Yeah, welcome back to Think Tech. I'm Jay Fidel. This is History is Here to Help on a Given Thursday and we're going to talk today about right-wing extremism and domestic terrorism with Peter Hoffenberg, a professor of history and Jean Rosenfeld, also professor of history. Right, I get that right. Okay, let's begin with the finding out terms. If I tell you we're talking about right-wing extremists, what is a right-wing extremist for this discussion, Peter? Well, I'm going to defer to Jean to start. Dr. Rosenfeld. I was going to ask her to define domestic terrorism. Well, I'll let her define both then we can have a conversation. But if your viewers are just joining us, they just want to say Dr. Jean Rosenfeld is a scholar of the history of religion and among her particular interests are the relationships between religion, nationalism, religion and populism, and particularly today's topic, religion and how we're going to define terrorism and extremism. So let me defer. Thank you, Jay. Let me defer to Jean to get us started. I think it'd be really helpful because the words are thrown around all over the place. Well, we should add that the third leg of the stool would be religion. Perfect. And where that plays in the definition of these two terms. So we're going to right-wing extremists. This is not an easy task, Jean. Domestic terrorists and religion. So can you help us define and connect those terms? I'll try. I'm sure everyone has their own ideas about it. They're very common terms. But to quote a famous scholar on terrorism, terrorism, he describes very succinctly as violence unrestricted by the rules of war to pursue political agendas. So it is also directed at targets that are selected to further that end of political agenda. And of course, if you have our targeting of political agenda, you need an ideology. Some people speak of religions as ideologies and ideologies as religions. So religion is a condition of being ultimately concerned according to my colleagues in the history of religions who study new religious movements, commonly called cults. And religion as ultimate concern means that which you are willing to die for or live by means of. It's a coherent to you form of belief that you live by and are willing to die for. And we saw this in January 6th when the people who entered the Senate chambers had a prayer meeting. That's what they did with the shaman. In the capital building and somebody who showed this and some did not because when you see a video it's edited and they often edit out the religious portions of it. Things we recognize as religion and they'll say, oh no, that's not important. So they put it into the trash can and we scholars take it out of the trash can be look at it very carefully because human beings create symbolism and symbolism creates meaning and people become invested in meaning they connect to one another they bind themselves together by meaning and religion also means it comes from word meaning to bind together. So you bound together with ultimate concern about things you're willing to die for and things that you live by and it can take any form because human beings are very creative and they create all these what we call fictional narratives that they become invested in and it becomes an alternate reality for them. And that's kind of the shortest version I can give you ideology, religion connected to the political agenda they seek to achieve as a result directed by that ideology and that interconnectedness that they feel that sense of meaning. And so domestic terrorism is some is terrorism which doesn't extend beyond the boundaries of the nation. Although when we speak about our domestic terrorism today, it does extend beyond the boundaries of our nation. The relationship between right wing extremists and we're getting into this, who are responsible maybe for 40% of the domestic terrorist acts in the United States currently they reach out to Europe and Europe reaches out to them. So you have like groups in Germany and other places in Europe that they're affiliated. They know each other in Scandinavia in Germany. This Aryan preoccupation with white supremacy is I think more distinct and better to focus on than right wing extremists quote unquote because the right wing isn't necessarily terrorist. The right wing is legitimate it's conservative. And we need a right wing. Okay. But to balance us as Joe Biden pointed out the other night. But extremism is kind of a generic word that avoids insulting anybody. But let's look at the core belief that unites the current 40% the people in who attack in El Paso who attack in San Diego who attack in Philadelphia against Jews and Hispanics and other targeted groups and Asians. But this is more of an individual thing. I'm speaking now well yes and we can get into long walk terrorism that I don't want to complicate things right wing extremists is better thought of from Charlottesville in 2017 to January 6 and 2020 as white supremacy based on a fear of being replaced by alien peoples and upwelling of something very common in American history called nativism. Well I am much more troubled about all those three terms than I was a few minutes ago. Thanks. Thank you for the definition. How about you Peter are you more troubled about them. I will trouble you some more. I completely agree as usual with Gene I would just add a few things particularly from the European protected system historian of Europe. My difficulty with religion in the way that Gene described it not Gene's description has been problematic but the issue is not really whether you're willing to die for your religion. The problem is are you willing to kill for your religion. I think you should be very careful. For example in Jewish tradition there is a tradition of martyrdom where one dies. There is not a tradition of martyrdom where one kills other people. I think we have to be very clear about the distinction between willing to die for something and willing to go and kill for something and I think that's more problematic and more troublesome. It's a trouble so it's an issue I think which transcends religion and transcends nativism. It's a question of the militarism of my society. So I think today the distinctions between you know a press wrap was dear old friend but the distinctions between you know non-state non-military and domestic terror are blurred. Many terrorists, direct-to-terrorists are either current soldiers or policemen. They train themselves as military units. The conspiracies are military attacks. So I think we're dealing with a very fundamental problem of militarism. That is the necessity to be violent and violence which is not like the Buddhist monk biting himself on fire to protest the corrupt war. It is a kind of militarism which says I'm going to kill some of these. Okay. Secondly I think that G is obviously right about connections and the connections really go way back particularly connections of ethnic nationalists. Everybody knows on this reminder that many of the German policies were based upon American literature, American and not-of-file policies but based on American writing and in fact if you look at some of the most stringent ethnic immigration laws, anti-Asian, anti-eastern or southern European, they're based upon the 1920s American nation. So Gene's absolutely right about the connections but the connections are not just the product of current events or a product of current technology. I'm deeply concerned about the learning of the lines very much. Well I'm just going to end here. Terrorism, I mean Grappo is absolutely right. What European historians though would have had is that terrorism is based upon fear. It is based upon telling somebody else that wherever you are I could eventually get them and so there is a kind of politics to this certainly and that's that's in nature and that's where military operations and domestic terrorism often match. Okay so that'll trouble you even more. Well I'm troubled not only by the you know the silos of these definitions but by the connection among the groups that you define and describe and my question to Gene is you know what's the dynamic here? It seems to me that there's a legitimate question as to whether these groups have more connections now you described and it was shocking to me you know the connection of you know domestic terrorists with foreign terrorists that's very troubling especially in Germany