Hey everyone Dylan Schumacher, civile defense and today I want to talk about former president Donald Trump So I've been thinking about this for weeks now and I thought it was time to finally kind of put put some pen to paper here, so I Do not think that Donald Trump was at the end of the day a net positive for America or for Liberty particularly from from a Liberty-minded Perspective and I think that those of us who consider ourselves on the right-hand side of things Need to need to really take a look in the mirror about that full disclosure. I did vote for Trump at the second time around Because I certainly thought he was better than the alternative But as I've thought about it since then I've thought What what did Trump really do for us for you want to make America great again? What did he really do to that end? And and I think the answer is he was a net negative in in that department So I have a list here and I'm gonna walk through with it So the two big positives I could think was that he did do some deregulation and that is in various Industries that honestly I don't participate in and don't know too much about but I do know that he did do some Deregulation here and there so okay, I mean that's that's good You know, that's less government is good. I guess and then expose the bias of the media Which I thought that was that was something he certainly did for me. I would admit that You know, I came into the Trump presidency being like yes, of course the media is biased but you know and by the end I'm like, oh god like they're they're off the deep end insane and I wasn't even really consider myself a huge Trump guy didn't vote for him the first time around and That that was a big thing that he certainly exposed So those were the two net positives out of the Trump presidency that I could that I could think And then I started thinking of what know where the negatives and I had a much longer list First of all, he banned bump stocks Donald Trump passed more gun control or enacted more gun control didn't pass anything Inacted more gun control than Barack Obama He didn't work on controlling Barack Obama. He directed the ATF to reinterpret a law First of all, the ATF doesn't interpret laws that that's not they're part of the executive branch The executive branch doesn't interpret laws. That's part of the judicial branch Okay, so I don't know how you can as an executive direct the executive agency in order to do that He was also very for red flag laws. I don't have that on here But there's multiple clips of Trump talking about confiscating guns first and then going to court All complete another garbage, okay? Violates multiple constitutional amendments, okay? So he enacted more gun control than Barack Obama and somehow still the NRA supports him and we're on his side and all This garbage and I'm like, whoa, wait a second here. Let's just look at the facts. So that that's a big one Debt he came in complaining about Barack Obama's debt Which was ludicrous and then proceeded to just tack on more. I think I all said and done it was another Seven trillion he added on during his time. I could be wrong about that someone can look up the exact number But it was a lot, okay? 90 billion dollars 900 billion dollars stymie. So At the end on his way out the door.  He had another opportunity to pardon Snowden and pardon Assange. Did he know? Why not? Why not? Why didn't he do that? Snowden who's by the way been proven 100% correct guys an American hero Obamacare didn't repeal Obamacare now. I will be honest here. He did try And and there was some effort that was put out there and John McCain may he never rest in peace I ended up voting against it and and I remember how that went So that one's not 100% in Trump's camp, but that was a problem National carry reciprocity or the hearing act, you know when the Republicans first took control back in 2016 They were gonna pass national carry reciprocity and and they were gonna get that hearing act Which would make suppressors take them off the NFA item list and they were gonna they were gonna do those things Did any of that ever happen? No No, it didn't They did nothing in fact for those two years. They talked about lots of stuff They're gonna do but then when it came time for push to shove the Republicans did nothing To advance your individual liberty for those two years. They control Think about that. They didn't do anything to actually make your life better or to advance your liberty tobacco age of 21 not only did President Trump sign a bill that raised the national age of to buy tobacco to 21 but he bragged about it on Twitter because I remember it Imagine imagine being 20 years old and having tens of thousands of dollars of school debt and Working full-time put yourself through college and being in college and being an adult But you can't go down to the store to buy a pack of cigarettes It's the stupidest thing ever so at the end of the day again You got to remember the perspective I'm coming from here is liberty and at the end of the day Donald Trump did not do anything to actually protect or Expand individual liberty. In fact, he did the exact opposite Opposite and he curtailed liberty in this country So it was a net loss when you're measuring it on that scale This isn't a Republican or a Democrat thing for me Personal liberty and large government are incompatible One cannot suffer the other to live Okay, and the larger the government gets the smaller your personal liberty is gonna get and the larger your personal liberty is The smaller the government's gonna have to be and at this point We are on a trajectory where the government will just grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and grow And it has been that way since the boomers have been in charge Thank you for ruining America. So the big problem is that Because nobody thinks it's a problem that the government is huge and spends trillions of dollars into debt and all these other things No one thinks it's a problem anymore There's a couple John the Baptist crying out in the wilderness voices speaking against the growth of government and God bless them But by and large all of the politicians are okay with or bought into the idea that Government is massive and that's an okay thing to be it's okay to do all this stuff and sign these huge bills that you Don't necessarily read and that are you know 5,000 pages and you have 24 hours and look at it before you vote on it and all this stuff That's totally okay And all the while while that golem of government grows your personal liberty is is what's paying the price and Eventually we're gonna do that to a point where you don't you don't have personal liberty. So At the end of the day, I think Trump was a net loss I certainly wish he was present now over over Biden, but that's a different discussion It's a net loss. It's a net loss because He and and his crew did not value individual liberty and finding a politician who does do that these days Again, it's extremely rare as long as we Keep growing the government We will keep shrinking liberty Show me how those are compatible show me. I would love to see that I love liberty It's the reason I love living in this country and if we have any hope of preserving it We need to stop Growing the government as Ronald Reagan once said another not friend of personal liberty Said that the the nine most scary the sign scariest the nine most dangerous words in the English language Were I'm from the government and I'm here to help Do brave deeds and endure


I brought a copy of a German book. It's by Rilke. The publisher is reclam. The cover is plain. It's just a color. And if you go to German bookstores, at least parts of them, they're actually organized by publishers. You probably know other countries in Europe sometimes. Like in Italy, too, in France. Yeah. And the books more or less all look the same. How do you feel about this system? I love them. So you would opt into this system for all of your books. Yeah. Well, I mean, I talk about that in the book. I mean, the whole piece is a kind of meditation on the idea of wearing a uniform and dressing yourself. And how these contradictory approaches to presenting oneself, what they mean. It's like you have to make a statement about where you've decided to rest on the identity question. And a cover forces your hand in a way you'd rather be hovering in this ambiguity. Yeah. I mean, I prefer this kind of cover because to me, there's a protective quality to the lack of specificity and the belonging to the series, which is what Europe... I mean, in the US, you have certain series as well. And in fact, I was thinking... I mean, I wrote the essay when I was in Rome and I was far away from my American library and my books and things.  City Lights books makes those beautiful little books of like my copy of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and et cetera. I mean, these are beautiful books, American books that all kind of looked the same, similar dimensions, have a kind of sober quality, a lot of emphasis on type. So I won't say that it doesn't happen here, but I think for like the average writer and the average publisher, it's a very different dialogue that's happening when it comes to putting a book... putting a cover onto a book. And so I think if I had to choose, I would choose that the safety of the uniform because of course, I mean, the whole piece, the whole little essay, whatever begins with the memory of being a child and being traumatized by having to dress myself, because it just churned up so many problems and was a source of true anguish for me as a child to have to put on my... to choose clothes and put them on. And this has economic ramifications, this has cultural ramifications, this has all sorts of ramifications because clothes are things we buy in stores and et cetera, et cetera. And so I had this sort of crazy envy, admiration, envy obsession with my cousin's school uniforms in Calcutta because they were all the same and they just put on what they had to wear to school every day and it was the same thing. And I dreamed about that. I dreamed of being able to wake up in the United States and just putting on my blue skirt and my white shirt and my black shoes and going to school and nobody commenting on what I was wearing because I was always so terrified because people were always commenting on what I was wearing and either teasing me or whatever. And so in that sense, I think there's this kind of... Where do you stand between wanting to express yourself and be free and being afraid of that freedom and being actually vulnerable to that freedom? I mean, I think America represents freedom with a big capital F and it always has and we hope it always will for the good. But there's also the danger of that in that even as a young girl in the 70s, as a kid, a child of immigrants, I knew what it meant to shop in one store versus another store. I saw what the girls in my class were wearing, the kinds of shoes, the kinds of purses. I knew that my parents weren't taking me to those stores that they thought that was a waste of money and that we're not going to pay all of this $40 for Nike sneakers or whatever it is because it's a waste and you're going to grow out of them in six months. Whereas my other schoolmates had these things and suddenly there was the gap between me and them reinforced by these things. And I think for a child, at least for me, these things were traumatizing and I imagine for others as well.


