Hey guys, I Finished it So if you've been following me at all lately on social media, you know I've been trying to finish up a couple of journals one of them is this small delusions journal that I started at the end of 2015 I believe and Yeah, I've been working hard to finish it. I finally did today and now it's like all It's all bent out of shape, but look at that. Isn't that just yummy?  Let's do a flip if we can I don't know how good of a flip it's gonna be how you're gonna be able to see everything But it was a lot of fun to work on this journal playing and experimenting with color composition form shape Not necessarily doing any proper paintings. This is an art journal for me It's a place of experimentation and trial and I had a lot of fun doing that in almost all of the journal as you can see different textures different things that I found around my studio Starting a page with maybe some color but then seeing what else I had laying around that I could add to it Some of these compositions I can tell you right now are gonna inspire paintings and cavities in the future And I used all kinds of things store bought objects found objects These are bread ties from the bread bag I used all kinds of fun things here some collage some paint It's one of the few Paintings in this journal. That's just a painting and it was a lot of fun to play and experiment and just try different new Things try out some of my new stamps. These are my little art doll stamps. They're so cute one of my stencils I Really enjoyed Stapling things in using some of the chipboard that I have in my collection Using some of the drawings and stencils pieces of cardboard It was so much fun these owls. I love these owls Tickets that I had pieces of tissue paper that I had paint chips Really and loving playing with my paint chips tags Washi tape messy journaling a little bit of sketching and Of course quotes. I love my quotes. I tried to Unintentionally at first it I guess I had sort of a color theme with most of the pages and I had a lot of fun playing with that color theme That page is a little bit stuck together I need I haven't waxed any of the pages yet, so I do need to do that In case you haven't noticed Feathers birds I had so much fun. I can't even tell you I've been sharing them on social media So if you don't follow me on Instagram Twitter Facebook Google Plus, but you would like to there is a link to a site called link tree in the description below And if you go to that all the different places you can find me on the internet are linked to link tree Just looking to see if that's that one page or two. I think it's one. I know just have glued a lot of stuff to it So all you can find me there by going to my link tree. You can Also find my Etsy shop my Amazon wish list my tip jar and more You can support the free content here on YouTube and in the face different Facebook classes that I am associated with by donating to the tip jar or shopping in the Etsy store or buying something on my Amazon wish list So I want to encourage you all to to play an experiment with different bits and pieces scraping on paint using some stencils spraying your pages Don't be afraid to leave blank space. Don't feel like you have to cover all the space up This is honestly one of my favorite pages in the entire journal. I love that page See we're having trouble now Seeing the pages. These are the ones I've done in the last few days This is one of my favorite ones in the whole journal.  Bye guys


The country director Vote-Moscow International Initiative has formally declared to run for the chairmanship of Abuja Municipal Area Council under the Labour Party. Barry Avoto Johnson made the declaration at the Labour Party National headquarters in Abuja on Monday in the presence of national executives, FCT chairman, state excursions, as well as light turnout of party faithfuls and supporters. Leadership in the PDP and the APC have started drafting their own people into the Labour Party to take power. We are calling on all Labour Party members in those states, all obedient, worldwide, you must come out to defend your democracy. At those states, we will not be captured by the PDP or the APC. We are going to remain loyal by presenting Barry St. Julio's abourei for this election. And we want to use this opportunity to tell abourei that Nigerians and the people of those states are going to be behind him. He also called on the national party chairman Dr. Julio's abourei to contest the coming of season governorship election in a dose state while assuring him of the party's support base, citing article 16 of the constitutional on prohibition of holding dual office by an individual. His position was supported by other party faithfuls from the CLO groups. In his response, publicity secretary of the party, however, stated that the chairman of, for now, is focused on reclaiming the party's presidential mandate at the Supreme Court. Labour Party constitution as amended 1999, which states that the provision from holding dual office states that subject to the provision of this constitution, any member holding a party office at any level shall have resigned that position if assumes any of the following offices. It happened in the Senate, it happened in the House of Red, nothing can stop it from happening in Amman. Amman is the center of power in Nigeria. We have seen that Labour Party a dose state is experiencing desperate position. It's like posting people who are exactly not members of the party, who therefore cannot hold our hands to allow such to destroy our position for Yvette and Nigeria. The van Paristar Julio's abourei is full blooded Labour Party, full blooded obedient and the son of the soil of the case and land is not aspiring to be the governor of a dose state. His only aspiration is one, to be the national chairman of Labour Party, which he is already, and two, to support our presidential candidate, Mr Bito B, to reclaim our mandate freely given to us by Nigeria.


New event means a big pack opening. Yo, what's going on Leaf Nation? It's Leafy back again and welcome back to the channel today. We have the first or the second event of NHL23 being the fantasy hockey event. We're gonna run through it, rip some packs and get right into it. We're not gonna dwell on the information on the sets. I'm sure you guys know about it. I'm just gonna give my opinion on it. I think it's a total L. First and foremost, it's a total L. Master set cards are okay. I don't see them getting upgraded too much. Maybe Robert Thomas and Fiala and Jari, I don't know about Proverov. These cards are impossible to pull unless you're opening premium packs because if you open up the bigger packs, you get 80 pluses. And looking at this stuff, to make these cards, you need 40 collectibles or you need 30 for a random choice. And how do you make these collectibles by trading in players? And look at the value on this. 187 plus gets you two fantasy collectibles. It's super expensive to make these cards. I just don't think it's worth it at all. In all honesty, I'm only ripping packs because in the store right now, there is an 89 Primetime McDavid, I believe. So yeah, 89 McDavid, 88 Yossi. Those are the cards I'm going for. 88 Dressaddle, 86 Cooch. Other than that, like if we pull a fantasy card, that's cool, but they're kind of not worth it. And I don't plan on making any either. They're just way too expensive. All right, we're gonna start with the breakout players packs. We have four of these. And then we're gonna do the fantasy hockey starter pack where we get a power-up collectible and we get two of these. And then we'll move over to the Jumbo NHL player pack. So we get four of these bad boys, the 30 player items with a guarantee of at least 381 plus overalls, 15% chance at 86 plus. We're just gonna hope for the best here. Obviously there's gonna be a McDavid or a Matthews lying in one of these packs. Surely, right? Okay, we're off to a horrible start. We get 381 pluses, I think. First one being Yegor, yikes. Now what we're looking for. Jesper Bratt, so we'll call this a New Jersey Devils pack, I guess. We get one more 81 plus, I believe. And they both been 81 pluses. So that's not great. Victor Headman, it's a purple. We absolutely take that. Victor Headman, welcome to the team. I don't know if I'm gonna sell him or keep him. I'm probably gonna keep him. That's a good pull. That's a good pull. Victor Headman, that's one purple. First pack, we get a purple. Not too shabby, not too shabby. Jamie Ben as well. We get these, what are they? Power-Up, or no, Alumni's, which we can exchange for a Power-Up icon eventually. But we'll take that. Wallstrom, it's a big pack, man. Matt Murray, last two cards, that's about it. But we get a purple. Victor Headman, man, that's beautiful. Now we get three more of these, man. I don't think we're gonna pull another purple in one of these, but you just never know, I guess. Sarah Carpenter, so we get an 84 overall. She might sell for something. Okay, so that's one of our 81 pluses. Jonathan Taze, okay, Captain Johnny there. Mark Friedman, Laffrinier. We still get one more 81 plus, I believe. So that's good to see. And it's gonna be a Dylan Cousins. All right, we're just gonna skip the rest. We got another purple. We got another purple. We got another purple. Oh boy, okay. Two purples, man. Are packs juiced or what? Who's it gonna be? That's not bad, man. Marie-Philippe Poulin, dude, 87 overall. She, I might try using her, to be honest, man. 91 Excel, 90 Excel, 91 speed, a good shot. That's a dull pull. I'll take that, David Perron, other than that, nothing else. But two packs, two purples, man, that's crazy. Two more of these bad boys. Two packs, two purples. Will we keep up the such good percentage of packs to purples? I don't think so. Okay, the bread man, Artemis Panarin, dude. What are these? Are packs actually like super juiced right now? An 86, an 87, and now an 85 Panarin. These packs are insane, dude. Okay, I will take that. Connor Badard, all right, that's something. Yoki Haru Romanov. I forgot he's on the Islanders. Okay, Sunquist, these packs are not bad, man.  Hampus Linholm. Okay, an 83, Rarray, I think hopefully I said her last name right. Evgeny Kuznetsov in an 82, not too bad. And that's probably about it. But dude, not bad, man. Artemis Panarin, not too bad. I'm tempted to skip it. I'm very tempted to skip it. But I'm not gonna do it, because if I pull a purple, I wanna see it. Jacob Chitrin, one of her 81 pluses. Mario Ferraro. These packs are just so big, which takes a lot of open, man. Thomas Tatar, Lucas Raymond. Bull Horvath, all right, not too bad. All right, Shelton. We'll skip the rest. Strom, oh, okay, Primetime Marino. He might go for something, probably not, but okay. All right, we're onto the hockey starter pack. We get a power-up collectible and two 81 pluses. We get two of these, so they're not great. I'm more or so doing these for the free, not free, but for the power-up collectibles. They're just gonna be good for my X-Factor players that I have, so we'll take that. Okay, these packs are untradable as well. I did not read that. Makes sense if you're getting a free power-up collectible. So there's our power-up collectible. There's our first 81 plus, Yanni Gord, not the greatest 81 plus. We still have one more left. We get a Primetime Kressler, sure. And then a Shelton again, and that's about it. All right, we're gonna skip this one. We're skipping this one. We're skipping, bang. Oh, there's a purple. Dude, this is our third purple pull, and we've missed two of them. I hate that so much. All right, we get a Sarah Filler. We get TVR. Who's it gonna be? It's a show field, untradable. You know what? I have her X-Factor, though. That's not bad. I do have her X-Factor, so that's actually kind of a dub. 93 speed, 92 excel, good shot. I'll take an 86 show field, and then our power-up collectible as well. So what is that now? Four packs, three purples, I wanna say. We're moving on to the Jump 1HL players packs. We get four of these. 