James P. Madonna, and the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman. Oh, welcome everyone. Welcome, for you know who we are, and what we're doing here because you saw the intro to the show. So why be redundant? Why waste my energy? It is creeping towards the end of May, 2016. And the, as far as the news goes, the big and very important California primary is ahead of us, and Bernie Sanders is attracting massive amounts of people at his rallies, his many rallies, being that he doesn't know and have the budget to be plastered all over California television. He decided to do many rallies because there are many, it's a big state, many cities, many areas in California to cover, so, but people are really showing up. But of course you wouldn't know how many people are at his rallies because the corporate horror mainstream media doesn't mention anything about what Bernie's doing except for the fact that he's still in the race. That's all they say. No, they say he doesn't have enough delegates. Well, he doesn't have enough delegates because Hillary and the Hawk knows Jew lesbian, Deborah Wasserman, Deborah Wassert-Konschitz has rigged the election and she's being handed the delegates on the silver platter plus the oligarch, the top 1% is behind Hillary Clinton. That's why, all right, but they still, still Bernie Sanders all in all deserves much more FaceTime than he's getting, all right? This is a totally unscripted, uncensored show. I just wanna let you know that, similar to our Facebook group, Uncensored, Hard-Hitting Truth, which you can join. And our Facebook page is Progressive Discussions. Now, named after the show. My monologue is about an old word that has come back. It used to be popular back in the 60s and back in the day. And that word is establishment, the establishment. And today, we use the word now, which has become popular, establishment politicians, establishment politics and for good reason, because it's not the Republicans, the conservative Republican versus the more liberal or progressive Democrat any longer. It's the entire two major party system is, they're all on the take, it's all corrupt. They're all corporatists. They're just two sides of the same coin. So we're gonna collectively call them establishment politics. Now, before you can totally grasp the words establishment politics, you should really go to your Merriam-Webster dictionary or go to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary and you should learn your political definitions as an assignment to the show. It's important to know your definitions.  And notice similarities. As you read the definitions, there are certain similarities. You can look up communism if you want. Look up oligarch. You're gonna notice some similarities between oligarch, fascism, capitalism, there are some similarities there. Some of the definitions might even be identical to you, but at least you'll learn them. All right, that's the foundation is to know your political definitions. Socialism, communism, in reality, is not the demonized words that your lying, flag-waving conservative politicians have told you. They have a different meaning.  Which is not socialism. It's not Karl Marx. And what the Bernie Sanders campaign is patterned after is the most ideal, successful system, which is the democratic socialism that they have in Northern Europe. It's been working for decades. And it hasn't really hurt business at all. Actually, businesses are flourishing in the Scandinavian countries, even though they pay their fair share in taxes. They pay a high tax rate. And it's only fair the more money you make, the more money you pay. So that takes the burden off the middle class, which it is, high taxes on the middle class is a burden. And not on the rich, though, because they're still rich, no matter what. Now, establishment politicians. I would say this includes any politician that takes funding, campaign contributions from the top 1% of the income stats, from the wealthy. If you take massive amounts of money from these large organizations, corporations, it's not for free. You owe them favors if you get elected. Bernie Sanders, of course, he gets his funding from the little guy, Mainstream America. It's very small donations. So his job is to do right by Mainstream America, the little guy who makes tiny donations. But Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, she owes big favors to the fat cats because that's where she gets her money. And this includes all the Republicans and all of the other establishment Democrats. Okay, forget about moderate blue dog. They are corporatists, establishment Democrats.  That's my own little pet name. So that's where we're at right now. It's really not rocket science to understand politics because you have to support and vote for the person who has your best interests. That is the important thing. If you are a poor person living in a so-called red state, Bible Belt, I don't know why they call them Bible Belt because they don't really know what's in the Bible. They are primarily, they have evangelical cultists in those states. If you're a poor slob, let's say you're living in a shack or whatever and you might even be on social assistance and you're voting Republican, well, you're voting for someone who does not have your best interests at all.  Well, they care if you live only when you vote for them. But, and for other reasons. Well, of course they don't have your best interests. You have to support those that have your best interests. And if you're poor, low-income or middle-class, the person who has your best interests is the one who is the most progressive liberal. The most progressive is the one who has your best interests. Hillary is not that person. She's not, she could say she's progressive, but she's not. So, you just have to understand the people you're supporting and you have to understand your political definitions. And it's really that simple. It's that simple. Now, another thing about establishment politics is that it's very dirty. They cheat. They're corrupt.  And as far as all this news I see every day on the internet about Hillary Clinton and her emails and all the dirt and how the FBI is on the case and all that, I think they already know what the Clinton found, the Clinton dynasty has done, both her and her husband. They know. Hillary's, whatever servers have been hacked into, Anonymous did a lot of it, I'm sure others have. They know what Hillary's about. But they're holding off. But they tell you on the internet, they're working on the case. They're close, they're close to nailing her. I think they already have nailed her in reality, but they're holding back before the convention. They don't wanna do anything. I don't even know if they're gonna do anything after the convention, because she's the oligarch's best puppet. She's the best Republican the Democratic party ever had, Hillary Clinton. So that's basically it. If you have any take on it, feel free. Well, they have said that the emails that were classified were done after. In fact, they say after she was no longer Secretary of State. So if the FBI is investigating that, they should be over with it already. If it's proven that those emails were done after the fact, then what you're saying is everything was done on her own time. I'm saying she was no longer involved, per se. Because she did not. They were classified after she left office, comprende. So when she was bouncing them back and forth, they weren't classified. That's what they say. Right, we're talking about the emails. The FBI has taken its good ol' time as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, like road work on a highway. They're milking it.  And the emails is just the tip of the iceberg with the Clinton dynasty, as far as wrongdoing is concerned. Oh, they're involved in other things, without a doubt. They just have a hands-off policy. You don't get $111 million a year for nothing. They have a hand of the... What's that scripture saying? He who makes haste to get rich shall not be innocent. No. As the nail sticks. That gets between the two stones. So to send stick to buying and selling. That's a demonization of capitalism. Buying and selling is capitalism. Well, it could involve also making speeches to Wall Street for $250,000. Abribe is buying something. You're buying favors, you're abribing somebody. You're greasing their palm, you're purchasing them for a reason.  You can't convince one corporatist, establishment Democrat to bring down another.  Now, I was with Billy Morrow, our voiceover artist Wednesday, not Wednesday, Thursday, I'm sorry, Thursday. And he's talking to this, these two older retired people and they're talking about politics because they got CNN playing on the big screen where he was having coffee. And he's going on and on about, he doesn't like Donald, they were talking about Donald Trump just blurting out anything he feels like blurting out, anything he feels like saying, they're saying he does not sound presidential, which is obvious. Now, now, Bill Morrow goes on and on saying, he says something about I bring up education and healthcare as a right. It should be a right, it is a right in Northern Europe.  That's the American way, business is good. That's it's good. I says, oh, really? After these students get their acquire, the debt of their massive student loans, how do you expect them to pay back the student loan? Oh, there's opportunity in this country, that's why it's America. There have been many people that lived out of their car, they had a sleep in their car, they were penniless and they went from that to a success story, to riches, they applied themselves, they worked, they brought themselves out of that poverty by sleeping in the car. I says, Bill, all you're talking about, you're talking about an America of the past. He goes, he's going on and on about free enterprise system, it's the American way. I says, well, what does that mean? It's the American way. I says, you sound like the intro to Superman. What about the Homestead Act? It's the American way. Does that make it good because you say it's the American way? What happened at a Homestead Act where 160 acres were given, given by the government to people who would go there and take care of it for five years? Yeah, valuable. It was given to them. By the government. Vladimir Putin's doing that right now with Russia. So they didn't have to sleep in their covered wagons, did they? He's encouraging organic farming by giving land if you're willing to work it. Well, Hugo Chavez tried that too and they certainly got rid of him, didn't they? Well, he died of prostate cancer. Oh, we don't know that.   There, people are literally starving. I don't know why because Venezuela is oil rich. Well, we know why because the oligarchs are in power. That's why. So they're doing the same thing that they do in neighboring Colombia. They're top 1% or top 20% are controlling everything and confiscating everything and stealing everything and the people have nothing. And making the Greeks pay for it. Making the poor people of great pay for it. Now, yeah, so this whole thing about the free enterprise system, the American way, the American way, this business, business is good. Yeah, business is good. You know what happens when you keep education as a business? You eventually, these people you're admiring want to get rid of public schools. So then what will happen is only the rich kids will get a good education. And the poor kids- That's how it once was in this country until Jefferson and et cetera, and they made public schools. The poor children will be dumbed down, which means the mainstream America will be dumbed down. Good, and they'll just remain cogs in the wheeling wheel of industry. And they'll become so desperate that they will work for peanuts and then eventually slave labor. I says, this is your wonderful American way. But he didn't let me, he didn't really listen to me. He just was listening to himself. He wasn't focusing on what I was saying. The older gentlemen listened to me and agreed with me. Billy just kept on, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, about the American way. Because he has an agenda, and he is not capable of correction. No, you can't. If a boat is going into a storm, you make a correction in your trajectory. There are people who have, like the people down south of religious, not system. They have their ideas of what is right and wrong, and they are not susceptible to teaching. Their ideas of what's right. Right, but they are not susceptible to teaching. No, they are tuning you out. That's correct. They tune you, even if you're showing them the verses in the Bible, they're not paying attention to you. They are not amenable to facts. It's like the movie, The Perfect Storm, with George Clooney. He was told not to take his fishing boat that far out because it's dangerous and there's a storm out in the Atlantic. But he risked the boat to acquire the mother-load catch of swordfish.  