Man, it has been a minute since I made live calls. I tell you what, I've been on here a couple of times and made plenty of live calls with other agents, coaching them through it. Been a second since I actually came on and made these calls myself. So I'm super excited to be here with you once again. Oh man, I'm gonna give it every minute, let everybody come on. I'm calling a Gulffront condo today. One of the Phoenix buildings. You know, up to this point, I've literally been making, I've literally been making past client calls. That's really all that I've focused on up to this point. So this is literally my first cold calls. Now I did call this building a while back, maybe three years ago. So some of these people could potentially already be getting my emails and so on and so forth. Let me make sure I'm all locked in here. Let me know where you guys are from, put it in the comments. Let me hear you. Looks like we got people all over the place. Man, I love it. I love how you guys are just so energetic right now with everything we're going through. That's what you gotta be. You just gotta be positive through these times.  You know, focus on what you can do and don't worry about what you can't do. You know, it's all about people. This is a people business. Our job is to reach out to people, help people, make people feel comfortable with us, work hard for people, you know? That's what it's all about. So as I'm letting everybody come on board really quickly before I get the dial going, I got all my notes. So I got the entire building right here. I got like the 01s, 02s, 03s up to 15. This building has 15 units wide. And I've got it marked. Which ones are three bedrooms, one bedrooms, two bedrooms? I know the units that are listed. I have an idea of what each perspective stack and size of unit are worth. The one bedrooms are worth about 330, 340. Two bedrooms are in the 450 range. And the three bedrooms are in the 500, well, mid 500 range. So that's what I'm working with. Now, what are they worth right now? I mean, you know, what we're going through right now, I don't think anybody knows what's gonna happen on the other side of this. I'm hoping we pull out of this pretty quick and we don't see really hardly any price decreases. But you never know. You just never know. Hit that thumbs up button. Let me know that you're there and that you appreciate me continuing to make these calls. I don't know any other coach out there right now making live calls. There could be some. I don't know about them. But that's me. I practice where I preach. I'm out here in the field. I'm out here in the trenches. This is where I like to be right here in the trenches. Making it happen. Communicating with people, connecting with people. So about to get started in just a second, giving it a second for everybody to come on board. Let's see who we got here in the comments. Yeah, so we don't know what's gonna happen on the other side of this. We're kind of at an unknown. We're at a crossroads in the market. But things are still moving. I listed a house yesterday. I got three offers on it today. So that's exciting. Very excited about that. I want to put something under contract. So I put two properties under contract last month. I normally put about 30 under contract. This month it looks like I've got one that I'm about to put under contract. So we'll just kind of see how it goes. I think April's gonna be another really slow month.  We're locked down the whole month of April if you're in the US. So all right, it's gonna get the dollar going. I got Red X all geared up. I'm using the new Geo Leads Plus. Just pulled it right up. Red X extended their deal on the Geo Leads Plus. So the end of the day tomorrow. They ended it on the first, but I asked them to do it for the rest of the week. For you guys that didn't jump on, but it's 5,000 contacts for $100 normally, but they're doing it for $70 for the next three months. So they more than double the amount of contacts for way less than half the price. So, and it includes email. So there's a phone number in the description. You guys can call that. Tell them you want the Ricky Careuth, Red X, Geo Leads Plus deal. They'll weigh the startup fee of $150. You'll just pay 70 and get those 5,000 leads.  Okay, cool. I think I'm ready to get the dollar cranked up. Let's see. Give me just a second to get everything put where I need to put. Right, here we go. This is what it's all about. And I want to applaud you guys that are continuing to make calls through this. You know, this is the moment right here where we're going to see the real top producers emerge from this when this is all over with. So, you know, you might not feel like you're getting anywhere with these calls, but I promise you this is where all the magic happens. This is what I did in 2008 when I got back to the market and the market was crashed. I literally, this is exactly what I did all day long. And I didn't even have a dialer. I didn't even have something I could click a button and get all the phone numbers for.  I mean, there's no telling where it would be if I had all this when I started. So you guys better be taking advantage of it. Okay. Okay, I got 197 numbers in the queue here. Hold on one second. To the dialer. Judy Oxford, this is my emergency telephone on the line where I can take your call at Mothermore. Please call my office at 791-8511. Your message, when you have finished recording, you may hang up or press one for more options. Judy, Ricky Caruth with the EXP Realty down at Orange Beach. Give me a ring when you get a chance. Just checking on you guys. Talk to you soon. All right, first one's a voicemail. You can note it out. Irma. It's Ricky Caruth, EXP Realty at Orange Beach. How you doing? Good, good. Yeah, I'm just dealing with this quarantine. It's crazy, ain't it? I can barely hear you. Speaker there, but I don't know which one on my phone works better on speakers. Oh yeah, there you go. There you go. Yeah, yeah, just, I've been working from the house for three weeks. So it's been a little crazy. How about you guys? It's been a little crazy. Yeah. And the infrastructure. And my boss is letting us work. Three of us work three days a week in the upper three. Because he said we're crucial too. So three of us work three days a week in the upper three, work the other. I got you. You got a little system down, huh? Yeah, so that's a lot we can learn that we have that security, you know, so nobody can get through to us. And he's had the front lobby shut down about some time when nobody could come in. And so it kind of keeps us safe. But it's like he said, the guys are having to work and they're doing everything they can to keep them safe. He said the office is essential too. Right. It's crazy, isn't it? Yes, it is. Yes, it is. He actually blew down his beach house yesterday morning. He said, I've never seen it like that. Yeah, some guys working at his house at Beachside. And he had some guys redoing his deck and they're down to their final payment. They actually did some other work on the house. So they're down to their final payment and he doesn't know these guys. They were just referred to him. And he blew down and he said the parking lots is empty, Beach River is empty. He was telling me all about it. Wow. Oh yeah, yeah. We, I've been at my house for three weeks and we finally had to get out of the house. We drove around like didn't go anywhere. We just want to get out. We drove around. I got a five month old daughter. So we just packed everybody up and just rode around for a couple hours. But it was the weirdest thing ever seen. All the kind of parking lots are empty. Nobody's on the roads. I mean, it's wild. All the beaches are closed. Even if you, even if you're out of condo or you own a house, you can't walk out on the beach. I know. Yeah. I know, which we always do.  And I have an 83 year old mother that lives with me. And I got to thinking, I just don't need to be selfish in this thing. I would have loved to come and just thank goodness we didn't come because we decided to wait closer to weekend. And we were planning on coming down on Wednesday and they closed the beaches first. So I'm glad I didn't come. Yeah. Because I think I thought I can't be selfish in this matter because everything I do, I have to worry about her. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Her health concerns and stuff like that. But anyway, I'm looking forward to getting back. And I'm, you know, I know eventually the price is going to come down some more down there. And No, it's Ellen. No, it's Ellen. I don't know what's going to happen. I mean, if it recovers pretty quickly, then we may not see, I mean, I would think that we would see a little bit, but hopefully it's not a whole lot, you know? Yeah. Nobody really knows. That's when I saw mine. It feels like it was growing up like it was and nobody's telling me that. And then of course, every day to this day, I regret that because I never found anything I liked to be better than what I had. Yeah. It was kind of blowing up some off to the ground. Right. And you didn't go to floods and stuff like that. Yeah. And I have regrets now. And but I look again when the timing is right and stuff like that. So. Yeah, yeah. What, so do you have an agent down here that you work with? No, I just, I, you know, that of course, the Phoenix was Brett Robertson. Right.  Oh, OK. The only one you showed me those few places there and go, sure. I just like orange beets. I like orange beets better because it's not so congested. OK. Right, right. It's kind of the beach, OK. But I had, you know, I looked around. I couldn't find anything. There was a house down there right there on the floor line, you know, it was for sale. My boys, I don't own a house.  