t coming elections and peace process and I learned their concern about the post-peace or post-election scenarios in Afghanistan I would like to take this opportunity to express the gratitude and appreciation and thanks all those people who have met in Afghanistan for the sacrifices and continued support of the United States to help Afghan people for a better future I had here Mark Noach just left so most of the people who serve in Afghanistan please keep in mind that the Afghan people will never forget your sacrifices and we are talking about the future of Afghanistan what we do because after 18 years after so many achievements Ambassador said here she is an example of our achievements for the last 18 years in Afghanistan so what went wrong in Afghanistan after 18 years in November 2001 we defeated Taliban Al Qaeda with 12 US special forces 7 agencies with support of local populations but now after 18 years what went wrong we have to study that and how to negotiate with Taliban also we should study that or we are using all instruments in Afghanistan that Afghanistan to be a success story for the United States we have to look at that because we cannot afford to lose in Afghanistan Afghanistan must be a success story for the United States and also a better place for Afghan people also as Roberson said I am absolutely agree when we are looking at a special operation when we are looking about counter-terrorism counter-intelligence activists in Afghanistan one thing I believe we ignore so for the empowering local communities to help themselves to clean their villages and towns and districts from terrorist groups and now I hope that the new policy of you call it local defense forces of regional army working with the local communities they will be the most effective way how to defeat terrorist groups and clean their backyards and homes from all those elements so again my understanding is from Afghanistan for the peace process we need a strong national unity in Afghanistan national consensus and Afghan people they don't need a large number of youth soldiers in Afghanistan we don't need a lot of soldiers we don't need a lot of resources we can succeed in Afghanistan with less resources with less blood but how we should use all available instruments in Afghanistan right now thank you very much we will stop here thank you very much sir one more question it has to be a quick question sir thank you very much my name is Bob Wilson I'm a retired army officer one question for the panel especially for the people who have looked at Afghanistan for a long time in terms of special operations Linda you talked about the Afghan special operations forces considered arguably the best security force in Afghanistan right now you know I'd point out that the U.S. special operations forces in 2006 really for you know get your perspective on how to address it the United States started helping Afghanistan build those special operations forces in 2006 the first one became operational and began doing combat operations with that U.S. special forces advisors in 2007 so we're arguably the best operations advisors arguably the best force I'd argue right now they're still heavily reliant on those advisors to do operations where they're needed to be they're reliant on U.S. air power logistics things like that so from your perspective as we go forward U.S. is going to do this in other places it's got to make decisions about continue to support this in Afghanistan after 12 years with the best advisors providing advisory support the U.S. providing resources a lot of attention on it how do you get these forces you know to be able to achieve what they need to do without you know what we've lost five U.S. Green Berets I think just this month probably on those kind of missions yes boy Bob you know as well as I do I mean that's a huge issue and I did always remark on the length of time it seemed to be taking for the ODAs to lift off of the partner and I think that's really important to just prove they can do it so the training wheels come off before we get to an agreement and I think the political environment as Peter mentioned Democrats alike as Republicans the clock is ticking and whatever you stay behind forces it's going to be small and you're not going to have that kind of closeness so it's a vital question and I think the answer is really very complex and part of it is and I know they've been working on the special mission wing forever and air mobile ops but you and I we compared the stats on hafs and gaffes and what's really the appropriate mode of operations for forces in Afghanistan and then of course there's the logistics trail and resupply locally so there's really I think a problem that we went out Afghanistan with a model that was too centralized and I think the answer has to be decentralized and appropriate levels of technology and that goes in spades with the development of an Afghan air force right and then this hiccup shifting from the easier Russian platforms to the American platforms you know they're just myriad of problems that I think we really have to work closely on and finally there is while you have challenges with Anasoc there is because the S-fabs are lifting off there's not that kind of intensive training and advising with the Kandax of the ANA and that is going to be a real test their casualties are high they're going to get higher they need to really try to figure out what's the short-term game plan to get the and DSF ready to frankly go it pretty much alone 10 seconds well I mean no so first of all a couple of things one I think that this audience deserves some truth to some of the things that are coming out that I think are false first of all a lot of the stuff that we're talking about we always get 30 seconds to talk about it so the reality of it is that we're all having a hard time condensing some things into some issues the fact is that the conflict in Afghanistan started off with horseback soldiers that won and we've been losing a lot since then you know because the reality is we hyper-conventionalized the fight in Afghanistan and only now Bob I think where I want to make sure so I apologize for being passionate about the 10 seconds only now we're starting to get to the point where soft which should have been leading from the beginning as far as I'm concerned in an unconventional warfare fight you know we became like the supporting forces in some ways you know and finally I think we're becoming the supported force in what is an unconventional fight so over the years I would say that there's no better general right now than what we have in General Miller there is leadership in MOI and MOD that actually has attention to the soft we have a change in the national director of security recently and I hope we get somebody of substance in there that can keep this momentum going I think the special mission wing is doing amazing work right now and these guys that are going out every day and day out are keeping this going crazy 17 in 2019 that we've lost that some people in the press are making this big deal about somehow this is the longest and the biggest since 2014 okay I get it but there's a price for actually doing what we're doing you know and I think we're doing finally something good what's missing is that the sacrifices that all these people are making out there there is no sufficient governance leadership like we have in MOD and MOI and the other ministries so it's okay to talk about economic integration of the Taliban but you know they're making money out of mining the Afghan government isn't so what we should be thinking about is a strength again of the state but the point here is that soft is finally coming to maturation at this point we're actually at a good spot a sweet spot for we just need to keep this thing going in order to make that come to fruition with that last 10 seconds please please join me in thanking Eric in order to kind of catch up on time we're just going to blow off this coffee break I know you're all tough guys and girls and can handle that and move to the next panel which will be moderated by Peter Singer senior fellow strategist here an author of multiple books and we'll bring the panel in right now okay ladies and gentlemen please take your seats we're about going to resume here going to hand it over to my colleague Peter Singer ladies and gentlemen can you if you want to have a conversation go outside otherwise please be quiet take your seats we're moving to the next panel Peter Singer senior fellow new america strategist author of multiple brilliant books and he's going to moderate this panel so thank you Peter and hopefully we'll give the folks outside a chance to join us as well so this panel is on how should artificial intelligence be integrated into special operations now you'll notice there's a little bit of a change from the program there's three of us on stage instead of four unfortunately Wendy Anderson who was to join us had a family emergency and wasn't able to join so we send her our best but fortunately we still have two fantastic people to take us through this topic David Spurke marine with worldwide deployments former deputy director of intelligence at Central Command associate director of intelligence at SOCOM former associate director of national intelligence for Afghanistan and Pakistan and a project Maven Plank Holder and then was recruited into his current position as the first generation chief data officer at US special operations command and then we've got Brigadier General Matthew Easley who's director of the army intelligence task force within futures command one of the interesting things besides his role in supervising the work going on in machine learning neural nets big data analytics is your wonderful education background which extends from a doctorate in computer science from University Colorado to jungle warfare school so it's a great group to talk about this topic I actually want to ping off of what was in your bio in terms of things that you were supervising and this is almost like asking back to the debates in Catholic school about how many angels fit on top of the pen can each of you define for us what you think artificial intelligence is because of course it's a disputed term so as you well know you've seen AI used a lot in media and a lot of different press organizations within my organization we have a charter of helping bring AI to