of course but I'm wondering if we have connections among all of these right wing groups all of the the right wing religion right wing extremists politically and of course the you know the white supremacists and domestic terrorists it seems to me that before we could we could see them in isolated silos to some extent. They didn't necessarily come together they were doing their thing whatever it was but now it seems like they they have they have found common ground that they do in fact talk to each other that they do in fact plan and use social media to do conspiratorical thinking and and I think the January 6th affair was a way where they could rub shoulders rub elbows talk to each other make make make relationships and so when they left wherever they went home to they carried these new relationships and now we have these these various defined groups connected more than before what do you think? Well first of all I'd like to just pause for a moment and go back to the very fine point that Peter made about militarism and freedom to kill there is a fault line that runs through new religious movements or cults and that fault line is between violence and non-violence. What's difference about jihadism from conservative Muslims? A significant difference and the same thing obtains with our terror groups today in the United States. Are you willing to act as the hand of God? In 1985 a paradigmatic group called the Covenant the sword and the arm of the Lord and the act is the arm of the Lord. These are groups that feel not only that they must die for something if necessary but they do have a a mandate to kill under certain circumstances and you go to every major group that has committed homicide or terror and you can always find in their literature and in their teachings that which says you may kill or you must kill okay and I won't go into detail but you can do this with every group just about. Secondly back up a little bit in terms of the definition of terrorism it is beyond the rules of war. War has rules. Terrorists have their own rules and they're different. They're irregulars. They're not a well-regulated militia. They are irregular militias and we have to discern what their rules are in order to beat them because sometimes we can use those rules against them but basically they are not the standard military per se. They can infiltrate and take over the standard militaries they did in Nazi Germany but they are not the standard military and so we need to recognize that it's beyond the rules of war. It's something that's why we call it terror and we set it apart. There's something very different. With respect to connections let me simplify by going back to the first instance of domestic terrorism noted by David Rappaport in the United States. That was Samuel Adams in Massachusetts. The Boston Tea Party, the Sons of Liberty, the Tarring and Feathering of British sympathizers went on for 10 years from the Stamp Act of 1865, 1765, Stamp Act of 1765 until 1766 and then 1776 when we had the beginning of the war and I'd like to even jump further and look at what's the all these separate issues of terrorism, what finds them together there's a paradigm. First you get a sense of oppression then you get a response to that sense of oppression and the Stamp Act was a sense of oppression then you have the slogan of no taxation without representation formulated by the Sons of Liberty and a regular group under Sam Adams and they also had committees of correspondence meaning that they didn't have an internet but light groups grew up in several of the colonies and they had secret correspondences so they they didn't have an internet but they had a means of communication so there's always a means of communication to find them together and their sense of connection and then you have a consequence as a result of these resistant long-term terrorist groups Sons of Liberty 10 years resulting in a revolution okay again in the Civil War you had the run up to the Civil War you had a bloody Kansas in the 1850s after the Missouri compromise comparable to the Stamp Act then you have the irregulars in Kansas including John Brown and you had the massacre in Lawrence Kansas and the resulting massacre by Brown and his sons in Pottawatomie in I believe 1850-56 and then ultimately in 1859 you had Harper's Ferry and in 1860 you had the Civil War so there you have again a provocation and a regular response and a consequence the consequence of dividing the country into two separate dual opposites that could not reconcile and so you had a national consequence it sounds like these these ramp-ups you know we can learn from them of course but it sounds like we're in a kind of a ramp-up now Gene maybe maybe you know what happened actually there was a ramp-up in the 1990s there was a low level insurrection in the United States that was greatly troubling the FBI it was almost overwhelmed we had in 1993 I believe in the incident of Waco which was not right-wing extremism it was a religious group an apocalyptic religious group then you had a response to that in 1995 with Oklahoma City which was the greatest act most horrible act of domestic terrorism and it was to incite a revolution and it was based on an ideology which was an American Nazi ideology expressed in the Turner Diaries that Tim McVeigh admired and enacted as the hand of Kiska and then you had the Jordan Montana standoff of the Freeman who were operative in multiple states and really distressing local municipal governments and overwhelming judges and juries and it was an ideology of separating oneself from American citizenship and creating a whole new system in the United States or at least the Pacific Northwest they wanted to actually succeed in the Pacific Northwest so in the 1990s you had a lot of incidents of terror against the police you had incidents of terror against the populace there was an assassination of Alan Berg and Denver a Jewish talk-through show host by the order and it looked like we were really going to ramp up to something but then what happened was um 9-11 and these groups went underground and then they popped up again before Donald Trump and it was Charlottesville so interesting so you can see it you know I I see it kind of like a bacterial colony forgive me this where there are various life phases in the bacterial colony and one of the phases is you know the the phase where it's it's just knitting together you don't see it and then later on it it shoots up in a very dramatic way reaches a plateau um and at that point I suppose you could have real violence by a number of people that ultimately dies every bacterial colony works that way the only and the only end to the bacterial colony uh well the the end is natural but the only continuation of the colony is when some other bacteria are introduced there's something to be learned from bacteria I always feel that you know there's something to feel Peter um this is this is all very troubling the notion that we're involved in a ramp up now and that things are knitting under the surface maybe we don't see it necessarily or realize you know where it goes the dynamic uh could could go to those violent military people um and it has happened before I wasn't aware of this gene I studied American history at college you know but I wasn't aware of this so Peter if we are in a ramp up now what are the signs that we should be looking for as far as a ramp up we should be be looking for whether or not those who gene has described are either ignored or vetted by one of the two major political parties these these issues really become nationally dangerous when the quote unquote normal politics in one way or another either ignores AIDS or that's that's one thing I would be worried about whether people in office are going to out and speak out against it uh whether there'll be some kind of regulation of arms so that's one one concern and as long as one major party essentially ignores this or in some cases cultivates it we do have a problem secondly and this gene and I approach this as dear friends from very very different perspectives so from my perspective is everything that's been described as terror as always historically been described as freedom fighters so we have a really a macro issue about whether or not society is going to accept violence of really any nature because most of the acts of domestic terror are in response to state's terror