Welcome to GL asset news. My name is Rob and welcome to the live stream So today we've got a lot of things to go over first of all You're here because of the thumbnail on the title and this is probably the second biggest bullish story I've seen throughout this entire year. We're gonna talk about how JP Morgan the major bullish news and What they're doing and they just put a letter out to their shareholders But what's gonna happen in the future as far as with crypto? We're gonna take a look at that and also some concerns. We're also gonna talk about VC dumping and we're gonna give a great CJ Riklin here He's an advisor to rebellion capital partners and lastly we're gonna talk about how only 1% of Crypto tokens as far as like token offerings have given a 10x return for this entire year and then D gen had three of them So we'll do all those things and we'll do a Q&A at the very end of the live stream So let's just jump in because we got a lot of stuff to go over so first up let's just take a look at the big story, which is this and If you're really going to rock you've heard this awful awful awful story.  So since I live here in Texas, it's pretty awful and you can feel It's pretty palpable the sadness. So That's how it is moment of silence so I Will just say this and then we'll move on I Everybody knows I've lived in Las Vegas for a couple years and during that time there was that big mass shooting some not same thing He was on some hotel and there was a country Western concert And he sprayed killed a bunch of people and it was the same and what happened was it was it was Sadness then there was anger and outrage and there was talk of something happening and nothing ever happened And then of course there was the Las Vegas strong bumper stickers And then I moved back to El Paso and like a year later We had that massive Walmart shooting where another 10 12 people were killed by another mad gunman and it was sadness anger and outrage talk about something to be done and Of course the bumper stickers El Paso strong you can still see him El Paso strong says so strong and that's what it is I don't know what the resolution is here. It's not a political channel, but say I'm getting real tired of Seeing all these things go down. So Let's let's move on to crypto. So This is the market. You guys know what it is and Bitcoins down actually excuse me bitcoins up a little bit theorems up a little bit and Everything's up just a little bit and it's because you know our correlated asset market S&P 500 as well as Nasdaq is also up So that's good and we'd like to see those little pumps and hopefully they'll continue and maybe they will with stories such as this and We haven't had some good news lately. Let's be honest It's like getting kicked in the teeth every day for this market, but again, there are much worse things out there So keep that in perspective. However this does buoy my hopes as far as the market itself and JP Morgan says Bitcoin is undervalued by 20%. Let's that's a it's adorable. It's nice, but says crypto currencies are now a preferred Alternative asset which is which is pretty amazing quite honestly if you take a look at the CEO Jamie Diamond and this is his progression from 2015 to 2021 first, he said virtual currencies will be stopped and and Then he said that Bitcoin is a fraud And then he said he regrets calling Bitcoin a fraud but believes in the technology behind it Which is what a lot of people always start to spout off about blockchains great, but Bitcoin sucks Then Jamie Diamond says Bitcoin is not my cup of tea even as JP Morgan has warned in crypto Then JP Morgan says investors could make 1% of portfolios and of course now awful now here. We are JP Morgan may offer Managed Bitcoin fund and then of course today we got this this is what's going on and This is what we have. Now. There's a big difference. I think someone says in the comments between talking about and doing it Remember that but it's looking pretty good Here's we got banking giant JP Morgan says Bitcoin is massively under value maintaining its estimate of Bitcoin's fair value at 38,000 and it's Below that we'll say the bank today reiterated the assessment I gave the asset in February when the crypto was around 43 400 So okay, so they think it's totally undervalued which if if you're into investing like I am Which pretty sure you are because you're here You know that distressed assets are just waiting to be scooped up and out to clients issued Wednesday Let me say that one more time in a note to clients issued Wednesday The bank stated that it is replacing real estate with digital or crypto assets as it's preferred Alternative asset class along with hedge funds setting potential lagged repricing and private equity private debt and real estate one more time Notes to clients. They're replacing real estate with digital crypto assets as it's preferred Alternative asset class along with hedge funds. I love that that sounds good. I could use some good news. That's fantastic Here's where it gets a little wonky Maybe the strategist also believed that the trajectory for VC funding venture capitalist funding would be crucial in helping the crypto market to avoid The long winter of 2018 2019 which makes sense, right? We all like VCs. VCs are great. They throw our money. Everything's good Maybe we'll get to that in a second just today Ethereum scaling startup Starkware raise a hundred million and eight billion valuation and venture giant and recent Horowitz announced the 1.5 billion Allotment for crypto investments as part of its larger 4.5 billion fund. Why don't I even mention this? It's because I know you're afraid. I see the fear and greed index. It's like at 11 or 10 or something Ridiculously low. It's because people are afraid just like people were afraid in 2018 Just like they were afraid in 2014 that crypto is gonna go away because some person on some channel some I don't know investment legend Said it's gonna go away to zero and of course a couple years later than they're like, I'm all Bitcoin so whatever but It's just goes to show you that as much as we've endured We're still making strides and people are still dumping money into it. We're gonna get that a little bit later, too Thus far there's a little evidence of VC funding drying up post Tara's collapse of the 25 billion funding to date Almost four billion came in for Tara. So let me make this clear. It's not like 25 billion went into Tara They're just saying that look even though Tara collapsed and it collapsed It had a big pullback in the market You're still getting four billion dollars more people coming in or four billion dollars worth of revenue coming This people believe in it And then our best guess is the VC funding will continue in a long winter similar to 2018 2019 Would be averted. Well, man, I hope so. I Will tell you this there's two sides of the story One is people always say this time. It's different. I heard that I Hear that every day actually there's a book actually It's called this time is different and it kind of goes about and says that no not in reality a lot of times It isn't different. However, it is odd because we are a lot farther along than we were in 2017 think back in 2017 what did a theorem really do? Honestly, it was like well, it's smart contracts. Great. What's that? Well, it can unlock things automatically and do a lot of things in life Great. What does it do? Well, it doesn't do anything. It didn't do anything.  No, but it's a little bit different than what it was before so potentially that could be correct and I Just want to remind everybody that yes, it's a little bit of a difficult time But just remember stuff like this. This is my first biggest news as far as like bullish news this second would be JP Morgan and this was from the I always get this wrong The Swiss asset manager Julius bear with half a trillion assets under management and their CEO said this They Crypto DeFi will transform the financial sector over the next 10 years and it's important for us to gain a strong foothold in this area That's why it's exactly the right moment to invest in the long-term potential of digital asset technology It's kind of strange that that is the exact same kind of wording digital assets That Forbes said Interesting then also if you think it's gonna go away take a look at this. This is from Riot blockchain and they are they said this is a proud moment here in Rockdale That's in the eastern part of Texas I believe our construction of building is underway the last building in our 400 megawatt expansion and look at that That's the one behind there That's the one that they're just building now for Bitcoin mining operation. They've already got a bunch of them already up and running so Look if you think things are going away, it's not it may slow down But we're still going in the right direction So I'm going to think about that in the comment section That leads me to my next point so This section VC dumping and it's gonna start off kind of kind of weird But just stick with me for a second. Shall you so I read all the comments and Some comments are great. Some are informative some are very You know very positive and then you know, I got a I got a couple that are trolls and they hate me That's okay because as a reminder I Tweeted out today, you never know what someone's going through a few nice words can help a person a lot more than you think and I said I love you trolls. So just remember we don't know what battles people are going through in the comment section They could have lost someone today. You don't know. So I was reading this and this is from crypto biryani And he said my June crypto predictions Bitcoin 15k 309 50 cardano 7 cents pocket out of buck 50 avalanche Matic, blah, blah, blah, right. I'm gonna go in hard but just I'm waiting like a crouching tire and I was like, you never know. I mean, that's what it is. So as I'm talking about this great bullish news I'm giving you some bear side just to balance them some things out But there was a comment from a friend of the show Simon you Simon says This those prices are too soon for a June if we do end up those levels It'll be a slow bleed like the last bear market and then he continued on and he talked about this Well, actually before he says that I don't know if you guys know who Simon you Simon you should know him You should follow him on there. It's at Simon you SCA and He's been he's like an OG in crypto. He's been since 2014 with storm X He is the founder and CEO He's got hundreds of retail partnerships And then of course they have a partnership with the Portland trailblazers the NBA So he's got some insights and he says this specific comment stay away from tokens that have a heavy Venture capitalist Concentration once those unlocks start happening. It's a cliff down and yes DC and a good one system allows most. Thanks, man That's right DCA. So well, I want to break some of this down this VC concentration Does that mean that everything that is that VC's invest into is trash? No However, there is a big difference between a massive massive VC and Fusion of funds where they have all or most or a good portion of the tokens as opposed to these easier like hey I'll give you you know, that's like three to five ten percent of our of our tokenomics huge difference So having said that my man A to Ape you don't follow him follow him at the A to Ape He's any he quotes Masari he talks about initial token allocations for a public blockchain So if you see right here in this, I guess it's pink Pink kind of colorblind and that includes all team company and VC purchase tokens You see Ethereum. Ethereum is mostly blue and that's blue is public sale. We like to see that just public sale out of the public finance 50-50 we all know it centralized. Let's not let's call a spade a spade.  