the entire army which is a big charter we have hundreds of different systems we have war fighting systems we have enterprise systems business management systems and intelligence systems each of our four major mission areas and each one of those areas needs artificial intelligence from the concept of what is artificial intelligence I mean as people have seen there can be anything from just automating very routine tasks such as robotic process automation to being able to supplant subject matter experts in very key fields from doing auditing from reviewing court cases to radiology so we see AI as a spectrum of technologies and not just one thing but within my group trying to help us focus down the field we look at systems that at least have some capability of machine learning or being easily automatable to relearn a system so that they will react to the environment they will see a change in the environment they will update to those changes and based upon those changes we will update our algorithm either with humans slightly in loop or automatically and that will be at least that is kind of our going forward definition of AI I think from the soft perspective the way that we have described it we have briefed even sect of Esper on this concept it is taking the observe or decide and act concept and leveraging GPUs and massive data sets fusing those in a way that allows us to perceive describe and automate in an expedited manner so that we can command decision making at the speed of compute not at the speed of human interaction we will start out facilitating human decision making and as more capability and technological improvements arise and we begin to get the infrastructure in place we see AI eventually beginning to automate many of those decisions define for us automate that again also has a lot of things packed into that it does so it varies depending on what technology you want to talk about if we are talking about computer vision where we are using some algorithms to detect, characterize count, describe, geolocate objects that level of automation is one version if it is natural language processing it is automating the introduction of adding fields to describe a logistics part that if we add the additional characters will allow us to more expeditionously order the appropriate part and have it return in and of itself but as we stretch some of those technological wins automating is taking some of those discrete tactical actions that we intend to automate and beginning to transform entire areas through adding and layering technologies so let's look at the special operations space what do you see as some of the key opportunities for the application of AI what do you see as kind of key priority areas, examples, etc and why don't we go first with you general so for AI we see much closer integration between special operation forces and the traditional services special operations forces were designed to be light, they don't have a huge infrastructure tail behind them so typically when they deploy forward somewhere within easing support distance they'll typically have regular forces so we'll be there to support them with infrastructure with logistic capability food, supply, munitions anything they type need but with AI we're going to be able to do that in a more expeditious manner right now a lot of our the way things set up, the army goes in or one of the joint warfighters goes in sets up a fairly fixed infrastructure and then special operations can work in and out of that in a fairly routine routine manner, more of a hub and spoke kind of logistic model with AI and what we see the future of traditional warfare looking like where in any type of more traditional pure adversary fight we're not going to be able to have those types of main infrastructure hubs we're going to have to think how we're going to disperse more broadly in the environment be able to hide our assets and then have much closer integration between the traditional forces and the special operations forces I think special operations forces can have a big opportunity to leverage big data more so again special operations is light with much smaller systems where the services come in with larger assets larger ISR assets larger logistics tails and be able to support them in much more timely fashion so integration both at kind of a data level and the physical infrastructure I think is a big win as well as just a lot of the key technologies that are commercially available from full motion video analysis object detection and images to natural language processing are all big areas so General Clark has given us six focus areas for the application of artificial intelligence we began this process 12 months ago when he arrived in command earlier this year he defined the six focus areas for us one is perception and action two is planning a maneuver three is cyber security and resilience four is predictive maintenance five is recruiting assessment selection and six is business process automation and reform I think this year we have started or are starting to apply AI technologies in each of those areas leveraging the model that we've learned from Project Maven to start small with a discrete action and as we begin organizing our data recognizing the infrastructure changes required to do that predictive algorithm the true value of our data is uncovered and the opportunities of additional algorithmic developments occur so we're getting underway right now let's break that down so those priority areas that you listed in many ways they could apply over to the general force personnel side logistics cyber security resilience they also could apply over to the private sector we're seeing similar things you mentioned one area that might distinguish the application of this into the special operations space the idea of lighter needing less logistics are there any other aspects of it that you think are more particular to the special operations community versus general forces or general society application of it I could start I think general Clark has been very clear from the beginning that we proudly believe that we can be first movers in a space because of the smaller footprint that we have the global distribution of our capabilities in smaller footprint or because you have an ability to buy in a different way because there's a logistics I'm smaller I can buy things quick and easy those are different I think quick and easy is a relative term we cannot move as fast as industry moves and that's by design as well to ensure that we adhere to the laws of acquisition of the department we do have some authorities that allow us to move we also have an ability to have our acquisition professionals led by Mr. Jim Smith our acquisition executive extremely close to our operators and our operators can very quickly iterate with those acquisition professionals so that when we get a technology we can begin to iterate quickly on development of it but I think the department has been pretty progressive in some of the areas that they've been allowing new policies with OTAs and MTAs and other areas to allow what used to be uniquely a soft rapid acquisition capability to the services we just have to execute them and recognize how to do that quickly and there are areas where there's a huge overlap between a light industry unit and a special operations A team going into a city when you're going into a city that's a certain 90% of the mission the same and they may have a very specific mission going after certain key targets whereas in the Army it's a little broader so our technology doesn't have to be quite as focused we may not get all the special types of information that a special operations unit would get that a traditional title 10 force would have I think their interoperability with the rest of the government via law enforcement agencies a traditional service would have made that way by design and I think as we've discussed with the director of the joint artificial intelligence center Lieutenant General Shanahan and others the value proposition of soft we believe is that one willingness to relentlessly experiment in our formation and continue applying the most advanced technologies at every turn the willingness to assume risk of something not working is still iterating to the requirement but it's also soft to service if we can prove it out and soft as a microcosm of the joint force especially with AI technologies and the data they run on it should easily lift and be able to scale as we prove a success and we can start to deliver capability to the services so let's get specific in terms of that delivery capability one of the great things of both your roles is you sort of have you're constantly scanning for what's going on out there and you're seeing a lot of different areas of application and research so could you give us an example of application and an example or area of research that left you excited something you've seen over the last year in terms of where how it might be used or a new area that people are researching that was truly exciting to you that left you jazzed and you wanted to talk to other people about including all of us so at least with the Department of Defense we have a number of initiatives going on actually creating AI training pipelines and I think that's a huge step up that's happened over the last 12 to 18 months and the project maybe was kind of the forefront at least in the services but we're building those same type of capabilities with the Army, with predictive maintenance with object recognition technology so I think just us having that training pipeline and they've actually put AI systems into operations is a game changer for the services you as the general population I don't think that average American understands how much AI technology is already sitting in their smart phone from the voice recognition system to the image recognition systems identifying my children identifying human faces in this scene in front of me all those AI technologies are already built into your smart phones but the technology is not in the phone it's on an edge device but it's also in the cloud it's that interaction how do you get data from your edge device up in the cloud curate it train on it and then push it back to an edge device a little harder in the services since we just haven't had that ecosystem that all the cell phone companies and all the cloud providers