Get changed What is up you guys real estate game here, and today we are back and And Roblox has been a long time since we haven't played this and I believe I've missed some of the old memes So that's I've decided to come back here. All right, so let's begin with door number one. Oh, thank you for opening it Oh Of course, why are you running me? Why are you running, huh? Right, what do we got over here? I am speed. Oh, we got Mr. Lightning McQueen right here as we all know He is as fast as lightning dude open the door. All right, dude. There's a potato There's french fries with a gun. Oh my god. Yo, you need a chill out, bro. Let's take this guy All right, that should hold him down for a couple seconds rip. Oh, we got we got game the dog here guys So sad recipes F in the chat for game the dog man. He is a legend He went down as a mean legend man You will be remembered came the dog. That is so sad. Oh my god. Why is there a lot of body pieces here? What is going on bro?  Oh, okay. Nope. I am out of here Crazy Duolingo. Oh my god. He burned everybody in there. Okay. Let's go over here. Oh Minecraft They say it's for one night, but they got the green top, huh? What is that supposed to mean? That just went over my head. Oh, like there's one of these cheese triangles. It's like a triangle cheese it or something There's like three of them around the map. I only got any one Yeah, don't go in here. This actually takes you to the back rooms and you have to escape it Which I actually did escape it. I'll roll a clip of me escaping it I just didn't want to record it because it took too long All right, and that is my proof to you guys that I'm not lying that I just kicked the back room.  Oh my god I can't hear the giant truck coming because you have those headphones on egg man moving What egg man move? Oh my god. There's a little egg guy right here That thing is just hanging on the back of the truck. Okay. Hmm. Okay. We're trying to locate him on Google Maps But it cannot be found. Yeah, this place is sort of like some sort of every 51 for memes man It's kind of strange. Okay. The other nation's of my mind are the nigma Patrick is literally a triangle and Spud Bob is literally a square or rectangle if you want to say Is it kind of look like the link triangle? Oh man, okay. There's plenty of more means for us to see here. Oh We got Sannick. Oh My god Dude, this is so loud. Oh my god. Oh Make my ears bleed bro Geez, okay. We're out of there safe and sound. Well, what? Is it T-Posing? What is going on here? What's all the people on thank you for reminding me? Oh, there he is Did he just fell? Oh That's supposed to be grievous. Wow that flew right over my head man That's pretty hilarious. All right. Let's go take off these on the side. I'm bigger. Yeah, you're pretty big man Okay, let's check out this door right here. Oh It's Thanos. Uh, whoa, whoa there pal. You need to be more careful. I could have just spoiled and game for you Well, and game is history now Oh This is some OG stuff right here, you don't see this in the movies no more Yes, this time used to be so soothing man. Oh, there you go.  All right, let's keep on moving. Oh Chessbagger who said Chessbagger?  He has played Minecraft and here's a No, the FBI. Oh my god.  Wait, what is this? This place looks magical man. Look at this. It's like the galaxy This is pretty cool. Not gonna lie. Oh, look at all the other rooms. Dude. That was changing colors Looks like a party room. Let's go check it out next man What is that? Me puts no effort into a room everyone.   I've ever seen in my life Okay. Oh, this is the one that was partying.  Oh my god. Thank you. Okay. I believe I've done these before. Let me double-check Oh get away with that song. That song is cursed. Oh My god, they're just gonna make my ears bleed baby shark Jump on the shark That is so weird. All right, let's go check out the other side. It's like an area 51 Area that kind of looks like every 51. All right, and we have found some different ones Which is this one I Cannot recall what this is if you guys don't let me know man. Yay headquarters. Oh, let's check this out Excuse me. Pardon me. Oh what buy now whatever. Let's buy it man Okay, now can we open it? Oh, okay now we can what is going on here? No way to leave now pay to leave Bro, are you kidding? Let's get out before it's dark closes. Oh my god Checkers That is a bra moment right there right now. Oh like this is every old lucky for every 51 over here Oh, what is this the rover? Hey, this looks like Wally like a bootleg Wally or something right now the clothes in the door Oh, man. What is this a lemon car? Yo, imagine having this in real life It would be so hilarious Everybody would be staring at you like where's that a lemon car? What is this? Oh, that's not one meme where the guy's looking back at the girl Yeah, I remember this name. It's pretty old Okay, what is oh, of course the DVD Well, let ever hit the corner of the screen. That is the answer. Oh Come on hit the corner Come on do it. I don't think we're ever gonna witness it guys This is like a one in a million chance. It's like winning the lottery man. Oh, okay. No, that is not gonna get close Hold on brother. I'm trying to see if this hits the corner Okay, I don't think it is Exactly mission fails. Oh, it's a going. No, it's not. Oh, oh Corner. Oh, no, somebody really stop on God dude that thing hit the corner though You guys saw that you guys are lucky to witness that man. What is this an ostrich? Got there a smoothie Dude, you have an ostrich next to you. Oh, no, somebody released a bonga Guys, I don't know if we're gonna survive this because they haven't placed a bonga back We're just a bunch of logs. What is this reference? But let's keep on going. Oh, no, we're gonna die Oh Like jazz, oh man Dude, we should have dynamite not by a boonga. Okay, whatever. Let's keep on going. Oh, look, there's a lot of doggies here This is so cute my heart feels warm right now. Huh? Why is there a home emoji here and there's an anime emoji here, too That is so weird, okay, dude, how have we not died to a boonga? This is a blue man There you go. All right, we are back to where we died. Thanks to a boonga whoever released them. Oh Wait, this is uh, what's his name? The hippo, I forgot the hippo's name Dude, I can I forget his name? Oh my god. I have it. It's like one of those moments where you have the names Like you have the you have it in your head like it just can't oh Man, you guys know what I'm talking about Dude, I forgot his name You know what I'm just gonna let it go. It's gonna bug me out there. Let's get out of here, man All right, let's keep on moving over here. Oh, who's that Pokemon? It's not say that though. Why is it not saying it? Okay, I'm not gonna say anything. Let's just keep on moving. Oh It's knuckles Here I come We missed another area back there. Oh is that Marley? It's Marley for Marley and me, right? Oh Bopey, okay, I don't think it's Marley for my Yeah, it's Marley put me in his hands What is this? Soviet Shrek What? What have you guys done to Shrek? Oh my god Shrek has got Soviet on us. Okay. Yeah, there was a Okay, I don't think it leads to this. So we have to go back there. So guys turn around We have to go back. Yeah, he has a hand. That was pretty strange, huh?   All right, this is what I was talking about. We missed these over here. Okay, what? Stop bullying. Is that Trump? Get changed Trump Okay, we can't take them. Let's keep on moving, man Trump to stop pulling this stop pulling rally right there. Oh, what is this? Imagine being a block.   No, open it Oh, they're trolling us. They're trying to get stuck in here. Come on. Stop it. All right. There you go. Thank you What is this? Oh, it's the monkey getting the fresh haircut. Yo, that boy do be looking fresh though You look so fresh man That is so hilarious. No, they're trying to trap us in here blazer. I'm gonna taste him, bro I know it's blazer come back here You deserve to get taste now. He's joking on my tasting. How did I not taste him? All right. Oh, hey, isn't this from Star Wars? It's a trap. It is some Star Wars. Uh-oh, run Before we get trapped. All right, I believe that is it guys I have caught up to all the latest update besides going inside the active back room. All right, you guys Well, this was who update I don't know if they ever update this game again They've been a while since they even updated it But I mean it was fun while it lasted. I mean they should keep getting updated over and over as there's like Meme zombies coming out left and right, but it's all up to the dev of the game Right you guys what if you guys enjoyed the video make sure to slap the like button If you're new to the channel make sure to subscribe and turn that notification bell on and I will see you guys in the next one


let's talk about these closet tools that every girl needs in her closet. Welcome back to my channel guys, it's your girl Coco Styles and on this channel we talk about beauty, fashion, lifestyle and styling. Today I wanted to come to you with some closet tools, essentials that you should have in your wardrobe, your closet, so that it can be functional. Typically you should have in your wardrobe and you most likely do have and some of the items you may not have because I don't even have them. Whoa I ran out. Let's jump right into it. The first item are these amazing shoe stretchers. I did a video on these a while ago and I'll try to link it if I can. These stretchers are something that I keep in my wardrobe as a tall woman and here's why. I have wide feet and 99% of the times the shoes that brands are selling in wide are not cute. Stewart Weitzman is probably the only company that has pretty decent shoes as far as wide. So these are not to stretch out my entire shoe. No if it's too small it's too small. These are going to do is they're going to just give me a little bit of giveaway in like some of the areas where the holes are positioned if I feel like it's a little tight. They have a ton of shoe stretchers in different styles and what you do is you basically just stick it in your shoe, you turn it and you stretch it right.  Now for those who would need the back of their shoe stretch I would be careful with that because what happens is sometimes a shoemaker cobbler can actually stretch it too much and then the seam in the back of your shoe if there is a seam that it could actually start to loosen up. But a shoe stretcher, shoe stretchers are an essential for my wardrobe. If you have an issue with a pinkie dough and you need like a little space definitely invest in these. These are by the brand Footfitter and I had these for many many years now like a lot of years and they're still in great condition and like I said they have a ton so they have some for boots and they have some that will stretch your shoe the opposite way. In addition, this spray, you need the shoe stretcher spray to go along with your shoe stretcher. I have not had any issues with these actually like tearing up any leather that I have. I have not used them on suede. Now suede, I don't know if you're going to be stretching suede probably not but also I would not recommend trying to stretch a shoe that is not 100% leather. It's probably not going to give you enough space that you are looking for. So shoe stretcher and the shoe stretcher spray are essentials for your wardrobe. These are just great tools to have and it'll make life easier especially if you see a shoe that you want in the store and it's just like maybe the buckle or something is just like digging because it happens you can definitely get these. The next thing you want to have in your closet would be a lint roller. There are many many lint rollers out there. There's lint brushes and lint rollers so they are different.  