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And we're back with our first major conversation right here on the breakfast. You're welcome. Natural Central Bank over the weekend responded to insinuations that it didn't carry members of the cabinet and indeed the federal government along in its decision to redesign the nation's currency the Naira. It insisted it followed the law and due process for the Naira redesign saying the exercises 12 years overdue. A statement by the apex bank set the management of the central bank of Nigeria in line with provisions of sections 2B, 18A and 19A and B of the CBN Act of 2007 had duly sought and obtained the permission and approval of President Mahmoud in writing to redesign, reproduce, release and circulate new series of 200, 500 and 1000 Naira bank notes. Central Bank in that statement further urged Nigerians to support the currency redesign project which is in the overall interest of every citizen of the country. The hoarding of significant sums of bank notes outside the vaults of commercial banks should be discouraged according to the central bank Nigeria's apex bank for anyone or by anyone who means well for the country. Now this comes amid reaction and speculation over the move to redesign the Naira following its unexpected announcement and also following a statement by Finance Minister Madame Zainab Ahmed who in reply to questions by members or from members of the Nigeria's National Assembly said she wasn't aware of the mover but heard about it in the media. Glad to say joining us this morning too through some light on this and give us expert analysis on this particular issue. We have an analyst joining us. I'd like to say good morning and welcome to development economist Mukhtar Mohamed. Good morning to you Mukhtar Mohamed. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you so much. Thank you. Always a pleasure to be on your program. Do you understand the, should I call it hula-baloo about CBN and this new decision as far as Zainab Ahmed's statement at the National Assembly last week goes? I think Zainab Ahmed instead of responding reacted maybe that's what the challenge we have with this government. I think it seems to be a different wavelength and that seems to know what the law said the CBN act does not permit the CBN to meet with the Central Bank with the Minister for Finance to tell her that is what we want to do. The act is so far that the CBN is independent. Initially the CBN was under the Ministry of Finance. Remember during the time of President Nusieh Gorbasonjor he came out with the act he wanted the CBN to be independent that that is the global best part is any part of the war. So the CBN is independent to take decision when it comes to monetary policies. You don't have to depend on this on the on the Ministry of Finance. The Minister of Finance have also coordinate physical policies with different arguments. Now and that does not mean that the CBN will not seek clarification but in that act it was made to the CBN that their clarification or over certain issue must come through their audience with Mr President. You can remember the time when Chikuman Soludu Professor Chikuman Soludu was a governor of Central Bank when he came out with the redenomination of the Naira and then President Musa Yadwa was not happy with it and his only reason even there is for the CBN independent was that even with the independence of the CBN the CBN still have to brief Mr President about their decision and Mr President have to look at it and say look how does this work how will it benefit the economy that way that decision was stand down. So the act permits them to do what they have done they have not like the CBN said it went through all due processes briefing Mr President and I think the President was satisfied with their briefing and then he's in the place of the President to have called the Minister of Finance to brief the Minister of Finance if he really has any objection to it. So it shouldn't be put on the door without the CBN. I think the President see themselves where they want to call the Minister of Finance because the President is in charge of physical policies not in charge of monetary policies. So I think they never meant need to look at the act very well and know that the CBN is independent. All right so I'd like to share your thoughts on the redesign and redistribution of the currency. What do you think about it looking at the timeline you know also juxtaposing that with all of the conspiracy theories that have been put out? Well when you look at the timeline there's no timeline when you want to take a monetary policy you have to take it at the time you think it's relevant sometimes you take it very fast sometimes you take it very very slow but it's always going to hit the nail on the head when it comes to taking monetary policy decision because economies these days move at a speed of light decision you took today could be relevant tomorrow but when you look at the current decision by the CBN it's not based it's not strictly a monetary policy decision. I can say that it's more or less you know we'll be complaining about the CBN going into other areas and I think this time the CBN have realized that they need to go into the security area because what we see is that the CBN takes a lot of decision monitoring while the physical side are not able to complement them and the physical side are in charge of security and while there's no security then the economy will not float those far no matter the kind of monetary decision that you are taking. So this policy for me is more of a security policy than a monetary policy. Now in security policy in the short term then a monetary policy in the long term and in the short term the monetary policy may suffer because of the decision they have taken but in the long term it will be beneficial to the monetary policy but for the security it brings almost a solution to some of the security challenges that we've been having because when you look at banditry you look at kidnapping you look at terrorism all these have been funded by people and some of these money that fall terrorism are not in the banking space so definitely a CBN cannot be printing about 3.7 trillion 3.7 trillion and you only have about 1.7 of that trillion in the banking space they will not be able to control inflation by using one of the two which is to reduce to reduce liquidity in the system. So if they don't come up with this policy it will technically affect them in the long term and especially now that we are dealing with inflation in double-digit inflation it's not just only other dealing with this inflation global inflation and trade so all CBN are doing every monetary policy decisions they are looking at the physical side and complimenting the monetary side but you know you know outside now there's no physical side so the CBN have to act out of their own realization into the physical side so definitely in the short term you've seen this repercussion in the parallel market the exchange rate has gone as high as 800 definitely you'll see that because now those people that keep this money at home will not want to take it to the bank because some of this money are not the other money that come from terrorism kidnapping or money that are a result of corruption so they want to take it to the blue the change so what we see now a lot of Naira portion few dollars and so what will happen the exchange rate will go up because demand and supply comes to play so definitely in the short term it will look like that but in the long term I can assure you that if we don't everything we need to do and that is in getting the security agency the EFCC then we might see a solution to some of our exchange with volatility all right you've talked about the the economic implications of this swast macroeconomic or macroeconomic policy is concerned we look at the effect of a man on the street especially the man in the rural area and the effect on his own economy we look at the microeconomy islamic cleric Sheikh Gumi has said that people in the villages in the rural areas will bear the brunt of this move it's one of the many people who have reacted to that will take some of their reactions but let's start with him put up a post on his Facebook page on Saturday saying that Nigerians living in rural areas would bear the brunt of the move and is slamming the federal government over the move to redesign the Naira you know he says that quote changing the Naira this is no time for economic kamikaze is what he calls it no matter how ingenious the hatches may romanticize he says the benefits will remain phantom since the reality on the ground is incogorous and it spells doom for the escapade he says quote 80% of Nigerians especially rural people depend on cash transactions a sudden change to a cashless or cash starved society will mean a proper rising them what are your thoughts on on this and the effect on the the role dwellers and they have in Nigerian who is struggling to eke out living in hard economic times well that is where they have the money agents you remember that the cbm have licensed a lot of money agent that are able to do transaction in the ton of three million yeah i mean so definitely they have the money agent so cbm have acted on that already and you also have the pios terminals all over all the rural area there are also money agents so i and i mean we have it we also have a etm machines they've been located in the rural area but when you come to the exchange definitely they may have to come with it they have to go through the pios agent at the money agent and i know that the cbm is already doing something about that we know that the rural area does their transaction by cash definitely i i wonder that from what he said about 80 percent of them but of this of recent you realize that most of them are even part of the pios agents than doing their cash transaction because it's becoming more risky security words for them to move from cash with cash from point a to b especially with the recent security challenges that they have been experiencing so definitely in the short term like i said it could looks like it's policy but i don't think that i agree totally with them um gumi because again he is he is just looking at them the the shorter the shorter side of it the short term um challenges every decision economy decision comes with his own short term challenges and so definitely i know that the cbm work on way to get the the rural people to begin to not so far so much knowing that this decision is not that he say you will not have cash in your hands he says that you have to