He got his record catch and lo and behold the storm hit and capsized the boat and he all died. He lost the swordfish and their lives and the boat.  They don't want to listen to the scientists. And they're headed for the storm. And that's what's going on. But this whole idea of business free enterprise, the American way, the American way, the American... Oh, and he mentioned experiencing the American dreams party, the American way. Yeah. How many people really reach that and experience this so-called American dream? Not many. Very tiny percentage of the population. Very tiny percentage. These are accolades and whatever's to get you to work for somebody else. So that you may as emerage instead of yourself. To be a victim. Well, you know... You are supposed to be a country of entrepreneurs. Yeah. Well, his father, who was a big shot with IBM, he used to demonize unions all the time. Of course. So Billy feels unions are no good. Now, if unions are no good, if it wasn't for unions, we would not have today the labor laws and protection laws that American workers appreciate now. This is from unions. Unions pushed for these, for this protection. They died for the laws. And they died for them. And then pushed for them. They died. Just like women fought hard for the right to vote and the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, people have fought and died for that. But the right wing wants to turn back the clock and do away with all that blood, sweat, and tears. Speaking of unions. Verizon capitulated. Yeah, I heard. And after six weeks, the union won.  That deserves the salute with my lucky show lately. I congratulate the, I do not, I know it's a specific union. I think it's CWA, I'm not sure. Yeah, it's not just the Verizon technicians that belong to it. It's collectively that has to do with people that do the work like the Verizon technicians do. But it's a nationwide union. And they belong to it. And I congratulate the union that the Verizon technicians belong to on their victory of actually winning and not doing a 50% compromise with the evil greedy Verizon company. So I do congratulate the union of the Verizon technicians. So now I can get my files installed. But I really do congratulate them. And by the way, it's only recently that we had to pay for education. It was free. Unless of course you wanted to go to one of the biggies like Havid. Ivy League. Princeton, Yale, Harvard. You know. Notre Dame. Yeah, if you want to go to an Ivy League school. That will be a private school.  You have that choice. You know, by all means, if you want to pay for it and you can afford to go. But in general, education and healthcare should be rights. Private privatization never worked. I don't care what Bill says about everything should be a business.  On a stick. They would literally get that. And only the hoity-toity little Lord Fontleroy's, you know, like Bill was an IBM brat and he proudly calls himself that. You know, only they would achieve the American dream. Very tiny percentage of people have done that. Now, Elizabeth Warren have made a statement and it was put on the banner and I saved it. Elizabeth Warren pretty much answered Billy Morrow by saying that no one in the United States that has achieved success has done it alone. Correct. Everyone, even the self-employed and even the corporations and big companies, medium-sized companies, small companies, everybody has built their business with publicly funded services and things we take for granted today. The roads in which they transport their products on were publicly built. So on and so forth. Having safety in your factory is part of a publicly funded. But they wanna do away with that, don't they? But there are, there's a lot of very important things that are publicly funded by taxpayers' money that everyone benefits from, even self-employed people with companies. So nobody totally does it on their own. That's correct. Pocahontas was right, wasn't she? Yes. Now, she was right, you know, I mean, and it goes into detail, it was a long banner. I thought it was well worth saving, so I uploaded. I shared it also. I uploaded it to, yeah, the one with the blue background. Yeah, and yeah, nobody is 100% pull yourself up by the bootstrap, self-made. That is correct. So William Hamel, tomorrow the third, you are wrong. You live in a delusion, sir. Yes, he lives in a delusion. Right. He lives in a delusion. He lives in a delusion of whatever his father told him, not realizing that his father had, because of his job, a selfish agenda, he was what you would call a dedicated company man. But he put in his 30 years, but guess what? You can't do that today, even. Well, I get rid of you. Yeah, that's correct. That was correct. Iron Man Vinnie Blake was let go before he got his pension after 14 years working for CareFought Navigations. That's what they do. Get rid of you before that pension is due.  Shame on the establishment politicians that have either sold, most likely sold. Some may say given away, but I say sold the sky, the clouds in the sky and possibly the very sky itself when we look up. And the reason why I say this is because they are now, in some states, they are now selling permits for you to be able to collect rainwater on your own property. So that means if you have to buy, if you have to buy a permit to put a barrel with one of your gutter from the roof, one of your, to the rainwater barrel, and you have to pay for this to collect rain from the clouds in the sky, then that must mean that they have sold the sky to corporations. They have privatized the sky. Forget about pie in the sky. Poor chicken little. This is just rain in the sky. Poor chicken little. This should be the chicken little law protesting this.  I think we will. Chicken little.   And now your wonderful capitalist system, Billy Morrow, has sold out the very sky that's above you and the clouds now belong to the private sector because you have to buy a permit to collect rainwater.  It's not funny. It's really serious. Well, of course it's all serious. I mean, I'm just making it easier for you to digest by adding a little humor, but, you know. Well, I think it was Michigan that I... People do not grasp the fact that capitalism only works in the West. Now, why that is, is because as I continuously inform people, capitalism works for those who have capital. You have to have something to benefit from capitalism in the developing countries. They don't even have their houses or their land. They have favelas and all kinds of shanty towns and stuff like this. So they have nothing. Hey, there are people. They have nothing that they can change into capital. There are people in Hong Kong that still live in those what do you call them, sandpans, those boats. Boats. Those little boats. They live on the river. But that is what people... Let's use... Capitalism is for the few. Yeah, let's take the hotel bell. Company makes the hotel bell. Now, getting back to the Bible verse about the nail stick between the two stones, which means that sin sticks to buying and selling.  In capitalism, you gotta constantly, every day, think of ways to make this hotel bell to manufacture them cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. Maybe. You might move your manufacturing to a poor southern state, and then eventually you might outsource them, let's say, to China or, let's say, to Bangladesh. So now, people are making, getting paid peanuts to manufacture your bell. Yeah, but the price may not go down. No, no, no. The profit margin will go up. Those things are done most times for the profit margin, not for the price to go down on the item. The price won't go down. So when they bring the bell... You said make it cheaper and cheaper. So when they bring the bells off the cargo ship at the ports under a conservative run Washington, like the Republican Congress, there won't be appropriate tariffs being slapped on the company that makes the hotel bells. All right, you know, to make up for all the American jobs that were lost. They won't get tariffed. They'll just come moseying on in the port, unload it, and sold at a premium price. Meanwhile, maybe child labor is making these bells. So there is the sin sticking to buying and selling. Seven lucky bells for the show. Now this is a high quality bell, unlike the other bell that I had from the damn Dollar Tree. This is a good bell. I could have never rang it up in the air if I had the other bell, no matter where it is. Look, even sideways. Let me see if it works upside down. No. Get all the work upside down. Oh, God, God help us all. Everything we discuss politically is part of our series, Capitalism in a Conk Show. There's the conk soaking at conk energy from the briny deep, from the layer of kingdom. Anyway, like I said at the beginning, as a foundation, your homework should be to read slowly the political definition so you understand what the differences are between capitalism, socialism, liberals, liberalism. Pluta, I mean oligarchy, oligarchy, fascism. You know, read all these definitions and this way you can better understand what we're talking about.  I mean, Obama's not innocent of all the names he gets called, but he's definitely without a doubt the victim of racism and that's where the obstructionism comes from. But he's still an establishment politician and that's why we don't see any investigation of the voter fraud. I know Bernie Sanders has a lawyer. I know he has a great team and nobody is, it's like it's falling on deaf ears. I don't see justice being served because all the states have their own gal dang rules.  So one of the Midwest states holds a caucus and a primary. But the primary doesn't count. That doesn't make sense. Bernie won the caucus, Hillary won the primary. Which doesn't make sense. So Bernie got the delegates. But only by 260,000 people voted in the caucus, while 1.4 million voted in the primary. Now, either hold the primary and have a democracy and allow your people in the state to make their choice or, you know, have a caucus and less people show up to vote at the caucus. Yeah, I don't think it's fair. I don't think it's right to force people to register as being part of the one of the two major parties. Well, not either. That's not fair. There should be one person or one vote. You know, now all the states that Bernie Sanders won, obviously, voter fraud was not the deciding factor. So for some reason in those states, it was an honest election because if it was dishonest, the Hillary would have won every one of them, with other states. There's definitely shenanigans went on in states like Nevada, Arizona, New York, because the only part of New York that supposedly went for Hillary was the city. And the city wasn't all, they weren't all Hillary fans. I mean, Brooklyn was unanimously for Bernie, and all the other counties in New York State were for Bernie. Anything north of Westchester County was for Bernie Sanders.  It's like the Electoral College. You're running for president. It's November. You got this stinking Electoral College that is overriding the popular vote. Now, you would think if you get a lot more votes than your opponent in the whole country, that sounds like a fair election to me. You won. It's like a Super Bowl or World Series of, you know what I mean? You get more points than your opponent. The establishment, to use your word, likes to keep control. That's what the super delegates are. That's what the Electoral College is.  