I'd like to call to order the 14th regular meeting of the 2018-2019 Common Council. Would the clerk please read the quote for the evening? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change, and the leader adjusts the sails. Thank you very much. Would the clerk please call the roll? There are nine present. All the person wolf is excused. Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of Allegiance is due to the play of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The next item on the agenda is to approve the minutes from our last council meeting. Alderperson Donahue. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none, will all those in favor please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Is there any public forum this evening? Not this evening. Thank you. Next, we'll go to item 1.5, confirmation of Mayor's appointments. City attorney. So the appointments from the Mayor for your consideration to the Mayor's Neighborhood Leadership Cabinet. Brian Mohorich, King Park Neighborhood Primary. Andrea Mace at King Park Neighborhood Alternate. Gene Grady, Valrath Park North Point Neighborhood Primary. Beth Kunard, Valrath Park North Point Neighborhood Alternate. All appointed October 1, 2018 for terms to expire April 15, 2019. Thank you, Alderperson Donahue. I move to confirm. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? All rise. Motion passes. And you have to commend our Sheboyga Neighborhood Pride Organization for all the work they've done to get these neighborhoods to the point of becoming new neighborhood associations. Next we'll go on to Mayor's announcements. First of all, there's some great news today. A new environmental study was finished on Highway 23 and both the Department of Transportation at the state level and the Federal Highway Administration signed off on that review and now construction can begin this summer for 19.5 miles of new highway to be built and we'll have four lanes between Sheboygan and Fond du Lac. I'd like to thank all the volunteers who worked at Rock the Block this last weekend. They did a number of projects on South 9th Street and it turned out to be a great day and a lot of work was accomplished. Our curbside leaf pickup began today. We have five different zones, one zone for each day of the work week and people should break their leaves into the street gutter for pickup on that day. Drug take back day is going to be this on Saturday the 27th and it'll be from 10 o'clock to 1 o'clock and our location in Sheboygan for drug pickup will be St. Nicholas Hospital. Early voting continues at City Hall. This will end on November 2nd on Friday. So we thank our clerk's office for handling everybody over there and Sheboygan is conducting a resident survey right now. Please help make Sheboygan more livable community by considering taking the survey. You can go to the city website and click on the banner add and that will take you to the appropriate site to take the survey and as a part of the survey we're conducting some listening sessions and the listening sessions our next listening session will be on October 23rd at Habitat Restore and their time for that is from 11.30 until 1 o'clock. I'd like to ask the representatives of the Rotary Clubs please join me at the podium. Tonight we have a proclamation and whereas the Rotary International was founded on February 23rd of 1905 in Chicago, Illinois and is the world's first and one of the largest not-for-profit organizations there are over 1.2 million Rotary Club members comprised of professional and business leaders and over 35,000 clubs in 200 country and geographic areas. The Rotary motto is service above self and inspires its members to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards and promote goodwill and peace in the world. And whereas Rotary in 1985 launched Polio Plus and has spearheaded the Global Polio Eradication Initiative which today includes the World Health Organization, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to immunize children of the world against polio. And whereas polio cases have dropped by 99.9 percent since 1988 and the world stands on the threshold of eradicating the disease. And whereas to date Rotary has contributed more than $1.7 billion in countless volunteer hours to the protection of more than 2 billion children in 122 countries, Rotary is currently working to raise an additional $150 million which if realized will be tripled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a total of $450 million over the next three years. And whereas these efforts are providing much needed operational support in medical personnel, laboratory equipment, educational materials for health workers and parents. In addition, Rotary has played a major role in decisions by donor governments to contribute more than $8 billion to this effort. And whereas the Sheboygan Rotary Club and the Sheboygan Early Bird Rotary Club and their members have to have and continue to sponsor service projects to address such critical issues as poverty, health, hunger, illiteracy and the environment in Sheboygan and abroad. I, Mike Van der Steen by virtue of the 30 vested in me as mayor of the city of Sheboygan to hereby proclaim October 24th is World Polio Day and encourage all our citizens and myself and Rotary International in the fight for polio free world. I'd like to present this to these club presidents and ask them to see just a little bit about a special project that's going on on that day in Sheboygan. So we are partnering with the local area culvers on October 24th from 4 to 8 p.m. They have agreed to donate 50% of their proceeds to ending polio. So we encourage everyone and we're trying to get the word out to please go and support this effort and go have dinner at culvers between 4 and 8 and the 24th. Thank you very much. Next we'll go on with hearings. Item 2.1 is hearing number 6 of 1819 pursuant to a notice published in the personal notices and sent by the city clerk. There is a hearing scheduled for this evening to amend the city of Sheboygan's official zoning map to change the use district classification of property located at 3411 Lakeshore Road from Class Urban Industrial to Class Suburban Industrial. Is there anyone who wishes to be heard? Is there anyone who wishes to be heard? Is there anyone who wishes to be heard? All the person down here. Thank you, Mayor. I move to close the hearing. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor of closing the hearing please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Item 2.2 is hearing number 7 of 1819 pursuant to chapter 65.9 of the laws of Wisconsin. Notice hereby given that the annual budget hearing will be held this evening at which time any taxpayer resident of governmental unit will have the opportunity to be heard on the proposed budget. Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? All the person down here. I move to close the hearing. Thank you for that motion and support. Will the clerk please call the roll? Nine ayes. Next we'll move on to the motion passes. Next we'll move on to the consent agenda that include items 3.2 through 3.10. All the person down here. Thank you, Mayor. I move to accept and file all reports of officers accept and adopt all reports of committees and pass all resolutions and ordinances. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on any of those items? All the person boring? Thank you, Mayor. I just had a question for either all the person down here or the city attorney on 3.9 I read over the document about Axon Enterprise Incorporated and I'm just wondering get a little bit of a description the services were purchasing and I also don't believe I could find what those services are going to cost us. City attorney. Well you couldn't find what they were going to cost us because they cost us zero. It's basically it's a it's a build on to the contract that the police already have and it's it allows our office to have access to video and other evidence that is being stored by Axon allows us to have the access that we need to you know have it for trials if we have to send out discovery we can take care of doing the editing that needs to be done that kind of thing and it takes away some of the work of that from the police department. Okay thank you. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll for passage on those documents. Well it is 9-i. Motion passes. Under reports of officers items 4.1 through 4.12 will be referred to various committees. Under resolutions 5.1 is resolution number 107 of 1819 by all the persons Ryan Flesch, Wolf Donahue, Trester, Savaglio, Decker, Phillips, Sorensen, Mitchell and Boren commemorating the distinguished service of Scott Lewandowski to the city of Sheboygan. All the person Donahue. Thank you mayor I would move that the council pass this resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. At this time I'd like to ask the clerk to read the resolution. Resolution 107 is a resolution commemorating the distinguished service of Scott Lewandowski to the city of Sheboygan. Whereas Scott Lewandowski served the citizens of the city of Sheboygan as an older person from the 5th district for four years from 2012 to 2014 and 2016 to 2018 during which time you serve faithfully being a man of outstanding ability and integrity and whereas during his 10 years older person Mr. Lewandowski served as a valuable member of numerous council committees including law and licensing committee and salaries and grievances committee chairman of the historical preservation committee and also served as assistant city historian and volunteered his time at the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center and Sheboygan County Historical Museum and whereas Mr. Lewandowski was a valuable member of the common council and the committees upon what she served giving conscientious consideration to all matters that came before him and putting honesty and charity above all else he will always be a good example to all and now therefore be it resolved that the common council hereby commemorates the distinguished service rendered by Mr. Scott Lewandowski to the city of Sheboygan throughout his years of service expresses its sorrow to his passing in his passing and offers his family and friends its deepest sympathy and be it further resolved that this resolution be published in the council's official proceedings and that a suitable copy be presented to the family of Scott Lewandowski. Thank you I'd like to ask the council to rise to a standing vote for this so if you approve of the resolution please stand you can sit down then those opposed the resolution passes unanimously and this will be presented to his family and friends at the memorial service that'll take place for Scott on Wednesday at the historical museum thank you moving on item 5.2 is resolution number 106 of 1819 by Alderperson's Wolf and Sorensen authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract or contracts to obtain trees and tree planting services to replace street trees and park trees in the city of Sheboygan. Alderperson Sorensen okay under suspension is there any discussion okay then we have your motion to pass the resolution is there a second thank you is there any discussion on the resolution Alderperson Boren. Thank you mayor I was wondering maybe Mr. Bevel could fill us in if he knows on what type of species we're going to be planting a variety of them around town or yeah it's going to be several varieties and they're specifically chosen based on the type of terrace for the width as well as if there's utilities overhead lines so we'll use ornamental trees smaller trees slower growing trees in those areas other areas we're using the larger type of canopy trees there are there is a new american elm there isn't also american chestnut seedless so there's other varieties there are hybrids that are coming out that are more conducive to the urban street tree environment since we're losing so many of the ash have those species that you mentioned do they have kind of a proven track record as far as the things that have been affecting some of our trees over the years they are somewhat disease resistant all all trees do have going to have some of the some issues being that the environment between the curb and the sidewalk is is a tough environment to grow but that's that's these are the trees that have been tested and vetted through the urban forestry institute as well as the dnr forestry and they've kind of guided us in terms of a recommendation in terms of the species of type of trees in these areas thanks thank you for those questions any other discussion all the person down to you and mayor i would also note that as i understand it the rotary foundation which is comprised of the of the rotary clubs the the our presidents who were here earlier are also making tree replacement one of their