Okay, so first thing I'm going to introduce myself. My name is Marcus Cary, and I'm the community manager and I do security research at Rapid 7. And a couple of months ago I started playing around actually trying to write stuff. And this was before I joined Rapid 7. I've been in Rapid 7 like six months or something now. Before I started with Rapid 7, I started trying to be able to test network infrastructure devices. And then I got to Rapid 7 as a community manager. And I just started to, I kept on trying to do some of the stuff I was doing before. And since we do Metasploit at Rapid 7, I started adding stuff to Metasploit. Real quick background, I was a former U.S. Navy. I've been all over the world. I was at CT in the Navy. And I learned a lot of cool stuff there. Thanks, all those CTs out there. All those extra Navy guys out there. So I'm going to introduce my teammates. These guys also work for Rapid 7. Real quick, I'm going to let them introduce themselves real quick. My name is David Roode. I'm the exploit developer for Metasploit. Basically, I'm in charge of pretty much every single module that goes into Metasploit. I have to do code review of everything. And my past experience, I've been working in exploit Dove probably for five or six years at least. Prior to Metasploit, I worked for iDefense doing a lot of zero-day validation and stuff like that. I'm Will. I'm a pentester at Rapid 7. Been there about three years. Do all sorts of pentests. Anything from network pentests, web app pentests. They did talk on DDoSing, so we've done a little bit of that. I'm happy to be here. Okay, real quick. So what I'm going to do today, everything hopefully will be in a trunk within the next 24 hours. Dave? So what I'm going to do real quick is I'm going to go a quick little outline. I know everybody in here may not know what Metasploit is. There's a lot of people to do. So be patient with me if I'm going to start off a little bit slow here. But in the end, we're going to have a lot of demos. We're going to walk through some code on how we did this. And we're going to talk about from a pentesters perspective. Here's the actual outline. And we're going to just hopefully we'll have fun and hopefully you'll learn something. And after the talk, I'll be over there in the speaker lines for anybody that wants to beat me up or anything like that. Or ask questions. Real quick, Metasploit framework, the Metasploit project was founded in 2003 by H.D. Moore, who is the C.S.O. of Rapid 7 now. And so basically we actually, it kind of reminds me of the kind of like the sourcefire story, how sourcefires started up with an open source tool. And then we Metasploit got picked up by Rapid 7. I'm stuttering like a log up here. But basically the Metasploit framework is still open source, BSD license, and a lot of other commercial people use it. And we have Metasploit Express and Metasploit Pro. But everything here I'm going to talk about is going to be available in a Metasploit framework. And it's my intent and I'm kind of like a given community guy. A lot of people know me. So my whole purpose of doing this is trying to help organizations out. I come from a military background, government background. So I've always wanted to help people secure their systems and such. Alright, a little bit about the Metasploit framework architecture. And this slide right here, I'm not going to read the slides to you. But basically there's a lot of things in Metasploit framework. And these slides will be available afterwards, of course. The thing we want to concentrate on here is modules. And we use a combination of these modules to actually do, and actually most of this stuff has been used a long time just primarily for network exploitation. And I came to the Metasploit team from a defensive background. So my whole thing was like I want to actually help people defend networks and actually test their network infrastructure instead of just trying to exploit and host. And so here all these modules play some part in vSploit and Metasploit as a whole. In particular, we're talking about auxiliary modules. And in the end, when Dave comes up, he's going to talk about how anybody can contribute to do vSploit modules. As far as Metasploit development goes, if you want to actually start doing stuff that helps the community out, this is a really, really low threshold to actually start doing Metasploit development. So the whole point of this, I've deployed enterprise IDSs. I've built networks at large government places. I've did all kinds of defensive stuff. And sometimes you want to actually test to see if stuff is working, but you don't want to use live exploits. And a lot of people are concerned about running exploits on their network. A lot of people are adverse to that, and I definitely understand. So the vSploit thing is like doing paintball. So hopefully it doesn't knock anything over. And I can't say anything is 100% flawless. But in an ideal situation, we've had discussions even this morning where we're talking about, there could be a possibility to start sending stuff and IPS may shut a connection down if you have it in active mode, if you send it stuff that looks like exploitation or attack responses. So basically what I'm trying to do is it's really a new spin on auxiliary modules. Again, I'm not really trying to exploit anything. I'm kind of a nice guy. Some people say I look like Mr. T. Kimball Slice or something, but I'm a very nice guy. I'm scared of the mountains. It sucked. I actually drove here from Maryland. It was a four-day drive. That was crazy.  I'm telling you. Okay, again, the purpose of the whole v-sport thing is to actually evaluate devices on their own merit. Now, what I'm saying is on their own merit, I don't want to evade anything. I want to try to be able to test devices exactly as they say. I want to see if things do what they do. I mean, there's a funny commercial where Dennis Green is saying, it's a funny American beer commercial. I want to see if the device is what it says it is, pretty much. So I don't want to do any kind of traffic evasion. The main thing is I want to ensure proper network device placement because there's a lot of different networks where people don't even understand their own infrastructure. So it's absolutely impossible for them to place a device like an IDS or IPS or DLP because they just don't know the layout of their own network. And it's really, really true. And even if a consultant came in and a consultant comes in, they want to actually deploy IDSes on someone's network. Half the time, the people that they're supposed to help them, they don't know where they place the devices on their network anyway. So this is an attempt for people in-house security people to be able to test out stuff, send these things to trigger alerts. And if it's not trigger alerts, you know that you have your devices placed in the wrong place. So it's also an opportunity to train security staff. And I'm going to talk about this now. One of the things that I actually wrote that didn't make it here, and Dave said because I suck at writing code, it didn't make it into the trunk yet. But I've actually wrote a scheduling function into Metasploit, and it'll be in pretty soon, where you can actually schedule exploitation to happen. So you can say, I want to exploit to happen at 2 o'clock on a Saturday night. And it could be an exploit or it could be a vSploit module. So that'll be in Metasploit pretty quick. Didn't make it for this talk. But the thing is, if you have a managed security provider at MSSP or whatever they call it, or just your regular knocker, S-knocker, whatever you want to call it, you want to know if they're actually watching things at 3 or 4 in the morning. So the ability to actually schedule exploitation and to actually schedule exploits is going to be in Metasploit very, very soon. If I could code better being there today for this demo. But I actually had it working, but HD said my code sucked. Okay, so really the real important thing here is like, you know, in the whole AV world, you have the e-car file where you can actually drop it and it alerts. Well, there's not a really good test case for network-based traffic. And so one of the big things is the last bolt is good test cases are hard to emulate. I've tested out big enterprise IDS systems. I've tested out DLP solutions at major government customers. And even sometimes the vendors don't have a really easy way for people to test out stuff. With DLP, sometimes they have files that look like DLP for the whole side. But it's kind of hard to generate traffic in any kind of way to actually point it towards something and send stuff that should trip those alerts. So some of the things I'm talking about testing here is IDSs, IPSs, DLP stuff, firewalls, and basically NetFlow collection, all these different things. And it's, again, it's just to be able to test, educate, and be able to respond to things. So what I'm calling interesting traffic. I used to do a lot of network engineering and we had this term, it's probably a Cisco term, interesting traffic. So basically what you want to do from a client, and this is one of the things that you can do from a web browser or many other things, so you have a Metasploit framework on one side, you have a web browser on one side, you can actually do requests, and then Metasploit framework is going to send you data that looks like PII or whatever other kind of traffic. Also another big thing that I tried to do, and this was dead simple. So some of the things I'm talking about is not going to be rocket science, but it works really well. Basically being able to do DNS queries over different times, and actually when the scheduling piece works, we're going to be able to emulate malware at scheduled times on your network. So real quick, IDS and IPSs are mostly signature based, and most organizations run signature based IDSs, looks for known traffic, so if it looks for known traffic, we just have to know what it's looking for and we can actually emulate that traffic in a controlled way without actually popping boxes. We can emulate SQL injections, we can emulate attack responses and other kind of suspicious behavior. And IDSs should be able to catch all that stuff. So a DLP, in my opinion, I mean even some IDSs have a DLP type functionality that we can put in social security, regular expressions and all kind of other things. Most of them are concerned with PII, since all these data breaches are occurring lately, it's a big market for DLP solutions now. And I tell you, it's good to know if you make a million dollar investment if that actual investment is actually paying off. And many times people can actually validate if their stuff works. So the ideal situation is this, if you're going to try to go out and procure stuff, you would want to use something like vSploit to actually test to see if those things work. As they say they work. If they say they catch credit cards, test it with credit cards. Socials, whatever you're trying to do. Medical information. And a real important piece is to be able to custom the traffic and Dave's going to be talking about it, be able to actually write your own vSploit modules to meet your environment.  