What's going on everybody? My name is Alex Friedberg and in today's video we're going to be discussing the top five reasons why you should not become a data analyst. Now I am all four people becoming data analysts I think is a fantastic career and a great job to have but there are some people who just should not be data analysts. Many years ago when I was first starting college I really wanted to become a doctor and so I went to school to become a doctor and started taking all the classes and investing a lot of time in order to make that happen and then I got my first internship at an actual hospital and let me tell you that changed my mind completely on what I wanted to do with my life because I realized I did not handle blood well and apparently that's something that you kind of need to handle well in order to become a doctor and so I was kind of out of crossroads of whether or not I really wanted to continue in that profession or wanted to look elsewhere and so if you're wondering if you should become a data analyst here are some of the things that I think you should look out for for reasons why you might not want to become a data analyst. The first thing is that you're not a self-learner you may need a lot of instruction or a lot of help in order to do specific tasks and I think that might be a red flag for this career because you have to learn a ton on your own especially when you're first starting out and you're learning those core skills of SQL and Python and Excel you are gonna hit your head against your keyboard so many times because it is very difficult but you really need to put in the time and the effort to become really good at it and proficient at it and a lot of that time is going to be spent on your own actually learning it and not so much actually being taught it by somebody and you're also gonna have to do a lot of learning on the job even if you do learn those core skills every single company is different and they're gonna have lots of proprietary softwares or they're gonna use different softwares that you've just never used before and so you really just need to have that attitude of self-learning and being able to figure things out on your own. The second thing is you get frustrated very easily now there are a few things where my wife and I are very different and one of them is the way that we get frustrated and so I have the type of person who I like to try every single option before I actually start getting frustrated at something so take our baby for example the baby cries a lot and so when she's really fussy I will try to swaddle her I'll try to rock her I'll walk her around I'll walk her outside I'll do lots of different things that I know have worked in the past and then if all those things don't work I might get a little frustrated my wife will maybe try one or two of those things before she starts getting very frustrated and hands me the baby do not show my wife this video but it is true if you're gonna have a job as a data analyst you really need to have a high tolerance for frustration because you are going to run into a lot of stumbling blocks and a lot of issues along the way and if you don't take them in stride it can be very difficult to really accomplish what you're trying to get done whether that's debugging code or you're getting really frustrated because you can't get the right visualization or you're waiting on that coworker to send you something back that you've been waiting on for like three or four days that's really important but they just can't get it back to you those are all things that are going to be frustrating at times and so you really need to be able to take those in stride the third thing is you hate doing hours of manual work and I don't mean like building a house I mean more like you don't automate something and so you actually have to do it by hand in order to get it done so you're saving files you're working in excel and you're doing all the transformation of this data by hand every single time I mean these things can get really tedious at a previous job that I was working at I would spend almost three or four days on one report for a client at the beginning of every single month because it was such a huge thing to actually automate and work with the programmers to do we just decided it wasn't worth the investment so I had to do that every single month for three or four days and it was a lot of work it was a ton of manual work working in sequel and copying and pasting the data from sequel into excel and then building the pivot tables and all the visualizations from that data I really think I just didn't mind it because I was getting paid more than I thought I should be getting paid so I was just more than happy to do really whatever they needed me to do but to be honest it was a lot of manual work and I could easily see somebody getting frustrated at that kind of work the fourth thing is you don't like working with people there are almost no data analyst jobs I could imagine that you don't work with people a lot even if it's a completely remote job you're gonna have to be messaging and emailing and video chatting a ton of people every single day and so that is a really really core thing that you need to be good at which is communicating oftentimes you're going to be working on a team with managers or developers or other analysts just like you and so you're going to be working with people a lot and talking about deadlines and projects and tasks and all of these things you may also have to talk with clients about getting access to their data or resolving issues so again that's just more face-to-face time with clients or you may have to work with third-party vendors where you're either buying software from them or getting data from them in any case you're working with a lot of people and so if you don't like working with people in general this may not be the career for you number five which is our last one is thinking that you're going to get really rich by being a data analyst I think a lot of people look at the later stages of a career and see how much money they're making and think about all the money that they're going to make when they get into that career but the truth is oftentimes when you first start out you are not making a lot of money and you're not going to become rich quick oftentimes those mid-level or senior level positions do pay well but when you're first starting out or even up till five or even 10 years in you may be making under $70,000 I would not be expecting 120 or $150,000 anytime soon but the people who do make that much are really focused on building their skills and building their domain knowledge and then later on in their career they do make that much so I hope that this helped you and I hope that if any of those sound like you that you really think about if you want to become a data analyst before you invest the time effort and money and so it is a big investment and so I hope that this does help you in the long run. 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In this video, let us look at what is Peirman's rank correlation because we know the limitations of Peirson correlation coefficient. So, we see that Peirson correlation coefficient is not sensitive to nonlinear relationships. Also, for this kind of data, we can use other coefficient coefficients like Peirman's or Kendall's rank. Let us look at Peirman's in this course. I am not going to discuss Kendall's rank because there will be too much of talking about correlation only in this course. But let us have a feel of what is Peirman's rank correlation. Similar to Peirson's correlation coefficient, Peirman's rank correlation also varies between plus 1 and 2 minus 1 and exactly it is a negative sign indicates that the indirect relationship between x and y that is indirectly proportional. If x increases, y will decrease. If x increases, then y will decrease that is a negative sign. And the positive sign indicates if x increases, then y also will increase. So, directly proportional. And the values indicates the magnitude of relationship between x and y. If values more like 0.8 or 0.9 is strongly correlated, 0.2 indicates the correlation is bit weak. The first point of Peirson's correlation coefficient between ranks is called Peirman's rank correlation. Peirman's rank correlation is nothing but Peirson's correlation coefficient applied on ranks on the variables we use. So, we will discuss that in detail in the coming slides. So, let us look at that. So, rank of variables then do Peirson's or is exactly what Peirman's choice. Let us look at Sabin's students data and we have attendance and we have final marks out of this. First thing we have to do is let us take the, this is x consider this is x and this is the y. We will do the ranking of the available data like this is the least and maybe we can arrange it in ascending order. And this is the first rank, this is second rank, first is 45, second is 56, then 80, then 85, 90, 9500, those are ranks. Similarly, for the mass we can rank, this is the least value there I rank, so 1 and the rest is 2 and this is 3 and 4, 5, there are 2, 90. So, 6 and 7 we do not want to give, so we can put 6.5, 6.5. So, since we have a rank them, these variables are ranked. If you compute Peirson's or Ion this rank that gives you the Peirman's row. Peirman's row is, this is a row, the symbol is Peirman's row. Since I use a different font, it is like that otherwise it is just a row, there is no line below it, just a row. Peirman's row and is computed on the ranks of the, Peirson computed on the ranks of the variables. So, it is simple. That is other formula instead of using Peirson on this rank, the other formula is very easy. You compute the difference between these two ranks. So, the difference between these two ranks is 0, 0 and this is 