I have gone ahead and made some drawings and renderings for you guys to discuss some of my feelings about the construction project and kind of what we know, what we don't know. So this is gonna be a really lengthy video with all my thoughts and concerns. And yeah, so I just wanted to touch on one thing. I've noticed a few comments where people are saying, oh, you don't know this, you don't know that, you got this wrong. And I do wanna be super transparent that if you've watched my podcast and you've watched some of my videos, I do use a catchphrase, take this with a grain of salt. When I use that statement, it means that I do not know what I am talking about and that is pure speculation. For anyone that does watch all my content, they can back up that every podcast episode I have done in the last three, four, five weeks, I have discussed that I do not know anything about this project yet. And the few things that I do know aren't that helpful in terms of figuring out location, where this thing's going, which of the four tunnels, five tunnels, six tunnels, whatever, however many tunnels it ends up being is gonna be used for the ride. So I have been very transparent with that and I'll continue to be transparent with that. So if you're watching my videos and you're thinking that I am presenting pure facts about what this coaster is, then that's just your misconception about what is going on. This is a speculation and rumors channel and my code word for anything that I do know is official prediction. So if you hear that come out of me, that means that I'm onto something. With that being said, Thunder Runs Exit. So what we do know about Thunder Runs Exit is it has been redirected due to a third tunnel that was dug up where Tiny Tom's used to exist. And Thunder Runs Exit is now being redirected behind the Alpen Boutinerie or Alpen Cheesery, whatever it's called. And yeah, so that's all you need to know about that. In terms of construction plots of land, we have Thunder Runs old station or the multi-faith prayer building that is now demolished. You have the old drink stand that is demolished. You have a new tunnel right beside Vortex's left hill, which I'll talk about in a second. A third tunnel underneath Thunder Run where the Tiny Tom's was. You have an original tunnel that is now having the most action, which used to be a maintenance tunnel, and you have extreme sky flyers plot of land. So what I wanna talk about is the original maintenance tunnel. So the original maintenance tunnel has now been reconstructed using Yukon Stryker's second tunnels paneling, that metal steel framing. So that's an interesting food for thought. Another interesting food for thought is the land prep that is going on over at Extreme Skyflyer. So typically, what you're gonna see is construction projects start on the station. A lot of coasters that have started construction or done construction, they typically start on the station. Extreme Skyflyer is an important part of the project. It is something that the park has started to tease a little more, especially if you've seen CTV's newest segment with Grace Peacock. But yeah, that seems to be a very important plot of land. They're doing a lot of land prep, that's what they call it, to get ready for what I would assume either an important element a part of the ride or the station. With that being said, the tunnel that is beside Vortex that I've referred to a lot as a launch tunnel definitely is taking form to be either a lockout maintenance area or a maintenance tunnel to replace the maintenance tunnel that is now most likely gonna be used for a launch. So those are some assumptions that I'm making based off of what I'm seeing from the drone. And when you see tomorrow's construction update, you're gonna really see why I'm starting to think that now. With that being said, the tunnel number three seems to be only being used to get supplies in at the current moment, but they've done no work, no form work seems to be planned for that side of the tunnel either. They've removed the forms from property. This introduces the most complicated topic of discussion. When the coaster gets to Wonder Mountain, which 99% chance it is going to do, it is gonna get to that first maintenance tunnel that I have called the maintenance tunnel for this entire project and it's gonna launch into the mountain. The biggest question that arises with that is where is it gonna go once it launches into the mountain? So in red, I've circled the point of where the coaster should go with launching into the maintenance tunnel and I drew some arrows. Is it gonna launch up out of the mountain and head back to extreme sky flyer? Or is it gonna do an element that somehow gets it out that unaligned tunnel number three? So that's where the information gets really cloudy. So there's a few things on this map. If you're waiting for my construction update, I've drawn some things on this map that are up to date as of today's construction update. So you get a little sneak peek here, but you'll see it in tomorrow's construction update a little more. I am starting to think that what we were looking at was two construction projects that somehow looked like they aligned. So Elpin and the extreme sky flyer Pottle Land. I think that if you watched my video yesterday, I talked about Wonderland's verbiage and how that kind of makes me second guess what we were thinking before. Wonderland is pretty open to talk about the Elpin mountain construction, but not so open to talk about the extreme sky flyer construction. That sounds like the Wonderland I know in terms of keeping things hidden until they need to be announced. So I definitely want you guys to pay attention to that. So I wanna hear from you guys down below. Which direction do you think this coaster is gonna go? Do you think they're gonna utilize tunnel number three to send this thing over to Elpin? Or do you think they're gonna launch it out the top of the mountain like originally planned in their blast coaster concept that they serve it guests with and have it head back over to the extreme sky flyer Pottle Land. Now there is another topic of discussion I wanted to talk about. Do plans change? You've heard me talk about that and I can promise you and Craig can back this up. After a recent meeting we had with the park, I can tell you that plans do change. For example, when we looked back at Yukon Striker in 2016, things can get pushed back and projects like Val Raven can get last minute planned if the park is able to spend extra money to have concepts whipped up. Now, do I think this was last minute planned in the last year? No, I think plans changed long before that but I promise you guys I'm working on a documentary on this new in quotations project because we're not allowed to call it a coaster yet and I will have full details about the entire project in a documentary that I will release. So when it comes to budget changes and changes of plans, I can promise you they do exist. So with maintenance tunnel number one, most likely being utilized for a launch and maintenance tunnel number two, most likely being utilized for either a guest path which I think least likely or a maintenance lockout zone slash maintenance tunnel, most likely, I think that it is pretty obvious that this coaster is going to launch into the mountain and or out of the mountain depending on where the station location is and that is a topic of discussion that again as I say this is the most confusing part of this project. Is the station gonna take up extreme sky flyer or is it gonna be in the mountain? So with that concept, I've delivered two drawings that obviously are not accurate in terms of where elements will be or direction or anything. I just wanted to show you guys how confusing this really is. I have a team of friends that literally devour any information I throw before them and we try and figure this thing out so in depth and it is