For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello, you're watching People's Dispatch and we're joined by Eugene Puneer of Breakthrough News. We are talking on September 11th, the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks and the attack on the Pentagon. A lot has changed across the world. There's been the war on terror, the impact on countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran, for that matter as well. A lot has also changed inside the United States itself from the nature of the state, attack on press freedoms, so many issues and we're going to be talking to Eugene about this. Eugene, thank you so much for joining us. Well, thank you so much for having me, very honored to be here as always. Absolutely. Eugene, first question is really about maybe a macro picture, so to speak. So in these past 20 years where there's been so much in 9-11, of course, a very important anniversary marked by a lot of media organizations, a lot of people across the country. But we've also seen, like I said in the introduction, a lot of changes. So how do you sort of evaluate the post 9-11 United States over the past 20 years if you were to go through very quickly? No, absolutely. Well, I mean, I think it really marked a sea change in a range of different senses and maybe perhaps the most immediate, especially now when we're looking at the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was nearly concomitant with the 9-11 attacks. Of course, it was the quote-unquote immediate response to go in through Operation Anaconda in 2002. But what I will say is I think that we can look in retrospect as 9-11 as a real turning point, perhaps the beginning of the end for the unipolar imperialist reality that came into being with the fall of the Soviet Union. And I think so much of the international policy since that time as we have seen the ability of so many elites to feel the United States could use 9-11 as a trojan horse, if you will, and under the guise of counter terrorism, remake the world even further in the vision of unipolar US power completely and totally collapse under its own weight. And in the context of that, many changes have been wrought here in the country itself. I think the most notable, of course, being around the issues of civil liberties. And while there is a long history of the violation of civil liberties in the United States, perhaps not the democracy shining city on a hill as it's often been held out to be, there was a significant change post 9-11 by the adoption of mass surveillance techniques through a range of different legal and legislative mechanisms. Of course, the Patriot Act being the most well-known one and different interweaved portions and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Section 702 of that and other previous authorities that were all sort of brought together. The creation of the Department of Homeland Security, which brought together dozens of different departments and created a massive militarized internal security apparatus, the beginning of, for the very first time in a long time, because of the abuses of Cointel Pro, of the turning of the surveillance apparatus in full into the domestic arena, certainly the CIA and the NSA had been operating similarly internationally, the surveillance of almost all calls and emails and everything like that. And we can certainly get more into that, which bled also of course into the things like the war on drugs that were redefined as counter terrorism operations, the so-called narco terrorist in Colombia, which was to use the authority of this post 9-11 reality to intensify the war on drugs and the drive towards mass incarceration.  And this is why I say racism, because even though it was around quote unquote Muslims, it was around anyone perceived to be Muslim, which means anyone from South Asia, anyone from the Middle East, regardless of your heritage, Sikhs for instance, were very heavily targeted in the United States because of the perception, because they do have a certain type of religious appearance that they were Muslims. I mean, that's the level of ignorance as well that was brought to the table, but this of course became a big part of the ideological underpinning that there was a fifth column, if you will, inside of the United States itself, inside of the Muslim population. And that played a big role in the later and sort of similarly timed demonization of immigrants writ large. And also again, tied back into some of these issues of how terrorism bled into things like the war on drugs and other pieces like that to create sort of a universal boogeyman, if you will, as it sort of fulfilled the same role that the Soviet Union fulfilled in the Cold War, which is the justification for the massive expansion of the military machine in the United States, which was a trend that was questioned. And this is the final thing I'll say about this. At the end of the Cold War, there's the idea of a peace dividend that's completely destroyed by 9-11. And the idea of rising military budgets every single year was brought right back into the mainstream of political thought. So a range of different changes and challenges and of course the sort of decline of the capitalist economic dynamism in the United States is happening at the same time. And so yes, this 20 years has been quite eventful and I think has at the really ultimately been a major signal about overall the decline of U.S. imperial power, but like any animal that's backed into a corner, the increased viciousness of U.S. imperial power to maintain its hold on the world. Right. It is very interesting you mentioned the military-industrial complex and the kind of growth it has seen over the past two decades because of what we call these forever wars. Of course, one aspect of it is surveillance. One aspect of it is the huge amount of money transfer that has actually happened from American taxpayers into making these big corporations rich. And of course this plays into every element of it. But how does this also sort of express itself in the way the political system has also changed over the past 20 years because we do know that there's been, we've seen Trump of course over the past four years, but this is a system that continued during Obama's time, during George Bush's time, even now during Biden's time. So it's not really a Republican or a Democratic thing. It's a very bipartisan thing. So how has that reflected also in the political system? Well, you know, I think that's a great question. Of course, the authorization of the use of military force, only one person spoke up against it. That was Representative Barbara Lee from Oakland at the time. So it's been a completely bipartisan war-making reality from the beginning. The issue of surveillance has been completely bipartisan. The maintaining of Guantanamo Bay Prison has been completely bipartisan. And so we have seen consistently here a, I mean, there certainly has always been quite a bit of convergence in the U.S. foreign policy establishment, but really an extreme type of convergence. Because as I mentioned before, you had criticism from the left and from the right of these sort of broader U.S. imperial interventions in the wake of the collapse of the Cold War. And what we saw the 9-11 attacks be used as a pretext for was to bring back this idea of total U.S. domination of every region of the world, no matter what the cost may be, and all sides of the political arena agenda agreeing to that, both major parties, the Republicans and the Democrats. And the impact of the policies has been significant. I mean, you know, there is at least one credible study that said in the 2016 election, they did an interesting analysis of counties and found that there was a direct correlation between the number of people who were killed in three of the major states, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and one other that's now alluding me, where the counties that were decisive for Trump had higher overall averages of people who had been killed in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Of course, this was really what drove the real initial rise of radicalism in this country that we now have seen. A lot of people have seen Bernie Sanders. They've seen a lot about socialism. They've seen the uprisings around racism. Well, really, people of my generation, I'm in my mid-30s, that formed an important backbone. And we were the elders in some of these recent movements. But nevertheless, that formed an important backbone. Our experiences were really shaped by the impact of the war and the struggle or the struggle against the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan and U.S. imperial and military adventures abroad. So that became obviously a much bigger sort of factor in terms of our own, in terms of this country's own development of a resistance as well. And I would say, you know, folks active in all sorts of movements in the climate justice movement or whatever, will trace their roots to this time. So we certainly see that as also a big impact in the politics. So both on the left and the right, the various, I think, you know, sort of the fallout, if you will, of the actions of the U.S. government in the wake of 9-11, have played a radicalizing effect. And so, you know, since it's on the left and the right, you could say it's both good and bad. But nevertheless, it has put stress on the center in the U.S. political arena. And I think that's the biggest impact, is it put a lot of stress on the center and it's created even more ripple effects that are making people seek more substantive and more holistic solutions to the broader problems that exist in the country and how the U.S. responds to the broader problems as it considers, as it is on the globe. So I think it's been a huge impact on U.S. politics. I mean, the other big impact on U.S. politics, of course, it has brought in, in a major way, more than ever before in the history of the United States, certain ethnicities and social groups, immigrant groups from the South Asian community, the Muslim community writ large, the Arab community, communities that were, certainly, have grown larger in the past 20 years, but were traditionally not as big of a part of the political conversation, were driven more into the political conversation in many ways purely as a defensive mechanism against the growth of racism and