Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch and Globe Trotter. I've just finished reading a terrific book by Allah Abdul Fattah called You Have Not Been Defeated. It's a book of essays and speeches and Facebook posts and Twitter posts written by a remarkable young man, a person who should be one of the key intellectuals of our time on technology. Unfortunately for the past decade, he has been in and out as the guest of the Egyptian state in its various prisons. The book is sincere. It is beautiful. It is charming. It's a book that people must read. It's an incredible honor for us at People's Dispatch and Globe Trotter to be joined to talk about the book Egypt Hassan to be joined by Leila Saif, a professor of mathematics at Cairo University, somebody who herself knows a lot about protests having been a student militant in the 1970s, having been a militant through her entire career, including I Gather Leila being pushed and shoved in 2005 in a quite important protest movement against Hosni Mubarak. Welcome to People's Dispatch. I'm honored. Well, first let's start by talking a little bit about your son. He has been, as I said, for the crime of being a democratic person. He has been in and out of prison recently, sentenced again to five years. How are you feeling about this, about having your son in this situation? Basically, I'm very angry. I'm very, very angry. This is I'm angry and tortured because it's my son, but I'm also angry because what's happening to my son is happening to so many other young people. It is a banner of the repression that is everywhere now in Egypt. I mean, I have been protesting against the government, the different governments, Egypt's ages, the 70s, but the presentation is really far, far more than anything we have ever seen. This is also, it's like madness. A regime that imagines that it can stop every single, this is a voice, in a country of 100 million. I mean, I know in India it's much bigger than that. 100 million maybe doesn't sound very big to Indians, but still 100 million is 100 million. I'm a politician and I know that in 100 million, there will always be 10, 20, 30,000. There will be far more distance than that, but there will be 10, 20, 30,000 to really not be silent at any price. So, trying to silence absolutely every different voice, beyond the pale. It is beyond the pale and yet it's what the government has tried to do. The book by Allah starts with his writings around the 2011 January 25th revolution when the people of Egypt were able to get rid of a person that you have been protesting about for decades before, for 29 years and that was Hosni Mubarak. What is the residue of those protests of the 25th of January? Does it, does any of the residue of that stone in Tahrir Square where you protested in 1972, does the residue of January 25th which brought Allah to the international stage, does it remain? Yes, it remains. It remains in people's consciousness. It remains in, yeah, of course, I mean, this revolution has been vanquished and there is very, very, very strong depression, very violent depression. So, as can be expected, people are afraid, afraid to protest, afraid to voice their, but still, people think differently. They are not the same as they were before 2011. Many, many values, many of the values for which we try to work in the 80s and 90s and which we try to propagate in very small groups now are actually what very large groups believe in. Very good people shut up and are afraid. They do not believe in what they came out for in 25.  So, there are tens of thousands out there, probably even more than tens of thousands, probably in the millions who have, you know, who think, who, okay, they always knew that we were living in unfair times, but who have sort of crystallized their thoughts, who understand that what is happening now is repression, that it should not be so, it is not natural, this is not the natural order of things. And among young people in particular, or any, when they think that this is the natural order of things, they think, they also think that there will come a time when they will try to change. There will come a time when there will be an opportunity to change it. I mean, okay, all of these people, when they think that things are bad, they think that things are bad and probably will stay bad. You may be the best of what you have, but young people, they're not like that, they want, they want a better future. And of course, a lot of them are trying to get out of the country to find the better future elsewhere. But after all, again, this is, we're talking about 100 million, 60% of whom are young people. So there's no way all of these are going to, they have to find, they have to find the future here. And they found, they're looking for it, they're not, okay, they're bound to the wind for the moment, or getting out of the storm or whatever, I didn't say no lie, but they are not, they have not given up, they have not given up on change. And they know, and that's the difference with January made, they know many faces who speak for them. They know that faces like Aleh, like they have already used all of them, like Khaled Ali Aleh's lawyer, that these people do speak for them. It's a good reason that Allah's book is called You Have Not Been Defeated. I think that's what you're talking about. Your husband in prison in 1983, in prison because he was a member of a left organization trying to drive democracy becomes a lawyer, the rule of law. I mean, what you're saying that the situation after January 25th and perhaps after Rabah Square, the terrible massacre of 2013, people don't want to return to the days when they don't have an obligation to rule of law or democracy or what you said very movingly right now, the future, 60% of young people need a future, they need to believe in something. The Arab Network for Human Rights Information says that there are 65,000 political prisoners in Egypt, Leila, 65,000 political prisoners. It's important that you say people want to believe in something and yet the state is imprisoned, 65,000 people not on criminal grounds but political grounds. How does one even understand that?  For one thing, all the so-called democratic states, which are certainly more democratic, but you're in India, you know, how many failures there are in democracy, all these states are either dear to the right or even in the end, it's a whole new capitalist system, new liberal system that has the world in its grip and that is making it impossible for the moment, hopefully it won't be impossible forever, otherwise you're going to lose the whole planet, not just Egypt yet, making it impossible to try to change, making it impossible to protect future generations from, I mean, the excesses, making wars, making the privileged of those who are privileged more, far more important than the lives of those who are underprivileged. These are the times we live in and it manifests itself in a different way. In Egypt, it manifests itself in a very crude way, exactly because we had the revolution, because we had the revolution, it was a popular revolution, and we saw the possibility, we saw the, you know, another world is popular, stuff like that, and so it takes this very, very, very brutal expression to make people, for a regime to hope that this can make people give up on that. Okay, you can hold on to power like that for a long time, it really depends on the circumstances, but you cannot stabilize a society, you cannot stabilize it. Egypt is not stabilizing, Egypt is going from one crisis to another, from one crisis to another, and the way that its team manages to strike is by depression, by ignoring the core causes and just handling the manifestations and so on. You know, that's absolutely true what you said, you can keep control over a society, but you don't necessarily stabilize it, I think that's important. And in a way, I want to return toward the end to your son's book, which Fitzcarraldo has brought out, you have not been defeated, because, you know, in a sense, in his book, what comes out is an extraordinarily sensitive young man. I mean, here he is, he's in prison, he's had a beautiful son, Khalid, who he writes about with great feeling, he visits Palestine in one of the moments when he is out, he goes to Gaza, and the last essay in the book, Leila, is about Palestine, where he says Palestine, you are always on my mind. He's an incredible person, can you just tell us a little bit about this extraordinarily sensitive and kind young man who should not be sitting, well, nobody should be a political prisoner, but certainly not this sensitive soul. Tell us a little bit about your son and why you are so angry that this young man is behind bars. Well, I think anyone who needs the book can see that Allah is very knowledgeable about many things, very bright. He was a hell of a good, and I hope he will be again a hell of a good software developer, and I don't know how to describe this, but he looks at things in depth. For example, the three articles about Uber, I'm very proud of these articles, because they came up at a time when none of this was obvious yet, and he was sitting there in prison, he wasn't even and he could analyze the situation and see how this kind of cooperation was going to work out. It's a really pity that he should be in prison, and during this particular time, this last imprisonment started in September 2019, he's been prohibited completely from receiving any books on his paper. He has not been allowed to read a single sheet of paper except my letters once a week for two and a half years. This is torture. I mean, it's not torture like electrifying people on top, but it is torture. It is meant to break it. It's a pity because he has a lot to give the word. Every time he works on something, he puts something new in, he has a new point of view that is worth to do and worth trying. And of course, there is also the fact that his son really, really needs him. His son is now 10. His son really needs him. All these things. He was out of jail for six months from March 2019 to September, but he had to spend every night in the police station, in his own probation. These six months, the things he did for Khaled, the amount of activities they did together, the difference they made to Khaled were unbelievable. Even though he could only spend a few hours a day with Khaled. You can spend the night with him. He's got a lot, and he wrote some of the articles of this book that he did during these six months. What is the most beautiful