No, my co tonight include the Avengeman co founder of code pink with Jodi Evans is also on the call tonight, honey is your dad Barnes, who I met as a 2020 DNC Bernie delegate, also Cole Harrison and Brian Garvey in Massachusetts piece action. A big shout out and thank you to our organizers and tech navigators Shea LeBeau and Mahakan will be with us tonight. So, in the chat, we encourage you to introduce yourselves where you're from, if you know who your congressional representative is, we'd love to know. We'll be hearing from some great guests tonight Dr Arturo Lopez Levy is a political analyst for CNN, as well as Manolo de los Santos, the co executive director of the People's Forum in New York City talking about Cuba. We want to get Cuba off the state sponsor of terrorism list. That's absurd and we'll talk about that. But first, some updates let's go to you media for an update on what's happening with Afghanistan. Okay we can't hear you. Okay, can you hear me. Yes. Okay. Well, the latest in Afghanistan is that the judge who is looking at the possibility of taking 3.5 billion of the frozen funds and using it for 911 families came out with a recommendation saying that money should not be used for the 911 families, which is a fabulous great ruling for us, except that she is not doesn't have the final word. There's another judge that now takes her recommendation into consideration, and we'll see what he comes up with. And then of course there's always an appeals process. In any case it was good news, but there is already 3.5 billion sitting in US banks that the administration could have already sent back to the central bank of Afghanistan and haven't done it. So, even if we get that money released, doesn't mean that the Biden administration will send it back to Afghanistan so the fight continues to get that money back to the central bank. Yeah, and now we go to Hania Jadad Barnes for an update on US-Iran relations, not looking so bright tonight, huh? Well, yeah. Yes and yes and no. I would love to keep it positive and optimistic here because we know after literally 16 months, close to 17 months of negotiations, there is a bit of an optimism that the United States and Iran and even the European Union are not closer to reaching an agreement, reviving the JCPOA, which is as you all know is formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, to limit Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons. The issues are going back and forth on the text of the negotiations with the Iranian civil society is really facing daily challenges under sanctions. What we know so far is that Iran wanted previously in the previous texts of the negotiation is to have the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps removed from the State Department list as a foreign terrorist group, but that request has been dropped from the new text by Iran. Additionally, Iran wants to have the US remove all of the unilateral and extreme sanctions and it's also asking to be compensated if the future US President pulls out of the deal in addition to really demanding that the three-year-old probe by the International Atomic Energy Agency into its nuclear programs be shut down. On the negative side, and we are very close to re-entering the JCPOA, but even though the diplomats now wrangle and go back and forth over possible revival of the nuclear accord, Iran's Navy just recently seized two American seal drones in the Red Sea last week. The capture came just days after the country's parliamentary Revolutionary Guard tow another sea drone before releasing it as the American warship trailed it, and the US Navy has been now deploying ultra endurance aerial surveillance drones to monitor threats in crucial waterways. We know that tensions also remain high after recent confrontations between the US forces and Iranian-backed militia groups in that region. We know also that Washington just recently last month carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria that targeted areas used by militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, prompting the response from the Iranian back fighters. So although we do have some optimism in terms of Iran joining and rejoining the nuclear deal, because Iran has capability between 60% to 90% of uranium enrichment, and Iran can in fact develop nuclear weapons, these tensions are now escalating. And I just hope for the sake of Iranian people and us not entering into another yet a long war, everyone comes to their senses and rejoin the JCPOA with diplomacy. Thank you for that update, honey. And just to let everybody know on Tuesday, September 20, that's the third Tuesday of the month, we will be focusing on a piece with Iran and unfreezing the Afghanistan's assets. So save that date as well. I want to share with you right now what's happening with our peace and Ukraine coalition. This was initiated by Code Pink. And we have partners, Massachusetts Peace Action that's co-sponsoring this event tonight as one of our partners, as is Veterans for Peace, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US and other organizations. I'd like to share with you our website because we are coming up today, September 6, yeah. And starting September 12 through the 15th, we will have a week of action. There you see it is. And we're asking that all of you get involved. And if we scroll down, we can see what our central messages are, ceasefire now, diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine, money for climate jobs, healthcare and housing, not weapons for endless war, do not risk nuclear war. The latest reports that I'm reading suggest that we are spending or we have already allotted anywhere between $40 and $50 billion in the last six months for weapons and military equipment training and intelligence for Ukraine. This is not the way to de-escalate certainly. And there's so much at stake here.  So we've got to put the brakes on and we need everybody involved. We have four days of action and we'll be sending out a blast that says four actions to take to end the war in Ukraine. So we're going to quickly review some of these actions and I am asking you to post in the chat what you are willing to do as I go through these actions. So let's take a look at Monday, September 12. This is a national call in and write in data Congress tell Congress no more escalation we have a one click message. I have to do is click on that. The International has put out this a similar call to Congress to oppose weapons shipments will be on war. And then we have a code pink one click vote no on the 2023 military budget because we know that that includes a lot of money for militarism in Ukraine as well. Beyond that we also asked people to call Congress there's the number for Capitol Hill the switchboard call for ceasefire you know we're hearing lawmakers in the United States say we don't want to ceasefire we want to beat Russia we want to win this war and fight into the last Ukrainian keep arming them and this is madness right because we are just ensuring further death and destruction and a protracted war we have to say no to this. Let's go to Tuesday, September 13. There we have. Now this is the call. This is the outreach to the White House and the State Department. Again, very similar messages calling for a ceasefire we want diplomacy. I had yet to hear President Biden mentioned the word diplomacy in reference to Russia and Ukraine. Nor have I heard Secretary of State Blinken mentioned the word diplomacy in reference to those countries. This isn't this is an outrage. We have a foreign policy fueled only by militarism and US global domination. Let's challenge it. Okay, moving on to Wednesday, and you can find all of these actions on our website at peace. www piece in Ukraine.org and I'll post that in the chat in a minute on Wednesday, September 14 is our national call and write in day and tweet to the media, specifically the New York Times, Washington Post CNN and MSNBC. We want these media outlets to feature alternative voices and we have a few that we're recommending code pink co founder co author, media Benjamin, who is about to release a book. She co authored with Nicholas JS Davies war in Ukraine making sense of a senseless war. I'm reading an advanced copy, it is fantastic. You will be featuring the idea and Nicholas later on and another code Conrad in October will hear more about that book which I hope all of you will read and share. Another person we're suggesting we promote is and right retired. Jeffery sacks economists, and we've listed others here on the website. You can send an email we're going to send the email. Let's take a look. We scroll down. We have some addresses. So we're asking you to take these actions but also to urge your friends and allies of your own list serves post all of this. Let's not keep it secret we want to share, share all of this valuable information and calls to action. Finally, on the last day, Thursday, September 15. Or Friday, September 16 that works for you. We have actions we're asking people to there we go. Email me your action titled event daytime location, describe it. Who do we contact we want to know more because we are posting these events on our piece in Ukraine or website and if you scroll down. We can see some of the events that are organized. We have one in Washington DC, maybe is organizing now with others. We have San Francisco, Nashville, San Mateo, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, and we are in the midst of posting one in Maryland to so do get us that information we urge you. So, what's the action, the action could be just setting up a zoom as Jodi Evans co founder of code pink mentioned earlier. She and others in her district her congressional district will be meeting with Congressman Ted loose office during this week of action to talk about deescalation in Ukraine. You can do that. You could have a rally outside your Congress members office and invite them down to talk to you. You could take this message to the street, hold a street vigil, you could go visit CNN of CNN is in one of your in your city, or you could visit the State Department their State Department offices everywhere you have a small delegation. Go visit them, bring a letter, we have sample letters. So, I hope all of you will get involved, and I'll post the relevant information in the chat. Thank you. All right, now we're going to go back to Cuba. We're going to visit with Brian Garvey of Massachusetts peace action who recently returned from Cuba. Brian tell us about it. Thanks, Marcy, and let me just say. This is why we love doing this this work with with code pink, because, you know, here at Massachusetts peace action, we're really about taking action and what you just heard, I mean, how ambitious was that. Great job in organizing. But yes, like Marcy just said, I just got back, La Habana less than 24 hours ago. I was down there on a delegation with with witness for peace solidarity collective. I went with organizers with artists and with elected officials from both the Boston area and several from Minneapolis, and also folks that are working on racial justice issues and policing issues. I was down there to learn from the Cuban people about their healthcare system about their economic system about how they use the arts to bring community together and boy do they just in every way imaginable. But also about the effects of the blockade, which is now over 60 years old. You know, while I don't think I've ever run into people who are more resilient than the Cuban people. The blockade does affect them, and it affects them every day. Now they've managed to, like I said they're resilient they've they've managed to to build a wonderful society. They've dealt with the effects of colonialism, and both by by the Spanish and neocolonialism by the United States in the early 20th century. So I'm sure most of you know, but it hasn't been without great difficulty. You know they have been building a society that provides for their people that provides housing that provides education that provides health care that was in some of the best best life expectancy in hemisphere. And they've done all of this with one hand tied behind their back. And I have to say, it was embarrassing for me to know that it was my government that has tied that back. While we were in Cuba. The Biden administration made an announcement that they were going to continue policy. They're going to continue the trading with the enemy act in reference to Cuba for another year. And while, while it was disappointing for us all on the delegation. It was also motivating. We really, we really saw with our own eyes how important it is for us to end this blockade. And it's going to take a lot of advocacy for us to do so. We're all here tonight. So I'm glad to be with everyone here and I'm glad to be taking it taking action so quickly after returning from Cuba. Because they're, they're still facing the effects of the fire that they had just a month ago and the tonsis where I visited the tonsis province. They're dealing with blackouts because of the shortage of food fuel. They're also dealing with the shortage of food in some instances.  