I hate to be biblical about it and go like book of revelations and all of this. These are patterns, like these are ancient patterns, right? So the people who are writing about these things, these are ancient patterns that human beings repeat over and over and over again. And even if we go back to the idea of the mark of the beast, the idea that the population asks for it, that they bring it in, the idea that the vampire is always invited in. This concept is a recurring theme. And if you look, you go back to World War II. The Bolsheviks were, it was, the population brought them into power. The Nazis, the population brought them into power. The majority did. These are, Hitler was an elected official. He was elected by the majority, you know? Mao, same thing, Pol Pot, all of them. It doesn't matter that name the tyranny it's always brought in by the majority. And in this case, people will take the vaccine because if you don't take the vaccine they're gonna take away your UBI. It's gonna be that simple. And people are, they're gonna force people into a decision. And it's just, to me, it's so obvious. It's like, how does this happen any other way? They've already said they're gonna start cutting checks. Those are not gonna come with no strings attached folks. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. It's not no strings attached. And they've gotta pay these, they've gotta pay these pharmaceutical companies. It's use it or lose it.  Public-private partnership. So it looks like moving to Costa Rica on a self-sufficient farm with some small community that were armed seems pretty good. I've got a few bug out spots in mind. But like I say, I think that, I think that it's not going to be door-to-door vaccination. I think that it's really gonna be much more about if you don't do this, you don't get the money. And if you- Yeah, and also the public school stuff.  Already do it over here. Like you wanna go certain school, you have to have vaccines. Yeah, and it's gonna be the same thing. Like your kids can't go back to school. And if your kids aren't in school, you don't get the UBI. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. It's all of the things, right? Like here are all of the list of things. If you're unable to check these off, you don't get the UBI, which is fine. You can decide not to get it, right? But you'll probably be denied access to a whole bunch of different places. Like you might not be able to go into the grocery store. You might not be able to order from Amazon, right? But if you can survive otherwise, go for it. But if you wind up homeless, yeah.  Sounds like China. Well, it's what the USSR was, right? Except that what they used to do, so my wife was born in the USSR, right? So she's like, no, everybody worked because if they saw you on the street, if you were homeless, if you were, she was like, there were no homeless because if they saw you even for one day on the street and everybody else was working, they literally threw you in the back of a van and they took you to a job. They took you to a factory. They took you to a mine. They took you to cut down trees in a forestry program. They took you somewhere and they put you to work. But now there's no work. There's not gonna be anything for people to work on, right? We're gonna get all of it. We're gonna get the automation, all of it. First of the businesses, most of the businesses are gonna fail.  They're gonna gobble up all the rest. They're gonna automate everything that can be automated. It's gonna be a nightmare, man. It really is. But the people are gonna clamor for it. They're gonna clamor for it.  Yeah. Amazing, amazing video games. I don't know how they're gonna do sports. I don't know whether the arenas are still gonna be filled with people.   Boxing will be right back to bread and circuses. All kinds of different entertainment, man.  That's the case. Like in Orwell's 1984, the entertainment is awesome. Of course, it didn't escape from reality. So the straxia from the problems, or the straxia from asking the right questions. Are you familiar with the movie Equilibrium? It's a- Oh, yes. The Christian Bale, the Guncata.  I really like that movie a lot, actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The interesting thing about that is the idea that you're gonna put everybody on drugs. We're already really close to that. We're already really close to that. I mean, if people don't think that when you're binge watching Game of Thrones for the entire day, if they don't think that's the equivalent to being stoned, you know, or to being on heroin all day, what's the functional difference? You're laying on a couch, immobile, not doing anything. It's the same thing. So let me ask you this, then. If people who are watching or listening to this, they're like, well, fuck, I don't wanna be part of this, or what can I do right now? What are people, what are steps that people can do, or what are things people can learn about to use your terminology, just kind of opt out of this in the future, or at least prepare themselves for a future that kind of looks dystopian in my eyes. Well, I mean, I'm gonna show my own newsletter, right? Countermarkets.com. Absolutely, yeah. So yeah, so we've been around for years at this point, and we've been writing that this is going to happen. And talking about, you know, what are the... So our tagline is trends and strategies for maximum freedom. And so it's an agorist newsletter, the first one that there ever has been. So we talk about black markets and gray markets. We talk about self-sufficiency. We write about precious metals. We write about cryptocurrency.  And you get all the back issues. If you subscribe, you can use cryptocurrency. I'll tell you what I am telling our own subscribers, what I'm telling the people close to me. The first thing is, and now in many places, it's already too late. Your first goal is to make it through, let's say the next four to five months while this is being put into place, while the governments are putting these activities into place, while the businesses are falling apart. Your job is to make it through that. And so this is going to require, they want us to do social distancing because they want us to not be able to use each other as resources. They want us to stay away from each other because if we get close to each other, we'll help each other. And if we help each other, we won't be dependent. And if we're not dependent, we won't take the mark of the beast for lack of a better term, which is this UBI. So your job is to, now is the time to start reaching out to your family, you know, whatever family you have and your friends, your close friends. And even if these are just, if you don't have close family or friends, even if these are online people that you trust or you like, now is the time to start cementing those relationships and listening. So listen, your job is to make it through in a state where you still have some options at the end of four to five months. So if you haven't prepared already, do the best that you can, but also reach out to those around you. Now is the time to meet your neighbors. Now is the time to start developing those relationships. Look out and if you have some resources, look out for the people around you. But you're listening, you're waiting, you want to see how this thing works out. Number one, don't panic, don't panic. There's a lot of people who are having anxiety right now. I know there's a lot of people who are having anxiety attacks. We're probably gonna see a rash of suicides coming up. We did in 2008, significant increase in suicides. Your job is to not panic because if you don't panic, you're gonna be okay. You really are. Keep your ears open. And really right now, what you're looking for is you're looking for means to communicate. To communicate with other people who may need what you can provide and who can provide what you need. And it's gonna be these informal networks. It always has been. In every totalitarian system, like for instance, Sami's Dot in the USSR, that system, it's always these informal networks. Those are the people who are able to survive and thrive. So it was, I mean, when the Wall fell and the USSR fell, it was the Russian mafia that ended up and the people who were supported by them, a lot of them became oligarchs, who were in control of everything. The people who had the informal economy. So that's what you wanna be. It doesn't mean you wanna be out killing people and that's not gonna be necessary. It doesn't mean that you need to be shaking people down or doing any of that. The Russian mafia came up because they were able to supply simple goods and services. When you're in on lockdown, go on YouTube. Instead of just binging and trying to take that opiate, go and try to learn something. If you've always wanted to learn how to code, now's your opportunity. You're on lockdown. Go on YouTube and start taking some basic courses, right? If you wanna learn how to garden, go on YouTube, do that, right? Cook, teach yourself how to cook with whatever little bit you have, teach yourself how to cook. Find some recipes and teach yourself. Get a skill, right?  Everybody wants food, people are gonna need code. Those are gonna be two things that are gonna be necessary. So that's what I'm telling people is like, if you don't have a skill, get a skill. Don't panic. Your job is to make it through the next four to five months and still have options at the end. Love it. Vin, people wanna get to know you a little bit more. What are the best resources? I know you mentioned the newsletter. Is that the best place for them to check out? I mean, countermarcus.com. I would love it if people subscribed to that. But look, if you want to interact with me at Vin Armani on Twitter is probably the easiest way to go. Also on YouTube, I put out videos almost every week.  They've been on Bitcoin for about the last three months maybe. People might wanna go back and watch that series because now they'll be topical around that as well. And I'll be trying to provide some thoughts as we move forward. Yeah, so Vin Armani at Twitter is probably the best place. Vin, thank you brother. Always a pleasure, man. Thank you, Amir. Thank you. Thank you. This was great.


