In the second part of this interview, we're going to talk a bit more about the Middle East and US foreign policy towards Islamic State in particular. So Brett, you spoke before about coalition building, the importance of it in addressing these complex regional issues. And I think as you rightly pointed out previously that one of the success stories of coalition building was US coalition building against Islamic State, particularly as it related to operations in Syria, can you give us a bit of a sense in the challenges that you faced in putting together that coalition and why you think you're able to do it so successfully with that issue where it's been difficult to deal with with respect to other issues in other parts of the world? Well thanks, Roger. We first, when ISIS, I mean as most practitioners working on this stuff, we could see this bubbling in 2012-13, I testified with Congress about it in 2013 about Baghdadi and ISIS and what's coming. And I don't have to go through that whole story, but by the time it kind of bursts onto the international scene with Mosul and just that real catastrophe, and you effectively have a terrorist state, I mean ISIS was controlling territory the size of Britain, 8 million people under its domain, a billion dollars a year of revenue, and thousands of people pouring into Syria to fight and joining ISIS, it ultimately got up to almost between 40 and 50,000. Mind boggling in terms of its dimensions, and how do you get after something like that? So what we tried to do were just a few kind of first principles. We're not going to do this ourselves. We're not going to go in with the US combat forces kind of old style Iraq war, a very conscious and mindful of the debate here in the States about endless wars and over investment over commitment. So we probably could have done this faster in many ways by doing it ourselves. But we're not going to do that. OK, we're going to find local forces who are willing to do the fighting that's harder. That's a little messier. It makes a little more complex, ultimately more sustainable, both here and there, particularly in Iraq and Syria. Secondly, in terms of not doing it ourselves, we're going to join with allies and partners and build the largest coalition that we can. And so this started with about 12 countries in Saudi Arabia in late August of 2014. And by December of that year, we had almost 65 countries and partners together, including, I think, over 30 military contributors, even those first initial months. And how did we do that? It was a lot of gutting it out, capital to capital, myself and John Allen at the time, traveling all around the world. We were in Cumbra, I think, in early 2015, talking to military people, but also political leaders, because the one thing about coalition and alliances when you're building particularly military lines, these are political decisions in every capital and every capital has their different requirements, different legal standards, different political hurdles. And so we really tried to work through from capital to capital what they needed in order to contribute. And so it was a very conscious US decision from Obama on down that this is how we're going to do it. That made it harder and more complicated and a little slower at first, but eventually we built up some momentum. Now, one thing we had going for us was a shared interest in defeating ISIS and not just in Iraq and Syria, the global network. So we developed, I think, pretty unprecedented intelligence sharing relationships, law enforcement cooperation to try to really shut down these global networks that were feeding, feeding into what was then the ISIS caliphate. So it was a lot of American diplomacy, but harnessed by diplomacy from partners and allies, including Australia, just kind of it begins to really feed on each other in a very virtuous cycle. But that said, extremely difficult. I mean, I just, you know, and and you always come up anything in the Middle East when you can't just deal with ISIS, you have to deal with these other 20 problems. And, you know, I got it. And at the end of the day, we want the Middle East to be peaceful and everybody get along, understand that, too. And we have problems with Syria, Iran, everything. These it's just it's so multifaceted. But what ISIS allowed us to do was build a coalition and have a campaign plan that we envision would be very long term.  And that's because we knew by building a coalition against ISIS. We have legitimacy. There's international legitimacy, what we're doing. There's legality. There's no question under our domestic laws, we have legal authorization. And most coalition capitals, of course, the same thing. And we could harness this large coalition on this problem so that at the end of the day, once ISIS was defeated, we are left defeated territorially, not defeated for good. We are left with a pretty good platform in terms of a lot of partners and allies sharing a common interest. We have presence in Iraq and Syria, which we really didn't have before. And from that, you can harness cooperation to deal with a lot of other problems. So that was the idea of the conception. And every now and then when you do this kind of work, the conception kind of actually plays out. We were fortunate, but we were fortunate to have, again, because this was in the late stage of the Obama administration, a very good national security team, a very engaged president. So when things would happen, we were able to shift very quickly. So the battle of Kobani, there's an opportunity. What do we do? Difficult question. Obama made a decision and we dropped supplies to the Kurds in Kobani. We negotiated with the Turks to open up a corridor for the Iraqi Peshmerga to come in. You know, that was done. That took a lot of very high level work. When Ramadi fell in Anbar province, for example, we immediately shifted our entire focus to Anbar to set up a new platform near Ramadi, more special forces, and kind of got Ramadi back and then that kind of built. So we were able to kind of adapt as we were going forward because we had a very mature national security team and a strong coalition with constant engagement and communication between capitals. This is really hard to do. And in the current administration, it's not done very well. Yeah. Can I just ask when when you said you were when you put the coalition together, you were looking at a very long term and deliberate campaign plan against Islamic State. Did you have a sense of a time frame at that point when you put the coalition together, when you thought you could inflict decisive defeat on Islamic State? Or are you doing it by events focused rather than time focus? Yeah, actually, we got a lot of criticism in the beginning because it was three years to degrade to degrade ISIS's military capacity. Remember, Obama said degrade and ultimately destroy. And we got a lot of criticism that no, no, it's just go in and destroy. I got that's what I wanted. It's good to talk like that. But in fact, we want to be very clear this is going to take time, right? Because we're not putting in American Combat Forces and American Combat Divisions to go do the fighting. It's different. It's going to take longer. So we very consciously said three years in terms of the main phase of the campaign plan. But even then, we always we always said this will continue because it's not the type of thing with a battlefield Missouri moment in which everything's just over. So, you know, if you if you go back to kind of how we were talking about it in those early months and years, it was a longer term time horizon, but a lower commitment of American resources. So and that that's the kind of formula for something that is sustainable. That's kind of how we how we designed it. And I still think that was by and large, I was right. Yeah, I mean, it was very deliberate language and coming from military operational planning background myself. Once I saw the term degrade, then you I thought there's a big military campaign input into that.  That having been said, it seemed to the anti Islamic State campaign plans seem to accelerate under the Trump administration was that part of the direction that came from the White House that they that they wanted it over quickly, or they believed that the degrade mission had been successful enough that you could accelerate. Yeah, great question. So one one reason we used to grade also is because we had no ground force in Syria, not only we had no ground force in Syria, we had no allies in Syria. I mean allies in terms of other countries of the coalition. Nobody was really ready, except some of the Arab states in the first night of air strikes and helping the air campaign. I think Australia did not join on the Syria side until the fall of 2015. Europeans, not until really 2016. So there was really no political desire to get involved in Syria. That was one of my frustrations is different not doing this because we had to, you know, ISIS didn't recognize that border and neither should we. But it took a while for for us to build up the diplomatic capital and capitals to have a coalition response in Syria. And then, of course, we invested an awful lot in the Syrian opposition working through Turkey to try to develop a ground force that would fight ISIS for Northwest Syria moving east. And this went on really for well over a year and it just didn't work. But we were introduced to the Syrian Kurdish forces and the YPG, which became the SDF through the Battle of Kobani and some other things. And eventually, you know, they started to make some gains. We started working more closely with them. The Arab, Syrian Arabs started filling those ranks just very quickly and rapidly, kind of snowballed. And so we invested in the SDF that caused friction with Turkey. I mean, that's the whole story as well, well understood. But so over the time Trump comes in, we had a ground force in Syria. You know, we're about we're about 20 kilometers north of Raqqa. And I was in a meeting with President Obama just before the transition in fact, in which we had a number of decisions that were teed up, that needed presidential decision making for legal reasons and other reasons before we could accelerate the campaign. And we passed a lot of those off consciously to the incoming administration because we wanted them to have a fresh look, right? And so we did we did take a fresh look. We did a strategic review. We kind of again tried to find a formula with Turkey. I want to came to Raqqa and some other things. And that all went up to President Trump and he made the decisions to accelerate, pretty much accelerate the existing campaign. And he was able to do that because he inherited a campaign plan that was working. So we're about 20 kilometers north of Raqqa. That's pretty much ready to go. So long as some decisions are made halfway through Mosul, the coalition was was working and operating and kind of coordinating in real time. And one of the first big meetings that the Trump administration had international meetings was we invited the coalition to Washington and Secretary of State Tillerson at the time kind of convened everybody with Jim Mattis. And I was there obviously to show that we are full steam ahead. In fact, we're going to start moving faster because we made some decisions. And that's what we did. So the first year of the Trump administration pretty much executing the existing plan with some tweaks, which made it move faster. And again, I think that the transition from Obama to Trump bumpy still being talked about a lot. But look, on this issue, I thought it very professionally handled. President Obama made clear to us immediately after the election. I think I saw him there too after the election. We have to make sure this handoff is smooth in the middle of a war. And that's pretty much what we did. Listen, this is probably the most difficult question which I'll leave to what is now the last question as