xenophobia, which I think has had a tremendous effort impact in the country on a lot of different policies, but particularly towards the policy of backing Zionism in Israel. So we've seen quite a bit of interesting changes, I think, as a result of this post-911 reality. Usually you mentioned a very important point if you come to that later, which is about the anti-war protests, but I just wanted to maybe also ask you about the neocon vision, which in the early 2000s really animated those who were, you know, conducting all these wars. It was about building societies or building societies and exporting democracy and, you know, U.S. values and all that kind of stuff. But today in 2021, we're looking at the withdrawal from Afghanistan, we're looking at, you know, the retreat not only from Iraq militarily, but even largely from West Asia where the U.S. has really lost a lot of its power and influence. So how really is this vision sort of say adapting itself, is it adapting itself at all, itself at all, or is it incomplete retreat right now? I would say in terms of the population writ large, it is absolutely in retreat, but I think that like all retreats, they can turn into rally points as well. And I think that's what we have seen with the withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan. I think that really from my point of view in the past 20 years, it hasn't really been since 9-11 that I've seen as much neocon propaganda injected into the media sphere in the United States so pervasively across all platforms, then when the U.S. was withdrawing from Afghanistan. And because there were so many harrowing images of people attempting to escape because of I think the fact that the social ideology of the Taliban is widely reviled by many people around the world and certainly leaves much to be desired, no doubt about that. But nevertheless, because of the fears that many people rightfully may have had of what could be seen and what was seen in the 1990s, especially around the issue of rights for women, but also in terms of other different issues that were out there, it became a moment where this neocon consensus where if we go back just to 2020, every single Democrat, every single Democrat in the primary campaign said, I'm going to withdraw from Iraq, I mean from Afghanistan except for maybe one or two. And some said they're going to leave Iraq too. Beto O'Rourke even said he's going to pull troops out of Syria. And of course, Donald Trump was already in negotiations with the Taliban to remove itself from Afghanistan. So basically a year ago today, the entire political establishment was like, we must leave. But because of the way it happened and it created such a tragic humanitarian picture, and of course the collapse of this failed occupation in and of itself, just terrible the way that it went down, I think in terms of how it looked. And the reality for many people offered an opportunity for these neocons to say, we should have been there. This was a good mission. What about all these other issues? What about values and all these things that have been exposed as totally false? Of course, there was no expansion of democracy and rights and values, just the expansion of murder of millions of people in the destruction of multiple countries and whole societies and historic cultures. But all of that was sort of in a way wiped away as all of the major newspapers that started playing up these takes coming from the neocon establishment. So I do believe that when you look at the polling, the vast majority of people still do not want to see these wars and these adventures take place. But we have seen a bit of a strengthening of this neocon ideology, cynically using the images coming out of Afghanistan as a springboard in order to present their own views that the United States should be using quote unquote humanitarian means to bring democracy and peace and justice and all of that abroad. So I think it's yet to be seen how much that is able to come back. I think it's much more contested grounds than it was in 2001 and 2002 and 2003. And there's much more opposition inside of I think both sides ideologically in the country. So it'll certainly be interesting to see. But yes, like any retreats there are rally points. And I think that's what we've seen recently. Absolutely. And you did, of course, you work in the media space. And I think the last 20 years have also seen quite a bit of attacks on the media in terms of their targeting of whistleblowers and see what happened with WikiLeaks. And of course, there's also been the fact of, say, the mainstream media acting or the corporate media acting as cheerleaders for war on multiple occasions. So right now, in terms of media freedoms, in terms of the situation of media, how do you see the country right now? Well, I think the space for media has been drastically restricted.  But we've seen this even with mainstream media. And this is during the Obama and the Trump administration. Of course, during the Obama administration, they were using the how people were swiping into the State Department at Fox News and others to try to track the sources of leaks. We've learned during the Trump administration that they have been more aggressively, were more aggressively using the Justice Department in order to pursue the records of journalists and try to find a way to criminalize people reporting on activity inside of the government. And even just in terms of a narrative management point of view, we've seen the evolution of the US government, especially the US military policy, learning from Vietnam of heavily restricting the world, the ability of reporters to actually access areas where these wars are happening.  Now the military learning from that, the only way to get in there is to have their approval and, you know, you're in there with the military units of the United States. It's, you know, there's people following you, there's minors, there's all of this. So we've actually seen an expansion of sort of the management and the molding of the coverage on the ground directly from the correspondence by the US media. And of course, there are many other things. Maybe we've seen Ken Delanian, who now works for MSNBC, who was fired from a previous job because he was actually directly injecting the propaganda of the CIA. He was working with the CIA, fired from the LA Times because of that now still working for MSNBC. We have a number of mainstream journalists who have increasingly decided that they themselves should actually work with the government. The Washington Post, of course, has now said because of what happened with WikiLeaks and Julian Sange, they say they will no longer publish any documents that are stolen from the government, no matter how big the scoop, that they would never publish them if they're stolen from the government. So it gives you a sense of what has really happened in terms of the chilling effect as it concerns the media. And I think because the United States still has a very sort of robust media scene, it also, the appearances of it don't seem that significant. But I think even being willing to bring the Espionage Act against a journalist for something that all journalists in America do on a daily basis just goes to show you that there's been a big change and that people are being affected and self-censoring and changing their behavior because of the fact that the government has become much more interventionist in terms of editorial lines. Absolutely. And it's finally going back to a point you mentioned, which is the anti-war movement, the kind of young movements that have come up over the past two decades. For a lot of us, the protests in the U.S. in the immediate aftermath of the declaration of dark war, they were a major milestone in terms of the peace movement, in terms of how these movements were organized. And so 20 years down the line, how do you see the situation of these movements? Are they still able to command the same kind of numbers or same kind of influence that they've had or what are the challenges they're facing right now? I think the biggest challenge is between actually perception and action. I think that while there are certainly many, many people who are against these wars, what we saw with not only the fact that they overrode the anti-war movement and went to war in Iraq, also the fact that the Democratic Party in 2006 campaigned against Bush on ending the war in Iraq and then did not do that. And then also, of course, Obama, who comes in as the most celebrated president who'd criticized the war in Iraq, but does the surge in Afghanistan obviously destabilize as Libya? I think has created a crisis to some degree in terms of people's confidence of the ability to make change. So I think we're seeing a growth now, especially in relationship to US policy towards Israel. And the Palestinian solidarity movement in the United States has been growing by leaps and bounds in as bigger than it's ever been. And it's sort of the new crack in the wall in terms of criticism of foreign policy. I would say overall, though there has been, I think it increased cynicism in people because of the fact that it seems that the two major parties are so impervious to what is a majority critique within the population of the military industrial complex. I think there's quite a bit that has to be done to continue to rebuild that capacity and continue to push it because the ideas are certainly there. The organizations are certainly there. Like I said, I think we have seen vis-a-vis Palestine, a real strong reopening in terms of people criticizing US foreign policy. We're seeing certainly on the sort of liberal left side of the spectrum, more politicians being forced to speak on those issues, even if it's in a cynical, hypocritical, self-promoting way because there is such a deep reality. So I think we're in a very challenging circumstance really of trying to transition the consciousness of people not to rely on political parties, but to rely on themselves and rely on their own political power. But I do think that there is quite a bit of sentiment there to be built on and that these issues will continue to be potent in the political sphere from a people-powered context. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Yudin, for talking to us once again. Thank you so much for having me. That's all your time for today. Keep watching People's Dispatch.