article, the one about regeneration? He's got a lot to give the word. It's a real pity that he's just locked up and silent. He uses every opportunity that he gets to get his voice out there. Every time he has appeared in court, he's made very big statements, very extensive statements. He appeared in court for renewal of his detainment order, and he pointed out to the judges as he came in. There were children working inside the court area, working at renovations and building and so on. This was against the law. Child labor is against the lawyer's order. You know this as a complaint. So he doesn't let one opportunity go without pointing. He sees these things actually. Most people just walk by with children and they don't even think about it. He's busy and then he doesn't let the jobs go without pointing out. Well, that's a tribute to you and to your husband because you've raised three extraordinarily sensitive children. Each one of them seems to keep putting their foot into it and saying, I refuse. Your daughter's Mona and Sana, one follows their various activities. So well done to you. That piece you mentioned, regeneration. I want to just read a little bit from there because it is really beautiful. He writes, you can become an agent of history instead of its victim. Make of your pain a revolution. Your suffering is resistance. Beautiful, beautiful stuff. So bravely put. He's so brave and I mean, I want to say that on behalf of people's dispatch, Globetrotter and so on, we're very grateful for you for joining us. We're very grateful for your family for helping put this book together. But more than anything, Laila, we are very much hoping to be in Cairo with you to welcome the end, the quashing of all the cases against him and perhaps the opening again of that stone in Tahrir to reveal for Egypt a better future. Thanks a lot for joining us. Thank you, I'm honored.


Welcome everyone to Unity Week. I will be introducing our first lecture today, learning and teaching 500 years of colonialism. A little bit about myself. I brought, I contacted Mexica Movement throughout and where I am. It's like a personal connection. I've been kind of searching my identity through like colonialism and kind of like Western society and Western culture and navigating myself. So I kind of called Mexica Movement to like bring more their knowledge and their their liberation of that and more information on that. But I would a little about the speaker. He is the founder and director of Mexica Movement which teaches 500,000 years of just culture here in North America and South America. All the Americas. Without further ado I would like y'all to, I would like to introduce y'all to Olin Descatli-Bulca. Thank you Richie, Doris Martinez and all the other students who were involved in getting me here. I take it that Mike is working fine. Learning and teaching the truth of the last 500 years of colonialism. Introduction. A guide to rewiring the colonized mind of the Nicanthlaca, the pre-1492 people of this continent. Nicanthlaca means we the people of this continent or literally we the people here. I am a Nicanthlaca man. I am a colonized man. I am a man in the process of decolonizing himself because I was born in the colonized world of my people on a continent occupied by European settlers. I am a colonized man. I am colonized because I am forced to speak a European language. I am colonized because European people still control the lands of my people. I am colonized because European settlers are stealing the wealth of my people every day. Our forests, our rivers, our mountains, our farmlands, our prairies, our deserts, our coastlines. All of our lands are being robbed of their wealth. I am a colonized man because we no longer have control over the wealth of our continent. I am colonized because I was educated through a Eurocentric education system. I am a colonized man because I am not free from Europeans anywhere on my continent. I am a Nicanthlaca. I am a man in the process of waking to the truth of the last 500 years of our ongoing colonialism and to 500 years of our ongoing genocide. I am a Nicanthlaca man becoming aware of the 7,000 years of civilizations and of 7,000 years of the colonized living of our people. I'm sorry, lost. Can I just, can you check the cameras? I'm not sure if we can restart this. I'm sorry. I'm a little ADD and I still had the thing going on about the camera here. I am a Nicanthlaca man becoming aware of the 7,000 years of civilizations and the 7,000 years of scientific accomplishments of the civilizations of my people. I'm a Nicanthlaca man waking to the fact that my people have been on this continent for over 50,000 years. I am aware now more than ever that this continent as a whole belongs collectively to my people. Collectively, this continent is our homeland and we have nowhere else to go in this world on this planet. Europeans have their homeland in Europe. We have only this continent. These lands as ours. We have nowhere else to go. I am a Nicanthlaca man. I am a descendant of people who in 1492 were in their majority living in cities and civilizations all across this continent in what is called North and South America. In our majority, we were living in cities and civilizations. This is a fact that is hard to imagine because most of us were never given the facts, the truth, the reality of these cities and civilizations nor did we see movies showing us our huge cities and large towns that were on this continent before 1492. We have been presented to the world and to our people as a savage people with shabby huts and human sacrifice. No cities, no large towns, no accomplishments. That is not the truth of what the reality on this continent was before 1492. The lies that we have been taught are many. The truth about my people on this continent is scarce and hidden. The damage of these lies has been catastrophic to my people.  This has been catastrophic. Identity. Nicanthlaca means we the people of this continent or literally we the people here in the Nahuatl language. We are Nicanthlaca, not Indians. Indians are the people of a nation in Asia called India. A simple fact that refuses to be corrected from any of the history books of this nation. This is why we demand a Nicanthlaca identity as a replacement for Indian. Nicanthlaca means we the people of this continent. We also do not accept natives as a name for our people because that is a derogatory term. A term that Europeans never apply to themselves. Notice how we don't refer to the natives of Europe. The native people of Europe. Natives is only used for the non-Europeans, the darker people of the world, for the people who are considered a lesser people than Europeans, lesser, less human than any European anywhere in the world. It is a white supremacist notion that natives. This is why we demand a Nicanthlaca identity as a replacement for native exiting of the colonized mind. Remember that this is a lecture to help you rewire our colonized minds. The process is difficult. You may know some of the facts being presented here, but you may have never had them presented in a non-Eurocentric way, presented in the interest of the Nicanthlaca, in the interest of the pre-1492 people of this continent, the true owners of this continent. You will find that the Eurocentric view is drastically different from the truth and the reality of the world. Truth in the world is not to be exclusively viewed through the view of European interests. In fact, it should be avoided if you want to learn the truth of how the world functions. Exiting our colonized minds is part of the rewiring of our colonized minds with truth and deletion of the lies that we have been taught all of our lives. This rewiring of our colonized minds requires that our minds be set to open mind. Our open minds will look at the world with the truth of history, facts, and logic. That open mind will more easily recognize and acknowledge the lies of the last 500 years. The hardest part of this rewiring will be the emotional part. Acknowledging that the immoral, unjust, and criminal actions were done by Europeans against our people, the Nicanthlaca, over the last 500 years, it will be difficult in the world of lies to accept the hard facts, the truth. The facts presented in this lecture can be backed up with a simple use of a dictionary and with references to the books that I will be referring to and some simple use of logic and a moral compass in an open mind. Cities, civilizations, and not savages. It is the fact that the majority, the vast majority of our people on this continent, actually lived in large cities and large towns. Our tribal people, the wandering tribes of our people were actually only about 10% of our population. But that 10% tribal people is what Europeans want and need and like to focus on to make it seem as if all of our people were tribal people living in huts or teepees, having no cities, no civilizations, no accomplishments. In 1492, the majority of our people were in fact living in civilizations that were older than any of the civilizations of Europe or Egypt. Our cities were larger, more hygienic, better advanced, more advanced than any of the cities of Europe in 1492. This is truth. This is a documented fact. The schools and universities that we attend today, the media and pop culture that are part of our lives have taught us lies about the reality of this continent before 1492. We have to unlearn, delete those lies and take on truth into our view of the Negan Flaka world before 1492, into our view of ourselves. But we must also learn the truth about Europeans in 1492. They were not what we have been told they were. Europeans in 1492 had smaller cities than we had. Europeans had a poorer economy, a less accurate calendar than we had and lesser knowledge of astronomy and medicine than we had. Europeans had less advances in education than we had. We had mandatory education for males and females in our larger cities. Europeans did not bathe in those days. Europeans never bathed in their whole lives in Europe.  