There are a lot of people out there who are really upset that Taylor Nicole Dean is giving her audience addiction recovery advice. Some of the criticisms are that Taylor Nicole Dean only has four months sober, she's not a licensed professional, so I, somebody with seven years clean and sober and experienced working in a rehab, I wanted to chime in on this topic. What's up everybody, this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health and addiction recovery and what I like to do is take different topics from the YouTube community and try to see what we can learn from people's successes, mistakes, and all of that to improve our own mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and if you're not yet, make sure you follow me over on Instagram and Twitter over at the Rewired Soul, all right? Yeah, so jumping into this topic, I've had quite a few requests about this and yeah, people are saying, you know, there's two different camp camps for Taylor Nicole Dean, right? There's people who are like, oh my god, the animals and the abuse and everything and she's lying and all this other stuff and then there's other people who are very happy and proud of Taylor Nicole Dean and her recovery. So like I mentioned in the intro, I'm a recovering drug addict myself, although I didn't do heroin. My drug of choice was prescription opioids and I got cleaned seven years ago. So those of you who haven't met me yet, I've been cleaning sober since June 23rd, 2012. I worked at a rehab center for a little over three years. I ran groups. I also did one-on-ones and things like that. I'm currently in school right now to get my CADC, certified alcohol and drug counselor, licensing, all right? But I want to chime in on this because I actually taught classes on the science of addiction and that's a little bit of what Taylor Nicole Dean has been doing and I taught this not only to the clients, but I also taught it to their family members to help them understand addiction a little bit more, all right? So one of the videos out there, I think it has a little over 20,000 views. It's a video from a channel called Whatever, all right? And it's talking about Taylor Nicole Dean and saying she's lying and she shouldn't be, you know, giving people addiction recovery advice. So this video is kind of a response to that because it sums up a lot of the different concerns that people have. I'll link her video down below if you want to go check it out, all right? But anyways, the first thing that we need to talk about is if any of you have been to therapy, something that comes up is cognitive distortions, okay? This is something that all of us struggle with. Me, you, everybody struggles with cognitive distortions, okay?  So the first thing that I want to talk about which came up quite a bit in whatever's video was the cognitive distortion of catastrophizing, all right? So catastrophizing, this is a clip from cognitive behavioral therapy of Los Angeles and it says, the cognitive distortion of catastrophizing is pretty much what you might think it is, making something into a catastrophe when it's not. When we catastrophize, we tell ourselves that something is so awful, so terrible that we won't be able to handle it, that we would fall apart or die. The more we tell ourselves the problem we are facing is a catastrophe, the more hopeless and helpless we feel to effectively cope with it. Catastrophizing can result in increased anxiety and depression and can make difficult situations feel even worse than they already are. So in whatever's video, she talks about how dangerous it is for Taylor Nicole Dean to be giving advice. She's giving such dangerous information to her audience and her young audience and this is an example of catastrophizing, all right? Like people believing that Taylor Nicole Dean is a danger to people and I can relate to this. I have had people catastrophize about me, all right? There are people like driven industries, Smokey Glow and you'll find dozens of videos out there just acting like I am just this like cult leader or something like that. This is catastrophizing, all right? It's a cognitive distortion. We get rid of those in therapy. It is not a good idea to play into those and think that the whole world is falling apart because of what one person is doing. I believe that people should be able to hop on YouTube, share their opinions, share their stories, share their experience, right? But people saying Taylor Nicole Dean is dangerous or saying I'm dangerous, this is similar to people who are saying that violent movies and video games are like the primary source of what's happening in the world with all the violence, you know what I mean? Like that is catastrophizing. Now I want to talk about some of the pros and cons of Taylor Nicole Dean discussing her addiction recovery, all right? So something that you know people like whatever have an issue with is Taylor Nicole Dean is talking to a massive audience about this subject. For me that is definitely a positive. That is a good thing, all right? Like I learned a long time ago in my recovery that the best way to help others is to open up and share your experience because I don't know if you guys heard but there still is a massive stigma around addiction, around mental health because people don't talk about it, all right? People are embarrassed, people are ashamed and Taylor Nicole Dean is opening up that conversation and even though I try to do that here on my channel, Taylor Nicole Dean has a massive audience, all right? So the next thing that people are freaking out about is Taylor Nicole Dean only has four months, I believe at this time going on five months sober so she is in no way shape or form qualified to talk to people about addiction, all right? And those of you who know me, like I completely disagree with this, okay? There's a few reasons I disagree with it, all right? One of them is anybody can hop on and share their stories, share their experience and anything like that, okay? But here's the thing, like going back to when I first got sober, when I first got sober seven years ago I would have not listened to me, okay? Like I have seven years sober when I first got sober, seeing somebody with seven years sober I was like they don't even remember what it's like to be in this struggle. I was looking at people like Taylor Nicole Dean who had four months sober when I first got clean and I'm like how'd you do that, right? Because when we first get clean and sober like it's hard for us to stay sober for a day, a week, right? Sometimes it's hard to stay sober for an hour. So when people got a month, two months, my ears were perking up like how did you stay sober for just three months at a time? How did you stay sober for that first year? So I truly believe it is a definite positive thing that Taylor Nicole Dean is sharing her experience in early recovery. Now the next thing is she's been sharing experience from the rehab. Again, I think that's a positive, okay? The rehab I was working at like if you didn't have insurance inpatient treatment was $30,000, all right? Even people with insurance were sometimes paying copays or deductibles of thousands of dollars. So one of the reasons I started this channel was because I knew I knew how many people out there would never have the opportunity to go to treatment. So Taylor Nicole Dean had the opportunity to go to treatment and she is doing her best to share what she learned there, all right? There are so many people who are watching her on YouTube, on Instagram, on Twitter, who will never have the opportunity to go to treatment. And you also got to think about the friends and family members who have a loved one going to treatment or a loved one struggling with addiction. So they're never going to go to treatment so they're not going to understand this stuff. So Taylor Nicole Dean is taking that experience and sharing it elsewhere. It's like imagine somebody going to college and getting an education and then using that information to teach people who are underprivileged and would never have an opportunity to go to college. So that is definitely a benefit. The next concern people have about Taylor Nicole Dean is that she has a quote unquote young audience, all right? And she should not be talking to them about drug addiction, okay? And I'm just sitting here like really, really, like in my opinion and some studies even show this, like that's half the problem with the drug epidemic that we have here is that people aren't talking about it and kids are naturally curious. Like my son is only 10 years old, okay?  So I made a video a very long time ago about how to talk to kids about addiction. But my son's 10. I've been sober for seven years. So I got sober when he was about three years old, okay? He was going to all the events I ran at the rehab I was working with and everything. And if you want me to do more videos about this, like how to talk to kids about it, but I talked to him in a child-appropriate way, okay? He's understood addiction for years, okay? He understands why I don't drink alcohol. He understands why I don't use drugs and everything like that. But if he eventually tries them and he develops an issue, he can come to me, all right? But we got to realize like programs like dare massively failed in schools. Like a lot of people want to hear real talk. And I also think, like this is just another opinion, like it's really ridiculous to think that most of Taylor and Nicole Dean's audience is young. Like some of them are young, but not all of them. Like it's almost like when Logan Paul was saying that Shane Dawson was being dangerous with his Jake Paul series because he has such a young audience. Like, come on. Yeah, some kids are gonna watch it. But at the end of the day, in my opinion, as a parent, it's the parent's responsibility to know what their kid is watching. So one of the main things that keeps coming up, it keeps coming up, is Taylor and Nicole Dean has been talking about how 15% of the population has pretty much the addiction gene and can become addicted, okay? So let's talk about that. All right, so I'm sure this is something that she was taught in her rehab center and everything. And when I went through my training and education and everything on this, I believe a statistic was about 10 or 12%, something between 10 and 12% of people were prone to addiction. Like they've actually found an addiction gene. So for example, addiction runs in my family. So the reason people are upset with Taylor and Nicole Dean is they believe, they believe the message that she's saying is that the other 85% of people can just snort cocaine and shoot heroin and never have a problem. I don't know if that's what Taylor Nicole Dean saying, but I don't think it is, okay? So I'm gonna link down in the description my free course on the science of addiction where I go through all of the risk factors. So yes, there is a genetic component to addiction, okay? Like some people become addicted based on their genetics. Sometimes people have what's called epigenetics where a certain gene isn't activated until a traumatic event, but many people become addicted for other reasons. Some of the other leading risk factors are mental illness, okay? Also your