A lot of this, like, intergender dysfunction is a consequence of white supremacy's effort to keep us divided so we're easier to conquer. So in Africa, they did it by separating people by tribes, creating arbitrary countries where they really didn't need to be. And then instead of Africa speaking with one voice, Nigeria saying one thing, Ghana saying one thing, Liberia saying another thing, but then within the Black family, they use feminism to lure Black women away from civil rights. So now I'm going to identify primarily with my womanhood outside, I mean, instead of my blackness, right?  Is it better for you to sell one house to a family or two houses to two single people? Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. So there's an incentive, there's literally a financial incentive for the power structure, whether we're talking about white supremacy or just like capitalism, to keep people individualistic, to keep people focused on happiness and what's in my best interest and romance and the options that I have as opposed to us coming together for a greater purpose. And I think that plays out with the racial, not the racial, but ethnic divide between Black people of the diaspora, especially my red light is bigger than I thought it would be.  Because even like, Manasphere Niggas, sometimes they're too afraid to say what's wrong with the Manasphere. They can't even criticize Kevin. And similarly, on the female side, there's a lot of women that they'll repost.  So that's my biggest thing, man. What's your thoughts on the pink pill? By besting? Not necessarily, I'm not sure if that's what it is, but I know I've seen a MCR post about it once. I'm by the pink pill, showed a clip of it, and it was Helm, it was Auburn Preach. Yeah. But the woman was spitting, it was like, you know, you have to, pretty much it was like all about her. And then... Like the sprinkle, sprinkle lady? Her too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, if I'm being real, I think it's all under the same umbrella of divesting. It's all under the same umbrella of, as a woman, my job is to just exist, live a soft life. And you know, my dude should trick over me.  But people don't look at it that way. But pink pill though, it started with Crystal Kersen. Yeah. First of all. But ironically, she got a divorce from her white husband, you know. But we don't hear those stories. Of course you don't. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, man, I think also with a lot of these girls growing up without fathers, they feel like they don't need men. So if they're going to tolerate us, the least we can do is trick on them. I see another angle. I didn't say that that one is not true. I was watching, I stayed away from this show since this inception, but I only got into it. I was repotting my plant on Sunday. Shout out to Chris Kelly. Black man, he owns a shop, came out of COVID. So as I'm repotting it, I saw the show called Wrapshit. And I was like, all right, let me go ahead and get this shot. Love, Easter egg. She's actually the way I want to pitch to. And about like the eighth episode, like at first, like you got the main quote unquote character. And she's a very straightforward down on her luck. She wants to be an artist, but she's very conscious. Over the course of eight episodes, her other friend that started off as like a stripper, reform prostitute, when he got to a rap group, then you see based on their love life, they begin to switch. The reform prostitute, she go, I'm saying these names because I can't remember the names. But because of what her child is going through and what her child is trying to get was doing between her and her baby's father. Now she's starting to question like, maybe I should give him another chance because he's starting to change around too. Because he's giving in to actually leaning on somebody else when life is starting to hit him. Like, you know, nobody's looking out for him or whatever.  I'm going to pay your card though. So the more he's opening up, accepting help, and the more the daughter is showing like, I want you all to be together. On the other side, the main character, she just got her, by her boyfriend, the one that looks to be doing right. Now she's turned the side work. But there was a point in the story at like, I don't understand, ninth episode, old girl that has a child.  Is he trying to take me on a date? The main character was like, yeah, but don't you go for it? I leave him alone. She just got out of a painful relationship. The way that he did her like on Instagram Live, I'm not supporting her. And now she's messing with this Caribbean dude that's been trying to get hers from the jump. So a fabulous, a dope lyric. He got a lot of cordobos, but it's called Friends of Foes or something like that. Bad if you're watching this, I'm sorry. But he was like, I heard Femalyn, the whole friend is a bad team. And I've experienced that personally before. It was all good until one of her friends got into a situation and started saying, well, he doing X, Y, and Z and it wasn't causing to make a decision. And everybody's like, what's wrong with you? And I was like, I ain't had a signal and you already know what it was. So I see that a lot more. I get the, you know, not growing up with a father in the house. But I'll see the other part where your friends can also- The competition piece. Yes. They're looking at it and they're pouring their season to it because they're a trusted source. And she's like, well, maybe you're right. And I believe I see that more often than not versus the no father in the house. That's a good point. Because I've talked to someone with the father in the house and she, it's like- She still has that same mindset? She's hard. Like, my sister. And that's what I was going to say. It's both. My sister, I think it's not- When I say no father, I don't necessarily mean like a complete absent father. Sometimes I mean absent minded. Like not hands on involved. Like my dad wasn't hands on involved. He was there.   He didn't tell me about women, money, nothing. Yeah. So I think similarly, a lot of the people who are setting the cultural trends, right, musicians, actors, this and that, they're coming from those single mother or no father or absent father or absentee, mentally father environment. So in their mind, it already cheapens the value of men.  We don't really need y'all. And I think all that feeds into this sense of, well, if we're going to use y'all, y'all need to be making yourselves useful because you don't have any intrinsic value in my life. I can get my own money. You know what I'm saying? I can, the government is going to protect me. I can live by myself. So you got to be tricky or else what's the point?  Because they set the bar so high if you're not doing what my dad did, even though I'm his responsibility, if you're not doing that day one, then you're not. You know what I'm saying? And it's like, come on now, be reasonable. Be reasonable. When I was growing up, I would say the old Jesus in the neighborhood, they'll be the ones correcting. When the father was in there, they were the ones that corrected us. I've had someone I try to join again. I was like, bro, this ain't for you. Another one of my friends, he was like, man, you're the pookie of the neighborhood. I mean, not the pookie. Whatever the character was in Boys in the Hood, they're going to kill me for this. You talking about Ice Cube's character? Not Ice Cube, but the good brother. The good son. Cuba? Cuba's character? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuba's good as a character. He was like, nah, you him on the hood. You got to make it out. You can't do this, but... This ain't what you want. This ain't it. So around the late 90s, early 2000s, all of them getting locked up, pulled out. I mean, he even took your wings. He got pulled out not because of what, necessarily what he did, but what he was about to do. He was about to unify everybody. That's not a good thing. Well, in the enemy's side. Right. The ones that's going against us. Right. So all of them are going. I just had people that's learning from rap. Yeah. True story. True story. I was looking... There was a Jewel Santana song. Yeah. That legit taught you.  