Best Johnstone Podcasts (2024)

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"I Ain't Reading All That; Free Palestine" 4:09

2h ago4:09

4:09

The meme enrages Israel supporters because Israel apologia depends on mountains of verbiage to spin obvious atrocities as reasonable and appropriate. At some point the kids noticed this was happening, and started dismissing all the narratives.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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How AI is Shaping the Real Estate & Mortgage Industry with Chris Johnstone & Dennis Wells 27:10

5d ago27:10

27:10

Welcome to another podcast episode of the Loan Officer Marketing with your host Chris Johnstone. In this episode, your host Chris Johnstone shares insights on the impact of artificial intelligence on the mortgage and real estate industry. He discusses the evolution of Google's algorithms, emphasizing the importance of local SEO and the role of AI i…

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St Johnstone safe, Dundee departures and United secure Sibbald 1:07:50

21d ago1:07:50

1:07:50

St Johnstone pulled a rabbit out of their hat to secure their Premiership status on the final day of the season. On this week's Courier Talking Football - the final episode of the season - Jim Spence, Eric Nicolson and Sean Hamilton discuss an impending Perth rebuild, Dundee's retained players list and United's first summer contract move.…

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Behold The World Gently 3:50

1h ago3:50

3:50

The dead children don't affect me like they used to.The images. The videos. They still disturb and horrify, but not like they did in the beginning. Not anywhere close.And, honestly, I hate it. I hate that that part of me has been stolen.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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Spreading The Fiction Of An Antisemitism Epidemic On The Left 7:25

21m ago7:25

7:25

If you are helping to validate the completely fictional narrative that there is an epidemic of antisemitism on the political left, you are a facilitator of Israeli atrocities. You are helping the imperial war machine murder children.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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When The Powerful Control Public Opinion, Elections Aren't Real 8:32

2h ago8:32

8:32

In a capitalist system, those who control the capital control what ideas and information will be ingested by most people. In a democratic system of government - even one with a rock solid voting system and no money allowed in politics - this will always give the wealthy the ability to rig elections by manipulating public opinion using propaganda.Re…

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Give New York To The Mormons 2:32

15m ago2:32

2:32

The state of New York should be given to the Mormons, since that's where Joseph Smith founded Mormonism. All other faiths in the new nation that shall be known as Mormonland must either leave or accept the fact that their homes and property will be taken by Mormons, that they will be displaced to undesirable parts of Mormonland, and that they will …

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Ignoring Daily Massacres In Gaza While Still Babbling About October 7 5:31

3d ago5:31

5:31

We're seeing new massacres every goddamn fucking day, but western politicians and media can't stop babbling about one single massacre happening hundreds of days ago.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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Saving Gaza Is About More Than Saving Gaza. It's Also About Saving Ourselves 2:15

19h ago2:15

2:15

Saving Gaza is about more than saving Gaza. It's also about saving ourselves.Saving ourselves as individuals. Saving ourselves as a society. Saving ourselves as a species.Saving ourselves from what we'll become if we just watch this happening right in front of our eyes without doing everything we can to stop it.Saving ourselves from what the sociop…

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The Media Skew Public Perception By Manipulating People's Attention 9:13

1h ago9:13

9:13

Our perception of the world is dominated by the movements of our attention, which means that our perception of the world can be changed by manipulating those movements. Propagandists understand this, so they spend their time doing things like telling us over and over again what a bad bad baddie Vladimir Putin is while just occasionally giving a sin…

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Everything About Israel Is Fake 8:11

38m ago8:11

8:11

Everything about Israel is fake. It's a completely synthetic nation created without any regard for the organic sociopolitical movements of the land and its people, slapped rootless atop an ancient pre-existing civilization with deep roots. That's why it cannot exist without being artificially propped up by nonstop propaganda, lobbying, online influ…

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When Opposing A Genocide Means You're A Nazi 5:46

23h ago5:46

5:46

When opposing a genocide means you're a Nazi. When opposing nuclear brinkmanship means you love Vladimir Putin.When opposing the looming global conflict with China means you're a sinister propagandist for "the CCP".When opposing the latest imperial escalations against the latest Official Bad Guy always means you're an appeaser of the Bad Guy and wo…