exchange what you have to what i mean to the new currency note and how many people in that role it always did one thousand or five hundred or two hundred most of them are dealing the load denomination of a hundred and fifty so i i i don't get why he's saying that because i'm again he more or less saying things that makes you feel that he's a part of the conspiracy theory to make sure that terrorism and kidnapping and keeps keeps keeps keeps striving because we are looking at it and he's been a ex-military man should have looked at the security the implication of this all right so well uh you have talked about you know short term implication and long term let's begin to talk about it's just the decision of the cbn at this time to redesign the currency you have said that i mean it's better late than never it's something that they have to do uh if they have to you know control the money that's in circulation so quickly what would you say would be or what should Nigerians look out for in terms of you know the negative implication and maybe the positive implication the negative implication like i said we're very filling in we're going to see exchange rates and like i said it's for the short term because a lot of these people that have stolen this money are keeping this money in their houses and also muslim forget that also this also would also help us also in fighting food buying come 2023 election we are not looking at that yet so the but in the short term like i said you saw the price i mean the exchange rate has come up that means that the price of goods and services will go up we see that in the inflation figure that will roll out very similarly Nigerian period of statistic that is what we will see in the in the in the short term only the long term we will see whereby those people that have collected this money are that keep discussion their homes those people that are involved in a lot of corrupt tendencies they will at the end of the day we don't take this money to the banks that mean they are also you are going to to to to lost lost the value of this money they may not be able to have this money again and those are the money that are bringing volatility in the exchange rate because most of the money that are bringing the exchange rate volatility are not in the banking space they are in the hands of individuals and most of these individuals are corrupt individuals so definitely you will see that play out so in the long term we might just begin to see the exchange rate comes down it may not be drastically but we see this thing we come down we begin to get a lot of dollars pushing if you have naira and then the love demand and supply will come into play and then security wise we might see even if we give it to a security agent that they have been doing a good job in regard of telling the the the bandit and the terrorists and the kidnappers we could see a reduction in that especially in the demand of ramsom even if gumi said that they will be beginning to demand ramsom in dollars and it's not easy to get dollars anywhere when you demand ramsom in dollars so definitely I think it that will be the long-term benefit and and then inflation cbn will be able to use their monetary policy to which is reduction in terms of reducing the liquidity in the system to contrainflation that is part of their tool so I think in the short term like I said that those challenges will come in you may get the banking or being crowded with a lot of people trying to exchange they will be hit upon that I am not even so confident that the cbn will meet the January 30th date if you look at the nigerian factor unless they are so determined to do that because the nigerian factor is after sometime you see people craving for extension to their legislators through the various uh organ of government but I I believe and I strongly think this is banshee to keep to their to their decision that will help the economy but if by chance they decide to change about the pressure to extend this decision it might weaken the nirah and it might weaken the economy in the long term and even in the short term but um why do we have I mean you you talked about the fact that there will be uh demand for the dollar especially when you have kidnappers asking that are we not you know already suggesting this i just did them on how you know to do this that that's the question the official currency for us is the nirah so um you see you see you see unfortunately that's what I was saying that I don't expect somebody that is so close to the kidnappers or somebody that is so close to the bandit or somebody that's so close to the cell the teller is he has been one of their negotiator he has been the one that have gone to meet them in the forest to be making such statement that said they will start demanding in dollars so definitely you see he's the one telling them now if I was the security engineer that me he's the one telling them now you need to start demanding around some in dollars that's it you know how economies have been delirious that's the challenge we look even look at what we're putting on is all foreign so we have dollar rise in our economy these days you see banks you see investment we have group asking people to begin to invest in dollar to be needed investment because that's the way to age against inflation and the only thing is that you cannot even age against inflation by by by by investing in dollar at the end of the day what gives value for your money is when you change it back to nirah not even when you keep it to dollar because when you leave it in the dollar inflation in in in most developed economy in the world which is america it's about 10 percent so if you're not ending up to 10 percent of that money then that money is losing value so the later they get value for that money is to change it back to the nirah and i think the cbn are aware of that so any of them that have this currency in dollars will not be able to travel with it in dollars they will still have to come back and change it to nirah so definitely that is where the value comes so it's going to be a win-win situation for the cbn in the long term but we have dollarized our economy we see the dollars in which is the most is the most part dollar is the most powerful currency in the world but in when we are dealing with consumables we need to begin to put value in the currency and which is supposed to be the nirah even the cbn even some some some establishment sometime when people apply for even visa to go out of the shortest country some of these visa agents are not asking people to pay in dollar so those are part of the things that the cbn also need to begin to address why do you ask us to pay in dollar when we are in a when we are in when the major currency is nirah so those are part of the loophole that i think the cbn will have to look at and begin to see what they can do about it but i can tell you for the short term it's looking good you may see those there's exchange rate goes up but don't worry it's just what they will see and sometimes they will see corruption is fighting back definitely that's what we see in the short term but like i said it all depends on how the cbn goes about it how prepared they are to meet the demand remember the cbn is already saying that we will want a cashless society so some people may especially in the urban area you will exchange that you go to the bank you put in that 500 they will credit it electronically for you you will not get back the new note unless you want to do a transaction then you have to go to keep for the new note and remember that the cbn now wants to reduce cash in the system so most of our transaction may be done electronically and that is why they are planning to improve they say they will improve the app of their every bank need to improve their app also to make sure that things goes on very well another aspect of this before we go i wish we had more time to talk about the demonetization and how it works but another aspect of this happens to be the the inscriptions on the narrow notes quite controversial you would agree Ajami is said to be what's inscribed apart from the narrow the the house of irrational the arabic writing which has been in use in northern nigeria since the 17th century some have called for it to be removed from the newly designed narrow notes not to be included rather the newly desired designed narrow notes what are your thoughts on this is this a religious issue is it a cultural issue what's the etymology of the the genesis of this how did this find its way there um is there any issue here at all some people say this is simply an issue of inclusivity trying to ensure that the the writing and the language you know it had used in use in northern nigeria at the time the narrow was created just to help people understand and know what is 500 naira what is 1000 naira what is 200 naira in their language and that this is going to help so it should this be an issue at all this Ajami Arabic inscriptions on the narrow it shouldn't be an issue let me give you an example the musical note container in the wall is america and they put in their chorus saying god we trust and then it's in their in their schools they are not even allowed to talk about the same god it's an individual thing but in their major means of esteem which they use all over they put in god we trust so i don't think that that or not that's not what brings the the value of naira it's not been the name you put in it it's not in the in the in the how you put it whether arabic english no the value of the naira has to deal with what you are able to produce what am i have value how valuable is your naira in the tense of your own policy decision in terms of your physical decision that's what give them naira value not in the currency name whether you write it in arabic whether i write it in greek whether i write it in hebrew whether i write it in jewish language it doesn't change anything it's the it's a means of esteem it's like no matter how dirty the naira is if you pick it it still gives you the same value it's only in nigeria that you see people just look at the naira and say no i won't i won't collect it because it's dirty because that is right i'm not raising the cbm what's giving for that is that look we need to guide against counterfeaking we need to guide against making the naira look neat that is the problem of the cbm about counterfeaking there kind of the security has improved in every currency and but you must understand also global best practices is that every five to eight years you redesign your currency so i don't think this issue of arabic or not arabic