Okay, and also this is a big thing here. Sims are big and there's a million different definitions for Sims. I think this is the latest, this is kind of like the latest one I've seen a lot of analysts using. So I'm rolling with that, right? So basically they collect system logs, but one of the things that a lot of people have is they may have all these devices dispersed all over the network and I have really good friends that do large deployments of Sims. In many times, IDS's aren't even sending data to the Sim. This is a good way to send data all over my network, put in IP address range, send the data. Is my Sim seeing this traffic? Basically to test your Sims to see if they're logging that network-based traffic from your DLPs, your IPSs and all that stuff. So basically, here's what I did. And I apologize for people at the far back, because this is probably not that good, but once I'm going to do a demo, and so when you see the demo you'll see it much better. So basically I created a PII module and what the PII module does is it actually just generates web traffic that you can actually connect to it with your browser and I have it refreshing. So you have an option where it refreshes and generally speaking it generates a thousand lines of PII data and I even built a loan check in it to actually generate real looking credit card numbers because some devices are smart enough to do a loan check and so basically this will look like, if you place it in the right place in your network it will look like credit cards or SSNs are leaking. And also you have the capability to generate any kind of other traffic that you want to trigger. It meets a lot of criteria of different devices like DLP and IDS because it generates a three-way handshake and you're pulling data across the network. And that was a big, big challenge, but it's easy to do with Metasploit framework to be able to generate these things. So this web server module is typically used for stuff like DB, well browser auto-pwn and other kind of things in Metasploit, but I'm using everything for a totally different purpose than it is. I'm trying to use Metasploit more for good than evil. Okay, also I played around with all kind of stuff. I basically created a module that actually lets you download, randomly download stuff. Metasploit hosts that and sends files, harmless stuff. The web beaconing and I actually have, I think I might have changed the name of this to web querying, but actually when I got to Vegas after four days of travel, my Windows 7 laptop was totally blue screened and I lost everything. So this is actually like a good attempt of making good on presentation. So the web beaconing simply is, in a lot of government organizations, I see it time and time again that someone like US cert or some outside third party has to notify a government agency that they've been compromised and are beaconing to China or whatever it may be. They've been affected with zoos or any other kind of malware and it happens all the time. And what's funny about that is even though people may block that traffic, I often wonder like why didn't the organization see that traffic first? And so one of the things, I think this is one of the most important things that I've been doing is playing around with this web beaconing and actually doing more, doing research on the different types of malware and botnets and actually allowing people to upload their own list of DNS entries to actually test this out. And what's cool about it, I'm actually kind of a package junkie still. So I do wire start captures to make sure that everything is really happening. So basically the scenario would be this, you set Metasploit on your network on a different, on any kind of VLAN and just to test your network, just put it on your network and start doing these malicious queries. You know I have zoos, Mariposa and also the ability to do anything you want. I mean people are looking for different signatures and it actually, you can iterate this over a number of times. Also vulnerable headers. There's several vendors that actually do like passive vulnerability scanning like Tenable, Sourcefire actually can monitor. I think they have a product called RNA which actually sees what kind of devices you have on your network. And so sometimes people don't know. So one of these, this vulnerable header thing, what I did is I took a list of vulnerable headers, right? And I was like just drop these on the network to see if anybody's paying attention. So if you have IS4 or 5 server on your network that pops up and you don't know it, I mean do you have the ability to even see that? So these are the kind of things I'm talking about testing. And so here's a peak app of the actual, and you can probably see over there, if you can't see it, it's an old vulnerable header. Okay, I'm going to switch over to Dave real quick and he's going to be talking about writing vSploit modules for a second. So can I get a quick show of hands of how many people have actually written a module for Metasploit? Okay, so not too many of you. All right. This is just going to be like a really quick overview of some of the features and some of the, you know, like the ways of developing a module for Metasploit. First of all, Metasploit's written in Ruby, so if you're going to write a module for Ruby, or for Metasploit, it's really good to know Ruby and here's a few links and there's some book titles on there. The slides will be available after the talk so you can go back and look at them then. So Metasploit has a whole bunch of support for just about everything you can imagine. A lot of it originated for like a need for protocol support and all kinds of other kind of support that we needed for exploit development and post-exploitation and auxiliary modules and everything like that. So we have pretty much anything you can think of in there. And this comes in really handy when you're developing a module because you don't have to reinvent the wheel. It's already there for you. And this is just a few of the mix-ins that we have and what a mix-in is is basically like a library that you can include into your module and just call methods out of it. And we have ATP server, client, we have a scanner module and SMTP modules. So we have a lot of functionality in there and there's many, many more in there. You just have to look at the code and kind of dig in. All right, so I'm going to actually give you guys a little view of some code. So one of the modules that Marcus was just talking about is the web PII module. And basically what it does is it sets up a web server and it dumps a whole lot of data that looks like personal information. And the hopes is that DLP devices on your network will catch that stuff. So first of all, every module in Metasflight starts with this base class, Metasflight 3. Now we're on Metasflight 4, which just came out August 1st. So that class name is going to be changing to Metasflight 4. And with each module, you inherit the type of module that you're going to be writing, which is the MSF auxiliary in this case. And right here with the include, this is actually the mixins. Both of these are mixins. We actually wrote the PII mixin today. And what that does is generate all that PII data for you. So you can write any module you want. If you want that module to, you know, infiltrate PII information, you can do that. Just include this mixin and it's there for you. All the generating code is there. So you don't have to sit there and try to generate and match, you know, any kind of format for the PII. It's already there and done for you. And then we have the initialize for the class itself. Each module is a class. And this right here, this is the information structure. So this gives all the information to the users about what your module does, what the name of the module is, who wrote the module, what revision number you're actually on when the module, like when it was last updated. And you can also include references for anything that you write. If you find information out on the web and you think other people are going to find it useful, you can add those references into your module. And anyone who views your code can see that references. There's a lot of other things. It gets a little bit more complicated. Like you have default options and you can register options that you want for your module. So when someone is using your module, they have to configure it. They need to, you know, in this case we're using meta refresh as one of the options. So you can tell the module whether or not you want to auto refresh the web page with the PII data that it's dropping. And you can also change the amount of time and the number of PII entries that's generated. So this is just a function that Marcus wrote called create page. And it has this really awesome ASCII sheep. I love the ASCII sheep. Greatest accomplishment. It is your greatest accomplishment. All right. So right here he's actually building up the HTML of the web page that he's dropping. And you can see here he does a little check for the meta refresh option. So when you're actually writing a module and you want to get the information that the user configured, you access it through the data store. Everything is stored in the data store whenever there's an option that a user can set. So as long as you know the name of the option you can get the information out of that. It's just like a variable. So yeah, here he's just setting up the HTML. He's doing some more checking on some options. And right here we're using the mixin, the PII mixin that we wrote today to actually generate the PII data. And that's what this create PII call right here is. And that's actually what generates everything for you. And that will put the PII data on the page right here. Okay. And then this on request URI function, that's actually an overloaded function from the HTTP server mixin. So what happens is when a request for your web server comes in, this function is what's called. And you have the CLI and the request variables that are passed to the function. And that can give you detailed information about what the request was, where it came from, a whole lot of information about the client, user agent, everything. Everything that you could think of is in there in terms of a web request that would be coming your way. So right here is where he's calling that create page function that we went over. And this is the function that builds the page and has the awesome ASCII sheet that I love. And right here, the send response function. This is also part of the HTTP server mixin. So you can just call this directly. You don't have to do any kind of strange namespace convention or anything like that because you've already done it with the include. And this will just send the response to the client. And right here is the run function. And whenever you're writing an auxiliary module to actually run the module, the command is run. So the initial starting point of the module starts in the run function. So it's pretty simple. So that's just one of