well. What is, do you think there is a defined strategic end state regarding US policy in northeastern Syria? What are the conditions? What do you think the conditions should be set in place that allows US to extricate itself or its ground forces from Syria? I always shudder a little bit at end state questions in the Middle East because some of my very close colleagues in the Middle East reminded me my history in the Middle East goes back a pretty long time. And so thinking through, or kind of defining end states can get yourself in some trouble. So some issues are you need to manage, some issues need to solve. In northeast Syria, I think we actually had a pretty good situation by fall of 2018 or so. We had about a third of the country, a very small number of US forces. We built up a force of 16,000 Syrians. It was working pretty much, the border with Turkey was stable. We're doing a lot to ensure there'd be no threats across the border with Turkey. I mean, it was actually, it was a decent situation given where we had been in Syria. And it gave us an awful lot of leverage. I used to sit across the table from the Russians. I know for a fact that having a third of Syria, I never used the word control. We didn't control it, but we had influence there. That was our area of influence, but it gives you a lot of leverage, which you can then think of how to use smartly in a diplomatic effort. And at the time, Syria had the most complex international challenge, I think many of us have ever seen, but it was getting to the point where there was a moment for real great power diplomacy. Third of the country under the influence of the US, the Northwest under the influence of Turkey, and the rest of the country, Russia, Assad regime, and of course Iran. So the pieces were really set up for a real discussion about the future, in which the hope was we'd have a much better Syria. Just given the horrible things the Assad regime is responsible for, etc. So that has just significantly unraveled because of President Trump's impetuous decision to leave, which he's done twice. The second time we actually did just rapidly pull out of our bases, those, that backing was filled by the Russians and the regime. And we're now kind of in the far east corner of the country with some oil fields, and the president still talks about this mission as if it's only to protect oil fields. So all that said, what's the end state there? Look, I think we owe it to those who we worked with in the SDF to try to help them get the best possible deal they can to sustain themselves in the future Syria. They are Syrians. They are going to be there long after we're there. And whether that means they have a seat at the table in the Geneva political process, which I always believe they should. But if they don't, or if they can't, and if there is no real Geneva process, then there has to be some political arrangement for them, whether that's negotiated directly with Damascus, whether it's negotiated with the opposition. There's a lot of different pieces. And I know one of my former colleagues who's one of our best diplomats, Jim Jeffery, is running this file now. They're working a lot to kind of bring different Kurdish groups together, which I think is a good initiative. And obviously trying to tame down the tension with Turkey. Right now it's in us. Just it's a problem to manage. But I think you have to have an eye on what do we want here? We also have some real interests. National security interests. There's the camps at Al-Hal, which has about 10,000 or so detainees, about 2,000 foreign fighters. These are pretty hardcore ISIS folks that we do not want to see get out. I used to remind people about this problem. So I hear he came out of an Egyptian prison. Zarkawi came out of the Jordanian prison. Baghdadi came out of an American prison. You know, these prisons are an ecosystem for future Baghdadi's and Zarkawis. So that is a problem. I think we as allies, coalition partners really have to invest in the resource and make sure that that is handled as well as possible. But I just I'm not going to give you an end state answer because it's just too dynamic. But it will require a lot of diplomacy and a lot of forethought, which is difficult in this environment, to say the least. Brett, thank you very much. And your diplomatic experience shines through there with not trying to commit to an end state, anything to the Middle East, which is a very sensible position to take. On behalf of the Lowe Institute, thank you very much for all the time that you've given us. We've got a great deal of respect for the positions that you filled and the vision and energy that you've brought to the table in fulfilling those positions. And just thank you very much for the extraordinary amount of time that you've given us and the insights into U.S. foreign policy decision making. Roger, my pleasure at any time. Thanks so much.


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I want to show you some more interesting landmarks and Incidentally Alice, I want you to pay attention to now look well. You don't have to tell me about New York I was born here and lived here until I was 18 I know that I know that but a lot of new things have been built since then like the Woolworth building the Brooklyn Those places were built long before I was born If you say so Now then kids, do you see that low dome on Riverside Drive there? That's the tomb of the greatest general the world is ever known Robert E. Lee That's grass to quiet you Yankee Maybe I'd better wait a minute.  She's the most beautiful woman in the world, but you can put that torch down, baby I'm a married man now Look if there's anything else you kids want me to point out just go ahead and name it I know this town like a book. What's that tall building over there that tall building? Oh You mean the tallest one. Oh, that's uh That's uh, I'll give you a hint Phil it begins with the letter E. Oh, of course. That's the Eiffel Tower Used to be the tallest structure in the world until they built the Empire State Building in London Alice I don't need your help. I know that We're good. Will you take us to the Bronx Zoo? The what the Bronx? Oh sure. I'm actually seeing one of them bronxes myself Besides that we'll be able to see the lions the tigers and the anteaters and all anteater look like oh an anteater Oh, that's a funny-looking animal. It's got a long snout and it's always poking around and it looks like good morning, Phillip Thank you very much Willie now you can go back in your cage Uncle Willie daddy's going to take us to the zoo not only that I'm going to explain all the different animals to him Willie oh Phillip haven't you done enough to confuse their little minds already? You're talking about I'm trying to educate my children. I want them to know as much as I do That they knew two years ago You'd better let me take the children to the zoo I know more about animals than you do you do not I know every animal There is there you do hmm If you're so smart, what's a new? I beg you pardon I Said what's a new nothing much a boss or what's a no with you? of you Did you hear that that's a pretty funny gag in it. I mean just offhand like oh father. How could you?  I'd like to contradict you Maybe you don't like my sense of humor Willie, but most people do that's how I became successful Phil has a point there Willie. Of course. I have how do you think I became as famous as I am today you married Alice Willie has a point there. All right. All right. All right You're all just jealous of me because I'm a celebrity because people are always crowding around me and they're all Hey, that must be the newspaper man. They've come to interview me. Yes, sir I had it all arranged by my social secretary mr. Remley Frankie arranged it sure I gave him 500 bucks to throw a big party last night at the stock club just for the press Well, if it was your party, why didn't you go?  I Never thought of that Now some of the older reporters might recognize you Now look honey, they're here to see me, but I'll try to get you in one of the pictures Yeah, all right Willie all right Willie open up that door let him in Hey Alice look There's all the important columnists are here There's Winchell Ed Sullivan Jack Gould Val Adams Nick Kenny John Crosby and hey, there's Earl Wilson Gee if I'd have known he was coming out of warm of sweater Yeah, well gentlemen quiet, please gentlemen quiet quiet if you will I'm a busy man, and I don't have much time ask your questions. Take your pictures systematically, and I'll try not to show any partiality. Hey Steve.  I don't know probably a deadbeat relative of miss phase All right gentlemen, I'm all ready step aside bud so we can talk to miss Faye We'd like some pictures miss Faye. We'd like a story from you, too I'll be very happy to oblige you fellas me too.  We'll copy it later I miss Faye may we take a picture now? Oh certainly and and fellas do me a favor take it from over here. My left side is my best. I look good from any side Hop on little cheesecake. Would you mind showing us your leg a little higher just a little higher? Higher, please.  I'd like to hear Well, which one how about row row row old master painter?  Yes, sir. Well, thanks for the interview and the pictures miss Faye We've got to run wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute Say Didn't Didn't you guys go to a nice party at the store club last night? Oh sure and we had a swell time too What do you think your host was or some Texas oil man named Frank Remley? He told you he was a Texas oil man. Oh, not only Texas. He's got wells in Oklahoma, California Saudi Arabia. Well, thanks again miss Faye Hey, I like that a remnant He takes the credit for throwing the party he spends my money and you get all the publicity I can't help it darling if the newspaper men prefer to interview me Such as the penalty of being a cinema queen whose every action is of great importance to the reading public Get a load of this Wampus baby star We'll I see that Frankie he's got oil wells, huh? I'm gonna take him apart. I'm early Well, if it ain't the high octane Remley our things in sordid Arabia Did the newspaper men enjoy my party last night? Yeah, that was better than I expected Here's a bill from the star club for $250 more You pay it when your next gusher comes in Glenn Look Frankie. Hmm. Tell me about that big oil man who was at the store club last night oil man. Yeah Oh, I heard something lush there bragging about the oil wells. He owned all over the world.  I spent on Curly's behalf. I'm ruining my health for this boy What do you mean this morning when I got up I could see the bags under my eyes without looking in the mirror Remly, let me ask you once more. Why do you do these things to me? You were supposed to get me public It's curly.  This is a tough town to crack You got to do something Sensational sensational like what well, let me think Hey, I got it. All you got to do is imitate one of the greatest publicity stunts ever pulled in history Do what Lady Godiva did? Frankie don't be silly. I couldn't swim the English Channel It's a better answer than I expected Curly Lady Godiva rode through town on a white horse Naked Where are we gonna find a naked white horse? Look, we got to think of something that nobody's ever done before I realized that but what I don't think anybody's ever walked to Europe yet That's about as much as I can listen to So long fellas.  I think I've got a double-header for him Ignore a curly We'll think of something. Yeah, we think of something but remember now I want it to be dignified All the way from California Figure something sensational for mr. Harris to do so we can get publicity. Yeah, but it's got to be dignified Can you think of something Julius? Let's see sensational and yet dignified What's dignified about that?  