Item Number SCP-565 Object Class SAFE Special Containment Procedures SCP-565 is kept in a Type III Aquatic Object Containment Tank on Level 4B of Site-77. It is fed twice daily and tested weekly for development or degradation of mental capacity. Staff who are so inclined may view SCP-565 during its scheduled feeding times by appointment with Dr. Schaefer. Description SCP-565 is an ambulatory human head, apparently male, which appears to mimic the behavioral patterns of Carpillus convexus, a species of coral crab. Its chief method of ambulation is the manipulation of tendrils of unfurled brain matter, which emanate from a large crush wound at the back of its skull. These tendrils are often utilized as legs, allowing SCP-565 to scuttle along the seafloor like a crab, but occasionally are operated for motion and manipulation in a manner similar to the tentacles of an octopus or jellyfish. To date, Foundation research has proven inconclusive on how and why SCP-565 remains animate or how it is able to manipulate neural tissue in a manner suggestive of musculature. Testing is ongoing, but data expunged. Researchers who wish to contribute work or theory to the investigation of SCP-565 should contact Dr. Schaefer through the usual channels for an appointment and transfer interview. SCP-565 was caught by a fishing trawler called Saturday's Child off the coast of... interviewed captain and was informed that SCP-565 had been sighted several times by local fishermen and was apparently living as part of a crab colony in the area's reefs. Video footage taken by one such fisherman shows SCP-565 feeding on a dead clownfish. SCP-565 is not immune to the harmful effects of exposure to a watery environment and has continued to decay as is normal for dead tissue. It is estimated that SCP-565's decay will have advanced sufficiently to neutralize it within... Addendum 565-1 Forensics testing has linked SCP-565 conclusively to the DNA and dental records of Edward Beltram, deceased 1228- Approximately two years before the first known sighting of SCP-565. Beltram was murdered by his wife Rebecca by strict nine poisoning and blunt force trauma to the back of the head with description of the murder wound matching the wound through which the exposed cranial matter of SCP-565 protrudes. Dr. Schaefer has proposed that Beltram's body be exhumed for analysis. Addendum 565-2 Edward Beltram was exhumed by foundation researchers on date expunged. The corpse had been beheaded with wounds suggesting the head had been torn from the shoulders with extreme force rather than cut. Photographs taken by bereaved family members at Beltram's funeral show that the corpse's head was still attached at the time of burial and the gravesite showed no evidence of having been disturbed. Beltram's corpse was retained for study and his grave restored with a substitute as per standard foundation empty casket protocols. Addendum 565-3 Data expunged. Task Force Psi-8 stationed on site reported no activity. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-564, incomplete primitive cyborg, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


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I was able to get somebody all over the valley and disperse in nobody's business. So one of the experiences we've had over the last few days is completely disperse and just go away and not be part of what we do. Now obviously a lot of you who are still in the room are in my class and I'll see you on Tuesday. And we'll be talking about this more. But a lot of us in here are gonna be able to share with them. But I also, because if you're not gonna do anything then I'm gonna take it and I'm gonna update maybe three law posts about it. And I'm pretty sure it's okay.  Of course, we have been live streaming. Thank you, News 8 TV. Woo! All the emerging arts leaders in here, you have transitioned into your first, really second professional career after education. That I think you have to have a couple of questions towards you to start some discussion. And the first one is, as the next generation of arts leaders, I want some of this conversation to lead towards action. One way to not dissolve the song always leads to action. So as leaders in the arts community, be entrepreneurial in building. Is the idea of looking intently and to make sure that we're looking up from and noticing the physical place of the city? You don't have to just really have a boundary. Yeah. Right, and outside your city, even though it's a travel problem or not, outside of your city in the US, can you go to downtown urban core and there's those like, bake it off. Like not just like they built like, bake it locked. Maybe in Detroit, but. Like, bake it locked. Bake it locked. And part of the reason for that is, the zoning of the air rides, so the property's worth a certain amount. You know, you can't build on it or is that going to build this company's zoning housing? And part of it is, you know, there's not. So what we'll do as artists is to activate those, those vacant lots and they have them not seem like that, but certainly seeing opportunity is the discipline. I mean, so I said this in class, right? Seeing opportunity is the discipline of entrepreneurship, but recognizing that that vacant lot is not like, but that vacant lot is a blank canvas on which we can build something or paint something. One thing that I would, within the arts community between organization and artists, sort of found myself in arts administration haphazardly, like I think it would be arts degree. And I think that, but, you know, as we're talking, I think that we do. It's like, yeah. It's like, yeah. In the arts administration world, I think that just continuing to do this work together and really embracing these values that we've been talking about, so that we start to make a sea change as those of us who are working in organizations or in government or in administration, move up into different roles within that context and bring these values with us into the work of those. One thing that I love in one of the reasons that I really wanted to join, and we're two arts leaders, is the fact that as an organization or a group, we are not only looking at how we can impact actively through our community by doing things, but also just going to stuff. And I feel like that's really important. That is, I mean, to have it as like an active mission as a group, to like, we're all gonna go to this event. We're gonna try to go to events together and show that we're there and show that we're supporting and be supportive. I think it's something that in this community in particular is hard. It's hard because we're all trying to make things and we're spread out, we learn different disciplines and we're all trying to venture, but we sometimes, and I know I'm totally gonna do this, like forget to go to other people's stuff. You know, it just becomes sort of, you have your friends that you work with and you go to their things, but outside of that sometimes it almost feels like it just sort of dissipates after that. Like you're being curious about the things that about other work, what you don't know or any assumptions about what people are doing without having gone. I think it's something that really got me excited about this group and wanting to be a part of a culture or part of a practice of actually making an active effort to attend other things. And through that, having an actual active experience that opens my mind to what is going on. So in your white paper foundation for what is now, people are calling it big funding initiatives, but also because of this idea that you can keep the arts, I went down exactly the quote that I wanted to use from you from last night, but keeping the arts at the core or the art is really at the core of these activities, your position. I think where I do this is only like, we're all trying to do it in a different way, some with more of an emphasis on equity and inclusion than others. And that's unstoppable in a way. These aren't big funding initiatives, really. It's not very much money for what's happening all over the United States and so on. But what is happening a lot is a lot of places, a lot of organizations, a lot of arts leaders and other people for the first time are saying, oh, this is really kind of a cool combination and a really great idea. And we have these values or sources in our arts and cultural community and they do bring us these wonderful intrinsic benefits, joy, beauty, criticism, satire, and understanding of each other, bridging and all these things. And yeah, it is time for us to, on the arts side, get out from our bunkers and just be concerned with getting people to come inside the doors of our space and really work with other people. I don't think that's gonna stop. I think it's really, really kind of caught on and Prancing don't get the thing, oh, what's matter, we're gonna do it anyway, right? So, and they're doing it, meaning it's human energy and not with money because there isn't a lot of money in this era. So that, I think, is a very, very exciting thing. And the arts and culture at a core, I think, to the extent that the arts community is about, people really get that, people in the arts community