community so are you saying are you saying muktak are you saying that we should actually nigeria should actually ignore that especially when we know that uh the issue of tribe the issue of ethnicity seem to be big for us right one english-speaking nation what business do we have with arab being on the notes uh if we're talking about arab which some people would say represent a certain religion should we begin to have you know all of the languages reflected on the note so what are you really saying we know that we cannot ignore the issue of ethnicity and religion out of our development as a nation we will not we should not ignore it then also we should not forget that those small population that also have a right to their own and this thing in the currency when i talk about the arabic you should know that the arabic language is also still being being being being used as means of communication in some part of nigeria so i don't think we should let me tell you something about it when the politicians wants to get things out of nigeria they bring us to religion they bring us to tribalistic they bring tribal into it they bring religions into it they bring ethnicity into it that's when they want to divide us but when it comes to the common good of them it corrupting and reaching themselves with our common wealth none of this look at whether they are Muslim whether they are christian whether they are hindus whether they are they are they are they are they are different you can look corruption does not have a tribal name does not have a religious name or every by every of them practice corruption they they're involving corrupt practices so i don't think it should be a major issue in in the fact that since the it seems the the the the the the painting of our currency we've always had that and that has not reduced the value or that has what has added the value i just give an example of america that they put in god we trust and not everybody in america believe that even in their public schools is you are not even allowed to come up publicly to talk anything about god but in their currency which is a medium rest and they put there in god we trust so definitely i don't think that should be an issue economically when you are looking at a currency you are not looking at at the the way what is used to you looking at what is the value of that currency what is the value what can that currency purchase the purchasing power of that currency does not come by the arabic or by the english it comes basically by by the monetary policy and the physical policy that is what gives value to that currency and that's what we should we should be thinking of we shouldn't be bringing religions and tribalism into our economy that has not helped our economy that will not help our economy going forward that is where i stand thank you very much mokhtar for your time we appreciate you you know emphasizing the point mokhtar muhammad is a development economist and is joining us live on our first discussion right here on the breakfast mokhtar thank you very much for your time thank you so much you're welcome to play something thank you all right we'll take a break now and when we come back we have more discussions ahead of the breakfast please stay with us


So Cyberpunk 2077 after the next gen upgrade is amazing. CDPR have added many new additions, tweaks, secrets and more. The game is now at a stage where I can confidently say it's great. Today guys I will show you how you can trigger a few secret convuls with Panem which result in a cheeky little text. Proma. How's it going guys? My name is DPG and if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more Cyberpunk be sure to subscribe. Okay so for those of you who are interested in relationships within Cyberpunk, CDPR added additional content which sees the relationship expand a little past those cheeky scenes. There's actually ways in which you can trigger further instances and today I will show you how you can do this with Panem and also show you a glimpse into Judas. So firstly you need to have done the Panem romance. The tank the lot. Now on the next gen and PC after the 1.5 patch this is what you have to do to actually sleep next to her so you wake up next to Panem and then trigger further things via text message. So the Nomad camp as you know will be classed as an apartment for you once you do the whole Panem quest line but if you go here after the patch there's nothing really new here so this is what you need to do. Run away from this camp and skip time by a minimum of 100 hours.   Depends on what the it is and what you want to hear.  I did though I missed you and from here guys you can then actually go to sleep within this Nomad camp and then you will wake up next to Panem make of this what you want but I can't imagine I'm gonna see a lot of new photos from this for sure. Okay so from here guys you need to go about your business and do other things within the game but if you want to make this quicker you can just skip time. Eventually you will get a series of texts from Panem. I skipped probably about four days worth. She first started sending text messages asking about Johnny Silverhand. I skipped more time she then asked about Jackie. I skipped more time and eventually guys I will see if this message you can see on the screen now make of it what you want. Now this is as far as I've seen now it could go further I ain't sure. Now I do believe there are these kinds of things for other romances too so that will be I don't know about Kerry but Judy I know it works with Panem obviously also I ain't sure about River either. Now in terms of Judy I have got a little bit of footage of what actually happens. Now this actually involves Judy's grandmother sending you text messages and you can see this on the screen now thanks to Drunk Lad from Reddit. So yeah guys let me know if you try this and find more secrets if I find anything new I'm for sure have you guys right here on my channel. On that note guys the end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here want to see more cyberpunk be sure to subscribe and hopefully people I will see you on that next. One.


So this story is interesting to me a producer at MSNBC who worked on Laurence O'Donnell show her name is Ariana Picari She just resigned and not only did she resign She penned a scathing letter Criticizing the network because she thinks that what they're doing is bad for democracy now. I will admit I think that her criticism of MSNBC is relatively shallow and it doesn't go deep enough But I do think that her heart is in the right place So I do want to share some of her letter But let me just give you the quick rundown basically she's suggesting that overall the network itself it focuses too much on Sensationalism there's no diversity of thought and they oftentimes elevate fringe voices because they think that that's what's going to drive ratings They are just seeking to increase ratings constantly Oftentimes she says that they're hyper focused on Donald Trump. I think that that's obvious they disregard factual or Scientific stories and cover the political angle of set stories, you know climate change comes to mind look all of these criticisms I think they're obvious like if you watch MSNBC and you're savvy and you have a coherent critique of mainstream media All of these things are pretty obvious to you But it doesn't go deep enough because these are issues that also plague indie media as well Like I think that there is an incentive to do clickbait I think that indie media can also be susceptible to Sensationalism but the reason why corporate media is so nefarious is because of the conflict of interest their connection to large multinational corporations and the way that that specifically Influences their coverage now what she's saying isn't as surprising as what we learned from other individuals who worked at MSNBC I mean Jeng Yuger famously was called into the office of the president of MSNBC and Basically scolded him because he was ruffling too many feathers when crystal ball worked at MSNBC She criticized Hillary Clinton and then going forward they told her that they had to run all of her Former Hillary Clinton segments by production or a higher up to make sure that they approved it and on top of that the late Great Ed Schultz let us know that he Received a call from the president of MSNBC Phil Griffin and he demanded that he not cover the launch of Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign so I think that all of those revelations from people who saw firsthand How bad MSNBC was that information is much more important. I think it's a lot more incriminating when it comes to MSNBC and their practices a lot of what she's saying here You know I read this and I just think I think this is obvious, right? Nonetheless, what she does say, you know, it confirms what we suspect that they are hyper focused on The one thing that all businesses are focused on, you know money and as a result They try to do what they can to make sure that they have good ratings So this is what she writes in her blog on her website July 24th was my last day at MSNBC I don't know what I'm going to do next exactly, but I simply couldn't stay there anymore My colleagues are very smart people with good intentions. The problem is the job itself It forces skilled journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis You may not watch MSNBC, but just know that this problem still affects you too All the commercial networks function the same and no doubt that content seeps into your social media feed one way or the other It's possible that I'm more sensitive to the editorial process due to my background in public radio Where no decision I ever witnessed was predicated on how a topic or guest would rate the longer I was at MSNBC the more I saw such choices It's practically baked into the editorial process and those decisions affect news content every day Likewise, it's taboo to discuss how the rating scheme distorts content or it's simply taken for granted because Everyone in the commercial broadcast news industry is doing the exact same thing But behind closed doors industry leaders will admit the damage that's being done We are a cancer and there was no cure a successful and insightful TV veteran said to me But if you could find a cure it would change the world as it is this cancer stokes national division even in the middle of a Civil rights crisis the model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events At the expense of others all because it pumps up the ratings this cancer risks human lives Even in the middle of a pandemic the primary