Okay, sounds pretty good Then a third of that is insiders, which would include VCs and of course the public sale Cardano's Looks like far and away one of the best as opposed to EOS. Wow. Look at EOS. That's a lot of public sale Tron. Yeah, Tezos have a nice cello flow. I don't know what flow is That's a lot 58% for insiders sweet Marion Joseph Then internet computer 39% and 35. Okay, and then he further breaks it down My man says hey, don't forget about Tara. It's like, okay, and Tara if you can see right here the brown is foundations token allocated to foundations Community governed grant pools other incentives like test net 44% but 56% was of course the VC insiders and This is the question then well, how the heck do we know that? Where do we find this information? How many VCs are out there? We just look at tokenomics or is it like a simpler tool to use so what I did is I brought my man CJ Rykel and we talked it's very short Little over five minutes and this is CJ Rykel. He's the advisor to rebellion capital partners and Smart guy has been on the show for quite some time So just listen to what he has to say and I'm gonna give you some tools to where you're gonna find all this stuff out Where to look for it what to find so you can do your best research so you don't get dumped on so Let's just take a quick listen to what CJ has got to say Right now. All right, buddy. So as promised, I brought someone who could make a little bit more sense of that And that of course is CJ to all you the intro CJ welcome back to the show. It's been quite some time Thanks for stepping in. Yeah, thanks for having me Rob. It's really good to be back Yeah, so what's All right, buddy. So as promised I brought someone who could make a little bit more sense of that and that of course is CJ Don't do the intro CJ welcome back to the show. It's been quite some time. Thanks for stepping in. Yeah, thanks for having me Rob. It's really good to be back. Yeah, so what's going on here? Bring us some light Yeah, so I think that one of things that is most important going into a sustained period of bearish to neutral market environment is just Understanding the implications of very high fully diluted valuations within specific projects Okay, and I think Solana and the DeFi ecosystem that they've Um, I think VCs have done a lot of harm to the Solana DeFi ecosystem and we can go into that in a moment But first I want to just discuss the importance of fully diluted valuations and how you guys can find out for yourselves You know, maybe there's some VC unlocks or things like that occurring in the near future, but basically If we go over to Do you want to say something? No, so give us the tools. This ought to be good. All right. Yeah, so Very simple on coin gecko here. Um, one way that you can find out when a project has a little bit of a skewed Fully diluted valuation. One good example is uh, stephans or GMT when you look at the Circulating supply right now. It's only 600 million But the max supply that will be released over the coming years Is uh, six billion. So when you have a 10x Difference between basically your market cap and then the fully diluted valuation. It's kind of a red flag To say, all right, maybe there's going to be some VC unlocks which leads to you know, further sell pressure Is there going to be equal demand coming in to meet that? So speaking of step in here, let's take a closer look at that project and some of its fundamental breakdowns So we go over to Binance research here and a little bit about the token allocation and private sales 16% of the total supply was sold in a private allocation sale And that was at a price of half a penny. Wow Yeah, that's pretty cheap. Okay, what That's what we got. We got a price right now of buck 39. That's uh, that's pretty good Yeah, and and folks will think You know kind of counter-intuitively like oh prices down 70 from its all-time high at four dollars or whatever You know, I could be buying this cheap But I think the reality is that as these unlocks of the private sale continue to occur It will likely lead to more sell pressure Because they will likely take profits. I mean who wouldn't if you bought this thing for half a half a penny or no half a cent That's a huge win. Um, so I think before investing or doubling down on any altcoin in this environment It's really important to have An understanding of the supply schedule the unlock schedule here as well as the fully diluted valuation and you can find that pretty pretty simply at coin gecko and also mazzari mazzari does a great job of Providing you with a liquid supply curve for various crypto assets. This is axi infinity somewhat of a similar project to gmt In terms of its supply schedule as well as the play to earn narrative You also have layer ones kind of like near protocol that have very aggressive very aggressive fasting schedules. Yeah And then ultimately what I'll conclude with is just showing some charts about Kind of the VC activity and what's occurred in the salamate ecosystem with d5. So basically you have ftx which lists very liquid perpetual futures on these assets um And basically vcs will hedge with the perp futures, you know They'll short on ftx and then they'll just sell as their unlocks occur And it produces charts that are very similar like this is oxygen But if you look at serum As well as radium like these are all assets within the salamate ecosystem that have been hurt a lot by vc unlocks and um Formerly crypto cobane, but his name is kobi now. He did a really interesting podcast recently about How this could have potentially set back salamate d5 for for two years or so because retails get to see these these charts I'm going to be like Is this is there's something wrong like it? I'm not going to touch this Being said, I don't think that is necessarily bullish for the sole token I think there are other reasons why that could be quite bullish aside from just the d5 ecosystem Yeah, and and just for everybody out there There's a difference between the l1 which is solana or cardano or avalanche or whatever l1 You want to throw in there as opposed to the ecosystem itself? I think that's the the big distinction and also just real quick to say is that with these private sales It's like if some of these vcs really believe in the project They are not going to dump all of it But you have to take a look at the projects and do your own research and your due diligence And just decide for yourself But the big thing now is especially in this market is to be careful and as far as like look at all the risks Okay, cj anything else we missed that was great information. Thanks Yeah, the last thing I'll close with is I just think that a lot of how these all coin projects are constructed Is that their supply schedules are built in such a way that demand is supposed to come in in a linear fashion? Right like very few markets work like that Especially crypto demand comes in in rapid periods of time and then you know, basically 70% of the time is kind of a boring wall what we're in right now Gotcha and you know what I think in in bull markets we can absorb that but in bear markets It's a little bit more dicey so gotcha All right And everybody if you want to learn some more and find some more great tips and tricks and things like that There's going to be a link below in the description for mark a rebellion And you can chat up cj and get all the information that he has and more so so cj. Thanks again for stopping by that was great Thanks rob All right, so uh, again, thank you cj for coming on that was fantastic quite honestly And uh, you can find again mark a rebellion, but also I I put in there, uh cj's twitter account So definitely follow cj. You've got a wealth of information And as far as trading and things like that and just the basic info info that you could really go for I just wanted to because when I was editing that video, I didn't do a great job of showing you what he was talking about So just so you know like if you go to steppin as the example that we used in the video the market cap is 833 million 457 201 But the fully diluted value Is 8 billion 334 million price of it and because why it's because there's an unlocking schedule still to come So in the circulating supply you're like is that all that's it's circulating? Well, yes, that's right now It's what it's circulating but the total supply is six billion So roughly, you know, you've got a fraction of what the total supply is because Of the lock up periods and of course, that's why you do your own research You take a look at and go okay one of these lock up periods When when can I expect a big dumping if there's going to be a big dumping again? Like I said if the vcs truly believe in it and it is a really good project Then they'll they're not going to dump everything But uh, you know, they will sell a little bit because they want to get their initial investment back plus some And that's just the name of the game. So let me know what you think about All of that that we just talked about and let's move on to our last piece and we can do q&a for that Only 1% of token offerings had a 10x return pretty crazy, right? And this is from Glawski medium they talk about only and there's a lot. There was like 619. Wow 619 public token offerings this year and just so you know over in dan de gen We've featured three of them and the these are the ones Dan de gen used to be dan clips. I get away at the clips because no one really cared But what they do care about is like super early projects that are just coming in again dan de gen That's a place to lose all your money. Just let you know So I am that's the most risky thing that I can do on this channel. I'm very conservative. Very laid back But over there It's a little bit Like I said dicey and the and the three that we actually talked about were Gensokishi everdome fame and we're gonna feature sweat coin pretty soon because it's gonna be awesome So again, so kishi And these are this was prices on may 21st. I should have pulled the one for a day But it was a 50x I mean from what we invested into everdome We got it in a fraction of a penny and it went to two actually went to four or five cents So right now we're at a four x but when we Should have sold a little bit more We didn't and it was like at a 19 extra somebody that and then the fame and my token That right now is at seven cents used to be at 49 cents Then I went to 20 then I went to 36 then 28 and 20 so right now because the market's down It's it's only a minimal seven x but we did pretty good There's all the videos that you can watch I've talked about this at great length So you can check those out and then if you're looking for the actual links For dan d gen it's in the links in all my description follow dan There's twitter and there's dan d gen and of course the theta account as well And also if you want to get in a sweat coin and try to beat me hint you will not On all the steps then download it right here and that's what we got So look I know I'm in a little bit longer But A lot of good information I like to talk more when it's when it's a little bit more bullish than it is bearish Then of course the awful thing that happened to yesterday in Texas So that's it for today if you got to take off I understand time


