Okay, what were my goals for this year? It helps so much to have a place where the goals are written down and that's where the goal is. Onward and upward. Oh my goodness, we're doing it again. Ladies and gentlemen, we're talking about our running goals for the new year. It's amazing. It feels like we just did this maybe last week, but it's been a year since 2019. Here's my running log from 2019 and here's my running log for 2020. I can't believe we're diving back in and it's inspiring. So a year ago, and if you've been watching for over a year, thank you for sticking with the channel for a year now. And you may have thought, huh, I wonder if Seth is gonna remember to go back and look at the vlog from exactly one year ago where together we wrote down our goals for 2019, our running goals. So go check that vlog out and look at the comments. It's so fun to go back and I can't read through all of them, but I wanted to give a shout out to a few and to see if, because I told you a year ago, I'm gonna help keep you accountable. So here we go, we're diving in and I just grabbed like five random names from the comments a year ago. Running Otaku said one year ago, he wanted to run 255 at Boston or a sub 17 minute 5K. Running Otaku, how'd you do? Meredith said she wanted to race her first 100 miler at the Rocky Raccoon. Meredith, how'd you do? Mike D said he wanted to win any race at any distance. I love that, that's fun. Run a sub 17 minute 5K and then run a 248 or better marathon, all right? Jeff, this is a cool one. So for me for goal, all right, I'll get that to that in a second, but for goals, it doesn't have to be time or place. It could be something else like this one from Jeff. He says he wanted to be more consistent in his running in his second year back as a runner after 25 years off, 25 years of no running. Jeff, I'd be very curious to hear how you did with that goal. And last but not least, Lucas B wrote down, he'd like to be recruited or walk on to a collegiate cross country or track team. Now, hear me out, here we go, goals. For me, it's not everything, but it helps me so, so much with staying motivated. When it's freezing outside and dark and you don't wanna go running. It helps me remember, simply hold myself accountable to goals. Because guess what? It's really, really fun. That's what I love about our sports. Like I love team sports. You know that I love like my Denver Broncos and watching them and cheering them on. But as a runner, we hold like it's us. It really comes down to our own inner drive to chase down goals. And it comes down to, as Jeff said, the consistency in our training, the commitment to our training. And so anyway, that's why I love goals and being very specific in my goals, okay? So here's a little throwback to a clip from that vlog one year ago where we wrote them out in the comments. Running goals, running goals, running goals. I don't know about you all, but I love the new year. I love the new year. It's a fresh start. And I know it's just connected to the calendar and how the calendar was set up centuries ago. But it's just like, it's a fresh start to our lives. And I realize new year's resolutions very rarely stick with people. Like it's, you know, they often fall by the wayside. But I must say, I set five goals in 2018. Upper right hand corner. We talked about that last week. And by the way, thank you everyone that chimed into that vlog and shared about your running goals for 2018. Well, now we get to look to the future. What's beautiful is that now I have record of saying this to you. I can go back maybe once a quarter, you know, at the end of my first training block and just check in, rewatch this video and just see how I'm doing on moving toward those goals. And you can help keep me accountable because you're listening to them right now. But the beautiful thing is that in one year from now, one year from now, we can all go back and revisit this video. You can watch it if you want. But more importantly, you can go back down into the comments down below because of course, you know what the keyword is. It's goals and the question of the day. From that vlog one year ago, you all know how I like to look to the past in order to prepare for the future. Learning from my ups and downs in training and racing in 2019 before looking to 2020. So here we go. I had six goals laid out for 2019. Number one, plyometric. So I'm actually gonna say, I failed on this goal number one from 2019. I did plyometrics, but I was not consistent enough. So I'm not gonna get into what are plyometrics, but that goal was goal number one failed, okay? And I'm gonna be very honest, not pretty honest, very honest with myself in order to be more realistic and more accountable to myself in 2020, okay? So that was goal number one. Goal number two, hit 400,000 vertical feet, failed. I did not reach that goal. That was a carryover goal from 2018 actually. I did not meet it in 2019 either. We'll get to what I actually hit here in a second. Goal number three, I wanted to run two FKTs, fastest known times on 14ers here in Colorado. Those are the 14,000 foot mountains we have here in Colorado. I did it. I accomplished that goal, Mount Gale and Tories Peak. Those were the two peaks where I set FKTs in 2019. Feels good to hit that goal. And the Mount Gale one, I snagged it from Sage Canada, who many of you know who he is from YouTube as well. Okay, goal number four, start the running group in Denver and on Strava. I'm actually gonna give myself a 50-50 on this one. We did not start a running group where we meet every, let's say week. I think my goal was every other week or even every week to meet up with all of you. I realized that was not realistic with my schedule. So that was, that did not happen, but we definitely got the group going on Strava. That's going real strong. And then also the Facebook group. So I would say that was 50-50 for that goal, but the group runs at the races around the world. I think that helps supplement that goal for goal number four. So it's, I'm gonna give myself a 50-50 on goal number four. Goal number five, win another race. I think I snagged three victories in 2019. That feels good. The Cookie Chase 5K, the Cirque Race out in Utah, and then the Rendezvous Mountain Hill Climb here in, no, up in Wyoming. So that was goal number five. Goal number six, race a road marathon at sea level. Boom, completed that one as well. So what did I do? One, two, three. So I got, I'm just gonna say three out of six goals, kind of three and a half with a group run one. So I missed three goals and hit three goals. I actually feel pretty good about that because in 2018, I actually had five goals and I only hit one of them. So I feel pretty good about those 2019 goals. And here it is a little recap on the screen right now of my stats from Strava in 2019. The vertical gain, the mileage. So the mileage was about 3,100, 3,200 miles. I feel good about that number. I actually was hoping to go even higher than that. But because of the foot injury back in April that didn't happen going into the Cleveland Marathon, that's okay. And that was a good jump for volume of training for me, which I'm not surprised that it happened because I was preparing for my first marathon. And then the vertical gain, my goal was 400,000. I did not hit it, but I did get pretty good. I hit 327,000 vertical feet. And compared to 2018, it was about 2,000 feet more. That was kind of fun to beat my 2018 vertical gain and loss. And that number will definitely drop in 2020 as I shift a little bit from the mountains to the road racing. So there you have it. Those are my 2019 goals, learning from them and looking to the future. You ready for this? Here are my six goals for 2020 before we get to the question of the day with your goals. Here we go. Number one, I wanna be a healthier runner in 2020, which I think all of us wanna be healthier. But what I mean is honing in even, so I think I did really well with foam rolling, stretching, massaging in 2019, but now I'm learning so much from physical therapy, which maybe this is like all meant to be with this knee injury that I'm going through right now so that I can prepare right now for 2020 through the hip strengthening, through everything I'm learning at the physical therapy office that I'm gonna apply to my routine in 2020. So a healthier runner in 2020 is my goal number one, not just, like, and that doesn't mean, like I'm, you know, injuries happen, but being more proactive right from the outset, again, going to physical therapy and applying it to the rest of the year. Okay, goal number two, I wanna do three FKTs on 14ers here in Colorado. So, Mount Princeton, Mount Albert, and then a third one that is undecided if you have any ideas for me, let me know down in the comments. So three FKTs on 14ers in Colorado in 2020. Goal number three, here we go, set a half marathon PR, actually in a half marathon race. So beat my half marathon from Amsterdam in a race in 2020, okay? So that is my goal for goal number three, goal number four, set a marathon PR, okay? So beat my time from Amsterdam once again. Goal number five, I wanna win a race, but I'm gonna be very specific here. I wanna win a race, whether it's the Pikes Peak Ascent or the Pikes Peak Marathon. I'm not afraid to say it, I think it's fun, it motivates me, it keeps me really dialed in, so that'll be my goal number five is to win a race, but actually win either the Pikes Peak Ascent or the Pikes Peak Marathon. Capiche, sound good? And goal number six, I wanna do six group runs with all of you. Whether they're at races or here in Denver locally, okay? Six group runs, whether you know, around the world wherever I end up or here in Denver. Sound good? Those are my goals for 2020. It's gonna be an amazing year. Question of the day, what goals do you have for your running in 2020? Whether it's training, whether it's racing, whether it's eating healthier, there's so many, so many different ways you can answer this question of the day. And again, here's the kicker. Here's the kicker, everybody. If you could, save this link and then you can go back throughout the year. So what I do is every April 1st, July 1st, October 1st is come back to this vlog.  It helps so much to have a place where the goals are written down and that's where the comments are for. I believe if we work together on Strava, on Facebook and down in the comments together where we're bouncing ideas off of each other, helping each other work through injuries, making sure we're dialed in to our shoes that are shoes that actually work for us. And that's where I'm gonna continue to do my best to test as many as possible for all of you so I can be dialed in like, okay, this shoe, this shoe is popping in 2020. This shoe, now pass on this shoe in 2020. So we're gonna work together. We're gonna reach these goals. I don't know, like I have six goals in 2020. I'm really, I'm really hope. And why six? No particular reason. It just kind of is a number that comes naturally that I feel like is not too much that I can, but it's not too easy either. Does that make sense? So I know I'm gonna revisit this vlog a lot in 2020 and that is that. Oh, thanks for being here. Thanks for watching Onward and Upward. January 1st is almost here. So let's go get it. And all right, we're tossing it back on the right. Two of course, the 2019 gold vlog. That'll be on the right. And if you, again, if you haven't seen it, I can go check it out, especially if you've been watching for over a year. And then I think I also did one for 2018. So two years ago, that'll be on the left. See beauty, work hard, and love each other. See you tomorrow. Come on now.