12% chance at an 86. So Roman Yosi on the cover means we're gonna pull Austin Matthews, I think. I think that's how that math works. Somehow it works, okay. So here we go, Warren Fogel. Anders Lee, Jake McCabe. Tell me these are gonna be my worst packs. I have a feeling I'm not gonna pull one purple out of these four packs. Dylan Strom, Miko Rantinen. All right, 84 overall, not bad. He should go for something. Might even make the team. Jeremy Swamin, John Tavares, another captain, Johnny. Ryan Strom, Wallman. Is there gonna be anything else in this pack? Jason Zucker, Nicholas Backstrom, Brad Marchen, and a catalog puzzle. So 284 is a Marchen and a Miko Rantinen, not too shabby. I want an X-Factor Matthews, so I think I'm gonna get an X-Factor Matthews in this pack. Josh Anderson, Jake Bean. Okay, Brandon Hagel. I don't see my X-Factor Matthews yet. It's kind of depressing. Okay, Steven Stamcoes. We have one already, so we can sell this one. That's not bad. Vince Dunn, Brandon Tanev, Ben Bishop. Okay, all right, Nikolai Ehlers. Not a bad card. He probably plays well in Xizuki. Three cards left. Dylan Cousins again. Ryan Souter and Tyler Bertuzzi. That pack stung a little bit. We've got two more of these. Jamie Ben, one more purple would be nice, I think. Surely I get one in this pack. Has to be this pack. Formington, Darcy Kemper. I don't think we pulled anything over in 82 in this pack. Jordan Kairu, Jordan Stahl, Back to Back Jordans. Thomas Tatar. Oh, these packs are depressing. I think I got to skip packs from now on. That's when I pulled my purples. All right, last pack, I think these are 60K packs. The last 60K pack, we haven't pulled a purple in any of these, which is crazy. Taylor Hall, that card might go for something. Ryan Ellis, I just want to see one more purple in this pack opening. That's all I ask for. Nick Leti, Phil The Thrill. Ek, okay. Mikey Anderson, oh, this is depressing. This is actually depressing. Oh my God.  We're crying, Michael Bunting, John Marino. Okay, nice. Okay, don't know how I feel about that, but I'm gonna pull Matthews in one of these packs because he's on the cover. We start with Nikita Kutrov. Okay, this has been an excellent pack opening. Kutrov probably will make the team. He might even get sold for something. Who knows, Teddy Bluger. Killington, Killington? I think I said that, right? Ryan Souter again. Okay, Bokwis. The No, Druen, and Ek. How many times have we pulled Erickson Ek, actually? Austin Matthews on the cover. There's gotta be at least one Matthews in these packs. Shirley, let me see a purple Matthews. We start off with Mark Shifley, not too bad. Corey Perry. McKayev, okay. Larson, Belmauer, okay. Ronik, Dennis Malgen, Poldinsky, and this pack was just not it, chief. So, last pack, we gotta get something in this last one, man. You would think. Eric Comrie to start off. John Klingberg, okay. Dryden Hunt, all right, 82 overall. ADB at an 83, okay, that's not bad. Bjorkstrand, Jordan Greenway, Kelly Rudy, and Michael Furlan. All right, we're gonna save the rest of the points for later, because the rest of the packs in the store are actually garbage. So, looking at what we pulled, we pulled a Marie-Philippe Poulin, a show field, a Victor Headman, a Nikita Kutrov, an Artemie Panarin, a carpenter, and Rantonin, Stamco's, ADB. Honestly, a pretty successful pack opening if I do say so myself. And with these guys, that is it for today's video. If you guys did enjoy, be sure to drop a like on it. If you guys are new around here, make sure to hit the subscribe button down below. 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Back live on placemaking the solar punk and life with me now is Moments, Weithart, Mara Klein and Andrei Zakharov. And I'm happy to have this channel really looking on placemaking. We have examples from a garden, from a roof and from the ground, so to say. And what does that mean? We will find out in the next one hour. I would love to start with just a tiny introduction of everyone and then Moment can start to present his project. Maybe everybody of you can have a little introduction to their projects and then we can discuss together in this way. Moment would you like to introduce your project first? Yeah, well hi everyone and thank you for having me here today. It's really important platform for me. This is the first time I'm gonna be speaking in public about this project. We have announced it online but we haven't really got any sort of discussion going or in the media or like a part of our website that got online last week. So my name is Moment and I'm from Genine. I live between London and Palestine for the last 10 years now and I am a theater maker, playwright and an artist. I grew up in the north of Palestine in a city called Genine and my project will be drawing around my childhood space where I grew up in the forest as a Palestinian bidwin in one of the largest forests in the West Bank. So this is what my project is about and it's called the Swatat Garden. Swatat is my family name but the place also called the Swatat because my family were the first people to live in this forest and my grandfather, the one who plants all the trees around this forest which is now becoming a run-down forest. And then I grew up as a child and playing all the time in this forest and then later on in life I go back to this forest to find out that it's not accessible anymore. And then here where my project began to how to bring back this space to the community and yeah. So this is what my project would be about and this is what we'll be talking about. I'm just looking at what is the homepage of your project where can we find it? Oh yeah so basically we have two things going on and online that you can find the project. If you go to www.swatat, you will find the website okay and then if you go fund me because we are launching a fundraising online things to have seed funding to start the to be artists who will be working with us as an architect, as an urban planning who will design the whole project for us. If you go to go fund me, I mean if you go to the website you will definitely find the link to go fund me and to Playground for Palestine and and other project links there and you will find all about the project. I will repeat it again is www.switagarden.com. Jacob your sound. All right the links are coming up to the stream there and Mara you've been having quite some success with some weird project and some taking over a shopping center or so to say. What do you mean by weird Jacob weird? I mean shopping centers are weird places right? Yeah and so I introduced it just briefly right later we talk a bit more about it right? Yeah and yeah so thanks for having me Jacob really happy to be here also with Momeni who I met a long time ago in Geneva in 2011 so a small world and yeah so my name is Mara Klein and I'm an artist and part today as part of the collective operation Himmelblick which means operations sky view which Andre the third speaker is also part of by the way and yeah and so we're a collective of people from different disciplines, architects, urban planners, artists who whose aim is to reclaim an urban space that is under use namely rooftops and today I will talk mostly about a project that we did this summer because it illustrates what what our intention is with this project of bringing together peoples of the neighborhood but I'll talk about it later if it's in detail about the weird experience. Yeah thank you so much Andre what are you up to? Hey hello yeah so what I'm mostly involved in and spending pretty much all of my days on is we are a part of an initiative which is creating a community land trust in Berlin so it's a foundation which buys ground so it collects resources monetary resources and buys land in order to give it in leasehold contracts to groups initiatives cooperatives under the condition that they open it up to as many people as possible that they that their social criteria like when they for example rent flats or that the neighborhood has a has a say when talking about how using the space for example commercial spaces like what one is needed actually in the neighborhood and through this decoupling it from the market and creating a different type of yeah commons governance on how urban space mostly we're starting here in Berlin but we are open to areas around we want to make the connection between areas around Berlin and Berlin but we are limited to Berlin and yeah so this is this is a project it's called Stadtboden Stiftung so community land trust Berlin that's how you find us. Great I think this gives us interesting you know starting point to see to go into this discussion what does the practices or the different angles you can take on really like on the practice of place making and in the in the telegram chat that you can join the first recommendation for collaboration was directed to moment to collaborate with some open source seed project that's a cool comment I'd love to hear a bit more on the on the context and on the difficulties and on the maybe on the dream that you have moment around your vision and what this dream can how this dream can vitalize the community and the neighborhood yeah basically you know like it's growing up and in a place like Palestine like the West Bank it's not an easy place to to grow up but this is there is no time to to complain in the same time so there is only time here to make things work and and to make things happen in the best possible way otherwise you're gonna end up in a in a in a in a like in a lot of complicity that that will not be helpful to neither yourself or you or your mental health or or or your sort of community engagement outreach facility or communication so when I was a kids growing as a bidwin my only space it was available for me to play it was this forest and I was very lucky unlike other kids who have to be growing up in a refugee camp which is is built from concrete which there is no any little green area for them to have access to so I was way way lucky and this is where the whole the whole things for me why I care about greenery and space and community engagement and and one of my earliest memory as a childhood it was it was going waking up in the summer holiday from school and going to the forest and creating my own universe there by building toys building cities building like a shot like from from trash from rubbish that people have left behind there and make it recycle in and and and and create all my sort of like child and or childhood playful space and then one day I remember that this forest also saved my life so one day I was during the second intifada which is pretty harsh military intifada it was it was a lockdown which is funny that we all have experienced lockdown now in a way but I have been experienced lockdown since I was a kid since I was like this really I open my eye to this life to a military look now and and and then one day I was it was just maybe just begun to go to school by myself and you know this memory is very nice memory you would never leave this memory behind and then I was coming back from school by myself and then I experienced having military Mark cover right next to the forest and the forest was my way to school it sound like spring awakening you know and and and this is where I discovered everything in my life you know I discovered my my sexual sense of things I discover my my dreams I discovered who I am I discovered my sense of the smell I discovered my sense of learning unnecessarily learning process you know I discovered everything so and then one day I was walking there and then I always also had animals I always have dogs I always I always grow up having horses and donkeys and and the house of those animals it was always this forest