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Welcome everybody I'm Cliff Lynch and I am here with Jake Almond from Duke University, and we're going to talk about his work on the education cause NIST SP 800 toolkit. And we're going to just do this as kind of a conversation for a change of pace. So thank you so much for being with us, Jay. And thank you also for your great work on this toolkit, which I think is going to be really helpful for a lot of institutions. And maybe to get started, you could just very briefly remind us what NIST special publication 800 covers, and why it's important now for higher ed and particularly why it's suddenly, you know, showing up more in the context of research data management. Sure, so I think is a bit of that background. I'll focus where this initially showed up was using the Department of Defense. And in the contracts that we get around research and higher ed, there are always terms and things and a couple of the terms that get referenced a lot or federal acquisition regulations which are known as far as and then specifically the defense federal acquisition regulation supplement or a DeFars clause. And in 2017, a DeFars clause<PHONE_NUMBER> commonly referred to as DeFars 7012 went into effect that basically started affecting contracts which had something called controlled unclassified information and controlled unclassified information itself was defined around 2010 and covers a broad range of unclassified information across the federal government, not just within the Department of Defense. But the Department of Defense looking to better secure their controlled unclassified information and do it in a uniform way rather than leaving it out to each granting agency within the department to specify what the terms were for securing the data said, let's get NIST to define a set of controls that we can then apply to securing this data. And so NIST developed 8171, which is a special publication so it's actually NIST SP 8171 to define a set of controls across a broad number of families and controls to say, here's how we can secure this stuff and do it in a uniform manner and it can be applied across everything and people can follow it as guidance on how to do the security of these things. So this rolled around in 2017, folks started realizing that they were going to need to deal with it because it was going to become a requirement in the DOD's contracts that had controlled unclassified information. It was initially designed to be a self-assessment, self-reporting sort of a situation. Unfortunately, it unfolded in a couple of instances where some spot assessments and audits were done by the government that folks weren't necessarily reporting the accurate truth around their programs. And so out of that came another acronym which was the Cyber Security Maturity Model Certification or CMMC. And the whole auspices of CMMC was that someone else would come into your environment and assess whether or not you had done the controls in 8171 satisfactorily and therefore could go ahead and do this research in a secure manner. So now we're having to prepare for this audit process. This has gone under a couple of revisions and as it stands today, CMMC is not expected to be up and running in a manner that would result in assessments on campus until sometime in 2024. So that's one piece of the puzzle that we're working with. The other thing that comes out of this is that in December of 2020, there was an announcement from federal student aid that they were going to have some things around the fact that they have a secondary in the federal student aid system and that it has to be complied with and GLBA and in the first paragraph was a letter that they put out in December of 2020, it basically said, we are committed to fully advancing and encouraging all post secondary institutions to implement the 7171 controls. So in a nutshell, we now have 871 showing up in a certain section of funded research for the DID. We've got a heads up from federal student aid, they're going to be looking at putting it around systems handling federal student aid on campus. So that brings us down to where in the early part of first quarter of 2021, EDUCAUSE had had enough questions about 871 to go ahead and create a community group, whose entire focus was going to be on discussing 871 on campus and how to handle it. So that's kind of the background of where the group got started and what 871 is all about. It's really helpful as a refresher for how we landed here. And I gather there is discussion about having the same kinds of criteria, potentially apply to data from other federal funders going forward. I think we'll touch on that in a little bit because there are other things as you know that are coming up and have come up in the past couple of years that just kind of sneak their way into the discussion. Most of it of course through through the government. We started meeting as a group. And right today we have almost 600 members in that EDUCAUSE community group so there's a lot of interest in what's going on in the space. And as we started meeting on a monthly basis what we discovered was, there's a broad range of what people were there for some of us had been dealing with this and looking at it for a while and starting to get our heads around it. Others were, I'm brand new to this. I just heard this as a thing. And where do I get started and so the whole idea of the first version of the tool kits which is what's actually released and is in one of the links that I'll provide that you all will post it. When this goes on to the website was a set of resources to try and address what people had expressed needing the most and so in the tool kits. We start off and we've kind of got an an overview of 831 is kind of a recap of what I just previously talked about. And that's a great way for the people who are in this group so the group itself is largely cybersecurity it practitioners. There are some people who are more in the assessment field, but what it's not are the people who handle the contracts. The people on campus who direct the research programs and so this becomes talking points that you can start having a dialogue with the parties on campus who need to be involved. There then was some efforts to look at evaluating individual controls and to develop some spreadsheets around that a lot of this was if some of us have already developed templates and tools that we're using. Can we go through as a smaller working group and look at these and generalize these to the point where they can be used by a broader audience. So that's part of what was in there. Another thing that you'll find in there is seven things to know about CMMC and the reason it's the seven things you should know about is that edge of cause has a standing series of communications they put together that are basically seven things that you should know about topic. And so, hey, this would be a great thing to have and you put together seven things that you know about we need to know about CMMC, though a couple of folks went forth and did that. I think the last major piece that's in that first release of the toolkit was a project phase planning, and this is where a bunch of us who've been involved in this started to evolve an understanding of. There are certain things you have to do in specific order to kind of get the ball rolling. One of those efforts was a workshop that we had had outside of a due cause NSF it funded where these ran through. June of 2021 with a paper that was produced in July of 2021 and basically we said, here are six things that are important in getting this all put together and we tried to look at it in terms of who had to be involved on campus. And one of the things that kind of came out of that was leadership and ownership of this initiative, be it 8171 or other regulatory things that were coming in needed to be owned in the appropriate place on campus it had to be owned by people who could really make decisions and then you have to have people who understood what the finance needs were going to be to say whether or not you were going to be able to move forward so what we were trying to do with some of that part of the toolkit was to hand these IT security people some information that was basically here's what other universities who were a little bit further along in this process are doing. So this is the sort of thing that they have said hey, this is how you can be successful in getting things started. So that was kind of what we had in mind with the first toolkit release and that was actually released and made public on the slide that was website last fall. So we took a breather and we said, okay, that's very nice and very good. This gets us started and I think you know the question is. Okay, what next. So, we bring ourselves into into beginning of this year we said, okay. What are we going to do what do you need next. We went into the large community group and said, what do you need. And there was a sense that more was needed around the system security plan itself and so I'll explain a little bit about what that is, so that we have an understanding. We've got those 110 controls, and we've got requirements around each control. And basically you have to put together a document for a system that's going to be handling controlled unclassified information. And what the government says about coey and I've got some links about that to the DOD, there's largely a concept I think that coey was documents being passed around at the federal government level that had to be labeled with a cover sheet, in a certain and you will see that that is pervasive in the training that they offer around coey, the discussions that they have around coey, they're thinking documents centric in a lot of the things that they've made available. The problem is that research is not document centric it is data centric. It is often laboratory based and not something you can do in a in an enclave and so we're faced with, you know, system security plans for a number of types of an environment and environments and so one of the efforts that we undertook with one of our other groups. So there's a regulated research community of practice group. This is funded by an NSF grant. And many of us that are in the edge of cause community are also members of this regulator research community of practice group. And we were, you know, we're trying to come up with things and divide and conquer, you know, keep resources here, keep resources at edge of cause. And NSF provided funding to do to our cup to do a workshop at edge of causes cybersecurity privacy professionals conference in May of this year. And six of us from a number of universities got together for a one day workshop before the conference started and sat down with a system security plan template to find a system for this particular exercise and so in this case, we looked at a computer enclave, so protected enclave on a campus. And we had to make the decision was it going to be on the campus. Would it be something you might do in the cloud, because that's a possibility. We pulled it back and said we'll do it on the campus and we'll deal with that. And we'll take a subset of the controls and divvy them up and work through what the group consensus is on how you might achieve those controls, and you might look at the best practices around that so that's 42 out of 110 controls. Some of them, we could eliminate because they didn't apply in that particular model in an enclave model. And we said, you know, these aren't security controls and so there are controls in the 800 171 framework that deal with things like background checks, or they deal with training needs, and they're not specifically cybersecurity so we set those aside and then we said, you know, they're not going to be enough time to get to all of them but we did at least come out with 42 controls that had a lot more insight and group think behind them. And that