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Agriculture on the move. Hello again, Saint Lucia and welcome to the program, Agriculture on the move. I am Philip Sydney, your host. Today with me is our former Permanent Secretary in the Minister of Agriculture and of course he has been in the service for many many moons ago. I'm sure everybody will know Mr. John Kalex who is the National Coordinator for the Jeff Six South East Coast Project. Welcome to the program sir. Thank you Mr. Sidney. I'm quite happy to be on the program today. Great. We have been hearing about this South East Coast project and people are asking you know what is this project about. So here's the opportunity given to you sir to tell St. Lucia you know give us an overview of the project. Okay thank you Mr. Sidney. The Jeff's South East Coast Project is financed by the Global Environmental Facility which we call Jeff. It has been implemented by the Department of Sustainable Development in collaboration with many of our public sector agencies and also other organizations. We work with the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of Agriculture and I must say that many of the departments at the ministry is involved in implementing the project. We work with the Ministry of Social Equity. We also work with the regional energy departments of the Ministry of Infrastructure. Some of the agencies that we work with include the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation and Agriculture, IECA, the OACS and the Library Development Foundation and the National Trust just to name a few. The project area basically spans from Mandalay Point that's the viewing point in Dennery just before Bodily Prison and it ends in Library. The project has three main components Mr. Sidney and the first one basically is what we call Equal Systems Management and under that component the project aims to build a capacity of public sector agencies, private sector and community organizations as well as the community residents to help them effectively manage ecosystems in the area and to do that we want to develop a management information system which would have information on the biodiversity in the area, fun and floral, the use of our ecosystems, who uses the services of the ecosystems and we hope that by having that type of information then decisions can be made on the various developments or anything that needs a decision that that information can be used to assist the decision makers in making that decision. The second component basically looks at the rehabilitation of degraded areas in the southeast coast so you talk of degraded forests, degraded agricultural areas, mangroves, coral reefs, seagrass beds and coastal areas so the project will in collaboration with the Department of Fisheries and Forestry assist in or provide support to the restoration of some of these degraded areas in the southeast coast. Thirdly we have the third component is sustainable livelihoods. Under that component we want to identify the various economic activities or opportunities that we have in the use of these resources, in the resources of the ecosystems and provide the support again the capacity, the training of individuals and producer groups to be able to access those resources. Finally I just want to say the major objective of the project basically is to encourage economic development of the southeast coast by maintaining healthy ecosystems, sustainable livelihoods and generating global environmental benefits. As you can see, based on the components which I mentioned these components actually help us to meet the objective of the project. But why the southeast coast? Why Denry to the library? Okay there is the annual project which is again being implemented by the Department of Sustainable Development and there we call them the sister project of the southeast coast and they started about three or four years before us and their project location is from north of the island into Denry. So our project is basically complementing what they are doing and it's a very similar project and similar objectives but they started before us so they will basically spans from Babundo into Denry and we take over from Denry into the library before us. Okay what's the duration of that project and when did it start? The duration of the project is five years. We actually started in 2020 and however we were I guess hit by the COVID-19 situation in 2020. So although we have started because of the challenges that we face with COVID-19, we have not done as much work as we we we hope to but we have continued you know we have continued along and we have tried to implement as much as we can within the COVID-19 situation. So in terms of percentage of work done can you can you measure it? Yes based on the report that we have prepared I think the last report states it's about 25 percent which is which it may not be quite a bit but given the nature of the situation and some of the challenges that we have faced you know I think we have done quite well so far. But can you identify some of in that 25 percent or what it is that you have achieved thus far? Okay very good Mrs. Sydney. The first thing that we were able to do under the project was to sensitize all the agencies that we are working with so as I mentioned the Department of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries. We also work with the Ministry of Tourism. So the first thing we did was to have the sensitization meeting with the credit unions in the area, some of the producer groups, the CMOS farmers, the agro processors. So just to begin to sensitize them as to the project. One of our main outputs that we were able to accomplish was the development of communication, educations, public awareness program. A strategy, so we developed a strategy and we were able to engage a communication specialist, we call it communication specialist to help us implement that strategy. Again because of the nature of communication and sensitization where we were targeting primary and secondary school children, tertiary school kids. We were also targeting the agro processors, CMOS farmers, fishers, producer groups in the area like the Royal Women's Group in Meku, private sector agencies, tourism operators. And the nature of the activities that we had where you had to bring people together, we had to resort to using virtual meetings. So we were not able to accomplish as much as we could because school was basically being done on the online platform so we couldn't really meet with them as a group. But we have continued to whatever we can to begin to reach out to the stakeholders in the various communities. The other thing that we've been able to do is to, if we're going to be rehabilitating mangroves and forest and degraded areas, we need to provide the plans to do that. So we've been able to establish or almost establish a nursery at the V4 secondary school. It's about 95% complete and it should be completed within a couple of weeks. So we've been able to do that establishment there. We've been able to identify a number of areas that have been degraded in, well, area called Mont Bois-Den in Greece. And from last year, January, we actually began the rehabilitation of a number of degraded areas in that area. We've also been able to do some rehabilitation on a number of rivers, the Trumas River in Meku, the four river in Margaritout. And we also worked on the Laosos River right now in V4 as well. So these are our major activities so far. And like I said, we also have a number of consultancies that we have to undertake. So right now we are about to order contracts for four of these consultancies. The first one is with undertaking marine assessments of the Star of East Coast area. The second one is with the Terrestrial Assessment. So looking at the forests and determining, you know, okay, what flora and flora we have in the area. The third one is for socioeconomic analysis of the communities in the Star of East Coast. And from that consultancy, we want to identify economic opportunities in the blue economy, the green economy, cultural heritage, activities. So to give us an area or a guide as to what opportunities are available and what we can support for residents in the area, we also want to identify what we call the renewable energy technologies that could be provided to our producers in the area. So to help them to reduce on the use of charcoal or the use of the forest for drying things like seamos. So that consultancy will determine who received these technologies. And also look at things like climate change, agriculture, agroforestry. So it's a very broad consultancy and will give us quite a bit of information to help us with our assessments. And finally, we have the Responsible Tourism Consultancy. For that one, we'll be working with more or less tourism operators. Or again, we identify the tourism plan for the southeast coast. And again, what opportunities will be available to residents, well, of course, tourism operators. But also how can we have that interconnection between tourism and agriculture and other sectors on the southeast coast to generate the libraries that we are speaking about. And we've also begun identifying a number of demonstration activities that we want to provide some support. And if they're successful, then we can replicate them in other areas, yeah, in solution. So these are the main activities. There are other small activities that we're still trying to get off the ground. But basically, these are most of the activities that have been involved in so far. In terms of agro processing, the agro processors, like I said, you have the rural network of rural women in Angers. What sort of support that you all think that you granted to them? Okay, right now, we are working with the rural women's group in Miqua. That's just one example. I mean, there are other examples. But for the rural women's group, they are involved in making the Miqua chocolate that they have been able to, you know, sell. So we're thinking of trying to get them to diversify that chocolate product. I mean, they enter other products like Cocoa Sticks and all of those things. So we're hoping that we can assist them to develop what we call Cocoa Powder. So it requires some equipment. So right now we're doing a mini feasibility, a pre-facibility, to determine whether we can actually do that and to assist them. We also, as you know, Mr. Sidney, there is the agro processing facility in Alger. So we also want to work with the Alger facility and provide some equipment to the facility so that other agro processors in the area can come into use as a facility. So thereby, you know, developing a sector in the Miqua area. If that works well, then we can replicate it. Or you can have other groups coming to use the facility in Alger. That's the one way we're trying to assist agro processors. Another way is some of the CMOS farmers. CMOS farming has, well, the sector has basically expanded from last year into, well, from year before into this year. COVID helped. Right. And in exporting the CMOS, two things have to be done. It has to be dried first. But it also requires testing. We also want to support the diagnostic facility in helping the farmers have to test. Every batch that goes out has to be tested. But the test has to be done overseas. So we're trying to assist the diagnostic facility in bringing in some equipment to help test the product locally so that, again, you know, we'll be saving some revenue by doing the testing locally for, I guess, a small fee. And secondly, we believe that by the use of solar dryers, because CMOS has to be dry, we can, again, reduce the operating cost of the farmers. So if we can provide the dryers to a group like the CMOS Farmers Association in Foale, or the OpiCore CMOS Farmers, right? And we believe that by providing the technology to the groups, then the members can actually utilize, you know, the facilities and, you know, dry the CMOS at, well, again, a moment of fee. So these are two ways in which we are trying to assist them, like with processors. We also want to create linkages. We're not just providing financial support, but create linkages with other, like I said, other probably processors in the area as well. So for instance, somebody who owns farmland, we're thinking that we could have an arrangement between that farmer who has fruit trees or fruit crops and to have an arrangement with the agro processor was making juice so that you know that, okay, you have a dedicated source of your own material. Very good. All that points we do for a first break. You're watching agriculture on the move. Don't go away. We'll be back soon. Artificial flavoring. Sweeteners and colors too. We consume and we don't spare a thought for the damage that they'll do. Think about the children. Think