Good afternoon to the hearty people who are here for the most important and best panel and And also to that we've had out throughout the day just so you know a couple of thousand people live streaming as well, so we also want to welcome the Virtual audience that is joining us from beyond the camera now throughout this conference We've heard a lot of different really interesting technologies cyber rifles Electroceuticals robots drones You name it and this is the panel where we're actually going to talk about that writ large and what it means for warfare What it means for the military and we're very fortunate to have a terrific panel here with us today I'm going to introduce them briefly and then each will give a little bit of an opening comments And we'll get in some conversation and we will engage you since you are still here So I'm going to start at the far end So, oh, right. Sorry. We have a poll for you to take first And then because we have to take this poll so we know what to talk about. So if you would please Tell us what you think the most important new innovation because this is the question that the panelists are about to answer So why don't you tell us what you think and then okay? You're running out of time if you haven't answered already Reasonably distributed although directed energy so noted comes out on the short end robotics artificial intelligence genomics Bioengineering which I think is pretty consistent with what we've heard throughout the day So let me introduce the panel and then we'll see what they think what their answer is and how well it compares with your answer First I want to introduce friends and then who is a chief operating officer at assure and I'm going to tell you I really want you to look at their bios, but I'm going to tell you what they mean, which is she is and Really working on R&D between the university and the defense Industry so that's an interesting place to be and she has a great perspective for us Dr. Lynn Parker is with the National Science Foundation But what you really need to know about her is that she herself is one of the nation's leading performers of research in artificial intelligence and robotics and other things as well So she is both a performer and a person who helps other people perform similar research Alan Easterling is a Oh has such a multifaceted career started out as a naval officer and as an acquisition executive And today is at Northrop Grumman where he is their futurist So that is a very interesting job and appropriate for this panel Karen Carrington is has done it all She is a C-17 pilot She was a defense appropriator a defense professional in the Department of Defense and she's now at Facebook So we have a very interesting perspective there and I end with you general Goldfein because I'm going to start with you So general David Goldfein is vice chief of staff of the Air Force. He was director of the joint staff before that And has an amazing career as a warfighter and a leader And as I told him when we were waiting in the green room if you like you can still look up One of the signal experiences of his life when we say that he's had time between Behind enemy lines. We're not talking about Congress. So Google it look it up What I'd like to do to start off, you know the the role of innovation in warfare is as old as warfare I mean the links between technical innovation and war and Society and war and technical innovation that's been going around and around for thousands of years You know certainly at least since the stirrup So is it different now it sounds like throughout this day that's certainly been the case that we've all been discussing That it's global. It's commercial that the military doesn't necessarily own the means of innovation anymore And that's the kind of conversation we've been having and that I'd like this panel to have and where I'd like to start with you General Goldfein is You know general Milley said this morning There's not going to be any innovation in the next 10 years That's going to change the nature of ground warfare and largely because our acquisition system won't allow us to incorporate it But after that, it's going to change the nature of ground warfare So in the next 10 years or if you agree with general Milley's timeline What's going to change what innovation is going to change the nature of in all of your domain cyber Airspace, what do you see coming down the pike? Yeah, thanks, and it's great question And it's really an honor to be on the panel with especially with such a distinguished group What's going to really change for us and it it won't surprise you that when we talk innovation as airmen We feel that's central. I mean we that's how we became a service, right? When we focus on air and space and cyber and how we pull that together So for us as we look to the future the coin of the realm is about multi-domain battlefield network and what happens because it was interesting when you took a look at you know at your Question, I would actually say all of the above Because it's really not any one particular aspect of robotics or hypersonics or whatever The real question for us is what happens when you pull that together in a multi-domain? environment And it's central to the way we as an Air Force think You know if you take a look, you know, I was privileged to be the last F1 17 pilot to fly this stealth fighter And when I took off and flew in that aircraft, I actually had a switch in the cockpit That when I flipped the switch All my sensors stowed and I shut the world off and my radios stopped and in a single ship single domain air domain Sequential closed system. I went in and do my did my business Today's f-35 just to give you an example before you actually even taxi You turn the switch and power it up. It starts doing machine to machine collaboration in the network. It compares Information and it has algorithms that produce confidence values and when it reaches a certain value It actually starts placing symbology on the visor of the pilot and that same symbology is displayed in command and control Networks and so it's a complete open system architecture and a networked approach And so when you talk machine to machine collaboration big data and Human machine teaming to make better decisions. That's what the future looks like for us And so I would tell you for as an from an airman and actually I would tell you this from a joint force perspective It's going to be the building of the battlefield networks and a networked approach to warfare That's going to be the most revolutionary aspect for the next 10 years Let me skip down the line for a minute and and Lynn So what you just heard the general say you're thinking of a societal effect And I know you and I talked and you one of the things that stuck with me as you said I asked you if when I'm a grandmother, you know knock on wood Am I not going to recognize the world that I live in and have to ask my grandchildren what the technology means? So what's going to change? Society Lee that's going to affect what general Goldfinch just said and is it going to be the same is he going to control the means? so I believe that if you think of the internet in 1990 the comparison today is where we are as of night if as if we were in 1990 with a lot of Convergence of technologies that have been alluded to today. So if you think about computing We have computing large and small fast and everywhere if you think about sensors We have sensors everywhere in society They can sense almost anything we want to sense and we have the algorithms that can largely understand What's being sensed if you think not only of our ability to gather information from the environment But also the ability to act on the environment through robotics we have robots that can swim and hop and jump and fly and Again big and small they can reconfigure they can fly and swarms and so We have those robots We have lots of data that's being generated from all the computation from all the sensing and that data is available into in the Cloud and the AI technologies are allowing the sensors and the robots to make use of that the same way that we're making use of that Information and we've talked a lot about the network today. The network is being Enabling all of these Technologies to talk to each other and we have intuitive human interfaces And so those interfaces are allowing us as well as our technologies to access everything in the world It's going to be interconnected in a way like the internet is today it's going to be these devices and technology that's throughout the world and so from a positive perspective as Citizens it can help us in many ways because it enhances us as people now We have the ability to know about anything anywhere through the environment and even have the ability to act Because we have these intelligent devices that can like robots that can act for us at a distance even as a citizen I'm not talking about in the war fighting mode I'm talking about just the common citizen today in 20 years of the future and so because of all of these and the ability to interface with these in a very intuitive way I think that in 20 years. We will not recognize Society because of the sleep of technology and it's a confluence of all of these things happening now and available now And it's happening in the commercial world All right, Alan. It's happening in the commercial world in a very significant way of what Lynn just described in terms of The breadth and the depth of what's happening and then general gold fiends describing an effect on warfare Are those two things going to happen separately? Are they going to you know, how's this look going forward? You're the futurist in the group. How does it look? All right, well, let's just put the commercial dimension brilliantly I'd like to elaborate it on a bit and then come back to answering the question We're interested in disruption on this panel. We're interested in innovation But almost by definition these are inherently non-linear processes. They're unpredictable They display emergent properties. They display complexity. They display entanglement One aspect of the global technium that we observe today is a compression of the time constant Shrinkage of the time between basic research and application and technologies Increasingly driven in the commercial domain. If you look at the technologies of interest to the department Many of them are being advanced most aggressively by the commercial domain. That is inevitable and inexorable The challenge to come back to your question is for traditional defense industry to say wonderful How do I translate the implications of that technium into conventional capability for our military? And I think it's a challenge that we're embracing All right, Karen, I'm gonna ask you in just a minute. I want to quickly ask Fran so this Spanning of worlds what's the role of the University in doing that and how hard is it for you as Someone who's got a foot in both worlds to bring them together or is it not hard? I think you're looking at this future Yeah, right. I think it's a challenge and I and I think it's getting better because you look at the amount of money that the DoD or the IC or any of the federal civilian agencies spent on research and We're noticing that they're starting to gravitate towards building it themselves Towards more of that transitional focus, so I the trick becomes can you recognize a Gem and figure out how to transition it so I think most universities now have a transitional element Whether it starts out it becomes an FFRDC of a federally funded lab or it stays