I tried it. Mom, I'm sorry. I tried to do it to impress some girl. And luckily, Body Grace and God didn't work out. But that was my... I was like, I need to impress this and need to do that. I'm going to learn from Jewels. He's teaching us how to do it. So, it's that, you know, I can't go to my... I can't go to my next man to learn or get on with what he's doing. Right. Because he's trying to do something else. And it's kind of intuitive to what people think I should be doing. And to that point, like... What I've been kind of telling women recently is like, y'all don't give yourselves enough credit. Like, what y'all think girl power is, is really boy power. This is being manifested by a woman, right? Real girl power and real women's power is in their ability to regulate the type of men or the type of male behavior that we see proliferate, right? Because just like you said, there are a lot of dudes who, the reason why they got into a certain lifestyle is because they saw that was what was going to get them the type of results that they want with women the whole nine. Or even status among men to get women. You see what I'm saying? And then on top of that, when women in our community unfortunately choose to continue to replicate a certain archetype of black men, not only do we see more of those black men because the apple tends to not fall too far from the tree, especially if you're raising it in that same soil, right? The same hood, same environment the whole nine. But not only that, even the brothers like me and you, it tells us that if we want that outcome, which means progeny, which means legacy and things like that, I have to make myself, or at least make myself appear like the men that I'm seeing successful in this ultimate mating endeavor, which is what every species is trying to do. So now you're having the pookies and ray-rays as we call them, literally replicated, but then you're having the Russells turn themselves into futures to compete. Right. So over time, women's demand has caused an overabundance of shitty dudes. And a scarcity of really good men. And then nowadays, the good dudes are not saying, okay, I'm going to turn into future. Oh, I'm going to get my passport. Yeah. They're taking a whole different route. They're taking a whole different route, but the result is the same. You know, I haven't been a fan of... I don't have as much of a problem with passport bros as I do save yourself, Black Man, that movement. Save yourself, Black Man. Yeah, SYSBM. That's a new one in my ears. Yeah, yeah. I would say that was probably the foundation of passport bros. But the reason I don't mind passport bros is like, yo, if you're going to South Africa, I don't blame you. If you're going to Nigeria, bro, have you seen those bros? I've seen them. I've seen them recently. If you're keeping it black, I don't blame you at all. Man, you put up a slasher. Yo. Listen. Yo. Listen. Listen.   We have to anticipate problems. Like I talk about all the time. To provide or protect work for them, you have to kind of be pessimistic. If you're going to be a bodyguard, you have to anticipate there is a mugger on every single corner. So with that being said to your point, the dudes in Colombia, they're coming back and saying, oh no, it's a bunch of single mothers over there. However, which is the part that I think our women kind of gloss over in the States is like, even though they're single mothers in other places, they still have those intangibles that men here are complaining about. Because even Kevin Sammonds would say, men will go down in looks to go up in cooperation. Yes. Men will go down in, oh, you got kids to go up in cooperation. Yes. I don't know if our women are thinking about competition on an international stage. I don't think they're thinking of Colombian women want our men too. South African women want our men too. Are we being competitive? Because guess what? Men are running to Thailand to find wives, to Colombia to find wives, to some other places to find wives. Are men running to the United States to find wives? No. The answer is no. If they come here, they already got a wife with them.   What you're not acknowledging is like, you speak one language, she speaks five. You know what I'm saying? You got your bachelor, she might have her masters.  And it's like, that's also some of that American condescension. But, like I was talking to Courtney Michelle today, I was like, yo, we got to evolve. This conversation passed just saying, oh, these niggas don't get no hoes.  Right. It's not that simple. There's a question I commonly ask when I maybe talk to them with a homegirl of mine or even somebody I may be interested in and they want to take a shot at a more deaf perception of me. And I usually ask them when they say something similar to I'm trying to figure out what I want to do. That's a common one. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do. Similar from a funny one. Maybe like, yo, this is working stuff. I just find it funny. This working stuff is ghetto. I'm trying to get like, I believe in some general hoes. I'm just trying to be at the house. And I usually ask them like, so what is it that you want to contribute to life? What is it that you want to contribute to society? And that usually, it's like a very balanced question where there's no offense that can be taken and it makes you go, hmm, I mean, it's a question I ask myself one time. When I was down in my luck, I said, what is it that I actually want to do? A legacy. Right. And I just throw that to them. And it usually goes around, I've only met like a couple that were like super duper career women oriented. But most of them it was just kind of boils down to some of the basics. Yeah. I want a nice man. I want a home. I want to be able to do X, Y, and Z. But the path you're taking is completely, as you said earlier, masculine, we're like man prowess. Stuff that we can, I believe that we naturally just take on. My thing though is like, there's this prevailing idea among women in general, but I would say black women in particular, that when it happens, I don't know. And what I mean by that specifically is when I meet a man who is dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, then I'll become dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. When I meet a masculine man, I'll become soft.  And it's like, yo, you talking about getting to the league, but you're not even on your high school basketball team yet. You talking about getting to the league, but you don't even work out. You know what I'm saying? And it's this fairy tale kind of idea that I'm every woman that's all in me. And it's like, no, it's not. It's not all in you. You don't know how to, this isn't about magic. This is about competence. The caliber of man that you're asking for, he has requirements. He has standards.  And even if, like, let's say you find a wolf of Wall Street type nigga. And even if your job, you got to cook the whole night and your job is to be pretty. No, your job is to get him deals as well. When he takes you to the government, to the governors ball, are you the person who can finesse a room and give him in front of the right people? You move in areas that I can't. Come on now. And you're not in practice doing that. What you're in practice doing is my job.  If I'm Karee, am I trying to draft another point guard for the center? So learn how to rebound. Don't worry about dribbling the ball. Like, that's me. I got you.  Like somebody DM me today, it was like, yo, is that just somebody I went to middle school with? It was like, yo, I've been watching your stuff, man.  I don't know why yet. I asked him why he hasn't responded yet, but I'm like, God, hell. That's a lot of freakin' weight. That's heavy. But I think the main thing though is like, and I think for better or worse, even with my critiques of Kevin Samuels, what he did was he, Loki gave men permission to express themselves. Yes, he did. In a world that doesn't want us to, right?  It's nice to see a brother actually like, be intelligent and articulate himself. So when I see other brothers doing it, brother, however I can help, however I can support, man. That's the type of time I'm on. That's what, once I'm getting, that's what we're talking. And he was shook up like, nah, I do agree with him though. He was like, yeah, all these, all these women out here talking about something, the alpha woman, the alpha, whew. And he was going against the whole thing of, that's not a thing. These, you know, pressing on archetypes, I mean, I do agree to archetypes in some form or fashion, like there's something that you identify with the building one. But to make your whole identity after just these pre-set of things, you're limiting yourself. So he disagreed with me, but I was stating, I may disagree with, you know, Midtown and all that kind of stuff, but I understand why they exist. There's a place needed for them. It's just, when you stay in it for too long, that's what the issue is. In fact, my brother, he stayed in it too long one time.   