subsequently got published and is one of the links that were provided that kind of was not really version two of the toolkits but some of those same people. Product that came out of a whole day of 60 people sitting in a room and having a lot of discussion and so one of the things was, well, what next, what are you going to be doing next and there was a lot of folks who said, Well, we've done 42 of the controls, we'd like to go through and, you know, find another 40. I think the challenge there is finding the format to do that because you can't really get what you need in a zoom meeting. And we don't feel that you can carve it up and say well you six people go work on on this one and you six, it's time constraints, it's, you know, that sort of thing so those are the challenges. One of the other challenges that we're facing is that we are now up against the revision cycles and, and new things coming in. We're just revisions in the NIST standard right so so model. So, with NIST released draft one of revision three of that standard in I don't remember what the date was but it had a request for comment period that recently closed. So, in the large EDUCAUSE group, we basically said, Well, how many of you as individual universities think that you're going to be able to put forth the effort to make a response to the request for comment and the general consensus was not many. So, because EDUCAUSE generally does respond on these things we felt as a group that our efforts would probably be better if a handful of us that were prepared to help put together a response. Did so and EDUCAUSE just last Friday, which was the deadline made a response based on input from members of that community so you've got the same sort of thing of efforts of doing that but you're looking at okay. Here's what's coming what are we concerned about and that's one of the challenges that we face in in all of this is it's kind of a moving target. Controls change new things come up. And you have to be careful in making your decisions because some of these things may require large investment and changes in how you do things today and I think that's one of the major challenges we face is it's one thing to go into a very tightly aligned. Business that's a part of the defense industrial base which has to face these same requirements to do their things. But if you look at a university, a university is like a city. We've got police department we've got stores we've got restaurants, and we've got the teaching mission and we have library where patrons are coming in and using those resources and are on the network. And we have buildings or research is taking place. But sensitive research isn't over here in a special building that has the special networks and all of that sort of thing. It's wherever that particular contract and the researcher who is interested in doing that work reside and so the challenge becomes. How do we do this very secure initiative where we really tighten down the environment in an environment that is by its very nature, designed to be open, collaborative and available. So, in fact, we have I've been on campuses where new buildings designed within the last 10 to 15 years. The whole design in some of the research space has been around being collaborative being open, not having barriers and not having doors. And so that's that in and of itself is the challenge that we face. That's really interesting. And I think, you know, really captures the dynamic of it very accurately. So, this is, this is a wonderful resource, I think for institutions who are just, you know, coming to grapple with this, and also for institutions that need to explain this to new new sectors of the institution as the, as the rules change and as the government invokes this for additional data. And I think that's that that becomes one of the things that we're going to get to one of the things that I envisioned will start coming of this is if we can get to a point where institutions are actually going through an assessment process and we start to learn what is and isn't being accepted for specific controls. And people can say definitively, we did X and it satisfied this control and we can then start curating that. So I think, down the road, one of the things that I would be for the tool kits is a is a way to to reiterate that information about what does work, and what doesn't work, and why it doesn't work, so that we can have a better way of bringing in that information, gathering it, and then putting it into a resource that others can can access it. And so against one of the things that that we're looking at that kind of came in from the side is that the late in the Trump administration, a national security presidential memorandum 33 SPM 33 was released. The Biden administration picked it up and approved it. The impact of NS PM 33 is more than just cybersecurity there are a lot of pieces in that and there are things around ethics and and foreign nationals and those sorts of things a lot of things that. are somewhat troubling, right and somewhat troubling for for universities as, as they're written, if we don't have an explanation, but the cybersecurity piece of it was interesting because it will affect any university that has more than $50 million in annual from the federal government across all the research platforms so not just NIH or DoD any of the government funding agencies you reach the threshold of 50 million your university is necessarily going to be impacted and so there is a concern that if this isn't aligned right that you can start finding yourself, one, having to juggle multiple research frameworks for security that you're having to meet, potentially multiple assessment. And it becomes a bit of a nightmare in terms of staffing, you know, potential for conflict between well this one says it needs this but this one says it needs this. I can't do both of them in the same place. Let's go back to the business about it applies where that sensitive data is. And the government envisions that at some point, the way they want this model to work is you are CMMC certified, prior to being able to put in a request for a grant. There's no way that any university is ever going to be able to say that as a whole, the entirety of the university is CMMC certified. You know, you wouldn't be able to, you wouldn't be able to function if that if that were the case. You also can't say well, I'll just do everything that's in research and somehow figure out how to make that work and so the challenge becomes. You can do an enclave, and maybe that'll take care of 80% but what do I'm what am I going to do for laboratories that suddenly hey I want to do this research and how do I get it. CMMC certified CMMC program itself doesn't have very many certifiers or certified people to do the assessment. That's a concern so there's a lot of wait and see involved in this at the same time the government has shown no indication that they are going to slow down in terms of turning out new things. This week though we have one final piece that I'll mention that I think may actually be beneficial and that is that they have released if I can find here in my, in my notes. Yeah, they released something called a fact sheet office of the national cybersecurity director request public comment on harmonizing cybersecurity regulations. This was released middle of the week and I came across it through my colleagues who are involved in the regulator research community of practice, the large slack presence, a lot of us are there. And when we find these things we say hey did you see this and hey did you see that that was mentioned earlier. And so I think the government themselves realize is that there is this potential for collision and a need to mediate where that's going to lead. I don't know I'm hopeful it starts a dialogue that many of us are having which is. There's nothing wrong at all with the goals of better securing the research that we're talking about. It's imperative, but the question is how do we go about it and do we tailor the security around the actual research and the research environment to best fit it, or do we take this long lengthy checklist and say, we've checked all the boxes. And that's that security and I think we're struggling I think the struggle is to try and shift with thinking at the government level that there's probably a better way to do this and be a little bit more understanding that the research environment is a little bit different than moving paper documents around. I think it's a really, really helpful set of insights for understanding what's going on. Certainly, you see that thread of things that started with the national security memorandum. In 1933, continuing on through a lot of the stuff coming out of the Office of Science and Technology Policy about research integrity and about research data sharing their their directives to the various funding agencies. So that that call for comments that you just mentioned does does sound like it is opening up a very useful conversation. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see. Fortunately, that one's got a little bit I think the deadline if I remember from looking at this morning I think the deadline for that one is. I will have that link to that particular one in the same so people can verify that but that gives it a little bit more time but not a lot of time that that's kind of been the way these things are and with so many of them, it's it's very difficult for universities to try and say okay we need to respond to this and we need to respond to this one and so it's been a bit of a divided and conquer between educause Cogar and and some of the other larger entities that universities are involved with to try and make sure that the concerns are heard and gotten in front of the right folks. One last thing I'll mention that came up as an opportunity was that NIST themselves have been funded to generate some cybersecurity tools and offerings training that sort of thing to the higher education community into that and they offered us we were able between regulator research community of practice and educause. They gave a presentation we said hey could you set up a discussion group for us to come in and and have a dialogue and so week before last I think it was. They opened it up for an hour and a half and we had a really good discussion with them and talked about what some of our concerns were some of our needs were I think it's really it's it's it's very interesting having been a community group lead for the 871 group in my day to day job unfortunate to work in an R one university that's got a staff of 14 doing cybersecurity and separate privacy and and all of that. I've got peers in that 871 group it's smaller colleges that are having to deal with some aspect of 871 that may have an IT security staff of two or three. And so it's a challenge just and that's where we're trying to not only help these folks to the best that we can in terms of the awareness to you know if you're. IT staff of two but your peers have four and five. You know that's something you can take back into later leadership as a benchmark that sets another effort we're kind of looking at trying to do in there is can we benchmark. What others are doing so that you have something to take to leadership because. They all want metrics, you know, well sure. Who's who's something else so hopefully we can continue to work as a community I think that's the key to this is when we work together and divide and conquer we're not all sitting around trying to invent some version of the wheel and hope that it rolls us forward. Okay, well thank you very much I've got kept you a long time on this, but this update I think an overview is very, very helpful, and we look forward to hearing about, you know, future work as you continue on with this project. So thanks again. Thanks much for the opportunity and we'll talk again in the future. We will take care. My.