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The Washington Post Is Pure AIDS, And Other Notes 8:49

1d ago8:49

8:49

"The Washington Post is one of the worst propaganda rags ever to exist in any country. If I'd published such an article for such a depraved empire propaganda outlet, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night."Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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Landfill Empire 3:21

2d ago3:21

3:21

The moonlight caresses the missile silos in Russia and the blown out hospitals in Gaza.The garbage plays in the wind like children. The exhaust fumes and the sounds of traffic feel like sex in your senses.You can meet the divine here. Here in the city. Here in dystopia. Here amid the smell of piss and the sleeping bags on the sidewalk. Here in the …

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The Reckless Brinkmanship With Russia Just Keeps On Escalating 6:24

3d ago6:24

6:24

It's damn near impossible to keep up with all the warmongering of the western empire these days.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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Why I Don't Condemn Hamas For October 7 5:29

11d ago5:29

5:29

Cynthia Vigil was never charged with any crime because anyone could see that violent force was an entirely understandable and legitimate response to having been kidnapped and subjected to horrific treatment. It never at any time occurred to anyone to say that she should have acted differently, and it most certainly never occurred to anyone to make …

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They Can't Control The Gaza Narrative Because Too Much Has Been Seen 5:12

5d ago5:12

5:12

The light of awareness makes it very difficult for an empire which is fueled by human blood to operate, which is why so much effort has been going into shutting off the lights.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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The US Empire Isn't A Government That Runs Nonstop Wars, It's A Nonstop War That Runs A Government 6:10

12d ago6:10

6:10

It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it's a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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Mastering the Fundamentals: A Roadmap to Mortgage Business Success 27:49

7d ago27:49

27:49

Welcome to another podcast episode of the Loan Officer Marketing with your host Chris Johnstone. In this episode, your host Chris Johnstone discusses the essential components of building a successful mortgage business. He emphasizes the importance of daily discipline, philosophy, systems, team building, and leadership in achieving growth and succes…

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Biden Lets Ukraine Strike Russia With US Weapons While Ukraine Attacks Russian Nuclear Defenses 4:40

8d ago4:40

4:40

Well it finally happened: Biden is now letting Ukraine strike Russian territory with US-supplied weapons. Escalations in nuclear brinkmanship which would have been unthinkable a few short years ago are becoming increasingly common as Ukraine loses more and more territory and runs out of soldiers to fight.Reading by Tim Foley.…

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Why Celebrities Aren't Speaking Up About Gaza 4:50

9d ago4:50

4:50

For the last eight months people have been expressing frustration and confusion about the reluctance of celebrities to use their immense platforms to speak out against the US-backed slaughter in Gaza. But it's not really a mystery why this happens: celebrities are reluctant to criticize the US-centralized empire because they benefit from it directl…

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Mass Slaughtering Civilians To Stop Terrorism 5:37

17d ago5:37

5:37

Remember kids, Israel HAS to bomb hospitals and starve Gaza and incinerate children and shoot people waving white flags and assassinate doctors and journalists and commit daily massacres of civilians, because if it doesn't do this the region will be dominated by evil terrorists.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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The US Is Discrediting All Arguments For Why It Should Lead The World 6:47

11d ago6:47

6:47

One by one, the US empire is discrediting all of its own arguments for why it should lead the world. All the violence, tyranny and injustice it claims to be keeping at bay with its globe-dominating leadership is being inflicted by the empire itself, in more and more brazen and egregious ways each year.Reading by Tim Foley.…

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There Was A Time 2:06

16d ago2:06

2:06

It's hard to believe there was a time when I didn't know what a child's insides look like.That I didn't know how limp babies' limbs go when they are dead,when they are missing parts of their body,missing their head,limbs dangling lifeless as parents hold them in front of the camera,screaming, crying, pleading, desperate.There was a time when I didn…

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Israel Massacres Children, Which The Western Press Says Is Fine 4:55

12d ago4:55

4:55

Anyone who's been following the Gaza genocide on social media today will be seeing this phrase "legally killed child" alongside footage of children ripped apart by Israeli military explosives in a civilian displacement camp.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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It's Actually Amazing How Stupid The Propaganda Is Getting 4:49

