She's an expert on online disinformation. She was formerly a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center. She's testified before Congress, as well as the United Kingdom and European Parliament, advising Ukrainian foreign minister, particularly relevant in this moment, under the auspices of a Fulbright public policy fellowship and overseeing Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute. Any hiring decisions are up to the Department of Homeland Security, but this is a person with extensive qualifications. How do you feel about the Ministry of Truth? This is the kind of thing that you see in dictatorship. This Ministry of Truth, this Department of Propaganda that the Biden administration has just stood up.  They're afraid of the people. They're afraid that we might actually think for ourselves. And so now they've created this body that will do two things. Number one, it'll use taxpayer dollars to work through the mainstream media and flood the airwaves with whatever their propaganda narrative is that they're pushing at any given time and try to drown out anyone with alternate views. And number two, they will silence dissenting voices through intimidation. I think the thing to recognize with this, just real quick, is that this isn't something new. This is something that they have already been doing. That's happening right now. The only difference is they're formalizing it, making it official, which if there's a silver lining in this, it is they're revealing exactly who they are and why they're doing it, what they're trying to accomplish. And it allows us, the American people, to stand up and say, hey, you know what?  We will take a stand. We will reject it.  Hello, everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we're going to talk about liberty today. By this point, I am sure that you have heard that the government is establishing, has established a disinformation governance board under the Department of Homeland Security. And like many of you, I, of course, have some thoughts about that. So without overstating the obvious, this is obviously incredibly tyrannical and horrible and dangerous. And basically what every sci-fi novel ever warned us about. Yet, here we are. And this is the world we live in now where we have to deal with the fact that the government, without an act of Congress, without voting just unilaterally in some bureaucracy, deep in the security state, has decided that they're going to establish a board to determine what information is true and what information is not true. Now, there's a couple questions you should be immediately asking yourself. The first one is, why does the government need to do this, right? And any government in history that's ever done anything like this has only done it, of course, because they want to suppress things that challenge their power and bolster, of course, their general message propaganda, whatever. The second question you should be asking is, okay, well, even if that's what they want to do, don't we already have a press secretary? Don't we already have ways for the government to communicate with the people? Like, let's just pretend for a second that their motives behind this are totally benign and they just actually want to, you know, better clarify information that's out there. Well, the truth is they already have avenues to do that, right? We have press secretaries, we have press releases. The White House has correspondence that are specifically assigned just to the White House from the various news organizations. So there's clearly a way for the government to already get its message out there if that's what it just wanted to do. However, this has been established under the Department of Homeland Security. And the Department of Homeland Security, well, what are they in charge of, right? They were established by George Bush after 9-11. It was a waste of time and money then. It's just as much of a waste of time and money now. And their entire purpose, right, is to protect the homeland. And that's what they've been allegedly, supposedly doing for the past 20-some years. So it should very much concern you that this Board of Disinformation is being established within a internal government policing slash security function. Why would you put a government disinformation governance board or whatever they're calling it? We're just gonna call it the Ministry of Truth for probably the rest of this video. Why would you establish the Ministry of Truth under a policing function in the federal government? Well, there's only one reason that you would actually do that, right? You would establish it under a policing function under a policing bureau within the federal government because you plan on policing it, right? So the only reason that you would establish this under the Department of Homeland Security is because you plan on policing the speech. And that probably means everything you think it means and you're just hoping in nightmares, right? It means making videos like this, not being acceptable. It means your tweets not being acceptable. It means the end of the freedom of speech. And in the long run, if we don't do something now because this is absolutely a hill to die on, if we don't do something now, well then in 10 years we wake up and the First Amendment is treated just like the Second Amendment. I mean, yeah, you know, it says that in the Constitution and it's pretty clear. However, you know, all constitutional rights are have restrictions on them and we need to be reasonable and we need to take into account public safety. And if you're just saying these things and these thoughts, well, that's dangerous.  I used to read a lot of the Truth on Guns and I wrote a couple articles that got published there. And this article was a satire article and it was about, you know, what if we treated the First Amendment just like the Second Amendment?  However, that is actual real reality that we are potentially about to be living in if we don't pay attention. So I made this video because I wanted you to think about, look where this is gonna go. They're establishing it under a policing function because they're planning on policing it. And that would mean the end of what we call America because freedom of speech, of course, is the most sacred right that we have in this country and it's the First Amendment for a reason because it's the first important. A lot of people don't think about it but the amendments are actually written in order and the order they're written in is the order of importance that they are, particularly the First 10. At some point they're obviously going to try to outlaw all opposing political parties, right? Because once you come after the First Amendment and the freedom of speech, that's obviously the point where you're gonna say, listen, these other political parties, if anybody else is saying something, it's not true and it's dangerous. It's very dangerous to our democracy so we can't allow these parties to gather anymore because they're not safe for our democracy and so we need to outlaw them, we can't have that. So you watch for that because as this continues to go, that would be the next step. They'll establish a governance board, they'll start policing speech and then they'll start outlawing all political parties except the one political party. You can say, Dylan, how do you know that? Well, I know that because I can read a history book and time and time again, that's always what's happened. Once you outlaw speech, you outlaw all other political parties and you can only be a member of that political party. If you look at China, current day China, there's only one political party in China. It's the Communist Party. You have to belong to the Communist Party to do anything. If you look at the Bolshevik Revolution, right? After the 1917 revolution in Russia, same thing. All other parties were banned. You can only belong to the one party. So you gotta pay attention to history and you can easily see where this is gonna go. So if the First Amendment ends in this nation, that is the end of America that you grew up in. This country will no longer be America. It will be some kind of dystopian sci-fi novel. So I highly urge you to call your federal Congress people today, call your state government people today and tell them that this will not stand. States should of course pass laws and edicts that they will not participate with the federal government in any way, shape or form with this kind of governance board. All of their agents will be rejected at the border to put on planes and sent home and they will have nothing to do with it whatsoever because this needs to be starved out and stomped out immediately. Lastly, I do wanna look at the short video from Nina. I can't pronounce her last name but the lady who's been put in charge of this governance board or as we will refer to her, Umbridge. Let's take a look at this video and see. First of all, color revolutions have nothing to do