Quantum - The Wee Flea Podcast

Quantum 348 - Africa's Only Christian Nation; Dylan on Music and Musk's Space Rescue

This week we look at Africa's only official Christian nation - Zambia;  Chinese pollution in Zambia;  Germany abandons debt ceiling and industry; Scottish Greens on Gender neutral toilets;  Dylan on machines making music; The Peat Inn for sale; the Dundee Derby; Newcastle United end trophy drought; SpaceX rescues astronauts; DOGE discovers 'Magic Money Machines'; Tesla and BYD batteries; Persecution of Christians in Syria and the Congo; Banning 'midwife'; New Jersey asks babies to self identify; Sydney rally against abortion; Ukraine ceasefire; The history of mail; C of E urges avoiding 'Eurocentric' prayers, Feedback  - with music from AGAM, Bob Dylan, the Magpie Geordie, the Rolling Stones, the Carpenters, and Ailsa Turner 

Quantum 347 - Another one Bites the Dust- Sturgeon, Canada's New Prime Minister, Rumania's Democratic Deficit and Syria

This week we look at Greenland's election;  Ukraine Ceasefire;  Canada's new Prime Minister;  Cancelling elections in Rumania - Vanis Varoufakis; Nicola Sturgeon leaving; Is Samoa Sinking? Vegan Friendly Films;  Amazonian Hypocrisy; Dolly Parton's husband dies; Dick McTaggart; Country of the Week - Syria; Hamas 'migrant' in the UK; Can a Black Woman play Jesus?  Woke RAF runs out of pilots; Canberra Church buildings; Christian inmate attacks death penalty before being executed; Street Preacher acquitted in UK; Feedback - including Donald Macleod on Gender; the Last Word - Pauls Conversion; with music from Elton John, the Who, Queen, Dolly Parton, Survivor, the Gene Band, Kenny Loggins, and Syrian Orthodox singers. 

Quantum 346 - Ethiopia, the White House Press Conference, Gene Hackman and Cox on the Universe and Humanity

This week we look at our country of the week - Ethiopia - Saudis shoot Ethiopian refugees, the Tigray civil war, coffee in Ethiopia, Ethiopian Jews,   The UK's National Death Service; Exploiting Sexual Abuse in Australia; Man becomes Sydney Woman of the Year;  Mardi Gras mockery of Christ; that White House Press Conference; Sharks in NSW; Mikey Madison and 'sex workers'; Germany rearms and refinances; Britain funds illegal Mexican abortion providers;  the death of Gene Hackman; Wes Streeting and Islamic freedom; Brian Cox on the Universe; Revival in the UK?  Feedback, an apology and Psalm 22 in Gaelic.  With music from Bob Marley, Helen Reddy, Nebiyou Elias,  Bob Dylan, and Bach Gaelic Psalm Singers. 

Coffee with John 87 - The Sin that Leads to Death

1 John 5:16-17 - Two of the most difficult verses in the whole Bible. What is the sin that leads to death and the sin that does not lead to death?

Quantum 345 - Scottish Values, French Censorship, Greenland....and more

This week we follow up with many things going on in the world - including Gillian Mackay admitting prayer could be banned;  John Swinney wants unity against 'the Far Right'; Islamism in Sydney schools; another Islamist attack in France;  BBC whitewashes Hamas documentary; Stonewall uses US funding; Blackadder on the causes of war; the German Election;  English Granny visited by police for criticising politicians;  Northern Irish Pastor arrested for preaching in buffer zone; ;  Country of the Week - Greenland; the Death of Roberta Flack; France closes TV stations - proving JD Vance right; Wildfires Decline;  BP loses big on Renewables;  New Disease in the Congo;  the death of Roberta Flack and JFK's bodyguard; and Psalm 3  with music from Brebach, Talsik, Nive Nielsen and the Deer Children; Roberta Flack, the Specials, Dreamers Circus and the Sons of Korah.

Quantum 344 - The Last Waltz and Fact Checking JD Vance

This week we fact check JD Vance's extraordinary Munich speech, and remember the movie of the Band's last concert; including Abortion in Scotland; the rise of the AFD;  Islamic organisations in Australia support anti-semitic nurses; the BBC, LGBT sailors and the importance of gender pronouns over death; why manufacturing is a sexist word; Trumps Ukraine error; Iain McWhirter on Keir Starmers troop promise; Online hate speech in Germany; Margaret Brennan on how Free Speech leads to Nazism; Japan goes nuclear; Dr Who goes Woke and Broke; French taxpayers pay for training to talk to plants;  Christianity Today accepts $1.8 million USAID money; West Yorkshire Police and Diversity Officers; Christians killed in Nigeria and the Congo; Feedback and Is the Resurrection for Real? with music from The Band, Eric Clapton, the Cox Family, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell 

Quantum 343 - Deutschland Uber Alles, Heresy in the White House and Lennon v.U2

This week we focus on Germany and the reasons for its decline as well as the ongoing Trump impact - including the rise of the AFD;  Richard Dimbleby and Belsen; Anti-semitic nurses in Australia; Paula White and the White House Faith Office;  David Fletcher and Liam Goligher;  Are surf boards sexist?;  Is Lego anti- LGBT? Keir Starmer takes a HIV test; Elections in Ecuador;  Joe Rogan on USAID;   USAID funds Islamic extremism;  Selling out Britain - Chagos; Julia Hartley Brewer and the 'kindness of Hamas';  German economy tanked by Green polices; Hunter Valley Coal; the new Super Bowl vibe; the history of wine and beer; clergyman claims Saviour is an offensive term; public to advise on next Archbishop of Canterbury; and Feedback  with music from Rammstein, Beethoven, the Beach Boys, The Polka Brothers,  John Lennon, U2,  and Bach.  

Coffee with John 72 - Faith and Love

1 John 5:1 - Faith and Love - the twins of real Christianity. What is faith? How does that work? What is the relationship with love?

The Lord's Prayer 7 - Yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory

In our final part of the Lord's Prayer we look at the ending - which is actually missing in the Latin version....But the kingdom, the power and the glory is God's. What better place to look at what that means - than Revelation 22

Quantum 342 - The Maverick, the Moral Maze, Music and Myanmar

This week we look at Belinda Carlisle's view of heaven; the Moral Maze; French schools and wine; Trumps Tariffs, Crypto, Gaza plans and USAID; Death of the Aga Khan; Protecting womens sport in the US; Angela Rayner and Islamaphobia;  growth of LGBTQI youth numbers in the UK; Trans indoctrination in the UK; Sadiq Khan removes pronouns; Country of the week - Myanmar; Big Pharma funding Bernie Sanders; History of the Bagpipes; Joe Rogan on LA fires; Dale Vince gets his reward; Death of Jack Hemmings; persecution of the Church in China; Feedback and Psalm 27 with music from Belinda Carlisle, UB40,  the Beatles, Fred Morrison, the Peatbog Faeries; Marty Robbins; and the Gettys