Yaata niqashan genresu kwaingisha niqashana Maibe haiga, maa jatika kwaigisha yu altula kutia wajakia naniwa tawakia... Naamaaestikumana kwaingisha Yatika kwaingisha yu altula kutia, yukuli wa'u wajakia naniwa, We have some proposals changed to the cap 222 of the 222 of the arts and play, and so to begin with I need to know Peter Shidiayi Bill Nininimi wa Sumwasana because you people have been making a lot of noise. Ya, I think one of the things that actually we would like to have very clear to every individual is that freedom of expression is enshrined in the 2010 constitution and being enshrined in the 2010 constitution, it then means that every individual is supposed to be free to express themselves and to associate with any person. And these freedoms also come because I'll end up talking about it even more deeply. They come also with artistic and creativity freedoms. I am from the background of theatre into film and right now I represent the creative economy working group which is a group of 18 creative associations in Kenya which comes to seek policy changes in the spaces where we feel totally aggrieved. So how does this cap 222 aggrievous? It aggrives me from the time when I was in theatre and I remember that in the year there about 20, 20, 22, 20, not 22, in fact 206 or thereabouts there was a lot of you and cry around the issue of the cap 222 because then in those years you used to go to Nyaya house and you had to give a script to some sense, I just recall the censorship board and this censorship board would look at the script and decide whether it is going to get on stage or not. And in those years we used to act plays such as an enemy of the people and if you went with that kind of a play to Nyaya house you would be chaste. When I am going to talk about who is the enemy because that regime do not want anything to do with enemies although there are very many enemies in that time. So first forward as they try to continue burning I remember those years when Steve Monesi went to court and that stage plays act was actually pushed aside and we were able to continue performing those plays the fate of a cockroach enemy of the people and all the place you wanted to perform. Right now with the KFCB which is supposed to be the Kenya Film Classification Board. The C is for classification but KFCB has taken it upon themselves to be censoring films. I am now in film, I moved from theatre to film so they come and censor. The work of KFCB is supposed to be classified say this film is supposed to be worked by people between the age of this to this. This film will be worked by adults but when they come to burn and censor films which do not infringe the freedom of expression as enshrined in the constitution and we shall go into the explanation if you want to. Then it becomes an infringement to us because I as a person who works in film we found filmmakers and we found filmmakers to do what to go into independent filmmaking. Their creativity is supposed to be totally independent not tampered with we should not come and start telling me change this script at the end let it look like this the way some people at KFCB would like to do things. The creative freedoms are enshrined in the constitution and that's why we say KFCB should remain on its lane or it should be disbanded. It should classify. All right hold on that thought. Now Ray that's the problem they feel they are being infringed by the KFCB. And considering content generation and film production there are some things that are done in this country and we have an agency or a group of people who control what we view on our mainstream media or even social media. Do you think the allegations of the problem they feel they are pressed by the KFCB? Are they true? Yes thank you for that question. First of all the current law we are using cap 222 was the guidelines are colouring the redix. They have been there since 1962. So meaning that during the colonial period in order to calm down dissent the colonists decided to come up with this law so that playmakers people like Ngugiwa Thiongo could not easily and other artists could not easily express themselves through plays. That were banned during that time to ensure that any dissent was calmed down under status quo remand. Now with the current law that we have cap 222 and its guidelines they tend to infringe and curtail the right to freedom of expression as provided in article 33 of the constitution of Kenya. If you look at article 33 of the constitution it provides for freedom of expression which extends up to freedom of academic work and scientific innovation. But now for any law for there to be a law that tends to limit the freedom of expression that law must be provided for. It must be provided for. It must be necessary in an open and just society. But in the current situation the way KFCB and the board, the KFCB board, the regulations and the act they've curtailed, they've limited freedom of expression. The law in itself is a cake, is a colonial relic and even a bretor in itself does not use such law. They've moved away from it. When they find that a movie or something is a bit controversial the best they can do is to rate it. They can rate it for the adults, for the children but here the highest kind of burning, the highest kind of rating in Kenya is burning a movie. I can't give you for example. The celebrated movie called Rafiki is banned in Kenya due to this a cake close that we have.  You find that it's a movie that is celebrated, the director is celebrated. So it's only in Kenya that we find such kind of curtailment. In your own view do you think it's a good thing if you are being protected either morally or something? Isn't it a good thing? The creative industry like any other industry in Kenya has to be regulated and they don't fear to be regulated. But now it comes when there is discrimination in this kind of regulation. So instead of burning a movie or burning a play or burning something that you feel that it's not good for public consumption. There are other ways in which you can try to limit the viewership and it's for the consumers to decide whether they want to watch it or not. I want to weigh in a bit. Before you respond to that, I'll give you an opportunity to respond to that and even so, I have an article here that was written in 2025 of October 2016. It was on the review of the film and stage plays out of 222 and now the representatives drawn from the creative industry of the Kenya Film Classification Board are on this 25th of October research to continue engaging on the review of the film and stage play out of 222. At the time the parties also agreed unanimously to end the actimony that has pervaded the initiative to review the act which aims to make it consistent with the constitution to address new industry demands in the interest of creative industry. He has spoken of the current 222s from Kitambo. Now leaving today, I agree that time, four years down the line, what happened as you respond to what you're saying. Well, first of all you talked about people being protected under the moral police and the like. But I want to say, as an individual, I love the law and I like to keep the law. And I would like to say here and clearly that in my entire life I've never been in any criminal act, I've never been taken to court for anything when it comes to infringing the law and yet I've been an artist through and through. The way to protect the citizenry from anything is also based on the constitution. And the constitution clearly says that the artistic and creative freedoms that you have, whether you're talking about freedom expression as a whole, shall not include freedom for propaganda, for war, or hate speech, or incitement to violence, or in the end should not be able to harm or criminalize somebody. And all criminal activities are actually there in the Pino Code. And therefore when it comes to again, because you talked about it on the film Rafiki, it would be good to be told because I know who I am and people know what they do and what they believe in. But I would like to be told legally because then we talk legal staff. Where does Rafiki infringe as per the constitution? In what section of the constitution, especially on Antico 33, does that film harm anybody? Does it harm? Does it cause anything to do with the violence? Has it brought in hate speech? Has it gone into any kind of propaganda that will harm anybody? I would like to know that. But at the same time, the protections are also there. As an example, why would a person want to believe that by watching a film, as an example, where there is a vampire which is sucking people's blood, that I will become a vampire? That if I watch a film where there is a lot of bombing and fighting, I will end up becoming an al-Qaeda or an al-Shabaab because I watched a film. This film was given a respite in 2018 for a window of one week to be watched so that it can go into Oscars. We would like to know as an example. So within that window, what did KCB come to most likely prove to people that you see after they watched all of Kenya became and they are now like that and that's why you don't want this kind of film. What we mean is simply I am a creative. Let me be free to imagine other worlds. Let me be free to create what is there and what I imagine even if it is into the apocalyptic world and show it to the world so that we can be able to share creatively. But after I have created