with race. The term was coined in the early 2000s when countries like the Republic of Georgia and Ukraine had spontaneous peaceful democratic revolutions that had colorful nicknames. In 2003, the Georgian opposition protested the opening of a new session of parliament based on fraudulent election results. They did it while carrying roses, hence the Rose Revolution. In 2004 and 2005, Ukrainians protested their own rigged election. Candidate Viktor Yushenko's campaign branding was orange, hence the Orange Revolution. You get the idea. Color revolutions have earned a bad rap though, mostly thanks to Vladimir Putin because they brought in democratically-minded governments that threatened Russian influence in the region. Putin likes to suggest they are CIA-organized. That is not true. Believe it or not, sometimes people get fed up with having their voices silenced for decades. Putin's narratives intentionally rob protesters of agency. They discount the grievances that brought them to the streets, risking their lives, and ultimately, they undermine the resulting governments. And now we're seeing the same narrative cropping up here in the United States. Here's why it doesn't fit. First of all, in case we've forgotten, protest is a democratic right. You are entitled to it, no matter your opinion. Second of all, color revolutions happen in autocracies. When people are fed up with the indignities of an entrenched regime, while we have witnessed some democratic backsliding here in the United States, we are not in autocracy. We still have checks and balances. We still enjoy democratic rights. Certainly, we are not Georgia in 2003, Ukraine in 2004, or Belarus today. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, these events usually happen in response to a rigged election. Even today, we should still have the confidence that our votes will be counted fairly and accurately. I do. And as a reminder, there's only one candidate who is tweeting about rigged election results. So, in short, color revolutions aren't dirty. They're expressions of democratic will, and they should inspire us all. Okay, I just noticed a handful of things in that video that I wanted to bring to your attention, and I jot down some notes here. Now, I don't know what year this video was made in. I'm assuming sometime before Trump was banned from Twitter, because they talked about him tweeting. So, I'm assuming somewhere kind of in that 2020 timeframe, 2019 timeframe, somewhere in there. So, one of the things she says is all these revolutions weren't CAA organized. That's not true. And my first thought, of course, is how do you know that? Because if they were CAA organized, they'd be classified, I'm sure. And two, the CAA kind of has a history of, doing things exactly like that.  And then she lists some reasons why it doesn't work. She says that to protest is a democratic right.  You notice she does not say constitutional right. She says democratic right, and you would say, well, why does she say that? And I would argue, she says democratic right, which again, isn't the thing, no idea what that means, because it's a very vague, sounding good concept, right? Well, we have these democratic rights, and you have the right to protest, and of course, that's a democratic right that you have. But she does not say constitutional and enumerated rights, right? Because if you want, we have a document that actually says all of the rights that we have, and it recognizes those, and it lists them out specifically, including the right to protest. But she doesn't want to refer to that document because she doesn't want to be locked in to black and white paper of what something said. This democratic right is kind of this big, amorphous, vague, good feeling, but you can change it anytime you want kind of thing. If you've ever read the Animal Farm, when they keep changing the rules on the wall, that's what's going on here. And it's also very important to point out that the United States of America is not a democracy. It's not, and that's a very, very important distinction. It's not just mincing hairs. A democracy is where all the citizens and the voting members can vote on all the stuff. That's a democracy. We do not have a democracy. We have a constitutional republic. And in a constitutional republic, you have the constitution which frames the parameters of the government, and then you elect representatives in order to make decisions. That's how a constitutional republic is supposed to function. Now you can argue how in or out of whack that is, and I'd gladly have that discussion. However, you need to understand the United States, nor any other modern country that I know of is a democracy. And we need to stop using that word because obviously people have never taken a basic civics class and they have no idea what kind of government we're operating. Democracies, historically, are absolute failures. The prime example being Greek Athens, right? They had a democracy. It was a disaster. It turned into this tyranny by the majority, mob rule mentality, and the founding fathers very specifically rejected democracy as a governmental system because they knew it was trash and garbage and would not protect your rights in the long run. And somehow in the modern era ever since, I don't know, Woodrow Wilson, we have this idea that democracy is a good thing and that we need to spread democracy and that we somehow randomly are a democracy. The United States is not a democracy. Nor should we be, by the way. I'm sure that rant's gonna end me up in the gulag. She also mentions how to protest is your democratic right or your democracy right or whatever term issue that she uses. I wonder what she would say about the protesters on a certain day back in January, a while ago. She makes this point that this only happens in aristocracies and America is not an aristocracy. I can't even, I can't even say it, it's just so much. She talks about this entrenched regime that happens in these countries and you know, we don't have an entrenched regime here in America, right? People that have been in government for, I don't know, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years, that's not a thing in America. She mentions that the United States still has checks and balances to which I would reply that's an absolute lie. It's pretty a blatant lie because you have the CDC saying that nobody had to pay rent in the United States for over a year. The CDC, just some government that's supposed to give advice to doctors on how to approach medical issues, outlawed paying your rent for over a year. So you tell me about these checks and balances that we still have in America. And then of course, the Krem de Krem when she talks about how elections in America are still fair and valid and reasonable to which I would reply, really? I mean, if you've been living in this country for the past two years and you still think elections are completely fair and done correctly, if elections are fair and done correctly, then why is it that one party in this country is very adamant and opposed to the idea that people should have to have an ID, improve citizenship in order to vote? Why would you be opposed to that if you want free and fair elections? Riddle me that. So in totality, this is the reality that we have to live in right now. And I would strongly urge you to think about that and to think about your next steps here and what the hills are you wanna die on because after we lose the freedom of speech and I can't make videos anymore under fear of being arrested, well then we no longer live in America. We have much more in common with Stalin run Russia. Do brave deeds today and endure.


Hey guys, welcome back to Tech Talk, my name is Chase and today we're going to be discussing your masterating toilet. So now that you're out on the water and somebody has to use the restroom, you must first be sure that your freshwater pump is on. So now that the freshwater pump is on, you'll then come to the console and you'll notice this black acrylic panel. Before they use the bathroom, you're going to be sure they want to fill the freshwater tank up by depressing the rocker switch in the upright position. Once they have water in the head, they can then use the restroom. From there, they will depress the bottom part of the rocker switch, thus mastering the waste and sending it to a holding tank. If you are within proper regulations from offshore, you can simply turn this key and it will overboard discharge, mastering the waste and sending it overboard. If you are not within these regulations, you're going to need to go to your local marina and they will pump out the waste via your waste outlet, which is going to be located under the front table or under your front console seat, depending upon the model. So hopefully that will help you guys in operating your masterating toilet. If you have any questions or comments, leave them below, like and subscribe and we'll see you on the next one.


