Hello and welcome to another weekly coordinating call of the M25 the movement for Europe, featuring progressive ideas you won't hear anywhere else. As usual we'll be talking about our burning issues, which is our take on what's happening in the world this week and what can be done about it. And we'll have a discussion on the EU recovery fund you out there if you've got any comments, questions, rants, concerns anything you want to throw at us. Let's do it in the chat. This is live on YouTube so put them in the chat and we may be reading out some of these questions to the people here with us between the interventions so let's kick it off. Yes, thank you, Magran. Well, let me say that what we have read in the last hours is that Putin is a killer according to our president Biden, the president of the United States. So, in the middle of a pandemic crisis, the last thing we need is a new Cold War. And this kind of definition doesn't help us. For sure. Now, in Europe, we have really a good art, a good memory, and we perfectly remember that in 2003 it was the men together with others, of course, who supported the Saddam attack in Iraq. Why I'm saying that because according to the last news went out in the last two hours, it was saying that if Europe is going to buy vaccine or gas from Europe, we will have a sort of some kind of stuff. What does it mean? I was wondering if it would bomb us like it has done in the past in Iraq. I was also wondering, politics or senile incontinence, I could say. Now, what we should really need in Europe from president of United States in this moment, I do believe, is hopes, first of all, and help in our vaccine campaigns. As everybody knows, for example, in the last three days, in seven of the European countries, AstraZeneca vaccine has stopped and we are really in big troubles with our vaccine campaign. So we do need really have to focus to concentrate our attention. The last thing we need is this kind of declaration. I really think so. Thank you, Patricia. Yanis. I take Patricia's point about the other hypocrisy of president Biden.  That doesn't mean that Putin is not a murderer, in my view he is. And the most murders he committed, he committed at the time when the United States was supporting him. Do you remember Chechnya? Does anyone remember Chechnya? When he flattened Grozny, he killed 200,000 people in Grozny, in Chechnya, with the enthusiastic support of the United States of America and surely Joe Biden as well. So it's this sheer hypocrisy that is covering up for geopolitical games. Now, let's go to Europe to where our heart beats and our mind concentrates. Today I issued a tweet with which more or less spontaneously I called for the immediate sacking or resignation, whichever comes first. Of Ursula von der Blagen, the president of the European Commission. She must go. She's an embarrassment for Europe. She is a failed defense minister of Germany who had no prospects, political prospects in Germany.  They're being promoted to senior positions in Brussels. So Macron and Merkel did a back room deal between two. The two of them decided that Ursula von der Blagen, the failed defense minister of Germany, is going to become the president of the European Commission. This is the state of democracy in Europe. And then they pushed this through the European Parliament and she would not have become president of the European Commission if it wasn't for the votes of the ultra-rightist Mr. Orban. It was with his votes in the European Parliament that Ursula von der Blagen became the president of the Commission. Okay, that's how she became president of the Commission. You know, we are good people in the DM. We'd like to hope that even failed people who are promoted through corrupt processes can do some good, but she hasn't.  This vaccination fiasco has been done is due to her personally. She failed to procure the right vaccines. She failed to sign proper contracts with, you know, BioNTech, Pfizer, with AstraZeneca, Oxford, with Moderna. She failed. If you read those contracts, they are an example of the contract that you never sign if you really want to buy something. And then when her failures were revealed, you know, she played the blame game. She started blaming, undermining the efficacy and safety of vaccines of AstraZeneca, for instance. Then you have Merkel and Macron who supported her also doing the same thing, playing the same blame game. So we have lots of people who will die in Europe today because they will not be vaccinated with AstraZeneca because they heard that it is unsafe. And this is a false claim by failed corrupt politicians, you know, Merkel, Macron and von der Leyen. This is the state of nature today in the United, in the European Union.  The same failures, you know, motivated, corrupt decisions that we had in 2010, condemned the whole of Europe to stagnation and the south of Europe to a humanitarian crisis in place like Spain and Italy and Greece and so on. The same failed processes of lack of democracy leading to stupidity, to orchestrated, organized, turbocharged, nuclear powered stupidity. We've had it now with COVID-19. Comrades, today I looked at some numbers that have not been circulating. I'm going to write an article about this. I haven't had the time to write it yet. Let me give you a number. Half a trillion euros. 500 million, right? Sorry. See, I got mixed up. 500 billion, right? 500 billion euros is the money that left Europe over the last six months. For the first time, we had such a huge outflow of capital. Money left the Eurozone, not the European Union, the Eurozone. Simultaneously, throughout 2020, we had a drop in investment by 50%. The largest drop in investment in the history of humanity, not just of capitalism. That has never happened before. Stagnation is coming. It's deepening. The economic crisis, which is being maximized by the pandemic, is already eating into the heart and soul of the European Union. Not just the South, the whole lot. You can see Merkel, Macron, for the lion are panicking. The vaccination fiasco coupled with the flight of investment, with the fact that they've done nothing to inflate the economy. Nothing like the United States is doing, Biden is doing. The recovery fund that we will discuss further afterwards has not kicked off yet. The Americans are injecting trillions into their economy. They are already doing it. People today are getting $1,400 American dollars. Every citizen in the United States is getting a check. We proposed that last March for the European Union. It has not happened. The recovery fund is going to disperse nothing this year. Trivial sums. The European Union is really going down the drain. This is going to poison politics. You're going to have dragies everywhere. Toxic, right-wing, former Goldman Sachs or my kingsy types, running the democracies that have failed. This is where we are. Unfortunately, as DM25, even though we were the ones that brought it up first and created the first pan-European movement, with very clear policies of how to reverse this decline, the decline of our whole continent, we have failed to make a serious impact in terms of electoral politics, but also in terms of the movement. It is a remarkable success that we exist as DM25, but let's not mean words. We should be getting elected now. The fact that Volt, the revolting, my kingsy-inspired pan-European establishment movement, they got into the Dutch parliament. What is their agenda? No agenda. The only agenda they have is to simply aid and abet the corrupt EU deep state. And we are not in there. We did get into the Greek parliament with DM25, but we have to lift our games. And I say games in the plural because we have many games happening. The European Green New Deal is one game. We are the only ones who are really pursuing it at the pan-European level. And I'm very pleased. We have do something here. We are relaunching it and we need to fight for it. We need to do the same thing regarding vaccination. Our policy for vaccination I'm going to propose should go to an AMV. It should become to an old member vote. It should become much more substantial. It should be connected to the European Green New Deal. And we should campaign for it. Our vaccination and public health policy. We should really lift our game because this is the time for action. Europe is becoming stupider, more toxic and more corrupt every day. Thank you, Janis. And Dushan, our Green New Deal for Europe campaign coordinator is here with us. So if you have any questions about that specific campaign, please put them in the chat. Fotini. Thanks, Mehan. A few thoughts after what Janis said. We all see that the European Union failed first in regards to the Eurobond. And now we are going through an immense pandemic, the COVID-19, in the one hand. And on the other hand, we have a tremendous economic crisis, a crisis that will become even worse after the pandemic is behind us. The recovery fund that we discussed in a bit really will not be sufficient. The crisis will be so extreme that no recovery funds, especially not this one, will be able to ameliorate. This is the time to act. We should act and act fast because we will see small drags everywhere. It might be Sturnares in Greece or anyone else. But we should now is the time to act. It's not the time to think only, but it is a time to act because Europe disintegrates even faster than we discussed on. And thought back in 2016 when we started working and creating Europe. And now we should really strengthen our fight, both in the ground and also in the heart of the battle of the beast. Thank you. Thanks Fotini. David. Thanks Mehran. Since we've started this discussion now on the recovery fund, let me just continue with it. The first point I wanted to make is recovery fund. It sounds good, doesn't it? But is it really or are we all being taken for a ride? It's time to start calling it what it really is, which is the EU decomposition fund. Let me explain why. First of all, we cannot seriously talk about a EU recovery fund when only a meager 380 billion euros will come in the form of grants. Half of the total amount of the entire fund, by the way, to put it into perspective, 380 billion euros is around the same amount as the total gross domestic product of Norway. It sounds like a lot, but it really isn't when you consider that we're talking about the whole of the EU. The other half will come in the form of new loans, loans which will put increasing pressure on the weakest of member states. It's the equivalent of giving money to the poor on conditions that make it rather impossible for them to pay it back. In other words, it is a form of blackmail and economic and financial imprisonment, not to mention political subjugation. This 19 pandemic hit exactly one year ago, as you all know, fast forward a year and as Janice said, no EU country has seen any money whatsoever, and it's very unlikely that they will see it this year. And according to the European Commission itself, EU countries have until April 30th of this year to submit, and I quote, their national recovery and resilience plans, setting out their reform and investment agendas until 2026. This means that the money will only be disbursed once the plans have been reviewed and approved. So in the end, the question is recovery for whom? Is it going to go to small businesses and medium-sized businesses as well and the people who actually need it? I very much doubt it. A EU Council press release that I read just today, dated from February 11th of this year, states, and I quote again, support will be linked to country-specific recommendations under the European semester, which identify central challenges for each member state to address to strengthen competitiveness. Now, to the majority of people out there, this means absolutely nothing. And there's a good reason for it, because it is meant to be difficult to understand. To break down the jargon, what it means is that money lent to EU countries will depend on whether they implement the recommendations said by the EU. Now, don't get me wrong, if the grant money was contingent upon being spent on things like public education, health care and so on, things that people actually