Good evening, everyone. This is the fourth foreign affairs capsule for the Shankar IAEA's Academy. The topic we have today is President Biden so far. It's not a long time since he became president, such tumultuous beginning. But at the same time, he was able to accomplish very much. His mandate was to repair and rebuild the United States. After the nightmare of four years plus the action, the insurrection of January 6th, he had a lot to do to repair and to rebuild. But probably because he had so much time since his election was clear, he had put his people to work. And as soon as he went into the White House in the afternoon of 20th January, he was able to sign about 17 executive orders. And since then, he has signed about 30 executive orders. Executive orders are decisions that can be announced by the president in an urgent basis to enact rules, laws, regulations, decisions and so on. Some of them may have to be cleared by the Congress later, but the president has the authority to issue these executive orders immediately. In some broad categories, if we say that, we can see what his priorities are. His first priority, as we all know, is to deal with the coronavirus and also to increase the production of the vaccines.  Related to that also is a decision and a proclamation that masks are necessary, particularly on government property because the United States makes a big distinction about individual freedom. So perhaps he could not say that everybody should wear masks everywhere. And therefore, he restricted it to government property or federal property assets. All these places, everybody must be masked. But the spirit of this order is, of course, to for every citizen of the United States to wear masks because the situation is very grave. Every day, the deaths are mounting, but it is raising towards about 500,000 deaths by the end of the month. This is a grave situation. So these two immediate things that he has done, the idea is to vaccinate as many people as possible. And if the vaccine effort had started earlier, if masking was done earlier, if medical advisers listened to earlier, perhaps such a tragedy would not have occurred. Related to this is the more dramatic decision to go back to the World Health Organization. You know the background of that. President Trump withdrew from the World Health Organization at a critical time when the United Nations was not able to have a program or to have an emergency action to combat COVID. And when the whole responsibility was given to the World Health Organization, for the United States to withdraw from it was very foolish, even though he had justification to do so. Because he was convinced that this is a Wuhan virus or China virus and WHO was not acknowledging it and they were actually covering up China. So the suspicion is that the President Director General who was elected with the support of the Chinese may have been protecting their interests. Even today, an investigation about the China virus or COVID-19 has not been completed because the team is in Wuhan, but it has taken a year for even to start the investigation. So WHO is very much at fault. But by withdrawing from the WHO at that time, he has made a WHO weaker because United States contribution was stopped. But China, knowing the sensitivity of the subject, quickly paid that money on behalf of US as it were, to WHO to keep it going. As you know, the United States pays about 22% of the budget of most of your organizations. So it's a huge amount and that was made up by China. But the biggest mistake that WHO did was on 14 January 2020, they made a declaration that there was no evidence that COVID-19 was passing from human to human. That was a wrong judgment they made, which also caused a lot of trouble and havoc. So going back to the WHO, take of course a few days for it to be formalized. WHO has retained its importance and the US will cooperate with them. And moreover, President Biden has also appointed Mr. Fauci, the most celebrated coronavirus expert in the United States, whom Trump has been treating very badly because he never believed in science. So Fauci is now going to the WHO in Geneva in order to strengthen the work of the WHO and also ask questions. And this would be a major improvement in the situation. And Fauci is now respected and heard not only in the United States but the whole of the world. So that is the first thing he did as well as international relations were concerned. Then the other categories would be international policy or foreign policy in which many things had to be set right. And there the first thing was the Paris Agreement. I'm sure you're all aware of the Paris Agreement on climate change signed in 2015 from which President Trump withdrew. His reason for that are very many. First of all, he did not think that climate change was real. You know, there are people in the United States who think even today that the world is flat. So there is a world is flat society. So like that, there are various societies, one of them saying climate, it is not global warming but global cool. So all these opinions are prevalent there. But there was a valid objection to the Paris Agreement is that the prescriptions of the Paris Agreement by which all countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions through voluntary cuts has not been affected. I think I've explained to you this earlier that is the global temperature should not rise above 1.5 degrees Celsius if the world has to be set. And the present situation is that if all the commitments given under Paris Agreement is honored, the temperature will still go up by more than 3 degrees Celsius. So he was right when he said that Paris Agreement is a hoax because it doesn't save humanity. But the important thing was to stay inside and improve it. Because there is a provision for voluntary cuts of greenhouse gas emissions to be reviewed by the member states. And now that we know that this is not adequate, a review will have to take place within five years and then they will all be compelled to increase their commitments. Of course, Paris Agreement, we are a signatory, but we