as a part of the University They're going to have some element now that tries to assist in that transition And you and I talked a couple of other things that affect that are large amounts of non-us citizens in our universities, right? Sometimes that works. Sometimes that doesn't work when you're in the military and less so in the IC And I think the other thing we're seeing is a large influx of veterans hitting our universities I know for for us at ASU there's three three to four thousand veterans in the program right now Different ages different experiences and some of them come back from service and say this happened to me in the service I'm a computer science person now. I'm just not going to let that happen I'm going to work on this a lot of times still cleared sometimes in the reserves And so I I think those are the three ways I see that the universities can contribute first is it offering the transition having that raw research but working with the and Realizing on this large veteran population that wants to change Maybe couldn't change the military when they were in there, but want to change now that they're out Karen I want to hear about your vision of the future and and of course you you know what France saying also should resonate with you So maybe a comment there, but I'm also going to put the follow-up question right out there for you So you can link at all which is? Secretary Carter loves Silicon Valley does Silicon Valley love him back You know we've got the die the DIUX we've got the digital the defense digital service The manufacturing innovation Institute. He's announced a number of new Institutions that are aimed at Strengthening that link. So what's your vision of the future and and do you think that? That push and you know, you're not off the hook on this either general Is it working is it going to work? Can it culturally work? Yeah, absolutely It's a great question and what pressure to be answering on behalf of Silicon Valley, right? And I should sorry I should clarify by the way that both Karen and Alan do not speak for their companies They're here in a personal capacity So you can't attribute something they're saying to Facebook or to Northrop Grumman you can attribute to Karen and to Allen The vision that the others have laid out I completely agree with and I think Especially with what Lynn was discussing about the emerge emerging world We're all living in where power is diffused and what we've got distributed networks. I think there's a real Risk of the military becoming reactive instead of proactive and that's why I think secretary Carter's Overtures to Silicon Valley are spot-on. I think a lot of people are noticing and I think there's a lot of energy there I do think from a personal standpoint There are a couple things that the Defense Department that other you know at the staff level at the senior leader level that the the military can do To harness the the momentum that Ash Carter has brought I think so One of the first ones is realizing that innovation isn't magic So I kind of sometimes feel like the department is treating it as such and I just think it's radical collaboration especially in centers of innovation like Silicon Valley, it's Radical collaboration and stepping outside of your comfort zone and it's non-linear as as you were saying what do you mean by radical collaboration? breaking down stovepipes Shedding you know in a way shedding the uniform shedding the persona of who you are and stepping into another shoes And collaborating where you haven't before Because in a world as Lynn described we're absolutely going to have to to get things done I think the other thing is a real translation of the problem you're trying to solve so I think what we run the risk of from coming from Washington out to a place like Silicon Valley is saying we're looking for new tech and People are kind of like well as a means to what and or if you say third offset Unfortunately, that might fall flat. So a better way to approach it might be Here's the problem. We're trying to solve because I think the common thread From the military from the government from tech is people who really want to tackle big problems and want to have an impact That's the common thread among those communities So I think rather than going out there with your fully baked strategy eight by ten glossy Go out there and whiteboard it out, you know Get in a room have a draft strategy and white whiteboard it out because that's really how things get done and that enhances that radical collaboration And then the last thing which you know not to get into the acquisition process because I think everything was said earlier today But I think approaching things from just getting rid of bad process when you can I mean that's what I've noticed In the tech community is there's not a lot of process and process is a four letter word So get rid of it kill it break rules where you can unless it's you know illegal Okay, so Let me lay those two things at your doorstep Which can you can I mean Can you break the process? Do you want to break the process? How much of your innovation dollars are locked up in legacy systems or in soon to be legacy systems How much flexibility does the air force really have? and then you know secondarily You know, I would be interesting to hear you comment too on how the air force Attracts and retains people like Karen current in yeah Well, first of all, it's exciting to have you sit next to Karen and see your title major air force reserves. How cool is that? And i'm actually a little bit hurt that 25 powerpoint slides doesn't work One of my one of my favorite stories actually Our our our leader of air force space command John heightened was out At a base up in lewis mccord, which is up in seattle right next to the silicon valley And he's pulling up into a parking lot and up pulls next to him as a tesla and out of the tesla Comes a senior airman in uniform And so he looks at the airman He looks at the car Looks at the airman says, okay diga me talk to me. What's going on here? In case you don't know an airman's salary would be a bit of a stretch for tesla. That's right And he said well, sir. He said I'm the I'm head of security for Google or so one of the major companies out there and he said but I want to serve And I want to make a difference exactly what you said And so I'm also in the air force reserves That's what it's all about The reality of what goes on to a large authentic silicon valley and I'm not an expert So Karen you can correct me 100 percent, but you know in facebook Your primary reporting mechanism is to the shareholders The united states air force our primary reporting is for the american people and the taxpayers through their elected leadership There therefore is a certain amount of oversight That we will always live with that may not be the same in silicon valley So it's different pacing right you have a you have a ability to perhaps move faster In silicon valley in some areas And we're going to be more methodical here in terms of how we're going to move forward as we continue to report on our process And so if you have two pacing strategies in two locations What happens when you put one plus one and how do we get to that to equal three? Because we leverage the strengths of the two systems And what we got to do in the air force and in the joint force is we got to be we got we got to be An organization that these young people want to join and be part of we got to create The the secretary calls it permeability, you know, we got to bust through some walls And make sure that we make the right thing easier For folks to come in and serve in the air force reserves or come in and work part time Come into the air force and serve some period of time and leverage that capability And we got to be able to make sure that's going both ways in a two-way street and a dialogue that goes back and forth So I think where the secretary has taken this is exactly right He he has acknowledged And helped us to understand the war for talent that we're in And we need the department of defense and I can certainly speak to the united states air force to say That we need to leverage that talent and that capability That's there to help us as we move forward at the same time Is looking at the way we do business that provides a lot of time some structure and some repeatability As we develop technology that can help silicon valley. So I think there's a two-way street here Yeah, I mean, I'm not wondering if those paths are are really ultimately reconcilable that you know, the whiteboarding hoodie You know Where where it's a flat organization if it's compatible And and again are your legacy big acquisition platforms compatible with this sort of dispersed and democratized Technology and I know alan has some thoughts on that and lin is it true that we're democratizing innovation and and that we're Um democratizing violence on some level you talked in very positive terms, but there's a downside too And is it are we dispersing and democratizing innovation? Not only innovation, but certainly the access to all these technologies as well We're making it so that it's it's very easy to use and that's a positive thing In the sense that we can have perhaps smarter cities because we can pool resources and have Governments and and individuals who can use information to do things like improve health care or Improve traffic congestion that sort of thing. So in that sense it brings it down to the individual And that there's many positive Outcomes of that and that's why there's commercial investment in these areas is because there are many commercial applications But these technologies are very much dual use in the sense that the technology that you develop for one application Has military application, but it also Can be used by militaries around the world and individuals around the world individual actors around the world So it is a An important challenge to to grasp with grapple with so i mean when we talk about Alan fran when we talk about offsetting And we usually mean adversaries are we really talking about offsetting everyone now I mean offsetting commercial development and the diffusion of innovation and the fact that it's available to everyone How do you offset that? I don't believe you do. I think you go out of your way to harness the outcome of that democratized technium or Technocracy, but I'll acknowledge it's challenging. I mean the very nature of the survey question Had a somewhat false dichotomy. We had artificial intelligence over here in synthetic biology over here. Why would we view them as distinct? I can see on the one hand why categorically you would but from the standpoint of innovation What happens when artificial intelligence begins to practice synthetic biology? We had george post up here earlier Noting that we now have high school students Creating synthetic organisms. They do there's an annual competition at i mit called i gem Founded by tom night. It's in its 11th year initially postdocs now high school students And if you look at some of the writings of In demonstrations actually a Craig ventner He articulates the concept of a transporter. Well, actually what he's doing is he's Communicating via rf or whatever other means the genetic sequence that he wants to replicate somewhere else on the planet Or on a different planet right because when he advanced the idea was from Mars to earth Why bring your life form from Mars to earth just being the genetic code back once you've sequenced it in situ right? So you take that kind of technology and one of the challenges we have