priorities and are working with city officials to provide some funds for tree replacement yes that's correct that's correct and the rotary club will uh as asking us to pass the resolution on that they'll hopefully be referred to the committee next week and come back for a final vote then more information on the program at our next council meeting any other discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll nine eyes motion passes items 5.3 through 5.6 will be referred to various committees under reports of committees item 6.1 is our scene number 156 of 1819 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred resolution number 101 of 1819 by all the person rindflash borne asking rather authorizing the transfer of appropriations in the 2018 budget all the person rindflash thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on the motion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll nine eyes motion passes item 6.2 is our scene number 158 of 1819 by the public works committee tumors referred general ordinance number 20 of 1819 by all the person wolf creating time parking limits on the west side of south a street between new jersey uh avenue and virginia avenue recommends approving the ordinance all the person sorenson thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on the motion seeing none all would the clerk please call the roll nine eyes motion passes item 6.3 is rc number 157 of 1819 by licensing hearings and public safety committee tumors referred rc number 111 of 1819 by licensing hearings and public safety committee and general ordinance number 8 of 1819 by all the persons donahue and rindflash repealing article 8 of chapter 70 of the municipal code entited sexual offender residency restrictions and recommends that the document be filed all the person rindflash or donahue excuse me thank you mayor i move to accept a file is there a second second thank you very much is there any discussion on the document all the person born all the person donahue i see that this must have been the original document and then there's a new referral on the same thing that's going to your committee the the next meeting that's correct thank you thank you for that question any other discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll nine eyes motion passes item 6.4 through 6.6 will lay over under general ordinances uh item 7.1 and 7.2 will be referred to the various committees and then under matters laid over item 8.1 is r o number 122 of 1819 by the city planning commission to whom was referred general ordinance number 17 of 1819 by all the person rindflash and r o number 118 of 1819 by the city clerk for an application from gusky electric ink for a change in the zoning classification of property located at 3411 lakeshore road from class urban industrial to class suburban industrial and recommends approval of general ordinance and r o all the person born will accept and file and pass the ordinance is there a second second thank you very much any discussion on the ordinance all the person born thank you mayor uh i abstained on this at the plan commission i'll be abstaining again tonight as this is being rezoned for my wife's chiropractors office thank you very much any other discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll eight eyes one abstain motion passes item 8.2 will be referred uh and rather just lay over and uh under other matters i will be uh discussion of the 2019 proposed budget i'll call on administrator daryl hoffland thank you mayor uh tonight on your table uh cary erin's distributed copies uh erin pink uh relating to uh suggested additional changes to the 2019 budget uh the top page identifies uh the first item identifies action already discussed or possible action already discussed at the committee of the whole for adding a project that is cable cable fund related associated with a new fiber line the next three adjustments are based upon the information we we receive from the state both on the of revised cost of living as well as revised state aids the first listing is a slight decrease in the connecting highway aids $152 the next is a sizable increase in general transportation aids of $85,323 increase uh the last is associated with again that cost of living adjustment as we've discussed at at the committee of the whole uh the cost of living affects the city's expenditure restraint program and we received information from the state based upon the formula we are allowed to increase our budget up to 3.36 if you turn to the next page of your packet you'll see uh the first line is general fund expense under the uh 2019 budget fax page you'll see that the expenditure on this pink page shows in the last column a percent increase of 2.2 percent so even though the city is allowed to increase as much as 3.36 uh city staff is recommending an adjustment to allow for a 2.2 the original budget pages that were presented to you identified a 1.27 percent so we're increased by roughly nine tenths of a percent uh the reason for the the way in which uh the increase in the expenditures in the general fund uh how that's uh recommended to uh be changed is that the reserve for contingency which if you look at on your pink pages uh page 2.16 so second to the last page of your pink pages you'll see the unclassified uh program page the second the last line uh is reserve for contingency and you'll see the difference between the two columns 2019 requested in 2019 committee uh that number has increased by 350 thousand dollars so the recommendation is with the uh revised or identified cost of living that the city take advantage in order to provide for further sort of capacity when we're when we're looking at a year from now at the 2020 budget so this simply raises the floor uh as you know this uh the department heads budget carefully uh they monitor their budget carefully and ultimately uh more times than not uh the unclassified reserve for contingency line item is never touched or or again only maybe in a limited way so the hope and expectation is this 350 thousand dollars will not be spent but simply by placing that that additional funds in this line item it will give us a larger base to work from when we were again sitting at these desk uh a year from now um if i could next turn your attention to again the on the pink pages it's really the fourth physical page it's uh page number 91 so would the increase in the total expenditures on the last column the two 2019 committee uh recommended column in order um we do have some as i mentioned offsetting increases due to transportation or highway aids but that does not fully fund all of the 350 thousand dollar increase in the reserve for contingency so the remaining rem the uh the remaining amount is coming down toward the bottom where it says excess of revenue over under expenditure so the last column uh for that line item is 1 1,165,778 your original budget pages had that number at 900,949 so uh sort of the good news bad news is that we have the capacity to increase our expenditures uh i'm not recommending any other corresponding revenue sources other than tapping at least for the purpose of balancing the budget applying this fund balance so this fund balance will increase due to the expenses uh going up um when you go down to the second line from the bottom i know this is sort of getting in the weeds as far as details but under ending fund balance consists of the uncommitted line so that number that revised number is uh 15 million 866,850 and that is equivalent to 14 uh 41.2 percent i know that often when we talk budget strategies we talk about the fund balance percent the fund balance as a percent of our expenditures um originally when i presented the budget it was at 42 percent so roughly eight tenths of a percent it is dropping due to a higher applied fund balance because again strategically i'm recommending that we increase our expenditures again to put us in a better position when we're budgeting in 2020 often when we talk with Moody's about our fund balance as a percent of our expenditure we draw attention not only to this uncommitted line but we also talk to them about our contingency line account as well uh so we i we will tell them that we're artificially increasing from 150 to 350 so in essence here is an additional 350 thousand dollars that is expected to remain uh unspent or unallocated and uh as a result we feel that that should be considered part of our overall uncommitted fund balance going into calendar year 2019 that is a summary of of changes that we will be discussing at your next comic council meeting i will be asking from the floor an amendment to the 2019 uh budget resolution to take into consideration the items which i've discussed tonight thank you very much for that report is there any discussion see none next item is other matters received after the agenda was published city attorney adams 10.1 is an ro by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending december 31 2018 june 30 2019 and june 30 2020 that will be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee all the person down here thank you for that motion and support all those in favor of adjournment please signify by saying aye opposed we stand adjourned and go packers and brewers have a good evening


Dozens of police fighting our home-vileます Enough is enough enough of the police brutality enough of the police killing Enough of police harassment We, the youth of Africa, are saying that enough is enough and starts now. What is happening in Nigeria is so sad. And some of you might say that I'm not from Nigeria and I can't talk about Nigeria's problem. We have 54 African countries but we are all under one umbrella as one Africa. So a Nigerian problem is my problem. What is SASS? SASS is a special anti-rubbery squad in Nigeria that is harassing, killing and then beating of what? The youth of Nigeria. I have been a victim because I was in Nigeria last year. The first day that I got to Nigeria, I got harassed by this same SASS. You know why? Because I had a laptop on my lap. Because I was using an iPhone and these people felt like this guy has no right to own a MacBook and an iPhone. So we need to arrest him. I asked these officers, what have I done? They are like, where do you get the money to buy this phone and then this MacBook? All of a sudden they started targeting me as a yahoo boy. If you don't know who a yahoo boy is, a yahoo boy is an internet fraudster. They are like, you are one of them. They searched through my phone, I mean did all they could.  They told me to go. I spoke about this experience on YouTube and I got so many attacks from Nigerians themselves. Telling me that as a Ghanaian, you always want to make Nigeria look bad. I think you guys should call me a prophet. Because what happened to me a year ago is now escalating. We need to stand for our rights as the youth of Africa. Let's speak against about things that are hindering the growth of this continent. You can't tell me that I'm a Ghanaian so I cannot speak about something that affected me in Nigeria. You can't tell me that I'm a Ghanaian so I can't speak about something that happened to me in South Africa. You can't tell me that I'm a Ghanaian so I can't speak about something that happened to me in Zambia. If you go to South Africa, they don't even want to hear my name anymore. If you go to Zambia, the same thing because I spoke about something that is wrong in the country. Let's speak against these things. It's time to end this now. They are beating innocent people, I was a victim so I know the number of people who are innocent and going through this police brutality in Nigeria. I'm not the only one that has been affected. Your brother might visit Nigeria tomorrow and Saint Sass can harass and if not fortunate they're going to kill because that's what they are doing right now. Even a peaceful protest that is going on in Nigeria right now, they're still shooting an innocent youth of Nigeria. Let's all not keep quiet about this.  A Nigerian problem should be your problem because we are all under one umbrella called Africa. It's time to end Sass now. I'm speaking straight from the heart whether you like it or not. You have to share this video in the comment section. Don't say anything, hashtag end Sass now. We must add our voices to whatever is going on in Nigeria. We need change, we need solution. I'm so happy to see young Nigerians on the streets of Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt protesting for their rights. This is what we should be doing all this while. This is what every young African out there should come up and say that enough is enough. I wish after this whole protest we will start another revolution against the corruption in Africa. It's time to end Sass. Hashtag end Sass now. Thank you so much for watching and thank you so much for sharing. Peace out.