So thank you code pink for for doing so much organizing on this and for giving me the opportunity to advocate for Cuba, less than 24 hours after returning. It's really important to me and I'm really thankful for the opportunity. Thank you Brian, thank you Brian Garvey of Massachusetts Peace Action for going to Cuba, expressing solidarity and sharing with us your experience there. We also code pink is organizing a trip to Cuba and I'll post the link to that if you're interested in going for now we're going to turn over to turn to media Benjamin who will introduce our first guest media. That's great Brian that you went there and I'm so excited that you're back and able to take action right away. And our next speaker is somebody who I tremendously admire we're so happy that he was able to join us. We have here Arturo Lopez level a Cuban American he's a political analyst for CNN Spanish author of the book Raul Castro and the new Cuba, a close up view of change. He's been a fellow at the Inter American dialogue, the Aspen Institute Socrates Society, and a consultant for the new America Foundation. I recently was a full bright visiting professor at the autonomous University of Madrid, and one of my favorite affiliations that you have Arturo is that you're on the advisory board of a group I helped start called as said a alliance for Cuba engagement and respect that has been pressuring Congress and the White House to change its policy towards Cuba. Thank you so much for joining us Arturo. Well, can you hear me now. Yeah, so it's first of all, let me thank the thing, a cold pink for these kind invitation to talk about a Cuba on the list of nations sponsoring of terrorism. I think it's a great opportunity to thank the organization for what do what you do, defending peace in the best tradition of us patriotism from through all a Emerson and those people even in the 19th century that attract the admiration of the great Cuban national hero, Jose Martin. It's a, let me let me begin by saying that I always remember when we have phrases like Cuba see Yankees know or Cuba see and block a or no that it is one that I like a lot or like Cuba see and buy the know that I notice in the sign of our event I always remember the phrase of cultures that said that my country right or wrong if right to keep to be kept right or if and if wrong to be said right and I know that is a phrase that said a lot because we we used to say when I was studying in Cuba, that we say Cuba see and Yankees to if the Yankees are people like Lincoln or people like people from cold pink and people like I am now because I am now a citizen also of the United States. So that said, let me address the issue that we that I have been invited to talk here. I have a strong accent. If at any time, anybody doesn't understand what I say, I will be very glad to correct what I say. The first thing that I am going to be to divide my seven eight minutes in two topics. The first one is the first one is why Cuba should not be on the list of nations, a sponsor of terrorism. And the second is why should Biden take you off the list of nations, a sponsor of terrorism, as soon as possible. The first thing is that the least if you look at the creation of the least. I'm not going to say the way it has been misused, but the purpose the proclaim purpose of the lease was to send a serious signal to the international community, other nations about countries that the United States perceive a base on a kind of national criteria on some technical criteria that those countries are engaging in supporting terrorism. This is the this look to be, or supposed to be a very important tool of US policy against terrorism. And among other reasons because the US because of certain behaviors, but also because of its prominence have been the target of many terrorist activities in the past and today is the target of the potential target of many terrorist activities with four by groups that has an anti American agenda. And that's, that's a call to use the least responsible and to have their countries that specifically and only satisfy the criteria to be nations sponsors of terrorism. And by any meaning, even by the reports that the State Department has been writing about this issue, the State Department is not providing any main criteria or any technical criteria to say that Cuba should be on the list. The most important evidence that I have seen in the last year was a couple of months ago when they or a month and a little more ago when asked by a reporter about whether Cuba was on analysis to be taken off the list. And applying these criteria basically engaging in supporting terrorist activities of an international character, the only answer but make net price. And one of the reasons the, the press secretary of the State Department was that the State Department was aware that in the Trump administration, the secretary Pompeo put Cuba on the list so no argument in favor of keeping Cuba on the list. The only argument is that they are aware that the Trump administration before leaving office put Cuba on the list. I think that it is really serious and beyond the dignity of a power that claimed to be a democratic great power to give this type of answer. And when it is using a foreign policy tool that it is explained as essential and very important in an issue of utmost importance for national security. So if we talk about this we should mention also that US allies that are involved in anti terrorist activities. And I know that there might be a debate about this, but European countries, India, Israel, Pakistan, many countries have said that the use of this type of list should be a serious issue. Because it is a way to coordinate with, for instance, as part of the quad with Australia with India with Japan about countries that seriously are engaged in this type of activity. So it's a failure in the relationship with US allies too. And last but not least, I would mention that when we talk about or when Biden talk about a return, America is back and that it's a kind of action for reinforcing the multilateral approach of the United States. It is very difficult to see this line of weaponizing misusing a list that's supposed to send clear signal to the rest of the community about an issue like this one. And use it for other purpose. Even if the United States want to say that Cuba is a one-party system, it should be on a list of one-party system countries. If they believe that Cuba is not cooperating on a specific issue, well, make a list for that. But it is definitely not the proper place to put Cuba on a list that Cuba doesn't belong to. And let me say, let me go now to the second part. And let me tell you, this is having tremendous consequences for multilateral coordination of policies. And this is something relevant because even during the pandemic, the highest point of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States refused to cooperate with Cuba on an international strategy. When UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and High Commissioner for Human Rights Michel Bachelet asked all countries that were sanctioning other countries to reassess the role of the sanctions and its humanitarian cause, Cuba was one of the few countries that the Biden administration took a look at the sanctions. And the sanctions against Cuba include financial sanctions that the US is getting reports from the SWIFT system about financial sanctions that are against Cuba because of compliance of financial institutions with the anti-terrorist struggle. So by the kitchen, the United States include Cuba on the list of nations' sponsors of terrorism and because of fear on many financial institutions and extraterritorial use of American laws against transactions that don't violate Cuban law, don't violate international law, don't violate European laws, for instance. Information is provided to the United States and the United States use it to sanctions Cuban entities, governmental and non-governmental, or delaying transactions that were even destined to use in alleviating the problem of the pandemic. So let me go now to the second and I will go very fast. Why should Biden take Cuba off the list as soon as possible? First, because Cuba is not a threat to the United States and by treating Cuba as a national security threat to the United States, the United States is using the wrong official image about Cuba. People that are, the Saudi international relations put a lot of emphasis on the construction of images and in the US official discourse, all the institution, all the, there are a lot of legal triggers that force a treatment of Cuba that Cuba doesn't deserve and is a wrong diagnostic of the situation that Cuba, in which Cuba is by now. This obviously has consequences. First, this wrong diagnostic affect the fact that Cuba is a country in transition and is in the middle of an intergenerational transition of leadership, is transitioning into a more market oriented economy and what it calls is for a policy of engagement that has nothing to do with the policy that the United States will address or target against a country that is a national security threat against the United States. It's also the idea of taking Cuba off the list of nation's sponsor of terrorism that it was in Cuba was included in the list at the last hour by the Trump administration. My Pompeo did it as part of his electoral campaign probably he if Trump doesn't run something that is doubtful but if Trump doesn't run, he would like to be in good terms with a Cuban American right winds in Miami, but he did it on January the 12 of 2021. And after saying that he was preparing the State Department for a transition to a second Trump administration. Basically, someone that was very close to the insurgents who invade the first branch of our Republic. It is then a test case of how much they were the United States is committed to a multilateral effort to combat terrorism and play a positive role in such important issue. Something that is very important to our region that is Latin America is the peace in Colombia. One of the reasons that were used by the Trump administration was the negative of Cuba to extra life to Colombia. Some members of the National Liberation Army, a guerrilla that was negotiating with the government, the Colombian government in Habana. According to declarations of the Norwegian ambassador Norway, a country that nobody can doubt of his credential is a NATO partner of the United States and the ambassador of Norway in Colombia that was previously the ambassador of Norway in Cuba. He said that Cuba was denying the extradition based on protocols that were signed and agreed by all parties, the Colombian government, the guerrillas, the Norwegian government and the Cuban government as goodwill mediators in the conflict. So now what we have is that President Petro, the recently elected president of Colombia has called for a beginning again of the negotiations. He has called for Chile to accompany the process and he did it on his inaugural ceremony and three hours after president of Chile, Gabriel Boris said Chile is ready to join the effort. In less than three days after the inauguration, Alvaro Leyva, the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Colombia, traveled to Habana and denounced and asked Cuba for forgiveness for the fact that because of the previous government, Cuba, that has done so