TruBlu Politics Episode 50
Hosted by Karen from Chicago and Anita from San Antonio
Special Guest Paul Richardson
Edited by Jim Frazier
"Blue Wave" by Jason Berk and Art Nordoff

Episode 50 - December 8, 2025

What does the benefits system look like in a post-Brexit world?

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Gary LaGrange, CEO of Valor Honey, and Brian McCornack, Kansas State University entomologist and head of the newly formed American Honey Institute, talk about challenges in the honey industry.  Imported honey may contain cheap sweeteners, for instance, and the institute will focus on advocating for proper labeling and growing the industry.

American Honey Institute will advocate, set standards for industry

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Erik Bork is a screenwriter best known for his work on the HBO miniseries BAND OF BROTHERS and FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, for which he wrote multiple episodes, and won two Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards as part of the producing team.

Erik has also sold series pitches (and written pilots) at NBC and FOX, worked on the writing staff for two primetime dramas, and written feature screenplays on assignment for companies like Universal, HBO, TNT, and Playtone. In 2025 he released his feature film directing debut with The Elephant in the Room, a “red-blue romcom” he also wrote.

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After centuries, Augustin goes clubbing, to remind us of the past, help us get through the present, and wake us up, so we can take over and shape our future. #alleshin

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The situation in the occupied Palestinian Territory is starker than ever with famine, genocide, and entrenchment of an illegal occupation. In their address to the IIEA, Dr Ammar Dwaik and Diana Buttu contend that the destruction of Gaza and the ongoing expansion of settlements is erasing prospects for a two-state solution and violating the most fundamental rights of the Palestinian people. 

They outline the current reality in Palestine, and its future, through the prism of human rights, and what needs to happen within Palestine and in Israel to advance rights and to secure a just and lasting peace. They also reflect on what countries like Ireland and the international community need to do to ensure the protection of fundamental rights, including the right of Palestinians to self-determination.

This event is part of the IIEA’s Development Matters Series which is kindly sponsored by Irish Aid.

About the Speakers:

Dr. Ammar Dwaik is the Director General of the Independent Commission for Human Rights in Palestine. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy and Management from Brandeis University (USA), a Master’s degree in Law and Government from the American University in Washington, and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Yarmouk University in Jordan. Between 2004 and 2006, he served as the Executive Director of the Palestinian Central Elections Commission, where he oversaw the administration of the 2005 presidential elections and the 2006 legislative elections. 

Ms. Diana Buttu is a Commissioner at the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR). She is a Palestinian lawyer with a Bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and a Master’s from the University of Toronto, a Ph.D. from Queen’s University Faculty of Law, and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She previously served as a Legal Advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization and was part of the team that brought the issue of the Israeli Wall before the International Court of Justice. Ms. Buttu is a regular commentator on Palestinian affairs for international media outlets. 

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I’m just profoundly burned out and everything is a facade, no one has any answers I’m exhausted and I truly am just struck dumb at the impasse of myself and the world I seriously don’t know what the fuck we are doing and yet we have all our creature comforts met I’m blaming myself but I’m also offering a warning for people which I think should be taken seriously. I’ve gained nothing from philosophy, critical theory, comparative religion, cybernetics, Marxism etc other than achieving a calculated distance from myself and others and learned how to take things apart and identify exploits in the world that I’m too ethical to employ myself yet I am locked in the sway of the zoo parade of exploited dopes everywhere I go and I just want some gawdamn rest and I don’t know where to get it. Idiots like aminom are fed by places like this and 4chan and telegram and it’s the net gain seems to be dissociation and now I feel deeply dissociated and I recognize it in most everyone around me but look at all the stuff we have and look how pretty and cool and free we are and so on. It’s just like being slapped in the face I guess. To realize that I’ve gained nothing of value from any of it not just this subreddit the entire so called knowledge economy. It’s all atomistic isolation and narcissism and mania. 

Anyways peace I’m tired I’m just burned out on all of it. Telegram too. For a long time I thought I was going somewhere getting something done and I didn’t. People like aminom creep me out and places like this are not necessarily part of the problem it’s just that the mania and schizo stuff gets to me. Mostly Becuase at one point I thought I had answers to those issues for myself and by extension for others I don’t. I wasted my time I think. I could’ve done something else. 

I’m not claiming superiority I’m saying I’m a failure my life has been made worse by the thing that I was doing that I thought would make it better. You can say whatever you want to me about me about whatever it’s what you seem to do best anyways is complain. This isn’t a community telegrams not a community the internet is not a community quoting Zizek paraphrasing Lacan is not impressive etc. I don’t sit around and complain like you Walker I don’t normally spend my time focusing on the negative and anyone on the Telegram or reading my post history will show that. I’m simply publicly venting for having been so foolish and wasted so much effort for nothing. Not Becuase I didn’t save someone’s soul or anything else other than I wanted to say I’m wrong I’ve made a mistake and I don’t know how to correct for it. I have a world I “see” with my ideas and notions and the world I live in and they don’t actually correlate or rather knowing that the spectacle Is real there is some kind of paranoia-animism generating a devolutionary global current and then having that constantly reinforced gives me no satisfaction. There is no solution. That’s all. 

I am not a professor or An academic nor a clinician so I’m free to have disorganized ideas. Ebert is right though mass media is an extinction level event and I think that’s what I wanted to inoculate myself (and others against) and I just don’t think it’s possible.

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