Hello, I am Antonin Carrot and so today I will talk about why you should take a look at trust. So first of all, I want to thank all the first-dan volunteers for the awesome work they made. So thanks a lot actually. So okay, so let's begin. So as you might understand, I'm a French guy, you know the accent. And previously I tried to understand what the computer I trained to understand understood. Just a magnificent sentence to say, I gave up my PhD last week and I really love free and open source and I am a contributor actually of many open source projects. So for your information, I plan to open a Rust Meetup and Coffee Meeting at Luxembourg or near Luxembourg in France. So please share the information because since two months I tried to just import. It's not correct to have speakers and people etc. It's really hard for me. So if you can share this information or if you're interested, just talk to me directly. Thanks. So today there is a lot of new programming language. Like for example, D, NIN, Go, Rust, etc. But sometimes when we want to understand why a programming language is really important, we have to understand for what actually it, what is the goal of this programming language. So first, just a quick history at the beginning, her need. And as you might know, since 2000 for consumers actually there are big changes. We switch actually from monocode to multi-core architectures for computers, monostrade to multi-straded applications, more powerful hardware and democratization of the internet actually introduce a lot of new software. So many competition. And those big changes actually for developers are really big troubles because we have to switch from sequential code to multi-straded and multi-core support applications that introduced data risk issues, big memory leaks problems. And with this competition, we have actually to build software with a lot of features that we don't actually test a lot and introduce actually those big problems. So this is a funny picture actually that relates the idea of, you know, 2000 it's directly from the modular office and so this guy is not on a chair. And there is a poster must be installed to write multi-straded code. Actually it's must be installed to write safe multi-straded code. And I invite you actually to take a look at this fabulous blog post just to introduce you a little bit more the REST program language. So in this talk, we'll be the most highest level as possible because we have all come from different backgrounds.  So I would try to be the most highest level as possible. And Gradient Hall, so it's a modular engineer at last in 2006. At this idea we need the memory safety and race free multi-strading programming language because this was really hard and it's still hard today to write safe multi-straded code with C and C++ if you want to obtain performance code. So with this idea, Gradient Hall has said, yeah, yeah, we need a new C++. And with this idea, introduce a new programming language, the C++++. At this C++++ is actually REST. So REST, what is REST? REST is a modern, safe, fast and yeah, and concurrent open source system programming language. So it's a programming language actually with the first goal is to write memory safe, thread safe with zero cost abstraction for system. Just a quick story. So Gradient Hall wrote the first REST compiler in 2006 in OCaml and I invite you to take a look at OCaml, it's a very great programming language and it has been sponsored in 2009 by the Mozilla Foundation. And in 2015 it's reached the first stable version. So now in 2018 I think we are in 1.23 or something like that version. So in this talk, actually I will present to you why you should take a look at REST with different layers. So first I will introduce the core concept of REST. Why actually REST is unique with this concept. We are all developers in majority, so what developers want actually is productivity and I will talk about the productivity in REST. Open source is not only called its people, so I will talk about the community because the community, the REST community is really awesome. Company is a project for REST in production. The to-do list of 2018 and finally to conclude. So REST has many features and actually it can be great for developers to have many features, but the learning curve is still high. So I will only introduce what makes REST so unique. It's memory safety and data rest safety and zero cost abstraction. If you want to take a look at all the features of REST, I will just check the website, it's clear enough for that. And just to explain those concepts, I will introduce a shorter story. So once upon a time the DVD seller and the customer.  You want to buy this DVD, but if the box is empty, you cannot buy it. It's not legal and the DVD seller cannot actually sell you the DVD. It's the same case actually for REST. For memory safety, actually we have no new pointer, the reference situation. So just imagine we have a struct DVD with a title and we have a function take that take actually directly the struct. In the main function, we actually reserve the memory. We allocated the memory for the DVD and we want to take the DVD. But here there is a compile time error, not at front time. It's on compile time. Use of possibly an initialized viable DVD. So the compiler will introduce you that no, you cannot actually run this program because there is no new pointer, the reference situation. In another situation, so the DVD is okay. So there is a box and the DVD inside. And in this case, the DVD seller is the owner of the DVD. If you want to buy this DVD, you want to be the owner of this DVD. So the DVD will belong to you actually and not to the DVD seller. And it's the same case actually for REST. And we call that the ownership situation. So this is actually one of the main, this is the core actually of REST. We initialized a DVD which is a struct and actually the DVD is Blade Runner. And we give it as argument to take the DVD here. So take is now the owner of the struct, of the DVD struct. So we can't use anymore in the main function here. And we have a compile time error that DVD is not belong to main but to take. So as soon as take is not in the scope of the main, DVD does not exist anymore. This is actually the core feature of the REST programming language. It's the ownership situation. So in the third situation, you are not a DVD seller but a DVD renter. Actually if you are a DVD renter, you just want to be the owner of the DVD. Even if you borrow this DVD. So in this situation, you will give a period of time just for the customer to use actually the DVD. And this is really important because here you give the reference to the DVD. Okay, so borrower will access to the DVD without any modifications. And after that you can print the title of the struct. Because it still belong to main. And just as borrower is not his autoscope, the REST compiler actually will not remove the memory for the struct. So it still belong, main is still the owner of the struct. Okay. And return to us this DVD before the end of the first day. Introduce actually a period of time we call actually the lifetime of a reference. And it's typically a situation where you want to avoid to reference something. When you want to reference actually something that varies no. Sorry. That already be memory free actually like dangling pointers. So with this situation actually REST avoid that. So here it's immutable. And you can have the situation where you have actually immutable reference with a troll. That yeah I couldn't and sorry for that. I will give you a DVD copy. Unfortunately it's a writable disk. So you can do anything with that. And unfortunately put the initial HD on the bad runner DVD. And this is mutable borrowing situation. So just to reason using REST you can attempt to dereference a new pointer. Attempt to use already freed memory like dangling pointer. Forget to free memory and attempt to free already freed memory. And this is actually the core feature of REST. It's memory safety. But there is some rules actually to respect. The borrowers cop, not lost, not lost, outclass your owner. Just think about you know the situation of the period of time as a customer gets the DVD. Borrowers is DVD. You can have at least one reference to a resource. You can have one mutable reference to a resource. But you can't have the last two rules at the same time. And you must actually ask why? It's for threat safety. Because when does a data REST happens? There is free actually a combination of three different points. At least two pointers to the same resource. At least one writing pointer and unsynchronized operations. But using actually the core features of ownership. If you have multiple reference you don't have any writing pointer. If you have one writing pointer you don't have any other reference. And all those operations are synchronized by default. So REST answers this problem from directly the ownership. So REST actually using REST you can treat and write the same variable from multiple threads at the same time. And you can forget to acquire a look before accessing the variable it protects. And this is actually what REST makes for memory and threat safety. Okay so developers say yeah okay. Features are good. Abstraction is really great. And we need safety today. But we care about the overhead. And REST asians, so REST asians are just people that are using REST, REST maintenance, REST developers, et cetera. They said yeah but with REST you only pay for the feature you actually use. REST does not contain a garbage collector. The compiler actually will just adjust the lifetime of the variable, the references, just at compile time. And perform safety check at compile time. So you obtain the same performance at least running time than C++. But with safety. So for zero cost abstraction you can combine low level control with high level programming concepts. And this is huge actually for a modern programming language. So this is the core features of REST. So now as developer we want to be productive. We don't want actually to write you know safe program in six months. And maybe yeah but we can't do that actually in three weeks with Python for example. And so this is a tweet from Clément de la Fargue, the city of Claverclaw that said REST up and cargo is by far my favorite tool channel where you come to build and deploy management. And using REST actually the learning curve is high for REST. Actually the same thing for C++ if you want to learn C++. But you can be more productive using yeah two different tools. REST up and cargo. So first cargo is built in a package manager for REST. And it contains actually awesome features. Compile your program, check in it, run unit, run your unit test, run your benchmark, publish your library, install crates, so crates, libraries and binaries you can find on the Internet. And all of that in only one configuration file. So you have a total file which contains actually so yeah I'm sorry for that. You have different profile sorry. So you have the profile release with optimization level at free, no debug mode and for the panic it accepts that your program with panic etc. And you can have a different profile for your test, for your bench, for your dock etc. Only one configuration file. And using cargo you just for example you can have a new REST project and cargo run, cargo build and yeah it's okay. But sometimes actually we use, we are using different version of the compiler. Where it comes REST up. So REST up is an installer of REST and there are many objectives. Installer REST from the official REST channels keeps the compiler updated making cross compiling simpler. Actually REST up and cargo has the best productivity tool to work in a group on a given project. And just talk about that. We