1.5. It is 2.5. I am wrong. Then the calculation is very wrong. So, let us compute it again later. You can compute it on your set. So, the difference is 2.5 and it is 2 and it is 2 and this is 0.5 and this is 2. So, the values will be if you, I just did the motive because I just, if it is negative also I consider it is positive because I just want the absolute difference not the sign. For example, 2 minus 2, 0, 4 minus would be minus 0.2.5 but I just put 2.5 value and 3 will be minus and it will be positive. Doesn't matter. If you want to consider the square of this value, so whenever it is minus, it will be positive anyway. So, 0, 0, 0, 2.2, 5, 4, 4, 0.2, 5 and 4. So, you can use these values summation of this d square values and there is a formula to compute Peirman's row. It is actually the 1 minus 6 into summation of d square values n into n square minus 1. n is actually number of samples, it is 7 here and you can use this formula to compute Peirman's row. And this formula is a simplified formula of doing Peerson's or Runner-Rang. So, this is how you compute Peirman's row. So, let us look at a plot. The plot looks like this for these variables. There is a linear relationship, there is a good relationship from here to here. Let us look at the Peirman's row value and R value. The row is 0.74. The row is 0.74, this is not correct because I used 1.5 instead of 2.5. If you compute it, if you compute this value currently 2.5 square and you add that sum of it up and if you add it and compute in this particular formula, you might get a different value. If you use the difference in ranks and compute this and compute the Peirman's row using this particular formula, you will get this result. If you simply apply Peerson's or on this rank, you will get this value. This value, I will take it from the website, the website which will help you to compute Peirman's row for free. So, I used this data applied and I got this value. So, this value is not correct. You can compute it and compare. There is a small difference between the values you compute by applying this formula or applying a Peerson's or on this rank. So, I would request you to check what is Peirman's row in detail. But this is all the Peirman's row is computed. When we mean Peirman's row is computed by using rank, the variables then apply Peerson's or on the rank. This is what it means. You rank them, then you apply Peerson's or on that. So, here R indicates Peerson's correlation coefficient 0.84 is high correlation but Peirman is not saying it is high correlated because the relationship may not be linear or something is missing. So, let us see what is the exact difference between row and R in this slide. In this activity, I just want you to show how Peirman's row is sensitive to the outliers. So, now we saw this particular values in the previous slides. I changed two values that is for a max A, I changed this to 17 and for the high marks in A, I changed this 23. So, I made a two outliers out of this mark. I just changed myself to create two outliers because every other value is perfectly high score means high score in B, high score in A, high score equal to B. So, but I just changed these two values to show the outliers. Now, can you predict, do not need to compute it mathematically. Can you predict or guess what will be this Peirman's row for this plot? Also, what will be the R value like Peerson's correlation coefficient value of this plot and how it will differ? Can you guess it and how it will vary for outliers and everything. If you have done that, please watch in the video to continue. So, this Peirman's row for that particular is 0.81, but the correlation coefficient R is 0.34. Because it is outlier, the line tries to fit all the lines and there is a huge difference between the points and the line. So, the R value is going low, but row is good, row is not sensitive to that outlier. So, it can handle the outliers also. The rank value is used to compute the correlation. Why? Peirman's row is not that much sensitive because out of all 60 students data, only 2 data is not correct. For example, in that example 94 and 98. So, this will be highly ranked 59 and 60. And why the marks are 17 and 23? I just may not check it out. It is 79, 23. So, this might have been a rank number 1 and rank number 2. So, when you compute the difference between ranks, it might be say 58 and 58 and square of these values might be huge. But when compared to the other values, there are other 58 values which is closely related, you know, it is like highly related. Like all the ranks might be equal except these two ranks, so 1 or 2 values. So, there is a value and if you divide by 60 into 60 square minus 1, this value will be negligible. So, that Peirman's row is not much sensitive to the outliers like the Pearson correlation coefficient will do. The reason is we are ranking them, we are comparing on the rank, only the 2 values are not matched. So, we tried to compute the correlation coefficient as much as good based on how many numbers or how many values are highly correlated and it might ignore the outliers. So, hope you understand the relationship between how Peirman's row is computing the correlation in outliers. Also, the Pearson's correlation coefficient is computing concerned outliers when they compute the R value. Let us do the other activity just make it clear. You see x value in this plot is 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 or some scale between 1 to 10. But the y value is 1, 10, 100, 1000, 2000s like in the log scale or something. If it is 10,000, that means the logarithmic scale. And if I want to compute Peirman's rank correlation row and also or Pearson's correlation coefficient, what will be the values? No need to do computations, mathematical computations. Instead, based on your understanding till now, try to find out the correlation coefficient between these 2 variables. Maybe the linear relationship will now connect some lines like this and that might have some different points and experiments will do differently. Can you guess the row and R value after doing that? Please rush him to continue. The R is, I am sorry, the R value is 0.87 positive and it indicates it is highly correlated, but some points are not linearly related with x and y. If x increases, y also increases, but not fitting in that linear relationship, the linear line. But row indicates 1, it means for all the incremental in the x, y also increases. They may not be in the linear scale of increment, but there is an increment in x, there is y is incremental. So, 1 indicates whenever the x increases, y also increases, maybe the different scale, but there is a relationship, that is a row is 1. So, this indicates row can handle if one variable in a different scale, logarithmic scale and x in other scale, it can even able to identify the correlation coefficient, because we add a rank. You understand, right? So, if you compute the rank of the values in the previous plot, you get exactly a similar rank. So, all the ranks are same, if find a difference, it will be 0. So, you get 1 minus 0, it will be 1, that is how the row is computed. But the patient's correlation coefficient will try to indicate 0.87. So, I just want to show that in the previous slide. If you just compute the rank, the x rank will be rank of x will be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, rank of y will be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. So, if you find the difference between these two values, definitely it is 0 and 1 minus 0 by whatever value it will be 0. So, 1 minus 0 is 0. Or if you compute a patient's row on this value, kind of a self correlation, it will definitely 1. So, that is why the statements row is 1, but the R value is not when R value is trying to fit a line, maybe the line kind of trying to fit like this. There is a small difference between these lines, values in these lines, that is why it is 0.81. Hope you understand what is statements row and patient's correlation coefficient are. So, which one to choose is very, very important. And can I just go and use coefficient as the values to prove my algorithm or hypothesis or my inferences? I would like to say it is not the case. So, first always visualize your data. We show the figure diagnostic analysis means you should have done the descriptive antics also. Visualize the data and see is there any outlayer, what are the relationships between x and y, is x and y in the same scale or linearity, all these things, then you can choose which correlation coefficient you want to report. Most widely Pearson's correlation coefficient is used if it is values or both are nominal, it is good. If one of the values ordinal people use statements row. So, look at your data visualize since you know the math began both these correlations statements and Pearson, now you know which one to choose based on your data. So, visualize it and decide. And also consider non-linear relationship between these data, then pick the right correlation coefficient. If you are doing it show it why you are picking the right correlation coefficient explained to others and use that value. Most important is correlation it is not causation. Correlation indicates just what is the relationship between x and y. If yes increases is y also increasing or decreasing that is what the correlation is indicating. Never use correlation as a causation. It never tells that y increases because of yes increases. No, there is a correlation between these variables, but it never tells causation of y is increasing. So, never use the correlation coefficient values to prove your causation in your theory. So, in this video we saw what is Spearman's row and we also saw what is relationship between Spearman's row and Pearson's correlation coefficient. Hope you understood both. Thank you.


