Why should you be interested in Lebanon? Firstly, I think it's crucial for understanding the historical and current developments in the Middle East. And secondly, I find that Lebanon offers some historical validations for political theories in the tradition of Mary Rothbard and Hans-Helman Hoppe. The Lebanon originally is a mountain range, the Mount Lebanon, which offers some nice slopes for skiing, but this superficial similarity to Switzerland runs a bit deeper because living in the mountains has interesting cultural and political effects. It was Professor Hoppe himself who observed once that a difficult environment and climate fosters the development of intelligence, of hard work, and low time preference. And this pattern we can observe in Lebanon in the 18th century, a French visitor, Const des Volnais, observed that those people that he found in the Mount Lebanon were among the most hardworking people that he has met in the Ottoman Empire. Because what impressed him is that in order to cultivate the mountains, they had constructed terraces. They had carved out terraces in the mountains. And on one hillside, he counted 120 steps from the valley bottom to the summit. And he was quite impressed by this amount of intergenerational work, which of course is an indicator of a very low time preference. But he thought that hard work alone can explain that. Living in the mountains must have another advantage. And by looking around, he found this advantage. It's a relative safety from state intervention. Mountains have always been a refuge and are much harder to control than the plains, which are in the open. So from early beginnings on, the people living in the regions were very independent minded, heavily armed, and protecting their little deep thorns in the mountains. Already the most ancient people there, one of the most interesting civilizations because it's one of the very few non-statist mergers civilizations, the Phoenicians, lived there. And later on, Maronite Christians among the first original Oriental Christians, still speaking the language of Jesus, moved to the mountains and established one of the earliest and most important monastic traditions. And a little bit later, the Druze, sect considered by most Muslims as heretic, found refuge in the mountains as well. A hundred years after Volnais, another Frenchman visited the area and he confirmed this observation in La Matine, his name was La Matine, that known French literate. And he found that the Maronite Christians that he visited were among the happiest people that he had ever met. And he was the first one to compare them to Switzerland. Already it was in the 19th century and he said, I quote him literally, even Switzerland does not afford more of an image of liveliness, happiness and peace than the Mount Lebanon. And he tried to find out the reasons for this relative happiness and peace. And the reasons he gives are quite interesting. At first he says they are self-governed to an extent that they are not afraid of the state but the state is afraid of them. Secondly, property is secure and inheritable. Thirdly, trade is very vivid, lively, the commercial activity is very strong. And all these factors and fourthly, sorry, the laws that they follow, the common laws that they follow are very simple and pure. So all those are institutional explanations that might not surprise you. But the question is, with Lebanon still being one of the freest economies in the region, how come it's not compared to Switzerland anymore? Why hasn't it become the utopia we would expect, or maybe he would expect it to become? And to retrace this history and how they deviated from the Swiss path gives us a lot of explanations about this intermix of geopolitics, local politics, and ethno-religious issues which are at the core of the upheaval that we see in the world nowadays. The Christians settling in the mountains were really discovered by Europeans in the Renaissance. They were quite surprised to find still vivid Christian tradition with monasteries and high cultural standards living in these secluded mountains. And since then, there has been a link between Europe in particular and the Maronite Christians which increased their cultural level and contributions they created very early on the college in Rome. This link to the West, of course, in a way was an advantage for the Christian population and puts the truth at a certain disadvantage which they compensated by becoming closer to the Ottoman rulers who had persecuted them before. And they could carve out their own independence by being full of lords. Through the link to Western culture, also some pernicious ideas slowly started mushrooming among the Christians in Lebanon. Among those ideas are in particular nationalism, democratism and egalitarianism. And all those three ideas have at the core a truth but are turned into falsehoods by ideological misunderstandings. And the comparison to the Swiss part explains a lot about the effect of those ideological misunderstandings. In nationalism, nationalism is quite different from cultural patriotism, but at first it was conceived as such. The Christians conceived a form of Arab nationalism as a way to protect our culture towards the Turkic overlords and are among the most important contributors to Arab literature. Very few Arab speakers nowadays have an idea how much they owe to those Maronite Christians and their impact on the language and literature was immense. Yet over time this nationalism was exaggerated politically. What happened is that we had a constellation of local politics and geopolitics intermingling. Among the truths a lord found out, something that has been found out by rulers throughout history, that he could protect his rule by getting rid of the nobility and enlarged population under his control. And how did he do it? He converted to Christianity and suddenly he had many more subjects so he could use to get rid of the local truth nobility. Of course the truth didn't take that lightly and the truth population took revenge with the massacres amongst the Christians, which further away in Damascus were interpreted as a war, a civil war between Muslims and Christians. The Christians joined this lord in a rebellion against the full good lords because it was part of the social revolt. It was part of an egalitarian approach to society, but the problem is in Damascus the social classes were quite the opposite. The wealthy were the Christians and the poor were the sunny majority population who took to Damascus before the Christians would butcher them. Lebanon since then has been a very important study field for the social dynamics of Damascus unfortunately, and it has never been as easy as Muslims butchering Christians. Muslims were butchering Christians, but the dynamics are much more complicated than that and usually it's an intermix of local politics and geopolitics which turned certain populations against each other and then the religious affiliation becomes a label which can easily attribute it to some foreign influence. The French protected the Maronites and at the same time the French took an interest in Arab nationalism because they wanted to carve out a sphere of influence in the Ottoman Empire. So they supported Muhammad Ali for his project of carving out an Arab nation state, the first Arab nation state in the Ottoman Empire. Of course that had little to do with Arabism, it's just politics. Muhammad Ali himself was not an Arab, he was an Albanian but he used this political force and he used the support he got by the French and at first the Christians end this former truce lord whose name was Bashir Shahab, allied himself with Muhammad Ali. And Muhammad Ali started the first project of modernizing and creating a modern nation state. And once the Christian population realized what it means, fortunately they rebelled and got rid of Muhammad Ali because what does modern nationalism mean in contrast to a kind of cultural patriotism? Modern nationalism means regular taxation, conscription, government intervention, education and most importantly disarming the local population. And that has always been the pattern of this kind of ideological misunderstanding of nationalism, creating a homogenous centralized state against the population by changing, re-educating, homogenizing the population. And fortunately this first project was put to a halt and the French carved out a smaller version which was still called Crater Lebanon. One of the pernicious effects of nationalism is this idea of greatness, a larger area, the more powerful the region, which in this case was very dangerous in combination with another pernicious idea coming from the West, this democratism, which has very little to do with the tradition of democracy as we see it in Switzerland and even in the ancients, among the ancients. In Switzerland, democracy means the self-government of small decentralized communities and the political activity is mainly an educational endeavor to bring out the best in the citizens, namely, jointly protect the commons without any professional politicians or rulers needed. Now the modern idea of democratism is quite the opposite. It means party lines, it means elections and it means numbers. And it should rather be called maturitarianism. And whenever we have a heterogeneous population and we introduce the idea of maturitarianism two new political winning strategies arise and their incentives are terrible. Those two winning strategies are outbreeding and genocide. And ever we have maturitarianism. And what happened in Greater Lebanon, which was not restricted to the Mount Lebanon but edit areas in the Southeast and North of Mount Lebanon while Mount Lebanon was dominated by the Maronite Christians, demographically those other regions have a majority, sunny and sheer Muslim population. And of course, once the idea of maturitarianism is mushrooming conflicts will arise sooner or later. And the major conflicts that should arise was nationalism turning against its original instigators, the Christians. The Arab Christians were among the first Arab nationalists but they should pay a heavy price for that because later on there was a short-lived union by Syria and Egypt which turned Muslims all around the world quite enthusiastic because they already got hold of the idea of nationalism and thought that's the chance to establish a maturitarian Islamic state with all its power and splendor and whatever efficient and strong state can create the land of plenty that they are promised by Western intellectuals usually. Now by