is in the translation of genotype and defenotype And you turn the artificial intelligence loose on the problem right so the protein folding problem Maybe becomes trivial under the ages of machine learning And by way of an example, I'll highlight watson which has been mentioned on a number of occasions Uh, one of the things ibm did really almost as a publicity stunt after the jeopardy show Which itself was a kind of stunt it was to send watson to cooking school And they had watson survey all of the literature all of the recipes all of the writing on on cooking taste knows flavor notes human sensory perception all of that And then said okay watch and go create unusual recipes and of course watching combine things in a way that a human chef Would never have thought to combine and someone would turn out quite badly Uh, some of them were surprisingly good. What was extraordinary was the rate at which watson could do that And if you're interested in good amazon and i'm sure buy the book there's a watson cooks cookbook out there All right Now what happens when we apply that same technology, which is all done in funny games of watson To the identification of the appropriate genomes for denoval life forms Now so long as we're harnessing them in benefit of industrial application for the good for the health industry Wonderful, but as the points have been made Many of these technologies cut both ways. There is a black aspect of this that has to be taken into account So none of this is requirements based I'm not aware of any labs national labs working on that particular problem But the forces are in place to make an outcome of that nature And I emphasize that nature if not a detail Inevitable That should be of concern Um, you know Fran, uh, I mean, what do you think about that and especially I mean, how does this affect warfare So I think for 30 years I've been in defense. I think in the beginning we were technologically superior There is no question that DARPAs iARPAs we were so technically Superior that it didn't occur to us that it would it would level And and I think what we're looking at right now is a leveling of the technology playing field that I I can I I don't want to but I can build a bomb in my house. I can go look it up I can do these things and so goes to your point with anything that's good can be used for evil I think it's the speed of transition and I don't mean that acquisition look on that I don't want to reform acquisition I I don't know how some of those people working on that take take that right that's a very difficult job But I think you got you have to have people who strategically think who are willing to look at the big picture And say I recognize what this is this is an insider threat This is an IED and be able to react and and take evasive action And that's not easy to train And so I within the university systems within I'm sure you as well at NSF The air force trying to train people to think that way is is fairly difficult And so that's that's one of the things we're looking at that ability to have people strategically think but still line up And and and still you know, uh, be able to function as part of a larger organization So I I definitely agree that the good and evil thing is is very scary. I think I'd like to give the audience a chance to ask questions. So if you have a question, please raise your hand and Make sure you identify yourself in your affiliation and make sure it's a question because I may seem nice But I will cut you off if you go on So Please this gentleman right here Karen while we're waiting just tell me what a day is like at work at facebook relative to The air force Oh, wow. Um, well, so I've been off active duty now for nine years. Do you remember but I remember remember it well and Yes, I think if you're coming from the military you are optimized for hierarchy. It's just in your nature That's how you're trained So a transition to facebook even though I've worked in a lot of other great places It has been a challenge and I'm not a digital native. I'm not a millennial So that's a challenge too. I'm like one of the oldest people there The ceo is younger than me But um, it's uh, it is very flat. It is very fast-paced. It is uh, very collaborative and They do move fast and and break things as part was part of the values, but they're very much like hey, let's just move fast um So I think to fran's point about that being ready for that that type of thinking that strategic thinking What we it come into contact with every day is just ambiguity and complexity So being ready to think in that way. There is no process that you can rest upon. There's no legislative process There's no, you know budgeting process There there's not necessarily a process that you can fall back on and where there is it's pretty You know, it's a guideline So it's up to you to create a taxonomy Create the guidelines create that and we're constantly doing that from scratch which and to respond to To the users so it's not just the shareholders. It's the 1.5 billion people as well All right, sir, please. Yes, uh, paul joyl in a sign Um General you were talking about all the tremendous technology with our new fighters Recall to mind that during the Crimea operation. There was an article Suspect source in in russia that said a fencer aircraft had gone over um Conducted a simulating bombing run over a ages cruiser in the black sea and had Detonated an EMP device which rendered the entire Um capabilities of of the of the cruiser And it had to return to base in romania So what are and and you're talking network network network? So what happens if there's let's say a significant space event? Where there's a huge EMP burst that starts frying everything out there or In combat EMP technology is used To take away the advantages that we have as this very marvelous high tech Cutting-edge society and military. Okay. What are we doing? You know to protect what we're building the old days we had tempests and we had a lot of other things But what are we doing now? Yeah, that's a great question So i'm reminded of my combat commander boss general jim mattis United states marine corps Who used to look at all of us and I was his air component commander And of course I had a counter power for each of the domains land component marine component soft component And he would get us together and he said don't tell me you can't fight without communications wrong answer Come up with backup and backup to your backup and make sure that you have a layered plan And so we worked out pretty hard To ensure that if in fact, you know conflicted breakout in the middle east And we had someone that came after the network That we had a layered plan to be able to continue to operate All be it perhaps at slightly degraded level until we got the network full backup and running But to never place ourselves in a situation Where one attack on the network could take us all out So that's the way we approach it. It's a layered defense You you identify the most critical systems that you rely on The critical You know indications and warnings the critical satellite capabilities and you ensure that those are the most protected And then it layers out from there so that you can still continue to operate And then while it takes you time to get back up full up and operating you never get to the point where you're to stand still This is a question for a general gold find in major currington and any others. Um My son graduated from the air force academy last year He's a physicist 61 d. Um, he's at afit now getting his masters in astrophysics What would you tell him and his colleagues young second lieutenants? What do they need to be doing now to prepare for future warfare and to optimize their contributions to the air force and the military? Yeah, first of all, congratulations to your son physics philosophy 3.8 four stars 1.9 Yeah, by the time I got my diploma, I think the speaker had already left So first of all, I would tell your son that it all starts with character And so he's on a journey For the remainder of his career, whether it stays in the air force or he goes on to to some other service organization That we are on a lifelong journey to continue to develop our character Sometimes we get focused on reputation as we get moving through the ranks And and we get a little bit confused with character and reputation Right characters who we are every day and what we do when no one's watching Reputation is what people think of us after they've watched us for some period of time I will tell you a son focused on the first The second will take care of itself It's all about character, you know, we We as the uniformed military We all know are among the most trusted organization in the United States government And there's a reason for that I'm also reminded that America is in love with its with your son And America is in love with the young enlisted men and women that I'm privileged to work with and lead America is not in love with this gentle officer core America expects me to be a man of character and lead your son well And so I would say that's the most important thing I'd tell your son far Long before we started talking about mission or technology or anything else because if he takes care of that The rest is going to fall in place And but and also I mean so are there any hope for philosophy majors these days or if you're not an astrophysicist You're out of luck in the future. I mean I was a political philosophy major. I don't tell people at work that What you just did I Well to your question I would agree with the general about absolutely the the fundamentals and the character and that will serve him well No matter where he goes Uh, this is going to come across as very cynical, but I would also say with that background He should serve and then at some point go start a company, you know, like the world is his oyster You know, that's that's kind of what I've seen is think big Just you know follow your passions and think big and if you find a problem and you want to go solve it Especially with his background and and don't be afraid to do it while you're still serving in some way. Um, I mean that's That is the world that we've enabled Where you can harness technology and create it for good But you can also go out and do a lot of that good in the commercial sector, too We now understand the kind of person that Northrop's looking for what kind of person these days Are you recruiting? Oh, we're recruiting. Yeah, I know I'm sure but I mean especially you as a people do our website I mean especially use a strategist and a futurist. What what do you what do you need? creativity initiative energy drive The ability to collaborate, I mean as we well know from the ethos in the valley collaboration is everything We believe very strongly on that No one person has the right answer It's remarkable the creativity that occurs when you get the right three four or five people in a room And they begin arguing over access to the whiteboard More of that would be a beautiful thing And we hire from all domains, right?  