Welcome back to the Archery Dangle Cave, everyone. We've got a rainy day here. It's the perfect day to sit in the Archery Dangle Cave and work on a bow. And what we're going to be doing today is taking a bow that's fresh out of the box, bare-bowed, nothing on it, feels so good, feels so light, and just take this thing and turn it into a bow that is hunt-ready. We've got a brand new, literally just dropped from the last couple days, brand new bow from Bow Tech. So I'm going to show you this bow, and I'm going to show you this bow too that's brand new, that we have already set up and it is ready to hunt. So let's turn one like this, just out of the package, into one like this. So any new bow that you get from any brand these days is going to shoot really nice. They're all great. I really like Bow Tech because they're easy to tune for me. I understand it, I get it. I'm not an expert and I want easy. The first thing that you should do and I would recommend is go to a bow shop and get them to set up your bow. If you have the time, if you've got a bow shop close by, that's probably the best thing that you can do. I like to learn how to set up my bows myself and work on things because sometimes when you're out in the middle of nowhere, you need to know how to do these things if something goes wrong and also you can always have your bow ready to go.  I don't have a rest on me right now, so we're going to head to our local bow shop and we're going to get a rest. So let's go. All right, we got our stuff. It's raining out here. Let's get back to the cave. All right, we're back from the bow shop and it's just flooding out there. We've got our rest and it up going with the ripcord lock. This is limb driven. I like the limb driven rest. Just a lot less problems. That can happen and it's easy to set up on your own. Also got a nose button and this is going to be key here shortly. We'll get to that. And I got some, I got some Illuminox just because I was running low. So this bow actually came set at 29.   I'm going to unscrew those and just twist that disc until it lines up on 29.5. Very simple to do. I kind of go in between 29 and 29.5. It just depends on the bow, you know, how it feels to me, but this last bow I set up on 29.5 it seemed to, I really settled in nicely using my release with that, using the thumb release. So we don't even need to press. The only reason we would need to press is if the strings are getting in the way, which they're not, so we can actually do that right here without putting it in a press at all. We got the draw length adjusted. Now I'm just going to triple check that I've got both of these adjusted at the same exact draw length, 29.5. All right, we're dead even. Now it's time to put on the rest. Do not pull rest down past level. Do not take rest apart for any issues. Call Ripcord. All right, thank you for that. Make that nice and obvious for the layman's like myself. I like that. Simple setup, but there is a very important step we need to not forget. We've got our bolt right here. That's going to go through this big hole. There's another small little Allen screw right there. Doesn't have a top cap, all right? It just fits in to these holes right here. I'm going to put it through the middle. I'm going to go ahead and get that started. That is going to secure our sight from twisting on us, which will change our arrow flight. So I'm just using my bench vise. But inside of my vise, I put little wooden blocks and some leather straps on top of that so it's not harming the bow. We want to make sure that we do these steps slowly, precisely, and carefully so that when it comes to arrow tuning, it's going to be a walk in the park. I'm just getting dead level with my eye. Okay, that looks good. Just a double check here, make sure we're good. I'm going to level out my bow on the riser. And then I'm also going to put a level on the rest mount. It looks like we need to go up. That looks pretty daggone close. So now we'll take that little Allen screw, tighten that up. Make sure that's not going to move.  That looks plumb. That's a plum humdinger. Now I can tell just looking behind the bow at the bow string that it is not lined up properly. So this one has a little micro-adjust, so I'm just moving this over to the left. I know four and a half is going to be pretty close compared to my other bows. All right, that looks pretty good to start. We'll get a better idea once we put an arrow in there, but I just moved it off the factory settings to kind of line up, get behind it, line it up and get it looking decent to the eyeball. The next thing that I like to do is put an arrow on the string and see where it's going to line up with these holes. So I want my arrow, so I'm using a small diameter, micro-diameter, arrow. I want it to line up directly in the middle of those two holes, and that's going to determine my knocking point. Now there's a factory speed knock on here. I'm going to ignore that. That might line up true. Might not. I can already tell you that's lining up on that speed knock pretty well, so it's going to be pretty close. It definitely doesn't always work out this way, but it just happens to turn out. The factory speed knock, that's just where they test an arrow and fling it and get the speed and all that. It is digging and perfectly aligning with the holes in the riser, and my arrow, I've got a little level on here, and that's looking pretty daggum level. So what I will do is instead of having the brass speed knock, I like to tie some serving on there as a placeholder for my knock to go, and then I'll tie the D loop just over that. So I'll take this off and I will put some serving there, and then I'll tie the D loop over that serving, and then right below here on the bottom. Another little step here, I just took a silver sharpie and I marked where my knock should be located. So I just colored that in right below that speed knock. So I'm going to take that off now, and I'll tie that serving right where that speed knock is, just above the silver sharpie. I'm not pressing the bow, I'm just using this to hold it in place. Give me a nice angle to tie this little knocking point in the D loop. Taking our time on all these steps, so the tuning is going to go smoothly. I'm just waxing up a piece of serving right here. I'm going to tie this just above three wraps, that ought to fit nicely. That looks really good. Take some pliers on both sides, lock it baby down. All right, now for the D loop. There's tons of videos online that have a ton of D loops. I'm showing you guys how I set up my bows the way I like them. But you can set them up any way you want. Everybody's a little different, likes a little something different. The main thing is whatever you feel comfortable with and makes you consistent. I'm not going to lie to you, every time I get to this step, I usually have to reference another bow of mine or go watch a video to make sure I'm doing these wraps exactly right. I'm going to look at my other bows, make sure I'm doing this the right way. A little rhyme to remember. First loop towards me, second loop towards the opposite side of the bow. Now we'll do a little snip here, flatten that out. Now you could just use a regular set of pliers on this. We can use some D loop pliers. I'm actually not sure if these will work the way I'm setting this up. That's about three quarters of an inch. That's where I like them. So that's where I like to set mine up. There's just a tiny bit of play. So when that string goes back, it's going to pinch. I always want to make sure it's pushed up that way before I draw back. Now we got our D loop tied on. We've got our rest all level. Everything's level. Next thing that we're going to do is put on a sight. I'm actually just going to take this off an older bow.  