Okay, give myself a hand so I don't fall apart. You know the term imposter syndrome? As much as you deny it, sometimes it hits you, like oh my gosh, am I really ready? Am I really have everything together? So yes, I do. So we're gonna have a fun time this morning and I wanna really say thank you for attending this session. At heart and by trade, I'm an elementary PE teacher. Go figure, yeah. I teach kindergarten through fifth grade, P.E. and technology. So I have the two favoriteest classes at my school. So this is going into my 29th year teaching and also in higher education where the young lady said, I created a program called Educational Technology, Social Media and STEM. And that's a real popular class too because I don't give any assessments. I have no tests, everything is hands on and everything is interactive. So this session, every time I like to do one, is gonna be an interactive session. You're gonna be involved in something. So whether I ask you a question, but you're gonna ask me questions when I'm done because when I get on a roll, it's kinda like, let's go, let's get this done. But thank you for attending this session. It is Strategies Beyond SEO and Google to build your brand. So we're gonna start off, everybody raise your hand if you know what SEO is. Very good. Raise your hand if you don't know what SEO is. Oh, good job, so give yourselves a hand. Everybody knows what SEO is. Okay, that's a good start. Raise your hand if you have a brand. Who has a brand? Okay, okay, good. Raise your hand if you don't have a brand. Okay, put your hand down. All right, everybody raise your hand. So everybody in here, you do have a brand, you just may not know what it is. So at the conclusion of this session, hopefully you'll know what your brand is and how to apply SEO in here. So I'm not an SEO expert, okay? I'm not a branding expert, but what I like to do is encourage and motivate and inspire people to find out how to integrate SEO and how to integrate their brand with SEO and also how to use and manipulate Google because they do that with our data all the time anyway. So we just give it right back to them. Everybody in here is awesome in some capacity in some way. So these are just a couple of pictures from things that Aida and I have done in the community. We spoke at WorkCamp Miami, that was awesome, WorkCamp. Again, I'm involved in education. I love Marvel comics, so I got Captain America Shield. That picture in the middle was, I believe, WorkCamp Atlanta even though we have the Miami t-shirt on. I was fortunate enough to participate with TEDx, with Florida State College and Jacksonville as your social media visionary community liaison. I know that's a lot, but it allowed me to be engaged in the community. This is one of my favorites, Coach Jackson. That's the rendition of how students see me. So it's really pretty cute and cool when they make a drawing of you. And then I'm a social media person for my church. So all this is ingrained into building a brand, being involved in the community and being active. Needless to say, all of this doesn't really mean anything unless you can effectively, look, did this fade out? Apply it. You have to be able to apply it to something, whether you apply it to your brand or what you're doing in the community, okay? Oh, it's dead. Oh, there we go. I'll do it this way. Apply it to the community. How's that? We have the trouble hearing off. Okay. How's that? Okay, so we'll move on. Oh, I have a quiz for you. Who can tell us who this guy is? Waipu. Did y'all know that? Did y'all know that was Waipu? He's very popular, internationally known. Get as many Waipus as possible because they're very good conversation pieces. Grow higher. Everybody put one hand up. Give yourself a pat on the back and say, good job, me. One you got up this morning actually ate breakfast or drank coffee or juice and gotten your card or walked and came here this morning. So that was very good. So you should be proud of yourself. Two, you are sitting in another session even though it's kind of cool and kind of cold in here but hey, whatever, we can't control the climate. So go higher. To grow higher, you have to think of strategies and promote yourself in a fashion and in a way that you can determine how you can take your brand higher. And everybody may have something different, some different strategies, some different concepts to do that but when you have a business, raise your hand if you have a business. You want your business to grow higher. Raise your hand if you have a business and you wanna make money. Ah, cool, awesome. Okay, raise your hand if you don't have a business but you still wanna make money. Awesome. So everybody has a strategy, the first one to make some money and take that money and apply it to whatever you wanna do with it. So as we're all working to gain knowledge and I learned a little bits and pieces from when Aida and I, we went to Word Camp, San Jose and Costa Rica, a beautiful place. If you ever have an opportunity, take the time to go there either on vacation or Word Camp because it's a very valuable experience. Okay. I am being told, let's see, let's try this again. All right, how's that? Is that better? Okay. Oh, cool, here we go. Think, see, see. What is CC? Raise your hand if you know what CC is. What's CC? Content creator, where did you get that from? Oh, it's on the slide. Don't make things complicated, keep them as easy as possible. You heard the term kiss, keep it simple. And what's the other one? Silly. Silly, okay. Don't make it more complicated than it has to be because that creates frustration. So as we're going through the slides, I have little bits and pieces of information. All of us are in a digital environment. Okay, it's all around us. So whatever type of information you post online is a representation of you and your brand. So I like to do this also. Everybody take out your phones. And yeah, I'm a teacher, but I'm not gonna take it from you.  Repeat after me, you ready? Okay, this can be. My best friend. My best friend. Or my worst enemy. My worst enemy.  There used to be a time when you can separate your personal life from your business life or your entrepreneurial life or your brand. But today everything is blended and meshed. You may have your personal Facebook page but you may have your business Facebook page. But something along the line is going to come together in some kind of way. So you really have to be careful of how your brand is shown on either or both platforms. So one of the interesting things about the young people today, their thought process is, well, if I post something inappropriate or I get in trouble I'll just delete it and take it off. But does it actually go away? No, it's always there. So you have to be careful of not just what you post but where you post. I'm gonna give somebody a task.  Volunteer, give him a hand. Okay, and your name is? Steve, this is Steve. Okay, so Steve, I have a quick question for you. Can you define SEO in a way that everybody here can understand it? Search engine optimization in my description is how Google determines who gets to be, we'll stay on page one. And the algorithm that Google uses to determine who gets to be on page one and the algorithm is very, very complex with about 200 some odd moving parts. That was good. How's that sound? Okay, that sound good? Okay, so keep that information in the back of your mind as we go through the slides. So we know how important SEO is and we know how valuable Google is but think about different things that you can apply to that and how advanced technology is. So it took 38 years for 50 million users or 50 million people to access the radio. Now I'm not old enough to remember when radio started but I remember that at certain times at night certain radio stations would go off the air. So most of us probably remember that. Also with television it took 13 years for 50 million users to access television. So I'm dating myself. So I remember when I was little at 12 o'clock the little symbol would come up but then it would go boom. It's like okay time to go to bed. So remember that. Also it took four years for 50 million users to access the internet. So you see the time differences that are ongoing as the advances of technology. So the important knowledge factor to that is keep up with the level of technology and how it changes so you can change with it. That doesn't mean you have to integrate every concept, every platform, every digital tool but find out which ones promote you, your business and your brand and learn as much about them as possible so you can effectively apply the strategies.  So one of the things I like to share is if you have business cards and we've been here for two days, when we leave this afternoon or whenever you're going back home your pockets or your purses or your wallets should be empty of your business cards and filled up with other people's business cards because it's more important to collaborate than to compete because that way you're sharing information. Okay everybody has a reason why they should attend a word camp and I just came up with some ideas and I either contributed to some ideas also because as an artist she thinks differently than I do as a non-artist person. So I respect people that are in the arts because there's this left ring, right thing kind of thing going on. Who in here develops webpages? Have you ever thought about collaborating with someone that is in the arts to have a different perspective of what you're designing, what you're building? And the reason I say that is, and correct me if I'm wrong, the majority of people that may be viewing your content are young ladies and women and their concept of content is a little bit different than us guys, okay? Because they want to see the pictures, they want to see the information up there displayed in a different way than as a guy would see it. Steve Ehrman was talking about the different things when he's posting online about cars and engines and that kind of cool stuff. That goes to a different demographic.  So building your credibility, which is very important. And to help you do that, strategies and innovation is really important. What strategies are you using? Are you innovative in how you apply the different strategies and the different types of technology? Your integrity, integrity is very important. All we have to do is talk about house of representatives, Congress, presidency, yada, yada, yada, and we can keep going on and on because everybody has an opinion. But be honest and define your principles. What are your principles and what are you doing? What are your principles in your brand? Practice ethics and integrity. And that's a good conversation because as business people and as those as we are digital content creators, people trust our brand. Our brand is a way of showing people that you can trust us with what we're giving you. And there's a lot of information out there about false advertisements and false news reports. So we have to be diligent in what we're doing to create content that promotes and helps people. What is your intent? Define your intent and address the perceptions. That's another important thing about the perception because depending on who you are when you walk through that door, you can walk in here and think, oh yeah, this is a tech conference and they're learning about why you should attend WordCamp. That's the first impression they may get, why? But we already know why we're here because we already have a concept when we paid our money to attend. Okay, one, we know we're gonna get a great lunch.   Three, the perception is we're gonna meet some nice, cool, fun, exciting. And as the kids say, some dope and lit people that are very smart. And I always love talking to young people, especially the elementary kids, because when you have a third grader that comes up to you and says, Coach Jackson, I'm following you on your YouTube channel. That kind of like sets off some alarms and thoughts. Like, okay, if this young person is following me, what type of content am I creating and posting online that they would be engaged with? So not only are they following me, but they're friends and they're parents.  So when I come to work camp, I have to be careful of the type of information that I post, not to say that anything is wrong with it, but how does that promote or excite people to be more involved ethically and intelligently with technology? Your competency, everybody has a level of competency in what we're doing. So the more you learn, the more you grow, the more you grow, the more you can adapt and use the information that we get here. So if I gave us like 30 seconds, and we're gonna do a little practice session for like 30 seconds, the person to your right, this is what you're gonna do.  