Hello everybody! In today's video, we'll discuss expanding a virtual disk or adding new disks in such virtual machines as VMware, VirtualBox and Hyper-V. When a new virtual machine is created, you also create a virtual hard disk for the machine and you specify the disk size in the settings. However, as you work with the machine, it may turn out that this disk size is not enough for your needs. What should you do in this case? How to increase the size of an existing disk? After you start doing the things described in this video, I strongly recommend backing up your virtual hard disk file. So let's begin. And we start with VMware. VMware Workstation is quite a popular tool for working with virtual machines. It has a good graphical interface, and it is simple and convenient enough for personal use. By the way, in our channel, there is a detailed video about creating a VMware virtual machine that I've followed the link in the description to watch it. To expand the disk, start VMware Workstation. Create a necessary virtual machine. In the top menu, click on the Virtual Machine button. Here, click on Settings. Now choose the hardware tab and click on the Hard Disk option. In the menu on the right, find the Expand Disk Capacity option. Click Expand next to it. Now specify the new disk size and click Expand. After some time, the program will inform you that the disk was successfully expanded. After that, power on the virtual machine and check the Disk Capacity in the Disk Management window. Now you need to extend the volume on the virtual machine. Right-click on the disk and choose Extend Volume. Add the required amount of space and click Next. As you can see, the volume has been extended and all data remained intact. Also, if the original disk size of the hard disk is insufficient, you can add one more virtual disk. You can both add an existing disk or create a new one. And here is how you do it. Open down your virtual machine. In the Information page, click Edit Virtual Machine Settings. In the Hardware tab, select the Hard Disk option. Find the Add button below and click on it. It starts the Add Hardware Reset. Select Hard Disk and click Next. Leave the predefined settings as it is and click Next again.  In my case, I'll be creating a new one and then I click Next. Specify the virtual disk capacity and choose the option to store the virtual disk as a single file. Click Next. Give the path a name for this disk. I will leave all settings and default values. Click Finish. As you can see, the virtual hard disk is now created and displayed on this list. Click OK to leave the settings. Now, power on the virtual machine. The operating system recognizes our freshly created virtual disk as an unallocated space with our partitions, but we'll fix it by initializing the disk. Click on the Start menu, go to Disk Management. The Disk Management Integrated Utility has detected the new disk automatically and suggested to initialize it. Click OK. Go back to the Utility window. Click on the disk with unallocated space and choose New Simple Volume. Click Next. By the volume size, click Next. Select a drive letter and click Next. In the Next window, you can change the volume label if necessary. Click Next. Finally, click Finish. The disk will be formatted and then ready to use. Hello friends! If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browser history, Hetman software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog, you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it, to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. When creating a virtual machine in the Virtual Box tool, it is difficult to calculate the exact disk space you will need after the operating system is installed. There are two methods of adding free disk space to the virtual machine without removing its data and the virtual machine image itself. Beginning with VirtualBox v6, we can use the graphical feature for resizing virtual disks. In order to use it, start the program, go to the File menu, Virtual Media Manager. Next to the operating system, you will see the virtual size. Go to Virtual Machine and then drag the slider or just type the required size in this field. Then click Apply. Close the Virtual Media Manager and start the operating system. Extend the volume with the help of Disk Management. If you have a different version of VirtualBox, older than version 6, then you need to use the vBoxManage command in the command prompt to increase the disk size. Before you start, shut down the virtual machine and launch the command prompt as administrator. After that, navigate to the root folder containing the program and find the file with the name vboxmanager.exe. Right-click on it and copy its path. Then switch to the command prompt, paste this path and add this command – Modify HD. Now you should give the path to the existing virtual disk, the size of which you need to increase. Go to the folder where your disk is stored and copy its path. Paste it into the command prompt and type this command – Resize and then add the required disk space. Go to the program and stop the guest operating system. After that, extend the volume in the same way as we did it in the previous method. Now that the disk has increased in size, you can continue your work. If this disk runs out of free space soon, you can add or even create a second disk to store your data. This is quite easy. Open the program, click on the required virtual machine, then open the settings. Go to the Storage tab. To set a controller, click on the Add button. You can either add an existing disk or create a new one. Click on Create. Don't change anything in the wizard window and just click Next. Choose a