There's something about their pins. I don't know what they put in them. I don't know what they do, but those pins are really bright. It's a little lighter sight. It's just very solid. I've been very pleased that as I'm getting older, I'm setting up my bows single pin or a dual track that I'll show you guys on my other bow that I like. But I think I like the single pin the best. I'm focusing on the deer, and I'm not or whatever it is, and I'm not looking through a peep. So instead of looking through the string and honing in on that pin, I'm looking at the animal. And the pin is just kind of there. It's out of focus. And I want it to be very bright. So it shows up very well in my out of focus, basically. I like shooting that way. Shooting both eyes open. I can keep my vision on the target. And that way, if I can see how I hit the animal better, I can see where it goes. There's just more detail I pick up after the shot instead of kind of squinting, looking at that pin and having the animal be semi-blurry. So that's the way I like to shoot. This is how I'm setting up my bow for me. I'm not necessarily showing you guys how you should set up your bows. Everyone's different, like I said. So we'll just take this off, and then we will put it right onto our new bow. Now I'm going to level out the bow. First thing I'm going to do is just make sure that that string is just sitting dead level, up and down with the earth. And then I'm going to shift the bow over a little bit to get this bubble dead center. So we're straight up and down this way. Then we're going to make sure we're straight this way. Now if you guys have never put on your own bow sight, don't be intimidated by it. You can do it. If I can do this, I promise you, you can do it. The bow shop is going to do it better. But if you want to do it yourself or something online, that's great. You need to have a level or preferably a couple of levels. Now I'm going to recommend something.  Really the only thing that I use now is the arrow level. They're very cheap. Like I said, they do OK. But the company Hamsky makes some really good products. And I got one of these for working on my bows this year. And it is a major difference. And it also helps you when you get to that third axis adjustment, which that can be confusing. This tool makes it pretty simple to do. I'll have this in my Amazon store below. You can get one if you want. Give me some points. But it's the Hamsky Gen 2 Pro. And it really allows you to do the first, second, and third. So instead of using this little string level, I've got the Hamsky on the string. Because I've just found comparing the two and putting other levels on, which I highly recommend having another little level, simple home tools. Put it on there as well, on your flat spots, on your riser. Just check, check, check. Make sure everything's level, level. Do not rush this process. The big difference in not taking your time on this and then really taking your time is your broad heads flying like your field points. That's the goal. That's what you want. So if you do all these steps right, you shouldn't have to mess with tuning your bow very much from your field points to your broad heads. OK. I feel really good about that. Now I'm going to take the string level off or take the Hamsky off the string. And I'm going to set it right here on the site itself. OK. Now our string is level, level all the way around. Now we're going to adjust our first axis, which is going to be right here. We're going to loosen these top and bottom screws. Now that the site frame is level, I'm just going to tighten these up and make sure that they are not going to move as I'm tightening. Make sure the bubble doesn't move. Sometimes when you put torque on them, they can shift around. To the first axis, we're looking good. All right. Now second axis is going to be the bubble on the site housing itself. So on the black gold to adjust this, I'm just loosening these two screws ever so slightly. I'm going to slide my wrench in here and just kind of torque it a little bit. There we go. Now we're level on our second axis. Now we can tighten that up. I'm just going to shift the tool this way on the housing. So on the third axis, we just want to make sure leaning the bow down at a 45 that everything lines up, bubble to bubble. It does. Now that will actually change on most bows when you draw them back. So on the Hamsky tool, there's a rod right here that you can align with a vertical line at a 45 on your draw. And then you can make the third axis adjustment. Now that we got our rest set up on our limb, we've got our sight, we've got our D loop, knocking point. It's time to pull back the bow for the first time. That's pretty exciting. Yeah, every bow is different. They all feel a little bit different. And I may not hit the target, so I'm going to choose one of my lesser arrows for this. We'll get a feel for this draw cycle, make sure length and everything feels pretty good. Yep, draw length feels good. Boy, that came off on a hair trigger right there. I'm going to have to get used to that. Oh, I got to shoot that again. Definitely high, so we're going to have to move this up. All right, one more shot right here. And actually, our windage looks pretty good. It sits on there. Yeah, our windage is almost perfect. The back wall on this bow just feels really good to me. It's a little heavier to start this bow. The core SS, which stands for super smooth, obviously a little smoother all the way through the draw. The brace height on this is just so low that it just pushes that energy all the way to the last second. So I've got a chronograph. I'm going to be interested to see the speed between this bow and the core SS. Back to the cave, let's get her dialed. Paper tuning. This is the most important step, in my opinion, when you get a bow and you dial it in is to make sure that arrow is flying straight. But this is the simplest way I have found at my garage, at my place to do this. I've done it inside the garage, but using just the garage door and clamping some paper, make sure it's not super windy, which we've got a nice calm day, we're good. I put a couple of