that, you can come and prove to me that this can infringe therefore we let it be watched by people over 18 or we won't allow kids below this age to watch it because of. But censorship and burning, that's too harsh because when you look at the amount of money that goes into filmmaking and the filmmakers trying to recoup and just make their own back and you burn it can be dangerous. All right. You have mentioned about the creativeness and I know when you want to imagine another world of what I know from the KCB for some time now they have been trying to find the kind of the content Kenyan people are coming up with especially in the music industry. We have seen the kind of content they want and you see for us even we are a mainstream media. If you want to play certain music we have those codes the kind of music we can't play. The same thing is happening even to the film. Now what makes it wrong if KCB has taken it upon themselves to control the kind of content to try to have a morally upright society in terms of what we view either on social media or even on mainstream media. What makes it wrong is simple that KCB plays double standards because KCB is the same KCB which will allow you to watch any kind of content that is coming from Europe which has those scenes that are there in Rafiki but it won't allow you to watch a film like Rafiki because it feels like we cannot be able to decipher and tell ourselves what is right or wrong or which direction we want to go or not to go. Now when it comes to the question we even asked earlier because I want to also still reply to the question there were some things that were needed to be turned around in the KAP222 and that's why the discussion was going on. Simple things like this that when you take a script to KFCB they have the sole discretion to decide whether the film should be short or not sole discretion while the constitution says there is freedom of artistic creativity already that becomes an infringement because when you give yourself the sole discretion without saying that we shall go by the constitution then that already for me is an infringement in itself. Two, there are things in that act that were a cake and were supposed to be used by the colonizer to continue humming the native in the 60s. So as an example you are on a film set we get on films I have first added for a long time on film sets so you decide that because Ray was supposed to enter from left into the bedroom and don't have a bedroom here what we will do is let him enter from right and come into the living room as an example just as an example that is a change as per KFCB that can actually make you not continue shooting they have and they are supposed to have a policeman on the set with you watching what you do and the policeman can decide meba delisha kwaivo haita ndelaia and this become very crazy things because they are guidelines, they are simple things it sounds like a story from utopia or something so what we are asking is can we be systematic can we remove those K-claws and just come up with something that is quite simple and quite understood which is in line with the constitution and when we print the constitution I would say yes please let the constitution prevail and if a film is supposed to be banned for the reasons why the constitution is laid down I would tell anybody if you are a filmmaker look the constitution is quite clear this would be banned because of these infringements but just banning for the sake of your discretion hello now Ray I have the proposal here the changes proposed by the bill appear to be catered toward expanding the scope of the board's mandate in relation to the regulation of advertising and online content now they are moving from the accord mandate coming to the film industry yet we do not have another board in this country that controls such is it wrong for them to try to get into having bigger share of controlling content in this country? thank you for that question first of all the moral fabric of the Kenyan society is not so weak that it can be shaken by the content either that the artists are trying to disseminate to people or whatever is online in the movie 12 Years Afraid 12 Years Afraid we do not have an agreement for it and Oscar yes yes sorry and Oscar for it she depicts slavery in that movie slavery is something that is banned in Kenya under the constitution slavery and servitude but does it make her or does she promote slavery that is not the case and I would like to reiterate this that the creative industry doesn't fear regulation it's a good thing every industry but KCB what it has to do it is just to provide guidelines on how, where and how that information is supposed to be decimated if you watch most movies whether it's abroad or if you look at most established societies you look at India you look at Nigeria you look at UK you look at Canada you look at South Africa they regulate their movies in a way that it doesn't infringe or curtail artistic creativity if they consider a movie is not suitable for a particular class of people or for a particular age the best they can do is to provide the parental guidelines this movie is not for 18 15 whatever we have seen those classifications even on movies from abroad but also do you think as a society we are at a point where we truly can agree or truly can adhere to the guidelines given because you are calling for the KFCB to give guidelines yes they will give but do we have that moral discipline to do that for example we have this kind of music I will give an example with a like a gangiton for quite some while their music are getting banned because of the wording they are using others we have seen the movies the video they shoot it is not consumable to certain group of people because if I use a Matatu I will see these kind of videos now do you think KFCB is making the creative industry to suffer in terms of trying to control the content they create yes first of all the constitution of Kenya is the supreme law so any law that tends to go against it is just null and void if a constitution provides for under article 331 that artistic creativity must be there and under 332 it can only be limited it can only be limited whereby if it propagates and such other stuff yes now if either of the content that is being decimated does not in any way go against article 332 of the constitution then it will be bad for KFCB to arbitrarily go against the constitution through their regulations through their guidelines in fact the guidelines under KFCB the Kenya Film Classification Guidelines of 2012 they have not been gazeted and they lack any statutory undertones in them in the petition that we took to the High Court petition 331 and creative economy versus KFCB the court found out that the KFCB guidelines of 2012 they are not law they have not been gazeted but the court went ahead and gave them a one year leeway to ensure that they come in tandem or they are there to the constitutional provisions so as we speak right now those guidelines they provide for such kind of limitation such kind of limitation they are unconstitutional the only thing that the judge failed to do was to to just make a judgment that they are unconstitutional but he agreed they are not laws Peter being in the creative industry knowing our country who we are and what we do do you agree with the kind of content that we generate from music to film to a large extent I would like to leave it to the creators let me say this I am Christian and being Christian there are things I will not most likely agree with when it comes to the Hindu religion or the Buddhist religion or even maybe Islam maybe but the freedom of religion makes me understand that there has to be tolerance I have got to let them take their path as I take my path and because of that we coexist and that's the same thing when it comes to artists the artists should find out for themselves if they are constitutionally aligned or not if they do something that's not aligned to the constitution and is banned on the grounds of the constitution I am totally with the person who bans that but when the burning is only happening because somebody is thinking about their own moral stance then becomes different and I would like to say this artists can self-regulate filmmakers can self-regulate filmmakers know and understand that we can do this film and we can follow our danga or we can follow whoever and come with a story and show it to people and once it gets to being shown it is the classifier to say we will not allow this to be worked by this age group but I don't think there is a grave issue in the films that come or even the music that will say ban King Kaka's song it was a jingani yeah, it was a jingani it cost a lot of and you could see there was actually an age where it would very easily have been banned if only King Kaka had not been King Kaka but I think because he was strong enough and was brave enough and the musicians came around and said that music tell us what is wrong with it show us and I want to believe that even the KFCB realized or agreed that there was really no infringement in King Kaka's song I'll say something I will not be in any space where music is advocating for people to rape others advocating for people to kill each other because it is totally a constitution it's there in the constitution if you bring hate speech that is unconstitutional once that is based on that I'll tell you for sure