the modules that we did. Now I'll give you guys a quick look at the PII mixin that we wrote today. And this is the one that generates everything for you. So mixins are a little bit different. They're not really like a module. They're just something that you can include. It's a library that you include into your module and use the functionality of that library. So this is just defining the namespace of the library itself. So it starts off with MSF. And then down here you define that it's an auxiliary module. And finally, that the namespace should end with PII, which is the name of the mixin. And down here you have the initialize function, which is actually sort of an override of the auxiliary modules initialize. And this is what will set up options for that particular mixin. So the module itself, the auxiliary module, will inherit these options. So you'll have an entries option and an email domain option within the module if you include this. Okay, so here's some awesome Marcus code right here. I always pick on Marcus, but he's a really cool guy. I like Marcus. All right, so right here he's doing some code to create something that looks like a... I don't know, what are you trying to create here? So some function that looks like it's creating an account number of some kind. And here we have a function that's creating social security numbers and date of birth, passwords, some other stuff. Here's some general PII stuff. First names, last names, that kind of stuff. And here he's just checking the options to see how many entries to generate. And then everything returns back to the module that's using this. So it's pretty easy stuff. Another thing I wanted to show you guys is some of the support that we have in Metasploit for some really interesting string manipulation and randomization. Mostly it's used in exploit dev situations, but it could be useful in any kind of module, I imagine. So we have all kinds of stuff in here. We have an array of all the states, upper, alpha, lower, all that stuff. We can do, let's see, JavaScript comments. We can convert a string to JavaScript comments to Perl, to Java, UTF-8. Okay. All right, so just showing you that real quick. All right, so we'll move on now. Thanks, Dave. Real quick, Will's going to come up and he's going to talk about how people can use this from a pen tester's perspective. Right, so when I was brainstorming with Marcus, I was starting to talk about things that I just can't do on a pen tester or bad ideas. So one thing I'm not going to want to do is install malware on the corporate domain. I mean, obviously a terrible idea. ExfilTrading real PII data that puts me in a bad position and it's bad for the customer I'm working with. And then exploiting critical servers or systems. So I mean, depending on the scope of the engagement or what the goals are, there's certain servers that I'm just not going to want to attack because they're so business critical that if they went down, that could be a major issue. But there still are things that we can test for as part of those, so egress ports are one. So if we're modeling sort of the malware, we want to test what the command and control can go back out on. So if I'm on the corporate domain, I can begin to test, using vSploit, test all of my outbound connections and then I know how it can make outbound connections. Resolving blacklisted domains is another one. So I don't need to draw malware to do it. I can use vSploit to test these sorts of things. Sending known IDS signatures, that's another one that's in there. And that can also help on the pen test because then I can know what I might be able to get through if I was attacking, if it was an IPS rather than IDS. So we can send sets of rules, see how it behaves, and then exfiltrating simulated PII or other data. So rather than actually sending customer PII data so the credit card numbers, I can send the simulated ones. And the other thing I can do is I can sit with my client and I can say, is your network operations team catching this? Or we can do it with the scheduled part. We can do it at 2 a.m. One, did it get caught? And two, did you see the anomalous usage at that hour? So there's really good stuff that we can begin to test in sort of a simulated fashion rather than having to actually use data. So I wrote a module to do email and basically what it does is it will send the simulated PII data and you can set it to do, for instance, Gmail. So it'll connect to a Gmail server and actually send out via email a group of credit card numbers or whatever. And then also web. So another cool one would be if you wanted to post it to Pastebin or Wikipedia, you could test it out actually posting simulated PII data. So I'm trying to rush because we're running out of time here. So future thoughts, some other really cool stuff. Host-based DLP testing.  It may be very difficult to test in each instance, but if you were to say create a interpreter EXE, put it on all of them, have it run it, connect back to Metasploit, and then in an automated fashion actually test out if the data can leave that workstation and get out, for instance via Gmail which is a common way of getting it out. And then you could, using post-modules, add in other exfiltration methods. So if there was a new exfiltration method you wanted, you could just modify the post-module, still use the PII mix-in so it would be very short, very easy. And you could, with the client, say here's how I was able to get data out.  Then also IDS fingerprinting which was Bandit's idea, it was a really cool idea. So you know the signatures, you have known signatures for certain IDSs, and then you begin to send those signatures from a system and you can actually, in a passive way, fingerprint the IDS's stuff. So there's a lot of cool stuff that could be done with it and it could actually bring a lot of value in terms of the pen testing portion. Do you want to do your demos? Okay, real quick, I'm going to try to get some demos and hopefully the demo guides are kind. Okay, how does that look at the back? Do I need to increase the size? Should I raise this up a little bit? Okay, so right now, like I said, hopefully we're going to get as many of these modules in the trunk soon afterwards if we can keep Dave's over. We're going to get this stuff in the trunk soon as possible. So basically I used some research, 10 minutes. So basically I've been researching all over the place and actually one of our customers asked, can we simulate mariposa? And some of these things, and the whole point of this is sometimes on your network, there may be things that have been confiscated by the federal agents and all that stuff, but many times you can go into old networks and you can see people beaking out to all kind of crazy malware that's been retired a long time ago, but people aren't seeing it. So I think it's very, for things like mariposa, Zeus and all these things, what I did is I downloaded a list of all the DNS servers historically that they've been using. And I went out, I basically did DNS, I actually used a v-split module to go out and see which one still responded. And personally, I really don't care if somebody, I know some of these have been confiscated and such, but if they reply, I'm kind of wondering why are organizations not blacklisting some DNS names? So I think that you can show with this, I'm just gonna run this real quick. And it's straight out, I don't know what the ISP is here, but it just goes out and it starts resolving DNS entries to associate with mariposa historically. And what's kind of cool about this is this is a pretty safe thing to do on any network. Instead of actually having to install malware on a machine and look at it and you can't really do that, you wouldn't want to do that on a real environment, you can actually just do this and it would simulate that traffic. It's hung up for a second and I don't know if it's having a problem resolving something. But essentially it's dead simple, you put in an array of known bad stuff and you just do DNS queries on it. Okay, cool. So another thing I want to show you real quick is the WebPI module. Well, wouldn't you know it? Oh, okay, I'm good, hold on a second. So that's sending me a Politioner on that IP address there. I'll just go to it in a browser. And so basically it generates a list and this is a thousand pages of data that looks to be credit cards, CVV, social, and all kind of other stuff. And right here it says metasplay.org here. But if you're concerned with any kind of emails or anything else leaking out of your organization, you can easily replace that.  Now I'm thinking this could be, if you're interested in, like if you're a bank, if you have credit card numbers, if you have your, these first couple of digits here usually indicate what kind of bank it is. So if I was a bank, I would put fake stuff there and see and let it leak out of the network to see if my systems are seeing it. Or if you're a medical institution and you have medical information, you can actually do that. Now, anytime this refresh, it generates, I didn't do the auto refresh thing. So you can actually do something because every 15 seconds it's gonna generate a thousand entries. So over time you can actually calculate and you can actually change this to say if your pen tests are like Will said, hey look, I put a server on your network and I leaked all this data out. I took all this information out. Did you actually see any of that data? You're not leaking real data, but you're just seeing if the organization even has the visibility. Do they have their monitoring devices in the right place? And one of the other things is, the next one I'm gonna show you real quick, is I've actually been playing around with the snort rules. What's up guys over there? My source fire guys in the house. So in a case, there's not a lot of environments that have all their snort rules turned on, but every once in a while there's environments that you might want this rule, this rule, and this rule. So by saying in those particular cases, what you wanna do is you wanna be able to send information to those particular servers that you're concerned about, and actually see. So I actually looked in the VRT rules and show options. And I'm actually using a scanner mixed in, and the scanner mixed in, you can actually send it to several devices. So if you have a VLAN of like a class C and you wanna actually be able to send stuff to that whole entire class C, you can put it in a range, you can put it in a singular IP address. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set our host to metasploit.com and I can run this and what it does is it just does HTTP requests that should generate some of these rules. Now I haven't vetted all every one of these work yet, but I know I've played around with snort a little bit and it definitely does trigger some of the rules. So if you're actually interested in some of these things going to your servers, you can do it. Now this is not intended to try to flood snort a blind operator or anything.  So I think that we're at the end now and I appreciate everyone for coming. Thank you very much.


