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The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Chris Talgo, and S.T. Karnick present episode 455 of the In The Tank Podcast. The national debt is currently closing in on $35 trillion. Even more alarming, the cost of maintaining that debt is approaching $1 trillion annually - this is just the interest payment on the debt! Is this sustainable? Also, how long will the dollar remain the king currency when we pursue such reckless monetary and fiscal policy?OPENING CHIT CHAT - TONIGHT IS DEBATE NIGHTNPR - Biden and Trump will debate on Thursday. Here’s what you need to knowhttps://www.npr.org/2024/06/24/nx-s1-5013579/trump-biden-presidential-debate-whenPRIMARY TOPIC - Will Debt Sink the American Empire?Money Wise - How much purchasing power will we have in the next 5 years?https://moneywise.com/research/americans-purchasing-power-plummets-as-inflation-slashes-salariesNPR - Home prices just hit a record high. Here are 4 things to know about housinghttps://www.npr.org/2024/06/22/nx-s1-5015076/home-prices-housing-record-high-mortgage-rates-interest-ratesWSJ - Will Debt Sink the American Empire?https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/will-debt-sink-the-american-empire-8459096bAtlantic Council - Dollar Dominance Monitorhttps://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/geoeconomics-center/dollar-dominance-monitor/The Economist - The fight to dethrone the dollarhttps://www.economist.com/special-report/2024/05/03/the-fight-to-dethrone-the-dollarReuters - US dollar's dominance secure, BRICS see no progress on de-dollarization -reporthttps://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/us-dollars-dominance-secure-brics-see-no-progress-de-dollarization-report-2024-06-25/

Cities across the United States are experiencing rising crime rates, homelessness, and public disorder, alongside deteriorating infrastructure and a decline in the quality of public services like policing, sanitation, transportation management, and the resolution of abandoned properties. Major cities have been losing population for a decade or more, and now even the suburbs of those urban areas are losing people to more effectively managed cities in better governed states. Miami, Florida, has resisted the trend toward urban decline, enjoying rapid economic growth and record-low crime rates in the 2020s. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez joins Budget & Tax News to discuss the state of America’s cities and the solutions to the nation’s urban problems. 

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by David Blackbourn, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History Emeritus at Vanderbilt University, to discuss his new book, Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000. They discuss the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification. They also chat about Germany’s leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies, as well as how Germany has maintained its pivotal place for the world, even after its tragic and criminal Twentieth Century.Get the book here: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631491832Show Notes:The Guardian: Neal Ascherson – “Germany in the World by David Blackbourn review – a rich and full-throated account of the past 500 years”https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/02/germany-in-the-world-by-david-blackbourn-review-a-rich-and-full-throated-account-of-the-past-500-yearsLiterary Review: Iain Bamforth – “From Brandenburg to Brazil”https://literaryreview.co.uk/from-brandenburg-to-brazilLondon Review of Books: Richard J. Evans – “Not So Special”https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/richard-j.-evans/not-so-special

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by David Stahel, senior lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales, to discuss his new book, Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded. They discuss the significance of the unpublished wartime correspondence of these generals and what it reveals about their personalities, their private fears, and the public pressures they were under. They also chat about their response to the criminal dimension of the Nazi way of war as well as their role as leading military commanders conducting large-scale operations.Get the book here: https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/history/military-history/hitlers-panzer-generals-guderian-hoepner-reinhardt-and-schmidt-unguarded?format=HBShow Notes:The Past: Calum Henderson – “Hitler’s Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt, and Schmidt unguarded”https://the-past.com/review/books/hitlers-panzer-generals-guderian-hoepner-reinhardt-and-schmidt-unguarded/