need, fine. But that's just not the case. The press release goes on to state that the money will only be disbursed upon, quote, achievement of the agreed milestones and targets. And the same press release states that only 13% of the money will be pre-financed. The rest, the other 87% will arrive way too late and pending an assessment of whether the plans follow those EU recommendations. Now, if you look closely, the EU is essentially weaponizing the pandemic in order to push through a reform agenda that ultimately aims to benefit the rich and the powerful, all the while selling it as a recovery plan. It's really quite unbelievable. In other words, money is being used as a tool, just like it was in 2008, to shape society in the interests of the ruling establishment, an establishment which does not have the interests of people and the planet at heart. In other words, socialism for the rich and austerity for the rest, as we've been saying for a while. While people in the EU bubble in Brussels are tapping each other on the back for what they claim to be the most wonderful achievement, the reality could not be further from the truth. The truth is that the so-called EU recovery fund, or what the EU bubble as rebranded as next generation EU, will do absolutely nothing to prevent the suffering that people are going through right now across Europe. So it's not that the EU is going slowly in the right direction as some claim, but that it's going fast in the wrong direction. There are people out there who cannot afford to put food on the table, comrades. People who can't afford medicine and hospital treatment. People who are totally isolated and alone, people who can't find good quality jobs, people who are being evicted as we speak because their salaries are not enough to cover their essential expenses like their rent. And just yesterday, a new report in Brussels in the Brussels Times referencing data from the November 2020 census showed that the homeless population in Brussels has increased by 50% over the last five years. The same applies everywhere across Europe, not to mention those living under the poverty line and so on. So when EU leaders talk about recovery, I'm sorry to say, but it's literally slapping the face to all those whose lives depend on the proper functioning of the EU and its member states and so on. And that is just not happening. That is why DM25 exists, because we need to turn this European Union into a project that actually works for the benefit of the whole population and solves these problems, does not exacerbate them. In summary, what this shows once again is that the EU that we have today is simply not fit for purpose, something that we've been saying all along, which to leave no room for doubt does not mean that we should abandon the project, as several left parties in Europe have been advocating. On the contrary, it means that we need to radically transform it, to democratize it in a way that it puts people first and not those private interests. So what does Europe and its people need instead? We need to implement a real Green New Deal for Europe that Yanis mentioned, that will transform our continent for good. And not that aberration that the European Commission calls Green Deal, which as I said some weeks ago is Green only in name. Our landmark report, which you can find over at gnd4europe.com, is the most comprehensive plan ever published to pull Europe out of the twin crisis of austerity and climate and environmental breakdown. So, you know, if you're watching, do go and check it out. And after that, join us at dm25.org slash join and let's just make it happen. Thank you, David. Yuliana. Thank you. I guess there's not much to add, because David said, I think everything that's very important. The only thing that I might add is that during this pandemic, what I realized, and I think many, many more people realize that too, is that we say that they failed. But I'm asking myself if they ever had the goal to have a pandemic crisis management, you know, because like it looks from me. It was it was never the goal to help people or to to help the citizens of Europe through this crisis, not on a European level, but also not here in Germany. I mean, if I think that German politicians put money in their pocket, made dubious mask deals, what is there to expect on the European level. So, so I think that that the time is over where you can, you can say, we have to put pressure on politicians and to change things. I think we now it's the time to think more about what we can do and also for for every every citizen in in the EU to or in Europe, not just the EU to to really believe much more in what they can do and where they can participate in. And I think it was also already mentioned from David and before that now it's not only the time because because European Union lacks this kind of of politics, the Green New Deal. But I think that it's very obvious that they never they will never change their ways, they will never implement better policies, they will never reform the EU in a way that we as the people wanted. This is crystal clear. So we have to draw a line and think about starting over and to an advertise for the Green New Deal but also be pretty clear about the missing options. It's not about going to the link and persuading them to adopt the Green New Deal. I think at some point we have to take it in our own own hands, much more than I would have said a year ago. Dushan. I agree more with you, David and Juliana. You, as you all know, we have been hearing a lot about so called Green Deals or even Green New Deals that are nowhere near enough. Anyway, majority of them or almost all of them besides ours have two big faults in them. Either they are austerity for the common people and fall on the backs of the working class, or they only have demands without any structure. The thing with our Green New Deal is that we have both the numbers and the structure and we are fighting for it to be implemented in a thorough way that is workers friendly and green, really green like we noted so many times ago. And the beauty is in the fact that our vision is both revolutionary and realistic. We promised to establish fairness, economic justice and sustainability to both our continent and the world itself. And we cannot wait, we cannot afford to wait around. We can begin to build the transition today. And this campaign that we are just leading aims to show how basically for the last 10 days we've been posting on our social networks, the content that explains to the to the people and to the European what the Green New Deal should actually look like and what needs to be implemented. Some of the content has been shared a lot, and we got a really wide audience. Now it's time to spread the word to the European Parliament itself. Tomorrow we are doing a tweet storm towards the European Parliament and we will show them what the real Green New Deal really should look like. So join us comrades from the 9am you will have the post on Twitter of GND for Europe, where you can just copy paste the tweets and direct them towards the EU Parliament, as I've noted.  Thank you. Thank you Dushan. 9am tomorrow CET GND for Europe.com a tweet storm from us and from Dushan. Thank you for that. David, an update on our sister organization Progressive International. Hello everyone.  Three points, three exciting points I hope, one an update and two looking more prospectively to the future. The first is an update about what's what's happening in Ecuador. The last time I think we spoke we talked about the stakes of this election and the severity of the attacks that we've seen on institutions of democracy in Ecuador. The National with the help of DM and the council members represented here namely we're not stretch go Yanis have been really at the forefront of the fight for international solidarity and defense of those democratic institutions. And from all the conversations we've had, it has played a major role in staving off some of the most vicious forms of legal warfare and blatant attempts to override and undermine the constitutional right to popular sovereignty in Ecuador. Now we're preparing a mission to return to Ecuador for the second round, which will be on the 11th of April, a very important day for the trajectory of Latin America of democracy across the region of Latin America with elections for the constitutional assembly in Chile to rewrite the Constitution after throwing away that of Pinochet, as well as presidential elections in Peru and this second round, runoff election in Ecuador. So we plan to be there to wage this what we hope is a final push in defense of transparency and integrity and free and fair elections in Ecuador, and we'll rely as as always on the solidarity of our friends and comrades in across the continent and inside the movement to power that delegation because only by linking the delegation that's on the ground and a few people we actually managed to send and be present there and keto and across the country with solidarity and the scrutiny of our friends abroad that we're going to be able to apply that pressure and play the role we need to play as an alternative infrastructure to the organization of American states the oas in whom we have no confidence. So that's our update of Ecuador as we continue to build out this electoral observatory and continue to hone this model of a kind of internationalist brigade that is able to bring delegations of data scientists parliamentarians technical experts, friends and allies from around the world to these front lines of fascist violence of environmental breakdown and try to bring greater forms of solidarity in this in in action as opposed to just inward. The second is an update on our campaign to make Amazon pay. We finished last year with a call to all our supporters to help us fund a people powered campaign that is to move from a coalition based model of make Amazon pay to one in which we are building volunteer teams all across the world. One of the conversations that I had with Johannes I remember ahead of the make Amazon pay campaign back in back in October was you know what can people do how can people get involved and the truth was that back then we didn't have a very robust strategy with a few resources we had and the and the partners in the coalition we were building to actually put people on the streets to build the ties we need to build between the workers who are being exploited by Amazon and the consumers who, you know, who obviously rely on this infrastructure, whether it's Amazon or another corporation, but to build that that that tie and whether it's bringing people to the Amazon warehouses, or bringing workers out into the streets and town squares from Centagma to, you know, the town squares in the center of well, to fall over square right so we that's that's the task of this in this next phase of the campaign, which can be rolling out next month is really building out teams of volunteers. You know, relying on learning a lot from the experience, various experiences that DMS had and how to do this effectively, so that we can have a much more decentralized model of how this campaign can work, which is just going to be a lot more creative in terms of, you know, disrupting life and making this message heard more loudly, in addition to planning these larger global days of action, about which you will know and toward which I think we can look forward in the spring. So that's the brief update on make Amazon pay. It's not the most exciting updates it involves a lot of just wait and see but we hope to be rolling that out in terms of volunteer program very soon. Finally, there are preparations for the anniversary of the launch. So you know the progressive international is technically only about 10 months old, our anniversary is coming up in May on May the 11th, and we're going to mark the occasion of the anniversary with an injection of new council members to make the council more representative and more powerful to bring in new organizational members many of whom we've worked with already. Others of which are kind of outside the orbit but are really important for filling out these these representational