the accident of geopolitics, this union was not part of the US led axis of power but fell to the other side in the Cold War. So joining in this union would have meant breaking any links with the Western powers that were protectors of the Maronite Christians. So the Maronite Christians felt a conflict of interest and would not be as happy as the Muslims joining this new union which led to slight protests by Muslims who didn't feel represented in government as it should be. And then a Christian politician, President Harmoon, asked for foreign intervention because he wanted to extend his term of power and he felt threatened by this upheaval in maturitarian democracy. And one power answered positively and that was a crucial turning point for history. In 1958, the United States invaded Lebanon and the Operation Blue Band. Already this very first intervention was based on a lie. It was based on a lie that according to the Eisenhower doctrine, it was an intervention to prevent a state from being taken over by communist army. But when the clueless Americans landed in Lebanon, there was no communist army anywhere. There wasn't even war but they were cheered by the local population. So America took some very wrong lessons out of this first adventure. First, the local population cheered when they arrived. Second, there was almost no death toll to Americans drowned while swimming. That was it more or less. Thirdly, they installed a new president, General Huat Shahab, who is a descendant of the Bashir that I had mentioned before. And he undertook the great project of making Lebanon safe for democracy without much help from the US needed. So for the United States, it seemed like intervention is easy and fun. It was like after a week that they seemed victorious. What they didn't know, of course, is that the people that cheered for them just thought that those are GIs taking a break from an exercise and coming as tourists. So good businessmen that they are, they sell all the dollars coming in and were quite happy and cheerful because they had no idea there was no war going on, no army there. So why are all those Americans coming on the beach? Certainly to have a nice time on the beach. And what they wouldn't figure out is that this project of making Lebanon safe for democracy would wreak havoc on the country. What happened, Shahab started the second project of modernizing, centralizing the Lebanese state, creating a Lebanese identity. It was a process of homogenization of the population, of centralization, of urbanization, of secularization, which for a while seemed to work. The conflict seemed to disappear into a new urban intelligentsia, students who didn't really belong to anything and it seemed safe for democracy. But what we discover again and again in history is that once a traditional society turns very quickly into a modernized, centralized one, issues of identity, crisis of identity arise. And it was a particular among these newly urbanized young intelligentsia that the last four war increased. The same thing happened before the First World War in Europe. It was particular among those homogenized, apparently safe voters for democracy that the last four war increased once the challenge was there. And the challenge arrived when a mass immigration of Palestinians started, which tilted the demographic balance even more towards Muslim majority and at the same time there was another foreign intervention. Israel tried to win over the Christians as their allies because they thought logically that's a Christian population engulfed by Muslim majority. They should be willing to be allies of Israel but they were surprised that most Christians were anti-Sionists. Why were they anti-Sionists? Because they thought that setting up a nation state with an exclusive minority would upset the whole region at the end the Christians would have to pay the price, which was quite far seeing the population back then but then all the vicious circle started that we have become used to in the Middle East. False flag operations, assassinations and massacres got started. And of course, once this vicious circle is going you have this intermix of ethno-religious issues, micro-political issues with just about local power bases and geopolitics where potential parts of the population is seen as enemies that are threatening your existence if you belong to the other religion, the other tribe. So there was even killings and massacres among Christians with different tribes, different affiliations. Some Christians in the end allied with Israel and of course confirmed all the worst expectations of Muslims that the Christian would turn against their neighbors in hand in hand with a foreign occupying power. That was the Lebanese civil war that waged starting 1975. So the conflict in 58 was just you pacified it a little bit but it just flared up much more intensely later on, a pattern we see in American intervention ever again repeating. What's the effect of war? Not only material destruction and this least important effort of war. Lebanon for not having a functional and efficient state has always been a rather less fair environment and it is quite amazing what businessmen can achieve in a short while. Already the first observer when he visited the region he said, I am deeply moved by how powerful the slightest breeze of freedom seems to be. The effect the slightest breeze of freedom has. So it's amazing how quickly the country has always been rebuilt after the destructions but the cultural destruction you can't upset and one of the most important impacts of war is that it raises time preference, raises time preference and also indirectly because due to the emigration because of war you have remittances and remittances have the same effect as development aid that's a kind of private development aid that's not for the good. Development aid leads in general if it's private or governmental to increase of time preference in the local population and this increase in time preference now cannot be upset anymore by the difficult environment. Why? Because due to technology and international trade this reasoning doesn't work anymore. Living in mountains doesn't mean you have to be a hardworking subsistence farmer. Any more you just get into the car and drive to the next department store to get your food stock. So this destructive effect of war is not upset by another cultural effect that would take a long time so what we could observe in Lebanon is an increase of time preference that means it has become a very materialist and consumerist society with very low saving rates. So even though we have a particularly free economic environment the capital formation is not as large as we would hope to see. So cultural factors are more important than most economists think. And this of course explains why it hasn't really become this utopia we should maybe expect. Taxation is very light and largely evaded. Regulation is attenuated by corruption. But most Lebanese intellectuals nowadays by going through Western sponsored universities have this idea and this explanation that Lebanon isn't Switzerland anymore because it lacks an efficient state and it has too much corruption and it's not safe for democracy. That's a very big misunderstanding which we can reveal by looking at the Swiss history and how it deviated from this history. Now efficient government we could see in Syria that was efficient control of the population and for a short while people even looked towards Syria in Lebanon as an example but that of course has disappeared completely. So it's quite foolish in this region to expect something out of an efficient state. And the interpretation of corruption is the same era. So what they see by looking at the Swiss population, the Swiss, Switzerland right now they see an orderly, clean, not corrupt society but they misunderstand two phenomena. The one is the private corruption which is just an expression of low trust and Switzerland is not a corrupt society in the sense that the trust is still relatively high among the population. You just don't drop your garbage because you know that no one else would do it.  So this type of corruption is totally different from the type of corruption which is just not playing along the formal rules of the state and corruption in this sense has a positive impact because it attenuates the effects of regulation and it attenuates the potential foreign intervention into the country. Into Lebanon a lot of money from Iran, from the US, from Saudi Arabia is flowing. If it wasn't for corruption the impact would be much worse. So corruption drowns resources that are also resources that are used for the ban. Corruption breaks rules that you can't really live by of course in a system that gives you little security you can't follow the same regulations as you do in a high trust, a high security environment as in Switzerland but all the productivity is of course a bit once the regulation is a bit offset by the productivity and stability that you might have. There is in Lebanon or other oriental countries if you just follow the example of the best here certainly won't go anywhere. So I think if you look at Lebanon nowadays after this pernicious wars in a very small area having nowadays the largest population of refugees per capita a quarter of the population almost which means multiply the millions that you have in Turkey by 12 that would be about amount of refugees at their house this immense destruction going on and still it is amazing and I'm always amazed what a success story it has been that you don't read much about. It hasn't been drawn fully into the civil war in Syria just at the borders because it's not because government was that efficient because it's not functional enough to have a non-neutral position and once you have a non-neutral position in geopolitics and potential mass immigration which might take a strong geopolitical stance of course you have all geopolitical conflicts within your country and it's the most difficult situation any region can have that Lebanon is experiencing I still think it's a success story in the end for where it's not deviated from the Swiss path of neutrality of self-government of small communities of resistance to homogenization and centralization and building up of a functional modern state at the price of traditional structures but it's not a shining success story but then I think in the distorted world of today if you have a shining example or a shining city on the hill it most certainly has a rotten and evil core. Thank you for your patience.