focus quickly became what Donald Trump was doing poorly to address the crisis Rather than the science itself as new details have become available about antibodies a vaccine or how COVID actually spreads Producers still want to focus on the politics Important facts or studies get buried this cancer risks our democracy even in the middle of a presidential election Any discussion about the election usually focuses on Donald Trump not Joe Biden a repeat offense from 2016 Trump smothers out all other coverage Also important is to ensure citizens can vote by mail this year But I've watched that topic get ignored or killed numerous times Context and factual data are often considered too cumbersome for the audience Occasionally the producers will choose to do a topic or story without regard for how they think it will rate But that is the exception not the rule due to the simple structure of the industry the desire to charge more money for Commercials as well as the ratings bonuses that top-tier decision-makers earn They always relapse into their old profitable programming habits I understand that journalistic process is largely subjective and any group of individuals may justify a different set of priorities on any given day Therefore, it's particularly notable to me for one that nearly every rundown at the network Basically is the same hour after hour and two they use the subjective nature of the views to justify economically beneficial decisions I've even heard producers deny their role as journalists a very capable senior producer One said our viewers don't really consider us the news. They come to us for comfort again personally I don't think the people need to change. I think the job itself needs to change. There is a better way to do this I'm not so cynical to think that we are absolutely doomed though. We are on that path I know we can find a cure if we can figure out how to send a man to the moon if Alex Trebek can defy The odds with stage four pancreatic cancer and if Harry Reid can actually overcome pancreatic cancer He's now cancer-free then we can fix this too So she repeatedly as you just heard references a cure and that we need to find a cure But the problem is that you're not going to be able to find a cure if you haven't accurately diagnosed The actual issue itself. What is that cancer name it? She doesn't necessarily say that it's relatively vague, but the cancer is Capitalism, it's the for-profit news model that that goal to maximize profit is At the center of why news is so terrible in the United States And it's not just that goal to you know maximize profits So they are incentivized to do sensationalism to increase ratings These are people in media the pundits that are multi-millionaires. They are out of touch So it's not just that they're covering stories because they're trying to find a way to you know Increase their ratings. They're covering stories to impact the country as well because I mean They have a stake. They have a horse in this race like the people at MSNBC were Absolutely hysterical when Bernie Sanders won Nevada like one reporter from MSNBC Audibly sighed when she reported that Bernie Sanders had won overwhelmingly at one particular caucus site the multi-millionaires The pundits at MSNBC they didn't like Bernie Sanders probably because he wanted to increase their taxes So it's not just that you know this drive to increase ratings Which is driven by the goal to maximize capital is making them report stories on a way that you know distorts reality They're also reporting on stories where they're trying to actually influence the outcome of society like they're not reporting it Reporting the news as it comes like they're trying to dictate what happens. They're actively telling us don't support someone like Bernie Sanders They don't explicitly say that but I mean it's it's implied We're primed to believe that Bernie is bad if we tune into MSNBC So I mean this financial incentive specifically. That's what's making news terrible. That's the cancer ultimately it is the goal of every, you know Person in a capitalist society to constantly maximize capital So you have self-interested individuals driving this content and then they also have the pressure from the network to you know Do stories that lead to them? Getting better ratings. I mean that's the issue here. It's the commodification of news news shouldn't be about what makes you money News should be about informing people reporting the news as it comes as a matter of fact Now you could have people editorialized. I think that there's room for commentary obviously. I'm a commentator But you know the way that they present this information as supposedly neutral arbiters of the truth is Pulse right? So I mean everything that she's saying here like I get the sense that her criticism of corporate media in general It's not shallow like she wants to go deeper than surface level But she misses the mark ultimately because what she saw first hand I'm glad that it disturbed her that shows that her moral compass is working But she doesn't necessarily know why these things are happening. That's really the overall Thing that I'm picking up on when I read this like she can't understand why the network has an incentive to just increase ratings Why it's the case that News is even about making money. So I mean you have to think broader than just MSNBC as a company in their gold Why is it that so many things in our capitalist society is about money? So I mean when it comes to healthcare the goal isn't to cure people the goal is to make money Goldman Sachs literally asks if it's a sustainable business model to cure patients an education We're moving towards privatization Donald Trump is trying to dismantle public education in favor of private education Why because education is no longer about learning it is about making money This is exactly what neoliberalism has done It's hollowed out our democracy in our country and of course news is going to be vulnerable to that as well So I think that you know if you are going to criticize the media you have to have a Broad analysis and you have to fully understand the powers that they have and why it's more than just oh well They want to increase ratings. So they cover this in this weird skewed way I think she's correct about that but also when you look at this from an academic perspective What they show is that the media is far more powerful than even she believes or knows right They have the power to prime people to think about things without actually saying it So they can get you to think about a particular politician in a way without saying Bernie's bad, right? I mean they certainly on MSMDC anyways, they criticize Bernie Sanders pretty explicitly you had some people saying Oh, well Bernie Sanders makes my skin crawl, but oftentimes they don't have to do that They don't have to take it that far They can prime you to think about Bernie in a certain way without saying what they want you to think like for example I can prime you to think about video games and ration and clank and controller and an X a circle Triangle you're thinking about PlayStation not because I said PlayStation But because I tried to invoke an image in your mind that gets you to think of PlayStation or if I say red Round bouncy you think of a ball and I didn't have to say ball to get you to think of a ball It's called priming I'm on top of that they can set the agenda raise the salience of How you view issues? So if you think that an issue isn't very important The media can literally elevate that issue salience and get you to think it's more important than it is in actuality Like the media is so powerful. It's why books Like manufacturing consent which are very thick have been written about this very topic because they influence a lot of what happens in this country So, you know, I really like what she's saying here I give her credit I commend her for speaking out because you know when you do something like this When you burn that bridge, you're not going to have an easy time finding a job in this industry unless she's planning to go independent But I mean, I hope that what she does is really Research specifically what that cancer she was referring to is because I think that she's misdiagnosing this issue I think that she has to broaden her level of analysis and really look at what's wrong with our news model in America All the way around like it's not just that they're trying to get ratings. It's that we have commodified news News shouldn't worry about ratings news companies should not be owned by large Multibillion-dollar companies who have interests who lobby the government for very specific policies So I'll leave that there, you know, again I don't want to shit on everything that she's saying here because I think it takes a lot of courage And I think she's brave for doing this But you know what she's saying honestly isn't that shocking and the revelations that we've received from Jeng Yuga crystal ball and Ed Schultz have been a lot more telling with regard to the practices of MSNBC This is exactly what you know, we'd expect from them, but she's right that it's not just MSNBC This is all corporate owned media who has corporate advertisers. I mean, it's all one club and you're not part of it