environment, how you were raised, where you were raised, poverty and everything like that. But people can become addicted. The way to kind of look at the progression of addiction is you have substance use, substance abuse, you have dependence and then you have addiction, okay? So even people without the addiction gene can become addicted. Like I don't know how many of you saw the TED Talk from Johan Hari about how like the opposite of addiction is connection and everything like that. Like he got in similar trouble because his TED Talk was focused around you know the social aspect and how people get disconnected and become addicted. But we need to understand that yes, anybody can become addicted. Like this is why I always say it's you know a bad idea to be on medications that are potentially addictive for a long period of time such as you know pain medications, benzodiazepines and everything like that because the longer you use them the more you become dependent and eventually that can turn into addiction. So the last thing I'll talk about is I haven't talked to Taylor Nicole Dean in a while since we had a back and forth on Twitter. But anyways here's my hope, okay? Taylor Nicole Dean has four months sober. She has a lot of experience. She can help a lot of people. But like myself and I have seven years sober, I don't know everything, all right? I am not a doctor, I'm not a licensed therapist, okay? I'm working on it but I'm not yet, okay? So my hope would be that Taylor Nicole Dean is talking to people and pointing them into the right direction, okay? Because neither me nor Taylor nor anybody else has the power to get someone sober, all right? Like this is really a group effort. It takes people in recovery who have experience. It takes doctors for medication management. It takes therapists to help people work through their issues that you know are the root of their addiction in the first place. It takes all of us working together to help one another. So I would just hope that Taylor Nicole Dean is like, yo, do you have the opportunity to go to rehab? Go to rehab. Oh, you don't. Taylor Nicole Dean also has experience in free 12-step programs which saved my life. So she'd be like, oh, maybe she'd go hit up a meeting, right? But Taylor Nicole Dean, somebody with that massive amount of influence and that huge audience, just heard even saying, hey, maybe she'd check out a meeting is a great thing. Like I remember seeing Taylor Nicole Dean explaining to people what Alanon is, right? Like how many people, how many people out there do you think checked out an Alanon meeting just because Taylor Nicole Dean like recommended it, okay? Alanon is for loved ones of addicts and alcoholists. Like that is huge. That is phenomenal, all right? So while I might not always agree with the way Taylor Nicole Dean goes about things or anything like that, I think it is a net positive that she's talking about addiction and trying to help people, all right? Like what good is all the pain and suffering that we've been through? All of us, even if you're not an addict, what good is all that pain and suffering that we've been through if we don't use it to help others? You know what I'm saying? But anyways, that's all I got for this video. Don't forget, check out the description below. My Science of Addiction course is free if you would like to learn about the Science of Addiction and everything like that, all right? But anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon, as well as everybody who supports the channel by buying my books, my merch, and all that kind of good stuff, all right? Thanks again for watching. I'll see you next time.


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All right, I wanted to talk about the vaccine. So as you know, Pfizer came out, was it now over a week ago and said that they have a vaccine that's 90% effective. I mean, 90% effective is off the charts. I mean, nobody, nobody, nobody expected that a vaccine would have 90% effectiveness. And you know, Pfizer came out and announced it and it was a huge deal. So a few things that I found interesting in the story about the vaccine. First of all, the first thing to note about the vaccine is, thank you, Thomas, is how fast it was produced. I mean, wow, it's what, seven months. That is a world record for vaccine development. Vaccines in the past have taken decades, years, if not decades. Vaccine production of finding an effective vaccine is very, very, very difficult. And I think this is a dramatic indication of how far biotech has advanced and how far the science has advanced. And a real testament to the human mind and to the private sector and to biotech companies and the pharma industry. We'll talk a little bit about pharma and biotech in a minute, but a real testament to the science and the advancements and the understanding that we have now of how viruses work and how the human immune system works. And, you know, so terrific, terrific, amazing achievements. We should definitely be celebrating this. We should definitely be, you know, celebrating the achievement that this has produced. You know, OMG writes that there seems to be two types of rapid prototype vaccines. One is mRNA, mRNA is the fires of vaccine. You know, it's a immunotherapy. It's another one is adenovirus and spike protein, which is a different technology that University of Oxford and other US vaccine makers are using that. I'm not sure the Moderna one, which one that is. I think it's also an mRNA vaccine. But anyway, these are brand new technologies. State of the art. We're not possible just a few years ago. A lot of it has to do with the understanding of the role of RNA, the role of our own immune system, which is constantly developing, constantly improving. It is truly stunning, truly stunning. The advancements we've made and the ability of these biotech companies to do the work as fast as they did. So first, good for Pfizer and I'm hoping Moderna comes out next week with some pretty awesome results as well. That's what the rumors have that they'll announce maybe Monday or Tuesday. So that's, I want to make that point number one. Second point I wanted to make was about who actually developed this vaccine because Pfizer's getting all the credit, but it really wasn't Pfizer. Pfizer is the company that got the vaccine through the FDA approval process. Pfizer is the company that will figure out the logistics of distribution. They will be the ones who market and distribute it. They have the logistical expertise. They have the capacity to scale production so they will be responsible for producing the vaccine. But Pfizer did not do the science behind this vaccine. The science behind this vaccine was done by a, actually by a German company. By a company called BioNTech, that's how you pronounce the name, B-I-O-N-T-E-C-K-C-H, BioNTech. A company was founded in Mainz in Germany in 2008. A company that does, really was focused on immunotherapeutic cancer drugs. So immunotherapy, again, is using our own immune system to fight cancer. That was the basis on which they did it. Pfizer did not take $300 million to develop the vaccine. Pfizer took the money from warp speed in order to manufacture and distribute. In other words, they took the money to sell the vaccine to the United States, to consumers in the United States, the US government. Not a single dollar, American dollar, went into the development of this vaccine. The development of this vaccine was funded by this BioNTech company in Germany with Pfizer. Pfizer got the money, basically they got the money for production and distribution of the vaccine. Not the actual science behind it.  So, I gave you a trigger warning.  But the BioNTech is a company was founded by a husband and wife duo, husband and wife duo, trigger warning now. And then the names of Uga, Sahin, and Oslem, Tureci. And shockingly, and the impossibility of this is truly amazing. Sahin and Tureci are children of Turkish immigrants to Germany. Turkish immigrants to Germany. Oh my God, that is impossible. Turkish immigrants to Germany are Muslims and they're gonna turn, I mean, the only purpose of them immigrating to Germany is to turn Germany into part of the Kalifat. And yet, here they are, here they are, children of Turkish, Muslim, immigrants.  And here they are. So the husband is the CEO, the wife, a woman, God, a woman. Is the chief medical officer? They, this isn't the first biotech company they started. The first biotech company they started was in 2001. It was called Gandy-Med Pharmaceuticals and it was sold, it was sold in 2016 for 1.3 billion euros, 1.3 billion euros. So these, this couple are probably billionaires, if not they're worth many hundreds of millions. And it was sold to a Japanese pharma company. In 2008, they founded BioNTech. So these people ran at two companies. I mean, amazing, amazing entrepreneurs. BioNTech is developing these cancer immunotherapies. They research-centered on messenger RNA, mRNA. And it turns out that mRNA can be used for the development of vaccines. And when corona hits, now they had been working with Pfizer on a flu vaccine. And when March hit, when corona hits, they pivoted. And they agreed to work with Pfizer on applying the technology that they already had, they're applying the technology that they had worked with Pfizer on for the flu vaccine. They pivoted to working on a coronavirus vaccine. And they did it, they were the first ones, they were the first ones to actually develop this. You know, who many, we won't know how many lives these people have saved. We'll have saved in Europe and the rest of the world. You know, this is true breakthrough type technology. This is the first vaccine developed with this kind of technology. As I said, Moderna is using a similar technology, mRNA technology as well. Moderna is an American BioNTech company. But this is truly amazing. Now, just to be clear, Pfizer was not very involved in the science. Pfizer primarily took care of dealing with the FDA and dealing with European regulators and other regulators. So Pfizer managed the clinical trials. For that you need infrastructure and you need a lot of money. And Pfizer is responsible for clinical trials, by the way, in the U.S. while the BioNTech conducted their own clinical trials in Germany. And Pfizer is done all the late stage, the global late stage trials. And Pfizer is responsible for the manufacturing and distribution of this vaccine. We'll get to distribution in a minute because it is very difficult to distribute this. So we're talking about an interesting partnership. Now, one of the issues about partnership, one of the interesting aspects of this is this is kind of typically what pharmaceutical companies in the United States have become because of regulations, because of constraints, because of the bad rap pharmaceutical companies get. The pharmaceutical companies do very little basic science anymore. What the pharmaceutical companies are really, really, really good at is FDA trials, going through the FDA process, manufacturing and distribution and marketing. That's what pharma is good at. And what they do is they let BioNTech companies do the science and then they buy either the drugs or the company, the whole company, they buy it. Once it is proved