I am with you 100% but you see the provision of the cup to so far protect the society from crime and what have you but the bit of morality the kind of music you see and what you just give an example we will see or we watch movies from abroad which has those scenes and now coming from our own people from where you sit would you be comfortable watching some film have you actually have you watched some film in Kenyan content and you like I wish my kids were not here or I wish I was alone you know something like I know for sure pornography is banned in Kenya and one person who does not adhere to those lines of let's watch pornography I'm not in that kind of world I understand that is me you understand if somebody else loves to watch pornography in their own comfort of their bedrooms that's not my problem but now if that was to appear on national TV I'll complain but if a person chooses that they are going to consume pornography in their own house how am I supposed to how does it affect me if it does not affect me I just tell the person well that's not for me if it's for you that's okay but I know for sure that what is good for somebody else can be bad for another once food is another's poison I know for sure so let's not make it poison for everybody because it's supposed to be somebody's food and I'm talking about pornography at the time I'm talking about creativity when it comes to creative license let it not be a one person's idea that this film should end in this manner for it to be consumed the creator is the one who decides how the film should end there are the ones who know what they want to say so let them be the ones who decide how it will start and how it will end yours should be it will be watched by these people it will be classified in this manner or if it is banned it is banned for these grounds you just mentioned about licensing and I know I have been limited in the grievances that you have you have the petition that you have you have the licenses how these people are making it hard for you other than the licensing what else is elinio other than licensing of the films the worst is banning films because I'll say it again KFCB stands for Kenya Film Classification Board it is not Kenya film censorship or banning board so the B is not for censorship and banning it's supposed to be for classification board so when they come and censor and they ban we feel agribed because I know how expensive it is to just have a film rolling and starting to the end edited and finished it costs millions of shillings the creative license belongs to the creator the independence belongs to the creator the IEP the IEP intellectual property right belongs to the creator let the creator create let each other space work on its own Kenya Film Commission has its mandate Kenya Film Classification Board has its mandate the artist and the creator have their mandate can everybody remain on their lane and once the product is finished because then we can come and say here to Taki here to Nataki after the things have come to the market let the people be the ones to decide he this mushroom you want to give us but don't decide for people even before it's a kill or something that it will just going to kill whether you like it or not if you watch it if you watch Rocky you will become ultimately all of us become bokas even girls if you watch a vampire movie you start sucking people's blood and the like if you watch a film that is on I don't know what to say but just go for any moral fabric you end up becoming completely what you watch we have better muscles up here alright conclude us for us Ray what are you looking forward to and do you think it opens now in 331 Wanurikawi creative economy versus KFCB we did impune some sections of cup 2 to 2 loss of Kenya now one of the problems that we had was the issue about the minister the minister having power to revoke alliances or put any other condition with regard to the production of the movie and under article 22 of the constitution of Kenya when you feel that your rights are being infringed or any person rights are being infringed you have the right to go to court specifically the high court constitution on human rights division to claim that your rights are being infringed upon so I do believe that I do believe that there are better ways in which we can regulate the creative industry and it's time that we repeal the entire cup 2 to 2 and come up with a law that will help the creative economy to grow because now it's really stagnated due to such kind of law from the producer of Rafiki she can tell you what law she has gone through of having to produce that movie and not being able to recupe the money from and even when the conservatory orders were issued in 2018 with regards to the Rafiki movie to be watched for is to be submitted because the tickets were sold out during that 7 day period the tickets were sold out and people and Kenyans went and to anybody who watched Rafiki he or she can tell you it's not what the KFCB is purporting to be here to intervene and ban the movie that's not the case Alright Peter, yes or no question the current generation we have are they acting better compared to your times Well it cannot be a yes or no question because you asked a question that needs an answer because you see at the end of the day for me I would say that we are living in different times we are living in very different times and at times it's good to just understand because of the spaces being as liberal as they are the internet being what it is and people consuming the world has become a literal global village you can watch something right now that's happening in the America right this particular moment on online what Trump is doing people can see it straight on so straight on when people want to share stuff whether it's good or bad online they share it so morally there are some things which are not right but I would like to still say this it's a parental issue it's a school issue it is not a KFCB issue it should be parents to take I am a parent I should take charge and make sure that my kids are growing up morally upright and then at the end of the day I want to still leave it to the space of let religion deal with its bit let schools deal with their bit let creatives deal with their bit let the board deal with their bit because all of us can coexist and we can make this society better and let me tell you freer societies which deal with fundamental human rights to freedoms democratically are progressive compared to those that infringe on those rights that's my closing thank you so much thank you so much gentlemen for coming and back home thank you so much for keeping us company we have been my guests Peter Modamba is an actor I assume you have seen him on your screens Ray O'danga a lawyer a trustee your petition goes through or something better comes from this and your grievances are heard by the government because I'm sure at the end of the day they will have to decide especially the parliament


So, we have discussed the standing wave generated by the transverse wave and we have taken one dimensional wave on a string when we talked about the standing wave of the transverse wave. Now, we are going to discuss the standing wave generated by the longitudinal wave. What is the best example of standing wave when it comes to musical instrument for the sound wave? It is not standing wave. Oh, it is not standing. Fluid. So, not even fluid. It is a sound wave. It is a sound wave. Sound is travelling inside the air. You do not need a string. So, we are going to take the longitudinal standing wave on a pipe. We are going to take a pipe and see the situations that will be arising because of that. There will be one end closed, both end open, both end closed. Something like that. Please write down longitudinal standing wave on a pipe. Situation number 1, both ends are open. End of the pipe is L. Please draw the standing wave. The open end will act like an anti-node always. Open end will be anti-node. Close end will be node. Wherever the reflection happens, there it will be a node when the standing wave gets formed. So, that is why the close end is the node. Draw the first wave possible here. You will say one line like this, one line like that. That is 0. That is nothing. After that what? I am not sure what to draw. Just like you have drawn here. Same way if you draw here, minimum possible frequency. Here draw. Open end will be anti-nodes. Listen. Your node is basically compression. Anti-node is extension. Now, see here, it is a longitudinal wave.  Are you getting it?  But we are just trying to find out the frequency. And we know the formula or equation look very similar. So, just to visualize it in a better way, we will draw the longitudinal wave as if it is a transverse wave. But in reality it does not look like that. Are you getting it? So, the first possible frequency will be like this. So, if length is l, what will be the fundamental frequency? Tell me frequency. 