really impossible. And when I tell you guys and even some of my old friends, some of my new friends can back this up, I have tools and resources that most wouldn't. I have access to, let's just say, friends in industries that could help figure out things a lot quicker and they are just as confused. I promise you that. With that being said, do you think that the station would be most likely located in extreme sky flyer's plot of land or the mountain? If it's in the mountain, in my personal opinion, it has to utilize some sort of spike element to help it get a much larger launch to head on over to extreme sky flyer slash, it would be a really cool effect. So picture a spike coming out of tunnel number three in the Alpin area and the columns for that spike would need to be where the old drink refresh station was and old Thunder Run station was. I said drink refresh station. But the drink refresh building and Thunder Run's old station, that is just a guess that is not something I know. So picture a spike coming out tunnel three and the support structure for that spike taking up those old buildings that were removed. And then it heading over to the extreme sky flyer plot of land to do some sort of cool top hat element at the front gate. I think that'd be really cool. My other kind of assumption slash prediction is the station utilizing extreme sky flyer. So the station comes out of there and then it heads on over to the mountain and then heads on over into Alpin and then back. Now the difficulty with this is we kind of need more tunnels. And if we don't get more tunnels, we need a path to get it from over in the Alpin area back over to the extreme sky flyer plot of land. Now that we know that the tunnel number two by vortex won't be utilized for the ride, it makes it a lot more complicated. So to be honest, a lot of people were wondering why I was assuming tunnel number two was being utilized for the ride and this was it. So one of my biggest assumptions was the ride needed to get to extreme sky flyer and to Alpin and back somehow. How would it do that? It needed a third and fourth tunnel technically. So I was assuming that all three tunnels were being utilized for the ride. Now that we know that tunnel number two, most likely 99% chance isn't being used for the ride, it makes it more complicated. Is it gonna head back over vortex? Is it gonna somehow use a switch track or are more tunnels eventually gonna be dug? That's the question that remains. So we are missing a lot of information to fill in a lot of gray area. So for those of you watching who are saying, you seem confused, you are right. I've said that on the podcast. I am very confused. The information before me is very confusing. And until I get concrete information, for those of you that watched the Yukon Striker updates, that information usually comes halfway through this season the year before Roller Coaster is built. It takes a while to get that information. Then I am lost currently with what's before me. With all that said, I wanted to come out with some of my drawings that I have been using to try and figure this thing out, show you guys as much as I know currently on the project outside of some renderings that we've seen inside the mountain that also don't make sense currently, but we're gonna wait to see what they mean. Sorry, I just coughed right before recording. So it's really confusing. What do you guys think? Comment down below, ask me some questions. I'm gonna try and respond as quickly as possible and stay tuned for our construction update tomorrow to fill in a few more gaps that kind of helped us figure out a little bit more on this project. With that being said, I really appreciate those that have been watching my construction updates and supporting the channel. These updates are definitely growing and it's really exciting to watch and the support means a lot. Thank you so much, have a good one guys, bye.


Welcome to this guided witchcraft meditation for cleansing our spiritual and physical bodies and strengthening our psychic and magical power. In this meditation we will work with clearing energetic attachments in your body that you may have to other people, places, situations or beliefs using witchcraft, which is a powerful process that works with a subconscious mind to remove and clear away unwanted attachments and helping you to tap into your own magical power and energy. In the same way that there may be energetic attachments coming to you, you may also have attachments to others. In this meditation we will gently remove all of these cords to you so that you do not attach yourself to other people or possessions, for everything that you need you are able to find within yourself. As we move through this guide there may well be feelings that come up that you will need to release. So be gentle and kind with yourself as this meditation unfolds. These feelings will gradually dissipate, leaving you with peace and calm. Begin by finding a quiet and comfortable place where you won't be disturbed. Sit or lie down in a restful position and take a few deep breaths to relax your body and try and calm your mind. Take a little time to adjust your body into a relaxed and safe position. Close your eyes and begin breathing deeply and evenly. Feel your lungs rise and fall rhythmically with each breath of air that you take. As you breathe in notice the passage of air through your nose into the back of your throat and down into your chest. Feel the movement as it comes up from your chest and out back into the world. Soften the edges of your body and relax down into your chair or bed.  And there just stay, observe whatever is present for you in this moment. What feelings are you holding? What emotions are tying you here? What negativity can you see? Go deep inside yourself and begin to see those emotions that you don't want or need. Is it jealousy, anxiety, envy, rage, worry, doubt, despair? Once you have identified all those negative emotions, look at them from the outside. Imagine they are a separate entity to you. What colour are they? How big are they? What do they look like? What do they feel like? Not just as an emotion but to touch. Would it be sharp? Would it be hard? Try and define these emotions as a separate entity to you. Looking closer towards this emotion see that somehow it is attached to you by a cord or maybe a rope or maybe a heavy iron chain. How is it attached? What does it look like? How does this attachment feel? What is it made of? Is it rope? Is it metal or is it simply a form of energy? As you look at this rope that is attaching the negative emotion to yourself you will understand what you need to use to break and cut this negativity away from you. As we start to use our imagination you are holding a tool with which to cut this cord. Is it a large shining pair of golden scissors or maybe you are holding something more substantial such as a heavy bolt cutter. Perhaps it is a carved steel dagger, sharp as ice. Feel this tool's weight in your hands. Tell me what is it made of? Is it hard to hold onto? Feel it between your fingers and know its power. Take a moment to visualise and go to your favourite place in this whole wide world. Is it by the sea with the running sound of the waves gently calming your soul? Or perhaps it is simply where you are enveloped in the warmth of someone's embrace. Maybe you are aloft atop a mountain seeing the clouds beneath your feet or simply lying in your bed as you have just woken from a night of restful sleep. In this your favourite place. Are you content? Are you calm? Do you feel free? What do you notice about you as you stand in your favourite place? Concentrate on the pleasure that you are getting from being here. Which part of it is the best? Now does it make you feel happy or replete? Take a moment to notice all those tiny details in your environment. Allow it all to become real. Once you feel that each moment