and nobody's mentioned the black panthers the black panthers were a large quote unquote either freedom fighting group right or terror group and I'm going to answer your question by saying that the state and governments has to do what we're trying to do and take positive steps to improve the general life of society and the way one of the ways to attack a bacteria right is to isolate the bacteria yes and you isolate the bacteria by I mean the rest of the peatery dish can go and then you have a big dose of antibiotics so one of the things that worries me and this I'm sure is exactly in jeans wheelhouse is the number of local sheriffs who are part of these groups right in other words the number of folks who are important intersection of law and order the old takers for example who really are borderline terror group I mean an official of the government who tells people not to wear masks or an official of the government who says that eight to ten guys aspiring to potentially murder the governor in Michigan were just a bunch of good old guys hanging out that's a real political problem these groups are most dangerous when they have traction within the general political within the general political system okay and thirdly I am very concerned that we are not appreciating the fact that for many people there is no distinction between state government violence and terror and non-state government violence and terror you know when the U.S. government decides to pull out of Afghanistan and the same year increases the Pentagon's budget that's not an end of the war anti-militarism so I do worry because one of the responses right to white christian right wing militarism is for blood groups to harm themselves and I do see a dangerous Romeo and Juliet where the families are dueling and the prince is going to have to say you cannot do it and the way to say you cannot do it is to get away get these guns out of public life well you anticipated my my next question to gene if we if we look at the people who are willing to kill then we have to look at guns and what we and when we look at guns we find that there's a lot of people who are wedded to guns and this is a psychological sociological question how many people really need to have the comfort the power of a gun or multiple guns and after a while they get to think how they would use those guns and then they contort the second amendment to license to keep those guns and the government is is unable it doesn't have the political will pretty much everywhere in the country to stop those guns how does that play into this this line we are talking about between the non-violent and the military violence this has got to be a significant a significant feature a catalyst if you will to take these people over the line well a gun is an instrument it's it's an instrument of death it's also a tool and why do you wear a gun it's something that can lethally you know as a lethal weapon here the police we we gave our police guns they didn't do that in britain they gave their bobby sticks now they wear guns perhaps now we're giving them tanks leftover military equipment right now we have hostage rescue teams swap teams hostage rescue team and the FBI swap team and the local police departments which are based on special forces in the military they're all connected they all know one another when something is performed in the public in the public official way it's subject to vigilance and controls and limitations and professionalism people we learned from the dirick chauvin trial that police are trained in the application of force there is a rational training method for applying force because the police often are facing military type situations with people where you know they they're assassinated that happened here in honolulu actually and so there it's a question of perspective of training of political acceptance by the body politic versus again over the line you have the irregulars you have the ideologies which are new and creative and focus on mandate for violence mandated by a power above and beyond a god and you have control by a secretive group only as the committees and correspondents set their own rules they're not the rules we live by they're different rules and you have a political agenda which is to divide and to foment chaos and revolution to destroy the existing system in any way possible by recruiting people by influencing people by giving them lethal weapons by telling them that you are the sons of liberty in the current generation and wearing the symbols of the boston tea party in the gatson flag don't tread on me which is from the war i believe in 1812 and and you go back and you influence people in this way to make them think they are freedom fighters you know one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter so it's again the gun is an instrument when it's employed by those with a lethal ideology then it's an instrument of terror when supplied by those who are abiding by rules that we all conventionally accept then it's it's a tool to maintain stability and peace gene well it's just i want to ask you for final i'm gonna ask you a question okay because gene is thoughtful and rational it's a broad view of the world i would like every american to tell me why any american needs they are victim it is a simple question there's no there's no good answer for that there it's no good answer and that it is it is in the dna of the country that this is happening it isn't like for example it is but it's a it's a matter of establishing public safety and public good and that may require the old tradition that the states i mean ever since weapons began the state made an effort to monopolize the means of coercion the differences were supposed to have a democratic state but as soon as there were handguns in europe they were laws regulating them one of the reasons you can go to england and have a great time seeing the castles is that the armories were established romeo and juliet is all about what happens when two families who don't like each other have what for the time was a weapon of mass destruction which was the sword in the street killing each other so gene is absolutely right about it being a tool but it is a tool whose only purpose is to fire an excessive amount of bullets at a rapid rate accurately and there is no no good reason there is no reason to go to horbat for anybody to have that now will that end extremism no it will not an end extremism but if you believe in economics and how much people are willing to put into something and what the cost of something is it's going to be a hell of a lot more difficult to do a lot of things that people would like to do if they didn't have these weapons if they didn't have the military training to use them i mean don't you find it odd that everybody wears camouflage shorts see for me that is an an oddity in a liberal society and it is almost equivalent to carrying weapons it is the militarization of clothing why would you wear camouflage shorts to the beach what are you what are you saying are you saying that the military military clothing it's attractive you're making a statement gene let me ask you the last question because we have to go soon and that is um you know if we take weapons out of the formula if we somehow get congress and the state legislators state legislatures to to ban or seriously limit weapons outside of government you know just hypothetically would that would that solve the problem peter suggests it will no i said we'd not solve the problem we'd not solve the problem how do you feel about it well in 1866 alfred novell invented dynamite which made bombing possible which made international terrorism possible and started off the four waves in the late 19th century in 1866 he invented dynamite and and with the anarchists in russia and then of course it came to the united states with many markets and all that um so there's always uh it's the way you wield the weapon i mean that made bombings possible it made mass murder possible why do we have the nobel prize today because alfred novell felt so guilty of what he unleashed on society which was a map weapon of mass destruction and we see bombings today what they have resulted in um the sword the sword was employed uh after 9 11 to terrorize people through the executions remember the the quote beetles in iraq the british Arabs that were were cutting off the heads of their