So that way you're cross sharing content and information and maybe a strategy. And then that blossoms into a thought in your model. Maybe I can blog on that, maybe I can collaborate with that person, or that could be a business idea. So that allows you early in the morning to get the synapses going and get your ears open a little bit more and engage in just a conversation because it doesn't do you any good to come to an awesome conference like this and not engage or talk to somebody and not to share some type of information. So when I say go, we're gonna give you about 30 seconds, you're gonna tell the person your first and last name and you're going to share some type of technical or blog information or web development or something that you learned while here at WordCamp. All right, y'all ready? Okay, ready, go. All right, good job. Okay, so close it up and five, four, two, one, good job. Give yourselves a hand. Now this is what I observed, which was very good. One, people got up, people shook hands, people were engaged in conversation, but not only that, people were like looking at each other and actually talking to each other, looking eye to eye. And one of the important things is as business owners and people who have, we have a brand and we strategically use it and apply it, it can't all go through SEO and it cannot all go through Google. You have to get out and engage with the community, talk to people, be involved and participate in your community in some kind of form or fashion. I learned a long time ago, sitting on a couple of boards that no matter where you go, you should always have your business cards because it could just take that one opportunity where you're talking to somebody and you don't have a business card but then you wanna put all that information in your phone when a business card can save you time and energy and money. Because you could be in Walmart and over here at Conversation, somebody struggling with technology or have a tech idea or wanna start a tech business that matches what you're doing and that's sometimes that's a unique and one time opportunity that you have to be prepared for. And using those skills and using that knowledge that you shared allows you when you go out those doors to go home to your respective places can apply that information to help you grow and expand what you're doing. Also, some people got up and stood up and walked around, some people sat in your seats, it really didn't matter whether you're mobile or not, it was the fact that you did share information, you got away from the technology because trying to look at technology and then listen to somebody, something gets lost in the translation and everybody learns differently. So creating the right brand and strategically marketing it, we always have to have that type of marketing strategy. The best way to market your brand and what you're doing is to get out of the community and get involved in something. Whether it's a Boys and Girls Club, whether it's a nonprofit organization, whether it's your volunteering or whether you're sponsoring or whatever, whether your blogs are promoting something, use those opportunities to promote activity and engage people. Aida and I find out what's going on and on the continent of Africa, they're having WordCamp, WordCamp conferences as well and what we like to do is find out educators that would like to go but don't have the resources to go. So occasionally we'll sponsor teachers to go to WordCamps because they take that knowledge and they apply it in your classrooms. So even locally or globally, it's a good idea to use SEO and Google to build what you're doing but promote what you're doing out beyond your community. Don't throw shade on SEO nor Google. All of us at one time have issues with what they're doing but use it to the best of your advantage. Use it to promote what you're doing. All right? Your brand. Everybody in here, you have a brand. If you don't know what your brand is, now you have to develop it, that concept of what it is. Consider your influences and offering your products and services. All of us have something we can offer to somebody, somewhere, a product, a service, some information, an idea. You just sat down in, you just talked and shared information. That is very valuable. Before you leave here, whether this session or other sessions, make sure you have somebody else's business card. If you didn't bring business cards with you the next time you come to a work camp, make sure you do have business cards. Whether you get the paper from Walmart and just make something yourself or you go online or someone in here can offer to make you business cards. Take that opportunity to do that. Think what influence you have on marketing products and services that are beyond you. There's nothing wrong with emailing somebody, a business, and saying, hey, I'm going to work camps. Would you mind sponsoring me? I can promote your service or your business. You never know. They might say, yeah, they may pay for the whole trip because the opportunities are endless but you have to continue to try and apply it. What influences in your content creation and digital innovation? All of us are digital innovators.  Why? Because it's coming from you. Okay, why do you think sometimes kids jump into pictures and they want a photo bomb? Because they want to be recognized. They want to be seen with different people. And now, more times than not, kids will jump into a picture just to make a presence just for somebody to see them.  If you want to be a business owner, hang out with business owners. Take pictures with business owners. You want to be an organizer, take a picture with an organizer where it can't. If you want to be a volunteer, do something to volunteer and take pictures with volunteers. Use those digital tools to promote what you would like to do and apply it.  I'm going to ask you for 15 seconds to think about two things and see if they apply to each other. One is what is your perception about what you do online? And the other one is what do you think other people's perception is about what you do online? So there's two different concepts. Your homework assignment is real simple. At the end of word camp, within a week, find out from either your clients, your family, somebody that'll be open and honest about that knows what you're doing and what you're trying to accomplish, what their perception is of what you're doing and see if it's similar or different. Because then that way you can learn that, okay, my perception or my idea of the type of content I'm creating, whether it matches what you want it to do or whether it doesn't match at all, okay? So you got 15 seconds. One, think about your perception of what you're creating and then think about a perception what other people may think you have. So it's like a quiet time, okay, go. Okay. Anybody want to share what they think their perception of their content is? Yes ma'am? Okay. Okay, it's for soul survival. Okay. That's your perception, okay. Has anyone ever told you something different about what they perceived in casual conversation? Okay. Okay, all right. Did you have your? Okay. Fixed now, okay. Okay. Right. Okay, thank you. Yes ma'am. Actually, I'll let you do it. Here. She wants you to repeat what she said. Certainly. In a medical practice in particular, my wife has a medical practice. I have this challenge to make a website that makes the two perceptions work. But the discovery is the perception of most people is that the doctor can fix them. They would prefer that to be done with a pill. The doctor's perception is that we will never solve this problem without the patient's change of lifestyle. The pill will be an interesting side to it. And it will be humorous to see what happens, not much usually. Okay, thank you. All right, appreciate it. Thank you all very much. Give him a hand. And I'll just use this as an example. I'm gonna pick on him one more time. Steve was talking about, hey Steve. Yesterday, his video presentation was very good. And I learned so much that I'm motivated to apply more video. But I need to make sure that I apply video in the appropriate and right way instead of just taking video of myself doing crazy nonsense stuff and then posting online. What strategies can I use in video from what he taught to build my brand? So this afternoon, he's gonna have one on photography. So rest assured, I'm gonna be there to learn to be a better photographer whether I have to go out and buy a camera or actually use my phone. I'll give you that 20 bucks later. Oh, thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. So the concept is there to apply the knowledge. All right, we know about Elon Musk and he had a wonderful quote about building your brand and applying perception. We have to be really careful and it is important what other people's perception is of us and what we're doing. There was an old comment, and we probably all know your first impression is very important. Well, not just your first impression but the continued impressions or perceptions online that you generate with your content. So I hope before you leave that you do take some pictures of yourself or with people to show where you are because people like to see where you are and what you're doing and that you're actually growing in your field. It's like you can talk about it all you want but unless you take a picture someplace people don't really know what you're engaged in, how you're trying to improve what you're doing. People love to see that you actually want to grow and you're applying new knowledge. People are always watching you. You never know. I got kids watching me all over the place. I cannot go in Jacksonville, Florida. As big as Jacksonville, Florida is. Go to Walmart without hearing a little voice in the distance. Oh, Jackson! I'm like, oh my gosh, what am I buying in Walmart? I said, I gotta be careful.   I do represent my business. I do represent my brand. I represent and I'm influential in my community. Whether you think you are or not, you are. SEO and Google are clinical and technical but people are not. We are emotional beings. We create relationships and relationships are very important. So that's why I instilled it with the young people. Shake somebody's hand. Look them in the eye, talk to them. Strike up a conversation. I am naturally an introvert. I'm actually really shy but because I work with kids all the time and young people and adults, I have to sometimes make myself be more expressive because there's information that I like to share and that I want to share. So it's like, I can't shut myself down. Like, well, I'm not going to talk to anybody. I'm not going to say anything. That doesn't do myself or my brand any good because I love to teach. My hashtag is my quest to teach. So if that's what I want to do, then I have to be ready to do it in all kinds of situations and circumstances. Instead of getting caught in unproductive stuff, get serious about stuff that you're doing. Get serious. Have fun with it but make sure you have a plan how to expand it and how to use it and learn as much as possible. And I use the graphic on the right hand side of motorcycle. My son started riding motorcycles not too long ago. I'm like, what? You're going to do what? He's 26 years old so he's an adult he can do with you. But as a parent, it's like, okay, let me learn as much as I can about motorcycles so I can tell him, okay, you got to take a safety course, check. You got to wear your helmet all the time, check. You got to check the maintenance of the bike, the bike, check. But he already did all of that. So he's like, dad, yeah, I took a class. Dad, yeah, I talk to people all the time. I checked insurance. So that made me feel a little bit better. But the more knowledge you gain helps you to safeguard incidents where you get caught. And unfortunately in this day and age you can blog about somebody and somebody's perception of what you're blogging or writing about or content could put them in a little tizzy. And next thing you know, you get an email from some attorney or something. It's like, okay, can you take this content down? Or where did you get this information? Or how did you apply this quote? So you have to be real careful and knowledgeable about the content you're creating and posting and what type of information you're conveying to the community and to the public. Thank God I have never had anybody send me any type of those letters or emails or anything like that. But I'm prepared for those instances if they ever occur. But I'm always mindful of if I use someone's quote I have to make sure I make sure people know the resource that it came