provide for our general society so it's been a major muscle move into the Department of Defense to be able to take that technology and put it into a framework where we can actually start using it in the field in the Army how do we actually deploy it out to an infantry battalion has been and we're only at kind of the first steps of those of that technology as you all probably know a lot of these algorithms require a huge amount of data if you look at the amount of interactions amount of training you're doing on your your smart phone every day with Internet companies is staggering even if you don't tell it that it did a good job it's going to infer from that you actually still used it that you did a good job from the restaurants you go to to the ways you use your mapping algorithms to a whole series of systems in there that it's gathering data from we are still just thinking about how we're going to get that data off of our soldiers to do it in the same way the natural way that we do it from our smart phones from technologies I see a big win for the Department of Defense is we're not going to be in a lot of situations where we're going to be able to gather lots of data if you look at a lot of the self-driving car companies their modality the way they're gathering data by just driving cars all around the Bay Area or having big synthetic environments driving millions of miles in the synthetic system I think for a lot of our systems that we have in even special operations premium or in the traditional Tata 10 forces we're just not going to be able to create those scenarios to train on because these are war time scenarios and the only time these are going to happen is in simulation so we'll have to do a lot better job of building these simulation systems luckily there's a lot of work going on this year you talk about low shot or one shot learning where you get very limited amounts of data and from that data you can build synthetic models much a lot of different ways of kind of learning or training your AI algorithms with this technology but that's one of the big things my team is looking at focusing on research for this upcoming year yeah I'm thinking through the projects that we've started some of the technology that I've seen and the opportunities what we appreciate is the applied nature of our strategy where we plan to just begin plugging things in and recognizing the opportunity as we start doing it the predictive maintenance work that we're doing with the US Army special operations command 160th night stockers to date has been the most exciting I know that doesn't you know throw a lot of people you don't get up in the morning thinking that's what special forces AI is doing but our ability to improve our readiness levels our ability to detect engine failures before they occur and the opportunity to recognize an efficiency game and monetary savings at a high level has been pretty spectacular and allowed us to take that initial work that we did with the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and Carnegie Mellon University and begin iterating and identifying other ways that we can stretch that win so I think that's probably the most exciting thing that I've seen in the special operations community so far is that you know I like to think department leading work with the department centers responsible for this to get after our predictive maintenance needs some of the things that I've seen both both enthused me but also terrified me and I think of ways that we must be able to not only leverage that technology on offense but definitely on defense some of the work that GPT-2 and Y Combinator Open AI did in auto-generating text are things that we must as a nation worry about with special operations forces and our role with military information support operations I think we have to identify and leverage commercial leading technology probably used in the ad tech space now to be able to better identify fake deep fakes threat reporting that is emanating from a nation state with more objectives threat reporting that is coming from an insurgent threat they can leverage these technologies against our formation and challenge our understanding of the information space and affect the populations around us that we are operating in and so if we don't use commercial grade AI technologies to automate and visualize that understanding will be behind the power curve as you speak about the weaponization of social media you are definitely speaking my language here but one of the aspects of it is that you hit on is this technology area seems to be different than prior technology revolutions and that it has a relatively low barrier to entry and that it won't just be US military US high industry it will also be big state adversaries China has overall strategy to be a world leader in AI by the year 2030 it also if it is commercially available might be in the hands of non-state doctors all the way down to the individual insurgent how do you think the adversaries you have already given us one example of using deep fakes what are other ways that you think the adversary might be using artificial intelligence in a way that has to be thought of in particular in the types of special operations or light infantry space so we all have seen kind of use in recent days of drone attacks across the world drone attacks are only going to become more and more prevalent the technology is easy to get they are easy to weaponize and not to defend against so I think that is a big area special operations units use those technologies today they use them to clear buildings to route planning for themselves in cities where they may not have the visibility we in the traditional forces we are going to start using them in close coordination with our next generation combat vehicles we want to have our next generation tank to have an organic UAV with it and it is going to go over the next hill line and survey the area and then we are going to have our next generation as it goes forward but we know our peer adversaries or insurgents most anyone around the world is going to be able to do that and they are going to be able to do it at scale they are going to be able to just get video streams from a drone or from their own cell phone and then immediately post that to any number of social media sites and that information is going to be curated by somebody's AI either a commercial company and identify this is something of interest going on and you are not going to be able to hide from it very well so I think that technology is going to go both ways and we as the services have to start thinking about deception operations in a much more serious way though that we have not thought about over the last decade or two not to shamelessly plug like wars he just hit I have literally an op-ed out today 15 minutes on what he brought out so I am loving this advertising but let's hit something new I bought 10 copies of it and handed them out to senior leaders at US SOCOM and our deputy commander came back and said Dave do you have any more of those books I need to hand them out if you are not captured by this as a concept I don't think we are recognizing where the real space that warfare is coming to in the future is which is in the information space it's not just kinetic it is definitely an area that with the low barrier to entry because a lot of these technologies are just commercially available openly available and kids today can begin messing with these algorithms and learning to use them in a manner that our enemies are already beginning to apply them when I think about the non-information space and I go to the kinetic physical world it definitely is one of the things that I have been talking to our acquisition executive about in SOCOM leadership which is the offensive and defensive application of unmanned aerial system as we develop technologies to defend ourselves against them we need to start thinking about when they go autonomous themselves when that autonomous capability has computer vision algorithms on them and how we must use our own autonomy to defeat their autonomy it really turns into very rapidly my AI against your AI just to defend our formations I think so it's definitely an area that there are some advanced technologies beginning to emerge in but I think we rapidly need to begin to learn more about the environment and incorporate in those not just in the special forces but in the broader defense enterprise so that we do not find a surprise in the battlefield what interesting things is so you brought up new technologies small unmanned systems you brought up the idea of more conflict in a new domain the like war side influence operations there are potential possibilities coming from artificial intelligence that we know China is interested in is what came out of the breakthrough with Go where it was not just that the machine beat the human but the machine beat the human by using moves that humans who had played the game for over 2,000 years never came up with and so we might think about that application in terms of doctrine there might be ways or methods of attack that humans never would have come up with but it might be delivered by an AI but it hits to something else I wanted to ask you both which is what do you think will be possible say 10 years out so a 2029 scenario what's possible that is not possible today in terms of the application so we've used examples like face recognition or small UAS and those are from the reality today what are things that might be possible 10 years out I think a much closer integration between our sensing space our intelligence space and our operations space typically on our traditional in our title 10 army forces all those kind of pieces are still different staff sections in our organization so we'll have one group planning an operation one group trying to collect trying to make an estimate of what our adversaries might be doing or what's happening in the world to gather that kind of world state information and then we'll have sensing systems out there the aerial systems or information warfare systems just pulling in information in 10 years from now we need to synchronize those systems much more closely so that there is one space if you think a lot of business operations the way they run their businesses they have a good idea of what the market is today what their operations are and how they have their