Imagine the true smell of Europeans in 1492. Smell that truth. Europeans were burning men and women alive, torturing and sacrificing them in the name of Jesus Christ. Over 300,000 human beings were sacrificed by the Christian Church in Europe in the name of Jesus Christ. Human sacrifices were made to the three gods, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. These are the first things you need to think about in order to rethink the reality that you have accepted since you were first educated. Almost everything that we have learned about the world that existed here on this continent before 1492 is a lie. But let us focus on the most important distortion, the major lie about our people, the Nican Flaca. The idea that is a lie is that the majority of our people were wandering tribal people without cities or towns and without accomplishments or civilizations. That is all a lie. The idea that our continent was almost empty of people and that our people did not believe in owning land is a lie. We have always collectively owned our land, this continent, and we acknowledge that we are owned by the land. We respect the land. We refer to our land as a whole as our mother. No individual can sanely own land. Land is the heritage of a nation, of the people of the land. This continent is our homeland. This continent is our mother, our motherland. The idea of savages and unowned land is a convenient lie for the thieves who stole our lands. It is a convenient lie to hide the fact that we had large cities and large towns in what is now called Mexico and Central and South America. These cities and civilizations were the heart of our heritage, the jewels of our continent. These cities and large towns held 90% of our population. In the larger cities we had schools and universities, with hospitals and doctors, with architects and engineers, with astronomers and mathematicians, with our own writing systems and books and libraries. We had cities that were larger than any of the cities of Europe. It seems like some science fiction story to speak of these cities, civilizations and genius accomplishments being created by the Nicanthlaca of this continent. But there is no fiction in any of these facts. The only fiction is a one that we find in the history books of our schools today. Savages arrived in boats from Europe in 1492. October 12, 1492, our people in the Caribbean could not imagine that the three ships that they first saw and the ones that came in the months and years to come would completely exterminate the population of most of the islands. Our people in the large cities and towns on the mainland of our continent could not even imagine the death and destruction, the devastation, the Holocaust that would destroy our world.  Eventually Europeans would end up killing 95% of our people, killing 100 million of our people with their smallpox weapon of mass extermination. These biological warfare attacks on our people were the equivalent of using 1,000 Hiroshima type nuclear bombs all across our continent. Hiroshima's death toll was 100,000 human lives. Think on that. Now imagine the equivalent of 1,000 of these atomic bombs going off all across our continent on our large cities, large towns and in the thousands of large villages with the use of smallpox as a weapon of mass extermination. Now think on the savage idea of stealing the lands of a whole race by using this biological warfare to exterminate our people or any people. Our cities and ancient civilizations were destroyed so that Europeans could get free land and free wealth. Think of how monstrous and immoral that idea is. Europeans were willing to exterminate a whole race of human beings. They were willing to destroy seven major civilizations, the Maya, the Purépecha, Huastec, Mexica, Zapotec, Mixtec and Inca civilizations. Civilizations that went back thousands of years to their origins in the super carral area of the Andes and to the Olmecs in what is now called Mexico. They also exterminated smaller civilizations and dozens of our cultures. If you do not believe the fact that this Holocaust happened on this continent or that our people were living in cities and built great civilizations, you can read American Holocaust by David Stannard, a University of Hawaii professor of history, a person of European descent. You can also read Colonizer's Model of the World by J. M. Blout, also a person of European descent or you can read 1491 by Charles Mann, another person of European descent or year 501 by Noam Chomsky, a person of European and Jewish descent. J. M. Blout writes of this Holocaust that you never heard of. He writes, the Americas were not conquered, they were infected. Europeans killed 100 million of our people. Europeans killed 95% of our population. Our people in these days today right now know almost nothing of the evil that came in those early days of 1492 and of the 500 years of European invasions, Holocausts and genocide that followed. Our people to this day don't really understand how it is that we have been left without land or homeland, without a nation, without freedom, without warriors to defend us and without a true independence from Europeans on our continent.  Europeans have grown wealthy, more greedy, powerful, more racist from the raping of the wealth of our continent. We as a people have lost the sense of our full humanity, of our dignity and our sense of honor because of the terrorism, genocide and enslavement of our people, enslavement that serves the interests of enriching the Europeans on our continent. Not just here in the United States of European settlers, but throughout our continent where the Spaniard and Portuguese Europeans still control our lands. Our people have been intentionally kept ignorant of this Holocaust of our people.   We are still deprived of the wealth of our lands, our wealth which makes Europeans wealthy and powerful in the world that we live in. The beginning of our enslavement to the Europeans began in 1492 in the Caribbean parts of our lands and it would expand over the next 500 years to all of our lands until not one piece of our continent was free from Europeans and not one of our people could live free as a free people.  They destroyed our libraries, art, architecture, universities and our cultures and left us without our own history and without our Nicanthlaca identity and without our warriors to educate us and to protect us. They destroyed our freedoms, our humanity, our dignity and our honor and left us to live perpetually as slaves of the Europeans. The history of the Nicanthlaca before 1492. My people's history on this continent begins when we came here from Asia over 50,000 years ago. Over 50,000 years on this continent is longer than the 40,000 years that the old Celtic and Basque tribal people of Europe have been in Europe. These Europeans came out of North Central Asia and migrated into Europe. Our 50,000 years on this continent is longer than the less than 4,000 years that the Germans and Scandinavians have been in Europe. Longer than the 4,000 years that the Slavic people have been in Europe. They both came from North Central Asia and migrated into Europe a mere 4,000 years ago. We have been on this continent for over 50,000 years. These simple facts, these basic facts of our civilizations and cities and the truth about the newness of Europeans in Europe are denied to my people and they are denied to the Europeans in Europe and the European settlers on this continent. As you can see, my people's history is not just the last 500 years of European invasions. We are more than just the false savage nomads created by the movies. We are more than just the massacres of our people, the thefts of our lands, the terrorizing and enslaving of our people, the genocide of our people, the dehumanization of our people all across this vast continent. We are people of great accomplishments of cities and civilizations older than the cities and civilizations of Europe and Egypt. The centuries and millenniums of our genius and building cities and civilizations has been hidden and forgotten, erased from history, erased from the memories of my people. We are no longer a people of genius or accomplishments. We stopped inventing, creating, building, designing, being philosophers, poets, being a scientific people of astronomers, mathematicians, doctors, botanists and creators of great civilizations. All of that ended with the arrival of the Europeans. We were culturally castrated and we became unable to reproduce our heritage of the genius of people that we had been before 1492. We became the slaves of the Europeans working our own lands to enrich the Europeans as we lived in poverty and ignorance and disconnected and displaced from our proper place in the world. A world where we were free people, free on our own land. We were never again to be a people known for inventing, creating, building, designing, being philosophers, poets, being a scientific people. We were left as ruins of a once great people. The secret of European success, smallpox, as a weapon of mass extermination. Europeans portray themselves as adventurers, as explorers, as business people, discovering new lands. In 1492, in the centuries that followed, Europeans came to this continent with criminal intent, with a criminal lust for gold and free lands, gold and lands that were not theirs. They came to steal the gold and silver from the treasures of our cities and later from the mines of our lands. They eventually stole all of our wealth and all of our lands. There were no free lands or free gold in Europe that they could steal without paying for it with their lives.  Europeans came uninvited as trespassers, as thieves, as pirates, as rapists, as slavers, as criminals, as an immoral and savage people.  They were no more doing discovery and exploration than a burglar or bank robbers doing discovery and exploration when they investigate their target and then make plans and proceed to burglarize a home or rob a bank. Perhaps the biggest lie that we have been told from popular fiction, from Eurocentric history books is that Europeans defeated us all across our continent because they had superior weapons and superior intelligence over a people who were living in the Stone Age and were total savages. What they don't tell us in schools or in the media is that Europeans defeated us solely with the use of smallpox as a biological weapon of mass extermination. Most of us have never heard of that, or if we did read of it, it was explained as being accidental, accidental on every island in the Caribbean, accidental in Mexico and the Inca lands, accidental everywhere they went. Those were not accidents.  