News - UN Petrol State Climate Summit, Israel Ready to Annex Palestinian Territories, Japanese PM Remains in Power

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Your weekly news roundup from two happy warriors. This week: struggles at the UN COP29 climate change conference (1:48), not the least of which is the incoming climate denier president of the US (5:45); in Israel-Palestine, the US shockingly doesn't follow through on its 30-day humanitarian aid deadline (7:57), Trump appointments signal imminent formal annexation of Palestinian territories (12:24), and Qatar withdraws from ceasefire talks (16:48); in Lebanon, Israel is working on a ceasefire as a "gift" for Trump (18:33); Xi and Biden to meet in China (21:35); the Japanese government survives a confirmation vote (23: 45); a new report on horrifying death toll figures in the Sudan war (25:48); in Russia-Ukraine, Russia pushers to retake Kursk (28:01) while Europe and Ukraine show new flexibility to exchange land for a peace deal (30:25); Germany prepares for a snap election in February in the wake of the government coalition collapsing (32:38); in Haiti, the transitional council fires the PM (34:44) while the US bans flights there (36:15); and Trump announces a number of new appointments for his second term (37:35). Subscribe now at Supporting Cast for more content like our election-related specials: The 2024 US Presidential Election The U.S. Presidential Election, the Latino Vote, and the Deportation Regime w/ Alexander Aviña What Would Secretary of State Marco Rubio Look Like? w/ Steven Cohen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige. To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at Americanprostagepod.com. Find the link in our show notes.
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0:35.4	Head to vanta.com slash Spotify to learn more. Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson. And we're very excited to bring you the news. But before we do, I just wanted to highlight we've had a bunch of specials on the election. We talked with Alex Avina about Trump's
1:16.0	border policy. We talked with Stephen Cohn about what a Marco Rubio, Secretary of Stateship,
1:21.7	I guess, would look like. And we've got one coming out this weekend with Anton Yeager,
1:26.5	taking a sort of macro view of the election,
1:28.7	how it relates to capitalism and all those things.
1:31.1	So please check those out.
1:32.7	And if you haven't yet,
1:34.0	please like,
1:34.8	comment and subscribe.
1:36.9	We have a Discord that has actually really been,
1:40.0	as the kids definitely say today,
1:41.9	off the chain.
1:43.2	So if you're interested in interacting with us,
1:44.9	do they actually still say that? Yeah, they say it all the time, Derek. I'm surrounded by college
1:48.3	they can't stop saying off the chain. But if you're interested in talking with us, you're talking
1:54.0	about foreign policy, Discord is open to subscribers. And I really do recommend you join. If you're
1:59.8	interested, it's actually really interesting and people are smart.
2:04.2	So after that, Spiel.
2:05.7	It occurs to me that we didn't ask, we didn't ask Colin if Marco Rubio can play the guitar.
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