I'm Ian One Daniels. I'm currently the Drill Team LPO at the Ceremonial Guard from Ocala, Florida. I originally joined directly out of high school. I always wanted to join the military. I joined to travel due to college and I've been in about 12 years now. The Navy has let me accomplish that. I'm pretty close to finishing my bachelor's degree. I've been all around the world. But I continue to serve today to hone my leadership skills and make a difference.


Good day, fellow investors! Today I want to share with you my preliminary research or on Argentina. The stock market in Argentina has recently fallen significantly, so there might be opportunities amidst that turmoil. As always, be greedy when others are fearful and be fearful when others are greedy. I just finished researching Brazil and out of all the stocks there I found one to buy and one to watch. Hopefully there might be something to buy there in Argentina. Let's take a look. So the Argentinian ETF over the last year went up significantly 20-30% but now it's down again 40-30% the same that it went up. So I went through all the stocks in Argentina except for the financials now. I have to do an emerging market financial special to look really at the banks and how those are placed. That's a lot of work which I'm not doing right now, perhaps in the future. However, excluding the financials there are 15 very interesting businesses in Argentina that are really complementary to the economy emerging market growth. Just to note on the emerging market Argentina has recently been reclassified from frontier market to emerging market which leads to more of that ETF money coming in eventually, perhaps not now, because emerging markets are not in a sweet spot. Let's start looking at the companies. The first company that comes alphabetically is Cresud. It is a complicated holding company. I have a lot of data on it and I have to make a detailed earnings model on this one to see where's the value. However, the dividend yield is 2.81% which shows that there is value as cash is generated. It's also the leading company in Irsa. So another real estate company there is some investments in Brazil in Israel. So very interesting to see investments in Brazil from land and some investments in Israel also real estate. So we have to see there what is the real value. So that's my plans for the coming days. Something very important to look at when analyzing balance sheets in Argentina in Brazil that has seen significant currency devaluation, especially Argentina, is to keep in mind that those numbers on Argentinian balance sheets just get translated usually into US dollars.  Those are kept usually sometimes yes, sometimes not in Argentinian pesos. So each financial component has to be checked. Okay, what has the company done? Has it revalued it or not? And this is why you see those book values go down, bad book value numbers. However, one has to really dig into each specific company to see, okay, what's the real value there in US dollars for the long term? Another interesting company, Central Puerto, recently IPO'd on the New York Stock Exchange, you see has three projects in operation, but a lot of developing projects and a lot of receivables from the Argentinian government. So again here, each in detail analysis has to be made. And one of our viewers, Martin, has made a great report. So I'll steal from him there. The dividend again is 2.7 with potential growth. So I'm really interesting to see deeper about this company. Despegar is an online travel agency with 12.5% market share. Brazil, Argentina are the focus. So booking, price line, you see what happened with those prices. And this might happen also with this company in the future. However, the company is trading at all time lows since the IPO, it's a growth stock and therefore has to be approached in such a perspective. So you have to see, okay, what am I, how am I investing in those online growth stocks? Some succeed, some don't. Facebook succeeded, but other companies didn't succeed that well. Loma has recently been commented here as a bargain. That is a cement producing company. There has been a lot of infrastructure growth going on which benefited the company. So again, here you have to see what's going on in Argentina, what's the market for cement, what's the competition for cement, what are the long-term expected margins. There has been a cut to infrastructure spending and that's why the stock is really hit. Nevertheless, all these businesses as you see are key to the economy, key to growth, key to the future. I'll give an overview of the risk reward at the end of the video. A company that I'll analyze in depth this Sunday as there was a lot of requests to analyze this as the stock has been hit recently is Mercado Libre. It's again a growth stock, perhaps the Amazon of South America, but the stock is already up 40 times since 2009. So that has to be taken into consideration. However, the growth is still staggering, much better than Amazon, 60% in Brazil, 36% growth in the number of buyers, 48%. However, the company introduced free shipping, something others like Nets competitors that got hammered stock price, 88% down, Brazilian stock can't do. And that's why they might be beating Amazon, beating everybody. Perhaps they will be the Amazon of Latin America in the future. You never know, but that's the risk reward there. However, the free shipping comes at a huge cost. So that's a big deal there. And their margins have been squeezed because of that. And from positive earnings, the company went into negative earnings. Now we have to calculate in a model, okay, how will this impact the long term? And will the company manage to push out Amazon that has announced it's coming to Latin America with beauty products or something like that? So it's a very interesting story, more about that on Sunday. Pump energy at the largest independent integrated energy company in Argentina. And I wanted to show you something very interesting here. Why am I attracted by these companies? Because of the risk reward, the adjusted EBITDI, a metric that I don't like, but it's mostly used. So just as an example, is more than one billion dollars. The market capitalization is now close to three billion dollars. So you're buying a company at a three times EBITDA. That's simply crazy. If these companies do well over the long term, the potential rewards are huge. And that's why I'm willing to take the risk of investing in Argentina, Brazil, because of the potential rewards compared to the risks. Nevertheless, this is another detailed analysis that I have to do. Telecom Argentina, I don't usually like telecoms, but depends on the monopoly competition they have. So another company to look at in depth. Teneris is not really an Argentinian business, only 15% of sales, but they make pipes for steel pipes for the oil industry globally. So another exposure to the oil industry, their margins have been improving, doing good, Ternum, a Mexican steel maker, and they're cyclical in a cheap industry, cheap by valuation. So that's a special investment strategy. Two companies that I want to finish with are YPF Refining and Transpodadora de Gas. So refining, that's a stable business, defensive business, transport of gas and distribution. Again, a stable defensive business in whatever economy. So there might be opportunities. So I'll dig deeper into the sector, share with you some videos. We'll start Sunday with Mercado Libre, and then we'll see, okay, how can I position myself, and I'm taking a 10-20 year horizon when I invest here, okay? I want to see if I invest, can I find the 10-20 beggar in 10-20 years, even at the risk of losing 50%, 100%. If just one of those becomes a 20 beggar, I can lose 19 and I break even. So that's my risk reward there. Is there potential over the long term? Definitely there is. So I'm looking at bargains. In the long term, I'll develop a portfolio of such bargains, both at the right price, at the right time, with huge upside potential. The risk reward, when you look at individual parts, is very high because it can go to zero, but the upside is also very high. So I think now with good companies being extremely expensive, it pays to look at these bargains around the world that nobody really wants to look at. That's why I'm looking at Argentina, a lot of stocks, but I might pick just a few of them, which I think are the best to watch and keep an eye on, and then double down if it becomes even a better bargain. There is risk, some of you I know don't like that risk, but I think it is a positive risk reward situation, so an asymmetric risk reward situation for us. Thank you for watching. Any other ideas that I might have missed, please share them. I know there are a lot of Argentinian viewers. I'm sorry for the loss at the World Cup, but there will be, again, another opportunity. I'll see you in the next video.