I was again, but there's like another set. Like you have to, you have to get out. You're an echo chamber. Yeah. At that point. So to your point, I understand why they exist. It's needed. They got to get it out. I just believe there's not like the next stage for them right now. That's what I'm trying to be. Because in the thing, I've been talking about the most recently. And I talked about this with Tyrese. I talked about this with Zion. Even with Will Smith. Like, we are creating these women. Like literally following these women, right? But more than everything, more than anything, we're the ones incentivizing their behavior. We are. Who pays for OnlyFans? Men. Who built OnlyFans? Men. You see what I'm saying? You lose, like I was talking about Tinder Select the other day. Ain't no woman signing up for that. $500 a month for matches. Hell no. That's men. That's going to be sugar dead. It's going to be tricks.  So if we starve the demand, the supply will starve. But we think that women are supposed to make these changes independent of the fact that we reward them for how they are currently. Because we know it's easier, at least those who get bitches. We understand it's easier to sleep with women now than it's ever been. So it's like a part of me still wants them to hold on to some of that independent, modern girl, you know. So like we got to make our minds up, man. Do we want better kids and daughters? Or do we just want easy access? Easy access is going to get dead after a while.  And he don't really care the pain no more. What are we doing? We're at fault. Yeah. And again, that doesn't, because I see the two extremes of this. Like one extreme is like, you know, the Eve, I guess the Eve paradigm. It's all they fault. They were a curse and this, this and that. Lilith and all that good stuff. But then the other side is like, it's all men's fault. And it's like, both things have to happen. Like just like I was saying, women have to incentivize better types of men. Yeah. But men also have to set more boundaries. Two things can be true at the same time. We don't talk about the dudes who were calling Kevin Sam in the show. What you do for a living? I don't really have a job right now. You know what I'm saying? I'm on my mama's couch. We don't talk about that. This man obliterated men. Listen. It was kind of hard to listen to, but I was like, God damn. You see, they needed to hear that though. Yeah, they did. Women on the other hand, and this is my critique of Kevin Sam. God rest his soul. I've been doing this since college. You know, 2013. Women don't receive, I'm talking about from my mom, from my sisters, from women I've interviewed, from women in school, women I've dated. Women don't receive it that way, bro. So it ends up just being catharsis. Yeah. And domination porn for the men in red pill rage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? And that's been my critique of some even female creators, because like, you're not talking to women. Yeah. You're not, because they're not listening to that. Let's be real. Yeah.  Women ain't clicking on men. You're talking to men. So tell the truth. And then you have some of them selling testosterone. Yeah. I saw that. I was shocked. I'm like, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Name no names. Mm-hmm. Okay. So you said, this is what you want to do for the, do for the men is to make that the next stage. Why? It has to be a, a selfish point of this somewhere. Then the next stage, as far as like, us taking ownership? Or just like, when they, when they are in that red pill environment, and then it comes to that point, it got to, well, as you said, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it got to, well, as you said earlier, eat raw.  Mm-hmm. Why? Red pill rage is dangerous, bro. First and foremost. Mm-hmm. When women are angry, my foot's going to be cussed out.  Mm-hmm. But men are angry. People can potentially die. Mm-hmm. Like in sales, dangerous. Red pill rage, even the government is investigating this this aspect of the internet right now. And unfortunately, what they're not doing is making the distinction between you know, pressure fit and me, right? But ultimately like, for me it boils down to internal locus of control and external. And I think a lot of red pill rage keeps you in this sense of I'm the victim here. There's nothing I can do. It's everybody else's fault. So resentment builds and it disempowers you. And as a man, powers everything for us. So for me, it's actually changing the paradigm and being like, yo, you ain't gotta tolerate that girl.  You, even with the yellow flags project, how can you be proactive in analyzing her? How can you be proactive in discerning, if you guys work, right? Like I talk about rose-colored glasses.  For women, it's the opposite. For women, it's like, okay, what's wrong with this dude? Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Then it's like, oh, I love him and I don't know what's wrong with it. Throw it switches, right? So I'm trying to encourage men like, yo, get in the habit of taking that off. Get in the habit of thinking about, will I like her past hidden? Will I like her past opposite? Will I like her past this newness and the novelty of I'm impressing this girl and she fine and she likes me and this is, is this sustainable? You know, think about it like an employer. Think about it like a business owner. I don't just need you to help me take nice pictures for the company website. I need you to be able to fulfill these tasks as they're laid out by your job description, as they are intended by the gap that this company needs to fill from a skill set, from a competence standpoint. Right, right, right. I need a mother to my children. I need a grandmother to my grandchildren. I need somebody who can carry on my legacy if for some reason I have to go to prison or I go to the grade. Your looks ain't gonna do that. It's cool, it's cool, but it's not gonna do that. So for me, it's about, and unfortunately, most men don't get to that point until you experience a lot of women and you realize they're not sugar and spice and everything nice. But if you haven't done that, you're liking this. I'm old this and I didn't get it. So I'm like, yo, if I could translate that to them, like these dudes who want models, you don't want a model, bro. You don't, you don't want a model like they find, they look good. In my experience, any woman over a nine, cuckoo. And it's not even a fault.  You know, if you're being rewarded for one aspect of your personality, you have no incentive to develop others. If you have a killer crossover, you're not working on your jump shot. You're not even coming to practice low-key. You know, so that's what happens with them. But again, men aren't thinking about this.  I was told this is like, and it's like, no, it's more than that. Yeah. It was a complex, man. It's complex, man. It's chess, it's chess, bro. But for a long time, I think it's been at least in the mannish sphere. It's kind of been the blind leading the blind in a way. Like men who are not networked with women. Men who don't have res for real. So they're just re-articulating the grievances of other men like that. As opposed to men on the other side or men who, I consider myself, somebody's been on the fence. Like I've stepped into this world, but I've also stepped into that world. So articulate to you that like, yo, it ain't what you think it is. It's not at all what you think it is, what you think you're missing out. You're really not. And I understand the companionship shit, but like also understand your peace. Also understand that as a man, you need to get comfortable being by yourself. For sure. Because that's what makes a woman respect you. Just like a negotiation. If I came to buy your car, right? And I give you a price for the car. You don't want the car. I mean, you don't want to sell it at that price. And I say, well, it was great meeting you. Have a nice day. I'm welcome. Hold on, hold on. Let's rethink it. But if you like, okay, how about this? How about this? How about this? I'm desperate. So you might even end up selling it to me at a higher price than you intended on in the first place. That's what's happening with these men. Now these women saying, I want $300 dates.  And men are like, I'm going to meet that demand. And it's like, are you seeing the niggas who are women? They're not meeting that demand. They're not emotionally intelligent. They're not financially well off, whatever the case may be.  And we can continue to blame the women, but like, it's more than that, man. Way more than that. Way more than that.