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Hey everyone, I'm Bianca Renee, and you're watching Bianca Renee Today, and today we're going to talk all about Bridesmaids Dresses and Bridesmaids Dress Shopping. Now you're probably thinking, I'm shopping with my best friends, what's there to talk about? It's going to be so much fun. Not so much. If you don't do it right, it could get ugly. Now if you are a bride-to-be, a bridesmaids, or you're hoping to be a bride or a bridesmaids in one of these days, this video is for you. So I'm going to break it down to the five most important things you need to keep in mind when bridesmaids dress shopping. Number one, when is a good time to start bridesmaids dress shopping? Now this all depends on how long your engagement is. Usually a normal engagement is about a year or so. So if you want to do the halfway point, it's usually good to start about six months before your wedding. If you don't have six months, then obviously you're going to have to break it down and just do it as soon as you pretty much get engaged. And when it comes to shopping, there's two types of brides. There's a bride that says, hey, I like this dress. This is what you're going to wear. Shopping completed. Or there's a bride that says, hey, let's all go together and choose these dresses and find something that we like. So if you are the bride that just wants to pick it out because you know all your girls are super picky and they will never agree, then good for you. You know your brides and your shopping is really easy because it's just whatever you want. But if you want to make your bridesmaids a little bit more happy and feel a little bit more involved in this process, then you're going to have to schedule time where everybody or most of them can go. It's also very popular to go dress shopping on the weekends because that's usually when people don't have work. But that means every other bride and their bridesmaids also don't have work. So if it is possible to go dress shopping on a weekday, it will be a lot better. Number two, who gets to choose the bridesmaids dress? Now remember, it is the bride's day. It's her wedding. So you'll get to wear your favorite color when it's your time to get married. But ultimately the bride does have the final say. Now she could be that bride that says, here's your dress, put it on. Or she could be the bride that says, I like the color blue, pick a blue dress. And if you want to give them a freedom of the style and you want to say, hey, you can have a long dress, you can wear a short dress as long as it's blue. But then you have five bridesmaids and four of the girls pick the long dress and only one girl pick the short dress. Now she's going to look weird. So you're going to have to coordinate that unless she's like the maid of honor. But if she's not, everyone's going to think she is. Number three, what type of dress do you really want and works best for your wedding? Now this means you have to think about the fabric, the season, the weather, and the body types of your girls. So if you are having a beach wedding, you probably don't want your girls in long, tight velvet gowns because you're on the sand and it's going to be hot if it's in the daytime.  And it's best for the bride to figure this out before you go shopping. Now you also want to be very conscious about all the different body types of your bridesmaids. If you have a bridesmaid that's an A cup, it's going to look different on your bride that has double Ds. So when you do try these on, make sure it looks flattering for everyone so they can feel comfortable when they walk down the aisle. Number four, what do you bring when you're going dress shopping? It's very important for your girls to wear a strapless bra so they can try on all different shapes and sizes of straps of the dress. And if they also plan on wearing spanks during the wedding, tell them to wear their spanks to the dressing room. You also might want to bring a pair of heels so you can see how the dress looks in your heels and then what you can keep in mind, alterations. While you're there, it's also important for your bridesmaids to be comfortable. If they looks really good but they can't breathe, you don't want them like this that you're wedding the whole time. So make sure they stand up, they can raise their arms, they can sit, they can dance. You know, I always think it's important to do a twerk test. For my wedding in particular, I knew they were going to do a whole choreograph dance. So there's one dress that we like, it was very form fitting, very tight, and then very long like trumpet shape at the bottom. I knew that it looked pretty but dancing-wise, they were going to be very limited and there wasn't any robot in my dance. And once all the girls have dresses on, make sure you take pictures, especially if you're going to different places, take a picture of them in the dress and maybe like the storefront so you know where that dress is and you can compare all your favorite dresses side by side before you make a decision. All right, so now we found the dress, we love the color, we like the style, we could twerk in it. But number five is the budget. Now when you are bridesmaids, there is a cost that comes along with the title. So I would start saving as soon as you agree to be a bridesmaid. Keep in mind, your girls, if they all are Beverly Hills housewives, then fine, get whatever dress you want. But if you know you need to be a little more budget conscious, it is nice to keep in mind that they might not have a lot to spend. Now on average, a bridesmaid's dress usually is around $200 plus alterations. If you know that is not in the budget of your girls, then shop around. So I was looking to spend like $100 or less. If you do have a lot of bridesmaids, make sure you throw in the fact that you are buying eight dresses right now. And see if you can kind of work out a bulk price. Doesn't hurt to ask. Now with my bridesmaids, we spent all this time shopping, only for me to find my favorite dress on Etsy. Etsy is a website that has everything like handmade, everything creative. Everything you probably pinned on Pinterest, probably came from Etsy. But besides wedding things, I didn't even know I could buy my bridesmaids dress on there. And I found the dress that I love for only $50. These dresses were the convertible type dresses. So it was like 100 ways dress. You could do one shoulder. You could do a halter. You could do strapless. One thing that's very important when choosing a dress is the type of undergarments you're going to wear. A bra will make or break your dress no matter how pretty it looks. Turns out the bra was the hardest thing for me and my bridesmaids because it was this very thin material and they were all backless. So backless looks great in photos, looks great on Pinterest. But then you're thinking, wait, if she turns around, are her nips out? You never know. I knew my girls are going to be dancing. So I didn't need them to be flopping around. So we had to find a way to get the support and the coverage without having a back.  I tried them and they do not work in the summertime.  So unless you have that and something super tight to keep them on, it will be okay.  If it's in the winter or you're inside, it could work, but just be cautious.  But overall, it is so important to remember that this is supposed to be a fun time. You're shopping with your best friends. That's why you picked them to be your bridesmaids. So make it a fun occasion. Try not to complain about everything.  If you're like, hey, I got double D's, I refused to wear a strapless bra, then let her know to kind of look for something with straps. Or if you're like, I'm allergic to the color orange, I refuse, then tell the bride that, but if it's her wedding color too bad, you're gonna have to do it.  I have so many other wedding topics to cover from my wedding dress shopping to centerpieces, to decor, to budget, to inviting people you don't really like. It's gonna be a lot. So if you're enjoying these wedding videos, there's plenty more where that came from. I post new videos every Sunday. So hit that little subscribe button and give this video a thumbs up, and I'll see you guys next week. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today.