r anyone else who has been marginalized by hate. My record reflects that. OK, so you can say, Mike, that's proof right there that you were being a little bit too unfair to her. OK, fine. She's saying now I believe in the fight for equality. But then she says, my record reflects that. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't at all. No, you're wrong about that. Quote, stop them at the border, stop them at the border. That's what you said in response to a Fox News host asking you where you stand on this migrant caravan coming here, seeking asylum because our government's policies destroyed Latin America. Stop them at the border. So no, your record does not reflect that. If anything, your record shows the opposite of that.  Nobody should want to bring you on to hear from you ever again about politics and especially how to win an election. But here we are, where she is hired as a political analyst for MSNBC to give Democrats bad advice after she lost. I mean, I shouldn't have to say this, but this is a pretty bad idea. Whether or not Democrats are able to take back the Senate is probably going to come down to some really close runoff races in Georgia. However, they will retain control of the House, but unfortunately they did lose some ground. They lost a couple of seats. Now, even though Joe Biden was at the top of the Democratic Party's ticket, centrists are still blaming the left, blaming the left, suggesting that it's them, their progressivism, their bold message. That's why we lost some ground in the House, why it's so difficult for us to take back the Senate. It's like this is a parody, but no, this is actually something that Democrats like Abigail Spanberger have been arguing, lambasting the left for making them lose. So as Scott Wong and Mike Lillis of the Hill reports, moderate House Democrats lashed out at their liberal colleagues Thursday using a marathon caucus-wide conference call to bash progressives for advancing an agenda that centrists said cost the party a number of seats in Tuesday's elections. An impassioned representative Abigail Spanberger, who squeaked to victory in Central Virginia, took liberals to task for promoting the policy of redirecting funds away from police departments, an idea that took off following the death of George Floyd in May and that Republicans used that on the campaign trail to hammer Democrats with charges of nurturing crime. Spanberger called the Democrats campaign strategy a failure. Quote, I do disagree, Abigail, that it was a failure. Speaker Nancy Pelosi interjected, we won the House. Representative Mark V.C. delivered a similar condemnation, lamenting that the far left's approach to several issues, including moving funds away from the police and banning fracking, had given ammunition to GOP attack ads. V.C. said he had watched GOP commercial after commercial using video footage of Democrats uttering the words to fund the police to great effect. Liberals immediately push back on the moderate's narrative. Progressive caucus co-chair Pramila Jayapal jumped to the fray and argued that Democrats would not be on the cusp of ousting President Donald Trump from the White House without tremendous energy from the far left at one point on the call. Representative Debbie McCarcel Powell, McCarcel Powell, who lost re-election, cried and lamented that no one could pronounce her name. According to a Washington Post reporter, I totally just butchered her name. House Democratic leaders rocked by the results set on Thursday's call that they want a post-mortem review of the election strategy that led them astray. Representative Sherry Bustos, head of the party's campaign arm, who narrowly who narrowly won re-election, said she was frustrated by bad polling and the loss of good members. But she defended the Democrats' message and tactics, noting that the House remained securely in the party's hands, heading into the next Congress. So I just have to pause for a moment and get back to Representative Debbie McCarcel Powell. As everyone is like arguing back and forth, screaming about, no, this is your fault. And no, this is your fault. No, we should have done this. We should have done that. She just interjects, crying about how nobody can say my name. The thought of her interjecting.  This is what you're crying about. Like, we're having a conversation here about strategy and you're crying that nobody can pronounce your name. Democrats are a mess. Listen, as someone whose last name is Figueredo. Deal with it. Are you not used to it by now? I'm assuming that she's older than me. Get used to it. She lost. Maybe that's why she's crying. I don't know. But look, getting to the substance of this article, individuals like Abigail Spanberger are completely wrong. They're idiotic. This is why Democrats lose what she's saying.  Are you really saying that the Democratic Party should go against this mass movement who's calling to defund the police? I mean, they already have to an extent. Joe Biden said, no, I'm not going to defund the police. We're going to actually increase funds to police departments across the country. So you're already kind of doing that.  Do you honestly think that's going to help you win? Because the only way to actually do that effectively is to just adopt the Republican Party's platform.  They're still going to call you a socialist because that's what the Republican Party does. So standing for nothing saying, no, we're not going to defund the police.  They will always attack you and relentlessly so and viciously so. And they're going to lie. They're going to make things up. So all that you can do is get your message out to voters and let them know you are going to fight to improve their lives.  Stop crafting your message specifically to appeal to Republicans and to insulate yourself from Republican attacks. Ask yourself for all of the Republican victories that we saw. How many of them tried to appeal to moderate Democrats? How many of them had these focus group driven talking points that would help them to insulate themselves from attacks from Democrats? I mean, the Democratic Party, in theory, their policies, as many policies as they actually talk about, they're more popular than the Republican Party's policies. So why aren't Democrats the one making Republicans afraid? Why is it that when you have the high ground when it comes to policy, you're the one who's afraid of what the opposition is going to say? I mean, Republicans have in their platform, we want to repeal Roe v. Wade and marriage equality. Oberg, Felvey, Hodges, we want those overturned. Why aren't you attacking them? Why aren't they afraid of you? What's because you suck?  That's why. You should thank the left for whatever enthusiasm there was. Had it not been for the grassroots efforts of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, Joe Biden might not have been victorious in Minnesota, in Michigan, but they don't get that because they listen to highly paid consultants who get paid millions of dollars per year to give them the worst advice imaginable. And she probably consumes MSNBC and CNN nonstop that just reinforces all of their bad strategic ideas.  It is moronic.  There's a reason why individuals like AOC, Ilhan and Omar are popular and they have more name recognition than you. It's because they stand for something. What don't you get?  Call protesters in the streets after George Floyd was murdered thugs. And you're worried about their criticism. I mean, a party who is worried about a very unpopular minority party's criticism is just they're not worth a damn.   And I know that I'm throwing a lot of ad hominems, but they still don't get it. And they're so arrogance.  You all had neoliberalism at the top of the ticket. You had your centrist. You had Joe Biden running a campaign where he appealed to Republicans. So it's not that the left pushed too far. It's that they didn't push far enough. It's that Joe Biden was resistant to what their input was. So I don't I don't know what to say. I mean, Democrats are insufferable. They are just it's infuriating because it doesn't matter what the outcome of the election is, we can have an election where literally centrists lose every single seat and progressives win every single seat. And they will still say, well, this just proves that centrism is the way to go. They can get blown out and the conclusion will always be you pushed us too far left. Centrism is what we need. It doesn't matter. The narrative is already predetermined. It's just more convenient for them to use this narrative to lambast the far left because their corporate donors don't want them to move left. If they embrace Medicare for all, all that money that they take from health insurance companies, they goes by, by like that. So of course, they're not going to jeopardize, you know, that money, those campaign contributions. So they pretend as if their strategy is sound and it's really the left who's hurting them when in actuality, it's them, their lack of a policy vision. That's hurting them, not the left. The left is helping you. So thank them. House Democrats are reportedly arguing about who is at fault for the Democrats lackluster performance in this election. Centrists are saying it's the left and the left are not necessarily saying that it's centrists. They're just saying, no, these ideas are popular. But here's what's indisputable. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, had it not been for their popularity and grassroots fundraising effort, Joe Biden may have not been able to win Michigan and Minnesota if he won. It's because they dragged him across the finish line, not the other way around. And we have numbers to prove that this is the case. So as Kenny Stancil of Common Dreams reports, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, members of the Progressive Squad in the US House, who represent districts in the states of Michigan and Minnesota, respectively, received applause and praise Thursday for their role in lifting Joe Biden in those two battleground states, pivotal victories that have helped put the former vice president on the verge of ousting President Donald Trump. Among the nation's most progressive legislators, Omar represents Minneapolis and its nearby suburbs, while Tlaib represents portions of Detroit and some of its suburbs in Wayne County. Both lawmakers campaigned heavily for Biden leading up to this week's election. And observers say Biden's victories in those states may not have been materialized. Had it not been for that heavy lifting, which propelled huge turnout in diverse districts, while the Biden-Harris campaign resisted in-person canvassing, Omar's campaign kept doing it, hiring dozens of people to knock on doors and pull out votes, the Washington Post reported earlier this week. Ken Martin, the chairman of Minnesota's Democratic Farmer Labor Party, told the Post that Omar doesn't need to increase turnout here to win her race. She could take a vacation and she'd get re-elected easy. But, Martin added, she recognizes that she has a responsibility to drive up turnout. It's really important for all of our statewide races, especially the presidential race. According to Martin, Omar does really intensive face-to-face contacts with a lot of personal relationship building and building long term power with communities of color, something that a lot of politicians don't do. Tlaib is also no stranger to organizing in her district. Direct voter contact wins elections. Tlaib tweeted on Wednesday night, our team knocked doors, called and texted residents and registered folks who had never voted before. In a late September op-ed in the Post, Omar argued that Democrats ought to focus on engaging non-voters with ambitious egalitarian policies in order to perform better going forward. I have seen the media and even Democrats fall for Trump's argument that Omar's left-wing stances will benefit Republicans, she lamented. We need to win over former Trump voters. The thinking goes and we can't do that if we embrace progressive leaders and policies. But while winning swing voters is important, there is a key constituency Democrats need in November that is almost entirely left out of the conversation. Non-voters, she wrote at an event in North Minneapolis last week, Omar told supporters, it is our votes here that are going to make sure not only do we strongly win this state, but that we don't see Trump's face ever again. So think about this, Ilhan Omar's re-election was a guarantee, basically, but she still did grassroots get out the vote efforts in her district to make sure that Joe Biden would have a better chance at winning the state. And do you think that she is going to be thanked for this? Do you think that her ideas will be taken seriously for this? Same with Tlaib? Of course not. Now contrast what we just heard with Joe Biden and Donald Trump's strategy. So in August, Politico reported Trump's campaign knocks on a million doors a week. Biden's knocks on zero. Now, in October, his campaign decided to change that strategy because it's not a good strategy and they began knocking on doors after all just 33 days before the election. So it is indisputable that had Joe Biden done this sooner, he probably would be in better shape. Now, the reasons that they cited for not doing in-person canvassing, I think we're legitimate.  