efficacious to some extent. And then once it is efficacious, they take that drug and they manufacture it and they distribute it and they do the marketing and they get it approved by the FDA and they do all the things that you need to do. So big pharma has become, I'm a big fan of big pharma, so don't take this as an insult. It's just a reality because of the way they're regulated. What they've become is primarily a regulatory marketing, manufacturing, distribution entities. They are no longer huge entities that have real power when it comes to the science. The science is done by small biotech, innovative biotech companies, and then the biotech company builds itself up to sell to pharma that then can leverage that and get them through the FDA and do all that kind of stuff. I mean, hugely value-adding, you need somebody like that and given the regulations that we have, you need somebody who can deal with the regulators and that's what big pharma is doing. So incredibly valuable. I thought that was interesting. And the story of these entrepreneurs is a terrific story. It's a story that I hope is told over and over and over again and that we kind of internalize. By the way, the CEO of Pfizer, the CEO of Pfizer is a guy named Dr. Albert Buller who seems like a good guy. And again, Pfizer's done a really good job getting these trials done and getting the FDA to prove, hopefully, to prove next week the drug for distribution. But Albert, and again, you might want to block, yes, but Albert Buller is also an immigrant, in this case to the United States and in this case from Greece. So I don't know, you know, I heard these immigrants are useless, but at least some of them seem to be quite productive. Finally, one other thing about the Pfizer vaccine and this is gonna be true of Moderna, one of the problems with these, it looks like these mRNA vaccines is that they're very, very unstable, let's call them. That is, the vaccine requires that it be stored at extremely cold temperatures. Now, we're talking about minus 80 Celsius or minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit. I bet somewhere else it's 90-something degrees Fahrenheit, but anyway, really cold. The kind of cold that would kill you in five minutes if you went in, even if you were wearing like a snowsuit and everything. I mean, colder than it gets in Michigan. And that's cold, because Michigan is really cold, as Jennifer will tell you, right? Really, really, this is Antarctica-like cold in the worst, in the worst time, right? Now, this is the problem. You got millions and millions of these, right? Because every human being is gonna have to get two shots, right? So you got two doses for every human being that's, let's say that's 700 million doses in the United States. And then globally, you've got billions of these. And you've got to store this at minus 80 Celsius. You've got to transport it in dry ice. As far as I know, there's just not enough dry ice available to do this. So think about now the logistics, the infrastructure that you have to build in order to be able to transport the vaccine. And, you know, Henry asked his operation, warp speed gonna start manufacturing now. Imagine if the government had to do this. Now, you could argue maybe the US Army, the military could do it, given that, you know, they deploy forces all over the world, they do this. But minus 80 degrees Celsius, how are you gonna do this? Well, unsurprising to me, but maybe to some of you, it's not the government that's gonna solve this problem. Although, from what I hear, governments are running around trying to buy any refrigerator that can store stuff at that cold, around and they're buying huge quantities of them. But no, this is not gonna be solved by governments. Who's gonna solve this? Well, UPS and DHL and FedEx. UPS is building two giant freezer farms, capable of super cooling millions of vials of a COVID-19 vaccine. There are gonna be two facilities at the beginning, at least, one is in Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville, Kentucky is of course a hub for UPS. They can ship everything out of there. And the other one is in the Netherlands, which is a big UPS hub for Europe and the rest of the world. They're gonna have 600 deep freezers. They can each hold 48,000 vials of vaccine at temperatures as low as minus 80 degrees Celsius. From there, they will load these vaccines up onto airplanes, trucks and other delivery vehicles. On dry ice, so they are, they've done this before because they shipped medicines around the world anyway. But now they have to ramp up production of dry ice, production of containers that use dry ice to cool. All of this is happening. UPS, FedEx, DHL, in other words, the private sector is ramping up the production in order to do this mass distribution. And they expect to be airlifting thousands of tons of this kind of stuff all over the United States and all over Europe and all over the world ultimately.  This stuff is cool. I mean, I know you guys probably want me to talk about the election and Biden and Trump. Who the, I mean, this stuff is interesting, right? The creation of a vaccine, the science that goes into it, the logistics of it, all the everything, the thinking, everything that has to go into this is so amazing. It's so exciting. And then the infrastructure and the ability of the private sector to adapt, and the people say, oh no, oh no, the private sector short-term thinking, really? I mean, UPS is building these farms way ahead of any government institution buying the refrigerators. Why? Because no, it is the private sector that is long-term thinking. Long-term thinking. So, to me, this is amazing. Leave it to the private sector. Keep the government away from this. Away, please, away, away. I mean, maybe if they fund it, it'll be relatively okay. But if they have to build it, if they have to transport it, if they have to, no, stay away, government. It is truly a beautiful thing to watch the private sector rise up in an emergency to deal with an emergency. And if they'd left COVID to the private sector, we wouldn't be where we are today. We'd be in much better shape. By the way, we probably would be already taking the vaccine. I'm eager to get the vaccine. I know some of you don't like that, but I'm eager to get, take the vaccine. And, but, you know, we've known these results for a few weeks now. Why isn't it shipping already? Oh, it turns out the FDA has to convene. It has to evaluate the results. It then has to deliberate. It has to discuss. It has to accept the opposition views, you know. So they will take about a month to grant emergency approval in an emergency. The private sector, when there's an emergency in the private sector, that means it's an emergency, which means, I mean, it's shocking, I know. But it means you do it fast. You act fast. You move quickly. That's what it means. Don't tell the government, but that's what it means. Limbeck, thank you. Thank you. Really appreciate that. Anyway, to me, this is fascinating. By the way, every one of these freezers that UPS is buying costs anyway between 10 to $15,000. You know, so these farms are costing millions of dollars, millions of millions of dollars. These are ultra low temperature freezers, special freezers, 10 to 15. So each one of these farms, freezer farms right now is at a minimal cost of $6 million. That's just for the freezers. Not talking about the electricity, the wiring, all, everything else. That's private companies. Now, yes, the government is probably gonna pay for the actual vaccine. But if not, the government insurance companies would do it and we would have had it by now. Anyway, I think this is cool. This is much more exciting to me than the next topic we're gonna move to. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism, and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist, broads. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show. 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Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Your weekly movement news roundup. You're with Give the People What They Want brought to you from People's Dispatch that's Prashant and Zoe. I'm Vijay from Globetrotter. Happy to be with you. 128th episode today is June 2nd coming toward halfway point in this calendar year. Stunned this week to see photographs from the city of Atlanta, Georgia the home of Coca-Cola and peaches also Jimmy Carter to find large section of police officers breaking down what looked to me like like somebody's private residence not an unfamiliar site in the United States Zoe I don't know why I was surprised what happened in Atlanta, Georgia this week well it is definitely a concerning site police officers in the Atlanta police department and investigators in the Georgia Bureau of Investigations raided an activist house on May 31st they raided the house in order to conduct the arrests of three people three activists who were active in the Atlanta Solidarity Fund a collective that raises money to support activists or anyone who's been arrested in the context of a protest and mobilization or is persecuted because of these kind of political activities this Solidarity Fund is one of these initiatives that's popped up a lot across the United States as the intensification of political repression has occurred with hundreds of arrests taking place especially during the 2020 uprisings where hundreds of people are arrested across the country for taking part in the mobilizations against racism following the murder of George Floyd so on Wednesday essentially these organizers who raise money to then bail people out of jail which is a very very horrific tactic used in the United States to keep poor people in prison essentially those who can't pay their bail have to stay there and so these organizers were charged interestingly enough with money laundering and charities fraud they were charged and in the charge sheet it essentially says that they had been misleading people who had donated and that this money was going towards violent extremist groups specifically known as the Atlanta Forest Defenders and so it's important to understand these arrests of these Solidarity activists these people who are raising money to help people get out of prison in the context of a larger struggle that's happening in the city of Atlanta essentially two years back the city council of Atlanta made a proposal to fund and to build what activists have dubbed cop city and so cop city people have been following this probably know but it is essentially a training grounds that's going to be that they want to build in the Atlanta Forest where cops from across the country not just Atlanta would be able to come learn the latest tactics and police repression of protest train using tear gas stun grenades and other tactics used specifically above all to repress people who are mobilizing and so cop city has unsurprisingly been met with fierce opposition from environmentalists from anti-police brutality activists really from such a wide alliance of progressive groups both in Atlanta and nationally especially given the fact that again in 2020 there were over 14 million people across the country in the streets demanding of course justice for George Floyd demanding