Live from New York, it's The Cube, covering Riverbed Disrupt, brought to you by Riverbed. Now, here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Welcome back to New York City, everybody. This is The Cube, the worldwide leader in live tech coverage. We're here with Jay Haynes, who is a global IT operations leader at Royal Dutch Shell. Great to see you. Hi, thank you. Thanks for coming on. Glad to get the practitioners' perspectives. Glad to be here.  So, first of all, what do you think of Disrupt? How's it going for you? Oh, it's been great so far. I've actually participated in several events like this, but the Disrupt, I've learned a lot today and got some insight, both at the high level strategy perspective, but also in the breakout sessions, I saw some bit level stuff that I'm ready to go back to the shop and I would say play myself, but actually it'll be get my guys to play. They gave me the ideas that I saw something, I'm like, hey, I like that. So, it's been very good. Oh, so I want to actually come back to some of those, but tell us about your role at Shell. So, Royal Dutch Shell, a large integrated oil and gas company. I suspect most people have heard it of it. And right now, actually the integrated part is good because with the price of oil being down, we're talking about what we say lower for longer and how do we survive in that environment in the exploration and production environment. But downstream and chemicals are doing well because obviously the feedstock price is optimal, but in the balance game, it's a tough environment to operate in. And so I manage our global IT operations for our infrastructure and applications area and we are responsible. I tell people I'm in charge of bad. If it's bad, people call me because something's broke. We need to get something back up and running. And then I'm also responsible for the operational integration or SIAM function if you're aware of that on the integration side of making sure that we integrate all of the suppliers and app teams across the entire Shell and the globe. So I want to ask you, so Jay, energy companies are, they're used to solving big hairy gnarly problems. They're engineering oriented, but it sounds like they're no less difficult on IT than other companies. Is that the case or are they more receptive to the challenges that you face as an IT? Well, it depends on the business.  Upstream wants it fast. Downstream wants it cheap. Trading wants it up. And trading, we have a quote, minutes mean millions. And so depending on the segment that you're in or the time of day or the project or activity that's going on, the dynamics of it change. And so this theme of disrupt from a digitalization perspective is to a degree it's good news, bad news and being kind of forced upon us with the changes in technology. Used to be you'd have a shift worker go into a terminal and enter a shift log. And so your proliferation of IT was often very concentrated. Now with digitalization and laptops and tablets and mobile devices and pushing the apps further and further into the hands of users is really changing the dynamics of the IT landscape and what we have to provide and support. Jay, we've looked at kind of the oil and gas industry. Data is so important. It's one of the use cases that comes up in analytics and a lot of what we look at. How are things like digital transformation and big data analytics transforming kind of the role of IT inside Shell? Again, it goes back to the business with the cloud. The cost of storage is all of a sudden potentially cheaper but the challenge is getting it in and out and so the strategies of what do you do with that data depending on where the data is. And then the telemetry of people pulling up to a gas station and using either a credit card or a loyalties card and having that data to be able to quickly do those transaction but at the same time keeping it secure. Big issues, big problems. Probably maybe not in the same realm as a financial institution of a bank but in the retail space there are a lot of concerns with security and making sure that we protect the customer's data and then the applications that go along with that. Obviously need to be up running secure. Well, it's an interesting question, right? Because you know the old bromide, the data is the new oil. You guys are all about the oil. A lot of people don't like that comparison but nonetheless, paint us a picture, if you would Jay, of sort of the applications that you're supporting. Huge company, obviously massive scale but which ones do you touch? Well, actually all of them, really. But all of them only when they break. Okay so in the sense that you know we're not, my teams are not the ones that are out building and developing and creating in that DevOps space if you will but we are on that upside from the Crit-Sit-Sev-A-Sev-1 crisis management perspective. So and then we take our apps and we divide them up into business critical apps and non-business critical applications and so BC applications as we call them definitely have a focus and with a lot of the monitoring that we do for those BC apps and some of the non-BC apps because sometimes apps that aren't business critical such as your PC or even potentially logging on after the log on process might not seem to be BC but it can be very impactful. And so actually the span of control is from the base infrastructure, email, SharePoint, Office 365 to our business critical supply and trading type applications, supply chain, exploration, the data management apps, process control. So you mentioned DevOps so I got to ask the question Stu if you don't mind. So I'll give you my version of the way, I see it and you tell me of course correct me but application development, they develop an app, they throw it over the wall to ops and they say deploy and then ops looks at it and goes oh they didn't do the security right, it doesn't comply with the whatever requirements that we have. You go in, maybe make some changes, go to deploy it, the code doesn't work, send it back over to application development and say the code doesn't work. They say well it did when I sent it and you get this back and forth. Okay so this DevOps culture emerges but a lot of people say it's more ops dev than it is dev ops. What is it at your company? Well so we're in a transformation right now and I think you know if you ask five people on the street in the office what DevOps is you possibly are going to get five different answers. I'm DevOps, no I'm DevOps. Right, but for me I still, you know sometimes they talk about DevOps, I believe that I was doing DevOps when I started with Shell and I'll go ahead and say back in 1983 which dates me a little bit but you know DevOps is a mindset and it is a methodology of how you do stuff and I think in the way that applications are morphing and shifting that indeed that it's not so much throw it over the wall anymore but it's this DevOps self-contained environment that if you have an application and as a developer and you can publish that app and immediately get the results of it's working, it's not working then you kind of self-control and then with the cloud and the foundation and the platforms of infrastructure that those pieces, those foundational pieces and so we think of the electricity and the air conditioning in this building and so much of it you would never consider part of your app it's just there and so I think there's this sometimes missed understanding in my opinion of DevOps going the entire life cycle into these infrastructure platforms and I don't think that's the case and I think that if we talk about IaaS and PaaS and SaaS and those type things that this DevOps really fits in this I've got a website, I've got a customer front end I need to roll quick and do that and so with that we need to be able to monitor it but to me the DevOps when you're changing your SAP infrastructure or you're changing some key data element table structure thing for a financial quarter closing it's no longer DevOps, it's not throw it out there and you need to have more of the waterfall methodology. So Jay you said that you basically get the call when things aren't working, I'm curious what your thoughts are on kind of SD-WAN in general and the vision that Riverbed laid out here for the Steel Connect and the Steel Connect 2.0 announcement that they've made here at the show? In general I think it's absolutely the right direction right vision and actually seeing it in action at the first breakout session was kind of cool so it excites me in the realm of I think that it paves new way to somebody messing up in other words somebody going in and tail netting to a router and changing something and it breaks because they didn't understand what they were doing or they made the mistake they did the wrong thing and so this SD-WAN to where you can kind of abstract some of the complexity and make it easier, pre-configure, pre-defined easier to swap devices in or out I think it's going to have a tremendous impact on reducing our number one, what's the number one cause of our operational problems? Human failure. Change and if you break the failures of change it comes down to human failure so the more that we can take the human out and put smarts in the better that it's going to be it also scares the hell out of me in the realm of the more and more we take the human expertise out because we've made it easy when the problems are tough they're tough that's where then you need the tools to have the visibility to come down and to be able to get down at times to the packet level to be able to solve the problems and so it's a good news, bad news mostly good slash great news but you want that underlying foundation to be strong and secure.  So in the John Hodges did one on how do you better troubleshoot application performance using steel central or app internals expert and interesting in the realm of looking at some of the transactions that add up across many many things and so for example you take there might be some component on a desktop that is part of every transaction so if your network driver for example are sub optimized and it's defaulting to 2.4 gig instead of the five gig and you don't know that and it's happening to every user or a lot of users spread across an aggregate you might not see that unless you have the visibility of getting that data getting those tools to go look for obscure problems that may manifest themselves in an additive fashion across many number of users especially this would be true if you were a consumer facing and you had millions of users and those seconds start adding up and so being able to look at the tools we've solved a lot of the big problems with the monitoring that we've put in so far and the next level is or trying to go after is this kind of I believe this end user experience and as cloud and HTTPS SSL come into space we start getting blinder in the middle because we can no longer see inside and so being able to do the end user experience with eternity is going to hopefully give us a solve some of that and bring some of the visibility back that two sided coin of security is always the way so with Riverbed you're doing both when optimization and visibility and yes application performance management yes okay and you've been a customer for a while or yeah well and so and I I sit more on the visibility side we have when optimization and on the kind of the peer networking side being in this operational fire fighting role and responsible for that we used to have the age old you know the best of monitoring system in the world where the user would call you and tell you that their stuff was down whereas getting ahead of that curve and deploying the tools now we can see problems before they occur and you know simultaneously the fixing them before the user calls or even better predictive and proactive to where you actually see it stop it before it ever occurs in the first place and the users never even know or you avoided the outage the impact in the first place no call and then the business impact is higher productivity for the users which means money in the pocket of the corporation indeed and then and then telling that story which is critical which is often a miss I think of IT organizations is they don't tell their story or they don't tell the story in business terms and so if you go to your business stakeholders and talk about latency you talk about MTTR you talk you know you need to put it in context of terms that the business is going to understand right even RPO and RTO right which people say oh that's a business term I'm like give me a hundred business guys they wouldn't know what RPO and RTO stands for and MTPD maximum tolerable players yeah so you're right yeah excellent jay great having you on the cube thanks so much okay appreciate it all right glad to be here thank you you're welcome keep it right there buddy Stu and I went back with our next guest we're live from Riverbed Disrupt we got the music playing in the background this is the cube right back