sensors deployed to gather that information in the military space that's much more dynamic because we're not sitting in this physical infrastructure but how do we project that out into our area of operations and then be able to do much faster dynamic replanting as you suggested with the game ago right now a lot of our systems especially in land warfare are very procedural we talk about just using acetate and we do that for a reason we've just had ways of dividing the battlefield we know we've got to block this area off because there's special operations going off and they have their special area and we leave them alone and literally we put a boundary box on the map so nothing can go there because they don't want to tell us what they're doing and we segment it off very procedurally in a static manner in the future I think the nature of warfare is going to be so much faster that the decision cycles on both sides from peer adversaries to non-state actors is going to be so fast that we're not going to have the luxury of having just static boundary lines on the battle space we have the same kind of issues in our airspace as well right now we have very static airspace deconfliction rules much like you would use flying in and out of Reagan Airport you know you can fly in here, you can fly out there and that's it in the future we have to have much more dynamic systems where we know that airplanes are going to be coming in helicopters coming in we'll be cleared to do artillery and all this dynamic piece so we can fight this much richer fight we're starting to build those tools now but to actually get those tools in a decade I think I would agree with everything General Ezy just said about a month ago I was in Afghanistan with General Clark and we went to Major General Donahue our Special Forces Commander in Afghanistan and we recognized the technologies that he was using and how they were trying to what we call single pane of glass the fusion of Intel and operational data in a way that just hadn't occurred before as we start to think about the future of 2029 and we start to think about the delivery of enterprise cloud capability the delivery of some of these joint common infrastructure capabilities that the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will deliver common tools common data standards in a way that we can use cross domain solutions as a service and begin to combine unclassified and classified information in real time where we begin to bring in logistics information on top of our Intel and our operational data we begin to bring in other service data and combine that in a way while using robotic process automation while capturing every click a human is currently doing inside that interface I think we'll begin to recognize how much faster we'll be able to make decisions and how much more often we can keep the human in the cognitive space and allow the computer to do those things that a computer can just inherently do faster if trained that we'll have humans on higher order decisions and tasks and we'll be able to execute a lot more operations in a much more efficient manner efficient also implying we have automated systems in the battle space that a human is overseen not necessarily flying let's open it up to the audience so if you have a question raise your hand and please introduce yourself so the first one was back in the back corner there I think so you mentioned that you use the comments off to service and that's been something going on for several decades but a lot of it doesn't seem purposeful a lot of the sort of technologies that the conventional forces have adopted that soft innovated or sort of accidental it's just kind of filtered down with the establishment Army Futures Command seems to be the purpose of speeding up acquisitions SOCOM has some successes in that areas what can we do to be more purposeful in those collaborations and soft as a test bed using the kinds of collaboration or sharing requirements or early ideas for desires that both the conventional force will want but maybe soft can start out with I still don't see that happening so can we do more of that and how would we do a better job of collaborating between conventional and soft I'll start I'll talk about some initiatives that are going on today we talked at length about the U860 program for predictive maintenance on our helicopter fleet we picked that helicopter because it's a joint platform all the services have it but it's actually a lot of my team at Carnegie Mellon doing the fundamental research to help build the system together with the rest of the Army the data is being stored at one of the Army data centers down in Vittsburg it really is a joint piece Army both with special operations and with the soldier lethality cross-functional team we're going out to buy the IVAS system for the kind of tech innovators in the room I've been a number of tech conferences over last year and believe it or not within a decade cell phones are pretty much going to go away most people are going to be wearing their cell phone on their face at least a lot of people believe that that's the the new literally today Vittsburg announced a partnership with Ray-Ban for cooler looking augmented glasses so we're I mean all the tech companies and all the entertainment companies are betting large sums of money in this area today because they think they're going to play cell phones because walking around with a cell phone looks like this is not as natural just having it on your face and having it fed directly into your eye coming to the army with the integrated visual augmentation system a lot of great technology initially it's not going to have the level of AI we want it to have because we haven't collected the data we haven't done the algorithms for it it's already built in with a lot of from object detection, object recognition systems to voice detection already built into that we see special operations forces that people are going to be using it first in the field for because they're always at the front line putting it into the traditional forces over the next year or two same thing with using UABs or small drones SEAL teams, Ranger units already have them integrated well into the formations to do clearing of cities we're only starting to do that with with our conventional forces but that is definitely on the short term roadmap I think I'll start out maybe everything's not as visible as it could be but in the last 30 days General Clark and Miss Lord's just had the soft acquisition summit which is an annual event every acquisition director from the services was at that summit and they discussed what soft doing, what the services are doing and where the intersection of those things are as they align with the national defense strategy and the department's modernization strategy. When I look at General Clark's priorities he has five of them compete and win for the nation preserve and grow the force, innovate for future threats, advance partnerships and strengthen our force and family I think every one of those plugs into the national defense strategy well and those acquisitions professionals make sure that as we're experimenting with the design technology by design definitely for number three and number four we're snap linked together and understand what each other are doing and the opportunity to hand off technologies I don't think it's only soft to service I think there are service to soft capabilities as well the fact that I know General easily before we walked in and sat on the stage I think is a result of again Lieutenant General Shanahan's leadership at the artificial intelligence center where we all now have a natural place to take these advanced technologies to take the data sets that we're all curating and begin to bring them together in a way and communicate at a persistent and recurring level that we haven't been able to before. Great, I have a question right there Ian. How about we'll do two Hi my name is I run the cyber security initiative we've been doing some thinking on the relationship between cyber security and partner capacity building which prompts me to ask what you're thinking about AI and partner capacity building it may seem way down the line but the indications on the cyber suggest that it's something we should be thinking about now both in terms of building direct capacity but also how we ensure that data that's being generated around the world is coming our way and not going to other people. Hold off on that and we'll get to the next question. I wanted to ask a question about the role of AI and future army training both first off and conventional. So from the standpoint of AI and our allied coalition partners I think it goes around not just I mean as we've talked about data being the key word here it's making the data interoperable and having the standards that we can share with our allies and partners. I think our geospatial agencies a lot of the federal government agencies have created really good standards on geospatial intelligence data and how we're going to just take pictures of the world and do that in the standardized method so we can share that with all the communities it's been a big success but we need to be sharing lots of other data and find ways we can curate that data and make that data available for our partners to be training some of their algorithms as well I think is a key point. We have a number of initiatives and I'll let Dave talk about his just within the army standing up just data lab to collect this type of data for training and then to collect the models so researchers or different organizations need to come in and get some of that data that we have made available for them.


