Quantum - The Wee Flea Podcast

We have a lot this week!   Disney becomes a danger to children; Bonnie Synder; Pakistan elections; Orban returns in Hungary;  Israel under attack; Kiev Massacres; Dobson calls for Assassination; Myanmar churches burning; Shanghai Covid Crackdown; Covid Fraud in the UK;  Is Earth Warming? Save the Children; Etihad; Metallica in Moscow; Infanticide in California; Abortion in Oklahoma;  BLM buys Californian mansion; Gay Conversion double U-turn; Divorce in the UK;  Good news from Finland; the Foo Fighters; Twitter and Musk; North Macedonia and Italy; Buddy's 1,000 Goal; Dot Cotton; Gerald Coates; and the no.1 Worship Song! 

This week we look at Twitter banning Babylon Bee; Will Smith and Chris Rock; China and the Solomon Islands; Brown Jackson; the French Election; Ukraine; Hunter Biden; Disney; Bernie Sanders; German Forests and Australian Coral Bleaching; The Seeker; and Casting Crowns.  

This week we look at the bad news - and the antidote to it - including Helen Reddy, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson; Madeline Albright; Ukraine; the coming food crisis; Boris's blunder?; Covid; Californian Dystopia; Cherry West; the South Australian Election;  Ash Barty; Brian Houston.   

This week we look at Ukraine, the Tik Tok war, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Covid in China, Corsican Riots, Good Climate Change in Australia; the unself aware Trudeau; Woke Wordle; Apartheid Australia; Christian Today Editor's hypocrisy; Church building in Egypt; with music from Barry McGuire, John and Yoko, Lynyrd Skynard and Sujan Stevens..

This week we look at the way that our society polarises on almost everything.  We look at South Korea, Australian Floods; the Endurance; John Bercow; Ukraine - including Stan Grant, Kamala Harris, Zelenskky, Russell Brand, Aris Rousinnos, Nicola Sturgeon, Anastasia, How Great Thou Art; Apologising for Witches; and Swan Lake...Including music from Stevie Wonder, GNA, the Carpenters, the Beatles, Russian Praise and Tchaikovsky

War - what is it good for? This week we take a deeper look at what is happening in Ukraine....how do we know what is happening?  War - what is it good for?   We look at the propaganda, Biden, Mike Russell, Joy Behar, Gary Brooker; De Santis; Ngaire Woods; China; Melvin Tinker and Ukrainian Worship.

This week we look at the situation in Ukraine, Canada, Covid, the Barrier Reef, the Sultan of Brunei, Colombia and abortion; Billionaire divorce settlement;  Bamber Gascogne; the bizarre reaction to the death of Christopher Stalford; Growing old in Japan;  the Bible in China; Jordan Peterson on Evil; and a beautiful old folk Gospel song from Norma Waterson.  

This week we pick up the pieces of what is happening in our increasingly shattered world - the good, the bad and the ugly.  We give thanks for the Queen, look at the Woke world of the Universities, the director of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Supreme Court Judge; Covid news on Pfizer; Djokovic; the 11 year old girl and the NFL star; UK government enforced loans; David Attenborough on Evolution and God; P J O'Rourke; and Springsteen singing 'This Little Light'.....

This week we look at Canadian Convoys; Misfunding Charities; Rogan;  Covid fact checking;  Adelle; US LGBTQ;  Electric Cars; Religious Liberty;  White Bread and the Working Class; Neighbours; Brexit Bishops;  The Italian/Scottish job; Shane and Shane....

This week we look at Joe Rogan, Neil Young, Joni MItchell, Canadian Truckers, Covid lockdowns; Denmark - Covid, Christian Eriksen and Rock; Inflation; Whoopi Goldberg;  Wordle; And Chinese New Year 

This week we follow up the Covid special, look at Boris Johnson's troubles; a great interview with Steve Baker; Peng Shui; the persecution of Nigerian Christians; Ukraine; Racist Christianity;  Finnish MP prosecuted for quoting the Bible; Jordan Peterson citing Putin; Unbelievable and Jayne Ozanne;  Where will I find Joy? What a Friend! 

