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Description: An award-winning radio series hosted by Archbishop Desmond Tutu documenting the struggle against apartheid through intimate first-person accounts of Nelson Mandela, as well as those who fought with him, and against him.

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Read by Peter Zeihan

2019 was the last great year for the world economy.

For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.

America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.

Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.

All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending.

In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.

The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change.

A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence. 

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

THE END OF THE WORLD IS JUST THE BEGINNING by Peter Zeihan

Rana Eid est sound designer et réalisatrice. Depuis près 40 ans, elle enregistre les ambiances de Beyrouth, sa ville natale. Elle enregistre donc les sons de la guerre civile (1975-1990), la reconstruction, la guerre de 2006, la révolution civile de 2019, l’explosion du port le 4 août 2020 et enfin l’effondrement actuel du Liban. Aujourd'hui, elle commente ses propres archives sonores qui racontent son pays meurtri et une ville qui retient son souffle. Marine Vlahovic (Carnets de correspondante) a rencontré Rana Eid une première fois en 2014 avant de la retrouver quelques années plus tard. Un manifeste sensible sur l’importance du son dans nos mémoires. 

Ce documentaire est lauréat de l'appel à projets 2021 du ministère de la Culture.

Le souffle de Beyrouth

Où planquer son produit, comment se jouer des frontières, comment semer les flics en filature… Né dans une famille de bandits corses, Milou a passé sa vie au sommet de la voyoucratie. De son enfance pauvre à la Belle de Mai jusqu'à ses années dans la French Connection, il raconte tout. 8 épisodes à suivre pour un récit puissant et addictif. 

Milou, le dernier survivant de la French Connection
Une gouaille exceptionnelle, un carnet d'adresses aussi fourni que les fichiers du grand banditisme… Émile Diaz, dit « Milou », 78 ans, est une mémoire du Milieu marseillais : l’un des derniers survivants de la French Connection, du temps où la voyoucratie avait placé les Corses de Marseille au sommet du trafic de drogue mondial. Milou nous emmène sur les routes de la blanche, des souks d’Istanbul aux labos marseillais, et dresse son autoportrait sans complaisance. Dans sa voix, les charmes du Midi se mêlent à l’âpreté du Milieu, à sa violence et son amoralité. Retraité tranquille, rangé des voitures depuis une quinzaine d’années, il accepte de lever le voile sur les chapitres les plus sombres de sa vie. Milou a publié, avec Thierry Collombié, son autobiographie chez Robert Laffont "Truand" en 2015.

Épisode 2 :
Milou se lance le trafic de drogue. D’abord simple transporteur, il décide de remonter à la source en Turquie pour en tirer, cette fois, le maximum de profit.

Une série documentaire de Hugo Lemonier - Réalisation : Thomas Loupias et Charlie Marcelet - Musique originale : Thomas Loupias - Illustration : Chez Gertrud - Production : ARTE Radio

Le Trafiquant (2/8)

Où planquer son produit, comment se jouer des frontières, comment semer les flics en filature… Né dans une famille de bandits corses, Milou a passé sa vie au sommet de la voyoucratie. De son enfance pauvre à la Belle de Mai jusqu'à ses années dans la French Connection, il raconte tout. 8 épisodes à suivre pour un récit puissant et addictif. 

Milou, le dernier survivant de la French Connection
Une gouaille exceptionnelle, un carnet d'adresses aussi fourni que les fichiers du grand banditisme… Émile Diaz, dit « Milou », 78 ans, est une mémoire du Milieu marseillais : l’un des derniers survivants de la French Connection, du temps où la voyoucratie avait placé les Corses de Marseille au sommet du trafic de drogue mondial. Milou nous emmène sur les routes de la blanche, des souks d’Istanbul aux labos marseillais, et dresse son autoportrait sans complaisance. Dans sa voix, les charmes du Midi se mêlent à l’âpreté du Milieu, à sa violence et son amoralité. Retraité tranquille, rangé des voitures depuis une quinzaine d’années, il accepte de lever le voile sur les chapitres les plus sombres de sa vie. Milou a publié, avec Thierry Collombié, son autobiographie chez Robert Laffont "Truand" en 2015.

Épisode 4 :
À la suite de l’assassinat d’un de ses oncles, Milou est rattrapé par la vendetta. Comme on dit en Corse, "le sang appelle le sang". Son instinct de survie l’amène à commettre l’irréparable.

Une série documentaire de Hugo Lemonier - Réalisation : Thomas Loupias et Charlie Marcelet - Musique originale : Thomas Loupias - Illustration : Chez Gertrud - Production : ARTE Radio

La trafiquant

Le Trafiquant (4/8)

Last night, in a televised hearing, the <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/07/21/the-january-6th-committee-has-hobbled-donald-trump" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">committee</a> investigating the events of January 6th 2021 charged Donald Trump with “dereliction of duty” for failing to stop his supporters’ attack. The evidence was strong; whether it will change anything remains unclear. We examine the thinking behind the European Central Bank’s surprise half-point rise in interest rates. And the money motivations of Bangladesh’s loosening booze laws. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Duty unbound: the January 6th hearings

An award-winning radio series hosted by Archbishop Desmond Tutu documenting the struggle against apartheid through intimate first-person accounts of Nelson Mandela, as well as those who fought with him, and against him. 