I think this is a really good item to have especially if you do have children or if your house collects a ton of dust. Dust is in the air. We sometimes don't see it unless that sun is peeking it and then we see a ton of it like floating in the air but it's here and sometimes we have our clothes in the open closet like myself and what happens is the dust is just like over the items and you can just take a lint brush and clean it off. I would recommend having a smaller one in your purse. Why? Because you never know where you're going to be that day and if someone has a cat or a dog or they just just have a ton of whatever in the home and it's on your clothes you can definitely just use this get it off but this is something that I would always recommend women have. When I was in New York I remember getting on the subway and a lady was going to work and I had on a jacket that was a dark color and so did she and she had a ton of cat hair on her coat. Young Me was saying in my head I'm already smelling a cat like I'm smelling cat because I see all this cat hair. She didn't think anything was wrong with it this other lady was looking at me we were just like it was just a lot of cat hair so I know she did not check her clothes before she walked out the door so this is just a really good thing to have even at your desk at work because again you never know what's going to happen. So a lint brush or a lint roller is something that I feel that is a necessity for your closet. The third thing is a measurement tape as a tall girl if you do not have a measurement tape in your closet you are doing yourself a disservice. Measurement tapes are really good to measure yourself even if you are shopping online it's a good way to like gauge items that some brands kind of detail out in their description. Both brands who do not put these details I'll be honest I'm usually like clicking off the site or I can actually go into the store and try the item on. This is for my tall girls even my petite girls plus size girls as well read those labels get you a measurement tape get a ton of them carry one in your bag if you need to that is what I do they're very small and they're very cheap and affordable and it's just a good way to make sure that you are buying the proper item and fit for yourself. Instead of going to a store and doing the old-school picture jeans around your neck situation you can definitely just bring one of these if you wanted to.  I think this is a really good tool just to have in general regardless of your height weight and size so a measurement tape is the third thing. The fourth thing would be a sewing kit. Sewing kits are packed with a ton of things that we don't really realize that we need until we're taking something to get tweaked at a tailor or tweaked at a cleaners or something but a sewing kit is essential to my closet. There's a bunch of thread in here multiple colors that pretty much go with a lot of the pieces in my closet so if a button pops off I can definitely go ahead and here grab one of the threads and kind of go from there so there's a slew of colors and they come with of course the needles and you can always buy more needles. What else is in here they have the thing to help you put the needle in to thread in so it's a slew of things. On the other side there are some scissors some pushpins some more measuring tape got some scissors more measuring tape just a really good toolkit to have if you want to leave your pins out it comes with that little cushion to stick your pins in but if you do not have a sewing kit that comes with a ton of these definitely get you one you should be okay with getting like a nice little small one this is this is a decent size but they do have smaller ones so definitely look into getting you a toolkit for your closet I think it's a really good essential to have as far as your tools the fifth thing would be a steamer okay they have tons of steamers I got this one from Target and I absolutely love it you put some water in here and you go about your business now a lot of the steamers do tell you to use distilled water it's probably best especially if you live in an area where there's hard water it can eventually build up inside and make sure you are drying out the piece in the bag like just whatever whenever you're done take out your water nozzle and let it air out this is by the brand Rowenta and I absolutely love it it comes to like some brushes here which you can actually take this off I just always leave it on there just so it can roll across my clothes but a steamer is another essential that is needed for your your closet they do have the standing one if you have the space for that that is cool which leads me to my next thing I have a valet rod which is an essential for me you can put your outfits of the day on there you can hang a few items on it that you want to show content for maybe your week's worth of clothes so if I wanted to steam a dress or something I'm just gonna hang it on my valet rod and then I'm just gonna use my steamer so a valet rod and a steamer are essential that I feel like will help you in your day to day as far as getting dressed preparing your clothes for any event in anything else so get you a steamer and get to a valet rod the seventh thing I would say it would be velvet hangers the reason why I'm saying velvet hangers specifically is because they are a lot thinner than those plastic hangers you can also get wood hangers as well if you do not have a ton of clothes wood hangers are extremely nice and they're very durable but these are great they have a ton of colors but here's the thing about buying multiple colors or other colors as opposed to whites cream those are even hard as opposed to black if you do not buy the item from the same brand you're gonna have a hard time matching the colors up even if you go sometimes you go to like bed bath and beyond or like walmart you may see some discoloration and some of the hangers so your safe bet would be get black but I will tell you this the black sometimes rubs off I don't know if it's like some sort of dye or something so what you can do is you can take a cloth and you can wipe all of your hangers down when you start to hang your clothes up so velvet hangers would be another item that would be a great tool and tools to having your wardrobe so always have like an additional box because we are always shopping and you don't want to ever run out of your hangers the eighth thing would be cedar balls I do not have any more right now so I'm just gonna pop in a picture of them cedar balls are really good if you have like just dust well dust mites are all over right so dust mites and kind of keeping your clothes fresh get you cedar balls they have a ton they have the balls itself and they also have the ones that you could actually hang up in your closet those are great if you don't want anything like sitting at the bottom of your closet or even on the floor in your bedroom cedar balls are another item that it's a good tool to have in your closet the ninth thing would be a full length mirror I'm gonna try to pop in a picture of mine if it comes out good if not I'll pull one from offline and I'm gonna pop in the one from Ikea because their mirrors are huge and they are very affordable if you do not have the space for a full length mirror you can still get a full length mirror and get someone to put it on your wall that way it's not taking space off of the floor and I'm sure you have some sort of door in your room when you can put that mirror on the back of your door it's not the Ikea one you can just definitely get one that hooks over that way you still have the luxury of looking at yourself fully before you leave the home so a full length mirror is number nine and the last thing I want to say is double-sided tape if you have outfits dresses tops that are low cut and you need to pull your boobies to the side or lift them up definitely get you some double sided tape it's really needed for the girls who wear the items like that if you're not into that you can definitely just find a really good bra that will lift you and kind of like separate and all that good stuff but definitely try to get you some double-sided tape especially for shirts where you just want them to stay in place in a certain in a certain area for a shirt like this that I have on if I wanted this to sit just like this I'm just gonna get me some double-sided tape and stick it here and I'm done it's a good idea to stop building a little stack of these things because they are needed they are essential and they actually help you get dressed quicker also if you have like a little snafu in your closet you have some of these items that you can pick up and fix it yourself without having to take it to a cleaners or someone else to fix it so those are essential tools that you need in your closet that's gonna make your life a lot easier you can use some of these and add in others that you actually need so if you say to the end of this video please comment Coco we see you and don't forget to follow me on instagram at Coco Styles NYC and Coco Styles NY and my style blog Coco Styles NYC and my personal style services Coco Styles NY and I'm on TikTok Coco Styles NYC and make 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Howdy everyone. Hello. My name is Danica Katowicz. I'm CodePink's national co-director. CodePink is joining our partners and declaring it Daniel Ellsberg week to honor him, his long life of truth and activism, and all whistleblowers who at great personal risk dared to tell people of the world the truth about US wars, militarism, surveillance, etc. In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers documenting decades of lies and mistakes in Vietnam. In 91, he faces a new battle in an operable cancer. Dan Ellsberg was given months to live and he uses his last months doing what he does best and what he's been doing for decades, raising the threat of nuclear war and giving the peak movement a great foundation of truth to stand on. Today we have a great line of speakers to honor Dan Ellsberg and to raise up the importance of whistleblowers. We'll have time for questions at the end of the whole program. We'll be about an hour. So we'll use about the last 15 to 20 minutes for questions. Until then, please put questions in the chat in the Q&A sections that come up and I'll also be monitoring the chat for your questions as well. First, it's my honor to introduce Jesslyn Radick. Jesslyn is an American national security and human rights attorney known for her defense of whistleblowers, journalists and hacktivists including Daniel Hale, who is currently serving out an almost four year sentence for leaking damning information about the US drone program. Jesslyn graduated from Brown University and Yale Law School and began her career as an honor program attorney at the US Department of Justice. And with that I will pass it to Jesslyn. Hi, I'm