representational gaps, whether that's in East Asia or that's in Southern Africa, you know, trying to live up to this grand ambition of being more international. So, as always trying to make this international richer, more representative more inclusive more diverse, but above all more powerful, as we propel ourselves into the new year. So that's my updates, and I'll see you in in two weeks time now that we've set up a more regular update system from the side of the progressive international so we can kind of stay more closely aligned and so there's more opportunities for members to plug into this work. But hopefully, as I said, moving into a space of big organizing with these kinds of volunteer groups plugging in in different places. There's going to be a lot more activity for the PIDM connection to solidify. Janis. I'll conclude with a comment on the campaign against Amazon. Amazon, make Amazon pay. Most of you know my fixation with a project I have in mind, a campaigning project that reverses the costs and benefits of strike action of campaigns compared to the to what we had since the 19th century. What do I mean by that? Trade unions began campaigning and existing and doing things and changing the world in the 19th century through industrial strikes. Industrial strikes were exceptionally costly for individual workers. And the benefits were spread throughout society, but did not accrue to the individual workers. What do I mean by that? Come to think of it, you know, especially in countries where where there's violence against workers where they disappear in the middle of the night where they are thrown in prison or beaten up. There are lots of countries like that, especially the United States. Think of the history of the workers movement in the United States, but not anywhere in the United States, almost everywhere. When a worker organizes a strike and goes out on strike, firstly, she or he loses pay. That's a huge cost to the family. You know, the hardship is immense. They cannot put food on the table. They can be dismissed and face unemployment, especially during periods of recession. They can be beaten up. They can be, you know, victimized. They may find it very difficult to get even a passport or an ID card in certain countries. So the cost of striking for an individual worker, a trade union member is gigantic. And the benefits are usually very small for the strikers relative to the costs. So it's a massive act of sacrifice. Workers who break strikes and get the pay rises, not the strikers, secure for them. So it's their definition of a free rider problem. Because there are few.   Yet the whole of the workforce gets the benefits. So what we have been asking as the left, trade unions, lefts and so on, of people, of workers over the last 200 years has been mass sacrifice at the personal level, very little benefit at the personal level, even though they've been driving history and changing the world. My dream is for us to devise a campaigning system which reverses the cost benefit analysis where those who participate in the campaign do very little. You know, their sacrifice is tiny, but there are so many that these sacrifices add up and inflict maximum cost to Jeff Bezos, for example. Now our campaign began with a trade union strike, a traditional trade union strike. It was a good thing because the Progressive International needed to align itself with trade unions and so on. And we did that. It was a very good thing. But we're not going to succeed against Amazon by organizing workers. We have to organize workers. It's a necessary condition. It is not a sufficient condition. What does Jeff Bezos worry about? He's not worried about a strike in some warehouse that disrupts his supply chains for a few days. He's worried about losing customers. This is why I recommended to the PI and I'm recommending to DM25 and to all of you today that our next make Amazon campaign must be a consumer boycott that is well organized six months in advance. For six months we organize people to say, on those three days, let's just choose three days. Just three days. No more. Don't buy from Amazon. Don't visit amazon.com for three days. I call it days of inaction. Don't do anything for three days. It doesn't cost anything anyway. Even if you're buying stuff from Amazon and you rely on Amazon, a lot of people do rely on Amazon. It doesn't cost that much to you not to buy stuff for three days. I tell you comrades, if Jeff Bezos, during those three days, especially if we publicize that, sees that the dial on the visitations in Amazon goes down by 5%. Not much more. By 5% he will take notice. He will take notice a lot more than trade unions. That way, if trade unionists want to strike on the same day, that's fine. We are there supporting them because our demand is not that Amazon reduces prices for us. No. Our demand is to allow workers to unionize and to pay. To pay taxes and to pay wages. So we consumers are not buying for a few days so that workers can be empowered. Whether workers feel strong enough to participate in that is another matter. I'm talking about exactly the opposite kind of campaign to the one we had on Black Friday. One that concentrates on an international global consumer strike against Amazon. On behalf of workers and on behalf of the environment and society, because we are going to be pushing for them to pay taxes. I think that that can become very trendy. People can actually feel fantastic to wear a badge and for three weeks from now, I'm not going to buy anything from Amazon. I'll just shut up by repeating the main concept. Minimum sacrifice for campaigners, maximum cost inflicted upon Amazon. Reversing what has been happening for 200 years. Thank you, Yanis. And if you like what you've heard today, specifically perhaps on what Yanis was just talking about, particularly if you've got campaigning expertise, organizing expertise, if you're the sort of person that likes to confront power and make change happen, then join us, help us. The email address, well the web address is dm25.org slash join, and it just takes a couple of seconds to sign up. I think that concludes this week's meeting of our coordinating collective. Thank you out there for listening and watching and see you next week.


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel for today's video. I'm going to be talking about my favorite beauty products for the month of December. So if you want to see what they were, then just keep watching. If you're new here, my name is Morgan. I am a product knowledge enthusiast. I just love knowing anything and everything about all of the new makeup on the market. So we are going to start off with my channel of the month. I've been meaning to put this channel as my channel of the month for a long time. I've been watching her for many, many months. That is going to be Angie. Her channel's name is Angelica Nikis. Excuse me if I mispronouncing that. But I've been really into Indie makeup the last few months of the year of 2020 and she covers it all. She got me to buy the BH cosmetics, the blueberry muffin palette and just her recommendations in general. I really, really trust. She's no BS and I love her channel and I love her makeup looks. If you love colorful makeup, you have to check out her channel. She has the sweetest, most bubbly personality and I've been obsessed with her channel and the products that she talks about for months. She talks a lot about Indie brands, which I really, really love and I feel like I've gained so much knowledge from her Indie videos. So thank you Angie if you're watching this. Let's move on to my favorite products. So we're going to start off with skincare. I just have one item this month for skincare and it is by the brand Kiehl's and this is the Ultra Facial Cream. Now this is not a new product by any means. I've had it for a little bit, but anyways, it's basically just a facial cream, a moisturizer and I pulled this out for a video recently and I haven't been able to put it down. It is currently my favorite pre-makeup moisturizer. Honestly, the moisturizer I've been using, it's one by Maman. It's a gel moisturizer, not the greatest for the winter for my dry skin. So I'm about to put this in my bathroom as my regular moisturizer because I like how creamy it is and it really does leave my dry skin feeling much more hydrated. So I've been loving this. It is a classic product and I'm really glad I brought this out again because it's so good. Alright, I have a little bit of a dynamic duo for eyebrows. It's been a long time since I found some eyebrow products that really spoke to me but we'll start off with the eyebrow pencil. So this is by M Cosmetics. I got a random PR package from them a while back. I don't think I'm on their PR list or anything but they just sent me like a nice little gift and this is the Fine Liner Brow Pencil in Deep Taupe. I don't necessarily think this is my favorite color on me but it works and it has a spoolie on one end in a very, very, very, very, very fine tip. And what I like about this is the consistency. It's a little bit drier than a lot of other pencils that I use. I really do not like a creamy pencil. So this might be a touch too dry than what I would prefer it to be but I've been dealing with such creamy eye pencils lately that this one has been phenomenal. It blends out perfectly and I've learned that I really prefer a more dry, waxy pencil and it's just so finely tipped. I love it. I also got a package from Ardell Beauty and I tried out randomly one day. This Limitless Enhancer, it's a brow duo highlighter. I know ABH has a similar one that I've used but this one is so creamy. Now one side is a highlighter and I'll be honest, I have not tried the highlighter side. You can see it's a little bit gold there but what I've been obsessed with is the matte side. So this is an extremely, extremely creamy pencil and I'll just put it underneath my brows and then I'll go in with a brush. My favorite to use is, this does not have a number on it but it's an ABH brush that looks like this, a synthetic brush and I like to use that to carve my eyebrows. You guys, I have not gotten my eyebrows done since January of 2020. This year I have spent a lot of time taming my brows, trimming them. What is it? Tweezing them, all of that. And my brows just don't have as much of a shape anymore. I don't have a lady to shape my brows so this has come quite in handy. I love it. The best part about it is how creamy it is and I can't get enough of it. I highly, highly, highly recommend this. Next up, let's move into a bronzer. Oh my gosh, I'm so annoying. I received a PR package from Vesca Beauty and this is a Canadian brand and in the package they sent me a bronzer and there was a few other items. I haven't tried everything but your girl's been obsessed with this bronzer. So this is the Soft Matte Bronzing Powder in Kissed by Santorini. It's made in Italy and it's a cruelty free vegan brand. I love this bronzer. It's the bronzer that I'm currently wearing. It applies so smooth. It's the perfect tone and I am now officially obsessed with this brand. I've never heard of it before but now I just can't get enough of it.  