#8: Mandela, An Audio History

ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora.  Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his own career-long  engagement with the complexities of Irish identity, Sean Connolly reveals the forces that compelled millions of Irish men and women to abandon their homeland, and explores their new lives in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere.

What emerges is an Irish story, but also a chapter in world history.  Irish emigrants fled a society blighted by poverty and lack of opportunity.  But they also became part of a massive population movement, driven by the requirements of an ever more interconnected  world economy, that transported the adventurous and the desperate to new parts of the globe.  What distinguishes the Irish from tens of millions of other European immigrants is the position they established in their new homes.  Initially treated as a despised and exploited underclass, they created a commanding position, in politics, in the labour movement, and, by the twentieth century, as cultural icons.

From his starting point in the grim realities of Famine and social crisis, Sean Connolly takes the reader forward into the twentieth century, when Ireland itself has become a receiver rather than an exporter of emigrants, and when a reimagined Irishness has become a commodity to be marketed to a global audience.  On Every Tide plays directly into wider, contemporary debates about migration, as well as offering a unique and distinctive view of two hundred years of Irish history.

On Every Tide by Sean Connolly, read by Patrick Moy (Audiobook extract)

Authoritarian regimes in many countries, and the men that lead them, depend on the international management of licit and illicit funds under their control. Frank Vogl shows that curbing their activities for their kleptocratic clients is critical to secure democracy, enhance national security, and ensure international financial stability.

Audiobook: The Enablers:

In just about every movie set in New York City in the 1970s and 80s there's an establishing shot with a graffiti-covered subway.
For city officials, train graffiti was a sign that they had lost control. So, starting in the early 70s, mayors of New York vowed to eradicate graffiti. First, Mayor John Lindsey formed the first anti-graffiti task force.  He also re-classified graffiti from a nuisance, like littering or loitering, into a crime.
In 1984 David Gunn became President of the New York City Transit Authority.
Systemically, train line by train line, Gunn took the subways off the map for graffiti writers. While they were fixing it, they didn’t allow any graffiti on it. If graffiti artists “bombed” a train car, the MTA pulled it from the system. Even during rush hour.
May 12, 1989 was declared the official day of the city's victory over train graffiti.
But of course train graffiti has never stopped.
There is still subway graffiti—it just never leaves the train yards. Artists—many of them from abroad—paint subway cars knowing full well that they will get cleaned before they're ever seen by the public.

99% Invisible-117- Clean Trains

A song is a product of design. It's difficult to create an original melody, but that's only the blueprint. Every element of a piece of music could be produced any number of ways,  depending on which instrument plays at what time, for how long,  and with what what kind of effect. The architecture behind a piece of music can be much more involved than meets the ear, and this is what inspired Hrishikesh Hirway  to start a podcast called Song Exploder, where musicians "take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made."

99% Invisible-118- Song Exploder

As a fashion object and symbol, the high heel shoe is weighted with meaning. It’s also weighted with the wearer’s entire body weight. The stiletto might be one of the only designs that is physically painful but has somehow has persisted for centuries.
At their origins, high heeled shoes were originally worn by men. As early as the tenth century, many horseback riding cultures wore heels on their boots and on their shoes, because heels help you stay in the stirrups (which is why cowboy boots have heels).
99% Invisible Producer Avery Trufelman spoke with Elizabeth Semmelhack, curator at the Bata Shoe Museum; Emily and Jessica Leung of Hey Lady shoes; industrial designer Martha Davis; and All Things Considered host Audie Cornish.
Avery also wore a pair of heels for research purposes while reporting this story.

99% Invisible-119- Feet Of Engineering

During the 1961 Berlin Crisis—one of the various moments in the cold war in which we came frighteningly close to engaging in actual war with the Soviets—President John F. Kennedy vowed to identify spaces in "existing structures both public and private that could be used for fallout shelters in case of attack."

After JFK's speech, a fallout shelter economy sprung up overnight in the U.S. There were door to door bomb-shelter salesmen, shelter displays at malls and county fairs, and pamphlets for sale on every magazine rack.
But by the time Kennedy made that speech, one small town in Southern New Mexico had already broken ground on a unique shelter that would double as an elementary school.


99% Invisible-121- Cold War Kids

When designing a commercial structure, there is one safety component that must be designed right into the building from the start: egress.

“Egress” refers to an entire exit system from a building: stairs, corridors, and evacuation routes outside the building. Each state’s building code specifies a certain number of means of egress, depending on the size and purpose of the structure.

Simply put, there have to be enough doors, corridors, and stairs for every occupant to exit in an orderly manner in the event of an emergency.

99% Invisible-122- Good Egress

Robert Lewandowski spricht im Trainingslager über Krafttraining, technische Fähigkeiten bei Stürmern und sein Geheimnis guter Ernährung.

So bereitet sich Robert Lewandowski auf die Rückrunde vor

Extraits de l'album « One Day At Home » de Saycet.

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#8: Mandela, An Audio History

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