Hopefully this is the last little bit of negativity surrounding Super Mario 3D All-Stars, although not entirely Nintendo's fault, and this is something that commonly happens, seemingly at certain retailers, without fail. It's baffling to me that we in 2020 have not figured out a better way to not let this happen, but retailers are always trying to jump the gun. Before I get into it, we are giving away three copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars. Go to the Gleam.io link down in the description to enter for that. Winner announced October 1st, also we're giving away a Switch Lite, and then two second place winners get Nintendo Switch games of choice. We have a laundry list of ways to enter down below, including subscribing to the channel and a whole bunch of other stuff you guys can check out to enter for that contest as well. Winners for that are announced on October 1st as well. Alright, let's look at what's happening in the landscape of Super Mario 3D All-Stars. We've had quite a bit of news, or at least quite a bit of speculation, and quite a bit of interesting things. We know the game result this Friday. We know that its pre-orders are sold out basically everywhere, at least in the United States. There are still some retailers in other countries accepting pre-orders. We know that base.com, a UK retailer, cancelled all pre-orders because Nintendo couldn't guarantee them that they would get more games. The amount of stock they are getting are way lower, like extremely lower. They use the words woefully low in comparison. And we also know that other retailers are stating that they might get a second shipment, but they're not sure about a third shipment. We know Nintendo has officially stated that they are making this game available physically and digitally until March 31st. Some people are under the assumption that it just means a digital version is available to them physical and sooner. I have no idea. I would think Nintendo wants to keep the physical and stock at least through this holiday period, because that's a lot of sales that they would just be giving up for no reason. But what's worse is if you secured a pre-order, or there was a GameStop, which we linked the GameStop pre-order before, and Amazon pre-orders and stuff. We've linked the pre-order this game before. It's interesting because GameStop pre-orders are getting cancelled for some people, not everyone of course. This happens every time. Best Buy, Amazon, everyone, all the retailers that took pre-orders for this game are getting cancellations. I have seen several people contact me privately and freaking out that their pre-order is cancelled. What happens is Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target, Walmart, whatever, they take pre-orders and they take their pre-orders based on an expected amount of games they are going to get. They respect a certain amount of games sent to them. Nintendo might have gave them this expectation or the expectation is based on other prior big Nintendo game releases. So, they're able to gauge that, they can do also things like gauge the amount of views a trailer has to determine this is going to be a really popular game. Obviously, we know that the Super Mario 35th anniversary direct had millions upon millions of views. So, naturally, a lot of these people, a lot of these outlets, they go to order because they prepay for these games.  They assume, hey, if we order 100,000 copies of this game, we presume we're going to have 100,000 copies available for pre-order. Or they make a certain amount available for pre-order, a certain amount available for store shelves. And then it happens, Nintendo gets back to them and says, hey, we're not actually going to ship you your full order because we don't have enough. We didn't make enough. We don't think it's actually going to sell that much. And that leads to these retailers having to cancel pre-orders. Now, you could argue the retailers shouldn't take pre-orders until they can confirm how many copies they're going to get, but we all know retailers are in a race against each other to get your business. And not all games like 3D All-Stars are going to sell out. As an example, Agile Calamity is still readily available to pre-order at most retail outlets. I can't think of one that hasn't sold out yet. And there was a race to get that pre-ordered. You want to be one of the first companies to get those pre-orders up. There are companies attempting to take pre-orders for Xbox Series Xs and Ss, even though Microsoft has publicly stated they're not available to pre-order until the 22nd. So like any company that's taking pre-orders now is being a little shady. They don't even know how many units they're going to get. They might end up with one. So they shouldn't really be taking those pre-orders, and that's maybe why Microsoft put a date on it because they want to give time to give retailers an opportunity to know how many units they're going to have to even throw out for pre-orders. But that's a conversation for a different video. We'll be talking about Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 later today because I want to talk about, you know, which one of those systems I plan to get, why things you should consider when buying one, etc. But I am frustrated when you see these pre-orders get canceled. It happens every time. Any major game that's sold out is going to have a bunch of pre-orders canceled. So you wake up today. You wake up tomorrow. You wake up the day of launch. It might find an email sitting in your inbox saying, hey, sorry, we can't fulfill your order, or hey, this is almost worse. We know you're pre-ordered, but your shipment's been delayed until October. Your shipment's been delayed until November. They just give some tentative data on when they think they're going to have more copies in. Amazon does this sometimes. And it gets really frustrating. But this is where I remind you guys. I just did a video on this yesterday. It's where I have to remind you that if your pre-order got canceled, you don't need to panic yet. You don't need to panic. It doesn't mean you can't get a physical copy on launch. I'm