Okay, folks, this is Larry Pesaveto with the mid-afternoon update for the Tiger Financial News, folks. And we're going to take a look at the Dow Jones up slightly, about 10 points. S&P, Russell, and Nasdaq are all lower on the day. They were sharply lower, then came back rather strongly. We have gold and silver down today. And those are just a few of the things that we're watching here. I will try to get a chart up here and post it because there is one chart that really should take precedence over all others, folks. And that is the chart for the Nasdaq Banking Index. It is the most bearish chart I have seen since Hector was a pup, and that dog is nine near on 13 years old today. You'll see here this beautiful 382 retracement, folks. That is equal in both price and time. H.M. Gartley said in his book, Profits in the Stock Market, 1937 edition for the cost of $1,500. And at that time of your life, if you'd have been there in 1937, that was the cost of three Ford automobiles. Folks, this has tremendous bearish potential. It also has potential bullish potential because if we break out to the upside, and if we do break out to the upside, that would be incredibly bullish. But chance favors the prepared mine, as Louis Pasteur would say, and this market looks really, really ominous. Because if the banks don't have the money, who does? This is the Nasdaq Banking Index, folks. And if you take a look at the chart of Goldman Sachs, which we're going to do when we come up to my show here in a few minutes, you'll see that it is as bearish, but not nearly as bearish as this. Folks, this has everything that you could possibly ask for for a bear market. Gartley on page 222 of his book, he said, look for this particular pattern. We have the ABCD pattern in a downtrend and get ready to sell that. He said, because that is the best pattern that he found in his book of 600 and some pages and 57 of those pages were nothing but patterns. So he was extremely bearish about that. Our guest today is going to be Rich Anderson. He's going to be talking to us about the grain markets, soy beans, wheat, corn. Everything is very, very bullish today. So we're going to keep a close eye on some of these things as we unfold the rest of the weekend here. So that's what we're looking at so far this morning, folks. Good afternoon now. So we'll be right back,<PHONE_NUMBER>.


This is Russell Lee, you're one of your co-hosts for Think Tech Asia, and I'm along here today as Ray Tsuchiyama, my co-host, Ray, say hello, Ray. Thank you very much. Hello. And we're here today to explore some of the global issues that impact Hawaii, particularly issues of what's happening in Asia. Today on our show we're going to talk about the One Belt One Road initiative that many people are hearing, which has been actually undergone through many changes through the past couple years, and how it does affect Hawaii and U.S. And we're going to talk about some other issues that affect Hawaii, for example, the proposed hotel room tax increase, and how does it affect our Asia travelers, especially those coming from Japan and from our new markets from China. And so today we're going to first talk about the One Belt One Road initiative. And One Belt One Road initiative is proposed by China. It's actually a proposal that has been ongoing for the past few years, which proposes a major shift in a paradigm and a business model, and it proposes to involve many countries, a lot of money, and building infrastructure through the old China Silk Road that brought trade from China through the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. And we're also going to talk about the other Silk Road, which is the New Silk Road, which is the Maritime Silk Road. So Ray, you're a great historian. Why don't you give us a little background of your knowledge, as we were discussing earlier, about the Silk Road? Well, you go back when an Italian man named Marco Polo came back from China talking about a society that had grand canals, and they used paper money. They had all kinds of security throughout the land, and there was an emperor called Kubla Khan at that point. And he traveled to China from Genoa and over Venice at that point, Italy, the city states that were major center of the trade. And they went through what we now would see as Turkey through the Middle East, Kazanstan, through the old cities, Samakan, Tashkent, all these areas that were beautiful, gleaming cities with hundreds of camels coming through with silks and jewels and all kinds of tea and incense, all kinds of products from China going to Europe, and things coming from Europe to China. So they had a long overland route that took many, many months to get to, and they landed in an unbelievable civilization of that time under the emperor of China. Yes, fantastic story. You know what? I mean, the museum is in China, Ray. I actually see figurines from that period. It was the height of the Tang dynasty. And you would actually see figurines that would have people with big nose, light colored hair, and also the African culture. You could see all these figurines. So you know that the Silk Road has been an economic route. And people from many cultures have been involved. So again, the Silk Road is something that China is its initiative. And it is a very big and bold and vicious plan because it's going to really boost the unbuilt infrastructure and trade along the corridor from through China, through Kazakhstan, Middle East, and then through Europe. And in fact, Ray, a few months ago there was a first train that came from, actually started near Yiwu, China, went all the way to London for two weeks, and it went through all these different countries. So we're seeing as part of the dry run, the Silk Road that's being recreated. And imagine if you're on this train from China and traveling all the way to London and all the cities you pass through, like you say, Kazakhstan and through Turkey, through the former Yugoslav republics going up to Vienna and then to Paris and London. And you could get off and then you could talk to other traders in those cities. There's a lot of interaction that takes place. You can just have all kinds of interaction through this train system that really wasn't there until just recently, you know, high speed freight carrying and passenger carrying trains. And these are really an area where China is putting a lot of research and design efforts. You know, one of the things that strikes me also is that we're having a lot of discussion these days about China's presence in the South China Seas and for people who are not up to speed and being in Beijing, I'm there a lot of times, they're actually going to have a home there. You know, the concern really is more economic focus that they're looking to making sure the international shipping lanes are open and that's probably going to be part of the Maritime Road, which will start in southern China and will go down to Southeast Asia. This is the old route that goes to Africa, Suez Canal, Mediterranean Ocean, then to Italy and up through Europe. So there's historical basis. I know, Ray, you're the historian buff and you may recall. And it was the last great adventure, a naval fleet that China organized, like you say, went down through Malacca Straits and then westward towards India through Ceylon and managed to get to the eastern coastline of Africa and what is near now, Tanganyika and Kenya and they still uncover pottery from the Chinese ships that came by. So it occurred during the Ming Dynasty at last and then they came back and then they never went out again China and there was isolation with China. But you're correct that China does have a great maritime tradition going outside and they went all the way to the east coast of Africa. You know, they're interesting because many Western critics are saying it's going to be a bust and being in China for now 14 years, whenever the government sets their mind on something, it happens. So I'm pretty confident it's going to happen. But what are your thoughts on this new Silk Road coming? Do you think that there are opportunities for Americans? I think so. I think that there are a lot of, well first of all, as you know, the American tradition of trains is not that stellar that Amtrak and so forth really hasn't, we didn't really develop a high speed train network until very recently we're just exploring at this point. Why is there a train system