Hi everyone and welcome to this knowledge clip on theories of international migration. This time I will be talking about migration transition theories which have become much more popular over the past years to explain why international migration exists. So here we have much more contemporary migration theory compared to more classical migration theories like the neoclassical theory, the push-pull model, the new economics of migration, labor market segmentation approaches or structuralist approaches which you might have already watched in the other knowledge clips that have been recorded. If you did not do so please do so because this is relevant background material but so migration transition theories they kind of get into a different direction and why is that well because these previous classical theories they start from the idea that migration and development tend to be kind of linear right so the more developed a country becomes the less likely it is for example that people do migrate out of that country. Now migration transition theories argue that this is actually much more complex and that we should fundamentally consider the relationship between development and international migration as a non-linear relationship and what does that mean? Well basically it means that when people are poor so that means on the graph that you see here next to me when you are at the left side of the graph you see that migration is slow and development is slow. Why is that the case? Because people if they live in poor societies are very unlikely to have sufficient financial resources to migrate. This is sometimes called the poverty constraint which kind of forces them sometimes to stay in the country of origin and the more developed the country becomes as you can also see in the graph the more developed the country becomes the more people will start to emigrate from that country and that is of course because of financial possibilities for example among others of people will increase with development and so migration transition theories in that sense are reacting also against this very popular idea sometimes in politics but sometimes you also see that in the news the idea that if you send development aid to countries of origins that that will kind of curb international migration. What we actually see in the figure is that this won't happen because the more a country develops the more people will eventually migrate until a certain tipping point when a country is sufficiently developed and when emigration will go down and you see with emigration we see a different graph emerging here namely poorly developed countries do not have a lot of immigration and the more a country gets developed the more migration you get towards the country as well. So on the macro level we do see this kind of pattern and that explains also why for example we do not have a mass migration from people from let's say Malawi because that's a very poor country and the people there do not have the capacities or the financial capacity very often to move and that is why we see that many migrants today are originating from middle income countries think about Turkey think about China, India, Mexico, Brazil for example where we see a much higher rate of out migration because these countries are already much more developed. Now the migration transition theory in its classical form has been formulated already in the 70s by Zelinsky a demographer but lately since 2010 there has been a couple of scholars particularly Jürgen Karling and Hans De Haas who further worked on the migration transition theories particularly to explain the micro level mechanism behind the general pattern and so what they say is that actually we should consider that for people once they are in the migration decision making process there's two different things that we need to think about on the one hand we need to think about the capabilities of people and on the other hand we have to think about their aspirations. Now when we talk about capability we can define this in line with Sen as the ability of human beings to lead the lives they have reason to value and to enhance the substantive choices that people have so if you have if you are capable to move to another place that's already something compared to people who do not have that capacity but so they argue that with development with the more developed the country becomes the more the capabilities of people increase but also the more that their aspirations increase that might be a little bit lower slower as you can see in the graph next to me the capabilities compared to the aspirations but still you see the migration aspirations and the capabilities they do increase together with the level of development so how does that work basically these scholars they argue that when people for example live in a developing country there is development aid and there is more education being offered to people that means that many more people in the country of origin in that specific country will have access or will have views on what is happening outside of their own community outside of their own country so they're much more exposed to alternative lifestyles which can influence their aspirations right and the ideas on what the good life exactly is and that explains for example why we see rural Morocco that despite the fact that it has been developing consistently over the years that we still see many people that have aspirations to move abroad because the capabilities they do not increase as fast as their aspirations the same there is a study by Shuval in rural Ethiopia which also shows that with the more educated the people become the more the aspirations to move abroad actually increase whereas the capabilities linked to development do increase much slower and that explains why we see so much migration then from a developing country because with development you increase the aspirations and lately also the capabilities which means that people with development will also be much more likely or tend to move abroad or internationally and that leads them to this figure again so that's the first figure that I also already showed which shows that the relationship between development and migration is really non-linear so that this idea that there is a linear relationship which implicitly is the idea behind the classical migration theories that that simply is not true now together Jorgen Karling and Hande Haas they made this matrix which put together the migration capabilities and the migration aspirations of people indicating whether they are high or whether they are low and then they allow to classify international migration into four different forms so you have for example low migration capabilities with low migration aspirations high migration aspirations that leads to involuntary immobility which means that some people they really want to move but they're not capable to do so think about Malawi again for example people might have an idea okay I want to move to a developed country but actually they do not have the capability so that means involuntary immobility they have to stay where they are at the same time you can also have of course that people do have a lot of migration capabilities and they do have high migration aspirations and then we get into most forms of international migration namely voluntary mobility next to this we can also classify here and that is interesting because many of the earlier theories really focused on economic migration but their conceptualization also allows to put forced migrations somewhere in namely people who have low migration aspirations so they generally were not kind of aiming to move but they have capabilities then you become involuntary mobile for example right because you have to move you have the capabilities you do not want to but moving of course is a better option than staying and that leads then to involuntary mobility and then there is a final form of mobility which they call acquiescent immobility which means simply that people have low migration aspirations and they have also low migration capabilities and that then leads to a situation where they also can keep in the place where they are rooted so this is migration transitions theory and aspirations capabilities model in a nutshell I hope you enjoyed this video


Now if you want to stick around we'll do a little Q&A and answer all your questions the best of my abilities and go from there So what do we have in the comments? This is a good one Jage bassoon says yeah, it sucks the move up from 39k was explosive. I'm hoping for a pullback to lump some apart Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to actually time it. What are you gonna do? Oh It's a good question Where dogs drive. Hello. Hello, Rob with all the big money coming in. Do you think we're going to actually have the The drawdowns bear market afterwards like before Some people are gonna say no some people say it's gonna be a supercycle and it's gonna go on just like if you take a look at the gold ETF and I'll just show you and how it actually worked. It was really like a it was a supercycle. Let me see Oh, what did there we go watch this and gold you can see didn't really do too much Actually was actually didn't do too bad since the mid 90s kind of just move sideways and Then it you know, 2000. Well, maybe those issue with the dot-com issues. So then we went up 2003 I mean somewhat I mean wars of course Saudi Arabia and stuff like that Iraq so there's a little bit uncertainty around that time and then 2001 9-11 But here November 2004 is when the gold ETF launched and you can see that on this price point What did it do? Because these are monthly candles You can see it's quite interesting actually the first month that launched it great then the next month it actually went down third month it went down even more Green part some TA people can tell me that's a doji. I don't know what that is and then of course it kind of moves sideways until Yeah, until late 2005 and then we it's it found its footing as Kramer likes to say and then just went up and up But then look at this It had a little bit of a drawdown of one two three four five six And kind of seventh month, but again, then a little bit sideways picked up went down Picked up and up and then over here, but this was during what happened in 2008 2009 that was the great recession and of course people were looking for a little bit of assurance And they wanted to get out of the traditional markets because traditional markets screwed them And what was it? What was there for him gold? And of course they rode that all the way up Congratulations, and then over here not so great, but yeah, whatever, but yeah So to answer your question, do I think it go up? I think it could do I think it's a supercycle? No, I don't I know some people will say You're crazy. It's gonna keep going up forever. Here's a here's a question I have for everybody the people that get in the ETFs. Do you think they really believe in the principles of Bitcoin and Decentralization and of course everything that it stands for and it's the hardest asset