Mu is considered a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plangeon who lived from 1825 to 1908 who identified the land of Mu with Atlantis. The place of Mu is both pseudoscience and fantasy fiction discussed in detail in the book Lost Continents. Geologists today dismiss the existence of Mu in the lost continent of Atlantis as physically impossible as a continent can neither seek nor be destroyed in the short period of time asserted in legends and folklore and literature about these places. Mu's existence has no factual basis or so they say. If we've learned anything in this great awakening we have learned that they the powers that be typically don't want us to know the truth. Before we get into the video today I just want to give a quick shout out to one of our sponsors Gnostic TV. Gnostic TV is ancient wisdom reimagined. This is a Netflix for those who are spiritually curious and want a place to go where there is no censorship. I personally am doing a whole series on Gnostic TV called the esoteric explorer where I am providing exclusive content to Gnostic. Gnostic TV is a host to all sorts of different content creators many of whom are your old favorites. If you would like to check out Gnostic TV there is a link down in the description box below. So everybody welcome back to esoteric Atlanta. I'm joined today by my friend Hillis because you guys we're going to give you a bit of a sneak peek into a series that Hillis brought to my attention which I think is fabulous but before we get into that sneak peek you guys you guys know Hillis he's an incredible healer and Hillis first of all how are you doing today? I'm doing good it's you know it's a really bright sunny day in Florida you know nice weather and you know just an easy chill breezy day. That's awesome that's it's raining here in Atlanta so I'm jealous. Well you have an event coming up before we get into to what we're going to be talking about in our series let's go ahead and talk to our audience about something you have going on yourself. You want to take it away? Sure thank you so much for this opportunity and on March 24th which is on a Sunday I am hosting a virtual happy hour healing event and this is a guided meditation so for those who have enjoyed my guided meditations or you know this is just not any ordinary guided meditation this is a meditation to where I connect with you on the soul of both to assist you in clearing out any pain any trauma from present life past life whatever it is that you wish to let go and this hour know that this is for you to begin the process as we are in the midst of 4D energy as we are in this transitional phase and now it is time to let go of what no longer serves us and this happy hour is the first request to do to do that from the virtual space and the safety of your home to where you can let out all emotions and just simply be you be present in that time and space for you to be free and then emerge into this happiness into this joyful person that you wish to live in a daily life. Awesome and you guys I will place the schedule for that if you want to partake in that down in the description box below so you can you can book your tickets with Hillis I mean we know and we've talked about this Hillis on and off about the whole idea of AI and all that kind of stuff and for me I definitely I think I know a lot of our audience I don't like to paint things black or white I think there's a lot there's shades of gray and everything is an intention but how amazing is it that we in 2024 as we embark on this very frictionous somewhat chaotic you know the caterpillar leaving the cocoon to become the butterfly that we get to utilize things like zoom these applications in order to connect with people like-minded people all over the world to instigate this collective consciousness this collective change you are a co-creator you know I heard I heard somebody say this morning that certain people in our timeline right now are here to be conduit some change to create chaos so there has to be change but they're not here to bring salvation and I love that because you have to bring your own salvation you're a co-creator we are collectively here to pull you know the law one says that at this time you know usually when a planet moves from one density to another density it evolves that all the living things on that planet have to get off the planet in order for the planet to go through this and this is a very unique experience according to law one because we get to ride it out and all of the galactics are sitting there like tailgating in their space just watching to see what the hell is going to happen because this has never happened before and I will say that I know that for the 50% of human beings on this planet that do have souls you are put here intentionally because you can handle the roller coaster ride of what's about to happen because it's an experiment guys we've never done this before but we are helping weather so I love that hillus because that is definitely you know the the side of light the difference between one of the differences between the polarity of darkness and the polarity of light is the polarity of darkness doesn't share its teachings it keeps a very secret it won't it won't share it but light always shares and so being able to use the zoom application to invite people in your tickets guys again that's in the description box below so and I will also put hillus's channel all that kind of stuff down in the in the description box below a lot of you guys know hillus because he's my I call him my manager I don't know if that's the right word to say we're probably going to start a conspiracy theory he's not my handler guys he's not at all he's like my manager like he helps me with with all the asia stuff he also is my my main dude for gnostic when I sent my videos over to gnostic and rob so so hillus and I have developed quite a friendship a co-worker friendship relationship he definitely is the reason why my my platform is able to run smoothly so I appreciate that and hillus has got these amazing talents outside of just the administrative stuff he does for me and for catheteria for so many other people that you guys know um hillus is he definitely keeps our ducks in a row so with that being said hillus shall we shall we start with the sneak peek of what we're going to be talking about today yes the lost continent of mode and you know this has been something that's been in my way for quite some time you know being a lamoin energy practitioner connecting to syrian energy but next to ontarian energy connected to palladium energies all these you know extraterrestrial extraterrestrial energies you know but there's so much more than that and so we know we have this history of what we think blue is we have this history of what we think at length as we have this history of what we think Egypt is and what I want people to understand in this series because we're going to be talking about everything from the continent to the people who listen to the symbols to all of it because I want people to understand the truth of that because there is a lot of information out there and the information that I derive my information from was from James Trout for the guy who wrote the series of books back in the 1930s and as I read these books there was the psychic impressions that I received you know when you know doing uh reading about the symbols and the religion and you know for those that know I gave my own like language symbols or now galactic language or now it could be moose symbol doesn't matter and reading this and and the information and I don't want to give too much weight but the you have to understand that this was the first civilization on the planet and it extends back 70 000 years. So we're talking about a lost continent like Atlantis or like Lemuria which most people are familiar with Atlantis and Lemuria but most people never heard of Mu. Well there have been people who have heard of it and this is one of the things that I'm not sure if I'm going to have it in this series or not because I'm I am researching and have a couple of friends helping me with this portion of it there have been people that I know myself included have always intertwined the Lemuria and Mu because the the significance of it and the time span of it and and just to give you guys an idea of of the energy behind it is that you have the the religions the foundations that we that I mean we first say the religions of the world today have their basis in the religions of Mu and throughout the 70 000 years course is going to be rewritten of course it's going to be misinterpreted and one of the things that really struck me was the destruction of Mu and how it was destroyed and how we came up with the term fire and blamestone and things of that nature and you guys ever wonder where the term or the ideology or the image of hell came from it came from Mu we came from the destruction of because it was destroyed by volcanic eruptions and people think and was burned and they could not survive because of the smoking inhalation all the black smoke all the black little bit of it half the other so yeah technically at that time it was how long so it was like a apocalypse yeah it was like a well you know hillis and everybody on this channel knows that I definitely even though I do a lot of history deep dives and I've said this many times before guys right now I can keep two timelines