from a high speed from San Francisco to Los Angeles or San Francisco to Vegas or to Seattle, for example. And so you have a lot of freight trains still but they're very slow and not really good networks. I think for the United States or Americans looking at this initiative, I think it's something that unless we become part of it, we may become excluded from it. Because when you look at all the stops that the trains are making that are going eastward from China to London, these will be soon populated by Chinese traders. They're going to be in those little cities all along the way and they may be catalysts for economic development in those areas, for industry. And also for opening new markets, as you know, the rising middle class wants a lot of things. All kinds of good designer retail, things to adore their homes, they're finally going out and driving around in China and this did not occur until very recently. There's a whole network of freeways. Also there's a tourism boom when you think about it. For the maritime areas, now that's a more complex question because the old British and American looking at the sea is for cooling stations, refueling stations. Singapore was very, very important. Many important bases, Pearl Harbor is very important for the Spanish-American War. Going out to the Philippines, they had to have a station to refuel our ships and so forth. But again, the seaports along the way to Africa and then going to the Suez Canal and so forth may experience a boom also. So I would say unless American companies or entrepreneurs really look at this and really become part of it, they may be left behind. And it's very interesting that what your comments are here because I feel the same way. If we don't get involved, we're going to be left out. And one of the things that's very different than the American model, the American model was the TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, which was an agreement, an agreement that bound nations that were allies to the U.S. and excluded China, of course. And it was focusing on the Pacific-Asia region area. And the differences that the 1.1 Road is not based on agreement, it's initiative. And rather, it's a network based on infrastructure development, trade. And it's not any kind of agreement that's passed around because there are 60 nations involved, 60 percent of the world's population is involved under the 1.1 Road versus 800 million people that were involved in the TPP. It's very interesting because we're having a lot of thought about it because President Trump hit the policy for the Americans as we stay out of it, which means, again, that we don't join it, we may be excluded from this thing that's going to really happen and it's going to be over a 50-year period. To me, also, trade is not only about agreements, it's about people and people becoming experts in markets and products and so forth. And one of the great stories that hasn't been told completely is about Chinese traders going to areas that didn't really have trade or industry like Africa. They're everywhere. They're in South Africa, there's a China town there, a lot of places in East Africa, West Africa. There's a lot of people from China not living and really doing trade and manufacturing in those countries. So that's a story that really has not been told. Well, I think you have a good point before we go to break. It's a culture and if we look at the history of the Chinese migration based on economic opportunities, they went around the world. They settled. They localized rather than a regime change or political change. So this one belt one row, the Chinese are stressing it's not here to impose any political will. It's not, we're going to do something because we want you to change and become a communist country. None of that's there. And it's interesting because the question after the break will be, how can Hawaii benefit? And let me give you some thought Ray. Let me give you some thought. One of the things that I've noticed is that the new one belt one row initiative is going to open a lot of opportunity in the service area, accountants, logistics, insurance, massive opportunity. That's a key thing we're going to talk about after the break. Second thing is that it not only is that interesting is that China is starting to develop relationships, trade agreements in Central and South America. Out of the countries, Peru, Brazil, all of these countries. And you know, remember why America stopped at Honolulu, Hawaii? It was a shipping refueling, restocking. Now think about it, if South America, Central America brings back things to China, that's a big ocean. They're going to have to stop somewhere. The Pacific Ocean is a wide area. Honolulu can be a very important place, but we need to think about it. We need to strategize, and we need to think not politics, but business, international, global business. And I think it's going to be a very important thing that we should not overlook because we become sort of like the middle guy, the broker, you know, and it brings stability to Asia. So we play an important role for America because it brings stability to trade. And being a stopping point here, so how do we change our laws? How do we keep with this in mind? How do we attract investment for Chinese to start coming in to our community, help us build ports, public-private partnerships, with all of this anticipation because as Central and South America trade and China grows, in fact, one of the BRICS members, China's a member, is Brazil. So they are lending money. The BRICS is lending $50 billion, I believe, to this project. So part of that one-about-one role is not going to just be the maritime route that goes from China to Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe, and overlaid from China to Europe, but it's also going to be the Pacific back to the U.S. I think we're neglecting that. And so we're going to have a break shortly, but that's what we need to focus on after the break. Okay. Hi, and thanks for watching Think Tech Hawaii. My name is Justine Espiritu, and I host the Hawaii Food and Farmer series with my co-host Matthew Johnson of Iwaku Fresh. Every week, we bring on farmers as well as all the other individuals and organizations that help support a thriving, sustainable food system. In fact, it's interesting to learn what others are doing, so you don't have to be a Hawaii resident or producing food on Hawaii to be featured on the show, like today's guest, Wyatt Bryson of Jewels of the Forest and Michaelab Solutions. Aloha. Thank you. It's been a pleasure being on the show. I love seeing what you guys do, and I really support your mission. And it's really nice being back in Hawaii. And thank you again. It's an honor. So, you can see guests like Wyatt every Thursday at 4 p.m. on Think Tech Hawaii. Thank you. Good afternoon. I'm Russell Liu, along with my co-host, Ray Tsuchiyama. We're Think Tech Asia, and today we're talking about the One Belt, One Road initiative proposed by China. And more specifically, we're going to talk in this part of the show about how does it relate to Hawaii, and what are the opportunities to Hawaii? As we just before the break mentioned, Ray, you were about to say something. Well, I mean, thinking about what you just said, and there are great opportunities. What has happened, though, was that, like the refueling analogy just made with ships, there was planes coming here from Japan or Asia and from the mainland, and refueling here up to the 80s. Remember, they had to stop someplace, or Alaska and so forth, the 707s. And then came the 704s, and then they had to refuel anymore, and they went overflight. And a kind of overflight also occurs in the container ships. For example, when I moved back to Hawaii, it was cheaper for me to send my household items in the container to LA, or Long Beach, because to Honolulu, they had to make a stop in Long Beach and come back again. You see what I mean? Because everything was going to the great markets, cars, electronics, all kinds of finish goods to the mainland markets. Nothing was coming here over ships. There has to be a reason why ships come here, reason why they have to refinished or for design centers or fabrication, something for them, for planes and ships to come here. So I think that's a great point that you have. How can Hawaii, because of a mid-Pacific location, take advantage of the trade going back and forth and becoming