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Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you all. Please. Thank you. Thank you, and thank you, Lee Greenwood. Lee, your music is an inspiration to America. Now it's my turn to sing for my supper. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all very much for being here tonight. I want to thank all those who worked so hard to make tonight's dinner a success, especially the waiters, Al Gore, Bruce Babbitt, Dick Yepphart, and Paul Simon. But really, David Murdock, our dinner chairman, has done such a terrific job. I may not let him go back to California until I do. And Rabbi Balkany, thank you for your outstanding efforts toward tonight's dinner. By the way, in a few weeks, a new film opens, Rambo 3. You remember in the first movie Rambo took over at town? In the second, he single-handedly defeated several communist armies. And now in the third Rambo film, they say he really gets tough. Almost makes me wish I could serve a third term. And what I really want is for the next Republican president to have a Congress that will work with him, not against him. That is exactly what Congressman Guy Vanderjack and Senator Rudy Boschowitz are working to achieve and what tonight is all about. If in the Senate, we can win back control just by picking up five seats. And with our excellent candidates, I know we can do it. I remember when George Bush and I took office January 1981, or as another Republican president might have put it four months and seven years ago. You know, I've waited 125 years to say that. When we took office, the American economy was sinking rapidly in quicksand. The spending was soaring out of control. Business was being crushed by massive regulation and taxation. Two consecutive years of double-digit inflation had raised consumer prices by a whopping 27.2 percent. And with inflation driving people into higher and higher tax brackets, take-home pay didn't go very far. The prime rate was at a record 21.5 percent. Business failures and unemployment were climbing. Economists called it stagflation. The Democrats called it malaise. The liberal pundits said it was part of America's inevitable decline. What we came in and said the only thing that was inevitable was that bad policies produced bad results. Everybody said there may be no easy solutions, but there's a simple solution. Get government out of the way and let free people in a free economy work their magic. When we proposed cutting tax rates and letting working people keep more of their own money, our critics warned that it would lead to runaway inflation. Instead, inflation was slashed to a fraction of what it had been, and interest rates were cut by more than half. The top tax bracket has now been lowered from 70 percent to 28 percent, and tax revenues are at an all-time high. Our critics warned that if we slowed the growth in government spending, the economy would suffer. Well, when I spoke to you last year, I reported that the U.S. economy had had 53 consecutive months of growth. Well, tonight I have to take that back, because it's now 65 months. It is the longest peacetime expansion in our history. And jobs at the 1984 convention, I said the expansion had created 6.5 million new jobs. Well, now it's over 16 million new jobs. Now, does all this good news mean, as our critics argue, that America's prosperity has run its course hardly? The Democrats were wrong before, and they're wrong again. Our prosperity is based on sound fundamentals, increased production by individuals in the world's most dynamic and freest economy. And now, new advances in the physical sciences, information systems, biology, and applied mathematics are producing new industries, new jobs, and increased productivity that will power our economy well into the next century. So the best is yet to come. If the American people vote in November to continue the pro-growth economic policies of the last seven years, believe me, the next decade will be known as the roaring 90s. But the opposition that controls Congress has made perfectly clear where they stand. When I send them budgets that limit spending, they call them dead on arrival. And when they talk about reducing the federal deficit, it's just a code word for raising taxes. That's why the 1988 elections are so important. We need a new Congress willing to hold the line on taxes and spending. And I promise you this. Even after I leave office, I will never stop campaigning for the tools needed to limit the insatiable fiscal appetite of government. To protect our prosperity, the president needs the line item veto, and America needs a constitutionally mandated balanced budget. There are only two things that the liberals don't understand. The things that change, and the things that don't. The economy, technology, industry, these things change. But America's basic moral, spiritual, and family values, they don't change. And I think you agree with me that those values are the source of our strength and the root of our liberty. America's moral and economic strength at home helps power the cause of freedom around the world. And today, with America proud and respected, it's easy to forget how different things were in the late 1970s. Our military had been allowed to decline. We had planes that didn't fly and ships that didn't sail. Our foreign policy had lost its direction. Instead of being a world leader, America was bending over backward to avoid offending its enemies, and our nation's influence and respect in the world declined. As Gene Kirkpatrick put it, it was as if the United States was wearing a sign saying, kick me. With the leader of the free world sitting on the sidelines, the consequences were tragic for free world freedom and our own security. Just think of the year 1979. In that one year, Iran, Nicaragua, and Grenada were all lost. Iran fell to the Ayatollah. Nicaragua and Grenada were taken by the communists. In that one year, our embassy in Iran was seized not once but twice. Our ambassador to Afghanistan was assassinated by gunmen and that country invaded by Soviet troops. Add to that the economic decay at home. That was 1979. Don't we have a right to ask the American people tonight? If the Democrats return to the White House, what happens in 1989? Well, there is a choice. Over the last seven years, we have rebuilt our armed forces and reversed America's slide. We have spoken openly and directly about the fundamental moral differences between the United States and the Soviet Union. We have rejected containment and made our policy the expansion of freedom around the world. We sent a new message of strength by restoring democracy in Grenada. And by supporting courageous freedom fighters around the world, we are shining a light on the path out from communism. And this Sunday, the Soviet Army is scheduled to begin its long-awaited withdrawal from Afghanistan. And isn't it time we apply the lessons of Afghanistan in Nicaragua and show the same commitment to freedom fighters in our own hemisphere as we do to others in distant lands? Just as we have rejected the permanence of totalitarianism, so too have we worked to put an end to nuclear terror. While our opponents were shouting for a nuclear freeze, we stood firm and demanded the total elimination of an entire class of U.S. and Soviet nuclear missiles to be verified by on-site inspection. That's what we demanded, and I can tell you that's what we got. The INF Treaty has swept away the failed ideas of arms control or nuclear freeze. The new vision is nuclear arms reduction. Add to that our plan for a strategic defense initiative and we can give our children a world free from nuclear terror and the brighter, safer future they deserve. It was not too many years ago that some people were saying the Republican Party was finished. They said our philosophy of opportunity at home and firmness abroad was out of touch. Well, in 1980 and 1984, we proved them wrong, and I have more bad news for them. Not only are we not finished, we're just beginning. Last week, a New York Times editorial asked why New York primary voters showed such little concern about the economy and national security. The Times concluded, and I quote, what this seems to add up to bluntly is peace and prosperity. Well, carrying a record of peace and prosperity into a national election is a good beginning. But we're also going to keep talking about excellence in education, cracking down on crime, and continuing to press the war against drugs on every front.  It means appointing no-nonsense judges, blocking drugs at our borders, confiscating it in our cities, and eradicating it in the fields where it has grown. And it also means, and Nancy has led the way here, teaching our children to just say no. Eight years ago, George Bush and I said to the American people, the time is now, and it still is. The story of America is one of people who have made their dreams come true by realizing that the time for action is always now. It began with 13 colonies in their battle for independence, and then westward expansion, an industrial revolution, the building of a great nation, and finally America's ascendance on the world stage. At every point, the time was now. It is history's greater story, and its greater chapters have not yet been written. If I may, I'd like to take a moment to say just a word about my future plans. In doing so, I'll break a silence I've maintained for some time with regard to the presidential candidates. I intend to campaign as hard as I can. My candidate is a former member of Congress, ambassador to China, ambassador to the United Nations, director of the CIA, and national chairman of the Republican Party. I'm going to work as hard as I can to make Vice President George Bush the next president of the United States. Thank you, and God bless you. And on to the White House.


Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We did not get a lot of content yesterday on Friday in FIFA 21. No promo. We had a party bag SBC, a new objective player, and a Kavani flashback SBC. That was all of our content yesterday. Now, of course, we were maybe expecting a surprise promo. Icon SBCs, we didn't really get any of that. It was a kind of quiet day. But now, just a little bit ago, we figured out, I think, this is just my joke, but we figured out why EA didn't drop a lot of content. They released an update on the pitch notes for the player investigation relating to the Icon Moments Black Market. We'll talk about that in a bit, but this market is very high. I want to talk about that. And of course, Icon Moments specifically, but the market as a whole is up. Icon Moments specifically, after yesterday, having no content really got pretty rare and have gone up a lot in price. We'll take a look at some examples of that. Now, as I'm recording this video right now, I've been talking it up all week that wrote to the final items we're going to get upgraded tonight. EA has not upgraded these items yet. I don't know if they forgot to update them, but according to how they did things before, and this is the one, I have one complaint with EA this year regarding live cards. They upgrade them literally never at the same time. When Headliners first came out, they were upgrading them at 6 p.m. U.K. when the new team in the week was dropping, whether it was for a inform that a card got or for a Headliner streak. Those got updated like pronto, if not right away, like within the hour or two. And then like two weeks ago, they did it at like midnight U.K. on a Wednesday for all the what if cards. When they first dropped the upgrades for these wrote to the final cards for the first leg of Champions League. So like when I congealed from 84 to 86, that happened the same week at the game around midnight to 1 a.m. U.K. time on that Friday night into Saturday morning. Now here I am sitting and recording to you live at 2.33 a.m. U.K. time, and these are not upgraded. So I'm not really sure what's going on. I've even backed out of FIFA once or twice, but I'm not sure why EA have forgotten to upgrade these cards. I was looking forward to the upgrades. I got the Zakanji at 5.85. I was hoping he'd go up to maybe like 630, 640,000 coins, try to get a nice little rise on the card in case people wanted to try this card out. The market's feeling pretty healthy. I bought some Draxers at 100K. This guy's going to an 87. I'm not sure what the deal with EA is on these, but I just don't like the inconsistency with some of these cards. But since we had that SBC yesterday, the Party Bag SBC, which by the way, in mine, if you did not watch the video that we put out earlier today, I packed myself Reggie Lawn, which was awesome, man. My spurs pack look has been incredible. Kane as a red pick, he sucks in game by the way, and Reggie Lawn, two spurs, special cards in the same two day span, so I'm actually stoked about that. But a lot of the market was kind of panic sold after cards got packed and then it rebounded. You saw my transfer list. I had a couple of Joshua Kimmich. There were plenty of examples today. This happens almost every time they drop a Party Bag SBC is you see people kind of panic sell those cards and then they rebound. Kimmich is actually back down a little bit right now, but he went from like 170, 175K, down to 150, back up to 170. Keelini Freeze was another card that had a big time fluctuation today. Basically what you want to do is you want to look out for the cards that are very popular in game that a lot of people like to use. This guy was down to the low to mid 170s. He bounced back up to 190K. And there were plenty of examples of that stuff that happened today as well. Road, not road to the final, but the Rule Breakers Pugba. I bought this card at 505K, sold it for a small profit of 540. Probably could have sold it at maybe like 550, but he bounced back pretty nicely. So I bought these promes down here at about 118 as well, looking for those to kind of bounce back and I have one more Kimmich I'm trying to sell at 170, but I'm not sure what these road to the final upgrades are. I hope they come soon, man, because EA, we want some consistency of these upgrades, man, when we start having all the stuff being at different times and it changes, it sucks, right? And it's hard to plan around. So please be more consistent if you will be. But I did buy this Makalele for 1.6 mil, as you can see. And the cheapest on the market at that time was 1.9 mil. So I'm trying to sell this at about 1.8, make a nice flip out of that. That'd be a very nice card to flip. Actually, I should try them out. Before I list that, I should just send them to the club and try them out. But the market is very high, right? And I'm gonna show you a couple of examples of icon moments cards that have really gone up in price today. Now, one of them is not on my transfer targets at the moment, but if we go back here and search through some icon moments, there's a couple of these guys that have really, really gone up a lot today from where they were at. And one of those I'm gonna talk about first is this Luis Hernandez El Matador. This guy was about 1.1 mil. I sold one, it's all my transfers. I bought this for 999,000 coins, literally 24 hours ago. Sold it Thursday night into Friday for 1.1 mil. He is up another 100,000 coins right now in this game. Up big is that card right there. Philip Blom is another one. This guy was around like 1.1 million coins early in the week, 1.2. He's 1.3 mil right now. So some of your really meta icon moments cards have had a very, very nice rise. Schweinsteiger is another one today.  He got really, really rare for like an hour or so. He was 1.75 mil earlier this morning. He's now back up to 2.1. He had a couple cards of his that actually sold at 2.3 mil. But if we take a look through a lot of the team of the weeks in general, a lot of this stuff is up. Now of course, Sun is up because we play Arsenal on Sunday. So there's a potential for Winstreet going on there. Gretzka 625, Holland 710, McConnel 377. So a lot of your impacts, special cards from these teams are up a lot. Kudzebski 460, that is way up. Barnes 380, James is down a little bit at 620. That might be an undercut because he was just 660. Yeah, that's an undercut because he has that 660,000 coins. So up 110K from where he was on Thursday. Now, do I expect this market to really come down? I don't expect like a huge market crash like we had before, but we are getting closer to foot birthday. And if they do foot birthday like they did in previous years, now I'm not telling them to go sell your cards. I'm not saying that at all. But with SBC fodder being a lot lower, of course, yesterday with that SBC that was released, the Party Bag SBC, a lot of people invested for it, but the 84s really didn't move that much. I think it was just because it was very, very invested in. And so yeah, 84s went up a little bit. It looks like they're kind of spiking right now. Maybe after some of the people who are selling the cards have sold them off, which is a GG if you held your 84s, which is what I definitely would have done. But it looks like they're finally going up a little bit because they were really not moving too much. But with foot birthday coming, right? That's a part of the year where a lot of people know that foot birthday cards are always cracked. Like if we look at the foot birthday team from last year, we're probably gonna be doing this a decent amount over the next week or so. But just to kind of put this in your guys' minds, foot birthday squad from last year cracked out team, right? And of course, foot birthday team too that came out too was really nasty, right? Rashford and Boppe, Hazard, Griezmann, Havertz, Hernandez, St. Maximum, Cisocco, Lozano, big name players as a part of foot birthday. That's a promo that is almost never an L. Future stars and foot birthday are always two staples post-team of the year that are very, very good promos. So now I'm not saying we're gonna see a huge crash on the market because foot birthday is coming right now. Foot birthday is probably still about two weeks away. But just to kind of put that out there, there is potential for that to be happening. So what can we do right now when this market is high? Well, of course, we have live cards that you can still watch and their prices are still fluctuating, right? Sancho's up 60K, Odegard's actually down. He was like 450, he's 437. There are a lot of games this weekend that are impacting what if cards, wrote to the finals, or not wrote to the finals, wrote to the final games will be next Tuesday and Wednesday, but the what if cards and headliners, you know, you've got Crystal Palace with Zaha, the Leeds and Chelsea, which has got Kante, what if, and Rafinha, Everton and Burnley, you've got Rich Charleston going on here, Manchester City. I don't think there's any Manchester City, what if cards? You've got Atletico Madrid, they don't have any, but this one's the big one right here in the Bundesliga, Dortmund and Hertha, of course, because if Dortmund score one goal, that means Sancho is getting his what if upgrade. That's a big one. You've got some Sasuelo as well for the objective player and Udinese for my left mid. Yo, I really need Udinese to start scoring goals because this Parea card is sick. Oh, Marseille is playing as well, so 1,000 potential for more goals for 1,000, so these games will be affecting some of the what if players today. Now, some of these guys had fluctuations too, right? What if team two was really, really expensive this morning for a Friday, heading into the promo. Diado's like 180K, he went down to 150, he's rebounded back to 168. Morales was 115, he went down to 1.05 and has now went back up, but then of course they only scored one goal, so he has down to 1.04, 1.05 once again. So, the market's very high, right? If you wanna try to trade with some cards this weekend, you can absolutely do that because the market is high, the market is confident, people are moving cards around, they're trading with them. So, icons, icon moments, great cards to trade with this weekend, 100%. Out of pack specials though, right on bid. You look at this Draxer, this guy's selling for like 110,000 coins, this one just went on bid for 96K, boom. That's like instant 10K profit after tax on a card like that. Out of pack specials, literally, just going through here and bidding on some of those cards could get you a lot of profits, right? It seems too easy, right? But it's actually true, you can do a lot of bidding and a lot of stuff to find deals on the weekends. Obviously, you can find undercuts and stuff like that too, but don't overthink it, right? Just find a couple of special cards that a lot of people like to use, that I like to play with in FIFA, that are popular, that are meta, and just hop on some open bids. Hop on some open bids, like this probably looks to be about 130, maybe 125. Hopefully it goes back up a little bit more into the day on Saturday, but that's kind of just the state of the market right now. It is very high. SPC fodder isn't really that high. As we did take a look at, we'll take a look at SPC fodder as a whole right now. 83s are about 2,000 coins, 84s are up a bit, 84s are up a bit, 85s are up, so stuff is up a little bit, but stuff is not up a lot, right? 91s with De Bruyne, Lewandowski, 94,000 coins are really not up that much. It was a little bit of the lower fodder that was impacted. Now, of course, this weekend, maybe today on Saturday, maybe on Sunday, we could see another icon SPC returning. I feel like we are due. EA, especially during the second half of the year, and especially how things have been going this year, I would expect EA to drop another sort of not icon player SPC, but an icon upgrade SPC pretty soon. Whether that do be today, or whether that do be on Sunday, I think one of those two days will get some sort of an icon SPC.  