much for peace in Colombia, was affected and harmed by simply honoring the protocols. And now what you see in the majority, in the majority what I would say with the objection of Bolsonaro, everybody else in Latin America is saying let's work again on a peace process in Colombia and Cuba has been agreed by the government of Gustavo Petro and by the guerrillas as the best place for this negotiation to take place. Let me round up and I'm going to finish here. And in this case, it is important to remember that as Vice President of President Obama, Biden supported the participation and he was in charge of the Latin American region and he supported the sending to Habana of a special American envoy that it is said that he played a positive role in accompanying the negotiations that were mediated or promoted by Norway and Cuba. And in this case, a Bernard Aronson went to Cuba and played a very important role. It is unimaginable, unthinkable, that something like that can be done if the United States kept Cuba on a list that Cuba doesn't belong. Yeah, that's it. I'm sure that I went a little over. Thank you. Okay, you're forgiven. Thank you so much an honor to have you Dr Arturo Lopez leave you a political analyst for Senate and Spanish. Now we go to Hania Jodad Barnes to introduce our next speaker. Thank you, Marcy and again, Dr, you're going to have some time to answer some questions from our audience which I would really encourage everyone to please put in the chat so we can when media and Marcy in the next section they can ask those questions from our speakers. I cannot say enough about our next guest. He's someone who's very dear to my heart, because he's by far one of the most courageous and brightest activists and scholars of our time, who is at the forefront of this fight to bring awareness to the suffering of Cuban people. He's been here of spending about three days with code pink and him in Los Angeles early in June as he co coordinated the people summit conference which was held in opposition to the Biden summit of America's which failed miserably. There were about 3000 attendees from 15 different countries who opened up the space for a shared dialogue unity and collaboration. He was the co executive director of the people's forum in New York City, and he is a researcher at Tri Continental Institute of Social Research. He co edited most recently, Viva Ramos Venezuela versus hybrid war and comrade of the revolution selected speeches of Fidel Castro. He is the co coordinator of the people's summit, as I mentioned earlier for democracy and worked at the Martin Luther King Center in Havana. It is an honor to be in this space with human although please take it away. I'm honored to be in the face of same space with you, and the whole code pink family that gathers on these calls to fight for something, not just for one cause but for all the causes were fighting for. So how can anyone go after Dr Lopez levy. It's an honor to speak in the same space with him as well. As an organizer and activist I kind of come from a different route. And it's to say that the state sponsors of terrorism list is a completely arbitrary list. Despite whatever legal criteria, the State Department and other organs of the US government have created this list is completely arbitrary. And it's been proven since its creation. Going back to the 80s that it's always been used as a tool for political punishment against countries that do not align with US foreign policy. It has always been used as a stick against any country that talks about sovereignty or defense itself in any way shape or form against the corporate and military interests of the US and their regions. Why is cool bond this list. I think Dr Lopez levy explained it well enough that there's no rational reason, even according to the arbitrary criteria as to why Cuba should even be on that list. But almost advocate that it's almost like what is the next campaign. Our next campaign should be abolish this list to begin with. It has no use in our world. And often it's accompanied by cruel sanctions against the peoples of the world. I want to ask, why is in Saudi Arabia on the state sponsors of terrorism list for its acts of terrorism against the people of Yemen. When is the state of Israel going to be put on this list for its crimes against the Palestinian people against the people of Syria against the people of Lebanon. How many terrorists acts go on in the world today that actually received the support of the US government itself. Who will put the US government on a list for state sponsoring of terrorism. All Latin Americans, my age and older will know and will be able to recount. Not the hundred, the several thousands of young people who were in their 20s and 30s were disappeared by military dictatorship sponsored by the United States government, who will account for their lives. Therefore, I want to take away any credence. I want to take any morality, any sense of realness from this list. It does not deserve our respect. It does not reserve any sense of legality in our view. Why this affects the Cuban people so harshly. We have a very personal experience that I think many of us in the organizing community around Cuba faced when the fire in Matanzas took place just a few weeks ago. We saw how the US Embassy in Havana I think trying to say face immediately rushed and tweeted. We welcome all entities in organizations in the US who want to send humanitarian aid and who want to help the Cuban people in this moment to do so there are no barriers there's no legal limitations to doing so. But it seems like the US Embassy forgot about one of the most evil illegal instruments, which is precisely the state sponsors of terrorism list. No bank. No single bank in the United States are actually in many parts of the world was willing to make a transaction of humanitarian donated money to support the Cuban people after the fire in Matanzas. We heard stories from all over the world of organizations that were collecting funds to support the Cuban people and buy medicine by other necessary supplies. We wanted that money to go directly to the hands of the Cuban Red Cross and other entities including religious organizations in Cuba that were providing support, and it was impossible. Precisely because of the threat that banks around the world face because of this designation that Cuba somehow sponsors terrorism. Definitely something is wrong in this world. When countries like Cuba that send doctors and teachers all over the world, then have to pay the price of being called terrorists to their face.  It's important that we take up this issue, because now more than ever, I was just in Cuba, like the Comrade from Massachusetts was saying I was also in Cuba just a few days ago. The energy crisis is only getting worse on the island. And that affects every other aspect of life. I'm thinking about the school children in Cuba who just yesterday started school again. They have to face a whole school year under these conditions. Who will be responsible for that? Of course, all the wonderful anti-communist in the world will say, and some of some Cuban Americans will say, not all of them, some of them will say, well, it's the Cuban government's fault. Why do we keep using that silly excuse when it's becoming more and more obvious that it's US sanctions? That is all this legalese that the US government has put in place? That it's the state sponsor of terrorism that is preventing the Cuban people from even doing basic things? One of the things that struck me the most, talking to people on the street, and this hurt me in a way that probably very few other things in life have hurt me. Which is that more and more people are commenting that life right now is looking more the same, if not worse, than the special period in the early 90s. The trauma that comes along with this for Cuban families is intense. If we're not able to actively push the US government to review this question of Cuba's role on the list, then we will have basically extended a period of major deprivation for the Cuban people in light of everything else that's taking place. As food prices go up, as energy prices go up, as Cuba is even prohibited from even bringing in pieces to repair its energy grid. What we do next on something that looks so small, but yet is so essential to the larger puzzle that is US Cuba foreign policy is going to be key. So I'm so excited to be joining with Code Pink on this campaign. I'm excited to be joining people across the country. I almost feel like there's nothing more to say because Dr. Lopez Levy said it all. But piece by piece of this charade called the State Sponsors of Terrorism, this has been falling that Cuba was sponsoring terrorism in Colombia. No one in Colombia believes that name anywhere else in the world. In fact, just to end here, the beautiful story to end all of this. Cuba is now sending 500 doctors to one of the poorest regions in Italy, to the region of Calabria. With what interest? Save lives. That is Cuba's mission that has been its foreign policy that has been the way it approaches international relations. If anything, I want to honor a previous campaign that Code Pink led Cuba in fact should be given the Nobel Peace Prize for what it does. Thank you so much. Thank you so much Manolo de los Santos so eloquent. So powerful yeah when are we going to abolish this list. At this point Brian Garvey of Massachusetts peace action is going to lead us in a campaign to get Cuba off the state sponsors of terrorism list. We have a Code Pink one click he'll tell you all about it. Brian. Thank you Marcy and thank you Manolo for your powerful words. I was at the MLK Center. That's that's where I stayed in Cuba and I just want to let you know that all the people there are doing great. I don't know if you know Sandor and Polo and she know but I met some of the warmest people in Cuba, not just people associated with the center but people that I would just run into on the streets of Cuba. And it surprised me. Because I know the damage that my government has done. But I saw with my own eyes there are monuments in the streets of Cuba, calling for friendship with the United States. I know they are not an enemy of the United States of America it was plain I saw with my own eyes. The only way that this policy is going to change is if we make a demand. And so that's what we're going to do now. Shea is going to say just about my heart just put in in the chat, a one click. Marcy just put it again. Please, you know if you were inspired by the words that you just heard. It's really easy, it takes about a minute, maybe even less, and you can send a message to the administration to members of Congress, as well I believe, calling for an end to this harmful policy. Manolo's right, it's completely unfounded. And it's a continuation of the Trump policy, as well. People voted to change government because we wanted some some changes in policy. And this last minute, last minute designation, which is completely unfounded by Mike Pompeo and Donald Trump, and that administration. It is, it's embarrassing that it's being continued by by the Biden administration. So we have to let him know. We have to let him know that that this is important that this is a voting issue for you. And that you expect him to carry through on some of the promises that he made during the campaign that, you know, they were going to return to normalizing relations with Cuba. And at the very least returned to some of the achievements of the Obama administration that did make life easier. You know, we don't need to, we don't need to put the squeeze on these people anymore, there's no need for it there's no justification for it. We need to be good neighbors. We need to be friends with a nation that's 90 miles to ourself. These are good people. These are good people and they need an end to this policy so if you haven't taken the action here. Please do. I put I put it in the chapter third time or fourth time and I ask all of you on this call to please share this one click this petition I think we have 10,000 signatures let's get more. Telling the White House what we want we don't want to wait a year before we take up this issue again we want to an end to it right now it's so unjust. I have a Q&A right now with