from. It's just not coming out of my mouth, okay? Diversity of content creation. All of this stuff is important. One of the most important ones is visually appealing. We are visual people. When we look at stuff we wanna see pictures. We wanna see video. We wanna see stuff that motivates us, encourages us, excites us. Just like in this session, if I stood up here and talk like this and just lectured, some people's head would start nodding like oh my gosh or some people would walk out the door. But you have to encourage and you have to engage and build some type of relationship because you want people to see you. You want people to follow you. You want people to engage with you. You want people to walk up to you and say you did a great job. I love that blog. I love that video. I love what you're doing. You're in the community. You're involved. You're doing stuff. Because that reinforces the fact that we are actually doing something positive and something good. And getting a $20 bill, it's like oh yeah, that is really cool, okay. The money part is really awesome. All right, so figure out what demographics your brand is addressing. And don't be scared to diversify. Diversity is wonderful, it's awesome. Because you gotta remember that young people today are either gonna be our clients tomorrow or you're going to hire them to work for you. So when you get a chance, share some knowledge with a young person. Because the funny thing is, they may not seem to listen to you, but somewhere in the back of your mind, especially when you're talking about tech and web development, web design, they do. And my children surprise me all the time. It's like, do you remember when I talked about such and such and such and they were like, no dad, you are just too old. You don't know anything like that. But then out here them have a conversation with their friends or they'll say something in passing that's like, oh, I did teach you that. You did remember. So they'll fool you from time to time. Who are you marketing your brand to? Expand as much as possible, but don't overwhelm yourself. I have a tendency to take on too many projects sometimes and I either will remind me that, okay, you do have a full-time job, you teach during the day. So in the evening is downtime and family time and taking it easy. So be sure that you have a strategy on how you're going to market what you're doing and it's good to be accessible, but don't overextend yourself because you could end up burning yourself out. This is some wisdom I learned from Costa Rica when we went down here as speakers and volunteers and helping with the kids camp. I'm not gonna read it all, but as you can tell, take the time to study, take the time to read, take the time to learn new things and have fun with it. Sometimes it's good to get away from the technology and go to a local library and get a book or a book on tape or a book on CD or DVD and learn different things. Sometimes it's great to expand your knowledge and go to a park if you're like, your brain's like, okay, I need a change of atmosphere or go to the beach or go to some place where you can relax and kind of calm down and just focus on something else beside every day, higher order brain functions.  We all kind of know who our content is directed to, but I always encourage expanding it, expand your content. We have the cell phone, one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind and tablets and our watches. What type of content are we posting? How are people using that? How are people taking advantage of it and how are you going to apply it to everyday learning? If you notice a lot of kids in school now, they have tablets, they have access to laptops, they have all that access to tech, but how are they using it? And I like to encourage you as digital innovators to volunteer your time at some schools if they will allow you to come in and talk to kids about what you do as a business owner and an entrepreneur and share some of those skills that they don't know now that they need, particularly at the college and university level, because sometimes these are gonna be the young people that you offer an internship and you say, okay, come on, I want you to be an intern and you notice they do not have the skill set that you need to help you manage your business or help you run your business or one day you wanna hire them and then you're going in the training mode, well, I don't wanna let them go because they're a good kid, they need help, so I'm gonna have to teach them. So be proactive as much as possible. Have a social media plan, create a strategic plan, write down your plan, what are your concepts, what are your ideas? Did I fade out? Okay, what are your concepts and what are your ideas? Create a plan that you can manipulate, that you can use, that you can adjust to what you're doing so that way you know what you're doing instead of just say, I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna volunteer, I'm gonna save the world, all these kids need my help. Oh, there's a little old lady over there struggling with her laptop. I'm gonna run over there and help her. Oh, there's another guy over there struggling with his phone. I'm gonna run over there and help. That burns you out, okay? It's like you can't save the world, you can help as many people as possible, but also doing that course to helping people, you let people know that this is my business, I do charge for this, this is my lifestyle, so you have two trains of thoughts when you're volunteering in the community or you're helping people, but you're also a business owner. You do have to eat, you do have to keep the lights on, so it's cool to be nice, it's cool to be helpful, but you gotta be realistic, okay? Think strategically about people's perceptions as well because it does matter as I mentioned before. Run a social media audit. If it's not working, get rid of it. If it is working, keep it, magnify it, use it. If there's another version, update. Learn about it as much as possible. One of the best learning tools online now is what? What's the best learning tool online? The search engine online. YouTube, take advantage of it, use it. You can use a tablet, a phone, a watch, a let, whatever. Use it, type in how do I do whatever, okay?  Steve, he's got some awesome stuff online, okay? Now, another $20, that's what I say. All of you have a brand, if you don't know what it is, think about what you do and what you do well. All of you have a business, it's your responsibility to promote your business and how people can benefit from it. Who can see what's wrong with that slide up there? What's wrong up there? The spelling and the grammar. Check your spelling and grammar, please. Okay, because it does you very, what's the word? It does harm when you're creating content and you have grammatical errors and spelling errors, okay? Have someone reread or there's software out there that will help you with your spelling and grammar because it takes your brand down a couple of notches if you have simple words or grammatical errors. Be very careful with that. Use quotes and be specific, check videos, photos and mentions. These are a couple of pictures that Aida and I took when we went to word camp San Jose. The top one is with the organizers. Hang out with the organizers and talk to them and the volunteers and see what's going on and how you can build your skill set. The bottom one is pictures with the kids camp. We volunteer with the kids camp. I was, and I'll be honest, was so nervous and so scared. I don't speak any Spanish. They all spoke Spanish. And I was like, thank you Jesus for Aida because I don't know how I would be able to communicate. I tried my best, it just did not work.  If you're going into another community and maybe you don't speak the language as well, collaborate with somebody, okay?  I'm like, no, it doesn't work that way. You have to build a relationship first, create relationships. My hashtag is my quest to teach. Google yourself and find out what's out there about you. Okay, you can do a hashtag in Twitter. You can do a hashtag in Instagram. You can do a hashtag about yourself in your business and those places to see what content is out there. The last time I gave this presentation, I had a couple of people walk up to me and say thank you very much for doing that. This young man said five years ago he made an off the color comment about something. He wasn't specific but I understood what he was talking about. It was an old joke and he said it was five years ago when he did that on his phone, he hashtagged and Googled himself. He found out that that was an inappropriate comment and he wanted to take it down because he understood that that was hurting his brand. So take the opportunities to do that. You can do it like I said in Twitter and Instagram. If you have a hashtag or you create one or develop one, make sure you do that. Google yourself. Usually I'll do William Jackson plus social media or William Jackson comma blogger to see what's out there, what's posted out there about me. I actually found a site out there that had a link to all my YouTube videos, had no idea where this site came from. And it wasn't inappropriate, it was just a listing of everything with a whole bunch of other people. It's like who knew? Watch your social engagements. Who are you socially engaged with? How many of y'all have heard the term guilt by association? That is a real situation thing going on. Be careful who you take a picture with. Be careful who you're seen with, particularly as a business owner, okay? You have to be mindful, again, other people are watching you. Your local visibility, what do they see when you're walking around in the community? Do they see a business owner? Do they see an educator? Do they see an entrepreneur? What is their perception about you? Your mobile agility. What do you have posted on your phone? What do your kids have posted on your phone? Okay, what type of content are they sharing about you as a business owner? Talk to them, find out.  Do you actually know how I put food on the table?  And get them involved as well if you can if they're interested. Community activism, again, what are you doing in your community to promote what you're doing? Helen has, I met Helen last year and I was just so enthralled with her writing the letters. Communicating, that's a lost art. Actually writing letters to people. Just imagine if your clients receive the written letter from you saying how much you appreciate them allowing you to work with them. What process would go on in your mind? Oh, I actually got a letter. This is so cool or a card. And that's very impactful. Not a digital email, not a text or tweet but an actual letter. So those strategies you can apply and build what you're doing and build your brand. And I encourage you, if you haven't met this young lady, take the time to talk to her about what she's doing, okay?  So start seeing yourself as that because all of you are innovators. We're in digital environments, okay? I'm a date myself. I was born in 1962. I know I don't look it. That's why I teach elementary school. But I encourage everyone to do what makes you happy, what you enjoy doing, even if you're with your business, what makes you happy in your business? Expand on that, meet other people, talk to other people. Don't worry about the age, don't worry about the diversity, share information. This is the beautiful thing about an open source community. So much diversity in this room and the other rooms that you can just share information. Aida and I were talking before about how nice everybody is. You get smiles in the morning and handshakes and hugs and all that stuff. And then when you come to work camp, you get like t-shirts and mugs and meet different cool people. How wonderful is that? That's great opportunity to meet people and greet people. So with all of that said, we have a couple of minutes left. I'm gonna say thank you for attending the session. I appreciate it. I hope you appreciate it. We got some good information. And before we end, this young lady right here, what is your name? Marquita. Marquita did have her hand up to contribute. And I know it was somebody else, but I just wanted her to give her an opportunity to finish or to say what you were gonna say earlier. Right. Yes ma'am. I have a fake vlog. All right. Okay. I mean it's worth the good. Yes ma'am. So and I think and I'm positive that's how other people see me. Okay. I've gotten that word back. I'm into not knowing. Right. Okay. Very good. All right thank you. Give her a hand. So again, thank you very much. I appreciate it.  So if you have questions, I'm not going anywhere. I'm gonna be here. But appreciate it and thank you very much.