about the children. How will we save it? Chemicals and GMOs are not the solution. Use organic and join. Excessive agrochemical use, additives and genetically modified foods are harmful to health and the environment. Join the Good Food Revolution. Grow, buy and consume organic. A message from Rye St. Lucia and the Ministry of Sustainable Development with funding from the GEF Small Grants Program, UNDP. Welcome back to the program, Agriculture on the Move. And of course with me is Mr. John Kalix, who is the National Coordinator for the Southeast Coast Project. Mr. Kalix, we were talking about agro processing and of course, in order to get the end product, you need to have primary fruits. We need to get, you know, when it comes to cocoa, we need to get the cocoa pod. How are you assisting, are you going to be assisting the farmers to at the production level to get to the processing level? Yes, again, working with the Department of Forestry and the Extension Services, we will be providing some support to the farmers. In fact, we have just about started providing that support to the farmers in the area. To do that we, well, I must say that in our agroforestry component, one of the things that we want to be using, one of the crops that we're going to be using is cocoa. And we've already purchased about 1,600 cocoa plants to be distributed to farmers in the three regions, region three, four and five. So we're talking from January all the way into the library. And the intention is basically is to, apart from helping the farmers to generate a little more income, but is to utilize that cocoa with the rural women's group and the cocoa fermentry in the Asia facility. But that's just sitting there for a while. That's right. So yes, so under that component of our project, we will be providing technical assistance and advice to the farmers, as well as to the agro processors, whoever it is is going to be involved in, you know, in processing the cocoa. We know for sure the rural women's group, if any other groups, you know, emerge. And the thing is, we also want to encourage young people who have just left school, people who may have lost their jobs because of COVID to see whether okay, they would be interested or work with the groups in the area to participate in that component of the project. The reforestation program where you have the trees, what plants are you all producing? Are you all producing forest trees, or are you looking at other fruit trees? Well, we want to do both, Mr. Sidney, because in our reforestation activity, and because you have the agroforestry component in men as well, we will be, I suppose, producing both forest trees and local trees, local fruit trees, things like, you know, citrus fruits, mangoes, citrus, where we said cocoa, we have the tannier for the tannier farmers as well. So it's going to be a mixture of both the fruit trees and the forest trees, because some of the farmers will request, and based on the conditions in the area, they may request them, you know, fruit trees for the property. It depends on the environmental condition. That's correct. But also on Cronland where we have more of the Cronlands in the interior in the forest areas, then we will go for the forest trees of course. You mentioned agrotourism, and you also mentioned you're not dealing with individuals, you're dealing with groups. Okay, so for example, if there's a farmer who owns a parcel of land conducive for agrotourism, he will not be able to benefit under that project? Not directly, but if there are a number of farmers in the area doing something similar, then we can provide, you know, some support not to the individual farmer, but what it is, what something that is necessary for all the farmers in the area to benefit, yes. It's going to be impossible for us to help every single person, you know, we just have the funding for it. So we want to ensure we have the highest, the best impact with the funds that we have. It means that we have to more or less support the producer groups. So as long as you're a member of these groups, then you can get, you know, the support. Are you going as far as, for example, you, okay, but you know, you're not going as far as Schwaze, but I know in the library, you have the Oscawet group, which is part and parcel of this, again, the rural women, and they do arts and crafts, linking this with forestry. You can you see some livelihood coming from all of these? Yes. As I said, we, whatever livelihood that is, that is taking place in the communities, try to see how best we can provide support. But it has to be linked to, you know, the environment and preservation, conservation of the environment. So as long as we can do that, and as long as people can benefit from it, then we will do so. There will be things that we will not be able to provide some support to. But we want to try as far as possible to, you know, assist livelihoods in the project area. Yesterday we, the world commemorated World Wetlands Day, the Forestry Department, together with Sustainable Development, we had a tree planting program, you know, in the Makute Mangrove in VA4, and also a tour of the Borai Pond. How do you see the Borai Pond and that environment and Makute Mangrove? Do you foresee government ticking over that entire little area into a national park? I mean, it's too early to say that would have to be a policy decision. That is one way of doing it, trying to ensure that both the perception of the Makute and the Borai Pond, because they are right next to one another, they're adjacent to each other. So you have about 16-17 hectares of land, which would be preserved and conserved in the area, and also it could be used as a revenue-generating facility, because lots of people are interested in bird watching. You have a number of activities taking place in the Mangrove. We have beekeepers who do honey, you have charcoal makers, and there is a beach there where a lot of people are involved in Seymour's farming as well. So it's an area that can generate livelihoods of people, and therefore it's something that could be considered. There's also another way it can be done where you develop a management plan or agreement with the land owner, where you agree or the parties agree to allow incident activities to take place in the area. And so if you do it that way and people stick to their agreements, then again it can generate revenue for both parties, both the government and the land owner. So there are different ways it can manage to ensure that the place remains pristine and managed. So it just depends on the parties to determine what's the best way to manage the area. I would hate to see this place go away from its natural habitat. I mean when I was told yesterday the number of bird species that migrate during the dry season, I mean that speak volume, and I can imagine quite a lot can be generated with this. I mean employment for the people in the area, I'm thinking. So maybe it's something that probably your project can start the talk. I mean it's the same thing we were thinking yesterday, by the way, to say okay, what kind of project assistance are we trying to maintain. In fact it's one of our objectives to preserve and maintain and conserve our ecosystems. So it's an ecosystem, it's a wetlands, it's a marshy wetlands adjacent to mangroves. So we try to see how we can restore and preserve these areas. And add to that too. I mean I don't know, well at the honey show we had Jeff, I mean you know there's supposed to be this epiculture center. I mean right there in the same area. So you can imagine that being built there. You know and to have that national area as a national park. Well that's correct. Again you can show the linkage between tourism and you know and the environment. And the project is is aware of the plans by Jeff and we also are Jeff project. So we are involved in some of the planning that is taking place. And I mean I have to be really fantastic if we could have that facility. I'm linked to Sa'athila with Central because it's a research facility. And it could be linked to a lot of maybe other universities around the region because we're going to be doing some research in the area. Exactly. But even yesterday you heard that I mean there were some students from the campus and they were down there. I mean they're doing the SBAs right? And they come there maybe every two months. So you can imagine with that center real organized how that concrete you know that environment for students are coming in and doing their research. Right and I'm also aware too that the college also receives some equipment to monitor what the quality is. And I'm sure they can it can be you they can they can use the students or the students can learn in how to you know monitor how to test for what the quality in the area. You also have the part of the college at interview forts on campus to campus B right? So if these things can take place you can see the benefit to education to the students the community because if you know I mean one of the problems of the day back in in Makote is that something is causing the death of the die. So you need to find out whether it is whether it's because of what the quality and what's causing you know the die back. I think the guy was saying that yesterday he said probably they have linked it to at least one problem is the non-flushing of the manual. Because of what's coming from upstream which is causing the problem of downstream and again it goes back to look at the question of what's that from from from the hill was it? Reach the reef. So whatever you do negatively on the ridge is going to affect the reef. And in fact one of the things we also want to be doing under the product is to identify specific areas along the east coast where we're going to be doing we're going to be monitoring the water quality continuously. So again you get a sense of you know what's happening and if you can trace it to what's happening upstream then you can go up to see what's what's causing it. Okay so after of course monitoring and evaluation of the project I'm supposed I'm supposed in the next five years there's a possibility of extending it somewhere else to to continue the the program if it's of course which I know it will be successful. Thank you Mr. Sydney. Yes well that's that's that's that's what we were hoping that you know lessons can be learned so we are learning from what has happened with Ainola. Correct. And we are you know working closely with them to ensure that you know we improve what we're doing in the southeast coast. But one of the things you know I want to also mention to under the project is which is a little different to how other projects are designed and that is we we recognize that at the end of the project then you know the funds are completed there are activities to be undertaken to support to be to be to be made and sometimes the government does not have the resources to do so. So into the project we have designed what we call the creation of a sustainable financing mechanism. So basically that is a system where from activities along the southeast coast for instance one of the things that we need to establish is a protected area a marine protected area which is similar to SMMA. So you can have activities taking place and people pay to utilize you know the marine protected area. So some of those resources can be placed in an agency I'm not saying has to be placed in any particular agency but a body and they manage the funds right and these funds can now be utilized to provide the protection of these protected areas or marine or or ecosystems in the area and at the same time it can also provide the revenue for to assist the business people small business people. So one of the things is first to identify some revenue streams that will provide general revenue to come into that facility and then help people to you know to continue with some of the economic activity in the area. Well Mr. colleagues we have come to the end of the program. Rather short there are not that so much we can speak about but I want to wish you success. I know definitely if that's not for COVID you'll be way ahead with a lot of your own 25% it will be about maybe 50%. So I am looking forward to see the results and I'm saying thank you again if your team and hope to see again the evaluation and the results which will be positive. Thank you again for being here. Thank you Mr. you've been watching our culture in the move of course here with me was Mr. John colleagues who is the coordinator of the southeast coast project and though it's under sustainable development but there's so much in our culture involved with so it's an amalgamation of the two. Thank you again for viewing remember our culture is our business it fresh it's a Lucius best. I'm Philip Sidney saying goodbye.