Matthew 6 16 through 18 says this when you fast say when you fast Okay, some of you say say when you fast Okay, notice that it doesn't says if you fast. All right, so Fasting is for every believer and every Christian. Amen All right says when you fast do not look somber as hypocrites do For that disfigured their faces to show others They're fasting said anybody have an LT translation because like this sounds like this figure their faces like I Thought I put a new different translation on there. Nobody is an LT. Yeah, give me that one 616 I like an LT translation says different. All right, so an LT translation says this And when you fast don't make obvious don't make it obvious as hypocrites do for they tried to look miserable and So that people will admire them For their fasting. I tell you the truth that this is the only reward they will ever get But when you fast again Jesus is when you fast not if you fast and Bible says in the witnesses of two or three words The word should be established.  You know nowadays we have a lot of different types of fasting fasting from social media It's good, but real fasting and I mean real not by my definition But real according to the scriptures is abstaining from food for spiritual reasons Fasting is very popular nowadays in our culture, especially with the new age of advancement of new age and Discovery by medical field the the benefits of fasting. We're gonna go through some of them So intermediate fasting how many of you like seeing like intermediate?  It wasn't only just for spiritual reasons He also created our physical body in a such a way that fasting benefits us it resets us It renews our body We literally slowed down aging. We literally Improve our immune system. It cleanses our blood. It helps us.  I mean there's a lot of Physical benefits of fasting and this is my first point first reward of fasting is physical health and as I've mentioned there is lowers your blood sugar and reduces insulin in your body Or controls by reducing insulin resistance in your body. It promotes better health by finding inflammation it enhances Heart health by improving blood pressure and cholesterol level fasting boosts your brain functions and prevents Neurodegenerative disorders fasting helps you lose weight and boost your metabolism Increases growth of hormones which is vital for your metabolism weight loss and muscle strain slows down your aging and extends longevity Prevents cancer and increase increases effectiveness of chemotherapy And this is just one of the few things that I just read to you that have been studied There are a lot more but these these things have been studied by doctors done experiments and peer reviewed and They came to conclusion that fasting is good for your body Now two thousand years some later where God spoke that like six thousand years ago about our body that we need fasting Fasting is included in our every every day thing. I don't know if you know that but while we sleep We don't eat. Well, hopefully we don't eat right And so this is why you know for eight to ten hours twelve hours. You're not eating Hopefully you don't sleep that much but just you know, that's how much you're not eating, right? And so that's why the first meal of your day called breakfast break a fast you're breaking fast on your day and so But fasting has a lot of good physical body But something that is not often talked in the churches is that fasting also Brings supernatural or divine healing divine touch of God to our body and One of the scriptures is Isaiah 58 8 and says this then when you have fasted your light will break out like dawn And you will be healed quickly You'll be healed quickly and again, it's I Haven't heard that spoken that much in in churches about fasting produces Bringing bringing about healing but as I was starting for the message and I read about the thought and I started in some research and Listening to some people I've found quite a few testimonies of people that got healed supernaturally Through their fast. There was particular gentleman that was confined to a wheelchair because of severe car accident And as he was praying and asking believing God to heal him, you know He went to different places for people to heal him to to pray for healing to anoint him with oil and With laying out of hands and and he seemed to not get healed and he was at one point You know just got discouraged But as he come to read this first that I just read to you some faith some kind of faiths parked inside of him that If I fast that maybe perhaps God will heal my prayer and he will heal me and as he began to fast usually, you know when you begin fasting First four or five six days seven days, you know, you kind of you're losing strength because you know, you're moving around you Lose you're giving energy, but yeah, you're not putting any you're not putting any food and you feel to your body So it's normal to feel tired But his testimony goes like this that is as he was fasting and praying seeking the Lord for his healing His body became stronger and stronger with every day that he was fasting and eventually he walked out of the wheelchair Now his healing was progressive and then he started taking some therapy and and you know Got better and better at walking and eventually was able to do everything that he was doing before like normal people does Like normal people do but the thing is it wasn't a natural healing for him It was a divine healing because doctors gave him zero chances of a walk and again He's his spinal cord was severed. His nerves were severed. I mean he had no feelings down below. I mean it was it was not a natural Ability it was a supernatural thing and we see in a scripture that one of the rewards of fasting benefits of fasting is that your healing Will come quicker So I don't know if you have certain infirmities in your body or certain things that you're fighting or a certain certain sicknesses that you're fighting I would challenge you To pray and ask the Lord if you'd have you fast now if you're taking medications and and and you're your your health is Is failing you have to approach this? Wisely You know you talk to your doctor ask your doctor. Maybe there is now I'll warn you right off the bat not every doctor understands fasting some people will Discourage you from fasting but medical science proves that fasting works But nonetheless your condition might be different so use wisdom and and be led by faith in the situation Maybe ask you doctor see if he can do a progressive fast. I heard dr. Mausman Roe who is an expert in fasting He he would advise people that were sick in her body. He would encourage them. He practiced that a lot this is where actually got most of the stuff on on Fasting benefiting supernatural bringing healing is that he would encourage people to go on Progressive fast meaning that every day they would eat less or they would take certain foods out and Progress as the doctors would monitor their health and they would as there will be praying standing in the scripture declaring God's word They would get healed in our body and so one of the benefits of fasting is Healing to your body naturally your body cleans itself purifies itself. That's why first few days three four days you feeling icky You might have headache you might have You know you might feel weak and all of that stuff is because it's toxins from these Foods that we eat Process food that we eat. It's coming out of our body and it's normal Just drink lots of water first three to four days Let it be flushed out and then you can kind of simmer down on your water intake The only sucky part about it is you go bathroom every like 30 minutes But other than that what trust me it's better than the headache. So that's just for personal experience number two the reward the second reward of fasting is it prepares you for a Temptation and it's coming out of the Matthew chapter 4 verses 1 through 11 this is where story what Jesus went on a problem fast Jesus was led in the wilderness By the Holy Spirit To be tempted now many say that he was led To the wilderness to be too fast. No It's clear in the scripture says that he was led to the wilderness to be tempted But as the antidote for temptation Jesus shows fast Okay Because you know I often kind of associate Jesus Holy Spirit led Jesus to fast You know that's not scriptural It's not what the Bible says he was led to be tempted to be tried and as the antidote for temptation or as a way to develop immune Immunization against temptation. No, that's good Jesus went to fast. Okay. We got to write this down. I don't have that one. It just came out Come on You know, I I used to think I used to think I used to have this kind of approach that you know That Jesus was led in the desert. He was tired. He was weak 40 days. No food 40 days No isolated 40 days he was at his weakest point and the devil showed up when he was the most vulnerable he was the weakest and Pretty much he was kicking the man that was already down That's kind of what I when I growing up in church her in this here in this story of Jesus fast and reading this that's the kind of approach and that's kind of mindset that I was reading right and couple years ago I as I was in the fast I was listening to the message and I heard the spiritual present a different point of view and it shocked me and It put the scripture in a different light and he said that Jesus And he brought it that in he brought the scripture there. It says I believe is verse Verse 11 and that it says that after he fasted Dave Then Satan came to tempt him right. He said that Jesus what is at his pinnacle of strength Because of the fast he wasn't at his weakest And if any of you that fast at a practice fasting especially prolonged fasting you would know this to be true You might be weak in your body, but your spiritual senses are alert your spiritual antennas are are receiving Very well and you can spot the temptation and have strength to walk away from it You can you have the strength to it's like almost you're a in a tunnel vision your focus you're pursuing the Lord and To overcome temptation when you are in the fast is actually much much easier So fasting so when Jesus was here Bible says he's for 40 days. He got hungry and then he got tempted No, he prepared himself for this temptation. He was at his most if that was the case I believe Jesus was always prepared But he was modeling this model to us He was showing this to us that fasting prepares us it develops a develops a an immunization For the temptation it develops our spirit to be able to say no to our cravings to be able to say no to Lust to be able to say no to