Hi, everyone. Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you in 2019, Panini National Treasure Football. One box, random team break, number one. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. Jared knocking out a ton of spots straight up. Winning, sweeping all the spots in the filler. Big thanks to him. Thanks everybody for making this happen. It's a big group effort in this group break. All teams are in. Let's roll it and randomize it six into four, 10 times, one, two, three, four. And once more, 10th and final time. Got Andrew down to Jeffrey. Six into four, 10 times for the teams. One, two, three, four. And 10th and final time. After 10, we got Cleveland. This is for you down to the Arizona football Cardinals. All right, Andrew with the Browns. Nicholas with the Buccaneers. Jared with the Packers and the Dolphins. Jeffrey with the Eagles. Jared with the Niners. Aaron with the Titans. Jared with the Jaguars. Saints and Bears. Nicholas with the Falcons. Jared with the Lions and Panthers. Nicholas with the Texans. Jared with the Giants. Nancy got my Raiders. Canard with the Patriots. Jared with the Chargers. Aaron with the Broncos. Jared with the Bengals. Aaron with the Bills. Yan with the Cowboys. Nicholas with the Commanders. And Jared, you've got this group of teams. Ram, Steelers, Chiefs, Vikings, Jets, Colts, Ravens and Seahawks. And Jeffrey with the Arizona football Cardinals. Let's sort by column A. We're gonna pause the video and give it just a little bit for some trading time if, and we'll see if there's any trades when we come back. So stick around, BRB. All right, welcome back everybody. No trades. So that list right here remains the same. Thanks everybody for making this happen. All right, so there it is. 2019, I don't know if this is 2020 right here, but 2019, remember it's in this shaped case. And I believe there's still the old, the wooden boxes from years gone by. So this case was marinating somewhere for a little while. So we'll mark this box. One, two, the terrible three, four. Right there, kind of hard to ride at that angle, but one, two, three, four. We'll roll the die, and the die will select the box. One, two, three, or four. If I roll a five or a six, we'll just roll again. And it's three. So we're gonna do that box over there. So the other three boxes we'll save for next time. The next one box break is loaded up. Most likely I'll just go one, two, three, four, five, six on the dice roll. We'll save that for a little bit later. Hey, Lucas, what's going on, Derek? How are you? Just got home from SoFi. That's right, big win for the Chargers. So it's an exciting game. You got some bonus football too. All right, quick little one box break. Good luck, everybody. A redemption on the bottom. That might be expired, but I think it probably will be. But talk to Panini. A lot of times they'll, we'll get you something back in return, maybe some points or maybe if you're lucky, the card itself. There's Jamal Adams for the Jets to 199. That'll be for Jared. You got Travis Kelsey, 13 out of 87 for the Chiefs. That's gonna be for Jared. Got Chris Carson. It's a 20 out of 49 century materials for the Hawks of the Sea, also for Jared. There's DK Metcalf, 24 out of 99. Piece of his jersey going to Jared in the Seahawks. There's Drew Bledsoe, Curtis Martin. 27 out of 99 dual relic for these old school patriots. That's gonna be for Canard in the Pats. We got Hunter Renfro for my Raiders. 15 out of 25, two color dual relic. And that's for Vegas Nancy, my Raiders. You got CJ Mosley, 26 out of 75 for the Jets. Goes to Jared. Well, more exciting than some recent Broncos matchups. And we got a Hakeem Butler, two out of five. RPA, could have been a different Cardinal Jeffrey with the Cardinals. But hey, still out of fives and under, gets the train whistle. It's still an out of five RPA. Not sure how he's been doing, but still get all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo! And we got a Bryce Love, 49 out of 99, three color patch and autograph another RPA. This time for Nicholas and the Commanders. I'll be honest with you, Derek. As a Raiders fan, I was definitely hoping for a tie. All right, so this redemption most likely expired. Yeah, expired in fall of 2021, but contact Panini, let's see what we can do. Drewlock, we'll still send that to Denver. That'd be for Aaron. Drewlock's Denver on the 2019 checklist. All right, well, nothing crazy in there, but we've just scratched the surface on a fresh case of 2019 NT football. The next one's in the store. Let's see what's in the next one. Thanks for watching, everybody. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Hi, it's right about here. There you go. Okay, I'm not gonna be able to see you guys. I don't think the chat, I don't know how this is gonna, okay. Oh, this is horrible view, isn't it? Yeah, okay. I didn't realize you guys would see. You guys are getting the reflections, aren't you? Yeah, it's very sunny. Oh, let's do it that way. Oh, this may work. Okay, is this better? Maybe? Oh, I'm trying to sit on the balcony to talk to you. Okay, change of plans. Apparently, this isn't gonna work so well. Balcony, sunshine, Florida. Nice to see you. Okay, above life channel. Let's shut the screen door. And let's have a conversation this morning. Lines a little bit. Hi, hey. Gotta be adaptable, right? Okay. Ooh, the bed behind me. Murphy bed. Hey, nice to see you. It's Frigid. Good morning. All right, so today is August 1st. And I'm actually in a beautiful hotel room in Walt Disney World, Florida. And I'm not gonna do a channeling right now. I'm not gonna do a channeling video, but I am gonna check in with you. Say good morning. And just connect. I wanted to connect first thing this morning. I'm getting ready to leave this room and start my day with horses. So I really have a healing connection to horses. They're extraordinarily beautifully intuitive, very empathic animals. And I've done some work in equine assisted coaching, receiving it, and also in natural lifemanship. And so I just really thought it would be cool. I've never been horseback riding in Disney World or in Florida. And so I'm looking forward to that. That's a big deal for me. So that's how I'm starting my day. I feel, hi, nice to see you on the live stream. There is not a channeling this morning. I am not channeling. Today, some of you, if you know my story, if you don't, there's a video here on Above Life channel. There's also one on very Grasshopper YouTube channel about my story. But today is significant for me. It is 20 years today, this morning here, that my dad made his transition into the afterlife. And that's super significant, not just because it was my dad and I was very, very close with my dad, but it's significant because two years after that, I literally opened the floodgates to my psychic awareness. And then I started doing psychic work. I started with mediumship. I started working in groups, doing what people would consider gallery-style readings and channeling and connecting with loved ones in the afterlife for people. That was primarily the focus of my work initially in the first, let's say, three to six months. Was that, probably six months, was that just that? And then it became just a really solid part of my work, a foundation for my work. I worked, I had a regular career job for years. And my mediumship work was just kind of this side thing that I did and became a business. And the only way that that ever happened for me, like I'd never been to a psychic. I had never had a card reading or tarot or anything like that at all until after I was a psychic. So I, and I opened up to my gifts two years after my dad died. And so I have a video about my psychic story. I actually should do a new video. Maybe I will today. It kind of depends on how the day goes because I'm really feeling, I'm feeling kind of mellow right now and I like that. I'm grateful for the mellowness. I did not sleep last night. I got back from Disney Springs. I got back late, it was like 11, I think. And for me, that's late this year. And I, you know, packed a little bit and stuff. And I was going to actually work a little bit. I have like a audio forecast I have to do for somebody. I haven't done it. It's like, I should have sent it yesterday. And I thought, well, maybe I'll channel or maybe I'll this or maybe I'll that, but I certainly feel like it. I listened to some like shaman music to help kind of calm my energy down and worked with my anointing oils that I have that I'm looking at right now in there across the room to just kind of, I didn't think it would be hard to sleep. And I kind of fell asleep for like maybe an hour and then I was awake.  So I've been up for a few hours, but I'm kind of, I'm tired because I feel like I haven't slept, but that's okay. Maybe that's why I feel mellow. This is my first cup of coffee though. I've been drinking tea all morning. So that's good, but. So good morning. I just wanted to share with you. This morning is not a channeling video right now. I'm just really in space, honoring the energy of what has allowed me to come forward in during this lifetime and share this with you to create an above-life channel, to create the Ferry Grasshopper channel, to have the focus of what I do like all day, every day for work, just in general the way I walk through the world. It all started because my dad made his transition into the afterlife 20 years ago today, 20 years ago today. And I wish I could tell you that grief gets lighter or better. And I think it really just changes. I think it's a part of who we are. I think it has, I've gotten to know it better what my grief, my personal grief is and my relationship with it. And more recently too, like after this last year, it seems like I am in a place in my life now where I am really open and willing to look at myself and kind of sort things through what doesn't fit now. It doesn't matter if it fit five years ago, 10 years ago, 25 years ago, 20 years ago, what matters is who I am today and the integration of all the experiences, the accumulation of all the experiences that I've had. Just like for you, we are the accumulation of the experiences that we've had and the energy of our spirit that is working with that energy as medicine and giving us the opportunities to express ourselves in new ways. We're always growing, which means we're always changing, we're always evolving. You cannot be expected to be the same person you were even six months ago or a year ago or whatever it might be, pick a time you shouldn't be the same. If you are the same, that might be something worth