So let's hear from where you stop the changes you've observed from your situation room across the country on the political space. Okay, I think we should just dive into what is happening in river states. The elections in river states apparently was fraught with irregularities. Terrible irregularities from areas of political opponents, which started at the eve of the election and then sporadic shooting in places like Obakri, Emova, because the people were reacting to such political arrays of the opposition and in that sense a signal of violence. Then on the day of the election proper, which is the 18th, we had issues of late arrival of material in some pulling units, although to be fair, I think there was improvements in arrival of materials in most of the wards in river states. However, a certain wards in a local government called Kana Local Government and a community called Quian Community Ward 18, the materials did not arrive in time and when the materials eventually arrived, it was just in one pulling unit. In Aceritoru elections did not hold on the 18th, we had that rerun election yesterday, that's why as declaration of results are out, we have not gotten the result from ourselves. Then on the election day, there were reported cases of snatching of the beavers and also there were beavers that came to places like Ishopu Ward 1 and Ward 2 and those beavers did not have sim card in them and that also triggered some kind of conflict and unrest because people were keen to see that the results were transmitted. Funny enough, when it was getting to the end of voting, we started noticing snatching of materials by some woodlums in virtually all the pulling units in river states, that's in Fauga, in Ubiapo, in Kana, so we got the reports in virtually all the pulling units. In virtually all the pulling units. Virtually all the pulling units, virtually all the wards, sorry, we got that kind of reports of snatching of ballad buses. So the irregularities were monumental. We had cases where local government chairmen, especially in M.O., local government chairmen moved with the police and woodlums, especially in Ward 10 in M.O., and cut away all the materials, did not allow the people to vote yet. We got results from such pulling units. Now, some party agents like XDB in Fauga that tried to resist such activities of rigging were shot dead. That was in Fauga. In Ahoda, there was also an incident of an ABC person shot dead, then in Ikwere, local government area, where a place called Bikelele, Ward 3, Unit 1, a certain ABC agent was demanding, he was demanding for the results sheets so that he would be sure that results would be transmitted. The PDB reported him to a vigilante force which should not be part of the election called USPAC. And USPAC began to march at him and eventually he was rushed to a police station. In fact, in River State, we were shot when we started receiving reports from Fauga, Ward 6 and Ward 7, places called Marine Base, Cemetery and Borukiri, where youths believed to be called to be carried kins. The kins you used to flog your children, they carried kins and they didn't vote us. If you don't vote for the PDB, we will flog you. So we escalated this matter to the police and when we escalated the matter to the police, the police eventually went to the scene at Ward 7 but we even saw a video from our field tracker because we had about 149 field trackers on the field. So we got a video from them showing that these talks or suspected counties have collected back the kins from the police officers and you can imagine the level of intimidation and that led to low turnout of voters and people were afraid to even come out and vote for the party of their conscience. So these reports were just virtually everywhere. Then we also received reports of vote buying. Now if you notice where results in River State are collated presently, you'll find out that each result that came from each local government, there was context. Here's context by the party agents stating irregularities. So the question is, is it only an incident of over quoting that results should be cancelled in a polling unit? How about situations where you've seen that a human being has been murdered, we're trying to defend the vote in a polling unit. Shouldn't you cancel and have a rerun in such polling units? Do you understand what I'm saying? And also places where votes were not counted and the ballot buses snatched? Shouldn't we have cancellation or rerun in such polling units? So those are the questions we are asking INEC because we also went out from our situation room to the field and when we got to the field around the room in pre-con axis, the governor's stronghold, we saw some young men in three saloon cars that were not branded INEC. They were carrying, they had ballot boxes. How did we know? They got to the middle of the road and they were moving the ballot boxes from one saloon car to another. They were not with any INEC official or ad hoc stack in that car. And then when they got to a military checkpoint where we thought that they should be arrested, what we saw was that they couldn't join them and cut the material to an unknown destination. So we raised alarm called the various media station called INEC and we told them this is what is happening. So given the level of irregularity in the elections in reverse state, one wonders why INEC will be in a hurry to start pushing this up to the public as if the elections were without irregularities or as if the elections were properly conducted. Courage in city mobile. Thank you so much for this update. Those questions raised are very, very serious questions that we will need INEC to answer.


So let's start with flour plain old wheat flour. It's in everything so it's got to be good for you, right? flour is loaded with lectins and Now with the advent of really useful leaky gut tests that I have available and others have available I am more and more and more amazed that our sense that Gluten causes leaky gut and the other components of wheat cause leaky gut is is borne out every day Hockey player National Hockey League NHL hockey player who developed out of the blue ulcerative colitis and He's lost over 70 pounds and is is off right now and When we tested him for leaky gut This guy wildly reacts to all the components of wheat wheat germ aglutin in which is the haul all the different components of gluten and he reacts to the 25 to 30 percent of proteins in wheat that are non-gluten and he just lights it up and The good news is I just talked to him actually yesterday He is now making actually a dramatic recovery After we took these things away from him It's so much so that he's going to spend the summer actually teaching Hockey in Canada between seasons and he were hopeful that he's going to make a full recovery for for next year's season So It's not the good stuff like you and I used to know So it's pretty rare to come across a dessert recipe without some kind of flour in it So what can you do just well? I'm not going to do that anymore. Well, frankly, it depends on what you're cooking So let me give you a few tips My recipe developer Kate and I For the last three years more than three years now have been Figuring our way around this arena We have a lot of wonderful Recipes in our various cookbooks and books We have a lot of people who have taken the lectin free lifestyle to heart Then I'll mention those as we go along and there's actually a lot of products out there That didn't even exist three years ago when the plant paradox started so for cookies The best combination is almond flour and coconut flour plus a little xanthan gum for structure Now if you do without the xanthan gum, you'll you'll get a drier more crumbly cookie And quite frankly a lot of people like a drier crumbly cookie So the fun stuff is these are becoming easier and easier to find even in most supermarkets You don't necessarily have to go to a specialty store anymore You don't necessarily have to go on amazon or thrive market But these things are getting more and more available Now for cakes Almond flour and coconut flour make a really a nice dense cake like for instance like our olive oil cake Now if you want you can add millet flour and tapioca starch for a fluffier cake That quite frankly gets pretty close to a traditional birthday cake And again, it's really kind of fun to see you know if you're after a single layer cake a pancake Like our olive oil cake then almond flour and coconut flour is really going to make a really nice dense cake Now how about for pie well almond flour and tapioca starch Actually do make a nice flaky crust It'll likely be a little more delicate than a traditional pie crust But the flavor is actually fantastic and it's kind of fun to fool family and friends and they go Oh, you know, this is this is a really great pie crust, you know, what's in it? And then you you tell them like what? Now there's always alternatives to almond flour for those that are allergic And there's now a number of flowers that I've experimented with that Kate's experimented with Certainly they're harder to find But think about hazelnut flour. It's getting more and more available If you're have a nut allergy tiger nuts are not nuts Even though the word sounds like a nut. They're actually a tuber You can find tiger nut flour. I think it's great to work with Green banana flour is available There's a lot of things to like about green banana flour But it's still one of the harder flowers to find But look around I particularly like chestnut flour There's a lot of chestnut flour recipes that are used in Italy You can usually do a one-to-one swap with chestnut flour for almond flour Again, it's a little harder to find Some chinese groceries have them some italian groceries particularly traditional italian groceries. That's where I get mine so Half the fun is trial and error and get the family involved try two or three different versions simultaneously, but it's really great fun to experiment with this and Some of my best moments growing up was experimenting with recipes with with my mother in the kitchen And we just had a great time and yeah Sometimes the batch was a disaster and you'd have a good laugh over it. Well, we won't be doing that again So you can also Do some fun stuff to make a crumb style crust with dried figs and pulse nuts Just be careful with the dried figs or dates because they do have Really concentrated fruit toast content. So just be aware And you just press this crust into a pan All right, brad So brad is where it gets really interesting because you really do need something to give it that gluteny stretch Which is really why we're so addicted to gluten in the first place It gives structure it gives stretch and it's also because of the ability to stretch It makes it light and fluffy So we've we've played a lot with this. I like psyllium husk for this stretch And if you mix it with water, it forms a really gloppy paste that really does work great instead of gluten Now I like a mix of flax and millet flour for structure And tapioca starch and arrowroot starch to create that fluffy texture Now you can often substitute any of these flowers one to one with regular flour, but don't try one individually It's just your it's not going to work. Um, you really have to get multiple flowers And Right now there isn't a perfect lectin light flour. That's a perfect swap for regular old all-purpose Baking flour for a lot of things I find like two-thirds Almond flour one-third either coconut flour or tapioca starch And a pinch of xanthan gum works really pretty well. Okay. So what about sugar?  