Every place they went from the Caribbean to Mexico to the Inca lands to Florida with the pilgrims, with the missions in California and everywhere else that the Europeans invaded on our continent, that smallpox weapon was there to exterminate 90 to 95 percent of our people and in some places they exterminated 100 percent of our people. Europeans killed 100 million of our people all across our continent with the use of smallpox as a biological weapon of mass extermination. They almost succeeded in exterminating 100 percent of our people. Nothing of this use of biological warfare was accidental. Again, I refer you to the book American Holocaust by David Stanner written by a person of European descent to verify the facts. It was possible that this biological warfare could have exterminated 100 percent of our people and you would have no one to complain about our smallpox holocaust. European settlers would then say, too bad, none of them survive or else we would give them back their lands. Oh well, too bad. But aren't we lucky to have all of this land and free wealth to make us the most powerful, the most wealthy nation on earth? When we speak of all of this evil done by Europeans, when we speak of this truth, these facts, it causes outrage amongst the Europeans and even amongst our own people.  When we speak of our cities and civilizations and great accomplishments in the Holocaust and genocides and stolen land and the other crimes of the Europeans, we are told by these same white supremacists to leave all of the past in the past, to move on. They say that we now live in a multicultural democratic society and we should just leave the past in the past.  They want us to disappear. Some even say they wish they had completely exterminated our people and then there would be no one to complain, understanding genocide. Genocide is a word that rarely gets used, but when it does get used, most people don't really understand what it means. You have to understand that it is more than just the racist killing of a people or just the ethnic cleansing of a people. In the book American Holocaust by David Stannard is a section on the definition of genocide. David Stannard writes how Raphael Lemkin, after his experiences as a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust, conceived of genocide as an idea and as a word. Stannard writes that Lemkin defined genocide as the planned annihilation killing of a national or racial group such as Nicanthlaca by a variety of actions that include biological warfare, of all of which are aimed at undermining the foundations essential to the survival of the group as a group, including displacing us from our lands, displacing us from our history, displacing us from our identity, displacing us from our status as a free people, displacing us from having our own schools and universities and displacing us from having our own warriors to defend us, the soldiers who would defend us and our interests. All of these are tax and displacements are acts of genocide. Genocide is further defined as the coordinated and planned annihilation of a national or racial group by a variety of actions. Lemkin wrote that genocide is a composite of different acts of persecution or destruction. His definition included attacks on political and social institutions, culture, language, national feelings and the economic existence of the group. Even non-lethal acts that undermine the liberty, dignity and personal security of members of a group constituted genocide if they contributed to weakening the viability of the group. This means attacks on our existence as Nicantlaca constitutes genocide. This means that smallpox biological warfare and the destructions of our cultures and civilizations have been serial holocausts and serial acts of genocide. It is an act of genocide to attack our political and social institutions, our culture, our languages, our national feelings, our unity as a racial group or to undermine the foundations essential to our economic existence as a group, as Nicantlaca, as a race, as a nation. The foundation of our economic existence as a group is totally based on our lands, the wealth of our lands. To deny as our rights to our lands, to our ownership of our lands is an act of genocide. We have to understand the significance of the meaning of genocide and how it affects us today. This ongoing genocide perpetuated by Europeans means to destroy us as a people to completely exterminate us, surviving genocide. I am a Nicantlaca man who almost never existed. I am part of the 5% of my people that survived that holocaust that killed 95% of my people. I am part of a people who almost became extinct, a people meant to be exterminated. I am part of a nation that was attacked by Europeans using biological warfare, massacres, rapes and every imaginable evil that the European sociopath mind could conceive. Yes, I am part of the Nicantlaca who had 95% of its population killed by Europeans. I am part of the people of this continent who had their cities and civilizations destroyed by Europeans. I am a man who almost never lived because of the holocaust that killed 100 million of my people. I am part of a people that have been enslaved by Europeans on this continent. I am part of a nation that sees Europeans stealing the wealth of our continent every day while my people live in poverty, in ignorance of the truth, the truth that is being told here today. We Nicantlaca, we the people of this continent are the 5% of our population that survived this holocaust.  They failed at that.   Teaching truth in the face of lies and hidden histories of the last 500 years is difficult and may even seem impossible, but the truth can be told. But first we need to learn how we have been lied to. We are told that this continent was mostly empty, that we didn't believe in owning land, that we were total savages living in the Stone Age and without any significant accomplishments. The truth is different from these lies of small wandering tribes and empty lands. The Spaniards who invaded Mexico, right of how they traveled from the coast in what is now called Veracruz up into the central part of Mexico and saw all of the land was being used for different types of agriculture. They saw five major city states that were larger than any city in Europe. They marveled at the beauty and cleanliness of these cities and of the thousands of large and small towns they passed through. Europeans wrote of their amazement upon entering Tenochtitlan, a city larger than any city in Europe. It was a city of the Mexica, the city of the people falsely called Aztecs. In Tenochtitlan they wrote of seeing restaurants, mandatory education for males and females, free hospitals, skilled doctors more advanced than any in Europe and even public toilets, none of which existed in Europe at the time. They were especially awed by Mexica doctors and hospitals that were better than those in Europe. They wrote about the better quality of the Mexica world of medicine with pharmacies, with dentists, psychologists and other medical specialties. They spoke of the marketplace of Tenochtitlan which was larger than any of those of Europe. They were fascinated with the justice system that had none of the corruptions or injustices of the European legal systems. They spoke of the Mexica capital's beauty and asked themselves if they were not dreaming because they could not have imagined that such a beautiful city was even possible. We know nothing of this today. The schools of today that support colonialism and media that promotes continued colonialism don't tell us that there were seven cities larger than any of the cities of Europe in 1492. Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, Puechocinco, Cholula and Tlaxcala all in what is now called Mexico and Cusco and Cajamarca in what is now called Peru. We as Nicantlaca as indigenous people of this continent know nothing of this and neither do the Europeans in the settler nations all across our continent.  Our civilizations begin with the Caral area of Peru and in the El Porvenir area around 4700 B.C. That is about 7000 years ago. The oldest civilization in Europe that Europe claims is Mycenaean civilization of 2700 B.C. But that civilization is more properly part of the civilizations of the Middle East and Egypt. All of this means that our civilizations are older than any of the civilizations of Europe. Europe itself did not invent the wheel nor did it invent agriculture or any writing system nor did they invent any civilization. The things that we think today of as European like the Latin writing system and accomplishments in the early sciences are all from the Middle East. Greek and Roman civilizations are direct offshoots of the Middle East. The Europeans are not truthful even about their own history. How can we expect them to be truthful about the history of their actions on this continent? We have been told that history is told by the victors. Official European history is told to protect the guilty and to preserve the profits from the crimes of colonialism. But there are many hidden sources for true history. Europeans themselves wrote of their crimes on this continent. You have Columbus himself writing about all of his crimes against our people in the Caribbean in his journal. Things like they were well built with good bodies and handsome features. They would make fine servants with 50 men. We can enslave them all and make them do whatever we want. You have Bartolomé de las Casas, a Catholic priest who wrote of all of the monstrous crimes of the Europeans in his book, The Devastation of the Indies. He writes, endless testimonies prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle, and destroy. Small wonder then if they tried to kill one of us now and then. The Admiral Columbus, it is true, was as blind as those who came after him and he was anxious to please the king that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians. But even the official conquerors, the pirates, thieves, savages who came after Columbus wrote of their crimes in their journals and letters without even blushing at the massacres, deceit, theft, rapes, mutilation, kidnappings, extortions, and enslaving that they did on this continent. There is no scarcity of documentation of the evil that Europeans have done against our people. But there is a continued profit that has European settlers on this continent sitting in power, sitting silent on injustice, sitting silent on the ongoing genocide of our people, cultural castration. Over the last 30 years, we have had a tightening of the colonial chains with the imposition of the false Hispanic and Latino labels.  It is an attempt to erase our Nicanthlaca heritage and identity.  