What's the matter with you guys anyway? Catch me in a paper bag. I want me to walk to Europe It's a wonder you don't want me to do a jackknife off the Brooklyn bridge curly. That's it. What's it jump off the Brooklyn bridge Look at Steve Brody 50 years ago.  I'll explain this to you You don't really jump I get up on top.   Don't you know? Yeah, you're my pal All you got to do is to let us push you off the bridge and it'll get me a lot of publicity My name will be on every front page in the country Well, the least you can do is to help a friend would you jump off a bridge for me? Of course I would Julius friends have to help each other without without thinking of themselves I guess you're right. Mr. Harris. I'm being selfish After all since climbing memorial friends have sacrificed themselves for each other They've given their lives for their pals might live on Then you'll do it Never mind. We'll get another dummy And put Julius you can help us sure as long as I get paid for myself. All right. All right, so I'll pay you later Look Julius your job is to push the dummy off the bridge Flash a light so we know you dropped it and we'll be down below to take care of the red And look Frankie you call the newspapers and tell them to be at that bridge at exactly 11 o'clock. Okay? Come on Julius. You can get down and get the dummy Let me know when they'll be held and I'll be very happy to attend Oh boy, this will make Alice's publicity look sick when this story breaks.  Master painter from the far away Painted the violets and the cap the bills He put the purple in the twilight End of the rainbow for the rainy day On the blue summer sky painted the devil in my darling Captured a dreamer with a thousand Master painter from the far away Then came his master piece and when he was through he smiled out from heaven and he gave to you What a beautiful job on that wonderful day the old master painter from the hills far away That's the day he put the purple in the twilight And Bring the murals on the blue summer sky painted that devil in my darling Master painter from the far away Then came his master piece and when he was through he smiled out from heaven and he gave to you What a beautiful job Wonderful day the old master painter from the hills far away far away Hey curly, where'd you see the publicity you get on this? Now the time's getting close. Don't forget as soon as you see Julia's signal jump off this dock into the river Thank you. I've been sitting here medicating Yeah Okay, and that That river looks awful cold Couldn't I jump in someplace else? Where how about the heated pool at the Y? Curly stop stalling That's almost time the newspaper guys will be here any minute. So get ready. He only got 30 wait a minute Remy while I'm out there floundering around in that water. What are you going to be doing? I'll get in the boat row out and pull you in what boat. I Knew I forgot something But don't worry, I'll rent one later Right curly there's 25 seconds to go but you haven't got the boat 20 seconds Franky 15 seconds Oh here comes all killed hey, that's Alice.   She might have a point. Keep talking lady Hey curly the dummy just went in you got to go in the remedy. I don't Frankie you push me Oh What happened where am I back in the hotel room remember you jumped in the East River. Oh, yeah Hey, tell me quick. Is it in the newspapers? Is it? You're mentioned on the front page of every paper in town. Oh good. 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Katya, you drew with Nikita today a good result, but the game was anything but boring, seemed quite exciting actually. Yes, I didn't have time to check yet, but it was an interesting game and there was an interesting move, Rukkivaya didn't play it at one point, but anyway, well it looked like it was equal, so the draw is a normal result. Right, in fact at one point Katya, you could have repeated the moves because there was a repetition with Rukkivaya on Rukkf1, but you declined the repetition, so you did feel that you were doing pretty good at that time? No, I just wanted to play, I wanted to find some resources to keep playing because, well, I was white and I thought that I can try to play for an advantage, so I tried, well, it was, I think it was equal anyway. Right, but that's a great spirit that you wanted to continue and this plan with H4, H5 seemed like it had a lot of potential? For me, yes, it seems like, but well, he defended well and it was, finally it was a draw, so it's okay. Right, all reasons to be happy with the result now Katya, you're returning to Gibraltar after quite a long time, how have you, how do you find it so far? I am very happy to be here again because really last time I think it was something like 10 years ago, so I forgot a bit, but look around, it's just fantastic place, so I really enjoy the tournament and the weather, so I'm very happy to be here again. All right, well, we are happy to have you back and good luck for the remaining round. Thank you. Thank you Katya.


Well, in this video, I'm going to teach you how to stop that. So make sure that you stay tuned. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And today I had somebody texting me and they're like, man, I just need to talk.  And the issue was is that they've had some screw ups and things like that. And they're just really beating themselves up. And like, I talked to them for a bit. I'm like, you know what? This would be a great video.  Like how much better would life be if you didn't get stuck in your head, right? But this video is meant for a lot of people.  But let's get started. So I have a lot of experience with this. I have a lot of amazing experience about getting stuck in this old noggin right here. Aside from my generalized anxiety disorder, I have this mind that obsesses on things and I can get stuck in it. I can get stuck in things about the future. I can get stuck in things about the past. I can just drift away and create these stories. Just insane stories, right? Something that can happen to somebody like me or any of you who struggle with social anxiety.  The next thing you know, you're just like, what did I do? Why are they mad at me? Are they mad at me? What did I do? Oh man, maybe it was that thing I said the other day. Was it this thing or was it that thing? Oh no, I wonder if like I really made them mad and who else was there? Oh no, did I upset them too? Oh my god.  Oh no, I wonder if my boss hates me too. Does my boss hate me?  I haven't been doing too well at work. I'm probably going to get fired. I'm going to get fired. I'm going to get fired. How am I going to feed my kid? I need to feed my kid and I need to afford my apartment and my car. These are thoughts that can just consume us, right? But there is a solution to it. So the first thing we have to make very, very clear is that you're not stopping your thoughts. You are not stopping your thoughts. One of my favorite quotes of all time is this, thoughts think themselves. Right before I made this video, I did a little research and I saw a YouTube video and it's like, how to stop your thoughts like, come on now, come on man, let's be real. Okay, like let's put it to a test real quick. Like if I say anything like, let's say a blue dinosaur or ice cream or, you know, drag racing, you know, whatever it is, how are you going to stop yourself from thinking those those things just pop up. And that's one of the very interesting things about the mind. And that's why I love learning all about the mind. Because these thoughts that just come out of nowhere, right? So if your goal is to stop your thoughts, you're fighting a losing battle. So now that we've recognized this, and accepted this as fact, it is a fact that you are never going to stop your thoughts. The average person has 50 to 70,000 thoughts per day. And about 90% of them are repetitive. Think about that for a second.  Okay, so the first thing we got to do is accept the fact that thoughts are going to happen. Alright, now that we've accepted that, now we just have to work on changing our relationship to those thoughts. So like in the example I just gave, it's not so much the thoughts themselves, it's the story that we create about them. So there's a part of the brain called the posterior cingulate cortex. And it's part of the default mode network. So the default mode for your brain is to create stories. Your brain is always trying to make sense of the world around it, right? So in the example I just gave, the only way my brain can make sense as to why somebody didn't say hi back to me in the morning was because of something terrible, right? We have this sort of negative bias with our brain. But if I just noticed the first thought, right, and I was able to sit back and look at it rationally or see where my thoughts go, then maybe I can be like, Oh, wait, maybe they didn't hear me. Oh, maybe they were stuck in their head and didn't notice. You see what I mean? I'm able to acknowledge that first thought and now I can have kind of a conversation with myself about what actually happened.  And guess what? It's a mindfulness practice. All right. So pause this video, get comfortable. And when I teach people meditation, I say just do whatever feels comfortable for you. Like the traditional way, the way that is suggested is sitting up right, it can be on the floor, it can be in a chair. For me, I do chair because my knees are not the best at bending and stuff. But you can lay down, you can do whatever you want, whatever is comfortable for you, the posture and all that stuff, we'll get to that later. All right, this is beginner's mindfulness meditation. Okay, so go ahead, get comfortable, pause the video if you have to. And let's get started. All right.  And go ahead and just return your breathing back to normal. Just let it do its natural rhythm.  All right. So what we're going to do, we're going to bring our attention to our breathing and just bring your attention to the rise and fall of your chest or your stomach. Not controlling your breathing, but just letting it happen in its natural way. And if you notice your mind trying to carry your thoughts away, just gently bring your attention back to your breath. Bring your attention to the bottom of your feet. And just notice what your feet feel like right now. If they're touching the ground, notice what the solid ground feels like, any sensations on the bottom of your feet. See if you can bring awareness to each one of your toes.  Let's bring our awareness to our hands and notice what your hands feel like right now. What's the temperature like for your hands? Are they cool? Are they warm? See if you can notice any sensations in your fingers or if your hands are on your lap, the contact that your skin is making with your legs. Just rest your attention on your hands. And now we're going to do a little open awareness. So just bring your attention to your thoughts and just notice your thoughts and just kind of imagine them as clouds passing by in the sky, not getting attached to them, just being the observer and just watching your thoughts. Your mind is drifting towards the future. Maybe label that past. Just sit and notice your thoughts. Bring your attention back to your breath. I'm just noticing the inhale and the exhale. Now let's go ahead and just take a deep inhale in through the nose and gently open your eyes as you exhale. All right. How was that? How was that? I feel good. Do you feel good? But that is a very simple meditation practice that you can do and it's something that helps train you to just start to notice your thoughts rather than getting caught up in them because like we just talked about, you are never going to stop your thoughts. But this concept of getting stuck in your head, it's more of getting stuck in the story. One of my favorite analogies is with meditation rather than being inside of the movie, we're sitting back and watching the movie. All right. So I hope this video helped you. I am also going to do something new where when I do a guided meditation like this, I'm going to upload it to SoundCloud so you can download the SoundCloud app and follow me on there and I will upload a guided meditation. So if you're at work or you have a break or if you're at home and whatever, like you can just come back to some of these meditation practices. All right. So the link to the SoundCloud will be in the description below. So make sure that you check it out. All right. But anyways, like I mentioned before, if you know somebody who has a problem getting stuck up here in their head, please do me a favor and share this video with them or just share it on social media. People you don't even know are probably getting stuck in their heads. All right. Don't be selfish. Share this with them. All right. But anyways, that's all I got for you today. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. And if you are new here, I'm always making videos to help you out with your mental health. So make sure that you click that little round subscribe button. And if you want to check out some other videos on this channel, you can click or tap right there on one of those thumbnails. All right. But again, thank you so much for watching. Don't get stuck in your head today and I'll see you next time.