clamps at the bottom for some weight and I'm going to be sitting on a bucket and I'm shooting at a target right here. You want to make sure that your target is enough distance away from your paper that your arrow can fly all the way through and just make sure you don't have anything back there. I've already moved my wife's car. Make sure there's not another person, another house, anything like that, if you're going to do this. So the whole goal here is to get a bullet hole. So let me take you inside here. We'll face this way, fling an arrow. One more step that I'll mention. Before this, take your set of calipers. You can use a ruler, but calipers are the best. And just measure the distance on the front of your riser to the back, where your rest is, and measure it to the arrow. And just make sure it's the exact same distance. That way, you're on a great starting point with your arrow being straight lined up with your string. We'll make sure we have a good release. We knocked our target over, but we've already got a perfect bullet hole. I was actually hoping for something a little less perfect than that, so I could show you guys the tuning and the deadlock system that is on the Votek. Just so you know, for tuning this, you can get left, right, up and down.  The windage, or left and right, you can adjust that by dialing the deadlock system, and that's moving the cam side to side. I'm gonna shoot one more time just to make sure, but that is a bullet hole, first try. And I gotta tell you, the let off on this bow, compared to the Core SS, it is major difference. And I love it, because that's how my CP-28 was. Had a ton of let off, and I just, I'm just not as jumpy. I'm not as jumpy with my release. Don't have to put as much back tension. That always helps, so now I'm thinking, ooh, I might be hunting with this bow instead of the Core SS. Took four shots, two are perfect bullet holes, couple are almost perfect. This bow is speaking to me. I'm vibing. I am vibing with this bow. I don't know. To see what I like about both bows right now, this bow just feels good to me. It always helps when you fire a bullet hole in the first shot too. That's saying something. All right, nose button time. Now, this is probably where, I'm probably gonna get the most comments in the video, and it's, why are you not using a peep? Without a question, using a peep, you are going to be more accurate. No question, but as I already stated, I can't see as good as I used to, especially through a small diameter peep. I just don't enjoy shooting through a peep as well. Obstructs my vision as far as looking at the animal. So the best way for me to have a reference point, obviously my anchor, okay, that's one, and then having a reference on the string. I could just put my nose right on the string, but sometimes it could be up, it could be a little bit down, just depending. And that little bit of difference for each of my nose up and down could make a huge difference on target. So I have to be consistent. With a nose button, there is no question. Like this thing actually hurts a little bit. Like if you dig it in to your nose, so I know I'm on the exact spot I need to be, and that is keeping everything in line. Now when I'm first putting this on, I'm not going to tie it in very good just yet. All right, now that that's on there, got kind of a hold on it, we'll draw back and then I'll move it around. That let off is insane. I'm just gonna take a little red Sharpie and mark it top and bottom where it needs to be. There we go. Okay, so once I got it set and I got my marks, I actually took the, just the simple little square knot out. I'm gonna slide it down exactly where I had it marked. And I put a finishing knot on here. And this is, I think it's called a constricting knot. And that will literally constrict around this thing when I cinch it up. It is really tight. And then we will put a stop knot on top just to make sure we don't lose our place. Okay, one little side end session before the sun goes down. We're a little high and right. Yeah, we're very, very close. We'll take a look at that. Maybe just a touch high. Touch high, maybe a click or two to the right. That's it guys. We'll go ahead and tie that stop knot in for our nose button. We'll be good to go for the tomorrow morning. We'll get the final side in and get our sight tape put on, get our speed and everything. Well, we're back at it again. It's another soggy one too. So a couple little adjustments this morning, just on the sight and boom, we got two shots right in the center at 20. Pretty darn close. That's what we're looking for to continue the process. I just had a curiosity. I'm going to put the chrono on here. So the core SS was running right around 275. And my sight tape that I used, I ran from shot at 20 yards, 60 yards, measured the distance on the sight, mashed it up on the sight tape and that ended up being 289.5. This is a really cheap chrono, so I don't know if it's off or what, but I like to go with the actual shooting, the distance 20 and 60. I just think it's more consistent. But I am interested to see which bow is going to chrono faster. IBO speed doesn't really mean that your bow is going to shoot that fast. 272.4, very comparable. Very comparable to core SS. At core SS, like it just feels like the fastest bow I've ever shot. Just looking at it, especially shooting both eyes open. I'm like, Godly, I can barely track that arrow. Just getting to the target so quick. One more here, 271. So this bow is just a few feet per second slower, but the let off is insane. So I just feel like that core SS, it just, boom, it's a surprise shot. It's a quicker bow, definitely a quicker bow, but this one, I just feel more comfortable with it. So if we're doing the math on the sight tapes, basically adding around 10 feet per second to what the sight tape is, that's going to be around 282. 282, somewhere around there. I'm guessing is what our sight tape is going to be. So we'll keep that number in mind. We'll actually shoot out to 60 now, and then we'll measure those marks and make the comparison. So what I added when I got to 20 yards, I tied one of those constrictor knots at the top of my nose button, so that way it won't slide past that. I know that's where it needs to be. And my sight is in the highest position. So this is going to be a default for me, 20 yards all the way up. That's 20. And I'm going to mark that as precise as I can. All right, so I got my pencil mark on there. Now we're just going to move down. I'm going to go ahead and dial it a little bit, where I think 30 is probably, probably about right there. We'll shoot 30 and we'll just keep moving this down till we get 60 where it needs to be. And then we'll put a mark right there and measure the distance between the two with a sight tape. That was exactly 30. So we'll just keep bumping down where I think 40 is. Keep working back. Keep going. I'm going to move some of this brush out of the way. Should be pretty close to 60 right here. All right, let's go check it out. Okay, we were a little low. So I'm just going to bump the sight down a little bit. Should be pretty close. Just a scotch low. Just going to take another shot to confirm. Yeah, just a little bit low. Both of those. Just another little bump. I feel like I kind of pulled that shot. Yep, we're a little high right there. So I'm going to go back. I'm going to do one more round. I think we're going to be set. So it took it like a 10 minute break, came back and shot a couple of times. Feel good about the consistency. So now it's time to match up our sight tape. Now the Chrono 272, I feel like it's going to be anywhere from five to 10 more feet per second faster. That's kind of how my other though ended up. So we'll just check the sight tapes and see what matches exactly. And we'll just, we'll start at my guesstimate here, 279. That is very close. 