Welcome back to Investor Intel at PDAC 2018, joined today by Ken McLeod from Sonora Metals Corp. Ken, you know, when I think of Sonora, I certainly think of Mexico. I know you've got an Alaskan asset as well, but is Mexico where the focus is going to be? Absolutely, Jeff. The focus is 99% on Mexico. And the reason for that is that the projects are well positioned and they are far enough advanced now that we can start to talk about potential resource and they are in areas where we can drill very quickly and very cheaply. And the projects are in Northern Sonora State, which is a very, very safe area to operate in. There is no issues with security in that particular area. We're in ranch lands and security is extremely tight in that part of the world. So the project, the first main project that you've got there, from my understanding, is a big project and has the potential for a leech increase, a heap leech, correct? Yes. In fact, both projects are heap leechable. They are in the first project is a San Marcial project, which is 20 kilometers east of the San Francisco mine, which is operated by Alio Gold. And a similar kind of geology and it's a thousand hectares, currently expanding it to probably 1,800 hectares or so. And it's been a subject of our exploration for the past three years. We've developed a mineralized zone over five kilometers in length, two kilometers wide, now ready to drill. And this sampling that we've done to date suggests an oxide zone, open pitable, heap leechable, and with a plus or minus one gram of a grade. And so it's a very, very attractive project for us. There was some drilling done by Barrick and Queenstake back in the early 1990s, but it was very shallow drilling, air track drilling, and it demonstrated mineralization down to the 30, 40 meters that they drilled. So we're satisfied that San Marcial has potential for a large-scale disseminated type deposit of, in the order of one gram per ton, somewhere in that order. The second project is 30 kilometers to the east of San Marcial, and that project is just recently acquired over the past month, the Cerro Caliche project. And this particular project was a subject of extensive drilling. 10,000 meters of drilling by Corex Gold back in 2008. Well, that sort of stuff takes money. Are you going to be in the market financing right away? Well, we were fortunate. We sold the Cipriona property right next to the La India mine to Agnico Eagle a year ago, and that filled up the treasury. And we brought in $4 million of cash, and they have a royalty to, which they have an option to acquire for $1.5 million. And so the company is well funded at this time. Obviously, at some point in the next 12 months to 18 months, as we continue with the drilling program, we should be looking to secure additional capital as well. And so the latter part of the year, I would estimate that we should be looking for financing. Well, that's great. What sort of things should investors be looking for in the short term catalyst for the stock? The catalyst is it's a tightly held company. So it's 24.7 million shares. The insiders control 30 percent of that. We have investors that have been with the company for five, six, seven years. And so once we start demonstrating success with the drilling programs, I think we can expect to see an appreciation in the share price. Ken, is there anything else you want to tell investors today about your story? I think one important factor would be the quality of the exploration team. Under the direction of Mel Herdrick, who is just a legendary geologist in Mexico and in the United States as well, formerly the head of exploration in Mexico for Phelps Dodge. He was also the head of exploration for Petamin Gold from 2005 to 2011. And Mel was the geologist that actually found the properties that it developed into producing mines for Petamin Gold, or they were developed to the point where they were proven resource and the company was acquired by Argonaut Gold in 2011. And Argonaut has put two of these properties into production. So he's got a really good track record, a history of exploration, a history of production. And so we're very satisfied that Mel will be able to assist us in developing the resources for Sonora Metals. Well, the three things I like to look for are Jockey's location and grade, and it sounds like you've got all three covered pretty well. I believe we do. Sounds like an exciting story to follow moving forward. Thank you. Thanks, Ken. You're very welcome. Thank you.


City orders CEO to remove American flag, but he refuses to comply. After insisting that a CEO's American flag was an eyesore in their city, a council voted to force the businessman to remove the display immediately. What they never expected was that he would have a big surprise in store for them when they arrived at work the next day. When camping world chairman and CEO Marcus Lebanese puts his mind to something, you can expect him to achieve his desired results. As an orphaned Lebanese who was adopted by a couple in Florida, he knows the hard work and perseverance it takes to live out the American dream. Grateful for the freedoms and opportunities the United States has afforded him, Lebanese is giving back to his country in numerous ways, including starring in the CNBC show The Prophet, which assists small businesses on the verge of bankruptcy. However, when he decided to erect an American flag on company property in order to show his patriotism, he was soon introduced to governmental overreach. According to Fox 46, the city of Statesville, North Carolina, voted to force Lebanese to remove the 40 feet by 80 feet American flag, which waves on a 130 foot high pole at his RV store, citing a size violation of a city ordinance, which only allows for flags up to 25 feet by 40 feet in size. However, instead of taking down old glory, Lebanese had a better idea. Despite a lawsuit and fines totaling over $10,000, Lebanese surprised the city by once again raising the massive America flag high above the skyline. Although the city has tried everything to force him to take down the patriotic display, Lebanese has promised them that the flag isn't going anywhere, vowing to fight the unconstitutional ban. Bottom line is the flags not coming down, he told employees. Give me a reason why this compromises the health, wellness or safety. Lebanese has proven his seriousness on the issue, securing attorneys to fight the city's lawsuit and change the ordinance on flag sizes. According to their claim, the US and state constitutions clearly prohibit authorities from placing arbitrary or unreasonable restrictions on city's abilities to fly the flag. Because his flag isn't a safety hazard, Lebanese and his legal team are citing his right to fly an American flag of any size on his property. The filing says the flag represents the fundamental values, freedom, courage and equality before the law that unite all Americans and transcend party politics. In keeping with this tradition, the US Supreme Court has long recognized that the act of flying the flag is a form of political expression protected by the First Amendment. According to the Washington Examiner, the city is calling for a fine of $50 per day, which would also apply retroactively. This could mean that Lebanese would be responsible for paying the city over $10,000, since the flag was first directed months ago. Still, he's not budging and has even proposed a change to the ordinance. It really just comes down to, in my opinion, bureaucrats trying to control the size of something, Lebanese said in a previous phone interview with Fox46. Proving his dedication and unshakable position, Lebanese posted a video on Twitter of the massive flag flying over the RV lot. The clip was simply captioned, nothing more to say, implying that no one can force him to remove the banner. The flag isn't coming down. It's the only thing I know for certain, Lebanese said. I know I'm going to die. I know I'm going to pay taxes. And I know I'm not taking the flag down. Lebanese has remained steadfast on the issue. He explained that it isn't about the flag, per SE, but about his rights as an American citizen. He also took to social media to further specify his reasons for defying the city at every turn. This is about more than just the flag. This is about our veterans, military, and the men and women that have sacrificed for this great country, Gander Outdoors posted on Facebook this month. They are the reason we fly the flag and they are the reason we will not take it down. So far, the mayor has yet to attempt to collect the fines imposed upon Lebanese. However, the city is defending its decision to make him remove the flag, arguing that he should do so simply because it's the rule. We take our laws and ordinances very seriously, the city responded. Our doors are open to any business looking to prosper and grow in our community. We only ask that the proper channels are followed. That is the first and necessary step to any potential change in code. Many are standing behind Lebanese and his quest to exercise his right to fly as large an American flag as he sees fit. As he awaits the court's decision, he promises that, regardless of the ruling, he still won't take down our national symbol.