checking into because you might be missing out on some beautiful opportunities and potentials. So this grief piece and this relationship with grief, you know, because I've been sharing with you, if you watch me on Bridgen inspired on Instagram or fairy grasshop or my other YouTube channel, you know that I've been working on this personal healing journey, knowing that I would be coming up to this experience, this kind of moment where there's a shift now with this date, this 20 year anniversary of my dad's passing and August 1st, it's also Lama's, so Celtic holiday thing, pagan thing. I'm really connected to Celtic energy. I love it. And so that's why I'm like, oh, it's that too. Oh, and it's the first of the month. And the first is always a fresh start, step in, new beginning, new cycle. And so yesterday I did some clearing work. I mentioned that on my live stream last night on Bridgen inspired Instagram. I live stream on Instagram sometimes, especially when I'm out and about, it's easy that way when I'm traveling. And I shared that I had a clearing yesterday and I was going to, my intention was to have clearing and healing work done while I'm here. I already arranged that with a friend of mine who does that kind of work, wasn't sure what day it would be or what have you and it turns out yesterday, boom. Here's the needs right here, window of opportunity, whoop, opening. Are you gonna take it or not? And I said, yes, I choose me. And that became an opportunity, one of those opportunities that creates change in your life where in particular for me, this relationship with grief and loss and this fear of loss that can become so insurmountable that we almost feel paralyzed or so scared of losing something. And then you realize, maybe you never really had it, whatever that it is, whether it's like a person, whether it's a feeling of a sense, a false sense of like safety or security, whether it be for job or home or income or health or relationship or whatever that looks like, we never really have anything because everything is always moving, changing, growing, evolving. Everything is changing all the time, which means it's never gonna be the same. Even if it looks the same or seems the same or people try to act the same, it's not the same. Things are different. And as long as things grow and evolve and orbit around one another and move through your life in a way that works for you, great. But when something doesn't, and when something doesn't, it can kind of freak you out, right?  And that's kind of what's happened, I think, collectively, globally, energetically for all of us. We've gotten kind of pulled off our alignment and so we're not really sure what's going on. So it causes us to hold tighter to things that really we have no control over. We're like, there's this perception that we have control. Oh, we don't, we really don't. And when you try to hold something that's moving and spinning, it burns your hands. It burns because it needs to move. Everything needs to move. Everyone needs to move. Everything needs to change. And so I had this window of opportunity yesterday and I'm like, I choose me, choose me. So my relationship with grief and loss has started to evolve into this awareness of, maybe it's a recognition or awareness. I think it's an awareness. I always knew that grief and love were very closely related and connected. And the fear of loss is something that is very strong as well, but I recognize. And within myself, which has also been a fear of change, which has also been a challenge to take any kind of action that's real and substantial, especially when it's kind of like, gosh, I don't know how to explain this. It's like the relationship with grief impacts the relationships of everything that you have. How you perceive things, your values, people in your life, job, what you think of yourself, identity, all of it, it changes things. Like it gives me, how do I say this? Grief gives me an awareness of what's not mine. What is not me? I am not the emotion or the feeling of sadness or anger or control or fear. I am not those things. I feel those things. I interact with those things, but I don't have to become those things. Those things are not truly me in my natural state. What is me in my natural state can interact with things like that and can understand grief in a way that it doesn't have to be hard. It doesn't have to be this big, scary shadow. What if grief is just a simple contrast to love so that we know what love really is and what it means for us? And I know that when my dad left this earth, he really was struggling with loving himself and he really withheld himself his entire life. And there was a lot of fear. There was a lot of stigma. There was a lot of stereotype. There was a lot of fear of acceptance and there's just so much around that that I had the opportunity to start clearing some of the lineages yesterday. And so I did. And I know that I think grief teaches us, but I don't think we have to become it. I don't think we have to wear it like a cloak, like a superhero cape. I think it transforms us. It gives us lots of opportunity to be our best selves, which means being in alignment with ourselves. We cannot depend on other people's circumstances, situations or scenarios, like even me being in Disney World, I cannot depend on being in Disney World to make me feel good. I cannot get my making me feel better feelings from other people, other places, other situations, other circumstances. The feeling better piece isn't the issue. It's the I am identifying with the heaviness of the other energies that are here, that are present, which might be sadness, which might be, maybe I actually just feel really insecure or not worthy. Maybe I feel a comparison. Maybe I feel I'm comparing myself to who I am now versus who I was five years ago. Maybe I'm, there could be all sorts of things, expectations, other people's values, social constructs, anything could be none of this. But I feel like it's a great opportunity. And it's not easy to really change that relationship with grief in a way that we can coexist, we can coexist with it because it's not gonna go away. And it doesn't have to be heavy. It doesn't have to drown me. It can actually, and maybe it exists to show me what I really value. And what I really value then gives me information about who I am, who I am. And maybe the grief, it shows us where we're not in alignment. Maybe the grief exists in our lives so that we get a reality check and understand how we are changing ourselves so that other people benefit, how we are changing ourselves and compromising ourselves and what we really need and want for other people to feel comfortable or okay or to love us. Like we're trading away pieces of ourselves. And what are we getting in return? There needs to be a balance in the given receive. There needs to be a balance. And I don't think, I don't believe that grief is just this bad shadow thing. I think it is a place of growth. It's a discomfort and a disease that causes us to question who we are so that we can show up in our lives in alignment, in our fuller expression. So that what I can learn is what really love is. And that starts with me loving me, me choosing me, me respecting me and holding me sacred. And I can say that because I know what grief is. I know what it's like to lose someone. That isn't really important to you in your life. I know and you know what it's like to have lost, to actually have someone die.   It's not really anger, it's sadness. I don't really feel sad right now. I feel sort of grateful. I feel fortunate to know what I have to offer the world, the ability to be able to express myself and share this work that I do and in only the way that I do it with energetics as an intuitive life coach, as a medium, as a psychic. As someone I consider myself very much an encourager of people, I know exactly who I am. And that in part comes from this journey that I've been on over the last 20 years. Things change and so do we and it's okay. It's not easy, but it doesn't mean you're wrong or it's bad, it's just hard sometimes, it just is. Justice. Oh, I wrote something in my journal. Oh, shoot, I don't know why I think I packed it. I did pack it. Shoot. It was really good too. I wanted to share it with you, oh well. Sorry. All right. So good morning to you, good afternoon, good evening, whatever, you see this, I will, if I'm gonna live stream, I will, I should try to come back on YouTube, but it's super just easy for me to go bridge it inspired on Instagram. So if you're interested and I wanna connect with me today, I might do that. We'll see. I'm not really sure how I'm gonna feel. I don't feel sad though. There's not a sadness. There's just this incredible gratitude and this newer understanding of grief and like what the point of it is. There's kind of a relief that comes from realizing you don't really have control over things. You just show up and you be you and it doesn't really matter.  Well, whatever, if you were dead tomorrow, is that gonna matter? If somebody was gonna judge you some stranger, a random stranger on the internet or somebody that you want to be in your life and it just doesn't click? You know, I mean like what, how do you like fear of just, it just, there's so much. And it's like, it doesn't matter. Like what if, what if you're not here tomorrow? Did all that worry about what other people think matter? Did you honor yourself? Did you value yourself? Did you put yourself first? Not I matter more than you. Not it's a competition.  Not that. But to put yourself first in a way of loving yourself. Just really being in love with self. Respecting self. And then I think it's easier to express self fully. So that's what I've learned from grief, I guess is that. And none of this, this YouTube stuff would not even happen had I not lost my dad.  Might have happened in a different way. I don't know. But no channeling right now. I'm gonna go ride a horse. Yay, I'm so excited.  I can't wait. Okay, thanks for being here. Thanks so much for your support. I hope that I, I am grateful that I can, I know that I'll be able to express myself through this and other channels and continue to inspire your spirit as I am mine. Fill you with hope as I feel within myself and encourage us to live our lives. It's our life after all and we get to live it. I'm gonna say that to myself in the mirror. This is your life and you get to live it. Just live it. I'm gonna say that. Oh, I love you guys. I really appreciate it for those of you who are very like loyal viewers of above life channel and of my work. Thank you. Thank you.