hostages that you know it's not the number of people that are killed in this case it's the the video of it to the world and the terror insights and other people's hearts so they're using the sword in a in a different way in a in a way that that goes beyond the rules of war it's their own rules which they love so you can have anything as a weapon the gallows that was set up in in front of the white house uh in front of the capital on jen on january 6 was an image of terror because it was then associated with the threat to mike pence and also it was associated with the turner diaries and the uh seen in the terror diaries where they set up uh gallows from lampposts in los angeles near ucla to execute professors and liberals that associated with blacks and other peoples so the gallows becomes a symbol and it becomes something larger than itself it's not a weapon but the threat of a weapon and then the intent and and the political intent to use it well this goes this goes to peter's point that taking the weapons away may not solve the problem if you can suggest that there there are other ways to hurt people and kill people um you know what you guys so uh we're out of time i we could go on and i want to go on and i hope we can gene is this okay we can schedule another show with you i like that uh we continue this conversation because you know the world around us is changing and thus the conversation is changing thank you gene and thank you peter hopper thank you very much great discussion here on history is here to help and it does thank you very much


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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss Kyle Pearson's Coefficient of Correlation. This is a mathematical method for measuring correlation. It is also known as quantitative method of measuring correlation between two variables. It has been given by Kyle Pearson so it is known as Pearson's Coefficient of Correlation and it is denoted by the symbol rho of xy. This formula is based on the concept of covariance. So let us discuss covariance first. It will be variable x, x1, x2, x3 up to xn and another variable y takes the value of y1, y2, y3 up to yn. Then the covariance between the two variables x and y is given by covariance of xy is equal to x1 minus x bar into y1 minus y bar plus x2 minus x bar into y2 minus y bar plus and so on up to x1 minus x bar into yn minus y bar whole upon m where x bar and y bar denotes the arithmetic means of the two series. That is x bar is given by x1 plus x2 plus and so on up to xn whole upon m y bar is equal to y1 plus y2 plus and so on up to yn whole upon m. That is covariance of xy can also be written as 1 by m into summation of xi minus x bar into yi minus y bar where I go from 1 to m. Covariance of xy can also be written as 1 by m into summation of ds into dy where ds is equal to xi minus x bar and dy is equal to yi minus y bar. When we divide covariance by the product of the individual standard deviations the coefficient obtained is called the correlation coefficient. Therefore, Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation denoted by r of rho of xy is equal to covariance of xy upon sigma x into sigma y and we know that covariance of xy can be written as summation of ds into dy by m upon sigma x into sigma y which is equal to summation of ds into dy upon n into sigma x into sigma y. Since we know that the value of sigma x is equal to square root of summation of dx square by m and the value of sigma y is equal to square root of summation of dy square by m. Therefore, Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation at r of xy is equal to summation of dx into dy by m into square root of summation of dx square by m into square root of summation of dy square by n which is equal to summation of dx into dy upon square root of summation of dx square into summation of dy square where dx is equal to xi minus x bar and dy is equal to yi minus y bar. Are the deviations taken from the aftering mean? This formula is called first formula. It is also called product moment method. As it is based on summation of dx into dy by m that is product of the deviation of the observations from the mean. This method is useful when arithmetic means are in whole numbers or integers and the coefficient of correlation are lies from minus 1 to plus 1. Now we are going to discuss second formula for coefficient of correlation r without using deviations from mean that is by directly using the values of xi and yi. As we know that summation of xi minus x bar the whole square is equal to summation of xi square minus twice of xi into x bar plus x bar square which is equal to summation of xi square minus twice of x bar into summation of xi plus n times x bar square which is equal to summation of xi square minus 2 into x bar and x bar can be written as summation of xi by n into summation of xi plus n times x bar square which is equal to n into summation of xi by n dy square which is equal to summation of xi square minus twice of summation of xi square by n plus n into summation of xi square by n square which is equal to summation of xi square minus twice of summation of xi by square by n plus summation of xi by whole square by n which is equal to summation of xi square minus of summation of xi by whole square by n so, the value of summation of xi minus x bar by whole square is equal to summation of xi square minus summation of xi by whole square by n Similarly summation of y i minus y bar divided by square is equal to summation of y i square minus summation of y i divided by square by m. Therefore summation of x i minus x bar into y i minus y bar is equal to summation of x i into y i minus of x i into y bar minus of y i into x bar plus x bar into y bar which is equal to summation of x i into y i minus of y bar into summation of x i minus of x bar into summation of y i plus summation of x bar into y bar which is equal to n times x bar into y bar. As we know that x bar is equal to summation of x i by m which implies that summation of x i is equal to n into x bar and y bar is equal to summation of y i by m which implies that summation of y i is equal to n into y bar. So we have summation of x i into y i minus of y bar into summation of x i which is equal to n into x bar minus of x bar into summation of y i which is equal to n into y bar plus n into x bar into y bar which is equal to summation of x i into y i minus of 2 into m into x bar into y bar plus n into x bar into y bar which is equal to summation of x i into y i minus of n into x bar into y bar which is equal to summation of x i into y i minus of n into x bar which is equal to summation of x i by m into y bar which is equal to summation of y i by n. So the value of summation of x i minus x i into y i minus y i is equal to summation of x i into y i minus of summation of x i into summation of y i by n. I goes from 1 to n and we know that cancels in coefficient of correlation r is given by summation of dx into dy upon square root of summation of dx square into summation of dy square where dx is given by x i minus x y and dy is given by y i minus y y. Therefore cancels in coefficient of correlation r or rho of x y is given by summation of x i minus x y into y i minus y y where i goes from 1 to n whole upon square root of summation of x i minus x y square where i goes from 1 to n into square root of summation of y i minus y y by d rho square where i goes from 1 to n. Now we know that summation of x i minus x y into y i minus y y is equal to summation of x i into y i minus of summation of x i into summation of y i by n. Also summation of x i minus x y d rho square is given by summation of x i square minus summation of x i d rho square by n and summation of y i minus y by d rho square is equal to summation of y i square minus summation of y i d rho square by n. After substituting all these values in the above formula we get the coefficient of correlation r or rho x y is given by summation of x i into y i minus of summation of x i into summation of y i by n whole upon square root of summation of x i square minus summation of x i d whole square by n into square root of summation of y i square minus summation of y i d whole square by n. Simply we can write it as r or rho of x y is equal to summation of x into y minus of summation of x into summation of y by n whole upon square root of summation of x square minus of summation of x d whole