Yet, they still needed slaves to do all of the hard work which they were unwilling to do themselves. During those first 100 years, they made slaves of all Nicanthlaca that had survived our smallpox warfare. On slave holdings, they forced the Christianity on our people. They forced their Spanish names on us. We were the Indians on farms mines, plantations owned by Spaniards named Gonzales, Garcia, Fernandez, Martinez and other Spanish names. These were the slave names we were given. This is much like the African slaves who now carry names like Jackson, Jones, Jefferson and all of the rest European names, not our names. On those farms, mines and plantations, our women were raped and our men were humiliated and dehumanized as slaves of Europeans.  They have done it with massacres, executions, torture, terrorism and most effectively with biological warfare, but still about five percent of us survived. But that enslaved five percent of us that survived and that they raped and culturally castrated. We could no longer be capable of having our own warriors so that we would have no history, no pride, no thought of rebelling, rebelling against our masters. Let me repeat that last part. They enslaved us, raped us and culturally castrated us so that we would no longer be capable of having our own warriors so that we would have no history, no pride, no thought of rebelling against our masters. We were culturally castrated by prohibiting us knowledge of our history, by prohibiting us our own schools, by denying us the right to our lands, by denying us the right to travel our own lands, by prohibiting our warrior societies from existing. That is how you culturally castrate a whole race of people. Those are acts of genocide, knowledge, rebellion and liberation. This lecture is a rebellion against our European masters, against the genocide of our people and against the continued theft of the wealth of our continent by the European settlers. They only acquired our lands by theft, violence, deceit, immorality, genocide and biological warfare. That is all evil and immoral. Once we the Nikantlaka have access to truth, we will get access to waking in anger to this truth, access to our full humanity with knowledge of our civilizations and cities and accomplishments. Then we can end the ignorance that is a plague upon our people with drugs, gangs, crime and the self-hate that is promoted by the Eurocentric schools and media. Once we wake to truth, we will no longer be ignorant of the destructive and exterminating goals of the European assimilation process and its end goal of extermination by assimilation. Once we have been 100% exterminated as Nikantlaka, there will be no more Nikantlaka. There will be, there will no longer be any legal or moral or historical claim of ownership by our people, by our people as Nikantlaka since there will be no Nikantlaka. Ignorance has kept us unaware of the genocidal horror being committed against us. Ignorance has also kept us from the great history of accomplishments of our Nikantlaka civilizations. Ignorance has kept us from being thinkers, thinkers evaluating the colonized condition of our people, thinkers aware of the genocide that is going on against our people. Our great history of accomplishments and our land should be our pride, but we have been denied that pride and our land and its wealth. Once we learn this great history of our people, we will again, we will regain our true pride. Once we know of the full meaning of the crimes of the Europeans, we will know that we have only one option. We have to take back our history, our Nikantlaka identity and our human right to our land and its wealth. We are ignorant of the fact that we have, we have the option of having a great future for our people without Europeans in our lives or on our continent. That is a scary thought, a horrifying thought for Europeans on our continent, the fact that we would even think of that, but that is also a scary thought for our own people. We have the right to be a free people, free from Europeans on our own lands. We have the right to demand the return of our lands and not in some token pieces of land, but first we must speak with knowledge, with truth, with courage. For us to refuse to be a free people because we fear Europeans and accept our continued enslavement to Europeans, leaving us as tenants on our own lands, that would say that we are cowards and that we are lesser human beings, that Europeans have destroyed our humanity, the moral question.  Are we lesser human beings, not entitled to our lands? 500 years is a way lesser time than 2,000 years that Jews were robbed of their lands. Are we not equal in some measure of human rights to the Jew, equal as human beings to the Jew? Are we not entitled to the full weight of justice, to the might of the people of the world to help us in demanding that Europeans return our lands to us and that they stop stealing the wealth of our continent? Today it seems unimaginable to us that we could ever be without Europeans controlling our lives or our land. They have made it seem impossible for us to ever be free from their control of our lands or our lives. Europeans and their descendants have tortured that false idea of European undefeatable superiority and hopeless inferiority for us. They have pounded this defeatist and cowardly mentality into our blood, flesh, breath, and heart for 500 years. But for those of us who study our ancestors, we know that we have to be free from Europeans. We can imagine total liberation. We know that it is possible and that it is an absolute necessity to be free from Europeans. We of the Mexica movement are now working for a peaceful, violence-free education path to total liberation. We know that the process of gaining liberation requires an obligation to know our history. It also requires that we regain our honor and our land. We can gain all of the necessary knowledge that will liberate us when we seriously, positively, and constructively study our history without your centric interpretations. In that study, we can find the beauty of who we are as a people in the barbaric crimes of the Europeans if we open up our eyes to the reality of our enslavement, to the Europeans of Europe, and the Europeans on our continent. These semi-independent Europeans on our lands call themselves Americans, Cubans of Miami, and the Criollos of Mexico and Central and South America. They are, in fact, colonialists. They are colonizers. We have to see the absolute need to be free from these colonizers and their control of our lives and their control of our continent. Yes, it is still our land. No matter what the European settlers say, we just have to find the courage to tell them that this is our land and that all of the wealth of our land belongs collectively to us. If we do not say this, we are, in fact, saying that we approve of our slavery and the theft of our wealth and lands. And what does that say of us? It says that we are cowards and fools, perpetual slaves of the Europeans. All of our people have to see that the only honorable choice for us is to regain our heritage and our lands and to be liberated. When we wake up to the reality understanding of all of this, we will see that we have fraudulently and perversely been taught to identify with the interests and desires of the Europeans and their history, their religion, their destiny, and their future profit and progress from our lands while we live in poverty. The wealth of our lands and our slave wage labor are what has made Europeans wealthy all over this planet for the last 500 years. This theft of our wealth and the genocide of our people has been done by people who now call themselves white Europeans, Americans, Anglo-Saxon, and descendants of Spaniards and Portuguese.  The end of the Nicanthlaca, or the beginning of liberation, in order to accomplish their goals of exterminating our people, they have taught us to fraudulently call ourselves mestizo and half-breeds, raza, or mestizo and Latino or American, and to pretend some false weak blood historical ties to Europe or to the Spaniards. But if we honestly look in the mirror, our families, our history, and our people as a whole, we will see the truth of who we are, Nicanthlaca, the full blood and the mixed blood, the light and dark skinned. We are all the scarred survivors of a holocaust. Many of our people now dye their hair, bleach their skin. They do this to hide their Nicanthlaca features. They do this to bring out what supposedly is a true European blood in them. This is so sad and shameful. Europeans laugh at our people when we do this. We should also be laughing at our people when they do this, but we don't. This lecture is not about hating Europeans or us Nicanthlaca. For us Nicanthlaca, it is about loving our own heritage and our own people. For European descent people, this should be an earthquake of truth that will have them questioning how Europeans gain so much wealth and so much power. This is not about hate, this is about truth. It is about understanding the truth about our current enslavement to Europeans and enslavement which is made to look harmless because of the ignorance of all of this truth and the poverty that keeps us as non-thinkers. Would Europeans like to have all of their land stolen in Europe by the Chinese and have 95% of their population exterminated? Would they like all of the wealth of their continent stolen from them by the Chinese and to have the Chinese occupy their lands? Would they like to be culturally castrated, to hate themselves and to love the Chinese people and culture more than their own? Would they like to live forever as a slave nation of the Chinese people? The situation would become different if it is happening to them. They would not tolerate such a situation, but we are supposed to not just tolerate it, we are taught to love it and to love assimilation and genocide. We can be a free people once again, once our humanity is respected, once our human rights to our continent are respected, once Europeans recover their moral compass. Yes, with this knowledge, we want to teach Nicanplaca to love our heritage, our people. We also want to teach European colonialists to free themselves from being oppressors, racists and thieves of our lands, thieves of the wealth and thieves of our humanity. We will need Europeans of true moral and ethical values to have all of this knowledge in our people's interests and the courage to defend our interests in order to undo 500 years of Holocaust and genocide. This lecture should help with the rewiring of the colonized minds of the Nicanplaca in reconnecting with our true Nicanplaca heritage, heritage that is without colonial borders on our continent, without