reached more than 13,000 REST libraries in January and nearly 300 millions downloaded libraries in January too. So this is a picture I take from the REST fest in 2017. Open source is not only code and that's something we tend to forget. Open source and free actually free and open source is community, it's people. This is one actually, I like the most actually in REST, it's the community. The REST compiler for now it's 50 release but it's more than 2,000 contributors and more than 74,000 commits. And the community is really open to request for comments. So it's not a programming language you know that is sponsored by Mozilla and Mozilla say yeah okay please to do that thing. Developers actually maybe you can take a look at this and developers and make us say no we will follow Mozilla. No REST is really open to the community and each developer and sponsor actually have the same place. There is no someone actually that is upon decisions and any other. There is a lot of groups, meetups in 35 countries and if you stay in Europe there is a REST festival and in 2018 it will be in Paris. So the community actually is really loving REST and we can take a look just at the developer survey from Starboard Coverflow in 2015. So the first stable version REST was the third most loved in the statistics programming language. In 2016 we were first and in 2017 we were first again. REST in production so is REST is enough stable actually to put some REST on production and yes there is a lot of companies that are using REST in production. Mozilla, OVH, Clever Cloud, Dropbox Store, Google, NPM etc. There is more than 100 companies that are using REST in production today. So you can take a look at this website. It just displays all the companies that are using REST in production but I just want to focus on how some projects build in REST. Servo is a web browser engine, actually tend to be a prototype and some parts of Firefox are directly like Stylo where experimental things on Servo before Firefox. There is Pistone, Pistone help you actually to build awesome games. Xay, Xay it's a project from a guy from Google. It tend to be a text editor. Jezal, which is an ORM. Actually it's my favorite project. Redox is a Redox operating system. It's a full feature operating system right turn in REST. It's not only a kernel, it's a full feature operating system. The project is really huge. It works very well and yeah. If you are looking for something that you know low level and you are interested in operating system, Redox is definitely one of the projects you must be interested in the most. So to the list, there is some cons actually today using REST and the first one actually is a learning curve. REST introduced new concept, new programming concept and the advantage of that is that after REST actually you are a better programmer because when you are switching from CC++ you say yeah okay but I don't want to do that or you have better actually software management and REST in 2018 will introduce some new ways actually to reduce the learning curve, to learn REST. Connect and empower REST global community and they will focus on web service, web assembly, CLI apps and embedded devices. I put actually we care about your request because REST 2018 roadmap is actually a full list of what developers want the most actually in REST in this year. So typically this request is for me a great message that yeah the community is huge and we care about your request where we will do actually want the most for this programming language. So okay thank you, sorry for the accent, sorry for my stress. I was very happy actually to make this talk because it's my first year in for them, it's my first talk and I'm really happy to talk about for me one of the best programming language that I've ever been created since last 10 years and for the next 10 years. So if you want to take a look at REST and actually you should take a look at REST. There is the REST official website, the REST book, RSE forum and Slack if you want to talk a little more about this wonderful programming language. Thank you. Can you take your question outside? Yeah. Because we are a bit over time. If you have a question maybe one. If you have a question maybe one. Okay. So the system programming language, but do people use it also for applications like for games and stuff? Yeah. Oh sorry. So REST is a system programming language where people actually are using it for applications like games and something like that. Yeah. So definitely yes. There is some current talk about high programming language, high level applications using REST. This is definitely actually one of the 2018 to do in the to do list, you know, in CLI apps and various piston for games for example. There is something like that, but the REST programming language actually has been developed actually for systems and you can just, if you take a look at the syntax it's very similar to C++ for example and not very similar for, it's very variable actually if you want to write high level applications. So the community is working on that just to reduce the syntax for example or to let the compiler make something instead of you. It's definitely something that is happening, but for now in my opinion it's still a system programming language. But it's my opinion. Thank you.


So here's world's first 128-layer 4D NVME SSD. Hi. Hello, my name is Jedwuk. So here we are introducing our NVME SSD for our consumer market. It is based on our SK Hynex 128-layer 4D NAND. That's the first to launch the 4D, 128-layer. What does it mean 4D NAND? 4D means a 3D array, a standard 3D NAND, but with the addition of periphery on the cell. That's how we call it, the 4D NAND, 3D plus another dimension to it. What is an undercell? It's a periphery undercell. It's like a circuit theory, a circuit theory for the NAND flash. Instead of doing it on the side, we're doing it under the 3D array. That's why we call it 4D NAND. 3D NAND is already amazing, right? Yes. 4D NAND is going to change the world, and it is changing the world, and 4D NAND, it's going to be everybody's going to adopt this, or is it special? Yes. SK Hynex was the first to have this 4D NAND, but then, yes, it is periphery undercell. It's a common technology that I think eventually everyone in the industry will adopt it. So SK Hynex is, where is it from, where is it based? SK Hynex is based in Korea. It's been a market leader for this kind of stuff for a long time, doing memory for how long? SK Hynex is a major ERAM and NAND flash memory technology provider. We have our own FAP in Korea. So it's from the core of the technology, the NAND component, that's why we adopted it into the SSD solution. So we have been doing this for a long time. We are a major supplier to all the top companies, top OEMs in the world, from the PCOEM to server data center. So now today what we are doing here is we are spending our SSD portfolio to the consumer market. So how many terabytes do you manufacture per second? I mean, you do a lot of capacity, you do a lot of memory, how does it work? It's big machines. Oh yeah, it comes from the NAND, NAND FAP, the capacity, right? And then all those will transform into a solution, whether a mobile solution, SSD solution. You do SD cards or? We do EMMC, UFS, not SD card, we do SSD. So 128 later, is that the first one to do 128? Yes, we announced that mass production of the NAND component sometime mid last year, we were the first. 128 in the world of memory sounds like not so much, is it possible to do millions of layers? That's the limit. How's it going to happen? It actually is a lot, from where we come from, as you know, for the past few years we have been growing from 32 layers to 64, 32 layers, then 96, then 128. So at the Flash Memory Summit last year, we publicly announced it, there's a potential to go up to like 500 layers or even beyond that, but then that's really many years down the road that we are still not disposing of. Why is it so hard to add more layers? It's all about the fabrication process, you can think of like, you're building a very tall building, like to make it very high up, you really need to improve your fabrication process. The key thing is to make it reliable for mass production. So how much data goes on this? This platinum drive, it supports up to two terabytes. So two terabytes? Yes, and the gold NUEME supports up to one terabyte. So are we going to see like 100 terabytes and how soon? How many layers do you need to get to like hundreds of terabytes? 100 terabytes, yes, it will be coming, but then maybe in a little bit bigger form factor like this, but eventually it will come, but about when and how I think that's still too far to predict. Is there a time when SSD becomes cheaper than hard drives? Or is it never going to happen? Also it's hard to say, I've been in the industry long enough that for a long time people have been setting that goal, but there's still a gap between SSD and HDD. But SSD, as a city vendor, we continue to improve our cost reduction year over year, generation after generation, but I try to give the best value to the consumer. Who provides the best R&D in this space? Are there like universities everywhere that contribute, the whole bunch of tech? Or is it all invented in South Korea, and that's it? I think it's a collaboration, I mean academia definitely play a big part in R&D, research and new technology. We collaborate with industry partners, with the university, with academia, so it's all around, it's the whole ecosystem. We work together. And is Samsung a competitor, or they actually work with you on everything? I'm sorry? Samsung. Competitor? Oh yes, Samsung has the same drive, so yeah definitely competitor. Competitor, alright. So what is this? This is just a demo, like we put our SSD into a gaming system, and then running some live benchmark. So you can see our platinum SSD is in there, and better in there. So there's nothing better than platinum, you don't have like diamond line? Maybe in the future. Maybe. But right now no, platinum is a high end. And the solid-state gold? So the most excited people about this are like high-end video editors, or gamers, or who? We are definitely targeting for, yeah, you name it, gamers, video editing, like those that require the high capacity, high performance, this is what we are providing to our customers. Because the point is not just capacity as a performance, it's at the main point. Yes. So this is the fastest performance? Yes, we optimize the performance, we own all the end-to-end technology. The DRAM, the NAND, the controller firmware. So that's how we provide to our customers. How fast does it get? You can see from the brochure here. What SSDs? Up to 3,500 megabytes a second for read, 3,200 for write. That's very fast. Yes, yes. Definitely one of the... And all this crazy fast speed is reliable forever. How long is it going to last? Oh, yes. I mean, when we design our drive, that's our spec, and we will... What's the warranty? Warranty is five years. Five years is pretty good. What's that? It's pretty long. SSD. So maybe in the early years there were some reliability issues, but that's been fixed. Our drive is we have shipped to many B2B, like OEM customers also. So we are very confident on our lightweight. Five years. Is there like a limited number of writes? Yes, yes. Five years or... How many writes? Like here, you see here, 1,500 terabytes. Terabyte written, 1,500. So if it's one terabyte, that means 1,500 times. Is it two terabytes? Is it half as much? Or is it for the two terabytes? I think it's for the two terabytes drive. All right. So that's pretty much. That's a lot. Yeah. The consumer market, I think, is a lot. But hard drives have many more writes on hard disk or no? I'm not too sure. All right. Cool. Thanks a lot.


Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another exclusive Transformers review. So Hasbro Toy Shop returned last month like a Phoenix rising from the ashes or a Galvatron rising from a Megatron. And it is now known as Hasbro Pulse. And I for one am excited to see that it making a comeback. Hasbro Pulse, when it first popped up, you had all the pre-orders for the new Siege Line. You had 999 Deluxes, which I jumped on quite a few of those. And if you made a purchase from them up until February 25th, you were included in their Transformers premium program, which gave you free shipping for a year, access to exclusive figures, and some other things they really haven't announced yet. It's supposed to be a $50 a year membership, but as I said, if you place an order with them up until the 25th, you supposedly got it for free.  They're doing retail, which is great because as I've said in many of my videos, I only have Walmart Dollar General, as you saw in my last video, and Amazon. And unfortunately, a lot of the online retailers are dealing with scalpers. I mean, I've been seeing Ultra Magnus for 70 plus for weeks. So with the opportunity to finally grab him retail price, I jumped all over it. So the 26th rolled around. I checked my account and yes, I was a premium member. And one of the figures I have been looking at to buy, but I was really up in the air about, was there War for Cybertron Generations Selects, which is their exclusive figures, Combat Hero Megatron. I wanted this guy because I am a Megatron fan. I have a lot of Megatrons over there on my shelf, but I just, I didn't really like the colors until I really started researching the figure and come to find out that this Megatron is a homage to a 1995 Megatron that never saw a release date. He was actually molded after the Generation 2 Combat Hero Megatron that was a purple and black Nerf, Nerf missile firing Megatron. I'll show you in the review later. So it was really cool. So I started looking at some of the other videos of the figure of other fans who bought him.  So I took advantage of my premium membership, popped this Megatron into my cart to purchase at retail price $29.99 and got him here in the mail. So let's crack this exclusive figure open and see if he was worth the wait and worth me dealing with his ugly collar scheme. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. So I put a poll up on my channel last week asking you the viewers if you would rather see me go over the box to a figure or just get straight to the robot inside. Out of 112 votes, 72% of you want to see the box. So here we go guys, here is the box for the Hasbro Pulse Exclusive Generation Selects Combat Megatron. It is a basic cardboard box, though it does have this really cool graffiti on it. You got an Autobot logo right here. That actually wraps around the side. So that's really neat. Though I do wish they had a Decepticon logo instead of the Autobot one right here. I have no idea what that says. So if anybody can enlighten me, please fill that comment section up. Then we have Transformers War for Cybertron Trilogy, Hasbro, Transformers on the top, on the bottom, there's your Combat Megatron, Takara Tomy Generations, the sides, there we are, warnings and words. The back has nothing. So that is it for the box. Now once you open him up, you need to turn him up this way, and let me adjust my camera. Now as we open up Megatron from the box, you will see that the inside of the box has a lot more detail than the outside. I love the, I guess those are Cybertron Hieroglyphics. But there you have Megatron in a nice plastic tray. He's locked in really good. He's got the little plastic tie-downs. You take Megatron out and there is the instructions. And these are the exact same instructions for Siege Megatron. Other than you have the War for Cybertron Generations, select zero one down there for the exclusive figure. So now let's get Megatron out of this plastic tray and take a closer look at him. First we'll take a look at Combat Megatron in Tank Mode. And he is the exact same mold as Siege Megatron. Granted he has those wild-looking colors. Keep in mind that my Siege Megatron has the Toyhacks Upgrade set applied. And if you'd like to see that review, check out the link above. Now let's discuss those colors. And they are very 1990s. And the spinning image of the 1995 G2 Megatron that was never released. He has green Tiger Stripes all the way around on this brownish looking collar. The gun is now green with some red highlights. And I really love the red on the inside. He does like a few of the details the original Megatron had, such as the painted lights right there that I'll show you real quick that the original Megatron had. Another throwback that this tank has is right here on top the G2 Decepticon logo with MGTN95, Megatron 95, which is another throwback to the 95 Toy. Another quick comparison we'll do is take the Combat Megatron and compare him to his G2 counterpart that was originally supposed to have the Tiger Stripe detail. As I said before, this tank had kind of a Nerf gun feature.  Too cool. So that's pretty much it for Combat Megatron in Tank Mode. I'm not going to go into full details. I went over that before with my Siege Megatron review. If you want to check that out, click this link above. So now let's take a look at Combat Megatron in Robot Mode. Robot Mode is where Combat Megatron really shines. All those collars carry over so well from his vehicle mode. And yes, though at first they may seem a little bit off-putting, I want you to compare them to the G2 Unreleased Combat Megatron. I mean that's almost spot on. The white helmet, the black face, the Megatron name tag there on the chest, the MGT-N95 on the shoulders that the unreleased version had on both shoulders. But taking a look at that and comparing it to the new figure, I absolutely love the callbacks. Now let's compare Combat Megatron to the original Siege version. The Combat Megatron mold has improved a couple of things next to his Siege counterpart. For example, the original Megatron had this problem with his noggin. His head kept dropping into his chest. There's no catch and that proved to be a little bit annoying. Combat Megatron does not have this problem. They have fixed something that keeps the head from dropping down. It does droop just a little bit, but nothing compared to the Siege version. Another thing they fixed was his ankle tilt. Now he still has that loose ankle tilt, but mine snaps back into place really easy. With my original Siege Megatron, once I got that ankle out of place, I cannot, for the life of me, get it back in unless I take the foot off, snap it back into place that way, then reattach it. So that is another thing I'm really glad they fixed and approved on. Now we're going to go over the real reason I finally broke down and bought this figure. Combat Megatron has a brand new head sculpt compared to the Siege Megatron. In a lot of the promotional images, I never noticed this. It wasn't until I saw a few reviews on YouTube that really pointed it out. As you can see, the Combat Megatron has more of the IDW Origins Megatron look while the Siege line has the Generation 1 head sculpt. I love this. My only complaint with the head sculpt, I wish the face wasn't so black, but it does fully represent the 1995 version. I couldn't be happier with Hasbro Pulse's exclusive G2 Combat Megatron. I enjoy this figure a lot more than I originally thought I would. As I said, he looked ugly at first, I wasn't going to get him, but I do not regret my decision at all. He's a fantastic homage to a figure that never was, and thanks to all his different accessory ports, I can actually make him look like a Generation 2 Megatron with the cannon on his shoulder and giving him a rifle with double bayonets. So there you have it guys. That is my look at the Hasbro Pulse exclusive Generation Selects Combat Megatron. So should you add the Hasbro Pulse Generation Selects Combat Hero Megatron to your collection? Why not? It is awesome to have a piece of Transformers history at an affordable price. That is available as I'm looking right now online. And what I like about it too is the box even though it's not a great looking display piece, the plastic inserts, even though I've taken Megatron out, he clips back in very very securely. I mean there's no worry whatsoever of his accessories falling out, his weapons falling out, or him falling out. 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At the dawn of the 20th century, the United States found itself at war with first Spain and then the Philippines. These foreign interventions set the tone for future American foreign policy. Writing around this time, Mark Twain gave an ominous warning about foreign policy by a great republic. But it was impossible to save the great republic. She was rotten to the heart. Lust of conquest had long ago done its work. Trampling upon the helpless abroad had taught her, by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home. Multitudes who had applauded the crushing of other people's liberties lived to suffer for their mistake in their own persons. The natural process Twain describes occurs through a framework we call the boomerang effect. In the absence of strong formal constraints, tactics used in foreign interventions abroad are later used to limit the liberties of people back home. Like a boomerang, the U.S. government aims its policies abroad, only for them to return back to the United States. This occurs through the development of human capital, physical capital, and an interventionist mindset which are necessary to control others. One illustration of the boomerang effect is the militarization of domestic policing. Historically, the American police and military served two distinct functions, the police protected and served the American public, while the military defeated external threats. Over time, that distinction was blurred. In 1967, for example, ongoing race riots left the LAPD in search of more effective crowd control methods. Former Marine John Nelson provided a solution. During his deployment in Vietnam, Nelson served on a special force recon unit. Nelson had these accurate and aggressive tactical units in mind when he proposed creating SWAT teams to aid the LAPD in crowd control.  