square by n into square root of summation of y square minus of summation of y d whole square by n where x and y stand for the values of items in x and y series and n is the number of observations. Now we shall discuss how to calculate coefficient of correlation when the deviations are taken from an assumed mean. If the value worth are large involved fraction arithmetic mean is in fractions computation of the correlation coefficient is simplified considering the deviations from u i and v i of the value worth x i and y i that is the assumed means a and b respectively for the values of x and y that is if u i is equal to x i minus a is equal to y i minus b then rho of x y which is given by summation of x i into y i minus of summation of x i into summation of y i by n whole upon square root of summation of x i square minus of summation of x i d whole square by n into square root of summation of y i square minus of summation of y i be square by m. u i is equal to x i minus a implies that the value of x i is equal to u i plus a. Similarly, v i is equal to y i minus b implies that the value of y i is equal to v i plus b. Now substituting the values of x i and y i in this formula we get. Now we know that x i is equal to u i plus a and y i is equal to v i plus b.  Also we have summation of xi into summation of yi which is equal to summation of ui plus a into summation of vi plus b which is equal to summation of ui plus summation of a that is N into a into summation of vi plus summation of b which is equal to n into b. Therefore we get summation of ui into vi plus n into b into summation of ui plus n into a into summation of vi plus n square into a into b. The value of summation of xi into summation of yi by n is equal to summation of ui into vi by n plus b into summation of ui plus a into summation of vi plus n into a into b. Therefore the value of the expression summation of xi into yi minus summation of xi into summation of yi by n is equal to summation of ui into vi minus summation of ui into vi by n. And similarly we can find the value of the expression square root of summation of xi square minus summation of xi y square by n into square root of summation of yi square minus summation of yi p whole square by n. And hence we get the value of rho of u vi summation of ui into vi where i goes from 1 to n minus rho 1 by n into summation of ui where i goes from 1 to n into summation of vi where i goes from 1 to n whole upon square root of summation of ui square where i goes from 1 to n minus rho 1 by n into summation of ui the whole square where i goes from 1 to n into square root of summation of vi square where i goes from 1 to n minus of 1 by n into summation of vi the whole square where i goes from 1 to n which can also be written as rho of ui is equal to summation of u into vi minus of summation of u into summation of vi by n whole upon square root of summation of u square minus summation of u the whole square by n into square root of summation of v square minus of summation of v the whole square by n where u is equal to x minus a and v is equal to y minus b where a and b are the assumed means and n is the number of observations. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.


So I'm Second Lieutenant Grace Nielsen and I'm from the 135 Armored Battalion here at Fort Bliss. So right now I'm currently one of the female engagement teams OICs and I currently work the night shift from 01 to 1300. We understand that for females it's not necessarily common for them to approach male soldiers or have male soldiers approach them. So to make it easier for them we provide these female liaisons and personnel so that they can approach us with any issues that they have, any concerns, and just building that community outreach with the females and families in Donoana Complex. So it's mainly cultural differences which is understandable. A lot of these people for their entire lives as well as hundreds of years of cultural understanding it's very different from America in how we operate. So we have to understand from their perspective the cultural shock that they're going through but mainly how we mitigate these issues. A lot of it is sometimes we have older female guests here that may react negatively to the younger female guests in the way that they dress because they come from different regions. Afghanistan is very diverse in ethnic groups as well as tribes. So how we mitigate that is we're having female community engagements and those are every Thursday with only females and then on Mondays it's males and females. I'm specialist Kiana Santamaria and I'm from 377. Well I personally have noticed that the females at the beginning when I first came they weren't really coming out of the tents they were kind of really to themselves and then once as the days went on that we've seen the female interaction go way up so they're actually communicating with us and willing to come out and play or talk to us. The females have come up to us asking us if we're able to get them certain feminine products and we've passed it up through the chain of command to get those and we actually have a station set up with the medics at their station for them to be able to get those products. It's an amazing feeling to have these children you know like with the language barrier we don't know what they're saying they don't know what we're saying but they're always so excited to see us and that honestly like for some of us it fills our hearts because we know that they see us as a positive role model for them.


Hello again, this is Jim at the House of Poo Corner again, and we are still continuing our discussions about money in particularly and in particular how money is created and monetary reform and how to use alternative currencies and everything associated with that and how that is so much more preferable to the debt money that we are accustomed to with the Federal Reserve note. So we have a particular example today that has a very interesting history. And our guest, Wayne Hicks, is going to be telling us about that particular kind of money called the Liberty Dollar, and its history. I have a few of the original ones at home, and Wayne Hicks will show you some of the ones that they are issuing now. You may be aware of the Liberty Dollar, you may know something about its history, but you're going to know a lot more in a few minutes. And after we have spoken about the current uses of the Liberty Dollar, which as I understand is even reaching international proportions, we will then talk about how it can be exchanged and how it can be integrated into an organization called the USA Republic, which we have spoken about before with John Root. So here we go, and thank you so much, Wayne Hicks, for being our guest. And off we go. So tell us a little bit about yourself and your relationship to the Liberty Dollar. Well, thank you for having me, Jim. I'm just an old guy who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Back when Bernard Von Notehouse created the original Liberty Dollar back in 1998, I happened to be involved a little bit in the Patriot movement, and I was doing some journalistic work at the time. And I stumbled across the Liberty Dollar and got very interested. So I contacted Bernard and managed to interview him on my internet radio program at the time, and he was just a delightful guest to interview. He had a number of wonderful stories to tell and the enthusiasm he had for the Liberty Dollar was just absolutely contagious. So contagious that I decided I wanted to get involved with it, and I did. So in 2003, I was in a little town called Berryville, Arkansas, and I was starting to introduce people to the Liberty Dollar. And I got creative. I started doing a little advertising on the local radio stations and going out and talking to the merchants around the area. And within just a few months, I had every merchant in town, except for the big stores, like, you know, those big box guys, but every merchant in town was taking it just like cash and loving it and giving it back in change. And people were happily accepting it and going back and spending it again and again and again. So it was circulating just like any other money. Well, I happened to be talking to Bernard on the phone, and I told him, I said, I got the whole town taking it. He said, you're lying. I said, no, seriously, the whole town takes it. So he came to see me in Berryville.  