I get that. However, I've spoken with many grassroots candidates who claimed that they have been able to adopt. You can knock on a door, step back six feet while wearing a mask and protect your staffers, protect other people. But Joe Biden didn't necessarily see that as a path to victory or didn't see it as necessary, but in these crucial battleground states, you can't afford to not do that. Like I get that they tried to make up for it with more digital organizing, but you're not going to reach everyone digitally or by the phone. You have to do in-person canvassing. When it comes to Rashida Tlaib, this is what she accomplished. More than 500,000 voter contacts. And when it comes to their success rate, they contacted over 200,000 voters. They knocked on 42,650 doors. They made 300,000 plus calls and they sent almost 260,000 text messages. And when it comes to Ilhan Omar, that 88% turnout really is something that is just remarkable with 400,000 ballots cast in her district alone. Let me tell you something, 88% turnout is insane.  It's remarkable she's representing her constituents consistently, producing policies that will help them, cancellation of student debt, Medicare for all. So for Democrats to not emulate what she's doing, it's a missed opportunity to say the least. And I think that Jamal Bowman put it best by saying just so we're clear, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were major factors in delivering Minnesota and Michigan for Joe Biden, and that's exactly it. They weren't the only factors why Joe Biden won, but had it not been for them, we might have seen another four years of Donald Trump. And that is something that we can't allow the media and centrists to just dismiss because their efforts helped defeat Donald Trump. And they did it not by pretending to be centrists and trying to appeal to Republican voters. They did this by getting out the vote, exciting people, doing in person grassroots fundraising, can canvassing, things that you have to do to reach new people. And we saw the efficacy of this strategy play out in real time. So, you know, other centrist Democrats like Abigail Spanberger can try to blame the left for, you know, Democrats not performing as well as everyone had hoped, but had it not been for the left that she blames, it might be worse for everyone. So make sure that we remind centrist Democrats and neoliberals about this fact whenever they try to talk about how, oh, well, it's the far left who pushed Biden so far, it's socialism that hurt Joe Biden. He adopted too many of Bernie's ideas.  So I am cognizant of the fact that it's probably a little bit too early to be doing this type of analysis video because we don't necessarily have all of the results in it's going to take a while for that to be the case. However, I do think it's important that we go over some of the largest takeaways. And I think obviously Joe Biden should have done better theoretically. It shouldn't have been this close between him and Donald Trump. Had Democrats been unified on a single policy vision, even if it was just a single policy, I think the election would have turned out a little bit better for Democrats. Now, again, this is it's difficult to prove it's speculative. But I think that a lot of people can see that we are in a new political era. And Democrats, they just they don't know how to adapt. They're still running using an old playbook and you've got to throw out that old playbook and you've got to adapt, change with the times and ask yourself this, what does Joe Biden stand for?  But what materially was he offering people? Come on, man. Let's look at some exit polls. These were displayed on Fox News live on election night. Seventy two percent of Americans favor a government run health care plan. Seventy one percent favor Roe v. Wade. Fifty five percent of the country wants more strict gun control. Seventy two percent of Americans want a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Seventy two percent of Americans are either somewhat or very concerned about climate change. Seventy percent of Americans want what is functionally a green new deal. Seventy nine percent of Americans favor a mask mandate. Seventy three percent of Americans see racism in policing as a somewhat or very serious problem. In other words, most Americans want progressive policies. But we didn't really get that from Joe Biden. Now, the reason why I'm showing you all of these exit polls is, you know, to prove that Democrats have to stop worrying about what Republicans are going to say, because time after time, election after election, we see them craft their message based on what they think the Republican criticism is going to be.  That's nonsensical. So when it comes to climate change, for example, Joe Biden, he actually did adopt some elements of Bernie Sanders climate change plan. He spoke with people from the sunrise movement. So it still wasn't as good as Bernie Sanders, but it was a measurable improvement compared to what he was running on during the primaries. We didn't ever hear him talk about that. We heard more about how he doesn't want to ban fracking. So Democrats have got to stop trying to play 4D chess because all they are doing in an attempt to appeal to Republicans and brace for whatever, you know, attack that Republicans are going to lob against them. They're just hurting themselves and turning off the base. And I want to share a clip from the most recent episode of Bad Faith by Breonna Joy Gray and Virtual Texas. I think that Breonna made some phenomenal points here. I participated in the we're going to push him left dialogue because I was trying to extract some leverage at the time when there actually was leverage. If people were willing to withhold their votes for him now, we can all just be really honest about the fact that if the largest protest move in the history of American history is not going to move Joe Biden an inch on any issue, much less criminal justice, much less any of the issues that are overwhelmingly popular and could have gotten him elected more soundly without this nail biter that we're all enduring right now, then nothing is going to do it. There's like an obvious concerted effort to pretend like this outcome presuming that Joe Biden wins is in that positive and to sweep his colossal failures under the rug, to sweep the fact that he's been a toxic influence on down ballot races under the rug, to sweep the fact that that neoliberalism was on the ballot and it failed horribly under the rug. And I think that the hope that we should have in this moment, what the progressive should be focused on is to exploit this moment for all of its rhetorical value. If this were Bernie Sanders and Bernie Sanders had caused such a disaster car wreck of a down ballot outcome, you would never ever hear the end of it. Oh, this is Joe Biden's monstrosity and the reason that they're not letting any progressives on TV. The reason why you have this like rotating carousel of nincompoops offering their failed prescriptions for what should come next after having absolutely no predictive savvy and what has happened is because they know if they let us on there, we'll speak the truth. And the truth is that this has been an object failure for neoliberalism. And all of the all of the rhetoric that led up to this, where we weren't supposed to talk about Joe Biden's real failings, where we we couldn't handicap his campaign, undermine his campaign in any way, because Trump is worse and Trump is a fascist and Trump's going to get my friends supported. I respected that enough to be running at 25%. But now I'm running at 100%. If people thought I was going to be annoying before, I promise you, I'm about to be so obnoxious. You're going to pray for the days that I was quote unquote on the payroll. A lot of the things that she's saying and the things that I'm about to say, they're difficult to quantify. So you can dismiss this as just my biased opinion as a leftist, as a socialist. That's fine. I am, you know, accounting for my bias. But I think that there are some things that are pretty self-evident. Joe Biden did have a toxic impact on down ballot races, not just progressive races, but centrist races as well. Now you can contest that. However, when you see someone who lacks enthusiasm, that's not going to really energize people to vote for other Democrats. You need someone at the top of the ticket who excites everyone. We saw the way that Obama excited Democrats, at least in 2008. He ran on hope and change at a time when we desperately needed hope and change. And Democrats won everywhere. Joe Biden suppressed the vote nationally. This is exactly what they said Bernie Sanders would do. Now, again, this is difficult to prove quantitatively speaking, but qualitatively speaking, I mean, when you have most people, at least anyone I know, who you know, even some polls indicate this, that they're not voting for Joe Biden because they like Joe Biden. They're voting for Joe Biden because he's not Donald Trump. That's a problem. You can't just expect voters to vote for your party and your candidates because they're not as bad as the other team. You have to offer something to them materially. Let them know how you specifically are going to improve their lives. Additionally, Brianna Joy Gray said that his record was basically swept under the rug. That's precisely it. Joe Biden did not perform very well with Latinos. And if you look at his record, Obama administration's record on deportations, the way that he conducted himself during the primary when an immigration activist confronted him, he said, go vote for Donald Trump. Do you think voters are just going to forget about this because Donald Trump is bad? No, that hurt him. That hurt him. And, you know, not to mention the crime bill at a time when we're seeing a historic moment, people are rising up in cities across the country demanding criminal justice reform, police reform. You have the architect of the 1994 crime bill run. And he may have kind of taply apologized for his role in mass incarceration. But he hasn't really did a full about phase.  I mean, decriminalization is one thing. But you picked the wrong person for this moment. And, you know, we're lucky that he was dragged across the finish line. But it didn't need to be this close. It shouldn't have been this close. And I love the point that Breonna made about how this is an object, object failure for neoliberalism. But guess what? They're not going to tell you about this in mainstream media. They're already blaming the left. They're already blaming socialism. I mean, on CNN, Don Lemon and Anna Navarro were both blaming socialism for Biden's poor performance with Latinos when during the primaries, Bernie Sanders excelled with Latinos. So let's just step back for a moment and understand why Joe Biden was here. He became the Democratic Party nominee for two reasons. First of all, is that the media convinced everyone and, you know, Joe Biden and Democrats as well. But they convinced everyone that he was the more electable candidate. Exit polls confirmed that most people support Medicare for all. So what that tells you is that people were so hellbent on getting Donald Trump out of office that they sacrificed what they wanted, their own values to vote for someone like Joe Biden, just to have a better shot, ostensibly so, at beating Donald Trump. Had Joe Biden actually adopted a single progressive policy that's really bold, Medicare for all, full pot legalization. And he ran on that. I think that he could have actually excited more people. And he didn't even have to tweak that much. He supported a $15 an hour minimum wage. And we heard about that at the last debate. But if you don't run ads about this in Florida, whether putting this on the ballot and it's very popular, that's a missed opportunity. And understand why it's a bad idea to run Joe Biden at this point in time. And I know that this seems like I'm crying over spilt milk, but we have to go through these things. I mean, we got Donald Trump because Obama was a failure. George W. Bush was a disaster. So we want to change. Obama came along and promised change and he did not deliver on change. So another change agent came along. It wasn't good change, but nonetheless, someone who people viewed as a change agent. Why on earth would Democrats push the person who is from the administration