What do you think the Supreme Court coming down and making George W. Bush the president of the United States was? Yeah, he was selected. Selected. Correct. He was selected. Well, this means that all this ridiculous, idiotic bipartisanship compromising does not work because the people end up losing. And people, the mainstream, they're just gonna have to get tough.  Well, he's right. He's right.   They keep voting for Mitch McConnell's. I'm not talking about that. I'm not talking about that. My friend, I'm not talking about that kind of pistol.  I realize that at the convention, but that doesn't stop people from voting for Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan's. Well, they're probably people like Billy Morrow. You can't teach them anything. Exactly, the incorrigible, even God has given up on the incorrigible. You know what reminds me of the corporation? You have these company people that go by the book. If you listen to, especially like these women, they talk like they're OD'd on caffeine. Like, what happened? I've been here. Oh, the corporation. Like robots, the corporation. Company policy, company policy, wham, wham, wham.  You're not an independent, critical, free thinker. Well, they're not. You're an open mind. Sounds like Ann Cooper.  What's this bullshit? You know, and speaking of the office, something as simple as a man asking a woman out on a day and she can get him fired. I'd say he's bothering me and the company fires him.    Oh, we gave you a compliment. Sexual harassment. You complimented my outfit. Sexual harassment.  People like Hillary Clinton play the gender card to her advantage. You know, you gotta learn how to say no to people and organizations when it's appropriate to say no to them. You gotta call it straight down the middle, like a good football. It's appropriate for a woman to say no to a man who wants to go out with her too, if you don't want to go out with her. Yeah, but don't get him fired for that. Well, maybe he was too much of a pest. You see, this guy, there are two sides. You like that special treatment of certain groups. There are two sides to every issue. Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure, you gotta prove it. Just like cases of rape have to be proven, my friend. Well, they haven't been all these years. Like what happened, like what happened to brother Mike Tyson a long time ago. That wasn't a proven rape. There was too much evidence on the contrary. Well, then somebody made a mistake. I have all the, you got it. Was he charged? He had to go to prison. Okay, well, they did the district attorney. And they had a bad case and it turned out good. She shows up at his hotel room in the wee hours of the morning and they found her tampon conveniently placed in a waste basket on the other side of the far away from the bed. So it sounded like there was consensual sex going on there. Mike Tyson was not too bright a fellow.  They want equality, it's gotta be equality across the board and whether it be women or minorities. You want equality, it's gotta be fair across the board. No special treatment for any quick particular group. Think like old man Spock. The needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few or the one. You see this dude, old man Spock, let her need more. You gotta think that way. You know what I mean? But if you want special treatment, you know what? People in general are selfish.  If people from Yugoslavia think that all Yugoslavians are the best. Greek people think all Greeks are the best. Even Italians off the boat. Everybody thinks the world revolves around their people or their race or their gender. So the feminists, the carpet munchers, they want Hillary, they want that woman in a White House because they have these selfish agenda. Me, me, me, they're not all inclusive is what I'm trying to say. Anyway, let's sink our teeth if there's any time. No time. Well, we're very long winded today. All right, we're gonna break for lunch and then we'll sink our teeth into these readings so when we get back and we'll turn you over to William Hamilton more of a third for promo. As well as how to defeat the conservative God project Bible verses. Very, very hard to swallow. The best way to join our organization is to get your free annual subscription to newsletter censored with your gift to support this work. The newsletter of hard-hitting truth and news fighting censorship and conservative propaganda since 1977. There is nothing out there like the newsletter censored in the mainstream media or the press. This newsletter is the very best way to join and be a part of our organization. We're living the end times so you need newsletter censored. Go to www.newslettercensored.com Hard-hitting truth, you need newsletter censored. And now back to the show by me. Okay. Thank you very much, William Hamilton Morrow for doing promo. We're back. And let us now sink our teeth into these readings. This is Progressive Discussions. I'm your host, James P. Madonna, and I'm with my co-host and mentor, the Reverend Dr. William J. Isaac. The very founder of newsletter censored in 1977. Scientists have found further evidence supporting the theory that some of the building blocks for life may have come to earth from outer space. Using instruments aboard the European space probe Rosetta, researchers detected glycine and phosphorus in the dusty halo around a conch. Glycine is an amino acid. One of the molecules needed to make proteins. While phosphorus is essential for DNA and cells, their presence in the com... Comet, they mis-spread spelled it. In the comet, enveloping, excuse me. In the coma, enveloping the comet, six, seven p... Yeah, for me in the coma. Sure, you move Jerry C. and an ankle. Oh my God, this must be Russian comet named. Supports the idea that comets delivered key molecules for prebiotic chemistry throughout the solar system. And in particular, to the early earth. According to a study published online on Friday, by the journal Science Advances, scientists say adding a high concentration of those molecules to a body of water could have produced the primordial soup that gave birth to life on our planet more than four billion years ago. Primordial soup. I prefer being soup if you don't mind. I had the German style green pea soup with brown rice the other day. I loved it. Had leeks in it. I mean, not the ball. There was no hole in the ball. You know, leeks, the vegetable. The beauty of it is that the material in the comet was formed before the sun and planets formed. Wow. In the cold environment of the star-forming region known as the molecular cloud. That means what has happened a long time ago in the cloud from which our solar system emerged could happen in all clouds. Then, you just need another planetary system forming with a planet at the right position and you could have another go at life. It may not be successful, but as there are billions of stars and as we now know billions of planets, chances are good. Eating walnuts, almonds and dried dates. You're wondering what I'm chewing on. A new federal study of the potential dangers of cell phone radiation conducted on rats found a slight increase in brain tumors in males and raised a long dormant concerns about the safety of spending so much time with cell phones glued to your ears. Very true. I was reading that article last night. They have concluded the evidence is in. But the study had enough strange findings that it has caused other federal scientists to highlight flaws in the research. An expert said these findings and those from other studies continue to suggest the potential risk from cell phone radiation is very small. The National Institutes of Health study bombarded rats with cell phone radiation from the womb through the first two years of life for nine hours a day. It found tumors in two to 3% of the male rats, which this study offers called low. Yeah, but if you have a genetic predisposition to cancer in your family, you don't wanna take that chance. But females were not affected at all. And strangely, the rats not exposed to cell phone radiation died much faster at double the rate of those that were. The results were preliminary and only part of what will ultimately be released. It were made public before they were officially published and despite strong criticism from other NIH scientists because the results were similar to other studies that hint at a potential problem said study author, John Boucher. The study is part of a 17 year, excuse me, a seven year, $25 million effort conducted by the National Toxicology Program at the request of the Food and Drug Administration. No and behold. I really trust their opinion. It looked at the specific type of radiation that cell phones transmit called non-ionizing radio frequency. This is the first study to show that non-ionizing radiation causes cancer. The Cancer Society, in a statement, praised the study for evidence that cell phone signals could potentially impact human health but notes that it doesn't quite address real risk to people. If cell phones cause cancer, it don't cause a lot of cancer. It's not as carcinogenic as beef. They cause it, they don't cause a lot of it. You know, it's better all the way around to use the wire, the earplug, really. It always, not just cancer risk if you want to take that risk or not, it's better. It saves you money on very expensive police tickets when you're driving and it makes you more aware of your environment, to be hands-free and just have that wiring. It's a big deal. People should be far more concerned about distraction caused by the cell phone, which he said causes more damage. While the study found what Boucher called a likely cause of cancer in rats, he cautioned that how that applies to humans is not currently completely worked out. This may have relevance. It may not have relevance. Since 1986, US brain cancer deaths have not increased or decreased.  Also, Brawley and others point out that cell phone technology has improved so much in recent years to emit less radiation than medical studies simulate. Boucher said the levels the rats were subjected to would be considered heavy. The study also found a slight increase in a very rare type of heart tumor. In the male rats exposed to cell phone radiation, the same NIH scientists looked at mice. But those results won't be ready until next year. Oh, it's a good article. Thank you very much. I think we already were aware of, but this explains it in much more fine detail. Columnist E.J. Dionne for the record our newspaper here writes that Bernie Sanders showing is a mark of the anger and frustration felt by so many Americans over the abuses of capitalism that led to the crash of 2008. Dionne is half right. Capitalism did not cause the financial meltdown in 2008. Oh, no. Crony capitalism did. Well, don't be too sure about old fashioned, plain old fashioned capitalism totally innocent. Crony capitalism caused a bust that caused so much pain and suffering and anger throughout America. The Federal Reserve caused the crash by keeping rates low after the dot com bust, igniting a housing market bubble. This is the incontrovertible fact that Sanders or for that matter, Hillary Clinton has failed to acknowledge during the primary campaign.  If the Democratic Socialist Senator from Vermont had done a little homework, or listened to his former congressional colleague, Ron Paul, who ran for president in 2008 and 2012, he would understand that the Federal Reserve was created in 1913 during the progressive era at the behest of the bankers to prop up the flawed banking system. By the way, it has nothing to do with the federal government. What? It has nothing to do with the federal government. It is a private organization. Federal Reserve. That is correct. That makes it even more evil. Yes, and the beginning was evil, where they met at Jekyll Island, the big bankers, J.P. Morgan representatives and Wells Fargo and et cetera, et cetera. And the senator who introduced it into the Senate, Mr. Aldridge. Now, what was Alan Greenspan's role? He was the head of the Federal Reserve for a time, for like maybe 17, 18 years. Wow. Since Reagan. Really? And that's why Bernie Sanders was so angry when he was yelling at him. And Alan Greenspan had that smirk on his face. Because Alan Greenspan lives in a bubble. He lives in a rich person's bubble. Okay? And that's all he knows. He doesn't know about the poor and the middle class and how certain things hurt them and et cetera. Well, they're like sociopaths. They live in a bubble. They don't feel any remorse because it's not their problem. That's correct. And if it's not their problem, they don't care.  