also have our reservations with the Paris Agreement because Paris Agreement does not take into account the common but differentiated responsibilities of the developed countries and the developing countries, a principle that was established in Rio in 1992. In other words, everybody has been given equal opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And the principle accepted that greenhouse gas emissions should be counted on the basis of per capita emissions and that was not accepted there. So anyway, but all these we have to work on because Kyoto Protocol had all these elements which the western countries rejected and the Paris Agreement was gotten. So, but fortunately, US withdrawal had not become immediately effective. It became effective only the day of the elections because there is a cool off period before it comes into effect. So one problem we may have is that the new climate czar John Kerry has been a fundamentalist on this issue and we do not know what kind of proposals he will make and we don't yet know whether this will hurt us or help us. But in any case, everybody has accepted, welcomed the return, Biden's return to the Paris Agreement and everybody will have to work together and also make it reduce global warming. Another very important environmental step that President Biden has taken is to cancel what is called the Keystone XL Pipeline. This was very much discussed in the past, but Mr. Obama had cancelled it because of the great damage that this particular pipeline would do to the environment, not only in the United States or also a major part of Canada. So Keystone is a place where this is in the, in Alberta, in Western Canada, where there is a huge stock of a kind of crude oil. It is not really crude oil, it is a kind of jelly kind of stuff, which looks like the tar that we use on the roads. It has gas in it and oil in it, etc. But this particular raw material is so thick and it contains so many environment unfriendly elements in it. And if it was to be dug from Canada and transported about 5000 kilometers up to Keystone or any other place in the United States, would cause great harm to the environment. So even though this was planned between Canada and the US for the few years ago, it was decided that this would make, create great damage to the environment in both the countries. And therefore, President Obama had refused to continue it and he had stopped it. And President Trump, one of the early things he did was to start the Keystone project again because he did not bother about the environmental aspects of it. He thought this would help both Canada and the United States to make a lot of money. He was only thinking in terms of the economics of it, not the environmental aspects of it. So now a great danger has been avoided and the Keystone XL pipeline project has been abandoned by the United States. It is a kind of groovy tar which can be used, of course, for production of energy. But this is something which is of great importance. Of course, Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister did not like it. We call it a cut punch by President Biden. So there is a huge amount of energy would have been possible, probably as much as your total oil production of Iraq was possible this. And it had changed the whole oil market and many sensitive regions would have been in danger. And to think of the length of this pipeline which is 4,324 kilometers is the same distance as the distance between Srinagar and Trivandrum. So you can imagine how long the pipeline is. Then there are some important regulations or important executive orders relating to immigration. Immigration is taking definitely a new and liberal line, but not of course as much as other developing countries would want, but certainly much more liberal than what the Trump administration was willing to do. First thing that he did was he said in future census of America, non-citizens will also be counted. This relates to some of the problems that we have in Assam. But not counting the non-citizens will mean that a huge portion of the American population will be excluded from many benefits, including how many congressmen should be elected from each state. So the senators and congressmen are elected on the basis of the population. And if non-citizens are not counted, those figures would not be correct. So that is a good thing for the non-citizens, illegal aliens, etc. And as far as illegal aliens are concerned, he has said that there will be a new pathway which would enable them to work first legally, then to get the green card and then get citizenship. Because the vast majority of the illegal aliens are not Indians, because Indians who go to America are more educated. They go under the law or they go by getting employment in companies, etc. But then they get delayed because immigration process had become very difficult. So in the process of giving illegal aliens the status and the possibility of becoming American citizens, it has been possible to help a lot of illegal people in the United States. And that is very helpful to them and also including a large number of Indians. Then there is another project which Barack Obama had started. This is about children who came into the United States when they were very small, parents and others, but who were not registered and who did not have the facility of becoming citizens, because early stage when they were small children, they were not registered or processed. Now those so-called children or the dreamers as they are called, they have become 30 years, 31 years, 32 years and these people have no documentation. And President Obama had said that in stages the so-called dreamers will also be given citizenship and that was blocked by President Trump. So President Biden has now declared that there will be concessions given to the dreamers. Then an important migration issue is that the Muslim countries, a number of Muslim majority nations were blocked from visiting the United States. This was one thing that Trump did in order to deal with terrorism as he called it, because he said this was Islamic fundamentalists, but no check