and then one day I have to basically I was shot at by a sniper because it was sort of a beginning of a lockdown of a core few lockdown military core few lockdown and then I have to run to the forest and and and this is the only way I was basically saved my life many times not only one not only twice many times that I was going back from school and then I was I will I will encounter military soldier and then I'll be shot at and then I will have to run to this forest so all my sad beautiful amazing crazy memory is in there this year I went to Palestine to do a documentary film about something different about about a theater maker called Juliano Mirchamees who were my teacher and who were assassinated with the German company I was I went down to Palestine early this year and February end of February to to do a documentary with the with the Munich Film Fund and and then and then the lockdown happened so the German crew went back to Germany and as a Palestinian holding a Palestinian passport to have a lack of freedom of movement I got stuck in Geneva again not a stuck but I got sort of not able to move again which it was it was sort of a bit annoying but in the meantime it was good because I thought it was an important time later on I find out that it was an important time for me to reconnect to this place again and then I have a daughter she came to visit me with her mom that halfway through the lockdown and then my daughter's only was ten in two years when she was in Genine and then she always wanted to go to to a playground and then I wanted to take her to a playground in Genine and which is the forest and I found out all the break all the equipment in the playground in that forest it completely destroyed and really extremely dangerous for kids to be around because there are metal sharp plastic broken plastic and really sharp so I mean I decided to basically to investigate the whole things and to have this project back to the community and and to work on this in this project and to bring it back in the meantime around all of this in the middle there was also a facility for for for for all kind of people that access to this place but also destroyed like like stairs or steps or a small walkway to disabled people or like or the blind because there was there is also a blind the school next to the forest so the blind student can go and and and enjoy the forest but absolutely it's all destroyed and and and left behind so so I thought that was a good responsibility for me to take on and and to to speak about this project at least to speak about it at least to to to rise awareness about it in the local community so I start to hold groups of meeting in the forest with with my local community who is basically partly my family partly my neighbors who I grew up with you know and then they all agreed that that this place need to be redone and this place need to be accessible to everybody again and then I sit down with the local government there and and we had a great great that they're gonna give us the space which is they get now we have the space we about to form a contract with them I don't know how long it might be for 10 years 15 years and then also in the meantime there is an open a band theater there that once was full of life for kids there that was a lot of clowning show a lot of circus show there's a lot of musical show there was a lot of fire camp around it then and all of this so now we are basically in this case I start to get in touch with a friend and a friend of a friend and then I find out there's a place called playground for Palestine that they have a they have a community group in New York in America and they have a community groups in London so we got in touch with the team in London because I base in London now and and team in London they love the idea and then they pick up on this project to be the responsibility of funding the equipment for the playground only but what we're looking for is we're looking for more than the playground we're looking for for for a place to be accessible to all people from all different walks we're looking for to renovate the theater space and to make it accessible again and to make it into like a theater or an art hub community space we're looking to establish a program for alternative outdoor self-learning education about the history of the space and about what is in the space and what stories had happened in this space so now we have got the fund for the equipment which is a good news for the playground and then this is why we launch we launch another another like a seed funding that we can be artists and architect and think and and and and and from the community and from from from the international artist community to join this group because we want people to be paid to do this job and and and so yeah this is basically part one of the project yeah now we are interested in part two of course but I also I want to open up for questions both to like you can post them in the telegram chat and Mara and Andre that are here as well if you have questions to the project and that are burning and please feel free to to share yeah I have a question I mean and I wonder like because Janine also has like seen like a few projects that have you know the freedom theater but also cinema Janine which came from like completely an outsider's perspective coming in and creating something without like real knowledge of the place and I just wondered how people feel about you like returning and kind of taking this initiative if you if you feel like there's quite a positive ground to to build this or how yeah how's your experience been with this I think I think your question is a very good question because mean our main obstacle here is the sustainability and and and in every step we take in here we always having the sustainability question above our mind you know around our mind like in a surround sound you know and and yeah you're right basically the freedom theater if we want to have a look at this two perfect example the freedom theater and cinema Janine okay and and two of them have they give us the different answer which is a great sad any grade for our project sad in a way that the the tragedy what happened in the freedom theater is obviously the people of who were in the first line benefit from the freedom theater have lost the main tour you know the legend man who created the whole idea and vision around it okay and and and who basically thought me to become who I am now you know so we lost him and and that's that's for me now a lesson to learn how safety and security in working in this environment is the most important thing you know but in the other hand the freedom theater in term of sustainability is still working you know it's working in a way that is adapt now to where the freedom theater is today it doesn't have to be necessarily working in the same speed or the same idea or the same formulation that it used to be working when Juliano was alive because Juliano was a one-man show he was he knew what he want okay I wouldn't agree that the freedom theater will be still working exactly how the same energy when Juliano was alive because Juliano is not there anymore so we need to have a new identity which is now they're working on it I believe which is a great the saddest the other sad and also good for for for a new project to come with somebody who have a knowledge and an out outside ice and an inside ice to the whole things which is now Cinema Jeanine okay which is I don't know maybe some people know some people doesn't know that cinema Jeanine have been bulldozed down to the ground and and being replaced to a shopping mall center a sheep shopping mall center terrible design and and this is sad now okay here is like we want to stand on this question what the sustainability of this project gonna be okay so I wouldn't say that the reason why the cinema Jeanine were were bulldozed and run down because it was mainly foreign young creative people who come to the to the place without having a full knowledge of the culture and the community understanding of things I wouldn't say that was the reason I would only say the reason was there was a gap between between buildings in cinema space engineering and between how to keep how to keep this sustainable okay I remember and when when cinema Jeanine open and and when I was a student at the freedom theater in the same time I used to finish what my school time at the freedom theater as an actor and then walking back to my flat which is opposite cinema Jeanine okay and seeing like 70 people working from all different background from Germany from mainly Germany obviously but it was also other people working there and like Palestinian local young people working and it was it was sort of refreshing it was like giving a big massive huge hope like for me it was like if it was the case is still the same thing I wouldn't have left Jeanine you know it's open up a lot of like dreams for us to see all of this visual in that time but obviously it was no plan there was no plan there was no the plan was just for tomorrow you know or after tomorrow the plan wasn't even how to keep this space sustainable how to keep how to use how to take an advantage of the fund that the cinema Jeanine have received if from an NGO organization or from the German government that time okay and to make it circles recycling inside the the the the building itself rather than is just spending money and goes and never come back you know so and here where I want to say about death of the ed for Palestine I think is sort of very close together like the ed and the death is the same things for Palestinian now obviously Palestinian who work with a big NGO fund you know but what I want to do in this term and if we want to go back to this new project I think it's much easier because first I speak the language easily I born there I know the community I have been involved in a lot of different level of community engagement to project in there okay and I think I felt that young people in the community there look up for what this guy who used to be very controversial working with the freedom theater now he went away and come back what he want to do in this space is he's going to do another controversial things or he going to do another thing but this time I'm not coming back by myself this time we're working with as a collective we're working with a lot of young people male and female and different gender from the ground itself that they the one who gonna hold the ground together you know and and we still open for international collaboration obviously because this is very important for us so it's just a question is does have no one side answer is have perfect example to look at which is cinema genine and freedom theater I I found it super interesting and also said to hear that the the whole work that went into building the cinema genine just got replaced but I mean projects come and go and rise again the question of sustainability is I mean it's great I mean what this is we're building I would laugh with the like looking at the time to invite Mara to to share on your project and then we can come back together around the commonalities and challenges of our of our projects in the very end yeah so um yeah thank you mommine for explaining I find it super interesting this question of the yeah who who who creates what where you know like how how are you anchored in a space um yeah so I'm here to talk about operation Himmelblick and as I mentioned before we're a collective which is Berlin based of a group of interdisciplinary peoples and our aim is to reinvigorate spaces that are not used so often which are rooftops which which are precious precious spaces in cities that have little little space that people can share and I would like to share today very briefly um one of our projects that we did this summer which was like a pilot the first test