Good afternoon everybody. I will present my joint paper with Mathilde Morel the impact of education and electricity access on TFP on the Senegalese economy. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between total factor productivity electricity access and education level in Senegal. For this proposal, we estimated the TFP at the firm level over the period 1998 until 2011. After we estimate the long-run relationship between these variables using the Pullman group estimator and the dynamic ordinary less squares. By the following, I will present the intervention plan. So first, I will summarize the different industrial policies in Senegal based on the scoping paper on Senegal, written by Troy and Fatou Cicé and Mathilde Morel. After, I will identify the main obstacles of industrial development in Senegal. And finally, I will introduce the empirical approach and conclude. From the independence until now, the Senegalese economy were enrolled in different economic programs and industrial policies to sustain the economic growth in the long run and to promote the industrial sector. The first graph compared the per capita GDP on Senegal and the other Western African economies and we can identify four major periods and three major events. From the independence till the 70s, we can see that the per capita GDP rise in Senegal but still remains below the level of other Western African economies. In 1980, the government adopted the first adjustment program to cope with the decline of macroeconomic aggregates and to achieve a balance of budgetary budgetary, sorry. But this program failed and the main reason identified for this is the currency misalignment. After the devaluation of 1994 and with the support of International Monetary Fund, the government launched a series of economic reforms and an industrial policy to sustain the economic growth in the long run. So over the period 2000 until the financial crisis, the per capita GDP grows but remains unstable. In association with these economic reforms, the government adopted several industrial policies. From the independence until the 70s, these policies were defined by a high level of state intervention and the main objectives were the import substitution and to create a heavy industry plant and also to replace the private sector in key industries like water and electricity. In 1980 and with the launch of the structural adjustment program, the government adopted a new industrial policy and by now the objective is to remove the import restriction and to arise the contribution of industrial, to arise the contribution in exports of high value added activities. However, this policy failed. Indeed, we can see, we can state that 50% of the firms fade out and some major companies didn't survive to the opening of the domestic market to foreign competitors. After the devaluation and since 2000, the government adopted a new accelerated growth strategy with a new industrial redeployment policy and the objective was to increase the contribution of manufacturing sector in the economic growth at least by 25% at the end of 2010. Overall, we can see that the industrial sector in Senegal suffers from many obstacles and while the literature defined these obstacles like geography or political risks, etc., the African Bank of Development identified two major obstacles namely the quality of electric power supply and the education. Considering the education, an efficiency would be happened by a balance between supply and demand in the job market. In Senegal, the job market is more open for job seekers from primary, secondary or even vocational level of education. The table shows the gross secondary enrollment rate in Senegal in comparison with other sub-Saharan Africa and we can see that this rate is below the level of sub-Saharan African countries whereas the level of higher education enrollment is much higher in Senegal in comparison with other sub-Saharan African countries. This situation denotes a mismatch between supply and demand in the job market in Senegal and the rising and important supply of higher graduated workers and this situation will cause at the long term the choice of some of higher educated workers to return to unemployment or even to emigrate. For instance, 50% of Senegal doctors and 27% of nurse have been emigrated from 1995 until 2005 and mainly to France. The first issue identified for the Senegalese economy is to try to better match the need of the firms in the Senegal by focusing on primary, secondary and enrollment and the technical training rather than in higher education. The African of development identified one other issue for the industrial sector namely the quality of electricity access. The table showed this access in the urban area and rural and the comparison between middle income, low income and the Senegalese access. We can see that this level is at the same of middle income countries considering urban access but in the rural access the level is much lower than the middle income countries. Moreover, a recent firm study highlights electricity access as the major problem identified by firms. About 58% state that is a major problem and 85% of the firms state that they had a power shortage during the last month and for information each power shortage, its duration is around 8 hours which represents a waste of time and activity for the firms. So from this first part we can identify two major obstacles to the growing, to the growth of the productivity in the industry sectors. The mismatch between demand and supply in the job market and the electricity access. So to assess this relationship between productivity and these two variables we are going to estimate the TFP at the firm level and to estimate the long relationship between these three variables. The QC database, the single information collection center database provide firm level data on four hand 4,000 firms across 23 manufacturing sectors. The data span is from 1998 until 2011. The time series on value added capital and labor are provided by the same database. For the determinants of TFP we identified two main determinants namely the human capital measured by the sectoral employment shares of the different qualification degree and the electricity access. For the electricity access we have this data only at the economic aggregated level but we make the assumption that there is a proportional relationship between the size of tangible assets and the electricity access so we calculate the electricity access at the sectoral level. Then the first part is the estimation of the TFP and for this we consider a standard cobb-duckless production function and we estimated using ordinarily less squads with fixed effects and the main results are the part, the chair of labor around 54% and the chair of capital is around 46% which is in line with the finding of recent study made by the OCDU. The graph shows the distribution of annual average growth through the 23 sector and we can see that for the extractive industries the productivity is much higher whereas for food industry and food production industry and footwear the productivity is much negative. After the estimation of the TFP we try to assess if there are long run relationship between the productivity factor at the sectoral level and the main determinant identified in this paper namely electricity access and human capital. So before proceeding to the estimation we need to make some tests. The first one is to test if there is some cross-section dependence between the sector. That means we try to control if there is some unobserved factor which can affect all the sector such financial crisis or some economic reforms decides and which could affect all the sector. The test rejects the the hypothesis of no cross-sectional dependence and therefore we can test for the order of integration of the variables. For this we use three unit truth tests, two didn't account for the cross-section dependence and the third one take into account this cross-section. The results show that all the variables are integrated of order one which means that we have just two differentiated one time to have the to have the variable stationary. The second step is to check if there is a long run equilibrium relationship between these three variables. For this we run the Westerland Cointegration Test which is computable under the exception of cross-section dependence and we can see that all the statistic of the test rejects the new hypothesis of no cointegration which means that there is a long run relationship between our three variables. Once we have assessed if there is a long run relationship we now estimated the parameter of this relationship using two estimators. The first one is the dynamic ordinary list squares and the second one is the PMG groups. For those estimators we use a regression in which we introduce lag and lead of the first explanatory variables as regressor of the TFP. The results from this estimation showed that shows that one percent increase of skate, technician and electricity access rise the TFP in the long run by 24 percent and the 21 percent respectively. However the impact of senior managers in the long run is significantly negative. The second estimator used is the Pullman group estimator and we used two estimators to check the robustness of our results. The PMG estimator gives the coefficient in the short run and the long run and also gives the speed of adjustment toward the long run relationship and overall we find the same results in the long run. Skate, technician and electricity access have a positive effect whereas senior managers have a negative effect. This relationship is different if we consider the short run in sense of senior managers have a positive effect which means that high skilled workers impact positively the TFP only in the short run but in the long run this effect wears off. Instead of technician where we have a negative impact in the short run but in the long run the impact is positive. Considering electricity access we have the same effect in the short run and in the long run the difference is instead of the coefficient in the short run the access will increase the TFP by 12 percent and in the long run the impact is more higher 29 percent. The results we can conclude this presentation by saying that the determinant the main determinant of TFP identified by the African Bank of Development namely electricity access and education or human capital have a positive effect on the long run and have a positive effect on the long run and we can summarize by saying that the Senegalese economy need more to focus on technical skills to match the need of the firms and to improve the quality of electricity access to improve in the long run the productivity at the industrial sector. Thank you.