greed to be able to say no to those things that are contrary to God's word to those habits that That sabotage us that sabotage or walk with God to be able to say no when it's the most Difficult because when you when you're fasting you train in your appetites you train in your flesh You train in your your soul to be able to endure If I'd ask you to come and lift 300 pounds here You know most of you probably would not be able to lift it But with some proper training for some of you lots of training, you know You go into the gym and proper exercising yourself at some point You can make yourself to come to the place where you could lift 300 pounds Why is because you've trained yourself your body to be able to do that? And that's what fasting does to our spirit man It puts him above our flesh because oftentimes Christians are our fleshly Christians They allow their flesh to dictate what way they go what they watch what they eat and and what what do they Intake I'm talking about through their eyes through the ears But it has to be opposite is the spirit has to dictate meaning that you go and you you You turn on a certain show or certain movie or certain things and and something in your spirits is now This is not right. This is not good. We shouldn't I shouldn't be watching this and you turn it off Instead of your flesh dictating and telling you what to watch and when you listen to certain songs or On the radio or something comes up and and and and you know before you used to just bump it. Yeah, this is a cool music No, but now, you know something in your spirit says it's just some sometimes not right like this doesn't Doesn't doesn't feel doesn't feel right. I remember this particular story. There was this guy in a Mitch in my home group long long time ago He came and he got said he was plugged in. He was in my home group and one of the things that he was One of the things that he the last things that he was kind of having a hard time let go is Music because he's like man is like Christian music is kind of boring. He's like I just like you know the beat I'll listen for the beat.  He's Heathens All right, and so and one of the things the thing is like and I understood that I could like Braid him and say like hey, just don't listen to the music. I've mentioned a few times here. There's listen It's not it's not building you and I know you're listening for the beat But the words that are being spoken whether you consciously some consciously there they're being deposited into your mind And that's it. I that's all I've said it. I remember one time he went He just really encountered God and got really put on his heart and he went into fasting first time fasting He was he was like so excited and then and all that stuff and after fasting I remember we went to Spokane to pick up his car and we were driving we were driving back from Spokane I remember this so clearly and The car that we got had like awesome stereo system It was booming and so and he he was just testing his car. He was excited we're picking up his car just just purchased it for him and and he was bumping his music and maybe like For five ten minutes and I was tired So I just like I just laid back well lean my thing back and just kind of was those enough and then he turned it off He's like man. I don't know. This is not right. I was like I was like listen Hey, if you want to listen to go for it, I'm just gonna take a nap. It's like no, it's not it's not that He's like, I don't know something just doesn't sit right. He's like Just no I can't listen to that and that's what happens when you know when we fast We begin to develop sensitivity to hold the spirit We begin to develop our spirit man and our spirit man says, you know what I Don't know that that doesn't seem right. I used to do that before but now it just doesn't sit right with me and That's what fasting develops. It prepares you for a temptation. It makes you stronger, you know food is a very spiritual subject, you know that Right now in a cultic world and especially if you read, you know throughout the history people used to sacrifice food to the gods to demons and all kinds of stuff food as a very is a very spiritual thing Adam and Eve The first temptation was with food Israel when they were led out of Promise land from Egypt the first temptation was food and unfortunately both of them failed and we see the results of it One brought death to the world Adam and Eve the other one brought death to themselves in the wilderness. God says you're not gonna You're not gonna enter into the promise land I wonder sometimes because we don't curb our appetites Appetites we don't discipline ourselves through fasting through self-denial and discipline that the the Christian discipline that Bible calls us to that we caught ourselves short of the promises of God But we see Jesus he comes on a scene the second Adam He denies food he puts food in a proper place food is not bad Food is not evil. It just needs to be in its place and he Allows his spirit man to dominate his flesh. He allows his spirit man to dominate his desires and allows his spirit to guide him Verses his desires and we see he comes out and Bible says he comes out with power He comes out right directly into his calling He fulfills God's plan in three years. She does what people can't do in a lifetime He dies and he's risen up and today we celebrate his life and all and he's put the history right in half So food is a very serious matter for a Christian and it's a very Spiritual subject that we should not treat it lightly because it starts with small and it progresses further. Amen Three number three I believe that fasting unlocks your calling according to acts chapter 13 verses 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting The Holy Spirit set set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work Which I have called them in another transaction says for the special assignment that I have for them while they were fasting and worshiping I believe that I believe that The way to discover your calling the way to step into your calling the way to unlock your calling is through fasting Is through fasting and today you might be sitting you might be asking yourself a question You know I've been Christian for some time, but what is my calling? What is God having store for me? What what where do I fit in in the body? What was I created to do and I think this is the This is the most asked question of Of the humanity maybe second most probably first one if there is God and second One is is what am I to do like what what what was I created to do do?  Am I just here to take time to take up time in space? Am I just here to exist? Or there is purpose to me or there is a calling in my life. What does God have for me? And I believe that the best way the clearest way to hear is when you fast When you fast, I believe something clears up In your heart first of all all some of the some of the junk some of the things that that Some of the noise some of some some of these voices That that speak into us it might be even a good voices voices of our parents You know you need to do this you need to do this because parents they see if you don't got no calling for yourself If you didn't find calling for yourself, I'll give you one that's usually how it works or and So you know or or opinions of friends opinions of other people and sometimes we get lost in all these noises But what does God say about me? What is God say about my purpose? What is God have me do in this season in this time?  What do I do in this season of my life? You know I was single and I knew what I was doing, but now I got married things shifted things changed What I do in this season how do I serve in this season or now I have children and I got you know My time looks different my energy looks different my my priorities look different. How do I serve you in this season? God I used to be in school and my time was taken up all by school But I graduated now I have you know, I have a little bit more free time. That's such a thing I don't know Seems like the further you go in life the less time you have but let's just say that's the case, right? Like what I do in this season What what what I do in this season? What is my call? What is my assignment right now? And the way to discover it is through fasting because this is where you can hear got more clear This is where the noise gets cleared up. It's like a radio. Have you seen those old radios? Maybe you're old enough to know actually or touch one, you know, you got a dial There's a dial right and you kind of have to find that frequency sometimes. It's like really really fine frequency That's just like a touch, you know like like one touch to the left to the right and that's it You lost the signal have to be just right and you get it or even the TVs TVs used to be the similar way, right? you're tuning in until the lines get straightened out and So some of you like what used to have that it wasn't HD It was like 180p But this is kind of how it is is sometimes you have to just tune it to just Get your position yourself just in the right place So you can hear got clearly you can get this confirmation. Yes, Lord. This is what you have me do Number four I believe that fasting releases Divine or supernatural power divine or supernatural power it says and Look chapter 4 14 same story. Jesus was fasting 40 days and then says that Jesus returned to Galilee Filled with the Holy Spirit's power and report about him spread quickly throughout the whole region. I believe that fasting and luck certain thing in us certain giftings and certain anointing that's been placed by God in us and the day of our salvation But otherwise we would not be able to tap in listen. I'm not saying fasting Gets more grace of God into your life. I'm not saying that you earn something from God Because you fast now you've become certain level of holiness or certain level of Consecration and then God just unlocks the next level like a video game now. You can take on a bigger boss That's that's not that's not the way it works We have been giving all things pertaining to Christ and righteousness Bob says right we have it all on the side of us Fasting helps us to discover what God has given us through his word and speak into God and him saying listen I've put that in you and This is how you can use it, you know the difference between power. No power is very clear when you think about Screwing something in all right I'm sure everybody had an encounter with that when you need to screw something in and you don't have a power tool You just have a hand tool and then you're sitting there You know and like oh man I wish you had a power tool and that's the difference the power makes the difference Something that takes a lot of effort something that takes a lot of time So something that is straining when the power comes in you just click the button and it does it now It's not it doesn't do it for you it doesn't with you And that is how it is when we fast we position ourselves we open ourselves up We clear any kind of gun can you kind of plug any kind of kinks where Holy Spirit's power may get stuck in our life Or gets limited maybe some mindsets maybe some habits some patterns certain types of Thoughts we get the clear cleared up and then the anointing begins to flow The power begins to flow and something that would take us 10 years to do we do it in a year Something that we were not even thinking that we'll be able to do it now We're able to do it. This is pertaining to ministry. We see Bible says that Jesus came out and he began to do miracles He became to heal people the power began to flow out of him even out of his clothes Clothes power was flowing out Bible says they would touch the the hedge of his garment and that would be made well Fasting releases the power of God and it's not just for the ministry Bible says to run in chapter 8 18 that remember the Lord your God He is the one who gives power to be successful in another translation to power to gain wealth We can do everything on our own We can strive and work hard on our own listen and again Holy Spirit is not going to do it for you because there are some Spiritual folks and I'm gonna spin around stump my feet.   