a middleman, a broker, and so forth? Just like Singapore does it for the globe, and think about it. They have an airline, Singapore Airlines, that's global. They go to London, they go to the Middle East, they go to South America and all over the globe. Think of the flights that you want to go to Asian capitals for Honolulu, and you can't. It's really a challenge. You have to go through a hub, like Incheon or Tokyo or whatever, Hong Kong. So it's really tough. And again, how do you leverage that? And of course, building up our port infrastructure. Because instead of the art, it can unload and put back on ships when you finish products for markets in Asia very quickly or vice versa. So you come up with, and again, you talk about people who can speak other languages, can have business and finance, and a lot of expediting markets who are like people who can deal with logistics, like you say. This whole flow supply chain, which is a major area of research and study even today for semiconductors, for electronics, for cars, it's a huge area. We're not in that. The last place that had manufacturing here was Dole Pineapple, where they shut down. That was the end of manufacturing here. So we have to get back into developing a base of expertise in that area. And it's very interesting because Donald Trump says our presence is make America great again. And I think we have to use the term here, remake Hawaii again. We need to reinvent ourselves. And getting back to that, Ray, it's a very important point is that today's world, we don't need heavy manufacturing. But what we need to do is set a clear signal that we have the ability to do things here to provide value in the supply chain. For example, you were in the software industry. We talk about software development here, but we have to build capacity. We have to get back in our university, bring all these Chinese students who would not get an MIT, but are smart enough, that can come to UH and our engineering and our high tech, work alongside, study with our own local kids, who then become more global and they bring relationships. And we can slowly build on that. But again, this One Belt One Road means that trade also is to this specific corridor, ships to stop here. There's federal legislation, which prevents the ship from stopping here. They have to go to Long Beach, unload, come back here. But maybe we need to revisit this. We need our legislative group to take action. But we need to come to a master plan. And this One Belt One Road can mean a lot because, as you coined the term, we can really be an important middleman, a broke up, because the ships will have to stop here. They have to. Especially if they're going to new markets in South America, Central America. And I know the Chinese are slowly going to South and Central America. They're starting to invest in not only the infrastructure, not only getting supplies in South America, but actually they're looking to building Chinese manufacturing centers in Central and South America. So the global paradigm shift means that we have to figure where our value's going to be. Well, you're absolutely correct. I mean, South America has gone through ups and downs. One economist used to say, it's a half joke that Brazil is the country of the future and always will be. Or look at Venezuela, that's having extreme difficulties. And they do have a market. They do have very talented people. But South America really needs a kind of a focus on how they transform a very rich region when you think about it in terms of not only material capacity in minerals and timber and so forth, but also a human capital. They have great universities in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and so forth. And Brazil, Peru, and as you know, many countries look like the United States. They have a wide range of immigrants and entrepreneurs. How do you link that up? Well, it's like Africa also. I think you're correct at where Chinese traders go. And then one of the most interesting things is they also give scholarships for African or South American students to study back in Beijing and then learn Mandarin and come back. And they become like liaisons between Chinese companies and their host countries. And that's something that is really part of a dynamic plan. And something that I don't think we understand in the U.S. that they're building a people-to-people base. Yes, yes. And that's important because of people to view. As you know, Ray, I'm also up to teach law at Beijing Ford and Southern University where 93 languages are spoken. And 10% of the student population are international. They come from Europe. They come from Africa, Japan, other places in Asia. But we're seeing that there is a global shift in paradigm and change thinking. And only until this year I've got two Hawaii friends, parents, who are actually sending their kids out there to learn language and study international business in Beijing. So as you pointed out, we need the people-to-people exchange. And if there's a call to action, I would think the first summary list is we need to get language capability here. I was talking to a very famous physician here who is from here many years from Shraab. And he retired. And he actually is on the academic side now. He goes in Wisconsin. And the number of Chinese students are amazing going to these schools. And they're starting to go out. We need to actively push. We need to work together as a community to do people-to-people relationship. We cannot be afraid because when you think of language in Mandarin, it's not going to be a Mandarin, so ethnic cultural, it's a language of business. In China, I'm in meetings-many times I'm with meetings with a Korean, an African, and a Russian. And I'm sitting there and not always speak English. So we speak in Mandarin. It's becoming a language of business. So there's a paradigm shift. But so again, language capability. We need to have our students and kids here embrace it to learn the language. We need to have that because business can't stop here if you don't have language. And it's sort of like the Japanese investments here in the 80s and 90s, where we have a great language capability. Many Japanese speaking. Oh, yeah. Right. We don't have it here, but we need to do that. What are your thoughts on that? Well, Japanese still is the number one foreign language in many, many schools. But it's a kind of an interesting reason for that. And my sister teaches Japanese at Farmington High School. Many of the students are children of families working in Waikiki. And if you know Japanese, you can get ahead. Because still, there's 1.8, 1.9 million Japanese visitors come to Hawaii annually. So that's an added kind of skill that you have. But I think the state has to look at the future and really create a cadre of Mandarin speaking, not only people in the hospitality industry, but in business, in technology, many service industries, and so forth. What happened during the 80s when the Japanese came as a wave was that there were enough people who spoke Japanese. My mother was one, for example, who came from Japan. And others just enough, and the Japanese speaking lawyers, that kind of met the demand. But it was not planned. It just happened by chance. And here, we have an opportunity where we can design our future better than other states of the Union. However, other states, as you know, Fairfax County, Aminitonga, and Minnesota are doing immersion programs in Chinese from kindergarten up. They're doing a lot of things dealing with exchanges. And they're ahead of us, Vegas, and San Francisco, and Seattle, and so forth. They're ahead of us. They're also trying to attract wealthy Chinese to do medical tourism, also, that's part of that. So there's a whole, kind of, not one thing, but multiple ways of attracting people to do business. And then, when they, therefore, stay at a Mayo Clinic or in Seattle or San Francisco, then they look for a place to stay. Maybe they buy something, they have their children attend college there. There's a whole kind of acceleration of interaction. So I think that's getting back, we've got just a few minutes to go here. I think what we're both saying is that we need to get the language capability quickly. We need to bring in Chinese students here at TOH who are in the technical field, who will bring us a platform for our local kids to be more global. And I think it's important that we look at the