don't want to just use an early development. They don't want to just be used to turn out their neighborhood. So, if they really feel like they are partners and they have ownership of it and they're listening for the first time and people who have a lot of skills, in urban design, transportation, or healthcare, whatever it is, that's the bridge, they're gonna learn a lot, but they're gonna be true to their artistic mission or in skills. So that's why I continue to really believe it has great potential, but it also needs a lot of thought. I think, you know, I think, we all kind of share a vision in this room of seeing the future of placemaking, the thriving organizations and projects that, like Laura's and Michael's, that will model to cure for us in the past couple of days, that we see that kind of energy take root in the valley. I mean, that's, it's woe. I think we just case way up at night. The city, in terms of life of time, of actually the population growth, we're really young still, and we're still finding our way as a cultural city, and we have a really great opportunity. People moved here, there's this huge influx of population, it was really awkward teenage city, and that we're just now starting to like fill out and fit into ourselves a little bit more and find our place within that and like, grow into an adult place. And because we don't have hundreds of years, the other places. I love the interesting thing about the hundreds of years, and how many of you know that I'll be along these penises? Just ask your grandparents if they're still around. Do they ever play in the canals? I guess people used to water ski, right? Yeah, it was all kind of short. I'm sure. I'll help you shoes, but yeah. At least it's last week though, because I just went to the selection by now, but here at Gate R, which is very intriguing, because we are, they're expanding the light rail corridor to Mesa, and then it's so right along Main Street, Mesa, so how, you know, a product can we maybe import something, something that you're a gate arts model to Mesa to help the business that's along Main Street. I see that as a great opportunity for artists to, can I? Absolutely. I think it's a little crankier, but it's absolutely. I want to say it, just to throw it off, but you know what I'm trying to say. But actually something you've said the other night in the car, I think you said it, that you know, actually what's the meaning of it. Yeah, I think it's really important to understand how the character of the world, Phoenix in the last two or three decades, has, you know, so worked the character of its population. You have huge numbers of people who just come here part-time to be wealthy people who are really choosing to live in very, very same-like, you know, safe income class, same-color people areas. And it's also very unstable. I mean, it can house the water issue in Phoenix. I think there's tremendous potential for the arts and cultural community to really work with the environmental community in diverting all this water bringing it to a place that was really meant to be a desert. That's, you know, which it could be livable. But the idea that we spent a lot of time talking about how we have to understand an individual's context in order to work with a group of individuals. But like you're saying, we also have to understand the context of the city itself if we're trying to affect that kind of widespread change in order to really find the roots, to work from the roots of the problem. One of the reasons we have a canals is the conversation. It's a haulty log. It's not a dialogue. It's a haulty log. I think you guys touched on a really good thing that it's a young culture. Arizona, we've got a lot of, we've got kind of like a very up-and-coming kind of arts culture, we've got roots. We've definitely got a history there because we've got a lot of this new influx of just because of the ASU downtown, because of other young people coming here and arts people. It's a prime opportunity. One of the reasons why I fight whether I want to go to Arizona or stay is because it's almost, you feel like it's on the cusp of something big. It's a place where it's going to be kind of the place where people want to be. Artists and entrepreneurs, just that place. But then it's almost like you have this battle between conservative and artistic of just the people wanting things to stay the same and then the people wanting to change. And so it's that getting there and talking about it to move us forward which equates the frustrating part for most artists and entrepreneurs. And I'm gonna sum, thank you for a second too, not specifically related to you. But as there's this giant, fluffy people, what, for example, has had impacts to the Yaqui people who live in Guadalupe and this six square block area who've been there for a hundred years. You know, this is the kind of stuff that Alex and then the other people. I'm kind of curious to talk about audience and how, you know, like one, because I know a lot of the more classical, you know, have an older audience and that's how they kind of fund support themselves. And so with this talk of, you know, this potential vibrant environment that we can create with this arts and culture, like, how do you guys think or view your audience? Like, how do you guys kind of conceive that in relation to this idea of being, you know, potential to be in this great city in terms of all of our arts and culture? So, Debra, who's visiting from Seattle? Thank you so much. You're from Seattle. We have some folks here from Austin and Lubbock. Anybody else from out of town? So maybe we could, let's talk about Alex's question about audience for a minute. And then we'll, that was actually my list about in your communities, because I know I had a time that there were people from out of town. So is your question, can we engage, continue to engage the communities that already exist or how do we engage those older communities in? Yeah, I mean, I guess I'm kind of asking, like, how do we expect to create these different, like, art and culture if we don't support the sort of interest and how do we expect to support that interest in the community and gather an audience? I'm putting up my little, I've done it in a lot of different ways of like, engaging audience and some have been really successful and some have not. In terms of, I think location, part of it is such a huge thing, but one thing I've found is outside makes such a huge difference. And it's interesting that, like, for a lot of what we do, especially for those of us in performance art, we're used to being indoors, but a lot of, because we're in an area where it's always sunny almost and it's the weather's so good. A lot of the time is that I've found, through my experience at outdoors, I mean, it's a simple thing, but like outdoors, people want to be outside. They want to be engaged in something where they can not feel like they're in a closed space because of the, and it supports our environment, it supports that where others' environments would not because of the unpredictability of weather can be a huge factor in that. I feel like that's something that I would like to see us engage more as a natural practice looking at our city and where we're located. And I also feel like one thing that has been really successful is festivals around here. There's been a lot of really successful festivals where people can come, like, there's that freedom to be under and to do what they want and it's not constrained and you can tap into a bunch of different things. Those are two, I guess, examples of ways that I've seen audience success in our area as opposed to something of, like, what we need to do. We're going to the work of spring morning that Laurie talked about a lot yesterday and just sort of that piece that you said you aren't able to measure yet but you want to be able to measure which is that ripple effect and we all know an arts experience is powerful. An arts experience of any kind, whether you experience it in sort of this, the lens through which Laura was talking about with the Irrigate Project, if you experience it through some of the projects that Michael was talking about in more like a civic practice kind of way. But working consciously to give more and more people access to those experiences I think has, we hope, but we can't measure it yet, you know, has those ripple effects of participation and engagement and value. Just, you know, again, say there's no real continuity, there's not, you know, maybe there will be, maybe individual artists will be able to perform it. I think you're probably the point of view of artists who are so badly in income street and especially when you get to the point where you want to have children and you have to pay health insurance, it's really very challenging and what I really have seen around the country is where there is dedicated space for artists to convene, to work with each other, whether it's disciplinary or neighborhood or ethnicity or community-based or something, whatever. It's really created an enormous amount of community and, you know, mutual learning that so reinforces the things that people want to do and are doing. And it doesn't even have to be expensive. I mean, there's actually a huge amount of space around it's not used a long time, like churches and schools on the weekends or, but you somehow have to kind of have organization and space and it kind of, the idea of a clubhouse, originally I wanted to start to call our artist centers the artist clubhouse, but actually some of the directors of the artist centers objected because they thought it sounded like a golf club whereas I thought it sounded like the shack of the skating rink where I went as a kid, you know, every afternoon after school. You know, they go into other organizations so you're not seeing that in the building and they are doing things. They might belong to the playwright center or they'll participate. Those are all the artists. Exactly. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. People want to learn. These four audiences come together with artists where beginning wannabe artists who didn't get it in school can learn those things from seasoned artists. It's really amazing in that way. There's an apprenticeship there that is really extraordinary. And if you think about intermediate juxtaposition arts or intermatch, all of these places that are neighborhood oriented, they are doing amazing things in their neighborhood and they're building audiences and that is having that dedicated space where people feel belonging to us. Not just the artists, it's not just about the artists. It's other people who are art lovers who come to the intermediate to see performances like me or to come to the gallery and see the show. So I'm just making a pitch for that. And I also want to just totally second point for saying about it, we should ask something from artists in return and the new art home project, for instance, every artist who gets help from them, they're asked to give something back to the community. I think that is really true. Artists should really be asked to give something back. It should be formalized in something and that's a job for our funders and the other people who are supporting them. What are some of the conversations like in Seattle or in Lubbock or in Austin surrounding some of these issues of place and... Ossinary tale, if you will, or just an interesting genealogy of festivals and different types of support for the arts. I have a transplant from Manhattan to Austin and so I've learned a lot about the fine arts, the high art that's gone on there as well as kind of the community base and the vines sort of using the east side art fuel for us. But if you want to get a sense of how it's like South by Southwest, great example of a festival that started back in the... Somebody in your nose who did that for their case. South by Southwest? Yeah, it was on a 17 years ago I think? Yeah, and it was like this kind of fringed rock festival that is now a very commercial prize that everyone who has the extra $1,000 in their pocket can go enjoy. So those of us that were on 17 years ago and don't have that $1,000, we go to the South by San Jose, which is a free music at the San Jose Hotel, or we go to Gay by Gay Day to stand in an artist or we try to get it into the interactive and but it's interesting. So as South by Southwest has grown, it's also been this sort of breeding ground for a lot of other fringe festivals that are now like what South by Southwest used to be. So it's an interesting sort of contemplation of light, all this stuff. And then you've got the east side versus the west side in terms of the space. A lot of people are looking at the east side in terms of what spaces are available and how they're being used. You might go over to the next who are, who have this great work on the east side that they had forever today, that they go out to other, I saw some great pieces there. So the Rude Max or the Mechanicals, that's funny because they just got this huge prize as well. Well, that's not what's funny about it. What's funny about it is the title of this symposium got hosted because of the live streaming and why not and on Twitter. And there was a little dust up between us on Twitter about sort of gentrification and creative place making. How they're feeling, they're getting priced out of there. Maybe I just read that, Rude Max, but you can. Everyone's, everyone in the east side is concerned about losing their spaces. It is a huge concern, I found. But it's interesting, the Rude Max they've brought in now. Well, here's the interesting thing. Kirkland, one of the founders of the Rude Max is now on-time with DTUT. Which, we can talk about artists and a lot of, I mean Annie Sprink has a PhD now. So there's this idea of artists moving into the avenue that we can talk about. But long as it's open to the public. Yeah, and we actually don't have time to open that conversation today because I wanted to sort of start to wrap things up. There's an analogy or a metaphor I've been using lately of a big tent. And I think that the big tent can enclose artists' spaces and arts and community-sharing space because I think in the valley, anyway, one of the conversations we have a lot, we heard it from the collab arts team this morning, is artists in space to some places to gather together. Right now they can do that a little bit at our Fine Arts Center here on campus because they're still in school. But where do you guys get together to talk about, so if you go to other people's events but there's not a place, right? The Community Center for the Arts is more of a community center. So community people go to the Community Center for the Arts to do sort of community arts participation but artists don't go there so much. Unless you're taking a class, you're teaching the class, right? So we don't have those kind of spaces that many people use, or the kind of organizational structure that we can come to discuss. And we don't have the kind of large destination festival that Austin has. Or the depth of arts and culture that Seattle has. We have all of that, but we still have problems. Oh, no, I'm not, I'm from New York City and there's problems there too, which we're, you know, well, I still am biased and thinking of things that I realize, well, no, I don't think so. I don't think, I'm gonna use that phrase, arts and culture everywhere to say that arts entrepreneurship can happen everywhere too. Colleagues from some other arts and partnerships are listening in this weekend. They might say, that's not arts entrepreneurship. They aren't talking about starting your business. Well, starting a business is just wanting to see these opportunities, working with communities, making art for yourself and for others and getting something new out of the world, sort of all art and the need for artists and it's an opportunity for communities and it's an opportunity for artists and community under this big tent. And it requires, I mean, one of the reasons that a year ago we decided to make this the theme of the Symposium was because I had read Anne's paper and one of the key points that you make is that every project requires an initiator. It requires a person. It requires an entrepreneur. Somebody is gonna start something and see it through, actualize it. And that's sort of the connection for me. I have your statement that arts and culture is happening everywhere and I'm gonna segue because a lot of places that I come from is not happening everywhere, but it should be happening everywhere. And so I think from what I learned today and yesterday about please making and us as social entrepreneurs and arts entrepreneurs is that we need to be going in those spaces where artists are. I wanna see the ballet in South Phoenix. I wanna see the ballet on the West side and moving in these areas that we don't go to. I wanna see those communities coming together and not just a lot of times artists they'll stay together. Like we do a lot of things downtown or Scottsdale will stay in Scottsdale. They may venture out to 10 p.m. downtown. They're not gonna go that much further. So I think as us for placemaking we need to be more conscious artists and entrepreneurs of those places and making them going out of our comfort zone. We want those people to come. Don't assume that they won't come because they don't have culture or don't assume that they won't drive that far because they will, but we have to make those spaces available and welcoming to them to want to come and we have to be open and welcoming to them to come into those spaces as well. And I think that is where a sprawl is happening where everyone's staying in their pocket. We're not venturing out. And I think our should be having a better way. So let me pick up on this notion of venturing out to segue to the closing event of our symposium which is the feast on the street which is happening on First Street in downtown Phoenix. And we do wanna encourage everybody to go and it would be lovely if I'm ready to go together and Hannah Cooper, if you wanna raise your hand. Hannah Cooper is here to, among other things, help guide those of you who would like to take a light rail to the event downtown. They can travel with Hannah and she will guide you there. And with that, I will say thank you very much. I will ask that you please... Oh, the flag, the flag! Oh, yeah, you're right.


