal 3. Sykes-Picot Agreement — full text and analysis    https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/sykes.asp 4. Abraham Accords — full text, White House    https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/abraham-accords/ 5. Sunni-Shia split historical origins — BBC Religion    https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/subdivisions/sunnishia_1.shtml 6. Saudi Arabia petrodollar arrangement — Congressional Research Service    https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47321 7. China-brokered Saudi-Iran normalisation 2023 — Reuters    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-iran-agree-resume-ties-reopen-embassies-2023-03-10/

    23 min
  5. The Arrangement - The Chokepoint (Part4/8)

    MAR 10

    The Arrangement - The Chokepoint (Part4/8)

    Part 4 of 8. Thirty-four miles wide. One fifth of the world's daily oil supply passes through it. When it closed, European gas prices jumped 70%, South Korea's stock market crashed 12% in a single day, and Russia counted its profits without firing a single shot. In this episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we follow the economics of war: the Strait of Hormuz, why Europe's four-year effort to escape Russian energy dependency led them directly into another chokepoint, France's performance of principle versus its documented defence contracts, Spain's prime minister threatened within hours of saying no, and why America, which imports only 7% of its oil through the Strait, went to war over water it barely needs. The real beneficiaries of this conflict are not the countries fighting it. Sources: 1. Strait of Hormuz oil flow volumes — US Energy Information Administration    https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/regions-of-interest/Hormuz 2. European gas storage levels February 2026 — European Commission Gas Storage    https://ec.europa.eu/energy/observatory/reports/gas-storage 3. Qatar LNG global export share — International Energy Agency    https://www.iea.org/countries/qatar 4. France defence agreements with Gulf states — French Ministry of Foreign Affairs    https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/gulf-cooperation-council/ 5. Trump threat to Spain over war criticism — Reuters    https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-threatens-spain-economic-consequences-iran-criticism/ 6. Russia oil revenue benefit from Middle East disruption — Financial Times    https://www.ft.com/content/russia-oil-revenue-hormuz-disruption 7. South Korea stock market crash — Bloomberg    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/south-korea-kospi-hormuz-crash-2026 8. Petrodollar arrangement — Nixon 1974 Saudi agreement — Federal Reserve History    https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/oil-embargo

    20 min
  6. The Arrangement - Terrorist Tuesday (Part3/8)

    MAR 10

    The Arrangement - Terrorist Tuesday (Part3/8)

    Part 3 of 8. He was on the US Specially Designated Global Terrorist list. There was a $10 million bounty on his head. He fought US forces in Iraq, spent time in Abu Ghraib, and created Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate. In May 2025, Donald Trump shook his hand in Riyadh. In this episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we follow the word 'terrorist’ , who assigns it, when it gets removed, and what that tells you about the people applying it rather than the people it's applied to. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria : four countries, one template, zero accountability. The instability was never the failure of the policy. The instability was the product. Sources: 1. Ahmed al-Sharaa background and Al-Qaeda history — Reuters    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/who-is-ahmed-al-sharaa-syrias-new-president-2025-01-29/ 2. Trump handshake with al-Sharaa, Syria sanctions lifted — AP News    https://apnews.com/article/trump-syria-sanctions-sharaa-meeting 3. HTS removed from US Foreign Terrorist Organisation list — State Department    https://www.state.gov/revocation-of-the-foreign-terrorist-organization-designation-of-hts/ 4. CIA Operation Cyclone — funding Afghan Mujahideen — National Security Archive    https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/afghanistan/2017-07-19/afghanistan-cias-intervention 5. Reagan administration chemical weapons intelligence to Iraq — Newsweek / declassified documents    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/18/iraq.usa 6. UN documented open slave markets in Libya post-NATO intervention, 2017    https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2017/11/statement-libya-detained-migrants 7. Al-Sharaa cabinet nepotism documented — Middle East Eye    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-sharaa-cabinet-family-hts-loyalists