in my hand I can keep the head I can keep the timeline that we've been taught the narrative we've been taught in our history books and I can also keep this information over here that I actually think is more accurate because and we'll get into it in this series because there's a lot of archaeology evidence to point you know to the fact that they're actually this is this is legit and they of course the powers that be maybe don't want us to know that or maybe want people to think we're crazy but um but yeah I'm crazy I don't mind being a little crazy what's what's that line from Alice in Wonderland where he says she's like oh you're crazy he goes my darling the white the rabbit she goes you're you're crazy or something he goes my darling the best people are yeah you know and the thing is so if you guys want to have questions prepared or begin to uh really understand this I urge you to go out and pick up oh let it go this book here I'll put a link to it in the description box yeah for that book yeah put it up and read about it if you guys have questions because we plan to do the first one in April and I just want you guys to be prepared I just want you guys to be ready with questions or anything that you want clarity about because you know we'll start with the continent itself and understand where it was and why it was there and and how James really describes it in this book and then for me we'll go into the children of moon hopefully I will have death a definite answer if Lamarie and more are the same well if they're different and then go into some of the religious aspects and the symbols and all this stuff that's just surrounding it because I mean it's it's information that's there but it's just not talked about and when it is talked about it's just talked about on a such a high level that the details of this magnificent first civilization is interesting and I just want to add this one thing before we close I was reading a portion of one of the chapters and I was looking at one of the symbols and one of the symbols we might be the indigenous people of this nation ding ding ding ding ding ding ding well that also leads into I mean I just you know Hillis on for Gnostic and I can't say anything here because he's on YouTube guys and so this is exclusive content for Gnostic I covered the Moon Eye people which are still fascinating like who the hell were the Moon Eye people this might give us an indication you know like our history is something something stinks and Denmark right like there's something something's not something's off about all of this and I'm so excited to do this series with you Hillis that's the point of my channel the point of my channel is for us to explore some of these topics that have been seen as taboo or um you know just conspiracy or fantasy in the past and actually look at them with a different different lens because this is the story of humanity and we have a right to know the truth about where what our how our planet has evolved and I do believe that we carry in our DNA memories not just from like a hundred years ago but like from thousands and thousands of years ago of our ancestors that you know that's why I think a lot of people do have a fear of water we know that Lantus fell with a flood you know and that might not be because you lived in that life it might be because you have an ancestor that you know that there's all these different you know it's important for us to know this stuff and it makes me even more furious to know that the powers that be in the world have just really really downplayed the magnificence of of of our history um and what our ancestors were capable of and that means that we're also capable of it too so is there anything you want to say in closing Hillis no just I'm excited to to share this and to really have you the audience begin to think differently and about the historic culture of this world we call earth the mother that's that holds us and you know they call move the motherland there was the first civilization and yes Africa is also called the motherland too but it's the motherland of this civilization and so we have these tradeals these pockets of of knowledge and history and this love and that's what that's what it's about is is necessarily stepping into the love of humanity stepping into the love of the the cultural spaces that we have been speeded from and to really allow that to now be whatever truth you hold it be yeah it's beautiful yeah and I think that that brings us together we I I firmly believe in in the world that's trying to divide us on so many things I always believe that human beings we have way more in common with each other than we have that are differences and and so you guys I'm super excited yes please get that book we'll be we'll be airing the first episode in the series in April so you got some time to get yourself prepared with knowledge so that you can ask questions or really think about this as well and again for those that are not a part of Gnostic TV and you want to watch that MoonEye people episode there is a link to Gnostic TV down in the description box below I loved it because I could talk about some stuff in there that probably would have gotten me censored on this platform so so well I'm excited Helis thank you so much for including me in this journey I cannot wait to do this with you guys so all right yeah that's it you guys if you again if you want to take partake in Helis's March 24th event that's under show notes in the description box the Gnostic links all of Helis's channels links are down in the description box as well as well as a link to the book all right you guys we'll talk to you later bye everybody


So, by now, I'm sure that you are aware of the fact that an American hero and an anti-imperialist legend has passed away over the weekend. And I am, of course, referring to Mike Gravel, who ran for president in 2008 and 2020. And I am absolutely privileged to have had the opportunity to speak to him, my bottom on my show. He was incredibly intelligent and charming and insightful. And you know, I wasn't really sure how to process his death. You know, I didn't say much on Twitter about it. I just said Rip Mike Gravel. But I do really want to share, you know, some really nice words from other individuals that I respect who spoke out after they learned of his passing because, you know, when somebody passes away, I think that one of the most important things for healing is to kind of deal with it with other individuals. And that's what I want to do here in this video. So Bernie Sanders shared this, Jane and I are saddened by the passing of Senator Mike Gravel. He was dedicated to ending forever wars and bringing more Americans into the political process. His courage will be deeply missed. Our thoughts are with his loved ones. Yohan Omar said Senator Gravel was a voice of moral clarity in pursuit of peace when he was in the Senate. And he kept that voice in the years after he left public service. Our politics desperately needs more people like him. My thoughts are with his family and with all of those who loved him. He didn't retire and become a K Street lobbyist like so many of his colleagues. He continued to speak truth to power. So tonight, Senator Gravel rest in power. Henry Williams writes, Today I lost a man who shaped my life so profoundly that I've thought of him as a surrogate grandfather. Senator Gravel stood fast against the world for 91 billion years and pointed away for all of us. We have to honor his memory by achieving the world he dreamed of. And that's just beautifully put. I'm really thankful for the Gravel teens for bringing him back into the spotlight and for allowing those of us who didn't necessarily follow him during the 2008 years to actually learn about everything that he did and his contribution to American democracy and his advocacy to end the wars that he really like it affected him on a really personal level. And we'll get to that here in a moment, but I do want to read some write ups on him that kind of give you a little bit of insight into what he stood for, what he fought for, because I think that right now, you know, as Henry pointed out, we do have to take what he fought for and try to like make his dream a reality. So Andrea Germanos of Common Dreams writes an outspoken critic of US militarism and a two time presidential candidate Gravel served Alaska as a Democratic senator from 1969 to 1981, during which time he helped bring the military draft to an end. In 1971, Gravel read over 4000 pages of the Pentagon Papers, the classified documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg that revealed vast US government lies about the Vietnam War into the congressional record. That action came a day before the US Supreme Court lifted an injunction that had blocked the post and the New York Times, which had already published excerpts of the documents from further publication of them. Columbia Magazine detailed earlier this month the scene on the evening of June 29th, 1971, there was a clutch of microphones on the table before him and Gravel spoke into them. The people must know the full story of what has occurred in the past 20 years in their government, he said. The story is a terrible one. It is replete with duplicity, connivance against the public and public officials. I know of nothing in our history to equal it for extent of failure and extent of loss in all aspects of the terms. As he