China has gone from one of the poorest countries on Earth to building the world's largest economy, responsible for nearly one-third of global manufacturing. Meanwhile, the US de-industrialized and financialized its economy. Journalist Ben Norton explains how.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BT7Th2aV0wM

How China became the world's industrial superpower - and why the US is desperate to stop it

You can keep your Emily Maitlises and your Frost/Nixons, because Regular Features is finally pivoting to hot hot politics. In fact, we are the only politics podcast that doesn't have a Krishnan Guru-Murthy constantly riding around on an electric scooter in the background, and that's a Regular Features promise.

In this episode, Log introduces us to the Republican Party presidential candidate nominees, thanks to a couple of hypnotic lanyards he found under his pillow one morning. Steve tries to help out his old friend Roger Helmer MEP with a professional calf massage. Remember to vote or something.

impeach our pockets

538: The Republican Primaries

You are in a egg. Oh it is such a big a egg. But you want to be free of a egg. You crack open the tippy-top of a egg. Oh! It is so bright! It is so frightening! Perhap you would prefer to stay in a egg.

But then your eyes adjust to the light of the world that is not a egg. You see three faces. They are lovely faces, all shaped like a egg. One face is called Steve. He says he will tell you the shipping news, and about an indiscretion with his junk in a park. Another face is called Joe. He regales you about yoghurt. What is yoghurt? Is it also from a egg? The final face is called Log. He tells you about his haunted house, Blyth Manor - and that it contains a egg.

A egg! You must leave. You must leave a egg to find out more about all the a eggs around. It is time.

Money for a egg?

540: A egg.

This week we return to The Canal Cafe Theatre for a live show! 
Because it's live, we might sound a bit shitter than usual or refer to something we can see on stage. YOU can fix one of those thing by watching the video version on our YouTube channel. WE can fix the other thing by kicking off with the sound guy. 

Listen to the podcast! https://regularfeatures.com/ 
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544: Live at The Canal Cafe Theatre (again)

In this episode, Steve tells the terrifying tale of a coupla big city teenage dirtbags who finally get what's coming to them. 

Log learns the exact sequence of verbs and nouns that makes Thorin Oakenshield cradle you in his greasy dwarf arms in classic ZX Spectrum text adventure The Hobbit (1982), thereby cracking a four decade old puzzle that would have, had it been solved at the time, catapulted his eight year old body into a half-dozen simultaneous gay puberties.

Joe is here too, making all manner of contributions.

go north for a coin

545: The Haunted Hobbit Yard Sale

Ronie Berggren samtalar med författaren och den pro-israeliske debattören Aron Flam om Sveriges syn på Israel, som gått från sympati till antipati bara en månad efter Hamas terroristattack mot Israel den 7 oktober 2023.

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STÖD AMERIKANSKA NYHETSANALYSER: http://usapol.blogspot.com/p/stod-oss-support-us.html

Av1988: Aron Flam om Sverige och Israel - från sympati till antipati

The ongoing discourse around social media and extremism took a strange twist earlier this month after users of the social media platform Tik Tok discovered a 2002 work by Osama bin Laden called “Letter to America.” Tik Tokers noted the letter’s analysis of American imperialism and its effects on the Middle East, as well as the influence of Zionist thought on American politics. Many expressed shock and acted as if the brief letter completely altered their conception of the world, as if this was the very first critique of American foreign policy they ever encountered. This controversy ignited a very dumb conversation about  the influence of social media, and Tik Tok in general, on young people. 

To unpack this tempest in a teapot, Travis, Jake, and Liv discuss the letter itself, how Tik Tokers reacted to it, and how the controversy may be inflated by panic over Chinese-owned Tik Tok.

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Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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References:

Full Text: bin Laden’s Letter to America
https://web.archive.org/web/20040615081002/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html

Letter to American people Wikipedia Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_the_American_people

404 Media: The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden’s Letter to America Because it Went Viral on TikTok
https://www.404media.co/guardian-deletes-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-after-it-goes-viral-on-tiktok/

Washington Post: How Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ reached millions online
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/11/16/guardian-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/


CNN: Some young Americans on TikTok say they sympathize with Osama bin Laden
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/16/tech/tiktok-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/index.html

Vice News: TikTok Says It's Not the Algorithm, Teens Are Just Pro-Palestine
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjb8b/tiktok-its-not-the-algorithm-teens-are-just-pro-palestine

Vice News: TikTok Says It's Not the Algorithm, Teens Are Just Pro-Palestine
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjb8b/tiktok-its-not-the-algorithm-teens-are-just-pro-palestine


Ryan Broderick: TikTok teens aren’t stanning Osama Bin Laden
https://www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-teens-arent-stanning-osama


Reuters: Montana to become first US state to ban Tik Tok
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/montana-governor-signs-bill-banning-tiktok-state-2023-05-17/


New York Times: Nikki Haley Renews Call for TikTok Ban After Bin Laden Letter Circulates
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/us/politics/nikki-haley-tiktok-ban.html

New York Times: Lawmakers Renew Calls to Ban Tik Tok After Accusations of Anti-Israel Content
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/business/tiktok-accusations-anti-israel-content.html

Premium Episode 236: Tik Tokers Heart Bin Laden (Sample)

Ed Harris is a senator with presidential ambitions. Diane Keaton is the love of his life, but uncomfortable in politics. And with the White House in his grasp, his campaign is about to be rattled by a very, very stupid revelation from her past. We discuss Michael Lindsay-Hogg's RUNNING MATES (1992), a movie that emerged straight from the primordial ooze of the 1992 election cycle.

Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

Michael and us

#479 - A Prurient Interest

Oh, don't go into that cupboard. Don't you dare open *that* cupboard. You won't like what we keep in *that* one. Oh no, no, no. That's where we keep the features. You oughtn't spill any of those. What if you got Joe's impression of Ronnie O'Sullivan all down the lino? What if you drank a bit of Gav's journeys with a confusing taxi driver? And what if Log got out? He might tell you about a horrible time in a gym!

Oh goodness no, close that cupboard now and don't think about it for a second longer. Have a plum. That'll calm you down.

Locker image: “open 19”, by Rupert Ganzer, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED

coin for locker?

549: Ronnie's Floridian Locker Disaster

Wat Hopen We Dit Jaar

Anders & Antifada Andy team up to interview the unmasked McKinsey whistleblower and journalist Garrison Lovely about consulting with Rikers and ICE. Other topics include bread fixing, opiates, McKinsey 4chan, and Mayor Pete.

White Elephant 12/26 Tickets: https://t.co/oF5kH2zbqS

Garrison's Nation article: ww.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/

Song: They Might Be Giants - Ampersand

&&&: Garrison Lovely on McKinsey

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