our special guest, Dr. Arturo Lopez Levy and Manolo de los Santos so if we can put them on the screen highlight them. And Manolo as well. Excuse me. It's my phone going off. I think there was probably a heat wave advisory coming my way but anyway, back to Cuba. I have a question maybe and I are going to ask questions and you can please post your questions on the chat as well. What is to be done, what, what about the landscape in Florida can we talk about that at all because it seems like politically, the Biden administration is at least waiting until after the midterms maybe after that. I think it's about demnings elected as the senator of Florida. They want to see Florida, you know, often a swing state considered a swing state to vote for Democrats. What, what do you recommend as a strategy to bring Florida over enough to our side to convince the Biden administration it isn't such a risk to take Cuba off this ridiculous list. So, Manolo, Dr. Arturo Lopez Levy, Medea any of you who want to take that. I can say some things there and I begin let me thank Manolo for his kind words about my presentation and knowing that it's obvious that there are different approaches, I value more what he did. I want to mention also that there is a phrase that he used I said, no one in Colombia believe that that Cuba is a nation sponsors of terrorism. And when he say no one is no one. Because even President Albert Uribe, that is considered to the right of Genghis Khan, he went to a meeting with President Petro, and he said that he support the idea of beginning again the negotiations in Cuba between the ELN and the government. Anyway, in his memoirs, Alvaro Uribe said that he was happy with the conversations that he had about the negotiations with the FARC with Fidel Castro, not even with Diaz Canel or Raul Castro. Alvaro Uribe said that Fidel Castro was helping in the negotiation with the FARC that his wife, I don't remember her name, was sometimes bothered because Castro called very late at night, but the conversation was worth that he told, I don't remember her name, that it was important to get the call from Fidel, something that I just want to mention because I think he used a very good phrase when he said this word that no one in Colombia believe that. That was the main rationale used to put Cuba on the list of nations' sponsors of terrorism. They don't have anything to throw at us in terms of some kind of rationality to discuss this issue. But talking about Florida, I think that it is very important to dialogue with the Cuban American community and bring this debate inside Miami. And inside the debate there. There is a recent victory in the primary, in the district that Baldeming left open, and there is a Cuban American there for the first time. There is someone that openly say that the embargo is a disaster and an offense against the Cuban people. I know that some people were not very happy with things that he said in democracy now, but for me it's more than enough. It's a historical watershed that has been crossed. Someone that most likely be in the next Congress, a Cuban American that begin by saying that his view about the embargo or the blockade is that it harms the Cuban people and that the Republicans has manipulated this issue under the coverage or under the facade that they are promoting human rights. The blockade has nothing to do with human rights. There might be legitimate concerns to discuss about human rights in Cuba, but none of them is promoted by the embargo. And about the elections, I saw today early in the morning because I tried to check the elections in Florida, and 538 was given as a compound indicator close to 15%, 15%, because sometimes people when I say 15, they understand 50. So let me be clear this 15%, 15% of opportunity for Baldeming to win the election in Florida. So I think it is very hard to believe that the administration is still think that she can win the senatorial race. And I will concentrate more in a district that is more competitive, that is the district in which Congresswoman Maria Salazar is the only competitive district probably after the Santis redrawing gerrymandering of the map of Florida that is where it is a Colombian American. Now I forgot her name, but I will remember. She's running against Maria Alvira Salazar, who had been very hard on promoting the idea of Cuba as a terrorist country and even has accused President Gustavo Petro of also being a terrorist. Thank you so much, Dr. Turalipesli, for your analysis. Manolo, anything you want to add about the landscape, the political landscape? Oh, you're good? Okay. Well, I think it would be good to continue on this path of what we can do. And we know that Marco Rubio, the senator in Florida, is very strong when it comes to this policy, but also a Democratic Senator Menendez is very powerful and helps to set the agenda. Given that he is a Democrat, why isn't it possible to put more pressure on him to come out against some of the sanctions or the terrorist list? Do you think there is some possibility there? And Arturo, I'll ask you that, because you know he's a Cuban American. I think that Marco Rubio is running for everything he can, and he's not running for president because of his very bad performance in 2016, but he has big ambitions and his statements are of the worst kind. Marco Rubio even has claimed that the embargo doesn't exist. And what I think is, if we could have a good PR campaign, it will be good to get everything he has said and basically use some rationale to oppose it, because if something doesn't exist, why to keep it in the first place? But he keeps saying that there is no embargo. And the second thing that they are claiming is that the private sector is very important for the development of Latin America, except and except now, et cetera, and et cetera. And now what we have is the opening in Cuba of a significant space for private sector and cooperatives, and the US policy is anchored in 1989 or something like that, that make very difficult to believe that there is a policy towards Cuba as the fundamental rational of what they are doing. This is the policy towards Florida or I will say towards Miami by other means. I don't know if I answered the question of if there is something specific that you would like that I address. And by the way, in the case of bald demons, I think in some sense, if I were in Florida, I will vote for her and not for Rubio, because of her position about guns and other issues. But even in the issue of stopping prosecuting or stopping appropriating a budget for persecuting travelers to Cuba or not persecuting travelers to Cuba, to persecuting sale of food to Cuba. Not even allowing but but cutting the funds for the Treasury Department monitoring a sales of food to Cuba in the middle of the pandemic. In the middle of a situation really, really difficult for Cuba, but them in steel, both against the majority of her party. So the majority of the Democrats both both in favor of the Rachida Tali amendment to the budget bill, and still, but then stay on the side of Diaz Balar and their, the rest of the delegation in Florida on this issue so I don't have any hope in the Cuba issue with her. And I believe that if I have some money to put in the in the race, I will go for the for the for the district that is competitive. And, and I tried that and it's the name of the Colombian woman that I forgot earlier by the way, the Cuban American that is supporting that is opposing the embargo as in human is Maxwell Alejandro Frost, in case I forgot to say it. But we need to contrast this issue where the money will make a difference if you have some money to put on also where there is a narrative that eventually could make a change in the next Congress. Thank you so much. I have a question about the sanctions. How do we get around them how it can or is Cuba circumventing these sanctions. How are they obtaining medicines syringes for the vaccines. All sorts of supplies that they need desperately. And is there anything we can do to help them. I know code pink is raising money and has raised money a lot. But what else. It's an extremely complicated scenario, because I think even ways that Cuba had established over the last few years to sort of go around us sanctions to sort of go through the US blockade to be able to access basic supplies and not just medicine but many other things for their country have been shut down because of the 243 sanctions placed by the US by the US government and the Trump specifically. I mean, right now there are stories, for example, of Cuba makes oil purchases abroad. The ship is on open sea on its way to Cuba. This ship is somehow diverted and sent to another port. Even after the fact that Cuba's paid for it. We still see examples where the fact that Cuba's actually not trying to buy medicine but Cuba's trying to buy the raw materials needed to create its own medicine it has a powerful pharmaceutical industry with capable scientists a capable industry for this. It's been almost in made impossible for Cuba to buy these supplies in the last two years, which is why there's a major scarcity in this. I think the real pressure from us has to be not just to raise money to send supplies. Because as much as it is useful to Cuba in the short run. None of what we fundraise for can ever really meet Cuba's demands. None of it. I have one last question. It's a necessary act, but we have to do more. And I think the big push has to be against those sanctions. Even if we can't convince everyone, particularly people in Congress that the US blockade is something immoral and cruel that needs to be removed getting some consensus on why would we want to maintain the sanctions placed by Trump. Only actively hurt more and more of Cuba's population, not its government is a big thing to actually bring about in conversation. Can I say something about that. I think that there are there is an area in which the action and bringing the issue to the discussion is very important is what happened with in my chances. Hello. Yeah, and what happened in my chances had a consequences for the environment. There was a meeting by phone or by by soon between Cuban officials and officials of the United States of several agencies on this issue. And we should try to build on what happened during the last two years of the Obama administration. There were some protocols about environmental protection that even touch the issue of Florida. Cuba need the rep to repair or even rebuild the base of super tankers is something that many experts are saying is that there should be an opportunity for a cooperation between the United States and Cuba. Outside the sanctions and opening the possibility of financial transactions that will allow Cuba to reveal those energy deposits, because the process of bringing in addition to what Manolo said, the process of bringing this oil to land. It's very difficult from in other places and not in this station that was built in 1980 but still is the best installation that Cuba has for this. So we should. This is an area in which we should work. I think that we should not we should use the mechanism of licenses, but we should not stop denouncing that the mechanism of licenses is a big leaf over the cruelty that the embargo is is an economic weapon. It doesn't distinguish between civilians and non civilians. Sometimes it's even more permissive. The action on human rights in Cuba the action from a humanitarian perspective of the these sanctions that the real name is economic weapons. At times doesn't respect even a regulations that exist in international humanitarian law. I can give you examples, but we all have probably time for that so I will stop there. Thank you so much use the licenses use the licenses. But at the same time, I think we should not lose the the perspective of that the main target is to remove the sanctions and remove the sanctions and remove Cuba from state sponsor of terrorism list thank you so much Dr or Toro Lopez Levy and Manolo are there any final words you want to add. None just thank you so much for the invite and sorry I have to run. Thank you I'm going to ask everybody to unmute and thank our guests Dr or Toro Lopez Levy, and Manolo de los Santos de los Santos for joining us tonight we hear from everybody.