tourism. Now, there's a local issue recently, the tourism tax, a proposed tax. That's right. We're coming to that. That's TAT, the Transit Accommodation Tax, the 12.5 proposed. And so that's going to affect tourism. And on the new market for the Chinese, they have many options because they're so internet savvy. They're FIT travelers. Many of them will choose other destinations. But they never had a hearing for people, experts in the industry to tell them what the Chinese tourists are thinking about. Yes. And that's very important. And what strikes me as important is that I think people, there's taxes and taxes we're building. But what it goes on to a vision is we need to do something to bring in business. We need to bring business. Tourism is not going to last forever because of the internet and because of air travel that can bypass this place. We have to make a reason for people to come here, especially the Chinese who will see the place like the place, want to buy a house, invest, bring the professionals here, the lawyers, let them open bank accounts or local banks so there's a connection. A relationship begins. But always becomes that we need to look at a larger long-term vision. So do you also add to that, Ray, before we close our show today? Well, you're absolutely right. I think this kind of tax that pays for rail is not a great argument to present to Chinese tourists who have funds to go to the Maldives or Vietnam or Korea or San Francisco or Vegas. So I think we really have to think, what is our brand? What is our strategy? How can we really make this not only for tourists, but two steps ahead? And you're correct. That could be a center to develop the economy of Hawaii with an access to the market in China. Yes. And I agree with you, Ray, and we're going to show you an ender show. But again, we hope that our viewers out there would digest some of these issues is a very important one. One road, one belt is going to be a very important. And you need to figure out how we're going to get Hawaii is going to get in there. That ties in with tourism also. And it's very important that we think global and we really start acting on as a community together, working as a community. Because the opportunities with the Chinese are going to be less and less because they're going to invest elsewhere. It's like a pie of money. There's so much money. And I think we need to, as a community, figure how we're going to be a middle man here and how we could attract investments here to help join that one belt, one road initiative. And so, Ray, I have no further thoughts. And you have any further thoughts to tell our audience, Chip? I think we just have to be very close to what's happening because this may change history in a huge way. Yes. And it's going to change history. And we're going to have to be on top of it. We're going to have to be ahead of it, in fact, because the planes will file over us. The internet will also, the Chinese will not come here. And so, again, to our audience, again, this is Ray Tsuchiyama and Russell Liu from Think Tech Global, Think Tech Asia. And we're live in our Honolulu Studios. And in the next series, we are going to be part of it. We will be in Beijing again. So we'll get to see what's really happening on the ground in Asia. Again, thank you very much for being and watching our show this evening. And good night.


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I'm Zeke and welcome to The Dream Green Show. In this episode, I'm gonna show you guys exactly how much you need in two different stocks in order to make $100 a month in dividends. Now, if I had to start all over again and start my investing journey from the beginning, I would definitely invest in two dividend aristocrats and dividend kings. And guess what, guys? One of the dividend kings, I had an eye on for a very long time. Now, just did something that makes me kind of wanna invest into them. Now, I know you're asking yourself, what is a dividend king anyway? For first of all, a dividend aristocrat is any company that's inside the S&P 500 and increase that dividend payments every single year for the last 25 years. That's right, guys.  A dividend king is a company that's inside the S&P 500 and increase that dividends every single year for the last 50 years. That's longer than most of us being alive, guys. These companies have been consistently paying out dividends, passive income for the last 50 years. That's how you know that they're rock-solid companies. Now, if you're new to investing, welcome to the channel. Please hit the thumbs up button. And you're probably asking yourself, what is a dividend and how is it creating passive income? What dividends is a form of payment that investors get for investing inside certain companies?  That's why you have quarterly paying dividend stocks and monthly paying dividend stocks. Now, they're paying back their investors as a way to say, hey, thank you for investing inside of our company. And they're hoping that you reinvest those dividends back into the company. But once you reach a certain point, you're getting paid so much in dividends that you consider a passive income that you could use to pay off some of your bills, your gas bill, your food, entertainment. Or sometimes some people live completely off of their dividends. They're making average salary just off of their dividends because they've been dividend investing for so long. And dividend investing is by far the most passive form of passive income there is because once you buy these stocks and you own them, that's all you do.  Now I'm gonna bring you guys two different dividend stocks.  And the easiest way to get them is through today's sponsor of this video, Moomoo. Right now, if you signed up with the link down in the description, click that sign up with Moomoo. You can get a 5.1% interest, APY interest cash sweep on a cash that's just sitting inside of your brokerage account on Moomoo. That is an awesome offer that them guys are having. And also if you deposit $100, you can receive up to 15 free stocks. Once you get those 15 free stocks inside of the platform that offer commission free trading after I was trading access to other industries, they have many free tools on there that you could use to help take your investing journey or your trading journey to the next level. So once again, I would like to thank today's sponsor of this video, Moomoo. Please check out them with the link down in the description. But enough talking guys, let's go ahead and dive straight into this video. Welcome back dreamers. Here we are on the side of my Moomoo account. The first one, which is a dividend or risk of cash Chevron took a summer CVX. Everyone knows Chevron, Shell, Chevron, Exxon. Well, Chevron right down the street from my house and I figured out that there was a dividend or risk of cash. So I thought I'd take a look at them right now at the time of the recording of this video. They're sitting at $150 and 40 cents. And over the last couple of years guys, you can see they've been performing really well. They had a dip down not too long ago, but right now they've been pulling it all the way up as high as $181 at one point. And if we take a quick look at their dividend, right there at the bottom left, it's gonna say dividend yield is at 3.96%, which is really good considering that they increased their dividends every single year for at least the last 25 years. We're gonna get into exactly how much money you need in order to make $100 and how you can actually make a million dollars. So stay to the end of this video. But right there, the dividend yield guys that lowered the dividend yield list, the less money you were making dividends and the higher the dividend yield list, the more money you were making dividends. But be careful that the dividend yield is too high. That company spending a lot of that money paying back the investor's dividends other than that company can actually take the money and invest it back into itself to make that company a larger company in the future. So be careful from a company that pays an outlandish 25% dividend yield. Stay away from those guys. Look at good quality companies. An easy way that you can find those. So are there dividend aristocrats? Are there dividend kings? So let's take a look at the second one. That is a dividend king and that is ticker symbol MO, Altria. Now I've been looking at them for a while now, right? I've been looking at them for a while but I've never really invested into them. I always wanted to invest into them. Look at them over the last couple of years. They've been doing extremely well also because why Altria is the people that produce the cigarette company. That is the cigarette company. And when you make addictive products like cigarettes you're always gonna have customers. You're always gonna have a customer base. But I just stayed away from them even though they have an amazing dividend yield. Let's take a look at that dividend yield of a 9.16 dividend yield which is almost double digits. That is crazy and they're a quarter of the dividend stock but the reason I stayed away from them is because I lost too many members to cancer so I really don't wanna invest into creating more cancer but they have been announcing something recently in 2023, upcoming in 2024 that they're starting to look, creating more products that are none tobacco.  