going to keep singing this till the cows come home. Go to your local retail outlets on launch, be there when the store is open, and you might be able to nab a copy. Walmart especially will have copies on store shelves, at least when the store opens. I know right now because of the pandemic, they're not 24 hours. It's not like you can go in the store and wait. For Wii U, I was at 8 hours before midnight. I went in, I was first in line for a Wii U. Inside the store, I got to wait for it. It wasn't a big deal. I had a good time. I played some 3DS, I think, and whatever. I just had a lot of fun sitting there and conversing with the employees about Nintendo goodness, and then obviously other Nintendo fans as they came to line up for Wii U. It doesn't look like you'll be able to do that this time around. Now, you might be able to line up outside the store, but I don't know if there's going to be that kind of line right now. With a pandemic and everything, I'm not so sure that lines are going to be a huge deal, although if you're in a city or a really densely populated area, obviously there's a high chance there might be a line for people trying to get it. And some of those people are going to be scalpers. Let's just be honest, some are going to be scalpers. I say try not to give the scalpers too hard of a time. Some retail employees are attempting to limit the amount of copies that a scalper can buy, or that anyone can buy. Some stores won't. But all I know is don't give them too hard of a time.  It just makes things harder for legit consumers. But to be honest, they're a customer just like you and I, and anyone can do anything they want with a copy of the game that they buy. They want to resell it, they resell it, it's their right. So don't give them too hard of a time. Now, if they're trying to buy all the copies at the register, all right, that's a little extreme. And I hope that employees put a stop to it. Like if a scalper is first in line, hopefully Walmart doesn't just say, yeah, you can buy all 30 copies on the shelf, it's cool. Like I hope they don't, they don't do that. And hopefully with the number of people there, maybe the scalper might feel a little guilty, or maybe you'll end up making the scalper feel great, knowing the demand for it. Oh man, I'm going to make so much money reselling these. It's why I always say try not to buy a scalped copies online, because you're just, you know, supporting that. I understand that some people don't have the patience and they're going to do it. Like I can't wait, I got to spend the 10 extra bucks. That's not too bad, but I mean, let's be honest, they're going to be listed for $100. I, I'm just sorry. I'm sorry that your guys' computers can't cancel. I'm sorry that this is just the way the world works, but again, show up at the stores early. I mentioned Walmart, and I know not everyone likes Walmart, but Walmart and Nintendo have a deal, all right. All Nintendo games at launch and really after launch, if they're $60 games, release at $49. So about 10 bucks off at Walmart. This is, this has been true for, since sometime in 2019, there was a deal struck. It didn't really go public with it. It wasn't like this big hullabaloo. But it's been known for a while that Walmart has the games for $10 cheaper anyways. And the goal is obviously for Walmart, their benefit is they don't make a lot of profit. So basically Walmart cuts off their profit on the game to get you into the store. So they don't actually lose any money when you buy the game, but they figure you're in Walmart, you're going to walk by a whole bunch of stuff you might need or want to buy, and you're going to end up buying more stuff anyways. You're not going to come in for just the game. That's how Walmart can justify cutting out their profit on it. And so it's actually this nice deal that Walmart and Nintendo has in place. So it's a good place to get games anyways. Some people have been getting their games for 10 bucks off there for a long time. Now you have to go in person to get it. We're not talking online purchases, because it's an in-person incentive to try to get you into the store. But yeah. So again, you can still get your hands on it. You can still get your hands on it. I understand it's very, very disappointing to see pre-orders get canceled. And I obviously wish retailers wouldn't take more pre-orders than they get. Sometimes it is on the company's fault, like Nintendo's fault, because sometimes they don't even let retailers know until like, you know, three days. Basically when the shipment arrives that you're not going to have enough. But yeah. It's an unfortunate part of pre-order culture. And even if you got your pre-order in right away, I know one person in particular that literally when 3D All-Stars was like still going on in the Direct, they went to, I think, Best Buy.com and got a pre-order in. Their pre-order has been canceled. They were one of the first people to pre-order and they got canceled. So I don't know how they handle these canceled pre-orders. They do it based on obviously who ordered last. In this case, that wasn't obvious. That wasn't the case. But maybe they did it based on, you know, random selection. You know, just randomly in the computer. Randomly canceled. Randomly canceled. Just a computer program. I don't know. But I do know that it's unfortunate. But you still have a chance. You still have a chance. I personally do not have a pre-order in for this game. My plan is to be a Walmart at opening this Friday to get it. Now, it's a little difficult. My kids at school.  But my plan is to be there and getting it on Friday. Now, obviously it doesn't happen. I'll just buy digitally. But I prefer a physical copy. In this particular case, I do like digital games. But I prefer a physical copy just because of the collector's value on this one. It's a very nice game to just have, even if it's open, just to have, then say, hey, this is part of a collection. It was a limited run. It's cool.  Because I only played it a little bit as a kid. So anyways, thank you guys for tuning in. Hopefully some more positive videos come in the rest of your day. Have a good one.