Well, like I said, I have a big sweet tooth But there are always ways to satisfy your sweet tooth without packing on the pounds And the good news is that there are a lot of healthy sugar substitutes that are actually becoming widely available So one of my baking go-to is a one-for-one monk fruit sweetener Like the Lakonto brand which is now available in a lot of regular grocery stores And it's even in Costco now And by the way, they make a great maple syrup substitute That's a great use instead of corn syrup based maple syrups And it's perfectly great on our pancake recipes from the book And even if you want to find one of the widely available Paleo or keto pancake recipes that are prepackaged that are also in Costco now My grandkids love Lakonto maple syrup on their pancakes that they make from our recipes And so, you know, if they can't tell the difference, believe me, you won't be able to tell the difference And it's actually good for you Now you can also use things like xylitol, erythritol, stevia, pure monk fruit, and even agave inulin Now please do not confuse agave inulin with agave syrup Agave syrup is pure fructose And I see all these sites that say, you know, paleo friendly or keto friendly And they've got a half a cup or a cup of agave syrup in it Or for that matter, a half a cup of maple syrup in it I got news for you. There is no way that that's keto friendly. It's pure fructose. So please Don't be misled by agave syrup There is a great inulin based sweetener, which is a little hard to find called just like sugar But you can use that one for one in recipes to replace sugar and it works really well in baking There's another new sweetener that's becoming more available called allulose It works well Dave Asprey and I are actually fond of allulose with the proviso that so far Most allulose seems to be coming from corn And he and I are on the lookout for non-corn based allulose We'll we'll keep your we'll tell you when we find it He's actually I think trying to get a company interested in making it.   But please use French or italian or Switzerland butter. They're actually becoming easier and easier to find We're beginning to see a two butter products in the stores. There's now some a two yogurt that's propping up So people are beginning to recognize that there is a difference between a two and a one casein So look for it. It's available Don't be misled by all the advertising that this is grass fed butter Most of the cows sadly in the united states are a one cows.  They're normally fed But it's now pretty easy to find italian butter Or french butter. Costco even has italian butter. So it's easier to find Now extracts the no extract almond extracts are definitely your friend Mint extracts is great with chocolate A word of interesting warning as I have mentioned I do a lot of leaky gut tests and a lot of food sensitivity test And in some of my really difficult patients with a really difficult leaky gut and autoimmune disease I'm finding A handful actually more than a handful that react to vanilla bean And they react to Almond even almond flour So i'm not saying please avoid vanilla extract Please avoid almonds, but make sure your almond flour is blanched almond flour not the stuff that still has the skins and if You want to check try and and you're suspicious about vanilla as a culprit Try a imitation vanilla extract and just see if you notice a difference Now is there a healthy shortening? Well, really coconut oil Is probably the best alternative If you can find red palm oil, which is made from the palm fruit Rather than palm oil, which is made from the kernel Red palm oil actually has tremendous amounts of polyphenols And it's full of toco-triennals the really important compound component of vitamin e So those tocoferols and toco-triennals and so red palm fruit Shortening actually is it's one of your better choices and Usually you got to go to a health food store or find that online. It's it's not readily available yet Now instead of you using vegetable oil Use avocado oil. It has a very neutral flavor Uh if make an olive oil cake I've been really playing with plain sesame oil not toasted sesame oil And I got to say, uh, it's my new Go-to oil for a number of reasons that you're going to learn about in the energy paradox It has an absolute neutral flavor when you toast it. It has that you know, really great toasted sesame flavor But plain sesame oil has an absolute neutral flavor. So, you know experiment the solid a season and give it a try Okay, so that covers the big ingredients, but what about the mix-ins? Well, you know extracts vanilla almond extracts or your friend mint extract is great with chocolate I love citrus zest It's loaded with polyphenols number one And actually citrus pith the white pith that's right under the zest has some of the best sources of Cure-sitin, which is really one of the best plant-based antihistamines. There is so don't be afraid of actually Putting some of that citrus pith in Chocolate as an add-in the darker the better particularly if you're making chocolate chip cookies or any chocolate Just kick up, you know start with 72 and work your way up We're rapidly seeing Stevia sweetened chocolate bars. There's a number I'll give a shout out to my hometown company of lilies in santa barbara. I have no relationship with them But hometown success story But there's a number of ones that are now coming out with either stevia or monk fruit base And there's they're well worth your you're trying them You do have to be careful particularly with erythritol Or xylitol based sweetener in chocolate Too much of these often give people abdominal cramps and quite frankly diarrhea And maybe that's just telling you you're eating too many of those bars and maybe you ought to cut back More amazing episodes just like this one watch now sugar And no, there's no such thing as good for you or healthier sugar Sugar is sugar and that goes for coconut sugar brown sugar agave


Well, when you graduate from high school or from a college or university, it's common to have this ceremony at the school you're graduating from. For several years though, that wasn't the case at Central Lakes College in Brainerd. Hady Clodder shows us how CLC is going back to its old ways. The last time Central Lakes College held its graduation ceremony on campus, it was in the mid-90s. The school is going back to a tradition by having this year's ceremony on campus. I've done so much good stuff that's happened here. I want to bring all my relatives here basically to check out the campus and see where I graduated from. For Hannah Maloney continuing her education was a simple choice. Despite being really worried about what college, going to college was going to do to me financially, CLC turned out to be a really great option. CLC's graduation is usually held at Brainerd High School to accommodate graduating students and their families. There was a proposal brought forward to bring it back to campus to make sure that students who spent their time on our campus could celebrate their graduation on our campus. The thought of Maloney not accepting her degree from the school she's attended for the last two years made her reconsider participating in graduation. And if I went to the high school, that wouldn't be as fun. About 1,000 CLC students applied for graduation, but less than half from the Staples and Brainerd campus are expected to walk in the ceremony. Brainerd's graduation will be held in the gym and in the campus commons at Staples. Maloney is also the commencement speaker and her presence will be needed. I'm just really glad that I'll be able to have pictures taken of me graduating at CLC. For Dr. Hera Charlie or this year's ceremony will also have a special meaning for her because she's in the first year as a president of CLC. They have told us that it means a lot to them to celebrate what they consider a significant accomplishment right on the campus where they've been working so hard. Maloney says many students are now on board with attending the ceremony because of the location back on campus in Brainerd, Haiti, Clotter, Lakeland News. And there will be one graduation ceremony at the Staples campus and two at the Brainerd campus on May 10th and 11th. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Hello and welcome to the Rugged Rockhound today. I'm joined once again with Utah Rocks And we are out here and we've got Jeremy coming down You guys might remember him from a previous episode when we were getting some of that pink topaz and Bixbyite so we're here today at his red barrel claim So Jeremy's got lots of cool claims we can come to and he does feed digs and it's great So if you guys would like to come out here and dig some a red barrel yourself, which is basically red emerald Here you go. Here's a link to his website. You can go there and you can sign up and come out and have a fun trip That's what we did. Are you are you moving? I'm moving to Grand Junction. Oh, no. Yes. See less of you. I don't like that I know, but I'll get out occasionally the Rugged Rockhound in Colorado. I guess now Well, yeah, well still a lot of Utah because Grand Junction is very close to you exactly There's a lot of good stuff there. You got all the southern Utah. You can hit that a lot easier and central So what kind of stuff do you find up here? So we're finding first of all red barrel, and that's the red emerald basically if people don't know what red barrel is It's the rarest rare rarest red colored gemstone in the world 150,000 times more rare than diamonds GIA. That's what GIA said Ruby's not even close to his rare is red barrel. Red barrel is the rarest and most sought after for sure, so We're looking for topaz you'll find more topaz than anything I think your son actually called the garnet pseudomorphs crunch berries the last time we were out so We're finding crunch berries which are garnet pseudomorphs. They originally were spesartine almodine garnet Mm-hmm, and then they pseudomorph Into hematite and feldspar, but they still have the garnet core So we get them in combinations too. So the ultimate is when you get like All of them together We've had garnet pseudomorph with bixby with topaz with red barrel all together. Oh, that would be fun That's what we're really looking for that makes for a specimen. Absolutely So this little zone here I call it little amethyst topaz basin and if you want to find a Amethyst on the rock with topaz This is a good place to find it because the topaz occur in like these amethyst bugs here And uh, amethystine line bugs, I guess I'm gonna put this so this kid over here Is actually the hopper tight fit So this is where hopper tight was discovered to uranium-based mineral. It's named after my business partner john hopper So this is up here. I call pit number two This was very active until about the 90s and we found rosette barrels here So they're more thin nice, but they're rosettes.  