And whereas a regular Marine unit would initiate combat with the enemy, only about 20% of the time, a force recon unit would initiate combat 95% of the time. This demonstrates the role of human capital. Intervening abroad provides a learning environment in which participants obtain a unique set of skills to coercively control other people. The skills developed abroad return home as experiences and training from foreign intervention are transferred to domestic positions. Implementing Nelson's idea required somebody with some rank and some hutzpah to champion it. Daryl Gates, a World War II veteran and LAPD inspector, filled this role. He understood and approved of Nelson's proposal and spearheaded the development of the first SWAT team. SWAT teams became more widespread at the end of the Cold War as policymakers focused on initiatives like the War on Drugs. The physical capital of the military, such as tactical gear, assault rifles and armored vehicles, was donated to domestic police throughout the United States by the federal government. This allowed even small agencies to create SWAT units. This combination of human and physical capital contributes to more aggressive forms of domestic policing. An example is the no-knock raid, where police officers enter the personal property of citizens without notifying them, without knocking. The number of no-knock raids has risen dramatically over time. Since 9-11, a series of federal programs have made state and local police increasingly reliant on the federal government for training, equipment and intelligence, as well as subject to the federal government's rules, regulations and influence. This process of centralization places more power in the hands of the federal government and weakens the checks created by dispersed political power. Domestic police, who once focused on protecting citizens, begin to view citizens as potential enemies who must be monitored and controlled, threatening their civil liberties. To learn more about the boomerang effect and its impact on domestic civil liberties, buy our new book, Tyranny Comes Home, The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism.


All praise belongs to Allah and I begin in His blessed name for granting us this existence as I always mentioned and giving us the opportunity to exist eternally in a state of bliss and pleasure and gratitude and increased mercy Allah has blessed us with two genders male and female and And he could have made us all one gender or many more genders, but he chose to Allah in the Quran says Yeah, you have nas inna khalaq nakum in the current in wa-ontha Waja wajal nakum shooop and wakaba illa li ta'ara foo Inna kramakum inna Allahi atkakum O mankind, we have made you into male and female nations and tribes So you know each other so that you recognize each other and that recognition li ta'ara foo The word is a rafa meaning to know with elevation To know with an increase Appreciation as the Prophet says man a rafa nafsahu when we say somebody is an a'araf meaning somebody who knows In an elevated state li ta'ara foo so you know so you appreciate so You are grateful and you are submissive therefore And Allah ends it the most honorable indeed To Allah the Almighty is one who is God conscious and God consciousness here in the Quran at all times implies the promoter of good and the demoter of evil When you are God conscious, it doesn't mean that you consider Allah to be great. You consider God to be great No, you don't only consider God to be great But you consider him the ultimate authority in the universe and the one who Created us for the promotion of good and the demotion of evil so when we say Atkakum people who are mutaqi people who are God conscious Allah swt means they are always doing good They are never Promoting evil. They're always promoting good peace justice equity love for humanity, but that is the principle of God consciousness and Allah swt says that we've made you into nations and tribes and if you examine our humanity unfortunately We have shot ourselves on our feet and Taken one step forward two steps backwards due to our bigotry our misogyny meaning that we don't only look Against in other words we Practice racism and bigotry against people of other nations and other cultures and other races and We are also bigots when it comes to across the gender One gender abuses the other and historically unfortunately the male gender has been the cruel one that has meted out very very evil misbehaviors against the female gender sadly and It continues until today. Unfortunately. Alhamdulillah. It's better than it was Just like racism is better than it was but unfortunately today the forms of racism have become invisible where before When it came to slavery they were held in chains and They were whipped in public today the chains in the whipping is invisible It's psychological It's social. It's destructive and we hold it within ourselves and unfortunately you see the remnants of it When this president was elected and people got together in Charlottesville and all of that all of those gatherings Where the swastikas came out and the supremacists came out with their masks you would think that this would have been Buried with a while back, but it's alive among the people and I believe all of this is alive because of our recklessness and abject misunderstanding if not Rejection of God and His mercy When we deny the true message of God we become bigots we become arrogant we become Destructive in society and These conversations and when we talk about Personalities that I'm going to speak about tonight on the great tragedy Shahada Meaning the martyrdom of the greatest one of the greatest woman who walked on this earth Khadija bint Khoelid as you know Her title honorific title was at Tahira the pure one the wife of the holy prophet Salallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa salam salawat ala Muhammad wa ala Muhammad It's interesting that she was such an amazing figure that it is because of her We have the Islam that we have today in terms of her contributions And I'd like to touch on that and to balance this equation that we should remove This insanity that lies within us this hatred and this one-sided bigotry That we have many a times we need to remove it We cannot remove it if we don't understand the values of life and sometimes it's essential that we remind each other Losses for that care in Nafateh dhikra remind them reminding is beneficial. They seem to have forgotten a very Fundamental piece of the equation when it comes to the balance of God's religion The verse that I started is in certain Nisa the fourth Surah of the Quran the first verse That all people all mankind be careful of your duty to your Lord. Yeah, you have Nasa to go Rubbakum Ladi be careful when God says be careful. He means be just be balanced. No your limits Don't overdo it. Be careful. It's a good law. Yeah, you have Nasa to go. Rubbakum Ladi how are you from? Nafs in Wahida He made you from a single being Adam and how I were made from the same material Same composition One is not superior to the other This notion that women are like the byproduct of men or that, you know, whatever was left from Adam is Was made for a woman. This is nonsense nonsense men and women Male and female Adam and how I were shaped together. It wasn't left over This idea is is a poison pill You know, we take it so far and even claim that the reason Adam was expelled from Paradises because it was a woman who enticed him towards the tree once again absolute nonsense. It's not true This idea Reeks with the satanic principles of causing disunity in the human race when he says Fabia is that Tika? By your authority, I will be guile them. I will fool them.  We're blessed to have them The diversity is here to stay God has made every human being diverse There are no two human beings who are the same even though they are identical in genetics Our fingerprints are unique. I even identical twins have different fingerprints Because a lot loves diversity some of us just cannot get out of our cocoon and our you know one-sided tunnel vision as we call myopia Where we think that the world is only for us and the universe revolves only for us this self-centered capricious Idea that the world is only mine and we pontificate that wow I am the gift of God and therefore nobody else is is nonsense We're all gifts of God even an insect is a gift of God a dog is a gift of God a horse is a gift of God an Atom is a gift of God. It's silly. It's nonsense to make such comments But when we have ignorant and tunnel vision, then we try to say it's us versus them We try to divide and shaitan is with us. The devil is with us and said yes, you're my agent go divide divide divide And we find that the human race has been made of male and female Purposely and no two human beings are the same You know when you do research and say how can you clone a person is it possible? It's impossible Physically we could clone a person to look identical, but it's impossible to clone a human being exactly Because they would have to experience the same Experiences to be who they are and that's impossible as I mentioned yesterday the principles of probability and Chance and what crosses us in our day-to-day transactions are impossible to recreate impossible Each individual is unique unique unique and I want us to understand brothers and sisters. That's a divine decree It's God's decree Maa halko cum wala ba'athakum illa kanafsin waheda. We made you from oneself, but how diverse you are Allah says I have shaped you even to your fingertips and made you unique But what are we all trying to do? We're trying to maintain that if I am unique Everybody should be like me follow me My way or the highway This is classic. We get into battles trying to convince the other side how wrong they are Sure, it's okay to convince the other side if they are wrong, but there is a demeanor. There's an ahlaq. There's an approach and we cannot be Dictatorial in that manner. Allah says laikra hafiddin atabaya narushta minal ghayt There is no compulsion in religion truth is clear from error Allah says haatu khul haatu burhanakum in kuntum sadaqin Say to them bring you evidence if you are truthful. There's a demeanor by which to bring equity But difference of opinion should stay Sadly within our communities when we have people of other faiths come and join us Sometimes we feel like what are they doing here like as if this is exclusively ours and I'm not saying you are Sometimes in society we have this close-minded foolish people Who consider their safe haven exclusively theirs between them and God? That worship is suspect. That's why the devil does the devil said that shaitan said that it's Exclusively mine. I have a special position. I'm in the Malakut among the angels I have a special position though as you know Iblis the devil is not an angel. He's not an angel He's not a fallen angel. This is a wrong concept Iblis was not is not has never been an angel. He is made of fire among the jinn He's of a different creation from angels angels are creations made of light Iblis is made of fire. He even says it. I am made of fire Okay And Allah says Wakana minal gin. He's off the gin He's of that creation, but his ideology is exclusivity and Low tolerance for any other beings to exist in his domain that can be honored Hence his fall when God brought Adam forward says bow Well, he's one more creation. I've added into the plethora of my mercy Bow and said no, I'm special So if you and I claim to be believers in God Then let us remove this bigotry within ourselves Not only between the races and the cultures but between our genders and Allah has blessed us with the two genders and I want to talk about how Islam works very much in concert in Balance to try to bring the message of equity and balance for the whole human race Salawat Allah Muhammad while Muhammad When people of different faiths and colors join us consider it a blessing Where we should come to unity is the universal principle of good I don't give you black white tall short wide narrow. We all agree to promote good now that's unity We all agree not to fight each other. We all agree to respect each other We all agree to honor each other. That's the religion of God not Come my way or else.  