280.5 seems to be it. We'll try, we'll try 282. I think that's going to be a little off. All right, 280.5 it is. So for final tests, we're just going to set ourselves up at a odd distance and check the dial right at 30, 30 would be fine. Make sure this is good. And then we will test the broad head.  Make sure we're ready for the woods. Good to go, captain on that one. Just to make sure, I'm still, I'm hitting a little left, I'm noticing. Still got some fine tuning to do there, but I want to make sure that my broad head is, is going in that general direction, really darn close to where that last arrow that I just shot is. I'm going to pull the arrow because I've definitely shot arrows with the broad heads right after and ruined the fletchings. In this case, my feathers on the other arrow or run the arrow itself.  Iron will 125. Here we go. Just hear that thing zinging. It looks to be just to the left, right where our last arrow went, pretty much exactly. So I just need to adjust my sight over to the left to dial that in, but the broad heads fill points are flying the same. So guys, this bow is done. Carbon 1X feeling ready to get some. This is the big decision I need to make. Am I going to stick with the core SS or am I going to go to the Carbon 1X? This one, I'm shooting it right now and it just, it is smoother. It just doesn't have the lead off. The shot break just feels better. I got to get one and stick with it though because there's little differences that make my accuracy will change my accuracy. I'm just, I'm sort of dialed with this one because I've been shooting it for weeks now. Both bows are set up and ready to hunt guys. I think I'm going to go with this one just because I've been shooting with it more and they just both feel really great. But both the core SS and the Carbon 1X, they're great bows. One thing I will point out on the core SS, if you guys are interested in these bows, this does have the new center mass mounting system for the sight, which is really cool. You know, it puts it into the frame of the bow instead of attaching it off to the right side or left side, just depending on which way you shoot. Just adds more stability. I think it's more solid. I like that a lot. So that's one of the differences. They both have the time lock, both have the deadlock obviously. And they're both set up the same. Everybody's got their preferences on bow setups. That's just mine. I like mine very simple, good and low light and in particular to my eyesight and the way I like to shoot. My arrows, I'm shooting the VAP TKOs. I'm shooting 125 green iron wheel broad heads. And then I'm using feathers as my fletching. So different strokes for different folks, but I have found that the feathers fly really well.  So you can kind of shoot through brush and they're a little bit lighter. So your arrow will change weight a little bit and get a little better FOC on there. So thank you guys for tuning in to this bow build, stay tuned for next video. Next couple of videos, we're gonna be doing some white tail hunting. Gonna take one of these and probably gonna take a traditional bow as well and get after some white tail deer and do some harvesting. Can't wait. So thank you guys for being here. Thumbs up, smash it and I'll see ya on the next one.


This video briefly explains how the Mandro doctrine became the justification for American unilateralism and Interventions in Latin America and I'll use some of the recent developments in Venezuela as an example to explain January 10 2019 several heads of state including the presidents of Cuba Nicaragua Bolivia Nel Salvador Attended the swearing-in ceremony of Nicolás Maduro for his second term as the president of Venezuela However, many nations including the United States did not recognize Maduro as a legitimate leader and nearly two weeks later on January 23rd President Trump recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the legitimate president and in March 2019 in an interview with national security adviser John Bolton CNN's Jake Tapper asked him why President Trump opposes Maduro when he has close ties to authoritarian Governments in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE Listen to John Bolton's response See as broad a coalition as we can put together to replace Maduro to replace the whole corrupt regime That's what we're trying to do. Well, certainly Maduro is nobody that I would defend in any way Well, that's good to hear but do you do not see that the United States support for other brutal dictators around the world undermines the The credibility of the argument you're making no I don't think it does. I think it's separate and I think look in this administration We're not afraid to use the phrase Monroe doctrine. This this is a country in our hemisphere It's been the objective of American presidents going back to Ronald Reagan to have a completely democratic hemisphere I mentioned back in late at the end of last year that we're looking very much at the troika of tyranny Including Cuba and Nicaragua as well as Maduro part of the problem in Venezuela is the heavy Cuban presence 20 to 25,000 Cuban security officials by reports that have been in the public that this is the sort of thing that that we find unacceptable The doctrine that Bolton cited dates back to the presidency of James Monroe the fifth president of the United States In his annual message to Congress in December 1823 President Monroe for warned European nations against interfering in the affairs of newly independent Latin American nations This portion of the address about use foreign affairs is known as the Monroe doctrine Although the statements were made by president Monroe The policy was actually drafted by John Quincy Adams who was a secretary of state and this declaration of policy towards Europe did not Become known as the Monroe doctrine until 1850 President Monroe's annual address included several paragraphs about foreign policy in the Western hemisphere Many contemporary American newspapers published the entire text of the president's speech as well as