13d ago4:49

4:49

It's actually amazing how stupid the propaganda has gotten. Bombing kids and hospitals is self-defense. An extremely blatant ethnic cleansing campaign is actually a war. A few western Zionist Jews saying they feel unsafe on campus is a more urgent concern than an active genocide.Reading by Tim Foley.…

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Like So Much Else, The Fuss Over 'International Law' Is Really About Narrative Control 6:42

16d ago6:42

6:42

"That’s why you see US and Israeli officials raging and fuming about the actions of the ICJ and the ICC. It’s not because they’re worried those courts will be able to enforce the rulings they make, it’s because it weakens their control of the narrative."Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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Converting Online Leads into Deals with A.I.: Insights from Chris Johnstone. 18:08

20d ago18:08

18:08

Welcome to another podcast episode of the Loan Officer Marketing with your host Chris Johnstone. In the latest episode of the Loan Officer Marketing podcast, we dive deep into how AI is changing the game for turning online leads into real business opportunities. Chris Johnstone shares some great tips on how to boost your online lead conversion rate…

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Meanwhile, We're Still WAY Too Close To Nuclear Armageddon 4:21

17d ago4:21

4:21

While the antiwar zeitgeist has been quite understandably focused on the genocide in Gaza, over the past few weeks we've been seeing some very disturbing reports about empire managers ramping up nuclear brinkmanship escalations in Ukraine that are worth going over.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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If You Can't Even Elect A Candidate Who'll End A Genocide, How Real Is Your "Democracy"? 5:56

20d ago5:56

5:56

And this just says so much about the nature of this "democracy" - a word which literally means "rule by the people". If the people were actually in charge, there would be some option available to them to end the worst thing happening in the world right now. But the people are not in charge. When it comes to matters of the most importance, they neve…

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It's Not Unusual That We're Being Lied To, It's Unusual That People Are Noticing 6:50

21d ago6:50

6:50

It's important to understand that there's nothing unusual about the western empire's depravity in Gaza or the mass media's constant lies and distortions about it - they do these things constantly, year after year. What's unusual is that people are waking up to it.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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The Problem Isn't Civil Disobedience, It's Civil Obedience 4:52

22d ago4:52

4:52

Our problem is not that more and more people are opposing Israel's empire-backed atrocities in Gaza with more and more aggression, our problem is that people are not opposing it aggressively enough. Our problem is that too many people still have their minds jacked into the mainstream worldview and ignore the most urgent matter of our time, letting …

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The US Empire Deliberately Stokes Hatred And Violence In The Middle East 3:51

28d ago3:51

3:51

It's actually a brilliant self-reinforcing scam. It works like this:Step 1: Murder people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism".Step 2: This causes people to hate you and your allies and to want to retaliate with violence.Step 3: Designate these people "terrorists".Step 4: Send more war machinery to the region to go fight "terroris…

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I Criticize The US Power Alliance Because It's The Most Destructive Force On Earth 6:19

29d ago6:19

6:19

I don't spend my time attacking the US war machine because I have any special love for Hamas, Iran, Russia, China, or any other power. I do it because the US empire is quantifiably the most destructive and tyrannical force on this planet, by an extremely massive margin.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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St Johnstone peril, 'nul points' for Dundee and rebuild starts at United 1:01:24

28d ago1:01:24

1:01:24

St Johnstone have two games to save their Premiership skin. On this week's Courier Talking Football, Jim Spence, Eric Nicolson and Sean Hamilton discuss Saints' chances, whether Dundee are at risk of a pointless post-split run and the beginning of Dundee United's Premiership rebuild.By DC Thomson

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When Your Rulers Ignore Voters But Are Terrified Of Protesters, That Tells You Something 5:56

1M ago5:56

5:56

When nobody in power will lift a finger to earn your vote but they're falling all over themselves trying to stomp out a robust protest movement, that tells you what the powerful are actually afraid of and where you should really be focusing your political energy.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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Using A Fictional Antisemitism Crisis To Support A Real Genocide 8:49

1M ago8:49

8:49

"It's like responding to warnings of another holocaust by babbling about Sauron."Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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When Opposing Genocide Is Seen As Radical, Radicalism Becomes A Moral Imperative 4:30