The range of bronzers that they have are incredible. I want to try their highlighters. Their highlighter range looks amazing as well. So overall this just seems to be a quality brand and I've been enjoying all of the products that I've tried from them so far but the bronzer has been incredible. Now this next product I'm not going to talk about too much because unfortunately you cannot get your hands on it. Don't get mad at me. So this is the ColourPop Hello Kitty and Friends Collection. Now this collection as a whole, I wasn't the biggest fan of makeup wise. I'm a big Hello Kitty fan so I don't regret picking it up because I just love the packaging but the blush is in this collection by far for what stood out the most to me and the one that I've been using the most is bundled up. You might be able to get these on Ulta. Check my description box if you're interested. There's also a brighter pink one that's also beautiful but this neutral toned one I think is much more appropriate for kind of the winter months. It's a little bit more plummy. I love it. I love ColourPop blushes. I love the colors that they come out with and this is just a blush that I've been reaching for a lot and it's super cute and I wasn't crazy about the eyeshadow palette but I'm telling you the blushes and makeup product wise are worth it whether or not you like Hello Kitty. Let's move on to eyeshadow palettes. This month as a whole not a lot of, well I guess December. December as a whole not a lot of makeup items came out. I didn't do too many reviews which was a nice break so I really got to dive into some older palettes and play with products that I've been wanting to use and this has been on standby for months. I bought this months ago and I never used it and I've been meaning to so finally I put it out in the month of December. This is a Too Faced Pumpkin Spice Palette. I can't put it down. It's my favorite palette this month. It has so many different color stories you guys. You can create so many looks and I love every single look that I've come up with. You can get green looks. You can get warm tone looks. You can get pink looks. You can get purple looks. The options are really endless with this palette you guys. It is fantastic.  The mattes can be a little bit more difficult to blend. I'm not going to lie. I had a few problems with mattes. You just need to make sure you work slowly but the color selection is just so good that it makes out for it. This has been my most used palette in the month of December. I used it like five or six times. That's a lot when you have a collection the size of mine and it's definitely my most used holiday palette from Too Faced ever. So I highly recommend it. It went on a really good sale. Check to see if it's still on sale. I love it. I have a mascara that I've been enjoying this month and this is the Urban Decay Proversion mascara. Now I don't love this for my upper lashes but I love it for my lower lashes. Now I feel like this leaves my lower lashes looking lengthened and a little bit fluffy. So it really separates my lashes. It doesn't make them clump up but they just they get so nice and long. It doesn't thicken maybe as much as I would like but that's okay because my lashes are so sparse. The fact that you can individually see them is a win. I just made a mark but I like how the length of the brush isn't too long as well. So it really is easy to get along my lower lashes. So I have been loving this mascara. I don't love many mascaras. I'm very, very picky because I don't have much to work with. That makes this one a little extra special. I have some falsies though. I'm a big falsie person. I don't think I'll ever get lash extensions because I just love playing with false lashes so much. So surprisingly I've really been into these elf foaming lashes in the style social butterfly. Now the first time I used them I wasn't too sure about them but now I'm really, really in love with the slash style especially for the price that you pay. Now I originally picked these up for a sponsored video that I did with Elf for a while back and I left it in the video but I definitely wasn't wearing it with the correct look and now that I found the type of makeup looks that I love wearing with it, it's so good you guys. I like it with a nice winged liner. It doesn't look too unnatural. I mean obviously a false lash is pretty unnatural but for the price these are really a beautiful lash. I don't really like elf lashes that much but this one is by far my favorite. The next product that we have is a lip balm. I pulled out the Kiehl's lip balm number one. I got a set for the holidays. It was a set of three and I've really been enjoying it. The only thing I don't like is the packaging. I just would like an actual lip applicator but I mean small things but this is a really nice lip moisturizer. I have pretty dry lips and this sinks in really good. Jose really likes this formula as well and I don't know it's just overall really good lip balm. It's different than the Laneige which is what I typically use. I don't know this one feels a bit more wearable like less sticky so I've been enjoying this one. Three more products. We have a lipstick and this is a lipstick I'm currently wearing around National Lipstick Day. I ordered a few lipsticks from Propa Beauty. I heard a lot of buzz about their lipsticks so I picked up a big range but I've been loving finesse lately. I'm still working through a few of the colors. Most of them are pretty deep on me which is great for this time of year but ever since I put on finesse I keep wearing it. This is perfect, cooler nude and it's such a unique color. I feel like I don't have a lot of colors like this. Now this is a little bit too creamy of a formula than I typically enjoy. I feel like it's so creamy to the point where the lipstick moves around. It might melt and I don't know. It just makes the lipstick a little bit unstable in the tube for my preferences but once it's on the lips it is beautiful. They have a beautiful range for deeper skin tones as well like actual nudes. So definitely look into that if you have a deeper complexion and you've been looking for good nude lipsticks but I like it. This is like one of my favorite nudes that I've been wearing this time of year. The last actual makeup product that we have again is from Vesca Beauty and this is their creamy lip oil. I wear the shade Ginger Lily a lot. This has just been great to throw on my lips to make my lips look a little bit juicier. It's like a your lips but better color. The only thing about this is it doesn't last the longest but that's okay to me because it just moisturizes the lips. It leaves a touch of a stain and just kind of gets the makeup off of my lips. So this is really easy to reapply. It's very comfortable. It's very moisturizing and the color is perfect. All right, let's get into the last item. This is not a makeup product but it's a game changer. You all need to get a handheld fan. This was a gift to me so I don't know that I'll be able to find the exact one but I will link something similar down below. This, first of all for times that I'm dying and sweating. Perfect. For your makeup routine you need this to pick up the pace at which you apply your false eyelashes. So when the glue is drying hold your lash to it and put some air on it so that way you can apply your lashes sooner. And then also when you spray your face use this to dry it down even quicker. It really is just an overall game changer in your routine. And it's just something like I knew I always needed but I never picked it up. But then once you have it you're like how did I live without this? All right, you guys there you have it. Those were my favorite products for the month of December. Not a ton of new releases in the month of December. So maybe the stuff wasn't as exciting but it really allowed me to just actually play with the makeup that I already owned and I thoroughly enjoyed that. So thank you guys so much for watching. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so. And I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye guys, have a good one.


Aside from the copy and limit transform constraints, the transform constraints also include limit distance, maintain volume, and transformation constraints. Keep in mind that all constraints and concepts in this video also apply to bone constraints. The transformation constraint is the biggest one we should talk about. This is a very powerful constraint that helps map certain transformations to affect other kinds of transformations. For example, in the copy location constraint, we can have the location of one object affect the location of another object pretty easily. Same with copy rotation and copy scale. However, if we wanted to use the location of one object to affect the rotation of another object, we wouldn't be able to do it with those constraints. These are two different transformation channels. However, with the transformation constraint, we can do just that. Let's go ahead and add this constraint to our monkey object. Now these settings look a bit intimidating, but it's pretty simple to tinker around with once you understand what it does. The source section of the constraint settings refers to the target object settings. Here you can choose what type of transformation you want to listen to from the target object. This includes lock, rot, and scale. And the destination section of the constraint settings refers to the constrained object. Here you can choose what type of transformation to affect for the constrained object. The source to destination mapping section lets you choose which axis of the target object affects which axis of the constrained object. And the x, y, and z values you see in both sections is for setting a ratio of movement between each object. This is where the magic happens. So let's say very simply that we want every 10 meters of the target object's location to drive 90 degrees of the constrained object's rotation. We can do this by changing the transformation type in our constraint settings. Our source, or target object, is already set to location, so we'll make sure to set our destination object to rotation. Then we can simply change the max value of the x-axis to 10 meters for the source. And to make sure that these 10 meters will rotate the x-axis of the constrained object 90 degrees, we can change the max value of the x-axis to 90 degrees for the destination. And now as we move our target object along the x-axis, you can see that the constrained object is rotating a maximum of 90 degrees. Now let's say we wanted to drag our cube further while still affecting our monkey object. Well to do that, maybe we can say every 20 meters will rotate the constrained object 180 degrees, giving us a bit more leeway. However, that's not really practical, as we'd have to go on forever, multiplying redundantly until we're confident the range is what we need. No, instead we can simply keep our 10 meters to 90 degrees ratio, and go to the top of our constraint to check the extrapolate option. This will extend our ratio infinitely and allow us to go past the limits of the min and max, but maintain the same ratio of transformation. Now if we wanted to have the y-location of the source object affect the x-axis rotation of the constrained object, we would just need to change the source to destination mapping here. Instead of x to x, we can change this first value to y. And yes, you can have the same source transformation axis drive two destination transformation axes if you like. Then we would simply need to change the maximum y value to complete the ratio. This should give you a fundamental understanding of the transformation constraint. The limit distance constraint is pretty self-explanatory. Similar to the limit location constraint, this constraint takes the input of the user to restrict movement of the constrained object. However, additionally it also takes in a target object to use as reference. This allows for the user input to set the max distance the constrained object can be from the target object at any time. In other words, you get to put the object on a leash. But you can also invert the effect by changing the clamp region from inside to outside. This makes it so that the constrained object cannot come within a certain distance of the target object, which makes it feel more like a force field instead. And the final clamp region option, on surface, will force the object to keep the distance a constant, not allowing it to get further or closer to the object than the distance set. The maintain volume constraint prevents objects from freely changing their scale. Typically, when scaling an object, the volume of your object gets increased for free. However, with maintain volume, it restricts you from gaining free volume, forcing your object to bend and contract while scaling, just like a real volume would if forced to change size. However, the volume input value is a world value, therefore you'll need to know the neutral volume of your mesh. I hope this helps you understand more of how the transform constraints work. Feel free to experiment or read more about them in the documentation in the description down below.