with the speed of light, the cloud of dust, and a hearty high old silver, the low ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations. And nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Learn with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, from out of the past can the thundering hoof beat to the great horse, Silver. The lone ranger rides again. Come on, Silver, a danger on the train ahead. Oh, Silver! Hold it! Snake Anson was all that his name implied. An evil, slinking, cunning creature who stopped at nothing to gain his desires. Orange flames laughed from the gun on the dry gulch. Snake glanced at the figure on the ground that he'd shot in the back and jerked the watch fob of the dead man's vest. Then, some time later, Snake dismounted at a cabin just south of the Canadian border. He hurried through the door and... Snake, what's the rush? What's happened? Is that lone ranger critter after you? Now, boy, I thought to flint, I'm after him. Look what I got. Let me see. A bullet. What about it? A silver bullet. Don't that mean anything to you? Can't say that it does. We're going to use a silver bullet in this terror to accept the lone ranger. Right. We're going to drop his ace for this silver bullet. I don't get it. I've been trying to figure some way to get the lone ranger. Now I've got it. Go on. If you've listened to the stories, I've been told about him. You know, I think Spokes think of him as a knight in shell and armor. A knight in a white horse. Yeah, maybe the right flit, but the armor has a flaw in it. A flaw? Yeah, soft spot. And that's the kid. Damn. Maybe you don't show it much, but the lone ranger thinks a lot of Dan. What of it? If the kid was in danger, he'd ride to save him. You mean? Dan feels the same about the masked man. Where does the slug fit in? The kid doesn't know you. You used to show him this silver bullet and say the lone ranger sent you. That's heavy. Good. Now the next thing is to get a hold of Dan. The lone ranger and Tonto rode across the snow outside of town. Though the mission which had brought them all the way from Texas to the snow-swept country just south of the Canadian border was concluded when an outlaw went to jail, they lingered because of Dan. Dan was a boy of 14, a lively alert lad who had since babyhood been vitally interested in the stories his grandmother told him about the lone ranger. The boy's qualities had appealed strongly to the masked man, and there was something about him that stirred the imagination of Tonto. This boy named Dan had shown courage and resourcefulness. He had proved that his loyalty to the ideals of the lone ranger could not be shaken. But there was something more, something intangible that made the masked man and Tonto keenly interested in Dan. Suddenly the thoughts of the lone ranger and his Indian friend were interrupted by the sight of an aged horse standing alone on the trail. The beast seemed to be nudging something on the ground. I can't tell from here, Tonto, that it looks as if someone is hurt. Maybe fall from course. You'll find out. Come on, Silver. Get him up, Scout. Oh, what's your hold, fella? Hold, hold. Fella on the ground, hurt Dan. He's a big fella. Take a look, Tonto. See if there's a chance. Bulletin back. Looked like we come too late. Oh, wait. No, no pulse. He's gone, Tonto. Poor old fella. See if he's any one way. We know him. Old Mac. Reached the end of his trail at last. Long time since we see old Mac. He may have been six months getting this far north. He, Tonto, look. Look at his watch, Bob. That's a bit of ribbon. Remember that? Him take silver bullet, you give him long time back. Tie to watch, Bob. Him say, always wear it. Yes, he said. And I can remember every word of it. I'll wear this silver bullet till my dying day. Remember that? You remember. Watch hasn't been stolen. Your money belt. He wasn't shot to be robbed.  I wonder. Tonto, we're going to find this murderer. Careful where you step their footprints. Maybe we can find a clear one. He'll look round. Maybe over this way. We'll see him caught Mac and punished. We'll see that your old horse gets green pastures. Fella, that's about all we can do for you now. We'll be found, Tonto. Oh, here. Here, boot print. Get plenty clear. Good. Fella, shoot from gouges. Leave Mark a boot here where ground plenty soft. Patch on the boot. We'll know as if we see it again. Find some hemlock branches. We'll cover this to protect it. Might be handy as evidence. Dan had heard about the Lone Ranger from his grandmother. The thrills of her many stories told over a period of many years were exceeded only by the actual meeting of the masked man. Now more determined than ever to emulate the Lone Ranger, Dan was practicing to improve his speed at drawing a gun. You've got a mighty lot of practice ahead of you, Dan. If you hope to come up to the Lone Ranger. I guess so. I sure have a lot to learn, Graham. Oh, you're young, lad. You have a lifetime ahead of you. Do you think the Lone Ranger was his gun fast when he was 14? I don't think so, laddie. Wait. Looks like that man's coming here. You know him? I don't think so. You're looking for us, stranger? I reckon so. Looking for the Lone Ranger's friend? I guess you were the one. I'm his friend, all right. Young. What about the Lone Ranger? Where is he? Son, I hate to bring anyone bad news. Has something happened to him? Well, as to that, I can't say. I can't say for sure. Well, what about him? He sent me to you. That is, I guess he did. Your name's Dan? Yes.  He wanted me to fetch you. I'm to take you where he is. Why'd he send you? Maybe because I happened to be handy. I didn't ask why he picked me. He did, that's all. Oh, by the way, he said you might suspect something funny. He said to hand this bullet to you to show him on the level. Bullet? Graham, it's a silver bullet. I've got to go. I don't know, Dan. But I've got to go. Graham, he wants me. I don't know what you could do. That an older man couldn't do. Probably safer if you. Maybe the Lone Ranger feels he can trust me. Gee, I've got to go right away. I'll be back as soon as I can. Be careful now, Dan. Don't run risks. The Lone Ranger wouldn't want to. I reckon he wouldn't send for the boy if there was risk, man. Well, I'll get a horse and be right with you. You'll take care of the boy, won't you, mister? Oh, sure. Don't you worry. He'll be taken care of. Wonder why the Lone Ranger'd send for a boy at Dan's age. Get on there. An hour later, the Lone Ranger and Tonto reached Grandma's house after their ride from the trail where they had buried Old Mac. Oh, Silver Bullet, what's got any better call? Thank goodness you're safe and sound. Safe? What do you mean? Well, where's Dan? Didn't he come with you? No, I haven't seen him. But he went to you with the man you sent for him. Why didn't send anyone? You didn't send a man with the silver bullet? No. Well, Dan went? Who got the silver bullet? He was a stranger. Oh, a mean-faced man. I didn't like his looks. Which way did they go? Dan went to the shed for a horse. The man followed him. Then they rode off toward the north that way. Come on, Tonto. Come on, Silver Bullet. The crew of the Silver Bullet sent the masked man and Tonto in fast pursuit of Dan and the man described by Grandma. In a few moments, the Lone Ranger rained up. Horses of horses go. The tracks of two horses met tracks of many. Tonto leaped the ground and spent just minutes studying the mass of indentations in the soft ground. Then quite suddenly... Look here, Kim and Sabi. Is that a big fella? What did you find? Mark by boot with patch. Mark a fella who killed Old Mac. What a gang. Tonto, that bullet was stolen as part of a big scheme. That's right. How many in this gang? Look like 12, maybe 15. They headed from here directly toward the border. They can cross to Canada. The laws of the states can't touch them. Come on. Ahead of the Lone Ranger, Snake Anson led his gang across the border. Dan had long since found that resistance was hopeless and escaped far out of the question. When he realized that the United States was back of him and that he was in the Northwest Territory, he wondered what scheme the Outlaws had in mind. Rain up! You rats will get yours. This is the Monies' country. Get up and look through these binoculars. See anything on the bacterial snake? Yep, we're being followed. That's perfect, just what I wanted. Lone Ranger. Same. I hope you found my boot, Marks. Now what? I'll take the kid with me on foot. This much, you... What if I won't? You'll be dragged. What'll we do, Snake?  I'm walking the kid up the trail in the face of that cliff there. When we get to the ledge where the old cave is, we'll come down on a rope. When I signal with a shot, you and the boys come back shooting. Lone Ranger will be trapped on that ledge. Couldn't we lie and wait and ambush him easy? Not with that red skin. That kid would smell an ambush a mile away. Do it my way and we won't run no risks. All right, get down, you. All right. Are you sure you don't need me to help you, Snake? You would have said, I want Dan to start hiking up that trail ahead of me. Hey, follow me, boys. Get up here. The trail up the face of the cliff was sharp and difficult. Long before Dan reached the ledge, he was out of wind. But Snake and back of him was almost gasping for breath. Ultimately, the two reached the top.  Well? Take this rope and throw it around that rock. So both ends of the rope fall to the plane below. And slide down the rope, I suppose. That's right. And I'll be right in back of you. Look here, Snake Hansen.  You needn't know nothing. Just keep your trap shut and do what I say. And maybe you'll come out of it alive. You know I won't. You've got no intention of letting me live to tell him how he's about this. Now, that rope. Remember, I've got you covered. If I don't? Look, you young whippersnapper. You're going down either by the rope or by a drop. And right now, too. All right. I'll take the rope. Hey, look out.  You knocked my binoculars over the edge. Too bad.  Dan slid down the rope and picked up the binoculars. He stood looking at them with a sudden idea entering his mind. Then Snake came down the rope. Have a while, those glasses. I'm done with them now. As soon as I hold this rope down. Yeah, stand still. I'm not moving. I've got you covered every second. And don't think I ain't ready to shoot if I have to. The same rope will do to Taya. I'll head for those big rocks.  And don't get any ideas of things. Because you'll be gagged.  The curtain falls on the first act of our lone ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. Following the outlaw's trail across the border into Canada, the lone ranger and tunnel suddenly came upon the thing they were looking for. Marks in the ground made by a boot with a patch on the sole. Gang went on, Cuttle. Dole, Max, Murderer, and someone else went up that trail. I dismount. We follow them. They force us here, huh? Yes. I can't be sure, but I think the killer has Dan with him. Ah, pints look like Dan's. Some sort of a cave on the ledge ahead of us. Let me see it. Maybe that killer is in the hiding there. We in Canada now? I think we are, Kimosabi. Dan will know for sure. Steady now. Keep back. Let me go ahead. Oh, me take leave. I got back. I'm going to have a look inside that cave. Wait, Kimosabi. You see something here. What is it, Kimosabi? Oh, rope was passed around that rock. That's right. Recently, too. Ah, that's it. Hug the ledge. Keep your head down. That shot came from below. And it aimed at us? Wait till I find out more about it. Keep out of range. You go in cave. Maybe take a look below. Keep your head down. Someone over there got the back trail watched. We try other direction. Maybe ledge go higher. Maybe trail above, safer. It's worth a try. I don't want to get too far from Scout and Silver. We have to cross a lot of the way. Maki Hula. What's that? Crooked all the way, watch. If we go ahead, fellow watch trail. If we go back, fellow watch trail. If we stick our heads up here, we're in range of others. There's plenty slick trap. They simply wanted to kill us. They went to a lot of trouble.  