Yeah. I would find a piece down. But I do have my regrets for selling. But I just, I'm awake to see what happens. And the problem is the recovery, you know, maybe, like Alabama closed their beaches, a whole lot sooner than anybody else. Other than the city, the city closed theirs too. But hopefully this thing won't get too out of hand. If you know everybody, because we have a shelter and place order starts five o'clock tomorrow. I mean, I know y'all about that. The thing, we're in a small town and with county seats. So everybody comes from these other towns that have a lot more cases than we do. Our county only had 10, OK? Right.  So you've got to be extremely careful, you know? Yeah, oh yeah. But this shelter and place, there's so many businesses and how they claim some of these businesses is essential. To me, the only thing I see really that they close down is beauty salons, male salons and fitness centers. Right, right. Somehow everything else remained essential, such as academy sports. And of course, my sons are in college up in the state. And they were telling me, though, that you have to go in one-on-one. They won't have any people in the store with their workers, OK, you have to go in one-on-one.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. With the academy here, Foley's open. We can't believe it. I called up there. They were open. They can only have 25 people in at a time. Yeah. In start, well, they got like 20 cases of the sale of COVID-19 and they're only letting the eight people because they have like three or four store clerks in there. So they only have eight people at a time and when one comes out, you can go in. Right. And we know we're just a little small community. Of course, our Walmart is packed because it's the biggest one within, you know, 45 minutes to an hour. And so it stays packed for people out of town. And so I'm very careful. I wait till like late at night. I do have plastic gloves and I have some masks. And I'm just, but I'm really a hand washer. I'm really watching everything trying to stay safe. And I know you need to with that baby. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We are watching our peace and queues. I ain't going nowhere. Like there was a guy that wanted to see some condos.   They turned the whole water line off from the building, whole main water line.  I mean, they got it locked down. I don't think you can get in the building. Probably. I'm pretty sure. I know that, I know that I went there probably two weeks ago and met with some people that were on the cell. And they said that they were turning the main water line off the next day. And I went downstairs and they had the bathrooms locked up. And you couldn't get an indoor pool. Everything was shut down. And they said the employees were not going to be there the next day. So I think they completely just shut it completely down. Wow. Yeah. Well, I mean, anything that, you know, they can do just like, you know, with the bars, push all the bars here, like in our county or most of Mississippi, I think it's been closed to drive, you know, curbside service for a long time. And I know that the week that I looked, when we were coming down there, I saw it go down, it was closed. And so, but I just, I'm sorry, that would be selfish. But it's a good thing because that's part of my commonness to be just I love the beach. So yeah, yeah. Well, you sent me those pictures and one of the other rental places that they sent the video says it's 29 seconds. And I've always been after I lost my husband, he was always my happy place. And I was so glad I had my condos here in that time because it helped me through a lot of time. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Memories. Yeah, but I love the beach and I'll get me wrong. It's my favorite place. And, you know, orange beach is only, I don't stop a lot. I can make it like a few hours and 15 minutes. So yeah, it's definitely my place. And I am planning on retiring there. I was hoping by 60, but that's not what happened this year.  Yeah. But hopefully in the next couple of years, they will get out to get their job, my daughter, she's working, she's fine. So I get these boys self-sufficient. Yeah, yeah. Well, oh yeah. Well, it was good talking to you. Yeah, just wanted to check in on you. Yeah, I'm glad you called, and all y'all are well. And like I said, my boss just happened to give me that update. He's a jet, of course, he was a lot down there. But they have it then. And he just wanted to check on that board before we met. Pay that guy's final payment, OK? Yeah. And he kind of updated me yesterday, but it was really good to hear from y'all. But I got it all well and went on to see the covers. And I'll be in touch with you, OK? Absolutely, yeah. When you find yourself, you know, all this clearing up, let me know, and we'll get back at it. All right, yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. How about you? Stay safe. You too. Oh, man, I got to catch my breath. Man, the first person I called actually knew me, and I showed her property. I don't remember. But, oh man, that was too much for a second. I got to recover from that. But anyway, bottom line was that was a really good call. Let's see. Thought I saw some comments I wanted to respond to, but there's too many of them. Man, that one had me going. That one had me going. OK, this person has two bedroom. Order to an automated voice messaging system. 8-0-1 is not available. At the tone, please record your message when you fit. Hey, Mr. Chitwood. This is Ricky Carruth, EXP, Orange Beach. Just calling to check on you guys. Calling for about your Phoenix 6. You can reach me here at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Have a good day. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Let me make a note of that. That was a good number. You guys are cracking me up in the comments. Automatic voice message system. 2-5-1-2-8-8-2-7-4-4 is not available. At the tone, please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up or press 1 for more options. Hey, Ms. Galton, Ricky Carruth, EXP, Realty, Orange Beach. Checking on you guys. See how you're doing. Calling about Phoenix 6. Give me a ring back when you get a chance. 2-5-1-752-1138. Thank you. Let me read some of these comments. You've reached Betty. I'm going to be here on the phone if you leave your name, number, and the brief message I would give that to you. Thank you. Hey, Betty. Ricky Carruth, EXP, Realty, Orange Beach. Calling about your Phoenix 6. Checking on you guys. Thanks, you're all right. You can reach me back at 2-5-1-752-1138. Talk to you soon. I'm going to reach it now. All right. There's not a good number there. The first number was definitely a good number. The lady that knew me, this person has a... Hello. Hey, Ms. Lanning. Yes. It's Ricky Carruth and at EXP, Realty, Orange Beach. How you doing? I'm doing well. Thank you. Good. Yeah, I've been working out of my house for three weeks. It's crazy, ain't it? Yeah, it is. That's what I'm doing today, actually. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, I didn't want to take it too much of a time. I'm still selling a couple of things. I normally sell about 30 in March, but I sold two. And then I sold a little house today. So believe it or not, the market's not totally dead. But, you know what I mean? Everybody's still hiding them out with that money, trying to make sure what's going to happen. But you know what I'm trying to say? But yeah, not really sure how to proceed. Yeah, everybody's just hanging on for dear life right now. Well, I didn't know if there's anything I could do for you guys. And they probably not looking to do anything right at the second course. No, we just renovated. We're going to hang on to it. Yeah. I just have decided they wanted to do that. So we've renovated and I actually haven't even seen it. We've had guests in an all-the-month art.  It's gone, but that's a lovely little company. And so that worked out well. We ended up getting sick right the week we were supposed to come down. And to put it honestly, we had just traveled to have a short weekend trip over to North Carolina, been in Charlotte, National Honor, came back in December. And then in January, the weekend, we were supposed to come down after all the things were finished at the unit before our people made in. My husband got really, really sick. He stressed for his shoes and all that. A week and a half, two weeks later, I had it. I don't think I've ever been that sick. No, I hadn't been that sick. So we got through. We said, you know, I think we had this already. So you think you- I really thought what we did. I really think this was before that all kind of hit. It was right at the point it was starting to hit at the end of January. And we had never been that sick. We were some of the only ones in my 20s and I didn't tell them for six days I had to put the recliner with breathing treatments and all of our yards and two rounds of medicine. And, you know, I was negative for the flu we were negative for all that stuff.  When my husband looked at me the other day, we were reading what everybody was saying. You know, we had cops for weeks. I literally was going in with a mask on in my office. And it's a question, you know, quarantining myself in my office, just wearing a mask walking through the building. Yeah. Because I didn't want them to get sick or whatever I had because I couldn't quit profit. Right. And, you know, and so now I was back and I'm reading all this things about what we want to talk about. That's what we want. Man. We probably had it.  We took some medicine and then that didn't help. And then three days later it kicked my butt, jumped in here and I mean, I thought I couldn't breathe. And so, you know, you just muddle through and the best you can. Yeah, I just got to muddle. Um, so when, when was that? When did you get sick like that? That was in January and first February. So when we were not in the middle, yeah, in January, by the middle of February, we were both, we had both had it and were recovering. And I guess we finally ended the coughing period about first couple of weeks in March. Maybe. I mean, the cough just, just hung on forever in the old grandbaby. I kept her, so I was quarantined from home for two, two weeks because I was sick, literally for two weeks. Wow. And, and so, you know, we're back on that. We're off, that's all we have. Yeah. Where did you travel to? We just went to Charlotte from in Charlotte. Oh, okay. We went over to Asheville and went back to Charlotte. We just went to Charlotte to be there for you. Yeah, yeah. To kick us. Yeah. I mean, that is the Elm time we traveled at all, period. And we did that about in December, which was about when things were starting to kick off and nobody really knew what was going on. Yeah.  