Doesn't have very good trades, three star week foot, and it's probably not the best card in game, 370,000 coins. So EA put the Manchester United tax and they're pulling on Manchester United fan hard strings here with this one to get this Cavani card. So Gigi, if you're doing that one, it's a fun card to put on your team if you're a United fan, but for meta and usability, probably not looking like the best card to be doing. But I will say, this is what I want to get into and talk about a little bit next is that the response from EA has come in on their, the whole investigation, right? They made it a little response tonight. They called it another pitch notes from their initial, I guess, letter saying that, hey, we know there's some stuff going on. So this is the pitch notes article that they put out. Now, of course, I'll link this down below if you want to read through all of it. It's basically a lot of them just saying that they're upset, they're not happy, they're gonna find out who did it. And the biggest thing is, is that they are going to ban all of the accounts and remove all the items from the ecosystem. This is the foot market. They're calling an ecosystem now. That's another fun term we'll have to throw around. They're gonna take those off the game. So again, right here, our initial investigation shows questionable activity involving a very small number of accounts and items. Although it's not a large number, if these allegations prove out, this activity is unacceptable. We think, we want to thank our committed community members for bringing the issue to our attention so quickly. You're welcome, we are your own police. We bring a lot of other issues to you directly and you don't seem to notice, but this one you did. Let's be clear, our investigation is completed. We will take action against any employee found to have engaging in this activity. That's an IRL ban hammer, if you will. Any items granted through this illicit activity will be removed from the foot ecosystem and EA will permanently ban any player known to have acquired content through these means. Now I want to cover this question and this comment for a second too, because I saw some people on Twitter tonight debating about whether if Joe Schmoe, who paid 1500, whatever, dollars to buy an icon moments card, he should, some people are saying that that person should get compensated because the EA employee was in the wrong, but this person who paid the money was not. I 100% disagree with that because if you're somebody over here wanting to buy one of these icons from the EA employee for X amount of dollars, you know fully well what you're getting yourself into. You know that you are crossing the line, crossing over the terms of service rules and you are doing something that is not legal and not right. Now you can't play dumb over here if you're somebody who wanted to buy prime icons because the amount of people that didn't even know this existed is way above the amount of people who even thought that it would be possible for them to do. So I think this is the rightful means right here. I think this is the rightful means. Now of course you can look at it and say, well all these different coin selling websites, they don't get banned, right? Well, this doesn't involve directly somebody at EA. It's coin selling websites, it's third party and to EA, you know yes those guys maybe eat in on some of their profits because people are buying coins instead of FIFA points but this involves somebody at EA and that's why this action is being I guess put to light and that's why EA is treating it differently than they would like a coin buyer or coin seller. They still ban for that stuff but they don't put as much effort in because it doesn't involve somebody at their company, right? But I think this is the right means to do this from EA sports. I think wiping the accounts is the right thing to do. Now it does seem a bit harsh because like man, I wanted to buy moments R9 and now boom, I found a way to do it and now my account is banned. Well, you knew what you were doing so in that sense, yeah, we get it but I love some of the comments here from EA, right? We were angry too, okay? Cool, GGs. They're mad that they are shaking the trust that they have with us, okay? The trust, okay? And then they also went down here to explain what content granting is. Basically, the methods that these people at EA used, the shea, right? If you will, shea is the name of the person that people are using as the, like the behind the scenes employee that was doing this. We actually don't know. I think it comes from like an EA help tweet that was shown or whatever but they basically explained what content granting is.  Testing, they'll give out items for testing and qualification or whatever, GGs. And then discretionary content granting for athletes, partners and employees. I mean, yeah, if you work at EA, it's probably a little bit of a perk or the job that you're gonna be getting a couple of cards, right? So they say here that often we want to recognize contributions that have been made by pro footballers, celebrity partners, or even our own employees to drive it forward. So I understand how an employee at EA may have a little bit extra. You're like, if you look at maybe, if Jamie Foot Economist would ever post his team on Twitter or something, he's probably got a stacked out squad, right? Because he works at EA. So that's kind of just like perks of the job in a sense. But here's a little stat that I kind of found interesting. The sum of the items granted through these three scenarios is combined less than 0.006% of the total player items in the FIFA 21 ecosystem. So first thing that I think about when I see this is, this is my accounting slash market mind going to work here. They have this graphic, they have this number, 0.006% of the total player items in the FIFA 21 ecosystem. That means they know what items are in the market, how many items are on the market. And I mean, not that I doubted that they would, but this is them coming out and saying that, hey, we have a lot of actual numbers and a lot of knowledge on the number of items that are on the market. And specifically, the items that have been granted via pro players, via testing, via just putting cards back on people's account. And they also did mention in here that when they do this, it is untradable. So they're not giving out like tradable cards. I think it says in here that they grant those untradable so that it does not affect the market. But I just found that kind of interesting because sometimes it seems like they don't have the information, they have all the information, they have all the graphics or graphics numbers, whatever you wanna call it. Yes, this number of players, there's really not impact. That's why whenever you face somebody in footchamps or you see a picture on Twitter of somebody posting like a pro player squad, it's like a big deal because there's not many of those cards that are out there in the game. So what's happening now? We have launched a rigorous investigation in narrowing how this may have happened and identifying those accounts, which I've received content through this illicit method. We will permanently ban any accounts identified as received items transferred nefariously and we have suspended all discretionary content granting for an indefinite period.  So there's that at the moment. Now, I'm just thinking of this right now as I'm reading this. If you were somebody who bought moments R9, what if you went onto your account and like quick sold the cards with like you not get banned would EA be able to see? I think they would still figure it out because again, they have all the info of like when cards are transferred and like every single card has like an ID number. I don't know if you guys know this but every single card has like an ID number and they can track like that specific card, I believe because I've heard stories about stuff when people like lose their accounts or whatever. So they'll be able to find specific cards. So I don't think that would work but I'm sure that the guys who got these cards or bought them from the EA people are definitely not feeling too good about it right now because they are going to be losing their accounts and the players that are on them. So I wanted to talk about that as well because that's of course big news that is going around in the FIFA community. But again, today on Saturday, I'm expecting some sort of content, right? Whether it's a player, SBC, whether it's some sort of icon, SBC. If we were, if we got non-ten today, I'd be a little bit surprised, kind of hoping that we get a little bit of something just for fun. But of course, everybody is sweating and out right now for the Week in the Plus objectives. I am on five wins at the moment. I think I'm five and five to be completely honest. And it is sweaty out there, man. I don't think I've had more than one game this weekend so far, the first 10 that has been just like a chill game. It's all been sweaty. It's been hard all into like the 90th minute, it's close or extra time. So that's just the state of this game at the moment. And but we'll talk about the market more of course. Later today, we'll be live on stream and we'll talk about it as well. Link down below in the description. But that's kind of how I'm feeling about things at the moment. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate, The Foot Accountant. Catch you later, peace.


This video is about a calculus problem that the great Russian mathematician of Vladimir Arnold liked to challenge other professional mathematicians with in his lectures. So he would ask them to calculate the following limit. We take sin of tan of x minus tan of sin of x and divide it by arc sin arc tan of x minus arc tan arc sin of x. So the point about his problem was that this is almost impossible to solve using the standard techniques that mathematicians use, but there's a very simple way of working out the answer with almost no effort at all. So first of all, let's see what goes wrong with the standard techniques. So your standard reaction on seeing a limit like this is to apply de L'Hopital's rule. You recall this says that the limit of x tends to zero of f of x over g of x is the limit of x tends to zero of f prime x over g prime x provided f of zero equals g of zero equals zero and f and g are nice functions. I'm not going to say exactly what nice means because I don't really care. So for example, suppose you want to calculate the limit as x tends to zero of one minus cosine x over x squared. Well, the numerator and denominator both have limit zero, so we just differentiate them and we find it's the same as the limit of sin x over two x. Well, again, the numerator and denominator both vanish at x equals zero, so we differentiate them again and we get cosine x over two. Well, this time they have none zero limit. In fact, this is limit one and the denominator rather obviously is limit two. So this limit here is just equal to two. So why don't we just apply this rule to this expression here? Why doesn't it work? Well, the answer is it does work, but there's a bit of a catch. The catch is that instead of differentiating this expression once or twice, you have to differentiate it seven times and every time you differentiate it, it gets about twice as horrible as it was before because of Leibniz's rule. So doing it seven times, the expression you get is going to be about a hundred times as large as this. You can do this on a computer algebra system. I tried it on one computer algebra system and it managed the numerator and gave up on the denominator that said the numerator, if you take its derivative seven times and take the limit, you get minus 168. So it's possible to do it by computer.  So what you notice is you're trying to find the limit as x tends to zero of f of x minus g of x over g inverse of x minus f inverse of x, where this is the inverse function of g. So if g was sine, this would be arc sine. And here we're taking f of x to be sine of tan of x and g of x is equal to tan of sine of x. So what we drew is we just draw a picture of what is going on because drawing a picture is always a really good way to understand what's going on.  And the point about these functions g and f is that f prime of zero equals g prime of zero equals one. And that's pretty much all we need to know about the functions plus the fact they're not too ugly. And now what you do is you choose a point x. So this is going to be our point x. And I look at this distance here. So this distance here is just f of x minus g of x. And I can look at this distance here. And this is g inverse of x minus f inverse of x because this point x is here. So this distance here is given by that expression. So the limit we want to find out is the ratio of this line to this line. And you can see from geometry that if you're really close to the origin, then the ratio of this line to this line is just the slope of this line here which is one. It's rumored that the only mathematician who ever managed to answer Arnold's question was Fulton's who answered almost immediately. And when someone asked him how Fulton's done it, he said he guessed from the way Arnold was talking that the answer was something really simple. So he just guessed the simplest number he could think of which was one. So the point of this example is that sometimes thinking about a calculus problem geometrically is much better than trying to attack it algebraically.