Going on everyone, Sam here with Lance Bortzgarage, I've been 20-23, Panini National Treasures, collegiate football hobby 4 box case number 2, random team style. Look again at your random results, as always you can find those on the website, under the results tab as well as the link in chat. Good luck, let's do it. Don't be crazy at first, car was a 101. Watch this. Hold on here.  Yeah, like if I had her, Tony won't get turkey on now. I probably won't anyway, so I had my turkey already. Hell yeah. I had my turkey Monday. Redemption. All right, good luck everybody. This is one of the Vikings, Adrian Peterson, nine of ten. Nice one there, nine of ten. First take going to the Titans will be a Derek Henry, number 80 of 99. Nice one there Titans. This freaking guy. I thought someone in chat like what happened? No, no. I was so confused. It's like who came in the jet? How is this guy now? He's on the jets apparently. Yeah, this guy is on the jets currently, so let's go to the jets. 66 of 99, Xavier and Valaday. That's dope. 66 of 99, Xavier and Valaday. Nice one here, number 225, Tim, no, 75, Tim Tebow. Let's go man, go to the Broncos. Nice. Treasured moments. Deliverigators, another national title. Very nice. Congrats on that. Broncos. Going to the Steelers, TJ Watt. Nice one there. I do it with Kyle all the time. I think I'd break Sam this morning. Oh man, this is a dual Bryce Young and Jameer Gibb, so that's Panthers and Lions, I'm assuming that'll be a random. Panthers is Richard F. Lions, Jake F, so yeah, that'll be a random. Panthers and Lions. So this I think will also be a random. Brian G and, no, this won't be a random. Nice, let's go. Both teams are owned by Brian G. We've got A, Noah Sewell and Christian Gonzalez, so that's Bears and Patriots, 16 of 99, and Mr. Brian has both the Bears and the Patriots. Very nice. And nice way to start it off, going to the Colts College Material Signatures, Anthony Richardson. Very nice, congrats on that, Indy. Brian, Brian G, again. Brian G hit this one. Yes, yep, yeah, both owned by Brian G. Patriots, Commander's Combo, and then Brian has the Bears algorithm. This one's getting random, right? Yes. And the other thing are the stickies. Oh yeah, here you can take mine. Yeah. Going to the Ravens, 249, Odell Beckham, Jr. Nice one there, OBJ to 49. Got for the Giants, that is going to be A, or Anne Eric Gray. Get this guy out of here, man. Who's here? Oh, hey Anthony, go birds. What do you say to them apples? Going to the Chiefs, 2425, Silhouette Patch Auto, of Justin Ross. Nice one there, three-colored Patch Auto. This one last year's NT. Nice one there on the RPA. We got going to the Saints, 31 of 99, that is Kendrae Miller on the two-colored RPA. Congrats on that. Kendrae Miller, 31 of 39.  See you Milan. Later, buddy. Deuce Vaughn, 299 for the Cowboys, Jersey God. Got 30 of 99 for the Jags, that is Tank Bigsby. Nice one there, Tank Bigsby for the Jaguars, College Silhouette Signatures. Nice one here is going to be going to the Commanders, that is A, Robert Griffin III, RG3 on the Redemption. Notable nicknames Gold, RG3, going to the Commanders. Nice. Very cool. It's too busy doing TV. Broadcast. True. This one's pretty nasty. Going to, nobody right now, random to all, 18 of 75, Caleb Williams. Nice. William shines brightest and runs a 22 Heisman trophy, treasured moments. Nice one there. Congrats to the, nobody. As of right now, nobody. Whoever wins it. I'm going to reload on top of it or I mean mags. Scared, scared, yeah. There's a booklet in this one. Book. Book. To 49, that is Drew Brees going to the Saints, to 49. 19 of 39, two color patch is Dak Prescott. Nice one there for the Cowboys. Where worn, Dak? Nice. Take that, Hail State. First auto, rookie Jersey Auto on the Silhouette is Brian Branch going to the Lions. Nice one, Detroit. There you go, Leonis going to the Colts, 20 of 39, RPA, Josh Downs. Nice. Congrats on that. We just get rid of them. But if a card is damaged, we'll send a box and wrapper, but other than that, we just get rid of them. Nice one there, Josh Downs for the Colts. Cedric Tillman, that'll be going to the Browns. Nice one there on the Jumbo Jersey, 24 of 75. 7 of 25 on the booklet. That is nice. It's going to be A, Jackson Smith and Jigba. That's pretty sweet. Congrats, Seattle. That, this next one's dope, dude. Yeah. That's cool, man. That's really freaking cool. Who's got them? I was trying to figure out who it was. Yeah, I know, right? Jason P with the Steelers, 29 of 49, notable nicknames, Big Ben. Ben Roppelsberger signed Big Ben. That's so cool, man. Congrats on that. Notable nicknames. On card. Very nice. So those are going to be sick, dude. 31 or 32 of 49, Will Anderson Jr. Rookie Jersey Auto going to the Texans. Nice one there. Congrats, Houston. Let's see who else is in the notable nicknames checklist really quick. I was like, who's going to have the coolest one if they inscribe them all? Dude, if Brian Dawkins has a Weapon X, I need to fight it and get it. Back from yet another Celtics W. Jingles MVP. That's what I'm saying, Jayden. You got to see him live in action today. Live in action. That's what I like to see. Okay, notable nicknames. Anthony Richardson, Bijan Robinson, Will Anderson. I don't know who any of these guys' nicknames are going to be. Well, Richardson's right here. 15. Yeah. I don't know what Bijan is. I don't know what Will Anderson is. JSN, Jackson Smith and Jigba. Jaylin Carter. Dion Sanders will be done. Yeah, Keith Brian Dawkins has one. Johnny Manziel, probably Money Manziel. Gronk will probably be Gronk. There's a couple not on here too, so there's still some suspense of who else is in this checklist. I really want to find the one of Brian Dawkins when it comes out. That'll be dope. Well, I'll be poll one tonight. Dude. Yeah, it gets randomized, Matali. I don't want to feel as jealous whenever it gets true. But it'll be awesome if we're as evil as we are. Yeah. I don't know if you said Booma. Classic Kyle Boom. Wednesday Night Personals. Ooh, nice. Sadly, Rushman RPI. That's big. I thought I heard Rushman, but I wasn't sure. Travis Kelsey going to the Chiefs. That's nasty. Will probably be a random, I might imagine. Swaggy GC. Yeah, this will be a random. 22 of 25. Dorian Thompson Robinson and Zach Charbonnet. Oh, that's cool. That is really nice with a little laundry tag on there, two-color patch of DTR. Yes, there will be another random on the bottom as well. Museum was awesome. Hoops was pretty good too, actually. Going to the Eagles, Tanner McKee. QB2. Yes, sir. I don't care what anyone says about Marriota. QB2. QB2. Nice one there. We've got Devan Achan going to the Dolphins on the Team Slogan Signatures die cuts. Devan Achan on that fins. Dolphins. Stetson Bennett. That is going to be going to the Rams, 63 of 75. Stetson Bennett, followed by a nice one here. Four of the Cardinals on the RPI is going to be a Clayton Kuhn. I had two divisions in number one and lost both random balls. Damn. Damn. This actually works out well. That is going to be a Jalen Carter-Kelly Ringo dual. The two Eagles, guys. Both Georgia, both Eagles. It's a nice one there. Congrats on that one there, Philly. Cool one there. That's going to be awesome when it comes in. And nice one here to 75 Quinn Ewers. Ewers' introduction to rivalry ends with historic numbers. That'll be again, random to all, which is the end now. Congrats on that.  I mean, what, five? One, two, three, four, I think. That's it, really? Yeah, just. Oh, okay. That's not a right. Cool, cool, cool. All right, so we have DTR, Sharpenay, who's young and good, right? Wait, yeah. Sean, yeah, he still works here. He's on vacation right now. Yeah, he's out of town. I got to fill in. Yeah, he's in Arkansas with his family. He's bringing the top guns for tonight. Yeah. So we're going to start off with the DTR and the Sharpenay to 25. The DTR, the Dorian Thompson and Robinson and the Zach Sharpenay patch for the Browns and Seahawks. Roll the dice about nine times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine. Go into the Browns. Congrats, Browns. Nice one there. Sean, be lit at the Hogs Game Friday just pounding beers exactly. Sub-Shady. We've got the Bryce Young and Jameer Gibbs, 65 and 99 between the Panthers and Lyons. Roll the dice. We're going to go twice as a re-roll. We'll go seven times on that one. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Go into the Panthers. Congrats, Panthers. Panthers. All right, now we've got the Caleb Williams to 75 on the auto. Good luck. This is random to everybody in the break. We're going to go 10 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10. Go into the Steelers. Congrats, Steelers. And then the Quinn Ewers to 75 as well. Roll the dice, and we are going to go six times on that one. One, two, three, four, five, and six. Go into the Giants. Congrats, Giants. Yeah, I did see that. We were talking about that, Shady. All right, quick recap here, everybody. We've got A, Stetson Bennett, Cedric Tillman, Dak Prescott, Deuce Vaughn, Eric Gray, T.J. Watt, and Derek Henry. We had the JSN booklet. Let's go, Sean. Hell yeah. Did you win the, were you in 10 box yesterday, Sean? Did you win the Worthy Jersey or no? Or was that somebody else? That's Kelly Ringo, Jaylen Carter, Clayton Tune, Devon Ochin, Tanner McKee to five, and we even realized that. Will Anderson, Jr., that that was the five. Big Ben, Josh Downs, Brian Branch, Kendra Miller, Robert Griffin, the third, Tank Bigsby, Justin Ross, Duel of Noah Sewell, and Christian Gonzalez, Tim Thiebaud, Xavian Valide, Mags, we had, of course, the Caleb Williams, and Anthony Richardson. Do it for the break, everybody. Thanks again for the fill. Up next is number three.