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Suddenly, the door of the wheelhouse opens. Afternoon, Mr. Ross. Afternoon, Kevin. Well, this film is pretty dirty, eh? That's thicker than ever. You got lookout posted? That's the one man in the bow and one of us. Good. I've been sailing these waters for 20 years and I'm never really happy till I'm off the bank. I know, sir. I guess it's the fog. But knowing what's ahead of you, it's likely to come out of it. Something's ahead, sir. Just off the port bow. What? Where? That is the school. It's almost dead ahead. Put your helm over hard. Hard over it, sir. I was just there at the half-minute we'd have cut her in two. Oh, how are you, lovers? Nothing's done to the matter with you. Why aren't you sounding a fog horn? Something doesn't seem to be the matter, sir. There's no one in the wheel. Yes, you're right. No one at the wheel, no one on deck. Look there. A distress signal. You'd better look into this. Half feet of stern. Half feet of stern, sir. What do you think it is? Maybe you'd better lower a boat, Mr. Rossin. There is someone aboard it, sir. Look, just coming up from below. Right, Scottie's dived overboard. He's swimming this way. Up-forward, Mr. Rossin, heat my line. And when you get him on board, bring him up here. There he is, Captain. And a rocky. I hanged up with that before we call him on board. I'm all right. Listen, Captain, get away from here fast. Get away? What about the school that you jumped off? Dead. Every last man. Dead? I'm the only one left alive. Dead or what? That scene got them. Went after another. That crazy thing from the sea. If I hadn't locked myself in the galley, it would have... I'm sure you'd better lower a boat. Take a look, Mr. Rossin. No, no, no, you fools. Don't you realize that it's still there in the room? Don't you realize? Oh, here, catch him on. I've got it. Good. Oh, I can try to get him out of my cabin. Oh, I'll put him in my bus, the headset. Maybe we'll shot. Maybe not in his headset? I don't know. It might be all imagination. On the other hand, we should investigate. I'll take a boat over and see what I can see. Oh, man, what a rush. Here's the name, sir. The C-3. Grab that line and make it fast. Aye, aye, sir. That's the ticket. I'll hold a steady man while Garson and I climb on board.  No, I'll be able to search it that much more quickly. You're afraid of it. I don't know, sir. I mean... Come on. We've still got all those fields, sir. And everything's batten down. Just as if there was nothing wrong. Aye, anybody around? Aye. What's the need of that, sir? If there was anybody down there, wouldn't they answer it? Or the sex, or the plague, or something. They'll sit down here, too. Those... Still under all the books? That must be the galley. Take a look at that, Garson. Nothing in here, either. I'm still on the stove like the cook had just been fixed in slippers. Couldn't it be the pirates? There had been a lake, a crew taking care of the boats because they thought she was sinking. She's not riding as if she was waterlogged. Let's get out of here, sir. Hey, what are you so jumpy about? Jumpy? Who's jumpy? He's just a... Well, suppose I am. A crew don't abandon ship out in the middle of the banks for no reason. No, that's true. They don't. I'd give it funny to know what that reason was. Well... Well, okay, Garson, come on. Let's get back to the ship. It's in place and everything is so properly before we get on the way, man. Right where we will. What'd you find out? Nothing, sir. Nothing? No, what do you mean? That's that, sir. We didn't find out a pleasant thing. They looked her over from stem to stern. Everything was ship-shaped. There seemed to be a single reason why they should have abandoned her. But there wasn't a soul on board. Strange? Probably strange. Well, that's going inside to see if our friends come through yet, Garson. They signed us for that. Oh, yeah, now let me help you. Yeah. I'm sure you're all right now. Thank you a little bit, Garson. I guess that was in Washington. I thought I was. You'll be like that tomorrow. I'll forget it. What's your name? Fanny, sir. Joe Fanny. Fanny, yes. Excuse me, sir. Are we underway now? Yeah, it's just got started. Why? Oh, it's a schoolman. We're away. Then we're away from the cursed ship, the H up here on B. You hadn't come along when you did. We'll have to spend one more night on board that ship. Easy, Fanny. Easy. There's nothing to worry about now. The road began two nights ago. We put an ad on this. Out on the bank. We're fishing. We're fishing. We're about three weeks. Food's just starting back to port when the water went funny. Funny? No. Turned salty and red. Red is blood. Plus, erosion in your tank. That's what we thought at the time. But that night, men started disappearing. What? Erring?  I left him at the wheel. I went below to get some growth. When he came back on deck, he was gone. Gone? Gone where? We didn't know. We went back looking for him. We never found him. The students were late to go over to the next trick of the wheel. It was time to change watches. We found that he was gone too. What are you getting at? The truth. Well, we figured we could still make port even though we were shorthanded. Anyway, we were pretty sure we'd be off the boat. Anyway, we were pretty sure we'd be off the bank. Out of the park. Out by morning. So that if we blew a distress signal, it'd be seen. But in the morning, there were still clouds all around us. It was like we couldn't get away from him. And the other man was gone. I don't care about that. Just a second, Mr. Ross. Let him finish. And that's the way it went. One man after another disappearing. There was no way of telling where they'd gone or what had happened to them. How did that get you? One man went that way. Another that night. That left only two of us lost in myself. It was crazy about that time. We tried to get together. But we had to have someone at the wheel and we had to weave it. I went down to the gallery to get some hard drink. While I was down there, I heard Larsen scream. I went back to the bridge. And there he was fighting with... with it. What? I couldn't really see it. Larsen let out that one yell. Then went backward over the rails. I stood there staring. And then there was something I thought to be. Something salty. Larsen was trying to take cool of me. I died back down at the gallery. Climbed the door. Right, um... Something had come out of the fog and boarded the school. Something you couldn't see. It got all the rest of the crew and if you hadn't come along when you did, it would have gotten me too. Larsen, if you had anything to eat, Fanny. Don't you have any real rest? About two days. Well, I suppose you see the cook.  We'll talk about this again in the morning. We don't believe you, sir, do you? Do you think I'm out of my head? Oh, no, no, Fanny. You run along and like I said, we'll talk about this some more tomorrow, eh? Yes, sir. Say it, sir. You mean you do? But I won't be shy when we get off the banks out of this fog tomorrow. Morning, Mr. Larsen. Well, good morning, Fanny.  Yes, sir. I'm no deadhead. I don't mind working my passage. Good. Fine. Have breakfast yet, Mr. Larsen? Oh, sir. The fog's still so thick. I thought I'd better stay on the bridge till you came outside. Funny thing, I thought we'd be clear of the banks by now. Me too. Well, I asked the cook to bring some coffee up here to us. And later on, the weather starts clearing. Oh, sit it down here, cook. Aye, aye, sir. Anything that matters? What are you waiting for? Yes, for you to try the coffee, sir. Try it? What's wrong with it? It's bad. What is wrong with it? It tastes terrible. What did you put in it? I didn't put anything in it, sir. It's the water. It's grown funny. Funny? Turn kind of red and clear. Cut them, that's... That's what happened on the sea spray just before. I'm fine, buddy. It's probably just rust, cook. Is it, sir? Just rust? Say, salty? I say it's rust. I don't want you to mention this to the crew. Very well, sir. So how are you going to keep them from finding it out for themselves, sir? Oh, I almost forgot, sir. Sparks, Lars, can you give you these? Oh, yes. A radio check in our position. Check it with a chart. Will you, Mr. Larsen? Yes, sir. I'm taking the log reading and working it out on it. Great. Got it. This doesn't make sense. What doesn't? Look here. Here's where I figured we should be, sir, at the bank. Well, and here's our radio position, still in the middle of the bank. Like where we were yesterday. What? Well, that's impossible. We've done it with 200 miles from just today. Of course, that's just by, just reckoning. Just reckoning. That's just what it is. Fanning. You fools, I warned you, but you didn't believe it. You were turning to blood, the ship sailing around and around in the park, unable to get away. That's what happened on the sea spray. That's what's happening to us. Don't you realize what that means? That thing from the sea. It's here on board this ship. The thing from the sea. The thing that can't be seen. It came out of the fog and dragged an entire crew to assume it's taken possession of enough. Yes. Well, the same thing that happened to the sea spray happened again in just a moment. I don't want to find out. Meanwhile, don't sit back and envy the life of the party all that pep and ginger. You may suffer a headache-y sluggish feeling due to irregularity, but thousands of others do too. And many of them shake it off by taking Carter's Little liver pills. Try them tonight according to the directions on the package. Then, tomorrow morning, see if you don't feel you can lick your weight in Wildcat. Here's the sound medical reason why Carter's Little liver pills are so effective. 