Very concerned. I thought that I may have been a hospital because of just the respiratory issues, but I'm a nurse and I already had nebulizers and I kept calling my caregiver going, okay, I need some of you all. I need, this is what I need, this is what I need. But then I had a lingering sore throat and kind of not necessarily a toss-a-lot is this lingering issue. Afterwards, that was just, this drainage was just horrible. I couldn't figure out why my throat was going to be sore on one side for days and day to day to the point that I was having to take that Tylenol or something. It was like strep throat, it felt strep throat, but it wasn't strep throat. No fever was made up of it at that point. So I called back and I went to CT&T and then he said, you just got an infection that has just not resolved. And I kept coughing and my favorite cough back up, you know, like that was weeks after I'd had it. And so I thought, okay, he gave me a 15 days of antibiotics. But I think that was a result of something that set up in my pharmacist's chest. Yeah. Wow.  So we just did what we could do and kept through it. And I read the other day that said, don't drink cold things because the virus likes cold.   And so I thought, well, you know, the whole time I did hot tea with honey and lemon and I did colloidal silver, which is a natural antiviral. And then I took an over the camera antiviral and which was a homeopathic little granules that you take, you can find at Walgreens. And I took that the whole time. And other than, yeah, other than, you know, the antibiotic that and steroids, yeah. Yeah. And it hit the virus and the body only treats the secondary symptoms. And they put me on a flu or two tablet. She said, you have all the symptoms of the flu because you're testing negative for the flu, but we're going to give you the flu at Madison anyway. And it was two tablets, one dose. And my niece had had the flu and she took it. It was over in two days. Well, two days later, I was like through the morning. Yeah, I just had been sterilized. So I got up and sterilized my house, I cleaned my house. And the next day I got up out of bed and I had a massive suffocation, could not breathe, could not, I was squeezing.  And then I had fever for literally five days. Wow. And did not get started on an antibiotic until the following Monday. Cause I thought, oh, I just did too much yesterday. And then I went until Saturday and I thought, I don't want to go into those clinics cause everybody in there sick with the flu. Yeah. I'll just see how I am Monday, you know. And so I just treated it palliatively, best I could. And then Monday got on some antibiotic. Tuesday actually was antibiotic. And then Monday or Tuesday. And then that went on that whole week and I did not go back to work until very later. So I was off about two, two and a half weeks. We are so glad you got well. Well, you know, it's just there and it's out there in this hotel and people often have this and just thought they had the flu or self-treated at home or tested. Everybody around here has either had the massive dose of the flu or had the same symptoms as the flu treated and tested negatively. And so they're just doing whatever they can to treat it. Yeah. And I'm sure that's probably what a lot of people have had. Yeah. And you know. Absolutely. So are y'all all doing, is it, do you have many cases down there? Not that we know of. I think there might be a lot that we don't know about. But as far as we know, there's not a whole lot. I think there was like maybe 15 cases involved in County. But that's wrong. I mean, there's definitely more. Cause there was an infant. Well, there was an infant. I was diagnosed with cases. Right. There was an infant in Orange Beach at a daycare that got diagnosed with it. And so you gotta. Are they okay? As far as I know. Yeah. I didn't follow up after a couple of days, but they reported it.  There's adults in the area that, you know, or somebody gave it to somebody. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, in the back of the years, cause I've got a future son-in-law that's in med school. And he said, you know, the bad thing is this came about right during toy season and RSV season and all this other stuff's already out there. And I know when it hit and my mother's in the nursing home and they shut down, you know, they started all of the quarantining. When I went to see her the week before they did the complete shut down quarantine, I went to see her and I was out there these days. And there were people that were already using our quarantine. And I said, why is everybody quarantined? And they said, well, there's a start for it on the other end on the other one of the wards. And we're just making sure everybody's in. So the next, my husband went out there on a Wednesday to carry some, some clothing out there to her. And he said, they wouldn't let me in. And I said, what?  And so they've been, you know, they were very proactive and that was probably a couple of weeks before the mandatory shut down the nursing homes. And H.C. just said, no doors locked. Nobody's coming in, nobody's coming. You know, it's out of the employees. And so they're wearing, I talked to the recreational director this morning and they're wearing homemade masks because of course they can't get masks. And so they have three layers of homemade masks that they're putting air conditioning filters that have been cut to fit in there every morning to have a new one. And she said they had churches that are making them. And she said, we change them out every morning. She said, when we leave shift, they go in a bag, they're laundered, we've got freshmen to put on them next morning. She said, they're not perfect, but they're working and they're optimal. And she said it was the design set out by H.C. since they could not get masks. Because only hospitals and very few long-term care facilities are being able to be, what you have in stock is pretty much what they have. So it's an interesting time we're in. That's for sure. First time, my generation, and I know yours that's ever dealt with. And it's not good to any pandemic that has reached us. And so to speak. But you know what's funny, Ricky, is that in 2018, and everybody just turned a blind eye. The flu, the vaccines were, the strengths that were, the vaccines were made for was the long-strength. And they've made them almost a year in advance, depending on what's going on in the rest of the world. And so they turned it in the wrong ones. And so if you got the vaccine that year, it didn't protect you from the strains that actually made it to the U.S. There were over 80,000 people in the U.S. that died. There were over 900,000 hospitalizations. Nobody even realized that. I mean, nobody even thought about it. And this season alone, there have been almost 50,000. There's been between 35,000 to 50,000 deaths already to the point. Yeah, I know what you're saying. Nobody, well, like you said, nobody knew that.  I didn't know. I didn't know how many people die from the flu every year. Yeah, it's gonna change how everybody does everything. So, but it'll change it all. I know I've been getting lots of communication from them. Brett Robinson, concerning thing, it's plus our rental company that's taking care of all of that.  I'm like, even the day is gonna reopen the beach at all at this point. It's unknown, man. It's unknown now.  I mean, that's something to change at any moment. They're waiting to see how... I think we're definitely gonna be to the end of May, to be honest, because they say the peak infections are gonna be mid-April.  There's gonna be so much going on in May. As long as we can open by the end of May, because that's the beginning of summer. Yeah, that's gonna be optimal. As long as we can open by the end of May, I'm gonna feel pretty good about our summer, because what I'm hearing from rental companies is that a lot of people are, instead of flying and going on cruises, they're driving here. They're gonna come to the beach, but they will. And that's what I'm not worried because I think we're gonna make up the distance from June till October. I think we'll make up, yeah, well, and you'll be able to charge a little bit of rates in different places, because it will be very competitive. I think so. I think we're gonna have a heck of a summer as long as we can get it open back up by the end of May. I think so too, and I think the governor and everybody's trying their best to do that. They just don't wanna bring in more. And when the weather gets warm, the virus is gonna die. And so you're not gonna have the same issues that you're gonna have now, because it's a cold weather virus. As soon as most plants are gonna be over in April, so I think May's gonna be the upturn in fewer cases, and it's gonna be resolved at that point. But I appreciate you calling, and good luck. Everybody stay healthy down there, and I appreciate you calling. You will. Did you say y'all have an agent you work with if you were to do something? Yeah, got it, got it. Okay, I'm here. Thank you, I appreciate it. Yes, ma'am, you have a good day. You as well. Thank you. Bye-bye. I get it. I gotta catch my breath here, guys, after that. This is getting wild. This is getting wild. I'm gonna make some notes on her real quick. Let me check some. See what you guys got going on here. So yeah, man, look, here's the thing. Like I said from the beginning, these are the first cold calls I'm making. Since the pandemic, everything I've been calling has been passed clients up to this point. I