analytical articles about foreign affairs For the most part newspaper articles praise the president's statements on foreign affairs But to understand how the Monroe doctrine became the symbol of American hegemony in the Western hemisphere We must look at some of the events that prompted such a declaration First the war of 1812 It was an unusual war and there are at least four distinct versions of it the British the American the Canadian and the Native American version Although the war of 1812 was part of a larger European conflict the United States became involved in a war against Britain This was America's second and last war against Britain and it echoed many of the issues and ideologies of the American Revolution The war ended in a stalemate on the battlefield and in December 1815 under the mediation of the Russian czar Britain and the United States Negotiated the terms of peace and sign the Treaty of Ghent This peace treaty did not resolve the maritime issues that caused the war Instead it merely provided for returning to the state that existed before the war The treaty contained nothing to suggest that the United States had achieved its goals While there were no concrete gains for the United States the war of 1812 Produced a new generation of American generals and propelled four men to the presidency James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison The war also boosted American self-confidence and encouraged American expansionism Second in 1821 the Russians are proclaimed that all the area north of the 51st parallel and extending 100 miles into the Pacific would be off limits to non-Russians Americans became very wary of Russian expansion southward from Alaska towards Oregon and John Quincy Adams refused to accept this claim Eventually in 1824 the Russians and Americans managed to settle this dispute to their mutual satisfaction Third in Central and South America revolutions against Spanish rule had been underway for some time President Monroe feared that Spain would try to reclaim sovereignty in Latin America Meanwhile, the British were interested in ensuring the demise of Spanish colonialism and mercantilism in order to promote British industrial development Britain wanted access to Latin American markets for its goods. In fact, British Foreign Secretary George Canning Formerly proposed that Britain and the United States unite on a joint warning to deter Europeans from intervening in Latin America Although President Monroe and Adams recognized that mercantilism posed an obstacle to economic expansion the United States opposed cooperation with Great Britain and Adams noted that the British were not committed to recognizing the new Latin American Republics and suspected that the British had Imperial motivations themselves Adams this contended that joint action with Britain could eventually limit American influence and economic growth in Latin America Who consulted with former presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who urged him to cooperate with Great Britain? But eventually President Monroe followed the advice of John Quincy Adams and laid out an independent course for the United States President Monroe outlined three main concepts of the doctrine that were designed to signify a clear break Between the New World and Europe one separate spheres of influence for the Americas and Europe to Non-colonization and three non intervention The bilateral statement proposed by the British ultimately became a unilateral declaration by the United States President Monroe stated that the Western Hemisphere was henceforth close to further European colonization Monroe outlined two separate spheres of influence the Americas and Europe The independent lands of the Western Hemisphere would be solely the domain of the United States If a European nation tried to control or interfere in the affairs of a nation in the Western Hemisphere The United States would view it as a hostile act in Exchange the United States pledged to avoid involvement in European affairs The United States pledged to recognize and avoid interference in the existing European colonies in the Western Hemisphere The Monroe doctrine met with tacit British approval The British Royal Navy enforced it as part of the wider Pax Britannica to secure neutrality of the seas and This was in line with the developing British policy of laser fare against mercantilism Outside the United States President Monroe's policy did not attract much attention because the United States Was not powerful enough to enforce it in the early 19th century However in 1865 the Monroe doctrine was invoked to support Mexican President Benito Juarez To lead a successful revolt against Emperor Maximilian who had been appointed by the French government The Monroe doctrines greatest extension came with the Roosevelt corollary in 1904 Which announced that henceforth European nations would not be allowed to use force to collect debts or to them by Latin American nations Teddy Roosevelt promptly proclaimed the right of the United States to exercise an international police power to curb such wrongdoing As a result US Marines were sent into Santa Domingo in 1904 Nicaragua in 1911 and Haiti in 1915 to keep Europeans out and most recently in March 2019 John Bolton invoked the Monroe doctrine to extend support to Juan Guaidó So who is Venezuela's leader Is it Nicolá Maduro the man who's ruled since the death of Hugo Chavez six years ago Or is it the opposition leader Juan Guaidó who declared himself caretaker president and swore to end what he calls a dictatorship The United States and Canada were quick to back. Mr. Guaidó along with Brazil Argentina and Colombia It all comes as Venezuela's long political and economic crisis Grimes on the economy is in free fall In recent years millions of Venezuelans have given up hope and left the country With huge crowds on the streets of Caracas this all feels like the most serious threat. Mr. Maduro has ever faced Of course, he has been through some of this before there were months of street protests in 2014 and again in 2017 each time the authorities cracked down Thousands were arrested and scores killed But the pressures which drove people onto the streets before have all got worse the shortages the hyperinflation The sense that Venezuela is falling apart The other difference is the international reaction America has warned the authorities that all options are on the table if they resort to violence Canada says the Maduro government is now a dictatorship and the EU is calling for the start of a political process That leads to free and credible elections Russia has accused the west of gross interference and of course a long history of US involvement in Latin America May mean that Washington has to tread carefully Will Mr. Maduro simply tough it out again as he has before all eyes are on the military if they remain loyal Then another bloody crackdown is likely if they follow Juan Guaidó then Mr. Maduro's days are numbered And if they're divided then as well as crisis could get a whole lot worse