the falls Hispanic Latino labels, without the ignorance that has impoverished our lives for 500 years. This collection of truth will be difficult to digest intellectually, emotionally, but the killing of 100 million of our people with smallpox, biological weapons, the extermination of 95 percent of our people, the theft of 100 percent of our lands is no small thing. Not a truth that should be forever hidden in 50 years or 100 years when we will be the majority in the United States and the majority on this continent. Europeans will have to return to us the whole of our continent to be collectively owned by the Nicanplaca people. That will be the right thing to do, the moral thing to do, the golden rule thing to do, to undo, to do unto others as you would have done unto you. The golden rule is not a Judeo-Christian ethic, it is a universal concept of altruism, idealism, morality and civilized conduct. Europeans knew the golden rule. Had Europeans behaved in this civilized manner when they first landed on our continent, we would still have our cities and civilizations and our vast population on this continent. Let us hope that the future is ruled by the golden rule, not by colonialism, white supremacy or genocide. Thank you very much for listening to the Nicanplaca voice that is not heard. All right, everyone. First and foremost, can you all give it up again for Olen? We do have some time for questions, so if you do have, oh, a seat, yeah, we can find you. So if you do have questions, we do have two microphones over here, one on each side, and we would appreciate if you did use a mic. Okay, I take it you can hear me. Make sure you're not blocking that one. Huh? On me, yes. Oh, and thank you for being here. My name is Teresa. I learned today and I am really sad to say that I am Garcia. I would like to have any other Mexica names. I am from Mexico City. I believe that I am really Mexican people. I love to say, when you said that I am a full blood Mexica, thank you because I learned something very important for me today. I would like to know more about Bartolomé de Las Casas. You mentioned that he was a Christian, but it was not clear for me if he helped our people or if he contributed to kill our heritage and human beings, please. Okay, well, first, I didn't say I was full blood. We as a people, as Nicantlaca, were full bloods and mixed blood. I myself am mixed blood, just like, say, the Jews. Jews are the biggest mixed bloods in the world, right? And so you can have a Black Ethiopian Jew and you can have a Nordic looking Jew, and they're Jews. And that's really the idea with us because we do have mixed bloods and that's part of what makes people confused. Okay, I just want to correct that part. And I'm sorry, the second part of your question was about Bartolomé de Las Casas. He's a complicated man. He was a man actually that participated in a lot of the crimes himself before he became a priest. That's why he knows so well the crimes of the Spaniards. And he did actually defend our people because basically the population was going 90%, 80%, down to about 10%, and he was saying we're going to exterminate these people. We can't keep doing what we're doing. And so he documented all of the crimes, basically. But he also talks about the cities that were there and the accomplishments and things like that. But kind of where he started out bad. He did some good. But then his solution to the total extermination of our people was he said stop enslaving because that's the other thing people don't understand. The people of Mexico, Central America and South America, the Nican Flaca, we were actually slaves. That's a part we never think of ourselves. That's how we became Garcia's and Martinez's and all that. And we never even think about that. But his solution, the Las Casas solution to making sure that we weren't 100% exterminated was he said bring in Africans. And that was the beginning of bringing Africans as slaves into the Western Hemisphere. So see how it's complicated? Yeah. So a lot of people like to put the Las Casas as some sort of saint and say well maybe I'll accept he was a human being who did bad, tried to correct it, but then he did some more bad. But he is actually one of the people that was debating in Europe whether we were even human beings. There was an actual debate. They had actually passed a law that said they are human beings. So okay. Anybody else with a question? I know I covered a lot of different territory and some of this may be new to you. I think for the people of African descent here I'd say you could probably relate some of that to yourselves because it happened in a similar way to people of African descent. But it's a very difficult subject to talk about since the majority of people. How many of you in the audience had never heard of most of what I spoke about just as a curiosity? So you could have lived the rest of your lives and you wouldn't have known this truth. And that's why in the lecture I'm saying you don't believe me, this crazy man is up there saying some stuff about cities and holocausts and smallpox weapons and all that. It's documented. The one that for me was really shocking was the whole idea that Europeans were using smallpox as a biological weapon. The thing is they didn't really start using it with us. There are some islands off the coast of Africa called the Canary Islands. And the Canary Islands were invaded by the Europeans in the 1400s. And when they went in there they discovered something very interesting that the people that they had that had been exposed to smallpox, if they made contact with the people on the Canary Islands, they contracted the disease and within a certain amount of time that whole little village was basically dead. Resistance in areas that had not been exposed to smallpox proved to be fatal. Europeans, again, there were some people that would die in Europe, maybe about 5, 10 percent would survive smallpox, but they would be carriers. But let me finish off with the Canary Islands. So within 100 years of contact by the Europeans, there were no Canary Islanders left. To this day there are no Canary Islanders.  Actually there are no Jamaicans. That's a pretty huge island. There are no Jamaicans left. There are only African people that were brought into Jamaica. But what happened to the original people of the island? And it didn't finish with the Canary Islands, it didn't finish with us. They went into other areas where there was really no immunity to smallpox, like the Polynesian Islands, Australia, and even South Africa. Ever wonder why Europeans made that area a first place of contact? Because it was the first place of contact on the African continent that they found that had no immunity to smallpox. So they went in there and just spread it. So everywhere on this planet that they could do it, they probably would have done it to China and India. Imagine India and China, that would have meant really great lands for the Europeans, right? Except that China and India both had immunity to smallpox. So that kind of gets into the thing. Oh, but they didn't know it was accidental. I use the example of, you have a traveling salesman and he travels to 47 cities in 47 days. And there are 47 murders in those 47 cities in the motel that he stayed at using a knife. Is it coincidental or at one point he must have killed at least one of these women in these motels? And that's what you have. You have the circumstantial evidence. You can't just keep doing it, keep doing it, and say, oops, oops, oops, oops. At one point, well, first of all, you have to be a moral person to say, wow, we can't keep doing this because we're exposing them to smallpox and they're dying. We're Christian people. We're moral people. We shouldn't be doing that. That's not really the voice. No. So that, for me, was one of the things that was very difficult emotionally.  How could they do this? They're civilized. They're Christian, but they made a great profit from them. They made a killing. Hi, my name is Dulce. Thank you for being here first off. I grew up very influenced on American culture, but a little bit unlike Mexican American culture. And my family is very Catholic, but I don't know really how to start that conversation of them understanding why they are Catholic and not ever questioning it in life and generations after generations. So I want to have that conversation with them, but I'm not really sure how to start it. It's a very difficult conversation. I'm a product of parochial schools from grammar school through high school. So I had the nuns and I had the priests and brothers and I was a pretty fanatical Catholic actually at one point. But I was a very curious kid and I want to know more. I actually read the Bible and I was honest enough to say, this doesn't make any sense, especially the Old Testament and reading Deuteronomy and even reading Genesis. And I would ask, and of course the answer is always, well, these are some of the mysteries. But I kept reading and I finally got to a place where I started to question Christianity overall. And at one point it became a connection to the history of Europeans and Christians here on this continent. And Christianity was put on our people at the point of a sword at the point of a gun. This idea that we were converted, they were forced conversions, much like Muslims. They were mostly forced conversions. Now the conversation. Okay. The conversation for years I would say, you know what, let's not bring up this conversation because it's a very emotional conversation. Having been a fanatical Catholic myself, I know that if you came at me when I was 15 years old and you speak in any way against the church, I would have stopped listening to you. I would just attack you for attacking the church. But what is the attack to talk truth? And one of the things that I've learned, I used to say, let's not get into the conversation. But I say, you know what, for our people who are intelligent and truthful and logical, if you get into the conversation, you kind of do have to start with Christianity itself. It is a belief system, right? Like any other religion. So there is no proof for any of it, just like the dollar bill that we have. You know it's really backed by nothing, it's just a green piece of paper. But the fact that we all believe in it, it has value. It's just like the idea of spirituality. When people say I'm a very spiritual person, I feel a spirit. That's closer to reality because really what they're talking about is when they say I'm very spiritual, they say I'm very emotional. It's really what they're saying. It's a school spirit. What are you talking about? Well, the emotion that comes up, right? So at one point you start questioning the words. So you start questioning Christianity and it's a story about a man born of a virgin and he's crucified as a sacrifice to himself or above. And at one point, let's hold on the logic of all this, but you can't have this conversation with your parents probably. Because that's the only set of parents that you have, most of us only get one set of parents. And if you get them upset and they say, Miha, I don't want to see you ever again.  