We, Deina and Aletta from Icoholics, are embarking on another journey. This time we are in Italy, on the beautiful island of Sardinia. We are hiking the Camino Minerario di Santa Barbara, in the southwest of Sardinia. The CMSB is a 500 kilometer long Camino, which is divided into 30 stages. We are hiking stage 11 till 18, from Montimanu to Nougi, 100 kilometers along this beautiful trail. We are walking on the most ancient land in Italy, along mountains, mines characterized by the millennial mining epic of Sardinia. Welcome to the CMSB. Good morning from beautiful Italy, right now we are on the island of Sardinia and we are hiking the Camino, the Minerario di Santa Barbara, or in English, the mining trail St. Barbara. Yesterday we arrived at this beautiful, beautiful passado. We arrived here by car, we were welcomed really, really warmly by the great organizations. So thanks to Margarita and Nikolai for bringing us here. The drive over here was pretty spectacular actually. It was like on a dirt road and very steep and in the middle of the forest. And we slept like babies here because, listen, we didn't expect that from Sardinia to be honest. We're spending six days on this beautiful trail. Today is the first day from Montimanu and it's 20 kilometers to Pobucimo. Pobucino? Yeah, it's 20 kilometers to Pobucimo. It should take about eight hours with 900 meters of climbing, 650 meters of descent. So it's a pretty challenging first day, but we're really excited. The weather forecast for this week only sunny, sunny, sunny, so that's why we brought our sun hoodies. Yeah, like we said, can't wait. We're really excited, right? Yeah, really excited. How's the trail been so far? Really beautiful.  Like olive trees and everything is really dry, but really green.  It's really cool. I'm really looking forward to it. It's more mountainy than I thought Sardinia would be. And now we are eating a small snack because we are starting the climb in like, I think, a few meters. It's a 600 meter climb? 900. 900 meter climb, okay. Maybe I need an extra snack for that. So normally there's water running here and you have to do a river crossing. But it's late summer. It's early September and it's bone dry here. So there's no water at all. There was supposed to be a waterfall, but of course without water there will be no waterfall. Just a fall. Just a fall. But it's easier to get over the water now, like do-do-do river crossing. We just had a lovely break where we had some lunch and now it's only 200 meters climbing towards the highest point of the trail. So we're now at a little town called Arenas and we're supposed to get a stamp here for the booklet. But all the gates are closed. So I'm not sure, but I think we just have to continue. From here it's five kilometers to the place where we're going to sleep. I don't know the name, but I will write it here. So five more kilometers and from here it's only downhill, so not very long. It should take about an hour, two hours maybe. And there, from what we heard, is a very good chef who makes dinner for us. And his name is Alessandro. Alessandro, the chef. So, can't wait. We made it to Pouboussino. Pouboussimo. And we are really warmly welcome by Alessandro.  It was really hot today. It was like 35 degrees Celsius and we were walking from shade to shade and there were no water sources along the way. Like everything was bone dry, but luckily we just took enough water. But now we're waiting for the famous food of Alessandro. Yeah, we can't wait. He's super, super friendly to us and we will show you the amazing food he will prepare. How's it taste? It's incredible. Alessandro doesn't speak one word of English. So he's translating in his phone. So all the local dishes that we don't even know, he has to translate it in his phone and trying to explain it to us, but so far it's incredible. The smell. And today's hike was really beautiful. Something to be honest, we didn't expect of Sardinia. Those mountains here, there are really beautiful mountains and beginning of the day there was a very steep climb and afterwards it was a little bit less steep and then... We only had downhills. But like the technical part today was really a lot of fun and the views were just amazing. I didn't know what I expected from Sardinia but it was more than I expected to be honest. Yeah, and like a little bit different environment than we're used to because this region has a lot of abandoned mines. So there were a lot of abandoned buildings and old roads. Really strange, but really cool. Yeah, it was really like you stepped into history and it felt like the mine workers could just walk in that instant moment but it was so different than we're used to it. That's the right word and I absolutely love it. Good morning. It's the second day on the Camino and this morning we woke up at Pubushinu. Pubushinu, yeah. And the host there, his dinner was incredible. We ate so much. Really, really, really recommend this place. Yeah, he had lots of starters and we thought that was like the whole dish but they were only the starters and then we had like a first course and a second course to give us fruits and dessert and coffee and it was a lot. Yeah, but we felt very, very welcome and that way we are very energized for today because it's quite a big stage today. It's 21 kilometers to the end place San Benedito. San Benedito. There are actually two stages combined. Stage 12 and stage 13. And today we're also going to visit one of the caves here. There are lots of caves in Sardinia and the one we are going to visit is called Sumanao and we're also going to a temple and that's the temple, the Amtas. And yeah, I'm pretty curious how everything looks. Really curious, yeah. And it's 700 meters of elevation gain today and 600 meters of descent but the beginning is quite flat. Enjoying the ice cream? It's really hot outside. Like I'm sweating like crazy. So I'm looking forward to eating this ice cream and then going into a really cool cave. We're at the entrance of the Sumanao cave and they will provide us with an English audio tour. Yeah, and I'm really looking forward to the cave. I don't know what to expect to be honest but let's see. It was a pretty long day to be honest but the views were incredible and now we're in the Posada of San Benedicto. If I pronounce it correctly. San Benedicto, I'm not sure. When we arrived here we couldn't find the Posada to be honest but the people from this town were very friendly and very helpful. We went to a little market where we bought some fresh fruits which we are craving. Yeah, and in every Posada, by the way, a Posada is a house that's organized by the... Yeah, by the organization of the Camino and Posada means place of rest. So this is a place of rest. And it's specially made for the pilgrims who hike the Camino and in every Posada you can give like a gift for the use of their food because in every Posada there's like rice and pasta and sauces and stuff like that that pilgrims can use to cook for themselves and then have a nice evening here. Yeah, so I'll let it set it, have a nice evening. That's what we're going to do now. We're going to cook some dinner. I think some famous Aletes Pasta which I'm really looking forward to it and we'll see you. It's day three. Yeah, it's day three. It's day three of the CMSB, that's what I wanted to say but that was like a little tongue twister. Tongue twister. It's day three on the CMSB. This morning we woke up in Posada of some Benedetto and some Benedetto is a really cute old town with a lovely church with little umbrellas hanging over it and it's like really a cozy old city, right? Yeah, we really enjoyed it and after a long day yesterday with quite a lot of hiking and enjoying the caves we arrived there pretty late. Today is a similar day lengthwise but a bit easier. There's a 600 meter climb and after that that's 1100 meters descent towards Domas Novus where we will be staying tonight and in about one or two kilometers there's a very old railway track. The railway track is not there anymore but it's built in the 19th century which is pretty cool. How did we know we were walking the wrong way? Well, we saw a sign and then we looked left and we saw a beautiful old structure and we thought what? The railway track is supposed to be on the right and it's on the left. So that's how we found out that we took the wrong turn accidentally. So if we have to go back now we have to return five kilometers and walk it again. So I'm gonna take the drone and show you what we missed. And along the whole trail it smells absolutely amazing. Like as you can see there are rosemary bushes here and there are olive trees and other kind of herb plants and the smells are absolutely incredible. And from here it's only a little uphill the last uphill from today and from there on