American dream. Oh, there's been many, I'm just imitating Bill Morrill. There's been many people who slept out of their cars. They lived in their cars and they... James D. Carrick lived in his trailer. Oh, like Freddie Prince and she go in the man. She go in the man, yeah. But you know, you have to have a place to park that thing. Car too.  They're provided for you. They're offered you. The breaks are offered and given to you. You don't like jump up and down and yell and scream on the top of your van and demand them. You know what I mean? They're not. I mean, the concept of these people living in cars being totally self-made is nonsense. The anybody who says they're self-made, again, we'll go back to Pocahontas or whatever. But the point of it is, even Larry Flinta, he'll go around and say that Hustler magazine, he got up to, and he went up there too. It got off the ground, oh, it's $500. Well, my friend, I'd like to see you do that tonight. Okay? When nobody knows you from Adam, nobody knows your name. Why? Just do it again. Even Herbert W. Armstrong, his first magazine or whatever you want to call it, was Mimeographed and given away for free. Really? You don't make a magazine and then ask for $500 and ask somebody to pay for it. The plain truth. I believe it was called something else at the time. Okay. But it was Mimeographed for crying out loud and given away. Somebody's gonna pay you for something brandy new that don't cost anything to make. See, once you establish yourself and you make a name for yourself, now you're in the spotlight, you could be a partial celebrity or 50% celebrity or a full celebrity, but once your popularity begins, then it becomes easy. Then you could ask for a top dollar for a subscription to your newsletters and magazines.  Well, you see what Freddie, I'm with Freddie, I'm with Prince's albums are going for now. Yeah, and they were talking about his controversial song. If I was your girlfriend, he sings the song in drag. And it was very controversial back then. I saw him playing with Tom Petty. He was playing guitar and man, he was great. At the end, when he was finished with his solos and all that, he throws the guitar up in the air, let's fall down and break. He walked off stage. He's a freak, he's a freakazord. He's dead. Yeah, he's dead. I like Jimi Hendrix much better. What the country needs to restore a sound banking system and end the manipulation of interest rates is to end the Fed. And who's calling for that? Ron Paul wanted to, or Rand Paul wanted to pause, wanted to audit the Fed. Because we don't know what the Fed is doing with our money. Our money, they make the money when the Constitution says that the United States American makes its own money, but they make the money and we have to pay them for it. Isn't it funny that all establishment politicians, they continue to perpetuate what is suspect of being unethical? Of course. You know, and it takes a person outside of the box like Bernie Sanders to wanna go after them and do something about it. Yeah, and then people will say like they're saying about Sanders. He never did nothing. He's been there for how many years, he never did nothing. Because he was the only box. And he looked with Warren. She don't do nothing, she took a big mouth, Pocahontas. Because she bucked heads with everybody else. Because.  They're part of the establishment. They're not gonna help you get something out there. So the logic of these morons is that if you have a track record of getting things done, that means you have a track record of compromising with the devil. Bingo! That's what Mr. Bill Clinton did with Mr. North King.   And those that supported you. And those are the things that Hillary will do. So if you want things to get done, that's exactly what would get done. Oh, I've been getting emails every day about helping the Bernie Sanders campaign here in New Jersey. And I tried to look for a phone number. I will continue today. I want to let them know that I am voting for Bernie Sanders in the primary. But because of my personal situation, I am unable to, I am able to march the streets with you people. But I don't, as far as me canvassing and knocking on doors, I have personal issues that I cannot, I don't have the time to do it. I have an elderly mother that I have to look after. And besides, I will end up in fistfights with people that are rude to me. And that, you know, if I canvass, if I knock on the door, I know it's gonna happen, you know. So I don't have the tolerance for any shenanigans. So I feel that I am best utilized right here every week promoting Bernie Sanders campaign on our show, Progressive Discussions. Oh, by the way, the video that we did titled Why Are We Supporting Bernie Sanders is getting tons and tons of views rapidly, which I'm happy. It was a great video. It is a great video. So. Anyway. When the next crash occurs, Dion should not blame capitalism, but the zero and near zero interest policies of Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen. Yellen? Former and current heads of the Federal Reserve. Well, tell this, this jabroni to go to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary to Pennsylvania and look up the definition of capitalism, read it a couple of times, and then tell us that capitalism is fine and dandy. Unless you're wealthy, it's not fine and dandy. Correct. And everybody should know that. I tell you all the time, capitalism works for people who have the capital, have already, have. You, you wanna start a business, you know what you gotta do? You gotta make a business plan, you gotta take it to the bank. The bank has to give you the money. Unless you get venture capital from somebody else. Yeah, well, the bank or a credit you have, whatever. You have to be one of the haves. You have to have, you have to have capital, money. And then you can invest it. That's why they call it capital. And then you get a dividend. You know what I mean? That's what I call it. That's what I call it capitalism.  Stock market reaches the stock. Yeah, and I'm talking about the shareholder is the person who buys the stock. Yeah. In a particular company where he hopes to be making a dividend for his investment. I mean, Joe Blow from Idaho that's first starting out, it's not gonna be going public on the stock exchange, but you know, eventually if things go well, he will go public. But somebody asked to give him the money. But you gotta have that big break coming from the outside. You have to be given the break of capital first. Yeah. And you have to make sure that the contract you have with the person or persons giving you the capital is fair where you have control over your company and not the people who give you the capital. You know, unlike- What's the point if it is? The music industry who screws people. The people ain't gonna give you the capital. Because you don't have no collateral.  You get it? Collateral now, is it a, is it a way? That's the old, I went for a job and tell me I got to have experience. I'm gonna get experience and I ain't got no job. What did you say? You gotta be more- You gotta be faster, buddy boy. No, you have to pronounce your words in the King's English fashion, my friend. I went for- Don't talk like Kramer when he got an overcame. I went for a job. They told me I can't have the job, I need experience. Well, how can I get experience without a job? And how can you get a job without experience? They end, they won't hire entry-level people fresh out of school. So I can't get the job to pay off my student loan. But I don't have experience. I don't have the job. I don't have this, I don't have that, blah, blah, blah, you're over-qualified. You're under-qualified. Oh, you're too good.   This guy's too good, better not hire him. Listen, you can't win. It's like a catch-22. Bingo. But the system is made where you can't win. So the fat cats are always on top and you are always at the bottom. The United States, the Chamber of Commerce says it's time to fix America. No kidding. That's why they are sponsoring Infrastructure Week in Washington, DC. Roads and bridges, public utilities and wastewater facilities all affect the health and safety of millions of Americans.  Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate who is boldly addressing our neglected infrastructure. Sanders proposes dedicating $1.4 trillion over the next 10 years to essentially repair the United States. Take it out of the military budget. According to the American Society of Engineers, latest report, our dangerous and inadequate infrastructure is costing every American family about $3,400 per year. That's akin to a $3,400 tax on every household in the nation. The Garden State ranks eighth among the 50 states in deficient bridges. And our transportation trust fund is nearly broke. Tax the rich, tax the rich. We need to move forward now, our tunnel project and to repair our water pipelines, crumbling roads and bridges and outdated electric grid. Sanders' proposal would help fund all of these projects. Some 14 million jobs could be created by this initiative. Good jobs that could lift families in New Jersey and across America out of poverty. Out of poverty, brother, out of poverty. And rev up our economy. Modernized public transportation systems would help us save time, energy and money. High-speed rail, high-speed rail, light rails, modern. Would improve our environment. I think the light rail would be even more important than going cross-country in a high-speed monorail because the light rail will help alleviate traffic by having less people own cars. We had light rail one time, it was called Trollies. The Trollies. Trollies. Yes. Firestone in Standard Oil, let's get rid of it. Like Rice Serrani, the San Francisco treat. The Trolley cars, they used to have them in New York and in Brooklyn and all. Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania. They used to have them all over.  Yeah, it's called Standard Oil and Firestone. Tires and oil. Oh, yeah. You can't sell all that stuff with an electric trolley. Oh, they just love. One car. They just love people that continue sitting in heavy bumper-to-bumper traffic. Oh, you still to seen it on Thursday when people getting out of New York? Lowering that pollution into the atmosphere. You know, people getting, wait, is this Memorial Day weekend? That's correct.  This is our official 2016 Memorial Day weekend show. Gee, how could I forget?  Memorial Day weekend, Fourth of July weekend, and Labor Day weekend.  It happened to me once in my life, never again. I know I say that every year. So I'll be just fine with all the roads, looking like ghost towns, and all the stores having no lines with the registers. I'll be just fine. A new study. A new study. A light the way to migraine relief. I really feel bad for these people. It's horrible. Researchers at Beth Israel Beacon Nest Medical Center in Boston studied the relationship between light and migraine sufferers has almost 15% of people around the world get migraines. The herb fever few is supposed to be really beneficial for migraine sufferers. And thiamine. Be vitamin thiamine, yeah. And 80% of migraine sufferers also suffer from light sensitivity. Also known as photophobia. These are very nocturnal, vampirish people. Researchers exposed 69 study participants and migraine sufferers to different colors of light. They found that blue light intensified the pain. Is it a neurological disorder? While a small spectrum of low-intensity green light helped. And in some patients, lessened migraine pain by 20%. Researchers are looking into developing low-cost light bulbs that emit the helpful green lights or sunglasses that block all lights except the helpful spectrum of green light for to relieve patient symptoms. The study was published in the journal Brain. Brain, for those that have one. You must have a brain to subscribe to my book. All right, all right. A change of page. Tomato paste. I am about to graduate from high school. I am very happy with my college choice. Right. I am majoring in STEM, S-T-E-M. So I am looking forward to being part of the growing group of young females in the scientific world. However, I have concerns about these social changes in college. Social changes. I have always been a good girl who stayed a virgin. Come on, come on, that's so unrealistic. I stayed away from boys in high school to focus on academics. Stay away from boys. Maybe she didn't get, she didn't get, maybe she didn't did not attract that many boys. As a result? Sounds like sour grapes. I have never had a boyfriend or even my first kiss. Now you know, she's a brilliant yet homely looking girl. I have heard countless stories about college hookups, relationships, et cetera. And I am very nervous about this aspect of college. I know college can be a time to explore your sexuality, but I am conflicted about this. I am not completely against it. If you find the right person, but I always thought being sexually active at such a young age was ridiculous. Ridiculous?  