So It's nice to spend a little bit of time up there. You can still find them Um, my group that's down below they found two yesterday, but they were just loose. They just found them randomly So the best thing to do is actually work the rock and then screen I mean, I know you guys have Really with that. Yes Welcome to serial canyon red barrel mine. Yay We're looking for it's in this pit. Yeah, it's absolutely. So we're looking for red barrel So that's the rarest red color gemstone in the world We're looking for topaz. We're working for bixbyite holfer tight amethyst And crunch berries which are garnet pseudomorphs and they're replaced by Hematite and feldspar All right, first red barrel was found by you today. Yeah, there you go. Got that nice hexagon. Oh, yeah, these are thicker That was nice number two red barrel. Look at that thing Beautiful one too. You got one. Nice always got a real tiny one. I wouldn't even have been able to see that one So my first screen I just found a bunch of little ones But on my second screen I started off with a nice big topaz very nice It's a good find right there So yeah, the other ones were just a bunch of little ones Haven't got my first red barrel yet, but I'm hopeful it's in this one Maybe we can spot it together Oh right there. It's a red barrel. There we go There's a red barrel So I'm pulling out lots of topazes And I've gotten four red barrels so far. This is the first one.  These will look better when I get them home cleaned up They're a little dirty here. All right in this basket.   Once again, I will get these all cleaned off. Cool I just pulled this out It's a nice red barrel on a topaz with a lot of bixbyites on it Uh, what a cool find. That is a specimen I'm gonna wrap that thing up So this is the nicest looking red barrel I've found so far. It's got a very genny look to it. Lots of bixbyite on it But right there that's beautiful right there Just glows in the sun. So all these pieces like that piece had it on and then that piece I showed Let's take a look at some of these pieces And there's nice topaz that come out of here too with a nice barrel So I see that needle like yellow crystal.  They just found that topaz on matrix Let's turn that a little bit. Look at that thing shine It's a very good crystal into matrix Very nice We got Jeremy here digging a vent So that hole going down is just a solid vent that's just got topaz coming out a lot of hematite see the hematite on the rock Really all too rock A little bit out of time you can see the topaz on there so a little bit Got a little topaz there and there There's some hematite. There's another topaz You can see it's the edge of a large pocket You can see how see how loose it is. Yeah, that's a vent. That's a vent. Wide open. It's so nice That's why a hole for tight actually has to have an opening Pretty pretty wide opening in order to form so We've dug this vent before Back here going down this way and it's buried a little bit It's just really hard rock. So I was hoping it would have loosened up a little bit and it did. It's still hard work though Here show us that thing you just found. Wow. Look at that topaz That's a big one Really nice Little bit it's cool because it's got so much variety in it's in the matrix. Oh, I had a little nice little matrix boost That got a nice termination Yeah, so I pulled that out of the pocket Nice little combo there. Then I've got a few other things here too just like this Nice little double terminated Things like that. Nice Just a few things Admittedly, I haven't been filming for a while. I just came back up here and just decided to keep going through it so just pulling out tons of topaz is mostly low quality, but It's important to take them back and wash them off to see if any of them Have anything good on it like a red barrel or bixbyite or something Anyway, I thought I'd show you this nice red barrel Very good one nice clean one all the way around And yeah, it's just a good crystal I'm in the upper pit where they've tunneled inside quite a bit All over there And I was opening up this right here And if you ever wanted a hematite There's plenty there I'll do a flashlight just to see if that helps at all Yeah hematite everywhere Here's this one washed off Very nice and clear Just wish it the tip wasn't broken off Here's this one washed off Nice red barrel perched on the topaz. Unfortunately the topaz is a sandy topaz But it's still really cool Here's this one washed off Here's this one washed off Here's this one washed off Very red right there Here's this one washed off Here's this one washed off Very nice This one washed off Here's this washed off.  Here we are back at the vehicles. Wow I actually had to switch through my lens a lot and I probably messed up on some of them and uh because I found so much stuff that I didn't film because a lot of it's just the same and it's hard to really film without it being cleaned that's why you guys just uh most of them cleaned kind of at the end. I didn't really show them throughout I know I'm trying to show them throughout you know washing them and showing them right after I find it but these all kind of look the same so I kind of just showed them in bulk all at the end so I hope I didn't mind that too much this is my last rock counting trip out here in Utah while living in Pleasant Grove because we're moving my wife and I are moving to Grand Junction got a job there with education doing science technology engineering and math STEM STEM education so we gotta help educate kids it'll be good and from there I'll go ahead and rock count because Grand Junctions just over the border of Utah I'll be rock counting Colorado and Utah probably about equally so fun look forward to that and so yeah that's why I didn't have a video out uh depends on when I post this video might be a few weeks before I post this one but I'm just really busy moving starting the job um all that stuff so I'll just get these out as I can I might only get one video out a week but once we get things going there in Grand Junction I should be able to get back into the rhythm of uploading a video every Friday again so yeah anyway I'm just rambling I hope you enjoyed remember I just go ahead and check out Jeremy Fuller's claims he's got a bunch of good ones and they are well worth it so check him out until next time remember there is treasure everywhere


Well Julian, you have won the right to say this, but we don't have the right to agree with him. We have a duty, we have a duty to stop them from destroying Julian's body. We have a duty not to let them continue his torture. Comrades, first the game for Julian, next they will come for our comrades, our friends, our neighbors. Immediately after that they will come for the good people of the Guardian and of the BBC. They will go after any one who dares challenge the right of power of the oligarchy without frontiers to commit crimes against humanity in our name without our knowledge. Do you remember some months ago, Mike Pompeo, let me remind you who that gentleman is. He was Trump's first choice for CIA director and currently the secretary of state. He described WikiLeaks as a non-governmental, hostile, intelligent service. You know what? He's right. This is exactly what WikiLeaks is. But also it is exactly what any self-regarding newspaper, television station, radio station should be a non-governmental, intelligent service on behalf of citizens that are looking critically at their government. Don Elzberg, that wonderful whistleblower, one of my greatest heroes, and Non-Chomsky, another hero of ours. They warned the journalists who are failing so spectacularly to defend Julian today. They warned them, you are next.  With a ranking order, the hit list of President Trump who considers all of the press to be the enemy of the people. When you turn in blind eye to Julian's torture, you are consenting to your own emasculation. That is our message to the BBC. That is our message to the Guardian. Of course you do not need me to lecture you because by being here you have proven that you know all that. But you've also acquired a duty, we all have, to let into the secret those who are not here today.  No, Julian's worst enemy, freedom's worst enemy is apathy. It is fatigue. It is good people, too tired, too exhausted, too disheartened working zero hour contracts whatever to be able to expend the energy that you and I have the privilege of expending today. It is banality. It is people who are neither good nor bad working in these offices in Whitehall. But they're not evil, they're just banal. Too banal to care. We have to make them care. On the 10th of March, in a few days time, one of the projects that Julian and I started is going to see the light of day. Watch out for EuroLeaks. Soon after we met, together with Brian Eno, who hates things, they had a small clique but it's not a small clique because as Brian knows, what we started with Julian Assange in February 2016 in Berlin, the Democracy in Europe movement now has tens of thousands of members everywhere. As we speak, a similar demonstration is taking place in Athens with our members of parliament representing the movement that Julian Assange helped to put together. Tomorrow, I'm going to be in Mel Belmarsh, visiting together with John Shifton, Julian's McGriff's father, Julian. I will go in there with trepidation and a sense of guilt because I'm going to walk in there but I'm also going to walk out of it.