spoke, visions of maimed bodies flashed through his sleep deprived mind. People, human beings are being killed as I speak to you tonight killed as a direct result of policy decisions that we as a body have made arms. Arms are being severed. Metal is crashing through human bodies because of a public policy. This government Gravel overcome began to sob. He wiped his face with a handkerchief and composed himself. One may respond that we made such a sacrifice to preserve freedom and liberty in Southeast Asia. One may respond that we sacrifice ourselves on the continent of Asia so that we will not have to fight a similar war on the shores of America. One can make these arguments only if he has failed to read the Pentagon papers. That is the terrible truth of it all. And I just want to share a really quick clip of Michael Gravel tearing up as he read the Pentagon papers. The greatest frills, black marketeers and grand scale dope pushers. Someone who is that moved by the thought of human suffering and descriptions of people being massacred. That is someone who you absolutely want in our government because now you look to the US Congress and you see basically what are essentially, I mean, for lack of a better word, sociopaths who are cold. They they don't care about the suffering of millions. They don't care how the actions of our government impact people around the globe or at home. So, you know, to see someone who genuinely cared to the point where it brought him to tears, that is such a rarity in US government. And it's why Michael Gravel is really one of a kind. Now, I want to get some more on what he did in his state. This is written up by Bronco Marcetic of Jacobin, who explains, if not for Mike Gravel, the military draft might never have ended. Gravel spent five months as a one man wrecking ball trying to topple conscription for the war and succeeded in filibustering the extension of the draft to death in 1971, partly by reading the Pentagon papers. Gravel played an important role in establishing what became Alaska's permanent fund dividend program, a kind of universal basic income funded off of Alaska's fossil fuel exploitation. And he had earlier experienced a meteoric rise to the Alaskan state legislature's speakership, where he presided over, among other things, the creation of a rural high school program that let indigenous kids get local education instead of being shipped off sometimes thousands of miles to other parts of the country. This doesn't make him a saint, of course. Gravel was indeed a fierce fighter for fossil fuel interests in the Senate in the 1970s and was not immune to fundraising off them. And all the sleazy pay for play shenanigans that came with that. Yet, ironically, his stubbornness on the matter unwittingly spurred one of the major executive actions of environmental protection in presidential history. And by 2007, he had shifted dramatically on the issue running on what was then an aggressive climate platform to prevent what he later called planetary suicide. So I love this because throughout the years, you see Mike Gravel become even more radicalized than he already was. And someone like that, like I think looking at his flaws and how he was a fighter for fossil fuels is really important because it shows that you can convince people so long as they actually have a moral core and Mike Gravel had a moral core, he had strong, strong convictions. And not only that, one thing that I really admire about Mike Gravel, aside from his policy positions and what he advocated for is he's kind of like Bernie Sanders in the sense that he hates the whole DC circuit, all of the pageantry around it, all of the cocktail parties that you're expected to go to if you're a senator. And this line about him attending the prayer breakfast from an interview that he gave in 2019 to Jacobin is is one of my favorite quotes of all time from a former senator. So he said, I'm an atheist in point of fact, but the leaders were going to the prayer breakfast. So I thought that was a clever way to become ingratiated with the leadership. So I went to one prayer breakfast and realized that all these people sitting at the table praying were essentially the warmongering hawks who perpetuated the Vietnam War and I couldn't stomach it anymore. So that was my first and last prayer breakfast. And I love that so much because, you know, it's it's easy to, you know, play the game in DC once you get there. You know, the dynamic changes. You can go from being an activist and once you're elected, things kind of change because the people who you were formerly criticizing are not your colleagues. And, you know, he realizes that it might be politically beneficial to kind of rub shoulders with them, get to know them on a more personal level, to be a more effective legislator. But he thought I can't deal with these people. They're fakes, they're phonies. They're sitting here acting as if they believe in God and they're attending this prayer breakfast, but yet they support a Vietnam war that is ruthless and bloody and I just I can't take it. So he checked out and, you know, till this day, he's not loved by the political establishment. But I think that people are going to realize that that's like the best feature about him, right? Not only what he advocated for, but the fact that he was hated by so many powerful people in DC, I think he wore that as a badge of honor. And that's what makes him so cool, right? So, I mean, Mike Ravel, his legacy is just incredible. And the impact that he's had on me has been profound. You know, I think that in 2020, he had one of the best platforms I've ever seen offering reparations, not only to black Americans, but Iraqi citizens who were brutalized by our, you know, imperialism, everything about him. You know, it just I really respect him and he will be sorely missed. His integrity, his passion, his care for humanity and desire to prevent suffering. It's just it's so rare. And I really want to celebrate people who fought for the right things. So having said that, we're going to leave sharing my favorite clips of Mike Ravel. Of course, it is of the 2008 debate and a bit of him sharing what we all found out with the Pentagon Papers, thanks to Daniel Ellsberg. So we'll leave you with this rest in peace, Mike Ravel. At a forum earlier this year, I want to get this right. You said it doesn't matter whether you are elected president or not. So then why are you here tonight? Shouldn't debates be for candidates who are in the race to win the race? Ryan, you're right. I made that statement. But that's before I had a chance to stand with them a couple of three times. It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you're all excited. My God, how did I ever get here? Then about six months later, you say, how the hell did the rest of them get here? And I got to tell you, after standing up with them, some of these people frighten me, they frighten me when you have mainline candidates to turn around and say that there's nothing off the table with respect to Iran. That's code for using nukes, nuclear devices. I got to tell you, I'm president of the United States. There will be no preemptive wars with nuclear devices. To my mind, it's immoral and it's been immoral for the last 50 years as part of American foreign policy. Let's use a little moderator discretion here. Senator Gravel, that's a weighty charge. Who on this stage exactly tonight worries you so much? Well, I would say the top tier ones, the top tier ones. They've made statements. Oh, Joe, I'll include you too. You have a certain arrogance. You want to tell the Iraqis how to run their country. I got to tell you, we should just play get out. Just play get out. It's their country. They're asking us to leave and we insist on staying there. And why not get out? What harm is it going to do? Oh, you hear the statement. Well, my God, the soldiers will have died in vain. The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. You know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain is more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse. Other than Iraq, three most important enemies to the United States. We have no important enemies. What we need to do is to begin to deal with the rest of the world as equals. And we don't do that. We spend more as a nation on defense than all the rest of the world put together. Who are we afraid of? Who are you afraid of? But, Brian, I'm not. And Iraq has never been a threat to us. We invaded them. I mean, it is unbelievable. The military industrial complex not only controls our government lock, stock and barrel, but they control our culture. When I came into possession of these papers, I looked around and nobody in government had done anything. The only thing that was being done in government was an effort to stifle and hide this stuff. And it just dawned on me that somebody, if we're going to have any faith at all in our institution, somebody from government's got to be going to have the same resolve, the same feelings for stopping the killing, as Ellsberg did, as the Post did, as the New York Times did, as the St. Louis Post dispatched, as all these, not only myself, because the people who released this were bureaucrats. You know, bureaucrats, the people that we disparage so often, they weren't elected officials, they were bureaucrats. And they have much less risk than I have. The risk that I have is being expulsed from the Senate.