phase for this group so we went to Chemnitz in Saxony and we were part of a festival called the big yeoman which is the biggest cultural festival there and it's run I just want to mention it because I find it really yeah it's a really great festival it's run by a group of volunteers that come back every year for the last 17 years which I think says a lot about their dedication and also the quality of a of a festival and the idea of this festival is to reinvigorate spaces which are underused or which people don't go to so in the past years they've been to a brewery, prison, lots of spaces that are normally not really accessible or not of interest and this year they were in the Heckert area which is a huge area of prefabricated buildings prefabricated buildings in German Plattenbau which a lot of people know from GDR architecture and the Heckert was actually the third largest in the whole of the GDR so it's massive and it was built in the 70s on this utopian idea of providing good housing for workers so enough light, enough space, access to all important amenities, Grundversorgung and now since the fall of the wall and in the last 20 years it's really turned into quite the opposite it's become very empty there's an aging population which doesn't really have access to amenities because everything is moving out so there's a lot of space there but not so much room for innovation and this year the the big iung went there and they went to one huge platte, one huge prefabricated building and asked artists to reinvigorate the space and also an old shopping mall so in German in East German that's Konzum which is just the name for a small shopping mall and they asked us to do something with the roof so this was a flat roof and we went we came with ideas but really our idea in general is to find out what is needed and what is dreamt of in that space and so we came with a few ideas but most importantly to us was to really find out what people there wanted and so we came with these research questions like what do you dream of what utopias could be realized on roofs and basically what is missing and to our surprise you know dreams can also be very grounded and people mostly said that they lack the basic things that make a life kind of easier which is a pharmacy and ATM benches to sit on to meet some people mentioned beauty in public space and so after this research phase which included walking through the streets and asking people and also a rooftop dinner where we invited people from all over Chemnitz to dine in this on this roof we collected these impulses and we built a spaceship which to us represented utopia you know utopia of this area utopia of generally city planning and urban planning and what people dream of like going far and around this spaceship we built benches which were in part made out of the material of the roof because we knew that this roof was going to be taken down in a month or two the whole shopping mall will be destroyed because there's too much empty space there empty housing empty buildings and so we used parts of the roof to build these benches around the spaceship and so people could come and sit on these benches meet and see each other look at this spaceship and also listen to a sound installation that talked that basically condensed everything that we'd heard on the streets and this was our aim to kind of like combine the very grounded needs of a community which are kind of yeah they're simple and yeah they're just simple needs which which are really important and then on the other side this idea of like yeah where do we dream to and roofs are a great place for this and so the festival was four days and they were four thousand people i think and this was only due to the pandemic they had a limit of a thousand so a thousand came a day four thousand people came and sat on this roof and i really i could feel that people were really really touched by this because on the one hand roofs have a there's just a magic in roofs and on the other hand people felt heard because we'd come there as artists from another place but we really took time to find out what people actually wanted and we took it seriously you know when people say we want benches to sit on that sounds you know like nothing but actually if people want benches then why not have benches and um after this festival was over um what was really important to us which also addresses this question of sustainability that we talked about momy um yeah what was really important to us was also that something remains and obviously memories remain when you do like a something like a festival for a few days but these benches were then also bought by the city of chemnitz and they will put them up in the heck of area so that people can still sit on these benches which are part partly made out of this consume this shopping mall that no longer exists or that will no longer exist but the trace remains where people sit is actually the physical remain of this shopping mall um yeah and this was like the the first time that we tested out this kind of um way of doing things as a collective but we're all based in Berlin and the city obviously has um incredible potential and is a fast moving place where there is a lot of question of like public space being um yeah being not accessible to the community that is there and and so now we are planning our next project which is hopefully gonna play take place this summer and also be longer because our aim is really on the one hand to do short interventions which are interesting and they're exciting and they make people maybe you know think or excite them but really our aim is to create spaces on rooftops that are sustainable where people can come together and then take it over so we want to be the impulse givers just i i guess a bit like momy and what you were saying about the forest you want to be the impulse giver but then in the long term we really want people to take this over the people of this building and so what we're looking at now is a a building in Mitte a platte which has around 80 plus people living there and um we're looking at building a space on the roof that is modular so that it can be also shifted around changed according to needs if we do like a debate or a concert or a film evening they will be rooftop gardening and also our aim is to really have it green up there because this is another thing about cities that's the dark the dark roofs obviously take away a lot of the or store a lot of the heat and so we need greener roofs in general and to then start this process that people start taking care of their own building so we will be there in the beginning but really on the long term we would like these roofs to then become what the people want them to be um yeah and i think this is what i find really exciting about this initiative is that it combines something artistic with a social and creation with community so this idea of really we want to combine functional and beautiful because they do need each other um yeah and there is really a magic on roofs i'm sure that many of you know how roofs are magical because there's air there there's a sense of possibility and i remember last summer in chemnets when people were sitting on this roof which was quite um low down so you could still see trees it really felt like a market square and market squares have something you know really special where people come together but this is a market square in the air and there's so much potential there there's some kind of magic that yeah i guess the ground is harder to to find that i don't know yeah um yeah and just lastly just to say um we really want to stay independent of organizations so the idea is really that we offer something to a community but we don't want to be a provider of services for a certain housing company or etc the idea is really that we would like to use funds that are given to us but really stay independent in the way we design things and also in the yeah in the narrative that we create up there because this is really not up to an agenda but up to the community that is is around there yeah thank you for bringing up this challenge around the funding as well i mean creating up places like tapping into this untapped potential of roofs and making comments out of rooftop places in general is one thing but also like creating a space where people actually can come together obviously um is doing a huge service to local community to democracy to like to um to the well-being of of people and um yeah how to how to support that is an an interesting challenge i again invite everybody listening to to get in touch or ask questions via the telegram chat and um i before we like go why just mingling between the projects maybe andrei you can um give us some update on what's happening with that boden stiftung um yeah please yeah i tried to make it quite quickly um because there's already so much very super interesting content there um and really nice to just keep on talking like for what we have a little bit time to prolong our session um because we started like seven minutes late but okay this is so you have to know that you have time to share thank you um so um yeah but what are we doing we are an initiative um mixed out of people who come from neighborhood initiatives in berlin from working in cooperatives um people working who've been like working in academia and kind of trying to find alternative ways of ownership questioning kind of kind of how the capitalist market in our cities destroys communities and and people who are active in politics quite a diverse group um kind of came together also mostly people who didn't knew each other before and um we came together um with the idea of creating something called like something inspired by the community land trust so so first before talking about this organization inspiration of a community land trust i want to talk again or more deeply about like what's actually the problem what what brings us together is kind of a problem that we see in berlin is that in the last 10 years um berlin has changed very quickly and in accelerating speed and spaces are becoming less and less available like it's really an explosion of kind of capitalist exploitation of the ground in berlin ground rents are rising prices for housing commercial spaces are rising local shops are being kicked out and replaced by kind of multinationaly operating startups and funded startups um on companies it's kind of all like a shift which all goes in the way of like creating the highest profit from the space which is available and this is really affecting our neighborhoods it's affecting our communities when very important shops are leaving when places where where child care places used to be they cannot pay the rent anymore they're being replaced like neighborhood shops which kind of have been there for 30 years and there's a community of people regularly going to the same cafe knowing each other and all of this being threatened and this is this is kind of the the problem we are like facing in this type of yeah where the only thing that counts is making the highest profit on the land as long as it's in private ownership and there's so much pressure like quite opposite to what we experienced in cabinets where there was lots of empty space and it's really the question okay how do you create inspiration and do something with empty space here we have the opposite of like there's so much pressure on creating something and so we came together and we're inspired by this idea of community land trust and community land trust a type of organization which acts for many different places or houses but in a specific location like in a specific city and they are they have three principles community land and trust so community means it's a community run organization so it's organization where people who are live there who live in the neighborhood they can directly