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Hello and welcome to another coordinating call of DM 25 the movement for Europe featuring progressive ideas you won't hear anywhere else. For our live stream we're moving to a fortnightly schedule for now so that would explain why if you were tuning in last week, we didn't start broadcasting. Today, we're going to talk about the pandemic we're going to look back at one year of COVID-19, and we're going to look at what needs to happen to get us out of it will then discuss Europe's burning issues and how DM addresses them. So, you out there if you've got any comments questions concerns rants anything you want to say, put them in the chat on YouTube with streaming live, and I may be reading them out to the panel here between the interventions. So, let's kick it off. Thank you.  Do you remember that how, back in on the 15th of January 2020, you know the European Union Council did something remarkable so they were so quick off the blocks. Two weeks before the World Health Organization declared the pandemic, they had created a committee at the level of the Commission of top epidemiologists and representatives of our public health systems to offer daily guidance. The national governments were immediately liberated from the task of procuring the bare essentials like protective gear and vaccines later on and, and testing devices and so on because the European Union. You know, took on the task of doing this. So national governments could concentrate on implementing, you know the local plans. The time, Northern Italy was hit by the pandemic where track loads of protective gear and oxygen canisters and intensive care machinery. You know, even doctors and nurses from Germany from Austria from France were congregated in Italy. I remember watching this documentary documentary news bulletin where a German doctor was asked how can he communicate in the intensive care unit in Milano where he was with Italians and he said. He was directly in the face of death. Health professionals communicate by osmosis and then wasn't it brilliant how a month later, the commission and the Eurogroup and the European Council decided to do something remarkable to instruct the European government to print its own bonds. So that has created shock absorber using those bonds and trading them for Italian bonds, German bonds, Greek bonds to create a shock absorber so that all the, the budget deficits of our countries due to the pandemic could be European eyes could be shift from the shoulders of the week states onto Europe's and how they also paid for vaccines for the whole world not just for Europe. And by swapping perpetual bonds that Pfizer and AstraZeneca and so on issued for European Central Bank perpetual bonds. That was a remarkable demonstration and you know, especially the post Brexit era. The shipments coming from Europe free vaccines to Britain and as well as to developing countries truly enhance the image of Europe. It's not April's full day. Well actually here's isn't it. None of that happened. Sadly, but all of that could have happened. A thought that may prove either a source of gloom or if we choose a springboard for change. I just described Dm 25 policies or proposals. Imagine if we were in power. When we were imagining how the new now will look like a year ago when we started with the MTV and trying to serve save ourselves from the lockdown. We had again some gloomy dystopian predictions that did come true. And I remember that in my conversation with Stefania Maurizio, who is investigative journalist and very much engaged with the colleagues and Julian Assange's case. Said that this very much resembles what happened with airports after the 911 and that this kind of surveillance and no freedom of speech movement and rebellion might be part of the society will go out of the airports and now again we are witnessing it. But since we've proven to be very good in these predictions. Imagining new reality and post capitalist future and Europe and the world with the DM in power with the DM's policies, because it's not about the power. It's not about the policies and saving our planet. We have done is DM a lot to bring our policies and policy creation and the membership activation closer to everybody. We are working extensively on reaching out to members and offering them different projects that they can engage with and so on. And from my point of view, what I would like to continue doing in the future is reaching out to not so much intellectual target group and talking about burning issues for for little people. And I think that we are also becoming better at that. So looking forward for another year and hopefully more utopian predictions. Thanks Ivana Srećko. Yeah, hi everyone at the beginning I have to disagree with both Yanis and even I don't think they are little people.  I actually think the virus is one of the smartest organisms in the universe in the way it can replicate and change and mutate and so on. I think humans are very often stupid, which you could see these days with the Suez Canal, where a full moon has to help the ship to get out of the canal in the 21st century. So, but to come to the pandemic. I love the young is another now and I think we need this kind of speculative imagination which is of course based in facts and the programs which we are creating a dm 25. And it kind of reminded me of an episode which happened in China in 1972. Richard Nixon visited you and lie and you and live was asked, what does he think about the implications of the French Revolution. And famously he answered, it's too soon to tell. Although later as those who who know the anecdote know, it was revealed that he didn't think really about the French Revolution but about 68. But I think, even today, it still makes sense to pose this kind of question when someone asked you about the COVID crisis, I think it's still soon to tell about the implications which are going to come in the next decades. But it's not too soon to tell that our predictions as even I said, came true. It's not too soon to tell that the rich got richer that the poor get poorer, that the climate got even more fucked that we are with witnessing surveillance capitalism this never ending zoomification of life remote work which will now become the new standard where employers will exploit workers even more and so on. And it's still too soon to tell in which direction it will go. So, speaking about this, another now and this kind of parallel realities which are existing all the time. I think we are still one year later at a kind of crossroads where it can go in any direction. Obviously at this moment it is going in a direction of a kind of planetary dictatorship. I would go so far. But on the other hand, we can see also big openings and cracks in the social fabric and our reality, which is a chance for progressive movements and I hope we can seize it. Of course I could go on and on about the situation in Europe. I think it's similar to the global situation in the sense that we have an internal division in the EU in the same way we have a division between the rich countries and the poor countries we can see it with the vaccines and so on. But inside of the EU we have a major division which is growing even further between the north and the south of Europe and I think in this sense, pan European nationalism, transnationalism is more important than ever. Thanks, Richard. Patricia. Yes, thank you. Well, in one year what was a worldwide pandemic crisis and pandemic crisis. I mean countries which were really in bad condition, like United States or even UK, seems to have found a way to face this pandemic in a way. Not to win yet, but to face it. Let me mention also Australia, New Zealand. Europe is completely right now in lockdown. No vaccine. We have countries like France in lockdown since months but with great numbers of that yet. So it seems a sort of Europe with not a common proposal, a common idea, not vaccine. As European, we should try to look at what have done some of our worldwide friends. I mean, we really need to outsourcing the production of vaccine much better than we have done right now. We should use technology in a better way. I really laughed when I heard about privacy. I mean, we have no privacy since we have a mobile or Google connection or whatever. So I really think this is a fault or a wrong problem at the moment, talking about privacy and the better use of technology could allow us not to chase the virus but probably try to attack it. And one other consideration I was wondering in the last days is why not to allow private structure to vaccine citizens as well and not just only the public one. Of course could be much better and allow all of us to be faster. So we really need in Europe a sort of awareness right now. Otherwise, we are really fast from a good way to win in that direction. Thank you, Patricia Rosemary. Yes, I'm afraid I have to disagree with Patricia about the UK having found a way to face the pandemic. We have one of the worst death rates from COVID in the world. And we have been far too late on everything we've done except the vaccine. And of course, we're told now by Boris Johnson that if our careful opening up a lockdown doesn't manage to cope with the disease. It will be because we're, we're having the third wave, washing up against our shores from Europe in marvelous consolidation of the Brexit story, but I'm afraid it is April the first. The fact is it was the English variant that we exported to the European continent that has been wreaking such havoc in the third way. What remains true in the UK is that we have a high rate of infection circling, and unless we can resurrect and add to our test and trace and isolate and financially support to isolate system which the government has been steadily dismantling. We will be in trouble like everybody else. Again, and there'll be more waves. I think there are really important lessons for us to be learning after a year. And I'm glad to say that communities are self organizing. This is one of the most marvelous things. They're not just trusting to the government to get them through this with their various stories about the one thing that's going to fix it. So, that's where my hope lies. I can give you some very good news, which is open democracy won its lawsuit against the government for selling NHS data to the CI backed spy tech firm Palantir without any consultation with the public. There's no discussion about what should happen to health data. So that is the start, but it's the start of a very long fight back against these huge corporations, big pharma, big data, making a lot of money out of this tragic pandemic. Well done open democracy. David. Thanks. And that's a great news. Rosemary really nice to hear. But look, I think the questions that we ask ourselves every day and the reason why we got up in the morning are precisely the same questions that people before us were asking themselves people who also struggled immensely to fight for a democratic just world people who fought to change this system that is designed to impoverish the poor and enrich and the rich just this year alone. As we saw from the progressive international video that they've just published, we've seen the greatest increase in inequality that we've had in a short period of time ever. We've had over 3 billion people without any access to healthcare. We've seen the largest loss of jobs since the Great Depression.  You tell us that everything is okay. Just just take a step back and think about it for a minute. We actually live in a world that charges people money to keep them healthy. This is madness.  You know, and somehow we have come to largely accept this reality forced to internalize all that should never exist in an open and free democratic society. This is the world after the pandemic, at least the current pandemic that we're going through. It's a world that has changed.  But this is the world that we live in. Let's be clear about it. You know, but the question is, you know, is it inevitable? Of course not. You know, nothing ever is. We have to continuously remind ourselves of what it is that we're fighting for and what it is that we're fighting against, you know, and what we're fighting for, namely the social ownership of the means of production.  