justice for all the victims of police brutality but also demanding that the police be defunded and in the city of Atlanta and in so many other cities this demand has not only been ignored but now they're willing to invest millions of dollars into building something to really refine the repressive tactics so these solidarity activists had been very active in accompanying this mobilization against cop city out at the protests raising money for the dozens of people who have been arrested in the protests against cop city and as we've reported on people's dispatch several activists who have been protesting this project have even been slapped with domestic terrorism charges so I think what we're seeing in Atlanta is extremely extremely concerning because this is something that doesn't only impact the struggle against cop city in the city of Atlanta but could really have wider implications not only is it illegal to protest cops is it illegal to protest a multi-million dollar project to destroy a forest but it is also illegal to even raise money for those who are arrested this is such a simple act of solidarity that has been taking place over centuries and now the authorities are trying to clap back at that so that's the update there well US state seized upon the violence that it is going to meet upon people meanwhile Prashant about 10% of the population of Atlanta struggles with hunger pretty high number I was looking at reports from the UN world food program about these 18 hotspots around the world what is this new report Prashant tell us about hunger in South Asia food in South Asia and so on what's the latest from the world food program so the world food program report of course talks about what you like you said they are hunger hotspots and now there are 18 of these hunger hotspots it is identified stretching across 22 countries and I think it bears a very interesting reflection on the global state of the world so to speak for multiple reasons one is of course we can start with South Asia where of course the report identifies a couple of key countries that is Afghanistan Myanmar and Pakistan and in all of these countries the situation is pretty grim Afghanistan I think 15.3 million people that said I believe over 35% of the population is facing various levels of acute food insecurity I mean they have a categorization of 5 categories of which 3, 4 and 5 are considered the most acute so I think around 15 million people fall into these 3 categories 3, 4 and 5 and it kind of actually reflects the fact that while Afghanistan no longer captures the headlines except when Taliban unleashes another round of repressive policies the fact is there is a deep systemic crisis when it comes to the everyday life of people over there and the situation has maybe slightly improved from 2022 which is really the worst Afghanistan could really Afghanistan touched but still it's an extremely serious crisis there are multiple factors to this including the fact that the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan there has been violence over there there is a lot of it is dependent on humanitarian aid which kind of fluctuates from time to time agriculture is not in the greatest of shape which means that poverty is a huge problem as far as families as far as the government is concerned all this together making food front and center one of the biggest issues faced by people in Afghanistan like I said it's interesting because we often don't talk about it when we talk about Afghanistan it's always in the context of the Taliban etc etc but the most essential element which is food is one of the biggest crisis in the country and you know crosses the border to Pakistan again the country which has been sort of this for large part of it due to IMF recommended policies you saw inflation over the past few months rising in Pakistan you know basic essentials very difficult to very difficult to get you cross over to Myanmar again conflict bringing its own prices but even if you take a look I think at the global report it has an interesting picture because some of the a lot of the countries which are named in this report as hot spots in various ways we're looking at say Haiti for instance and the Central American region again the long stomping ground for the US and its activities we're looking at say Lebanon in Syria where policies by the US and its allies have actually caused massive humanitarian crisis a paralysis of government all of which has led to the inability to actually even deliver basic needs we're looking at say a crisis like Sudan which we're going to be talking about in some more detail but again it has been elevated to one of those hunger hot spots as well so we talk about climate change and often we talk about and even many of these reports talk about conflict as one of the reasons is one of the drivers for this global hunger crisis but I think there's often a need to step back and also look at what actually are the drivers of this conflict as well. Conflict not being a neutral term but as a result of very deliberately pursued policies which actually accentuate the crisis in many of these countries and we're looking at two sets of policies here one of course is the militaristic policies of most often of the US and its allies but we're also looking at economic policies which have been the kind of recommendations that are imposed on countries which basically destroy the possibility of livelihoods which take away the security that even whatever minimum security that people of various countries have and leave them in a very desperate situation so I think the food crisis something that of course some of our viewers might remember we did people's dispatch along with our partners across the world we did a series on hunger a couple of years ago and one of the one of the most important findings of that series of hunger during the pandemic was how across the world's governments were failing to even deliver such a basic necessity provide infrastructure for that necessity and if you go to some of these extreme conflict zones that trend gets accentuated even more both due to very deliberately induced conflict and very deliberately induced economic policies both of which are having a very similar effect on people terrible story Prashant I mean you know we gotta keep following this hardly reported hardly reported indeed is the story about overfishing next to the coastline of very poor countries people might remember in 2009 the Somali rapper Gainan gave a interview to the Los Angeles Times and in a radio interview later he said that look you're concerned about Somali pirates but you're not asking what's the reason why there is piracy of the coastline of Somalia so what this rapper said with great clarity is he said there are ships that come to the unregulated waters of Somalia and they dump containers of nuclear waste he says that's one problem that is creating toxicity in the coastline secondly he said trawlers are coming in and overfishing right beside the coastline and Somali fisher people are unable to sustain themselves they can't actually go into deep waters and fish and when they fish near the coastline the trawlers have wiped out the catch by the way this has been a problem in the Indian ocean I will remember in the Indian state of West Bengal and in the country of Bangladesh fisher folk in the deltaic regions there used to complain that large trawlers used to come in basically mass fish the Baghdad prawns the big size prawns those prawns disappeared from the markets of Bangladesh and West Bengal they were a staple of the culture of people's food you know and so on overfishing has been a problem for a long time just last two years ago the UN's food and agriculture organization FAO released a report on overfishing of sardinella and bonga fish of the coastline of Africa of western Africa also talked about massive overfishing of sardines you know that report really didn't have any impact at all well Amnesty Dinesh still has returned with another report going back to sardinella and bonga fish also sardines and so on interviewed people in the coastline region in Gambia in the town of Sanyang which is a tourist area coastal fishing village and what they found was quite interesting two interesting things to put on the table number one of course they calculate and this is a calculation that actually I went back and looked at the UN document this calculation just expands and updates the UN numbers it is estimated that Gambia, Mauritania Senegal, Guinea-Bissau Guinea and Sierra Leone lose about 2.3 billion dollars annually to illegal fishing now that's just the commercial loss which is important because it's wiping out fish of pork from being able to you know bring in the catch as it were but it also has an impact to what Prashant was talking about earlier that nutritious food stocks high protein fish oils and so on that had been in the diet of these some of them coastal countries but not all of them these countries have seen a loss of the nutrition capacity of the of the table in other words they may have to buy frozen fish at great expense that is imported into the country they are not able to eat fish freshly caught by local fisher people so this has a commercial impact upon the fishing communities along the coastline in towns like Sanyang, Gambia but it also has an impact on nutrition it has an impact on hunger it's not just 2.3 billion dollars lost by these countries but also the people have lost those kilo calories of good protein just simply not in their diet but one additional point the company Naseem fishing and fish processing corporate you know private limited which is a foreign-owned factory which has got ships out there harnessing fish but they also have fish meal factories beside the coastline women farmers who farm beside the coastline are saying that pests and insects from the fish meal factories are destroying their vegetables now imagine that not only a fish disappearing from the market in these countries but also vegetables it's related to the story Prashant just did hunger is produced by greed hunger is not produced by lack of food and the story of overfishing of the coastline of Gambia demonstrates that you're with give the people what they want we come to you from people's dispatch that's Prashant and Zoe I'm Vijay from Globetrotter happy to be with you every week we know you listen to us live you also enjoy our podcast it's a delight to be with you now something is wrong in Paris France where it's pretty surprising that French poets had this problem with a Cuban poet Nancy Morejon a great Cuban poet that was removed as honorary president I don't know what the French are afraid of Zoe but the entire French poetry establishment seems to be afraid of a Cuban poet what's going on well that's exactly right Nancy Morejon was set to be the honorary president of the French poetry festival it's 40th anniversary it's 40th edition this year it's the Marseille actually I'm just going to say it in English the poetry market and this is a renowned festival international poets come it's very big it's you know a whole week of activities one of these great moments where artists and writers can come together talk about the craft share their own work