of yourself is basking in this environment of joy that you have chosen for yourself. We can now turn our thoughts to letting go of those emotions. Pick up your tool. Know its power. You have already felt how clean a break it's going to make. And using it cut that cord. Now do you not feel lighter? Freer? Happier? And the relief that comes with letting go of leaving behind that which does not serve you. Gather in those feelings and take them into your soul for you have rid yourself of this negative emotion. This cleansing of the soul has so many benefits for you in your coming days and years. It is your time to reap those benefits. So come back to your body. Come back to yourself and breathe in and out and in and out for we are now going to move on to increasing your witchcraft ways. Bring to mind a symbol or object that represents your connection to witchcraft. It could be a crystal, a tarot card, a wand or any other object that holds a special meaning for you. Visualise holding this object between your hands. You can feel its power beginning to grow. You can see its power beginning to glow as the light starts to emit from your object. With each breath in and out it grows stronger and brighter. You can see it beginning to strengthen and increase coming out of the object and into the air around you. It's bathing you in its light which is calm and safe and beautiful. You can feel the light on your skin. You can feel the light on your face. It's safe, it's calm, it's powerful, it's healing. Enjoy this moment and connect to the light as the light bathes your face with its strength and power. Feel it coming into you through your skin. Healing you as it passes deep into your core. Growing in strength and providing power for you. It begins to fill you up with its light. There is tingling on your arms, on your legs, on your neck. You can feel the power beginning to grow inside you.  Where you feel that power settling into your body is where you will reach for it when needed. Here is the source of your strength. Find what part of the body it is pooling in the most. Is it your chest? Is it your tummy? Is it your throat? Or maybe your head? Because it is this area that you will reach into to use this power when you most need it. This is the area you will come to in order to draw forth the energy from within to place it into your craft as part of your spells and rituals. It is also the place that you will use for when you're speaking with the world of spirit for it is this power here which will enable that communication so learn this area well. Feel the power pooling there waiting for you to take it. Knowing that you have the power within you this makes you happy and calm, strong and brilliant.  Come and join me at Ginny Metherill for more witchcraft tips tricks and how to practice so that your soul remains as light as it feels now.


Hi, this is Dr. Don and I have a problem from chapter six about confidence intervals for a mean. We're given some information and we need to construct a confidence interval for a population mean. Looking at this data, the thing that jumps out at me is we're given the mean of course, but we're given sigma, the population standard deviation. Now that's a clue that we need to use the z-distribution to find this confidence interval. We'll do it using StatCrunch. I'm going to click on question help, open StatCrunch, okay I got StatCrunch open here. We'll go to stat and we want to go to z-stats, one sample with summary. We bring that up. Our sample mean is 5.7, our standard deviation is 0.8, our sample size is 41, we want to click on confidence level. They want a 90%, so I set that in there and I click compute and I get my answer here for our mean, the lower limit is 5.49, the upper limit is 5.91 rounding to two decimal places. So I hope this helps.


North Korea prepares to send new missiles with great destructive power to Russia. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw tests of multiple rocket launcher systems that can deliver nuclear weapons in a drill this week that South Korea said could be a way for Pyongyang to market its newest missiles to Russia. Bloomberg reported this. According to verified information, recently North Korea launched three ballistic missiles. The Kyodo News Agency reported citing the Defense Ministry of Japan. The missiles covered the distance of 350 km at the altitude of up to 50 km. They splashed down not far from the eastern coast of the Korean peninsula. The ministry said North Korea tested super-large multiple rocket launchers in drills aimed at proving the might and the real-war capabilities of the weapon system. The state's official Korean Central News Agency reported. The drill was aimed at proving the might and the real-war capabilities of the weapon system through the sudden manoeuvres and salvos of the sub-units of 600-millimeter multiple rocket launchers, raising the combat morale of artillerymen of multiple rocket launchers and checking and enhancing the readiness posture. Korean Central News Agency said it also released pictures of Kim at the event watching six missiles take to the sky and celebrating later with a cigarette in his hand. During the drill, massive shells of super-large multiple rocket launchers hit the targets. According to the news agency, Kim expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the artillerymen displayed high mobility and accurate and strong striking power in carrying out their sudden combat mission. There is a good chance that they are a final performance test before exporting to Russia. North Korea's Defense Minister Shin Won-sik told reporters the U.S., South Korea and others have accused North Korea of sending to Russia its newest nuclear-capable ballistic missiles that are easy to hide, quick to deploy, and hard to shoot down. U.S. will never recognize legitimacy or results of fake Russian elections in sovereign Ukraine. The United States condemns Russia's ongoing efforts to undermine Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence through sham elections held in the occupied Ukrainian territories according to freedom media outlet. The United States does not and will never recognize the legitimacy or results of these sham elections held in sovereign Ukraine as part of the Russian presidential elections. This was stated by U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller at a briefing. Of course, Luhansk, Daneck, Zaporizhia, Kersen and Crimea are Ukraine. The results of these Potemkin-style exercises will be dictated by Moscow and cannot reflect the free will of the citizens of Ukraine who are forced to vote in them, the U.S. State Department spokesman said. According to him, this spectacle only further demonstrates Russia's blatant disregard for its obligations under international law. In turn, the United States will continue to use all available tools to hold accountable those responsible for actions that undermine the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of free countries, including those who are observers at the Kremlin's sham elections in the occupied parts of Ukraine. The day before, the heads of the Foreign Affairs Committees of 20 countries issued a joint statement rejecting the legitimacy of the Russian presidential elections held in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. This was announced by the chairman of the Lithuanian Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs Ziggy Mantas Pavilionis on social media platform X. The joint statement was signed by the heads of committees from 20 countries, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Germany, Moldova, Poland, Israel, the United States, Ireland, Italy, Iceland, Romania, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom. The parliamentarians stressed that Russia had organised elections that coincided with the 10th anniversary of the illegal annexation of Crimea, which is a clear provocation.