glad to be here but sad for the occasion given Dan Ellsberg's declining health and given that Daniel Hale is still in prison. It's Daniel Ellsberg when I was investigated for leaking information, Daniel Ellsberg was the first person to reach out to me and he literally just called me at home. It was like, Hi, this is Dan Ellsberg. And, you know, started explaining who he was and I'm like, oh my God, I know who you are like I just studied you in my political science class I just wrote a paper on you and, but that willingness to kind of go the extra mile I mean, a lot of people go whistleblowing ordeal and they are so battered and bruised and bankrupt and broken from the whole thing that they want to leave the experience behind them understandably. And to his credit, Dan Ellsberg has continued to mentor an entire generation of people who have been going through the living hell of whistleblowing and like he reached out to me. When Daniel first showed up on my doorstep in 2014. That was the first person I called was Dan Ellsberg to talk to Daniel Hill because I knew that he was uniquely positioned to understand the problems of being charged under the espionage act, especially when you were acting in a patriotic and truthful way to expose grave wrongdoing. So again, I mean he has been just a generational mentor and I think a kind of a just a sign of strength and a standard bear a friend, a confidant. And I know speaks frequently with Daniel, hail, you know in terms of Daniel hail his prosecution continues to be one of the most unjust under the espionage act. Except for reality winner he is serving the stiffest jail sentence for basically revealing truthful information to the press about the US targeted killing program, and how the US deceives the public about the targeting and the effectiveness and the capabilities of the drone program consistently exaggerating how accurate it is and under reporting civilian deaths. The fact that his case has dragged out for so long I mean it's almost punishment by process, because, again, like the search of his house was back in 2014 and here we are. 2023. So it's been almost a decade and I would argue punishment by process and just the sort of Damocles hanging over Daniels head, all those years waiting for, for the inevitable to happen. And then just having one of the harshest outcomes has been really hard, mostly on Daniel, but I thought his case was significant because it was the first time a judge recognized him or any defendant I've represented as an actual whistleblower. The judge also had recommended that he be put in a minimum security facility and in a medical prison, and which I thought was very generous of the judge and compassionate, but the Bureau of Prisons had to exact it's a pound of flesh, and ended up sending this Orwellian communications management unit that is nicknamed Gitmo North and designed to house terrorists.  The US is still just going to treat him as harshly as possible. And in the CMU where he's currently housed, he's far more isolated from his support network, unable to receive the medical care he desperately needs and even the judge recognized he needed and has so many more restrictions on him than most prisoners do. You know, I think in the grand scheme of whistleblowing, like Dan Ellsberg Daniel Hale will be remembered favorably by history. And I know that's of cold comfort. You're in a spiral of unfairness that seems to have no bottom. But I've never seen someone more deserving of a case for a pardon and an apology from his country and actually thank you. I will continue to support Daniel unfailingly till my dying breath.  Thank you, gentlemen. Thanks for highlighting Daniel Hale, the John whistleblower who's actually serving his sentence like five hours south of me. I'm in Chicago and he's in Mary and Illinois. So next we have, I'm really excited to introduce John Kiriakou. John is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former counter terrorism consulted for ABC News. In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA's torture program, telling ABC News that the CIA tortured prisoners that torture was official US government policy, and that the policy had been approved by then President George W. Bush. He became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act. He served 23 months in prison as a result of the revelation and I will pass it to John and spotlight him. There we go. Thanks. Thanks, Danica. And thanks everybody. I was honored to even be considered to speak about Dan Ellsberg, the great Dan Ellsberg, and jumped at the opportunity. I've told this story before so forgive me if it's if it's a repeat for you but when I was when I was a little kid or all the years that I was growing up. My, my parents insisted that we always have dinner as a family every night there were five of us I have a brother and sister both younger than I am. And every day my my dad who was an elementary school principal and my mom who was an elementary school teacher would would come home around for my mom would make dinner and we would all sit down to eat and we would always talk about the events of the world even when I was a little kid. One of my earliest memories was asking my dad why there were so many fires on TV and he told me that someone had shot Martin Luther King and that people were very angry about this but one of the things that that has stuck in my mind over these many years. 52 53 years now was about Dan Ellsberg. Dan Ellsberg was a hero in our family. And I remember my father, when I was only six years old, explaining to me that this man this one man had decided to tell the American people the truth when everybody else was lying about the truth. He came from a very large family. I have 27 first cousins on my mom's side, and many of them, seven of them of the 27 fought in Vietnam, and thought that they were fighting in Vietnam for the right reasons, and believed what they were being told that we were the good guys, we were on the side of righteousness. We were there to protect the American people and to protect the American way of life, and we were winning. And all of that was a lie. And we didn't even know it was a lie until Dan Ellsberg told us. So this was revelatory. And my parents made sure that we understood even at those young ages that Daniel Ellsberg was a bona fide American hero. That was in 1970, of course. And as I got older, I was interested in current events and in foreign affairs. I knew I wanted to do something in foreign affairs and I ended up going to college in Washington at George Washington University and Dan Ellsberg every once in a while would come to D.C. And he would speak at Georgetown or George Washington University or American University, and many of us would always make the pilgrimage to go see Dan Ellsberg. You know, Dan would speak and sometimes debate with people like Abby Hoffman, for example, you know, people who had gone through similar experiences but from a different angle. And he was always a beacon of light and of hope in transparency and in truthfulness. I never thought that I would ever have the opportunity to actually meet the man. And I didn't want to be, you know, a stalker and wait until after the speech was done to stand there and fawn all over him and such but I mean privately I did fawn all over him he was a hero to me. I had a similar experience to Jess Lynn's experience. When I got in trouble and I got arrested. I got together for dinner one night with Jess and with Tom Drake and Kevin Gestola and a couple of other people here in Washington and Dan called in to say hello, and to wish me well. It was the first time I'd ever spoken to Daniel Ellsberg and it was like meeting a rock star. Listen, I'm not, I'm not one to be star struck by people. Over the course of my career I met with kings and presidents and prime ministers and it's just not that big of a deal but it was a big deal to meet Dan Ellsberg. I literally put his life on the line for truth and for transparency. It's a man I had looked up to from the age of six, and I got to meet him over the phone. Well I went to prison in early 2013. One of the first letters that I received was from Dan. And Dan wrote to me regularly, religiously, faithfully. And one of the things that was just so wonderful was that he would always close his letters by saying love Dan. The letters were always typed but at the bottom he would hand write love Dan. It's nice to think what a warm and wonderful thing that he's doing. It got to the point where, you know, the prison guards always read your mail and sometimes they, you know, don't give it to you or they alter it or they cut things out or black things out as a prison can well attest. Thanks to Jesslyn I was able to smuggle a lot of my, my letters out of out of prison to Jess. And, and finally one of the guards said to me listen, you know I'm probably not supposed to tell you this but your buddy is, is at the college down the street. I was in FCI Loretto Pennsylvania, the federal correctional institution at Loretto Pennsylvania. And there was a small Catholic college there, Saint, I forget, Vincent's maybe I don't know it had like 10 people in it. And it used to be a Catholic monastery. But it was down the street and that's where the guys in the minimum security work camp worked as janitors. And I had a friend at the, at the university, and he said, your friend he's speaking at the university, this Ellsberg guy, and I said Dan's in town. I couldn't believe it. And then this prison guard, and the prison guards listen are not there to be your friends there in most cases your enemies. The guard actually cut the article out of the local newspaper to give to me so I could see the transcript of Dan's speech, and the response to, to a visit to this little tiny town with 1200 people in it by this American giant, this, this giant of modern American history. It was actually a warm and very thoughtful thing to do. We are more than a decade later, and I can't tell you how proud I am to call Dan, not, not just an idol for me. I mean, do 58 year old men have idols, I can tell you that yeah we do. But I'm proud to call him a friend. It's heartbreaking that he's ill, and that he's suffering right now, but I spoke to him last week and I'm glad that I had the opportunity to tell him that even going through the process of death. He's doing it with such dignity and such grace with an eye toward the greater good that even in these final weeks of his life, he continues to be a role model for all of us. My own father, and my grandfather, there've only been two people in my life who have impacted me like this Pete Seeger is one, and I'm honored to say that Pete Seeger. And I became friends toward the end of his life, and Dan Ellsberg being the other I'm, I'm a better person because I've had Dan Ellsberg in my life. And, you know, even though he's not going to be with us for too terribly much longer, we're lucky in that we have his books, we have his speeches, and we have the testimony from so many people whose lives he impacted to fall back on. Like I say, not just I feel that I'm a better person having known him, but I think all of us are better people having been touched by him. So thanks for inviting me. I'm really thrilled that I got the chance to say something. Thank you. Thank you so much, John. And yeah, thank you