Leighton Smith Podcast: Best of 2022 - January 25th 2022

George Friedman, founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, is in the studio with us this week.

And there’s plenty to discuss; wars and rumours of more wars. Possible peace in Ukraine, Star Wars, politics and crises, and the part New Zealand has to play.

Also, George’s book “The Storm before the Calm” which predicted the 2020’s would be turmoil for America. Are his predictions on target?

And a new analysis of the death of John F Kennedy which, if correct, indicates collusion amongst America’s Agencies.

We have mail from a former MP, and much more in The Mailroom with Mrs Producer.

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The legal fraternity in this part of the world is delighted at the Supreme Court’s decision on Smith v Fonterra. But not everyone feels that way.

In his inevitable style, Professor James Allan critiques the decision and the direction a collection of un-elected ex-lawyers are “usurping power to themselves at the expense of the elected branches of government”.

As a specialist in constitutional law, Jim is in his element.

We also spend words on SCOTUS and Trump. An important and essential commentary.

Plus we visit the Mailroom with Mrs. Producer.

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Canadian Jonathan Roth, founder of Resource Wars, recently recorded an interview with the former Mossad Chief Efraim Halevy.

He did not get the answers he was expecting.

Roth maintains that "progress and wealth are impossible without resources. All empires rise and fall based upon access to resources.

He provides perspectives on investing, global politics, technology and the future.

We critique NZTA’s plans to restrict citizen's rights to free movement, while simultaneously hitting us in the pocket.

And we visit The Mailroom, with Mrs Producer.

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Bitcoin trail blazed the interest and development of digital money.

As a result, the drive for a cashless society with fiat currency being replaced with CBDCs is being pursued by an increasing number of countries.

Currently, that count is a worrying 130. The ultimate goal is a one world currency.

We discuss all of this with Aaron Day, author of “The Final Countdown, the People’s Last Stand Against Tyranny by Central Bank Digital Currencies”.

We comment on Grant Robertson and his new home at the University of Otago, and how higher education wrecks freedom.

And we visit The Mailroom with Mrs Producer.

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If, like me, you love venturing into unknown territory and investigating challenges that are essentially beyond us, then here’s a question..

As we know, time goes forward, but can it go back?

Physicist Tom Sheahen explains how to expand human thinking and step up to a higher plane of understanding.

It is a challenging but most interesting interview.

You may not agree with all he says, but, in the words of Albert Einstein, “I want to know God’s thoughts, the rest are details”.

We ruminate over free speech and the Christchurch Call and democracy as our saviour.

And we visit The Mailroom with Mrs Producer.

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After six years of being mismanaged on so many fronts, New Zealand requires firm direction.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, opens up on our relationship with the U.S., the Middle East, China and Russia.

We discuss the Covid inquiry, the WHO, the state of the world and New Zealand’s place in it.

And we visit the first (very full) Mailroom of the year with Mrs Producer.

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Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2023.

Three NZ academics have recently written that NZ’s Tertiary Education Sector is in deep financial crisis, and that our universities are losing their best people.

At the same time a new private institution, the University of Austin, Texas, is prepping for its opening.

We speak with Jacob Howland, Director of the Intellectual Foundation Program from the university, on how ideology has poisoned the West.

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Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2023.

Ramesh Thakur, Emeritus Professor of the Crawford School of Public Policy.

He has held academic appointments in Fiji, New Zealand (Otago), Canada and Australia. He has also worked at the U.N.

We traverse COVID, the U.S. 2024 election, the W.H.O., climate, and the assault on liberties, freedoms and human rights.

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Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2023.

Professor James Allan returns to discuss our election, Jordan Peterson, The Voice, and Trumps legal challenges.

Jim encourages any so-called conservative parties to “fight the culture wars”.

Has any party in New Zealand got the required courage?

Is there “weaponised collusion” between The White House and the DOJ?

And what are the top universities and law schools teaching?

It’s a broad and energetic conversation.

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Leighton is on summer break, so we are highlighting some of his favourite guests from 2023.

In a world of lies, scepticism is your friend.

David Bell is a Public Health Physician and biotech consultant in global health.

What he has to say should be heard by every thinking person in this country, and every other “free” state on the planet.

As the World Health Organisation meets to convince countries to endorse changes to it’s original purpose, Dr Bell warns that “the WHO has changed and now it is a threat”.

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