It has been, even with Chinese New Year in the background, the market still had itself a very terminal start to the week with most global equity markets massively in the red there yesterday. The Dow dropped over 400 points at one point, the UK 100 down on 3% as well. It's pretty much a bloodbath in the markets and a lot of that has come from big concerns now in the finance sector. Deutsche Bank itself done about 11% yesterday, big issues about its prime debt, making sure they got enough money to service that debt until 2017, they came out with a statement with it yesterday. Deutsche Bank shares have actually done about 40% for the year so far and major financials right across the globe took a big hit yesterday and it had a horrible error of the credit crunch in 2007 around it where you have big massive banks really getting called into question. Now Deutsche Bank has had its issues before in the past where it said everything is absolutely fine, i.e. during the credit crunch and then a few weeks later it was ready to get a bailout. So there is big big big concerns at the moment right across that sector and that's leaking into almost all other global financial markets out there. Gold unsurprisingly is shooting up higher, the Japanese yen is jumping, but our good old friend Crude Oil is sticking around about $29 so it's finally managing to stabilize even when we're in the cusp of this massive amount of market volatility. So that gives you a bit of an idea as to common themes. It's all about the banking sector right now, you should keep an eye on all the major blue chip, bellwether, banking stocks. Deutsche Bank in Germany is an issue, you should have a look at some of the banks and Athens and Italy as well, they're getting absolutely smashed and obviously there's a fear about that kind of contagion out there. It doesn't take much for that sentiment just to change and all of a sudden there's a massive bank run. So I would be very concerned about a lot of the kind of financial, finance-related stocks and obviously yesterday we had in America Chesapeake Energy, the second biggest gas producer in America, rumours of bankruptcy and it's probably not going to be the only one with prices the way that they are just now, it's your price of down 40% before it got suspended yesterday so there's a lot of things just now that could possibly go wrong between the oil and gas sector and the finance sector so do take that into consideration while price swings perhaps not unexpected but for those brave traders out there it's an opportunity to potentially profit if you get on the right side of those moves. So that's the general fundamental themes, let's talk about the technicals and we'll go straight into the US 30 as ever. So as you can see there, actually off the session those, this was a 400-point drop, 57% of CMC Marcus clients are currently long, the other technicals are relatively neutral with the MACD histogram just getting lower, we've almost got a bearish crossover, to be honest the US 30 is okay, the UK 100 looks horrible, let's go ahead and have a look at that. So 90% of CMC Marcus clients are currently long, what I want to do here actually, I'm going to go into a weekly chart, see if we can find some other levels on here because it's because we've got such a strong commodity focus in the UK market, this is currently where we are, that's a much better support level to have a look at, because we've got so many commodities on our exchange because we've got so many mining stocks and oil and gas stocks, we're particularly vulnerable to these big moves, you can still see that we're fighting it, firmly in this potential downtrend, you've got the downwards trend line, the next potential support is at 5,600 and if we missed that then we could potentially be in a little bit of a pickle, but we're a little bit away from there just now, potentially a tweezer bottom right here, we're off the session those, 90% of CMC Marcus clients are currently long, we do have a negative crossover in the MACD, the other technicals are relatively neutral, so 5,600 is the next potential support, 5,768 is potential resistance. Moving on to Japan 225, again I'm going to stick this on a weekly chart because we've just got to find where those next potential levels are and there's a good bit away actually, this market got really badly smashed in the underlying today, you would take this level, this is a potential support level, I'm going to take this point down here, you maybe actually go, I think I'm going to take this one as a more appropriate level and jump back on to the daily charts, it's pretty ugly, it's just really really ugly, we're on the wrong side of potential support at 16,384, you can see there historically we have had breaks lower but we've not closed below this line, which comes all the way from back here, this does look like it could be a quite an interesting level to look at, but we're firmly on the wrong side of that at the moment, gapping a little bit lower this morning, we're off the session low, 63% of CMC Marcus clients are currently long, we've got a negative crossover on the MACD, if we do begin to see an acceleration to downside 14,671 and the Japanese finance minister is very concerned by the recent strength in the Japanese yen, they want the yen weak, so dollar yen should be a fantastic trade, the dollar should be increasing in value, the yen should be losing value but no, not in this current environment, so a lot of people probably feeling the pain on dollar yen, which we'll have a look at right now, and when you kind of scroll out you can just see the pain, we've actually been in the sideways moving market since December last year, not really doing a huge amount, this is a significant technical break and the only problem is from my perspective is you are miles away from the next potential support level, which is arguably here, I'm going to have a quick look on the weekly charts, oh it's so bad, you know you maybe take this, you could maybe take that, I think we will take that, yeah we're just miles away from everything else, yeah it could be a bit of a tough market at the moment, so let's go back on to the daily charts for a second, it's yeah if you're long dollar yen right now, it's kind of hard to find these reasons, but the volatility is huge, you can just see how we've already been so much lower, we're doing at 114 yen and it's pushed all the way back up again, the next potential support is going to be at 111 spot 61, potential resistance is 160, 66% of CMC Marcus clients are currently long and we are closer to that resistance than we are currently at the support, West Texas Crude as we discussed is kind of building a base around about 29 dollars, actually not much to talk about today, obviously it was down yesterday but small moves in comparison to what's done historically, CMC clients don't really know what to do at the moment, 52% are currently short, it's almost 50-50, other technicals are relatively neutral, could be a kind of descending triangle formation, building a base around about here, but we'll just see what happens, gold's been having a fantastic run, I've not seen a move like this in gold for so long, safe haven aspect, everything's going right for gold right now, safe haven and interest rate questions, interestingly one spot, 1,191 is potential resistance, try to break up above it, close below it yesterday, try to break it again today as currently trading below it, 60% of CMC Marcus clients are currently long, 11, 91 looks to be a pretty important level for anybody who's trading gold right now, finishing up with Eurodollar and GVPUSD, and Eurodollar, you can just see the tips of these candles, there is a reluctance by Eurodollar to break above right about 112, 40, so that's a level to keep your eye on, any potential retracement, 1 spot, 11, 05 is a potential support level to be aware of, moving on to GVPUSD, 85% of CMC Marcus clients are currently long, perhaps wishful thinking in this regard, we do see new building support at the 21 period SMA, 1 spot, 43, 52 is potential short-term support, it's not really that exciting, but the fact is that you've got the support and you've got the SMA could make it a kind of strategic level to be aware of, so if we have a quick look at the market calendar, let's talk about the economic data of which there is very little coming out, there's nothing much to talk about today, tomorrow you've got some Chinese data, industrial production, petroleum inventories, that's going to be a big one, and then on Thursday you've got unemployment claims, so there's actually not a huge amount of macro data releases, it's all just keep your eye on the finance stocks, keep your eye on oil and gas in America, keep your eye on the DAX, there's so much happening in the markets right now, just make sure you're well informed and you are trading with the simple stop losses in place as well. Well guys, very good luck with your trading, join me again tomorrow to find out what happens next, thank you very much and goodbye.


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Singapore is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, some even call it a concrete jungle. But amazingly, people here have found spaces for vegetable and fruit farms on rooftops. These farms are also used as green spaces, so you can take a break from the city. I'm finding that there are actually many ways to de-stress and relax too, like a yoga session, 57 stories above the ground, or spotting wildlife at a nature reserve. Some of you recommended the Botanic Garden, so I've come here to try forest bathing. The guide brings me through all of the different senses from touch to smell to sound and sight. Apparently forest bathing can help reduce blood pressure, boost immunity, and even improve sleep. To wrap up this day, I head to this rooftop bar. This is beautiful. I love the pockets of greenery, this view of the city skyline, and the food. So it is definitely possible to find your inner calm in this bustling city.