for highlighting how much just light that Dan Ellsberg is brought to this situation. So if you hear all the honking I live in Chicago, and there's a Cubs game so I really recommend everyone on Dan Ellsberg's Twitter he posted this letter that he wrote to his movement friends originally and then it was getting circulated so he posted for everyone. This letter he wrote about his life, and how he's making this transition and just his reflections it's a very very beautiful letter. He posted on this Twitter and I think it's been published elsewhere, but I really really recommend checking that out. And our third panelist is here with us Gabriel Shipton, Gabriel's a film producer and the brother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, his feature link documentary entitled Ithaca premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and open for general release in January of 2022. It follows the work of his father John Shipton and fighting for Julian's release. And with that I will pass it to Gabriel. Thanks for being here with us. Thank you. Thanks for having me I mean it's an honor to be amongst, you know, John and Jesslyn speaking about this great Titan of the US a hero to many, and also a thorn in the side to, you know, the military industrial complex and those who, those who we want to hide, you know what the government is doing in our names. I haven't known Dan probably as long as John or Jesslyn but I can really echo the similar stories that they have his, you know, undying and and committed support for truth tellers for whistleblowers and for people like Julian to, you know, imprisoned unjustly for publishing the truth. Now, Dan was the last person I believe to beat an espionage act charge. It was almost 50 years ago and Julian is charged under the same espionage act is charged with 17 charges under the espionage act for sourcing and publishing classified information leaks related to the Chelsea Manning League so that's the war logs, the Iraq war diaries, the diplomatic cable set of State Department diplomatic cables as well as Guantanamo by detainee files and for publishing that information Julian faces 175 years maximum sentence if he if he is convicted.  He did an interview with BBC hardcore, which is a quite a large program in the United Kingdom, where he admitted that Julian had given him an exact backup of the Chelsea Manning Leaks. The exact leaks that Julian is now being pursued for publishing. He had given an entire backup to Daniel Ellsberg. And then went on BBC hard talk and said, you know, I should be charged as well you should be if you're charging Julian Assange under the espionage act for possessing this material. Then you should be charging me so even even to this day Dan is, you know, out there causing trouble. And I hope that, you know, I'm sure he's got something planned. He's going to go out with a bang. I'm definitely sure about that. If we've learned anything from, you know, his brilliant, his brilliant life that he has led. I met Dan at his house in 2021. My father, and I went to visit him there and, you know, he was very generous with his time and sat with us for a few hours. I was during the COVID period. So, you know, at great risk to himself in his, in his, you know, delicate old age, but he was very generous to his time. And I think one interesting thing he said, or that I asked him about his case, you know, about his case, his espionage case and then and how he was being pursued for the pen for leaking the Pentagon papers. People often talk about Julian's case the need for a face saver for the government or for the for the DOJ or the National Security State that is pursuing Julian. And I asked Dan, you know, what was the face saver in your case?  And Dan looked at me confused. And he said, well, you know, what are you talking about? You know, Nixon was impeached. And what he meant was that the plumbers who, you know, who had spied on Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, which led to his, his case being thrown out of court, ended up part of Nixon's impeachment. And we can really look at similarities, the similarities in Julian's case, in the sense that during the Trump administration under under CIA director Mike Pompeo. There was an unprecedented statement by Pompeo that he declared WikiLeaks, a non state hostile intelligence service and what that meant was that the CIA could use clandestine operations to pursue WikiLeaks. And similarly, what like operations they would use against say the, you know, the Iranian secret service or the Russian FSB. And so what that meant was that the CIA then co opted the security company that was supposed to be protecting Julian in the Ecuadorian embassy Julian spent seven and a half years in the Ecuadorian embassy. He spent four years in there in 2019 and put in Bill Marsh maximum security prison where he remains to this day for years. You spent four years there on the 11th of April. But during his time in the Ecuadorian embassy, this clandestine operation began where you see global this security company began spying on Julian. They updated all the cameras in the embassy to high definition cameras. They placed microphones all throughout the embassy to record Julian's conversations, his legally privileged conversations with his lawyers and with his doctors. And what we later found out was that there were also plots to kidnap Julian that were circulating within the CIA that made it all the way to the Trump White House. And these plots to kidnap Julian were met with, you know, there's some reporting about this, some Yahoo News reporters did a very, very long investigation, 6000 word piece that it was nominated for some journalism prizes. And they reported that these plots to kidnap Julian were discussed at the highest levels discussed with the DOJ. And they reported that the DOJ responded to the Pompeo CIA that you what are you going to do when you kidnap Julian. Where are you going to take him we don't have any charges. Just wait a bit and we'll bring some charges and then you can get him out of the embassy. And so we can see this sort of judicial kidnapping that was put in place to take Julian from the embassy, and then keep him in prison, sort of indefinitely now, while he awaits or fights his extradition to the USA. But this sort of corruption of these state entities like the CIA and the Department of Justice to pursue what is a political persecution is sort of mirrored in Daniel Ellsberg's case and really went to the highest level of the US government in the Trump administration. So I expect that there will be some similar consequences. Well, you know, hopefully there will be some similar consequences that were mirrored in Daniel Ellsberg's case, as in Julian's case, if it ever gets to that level. But yeah, thank you very much for inviting me and I hope, you know, so much admiration for Dan and all the support that he's given Julian over the years. He is a great example to whistleblowers everywhere. And I think that's very important that he is celebrated in his life and and continuing just to set an example really because what's going on in the world. And we wouldn't know much without without these courageous people without these truth and if we don't celebrate them if we don't protect them, then they won't come forward. Thank you. Thank you Gabriel. There's a lot of people in the chat to sending love to your family. I'll join in person. I just wanted to read really quickly just portions of Daniel Ellsberg's letter that he wrote just because I think it was really compelling I brought it up earlier. Didn't want to leave people hanging and then we have a really large chunk of time, more than planned for questions which is really awesome. I'm not usually how it goes which is great. So this is just a short excerpt of his letter. When I copied the Pentagon Papers in 1969 I had every reason to think I would be spending the rest of my life behind bars. It was a fate I would have gladly accepted if it meant hastening the end of the Vietnam War, unlikely as that seemed and was yet in the end that action in ways I could not have foreseen due to Nixon's illegal responses did have an impact on shortening the war.  I was able to devote those years doing everything I could think of to alert the world to the perils of nuclear war and wrongful interventions. As I look back on the last 60 years of my life, I think there is no greater cause to which I could have dedicated my efforts. In the last 40 years, we have known that nuclear war between the US and Russia would mean a nuclear winter. I'm happy to know that millions of people have the wisdom dedication and moral courage to carry on with these causes, and to work unceasingly for the survival of our planet and its creatures. And like john said he did sign off that letter with love Dan so with that will move to questions I'm going to give people more time to put them in the q amp a section. I did get your question from the chat so that will be answered. So I'm going to give people a couple minutes and in the meantime I'd like to ask questions to the panelists and I think maybe all three of you could answer. What sort of compels whistleblowers you know whether it's like you john or Daniel Hale or Julian Assange, or Daniel Ellsberg to make that decision to leak it as opposed to just see what they saw and hold it back from the public. You know, you do risk years and years and some case over 100 years in prison for leaking these things so what sort of compelled either your clients or you or your family members to make that decision and I'll start with Jess, and then john and then Gabriel. For me, it was a crisis of conscience, and I literally was could not sleep at night, knowing that we had tortured someone and that he was going to be like our first prosecution in the war on terrorism and that we had not only tortured him but covered that up. And we're concealing it from the court and so for me, it was just choosing my conscience over my career so I could live with myself and be able to look at myself in the mirror and, you know, go to bed with a clean conscience. I think it was something about like some super love for John Walker Lind or into being anti Ashcroft or anything like that it was more having a conscience and acting on it. I don't think it was some huge profound act of moral courage it was just being able to live with myself. I, I never considered myself to be a whistleblower just had to tell me that I was a whistleblower in our very first meeting. And I said to her, as I was walking out of her office I said listen I really want to thank you for for taking my case because I know that you only represent whistleblowers and I'm not a whistleblower. And she said you're the poster boy for whistleblowing. And I said no, I just said something. And she had to explain it to me that that's sort of, you know, that's what whistleblowing is. Boy, where do you even begin. One of the things that I learned early on in the process and again I learned this through Jess. And through an Israeli journalist who has written about whistleblowers a guy by the name of al press is that whistleblowers have an unusually highly defined sense of right and wrong. It's more highly defined than among the general public. And I think Tom Drake would agree with me. I'm, I never really gave serious thought to not saying something.  