1 by 2 l root 2 t by mu. All of you? Something terribly wrong. What? How do you tell me? L by 2 is how much? Sorry, lambda by 2 is l. So, lambda is 2 l. What about the velocity of wave here? It is under root 2. It is under root of v by rho. v could be gamma p whatever. It is not root t by mu. It is not a transverse wave. Long longitudinal wave, the velocity is root of v by rho. You have to use that. So, fundamental frequency is what? 1 by 2 l t by rho. This is the fundamental frequency. What about the next one? First, over tone. How it will look like? So, you said that the anti-node is a low pressure. It is an expansion. It is not a compression. Why? Just a convention. But like if I actually check. So, like if I actually check the pressure in the middle and at the tops, then would I find higher pressure? No, no, no. In the middle it will be higher. It will be higher. Yes. Because there is a reflection. Reflection happens when it gets compressed and then it reflects off. In standing wave it is always like that. Sir, how would that like for a long wave? One will vibrate like this, other will vibrate like that. It will be like this. They will together vibrate. All the particles together will vibrate like this. All will open up together and come back together. Okay, what is the next frequency? How it will look like? It will look like this. So, this is one complete wavelength or not? Is it one complete wavelength? Lambda by 4, lambda by 4, lambda by 4, 4 lambda by 4. So, your wavelength is l only. So, frequency is 2 by 2 l root of b by rho. What is this called? First overtone and which harmonic? Second harmonic. Between these two there is no other frequency possible. What about the nth harmonic? n by 2 l root b by rho. So, if you have something in between rows, then will there be this wavelength between? What are you saying? Like if I have some frequency in between. No, that is not even possible. It will not resonate with it. The length will not allow it to happen. The only frequency with which it will resonate is this one or that one or the next one like that. So, it will not be standing. It will just damp away. Have you seen that example of resonance when the strings are hanging like that? The last example that you have taken SHM, the force oscillation. So, the one which is oscillating will affect the most, the one which has the same length. So, it will immediately start resonating. Others will not even respond. So, that frequency will not even, you know, this will not get affected by that frequency. The structure will not allow it. The natural frequency is not matching with that. Getting it? Now, please write down one end closed. Do it your own now. Tell me the generic formula after doing yourself. So, what is the same as one? Please do it yourself. One end closed. Properly do it. Draw the... The fundamental will look like how? This will be the fundamental. Right? So, mu is... How many times will you say the same thing? How many times? How many times will you say the same thing? This question is same as that question. I am asking what it is. Tell me the same. Then, same kind. B by rho. T by mu. Huh? Is it the same thing? This is the fundamental frequency or the first harmonic. The second possible frequency is 3 by 4 L root of B by rho. So, the generic formula is 2 minus 1 times 4 L. This is 2 N minus 1th harmonic. So, even harmonic does not exist in this case also. Even harmonic does not exist in this case as well. Got it? Any doubts which I may want to clear? No doubts. So, now two end close situation, I don't need to discuss. Sir, but in that how the wave is generated? Hit it from the top. You put a bomb inside. I am joking. But the frequency of the bomb should match with one of these modes of vibration. Otherwise, it will just damp the wave. Silent. Not silent. It will... It will not resonate. It will just... A small noise will come and then goes out. Sir, both ends are close. It will be like first and okay. Then both ends will be... It looks like a transfer. When you analyze it, but it doesn't... It is not like this in reality. It is not like... It is a longitudinal wave. You are analyzing it by drawing as if it is a transverse wave. Okay? Now, we will write down end correction. End corrections. So, the effective length of the pipe... The effective length of the pipe L effective is experimentally found out to be L0 plus 0.3 times the diameter of the pipe. This thing is end correction. So, wherever in the formula L is there, instead of L, you should write L0 plus in L plus 0.3D. Wherever L is, it behaves as if the length is more than L. How much more? 0.3 times diameter time. 0.3 times diameter more than the actual length. Why that happens? Because of the... You can say there is an edge. So, you can say there is an edge effect. And the wave behaves very weirdly at the edges. I will just give you one real example here. Suppose this is you. And this is someone else. This someone else is shouting. This wall is perfectly dampener. It will not allow any voice to travel across. So, it is a soft wall. The rubbers are there. Both sides will damp every noise. But if this shouts, this guy can hear. Why is that? Because the wave goes here and it bends. At the edges, the wave bends. So, actually what we expect is the wave will go like that, isn't it? But it doesn't behave like this. Similarly, if there is an obstacle there and there is a light source over here. You will expect that the light should not reach in this zone at all. But the light will reach over here as well. The light bends at the edges. So, there will be some edge effect. How the derivation of this? No one knows. It is experimentally found out to be L plus 0.3 times the diameter because of the edge effect.


We're here today to announce that government's providing 5.7 million dollars over the next three years to CHIA, while CHIA is a fantastic organization and they provide communication devices, essentially computers that speak for individuals who can't speak without that. My device also helps me make connections with people I meet and improves the relationships I already have. For example, I can have a conversation using a speakerphone with friends and family, as well I can talk with my dad on Skype. To me, communication is freedom, so CHIA has helped me to get my freedom. Thank you for continuing to provide funding to the CHIA program. So this is an eye gaze system, it's an older model eye gaze system because all the other ones that we have are actually out, but basically what you do is you set it up to read the person's eyes, you can see it picks up my eyes. The technology really makes a huge difference in people's lives and basically reconnects them with the world, their family, their friends, their community, their abilities to interact with work, school and all the potentials that life might hold.


Crazy suffering if you're against what you did in the hunt when you were hunting you have to be against fishing I'm glad you're not in it. One of them big and extremists We've got some a sustainable dolphin meat, mate. You want to try some? You can actually see the little dolphins Especially we're gonna see why people won't eat a dolphin, but we'll happily eat a tuna. Is there a moral Difference between the dolphin and the tuna. I mean they're both sentient self aware They both feel pain and suffering. You don't you don't have a moral issue with eating a dolphin a lot of people do they're they're a bit soft my opinion Yeah, I think Yeah, I'm I think vegans are a bit extreme, but these ones here. We farm them sometimes we get the X performing animals from seaworld We just spike them in the head like they do with the trip on the tuna boats and There's no tuna in it. Tuna is actually endangered. So do you like it? I'm glad you're not in it. One of them vegan extremists Like would you ever eat anything vegan? Okay, yeah, yeah, well you just ate vegan tuna Yeah, vegan tuna, and you liked it.    You must be from you must be foreign not from here. You from Australia. Well you tourists Really? Oh, you do these are from these are eggs performing from Seawall just right down the road Yeah, you don't you don't eat see you don't eat seafood Okay, so you wouldn't have a problem with this Why so explain to me It's a mammal Well, do you eat cows? They're a mammal Well, you know tunas do you tune up? I've seen a lot of slaughter of dolphin and you know, I've enjoyed the dolphins when I'm out Well, wait a second tuna. They spike him in the head on the boat.  I do yeah, and then they got the by-catch from the fishing industry three I just wouldn't eat whale or dolphin when you buy a fish Just putting like the 300,000 wows porpoises and dolphins that are being killed as by-catch in the nets and stuff They target a certain species 40% are thrown back over as by-kill so the doc the sea turtles But they all feel pain the same don't add to a tuna and a dolphin if you stab them with the knife They're both gonna feel that Now that the photographers they think this is funny They've been taken photos. They've been taken photos all day. They think that this is wrong Well, I'm not gonna you know what this is my personal choice.  You're picking and choosing.  