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The EECA-led Karakom-Abriradi Regional Workshop sought to engage senior Caribbean agriculture policymakers and ministry officials in roundtable discussions on precise climate interventions that may be initiated originally to support ongoing actions towards the sustainable agri-economy in the future. EECA representative to the Eastern Caribbean states Greg Rawlins, in referring to this week's exercise as highly relevant in this juncture of agri-food development in the region, says the outcomes of the project entitled Strengthening the Foundation for a Climate Responsive Agriculture Sector in the Caribbean is the first GCF multi-country readiness project of its kind to be implemented in the Caribbean. The project seeks to strengthen the foundation to increase the capacity of the agricultural sector in the Caribbean countries to assess climate finance for building resilience and promoting low-carbon development. Such financing will be critical if the agricultural sector is going to respond effectively to adaptation measures to the significant adverse impacts of climate change. Minister for Agriculture Honourable Alfred Prosper in acknowledging the timeliness of the Abiriradi Regional Workshop says, by combining efforts to simultaneously support and implement a region-wide strategy to boast resilience against climate impacts on the sector, it is the best way forward to not only boast the activity within the sector itself, but also enhance food security interventions being undertaken within the Caribbean agri-economic space. Events such as this regional workshop provide a much needed platform for the sharing of information and networking that will empower and position policymakers in the agricultural sector to develop strategies for building a climate resilient agricultural sector in the region. More specifically, the regional workshop will reflect on some of the key outputs of the project which is focused on developing and rebranding Caribbean agriculture as low emissions, improving the capacity to access the climate finance for building resilience and promoting low-carbon development. Nine Caricom Member States will work collaboratively to augment technological capacities and other climate-responsive solutions to address the ongoing impacts and often unexpected incidents of climate change on the agricultural sector. From the Ministry of Agriculture, this is Amanda Fee-Clock reporting.


What's up everybody Jason for jazzy's case breaks calm 2021 hip parade autograph big box Be all xx hobby edition series six just sold out. This is a six box break. Oh, sorry one box break a Random letter number four So again at least five randomly inserted I autograph items There has been a handful of these that we found to have six just depends of course, but at least five They're all hand numbered one through fifty loaded with stars and Hall of Famers Featuring Josh Allen and Stephen Curry Zeke Elliott Hank Garen Fernanda Tatis and much more and of course This is a random letter so 18 total spots. Everybody. It's a random letter from the list below We go by the players first letter of his or hers last name that appears on the card item Whatever the case may be so any letter not represented on this list will be randomized to the group if there are multiple hits They'll be separated out not randomized as one lots of first letter of last name So from a down to the combo spot there Here's the dice roller. Here's the 18 customer names and the spot our letters. Let's roll it It's a four to one five times one two three four five five times Nick Ty walk down to mark four and one five times five times one two three four Five times there am down to be All right, so Nick you have am jading with each Rota with J Karen still you have our Cody with P drew with T Peter with W regimen with EC Brian crop with K Josh with D Donna with G Nick with S Brian crop with F Chad with the combo spot, which is Y V I and O combo spot Brian crop with L as well as a and mark with B Now if anybody wants to make any trades for letters, I'll give you guys a quick minute Look at your letters. Think of the possibilities and if not, we will close the trade window and start the break How's that we have I Guys close your window All right, so let me Bring up this camera just a little bit just so items can be seen a little bit better So I actually have the big box right here. That's kind of hard to see but It's right here, and it is 15 out of 50 15 out of 50 So I'm gonna open it up actually I think it's better for you guys to see we're here right now. I'll try to take out the items And place them here Looks like a helmet first of all That's something in here like you got a poster something else here something else right here So that's three four five items at least Perfect and everything else empty box a lot of paper everywhere. All right, so let's see what we got Let's do this little poster first.  Sorry It's f Apologies brinecroft. So Frazier and there'd be letter f Perfect Put that item back in here Let's go with the next one. This one definitely feels like another jersey But it could be like a hockey jersey though No Collins Is that landing Collins? It might be landing Collins Giant's edition too, I think Yep landing Collins So letter c regimen and I don't want to kind of take this out because it looks really nicely folded But this is also a authentic jersey In this 3xl. That's a pretty big jersey and Probably giant's edition landing Collins So there you go landing Collins regimen with letter c Thank you very nice All right, let's do this item before we do the uh Helmet looks like but what the hell is this? This is a jersey. Wow. What is this a flag? Wow PGA championship It's a flag Jim Thorpe. I'm not really into golf so much but Jim Thorpe PGA flag autograph that's pretty awesome. That's cool Jim Thorpe So letter t Drew there you go All right, and the last item is going to be a helmet. We've let it be a sweet helmet. It's an Ole Miss helmet Oh, and I think that's um Brown Has to be right Very nice helmet too AJ Brown, that's right That is a sweet Ole Miss helmet. I don't know if you can see that from the top right here. Look at the top camera Ole Miss Autographed right there That's actually a really nice helmet Very nice Ole Miss helmet AJ Brown going to letter b Which is mark there you go mark So guys, I don't know if we actually have another one of these available I'll have to double check and I'll put this away at the end of the video But AJ Brown, of course that's going to mark but that was big box number four, I believe If we do have more we'll post up another one shortly Jaspy's case breaks.com. Appreciate it guys


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biometrics, right? Biometrics, right? Keeping track of people's fingerprints, biometrics, eye scans and stuff like this. Do you know what one of the places, one of the first places was that that was rolled out in the world? Who was done by and to who it was done to? I know this because I wrote about it, okay? This was in the mid-2000s, mid-2000s in Fallujah, Iraq, okay? Mad Dog, Madness, right? United States in Iraq, okay?  That's a long story we talked about a little bit last week. In Fallujah, the United States surrounded the city, right? They turned to the people and said, okay, women and children can leave, okay? Anybody coming into Fallujah, you have to have your biometrics taken.  We know this because of Dar Jamal. Who's Dar Jamal? Dar Jamal was an American citizen that was living in Alaska, never done journalism before. He saw the Iraq war roll out and he saw the media in the collective west cheering the shit on, exactly the same way they do now, right? Ra, ra, ra, let's go to war. Ra, ra, ra, let's go to war.    Remember, during the first Gulf War, what was that general's name? Fat fuck, right? He was televised in something and they were showing, this is CNN live, right? They were showing this bridge that they were blowing up, okay?  He's saying, oh, you're about to see the luckiest man in the world, right? And it's night vision and you see this car or a bike drive across this bridge, I think it was a car, drive across this bridge, right? And as soon as it gets over the bridge, the United States blows up this bridge, boom. And the guy, the general, and they show this video and everyone, all the media starts laughing, the general starts laughing, he goes, ha ha, just imagine this guy driving across this bridge and looking on his rear-view mirror and seeing the bridge blow up. He's a lucky man. Motherfucker, right? Motherfucker, right? That, when people talk about atrocities here, man, you didn't, if you guys didn't witness Gulf War one and two in real time, you don't know what atrocities are, right?  We know this because Dar Jamal went there, okay? I got videos of Dar Jamals. Here, I'll link it up for you. He wrote a book about it. I got one of his books signed, okay? I want to talk to him. I videotaped the thing. It was me videotaping it and one other person that I knew and he does a stimulator, right? Here, I'll find you the link. Where is it? Where is it? Let me find it for you. Let me find it for you, man. I got so much stuff here. Here we go. Fallujah, okay? This is, I record the whole speech that Dar Jamal was giving, okay? Here's the article I wrote in 2012 regarding Fallujah. Watch the video. Watch the video that is in this post, okay, at the bottom of the article that I wrote. Watch this video. You tell me if this doesn't bring tears to your eyes, okay?  Fallujah is the first place that biometrics will rolled out, okay, by a Western power on citizens of an occupied country. And at the time, I wrote multiple pieces, short pieces, some of them. I might have mentioned in this piece as well. I can't remember. I wrote a shitload of stuff on Iraq. You can take a look at it. I mentioned that what they're doing there is going to come to our own countries. Okay, it's going to come to our own countries. Lo and behold, what's going on 15 years later? Biometrics, biometrics, trying to do biometrics. Like literally Europe is talking about biometrics. Canada is talking about biometrics, right? Rolling up biometrics for your own citizens.  