On January 3rd, 2007, while broadcasting an episode of the Canadian television documentary, May Day, Head on Collision, the Australian broadcast channel, Channel 7, experienced a weird malfunction. This is a real story. The malfunction. During the airing of a documentary on air travel disasters, the audio from a previous news broadcast somehow replaced the original show audio. The disturbing thing was, no one knows how it happened. The audio itself was from a story about an attack on a Haliburton convoy. The only audio was a looping track of a truck driver called Preston Wheeler reacting to an ambush on the convoy he was driving. For five disturbing minutes, all the people watching the documentary could hear is, Jesus Christ, help us all Lord. The Haliburton attack story stated that three people died in the attack, and two people were injured. The aftermath. The weirdest part of this story, however, is the fact that everyone affiliated with that particular story denied the fact that there was ever a mix-up. The spokesperson for the channel stated to the press that It was a technical glitch due to an audio problem. And that The line actually is from the documentary. One of the viewers said this I was channel surfing and heard this weird sound being repeated. It caught my attention as it was very odd of it creepy. There was a visual montage, but when the sound track began and I listened closely, it was a loop repeating, Jesus Christ. At first I thought it was a part of the show, but in 10 to 15 seconds I heard it say Jesus Christ more than 20 times. I thought it was some kind of subliminal message, or that someone must have hacked in. I tried ringing the station for several minutes, but they never picked up. I've never seen anything like this before, and I'll probably never see anything like it again. No one looked into it. No one bothered trying to find out. No one spread the word. Because why would they? They certainly did a great job of covering it up.


The American University of Nigeria has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations student fund UNICEF. It's for the introduction of a post-grounded course on communication for social and behavioural change, CSBS. And we have details for you in this report. At the opening ceremony for the signing of the MOU in Yula, the President's American University of Nigeria, AUN, Professor Atahiro Yusuf, says this is aimed at bridging the gap between communication for development, C4D, and human capacity in Nigeria. According to him, this is indeed the right time and opportunity to facilitate social change and find new solutions to challenges of out-of-school children, violence against children, stunting on all the benefits which can never be overemphasized. You are joining a mixed community, a community of intellectuals and challenge makers who are committed to a better society and are starting all the way and all the time to make that happen. In this community, everything to be joined is vital. Also in his opening remarks, Dean Jacob Udo Udo gave insight on the significance of the partnership between UNICEF and the University. You have to be the ones to educate the masses of people and find ways to save the episode I am violent. You have to be the young entrepreneurs, the sad politicians, the popular locals, the skilled doctors, the normal scientists, the productive business leaders, the social activists, the technological people, people and capital and responsible leaders. Meanwhile, the Chief Field Operation Officer UNICEF Nigeria Country Office, Opeo Nixon, expressed delight over the partnership. And there's a lot of learning drawn from each and every country that we work in. And in an organization that was established in 1946 with a mandate to basically support or promote the rights of children and women, there's not such a better way to do that than to work within communities, with community leaders, with every member of the society to improve on how we address issues. In the same vein, it is a dream come true for some of the newly matriculated students of the university, as explained how they finally found their way into the prestigious institution. I mean, I have heard a lot about the American University of Nigeria and the diversity, the liberal education system, the education system. I see UN as amazing, please, because they are very amazing in the academy. UNICEF therefore wrote a rights commitment to continue to partner with both public and private institutions across the different zones of the country. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Most people have never heard of pareidolia, but nearly everyone has experienced it. Anyone who has looked at the moon and spotted two eyes, a nose, and a mouth has felt the pull of pareidolia. It's the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, according to the World English Dictionary. It's picking a face out of a knotted tree trunk or finding zoo animals in the clouds. One design studio on Formative is undertaking perhaps the world's largest and most systematic search for pareidolia. Their Google Faces program will spend the next few months sniffing out face-like shapes in Google Maps. This phenomena of seeing faces was also attributed to the very famous face of Sidonia that was found on Mars. The face was first imaged in detail by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 orbiters. 18 images were taken by the orbiters. Viking 1 launched on July 20, 1976 and Viking 2 orbited Mars on July 25, 1978. The striking likeness the apparent natural formation had to a face allowed the image to quickly gain notoriety around the world. The possibility of ancient ruins being on Mars is not a hypothesis held by modern science. And it is certainly not a scenario that NASA endorses. Neither does any other space-going nation appear to have any interest in investigating the possibility. Many conspiracies have surfaced over the years regarding covert operations in search of exactly such ruins on our neighboring planets. Many claiming black operations have occurred, such as an Apollo 20 program, with some rather convincing CGI hoaxes subsequently being created. Regardless, what a number of authentic researchers have managed to accomplish by just studying imagery of Mars and also of historical knowledge of the region held here on Earth is quite remarkable. Orbital imagery of the Sidonia region of Mars have attempted to debunk the face as just being a product of light angle. However, thankfully people did not let these debunking efforts dissuade them from further investigations of the area. Some researchers who were versed in the works of Zachariah Sitchin connected the location to the possible burial site at King. Recorded within the 10th Sumerian tablet, Sitchin had apparently translated a passage regarding a god known as Alalu, who requested upon death to be buried where he would be able to peer into space gazing upon Earth forever. Although many claim Sitchin's vague understanding of the writings may have led to mistranslations, Sitchin became convinced that this 10th tablet also laid claims to King being the constructor of the pyramids. People who knew these fragments of information actually connected a network of apparent extremely ancient pyramidal ruins resting very near to the face. These remnants of once great structures undoubtedly align with the star constellation of Pleiades. What is astonishing is that these ruins would not have been discovered without Sitchin's translations. Was Sitchin right all along? Is this really proof of ancient ruins on our nearest neighbor? The alignments are certainly compelling and must be more than just coincidence. As always, thanks for watching guys and until next time, take care. The Red Planet Although many people assume it to be the closest planet to our own, it is in fact Venus which comes closer to the Earth during its orbit around our star. Mercury is the closest planet not only to Earth, but to every other planet in the solar system at one time or another. Yet these giants bear in landscapes incapable of supporting life. This reality is partly why Mars is so often the focus of man's attention in regard to our solar system's planetary bodies.  As such, for many years now, as the human population has exploded and modern technology has made self-sustaining, isolated life-supporting systems a reality, the search for suitable places for future colonization of the solar system has become a more and more popular subject of study. One of the most important additional factors for possible candidates for this exploration of space is the planet's distance from the Sun, nicknamed the Goldilocks Zone. Just like porridge being just right, Mars is located within a specific distance from the Sun capable of sustaining life. And although space agencies and other fields of funded institutions staunchly deny the possibility of it once having been inhabited, possibly even by man himself, dismissing such ideas as preposterous, Mars' desolate red oxide landscape is in fact uncannily similar to Earth's possible future appearance if humans were to continue unsustainable activities or a cataclysmic event were to occur. Thus, is it so preposterous to ponder the possibility that the planet we see before us today was in fact transformed into its lifeless form by an event or possibly past insatiable appetites for its resources by an ancient civilization which once called it home? Could the Cambrian explosion, the sudden appearance of advanced life on our planet, be evidence of terraforming? Could there have also been a similar yet now hidden mammalian explosion, indicating our own sudden arrival here on Earth after it artificially became capable of sustaining us? An orchestrated introduction of a complex food chain by ancient