I might eat you But well, maybe we should say maybe we should say well you are both sentient beings who experience Consciousness we should give you both rights whether I like you or not or whether our baby you are not I think it's a question of Probably more how things are harvested and how it's done, you know, unfortunately, you don't have a choice You you don't have a choice of supporting what you're buying very often. I used to hunt do my own hunting Yeah, I would shoot them all animal you shoot them in the heart when you hunt in the day Always get him. Did you always get him? Yeah, so what do you think about that hunting do you think that's ethical? Brutal yeah, it's actually way more brutal right by hunting. Yeah Why wouldn't you do it again? Yeah You're okay is killing them painlessly yeah, yeah, okay see about myself. I wouldn't want to be shot painlessly So I don't know how I feel about I wouldn't want to be shot Well, if I had it about three choices alright caused me immense suffering before I die Shoot me in the back of the head and I don't feel it. Don't shoot me at all. I'm going don't shoot me at all And so as a so as a fish hook a really big tuner one That drags a tuner out by their face and they suffer on the deck of the boat and Suffer Kate to death or they get frozen or spiked in the head So crazy suffering if you're against what you did in the hunt when you were hunting you have to be against fishing It's way more suffering and five million a minute five million fish murdered a minute Five million a minute. That's one two point seven trillion a year That two point seven.  I'm tricking people. This isn't dolphin. It's all made of plants This is vegan tuna in a can. It's not actual tuna. It's no fish. Yeah, I've been vegan for nearly eight years So I do you do have a choice you actually do have a choice Yeah, so you just said you don't really have a choice It's either all try to find one that's been killed quickly or don't eat it at all. That's what I'll kill it yourself Well, then we had remember we had the suffering the shoot them quickly or don't kill them at all And if it was you guys, I wouldn't want you get shot at all You know me, but when it's the animal on the other end of the knife It's like I will just do it quickly and then we'll eat their bodies, you know This whole topic well, I believe animals can experience their reality like this Maybe not to the same not maybe they can but they can and that they should have rights because of that They should have the right not to be harmed enslaved exploited tortured and used as products property They do and they rape each other, but again, we are civilized.  They pick up everyone Whoever's there and they all they dump them and they they dump them on the boat and they get crushed under the weight of all their Friends, it's a horrible way to die.  Well, I don't need them But you know what I mean? Let me just give you this and then you I'll let you go But I actually had a really good conversation with you guys, which was nice. This is what I'm giving people out This is just some facts about fish. This is a great film called sea spiracy. These are like some vegan fish You like it Interesting this is how to be vegan in Australia and there's some good tips in there It can actually use in the US as well Canada sorry, you just told me that Canada is really good for vegan stuff as well a lot of friends in Canada actually Toronto This is what it was, you know You can take it if you like I mean it's nice. I put a bit of vegan mayonnaise in there because it's you know Most flavorful, but then neither is a dead tuna when it's been sitting in the can but we're just accustomed to it that smelly fishy taste Thank you so much We're trying to push it bro a like they're the same as other fish really they feel pain the same so Would you eat a dolphin? You like dolphins Well, what about like let me ask you about other animals do you eat other animals like a fish or chickens or birds or I don't like sharks. You don't you don't like sharks Yeah, yeah shark fin. Yeah, I did back in the day as well I did back in the day, but like like so you wouldn't eat a dolphin because you like him, right? But what about the animals you don't like do you reckon you'd eat them?  Yeah, I don't know about a dolphin burger It sounds weird doesn't it Sounds weird doesn't it do you think a chicken and the dolphin they both feel pain? Hey, they both want to live. Yeah Chickens all right to eat like KFC. Yeah, why is the chicken all right to eat? Because it tastes nice. It's nice. This dolphin doesn't taste too bad. What if the dolphin did taste nice like KFC? Would you eat it? Because it feels wrong a yeah feels wrong. Yeah, why do I like how people have been in dolphins now? Well, they've been taking it and having a having a bite of it. You know But it tastes like I'm just asking it tastes a little bit like tuna. Hey, brother, like let me let me tell you something We're trying to like what I'm trying to do here is I'm trying to get people to think like they wouldn't eat a dolphin, right?   You know what I'm saying? All right, but this here is actually it's not it's not a fish at all It's not a dolphin at all. It's not a tuna. It's made of plants. It's a vegan tuna Okay, yeah, this is where the can actually come from but we're trying to teach people like fish fill pain They don't want to die and when people go I love dolphins.  You know what I mean? A few people did a Then I tried to this is not dolphin though. It's this do you want to try it? It's actually vegan, bro. Hey It's made of soya I'll try it with you. She don't believe me This is It's made of plants. It's vegan. These are some documentaries, bro How you can eat vegan when because when you're not a vegan, right?  So that's what we're promoting We're promoting the idea that animals to have the right to live and we don't want to abuse them and kill them anymore We want to live plant-based vegan I'm using the dolphins to get people to because they care about dolphins to get them to think about these other animals You like it I'll get you want to take one home with you come on your brother. Take care, mate Yeah, that's it the Tyson tattoo Oh, why are you so angry, mate? That's what I was looking at you off and so angry brother Now that you know that fish are dragged into the out of the ocean and suffocated and gutted Yeah, and you pay for that to happen Yeah, you've kind of got blood in your hands consciously now until you decide to change virtually


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Hello guys, welcome to another episode of SugarMD and today we are talking about berberine. Berberine is a supplement that is commonly used to treat diabetes and we are going to talk about if it is really helpful to treat diabetes or not and how much you should take it. This is Dr. Ahmed Ergin. I'm an endocrinologist and a diabetes education specialist in Florida and we see patients in Florida and New York but primarily this YouTube channel is for everyone who wants to understand their diabetes. So please if you like these videos give a thumbs up, share this video and write a comment. Let's get started guys. Okay guys, so berberine it is commonly used in Chinese medicine for treating diabetes for centuries and centuries. That's one of the reasons we added berberine in our supplement. Some of you are aware of the SugarMD Advanced Glucose Support. We have that we use berberine in there and we use better melon and we have a total of 12 different ingredients to help you guys manage your diabetes a little bit easier. Now why did we choose to use berberine in our supplement? Now as I said the berberine has been used for centuries but we need to understand how it really helps diabetes. So primary mechanism is something that that's not gonna make too much sense to you but I'll say it anyways. Cellular mechanism called AMP kinase. That's an enzyme that almost works like a molecular signal switch. So it helps you to improve your insulin resistance. It makes your body break down the glucose better and faster. As a result when your insulin resistance improve, your cholesterol, your HDL, your total cholesterol improves, even your LDL improves as a result of use of the berberine. It also improves the gastrointestinal flora, the good bacteria goes up. It also help reduce the absorption of carbohydrates or break down of carbohydrates. Now that's one of the reasons sometimes too much berberine can cause side effects just like metformin does. What is interesting, yes metformin a lot of people hate it but it works very similarly to berberine. Now why berberine is preferred by some people? It's because it's totally natural. It comes or extracted from the plants unlike a pharmaceutical that is just something like metformin. But for both agents for both metformin and berberine you may have gastrointestinal distress like a lot of people get from metformin. So as a result instead of using a thousand or two thousand milligrams of berberine which is commonly sold if you look at Amazon or other channels you will see those but you be careful you may have a lot of gastrointestinal distress. So we added around 300 milligrams of berberine per serving because we have so many other things in it and to be honest with you you can put only so much in a capsule so we have to decide how much of which substance supplement the natural ingredient we need to put in those tablets or capsules. We use tablets typically but capsules can be used as well. The bottom line is berberine overall helps your diabetes but like any other supplement or medication it is not a miracle worker it is one of the things that helps you control your diabetes better it is relatively safe. Again you should discuss with your health care provider if you are wanting to use a higher dose of berberine but the bottom line it typically helps it takes a little while it also helps with the weight loss I forgot to tell you about that. You know in a modest fashion not significant but a lot of my patients who will take for example our sugar MD supplement will tell me that their cravings are much better. So that is partly because of the berberine and that's partly because of the banana extract we have in our supplement so I think controlling your cravings is a major part of diabetes care diabetes management so that helps for that so if you haven't checked out our supplement yet please do so and if you like to supplement please give us a nice amazon review we will appreciate that if you want to advise us if you want us to improve on anything please write us on an email at ask at sugarmds.com please check our website we have a lot of valuable information on our website as well and remember we also have a new diabetes book called the ultimate diabetes book for you guys so I hope this video helped you and we will continue to make videos stay tuned make sure you subscribe and we'll see you in the next video