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G'day mate. I got a new book here The other guard that failed Hence Hans Freyja and the de-radicalization of German conservatism.  I dug deep I spent $31 Okay All right come closer We need to have a nice cozy little chat here All right mate So why did some of the best and brightest of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of Liberal Democratic capitalist society How did their radical conservatism contribute to the rise of national socialism? What roles did they play in the Third Reich? How did their experience of totalitarianism lead them to recast their social and political thought? This biography of Hans Freyja prominent German sociologist and German political ideologist is a case study of Intellectuals and a guard that failed not on the political left, but on the right where its significance has previously been overlooked So is this where's this from? Yeah, Broward County Library But it's mine now Paid good money for this book mate Hans Freyja and other radical conservative intellectuals Regarded the characteristic processes of modernity is leading to the decline of collective purpose An individual meaning during the Weimar Republic They advocated an all-encompassing state which would ensure a political and cultural integration A disillusionment during the Third Reich set the stage for the acceptance of liberal democracy and welfare state capitalism on the German intellectual Right after 1945 So this book explores the interaction of political ideology and academic social science in democratic and totalitarian regimes Transformation of German conservatism by the experience of national socialism and the ways tension between former collaborators and former opponents of National socialism continued to mold West German intellectual life in the post-war decades So this book came out in 1987 Pretty exciting stuff I'm much more motivated to read books that I've spent good money on I've got hundreds of books downloaded but This is a book about intellectuals and totalitarianism So is it accurate to call the Nazi state totalitarian because if you didn't bother the Nazi state they didn't Interfer with your life nearly as much as say the communists interfered with the lives of the common people It's about the transformation of the German intellectual right. So yeah, what happened? I was interested what what happened to the German intellectual right after World War two So there's this recurring pattern of among modern intellectuals That they go through periods of attraction to totalitarian solutions and then disillusionment So the one common thing that all these intellectuals have in common. I believe is they're all secular I think if you're religious You don't yearn for totalitarian solutions nearly as much So the emergence of a successful democratic political culture in Germany out of the ashes of a totalitarian regime Interested me What was the role of the Nazi past in shaping the political identity of later joint generations of German intellectuals? So the specter of past misdeeds haunted the German right Okay, so who the hell is Hans Freier? I'd never heard of him Okay, so the name has little resonance Among contemporary English-speaking social theorists or historians among the younger generations of Germany is virtually forgotten It he was perhaps the most articulate Historically self-conscious thinker associated with the movement for a conservative revolution in the 1920s He was one of the most prestigious intellectuals to lend his support to national socialism In the years immediately before Hitler's a session to power Here's one of the most respected voices of German conservatism during the first decade and half of the Federal Republic of West Germany In the years after World War one his status as a social theorist was acknowledged by intellectuals as diverse as George Simmelcar Mannheim Erbrett Makuza and Talcott Parsons title of his book of 1931 revolution from the right Passed into the political discourse the Weimar Republic After Hitler's rise to power, Hans Freier became president of the German sociological association Head of one of the most eminent institutes of historical research in Europe The history of Europe that he published in 1948 was admired by Arnold Toinbee It was regarded as a high point of post-war historical consciousness in Germany His widely read theory of the current age of 1955 Contributed to the reformulation of conservative thought in West Germany So many of the most influential West German sociologists and historians 1950s and 60s were students of Hans Freier, but he's virtually forgotten today So this is the work of intellectual history What can we learn about this historical time period from World War one to the 1960s in Germany? By looking at the life and times of Hans Freier So you can imagine after World War two there was quite a bit of tension between intellectuals who Supported and those who opposed the Nazis now they were working together Okay, what is it about intellectuals and totalitarianism? For all generation of European intellectuals who came of age at the end of the 18th century the prosent promise and disappointment of the French Revolution Marked a turning point in their development In the early years after the French Revolution many intellectuals from across Europe But they saw in France the creation of a new type of politics that would restore a sense of collective meaning in a society divided By the characteristic processes of modernity so with the decline of organized religion a lot of people look to politics to Try to give society a coherent sense of meaning It was this generation of Hegel of Coleridge of Wordsworth and Saint Simone in France who formulated a critique of societies characterized by an advanced division of labor market economies and a lessening of traditional religious and political authority And this critique remains recognizable to the present day So what were the alternatives to a market economy? So after the bloody French Revolution some intellectuals turned away from revolutionary solutions to their dilemmas Some turn to less radical politics some turn to realms beyond the Political the high hopes of many intellectuals for the French Revolution followed by their shared disappointment the first of waves of attraction to and disenchantment with radical political movements and This pattern of attraction to totalitarianism then disillusionment It's repeated itself With greater tragedy and greater force in the 20th century The solutions that many intellectuals proposed grew more radical in the 20th century more all-encompassing They wanted a totally integrated society, which is really any possible the homogeneous society Society in which all would subordinate their egos to some shared belief or goal Are trying to restore a sense of meaning to the individual and purpose to society as a whole so meaning of purpose traditionally came through religion Alexis de Tocqueville wrote man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt He feels for those around him So contempt for the present combined with the hope of a totally integrated society in the future Their 20th century intellectuals to support totalitarianism They wanted the political to embrace the whole realm of human existence Wanted to treat all human thought and action as having societal Significance and politics was the art of applying this philosophy to the organization of society So they wanted this political philosophy to reign supreme over all areas of life. So a little bit like traditional Judaism, which is an approach to life that affects everything in life It's it's total. So they wanted a total state now just because You had movements that aim for a total state such as perhaps fascism Communism doesn't mean they achieve that So certainly in Italy and Germany wasn't nearly as much of a total state Totalitarian regime as it was in the Soviet Union and even there it wasn't total So totalitarian politics are often portrayed as rising without the efforts of intellectuals But totalitarianism has long existed as an idea and an ideal Developed by intellectuals because the idea of a totally integrated society looks very compelling on paper And it's attracted the best and the brightest And in the long run few major intellectuals who once advocated totalitarian solutions The problems of modernity were pleased by the behemoth they helped to conjure up So were intellectuals important to the rise of Nazism or would Nazism have risen without the Nazism was primarily a party of the working class so the guard that failed that refers to a collaborative autobiographical volume by Arthur Kessler Andre Jied, Richard Wright, Steven Spender, Lewis Fisher about their Attraction to communism and then disillusionment with communism So the other guard that failed is about intellectuals on the right Yes, this is an ASMR stream Intellectuals who pin their hopes on movements on the totalitarian left and right Often drew from common traditions and from one another Informulating their common but radical critique of liberal democratic capitalism So Hans Freyre and George Lucas Had their intellectual roots in neo-hagian Hegellianism both with students of George Simmel both influenced by Karl Schmidt man of the right So water Benjamin Otto Kirchheimer were deeply influenced by a Karl Schmidt's D Litage de legitimation of contemporary liberal democracy so intellectuals on the left would look for a total solution to the needs of the proletariat Which is not race-based and intellectuals on the right would look for needs for the Volk So that means the people or a particular nation that is race-based that's a major divergence between intellectuals on the left and the right and The origin of this divergence lies in the 18th century It depends on different answers to the question What is the source of the purposes that men ought to hold in common and of the institutions that embody those purposes? Say those who believe that the ultimate source of such purposes lay in reason They were men of the left If you think that we can just arrive at a Total solution for society through use of reason You're going to be on the left So you call this the party of the Enlightenment the party of humanity That's how the philosophers thought of themselves as the party of humanity So they shifted reason from the direction of the methods of natural science to social science They thought the universe was rational So the practice of enlightened absolutism revolutionary republicanism and the application of the Napoleonic code to non-French nations within the Napoleonic Empire They all shared the premise that because men were fundamentally the same everywhere There were universal goals and universalizable institutions. So this is very much a belief on the left people on the right I believe that different