was made. All these countries were prohibited from sending their people to the United States. This of course was a popular measure among the American Christian believers, because they thought all the problems were created by Muslims. And though there was legal problem in doing this, Trump did that as a major matter of policy. And Biden has removed it and the citizens of these countries are able to visit the United States. Another immigration measure he took was immigration policing. One of the things that Trump had done was to increase, enhance the capability of law enforcement authorities to monitor immigrants and to control them, policing them. And not only that, they were policed even more harsh ways than normally people are dealt with. So President Trump had enacted several laws which strengthened the immigration police and that has also been relaxed. Of course, they will be monitored and followed etc., but not in vast victory. And then he went on to the next major change. He made the notorious war between Mexico and the United States, which Trump wanted to build. He said that these amantititled migrants were coming in from Mexico and therefore he believed in this building a huge wall, something like the Great Wall of China. And the more importantly, this money was not available because it was not a popular project from the Congress. And therefore he made some emergency measures from money earmarked for defense purposes to be used under the discretion of the president to build the wall. And the wall was already being built, much of it is completed, but this has been given up. I do not know what will become of the wall, possibly they will become remnants or memorials of Trump's foolish policies and like the Berlin Wall, people may go for picnics there, children may run around on the wall and that kind of tourist attraction will become. But it is a tourist attraction at very high expenses, but that has been stopped also. Then market regulation of business by illegal aliens, many of them were engaged in small businesses, etc., which have been relaxed also. Then a very interesting commission was set up by President Trump. It is a complicated story, but what happened was a question arose as to which year should we take as the beginning of the United States. When did America come into being? There are several developments which can be characterized as the beginning of America. But the general feeling was that it should be 1776. So 1776 is when United States became independent after a war with England and that is normally treated as the period from which you would consider history to have started. But before that, there were large number of immigrants, black immigrants who had come to the United States and they had become legal citizens. That goes another 100 years back. So there was some feeling, particularly in the black community, but because US history should be traced to those days rather than 1776. President Trump didn't like it at all. He did not want the black immigration days to be considered as the beginning of the United States. So this commission which was working on it, a commission which was appointed by President Trump to start. This was supposed to start in 1619, American history because the first black slaves had arrived there. So the idea was not to go to 1619, but to go to 1776. So he set up a 1776 commission. That is all these stories should go only up to 1776 and not beyond. So American slavery should not be celebrated. That was the point that he made. Then there are a number of other measures that are not so important from our perspective. But those are also housekeeping measures which would clean up many of the things. So basically the overall spirit of these executive orders was to basically undo the damage done by short-sighted policies of President Trump. And this has been widely welcomed. But there are many more things to be done. And the disadvantage President Biden has, you all know, is not only the question of election, many people still in the United States believe that this election was stolen by Mr. Biden. So many of his measures will not get immediate approval. Even though, fortunately for him, the Democratic Party members will be in a majority in both in the Senate and the Congress. But certain things cannot be done by simple majority. You may have to have two-thirds majority in certain cases, like in the impeachment. Impeachment was done in the Congress because there was sufficient majority and about 10 Republicans had joined. Now there is going to be the new impeachment. For a long time there was discussion as to whether impeachment is possible after the President has left the position. But now the consensus is that there is precedent, not with Presidents, but some of us, to have an impeachment even after the President has left. And the President has left Washington, is in Florida. Now the report will be, will have been given today, that this Monday, the report of the Congress would be given by Speaker Pelosi to the Speaker of the Senate, which is Vice President Kamala Harris. And she has to move on. But the Senate has other business to do. Only two appointees, high-level appointees of Biden have been approved by the Senate so far. There are many, many of them and all these have to be heard and considered by the Senate. And that takes time. So if you were to start the impeachment now for several weeks, these high officials will not be able to function effectively because they wouldn't have the Senate confirmation. So now there is an agreement that the impeachment process will begin only on the 9th of February. So that gives some time for President Biden to settle down and also to discuss this whole possibility of what is the purpose of this impeachment. And you need a two-thirds majority and therefore at least 17 Republicans have to vote for the impeachment and then only it will pass. So it may fail, that may be a setback. And even if it doesn't fail and it is impeached, that does not mean that he is disqualified from being President again. It will be a punishment certainly for the insurrection. But he can still