The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Morning Markets Kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. This is Jacob Schrupp filling in for Tommy O'Brien. The sun is out, the allergies are killing me, and that means it is time for the Morning Market Kickoff. Let's take a look at what we got going on pre-market right now. The ES mini up about 0.21%, the Russell up about 0.57%. Let's take a look at the ES mini right now. People are looking at a gap down coming in pretty soon. Of course, we'll talk a little bit today, but a lot of the Fed chairs are saying that we might not even get a cut this year, or that if inflation remains sticky in a sense, that we might see one more rate increase. You know, this goes against kind of what this whole philosophy in the market is currently, which is we're going to get a great cut, so let's price, you know, two or three in. And, you know, that's not some random thing to market. I mean, you did have the Fed talking about that a little bit earlier in the year. Let's take a look at the gold contract trading at 2,350, making all-time highs in the gold. And as I've been learning from Tim Ward and Tom O'Brien, that you can kind of almost see like decade highs and runs in gold when it does this. And it was a sleeping giant for quite a while. So it's waking up and we'll see what we can get out of it. Any significant pullback would obviously just be a point of buying. You know, if these analysis are correct, I mean, you take a look at so much nothing going on in the gold market for so long. And it was going to silver. Silver is just really knocking it out. We're at 1.75% before the open, trading just under $28 on the contract and then copper. Yes. Yes, 430. Love that. We were looking at what, 407? Sometime last week. Just a fantastic move in copper as well. Now crude oil. We are inching higher with it, trading about 86, 76 on the contract. Of course, that is due to OPEC cuts. In my opinion, I don't know if this is really tensions in the Middle East in any way. I just think I, the more and more that I read about it and the more that I think about it, I tend to think these are like essentially political vehicles, right? These kind of production cuts. And so it means to be seen what Saudi Arabia decides to do. I know OPEC is more than just Saudi Arabia, but Saudi Arabia is so influential and obviously produces so much more oil than the rest of the components. Let's look at the bonds. Obviously rates are still pretty high. I think we're at 4.5 in the 10 year. We're looking at the 30 year right now. This is the 10 year currently, trading at 109.07. Of course, this is back down from around like 110 that we were trading at 111. Tesla up 2.3%. They're taking a pivot and this is a major thing that Musk had spoken about, but we're also seeing it develop in, excuse me, manifest in companies like Ford as well, which we're going to speak about. And this is really how do you compete with China in low production costs of EVs? And really the answer is you can't. The West cannot replicate that with our current model. And you know, I don't see anything bar like a pretty disastrous switch of events leading us to producing anything that cheap, right? So you have Ford essentially suspending new EV developments waiting for the market to mature and you have Tesla saying we're not going to try to pursue these cheap EVs anymore, right? So they're seeing themselves as kind of, I suppose, focusing on more luxury lines, which is fine. And I would suppose the way that you should pivot with that and really if anyone knows how to kind of navigate the EV market, I would suppose it's a company that's been in it before really anyone else. Of course, you have companies like Fisker and stuff like that, but I mean, Tesla is the real one that brought it to any kind of commercial sale. Still Dynamics trading at 147, 27, just a constant move higher, of course, big volume on the gap up. Not necessarily a gap, but a large bar to the upside. And then as we see consistently, just lower volume inching up. We take a look at kind of anything else it does, right? So let's see, you have high volume. Let's see if we can get a day where we kind of just move up.  This is, you know, it's hard to see a trading pattern. I have to look a little bit closer on this. Again, the trading pattern that we had going for quite a while and it was profitable. It was when I was playing as you had this trade from really like 100 to 110 and it kept balancing to and fro, right? And so that was pretty nice. But this is what it tends to do in general. You get, you know, high volume moving up and then no volume whatsoever, kind of a retrace to maybe like a fraction of what it was when it got up and then we keep going higher in steel dynamics. It is a cool stock to look at. Dollar trading at 104, 27. A lot of the relational behavior between bonds, gold, the market, the dollar, it seems to be suspended almost for a short time, right? There's like a disjointment in a sense, right? Usually you have a higher dollar, you have a lower market, right? If you were not seeing that, usually when you have a high dollar, you have lower metals. We're also not seeing that, right? Now, of course, the global economy is not just America, right? You have a lot of purchasing power, excuse me. Yeah, you have a lot of purchasing of essentially like gold and other kind of metals from China. Their holiday spending has exceeded pre-pandemic levels. And so they're recovering a little bit from some of the economic issues you were having earlier this year. Regardless, it is seeing like these kind of relations are just suspended for a short time. And I'm sure they will go back to what it normally is with the QQQ trading at 442. Google at 154. Anyways, the point is the market isn't open yet. We'll talk a little bit about Celsius. They're deciding being to expand into Europe. They're not going with PepsiCo with another company, which is actually unique. However, Celsius is super interesting to me. When I go into the grocery store, go in anywhere, gas stations, convenience markets, whatever it is, they are so just prominent, right?  And it's been that way for quite an extended period of time. You've had this issue with energy brands, energy drink brands, where they target basically like young males, right? I mean, you have Monster. You had, let's just take the originals, right? Monster, you had Red Bull. Red Bull went with them more, you know, maybe upper class or kind of give me one second here. Let me put that out. Kind of crowd, you know, they obviously host kind of like Red Bull sports events and everything, which is very neat, right? So this kind of fast moving, do-it-yourself kind of deal. Monster was definitely just for kind of like the common person. And, you know, you had Bang Energy, which was hitting Gen Z pretty hard and kind of like the Jimbrough culture of banks. So the question is, how do we tap the rest of the market? And, you know, really also, how do we get into having women purchase our product, right? Because it's, you know, half of the consumer. And Celsius has done such a good job of doing this. Every woman that I know that drinks, energy drinks, is Celsius. And I don't, I'm not saying that it's just like a, it is a broad statement, but it's accurate, right? I mean, no one in that demographic is drinking Red Bull, monsters, bang, it doesn't exist. Bang for a little bit with the Jim kind of angle, but really it's Celsius. They're dominant. 