He bought Gasper's car. He took me out to lunch at two different restaurants. We had to eat lunch twice that day because he just wanted to see that he could actually spend Liberty Dollars anywhere in town. And he did. And it began spreading even outside of Berryville. So a good part of Northwest Arkansas was taking it. Well, Bernard got so excited. He said, you've got to teach other people how to do this. So we created what we call Liberty Dollars University. And the people from all over the country would fly into Northwest Arkansas and spend a week in Berryville with me. And I put on a little class to teach them how to emulate what I'd done and get it into circulation. But when I got started with it, Bernard said he had $5 million in circulation. Two years later, after we'd launched the Liberty Dollars University, there were $5 million in circulation. And that's when the government decided to take notice. Now, up until that point, there was actually an extension on the, I believe it was the Treasury Department phone number, that if you called the number, and it was actually our local police chief who told me about this, if you called the Treasury Department or Secret Service, one of them, and listened to their menu, you would say, if you're talking about this, press two. If you're talking about that, press three. If you're talking about the Liberty Dollar, press seven. So I called it, and I listened, and I pressed seven. And it said, the Liberty Dollar is a perfectly lawful alternative currency. It is backed by silver and issued by an organization known as Norifest. That's where all his stuff cracked me up. So I murdered and I told him about it. A couple of days after that, I happened to be sitting in my office listening to Paul Harvey on the radio, when Paul Harvey starts talking about the Liberty Dollar and how it was offering competition to the Federal Reserve. Everything to snowballed at that point, but then a few months later, the U.S. Justice Department issued a statement that it was illegal to possess or use Liberty dollars. That wasn't true. It was not illegal to own them. It was not illegal to use them, except for one little flaw. That flaw resulted in our offices being raided, right along with a bunch of others at the time, including the, I remember you might remember, E-Gold and E-Bullion. Everybody got raided around the same time. Can you repeat? Can you please? They confiscated all the Liberty dollars. I'm sorry? Can you please repeat what you said the flaw was because we had a gap in the sound? You said except for one little flaw. I was getting to that. After the raid, the government decided they were going to prosecute Bernard and several of his employees for counterfeiting. Even though it didn't look like anything like regular money, even though nobody ever thought it was regular money, they got a couple of people to say they were confused and that was their evidence of counterfeiting. Well, when it got to trial, it turned out that most of the counterfeiting charge was dismissed. The only thing they didn't dismiss was 18 USC 486 makes it a crime for anyone to make, utter or pass any coin of gold, silver or any other metal for use as money. That means whatever you're using in the local area to spend. So that's what they finally ultimately convicted Bernadette of was simply using silver in commerce. The paper warehouse receipts, the court said, were perfectly lawful. And any of the silver Liberty coins that were issued prior to 2008, the court said were lawful because the Justice Department did not make its ruling before they were issued. Once they were issued, however, everything 2008 and anything later would be considered contraband and could not be possessed. So that was that was quite a blow to the free market money movement. But Bernadette's not a guy you put down easily. He appealed his conviction. The government wanted to put him in prison for 17 to 23 years. The judge, however, Judge Richard L. Voorhees, federal judge, was smarter than they were. He said in his decision, there's, it was obvious to him that Bernadette never intended to violate any law. He had consulted with attorneys about what he was doing. And those attorneys had had advised him that he was perfectly lawful. But they were in error because they didn't consider 14 a, or excuse me, 18 USC 486. When they did, they told Bernadette that simply meant he couldn't call it a coin. Well, that wasn't the case that said it could not issue a coin or bar of gold, silver, or any other metal. So it didn't matter what he called it. It was still in violation of that code. That was the problem as far as the Liberty dollar was concerned. But the judge said he knew that Bernadette didn't intend to violate that law or any other and therefore refused to sentence him to prison. Instead, he sentenced him to three years of probation with six months of house arrest. And that was the end of it. In fact, it ended even sooner when the same judge after the first year of probation decided that was enough and eliminated the other two years and let Bernadette go free. Now that to me is a very inspiring story. Bernadette wasn't done. He, he knew that there was still a lot to do about the free market money movement. And he kept talking and writing and telling people about it. His son, Extra, created a cryptocurrency a couple of years ago called Liberty dollar to it's still in its infancy and then perhaps one of these days it'll actually get somewhere. But then one day he was going out on a tour around the country and I hadn't defined his phone number and I called him and said, well, you know, it'd be nice to get together again. Well, these days he said, yeah, he said, I'd love to. He said, but you know, I'm getting ready to head out on a trip around the country, but I won't have time to stop through Arkansas. I said, well, that's okay because I don't live in Arkansas anymore. I live in Florida. He said, Florida, so do I. And he decided he was going to make his first stop on his tour at our house. And he came by a few days later and sat and visited for a couple of hours. We had a wonderful time with him being my wife, Kathy. And then he went out on his tour around the country and visited friends for about a month. And then he decided he was going to make his last stop back at our house. So on October 1st of 2018, 20 years to the day after he launched the original Liberty Dollar, Bernard stopped at our house. And before I knew what was happening, he had gotten my wife, Kathy, so excited about Liberty Dollars that she agreed to relaunch them as the Liberty Dollar Network. And now I work for her as a consultant just trying to help her make the Liberty Dollar what it's supposed to be. That's our history. Wow, well that's a wonderful story. Now I have a question. The Liberty Dollars that I have have a little touch of silver in them. Was that one of the problems that the legal system was throwing at Bernie? No, that was not considered using actual silver because you can't scrape enough silver off of a hundred of those to actually have more to make a value. So that didn't really matter. It was just silver coins that they went after, the silver liberties. All right. And I've never seen one of those, but they were in plentiful circulation in your town, in Arkansas at the time. We used both. And they were all over the country. We have people to this day that contact us because those certificates were redeemable in silver. Those paper certificates were redeemable in silver. And Bernie was still redeeming them to this day. He's still distributing the silver to people who have them. And a lot of times they contact us to try to find out how to reach Bernard. So one thing that you mentioned on a phone call with those of us at the USA Republic, and ladies and gentlemen, we'll talk a little bit more about that and how you can get in touch with me if you're interested further in the USA Republic. And you mentioned that there is now a warehouse somewhere, I forget. In Arkansas, I guess, a warehouse of goods which are exchangeable for liberty dollars. Can you talk a little bit more about that? Well, here in Florida, and we have launched the Liberty Dollar General Store, which is an online e-commerce store that accepts liberty dollars for its merchandise. Okay. We've also got another thing coming soon. It's called the Republic Trust Marketplace, which will allow