Hi, my name is Leo Moreau currency trader and trading coach at trading 180.com and welcome to this week's supply and demand Forex and gold fundamental and technical analysis if you're new a warm welcome to you And if you're returning an equally warm welcome to you, don't forget to like subscribe and share As it helps the YouTube algorithm and the videos get highly Ranked and before we get into the fundamentals and technicals for this week I want to inform you about a webinar that myself and Mark Chapman are holding a webinar this week It's absolutely free first day is going to be on Wednesday the 16th of February And I'm going to show you the three steps to generating a profitable Forex trade idea, right when it comes to fundamental analysis a lot of people think that fundamentals are just looking at Forex factory and Taking a trade when there is good news or you know selling when there's bad news It's nothing of the sort and this What I'm going to show you in the webinar is stuff that will work forever because it's really how the Institutions trade and how they make their trading decisions with fundamentals These are the three steps to generating a profitable forex trading idea and ideas and it will consistently work Over and over and over again because this is the mechanics of the market And if you want to join the the free webinar on Wednesday day one Just a email info at trading 180.com with the subject title webinar. That's it You know you can put a little thing in there. Just saying I want to join the webinar but just a subject title and I will you'll be put on the list. I'll put you on the list for the day one and also day two Which is with Mark Chapman and he will be showing you the footprints of the market Whales and how to trade alongside them and this is really the market makers Bible now And regardless of what you think, you know regardless of what has been taught online on YouTube on tiktok on Facebook Those guys have no idea right and it's not me disparaging anybody, but marks Mate I guess was a next market maker and he'll tell you about anyone who knows mark who knows me Will understand this to be fact what you see online about market makers is totally off Right marks mate was a market maker retires What was a retired is a retired market maker and the concepts that he's going to show you some of the Concepts gonna show you on Thursday are the business model of the Market maker, right? It's not anything you see online. It's not the concepts of what you think the market makers do That's just a massive echo chamber, you know made up by you know certain people This is totally totally totally different. This is the truth anyways Again, that's day two on Thursday, right the 17th for February the again email info at trading 180 comm with the subject title webinar And you will be included and put on the list and I really highly You know Recommend that you at least tend Thursday and myself and my webinar of course, but you know the two days and then we have a weekend retreat The coming weekend as well So anyways, let's get into this week's fundamental Analysis and looking at really the news and the calendar For this week so Monday the 14th for February happy Valentine's Day for anyone who's separating and celebrating Valentine's Day, we've got really you know, Christine Lagarde speaks whenever there's a central bank speech That's always worth Paying attention to GDP growth rate as well for Japan that would dictate what these central bank does with interest rates on Tuesday We've got the Fed and so the RBA meeting a country today. We've got the RBA meeting Reserve Bank of Australia We've got unemployment for the for the pound and again. This is all important because it shows really what the What the economy is doing and whether central banks can really afford to high crates at some point Again, we've got some employment changes change numbers On Wednesday, we've got Chinese inflation, which is worth a watch and then we've got again the pound inflation rate year on year Again inflation rate for the cat her for the Canadian dollar again, it's expected I think what's the forecast forecast expected to be to be higher so again any forecast that expected to be higher and inflation piles pressure on the On the central bank to have to hike rates and if it does obviously come out as that then you know, we'll It's pretty much a foregone conclusion Again FOMC minutes on the Wednesday, which is definitely going to be you know that the highlight of the the week on Thursday We've got unemployment rate for the for the Australian dollar and then Japan inflation again expected to probably tick up just a little bit but not by much so again that Bank of Japan are expected to just kind of hold rates at the moment for the foreseeable future and then on Friday Nothing really nothing really important. I know it says that's important, but it really isn't and then that is that so So let's get into the dollar index and the dollar index is just a measure of dollar strength against a basket of major currencies like the the pounds the euro and the yen and I've kept last week's analysis on here because last week I was saying my bias was really to the upside with the dollar and and So yeah, I was looking at Eva, you know Confluence of looking at dollar index buys for example with prices came down to that 95 area 9460 then I was looking at potential buys And I was even you know looking at you know price came out at 94 area that would be a definitely a great buy and Just getting into I guess some fundamentals on the on the dollar We were looking at well this week the feds bullard Back supersized hike six full point by the first of July so inflationary shop needs big response He says in interview and the St. Louis Fed chief defers to power on size of March increase and this is really because that the US inflation is at its highest level since when in like 40 years for decades so The Fed the Federal Reserve the bank have to do something about inflation which is to hike rates And so they were wrong about Inflation being transitory or temporary they thought it would come down and it's you know getting out of hand not only with In the US economy, but we've with economies all around the world so But the US are literally now looking to hike more To try to combat inflation So we've seen the Federal Reserve St. Louis President James Bullard said he supports raising interest rates But a full percentage point by the start of July including that the first half point hike since 2000 in response to the hottest inflation in four decades so You know there is that going on so with the you know, US dollar You know aggressively hiking, you know, you should see upside now again Nobody knows what happened in the short term because in the short term the you know prices really just an auction and all the filling mechanism for the banks to try and get the best prices and you know to To get the liquidity, right? So you could have prices, you know It's not saying prices this week you're gonna go all the way to the upside because like I said nobody knows But generally what we should, you know, know between now and the first Fed rate hike and the second one potentially in in maybe June July times is that you know, the bank are actively seeking to Hike rates so prices should want to continue going higher In the medium to long term so for me my bias has not changed So let me just get rid of some of this drawing from last week So for me again, just really pull backs and I can now need in this up a little bit When it comes to a bit of a demand zone, so There we are we've got some hidden demand there So any pull backs into the zone here and then looking for long trades not on the dollar index But on just just as far as confidence of prices do pull back he's ought to see some bullish price action. That would be quite nice You know for confidence on buying any of the other dollar currencies So moving on to the dollar yen and the dollar yen again last week's analysis We were looking at you know potential pull backs because you never really want to buy at an expensive area You don't want to buy at highs You're looking to buy it, you know on pullbacks and what I was looking for if I'm long dollars obviously is a pullback, right? So we need prices to pull back. Unfortunately prices didn't pull back Which kind of changes this dynamic? So let me just start off a brand new clear chart and what we've got now is you know demand zone there Demand zone there, and I'll just draw this one right here as well Just to keep it nice and simple so for now for me Anyway prices are coming back into a zone now We do also have risk off sentiment risk of sentiment meaning that there's some fear Uncertainty and some doubt coming into the market, and that is really driven by Russia tensions a potential invasion by You know by Russia So on Ukraine so if that does escalate and nobody knows at the moment whether it will you know It result in the full-blown, you know war out on that war if it does The Japanese yen is likely to strengthen right is like strengthen So you could see prices, you know come to the downside for me though I prefer to still buy the dollar at certain levels because at some point I'm a believer that you know the The war will be resolved right there are We no one wants war and We generally want peace as