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch. Today we're joined by Eugene Pudir of Breakthrough News and we're going to be talking about a lot of developments to do with the U.S. presidential elections. Of course, the nomination of Kamala Harris as the vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, but also issues around voter separation. Thank you so much, Eugene, for talking to us. As always, it's such a pleasure to be here. Yes. So to read with, let's talk about the Kamala Harris nomination. There's been a lot of celebration from some of the usual quarters, including from some in India, surprisingly, about how this is a landmark moment. It's historic. Someone, you know, she, during a campaign last year, she sort of channelized her involvement or her role in the civil rights movement. There's a lot of discussion about a black woman finally being part of a major ticket. But you yourself have reported there's been also a lot of conversation about how a record is very controversial as well. So could you talk a bit about this? Absolutely. You know, it's one of those things that there's history and there's history. I mean, obviously in like the textbook reality, there is no doubt that this is in fact historic, which I think in some ways is such a statement about the United States. It's been around since 1787 that it took till 2020 to have a black woman on a major party ticket and a woman of also South Asia to send on a major party ticket. I mean, it just seems unbelievable. But in many ways, a statement about American racism. And you know, I think it's an interesting question and sort of the way I've been approaching it is that in some ways I view it as good because if nothing else, it will clarify many questions. Because I think because of the long history of racism in America, the ongoing reality of even in the highest bodies of the country would be mainly white, mainly male has created a sense that just changing the faces in some of these offices will bring in a new type of sensibility. Someone who understands, you know, the oppression of black people understands the plight of immigrant folks who understands maybe global issues a little bit more because they have, you know, our fathers from Jamaica and our mothers from India. And I think what we've seen the record shows is that none of that impact is true. You know, of course, we've seen Nikki Haley as the representative at the United Nations of Indian Indian American woman and one of the most vicious imperialists there were. So perhaps maybe a more global view, but it didn't change the actual policies she was willing to put in place. Obviously, Barack Obama was the president. And we've seen from his policy of drone strikes to, you know, some of his early actions against immigrants here in the United States, the inability to act seriously on income equality, and many other important issues for workers that basically despite having a black president, the status quo issues remained more or less the same in terms of sort of the core structure of US capitalism. And I think what we're seeing with Kamala Harris or what we're not seeing now, what I think we will ultimately see is another replay of that is that there's a lot of, well, this is going to be such a groundbreaking thing, but what we'll see is at the end of the day, like anyone else in her position as a moderate middle-of-the-road, center-left individual who sees the Democratic Party as their path to power, she will try to balance between, you know, giving lip service to the interests of oppressed people and of working-class people, which is the Democrats' brand. But then as we've already seen, the front page of the Wall Street Journal, Wall Street exhales a sigh of relief upon Kamala Harris being chosen. We saw a story, I believe it was in The New York Times, might have been The Washington Post, about how the big tech industry expects her to be a silent ally of the big tech and pushing back against calls to break up the big internet giants.  At the end of the day, I think that we are going to see, unfortunately, you know, certainly some differences from Trump, but really more of the same in terms of the broader Wall Street super wealthy, highly unequal society that we see under both Democrats and Republicans. Right, absolutely. And her record as both attorney general and prosecutor has not been inspiring in any sense, especially in the state of California. I mean, it really is unbelievable in some ways how that her record has almost been completely whitewashed now in this conversation and people are saying, well, forget about that. I mean, in some of the things they want people to forget about it. You know, first and foremost, she came on the scene as district attorney in San Francisco. She won her first race. I believe this was 2003, essentially by running as a tough on crime law and order candidate saying that the other candidate at the time was too soft on crime, too soft on criminals that she was going to toughen up. And she was notable for saying that she would never seek the death penalty, although later as attorney general of California, she defended the death penalty. But be that as it may, you know, that one sort of solo fact has completely whitewashed the fact that she came in on a law and order platform. She covered up misconduct. Well, her office covered up misconduct, let's say, in a major scandal in the San Francisco crime lab where a tech was tampering with evidence over 600 cases dismissed as attorney general of California. She fought against the innocence of several people, someone death row, some doing long sentences, you know, using every little technicality possible to prevent a rehearing of many of the cases, despite serious, serious prosecutorial misconduct. And you've got cases that I mean, people, other people, you know, almost certainly being the person who did it, and she is fighting to prevent DNA evidence to keep Kevin Cooper on death row rather than potentially exonerate him for a crime.  