I know there are many risks, S.D.D., sexual assault, pregnancy. But with the culture of my generation, sex is something that seems to be advocated by the media, peer pressure, and the overall college is setting. Well, the promiscuity of sex, like it was a recreational pastime, can lead to much trouble. I am blessed. In all ways, in all ways, yeah. To have amazing parents, and I know they will worry about me in college.  Well, that will be a problem. Good luck trying to find a boyfriend that would do that nowadays. But I admire her for being a good girl this long. You know what I mean? I just hope she'll probably graduate with very high academic scores, and maybe she'll also graduate, still be in a virgin. I don't think any guy's gonna wait for this, but. I do have my personal curiosities about sex. However, I now believe in premarital sex. That's her choice. Is this the wrong decision? Am I too young to have sex in college, even if I find the right guy? Too young to have sex in college? I know she's not attractive. No, I know it. I feel so conflicted with the pros and cons that I just can't make up my mind. Well, you can't rationalize and make logic of it. It's a hormonal urge. Surge, as Archie Bunker used to say. It's a surge. Soage. I am also worried about how I will be treated in college if I refuse to be sexually active with anyone. Do you have any advice? They will mock her out. Here's Amy Dickinson's answer. Dickinson, yeah. Like the smart and thoughtful young woman you are, you are throwing all of your smarts toward a solution that doesn't even have a problem attached to it yet. Approach your sexual choices the way you might approach a technical question. One step at a time. Many people do go a little crazy in college. But a high percentage of college students do not. Alcohol use is a risk factor in terms of your sexual choices. If you choose to stay away from alcohol and also hang out with sober students, your sexual choices will be intentional and your risk of STDs, assault and unintended pregnancy will decrease. She's right. She is right. Hang out with the right people.  There are many ways of learning about sex and being sexual outside of intercourse. Don't discuss your chest that he pledged with your parents until you have a reason to. You can also choose to never discuss this with them. Your body is your own. And you, not your parents, should be in charge of it. Yeah, tell that to some cultures.  Oh yeah.  It's her life, it's her body. You know, but she's putting problems, she's attaching problems and issues that don't exist yet.  But the main thing is, if that's her choice, she needs to just stay clear of the wrong environment. If she goes to parties where people get so drunk, they vomit. Then there will be girls who are exploited when they're drunk, there will be drug abuse.  If you go to social events where there are nice, smart, normal kids like yourself, that kids that don't need to get drunk until they're sick. You know, you could drink socially, then you'll be fine. Just hang out with the right people. Same thing with outside of college, same thing with older people. Like, you know, in my case, I don't go to social events where the people are not my cup of tea, you know, like people that are heavily into party and everything. I don't hang around them. I know people like that. And if you're not like them, they stop calling you. You know, they're like to be birds of a feather flock together. Speaking of birds. Oh, you have a bird reading? Last one, I guess. Oh, it's about birds. How about that? The Salt Marsh Sparrow is disappearing from its home on the East Coast. I didn't even know it existed. And could be headed for extinction. In as little as 50 years, the sparrows, which weigh about half an ounce, live in coastal areas from Maine to Virginia. My northeast, some birds. During the breeding season, and migrate further south in the winter. Salt sparrows. So I imagine they like to stay on the coasts. Researchers with a group of universities have been tracking them for several years and reported this week that eight out of every 10 of the birds has disappeared in the past 15 years. The birds still number in the tens of thousands, but University of Maine is still in the middle of the but University of Maine, Professor Brian Olson, studying the sparrows said their population has dropped about 9% annually since 1998. Olson said coastal construction of structures such as roads and railways has restricted the flow of the tides to salt marshes and interfered with the birds habitat. Sea level rise has also hurt the sparrows. We're watching a species in an incredible rapid decline. The salt marsh sparrow is sensitive to changes in the tidal marsh. There are about 53,000 of the sparrows in the United States. The only country in which they live. Oh, all the more they should be protected. Olson said their decline is the most severe in New England where they have disappeared at a more extreme rate than any other tidal marsh bird. Salt marsh sparrows are not afforded special protections or protective status in the United States. Really? But the international union for conservation of nature's red list of freckin' species lists the sparrow as vulnerable. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has asked Olson and the other researchers studying the sparrow to put together information about the bird so it can make a determination about whether it should be considered for protection. They've got to do it quick. The other researchers are the universities of Connecticut, New Hampshire, Delaware, and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. That's right, there's a little piece of New Hampshire that's on the Atlantic coast. Not much, but a little section, yeah, a little section. Their work on the sparrow is part of a project called the Salt Marsh Habitat and Avian Research Program. Protect the salt marsh sparrow. That's the same? That's great. You know what's strange? I learn something new all the time. You know my crested geckos? They were thought to be extinct until the 1990s when they were rediscovered. I had no idea. They were actually considered extinct lizards. And that's something fascinating. Anyway, thank you for joining us for progressive discussions. Have an enjoyable, safe Memorial Day weekend. It is the unofficial beginning of summer and the opening of all the beaches. Have a stuffed wallet so you can put out all that dough on all those beaches. When it comes to New York beaches, I'm assuming New York beaches.  I would never be a victim of it, never. I mean, it's bad enough you gotta sit in traffic and pay for the gas and the tolls to get down there. Then you have to pay to park. You have to pay to change into your bathing suit. If you're court changing in the restroom, you get a heavy fine. It's a real racket. You gotta pay to get on the beach. Cover charge. You can't bring snacks and beverages. You can't bring it. Which means you get suckered into spending money on the boardwalk for snacks and food. You pay price gouged, insane prices for your food and drink really price gouged rates. Looks like rain on Monday anyway. It's a complete legalized racket. Oh, rain on Monday? That's what it looks like. Good. Good. Oh, and for what? For some dusty New Jersey beach. It's not even a white sandy pristine southern beach or tropical beach.  You see all these assholes on the beach from the Jersey Shore, chicky poos with tons of makeup on, lipstick, earrings, and they're in their bikinis. They're out there frying and they got makeup on. Give me a break. What a bunch.  It's incredible. Anyway, we'll see you next time. But most of all, like I said before, many times don't drive drunk. Be safe, all right? Have fun, have fun, but be safe.  According to your? Right. Need. You only need to compete with yourself because everyone's body, everyone's genetic makeup is different.   This has been a Megalive 21 production.


Good morning everybody, the microphone is working. Welcome back. The third day of DEF CONF is about to start. I hope you are enjoying the conference and that you enjoyed the party yesterday. Before we start a little bit of housekeeping, please when you leave the room, come to the room, be careful about slamming the door. It's really, really distracting. And also respect the full sign. When you see a sign on the door that says it's full, well surprisingly it means the room is full. Please don't enter. We'll be happy if you tweet or if you write blog posts. So go ahead to do that. And today there's a grand finale, a competition for cool prizes in room D105105 at 4.30. With this, let me pass the floor to Fabian Eretin with his talk, Sentos Infra Revealed. All yours. Hopefully the microphone is working for me. Yeah, well I can scream anyway. So good morning everybody. I was not expecting many people in the room on a Sunday morning for the first time slot after the party. But here we go. First thing, who am I? For people not knowing me, just quick summary. I'm a Belgian guy, meaning that obviously we can speak to me about Belgian beer, French or Belgian fries or chocolates if you want, but that's a little bit off topic obviously. Apart from that, I'm a season mean by choice because I really like what I'm doing. Season mean for the Sentos infrastructure. Sentos user, I would say even abuser for a long time. And I'm a member from the Sentos project as well. So what do we want to cover today? A little bit of history first, where we are coming from and hopefully where we are going to. A quick overview of the infrastructure and the way we are doing more and more interaction with other distribution like obviously Fedora, because we share the same routes and so working with the Fedora infrastructure team is really something we are doing at the moment. So back a long time ago, when there was the big split between Red Enterprise and Fedora, some people said that oh, there is suddenly a gap that some people have to fill. And so more than 10 years ago, some people decide somewhere in a basement just to say, oh, let's start something for fun, let's try to rebuild the social PM. And it was just a few private notes, right? So KB is just at the back. He would, you know everything about the machine that were maybe running in his garage or basement just to do that and Johnny in the US. So it was really, really, really small. And I don't think a lot of people were expecting the project to become so successful at a time. But you know, it was something all made.  