Them not go to plenty trouble. Them go to jail. Right here in front of the caves, the only place we're out of range. I wonder how many there are in that outfit. Well, may find track of 15 horse. Only two came up here. Yeah, those must have ridden on, then turned back. I'm going to throw some shots out there and take a quick look while my bullets keep their heads down. Here, put my head on the end of that twig and hold it up to draw fire while I get into position. Uh-huh, me fix it. I had a chance to look around. And what you see? Hello. There's a big boulder about 50 yards in the base of this cliff. In plain view, at one side of it, our young friend is sprawling the ground, roped. You mean Dan? Yes. Why him there? He's in plain sight. The answer is obvious. We'll shoot him if we make too much trouble for them. Him gagged? Yes. Hurt? I couldn't tell. He wasn't moving around. I'm sure there are at least two men behind that boulder. I can see their shadows sliding out from the side. How long we stay here? I don't know. I wish I did. I want you to wait, Tutto. Listen. This way, so, Cliff, we should not go to sleep scheme. We have a chance to escape, just a matter of time. I reckon you know you're crossed the border into Kansas. Sure. Which means that the lawman in the states can't trail us here. That's so. We had to leave a track the lone raid you could follow. But we didn't want no sheriff coming to bust up our little affair. Larry. He stuck his head up again. You're the only one that's seen him. Did you hear the other boys for air? Yeah. Say, where's your binoculars? They get busted. That fool kid knocked him off the ledge while we was up there. It's too bad. Yeah. After a long time to find another pair out here, he'd many of them in this part of the country. Kid's mighty quiet. He ain't hurt, is he? No, he ain't hurt. Maybe one of the lone rangers bullets hit him. The lone ranger don't shoot that careless? Maybe he thought he was one of us. Hey, what's going on there? The kid's all right, but take a look. He turned his back on us. Can he get out of them ropes? Not the way I tied him. Seems to be working on something. Hey, you. Kid, turn so that we can see your hands. Did you hear what you was told? Turn around here. Hey, budgen, you should have tied his hands to the back. Don't tell me how to tie a man. Hands at the front risk together. In the same rope though, neck and ankles. He can't even straighten his legs. He's up to something, Snake. I hanker to know what. Keep a sharp watch on the ledge. I'm going to see what he's doing. If the lone ranger shows himself, shoot. Snake Anson made his way toward Dan.  What are you doing? I'll show you. Dan leaped to his feet, free to the ropes. Turn, stop him. I'll get you. That snake brought up his gun to fire, a shot streaked from the ledge. Oh, my head. He's firing at you. Gunfire broke from the men behind rocks. The lone ranger and tanto shot the cover, the escape of the boy. Dan raced madly toward the nearest horse, knowing the lives of the masked man in India depended upon him. For his own life, he cared nothing. Bullets split the air around him. But the outlaws were shooting too fast for accuracy. Then?   Get away. Shoot him. Drop him. They're trying to. Hey, you missed. That lone ranger got me. Shot the gun right out of my hand. Now that dog-going kid got away. Yeah, the masked man's out of sight again. Hang it all when that kid made his break shots flew from the ledge faster than I ever seen.  Hey, that kid. He gets oil. I never thought of it. Had he get away? He had that boy with the goggles with him. He unscrewed one of the hooks of glass and used it as a burning glass. Concentrated the sun till the rope was burned through. That's what he was doing. Hey, bring help. We've got to work fast. Mighty fast, Nick. We're to get that masked man. They will. Now I'm done with waiting around. I'm going to get him. Boys, all of you, listen to me. Can you hear me? There's a lot of pressure on the bottom of that ledge. Make a run for it and start a fire going. We'll smoke him out. Make sure he knows this cave tunnel. Or he wouldn't have started the fire. It's a draft at the mouth of the cave. It's like an oven door. The smoke will be sucked right around us. He won't be able to take it for long. And we not get shot at crook over the edge. I'm safe enough there. Fire's going good now. Oh, you're plenty big. He'll heat way up here. Move in the wet grass. Start the smoke on him. Well, at least Dan got away. I'm glad of that. Ah, maybe him. I don't think that will help, Tutto. Long and not help? Remember, we're in Canada. No sheriff will come across the border. No, no, no. That work gang, plenty smart. Make hands on his smart. Nearly as smart as Greg. We thought he'd been crying. Smoke's the start now. How long? I wonder. Smoked bad. It's going to get worse. Lots of worse. Fire it on. Roll on some wet grass. Start another fire. Good luck. Fire it on. Roll on some wet grass. Start another fire. Good alongside the first. Get two fires gone. Get three. Get a dozen. Make the smoke so thick it'll be cut with a knife. Snake, are you sure the smoke's going into the cave? Look for yourself, Lit. You see the way it's sucked right across the legend into the cave. Think them two can get fresh air at the back of the cave? Ah, I still need this place more angles. I know the location. Let's either strangle those two or bring them into the open where we can drill them. Maybe the kid will get help. We won't waste time. More smoke, boys. Make it ten times at least. The smoke became more dense with every passing moment. The lone ranger and tanto felt tears streaming from their tortured eyes. And their tongues felt swollen and throats that were raw with the acrid fumes. Though they hugged the ground on the edge, gasping for air, they found no relief. Starting more fires. Can't wait much longer. Ah. Ah. Can you see them? When we go, Musabi, we go together. Ah. We make run. Oh, wait. One minute more.  Oh, yeah. Better keep the smoke out. Ah. Clear as possible. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Then shoot some more. Who yell? Oh, Marty. You're there. Boy, bring help. I'm going to look over the ledge. Oh, wait. The gang may be ready. Shoot you. But they're not.  They're paying no attention to us. Come on, down the trail. See you over there. That's where the mountain is. Back of that rock. Ah. There's a man. He's had to come to this side. Give him something to think about. Ha. There are other fellow with him. About our lead near them. Let's make him barf. He's between two fires now. Scalp and Silvers still waited. Get the saddle. We'll take Snake Hansen. He's the leader.  Be ready.  Scalp. Come on. Wait, you. Don't. Tell your men to surrender. Wait, sir. Hurry up, or I'll drag you out of the saddle. I give up. Boys. Boys, give up. There's a whole army after you. Come on. A whole army. Ah, Hansen. One man. One mother. Well, men aren't plentiful. Sergeant, I suppose this young friend of mine brought you. Yes, and he told me something about you. I'll not question the fact that you wear a mask. Dan, you saved our lives. I didn't do anything except go for this friend of mine and amount of police. You can't touch me.  You can't touch me for what I do in the States. You're going to the States as a murder trial waiting for you, Hansen. That patch on your shoe will hang you. You can't touch me. Well, I went in the States, got nothing to say in Kennedy. Dan, before I leave, thanks. We'll meet again. Well, sure, but you say you're leaving? Snake Hansen is going to the other side of the border to pay for old Mack's murder. That's where you're wrong. I'm not crossing the border. I reckon this official in the Red Coach would want me for disturbing the peace or something. So I'll stand trial here. I'd do nothing here that can hang me for. I'm not crossing the border. Hansen, this mask man isn't an official of the law. Why, if he wanted to drag you over the border... You'd have to stop him. I'm your prisoner. I might have to stop him if I could. But of course, I have your friends to watch. And besides, I'm studying that ledge. Curious how that cave happens to be there? Probably sometime in the past a river come out of that. Made a waterfall. Hey, let me down. Let me down. I say stop. You can't do this. The waterfall would have dropped right over the ledge. That must have been quite a sight. The Lone Ranger has found qualities in Dan that amaze him. His keen interest in the boy is pointed towards something, but what is it? Is it possible that Dan or his grandmother played a part in the mysterious and unrevealed past of the masked mystery rider? Be sure to tune in the next of this surprising sequence of Lone Ranger stories in the high border country. Who is Dan? Here you have just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


What's up, world? I'm Jeffrey at Lightbox and one of the things I love most about Elementor is its overall raw power I feel it's one of the most powerful tools out there on WordPress and one of the most powerful features to Elementor is its Form Builder. It makes it so easy to build any kind of form whether it's a simple sign-up newsletter form or a more complex contact form and Before we used to have to write a lot of CSS Put in expensive plug-ins do all kinds of things to build the kind of forms that we could build right now in just minutes With Elementor and it's fantastic, but what happens when somebody fills out that form? Where does the information go? Well, normally it gets sent to you by email But things happen Sometimes the message could go straight to spam Sometimes it gets lost in the shuffle of all your emails Maybe accidentally deleted and sometimes there might even be something wrong with your WordPress website that you don't know about That is causing any of the form submissions not to go through and any time we miss out Or our clients miss out on the form submission That means lost business potential lost business for you and for your clients And that is why every single WordPress website must have a contact form database a contact form database is A database that stores all the information that comes from your contact forms when you have this on your website No leads will be lost. I want to show you the contact form database for Elementor that I've been using for the last couple of years I have this on every single website that I have built now for years since I started using Elementor it's really easy to set up. I