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Well, I wonder what you're going to say when the men start disappearing? They're not banning. Who else is on watching, sir Ross? Who's the lookout? Let it, huh? I'll go get him. Tell him to come up here and take Banning's place with a wheel. Aye, sir. Let it! Aye, there! Hey! Now, as for you, Banning, you'd better get back to your bunk and lie down. Yes, you're sick. And, sir Ross, it never lets you stand to watch. Oh, I'm sick, am I? It's all my imagination. Okay, Captain. Let's tell you right about the war. Our position. What about the sea fray? What happened to my shipmates? The rest of the crew? I don't know, and I can't worry about that right now. I don't think the coast you're out there looking. But I'm not going to have you scaring the wits out of my crew. So if you say one more word about this to any of my captain... Hold on, Captain. I won't. I've got a hunch I won't have to. What do you mean? Nothing except that... Captain, but he's not there. He's... He's gone. Gone? Gone where? I don't know. He was boarded here at 8,000, went up to the bar to relieve Blake. That's the last anyone saw of him. He's not Miguel? He's a fool? No, sir. He must have dropped off to sleep or something. Falling overboard. Falling overboard. That's what we thought about the sea spray when Captain Baxter disappeared. But he didn't fall. He was dragged overboard by that... that sink.   What can I say to make you believe me? I tell you, we're here on board this ship and it's going to get the rest of us one by one unless... there's only one thing to do. Take to the boat. Step out to the ship and abandon it. What? No, I know you're mad. Get aboard and stay there. All right, Captain. I'll go. But remember, I warned you. Anything that happens from now on is on your country. Take bells and alls well. Keep where she goes, Garth. South, southward. Aye, sir. South, southward. I'll take the fog. Go as thick as ever. That's the ship's length ahead. Oh, sir. Thank you, your pardon, sir. Yes. Shouldn't we be off the banks out of the front window? I know, Garth. We haven't really made a mistake in our reckoning. According to the radio compass bearing we get this morning, we're still around the middle of the banks. Won't be clear till tomorrow. I see, sir. Oh, by the way, Garth, one of the men's saying about the committee is just staring that way. Why, nothing, sir. Except... Well, sir, we can't understand how he could have fallen overboard with the sea to come. And then there's this huge business of the water turning funny. The sea didn't kind of jump. You thought that too. Hmm.  Like a small craft fishing boat, as Becky is off to start it. Tell him we're far out of it. That's Conan. Who's up at the bowels? Look out. Well, what's the matter with him? Why didn't he sing out when he saw us? I don't know, sir. What's the date? What's the date? I thought I told you to stay below, buddy. You did, but... That's Conan. Do you recognize him? Recognize her. She does look familiar. Great. Garth. It's for sea spray. What? Can't be. We're not expecting a 200 miles from here. You only think you want to talk. Besides, when we left her yesterday, she was deserted. But now, she's just out of the park. We're men aboard her. You can see them. Yes, men. But what kind of men? Look at them through your glasses. That's what I'm doing. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. All right. Good, good. Phew. Good. Yes. There we go. You're getting me in trouble, don't worry. They're all just jumping out of hand. Ah, it's all right. There's Blake, leaning against the rail. Blake, look again. It's not Blake. It's Smitty. And look at him, sir. He's dead. Bringing weapon with seaweed in a pair. He was drowned. But he came back from the sea just like my mates on the Seathway. Bless you, Panning. No wonder what you wouldn't listen. Now when you were burned in tip, take to the boat. Now I've had enough of this.  I won't go boat again. I can't. Having one man had another go over the sidetrack to attack me. I'm not going to let him do that.  We're not going to stay either. Come on, men. We're abandoned in ship. Fuck, you can't do that. Who's going to stop us? We are. Quick, Mr. Ross. They're gone to my cab. Oh, no, you don't. Stay on, men. I think they're here. Hey, man. Hey, leave them there in the back. If this plastic ship means so much to them, let them stay on it. They're taking us to the boat. Now what happened? Don't you remember? The men had to banding some trouble board. They went crazy. They swarmed all over us. Did they really go abandoned ship? They were last men. We're all alone, just the two of us. Help me up with it, Mr. Ross. They didn't take the life raft, sir. We could probably get one of them over the side, and you mean you want to abandon ship too? Well, not exactly, but after all the two of us couldn't get her in the port. Is that the reason, or is it because you're afraid? Because you're starting to believe in that thing from the sea also. About half and half. I mean, after all, everything that's happened so far, finding the sea parade is added. Mitty and Blake just appearing. Then Mitty coming back. Very well, Mr. Ross. I'll help you launch a life raft if you like, you can go. But I am staying with my ship. Well, in that case, I'll stay with you, sir. Good, man. I kind of thought you would. What's our first move? Up to the radio room. We'll send out an SOS. That's what happens. Right, sir. Even if you do think there's some explanation for everything that's happened, the ship there is kind of spooky now, isn't it? Fog, dead light. What's that? The engine room telegraph. Someone ranked by half speed ahead of me. Why, we're moving, getting on the way. But who? There's no one on board with the two of us. Maybe one of the engineers didn't go. Stay below. No one stayed. I tell you, no one. There's just the two of us on board. And... Mr. Ross, I don't like it. I'm glad to see what Cuda would be behind all this. I don't know what you mean, sir. You listen to me, Banny. The two of my men have been killed. The rest of them are out there in that parking place. Easy, you talk. Tell me what you were up to, how you did it. I'll let you have it right between the eyes. You... You wouldn't dare. Oh, I wouldn't, eh? Give me that gun, Ross. No, no, don't. All right. All right, I'll tell you. It wasn't me that was behind it. It was Abner Dean. Abner Dean? Yes, he told us this idea. Scaring a crew into abandoning ship, then picking it up and claiming salvage. Salvage? Oh, of course. Why didn't I think of that? How did it work? There wasn't anybody on the sea spray when I boarded there. Of course not. Soon as we spotted you, Dean and the rest of the crew got into the doorway, pulled away into the farth until I've used the search for the sooner. Meanwhile, I have two jobs to do. I've been to the Vennico Victoria Conference to ask for your bail and a ticket. And got the chemical into the water tank so it would turn to water red. Then what about the city of Lake? I kill them. I draft a new body over the side with a rope tied to it's like to fall it up again. If Lake can change last while you're cold, blood is in my brain. Listen. Farthorn and it's found the sea spray. They're cruising around waiting for you to pick them up. So there they are. Get ahead. Get to the wheelhouse, Ross. Hurry, where's the straight one? If we don't get her up, we'll hit her. Run them down. Duke, do you think? Yes. I'm afraid she'll catch me. The propellers must have gotten those that shouldn't go down with us sooner. But maybe it's better that way. They say that crowning is easier than hanging as you'll probably find out to yourself. Oh, is that? You knew there was no such thing all the time? Of course, you did. But just the same as I were you, I wouldn't try to stand up just yet with your knees knocking together like that. You might find it a bit difficult, huh? But I do hope you enjoyed tonight's story. Glad to be with you again next week, at the same time. And if in the meantime you should have to take an ocean clip, if while you're out you should run into heavy weather and while you're standing alone on the deck at night, something should reach out of the darkness and grab hold of you. But don't worry. It won't be the thing from the sea unless we're one of the other passengers trying to find his way to the rail. Oh, yes. If you haven't done so, be sure to read this month's Inner Sanctum Mystery. What's Steps Behind There by Mitchell Wilson. 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The competition was fully underway as athletes gathered to compete in the cycling portion of the 2012 Marine Corps Trials, most reviving for a position on the All-Marine team, but for some it was more about living up to the Wounded Warrior battalion's motto of still in the fight. Just being able to finish the race was hard enough, you know, I wasn't even worried about time or place or anything like that. I just wanted to get out there and do it and say I did it. It's not all about winning at the trials. Taking the gold is nice, but it's not the message driven home during every event. Maybe by me doing this, some Marines will see it and with my level of injury, same level of injury and see that they can do it also, so that's most gratifying to me. From Camp Pendleton, California, I'm Staff Sergeant Will Skelton.