Also, you know, she has misrepresented her role in the mortgage settlement. There was a national mortgage settlement that was allegedly designed to compensate the victims of Wall Street banks who were illegally foreclosing on millions of Americans. She did almost nothing in that settlement, completely misrepresented her record in that, played only a very small role. And notably, her office, Attorney General Office, let Steve Mnuchin, the current Treasury Secretary, off the hook when his financial company was clearly illegally evicting people, illegally foreclosing on people and evicting them from their home, basically stealing their homes from them. And it was her office that essentially gave him and his cronies a pass and they made a huge, huge sum of money. I also know Donald Trump contributed to her campaigns early on. So, you know, someone whose record as a district attorney and as an attorney general was very much around the idea of, I'm going to use this law and order law enforcement platform as a, I mean, this is a big problem in the United States because black politicians are often seem to be quote, unquote, soft on crime because the criminal justice system is so racist. And so there's a class of black politicians who say, well, I'll go into law enforcement and show that I'm tough on crime so that I can run to a higher office. It becomes a springboard to a higher office of essentially sacrificing your own community and your own people to these policies of mass incarceration to build SMA. And that was Kamala Harris. Right. And in this context, again, we come back to the limitations of the two-party system. We talked about it earlier, of course, the Republicans and Democrats basically proposing basically pushing the same agenda with a very different, with a very different language. So we also saw in the past one year that there was a very powerful movement. Bernie Sanders was of course a key part of that movement, but also many movements around it, which pushed a very radical agenda. So how are these movements right now mobilizing at this point? You know, I think that, you know, it's a great point. You know, first and foremost, I think people should realize the uprising that people have seen is actually not over in cities like Chicago, especially, but also still in Portland, 70 some days of protests still going strong, Seattle, Chicago people may have seen because of activities that took place where a young person was killed. And, you know, some individuals from the community decided to, you know, make themselves heard by taking to the magnificent mile and offering some messages to some of the richest, most powerful corporations and brands there in Chicago and the mayor responding aggressively. So, you know, that element of the mobilization against police violence and against racism is ongoing. People are still pushing for defunding of the police, but really the protests have shifted in a major way, I think, to an understanding that politicians are so unwilling to do this, that the protests themselves have to become an element of mass disruption. I think that's what we're seeing in Portland with 70 straight days of protests to say there's no return to normal until something takes place. And we're seeing that quite a bit, you know, there's a growing movement here around the issue of evictions. The many of the protections that came around the COVID-19 lockdowns are expiring millions and millions of people, maybe as many as 30 million people facing eviction from their home or their apartment in the United States right now. So, we saw in New Orleans, for instance, recently, a number of activists who chain themselves to the doors to prevent the opening of rent court, which is where evictions are adjudicated to prevent evictions from taking place. We've seen in Los Angeles, we've seen in Washington, D.C., a number of different times in other places, activists are going to homes and basically saying, if you're going to evict these people, you've got to go through us. And we've seen in many cases, they have been unwilling to go through them and evictions have been stopped. And I think that's going to be a growing trend over the next few months. And then also, there has been an upsurge and activism amongst labor unions of teachers that have really taken the forefront here because of the issue of school reopening. In the United States, school terms start to reopen really right about the end of August, right around now, early September. That's when school terms start, usually almost every major metropolitan area now is saying they will start with in-person learning because of the dangers. And that is because the Chicago Teachers Union, the Los Angeles Teachers Union, San Francisco, and others really fought and said, we are not going to put the students at risk, the parents, the family members, the teachers. And in New York City, which is the last major metropolitan area, to not develop a plan in this planning, at least of now to go in-person, there have been a number of large marches of teachers and even some conversation about teachers taking job action to prevent a move back into school and to in-person learning too quickly in a dangerous way. So that's coming more and more into the forefront as more and more school systems are starting to have to face this and look at that. So an upsurge in labor activism as well. So it really has not been as there normally is in U.S. election years. There's a big downtick in social movement activity as everyone either goes to support a candidate or just sort of runs and hides because the two-party system is so terrible. Let's maybe like rip and wrinkle it and hopefully wake up after it's over. But this year, it really seems that there's a very different dynamic where there is not a let-up in social movements really at all. And I think a greater understanding, even amongst some people who may be supporting, you know, Democrats against Joe Biden, I think there's a growing understanding even amongst that set of the population that to let the foot off the gas of workers' movements and poor people's movements really putting on the pressure and being ungovernable is the key factor. Absolutely. Right. And you need to know in this context, another key issue that has come up in the past couple of days. In fact, the past couple of months is the issue of voter suppression as well. So if you've seen Trump's comments on the postal service, but this is again part of a very long tradition of voter suppression that has happened in various states over the past many years and it is intensified over the past many years. So could you take us through what are the key issues around this right now? Yes, absolutely. I mean, you know, Trump's comments in the postal service, I don't know if this is unprecedented. I'm not a historian, but I think it's the most open I've ever heard voter suppression in America discussed historically, except maybe the reconstruction period where white supremacists, just the 1870s now, you know, maybe the 1870s. So this is really a throwback to the most open, you know, history of voter suppression, especially the black community, which has a long history. I mean, in the wake of the Civil War, the emergence of black voters was a pivot question for a lot of political issues. And it really was the key issue for moving the country in a more progressive direction after the Civil War as opposed to towards the monopoly capitalism that it became.  