We're belong to engineers now. I mean, is it just I agree with all the comments here. I will put in a plug though as a computer scientist For the the young people out there not to be afraid of of technology and it actually I think it is a national security issue Because if you look at our graduate programs, they're majority foreign nationals. And so we need more American born people to go into the the high tech fields because there's a lot of opportunity And there is really a lack of of people going into those fields insufficient Go ahead And then I'm I'm going to ask one closing question because we're just about out of time So I won't tip you off what it is yet. Amy Nelson the council on foreign relations and I was a philosophy major Wow, we have a preponderance, right? So, uh, he talked about the inevitable diffusion of of these new technologies and the distribution of innovation and it knows no boundaries And presumably we have a responsibility to armor soldiers on the battlefield with the latest and greatest most cutting-edge technology But is there ever a responsibility to hold back or to slow the pace of innovation? And secondly, um Uh, presumably we learned a lesson with with cyber where the technology evolved way before our defenses did Are we developing countermeasures to these new technologies simultaneously? And what does that look like? That's a great question. Yeah So we withhold technology every day in this fight So in each uh in each fighter aircraft that's flying today over Iraq and syria There's a button on the control stick we call it the pickle button and it's what you actually press when you release munitions And we like to say there's half an inch from hero to zero Because every munition that's dropped is a strategic weapon And we're going to hit everything we aim at based on the technology that's at our disposal For a precision guided weapons And when you're a young aviator Every fiber in your being wants to go close with and destroy the enemy And it is through the discipline and training that we have worked into this young force That allows them to withhold ordinance when it just doesn't seem right When it just doesn't you know, you it just doesn't feel right There's something that you're seeing in the display that doesn't seem appropriate for what you're trying to do And so we bring a lot of weapons home But we've acknowledged the fact that in terms of that technology the bomb you don't drop Sometimes is as important as the one you do And so I think that's just one small aspect of how we have capable. We have we have technology at our fingertips today That we withhold because there still is chivalry and discipline in how we apply warfare that fighter pilot culture is really existential for the air force Is it a barrier to becoming to adopting the kinds of innovations that the panel has been talking about It's so individual that I don't think you can I don't think we can do a broad brush You know because the I mean you sort of think about What it takes to be able to strap on a high performance aircraft and operate at the speed of sound You've got to be a World-class athlete right to be able to sustain Nine times the weight of gravity as you be able to continue to manipulate all the sensors in the aircraft You've got to be able to think not only for your own aircraft because if you're focused on what's going on inside your cockpit You're way behind you got a hundred aircraft out there that you're thinking about You've got to be able to Have the right amount of aggressiveness to close with and destroy the enemy and and know that That You'll live with those decisions And then you've also got to have the discipline to withhold ordinance that we just talked about All that comes together in order to Create the individual that we need To be able to go and do that business I'm not so sure that within that It will you'd find I think you would find those in that business that can be Very innovative and those that may be not so innovative, but I think there's a full spectrum We are out of time And it is time for the reception. I just want to ask a last yes or no question, which is War has driven innovation for most of our history And other things have too, but war has been an important force for innovation. Is innovation going to drive war? Going forward is innovation going to decide the character of war so Fran, what do you think? I think yes Yes, I think clearly yes Yes Maybe no Now you can come up and ask him why he thinks maybe afterwards. Thank you all very much


Once everyone takes down here, welcome back to another video.  Let's get right into this. OK, so getting into my Funko collection, there's ones that you guys have seen in the past, but there's also ones that you guys have yet to see. And you will see them today up first. The only TV one I have and that is Judith Grimes for The Walking Dead. I think I received this out of the Geek Fuel box, which it was actually one that I actually would have liked. So I love The Walking Dead. I did not watch the past two seasons, but once it goes on Netflix, I plan on watching them. So I absolutely love The Walking Dead. I want to get some more TV ones as well, television pops. I want to get some of the Breaking Bad, The Office, Sons of Anarchy, because those are shows that me and my girlfriend absolutely love. And so this is the first Funko Pop that I'm sharing. That is Judith Grimes and the only television one that I actually have. Now I'm going to be going in now through my hockey Funko Pops. And no, not a lot of people are on my channel that love hockey, but I'm a huge fan that I have quite a few Funko Pops for the hockey players. So up first for my team, the only Ottawa Senators Funko that came out. That is for Eric Carlson. Now I told you guys before, I'm not a huge fan of Eric Carlson, but I love Funkos and I collect anything Ottawa Senators. So since this is the only Ottawa Senators Funko Pop, I was actually given to this, given this from a friend. So definitely staying in my collection, but definitely a unique one. Now, again, I don't like the player, but I collect anything Ottawa Senators. The next Funko is one that you guys have seen before on the channel. And that is my first ever Funko Pop. That is another hockey one, Connor McDavid. I absolutely love the player. And whenever I started getting stuff for Connor McDavid, I wanted to get a Funko Pop. And this is the first Funko Pop in my entire collection that I purchased. So really cool, really great player, absolutely love them. Next is one that I received as a gift from my girlfriends this past Christmas. And that is Wayne Gretzky. This is the one with the C on him. And I'm not sure if that was a rare one. I can't find it out online. But I know there's ones that did not include the C and this one includes the C. So I absolutely love this figure. It looks awesome. I'm a huge Wayne Gretzky fan and adding this to my collection was really, really cool. Next, we have Patrick Waugh. This one here is one that I purchased from a hockey card shop. I still have the price tag on it, but huge fan of Patrick Waugh. And this is the first goalie Funko that I actually purchased. Absolutely love collecting this player and this Funko Pop looks awesome. Next is the last Funko Pop for hockey related that I have. And that is for Corey Crawford. Now, this player here, this past season before it started, he actually retired sadly. So at least I have his Funko Pop and a few other cards in my collection of his. And that is really cool to know in my opinion. So I absolutely love this player. He is retired, so I'm glad that I got his Funko. I think I got this Funko and I had a dollar ram for literally four dollars. So a great deal on that Funko. Now we're going to be going through the Marvel Funkos. And then lastly, the Cufig that I have. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to showcase them all on the screen here. I might have to put some in front of others, but we're going to start it off here with the thing. Now I absolutely love the Fantastic Four, but my favorite Fantastic Four is obviously the thing. Look at the detail of this Funko. He looks amazing. And yes, I like keeping my Funkos in the box because they're easy to stack and display that way. That's why I do it, but it looks awesome. I absolutely love it. Now, all the Marvel ones are bobbleheads. But at first that was something that bothered me. But since I keep them in the box anyways, they are perfect the way they are. So I absolutely love this one. Next is one that my girlfriend got me, and that is actually the Iron Man for the Avengers video game that came out in 2020, which was really cool. I started playing it. I still have the price tag on it. I never took it off yet, but I absolutely love this figure. I love the pose that he's doing in there and the game, even though it got a lot of heat, I absolutely love the game. Next is one that is part of Marvel's 80 years, and that is Spider-Man. This is another one that my girlfriend got me. And look at the pose in there. You have the webs in between the arms. You have him. It looks like he's jumping off of a building and just gliding down. That looks really, really cool. As a Marvel fan and a Spider-Man fan, this looks pretty awesome. I absolutely love this pop. Next up is another one from Marvel 80 years. You guys know I'm a huge, huge fan of Deadpool, and I didn't know since there's so many Deadpool. I didn't really know which one I wanted to get. And we decided to go with the 80 years pop. It has him with the pistol and the knife, just a pretty generic Deadpool. I know there's some pretty comedic ones and special ones out there, but this is one that I wanted just for myself for my first Deadpool Funko Pop, and I'm a huge fan of Deadpool. And I love this figure. I love that he's posing with his gun and knife. And now there is some funnier ones out there, but this is one that I wanted just to start off my collection. Next is a pretty heavy one, even though it's a small Funko as well. It still has some weight to it, and that is Thanos. This is one that I've been wanting to get for a while. I absolutely love Thanos. I love the Infinity Gauntlets that is in it here. And it looks like he's about to do the snap. I can't really tell. There's, of course, other ones of Thanos, one after he did the snap and a couple of other things that are really cool. But this is the one I wanted because it has him without any headgear on and I love the costume without the sleeves. And it's the one that I wanted for Thanos. Now, of course, I want to get some of the other Thanos eventually. But this is a great one to start off in my opinion. So these are all of the Funko Pops that I have in my collection. I absolutely love collecting Funko Pops. Hopefully I'll be able to grow my collection more in the future. Likely more along the Marvel TV show and hockey base. That's more of the stuff that I'm interested in. So that's likely the Funkos I'm going to collect. The last thing I want to share, though, is a Q-Fig that I received a while back, Batman Q-Fig for, I think I got this from Geek Fuel. Now, whenever I looked it up way back when, apparently this is a rare Q-Fig. I'm not sure the value and I'm not even sure if it is rare. So if you guys know, let me know down below. That's why I wanted to share this. Is this a rare Q-Fig? It's Batman. It looks like he's on top of a building standing on top of a gargoyle. Really cool. I love this fig. I'm going to be keeping it, but I just want some clarification on if it's actually rare or not. So these are all the figures, Funkos that I have in my collection. Must be, in my opinion, my favorite one has to be that Thanos. I absolutely love Thanos in the Marvel universe. And this looks amazing. And it's a little bit heavier than the other ones that I have for the Funko Pops. So it's really, really cool. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video, me showcasing all of my Funkos that I have in my collection. I'm going to leave this video here. Hope you guys enjoy it. I'll see you guys in the next video. Please take care. Peace.