be honored these are moments that professionals look forward to all year and what better place than Paris in the summer I guess but there was a very very aggressive extremely aggressive but you know not as aggressive as it even could be by a Cuban right-wing writer he essentially wrote a Facebook post saying that he thought it was ridiculous that Nancy Morejon be awarded this honor this prestigious recognition and that he personally was offended and that she if she was if this went forward then it would really tarnish the reputation of a festival so this is something that Cuban right-wing activists do anytime a Cuban appears in any public space because anyone who is not critical of the government who thinks that maybe it's great that they were given free education, free health care and that attacks from US imperialism are actually the problem they somehow have an issue and so these kind of campaigns are actually not new and it really unfortunately happens anytime anytime a Cuban artist, musician sports player I mean we saw this happen in Miami when the Cuban baseball team played in the international baseball series and so essentially what happened instead of understanding the context within which these criticisms arise that it comes from this persistent right-wing campaign to essentially erase Cuban intellectuals and artists from the map this right-wing activist found some allies in the French poetry community they wrote a letter to the festival with very very strong words saying that oh you know we forgive you because you probably didn't know anything about this woman's history for example the fact that she was a traveling academic, worked in several US universities, writes about racism wrote a beautiful poem dedicated to George Floyd and essentially with this letter from the French Free Press Society Pen Club Française the festival announced that they would withdraw this honorary presidency and it's interesting that this happens in the same month where Buena Fe a very very famous Cuban band was touring Spain and they were forced to cancel some of their concerts because of physical attacks by right-wing extremists in Spain and because of these attacks and because of similar pressures several club owners actually even cancelled some of their shows and so this is such a despicable censorship violation of freedom of expression I mean these are artists, these are poets who like any other artist and poet from any other country want to share their work, want to share with their colleagues and because of this political pressure from the right-wing they have essentially been removed from these spaces and there's been a large outpouring of solidarity with Nancy Morejon as well with Buena Fe the international union of left publishers also released a statement you can find it on our website at People's Dispatch in Spanish and English it's so important to recognize that these are moments when the right-wing is trying to impose their kind of vision of silencing of trying to suppress these extremely human expressions like poetry so very unfortunate developments there in France that's a great poem on George Floyd she sings in that poem the smoke from your flesh rises to the wet sky highly recommend people go and read it and perhaps tweet it to the Marché de Poissy Paris well Prashant Pavan Kulkarni back at People's Dispatch new story on violations of the ceasefire in Sudan Sudan, Sudan, Sudan here we go please what's happening in Sudan right unfortunately like in many war situations the events have overtaken that story although the basis of that story remains very much the same and has been true for many many years right now but we have not talked about Sudan on the show for a couple of weeks for multiple reasons one being the fact there was maybe a depressing pattern which was continuously going on fighting escalating of both sides Sudanese armed forces and the rapid support forces refusing to acknowledge the fact that innocent civilians were getting caught in their conflict over who would control Sudan there was a bit of hope about the 20th of May around 21st when there was a ceasefire agreement to sign Saudi Arabia and the US mediating it and on 22nd it came into effect now this ceasefire was a 7 day ceasefire it was supposed to expire on 29th it was extended for 5 more days but after that it seems to have pretty much collapsed and not only as the ceasefire collapsed Saudi Arabia and the US which were mediating the talks have basically said they are not going to continue doing it at least for this ceasefire so much is that the observers across the world hope that this ceasefire might be the beginning of some kind of a settlement it was definitely not to be unfortunately and I think the reasons why it has not worked out are pretty clear to understand the fact that it does seem like both parties used this ceasefire to sort of recoup to sort of consolidate and then start a fresh round of fighting and the violations of the ceasefire were having enumerated multiple times both parties reportedly stealing aid consignments both parties the armed forces continuing its sorties in the air the rapid support forces and continuing its occupation of civilian buildings including the office of the Sudanese Communist Party which was occupied by the RSF a lot of condemnation from across the world and of course violence also going on in Darfur where a number of people have been killed in fights between militias which are which is a parallel conflict to what is going on right now and I think the situation right now there is there is a sense of absolute lack of control or chaos in terms of both these players armed forces and the RSF not being accountable in any way to anybody at this point because they are just fighting it out now the US has imposed sanctions on both these players it says but the fact remains that both of these are very strongly entrenched in Sudan's economy and in the regional economy as well both these players have very strong regional ties economically to many other countries in the region including especially the United Arab Emirates so and of course I think over 1.5 million people have already been displaced most of them internally displaced but many of them going to I think neighboring countries like Chad which are already facing a massive crisis so overall a very desperate situation right now in Sudan and civilians there is some very depressing reports of orphans in orphanages dying because there is not enough care provided to them they were not enough basic resources to provide medical care to them to some of them actually and I think from the side of the people's movements you know every week of this war is just unfortunately in a very unfortunate we've indicated them like we've said time and again because it has shown that these generals who hold these who lead the Sudanese army the rapid support forces and who were considered the main interlocutors for peace and stability in the country for so long were absolutely not to be trusted and they are proving that not only through the fighting but through the repeated violations of these ceasefires as well so in general it's very difficult to predict right now at this point what can lead to a maybe in some some more time there might be a halt if there are resources if there is the state of exhaustion if one force suffers more of a more of a setback there might be one of those reasons or sustained international pressure might help but right now it's a very bleak outlook for Sudan very tragic situation for a country that has been wracked by conflict for a long time one of the 18 hot spots for world hunger terrible terrible tragedy meanwhile in Moldova a country that borders Ukraine small country not large NATO AWACS the early warning aircraft flying above Moldova to provide protection as it were for a meeting of the European political community it's an interesting gathering it's a gathering of heads of state and government from 47 countries basically all the EU European Union leaders and others of the 27 member blocks south and east that is people who are there in the former Soviet Union former Soviet Republics and the communist states of the east they belong to this gathering called the European political community now they arrive in Moldova and just now in a castle I found this fascinating they are meeting in a 19th century castle in Vinyard very large summit venue of course protected by NATO even though Moldova is not a NATO member it is merely a partner of NATO but they are coming with three open conflicts pretty important conflicts and each of these conflicts reveals something in common number one Armenia and Azerbaijan are coming to the meeting they are in the middle of a conflict around Nagorno-Korobakh which is often burst since the 1990s into open armed violence including just a few years ago Recep Tayyip Erdogan re-elected president of Turkey had intervened the last time in that conflict actually militarily so one conflict on the table for the European political community is Nagorno-Korobakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan second conflict heating up every day is the conflict between Kosovo and Serbia both countries will be at the table no idea whether there will be intensified armed action between these countries whether there is going to be an appetite in Belgrade to intensify against Kosovo it is very unclear what is going to happen but they are going to be there and third Mr Zelensky arrived immediately he was the first head of state to arrive met the head of the government of Moldova the president Maya Sandu greeted him and walked him in Mr Zelensky comes there to make the case again for Ukraine to get support and to join NATO he already made the case at the Nordic meeting earlier this year where he met with the heads of government of the Nordic states openly talked about Ukraine's need to join NATO and so on three conflicts coming to the table here all have a related history because they are all in some ways about the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR and Yugoslavia these are long drawn out conflicts they didn't happen yesterday they have a long history interestingly Mr Zelensky is coming there to ask for what he calls security guarantees so are the others they are all worried about what is happening Maya Sandu president of Moldova very keen on deepening Moldova's ties to the European Union the poorest country in Europe very keen on that has been making public statements pledging herself to Mr Zelensky and so on not clear although what the net benefit of this is going to be one of the interesting facets with the re-election of Receptive Erdogan in Turkey and with the fact that it looks plausible that there will be no NATO victory in Ukraine these countries are going to have to create some sort of modus vivendi with Russia but the language at these meetings in fact has increased in a tone anti Russia and it's very complicated and hard to imagine how they are going to walk back we will be watching this carefully because there are more summits on the horizon Mr Zelensky now is on the move one minute in Japan next minute in Moldova where will he be tomorrow you always give the people what they want where brought to you by people's dispatch that Zoe and Prashant go to the website read all the stories there I'm Vijay from Globetrotter so happy to have you with us either live watching us on our various platforms or listening to our podcast available on all the podcast the platforms see you next week