It just never occurred to me that maybe I shouldn't say anything on the off chance that I might spend 45 years in prison which is what the government was originally seeking in my case.  And I actually waited in my case for somebody else to say something. And when nobody did I thought well, they're not going to do it so I guess I have to. Well, I mean, I come, I mean, I come, you know, I don't have this experience that Jess or John have but for me and all the people that I've met and all the whistleblowers that I've met advocating for Julian, including, you know, Daniel Hale, who just spoke about earlier. I think something exists inside which is a yearning for justice and a revulsion of injustice. And to me the whistleblowers that I meet and have this sort of fearlessness and they're they're courageous in a in a in a sort of sense and that that to me is really the overriding the overriding characteristic that that I found amongst whistleblowers is that they're fearless and that they're courageous but I think this this sense of right and wrong exists in inside inside all of us and what I think part of Julian's work and the work of WikiLeaks was really how do we how do we protect whistleblowers you know how do we protect journalists and and and protect whistleblowers in a digital age and how do we by protecting them how do we encourage other people to become whistleblowers and I think it's so important what what getting together in forums like this to really celebrate to celebrate whistleblowers and to really talk about their courage, but also you know, have the tools to be able to to protect themselves so that so that they can whistleblower without the fear of of these, you know, huge tolls on their lives. And I think that's very important as well. Thank you. Just letting attendees know john had to hop off to go on to go on Katie helpers podcast which you should all check out it's pretty good. So I have a question. Robert s house Dan Ellsberg doing today. I don't know if the panelists have an answer to this, but I heard that he was doing it yet a good day today. I don't know if you two have heard anything but that's what I've heard days of today. So, um, there we go is Robert's question.  That's a loaded one. Sorry to drive people, but it's a good question. Oh, Jess, you're muted. Sorry about that. Um, Dan Ellsberg always said, Don't do what I did. Don't wait. Blow the whistle earlier, rather than later. If I blown the whistle earlier, think of how much carnage could have been prevented. I think a lot of whistleblowers tend to wait or not blow the whistle at all because they see what happens and they have fears about what's going to happen. So to me that was like a big piece of wisdom that Dan always imparted like blow the whistle sooner rather than later and trust your trust your judgment. I mean, the government's going to lie and say whatever it's going to say, but like trust your own judgment and don't wait. So that was the biggest takeaway for me. To me, Dan's legacy is just the, you know, his passion for life and really the way he has lived his life and shown that, you know, for many years he worked inside the military industrial complex. You know, I think he was in his 40s when, when the Pentagon papers were leaked.    I think that that really is, to me, is part of his legacy is is all the whistleblowers that have followed him. You know, I think he's almost responsible for a lot of them. You know, as John said, he was always a hero to John so you could really, you know, blame Daniel Ellsberg for a lot of a lot of the whistleblowers that exist today and to me that is such an incredible, an incredible legacy. Thank you. We have a question in the chat about if there's any kind of regulation protecting whistleblowers from going to prison, like anywhere in the world that could be implemented here like if there's any that already exist. And maybe I don't know if Jesslyn would know the answer to that. Yeah, our country is the only country that, I mean their UK has an official secrets act, which is kind of like our espionage act, but most countries don't have the concept of a whistleblower. They may have a different word for it, but a lot of countries don't even have that concept it's a very American concept and a very democratic concept. So, no, there's not. I can't think of like model legislation US has different people who put forth different people who are members of Congress, who have, who have put forth including defending rights and descent foundation and representative and people who put forth legislation to amend the espionage act. But in terms, I mean really was whistleblowing is something that should be protected and technically is protected by law, but the law protecting whistleblowers has no enforcement mechanism so when the government comes down on you with a ton of bricks. There's really nothing you can do as a whistleblower to stop that. And that's what we need we need a public interest defense for people who blow the whistle. Thank you, Jess. We also have someone asking specifically about Julian asking. There's only six Congress people that signed the letter to the Justice Department to drop the charges against Julian Assange. Do you think the letter still made an impact or anything else to give us hope for Julian. Yeah, yeah, I certainly do. I mean there was seven, seven in total. So, that is, it's a big mean, and it's a base of support now that people are on the record of supporting Julian's freedom and calling for this unprecedented use of the espionage act against Julian Assange to be dropped by the Garland Department of Justice. So, yeah, I definitely think it's, it's made an impact. You know, it will just grow and grow I think the support in Congress now we've got. This is a group of progressive, progressive Congress people. Who's Rashida to live who led the letter, Greg Cesar from Texas. Corby Bush, Mal Bowman, Alexandria, Casio Cortez, as well as ill Hanoma so that's a real group within within the progressive caucus that are calling for this. You know, it's been some vocal support on the other side of the aisle as well amongst people like, you know, Thomas Massey representative Roe Conner as well has spoken out against against this as well so I think, you know what Jesse was talking about before was this, you know really reform of the espionage act and is really key to protecting whistleblowers, the public interest defense, and protecting publishing, carving out publishing from from the espionage act as well would be a key reform and it's has bipartisan support.  I think that they were co sponsoring October last year. So really I think there is a growing a growing group within Congress who not only calling for Julian's freedom but also calling for reform of the espionage. Thank you. I think we have one more question. And then we can wrap it up sort of early unless we get any more but why did none of the Republicans who have spoken out about a previously support the most recent letter. It's a Democrat focus letter because of, you know, it's a Democratic administration so it was a focus on on the Democratic support which I think, you know, would have a greatest impact but I'm looking forward to another letter, perhaps a bipartisan one. I think that would be very impactful as well. I also mentioned that I think this whole issue is also getting will be further examined given now that President Biden and former President Trump and Vice President Pence, all have recently been found to have classified information that they shouldn't have been laying around private property unsecured and part of that as a function of overclassification, but none of them are being charged under the espionage act nor should they be. Because again, you know, unless you are actually intending to sell such information to a hostile foreign nation or use it to harm the United States. People should not be facing prosecution using this law so you know in a way what's going on in current events is hopefully also going to shine a light or be an impetus behind some reforms. Okay, one more question actually the regular media, mainly parrots the government's position what media covers more of the truth about whistleblowers or educates the public more we got like kind of two of those questions one was asked by Karen and one by Sarah, I think democracy now, I think, I mean alternative liberal media Kevin Gestola has certainly done a lot of writing about these whistleblower cases that no one has covered. He's done that with shadow proof chip Gibbons that defending rights and descent foundation has also been covering these cases and issues but yeah the mainstream media is is not going to cover it. Unlike the crazy just worldwide fascination with Snowden it's generally very hard to get media traction on these stories and that's by design the government has a huge megaphone and the mainstream media wants to keep its contacts in the and so doesn't want to be too harsh about that. So we really is like incumbent and heavy lift for but the best reporting is occurring in alternative media and people the grassroots level, who are making waves and keeping these issues shouting from the rooftops like yeah they can hide you away in prison but you know Daniel hail Julian Assange people are still suffering from this reality winner is still under many restrictions, even though she's technically free she's still under all sorts of very heavy handed restrictions and again that's by design punishment by process trying to trip you up.  They want you to fail. You know and john Kiriakou has written eloquently about that also. Okay, we all want to add any media sources. Yeah, I think some of those are some great ones that Jesslyn was was citing about whistleblowing and you know the independent media these days is is gaining audience and really I think the you know we can just have to look at the most recent discord leaks and and how the you know how the New York Times and places like Bellingcat were were talking about you know how they identified whistleblowers and how they sought out whistleblowers and identified their information and and that really is says to us that you know these news organizations, these the news media has sort of lost their way in that sense. They're no longer protecting sources, you know they're doing the job of the FBI and hunting them down so I think that's a big sign to everybody that if they really want to get information about whistleblowing or whistleblowers or people like Daniel Ellsberg or John Kiriakou or Jesslyn and there and the information that they expose, then the independent media is is the place to go. You know, Sy Hirsch Matai be those sorts of people as well, who are who are doing really good reporting. Thank you both. I want to thank Gabriel and Jesslyn and also John Kiriakou for joining us for this webinar today. We will get it wrapped up now but it will be up on our YouTube if you ever want to revisit it or share it please do. This was to honor the great Daniel Ellsberg and I just want to highlight all the amazing stories that were shared with us today by all three of our panelists and also just so many people in the chat had personal stories with Dan Ellsberg which I think just speaks to how ingrained he made himself in the anti-war movement after being a whistleblower. He didn't just whistleblow