You're gonna have to pray You're gonna have to prepare you're gonna have to do everything He says we prepare the battle horses for the battles, but the victory comes from the Lord That's that power. That's the empowerment to do what you will not be able to do on your own You can roll the boat or you can open up the sails and let his wind fill it and you go Places that you will not be able to go on your own Fasting unlocks the power of God in your life number five fence and Fasting the benefit of fasting is answered prayer now. It's so many scriptures because of time I don't have but there's so many scriptures in the Bible and and it's almost always answered needs Followed by prayer and fasting right now Many churches and many Christians speak of prayer Dr. Miles Monroe said this that Prayer is something that we talk so much about but do so little We do so much about it by would you so little but if you look in the lives of Apostles and we look in the life of Jesus prayer something that he did most and And everything else flowed out of it and so but Often we we see that prayers been emphasized prayers being talked about and it's it's good It's right, but in the Bible in the biblical context prayer and fasting often went together and fasting is is a biblical way of Humility of humble in ourselves anywhere in the Bible It says if my people who are called by my name would humble themselves the word humble We quote the scripture the word humble in there means fasting Anywhere word humble in the Bible means with prayer it means that word humble means fasting and fasting and prayer together It's like a turbo For an engine. It's like a super charge for the engine is able to do so much more You be able to pull so much more Sometimes we have these great wishful thinking and desire and we in our prayer will load them up Well, imagine this loading up this trailer and then we have this little tiny little mini Cooper That's trying to hold this massive 53 foot trailer and it's just barely barely moving Little poor thing struggling and wondering like why am I not receiving the answer to my prayers? Maybe Maybe just maybe according to the scripture. We need to add fasting to it. We need to increase the size of our engine Increase the capacity that those prayers are able to pass us to pass through us. Sometimes we pray this big of a prayer We have a this big of a desire this big of a request But our prayer and our fasting is this small and in a dangerous from heaven trying to shove it through to us And it's just not coming through. It's just not coming through We see clear example in the Bible Daniel fasting and praying and on the first day According to the scriptures the answer was given to Daniel, but he received it on a 21st day Why because there's some confrontation. There's certain things in the spiritual world that needed to be cleared up Before the answer would come. I wonder sometimes How many answers do we have floating in the heavens? Dispatched by God for you and I for my situation for your sickness for your family for your marriage for your children But because we don't stay through long enough, but because we don't fast we don't seek the Lord's face We don't humble ourselves by fasting We never see that breakthrough into our life Ezra 823 says so we fasted in petition God about this and he answered our prayer and I can quote you dozens and dozens of scriptures From the Bible where prayer and fasting brought an answer to somebody's need number six position deliverance, sorry The reward of fasting is it it positions you for deliverance brings deliverance Now it's not the fasting itself that brings the deliverance But spiritual fasting leads to deliverance fasting Again Fasting is humility right in context of the scripture when you fast you humble yourselves and You cannot receive deliverance without humility. It's not possible Humility is not feeling sorry Humility is not feeling remorseful. Humility is not feeling low about yourself. That's not humility according to the scriptures humility is fasting and It's seeking the Lord It's saying Lord. I need you in this situation. Lord. I'm desperate for you I need you in my life right now this situation. I can't do it on my own. I don't want to do it on my own I need you In my personal life, I have a quiet, you know experience in this area from in the 2010 11 12 13 I was When started learning about as a ministry and personally start learning about deliverance and I started Seeking the Lord for my personal deliverance. I've From hearing testimonies hearing different people getting delivered And and this particular stories that stood out to me I said, you know, I I can see certain things happening in my life that I think it's not from God I think there's a demonic spirit behind this and I need deliverance personal I need deliverance from these habits from these mindsets and those things that are lingering in the background And I started seeking the Lord said Lord, maybe perhaps I need deliverance, but that was that was exactly my prayer Lord, maybe perhaps I need deliverance And I would go to a prayer line People will lay hands on me and I look right somebody's manifesting right and left somebody's manifesting. I'm like, that's it Okay, maybe I guess I don't have anything, but then I would notice certain things Persisting my life and I say Lord, that's not how it's supposed to be. I meant to live a free life I meant to live a life of freedom I meant to live a life where I'm not bounded to those things or not constantly struggling with these things Lord I know there's something More for me than this constant trouble struggle. I'm supposed to be I'm supposed to be On the other side helping people be set free not struggling myself in these areas And then years went on and I maybe have gone to couple dozens and I'm not lying couple dozens of prayer lines And these anointed men of God would pray for me And nothing would happen and I was I was confused And one January as we I was as I was going into prayer and fasting. I said Lord I don't want to live another year with these things. I'm desperate. I need you Set me free and I was during that time of prayer and fasting. I was reading Psalm 51 and Psalm 91 That's the only two scriptures that I was reading and I was praying I said Lord deliver me set me free And in that fast I got this clear Clear Understanding if I can put it this way that what I was facing Clarity if I if that makes sense that what I was facing was a spiritual thing Was a demonic thing and I need freedom and I remember this Uh that that that year in in june or july beginning of july again, we went to Nigeria in Africa, Nigeria to the ministry of synagogue church of all nations prophet to be joshua same people Same man of God that I've been there couple Two dozens of times same people that prayed for me a couple dozens of times But this time around was different This time I was different this time. I was desperate. I was humble before God and I said lord set me free Same building same people same anointing, but this time I received my deliverance and been different ever since and so Let's give praise to god Sometimes it's not a person that's praying that has lack of authority lack of anointing Sometimes nice. It's not the church. It's not the prayer line. Sometimes we are not positioned We're not postured in the right place before god and god says listen. You're too proud.    They say, you know things are way too good Let's screw it up again and then and they did do it throughout all if you read the told testament That's pretty much all they're doing Hundreds and hundreds of you think like a learn for your parents and grandparents, but no, right? But joking aside, it's every time they humble themselves before the lord would prayer and fasting that deliverance would come And they would be delivered from their enemies We look an example of ester. We look an example of ester said fast with me and i'll go to the king Maybe the lord will help mercy on us Prophet Jonah Goes around prophesying this this doom and gloom message Not expecting those people to repent or not expecting god to to save them They repent by humbling themselves with prayer and fasting They're even young ones bible says did not eat and even their animals did not eat I can only imagine what these animals were thinking like what did I do? You're the bad one. Why do I have to fast because of your sin? But bible says that even the animals fasted for three days And they and god said he had mercy on them god already condemned them. That's it. They were going to be killed that will be done And we see god reverses the judgment because they fasted and pray in the last one fasting Brings a revelation of god's word fasting Brings an excitement and brings the word of god alive. It brings excitement for the word of god We read the scripture 50 is a 58 8 says this that Then when you have fasted your light will break out the dawn like the dawn In psalm 19 1 19 1 30 says the teachings of your word gives light psalm 19 1 0 5 says your word is the lamp To