it's a big descent from like 1200 meters descending, right? Watch the sky fade into the night If you fall asleep on a starlit page just us two So this morning we missed the old railway track but guess what? There is another one. It's the Skavi Miniera Su Coravau if my Italian is correct for now but the next two kilometers we're walking on an old railway track which is pretty cool and afterwards we have one more surprise for you. What are you doing Aleth? I'm cooling down like there are caves and I think like old mine tunnels all along the trail and from like the inside of the cave or the tunnel there's like really cool air coming out so during the hot days it's a refreshing moment to stand in front of a tunnel That's crazy What is it? It's like a never-ending tunnel Enjoying the Italian salami? Very good Italians people know how to make like good food, you know enjoying the food every single day You have an incredible view behind you, what's that? I don't know, can you see it? Sorry That's the San Giovanni Cave and that's a 800 meter long cave and we are walking straight Yeah and how's the lighting inside? From what we heard? From what we heard there should be pedestrian lights but we saw a review on Google that only one in ten lights are working so it's probably a bit dark but I hear some comforting music as well so I'm really curious how the experience will be And we have our headlamps of course Yeah of course In case you don't want to hike through the tunnel there's also a variant so a different route that goes probably over the tunnel so you won't have to go through the tunnel So we have to get a hair net and a helmet to pass it You look awesome I know, it's the latest fashion So the lady said just 5 euros 5 euros per person and there's a QR code and then you can pass through the cave The San Giovanni Cave with it's 860 meters of internal road is classified as the longest scarier cave in the world The cave was created by a river In the 19th century a road was built through the cave to allow transport of timber first and lead and zinc ores later Transport first carried out by cart pulled by animals but soon became motorized This road was asphalted in the 70s and electric lights were installed along the road The access to the San Giovanni cave was close to cars only 10 years after the cave was declared a natural monument in 1989 This cave was really beautiful right? Yeah it was super beautiful it was a bit dreamy, magical and like there were fleer mice or bats? Fleer mice in Dutch there were bats flying around and dogs and it was really like it was really dreamy right? Yeah dreamy and very calming actually and like Aletta said there were some reviews on Google that it was very bad lit but there were lights everywhere and it was just incredible so we can really recommend doing this hike instead of the variant we didn't hike the variant of course so maybe we have to check that out one day but this is something you really cannot miss in our opinion From here it's only 3 more kilometers to Domus Nova where we will be staying tonight Good morning Today is day 4 of the Mining Trail St Barbara we started this morning in Domus Nova Yesterday we arrived at a beautiful B&B of Carlo who warmly welcomed us with like drinks and it was a really nice place and the village of Domus Nova is like a typical old Italian village if you ask me like all the colored houses the people sitting on the benches and talking and pointing with their hands it's really fun to see and we had an amazing dinner last night as well at temptation restaurants really can recommend it so this morning we left Domus Nova and now we are on our way to Ortumano if I am correct if I am pronouncing it correctly it's 15 kilometers from here and it's a pretty flat hike and we are passing a couple of old villages so really excited for today and it is beautiful again so there was like this man running behind us pointing to our camera and saying youtube youtube and we were like yeah we are making videos for youtube and we didn't know what was going on but this man is also a youtube creator and he infired us into his home giving us water and his wife even helped me with my mosquito bites on my legs hahaha they were so friendly it felt like I was invited in their family it's so so super friendly so we are almost at the place where we will be staying tonight for more kilometers and it should take about one to one and a half hours but it is really really really hot today and we think it is even the hottest day on the trail so far and today is quite a lot of rope walking so that made it extra challenging but we met some amazing people along the way like Paolo supposed to be a famous guy here he gave us cola and a coffee and in all the little villages there were like Italian people inviting us over and giving us water and we just met a couple of people while we were having a cola and we gave them beer very friendly people over here that really makes this day really special so, supposedly we can get some fresh water here it's 5 cent per liter that's really really cheap sparkling, natural very cool and normal very cool yeah, Freda good Freda what's called in Italian Freda Freda we just arrived at our B&B Orangeville and the people here are super super friendly and like the interior of this home that's actually my dream home there are like three dogs and six cats, all kittens by the way and it's all super colorful and they built this house like by their own and it's super super super pretty and the hosts are incredible as well first thing they did was introduce their dogs and then their cats and then themselves we already knew that those were the kinds of people who we could really connect with I absolutely love it this is my dream place good morning this morning we woke up in a beautiful B&B named Orangeville and I absolutely love the place there were so many cats and dogs and the owners were super super friendly and they gave us really nice breakfast and lunch and currently we're standing in front of or behind? in front of in front of the olive tree that's a really famous olive tree in Sardinia because it's already more than a thousand years old and like the trunk the diameter is 8 meters so it's a really big one and well it's pretty pretty impressive yeah it's really impressive here and today yesterday we had a flat walk and today is more climbing it's 15 kilometers to Rosas which is an old mining village and it's around 600 meters climbing and 700 descent and at the end of the day we're gonna sleep in the mining villages as well and when they were our age we're going to sleep there tonight as well so we're very curious about that so we just finished lunch and just before that we visited the mining town of Orbi so after that short visit we're now on our way to Rosas which is an old mining town as well we will be staying there tonight and today we're actually hiking a variant so not the original trek the original trek goes the other way around Santa Mariaida Nature Park if I pronounce it correctly and we're going past the other way but it's supposed to be a very beautiful spot as well from here it's about 5 kilometers to Rosas so not very far so we're taking it very slow while enjoying the beautiful but hot weather okay along the whole trail you can see these strange looking trees where the bottom part is really dark and then like dark and then it starts to develop like a normal tree and I thought that were like special trees but I read in the travel guide that it are some sort of cork trees which they use to trunk they use as like the cork on top of the wine bottles and right now we're back on the original trail so off the variant and back on the original trail and as you can probably see on my face it's really really hot but we're almost at Rosas so we just finished day 5 today was not that difficult so we arrived at our beautiful old miners house pretty early and we took some time to rest and tomorrow it's already the last day on the CMSB tomorrow we will hike from Rosas where we are right now to Nuzi Nuzi if we pronounce it correctly it will be a pretty easy day so we're gonna get some pizza now good morning day 6 on the Kamino which also means it's the last day on the Kamino and to be honest we're a bit sad to leave the Kamino right so far it was really enjoyable and way better than expected to be honest we're not sure what we would expect but the mountains, the people it was an incredible experience and this morning we woke up in Rosas that's the mining village and we woke up in a mining house and it was really really special like it felt really special to be honest and yesterday we had a really nice pizza over at the same place and yeah the people there are also really friendly so we absolutely love the experience to wake up in a mining village and it's