What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late sports cards. We've been 23, Bowman, Crone, Baseball, Hobby, 12 box, full case rate, number 53. Pick your team style. Reopolis, our names and our teams. We've got Adam H with the twins, Adam V, Mariners, Alvin S, Orioles, Andrew M, Guardians, Anthony K, White Sox, Brian L. Braves, Chun-Way, W, Red Sox, Dixon K with the Cardinals, Edward P. Brewer's, Gavin K, Nationals, Hunter K, Diamondbacks, Jacob F. Yanks, James J with the Mets, Ann the Phillies, Jeffrey H. Padres, Jordan M. Royals, Kevin John, H with the Pirates, Matthew B. Athletics, Matney H with the Dodgers, Nicholas M with the Blue J, Scott W, Tigers, Shan J, Giants, Ty W at Cubs, Vadim P with the Rangers, Wayne P. Rockies, Yoga R, Reds Rays, Yolanda G with the Astros, Young Susie, Marlins in Yonzi with the Angels. So good luck here, everybody. Thank you there. Rob picking up a flawless random team spot. Lot of spots. Thank you there. Appreciate that there, Rob. Lot of spots coming in from Rob. For some higher end football. Again, here's your link. 14 to go. 14, Tago, as I always apparently write down. Tago. Tago. Bowman Chrome. Hobby case number two. Let's see a Supra. Let's see something huge. Man, the Walcott V is massive. Throwing over the base out of Diego Mosqueda. Going to the Mets. There are some scratches on that. A little too many to ignore. Send an empty box and wrapper with New York. Sorry about that. Mets. Dude, I'm obsessed with a new TV show. Obsessed with suits. Oh yeah.  It's so good. So good. I think I was talking to your dad.  Same dude. Same favorite show of all time. Did you finish? No, I haven't finished it yet, but I've watched the first five seasons. No, better call. Breaking Bad, I've watched twice now. Yeah, me too. I haven't been to Morris the 499. Yeah, no, Breaking Bad. I've watched twice all the way through. I remember I was watching my freshman year of college because I was looking for a new show and my roommate was like, oh, you should watch Breaking Bad. I'm like, all right, give it a shot. People love it. And there are days where I've watched like three episodes of it. There's Raymond Mola, First Shimmer. No, long episodes. Yeah, they're hour episodes. Got it. There's times like I remember like sweating. I was so stressed out during like when I'll never forget the most stressed out I think I ever was in that show was Walt was showering and the twins were sitting in his room with the axe. I was like, oh my god. Yeah, I do remember that. Victor is tourist at 299 for the Guardians. I think the woman always got me is when he was green out with Thomas to 99. He's in there with his girlfriend and I don't know if she died or like a little wolf slipped something to not Jane, right? Yeah, yeah, I think so. Well, that was when they were sleeping and she was she was choking on her vomit because she overdosed on heroin. Yeah, that was yeah. And Walt just sits there and watches and like, oh my god, Ethan solace by buying and get the super authentic 5k in an envelope. Tyler O'Neill to 499 Team Canada and the Carpets. Travis with a flawless spot. Thank you, buddy. Jason E with the Rangers and 59. We're down to 13 to go now, everybody. 13 to go. Get that sold out. Some good teams still available. Rangers now off the board. Flawless now down to six, I believe at the end of the break shift here. Random team style from last night. There's a true yellow Jesus Galleys to 75. Going to the Dodgers. Congrats Los Angeles. We're out of other great scenes from that show. Joe Jones. That's nice. It's a nice one, but with Sanchez. Yeah. That was crazy. That and when he he you on Moncada, nice one there to the 499 to the White Sox when he like him, he takes him and him and Jesse Hostage and that he puts the stuff into the burrito and the and Don keeps ringing the bell every time that he goes to he's like ding. He goes to get ding. He did such a good job with him. I know. Adrian Pinto. Shimmer. He passed away, unfortunately. Sad about that. Um what else? One of the craziest like quotes from that uh season is after again, spoiler.  First base auto for the Reds, which poor guy by the way, dude. He he got it bad, man. Purple. Los Romantes to 250 and Walt's basically saying to to Gus like I'm too valuable.  You can't do anything to me. Blah, blah, blah. And I remember Gus goes yeah, you're right.    You entry Vargas. He's crazy. Gus is nuts, dude. He's uh he plays uh what's it called? Like Far Cry. One of the Far Cry games. He's the one in Cuba or like the Mach Cuba. He's like the the main villain. You're on to 499. Which I got that game and tried playing it. It was too hard and I stopped. I gave up. Far Cry. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot. Yeah. It's good though. It's great franchise. Far Cry is a lot of fun but very difficult. Or maybe I'm just a bot. It might not be that hard. I probably am just a bot. That could be it. Yeah. I don't think that that's completely out of the realm of possibility. Base auto. Well Wickelman Gonzalez. Nice one there for the um uh Red Sox. Thank you there. Parker picking up the Chiefs and Ravens in number 11. Appreciate you buddy. Guanypa and Maya first as well. Get yourself a cherry. That was fun. I know. Those were absolutely viscerated. We got an orange. Miguel Blase going to the Red Sox to 25. Solid one there. Zach with the Blue Jays and 59 down to 12. 12 to go everybody. 12 to go on Cosmic Breaking Next. 12 to go. Some good teams still available. We're looking to make a splash. Cosmic's definitely a good product to do it in. Christopher Toran to 250 on the Purple Shimmer. That is a yellow Ricardo Olivaar to 75. Good color auto is coming out of this case so far. Congrats Twins. That's one Minnesota. Twins another great value team. True Green Joey Weimer 299 for the brew crew. That is a Tristan Cosas to one uh 299 on Lima. Yes sir. Hit the like button. Good vibe. Sam and Springs in the morning. That's a true goal. You Henio Suarez to 50. Team Venezuela. And you want to do Vargas first. Michael with the Chiefs in 14. Thank you Michael M. Let me do this really quick. Hold on guys. Let me one sec. I'm going to mark down some of the bigger teams in Cosmic real quick again. Good deals to be had for sure. Really good deals to be had there in Cosmic. Really good deals in Cosmic. Check that on out to everybody again. Teams are on sale 12 to go. Some some good inexpensive teams remaining as well as some 15 uh 20 29 $39 teams 34 pirates in there as well. Keep on going here with some Bowman Chrome. Case number 53. All PYTs again this morning outside of um Flawless at the end of the shift. That will be a random team. Michael Royale, your boy. Corrine uh Pojun Wang. I don't know if he's I think he's NPL. Yeah. So, that'll be a random to all. Zach with the Blue Jays and 60. John with the Bears and NT. What up John? So, yeah, that'll be a random right there. I bought a card off John actually. I bought a Ray Lewis NT based 99. Nice. Magenta Shimmer. Ethan Salas to 199. Grats there. Padres. Don't believe there was an auto in that. We did get shorted one auto so I'm sorry about that everybody. It does happen in Bowman Chrome. Hopefully we make up. We get an extra on one mini box. It may happen that the auto was just straight up missing in that like it is here. Not going to be an auto in this entire box. Awesome. Ethan Salas base. Way to go. Sorry about that guys. Uh Kodaisenga image variation. That's dope. Congrats on that Mets. That's really cool. The first press conference I'm assuming. Uh Vladimir Junior to 299. Hopefully autos are made up for. Hopefully autos are made up for it here. Sorry again everybody. Beyond Jorge to 250 for the Rockies. Um let's continue on. Uh not yet Alvin. We're hoping for a Bessayo for you. That's what we're looking for. Samuel Bessayo. We got that same first name mojo with me and Bessayo. That would be cool. That would be cool. Base auto. Jesus pastidas. Going to the inks. Nice one there. Huh? Yeah. Yeah. Blue Matt Mervis. Cubs to 150. Corey Seeger to 299. I don't know why they traded for him. Well someone else has probably made a deal if they didn't do it. He didn't do much. No but I don't think he I don't think there's a very competent staff running the Chicago Bears right now. Guanipa and Maya. It's a weather like in Florida in April. It's good right? It's just starting to get a little bit hot. There's Matt Mervis to 199 but it's one of the better months of the year for sure. Once it's like May that's when it starts getting super humid but April's still pretty good. Tomic Auto Diego Mosquera to 100. Congrats there. Mets very solid. Again guys we're at 12 to go. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. 