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Hello, and welcome to another live streamed meeting of the M25's coordinating body. It's coordinating collective. As usual, every Thursday, we are doing these sessions the agenda today will be burning issues. As usual, what's going on in the world and what the M25 could potentially do about it. And then we'll have a civilized a provocative debate on our electoral strategy. If you've got any comments, thoughts, ideas, queries, anything you want to throw at us, put them in the chat. And if David's going to have a look through them and I may be reading some of them out in between the event interventions. Okay, let's kick it off. Well, thank you. Italy. New technocratic government by Mario Draghi most technocratic in the sense that the three important areas economy, the disbursement of the monies that come from the slush fund, the recovery fund, whatever it's called. Digital technologies, all these go to mates of Mario Draghi technocrats that have never been anywhere near the political process. Comrades, let me remind you of the second paragraph of our manifesto, the deum manifesto I'm going to read it out because I think it's, it's quite pertinent. I'm reading it out from my screen at the heart of our disintegrating European Union. There lies a guilty deceit. A highly political top down opaque decision making process is presented as a political technical procedural and neutral. Their purpose is to prevent Europeans from exercising democratic control over their money finance working conditions and the environment. The price of this deceit is not merely the end of democracy, but also poor economic policies. Comrades, I submit to you that that very important extract of, you know, from our DM 25 manifesto written back in 2015 2016 could have been written for Italy today and Mario Draghi's government. It is with astonishment and a lot of sadness that I have noticed lots of progressives in Italy in the context of wishful thinking, you know, wishing Draghi well and hoping that his government is going to bring about, you know, not normality, but reforms that will render Italy an enormous state closer to Germany, to Germany, not to Germany, but, you know, to, let's say, Spain and so on. And also recognising that this is probably the last bet of the establishment towards an Italy that makes Europe sustainable and stabilise the Eurozone. This is not going to happen. This is pie in the sky. The PM 25ers, deemers in Italy must fight tooth and nail against this Draghi government. The extract of the manifesto I think says it all. This, you know, the reason why Italy is unsustainable is because it's part of a Eurozone which is depoliticising hugely and deeply political decision making. Why do they do that? Because it's in the interest of the oligarchy and especially the financial oligarchy. This process of depoliticisation of decision making is what led to the stagnation of Italy, Italy's unsustainability as a political economy. And now what they're doing is they're trying to solve the problems that depoliticisation created by further depoliticisation, by having, you know, Mario Draghi, Goldman Sachs, ECB do it. The only spot on commentary that I read in the Italian press yesterday is the following paragraph. I'll tell you at the end who spoke those words. It is a matter, that's what is important, this person says now, what is important is not to resign ourselves to the idea that the Italian democracy is reduced, diminished, that it is one where the citizens vote counts for less and less. And that when the going gets tough, someone arrives from above to try to do what those chosen by the people would certainly not be able to do. It is a matter of not resigning ourselves to this diminution of democracy. This is correct. Do you know who said that? Georgia Meloni, the leader of the fascists. This is what Draghi is doing. He's making fascist voices legitimate in the same way that some of what Goebbels was saying in the 1920s was spot on. That's what gave the fascists and the Nazis their power. Demers must fight against the fascists and against Draghi. I very much look forward to a manifesto coming from Italy which outlines how we are going in Italy to oppose Draghi and to oppose Meloni simultaneously. Until we see this from our Italian comrades, we are not going to rest. We will not exist in Italy. We will not be capable of taking the pulse of what's happening in Italy today. Now I want to turn to another country, another battlefield in Europe to France. Comrades, it is again with a deep regret and concern that I am watching. In the universities of that great country, in the French university system, a new McCarthyism being built up. A new McCarthyism that is propagated by Macron and his government and the establishment. You can see the bankruptcy of the educational system and the research networks that used to be so very strong. When the institutes Pasteur and Sanofi, the multinational vaccine producing company, failed to produce a vaccine. There is this humiliation that the French feel. There used to be leaders in vaccines, they invented vaccines and now they cannot compete in this market. And this now is creating a tsunami of McCarthyism against the left. There is an attempt to blame the systemic failure of French academia and the French research sector on the left. Too many radical voices on the left, I don't need to say more. This is underpinning the campaign of Macron. Macron is going to try to counter Le Pen, Le Pen's ultranationalism, xenophobia and so on. This is his own variety of nationalism and ultranationalism and xenophobia. Effectively what he is saying now is that the enemy is the left. He is using this term Islamogoshism, Islamogoshism, Islamoleftism. He is painting Islam and the left as the opponent. And for him defending republican values and reigning in left wing radicalism will become the flag that he waves by which to steal people from the standard fascist, neo-fascist of Le Pen. That separatist law that he passed in parliament is part, I think, is one plank of this campaign. The other is to remind leftists that they are now the targets. He's clearly saying that he's actually referred to the anti-colonial discourse, the criticism by French people of the French Empire. He is referring to this as being a self-hating Frenchman or French woman. And he's going to present this new form of republicanism, of extreme right wing republicanism as a way to defeat Trumpism and Le Pen. Again, what I said regarding Italy pertains to France. I want to see D.M.ers. This is speaking for myself, right? As a D.M.er. I want to see D.M. develop a manifesto for France. In the same way, we need to develop a manifesto for Italy. We need to develop a manifesto for France of how to attack simultaneously Macron and Le Pen. Now I want to move to an economic issue. I won't bother you too much with that. But to those who think, who have allowed themselves to be lulled into a false sense of satisfaction with the macroeconomic response of the European Union in general to the COVID-19 escalation of the pre-existing economic crisis. I've got four numbers for you. Four, twelve, nine and six. Let me explain what these numbers are. These numbers come from the Financial Times. They don't come from a left-wing rag. The same Financial Times that supports Macron, supports Merkel, supports Draghi. They've come out with these numbers. What are these numbers? Two pairs. One pair. It's a comparison between the European Union and the United States. It's a comparison of two numbers. One is the so-called output gap. How much production is being wasted due to the failures of capitalism? One is that. And the second one is the stimulus level. According to the Financial Times, in the United States, four percent of productive activity is being wasted as a result of the failures of capitalism to employ people, to employ machinery, to employ land productively. Four percent. This is their estimate. In Europe, it's nine percent according to the Financial Times. So it's more than double. More than double output is lost due to the failures of European capitalism than in the United States. And what is the stimulus by which to try to bring this productive capacity back online? In America, where there is a four percent gap, the stimulus is twelve percent. In Europe, where it is double, it's nine percent. The stimulus together with national stimulus, you know, ECBA, is only six percent.  There is nothing, no other term by which to refer to it. Even from a capitalist point of view, they're idiotic.  Let's be clear on this. Fourth, one of our great comrades and one of the best persons to have walked on planet Earth in the last, you know, sixty, seventy years, eighty years, is a gentleman by the name of Ken Loach. We all know Ken. He's a member of our advisory panel. Comrades, he is being ferociously attacked and viciously attacked by the people who want to make any criticism of Israel impossible by branding anyone who dares speak out against the apartheid policies of Israel as an antisemite. I wrote an article today this morning in the New Left Review in support of Ken, of Comrade Ken. I think that the whole of DM 25 must stand by Ken Loach in the same way we stood by Julian and Brian Eno and others. And finally, two small items, not small, but brief. One has to do with what I have been watching emerge in front of my eyes, the rationalism of regarding vaccinations in Europe that is being an irrationalism that is being peddled by the European Union establishment in order to cover up their own fiasco. What we've seen in places like Germany and in France, trying to portray AstraZeneca, the AstraZeneca, the UK, Swedish vaccine, as a failure and as dangerous and so on, this is just sour grapes, the original meaning of the Isop myth on sour grapes. We didn't manage to sign the proper contract with them, so we will say we didn't want it because it's not good enough. This is amazing when you see people resisting the vaccine that would save their lives because rubbish has been implanted in their brains by those who failed to secure the right supplies. And finally, I don't know whether you've been following what has been happening in Australia over the last year or so. The Australian government has been doing the right thing. They've been doing the right thing towards big tech. They've been saying to big tech, if you keep using journalistic output, the output of our newspapers in particular, then you have to start paying for it. So the Australian government, right wing Australian government, tried to, effectively, not try to, legislated that unless Google, Facebook and others enter into negotiations with newspapers, with the print media, to pay them a small amount for the items that they are using, then the government would impose a tax on them. Now, in the last few days, we had two remarkable developments which show, which are indicative of how the oligarchy without frontiers is just completely dominant. The response has been twofold. On the one hand, Facebook announced that they are banning from Facebook all news items from Australia. So all the output of the, we're not going to pay for it and we're locking it out of Facebook. So that's the aggressive approach by Zuckindra to show that, effectively, to demonstrate, he loses out of it too, but he wants to demonstrate to other countries, if you dare ask me to pay money to journalists for use of their journalistic output, I'm going to just completely cut off all access that you have to Facebook. Who did the opposite? Google, what the opposite? They did something different. In order to break the back of the government, of the Australian government, they went behind the Australian government's back and they struck a deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Limited. Why? News Limited is more or less a monopoly, not a monopoly, but a dominant player in Australia as it is in Britain and in the United States, but mostly in Australia, most of the large outlets, newspapers in Australia, not all of them, but most of them are owned by Rupert Murdoch. So instead of agreeing with the government, they agreed with Rupert Murdoch to pay only Rupert Murdoch, only News Limited, very right-wing, fox-like, toxic right-wing