be President unless he is disqualified. But there is apparently a prohibition Article 14 which enables the Senate with a simple majority to disqualify him. Whether the Senate would like to go that far and whether this bitterness of the elections and the complete breakdown of the Republican Party because some are still supporting Trump, others are not supporting him. And therefore all this confusion would be confounded as a result of the impeachment process which starts on 9th of February. But Mr. Biden has gone on regardless of all these constraints because his strength is going to be a consistent predictable, sensible, experienced President. That is what we all need. Of course, there are decisions that he will take which may entirely not please us. For example, he has indicated that he is going to renegotiate the Afghanistan peace plan. As you may know, President Trump was expecting to withdraw all the American forces from Afghanistan by December, by Christmas. But this has not happened. And there have been differences between the United States delegation and the Taliban which was an agreement which was already signed but there are difficulties in that. And the current President of Afghanistan is questioning some of the decisions taken. And therefore, Mr. Biden has said that we need to reopen the negotiations. As far as we are concerned, the longer the Americans stay in Afghanistan is better for us because that gives some stability and does not leave the floor open to Pakistan and the Taliban. Because President Trump's decision would have certainly resulted in the United States declaring victory in Afghanistan and leaving. But President Biden has said that we need to negotiate. We will leave but there must also be some safeguards against the kind of Taliban regime which took over last time. So it is possible that some American forces will continue in Afghanistan as a precautionary measure which will be good to us. And this is what we want. But the side story is that in the process Biden has said that he has to strengthen his relations with Pakistan. Of course, that is only in the context of Afghanistan, not like the old days when India and Pakistan were equated. But in the case of Afghanistan, a major player in the negotiations is Pakistan. So till the United States is able to pull out of Afghanistan entirely, then American forces may remain there. And this Pakistan may not like, this Taliban may not like and they may want to get the Americans out of there. So his indication to the Pakistanis that he is willing to negotiate with them again has strengthened the hands of Pakistan a little bit. But Pakistan had moved away from the United States and gone on to China because of President Trump's policies. President Trump was accusing them of not fighting the terrorists for cheating. And the Americans had stopped the funding, anti-terrorist funding that given to Pakistan. And Pakistan had become an unimportant country for the United States because Pakistan went entirely to China. And as a result, there was no constraints in US-India relations. But Pakistan, if it comes back into the picture, that may create some difficulties for us. So those who think that Biden may turn out to be difficult to India are already quoting this example to say that he may do some of these things which may not be very palatable to India. So these are the major things that have happened. We can expect many more changes which would alter the situation to further better. But two things are important before the United States stabilizes. One is COVID-19. What is going to be the final shape of the United States?  And this may cause a lot of disaffection in these areas. And it may change the demographic situation in the United States like that. And again, who is going to be the global leader? Will the United States be able to come back to that position after Trump has left? And so these two things will determine the future of the world. China is asserting itself. There was an attack by the Chinese in a place called Naku La. And the government has said that this has been sorted out. It need not be projected as a big attack or a big problem. Because the Amis have been meeting even yesterday. And therefore, we are trying to contain the situation. But the Chinese, they started this kind of aggression even when the negotiations are going on. We have to be careful. And the whole world has to be careful also. So, Mr. Biden has a huge responsibility. But he has begun well. And we always say, well begun is half done. Yes, it is half done. But half is yet to be done. And that is going to be the bigger half. Thank you.


What's up, everybody? Jason here for jazbyzcasewrakes.com. We just sold all jazbyz hip-hacks random hit number four, the fourth one of the day, where it's 20 spots, 20 hits, 20 customer names. So first we do the randomizer. We're gonna click the dice roller, randomize the 20 customer names from Scott down to Emory, and then the numbers 1 through 20, whatever number you match up with is what pack number will rip open for you, and some pretty good stuff, guys. So here's a dice roller. Roll 3-0-1 four times. Good luck. One, two, three, and a fourth and final time. Harry down to Chris Butler. All right, so there you go. Four, four, one, two, three, four, eight down to four. So Harry, you have eight, Josh, T with 20, Chris with 17, and Josh T with 14, Harrison. You have three, Scott with nine, Harrison with 16, Emory with 12, Kerry with 11 and 10, Matt with 13, David with 15, Emory with 18, Chris Butler with one, Chris Coe you have six, Christopher Butler with 19, Kerry with five, Chad Coleman with 17, Joe you have two, and Chris Butler with four. So I'm gonna alphabetize my customer name and this is how we'll do it right here. Quickly let you see that really quick. All right, guys. So we'll start off with Kerry, and then we'll work our way down, all the way down to Scott, and actually, hold on, let me actually print out these labels. Good thing about these bracelets, I pretty much do the work for the shippers and sorters. I'm just already ready to roll. So Kerry, you have 11, 