have so many, I still have a lot to call, but I wanted to do some cold calls, and I wanted to go live, I wanted to go live during the pandemic and do some calling for you guys. So, but what I'm finding here is kind of the same thing I'm finding one of my past clients. They're at home, they've been quarantined. They're dying to talk to somebody. They're dying to talk to somebody. So let's see here, let's see here. Yeah, there's a lot of comments. It's hard for me to get through, but I think both of those, both of those people I just talked to, I think they're both future clients. I really do, definitely, definitely. Okay, and for those of you just tuning in, we're making live cold calls here. So good to have you. Let me get the dollar back up and run and you had to take a break for a second. Hey, Ms. Barber. Hey, this is Ricky Cruz down at EXP, Real Teenage Beach. How you doing? I'm doing fine. Good. Yeah, I've just, I've been working out of my house for the last three weeks. I've been able to really show property or do anything down here, but it's crazy, ain't it? Yeah. Well, I'm still selling some properties though. I sold two last month. I normally sell about 30, but I sold a couple last month. I just sold a house this morning. So things are still moving and stuff. So I'm just calling to check on you guys and see if there's anything in the world I could do for you. What's that now? I said, I'm not planning on selling mine any time soon. Oh, okay. Is there an agent down here that you guys work with? If you ever did decide to do something? What's that? Rita Essex. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, she's great. Yeah, she's been helping me for a couple years. Good. All right. Well, I'm glad you guys are doing all right and looks like you're taking care of. So I'm Ricky Carruth. If I can ever help you, let me know and have a good day. Okay, thank you. Thank you. She was nice. I want to make a note on her that she has an agent, a good agent too. Jim, Ricky Carruth, the XP Realty Orange Beach. How you doing? Yeah, sir. This is Ricky Carruth down in Orange Beach. Real estate? Yeah. Yeah. You got a Phoenix Six? Yes, indeed. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. I've been working out of my house for the last three weeks here. It's crazy, ain't it? We're not down there right now with people at home, but that's fine. Yeah. Well, I don't want to take up too much of your time. I'm just doing what I can with my time here at my house. But I have sold a couple of properties. I sold two last month. I normally sell about 30, but sold a couple last month. Sold a house this morning. And I just called to see it. Yeah, I listed a house yesterday and had three offers on it this morning. So it was in a bare point down there in Orange Beach. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. And then I sold it. I was at home after this crisis. Right now they are.  I sell about a hundred a year, but doing this 18 years, and I got a lot of clients. And I haven't had any sellers call me or any clients call me and say, let's sell it for cheaper. Let's dump it.  I haven't had that yet. So, and the properties I've sold have been at normal prices too. So I don't know where this thing's going now. It's strange. It is. Well, hey, I appreciate the call. I'm going to settle the dinners. Thanks for the call. Hey, do you guys have an agent down here that you work with? Right? But if you were to buy or sell something though, is that... I'll give you a call. We'll do it everywhere. I just have to have a sell-off sometime. We can give you a call. All right, man. You have you a good day. All right. Thanks for telling me. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.  You know what I mean? Oh, man. Let's see. Looks like I got time for a couple more. Looks like my camera's kind of in a little weird. You have reached, is not in service. This is a recording. The number you have reached is not in service. Next, making out that that's not a good number. I have had some pretty quality phone calls, though. Hey, Mr. Moreno. Uh-huh. It's Ricky Caruth down at EXP Realty Arts Beach. How you doing? Oh, well, if I had runners, I'd be doing five. But I ain't got no runners on those things. I don't have the game ready anymore right now. I know, man. I know. They got me shut down, too. I got a condo down to Dallas where it's West. I own it. You know, I'm sitting here paying the mortgage on it. That's all we do is say, I'm paying that, and paying the monthly account for you on it, everybody. Yeah. Yeah, if they're going to shut us down, they might as well start paying our dues for us. They should. They should on that. Yeah. What else is happening down there? Man, they got the beaches shut down. I've been working out of my house for three weeks. I had a guy that wanted to see some condos last week. I had to tell him, no. I mean, I got a five-month-old daughter.  I'm not doing nothing. I don't want people getting further. I ain't getting out of my house. I'm sitting here there. You know what, though, man? I don't go anywhere. You know what, though? That's an absolute lie. There's people all ages. There was an infant, an orange beast, that caught it out of daycare down here. Yeah, infant. I don't know exactly how old, but it was a little baby. There's people that are in their 30s, people that died in the 30s, and all kinds of stuff. So I don't know. I know what you're doing. Yeah. It's scary for everybody, you know? Yeah. Well, I'm still... I'm looking at the deals just down there. Nothing yet, man. It's, right now, everybody's just kind of standing still, hoping this thing blows over pretty quick. I mean, if they don't open the beaches back quick, then we will see some deals, because the people can't rent. They're gonna need to sell. So... One of the governors, she's gonna keep it cut as long as Trump tells her to keep it cut. And that's gonna be so, so bad to ennemy. That's exactly what... I'd say we probably open up June and July. We better hope we can fill up every day.  And then at that point, I think we're gonna have a heck of a summer, because I'm already hearing from rental companies that people are booking for the summer that don't want to fly or can't fly or don't want to go on cruises.  Well, I hope so. I hope you hear and write that on that. I'll keep my fingers crossed on that then, because I was on the internet the other day, and I was having about five cancellations all the way up to August. Yeah. They were canceling out on it and everything. So I hope some of them will come back and all. They will. When all this clears up, people are gonna come back to the beach. There's no doubt about it. Well, I know they're gonna venture to come back, but I don't know if it's gonna be this year, but next year we have a hell of a year of the year. Yeah. I think we'll have a good year this year. You know, I mean, people can come down to condos, and they're basically self-quarantine in there. You know? Well, yeah. Yeah, I know that. So, you know. Yeah, I'm not there. Well, man, you got an agent down here that you work with when you buy and sell stuff. Yeah. Who is it? I'm just, I'll tell you what, if you get a good deal on one at Phoenix West 2, call and let me know. Phoenix West 2, all right. Yeah, because that's where my brother's at. I wanna get one there. We both got one at Phoenix 5, you know. You go by Greg? Yeah. Okay. So, but I'd like to get one at Phoenix West 2 now. Got you. We always like to have one in the same units together and everything. Okay. I already got one. So, now for the, I would say the 11th floor. Try to keep the 12th floor down. Okay, 12th floor down. Got it. Yeah, I don't wanna get any high. Okay. I'm going, I might get a little tipsy gold. I'll tell you what, man. I sold some of them on the 20th something floors and I'll tell you, man, I don't even want to go out on the balcony. Oh, man. And I don't wanna have too much strength in there. So, 12th floor and down. That's my goal. Got it, got it. Let's see what you can get for me on that floor.  They got two sides there.  All right. Definitely on that side. What's your email? When I was seven, his kids was born. He borrowed, he named them with the M-A-R-E and all. But yeah, they thought that he changed it to M-A-R-I and all. All my uncles and they asked when they had kids, they changed it to M-A-R-I and all. Right. When we were baptizing everything. So, on my birth certificate. So, it's M-A-R-I and all. Oh, it's M-A-R-I, it is M-A-R-I and all? So, I mean, no, M-A-R-E and all.  All right. But if you run across a good deal, you know, keep it on kinda this, this deal here and they said they wanna sell it and they know we're on it. I got you, man. What's the end of that email address? I got the first part. Where's that at? Got it, got it, got it. Okay, all right. Well, man, listen, I, you know, you've heard of me, right? Ricky Crude? Oh, yeah. Okay, okay. All right, well, I'm gonna, I'm going to, man, I'm gonna be looking out for a good deal. Hopefully it, you know, maybe a price is kinda dipped down or somebody gets in trouble. I'll call you. Okay, all right. Give me a buzz. You have a good day. Okay, you too, Rick. Thanks, man. Bye-bye. All right, give me a second. I gotta put him in my phone. I gotta put him straight in my phone. This dude's gonna buy a condo. Got his email. I know what he wants. I'm gonna go ahead and send him some stuff. There's some stuff for selling that building on the 12th 400. So, so, okay guys. So I talked to three people to talk forever. Both, I believe the first one definitely is gonna do some business with me. And the second one, I think they're not really looking to do anything anytime soon, but I think I have a future client there. If something happens to that guy, I'm gonna follow up with that guy. I'm gonna go after that guy. He sounds like he really wants something in that building. So I got all these phone numbers came off Geo Leads Plus. They're still running the deal until tomorrow, $70 for 5,000 contacts. If you already have Geo Leads, it's only $20 more too to add. In my phone, I actually put his name and what property he wants and what he owns. Put all that in my phone. So all that's there. I put a, not a link, but I put the phone number. You have to call Radex to get that deal.  