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The research that I'm doing at the moment looks at online platforms that create a new economy through digital media. Their importance is that they provide access to products and services which we all need in life. Well digital platforms are able to grow really fast because as soon as they start taking off they become like magnets, simply because they become these hotspots of supply and demand. The important question is whether innovation through platforms should be regulated. The platforms are growing faster than regulation can keep up with. What you see is that these online platforms, they become more and more powerful. Well there are of course not only opportunities but also challenges between what's actually possible technically and what we would want as a society. And as lawyers we don't quite know how to answer all the problems that arise in this new economy. For example, if you have Uber and something goes wrong, the consumer has an accident while driving in the taxi, can the consumer hold Uber liable? I can make a claim, but my chances of being successful are much smaller than in case I'm dealing with a business. Consumers may think that they are dealing with Uber, but Uber says we're not a party to the contract, which is in itself very problematic because if we don't know who's responsible then usually the weaker party, the consumer has to carry their own damages. And if we monitor that and learn from that then everybody will grow and benefit from it. My personal drive to do this kind of research is that I believe that law has a very important function to help change our relationships or structure them in a way that makes this world a better place for everyone.


Hi, how are you good? What do you got for me?   So I was like, oh Okay, so what do you got for me on the topic so on the topic I Trying to I'm I'm trying to get some advice some big brother advice. Okay, Kevin Okay You got to get to it though Okay Yeah, okay. I am seasoned a Little bit, but I'm not the skirt. Okay. It's a question woman. I'm sorry. What's the question? So I'm trying to figure out What I need to be focusing on and looking for I don't know what outcome do you want? I want happiness. You want to be married? Okay, hold on.   That's not gonna work No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no what I'm saying is not gonna work There's no marriage to a woman who's has four kids by four different means who's never been married What guy wants to follow that? So, so your answer is I'm done as far as marriage and all likelihood. Yeah, I mean, how old are you? 44 44 for first off man, let's take you out of it Let's say you you have a brother, right? Right and your brother comes up and says hey, hey sis, I'm gonna marry this woman with four kids by four different men She ain't never been married What you gonna tell him?  Of course, I'm gonna have my own personal experience You're gonna tell him absolutely So you love your brother so much you were telling to marry a woman four kids by four different men They never been married to either one of them. That ain't love ma'am. That ain't love Okay, ma'am ma'am listen This is where you women go wrong Because you're too into it. Do you have any sons? So to your your two sons come back and both of them say hey mama found a woman with four kids from four different men I'm a Mariah. You're gonna say go ahead son. Let's go ahead and plan that up Exactly Exactly because the men you're talking about are somebody's sons I mean, here's the thing if you didn't need to be married to have babies, you don't need to be married You don't need to be married. That's really how men think about it Okay I Get it ma'am I get how does how does how does your youngest child? All right, ma'am, but still you got to understand That you're deciding to come to these things at beyond middle-aged You are unless you're going to live to be a hundred you are beyond middle-aged Okay, you want me to tell you what you want to hear Or you let me tell you what I think Well then listen You you came to these decisions to where now this is now it seems to now be a priority Because the 44 with four kids you were just out here doing what you wanted to do.  All right, but then who's the thing I hear you But there is a man out there who's going to have to attach himself to you and what is he going to get? Yes So when he attaches himself to me, he's going to get An awesome individual He's going to get a down-to-earth individual someone that has a Grass on life and what they want Okay, someone that can provide Someone that knows how to cook Someone that knows how to Take care of the household That's what he's gonna get somebody's gonna. Okay. All right. So let me ask you let me ask you some other questions. Okay, okay How tall are you? I'm not dress size So I'm probably like 14 a.m. So I'm five nine to 30. All right five nine two hundred and thirty Four kids listen five nine forty four years old Five nine two hundred and thirty pounds size 14 with four children by four different men And everything that you said you were going to give provide for a man is you're gonna get an awesome individual Who has a grasp of something or other who knows how to clean a house and knows how to cook ma'am? He can get that and a 25 or 30 year old with no children and Address size six Listen listen, do you understand do you understand what I just said what you're bringing to the table what you're bringing to the table Okay, you're an accountant, right? Okay, okay I give a list listen, I give general advice on this show because you need specific advice use up some of that bag and book a session I don't just give free specialized advice So here's the thing yeah, but in general man, I'm speaking to you in some of terms of accounts can understand assets and liabilities Assets need to outweigh your liabilities for someone to want to take that deal And the things I've asked you about assets were very vague, but your liabilities are very real Absolutely. All right. Hopefully that helped


Alright folks, welcome on back here this Tuesday, May 4th, shortly after 2.30pm Eastern time. Welcome on back here for our afternoon meeting. Let's get a quick sound check just to begin. I just did before live inside our trading room, so I should be good to go across there. Great to see Tony who picked up some money just before on the VXRT trade. I see Skip, Michael, James, Bill, all of our students, Leda, Philip, Norman, Sharon as well, Debbie. Alright, cool, perfect. So for all of them and for all of us on social media, Facebook, live, and YouTube, welcome on back. To begin really quick, I didn't realize this. Let me just put the spy up for right now. I'd like to just show an ETF or an index all together just to see how the market generally is doing across the day. Here's the S&P ETF to spy. Pretty interesting. I ended up talking about this yesterday on a timing research podcast. You can go on their YouTube channel to listen. We were talking about what the S&P may do across this week, and I know a lot of analysts were already predicting it, but it's to say the writing was essentially on the wall. It was on the websites. So if you were tuning in or just watching all together, you could see the market dipping heading into the close yesterday. I'm pretty flat across the whole late morning, early afternoon, the S&P ETF to spy this is. Well, going into the final hour, maybe 45 minutes of the trading day yesterday, ended up tailing off, and then in the after hours dropped a bit further. And then of course, after the open today, we saw the S&P take a big dip. So a lot of stocks ended up dropping off, but to begin this PRPO trade, Jill says, I see the PRPO, you should. Just the spy is on the five minute chart, just going over that briefly. This year, PRPO goes to show, though, of course, you can make money even while the market's dropping. This stock was moving up leading into the market open. It was a huge move dating back to yesterday. We called this out perfectly going into this meeting yesterday, seeing this potentially re-break higher going into the close. And it was starting to do that this time yesterday, but ended up making another snap higher going into the final hour. And that's what led this thing to make the move that it made. But today, ended up making another big move, shot up right away shortly after the market opened.  Fausto says, what goes up usually comes down twice as hard. Nonetheless, ended up beginning to break down much further going into the mid to late morning, the early afternoon.  But ended up beginning to peek back over 5.50, pushed up 75 cents already. So pretty volatile, which we like. Good spreads, good liquidity. I'll put this on our main list for right now. My only concern is just for the volume that it traded yesterday, the volume that it traded today, and for the move that it made so far already. How much can we keep expecting this to just go up seamlessly without shaking? So wouldn't shock me if this begins to come back down sooner than later. Maybe it goes up to 6.50 before that ultimately happens. But we'll put this on our list to begin. You can actually see for right now, just kind of peeled away there for a second. Let's see if we can watch the bid. I saw just about like a 75, 76,000 share iceberg on the bid just a moment ago here. It's pushing up. Well, I mean, that's a consequence of having such a big order on the bid popping up. I mean, for the meantime, it's beginning to push upward from that order. Keep an eye on the bid roughly around 6.17, 6.18 on that trade. Maybe we'll even come back to this trade at the very end of it all. There we go, Kennedy. You saw that, right? Live inside our trading room. Looks like a couple of us ended up seeing this. All right, cool. So folks, what we'll do really just go from top to bottom. Amy says here, no sound on the YouTube feed. That should not be the case. So I should be good. I'm seeing that I am good to go. I should be good across YouTube. Double check with me there again, Amy. Otherwise, nonetheless though, we'll go from top to bottom. We had a couple of big moves across the top end of the gainers list here.  