12 to go. Teams are on sale. Keep moving. Alex Ramirez on the Invicta for the Mets. Miguel Tamarez to 499. First refractor for Ansisca and a Guerrero as your first shimmer. Edwin Rodriguez first and Jackson Mero. It's a gold junior Garcia to 50. There we go Dodgers on the true gold. Nice one there. Congrats LA. That'll work. Antigua and Chavilly. The Chavilly. Purple at Blaise Jordan to 250 for the Red Sox. Rivas and Portland. Airbnb or hotel in April is better. Guanipa and Maya, you think it'll come to Florida in April? It's co-alvin. Oh dude. Uh it's tough because it's still like with April it's still kind of in season for like Disney because the weather's still decent. There's Miguel Vargas to 199. So Airbnb might be the way to go because the hotel rates are still going to be a little bit inflated until around June I would think. Beisotto of Yosvar Zuleta. Lijes and Eduardo Osario. Well been Francisco. Juan Benchio. Refractor of Nolan Gorman to 499 for the cards. Nice one there. Congrats. Last team taking Mojo. Alvin Salas for Shimmer. Nice one there for the Padres. Getting some nice Salas color. Vincent Peruzzo to 499. First refractor out of for the Mets. Congrats Mets. Again 12 remain on our next break. Cabrera Miguel that is to 499. Refractor for the Tigers. Rangio Vargas first. Ryan Acunha. Raynor Arias first. Jonathan Aranda for the Rays to 499 on the World Baseball Classic Insert. Again teams are marked down again in Cosmic. Let's get those sold out. Two half cases coming up. Beisotto Ricardo Perez. Congrats Phillies. Nice one there. Blue is Felon and Celestyn. Congrats Mariners. Celestyn all over these last two cases. Congrats on that. Shrew Blue to 150. Purple Shimmer victor is Theriz to 250. And Beis. Thanks Scott. Oh boy. Yellow Otto. Danny Serretti to 75. Nice one there Tigers. Congrats on that. Celestyn first and Beis. Good. Good. Pretty solid. Happy Friday. Yes sir. Absolutely. Sebastian Wolkoff first. Absolutely. Happy Friday. We got the Bo Jackson shirt today. We're in the 87. Love it. That is Rudrick Arias. Yes sir. That he was. Kinder Delgado to 125. First for the Inks. Davogue and Shema of Brooksley and Beis. All right again everybody. 12 to go on Cosmic. Let's get that sold out. 12 to go everyone. 12 to go. Lil Diaz. We're gonna miss another Otto in this dude. Axial Plas to 499. It's gonna really bug me if we do. Yes we did. Justin Crawford to 75. Orange Yellow Vapor. Again I apologize everybody. That's really annoying. That's really annoying. Believe me that pisses me off just as much because that's just not something that should happen. It's not that difficult to not happen. I can't imagine there's that's a very difficult fix to make. Beisotto is Joinder Rivera. Going to the Nationals. Grads on that. Justin H for the spot in Fualas. Later. Thank you buddy. Ludwig Espinosa. Michael T coming through with the Athletics. Thank you Michael. Down to 11. 11 to go. Corbin Carroll. That's Anderson De Los Santos for the Orioles. 299. Nice one there Alvin. Solid one for sure. 11 to go on Cosmic. Breaking next everyone. 11 to go. Very nice. Very nice. Very nice. Jet Williams. Jet the Met. That's his no naps. Not knowing Gorman to 499. Devis and De Los Santos. The other De Los Santos. I got some bots out here man. Every time the camera. You get the email, your camera, showroom, saw somebody. It's always a bot. Always. Yeah Jake, Joe, Kyle. Beisotto of Juan Benjamin first for the Guardians. Nice one there. Chris, you sometimes man. Do you forget it? Shiz every now and then. Jordan Beck. Felon Celestin. That's a wave to a hundred of Oscar Coloss for the White Sox. Sebastian Walcott first. Gennaro, okay. Gennaro Miller. Guys money. Shema. Jesus Galleys. Nelson. Rada. All right. James with the Braves in 59. David W with the Bengals in 11. Thank you guys. Appreciate that very much. We're down to 10. 10 to go in our first Cosmic break of the day. 10 to go. Some good teams still remain. Come on. Snag them up everybody. Always fun to rip some tops. Cosmic Chrome stuff has been great this year as it was last year. Purple Auto. Royberg Salinas to 250. Going to the Braves. Nice one there. Congrats. Braves. Old Invicta. Kate Horton, 250. No, luckily I didn't play against them, but I didn't have them either. Same with more. I didn't have them or play against them. Machado Iconic to 150 for the Orioles. I didn't have Comet who actually played well. My biggest disappointment this year is in Pat Barron. That guy stinks dude. Purple Shimmer, Jose Gerardo to 250. I'm not going to blame him. I'm going to blame Matt Candida. No, Matt Candida is an actual certified bot. Did you see he made a burner account on Twitter? MatthewCandidaatstealers.com. Yeah. Base Auto of Blade Tidwell. Base Auto. Dude, tight ends are so hit or miss. You either draft this, you either draft Kelsey, Pasquantino, Kittle, I would put two. Kittle, but he's still like that. Even he's icky sometimes. Yeah. And then after that, you're just like hoping, man. Yeah, you're praying for him. To somebody to come, like you're praying for like a gem, like Laporta this year. 10 points a game, I'm cool with that. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, Laporta, I wanted to take Laporta, but he went to pick before me in fantasy. That's the one I'm still pissed about because I'd be so much better if I had him. Yeah. Instead of cycling through Komet, there's Jackson Merrill to 125. Nice one there for the Padres. And both of them dropped Komet in our league. And that's how I have Komet now. He's my starter. There you go.  Yeah, off the waivers. I mean, off the scrap heap. Why not? You know what I mean? Yeah. Scott F with the Mets and Finest. Thank you, buddy. Appreciate the thought very much. Again, 10 to go, everyone. 10 to go on Cosmic, breaking right after this. 10 to go and a 10 to go. Teams are all dropped as well. Some good potential in there. Angel's still available.  Tani's got all the planetary pursuits. Taisu's Bougarin, first base auto for the Rockies. They drew Jones to 125. D-Bex. Blue is Lazaro Montez. Ramos, refractor, first auto for $4.99. Going to the Royals. Congrats, Royals. Karsten with the Giants down to $9. Roger, uh, Rainer Arias. Nine to go on Cosmic. Say Sterling Thompson. Say Yellow of Lazaro Montez to 75 for the Mariners. Maddenez. Fallen Celestin. Through to $1.99. A base of Spassion Walcott. Gennaro Miller, aka DeNaro Miller. Nine to go now on Cosmic, everybody. Let's go. That is getting very close. Nine to go. Still a good mixture of some of the better teams in the entire product and checklist to teams that are inexpensive. We want to jump in, just have some fun as well. Maybe hit a Super or a Taco Fractor. Base auto is Connor Stain. Munoz. Green is Hunter Brown, $2.99 on the rookie. Got Arizona Fall League Relic. It is Nuelvi Marte to $1.50, going to the Reds. Congrats, Reds. Gabriel Gonzalez. Reds are another good team to pick up and hobby. I think Duno, Alfredo Duno is also unclaimed. He's also $15,000. El Bonilla. Yes. Yes, he does be Doug. I will confirm for you, but I'm pretty, I'm like 99% sure. To $1.50 is Corbin Carroll. Rookie, nice one there. I'm pretty confident he does be Doug. Javier Valdes, refractor. First auto for the Braves. Nice one there. Congrats, Atlanta. Luis Torres, Jackson Holliday. Henry Shevilli.  Very nice. True Yellow, Jacob Melton, $2.75. Guanipa and Maya first. Shimmer, Braley Guerrero first base. Very nice one there. Thank you there. B-Doug picking up the Mariners in both. And then the Bills in 11 and 12. Thanks, B-Doug. Appreciate you, buddy. Samuel H with the Red Sox. Wow, spots coming in, everybody. Gonna do a quick random here. Yeah, J-Rod's got a plan. I will double check that really quick before we do the random. But yep, he okay. He does perfect. Thank you, Timmy. Yeah, I was gonna say I pulled a couple of his as well. So one of those in a Josh Allen shadowbox thing. Let's make it happen, B-Doug. Let's make it happen, dude. I'd love to see a shadow sig of Allen. All right, so good luck here, everybody. Again, I'm gonna roll the dice. Whatever team's on top, we'll get the Pojun Wang. Or Pojun Wang. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11. Going to the Rockies. Going to the Rockies. Again, that's rocks. What's up, Adam? How you doing, buddy? All right, do a quick recap here. We had image variation, Kodai Senga. Drew Jones on the Ascensions. Salish Shimmer. Purple, or Magenta Shimmer. Uenio Suarez Gold. Kate Horton Gold. Orange Miguel Blades. Noel V. Marte. Arizona Fall League Relic. Oh, God, get this guy out of here. Beisados Diego Mosquera. US Varsalita. Jesus Bostitas. Ricardo Perez. Jesus Bougarin. Connor Stan. Yolanda Rivera. Juan Benjamin. Wickelman Gonzalez. Blade Tidwell. Trey Faltin. Javier Valdez, the 499, as well as Vincent Perrozo and Henry Ramos. 299. Victor Iscurus, 250. Roy Bersalinas, 200. Diego Mosquera. Yellows to 75. Jesus Galliz. Danny Serretti. Ricardo Olavar. And a true gold university. I'm doing a break, everyone. Thanks again for the fill. Up next, Cosmic.