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal and Justin Haskins present episode 454 of the In The Tank Podcast. The climate alarmist narrative is one underpinned by varying groups with specific special interests. There are the politicians who use climate alarm to justify enhanced powers, there are the businesses and firms that use climate alarm to pad their bottom lines, there are the activists that use climate alarm to gain clout, and there are the those that use climate alarm to justify an anti-humanist agenda. While all these groups help prop up the same climate narrative, they all are doing so for different reasons. On this week's episode, we are going to take a look at that last group on the list - the anti-humanists. PRIMARY TOPIC - CLIMATE ALARMISM & ANTI-HUMANISMAnti-progressMackinac - The roots of environmental anti-humanismhttps://www.mackinac.org/blog/2024/the-roots-of-environmental-anti-humanismMackinac - The growth of environmental anti-humanismhttps://www.mackinac.org/blog/2024/the-growth-of-environmental-anti-humanismDailyKos - The right wants us to sacrifice the planet for AIhttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/17/2247069/-The-right-wants-us-to-sacrifice-the-planet-for-AIFree Opp - Why Nuclear Power is the Path to Low-Carbon Energy: Part 1https://freopp.org/why-nuclear-power-not-renewables-is-the-path-to-low-carbon-energy-part-1-c0b66d4b9570Alex Epstein (Twitter) - Paul Ehrlich quotehttps://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/481861470930481152Population control(Report) Population Engineering and the Fight against Climate Changehttps://www.jstor.org/stable/24870306(letter) World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergencyhttps://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/1/8/5610806AEI - Culling for Climatehttps://www.aei.org/articles/culling-for-climate/Limitations on FreedomSlate - Fifteen Minutes of Blamehttps://slate.com/business/2023/02/15-minute-city-oxford-conspiracy-theory-cars-lockdown-explained.htmlC40 Cities – The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5C Worldhttps://expose-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Arup-C40-The-Future-of-Urban-Consumption-in-a-1-5C-World.pdf

In Episode 147 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with Nigel Biggar, author ofColonialism: A Moral Reckoning.Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Nigel Biggar, Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, to discuss his new book, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. They discuss whether the British Empire was driven primarily by greed and the lust to dominate, whether we should speak of “colonialism and slavery” in the same breath, and whether the Empire was essentially racist. They also chat about whether the Empire was driven by economic exploitation, whether it was essentially violent, and whether colonial government was or was not illegitimate. Get the book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-World-That-Wasnt/Benn-Steil/9781982127824Show Notes:The Critic: Robert Lyman – “The British empire, for good and ill”https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/march-2023/the-british-empire-for-good-and-ill/First Things: Nigel Biggar – “A Christian Defense of American Empire”https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/10/a-christian-defense-of-american-empireThe Guardian: Kenan Malik – “Colonialism by Nigel Biggar review – a flawed defence of empire”https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/20/colonialism-a-moral-reckoning-by-nigel-biggar-review-a-flawed-defence-of-empireLaw & Liberty: Sumantra Maitra – “Was the British Empire Really a Force for Good?”https://lawliberty.org/book-review/was-the-british-empire-really-a-force-for-good/Literary Review: Jonathan Sumption – “Cruel Britannia?”https://literaryreview.co.uk/cruel-britanniaNational Post: Peter Shawn Taylor – “Peter Shawn Taylor: Colonialism contained 'good things as well as bad.' Why can’t we just accept that?”https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colonialism-contained-good-things-as-well-as-bad-why-cant-we-just-accept-thatNational Review: Andrew Roberts – “The Upside of Empire”https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/07/31/the-upside-of-empire/The New Statesman: Tomiwa Owolade – “Nigel Biggar’s whitewashing of empire”https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2023/03/nigel-biggar-whitewashing-empirePublic Discourse­: Samuel Gregg – “Reckoning with Colonialism”https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2023/05/88467/Quadrant: Matthew White – “A Moral Reckoning of the British Empire”https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/05/a-moral-reckoning-of-the-british-empire/Quillette: John Lloyd – “Colonialism and Its Discontents”https://quillette.com/2023/02/06/colonialism-and-its-discontents/The Spectator: David Crane – “Failing to denigrate Britain’s entire colonial record has become a heinous crime”https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/failing-to-denigrate-britains-entire-colonial-record-has-become-a-heinous-crime/The Telegraph: Tim Stanley – “Colonialism by Nigel Biggar review: defending the British empire, this book is spoiling for a fight”https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/colonialism-nigel-biggar-review-defending-british-empire-book/Times Literary Supplement: David Arnold – “In defence of empire”https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/colonialism-nigel-biggar-book-book-review-david-arnold/Wall Street Journal: Tunku Varadarajan – “‘Colonialism’ Review: Empire Without Apology”https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/colonialism-review-empire-without-apology-80ecc195Washington Free Beacon: Douglas Murray – “The Upsides of Empire”https://freebeacon.com/culture/the-upsides-of-empire/