Hello there, and welcome to another Issues and Answers of Production of the National Television Network and the Government Information Service. I'm your host for this edition, Jesse Leance from the Department of Sustainable Development within the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training. Thursday 16th September 2021, St. Lucia joins the rest of the world to observe the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. From 1994, that was 27 years ago, the 16th of September has been observed as a day to promote activities that support the objectives of the Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. And since then, St. Lucia has registered its own achievements in this regard. We have successfully met several targets as a signatory. Joining me in studio this time around from St. Lucia's Ozone Unit within the Department of Sustainable Development for a sit-down is Ms. Shanna Scott. Thank you so much, Ms. Scott, for joining us. It's a pleasure to be here. Wonderful. First of all, tell us a little bit about the Ozone Layer and why interventions took place at the international level to preserve it. Okay, so the Ozone Layer is a protective layer, a protective shield that's located between 15 to 45 kilometers above the Earth's surface. And what it does, it filters or protect us from harmful ultraviolet or UV rays. Now these rays can have adverse consequences not only for human health, but also for plants and animal life. So what happened is in the 1970s, scientists discovered that there was a group of chemicals that was damaging the Ozone Layer and they later become known as ozone-depleting substances. So internationally, the international community, they rallied and they agreed to phase out these group of chemicals, which led to the signing of the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the Ozone Layer. Okay, now, speak to us about these substances. What substances or chemicals deplete the Ozone Layer? Okay, so they are madmen chemicals containing halogens, for example, chlorine and bromine, sorry, that will determine to be the cause of this damage. And collectively, as I mentioned before, they are known as ozone-depleting substances. One group of these chemicals are known as chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs for short. And back then, they were very popular and they could have been found widely in air conditioners and refrigerators. Also the another group of chemicals called hydrochlorocarbons or its CFCs, also methylbromides and halons are also proven to be ozone-depleting substances. And these chemicals could be found in a wide variety of products that we use in our everyday life. For example, computers, electronics and parts, car dashboards, even shoe soles these chemicals will use to make also a lot of fruits and vegetables will fumigate it with methylbromide to kill pests. Wow, so what exactly happens in the atmosphere because it's an invisible and invisible layer? So what exactly happens when these chemicals are let out into the air? What happens to the atmosphere, the ozone layer? Okay, so if we take for example a CFC molecule or CFCs when they release into the atmosphere. As was mentioned, CFCs contain chlorine. So when it's released into the atmosphere, it's absorbed by UV radiation and a chlorine atom is released. Now one chlorine atom has the potential of damaging 100,000 ozone molecules. So when it's released into the atmosphere and it causes so much damage, it's upsets the natural balance or the natural chemical reactions taking place in the atmosphere because there are a lot of chemical reactions taking place in the atmosphere because there are other chemicals in the atmosphere as we learn at school. But what happens is that the rate of destruction is found ways the rate of the creation of ozone which leads to the thinning or damage of the ozone layer. Okay, now this is what's happening to the ozone layer.  Okay, so that's a very good question. So increased UV exposure reaching the Earth has been linked to increased cases of skin cancer for humans and also eye cataracts. Also, there's consequences for plant life in that you may get lower yielding crops and also animal life. If you look at, for example, increased UV radiation in the ocean can kill five to plant, which is the first block of the marine food chain. So there's dire consequences for human health, plant, animal life, but also stuff that we may not, things that we may not think of. For example, I'm sure if you have your car and it's sprayed over a period of time, you may see that it's losing color. But we may not attribute that to increased exposure to UV radiation, but that actually what's happened as it eats away on the pains of our cars. Interesting. So not all doom and gloom. There has actually been work done in the last couple of decades. I understand that the work that has happened through the Montreal Protocol has been one of the most successful, unified approaches taken on the global scale through the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer in 1987. We had all 197 countries of the world committed to eliminating the use of the ozone depleting substances. Speak to us in the national context. What has, what progress has St. Lucia made in terms of achieving targets of the protocol? OK, so St. Lucia became a party to the Montreal Protocol in July of 1993. And since then we have committed to phasing out ozone depleting substances in line with the international phased out targets, not well by 2030. Not only that, we've had major successes in that in 2008, for example, we phased out completely the first group of ozone depleting substances, CFCs, as was mentioned before. And that was a great feat for us because we did it two years ahead of the international schedule, which was 2010. Also, from 2011, we have done work to phase out the second group of ozone depleting substances, it's CFCs. And right now we're at a 49% reduction, which is we're ahead of the schedule, whereas we're supposed to be at 45% in 2020. So we can see right now that we're going on our way to phasing out ozone depleting substances. Also, we have put in place regulations for the import and export of these substances, also a quota and licensing system that will help guide and govern us. We've also trained refrigeration technicians, our local refrigeration technician, in good management practices, which would help in eliminating or reducing the amount of ozone depleting substances that gets into the atmosphere when servicing these equipment. And also we've trained custom surface shells to help prevent illegal trade of these substances on our borders. Okay, thanks for that. We're speaking to Ms. Shana Scott from the National Ozone Unit, ahead of the observance of the International Day for the preservation of the ozone layer. We're talking ozone depleting substances, what St. Lucia has done so far as a signatory to the Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer. We are due for a break. When we come back, we're going to get into the role of the Department of Sustainable Development in this national effort to eliminate ozone depleting substances and also speak on the progress that St. Lucia has been making more specifically in terms of this year's theme, the international theme for the International Day for the preservation of the ozone layer. Stay with us. Think about the children. Think about the children. How will we save them? Chemicals and GMOs are not the solution. Use organic and join. Excessive agrochemical use, additives and genetically modified foods are harmful to health and the environment. Join the Good Food Revolution. Grow, buy and consume organic. This is from Ryan St. Lucia and the Ministry of Sustainable Development with funding from the GEF Small Grants Program, UNDP. Thank you so much for staying with us. This is an edition of Issues and Answers on the GIS NTN and we are bringing to you word on the observance, the International Day for the preservation of the ozone layer. We're speaking to someone from the National Ozone Unit and the person of Ms. Shana Scott. Before going to break, we were just speaking on the effects of ozone-depleting substances on the ozone layer as well as the interventions that have been made in the last 30 years or so close to 30 years to reverse the damage that has so far been done. A work going on by every single country around the world and St. Lucia has also been registering some success, quite a bit of success in terms of its part in meeting targets of the Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer. Ms. Scott, I want to ask, what is the role of the Department of Sustainable Development? We know that is the department from which your unit, the National Ozone Unit, operates from. Speak to us about the department and its role in this national effort to eliminate ozone-depleting substances. Okay, so the Department of Sustainable Development is the focal point for a number of international multilateral environmental agreements, including the Montreal Protocol. The National Ozone Unit, which is housed within the department, is responsible for the day-to-day activities that will help us to meet our Montreal Protocol phase-out targets. Such activities include enforcement of our legislation with the help of key agencies like the Department of Commerce and the Customs and Excise Dispartment, the training and certification of our local air-conditioning and refrigeration technicians, also training of enforcement officers, and of course implementation of public education and awareness activities. So the public is aware of what's going on and how they can get involved. Wonderful. The theme for this year's observance of the International Day for the preservation of the ozone layer is the Montreal Protocol keeping us, our food, and our vaccines cool. It obviously draws focus on the significance of refrigerants in the air-conditioning and refrigeration industries. Now we know the cold chain is critical to the preservation of food and medicines. We're in a global pandemic and that is heightened not only in conversation about vaccines, but also the importance of getting food to certain parts of the world. What progress has St. Lucia made or is making, rather, to ensure that the cooling system that sectors and residents, the country, benefits from are sustainable or eco-friendly? Okay, so we have been promoting more, not only ozone, but climate-friendly options or alternatives when it comes to cooling and not only that, we have started training our local refrigeration technicians to use these alternatives safely. Also, we are working to finalize St. Lucia's national cooling strategy, which would introduce minimum performance standards and what that means in general is that we want to ensure that the equipment that comes in is not only efficient, but it will not waste energy and that it will not put a dent in our pocket at the end of the day. Okay, now speak to us about the other work that is ongoing. I know in addition to that, in terms of the response, in terms of introducing more sustainable eco-friendly apparatus for cooling systems, what other work is happening by the National Ozone Unit under and through the Montreal Protocol right now? Okay, well, I cannot speak about the Montreal Protocol without speaking about the Kigali Amendment, which is the most recent amendment to the Montreal Protocol. Now, to put it into context, the substitutes or the replacements for the CFCs and the HCFCs