So they're gonna start looking inside that industry. They're probably gonna start to take away a step back from cigarettes and start to look towards none tobacco type of smoking, right? So E6 or the other stuff, right? So that caught my interest. If they're creating less cancer out there then this might be a company I might wanna invest into. So we're gonna see exactly how much money you need in these two companies in order to make $100 every single month or with that $1,200 a year and stay to the end because I'm gonna show you how you could become a millionaire just from these two companies. All right, dreamers, here we are on secret alpha CVS. Now if we scroll down, you can see that Chevron right here has a dividend growth of 36 years. That put them right over the 25 year mark making them dividend aristocrats and the five year growth rate of 6.16%. Almost being out inflation and they have a dividend yield over here at 4.02% with an annual payout for every share that you own you're gonna get paid $6.04. So let's do the quick math on that right quick. Okay, here go the quick math. Let's say we wanna make $1,200 a year or $100 a month. They are a quarterly paying dividend stock but let's say we're gonna divide that by $6.04. That's how much we're gonna make in dividends per share. So we're gonna need 198 shares at the price of $150.40. So multiply that $150.40. You're gonna need $29,880 worth of Chevron in order to make $1,200 a year or $100 a month in dividends and passive income. Now I know what you guys are saying, hey, that's a lot of money. I don't know, but trust me guys, stay to the end of this video I'm gonna show how anybody could do this and how an easier step for you guys in order to get to that $1,200 a month in dividends, right? So stay tuned, I'm gonna show you guys something right quick. All right, so the next one that we're gonna look at is ticker sum of M.O. Altria, hopefully I'm saying that right. All right, so they have a dividend growth of 54 years, put them in four years over that 50 mark to make them dividend kings, growth rate of 5%, and you will pay out $3.92, with a dividend year of 9.45%. So we're gonna take that $1,200 again, divided by $3.92. You're gonna need 306 shares. So then you're gonna multiply that by $41.49. You're gonna need around $12,000 in Altria to make $1,200 a year. So that's a little bit more doable because they have a high dividend yield, $12,000 is not outside a lot of people reach, but if that's still a lot of money, let me show you guys how you can get there really quickly. All right, so here we are on Backtouch, your portfolio. Let's say we started investing way back in the year 2000. We're gonna include the year to date, sure. Let's say we started off with just $1,000 and we contributed $200 a month, or that's what, let's say we contributed $200 a week, or that's $800 a month, a month right there. And then we're gonna, yes, of course, reinvest our dividends. So let's scroll down. The first tick or similar that we're gonna look at is CVX, which is Chevron. And then the second one we're gonna look at is M.O. Altria right there. So we're gonna do 100% in portfolio one and portfolio two. All right, so let's go ahead and analyze portfolio. This is us investing $200 every single week inside either one of these companies. Let's say analyze portfolio and scroll down. And just from $200 every single week with Chevron, you will have a million dollars. With M.O. Altria, you'll have $1.4 million, almost $1.5 million just from consistently investing inside the stock market, $200 every single week, or $800 a month. If we scroll down, you guys can see the dividend payments down here. If we did it for 23 years from the year 2000, in Chevron, we'll be making $40,000 a year. And in Altria, tick or similar M.O., we'll be making $132,000 a year. Six-figure income, passive income, doing absolutely nothing just from consistently investing inside the stock market. And if we take a look, if we started investing $200 a week in year one, you will have $170,000 in Chevron, $559,000 in M.O.  You will have $490 in Chevron and $1,200. That's our magic number, $100 a month now in dividends. $1,200, $1234 in dividends every single year from M.O. So they only took one year of investing. If one year of investing is too long for you, I don't know what to tell you. Like I said before, you need to go to 4X, become a day trader, lose for your first three years until you actually figure out how trading works. If one year of investing is too much for you to make $100 in dividends every single month to help you pay your bills and passive income, doing absolutely nothing, then I don't know what to tell you. But for me, I'm gonna consistently invest inside the stock market. If $200 a week is too much for you, that's fine. I had to hustle. I had to really, really hustle real hard in order to be able to invest $200 a week, guys. I had to cut back on some of my spending and I actually had to educate myself so I could have a larger income in order for me to be able to invest $200 a month. If you're gonna invest $25 a month, that is an awesome start. Start doing it and I promise you, you're gonna start to see your money grow over time. So those are two different companies, Dividend Aristocrat, Dividend King, that you guys can start investing into whenever, please do your own research, but the way to get started with good dividend stocks is to see if they are, if they've been increasing their dividends for the last couple of years. They don't all have to be dividend kings.  And if these two companies right here did not have to cut their dividends through the pandemic, they didn't have to cut their dividends through that, then they're a good rock-solid company right there. So these are two that's been on my radar for a very long time, that I'm looking at to add to my portfolio. So once again, guys, you can use Moomoo to bob off of these, the sponsor of this video. I wanna thank the sponsor of this video again, Moomoo. On there, you can use all of their tools, their charts, access to the multiple hours of trading, get free stocks from signing up. Don't miss out on that 5.1 APY cash week. Earn 5% from doing nothing again. That's almost passive right there. And you could have commission-free trading, option trading, many tools on there that you could use to help guide you through your investing journey. So once again, I'd like to thank today's sponsor of this video, Moomoo. And if you made it to the end of this video, if you're a real one and made it to the end of this video, hit that thumbs up button. I wanna see you down in the comment section. Start off with, A, that's what's up, bro. Started off like that, A, that's what's up, bro. That's how I know you made it to the end of this video. You said, A, that's what's up, bro. I'm also investing inside these companies. A, that's what's up, bro. I've been thinking about investing inside this company, what do you think? A, that's what's up, bro. X, Y, Z, let me know down in the comment section. If you see somebody coming down there and then start off with A, what's up, bro?  I'm getting off the top again. Anyways, that's how I know if you're a real one if you made it to the end of this video. Can't wait to read your guys' comments. Let me know what you think about dividend investing down in the comment section. Can't wait to see what you guys bring up. Other than that, I'm Zeke. Bring you to the Dream Green Show, and I'm out. Peace.