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But I would also say in the same vein is that currently the capacity of China isn't geared towards luxury and higher quality goods, right? So these are like cheaper mass produced goods. And that's kind of where you see, like, the advantages laying on the global economy. So some basic facts right here. Ford Motor Company essentially lost 4.7 billion from its Model E unit. This is obviously their EV unit. The 4.7 billion in 2023 was rough. It's going to get worse. And the management is expecting to reach over 5 billion loss in 2024. All right, so they're updating a little bit, okay? Ford Management announced plans for the Model E unit to reach profitability before taxes by late 2026 and even reaching 8% pre-tax profit margins. Fortunately, essentially demands is stalling, you know? So these were kind of figures that they were pushing a little bit before we had a massive shake up at the EV market globally. Ford's is expanding its hybrid electric vehicle strategy. Ford plans become more flexible and offer hybrid powertrains across its entire Ford Blue, which is its gasoline vehicle business. And that should be by the end of the decade, which I think is an interesting approach, right? Because in a sense, what you fear is you dump a bunch of money into research and development, right? Into a wing that's not going to be profitable and they don't know where it's going currently. Whereas hybrid vehicles you can still sell to traditional consumers, right? They're not purely EV. Of course, there is still a component to EV in it. But in a way, it's kind of like real-time like war gaming, right? Like you're not just focusing strictly on EV, but you have your, you know, R&D team still looking at it in some capacity and it can still generate some income. I actually think that's a very smart move by Ford. Another takeaway is that while Ford works on introducing hybrid options across the traditional vehicle lineup, they'll be working on the next generation EVs. Now that part is off the table currently. They're going to wait again for more development to come through. Regardless, I think to watch Ford, man, you know, it's kind of rough to say, right? I mean, they're losing tons and tons of money. Now, if they stop massive investments into EV, which it seems like they're going to slow down at least and this is just to cut losses, I think the stock can go up a little bit because of it. And that's a weird voodoo thing in the market right now. But regardless, that's kind of what we're looking at with Ford and really the EV market as a whole. China is going to continue to smash this. I have no doubt in my mind whatsoever about it. Speaking of that, let's take a look at this article. Yellen actually went over to China, which is neat. Oh, it's something to keep in mind too. There's not really a little, you know, it's not much to develop on, but the Chinese run essentially like an EV seminar every year. I think last year is in Germany or something like that, but it will be in San Francisco this year, which is pretty cool. Obviously massive Chinese-American community there and China continues to show that area love regarding speeches that they have there. So I would stay tuned for that to kind of see, you know, what their plan is. Anyways, the headline for this is US will not accept Chinese imports, decimating new industries. Which I think is interesting, right? So Secretary Janet Yellen warned China on Monday that Washington will not accept new industries being decimated by the Chinese imports as she wrapped up four days of meetings to press her case for Beijing to rein in excess industrial capacity. Yellen told the press conference that Joe Biden would not allow a repeat of the China shock of the early 2000s when a flood of Chinese imports destroyed about 2 million American manufacturing jobs. She did not threaten new tariffs or other trade actions should Beijing continue its massive state support for electric vehicles, batteries, solar panels, and green energy goods. And you know, really, this is... It's this new, like, gentle fist kind of strategy you have to have globally, right? And the Chinese do the same thing, too. We sit out there and force tariffs and do this. They'll retaliate as well. Folks, stay tuned. We'll be right back. Are you ready to take charge of your financial future? TFNN is your gateway to the world of trading and investing. Whether you're starting out or scaling up, TFNN empowers traders and investors of all skill levels with top-notch investing systems, strategies, and techniques. It's time to protect and grow your money with insight you can trust. 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Welcome back, folks. Jacob Shoup filling in for Tom O'Brien. I'm going to move on with my last statement on this. Look at Tesla 168. I was just looking at... Yeah, let's see here. See, this is wild, I think, right? So Tesla's cheapest model is about $40,000. Honestly, I feel like a lot of new cars are close to that anyway. And then they're essentially scrapping plans for Model 2, which is about to be $25,000 for the family. Obviously, that kind of tumbled sales. Anyways, they also had... They had the robo-taxi. Here's the thing, though. I think they're going to cut that, to be quite honest. Their major focus, in my opinion, is going to be these more luxury vehicles. And it'll just be selling data. The companies that want to do it. Anyways, let's move on here. I want to talk a little bit about what the Fed's saying, right? So we had an insane job report. Okay? It seems like the economy just wants to keep its workers. Right? I think we're at a really, again, pivotal kind of time in this kind of monetary theory, a really economic theory in general. And I kind of wonder if... You know, the plans of the Fed, which has traditionally been increased unemployment, is going to work anymore. Now, of course, a lot of this was supply side and not really demand side, so they were trying to artificially affect supply side by decreasing demand. But, you know, from the job reports in March, it seems like that's not really working. Now, you had some talk with Fed, excuse me, with Powell, saying that the decrease rates anyways, regardless of a job report, and I think this is more theoretical, and I'm going to foam and come out. Well, first, let's start with with cash carry. Okay? So cash carry says there is a possibility of no rate cuts this year. Okay? So I'm going to quote him here, here's in March I had jotted down two rate cuts this year if inflation continues to fall back towards the 2% target. This is from Thursday. If we continue to see inflation moving sideways, and that would make me question whether we need to do those rate cuts at all. We said we need to see more progress on prices to gain confidence that they're moving towards the target 2% rate before lowering borrowing costs. Because if we have a run rate that's attractive, people have jobs, businesses are doing well, inflation's coming down, why do anything at all interesting concept. However, I think a lot of this strong rally is coming from a multiple price cuts actually pricing it. Okay? And then, cash carry votes on this anyway. So, then you have Fed Governor Bowman, and she says additional rate hikes could be needed if inflation stays high. So Michelle Bowman on said Friday that possible interest rates may have to move higher to control inflation rather than the cuts her fellow officials have indicated are likely in the market is expecting. While it's not the baseline outlook, she continues to see the risk that at future meeting we may see an increase, excuse me, need to increase the policy rate further should progress on inflation install or even reverse. And I think, you know, I'm interested to see what goes on at least the next upcoming CPI report, because I do think it will be a little bit higher. I think some of that, a lot of that probably will be from volatile goods like food and gas. But regardless, I think that has a psychological effect as well. Let's take a look right now because we're at market open minutes past the open. You have the ESMini up 0.09%, so sideways there with the Russell up 0.73%, NQs again sideways as well. The Dow futures up 0.12%. The Gold contract is 2,351 and 80 cents right now trading down a little bit to 60 cents, but we're up 0.26 from the open. Silver, 2782 up 1.2% really rock in this morning. Copper as well. I mean look at that contract again guys it's $4.30. I love it. Crude oil continues to march higher. This is a light sweet crude oil futures at $87.05. We are at $86.00 something pre-market. Let's take a look at the dollar, staying strong at $104.21, but seems to want to stay in this $104.00 to $105.00 area. It's dual dynamics up a little bit on the open at $148.37. Apple off a little bit, Disney off Disney down a little bit from last week trading at $117.83 regardless love to see it for that stock. Let's take a look at Bristol Myers squib just a little bit. I can get everything loaded in one second. Regardless, okay let's take a look right now. So Bristol Myers squib down a little bit essentially one of the big things that people are looking at is and this is I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of talk about it just a little bit, but they have a new schizophrenia drug, right? It's doing pretty well getting passed. One of the major issues with schizophrenia drugs is that they cause weight gain. Bristol Myers acquired a company sometime last year for quite a lot of money and this seems pretty hopeful. What I want to talk about and it's not so much with that drug or Bristol Myers squib in general and it's something that I learned not recently but like maybe in the past like two years but it's that usually if a drug doesn't pass so you put a drug up for FDA testing for a certain reason, right? And if it doesn't perform that way even if it has other benefits it gets shelved entirely because the amount of money invested into pass it is so high and I think that's crazy and I never heard about that. Anyways, let's take a look at this a little bit more. Bristol Myers squib acquired CAR XT that was a $14 billion deal last year long-term data of the drug reinforced the findings that we're seeing in previous short-term studies did reduce disorders and did not have the common weight gain with antipsychotics that you see. Let's see here in a year follow-up the drug helped curb symptoms such as delusions, reduced speech by more equal 30% or 75% of patients reduced weight on average not really