that are being replaced are hydrofluorocatons or HFCs. Now, HFCs are not ozone-depleting substances, but they are greenhouse gases with very high greenhouse global warming potential, which means they have that ability to trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere. And I'm sure by that you can deduce that they would in effect contribute to global warming and climate change. Therefore, in October 2016, Parties to the Montreal Protocol agreed to sign on to the, well to pass the thought to adopt the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which will now call to phase down the use of HFCs. So, what we have been doing, CMUSHA is not a party, but we have taken step first to ratify. For example, we implemented activities into a project called the Kigali Amendment Enabling Activities Project, and the activities, as the name suggests, would enable us to ratify the amendment. And we're happy to report that earlier this year, April 2021, we received approval from Cabinet to ratify this amendment. So, CMUSHA soon, hopefully by the end of the year, we should have ratified the Kigali Amendment. So, as you can see, the Montreal Protocol is wearing more than one cap now. We're not only protecting the ozone layer, but we're also contributing to mitigating the effects of climate change. Okay. Now, there's quite a bit of work ongoing. You've been with the ozone unit from 2015, a lot of work happening, and we know even prior to that, countries all over the world have been working assiduously to ensure that they are in alignment with the Montreal Protocol, the Vienna Convention overall. Is this work simply helping to stop further depletion of the ozone layer, or is it helping to reverse the effects that we've so far imposed on the ozone layer? Okay. So, if we go back to what we first stated that there's always chemical reactions going on in the ozone layer, it's just that with these ozone depleting substances, these ODSs, that it's disrupting the chain of events, that there's more damage taking place than the creation of ozone. So, in eliminating these chemicals from the atmosphere as the Montreal Protocol has aided, there have been research that has proven that the ozone layer has now began healing itself since the implementation of the Montreal Protocol, so much so that by middle century, they have estimated that the ozone layer would be recovered. So, that's one of the reasons why the Montreal Protocol is deemed such a huge environmental success around the globe, and also just to note that the Montreal Protocol has successfully phased out 98% of ozone-depleting substances. Wonderful. How can St. Lucien's get more involved? Because the first question is, can we reverse this? The question is, with that and climate change, can we reverse these hard effects? But now, how can St. Lucien's get involved? How can St. Lucien's move in on this movement, this cause to eliminate ozone-depleting substances, particularly HCFCs by 2030? Okay. So, sometimes we might hear about an issue and think that it's so far from us and probably we cannot get involved, but there are a number of steps that I took note of that we can all take part in. For example, we can protect ourselves and our families by wearing sunscreen when we go out, also protect our eyes by wearing sunglasses or probably wearing long sleeves when we go out. Also, to take care of our equipment, our refrigeration and our conditioning equipment at home, also, we should note that older equipment, older refrigeration equipment that we have do contain ozone-depleting substances because probably when we purchase them, these protocols had not come into effect. So, we want to ensure that when we're disposing of these equipment that we do it in a safe and sound manner that protects our environment on Earth and also the ozone layer. And also, we have the purchasing power. We have the power to drive the market. So, when we purchase new refrigeration equipment, we could look for the label that says ozone-friendly or climate-friendly. Also, there's labels such as CFC-free, it's CFC-free, energy efficient. So, when we buy these, we not only protect the environment but we're also protecting our pocket because they consume less energy. So, we do our part as well by being a sustainable consumer. And finally, if we have equipment, refrigeration equipment that's damaged, we could also check them for leaks as well. So, if we know that there's a leak or it's damaged, we should ensure that it's repaired first before it's recharged to prevent ozone-depleting substances from getting into the environment. And also, we did mention that we train refrigeration technicians so ensure that you use a certified technician from the government when servicing. So, they're issued a technician ID card so you can always ask them when they come to present their technician ID card so you know that they've gone through the suitable training that will enable them to handle your equipment safely. Wonderful, Shana. It has been a pleasure having you here and giving us all of this information as we come upon the 16th of September, the International Day for the preservation of the ozone layer. I'd like to thank you, our viewers, for watching. Shana, thank you again. My name is Jesse Leon signing off for now. We do hope that you can take this information, read up a little bit more, go onto a browser and get some more information on the work that not only St. Lucia is doing but countries around the world in adherence to the Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the ozone layer. Quite a bit of work has been happening to reverse the effects and to heal our ozone layer so that we can have a better Earth, right? Thank you very much, Shana Scott from the National Ozone Unit. My name is Jesse Leon signing off for now. Do stay tuned for more programming on NTN and goodbye. Take care.


This is Will Spencer from the Renaissance of Men here in Orlando, Florida with a 21 summit 2021. This is a panel on women and femininity related to the 22 conference, 22 convention going on just next door. I'm here with Socrates, Alexander Cortez, Pastor Michael Foster and President Anthony Dream Johnson, and all of us spoke at the 22 convention. And so let's just go down the line and I'd like each man to say like sort of the topics that you spoke about and how you see it related to femininity today. So let's start with you Socrates. I actually spoke about a universal subject of civil resistance and in particular the value that women innately have in the act of civil resistance that because of their gender specific elements of a socialization, the empathy, their network and alliance-building capabilities, they're uniquely positioned to contribute highly to a non-violent campaign and that's particularly important when we look at the success ratios associated with campaigns. It's a typically if you have three point or I'm sorry, yeah three point five percent of a population typically you're successful in overturning a government and if we're looking to institute cultural change we need higher populations and women can absolutely not only provide that population number but actually add significantly to the value of a campaign to achieve those goals and that's uniquely kind of specifically towards women and I hope that they are hearing that message and when I talk about typically in dating relationships where men and women are compatible and complementary, this is completely true in civil resistance campaigns. And just to make sure you said three to five percent, was that the number? Three to five percent to overturn a government. I have to believe that it's actually less to change a culture so and what's important there is that when you look at normal non-violent campaigns, most of them are populated by one point six of the percentage of the population. So you're already halfway there if you just have a non-violent campaign and I think that's going to be enough to actually change society and culture. So the the premise is is that I think we're already there. We just haven't coalesced. Let's go through each man's speech and then we'll kick some ideas around so Ajak you want to go next? Yeah, my speech was generalistic and sort of this advice giving for young women. I mean if I was to take like a broader meta perspective it's been very interesting to see the past, probably the past five years, whereas the man's spear obviously content was geared towards men and there's this constant theme of men growing up with single moms, men without fathers, not having a father figure, but the same thing has happened to women. You know men are not the only ones that don't have dads and what I've seen online now the past few years it's been really uplifting and it's a positive element is that you have this sort of general awakening of women realizing that you know what?  You are the most important thing in the universe Having you know children and when that happens it happens way later Relationships or something that you take seriously in your 30s not your 20s And you have a lot of these young women today realizing like we've really been lied to Because either I've seen relatives do that do that version of life hence it hasn't turned out well Or I've done that version of life and it's made me really unhappy and I'm not fulfilled Yeah, and why were we taught these things? You know like why is this the social order and so they're looking for their own answers They're trying to find people trying to find women They did you know give a different account, you know different advice and most of what they're finding right now is actually men And it's been really interesting where they have all these women on the periphery of like the male spear Or they're not really coming for the male advice to learn about men specifically They're coming because you guys actually give very good paternal advice like you your paternal figure and your instruction is way Better anything I'm gonna find you know on the on the journal and turn general web, and they're really listening. They're very receptive And that's just been really cool Like I've been surprised at the segment of my audience which it's probably about 80% men but that 20% of the rest It's women and it's a lot of young women and if I'm being honest They're kind of like looking for a dad big brother is they just don't have it in their life Yeah, it's really made me take a step back and reconsider, you know like how I present You know I present who I'm talking to or yeah, we can talk all day about how bad is for men It's probably arguably worse for women Because women are also discouraged from listening to man the first place Yeah, like it's a normal thing for man to listen to a man women are actively told basically don't take men seriously At all about anything unless they already agree with everything you think and feel and say So they put themselves into this very icely position where they don't know how to take advice even when they need it And they don't know how to ask questions, but they're unhappy something's wrong. What do I do? Mm-hmm and the feminist ideology really praise on women almost most of all, right? Yes, I do a feminism like Go on that for a long time, but it's evolved into like this late-stage companion to like global homo capitalism Like it doesn't it doesn't know that's all this it doesn't know it is because it doesn't it's not empowering There's nothing empowering about it Yeah, like if you look at actual statistics like let's be objective and use numbers like more women aren't college Yes, more women are doing the workforce the men. Yes, you know met more women are getting degrees Yes, women are outperforming men in K through 12.  