This is all the breakfast and plus TV Africa. Thanks for staying with us Let's quickly take a look at the pages this morning and see what's making the rounds on the page on the front pages of a national dailies I mean to be very precise GD Johnson joins us Right here. GD is good to have you join us this morning Messy we want to talk to us all over the world. It's a pleasure to be with you. I'm just writing money And you you look great in your attire. I Am the I'm the October plus TV kingdom All right quickly, let's take a look at the Daily Trust newspaper this morning It talks about the MBS reports in security energy crisis plunge 133 Nigerians into poverty Insecurity energy crisis plunge 133 Nigerians into poverty 60 or 86 million in north and 47 in south Results with influence allocation of resources. That's what Buharis quoted to say skill acquisition not cash distribution will end Poverty that's what exporter quoted to say very interesting You also find another caption stash cash more governors on the radar EFCC chair I managed quoted to see and There's been a lot of whether or not, but we move on we'll move away from that parties Filed only 10.1 percent women candidates according to reports Yet, we still have several promises about the national gender policy and of course inclusive You know Projects of women in governance Bandits killed chief Imam to farmers in Sokoto very saddening governments intolerant Ordering disruption of campaigns IGP or Governors intolerance, of course seem to be an abbreviated one ahead of the 2023 elections Senate committee on covers 9.8 billion narrow in session in defense ministry budget Pt ad recovers 26.5 million pounds Colonial pension fund from the United Kingdom and there's also a pictorial representation you know of the MBS reports that talks about Nigerians in poverty 130 others saying 130 we million 63% there you have Nigerians are multi-dimensionally poor very very very unfortunate 65% that's that graph you find right there at the front page of a daily trust board Let's move our attention from the daily trust and quickly take a look at the punch newspaper hood looms attacks federal government soldiers DSS in INEC office nationwide I'd like to take that again hood looms attack federal government deploy soldiers DSS in INEC offices nationwide Security team to be drawn from army. Please DSS NSEDC fire service First rider you find another rider says governor's using thugs state security outfit to cost violence IG cries out US threatened to sanction candidate and politicians sponsoring violence campaigns quite interesting and This is right as you find now just poverty exceeds World Bank projection five states lead and 133 million Nigerians ranked poor in federal government leaders poverty index Economist slam government and demand effective policies Nigel narrow depreciation inflation erode workers of 25 trillionaire salaries and just for move away obese supporters protests alleged underage registration and vote buying plot. Well that has might also be confirmed by the former commissioner and Rec personal right there Egini Mike Egini 1 billion addition to defense budget uncovered minister query and You find looted funds EFCC puts more governors on the watch How delays costly-caught processes for straight families access to deceased savings More like an editorial, but that's the much we can take on the punch. We quickly turn our attention to This day newspaper Bauer says narrow redesign significant step to economic recovery Abdur-Shidh Bauer says more governors being monitored for stashed cash ICPC recovers 117 billion narrow in eight months Arraigned former customary court of appeal judge CBN directs banks to work on Saturdays to beat deadline for return of all the bank notes This is a right as you find right here underneath the caption of this day newspaper Moving away from that Another caption says South East businessmen support tinnables presidential bid with 1 billionaire More troubles for P&ID as firm owned by Danjima drags ex-partner to court over 40 million dollars loss Well, that's it on the this day newspaper and then we just look at the nation Before we have G.D. Johnson share his thoughts security chiefs we K attacks a Tico for criticizing Buhari Revers governor vows to remain in PDP fight vultures and scavengers or be outlines plan Another header says IG blames valence tension and governors Tinnable to make south east industrial hub first lady governor's wives rally for tinnable shatima in Ellori that choir state and Nigeria faces debt servicing challenges DMO weren't What I said this morning on the Nation newspaper less quickly have G.D. Johnson share his thoughts now and G.D. It's good to have you join us Well messy once again, it's nice During the platform with you this morning as well as with our peers over the world All right, the daily trust says that the insecurity energy crisis Plunge 133 million Nigerians into poverty. That's the latest report from the NBS quickly. We'll like to share your thoughts on that Well, it's that's just the Scott card. What ever spin The president administration wants to put on what it has done That is infrastructure over that they are winning the world the security and the rest of it It does not translate to human capital development of Nigerian writers for a push Nigerians into poverty because it's very if you have a situation where by 100 extreme million people are into poverty as a result of Pillar of government to do the needful to address two critical sector one the energy sector which is the main state of the Nigerian economy and two the security Sector which is what gives confidence hope to the people as well as to good local and foreign investor So that's just the Scott card of this present administration. There's no spin that can be put to it. They themselves have a knowledge They are failure with respect to that because whatever Policies they've done it has not translated into moving the people out of poverty that I have succeeded in pushing them Back into poverty if you see a story that is related to it when this government was embarking on this jump ring of sharing money bring to dust money of being all of this Donations and the vice president was busy John Kenting that he almost lost his life in the process Going to different markets and to different states giving up money or What the minister of monetary and services engaged in during the cove it thereby she herself was vertically and personally involved in the sharing of Financial resources as part of parcel of Kobe to leave when we have seen what it has done in terms of contributing to the inflation That we have I've also seen according to a spot that the skill acquisition is the only thing that can Stop the forwarding problem not cash distribution and when these are just basic EBC of economics. They are just the simple aspect of economics that we all learned why we are in secondary school So please is just clear that And I think these are the areas in which the media should set agenda in This code card of the present administration Is showing that one 32 million are pushing to be on the rhetoric is beyond populism Because why was elected on populism? Other presidents were elected on rhetorics. Do not and I have no shoes. We put into the story worry on populism our five poverty Beyond all of this because we have seen is the same style they will package themselves. Just like you package Products with our consumables or utility products. That's where we package the candidate So the same style they've used to package utility products and consumable products It is in their packaging all these candidates. They have using those strategy to package that beyond that we must ask them What are you going to do? These are facts. They are what are the three million people Nigerians in poverty? What are the things you are going to be doing to move that you have to poverty one to Two of the major causes of this particular issue is security. I want you going to address the issue of security What steps are you what's your blueprint three? What's your blueprint to solve in the energy crisis? These are the question we should be accent this presidential candidate But I've told people it doesn't matter where the president come from. I have gone beyond those a percent tweak sentiment Where ever the president come from? I Don't care. Where ever the president comes from as long as the president is doing the needful and is provided Unfortunately, in fact it is people who are the People of the president that suffered most under the presidency Go and ask Cassina people ask me who you know who state ask me point by us a state and let them tell you the experience of having the presidency coming to Biasa or coming to a state or coming to Cassina Well, I'm still on the daily trust newspaper That's also a report where the IG is concerned about the actions of the governor saying that they are intolerant and and Responsible for the interruptions of campaigns in various states They did he has police commissioner that reports to him that if police commissioners are practically the security officer In practical terms, but on paper it is the governor. That is the chief security officer. Now, what I see what I see He's a police commissioner doing for him. Then he has the IG's then he has the IG's in various zones Then the IG's for differences. So what are they doing? What intelligence are they getting? Now if the governors are using their thoughts because I know People reported that the governors are using their thoughts and they are using their state security to form in trouble This if the governor is not Prosecutable these individuals are prosecutable these individuals can be arrested. So beyond these two who should just signals these rhetorists That's just man enforce your law. We are not lost that these with this issue There's no doubt that the governors have demonstrated some level of entrainments And I think that there's a need for us to insert some certain process in our constitution I will be state Governor denied the opposition party the opportunity of making use of state utility. It is not his father's property It is not it is not his father's property. It is not his personal property It's not his personal company. He should have access to it is a public is a public property And this thing needs to be inserted if he's not inserted We need good lawyers to challenge these actions and that the courts will rule that on no account On no circumstance will the governor sitting of no deny the citizen of Nigeria the opportunity of making use of public utility It is a religious and if they are doing this They are there are officials of the state that are civil servants that can be arrested I'm persecuted But you should just see those of calling press conferences and telling us This the governor's there are people that can be arrested and there are people that can be prosecuted I mean there are cases there are cases where the governors some governors have made an excuse or have said that in order to use a public facility in a state they are Procedures I mean there are orders that need to be followed or requirements that should be met and in in in that situation What what do we then say? We need we need a protocol we need a protocol to put in