people to sell their own wares for liberty dollars. All right. So what was that site again, the website? It's libertydollargeneral.com. All right. Okay. That's easy to remember because of Dollar General, which has come up like mushrooms everywhere. I think sooner or later they're going to notice us and get mad that we kind of played off of there. But until they do, we're going to use it. Well, except that you had the term liberty dollar long before they did. They did. And so by adding the word general, yeah, we'll see whether people get confused. But it helps you both. Yeah. That's one of the reasons why I'm sometimes confused about these ridiculous lawsuits. When both parties are helped, when another party comes in with a basically unrelated product that sort of uses the name. But anyway. It would be nice if we could take calls on this program because in particular with this issue, I would think a lot of people have calls, have questions along the way. But unfortunately, we aren't able to do that. So we will try to think of questions that people might want to ask. Can you tell us a little bit about the extent, the breadth of the reach of Liberty dollars? The original Liberty dollars, they were spreading around the world pretty well. We're just getting good and started. We've been up a little over a year now, and we do have we have members in other countries. But we've got members in, oh, let me think, Mexico, Ireland, Germany. We've got one lady in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates that is just a Liberty dollar fan. I know there are others. Oh, Australia. We've got somebody in Australia. We've got we've got people from all over the world that are interested in trying to get them into circulation and how we've had a break up again. How does the word trust fit into what we're talking about? Because we we operate in the private side rather than the public. The Liberty dollar network is a common law business trust. It's not a corporation. It was an LLC. We disbanded that and became a common law trust. We also have the Republic Trust, RepublicTrust.com, and that's Republic with a K on the end. So R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-K Trust.com. And that is our exchange service. It operates similarly to a bank, but for Liberty dollars only at the moment. The you mentioned earlier, the replicas will be introduced through the Republic Trust and will be exchangeable with Liberty dollars. It's just a great website, a great program that helps people out. For instance, if you've got local merchants in your town that take Liberty dollars and they take in the paper certificates, but they need it to be converted to the electronic in order to make purchases through the internet, they can literally go to the nearest Republic Trust office and essentially deposit those paper certificates into their accounts. And then they've got electronic Liberty dollars, or ELD as we call it, that they can use through the internet to make purchases anywhere. Likewise, if they've got more ELD and they need the paper, they can go there and make a withdrawal. Alright, so this Liberty dollar that you just mentioned that is digital, will that morph, as it were, into the crypto currency that your son is working on? There will obviously be some relationship between the two. Well, no, the Liberty dollar to that's Bernard's son that created that is entirely separate from the Liberty dollar network. It's two different entities where we're not combined at all. The the electronic Liberty dollars, we are not using cryptocurrency specifically because their crypto currency crypto mining as they call it, literally creates coins out of thin air. And when you have a currency that's backed by a commodity, you can't risk that happening. We can't keep extra silver or commodities sitting around to back the new currency that appears out of thin air. So we don't get involved in crypto at all. We're strictly a digital alternative currency. Alright, so that cryptocurrency will float in value the way Bitcoin floats in value? Anything crypto is likely to do that, yes. Ours is backed by the value of an ounce of silver at $25 per ounce. So if you've got $25 in ELD or in paper certificates, you've got an ounce of silver. When the price of silver goes up, we can adjust the base so that you don't lose any spending power. Alright, so in the USA Republic, each state has the right to create its own state currency, which will be spent for taxes and fees and whatever. That's a distant future, perhaps. Hopefully it's sooner than later. That is different than the Liberty Dollar because the Liberty Dollar, at least at this point, cannot be spent for any governmental fee, tax, service, or anything else. Is that correct? That's correct at this time. However, the nation states in the Republic can choose to use any currency they want to. So because of the stability of the Liberty Dollar, we anticipate it being widely accepted through the nation states. So you would think that many of the nation states, and we'll define that for you in a minute, folks. It goes back to the Articles of Confederation, and anyway. We've sort of already defined that with John Root earlier, and you know John Root, Wayne. So where was I? Okay, so different states will probably choose the Liberty Dollar because of the different currencies that we've spoken about on telephone conversations. Among those, the Liberty Dollar seems to be the one that's most palatable, I would say, to people who are in commerce. Would you agree with that? Because it has a stable value. There's always a value behind it. It can always be redeemed for something that we've got in the warehouse that they want. And you may or may not know, Wayne, that I'm a monetary historian. And I've read David Graber's book, Debt the First 5,000 Years, and I followed the creation of money for 5,000 years and the creation of debt for 5,000 years. And any currency in my book, any currency that escapes the web of debt, attracts my interest greatly. And could you tell us a little bit about how the Liberty Dollar is definitely different than the Federal Reserve note and how it is or isn't outside of the Federal Reserve system, which is a debt system? Of course, the Liberty Dollar has an intrinsic value. There's something backing every Liberty Dollar that's issue has something backing it. The difference I like to cite is that Liberty Dollars are backed by silver and the value of silver. The Federal Reserve notes are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government and I don't give them any credit and I don't have a whole lot of faith in them either. But the way we're outside the Federal Reserve debt cycle is very simple. The only debt involved in Liberty Dollars is that when someone brings into our warehouse an item to bail in and we give them Liberty Dollar warehouse receipts in exchange for it, we have a debt responsibility to them that whoever brings in those certificates can redeem the item in the warehouse. That's the only debt involved in Liberty Dollars. So there's no interest involved in that? There's no interest or compound interest. We do have a bailment fee. When we bail things in there is a bailment fee. It's just a flat 15% of the value and basically what that allows us to do is for instance say someone wanted to buy a car. They can bail in the title of the car. We're going to charge that 15% bailment fee. We're going to give them the Liberty Dollars that they need to go pay for that car and then over time they're going to redeem that title. They're going to make payments back to the Republic Trust to redeem that title. People say well the bailment fee is like interest. It is in a sense but it's a flat rate interest. It doesn't compound every year. There's a big difference between a fee and interest by the way folks. Yes. And I'm very much interested in that because the person's got the car. You've got the title. The person's got the car but that person isn't paying interest on exorbitant interest on a car loan in the meantime. Right. Okay. So that's a wonderful system. We have a program for instance for helping small start-up businesses. We can take a security interest in their future and generate Liberty Dollars against that. They have the responsibility to redeem that interest. In other words to pay it off. But it can generate the money they need to get a small business started things