BONUS TASTER: Doomsday Watch with Arthur Snell

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, News, Government, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A sneak peek at a brand new series from the producers behind Oh God, What Now? To hear more, visit kite.link/doomsday The world has never stood as close to the apocalypse as it does today. Hosted by ARTHUR SNELL, a former British diplomat and counter-terrorism operative who has seen service in Yemen, Helmand and Zimbabwe, DOOMSDAY WATCH meets experts and eyewitness for an unflinching look at the threats that conventional media ignores. On this first edition: Is a toxic combination of extreme partisanship, detached elites and Trump’s incitement driving the world’s greatest democracy to a second Civil War? • “This is the story of a great project that has torn itself apart from the inside.” – ARTHUR SNELL • “At what point do we stop saying this is a democratic country?” – BRIAN KLAAS • “Where there is anger and polarised states, democracy may not work any more.” – JACK GOLDSTONE DOOMSDAY WATCH was written and presented by Arthur Snell and produced by Robin Leeburn – with assistant production from Jacob Archbold. Theme tune and original music is by Paul Hartnoll. The group editor is Andrew Harrison. DOOMSDAY WATCH is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Arthur Snell here. Welcome to a special preview of a brand new podcast,
0:05.6	Doomsday Watch, from the makers of O-God What Now.
0:11.0	If you win Ohio and you win Florida and you win Iowa and all by big numbers, big, big win in Florida,
0:19.0	all by big numbers, when that happens, nobody's ever lost. Nobody's ever lost.
0:26.0	This was the scam of this entry and this was the crime of this entry.
0:34.0	Welcome to America. Here in the world's greatest democracy, in spite of a clear result in the last presidential election,
0:42.0	nearly half of the population and almost all of the supporters of the losing site are convinced the vote was rigged.
0:49.0	This is a story of a great project which has torn itself apart from the inside.
0:54.0	It's about a political movement that is given up on politics and a loser who can't accept he lost.
1:01.0	Most of all, it's a story about the end of democracy in America and their second civil war.
1:09.0	We've run a serious risk of pretty significant violence.
1:14.0	January 6, 2021, this is their American revelations. This isn't going away.
1:23.0	Do you know the same place in the world we even get at a top level?
1:30.0	I don't know how the great project works.
1:32.0	At what point will we start saying this is no longer a government country?
1:36.0	You could call it a civil war.
1:38.0	I'm Arthur Snell and I spent much of my adult life in British government service all over the world trying to stop bad things from happening.
1:46.0	I've done election monitoring in Zimbabwe, counterterrorism in Yemen, stabilization missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
1:53.0	Now I'm back home in the UK and I'm the managing director of Orbus, a business intelligence consultancy.
1:59.0	My work means I'm monitoring the issues driving global politics and security on a daily basis.
2:05.0	And what I'm seeing is worrying.
2:08.0	Whether it's our failing forever wars, our relations with Russia and China or the challenges of the online world,
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