Allah will punish it severely on judgment day. Allah says don't worry What they're doing today. You think they are strong. They've got those very fine Fired jets that they can bomb people. Don't worry. Let them do it. We allowed the pharaoh To dismember people or we caught him and we gave him his due and he's gonna get more of his due Don't worry. La yahzunka kufruhum. Don't worry. We will grab them But what do you and I do in the meantime? We are proponents of justice We're firm and we bring equity for society and we do not belittle any religion We do not belittle any people who worship any kind of God that they believe to be even if they're atheists who say there is no God, we do not belittle them. We respect them. We have a dialogue with them We bring equity imam jaffa sadik. Alaihi salatu wassalam debated with Abid ibn abi Awja for a long period of time in Makkah Imam never condemned him always allowed him to converse with him at all times and the debate went on and on and on for a long time The Imam never condemned him never said oh you're an atheist.  I want us all to believe in equity, please She was the scion of equity as you know, she was the most beloved wife of the holy prophet and The messenger loved her so much that he married no other woman when he was married to her. He was a pure monogamous And you find that History is very clear That he said hadija and I will be in paradise together By the way, there is no hadid where he states any of his other wives will be with him in paradise There's no no hadid Some wives are good some Allah Hualam But my point is the Prophet said hadija and I will be in paradise together. Let's leave it at that amazing He loved her so much. Why did he love her so much? Even Bukhari mentions that Aisha one of the wives of the Prophet say this messenger even after her death would never stop talking about her That he would go and give gifts to the women who are the friends of hadija even after her departure And she would ask him why He says hadija was with me when nobody believed in my message Hadija spent all her wealth For the for the promotion of good She she was my consolation. She was next to me. She was the first woman to accept my message And historians say in the early days of the Kaaba as Abbas was sitting as you know the uncle of the Prophet And a man was sitting next to him and he sees the Prophet the young and come By the Kaaba and next to him was a young boy You know a young boy behind him and then behind that was a woman And and they would do ruku and sujood at the Kaaba. It was unheard of at that time No one understood what they were doing because people used to circumambulate in weird ways weird I can't talk about it because it was very weird And they were asking who are they says that's the man who's calling himself the Prophet He's the Prophet of God And that's his wife hadija and that's ali ibn abut ali the three of them are praying To god the first worshipers In that era or these three sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Muhammad The Prophet said, you know hadija was an enterprising woman kawailid her father Was a wealthy man But she became even wealthier with her trades between syria and yemen And she used to send her goods And sell them on the market And she never went on those trips. She always had a an agent who represented that trade And it came a time when she asked People came to her and said there is a man who would be excellent um To trade for you And of course as you know the holy prophet The last prophet for humanity Was her distant cousin. They were from the same family And he represents her in trade because he was known as a sadaq al-ameen He was trustworthy honest sadaq al-ameen And he takes the trade for hadija and he doubles her profits that year, but he was honest. He never cheated anyone He always had an honest transaction And there's research to show when you're honest and you're kind and you're pleasant People love to trade with you Research shows if you're kind with people even if you um For example as a physician Okay, you have A duty Hippocratic duty To service your patients properly Even if there's a mishap in your Diagnosis you'll find that when you're nice to your patients They hesitate to sue The lawsuits are minimal Malcolm Gladwell writes that in his book blink He said research shows that if you're nice to people Even if you mistreat them Accidentally, they do not get angry with you easily and the Quran says Ma'aruf Wa ma'afiratun Khayrum min sadaqatin yatba wa adha Kind speech and forgiveness is superior is better than charity Followed by injury Meaning you give somebody something then you taunt them. Hey, I helped you. Hey, you remember?  The prophet was the embodiment of the Quran He is the walking talking Quran So he brought much business to her But she was wealthy Intensely wealthy. They said she had an army of You know workers who used to carry her wealth. That's how rich she was And many men wanted to marry her Many wanted to marry her. She was beautiful She was sought after she was intelligent. She was wise I want us to imagine this reality as men and women in the society in our community How many of us Tried to be like her Sisters I advise you because khadija was in your gender How many of us when we name our daughters khadija You know, how many of us tried to emulate her ways? Her demands were minimal But she loved god. She sacrificed For allah She brought a beautiful child forward called fatima alayhi salams fatima zahra salamullahi alayhi salawat ala muhammad wa ala muhammad As you know, she's say that the nisail alameen She's the leader of all the women her daughter As you know, we have four chosen women in islam mariam the mother of jesus peace be upon him Asya in tamaza him the wife of the feral khadija wife of the holy prophet and her daughter The daughter of the holy prophet fatima zahra salamullahi alayhi for women chosen And of course there were many but these were the elite elite women in history and quran talks about some of them Directly in sub-tahreem Mariam and asya are mentioned directly in the 66th chapter of the quran I'll touch on it briefly tonight if time permits But I want us to know the role of women womanhood I want us as a society to understand That neither gender is Less than the other this idea that women are less than men Intellectually spiritually is all a fabrication. It's not true. Don't believe in it. Please. Please You don't understand how dangerous that is. Let us not even harbor the idea That you know my sister or my mother or my spouse my wife is Not as spiritual as because i'm a man This is total nonsense Nonsense, please In fact, when I was in the islamic republic, I asked gaitul ajawadi this question. I've mentioned this before I'll share it again personally, I met him in Damavan And I asked in this question eye to eye I said are women inferior to men and as you know historically Uh, and even today as a philosopher. He is one of the top regarded philosophers on women issues So I asked him are women less than men. He said no are they intellectually less than men He said no are they spiritually less than men. He said no I said then why are they not prophets? Or imams, why did god not make them prophets? Or the vice-jurians meaning successes to prophets And he looked at me and said they are mothers of our children That itself is like prophethood It would be double burden to have a woman become a prophet or an imam when she is the carrier of our next generations But the equation is similar that as motherhood even quran has established We have enjoined goodness upon mankind the mother who suffers pain upon pain for two years Be thankful to me and to them for what they have done So Allah establishes a very clear precedence that womanhood is very powerful But he went further to say but if you have any doubts you will notice even the continuity of prophethood Is dependent on women too for you find Jesus peace be upon him. Eesa aley salams continuity As the bridge from his predecessor prophet was his mother mariam aley salam You find imam at The entire continuity Of the gates to the city of knowledge is a woman the jibreel when he brings the eye of tatheer He says him fatimatu wa abuha wa ba'luha wa banooha salawat ala muhammad wa al muhammad It's fatima her father her husband her children you see uh her so The entire axial conversation is fatima to zahra salamullahi aleyha in the continuity So let's not think this way I want us to understand historically and I always mention this on her night of shahada that in her era when Parents have a girl In the era of ignorance They used to take the girl and bury her alive And quran says she will complain that girl on judgment day will complain be a them been cutilat Which sin did I commit that I was killed for because i'm a woman i'm a female i'm a girl Today there are 70 million I think 70 million more men Just In india and china 70 million more men There's a reason for that. We are selectively choosing a gender And sadly in china women are getting kidnapped as married women and taken into villages and sold for money to become wives of other men Because of the stupidity of mankind trying to imbalance the gender of blessings of god That mankind when families give birth some some families give birth to only boys And some give birth to only girls but measure the quantity of birth on earth It's a miracle that it's 50 50 male to female