I'm going to actually skip over it. I looked at it much earlier and it's not really doing that much at all. It's like a pretty wacky stock. All right. Thank goodness. Yeah, cured my paranoia for a split second. Robert and Nicholas both saying there you could hear me. I ended up making a blunder maybe a week or two ago. I ended up going mute the first 15 minutes of the meeting. So I appreciate you folks backing up there. Hey, it could always be me. Now the COCP. Let's talk about this because we were talking about this when we were conducting our Traders Talk workshop earlier today for all of us live inside Cyber Group. I hope that you folks had a chance to tune into that at that hour. It's recorded. It will be on the student dashboard later this evening. For all of us on social media, feel free to join us here every day, but specifically every Tuesday we conduct this webinar. I ended up analyzing the COCP trade trailing down, going into the open. Wouldn't have expected it to make the move right out the gate. So no, that's what we mainly focused on, seeing this begin to coil up and then make the push up going into the mid morning shortly after 10 a.m. So no, we analyzed this move earlier in Traders Talk, not going to go much further into the morning push. Now going into what happened after Traders Talk for all of us here, at least in the trading room, where we left off. This was kind of coiling up, right? And I was saying, if it's not going to break out any higher, then there's only one other way it's going to go. We left off practically right here at 12 p.m. Eastern time. So never broke lower, but ended up making the push, right? Popped above 285 resistance, made a push upwards for just about another like 50 cents, really 60 cents. Now, unfortunately on this trade, I didn't catch this because we were finishing up the workshop. I was teaching and then after that I'm taking a break. Just a lot of talking early in the day today. So I was taking a small break, missed this push. That's fine. Not normally the best time to be trading anyway, probably going to catch a good move going into this next hour and a half. Well, I ended up beginning to trade this. I jumped in as this broke above resistance right here at $3.30. I wish that my trade station would cooperate and show you the exact time in which I got in. So I was doing this on 2,000 shares. It's cheap, tight spread. If it's not going to break lower, there's only one other way it's going to go, right? So I thought there was a great chance and much like Fausto himself chimed in going into the afternoon. You normally don't see him in the trading room in the afternoon. He was still looking at this trade saying it was strong, then out of nowhere. I mean, you can't really predict this. I don't even think news came out at the time. I ended up beginning to make this horrible shake on the way down. So where I got in from the $3.30 here, I was in at $3.31. I ended up closing 1,000 shares, halved my position out at $3.43 or somewhere around there at $3.42, $3.44, whatever. I set a stop on the remaining half of my position to ride it out. I was hoping for the home run on the second half of my position. Then out of nowhere, this massive shake happened. First and foremost, since I stayed away from it, there could have been a good bounce entry off of $2.50 after it looks like. But I stayed away after. I ended up getting stopped out on the second half of my position at $3.23. I ended up getting stopped out at. I was very thankful to get stopped out at in the first place because of how quick this dropped. It's very easy for a stop limit order to get skipped over. And should that happen, you're kind of screwed unless if it ends up making a pop back up suddenly to take you out again on the ask. That was a very dangerous situation. I brought this up generally to all of us live inside the trading room. And I'll say it again, if you got stuck in this shake, I would imagine, and no one wants to admit it, of course, but I would imagine there's probably about three to four of us live inside Cybergroup right now out of the 110, 120 of us that got caught in the shake, not only on this, but look at the same thing that happened on another big move that we caught from today, the BLRX. It was almost like in sync in sequence there. I mean, I don't think that they're related to one another. But as soon as this shake happened going into the two o'clock hour, the same damn thing happened on the BLRX. This may have happened maybe a couple minutes beforehand or a couple minutes afterwards. I forget exactly the chronology on it, but ended up making a big shake. I mean, it's not too surprising in the grand scheme of things. You just hope to see it make the big perfect steady push up. I mean, not every trade, unfortunately, can be like the PRPO from yesterday. And that was the one that we started this meeting off with, beautiful push into the afternoon. I mean, not everyone's going to be that easy, folks. If it was that easy, none of us would be live inside our trading room right now. I wouldn't feel a need to be teaching. None of us would feel a need to be joining us on social media here today or every day. So we just always have to think about that. We always need to set our stops for every trade that we get into because this is easily the consequence of a false breakout. If it's not breaking higher, again, I keep saying the same lines for a reason, right? So I narrowly avoided a huge shake again on that COCP. At this point between that, the BLRX for as much volume that both of these stocks are currently trading going into the afternoon. I don't know what the floats are. I don't really care. At this point, after that shake, I'm just going to pass. If they end up making a freak move back up then, you know, we'll try and call it out and see if we can get a good opportunity on it. This re-trade ended up making a nice push. Wow, for the support level here off of 125. I know that one of us commented on this trade much after the initial pop here. We called out the pop right away. Fausto did actually. He called this out right off the pop in the halt. Ended up reopening up, but came back down. It was pretty nasty. Well, the volume died off after. So at that point, much more often than not, you just move on. You say that's it. It's like a pop and drop, pump and dump type play. Probably going to break lower. Ended up doing the unlikely move here of squeezing back up to not only break higher here, but even afterwards, on the pop and drop, this thing still has a lot of strength to it right now.  So I don't know what's going on with this re-trade. I'll check Benzinga Pro pretty quickly. I'm a little curious. I'll check.  But it just goes to show though that we're not going to put a stock on our list unless it has the momentum behind it. So the news out on this stock, Reed shares trading higher after the company announced an expanded distribution agreement with CVS Pharmacy. All right, so fairly big company, right? So we ended up seeing them make a big pop right out the gate. But again, that doesn't always guarantee continuation, just the fact that this is holding support so well over 125 doesn't guarantee this move back up. The fact that we have this move back up is the reason that we're putting this on our list in hopes of seeing this breakout much higher going into the afternoon here. All right, so right on cue there from Andreas Callout. He probably called that out like the second I turned over to this trade live inside our trading room. All right, let's keep it going. STIM, STIM is the stimulus check. Neuronetics, interesting. I don't know if this is like a new IPO or whatever the case may be here. Doesn't seem to be. Before today, last 50 days, it was trading under 400,000 shares per minute. That's pretty light. Today trading 4.2 million. So pretty heavy compared to the average. The stock is shortable. That peaks my interest because if this fails to pop and run higher and it snaps back down on some false breakout, then it could be a good opportunity. I'm going to pass on it for right now. I mean, it's making a bit of a move up from 13 to 14 here, but I want to see more out of this trade. I want to see the order book fill in more. I feel like there could just be a lot better trades to work with going into the close. That's all. Maybe we'll come back to this. THYT dumped off. This is the consequence of what happens after the volume kind of craps out. Again, not every trade could be the PRPO. Not every trade could be BLRX or even COCP, albeit those stocks made the nasty shake. They ended up making good moves at least up until that point for about like two, three hours worth. Let's jump to Mavis. Number 11 here. Familiar name obviously. Ended up making a big squeeze going into the early afternoon. I want to recheck Benzinga Pro. I didn't see any news to justify the run up here. Yeah, that's what exactly what Benzinga Pro says here. Microvision, we nicknamed it Mavis, shares trading higher. Not seeing any news to justify the price action, that's what they're saying. Hey, we don't need news again to trade a stock. This stock seems to still carry a lot of momentum, especially off the re-breakoff of 16 here. Ended up seeing another push in buying volume coming in. I would say at this point it needs to still crack over 1650, but it's still looking pretty interesting as far as a buy opportunity. It's hard to borrow from the trade station, but if you can get the shares to short, if you can get approved or if you're on a different broker platform that makes this easy to borrow, then again, at least that could be an opportunity should this false break from the 1650. It seems like a really big level. If it breaks above the order that's on the ask at 1650, you expect a pretty big move from that price. If it pops and then drops right away after, don't hope. That's where I'd say set a tight stop, get out, and then maybe try and reposition yourself later on or try and follow it on the way down. It should that happen. We're looking pretty good across the gainers end here. I saw Tony pick about 18 cents or 20 cents across two trades on the VXRT stock, number 18 on the gainer side. A little push so far from $8.50 up to $9.10, $0.60 move, not bad. VXRT is a familiar name. I certainly will come back to this at the end. I don't mind giving this a second look. Just see if there's better opportunity otherwise, more relevant volume or trends pushing up high the day, low the day. That's spotty. The market dumping off today, the inverse ETFs are still on the gainers end here between SQQQ. I know Fausto was calling out the UVXY in the morning. We don't trade ETFs too frequent, folks, but when we see the markets drop off or the markets even push up, then they provide better opportunities to attempt to