place during compensation There should be a protocol a Protocol should be put in place during compensation and I think that this is where others take orders next to come in What the party should do is for them to come to the timetable Probably some distance people to I neck Which happens to be federal agency? I neck last is with Last is with the various other agents of government in August it's a PC. We'll be doing their own Rally also so so date a PDP NNPP and water so once you have that no govno can use an excuse to do that There is there's no govno. There's no sitting govno of the major parties that is not copybook There's no former govno that is not copybook of committing this NOS crime against the state and humanity Well, um, did a less let's look at the nation on the nation newspaper reverse governor vows to remain in the PDP and fights That's to fight the vultures and scavengers How do you describe this statement? especially when some persons are saying that you know governor yes, I'm we K is acting contrary to the party Ethics for instance, you want to describe his action over time as anti-party. You know what they have done to him They've just left him alone to continue dancing a smack macabre dancing in the in the as a particular saying Either does not know how to treat retreat But that doesn't want to retreat and went to advance will be consumed by war So that's just reality is Is the reason why we can still live on this because it's government. There have been many governors of river state That are larger than life and whoever is close to him needs to advise him The woman he loses the office of the government becomes irrelevant. That's reality There have been governors and governors in Nigeria, but generalists know as governors So it is is is using the platform of the state to do what he's doing And there's a saying that There's there's a level to which um, you can you can You see he's dancing like that center and those he has insulted is defending today those He is defending to do what those he insulted yesterday And those he's insulting to do what those he defended yesterday So he's just look I don't know those that are advising him In the I don't know those that are advising him I don't know do whether he seems to counsel But the reality of the marker is that by may 29 2023 it becomes irrelevant Whatever they have come of the presidential election if he does not know how to play the games You see there have been many there have been many governors even before him in river state pita of the lake Celestino mayor So you let him continue because as far as I am concerned What is the direction if you don't want to be part of a party you leave the party and go to another party And then if you want to be part of the party you become part of the party If if you have succeeded in winning the presidential candidate the presidential ticket of the party What would you see After that I watched the drama which he did I could recall that I must have invited them to To to a blector to talk about the PD when Peter of you was still there that he should support Peter of you We all knew the role he played So letting continue dancing is macabre dance is just that people that has people that are healing him They are healing him because it's the governor that's the reality They are not telling me to to let him listen and listen to the they are healing him because he has the Of the office of the government the man that is not there. He becomes irrelevant If they go to the new kids of luck I mean if we case involving Anti-party politics the fact that he's still in the pdp He has not He has not campaigned for any political for other political party one He has not voted people use this word anti-party loosely. He has not voted for another party So they use it. There's no doubt that is is not demonstrating Party loyalty. There's no doubt about that But what I want him to understand is very clear If you ask if you look from if you look from within I mean lots how many times have you seen fire me in the news again when he left the governor of akiti state Cardified how many times everything is about the eban g in ikitina How many times have you had anything about my malabuni? The moment he left the national chairman Of apc. Where is my my malabuni was the afan omega apc when he was the chairman of the strawberry conversion So wiki is just playing to the gallery. He's just dancing in a kaba dance.  You don't have people that to advise him This is a candid advice. He's not paying me then to give him counsel. He will become irrelevant mark my word after he leaves that office Nigerian politicians have no relevance the moment they live on is because they don't build structures They build structures around themselves Apart from wiki, who do you know in river state politics? For example in last eight years Can anybody mention the name of the deputy governor of river state? Okay Who is the deputy governor of river state? He was the state what he accuses people is what he does Like most governors are in Nigeria So the issue is because he has the resources and then he has the platform Then he invites all the media when the commission people are not asking what are the resources of the state They are using to pay for all the life transmission of those commissioning You spend no money on commissioning projects Than the one even used to to do the money they use for life transmission and life feed of all of those things people means to look at it is using State resources to promote and propagate his selfish agenda. That's the reality There's enough to which you can fight a cause And there's a there's a level and there's a limit to it He's using his personal resources once the state resources not there. He will not be relevant mark my word And he wants to engage in debate We could have the debate if he's interested I like how everyone just you know Trows that challenge to having public debates but It's so much to grapple with because at the end of the what happens at the party level trickles down You know to the entire country and so we begin to see the impunity We we say Right here that Even at the party level democracy should be respected there should be You know some form of Respect for lore and what of you and we've we don't entroned those tenets then what do we have? You know at the largest space when you say you become a governor from such a situation But quickly on the punch newspaper Quickly on the punch newspaper And hoodlums attack the federal government deploys soldiers dss in inac offices nationwide And some persons have described this action and response are very reactive Saying that the government has always been reactive to you know situation rather than being proactive But what are your thoughts especially when there are reports that 41 offices have been on have been attacked so far You know within the period of time Last week we discussed this if you recall And we discussed it last week Friday And save your seven coffee when we are reviewing this particular issue This is this should it will make news Because this should have been what government should have done in the first instance without letting anybody know that it deployed security What security agencies to protect critical infrastructure the critical infrastructure of democracy Is the election and the body that is charged with the responsibility of conducting the election It's who determines who governs the state zone Well, it's it's a step To too late but not too late is a step in the right direction Which could have been taken earlier and we hope that that Will be further reinforced and that will protect the critical infrastructure relating to the election as well as i'm concerned When we pointed issues for government to address and they take step to address it They should be they should be commended corresponding to to public opinion to To to public Suggestion so we we've all said it that there's a need for the military And then other security agencies to protect the critical infrastructure relating to to the to the election Not only that and those that have done this we need to arrest them and prosecute them No, but but jidya johnson Yeah, that's that's that's also. No, I mean no one is actually saying that the government should not be commended for all of her Response and our actions to some of the issues or public outcry But you know, this is not the first time this is happening We've had cases of attacks on The offices of the umpires sat with the responsibility of conducting elections And if we sit back and begin to think as people then we'll understand that the the polity is heated in security Seem to be a major issue that has trickled down to affect every order sector of the country One would expect that we should be on top of the situation Reacting before those elements non-state actors begin to take action. We should know what to do So, I mean you are talking about defense now So in football you say the best firm form of, you know attack is defense. So you you you probably I hope I got that correctly So you you should we should be able to be able to put our acts together Rather than waiting for things to happen and then we'll respond We need something I agree with you. I agree with gene brutality Now when you respond you also need to take steps to To prosecute those that have committed infractions. That's just it. That's that's that's That's my take all the ones that all the attacks that have been carried out. They were not carried out by ghosts. They were not carried out by Indians They were carried out by human beings and these human beings can be trapped And they can be trapped and they can be located and if they are trapped and they are located they should be prosecuted Now the IG said Governors are using their talks and state security are to format violence. That means that they have intelligence to that effect Why don't you process the intelligence and enforce the law with respect to those that you have captured in the legends report Which you have why why if you can if for example, you can't prosecute Governors Because they have they have immunity, but you can you can you can't publish them You take them to the court of public opinion Let court of public opinion judge them That's simple. If the court of law cannot deal with those ones Let the court of public opinion. You have them. You name the governors. They're governors. Who are the governors? You name the governors of these states that are involved And probably after the leave office Just like EFCC goes after them after the leave office You can go after them after the leave office and prosecute them We have a situation of a senator A sitting senator who happens to be a governor sitting governor and his election result was declared under duress Till date is still a sitting senator That election was not modified. Well, GD we have to go now. Let's do this next Friday GD Johnson Yeah, it's a pleasure to be with you Always a pleasure to be with you As long as you are interested in us doing it we keep doing it all the time And that's the size of our conversation this morning and after press with GD Johnson We'll take a break and when we return we'll just be looking at the first conversation on the show Beautiful Friday morning. Please stay with us