important unless you're like a scientist and understand regardless you weren't getting weight gain in it. Bristol Myers was actually looking pretty good over a few years but we've really just seen a slow decline in it on kind of low volume as well so it remains to be seen if something like this can kind of pull up that stock price at all. AI okay let's talk a little bit the bite administration is giving TSMC let's pull this up about $6.6 billion which is awesome that's to develop more production state side one second so US is offering TSMC up to $6.6 billion that is going to be for producing stuff state side that is going to be in Austin excuse me Arizona factories are going to be producing chips fantastic at 1.78% right now the funding under the US chips and science act will support Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing of more than $65 billion that's three cutting edge fabrication plants in Phoenix according to the non-binding agreement the Taiwanese multinational semiconductor company is also eligible for around $5 billion in proposed loans under the chips act this is going to be cool we're going to talk a little bit about AI and this going forward when we come back from the break. trading and investing whether you're starting out or scaling up TFNN empowers traders and investors of all skill levels with top notch 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a little bit about US offering last 6.6 billion to TSMC for chip fabrication for 3 chip fabrication plans in Phoenix let's move on a little bit talking with AI this is coming from Alibaba okay pull them up quickly give it a second load anyways they're cutting prices for cloud customers in US and Singapore by as much as 59% mirroring deep discounts at home the move coincides with the surge in demand for cloud computing to support a global boom in AI development as well as complicated internal restructuring CEO is spearheading a far reaching overall to try to revitalize Alibaba's main businesses including e-commerce, Alibaba canceled plans for public listing of cloud business in November I think your major issue that you're gonna come across with you know a company that provides cloud is they're in China right and so the thing is is when you're using the cloud you're just essentially paying someone to store your data right so that's all key economic data that's payroll data whatever it is whatever you're storing on the cloud that's on someone else's servers right and supposed to make you know data information more easily transmissible but at the end of the day you don't you need to know who is kind of holding that right and I think that's probably a major issue for people outside of China with Alibaba right I mean you're essentially sending your data to a Chinese company and how involved the government with that it's a hard thing to say right but I see going forward is I think personally Microsoft is is best positioned for this right see something like Amazon who is AWS very broadly used and I would say definitely two for companies that are smaller and are more willing to accept multi-vendor use larger companies are many times not you know it's it's definitely an argument in the industry but the larger companies tend to lean towards more a univender support right and the reason for that is you know you need everything working very seamlessly every company does right but for larger companies this is super important and so you're going to go to the company that has a bunch of different suites right and that's going to be Microsoft okay so they have office they have teams I know that's decoupled from office now but some Microsoft teams you have you have a Azure with it and now you have potentially chat GPT and so the way that I see things going forward is that you're going to have AIs and I've said this before that are going to be sold to companies and they're going to be new and what I mean by that is they'll be untrained in the ways that they respond they'll still respond the same way as chat GPT is there's not going to be all these breaks on it and the idea is that they're more malleable to be able to better solve problems that the company has and they'll be unique problems right and so the question remains where do you store that data because it's all sensitive again one of the biggest issues we're going to face going forward in economics and really security is going to be shadow eye excuse me shadow AI so you're going to have these companies workers there who are filling in really sensitive data and that information is going to some external server very very bad security position to have so what I see happening is Microsoft a lot of companies will already use Azure a lot of them don't already with AWS but they'll offer this AI for business and they'll be like don't worry you'll come store all your data on Azure or at least something that we have interaction with whether that's because of business entanglements or whatnot so I think that's actually really unique and that's not fully fleshed out yet but that's just kind of what I see going forward let's talk a little bit about the me a second if I can get the article up is actually a statement from the SEC this is something that I've complained about quite a bit and it was you have all these companies saying what is what is one it's called lemonade it's like an insurance company I had one of my friends was talking to me about it and he was saying yeah it's an insurance company and they're using AI in order to develop competitive plans in my argument these kind of like small time learning algorithms aren't really AI the way that we actually know them which is kind of generative AI right that's not what they're using and I think a lot of companies have been able to kind of ride the coattails of this AI boom and say hey listen we use AI for this but it's not really explaining what AI is for them and they're seeing a bunch of return for it at least in their stocks and it kind of falls flat because it's not really anything novel that they're using so Gary Gensler this is from SEC.gov came out and said this is not okay because there's already been using finance this is AI where there's potential benefits to greater inclusion efficiency and user experience when new technologies come along and time again false claims to investors by those reporting to use those new technologies of course investment advisor and broker dealers might want to tap into the excitement about AI by telling you that they're using this new technology to help you get a better return public company execs think they'll enhance their stock price when they talk about AI the SEC want to make sure that these folks are telling the truth in essence they should say what they're doing and do what they're saying investment advisors or broker dealers are using an AI model when they're not nor say that they're using an AI model in a particular way but do not do so public companies should make sure they have a reasonable basis for the claims they make and yes the particular risks that they face about their AI use and investors should be told that basis referring to this as AI washing now whether it's by financial intermediaries such as investment advisors and broker dealers or by companies raising money from the public that AI washing may violate security laws yeah I again think that's a major issue I would reckon probably there are companies that just aren't even using AI and saying it but I think what this is going to end up doing is in the next few years we're going to see legal definitions of what different AIs are right like if I just keep adding data to a model and the model keeps revising what the next step should be or what the conclusion is that is AI in a sense but it's not generative AI the way we look at it and I would argue too generative AI isn't even capable of what a lot of people think it's doing you know this stuff that is happening in you know with the military and everything like that that's not like our run of the mill generative AI like chat GPT I would also argue too and I mean new stuff is coming out and chat GPT4 is a bit better at it but it's not it's not there yet you know I was trying to have it essentially add just some a bunch of different percentages percent gains and losses I just had so many of them and it ended up giving 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at $36 $80 down nearly 10% these I get so concerned for these new like I think personally this this was definitely like just a social image move I would say but if you're talking about like really getting a new competitive social media platform running up it's quite difficult because you need people that will bring others to it right if you just have a small group you might as well just stay on forums and everything like that but essentially what I'm saying is like I see companies like Rumble and all these other guys there's Mastodon was one of them and the whole idea even even with with Musk buying Tesla excuse me Twitter you know in in order to increase free speech or whatever the idea was behind all that my opinion was probably the public reason why truth social was occurring they just they don't take off and it's because they don't have the volume of interaction things like Twitter and YouTube and Facebook have so it's interesting like all the people that I know on Facebook and I 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