as human beings so You know, I think I think that if war does you know break out. I think it may I don't know if it lasts, you know too long Who knows but the point being is that at some point war will be priced in it won't be a phenomena anymore unfortunately, but but for me I think that the When it comes to the dollar, I'm still a buyer of the dollar really and I'm a believer that you know, there will be a Resolution to the Russia Ukraine tensions there will be an agreement etc. So if prices do come down to any of these demand zones I'm still looking at buy trades At these areas providing obviously I get an entry trigger and what the the actual setup is Moving on to the dollar Swiss and similar to the to the dollar yen Last week again still looking for buy trades looking for pullbacks Insert certain areas we have made higher highs higher lows. Let me just delete last week's analysis there's a nice demand zone there and This whole area is demand So if prices do pull back into this area, but similar to the the dollar yen The Swiss Frank will tend to strengthen as a risk of currency a safe haven currency So you could see prices start to go, you know through these demand zones when it comes to fundamentals and recents I mean, there's no demand zone no technical analysis level that's going to stand in the way of Of what the market thinks the value of a currency is the market is not driven by technical analysis It's driven by you know liquidity and And really in value, right? So Any pullbacks into demand zones for me are buying opportunities And that's really where my biases and all risk off does is just push prices down to where I want to be You know a nice a nice buyer and buying at value. So that's where we are I feel look if you are looking at buying the the Swiss Frank I think you know anywhere up in these zones here is decent Although those zones have been touched several times to just be aware that the more times a level is touched and zone As touched is that the weaker it becomes no longer a bargain anymore because it was a bargain first time here Bargain a bit of a bargain there, but not so much and obviously that price becomes starts to become just average now So yeah, that's where we are my bias is definitely to the to the upside in the medium to long term for sure Moving on to the dollar CAD and the dollar CAD again from last week's analysis When you've got two strong currencies or two central banks that look into high crates then you will You know, you'll have generally a sideways moving market a ranging market of value auction and and so for me this was you know predictable and So yeah, I'm not really looking to trade this pair. Let me just delete some of this last week's analysis of and again It's just a case of if you think that you want to be a buyer of the US dollar Looking for pullbacks into that area or a reversal at that supply zone Not really a pair. I'm interested in like I said two central banks looking to hike At the moment. So so you're gonna get this this type of price action. You really want to see Pairs that are diverging in you know, monetary policy Although overall that that divergence is coming a bit coming to an end with certain pairs moving on to the Pound dollar and again to central banks You know pretty much Hiking rates aggressively. So again, you expect to see a fair fight, right? You've got you know price action just literally over the past five days has gone in this in this range So again, just the lead in last week's analysis And looking at really the pound fundamentals as well The you the UK economy Sees best annual growth since World War two in 2021 So there was some really good news up with the pounds the GDP expanded 7.5% in 2021 put in UK at the top of the G7 league So search came despite December's drop when Omicron hit spending. So again the pound doing really well one of the best You know currencies when it comes to Oh Economies when it comes to GDP growth. So so from that perspective again, you've also got the US dollar doing really well economic growth So like I said, there's no divergence there, right? You see in price kind of moving this Or a bit value of the of the pound dollar being accepted between is high and it's low So but if you do want to get long on that on that dollar, then it's literally a pullback into that zone there I think probably you're looking at maybe some of the 137s 137 fifties for a decent short trade If you're looking to buy the the US dollars if you're by looking to buy the British pound, it's really Pullbacks to demand zones if you're buying the US dollar And it's and then it's pretty much pullbacks to any kind of supply zones but again, not really a currency pay that I'm looking to get involved in and The euro dollar the euro dollar. So this was an interesting one We got involved in this trade many traders in the the group got involved in this trade so that was And we're up a few maybe about 100 150 pips depending on where they depending where they got in some traders got in at the 1480 area. I got in at the I think was the 1473 area right around here. So yeah with with tensions going on in In Russia and Europe probably being the most affected You know, it was pretty much a nice trade so far taking partial profits And so that's worked out to be quite nice Also as well looking at Europe from a fundamental perspective ECB overreaction on prices could stymie growth rain warns. So The European Central Bank needs to look beyond the current spike in inflation as it sets a monetary policy to avoid choking off Economic growth governing council member Oli Reince said and the reason why is because if you rate high crates a bit too much the economy might not be able to to handle Expensive borrowing and lending and so what then tends to happen is businesses start to struggle with higher repayments and then that you You know, you get a stagnant economy and potentially economies can go into You know back into recession, right? So from that perspective if you you know, you got central banks I've got to be more gentle with hiking rates. So You know that the problem is with the with Europe is that their their economy isn't Growing as much as say for example, the UK or the US So from that perspective again last week's analysis my biases was to the short side You know is pretty much is worked out quite nicely now I do think that the downside is going to be kept and not to say in the same It's gonna come all the way down here. It could do of course, but my my I'm pretty Convinced I should say that maybe the 130's maybe even down to potentially the 112 is making maybe gonna be the absolute limit of this move Because yeah, now you've got the the euro looking they are looking to high-grace and change policies So I think downside may be capped, but it was a really nice really nice trade set up that we saw in the group and up over about over a hundred pips on This one. So again going forward. I probably think if you are looking to buy the euro again We are looking at that 112 for area for a buy trade I think if you're looking at, you know, shorting right now Think the trade's probably already gone depending on your risk rewards and any kind of pullbacks potentially up to this area Or just a bit higher would be probably more advantageous if you are in this trade It's probably advisable to at least look to take some profits at some point You know, we've got our targets that we look to take profits at but but yeah Decent trade again my bias is still to the downside for now and buying the US dollar over the euro Moving on to the Australian dollar US dollar and we did get a spike higher this week And again, there was a nice shorting opportunity. So prices had you know spiked beyond that supply zone there and then as We saw from a risk-off perspective nice nice trade to the downside. I'm not really interested in trading this to be fair But you know, technically there was a there was a nice level just above that and prices in a risk-off environment You know, the US dollars should Strengthen if you do want to get long enough Australian dollar, there is a demand zone right here Demand which potentially you can get involved in looking at any kind of long trades To that side or even better that would be a nice a nice price to the to the upside But again in a risk-off environment if risk-off continues Nobody knows we'll find out on you know, Sunday evening but if there's no resolution then I think the dollar should continue to to strengthen and Talking about risk-off Gold is now, you know, finally reacted and it's reacted really more to the to the risk-off sentiment That's happened. So we see Gold, you know money flowing into gold piling into gold You know, there was a really nice area a couple weeks ago to look to get long that I'd identified and had you Got involved in that, you know thinking that gold was gonna go higher on risk-off tensions Then that's what had to be a fantastic trade For now though, you've got these areas here of demand So if risk-off continues then, you know, basically he's looking for pullbacks And as I always say is you know, you might see a supply zone above But it doesn't mean you should take it because again fundamentals and risk sentiment are the drivers of price Traders generally, you know, technicals will go out of the window And generally go out the window anyway