out there and that's of course, it's finite and Just how great it actually is especially as a hedge against inflation and gold 2.0 Or do you think they just interested in that number go up? I Think that most of them are just number go up and they're really happy with that and they'll still sell a little bit But I could be wrong. I think it's still gonna it's still going to move us in the right direction I think 20-1 4 is gonna be a massive year. So we'll see But that's why like everything I just told you how many times of have I been wrong plenty So since I don't know everything I don't claim to When I get out and I start selling things just like how I got into this market, which has been since 2022 I've been delicose average in 2022 I kind of screwed up a little bit as I did this thing called micro DC aing for like four or five months More on but then I went right back to dollar cost averaging in 2023 Now here on 2024. It's actually worked out pretty well But as we get into it as I've gotten into the market I will get out of the market I will I will get in as far as dollar cost averaging I will get out of dollar cost averaging Once I hit specific markers the link in the description you can watch the video one of my cell a percent But I'll always still have that 20% hodl bag And if I am wrong and there is a supercycle and it goes to 500,000 700,000 I think we'll all be happy if we keep a little hodl bag with us All right, what? Robbing thoughts on world coin getting a surprise ETF if you're asking me about ETFs, there's another one I was wrong on I didn't think we were actually get this ETF for Bitcoin Because I've been saying this is 20. I've been saying this thing since 2019 We're not gonna get an ETF and it was true in 2019 2020 2021 where everybody said I was crazy 2022 2023 and yeah, I was wrong 2024 So ETFs, I think it's more plausible that we'll have an Ethereum ETF Louise says, are you expecting a post or pre-having correction on Bitcoin? the last the last time that we had The last having was May 11 2020 and We had a major correction in March of 2020 and the reason for that correction It was nothing to do with Bitcoin. It had nothing to do with macro factors. It had everything to do with The Surveys of sickness the corona virus so And if we take a look back into 2016 It actually was just fine. It was moving around just fine kind of flattened out We're a little bit into it Maybe take a little bit of a tiny dip and then just shot off the moon in 2017 and beyond So I don't see anything slowing down unless something crazy happens in the macro environment But even the traditional economists are saying soft landing. Yeah, we'll see but it looks reasonable I don't expect it to happen. But boy, I sure would like it to Ah Airsoft plays it Rob your investments remind me of the quote seems to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak to steal Irving Berlin's Fred Astaire And you know, I'm this market is a gambler's paradise it is because It's tough to lose. It's tough to lose when you don't take it's It's actually easy to lose when you don't take profits. It's tough to lose because I Know some people will say that the market's moved by utility and just how greater project is I think markets are moved by speculation hype and that's pretty much it. Sorry I Love Ada if they're large is holding nothing wrong with Ada. Nothing wrong with Solana. Nothing wrong with Ethereum except for those crazy fees It doesn't matter it'll just keep going up. That's a good plan There's a lot of said degen Yeah, that's a good question Rob, what are the super cycle is turning early and finishing around the previous cycle time frames? Something to think about that's for sure. I don't know. We'll see what happens You know, we'll start to see I don't know we'll see what the What the indicators of course right now? We're in extreme greed. So take that as you will Joe Nash very good Thanks, I feel flattered. I appreciate that finally Joe Nash comes out tells me his real feelings. Let's see Mark says I'm done Unsum gladly great. See you Sorry, I couldn't make you happy, but that's a recipe for disaster. Let's see Although I'm 30 and old-purpose Bitcoin ETF for tax-free purpose in Canada. Congratulations Otherwise, I wouldn't hold ETS. Yeah, I guess that's a something How does that work out for you as far as an ETF in Canada and as a workout for long-term capital gains here in America? You know, if we hold everything if we hold our crypto over 12 months, we get a nice reduction of only paying 20 percent of capital gains Germany and Portugal apparently you guys get like zero So congratulations. I wonder how that works in Canada. I'm very interested in that one I Man, I wish I bought during that huge crash. Everybody says that too. Yeah, it's okay.  Did you buy in in the crazy bear market? Even if it was like 10 bucks like we talked about you did your job So you did the best you could do and that's it and all you gotta do is just move on Ivan says Robby think having will shoot up Bitcoin dominance. It looks to be that way. I'll make Ben happy as for sure So, let's see. We're probably at 55% Probably probably Actually, let's see Let's steal all Ben's information. I don't think you'll mind. Let's see so Dominance Look at that nice shark. So Let's see Hey, hey, hey 52% that's not Bitcoin was at 53.71 percent dominance of 20th February now it has dropped to 52% and that is without Stable coins just so everybody knows I think it go up I'm not sure I would like to point out to some people Look at this my big question is Is it Bitcoin or the Bitcoin ecosystem? Have you We haven't talked about stacks But look at this for this little mover Over one year you're at 216 percent stacks is essentially a layer two solution built on Bitcoin It's been around for quite some time. I remember when it was part of Mayor Suarez in the Miami coin and Maybe stuff like this and ordinals kind of eat into Bitcoin and there's a host of other layer two solutions being put on top of Bitcoin Maybe people who are savvy. They think themselves. Well Bitcoin did well and Layer twos do well one way is getting to layer twos. Maybe that'll kind of take it away But as far as like dominance, I Don't know But I do know that usually after the having is when we start to see alt coins move And if you think we've moved some with alts, you haven't seen anything yet Not sure. I'll stick to 55% actually no, no, I should I should say I'm gonna give you a range Bitcoin dominance will be between somewhere between 32% and 75% nailed it. I Think I'm gonna gonna crush that one question Alvara. I've never used uniswap Can you list the steps why I need to follow to access a much fourth fantastic question and I have something for you There's this great website. It's Dan teaches crypto and it's 100% free. It's always free It's all the best things that I can possibly do to educate you guys is the best way I possibly can and The website is link in the description. There's a video specifically for how to use uniswap if you are like I don't want to sign up for your junk free website Rob. I don't like you which is fine. It hurts But that's fine. You can go to Dan D gen and I can show you the same thing decentralized exchange quick and easy guy for 2024 metamask uniswap setup. So Well, off that would be for you and I make it as easy as I possibly can because I know it's frustrating and difficult Rob This is funny. Why does Ben's chart on total crypto market cap? You showed show a a bound of 20 trillion when Ben thinks it will go to 10 trillion shouldn't the model adjust to fit I'd ask them myself what he blocked me. Well, Ben hasn't blocked me yet. I'll ask When I see him next that's good.  I only they own all of them, but they have stakes in them And I don't know if they are the controlling members of the board and they have so much stock They're 51% they can change everything. So that would be the big question. They could force a fork This is one of those one of those thought processes that we had beforehand. They said look, we're gonna fork Bitcoin We're gonna make it Black rock Bitcoin extraordinary and we're gonna increase the limits to from 21 million to 200 billion Bitcoin and we're gonna, you know shove it down everybody's throat and we're gonna make a whole new Market so first of all out of all the Bitcoin forks Bitcoin cash Bitcoin SV Bitcoin diamond Bitcoin gold Bitcoin tomato whatever is out there every single one of them kept one thing in place 21 million for the finance supply So I don't see them actually doing that now if black rock does that does something a little wacky It would take a lot to actually do that But I will it is something to think about because they have over 4% of The Bitcoin circulating supply and I know they're catching up with micro strategy. Oh, excuse me. That's not black rock No, let me let me rephrase that all ETFs have 4% and Black rock is catching up to micro strategy. So that'll be interesting to see where it goes I don't think it'll happen, but hey anything's possible We will see Rob, how much will it go in this bull run great question? So I'm gonna say it's gonna be between somewhere between $10 and $25,000 somewhere in that range is where where a theorem will go. Hey, would you like to look at the? That's a lame answer. Would you like to look at the risk bands? We can do that All right, so let's see risk bands Actually, it's a And dashboard So wrist bands are great. It kind of gives you a Range Rangers are good and it kind of just gives you a little bit of leeway. So we're looking at here is when there's no risk Essentially almost that would be zero point zero zero which would give you a price tag of $328 for a theorem which wouldn't that be awesome? I remember back in 2017 buying or 20 not 2017 2018 buying if they're around a hundred bucks Those are good days because everybody thought it was trash And Whatever and here we are but if we go through this We can see At the risk levels Actually, it's pretty high at 0.7. Wow. It's even higher than Bitcoin. It's at 0.718 at 33,000 430. Wow The theorem is doing pretty well So to see where it could potentially go and of course this could move based on time frames But at one point zero zero zero which would be the riskiest Ethereum would be for prior data. You look at the price tag of 8,640 so I guess to answer your question Ethereum could be between three and twenty eight dollars and 