mean it takes literally less than a minute to set up and it's completely free So let me show you how to get it set it up and how it works So we're going to use this website as an example This is one that I've been working on right here on this website. I have two different forms We have one in the footer. That is the newsletter sign up And then we have one on the contact page, which is a regular contact us form So let's start by going to your back end Navigate over to your plugins Select on add new From here in the search type in Elementor leads and You should see a plug-in come up called Linux leads add-on This is the plug-in we want to use right here. So go ahead and install it and then activate it And now if you look on the sidebar down here You're going to see a new tabs that says Elementor leads go ahead and click on it and You will see the two forms that I have so I got my footer form right here. This is a sign-up form This is the contact page form right here. So let's go ahead and give this one a try I'm gonna go fill it out. Let me fill it out with just my information right here Testing form database Let's submit this Go back over to your Elementor leads hit refresh and you'll see there we go. We have a count right over here Now we also got the option right here that says export leads to CSV This is amazing right here. So you could back up your forms You could export this this could also be used if you're doing like email marketing With like MailChimp or something where you can import the CSV or if you're working with a CRM as well As you're doing, you know building your business So go ahead and click here on the form when you do that it opens up and it gives you all your information So right here you can see we got the date We got the name the email address and then we got the message so all the information is stored right here This is it and that's it. That's all it takes to add this to your website You put this on your website. It takes less than a minute. It's good to go right out the box The best part is it's lightweight. I've done all the testing on it It does not affect the performance of your website There's no pro version with all kinds of annoying Papa banners trying to get you to buy something it just sits in the background of your website collecting the information Making sure you do not lose any leads or your clients do not lose any leads or business. That's it I really hope this helps out if it does, you know the drill the YouTube stuff that good YouTube stuff like Subscribe comment all that stuff, you know, it does really help to support the channel and I'm grateful for everyone that is watching I'll be back soon again with more elementary and web design related content. All right. Thank you


Good morning radiant family. We're so excited that you're here this morning. We are gonna jump right in I'm gonna Start us off by reading out of Psalm 100 and then we're just gonna go into a time of Just exalting the Lord and looking at him. So this is Psalm 100 starting in verse one Shout joyfully to the Lord all the earth Serve the Lord with gladness Come before him with joyful singing Know that the Lord himself is God It is he who has made us and not we ourselves We are his people and the sheep of his pastures Enter his gates with Thanksgiving in his courts with praise Give thanks to him and bless his name For the Lord is good and his loving kindness is everlasting and his faithfulness to all generations Jesus we come before you today and We look at you right now and we say you are the glorious one You are the beautiful one and we just lift our praise and our Thanksgiving before you and God we say thank you for what you have done Even this week we say thank you for your kindness over us Thank you that you are faithful that in our weakness that you are strong Just begin to lift your voice thanking the Lord for what he's done for you this week out loud Let's just enthrone him on our praises. We just thank you Jesus You are worthy. You are beautiful. Thank you for your goodness. Thank you for your kindness Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Would you come be enthroned on the praises of your people? For the Lord is good You for the Lord is kind for the Lord is good To thank you. Thank you. Lord is kind Lord Jesus we just ask even now That you would allow us awaken our hearts to your love Lord we ask for a great returning of hearts to you. We pray that you would move in power That you would reveal your face We pray for hard hearts right now all over Michigan. We ask for the softening of hearts Jesus we pray for a returning of prodigals Those who have been consumed with culture consumed with the pleasures of this world Would you draw them back to you God? Would you fill them with your spirit? Would they remember that they have tasted and seen that you are good? We even pray for just a holy dissatisfaction with the way things are we just ask God for returning even now Romans 12 verse 1 Therefore I urge you brethren by the mercy of God To present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to God Which is your spiritual service of worship Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind So that you may prove what the will of God is that which is good acceptable and perfect God we just lift up The believers in Michigan's whose hearts have grown cold and we ask that you would reignite of Fire once again that you would call them back to yourself That they would return to their first love Lord that we would not be satisfied with just attending church on Sunday and then turning around and doing whatever we want Our own will the rest of the week God We just ask right now for a radical Returning to the heart of God that we would give our bodies of a holy sacrifice to you That we would not be conformed to culture, but that we would be renewed By giving ourselves to the reading of scripture to worship and seeking your face So God right now we ask set our hearts ablaze Call us back to our first love Jesus name target our prayers towards the sin gathering that will be taking place tomorrow People from all over the all over the Michigan area all over the region and all over the country are coming to gather and Give themselves to a day-long call and I just feel that this is a catalyst for Reigniting hearts and returning to the heart of Jesus and so let you join in intercession with this We're in Romans 12 verses 1 and 2 So father we just ask even now That hearts that are hesitant or cold or consumed with culture would be set ablaze once again Father that they would return to their first love Lord where their eyes have been shifted to the left or the right giving love to other things We ask God for a purifying fire to rain down Over the sin gathering and over that whole region God that you would set us ablaze for the things of Christ That we would give ourselves to the call of the gospel Jesus. I pray for the cold heart Those that are distant those that have become weary or burdened or heavy laden with religion God We break that in the name of Jesus and we ask that you would move in power Holy Spirit we enthrone you right now Over Grand Rapids over Michigan over this whole region We say you are the Lord of all that every knee will bow and tongue confess that you are Lord And so right now in the middle of our Friday morning, we exalt you above every principality We exalt you above every distraction We exalt you right now and we say come and have your way your will be done and your kingdom come Would you draw all men all women all children back to yourself? We say that this will be a generation marked with their hearts set ablaze for the things of God So with the boldness we come before you Lord Jesus and we say draw your bride back to yourself Set her ablaze again Lord, we say come and have your way in Jesus name Fire rain down Typically for the renewing of minds Lord you say that do not be conformed to this world They'll be transformed by the renewing of your mind Lord. We ask boldly for encounter I pray for those that are coming even being dragged by a parent or a friend Lord I pray for holy encounters Lord that will set them ablaze that your spirit would fall with Purifying fire that you would separate the chaff from the wheat even in our own heart God the things that we have given ourselves to I Pray right now that you would come in and that you would burn and set us ablaze for the truth of what it is That you have called us to God I pray also right now for the breaking of a religious spirit Where a religious spirit has come in and put a burden on your people that you never laid a Yoke that was not yours. We declare right now that your yoke is easy and your burden is light So father I pray for the breaking off of religious yokes Lord for the breaking off even of religious mindsets where we are earning your love or it's anything of ourselves I pray God that at the send there would be moments of breaking Lord that you would come in and speak life Lifting off burdens lifting off things of this world and that you would bring the truth of the gospel that you would bring to Remembrance Encounters of their youth God in moments where they felt your presence in the moment where they would call return us to the Joy of our salvation in Jesus name would you release Lord truth and light?  I just want to target our prayers right now. I Wanted you to get someone in your mind specifically who you know who just has loved the Lord in the past Maybe they've drifted even just slightly Let's just go into just a moment of intercession naming them by name asking for their hearts to be set ablaze returning to the Lord So just out loud just begin to name them Let's target our prayers that their hearts would be set ablaze their minds would be renewed in the Lord So father right now we lift up these ones We lift up them specifically before you God we ask their hearts would be set ablaze Lord we pray where the enemy has deceived them or burdened them or hurt them We ask that you would call them back with your loving kindness It is your kindness that leads us to repentance So God right now we just ask for an outpouring of your kindness over them Lord that they would no longer be satisfied with things of this world But that they would give themselves to the things of God that they would taste and see that you are good That they would experience the love of the Lord be reminded of your experience with them Would you draw them back to your heart? So we declare that those who are once far off would we brought near to the heart of God? Lord I pray right now.  