Hello there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal and on this YouTube channel you can find videos about Jerusalem Israel the interesting things I find in both places the interesting people I meet sometimes also further a field I do make it out of the country now and again But for the most part that is what is coming up on this YouTube channel And I want to just invite anyone watching these videos if you have a suggestion for a particular place I should go within Israel to film a video or Somebody I should interview because I want to have more interviews more Perspectives more people on this YouTube channel then do feel free to either leave that as a comment on the video or Send me an email if you want to get my email address or an email address That'll reach me or one of my secretary Secretarial pool. I don't actually have any secretaries Use the about tab on this YouTube channel and an email will pop up but the one that works for the moment or that I have set up as my YouTube filter in my Gmail is a public at Daniel Rosal dot com I'll put it up on the screen But public as in the public at Daniel Rosal the way I spell my name on the YouTube channel Dot com and two L's in in Rosal sometimes people Send to one and say oh the email didn't didn't get you so speaking of emails that got to me I got one yesterday from someone called Rudy in New York and this is a really good question But it's a really thorny topic So I figured I would take it on today just before we get into the Purim Festivities here in Jerusalem. We have a religious festival beginning today in Jerusalem. It's one day after the rest of Israel It's technically Shushan Purim and it's kind of for those who haven't heard of Purim sort of a carnaval Carnaval type experience here. So Rudy's question said he says shallow. I'm planning on visiting Jerusalem this summer I'm planning on staying in West Jerusalem and to read that Jerusalem is Israel's capital a Palestinian tour guide I am planning on hiring however says that Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine and says that Israel does not own The city are there two different Jerusalem's Is or he doesn't he doesn't use the word or but I'm gonna put it, you know adding it for clarity or Is the city shared? I'm confused. I don't I don't blame this person How does the city function today now? It's actually that last I thank you for the thanks for the question Rudy and it's actually the last part of question that I'm going to talk about because the status of Jerusalem is extremely contested and very historic. This is one of the oldest Continuously inhabited cities in the world and if you go talking about the historical nature of Jerusalem We could go back literally thousands of years and there's a good book by a guy called Monte Fiori talking about Jerusalem for those who really want a deep dive on its history I will forewarn you that it is either good or bad bedtime reading depending on your perspective of what you want from a Bedtime reading book. It'll either put you to sleep very quickly, which is the effect It's had on me. It's a very dense historical text or you will be intrigued Go as you go to sleep and go to bed with being intrigued about Jerusalem But it covers the whole history of the city and there's also a Netflix series recently about Jerusalem as it was. I believe it's called the bright made of Jerusalem I hope I'm not getting the name wrong and it talks It shows Jerusalem through the end of the Ottoman era the British era and then the Jewish era if you want to call It that because that's the interesting thing is that not so long ago Jerusalem actually was part of the Ottoman a here's a fact that I find mind-blowing personally Jerusalem was a part of the Ottoman Empire for about four times I think as long as it's been under Israeli sovereignty So technically the Jerusalem we know today, which is Israeli Jerusalem is Actually more new than it was under the Ottomans. It wasn't under the British rule for all that long But there was there's still very much remnants of British rule in Jerusalem today For example, King George the Fifth Street, which was inaugurated by as the name was suggest Or honored at art. Sorry. I should say named in honor of King George But let's talk about the the question now You know if you ask if you look for the Jewish perspective the Jewish Israeli perspective and of course I try to mention whenever I present anything controversial that while I am a Jewish immigrant to Israel So my bias is going to be there if you want, we will say though Well, Jerusalem is a historically Jewish city and Palestinians will say but we want Jerusalem as the capital of our state And that's kind of the stalemate we find ourselves in today Jerusalem is kind of the flashpoint of the conflict the final status of Jerusalem is very much up for negotiations And I've done a video about Jerusalem status under International according to the international community today, and if you want to deep dive into this subject I recommend I'll put a link to my own video in the description But suffice to say that the international community if you look at why most embassies aren't in Jerusalem the reason is the status of Jerusalem is basically the majority of the world's nations hold the position that Jerusalem and Israel and The Israelis and the Palestinians need to work out between themselves come to a bilateral agreement About the status of Jerusalem and when you do so we're going to you know We'll accept that and we'll put our embassies and our consulates and our diplomatic representations and all the officialdom in West Jerusalem, but until you do that until the situation exists whereby Israel occupies East Jerusalem or annexes East Jerusalem or has taken over East of the Green Line in Jerusalem by itself. We're not going to have anything to do with Jerusalem We're going to maintain this kind of unworkable But technically on paper existing solution that Jerusalem should be a city under a special International regime something called the corpus separatum the best parallel today might be the city of Nicosia in Cyprus which exists halfway between Greek Cyprus and halfway between the mostly internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of North Cyprus the TRNC Jerusalem is not like that and I'm going to again talk about just the status of Jerusalem today So you have in Jerusalem a line running through it Which you'll see on the map called the Green Line and that's over where it's considered East Jerusalem something you won't see on the line or maybe you will on Google Maps actually is the boundary of the Jerusalem municipality which is for all intents and purposes where Jerusalem is according to the Israeli position, but the whole city functions and this is kind of the spoiler alert to my video The whole city functions as one Undivided city everywhere everywhere within the Jerusalem municipality network is considered by Israel to be Jerusalem in 1967 Israel captured or took back the old city from Jordan there was a border running through Jerusalem between 48 and 67 or a demarcation line or armistice line maybe is the best term according to many and that was a physically demarcated border slash armistice line with Jordan holding the city to the east Israel holding to the west was the exception of a enclave in Mount Scopus In 1967 the situation changed Israel pushed out the Jordanians Not just from the old city not just from east Jerusalem But from what we the West Bank slash you don't show him in general and now those remain under Israeli control And that's kind of created or that's been the situation up until the present Which is sort of a bit of a stalemate and a point of contention in international politics But Jerusalem today functions as one city so you can go from west Jerusalem to east Jerusalem Without crossing through any board when the I'm just looking at the question again When you know the Israeli website will say that Israel if you ask if you pull the vast majority of Israelis Israelis will say Jerusalem is our capital Israel is legislated Jerusalem as its capital according to a basic law and according to the Long-standing Jewish tradition. However, if we put the international community as a site is kind of a third perspective Many of them will say well, that's not legitimate because it's a technically unresolved point of conflict between you and The group known as Palestinians the Palestinians will say well al-Quds or al-Uds Is a Palestinian city and Israel's no right to be anywhere here a more moderate viewpoint would be that well We hope to have part of it Maybe east Jerusalem and the old city as our future capital so there is you know There's nuances to opinion on both sides of the debate But that's why you're gonna get such conflicting information and just to directly answer the questions Are there two different? Jerusalem's know we're talking about the exact same place the exact same small city is the city share That's a much tougher question to answer So the way it works today is I mentioned that you can go from anywhere in west Jerusalem to anywhere in east Jerusalem without encountering a checkpoint border anything any Geopolitical a division let's say and everything will be under Israeli control as I mentioned the Jerusalem municipality which is the municipal government of Jerusalem the urban government the city is you know sort of Some people would refer to it as they control everything within the boundary of the Jerusalem municipality and whether you're an point X in the west of Jerusalem or point Y in the East of Jerusalem it doesn't make any difference there Their authority the sovereignty of Israel the sovereignty of the municipality is applied equally in both parts However, there is what you might call an invisible dividing line running through Jerusalem corresponding roughly to that 1967 border called in Hebrew hatefe which means the seam and basically the populations are different in west Jerusalem. It's a majority Jewish city east Jerusalem. It's a majority Arab Palestinian city There are some Jewish enclaves built in east Jerusalem built over the green line because the right wing Israeli position is that you know Jerusalem's a Jewish city and we should have every inch of Jerusalem. We want to populate, right? So you have those communities such as in my lazy team But they're relatively small relative to both the land area and the population existing in East Jerusalem, but when you go over the 1967 green line the tefer when you cross into east Jerusalem because the people have changed the National identity has changed from Israeli to Palestinian the political ideology has changed the language has changed from Hebrew to Arabic It's still kind of unmistakable as well as a state of development East Jerusalem is generally speaking a lot less