like that. Well at some point maybe in the next half hour we can talk about the Franklin Mint and the way Benjamin Franklin created money with his colonial script based on land and farming and that sort of thing. That fascinates me. We have two minutes left in this first segment and hopefully people will be joining us for part two. This is part one part two will be coming up and we are talking with Wayne Hicks about the Liberty Dollar. How it was created and how it survived to this day and how it is expanding because of its commercial value I would say and you could add to that. Is there a value behind it either philosophically or whatever beyond the commercial value? We already got collectors who are often willing to pay more to get their hands on some of our warehouse receipts than the face value. That's happened a couple of times already. So the fact that it's a secure form of money has really caught people's interest. And there's no there's no central bank that has issued it. There's no central bank that has lent it. There's no central bank that is collecting interest or compound interest on it. So it circulates I would say more honestly well much more honestly than a Federal Reserve note because that's most people don't know that the piece of paper you're holding in your hand if you have a Federal Reserve note represents a debt. And it's very hard very hard to explain that to people. But the Liberty the Liberty dollar it looks like at least once it really gets going will not represent a debt. It will resent a credit and a debit. But that's not the same thing as debt. So there's something in the warehouse securing the value of that Liberty dollar. Well thank you folks. House the true corner with Jim Hogue. See you in a minute.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome. If you're new here, my name is Jen I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers blue plan It's Wednesday. So it's another what I eat in a day on WW I have a fantastic full day of eating for you a really good dinner recipe a haul and some new fun things to share with you Including a brand new snack that I over the last couple weeks have become obsessed with so I can't wait to jump into today's video So if you're excited give it a big huge thumbs up and don't forget if you're new or you're not yet subscribed to my channel I'd love to have you just hit the subscribe button and don't forget to ring the bell right next to it You never miss a single video. 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I made some avocado toast I used one slice of the trader joe's sourdough bread and then I added the entire cup of the kirkland Chunky guacamole. This is so good topped it with two ounces or one serving of the trader joe's Uncured black forest ham and then one full egg. I did warm the ham up in the microwave. Just so it's nice and warm I'm so excited for this and then of course you saw me add a little bit of blueberries and blackberries So my points for this breakfast are two points for the bread three for the avocado makes five One point for the ham makes six eggs or zero fruit is zero. So this is a six Smart point breakfast. 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These are so good So this is what they look like so you can see those little crunchy squares The almonds and then those delicious chocolate covered espresso beans and this is a lot for only four smart points So with this my snack is five points Here's my lunch for today. It is after one o'clock those utopia snacks held me over until a lot later for lunch So I have an open-faced tuna sandwich here, of course Once again, I have one slice of the trader joe's sourdough sliced bread and then I added just a couple leaves of butter lettuce I took this pack of tuna here and I just added one tablespoon of light mayonnaise and a little bit of pepper And some relish mix that together and then topped it on the lettuce And then I have one serving of these snack factory pretzel crisps and garlic parmesan That is 10 pieces or so so that's one serving of that And then three small cuties from imperfect foods that I definitely need to eat up So I added those as well So it is two points for the bread one point for the mayo makes my tuna sandwich only three points Three points for the pretzel zero for the cuties six smart points And just so you guys know water water check here I have a little less than half of my gallon of water to go for the day So that's lunch my boxy charm is here one of my favorite times of the month I love getting this whole box of makeup and beauty for $25 a month This little card here tells you what came in your box and the retail price First up is the glow recipe banana souffle moisturizing cream It says it's soothing lightweight moisturizer that seals in hydration without clogging pores This right here retails for $39. 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I'm making dorito casserole So this is a mexican inspired dish filled with and topped with doritos So for tonight's dinner, you're going to need a packet of taco seasoning minced onion or you can use a fresh onion light sour cream garlic one pound of 96 ground beef light shredded cheese doritos, of course black beans if desired and a can of rotel and some frozen corn The first thing you're going to do is add your pound of ground beef and your onions to a skillet And we're going to start cooking this through in the meantime Mince your garlic and have that ready To a bag I added 36 doritos and I'm just going to crush those with my hands Until they're the consistency of a breadcrumb Here is where we're going to add in the garlic and allow that to cook down with the rest of the meat until brown Once your hamburger is cooked all the way through. We're going to add in the can of rotel a packet of taco seasoning 12 ounces of frozen corn and your can of drained and rinsed black beans And then we're going to stir this together. We just want to make sure everything gets combined Allow it to cook for just a couple of minutes. You want to let those flavors just start to melt I added one cup of light sour cream and we're going to add two cups of light shredded cheese We're going to turn the heat off or remove it from the heat and mix this all together before adding it to our baking dish I'm going to add about half of this bag of crushed doritos to the casserole mix. This looks so delicious I went ahead and sprayed my nine by 13 baking dish Once I stir in the chips we'll be adding all of this to the baking dish and I have my oven preheating at 350 degrees I'm going to go ahead and pop this in the 350 degree oven for about five minutes or so We just want to make sure this gets nice and warmed through go ahead and pull out the casserole We're going to top it with one cup of light cheese and we're going to put it back in the oven for about another 10 minutes We want the cheese to melt and it to finish warming all the way through all right dinners out of the oven This looks delicious. It smells delicious. So I'm going to divide this into eight servings each serving is eight points on blue And purple and 11 on green just because you have to count for the corn And then if you would like you can top it with some light sour cream That's what I'm going to do So let me serve up my plate and I'll be back and show you what a serving size looks like and give you the calories So here is my dinner. That's one eighth of the casserole. So it's a pretty good size Again, it is eight points on blue and purple and 11 on the green plan 347 calories last glass of water and my gallon is done It is currently a quarter to six. So for dessert tonight, we're going to keep things simple My dinner was so filling and delicious that I'm actually going to have one of these Sour patch kids watermelon ice cream pops that I picked up at the Dollar Tree stay tuned For a full review of these they're 45 calories two smart points Thank you for joining me on another what I eat a day on w w I hope you enjoyed coming along with me today seeing all of my delicious food That dinner recipe is a must must make and again, that is in the description box on my recipe website Don't forget to check out the utopia snacks. So good. I like I said I am obsessed and the clarifying which is a great thing to have to just freshen up the air in your home Especially if you have pets. 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