and debout on us he stayed with us for his literally his entire life and we are standing on the shoulders of giants and I hope that we can take what Dan has given us in his very long life of anti-war work, take it with us, take his confidence and competence and honestly care as well. You know, he spent so much time caring for people and that's sort of the foundation of anti-war work is caring about people not just here, not just yourselves, not just people you know but everywhere in the world. So Dan we love you if you're listening and I'll make sure to send it to him as well if he wasn't able to tune in today but thank you to all of our speakers. You can support current whistleblowers today also I will say that you could go to code pink.org slash Daniel Hale and you can write to him or sign his commutation petition. And I don't know, Gabriel is there any way that we could support Julian in the next few days. Yeah, if you go to sansdefense.org, you can join the mailing list there and find out what actions are taking place I think there's some things play and plan for World Press Freedom Day so there should be some actions taking place around the United States, sansdefense.org. Yes, thank you. Oh yeah, that reminds me could pink as a World Press Freedom Day and Kevin Gasola's extra speaking at it on May 3rd so that's exciting. Jess Lynn, do you want to wrap up with anything. I mean you can keep we have updates regularly on our website whisper.exposefacts.org. You can get updates on what's going on with Daniel there and see what other kinds of work that we're doing. All of these organizations that have been mentioned needs support we're all struggling and fighting, you know and doing so with very thin budgets and and and meager meager armies compared to the the kinds of people that were that were up against so it's a collective effort. Thank you Danica and could pink for organizing this and for having the back of so many whistleblowers over the years. And you know that's kind of what I take away from this. I mean it really does take a village and we're this very particularized sliver of a village so I'm glad to be in solidarity with all of you. Thank you. So thanks to our panelists thanks to everyone you tuned in. Feel free to share this all over and please stay involved in anti war work so you can take what whistleblowers have given us and turn it into the change that they so very wanted to see. Hope you all have a great evening and I will talk to you all soon. Thank you.


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Hello everybody. A lot has happened in IT during the past 15 years, so 2005 Git and Puppet were introduced. The Linux kernel was still in its 2.6 version. The kernel summit moved the first time to Europe to Cambridge. In 2006 AWS started its EC2 service 2010, OpenStack project launched. 2012 and Civil was invented. One year later, Docker in 2013, 2014, Kubernetes and Terraform started. Then terms like CI, CD became popular and everybody talked about scalability and agility. But let's face it, you're talking most of the time about the same architecture Linux started in 1991 with this Pentium 386, just faster and with more memory capacity. Many of us perform in essence the same task like all these years before, configuring hardware, sizing storage, installing operating systems and preparing networks. Once was a system administrator or even an operator has now SRE or DevOps Engineer on his business card. A lot of setups in these days are in production to this very day. So this talk is dedicated to all who are new to the so-called cloud business or want to have to get acquainted with the new terms and principles. Communication is key in our business. So I try to sort out a few commonly used important terms and talk about their background. This is not a deep dive into a specific type or brand of cloud computing or software tool. I will give some examples though and show you some demo code. This talk takes you on a ride about the principles of cloud computing and I hope you have some classic knowledge of IT management. Be it you've worked with servers for some time or be it that you've set up your own computer for home automation, a personal web server or as a gaming system. But first of all let me introduce myself. My name is Nils Wagner. I work as an architect for the OpenTelecom Cloud at T-Systems. I'm reaching out for technical communities like you and I'm working in a team called the Ecosystem Squad and as such we provide tooling for cloud consumers or cloud users. I have some expertise in IT security, consulting, I was an editor and author at Tech Magazine for several years but then I switched back again to system engineering and operations, cloud computing and server automatization. I'm a user advocate for open source for a long time. I'm a co-founder of Linux tag and from Germany and thus I'm a member of the board of the German Unix users group. But let's just dive in. Well the name of the game is cloud computing but what does this term actually mean? If you ask three people you get four different opinions usually. It's Dropbox cloud computing. It's Gmail cloud computing. Probably I've heard about the next cloud tool. It's Airbnb or Uber and cloud computing application. What about OpenStack? So we see that the label cloud is attached to very many services and there are actually dozens of definitions. One of them is the NIST one is that it's still somewhat vague but you can read that in many spaces. I won't read the whole explanation here in its full text but I'd like to break this up a little bit in smaller digestible pieces. So the obvious of cloud computing, some generic characteristics are cloud computing is ubiquitous. It's convenient and on-demand. What does this mean? Obiquitous computing means that the location of the hardware, the actual hardware and the users are decoupled. So usually they are connected over a network. So cloud computing servers usually are located in a huge data center whereas the users can be anywhere in the world. They just need to have some kind of network access. Well what does convenient mean? Convenient especially for the user. So it's not necessary to enter a cool-down data center. No sneaker administration as we used to call that but instead use automation to have your systems, your computers, your servers, your networks and your other resources API driven so you can program that. What this means, you will talk in a minute. On-demand means that you use your compute network storage resources when you need it. No time consuming order processing means that there's no forms that you have to fill. There's no hardware supplier, sorry, you have to ask for ordering and so on. So the resources are there on a single click of the mouse. If you implement that you experience two features. One is network access which is more or less direct consequence from the ubiquitous way of working with the cloud. Since the cloud is not in your computer cabinet or something like that, it's not on-premises. It is connected via the internet and to overcome this mentioned ordering process that usually takes days, if not weeks or months depending on your organization. A cloud provider keeps a pool of computers, hard drives and other resources on stock for several users, for several users at once. Those users can be different departments in your organization, say the tech department, the software development department, the marketing department or the financial department. Or it could be different customers of a public cloud service, which we are talking about in a minute as well. Once you order one of those resources from this shared pool, then they are private for your private use or your organization's private use. What this means and what is necessary for that, we will also talk during this presentation. So one of the key question is what are actually resources, which I mentioned already several times. So let's think back for 5, 10 or even 15 years. So if it was your task to configure a classic setup, that required you a lot of detail knowledge. It required to understand your servers, RAM types, how to collect the right hard disk controller that fits to your storage solution. You might have set up IRQ settings for a network interface card, deal with BIOS settings. You have to talk with the network guys about which IP address to use, about the router configuration, firewalls, and so on and so on. Time server resources, you have to install your operating system from CD-ROM or DVD. You have to provide locking information, maybe plug into a user management IAM system of your organization. You may have a configuration database where you have to enter the new server once you've installed it and so on and so on. All these subcomponents of an overall setup are resources. And many of them are very hardware specific, very specific to the specific type of resource of a specific hardware vendor, for example. And in cloud computing, resources are components that are abstracted to a certain degree. So if you take a specific brand of a hard drive, what is the actual important feature of this hard drive? It's not actually the brand name or the type of its connector like an SAS or SCSI connection or SATA or whatever, but it's more or less the size. It should be and should have a name or an ID. And you want to know where did you attach it to. And those are the three important features and attributes to a resource. First is the abstraction. So now we're talking about the hard drive as a quality volume and say, this is, I don't know, 16 gigabytes in size. We have it automatically in our central configuration database so that we can look it up how many volumes did we use so far for our setups. And we can configure it from a single place of all its features. Configuration of a volume is probably in essence to attach it to an existing server, for example. We see this in a minute. So every important device, subsystem or component can be a resource. Each resource can be, so if you're doing cloud computing, you can create, retrieve, update and delete resources. You create one, you create more or less out of the blue a new hard drive of volume from nothing. You can retrieve information about existing hard drives that you created and see its features and attributes. You can update it so you can even resize the volume or other resources, change some other of its main parameters. And obviously you can delete them if you don't need the resource any longer. And those four major operations are called the so-called CRUD operations. CRUD operations can be performed to almost every resource in cloud computing. Sometimes there are even extra activities but these are available most of the time. But most resources have IDs so that you can reference them. And you can link resources, for example, attach the volume to a server by their IDs. Here I have an example. This is the command line client for OpenStack. OpenStack is a cloud computing platform. You can think of OpenStack as kind of a cloud operating system, so software that manages all your resources. In this case I have two resources highlighted here in the boxes. And let's start here to have a mouse pointer here on the top right and I list all my volumes here. OpenStack volume list and I am just interested in two attributes, its ID and its name. I see I have four