The holidays are just around the corner, so most Americans are swiping their cards left and right with consumer confidence up and Record highs in the stock market. What can we expect to see this year to hear her take? We're joined now by Melissa Armo founder of the stock swoosh Melissa a study from Mastercard shows that US retail spending was up 3.6% between November 1st and December 9th from the same period in 2016 and since November e-commerce sales were up 16.3% so is the upcoming holiday season the main reason for this or is there something else at play? Well, thanks for having me. Well, you know what? I think that today is a great example of why consumers are having so much confidence. Look at the market We just closed at record highs again today. I mean the spy has made a 25% move in one calendar year So to get numbers like that and you're not surprised in fact I wouldn't even be surprised if by the end of the year the numbers not only meet expectations But exceed the expectations that companies thought that they would have for the for the sales for the holiday season Well, despite the retail boom. It's one of the only industries. That's not adding jobs So should we expect to see strong retail sales after the holidays if we keep seeing store closures? Well, here's the thing These some of these stores have got to compete better the brick and mortar stores with the online on the line stores And they're trying to do that But the problem is with the holidays a lot of these stores have big sales because they do the the price lashing a lot of them Have 45% discounts for the black Friday in the holiday season It's hard to compete then because during the year if these brick and mortar stores have these huge sales people wait Or then they shift to go online So I think the challenge for brick and mortar stores for retail Anyone that's still out there that's competing okay the Walmart's the targets the Coles the Macy's Anyone that's out there that's fighting for a market share against the Amazons of the world They've got to find a better way and it's not always giving the discounts like for example Coles The stock was in a downtrend right before the holiday season It was trading around 38 around November 9th before the Thanksgiving rush It's up now today had a huge rally again today back up in an uptrend over 54 You you know the stock was dragging all year They've got to find a better way to get people in to buy and you know That's the challenge right now because you look at Amazon You bring up a good point because even though the internet has definitely disrupted the retail industry online sales only account For about 10% of total retail sales, so if that is the case or considering it is Why do you think the industry is doing so poorly when it's not the holiday season? Is it just because during black Friday? They End up you know putting everything 75% off Well the thing is it could be different in 2018. That's what I'm saying people now are lightening up on their pocketbooks They're not they're feeling like they can spend money. That's why consumer confidence is high That's why people are feeling like oh my gosh. I don't have to worry about so much in the future I can go out and buy this gift and there's something big It's not just a holiday sales that we that we're seeing a trend here for the for the shopping It's something called self-gifting. Okay, so self-gifting is oh, I need that so-and-so I'm gonna buy that for myself plus the presents for my family and friends So self-gifting has been a big trend this holiday season I think overall you're seeing people feeling like they can loosen up on their pocketbooks because the economy is getting better and that Overall is going to project into 2018 if the market continues to rally and once again the tax bill if these companies if these Corporations are going to get this huge tax break if this really passes which everyone feels very optimistic that it's going to Happen that is going to help give all these companies a boost target Walmart Macy's Coles all these companies I'm talking about Amazon too. They're going to get a huge tax break Well, as you just said there has been a major focus recently on consumer confidence Which is sitting nicely at a 17-year high, but wages still remain pretty stagnant I mean we just saw that in the most recent jobs report So how is it that Americans are feeling optimistic if we're not feeling improvements in our paychecks? Well, I think people are feeling optimistic because if you have a 401k plan and you're reading your statements for the last year It's increasing without you having to do anything. So that right there makes people feel better about the future more secure for the retirement Also, if they do these tax cuts for income tax going into 2018 people are going to see that immediate savings They're going to see that immediate savings and that makes people feel more optimistic about the future as far as the wage growth I mean people have been talking about this I don't know why it hasn't caught up with everything else Maybe it's just one of those lagging things. It's going to take a while to get caught up Maybe you're going to see an after effect of these companies saving money on the taxes with the corporate tax rate being cut And then they're going to start to pay more for more qualified labor I mean, maybe that's going to reflect on top of that after the fact I mean, I don't know why we haven't seen that because unemployment is low But I definitely think that companies might want to pay more for better labor pay more wages And that might have an effect maybe 12 24 months down the road Melissa rmo founder of the stocks who's thanks so much for your time today Thanks. Thanks for having me


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Good afternoon and welcome back to the Touchline on Y25 for Maxwell Waseke. My name, keep talking to us at Touchline Y25 for Maxwell at Y25 for Channel. Of course this time round we're going to speak about a very interesting conversation regarding the welfare and interest of footballers in the country and with me in the studio is the body mandated to represent and ably advocate for their interest. James Zituma, I call him Chemo, captain himself is joining us for the first time in several years down the line. Tango omoke, ali tutupake dogo, but he's here. Glad he's joining us as long as I tell you who's a good friend and now vice chairperson. Of course both of them have sailed through this morning's elections after receiving no opponent. I don't know whether that one is attributed to their skokad or something. How come they never got to be, you know, competed against? Jamu, good to see you. How are you doing man? I'm fine. You're keeping well? Umenige uziya lakins ok. I'm the one who said so ali Tango omoke. Uziya sa umenitu pakuha. Suti mene roka bro kumbu kwa president lazuma... Nashkuru ah mambe nene kibadili ka? Lazuma ukismama pona ruto ya nini kama president winiya ruto president James Zituma. Nene na pakuha panojapia we have so many members so we have to be at pakuha. Terry miyaje, mimreya puku ona tena. Ukupua? Yup. In the past you were a CEO general secretary. The rate of communications or something. I don't know it was related to the rate of communications. Now you're coming in as vice chairperson. How does this feel? How are you looking for transitioning into media duties to now administrative aspect? Actually it's more or less the same thing. I'll just be the vice president in charge of communications. So it's not anything new plus it is not... Actually it feels the same. It's still the same work working for the players. James you've been in the game for a while, a former player. You know played for several teams locally, national team as well. Captain wearing that. But that experience is up there now. It is something that I've seen you taking higher after picking it from the grass. Now you seem to be visible your activities. How has it been like? It has been quite a journey. From playing to administering is a totally different thing. It comes with a lot of challenges. Of course the way we know the situation in our country. The welfare of the players have to be taken care of. And challenges left, right and center. It takes you into some responsibility. You have to take responsibility. And I'm so happy that behind me we have an able team. That has been really working so hard to make sure that we share the ideas. We come up with the programs. And also how can we make the welfare of the players maybe to be okay. And you know with also the other football stakeholders we believe we can do something. So it has been a tough journey. And of course coming back again the second time into the office. It gives us more challenge. It's a challenge to us to make sure that we have to do more. To make sure that the welfare of the players are looked into. So for us of course we have the aims and visions. And we believe that having the second time we have the trust from the players. And from the members I can say to work for them. And maybe to fight for their rights. How has it been like in terms of pushing for their welfare. And you know it's a huge group of players. Both former, current and even the promising ones. And considering that you've been elected and opposed in this morning's elections. What does that mean? Because of your track record your skokad has been decent. Of course that distrust from the players what we have done for them. And maybe what we are looking for to do. Because as I said you know looking after the players 4,000 plus members.  Because their welfare is somehow neglected. And you know it gives us another opportunity maybe how can we help these players. So we come up with the other programs to make sure that they should the players they can do. Like maybe those who want to go back to school. They can go back to school. We have taken through some of the players that have taken that path of maybe going back to coaching. We have done that. We have also done some of the partnership with some of the schools like Zittek University. We have our members almost 50 players maybe and doing some learning there. So we see how can we help these players because we don't have money in the league. And also when we represent them in legal issues. Some of the issues can take up to maybe 1, 2, 3 years. So what happens to the players. So we come up with other plans to make sure that the cases are going on. So what can they do. And the learning is bankrolled by KFOR. Of course we have a partnership with the Zittek University 50-50 share. So for us maybe we come in maybe that's the aspect where Terry comes in. Maybe marketing communication. So if a player can maybe let's say pay 30,000 per semester. So you have to part with 50 or 15,000 and maybe the rest of the 15,000 it's paid up by the school. So that's where we come in. I have worked with you. I work with you. I work spirit speaks for itself. And now you know that gender parity. Kenyans love making noise when they see wasike situma. And there is no lead in between. I think they will say gender is not being factored in. In your own perspective probably means welfare and football would get to move to another level as well. Yeah and it's not just gender parity because it is one of the policies. It's marriage.  