Welcome to day two of OpenStack Summit. Now please bring to the stage Mark Collier. Morning, OpenStack. I appreciate everybody getting in here so early. I definitely would like to thank Piston for providing the buses directly from the party to the keynote. For those of you who've been up all night, I think that was a nice gesture. So I think we continue to see just incredible growth in OpenStack. And clearly some of you need to review some of the other releases. So I thought it would be fun to go back through and look at our first nine releases and talk about how OpenStack's evolved, and then really turn and think about the next nine releases. I think we're really at the very beginning of a whole industry transformation of every industry. I want to talk a little bit about that. And so if we look at the road to Icehouse, Icehouse was our ninth release, as you may know, just released a few weeks ago. And a lot of user input went into that. A lot of people who started with earlier versions and went through a lot of the hard times early on who became super users and really helped us influence it with things like live upgrades and really helped make the future upgrades a lot easier. In just under four years, we had nine releases. And so this is a little animation we put together that actually shows you a lot of the development activity. So starting with Nova, the compute service, and object storage. So those were the first two components that were part of OpenStack in the Austin release. You may even recognize a few of these names. They get a little bit harder to read as the OpenStack grows. But folks like Jesse Andrews and Todd Wiley, AKA The Beard, a lot of the early OpenStack pioneers were really working tirelessly to make those early versions of OpenStack. And we quickly added Glance, the image service, which came in the bear release. That was the second release. And over time, we have expanded the scope of OpenStack. And there's been a lot of discussion about that. How do we go about making those decisions? Are we adding the right things? Is it getting too big? Neutron, the networking piece came in next, and Horizon. And what's important to note here is that this is actually the start of the development activity. So the development activity actually starts well before it ever makes it into an integrated release. Particularly with the more recent releases, many of the new capabilities, the new projects, they were in development for two years before they actually became part of a release. And this can be a challenge for all of us, trying to follow along, keep score at home. What's in OpenStack, what's not. And we're also very lucky to have an amazing number of different components, different OpenStack-related open source projects. A lot of them are here today. We're helping to bring those communities together. They're not part of OpenStack, but they may be part of an OpenStack-powered cloud. And so I thought it would be good to kind of just review what's in OpenStack, what are the different projects. And we have this kind of fun animation to see how the different projects evolve over time. And so one of the things that we've done, and as I said, the more recent releases is with the leadership of the technical committee, our project technical leads who are all elected by all of you out in the community, all the active contributors, we've really started to raise the bar higher and higher for what it means to be in an integrated release. And if you think about what it took to be in the Austin release, pretty much just needed to be able to spell Austin. Bear, we didn't even actually require that you know how to pronounce bear. So if you said Bexar or Bear, we counted both because it was early days, Cactus and beyond. But if you think about what we're actually doing today, we've added Horizon, the dashboard, Keystone, which is identity service, Heat and Solometer, which are orchestration and metering systems. Now these are all capabilities that are instrumental to operating an infrastructure as a service. And a lot of people have wondered, about the scope of OpenStack, but if you think about it, it's been four years and nine releases. We now have these 10 key components that are part of the integrated release. They're all really things that fit together. An integrated release means things that we're trying to test together that operators have told us, don't just give me a bucket of parts, test these things together. Today, with the summit format, a lot of the discussions, we actually had a full day on cross-project testing, working together to make sure that in the real world, these projects work well together. And if you even look at Icehouse versus Havana six months ago, we've actually now have over 50 external testing systems to test things like drivers. And we had two in Havana. So I do believe that we've grown very rapidly as a community, but I think that we're putting some good measures in place to make sure that we're not expanding the scope of OpenStack too fast. But there's always room for debate and that's what we love about the summits. So when we think about this massive growth, this shows you the monthly average contributors. We actually have over 2,000 contributors in total. But it's no secret, this is the biggest summit we've ever had. We have more users than ever. We have Wells Fargo, Disney. We're gonna hear from AT&T in a little bit and Sony and others. What I'm always asking myself is why? Why is there more interest in OpenStack than ever? This summit, we have 4,700 people here. It's 50% bigger than the last one six months ago. You know, why is that? And I believe it has a lot to do with this massive transformation going on in the entire economy. There's a revolution going on inside of global corporations. And every company has to move faster. Every company's now competing with a startup. Even the startups have to worry about the new startups coming in behind them.  I don't know how many of you are familiar with Uber, but they're really disrupting the whole taxi transportation industry. And then you have Lyft, which has come along to compete with them and even others. So, you know, those have been driven by the power to innovate at speed with agile infrastructure. So I believe that the cloud computing and open source, those are the two biggest drivers of this new competitive landscape. And that's because people want speed. Speed is the name of the game. I'm not sure how many of you get this, but he was involved with speed. So how many of you here wish that your company could move faster? Any show of hands? I know a lot of you have your VPs nearby, so you might not wanna raise your hands. How about this? How many of you want your company to move faster than your competitors? Yeah? Seems to prick a popular idea. You know, I think that we all wanna move faster than we did last year, the year before that. And, you know, the reality is that if your organization is not aligned around moving faster, too bad.   Pretty much everybody.   Because that's the competitive landscape that every single company on the planet is in. I mean, that is the only path to money these days. Wells Fargo, excuse me, Chris from Disney yesterday, said that in the old paradigm, you had to choose between cost and quality and speed, and really it's all about speed now. Speed can actually get you to those other things. You have to prioritize speed. And I think that we're living in a time when there's more creative destruction going on in every industry than ever before. You know, software is eating the world. Startups are springing up. There's a new incubator every day. And this faster pace is shown here in a couple of data points that I wanted to run through. So, back in the 50s, if you were in the S&P 500, you were gonna be there for a generation. If you work there, your whole career, you'd be there. Your company would be at the top. If you were at the top, you stayed at the top because you were at the top. Momentum being the large, big guy on the block, that was enough. If you look just to the 80s, that shrank to only 25 years. So now, it's no longer a generation that you stay on top. And if you actually fast forward it today, the companies in the S&P 500 are only in it for 18 years. So this speaks to this incredible age of transformation. Everything's happening faster. Software's driving those revolutions. Being big is no longer this great asset. It's all about who can move faster. And if you extrapolate that out and look where we're headed, that means that 75% of the S&P 500 will be replaced by 2027. So, those are the facts. We can all debate what are the drivers. I definitely believe that cloud computing, agile infrastructure, the cost dropping for experimentation, those are the things that are driving it. And I think open source is absolutely a key component of that. And so, open stack being at the intersection of those two things, I think makes us all incredibly lucky. I mean, there's an $80 trillion global economy. Every single aspect is gonna be impacted by this. We're at the very beginning, the first inning, the first down, whatever sport, I don't know a lot about soccer, but whatever happens at the beginning. So, I think that we're all very lucky to be here. 4,500 people, 4,600 people, seems like a giant conference, the biggest one we've ever had. But when we think about how big of a change is happening and how open stack can play a vital role in that, I consider myself extremely lucky to be here with all of you. And I think that we should be thinking about the next nine releases, not just Juno, but thinking about how big this can be of a transformation, how open stack can play that role. In today's race, where faster wins, everything else is a rounding error. And so, open stack is helping so many different companies move faster. And if you're working for a big company right now, you better put your super user cape on, figure out how to reorganize, bring in the right talent, move faster, embrace these agile technologies like open stack and many other related technologies. And so, the three people that we're gonna be hearing from this morning, they are all super users, they are all people who are moving much faster and actually thinking beyond just where we are today and thinking about the next nine releases, thinking about transforming their industries and opportunities that are just bigger than I think we've actually really contemplated with open stack. We think about public private cloud. The first person that's gonna come up and talk to us is Toby Ford. Now, a couple things about Toby. One, he was an early believer in open stack at AT&T. So he was one of, like many of you, probably got the open stack fever, came back, started leading the efforts internally, getting more and more people bought in within his company. They've been running open stack for several years now. They've actually running it in many different data centers. And that powers a lot of services that we all use every day. But the opportunity that he's gonna talk about in his keynote is actually even bigger. It's actually dwarfs the opportunity for when we think about online and web companies. So I'll just leave you with one data point before we bring up Toby. So when we wanna think bigger, thinking about the next nine releases and beyond, let's take a look at this chart. So the very small dot that you probably can't see if you're in the back, that's something called Facebook. That's their revenue. Google is not much further down. So at the bottom here, most people like to figure out where's the biggest opportunity. Mobile telcos, $1.2 trillion industry. And you might not think of open stack as having a whole lot to do with mobile telcos. The rest of the telco business is the second one. So telcos make a lot of money. We probably all pay them a lot of money. The TV industry is being remade by moving faster by someone else we'll be hearing from later. But let's think about how big of an opportunity open stack can play in the entire global economy starting with the telco world.