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Hey guys, welcome back to The Nova Show. It's your host, International Nova. So in today's episode, we'll have our first music spotlight, and as always, some cool music news. So let's get started. Big congratulations to Justin Bieber. His new song, What Do You Mean, has just tied a Billboard record on the Billboard and Twitter chart. Now you may be asking, what is the Billboard Twitter charts? Well, the Billboard Twitter charts ranks the most shared or mentioned songs than any given week on Twitter. And with that, Justin's new single has actually tied the record for the most weeks at number one with five consecutive weeks. This is actually pretty big, as this is Justin's first single back on the music scene. Good job, Justin. Congratulations. In other news, it seems like that motorcycle accident isn't stopping rapper Fetty Watt. His new album is on course to be the number one album in the country on the Billboard Top 200 and is on pace to sell over 110,000 copies in his first week. Now in other news, Amazon Prime has just signed a brand new deal with Universal Music Group to be able to stream a lot of their artist's music on the platform. Now some of these artists include Drake, Katy Perry, Maroon 5, and Taylor Swift. So if some of you guys have an Amazon Prime subscription, go ahead and check it out. Now it's just been announced that the crowd funding platform Patreon has just been hacked. Although the company does not store any credit card information from its users, such things as names, email addresses, and shipping addresses were accessed. Now in social media news, it's been announced that Jack Dorsey will become the new and permanent CEO of Twitter. Although he did take a job a few months ago, he is now the official and permanent full-time CEO of the social media giant. So today is time to have our first music spotlight here on The Nova Show. Now when I hit a bash anybody, the entire purpose of the spotlight is to engage in conversations and hopefully help you guys, the freedom family and the musicians in the freedom family, grow and make better content and better music. Now our first spotlight goes to a partner by the name of D-Manic, and he can be found on YouTube at D-Manic Music. So let's go ahead and check him out. So I'm gonna be honest, I think you have a lot of potential. Now one of the things I would suggest working on is gonna be your punctuation and your clarity. By punctuation, I mean you want to make sure that we understand every single word that you're rapping. In some of your tracks, we kind of lose that a little bit. That's where the clarity comes in and the EQing of your vocals. You want to make sure that you spend a lot of time on the EQ side when it comes to your vocals. A quick way to brighten up vocals and make the clarity much better is to raise your mid tones and your highs. But again, there has to be balance. Now personally, when I do my records or any of the artists that I work with, I spend a lot of time on the EQ side. The EQ can either make or break your record. So again, make sure you're taking your time on the EQ side when it comes to mixing your vocals. You want to have a clean but balanced sound coming from your vocal tracks. Now judging by your music, I can tell that you're a huge Eminem fan and that's great. Eminem is amazing. But just make sure that you do not lose yourself when it comes to his influence over your music. You don't want to sound too much like Eminem. You want to bring your own unique style, your own unique tone and vocal presence to your music. Now if any of the musicians in our freedom family are interested in releasing music and monetizing their music, remember we do have a music label here at Freedom and it's called Beat. We are in the process of relaunching and we are hoping to be up and running by winter 2015. Now you guys can go ahead and apply to become artists by going to Beat.tm. Me and my team are reviewing applications and we would love to see you guys there. Now that's it for today's episode of The Nova Show. Please keep those music links coming. Until next time, you guys take care.


So good morning everybody. Thank you for coming for many of the police officers to stay. Yeah you can you can come forward social distance we blocked those off just in case we needed extra room. We all know how precious parking spaces are immobiliar so we have to. So we welcome you today to this swearing in ceremony for Chief P. I'd like to start with a few words from the mayor. So first of all thank you everyone for coming out this morning to celebrate the swearing in of our new chief. I just want to again thank the hiring committee that spent time to find such a wonderful man to join us as our chief and I want to welcome Chief Pete to the city of Montpelier. We are delighted to have you and on behalf of the council we look forward to serving the city of Montpelier alongside you. So thank you again thanks to you all for coming out this morning and that's it for me. Yesterday we appropriately celebrated the closing of a new year with saying thank you to Tony and appreciate all he has done. Today we are celebrating the beginning of a new era immobiliar policing and it is a historic day. It's been 40 years since we haven't had a born mobiliar born and bred chief both Chief Fakas and Chief Hoyt grew up here lived here it was their community came up through the department. Chief Pete obviously has come from a different department so we hope you will bring new ideas. As has been publicized obviously he's the first African-American chief certainly Montpelier in Vermont and while that is not why he was hired to be clear we're glad to be able to make progress and to bring diversity to our city particularly in this time. He came extremely well qualified long history law enforcement military master's degree not going to read the whole resume but very well qualified the group some of the folks that are involved in the hiring are here right now and we were all very impressed he certainly rose to the top. After today we're not going to worry about his qualifications and his experience or his color or anything else it's going to be how he works for Montpelier and Vermont and our community and we have very high expectations for that and I know he has it for himself and we're looking forward I know I'm looking forward to working with him. He brings a very very forward thinking approach much like Chief Fakis but he is a big a proponent of modern policing 21st century policing community gathering some of you seen he's already reached out despite my best advice he's having a community meeting on July 4th so he's not letting any any time fall go wasted. He is very strong with working with the mental health community crisis intervention training these kind of things that we think are essential to the partnerships here in Montpelier. We're excited to see him move our excellent police department into the future. For Brian's sake there are a few people I think you've met but just States Attorney Rory Tebow is here obviously former Chief Fakis City Councilmember Jack McCullough is here Councilmember Donna Bate, Councilmember Dean Richardson obviously many other folks from city staff that you'll get to meet. We warmly welcome Chief Pete, his wife Natalie his daughter Gabriella to our community we look forward to having them here as friends and neighbors as well as public servants so I would like to present the Chief with his official badge as Chief of Police and I believe Natalie is going to pin him. I know. And the city clerk will administer the oath of office. City clerk John Vodem come on up and make it all official for the state of Vermont and you will not directly or indirectly do any act. You solemnly swear that you will faithfully execute the office of Chief of Police for the City of Montpelier and will dare to all persons to the best of your judgment and ability according to law so help me God. I've met several people here. A lot of people here. So first and foremost, thank you very much for the support and I hope and I will give that same support back to this community. I first want to acknowledge Tom and Neil. They have been doing this type of community led policing since before it was cool. Since it was before it was something that was brought to the surface because they understand people. They understand service to their community and I will not betray that trust. I will move it forward and I will make sure that we have the best dam department in the state and in this country. So thank you very much. These are some very big shoes to my wife Natalie to my daughter Gabriella. This is an impossible job to do without yours love and your support. So thank you for helping me to get to this point. Thank you for keeping me grounded and looking forward to those nights that we're going to both be willed and be upset and trying to figure out what we do next. But I know together we'll get through it. Thank you to the mayor to my new bosses, Cameron and Bill to the city council. Thank you very much for your trust. I understand the importance of what it means to serve, especially in a city like Montpelier where it is crucial whether it's a creed, whether it's ingrained upon us to look out for each other. So I will continue on with that. And again, thank you for your trust for this opportunity. And then next to the community. I sworn an oath to make sure that we do what's right that we serve and we are committed to serve. And this is a very, very strong police department. I would look forward to partnerships. I look forward to friendships and I look forward to all of us moving forward and together, especially in a time that's so dynamic is where we are now. And I know we're going to rise to the challenge and we're going to be the example for the rest of the nation as far as how police departments serve the communities that there's one they want to. And most importantly to the men and women of the Montpelier Police Department. Not a night goes by that I'm trying to that I need to make sure I'm responsible to you that I'm responsible to your families. And I will do everything in my power to give you everything that you need to serve the people of our great city and to leave the example to do what you're already doing is the best police department here. So thank you for the opportunity to be a part of your your family. And I'm looking forward to serving you. And thank you everyone for coming. Thank you for those beautiful words, Brian. And thank you all. It's a short ceremony, but it's official now. Chief Chief Pete's on duty. Is he the new 801? Yes, 801 signing on. Okay, I thought we'd retired that number, but no. So thank you all for coming. If you want to stay a few minutes, get a chance to meet Brian, Natalie and Gabriella. That'd be great. I know some people have things to do. Some of you are on duty. So but thank you the rain for holding off. And we'll see you all later.