But there was certainly a need for automation because everything was running from almost one or two machine like the main website was running on the machine, the forums, the main mirror, everything was on single machine. Then people from the community, and that's the beauty of the things, the C in Santa is community, right? So people from community said, we like you because we use it. So what can we do to help? Well, we need machine in bandwidth. So we add one machine here, one machine there, one machine there, another machine there, and it's, well, microphone is stretching a little bit. It's smart. Okay. Let's try to not move. That will be the... It's a little bit easier. Yeah, let me just try to... That Sunday morning, take it easy. Hopefully. No, not better. I can scream instead if needed, but let's try not to move. So the current situation is that we have, obviously we are just eating our own dog food, so we are still running Santa's five, six or seven. But in fact, the Santa's five note, yeah, there was only one note at the moment, still running Santa's five, which is Xendom zero, we're seeing some virtual machines, so we just need to move that somewhere else. But we still have some machine running Santa's six, and obviously the new machine that were given to us were donated to us, our running Santa's seven. We started to reinstall because some machine were donated almost 10 years ago, so we started with the machine running Santa's three, then reinstalling Santa's four, then in five, and we just continuously reinstalling those machines, because you would be surprised how many Pentium four we still have in production at the moment, behind the board of Santa's log, with one gig of RAM, only in a single SATA disk. So it's always fun to deal with those machines. So those machines at the moment, we can't even reinstall those machines with Santa's seven. Yeah, let's, yeah, maybe, otherwise it will be annoying. Let's, oh, one, two, one, two. So back to the thing, it was still running on a lot of donated machine everywhere. So we had most of the machine coming from company in the US, some in Europe, in the Europe, and one machine in Brazil, one machine in Malaysia, one machine in Australia, something like that. So we were just, in fact, reinventing the cloud before it was a thing, in the sense that we had suddenly to, you know, automate a lot, a lot of things, because we had no time to work on that. So, puppet was still a thing. So I even remember in 2007 at FOSDM, we had Luke Kenes in the Santa's destroyer room, just giving a talk about puppet, which was beginning to start to be a thing. So we came with, I migrate from puppet to puppet. I think I was using from puppet zero to the three, two, yeah, multiple version, and at the moment we're running three dot six. The thing we did was to switch from plain puppet, most of the, how many people are using puppet in the room? Oh, not, so the rest is using, and say, well, maybe, yeah, or salt or whatever you want. So we switched from plain puppet master D to puppet and foreman. We use foreman as an external note classifier. It was mainly for a puppet dashboard, and then we are just separating everything, variable from the modules, so everything is coming from foreman. And still, we started to use a little bit of Ansible for specific ad hoc task between machines, or even what Brian will explain that in the next talk in the CI environment. About monitoring, because when you have machine running, well, all around the world, you still need to do some checking. So we decided a long time ago to use Zabix. The main reason was that, well, KB and myself, we were using Zabix for our daily job, so we just decided to use it because it was, it fits the bill. So we have Zabix agents install all the notes. The only problem we had was you, that we had to use Zabix proxy. If you are familiar with Zabix, you know that you have latency issue, so we have to use Zabix proxy sometimes to get information from those machines because the topology of the network is geo distributed. One thing we do, what we are still doing is, for DNS, nothing fancy. We are just using bind, like almost everybody does, except that we have geo redirection. So we have a delegation for some of the notes, some of the record, like, if you try to it mirror.centers.org or msync.centers.org, you will be redirected to your geo IP, the nearest machine for your location. So that's transparent for a user, but that's really something efficient at the moment. And even if people are not really supposed to eat those machines quite a lot because normally you just eat mirror list and you download the package from your mirror, one of the external mirror. Some people are just using plain mirror.centers.org and we have, on average, 400 requests per second for the DNS record. And yeah, we obviously have some of the things. Let me just put some notes. Yeah, that's better like this, for me at least. We have other machine, obviously website, forums, bug tracker, mailing list, and torrent cedar for people willing to use the torrent tracker. One of the note that is really crucial for us and also for you is the msync role. That's how we distribute all the updates and all the new release to external mirror. We have, at the moment, 69 donated machine dedicated for that role. We are just using a pyramidal setup where from the master we just distributed to the level zero, the ring zero, and then the other nodes. From a statistic point of view, when we're pushing new release, the aggregated value for those who know this is actually pushing to four gigabit per second during two, three, or four days, depending. And they are just used to seed all the external mirror. We have, at the moment, we have something like more than 600 external mirror that most of the people are using, not counting the people using an internal mirror for production, obviously. So we have, as I said, we have a lot of machine in the US, a few in Europe, but some part of the wall are not really well covered. Like I think we have just one machine in South America and the machine is in Brazil. The machine has not a good connectivity, but on the other hand, internal to the country, the machine, that machine has a really good speed. So it's really quite slow for that machine to get everything from us. But when the machine has everything, it serves all the other machine in South America. Same like Malaysia, you know, we are in 2016, but we still have some machine connected at 10 megabit per second. It's not even limited at the router, I mean really connected at 10 megabit if you look at a DH tool on the machine because it's really limited at the switch level. So why do we want to keep those machines for the same reason? Because 10 megabit per second is really slow here in Europe, but in Malaysia it's still a thing to have a machine in the data center connected at 10 megabit per second. So it's quite an nightmare for us to manage to have that machine up to date, to distribute the update to the other machine, but it's still something that when you are a user, you are happy to face that machine in that region. How do we verify that? We have a process, we are not using Mirror Manager. A lot of people are expecting us to run Mirror Manager, which we don't at the moment. That's something we can eventually do in the future, but if we speak to the federal people to see if we have the same problem to solve. But at the moment, we have a process that check in loop every mirror for every release, every repository, and also the ease of file are checked per country. Meaning that if you, well, let's run parents, but we have no base URL in the YAM repo file that's the mirror release thing. So you are once again redirected to your Nero's mirror. And same for, is already directed. If you want just to download a Nero file from us, you're also redirected transparently and it's check in loop. The fun begins with the donate machine because everything is fine.  And obviously I like free gift, so I accept the machine. And almost all the machine are running on those donated machine. But it's sometimes, well, we had to migrate the role multiple times because you receive a machine, but you don't know if the machine will stay for one month, one year, or 10 years. So we just have to automate everything because we will switch the role. Sometimes we add to, well, there is other issue because machine is maybe 10 years. We had last, for example, in two months time we had to migrate the wiki that's just a fact from last year. We had to migrate the wiki instance three times in a two months window because the machine was moving from one DC to another or the machine disappear or add another issue. That was really some of the problem we are facing too with. Same for the mailing list, we had to automate all the things because you don't know when it happened. The machine can just disappear. And the main reason why a machine disappear is not hardware issue. It's just that the company doesn't exist anymore. That's really something we had a lot. You know, you have bankrupt or even something more fun. You have company A giving you a machine. Someone inside of company A give you a machine. The guy left. Management is not aware. Company B acquires company A. And sometimes company C acquire company B. And suddenly you have no contact anymore with the people giving you the machine. The machine still runs. Sometimes they are just, well, they do an inventory and they say, what the hell is the machine in the DC? So they have a name. And we have notification. If they are smart enough, we have notification at machine, you know, well, we are not interested in sponsoring you anymore. So we don't care. Sometimes they don't. So we just discovered by was that machine is not reachable and we try to contact people. Nobody's answering the phone or something like that. So it happens to us quite a lot. The more interesting thing is that when you know that company went bankrupt, but the machine is still running. So we don't know who paid the bills, but we have machine in DC still running. We just crossed the finger to hope that there is no, there will be no electricity outage in the DC or out of issue because we know that we'll lose machine but machine still runs. And that scares me when the machine runs without any inventory but that's a good, that's a fun part of managing those machine. So what we do with those donated machine, the first thing we do is obviously just reinstalling those machine because I don't know if you have already tried to use a dedicated and donated server, well, a dedicated server somewhere. Sometimes they are smart. You know, they provide you Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS image, official one. Sometimes it's a bastardized version of CentOS. Like I don't want to name OVH, which I did, but they just have a different kernel they force you to use with GRSEC instead of S&NX for example. Some other DC guys are just injecting directly their own SSH key into root account or things like that. So I'm a lazy guy. I don't want to audit the machine. I just reinstall it directly. So how do we do that? Because obviously we have no, you know, it's a single machine in a DC. So we just, with a simple script, we just reinstall the machine. So we just on the machine, as long as we have a S&H connection, we just don't know the kernel, the initrdee. We just install kyexec tool. We inject the kickstart. I guess that's a lot of, well, you are all familiar with kickstart. We inject the kickstart in the initrdee and we just chain and we group it on the kernel and the machine auto reinstall itself without any IPMI or VGA connection at all. When the machine reboots, Puppet is called for certificates and yeah, it starts configuring the machine for us. Meaning it's just allowing source on IP to just SSH into et cetera. What we do is that we start small because the first thing we have to do is try to build a relationship with the company willing to sponsor us. Because I said sometimes you don't know the company. So we have some random guy somewhere willing to sponsor the project. So we have a machine. We start with something really non-crucial. Like we have, I mentioned the emsing role, so mirror machine. We start with that because what can happen? There is no data, there is nothing in it except package, which are GPG sign, right? So at the moment we start with something like that. And what we do usually is that we just, before putting the machine officially into the mirror network or into production for something else, we just test their support response time. Because some DC are really fast. It's cheap, it's free, right? It's donated, so there is no SLA on the machine. But still some people like us and so are giving answer to tickets we create quite fast. Sometimes it can take