not finished today we have a short hike towards our finishing point in Nuzi Nuxis, I'm not sure how you pronounce it actually but it's a 12 kilometer hike with a little bit of elevation gain of 300 meters and almost the same of descending so it's not that long day and there we're gonna have an incredible lunch let's lay under the falling moon tell me something about yourself and if I talk to no one else yes 100 kilometers on this beautiful Camino Sardinia took our heart so everyone we would really recommend this drill if you want something else, something different for a change right? Being a historical mountainy there's a sea side so Camino de Mineraro de Santa Barbara is really a recommendation we know that for the grins they make the way giving them their own sense I give you the text of the text it's written that it reads under the protection of the Virgin Virgin of the Good Way which indicates and opens the way and of Santa Barbara Virgin and martyr who intercede strength in adversity they go on foot on the path of Santa Barbara through the incontaminated beauty of creation in the ancient land of Italy giving it to the creator of his works and contemplating the work of man in the tracks of 8000 years of history with his glory and his efforts visiting the places of worship and segregation and making memories of the religious and civil tradition I will translate later I will translate later Okay I'll let Okay Very good Bravo


You've probably read about the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership, but you may not be aware that it has an unholy companion agreement known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Our own senior fellow, Mark Thornton, understands the difference between cronyist trade agreements that require the creation of new, supranational regulatory bodies and real free trade in the Rothbardian sense of it. He recently appeared on PressTV to discuss both of these agreements along with Brent Budowski, who is a journalist for the Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., and someone I tangled with during my years working for Ron Paul, and even though Budowski comes at this issue from the left, from a pro-union perspective, he and Mark actually reach some of the same conclusions. So if you're interested in real free trade versus cronyist trade deals, stay tuned for a great interview and some great insights from our own Mark Thornton. Well, let's start off by introducing our guests in this edition of the debate, joining us from Auburn, Alabama is a senior fellow with the Mises Institute, Mark Thornton, and joining us from Suders in Washington is columnist with the Hill, Brent Budowski. Gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us here on PressTV. Now, Mr. Thornton, I start off with U of I, TTIP has been championed by the U.S. government as an agreement that would set the standard for all future trade and investment rules across the world. Why then are they not being able to see eye to eye with the E.U.? Well, there's a lot left to be negotiated with. And I don't think the partnership is dead at this point. It's not a free trade agreement, but it's not dead. There are political reasons why they're not going forward at this time. They haven't officially called it dead. It's just remarks on the part of a German minister and a French minister. And so I think it's political reasons why they're pulling this off the table and waiting until, of course, after the elections in the U.S. after we see a resolution to Brexit with Britain leaving the European Union. They're very nervous in Europe about a complete meltdown of the European Union. Right. So, Mr. Thornton, you'd say that the European negotiators don't actually have any problem with the TTIP itself. It's when it should be signed and when it should be implemented. Well, I think the U.S. has the upper hand as the negotiations stand right now. I think the losses on certain European countries in terms of jobs and in terms of industry and agriculture, I think that, you know, the advantages that I've seen are in favor of the U.S. and not in favor in a general context for countries in the European Union. So they're they're balking right now at the provisions that they're watching. And actually, all of this negotiation is supposed to be totally secret from the public, but it's leaks from countries and negotiators who see the losses and don't see the gains for their particular country that where the leaks are coming from. Right, Mr. Bedavsky, I'd like to get your opinion on that point made by Mr. Thornton there about these talks being skewed in the U.S.'s favor. This is a criticism that has been echoed by the French trade minister as well. Well, I partially agree and partially disagree. These trade negotiations are skewed in favor of big business, no matter where they are or who they are, and they're skewed against working people, labor and consumers far more often than not. It is probably a good thing that it's getting slowed down right now. It's not a good time to be doing this in the United States. There's a lot more economic anxiety than some of the economic data would suggest. We're in the process now of trying to save America and the world from Donald Trump becoming president. There won't be any trade agreements and probably not much of an economy if he becomes president. Europe has obvious challenges. There is a French election, German elections. I would not be shocked that there's an election in Britain, by the way, in 2017. I'm still hoping that cents will prevail and Brexit will be canceled or overruled. There's a lot of economic turmoil and political turmoil all across Europe. That needs to settle down. The economy needs to be made better. It's not a good time to be doing a pro-big business trade agreements. And by the way, that goes as well to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both oppose. And I agree with them on that, certainly right now. We need to stabilize the economy and stabilize the politics. So I'll give you one quick, quick example. I have called for a safe zone for refugees in Syria, where they would be allowed to live in decency and peace, to be protected by a no-fly zone. And if anyone interferes with a no-fly zone, whether it's Russia or Syria, they should be shut down so we can get the refugees a decent life. So they will not have to keep going to Europe and destabilizing Europe, but they can have a better life back in Syria. We have a lot of big issues like that that need to be worked out. And a free trade agreement at this moment in economic history and in political history that can wait till we have a better handle on what we're doing economically and politically. Well, Mr. Thornton, it seems that the US administration does not agree with what Mr. Bodowski is saying. At least you're still hoping for a deal by the year end. That's correct. They're very they're happy with the Pacific Agreement and they want to go forward with the European Agreement. And so they're still optimistic, but I think that they're reticent as well that if they do get a vote, it would be after the election with the lame duck Congress. And I agree with the other guests that these treaties are geared to the interest of big corporations. And so the the interest of big corporations are being put forward here in terms of US banks and industries, pharmaceuticals, hospital corporations, water service corporations. And in the US, our corporations are on a much larger scale. They've grown, you know, across the much larger nation, where in Europe, the companies outside of the oil industry are of a smaller scale. And so it's US companies who are thought to be benefited more as a result of opening up, prying open some of these markets between the US and the European Union. And so I think that's a big part of the the advantage that the US has is that simply their corporations are much bigger and already in many more countries, because, you know, this is part politics, it's part hegemony, it's part control. And the US wants to control the entire world, if it can. But in now it sees China and Russia coming onto the scene, trying to develop its own area of control. And so these trade agreements are in part a way to fight back, push back on the moves by the Russians and the Chinese to develop their own spheres of influence. All right, it seems both of you gentlemen do agree that TTIP, at least from the trickle of information that we do have about it, will benefit large American corporations. So Mr. Badowski, there is the other argument, though, that says greater integration through TTIP between the US and EU economies will result in greater alignment and coherence on issues ranging from services and investment to regulatory differences. Now, there are definitely upsides to some kind of a good