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The Shaun Thompson ShowApril 2, 2024Shaun's advice of the day: Never co-mingle with scum!! PLUS, Katherine Novikov, Executive Director of the Diamond Mind Foundation, talks about the importance of our freedoms - especially the freedom of exclusion. And Founder and Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy Frank Gaffney talks to Shaun about the planned demolition of America by the Jihadists and the CCP.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2024-04-031h 45
The Richard Syrett ShowThe Richard Syrett Show, March 28th, 2024 - Judge overrules dad; 27-year-old autistic daughter can go ahead with MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying)The Richard Syrett Show, March 28th, 2024Open By Default – a “New Database of Internal Government Documents Never Before Made Publichttps://inside.tru.ca/inthemedia/cbc-kamloops-open-by-default-documents/ https://theijf.org/the-ijf-launches-open-by-default Matt Malone, Assistant Professor at the Thompson Rivers University Faculty of LawKEEPING AN EYE ON YOUR MONEY - Moving election means tens of millions in extra pensionshttps://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/moving-election-means-tens-of-millions-in-extra-pensionsFranco Terrazzano – Federal Director of The Canadian Taxpayers Federation - taxpayer.comIN DEFENSE...2024-03-291h 32
The Fires of FreedomFreedom & "Femaleness"Today's episode is on Freedom and being female. What better topic is there to speak about when being female is being erased by the corporate, government, academic, and cultural forces?Of course, they can't erase being female because it's an objective biological category. But I ask you. Why are they trying to? What do you make of that? Is there anything about trying to eliminate female and femininity as an objective category that makes sense?There is something about it that makes sense; that makes perfect sense, something absolutely logical. It just all depends on what...2023-05-1713 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & The US Federal Government’s March to WarToday's episode is Freedom & The US Federal Government’s March to War.I don't know about all of you but I'm getting pretty fed up and disgusted by the attitudes and actions of the US federal government. It pains me to say this because I'm a veteran and an extremely patriotic person. But I'm not of the mindset “my country do or die”; my country can do no wrong. I'm not of that mindset at all.I'm of the most traditional mindset which says God then country. So, when I see my federal government – my country and my f...2023-05-1015 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & The Texas Transactional CurrencyThis special episode is entitled Freedom & The Texas Transactional Currency, also known as House Bill 4903 in the Texas House of Representatives Calendar Committee currently, as I record.I had the opportunity to testify briefly on the importance and historical significance – and urgency – of this bill last week but now that it's advanced to the Calendar Committee I felt morally obliged to produce this interview-style podcast specifically for the Calendar Committee so that they'll have a chance to fully understand the historic opportunity they have before them to rush HB4903 out of Calendars and into the Senate; to get it p...2023-05-0427 min
Underground USATexas Has A Golden IdeaI’m doing something a little different in this episode. I am going to be talking with Katherine Novikov. She’s the host of the Fires of Freedom podcast – heard everywhere podcasts are heard – and the Executive Director of the Diamond Minds Foundation, a 501c3 focused on helping people – especially our nation’s youth see the world – its governments and organizations; culture and societies, without distortion.Katherine is part of a grassroots initiative championing a bill that is currently working its way through the Texas Legislature. Texas House Bill 4903 would codify into law the authority for the State of Texas...2023-05-0427 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & MoneyGet ready for today's episode, my friends, because it's going to be both a trip down memory lane for some of us of a certain age and it will also involve a radical rethinking of one of the most fundamental lifebloods of society (well at least in the material sense).The topic of today's episode is Freedom & Money.Money. Everyone wants it. Ninety-five percent of the world's population struggles to have enough of it to meet their basic needs; for food, shelter, clothing, safety for their family, and education.What is money? Is it...2023-04-1921 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & The YoungIn today's episode, we're going to walk through Freedom & The Young.Freedom is a state of being in a country where the citizens have power over the government. From a political point of view, that's what freedom is. In any situation where the government has the ultimate authority over the people, there's no freedom.The United States has been, perhaps, the only truly free country because