There is a new YouTube feature called premieres that will help you get more views where you can live chat with your audience without doing a live stream, just a regular video upload. Here's how it looks. Before you start uploading a video, choose Scheduled here. Then you click this Premier button and you will be able to choose when your video will premiere. This is a future date because your audience will be able to chat with you as soon as this date and time happens as if it was a live stream. Now it's not a live stream, it is a regular video, but you'll be watching it together. It's premiering, think of it like a movie that's premiering for the very first time. A lot of people come together to watch it in a movie theater except this is on YouTube. I will use this in my next video so you and I can watch that video together and chat while it's playing. Are you using premieres on your channel? Have you noticed an increase in your viewership or your watch time or subscribers after doing so? Tell us down there in the comments below your experiences so we can all help each other grow together as a family, the freedom family. That is the spirit of freedom. Channel memberships are another new feature that some of you have enabled on your channel. Just go to your creator studio and do you see this channel memberships under community? If so, you can turn on a donation system where people pay you roughly five US dollars a month as a donation for your loyal fans. Now to enable this, you first have to go to your channel status and features page and click this little, I'll hide myself, enable button next to channel memberships. After you click it, you will be shown the ways that you can turn on channel memberships and how you specify your loyalty badges, what perks you offer to your monthly subscribers. Are you using channel memberships on your channel? Same as before, tell us down there in the comments below your experiences so we can all help each other grow together as a family. Are there any other YouTube features that you enjoy using? Anything that helps you grow that may help other people grow if you tell us how you use them? Share your best practices down there in the comments below. For example, for me, I always after uploading a video post an article on LinkedIn, not just a post. LinkedIn now lets you blog. They have a full editor that lets you upload a photo and put in all of the paragraphs including embedding videos. And I find that helps me get more views. Do you use LinkedIn as a means to promote your videos? Tell us down there in the comments below if you do. Now let's read some of your deserving comments freedom family. Yes, I still do that. Double your subscribers. Remember this video? Click that I in case you missed it. It's an older video but still very relevant and still getting lots of comments. The latest comment from two days ago from customized is an introduction to Tyler who started his channel on the 8th of January 2015 at the age of 14. He is now 18 but it really hasn't been easy for him to gain subscribers on YouTube and he's currently at 194. Tell us down there in the comments below if you're in a similar boat. Do you know what customized is talking about? Check out this video in the eye up there and read the other comments to inspire you, help you discover what you need to do to keep going to never give up. And the best way is to collaborate with other YouTubers. Collaboration is the fastest way to grow on YouTube. And since all of these people are sharing their YouTube stories here, why not do the same and reach out to them and ask if they would like to collaborate with you. Another comment was beneath this video. Two million USD late payments explained. Click that I in case you didn't see when we paid two million dollars one week late and why. Kratos Orion plays asked. By the way, any updates on that George? What is that at 730? This. My goal is to build freedom into an IPO company, something we can put on the Nasdaq stock exchange in the future. Remember our goal announced four years ago is to go IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange when we hit a hundred million annual US dollars in revenue. That is still our goal and we've made progress towards it. Freedom as a company now earns 30 million annual revenue each year. That's what YouTube pays us. And we've restructured our company from a single Hong Kong company now to a Cayman Islands holding company that owns the Hong Kong company as well as our Singapore company for crypto mining. We will continue consolidating revenues like this in the holding company so the numbers look bigger and the IPO happens sooner. Kratos Orion plays also commented on this video. I know I'm a little late, but I hope you're enjoying Dubai George. Let's play the clip. We just arrived at Robe Healthcare City, our hotel where we will be staying for the next few days. That's Dubai. It's not a desert, even though it's in the desert. And that's a free play Pac-Man machine in the hotel we stayed at when we first arrived in Dubai. Click that I to see all the videos I made while in Dubai as part of the freedom experience. It's a tax reduction strategy to help people who pay a lot of money in taxes pay zero tax because that is the environment in Dubai. It's a zero income tax environment where the government doesn't charge you on a percentage of your income. Instead, they charge you fixed fees on basically anything you want to do with your company, including visas for tourists, including employee visas, including just registering your company. Everything is based on a fixed fee model here in Dubai instead of a percentage of your income. That's a much better model, I think, but very few countries in the world do it. Cayman Islands, since I mentioned that earlier this video, is another country that offers a zero tax environment, but they don't have a YouTube space. The difference between Dubai and Cayman Islands is there's a YouTube space here in Dubai, only one of 10, 10 in the world. And it's about 30 minutes away from where we are living. Let's talk to Underdog. The next comment is by underdogLQ22 or IQ22. Remember when you ran from authorities during a major lawsuit? Hmm, I think I would remember that. I have no idea what you're talking about. Please tell me down there in the comments below in case you know something I don't know. The only time I remember there was an issue was when I exited Broadband TV. If you remember, I founded TGN and built it up and sold it to Broadband TV exiting in 2012. Then I moved to the Philippines to start Freedom. Why the Philippines? Because it's a low cost base for starting new businesses. English is everywhere, rent is cheap, food is cheap, staff is cheap, everything is cheap except the internet. That you actually have to pay more than in Vancouver, Canada or most places in the world. You may underdog IQ122 have