become in part of the organization and vote for the people who are in the decision-making power so there's a democratic structure in the bylaws and it's like fixated it's also it's about land so that's really important for us as community land trust we we we think we need this kind of civil society run kind of neighborhood based organization that owns the land it doesn't have to do all the things on top of the land but it's about kind of owning the land and making sure it stays out of a kind of a market out of being traded to whoever can make the highest money but actually take that land in the organization and then give contracts like for 50 60 100 years to groups or cooperatives which use the land but for a social purpose or a neighborhood purpose so for example say okay we we own this land but now we give the the the house on top we give it to a cooperative or an initiative and they run the house for the next years decades but they have to comply to some like conditions like for example if there's a big commercial space they cannot just rent it to the highest price they have to ask the neighborhood what is actually needed here or for the flats they cannot just give them to anyone they have to give the flats at least a big amount of them to people who actually need them the most like who they cannot be like we just want these type of people here no they have to be open and accessible to people who actually need these flats and who are like have the most problems kind of on this capitalist market in Berlin and this is the concept of trusty ship like the last the trust that the community land trust is acting as a trusty and holding the land in trusty ship for groups and communities who have otherwise not the possibilities to decide what happens in the city because they don't have the monetary resources to like buy land themselves so these are the three principles and we are finding a way of making that happen in Berlin and we are just in the moment of creating a foundation it will be like we will hand in all the papers in January we have collected one hundred fifty thousand euros as a starting capital kind of for making the first projects possible but it's really about kind of a a long-term vision like there are foundations which operate like this like ours which are not non-profit organizations and they started one of them started 30 years ago in Switzerland with 20 or 14 000 francs and now they manage more than 300 million francs and it's really this idea of creating a foundation which starts slowly but it only is not just for one property because it's actually from each property giving a little little money for like solidarity and to make the next project possible and through this grow and kind of be a revolving land trust which not in five years time but in 10 20 30 years really can have an impact in the city but at the same time stays democratically accountable to the people who use the space to the people who also are in the neighborhood and who people who are active for a different type of city so this in short is what we are kind of working on and maybe to make it more clearer like what could be a project for example like example like I think there are two types of projects which are we are already working on the moment where we're already negotiations one is quite a simple one it's where there's a people who inherited a multi-family house there are like 20 or 15 people living in this house and two of them are the people who inherited it but they they want to give this house they don't want to deal with managing it and dealing with all the rents and repairs they want to give it in good hands and we negotiating with them a way to give it to the foundation kind of they can stay there live there forever like they have the rights secured but we also make sure that the other tenants are treated well and there's a small space which can be used as a neighborhood space and make sure that it's unlocked for the neighborhood now it's not used so this is one kind of quite simple way of kind of securing a house securing the low rents there securing that everybody can stay there and that it's not sold to the highest price to some investment company from Luxembourg which you there's no face anymore it's just acts for highest profit the other example is there's a commercial property in in a bit outside of the center and it's really at the edge of the residential area it's like an intercommercial area and there are three centers like housing centers like a refugee center where where people kind of refugees who arrived in Germany are put in like not their own choice like they are put in there can live everything but they live really at the edge of the city and it's really there's nothing around it's very like a dire situation there's another center where people who are homeless and alcoholics and then there's a big house where only people live who work short term in Berlin and then there's this there's a very empty public space around there's no amenities nothing and there is a house which we try to buy and convert into something that's actually of use for the people living there like kind of creating a point of connection between people living in the residential areas in these different housing centers and yeah and secure affordable rents for yeah for for social purposes for organizations that try to make something different um yeah so these are the examples and I think what is what is it about is about this idea of of breaking up ownership of like not thinking about something is owned by one person one organization but really involving as many people as possible when talking about something and giving them rights to have a say and through this maybe you know being guided by this principle of a commons of like how can we create this land which which should be a commons i mean we cannot multiply it or produce new land like how can we how can we most possibly treat it as something that is commonly owned um yeah this is the the the vision and that's what we are working on step by step trying to realize the first projects next year yeah thank you so much i i love this initiative a lot and i i was walking in the park today and with you know and in some way the park has the commons and then you have the stories of people buying a land and really accepting thereby the kind of custodianship that they take for this land and um i especially in the in the city or so i find it so interesting to and invite people into like active custodianship for their places and i feel like this mechanism can empower this relationship from you to your to your neighborhood or to you to the place you're in and um i mean obviously Berlin is there's a lot of like business happening in the moment and uh but i mean still from the visionary power of this project i find it so strong that i'm wondering like what is the challenges uh for for places to actually become um community land trusts and why is there not more and more and more places already like falling in your in your way and then just to add to this question maybe like um your own understanding of agency you gave an example where you where you said you want to go into shaping the place yourself um as a way or like where's the activists where's the city land trust how much are you giving an impulse in the same way that Mara said you wanted like given impulse or like yeah you you feel the question mark somehow yeah so there are two two things the first one you're referring to um the challenges so i mean they're i mean the the message challenges that for buying kind of a piece of land kind of funding it like it's millions like we're talking about millions of euros for kind of a property in Berlin which is perfect like it's crazy like like it's yeah so it's really about how do we gather the amount of funds we need um find people who give maybe loans for very great conditions because they want to support it it's really about kind of collecting the money to even be possible to make things happen and so this is the one big challenge the second challenge is always kind of work we are we are already a group of 20 active people and many other supporters like we have 140 people who gave money and who are also feeling like supporters of the project and just in the small group of 20 already to work as a community like to like like not as a community like work as a as a group and make collective decisions look at hierarchies powers kind of how do you deal with different interests different like where should we start like but in this big what kind of projects should we first work on where should we put our resources our energy um that's that's always a big challenge like just kind of if you want to make many people voices heard you also have to find a way of mediating these voices and kind of still come together um so these are two of the challenge which come to my mind right away we are working on them i think we we are dealing with them but they keep on being challenges and we always have to find new ways of dealing with them and the second question is um this role of yeah initiative with this um being maybe an instrument which can be appropriated by the the the neighborhood initiatives and it's something in between like it's a quite a it's sometimes more the one role sometimes more the other i think in the beginning we have to be a bit active and show some initiative because you have to show what you can do what the instrument can be used for to then be approached but there are already many initiatives approaching us and being like hey we have this house in our neighborhood we want to this and this happen like how how do we make that happen like how can you support us so i think making the first projects possible there will be others coming and i think because we always separate the ownership of the land from the ownership of the house on top it always also restricts our power like there are many things maybe we have a certain vision but we cannot decide everything like we always have to find somebody like a neighborhood group which works together with the cooperative in shaping actually what's happening on the place like we can we can only set the parameters but we always cooperate with others and by having to always cooperate with others it also kind of we might we might have to have some vision to extract the first groups and the people and the neighborhood depending always on the place maybe they are already there like there are houses where there is already a very strong vision and it's really us just bringing in the finances and kind of the long-term stability and being like we have a structure which enables you to make your goals which you already have to make them long-lasting and give them a structure which is not only valid for the next 15 years but actually can work for 100 years or more so it depends quite quite a lot but i think the idea there is some initiative we bring in but it's also restricted because we are not the people realizing the project in the end the every day of the project we only set help set out the conditions and we always have to cooperate and i think but that's a good that we always have to cooperate because otherwise it gives too much power to us i i love the aspect of timing you know organizing always this is also like synchronized by by the factor of time and sometimes it's easy to have a short time span where you like produce something and sometimes it opens up a big thing to have like a long longer window of operating speaking about time our time is getting very short now before we get ready for the next panel but i would love to hear if you have some if you want to share some inspiration that just came up for you in this moment listening to each other and obviously i want to just get a glimpse of moment into part two this was a great cliffhanger yeah maybe mara first you have you have some fresh insights