that led to Donald Trump? They pushed Joe Biden and getting back to the second reason why Joe Biden won this primary is because of the Democratic Party establishment, namely Obama, who moved to heaven and earth to make sure that Joe Biden was elected. That phone call he made to Pete, Amy, Beto and probably Kamala. That made all of the difference. It was what the Republican establishment could never do back in 2016 against Donald Trump, so they united against Bernie. And then when push came to shove, Obama didn't really do much. How many campaign rallies did he have for Joe Biden? Compare his to Bernie's. So they're never going to be introspective and admit their failures. I think that it is important for the left to do a postmortem and try to figure out where we went wrong because we had a lot of victories as well. And even if having an unpopular Democrat who still isn't as unpopular as Hillary Clinton, but nonetheless, people aren't enthused about him. You know, at the top of the ticket, that may hurt us. But still, I think that we have to figure out what we did wrong. The question is, will Democrats be introspective? I mean, think of how poorly Joe Biden's campaign was. He hid from most of this race. And I think that that was probably a good idea because you don't want to trot him out and have him embarrass himself because he is a gaffe machine. But that's not very inspiring for people. Imagine if we had someone else at the top of the ticket, we weren't afraid with tank is posed every time he spoke. I mean, the things that Joe Biden did are baffling to me. He literally touted the endorsement of the former governor of Flint, Michigan, Rick Snyder, who was a Republican who poisoned more than a hundred thousand residents in Flint, Michigan, Joe Biden, champion Republicans like John Kasich and ended up losing states like Ohio, which she thought that John Kasich would help him win in. Joe Biden's team was outcandiced by Donald Trump, whose team knocked on a million doors and had it not been for the grassroots effort made by Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar in Michigan and Minnesota, he may not have been pushed over the edge in those key swing states. And it wasn't until a month before the election when Joe Biden decided to finally turn it around and start knocking on doors. And guess what? We were told that Bernie couldn't be the nominee because he would be called a socialist and it would be a disaster. And guess what? Predictably, so he was called a socialist. Joe Biden was called a socialist. So no matter who the Democratic Party nominee is, they're going to be called a socialist, but the difference is that you'd have someone being called a socialist like Joe Biden, who people aren't very enthused about, namely young people and Latinos and people of color, at least young people of color. And then you have someone like Bernie Sanders, who is also going to be called a socialist, but actually has policies is offering people something. And look, that's not to say that Trump didn't also run a terrible campaign because his campaign compared to 2016 this time was a disaster. But still, people want change. They want their lives to improve materially. And what I hope that Democrats take away from this, and I doubt they will, is that they have to stop swimming against the tide. Republicans, they go with the flow, right? They see wherever their base is going and they follow that. They don't care how unpopular their policies are. They have repeal Roe v. Wade in their platform when that is deeply unpopular. But yet they go where their base takes them. Democrats swim against the tide. So if they learn anything, I hope it's that they actually follow the grassroots, stop swimming against the tide, embrace their own base, stop trying to court Republicans, Donald Trump is very popular within the Republican Party. So rather than trying to flip Trump voters and Republican voters, you have to make sure you have your own base on lock and you turn out non-voters who would register to vote if they truly believed you gave them something. Now, even though I'm saying Joe Biden is a terrible candidate because he is, he still did enough to make it across that finish line. So at the end of the day, that's all that matters. And Democrats are going to say, well, look, I guess he is electable. I guess it's the gaze that we were right and you were wrong. But you have to understand that they're going to say that no matter what. If Joe Biden lost, what would they say? What was because he was pushed too far left? In fact, that's what centrist Democrats like Abigail Spanberger are saying, literally, that it's because, you know, they were pushed to left because Democrats said defund the police. That's why Democrats lost in mind. You only a couple of Democrats adopted defund the police. Corey Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and it may not be very popular yet. But compare that to all of the unpopular policies that Donald Trump supports. I mean, you've got to understand, you have to make the case and it may not be very popular yet, but you have to turn out your base. This is what they want. Follow where the mass movement is taking you listen to them. People on the ground are saying defund the police. So if you don't like that particular slogan, then explain it to people. Win over hearts and minds. That's what Bernie Sanders did when it comes to Medicare for all. It's not like defund the police will forever be an unpopular position. Make it popular. That's what Republicans try to do. They never try to figure out how to tweak their message to appeal to some centrist Democrats who might flip over to their side. It's only Democrats who do this. And it's why constantly they're not very good at winning elections. And it's because, you know, they have corporate donors that don't want them to be progressive, but also it's because they have Democratic Party strategists who are career minded, who are constantly feeding them bad advice.  No, times change. You have to be able to adapt. And if Democrats take anything away from the selection, it's that they have to be able to adapt, make themselves more malleable. At least embrace one or two major policies that the left is pushing for. You can't just rigidly adhere to the strategy that you've had since the 1990s. It's not the 1990s anymore. The Reagan era, the third way Democrat era is over. It's dead and gone.  You can't just cling to a strategy that has been a proven failure. Adapt. I mean, this isn't rocket science. I shouldn't have to say this, but I do. So, you know, regardless, I'm kind of like screaming out into the ether because they're not going to listen to anything that I say, which is why we have to replace the Democrats who are doing the worst thing imaginable for the country. And that is continuing to court Republicans and remain conservative and embrace neoliberalism, neoliberalism is for Republicans. Let them have their neoliberalism. We need an alternative on the left.  Stand for something, not just platitudes, but actual policies and you will become popular again. It's not that hard. So before I say anything, it could be the case that you already know the results because I am recording this on Thursday. But if it is the case that the results hold as they currently are at the time I film this, then Donald Trump will lose. But I want you to know that this doesn't necessarily mean that it will be the end of Trumpism. For now, it may be the end of the Trump era. But since Trump has been so popular within the Republican Party, I think that his style of politics is going to live on. But it might not even be the end of Donald Trump because we are already seeing talks of Donald Trump running in 2024 before the results have been posted and before he's even conceded. Take a look. One other thing I want to note, Jake, and I think this is an indication of where things are heading and the mentality that is taking shape inside the Trump campaign. There are some aides and advisers who are starting to talk about the potential, not only that the president is going to lose this election, but that he may mount some sort of resurrection run in 2024. This possibility has been discussed, I'm told, inside the Trump campaign by some aides and advisers, and that some have even talked about it with the president himself. That obviously is something that's way off into the future, but it's an indication that they're starting to feel like perhaps they're running out of time inside the Trump campaign, Jake. So that was interesting. I don't necessarily find it surprising, albeit it's still very interesting. Now, this does tell us that Donald Trump, regardless of what he says publicly, is reckoning with the fact that he may lose this election. So he can tout his victories in states that have already been called for Joe Biden. He can claim that fraud was committed, but deep down, he knows he lost because he ran a terrible campaign. He bungled a pandemic, something that comes along once every 100 years.  This was his loss. So he knows that he's losing. It's sad that more of his supporters don't realize that everything he's doing now is all strategic and it's just bluster, but nonetheless, he does know. Now, whether or not this is true, it is, because if people within Trump's inner circle, his advisors are saying this, then it's happening. I don't know if they're putting this idea in his head or he's putting this idea in their head, but they're going to be gung-ho on this because they really want to make sure they have a job lined up for them in a couple of years. So, of course, they're going to be on board. But Donald Trump, do we honestly believe that Donald Trump being as attention craved as he is, he would just like go away? Of course not. So I was already thinking if he loses this, even before this article came out, what's the odds that he runs for reelection? And I put it at like 40 percent. And now I'm moving that up to 60 percent because we're already hearing about it before he's conceded. So Donald Trump is not going to go away anytime soon. And, you know, he can run. He's legally constitutionally within his right to seek out a second term. Now, what will be interesting is that there will be a lot of Republicans who will be very angry about this, who are politically ambitious. People like Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, who want to run again and they're going to have the inclination to attack Donald Trump for doing this, for wanting to run again after he lost. However, they're going to have to bite their tongue because they know that if Donald Trump decides to run, he's going to be very popular, very popular because the base loves him. Now, I don't know if that will change between now and 2024. This is, you know, we're talking a long, a long ways away, but it will be interesting to see the dynamic in the Republican Party because they will not want this. I don't think the Republican establishment will want this. And I don't think any Republican who wants to run for president is going to want this. But will they publicly attack Donald Trump? Don't think so, because now they're going to have to pretend to be the next Donald Trump, if they want to be electorally successful in the next Republican Party primary.  So if your argument was going to be I'm going to carry Donald Trump's torch, that's a little bit more complicated. You can't necessarily do that if he's running for president. So look, this is a long ways away, but it will be very entertaining, at least if Donald Trump is going to seek out a second term in 2024. Well, folks, that's all that I have for you today. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you've made it this far, as usual, we're not going to end the show without thanking all of the people who make it possible. All of our Patreon, Paypal and YouTube members who help this show not just to survive, but thrive as well.  So thank you so much. Now, before we go, I just want to tell you that we have some additional platforms that we will be launching on very soon in the coming weeks or months. So definitely look out for that. But it has been a very, very long week. I'm certainly exhausted and I know that you probably are too. So don't forget to take some time for self care, like to just relax and play a video game, watch a movie. You know, when we are living through times like this, where we're waiting on election results and things change so rapidly, it's really exhausting mentally, psychologically. So, you know, don't forget to treat yourself to something, anything, even if it's like ice cream or something, like just like be kind to yourself because we all need this very stressful point in human history. So I'm done blabbing. I'll see you all next week. This has been the Humanist Report. I am Mike Figurado. Take care, everyone.