agreement if they can reach a good. I emphasize good agreement. There is a positive side. I also believe, and not many people agree with me right now, but we'll see who's right, that it's important that Britain do a revolt to not leave Europe. Imagine negotiating a transatlantic trade agreement with Europe without Britain and with Britain without the rest of Europe. That's not a very intelligent way to go about doing it. You're right, though. There are definitely positive attributes for an agreement. We have to get these agreements that help working people, consumers, citizens and the poor. We can't just have these agreements that are endlessly negotiated in secret that end up helping big business. It's true that President Obama would not agree with what I'm saying right now. Hillary Clinton would. Bernie Sanders would strongly agree. I was in Bernie Sanders office several hours ago this morning meeting with his people about some of these issues. We have to have an economy that works for everyone. We need trade agreements that work for everyone. What we don't want are trade agreements that are agreed to in secret where the lobbyists and the big business guys get most of what they want. And I will add, I respect President Obama. I usually agree with him. There's no chance, in my opinion, that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is passed at a lame duck this year or anywhere else this year. Even Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are all against it. On the European agreement, we need more time. Britain needs more time. Europe needs more time. And the United States needs more time because if there's an agreement that helps big business in America but not workers in America, there's going to be political opposition here. The United States is not one big monolithic country. There are a lot of different points of view. Witness Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump. Okay, Mr. Thornton, I'd like to get your opinion on the fact that, as Mr. Bodowski said, TTIP would be great if it promoted the interests of consumers, citizens, and the poor. But looking at at least the structure of it, as we know right now, the EU itself has admitted that the TTIP will probably result in the loss of one million jobs and clamp down on its welfare programs. Yes, it's not intended to help the consumers. In the very long run, they might see lower prices in some areas. But it's misleading to assume that trade deals like this are actually going to be good for everyone or good for the economy in general. This is an agreement between the United States and the European Union. And it might increase trade between the United States and the European Union. But it's not going to increase trade overall throughout the entire globe. And it's not necessarily going to make the economies of the U.S. and the European Union more efficient. It could make it less efficient as a result. It's certainly going to be disruptive in the first few years as some companies lose jobs, other countries lose industries. And so the overall picture is not necessarily one of economic utopia. And also because it provides a relationship between the United States and the European Union, it leaves out the rest of the world. And so it can also be a source of conflict. And these trading blocks are a source of international economic conflict. And that's what worries me most with conflict arising in Eastern Asia and then of course throughout the Middle East, where Turkey, Russia, the United States, Syria, Iran, Iraq are all involved. Who knows what could happen. And so we want to try to minimize conflict and trading blocks with these partnerships and these deals do not enhance the resolution of conflict. They actually start to create more of it. All right, gentlemen, hold on to your thoughts. Let's cross over to our social media network pages and see what our viewers are saying as they're having this conversation online. Stop negotiating. The U.S. is not going to give in on anything. Stop the t-tip talks now. I also personally think it's always bad to put all your eggs in one basket. New wild order fails again. American exceptionalism at its best. So those are just some of the comments left by the viewers there on our social media pages. And now getting back to the conversation there, Mr. Bedavsky, as you could just hear over there, there is that general mistrust of the U.S. and it's compounded by the fact that these talks are being held in secret, which again raises questions of how democratically viable t-tip would be. One thing that its opponents have pointed out as well is that the voices of consumer and trade unions are missing from this negotiation process. Do you think that could be added to ensure that the interests of the average voter, the average citizen, are upheld? Absolutely. I think there should be representatives, at least some, of the consumer groups, of environmental groups, and of labor groups that are aware of, knowledgeable about, and informed about what's going on. Some things have to be done in secret. I've been involved in a lot of these deals over many, many years, but not everything should be secret and too much secrecy almost always brings bad decisions because when you have too much secrecy, I'll tell you who finds out what's being kept secret, the people with the money, the big business, the lobbyists, the campaign contributors. And while we could talk about the U.S., I want to emphasize there are different views in the U.S. My view is not the Republican view or President Obama's view for that matter. I'm a lot closer candidly to Bernie Sanders on these things. And the view of the people with the big money is to help the people with the big money. More trade does not necessarily mean more jobs or better wages. One of the trends around the world is a move to lower wages and fewer jobs and more machines taking the jobs of people, jobs migrating to lower wage countries. On the other hand, you've got lower wage countries that are getting killed economically in all of this. So we need to go more open, more honest. We need to be more egalitarian. We need to be more progressive in the true sense of that word. And we need to understand there is a backlash against political establishments and insiders all over the world. And these issues often done in secret, coming up with agreements that don't benefit the most people, that's a major cause of it. And that's, we're seeing that in the United States and in Europe. So you have to look within the countries as well as between countries for the people with power who don't want to share it and the people who don't have power who get cheated in a lot of these deals wherever they may be. Well then, Mr. Thornton, do you think that corporate lobbyists would allow the voices of consumer and trade unions in these negotiations? Absolutely not. Big corporations in the United States are at the pinnacle of their power right now. They essentially control American government and our representatives and senators really don't care much about the average citizen in any case. And so, but I think this is the pinnacle. I think that we're seeing signs of the average person in the world standing up for the average person and against the big corporations. And I think Brexit is a good example of that where the EU government with lavish facilities and tremendously overpaid bureaucrats, intervening in the economy without any democratic backing at all, doing things, running roughshot over local governments. And so I think that's a step in the direction of your average person and I think the Donald Trump presidential campaign, I disagree with his economics strongly, but I think it's clearly a campaign against the American establishment that's long overdue. And so while I again disagree with many of his policies and the way he presents himself in many instances, we have to recognize it for what it is. It's an anti-establishment character standing up against the establishment, not really spending much money on the campaign, not really having elaborate staff at all, but he's going out all across America and he's speaking to audiences of 15 to 25,000 people a day. And of course, his speeches are broadcast on many of the network TVs and radio stations all across the United States and people are listening. And what's upsetting the establishment so much more is that so many people are listening to this man and what he says and how he says it and making fools of the establishment figures like Jeb Bush and John McCain, Ted Cruz and so forth. So I think it's a great thing that's happening in Britain and the United States and I hope that people around the world do likewise and stand up to the establishment. We had some nice votes that didn't pan out in Switzerland, but this is the wave of the future.