Very interesting and insightful talk from the author Elif Shafak at the right moment when i just started reading her latest book. Very bright intellectual. I appreciate her imaginative and empathetic approach to storytelling, as well as her focus on human connection and the power of ideas.. it triggers intellectual curiosity and the interest of exploring different perspectives!

absolute morons, "J6 was the beginning of the disintegration" LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

No issue with sound, can hear Patrick clearly; with laptop on full volume his speech is too loud. Maybe editor has taken on board your comments

The Looting Machine is about 15+ years old, and still relevant today. Nothing changes because those elected and appointed to make changes are the offshore, dirty money, oligarch players along with their downstream friends and associates.

That’s like saying should the next Shaka Zulu character be white. No he should not. And here are the reasons for me believing strongly about this: The James Bond character can be analyzed as a cultural emblem of white supremacy and racial hegemony through several lenses, particularly in how the franchise reflects colonial ideologies and the power dynamics of Western imperialism. Here’s a breakdown of this perspective: 1. James Bond as an Agent of Western Imperialism • Bond’s primary role as a British secret agent reinforces the idea of the Western world as the ultimate arbiter of global order. The franchise positions MI6 as the moral authority, legitimizing Britain’s historical role as a colonizer under the guise of protecting “civilization.” • The villains are often depicted as threats to Western hegemony, with their goals framed as destabilizing the current world order. This reinforces the notion that Western dominance is natural and desirable, while any challenge to it is inherently villainous. 2. Exoticization and Erasure of Non-Western Cultures • The franchise frequently portrays non-Western cultures as exotic backdrops for Bond’s exploits, reducing entire nations and peoples to caricatures or scenery for the hero’s adventures. • Women of color are often depicted as hypersexualized or disposable, with little narrative agency beyond serving Bond’s desires. 3. Whiteness as Power and Sophistication • James Bond is consistently portrayed as the epitome of sophistication, intelligence, and physical prowess. This archetype is deeply rooted in Eurocentric standards of masculinity and dominance. • Bond’s whiteness is central to his ability to navigate elite spaces globally. His confidence and success rely on the unchallenged privilege that comes with his racial identity. 4. Colonial Undertones in Villains • Many Bond villains come from the Global South or represent non-Western ideologies, which are often demonized. This dynamic perpetuates colonial narratives of the “savage other” threatening the “civilized” West. A Black James Bond: A Colonized Symbol Recasting James Bond as a Black man would not necessarily challenge the racial hegemony embedded in the character’s narrative. Instead, it risks perpetuating the same structures of power with a Black face. Here’s why: • Token Representation: A Black Bond could be seen as a superficial attempt at diversity that doesn’t dismantle the franchise’s underlying imperialist and Eurocentric ideologies. • Complicity in Oppression: A Black Bond would still operate as an agent of a colonial power, furthering the interests of the British state, which has historically oppressed Black and brown nations. • Cultural Co-optation: Placing a Black actor in the role without fundamentally reimagining Bond’s mission and worldview could amount to co-opting Blackness to maintain the façade of progress while leaving systemic structures intact. Conclusion: Let James Bond Rest Rather than reimagining James Bond with a Black actor, it may be more impactful to retire the character altogether. The franchise, rooted in colonial nostalgia and white supremacy, cannot simply be “modernized” with diverse casting. Instead, resources could be used to create new narratives that center Black and non-Western perspectives without reinforcing imperialist structures. This would pave the way for storytelling that actively challenges rather than upholds racial and global hierarchies.

Nemonte your strength is amazing; keep advocating ❤.

I'm 66 and I've known since I was five, when I took part in the first classroom nuclear-war alert (not sure how hiding under desks would protect us :)) that we would destroy ourselves within my lifetime. I've always thought it would be nuclear war or a nuclear accident but a collapse, as these scientists put forward, is also readily plausible.

Where can one study this science?

China is an amazing country

Comey should go hide in a corner somewhere. He is the reason we're in this situation.

Here is a creative genius direct speaking to us all !....

Lol, what loser

I'm so happy I found Miss Lucy on UTube! my TV broke 10 months ago and I missed her documentaries!! And now I have found her!!😊

Fantastic women, sharing reality - still offering hope. Please tell me who the interviewer is and a little more about this platform…

Who is here after Donald Trump won again?

Who is this preposterous cliché in the green!!!

🤍Love🤍this🤍video🤍

Has his father's voice.