Yeah, so at this point. It's now like what is it? It's complaints of you I don't know.  Well, I'm uncomfortable or you know what in this particular industry There's not enough women here. We need more parody here like you you're already making more money Like you already have all the economic advantages. So now you're looking for grievances.   We're gonna complain about tone Yeah, we're gonna complain about the male gaze. We're gonna complain that will be being heterosexual like that That's uncomfortable. Why is James Bond a man? Like that's now they have to make James Bond a woman like this is crazy.  Do you see that at those headlines? I did. Yeah I mean, I'll defend him a little bit They'll say this I because I know guys that grew up in the UK and like, you know Britain and They have a really heavy drinking culture sure fighting is actually a very very very common thing like they're super degenerate that way So I'm like I was like it's I have friends that are British Irish and like, you know Like I kind of understand what he's saying because that's that's like the thing that you do here is young guy You go out you get really drunk you vomit you fight in the street and it's just like that's that's what's expected. So Yeah, fair enough. Yeah Well, what did you talk about 22? I I've read a lot of books in the men's space. I talked about King warrior magician lover and in fire in the dark the sky father the Lord of the earth and the striker and protect provide preside from Ryan Mickler and Let's see. What else did I get into? rugged refined and rakish by Tanner Guzzi and then Allison Armstrong's stages of a man's life, which are page night Prince King and elder and I looked at all those different archetypes and I said, what do these all say about men? They're all heroic archetypes that live within men. They live within all men And this is not something that needs to be that needs to be taught to men It's something that's innate to us but for some reason it's not coming out in men these days and I put the Question to women. What if there was something some language of heroes? Which is from Allison Armstrong that you could learn to bring out the best in men And so I asked would you be willing to learn this language and the women of the audience said yes And I said there's one catch you have to take a vow and this is from Allison Armstrong's book the Queen's Code the vow is I Will never castrate. I will give up the right to castrate men forever The point being if a woman wants to bring out the best of any man in her life shifts she has to actively and forever give up the right to shame him or she will never see the best in him and Then she has to make that commitment and that's a very very tough thing for women to give up because as I talked about in my 21 talk shame is the power that women have over men And it's a very very difficult thing for many women to give up and we've seen it spread all throughout society right now It's in the media. It's in our language toxic masculinity is a shaming term. It's everywhere It's the water that we're swimming in and so that that power is wielded primarily by women And so I put it to the women. Are you willing to give this up? It seemed to me that many of the women were and which was very positive to see But there's a lot more to that so I asked that question I put it to women What if you have some responsibility for bringing out the best in men and are you able to get what you want from life out of men at the point of a knife and I think that the message landed at least I hope it did so that's what I talked about Cool It was I heard it went over pretty smooth man. It was smooth operator at 22 Well, yeah, yeah, I had to you know I in my 21 talk, you know I knew that I could be a bit more strident a bit more outspoken with the men But as I was getting ready for that talk I realized that taking a really like strident tone doesn't quite hit the same for women because women do feel threatened You know by men who speak in anger even if it's righteous anger and that's natural because women have this instinctive Fear of men's power naturally because men are quite powerful. It's just part of our genetic lineage So it's like well What if I dial it back and speak a little softly and that the words and the concepts speak for themselves? And I think that I think that did and I think they did so I was happy to discover that technique. I guess you might say What this linebacker talk about? Yeah I Wanted to give women some hope. I think as I look at our culture our society That's what I want to give men to is hope. I Have slowly realized how how blessed I am. I married my high school sweetheart. I married her. She was the version We're still married. We've had a lot of kids and we're happy and the reality is that most people Don't get that today.  They made mistakes. They've been divorced things have happened and sometimes in this space It's It's like you've you've missed the boat. You wore out, you know, you're not you don't have any more value You can't ever put your life back together and if that's true We're kind of screwed right because it's a whole it's a whole generation that this has happened to and So as I want I want to encourage women as much as I encourage men I said this I don't know if this is true. Let's catch you though It'll tweet but I said that I said that men are more hated than women But women are more lied to the men and I don't know if it's totally true But feminism is an attack on femininity right and they're trying to teach women to hate themselves as well And they've bought into it us. We us men are fighting it That's why they're turning up the heat on things like toxic masculinity. So you're not natural But so what I I kind of got on the the Twitter spear, you know I'm people starting to notice me when I had a tweet about single mothers And I tell men to be very careful about dating single mothers. I caution them And then he asked why she was single mother. Is it because her husband died? Is it because she made some poor decisions? Or what was he a creep was he weirdo or was she a prostitute was she a whoreish, right? And she a bad person And so I said that and I guess the right people retweeted it. This is USA today Daily wire got Ali Beth Stucky thought I was a terrible person, you know So it it took off and I got this email like a week or two ago They helped me figure out what to talk about it's way to from a woman that Apologize for hating me. It's this long email like I hate you pastor of foster And she had been married to a man who was who's nuts and not well and abusive in a lot of different ways And she eventually fled the relationship the man killed himself because he he wasn't of sound mind and And she becomes a Christian.  She even knows that she's a problem, right? But they but they get they get married and they're happy and they're rebuilding their ability in their life and the the metaphor I think of often is Those shows where you reclaim wood or metal, right? It's something rubble that broke down and you can make something beautiful from it If we can't work with the people we have right now How would we do because it's it's almost an entire generation. I mean Millennials on on whole are so jacked up They you know, you hear the boomers make fun of them and gen X this have kind of checked out But they're so they've had so much so many lies whether it's student loans or whatever Thrown at them that we have to be able to work with people that are not coming from ideal situations So I wanted to encourage the women to rebuild from the rub. I gave them two areas to work on And they're both related to volume one was attire So you think of modesty as a sound, right? So music sounds good at a certain levels that a turn down too much Then you can't hear if it's turned up too much and it hurts your ears, right? So modesty is the same thing a woman shouldn't be ashamed of her feminine beauty. She should she should embrace it She should be ashamed or her hips or lips, right her breasts on that stuff But she shouldn't also just let everything hang out, right? That will attract the wrong type of man It will not it will not attract a quality man. Absolutely, right and yeah, do they he'll say that's danger right there It's just like blue hair says that's danger And none of that and then to encourage them that it's you see this in irritating trad Twitter, right?  That's what most people want.  They're a loud woman, okay? And then they think by putting it on so then guys resent them and say really deep down You're still the Horace woman you were right and and in a lot of cases even if they're not sleeping around They do have that attitude So I wanted to tell them like I kind of rather you have short hair and wear jeans and have a beautiful feminine deference Then the other way around we have to choose So I just wanted to encourage them not to be Mrs. Wrong, right? If we're gonna rebuild we have to encourage women we have to we have to lay a path forward with where we're at So that was what I focused on. I love that Prez yeah, that was extremely well spoken. It's me tough to follow up about recapping his entire speech I did get to see some of it, too I did actually so my speech was a sequel to my keynote last year at the first 22 convention So my speech of the first one my keynote last year was called motherhood first hashtag motherhood first And that was about encouraging young woman to put motherhood first rather than put motherhood last Which is what feminism tells them to do through covert these manipulation and means They lie to them they kind of hide information all this BS Woman to young woman today basically make very uninformed decisions about building a family relationships all this stuff They put college first career first advanced schooling first and if the motherhood lasts to the point They freeze their eggs try to unfreeze them it fails very often and they're crying Drinking cheap wine eating cat food petting cats. They have their they have There's a meme where she's eating the cat food. She's like so delirious She's like drinking like the box wine that shitty dollar store wine Yeah, then the cat see you and you die But this is a real thing women today are really taught to put it They'll know the feminists will never admit this But if you actually give an honest look at what they teach young woman through different social means music movies TV entertainment school Propaganda whatever motherhoods last right career first school first motherhood last will never put in those terms That's what they teach them now my speech this year was a follow-up to that as a direct sequel And it was called make women virgins again As nothing to do with being a born-again virgin. It's just not like related to the talk. That's a whole separate issue I mentioned it a little bit, but it's not part of what it is It's about revaluing virginity in America in the West for women specifically without even mentioning men And I went into this this point in particular because I've worn this hat for a few months And I love this hat. It's my favorite new hat this year Make one regret again is always gonna be true to my heart the closest to my heart But make women virgins again enrages people to a degree. I have never seen even really it is amazing They love it or they hate it is it is it's not just enraging. That's not fair.  