Three, two, one. Happy new year! Wow. 2024, I can't believe how fast the last year flew by. Maybe it's especially so because 2023 was such a jam-packed year, especially for One Piece fans. 2023 was a huge year for us. We were just eating all year long.  Episodes that captured the hype of those key climax moments of the Wano arc. Sanji vs. Queen, Zoro vs. King, Luffy and Gear 5th. My god, that was a fantastic episode. And towards the end there, the anime added in some filler, but actually well done filler scenes to really flesh out the finale of the mammoth arc. Give us some closure, bring the chapters to life, which is the direction that we all really want for the anime. And now we also know that the series is getting reanimated. And I'm personally someone who actually enjoys the slow and simple style of the earlier One Piece, but I am so equally excited for this reanimation. This is just what is needed to bring even more fans on board and bring new life into the series. Obviously hopping onto the hype train that the One Piece live action generated, and why not? The One Piece live action was an overwhelming success. Probably one of the highlights of 2023. The Netflix adaptation just delivered and reached heights that none of us expected. Trending number one globally, new fans getting on board, including my own friends who now share the love that I feel for the series, which brings me so much joy that you don't understand. Now they're even talking of future seasons all the way up to season 12. And in terms of the series itself, we've just had so many crazy developments. Reveals on a scale that no one anticipated. More lore, more mystery, and a fantastic backstory. Maybe one of the best backstories in the series to date. Just week after week, Oda gave us quality chapters. Well, not weekly, because the man did take some much-deserved breaks, which is something I hope he actually continues, especially if it means that he's going to continue to deliver the quality that he did over the last year. And going by his comments at Jump Festa, he is ready. Oda is ready to deliver. Egghead might wrap up this year most likely so that we can go to Elbuff, a battle between two legends over the one piece. My God, we have some big things happening this year. And if Oda is ready, I am ready. I am ready to eat. And I know you all are too. More than anything, I'm ready to get to 100K subscribers this year. And if you wanna help me, please click subscribe if you haven't already. This way you can have the pride, joy, and my gratitude for being a part of the first 100,000 members of the Dory Fleet. But that's enough. Let's jump right into it. The first chapter of 2024, or at least the first official chapter of 2024. And it's a big one, guys. It's a big one. I've reread this chapter a number of times now, and there is a lot happening. So pay attention, because we're gonna blow some minds today. First thing we're gonna talk about, first thing that caught my attention, what is Kizuru doing? What is this man up to? Because this yellow monkey is acting sus. He is 51 shades of gray in this chapter. Kizuru's loyalty, his allegiance, his innermost thoughts and feelings have been pretty shady, pretty murky, ever since he arrived at the good. And Otis kept us questioning, especially as we found out more about his history and relationship with Vega Punk, with Sentomaru, Bonnie, and Kuma, the lot of them. But this, this is when I say... This is the chapter when I say Kizuru is on their side. He was only in two panels in chapter 1103, but those two small panels have triggered some bells in my brain. Because this chapter may be the most emotional, most concerned with scene of Kizuru, who up to this point, even when expressing emotions, seemed pretty detached. But here, he actually seems to care and be alarmed at the fate of his friends. Which is why I'm going to go out on a limb here, and I'm gonna say, Kizuru fed Luffy. Kizuru's the one who saved Luffy and got him the food. He's the only one that could've done it. Right before we see Kizuru expressing concern for Sentomaru and Bonnie, we see that Luffy was asking for food, asking for meat so that he could regain his energy. And Atlas responded that she couldn't move so she couldn't do it. And that's important because supposedly, none of the straw hats and the Vega Punk should be able to move right now because Saturn is pinning them down somehow. But who would Saturn not be using this power on? Kizuru, because Saturn doesn't see the need to because he thinks that they're part of the same side. And so the next time we see Kizuru in this chapter, he's sitting down now. When did he get up? This panel also happens to be right after we find out that someone gave Luffy food, someone gave Luffy food without Saturn being able to realize. Who can move like that? That fast, that skilled to go undetected. Someone of Kizuru's caliber. Look, I may be wrong here, but as of this moment, I am convinced that he used his devil fruit ability like we saw him do when he fought a Puerza body and it was Kizuru that got Luffy the food because he wants to help his friends survive. It's the perfect way to continue developing Kizuru's character after what we've seen so far in this arc and really it's the only natural progression for this character from this point forward. Now I don't know how it's all going to pan out. Maybe Kizuru will only help them just this once while still remaining in the Marines. Otherwise the implications of yet another admiral defecting to join the ranks of pirates would be huge for the world. Is it going to be part of the earth-shattering news that reverberates across the rest of the world as we were foretold earlier in this arc? Or is it just going to be more of a subtle reveal? Maybe something that Luffy just comments on later that Kizuru's not actually such a bad guy because he gave Luffy food, which is something that's just going to shock the rest of the crew later on. I guess we're just going to have to see, but my point is, Kizuru, I'm on to you. And hey, that rhymed. Next up, Bonnie. It was actually only upon rereading the chapter that a lot of panels with or concerning Bonnie really caught my attention and got me thinking. The first thing is that now that Bonnie has witnessed Kuma's memories and understood the truth of the whole situation, we see that her demeanor towards Vega Punk has changed, which is something that Luffy also mentioned back in chapter 1090, but seeing as it's in this chapter that we actually get to see what transpired immediately after Bonnie witnessed Kuma's memories, what struck me was that Bonnie is now in her original child form. Up to this point, Bonnie has been using her abilities to appear her older self, because that's the persona that she wants to have to appear stronger, more fierce and invulnerable. Even when it was just her and Vega Punk, Vega Punk who already knows her true age, she still used her age manipulation abilities and only showed her true young age as a way to trick and manipulate Vega Punk so that she could attack him. Whereas here in this chapter, we actually see that Bonnie is allowing herself to be her true self and allows herself to be vulnerable because she trusts Vega Punk again. She's reverted back to being just a sweet child with her uncle, which I think is a nice detail. Something that triggers my speculation brain is the sapphire sun necklace that Vega Punk gives to Bonnie on behalf of Kuma. We've seen previously that Kuma's asked Vega Punk to pass on a birthday message to Bonnie, but never that he also left a present. And I have to say that this present definitely seems to be a setup for some future event. Vega Punk describes it to be some sort of protection charm and the fact that there's so much symbolism with the sapphire and the sun, but also that Oda dedicates quite a large panel to this necklace. We seem to have a Shekov's gun situation here. Is it something that Vega Punk designed and or created to have protective qualities? Is it a honing device that connects Kuma to Bonnie? And maybe that's what's guiding Kuma to Egghead. It is just all speculation at this point, but I feel like it's a pretty random detail to add into this chapter for it to not have bigger implications. But maybe the most important development about or concerning Bonnie in this chapter is the reveals about her devil fruit. So Saturn reveals that Bonnie didn't actually eat a devil fruit organically and rather horribilities are the result of some experimentation with devil fruit extract infusions. And I think this suggests a number of things. Firstly, it makes sense that at the time the experiments were being conducted, they were playing around with extractions whether than artificial devil fruits, because we know from Vega Punk and Momonosuke's devil fruit that artificial devil fruits is an invention that Vega Punk really only perfected later on and not 12 years ago when Ginny was still alive. Secondly, the nature of the devil fruit ability really interests me. Upon its first introduction, we just assumed that Bonnie's devil fruit was strictly age-related. And it was only more recently with the Egghead Island arc that we put the pieces together to understand that she could also use her imagination to produce alternate futures. But that idea of possible futures actually seems to be the core basis of her power. She can take on and produce for others their possible futures. But because her power is imagination-based, Saturn also seems to imply that the more she lives out her own life and therefore her future becomes certain, the less imaginative her devil fruit iterations can be. And if you think about it, that's quite similar to Luffy's devil fruit where he can manipulate or use elasticity to bring his imaginations to life. And now that we know Bonnie's devil fruit ability is the result of purposeful world government experimentation. This suggests that the world government intentionally chose the devil fruit ability similar to the Nica devil fruit. Most likely to counter the Nica devil fruit because we all know how much they consider Luffy and the devil fruit to be a threat. The fact that they were using extract infusions may also mean that they were trying to create an army of these devil fruit ability users. And in a twisted way, Bonnie is almost like the prototype of the seraphim. And even more twisted, the prototype for the pacifista army that Vegapunk ended up creating for the world government. In chapter 1099, we and Bonnie's family just assumed that Bonnie unwittingly ate the age-age fruit or the toshi-toshi-no-me because that's the fruit that her abilities most