Hey guys, Realistic Gaming here today. We're gonna be playing the scary elevator because they have updated the Bendy floor I mean they have updated the Bendy as you can see it's a new character, and we're here with tweeters. Hi tweeter. Oh, no He got us man. All right, and they also updated the whole lobby as you guys can see it's like the Bendy lobby It's not like the normal floor used to be as before. She's pretty awesome, man Hey, what's up timeless, and you can also be a Minecraft zombie now.  Ooh, whatever man. I think it's pretty awesome Okay, so let's go in here. What? Yes. I already have that way. You're trying to charge me again Crazy game. Okay, so let's go back out. I mean I like this new update like that's a that's a reworked killer We saw which is Bendy and then and they added some while they remodeled everything as you can see Oh, let's go check out the floor again. Oh This is a new Bendy floor Nice So they added a new Bendy floor. Oh, there's a red key. Oh my god Run, it's Bendy. Oh, he's chasing him with an axe That guy is in deep trouble. Oh, there he is.  Hey real. How you doing? Good Oh my god, they were glitching him. I got red key. Hey, look at this. We're a zombie man With the red key so that means we're an awesome zombie with the red key me too. Nice, bro Okay. Oh, what floor was it? I didn't I didn't get to see where it was. Oh Bendy again. My god. It's like this whole thing is just all about Bendy now Oh, no, don't bring him this way. No, I have the red key. I don't want to lose it No, he's bringing them this way. Okay, just stay there so you can glitch. No hope super You just made a worse for us. Okay. She's glishing them up there. Oh, he went after the other guy. Oh My god, okay, he's stuck over there So see like with this new Bendy He seems to get stuck in the in a lot of places, but I mean it's better for us so we can get that survival Yeah, boy Okay, let's let's show let's have a dance battle. Let's see if anybody wants to have a dance battle with me. I want to have a dance battle Nobody want to dance battle me What that guy has a Different head on bedroom. Oh, that's check. That's Jeff the killer Jeff the killer. I like Jeff He's definitely one of my favorite killers for more blocks By the way, let me know what your favorite killer is guys. Let me know in the comments below Hey, can I wait for my new evil kid? I like the music also, it's so creepy man. It's me slayers can RBM in your account. Oh, no Hey timeless all the timeless friends. Why is everybody standing up there?  Oh, yay We're still the top one in the leaderboards, but there is someone in my a discord that has like 24,000 points It's just insane like how you get so many points That is crazy. Hey, are you feeling okay timeless? Who Samara? Smara's always a good floor. Hey, share some candy. I want some candy never mind. Just give me all the coins. Oh There's no there's no hatchery. Oh, yeah, there is a hatch key room Red key room go to use a hatch Come on guys get it don't want to go in there Bad Jess. Oh, he got the Samara badge.  If you don't want to come in you want to come in? Right, let's go Let's go main Have they added new things here? Oh, sorry, bro. You were second off They didn't add anything new to this You should have added like a bendy trail that would have been awesome But I guess he did it Okay, what oh fine red keys on floors. Oh, that's the one we found So let's have a look around. Let's see if like there's any little Easter eggs of bendy. Oh 9,000 points. Oh, this dude's right here the Freddy Flashlights. Oh my god. There's a lot of flashlights now This is crazy All right, so I guess we can't hey you want a Freddy, bro. What that is just a floating head What in the here take the Freddy man? You can have it. I know you saw me you saw me Carried my Freddy so you can have one Okay, so let's head out to the elevator even though it's about to finish Excuse me part of me just a zombie with the Freddy on his back. No wait. Did you guys go after the key? Oh, man I was gonna go check because there is a red key down the tunnel like all the way at the bottom at the back I mean not the bottom What's up timeless? Tom, let's stop you joining me. He's an awesome guy, man share Share your sandwich man alleyway, but it might be the werewolf again Or unless cuz I think they took off Joker. Oh, no, it is Joker Been a lot of time since I don't get a Joker And there's also a red key right here guys for those of you that do not know. Oh My coin as you guys can tell I like collecting all the coins or at least trying to know no, okay I've never been in red room. Okay. I got one so if we get hatch Escape you can go with me All right, so I'm gonna try to take these dudes into the red room for the first time because I did get another red key a gore Well, well builder man. Oh when join me, but his name is Gorm on YouTube Okay, thanks. No problem, dude Pennywise Woods Hatch follow me Follow me bro. We're gonna take you to that red room. Oh, oh Where's the guy at I want to take him to the red room Where is he? I stopped yesterday. No No They got ranked I got right by evil Pennywise man that guy's so evil. I don't know why he can never just be nice He's so mean Okay, what else can we get I? Lost the key man. Yeah, I'm sorry, man Sorry, dude. I'm so sorry my boy. I Was trying to help him get into the red room But Pennywise didn't get us before we were able to escape. I'm so sorry, bro FNAF sweet FNAF is always awesome, too Wait, let me get all the coins. Let me get all the coins. Yeah, buddy I'm trying to get the 9,000 points so we can get that bandit cut out because it looks pretty awesome. Oh My god, be quiet Freddy. You're so loud. I Don't like how Freddy's like the most loudest in this whole game Like why why do you have to be so loud, bro? Like it's not cool. You're screaming right in my ear That is not cool, bro No, no Dude, okay. He's stuck over there. I think we're fine here. Yes. We are we made it that was so close He could have trapped us there Ferdy boy you met Freddy. Hey, what's up gore? Hi gore Look at gore all on his sweater didn't load in. Oh my god. That's a scary Freddy man. Okay, let's see Hey, I'm gonna get all the coins. Watch this guys. Oh Yeah, I broke that those ankles I'm getting all the coins. There's also a red key in this floor. No, no Okay, the red key should be in this room Well, I forgot where it's at. No, I want to get the hatch. We got to get those points. Let's go Yes, we got it. Let's go Twitter. You're so awesome, buddy Okay, let's go. Well, yeah, he's not in the elevator. So we're gonna go in I think someone got the red key though No, I was trying to find the red key. He needs some milk Yes, he does you got red key? Nice You should take Ben save for Ben Oh cabin. Oh, that's granny, isn't it? No, wait, it's Jason Should be Jason. Oh, no, it's oh wow. It's in the store. We're both Where's this dude at? I don't know if there's a red key in this floor I don't think there is but there is a hatchback here Which we are gonna use to get out of here so we can get more points and keep the top later boards All right, there you go Wait, no wait this No, baby He is a red key in the clothes right in front of his face.   Are you okay, man? Did you just foul? Man, that's that was so funny. I'm trying to open it And the clothes right on his face. I know you fell No, okay. I think I have this. I don't know what badges as anyone So if you guys don't watch badges are the new ones so I can get them because I did have them all Before they release the update so now Or actually let's check the wall cuz I remember they had the On the way hatch lords no way, okay. I remember they used to have it on the wall where Which floors had the badges, but I think you took it off Which I do not understand Because it was so helpful Like for instance right now. I don't know what floor has a badge and what floor doesn't I Guess we're just gonna have to guess. Oh my god. What happened to your body? It's a skeleton now. Are you feeling okay, Gorm?  Why is Bendy? What I? Got my homeboy right here with me. It looks kind of creepy though Okay, there's two ticks a wider move. So let's take advantage of that and get the keys before he actually makes a move You see he's just there standing. Maybe you poop this. Oh, I was gonna say maybe he pooped his pants That's why he doesn't want to move This way Well, he got stuck Yeah, he was stuck on the urinal urinal now. He has pee pee all over it.  Oh Denise sir, what's up, man? Denise you got it got the Freddy. I got ranked rip Ripo that makes sense too. Oh granny granny. Why? Yeah, it's granny Here she comes. There's the infamous granny So we get away with their bad as usual She can't see me girl. I'm John Cena, man Okay, they used to be a red key right here, but they took it out. I don't know why Why would you do such a thing? Let's get out of here Twitter. There you go Yes, whoa, I'm close to seven thousand points. That is awesome. I don't know how I accumulated so many points Well, no, I think he moved it. Maybe it's over here. Oh, no granny's right there Granny was stuck in the wall. Hey Hey, what's up? What's up girl? Just staring at me My god those Because we got Gorm in your Denise sir Ben plays Timeless, that's awesome, man. A killer marshmallow.  It's pretty awesome No, they took all the badges and it's a crusty SCP Look at this dude. Why is it so crusty if he has water on like raining down on him all the time.  No get away from me boy. What? Okay, we jumped over him. No, leave me alone Okay, what does the potion do does it regenerate our health? How did he kill me if the floor finished? Did you guys say bye to YouTube guys say bye to YouTube right Twitter say bye There you go, buddy much you guys. Thank you for watching. Thank you guys for the major support as always and man This something was awesome. Even though they did have been you again, but I mean never worked like the animations on him Why are the ways? Thank you guys once again, and I'll see you guys next time. Bye