volumes listed here and they have all IDs. And I have also a list of servers with a very similar command, OpenStack server list, also with ID and name. And one of my hard drives that I created previously is here connected to the server. If you look up here, E9F3 is the ID of one of the volumes. And I look up the details of this volume, OpenStack volume show in the ID. And I format the output to some JSON format and do a little bit highlighting. And then you can see the server ID points to another resource, to a server resource and that is listed here. So what does this mean? I have previously attached this volume to this server and I just looked up the connection here. There are obviously other commands as well on this command line tool. It's not only OpenStack volume list but also OpenStack volume create, OpenStack volume delete and so on. Some more features of clouds, especially one feature that is different in cloud computing from classic computing is elasticity. In the NIST definition, this is described as resources can rapidly be provisioned and released. But the more common used term for this is scaling. So when resources are needed, you can use them and even increase them in size and also drop them if we don't need them anymore. So you can do this with a, say, a web frontend. You could use it in a command line. But it's even more efficient if you have some software that takes care of that and does that automatically. So for example, your cloud controller, your cloud scheduler could monitor your network bandwidth consumption and if that exceeds a certain level, it could just spawn another set of virtual machines, assign new IP addresses to it, maybe enter those IP addresses in the load balancer and so on so that you can on the spot scale up and scale down your resources. And that is what I meant with automation so that you have minimal management effort or direct service provider in action. So I worked as a system engineer for several years and when we had to, the demand for new servers had to fill out a lot of forms and send them to the right people, open tickets, wait for response, do some clarification and so on and so on. So all this is no longer needed in proper cloud computing. There's no need to ask for permissions and you have a programmable infrastructure and we call this infrastructure as code. And we talk about this also in a minute. Cloud computing comes in different layers and abstractions. So the NIST definition calls this the service models and there are mainly free basic layers that are very common and you'll read these terms all the time if you're into cloud computing. So first is infrastructure as a service which is more or less a one-on-one mapping of your classic server resources which we talked just about like volumes which are the equivalent of a hard drive or a server or a network or a router, something like that. This is in essence the main offering by commercial cloud providers. So they provide you an abstracted way of classic resources. What you do with that is completely up to you. You can install directly applications on top of that but you could also install some extra software that takes care of specific activities like scaling up, scaling down, monitoring your resources, its consumption and so on. If you use software like that we are talking about platform as a service. That is even more abstract that gives especially developers a nice platform that they can rely on and so they don't need to deal with the installation of operating system configuration, the details of an operation system, deal with IP addresses and so on. All this is already taken care of the platform. Usually nowadays platform as a service means most often Kubernetes because it's by far the most commonly used platform. Software service is just a complete application that are usually pre-configured and ready to use for you as a user. Which abstraction layer, which service model is the right one for your specific setup. Let's have a look here. There's a little bit about theory and practice. Managers think SAS is the right thing because they just have to pay for the service. No distraction for anyone of their own staff to set up, configure or maintain the software. So we can think for example of Gmail as a SAS service. You just order the service and you get an AS service. You get a mail client and everything behind that. The servers and the routing and the networking stuff is all abstracted from you. But you have to stick to the service that is provided from the SAS vendor SAS. So what developers usually want is platform as a service. They allow for easy deployments. Don't have any hassle with operating system. Have no discussions with system administrators because they can use containers and other pre-configured programming frameworks for say Ruby and Rails, a Java framework, some Python environments or already pre-configured. But administrators most of the time want is infrastructure as a service. Because those are familiar resources but in a more convenient way to access them. So it depends a lot what kind of applications you want to add into the cloud. The more control you need to have on your specific application, the more you want infrastructure or platform as a service. But of course you can build the higher level services always manually on the lower level services. So for example you could order infrastructure as a service from a public cloud provider and then install a Kubernetes system manually on top of that or maybe even better, automated on top of the infrastructure as a service layer. Once you have your Kubernetes in place you could also deploy applications on those Kubernetes clusters and deploy the software as a service application. I talked already a little bit about the terms private cloud and public cloud. Private cloud is more or less a synonym for something that you have on your premises in your server cabinet, in your private data center. While public cloud is hosted in a central way, usually in huge data centers which are spread out through the country, the continent or even the world, but which to pick. That is a very important question especially if you're new to cloud computing. Many users tend to prefer the private cloud first because you think you may think that you have more control over your systems and that your private data stays private. But there are also some advantages for the public cloud because in this case maintenance is not your concern but your cloud provider's concern. You can also do some resource sharing with your co-customers, with your fellow tenants of the public cloud. That can give some great advantages because you don't have to pay upfront for the resources that you manage in your private cloud. There you have to order and provision everything yourself whereas in the public cloud this is the cloud provider's activity and task. So if it comes to scaling, the public cloud has huge advantages. And if it comes to privacy and control over your data, well it's obviously very very important to have a trust relationship to your cloud provider. And this trust relationship is defined by several parameters. So what is your general trust in this specific vendor? Is it a trustworthy organization? Is it a trustworthy company that is running this service? Where does it run? And what kind of legislation is it running? So different countries may have different requirements on how and where to store and process your data. So that is different from country to country and you should check this prior to actually using the public cloud. Well they are not only private clouds and public clouds but also community clouds, hybrid clouds, multi-clouds and so on. But those are more or less all just terms for a mixture of the both concepts. So for example a hybrid cloud could be a private cloud which is hosted by a specific public cloud vendor but which is only accessible and all the physical resources are only accessible by yourself. So that is one option if you want to combine the advantages of the public cloud and the private cloud. And the multi-cloud is the situation when you use several public clouds in parallel, several public clouds provided by different vendors. So the largest public cloud vendors at the moment are AWS from Amazon web services, Microsoft with its Azure service and Google with their Google cloud platform. And usually those three market leaders are called hyperscalers. But there are also open source-based cloud installations. So for example OpenStack which we'll talk in in a minute. And there are several providers who run for example OpenStack-based public clouds. And in this case this is especially easy for you to distribute your world clouds to several of those public clouds because they speak all the same language, the same they have the same APIs. So you can use one controlling software to control several cloud providers at the same time. So let's do a short recap on how the service model and the deployment model work together and what is the kind of the evolution of something. So let's start in the lower left corner with classic server. They have no service model and they are installed on your private on-prem systems. So these are the classic servers to be used for several years. So the next step is a local cloud where you install some extra software on top of your existing servers to be able to manage your existing resources in a more convenient way. That is more or less a local cloud. That's the wrong direction. If you move those on-prem managed systems into the public cloud then we are talking about the hyperscalers or the other public cloud providers as I said like public providers of OpenStack or the like. You can also order directly and do one step ahead towards the service model and use an orchestration platform, an orchestration platform like Kubernetes and then run on top of that your applications. So some examples for that. There is for example OpenNibular which is a cloud configuration software for local resources and there's OpenStack that can be used both for local resources, so for private clouds as well as for public clouds. OpenStack especially is used also by huge organizations like CERN for example. So they have lots of computer resources like a service provider but they distribute their resources to all their departments and research groups. As I said orchestration platforms are usually Kubernetes and here are some examples for software applications like Gmail, Office 365, SAP can be run on cloud instances or you install your server next cloud. There's something that I forgot which is server hosting so there's also the situation where you order a preconfigured server but you don't have it on your own premises. So typically this is a vserver or a hosted server somewhere in a data center and this is also an alternative but in my opinion not really cloud computing because server hosting lacks the features of cloud computing with all its abstractions and APIs and automation and scalability features. So it's easy to order and provision a single host which has usually a fixed set of resources like I don't know 100 gigabytes of hard drive capacity and 16 gigabytes of RAM but it's difficult to upgrade that so that is the distinction of server hosting and cloud computing. So I talked already a little bit about OpenStack and would like to tell you a little