closely resembled. But identifying or misidentifying her abilities seemed to have had the same effect that it had on Luffy. Luffy just understanding his fruit to be the gomugomenomi meaning that for a long time, that's what the fruit was used for without really tapping into its true abilities. I don't know if that means Bonnie needs to or needed to or has already unlocked slash awakened her devil fruit to make full use of the imagined possible futures. Probably not because the nature of her consumption or her obtainment of the devil fruit abilities. Similar to how Momonosuke already turned into a dragon straight away even though Kido's devil fruit is technically a fish fruit which is why Bonnie already has the distorted future power under her belt. But it's also interesting because if Bonnie only has an extraction that means the real devil fruit must exist out there in the real world somewhere. Which means that there may be someone who again can use their imagination to have almost unbridled abilities. It's also interesting because Odo recently confirmed the name of Bonnie's devil fruit in an SBS. But now looking back on his words, it's worth noting that he said that she's an age manipulation human from the Toshitoshinomi without actually outright saying that she ate the Toshitoshinomi herself which is really clever if you think about it. So it actually seems like it was Ginny that was experimented on which is how the devil fruit abilities were passed on to Bonnie and this is what caused the sapphire scales in both mother and daughter. I guess this also explains why Bonnie's use of her devil fruit abilities There's an element of gemstone to the devil fruit ability which also took the form of a disease. Now I'm off two minds about whether Saturn's dialogue about the experiments suggests that Ginny was taken by Saturn to become his wife for the sake of being his experimental guinea pig meaning that Saturn is also Bonnie's father or that Ginny simply ended up becoming Saturn's guinea pig after being taken to Marijuan. So because I was unsure about this I consulted our Joyfleet's residential Japanese speaker for his expert opinion and according to Sekaiichi Saturn seems to be saying It was only me who did drug experiments on your mother once she was brought to be the eighth wife of a person from the Holy Land which seems to suggest that he was talking about another person and not himself but we all know that Oda has a way with words and I also understand that in Japan people often refer to themselves in third person so this could go either way with maybe Saturn still indeed being revealed to be Bonnie's father later on but who knows? Either way it now makes me wonder how many other experimental wives and babies are out there Ginny was wife number eight for God's sake and that's wife number eight of only one celestial dragon How many celestial dragons took on multiple wives for their pleasure only for Saturn to treat as his test subjects later on How many Bonnie's are out there in the world How crazy would it be if someone like Weevil for example is also an experimental baby with crazy powers because the world government wanted to create another white beard Maybe that's what Bakken meant when she said that Vega Punk could prove his lineage to white beard because Weevil was involved in the science experiments and not just because of Bakken's relationship to Vega Punk being the model for his stussy clone Anyways I know that I've gone on a bit of a tangent here and I might be overthinking it Maybe Ginny is the only one that was able to escape and all the other wives slash babies never made her to tell their tales which is actually just sad if you think about it but on that note of overthinking I went back to reread the Egghead Island arc and I found out that the first memory of Kuma that Bonnie witnesses is Kuma wishing that he would just die because he doesn't have the will to go on Kuma says kill me here instead I'm just going to die anyways which is interesting because in this interaction between Bonnie and Saturn Bonnie says some very similar words along the lines of if I'm going to die here anyways but here she says it to attack Saturn still determined to avenge her father until she discovers Saturn's overwhelming powers and his overwhelming role in Bonnie's life and this is something I only understood the full significance of after rereading the chapter a couple of times but when Saturn reveals the truth of her devil fruit abilities to Bonnie Saturn is in effect revealing that he alone is responsible for everything in Bonnie's life Not only is he the man that ordered for Kuma's cyborgification but is also the one responsible for Ginny's death Bonnie contracting that same disease that would then separate her from Kuma The cause of Kuma going through all of those struggles that she witnessed just to find her a cure and then ultimately his death and the only thing that gave her a sense of bravado a sense of pride and agency was her abilities From a young age Bonnie was confident in her physical powers and able to use her devil fruit to outsmart a cypherpole agent to rise in notoriety in the world of piracy by using her devil fruit only to now find out that even this isn't her own this is also owed to Saturn Saturn has since birth controlled her entire life and I think this is what causes her to become so emotionally dejected even despite witnessing everything that her father sacrificed to save her she thinks her life isn't worth living despite her protests to Saturn inwardly she's questioning whether Nika actually exists she's doubting she's losing faith giving up and so here enters Kuma Daddy Kuma to the rescue to restore her faith reinvigorating her will to survive and this was the perfect setup for Kuma so much build up as we see him make his entrance usually when a character has such an epic entrance it comes by surprise but in this chapter we actually see the stages of Kuma making his appearance which strangely causes more anticipation and hype it fit perfectly with the last chapter where we saw the montage of Kuma's life with him running interspersed through it and Oda continues that motif with Kuma running in this chapter running to save his daughter it's so beautiful and poignant because running means that Kuma is actually physically toiling by running rather than just using his devil fruit abilities to simply teleport himself Kuma really is the man maybe the best father in one piece and I'm gonna say it all of anime one panel that really stood out to me about Kuma was this one because it really reminded me a lot of chapter 1099 when Kuma stood up to King Bakori one of the first times we've seen the gentle pacifist Kuma express real rage and violence on such a scale but also this panel really resembles this shot of Frankie which is neither here nor there but I just thought it was worth mentioning on a more significant note something that causes me some concern is that this chapter doesn't actually end with Kuma landing the blow on Saturn I feel like with most chapters like these where a character is making a surprise entrance in a high stakes battle the chapter would end with an attack see for example here 1091 ends with Luffy landing his attack on Kizaru making that hurrah leaving that sort of impact ensure the fight might then go on to show the two struggle afterwards but that moment of impact both physically on the opponent but also that emotional catharsis and payoff for the audience is there in that same chapter but in contrast here we end chapter 1103 with a cliffhanger a huge cliffhanger and given what we know about Kuma being cyborgified and the Gorosei assuming the highest level of command these are my predictions for the next chapter or should I say provided that odor continues with this battle in the next chapter and we don't jump to elsewhere in the world here are my predictions for chapter 1104 so the ending of chapter 1103 naturally sets us up to expect a satisfying blow on Saturn but odor has the chance to stretch this out before giving us that sweet catharsis and satisfaction of seeing Kuma actually punch this detestable man so imagine this as we expect Kuma to land a blow Saturn overrides him the Gorosei uses his command and powers to stop Kuma odor delivering on us a major swerve and a massive case of blue balls and instead the person who actually attacks is Luffy who after eating food has now recovered and Saturn preoccupied with Kuma doesn't notice Luffy making a move so Luffy in all his Nika glory fights Saturn confirming for the Gorosei what a threat this legendary devil fruit and its young but crafty wielder poses while the father and daughter get to finally witness their deity figure in action affirming their beliefs and hopes and faith in the legendary figure as not only a myth but a real hero who will bring about the new dawn but at the end of the day we have to remember that this is Saturn we're talking about here a centuries old figure with unknown powers and abilities and it's only natural to assume that this isn't going to be an easy fight for Luffy who has by now also had to fight a CP-Zero agent and an admiral so maybe Saturn gains the upper hand this prompts the Gorosei to say some cliche line like this is futile you think you can actually hit me to which Luffy cheekily responds I can't but he can and this is when Kuma punches Saturn finally delivering the blow that we were promised all the way from the end of chapter 1103 ironically adding Kuma to the short list of characters who have actually hit a celestial dragon a feat which only chapters prior we saw him comment that no one had done in hundreds of years maybe it will take us back to the end of the god valley flashback and flesh out the interaction between Saturn and Kuma that we didn't get to see and with this mighty punch a satisfactory end to a series of twists and turns that delivers all at once one Kuma saving Bonnie and Luffy ensuring the future of his legacy even if that's the last thing he does as per his wish and his final words to Vegapunk two confirms that Vegapunk really did defy Saturn and provided for Kuma to retain some of his consciousness after all and three Kuma and Bonnie getting to witness their legendary Sun God Nika in action and if it were up to me that's how I would write chapter 1104 but of course I'll leave that for Oda because he's the actual mastermind but what do you think what are your predictions for not only the next chapter but the year of one piece ahead of us let me know by leaving a comment below don't forget to subscribe click like share the 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