Han nation fast ist Unwahrheit die nation

Das han nation haben viel nicht die Gerechtigkeit

Brilliant interview. Much respect to Lee, and to the interviewer, brilliant open questions, that brought out such essence and substance 💯🫡

If I had a penny for every ironic statement this host made I'd be an aspiring elite.

Your a liar charges were bogus and been dropped

Syria is free !

And the brainwash continues... (She forgot to tell that this "network" is owned by the secret world gouvernement and those in the network are just puppets). Sometimes she sounds like she did not write the book herself, but studied it...

Turns out he wasn’t in big trouble lmao

A serious intellectual.

Trying to paint all the mayhem in America as so cerebral thinking go haywire is to distract people from the fact that the military industrial complex has used this undermining of society through chaos has been used in the destruction of Libya and Venezuela when they were shinning examples of good gov't policies that made them first world countries. Yes, that is the goal here in the west.

She speaks half truths. Pension funds in America are depilated and the solution to try and recoup those shortfalls is to implement policies that have been proven to deplete pensions even further such as using pension funds for private loans. Always remember you have to give up a certain amount of truths to lure people in then hoodwink them somewhere else . They be so focused on the truths that were handed to them they won't bother being sceptical about anything unless it obvious.

Great event and congratulations to Lola for her very well written book. Pleasure to read it

No the agenda is not based on a 2000 calorie diet

Someone check up on Fomey

Well he wiggles his way out yet again. trump will never face any degree of accountability, oh well at least he’s exposing how much of a sham our institutions are.

I'll watch anything by Anne Applebaum. 👍🤔 ( Greets from UK )

Someone teach him how to use a microphone 😂

Trump is innocent lock that man up you a Democrat puppet you sir belong in prison

It's 250F degrees above the CO2 only 76F degrees below it. CO2 absorbs the Sun's infrared heat radiation stopping it from reaching the Earth lowering it's temperature 174F degrees. It's Schwarzchild's Equation for Radiant Transfer, the decrease in heats temperature passing through the atmosphere is proportional to the number of absorbing molecules it must pass through. More CO2 will absorb more Sun heat further cooling the Earth. Less CO2 will block out less Sun heat warming the Earth.

Very helpful. Thank you.

Did anyone bring Mr Dunn a glass of water? Golly!

We need this now in America... 😔

"You need to study history."

What is the market-value of a reduced carbon footprint that is below what plant life supports?

It’s OK to admit being punk’d. I bought into Green early. Have Al Gore’s book, signed. His problem is I put my back into my living and I have a brain: I remember Gore channeling his inner-black-preacher to thunder how polar bears Will Be Gone… a decade ago… along with polar ice-cap… well? Scam, all of it. The logistics of Green Transition never made sense revealing global middle-management/civic leadership completely lack scale to understand the problem all while mindlessly accepting edicts & nostrums of far-away leadership. A shared mass-hallucination. Like this bloke praising Britain for agriculture changes as they starve generations of farmers from their land. To go ‘lectric means mining as much metal as humanity has Ever dug up, just for planned Next Decade transition, then we get to do it All Over Again - to keep it going. All while the easy ore deposits grand-dad found leaves us with feeble 1/3 the richness leading to 7-10x dross, slurry, trailings piling up around their Green Trophies. Is this a good time to point out it takes two-decades minimum to get a mining operations up and producing? Riddle-me-this : how do you make solar panels with solar energy? You cannot. How does windpower generate more windmills, that’s right, you cannot : these are not industrial strength and will require diesel for decades to come, goofball. How about the poverty? Look across history and every society’s wealth is tied to energy consumption, it goes up+down in lockstep. No lag, but EXACTLY in sync. Green = poverty. Think King ‘Magna Gaia’ Charles will give up his garages gull of racing motorcycles, or sports cars? Expect the Tech Bros give up jets and orbital selfies? While you walk an urban-bumpkin life in 15-min cities waiting for sun or wind to do your laundry, the Gaia Royale will be far outside your battery-range driving, or trains, or busses, on horseback fox hunting with phalanx of cyber-hounds to keep anyone like you from getting close. People are right to reject this and America just did.

There is so much wisdom in this conversation. But why do you not list Elizabeth Stewart as one of the three speakers?

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Green goons quackery !!! Shower of idiots !!

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I wonder what effect psychedelics would have on chronic pain? As it might break the neural path ways previously formed

And no mention of Palestinian women? All women everywhere matter. Not just those it’s safe for western feminists to bring up.

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