10, five, 11, 10 would be back here. So zone that order that you got it in. 11, 10, 5. Good luck. First one. How about a Larry Bird, Absolute Heroes 3 out of 25 red ink? This is one of the higher, uh, higher hit values here in the hit, uh, hit packs. Look at that red ink, 3 out of 25 Larry Bird. That has been 2012-13 absolute. Double draft class here as well. 10. Kobe Bryant, Panini Prism, very nice. It has a Prism 2019, last year of Prism for him. PSA 10, RIP to the Black Mamba. And a Jamerant Mosaic Pink Camel. You did great with your three packs. So it's pretty much 100 bucks a year, I think. Very nice. NBA debut, Prism Rookie. Very nice three packs. We'll reuse these for tomorrow, potentially. Chad Coleman, you're up next with 17. How about an Anthony Edwards? That is a Purple Prism PSA 9. That is a draft picks rookie numbered 75 out of 75. I think like a little bit of a sticker got stuck here in the back. Nothing's wrong with the card though. It's just the, let's see right there. Very nice though, man. Anthony Edwards rookie, 75 out of 75. Very nice. Next up we got is Chris Butler. Got two right here. One and four. So one, one and four. So you go, here's pack one. And it is a Pete Alonzo from Diamond Icons. Five out of 10, little pinstripe and on-card autograph. Very nice. Let's see Alonzo and here's four. Bowl, bowl. That is a Green Prism PSA 10. Play him more, Denver. Play him more. Very nice ones right there. Chris Koh, you got six or seven and six. Right next to each other. Wow, look at that. Aaron Nola, one out of five from Topps Dynasty. Look at that three-color patch right there. Beautiful autograph. One of the best signatures in the game. Milestone strikeout. Damn, that is beautiful. One out of five. And looks like we got another non-graded card. What have we got here? Look at this surprise that I put in there, guys. How about a one-of-one pro-set champions of Gary Cheever's and Johnny Buicic, I believe. One-of-one. Look at that mask. That is so cool, right? That's cool, man. I know, that's true now.  I just randomly got these packs, though, so. All right. Well, there you go, Chris. Thank you, buddy. Christopher. I mean, I believe this is the same youth Chris Butler, but I mean, just put Christopher in the second order, so we'll just keep it like this. Nineteen, though. How about a little Justin Jefferson pen pals? Pen pals from Elite Football, Justin Jefferson. Oh, there's Chris. Maybe Chris is saying, well, let's see what you get, and maybe you can trade. Nice man, Chris. Gotcha. Perfect. Yeah. That's better that you changed the name. That way you can kind of distinguish who was going to. David Lee, up next for 15. How about a little Bova Shet? 20-20 tops, Chrome. Rookie, PSA 10. Nice. Nois nois. Emery. 18 and 12. So you got 12, 18. Probably one of the most scariest defenders linebackers you've probably faced back in the day. Dick Butkus. That is an indelible ink from impeccable football, 10 out of 15. That is sweet. That is sweet. Imagine this guy running at you at full speed. He's just like... This guy just like murdered people. Very nice. And 12. And a Luca Dancic. How about a little Chronicles rookie? That's a PSA 9. Little Lulu. Nice, nice, nice, nice. All right, a few packs remaining, guys. Harrison. I don't know if you did the same thing, Harry, but I'll do the first two that say Harrison, and then Harry, the next one after that. So three and 16. So you got three, 16. Tyler Hero. Look at that. Carolina Blue Prism. That is a rookie autograph from Prism Draftpix, basketball, PSA 9. Number to 30. Let's go. Very nice. That looks awesome. Little color match there with Kentucky. That is sweet. Tyler Hero starting off the season really well. And a Randy Arosarana. Signature series. Did you find the boxes? Yeah, I did. 2020, Randy Arosarana, which I believe should be a rookie as well. Can you keep this in one of those? I don't remember if I actually made one for it. It's for the... I'm gonna use that one or not. Then Harry with number eight. How about a little Daniel Jones? Little red ice. PSA 9 rookie. Love the ice. Was it one in there or no? No. Okay, so that's for it. I didn't put it in. There you go, man. All right, guys. Coming down to the last few. Remember, this is the last break of the night. Joe, here you go. Let's go. Pack number two. Doesn't feel like a graded card to be an auto. Wow, Joe. I don't know if you're gonna want to trade this. I don't know if you're gonna want to trade this. How about a Ken Griffey Jr. Super Scripps autograph? Look at that. Pack two. Mo Joe. Ken Griffey Jr. That is sweet. I threw it in there. That little surprise. I didn't want to tell nobody. Josh with 20 and 14. 20, 14? I don't know. Maybe he loves the Bruins much more, though, Chris. We'll find out. How about a Phillips Zedina? Nice 2019 upper deck. Young Gun. PSA 10. Little Phillips Zedina. Young Gun. And 14. And a Trey Young Blue Shimmer. That's first off the line PSA 9. Blue Shimmer. There you go, Joe. All right, Josh. There you go, buddy. And Matt with 13. Ooh, this is a thickie. What is in this? I don't even remember what the thick one is. Oh, now I remember. How about a little of the Newly Lakers. Seiku Damboya. Rookie ticket from Contenders Optic. That is a Rookie Autograph PSA 9. And I think he's on a two-way contract in Out the Lakers, but I think he will get a shot soon. Seiku Damboya. No problem, Joe. Congrats, man. Rex, I got busy, buddy. One man chose tonight, man. No help. And Scott, number nine. How about a Kevin Porter Jr. Red, white, and blue. PSA 10. All right, so there's Scott to end it off. Kevin Porter Jr. is a baller. All righty. And there you go, guys. That was the break. Very solid break. I think I did a pretty good job taking my time putting in some nice stuff. And there's the Ken Griffey Jr. Gannion Jones. Randy Rosarena. Got Tyler Hero Autograph. Dick Bukkis. Luca Rookie. Little Pan Pals. Justin Jefferson. Aaron Nola. Nice little dual one-of-one. Peter Londo. Bowl Bowl. Anthony Edwards. That is numbered Rookie to 75. John Morant Rookie. Larry Bird to 25. And a little Kobe PSA 10 Prism. There you go, guys. That was number four. I'm pretty sure we'll do more of these tomorrow. So we'll get those going tomorrow, guys. Appreciate it. JaspiesCaseBricks.com.


Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece. Recently, the fifth edition of One Piece magazine was released, how very exciting. Parts of which were translated by the Library of Okara, with one of the primary takeaways being a full-blown family tree of the Charlotte household. That's right, we now know the names and chronological order of each of the 85 children, and since this is your source for everything One Piece, we are going to go through all of them. Hooray! But we're not going to do it all at once because that's just utter madness. So instead today, we are going to be covering the Charlotte Sons, and there are a whopping 46 of them, so let's get started immediately. Kicking things off with a familiar face, it's Charlotte Perespero, who is not only the first son, but actually the first child in general. He is 50 years old, meaning the big mom spawned him at the very young age of 18, at least very young to me, as a millennial anyway, and he is the Minister of Candy, residing on Candy Island with, guess what, his candy devil fruitability. Next up, we have a set of triplets, an incredible powerhouse of triplets actually, each of them being 48 years old, and the first of which being second son, Charlotte Cardacuri. You may or may not be familiar with him by now, I think he's kind of popular. He's the Minister of Flower on Wheat Island, and the strongest of the Sweet Commanders. He also possesses the only special paramecia known in the series thus far, in the Mochi Mochi No Mi. The second of these triplets is third son, Charlotte Daifuku, who resides on Crunch Crunch Island, and is the Minister of Beans, delicious, delicious beans. In addition to that, he has a devil fruit known as the Hoio No Mi, which allows him to produce a genie after rubbing himself vigorously, which is really taking masturbation to a whole new level. The final triplet and fourth son, Charlotte Oven, is a perpetually angry chap who is the Minister of Browned Food on Bakery Island, very apt considering he possesses the Netsunetsunomi, which as Jinbei and the Sun Pirates discovered, actually allows Oven to make holy water, via the process of burning the hell out of it. Moving on from triplets to quintuplets, all of these guys are 46 years old, and the one we're most familiar with would be the technical fifth son, Charlotte Opera, who is the Minister of Cream on Richness Island. And rather conveniently also possesses the Kurikurinomi, which allows him to perpetually look like a jizz monster. As for the six through nine sons from left to right, they are named Counter, Kadenza, Kabaleta and Gala. If you're an anime watcher, you'll probably recognize these three figures as they each confronted Luffy during some nice and slow Holcake Island filler. Gala is an interesting one though, because he was originally identified as a completely different person in an SPS segment, but this was later reckoned and Gala is now this dude. Next up is another familiar face, the tenth son, Charlotte Cracker, another of the sweet commanders who has a trifecta of being the Minister of Biscuits on Biscuit Island with a biscuit devil fruit. Also, Cracker is 45 years of age and part of a series of triplets. However, the other two members of this set are Charlotte daughters, so we'll go into them in the next video. Be very, very excited. But one year later out popped Charlotte Zucotto, who is named after a lovely Italian dessert, and he is the Minister of Alcohol on Le Cure Island, specifically residing in Jintown, which happens to be my wife's favorite spirit. And now we have another set of triplets, all being 42 years of age, commencing with little Napoleon himself, the 12th son, Charlotte Nus-Tort. And interestingly enough, he is the first character on this list who is not a Minister of some sort of food, but instead he is the Minister of Transport and resides on Package Island. The 13th son, Charlotte Bascotte, is a bit more mysterious at this time as we don't know what he does, if anything. However, the 14th son and the last of this set of triplets, Charlotte Dos March, is the Minister of Tea on Black Island, which you might think would make him nice and chill, but instead what do we get? It's this face. 15th son Charlotte Noisette is a 41 year old Minister of Finance on Safe Island, and yes, that does sound like the beginning of one of the most boring online dating profiles of all time. He does, however, wield a weird sort of double scythe thing that forms the number three significance that I can't help but not really get because he is the 15th son and he isn't a triplet. I guess he just likes the number three, maybe. You know who is a triplet though? 16th son Charlotte Moscato, the Minister of Gelato on Ice Island. However, just as with Cracker, the other two members of this set of triplets are Charlotte daughters, so keep an eye out for them next time. Moving on to our first set of twins, we have 17th son Charlotte Compo, the Minister of Pi, who resides on Pi Pi Island, and his twin brother, 18th son Charlotte Lauren, who does not appear to have had any success in life so far, with no profession stated. But now we have the big booty joker himself, 19th son Charlotte Montdour, who serves as a minister I would like to most be, that being the Minister of Cheese on Cheese Island. He also possesses the Bukubukunomi, a pretty crazy devil fruit that allows him to create utter madness with books. More twins now in the form of 20th son Charlotte Highfat and the much smaller 21st son Charlotte Tablet. They are both 36 years old, but we know pretty much nothing about the former, although in regards to Tablet he is the Minister of Toppings on Topping Island. Yet another set of twins is upon us with 22nd son Charlotte St Mark, who has probably the vaguest title on this list today being the Minister of Essence, residing in Flavortown, which I believe is a province of flavoured country. His twin 23rd son Charlotte Passans is probably the goofiest son we're examining