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Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Today we're going to do a handgun showdown. It's been two years since I've done this and we're bringing it back and this is a good one. We have Sig Sauer versus HK and this is where the viewers of this channel decide which manufacturer as a whole makes the better handguns and I've got three of each I'm going to show so let's get to it. Let's start with Sig Sauer and I am proud to feature my P226 tailo exclusive ASC alloy stainless elite beautiful P226 right here. It has the plus two base plate made by Mechar 18 round mags that come standard with a 15 round mag. Has that walnut grip excellent trigger the single action trigger breaks right around four pounds but the reset it's also an SRT short reset trigger check that out very short. It has the siglite night sights beautiful overall profile love this handgun it has skyrocketed in value because tailo exclusive does not produce this anymore so it's really jumped up I remember I think I paid like 904 years ago but over here is the P320x compact and you may notice I have the gas pedal made by a line tactical and a raised and extended magazine release it has 15 round mags 3.6 inch barrel also night sights those are x-ray 3 night sights has the flat trigger nice break has a soft strike but it actually works I think that soft strike you'll see that with the P365 as well but it is optic ready doesn't look like it is but it is because the optic installs a bit different but a great handgun it has always performed extremely well for me and over here we've got the P365 a lot of people call this their carry gun it has the x trigger on there which is a flat trigger 12 round mags in this and what sig did with the P365 line and the way they expanded it has been impressive also x-ray 3 night sights subcompact the aftermarket x trigger on this model although it's become somewhat of a standard with the P365 and the P320 series but all these handguns have a huge line and I'm pretty happy with the ones that I have right here let's talk about HK I have three HKs here they're pretty much full size handguns I've had so many HKs throughout the years but this is what I have now this is an HK VP9B the B stands for push button it doesn't have the trigger guard magazine release it has the push button magazine release I did that by choice but they have excellent ergonomics feels great in a hand very nice trigger pull and and I would compare that with a walther for the most part you know it's a phenomenal trigger pull love the VP9 has the luminescent 3 dot sights 17 round mags performs like a champ a lot of people love the VP9 and I do as well over here we've got an HK45 45 ACP 4.46 inch barrel 10 round magazines and be controls with the slide stop and magazine release on the trigger guard there nice single action trigger pull also luminescent sights okay basically what that is is it has a glow in the dark effect to it so with the light and it has a night sight effect with light is charged it has a decocker there also a thumb safety but a nice single action trigger pull it is a double action single action 45 ACP handgun it has the forward serrations once again a nice grip 10 round magazines and I really enjoy this I'm thrilled to have it had it for two or three years now and this is my latest HK acquisition and it is a usp expert chamber to 9 millimeter it's clearly full size 5.2 inch barrel it's on a limited production this this one is same decocker effect and thumb safety effect but a great handgun has 15 round mags 18 round mags will work the HK usp expert has taller sights with that very short single action trigger pull a lot of people love this they also made it in 45 wish I had that but this is the 9 millimeter and these are pretty expensive handguns HKs are not cheap and these three are certainly a higher end price scale if you will if you had to choose on a manufacturer basis considering all the handguns that they have in their vast lines I will say sig sour makes way more handguns than HK but people love HK they say you know those perform great longevity is amazing sig expensive as well I mentioned HK is expensive sigs are expensive especially this one but if you had to make a choice would you go with HK or would you go with sig sour I think these are two premier firearm manufacturers and they make great handguns and this is a handgun showdown you haven't seen it in a while on this channel but I certainly respect the viewer's opinions let me know I look forward to hearing and reading your thoughts if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe


Welcome to the 2015 NCHA Ferturity. We just had the unlimited amateur final decided. It was won by Barbara Brooks on Smash Mouse with a convincing 220. Well done, Barbara. Thank you so much. Now this is your first major win in the Will Rogers, isn't it? It is. Very definitely my first. And how does that feel after, you know, coming here and competing for a few years, how does that feel to have that buckle? Like 15 years? Well I don't have the buckle yet, but I'm just amazed. I never really thought it would happen, you know, being older and having so many injuries in the last five years. I just thought, well, this is just going to be fun and I'm just going to enjoy this horse. So there was a bit of pressure in the semis coming into this? Tell us about that. I was here until the very bitter end. I'm kind of obsessive and I kept score all the way through and the last three horses could have knocked me out of the finals. Well, fifth out tonight, good, strong score, but a big field of 35. How did you feel going, you know, watching all the other competitors? I can't root for the cows, so I'm just not built that way. So it was pretty nerve-wracking, but I honestly didn't think it would happen. There were just too many good people coming behind me. Tell us about your run. Do you remember much of it? Describe it to us. I might have to go watch the video again before I can talk intelligently about it. I think because of the pressure yesterday, I was fairly relaxed and I'm very comfortable on him. He does anything I ask him to and he's super easy to cut on, which with three-year-olds can be tough sometimes. He just moves wherever I send him and they gave me my first cow and that one worked and then we went and got the other one and that worked and I had to, it was a little odd because she was facing me in the herd, in the middle of the herd and had to get her into position, but we just, he just let me move him right through and then the last one was a chip. So you mentioned some injuries. You've actually couldn't ride at all for a couple of years there. Since the futurity in 2013, I had had major back surgery before then and then I had destroyed the bottom joint in my thumbs on each hand and I had surgery on those. So once I had the surgery on the right hand, my horn hand, I couldn't show. I tried swapping hands but I'm just not that good an athlete to play golf left-handed. It just felt really weird and ugly. So I just waited it out and then later that year, later in 2014, I ruptured another disc and had to have another fusion. So I just started riding again. I've ridden at home a little bit and I showed at the Southern and made finals on one horse there and I showed in a little local show a few times, but other than that, that's it. Well what a comeback to win a title. My expectations weren't very high. Now there was a story you were telling earlier about twerking as part of your therapy. Tell us a little bit about that. Now you're going to, okay, my lower back is fused from S1 to L4 and obviously to ride our horses to cue a stop or to make a smooth stop, you have to be able to round your butt and sit down on the horse. I worked with my physical therapist and I broached it to him so I have to be able to twerk and he just went beet red. But then we worked on it. I worked against a wall just to try and build that flexibility back in. You know, you might be under something there. You might find there's a whole row of competitors out against the wall twerking before they go and compete. Yeah, it's not technically twerking with a Miley Cyrus view, but just trying to get that motion in the lower back. Well, it's obviously paid off for you. Congratulations, Barbara. Well deserved. Thank you. So much fun.