salawat allah muhammad wa'ar muhammad But you find that uh We are foolish Because we think men When we have a male The name of the family will continue the money will stay in the family Whereas if we invest in our daughters Then they will be taken by their husbands and the in-laws will benefit. This is not this is This is what I I can't imagine humans actually go there I cannot imagine this is like not only it's not there's one thing to be silent about god's mercy It's like smacking at god's mercy It's like slapping at god's mercy No one rejects my Bounties And they used to bury can you imagine fathers used to go and hold their Daughters and the daughter is excited that baba is going to take me to play with the sand that thought just Puts a chill in my spine that the human race is capable of doing that And it was done And it is being done today Where families are selling their daughters to slavery and to prostitution Salawat allah muhammad wa'ar muhammad I always get touched by that I said my god I as much as I detest hell. I see why it exists I detest it But I can see why it exists Let us today make that will That humanity is beautiful When I asked I told the javadia I said a regal who called moon on the nisa The man has authority on the woman. What do you mean by that if men and women are the same? He said that's a prescription of god in marriage That the husband must provide for the wife But she's already burdened with family affairs and it is his responsibility From god to take care of his family and his wife and his children. That's why awamuna. He doesn't make him better I asked him in the family if the wise if the wife is wiser than the Husband Can she rule the house? He said yes, of course Whatever brings harmony towards the family is how it should be And I asked him how much is this authority? He said the authority Of her mother never changes over the children She says i'm an all he said i'm an old man My mother if she forbids me from going even to defend my nation even for allah if she refuses me Then I cannot go i'm an old man. I'm a married man. I have children Why is my mother always my authority if men have authority on women? Then how is my mother having authority on me? In the era of the prophet he eradicated this burial He eradicated this nonsense in fact historically at that time if you were uh a second wife And the husband dies The children of the husband inherit Their stepmothers and they can give them away Like a trade. That's how it was Women had no rights sadly even in the united states up to the 1920s women were not allowed to vote Because they were considered second-class citizens and the remnants of that continues today We find that the prophet abolished that Eradicated that and gave the right of ownership and inheritance As was the right of that god has conferred upon humanity the prophet established that hadija was in that era And if you think it's the men who are financing the world today I want us to remember That the expansion of islam in the prophet's time in mecca and madina was due to hadija's wealth She gave all her wealth and historians say that when she was breathing her last she had no money left She had no money left And I want us to understand that that level of womanhood is the islam that Allah wants us to understand islam is a bird Free bird It's got two wings You cannot cut the right wing and put it on the left side. Don't try to make it look the same. It's Uniquely different But it's a wing like the other side And each one flaps You clip one side The bird will go into a tailspin That's what society is trying to do today. We are going into a tailspin because we are clipping each other's wings Whereas we should honor the strength of each wing and while it's uniquely a mirror image of the other It's different and don't try to equate it in physical terms In terms of status in terms of worship in terms of respect and degree We are the same in the eyes of Allah and Quran is replete with it I don't have time tonight due to the short time. I need to cover much of this topic, but you get my point It's a free bird It's dignified And let's look at the opposite gender with dignity And that brings me to the next question. Hadija was a modest woman She was not immodest Modesty is under attack today brothers and sisters Hijab is under attack today Modesty of the hijab of men is under attack today when Allah says Say to the believing men to lower their eyes and Quran is giving the prescription of modesty I want to touch on this briefly before I end with Hadija's contributions in the end and her sufferings You find that Allah has established the modicum of modesty on us You know what is the first command Adam got When he approached the tree and his trial began The first command was Allah say to Adam and Hawa take the leaf from the tree and cover yourselves That's the first command of Allah in the trial of humanity Covering our shame Very important and shaitan says Allah has given us many powers one of them is the power of desire and lust What is shahwiyah shaitan says I will abuse it And I will abuse it so much. I will cause them also to destroy each other Today giants in Hollywood Harvey Weinstein A monster in Hollywood Was so reckless That any woman who dare appears in front of him that he liked was a victim You find giants like Bill O'Reilly Charlie Rose Many like them and today Morgan Freeman is under attack You find all of these giants millionaires slash billionaires What is their objective use the woman like an object Touch them whenever you want say any comments you want call them anything use them as creatures of pleasure When Allah has enjoined modest dress upon us It's not to keep us entertained or to keep him entertained or to put some burden on us Allah says Say Oh prophet Say Your wives Your daughters And the believing women that they cover themselves with an over garment lose clothes Lest They be troubled and Allah says this is better for them That lika adna and you rafna so they're elevated and recognized with dignity You know, I see this hijab as the flag of Islam I've always said this when women wear this garb some of them wonder is it important? Is it not a burden on me? I want us to examine in the western societies Where we've shrugged our shoulders where Hollywood today produces movies. There are very very explicit in exposés of the human skin And we're very free in expression Then why is it that the same free women who did date who do date freely? Why are they so repulsed that they're going to court? And suing these men for sexual harassment Why is it even accepted in court if we're so blasé about it? Because we all know that the nature of the humankind is that it's repulsive when somebody intrudes on the dignity of another person They say Morgan Freeman would stand one inch from a woman and he'd look down like this because he's the big boss They loraili did the same thing and these people were worth hundreds of millions of dollars Harvey Weinstein He would meet them in the worst of ways and women were terrified Women are writing that when we would go and meet Harvey Weinstein, I mean Morgan Freeman. We would make sure we wear long clothes We don't we don't display our Body parts too much Really? So a predator is there waiting? Well, God says it's always around you. It's not only the Morgan Freeman's Every eye is looking at you. One sister came to me once his brother when I weighed the hijab You know, all the men are looking at me I said, so if you don't wear it, they won't look at you That's a good one I said the difference is now they're looking at you with dignity You're telling them back off Don't touch me and don't come near me. I am valuable as a human being. I'm dignified Why is hijab instituted upon us? This is not in Islam brothers and sisters I once went to a synagogue and I had And a Jewish man is sitting next to me and we had a few sisters who came with hijab He looks at me and says, what is it that your women are wearing? What is that? That what is that? You know In a condescending, excuse me. What is that? I looked at him.  Did you ask the same question? He leans back says, oh, yeah, you're right I said the differences we kept on with it Some of us gave it up But tell me when is modesty going to change for humanity? Is time a stipulator of morality? Does modesty change in time? We used to laugh at people in the jungles who are scantily dressed and we call them heathens And they would carve their faces and we call them heathens And today we're doing the same thing they're doing and we're civilized and sophisticated So when we look at people of different faiths This is a prescription from god not to burden us To honor us, but why are women given that responsibility? Because they are the bearers of our children And the woman is the source of humanity Is the growth of humanity Is the foundation of morality as the husband and the father is But the mother if she is tainted and given up into usage of different kinds As people used to use women until today sadly Then their children will have a very low foundation to stand on But Allah is merciful. Allah in the same surat al ahzad the 33rd chapter which I quoted the verse from Allah says when they are post childbearing They are not obligated to wear it. They don't have to wear it But it is better for them to wear it I see some of our sisters here who wear the full aba and I look at them. They're all quite aged But I asked if I came to this woman and I asked her to remove that She will look at me and say shame on you. I said, but you don't have to she said, but that's me This is my nature. It's it's become part of my fabric You know how dignified that is We don't understand this we have to teach our societies that today in the western world giants are falling like Because of this misbehavior.  