newspapers for content. So Google will pay the right-wing newspapers of Rupert Murdoch. And why Rupert Murdoch? Because the only reason why this right-wing horrible Australian government has been doing the right thing is because Rupert Murdoch has been egging them on. So he used the Australian government to extract some payments from Google, ensuring, of course, that his competitors, who are more progressive, never get a penny. I said enough, thank you. That was my list of burning issues for today. Thanks, Janis. David. Thanks, Mehra. I'll just pick up on something that Janis said when he was talking about Italy, which I think is something that I haven't said before, at least in the CC meetings. I mean, first of all, as we've been saying all along, the establishment and the far right, they're both sides of the same coin, and they reinforce each other, they need each other, they're not opposites, as sometimes they're framed in the media, they really need each other. And let me give you an example of something that happened in my home country in Portugal, which is how I started my intervention just now. The socialist party two years ago contested, of course, the general election, and they came first. They didn't win with an outright majority, but nevertheless, they entered parliament, they're the governing party, they're the establishment party, and for the first time also, two years ago, the far right entered the Portuguese parliament. This is something that was unheard of in Portuguese history since 1974, and the fascist period that you all know about. He came, he entered parliament with one MP, you know, one MP a year and a half later, just in this January, there was a presidential election, and he was a candidate for the presidency, and he actually came third, almost second, he almost beat the socialist candidate by, I think, you know, almost, I think the difference was like one percent or something, you know, I don't have the exact numbers. But just to show you that the incumbent, you know, the right-wing president won the presidential election, but the far right, for the first time, this one person has managed to gather more than 13 percent of the votes in a country where the far right was nowhere to be seen for a very, very long time, you know. So, you know, what's happening there is just an example of what's been happening all over Europe, and this is something that DM obviously needs to fight for. This is the reason why we exist, and I think, you know, we definitely need those manifestos and those programs, because without them, we won't really get anywhere. So, I subscribe to what, you know, Janice's appeal for the programs. Thanks. Thanks, David. Does anyone else have any comments on anything that's been said so far in this segment, this point on the agenda? Ah, Lewis. Yeah, thanks. Same thing. Exactly the same thing has happened in Spain, as David just told us about Portugal. A tiny, almost ridiculed minority of people entered the Spanish parliament a couple of years ago. It was almost a manic note, because exactly as it happened in Portugal, we had not seen the trace of that, at least not in institutions. There were always pockets of, you know, Nazis and extreme writers, but nothing to be taken seriously. In fact, I even didn't take it seriously when it happened, because we were going through a bunch of stuff, including the crisis in Catalonia and what not, and that usually triggers extremes. But right now, we just had a regular relationship in Catalonia. These folks beat the actual formal institutional right, which is very worrying, of course. And so, yes, I agree with David. It is really time for us to come up with national, regional and local programs offering an alternative, because you see this trend. And I think that Yanis has said this before, with respect to Brexit and even Trumpism.  It is that they're desperate and they're hearing things that they like. There's this, you know, use of populism, but the other is a problem. The different is a problem as a solution to all the crisis that the French establishment itself has produced. So, yeah, that's what I want to say. Thanks, Luz. Anyone else? Okay. It looks like everybody's in agreement. Maybe we can get a bit of a debate going in this next part. Okay, so moving on. DM 25 is a political movement and in parallel with campaigning on the ground, developing policies, one tool that we use to bring about changes, establishing parties and running in elections in its five years. In its allies have stood in several elections, European elections and of course the last Greek national elections where we got into parliament and we've learned some lessons from this. But going forward, what should be our electoral strategy? Do we aim to unite the left trying to build coalitions with other parties of movements before competing? Or do we first try to build a strong DM 25 own DM 25 run electoral vehicle as we did in Greece before considering alliances. This is a key point of difference in our movement. And I'd like to invite all of you guys to chime in on it. Three minutes max for interventions. Who's first, Rosemary. I want to come in on the previous discussion. Sorry, on electoral politics. I will say only only this. It's a pretty stretch going into here. But after the European elections, he made one point about his experience that I thought was interesting, which was he said it was so much easier to go into towns where DM 25 had a presence. I don't think he was talking about the fact that they had been able to take election leaflets in, you know, in a more efficient way. I think he meant that it was because DM 25 had a real presence on the ground. It was known and interesting to the people there for the work that they were doing locally or whatever. But if we, if we try and oppose electoral politics to other forms of politics, we're going to get ourselves in a dead end. We need electoral politics plus. Thanks, Rosemary. Anyone, anyone else. No. Yes, sorry, but I got a terrible connection today. I'm sorry. Yeah. Well, Yanis perfectly mentioned our manifesto previously, and I do believe that right now in Italy, we have a great opportunity. Thanks to Mario Draghi. Yes, a great opportunity to create really a force which can lead a real alternative to Mr. Mario Draghi. So we have been done an incredible job in our territory and we really, we are really ready to reinforce DM SDM. And look at what we have done in Greece, but we don't have to be timid now in Italy, but firmly start around now very far. Because once again, we could really. I don't see that. Sorry. If you, if you try turning off your video, I think we're having, we're having an alternative, even a real why we have to do right now. And I will move on that direction. Thanks, Patricia. We obviously had some sorry.  This is a reality of zoom and the COVID era and so on. Yes. Yes. Okay. I think we got, we got most of that. Sorry. No problem. It happens. David, you had a comment. And I'll come after, I'll just allow the others to speak as I spoke earlier. So. Okay. Anyone else. Anyone like to react to Patricia. Okay. I go. Yes. I want to say that I think it's not an or a decision if the one or the other, the problem is with coalitions is that you have to offer something and I don't think if you don't have your manifesto in the country and if you don't have have built your own. I mean, there where we have decided to have electoral wings. It is natural that you would build your electoral wing first and know what you are about. Before you even try to talk to others to have a coalition. So I think that for most of the electoral wings like in France or Italy at the moment. We, we have to assure some, some basis framework also for the members to know what, what they are talking about if they even think about coalitions, because from my experience. Right now, if people come together in the electoral wings and we have boards, it's, it's mostly strangers that have different political views so that needs to have they need to have some time to figure out their political basis and to figure out what to make of, of, of DM in their own country. As a mirror has become like, like its own Institute in Greece, and now now it's approachable for people but they know what matters about and everyone in Meran knows what matters about. I wouldn't say the same thing for the German electoral wing at this point. We are still finding our own identity as electoral wings so I think that this discussion for most of the people that are engaged in the electoral wings is maybe too far at this point to think about coalitions. This is my point of view as someone who is active on the side for two years now. Thanks Juliana Lewis. Yeah, it's a little bit along what Juliana has just said over the past five years have attended several meetings, many things with other political potential partners and whatnot. In 2005, from its manifesto when you read it, always aims to have the widest reach and welcoming open arms with like-minded people who, you know, stand behind same ideals that we put together. And I consider myself extremely proud of for European spring bid, even though it did not yield results. It's historic I think we were able to, you know, bring together political forces from Warsaw to Madrid to Athens to Portugal. Under the same program. And that's fantastic. However, the reality is that because we are willing to compromise, but not be compromised, you often find the reality of all politics. And I was telling the crew earlier today, and I think that happened only a few weeks after DMP55 was funded. At the end it was coming to Madrid to an event. And I was just scheduled meetings and with people, you know, that could be like-minded that we could talk to. This was this particular person who was the leader of a political party. He later became an MP. And our conversation ended like this. This is verbatim. He said, you guys are not a political party or you're planning on developing one. You know, we just found ourselves as a movement a few weeks ago. You never know. Well, just so you know, we're willing to work with you. But the moment you become a political party or establish a political party, it will drop you. So I don't think that we can be innocent about how the establishment works, the political machinery behind political parties that's, you know, established. And I think that, as Juliana said, we need to develop more alternatives for programs or offers. Even though we really had a, you know, a shoot, you know, running on the string to run a campaign during the past elections. In Germany, 200,000 people believed in us. A million across Europe in the European bit believed in us. So let's get back to them. And yes, electoral politics is just one tool that we have at our disposal. So movement growth, which is basically where Rosemary was heading at having that presence and electoral politics have to go ahead and it's not one or the other. I think it's both. We need to use every single tool to come across and bring our message out, I think. Thanks, Lewis. Yanis. In brief, coalitions are absolutely necessary for particular causes. For instance, think of the Amazon campaign.  We need as broad a coalition as possible. In the Amazon campaign, we aligned ourselves with people that we disagree with on many things. With trade unions from all over the world, environmentalists, some of whom said things that I personally disagree with. But it doesn't matter because we had a common cause to make Amazon pay. So when it comes to stopping the privatization of water, defending particular workers working in some warehouse, making Amazon pay, pushing for the rights of transgender people and so on. Of course, this is where DEM is going to maximize its effort to create coalitions. When it comes to electoral politics, I have exactly the opposite view. There's one thing which is far, far worse than not being in government or not being in parliament. And that is being in government in a terrible coalition. I know that. I've been in it because in the end every government is more or less a coalition government, even if it's from the same party. We had two parts. We had the far right xenophobic racist party sharing the cabinet table with us. You have no idea how hard that was. And so when it comes to electoral politics, I'm dead against coalitions. What we did with the European Spring, and I'm pleased that Louis mentioned it, is something which to be very proud of. Because before the elections, we said to people, OK, here's our manifesto, the Green New Deal for Europe, the European New Deal, as we called it initially. You want to discuss this? Let's sit around the table. I think we'll find common ground and we'll run together. Yes, that absolutely yes. But that will be hard for the reasons that Louis advocated, explained, related.   