He can get to that point. So maybe the parents is not really the discussion where that should take place. I think you should start with yourself. The question, well, why do I believe this? What was here before 1492? Because this is the other thing people will say, well, okay, I forget Catholicism and Christianity or Protestants and all of that. I want our religion, but they have no idea what our religion was here before.  It wasn't that either. I'm going to get into that one because that's a very complicated subject. So the problems people are looking for easy solutions and there are no easy solutions. I touched only a little bit on the history of our people before 1492. It's a very complicated history. And it's a history that people want told in two sentences or can you tell it to me in like five minutes? So getting back to finishing off the part about having that conversation, before you get to that, you need to educate yourself. Sadly, you do need to study a little bit more about Christianity beyond the superficial that we've been taught. Even though I went to parochial schools and we had religion class every day. And May, I remember every day the mass and all of this back when we had the Latin mass and all this. So it's become kind of part of our culture. In our communities, we have cultural centers. Did you know we had cultural centers? In every community, it's called the church. And that church is enforcing colonialism and it is enforcing genocide. Yet we don't have any real cultural centers that teach us our heritage before 1492 or that even teaches of all of these crimes that were committed against us. Do you have any of those here in Seattle? We have, I come from Los Angeles in Los Angeles, which has the largest concentration of Nicanthaca of indigenous people in the United States. And we do not have one cultural center. You know how many Jewish cultural centers there? Yeah, you already know the answer to that one. Again, because they have a strong sense of who they are. But with us, we don't have that. They have the Bible as kind of like a guide to their culture. And people say, oh, it's because they're very religious people. Well, I work with a lot of Jews and there are atheist Jews. So it's not strictly a religious thing. It's an ethnic identity. Like I remember somebody was questioning this Jewish guy, I said, well, you don't go to temple. How can you call yourself a Jew? What am I going to do? Call myself Chinese? There's a lot of complexities in the issues of identity. And with us, since we have no cultural centers, we don't have our equivalent of priests to be teaching us. We don't have any of that infrastructure that will promote our culture. If anything, there's an infrastructure that promotes the destruction of us as a people. One of the main means modes of destruction of our people is Christianity. I don't know if I fully answered your question, but that was a good starting point. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, folks. It's actually 10 30. So we're going to wrap it up again. Thank you, Olen from the Chica movement.


My terminal emulator of choice for the last year or so has been a Lackardy. It's fast. It's light It's got a easy to edit config fall. It's got a ton of customization options And it's just it's the perfect terminal emulator in my mind So in no way am I looking for a new terminal emulator, but viewers of the channel have been kind of bugging me a little bit They're like a DT.  So last night I installed kitty played around with it for an hour So last night and I've played around with it for a couple hours today So I'm gonna share with you some of my initial thoughts about the kitty terminal emulator before I open kitty Let's actually go over to their website. So kitty's claim to fame is that it is a GPU based terminal emulator So it actually uses the GPU for some of the rendering that sits claim to fame That's the same claim to fame too for a Lackardy a Lackardy and kitty both offload some of the rendering to the GPU for better Performance faster performance It also supports your standard terminal features that you expect most modern terminal emulators to have like true color ligature support mouse support focus tracking hyperlinks and it also supports images now that's interesting because not every terminal emulator has Graphics support built into it typically you have to go install third-party programs third-party libraries to allow a terminal to actually Display an image within that terminal emulator. So that is something different kitty also supports both tabs and window multiplexing That's something unusual too because many of your standard terminal emulators don't have tabs or multiplexing built into them They expect you if you want tabs go install a third-party tabbing program like suckless tabbed Or if you want multiplexing go install a third-party multiplexer like good news screen or tmux But with kitty all of that stuff is built-in kitty also has a framework of a small terminal programs that are used to extend kitty's functionality they call this framework Kittens and I'm gonna show you a couple of the built-in kittens when I get into the terminal emulator The other thing you need to know is kitty does have some cross-platform Compatibility it's not just for Linux. It is also available on Mac OS for those of you that use Mac So let me switch to my desktop and let's go ahead and launch kitty Kitty looks like any other terminal emulator. I mean if I you know just did it LS here Let me open up alacrity, which is my default terminal emulator. You know that really any terminal emulator They all kind of look the same I'm pretty much using the same color scheme in both kitty and alacrity as far as speed Haven't really noticed any speed differences alacrity is very fast kitty is very fast Everything just tends to happen almost instantly The first thing you want to do after you install kitty is you need a config file that we can edit And that's where you're gonna set your fonts and colors and key bindings and all of that stuff Let me zoom in here I believe by default the key binding to zoom in and out is control plus and control minus So the control plus a couple of times to zoom in and the default config file is At user share docs kitty I believe so if I did a CD here and I did user slash share slash doc slash kitty And do an LS you see kitty dot comf that is an example config file And that's kind of like the default config file, but that doesn't need to stay there That actually needs to be placed in your home directory at your home directory slash dot config slash kitty Slash kitty dot comf. I hope that makes sense. So let's copy that over. So let's copy kitty dot comf over to our home directory in my case slash home slash DT slash dot config slash kitty Slash kitty dot comf now I actually do not need to copy this because I actually already have it But let's open up our kitty config file. So let me CD into the home directory and now in Veeam I'm gonna open up dot config slash kitty slash kitty dot comf and Most of this document is folded because it is a gigantic document. It's like a thousand lines Actually, you know what just to make my life easier a little more comfortable in emacs these days Anyway, what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna open up the kitty dot comf here in emacs And let's zoom in here in emacs as well toggle on big font mode here and do me max It probably makes more sense to take a look at this document in emacs rather than Veeam Anyway, in case I do edit anything in Veeam, you know, I would actually be in the terminal emulator I was editing the config file for where emacs, of course is not a terminal program Now this particular config file is massive now most of it is comments But you're gonna have to spend some time with this config file because I mean if I just page down I mean I could page down a million times and not get to the end of this thing It's just a very very very lengthy Config file But it's pretty straightforward because of all the comments the comments tell you exactly what each line does So it's not complicated It's just lengthy because there's a lot of stuff to kitty kitty is not suckless in its philosophy Kitty has a ton of features and because it has a ton of features hence the very large config file The first thing you want to set of course is the font now you have your standard font your bold font Your italics font and your bold italics font and you can set those to whatever I'm setting them all to the mononoke nerd font family But you don't necessarily have to have your bold font and your italic font and your regular font all belong to the same font family Of course, you can switch that up If I page down a few times I will eventually get to things like Setting a scroll back line. So that's how far you can scroll back through the history One interesting thing is you will see mentions of kitty underscore mod several times in this document Especially once you get toward the key bindings later in this document That's your modifier key for the kitty terminal emulator So all of your key bindings typically are going to be kitty mod plus some other key combination Kitty mod by default is set to control shift We can set the location of the tab bar So if we do tabs in our terminal by default those tabs are at the bottom of the terminal But if you prefer it at the top, of course, you can set it for that and of course we can set opacity I'm not doing a transparent terminal, but if I wanted to you know, I could change this And why let's go ahead and change it on camera. Let's set a 80 percent opacity here Let me write that and then I'm going to go over here and kill out of Kitty and launch it again Unlike alacrity alacrity when you change the config file the changes take place immediately I don't have to close alacrity and then relaunch it But kitty I actually have to