1M ago4:30

4:30

Israel supporters are such psychopathic war sluts that they're currently shrieking their lungs out at Biden for making a purely symbolic face-saving statement that he won't give Israel the weapons to annihilate Rafah, despite the fact that he has already given Israel all the weapons it would need to annihilate Rafah.Reading by Tim Foley.…

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Protest And Dissent Can Absolutely Push The Empire To Retreat On Gaza 5:05

1M ago5:05

5:05

The imperial murder machine has many strengths, but it also has weaknesses.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them 7:31

1M ago7:31

7:31

Don’t let anyone tell you your protests don’t make a difference or your dissident speech poses no threat to the powerful. If what you’re doing wasn’t working, empire managers wouldn’t be losing their minds right now.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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Opposing The War Machine Is Cool Again, And The Empire's Getting Nervous 3:41

1M ago3:41

3:41

What are they going to do, win the young back by writing another Wall Street Journal think piece? Have Netanyahu rap about how Zionism is rad while Tony Blinken plays guitar? They’ve got nothing.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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Getting More Loans Through SEO 39:25

1M ago39:25

39:25

Welcome to another podcast episode of the Loan Officer Marketing with your host Chris Johnstone. In this episode, your hosts Chris Johnstone and Carl White discuss SEO strategies for loan officers and mortgage marketing. They cover the importance of SEO in generating more loans, focusing on referral partners, SEO, and online leads. They also emphas…

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The Destruction Of Gaza SHOULD Be Radicalizing People 6:23

1M ago6:23

6:23

What's happening in Gaza SHOULD radicalize you. It absolutely should.Right now, even as its own criminality hits fever pitch, the western political-media class is fretting with increasing shrillness about young people getting "radicalized" and turned against their government by the spread of information and ideas at campus demonstrations and on Tik…

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I Oppose Israel's Atrocities In Gaza Because I'm Not A Psychopath 5:00

1M ago5:00

5:00

I don't oppose the butchery in Gaza because I love Hamas or hate Jews or love Islam or hate America.I don't oppose the butchery in Gaza because I'm a lefty or a commie or an anarchist or an anti-imperialist.I oppose the butchery in Gaza because I'm not a fucking psychopath.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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Israel's Defenders Talk So Much About Feelings Because They Can't Talk About Facts 4:46

1M ago4:46

4:46

Israel is the only issue where the western political-media class treats people's feelings as a matter of supreme importance.If you're a stressed-out single parent struggling to pay bills and keep a roof over your kids' head, they don't care about your feelings.If you're an American who's been cast into destitution and homelessness by medical bills,…

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Building Referral Relationships Through Database Marketing 19:43

1M ago19:43

19:43

Welcome to another podcast episode of the Loan Officer Marketing with your host Chris Johnstone. In this episode, your host Chris Johnstone discusses the importance of effective database marketing for loan officers. He emphasizes the significance of utilizing past customers, past leads, and personal connections in your database marketing strategy. …

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Opposing Every War But The Current One, Supporting Civil Rights But Never Right Now 7:11

1M ago7:11

7:11

As Democrats get worse and worse the longer Biden's genocide in Gaza continues, I find myself recalling a tweet that went viral back in November by an account with the handle @eyeballslicer, "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that's going on right now."Reading by…

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The Bizarre Gymnastics Of The Gaza Aid Pier 5:49

1M ago5:49

5:49

So let me get this straight. The US wound up building its "floating pier" a few miles off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid, but nobody will be able to ship the aid directly to the pier to get it to Gaza. Instead, the aid will be delivered to Cyprus via air or sea, and then from Cyprus the aid will be shipped 200 miles to the pier. From…

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The 'Antisemitism' Moral Panic Has Officially Jumped The Shark 5:13

1M ago5:13

5:13

So, to be absolutely clear, Israel's top government official has announced that charges against himself and other Israeli leaders for obvious war crimes like intentionally bombing and starving civilians would be both "antisemitic" and a "hate crime".Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis In Stunning Propaganda Segment 4:40

1M ago4:40

4:40

In one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life, CNN's Dana Bash launched into a fire-and-brimstone sermon on Wednesday comparing anti-genocide university protesters to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany - doing so in defense of a fascistic police crackdown against those very same protesters.Reading by Tim Foley.…

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