So remember what Delinke did with us?  That's not the way in my response to Gregorgizzi was, we don't want to be elected. We can support you. Let's agree on a common agenda, right, on a program and we'll stay behind. You can go to Parliament. But no, they didn't want that either because for them, what was important was not to have a program, not to have a policy in order to be able to maintain their bureaucratic loose coalition. We don't want to be part of such coalition under no circumstances.  Again, we've been talking about how to build a movement that creates the opportunity for people that are like-minded to come to a common program and a common campaign. Right. And that's important. But to stitch up some kind of coalition electorally just because there's an election and we need to get elected, which is what happens in Italy all the bloody time. Excuse my French again. Right. Let's get together. Let's have confidence to get elected to do what? To do what?  Right. What are you going to do with poverty? How are you going to finance it? What are you going to do with the so-called recovery fund? Are you going to play along that the recovery fund is going to help us recover? Or do you torpedo it? A very simple question. If our coalition won and was in the Eurogroup, what would we say? Unless we have a common answer to these questions, there's no point in standing together. You know, it is an abuse of democratic process to stand together. So I'll go back to my original statement. Coalitions galore when it comes to the movement with particular causes that are common. No coalition whatsoever. That is a stitch up for the purpose of getting elected at the ballot box. Thank you, Janis. And since we don't have any contributions yet from the chat, I'd like to read out to you something which was a member contribution to our General Assembly last year and several of our local groups. It kind of echoes what you say. By prioritizing alliance building before strengthening our position, we ended up playing old politics and business as usual, negotiating with the dinosaurs of the left and career politicians. We found ourselves bound to failed ideas diluting our agenda and making compromises we shouldn't have. By switching our electoral strategy to build a strong DM before getting into alliances, we believe DM will have the best chance at gaining electoral power and thus its project progressive agenda becoming reality. So those are those are our grassroots members. David. Thanks, Merdan. Well, look, you know, if you take into account the current political landscape that we have today, I mean, we really should rid of ourselves of the notion that the world that we need in the future for everybody will be built for us. I mean, that's one of the lessons that I think we've learned from the M and also even before the M existed. Sadly, I think we will have to do it ourselves and in order to do that it means bringing as many people as we can possibly under the banner of the M 25 in a way, of course, which maintains our coherence and our and our structures and maybe it's because I live in Brussels I don't know perhaps maybe just that. But when I look around Europe I really fail to see any hope for the left I mean I don't see I don't in Europe that's active that's fighting against the establishment politics that are left that is fighting against the rising far right a left that is actually caring about how to resolve those problems across the continent so do you see any hope because I don't see any. And yes, we do have political allies in several countries, we, you know, as Lewis mentioned we ran with some of them, we, you know, linked arms for the European elections in 2019. And of course you know unofficially and so on we've supported them and, and even then officially we did work together. But you know the point now, after that experience with 2019 is to really develop our own structures our own capacity to take our ideas to the ballot box, and to do so with a mass movement that is behind our electoral wings which can propel those ideas into the streets but also into parliaments everywhere just like with matter 25 so to answer the question that we have for tonight I mean I think the question the answer really is depends and it depends whether we're talking about movement building or whether we're talking about elections. And just to finalize, sorry, I'm taking a bit too long, but you know, if there was another transnational movement like DM, doing what we believe to be necessary DM wouldn't need to exist you know we exist precisely to challenge that nation state approach to politics and to be the radical left that was once a beacon of hope for the, for the world, and where the internationalist left let's not forget about that word that for you know that doesn't exist anymore when you look around it, you know, as I said there's no left in Europe, there is DM there's a progressive international as I see it, beyond it. So, you know, the point is whatever we do we should be coherent and and electoral coalitions you know tend to be a problem when that's concerned so that's my take. Thank you David, anyone else? Luis. Yeah, I think that it is a responsibility to do the heavy lifting as to communicating better the alternative, we need to create those manifestos urgently now that we are restructuring and that we have a five year plan. We just turned five. The next five years really should be about raising your voice and committing to bring out those those manifestos and running in elections, so we shouldn't see it as as Janice mentioned as you know for the sake of getting a seat somewhere, but also to gain visibility and you know, turn those millions that we need over to us, we need to become attractive, we need to come at thread a political force to be reckoned with, but if there's a movement as an electoral alternative, that's really needed, because there's a vacuum as David said, and we need to fill it. So, let's go. Thank you Luis, Juliana. Yeah, I just want to at one point I think that what we really can do different is to show decent solidarity with the people out because I think this is all many parties established parties are all about saying the right words to persuade people and when I thought of not just another party, but that you know the thinking behind this to be not the self sustaining, you know little party that that just functions well with no connection to to the what's happening outside of the world, or with the people that we are also working for right because everyone that is now in need of political activism is unlikely to have the time because they're struggling with losing jobs and so on. So these people who are active and will become active in DM. Also, I think in some some point you take also responsibility for those who cannot stand up themselves so this should be not only the movement should be about solidarity but also the parties and the electoral wings that we develop. Yes, besides all the structural things that are needed. Thanks Juliana Rosemary. Yes, I just want to say, I don't really agree with David about there not being any kind of left out there except us. I think there are lots of bits and pieces of what could constitute a European left in all sorts of parts of Europe. But I don't think that is the issue. I think Juliana has hit the nail on head. The important thing is the relationship with people, what you can do for them, what they can help you do what you can skill them in doing. That will be decisive. That will be decisive both in our movement politics and in our electoral success. Thank you. Well, unless anyone else has any other comments I think we'll If I told you to find a bridge between Rosemary and David, of course there are lots of leftists around and left forces. I'm sure that David didn't mean to say that there aren't. What is missing, however, is any, I can't see a single political party or movement that is firstly interested in transnational politics from the progressive side. I'm not talking about Vox. And secondly, it's an agenda. And the third, and who are not in it for career's purposes. Because there is Podemos, there is Syriza. There are people in Syriza who are still claiming to be part of the left, but they're all in it for their careers. It's very clear now they become bureaucratic career boosting machines, right? And the good people of the left who are not connected to us, right? They're fragmented. They're dispersed.  What we've done here, we may not be many, but we are, you know, as we speak now, each one of us sits in a different country, mostly, right? We have a common plan, you know, common answers to questions that the bankers can answer, the fascists can answer, you know, the liberalists can answer succinctly. We have answers to these questions. The rest of the left doesn't. They really don't. I do not know, tell me Rosemary, who in Germany, who is not them? Who in Spain, who is not them? Who in Italy, who is not them? Have coherent answers to the question, what the hell is happening now with COVID-19 from the perspective, you know, of redistributing income, financing the Green New Deal and ending this constant flow of money from the European Central Bank to the oligarchy? Now, I don't know a single political party from the left or group that have sensible answers on this. Not answers that I agree with, sensible answers. Answers that are coherent, that have a beginning, a middle and an end. None, not one. And this, I'm not saying this, you know, to say, oh, aren't we great? Let's all, you know, be very upset about this. I wish I were, but there aren't. I see Rosemary nodding there. Okay. Yes, I have to nod there because, of course, this is the whole question about electoral politics and coalitions.  This is perfectly obvious. And to that extent, I think GM25 has taken correct decisions in its electoral path. Yeah. And coalitions on campaigns. Huge coalitions, the more the merrier. Okay, right. Guys, thank you. I think that will wrap up this live streamed part of our meeting. Thank you out there for joining us and


What's going on everybody welcome back to another breaking news story and the ATB Cup has finally been set We have our draw all set to go and we have the teams in their groups Remember, it's four groups three teams in each group and only 12 teams this time because we don't have enough time before the Australian Open Door full competition. So group A is headed by the world number one Novak Djokovic representing Serbia He will take on Sash's Vera's Germany, and he'll also have to take on Shapovalov and Ryonich who are planning for Canada So this is a very tough group for Djokovic some tough matches there in the singles And it'll be interesting to see how many doubles matches he plays as well going on to group B now We have Spain and Rafa Nadal of course at the top of that He will take on Sidney Pass and Greece and also the host nation Australia So Alex Diminor he will be taking on him again They had a tough match last year at the ATB Cup We'll be having to do it again group C is probably the most open group with Austria and Dominic team at the top He'll take on Beratini's Italy who also for Nini is going to be playing for also He'll have to take on team France which will have Monfice and Benoit pair in the singles and probably the best doubles team going around in this competition with Mahou and Roger Vassiland So group C any team could get through there's some really big names there So it's going to come down to the wire I think and then group D headed by Russia and Daniel Medvedev Of course Andre Rubelev is also playing for team Russia Russia will take on Argentina and Diego Schwarzman and also Kane Ishikori and Japan So Japan qualified thanks to Kane Ishikori's protected ranking But I think this is probably the easiest group and Russia should get out of this one So there are the group stages We will be breaking down the head-to-head and all that kind of stuff in a separate video with Novak Djokovic with team Serbia He's gonna have to fight for his matches and Daniel Medvedev He's got to be pretty happy with the group he picked because he is gonna be playing against players that he knows He can beat let me know down in the comments below who is gonna win this because I think it's very open Serbia's got a tough group Spain hasn't got a walk in the park either and Russia have a pretty good group But can Russia beat Serbia and Spain this year that'll be the question So there to be cup groups have been drawn and we have some great matchups in a couple weeks time