As sheep producers, we are tasked to provide enjoyable eating experiences and meet palatability expectations for the dinner plate of American lamb consumers. This video is the third in a five-part series emphasizing lamb quality and is funded by the American Lamb Board and Premier One Supplies. A key part of raising sheep that meet yield and quality parameters that produce premium American lamb is determined by when we choose to market our lambs. Lamb should be harvested at compositionally correct endpoints that yield lamb carcasses that are USDA choice or better and USDA yield grade one, two or three.  Examples of different breed type, size and body composition are shown in this video to provide a reference to sheep producers. Additionally, the dressing percent from lamb live weight to lamb carcass weight can be attributed to several factors. Animal fill, prevalence of mud, amount of fat and muscle and shorn play a role in retail meat yield percentage. Let's take a look at four lambs raised at North Dakota State University and evaluate similarities and differences that impact yield and quality. Lamb one is a large outlined, growthy and trim appearing lamb with adequate top shape and a white face feedlot lamb appearance. Many maternal breeds of sheep are the backbone of our US U base with progeny represented by this weather. His breed composition tends to being a lighter muscled lamb that when we look at the front and rear views does not appear to be as stout as his contemporaries. In respect to our whole industry, he is average muscled but preferably could be more muscular with improved lower leg and stifle shape to match his size. Still he visually appears to be trim and condition and reach an industry preferred USDA yield grade two designation. Lamb two is the speckle face weather that is average frame size yet shows more boldness and depth of rib and a more natural dimension to his hip and lower leg than lamb number one. The trimness indicators of chest floor, fore rib and loin edge are showing a look of reaching market readiness. Lamb two appears to be near the correct harvest end point as more time on feed will result in decreased feed efficiency and more trimble fat waste. Crossing white face use with a terminal focused ram provides increased growth and muscularity. Overall black face crosslams at this weight and fat condition are currently near average for our US lamb industry and we would expect him to be a yield grade three designation. Lamb three is an extremely stout and powerful U that depending on what view you get of her exhibits extra width in her chest floor and muscle over the thickest top producing preferred rack and loin cuts. Lamb four the big hip sheep also has the most shape to her outer stifle and lower leg in comparison to the others in this video.   The widest part of her body is now her middle and she is becoming more boat like in shape. She is both the most slender and heaviest condition of the group. We would expect her to have the largest ribeye area but also be classified in or near the USDA yield grade four designation. Lamb four is a very shapely weather that has extra muscle and plenty of rib and body. In relation to size we can agree that the hair breed weather has a greater proportion of muscularity. However because of the lightest weight sheeps breed type her sheep obviously lacks the extra grow and size the three wool sheep have that preceded him. Even though he is visually deep-bodied, trimness indicators show him clean in the chest floor and a youthful shape in the fore rib and hip loin junction. He still maintains adequate trimness but should be appropriately marketed at the lighter weight to maintain USDA yield grade two designation. Thus we would anticipate the white doorper weather to have a smaller carcass that may or may not meet your production goals. Hair sheep influenced lambs have been gaining popularity for our non-traditional or ethnic marketing channels. Research data from the Northern Plains Lamb Value Discovery Project shows that with industry lambs the blackface influence progeny yielded a higher percent of boneless closely trimmed retail cuts when compared to crossbred or whiteface genetics. We know that utilizing more carcass preferred genetics results in increased retail yield of American lamb. In order to harvest lambs at the correct time it is important to understand that larger frame lambs maintain lean muscle growth longer throughout the finishing period. Thus growthier sheep genetics extend efficient weight gain can be taken to heavier weights and maintain acceptable trimness and market flexibility as indicated by the research from Dr. Jeff Held. We can utilize the sire and dam mature U weight graph to set goals for a flock marketing plan and evaluating lamb growth potential in a flock. Once we determine expected target weights and consider frame size consistent among an operation any unnecessary increase in live weight and subsequent carcass weight past optimal size results in decreasing cutability or percent boneless closely trimmed retail cuts. Matching genetic growth potential with timely marketing is a valuable skill in producing premium lamb carcasses that balance both yield and quality. So as the lambs in my background here the Suffolk Grimble across lambs are the better lambs to feed in West Texas in our area mainly because of the conversion cost of gain and the overall performance of the lamb and then at harvest time of the yield that we received back from that animal. Awareness of lamb live animal evaluation criteria can assist that producers are making appropriate management decisions for lamb production that reflects lean meat yield and quality to the highest degree while proudly labeling our product as American lamb. Beginning with the end in mind is the theme for this lamb quality video series. As a progressive sheep producer you hold a vested interest in creating a protein that consistently meets and exceeds consumer expectations of our American lamb product. A huge thank you to North Dakota State University sheep unit and our sponsors the American lamb board and Premier One supplies.