That's gonna be the rest of the day today and just all day tomorrow.  Let's see. Let's see what we got going on from here. Man, what a call session.  That went incredible. Picked up a buyer. This is my first cold call session of the year. Everything I've been calling up to this point's been past client. So you guys got to witness it with me.  I mean, just one hour of calling with Geo Leads. I don't know, man. I think that was pretty productive. I could really, I don't know. I could get used to doing this and all the guys would say, oh, cold calling doesn't work and stuff like that. I mean, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? That's the only thing that really will exponentially grow your business. I'm telling you, because what are you gonna do?   Let's just spend minimal money. This is 1.4 cents a lead. One and a half cents for a property owner that owns the type of property you wanna sell. What is better? Nothing. I'm gonna keep preaching this till my mouth falls off and you get it at some point. But anyway, I love you guys. Thanks for tuning in. I just picked a random complex. One, I haven't called in a long time. I'm looking for two numbers per contact. Yeah, yeah, the guy that says cold calling doesn't work. It's ridiculous, man. It's the only thing that really, really, really works. Somebody says I should have asked that guy if he needs to sell that condo before he buys another one. Obviously, he does it. I mean, he was talking about finding one. So I don't think that guy needs to sell before he buys. Okay. Hey, if you need to say something, DM me on Instagram. Definitely join the free coaching program if you haven't, zero to diamond.com. Subscribe to this YouTube channel. It's the best real estate YouTube channel on the planet. And I'm just here to help you guys. So just let me know what I can do. I'm here to put work in for you to get better and better every day. I want you guys to get 1% better every day. Let's go. Talk to you guys soon.


with the sisters. This fear of death that we have drives us to prepare for the next life. And that's why we shouldn't postpone. We've been given a limited unknown amount of time. Don't waste it on this world. Waste it. Spend it on the next life. Spend it building your next life. And you do that by doing good deeds. So this is number one. The first benefit of this fear is that what? It motivates us and drives us to build our next life, to do good deeds. The second benefit of the fear of death is that it serves as a deterrent from committing sins and oppressing other people. It makes sure that we're just, that we don't infringe on other people's rights. How? Look in any country, here in this country and every country in the world, there are laws, correct? And there's a law enforcement agency like the police and the FBI and the IRS and all those other agencies. Now, and usually the citizens of that country, they fear breaking the law, correct? Now, is this fear good or bad? Of course it's good, because if it was not for the fear of breaking the law, most people would not follow the law. Most people aren't angels. Now, today I'm coming from let's say Dearborn. It's a one-hour drive. The speed limit is 70. If there's no cops to, you know what, to make sure that I don't speed, what's going to prevent me from speeding? I personally would drive 100 miles an hour if there's no cops and it's, and you know, the highway is empty, correct? So what makes sure that you drive safely? You wear the seatbelt, you don't pass the red light, correct? You don't pass the stop sign? Usually it's the fear that you have of the cops.  Maybe 1% of the population are like that. 99% they obey because there is what? Because there's fear, because you don't want to get a ticket, because you don't want to what? Be prosecuted, you don't want to be given a fine, you don't want to spend time in jail. That's what makes sure that I am a good obedient citizen. What prevents me from paying my taxes because I love paying taxes? Trust me, no one loves paying taxes because you fear the law, breaking the law, correct? The same thing applies to the next life. When we have fear of death, when I know that one day I will die and be placed in the grave and Allah will hold me accountable for every deed. Do you know what that will do to me? I will think twice before I commit a sin. I will think twice before I oppress any other individual. You see, there are so many people, they get away with crimes in this world. Nobody knows about it, no one can prove it. But with Allah, you can never get away with any crime. You know Allah is watching you 24-7, no matter where you are. That's why the Holy Qur'an says, Allah never sleeps. Never. He never takes a nap. He's always watching you. When I know God's watching me 24-7, what will I do? I'm going to behave, correct? I will not oppress other people. I will not, for example, steal other people's possessions. I will be kind and good with other people because he's watching me. A few days ago, they sent a video. There's a camera, you know, those street cameras. I think it's in India or Pakistan or somewhere. And there's this motorist. He's trying to fix his motorcycle and then a guy comes from behind him.  After he snatches his wallet, he says, oh my God, there's a camera. It caught me. So then he throws the wallet back and then he starts going like this to the camera. Please don't, you know, prosecute me. He starts to, he starts to beg the camera, whoever is looking. Don't hold me accountable. You know, I gave the wallet back. If that camera was not there, you think he'd give the wallet back? Allah's camera is on 24-7. Do you know what this does to us? This fear of what? Of being caught? It makes us behave. Allah is watching me right now, tomorrow, every day. There's no way I can run away from Allah SWT. So this fear of dying and being placed in that grave and being held accountable by Allah is a deterrent from you committing haram, committing oppression, committing transgression, oppressing other people and being unjust with other people. And that's why you find there is a hadith, a beautiful hadith that says when we die and we are placed in our graves, there is an angel that will come and that angel will come and tell you to write every good and bad deed that you have done. You lived 80 years, you've done millions of bad deeds and some good deeds. So he tells you to write them. You tell them write them with what, where? He tells you your kafan will be your paper.  What do I write with?  What's the ink? The ink will be your saliva. He tells you to write. You begin to write, you see it's writing. So you try to remember and if you forget, he reminds you. And then the hadith says you only write your good deeds. I prayed, Salat al-Lil, I went to Hajj, I gave a donation, I came to the Majlis of Ashura, and then, okay, I'm done. Tells you, wait a minute, what about all the haram things you did? What about all the times you hurt other people's feelings? What about the times that you missed prayer that you stole, that you looked at the opposite gender in the haram way? What about those?  You don't write it. He tells you, why won't you write it? This is where we tell him, I am embarrassed to write those things in front of you. Sometimes we commit certain indecent acts in private. We don't want anyone to know, Allah knows, He watched me, we don't care. So the angel is angered here.  You were not embarrassed of Allah when you did it. He saw you, you're not embarrassed of Him. Now you're embarrassed from me. Just a normal angel. He tells me write it until I write every good deed and every bad deed. And then, after I finish it, the hadith says the angel takes this kefen, which is only Allah knows how long, and then He turns it miraculously into a ring. And then He puts the ring on my neck, and then He reads the verse where Allah says, وكل إنسان الزمناه طائره في عنقه, ونخرج له يوم القيامة كتابا يلقاه من شوره. Allah says in the Holy Quran, every human being, we will place his deeds on his neck.  And the hadith says, when the ring is placed on my neck, I will feel like the mountains have been placed on my neck.  And then Allah on the day of judgment, He will present it as a book, and it will mention every small deed and good deed. Allah mentions after that, He says, فَتَرَلْ مُجْرِمِينَ مُشْفِقِينَ مِمَّا فِي When Allah says, read this book, they're afraid, oh my God, this has all my evil acts, all my sins, all of them, فَتَرَلْ مُجْرِمِينَ مُشْفِقِينَ مِمَّا فِي They say, oh my God, they begin to flip the pages every single deed, every single sin, every time they did anything bad or good. It's written in this book, they forgot it, but Allah does not forgive. It's mentioned in that book, so they say, oh my God, I'm doomed. It's all there, I thought I got away with it. When I heard someone's feelings, when I stole something, when I was by myself and I did some wrong acts, I did not get away with it. It's all written in this book. And then Allah says, وَوَجَدُوا مَا عَمِلُوا حَاضِرًا All their actions are there. Allah does not oppress you. He'll show you your bad deeds and then hold you accountable. And Allah will hold me accountable for everything. The Holy Quran says, فَمَا يَعمَ المِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرَّنْ يَرَةً فَمَا يَعمَ المِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا If you do a deed as small as a particle, Allah will save it. He'll record it. He'll record it and on the day of judgment and in our graves, He will show it and He will hold me accountable for all of that. Now when I, the human being, know that Allah is monitoring, is so strong and nothing will, He will miss nothing. I'll think twice before I do Haram, correct? So this fear of death is what will make me behave. And that's why brothers and sisters, we have to always ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that He tries us with mercy, not justice, because most of us can't handle the justice of Allah.   