Shield users can now block ranged physical attacks. I swear that's a big deal. What consists of a ranged physical attack chat? Blind is a ranged physical. Wait, can you- can you block blind now? Is there like an RNG chance to block blind if you're a shaman now?    I guess that doesn't count. I'm gonna paste this to Trillian and see what he makes of it. Fixed Parthing issues that could cause some spells such as Frozen Orb to come stuck. That's good. Maybe that'll help with Nock as well. Ephemeral Recovery redesigned it now provides a mana gain when you go below 20% mana. What, 7,500 mana on PTR with a 3 minute internal cooldown? Wait, so it just procs once under 20% for 7.5k every 3 minutes? I mean, that's about what it gives right now anyway in a game, so...  If you have a 6 minute game, it's a buff. If you have anything between, it's a nerf, I guess. I don't know.  That's so weird, like... There's- like it wasn't an issue, like the trait itself, there was no issue with this. The fact that they would spend time to redesign it in such a strange way. So weird. Apocalypse and Army of the Damned additionally summon Megas of the Dead for 20 seconds who holds Frostbolts and Shadowbolts at your foot. Like, why are they adding more pets?  Stop adding pets. No one wants to see a million pets flying around the map.  One pet max per class. Vengeful Retreat no longer subject to global cool land. Wait, wait. So, Demon Hunter's mobility thing got removed from the global cool land, but Retz didn't. Oh my god. You just want to get one of those nice white lever gloves and just go WHOOSH!   We're fighting for him.  Like, this game we're playing. Gushing lacerations damage increased by 400%. It must have been so garbage. Rip deals additional periodic damage and has a 6% chance to award a combo point each time it deals damage.  I mean, this is, this is... I don't even know if this is jungle, right? This is just general feral AoE dot pressure that this gives. Rip tick going to do 5k extra damage. Wait, wait. One tick is going to do 5k extra damage. No way. One tick does 5k extra damage. The whole rip. Okay.  I had a heart attack. Like 15k extra damage per tick. Dude, you scared me.  Mastery starlight now affects star surge and solo empowerment at full value was halfway. Feral is going to be more about spread pressure now than single target burst downs.  From the looks of this, bite is getting buffed. Alright, that's druid. I think, I mean, overall it just looks like they're shifting a lot of the feral damage onto bleeds. They're going to be less energy star by the look of it. Looks like they're going to have more energy. We'll check out the PVP. Should we go straight down to the druid PVP changes? There's nothing about clan, but we haven't gone out of the PVP changes. Let's check the PVP changes out for druid and then we'll do that. We'll go back and forth. Alright. Priest. So maximum of one was two. So I wonder if this is going to be 10 or 15% since right now, focus will for disc is 10 stacking twice. If it's 10 stacking once, it's like disc is completely dead. If it's 15 stacking once, it's probably dead. Power word shield not buffed. If it isn't buffed, disc is probably dead. Halo damage and healing reduced, no one cares. Leap of faith absorbs the next 10k damage to the target within 10 seconds while the shield holds. I mean, it's for 10 seconds, right?  So best case scenario, your group is going to be like one minute 40 cooldown. Debt of the Shadow is, I mean, I still think this might not be worth, but maybe it is. We'll see. You're going to get one big amend and it's going to take 20 seconds to stack up to that amount. But maybe it's worth a look getting three of these. Bear in mind, you're going to lose them nice radiant traits to even get it. Promises of deliverance, plays a sacred frame. For 10 seconds after you cast Serenity, heal and flash heal for additional 4, 7, 2. I don't know how many that's going to be and reduce the cooldown of Serenity by additional 1 second. This might be okay. This might be decent for Holi. Serenity dialogue, that also causes your mind to snare targets hit, okay, whatever. Sudden revelation.  Get this, right? Powered Radiance is a 50% chance to cause your next, so already it's RNG. On a cooldown ability, questionable. Chance to cause your next, wait for it, Holi Nova, questionable. To deal an additional 1, 4, 7, 0 damage, garbage amount. And reduce the cooldown of Powered Radiance for 3 seconds. So is it 50% to reduce it by 3 seconds? Or is it 50% to cause your next Holi Nova to reduce it by 3 seconds? It's unclear. Or is it just 3 seconds reduced no matter what? Which is the only thing that actually even matters then about this because this is completely irrelevant. Thought harvester, redesigned, vampiric touch, damages increased and each touch.  I don't get it. Why have they got to do all this weird RNG shit? Like just give us something half decent for fuck's sake.   Each time for vampiric touch, deals damage. You have a chance to increase the damage of your next mindset. Whatever, it's garbage. Whispers of the dam redesigned. Mind Blast now deals additional damage. Generates additional Insanity and Critics. Like how simple is that? Lovely. Discipline, damage of Smite and Pain reduced by 11%. Great. Damage of Shadowfiend, Mindbender, Pudge is a wicked schism and Powerwood Solace reduced by 8%. Great. Atonement heals for 55% damage done, was 60%. Great. Body and Soul no longer has a 6 second internal cooldown.  And it's literally the shitest thing ever. The only thing that this is useful for is tanking turbo right now, which you won't be able to do because you have no focus wool and no shield. Good luck. Good luck with your 3 second 40% move speed. Evangelim cooldown increased by 15 seconds. No one cares. Not used anyway. Power is global on it by the way. Enjoy. Power to your cost increased to 2.65% of mana was 25%. Okay. Great. Throw salt in the wound, why not? Rapture additionally allows you to ignore weak and soul. Great. So that's the discipline changes. Where in this list have you seen any spec raped as hard as this has been? Because that's what this is. This is literal rape. Like we've been going down the list. All that's happened here, holy, holy didn't get anything. We haven't even got to the PvP changes yet. We may get to some other atrocities by Blizzard. Not sure yet. Let's see. But like monks were chilling, palas so far are chilling. We haven't got to the thing yet. Druids are chilling. Shamans we haven't got to yet.  We'll get there. We'll get there chat. Don't be rushing me now. Holy. Burn addiction proc rate decreased to 25% was 50%. Okay. It's fair. Fair. Maybe it was proc'ing too much. Understandable. Reduced to 67% of spell power was 75%. Now costs a bit more mana. Okay. Probably a PvE change. Don't know. Focus will rank too. Now allows it to stack up to 2. Okay. Greater fade now cancels when the priest takes a hostile action. Fair enough. Good change. Heal healing increased to 175% was 160%. So heal is not doing that much right now. This buff is nice. When you consider that also buffing it in PvP. But we'll see that when we get further down. So I think heal might be actually real. Holy wild salvation reduced. You won't use it in PvP anyway. Healing of renew increased by 15%.  Renew might actually heal for something now. We'll see. Heal is healing for 18k. I mean it's less than mend right? So. Trail of Light now affects heal as well as flash heal. And replicates 35% of the initial card. I did not mean to do that. So heal got big buffs. This patch overall. Shadow Priest now have focus will. All damage reduced by 5%. Dispersion damage reduced. Reduction increased to 75% was 60%. And now also increases move speed. That's kind of a big buff. I mean Shadow Priest were dying through dispersion sometimes. So I think this is fine. You shouldn't be dying through dispersion. The movement speed is nutty when you consider that it. Intangibility replaces mania. Dispersion heals you for 50% of your maximum health over its duration. And has 30 seconds reduced cooldown. Like that seems absolutely mental. Shadow Priest better be taking a shoe. To justify this. I think that's what they're anticipating. To add something like that. Illusionation is now passive ability for all Shadow Priest whilst PvP talent. Can we please have some of this? For disc and holy.  Some of this love.  That needs to be just a passive ability for all holy priests.  There's like four different talents or something that need that treatment. Disc same thing with death. Get it on there. Mind said damage increased. Powered shield no longer has a cooldown. Wait what? So it's the same thing as disc right? It just gives weakensaw. Psychic scream damage threshold increased by 40% against non players.  