This week, we held a summit with the Caricom, the community of the Caribbean, here in Ottawa. We took the opportunity to launch the new strategic partnership between Canada and the community of the Caribbean. It is a step that will make our ties even stronger and will help us work on our common priorities. It was a great honour for us to host the first ever in Canada Caracom-Canada Summit. It's always better to see each other face to face, especially when we have so many important issues to tackle, like creating good jobs, making life more affordable, growing the middle class, fighting climate change, and keeping people safe. I want to thank all the leaders who visited us this week. Thank you for being true partners. Thank you for your engagement. And thank you for being such strong voices for your region and your hemisphere. We're holding this summit this week at a time of great turbulence. The conflict in the Middle East is reverberating around the world. Russia's war in Ukraine continues to rage on. Conditions in Haiti remain heartbreaking. Our citizens are living the devastating realities of climate crisis, whether that's wildfires in Canada or hurricanes and rising sea levels across the Caribbean. We're facing supply chain issues, global inflation, food insecurity. So in times like these, it is so important that we strengthen our relationship with friends and like-minded partners. Canada and the members of the Caricom are countries with diverse communities. We believe in democracy and the sovereignty of the law. We know that by working together, we can find solutions that lead to security and prosperity. This week was an opportunity to cooperate and discuss regional and global challenges, including and especially Haiti, but also Venezuela and the Middle East. The ties between Canadian and Caribbean communities, businesses and people run deep, and we're making these ties even stronger. Yesterday we focused on many priorities. Not only did we talk about fighting climate change, but we also talked about how protecting the environment is good for our economies. I announced a new commitment of up to $58.5 million in partnership with the Caribbean Development Bank to support renewable energy projects in the region and $6 million through the Caribbean Climate Smart Fund for resilient and renewable energy systems. Clean, reliable, affordable energy is a great example of how climate action and economic growth can and must go together. Yesterday, we also discussed ways to increase the resilience of our countries in the face of natural disasters that are stronger and more frequent because of climate change. We announced that we will strengthen the coordination between the Canadian Armed Forces and the emergency management agency in the Caribbean to be able to react more quickly in the face of natural disasters. In addition to climate action, we looked at the ways Canada can continue to help reforming the international financing architecture so that developing and middle-income countries can access the financing they need. We also announced that Canada is expanding the Commonwealth Caribbean Countries Tariff Program, which gives countries in the region duty-free access to the Canadian market. And we talked about how our commitment – we talked about our commitment to implement a new foreign labor program for agriculture and fish processing under our temporary foreign workers program. Obviously, in several of our meetings, we also focused on the issue of security in the region, including Haiti. Yesterday, I announced new measures to help the Haitians fight against violence and corruption. Since 2022, Canada has invested more than $300 million in international aid to respond to the crisis in Haiti. We have also sanctioned 28 people and provided technical and tactical aid to the Haitian National Police. We will continue to be there to support the Haitian people. Canada and Caracom will continue to work together as partners to build a more stable, secure and prosperous hemisphere. Thank you. I'm happy to pass it over to President Ali of Guyana. It was such a pleasure to see you and all of our colleagues here at Caracom this week. But lots more to do, lots of positive momentum, and I look forward to it, not just in Trinidad and in Guyana, but right across the Caribbean.


As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Peace be upon you and welcome. My name is Muhammad Ali and today we will cover the topic of greetings.  When you are walking down the street and you see a fellow colleague or friend you greet him with a smile and ask him about his day. This action of greeting one another or initiating greeting is very common and can be categorized under the clone of rational thinking. It is an action that doesn't need proof because it's universal. Now the viewer might be asking what does this topic have to do with Islam? Well the answer will be provided. You see the religion of Islam as we have stated before covers a wide range of categories. In this category lies the category of greetings and Islam has placed very high importance on greetings. Greetings in Islam are considered to be very important and it is categorized under the sunnah traditions of the holy messenger peace be upon him and his family. We will narrate to you the following tradition on the authority of the messenger of Allah peace be upon him and his family. He said when you meet each other then initiate greeting, salam and embrace and when you separate from each other then depart with seeking forgiveness. What beauty lies in the tradition of the messenger of Allah peace be upon him and his family. This is what Islam teaches us to greet the fellow Muslim brother upon meeting him and parting ways seeking forgiveness. We pray to Allah that we are able to enact the traditions of the holy prophet peace be upon him and his family. May peace and blessing be upon Muhammad and his holy project.


My name is Tuya King. I am the grants manager here at the Wisconsin Technical College System. Growing up I was also a first-generation college student as well and so I definitely know the struggles or the challenges that many of our students face. What I enjoy but my job is that I'm able to do things that I know that can benefit those who currently are in situation that I was as well growing up and going to school as well and so I just know that I may not be able to see a student on a daily basis and help them resolve the issue but hopefully just with the grants and the funds that come out of the Wisconsin Technical College System office here goes to the colleges and then they're able to use it to help benefit the students there as well. I guess at the end of the day it will give me satisfaction to just know that I'm a part of our team that is able to make an impact with the students and then helping them achieve and be successful but then also then helping our state and our economy as well just making sure that we have the workers that are able to help sustain our economy as well.


Well, I'm pleased this morning to be joined by Dr Vijay Lakshmi Gupta, who is with the Indian Telecom Regulatory Authority. Dr Gupta, hello. Good morning. Thank you for being with us today. Now, when we think of India in its particular circumstances, it's an enormous country, lots of remote areas, some poverty there too. How has your authority gone about improving access to information and communication technology there? In fact, you'll be surprised to know that there was a time when the connectivity was so poor in our country, because after having been under the colonial rule for a long time, we did not have the resources or the infrastructure to get connectivity. So what we came out with was a telecom policy by which the government, which was having the monopoly, gave up the monopoly and allowed the access or the licenses to come in for the private sector players. Once we had a new telecom policy in which we allowed the telecom service providers, that is the private sector players to come in, the revolution which took place in India is called as the first telecom revolution. And today, a country like ours, which is the second largest mobile technology having country, next only to China, the market, we are about to touch now one billion mobile telephone connections. So that is the kind of accessibility which we have been able to provide by the regulatory intervention and the governmental policies which has allowed the common person to have a mobile device and enjoy the fruits of communication. Telephones are an important measure, I guess, of connectivity. The other thing is internet access. How have you been going with that program? Yes. As far as internet access is concerned, I think I must confess that we are not so very satisfied about the penetration of the internet because as you are aware, the internet connectivity requires a certain other infrastructure, apart from just the spectrum and a normal 2G device which is what most of our people are having about from the 900 million. So what we are now doing is that we have got a very ambitious program which has been launched, which is called as Fiber, which is fiber optic and we are now trying to connect around 250,000 village panchayats. Panchayats is a local governmental unit and we are laying something like 500,000 kilometers of fiber so that each of the remotest villages is connected. And this is called as National Optic Fiber Network Program which is a very specialized utility vehicle has been launched for that. And with that, we are hoping to connect the broadband connectivity is certainly going to improve and what is the policy's dream? What are your targets there? Can you share those with us? See, the targets are in about two years or so. We hope to connect this to 250,000 villages and the financial outlet has already been approved by the government of India and as you are aware, the policy of the new government headed by Mr. Narendra Modi is what is called as Digital India and in this Digital India, what we aim is to ensure that the digital dividend which has been deprived to the bulk of our population, they are given their views. And once the digitization on the broadcasting side, as you are aware, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India also looks after the broadcasting section. And here we have launched what is called as digitization in phases or two phases of digitization in the metro and the larger cities are already complete and with the digitization spreading to the complete country, we also hope that the cable network which will also provide the broadband connectivity to the homes. And as you are aware, if you have broadband in your own mobile device, it is one individual with a mobile or smartphone who has the connectivity. But when you give connectivity through a television inside a home, the whole family or it is more than at least five to six people who get that connectivity. So with the cable connectivity, we are hoping it is going to be a multi-pronged kind of an approach apart from the fiber which is going to go to the village panchayats. And from there, the last mile connectivity through the spectrum, the wireless spectrum, we are also intending to do it through the broadband connectivity. Okay, so it sounds like an ambitious agenda. Dr. Gupta, thanks very much for your time today. Much appreciated. Thank you.