Because while it's true that we're fighting against, you know, the legitimate use of power, the creation of capital in the hands of the few, what we at DM, you know, call socialism for the rich and austerity for the rest. We have to remember that this fight knows no borders. It requires internationalism, you know, and to succeed. However, we have to speak a language that everybody understands. It's not good enough to simply be right. We might have the ideas and our opponents might have the machine, but ideas will prevail in machines. Well, they break down usually. And our job is not to repair the machine. This is my view. Our job is to build our own unbreakable machine that is not afraid to challenge and ultimately take power. So what do we do about it? Well, we need to come together as Democrats. That's what we're doing as DM, as internationalists, what we're doing as the Progressive International to say enough is enough. It's time to stick it to the 1% who are forcing us into this long-winded depression. We need to rebel, we need to revolt, and we need to fight for our human rights as citizens. It is only through constructive disobedience that we will ever be able to transform this horrid system that I've just described into something that we can all be proud of. To finish, to do this, you watching all of us, we must go out there and join unions, pro-democracy organizations like the M25 in Europe, others around the world to raise our voices and be loud and clear in the streets and in every parliament and show them that we've had enough. Quite honestly, the days where you come for us are over. Jeff Bezos, Mike Ho, Mitsotakis, Daiselblum, Trump, Merkel, Biden, all these other, and all the rest. You know, we are coming for you. That's what I wanted to say. We need, and on the subject of problem solving as opposed to problem pointing, there is an important update to our progressive agenda, which is shortly going to be put to our members. So we're going to be discussing that it's an important to change to our policy roadmap that tackles some of the issues that you mentioned and, as you said, attempts to stick it to the 1%. Thanks, Mehan. As I was listening to David, and I will take it from where he left us, where he stopped, and I've been thinking all these days, what was the first thing we used to say when the M was formed back in 2016, that Europe will either be democratized or it will disintegrate. And we've seen that, and as Yanis said in his opening remarks that, but this pandemic has brought down and made even accelerated the speed of Europe's disintegration. And this is because, especially the EU has failed once again to provide a suitable response to this whole, the COVID-19, the whole pandemic. On the one hand, we have the common knowledge that it's a pandemic and it hits all our countries. And on the other hand, we have the small political decision making centers that instead of uniting all of us, all the people, they keep dividing them. So I find that someone may ask, isn't it a vicious circle? Yes it is, but there is a way out, and we can make it all together, one next to the other. If we all of us believe that there was no way out, trust us, we wouldn't be here today. We wouldn't try to form a new way of doing things. So, and I'll close with that, our main notions, transparency, fighting the EU oligarchy, our Green New Deal, all these tools are instruments we can all use in order to create another now, as Regco mentioned. But if we fail to inspire people, inspire each other in order to try to change things, then we will just surrender all progressive people to the hands of the vicious oligarchy. And this is something we cannot do on our own, we are not the enlightened ones, we'll do it all together. So if you feel that you won't be part of this change, if you want to be part of this crazy people that want to change Europe and make it liveable again, join us and join your hands and your voices with us. Thanks. Thank you for today. And join us at dm25.org slash join. Yes, I couldn't agree more with what you need. And I hope you all heard it very well, you know, and clearly join us because in the state, the European Union is now, I don't think it will lead us somewhere where we want to be. For a whole year now EU policy has refused to admit its mistakes only and finally to take countermeasures. And once again, the political leaders of the member states are engaging in haggling over posts and over lucrative contracts over licenses. We are deciding with a who's past that is not even hidden, who may die last.  The idea of the pandemic has brought more than openly to light the inability of the EU in its current form to act for the benefit of the people. 610,500 Corona deaths have been reported in the EU by the end of March. We do not know exactly how many people have died as a result of the EU's inhuman economics policies since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2010. But they, too, were and are victims of the wrong policies. The M25 have the task to continue to expose this incompetence in its full extent. We as the M25 will continue to put our proposals for a solution out into the world. The virtual world and to the streets. COVID or not. Thank you, Jochen. Before we move to our next segment, does anybody have any responses? Any other comments on this? No, we're all okay. Okay, Beral. Beral Madra has just joined us. Beral, would you perhaps like to give us a little update on Turkey, Istanbul Canal? Yes, of course. Thank you. Good evening. I was a little bit late because I couldn't, I don't know, was there a time change? Maybe Turkey did not change when the rest of us changed time. Sorry. Okay, today in Turkey, 40,000 cases, which is very high, and we are on the second role in the list of general COVID map. And 170 people died. And it is really, the reason is during the month of March, AKP, the ruling party, made its congresses all over Turkey. And in these congresses, there were, of course, thousands of people coming from different cities and they went back. Now, today it was in the newspapers that many AKP party persons are now positive. And on the other side, probably there is no vaccine because people, 60 years old people were invited to be vaccine. But when they went to the hospitals, it was said in this hospital there is no vaccine, go to another one. And beyond tech, 1 million or 2 million beyond tech has arrived, but I didn't hear anybody to be vaccines with this beyond tech. I don't know. Next end of this month, Ramadan is starting, not end of this month, middle of this one. And there are very absurd rules just announced by the government. They are discussing why this kind of rules because at seven o'clock everybody had to finish their fast and eat at seven o'clock. But they said at seven o'clock every restaurant will be closed or something like that. I don't know. It has no rational administration concerning this vaccine issue. I don't know if you have some questions about what other issues in Turkey is, I can answer. Would you like to speak about the Istanbul Canal perhaps? I have sent a beautiful picture just a few days ago showing how they have created a Disneyland Istanbul Canal. But of course this is a huge construction issue. I heard that at least 10,000 trucks is needed to carry the debris from one side to the other side of Istanbul and where to carry it. It can build an island in Marmara Sea, they said. If they start digging and collecting the soil, it can build an island on Marmara Sea. But all the experts of ecological science, they say it will completely destroy Marmara Sea. That means again sea will be destroyed too because the water will not stay in Marmara Sea. It will go through Canakkale straight into again coast.  On the other hand, it means a new rupture from the continent of Europe. So this is an ideological and also political, whatever, I don't know, maybe also economic issue. And the real estate websites in Google, Turkish real estate websites are continuously selling land on both sides of this future hallucination of this canal. Thank you Borrel Srećka. Yeah, I'd love just to shortly, since Borrel opened the topic of the geopolitics of the canals. And I think we should definitely shed light more and internationalize the question of the canal which is being built in Istanbul. I'd love to connect to the Suez Canal because obviously besides Corona and COVID, the COVID crisis, this was definitely one of the most remarkable events of this year. Why? Because it showed that what Louise Mumford would call the mega machine, the mega machine was stopped for a few days because of heavy winds. And because of humans or global capitalism not being capable of removing the ship from the Suez Canal. Why is it interesting to me? It's interesting because it poses the question of transport into the middle of our struggles and it's still not there yet. Because what you can see is that transport of goods, of products is one of the, how to put it, the stuff of which capitalist dreams are made of. And when you stop it you can see this kind of crisis which goes in all directions. We could have seen that 200,000 animals are dying because they have been transported alive to be slaughtered in other countries and that's happening all the time and 200,000 is nothing. And left politics without animal liberation is not left politics, if I may add. We could have seen also containers with masturbators, vibrators and so on, which also tells something interesting about the global economy. But what it shows is how important transport is. And it's not just the Suez Canal. I mean obviously 90% of global transport today goes through container big cargo ships. But if you look both what Beral is mentioning in Istanbul, okay, that's again connected to the ships. But if you look at what China is doing with one Belt One Road, which is mainly investing into transport by trains which will be much quicker than boats, especially in this kind of situation with climate change messing up the Suez Canal or Silicon Valley where you can see that most of the companies in Silicon Valley also those who haven't been investing or inventing transport means are now mainly focused on that. They take Amazon, the drone delivery they are they are investing take Elon Musk Tesla. So I think just to make a theoretical point, I don't have a practical way out of this. But politically I think the progressive should focus much more on what is going on in transport and in which way it influences maybe even some sort of post capitalism which might be even worse than capitalism itself. Thank you, Sergeko. First mention of a sex toy in a CC meeting. Fortini. I think you have an update for us regarding the HDP party. Before that can I can I comment on what Sergeko and Beral were saying. Go for it. Okay, regarding the is the second canal, the artificial canal in Istanbul on the European side. Look, this is this is just pure geopolitics blended with corruption. I will remind you that Turkey is under very strict international obligations regarding the way it manages the the crossing the Dardanelles. These are the international waters that Erdogan is not controlling. But if he creates a new canal, then he can control that. He is released from all his international obligations. And I would not put it past him to block the natural crossing to say that you know, environmental concerns and so on means that there has to be a reduction in the in the crossings by 90% and then suddenly he forces all the trade going to Russia. Between Russian Ukraine on one hand or the Caucasus and the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to go through his own canal where he writes the rules. This is one, you know, let's let's not forget that this is the main reason why he died he's doing it and also because you know whenever you have such a huge project. There's always a fantastic opportunity to make money out of it. There are also direct important parts chunks of money into your own pockets and the pockets of the contractors that are indebted to you for getting for for getting this project done. So maybe Dm25 Turkey should adopt a humorful campaign campaign based on humor saying, look, if you really want to make money out of it. What is your idea?  Sometimes humor is a good way forward. Now regarding the Swiss canal, I'm going to differ from you.  You know, in a progressive world where you know that we have democratized post capitalism we already live in post capital, that's my view but we democratize it and we have, you know, Corpus syndicalism and citizens and so on. We are still going to need trade.  