Today is the 11th of June 2021, you're with give the people what they want coming to you every week on Friday from People's Dispatch, thanks to Prashant and Zoe, nice to see you again. Nice to see you Vijay. Vijay from Globetrotter, it's been a difficult, complicated week in the world of news, we've had some ups, we've had some downs. I want to begin with something interesting, ProPublica, a website in the United States, released a treasure trove of documents, 15 years of tax information from the billionaires of the world. And I just want to share with you some of the numbers. In this long period, 25 of the richest people in the United States, advisedly the richest people in the world paid $13.6 billion in federal income taxes in the United States. Now I'm starting with the story in order to move to a World Bank report, which I'll come to in a second, but let's stay with this story. These 25 richest people in the United States paid $13.6 billion in federal income taxes in the five years leading to 2018, even as the value of their stocks, properties and other assets were inflated by an estimated $400 billion. These are people who simply do not pay tax. They simply do not pay tax. It's as a consequence of their not paying tax of these 25 rich people in the United States that the value of illicit tax havens is estimated to be about $37 trillion, three times the external debt of the emerging or developing countries. Now I said I was going to start here in order to come to the latest document from the World Bank. This is very significant. This is the World Bank's global economic prospects report. Now as I said, this show is called Give the People What They Want, and what you want is for me to waste my time reading extremely boring and detailed documents produced by the International Monetary Fund, by the World Bank, by the OECD, by even Basel Group of the Basel Group that is supposed to regulate banking. I'm going to come back to Basel in a minute, but let's stay with the World Bank's global economic prospects report, because in this report, the World Bank says that 100 million people in the developing world have fallen back into poverty. That's in addition to the people already poor, but here's the most important statistic. The World Bank says per capita income losses incurred in 2020. That is in 2020, the year of the pandemic. I know the pandemic is continuing, but just imagine 2020 being the main year thus far on record for which we have statistics. In 2020, per capita income losses, whatever was lost in 2020 will not be recovered for the majority of the world's people before the end of 2022. Two thirds of the people of the emerging and developed countries will not see income coming back to 2019 levels, will not see incomes coming back to 2019 levels before the end of 2022. In some of the most fragile conflict-ridden economies, think of Sudan, think of Yemen and so on, 75% of the people in these countries will not see the incomes coming back by the end of 2022 and perhaps not ever. Now, one of the reasons the World Bank explicitly says you are seeing a boost of incomes in the western countries is the vaccination drive, is the vaccination drive, and here's the interesting thing. The World Bank recognizes that vaccine apartheid is going to lead to money apartheid and at the same time, the World Bank is opposed to lifting intellectual property restrictions on the COVID-19 vaccine on grounds of principle because the World Bank says patents drive growth. There is no evidence for this. The World Bank recognizes that it is vaccine apartheid that's going to deepen money apartheid and yet the World Bank is not going to come out in favor of allowing vaccination drives for the world's population. At the end of the show, we're going to come back to the G7 meeting being held in Cornwall. We're going to start in this hideous direction and end in this hideous direction. But for now, we're going to go to Zoe, who has good news for us from Peru. Zoe, what has Pedro Castillo done in Peru and who is Pedro Castillo? Well, Pedro Castillo is the candidate from the Free Peru Party. He is a school teacher in a rural area. He's part of a peasant organization of Ronderos. And he, without official confirmation from electoral authorities, which I'll get to in a minute, he has been elected president of Peru. With a very, very slim margin, we're talking about decimal points and tens of thousands of votes that he won over the far-right candidate from the popular force party, Keco Fujimori. We spoke about this last week. Keco Fujimori is, of course, being investigated for corruption. She faces up to 30 years in prison. She's the daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori. She really represents this far-right trend in Peru, but also broadly in Latin America. And Pedro Castillo is from the rural region of Peru. He's really been able to speak to the masses in the rural areas and the urban areas to talk about the pressing issues to Peruvians' economic inequality, access to education, access to basic rights, using the country's wealth to benefit the masses. I mean, his slogan, no more poor people in a rich country, is really telling and something that applies for a lot of countries. And what's happened this week is that elections were held on Sunday. Millions of people participated, 77% of the electorate participated. And the first indications showed that Keco Fujimori was up by a couple points or decimal points. And then quickly, once the votes from rural regions, which of course we know always take a little longer, came in, this tendency was quickly reversed and Pedro Castillo has maintained the lead since then. And then over the past couple of days, they've been counting the remaining ballots, processing the remaining ballots. Pedro Castillo continues to hold the lead. At this point, 100% of the votes have been counted. They haven't been completely processed. There's like two different processes within the vote tallying and counting. But it's clear that Pedro Castillo has won the presidency. What has happened is that while a lot of world leaders have already congratulated him, among those, we have Luis Arce, we have Alberto Fernandez of Argentina. Keco Fujimori is trying to say that there was fraud committed. She's pointed to very, very isolated incidents saying, oh, in this one place, someone cast a ballot and it didn't work. Trying to come up with really anecdotal evidence, one video here, one photo there. And she's trying to contest this. There's also kind of a rallying cry among the regional, right? A letter was released a couple hours ago signed by former leaders from Latin America. Among them, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, former president of Colombia, who's a war criminal, saying that they can't declare victory until everything's finished, that the contestations to fraud are resolved. I mean, it's a really tough scenario. Verónica Mendoza, who's from the new pro-party, who is a candidate in the first round of elections, has alerted to a situation where they're trying to kind of create chaos, create fear, create maybe a pre-coup scenario. It's really unclear what could unfold. But the supporters of Pedro Castillo, of progressive movements of the left, have been on the streets since Sunday, mobilized and peaceful mobilizations to defend the vote. And as of now, I mean, the electoral authorities have already discarded some of the claims of fraud. There's, I mean, it's unclear what we're going to be looking at. Is it going to be an institutional battle? How far will this go? At this point, we've seen the left and progressive figures rally around Pedro Castillo, people on the streets, on the other hand, right-wing leaders doing the same. So we're going to have to see how this plays out. But what's clear is that hope and the dreams of a new Peru, of a Peru for the masses, for the working class people has, you know, taken, has won. And now the people, you know, in Peru, across Latin America and across the world, have to defend the will of the Peruvian people, which is to have Pedro Castillo as the new president. Excellent report, Zoe, because after all, there is something in Pedro Castillo that reminds me of Evo Morales. There's something in him that reminds me of Hugo Chavez. These are people who come from the people, represent the people, speak like the people. There shouldn't be poor people in a rich country. That's a phrase that should become an anthem for us globally, not just for Peru. A victory in Peru, but also if we go up the Cordilleras up into the northern part of the Americas, a victory in the northern part of the Americas. Who would imagine Prashant that there'd be a victory of any kind in the United States of America or Canada, specifically a victory having to do with energy, a victory having to do with climate change? The Keystone XL pipeline, everybody knows that name. What's happening Prashant? Right, so we say the news on Wednesday was that the firm which was running the project, TC Energy Core, a Canadian firm decided to pull the plug, scrap it. This was, of course, after the official reason cited was or talked about, is that the US administration of Joe Biden has canceled its license. But to be very fair, the fact is that this is a result of years and years of protests by organizations, by environmentalist groups, by Native American groups across the country. They've mobilized in large numbers. They fought this battle. For instance, during the Obama administration, they did it with an advantage when the administration scrapped it. Trump came back and renewed it again. There were battles in quotes. And throughout all this, what has continued is the fact that the struggle has been consistent. The reasons are, of course, very clear. They were going to be transporting around 800,000 barrels per day of oil. The kind of crude, of course, the kind of crude that is being transported was, you know, there are emissions rate was 17% more. It was the kind which would actually be far more difficult to clear. Some of the pipeline was passing through the sensitive, natural habitats. So there was a lot of reasons for opposing it. It was very clear, but corporate interests had served as a barrier. And this resistance is what you call, it's one major victory. And it's important to talk about this because this is really not the end of it. This is just one pipeline. And for instance, over the past week, we have seen another major front developing, which is the Line 3 pipeline project in the state of Minnesota, where again, there have been instances of leaks in the past. So Line 3 as well as Keystone XL were supposed to carry double the capacity of the original pipelines. So there's already an existing Line 3 pipeline. The new one will carry double its capacity, which is again around 800,000 BPD. So the protesters again have been, they occupied a petrol pump in the area where the project is about to take place. The police arrested a