thought my moving to the Philippines is running away. So first of all, there wasn't a major lawsuit. It was a negotiated exit from BBTV and sale of TGN. And I didn't run away. I moved because this was a better place to start my next venture which is Freedom. And as you know, Freedom has become very successful in the five years since then. That's right, Freedom is almost five years old. On December 1st, 2018, Freedom will turn five. I'm curious, what is your YouTube age? How old are you by when you're born is when you upload your first video on YouTube. So Freedom's age is five. So we can all chat together. I'm looking forward to that. And if it goes well, I'll do that for every single video I upload. Because why not if it helps us grow? Let's use the tools to help us grow faster. Who am I, Freedom Family? I'm a little sick, George. I've had a cold all week. So that's my excuse for not making a video for a whole week. I'm still a little sick. Maybe you can hear my raspy voice. But I needed to make this video. It's Sunday and it's now 2 a.m. exactly on the dot here in Dubai, local time. I will now edit this video and upload it to you so you can enjoy it on your Sunday. And of course, I hope to make more videos soon during the week. Tell me down there in the comments below what kind of videos you would like to see. Do you want to see more of me reading YouTube comments? Do you want to see more videos about YouTube features and how to use them to grow faster? Do you want to have more news about freedom like it's plans for IPO and it's corporate structure with different companies for different purposes? Do you know we have a separate company for game development? We are making custom games. And you didn't know that? Click that I to meet our studio head Dave Frackia, who came to us from Activision. He used to be the studio head of Radical Entertainment, which is part of Activision before joining us full-time in April 2018, just six months ago. And we also have Music Factory, which is our music production and publishing service for all of you artists. Click that I to see the official Music Factory channel that has the music that's free for you to use. And it'll always be free. We can make that 100% guarantee why? Because we own that music outright. We hired the composers that created those tracks. So they'll never be an issue with you getting a monetization, claim or strike in the future, as other music may change licensing. And we can only make that guarantee for the music we own outright. So Music Factory is not our company yet. It is just a brand and in the future we may incorporate it when the time is right. Do you have any other questions, anything else I can answer in future videos? You know the drill? Tell me down there in the comments below. So I am George... Wait, no, who am I? I am... I am tired and I don't even know my own outro. I am George, CEO and founder of Freedom! For Freedom and the Freedom Family! Okay, that voice is not behaving for that type of emotional speech. So I'll just tone it down and say... Hope you enjoyed this video. More coming soon. Keep safe and you've been watching! Freedom Family so we can all grow together. You get many perks like position music, you also get Epidemic Sound, a lot of other access to royalty free videos, sponsorships, and many things to help you grow. Just click the links down there in the description below to get involved in our community, our forums, our Discord chat servers, meet our graphics team, meet our community team, all of that on Discord and the forums. What are you waiting for? Get started. And we will grow together as a family because this is the Freedom Family. 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You know, I started my career giving free talks, doing lunch and learns for 15 people, you know, in a break room, but you need to do that because once I could see that I could captivate those 15 people's attention during lunch, then I could slowly, incrementally earn my way onto bigger stages. So we need to put ourselves in that position. If you're a brand new real estate agent, the chance of someone hiring you to list their $10 million mansion is probably lower, but that doesn't mean that you won't get there. Earn your stripes on, you know, smaller condos and townhouses and homes that cost $150,000 and see yourself be able to over deliver in value and then you will earn your way kind of up that ladder. Confidence also comes in our ability to keep our word to ourselves. If I tell myself that tomorrow morning I'm gonna wake up at six and go work out, if I wake up at six and I go work out, my confidence slowly increases because I kept that word to myself.


So she was the old PR and I am the new PR and then I open it and I'm like are you kidding? I don't even know who I am. Victoria's Secret fashion show is starting now Hey guys, it's December 4th, and I'm with Rachel. Hi And we're about to go to Brio for brunch with the old council and the new council So she was the old PR and I was am the new PR. Today is gonna be a Katie filled day And I don't think I'm gonna vlog that much We're gonna have a Christmas party at chapter tonight, and we just took our council pictures So I'm trying to look which one I want to upload to the Instagram What is your biggest piece of advice for me going into council? I feel like just be confident Just be confident in your position and I've never been to Brio for brunch. So I'm sad I'm like very curious what it's gonna be because I Know I've been there for dinner many times. It's so good. I love real way I did go for brunch one time. I feel like I Just don't know what I got. I think I just got like lunch though If you ask for fettuccine alfredo, they have it they have it, but it's not on their menu, and it's literally $10 I swear it's literally one time. So cheap. I was literally craving fettuccine alfredo It's my favorite pasta. Yeah, and I was on like I was like this is like for my birthday dinner I was looking at places to my birthday dinner, and I was like I'm going on a tiny restaurant And I want to get fettuccine alfredo, and I looked it up, and I was like why don't they have this? I know I didn't want to go there.  