• The Innocents Abroad Episode 3: The Interviews — Fergus Hodgson

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    Todor is off hunting for a place to stay in the hills of South Africa. He’ll be back next time.  This week, Yaël talks to longtime friend and fellow expat, writer, and adventurer Fergus Hodgson. He’s far from his homeland of New Zealand, having lived in the U.S., Canada, and all over Latin America over…

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  • The Day the GOP Died

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    Music video recorded with Free the People and Students For Liberty in Cleveland, Ohio, during the 2016 Republican National Convention. As Donald Trump secures the Republican nomination for president, the GOP convention feels more like a wake than a wedding. And what’s a wake without a good drinking song? THE DAY THE GOP DIED A…

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  • Episode 2: The Interviews — Canada

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    Todor interviews Yaël on what it’s like to live in Canada, what’s attractive about life there, how the systems work, what Canadian bacon is, the state of the healthcare, and why everyone cares so much about Justin Trudeau. SHOWNOTES: How To Move To Canada (If Trump Becomes President) Trudeau announces plan to speed up family…

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  • The Innocents Abroad: Episode 1 — The Introduction

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    Intro to the Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain, Being an Expat, Brexit, European cultures, Language, Cigars, Poland, and more. SHOWNOTES: The Good, the Bad, and Brexit: The United Kingdom Never Fit in the EU in the First Place Nigel Farage: 20 years ago you laughed at me, you are not laughing now Christian Amanpour interviews MEP…

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  • The Good, the Bad, and Brexit

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    The United Kingdom Never Fit in the EU in the First Place On the fate of Great Britain in the European Union and Brexit, the people have spoken. A good number of them.  Now, The Mob has been set loose. It’s more vociferous than ever before. But it’s not the gang of thieves you may…

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  • Canada Libertarians Say No to Nanny State on World No Tobacco Day

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    Prompted by World Tobacco Day, members of the international grassroots activist group Students For Liberty took to Parliament Hill on Tuesday to hand out their “No Nanny” plain-packaged chocolate bars to legislators and federal employees. Plain packaged chocolate bars handed out by Students For Liberty on World No Tobacco Day. The chocolate bar labels warn…

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  • S’attaquer enfin aux racines de la tuberculose

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    En étendant leur action à la prévention de la tuberculose, les responsables de la santé publique peuvent faire baisser le nombre d’infections, permettre aux gens de prendre leur santé en main, et progresser encore dans l’élimination de la tuberculose en France. La tuberculose est devenue la maladie infectieuse la plus meurtrière du monde, selon l’OMS…

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  • Who is watching WHO’s watch towers?

    Who is watching WHO’s watch towers? The WHO is pulling out all the stops with its monitoring centres to counteract the ‘darkness’ of sin industries, writes Yaël Ossowski THE World Health Organisation (WHO) is pulling out all the stops in its effort to turn public opinion against the tobacco industry. This reminds me of an…

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