man, who were in reality Martians. We have in the past covered some very strange occurrences on Mars, one in particular suggesting that possible black operations to colonize the red planet are already underway. The Mars rovers were given an expected lifespan of just 90 days. This estimation was based upon the notorious dust storms which choke its surface. Yet spirit lasted an incredible 7 years, surviving until 2010, and opportunity only recently ceased operation. This remarkable longevity, solely a result of what has become known as cleaning events which for 14 years were repeatedly experienced and documented. Yet what is most curious regarding these events is that they always occurred while the rovers were offline. In July 2007, during the fourth mission extension, severe Martian dust storms blocked sunlight to the rovers and threatened the ability of the craft's survival. However, when the dust storms lifted and the rovers came back online, something had cleaned them of nearly all debris. On May 1, 2009, during its fifth mission extension, spirit became stuck in the soft soils of Mars. Strangely, it seems, because the rover was not moving, it missed subsequent cleaning events. As our mysterious helper assumed it had died, join us in our next video, which will be an expose of artifacts, features, ancient testimonies, and satellite anomalies, and many other factors which support the conspiracy of secret Martian inhabitation, supporting the hypothesis of an ancient Martian civilization that once called our red neighbor home. Evidential arguments we find highly compelling. We often cover the extraordinary yet unexplained ruins that can be found all over our planet. However, as many of these ancient sites indicate, our ancient lost ancestors clearly had substantial advanced understandings we are yet to unravel. We feel, it is clear, that they were indeed technologically superior to us, the modern man. Thus, the question we must ask, just as we are. Is this clearly advanced civilization, capable of space travel? If so, then why did they not survive the mass exodus, which many feel befell the rest of these lost civilizations? Many people throughout history have been extremely interested in the concept of inhabiting other planets. In many ways, the habitation of other space bodies is a sound, strategical contingency for species survival. Or in a world at the mercy of other space bodies, hurtling through the cosmos. Not putting all of one's eggs in one basket will always be a great survival technique, giving the species twice the chance of survival. Mars, our nearest neighbor, has been the subject of countless theories involving past civilization, ancient or human, and the focus of NASA's most expensive space exploration missions. There are vast sums in the pursuit of several successful touchdowns, and indeed, as mentioned, for a good reason. And just like the many ancient, advanced, unexplained features upon our planet, any past inhabitation, no matter how primitive, would not only be ignored, but logically, much more easily suppressed, than the finds we share which can be explored by us here on Earth. For exactly the same motives as ruins on Earth are ignored, any ancient civilization that could be found upon Mars would meet the same fate. For the proof of ancient civilization, predating that which academia has condemned themselves to dating and explaining as our more primitive modern ancestors work, has to be suppressed. Academia must protect public confidence for the protection of current, profitable theory. Was Mars once inhabited? Was it inhabited by us? Perhaps the most worrying question surrounding all of this, with academia so hell-bent on appearing correct, will we as a species ever find out? Hey guys, Matt from Mystery History here. So today I wanted to share with you a confession. A confession by this man. His name is Dr. Allah Shaheen, and he is one of the world's leading Egyptologists. He is also head of the Cairo University Archaeology Department. He rubs shoulders with top Egyptian government figures and members of the Egyptian state of antiquities. If anyone knows about Egypt's most in-er-kept secrets, it's this guy. In December 2010, he was hosting a conference to a select group of delegates about ancient Egyptian architecture when he let something slip. He admitted to being complicit in the covering up of an astonishing secret. He has since retracted the statement and is now denying he ever made it, however, during the conference a handful of press reporters were present. They all ran the same story, shortly after the conference all quoting the same remark, making it rather difficult to believe that he didn't actually say it. In what I can only imagine was a misjudgment of trust when questioned regarding the possibility of alien involvement in the construction of ancient Egypt. He not only confirmed this to be the case, but confessed to knowing and I quote, there is still something inside the pyramid that is not of this world. In a previous video I shared how the tomb of Osiris, once believed to have been a mythical god from Egyptian legend, a belief Egyptian antiquities would like to keep alive, was actually discovered recently. The tomb was found by traversing an access tunnel system just a few inches in diameter. From the moment this impossible access passage was discovered, they quietly knew they had found something amazing. The moment Egyptian authorities finally managed to get a robot with a camera into the tomb, a complete media blackout descended upon Egypt. Walls were constructed around the tomb and no information regarding the find was shared for several weeks. When the world was eventually allowed near the site, the tomb was found to have been conveniently empty. No explanation as to how grave robbers could have possibly gotten into the tomb has ever been produced. Was Osiris an alien? Was our previous research bang on the money? Even an Egyptian legend, the figure known as Thoth, was said to have allowed beings such as Ra and Osiris to exist in our realm. Were ancient Egyptian artists accurate in their depictions of these beings as hybrids? If as Dr. Alashahid states, along with ancient Egyptian literature, that there is indeed something otherworldly under the Great Pyramid, could it really be a portal? And if it is, why hide it? Regardless of what it is, they are definitely hiding something. What otherworldly thing do you think is hidden under the Great Pyramid? Let us know in the comments. Thanks for watching guys, until next time, take care. The Space Research Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences recently published a series of photographs. taken by the Venera probe over 30 years ago on the surface of our closest neighbor, Venus. The photos, according to Leonid Kassanformaliti, present evidence of living organisms upon Venus, one of the most inhospitable places for human life in the solar system. The second planet from the Sun, it is believed to have once been Earth-like, although the constant temperature there now is around 480 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt, even hotter than Mercury, which is tremendously closer to our Sun. According to Kassanformaliti, who is doctor of physical and mathematical science for the Institute of Space Research, the images reveal the movement of extremely strange objects on the surface of Venus. Predictably, NASA, along with many other institutes of research, have attempted to debunk his discovery, stating that the objects are nothing more than a lens cap and noise generated by the second-hand pictures, claiming that some of the objects are not present in the original images.  Quoting Kassanformaliti in an article for the Russian journal Solar System Research magazine, they all just emerge, fluctuate, and then disappear. What if we forget about the currently held theory regarding the non-existence of life on Venus, and boldly suggest that these objects, these morphological features captured within these images, could allow us to say that they are indeed living? Scientists have not ruled out that once, in the very distant past, Venus might have supported life in a time when the planet had giant oceans before the greenhouse effect created the temperatures that rule over the planet today. However, they firmly refute the possibility of living creatures alive on the planet's surface today. As Ivan, writer over at Ancient Origins, eloquently put it, the problem with science and scholars in search for extraterrestrial life is that mankind believes that for life to exist elsewhere in the solar system or universe, a planet should have similar climate and conditions to those of Earth. In support of his argument, and in staunch defiance of the rigidly held views upon the environment needed to sustain life, a reality discovered in 1977, hydrothermal vents deep within our oceans, which belch steam from deep within the Earth's mantle, have temperatures just as hot as the surface of Venus. They are also home to countless previously thought impossible creatures, showing humans, especially the skeptics, that anything is possible. Since man landed on the moon, countless conspiracy theories have surfaced all over the web. Some so virulent, they spread like a virus, seeping into many areas of the media. Some of these theories, predictably, hold more water than others. Some claim we never went to the moon. This regardless of the proof that has continued to surface over the years. NASA claims to have lost the telemetry from the moon landings also. The motive behind this claim is unclear, yet no matter how unlikely, they continue to claim that it has been missing for decades. Conspiracy theorists often overlook the astonishing contributions which NASA has also made to modern society. Yet some