people have different gifts So this is a leftist universalism It's a commitment to a proletariat that knows no fatherland. So it's not race-based so because it's not race-based because it's not based on blood and soil so this Descendant of the Enlightenment this whether it's communism or some variant It's this premise and promise of universalism that made left-wing totalitarianism such as communism disproportionately attractive to intellectuals who sprang from ethnic and religious minorities Now what about intellectuals on the right? If you add some ascension today Come on, mate. Here have some ascension So refreshing Do you like my new bed? My new mattress Very pretty color, wouldn't you say? All right, mate. Let's go back here. Got a jolly good book to share with you I hope you're as excited as I am Spent 30 bucks on this book Okay, what about the intellectuals on the right? So they descended from what was called the counter enlightenment They form no party what they shared was a skepticism towards the central dogmas of the Enlightenment The belief that the ultimate ends of all men at all times were identical and could be apprehended by universal reason So the orientation of the thinkers of the counter enlightenment was usually historicist and particularist so talking about people like Paul Godfried historicist means that to Understand what's happening in the world. You have to understand it in its particular time period and its particular circumstance And that because times and circumstances are always changing and the way people will react is always going to be changing because they're going to be facing different incentives Then particularist so they Understand that different people have different predispositions. So the left is universalist. The right is particularist Think Paul Godfried here So thinkers of the counter enlightenment the historicist and particularist I am historicist. I am particularist I come from a particular orientation to life. I come from the world of orthodox Judaism So they regard the attempt to discover universal standards of conduct as foolish in the attempt to impose such standards as a threat to particular historical courtiers From which individuals derive their sense of purpose and meaning and Cohesion so the thinkers of the counter enlightenment regard different cultures different peoples as both inherently different and Valuable so the the universalist cosmopolitan outlook according to the thinkers of the counter enlightenment Destroyed everything that makes you human makes you yourself So people thinkers on the right See people as born into a group primarily not as individuals with Inalienable rights, but members of a group members of a tribe. That's the right-wing approach to life We're not primarily individuals. We're primarily members of groups and so Well, there were no more No way Organized in their politics and they belong to no party the thinkers of the counter enlightenment resisted the attempt Rational reorganization of society based upon universalist and rationalist ideals So the central stream of the Western tradition has been the problems of value were in principle soluble Thinkers the counter enlightenment Differed from that They believe the traditions which give a group its identity Which are expressed in its culture were not rationally grounded So nationalism is not rationally grounded. It is a non-rational belief that a Particular people to which you belong It's really your just your extended family. And so thinkers of the counter enlightenment again. These are not Primarily religious people. They believe that moral order is a product of conventions that varies from group to group So thinkers of the left thought that we could all agree on right and wrong Thinkers of the counter enlightenment enlightenment thinkers on the right Saw that moral standards would vary from group to group So liberalism cosmopolitanism socialism communism Actually came from the enlightenment conservatism nationalism fascism came off on the counter enlightenment So the counter enlightenment wanted to promote tolerance based upon a respect for difference in diversity To claim the totalitarianism of the left descended it from the rationalist universalist legacy of the Enlightenment While the totalitarianism of the right descended from the historicist a particularist legacy of the counter enlightenment It's not to argue that these 20th century phenomena were caused by 18th century antecedents But they were descended from them So prior allegiance to either the Enlightenment or the counter enlightenment There's a fact that not only Where you place your hopes such as fascism or communism? But on the choices you make after your disillusionment with totalitarian solutions And you won't hear ever heard of harm's friar is a big deal among German intellectuals between about 1920 and 1970 so For intellectuals in interwar Europe between World War one and World War one whether to commit oneself to communism or to fascism Dependent on whether you identified yourself more with the Enlightenment or with the counter enlightenment So when they became disillusioned They maintained their attachment to the universalism and rationalism of the Enlightenment and remained on the left They typically evolved into liberals and social Democrats those who became disillusioned with fascism Remain sceptical of the universalism and rationalism of the Enlightenment And they came to Accept liberal democracy So Hans Freier was part of a social circle of radical conservative intellectuals Also in his circle was Karl Schmidt Social theorist Arnold Geeland the philosopher Martin Heidegger and the writer Ernst Junger Among the important trends in recent Anglo-American moral and political philosophy has been the rediscovery of the major Arguments of the counter enlightenment. I think it's bred in the Enlightenment tradition but aware of its limitations So what I'm reading from here was published in 1987 Put your guard rods down guys Set up straight just looking through the footnotes here to find the good stuff for you those who are surprised at the suggestion that men of great intellectual stature may have been a conservative or even radically conservative even Sympathetic toward national socialism should recall that in interwar Germany the great majority of critical intellectuals as well as conformist academics Were on the political right that's interesting. I didn't know that most Intellectuals and academics into war Germany were on the right The identification of the majority of German intellectuals with the left is a phenomenon of the post-World War two era So as a reaction to the failures of Nazism Intellectuals in Germany moved steadily to the left after World War two For many German intellectuals who came of age in the late 1940s and 1950s The link of former radical conservative intellectuals like Hans Freyre with national socialism So to discredit German intellectual conservatism There because Nazism was so awful. They wanted nothing to do with right-wing politics so like their counterparts on the left the right wing intellectuals who supported or Favorably predisposed towards Nazism Usually quite disappointed with the reality The path to disillusionment is rarely smooth For Freyre those liking disillusionment with Nazism Had to a moderation of their earlier critical analyses of modern liberal pluralist societies So lives and influence of those who'd supported national socialism and communism Of course did not come to sudden stop the end of these regimes So let's talk about the continuity among the political economic and social elites from the interwar German period to the post-war Republic of West Germany So Hans Freyre represents the joining of two streams of European thought and culture rarely seen as part of the same intellectual landscape namely radical conservatism and Sociology, so one would normally think of sociologists as being overwhelmingly on the left Did not used to be that way Samuel Huntington says we should define conservatism neither as an inherent substantive set of eternal values and institutions Or is the ideology of a particular group but rather Positionally it's the ideology of those who any in any situation of fundamental political Discord defend at the existing order. So historically Right-wing orientation is to defend the existing order. The left-wing orientation is to seek change Conservatism Huntington writes is the intellectual rationale of the permanent Institutional prerequisites of human existence and the foundations of society are threatened Conservative ideology reminds men the necessity of some institutions and the desirability of the existing ones So the right-wing impulse is always to restore order and to protect order and to defend order and to define order You can judge someone's politics Often by just walking into their room if it is clean and neat well organized. They're most likely on the right if it is messy filled with posters of movie stars and rock stars is most likely someone of the left So when the foundations of society Seen as decayed beyond restoration The radical conservative ideology reminds men of the desirability of strong institutions and the necessities of new ones. So The right-wing Orientation is always towards order protecting order creating order defending order Extending order So what distinguishes the conservative from the radical conservative radical conservative sees that we may need radical revolutionary change to restore The virtues of the past to one radical conservative described himself as too conservative not to be radical and another Conservative means creating things that are worth preserving so the thirst for order is Is a defining characteristic of right-wing thought Another characteristic of right-wing thought is the need for authority for the sacred of a continuity with the past in the life of the individual and of society So traditional conservatives seek to shore up the authority of existing institutions But for the radical conservative these institutions may lack authority. It may be Incapable or unworthy of getting the job done So they may revolt against existing institutions to return to the values of the past so radical conservatives and conservatives share in common a Commitment to the rule and role of institutions, but radicals will seek to create new institutions Will exert a far stronger hold on the individual than existing institutions Radical conservatives look to state power to reach their goals These aims typically include the reassertion of collective Particularity meaning of the nation the vogue the race the people The community of the faithful against a two-fold threat the internal threat of foreign ideas Such as the free market as the arbiter of express preferences parliamentary democracy the pluralism of value systems The capitalism and liberal democracy