It was a lot more normal. So it's it's interesting Anyway, my talk was about you know without even mentioning virginity for men I was like this is not even a thing right let the Christian men take care of it. We'll talk about it later That's fine and tackle later.  Pardon my French. They don't care even a lot of the Christian girls They could care less. I have buddies in Orlando a Christian They go to these these redneck bars in me sometimes like cowboys and stuff the same Christian girls on Saturday night getting getting shit-faced Making out with guys banging them. They go to church Sunday morning, right? They don't care at all the loss of virginity at 14 15 16 years old. It means nothing to them All right, I think this is biologically unsound and it's dangerous for women I think femininity needs to be preserved and the foundation of that is virginity and chastity and young women today don't care a lot Especially if they're secular they could care less it's if you it's virginity to them and retaining it Beyond beyond the age of 18 is like alien to them. You might also be speaking Chinese So this speech was designed to push back against that from a secular perspective not a religious one Like I'm not these most of these guys are Christian. I'm not I'm an atheist objectivist This is about common sense femininity American femininity for women and revaluing something that they've completely lost to the point Like Michael is saying that these generations are millennials and zoomers a lot of the stuff is as alien to them They have no they've been lied to they received compound lies their mothers were lied to and their mothers then Either fed them those lies indirectly or directly or whatever the mechanisms wherever it went So this is like the first time I think has been pushed back Against from a secular position and I mean it, you know, I want to live I like living a free country I want to continue living a free country if women want to act like skanks and throw this shit out the window So be it but stop punting those things thought those responsibilities Offloading them they're welfare mechanisms and all these things and I think it's self-destructive woman acting like skanks It's bad and it's much better to preserve your family your virginity and your femininity if you can And but it like Michael said to like I talked about his speech from last year actually in my speech And he basically said that you know, it's going to take decades to reverse and fix the damage feminism has done It won't be done overnight no matter how viral the video goes and how much impact we have No matter how many people I enrage in the media and stuff with little bears and pigs and hats and stuff Like real change on a macro level and a micro level on a cultural level on a personal level real change takes a real time Like not just months or even years but decades generations even And that's why he's saying I think it's what he's saying Michael is saying is important Is that you have to learn we have to learn how to deal with broken people And at least if young girls see this my speech about making women virgins again Because you know some youtuber like Curtis Connor or the media is you know mad about it Who cares at least they're exposed to the information at least they can make maybe make a better decision 2 percent 5 percent 10 percent of them right the rest of them probably won't they're going to ignore it They're going to scream at it down vote get mad at me Who cares is some of them will listen now and that's at least that first step to moving things in the right direction To living a better life and making better choices for yourself as a female as a birthing person You know I want to put a question um out to the panel and uh You know michael you kind of touched on it sort of what is the path back What is the path back for women who have let's say fallen because a lot of women of these three successive generations possibly for now Have absorbed and been born into feminist ideology and they're discovering You know alexander as you said that they're not happy and they're looking for a way forward And so they find they find the man a sphere they find 22 convention 21 convention all the men in this space And they say that Sounds like a path that I want to walk to find a let's say a high value man Or maybe they listen to kevin samuels or something like that and this is a path towards a life that I want to lead You know uh be a mother Be a homemaker, you know be be someone passing on values for the next generation, but I have this past And I don't know what like this is the woman's perspective. I don't know what to do about it Maybe a high-notch count or maybe tattoos or maybe a child or something like that something that can't be undone And so I think a lot about this question like well if a woman finds herself in that position with something that can't be undone But wants to move in this direction and find a man from this community who wants to build a life with her What's the path back for her is there one? Can we can we come up with one spontaneously here? Or have you guys thought about this because that door needs to be open because I feel like sometimes Things can get a little I don't know. I'll call it autistic in the men's space Where it's like you have to have the trad virgin born into the high values family and it's like, okay Yeah, so there's like a dozen of those, you know Like so what about the what about the rest of us? You know what I mean? I think he's got a bunch of his church man. He's collecting What church where's your church again? We'll take it. I have some ideas on this. Yeah, please I'm very curious because I think it's the sort of thing that women who want to move in this direction Would potentially need to hear so they feel that there's an open door to come and participate And just I just want to say one thing I think there's going to be a need for discussion for forgiveness from men around it as well Which I'd like to touch on at some point like men men from offering forgiveness to women and understanding So my first thought is number one don't lie And you know women's basically men tend to pump their numbers up You know if they have a notch count they try to brag to each other they pump them up Even in movies in the 90s like american pie, right guys would triple it girls would basically divide it by three, right?   It is what it is You're never going to undo it history is history.  This is one of the main Cultural things that has happened to women. I think directly from feminism. They have completely unrealistic expectations Particularly through online dating apps, but even in person They're just they're basically delusional like feminism has made women are super entitled and they have they've massively overvalued themselves in the sexual marketplace Socrates, I think in particular could speak to this as a Red-hole book on the sexual marketplace. I mean literally it's on the sale on that side 20 20 bucks go by now Um, yeah, they need to have really realistic expectations. They don't in other countries. They do like the woman, you know John Anthony a pickup artist speaker was talking about women in places like poland Eastern Europe basically women there are way in way better shape physically and psychologically They expect men to act like men. They don't yell at them about toxic masculinity. They're very courteous They're very respectful. I spent a month there in 2019 for 21 convention And uh, they're their expectations more realistic and they're from a better physical and psychological position They're not they haven't been warped by feminism.  You asked me to keep things moving around the panel and to cut men off I needed to know just because you asked me to so I mean since you since you mentioned socrates Like I want to send it back over to socrates and and say what your thoughts on this are like a path back Or whatever you want to say because I think it ties into your themes as well Yeah, I think you have to start with where you're at You know, you you you can want to be somewhere else, but you have to start wherever you're at and You know, I my first talk at the 22 con was literally That the the dose determines the poison You know that that how much of feminism are you and taking in jesse? And it's you know, you can it's a poison that doesn't kill immediately You know, it's a poison that actually has some benefit initially But you know taken in consumption It's terribly toxic and fatal, you know, and so in many ways I've been thinking I've been asked to kind of write an article about some of this and I was kind of going over My head last night and thinking that in many ways feminism is very much the fast food of ideologies It's cheap. It's fast and it's nourishing when you have need And and and quite honestly, it's it's something you can enjoy And it's it's a franchise that you can own immediately any woman can choose to identify with it right now And as a franchise it comes with a massive brand I think these are all compelling reasons to kind of be you know, be allured towards feminism and not only that it comes with A sisterhood with it, you know, it comes with The value of un-earned virtues of being a victim So you have all that But ultimately I think it's very unhealthy and unfulfilling It's detrimental over time And so how do you tell somebody who's been living on fast food culture of feminism? How do you get off of that? And and it may be all at once it may be parts and pieces You know and and i'm not saying you can't go back and have fast food, you know, um, you know Enjoy it from once a while, but understand that You know what you consume you'll end up becoming And I would start with where you're at and take an honest look are Are your results getting you where you want to go? You know, what type of person have you become? I in my talk last year I You know looked and I know Arthur did the same thing.  Has it been good for women? And really measure it and particularly when you can look at the the the real toxic range of what's taken place It could be very very debilitating. So, you know, I would start with you know, what are your consumption patterns? Be honest about it and sit down and say very much like nutrition. Maybe you need to make some dietary ideological changes Alexander This question of redemption comes up a lot since like that is what the question is like, you know, I've been I've been a bad girl I can't be redeemed I you know this has a certain parallel It's like the men that are weak like I've been I've been a beta bitch soy boy like can I become a real man? it's like Yeah, like are you are you willing to do the work? Like are you willing to do the work, you know the the problem for law women, you know, but taking out the Ism's standpoint is that why I see a lot with law women.  