to match out to that 500 and this 20, I also need to create something. Why? Because these are on the bank side, but they're not on the book side. And that means that either the bank is wrong, which it usually isn't, or I didn't add it to the book side, and therefore I'm going to add them. Notice that if you were adding all of your information from the bank feeds, you would basically be doing this the whole time, right? You would just pull your information from the bank feeds and build your books from the bank feeds. But that's not a full service accounting system as much, right? As if we've matched the two out. And again, it will be dependent upon the type of industry you're in as to whether that would be something you can do or not. This is a withdrawal. So we're going to say the withdrawal was taken out, money was taken out. Remember that if you're a bookkeeper and you're doing bookkeeping for other people, you would like to tell them, don't take money out directly unless it's a draw for personal use because there's no audit trail. If you took money out and you spent it for business use, we don't have an audit trail. We would like to have an audit trail if it's a legitimate business expense, especially in the United States, because if there's an audit, we want to be able to show that you paid for something legitimate. And if you pay for it with cash, that becomes more difficult. You have to then add up your receipts and whatnot. So cash is what you what people spend on things when they don't want people to know what they're spending the money on. So we want to know what you're spending the money on. And then on your personal stuff, you can pay it with cash so that we don't need to track whatever you're doing there. I don't want to know, whatever. But in any case, so that's what we're going to say happened this time. They took the money out and it's a draw. They took the money out as a draw. So I'm going to say, all right, that means this went to the owner. Let's just make an owner account. And then let's say that this is going to be a draw. That's going to be an equity account. Now what we don't want to do is put a draw in here as an expense. Why? Because that'll hit the income statement. And it wasn't an expense. It was the owner taking money out of the company. If it's an expense, it would be a deduction or a write off for taxes in the United States, which would be incorrect. And you could get in trouble for if you did that, especially on purpose. But in any case, here's the owner's capital draws. They have an account for us. That's the one we want. So I'm going to hit that. I'm going to say this is a draw, draw, and then that looks good. And I will expand it out here. And so now we've got basically the direct payment, the money out February 28th, is I'm going to put the date on it. It gave me the second line. I don't really need that. So I'm going to delete that. The 500 is good. It's going to the draw account. What's this going to do? It's going to record a transaction, which is going to decrease the checking account. And the other side is going to go to equity draws, not to the income statement. Let's save the transaction and check it out. So all right. And then reconcile. Hold on. I tried to check both of them off. I just want the draw, not the staples, not the staples, just the draw. Okay. So let's try it again, reconcile again. Okay. And so let's see if it recorded it. Let's go back to the balance sheet. And we're going to say in Feb, we should have a decrease. I'll leave to the checking for the 500 that we recorded from the bank feeds for the draw that was taken out that the owner took and spent somewhere that we don't want to know about whatever. And so let's see. This is on 28, 500 draw. Where is it? Here it is. There's too much stuff in the 520 or 228. There's the draw. All right. Back up top. The other side did not go to the income statement, but rather we put it down into the equity section as a draw. So scrolling down equity section, we've got the owner's capital. It should be in the draw. There's the draw right there. Now note that this is how you would like things to basically work. When the company starts up, you'll recall that we had to put money into the company with an investment from the owner, which isn't income, but an investment. We don't want to put it on the income statement. Otherwise, we would be recognizing income that is an income. We have to put it on the equity statement. Doesn't hit the income statement. And then hopefully over time, the company makes money. As they make money, the cash account is going to go up. Hopefully we can use that cash to then buy more equipment to build the business.


Every Arab thinks that the Arab-Israeli War in 1948 was some grand conspiracy. This war that would establish the state of Israel and cement its existence, Arabs have conditioned themselves to believe that they didn't see coming, and that the West in all its might, the British, the Americans, and all the Zionist-loving nations had it in for the Arabs and supported the Jews blindly, whether politically, financially, and militarily. But nothing could be further from the truth. Wars are one on the ground, by humans participating in the gruesome fighting and killing of each other. And regardless of any real Western support on the political and financial front, no Western nation, no Western nation was involved in the real military clashes that led to Israel's eventual victory. So why is it easier for Arabs to believe and buy into such a conspiracy? Well, because the truth hurts, and in this instance, it hurts real bad. Neqba is the word used by Palestinians and Arabs alike when referring to the moment of the loss of the nation of Palestine and the establishment of the state of Israel.  Well, it definitely shouldn't be about the effect, being the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and country, as everyone thinks. It should be about the cause of the event. The Neqba is effectively about the way in which Arabs systematically messed up big time in this Arab-Israeli war. This is going to be a very controversial conversation for some. But who cares about ruffling some feathers here and there? Facts are facts, and when we diagnose the Neqba from every angle, the facts reveal that this painful event comes down to a singular element, and that's vision, and the fundamental duality of this vision reflects the attitudes and subsequent actions by each side. But before expanding on the issue of vision, let's talk numbers. Israel, Palestine, the Arab nations of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq were involved in this war. And to provide some contextual facts, the Israeli population at the time numbered just over 600,000, while the collective population of the Arab nations involved totaled 40 million. Israelis were half the size of the Palestinian population and only 3% of the Arab nations total, meaning a ratio of one Israeli for every 67 Arabs. Upon the start of the war, many Arab leaders from across the political landscape shouted claims that this war was going to be one of attrition in response to the calling for assistance by the Palestinians as well as the protection of Muslim holy land from the grips of a Zionist enemy. Arab nations projected that their people would volunteer en masse throwing themselves towards the front lines, responding to calls of jihad. So based on this preface, how many soldiers were involved in this war?  It's substantially less just to be clear. Around 160,000 would be a fairly accurate figure. That's for both Israeli and Arab soldiers. And more shockingly was the fact that the majority of this number were Israeli forces whose numbers eventually grew up to 100,000. How can Israel with a population ratio of one to 67 Arabs feel the military personnel ratio of 1.67 to one? Meaning that for every three Israelis on the ground, there were only two Arab soldiers. Whose failure or success was that? What's even more mind-boggling is that records show that Israeli forces at the start of the war had a single rifle per three soldiers. Be aware, this war was one fought through infantry and without all the advanced weaponry in the air or heavy military equipment like tanks. No, this was a man-to-man combat on all fronts. So how does this all compute? How does it even make sense? All indicators projected that the Arabs with their overwhelming size and ability could easily have overcome the Israeli defense forces. Why did the Arabs lose? And so convincingly. So let's go back to the notion of vision as the main culprit for Arab failure. In a nutshell, Arabs had none. Their first flaw was that Arabs underestimated their enemy. On all fronts, seemingly expecting success when the war hadn't even started and it shows clearly from the lack of preparation, organization and coordination between the various nations involved. Six nations each with armies and militias that weren't consolidated into a single force. No central command or collective strategy that aimed efforts towards overcoming the enemy. From a military strategy perspective, the Arabs had a supreme advantage as they were able to attack Israeli forces from many fronts. The north with the Syrian Lebanese forces, Jordan and Iraq from the east and Egypt from the south, also not to be forgotten with the Palestinian militias from within. Yet again, such an advantage came to naught. But why such lack of cooperation? Well, to have such unity, one must have a single vision. And that wasn't the case. The Palestinians themselves had no central authority. They were scattered political and military factions, each with their own agendas. Different Arab nations also had competing visions. King Farouk of Egypt aspired to unify the Arab world as part of his own personal vision. Egypt's first priority in the war was to annex as much land as possible from partitioned Palestine. King Abdullah of Transjordan was exactly the same. Being a supporter of the partitioning of Palestine, his target was to usurp the West Bank in full, inclusive of Jerusalem. Lebanese and Syrian leadership themselves eyed parts of northern Palestine. Nouri Said, the prime minister of Iraq himself, had visions of sweeping across the Levant in establishing a unified Arab nation. But even worse than varying visions was the element of collusion that became evident between Israel and Transjordan. Previous to the war engagements, King Abdullah met with Golda Meir, the leader of the Jewish Agency at the time, to agree concessions the Israelis would make to the Jordanians if and when war would erupt. King Abdullah agreed to two main elements, that his army, the Arab Legion, the most powerful and well trained of the Arab armies would only proceed to overtake lands that were designated as Palestinian lands within the partition plan, and hence remove themselves completely from any real engagement with Israel. The other point agreed with Israel was the limitation of Iraqi forces accessing Palestine