promote and then the threat of international socialism Which is similarly dangerous to an organized Collective particularity of people a vogue So external threats arise from powerful foreign states They're using their power to spread national social to spread socialism communism And ideas and institutions that are perceived by the conservative as corrosive and degenerate So radical conservatism Opposes liberalism poses Marxism it opposes capitalism and parliamentary democracy Advocates technological modernization So the defense against the courtroom political effects of modernity on the body politic It's not to require a homeopathic absorption of the organizational and technological hallmarks of modernity so people tend to think that modernization is Is is Opposed to the radical right This this view assumes that economic Technological processes required for greater productivity require increasing liberty equality and Universal fraternity radical conservatism shares much intellectual terrain with the thinkers from Auguste Comte to Emile Durkheim From George Hegel to Max Weber For a while the conservative critics of the French and industrial revolution sought to reassert the authority of Christianity and of existing institutions But the secular sociologists of the right critical of existing institutions an incapable of belief in the divine origins of Christianity Sought to forge new institutions that could command authority in a new faith that would serve as a substitute for Christianity So in the 1920s as leading German sociologist attempted to professionalize their discipline Hans Freier became a spokesman for those who sought to restore sociology to its radical activist origins And he wanted to recapture the legacy of Machiavelli Machiavelli was a common intellectual ancestor of both radical conservatism and the tradition of sociological thought So with capitalism rise of capitalism and the pursuit of self-interest There arose on the radical right this need to try to create a social solidarity through active participation in new institutions of collective purpose So they were trying to recreate a virtuous community under the conditions of modern society without reference to God and to Jesus And they believe that these new institutions would only be successful If they were shaped for a particular people for an ethnic particularity So Freier wanted to create a community of purpose devoted to the collective reassertion of particularity through the use of state power So Hans Freier came to embrace national socialism Out of a conviction that the movement embodied popular refusions in the nature of slogans But offered a plausible solution to the dilemmas bequeathed by the preceding generation of high social theorists He was an advocate of debodinization so an acute awareness of the costs and limits of modernity and A consideration of how those costs might be minimized and modernity overcome was a central concern of Hans Freier's thought Both his radical and his moderate conservative phases So he's straddled the roles of both social scientists and ideologists His writings were addressed to and read by both fellow academic social scientists and a larger public of politically concerned readers His work served as a conduit for the movement of ideas between ideological settings Outside the Academy and systematic social thought within it Okay, now getting ready for chapter one on this book here by Jerry Z. Mueller The other guard that failed Hans Freier and the deradicalization of German conservatism


All right good morning everybody for today Saturday October 14th we will have our press conference from state officials on the latest on the wildfire situation and with that we will open it up with California governor's office of emergency services assistant director Dan Bout for the latest. Good morning my name is Dan Bout I'm the assistant director for response here at Cal OES. We'll provide a briefing on the latest briefing on the massive efforts occurring right now across the state and nation to assist those in the front lines and those impacted by the major wildfires burning across california right now. We're here today at the state operation center the nerve center for the state's overall response to these wildfires and today's another very busy day here at the state operation center. Winds have again proven to be a major element in these fires and new evacuations have been issued in Sonoma county and other areas. To everyone being impacted by these fires all of us here at the state operation center and on the front lines are thinking about you and your families. We understand many people's lives are being irreparably changed by these disasters and we're dedicated to using every available resource to get you through your time of need. We'll get through this but we must understand that this emergency is not over we're nearly a week into these fires and we continue to give a hundred percent to get ahead of the flames and prevent more loss of property and life. Our priorities today are fighting fires and saving lives. Our second priority is taking care of those in our shelters and those who are struggling and our third priority is working behind the scenes for the long-term recovery. Again to those in fact impacted we know you're hurting and we know this is difficult but we're not out of this firefight. This is a 24-7 operation here at the state operation center and across the state to get resources to the impacted counties and the local authorities. As you know we've received resources and personnel from our local fire departments across California and from outside the state. Nearly 400 law enforcement officers and more than 10,000 firefighters to include 880 fire engines from across California are taking part as well as more than 200 engines from supporting states across the western United States. In our shelters last night we had a little over 3,600 people and there are 39 shelters active statewide in support of these incidents. Although we're not out of the woods there is hopeful news about containment and additional assistance continues to grow. Our local assistance centers are opening across the state to do face-to-face interactions with victims of the fires and those services will vary by locations so check ahead in areas for what's available. FEMA has announced additional help to individuals and their families and FEMA will speak shortly about what that means and again we're appreciative of all the federal help so far and we know we will need more. Again we're not out of this emergency we're continuing to address current and future needs for those of you near and around the fires please listen to your local authorities on evacuations shelter updates and road closures and if you're not in those areas driving around California today you'll see our fire trucks and emergency response vehicles moving along the freeways. Please make way for them to get through and with that I know you want to further update on the fires and so I'll turn you over to Deputy Director of Cal Fire Dave Teeter. Thank you Dan again Dave Teeter Deputy Director Chief of Fire Protection for Cal Fire. As it has been stated by Dan 880 fire engines 134 bulldozers 224 hand crews and 138 water tenders is just a portion of what makes up over the 10,000 firefighters that are literally and I'll steal a quote from a local media reporter an army on the fire line in the midst of this devastating natural disaster. As not unanticipated the winds aloft did surface at about 2 30 this morning in the central Napa Valley area that did cause an increased fire activity and spread on a number of the fires that also triggered additional evacuations but again it was not unanticipated that the Cal Fire Incident Management Team Incident Commanders had a very significant and diligent plan in place for this and that plan was activated as conditions presented themselves. I can say because of that plan being in place and because of the timely activation of the additional mandatory evacuation orders it provided ample time for citizens to make a timely calm and collective evacuation. Red flag warnings however do persist throughout the rest of the day and our diligence must remain top priority. The winds will continue in red flag conditions throughout the balance of today in northern California and will continue throughout tomorrow in southern California. Even once the winds deteriorate or go away we will be left for a number of days with a significant dry air mass over most of the state of California so we urge all of you to be diligent and your outdoor activities to reduce any further chance of ignition of wildland fires that includes using gasoline powered equipment such as lawnmowers and weed eaters and chainsaws making sure that you maintain control of campfires and barbecues etc. Diligence is utmost important so that the firefighters on the ground and engaged in the current incidents can continue to do their job notwithstanding the conditions that are being experienced in both northern california and increasing threat of wildland fire activity in southern california the state in cooperation with its local federal national guard and department of defense assets are bolstering our presence throughout southern california in anticipation of new incidents. A brief overview of the significant incidents that we are dealing with in northern california the tubs fire burning in Sonoma and Napa counties affecting the communities of calistoga and santa rosa are currently 30 is currently 35,270 acres but 44 contained. The pocket fire that's impacting the community of geyserville is currently 10,996 acres but is 5% contained. The nuns fire west of napa is currently 46,104 acres and 10% contained. The atlas fire that is burning in napa and solano counties that is in the area south of lake beriesa and northeast of napa is currently 50,383 acres but is 48% contained. Up in the mendicino area the mendicino lake complex is comprised of the redwood and sulfur fires. The redwood fire is impacting the areas north of highway 20 in potter and redwood valley currently at 34,000 acres but 20 contained. The sulfur fire in clear lake oaks is 2,500 acres and 60 contained. Moving east across the sacramental valley the cascade fire that impacted yuba county in the area of loma rica is currently 9,961 acres and 81 contained. The lobo fire in the rough and ready area is 821 acres and 93 contained. The mccourtney fire in nevada county impacting the community southwest of grass valley is 76 acres and i'm happy to report this morning is 100 contained. The leport fire in butte county impacting the community of banger is 6,144 acres and is 77 contained. Associated with those major fires the count stands at 5,700 damage and destroyed structures and tragically the loss of currently 35 civilian lives. The sheriffs and local officials continue