They really need a part on the web menu But it's so cheap and it literally is the best leftovers ever if you heat it up in the microwave It's probably like one of my favorite leftovers. It's like sounds weird, but like curious No, they're gonna have a brunch cuz yeah, I know I don't know I would just think you'd be like french toast or something Yeah, but I'd normally like never get like sweet things for like breakfast anymore Just cuz I feel like they make me feel a little bit more shitty, you know Yeah, then like eggs and stuff. So I stopped doing that, but yesterday I got a donut burger, so Okay, I literally every time I like think about going to brunch I always Like in my head and like I'm craving like eggs and like hash browns and like potatoes or whatever But then like every time I get to the menu. I'm like the french toast looks so good Yeah, I know I'll probably do that today I feel like you can never really go wrong with sweet things But eggs Benedict like a lot of people make it differently, and it doesn't taste as good as some people do so Like getting an omelet is just so simple that it's just like why am I paying for this? You know, I feel like I just never go wrong with like a waffle and like yeah, or like french toast or something Like I feel like eggs. I've been like let down. Yeah before it's like it doesn't even taste good Yeah, yeah, so Rio's and winter park and I was just here yesterday some places in winter park are like not that pretty But then like what past barier patch yesterday, and there were so many other stores that I never even saw I know like what the heck it's like so much bigger than I thought it was why you still work on park Oh, yeah, the candy shop. Yeah, and so it was like super fun working here and then But I worked like before like my the candy shop was like before briar patch So like sometimes I would go to like for Emma Don't know that way.  There So FaceTime trying everything, but I am on my way to the gym 8 30 in the morning I don't even know who I am waking up this early when I don't have class and don't have like much to do I feel like I have a lot of little things to do here and there for KD in my position But not really like anything like big events that I have to go to I do you want to edit a Main channel video today. Hopefully it'll be what I want for Christmas I didn't vlog yesterday that much, but I'm hoping to vlog a lot more today Charlotte wants to run to the gym and run back and I'm like you're great, but I said yes because I Feel like Gross like yesterday. I ate lunch at 12 I'm pretty sure I didn't eat anything like the whole day except for like ice cream at the Christmas party And then I just like I was never hungry for dinner, which obviously yeah The ice cream probably like ruined it, but I wasn't even hungry for ice cream So I don't know I just feel like gross all around like I feel like I don't even want to like eat sometimes because I just Don't feel that hungry. I just Over eat. So I really need to cut my portions down and start working out on the regular It's crazy that I'm going home on Saturday this coming Saturday. I'm going home. I feel like it's so close, but like I Have to pack up like everything because like, you know me I can't go home without my full closet and All of my equipment So I should probably start packing up now because that just sounds like torture Making these posters for tomorrow because I'm going to Pass out some mints with my sisters and kind of like wish everyone good luck with their finals from Capedata, of course So I'm just kind of putting glitter on them because that's like always a final touch for you I always get my posters printed at FedEx and it's so easy It's like 248 each which honestly isn't that bad because I'd rather spend the money and like not waste my time Making like a handmade one because I would take so much time So what I do is just like put a little bit of glitter on them just so that they can be like a little handmade I just make my graphics on Photoshop just the same way.  I like photoshopped her head on something that related to the dance competition And she like loved it a little too much glitter on that one I'm so sad because I went to brunch yesterday and I got a Chini Alfredo and I had so much leftovers So everyone had like their leftovers or whatever and I specifically put mine like on top of my bag So I wouldn't get it mixed up. I ended up taking home someone else's pasta So I'm really upset because like I was literally craving it all day I like was waiting to eat for so long because I was like, okay, you know what? That's like a lot of carbs. I'm gonna like wait. It's gonna be such a good meal It's gonna be so worth it and then I open it and I'm like, are you kidding me? And I don't know how that happened because I literally made it a point to like put it in my bag Away from everyone else's but whatever tonight me and Laura are gonna watch The Victoria's Secret fashion show Victoria's Secret fashion show is starting now And honestly, it's a really good thing that I worked out this morning So I don't feel like I'm complete shit about myself like I know I'm still gonna feel like Not that great, but I honestly just like the backstage Things like when they're like filming commercials and all that. I think it's really cool to see that stuff More than the actual fashion show.  I don't know I wish they just picked like more unique Musicians and I feel like they've been didn't they do it like last year at least a weekend with the weekend on last year No, I'm making hot cocoa and me and Laura are using our matching mugs guys, so it's December 6 and Guess what it is raining today And of course it's raining today because I planned like a little event for Katie. I talked about it in my last vlog it's basically outside of course and Yeah, it's raining and I don't I think I have to like postpone it till later because I think it stops raining at 5 Which is kind of annoying because I just like want to do that what time I said I would you know so But I'm wearing this like super bold color. It's from Elizabeth yeah, it's Elizabeth Arden beautiful color bold liquid lipstick in the shade Fiery red. It's like a really interesting red almost looks like a hot pink on me in person I should really wear a lip liner because it's like wearing off on the edges But um, yeah, and of course I straight my hair and Laura comes in and she was like guess what? It's raining. I was like Joking it's like no Okay, and what do we don't have like a red? Lip liner and I do I bought this like a long time ago or I got sent this I don't remember but it's color pop and it's probably not the same color but I Feel like I don't wear any of my lipsticks enough. I have so many that I should really be using Because I bought them. I need to make oh I feel like that always happens when I try to wear full-color Take this and this with me and I'm gonna Hey guys, so it's really human outside That's why there's like this weird thing on the one the encouragements from Capedalta went so well Everyone looks so happy when they got the mince from us. It made me feel so good that we were doing it But now I'm at Starbucks and I'm about to go study with my friend I don't I'm not don't have anything to really study But I'm gonna do some PR stuff and get a lot of things done And I kind of want to upload this with the past two days just today because honestly I I'm sorry. I told you guys that it would be like really sucky vlogs Well, I'm at school But like I said, I do want to post real videos when I don't post vlogs So you guys won't be like missing a video for me. Hopefully maybe like once but Won't be too bad. I hope you guys enjoyed this vlog and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye guys