I was like why is this not getting this? Back to league or cooking streams. Yeah cooking streams until disc get buffed though. Castleous QT with a twitch prime. Thank you very much dude. Appreciate it. Welcome to the stream. Shadow form no longer provides 10% physical damage reduction. So they lost the damage reduction off that. Didn't, well I guess we'll figure out the other one in a sec. Surrendered demand has cooled down reduced to 3 minutes. Okay void form now increases spell damage by 20%. Was 10% and insanity drain increased. Increased reduced by 75%. So void form is gonna be more real now. For sure. Gives priests more incentive to erupt. Void bolt and sanity generation increased to 20 with 16. Void turn damage increased by 20%. Now it generates 25 insanity of this duration. No longer requires void form. I think like anything with a melee will just stick the one melee on a disc. Like you can legit, I feel like you can legit just split against a disc at this point. You just stick your one melee guy on the disc and the disc shits himself and can't do anything. Spam's cooldown is on himself because he's taking so much damage and then dies. Trinity now, so this is great but you won't be able to cast smites. Fiend is 3 minute cooldown and yeah, I mean it's nice for penance I guess. And then mend cooldown increased by 25% in PvP. This is like the one saving thing that maybe will save us. Maybe will help us, I don't know.  So this is an interesting one. So they buffed heal for PvE and then they're buffing by 50% more in PvP. So I feel like healer's gonna do work in PvP. And then you've got this new AoE aura mastery. 0.5 second cast seems good as well.  I hate that as well.  It just feels so bad. Makes disc feel so bad to play when you have no even feather. I was gonna say when you have no mobility but you just have no mobility regardless. When you don't have feather. Alright rogues. I can't be arsed going through the Azerite trades. I really can't be fucked. Saltlty. Sure I can combo baseline passive remove. Don't even know what it was but I guess it doesn't matter now. Sure I can storm damage increased by 35%. Does anyone even use this? They're buffing holy a lot, right? They're pushing holy so much of these new things. They want people playing holy because disc is too hard for them to balance. That's what it comes down to for me. It's taking too much time for them to come up with good changes for disc that will work in PvP. I mean they can do it. They can balance disc in PvP. No question about it but the changes they've done are so lazy.  I don't even know how they come up with this. This is such a weird thing to do because Trinity is already in an okay place. So why would you buff a trade that's already in a decent place? To a place where you literally cannot not take this. You have to take Trinity now. Because the entire class now relies on the throughput that you gain from it.  And then to compensate they're like well I guess we'll just buff Shadowmen in PvP so you're just going to be standing there spamming mend. The correct change here, I like the weak and soul change. I think it was good. I think spamming Powered Shield was bad. I think the correct change would have been to add weak and soul. Either as a talent. Or have Rapture as a talent that it somehow included weak and soul. Or they should like weak and soul being added is fine. As long as then they buff Shields again to like Legion levels. And if you have to do that in PvP alone then so be it. But then at least you have some decent Shield design again.   Done.  Okay what's the other problems? Disc is doing too much damage in PvP. Mostly against bad players. If you're playing against people of equal skill you can't spam as much damage. Or any sort of unreasonable amount of damage at least. I think it's a good level right now but apparently it's not okay for some people. So then you tone down the damage which they've done and that's fine. So what do you do to compensate for that? Well okay they've toned down the damage. You can't cast that many damaging spells in general. So you've toned down the one cast of the damaging spell. You buff up something like Penance Healing. You buff up Shadowman which they've done. So that you don't have to spend as much time catching up healing.   Which makes no sense whatsoever and they could simplify this so much more. This is like their attempt at making discs not do too much damage in twos but still be viable in threes. That's what this is. And it's a really in my opinion unimaginative over complicated attempt at doing that. So I think this is completely like the wrong way to go.  Like what they've done now by making focus wool like that is they basically saying we're not gonna go back on that because they never do. They never go back on something that they've done.  So what they're saying by doing that is we want discs to have some sort of other mobility to get away because there's no other way you're gonna tank anything ever. And if this cad mobility then you wouldn't be able to have 30% focus wool as well. So I'm expecting next patch to either introduce some sort of mobility to disc grease or I mean or it's done basically. Yeah, rant over. I've tried to make some constructive points. Maybe I've been too anti-PC.  I'm so annoyed. Yeah as for Holy I mean they've been pushing a lot of stuff for Holy. I think Holy actually could be pretty real this patch. I mean like I said I did my binds on it yesterday. I think Holy is definitely worth a shot. And I feel like that's what they're aiming for with this patch because I feel like they feel like they've bitten off more than they can chew with disc in terms of PvP and I honestly think that they could have actually balanced it and continued to make it really fun if they'd have been a bit more imaginative and had tried a little bit harder with it but I just think it's a shame. And yeah I agree they do just change some completely random stuff to like to look like they're doing more stuff. Like look at this change. Where is it? This change is a complete placebo. It changes nothing in PvE. They still take Halo in raids. You never take Halo in PvP.  Oh that's too much. Hopefully they scale that down by 6% next patch. No. It's not a PvP change. It's not a PvE change. What is it? It's literally there to bolster the notes. It does nothing. It's a complete placebo. All right.  It's gonna actually just send me over the edge.  I think they'll hotfix shield subsorb.  That's the annoying thing. Like just do it. Don't get me started chat. Don't get me started. Cap Toten and Earthbind Toten range increased to 4 yards. Why? I don't even want to read the Azerite traits. I really don't.  New Call of Fundy. Your maximum maelstrom increased by 30 in the maelstrom cost of Earthshock and Earthquake reduced by 10. I'm guessing they removed the Earthshock trait.  Wait so they didn't remove the riptide trait. They didn't remove the orangey Earthshock trait. You can't get two riptides anymore. They didn't remove PacWolf. Like what are they doing? Oh PacSpirit is still in. Like they nerfed twist magic but not PacSpirit. Like they are definitely on the same tier of ridiculous. PacSpirit I would say is probably even slightly dumber because it makes the shaman completely immortal. Earthshock damage reduced by 16%. Earthquake range increased. Lightning Bolt damage increased by 40%. Yikes. Stormkeeper now increased the damage of the next two lightning bolts and they're overloaded by 150%. Yikes. Shit's gonna hurt. Surge power Earthshock also enhances your next spell cast within 15 seconds. Lightning Bolt.   It's a bit worrying. Enhancement all damage increased by 5%. So see this this word here needs to be decreased and then needs to be a zero right here. Five zero. Done. Bullet fist damage increased. Crashing short storm damage increased. Oh God. Forceful wins damage per stack reduced to 80% was 100%. Fury Vare damaging.   Chaining little healing increased.  High tide redesigned every 40k. Level 120 mana you spend brings. High tide making next two chain heals heal for an additional 1k whatever. Unleashed life now heals for 150% was 100k. Increases the next heal by 35% was 45% and cost 4% mana was 5%. Yeah man they need that mana buffs. Shamans. Shamans are really hurting for that mana.   Aim here with the twitch prime. Three months in right thank you bro. Don't know why I just spoke like that. I think I'm actually just going crazy. Blizzard's finally done it. Resto new PvP talent ancestral gift. Become immune to silence and interrupts effects of 5 seconds after using spirit walkers grace. So the run thing gives them all mastery. Isn't that like a two minute cooldown I believe? Chain heal healing increased by 50%.  New PvP talent cleansing waters. Chain heal and healing remain have a 20% increased crit strike chance. And dispel all harmful magical effects from targets when they crit. Sure it does.  Irv more time to observe 30% less per target when engaging combo when okay that's good.  Healing surged. Healing increased by 15% in PvP. Healing wave healing increased by 25% in PvP. Rippling waters PvP talent.  What are you guys talking about?  Fuck's sake. They just actually have to cast now. Like shaman is just going to be like if you don't kick them. They're going to be like monks on now. If you let shamans heal they're just going to be like monks on now. They're never going to go oom.


We are suffering from an agrarian crisis. It's not a problem. A problem can be solved, but a crisis. Because of the people committing suicide, because they want to leave this as a profession, their children are not coming because there is no future. So we want to discuss the depth of the crisis, which started during this UP government and intensified during this end-year rule. Honourable Modi Ji, please save us. Please save us.  Heavy drought in Tamil Nadu. Please give any drought relief fund. Please write off all borrowed loans.