here today, and I'd like to point out that this is a very strong pool of goofy people. So yes, it does take a man who has done his utmost to make himself look like a bovine to top it. In any case, these twins are 34 years old apiece. Thankfully, we have another single child appearing next in the form of 24th son Charlotte Daquare, who is 32 years old and appears to have very bat-like wings. Whether these are ornamental or not is currently unknown, but he is the Minister of Jam on, you guessed it, Jam Island. Moving along swiftly we have Charlotte Snack Attack, who is the Minister of Fries on Potato Island, which also sounds like a pretty great job. He also happens to be a former sweet commander before he was taken out by Eruge, and furthermore he has a twin being 26th son Charlotte Bavara. Snack and Bavara are both 30 years old. Triplet Time once again featuring an odd collection of individuals beginning with 27th son Charlotte Cantin, who serves as the Minister of Agar on Jelly Island. And yes, Agar is that substance that we all used in high school science to grow bacteria cultures. Mmm, yummy. Second in this particular set of triplets is Charlotte Cato, the Minister of Seeds on Seed Island and who is, for all intents and purposes, a pumpkin.  His profession is the Minister of Mix, which initially makes me think that he is some sort of really mad DJ.  But I would also like to mention that his specific location on that island is Sneaky Town, how very suspicious. And he's half long arm apparently, which we can tell by his third arm joint. To follow him, we have 30 seconds on Charlotte Brownie, and while we don't know his precise role in the family enterprise, I'm going to go ahead and say he is more than likely the Minister of Chest hair on Manly Island, an impressive achievement for a 24 year old.  Next up is probably one of my favourite designs amongst his family, 35th son Charlotte Ewen, who we found out was actually capable of using Gepo, one of the Rokushiki techniques, and has a super cool expanding staff thing. Lots of potential with this character, which we will probably never reach. But here is where things get lazy, as may I present to all of you the Charlotte Decouplets. That's right, Big Mom had 10 children all at once, 5 boys and 5 girls, all of whom looked strikingly similar to each other. In terms of the sons, we have Charlotte's Nyuichi, Nyuji, Nyu-san, Nyu-shi and Nyu-go. And a very basic knowledge of Japanese will tell you that this is all upon, based on the numbers 1 through 5. They are all a mighty 18 years old, and quite notably Charlotte Nyu-shi actually has a devil fruit known as the gotcha gotcha nomi, which allows him to fuse himself with other people. Kind of like the jake jake nomi, really. Getting very close to the end, we encounter 41st son Charlotte Nyu-go, another really cool design that we'll probably never get to see in action. Also Nyu-ga is a mere 17 years old, meaning there is a gap of 3 years between him and the next son, Charlotte Anglais, who is 14 years old, and best characterised by his rebellious hairstyle, complete with leather jacket riding a motorised cat pillar. A fin-like protrusion can also be seen on Anglais back, possibly indicating that he is part fisherman.  But that pretty much does it for this half of the Charlotte family. After making it this far into the video, I'm sure you've realised by now why I decided to split this one up, but look forward to another video examining the 39 daughters very very soon. But if you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produces in general, then please do consider donating to the Grand Line if you're Patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. Also do check out my Teespring store if you're interested in shirts. 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ar y cyfnod yma yn y cyfnod o'r cyfnod. Rwy sydd wedi'u meddwl yn ymgyrchol y Britwyr cyfnod yn gweithio'r lawu internaisiais yma i Brexith. Yn ymgyrch yw'r cyfnod, mae'r meddwl yn cyfnod yn cyfnod o'r cyfnod oherwydd y Britwyr cyfnod yn gyfnod ymgyrchol ymgyrchol ymgyrchol, ac yn ymgyrchol, mae'r cyfnod yn cyfnod ymgyrchol ymgyrchol ymgyrchol yn gweithio'r Llywodraeth a'r Ymgyrchol. Yn ymgyrch yw'r cyfnod ymgyrchol y Britwyr cyfnod yn gweithio'r lawu internaisiais ymgyrchol ymgyrchol a'r Ymgyrchol dech yn Gweithio'r Llywodraeth. Yn ymgyrch yw'r cyfnod ymgyrchol ymgyrchol ymgyrchol, mae'r meddwl yn gyfnod. Yn ymgyrch yw'r cyfnod ymgyrchol a'r ymgyrchol, mae'r meddwl yn cyfnod i'r ffag, those such as the fact that far worse acts than dangerous driving regularly take place at US foreign bases in Japan or South Korea. Or the fact that USAF Creuarton has for many years been routinely involved in the killing of civilians on a daily basis. Why do the civilian staff of this base have different ethnic community? Why has the British government exempted this site from international humanitarian law to facilitate its abuse of civilians in far-form places around the world? Mae'r FFN yno, ac mae'r FFN yn cael ei ddadig iawn. Y Dynes Cymru a'r FFN yn cychwyn i'r ystyried ddau'r cyfaleid yma, rydyn ni'n gweithio i ddisigio ar y cyfaleid yn ddoch yn ffair ac i'r tyfio'r cyfaleid. Y rhaid i'r ddafodd y byd o USAF Crapham yn ymddir i'r ddau cyfaleid yma sy'n fwyaf o gyfanaeth y Pwg. Y ddweud y Rhwng Sryd yn cael ei ddweud. Ond mae'n ddweud o'r cyfaleid. unig iawn i'r llyfr yn y Llywodraeth ymddianydd yng Nghymru bydd o'r llyfr yn y gwybod bryd yn y gweithio'r ffans.  