Do we actually think that governments, the corporations, the oligarchs, the warmongers, the psychopaths, distinguish between our lives and the lives of philogens?    If you live in the global South, you know this, right? And some of us are seeing the guns now pointing at us, and they're about to do to us what they did to citizens of Fallujah. That's what.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2022 Ram 3500 Crew Cab Long Box dual rear wheel limited night edition is stock number 14406Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used heavy duty truck and Ram headquarters. This 2022 Ram 3500 has the 6.7 liter high output Cummins diesel engine, puts out 420 horsepower and 1,075 foot-pounds of torque. It's paired up with the Ice and Heavy Duty 6-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood, show you all the options and give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Delmonico red pearl coat is the color I shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, subscribe to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day and that way you can stay up to date on our best and best and diverse inventory of heavy duty trucks here at Summit Auto. This one comes with the painted and polished aluminum wheels with the night edition has Nexon Rodeon HTX tires. These are LT 235 ADR 17s and they look like they have right around 50 to 60% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. This is a one owner clean title history, clean car facts from Michigan. Front fender is in excellent condition, you get the fender flares on there with the limited package, LED headlamps, running lights and fog lights, I'm going to turn all those on at the end of the video so you can see just how bright they are. Front bumper is in fantastic condition, you also get the painted bumpers with the limited package, LED fog lamps, the gloss black grille, part of the night edition. The hood is in excellent shape as well, I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. You get the cab lights up top and the passenger side front fender, absolutely perfect, no major dents or dings on there. Front fender side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes. That is in nice shape, Delmonico red, it's got a lot of pearl flake in it, really good looking color, paints in nice shape, you get the blacked out Ram Cummins and 3500 logos on the front there, part of the night edition once again. As you go down this side of this 2022 Ram 3500, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. I take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck here, the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at. Before you even get here, so when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know, just saw the video, it was helpful and that Brett sent you. It does have the 3M rock guard on there, which is nice, keeps your dually tubs looking good. Back wheel is in excellent shape as well. And the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Now this one does have the rear airbag auto leveling suspension so you get a heavy load on here, it pushes that bar up, tells those airbags to pump up and levels out the back end of your truck. Underbody's in great shape, it has all the remaining factory exhaust so it hasn't been altered in any way. And a little rockers in cab corners are in fantastic condition and it also has the power running boards. I always like showing you that the running boards are working nicely. Front of the dually tub is in nice shape. I didn't see any major dents or rock chips or anything like that. Coming around to the back, you get the LED taillights. The rear bumper is in fantastic condition. You get the backup parking sensors, full towing back, which includes receiver hitch 4 pin and 7 pin wiring. And the tailgate is in excellent condition as well. Do note that you get the blacked out RAM 4x4 and limited badges back here as well. It has the power drop down tailgate, spray and bed liner, 5th wheel and gooseneck prep package, 7 pin and 4 pin wiring. You also get a 115 volt, 400 watt plug-in and LED bed lights that you can turn on with the button back here and side box tie downs. That spray and bed liner goes onto the tailgate, which is a very nice feature. And that tailgate shuts nice and solidly. Going down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side, no major dents or dings on the box. And for full disclosure, this back wheel just as nice as the rest. And down the rest of the side cabin doors all look really good. Does have the heated fold up tail mirrors, blind spot monitoring, built in directional signals, LED side lights. They fold up like so and like that. Has the enter and go system. Just have to have your key fob in your pocket will automatically unlock. There's your power running boards, back seats. And this one are in fantastic condition. You get the heated seats on the outboard side, the white stitching throughout power sliding rear window with the built in rear defrost. Then you get the gray piping on the back here. Really nice, nicely appointed seats. You get a load floor underneath here. Got muddy boots of tools, put them on there. You're not going to get your seats dirty. Or if you got pets, put both sides down. They got a nice flat place to lay and they won't get your seats dirty. So it looks like it has alternate or extra tire pressure sensors. Now it'd be for a trailer so you could monitor the tire pressures in the trailer as well. Heated seat buttons, two USBs, two USB-Cs, and 115 volt, 400 watt. There's a plug-in back here. You also have weather tech floor mats and in-floor storage with removable bins for easy cleaning. You can put ice and drinks in there.  Or if you're not in Wisconsin, just extra storage space, side corner bags on those front seats and child safety locks on the back doors inside and bottoms of the doors are all very nice and clean. And those running boards once again. Working very nicely. Show you the bin sticker here. No previously owned in Canada trucks here. And then the tire and loading information sticker is right there. Up front you get the nice, all-leather bucket seats with the gray piping, no rips, no tears on those seats. They are in fantastic condition. Smells very clean inside this truck. Both these front seats are heated and cooled in power. Driver side lumbar, weather tech floor mats up front as well, auto headlamps and power pedals. You get a tilt steering wheel, power windows locks, get the cool trim on the door, the wood grain trim there as well. These mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. You also have power blind spot mirror. If you take a look at that outside mirror, you can control that from inside the truck, which is really great, especially for the passenger side and memory driver seat. Let's hop inside, check out the miles, the radio and everything that this one has to offer on the interior. You get that seven inch LCD display with the limited animation at the beginning there. Digital spinometer, compass display, turbo boost pressure and heat, or I'm sorry, your oil temperature. You can change all those corners to read pretty much whatever you want, but this is a custom or this is a special instrument cluster for the limited package. Comes with the heated leather wrapped and wood grain trim steering wheel. Cruise controls on the right, gear selector on the right, wood grain trim on the bottom. No rips or tears on the leather and you get that wood grain trim on the top. Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, audio controls on the back of the steering wheel and you get this like dark chrome trim around the edges and on the Ram logo there. I like that, push button, start push button, four wheel drive. Here is the Uconnect 5 12 inch radio. You get your climate controls here. Of course, your heated cooled seats and heated steering wheel controls. You also have your different media centers here, AM, FM, Sirius, Bluetooth, Augs and USB and Alexa hookups on there. This one does have the factory navigation system. There is highway 41, so that is working nicely. This system's supposed to be five times faster than the Uconnect 4 system. Then you get all your different apps on here. So you get all your media there, your comfort, the nav, the phone and basically these are links to different parts of radio. Android Auto, Apple CarPlay and I believe those are wireless on the Uconnect 5 system. Here are all your controls, including your off-road pages and your backup cameras. So we'll check out the backup cameras. You can see they are crystal clear. So you can get hooked up to your boat camper or trailer the first time every time and you can zoom in on that receiver hitch for even better results. And then you get the cargo can there. So you can see what's going on in the bed. This one does have the Alpine premium sound system in it and then you get your different controls on here and then your off-road pages which are pretty cool and then your system and that. So that's everything. I'm not gonna go through everything because we could just talk about this radio forever. Down here are your factory brake controller, your alternate trailer height. So you can program lower heights for different trailers with that rear airbag suspension tow hall mode, factory exhaust brake, your front and rear parking sensors. You can turn those off and on. Then you get six auxiliary outfit switches, two USBs, two USB C's and an aux jack. And you get your wireless cell phone charge pad there. 115 volt, 400 watt plug-in down here. Get your keyless entry with your remote start and power drop down tailgate. Cup holders and coin holders there on this sliding tray. And you get the limited badge on that center console right there. That looks really good. You get the cool limited trim on the top glove box. Dual glove boxes, passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition as well. The headliners in really nice condition. You get the speakers in the ceiling, part of that Alpine premium sound system. Assist and SOS buttons as well as a power drop down, tailgate button and power sign mirror window button and your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. All right, let's start it up. Take a look under the hood, check out all those LED lights. We'll be all set to go. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. There are the LED side lights, they are very bright. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course, cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and all those lights are extremely bright and working nicely as well as the cab lights there. Under the hood, we have the 6.7 liter high output Cummins diesel, 420 horsepower, 1,075 foot pounds of torque. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. This truck's 100% ready to go. Shocks are doing a great job holding that hood up. There is the emissions sticker. And I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. I didn't see a single dent of ding on it. 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Yeah, Huncho, I'm loving how he's sounding right now.  Cause he doin' the song, he rappin' that pain but puttin' that sauce on it.   To the ground you out me and pray for. Late live been grounded, remember the times when I went stable. Yeah, we on boss talk, one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk.  I think I seen, was it Moog or who's this guy, you did a song? Money Moog.  Huncho. Huncho. Yeah. Huncho, I'ma look him up. Yeah, Huncho, I'm loving how he's sounding right now.   Stay down when laid off, to the ground, y'all been faithful, laid live, been grounded, remember the times when I went stable. Where's he from? We're part of town. I think he's from the east side. East side, yeah. Goin' in. Goin' crazy. Crazy. I'm fuckin', yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I ain't even cabin', like, he goin' crazy, like. Yeah, everybody in the streets feelin' it. Huncho. Yeah, I'm just speakin' off from, I don't. You feelin'? Yeah, me.  You know music, and you really do this. Yeah, if I, if I, when I put my hand in being the CEO, you'll see what I know. When is that gonna happen? See, it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. You ain't dropped it out like that, you can't drop it out like that. I be havin' to put in the work to build it up, you know what I'm sayin'? I gotta build it up from the ground, so it ain't like I'm goin' in bed and it's with a company that's gonna let me be as equal as them, so I have to build my shit up and become the company, and then I'ma do that. Would you sign a guy like, you'd sign Huncho. Yes. In a heartbeat. You know he the one. I know it is. I believe. What's his name? My social media. You know? H-U-N. I spelled it wrong, H-U-N, I put H-O-N. Yeah. H-U-N-C-H-O? I'm lookin' him up. Let me see. Huncho. Shout out to Huncho, man. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout out to everybody though, Atlanta got a lot of, there's a lot of news comin' out right now. There's a lot of them comin' right now. Yeah, fat, but I'm just sayin', you know. He the one that you been, seein' that you been hearin' that sound, that pain sound from. Yes. Already. I'm tryin' to get in there with him. Well, I'ma tell you right now, you get Huncho, okay? And I'ma say, I got a nigga named, what's his name? You talkin', bum. Oh, yeah, just put it together.  Okay, you want to come on? And that pain, we gon' see. Yeah. We gon' see. Oh, yeah, let me hear it.  I need to get somethin' for that nigga. I need to find Link with that dude, man. I love the Link bit a lot. Oh, yeah, for sure, yeah. The reason being, because I got Bumper comin' in a couple of weeks back on the show. Nigga, hey, that nigga. You sayin' he from Dallas, right? The quad boy used to lead the church and get the mic from the Deakin' Hatchers. I ain't gettin' beds and charge the niggas for feet, too. All these things on my back came from the wall. Linger feet, ain't that my folks? He the same, he the nigga, I'ma look him up. His face, Bumper Johnson, he the man. The nigga I'm sayin'. The nigga I'm sayin'. Sayin' sayin'. What? And he rousin'. What? Okay, yeah. You didn't even shitin' on me.  What are you talkin' about? Nigga, you the dog, you the dog. You warin', nigga. I need that with my offending goin' in and get it together, right?


I remember one time, man, he was working on the beat to Choppin' Blaze. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was downstairs and I could hear the beat going, don't, don't, don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't, don't, don't. Damn, he was going like, whoo, whoo, whoo. Yeah, he got it. He got it. He on Boss Talk 101, 101. Yeah, we gon' talk. What was, give me a story between you and Pimp, something that you remember that stuck out to you that happened with you and him. Oh, man. Something that was something that just something that nobody would know. I don't know because like me and Pimp, like I went down and stayed in his house and that when he was living in Atlanta, like the whole summer, I think that was back in, oh man, I want to say 98. I remember when he was living down there. Yeah, yeah. And I just, I went down there and pretty much locked myself in his basement. Wow. And barely came, came up for air. Like he would be upstairs. I'd be down in the basement and they go out and party and stuff like that. I'd be down in the basement working on tracks, man. Wow. But one thing that really, really stood out in my mind. We never really hung out one-on-one until this particular time. And I was in Dallas and he was in Houston. This was not long after he had gotten released out of prison. Okay. He's like, man, you know, I'm just chilling this weekend.  So I went down there. And it was really, man, the whole weekend it was just me and him. Wow. He was living at the, you know, the high rise apartment down in Houston over there by the mall. And we just hung out, man. We just hung out like we hung out in his apartment. We didn't really even work on no music. Really? No music?   That sticks out because he was just focused on just hanging out. Yeah. It wasn't even on no music thing. It wasn't even on no business thing. It was just, you know what I'm saying? Because we, we, I was working with him before he got locked up. And then, you know, he pretty much, he went, when he went and got locked up, you know, that kind of just things came at a standstill. Yeah. Man, I missed him during that time. Oh man, we all did. Man, that Tiro unit. I know he's on Tiro unit. I was keeping up with whatever was going on. Yeah. Yeah, that's when you're fanning out, you know what I'm saying? Like, man, I can't do, I can't do this, man. Yeah. We got a house on that because when you hear him with the songs, he stick out in every song from when he was with Master Pete and him doing songs. Oh yeah. Whatever he was on that song, he going to kill that whole thing. I don't care what nobody say. Like, yeah. He had that golden voice, man. Yeah. His delivery was, was like, like no other man. Yeah. You know. Yeah. So how did, how was this process? Because I know K.L. said he was like a genius when he come to the music. How was his process to those, to when you've seen him make music? He just knew what he wanted, man. Yeah. He knew what he wanted. Like, and he was quick too. You could hear him like, I remember when I was living, living with him in Atlanta, you can hear him like he'd be humming things, you know, in his head and he, he go right then and go work on it. You know what I'm saying?  Wow. Yeah. I remember.  He ain't know. No, it wasn't, it wasn't never like that. Never like that. It was y'all just making music together. Yeah. Like I'd be downstairs. He said he was like his protege or something. That's what Bunn said. Yeah. Cause, cause really man, cause I had been making music before I had met him. Okay. But like he knew that my, my drums could use some work. Okay. So he introduced me to the Roland R8. Okay. Which was a drum machine that he was using and people used me all the time. He said, man, I do much really like you, man, cause I ain't never seen him show nobody how to work that drum machine. Wow. And uh, yeah. So he showed me how to work that drum machine. So then I started, uh, incorporating the sounds from that drum machine into my music. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And it was just really getting familiar with it. Yeah. But yeah, I remember one time, man, he was working on the beat to a chopping blades. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was working on the downstairs and I could hear the beat going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So later on that day, um, the power went out. He was working on the beat and back then, you know, you got the ASR 10 and, uh, I don't think he was working on the MPC back then. He was working on the R8 and the ASR 10. He was working on the beat, working on the beat. He had it. He had it going. That's how it's going. Power went out. Man, he rapped that over. Power went out. He lost that beat. What? Yeah. He lost the beat and all I could hear him upstairs, he was like, ah.  He had to make that one again. He had to start it all over again. He went back and got it in. Yeah. It was in that era. Yeah. Just the same as he had it before. Man, that had to be because I would have baited not to get that one. Yeah. Boy, that one right there. That's a classic one. Woo, you hit the club, but then boys kick it. Yeah. That thing was a problem.


Hi, my name is Garrett Porter and I'm a student doctor here at SCU, and today we're going to learn about some exercises on how to de-stress all 12-year cranial nerves. Cranial nerve number one is the olfactory nerve. This is responsible for a sense of smell. The technique we can use to de-stress this nerve is called nostril breathing. And what we'll do, essentially, we will occlude one nostril and we will inhale, ascent, switch over to the other side, and exhale out to the other side. It's one round, we repeat that for ten rounds to de-stress the nerve.