So there's a long history of this. In recent years, it's become a much bigger issue. Republicans, you know, really, since the Civil Rights Movement, but significantly for some time have, you know, really tried to use as a major part of their politics, the politics of racial grievance, the idea that for black, for white working class and middle class people to try to say, well, all of the problems of the neoliberal era are really because there's a limited pie and blacks have gotten more of the pie, as opposed to they used to and you're an immigrant now and you are failing because of that. And so in the past really, I would say, since about 1998, Republicans have developed an extremely sophisticated system of voter suppression that has been primarily based around purging people from the voting roles, creating a range of different, you know, maneuvers that basically mean that millions and millions of people have been subject to having their names removed. A lot of times they don't know that this has really happened or don't fully understand it until they show up to vote. Then you have to fill out something called a provisional ballot. Provisional ballots often aren't even fully counted. So, you know, there's a very large number of votes. Greg Palis is a journalist who's done much work on this since the year 2000, you know, of potentially millions and millions of people who've been denied the right to vote. And so Trump's saying that he wants to prevent the postal service from getting additional funds that will allow it to deal with many things, including the onslaught of mail-in ballots because of COVID-19. Most elections will probably be very heavily via mail, but we're not set up for that in this country, so the postal service needs more infrastructure as do the states. And Trump openly saying he wants to do this defunding of the postal service to prevent mail, to prevent people from voting. I mean, it really is that simple. He's claiming that the votes are off fraudulent, but obviously that's false. Larry Kudlow, who is the top economist at the White House, also said, same day as Trump says, I'm going to stop the mail-in ballots, he says that voting rights is part of a liberal wish list of Democrats that Republicans have no interest in.  And obviously if those people, you know, will come out and vote against the feeling that there's some, you know, potential, far-right white supremacist institution, they have to be able to limit that in order to give what they want. So here we're seeing, you know, yet again the unfolding of this terrible situation. But I mean, it's really miraculous. I mean, people who don't follow the United States closely, I think, for who's, you know, see what's on Voice of America or CNN or whatever, would be very surprised to know literally millions and millions of people have been disenfranchised. And many of the top architects of this are the biggest supporters of Trump in the country. And many of them are deeply ensconced in his campaign already. Absolutely. And how has the COVID-19 pandemic actually affected this issue? Because it has caused an insane amount of social chaos. The pandemic is still very much on. The number of cases are still in tens of thousands every day. So how is it likely to affect voting and mobilizing around this time? I think that it is the possibility of the election being a complete debacle is unfortunately relatively high. I mean, there's a range of issues. One issue that's not getting a lot of play in the press. Most people who work in elections are volunteers, but many people who volunteer are senior citizens. And so almost every jurisdiction in the United States is seeing a big drop in campaign workers because people who are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 are, you know, not volunteering because they're concerned about their own health. And what we've seen so far in the primaries, most states are not providing the proper protections for campaign workers. So very much right there, we have a huge possibility for longer lines, bigger backlogs, and then there will be a greater push of vote by mail. But there isn't a lot of vote by mail in many states. And many states haven't even allowed it that much until recently, except in very narrow circumstances. So that means a whole new system. And what we saw, for instance, in a recent primary election in Kentucky was it literally took over a week to get the results. So we're in a situation where we'll have the election and people who know U.S. elections know you usually know the same night who won. We could be going weeks. We could have legal challenges against mail-in ballots. We could have legal challenges from progressive people around voter suppression and things like that. Plus, we don't know what's going to happen with the counting of the ballots. So I mean, there could be the impact of COVID-19, I think, could be to turn this an election into a long, drawn out, very bitter contest that could start to call into question some of the basic fundamentals of U.S. democracy, which seems impossible because the U.S. represents itself as such a shining beacon on a hill of democratic values. But it's very, very brittle and already because of what the Republicans have been saying regarding the mail-in ballots and because of the Russiagate towards Trump and what he's saying about the Postal Service, there will be a minority of the supporters of whoever loses who will not recognize the next president as legitimate. And I think that that in and of itself with COVID-19, with climate change, with the uprising against racism, potentially a very explosive situation in the fall. Thank you so much, Eugene, for talking to us. It's such a pleasure. That's all we have time for today. Keep watching People's Dispatch.


How's it going everyone Caleb here with late in sports cards working on the next break of the night for you It is gonna be prism football Six-box half case break number 44 pick your team style Thank you all very much for joining Let me read off the teams that you do have in the break. Hold on waiting for it to load Okay, looks good Brett. Oh with the Cardinals Chris F. Giants Christian S with the Packers shun K chiefs Daniel D Titans David F Lyons Edgar B Panthers Edward Oh Cowboys Eric R Bears Harper B bills and Patriots Jason L. Buccaneers Jeffrey H Jets Jesse Oh 49ers Joe H Ravens Joe Oh with the Raiders John D. Browns Joseph R Bengals Max H Broncos Max G Steelers May Z Texans not how X with the Falcons and the Chargers picture P with the Saints Richard S. Dolphins Ryan P Colts football team Rams Vikings Ryan B Jaguars Steven W Eagles and Tong L with the Seahawks. Thanks again, everyone. Good luck here. See how we can do on this six-box here Should have a snake skin in here. There was not one in the last half box or last half case. I should say See if that is the case Nt and flawless are sold out and those will be taken place right after the prison tonight Nt and then flawless Baseball live baseball, that's brutal They messed us up tonight, man Jalen waddle there Dolphins base rookie Tramon morrick. It's gonna be a height bird of Darius Slayton to 175 silver Anthony Miller. This is life Yeah, this is a lot. Oh, wow. You found something. You saved us. Thank God Ethan saves Trace sermon base circuit Jalen camp Cleo Mack to 225 emergent Justin Fields Nothing like the Cardinals and those Marlins I forget what game it was, but there's nothing on I was breaking at night and I'm like, dude Avramandre Levi. Oh Red wave Zach Wilson 124 of 149 boom grade star jets We'll mag that I don't need to sleep for that same. We'll sleep that one and mag it What game was it? Silver Fletcher cops It was like the diamond backs and pirates and it was like the only nightgown like dude. What am I doing to myself?  