large number of people, close to 250 people, several of them charged with trespassing as though protesting for your rights and against environmental degradation is what is called trespassing. But this is a struggle that is definitely going to continue. The initial plan was that the gathering would be from the 5th of June to the 8th of June, but now this is going to be continuing under the banner of treaty peoples gathering for quite some time and it has actually become a much faster movement. And again, same case here, there's a Canadian company Enbridge, which is responsible for the project and they're trying to block it. Same thing with the Dakota Access Pipeline as well, very strong, long struggle by Native American communities. And what has happened is that even now it has not stopped although, you know, the Democrats have made all those noises. So I think that these are three very key fronts of struggle. Keystone XL, of course, a victory, but the other two definitely going to continue. We have been talking about climate change. I think even the G7 leaders have been talking about climate change, but actually it all boils down to a lot of these questions in terms of energy, in terms of big projects by corporations and what movements are going to be doing to fight off their advances. Well, I mean, you know, we know that they're going to talk about climate in Cornwall today. Already started, they'll talk about it over and over again. Paris will be back on the agenda. We're going to hear a lot about Chit Chat, in fact, about how the West is, you know, ahead of everybody else on this issue. We'll come back to that, I'm sure. We've got to come back to that because they're forgetting the real issue of common but differentiated responsibilities. We've talked a lot about this on this show. This show, as you know, is give the people what they want. Give the people what they want coming to you every Friday from People's Dispatch and Globetrotter. This is your show. We need to hear from you. Tell us what you think of our show. Tell your friends about our show. It's important that we hear from you. Speaking of them trying to define the way the world should be organized, Zoe talked about how in Peru, they're trying to delegitimize the election that brought in Pedro Castillo. We've seen across Latin America these attempts at so-called lawfare, using the law, using various mechanisms to overthrow governments, coup d'etats of the 21st century. There was a big campaign to prevent Lula, the former president of Brazil, from running for office. This was called the Car Wash Investigation in 2017. In fact, a US official quite openly, Mr. Blanco, quite openly said we participated in that. Now it looks like on a June 3rd telephone call, there was some more evidence of US direct complicity in the attempt to prevent Mr. Lula from running in the presidential campaign against Bolsonaro. Zoe, what has been happening in Brazil? Well, actually, sorry, Zoe, what has been happening in the United States? Not in Brazil. What has been happening in the United States? Yeah, so, I mean, on June 3rd, there was a phone call to kind of brief the new Biden administration about what the US has done in the war on corruption. And it's not exactly the phone call itself, which I think is interesting and I wanted to bring attention to, because essentially in this phone call, White House official mentioned and confirms that the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, participated in the war on corruption, a centerpiece of which was the Operation Car Wash. And this was revealed by Brazil Wire, which is a great progressive media on what's happening in Brazil. And so this kind of confirms a lot of what we already know, which is that there are clear interests of the United States and other actors to not have the Lula presidency. And proving that there was not only cooperation in the United States support, I mean, Doug Zendaleno, who was one of the chief prosecutors from the Operation Car Wash Task Force had said that the Operation Car Wash was a gift from the CIA. These are kind of things that have been floating around and it's just further confirmation of this. And what I think is interesting here is, you know, on two hands, on one hand, that, you know, people are called, I think we've talked about it here, that people are called conspiracy theorists to say that the US is behind a lot of these, you know, moves to remove progressive leaders. Oh, this is normal. You know, it's that they were committing corruption. This is just the way that things go. Of course it doesn't have to with the United States. When really there's actually cold heart evidence pointing to the fact that the United States does participate in this. So we really have to be much more skeptical. But on the other hand, I think especially now, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the midst of what's, you know, a global catastrophe, looking at Brazil today and seeing the damage that has been done from this investigation, from removing Lula from running, I think is really the tragedy here because, you know, it's not just about the political aspirations of one man. It's about the aspirations, survival, livelihoods of millions of people, hundreds of millions of people in Brazil. I mean, the situation in Brazil, even though, you know, we're not at that critical stage that we were a couple of months ago in which, you know, every day we're seeing news about more and more deaths in Brazil. It's tragic. I mean, so many people are dying. The unemployment rates continue to grow. There's not been, the government has, you know, blocked a lot of the emergency aid programs. And the situation for the masses in Brazil is drastically different than it was 10 years ago under the PT government. Say what you will about, you know, there's a lot to say about the PT governments, but the lack of support given to vulnerable populations is under the Bolsonaro government. The attacks on vulnerable populations has created a situation of complete misery. We're launching, you know, people's dispatch and all of our media partners are going to be launching a series on hunger coming out in July and August. We're gonna be reading about, you know, the situation of the homeless population in São Paulo, one of the biggest cities in Latin America has, you know, one of the highest concentrations of capital, of financial transactions, it has one of the largest homeless populations. You look at pictures of São Paulo and you think this is a humanitarian crisis. And this is a direct result of the policies of the federal government to undermine social policies, to cut public sector, to attack workers' rights, to make it impossible to live in this country that has, you know, as Peru, vast natural resources, has the ability to sustain its people.  And that's creating misery for the masses that's, you know, forcing millions of people into poverty and that we must oppose at any, at all measures. So... Well, you started the story with the question of a law fair against Lula in Brazil, the CIA involvement in that. We see a lot of manipulation of constitutions, manipulations of legislative branches in order to maintain corrupt politicians in power. We're seeing this unfold in Israel where Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a challenge from a very curious amalgam of political forces. He's trying to protect himself from a personal corruption investigation. In Kenya, there's chaos because the deputy president and the president are not sure what's going on there. Uhuru Kenyatta trying to push a constitutional amendment. Listen, Prashant, there's nowhere better to sort these things out than people's dispatch. What is happening between Ruto and Kenyatta in Kenya? Right, Vijay. So this is actually a story that has been building up for quite some time from me, in fact, and it is going to carry on into the next month also. What has happened is President Uhuru Kenyatta has introduced a series of constitutional amendments which will drastically transform the 2010 constitution. And the 2010 constitution in Kenya itself was achieved after a lot of struggle. So what the key aspect of this is, there's going to be a new post that of the prime minister, but the Kenyan left is very clear that this is just an attempt by Uhuru Kenyatta, the president and the leader of the opposition, well, I wouldn't get to strike a deal. And which basically then nullifies the democratic process to a large extent. So what they're talking about is basically a deal that's being struck between two forces which were at each other's throats until very recently. And this constitutional amendment is seen as a precursor to that because it's expected that Ray Lavringer, who is the leader of the opposition, will become the prime minister. And these two forces together will approach the 2022 elections. Now, this is being presented as some kind of great reform, but this amendment was struck down by a court recently and the appeals are going to be heard on the 30th of June. So that's the base situation. The Kenyan left, especially the communist party of Kenya has been in the forefront of opposing this. They're planning rallies next month, especially after the appeals judgment. And what we're seeing and what they're very worried about is basically the fact that while the letter of democracy is going to remain, the spirit of democracy is going to be completely crushed because this was part of something called the Building Bridges Initiative. And it was supposed to emerge as some kind of a solution after there was massive violence following the elections in 2017, which saw the supporters of Ray Lavringer and Uru Kenyatta clashing with each other. So, and the solution has become something which actually subverts the democratic process, subverts the meaning of democracy and leads to an almost, you know, a very, a very, almost absurd alliance, but an alliance which restricts the possibilities for people to protest, for exercise of democratic rights. We have seen that Uru Kenyatta recently has also, you know, talked in very threatening terms about the judiciary. He's blocked the promotion of judges, especially this judgment has really not come out in a very, at a very good time, in a very good way for him. We saw last month that the activists in the Communist Party of Kenya had been targeted. They were, you know, put behind bars for some time. So right now the Kenya is in a bit of a, the situation is on a bit of a