You're hyper narcissistic. You're entitled You operate under a paradigm in which you cannot be judged or shamed for literally anything you do Everyone has to agree with you the man has to agree with you But then you have all these expectations of wanting to be loved still women live to be loved They want to be loved, but there's nothing about you that's lovable So you need to take a very hard and probably painful look at your life And consider what are my values? Where are my choices? Where are my beliefs and what action needs to change? I had a woman that contacted me recently Where she was very upfront about like her past life. She's had a lot of sexual partners. She was a careerist She has you know, she has tattoos. She's always things, you know, I told her like tattoos I don't overestimate tattoos tattoos. You can get tattoos or whatever piercings. I don't care Yeah, well, you're realizing those that you have devalued yourself. You've traded your bias an object You've made poor choices of relationships. It's left you feeling empty. Like you've actually recognized all this Okay, like do you think you can change? And do you believe that if you do that that a man, you know, will find you worth loving I would never tell anyone like you're not going to be ever worth loving ever you're useless But you might have a lot of work to get there You know, men have past as well. We're not we're not all perfect beings.    You're just in a dress You have changed Send tweet So yeah, that's my question women when they contact me like okay, like I'm glad you're reaching out like are you gonna do the work? Yes, or no. Yeah, that's on you Mike sure We we have a we don't understand marriage until you understand marriage Is marriage about fulfillment is about self-fulfillment if marriage is about self-fulfillment your marriage is going to fail bottom line Marriage has to have a tell us that has to have a purpose that has to go and work towards something It's got it can't if it's inward it's going to fail it's going to collapse in on itself And it's got to have a purpose This is the teaching of Christianity But the ancients knew this right that a household was to raise up a legacy raise up children and to build something and men and women stuck together when a woman was so You ladies are going to lose your beauty Right men you're going to you're going to lose your strength It's going to happen But when you invest your beauty and strengthen each other early on or as early as you can It's replaced with strength of character beauty of character eventually A problem I have with the manuscripts.  You're all going to die, right? We're all going to die. We have what our views on these things are so short And and they're so small so we're going to have to get the bigger questions eventually But first change the way we look at marriage Having the purpose my marriage. I'm building a household For my grandkids and my great-grandkids. I'm invested my wife's invested means bigger than both of us xenophone He wrote in his book on household orders very famous ancient book and xenophone And it says without my wife would die and everyone swooned But he meant it without my wife. I died.  It's good To anthony's two points is basically responsibility and reality. I take responsibility for what he did In redemption. That's a big part. I sinned what I did was wrong. I confess it. I admit it I own up to it. I deserve what comes my way So women definitely have to do that and I don't you can be so happy It's like when I talk to the migtel guys, you know, I'm like you could be happy I know you don't think you can be but I've seen 40 somethings get married and be happy Right and have a wonderful time and do you do have to change your expectations to to not just fit your reality But the reality it's not like hey, you had your chance to get a top notch guy, but you screwed around your youth Right, we all get old Right, we all wear down and I'm I'm gonna die Next to my wife, right? Hopefully not in a car because socks every once a while You need to flirt with feminism and we went on a trip last year and I let her drive for a little bit so Little drunk food Well, okay, I'll I'll take that from there Sure, I'll just take on that one. No, I mean, you know what I'm gonna say probably isn't gonna be popular And and I don't I don't expect it to be and it's a very unpopular word and and the word is accountability And you know feminism said for a very long time that women wanted to be equal to men It's like, okay The way that men determine determine equality with each other is through accountability If a man will not be accountable He will not stand shoulder to shoulder with other men That you're the price of your man card is accountability. That's just a known thing a man who is not accountable It's not get to be part of the circle So if women want to be equal to men they have to take on the burden of men Which is accountability if you want to truly be equal women do not like accountability And in my observation they do almost anything they can to avoid accountability You know, uh, if if you listen to kevin samuels, he talks about sign language shame insults guilt and the need to be right As he tries to make it clear to them that you know The life choices the women that have that calling them the ones that they've made are not serving them They're not getting the men their life that they want and so when he tries to explain to them This is as a result of your choices They resort to shame insults guilt and the need to be right all in the process of avoiding accountability And so if women want to come into True equality with men not political equality not economic equality But true shoulder to shoulder divine equality with men there will be a process of accountability And many of the men in here know that I speak about the great reconciliation And I think sometimes I may do myself a disservice and talking about it in that I can almost accidentally Though not intentionally accidentally frame it as this magical coming together process And I don't believe that I don't believe it'll be magical at all one happy day Where we all wake up and everything's happy and fine. No, there's going to be a process of accountability And the problem is that accountability burns accountability is pain No one wants to experience accountability And the real challenging thing will be women will have to go through a process of accountability Individual women and I think women collectively for the things that they have done and the choices that they have made Whether they did it under deception or not And the real challenge for us as men will be holding women as they go through that process We will have to be stronger to support women as they go through the process of accountability and feel The consequences of their choices and that's going to be absolutely brutal But it's going to be absolutely wonderful and beautiful by the end because it will bring men and women closer together So in the hope that taking the long view we never have to make this mistake again This generational error we've made for the past 60 years that maybe this is the lesson that humanity needs to learn that Some things can't be undone And so that's my hope for the long term that as we mutually go through this process of accountability Supporting each other in that that humanity can learn lessons that it needs to learn So that's my response to this Thank you guys. Um, well, so I we have just uh, we do have just a few minutes left And uh, so I just if anyone wants to jump in sort of popcorn style If do you have any advice to women that are listening right now? or uh, potentially also Men with girlfriends who or wives that they want to try and explain some of these concepts to how to begin reaching across We know what we might say the aisle And inviting more women into this process Anyone who wants to jump in I got a quick thing. Actually, it's not from me. It's from jennifer moleski speaker Spoke with 22 convention. I had to rearrange the schedule a little bit that was on me and she had to then leave an airplane That's why she's not here right now.  I'll do that. So I got to do that That's all from jennifer, okay, I guess um Social media is very dangerous for women in a way. It's like pornography How is especially emasculating for men? um Social media inflates a woman's self estimation Also her expectations. It's I would say limit. I do tell guys check out Check out their social media their instagram. Yeah, especially you find the burner account that their parents don't know about You know, um And it's see what they're posting. I would say it's not good. It's not good at all Uh women want to compete with each other naturally. You see this even the church with homeschool moms, right? They're competing through their kids, but instagram.  There's a lot of that. That's that's one practical step. Cool Alexander, um, I For the young woman to contact me. I have a fairly objective criteria. It's not dissimilar to what I give young men But you have to set some standards for yourself Is if you hold yourself to standards, you know by default, you know the level of your life the vibration of your life will rise You know the thing I often suggest obviously is like your physical health your personal health. You take care of that The people that you have relationships with are those ascendant or descending relationships. Is it making you better or worse? The way you treat people one of the things that a lot of young women are just women in general acting today is that they're not nurturing They don't know how to be graceful They've adopted this sort of which is essentially like a shitty male version of dealing with people where it's very brassy. It's very ballsy It's very abrasive Um, and there might be certain environments that that works in but overall you're just an unpleasant unpleasant woman That nobody likes you. Nobody wants to be around you. You're relying upon you know title and authority to You know to course people So have standards for how you treat people like actually practice being kind like develop that quality in yourself Uh Yeah, and then you know beyond that like in regards to like relationships with men Try to actually apply some logic to it Like yeah, this is one that this is like the maturation process of like feminine wisdom If you actually are going to be a woman and be wise you need to learn how to balance intuition and feeling with logic and reason Like it actually has to happen Like that not everything you feel is valid and then every emotion needs to be satisfied You know that when you look at someone or you're looking at a man like okay Let me let me check my expectations a little bit about how this is going to proceed Yeah, I mean this all comes to time. This is obviously experiential.  