It would really magnify the costs of anything. And it will also create insularity that we don't want, we want trade. The problem I have with globalization is not so much trade. The problem with globalization is that it frees up the right of vibrators to go around the world, but not and out of money to go around the world but not the right of people to go around the world. So we are going to need big ships and we need to we're going to need the Swiss canal. And yes, sometimes even in the good progressive progressive world of the future, large ships are going to get stuck in the Swiss canal or in some other canal. We're not going to avoid such technological accidents. And I think they did a fantastic job to get it unstuck the problem with this particular ship, if you may, it was the moon, the moon. You are denigrating the work of hundreds and hundreds of very hardworking people who got it unstuck there. And of course they used the moon, but if it wasn't for hard labor, proletarian labor and technologists working there, many of them are Egyptian, which is a good thing, it wouldn't have happened. One of the big problems with that is that this ship was too large. And you know, this is what capitalism does, it creates magnitudes that are outside human proportions. So it's not that we don't need ships, we don't need trade, we need smaller, because a lot of that shit that was being loaded on evergreen was unnecessary. And I don't mean necessarily by the vibrators, right? I don't have an opinion that this would be essential for human mental health. Let's not be knee-jerk in our criticism. We are not against the technologies, we are not against those things that capitalism has created, which according to Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto have liberated humanity, including international trade, from prejudice and superstition. Let's bring it back to a human scale that will happen automatically once we move away from the heavy concentration ownership rights over the large corporations that are doing the trade. If I may, just one short point. But I do agree with you that we should ban livestock trade.  I'm really glad to hear that for this last part. Regarding trade, no, I wasn't saying we should shut down the Swiss canal and stop global trade. I think that the means of transport are a problem on itself when you see how much these big ships fueled by fossil fuels are contributing to the other climate crisis or look at the coast of Somalia. You know, why do we have the Somali pirates? Because these big ships ruined the coast of Somalia. The reason why we have pirates in Somalia is because Western fleets descended upon a country that failed, took their fishing stock, rendered them in pecunius, stole the only source of protein from them and the fishing vessels turned into pirate vessels. This is a clear case of imperialism. Of course, but the big cargo ship is the best symbol of imperialism. No, no, I'm sorry. I disagree with that. The reason why they attacked the cargo ships was because the West that then uses those shipping lines with the cargo ships, you know, destroyed their country and took their livelihood away from them. Even if there were small cargo ships, they would have taken them. I would have taken them if I was a Somalian fisherman and I had nothing to live on because these huge Western vessels came on to my waters and stole the fish. The only thing they had there was protein was fish. You can't grow anything on Somaliland. Thank you, Janis, and if any of you guys would like to join the scrum, please stack in the chat or raise your hand. I'd like to bring in Fotini, because we were about to go to her before. Go for it, Fotini. Thanks, so it seems that President Erdogan doesn't choose only to not to follow Turkey's international obligations when it comes to building a canal on his own. It's also on other very important issues as well. In the last days, we had on the one hand, the withdrawal of Turkey from the Instable Convention, and on the other hand, the culmination of the fight Erdogan has unleashed against Hadepe. Let me just very shortly remind, mostly for the people that are watching us, is that Erdogan usually has instrumentalized in orchestrated prosecutions and imprisonment used in order to remove his political opponents from the political arena of Turkey. In addition to constant violation of human, political and personal rights, and of course, complete violation of democratic procedures. So few days ago, on the 17th of March, there was a file, a lawsuit filed at the constitutional court of Turkey, asking the banning of Hadepe as a party that fosters and supports terrorism. Yesterday, the constitutional court returned the file to the court that initiated the procedure for procedural omissions, but it's more than certain and from what I was told from our comrades of Hadepe that it will be resubmitted as soon as they fill in the missing parts in the procedure. On that same day, the government also stripped Hadepe's MP, Omer Farouk Yegelioglu, a fighter against the violation of human rights in his country, a politician that in parliament brought and mentioned cases of police brutality against women, a politician that saw his immunity being lifted because of a social media post he made five years ago. And he's the only one of the many politicians of Hadepe politicians that have been prosecuted, like Selahattin Demirtas and many, many others. The M25 had to react and we acted very fast, not only by bringing forward the situation and presenting what happened in Turkey, but also by organizing a petition that is currently ongoing on our website with a single main cause. Defend the Hadepe, resist Erdogan's dictatorship and as an ultimate cause save democracy. It is our duty as democrats and as active citizens to try and make the Hadepe struggle our own struggle. Because if it is banned, it will be the Seventh Procurdist political party that will be banned in Turkey. But it's not only political crime in Turkey, it's a coup against democracy. At the same time that our petition was launched, the Progressive International organized a virtual event last Sunday. Yannis was there as well and many other participants. So the next steps forward because we launched the petition, but we need to follow it up. As we were informed on the 26th of April, the hearings from the company riots start in Turkey. So our comrades there need our support. We will be there because as we all say their struggle is our own struggle. We have to fortify a democratic front against Erdogan's authoritative practices. We do it all together. We will be there. If you want to join this fight, please make sure you visit our website dm25.org and put your signature in our petition. Be part of it. Join us. Join this fight in the saving of democracy. Thank you. Thank you for to me and we have a comment from the chat from mad mom. She says I appreciate these meetings they let me hear firsthand other countries problems without the spin that media puts on everything. Thank you mad mom we appreciate your comment. I would just like to congratulate for to me and Merah 25 for taking up the cause of HTTP. I hope that we'll see on our website, a real account of the innovative initiatives that the very brave HTTP MPs have made for Turkish democracy. We need a proper history of this so that people fully understand what's going on. Thank you very much. Does anyone else have any other comments anything to add any other. No, Johannes. Yes, just wanted to mention I think we are in the other any other business part right. Just wanted to mention that we are going to send out so for all the DM members who are watching us we are going to send out. Two votes. So also, you know, for those viewers on YouTube, we are regularly having votes on important issues that we decide all together in the end 25. And the first one is on our provisional national collective for Portugal so those members that will be in charge of coordinating our movement and our grassroots members in Portugal. And the other one is a very important one, not just another political party model principles and pathway so for our guidelines for our lecture wings that we have and build up in several countries, like Greece very successfully and other will follow the example. Like we are working on that in Germany and Italy and other countries. Those are very important votes so please the dear members look out for that email and vote and with that, we are also going to send a policy proposal. To be honest you can describe best since you also have published it on our on your website I think and we can republish on the 25.org for everyone to see. I think it's called what Europe must do now. That's right thank you Johannes, and let me hand it over to Janice and then we'll conclude go for yet. Janice, would you like to conclude on that mention of the policy paper. Sorry, I couldn't unmute. Yeah. DM 25 needs to adapt to the times and we're doing this, and we're doing this at the level that we know how to, which is bouncing backwards and forwards between members of the CC and our membership at large ideas and policy proposals. I just want to remind you that a Green New Deal for Europe has many insights that now become far more topical and urgent due to the deterioration of the pre existing crisis, courtesy of the pandemic. And we came up with a three point plan, which what it did was it took some elements of the Green New Deal, and effectively put them to push them to the floor, regard and made them simpler and more pertinent to the demands of the pandemic, especially the economic recession that the pandemic caused. And what we're doing is so putting all this together to under. If you want a heading of what Europe must now do for the 2020s. And there are three major categories health, obviously, we're in a pandemic. Prosperity, common prosperity shared prosperity, which is the opposite of austerity in a way. Peace, and for that matter, green peace. A few words on each one of them on the question of health. It is now abundantly clear that the European Union cannot, you know, wash its hands of Europeans health. It is the same way that it tried to tried and failed to procure vaccine vaccines for all Europeans. You must pay and must organize for primary health care across Europe, including first defenses against pandemics in the paper you will be able to read. People watching very specific proposals on how this can be organized at the European level and paid for by the European level by the European level at the European level without any new taxes. This is important because the moment you start introducing new taxes and you have to go through the whole conversation about how to federate and have federal taxes by the time we have this conversation will be dead. The second plank dimension pillar prosperity, green prosperity. This is a rigging of the Green New Deal and the proposals on what to do about public debt, what to do about private debt and how to take trillions trillions and at least 600 billion every year and plow it into the green transition. So, effectively, the work has already been done for that as part of the Green New Deal. We are putting it to the fore. And third, green peace, not green peace. Europe is now surrounded by battlegrounds or potential battlegrounds. The Mediterranean is brewing conflicts in Libya, in Syria, in between Greece and Turkey in the region between Egypt and Libya. So, we have particular proposals we are discussing there on how to reduce the tensions and how to link this peace drive, peace initiative with green energy, because many of these conflicts have to do with fossil fuels. Nord Stream 2 in the north of Europe is something that gives putting enormous power. It gives the United States enormous power. It puts the German establishment in a bind in a difficulty. So, going green and a peace drive must go hand in hand. There are particular proposals on how to do that. We are going to, on Monday, this document is going to be sent to all members in different languages, national collectives, DECs, members. We are waiting for feedback. We are going to be very liberal as a CC, I propose. I'm sure it will be. And if when there are interesting amendments, even amendments we don't agree with, if we agree with them, we will incorporate them in the original text. If not, we will, you know, put them side by side with our proposals, article by article paragraph by paragraph, and then our members by the end of May, last week of May, we have an opportunity in the context of an old member vote to choose which amendments they want to take.  Thank you, Yanis. Thanks for outlining that process of having our policy papers crowd crowdsourced through the membership. I would add that once the policy papers is finalized assuming it is and improved. It informs all of our campaigns. We're doing movement. We're not a think tank. Whether those campaigns are electoral or movement based. So I think that wraps it up for now. Thank you. Thank you to our panel to everyone here. Thank you out there for listening and see you again. Same time. No, no, same place. But in two weeks on the 15th of April, because we're moving to a fortnightly schedule, almost screwed that up there. I'm glad I didn't. Okay. Bye. Thank you.