developed than west Jerusalem Just in terms of the quality of the housing the quality the infrastructure Not of course across the board, but if you were to take a taxi from west Jerusalem to east Jerusalem Yes, you wouldn't go through a checkpoint. You wouldn't go through a border, but you would Probably be able to tell that at some point you'd crossed you would see Palestinian flags flying on the road You would see Arabic graffiti You would see you know Arabic people instead of Jewish people and then you would also if you went far enough You would see the security barrier which divides roughly follows the Municipal boundary line and divides between the city of Jerusalem and the west the rest of the West Bank They're now disconnected previously. They were connected. I hope that's given a bit of info about Jerusalem today I didn't actually talk about one other complicated dynamic Which is that Jerusalem also has a very religious Jewish population What would be known in Hebrew as Harry D. Which is just usually a basically a sort of lazy word for very religious, let's say And they also have sort of a nucleus in Jerusalem within West Jerusalem So I think the best way to look at today's Jerusalem is actually not as one city But as three cities that kind of tribal confederation of a Jewish population That is either a secular or moderately religious a very religious Jewish population a Palestinian population No borders between all three groups, especially not between Jewish and Palestine and and ultra religious Jewish But separate bus networks, although they are now more interconnected than they were separate hospital networks separate school systems basically parallel Societies existing out of volition because the two groups just really don't get on Final detail about the status of Jerusalem today is the Palestinian Authority the PA which controls Ramallah and the area a cities and in the Palestinian Authority is Forbidden by Israeli law from operating in Jerusalem. So Israel really kind of cements its authority over East Jerusalem Even though it's not really what the local population want and they regard Jerusalem municipality and Israel as illegitimate occupiers So it's a very very complicated situation, but there really is only one Jerusalem. I think anyone's gonna agree with that There's one city. We're not talking about two different places the same place on the map and no borders But two very different political identities on either side of that Hope that video is interesting and as I mentioned if you do have questions about the political situation or Israel or Suggestions for places that you think I should see I would be love to receive them whether whether other comment On the video or as an email. It doesn't matter. Both will probably get to me And thank you for watching the video and if you want to get more like this Please like the video and please subscribe as well. It helps the channel to keep growing. Thanks for watching


And sisters brace yourselves because know that you can show up with your Ivy League degree pristine resume Taylor made for the job a trail of accolades and accomplishments and Still be questioned by those who are your intellectual inferiors Welcome back everyone So I've avoided MSNBC and the rest of the media's over-the-top Racial coverage of Katanji Brown Jackson who was recently confirmed to the Supreme Court Because I value my sanity and I want to continue living I am not exaggerating when I say that CNN MSNBC and even the network news outlets have sounded like racial Supremacists and their laser eagle-like focus on the level of melanin and Jackson's skin and how anybody that asks a single critical question About her judicial record is a snarling racist monster that literally wants her dead like dinosaurs heading back into the swamp This is what you do do come to expect frankly I mentioned that this in some ways is the fulfillment of the civil rights movement movements give rise to counter movements There are people who are not happy about the progress. This country is made They have a very different vision or want to freeze things where they are or take them backwards Lindsey Graham represents that faction as does Rand Paul as does, you know, Tom Cotton Josh Hawley And the rest, you know Malcolm X back in the day said the most Disrespected person in America is a black woman and that is exactly how a lot of black women felt when they saw that just say I don't trust a black woman to do the job I watched a lot of the hearings yesterday. It was very painful to watch a lot yesterday afternoon These attacks are designed to attack Katanji Brown Jackson's not her record But her personal character and that we know that these attacks Can put her life and the life of her family and children in danger and now they come over the top with these pedophilia Attacks, it's designed to put her life in danger Hold on. I'm having a series of elaborate heart attacks. Just keep it together.   That's preparewithdronetech.com All the colored girls who considered shaping justice when this system was not enough this moment is ours Commemorate it celebrate it see yourselves and sisters brace yourselves because know that you can show up with your Ivy League degree pristine resume Taylor made for the job a trail of accolades and accomplishments and Still be questioned by those who are your intellectual inferiors and likely no one will ever ask How did all these basic-ass other people even get in a position to pose a question to me?  She's talking about a scotus nominee for one not a queen or a dictator All supreme court nominees are questioned by Congress or as she calls them Intellectual inferiors, which sounds more like something I'd expect to hear from a racial supremacist The idea that black people are actually superior to white people is an insane notion That's actually gaining popularity on university campuses take this guy for example Who was a speaker at a Ohio State University my old school who gave a speech on so-called anti-racism? Where he claims that black people are actually superior to white people. I just wanted to say that It made this very clear the only people who are taught that they are superior to another race are white people And I would absolutely love to live in a world where black people were taught that they are superior I would love it because I'll pull hard at we believe that this idea that certain black people are somehow above scrutiny and Criticism is an idea that I've seen batted around the media a lot recently Josh Hawley is not backing down What he is doing is dangerous judge Jackson also faces a time that is at the intersection of racism and sexism and intense political divisions had a trip to the surreal during Ted Cruz's questioning when There was this extensive discussion of the summer reading list at the Georgetown day school The relevance of which was really hard to see Ted Cruz holding up pictures of a picture book And I think that in the context of a Supreme Court nomination that just seems sort of below the line of and by the way They still think Ibram Kendi is a critical race theorist. I've asked him He's not Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham and all the rest of you Mike Lee all of you and Tom thuggish cotton You didn't defend the teenage victims of the man you Gleefully put in a lifetime position on the Supreme Court You don't get to say anything about judge Katanji Brown Jackson She bested you intellectually and you're mad about it But they know their base gets really excited about critical race theory and questions about racist babies and Accusing black people of being soft on crime and about right-wing Christian victimology and QAnon the genius out of Tennessee asked her to Define the word woman a Question no previous Supreme Court nominee has ever been asked you got that She's a superior black woman and all of us inferior cave people should just shut up and be glad that we're not in CRT Gulags and likely no one will ever ask how did all these basic-ass other people even get in a position to pose a question to me Hey, we're elected. That's how all of these basic-ass inferior people get to write the question all scotis nominees What evidence does she have that the very tame line of questioning about her judicial record? Had anything to do with race or that it was somehow outside of the norm to question her about her judicial record Are we supposed to believe that white Supreme Court nominees aren't questioned just as critically Tamron Hall's dubious claim here that Amy Comey Barrett and Kavanaugh were celebrated is just an outright lie Does she not know that we have plenty of video proof of not how just those two were treated?  We are almost a year after the Me Too movement caught fire around the world And it feels like we are returning to the original ground zero of the Supreme Court nomination hearings A couple of years ago I saw the Republicans push through an alleged attempted rapist without an investigation But to the folks who have had their rights and friends to pawn we know how to recognize a wolf in sheep's clothing All right, my blood pressure is rising to dangerous levels So I better end it there if you enjoyed it Please hit that like button share and then leave a comment to let us all know what you think. Thanks a lot