of our Constitution that guarantees the government works for us. Of course, it hasn't been working for us for a very long time and a key reason for that is...2023-04-1213 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & Trans-IdentityToday's episode is a current and delicate topic: Freedom and trans identity.Trans identity is a topic you can’t avoid these days. It's everywhere. I decided to touch upon it because I believe at the heart of the question of freedom and trans identity is a deeper question and that is this. How do we judge what is good for human freedom from what is bad for human freedom?How do we do that as a species? I believe that lies at the heart of the question of freedom and trans identity and I think it...2023-04-0514 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & ImmigrationToday's episode is on Freedom & Immigration.Of all the crazy things going on in the world and of all the questions being hotly debated – from the most minuscule one of how to address people who are, let's say far out of the norm with the way they express themselves, regarding the “pronoun question,” up to the level of the battles going on in the Catholic Church over what Christ really taught, there are battles raging everywhere. It's a war of the minds. It's a war of ideology. It's a war of what reality is and who gets to define...2023-03-1516 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & The World Economic ForumToday's episode is about Freedom and The World Economic Forum.I believe the biggest threat to human freedom that humanity has ever faced is exemplified by the attitudes, ideas, and behaviors of the World Economic Forum.The World Economic Forum, you probably know, has about 5,000 members including heads of state heads, nonprofits heads, heads of cultural groups, Hollywood types, corporate types, everybody who's anybody in elite International circles is a member of the World Economic Forum.And it's led by Klaus Schwab, a German Professor born in the 1930s whose father happened to be a...2023-03-0114 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & ChildrenDo you remember the old Whitney Houston song? It was really popular in the '80s. It went, “I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way.”Well, Whitney couldn't have been more correct about the first line. Of course the children are our future, in every possible way. Without children there is no future for the human race. Children keep the world going forward. Children are our pride, are joy, and they're the future for all of humanity.So, she's right, of course, children are our future and yes...2023-02-2217 minThe Fires of FreedomFredom & DiversityThe topic for today's podcast is Freedom and Diversity.In my life, I've had the outstanding opportunity to travel and live abroad quite a lot, especially compared to the average American. I have lived in England, France, Japan, and Russia during the first decade after my graduation from high school.In addition to living in those four countries, I had the opportunity to travel for extended periods of time to places such as Brazil, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Okinawa, and Korea.I've been really blessed. I’m not trying to br...2023-02-1516 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & WW3In today's episode, we're going to be talking about freedom and World War III.They are frightening days we live in. In the past couple of weeks, the World Economic Forum met in Davos, Switzerland to proclaim themselves the “masters of the future.” Those were Klaus Schwab's exact words. Easy to find if you're interested.John Kerry talked about how they've been “touched – as a group” – that they constitute a select group that has the extraterrestrial honor to sit in a room together and think about how to save the planet.In other breakout sessions at...2023-02-0813 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & Artificial IntelligenceFreedom & Artificial Intelligence is the topic of today's episode.If you listened to the last episode, Freedom & Christianity, there was a lot of talk about what underlies woke values and how these woke values are being rolled out – and rolled over us – in a way that I called “supremacy.” I make the case it is an extreme form of supremacy.Artificial intelligence is being delivered by many of the same elite people who embrace and hold dear these woke values of which I am so critical. I believe Artificial Intelligence can be a great tool for humanity...2022-12-2620 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & Traditional ChristianityIt's December and today's episode is going to be about Freedom & Traditional Christianity.I have questions and thoughts to share that I think are of particular value to non-christians, both educators and parents, during this Christmas time. This is not another rant about the war on Christmas. On the Fires of Freedom podcast, every topic goes to the heart of how and why are freedoms are slipping away before our eyes, and this Freedom & Traditional Christianity episode is no different.I'm dedicating this episode