I said, why are the men not standing? We're ugly I'm being sarcastic about it. Why are you standing next to the car? Does it come with the car? Why are you standing here? And they're stumped like I said, I know the marketing stunt But with all due respect you're dignified. Why are you standing here? A car is you You are valued as a car. Excuse me I have much more respect for you than that car much more Much more this car is a piece of metal You're standing next to it In scanty dress clothes trying to entice me to buy Let's move on, please This dignity is within the prescription of god and hadija was dignified Our granddaughter zaynab alayhi salam goes to karbala for that reason And she stands on the altar of justice and says how dare you know who we are We are the scions of morality and modesty. We represent the flag of god That's why today it's been it's been attacked. It's funny. People can put all kinds of bird cages on their heads We're crazy clothes. It's all fashion. You cover your hair. It's oppression It's oppression So I'm going to move on with this, but I I I hope you get my point. My time is up I want to end tonight with hadija alayhi salam as that woman of modesty A woman who represented dignity wisdom Her daughter fathom of the zahra when she goes to claim her right fadak They say that khutba luma was so Sublime that philosophers until today are trying to dissect the wisdom of fathom of the zahra salam This is the daughter of the wisest woman. She struggles so much hadija struggles so much That as you know, the mackens decided to boycott They decided to boycott the banu hashim in makkah and abut alib Uncle of the prophet had a valley called shebi abut alib which is in the outskirts of makkah And they were forced to migrate there and the mackens refused to deal with them and feed them and give them any food I want us to know historically that those pagans who were idol worshipers Were the ones who were bringing food to the prophet and his family in the night Those who became very famous later on in history. They never came to shebi abut alib to feed the prophet I just want you to know that It's interesting with all due respect the pagans used to bring food for the prophet hadija was there with them She struggled she suffered They said they used to carry rocks on their bellies because the pain of the stomach due to hunger was so much They didn't know what to do, but hadija stood by her husband She never challenged She was a wealthy princess of the town She gave it all up. Allah says You will not achieve righteousness until you give with that which you love the most That was hadija alaihi salam that after the shebi abut alib when that treaty was eaten up by the ants at the kaba The mackens recanted they rescinded The uh boycott and the prophet was allowed to come back and soon thereafter hadija alaihi salam breathed her last She became shahida She had no money Completely spent it in the way of god historians say She was very Satisfied as you know her daughter fatima was there in shebi abut alib. She was five years of age She used to nurse the prophet when people used to strike the prophet. She used to nurse him Fatima the zahra salam alive used to nurse we like hadija did That role of womanhood is the foundation of the islam you and i have today, brother Our mothers are the foundations of humanity And when hadija passed away when she became shahida The prophet buried her historians say he cried and he cried and he cried The prophet was so in love with her Not material love brothers and sisters spiritual love That's why he said hadija and i Will be in paradise together A la la anatullah ilal qamil dhalimin Wasaya alamul ladina dhalamu Anyamun qalabin and kalibun Hadija alaihi salam in her name. Let us make a promise For ourselves that we will be just We will be generous We will be patient For to me whenever i Think of her by the way i went to her grave in in jannah tul mualla. Unfortunately these Creatures who are running the kingdom today their occupation Demolished her grave sarcophagus And you can only look at her grave from the highway. They don't even let you go to her grave today This great personality is not even allowed to be visited.


Hi, my name is John Tate and I've just finished a four-year degree in African Studies here at SOAS. When I came here, I came through clearing and there are a lot of misconceptions out there about what clearing is. People often think it's for people who didn't get the right grades, but sometimes people who got better grades and they expected come through clearing. And finally, there are still a wide array of courses available here at SOAS to choose from. Let's hear from Salma, who also went through clearing. Hello, my name is Samhara Hailem. I've just finished my first year at SOAS in Economics and Development Studies. I've applied to SOAS through clearing. I used the SOAS website to find out about clearing and I made the phone call to the members of staff. I gave my details and my grades and after a few days I found out how they placed in the course that I wanted. So how does clearing work? Well, first of all, you can check which places are available on the SOAS and UCAS websites and from there, you can call to speak with one of our advisors to apply, just like Salma did. I definitely encourage students to come into SOAS. It's a vibrant place to learn. Since I've been here, I've been able to study three East African languages. I've been able to work with some of the top academics in the world and I've been part of an amazing, vibrant and diverse student community. So remember, don't panic if you don't get the grades. You can use the UCAS website, SOAS website or phone someone like I did. Good luck.


The project Interpol Supportal Pacto is the project founded by the European Union and it is the project supported by Interpol and it is done at this moment by a fugitive investigative support unit which is in cooperation with six Latin American countries, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and Panama. We are cooperating with these countries in the project and we are making several workshops and task force and initial meetings during several years. So the project is founded for three years at the moment and we have already passed one initial meeting, two workshops and one task force. The main aim of the project is to arrest as many fugitives as possible. In 2019 we will be focusing on creating a permanent network of investigators who are working on the high-risk criminals in their own countries. So our aim is is to organize a workshop in Panama and Peru in April 2019 and July 2019 and we will be focusing on creating the network of police officers who are working only with the high-risk fugitives in their countries. So it means we are working with all these officers of Interpol NCB from NCBs from that countries and with fugitive units from that countries. So we will be working together to create and we will be trying to create a permanent network which will be working also after the end of the project.


Did you know that scientists can do research on planes such as these? NCAR scientists Christina McCluskey and Chief Pilot Scotty McLean tell us more. We're here with Christina McCluskey from the Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory at NCAR and Christina can you tell me a little bit about what do you do here? I study the interaction between atmospheric particles and clouds and today it's a really cloudy day and it's snowing. Can you tell us what is the importance about clouds and climate? Well, clouds impact our day-to-day weather, but clouds also play a bigger role in our global climate. So you can imagine at nighttime when it's a cloudy night versus a clear sky night, it's warmer whenever it's cloudy. My research focuses on the formation of ice in clouds. How about we go to my office and I can kind of show you what I've been working on lately? Sounds good, let's go. So welcome to my office. This is where I do a lot of my research on a computer but I also spend a lot of time out in the field. Most recently I've looked at Southern Ocean clouds which are very far away from humans so you may be surprised to know that they are actually very important for our global climate. The Southern Ocean turns out to be one of the cloudiest places on earth and these clouds serve as a way to reflect a lot of the sunlight back to space. The Southern Ocean cloud is one of the reasons why it is so cloudy is because ice doesn't actually form in these clouds very easily. One of the hypotheses that we have going into this project is that there are not enough of these ice-nucleating particles. So these particles have special surfaces that mimic the crystal structure of ice and without these special particles ice actually will not form until you're minus 40 degrees celsius. And why is it important to collaborate with the Research Aviation Facility at the Earth Absorbent Laboratory for this type of project? So a lot of our research in the Southern Ocean so far has been on ground-based stations and ships and satellites and we get a lot of information from those different platforms but we're not actually able to probe the clouds and look at the different ice crystals and so the aircraft really allows us to literally be in the cloud and we have all this very amazing instrumentation that allows us to look at clouds in fine detail. We're here with Scotty McLean from NCAR and can you tell us where are you working at NCAR? I'm working at the Research Aviation Facility which is part of the Earth Absorbing Laboratory for NCAR. And how are these planes used for science? Well if you look at the airplanes they're quite expensive so we provide services for a whole bunch of different universities as well as NCAR staff. After every single field project we'll come back and we'll tear down the outside and then when the National Science Foundation actually approves another project we'll build it back up. We'll outfit it with the instruments needed to be able to accomplish the research. We've got instruments that can measure ozone, we've got instruments that can measure ice, we've got instruments that can measure chemistry so we have a ton of instruments that can blow in these planes. Can you tell us a little bit more about the planes that are here? Sure as you can see behind me we have the C-130 which is the large plane and then the Gulf Stream 5 which is a smaller plane. Do you want to see the planes? Yeah thanks. When you walk up be careful don't bite your head. We have the pilot the co-pilot the flight engineer and he is in charge of all this panel up here you know so the co-pilots mission management pilot flies the aircraft flight engineer manages this panel then the project scientists that the primary scientist will sit in the chair here and they sit up in the cockpit so they can directly interface with the pilots. The G-5 cockpit is much more modern than the C-130 cockpit is G-5 only requires two pilots a left seat right seat and there's no flight engineer because the overhead panel is completely modernized. The type of flying that we do is quite different than commercial aviation with our missions we'll take off and land from the same place and in between we'll do a lot of very unique maneuvers in order for the scientists to get the information they need so it's all very challenging for us and very challenging to coordinate that with air traffic control folks. The best thing about flying for NCAR is that no project is the same you never get no rep on fly.