my feet and light To my path god's word is a light it says where we read 58 8 When you have fasted your light will break like a dawn If you find word of god boring If you find word of god dull if you find a word of god like i don't get anything out of it The kind i don't know to me that or history book is one of the same It puts me to sleep like i Other people read and they say wow god spoke to me, but god does not speak to me We're like i i must be like something something's bad must be must be with me or maybe something's wrong with me I encourage you if that's you find yourself in a situation and you might be a seasoned christian and you find yourself in situation That's that's okay That's okay because there's a way out It's called prayer and fasting when you fast the light will break the revelation will break through the light will shine You'll have clarity you will find excitement and joy for god's word You will find delight in his word and the light will guide you lead you You will open up your bible in the morning you'll read even a few verses and it will stand out stand out to you It will guide you it will give you an answer it will refresh you it will be like water that you that that you drink I remember it was in my i think my late teens uh when when i kind of got to the point where The word of god was dull to me That by by that time i read the bible many times through Probably eight ten times ten twelve times the whole bible through maybe Twenty times the new testament so i read the bible i'm not a new i i read the bible quite a bit through by that time And i remember just this one this one particular year Like i had absolutely no drive like almost was repelling me to to read the bible like i knew what's in there It wasn't speaking to me and remember one time we were in the group and our pastor was there We were we were still young and he was talking to us and he's encouraging us to read the word And he's just saying read the word and i'm thinking like man i just don't want to Like to be on it like inside of myself i'm saying and he and he's began to say this is like I love god's word. He's like i delight in it any moment i get i get into it It just feeds me refreshes me and the thing is that if i didn't know better if i didn't know him if i didn't live in his house I'll probably say he's making it up to to make us feel like you know, we're not reading enough But i've seen my dad i've seen him's home every three minute he has he'd open his bible He'd read it and i truly see him and enjoy it and love it sometimes i mean occasionally Catch him giggling at something probably imagining how the story played out in in in real life like he truly enjoyed the bible And i'm like man i want that i really do want that i want to enjoy the bible i remember that that uh shortly after that we went into into fasting Seven or 21 days i don't remember what it was and uh, and i just this one thing I was asking about like i want to enjoy your word again Like i wanted to be alive to me again. I wanted to speak to me again And as we were fasting it just i remember the moment it's just like like a Literally like the scripture like a light broke through and it was a dawn i i saw it clearly It became just it became alive to me bible says that his word is a living word. It's not a dead word It's a light. It's not darkness. It's not confusion God's word gives direction god's word is life in itself god god breathed his word And when we read it we inhale his breath we inhale his life And if you find yourself in a situation where honestly you just lost the love word of god You lost the passion for his word you i became boring for you and honestly you don't get anything I think it's time for you to begin to fast and pray Because when you do that His you will see you gonna It's it's it will like a dam will burst through you just gonna get a flood of revelations And you will enjoy the time spent in his word amen church Have you received something this afternoon? Amen Just practically quickly Totally forget the forgot that I have this part in the message Practical practical things and fasts since we're starting as a church this this monday Started with the clear cut goal like what do you want from this fast? Some people say oh, I'm just gonna fast It's good, but what what do you desire god to do for you? Whether it's a growth in your spiritual life Whether it's maybe it's in the area of finances Maybe it's in the other area of your calling. Maybe there's certain unanswered prayers that you pray in god I want to see this in my life come to pass. I want to see my family say I want to see healing in my body. I want to I want to experience the deliverance that you have for me I know there is more freedom for me whatever it is, but have a clear cut goal And be specific number two prepare yourself confess your sins before god Release any unforgiveness that you have towards anybody any grudges If you need you may come hands may come hands surrender your life to jesus Decide number three decide how you're gonna fast. There's multiple ways you can fast as a There's a Full fast which is no water No, no food in the bible. We see I think it's called absolute fast in the bible We see that people the dry or dry fast the dry fast in the bible. We see that people fasted for three days doctors say that if you're in a healthy conditions, you can go without water up to three days and so There's a dry fast usually You know people do it one day two days three days three days max There is a full fast which is water only meaning you only you only drink water You abstain from any type of solid foods And You you can do that now those two fasts are are are not easy That especially if you do in a 21 day fast on water first three four days expect some headaches some tiredness some irritation Hunger Yeah, all kinds of things but don't be afraid. You're not dying. You're actually getting better. Believe it or not Drink lots of water during that day During those days you're detoxifying yourself on day five six seven I promise it's gonna get better and not not only get better you actually will Feel a sense of strength coming in anybody that don't prolong fasting will tell you right about that time about day six seven eight It's your energy kicks in you you become really sharp. You can remember things You you become very efficient You'll see it's like time slows down But you become faster and I it's a strange feeling but unless you've tried it, you know what I'm talking about And so you can persevere with that. There's a Daniel fast. We see in the bible Daniel faster for 21 days No meats no sweets And no dairy. Okay, so pretty much everything that's healthy for you and that doesn't taste good Okay Vegetables fruits and vegetables. Okay, so that's that that's a Daniel fast And there's partial fast. Some people came and asked me of the first service and work Construction I work some job that requires a lot of physical. What should I do? I gave him some option you can fast liquids only meaning you add some add some juices but try to stay from away from preservative natural juices and and uh, and maybe if you're have you know Doing heavy liftings and physical activities supplemented with the shake protein shake Like pasawat says if it goes through the straw, it's under the law. So you're good Just don't blend burgers and and uh And tacos But anyways, that's that's uh, or some people do Like partial fast where you don't eat in the morning and you only do one meal a day After six and and you only eat just enough to get yourself strength Uh, you know, like oh man, I didn't eat whole day. I'm just gonna pick out the like That I can barely move. Um, but remember fast is seeking the lord And it's controlling and and disciplining your body and your appetites. It's preparing yourself It's training yourself. We are at the end of the day. We're soldiers of army of god amen And we must be disciplined in our bodies in our minds and in our spirit amen church Hey, thanks for watching this video If you enjoyed this content and this was a blessing to you Would you help us and hit thumbs up so that it could help more people to discover this video It cost you nothing But it can go a long way to help with the algorithm as well as if you're not subscribed to our channel Hit subscribe click on the bell so that you can do to mine it each time that we upload videos Thank you so much for being a part of this community If you're interested in learning more about hungry jen our internship our conferences Deliverance and so many other things go to hungry jen.com for more information and as always remember Better is not good enough. The best is yet to come


This is a young man who has bilateral ladies' pupils. And what we're showing here is the right eye, slit lamp exam, but the light's being turned on and off. It's subtle, but what I want you to look at is the iris stroma and the relative contraction of all the segments around the iris. I think you can see that perhaps the segment at 11 o'clock is not quite contracting as briskly as the others. This will be much more prominent in the other eye. Again, it's subtle in this right eye. We're going to focus in here on some segments at around 7 o'clock and let's see what happens with the lights on and off. Notice how the areas around that segment contract briskly, but that segment at 7 is a little sluggish. It seems to be drawn in by the segments around there. This is a sector palsy, something that's clinically observable at the slit lamp, but the scene should suggest parasympathetic denervation. Now, here we're asking the patient to perform a near response. And you can see that the segments contract fairly well, but on redilation it takes quite some time. Here's the left eye. Now, look at that segment around 2 to 4 o'clock. It contracts, but pretty slowly. The rest of the pupil is pretty quiet. See that? That's fairly obvious as compared to the right eye. That's a fairly dramatic sector palsy, extending pretty much from 1.30 to 2 o'clock all the way around the pupil to about 6 to 7 o'clock. Again, what you can see is the iris folding in around 2 to 3 o'clock and maybe 4 o'clock. Those are active segments that are contracting, although not normally, but the rest of the iris is pretty quiet. I think it shows up very well here. We're going to focus in on those segments just a little bit better. Now, keep in the back of your mind how poorly this pupil is reacting to light. Again, showing the same thing just so that you can get a good feel for what a sector palsy looks like. Now, watch what we're going to do. We're going to have the patient evoke a near