So this just in the discount brokerage purple bricks is pulling out of the United States. They reported a 88% increase in losses up to 70 million dollars. So purple bricks is out of here they're out of the US which is not a big surprise to me. I've been watching these flat fee and discount brokerages for a while watching them operate seeing how they're structuring their business and so on and so forth and I have to say I kind of saw this coming so why are they losing money? So I've done a lot of research I've read a lot of articles I dug deep into all the information I can find online and my opinion and I would love to hear yours please comment below but they're charging a flat fee okay so they're charging a much lower rate than your traditional real estate company would charge you if you try to sell your house and however on the flip side they're they're paying their agents as employees okay so let's think about that for a second they're charging way less okay than a traditional brokerage is but then they're paying their paying their agents as employees so they're paying more all right they're paying out more to pay their employees but they're charging less so you're charging less and your expenses are higher okay something's got to give at some point so I think they just said enough's enough and they're going to stop the bleeding here and pull out of the U.S. and the reason why traditional brokerages are still thriving and will continue to thrive is because they're charging the correct amount okay and their expenses are low because they're not paying their agents as employees so when I say correct amount I mean that with all the liability all the hard work that goes into helping someone buy or sell a home you know dealing with all the intricate details handling all the emotions and trying to make the transition go smooth for the buyers and sellers there's a lot that goes into it and we are well worth the money you can ask me and my clients and I'm sure you have clients as well that will tell anyone that you are well worth what they paid you and I think this is a trend I think we're going to start seeing a lot of these flat fee discount brokerages start to go down I was just reading another article that I'll post below about redfin's losses redfin's losses shot up 84 percent purple brick shot up 88 percent so pretty similar there purple bricks lost 70 million okay redfin's losses were 67 million okay so very similar looking numbers here both of the company's revenues were up okay but however purple bricks saw that this was a losing battle so we'll just have to wait and see it'll be it'll be interesting to see what direction the entire industry goes in at this point especially after seeing purple bricks go down like this now I've had questions from day one when I started coaching and doing YouTube about what do you do about the discount brokerages what do you do about the flat fee brokerages how do you handle clients that want to use these brokerages and my answer has always been the same do not worry about these brokerages okay technology cannot replace real estate agents voice to voice is the reason why technology cannot replace real estate agents and if your client wants to go to a discount or flat fee brokerages let them go congratulate them okay help them out the door move them in that direction and let them know while they're on their way that when they go there and they have a bad experience because the customer service is going to be nothing like what you provide they're not going to handle your most delicate financial decisions the way that you will okay to come right back to you and that's what's happened with a lot of my clients I've had just a few because these discount flat fee brokerages have not really come into my market full steam yet definitely we fail to blow but when clients want to go there I'd say go and what happens is they come running back to me all right and they never leave me ever again after that the grass isn't always greener and that's what they think they think the grass is going to be greener they're going to save money they're going to save time everything's going to be all wonderful but they get over there and they realize the grass is not greener okay and what a huge mistake that they made by leaving their agent that did such a good job for them who actually cares about them their future everything that they have going on and they come running back so I think this is the way you should handle it realize that business is unlimited it's okay to let those people go that's going to save us time that we would have spent on those people that we can now spend on other people that want to do business with us if those clients leave and never come back then you should again congratulate them for finding a situation that they love that they feel comfortable with that they feel is the best for them you want your clients to be in the best position for them okay whatever they think is best for them that's what you should want for them not because you feel like you're going to lose money if they go somewhere else you're not going to lose money because here's how you should view it okay your time is worth money okay if they just gave you back time now you're going to fill that time up with people who actually want to do business with you and now you haven't lost anything you've actually gained something I would love to hear your opinion on this please comment below smash the heck out of that like button let me know what questions I can answer let me know what I can do for you you guys have a good rest of the day we'll talk to you soon


How to start a business in 2020 In the middle of the year 2007, I went to visit my only brother. He's older than me by over a decade and he treated me like his child. Little did I know that the good days of our relationship was about to end and his television was the reason for it. What happened was, on the Wednesday afternoon after my brother had gone to work, I was watching a TV show anchored by Fumi Ayanda, a Nigerian talk show host, where a guy was invited to talk about entrepreneurship. I can't remember anything special this guy talked about that got me crazy, but I remember it was that day I decided I was going to build my own company, or die trying to develop it. I left my brother's house without telling him about my new found religion and I started preparing like crazy for the new world where nothing is guaranteed. I read every book I could find about entrepreneurship. I was so determined that I was going to start a business immediately after I left school. About a year after this day, I finished the last exam for the diploma program I was doing in a Nigerian Polytechnic. Since diplomas were never considered education in my country, everyone expected that my next decision was going to be to go to university or do some higher national diploma. I instead announced to my family members that I'm not only going to say no to the classroom forever, but I also wouldn't even collect the certificate for my degree.  There I was in July of 2008. I had everything against me and almost nothing in my favor, but I always remind myself about the reasons and the covenant I'd made to myself. I didn't know how I would do it, but I knew that I would build my own company or die trying to do it. Okay, enough of the boring story. How can you start a business this year? Well, the answer is straightforward. Start. If you're disappointed by my answer, let me give some explanations. Sometime last year, I wanted to learn how to be a better writer, so I started reading about how to be a better writer. Since I remember that Gary Halbert was a great writer, I searched the internet to see some of his opinions about how to be a great writer, and I was lucky to find one of his newsletters, where he talked about becoming a better writer. Halbert's advice is rather too simple for what I thought I needed, and he simply wrote, If you want to be a better writer, write every day. Nobody wants such advice. We all want magical information that can help us do all kinds of stuff, but the only way to be a master in any field is by doing. Today, I write about seven hours every week, and the more I write, the better I become at writing. You see, the only single way to start a business is to begin. But, but, but… I understand. You have a long list of what ought to be right before you can start a business. Well, I hate to be a carrier of bad news, but here is some. The perfect time can only come in your mind. You'll never get to that point when everything seems to be right to do anything. That's the reason why Nike said, Just do it. If today, anyone asks me, How can anyone become a great entrepreneur? The answer will be, Start a business. While I recommend reading and learning a lot, I've seen people who read a lot about business, but don't know much about entrepreneurship, simply because they do nothing about what they read. Think about driving. You might buy 10 books about how to drive and read all of them. Do you think you'll know how to drive after reading those books? Yes, the books may help you to understand some traffic laws and some technicalities of driving, but again, you'll never be able to drive a car until you drive a car. Make mistakes and fail. How can anyone succeed in business? Well, start a business. The real obstacle. I've heard so many people complaining about all sorts of things. Some think that the reason why they can't start a business is that they don't have money to start. Some believe that the economy is not favourable. Some erroneously believe that all opportunities are taken and none of these are an obstacle. The real obstacle is fear. Fear. That's what stops people. The fear of failure. Fear of what might happen. Fear of what people would say. But fear is like envy or jealousy. We don't like to confess it because our society frowns against the confession of fear. Think about jealousy or envy, for instance. If anyone is jealous of you, the person will never say that. Instead, he will reveal that jealousy with some anger by looking for what you say or do to cover up their jealousy. The reason why people use anger to cover up jealousy is that anger is socially acceptable, but jealousy isn't. The society accepts that it's fine to be angry with people, but we don't take that it's nice to be envious of them. And that's why people use anger to cover envy. The same thing with fear. We feel it and know it. But we don't confess it because our society doesn't accept it as usual. Instead of acknowledging our concerns, we look for excuses to cover them up. He who covers his sin shall not prosper, is what the Bible says. And he who covers his fear shall not succeed, is what I mean. You must be honest with yourself if you genuinely want to succeed as an entrepreneur. And that honesty starts by confessing that your fear is the reason why you don't pursue your dreams. If you confess your sin, you can overcome them.  So, how do you overcome the fear of failure, which keeps people from starting a business? The answer, again, is too simple to be taken seriously. Start. The only way to overcome the fear of cold water when you're in the bathroom is by going under the shower and let the water come over you. The only way to overcome war fears is to be in the middle of the battle. When you get to the middle of the fight, the fear of death will disappear and the thoughts of victory will dominate your mind. Most people don't ever cross the thin line that's between dream and its achievement. That thin step is the first step. You have to be courageous enough to take the first step, then another step, and then another step. Don't look far into the future. Another reason why most people won't ever start their own business is that they try to look at a thousand miles away. Starting a business is like driving at night. You can only see a few feet away, yet you have to keep on driving, believing that all the dots will connect somehow as you move. Sometimes we meet some roadblocks and that's fine because we have the power to move on after some falls. The best way to learn how to drive a car is to drive a car. The best way to become a successful writer is to write. The best way to start a business this year that will succeed in the future is to start a business. 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