We are qualified and we've been doing the job over the years. So that is why even at KFWA we have so many women who are working with us. Because we believe that they have the potential to do it. It's not just about maybe gender balance or anything. It's getting the best people who can do the work for the players. So for me I feel like it's been we've been here for years actually in and out. Like you say we've worked together. We've worked on different platforms. But it is just the fact that we are not sometimes we are together but we are not together. So as players or even former players there's I always say it is powerful if we work together as a collective. In one voice instead of situma just making noise on his own. He also working in isolation somewhere else. But if we come together and actually champion for a cause collectively. And it can push the policy makers to make the necessary changes. Like now we're struggling with things like safeguarding. I'll talk about the women's side mostly because I've not had male players saying that they're being abused. But it is something that is chronic now why because there are no safeguarding policies or even if they are there no one is implementing them. So such like things are the things that we need to champion for and advocate for for the implementation not just having them on paper. We go and launch all the safeguarding policies. We launch the much fixing integrity phones but who is actually following up and making sure that these things are being implemented. Because otherwise the environment will still not be safe for the players and football is work it's not just enjoyment or passion it is work. For some people they wake up in the morning and that is their job. They look at the nutrition they look they go to the physio that is expense. It's not part time for them. Yeah it is full time. They are daily commitment. Exactly. So in as much as we are preparing them for transition or maybe life after football we need to secure that now because it is their work. So if we say we will just be advocating for do coaching courses some of them do not want to do the coaching courses. Some of them do not want to go to school. They just want to focus on football as a career fast now and get paid. So I think if we try and push for what we've been singing standard contracts and all that now that we want to work together with the federation as well and see how that can be done and also just have a voice and probably the club licensing thing have the clubs also do the resource mobilization so that they can sustain the players. And James I have seen I think you in your company got a gentleman from FIFPRO which means your activities are well sanctioned in compliance with international guidelines. How is it like you know working with them? Are they based in Geneva? Zurich? Netherlands. How is it like? How has it been like and what do they make of you know Kenyan footballing scene? Of course we are under FIFPRO and we are under always under their guidelines and you know they are so professional and they believe in professionalism and that's why they are here and they believe in integrity and you know fairness and that's why they we have the representative from FIFPRO to come and make sure that also they oversee the process because they have really really supported us It has to meet merit and stuff like that. Yeah of course of course because they have really helped us and they have really given us support to make sure that our activities goes on or to make sure that we champion for the welfare of the players because also their main work is maybe to see their main work is to see the welfare of the players both men and women are looked into and you know we have never gone wrong under them so we still appreciate their guidance their support and also their presence in the country so also I'll say maybe I acknowledge the way Teria is saying the good thing at the moment is that we have a good will from the Kenyan Federation and we also want to appreciate them a lot because they really are flagged of the process of electoral congress because initially before we had of course the noise having done the election and blah blah but I think at the moment we have a good will and we have set a couple of times maybe when we play and make sure that to see how can we come together Kenya football as well federation to make sure that the players are well taken up because in between you have the players without the players we don't have the organization That is the most important person Without the clubs or the players we don't have the football federation so I think the key person here is the player and the good thing is that they have shown the good will and for us we are open minded we are 100% under their guidance also they will show how they want things to be run and also we are ready to share the ideas because we have a couple of things that we need to share with the FA concerning the players so that maybe is for another time I just want to say that we have now good blood and they have really supported us throughout the process we have finished the process as smoothly and we feel now we can champion for the welfare of the players Terry I got a friend of mine who keeps telling me that the problem with Kenyan sporting administrators is that whenever they visit overseas they never take benchmarking notes that they will come back in the country and want them injected into our running of the game you are widely travelled yourself having been in calf organization of women football and I have seen you attending training symposiums and matches how can we get to incorporate what you learn overseas so that it can be factored into our administration and what KF is also doing to advocate for the interest of our players yeah it can work and maybe it cannot because you see if you contextualize the African sport or maybe football it is totally different from what happens in Europe because you can't just say you will go and watch IUF a Champions League final and say oh we want to do the same thing in Kenya or maybe in Egypt it depends with also our context what is happening in your country how can you incorporate whatever you have learnt and whatever is happening we normally say because sometimes it is ok to go and learn and watch but do you have the facility, do you have the expertise, do you have the right people to implement or maybe even so it boils down to several factors training and learning is important in as much as we want to be the best what are we doing in terms of capacity building in terms of just ensuring that our facilities up to standards like now we have problems of stadiums not being up to standards and stuff like that so probably we can't even host any tournament or something so these are things you can just copy it also depends what are you doing in your own space and what is your context, what are your cultures what can you borrow and what can you not borrow so I think it is just a matter of learning and unlearning maybe the things we normalize in this country like making it normal to play bad pictures for instance which is something that should be I think if you start by professionalizing the game it means we have the right equipment we have the right pictures we have the right, we have been paid allowances because no one will go and enjoy the game if they are not enjoying the work they are doing Jamu I think you have been in the game for a while and Teri is speaking about a very paramount point of facilities, welfare ensuring that facilitation of the players is something that is being factored I know you got a few minutes before we wind up this segment because it was a short notice but it is something we do comprehensively going forward talk to us about how you seek working with the government of the day we have seen Telantahela getting launched yesterday Ababuna Mwampa has looked promising from the first days of East Tint and President Root also yesterday spoke passionately about football and how to restore the lost glory and we have seen Kenya beating for 2027 Afkan with other East African countries how is that manageable? someone who has played for top local sites featured overseas slightly played for the national team how can we execute and ensure that this comes to pass? of course we always have good ideas tangible ideas but again the only and doings that the process between maybe digesting the ideas putting them on paper and maybe coming up the way you can implement those ideas that's the only challenge we have because the ideas we have but at times we take more shortcuts than the long cut because it needs, it's a process you have to take step one we want to implement it swiftly exactly you have to take step one step two, step three and it takes time it's a process so what I can say football has its own guidelines and as I can say the FFA, the Federation we have the guidelines of let's say club licensing it's something that the FFA can look into that in a better position to make sure that it's implemented in our country and also from outside we will try our level best to see maybe we look into the issues of standardized contracts we have the CBS, we have also the NDRCs so I can say the four or five major points that at the moment you want to look into between the Kenya football and the FFA if we can have maybe two, three working then we can start from there and make sure that the welfare of the players are looked into Teri we have final submissions regarding the state of the game and what you seek to do to ensure that our football gets to another level I've seen I think a community from football Kenya Federation regarding our team and the starlets hitting the camp in preparation Yes, the under 18 Ya, just looking forward to it because last year we were in the cold I'm looking forward for that first international match whether it's under 18 I also know Vigia Queens will be representing us in the regional SEKAFA for the Champions League so ya, just looking forward to it because you see the game has grown even the level of football right now it's up there and we have so many players going pro which is a bad thing because we need to have the money here to pay them but yes I'm looking forward to it Jamu, your batting shots splinter groups as far as bodies to represent players how are you going to work to consolidate the same into one For us as Kenya football as well fairization we are always open minded and we believe if you have any idea that can champion for the welfare of the players you are welcomed, we come to share ideas we believe football we need everyone on board we can disagree to agree so I believe if we can be all in one basket we can champion for the welfare of the players so we welcome anyone we can give us guidance we believe that with more knowledge we can move this football to the next level Robas do of James Ituma alongside Terry Uko Kenya football as welfare association president and his vice chair person respectively joining us this particular afternoon to share their insights regarding what they are doing and what they continue doing to ensure that the better lives of our footballers and calling upon others to join hands to ensure that this comes to pass of course it's been on a short notice but I think it's something that we're going to be discussing and talking about as program proceeds to another level this was suggesting our producer that we need to introduce a segment where someone is coming to talk about the welfare of women in sports and Terry Uko is here I think Rob after this you can share and talk sidebar anyway the touchline the show still progresses and don't go away stay tuned remember tonight in Istanbul it's mouthwatering clutch meeting in Tamilan and sitting champions league finale where is your money keep talking to us don't go away stay tuned