boil. A lot depends on how the appeals court will decide on the 30th of June, because it could start, it could spur a fresh round of protests across the country and, you know, very, very severe questions could be asked to the ruling system itself. So that's where we are right now. It's a story that is really not being noticed so much and it's probably something which is very important considering Kenya's central role in the continent as well. So a lot of things happening in the next couple of weeks and the Kenyan left preparing for maybe a couple of months of struggle as well. It's not being paid attention to by the corporate media around the world, but it's being paid attention to at People's Dispatch. People'sDispatch.org, your home for the best movement based reporting. Make sure you come and take a look at it. Well, you see on the cliffs of Cornwall, photographs have already emerged. Joe Biden, Jill Biden walking hand in hand next to Boris Johnson and his new wife walking hand in hand, the beautiful cliffs of Cornwall filled with lithium as it turns out. Some people don't know that. The West prefers to mine its lithium in Bolivia, in Argentina, in Chile, not its own cliffs, the beautiful area of Cornwall, extreme poverty there. They're staying at a nice resort. What's on the agenda? As Joe Biden goes to meet the G7, the group of seven, a group of countries set up in 1974, essentially to tackle the growing crisis from the oil countries, the OPEC crisis of 1973. They banded together the Western countries with Japan, the major advanced countries. What is their agenda now in the middle of the crisis? Vaccines, climate change, all of this on the table.  Let's take vaccines. The IMF, a group of IMF economists came out there and they said, hey, listen, if the West spends $50 billion to aggressively vaccinate the whole planet by July of next year, $50 billion, the rate of return on that is investment will be $9 trillion. Forget the fact that lots of lives will be saved. There's a moral imperative, as the World Health Organization said again in January, a moral imperative. $50 billion investment, $9 trillion rate of return. My God, that's a rate of return on investment unheard of, yet that's not going to be what will happen. They will send minor, minor amounts. Climate change. This meeting happens just before COP26 taking place in Glasgow later this year. $100 billion promised for mitigation to the developing countries, almost not meeting its target. And the finance minister, the G7 getting together that typical language of, we'll do better next time and so on. There's no next time. We're talking about climate change. Meanwhile, the share pass, and this is a technical term, friends, the share pass. Every time there's a summit of this kind, the low level fellows come and meet first and they discuss a set of things. People who had experience in these meetings, academics and others have put together a document available on the G7 UK website called the Cornwall Consensus, a little echo to the Washington Consensus of John Williamson. It is an extraordinarily strange document. They attempt to put forward a vision for the world. I read this document last night. I was interested in the data and technology board, like the financial stability board that oversees financial markets. This would oversee the global internet as if we want seven countries in the world overseeing the internet for the rest of us. There will be a CERN they propose something like the major project to build the reactor, whatever that is, that a nuclear reactor, the research institute in Switzerland, CERN, that high power- That's hydrocollider. That collider, that's right. The hydrocollider, whatever it is, they want to make one for climate technology. I mean, there's an ambitious list here, but behind everything is China and that's what's interesting. Behind everything is China because they talk about the need to create different kinds of global supply chains. There's a discussion about global chip production. You should know, of course, that the bulk of chip production takes place in Taiwan and in the Pacific coast of China. There's an attempt to want to move away from the Chinese market. In fact, President Joe Biden of the United States has talked about tariffs on the rare earth mineral that comes from China called neodymium. Neodymium, friends. I'm trying my best to pronounce these things. I don't know about the CERN hydrocollider or whatever it is. I don't know about neodymium, but I know that this whole business is about a renewed attempt to push back against China. Push back against what from China? Not Chinese military aggression, but Chinese science and technological developments. That's what this is about, which is why the G7 says they want a data and technology board, which is why the G7 says they want new supply chains for advanced technology, for medical equipment and minerals. They are worried about China. This is the same Trump policy, but put in a different kind of bottle. They're trying to get Angela Merkel on side. Mrs. Merkel, this is her last G7 meeting, not keen on creating more tension with China, but Biden is a lookout for that. This has been, give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Your favorite weekly movement-driven global news show. This is your favorite show. If it's your favorite show, you should go and tell your friends about it, tell your family about it. Tell us what you think about it. We come to you from people's dispatch. That's Prashant and Zoe. Thanks a lot, Prashant and Zoe. Incredible reports today. Really, really good stuff. And I'm Vijay from Globetrotter. We'll see you next week. Same place, same time. And if you'd prefer podcasts, YouTube, whatever you want because we are, after all, giving you what you want. Thanks a lot. Thanks.


Hey guys, it's Jen from iCreatCrafts. Today, I'm going to be showing you a step-by-step tutorial on how to make these cute customizable tile coasters using your Cricut machine. All you're going to need is some permanent vinyl, Cricut, transfer tape, tiles, and cork backing. I'll leave everything you need in the description below. These were so much fun to make, so let's get started. I'm starting in design space, and I'm using a file that I've already created, so I'm going to go to my projects, and I'm going to find the one that I want to use. I saw something similar on Pinterest, but I thought I could put my own spin on it, so I like this one here. So I'm just going to click on it, customize it, because I want to change the size of it. So here it is. Love, hope, faith, and dream. I thought these were really cute when I saw them on Pinterest, but I just wanted to change it up a little bit with the font and the size and all that. So the possibilities are endless. You can create your own whatever you want, but I thought this would be really neat to have for coasters that offer in my living room. So since I have my file already created, I just need to change the file size and make sure they are attached. So I'm going to start with the first one, love, so I already have it attached, but the next thing I want to do is just change the size. To do this, you just simply select the image you want. So I selected this one, and then you just go to the unlock box up here, and then you change it to your size. I know my tiles are four by four, but I want them to be a little bit smaller for the file. So I'm going to change it to 3.75 by 3.75. And I'm changing the whole size of the tile. So as you see, you can see the change of it. So I'm going to do that with this one as well and just do the same thing. Unlock it and change it up here to 3.75 by 3.75. And if you don't like how it looks, I always like to go back afterwards and see if they kind of look the same. Even though the dimensions might be the same, they look a little bit bigger like this one. It kind of looks like the letters are bigger. So I'm just going to wait a minute and finish this. So I'm just going to go to my next one and do the same thing. Just change the size again and you can change it to whatever size you want. You can keep it at the four by four and go as close as you can to the tile. But I just like to make it a little bit smaller and then just the last one. And if you wanted to change the color at all, that's very easy to do. I'm just going to keep mine black, but let's say I wanted to change the color. I have these attached already. So I'm just going to go down to the detach button down here and then these are separate. The bigger words are smaller than the littler ones because I did change the font on these. You can see the font name up here. So when you want to go back and see what the font was, if you wanted to add more, it will tell you it up here. So then I changed this font to be different as well. So if you want to change the color, all you got to do is select the one that you want to do. Go to the color box up here and then you can change it to whatever color you want. And then you could do the same for this one. Just go to the color box and change it. But I like it just to be just black for this particular one. So I'm just going to leave it the way it was. I'm just going to go up to the black and then I'm going to change this one as well. And then I want to select both of them again and then make sure you attach them. Because if you don't do this, it will cut it out separately and it doesn't matter if your size is the same. You'll just have to figure out how to put it directly in the middle of your file tile. So that's it for this part. Like I said, sometimes you want to see maybe if you want to make these a little bit bigger than the 3.75 or kind of mess around with it. You can go to the unlock box and change it right here. I actually kind of like that a little bit wider. So I'm just going to leave it the way it is. And then I'm just going to go to make it. This is so simple. You can put your own spin on it. You can do anything you want. I guess that this would be really cute for in my living room. So what I'm doing now is just moving them over a little bit. I like to get my scissors in here just a little bit so I can cut these out and then put the transfer tape on. So it just makes a little bit easier. Give a little bit of room in between. I'm going to move this one up because I don't like to waste a lot of vinyl. And then just move this guy over a little bit more just enough that I can get my scissors in between each part without cutting any pieces off. So the next thing is just go to the continue. And I have the maker. Mine might look a little bit different than yours, depending on which cricket machine you have. And then once this pops up, I can show you. These are my favorite materials. I use this stencil vinyl one all the time when I'm cutting out anything with Oracle 651. If I'm doing the heat transfer vinyl, I use this one, the non cricket. I don't buy the cricket brand anymore. I just go for the less expensive ones on Amazon. I'll leave all my materials below down in the description box if you're interested in anything. I did pick up my tiles from I think it was low as a while ago. And I think it came up to like 19 cents a tile. But I'm sure you can get it on Amazon or anywhere else, but that's just where I choose to go. I just need to put my vinyl on my mat and then I'm going to load it up and then I will cut it out and then I'll show you the next part of weeding.  