trade. Between these, the other ETFs that follow different sectors like the gold mining sector, oil. Let's hop over to the losers list though. I don't see much across the gainers end really in terms of familiar names. Let's see BTX down 30% today. You've got to figure that was going to happen. I'm not patting myself on the back saying I told you so here, but it just goes to say, this can't keep going up forever. This is exactly what I try and warn folks of just when they see a stock push up this much, they want to jump in and ride the wave. That's until the wave comes crashing down on them. This is very likely to continue to drop off across this week. If it's not tomorrow, then I'd assume it's by Thursday Friday will tank much lower. Not a whole lot happening. There is SDC shortable. I saw this from the morning. I passed on it. I just thought that there was a better opportunity, but in retrospect, I wish I ended up jumping in. I was considering it short. It was a bit right off of like 915 or 920 somewhere in this consolidation, but I should have could have. I had a good day though, got to say. I mean that last shake on the COCP definitely scared the life out of me for a moment. That was a near life ending experience. That could have wiped me out completely. Not a whole lot here folks. All right, so if there's anything else up down left right, for all of us live inside cyber group, for all of us on social media type it in the chat board, let me know. What do you think of Marabani's asking here? Let's jump to Bitcoin. I don't think I brought it up yesterday. I wanted to get in my own little tangent set time, so I apologize for that. Mara, I mean it's a sideless stock. It almost always is, unless if it's on our main watch list, that is, meaning that if you do well on Mara on a day-to-day basis or a week-to-week basis, much more often than not, if you do well day trading this, then it doesn't hurt you to follow it. Don't overwhelm yourself between this and then all of the other stocks that are on the watch list so far. You got to pick and choose a little bit, but I would say the same with this, as I would with any other stock that would be on our quote-unquote sideless, at least ones that are more actively moving. Mara definitely is more actively moving. It looks like AAL in one of the airlines, one of the cruise lines. These aren't really making as big of a jolt up. That Mara is making a bit of a push off that 3350. Mike says X up today, the side. Yeah, I don't think I went over X today. I just went from top to bottom on the Gainer side, so I guess I didn't find it. It was number 48 at the very bottom of the Gainer's list here. For what it's worth, it's practically at the highs. I ended up doing well on this stock yesterday, squeezed it up pretty nicely going into the close.  We don't really have too many stocks on our list. I'll give this a look. I say that because X is up 6.6%. Mara is approaching this last peak, but it's still far off from the highs. It's just to say a lot of times these Bitcoin-related stocks, we typically know what happens to them. I would put Mara right on the watch list if they were down 15% already at this point in the afternoon or 10% because much more often than not, if they're trending down already at the lows, that gives me much more confidence to expect a dead cap balance for them to reverse and not continue. I'm just more uncertain about Mara's direction where I'm more hopeful of X breaking a new HO day. For Bitcoin though, you can just see here pretty quickly, I mean, there's a lot going on between my moving averages here, but let's see, is this the hourly? Yeah, so you can see on the hourly graph going into May over the weekend, we ended up catching the pop. This is practically after Friday, after I most recently showed this chart, so ended up having a nice pop. No real news came out at the time though. I mean, maybe a couple of exchange-related news making available to US clients, I think bit stamp one of them, but ended up coming back down. I said this back from last week or the week before, but we're not out of the doghouse yet on Bitcoin by any measure. I mean, seeing this push back up off the lows was great, but to expect consolidation from where these moving averages were converging is very likely to happen. I mean, you can see that across any given equity, US equity, a stock that we would trade, should you happen to put it on your hourly chart or daily chart, any chart really, but it's just to say though that, hey, if this ends up, or I should say, if the markets continue to dive off, like I was alluding to from that timing research podcast yesterday, look at the spy today. It took a big hit. No surprise to see Bitcoin drop today, this morning going into the afternoon, small little bounce back right now. You could see the S&P ETF, the spy, slowly squeaking back up still. Yeah, you'll get some stocks that go with it. Check out VXRT. I had this on the quote unquote side list here. Check out anyone on Facebook Live YouTube also coming up. I saw it from Nicholas NTP, then Mitch Kona CLF here. VXRT for right now still seems relatively volatile. I don't mind slipping this just on our list at the tail end. We don't really have too big of a list at all right now. I think in total, I'd put five stocks now with the VXRT making it. Then we'll check out CLF, it's at the highs, it's up 10 plus percent. I'll put this on our list for the same reason I would put X on our list. At the highs, it's making a push up right now. If the markets continue to recover or squeeze back up, then hopefully this goes with it even further. NTP looks good into the close. Spotty chart, it's at the highs, which I do like. I appreciate you saying that. Tritting just barely above the minimum requirement that we would look for going into this time of the day, barely over 500,000 shares. Just a very spotty chart, huge spread. We don't really need to trade a stock like this when we would trade a stock like CLF that has a much more contained spread.  You could say the same on US steel should that pop higher. You could say the same on Mara, even though I'm not putting that on the list. Spreads are still fairly contained on this trade. Folks, I think that we are just about good to go. Checking out my Benzinga Pro Signals page here. I don't really see much. Nothing that looks too tempting. Actually, PRPO of all the stocks there is shaking back down quite a bit. The run is done on this trade. I think I might even scratch this off our main watch list now at this point with this dropping off. I mean, unless if you could short this, probably not worth the time here. The profit taken coming in, it's been breaking down across this whole meeting. Actually, they make it from six back down to five. Pretty simple list heading into this Tuesday afternoon, folks. 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Who would have thought Usopp and Shopper would be the two to have to take everyone on? Not me, was not on my bingo card, but neither was Luffy's soul being in a giant. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel, my name is Jack the Buster, I should know be.  Too much for me to even recap, you can go back and watch the episodes. We left off with Sanji and a couple others storming in to try to stop Nami's wedding, who doesn't even know who she's having a wedding right now, it's a lot. We're gonna hop right into it, if you need a channel, drop us up and hit that big wood bell and let's get started.  Oh my gosh, they're all scared. You never accounted for me hating myself. He's just standing there, menacingly. Got this, buddy, come on, have faith. No, it's not, you just gotta get salt in them. My gosh, they both think it's hopeless. But she's still gonna fight, which is what he needs to do. Whether it seems hopeless or not, you fight. She just gotta pretend like she can, or times the negativity. Oh my gosh, don't really test his willpower. Not a chance. This is just like Luffy almost falling to Luchi, but times 20. Got up and running. I'm more impressed now than anything. Oh. Bro, uh, Usopp, are you good? Like, I'm genuinely worried about this man. When it comes to being negatively, I'm the best there is.  In a bad way. He's so menacing. Usopp? Yeah, he could just run. Busted, you should just run. I don't like he's wiping them all out with ease. Like it's nothing. It's got the aim of a god. Stay away from me. They're covering their mouths. Oh no, they found the counter. The rules. We're enacting rules.  I don't know. The one situation would come in handy. Oh my gosh, they're gonna split up again? Okay, so Franky and Zoro are going to Brooke. Go stop that wedding! Sanji? Does Bro know where he's going? Not from death! Go help Brooke. Go help my boy. Oh, we're back to him. He's kind of bad too. He needs his soul back. He needs to see Laboon. I think Zoro is really the only one that can take him on though. He's the swordsman. It's just one of his trials. I mean, not to say Brooke's not, but Zoro wants to be his best. And Brooke just seems outclassed me. He's lost before. He's gotten stronger, but not strong enough. And to know that he's just sailed the seas like without being able to leave because of the sunlight thing, all these years and the Laboon thing on top of that, it just makes it worse. It's his will. That's Brooke's move! Oh, was it called like the three-step slash or something? Spin, Brooke, spin! Tell him! And a boy!  I'm going to feel it. It's rumbling. Certainly can... Requiem... Laban... Bander... Banderol? Oh. Three-Pace Hom. It was his move. Tell it to him, baby! He and you! It's not a fake, it's just a poser. I guess that is kind of fake. Stan, Brooke. Stan. That's my boy. That's my boy.  God, he looks so tall. What heart is beating? Neither of them have one. Any steps? Oh, gosh. Oh, no. Well, I feel like Zoro and Frankie are just going to make it barely not in time. Resolve. Resolve! Oh, they're doing the steps. And whoever can do it better, whoever's truly mastered it. It's such a cool move. Brooke didn't even do it in time. Is this like a speed thing? Oh, my God. He's got to play for him again. He said simply being alive wasn't even enough. Oh, my gosh, that's his soul. Oh, that was a flashing back to when it happened. When he came back, never forgot about him. And he knows LeBoon's been lonely too. Goddamn this backstory, man. You stay away from him. Oh, my gosh. No. He's demonic, bro. How can a piece of him be Brooke? Doug, there's no ways that Frankie and Zoro don't make it in time, right? That would just be so depressing.  