For some of us from the media who began our careers, and we were at that cusp between 83 and 89, when large sections of our newspapers, even before the electronic channels came up, actually did the globalization dance even before any other sector did it. And the Times of India was responsible for this. And it was the mega corporation, which is today, and actually destroyed, on the one hand, security for jobs of journalists. And side by side, the independence and the integrity of journalists themselves. The point being that journalists, in one sense, and journalism actually was the epitome within India of what neoliberalism globalization can do to, on the one hand, take you completely down the consumerist path, dealing you from any base value of your profession and ideology, and do it in the name of actual independence and paying you better than stuff. So people didn't realize that actually delinking yourself from the Bombay Union of Journalists, the Delhi Union of Journalists, and the Indian Federation of Working Journalists were actually stopping, enabling you, protecting you from your job. And therefore you were much more vulnerable to the higher and higher policy, which many became victim stuff. You had telegraph, retrenching 700 people just two months ago, and in those times, retrenching 400 journalists. And you have very, very tragic stories with the media is not telling about what is happening to journalists who are being retrenched. I mean, they're setting pan on the streets, they're becoming casual laborers, and it's really a story that's not being told because the media is not there today to really tell a story. So I think it's very important to understand that a lot of what we see is happening with capital and the growth of the Hindutva right in India has also gone hand in hand with the state of the Indian media today. Because for me and for many of us who've been observing politics for the last 25, 30 years, 2008, 2009, was very critical, not just for the fact that there was a financial crisis worldwide, but it was the first vibrant Gujarat summit in January of 2009. First time you had kings of capital or kings of crony capital, if you like, not even capital. You were actually saying that here is our man who's PM-elect. He's prime ministerial material. And I don't think it's ever happened in Indian discourse before that you had so openly a crony capitalist class chose one man, not just one party, not just the RSS, but choosing one man from within the RSS to be the person that they want to head the country. And it was a journey up then, and I keep saying that therefore that 2007, 2008 period was very, very critical. Until then, even in the commercial electronic media, I don't think we should call it the national media. We should call it the commercial media. Very clearly, we should not use the term national media because they're not the national media. Until then, there were spaces. There were some spaces for decent discussion, decent debate that all went out of the window after 2007, 2008, his second electoral victory, and all of this also happening. Strangely, Modi phenomenon within the RSS and within Indian capital, the Modi phenomenon has also meant a contradiction within the RSS's core base, okay, which is the small business, which is your agarwal and your gupta who funds the shaka in Uttar Pradesh or in Madhya Pradesh or in Maharashtra, and suddenly this consolidation of capital into the hands of an Adani and an Ambani and a Tata. Even a Tata becomes a handymaiden of this politics. So how does this contradiction play out, and I don't think there's been enough work on this, and I think we really need to engage with this, even demonetization. You saw it happening, you saw the obvious hardship, and yet he was able to play a game, again with the help of a media to spin it in a different direction. So I don't think the victory of 2014 would have been possible without the capitalist media doing what it did. And even the particularly, I think the English media just riles us, but it's the Hindi media that's really doing the damage in terms of the numbers, and of course your WhatsApp and all these things which have been so well documented even in Nakul's film in Mozaffar Nagarbaki, et cetera, that what does that WhatsApp message do? How does it carry forward? It was playing a role even now in the Saranpur violence. So I think we need a little bit of work on this. We need to really look at this very carefully, that how is this consolidation of capital, which is what I want to come back to 2011 again, that period of the Gujarat model being sold as a national model. That you had a model of essentially high concentration capitalist finance being actually sold to the country as the development model for the country. You had a model of jobless growth being sold as the model for the country. And therefore on 28th August 2015, within a year and a few months of Modi coming to power, when you had a Hardik Patel coming out on the streets of Ahmedabad with no less than two lakh Patel youth, saying that we want jobs and we want reservations, I thought it was a very critical moment of understanding which we again lost because I'm not sure the Patels can get ever completely secularized overnight. They're a kind of community and a caste that has been within the power structure very close to the Hindutva right. Maybe they won't, but the issue, the fact that Patel youth are today saying that we are the victims of jobless growth was the most serious question visibly put to the Gujarat model which I think again we were not able to grab and understand. And for many of us who know Gujarat intimately and go there regularly quite apart from the very deep and painful communal polarization, the really tragic tale is the tale of labor. The state of labor in Gujarat is probably the most pathetic as in many parts of the country. You have labor bazaars every morning in the cities of Ahmedabad and Baroda where your markets where labor is sold. And this is not being documented. This is not being photographed. This is not being written about again because of the state of the media today. So I think these are some of the challenges we face because maybe unlike Erdogan and Trump as I'd like to posit, Modi started playing the poor card only after he was blamed for being a sootbootki sarkar and having a 10 lakh suit in January 2014, 2015 after Obama's visit. Before that he was clearly mocked Manurega. His pathetic words on the social work, rural works program of the previous government, it happened to be the previous government, it could have been any government. But his scathing words and Jetli's words on the kind of between most shameful legacy of the Congress had to be quickly retracted. But the point is that his now being portrayed as a man of the poor in the last one, one and a half years whereas that was not the case in the initial phase. So he was obviously compelled to make that shift and change maybe after the elections and the Bihar elections. But I think these are some of the issues that we need to very intimately grapple with because we know that the other issues which kind of are getting hidden today because of the state of the commercial media in the country. Big success of our opposition in October 2014 when they managed to stem the ordinance on land which was meant to overturn the 2013 act. But within months of that, when Maharashtra first, Rajasthan second, Gujarat third and Jharkhand actually get far worse state legislations in all BJP governments, RSS governments when they actually get state legislations that are far worse, you don't really have a national political oppositional argument to the fact that they've actually achieved through the concurrent list of the constitution. What you're saying the constitution doesn't always need to be changed because you have the concurrent list and they've done it through that route. So we are faced also with a non-slot on the economic front and the social front, a kind of assault on social harmony, attack on minorities, the shocking lynchings that are, I mean what really bothers many of us is that you had after a clerks lynching a national outrage. Today we have a national norm, a national norm that lives very comfortably with the lynchings and that brings me back to my favorite little story about the media is the complete collapse of big journalism. And I think that is one of the biggest losses that the media has suffered. And I think I'd like to, Lord Newstlick and many of us others were trying to, in some fashion bring back, for instance, the labor beat, say into the consciousness of our reader or our viewer, but what does the labor beat mean? What does the court beat mean? What does the university beat mean? What does the agrarian beat mean? What does the poverty beat mean? It means that consistently looking at these areas of the political economy, consistently, analytically, and bringing you stories in an interesting format to be able to showcase them, to bring them. So I think that is what I think is important to also remember today in what all of us are trying to do in different ways with the media. And Praveed keeps on saying, we should not call ourselves the alternate media. We should say we are the media. We are trying to set the agenda for what the media should be. Why should we call ourselves media?