Felly, o gyfnodd y Llywodraeth Fyllgrifennu a Llywodraeth, Many different operations can be managed by military and intelligence staff anywhere across the world. As the sharp end of military operations now routinely involves the use of armed drones, network-centric warfare is designed to allow a few people to run a global, covert, low-intensity, lethal military campaign using few personal resources. Once the communications hardware is in place it can be used to carry out unawful acts at any time with little control or oversight by the nation hosting that installation. The German government recently sought to restrict the use of American bases for drone warfare as required by international law. Our government will not even acknowledge that such operations are supported from here. From the outside what is most easily seen are the radomes, the large grey balls housed in satellite dishes. Though highly visible they are not the largest part of the site's communications capacity. Crowdness is part of a global system of fibre optic cables that spans the globe, shifting data, telemetry and voice communications from the continental USA to Europe and then on to the Middle East and North Africa. From the hill opposite the base you get a view down onto the site. Near the centre is a large tower. This connects to the nearby USAF Barthlet St John which operates short-grade radio equipment and possibly connects to yet more national data trunks. At the foot of the tower is a group of low buildings. The east form the communications centre managing the flow of data in and out of the site and hosting the racks of computer service required to run that. More significant though is the large windowless building to the east protected with its high security enclosure. This is the operations centre where US military and intelligence staff run the operations of the site and help support for our missions. That could be anything from running CIA surveillance on Chancellor Merkel's mobile phone, to JSOC launching drone strikes in North Africa, to US cyber command hacking computer networks. One of the more significant cables that runs on Crowton links directly to the US military's Camp Le Monier in Djibouti. This is a site from which US forces launch drone strikes in Yemen and across North Africa and which coordinates to many small lilypad bases across the Sahara region that undertake counter-terrorism operations. The course of opposition to US drone attacks is getting louder and louder in Yemen. The Yemeni parliament has banned drone attacks in a symbolic vote. Anger has been on the rise of the US drone attacks in Yemen. The country has seen several protests against deadly raids by the unmanned aerial vehicles. Washington has stepped up its drone operations in Yemen in recent months. The attacks have killed many people. The US says it's targeting al-Qaeda-linked militants, but many Yemenis call this a violation of their sovereignty. The American drone strikes have killed large numbers of people in other Muslim countries, including Pakistan. The United Nations has condemned the US for using its drones for what the world body calls targeted killings. To date, the operations run from Camp Le Monier in its lilypad sites have routinely broken international humanitarian law and the laws of war. Camp Le Monier also has a significant involvement supporting Saudi-led forces bombing Yemen just across the Red Sea from Djibouti in the process creating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises today. The war that began in 2015 has killed tens of thousands of people and created the world's most urgent humanitarian emergency. But there's another war being waged in Yemen, overshadowed by the strife in the country. The US has been conducting drone strikes in Yemen for the last 16 years. There are 127 strikes in 2017 alone. The so-called signature strikes have aimed to suppress members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. But the campaign has killed scores of civilians targeting houses, schools, hospitals, markets, and even wedding processions. In an examination of drone strikes this year, the APN Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that at least 30 of those killed were not al-Qaeda members. That's around a third of people killed in drone strikes so far this year. The US started its drone warfare in Yemen in 2002 and it has drawn widespread criticism for hitting targets and regions without a proven source associating them with militants. As many as 1,700 people have been killed and thousands have been wounded since the first reported strike. But the drone deaths have fallen off the radar since the US-backed Saudi-led military coalition started its bombing raids against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. There are no reports of the precise number of civilian deaths due to the difficulty in confirming the identities of those killed. And the US government does not provide adequate explanations detailing their strikes. This has led to the international community raising concerns about the lack of enforcement of humanitarian laws that call for the safety of civilians. As the site is instrumental in supporting those operations, the staff at USF Crownton are complicit in those acts too. This is British territory. It is not part of the American sovereign state. British law technically applies to all operations here, but by exempting USF Crownton from those laws our own government, and by extension, all of us, are complicit in those actions too. The problem of exceptionalism and the political expediency of breaking international law to suit national ambition is that it can become infectious and that Donald Trump it has become official US foreign policy. With Brexit, that same approach is now seemingly applicable here too. As part of a less publicised overseas operations bill, Britain is proposing to exempt our armed forces from the UN Convention against Torture and the European Convention on Human Rights. Thing is, once we roll back historic protections on killing or torture, what international standards are not open to willing abuse. Not just abroad, but at home too. USAF Crownton is symbolic of the West's exceptionalism in the application of international law. More directly, it is symbolic of the West's willingness to accept killing, maiming and mass suffering of civilians in order to guarantee their own national advantage in global affairs. As our government engages in ever more flagrant breaches of international rules, we have a duty to oppose, and if possible, halt these operations. Crownton Watch exists to support those willing to assist in countering the activities of USAF Crownton. For more information on the site and its activities, see our website.