Oh, wait. Was that when Ores fell? Oh, I think it is. Oh, wait, no, it's not. I feel like that is Ores, though, by climbing or something. They made it. She took a royal beating, say the least. Aw, he can't believe they came for him. He's holding him. He's holding him. Get in there, Zoro. Yes! Let's go, baby. He killed a dragon? Oh, shoot. It's go time. Like I said, it's one of those trials that Zoro has to go through. He wants to be the world's strongest swordsman, the world's best swordsman. Bro does not care that everything's falling apart. To defeat you! I thought this was just a warlord just chilling here. By defeating you. Aw. Now, typically I would have been worried, but knowing he has second and third gear, I got faith in my captain. It's got to touch on it a little bit. We've got a lot of different perspectives to cut to. Now back to this one. I think it is Ores. I think he's just climbing. Passive dodging, bro. Where's Lola? She would stop this. Oh, the whole island itself. Oh, shoot. Or is this messing with the runner? Wait, how big is the runner for an island? Oh my gosh, she's pulling it. Ores is doing a little bit of trolling. Or is this just like a child? And Gekko is just the parent that just stopped paying attention to them. Just let them do whatever they want. Oh my gosh. What are they going to do? Find him? The babysitter's here. Oh my gosh. Oh, what's this? He just jumped. He's going to land on them. How is he so fast? Dog. Dog. He's just going to land on all of them. Bro is taking out every general zombie. This island will be dust. That's the first opposition that stood in his way. And he just caused an earthquake and destroyed all of them. What's going to happen when Gekko more tries to say something to him? Tries to even remotely put a leash on him. Yeah, all the other zombies like nothing compared to them. This is what I said, man. What can you tell he would be? Apparently not all of them. That's the thing though. I feel like Gekko more still has like a some card hidden. Oh my gosh. We got some nutty fight set up though. Born for this Zoro. Another stepping stone on your way to Mihawk. Just watch. Take notes, bro. Stink and aggressive. As long as it means he can get back to Labun, I don't think he has anything saying in the way. Yeah. He doesn't have to be the one to do it. He's concentrating. Boy. That looks like a good sword. 21.0 Wazumono. Wait, isn't that like the cursed one? The one that broke? Shusui. Oh shoot. And if Zoro has a temp sword right now, it'd be perfect. It is a temp sword, right? I'll be using that. Shiguchan is calling his shot. Hahaha. So he essentially forced him into submission. This is what I've gathered from this. Inherently, yeah. Which I think he's kind of severely underestimating Luffy. Yeah, he's a warlord, but Luffy's got 300 million bounty in. I don't know, he's come this far. I genuinely think you should just be second gear off the bat, but that's just me. Is he not even going to touch him? Yeah, I figure not. Is he shocked? Is he a shadow? Oh shoot. Wait, that's actually sick. Doppelman. He just sees this as like a game, man. Yeah, he's just going to step aside. That sounds like a lazy way to become king of the pirates, man. He got to be willing to put in the hard work. Yeah. Oh, it'll slowly lose more and more of Luffy. Oh, that's why he's not even remotely worried about ors. I see. I figured there was something he was keeping. It all makes sense now. So we're kind of on like a ticking time bomb here. He kicked the shadow. Rick bat. There's got to be one small part of Gekko that's like a little worried. Oh my. Oh, that's so annoying. They're all like kind of shadows soon. He's running on the wall. He's intrigued. Luffy, second gear, bro. No, no reason to mess around here. He did take down a warlord. And you're next, bucko. I'm back to Usopp. He's the only one that can do this. Nobody can come save him. Never really been in a position like this.  It has to be Usopp.  Oh my gosh. Oda doing a little bit of throwing. I feel like she's going to slowly run out more and more of them. If he's able to get salt in them. He's tricking them.  Oh, they're ready for it. He's putting more salt in the slingshot. No way, it's face. Nice. But that's like me for real right now. I swear.  You're losing more troops. It's only a matter of time. Oh my gosh. The one hitting the ground, bro. Oh, I honestly thought that was a trick. I was going to fall back down. God, the koala is so cursed. Oh, wait. All part of the plan. He just made up. Oh my gosh. She's going to like murder all of them. Like they will die. No. He said, get down, Mr. President. He's loyal as mean as she is to him. Oh my gosh. She's literally just running away. Negative nose. That's a new one. Usopp just chasing her down is the funniest thing in the world. Kamase. Kamase. Think about the side you're fighting for, man. She abusive, bro. He's so loyal. Oh my God. Kamase really like zero to 100. For real. Yeah. Bro flu. Kamase final form incoming. Oh my goodness. Dog, tell me this ain't Scooby-Doo two intellectual titans. Bro, stop to catch his breath. This is so goofy, man. You have to appreciate it. I feel like that's been a lot of this though. It's like light-hearted, but at the same time, the stakes are high. It's a very different change of pace from Eddie's lobby. Ors. And it's just going to rampage more and more and more, I feel like, as more of Luffy is lost. I feel like Luffy is the most light-hearted part about Ors right now. He just rampaging. Oh my God. He's just going for a little night stroll. Some light. So now as he loses more and more, Luffy would not mean he will bake at Gomorria more. Or is it just he'll be more of like a free will creature? He found the coast. Wait, what if he tries to swim?  It's just Luffy's soul. It's not Luffy. Oh my gosh. He's going to change course just by kicking. Wait, we're service. Oh no. Run, Luffy. He's got the right spirit. Meanwhile, at the wedding. Talk, what is happening anymore? I need to... Skipe. I need him to use the fire... the fire foot again. You tell him, Zodgy. Oh my goodness gracious. Your night is here, I can't, bro. The only one that's appropriate to have saved her from a wedding that she once again has no ideas taking place. How long has she been unconscious? Like, she's going to wake up to a lot of confusion. As terrifying and menacing as Orr's looks, the fact that Luffy's in him, it just makes him so, like, just chill. It's so goofy. Shake your hands. Well, they found him in the ice, so I'm wondering if he was there like his whole life. I wonder if we actually will get more information on Orr's. They called him a berserker. So I'm guessing there's more that are as big as him or look like him. I hope that would be sick. No! Run little zombies. You have to feel bad for the zombies to extent because they are just, like, people's souls or shadows. God, wait, Gekko is really taking a lot of people's shadows. Like, a lot. The countless zombies on the island, the countless portraits. The general zombies. I wonder if it's, like, the part of Luffy that thinks he can't swim? No, because he is, like, enormous. That's probably what it is. Oh, my gosh. Okay, that kind of clears that up, too. As long as it's not a decent amount. So if they want to get Luffy's shadow back, they got to throw a lot of salt down him. I love the little, like, the air, the gasp of air. The sigh. I've come from a lady. She's beautiful. Is she a goddess? Oh, no, he's distracted. He's so taken aback. That's actually so wholesome. Oh, my gosh. Sanji, stop! Oh, dears, Mio, please, man. Just look away. Just look away. You can't handle it. Men are so easy. It's insane. I can't front them. I'd be the same in the situation. I know, baby! Look, this good and white. Oh, my gosh. The zombies are like, I have no idea what this even means. They're bonding over Nami's beauty. Okay, there's that thing again. He shot fire out of it. Now, like, a bullet? A cannon? What is that?  Sanji knows exactly what he's talking about. He's like, hey, add a boy. Proud of my zombie. I mean, is it luck which one it's put into? Isn't it just whichever one he decides to put it into? Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh! He's like, hey, I was talking. Jeez. She's gorgeous. Oh, that's going to set him off. You made a mistake, my friend. When Sanji closes an eye and lights a cigarette, you better run. You're just limp. Oh, my gosh, it looks so cursed. Is he going to growl? I knew he was going to growl. Damn. I wouldn't even say that's a sucker punch. He's going to put up a hell of a fight, though. Yep. And he knows what you did, too. Power of wild animals. Oh. Did the fire. He has to be dead. He's built different, baby. Yeah, dog, you messed up far before meeting Sanji. That is so gross. That's so nasty. He's, like, unlocked Sanji. Like, this would be a much closer fight if it was just some random enemy. Now he's going to realize how strong Luffy actually is being the captain. Those two zombies can't do anything. Oh, my gosh, he's going to retreat? No shot. Come on, Sanji. Is he just guessing? Oh, my gosh, if he got it, he would actually, like, be done, though. Damn. He lacks critical information. Oh, I'm in the worst one. So this is a thing. Now Sanji explodes when he gets mad. What other thing? Does Sanji have some history with him that we don't know about? Up to this point, I thought it was just the whole women thing and sexual harassment and assault that has occurred. But like I said, he messed up way before meeting Sanji. He basically unlocked him. He even stands a chance. I mean, unless he has an ace up his sleeve, he's used his powers and everything and he said he's even going to retreat. So clearly if he's going to retreat, it shows that he's not really even planning on standing up to him. Which kind of is shocking because I expected someone of his, I guess, position to stand more of a chance. He's at the same level as Hogback. I guess Hogback is really much of a fighter. He's more like the mastermind type. I think Gego Mori is still just the final boss, but I think he's intended to be as well. That's true. We're going fight to fight to fight. It's keeping up the pace and I'm liking it. We're going to slowly resolve one by one and I guess we'll see how this whole thing ends up. If you're new to the channel, don't forget to job us up before you leave and I'll catch you guys in the next one. Peace, peace.