We continue today with chapter 24, the meeting place. How bitterly does everyone tied to this world defend the specialness he wants to be the truth? His wish is law to him and he obeys. Nothing his specialist demands does he withhold. Nothing it needs does he deny to what he loves.  No effort is too great, no cost too much, no price too dear to save his specialness from the least slight, the tiniest attack, the whispered doubt, the hint of threat or anything but deepest reverence. This is your son, beloved of you, as you are to your father. Yet it stands in place of your creations who are son to you that you might share the fatherhood of God, not snatch it from him. What is this son that you have made to be your strength? What is this child of earth on whom such love is lavished? What is this parody of God's creation that takes the place of yours? And where are they now that the host of God has found another son in whom he prefers to them? The memory of God shines not alone. What is within your brother still contains all of creation, everything created and creating, born and unborn as yet, still in the future or apparently gone by. What is in him is changeless, and your changelessness is recognized in its acknowledgement. The holiness in you belongs to him, and by your seeing it in him returns to you. All of the tribute you have given specialness belongs to him and thus returns to you. All the love and care, the strong protection, the thought by day and night, the deep concern, the powerful conviction, this is you, belong to him. Nothing you gave to specialness but is his due, and nothing do him is not due to you. How can you know your worth while specialness claims you instead? How can you fail to know it in his holiness? Seek not to make your specialness the truth, for if it were you would be lost in deep. Be thankful whether it has given you to see his holiness because it is the truth. And what is true in him must be as true in you. Ask yourself this, can you protect the mind? The body, yes, a little, not from time but temporarily. And much you think you save, you hurt. What would you save it for? For in that choice lie both its health and harm. Save it for show as bait to catch another fish, to house your specialness in better style, or weave a frame of loveliness around your hate, and you condemn it to decay and death. And if you see this purpose in your brothers, such is your condemnation of your own. Weave rather than a frame of holiness around him that the truth may shine on him and give you safety from decay. The Father keeps what he created safe.  What is immortal cannot be attacked. What is but temporal has no effect. Only the purpose that you see in it has meaning. And if that is true, its safety rests secure. If not, it has no purpose and is means for nothing. Whatever is perceived as means for truth shares its holiness and rests in light as safely as itself. Nor will that light go out when it is gone. Its holy purpose gave it immortality, setting another light in heaven, where your creations recognize a gift from you, a sign that you have not forgotten them. The test of everything on earth is simply this. What is it for? The answer makes it what it is for you. It has no meaning of itself if you can give reality to it according to the purpose that you serve. Here you are but means along with it. God is a means as well as end. In heaven means an end or one and one with him. This is the state of true creation found not within time but in eternity. To no one here is this describable, nor is there any way to learn what this condition means. Not till you go past learning to the given, not till you make again a holy home for your creations, as it understood. A co-creator with the Father must have a son, yet must his son have been created like himself. A perfect being, all encompassing in all encompassed, nothing to add and nothing taken from, not born of size nor place nor time nor held to limits or uncertainties of any kind. Here do the means and the end unite as one, nor does this one have any end at all. All this is true and yet it has no meaning to anyone who still retains one unlearned lesson in his memory, one thought with purpose still uncertain, or one wish with a divided aim. This course makes no attempt to teach what cannot easily be learned. Its scope does not exceed your own except to say that what is yours will come to you when you are ready. Here are the means and the purpose separate because they were so made and so perceived, and therefore do we deal with them as if they were. It is essential it be kept in mind that all perception still is upside down until its purpose has been understood. Perception does not seem to be a means, and it is this that makes it hard to grasp the whole extent to which it must depend on what you see it for. Perception seems to teach you what you see, yet it but witnesses to what you taught. It is the outward picture of a wish, an image that you wanted to be true. Look at yourself and you will see a body. Look at this body in a different light and it looks different. And without a light it seems that it is gone. You are reassured that it is there because you still can feel it with your hands and hear it move. Here is an image that you want to be yourself. It is the means to make your wish come true. It gives the eyes with which you look on it, the hands that feel it, and the ears with which you listen to the sounds it makes. It proves its own reality to you. Thus is the body made a theory of yourself with no provisions made for evidence beyond itself and no escape within its sight. Its course is sure when seen through its own eyes. It grows and withers, flourishes and dies. And you cannot conceive of you apart from it.  Yet your specialist whispers, Here is my own beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Thus does the quote son become the means to serve his quote father's purpose. Not identical, not even like, but still a means to offer to the quote father what he wants. Such is the travesty on God's creation. For as his son's creation gave him joy and witness to his love and shared his purpose, so does the body testify to the idea that made it and speak for its reality and truth. Thus are two sons made and both appear to walk this earth without a meeting place and no encounter. One do you perceive outside yourself, your own beloved son, the other rest within his father's son, within your brother as he is in you. Their difference does not lie in how they look nor where they go nor even what they do. They have a different purpose. Is this that joins them to their like and separates each from all aspects with a different purpose. The son of God retains his father's will. The son of man perceives an alien will and wishes it were so. And thus does his perception serve his wish by giving it appearances of truth. Yet can perception serve another goal? It is not bound to specialness but by your choice. And it is given you to make a different choice and use perception for a different purpose. And what you see will serve that purpose well and prove its own reality to you. And from the workbook lesson 190, I choose the joy of God instead of pain. Pain is a wrong perspective. When it is experienced in any form, it is a proof of self-deception. It is not a fact at all. There is no form it takes that will not disappear if seen or right. For pain proclaims God cruel. How could it be real in any form?  Can such projections be attested to? Can they be anything but holy false? Pain is but witness to the son's mistakes and what he thinks he is. It is a dream of fierce retaliation for a crime that could not be committed for attack on what is wholly unassailable. It is a nightmare of abandonment by an eternal love which could not leave the son whom it created out of love. Pain is a sign illusions reign in place of truth. It demonstrates God is denied, confused with fear, perceived as mad and seen as traitor to himself. If God is real, there is no pain. If pain is real, there is no God. For vengeance is not part of love and fear denying love and using pain to prove that God is dead has shown that death is victor over life. The body is the son of God, corruptible in death, as mortal as the father, he has slain. Peace to such foolishness. The time has come to laugh at such insane ideas. There is no need to think of them as savage crimes or secret sins with weighty consequence. Who but a madman could conceive of them as cause of anything? Their witness, pain, is mad as they and no more to be feared than the insane illusions which it shields and tries to demonstrate must still be true. It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way. There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. No one but yourself affects you. There is nothing in the world that has the power to make you ill or sad or weak or frail. But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are. As you perceive the harmlessness in them they will accept your holy will as theirs. And what was seen as fearful now becomes a source of innocence and holiness. My holy brother, think of this a while. The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all. It merely represents your thoughts. And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind and choose the joy of God as what you really want. Your self is radiant in this holy joy, unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable forever and ever. And would you deny a little corner of your mind its own inheritance and keep it as a hospital for pain, a sickly place where living things must come at last to die. The world may seem to cause you pain and yet the world as causeless has no power to cause. As an effect it cannot make effects. As an illusion it is what you wish. Your idle wishes represent its pains.  Your thoughts of death envelop it in fear while in your kind forgiveness does it live. Pain is the thought of evil taking form and working havoc on in your holy mind. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free. In pain is God denied the son he loves. In pain does fear appear to triumph over love and time replace eternity in heaven.  Pain that waits to end all joy in misery. Lay down your arms and come without defense into the quiet place where heaven's peace holds all things still at last. Lay down all thoughts of danger and of fear. Let no attack enter with you. Lay down the cruel sword of judgment that you hold against your throat and put aside the withering assaults with which you seek to hide your holiness. Here will you understand there is no pain. Here does the joy of God belong to you. This is the day when it is given you to realize the lesson that contains all of salvation's power. It is this. Pain is illusion. Joy, reality. Pain is but sleep. Joy is awakening. Pain is deception. Joy alone is truth. And so again we make the only choice that ever can be made.  Let our gratitude unto our teacher fill our hearts as we are free to choose our joy instead of pain. Our holiness in place of sin, the peace of God instead of conflict, and the light of heaven for the darkness of the world. Amen.