I also want to show you this night, this light up that I have. I absolutely love it, especially when I'm doing the dark colors. It's so much easier to see the light behind it. So I'm just going to take my scissors and cut my individual pieces here. For my files, I should say. Like I said, I like to give it a little bit of room in between each one that I can cut it with my scissors. But because it's black, it's a little bit harder to see. But then the last part you want to do for this is just to weed it out. That's from here. And then also, besides this light up, I use these and I don't know if you can see it really well. I use these picking tools that I buy from Harbor Freight. I absolutely love them. I don't buy the Cricut brand anymore. So if these go dull, I don't worry about it. I just go and grab another pair. They're like three dollars for a set of six, I think. They are amazing. So this light really helps a lot when you're weeding stuff. That's smaller. You can see it a lot easier. I don't think it's showing up too well in here, but it's so much easier to do. You can really see the background really well. But this light is so much easier. It's such a life saver for me. I wish I would have known about it earlier. It just saves so much time where you can see where all the letters pieces are that you have to take off. I just weed it off and I just put it on my finger like that just makes it easier and then throw it all out at once. But it's that simple. So here's the first one, which is love is the key that opens the heart. So I think this is amazing. So I'm just going to weed out the rest of them really quick. And then I'll show you how I apply them to the tiles. In the next part, you need a few things. I just have some rubbing alcohol. I have some paper towel. Of course, my files have my tiles that I said I purchased. I think it's at Lois or Home Depot. There was like 19 cents a piece or so. And then I just have my scissors and my squeegee. I call this squeegee. I'm not really sure what you call it. And then last, I have some transfer tape. I purchased this off of Amazon. I can leave the link below. I love this stuff. Again, I don't buy the Cricut brand. I used to buy the Dollar Store brand, but it just was not sticking well enough. I absolutely love this stuff. It's amazing. It really wasn't too expensive either. So first thing you want to do is take your paper towel, put some alcohol on it, and you just want to clean your tiles really well. Get all the finger marks, the dust, anything that's on there. So you just want to clean it really well, let it sit to dry and then just work on the next ones that you want to do. Just clean it, try not to put your fingers on it after you're done with it. And then just keep going to the next ones. This would be a fun project if you have kids at home right now. It can help you with this. This glass tiles are harder to break than I thought.  So while those are drying, I'm just going to take one of my files and line it up with my transfer tape to figure out which side it goes. They're going to line two up right away. We can get two on here. You can see two on here really quick. The only thing with this transfer tape is it does not have lines on it. So we kind of have to guess where the middle is. That's the only downfall, but I absolutely love this stuff. So I'm just going to cut it really quick, decide. And now I'm going to use my squeegee. Again, I don't know what you call this, but I call it a squeegee. And I'm just going to go over it and rub my file down into my transfer tape. Cut one more time in the middle here, so I have two separate ones. And then peel this off. Everything sticks on your transfer tape. And then by the time you do that, your tile should be dry. So the next part you want to do is put your vinyl onto your tile. This take you take your time with this part. Try to get it on as neat as possible as you can. Because once you put it on, you will not get it off. So once you have it on, push it nice and flat. And then use your squeegee and just push really hard to get all the bubbles out. I'd like to use my fingers and make sure everything stays on it really well. So it's on really nice. Just make sure you use your fingers and push it on really tight.  And it's really important that you clean your tile before, so you don't have any marks or anything on the back of it. I will be sealing this. So I'm going to clean it one more time after everything is done with another rubber alcohol. So when I seal it, you don't see little finger marks and all that. So but I think that turned out really awesome. I love how it looks for the back. I had ordered some cork board for the back of this. So I'm going to show you how to put that on once I'm finished with all of these. But I'm just going to go ahead and finish the rest. I'm out my garage. I wanted to show you these. I did finish these already. These were from a different one that I did. You can't really see it, but it does have a matte finish to it. But these are not coming off. So if you want to use these for coasters or if you just want to have, sometimes people have them just for looks. I'm going to be using mine for actual coasters. So this will not come off. I sprayed this with Mod Podge. It's a clear sealer. So I shook it really well. You can use spray or you can use the kind of you need to use with the brush. But I just chose to do this. But this is how they turn out. It was a matte finish, so it's not shiny. But this will stick to it. So this is the next step. So I just have them laid out over here, the ones that I just did. And I'm just going to give them a light coat and then after it dries, I'm just going to do another coat. But I shook this really well. And again, make sure you do this in a well ventilated area. And I'm just going to lightly go over them. Let it dry and then I'll do another coat or two for this stuff. I know they have a shiny one, but I wanted to use the matte one. So that's how these ones turned out. But there's it, like I said, it's not coming off. It's sticking on there. No water is going to slip through this or anything. So the next thing I need to do, let them dry. And then I will show you how to put on the cork back in. So here are my finished tiles so far. I put the Mod Podge on it and it's going to keep it and it's going to seal it from these pieces coming off and any water getting into it. But I love how these turned out. And the last part to do is put these cork board pieces on them. I actually got these off Amazon. I think they were 100 of them for $17 or $18. So they come out to like seven or eight cents a piece, which really isn't that bad. But this is so much easier than trying to use glue or hot glue or anything unless they're sticky backing. So you just peel off the back and it's really sticky. And then you just take your tile and then just put it on where you want it. Push it down and it's on. So I did these ones already. I have one more. So this one still has to have it. So again, just the last part is this. I'll leave the link below if you're interested in this. I did purchase some cork board from the dollar store. But by the time you have to put the tape on it or put the glue on it and cut it out, it's not worth my time. So you can see the tile doesn't look very nice. So you're just putting this on the back to prevent scratching and also to make it look a little nicer. So you just put it on, push it down and it's all finished. You can put it on here while scratching anything. You can put them on next to each other or on top of each other and it won't break or scratch or anything. So I will show you this, how I'm gonna wrap it up and then the total finished product with all of them that I created. So here's how they turned out. This is how I am gonna package them. I just took a little bit of twine and put it around it really nicely. Just double-knotted it on the back. And then here are the ones that I just finished. Has the cork on the back. So again, you can stack them, you can move them. It's not gonna scratch anything. And then here are some other ones I did previously. I think they turn out really awesome as well. They have the backing on them too. So I hope you had fun with this. I hope you make your own. The possibilities are endless with these. You can make like any holiday ones. I know Christmas is coming up pretty soon. So I'll maybe do another tutorial on Christmas ones. But I think these turned out really great. What do you think? Give me a thumbs up if you like this video. Leave a comment below if you have any questions.


Organic inorganic hybrid perovskite materials are gaining increasing attention due to their potential applications in optoelectronics and photovoltaics. However, they have not yet reached the same levels of performance as inorganic perovskites, such as BATRO3. This paper reports on a new material, DMAGEI3, which has ferroelectric properties similar to those of BATRO3, but with higher spontaneous polarization and lower coercive field. The authors attribute this improvement to the combination of the stereochemical activity of the GE2 plus ion and the ordered arrangement of the organic cation. Additionally, the authors show that the material has a low kinetic energy barrier for the movement of small cations, resulting in a low coercive field. These findings suggest that organic inorganic hybrid perovskites can be used to create high-performance ferroelectric materials. This article was authored by Kuon Ding, Hao Shinyi, Zhang Yuansu, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.