fresh insights no pressure okay fresh insights and yeah i mean as i was listening to andre and before it's a moment as well and just thinking about like what these three initiatives have in common i think especially this year for many parts of the world where this pandemic changed everyday lives and maybe also perspectives on place i think we are coming to more of a sense of like growing belonging you know um i like this word belonging in the sense that there is longing in there which is normally far away but i think a lot of us are also realizing that a lot of what is there and what we need is around us that we don't have to go too far and that it's about committing to this place and making it better so i think this is what i find really beautiful about these three initiatives is that there is something about a shared commitment to take responsibility for growing um for me it's like wow it's like so interesting to hear about a project in in a sort of a metropolitan city you know like we're talking about like an early planning city like Gineen and then we're talking about Berlin like a massive metropolitan city well i i thought about like obviously like the the the roof roof garden project in a city which is full of of of of like you know like big businesses and and building and and stuff like this i think i think this is sort of a very uh utopian escape out of of of like uh i mean what Berlinists still have a like a a lot of knife like nice uh uh playground and and greenery side of it that where people can escape a little bit the city and and and just go for a long walk or something which is nice you know as well as here in London um but but to have to have something easy access in in in your own building not your own building but the building that you basically live there and it's absolutely amazing and to have like i love the idea of of a dining table the the the idea of the dining table i think is is very interesting in this in this kind of making a very diverse community now in Berlin in and i think there's a there's a lot of there you know there's a lot of so much to be done that so much to be uh work around community that like how to make sense of community i think this is a good question about about like a metropolitan city you know and a futuristic city sort of and and a very capitalist in the meantime as as andrew was saying and i i think i think i just the only thing come from my mind it was it was like i think it's we we we working in a complete reversal project like for me i i want you need to become very uh invested in you know i want i wouldn't say i want you need to become a capitalist it does there's no doubt there's no question in there because there's the landscape and the politics surrounded it will not make it that way you know which is i'm very relaxed from this point but in the meantime there's no investment engineering so sort of how to work around juggle between these two spaces and how to switch it in the meantime you know and how to look what underneath this all of this how to bring it publicly up in a small little city that suffer if from a from a long period of a lockdown of a military lockdown this this is a big question but for me it's like the second part of the project it's a lot of questioning it's a lot of like how can we move left the whole community into a new different level by programming a lot of different new visual visual program uh to the community into this fallacy of genean city and and and how to left them from the dystopia to to utopia you know and how can we do the journey from dystopia to to utopia without harming any things as we had this two fantastic example which is the freedom theater and cinema genean that both end up costing a lot of harm to the people who work there and how can we do the safe journey again from from dystopia to utopia and and and begin left the community because because i feel as a as a member of a Palestinian community from genean i do feel that once upon a time genean and the west bank was there they were there there was there was a lot of happiness there was a lot of lightness there was a lot of freedom and and and and and and expression and and and sense of individuality you know and how can so this space i believe in this space to be the hub of a factory of argument discussion ideas and and and and and and and formulating and and and research on from small things to big things you know and um okay i think the people that have been abandoned from so many small things thank you daniel you know over to you and how can we bring back those things into and i think this is space it's the right space for it i'm not talking about a building here i'm not talking about theater or cinema gene i'm talking about like an environmental space which is an open massive huge space that can be done a lot there for people to come and and how can we leave and and and and like all of this question for me this is what the the next thing and how can we see this question being questioning by the community there and how can we leave the space between the the the the creator and and and and and and the performer which is the community you know and which in which time can we leave this gap and to to see it in a foggy mingling and and and trying to struggle and trying to succeed in all of that so i think i think this is for me the the next step of the project is to to let people let go with a lot of like a lot of things and and and and relief and here where we can have a new beginning you know yeah and i think the same i mean the the thing with with with the housing things in in in europe now and berlin and and the ownership you know i think it's a big question also you know i think i think this is what i meant by reversal that it's not a big question in pakistan because by nature in pakistan you have to have a house you have to own a house there's no way you have to have a garden there's no way you know um and and now like i have so many friend of mine in berlin that been renting for the last 30 years and when i i rise the question about are you planning to own your own space in berlin they will be like uh they're not sure about it um and and also uh the idea of like rich people coming in poor people have to leave to the edge of the area you know not only refugees who are arriving to the edge of the city but also the people who have born in this neighborhood their kids can't afford to keep in living in this neighborhood so and that's what it creates um a family saga and and and and you know like all of this question and there's no right there's no wrong you know um so yeah it's a lot of a question in there for me as well as making it fact and making it functional and work you know thank you andre any reflections or words of goodbye and i mean thanks so much for the yeah just inspiration it's time to talk like i find it's super inspiring i mean also very grounding you know just talking with you mean it's like yeah they're also these different realities and yeah yeah like i mean we all have our local struggles um and kind of see what can we do here locally and i think this is important to not always yeah i think you have to act where you are grounded to and where you're connected to and where you've where you're connected but it's also see like what kind of um yeah solidarity across spaces can you create and kind of what kind of possibilities we have here what kind of privileges we have here how can we connect with other other spaces in an emotional exchange and learn from each other um yeah that's just as a as a point to go forward but otherwise i'm just yeah just grateful for this time today yeah thank you i have the same input of how can we integrate these partnerships between place making efforts in one place and the other and how can there be some kind of portals or windows of you know of just going in relationship with each other so you can um you can you can learn from each other's realities in the way this was a great panel for the framing place making the solar punk and um i i hope we can follow you guys and support your journeys forward um i wish you all a great ending of the year and lots of energy for for the upcoming year and the whole new decade so to say the next talk we have on our channel is michael bowens giving a talk on the cyber physical infrastructure that is needed for humanity to um organize in the planetary boundaries um that are there and um this is gonna start in um five minutes so all the listeners can grab a coffee or a tea and um tune back in and meanwhile thanks a lot and a big applause for all the beautiful sharing today thank you jacob for the initiative was really really interesting beautiful thank you


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In fact we've the wind loading on our tower is my role because one well we didn't have a lot of problems with it to begin with but with the RF armor the wind load is much higher because it's creating this sale around the sector whereas with this sector we don't have that so it's significantly less from that angle. And then as far as the client connections I mean our how are you seeing that the beam and the change chain performance versus other? I would say right now we probably saw around a 15 to 20 percent increase overall in quality of signals. Which to us was a huge market improvement because you know when you're dealing with signals that you know might be on the fringe it allows you to put that many more customers on service that ordinarily would turn down. Yeah are you seeing an increase in performance as to the number of clients per AP with our sector versus other sectors? Yes absolutely I would say again we've probably seen a 20-15-20 percent increase. Excellent excellent great tell us a little bit more about your company as far as where you're located and you know how many subs you have. Sure so where we're my name my name is Scott of course and I'm with BlueSpan Wireless. We're a company that provides service to from about 25 miles north of Tucson all the way to the US Mexican border so we got a pretty large footprint. Our area or territory encompasses a service footprint of a little over a million people so it's a big market. Our growth rate is probably about 500 I think last year we had a 540% growth rate. Excellent so we're jamming so for us everything counts when you when you say oh I only got a 20% increase well that 20% increase does is huge when you're talking in those numbers so having you know well over a thousand subs just to start with and then moving up hundreds of hundreds of them a month it's very important we have the right antennas the right products the right equipment in the field and it just has to work you know to put an unproven technology out there is far worse for us because of the speed we're moving and the growth rate that we're experiencing but we're very pleased with the selection of these antennas. If you were to be able to kind of sum it up in a phase or you know in a couple of words I mean what what would you say to describe RF elements as a company in our products? So there's there's if I had to put a phrase together the one thing I like about you guys is you do exactly what you say you're going to do you know in our industry the biggest problem we've had is a company will promise to sign them in the stars and then they just don't deliver you know a lot of marketing hype what would I call the sizzle none of the steak you guys we like steak yeah you like steak the bottom line was is we looked at this product it did exactly what you said it would do and when we called to talk to people about it we got to speak with experienced people who actually were concerned about making sure we got what we needed and got the support we needed to put the product in properly and that goes a long way in our business. Well hey we appreciate your support. Thank you for talking to us and yeah thanks.


Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday so today I want to discuss what we know about the relationship between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the Russian government's interference in our 2016 elections but first a couple notes. Russia is a huge and massively diverse country of 144 million people but in the context of this election meddling we are talking specifically about Vladimir Putin and his government. Russia and the US are currently adversaries. Putin's regime has sought to undermine democracy and democratic institutions around the world and in the US's view invaded a sovereign nation but whether the United States and Russia are friends is not actually that relevant to the legal questions at hand. Also there is a lot of speculation about this story online. For the purposes of this video I'm only going to refer to events that have either been confirmed by the people who participated in them or reported independently by two separate news organizations. Sources as always in the video info below. Okay here we go. The Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have stated with high confidence that the Russian government sought to influence the outcome of the US presidential election favoring Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. They've also stated that Russia's leader Vladimir Putin personally oversaw this operation which actually shouldn't come as that much of a surprise. The Putin regime has a history of trying to sway foreign elections and also Trump's policy positions were broadly much more favorable to Putin than Clinton's policy positions. I mean as far back as 2007 Trump said that Putin was doing a great job. The Trump campaign even cut proposed language from the official Republican Party platform about supporting Ukraine in their ongoing conflict with Russia. Okay so the Putin regime meddled in our election in at least three ways via a disinformation campaign in which they created and shared inaccurate news stories by trying to breach election data in several states and by hacking the Democratic National Committee and DNC leader John Podesta to access their emails which they then released to WikiLeaks. Now you may not believe all of that and certainly both WikiLeaks and the Russian government deny it but there is overwhelming agreement not just within U.S. intelligence circles but also among both Republican and Democratic members of Congress who as you may have noticed struggle to find common ground on pretty much anything. The email hack in particular made a significant impact because it created a huge imbalance of information. The public had access to all these Democratic emails many of which one might charitably describe as sleazy but not to any similar Republican emails that might have existed.  Now you can say and you ought to that political parties just shouldn't be sleazy but my point is only that it created an information imbalance and that by choosing whose emails we saw Putin had a lot of say in the election narrative. Of course none of that means the election was illegitimate it wasn't or that Trump didn't win he did and benefiting from a foreign government's propaganda initiative is not a crime however colluding with that government is probably. U.S. election law says that a foreign national be they Canadian or Russian or Martian cannot make a contribution or a donation of any thing of value in connection with the U.S. election. It also says that no American can solicit or knowingly accept a donation or any thing of value from a foreign national. I suspect we're going to hear the phrase thing of value a lot in the coming months by the way in part because the courts haven't been super clear at deciding what it means. If hypothetically you receive damning information about your opponent from a foreign national and then share that information that is probably receiving a thing of value but it hasn't been entirely established. And there are a lot of nuances here have you received a thing of value if you know about the thing and to prove of sharing it but don't share it yourself. Did you solicit a thing of value if you set up a meeting with a foreign national in the hopes they would provide something they didn't provide etc. So many people in Trump's campaign had past relationships with Putin's regime. Trump's one-time campaign manager Paul Manafort received around 30 million dollars working for Oleg Deripaska who is seen as one of Putin's closest business confidants. Michael Caputo an early Trump advisor had previously worked on a Russian campaign to improve Putin's image among Americans. Trump's attorney general Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself from the Russia investigation after it was revealed he'd had previously undisclosed meetings with Sergei Kislyak Russia's ambassador to the United States. And Michael Flynn Trump's first national security advisor failed to disclose payments that were made to him by an arm of the Russian government. And failure to disclose such payments is illegal for former military officers. Flynn also talked several times to Sergei Kislyak during the transition the period after the election but before Trump became president. One of those calls occurred on December 29th which happened to be the same day the US announced new sanctions on Russia. Flynn initially denied that he'd discussed sanctions on that call but it became apparent that there was evidence to the contrary because Kislyak's calls are routinely monitored by US intelligence. Discussing sanctions policy on that call was possibly illegal. I mean Flynn was not yet the national security advisor but he was trying to negotiate foreign policy. But a greater concern is that the day after Trump learned that Flynn had lied about discussing sanctions, Trump asked FBI Director James Comey for loyalty. And then the day after Flynn eventually resigned, Trump asked Comey to drop the Flynn investigation altogether. This is alarming because in the United States the Justice Department and the FBI are supposed to operate independently from the White House. That's part of the reason FBI directors serve a 10-year term. They're supposed to be above party politics and not beholden to one particular leader. Trump asking Comey to drop the Flynn investigation was a significant breach of protocol. In fact some have argued that it amounts to obstruction of justice which is the charge that Richard Nixon was eventually impeached for. And then a few months later, Trump fired James Comey. Initially the White House said the FBI director was being fired for his mishandling of the Hillary Clinton email case but then after a few days of trying on various justifications, Trump acknowledged that it was mostly about the collusion with Russia investigation. But if firing Comey was intended to make the investigation end, that gambit definitely failed because a few days later the Department of Justice appointed a special counsel, Robert Mueller. He is tasked with building a team to look into collusion and any matters that arise from the investigation. Since then Mueller's been doing just that and it's been reported that he's working with at least two grand juries to decide who, if anyone, should be charged with crimes. The most serious evidence of collusion that has emerged so far involves a meeting with a Kremlin connected Russian lawyer that was attended by Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior advisor. So during the setup for the meeting Donald Trump Jr was told via email that the lawyer had, quote, incriminating information about Hillary Clinton that she wanted to share as, quote, part of Russia and its government support for Mr. Trump. That should have been a huge red flag, like the correct response there is, I cannot accept anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a campaign, especially not if it's part of a foreign government support for my candidate. But instead Donald Trump Jr replied in part, if it's what you say I love it, especially later in the summer. The meeting that ensued remained secret for over a year until July of 2017 when The New York Times published a report about it. Donald Trump Jr initially said the meeting was about adoption but then a day later said that the meeting had been about Hillary Clinton but that the lawyer had no meaningful information. Even if that's true some legal scholars still think the meeting itself was illegal depending on your definition of soliciting and thing of value. Kushner, meanwhile, failed to mention this and also several other meetings with Russian officials on his initial security clearance application. He also apparently asked the Russian government for a so-called back channel that would have allowed Kushner to communicate directly with Moscow without U.S. intelligence listening in. Much of this is suspicious. Trump Jr, Kushner, Manafort, and Flynn have all been caught in lies about the extent and nature of their contacts with the Russian government. But, one, none of it is unambiguous evidence of collusion or cooperation with foreign nationals. And two, none of what is known publicly involves the president himself except for him asking Comey to drop the investigation. That said, Trump's behavior toward Russia has at times been strange. As president, he had a private meeting with Putin without a U.S. interpreter present which is extremely unusual. Trump has also gone to great lengths not to criticize Putin and he has refused to publicly acknowledge or condemn the Putin regime's interference in our election. But none of that is illegal and connecting the dots can lead to a very misleading picture when you don't have many dots. What we know is that the Russian government sought to influence the U.S. presidential election in Trump's favor, that at least one person in Trump's campaign knew about this and that several people close to Trump had interactions with Russian foreign nationals that they either failed to disclose or lied about. None of the meetings reported so far involved the president himself, although he did try to interfere with the ensuing investigation. So that's what we know. What we don't know is almost everything. We don't know what was discussed in the meetings, whether any American accepted anything of value from a foreign national and we certainly don't know if any American participated in collusion with the Russian government's efforts. Also, we don't even know for sure what a thing of value is. I think it's important to follow this story because it has big implications for the present and future of our democracy, but I also think it's really important to remember that we are living in the middle of the story and we don't know how it's going to end. Now if you're looking for information to confirm your pre-existing biases, you'll find plenty of that on both sides, but the whole truth, we just don't know that yet. I hope we will someday. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.