through Jordanian land, necessary to launch their military campaign, hence restricting the overall fighting power of the Arabs. The final nail in the Arab coffin in this war was the lack of Arab heart. What were they fighting for? Each nation was a fledgling nation that had substantial concerns at home. Nation regimes that were fairly unstable to say the least. They couldn't commit their full force of men and assets to a war that really wasn't theirs. And for some nations, a war that was often the distant, hundreds of kilometers away. For the Arabs, the Israelis would have the necessary foresight to plan for this moment. For Israel, this foresight was 2020, since even before the Arab revolt in Palestine of 1936. The Jews had been preparing for the eventuality of independence and the creation of their nation. The Haganah, the Jewish militia, created a centralized defense institution to combat any type of communal violence at the time. In 1943, all male Jews at the age of 17 in Palestine had to serve for two years in service of the nation. Many of these militias and conscripts ended up being trained by the British and departed for the battlefields of World War II Europe. Upon the ending of the Second World War, the Jewish nation now, with strong experience in welfare, further recognized that the population and army count was overwhelmingly in favor of Arabs. And it was concluded that a professional army must be formed, a full two years prior to the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli War. Structural reforms were put in place to establish the Israeli Defense Force, the IDF. Between 1947 and 1948, the Jewish Authority incorporated numerous militias, including the Irgun and the Stern gang, into the Haganah, thus growing into a defense force numbering 32,000. An organized and trained army was a great start for the Israelis. But this alone wouldn't be enough to overcome the Arabs. More was needed and one of the most effective methods in history was to divide and conquer. This strategy would require diplomacy at its highest skill level. And this is why Israel offered King Abdullah of Transjordan the West Bank and Jerusalem in return for the abandonment of a full out war against Israel. Without the Arab Legion, Israel would have a much better chance of surviving and defeating the remaining less professional Arab armies. And finally for Israel, their foresight was imbued with a most important element of all. Heart. Israelis were fighting for a cause, for a home, for a nation. No matter how it was begotten, the promise and potential was real. And the possibility to have this dream destroyed were the Arab armies confronting them on the battlegrounds. Israel fought with no regard for casualty, always fought in the name and service of the nation. And with this heart, organization and strategy, Israel was successful in fulfilling its dream. The establishment of their nation. Israelis saw all of this coming. Arabs didn't. And to say that the establishment of the state of Israel came out of nothing and their overwhelming victory was sudden and shocking is extremely naive. Arabs were ill-prepared, chaotic in their actions and greedy in their own personal ambitions. The sad reality is that there never was Arab unity for the Palestinian cause, not in 1948 and less so ever since. You can blame the world on how the systemic immigration of Jews took place from the beginning of the 20th century till the war in 1948, as well as the creation of the Jewish nation through the help of the West, but Arabs can only blame themselves for the continued existence of Israel. The partition plan could have been a major failure and catastrophe for the Jews, only if the Arabs had won the war. But they didn't. That is the true nekba.


In this video we are going to discuss about the events that occur after fertilization has happened in humans. So you start off as a single celled zygote within your mother's fallopian tube after fertilization between the sperm and egg cell has occurred. The zygote keeps dividing and as it divides it moves through the fallopian tube and reaches the uterus. When it has reached the uterus, the zygote is now in its blastocyst stage with its outer layer called the trophoblast and an inner cell mass. It is the blastocyst that gets implanted within the endometrial lining of the uterus. This whole process takes around 8-9 days after fertilization has occurred. Immediately after the blastocyst is implanted, the inner cell mass begins to divide and forms the three germ layers. The outer ectoderm, the middle mesoderm and the inner endoderm. It is from these three layers that all cells and tissues in the body are produced. Take a look at the different tissues the different layers give rise to. The development of the baby inside the uterus spans around 40 weeks. So the catch here is that week zero begins when the mother had her last menstrual period. Two weeks after the menstrual period is when fertilization is believed to occur because that's when ovulation occurs. So whatever calculation is done during this period starts from the mother's last menstrual period and that is week zero. So the development of the baby inside the uterus spans three trimesters and each trimester is around 3 months. And this development during the three trimesters, this pregnancy development is called gestation. Once the three germ layers form, they keep dividing and the blastocyst can now be called an embryo. The embryological stage lasts around 8 weeks. Take a look at a human embryo at around 8 to 9 weeks of time. The early embryo begins to have basic human characteristics like the head and eyes. And these bud-like structures here, they give rise to the limbs later on. After about 9 weeks, the embryo can now be called a fetus. The fetal stage lasts till 40 weeks till when the fetus or baby is born. During the first trimester, all organs like the heart and lungs begin to form. Hands and feet that is the limbs also begin to develop. During this time, the placenta also develops. The placenta serves as a link between the mother and the baby and provides the baby with nutrients and oxygen. We'll learn more about placenta in just a while. During the second trimester, the organs are more developed. Hands and legs that is limbs are more developed as well. And towards the end of the second trimester which is around 26 to 27 weeks, movements of the baby can be felt as well. At the end of the third trimester, finishing touches are added to the developing organs. Lungs are fully developed but they are non-functional till the baby is born. Let's discuss a bit more about placenta. When fully developed, the placenta is about 9 to 10 inches in diameter around the size of a dinner plate. It is formed from the trophoblast, that is the trophoblast of the blastocyst. After the blastocyst gets implanted. So the placenta has two sides, the fetal side and the maternal side. So the fetal side has this structure called the chorionic plate and it is formed from the trophoblast. The basal plate is the maternal side of the placenta and it is attached to the uterine wall. This is the uterus and this basal plate is part of the uterine wall. So what happens after implantation is the trophoblast begins to divide and forms these projections called chorionic villi. And this image actually just shows one projection like this but there are several projections that begin to form from the trophoblast. Within these projections are umbilical arteries and umbilical veins. So these capillaries that you see here, they join to form the two umbilical arteries and one umbilical vein. And this space here is sort of like an empty space into which uterine arteries pump blood into. So the uterine artery is the artery that provides blood to the uterus.  So what happens is oxygen and nutrients diffuse into these villi, diffuse into these projections and they are picked up by the umbilical vein. And the umbilical vein transports the oxygen and nutrient rich blood to the fetus. From the fetus umbilical arteries bring in oxygen depleted or carbon dioxide and waste rich blood.  So the placenta sort of acts like a barrier between the fetal circulation and the maternal circulation. It doesn't allow both circulations to directly come in contact. It serves as an interface between the mother and the developing fetus. Apart from providing the fetus with nutrients, the placenta also acts as an endocrine organ and produces several hormones like progesterone, human-choreonic-gernotropin and relaxing. So these hormones play an important role in maintaining pregnancy. For example, progesterone is needed to maintain the endometrial lining of the uterus. It is very crucial for that. HCG is excreted in the urine and it is what is tested by the home pregnancy kits. Apart from these hormones, other hormones are also produced in more quantities during pregnancies in the mother such as thyroid syn, which is needed to compensate for the increased metabolism of the mother. So these hormones cause changes in the maternal body during pregnancy. Some of these changes are listed here. So the uterus increases in size to help accommodate the growing baby. The breast size increases because mammary glands are developing during pregnancy and these mammary glands produce milk after the baby is born, which provides the baby with nutrients. The heart rate and oxygen consumption of the mother also increases because more oxygen and more blood is needed to supply the baby. When the baby is fully developed, uterine contractions start forming and these contractions will help deliver the baby.


Hello everyone, the trip to the cottage country just has started and I just wanted to show you a view of the rental company where I'm picking up my car, so this is the car we got Mazda, not sure what model but looks like new and in good condition So this is the car we're going to be Driving for the next three days and For now we're driving for about three hours the destination is Huntsville and we're going to stop over Somewhere in the middle and then at that point I'll try to do post this video and adding some more scenes of the road No ghost Even if I'm falling down, I will keep on searching for my eyes You can say I lost my mind. I will keep on holding my head high Even if the sky is falling down Jumping from cliff so high Trust in our wings to fly Sometimes we're crashing down But we get up and start from the ground And I will keep on searching for my eyes You can say I lost my mind. I will keep on holding my head high Even if the sky is falling down Even if the sky is falling down The sky is falling down The sky is falling down Guys just stopped in the middle of nowhere at this gas station to go to the washroom and Have a cup of coffee So Huntsville looks like another 45 minutes away here. We're taking a little break So it was already I think I drove for about three hours or could be even three and a half But after having coffee here, so we're just going to you know start from here