bit about its features. The software is a software stake consisting of several SAP components so there's a sub component taking care of computing, there's a sub component taking care of networking, another one for volumes, for block storage, for other types of storage, for databases and so on and so on. So I think over 50 SAP projects of main resource groups. The SAP itself was founded in 2010, celebrated 10th anniversary last year and OpenStack has a huge community. It has more than 100,000 members who are registered at the Open Infrastructure Foundation who's also kind of a governing organization. It's pretty much the same with Linux and the Linux Foundation. There are many sponsoring companies who drive the development and the further features of the platform. OpenStack has and operates its own infrastructure called OpenDef that is taking care of the development process including quality assurance, testing, documentation and so on on a dedicated platform. There are two annual releases and they are numbered by the alphabet A, B, C and so on. We are currently at Wallaby so that means this is I don't know I think the 23rd release of OpenStack. The development model is really impressive of OpenStack. It's a big challenge to deal with that huge amounts of code. OpenStack is built in basically Python. It's the third largest open source project. I think the Linux kernel is number one and I think the Chrome browser is the second largest open source project. And as I said, there are more than 50 projects for the different components like compute, storage network and so on. If you have such a huge project with many cross-module dependencies, then testing becomes very important and therefore OpenStack facilitates Zule CI continuous integration server that checks if each and every new code contribution is fitting to everything else and makes sure that no broken code gets merged into the project. While we have a development model there of team leads, core reviewers, typical developers and they all facilitate that Zule and overall CI process that is hosted on the OpenDev platform just to let you know about the model. The Open Infrastructure Foundation also runs conferences at the moment. Obviously they are the virtual ones but I think the foundation already considers having onsite events again starting next year. Let's keep fingers crossed that we overcome this pandemic as soon as possible. Yeah, I talked a lot about different approaches, how to deal with resources and this is a screenshot of one way to deal with that. This is a bed-based console and what you can see here is in the main part, see if I can get the mouse back here, a list of the server resources. See a lot of information about systems themselves and you can start new ones and create new servers. You can start them, stop them, restart them and so on and so on and you can see some of the extra categories of other resources that can be used. Just to get a quick impression of how the UI looks like but this is not the only one. You can obviously just work on the command line and do the same thing here and include this even with some kind of scripting. So as you've seen there are interfaces to the cloud that enable it to automate your tasks. For example, you can easily code something like a feedback loop, checking for some monitoring, bend with metrics and react on that. Well, usually you have a software that does that for you but if you want to write your own you're welcome. So automation is possible with the cloud because you can control and program your resources. So system administration used to be kind of an art but it should be actually engineering because art is unpredictable and if it's real art it's also unrepeatable. But if it comes to your server you want something to be predictable and repeatable. In case something went wrong, in case you have to shut down some services and restart them, you don't want different results if you do the same activities. So that means that you don't need to perform any manual task twice and you can rely on the automation if you apply some kind of convention and use the right tools. And those conventions can be called infrastructure as code. The idea behind infrastructure as code is to write in specific domain, specific languages a description of how your infrastructure should look like and then just run this code and let the framework set up infrastructure. I have an example here. This is an example for a very commonly used tool called Teraform where I describe two network resources, a subnet and a virtual private cloud, a whole network range and you write those descriptions and just apply those and the framework finds out what kind of activities are necessary to create this description of your infrastructure and applies the necessary steps and if you don't need it anymore you can just destroy it. Another framework that can be used for that is Ansible. Ansible is used mainly as a configuration management system but it has also some infrastructure as code extensions, implemented in so-called Ansible collections and one of those collections is OpenStack cloud and this provides the resource server and if you're familiar with Ansible this is just straightforward so you have a task of creating a bastion server or some other server by facilitating this module and provide a number of attributes and Ansible takes care of creating that. Here you see a little bit more extensive example for full-fledged server instance but it's not necessary to look into the details if you want, you can look this up in the conference material that I provide and finally let me focus on some security and privacy issues. If you talk to people new on cloud computing, security is often the concern number one for most new users and they often ask how can I be sure that my resources are private to the eyes of the other tenants of the same cloud service. Here it is important to understand that the virtualization is here the key. The hypervisor separates the tenants from each other completely. It can use in in general different technologies to do so but usually what you use in cloud computing is virtual machines that get created or maintained by hypervisors like KBM which is an important part of the Linux kernel so that not one single virtual machine can access the other one and vice versa. Then there's also the shared responsibility worth mentioning for the provider of the cloud and the user. So the provider takes care that the cloud itself is up and running and is implementing its security features. It makes sure that there are enough resources for storage and for backups and so on but it's up to the user to actually leverage those services that are available. So in general a server can crash and for that you should take care and take provisions in advance and for example set up directly several servers in different regions of the world or in different availability zones so that they don't can affect each other. The cloud provider provides those availability zones to make sure that they are actually independent and the user has to use them but still authentication and authorization is obviously important so that you first know who is actually accessing the cloud resources and is the authentication authenticated person authorized to access some resources or to perform certain actions and for that there's a special protocol which I sketched out here for OpenStack use case but this is more or less the same for any public and private cloud. So usually the client starts to contact a well-known service catalog and asks for services for example list all existing volumes for my tenant. Here are my credentials, this is usually username and password and then the identity management of the cloud verifies the credentials and returns time-limited token usually a few hours or a day or something after that it gets invalid and it also returns the actual service endpoint because the endpoints can be distributed in the internet and different endpoints can maintain different types of resources. The client receives those two information pieces the token and the actual service endpoint and then in turn contacts those service and provides the token the service in turn validates the token and performs the action. Obviously the last two steps can be now repeated and repeated and you can also provide policies to all those actions those specific actions so that even an authenticated and generally authorized user can be further restricted to some specific actions so you can easily implement a role-based access control model on your cloud in this way. This is an example also for the stack you can either do this on your client side in environment variables but it's recommended to do this in a configuration file like a clouds yaml file where you provide some information about your cloud type your customer ID your domain name as we call it in an open stack a username and a password and then off you go. So summarizing everything I'd like to wrap up everything a little bit and give some recommendations before I leave you here. Cloud computing is modeled after classic computing but it's abstracting a way a lot of nitty-quitty details and what you get from that are resources so a resource if you understand the idea of a resource it's pretty easy to work with cloud computing. Cloud computing in general is kind of a mindset and there are three major ideas behind that one is the mentioned abstraction so don't waste your time for those nitty-quitty details the second is scalability you can increase the size of resources and some other attributes as well and by that you can implement real automation and that is a real time saver and makes your overall setups way more reliable because you can automatically react on specific events. Now some recommendation don't try to map everything that you did with classic computing one-on-one and try to micromanage your resources if there is a specific service for example and use it because then it's no longer your task to take care of the service but just to use it so it's then the task of your service provider to make sure that the service is actually what they are meant for so don't for example do install do-it-yourself database servers so it's not very difficult to install a MySQL server and configure it and so on but why should you if you can have readily configured servers just by calling a single API call or launching a single command line so stick to the defaults and trust and work together with your cloud provider in this and your shared responsibility so every party has to implement their specific task it's very good to use software that actually makes use of the features of the cloud so you could for example look up for the term 12-factor app that is a collection of principles that describes so-called cloud native applications and cloud native applications run in a cloud are a very stable and very resizable and elastic way of running your resources is the principle of so-called lift and shift where you just take snapshot images from your existing server setups and transfer them to the cloud but then you use a lot of features so with all that said I wish you good luck on your cloud journey and let me know if you have any questions if you don't agree with me and what I said here in any way and let me know if I can help you in any way thank you and goodbye