8,640 I'm going to increase that to twenty thousand dollars So if they're gonna be between three hundred bucks and twenty thousand dollars, but that's what the risk factors say There's a host of other things look at but yes Cardonzo Why is it suck a high-cost move crypto to tangent this is the problem that we have to face when we Want to store a crypto? Unfortunately, so if you're going for the tangent wallet and you're moving just straight up a theorem it sucks It's not that bad though Somebody told me a lot of people told me actually is wait for the weekends, especially at night and those Ethereum fees go down And if you look at ERC 20 tokens those as well Some people will say also try to switch those over into layer 2 solutions and move those because there's it's very cheap That's just where we're at. So and if those are our centralized exchanges usually get like Coinbase does actually pretty reasonable rates I think There's a man, what's up? Probably do another meetup this week another me Here in Puerto Rico Might be crypto. What did I miss? Bitcoin's gonna go up there. Well, would you mind sharing what you do see a daily Bitcoin? I Still dollar-cost average Bitcoin. I did a lump sum. We did a video a couple of weeks ago Maybe three and we talked about lump summing We got into a good amount of funds from selling a condo here in Puerto Rico one of our places and we lump summed some of it and Worked out pretty well. Who knows tomorrow. Maybe maybe Bitcoin goes to zero. I don't know Eight or eight a dollar in Canada Forest says Robbie invest in Solana. Yes, I'm missing a lot of things Louise says if Bitcoin diamonds goes up, we'll all simply fly and out or take a big dip Unless we have It's a boatload of money that comes in I don't think No, no, no, I I mean look Bitcoin dominance has been going up and the alts and some alts some alts Will do well, but not all alts will go up simultaneously You're always gonna have that one outperformer, right? You're always gonna have that Pepe coin You're always going to have the doge coin go up 50% in a day Just how it is just because the Bitcoin dominance goes up Remember there's a lot of money sloshing into Bitcoin But there's also people that are front-running those people and they're saying, you know what I want to do I I'm going to get a dollar-cost average into alts because I know that these will do well because if you have a market cap of say 50 million it's a lot easier to double up on that or triple or quadruple than say, I don't know a hundred billion 200 billion just one of those things so no, I think some alts will do well But over time all Almost all alts will do great in the bull run because it doesn't matter. It's all hype and Speculation yeah, Lee says Let translated cycle my a this is an ETF cycle with huge money flows And only the crypto community has even realized how much money is coming. I don't think we can predict the price exactly Sounds good to me Let's see. We have a what Adam says we have a tax-free savings counter TSFA. Oh, it's very nice You get approximately eight grand contribution room a year starting at 18 years old. This is Canada, right? That's pretty good Like we have Roth IRAs here in the United States and Unfortunately, it depends on tax or pre-tax dollars There's additional IRAs. There's Roth IRAs. There's SEP It just depends and of course, that's why I use high-trust capital Been using them for three years now They work up pretty well if you'd like to figure or find out about that links in the description I do a deep dive video and also just so you know April 15th is your last Date to be able to contribute to your IRA for 2023 So and then I don't know how much Bitcoin's gonna be in a on April 15th. I have no idea So just be aware you can only $7,000 or $8,000 depending on your age Dan's a good dude for right now. Remember What do I talk about? About taking profits. Somebody somebody said this yesterday.  That seems kind of mean you should be a little bit more nice to your to your audience. No no, no, no, I have to You have to be treated like this you have to be be should be told that you know the honest truth Which is I will dump on each and every one of you if I get the opportunity So what you need to do is take profits and dump on me before I dump on you So just remember that when you think yourself hmm bitcoins at a million dollars or a theorem is that $8,700 should I take a 2% off the table 5% who would dump on me? Oh, yeah, Rob will so Hmm. Yeah, it's still up ready to go Mollett says he feels a number come down people will say what about Dan Coon the Dan Coon upgrade. That's for layer twos Andy is just like me. I'm gonna sell way too early Andy. It's okay You're in good company with the Rothschilds, right there in Rothschild. What do we say? I made all my money by selling too soon and never buying the absolute lows Hmm quantum leap at what age did you find the right woman for yourself, Rob? My 20s. I got lucky Man with my wife over 20 years And if you want to talk about the best investment, that's your best investment the right partner if you pick the wrong partner It's it's a pretty crappy life That's what it comes down to some had a pretty good pretty good statement. They said can a woman make a man a Billionaire and someone said yes Or no, this sorry can Can a significant other? Make you a millionaire and someone said yes, if you're a billionaire And it kind of goes to show you that if you pick the right person life is pretty great.  So I'm pretty good And look at me. I'm 72 years old. No, I'm scared. All right, everybody. So I think that's it Meme says it right. I feel it's an answer. Remember one of these was $300. Look, that's it for today So I'm gonna take off go to the beach. It's a beautiful day here in Puerto Rico And that is it for this session like today's video give a thumbs up consider subscribing when we talk about his time sensitive tomorrow. We'll have Sam my financial friend will be on and I'm gonna talk to him about what his big altcoin plays are And I'm gonna get a little quick report from Jerry Hall who was at the AI conference in Panama And we're gonna talk about the things that he saw and maybe some tokens that's That are hot on his list. That's it for today. Everybody. Thanks so much for stopping by especially on a Saturday I appreciate you and I'll see you on the next one. Have a good evening or night or day


Good day everybody just got back here to work but to load up the truck it's got a fresh safety on it looks like they didn't switch the drive tires they must have passed safety fine by me we're gonna go start her up get the AC running load up all of our stuff load up our weasel back there we'll be on our way we have a load going into Ontario we have eight stops starting in Thunder Bay Ontario and ending in Merricksville Ontario I think Merrickville where's Merrickville have I ever been there let's ask the Googles Merrickville Merrickville Ontario speak to me go okay oh that's up by Ottawa a little south of Ottawa close to between what close to Brockville somewhere up in there okay and that's where we're gonna end off sort of close to Ottawa Montreal area we'll see what happens we'll be there on Friday I'm guessing oh it's your oh man I mowed the lawn this morning yet and I got all that dust in my ear great okay let's get going we've been home for long enough it's time to get back to work we'll be gone probably a good three weeks we'll see what happens I gotta remember to leave these shades in the pickup those are my pickup shades my bedding put on here cool off the cab a little bit more because it was cooking in here before I bring weasel in here so he's sitting in the nice air-conditioned cab with a pickup still it's almost cooled off already put my bedding together get his sheet over top so he doesn't get mine all dirty get him in here and we're ready to rock and roll to get our day going just turning on to the trans-Canada eastbound east of Winnipeg in the ditch there with shoes in it weird when we get up well bud we're back to the steps go on I'm gonna use them all nope didn't look so so we're here at the border with the province of Ontario and Manitoba and also the line between eastern Canada and western Canada just on the eastern side here in Ontario at a nice truck stop here well it's a more rest area I guess not actually a truck stop what's actually pretty decent they built it in the last few years paved parking painted lines running water in the facility I know we're spoiled and plenty of room for a weasel to do his weasel business so it does feel good to be back out here again that always feels good to get back on the road beautiful day beautiful day it would feel a lot better to be swimming in our in our pond right now though tell you that look at these guys they pulled in here is that he could go to the bathroom over there and there's probably one two three four five six seven eight probably about 12 to 15 open parking spots I'm the only one here they pull in they pull the brakes right in the driveway over there that's the driveway to go around the parking spots which why wouldn't you just park in a parking spot well that's what I mean that's what I'm talking about right there the problem with Canadian trucking that I'm trying to fix by pointing it out as much as I can even though I might get annoying to you I try to point it out that people just roll into these parking areas roll into these truck stops and pull the brakes wherever they are and just leave their truck there like now they were stopped for a bathroom break but people do it all the time and stop for like 10 12 hours just right in the driveway when there's 15 open parking spots just pull the brakes wherever go inside have a shower eats up or come back pull the curtains go to bed and you're sitting and these are like easy parking spots too right you just pull in and you know what you would have actually been closer to the bathrooms then over there in the driveway it's so dumb it's funny right why how hard is it to park in a parking spot okay I'm done diesel how are you feeling I would have used a parking spot man they're very handy and somebody went to all your trouble now painting your lines for us so maybe we can use them you're a very smart diesel very smart what do you got in your face there you are a very intelligent weasel I agree someone went through all the trouble of painting these lines