What's going on guys it's your boy DPJ here today with another destiny video now yesterday we got our third and final stream under April 12th update in a video yesterday I spoke about all changes coming to weapon types and certain exotics and if you missed that you'll find it either on my channel or the link in that video description if you guys do want to check it out today we will talk about all changes made to PvP mentioned via the stream yesterday so let's get straight into it and let's start with vives or reviving first off they have extended the time it takes to revive a teammate so when you guys are playing trials etc there's a big difference even when wearing exotics such as a light beyond nemesis or crust of alpha looping there's still a noticeable difference especially when trying to sprint revive this is mainly due to the fact you have to get closer to your teammates ghost to revive them changes to reviving or being revived don't end there the overshoot you receive is also less powerful also specifically in trials they have added an additional two seconds to the five second timer you have before you can revive your teammates so if you are playing trials of a Cyrus your body dies instead of waiting five seconds before you can revive them you have to wait seven seconds if your teammate dies again in the same round and extra seven seconds will be added to revive time so four in seconds will be that you have to wait before you can revive them moving on and let's check out changes made to ammo and let's start with special ammo they have changed it to now you spawn in with special ammo at the start of the game then additionally a special ammo crate will spawn in way later than usual at the three minute mark and then a further two minutes after that this will significantly in my opinion reduce the amount of special ammo you'll be able to play with in a single game the change to be made across the board in all game types with the exception of mayhem mayhem has been left untouched because mayhem is well mayhem changes again have been made across the board with heavy ammo and when it spawns in heavy ammo now will only show up once per game and that being at the five minute mark obviously this change doesn't affect trials and elimination but every other game mode across the board heavy ammo will only spawning once at that five minute mark obviously again with the exception of mayhem which is being unchanged moving on and let's talk about changes made to that motherfucking RNG that loots now across the board in all PvP modes legend days will be dropping at an increased rate so you'll be definitely see more than usual other changes coming the Lord Shack's weekly banties if completed you'll be able to land yourself with loot of a light scope to a 335 trials of a size will also receive changes the banties via lance and the trials of a size will drop loot once completed up to a 330 light score the 99 mercury lighthouse chest will now drop armor and weapons up to a 335 light score they've also given us the option to complete their his eyes will upon you bounty on a daily basis if that's what you want to do now iron banners also receive changes to all legendary n-grams have been removed from the iron banner loot table and in replacement of them you'll be receiving iron banner gear instead the rank 3 and 5 iron banner packages will contain an artifact and gold shell these will drop at a 320 light score and the iron banner rank 5 packages also been changed so the gear you get from it will drop up to a 335 light score but guys that is the end of what they mentioned on stream with the changes coming to PvP like I said if you missed my video yesterday where I talked about all changes coming to weapons across the board it will be linked in that video description if you do want to check it out guys hope you enjoyed the video do drop a like would appreciate your support tell me your thoughts on all changes down below in that comment section if you have any and I'll catch you guys on that next one


what is going on guys today I am back with another destiny 2 video and we've just got done doing the first raid of the week since the weekly reset and I got some epic loot I've also got a ton of engrams to open including an exotic I've got a raid engram from Hawthorne I've also got two engrams I can pick up from Benedict as well which we're gonna do in today's video before we go any further guys do you want to win some silver if so leave a like on this video and drop a comment down below winners will be picked from my discord server which is linked within the video description so go join it people okay so first things first check out this new bad boy I obtained now when doing the raid I got two things I got the sword and I got this alone as a god the sniper rifle and look at it look how good that looks look how good that looks I'm so hyped it's unbelievable I think we got snap shot sights we've got triple tap or ambitious assassin we've got cork screw rifling we've got small ball and we've got arrow head break but look how good it looks and we put some look at the shaders and it just looks so good the thing is about this thing aim down sights so quick it's unbelievable it seriously is but look at that look at it looks so good look at this I just I'm just gobsmacked by beautiful these fingers I hate sniping the game because I'm bad at it especially with that PVP but I'm gonna try and get good eat just to use this thing look it just looks good with every shader I'm in love with this thing well actually besides that shader tarnished copper what how's that but yeah I look so good and if you haven't seen the sword here's the sword there's stayed back it's stayed back even which is a great great weapon in itself I should can take one up to three or five if I need to on it we got relentless strikes we've got on it whirlwind blade we've got enduring guard we've got burst guard we've got hunger hungry edge even and we've got jagged edge so yeah nice so what should we do first should we open up actually yes let's do their exotic engrams and legendaries first because they're locked and the things I can get from Benedict Anthony maybe hi I saw let's start with these because these are low doesn't really matter oh really game it keeps doing this it keeps the servers are so bad okay guys so after about 10 minutes of trying to reconnect I finally got back in man oh man the servers are bad tonight okay so where were we oh yes we was opening engrams and then we've got kids hopefully I won't get kids again okay so let's just get through these keep going keep going keep going and now the exotic please give me the sweet business no trick sleeves which actually are underrated seriously guys these things are so underrated I mean if you're rocking two sidearms man oh man they're absolutely amazing but they are three or five which is fine slightly mine what should we get got a few leg arms to think great there we got a chest piece which actually can look good with the right shader what did we get weapon wise we got swift ride and swift ride okay so same thing same level different burn awesome did we not get I think I've got a fusion weapon didn't that must have gone to the postmaster because my power weapons are full yes we did we got this right here so yeah let's open these two now do you know what I don't actually think I've ever had an exotic drop from a legend oh I know it happens it definitely happens I don't think I have any matter legend those of all pandits unreal unreal and there we go absolutely nothing bad agent and we have the bad news let's quickly take a look at that shutty and just for your guys sakes about Jen you know what I'm gonna quickly remove because I hate things in my postmaster I don't know it must be something to give all CD or something but I just can't stand it okay so I cleared a few few items out because I'm so full it's unbelievable so let's grab that fusion and get them marks out of it actually you know what I'll keep it I'll keep it for a bit why not okay so we got a bright and room or to to open I believe halfway yes we got to okay so what do you what do you know no exotic and what do you know again and no exotic but I got some small gift of bright dust of breakfast even I've got two thousand three hundred forty five breakfast but it's nothing here I want nothing here I want at all got legs earlier stuff I shall looks good but no nothing great there at all so now we've got to go and see Benedict Benedict raid vendor so let's go and do that let's go and do that now he's located down past I call right but you know what I actually need I need only a couple of pieces for full raid gear I don't think I'll get them now should we actually go to whole form first yes let's go to whole form first see what she's got for me see what she's got for me because I think she has okay it'll be a level 10 whatever drops on this or not I got the mob justice this is the SMG which I've had before it's a level 10 got that already so that isn't really needed so let's go down to Benedict come on give me that good Luke Benedict Benedict come on now now I should have enough for two hopefully and the arms do that yes okay so there we go we've got one there got a cloak which I've already got and there we have the chest which I've already got game but you're doing this to me for oh look as you can see what do I need I need just the legs that's all I need all these are legs that's a 293 as well the cloak 293 yeah unfortunate to be honest seriously unfortunate but I've still got another hunter to run the raid on and hopefully I will get legs I'm just super happy about this I'm super super happy about this alone as a god I mean it's so good seriously does and I'm not no guys I am out remember if you want to be the chance of winning some silver simply drop a like and a video leave a comment down below also guys join my discord server links within the video description that is where winners are paid but guys thanks for stopping by as always and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


Soon after Columbus landed and continued to return to the New World, other explorers followed. And after that, we see the beginnings of Spanish settlement. So in this lecture, we're going to look at Spain's Northern Frontier. Normally we think about missions as being evidence of Spain's owning the land for so many years. Spain landed in 1492. The English didn't land and established permanent residents in the New World until about 1620. So Spain had been in the New World a lot longer than the English had. Cavesa de Vaca had said that there were golden cities. He hadn't seen them, but the Indians reported that they were out there. And so after he was recaptured or at least brought back into the Spanish fold and wrote about his explorations, other explorers decided to follow him to see if there really were additional sites of gold. In 1520, you know that Cortez had found the golden city of the Aztec, Tenochtitlan, what we would call Mexico City. So maybe Spanish figured there were others. So Spain sent explorations in from three different ways. Straight up from Mexico, around through the state of where we would call Florida today. And also up from Mexico into what's today the American Southwest. So let's look at these expeditions. The expedition, the De Soto, Moscoso expedition came in from Cuba and Hispaniola over Florida and into probably around what's today Waco. De Soto himself died somewhere in the Mississippi River area and was buried. So his lieutenant Moscoso came up and finished the expedition. And they reached Texas in about 1542. A priest for a Marcus de Niza, also following up on Cavesa de Vaca's report, did indeed meet some of the people that Cavesa de Vaca had talked about. And again had heard stories of gold in cities, but he had not seen any himself. And he came straight up from Mexico City north into Texas. Finally, the Coronado expedition, probably the largest expedition of this time period. Coronado and his men explored the American Southwest. They were the first Europeans to see the Grand Canyon, for example. And they went as far from Arizona as to modern-day Wichita, Kansas. And Coronado was later arrested and tried for cruelty to Native Americans on his expeditions. But he left a legacy of exploration behind him. Several years later, Juan de Oñate set up on an exploration up through what's today El Paso, up the Rio Grande into New Mexico. He established a town of Santa Fe and established the New Mexican territory. He also brought Christianity with him and established missions in the region. But he was known for being a harsh, harsh person. And he punished Indians, especially in Acoma Puebla, where he put down several revolts and rebellions. And left a very bitter taste in the mouths of both the Native Americans and other Spanish settlers who went with him. As a result of these early expeditions, the Spanish didn't find any gold. And so they kind of lost interest in New Mexico and Texas. But they were the first explorations and they solidified their claim on the land. And one of the things that you see, very important things in history, is this idea of the Colombian exchange. This trade between the old world and the new world of people, of animals, of plants, of diseases. And so this exchange where this mixing and mingling is going to have very significant effects later on. While Spain had lost interest, other countries were more interested in the new world territory between Spain and the British colonies because of series of revolts and rebellions that happened both overseas and on the continent. In 1680, the Pueblo Revolt, these were Native Americans living in New Mexico who launched a revolt under the leadership of Pope.  