    19 min
  7. The Arrangement - The Subscription (Part2/8)

    MAR 9

    The Arrangement - The Subscription (Part2/8)

    Part 2 of 8. 300,000,000,000USD. That is the total US financial and military assistance to Israel since 1948, more than the entire Marshall Plan that rebuilt post-war Europe. In this episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we follow the money: AIPAC's $127 million in a single election cycle covering 80% of all congressional seats, a former US congressman on record saying votes in the House are decided not by America's national interest but by how AIPAC scores them, and the complete blackmail architecture from the 1982 Washington Post investigation through to the Epstein network. Every source is linked below. Sources: 1. AIPAC 2024 election spending — FEC data via Sludge investigative report    https://readsludge.com/2025/01/24/here-is-all-the-money-aipac-spent-on-the-2024-elections/ 2. AIPAC spending in 80% of congressional races — The Intercept    https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/ 3. Congressman Brian Baird on AIPAC congressional influence — Washington Report on Middle East Affairs    https://www.wrmea.org/009-september/the-aipac-effect.html 4. US total aid to Israel since 1948 — Congressional Research Service    https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33222 5. Symington Amendment and annual Israel waiver — Arms Control Association    https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/israelprofile 6. Jonathan Pollard spy case — US Department of Justice records    https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-counterespionage/pollard 7. Israeli intelligence blackmail of US officials — Washington Post, 1982 (archive) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/02/24/israel-bugged-us-officials/ 8. West Bank settlement expansion 50% increase — Peace Now / UN OCHA    https://peacenow.org.il/en/settlements-watch/settlements-data/construction 9. Post-October 7 US military aid $17.9 billion — Brown University Costs of War

    19 min
  8. The Arrangement - The Original Deal (Part 1/8)

    MAR 9

    The Arrangement - The Original Deal (Part 1/8)

    Part 1 of 8. Before the bombs, before the borders, before the billions, there was a letter. Sixty-seven words written by a British politician to a banker in 1917, on land that wasn't Britain's to give, to people who didn't live there, without consulting the people who did. This is where the modern Middle East actually begins... not in religion, not in ancient hatred, but in a wartime political transaction. In this first episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we trace the original deal: the Balfour Declaration, the Sykes-Picot Agreement that drew the map of every modern Arab state with a ruler and no regard for the people living there, the biblical land claim and what that map actually encompasses today, the 1,500-year cycle of Christian and Jewish persecution that most people have completely backwards, and the extraordinary theological contradiction at the heart of Christian Zionism. Every claim is sourced. Every source is linked below. Don't take our word for it- read them yourself. That's the point. Sources: 1. The Balfour Declaration — Full original text    https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/balfour.asp 2. Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916 — Full text, Yale Avalon Project    https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/sykes.asp 3. Palestine demographic composition 1917 — British Mandate records    https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine/World-War-I-and-after 4. Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies (1543) — Historical record    https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/martin-luther-and-antisemitism 5. Greater Israel — Biblical claim, Genesis 15:18-21    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+15%3A18-21 6. Finance Minister Smotrich on settlement expansion — Times of Israel    https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-calls-settlement-expansion-protective-wall-of-israel/ 7. Christian Zionism theology — Jerusalem Declaration by Holy Land Church Leaders    https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/jerusalem-declaration-on-christian-zionism 8. Christians United for Israel membership — CUFI official

    21 min
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Unusual Practice (UP) explores the human condition through science, spirituality, culture, and consciousness. Host Charli - hypnotherapist, author of Pronoia Prescription, and founder of PracticeCharli.net - leads curious minds into deep dives on belief systems, personal growth, cultural psychology, and the soul's role in modern life. With humor and edge, each episode challenges assumptions, upgrades your worldview, rewires the mind, and offers an UP-lifting lens on life. Rethink what you think you know.

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  • Creator
    Charli | Cultural Disruptor
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    84
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