Where deception has reigned in their ears and in their minds we say the truth of God the light of the Father would come So we say in the name of Jesus those who are far off would be brought near For prodigals. I feel that some that we've cast off or we've said too far The Lord is calling us back and reminding us to believe in him his power again So even the ones that we've cast off in our minds I want us to fill our hearts again with hope and intercede for them just for a minute or two longer And just say God I believe again. I repent for my lack of belief And I pray for my my father pray for my Sister who I've cast off and said there's no hope for her But I repent for that and I pray and I believe again that you're calling her back You're drawing him back to you Ones that we've cast off Would you draw them back to you?   Lord draw them back to you Oh draw my prophesy draw them back Oh draw them, Lord draw them to you Oh I sing it faith, I sing it hope For the sin conference and I just will I just feel burdened to pray for just a release of the burden of the gospel So this is Romans 10 14 how then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him who they have not heard and how will they hear without a preacher? Or some verse and says someone to tell them father we just ask Even as you reignite hearts and pull them back to yourself We ask that there would be a releasing of the burden of the gospel Lord that we would not become like a dead sea we're receiving from you but never pouring out God I pray right now That there would be a releasing of the good news That we would be burdened to share the good news of the gospel That we would be those that say yes and amen here I am Lord send me Father I ask right now for every person in that arena But everyone in this region Lord that has given themselves to you We pray that your word would go forth swiftly Your word would go forth with power We release right now your truth over this region God I pray that you would set us ablaze for the gospel That we would feel your heart for the lost That we would feel what you feel That we would experience the burden that you feel for your children who are far Who have never known you who have never heard the good news So we ask in the name of Jesus that you would release a burden for the gospel And that we would say yes to being sent and sharing the good news In Jesus name Let's sing this even as a declaration Pray for boldness to be released over your children To share the gospel Lord that we would not be satisfied with our friends and family members not knowing the Lord We pray for those who have never heard your voice Who have never experienced your presence Who have not heard the gospel I pray right now for boldness over your children To speak forth the joy of their salvation That they were once dead and now they are alive in Christ I pray that we would have the burden that you have Sharing with you Proclaiming the good news of the cross God we ask even now for a release of boldness And a release of joy over your children To share the gospel To be known To see you kingdom come and your will be done So Father right now I just pray that that would be released over the sin gathering As speakers come forward and worship moments happen It wouldn't just be a nice gathering of believers But it would be a catalyst and equipping moment That they would be launched forth from that place To bring the good news to their friends to the family and to the nations Lord I pray that those that are even young high school students Receive a call to the nation That you would release burden You would release dreams and visions God I pray for moments where they would feel the encounter of the Lord And not be something that they bottle up within themselves But that they go with urgency to share what you have done Who you are So God we ask in the name of Jesus Release burden and release boldness in the name of Jesus And God we specifically ask right now for just a baptism of the Holy Spirit To be poured out God I pray for those who have been offended at the Holy Spirit Those that have been offended by different religious experiences Or by false teaching And we ask God for just a cleansing and a healing of the heart And God I ask for just a release of your spirit A baptism in your spirit To give confidence, boldness And equipping to the saints to share the gospel Lord I pray even for the laying on of hands And moments where those who are so foreign to them That they would not shrink back But that they would say yes and amen to anything that you have So right now I pray for softened hearts Or a religious spirit that would resist the things of the spirit We just ask right now that you would come We say that you are welcome, that we want you That you are the answer to a dry and weary place That you are the answer to a weak and scared heart So we ask that you would release your power That you would release boldness You would release confidence And we ask in the name of Jesus For a baptism of the Holy Spirit in this region In Jesus' name We are open God And right now for putting you in a box Or trying to control you Lord we repent where we have hesitated Or where we have judged another Lord where we have tried to make sense of it in our own mind And they're limited you God We just repent right now and we say that you are God And we are not Holy Spirit we honor you In every way that you want to move We surrender to you and to your leadership Would you come reveal Jesus to a nation and to a region God we repent on behalf of this region Where they have put you in a box At any level God and we ask that you would move Don't pass us by God don't allow a religious spirit to mute us Or to set us aside God we ask in the name of Jesus That you would pour out your spirit Do it one more time God Pour out your spirit on this region Lord we repent of a religious spirit God we repent of where we have tried to put you in a box Or control you And we ask God that you would ignite our hearts Set us ablaze God where we feel offended In our mind by what we see We ask God that you would bring Renew our mind in the things of Christ That you would release the heart of God Lord I pray right now Where there has been disunity Amongst different denominations Amongst brothers and sisters God over this issue I ask for a cleansing I ask Lord Jesus that you would bring A spirit of repentance Lord that you would draw us back to yourself I pray for relationships That have been severed for years I pray that the send even would be A moment of repentance And that it would be a moment Where you bring brothers and sisters Back together Lord that you would return The heart of the father I pray unity over this gathering In the name of Jesus I pray right now Just against the principalities That are operating in a religious realm Trying to bring disunity We're trying to promote themselves Lord we say that you are God That you are King And you alone will lead And so Father we just pray right now That you would release your spirit We humbly come before you And we say that we are weak And that we are broken And that we have to do Holy spirit We need your leadership We need your power to preach the gospel To share the good news So Father we just ask once again With boldness Release your spirit However you want to move However you want to show up We say yes We say yes and amen Come Holy spirit And have your way Have your way Make us one Let's just end with this prophetic declaration Make us one God, we just ask would you make us one in your spirit unify it? spirit. Unify us. Lord Jesus, you are the perfect leader. Holy Spirit, you embolden and given us. Lord, we just surrender to you. We say have your way. Make us one in your spirit. Make us one in your love that you can pour out your blessing where there is unity. We love you Lord. We praise you and we honor you. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you for joining us for morning prayer. We'll be back here in the city center at noon and 6 30. If you're interested in joining us at the send in Grand Rapids tomorrow. Amen. Have a blessed day.


Illegal, unreported and unregulated or IUU fishing drains our oceans, seas, lakes and rivers of precious resources. It is one of the greatest threats to fisheries sustainability. It occurs in all types of fishing and impacts fish stocks, the environment and the livelihoods of communities that depend on fishing. IUU fishing takes advantage of corrupt administrations and weak management, especially in countries that lack the capacity and resources for the effective monitoring, control and surveillance of fishing activities. IUU fishing is not just about breaking fishing regulations. It also includes not reporting or misreporting fishing activities and the catch and conducting unregulated fishing activities which often contribute to over-exploitation of fisheries resources and impact the environment. The damage caused by IUU fishing is serious, but there are ways to eliminate it. The FAO agreement on port state measures, known as the PSMA, has been enforced since 2016. Its objective is to block foreign vessels engaging in IUU fishing from using ports to offload their catches and other services or even denying entry. The agreement provides a powerful mechanism for governments committed to combating IUU fishing. The PSMA permits states to have robust provisions in national legislation on port state measures to keep fish derived from IUU fishing away from our markets. The PSMA is the world's first ever binding international agreement specifically targeting IUU fishing. To support its effectiveness, FAO provides technical assistance to developing states to strengthen their legal frameworks, institutional capacity and operational procedures. More than 40 states have received or are receiving FAO support. The number of parties to the agreement continues to increase, with more than half of the world's port states taking it up. But this is not enough. A concerted action is essential on a global scale. The PSMA will become more effective as more states become party to it. Each state that implements the agreement is one less door available to IU fishers. States must ensure that their ports become a solution to combating IU fishing and not part of the problem. Five years on from the coming into force of the agreement, a third of the parties have already denied entry or use of port to vessels believed to have engaged in IU fishing. The PSMA plays a key role in achieving sustainable fishing and FAO strongly encourages all members to become a party to the agreement and strengthen regional and global cooperation to combat IU fishing. Sustainable fishing starts with us.