response. You see how that pupil is quite a bit more constricted than it was to light stimulation? Look at that. It comes down pretty nicely. That's a very good example of light near dissociation. Now, watch it redialate slowly, slowly, slowly. Very characteristic of a tonic pupil. Now, we're evoking the near response again. See, the pupil comes down pretty well, including those segments between 2 o'clock around the nasal aspect of the pupil to around 5. Those segments weren't working well to light before, but notice how to near stimulation, they contract quite well. And characteristic of an 80s or any tonic pupil for that matter, is to get redialates very, very slowly. Now, what we're doing is trans-illuminating an infrared light, both pupils. And what I want you to look at, this is the right pupil. Look at these segments at around perhaps 1 o'clock and maybe 7 o'clock. There's a little bit of dip in the normal coloration of the iris rough. Those are iris defects and suggest that those segments aren't working quite well. I think there's another segment that you can see quite well at 8 o'clock. Just a little divot around the pupillary rough. And those segments correlate fairly well with segments that aren't contracting well to light. This is a nice technique and supplements your clinical exam. What we're doing is we're shining light in the opposite eye and showing how that pupil contracts to light. There it is again. And see how those defects tend to close up a bit to light stimulation. Now, here we are in the opposite eye. Look at all of those segment defects. I think one can easily be seen at about 3.30 to 4 o'clock. It's a large one. There's another one at about 6 to 7 o'clock. In fact, actually between maybe 3.30 and 8 o'clock, there's some patchy defects. Now, look at here. We're asking the patient to evoke the near response and those segments close up fairly well. But to redialation, look how slowly the pupil redialates. That's characteristic of a tonic pupil. Let's look again. There, I think you can see quite well all of the iris defects. Here we go with the near response. And again, that pupil just sort of creeps out as it dilates very slowly. We'll see in the next example how light near dissociation is not only caused by an 80s pupil but by many other disorders.


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and welcome to Cooper Union, what's happening with human rights around our world on ThinkTech Live, broadcasting from our downtown studio in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Moana, Nuiakeha. Today we're looking at Article 1, Born Free and Equal, Demanding Dignity and Realizing Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides the power of ideas to initiate progressive social change around the planet, and Article 1 is a foundational right upon which many of the remaining UDHR articles depend on for individual dignity and collective well-being. Article 1 recognizes that all human beings are born free, equal, and dignity and rights, and we're so excited to be talking with Andrea today. Andrea, thank you so much for joining us, and could you share with us why Article 1 is so important in this world we live in today? Lo sem choku utesya, umau yai, respectful greetings to you, my relatives, and our heartfelt love and prayers go to the Indigenous peoples and all of the peoples of the community of Lahaina in Hawaii. Today we are devastated along with you there in Hawaii for what has happened to the people there and the impacts of climate change which will only keep increasing. We're suffering here in the west coast of the United States from a hurricane as well, the first one that's hit Southern California since they say 1939, and even though I'm in the desert in Arizona, the homeland, along with northern Mexico of the Yaqui nation, my peoples, we're getting some rainfall, but we have many, many relatives along the Pacific Coast, and this is something that we're working on to insist that Indigenous peoples' solutions and impacts be respected in the work on climate change. I think that all of us who are Indigenous grew up with the impacts of racial discrimination and the inequalities that exist in the current structures around the world, so this article is in particular important for us as we move through the UN system beginning in 1974 when the International Indian Treaty Council was founded because of the lack of justice in the structures and the justice systems of nation states, not just the United States, but the founding of the International Indian Treaty Council on Standing Rock in 1974. There were about 5,000 delegates from throughout the hemisphere all talking about the lack of justice, the lack of redress, the continuing human rights violations we were experiencing, so for that reason we decided to go into the international arena as nations, as treaty nations, to seek a seat with the family of nations and look for justice and redress there. By the way, I will say this because I think it's important for this discussion that I've had the opportunity in all of these years of work internationally to be in literally every continent, maybe except Antarctica, working with Indigenous peoples and realizing that Indigenous peoples, as Indigenous peoples, we don't have any literal translation for the term human rights. We'd say in Yaki and in our Indigenous language, the people's responsibility or duty to the creator and the created world together, which means other human beings, it means defending our own ways of life, defending the natural world, but that's a responsibility and so we had to learn the rights language and how to talk about it and when we first read the Universal Declaration on Human Rights that was put in place in 1948 by the United Nations, the family of nations, we resonated culturally with what it said, especially I want to say the first sentence of the preamble is very important for how to understand article one, which I'll talk about, it says, whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. The words inherent and inalienable very much speak to the ways that Indigenous peoples understand our rights and responsibilities that no one gives you those, no declaration, no constitution, no treaty, no law, but those are ours because of who we are placed by the creator on our homeland and so no one can give or take away human rights, they can be violated and are continually or they can be respected but they can't be given or taken away and this is very important and this translates into our language that inherent and inalienable rights and dignity and when you read then the first article of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Affirming Equality, it needs to be read through the that lens in our point of view, says all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and again that dignity and rights are inherent and inalienable according to the preamble of the Declaration. They are endowed means we members of the human family are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in the spirit of brotherhood with these principles of inalienable dignity and inherent rights that the Declaration affirms and this is very important because when we began to work on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that expands what is contained in the Universal Declaration which affirms rights for members of the human family, individuals, all individuals, all human beings, we began to look at collective rights and how Indigenous Peoples rights as individuals are expressed through our membership in our peoples, in our nations and how our rights are collective, our land rights, language, spiritual practices, cultures, all of those rights that are affirmed in the Universal Declaration are in fact collective rights for Indigenous Peoples. So in the preamble of the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples we had the opportunity to define for ourselves and expand on the affirmation in the Universal Declaration and this is what it says in the preamble, recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources. So for us this is the implementation and the context of the implementation of the right affirmed in Article 1 of the Universal Declaration and just puts some context on it from the point of view of Indigenous Peoples. So all of these rights we feel are contained in that one article and can be implemented by Indigenous Peoples accordingly. Thank you so much Andrea and it's true it's inalienable and inherent absolutely at its core and also what's quite crucial as well is that the impact that you're sharing that these international human rights are absolutely essential as we move forward but you also then summarize it so well of interspecies and understanding how everything is interconnected and that's really why Article 1 is sort of the heart of all that we're looking at. Could you share with us a bit of what first inspired you to care about the issue and some of the first campaigns you're involved in around Article 1 of the UDHR? Well I think that all of us who are Indigenous experienced experiences life experiences as children as very young people that made us realize that this reason and conscience and the implementation of equality you know really did not exist as it should in the world that we were in and I remember experiences for example in the fourth grade even where I was selected as the Indigenous child with long grades to play the role of the Indian welcoming the colonizers to the land in California, Uniprosara the priest and my role was to get down on my knees and kiss his ring this kid wearing a bathrobe right pretending to be Uniprosara if it was for the end of school play. Kids still to this day study California history in fourth grade in California I had to kiss his ring and say thank you Padre for giving us God you know that was that was I knew I didn't know the history the real history of the missions and the genocide against California Indian um Indigenous peoples but I knew that was wrong and I went home and I wouldn't go back to school for the rest of the year and my mother may she rest in peace uh didn't make me go back she knew it was wrong too. Other experiences you know were just racism coming from my friend's parents and those kinds of elements that made us feel less than as children and understand as we learn more that this is a product of colonization this is a product of racial discrimination and how that whole history came about you know the discovery of the Americas by Columbus for example you know which is another another lie of history we try to promote truth in history we try to tell the