theories actually claim a literal polar opposite of moon landing conspiracies. These not only agree that we did indeed land, walk, and even drive on the moon, but claim we have been back in secret and to explore a rather astonishing thing. According to numerous sources, the most compelling of said claims began on YouTube, with the release of some extraordinary CGI footage of a claimed moon landing, and the exploration of a simply gigantic alien spacecraft. Due to the moon being so difficult to reach, and the fact that anything which either crash, landed, or was possibly even abandoned on the moon, even billions of years ago, would have been preserved in an incredible condition. In April 2007, videos began appearing on YouTube under the username RETIREDAFB, telling the extraordinary story of a supposed Apollo 20, a secret lunar mission that had discovered the existence of intelligent alien life on the moon. Then, on May 23rd 2007, Italian UFOologist Luca Scantaburlo managed to secure an interview with an individual who claimed to be the creator of the channel, a man by the name of William Rutledge, who later claimed to be, in fact, himself, a retired secret American astronaut, who at the time was living in Rwanda. Rutledge claimed to be the commander of the Apollo 20 crew, and to be the owner of the retired DAF-B account. However, the interviewer never met Rutledge in person, as the interview was conducted over Yahoo Messenger. During the interview, however, Rutledge claimed that Apollo 20 was a top-secret mission launched in mid-August 1976 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, near Santa Barbara, California. He also claimed that it was conducted jointly by the United States and the former Soviet Union. He also alleged that other missions were made by American astronaut Leona Snyder, a now-established fictitious persona, and former Soviet cosmonaut, Alexei Leonov, the first human to perform a spacewalk. The purported landing site of the mission was near Gayo crater, a feature near the much larger Del Porte crater. Rutledge said the videos show that he and Leonov discovered the remains of an ancient lunar civilization. He also said they brought back artifacts to Earth for study, including a hibernating female humanoid. It is a story which we found highly compelling. China's Yutu-2 rover, currently exploring the surface of our moon, has exposed an intriguing discovery, a mysterious object that many are labeling the hut. It is a cube-shaped curiosity, which oddly just appears to be resting upon the moon, as if once placed. In previous videos we have examined similar anomalies many believe to be obelisks. We can visit other people with their habitation, we can keep track. If there's something very important to be developed from the moon, together we can explore the moon and develop the moon. We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by to comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith, they're a very unusual structure on this little potato-shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're gonna say, who put that there?  A moon, which not only appears to be hollow from one side, but is on a decaying orbit which does not make sense, almost as if it were a ghost of the past, earthly calculations revealing that the moon should have disintegrated into Mars long ago. Yet the moon still exists, along with its mysterious so-called monolith. Yet I digress. The thing that makes these objects so interesting is how they seemingly appear to have once been placed where they have rested for untold millennia. No contact trail, no debris, dust plume or disturbance at all, and most importantly, no crater of any form. Unfortunately, however, according to Chinese space officials, it may be a long time before the rover reaches the object, if at all. One major reason is that U-2-2 isn't active most of the time. The solar-powered spacecraft cannot operate during the 14.5 Earth-day-long lunar night, nor for roughly 24 hours after sunrise and before sunset. U-2-2 also stays offline during lunar noon, as temperatures at that time can reach 127 degrees Celsius. What is this object? Further photographic study and detailed research into its precise location needs to be undertaken. It is an object which we find highly compelling. There are many unexplainable ruins upon our planet, whose age or indeed true origins are still an enigma to be unraveled. However, we feel that thanks to ours and many others astute and devoted research, we do now have a very thorough understanding of past lost civilization's capabilities. In some areas, there is undoubtedly more than one advanced ancient phase of building work. For instance, we feel that the ancient pyramids of Giza, ancient relics photographed from almost every angle now, thanks to alternative research and in-depth scientific investigations, shows clear indication of at least three phases. These three phases are also possibly evident at many other ancient sites, in particular, Peru. What's important regarding these phases is that although they have undoubtedly been accomplished at vastly different times in history, they are all incredibly advanced. In fact, they are far more advanced than any ancestral attempts to recreate them, which can be found throughout our own thoroughly academically documented history. This throws up some controversial implications. For example, did this ancient civilization, just like ours, develop to a point where they were capable of space travel? Or perhaps, a more interesting posit, were these most sophisticated and indeed ancient ruins, left by a civilization who actually traveled here from another planet to begin with? Perhaps Mars? Since its discovery, Mars has been the subject of countless theories regarding the possibility of past life having once flourished upon its surface. There are even those who have proposed and relentlessly searched for an ancient advanced human civilization having once inhabited its red landscape. We have indeed shared a number of Martian theories supported by compelling physical evidences from its surface, including the mystifying cleaning events which have been experienced by each rover while still able to move on the planet. Although many of the most compelling, possibly ancient artifacts found upon the Martian surface have indeed been covered by numerous sleuths, we feel the following objects possible identity may have been overlooked. Pictured within a NASA image known as Sol 746, presumably taken on the 746 day, it shows a perfect sphere resting in the red dust. Although noticed, its puzzling characteristics, surprisingly, have yet to be linked with one of the most recognizable UFO shapes of the modern age, the metallic sphere. These objects not only witnessed, documented, and video recorded on nearly every continent on Earth, they have also been the object most often recorded on many inches of unexplained NASA footage from low Earth orbit, lunar, and now we feel much further afield. Could this mysterious sphere actually be a crashed metallic UFO? Although spheres appear in nature under the identification of land pearls, its origins would have involved tremendous amounts of water, something that has not been seen on Mars for an extremely long time. Could this mysterious sphere, photographed by NASA, actually be that of a crashed metallic UFO? We find the proposition highly compelling. The Mars Exploration missions launched in 2003, successfully landing two rovers, spirit, and opportunity on the red planet. The mission's objective was to search for clues to pass water activity on Mars. The mission also included three previous landers, the two Viking program landers in 1976 and Mars Pathfinder probe in 1997. Both rovers were given an expected lifespan of just 90 days due to the notorious dust storms present on the surface. Spirit lasted an incredible 7 years, surviving until 2010, yet mysteriously, opportunity is still functioning to this day. This is due to several events which have become known as cleaning events, which over the last 14 years have been mysteriously cleaning the rover's solar panels. Designed to go offline during the night to save energy, it is during these hours that something, or someone, has been helping to keep our rovers running. Opportunity has since been given five mission extensions, which it has successfully completed. In July 2007, during the fourth mission extension, severe Martian dust storms blocked sunlight to the rover and threatened the ability of the craft's survival. However, when the dust storms lifted, they revealed that something had cleaned the rover of nearly all debris. On May 1, 2009, during its fifth mission extension, Spirit became stuck in the soft soils of Mars. After nearly nine months of attempts to get the rover back on track, including test rovers on Earth, NASA announced on January 26, 2010 that Spirit was retasked as a stationary science platform. Strangely, it seems, because the rover was not moving, it missed subsequent cleaning events, leading NASA to lose contact shortly after. Most recently, Opportunity has seen a surge in energy after a cleaning event in March. The Martian month, coincidentally, resulting in a power boost of 70% when compared with power levels at the start of this year. And now, mission scientists have released a self-portrait photo of the Mars rover. When compared with the dust coverage at its worst, the difference is nothing short of dramatic. Having just survived its sixth Mars winner, thanks to the most recent cleaning event, Opportunity now has solar panels that are as dust-free as they were when they entered the Martian atmosphere. Just what exactly has been cleaning the rovers on Mars? Covert astronauts? Or maybe it's aliens? Whatever it is, we may never know.