You're gonna get what you're gonna get Yeah, and then you're gonna be that girl that's really upset when she feels like she's being shamed and beat on But you know what you probably earned it Sock you got about 90 seconds 90 seconds I think women need to clean their own house first and not focus them on the patriarchy I think that in many cases feminism is nothing more than a form of gender bigotry And that when you partake in it, you're a bigot When you enable bigotry, you are enabling bigotry And we need to view it as such and ladies You need to clean house and speak up when you see it You need to silence that you need to call attention to it and shine a light on it Men are watching Brilliant and to that I would just add courage It's okay to be wrong It has never been more okay to be wrong So I want to thank you guys for sitting on this panel Socrates Alexander Michael Mr. President sir Will Spencer if anyone has got about 50 seconds left if anyone got something burning they want to say Yeah, I had a little something unless you want to go Michael Yeah, so when I set a tweet when the New York Post was fighting with us in 2020 about make women great again launching it And I was kind of messing around but I realized later that was merit to it And I said in a tweet all caps is kind of yelling late at night right on twitter You know reclaim your stolen femininity become great again And they quoted that like on the website they actually like embedded it I was like that's interesting on it So I kind of made me think more about it and so one of the what we're talking about feminism lie to women These are lies blue pill lies whatever you should also think about it that it's they robbed you They stole your femininity from me, especially for young women It wasn't just that you got lied and you accepted the lie and you're responsible for that part and they're responsible for lying to you That's like abusive and stupid, but they also robbed you they stole from you really like they stole from you psychologically and culturally and spiritually I would say And that's messed up and that's just another way to look at it that I think is useful beyond just you were lied to They robbed you straight up Thanks gentlemen The still on this is will spencer from the renaissance of men live in orlando florida with the 21 summit 2021 With socrates alexander cortez pastor michael foster and president anthony dream johnson the state women in femininity. Thanks so much for watching Welcome back to the 21 convention second patriarch edition live in orlando florida welcome to the 22 convention Welcome back to the 21 convention 2020 of orlando florida Being held for the first time ever at our very first and inaugural 21 summit events 21 summit in orlando florida Well, here we go. We risked again with the 22 convention the patriarch in 21 convention all three stages together in one event Not only did we sit down and say we're going to come together in meet in mass But we're going to take it a step further. We are going to dare have a conversation about the sexes Openly honestly and engage the woman that event like I am amazed that I'll well this one We did a brand new event. We did the second patriarch and we did the main event for the 19th time It's so much more than sitting in an audience Watching a man on a stage The conversations and the hallways The connections that people make The challenging the collaborations And that's what we needed all starts with men and it's not just men.  That's not it. This is about men Getting their act together doing what they're made to do you had meals You had to run security. You had to run travel plans You had to ensure people were where they needed to be three stages cameras everywhere And it was pulled off with the flawless execution. It's evolved so much I really appreciate how anthony has allowed you speakers To evolve and to grow and to share that and to encourage that with all the other men here To hear so much talk on family and fatherhood. There's more depth. There's more room for who they could be Is the word patriarchy or patriarch offensive to you in any way? Not to me personally Okay, not at all. It's something that I I cherish it. I love it. I grew up You cherish the patriarch I do In mansplaining news a three-day conference for women led by men hopes to make women great again But women need to be told how to be great again Like how to land a husband How to lose weight how to pop out a bunch of kids Why don't men think they need to fix the problems of women? Well, it says the world's ultimate event for women You know Orlando, florida, that's going to be the scene of the crime. It's mansplaining palooza You say no to the toxic bullying feminist dogma. Hey shiaki is the future It's good to see it in person. I'm just Until I got here and saw it and you can see the people in the audience You see the men that are here committed to listening I mean, it's just changed my idea of what the conference is the professionalism the staff the way everything is organized It's giving me a different perspective about this particular idea and I'm ready to put some more fire into it Welcome to dream world ladies and gentlemen


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The Society of Family Health, the SFH, once private sector investments in HIV testing to ensure that individuals have access to convenient and confidential testing. Find out more about this as we discussed with Dr. Thuy Moba-Wendu on the breakfast this morning. We'll also be taking a look at some of the front pages on some national dailies this morning and an analyst to join us and up the press to analyze these headlines. Good morning. I am Maureen Menongue-Zuguay and it is the Friday Flex edition of the Breakfast on Plasticity Africa. You're welcome. Hope you slept well. It's a beautiful day. It's been a great week with so many things in the news and the headlines.  Well done. All right, our first top trending this morning. So the Chinese export to Nigeria is to top 1.4 trillion Naira in April. The central bank has previously claimed that textile smuggling costs Nigeria about 1.65 trillion Naira per year, resulting in the failure of over 130 businesses. Fake human hairs, woven fabric, women's suit and other goods made a list of 1.4 trillion Naira, imported items to Nigeria from China in April of 2023. Well, this was made due to the failures of several interventions by the Nigerian government to revive the alien local textile in the African continent, most populous country, Nigeria. None of the textile companies have begun production since the involvement of the central bank of Nigeria. Meanwhile, $150 million in commodities were shipped from Nigeria to China, resulting in a negative trading balance of $1.95 billion out of the $2.1 billion in commerce between the two nations in April. The top Chinese imports to Nigeria include synthetic filament yarn, woven cloth, worth $160 million. Insecticides, $84.1 million. Non-need woven women's outfits, worth $81.5 million. Cell phones, at $67.2 million. And false hair, worth $59 million. That's for false hair. Well, that's what it is. Our very first top trending.  Isn't it alarming there that false hair, spent $59 million on fake hair, false hair, human hair, call it whatever you want to call it.  Well, our second top trending. NAVDAC allows Nigerians about contaminated sub-drinks. Sub-drink, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has issued a public alert to one Nigerians about a contaminated batch of Sprite, 50-CL glass bottle, circulating in Nigeria. Well, upon investigation after a consumer complaint received by the post-marketing surveillance unit of the agency, over five crates of the implicated batch of Sprite, 50-CL glass bottles were discovered to be contaminated with particles at the point of purchase and suppliers' address. The agency has directed all sorts of research and the agency has directed all zonal directors and state coordinators to carry out surveillance and mop up the implicated batch of the unwholesome product. Also, a comprehensive current good manufacturing practice inspection of the manufacturing site is to be carried out by the agency. This is to find the root cause of the contamination and ensure compliance to marketing authorization. NAVDAC has said, for the more, the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited, Abuja Plant, has been directed to recall the implicated batch of the product and report to NAVDAC for effective monitoring. So you have a 50-CL Sprite bottled Sprite, not the plastic one. The bottled Sprite has some contaminations in them and you need to be on the lookout if I were you. I wouldn't even touch anything called Sprite for now until NAVDAC is done analyzing the situation and getting to the bottom of it. The company manufacturing Sprite has been asked to do a recall of the batches of those contaminated bottles. Let's hope that they do that swiftly and I hope that this message goes out very far and wide so that Nigerians will be on the lookout and avoid the dangers inherent in taking those drinks. Well, that's the much we have on our top trending. We'll be back to give you, off the press, where we'll be taking a look at the front pages of some national dailies this morning. Jida Johnson, Chief Lecturer of Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos State will be joining us on off the press. We'll be back in a moment. Stay with us.


British Prime Minister Liz Tross has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of making several rattling threats to cover his failed invasion of Ukraine. She told the United Nations that its founding principles were fracturing because of aggression by authoritarian states. In her debut speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday night, Tross called the war in Ukraine a battle for values and the security of the whole world. Responding to a statement from Putin that he was mobilising reservists and would use everything at his disposal to protect Russia, an apparent reference to his nuclear arsenal, Tross accused the Russian leader of desperately trying to justify his catastrophic failures. No one is threatening Russia.  And this morning we have seen Putin trying to justify his catastrophic failures. He's doubling down by sending even more reservists to a terrible fate. He's desperately trying to claim the mantle of democracy for a regime without human rights or freedoms. And he's making yet more bogus claims and saber-rattling threats. This will not work. The international alliance is strong and Ukraine is strong. The contrast between Russia's conduct and Ukraine's brave, dignified First Lady Elena Zelenska, who's here at the UN today, could not be more stark. The Ukrainians aren't just defending their own country, they're defending our values and the security of the whole world. That's why we must act. That's why the UK will spend 3% of GDP on defence by 2030, maintaining our position as the leading security actor in Europe. And that's why, at this crucial moment in the conflict, I pledge that we will sustain or increase our military support to Ukraine for as long as it takes. New UK weapons are arriving in Ukraine as I speak, including more MRLS. In a speech outlining her review of foreign policy, Truss spoke glowingly of Queen Elizabeth II while extolling the late monarch as a symbol of everything the UN stands for. I join you here just two days after her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, was laid to rest. We deeply mourn her passing, and we pay tribute to her service. She was the rock on which modern Britain was built, and she symbolised the post-war values on which this organisation was founded. Our constitutional monarchy, underpinned by a democratic society, has delivered stability and progress. Her late Majesty transcended difference and healed division. We saw this in her visits to post-apartheid South Africa and to the Republic of Ireland. When she addressed this General Assembly 65 years ago, she warned that it was vital not only to have strong ideals, but also to have the political will to deliver on them. Now we must show that will. We must fight to defend those ideals, and we must deliver on them for all of our people. World leaders at the United Nations have called for Moscow to be held accountable for human rights violations in Ukraine as Russian Foreign Minister Sigil Lavrov defended his country's war against Ukraine, Lavrov accused Ukraine of creating threats against Russian security and brazenly trampling the rights of Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine. He said, country supplying weapons to Ukraine and training its soldiers were parties to the conflict. Thousands have been killed in Ukrainian cities, reduced to rubble since Russia's invasion in the biggest assault on European states since World War II.