truth about what happened and the process of colonization and how Indigenous peoples have survived that oppression and that um doctrine of discovery you know colonization that we had to suffer so all of this I think has built up to who we are today no matter where we're from um as Indigenous peoples we've experienced it and we knew in our heart that this was wrong and that's why I really love this article because it not only affirms equality and dignity and rights but it also speaks to how humans should act towards each other you know is that spirit of brotherhood upholding that equality and we know that it doesn't today um one one example um that we're working on I know you'd like to see how we're implementing this is as as you well know we've been working for many many years and it's affirmed in the UN declaration on rights of Indigenous peoples the right of repatriation of our sacred items and human remains and it's an example of the inequality we still suffer that only Indigenous peoples human remains ancestral remains are displayed and not only displayed but bought and sold by auction houses around the world as some kind of artifacts you know we just um the Aki Nation just this last uh July after a 20-year struggle got our sacred Masakova um ceremonial deer head returned from the museum uh a ethnography the National Museum of Sweden and we wrote them as soon as we discovered that it was there it's a living being to us it's like seeing a child in a glass cage when I first saw it um we say Sayla Maso our little brother the deer but when our spiritual leader very soon after I returned and told them what had happened wrote them and say this harms our people to have it there it needs to be taken care of by those entrusted to fulfill that role by our own laws um we thought well they'll give it back right away they'll say oh we didn't know we will come get it but it took us 20 years of using the United Nations and using um articles like this to assert the equal rights that we have to our sacred and ceremonial objects that are still being unearthed and dug up and our cemeteries are I have a beautiful picture here of them digging up an Indian cemetery to build a road in California and a picture of a beautiful well-cut with a signed Christian ceremony on it where they would never think of you know digging up graves to to put a road through it's just one of the many examples but the positive thing is we are asserting those rights and we are making progress because now the United Nations recognizes that our laws governing the use and the placement of our sacred items and ceremonial um belongings um our patrimony have equal weight with the laws of countries and the laws of the United Nations um and we're being able to use that and that will be for everybody oh it's really important and I I love the historical context looking at where the discrimination begins the prejudices and practiced by different nations as well as different cultures and then challenging that to then see the world in a new way through conscience through actually caring for one another and as you talked about earlier it's that responsibility or that kuleana that we actually have a duty to take care of our first and one other the message of Malama Honu is absolutely essential what's so exciting is this year's the 100th anniversary of Desca Hayes visit to Geneva and International Treaty Council being the the and you share a bit on how ITC actualizes the articles in the international human rights system absolutely um as as I mentioned the International Indian Treaty Council was formed out of the struggle of American Indians and many of and by by saying American I mean throughout the Americas not United States but when we got to the United Nations where we were sent by our elders to seek a voice because we had no voice in the in the national justice system so to speak there were no other indigenous peoples there we were the first indigenous peoples organization to be recognized with consultative status at the UN Economic and Social Council in way back in in 1977 but also we were the first to be what's called I think the only still to date upgraded to what's called general consultative status in 2011 because exactly what you're saying we take the struggle for rights and our responsibility to ensure that they are protected in many different bodies of the United Nations and just thinking and like we were talking about what's happening now the suffering going on in Lahaina the hurricanes happening in California a lot of it is because of what's called climate crisis right now today the the unbridled and unceasing exploitation of the natural resources and the natural world of our mother earth and we've been telling the nation states for many many years you need to listen to the ancestral knowledge the original sciences of indigenous peoples or we're going to end up in this situation and we've been participating at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change we've been able to officially get a body there where we sit on an equal standing and equal number with the countries I think the only body in the UN system where indigenous peoples actually on our own select our representatives not this discriminatory fashion of you know we can nominate to the permanent forum or the expert mechanism of rights of indigenous peoples but the states they'll they'll decide what's best for us and who should be you know the expert members this one we actually get to decide ourselves and we've been able to move that into official recognition this year it will be 30 indigenous peoples knowledge holders and practitioners will be there meeting directly with the nation states and informing them not only of the struggles that we're going through because of climate change where we have the least contribution to the problem we are the first on the front lines to experience the impacts but also our recommendations of how things must change or you know we may join the the million species that are predicted to become extinct by the united nations due to climate change and we can see that all over why why would we be exempt from that we're part of the natural world and human beings the human family as they say are are the cause of the problem indigenous peoples have solutions that have been discounted because of discrimination because of racism because they see us as folkloric or somehow you know dancing for us but don't tell us anything that really makes a difference you know that's changing now and we've been able to change that at least in the discussions on climate change now will they do what's necessary which is a radical and immediate transformation of the fossil fuel economy we don't know but we know that they are listening to us in a way that they have not in the past you know they they recognize we have science that is so developed way beyond uh you could say western science you know our traditional yaki food producers to this day I've seen it can look at the moon can talk to the insects and see if next year it's going to be a wet year or a dry year a cold year or a hot year so they know what color of corn to plant now because they know what the weather is going to be in the future you know the western scientists can't do that but they're finally beginning to break through that discriminatory kind of racist um in an unequal approach to science and understand that they need to listen to us and to their benefit as well. Excellent point of we've got to stop the exploitation and really focus on exchange mutual exchange based on respect and human rights for all you really brought up a great point about the un framer convention on climate change and indigenous access but also the un permanent form on indigenous issues maybe you can share how indigenous peoples have really transformed the un and been able to make really a state run system listen to the voice of the people who really care for the planet as well as one another which is at the essence of article one. You mentioned uh Descache the Harnashoni leader that went to the League of Nations a hundred years ago and we have beautiful uh celebrations and commemorations in Geneva um in July commemorating that as well as uh the travels of Ratnaha the Maori spiritual leader um who also went at the same time totally independent and they went there as treaty nations as um those that should be seated with the family of nations and of course they were not even allowed to come into the building um at the League of Nations and so of course you know it seems like the progress can be very slow at the United Nations but if you look and see how far we've come in terms of being fully participatory we had an indigenous representative who became the first uh indigenous president of a treaty UN treaty body the third the committee on elimination of racial discrimination talking about you know discrimination here um we are now recognized as independent experts and representatives uh at many many United Nations bodies where that was unheard of our first body at the United Nations was the working group on indigenous populations founded back in 1982 even though the topic was indigenous we weren't called peoples yet then at the UN system but populations they drafted together with the indigenous participants and the state members the first uh UN declaration on rights of indigenous peoples but it was not even considered that all five expert members of the working group on indigenous populations were not indigenous uh it was not even on the table that hey shouldn't these at least a couple of them be uh indigenous peoples they were all selected by the nation states and they weren't even you know considering including an indigenous expert so if you look now how we created uh bodies like the UN permanent forum on indigenous issues positions like the United Nations repertoire on rights of indigenous peoples bodies like the expert mechanism on rights of indigenous peoples where it's assumed that those experts are going to be indigenous and the fact that indigenous peoples are now participating in expert seminars are called on to be experts in many many UN processes such as the UNFCCC which was probably one of the most discriminatory and hard to participate in for indigenous peoples we were not even allowed to be in the room when the Paris agreement was uh drafted back in 2015 for example you know so it's still a challenge there to actually take part in the negotiations however we are being listened to and our participation is broad throughout the entire UN system now um sometimes it's hard to even keep up with all the places that we can be and and