There you go diners nice one Six of 49 awesome Refreshing as we speak some vicar. I'm excited say some vicar Chester off we got a nick chubb to 125 brilliance kyler murray What do you got? okay select baseball contenders optic prism uh collegiate drafix h2 And no huddle prism nice good variety good variety Elijah more jets sam is getting more and more full guys uh jake funk remandre stevens into 225 and silver all out jaylen hurts. He does still have room right now, but yes Be aware that he is getting more full If you want something I also just tweeted it so Could be a couple orders that rolled in mac jones patriots pete warner uh hyper nick bosa niers and silver jacoby mires Yeah, no problem, man jaylen darden chas sarat to 225 simi fahoko And silver sensational signatures dallas clark That is to 99 nice one Colts No problem, man i'm gonna Do my best to try to pull you a qualmi brown auto out of something Elijah more jake funk to 75 jordan love And then derrick henry brilliance That would be legendary You'd lose your minds So i can hope for it You'd be going crazy mac jones bass rookie pete warner purple john brown to 125 na purple scope nico callans auto nice to 49 Texans there you go couple of solid purple power autos You said purple scopes sorry purple power The best part was uh davis mills bass rookie uh shy smith hyper brandy cooks to 175 jerry judy hype When i started trying to make the scourge thing popular Convict it was like the one person in chat that would always say it to And He goes i actually have the one-of-one rpa shield of scourge from gold standard. He sent me an email That's funny michael carter Ernest jones orange wave to 60 nico collins 17 of 60 texans nice Silver see nice hits there guys Let's keep this fun going everyone. Thanks again so much ruchant slater pat fryer mute Steelers purple cracked ice chris jones to 225 silver brandon iu 49ers Just one sec guys gonna look at one thing here quick Greg newson bass rookie Uh zavin collins to to uh to 249 dante fowler Kirk cousin silver Monty rice rondale more nice one To 99 kyle use check blue cracked ice to uh break Tylen hill jamar chase bass rookie Uh chaz seroton 199 and a silver tyler void javon holland diamie brown Sean alexander to 149 and a delvin cook fireworks Sam and i are going golfing on thursday Oh, we are And we are uh probably pretty similar skill level. I have a feeling I think you're gonna be a little better than i am to be honest figure it out, but we'll see. Yeah No, i didn't play in college when i played in high school Desvits patrick that's a client edward slater to 199 silver pen i school And i was really cranking in high school like my best round to be like right around like 40 on nine Yeah, i was really cranking Mid-season form elijah moldin, which is kind of a thing with golf for sure Caleb farley and jj watt to 225 Trevor lauren see merchants one of the big advantages of florida's mid-season. Yeah, I just golf anytime now. Yeah I feel like going out and golfing in the middle of september I know it's beautiful out dude. There are some mornings where it is like It's like 12 20 and i'm like i really shouldn't but i really want to go to like golf the range or do something right now Like got to get to work fairly soon. I know I want to shower and stuff. It's like, uh Yes, i'll wait save in collins to 75 brian dawkins silver michael brockers Got the snakeskin in this pack. That's a good way to ask for the freaking out brandale more Oh Oh, man was that close tyler locket Oh, man, dude. Wow. I got scared I got really scared nice one there Seahawks brilliant stk. I didn't know what was in store We'll take that tyler locket there seahawks. Yeah, that's not bad at all Yeah, that is not bad at all jamar chase baser Jabon holland's that is a russon slater there. It's a 149 silver mark andrew's Nice russon slater Great alignment there. Uh, this pack does have a wild card points at the back. That'll be random salt yens Wild card points still sells pretty dang will I will say that Uh chaz sarat. That's orange to 249 These are hot sellers, man It's something like that. Yeah, it's like 400 to like Yeah, it's like four five thousand or something something ridiculous Micah parsons terrace marshal jr Um dan marino 299 and emergent. It's kyle trash. I mean much like most panini products I'm sure it is a tough hit You never know I don't know. Have you guys ever hit big on a wild card points card? Anyone ever hit a huge jamar jefferson last time I watched lane redeem when it was 400, so jaylon waddle juju height Uh to 175 and nice one green scope auto for the broncos Jabonte williams 14 of 75 Nice hit broncos We'll get that magged very nice Imagine you go redeem wild card points and go. Yeah, sorry next time Yeah, right zero points dammy brown tridavious white that time to 149 fireworks kyle pits Imagine that we're taking points out of here Elijah molden LaVisca chanel to 199 silver kylan hill packers Frank trout leads the majors in lps purple cracked ice rachon evans to 225 shermon mortres ray serman base We've got ty re kill there to 199 And purple power zack wilson break to 49 nice hit jets There you go. Number to 49 beautiful card. Congrats jets 27 to 49 continuing on everyone. Good luck Brock lesnar base Grab that for mandrae. Ooh, number to 60 assante samuel jr You go not bad chargers silver marlin humphrey Not bad and then right after him is shohei.  Honestly, it's just at that point Continuing on prism exit velocity by month 94 is his average exit velocity for what Does he ever not hit the ball home? stupidly wild That's ridiculous He's ridiculous Schwartz brevin jordan We've got elisha molden to 225 and a 900 points here This will be ran ups all at the end. This will be the second spot in the random as of right now 900 points A 45 million dollars in a single game last year. Oh, no, what's up nick? That's bad etn jr. That is a hyper TJ Watt to 175 new recruits as well Travis etn jr.  