Hi, everyone. Happy Saturday. Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com doing a quick little rnb random number block randomizer for these two teams right here For flawless picker teams every team which is already full coming up in a separate video if you want to look out for that That's how these number blocks work. If you're not familiar with it big. Thanks to these folks. These people are familiar with it. Thank you There are the numbers there. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it three and a five eight times for names and teams one two and Eighth and final time after eight. We got PJ down to Travis three and a five eight times for the numbers And eight in final time we got eight down to three So PJ eight seven one AR with four Kim with nine Paul and with six PJ with five and zero Zero gets all those blockchain redemption cards for the just for those two teams right there and Travis with two and three So let's sort alphabetically alphabetically, let's sort numerically by number End of my week folks And we'll see you in a different video for the break itself. Jaspy's casebreaks.com


All right, good morning, cyber traders. Welcome back. Let me get a little chat back. If you guys can hear okay, good to see you Raymond. Good to see you. Good, good, good. Welcome back everyone. Hopefully everybody had a nice weekend. I know I did, still hurting a little bit from it. Had my son's graduation party on a Sunday. But we had a good time. Hopefully everybody also had a good time this weekend. Listen, we're right smack in the middle of the thickness of the summer. It is actually, was a beautiful week this weekend. I don't know where you are in the neck of the woods, but it's a gorgeous day today. We are running in probably the last, we got about what, two more weeks, three weeks till the end of summer. So a lot going on in these next couple of days. So I mean, regarding about what's happened in the market and now, but hopefully everybody's listening, what's going on with the news. Terrible thing is going on in Afghanistan. I don't know if it's gonna affect certain stocks in the stock market and stuff like that. But I mean, listen, I mean, military stocks, obviously would do pretty well with something like that. But I don't know how that would affect it, but I'm watching some of them and we'll see how it plays out. But my heart's in prayer. So everyone in Afghanistan, it's just a terrible situation. It's going on right there. So just please be safe. But in the meantime, tomatoes are coming. Well, yes, tomatoes are coming, Grant, they're coming soon. We're gonna be having we'll be doing a live broadcast on 1,000 Home Living Channel regarding what tomato season at the end of the year. But anyway, let's go talk about what happened on Friday and we'll talk about what's going on today. There are a couple of stocks that are moving this morning. We got this TVXV that's moving, but it's testing a resistance level that's 720 this morning, but she is a very volatile stock, great volume, 1.7 million shares. So that was stocks doing pretty well. And there's about only a few, it's really ugly, really not looking good today. I mean, my list is so small that it's gotta be one of the smallest I think I ever had. So we'll look at it and go from there. But once again, you got class that starts today, you got phase one. We have a whole new group of new people are learning. And let me tell you, the smartest thing you could do if you are, you know, want to get ready at the most volatile, the best times to trade, which is October, November and December, actually September, October, November, early December, take your classes now, learn now, get into what we call spring training, you know, call, let's call it summer training and getting ready for the busy time of the season, because once kids start going back to school, things are gonna start changing. Let's talk about some of the stocks that we did trade on Friday because some of them were pretty interesting. I wanna start off with this SESN. Now this stock got killed, killed. And what was crazy about this stock, it did it right in the middle of the day. I mean, to see a stock go from, you know, go from the six dollar price range and just drop all the way down like 70 cents, that was unbelievable. But the good thing about it is that it bounced and it got a hold on a way up. It went from that 60 cents, 70 cents, went only $2. So again, what was the news on FDA not accepted their drug for bladder cancer? Is that what it was? That was the news on it. That was bad. But anyway, she's moving again this morning.  Listen, we all know stocks don't come back, you know, that FDA, that don't get FDA approval. The obvious you can see this company is not a 70, 80, $50 stock. We're talking the stock's been here for all year between a dollar to five dollars. Sometimes this is like their whole life. This drug and they don't get FDA approval.  But anyway, we'll keep an eye on it. I did put on my watch list. So I wanna keep, I wanna look at it. Another one that moved on Friday was the PM, was the PMCB. Don't mind me about my voice, I apologize. Had a nice little move in this stock right here too. This stock moved, let me fix this camera because I'm like literally all over the place.  You can see a stock right from $250 to $450. She moved around about 1130 and then all of a sudden she came crashing down. And hopefully everybody learns from that. You have to be very, very careful. This is why we always look to take the money. You know what, you bought the stock at 375. You sold that 425. Look at one of the background, the $3. Don't worry about like, oh, could it went higher? There's your clear example that you can't get greedy and cocky. Another stock that moved was the SPRT. This was the SPRT, which by the way, this is going back on the watch list. This stock also moved pretty well. Like this stock right here, we did really good early in the morning. It just literally went from $8 to 11. Did a big sling shot. Let me blow this up so you guys can see a little bit better. So you can see how that nice little sling shot there, 830, great pre-market. And then it came right back down and then it did a sling shot and went from 920 right back up to 1060. And then it got pretty volatile. But then it was okay. And then it had a nice little move and it came back down. But other than that, Friday was gross. Really, really nothing much going on right there. And that was typical, I told you that Friday morning. Once again, a lot of people want to go to their Hamptons and want to go enjoy this at home. And this is the only time they get a chance to do it. So the market's down about 120. Not really seeing that much out there. Listen, I did some searching this morning. It's pretty bad. I mean, this is the only stock that's moving, okay? Now, you can see it just broke that resistance levels right around here.  But stock just broke that major resistance to a nice little shake right there. And it just broke through 2030 and now it's already up to 20, just ran a dollar right at that, right before we started. Only concern is this stock right here is a category, I may even say a four, but I would say probably at least a three. And if you don't really qualify to trade a volatile stock, be careful trading stock like this. So you have this one right here. I mean, I gotta throw this one back on the list.  Looks like the guy got filled and it just dropped about 20 cents. And then NAOV, that's it. That's it. I don't really see that much out there. I was looking at, what's this? I mean, if you're looking down that list there's really nothing there. So you know what, it's Monday, take it easy, don't get crazy and we'll see if something pops up out of it. Some might show up in the middle of the day. You know, probably when the market opens up. But other than that, it's really garbage. What's this? This came up, yeah. Look, the biggest New York stock exchange stock, the number one biggest percentage gainer is only up 86.6%. It's terrible. That's horrible. There's really nothing there. All right, anything I'm missing? I did that call out. We used to be 14 cents on the TVXV, good for you. There you go. It's a nice way to start the morning, kind of like that. All right, anyone else? Yeah, you guys didn't see anything out there either. All right, so guys, that's about it. Listen, don't forget, class starts today. Make sure you're there. It's the best time to learn. Remember, summer training is where you learn to get ready for the busiest time. Remember, you wanna learn at the most volatile time. We have a lot of new students that are gonna be joining us today in class. We did a huge event last week. A lot of people are gonna be in class, so listen and learn, but don't buy anything, all right? Remember, you have to do the three Ls. Look, listen and learn and go from there. In the meantime, we'll be back here at 2.30, everyone on YouTube, Facebook Live, and then once again, in the cyber group room, we'll start commentary on what the market opens up. All right, guys, good luck today. Happy Training, be safe, and we'll see you all in class.


What's up guys and welcome to 20 Updates Hapa SPM Bars. Now news reaching our desk nikuwa mula mwa the comedian has gone on social media and said that Karo Soni, ambaeni ex-girlfriend wa, ken api ya baby mama, ya kuwa mwa she is a serial cheat. Na ole oi kiwa tere saba mweziwa April mula mwa went on social media and was doing a Q&A palia kwa platformi ake, a kambia wa toa muli ze maswali. And some of the questions were, why did you break up with Karo Soni? So mula mwa took the time today to explain as to why they broke up with Soni and he had a lot of details to give. Now mula mwa mme sema Karo Soni was a serial cheater, me cheeto niye maramingisa na tiyo maramoja, tiyo marambili na pia anajua wu Karo Soni was cheating on him with. Mesa mwa ni ki diya na ambaia li kwa na ishi kikuyu area a mo eka pia nambaia ake palia aka sema pia nyumba, nambaia nyumba, kweili mula mwa me kuwa kefanya investigation about this particular thing. Lakin ni pia me tu eleza, this incident happened one year ago and it was just about to be exposed lakin ni aka sema what should I protect the image ya Karo Soni. Na sasa mula mwa me tooka details nyingisa na kasema na ibo aligwa gimtumia information of what Karo Soni is doing during the pandemic na pia ulewa kati, they were shooting keeping up with the mula mwaz. Ya ni sijui story me yo na palia kwam tanda ula kini pia mula mwa mwa mweza ku post so many images and bazo ni ziko very graphic. Sijuka matua eza ku zi eka apa lakin ni a mezi posti palia kisema the first time that Karo Soni lost the baby a meili seme kana ita miscarriage. Mula mwa na eza ku to ambia ya kwan but it was not a miscarriage but it was an abortion. Ya ni sijui no na je story do you feel like these details were supposed to come online. Lakin ni mula mwa mwa eza ku jeleza ya aka sema that was something she did she was trying she terminated her first pregnancy and it wasn't a miscarriage.  I really don't know lakin ni pia li sema I wonder why we all try to look good out there and paint others bad when we know we have done what we have done behind our backs. Mimi sijui no na lea dee story let me know on the comments section. Do you think it was right for mula mwa to do what he has done on social media? Do you believe that Karo Soni did this? We are waiting to hear from Karo and just hear what she has to say as well but in the meantime leave a comment down below. This is 20 Updates, SPM Baz.