days or weeks because of that donated machine. So we just start with something really small and with the time, we know if we can trust those people or not. Because they prove that we can use their services. Sometimes we are lucky in the sense that they want just to sponsor two machine in the same DC, which is, because we are not the traditional on-premise thing, we have machine everywhere. So sometimes we have two machine. So we can do some kind of fellowver thing like for the DNS at the moment. We have machine where we can just switch from one to the other if needed. And we know those people, so we know that we can use their support. Apart from those machine, you know that people are facing for mirror. We have also other resource like in DC at the moment, we have four physical node that we use for what we call the DevCloud. So people willing to work in a special interest group in Santos can abuse resource in that DevCloud environment. It's at the moment still based on OpenEvola. So people can just spin a VM quite easily. And we are just using Luster with InfiniBand for the storage part of that. If you are interested in details, why we had to switch to InfiniBand instead of using standard internet, feel free to ask me at the end of the presentation. It's running at the moment quite fast and we are even thinking about expanding that because we have more and more people interested in abusing that environment. Apart from that, when I mentioned donated machine, I should say that obviously two years ago something happened with Red Hat. I guess that people are aware of that. So the biggest sponsor at the moment is in fact Red Hat because they sponsored some IBM Blade Center in IBM facility, in Red Hat facility. So we have a dedicated build farm, the Koji build farm, running in that environment. And it's basically at the moment just, it was only Intel X8664, but we added recently ARM64 as well, builders in that environment. And in a remote environment, we have also PPC64 and PPC64 LE because probably you are aware that we release support for those architecture in December. Same for ARM HFP. So ARM V7, if you have Raspberry Pi 2, feel free to abuse CentOS 7 on it. It works. And next to that build environment, really next close because it's in the same rack. We have our CI environment setup. If you are interested in the CI environment, Brian will explain all the details about how you can use it if you are a member of a project in a special interest group. At the moment, it's Jenkins driven. If you just visit HTTPS, CI.Center.Zor, you will recognize automatically Jenkins UI. We have some chassis that we are using with compute node inside. So it's a 256 compute node that we can abuse. For that, we do bare metal for CI. Brian will explain that, but we do bare metal because we want to be as close as possible to what happened in reality. Because we have RDO people building on top of CI, so on top of CBS. So if, for example, you just want to, you have install OpenStack, CentOS release OpenStack, you can. It's built on CentOS, for CentOS, and distributed through the mirror. They want obviously to test the whole thing. So they want bare metal because then they can simulate everything on top, including the VM. And nested VM is maybe not that good. In the back, it's just Ansible that is provisioning and re-installing all the physical machine as fast as possible. So the roadmap for the CentOS infra is extending the authentication because Puppet takes care of the accounts of all the machine at the moment for the infra team. But still, we add more and more people interested in contributing to the CentOS ecosystem. So including for the special interest groups. So they need access to the Koji build farm. Instead of using our own, well, it was a custom made CA script and wrapper script. We decided to move to something that a lot of Fedora package are known already. So it's, we have accounts.centos.org, which is backed by FAS, but not the Fedora FAS. That's the FAS backend, but on our own system. There is no federation at the moment between the two. Something that can be maybe done in the future. We don't know. We obviously want to start to migrate more and more web services to that centralized authentication because at the moment the forum are still using their own local database for a user, et cetera. What we want to do also is have faster data going to mirror because we are faced with an interesting problem. We have a lot of machines with limited capacity and we have more and more and more package and update of package and cloud image. And it starts to become a problem for us on those donated machine. So we are just rethinking the way we will distribute all the machine through some kind of caching and CDN for the infra, based still based on the donated machine and some kind of message bus. We are still to think about it. If you have ID, feel free to share about how we can speed up communication with the external mirror. That's basically already the end of my talk. So if you have question, feel free to raise your hand. Yes. Not reintroduction, no, what? Yeah, so the question is, do you run some kind of intrusion detection system? More or less, well through the audit, because if we see that, for example, it happens to us that some people in the DC just had to do maintenance on the machine without notification for us. So what we just do is just reinstall the machine completely automatically. Because everything is automated, right? So it just after the time, the time is just needed for the machine just to sync everything back from another machine nearby. So we consider those machines like, you know, pets and cattle. So those machines are cattle. We have the machine, we are happy. The machine is gone. Nobody regrets it, right? It's not like if we were using the, well, the main machine like Git.center.org, which is not running on a donated machine, obviously. But for those kind of machines, no, we don't. We just reinstall the machine directly. Other question, yes? That's an interesting question. Puppet, because you describe the state of the machine and we started with Puppet a long time ago. So we continue to use Puppet for that reason. But when you want to do some orchestration, Puppet doesn't do that, you know. The Puppet MasterD compiles a catalog and it's just for that node. If you want that node to interact with another one, then it begins to fun. Especially for example, consider the main issue that I had myself with Puppet and for example the configuration management in general is the fact that you don't have a clear view between Puppet MasterD and the monitoring system. The only way to configure the Zabixin surface, maybe, well for us, directly is to use something else that, you know, traditional way of Puppet, of doing things is you use exported resource and then you reuse all those exported resource on the monitoring machine to just apply all those configuration. Sometimes it's really crazy because the more node you have, the biggest catalogs it is and the biggest time, well, sometimes it's 30, 35 minutes just to verify that nothing changed and that they are monitoring the correct thing. So I'm just using a kind of, you know, workaround at the moment. I said that we are using Forman. In Forman, they have hooks. So it's even driven. So if I update or create or delete host at Forman, I have a script that says, I have a matching table that said, oh, that's Puppet roles as that monitoring template in Zabix. So if a machine is changed with added or removed role, it automatically use the hooks to just use the Zabix API to add or remove the roles at Zabix. And using the same thing in both ways, if Zabix said that, oh, that machine is gone, for example, it reflects that directly through the Forman API. The way I use Ansible is like, how do you install Puppet, for example? You have to start from somewhere. So at the moment, it's fun that you can just use Ansible Playbook to bootstrap Puppet itself or even set up Puppet MasterD. So and some other tasks like we use, we abuse Ansible for like, as I said, re-installing the machine automatically with the Jinja 2 thing for the kickstart in the C environment. The machine are re-installed on average 100 times per day. That was me, what would be? So it just, well, it's transparent in the back end. Puppet doesn't do that. So, you know, that's really different. If you like, you can use the two. If you, you can discuss with the Forman guys, they just did the integration with Ansible at the moment, meaning that you can just use, you can still continue to use Forman as external load classifier for Puppet. But at the same time, you can have an inventory script to use Ansible in point to exactly the same inventory. And you can even with a callback plugin, have all the reports from all the Ansible Playbook calls directly back into Forman as well, like you do for Puppet. It's quite cool if you want to use it. So, other question? Yeah. Okay, so the question is, I mentioned Gluster and Infinity Band. Why? We had a space constraint in the rack where those machines are hosted. So it's just a four machine setup at the moment for the DevCloud. And we need a shared storage. So at the moment, every machine is at the same time a supervisor and Gluster storage and client. We started with, you know, dedicated Gigabit Ethernet connection for the storage. But then I realized something. I don't know if people have played with Gluster in the room. No, Gluster is really damn easy to set up. But it's so easy to set up that it hides some problem. Something you have to understand with Gluster, it's that, well, it's turning now into a Gluster session, but I don't mind. If you are running in distributed and replicated setup, your Gluster, in fact, it's just a metadata server, meaning that if you want to replicate it, it's the client's responsibility to send the data twice. So if you are just doing that over Ethernet, you're bent with it automatically divided by two. And can you imagine the fact that your virtual machine is in fact, you know, the ION virtual machine is really bad? So we try to optimize that just by switching to Infinity Band. If you look on eBay, you can find 20 gigabit or 40 gigabit Infinity Band for almost nothing those days, including for HBA. And instead, you can use Infinity Band in two way, like the traditional RDMA thing, or you can just use that with IP over Infinity Band.  And the only thing you can do to speed up that is, well, it's the same for storage. If you are using iSCSI, you know that if you want to tune iSCSI, you are going to jumbo frame. So you can do the same in Infinity Band. You have connected mode versus data gram mode. You switch from one to the other. It's more or less the same thing as jumbo frame. Once you do that, and if you are using Glossier for your virtual machine, you just need also to switch to libjfapi and not using fuse, please. Because fuse is really, really everything but speed. So switch to that. And then everything starts to fly again. So, but it, the reason why you decided Glossier was, you know, we had no storage storage and we need a solution on, so using the machine of both as a supervisor and storage node. Does that answer the question? Okay. Other question maybe? Yeah. We can discuss about that later maybe. But yeah, some people sometimes try strange things. It's true. But yeah, we can discuss about that if you want after. That will be, yeah, I will not have time enough maybe to discuss that. But you still need a pair of gloves. Another question. Last chance to win a pair of gloves. Center's gloves. No question. Okay. Thank you. Oh, yeah. You want gloves, right? Okay. Well, the torrent for the YAM operation, no. But that would be interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we discussed with those guys because as I said, we have also a center seven arm HFP, which is there, but we decided to go with arm HFP, so arm V seven. So our target was not arm V six. So it's only works on a hundred by two and a cubic truck and all the oddball, but not one has very by one red sleeve guy decided to be compatible with their own legacy thing, meaning that they were targeting arm V five, which is really older. It's still running on a Raspberry Pi one. So I, yeah, if they want to join the fun and benefit automatically from the army or they can just be part of centers and build arm. Well, the NF doesn't exist at the moment in real seven, but yeah, you said torrent. Sorry, torrent, I meant torrent. Yeah. For the YAM part, I don't think that you will, well, YAM itself has plugins, so maybe if someone has a crazy idea like that, but I don't think that it exists at the moment. And that would be quite interesting to YAM install something and, and starting a torrent client in the back. Yeah, that means that you have a, yeah, you have maybe a big, big mirror. Well, no, you have a, you have no mirror and you have a big, big infra because a wall, a wall set of package for red sleeve, maybe something, well, for center seven is the same thing. It's not that big. And if you, if it's starting to become big, only if you have, you know, a lot, a lot of release in parallel and a lot of architecture.  