How's your night been? Orange to 249 Jason taylor and a red wave auto for the jetsy leijamore Solid it's a 149 three of 149 Think so, man. I think it'll stay healthy. I think it's a pretty solid squad, but They do have a lot of people that get hurt a lot To 99 shared cook other than that though. Yeah fireworks h.a. Brown Show try on patrick jones. We've got purple cracked ice rex ryan. Yeah boom to 225 nice frivante adams Nice card ravens rex ryan there trade nixon to 75 will disley jake funk silver josh palmer tommy tremble Got a jj watt there. That's number to 125 and a fireworks jamar chase tray mcgitty nazi harrah space Uh drunk to 199 And silver trail davis broncos pretty solid team colorblast Yeah Good luck everyone Yeah Let's go. These are so cool, man. Eli mitchell christian barmore Wow rookie colorblast jamar chase boom rookie colorblast this time Yeah, it's beautiful Congrats on that. Whoo. That is such a nice card It has been randy. It really has been it has been Wow That will get meh sick hit there jamar chase emergence That is awesome There you go by no means are those guaranteed in a case Love to see one imagine me thought it was a colorblast but then it was a hit report You see the white Who was on the bangles? Let me check that before I go through this pack Oh, how about that joey? How about that, man? It's something big to you the other day too Let's go man. Congrats, joey Shreya lance base.  Let's go man Yeah, I remember hitting something nice for you. Yeah, something like one in 10 cases something like that JC horn nice davis mills orange to 249 Nice hit there Silver all out rogers That's awesome, man That is awesome. Don't do this to me panini Don't do it to me Penis Sewell, uh nico collins Isaiah Simmons to 149 and aj green silver No problem, man Happy to do so Next box up that is a six Colorblaster probably Man, it's always between colorblast kaboom and stained glass, but like those three are kind of on a different level, so um, yeah It's awesome, man. It's awesome. I would help back them dear crown Uh, we got a cream hunt purple cracked ice Yeah Last spot mojo Silver train lance auto boom Last spot mojo for jessio Jesse peel this sticker off and put it on your one-of-one. I was gonna say honestly Peel the sticker off jessie Put this one on your one-of-one Way better jessie just sees that the uh, let's go jessie Let's go jessie. That's what I literally just saw that the The diners were remaining and you were breaking tonight and was like pull the trigger baby. Pull the trigger. He had to he had to Let's go jessie Uh, jeter girls motos there that is a sam darnold orange 249 hype iuk Let's go, man Let's go That's cam jordan amir smith marsets No No, dude, what no Amir smith marset is to 125 Silver champ bailey. I need a second to react to that. There's no way that happened. There's no way that happened What dude, what? Oh my goodness. I'm knocking on the camera and everything What in the world? Well, hey, I'm glad it at least got a ps9. It's the actual grade though You'll take that on any one-of-one at least getting the mint grade Do you still have it jessie? Oh, man That's hilarious, man. Uh rex ryan. We've got antonio gaze there to 60 silver kevin byrd Can you just uh put it into randomizer and that's what they got? So all right nine grade ten auto the next card That's what happened Clutcher cox chad johnson. We're missing some rookies in some of these packs as well. Sorry guys Uh 249 kenneth murray silver allen robinson Uh cd lamb t higgins and everyone had no color jamar chase the new recruits. Make sure there's no color stuff Yeah, sounds good jessie Wild man wild Austin hooper that is a hyper josh palmer Chargers nice one and silver eric mech cap nice one there next pack up Hyper is akim hicks fireworks naji harris Saquon roquan smith purple cracked ice to 225 silver teres marshal jr mild sanders antonio gates to 99 Any merchant avante smith jessie bates blue wave kyle trask to 199 there you go box nice hit Uh silver auto for the texans anthony miller That is a viren jones blue wave to 199 a j brown brilliance Last box of the break in last box of prism tonight We do have nt and flawless still to come just nt and flawless Sold out and ready to go on both of those that i just mentioned Uh two breaks the flawless one break of nc. I get a gold too. That's quite the pack Uh marie rogers base rookie Paltrask base rookie gold is sat the williams for the broncos gold rookie there you go Nine of ten no way Trent dilford raven so sick dude 14 of 49 green scopato Let's go No way kyle trask box. That's super bowl champ. Trent dilford you Oh my goodness man I knew this is gonna happen with sam here. Oh, yeah I knew it's chevril cox Cheba hovered Purple cracked ice steve large into 225 and justin herbert break I was looking at because I saw raven's quarterback and i'm like who is that right? Yes, I thought it was testivari So did I but I knew it wasn't him. So I was like, who is that? I couldn't I didn't get up getting up to you It's like what the heck uh to mitrick felton jacob harris garret card of 249 and silver rookie auto kidarius tony There you go giants It's like that There are still two points randoms as well guys or one points random two points cards Chris avans jalen philips to 75 to marcus lorenz jalen waddle fireworks Right now we have wild card in 900 Eric stokes michael parson's base rookie, uh purple 225 kenya wangu Nice one silver budda baker lockdown terrace marshal jr jamar jefferson Uh kurt cousins that time number to 149 And silver vernon hargraves for the texans Right, uh dental nims purple joey bosa and silver justin simons jamie newman sam ellinger That is randy moss to 175 any merchant avante smith. Okay continuing on here Helen wallis south williams Uh larry roundtree orange to 249 And silver rex ryan. There you go Nice ravens couple packs to go here guys Kenneth gainwell Cleo herbert's will disney to 199 Uh orange pat tilman to 249 nice And christian mccaffrey brilliams nice tilman Two left here Double color in that last pack Quiddipay craig russo silver kellen mond Last pack Of the break then we do have a points random and a recap jaymond davis ambrie thomas darnel mooney to 199 And t higgins hype All right guys, let me get a points random setup quick Uh, so once again, we will have a points random here one single random It is going to be 12 or it's going to be wild card to the top spot 900 to the second spot In the randomizer One second to get that set up Appreciate the patience. Okay. I've got all the teams right here Uh roll the dice it will be the team at the top gets wild card. The second team gets 900 seven times Here we go one two three four five six seven Uh patriots congrats on the wild card points and then cardinals 900 Okay, and a recap for you guys autos and notable colors silver canaries tony Trent dill for auto Sensational signatures green scope Kyle trask to 199 Silver anthony miller davis mills to 249 elisha more red wave Zach wilson break to 49 tyler lockett snakeskin Niko Collins auto to 49 dallas clark silver auto Shrae serman auto to 49 hearty nickerson Uh, we got the redway and zach wilson green scope javante williams silver tray lance auto And the awesome looking jamar chase color blast Thank you again so much really do hope you guys enjoyed the break. We'll have these all well protected up and right out See you. Thank you again