when you've got a Lot of volatility and a lot of reasons to buy and sell from a fundamental and this sentiment perspective Nobody cares that there's a supply zone here, right? I don't care that they supply that supply there if they think that tensions are gonna drive prices and evaluation of gold should be up here So, you know, you shouldn't be driven by by by technical analysis technical analysis is really only used To time, you know, your entries and manage your risk What you know, you should be looking at ultimately is deciding on which way to buy or sell based off of fundamentals and risk sentiment and again if you want to join the The webinar and the weekend retreat just email info at trading 180.com with the subject line webinar and You'll be added to the list for the to the free webinar list. So for gold at the moment If you are looking at risk often, you think that risk off is going to prevail It's really just pull backs into, you know, the demand zone, but if you believe that the There is going to be a resolution and the dollar is going to strengthen as well as inflation coming back to the downside Then this is going to be a really nice opportunity to look for potential short trades But you'd have to really kind of watch the headlines And to see what what is going on with risk sentiment. Anyways, with that being said Yeah, that's it for this week. And again, just If you do want to join the webinar email me info at trading 180.com and I'll see you on the webinar on Wednesday. Take care and speak to you soon


Hello, I am Dr. Bhaskarshan A. Head of the Department of Pediatrics and Chief of Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. Of course, natural immunity is always better. But the thing is, in the natural immunity, the child will suffer from the disease and then it will get the immunity and here, short of suffering, the child will get immunity. For example, in chicken pox, by vaccinating, we can avoid the child contacting the chicken pox.  But in the process, the child will suffer for 10 to 15 days with a lot of rashes, itching, fever and once the child gets out of it, it will get some scars and that will take few more weeks to months to clear it. And few of them can have some complications also. Chicken pox, though the grandmother says that it comes and goes, nothing will happen. But we have seen the worst complications of chicken pox. For example, if the virus can travel into the brain and cause encephalitis, it can affect the hindbrain of the child and cause what is called as cerebellitis and it can affect the liver, it can affect the kidney, it can affect the heart and lungs and any of the major organs it can affect and cause complications. We cannot predict which child is going to develop the complications. But here by vaccinating, you can avoid these complications also. So in a natural immunity, child will suffer and then get the immunity at the end of it and there is a risk of getting complications. In vaccination, short of suffering, the child will get immunity without suffering. That is the difference.


OK. You can line up for questions for Pilar. OK. Yeah, OK. I just wanted to say that this project was born out of initiative called Comidas que Curan that I created along with other friends, which is basically a food heritage preservation project. We interview older people to learn about food traditions and other lifestyle behaviors that impact health. And we create films. So we seek to document that in many different ways. One of them is making films. And we also teach workshops to especially younger kids, or younger children and adolescents in Ecuador. And we teach them how to do the research and how to make the films so that this process goes on. Because a lot of this knowledge and wisdom is being lost because of all the messages that come from the industry and the medical doctors. And this is the reason why I made this film and why we do the work we do. So I invite you to visit our website. It's a brand new English language website. And there's a donate button there. We are independent filmmakers. We don't have any institutional support. But you can also support us by buying a DVD or sharing the film with your friends and family. I have a couple of DVDs out here if you want to get a copy. This film was not recorded as part of this conference. So I encourage you to share it with other people. And if you want to organize a screening for your community or institution, I'll be happy to talk to you. And I'll be glad to answer questions. We are passing out a paper, forms where you can drop us a few lines with your feedback. So that's another way to support us. Thank you. Yes. So the biggest. Can I get some money for that? Yeah. The biggest coconut producing regions historically have been in Asia, Southeast Asia. So they probably come from, well, usually the coconut water is made with Thai coconuts that are different kind of coconut. They're young coconuts. But the Philippines is historically the biggest producer of coconuts. And in this side of the world, Western Hemisphere, Mexico became the biggest exporter of coconuts. So they could come from many different countries. Yeah.  And using them as part of their traditional diet. But as of recent, it's become popular in the US and in Europe. So it's starting to come back. So. I have a question. Thanks. I love the film. I would love to see it distributed educationally throughout the states, if that ever happens. I hope so. I did watch your presentation. I think you presented a few years ago. Yes. And you mentioned that the coconut industry is being exported. But somebody's coming in to Ecuador as maybe a white person or a non-native person and trying to reintroduce. Yeah. And can you talk about that a little bit on that? Fascinating and horrifying at the same time. OK. Thanks, yeah. Thank you for watching that and bringing that up. So first, we have screened this film across the US and in other countries, too, in universities. That's where we've received the most interest from. So yeah, if you know of any universities that are interested, just give them a recommendation. And we'll be happy to get in touch with them. Yes, that was an example from the Smithsonian magazine. And the articles still up. And it was an American entrepreneur they featured in their magazine that claimed to be introducing a healthy oil in Ecuador. To a community that is plagued with vegetable oil with bad habits of eating vegetable oils, refined vegetable oils. So this is very contradictory because he set up his company in the coast of Ecuador. In one of the regions that has been, coconuts grow naturally there. They've been growing naturally there for ages. And the reason why we have vegetable oils is because of American Heart Association recommendations being exported to the rest of the world, including Ecuador. So it was very ironic that an American claims to save Ecuadorians from bad habits of vegetable oils when that idea came from the US. So that was the point that I was trying to make in my talk. But ever since I started this research in around the year 2013, I've seen how ideas about coconut oil being healthy have been introduced from the US to Ecuador with marketing strategies and labels like cold pressed, which is tragic because as many of you know, it really doesn't matter if coconut oil is cold pressed. I mean, it doesn't make a difference because it's almost 100% saturated fat and it doesn't hurt to cook it. And that's the way that it's done traditionally. So in many ways, this hegemony, this hegemonic influence of a cultural influence of the US, it's just hard to avoid the damage because people take whatever comes from abroad, from the US, either through social media or whether they just take it for granted. So that's why I made this film, showcasing local people as authorities of food and medicine so that we try to change that, break with that. Question over here. So the factory couldn't operate because it couldn't get a sanitary certification? Yes. What was preventing that from happening? Just bureaucracy. It's just very bureaucratic process. And the community is generally, so what happens in, this is a community in the coast of Ecuador that is very, very rich in all kinds of natural resources, not just coconuts, but oil and fish and minerals like gold and other kinds of lumber. So a lot of companies as of the past 30 or 40 years have come in to exploit a lot of these resources. And there's a lot of funding from international organizations for development projects, social development projects. So usually what happens is they come in with a bunch, like a lot of money to implement these projects and they leave and the project never gets a follow-up. They don't train the people to actually carry on with the project to make it sustainable. So they call them like white elephants that exist, that were funded by foreign organizations like Italian or American or... NGOs. Ah-ha, NGOs and they don't get the proper funding to, or the proper training and follow-up so that they can continue into the future. Is the factory still not operational? It started back as of like three years ago. I heard that they actually jump-started it again. So it's operating now. Okay, good. Thanks. Anyone else?  So might as well do that now. You can stay, but yeah. Thank you, thank you for your attention.