the task of searching for those that are still reported to be missing and we anticipate the numbers of potentially both damage and destroyed structures as well as lives lost to potentially increase as the days pass. So with that I will turn that now over to assistant commissioner scott sillsby of the california highway patrol morning well the chp is saddened to be a part of this but honored to be working with the team of folks behind me including the folks that are out there serving as we speak. So resources for the highway patrol currently we have about 196 officers deployed specifically to the fire in addition to the additional chp officers that are already out there including our assets. I can tell you that they are doing primarily traffic control search and rescue general law enforcement and providing safety and security at the assistance centers. One way the public can help is as Mr. ballot mentioned a moment ago is to if you don't have a critical need to be in the area please stay out of the area. That influx of people who don't belong severely hurts the assistance we can provide and frankly hurts first responders getting in there to that can potentially save lives but it also impacts the public utilities company. It slows down the response to get all the power back on that is so so needed. As far as public support we have a lot of folks first responders out there that have been working multiple shifts they're getting sleep where they can we try to pull them out and frankly they don't want to come out they just want to serve they want to stay there and help but I can tell you the fuel that drives them is a public support. There are so many stories of the public coming to us and providing assistance and seeing what we need it really really drives what our folks are doing out there so big thanks to the public support. As far as traffic control goes it's a fluid event so you can imagine that the closures are changing rapidly the best resource to find out what road closures are open and not is to go to the chp website at chp.ca.gov that's all I have with that I will turn it over to fire and aviation director of the U.S. Forest Service Bob Baird. Hi good morning my name is Robert Baird I'm the director of fire and aviation for the United States Forest Service in the Pacific Southwest region which is California and the Pacific Islands. We're in seamless teamwork here with the state as far as the federal resources that we brought on to deal with these demanding wildfires we've have over 4,000 wildland firefighters and other resources that are supporting the complexes that we have in northern California including over 115 crews that's 12 hot-shot crews and additional firefighting crews we also to make sure that we have our firefighters continue on the line of extended our seasonal firefighters normally the season would be tapering off at this point and we've taken the measure to upstaff and increase the amount of time that we have those firefighters on to ensure that there's a federal state team here that we can continue to support. Additionally we've extended our large air tankers through the season as we get into the later part of the season with this extreme event we've extended five large air tankers throughout the state and 11 firefighting helicopters so those will continue to be part of our overall wildland fire aviation support system we have in addition to the Cal Fire State resources we have 15 federal large air tankers as well as two DC-10 very large air tankers to support the ongoing fire operations three scoopers is a cl-415 aircraft that can pick up and drop as well as 34 federal firefighting helicopters across the state also as chief teeter had mentioned there is a concern about the southern california wind events we've upstaffed across several of the national forests down there to make sure that we have either 24-hour staffing or continued readiness and assurance to make sure that we're leaning forward to not have the potential there so we've upstaffed we brought in additional resources from out of the region and we've even taken the step to activate a type one incident management team as a preventive measure having them down in southern california stage in the event of southern california fires to ensure that we continue to support northern california as well and continue to help with the state we continue to serve the public here and we're tied in with our state partners across the board uh but with that i'll be followed by uh colonel robert spanow of the california national guard thank you well good morning everyone first i'd just like to say uh that our thoughts and prayers continue to be with those who have experienced loss during this fire emergency the california national guard continues to be well postured to support the interagency partners standing behind us with a robust array of capabilities as i stand here today we have 2100 service members deployed across the five counties we continue to provide aerial fire mapping capability to cal fire and aerial damage assessments to fema our fixed and rotary wing aircraft continue to support cal fire with two modular airborne firefighting equipped c 130's eight type one helicopters flying on fires in the northern california fire complexes and we are also well postured in southern california with five additional type one helicopters been a lot of talk of southern california with the wind events down there in the california military department is postured for that as well we continue to provide support to shelters and evacuation centers across the fire affected areas as well as well as providing support to law enforcement including traffic control points in napa solano and mendicino counties and with that i will be followed by by david passy from fema thank you hi i'm david passy the fema regional director of external affairs and i we are very grateful to be among this team of teams supporting the firefighting operations shelter and evacuation operations emergency services and now the individual assistance effort to counties where additional federal programs have been turned on we are pleased that we can now receive registration from residents of sonoma and napa counties as we have the last day or two and i'm pleased to announce today that residents homeowners renters and businesses in butte lake mendicino and yuba counties who have sustained damage to their primary homes vehicles personal property and businesses can apply for federal disaster assistance we encourage individuals who have access to the internet to apply online by going to disaster assistance dot gov we also have call centers operating from seven in the morning until 10 p.m seven days a week and these operators can receive calls in english and spanish and by video relay service for individuals using tty devices they can call 800 6 to excuse me<PHONE_NUMBER> disaster assistance includes grants or loans to help pay for temporary housing to include rental and lodging expenses emergency home repairs uninsured and underinsured personal property losses and medical dental and funeral expenses caused by the disaster along with other serious disaster related expenses disaster assistance grants are not taxable income and will not affect eligibility for social security medicaid or other government programs low interest disaster loans from the us small business administration or sba may be available for businesses of all sizes including landlords private nonprofit organizations homeowners and renters low interest disaster loans help fund repairs or rebuilding efforts and cover the cost of replacing lost or damaged real estate and personal property economic injury disaster loans are available to businesses and private nonprofits to assist with working capital needs as a direct result of the disaster lastly we would encourage those affected by the disaster to continue to heed local emergency warnings to not return earlier than is safe and for those affected who have losses in the counties that i mentioned to apply online at disaster assistance dot gov or 1<PHONE_NUMBER> starting on thursday we also have agents in the field disaster survivor assistance individuals who can help at shelters and other locations for individuals who would prefer to not register online or by telephone thank you so with that we'll open it to any questions from the reporters here in the room if there are any at this particular point in time no there are no anticipated evacuation either mandatory or advisory however as i stated earlier it's a very dynamic situation as we continue throughout numerous geographic areas in northern california operating under red threat red flag conditions that we asked all the public to be diligent to be prepared and to be ready to evacuate should those additional orders come later in the day the aviation assets are fully deployed and engaged on all the incidents including our cooperator the current county fire department this morning when activity increased the we're able to provide a helicopter with night flying capability and started initiating water drops to protect homes and at first light we had 14 helicopters ready to go in the air performing water drops in and around priority targets to protect structures as well as we speak now we have a multitude of both rotary wing and fixed wing assets that are actively engaged in all of the incidents hopefully no the sudden increase activity while planned for and and additional resources were in place for did make a strong run into the city of sonoma and unfortunately there were additional structures damaged or destroyed albeit minimal but at this point that forward progress has been stopped and we are not anticipating any additional loss of structures at this point there are a number of repopulation plans that are in place and we're awaiting a word back from our incident commanders as to when those will be allowed all right thank you very much this concludes today's press conference


Wait, that's not it. That's just a metro card. There we go. It is the Metro M4 Express One of my favorite development boards what we're talking about here is a really fast chip lots of memory So it's based on that Cortex M4 that's AMD 51 chip and it has a lot of great peripherals on it cases where I really love to reach for the M4 I'm at the start of a project. I may be not even sure what Board I'm going to use ultimately maybe not even sure what the form factor is But I just need to work out some of how things are going to be wired So I'll go with one of these Metro M4s and then in this case this was when I started working on that Pip Boy project I wanted to plug in the SPI wiring and Get this up and running on a board that I can plug things into I know it's going to have enough power to do pretty much Anything in circuit Python or in Arduino the product pick this week is the Metro M4 express