just for us yet some people can't figure out what what they're for why are these lines on the pavement I don't get it is this some kind of like game for the children I don't understand and of course the guy gets out of his truck and I'm just staring at him right just staring at him making him feel awkward right staring outside with diesel at the time just staring and God looks at me gives me one of these what I look at them look at the empty parking spots look back at them look at the empty parking spots look back at them he had no idea what I was trying to tell him no idea I'm not gonna like be a dink and go over there and I thought it was funny I was laughing it's not hurting anybody that he parked over there it's just funny that that's what people do in Canada some people not all some drivers and everyone who drives in Canada you know you know what I'm talking about don't sit there acting like oh you know you see it every day too and isn't it isn't a funny sort of so anyway we have another six hours at least to go today yet so we're gonna be driving well into the night like I said we'll be there oh well after midnight oh we might even be there like two or three in the morning oh goody shoot we're gonna have to hurry tomorrow to get to Hearst cuz Hearst is like six hours from there and I got to get there before that and that and this and that and we've got to get all our ducks in a row and if I don't get to Hearst I don't know if I'm gonna get to Sault Ste. Marie for my next delivery the next morning and then everything gets pushed back and I don't know if I'm gonna get unloaded on Friday and if I don't get unloaded on Friday I've got to wait till Monday to finish my deliveries and then I waste a whole weekend because I'm just sitting there waiting to get unloaded it's good to be back it's good to be back I'm glad to see that nothing's changed alright Thunder Bay isn't getting any closer get ourselves going we won't have many stops I'll probably stop and driving for a coffee and that's my only plan stop I'll let diesel out them look at this beautiful German shepherd here that's a beautiful dog GPS not plugged in again my GPS keeps unplugging itself as a mind of its own the caller Karen is a very independent woman don't want to be plugged in right here the Ontario sign as well good alright this is our mighty mighty highway that connects eastern Canada with western Canada interesting going through here during the summertime I'm so used to Northern Ontario being under a blanket of snow everything gets so green here in July hours to go we're just coming into Dryden Ontario here this is where we're gonna stop at the Husky for a coffee I'm not sure but the longest time of Husky travel plazas we're offering all professional drivers free coffees because of the whole virus thing we'll see maybe there's little giving away free coffee all day but it is just coffee and he's not like they're making the most money off it right we'll see people's generosity always has a limit there's the big Dryden mill probably half a drive I think that's a paper mill in 300 meters slide left on government straight highway 17 I don't know why you're telling me to go left I'm not actually turning I'm just going straight but the road is curving to the left all that paper plant stinks who why isn't that paper plant stinks so much you ever notice that we deliver paper sometimes pick up paper and stuff and every paper plant just stinks what they do in the process of making paper but something going on in there oh nice boat very nice that look much better hooked up to my pickup though well I think we're gonna stay at this petro pass here just at the corner of the 102 in the 17 right near Thunder Bay we made it it's 1 30 in the morning time to get some shut-eye and deliver this stuff in the morning so that's that's today but eight hours of driving so made a good day of it you guys batteries running low you need to charge yourselves up you need to go to bed I'm gonna go to bed too so we can catch up with each other right here on my YouTube channel tomorrow gonna be delivering into Thunder Bay Hurst Ontario and making our way like I said towards Ottawa I hope you guys join us for more it's gonna be some beautiful scenery I can tell you that I can promise you that gonna be some beautiful scenery today right after we're done in Thunder Bay and we head out through Nipagon up highway 11 right at the corner of 17 and 11 some great scenery up highway 11 there it's gonna be great hope to see you here if you haven't already don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss it good night


You must understand as a person who is a believer in God or maybe not even a believer in God you have to know this about God God is light He lives in the light and he only works in the light Somebody say God is light Say he lives in the light and he works only in the light God does not work in the dark So when God made light on the first day he was teaching us something how he works That any time he wants to do something in your life He does not start with doing something in your life He starts with preparing a station a workstation which will allow him to do something in your life What is that workstation light?  Come on guys I can bring you I can bring you so many things But these guys could not operate in the house without one condition It had to have a certain atmosphere and so is with God When God made light on the first day what he was telling us is this is that for me to begin to do something on this earth I have to bring my workstation on this earth and set it here, which was light The same way Jesus worked every miracle He would come to one house and there was a girl who was dead and they asked him Could you heal this resurrect this girl from the dead and Jesus would come in and the Bible says the whole house was crying and Weeping and whining and and just mourning and just negative. It was dark It was depression sadness crying not tears of joy, but tears of unbelief and the Bible says Jesus couldn't do any Miracle there until first he took everybody out of the house turned on the light and Atmosphere of faith and atmosphere of positivity and Atmosphere of victory and then the Bible says he spoke to the girl and the girl came back to life and he did a miracle in One place he came where people were educated and religious. It was his own hometown and The Bible says he stood up to do miracles, but did not do many miracles for one reason It's because the light the atmosphere of faith and positivity the atmosphere that God is able Jesus is God. Jesus is for us. He's not against that that atmosphere was gone It was pitch dark and Jesus God who can do anything couldn't do anything If you think that God Almighty is going to do a miracle in your life because he is Almighty You are wrong God is going to do a miracle in your life not because he is Almighty But because you make room for his station in your life If there is no room for the day one there will be no day two no day three no day four no day five No day six and there sure be no day seven We all want to see God create a Sun and the moon But God starts first bringing the light See for us There could be no light without the Sun For God there could be no Sun without the light God works completely opposite We say if you don't find a boyfriend you can't be happy God says if I can't make you hate happy you won't find a boyfriend See you say if I get that nice car only then I will be truly at peace and God says if you find that peace Then I'll give you a nice car God works completely opposite you say that if God if you give me a moon and the Sun Only then I will have light and God says I will give you light And then I will give you the moon the Sun and the stars God wants light not to come from the Sun. He wants light come from him He wants your joy your peace and your contentment not to come from things and not to come from people and not to come from a job But to come from himself For you to have light because you have God and you have his word and you have his Holy Spirit because somebody say amen Light comes from the word not from the Sun God works completely opposite and for us to see his work in our life on a personal level. We must embrace his way of working God works just like this. He brings light and then he brings the Sun We want God to work the opposite. We pray for the Sun We hope for the Sun. We ask for the Sun. We make plans for the Sun So that we can have light and God says I will give you light first and Then I will give you the Sun For example, maybe you're single today, and you are in that stage where you're single ready to mingle There's nobody to mingle with and maybe you're discouraged a bit Maybe you're coming even to church and you're saying man I'm in that state right now where I would really love somebody to love me for who I am and you're walking around Maybe there's darkness in your soul. You're crying. You're upset.  I'm so ugly. I wish somebody could love me What you're asking God is to give you a son to give you a moon and the stars Let me tell you how the Lord wants to bring that star in the moon and the Sun in your life He wants to make you feel so loved and accepted on day one and Bring that wish you desire on day four You want God to bring that on day one so that you will have the light on day four God works the opposite That's how Holy Spirit works.   There's still fighting. There's still this this array and disagreements But an inside of you something is there that was not there before you shouldn't feel so peaceful when nothing is peaceful around you But you do That is a day one That means day two is coming day three is coming day four is coming They five is coming day six and they seven is when you're gonna be at rest Don't think day one starts with God doing something around you day one starts with God doing something within you And if you have the light, it's a guarantee the Sun is coming If you have the peace, it's a guarantee the change is coming if you have the contentment and satisfaction It's a guarantee God's blessing God's success God's promotion is coming But if you on inside are empty if you run inside are still insecure if you run inside is still shattered and broken Day one is today your day The day where God will bring his light his love his peace So that when the Sun comes you will look at the Sun and say thank you for the sunshine