This weeks Quantum tries to take a broader look at Covid - where it began, how it was reported on, how various nations tried to deal with it and the response of the Church - with the BBC, the CCP, Adam Schwab, Sherri Markson, Anders Tegnall, Jordan Peterson, Tom Holland, Nicola Sturgeon,  Brazil, UK, USA, Australia, Germany,  - with help from the Beatles, Jackson Browne and Sons of Korah....

This week we look at Boris's apology; the VIP lane; the infantilisation of society;  Johnny Cash; Inflation; Myanmar; Twitter in Nigeria; Flo RIda; the Gay Cake Case; Disability and Abortion;Eminem and Ed Sheeran; Indiana Jones; Rewriting Enid Blyton;  Welsh Government, Speech and Singing; Don't Look Up; Sydney Poitier;  Scottish Baptist Heresy; The Archbishop of Canterbury's New Year Address; The Decline of Church; Michael McIntyre; Bread of Heaven....

For this first podcast of the New Year - we look ahead at what might happen in 2022.   We include - Russia, Ukraine, China, North Korea, Covid, Djokovic, Climate Change, the Gnostic Wars, the Who, Mexico, Cancel Culture, Israel, the US, the UK, Scotland, France, David Bowie, K-Pop, the Queen and finish with a great song from the Byrds.  All links on the website - www.theweeflea.com

In this final Quantum of the year we look at the 10 'C's  of 2021 - Countries, Climate Change, Cities, Comfort, China, Catastrophism, Cancel Culture, Children, Crying and Covid.  We use my top ten Spotify songs for 2021 - I won't spoil the surprise - listen and enjoy.   To each of these ten we add a verse of Scripture...and we end with my Christian song of the year - a reminder that the Church should now sing of its coming King...

This week is a Christmas Special - we look at Santa Claus v. Father Christmas, Myanmar massacres, Hong Kong elections, Indian female suicides,  Chile's new leader;  John and Yoko; Covid modelling;  Trudeau and Candian democracy;  Supporting the wrong cricket team in India; Magnus Carlsen's chess joy; Joy banned in North Korea; Joyeux Noel; Glen Scrivener; David Suchet's Christmas;  David Henderson - see Amid the Winter Snow.  

This week we deal with Omicron, JK Rowling, Teenage boys literacy in NSW, Mike Naismith, Jussie Smollett, Indonesian volcano, Lewis Hamilton, Michael Buble, The Afghan Refugee Family and the Aberdonian Generosity; Tim Keller; and Mary's Boy Child.   Links on theweeflea.com  

This week we look at Woke Cricket; Wokemas in Norway; The EU bans Christmas; New Zealand myths; Myanmar; Biden and Oil; Barbados; Durham Uni and Rod Liddle; Covid Parties; Christmas and Children; Pornography in Virginian and Scottish schools; Redeemer Baptist School;   the decline of the Church in Australia and Scotland;  The Robertson Trust lose; Tora, Tora, Tora and Christ;  and a metal Christmas Carol! 

This week we ask what is truth, Covid and masks, what really happened in Wuhan?; Omicron; the Technoi Greek Alphabet; Antibiotics; Iran; Indonesia; China; Hong Kong and Disney; Olaf Scholz; Eric Zemmour;  Gulpilil;  Aboriginal Identity; Children choose new Church of England bishop; Rick Fulton; Stephen Sondheim; Diversity Officers in the NHS; Maria Yudina and the Saviour of the World    

This week we look at Boris Johnson's shambolic speech on Peppa Pig; Malaysian worship and Christians use of 'Allah';  Famine in North Korea; Change in Chile; Leonard Cohen; Covid Riots; Neil Oliver on Faith leaders and covid; India and Covid;  China's Fragility; Woke Muppets; Durham University trains prostitutes; US schools promote paedophilia; Scottish government quizzes children on sex; Melvin Tinker; Colin Buchanan sings about Davie Paterson.