I've been able to get in this morning. I wanted to find out about the general conditions in the area as a result of the hurricane and to determine whether I should be down here this morning. The National Command Center is searching for Reeves, but I haven't found it yet. Do any of the men on the scene or any of the folks in the Navy give you any of their judgments about the real dangers inherent here? No, we don't have a good judgment on that. I just talked to the Admiral in charge of the command center and told him to track down the technical people in the company that owns the barge. It's a Pittsburgh plate glass company barge, as we understand it. We haven't yet gotten in touch with the technical directors of the Pittsburgh plate to find out exactly the condition of these tanks or the degree to which the chlorine may seep out. But we are developing a plan to deal with it if it does. Is there any thought being given to what all we said to the people or whether the women here for any pre-cultures could be taken? Yes, I have Phil Goulding who is our public affairs officer under Sylvester working on the public affairs aspect of it. Last night they had to put out a notice to Mariners indicating that a dangerous object had been had broken loose and that was done and then a low key announcement made of it and I don't think there's been any serious problem as a result as to the precautions to be taken with the populace that is being developed and I think there's an adequate plan for it. What do you think that'll encompass? Well, it depends where this thing happens. The danger doesn't appear too great at the moment. If it were near a populated area it could be very serious. It doesn't appear to be. But we don't really know, do we? Well, we don't really know but it doesn't appear to be at present. Well, how does it appear at all? Do you mean the last they saw of it was between Baton Rouge and New Orleans or something and that's not a populated area? Yes, and the point is if it sank at this particular point in the bend in the river it's not so near a populated area to cause it. To indicate that it might have sunk there because that's where it would probably get hung. Yes, that's the point. Now I think I'm just giving you surmises because nobody knows but we've got every search device that we possibly can. I guess not to put in all the aircraft that anyone conceivably could have required and that they did. Matter of fact, they turned back some of our aircraft. They said the condition of the field is such that they don't want any more aircraft down there. And then the sonar devices that we're using both in the airborne and the seaborn craft are the maximum number required. I don't think there's anything more we can do to find the damn thing. I think there is more we can do, Mr. President, to determine how to deal with it if this quarrying breaks loose. And the last conversation I had which is about half an hour ago with our people was directed to that end. The Coast Guard is actually in charge of the preparations for dealing with it and the preparations for handling the people. But I told our people to assume we were responsible for it and go ahead and develop the necessary plans. Okay, it looks like Pittsburgh ought to be getting high behind. Well, that's right, but we, best of my knowledge, we haven't talked to Pittsburgh. And this is exactly what I asked them to do again in touch with. And I was then that I tried to call General Reeves but I am yet gotten hold of them. Okay. Pittsburgh gave a nice end to the very profitable long-time relationship with a few suits there, wouldn't they? Absolutely. It's tremendous liability here, of course. What do you think about the Indian pack standing? Well, I'm pleased that it hasn't erupted to a higher level of military action than it has. I don't really know how it's getting along. Our intelligence is, and I don't mean CIA necessarily, I mean the information we get through our military source and our diplomatic is really not very good. And I don't know exactly how the battle is going, what little information I do have on it indicates to me the packs are ahead at this point. Yes, that's where it appears. And my own impression of the relative military strengths of the two countries is that the packs could continue to achieve military advantage for a period of I just guess offhand four weeks. And then at the end of that period I would think of the total strength of the Indians in terms of men and equipment, which is roughly four times out of the packs, would begin to be felt. And then by the end of say 12 weeks, if the conflict continues that long, I would expect the Indians to reverse the trend and then be in a militarily advantageous position. What about the Chinese? That's a 64 pound. We don't have any real evidence and I think we would have if there'd been substantial moves. We don't have any real evidence that they're building up strength on that northeast frontier agency border. And we've been very anxious to get more intelligence. We worked out a plan to do it with some U2s. And I think this will give us advanced notice of any movement of men or equipment up there. And there just has to be some movement before they can effectively intervene. They can intervene with a few advanced days of preparation on their part and I think they could just clean up that area and push the Indians out if they chose to do so. I rather doubt they'll choose to do it. It's very dangerous for them to do so. My own view is that it almost certainly involves western support to India, which China would like to avoid. The great danger here it seems to me is the weakening if not destruction of the Indian political institutions as a result of this. I bet they've got a new government for very long. Well, it's like, if it's just a new government that's stepping in and placing a shoster, it's pretty weak anyhow. That may not be too bad. But if it's a fraction or fragment of that country, I think it's going to be very serious over the long run. What do you mean a minute? Or if some of those states that want to break away from the Indian government do so and you just get that huge mass of discordant people splitting up into smaller states, then I think two decades or a decade from now there's no effective barrier to the Chinese in the area. What do you think about continuing to send in economic help to both of them while they're fighting? Well, I put it off for a while, Mr. President. I think you're going to have to send the food a week from now or two weeks from now, but you don't have to do it today. I just don't see how you can avoid sending food to really starving people.  No, I don't think so. The food's going to the army anyhow. And there's not going to be any food shortage in the army if they send food or not. But on the food, I, as I say, kick that one ahead of me. You don't have to decide it today. You probably don't even have to decide it a week from today.  They don't do something. We attack as far as I can. You mean of the aid agency? No. We've got to kind of affront hypocritical operation where we say that we give the food to the private agencies. All the private agencies distributed. And they'll have a series of picketing of something, I guess. Kind of like the professors, the private agencies. Who's in charge of that? The private agencies? I don't know. They got an advisory board. I wonder if we can just get a close phone. They'll meet next week at the private agency. I'll look into it today. I saw a memo on my desk last night about it. Well, that's the kind of thing I would think we really could control for a week or two. What do you think about Vietnam? Well, in the short run we've been reasonably well, I think, Mr. President. We've stopped these large Vietnam operations. The disruption of transportation in the country, the isolation of the district towns, and provincial capitals. The pressure on the economy that was leading to inflation has all been stopped, I think. And we're sort of in a stalemate position at the moment. I think the danger is that our forces, effective there in the sense of preventing any large Vietnam operations, may not be effective in dealing with these very small harassing and ambushing and terror operations. And that perhaps neither may the South Vietnamese forces be effective in that action. So yesterday afternoon Mackon and Dean and I met and I think we agreed that we'll get a cable out to or a draft cable for you to see before it goes to launch either tomorrow or the next day that will say to them, in effect, now we've taken care of this first phase of military action. What are the plans to get back onto the pacification program? Where are you going to try it? Are you going back to that hop-tack area, which is the area around Saigon? And if so, how many troops are required South Vietnamese troops? Are they there? And do we have people to work on the police reorganization and the political developments that are necessary to extend the government control over that area? And if we aren't ready for it, how the hell are we ever going to win this war? Because you can't win it with American troops going out after Vietnam terrorists. It just isn't going to be done that way. But I'm encouraged by the results of the last six to eight weeks. I think it proved that our military deployments were correct and proper and effective. But it doesn't prove that two months from now we'll be any better off than we are today unless we get this pacification effort working. When do we meet again on more troops? Oh, I think that the additional support troops and the additional airspottings required, which were part of that 210,000, as opposed to more army battalions, will have to meet on the former within the next week. The additional army battalions above 34 U.S. battalions, I don't think we'll have to meet on for a couple of months probably. But I talked to how many will the first phase cover? Total. When we complete. It looks to be about 210,000. You've authorized 175. We've been dribbling out the authorizations within the limit of 175 day by day and up to yesterday we were up to a total of 171,000 and then they had in requests for another five or six and a couple of them we turned down and we had requests for four air squadrons and I think it was for a total of about 4,000, which would take us just over the 175,000. And so we'll have to come back within a week and review this all with you. And the thing that's holding us back is that we're insisting we get a good analysis of why it's 210 instead of 175, which we told you in June. Are we losing more planes than you think we ought to be losing? No. The loss rate is very low, Mr. President. That's true both in South Vietnam and North Vietnam. No, I'm not at all concerned about the aircraft losses. I am concerned about the future of the bombing program that Chiefs came in yesterday afternoon with a recommendation for this next week's Rolling Thunder program that we will be talking about Monday or Tuesday that just bombed the hell out of North Vietnam and I sent it back until it wasn't been accepted. We haven't done the work that I think we should do to even be considering such a move. But this just shows the kind of pressure it's building up and I think very irrationally about it yesterday. And he isn't strongly in favor of many aspects of it. I think he wants to go further in the bombing than I do for example. But he's not prepared to press for bombing Phuket and Airfield or the other airfield or taking out all of Sam's or doing some pose morning on them. No, I haven't seen it yet. On page two it's very interesting. Of the times of the pose. Yeah, I've got it right here. It shows that we've gone up in the last needed past I guess two months I believe in July to September. Also the boys that all our bombers go up Yeah, that's about in the list. I believe the pull-outers are. Oh yeah I see but it didn't but they didn't go up much. They went from 22 to 26, made a September 25 to 26 July to September. Went up one in the last. That's right. That's what we want to pull back. That's your idea for So I think your policies of anything are gaining strength but they are very, the strength is very thin. I know that. We had a group of business men in here on Friday and Saturday that signed. I met with our advisory council. George Brown was one of them for example. And you could tell from them the support was thin. What good facts to give you. But we don't, it isn't to get advice from them. We have minutes for us to give them the feeling we know what we're doing. You know what you're doing and it's all in the interest of business. And I think we got that point across. They were ecstatic when they left. They ought to be. We spent a hell of a lot of time with them. We've been neglecting them. We meet once a quarter with them and we've been so terribly busy that frankly I hadn't done all I should have done in holding their hands. And this time I really did. And so I did and they left feeling very good. We get this Congress out here now and we've had an awful, unimbleedly good year. I know, it's terrific. We just get them out here now. The American Motorstrike settle there. One of those tracks we've got a railroad or two.


Have you ever had tube steak? Well today I'm going to show you how to make hot Italian sausage. I guess you'd call it tube steak. So our onion and the long strips. So that's two onions. Now we're going to add in some tube corn. I know y'all love how I add corn to things that don't necessarily need corn. We're using the dano spicy. That's the red top. I'm going to use a lot of it because it's real flavor y'all. We're using the country boy. This is the nacho bait habanero blondail. We'll pour that right in. Make sure you get the corn down in the juice. Let's throw it on the smoker. All right it's been a little over three hours. It's time to eat. It's raining.  That's real good. That spice is right. You're the next contestant. Come on down.  Yum yum.