We all do so much mistakes. But Allah is tolerant, Allah is patient, Allah is merciful. That's why we should tell Allah, ya Allah, please, don't judge me based on my book. I know I deserve to go to the fires of hell. I know I deserve punishment because I've been so bad. Please, I want your mercy. Be kind with me, be generous with me. Be merciful with me. Don't even open my book because it's all black. It's all wrong. It's all haram. Show me your mercy. Show me your forgiveness. And Allah will show us, insha'Allah, His forgiveness. And that's why it's narrated that there was a alem, a scholar. This scholar, he used to, you know, we have a dua'at that says, Oh Allah, treat me like I said with your mercy, not with justice. This scholar was kind of arrogant. He used to say, Allah, I don't need Allah's mercy. Allah is just, I'm fine, because I'm a just being. And if Allah won't oppress me, then I don't need His mercy. And then one night while he's writing one of his books, there's a candle lit and he sees a mosquito. There's a, there's a needle. What does he do? The mosquito is bothering him. So he takes the needle and he inserts it inside the mosquito. So it goes inside the needle.  The candle. Like she's, like he's frying it like shishkaba, the mosquito. It's just a mosquito. What's the big deal? And then he puts it away. He sleeps that same night. He sees a dream. Remember we spoke about dreams and we said sometimes Allah makes you see a dream in which it makes you stop doing something Haram where he guides you in your dream. He sees a dream. It's the day of judgment and the angel, he's being tried. And he sees a few angels are carrying a huge needle and they're coming after him. He says, what is this?  He says, what, why? They tell him, because on that night, remember what you did to the mosquito? Allah is just. Whatever you do to someone has to be done back to you.  Didn't you say when you were in the dunya that I don't need Allah's mercy? I want Allah's justice. This is Allah's justice. Can you handle Allah's justice? Even if you heard to ant, Allah will punish you. But we cannot bear and handle the mercy of the justice of Allah. That's why we should say Allah treat us with mercy. So this halim, he woke up. He was so afraid from that day on, he began to say to Allah, Allah, I need your mercy. I was wrong. We all are in need of the mercy of Allah. From some point tonight, brothers and sisters, we have to take this fear and we have to benefit from it so that we build our akhir, that we stay away from haram because Allah is monitoring us 24 seven.


It is really a great honor to be addressing the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. I'm particularly pleased to be speaking at this prominent center that hosts the Dr. John G. Memorial Lectures. Dr. G. made an extraordinary contribution to the chemical disarmament serving with distinction as the OPCW's first deputy director. He was a central figure in the organization's early life and his influence highlights the active role of Australia that has been played in the global efforts to eradicate chemical weapons. Australia was instrumental in accelerating and concluding the negotiations for the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1992. Thanks to Australia's contribution, the treaty was adopted and opened for signature one year later in 1993. I also ensured that the chemical industry's voice was heard in those negotiations through the activity of Australia. Australia launched in Canberra in 1989 the Government Industry Conference on Chemical Weapons, seeking the industry's continued support for the Convention after it would enter into force. Outside the Convention's negotiation, Australia has made other substantial contributions to chemical weapons non-proliferation efforts. In 1988, it founded the Australia Group, an informal multilateral export control arrangement that aimed to prevent illegal trade and, in doing so, the proliferation of dangerous chemicals and related equipment. Today, Australia continues to be a key partner of the OPCW across a broad range of activities that contribute to the full and effective implementation of the Convention. In the current difficult global peace and security landscape, the support that Australia provides to the organization is essential for addressing the challenges we face. In recent years, we have witnessed significant reversals in arms control, with important multilateral instruments weakened or simply abrogated. The war in Ukraine has exacerbated this trend and impaled global peace and security. In particular, it has given rise to fears and threats of the use of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons. It should, however, be emphasized that both the Russian Federation and Ukraine are state parties to the Convention and have solemnly and voluntarily committed to never develop, produce, acquire, stockpile, transfer or use chemical weapons. It is a collective responsibility of the international community to make sure that chemical weapons never reemerge again, whatever the circumstances. We are now facing a difficult moment in this world of multilateralism and disarmament. Even though the norm against the use of chemical weapons has been recently put to the test, the taboo remains strong and universally supported. From a historical perspective, the stigma against chemical weapons has developed since more than a century. It wasn't until 1899 and 1907 during the Hague Peace Conferences that the international community was first able to formally limit their use. We must note those dates because it's roughly only 100 years ago. The 1899 and 1907 agreements, however, proved incapable of preventing the use of chemical weapons on an industrial scale during the First World War. The massive casualties, the suffering, the terror caused by this form of warfare highlighted the abhorrent and indiscriminate nature of chemical weapons. After the First World War, this momentum led to action. And in 1925, the Geneva Protocol on Chemical and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare was concluded under those pieces of the League of Nations. I should note, though, that the Geneva Protocol, which is still in force today, was not a comprehensive ban. It certainly prohibited the use of chemical weapons, but it was silent on their development, production, and stockpiling. Moreover, several states expressed reservations, allowing them to resort to using chemical weapons as a measure of retaliation if they suffered a chemical weapons attack. Nations, therefore, continued to research and manufacture increasingly, increasingly lethal chemical weapons and, of course, to employ them. In the post-Second World War period, efforts to address chemical weapons were primarily situated in the United Nations. But it was not until the 80s of the past century that negotiations in Geneva began in earnest. These deliberations, which took place in the 1980s at the Conference on Disarmament, were conducted in the shadow of a wide-scale chemical weapons use in the Iraq-Iran War. Public outcry at horrific chemical attacks against civilians in Aleppo, Iraq, in 1988, added urgency to the negotiations, but the emergent positions on the future of the Convention remained. Australia's initiative of introducing a proposed, complete treaty in 1992 proved to be decisive. It enabled the Conference on Disarmament to reach an agreement and adopt a text that was open for signature in Paris a few months later in 1993. Concluding the Convention was a major and unprecedented achievement for international disarmament diplomacy. Collective efforts and common political purpose had resulted in a complete ban against an entire class of weapons of mass destruction. Further, the Convention instituted non-discriminatory stockpile destruction obligations and strict and effective international verification by the newly established organization called the OPCW. This meant that all states had committed to rid themselves of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction. Such a legal instrument was only possible through a strong commitment to multilateralism. Nations working together to overcome different points of view in a peaceful and constructive manner. Unfortunately, the 80s and 90s were a different world compared with what we have now. The immediate post-Cold War period was marked by optimism and a cooperative international environment that enabled multilateralism in the field of arms control to thrive. The situation today, however, is really very different as you all know. Against the background of ongoing serious risks to global peace and security, the remarkable record of achievements under the Chemical Weapon Convention stands out. 25 years of implementation have led to significant, measurable and lasting outcomes. Some of you may be familiar with the milestones we have achieved. The OPCW's membership has expanded rapidly from 65 countries when the treaty entered into force to 193 countries today. As a result, 98% of the world's population lives under its protection. In terms of eradication of stockpiles of warfare agents, we can be proud of the advancement into destruction. More than 99% of some 72,000 metric tons of declared chemical weapons, which means that more than 72,000 metric tons of the most dangerous chemicals have been verifiably destroyed. We expect to reach the goal of complete destruction of all declared chemical weapons next year, perhaps in September, when the United States, the last processor state, concludes its chemical demilitarization process, destroying the less than 1% of its remaining stockpile. In 2023, all declared chemical weapons will have been destroyed. It will be a great common success, but the magnitude of the task before us remains immense. We have to be realistic. Perhaps the worst is still to come. The organization