to the Undercover Mothers Group, a group of about 800 women...2022-12-2027 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & CoercionIn today's episode I'm thinking at great length about the subject of freedom and coercion. Are you thinking about the same these days?It seems to me that there's coercion all around us. Now, it's perfectly possible that I am temperamentally more likely to notice people attempting to coerce me and that others may be less likely to notice it but regardless of a person's level of sensitivity it's important to know that coercion and freedom are opposites; diametric, mutually exclusive, opposites and they always – and without exception – will be.Coercion is compelling a person to act...2022-12-0818 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & CensorshipIn today's episode, the topic is freedom and censorship.Well, here we are. Elon Musk has bought Twitter and fired nearly everyone. He has reinstated Jordan Peterson and James O'Keefe of project Veritas (that's Project Truth for those who don't know Latin). He’s even reinstated Donald Trump, although as far as I know he hasn't gone back yet.So, we're in a different world than we were a year ago. New social media platforms are popping up and the conversation and the conflict is strong and steady on all of them.The conflict of...2022-11-2220 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & PoliticsToday's episode is about freedom and politics.In the United States of America, politics is supposed to be for, under, and about the Constitution of the United States. There's a lot of room for discussion about how things ought to be under the Constitution but today both of our parties and many of our institutions are completely ignoring the Constitution.Politics is supposed to be about working out the power relationship among individuals or groups mostly for the distribution of resources or status or things like that. The question of the day is this. What is...2022-11-2115 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & Being HumanToday's topic on The Fires of Freedom podcast is a very big and very fundamental subject: freedom and being human.With so little freedom in the world and the threats to it growing day by day, this topic – freedom and what it means to be human – ought to be the primary subject of study, of debate, and discussion that the young people in the coming of age years (say 12 to 25) should be having, especially so in the still very Christian USA.Nothing matters more than generation after generation being given the opportunity to learn about what othe...2022-11-1728 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & WarIn today's episode we're going to be talking about the critically important subject of war and freedomThat Human Beings base biological nature is to be a warring animal seems to be indisputable. Throughout history, tribes have conquered tribes, Nations have taken over nations, empires have risen and fallen two external powers. Yes, unfortunately, the base model of human nature; the base model of some human beings - especially those who rise to the top of power structures, is to hunger for more power, more land, more wealth, and more dominating influence, and to seek it by taking...2022-11-1235 minThe Fires of FreedomFreedom & TruthIf you haven't already, I'd like to encourage you to listen to the first episode. It was an introductory episode in which I sum up my reasons for starting this podcast, my intended audience, and I went over my background as an entrepreneur of an Inc 500 company, as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award finalists, as a US Air Force veteran, and as a private person creating this podcast out of a sense of duty to country and to all of humanity for that matter.Today's topic is freedom and truth. Freedom is not possible without...2022-11-1227 minThe Fires of FreedomWelcome to The Fires of FreedomWelcome to The Fires of Freedom. I’m Katherine Novikov.You may know me as the founder and former CEO of Diamond Mind Incorporated, the nation's leading provider of payment processing software and services to K through 12 independent schools. I would like to state that I have had no contact or communication or any kind, or connection with Diamond Mind since 2016 when I sold the company to a private equity-backed organization due to a cancer diagnosis.What you may or may not know about me is I'm also a veteran of the US Air Force's Electronic Se...2022-11-1124 min
Economic War RoomEp 202 | In Today's Woke World, Profits Are EvilAccording to recent polling, investors do not want ESG investment products, yet Wall Street and the big funds are pushing them more than ever. Wall Street seems to no longer care about profits but only about pushing a progressive woke agenda. Kevin Freeman talks with Katherine Novikov, a former Russian cryptologic linguist for the U.S. Air Force, about how woke Wall Street is following the plans laid out by the Soviets and the CCP. She also talks about how she is weaponizing her investments to promote liberty, security, and values.2022-08-1825 min