CNN's CEO is making staff churn out Israel propaganda. One of the noblest and most important things a Western journalist can do these days is help expose the propagandistic manipulations of the mainstream Western press institutions who have duped our civilization into consenting to a profoundly dysfunctional status quo which does not serve the interests of normal human beings. Unfortunately this rarely happens because Western journalists tend to view the mainstream press as allies and potential employers. This happens to be one such rare occasion, and it happened in one of the last places you'd probably have guessed if you follow mass media propaganda with a critical eye. The Guardian has a great new article out titled, CNN staff say networks pro-Israel slant amounts to journalistic malpractice by a guy named Chris McGreel who cites multiple CNN staff members and internal documents to reveal the immense top-down pressure in the network to tilt coverage heavily in favor of Israel. McGreel writes the following quote, CNN is facing a backlash from its own staff over editorial policies they say have led to a regurgitation of Israeli propaganda and the censoring of Palestinian perspectives in the network's coverage of the war in Gaza. Journalists in CNN newsrooms in the U.S. and overseas say broadcasts have been skewed by management edicts and a story-approved process that has resulted in highly partial coverage of the Hamas massacre on the 7th of October and Israel's retaliatory attack on Gaza. The majority of news since the war began regardless of how accurate the initial reporting has been skewed by a systemic and institutional bias within the network toward Israel said one CNN staffer. Ultimately CNN's coverage of the Israel-Gaza war amounts to journalistic malpractice. end quote. McGreel's sources say CNN's wildly biased coverage of Israel's assault on Gaza is the direct result of edicts from the network's new CEO Mark Thompson, who assumed his role two days after the 7th of October attack. From 2012 to 2020, Thompson was the president and CEO of the New York Times, which is currently experiencing its own internal strife due to the pro-Israel bias of that outlet. Before his New York Times executive gig, Thompson was the director general of the BBC, where he came under fire multiple times for the pro-Israel bias he imposed on the British state broadcaster. In 2005, he held meetings in Jerusalem with then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the reported aim to build bridges with the country's political class, immediately after which he removed BBC correspondent Orla Guaran from Jerusalem, following accusations of anti-Semitism made against her by the Israeli government. In 2009, he was hotly criticized for choosing not to air the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal for Gaza, and in 2011, he presided over the decision to censor the lyrics Free Palestine from a Performance by rapper Mick Wrighthouse on BBC Radio Extra. This is the sort of person who gets hired to multiple executive positions and multiple highly influential Western media platforms. If you've ever wondered why it looks like the Western press function in pretty much the same way as the state propaganda services in the autocracies the West proudly sets itself apart from, this is why. The corporate media are owned and controlled by plutocrats who have a vested interest in preserving the status quo power structure upon which their kingdoms are built, and state broadcasters like the BBC have the same interest for the same reason. They decide who the executives of those outlets will be, and those executives make policy and hiring decisions which cause the outlet to function in a way that is indistinguishable from state propaganda. These are the people who've been pulling the wool over the eyes of the mainstream public and manipulating the masses into thinking, speaking, working, consuming, and voting in ways that serve the interests of the ruling power structure. In this way they are able to ensure that revolutionary opposition to that power structure remains a fringe minority position, even as that power structure wages wars, sponsors genocides, destroys the biosphere, and keeps everyone poor, sick, and stupid. Our world will never see the revolutionary changes it desperately needs, until the people begin using the power of their numbers to force those changes to happen. And the people will never start using the power of their numbers to force a revolutionary change as long as they are being manipulated by propagandists into accepting the status quo. Our task, therefore, as people who love truth and desire a healthy world, is to begin waking the public up to the reality that everything they've been told about their society, their government, and their world is a lie, and pointing them toward true information about what's really going on. That's how humanity will awaken from its propaganda-induced coma to create a healthy world. One pair of eyelids at a time. This might sound like a slow-going project, but for every newly opened pair of eyes there is one more voice who can help wake up the others, which means exponential growth is possible. This is how we move humanity into the light of truth, and begin the shift toward a truth-based society. And we've got an advantage. The Empire needs to use human beings to generate its propaganda. That's what we're seeing in CNN staff turning against their boss and reporting his malfeasance to another news outlet. As long as the Empire depends on ordinary human beings to turn its gears and facilitate its horrific atrocities, there's always the possibility that the next pair of eyes to open will be someone on the inside.


One of the themes, though, that I heard a lot of listening for, I will admit, was this interest in the continuation of a liberal international order, and the challenges to that liberal international order that the new administration faces. Not the least of which is from the Russians. The concern was that over a longer period of time, it may be from the Chinese. We've heard a lot about terrorism, and we've heard a lot about even North Korea, and we've heard a lot about the Middle East. But this liberal international, which has been very good to us, this liberal international order is how we have become prosperous. We the West, Europe, United States, Japan, it's also set the rules, the boundaries, the understandings of how international relations is conducted, and that's under challenge. That's under threat, in particular by the Russians, but by others as well. And when you say liberal international order, what are you talking about? We're talking about a respect for national sovereignty. We're talking about a nation's ability to make their own decisions about which direction they would go in. And again, the obvious one is Ukraine, but there are other nations that feel the same kind of threat. Since World War II, it's certainly since the end of the Cold War, we have kind of assumed that nations will play by the rules, and you don't change boundaries by force. You don't violate sovereignty of your neighbors or any country for that matter. There are ways to resolve disputes. There are ways to deal with each other with respect. You don't have to agree, and there were challenges, we know, during the Cold War, after the Cold War, but there was a fundamental understanding of how you went about it. Those understandings are threatened.