And it actually helped El Paso grow into a city. And it was years before the Spanish could get back up the Rio Grande into the New Mexican territory. Another threat came from the Mississippi River and actually from France. Rene Robert Cavallier, the Sur de la Sal, had been an explorer up in the Great Lakes region. He had heard about this great river that flowed south. And he explored until he found the Mississippi and came down the Mississippi and laid claim to all of the land that drains into the Mississippi for France. Now that was a huge land claim. Everything from the Rocky Mountains to basically the American Midwest, he claimed for France. In 1685, he returned to the United States with the authority given by the French King to establish a settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi River around where New Orleans is today. But they didn't make it because of storms and just getting lost. They were shipwrecked and it wasn't until recently that we knew where they were shipwrecked. They built a fort near what's today Victoria and they called it Fort St. Louis. The Spanish learned very quickly about this fort and began exploring for them. By the time they found the fort in 1689, La Salle and many of the other French settlers were dead. Some had walked all the way from around Victoria up the Mississippi River into Canada to go back home. Although they did run into some Native Americans who looked very European and their thought is that some of the Europeans began living with the Native Americans. But the French threat was gone by this time. It was this relationship between New Spain and New France between both colonies in the New World, one based out of Canada, the other based out of Mexico City. They began competing one another not just with trade and with relationships between Spain and France itself but also in their partnerships with Native Americans. They wanted to establish missions. Both were Catholic countries, Catholic colonies and so Spain, for example, allowed the Franciscan order to really hit up mission building. One of those priests, the father Francis Hidalgo, had come up to Texas, settled in East Texas and helped to establish missions. In 1693 the Spanish pulled out and Hidalgo wanted to continue his missionary activities. In 1711, upset that he was not allowed to continue into Texas, wrote a letter to the French governor in Louisiana asking for permission and help in order to get him back to East Texas. A French merchant named Louis Saint Denis arrived in Eagle Pass on the Rio Grande River looking for Father Hidalgo. Saint Denis and Father Hidalgo had both then been sent to East Texas in order to continue the missionary activities and to establish a trade route from Mexico into Louisiana. They established a midpoint, the Presidio San Antonio de Bejar in 1718 and very nearby the Mission San Antonio de Valero in 1718. Both of those established the town of what is today San Antonio. In 1719, however, there were concerns, problems, international problems between the French and the Spanish, the so-called Chicken War. The capital of Texas at that time was in what is today Louisiana in a place outside of Nacotish, Louisiana called Los Adais. Supposedly the French attacked the mission. At least that's what the Spanish priests thought. Actually it was just a Spanish soldier and some other soldiers who came writing up looking to talk to the missions, looking for help or maybe food and scared a bunch of chickens. The chickens flew up. The priests retreated because they thought they were under attack. When the Spanish troops from the Presidio came to investigate they said nothing really happened. But this sets up the attitude and the context of the situation of this immense distrust between French and Spanish settlers and the fear of an invasion. In 1721, the Marquis de San Miguel de Aguayo began an expedition into East Texas to reconnoiter and to re-establish settlements along the Camino Real, the King's Highway as it was called. This led to a renewed interest in Spanish settlers. One of the things de Aguayo called for was how about bringing settlers in from the Canary Islands to settle the region. To help the missions and the Presidios by bringing in more settlers and giving the missions and the Presidios people to take care of. This was at the beginning of the Seven Year War or at least the Seven Year War came about shortly thereafter and it ended of course to the Treaty of 1763. Sometimes we call it here in the United States the French and Indian War and it was a war between the Catholic countries and the Protestant country of Great Britain. 1767, just a few years later, the Marquis de Ruby came in and established this regulation for Presidios. Presidios are the fortresses. He suggested they close the East Texas missions and Presidios because they were too expensive. He wanted to strengthen San Antonio and the real concern was not the French anymore because after the treaty they left the region but the Apaches. They also wanted to establish trade routes. Pierre Vial's expeditions, Jose Mars's expedition and the Amanguele expedition were all set to establish trade routes between Native Americans and settlers in Texas. One of the most significant things that happened was the Louisiana Purchase. In 1800, Spain returned Louisiana to France. This was because Napoleon was in power and had forced the Spanish king to step aside and let the Spanish diet run the country and he was really kind of in control. He put his brother on the throne in Spain and so then his brother gave Louisiana back to France. But in 1791, a rebellion in the Caribbean of Toussaint Louverture dashed Napoleon's dreams for a Caribbean empire. What he hoped to do was use the Louisiana territory to supply all the raw materials to supply the French settlements and colonies in the New World. But he was never able to overthrow Toussaint and the rebellion and so he just sold the territory to the United States who was waiting for him to sell it to them. This resulted in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The French were no longer a threat. At long last, the French were finally out of the picture but now they had to deal in New Spain with the Americans who were hungry for land. Much of what Spain did was a reaction against threats on their gold and silver mines in Mexico. And so they were concerned about the French taking over. They were concerned about now the United States coming in. It was a reaction to the threats against their gold and silver mines. They were also responsible for continued exploration of Texas in the Great American Desert or the American Southwest. They reflected a desire in this exploration and in their activities for the 3G's gold, glory, and God. They wanted to expand Christianity. They wanted to gain personal fame and increase the wealth of themselves and the king. This idea was known as mercantilism is that it was up to the nations to make as much money as they could. One of the ideas that was a continuation of the Colombian exchange was this idea of cultural and racial mixing. Mestizaki, the people of the old world, the Spanish, the Africans who came into the new world and intermixed with Native American people. And so you have a racial hierarchy that is increased by these new groups. And in fact in your sources I've listed one of the ideas of how these different castes should fit into the picture. This is called racial mixtures. It's in your sources. The other thing we need to know about are the Spanish institutions have remained. Spain ruled the region for 300 years. So a lot of the names of the physical world, the rivers, the mountains, the plains, the towns are given Spanish names. And there's also built features. I said towns and other settlements, the missions all remain Spanish named. And of the Spanish institutions, the towns, the ranches, farms, missions and presidios, they were very complex institutions and were very integrated with one another. And so let's look at this a little bit. First of all, nobody settled, nobody established a mission, nobody moved into an area without Spanish authority. Spain had a very hierarchical system. Actually most European countries did. So under the auspices of the Spanish authority, missions were established. Priests came and lived there along with Native Americans who converted to Catholicism. They were protected by the presidios, the soldiers. So because the presidios and the missions were usually the first in a region, they got the best land. And as other people moved in, there was an increased competition for the land. Around the missions and the presidios grew towns. These are the seats of the local government and the Spanish authority. You also had merchants, political officials and towns people, residents who may be related to people in the presidios or may be related to people in the missions. You also had farmers and ranchers. And in these farms, these were family organizations, family working places, but they also hired laborers to work for them in both regions. So farmers grew crops while ranchers grew cattle and grew horses and goats and sheep and pigs. And so they usually had larger amounts of land than the farmers did because farms all done by hand was limited on the amount of farmland you could possess and actually work. So they were often in competition for land as well. But they were also in competition not just with each other but with the missions and the presidios. The missions were also, the priests and the missions were sometimes also very upset with the soldiers who they thought were corrupting the converts either through liquor or through sexual relations and other ways of corrupting that the priests were very concerned about. But there were also love and relationships. Many of the people living in the town were the offspring of the converts, the Native Americans and the soldiers. On the ranches and in the farms, there was competition between each other. They grew food and they raised cattle that was used by the presidios and by the townspeople. But the missions were also doing the same thing. So there was competition between the missions and the farms and the ranches. So it was a very complex relationship but it gives you an idea of the complexity and the rhythm and the importance of the Spanish institutions in North America and Texas.