Here's why Redbubble, Etsy, and Teespring are closing stores. Hey, are you worried? You should be, because these major stores are shutting down people right and left. In this video, I'm gonna share with you why they're doing it and how you can keep your store open and we're starting right now. Look, having a print on demand store can be great, but what if you build up that store and you're making money and things are going well and all of a sudden you get shut down? You don't get any notice whatsoever and they just shut your store down. Why are they doing it? What's going on here? This is craziness. It's happening everywhere. In this video, I'm gonna explain to you why. Let's get started right now.  They shut down this account. They shut down that's account. But the one thing I'm hearing more and more is these stores, these Redbubbles, these Etsies, all these Teesprings, these tea launch stores are getting shut down and I figured out why. Let's take a look at one comment here. This here's from Money Guy. Two hours ago, my Redbubble store has been active for three weeks and I haven't gotten a single sale. Can you look at it and let me know what I'm doing wrong? Hey, I'll do that. If you guys wanna post something like that, here's the link and I x'd it out so you guys couldn't see it. But here's the funny thing. When I clicked on it, look what I got. I got this simple message right here from Redbubble. You found a glitch? We've been notified of a 500 server error. Now they shut down the store and I probably know why I can't look and see but I've seen enough stores to know why this one probably got shut down and I wanna share this with you so it doesn't happen to you. Now, here's the truth. A lot of people will start a store, an online store, drop shipping store where they're doing t-shirts and hats and jackets and all that and they really don't have the business sense they need yet.  And that's the problem right there guys.  They can just shut it down. So the only way to protect yourself from any of this is to make sure you understand the rules and you play by them fairly. Now this is the exact reason I did this video is to help you guys out so you don't have these problems. I'm gonna give you a legal disclaimer. I am not a lawyer, okay? I did not go to law school. I do not know the law inside and out. And if you want legal advice on what to do on your site, don't ask me. I'm just a YouTube guy, okay? But with that having been said I'm gonna show you some examples and talk to you about why these people are having a problem. Now here you go. Let's play a little game. You got five seconds to tell me why this picture here is illegal, all right? And we'll count to five, four, three, two, one. Do you know why? If you know why, type it in the comments. Type in the comments why you think this picture here is illegal.  Why is that? Why? Because it's a copyright infringement, okay? Copyright is a federal law. Let me put it up here on the screen so you can see it. Copyright is a federal law of the United States that protects original works of authorship. A work of authorship includes literary, written, dramatic, artistic, musical and certain types of other works, okay? Next part, listen to this guys. Copyright attaches as soon as the original work is created. You don't have to file anything, okay? As soon as it's created it applies to both published and unpublished works. As soon as you type words, click the shutter on your camera or for many of you hit the home button on your iPhone apply paint to a canvas or paper or lay down tracks for your next hit you've got copyright with some exception. So it's not something you actually have to file with the copyright office. Though it's not a bad idea to, you could have that copyright. You could have taken let's say a picture, okay? And put it online. And it's been there for five years and somebody uses it. You can sue them for copyright infringement. You can actually file your copyright at that time right before you sue them. You could do that. Now, listen to this next part. Copyright is an automatic right and does not require the author to file special paperwork. As in the case for trademark and patent, registration is required to enforce the rights but as a matter of right an author is not required to register anything to get the right to use the circle C showing the work is copyright. So keep that in mind.  That's all you gotta do. I'm gonna tell you because a lot of people do this. They steal pictures. They steal them. Now, they don't mean to, I understand they, I get it. They don't mean to, they go to Google, they search images, they find an image that works for what they want and they use it. Now, I'm not recommending you do that because you will get in trouble. Now, the question is a lot of you guys will say, well, I see people all the time using Google images and they never get in trouble. They never have a problem. So it shouldn't be a problem for me. But that's not how it works. It's kind of luck of the draw. You may get an image today and it's the first image you ever had. You put it on your website and somebody sees it and they sue you.  They can sue you for 10,000, 20,000, 50,000. Here's the funny thing about the United States. It's arbitrary. There's no set amount. So they can come to you and say, well, I want to see you for $50,000 for this picture and they can see you for that. I can see you for 100,000.  They're really just people trying to collect money from people. But the fact is it can really happen. So you do have to worry about it. So how can you protect yourself? Well, the first thing you can do is you can, when you search in Google, is you can look for creative comments, okay? Pictures that actually have the rights to actually reuse them. Now, this is not a guarantee. This is not a guarantee, I'm telling you. But it is one way that you can protect yourself by searching these images that have this little drop down here that will allow you to use the pictures without any accreditation to anybody else. Now, you may be saying to yourself, well, can I just search copyrights for pictures? No, you can, because like I just told you, if you have a picture, if you have a design, you're not required to copyright the picture to have the copyright advantage, to have the copyright protection. So you can copyright it at any point you want, but the copyright goes into effect as soon as you publish it in the public domain. What's another way you can protect yourself? Well, you can create your own stuff, okay? You can create your own ideas, your own slogans, your own pictures, your own videos, and then you don't have to worry about it because you created it. The other thing you can do is you can pay a site that has copyrighted pictures but allows you to use them.  That's one way to go about it.  Now, I'm gonna show you another picture right here and this is a picture of Vincent Van Gogh. I'll give you five seconds. Can you use this picture of Vincent Van Gogh? Five, four, three, two, one. Now, put in the comments. Is it a yes or no? Can you use this picture of Vincent Van Gogh? Obviously, this is a famous painting, okay? So obviously, somebody had some rights to it but can you use it? That's the question. So put in the comments, yes or no? Can you use this? Can you use Vincent here on your website? The answer is yes, you can. Yes, it's an original work but if the copyright has expired of which this one has, it's been many, many, many years and I'm gonna show you a chart for that in a second or it's entered the public domain then you're allowed to use it even though somebody didn't have a copyright. So I'll put it up on the screen here, the definition. A public domain image is defined as a photo, clipart or vector whose copyright has expired or never existed in the first place. These images can be used for almost anyone for personal and commercial uses. There are three ways that the public domain image occur. Okay, now check this out guys. The image is assigned to the public domain through a Creative Commons zero license or similar release. The image is not copyrightable or the copyright for the image has expired. Now you will find that museums, libraries, photographers sick of traditional stock photos have released thousands of public domain images online and you can actually use them. Okay, that makes them easily accessible for the public and yep, that means designers too. So if you wanna use those in your design, you can do that. Now I wanna offer you guys and you're gonna find it in the download section, a list of all the public domain images that you can actually use. You'll find those at the list. You'll find that in the description below. So click on that and you can go ahead and get those and use those for your websites or whatever. So keep in mind, these sites like Redbubble, sites like Etsy, any of these sites where you're doing your print on demand stuff, they want you on there. They want you to sell your products. They want your designs because that's the only way they make money is if they have products to sell and since they don't charge you fees, the only way to make money is if you sell products. So if you're thinking, well, these people just want me out of business. They don't like me, they don't want me here. That's why they shut me down. It's just not true. It's because you did something wrong and generally it's because of copyright infringement because they are ultimately responsible for their website. So if they allow you to put these pictures on their website that are obviously copyright pictures, then they could get shut down and they don't want that to happen. So they have this responsibility to actually police, monitor and rid that site of anything that is copyrighted material. But I hear it all the time. I hear it, you know, I hear it on YouTube all the time. People say, well, YouTube doesn't like me. They're not sending me any traffic.  I never get recommended videos. It's not that. It's because you're not doing what they want. Maybe your video's not long enough. Maybe it's one that they can't monetize because you use foul language in it. Maybe your channel gets low watch time. Maybe you're sending people off of YouTube.  So there's reasons and you've gotta understand whoever that third party is, what their reason is for being there. These sites like Etsy and Redbubble and all that, the reason for being there is they wanna sell product and make money off it, okay? That's what they wanna do. YouTube wants to have people come on to YouTube. They want them to watch videos and continue watching and stay on the platform and then they wanna be able to run ads to them, okay?  You've got no reason to suggest your videos. They just don't, okay? So keep that in mind. You're gonna be safe and you're gonna be fine as long as you follow the rules. I would recommend on any of these sites that you actually sit down and read the rules before you put your products up there and cause you a lot of headaches if you don't do that. So I highly recommend it. Now if you haven't done so, you need to get my course. There's a $97 course down there. I'm giving away absolutely free. All you need to do is click the link. No credit card required and you can grab it. If you haven't subscribed to this channel, I need you to. I mean, I really, really, I just need you. You right there. You right there in the blue shirt. Uh-huh. The blonde hair grower right there. I need you. 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