will have an agenda that is not closed in 2023. This agenda will remain open in all likelihood forever. In Asia, substantial progress has also been made in destroying the chemical weapons abandoned by Japan in China during the Second World War. To date, more than 60,000 of more than 80,000 chemical weapons items declared as abandoned on China's territory have been destroyed under the OPCW's monitoring. Closed trilateral cooperation among China, Japan and the OPCW is ongoing to ensure that this project is conducted efficiently and safely. The Convention has also established one of the most stringent verification regimes. To date, 4,313 inspections to the chemical industry have been conducted, with the objective of providing the international community with assurances that toxic chemicals are not being diverted for malicious purposes. Trust in this verification system is further underpinned by a network of designated laboratories located in different countries. These what we call the designated laboratories are independent national facilities that are highly qualified to perform offsite analysis of chemical samples collected by the OPCW inspectors. The network of these laboratories has undergone an impressive growth from seven laboratories in 1998 to 29 laboratories in 21 member states today, including Australia's Defense Science and Technology Group. Beyond our activities in the examined and nonproliferation, the OPCW continues to support the peaceful uses of chemistry through practical programs that foster international cooperation. These include training in different fields and courses to enhance the skills of first responders in chemical emergencies response and management. They also aim at promoting economic and technological development within the chemical industry. These activities involve thousands of participants every year. Even though much of what we do is outside the public eye, these substantive contributions to global security have been recognized. In 2013, the OPCW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the task performed in the last years. We are facing now really difficult challenges because with the end of the destruction of declared chemical weapons stockpiles nearing, the OPCW is deepening its focus on preventing the reemergence of chemical weapons. One of the most pressing issues is, in this regard, is the recent repeated use of these prohibited weapons. In the past years, the global norm against chemical weapons has been violated in several places. In Syria, in the Syrian Arab Republic, in the United Kingdom, in Russia, in Malaysia. Some of the most fragrant violations of the norm have occurred in the Syrian Arab Republic. This is the ninth year of the OPCW's activities related to the Syria's chemical weapons dossier. It began in 2013, when the organizations undertook the mission of overseeing the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons program. In less than a year, from 2013 to 2014, the OPCW and the United Nations, along with support from 30 OPCW state parties and the European Union, verified the destruction in Syria of 1,300 tons. 103,000 tons of extremely dangerous weapons. Just a few days, years before, Syria had declared to the 1540 Committee that it had no chemical weapons at all. Regrettably, the destruction of Syria's declared chemical weapons did not conclude our work in that country. And chemical attacks have continued. The OPCW has acted in response to these violations and demanded Syria to redress its failure, to fully declare and destroy its stockpiles of chemical weapons agents that have not been declared. We have also responded to other incidents, such as the poisoning of Mr. Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in Salisbury, the United Kingdom, in 2018, and to the poisoning of Mr. Alexei Navalny in Tomsk, Russia, in 2020. In both cases, the OPCW provided technical assistance to the United Kingdom and to Germany to confirm the identity of the chemical warfare agents involved in those attacks. These incidents have drawn renewed attention to another issue that the OPCW has been dealing with, chemical terrorism. It is regrettable to say that the possibility that non-state actors might use chemical weapons has grown from a theoretical risk to a dark reality. It has also already been proven that the terrorist group ISIL used toxic chemicals produced by them in attacks in Iraq and Syria. The OPCW continues to address this use. And we have set up, I have set up, an open-ended working group on terrorism, as well as we have promoted the cooperation with other international organizations in this field, like the United Nations Office of Counterterrorism. This brings me to another matter, the rapid expansion and growth in sophistication of the international chemical industry. Unprecedented developments in the industry demands new measures regarding the management of hazardous chemicals over their life cycle, from production to consumption. Preventing such dangerous substances from being diverted into the wrong hands must therefore be our primary goal. And to achieve this outcome, expertise, knowledge, national isolation have to be developed in the state's parties as our first line of defense. Member states are responsible for enacting and enforcing national isolation and regulations in line with their respective constitutional processes. In this front, significant progress has been reached with 122 state's parties reporting that they have complete national isolation covering all the measures required by the convention. However, and this is very relevant, this leaves 36 state's parties which have legislation covering only some of these initial measures and 35 state's parties that have yet to report on any legislation at all, after 25 years of functioning of the organization. 35 state's parties have no national isolation. On this point, I would like to express my appreciation to Australia once again for its support of the OPCW in Asia Pacific region regarding treaty implementation. In fact, I have just attended a sub-regional forum in Brisbane on enhancing regional implementation in the Pacific. Advances in the chemical sciences have contributed immensely to the welfare and prosperity of humankind, but the possibilities of misuse as potential for great harm. It is imperative that the OPCW continues to keep up with the latest breakthroughs in science and technology that impact the convention. One of our primary vehicles in this effort has been the scientific advisory board of the organization. This is an international group called the Sub-Scientific Advisory Board, composed by 25 eminent scientists who report to the director general of the organization. Their role is to assess, report, and advise on relevant developments in science and technology. Australia has frequently been represented in this board. Notably, one of its former Australian members, Dr. Robert Matthews, received the OPCW award in 2014 for his outstanding service to chemical disarmament. To adapt the future advances in science is a big challenge, and the OPCW is constantly improving and updating its capacities. To make it certain, it can continue delivering. I like to say, because it is very necessary, that we have a very strong team of inspectors, around 70, people well prepared. But the update in their knowledge, skills, and expertise is crucial. And if we don't work seriously in this field, we will not be able to deliver in a very short period of time. And that's why we have been constructing what we call the OPCW Center for Chemistry and Technology, the ChemTech Center, which has been built outside the Hague in the Netherlands. And this center will be crucial. It will play an important integral role in this respect for training and knowledge in developing and research and investigation. The construction of the center will be completed in a few weeks time before the end of this year, 2022. This modern and unique facility, unique in the world, will bolster the organization's capabilities in chemical research, analysis, and training to support and reinforce the organization's verification regime. It will also facilitate the delivery of hands-on training programs related to the use of the state of the art equipment, modern techniques of laboratory analysis, chemical samples, detection, collection, and identification. This will benefit the experts from the state's parties as custom officials, first responders, law enforcement officials, et cetera. The center, which is very close to the headquarters of the organization in the Hague, has been fully financed with voluntary contributions from the member states, 54 member states, plus the European Union, and also several private donors have financed the center, including a significant donation from Australia. I'm very grateful to you, Australian authorities, for your engagement towards the center. Over the past 25 years, the OPCW has made a tangible contribution to international peace and security. During that time, the international security landscape has considerably evolved. In response, the OPCW has demonstrated that it is able to adapt, evolve, and remain fit for purpose. Success has not been achieved easily. It has been the result of what Australians refer to as a had, let me try to pronounce it, had jaha. As the OPCW looks to the next quarter century, we are fully aware that what has been gained cannot be taken for granted. The norm against chemical weapons has been violated. This is very well documented. Regrettably, it cannot be excluded that further violations will occur in the future. Therefore, all stakeholders, including all the member states, civil society, academia, and scientific community, must remain vigilant. We must all play our part in safeguarding the norm against the use of chemical weapons. We owe it to the victims of chemical weapons and to the humankind. I feel very much honoured to address you today. I don't need to underline because you know it. And I am very sensibly grateful for your kind attention. Thank you very much.