In Episode 146 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with Scott Walter, author ofArabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America. Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Scott Walter, president of the capital Research Center, to discuss his new book, Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America. They chat about what is the Arabella Advisors network, who its chief backers are, how it functions, and what exactly is “dark money.” They also discuss why Arabella is different than right-wing “dark money” networks, and what impact it has on American politics and policy. Get the book here: https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/arabella/Show Notes: Wall Street Journal: Scott Walter – “Inside the Left’s Web of ‘Dark Money’”https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-lefts-web-of-dark-money-11603408114

Yes, it’s that time again kids, panic the American people over heat waves by blaming them on climate change.This past week several news outlets talked about the “Western Heat Wave” and tried to link it to “climate change.” Climate Central was the source of most of these stories with a press release that said:“Between June 5-7, much of the Western United States, Mexico, and Eastern Canada are poised to experience a period of unusually hot conditions made much more likely because of human-caused climate change. During this period, over 229 million people across North America will experience extreme heat made at least three times more likely because of human-caused climate change.”We see this every year, and we’ll see it again this year as the feckless media regurgitates the heatwave hype. We will tackle this subject, as well as go over the Crazy Climate News of the Week. Tune in LIVE for the stream at 1 p.m. ET (noon CT) EVERY FRIDAY to watch the show and leave your own questions in the chat with host Anthony Watts, along with panelists H. Sterling Burnett and Linnea Lueken.https://www.youtube.com/theheartlandinstituteDONATE to help support work like this: https://heartland.org/donate/

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haksins, and Chris Talgo present episode 453 of the In The Tank Podcast. The European Union recently passed a law that would essentially mandate many of the guidelines and metrics of the ESG scheme we have talked much about on this show. You might ask, "Who cares about Europe?" Unfortunately, the way this Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive is written, it has the potential to fundamentally transform the way businesses around the world operate. It is imperative we get this message out to the public and to lawmakers to protect America from this dangerous law.PRIMARY TOPIC - RADICAL NEW EU LAW WILL FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM AMERICA Fox News - Europe is hell bent on forcing US companies to go woke and it has a new law to do just thathttps://www.foxnews.com/opinion/europe-hell-bent-forcing-us-companies-woke-has-new-law-just Western Journal - Europe Just Approved the Worst Communist Law Ever - How It Affects Youhttps://www.westernjournal.com/europe-just-approved-worst-communist-law-ever-affects/  SECONDARY TOPIC - EU ELECTIONS SHIFT TO RIGHT WSJ - Europe’s Ascendant Right-Wing Parties Want to Remake the EU. They Can’t Agree on How.https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europes-ascendant-right-wing-parties-want-to-remake-the-eu-they-cant-agree-how-96986a44 Nature - Far-right gains in European elections: what they mean for climate goalshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01742-w Politico - Inside von der Leyen’s secret climate crusadehttps://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyens-secret-climate-crusade/

Phoenix is hiring a "Chief Heat Officer," in response to rising heat related deaths, which the city blames on climate change. The truth is most of those dying are homeless or drug addicts with underlying health conditions, people already in poor health. As far as Phoenix's heat, that is due, not to climate change but the city's massive growth and related increased Urban Heat Island effect. Responding to homelessness and drug use will do far more to prevent premature deaths in Phoenix than efforts to fight climate change or control the weather.