should be again not just to address the violations of our rights and the ongoing and rampant discrimination and inequality that exists the repression against human rights defenders even the the assassinations of indigenous human rights defenders that is continuing to this day we also have a responsibility to be at the table to contribute not just to our own survival but to the survival and the equal rights and dignity of all members of the human family because we don't feel that being a colonizer and an oppressor is uh really fulfilling dignity either so it's probably you know less dignified to be a colonizer than it is to be colonized and we have a responsibility to everyone's children and future generations not just indigenous peoples and that really summarizes how indigenous peoples have been able to identify the larger issues that even human rights haven't connected I remember really being at the working group on indigenous populations and we had changed initially in the first studies by Francois Hemsson that looked at the threat of extinction and loss of land and it really identified so hopefully really a pioneer in the field for what's most important and where we need to head can you share with us a bit about the your vision for the future of this right I think that the human family and many many elements and members of the natural world our relatives the plants and the animals and and all of the elements are really at a preface right now uh we are um facing um a dreadful situation in terms of our ability to survive in the natural world and we're seeing it here we had we're in the Sonora desert we had the hottest uh July ever recorded in the history of the world the whole planet and the survival um and the vision of indigenous peoples makes us understand that our teachings are needed more than ever now and what we see for the future of course you know the vision that we have um for equality and dignity and our rights to lands um resources culture self-determination being respected um has to be put in the context of the crisis situation that we're seeing in terms of climate change otherwise as they say we might be just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic uh we have to address this issue and indigenous peoples have to be respected uh and given an equal voice in the decisions that are being made today excellent point and really article one says we have to understand that beyond being born free and equal and dignity and rights we're all endowed in our world with reason and conscience and should act towards one another's spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood and that's really what indigenous peoples have modeled at the UN through direct action when needed many actions that you've taken but also through diplomacy to make sure that these promises on paper are reality in the daily lives of people around our planet yes that's true I just want to end with saying one thing and that's that um we look at these beautiful words on paper like you say and the recommendations from the special report tours uh and UN bodies and the treaty bodies how how the states should change their behavior states meaning countries in the UN system uh and the question keeps coming up where's the teeth how are these things actually going to get implemented and I always look back to the words of one of our um indigenous leaders here after um the country visit of special report tour James Anaya to the United States in 2012 we had all these great recommendations we set up all these hearings he made incredibly strong recommendations to the United States how they should change and implement the UN declaration of indigenous peoples but he we came to a meeting after to kind of assess everything that had happened and evaluate and he said you know I was thinking we have these great recommendations but where are the teeth in the UN process we have these great declarations we have these great conventions but where's the teeth and then I started realizing wait a minute we're the teeth we are the teeth we are the ones that are going to make this happen because in spite of everything those in power are still resisting they're still not the political will they don't even want to call for a phase out of fossil fuels at the UN convention our climate change you know we have to make that happen by our strong stand and we have to be the one that as you say our examples of the spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood that's part of our indigenous teachings we got to care about their kids too as well as ours that's true I mean I remember saying earlier so we're all in this together seems sometimes I was just stating it but we appreciate all the work you've done for decades to make the world a better place and to actualize article one thank you so much and look forward to see you at the next global meeting maybe at the UN assembly and thank you so much for all that you do on the 75th anniversary of the UDHR you as well thank you


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session, first we will discuss increasing function. Here we will use differentiation to find out whether a function is increasing or not.  Next we will discuss decreasing function. Again the function f is said to be decreasing on i if x1 less than x2 in i implies f of x1 greater than equal to f of x2 for all x1 x2 belongs to i. Also the same function f is said to be strictly decreasing on i if x1 less than x2 in i implies f of x1 is greater than f of x2 for all x1 x2 belongs to i. Consider a function fx equal to 3x plus 5 so let's check if the function fx is strictly increasing or not. For this consider x1 x2 belongs to r such that x1 is less than x2. Now x1 is less than x2 so this implies 3x1 is less than 3x2.  Next we discuss a very important result which says let f be continuous on closed interval AB and differentiable on open interval AB then f is increasing in closed interval AB if f dash x is greater than 0 for each x belongs to open interval AB also f is decreasing in closed interval AB if f dash x is less than 0 for each x belongs to open interval AB then f is a constant function in closed interval AB if f dash x is equal to 0 for each x belongs to open interval AB also we have that f is strictly increasing in open interval AB if f dash x is greater than 0 for each x belongs to open interval AB f is strictly decreasing in open interval AB if f dash x is less than 0 for each x belongs to open interval AB also a function will be increasing or decreasing in r if it is so in every interval of r. Let's consider the function fx equal to 2x square minus 3x from here we have f dash x equal to 4x minus 3 we need to find the interval in which this function fx is strictly increasing a function f would be strictly increasing if f dash x is greater than 0 so we have f dash x greater than 0 that is 4x minus 3 greater than 0 which implies that x should be greater than 3 by 4 so we get f is strictly increasing in open interval 3 by 4 to infinity now f would be strictly decreasing when f dash x is less than 0 that is we have 4x minus 3 is less than 0 which gives x is less than 3 by 4 so hence we have f is strictly decreasing in open interval minus infinity to 3 by 4 so this is how using the derivatives we can check if a function is increasing or decreasing strictly increasing or strictly decreasing also this completes the session hope you have understood the increasing and decreasing functions


We were discussing linking innovation platforms with action to improve rainwater management. We had a set of four questions. The first one was who should facilitate such platforms? What would be the entry points? Whether to have the innovation platforms around the market areas like markets or NRM? Where will the resources come from? And how to deal with the power relations that exist in such platforms? In terms of facilitation of platforms, we had a discussion around how to ensure that the platforms are sustainable and therefore they need to have logo champions within the market that facilitate these platforms. But also to try and build on existing activities, on existing processes that are going on at water level especially when we think about what would be the incentives for people to want to facilitate the innovation platforms. The other issue we discussed around that question was the fact whether it's other stakeholders that are joining our agenda or we can actually join the agenda of the water and therefore the issue will be if rainwater management is already happening at water level would our inputs then be changing the processes around how this is done? In which case we are joining the water as agenda or the Department of Agriculture's agenda and trying to influence how that is done? In which case the facilitation is on the owners of the water. There are many issues around capacities and how this will play up with the power relations between the water line administration and farmers etc. On an entry point, the main discussion was around how to combine short term gains for farmers with the more longer term activities around improving the landscape and the ecosystem and so on. And how we use a process for identifying key entry points that sort of takes advantage of these two. We used an example of what Josie talked about a site where one of the major issues is marketing of onions. How do you use market as an entry point and then move from market to ensuring productivity and then productivity directly links into how you manage the water that is used for onions. In terms of resources, we need to tap into existing resources but recognizing that if the agenda is the agenda that is brought in to buyers and stakeholders that the project probably would need to put in the initial resources but based on how engaged people are on the agenda to what extent it's meeting their needs and priorities that we might start seeing more investment into the innovation platforms from their actors. Power relations, we talked about do we want to start with innovation platforms? Do we want to start with a community engagement that then leads into the innovation platforms? So the advantage of starting with a community engagement is that when you have farmers representing other farmers in the innovation platforms that they actually do have a community agenda and it's not their individual agendas but also how to use existing networks, user groups, cooperatives in order to have that representation. But the fact that in order to overcome these power relations there would need to be a lot of capacity for farmers as well to be able to engage in the IP process. Thank you.