What's going on traders? Alex here and it's finally time that we talk about brokers. 2020 has been a crazy year in the stock market. We had the small cap buy your tech stock after we had the EV sector and now we have the crypto stocks that are breaking out to new all-time high. When it comes to brokers in 2020, we definitely had some changes and definitely not changes made to help Canadian traders out there. So in this video, I'll cover all the important changes and also talk about who's left to day trade in Canada. As usual, if you have any question about the tools that I'm using to day trade everything will be linked in the description. It's also the best way to support the channel because these links are affiliate links so that means I receive a small commission if you purchase a product. So let's not waste any more time and let's jump right in. So the first broker we're going to be talking about is Tinker Swim Canada. So TOS has been used by a lot of traders for many, many years because they have a really good charting platform. I don't really like their day trading platform because I don't feel it's very intuitive but in terms of charting, I think it's really one of the best out there. Before to use Tinker Swim, you only needed $5,000 but this year after getting bought up by Charles Schwab, they have bought up the minimum to $25,000. So this change definitely affected a lot of Canadian traders out there and the reason why they did that after reading a few articles is they had a lot of platform issues so that come with speed and execution. So by taking out a lot of small accounts, they are able to keep their big accounts and make sure they profitable when it comes to their platform and also their reputation.  So it's not like they changed it to $5,000 to $10,000. It's a very significant change for Tinker Swim and I think a lot of people got kicked out and won't be using them for quite a while. Another broker that did have some changes is Trade Zero. So Trade Zero used to be one of the only brokers they trade with 6 to 1 leverage and also have the ability to have some hard to borrow stock. Their platform was always an issue to me because I think it has a lot of glitches and whenever you're day trading, if your platform has a lot of issue, it's very hard because day trading is already hard and whenever you're having also platform issue, it makes it that much harder. So recently I saw on their website that they did have some changes when it comes to policy and also acceptance of customers. They're not accepting customers when they're coming from Ontario anymore. So if ever you're from BC or Alberta or something like that, you're still going to be fine. But if ever you're in Ontario, you're not going to be able to day trade with them. I've seen similar moves in the past and normally what end up happening is the broker leaving completely. They start to leave one province or one state and then they end up getting kicked out of the other one and so on and so forth. And at a point, they just don't have a reason to do business in this country. So they just leave it completely. But if ever you have any kind of money out there, you shouldn't be worried because you're going to get a notice. So you have to withdraw your fund and stuff like that. But it still sucks because it was one of the only one to day trade on the short side. If ever you were located in Canada. Now let's talk about IBKR. So I've been using them for a while. I've been really, really happy with them. My previous experience has been very good. I know this year they had a few changes when it came to margin because of the volatility increase. So they definitely lowered the margin. So if ever you're using a very small account, it might affect you. But for the most part, everything stayed the same. There was a couple glitches when it came to overload in market data and volume. That was the summer when the pandemic was at its peak. And that might have affected a few traders, but overall it's been very, very good. I've been using it with that trader. So I'm not using their TWS for day trading. So I'm using IBKR with that trader. And I think it's a very reliable day trading platform. Now let's talk about the last broker for today. And this one is Questrade. So I'm not a fan of Questrade for day trading. I wouldn't have any issue with them when it comes to swing trading because I think it makes sense to have them for swing trading. But for day trading, I wouldn't recommend them because their platform is still as glitchy as I'm aware of. And also they put up their market data costs. So they're actually more expensive to use now with the same technology. But I don't see the benefit of using them to day trade because you have better options out there. But if you're going to be a swing trader, the commission aspect might not be that important to use. So you can still keep on using them. When it came to other policy, everything stayed the same with them. So all of these brokers were the one remaining to day trade in Canada. So as usual, if you enjoyed this video, like and subscribe. If you have any question about the tools that I'm using to day trade, everything will be linked in the description. So thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one.


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This C&D doesn't seem to be the most evenful C&D, but if you look at the member states there are a lot of things happening in the country level. We had yesterday here a side event from the Norwegian government where they presented the outcome of, you know, a year-long study by a special committee set up to look into the possibility of decriminalization and how it might work in Norway. The Norwegian proposal Of course, it's still just a proposal. It's being subject to public consultation. It will not come for decision to the parliament until early next year, but you know, it's a very progressive recommendation of decriminalization. Can you please explain us why do you think it's the reform of drug law is needed in Norway? Because the punishment for use or prohibition of illegal drugs is is one of the reason that the people with drug dependence are stigmatized in the society and stigmatization is hindering us in giving people good health care and We really need to give people more help. We don't need to punish people. The committee proposed a model where use, acquisition and possession of a limited quantity of drugs for personal use with the ill-constituted illegal acts and trigger a response. The response however will not have to be criminal and we Proposed that it should not be instead You should as the person with used drugs have to meet for a municipal counseling unit The extra drugs not closely related to personal use will still be criminal offense and very strict criminal offense And then there is no proposal to legalize drugs in the sense of regulated sale for recreational purposes Thank you very much. My name is Ari Knutson, leader of the association for humane drug policy in Norway I'm a drug user activist and we wrote this petition that Ben Töger told about and after this the civil society in general and the drug user organizations Have been included in the work and I remember Mr. Hey how we were standing outside the Parliament with posters and banners and yelling at the government and the Parliament and we didn't go get nowhere and when we were included we have this Cooperation now we are giving him to evidence-based and human rights rights based Politics so this is so just so fantastic and Ben Töger. Thank you so much Discussing this for over 20 years. We have been disagreeing you had right. I had wrong You refer to in your speech that you have been discussing this with civil society for like 10 years So what was the role in civil society in convincing you? The civil society has been the driving force for this reform I was against this reform for like 20 years and have been in many many discussion with the civil society But they convinced me that this is the way forward because they had the best argument and the best facts and also the best Personal experience the Norwegian proposal aims to change the fundamental reactions of authorities to persons using drugs It's an example of how states at their own discretion Can adopt humane policy measures based on a public health oriented approach? It is fully consistent with the conventions to exempt the possession of small quantities of drugs from criminal Prosecution and instead react in a proportionate manner to minor drug offenses through health-centered non-punitive actions the World Health Organization views Drug control measures as means to protect the health and welfare of humankind as required by the pre-order to the conventions As such we welcome the approach Taken by you in Norway from a medical perspective the first definition is premium non-no share and Anything that is just as a punishment Should not have nothing to do and ask nothing to do with the medical and public health approach And it's important. I'm sure this will contribute to reduce the stigma on behalf of our office I welcome Norway's new proposal on the drug reform Which we come in to move away from the punitive approach to supportive approach it had just in drug situation The Norwegian new proposal is not only an important and positive State for the protection of human rights in your own country But surely it will be a good practice model for many others around the world in coming years and decades What do you recommend to other countries who came here to the CND? I recommend them to have a discussion and go into the facts and findings that We know have and discuss their own drug policy