close kitty and then launch it again for these changes to take effect And let me undo that I'm going to write and quit out of emacs I'm not going to show you the rest of the config file because it's a little boring showing you the config file The lines in the config file. Let me actually show you the terminal emulator in action First of all, we've already talked about tabs enough. How do you tab? Well the tabs by default your key bindings to open a new tab or the kitty mod plus t so control shift t Gets us a new tab and you see I have the tab bar down at the bottom And of course I could click with the mouse to go between them And I believe if I do kitty mod plus either left or right we can move between the tabs So if I do control shift left, you know, I move over to that tab control shift left again I'm back at the beginning of the the stack of tabs here You want to move the order of the tabs control shift period and comma will move the order of the tabs So right now if I do control shift comma, I just moved the tab I'm on over to the second tab So we just really just changed the order of the tabs. I'm not sure how useful that is I guess if you use a ton of tabs sometimes you want to change the order of the tabs Closing a tab is kitty mod q so control shift q closes a tab I'm not a tab person at least I don't use tabs in a terminal emulator ever And I'm not really a multiplexer person either, but I should show you that as well If I do control shift enter That opens up a new window, right? And if I do control shift enter again I get another window and another window and this is one of the layouts that is built into kitty I guess it has six or seven built-in layouts So I think we can cycle through all of the layouts if I do control shift l Okay, that's a layout. There's the next layout and there's the next there's the next which is Full screen. I guess they're stacked on top of each other That's interesting that it has a stacking layout very similar to what you do in tiling window managers control shift l one more time More of a master and stack kind of layout one more time and one more time We're back to the default layout now control shift q quit out of tabs But for quitting out of these multiplexed windows, I believe we have to do control shift x Or is it control? No, yeah control shift q kills the entire Terminal I guess I could look at the documentation to figure this out, but Um, I think I've got an idea. I've tried control shift q control shift x and control shift c and none of those work So the next one I'm going to try is control shift w for window. Yeah, that's it All right, so control shift w closes the windows and the Plexing layouts and control shift q closes tabs if you have a tab to layout The reason control shift q doesn't work when you're multiplexing is because technically We're in one big tab because you can have tabs and then you can multiplex within the the tabs So control shift q while you're just single window multiplexed is just going to kill the entire terminal emulator, of course Now the reason I find some of this confusing You know, like I said, I don't typically use tabs and I I never use multiplexers Because I'm a tiling window manager person I don't need to use tabs or definitely not multiplexers because why do I need my terminal emulator to be able to split Inside the terminal emulator. I have a tiling window manager. I will just handle the splits myself You know, I'll let the window manager handle the layouts and master and stack and the full screen layouts and all that I don't want my terminal emulator taking care of that Now earlier I'd mentioned that kitty has these features built in called kittens Which is a framework for easily creating terminal programs that make use of kitty's advanced features That's the marketing speak there But let's talk about some of the kittens some of these programs that are already built in to uh to kitty And one of the kittens is called icat and that gives you the ability to display an image within the terminal And that is kind of a big deal because many terminal emulators out of the box cannot display images Kitty can so how this works is you run the command kitty space plus kitten Meaning this next command is a kitten command and icat and then I need the path to some Image so I know in my wallpapers directory, of course, I'm going to have some images So I'm just going to do 0001.jpg. I believe is the first wallpaper in my wallpaper repository By hit enter. There it is Displayed perfectly inside the terminal emulator. Of course, I get back to the prompt here. Let me clear the screen So I get rid of that 1920 by 1080 image there. So that was the icat kitten There's also a diff kitten. I guess for doing side-by-side diffs again I'm not sure most people would need that Because typically if I'm going to do a diff, you know, we're going to look at it in vim or emacs or something There's a unicode input kitten. There's a hints kitten now the hints kitten might be useful and what this does for those of you that have ever used a web browser like surf or cute browser or something like that You you guys know sometimes there's a key combination you can hit and it will give you hints to the links meaning it gives you Numbers or letters outside of all the links on the page And then you could type that letter or number combination and it will actually launch You know go to that url. I I believe that's what the hints kitten is for there's a panel kitten There's a clipboard kitten the clipboard Kitten is obvious copying and pasting the panel one isn't so obvious So let me go to my desktop here And if I go to kitty space plus kitten space and let's do the panel kitten And i'm not exactly sure it draws a a doc on your desktop showing output from an arbitrary program Let me go back to the documentation Because this looks complicated So can we just do a echo hello world or something here's an example kitty plus kitten panel and it's going to print f Hello world. Okay. Let me try that That actually sounds kind of neat So you can actually have kitty draw a panel for you if you if I didn't have x-mobile or any kind of doc or anything I could just have kitty Displaying a panel and it actually works. It actually is showing it on my far left monitor Let me see if I can show you guys that here. So let me switch the layout here where it's capturing my far left monitor I'm going to run that panel kitten one more time And you see it draws hello world onto a panel Uh, is that very useful? I don't know. I don't know if I could find a use for that or not But it is pretty neat I could see maybe, you know, if you were wanting to pipe some notifications or something through it and having it displayed You know as a panel maybe overlapping your existing panel or something I I could see something like that being useful. So overall I've been pretty impressed with kitty again It feels fast. It feels just as fast as a lacrity But you know what? I guess the only way to really compare the speed for kitty and a lacrity is to put them to the test So let me open up a lacrity This is a lacrity on the left and this is kitty on the right And let's go ahead and time something. How about we do time And obviously the one that I used in previous videos was less time tree enroute This command can take several seconds to several minutes Depending on how large your file system is and of course the speed of the terminal emulator plays a big role in this Oh, it's going and it's going There we go. That was a pretty fast tree enroute in a lacrity that was executed for me in 16.3 seconds And I've got a pretty bloated system. So there's a lot of stuff in my file system. Now, let's do a time tree enroute in kitty Of course, this is not scientific. It may be faster. It may be slower. That really doesn't mean much But I just thought this would be something fun to do on camera as a as a quick and dirty test here And that was very fast. Uh, that actually finished in 15.03 seconds So uh, like a full second faster doing the tree enroute Then a lacrity both speeds though are very fast 15 seconds 16 seconds when I do tree enroute and something like x term It's gonna take more than a minute to do tree enroute So both lacrity and kitty are extremely fast terminal emulators for me right now Would I move from a lacrity to kitty? I don't know because kitty really doesn't offer me anything that I need It has a ton of features that a lacrity doesn't have but none of those features do I really need Uh, maybe for you guys for you guys that don't use tiling window managers You use standard floating window managers or you use, you know, some of the big heavy desktop environments You know, maybe you want Multiplexing and tabbing in your terminal emulators because you don't have that those kinds of features Existing within your tiling window manager. You know, I use x-mone. So if I want to multiplex something You know, I just tile it, you know, if I want to tab something I can do that with x-mone add i3 Of course has, you know, all kinds of tabbing stuff that you can do So I don't I don't really need my terminal emulator to do that But again, could I use kitty as my terminal emulator? Absolutely. Well, if a lacrity didn't exist kitty might actually Sway me over to actually using that because I do think it's probably a better terminal emulator than a lot of the other Things I've tried in the past in the past. I was a x-term user a urx vt user a termite user And I think kitty is probably a better choice than any of those But that's just my initial thoughts just spending a few hours with kitty over the last couple of days Before I go, I want to thank a few special people. 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Good morning traders, Patrick Manley here with another Tick Mill chart, I want to draw your attention today to a developing opportunity in the Aussie CAD on the four hour time frame here. We have been in a descending trend channel and versus the last low at 92.45 we've made a corrective move up to retest the 50% retracement of the prior decline, the descending trend line and we also have symmetry swing resistance coming in just above the current prices at 94.35, so if we clone this level here you can see the symmetry swing move. So I'm looking to set short positions on a break through the weekly pivot at 93.90, initially targeting the monthly pivot at 93.30 on route to a retest at 92.45. As always traders plan the trades, trade the plan, most importantly manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much.