So I don't think that using torrent would be good for that. Just to distribute to other machine, but not for the client part.  No question. Thank you.   That's something you have to think about. Yeah. Yeah.  We have some. Thanks. Thanks Good. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. Just switch your slides on this flat drive of nothin' with now that you have time and arrived me back home. You are, you need thaosegit now. Yeah. Yes. There you are. Yeah. I'll show you a sign, like, 10 minutes left, then it's up to you. Okay. You can hand out the scarves for questions. You have three. You can just leave away three. When somebody asks questions, we'll just repeat it for the, you know, for the camera and for the mic. And you might want to take the mic, so this is where you mute it. Okay. And I mute it, but we had some problems, so I'm going to use this one. I think it's fine. It's just, you know, sometimes it's just... Yeah, it's fine. I can use this one. Okay, thanks.


It's time Welcome to the Linux Focust review of Focustrite's Scarlett 2i2 third-generation USB audio interface I'm Anfa. I'm an electronic music producer and sound designer and I work exclusively with open-source software and Linux And this video will take a look at this device and See how does it perform with Linux? But first let's see what's in the box The box is very small, and I think that's good because there's no wasted packaging material and Right away we have access to the interface Just packaged in a nice thick plastic wrap But I think is doing a good job at protecting the chassis. What else is there? not much we have a Anfa doesn't line with Sebastian and carries on a USB cable type C to USB type a cable USB 2.0 and we have Safety instructions, so that's like, you know mandatory stuff nothing more What is there as well is some instructions in the packaging as you can see the front is Protected with some film And so is the back panel By the way, there is some slight chassis damage But I assure you this is not my doing one negative out of the box is that the supplied cable is very short This is nothing. I simply had to use an extension for this But because that's a 2.0 cable. I wasn't a problem and no it didn't affect the stability. Also, there is no ferrite cores on this so I've seen reports of interfaces having issues with cables including a ferrite core So maybe that's not a downside when you connect your scarlet to the computer for the first time It will be detected both as an audio interface and as a USB mass storage device This is because the manufacturer wants you to click some links register the device and download some proprietary software I doubt anybody really wants this. I think a QR code would be sufficient However, since it's there Let's hack this thing so we can boot Linux above its internal storage There is no information on how to disable this on the box It's in the manual online because the expect you to run Windows or Mac and Disable that via software and we could do this via software in Linux as I'll show you in a bit But for now, let me show you how to disable this in hardware You need to press and hold the 48 volts button for five seconds And then the mass storage device mode should be off Nobody's gonna talk about this so Hell I'm gonna if you're coming from a free software or Linux background You probably don't need me to explain why I don't like this practice but Many people don't focus right is keeping hostage Part of the functionality of the device I've already purchased. I've given them my money But now they want my name email address The serial number of the device maybe that's additional profit for them because personal information is Money they're limiting the performance of this device and also Putting a nagging icon on my desktop and of course if you dig deep and find the manual Maybe you learn that you can work around this Maybe you won't and you will just install their software and tell them everything they want to know So they let you use your device. I hate this back to the review all of the focus right scarlett 2i 2 3rd generation software controls are available and working on Linux However, the standard USB audio Linux driver Requires an extra parameter to be given to it to do this open a terminal Type sudo su and give your password to gain a root user privileges Now execute this command you can find it in the video description by the way This will create a file Snd usb audio that conf inside the ETC mod probe the system directory The file will contain a line specifying what options the USB audio driver needs to be loaded with Snd usb audio is the name of the driver vid means vendor id Pid is product id These two numbers make sure that the device setup parameter will only be applied to a focus right scarlett 2i 2 3rd gen device If you happen to have a different device from the scarlett family check this page at the link is in the video description as well The different models have different Pid numbers Also, not all devices from the second generation are supported So before you buy a used unit check if it will work with software controls on the legs if you need that Once the file is created reboot your computer. You can use their reboot terminal command to do this After your backup and running it's time to check if the software control is working open a terminal again type all some mixer and hit enter Now press f6 and select your scarlett device from the list Use the arrow keys and enter to confirm After the device is selected press f5 to view all settings of the device Nate we can now enable or disable phantom power Change input impedance and toggle the air mode on each preamp individually as well as control hardware input monitoring and Make the phantom power be persistent across device power cycles Perfect to change the settings use left right arrows to select and either Spacebar or up down arrows to alter the values Apart from the persistent phantom power all of these will give you instant visual feedback on the device itself To exit also mixer you can simply close the terminal emulator with alt f4 or hit escape If you intend to use it for something else By the way, when the USB audio driver is loaded with the special setting It's possible to also disable the msd mode Mest storage device that the interface comes in out of the factory Once the msd mode is disabled the control gets hidden in also mixer, which makes sense You'd probably not want to turn that on again unless you've managed to hack it already But if you do it can be brought back by loading the driver with device setup 3 parameter instead of device setup 1 that we used previously All right, let's go I've measured total run trip latency using a patch cable Where I plug one side of it into the output another side into the input And then I use the jack IO delay program to measure the total Latency which means the time between when the sound leaves the program to when the sound enters the program Which gives us complete latency of both software and hardware I've been testing two interfaces and I've noticed that this one has slightly better latency than Berenger UMC 202 HD But it's marginally better and also there is so many variables depending on your system configuration on Linux to the USB port you use to Your system load to your use case that I I really won't swear by my results You can check them all out. They are in a public spreadsheet. I'm gonna link them in the video description The bottom line is the latency is perfectly good for both live processing, which means real-time and For recording Okay, let's wrap up this review The pros the interface is small and sturdy and it's easy to move around All of the controls are on the front panel. You don't have to reach out to the back There's plenty of visual feedback with the LEDs the preamps have four state level indicators because they can be off Green yellow or red except for the analog potentiometers Everything is controllable via software and the software controls all work on Linux using also mixer If you add a specific driver parameter now for the cons the device starts out in a mass storage mode Which is unnecessary and requires some extra actions to get rid of and locks you out of higher sampler rates And clarifies your desktop. So that's a no-no by default Scarlet will have the phantom power turn off after every power cycle But you can change this in the settings only only in software Also for some lack of an immediate functionality will be a minus But I don't use that so I don't care the scarlet also comes bundled with some proprietary software Which I have no use for so I hope it's not more expensive because of that The front panel seemed a little bit unergonomic before I started using it But it turns out it's perfectly fine because you can access all the buttons with your thumb While pressing the device down with your index finger so it doesn't slide Also, if you don't apply too much force to the buttons You can push them without holding the device down because the rubberized feet have decent friction Overall, I used this device for a good few months. I've done multiple live streams I've done multiple videos with it and I can totally see myself continuing to use it as a daily driver I cannot say too much about the sound quality because I Have no real way or interest in being extremely scientific about it So if you want to go and look into you know pre-app noise floor, etc Go watch a video by Julian crosser or hey Julian cross yet If you want to dig deeper into using focus rights carlet devices and Linux There is a github page that I can recommend. Here's the link and it will also be in the description, of course By the way a little side misadventure. I Got a PCIe USB extension card to test how multiple USB audio interfaces will perform with pipe wire Can I sync them together etc? I haven't done this yet, but I bought one of these It worked for a couple months then stopped working in one of my PCI slots and only worked in another one Then stop working altogether. I got a replacement and it's exactly the same thing just great all in all USB is jank. Okay, that's all for this video. Thanks for watching I also would like to give my biggest thanks to the generous person who has donated that allowed me to purchase the devices for testing You know who you are. Yes, there's gonna be more. This is just the first device on my list I'll get you. I also want to thank everyone who is supporting my work financially If you would like to join these people and help keep this show going Please go to patreon.com slash Anfa or Liberapay.com slash Anfa where you can support me with a monthly donation And if you would like to meet more people interested in using Linux and open-source software for music production Check out my community chat at chat dot Anfa dot XYZ If you wanted to make sure the Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen works fine on Linux before buying you can safely buy one now if not whatever now go and Make some music According at least I'm gonna maybe capture some extra bureau Apart from like the media masterclass for art or this video must have been like for the longest time in the production I don't think I had so much time between the first captured takes and last captured takes