dynamically allocated disk so that it takes less space. Specify your disk location and size and then click Create. Find your disk on the list and click Choose. This will add the new disk. Click OK and run the virtual machine. In the virtual machine, the disk will be empty and without any file system. You will have to initialize the disk just like we did it in VMware Workstation. The last program we'll be exploring today is Hyper-V. The opportunity to change disk size dynamically has been available in Hyper-V since Windows Server 2012 R2. The feature called Online VHDX Resize lets you increase or reduce the size of a virtual disk. You can modify the size of any Hyper-V disk, be it fixed size or dynamic. And here is how you do it. Open Hyper-V Virtual Machine Manager. Select a virtual machine, then open the settings. Choose a required virtual disk and click Edit. In the wizard window that opens, choose Expand. Specify the new size of the virtual hard disk. Then start the guest operating system. Open the Disk Management panel. There is an unallocated area on the disk. Click on the volume that needs to be extended. Keep in mind that you can only extend the volume which is located on the left of the unallocated space. As you can see, now this disk has increased in size. Also, you can modify the size of a VHDX disk with PowerShell. And here is how you do it. You need to get a full path to the virtual machine disk. Go to Hyper-V Manager, click on the virtual machine, then open Settings. In the CSSI Control tab, click on the disk to see its path. Start PowerShell as Administrator. After that, type the command ResizeVHDPath and paste the path to the virtual machine disk. Then add the command SizeBytes and give the size to which you'd like to expand that disk. Remember that if you give a virtual disk size smaller than the actual space it occupies on the disk, you will get an error. After that, you'll have to extend the volume in the Disk Management tool. Similarly to all other hypervisors we have explored today, in Microsoft Hyper-V you can add a virtual hard disk or create a new one. To create a new virtual disk, start Hyper-V Manager. Right-click on the virtual machine and open Settings. In the SCSI tab, specify the disk type and click Add. Then click New. In the new virtual hard disk wizard, click Next. At the second stage, select Fix Size. Give the disk name and path. After that, specify the disk size. And finally, click Finish. After that, click Apply and OK. When you start the virtual machine, the new disk should be initialized and partitioned so that you can use it in your work. Just follow the same procedure for initialization as before. Also, I would like to remind you, if you have lost your virtual machine data for any reason, you can visit our channel to find a good video about recovering virtual machine data. And that is all for now. Hit the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Thank you for watching.


Thank you. I was 20, 21. Let me tell you briefly. I came out when I was under age and at that time of course you had to go to bars. We had nothing else. But I looked 12 and I had no fake ID. So they literally threw me down the stairs of little more and all these things. So I eventually said I'm going to go to the country and be natural and I hate this concrete jungle. And that was all good. Until I realized where I was in Southern Oregon was the head of the John Birch Society and there was like plaques that said well we burned this Chinese village called Gold during the Gold Rush. So then I tried it back here and I tried to organize Asian women, Asian lesbians. But I also wanted to be a writer. And I had up in Oregon because we had a lot of time in the hot summer days. I read all the, everything there was to read then in the late 70s. But when I started seeing back here in San Francisco, Judy Ron and Pat Parker read, I was a groupie.  And I just, it was such an inspiration because Pat was, I mean, you could read, you know, Andezaki Shange or Audre Lorde, but you could see Pat live. And she was the first out there visible lesbian of color writer. So she was a huge inspiration. And the other thing was by and by, I think that was by 78, 79, like Jenny mentioned, some of us got together and we were directly inspired in our piece called I Am Unbinding My Feet. And the name of our group was Unbound Feet, directly inspired by the, you know, performance poetry of movement in black and Pat Parker. So I'm going to read a quick piece that what I really loved about Pat that maybe hasn't been mentioned is she had such a great sense of humor. So this is called Today, The What? Liberation Front. I just, I just found this. Today I had a talk with my dog. He called me a racist, chauvinist person. Told me he didn't like the way I kept trying to change him.     And property. He wanted to know why people expected dogs to protect their capitalist interest. He never watches television or plays records. And how come I put tags on him? My dog, he left. He is his own dog.   And the genocide against dogs. Now by this time he's growling. And I just said, he didn't have to get nasty. I was willing to study the problem. After all, didn't I buy him good bones? And get him groomed once a month? And then he starts hollering about, if he wanted to get dirty and have long hair, that was his right to. And another thing he said, if he wants to sit, he'll sit.   The next time I petted him on the head and called him a good boy, he was going to lift his leg. With that he got up and left the house saying something about a consciousness raising meeting. Thank you. We love you Pat.


Zato vidim, da nekaj prišliči, ali nekaj prišliči. Prečo početnji, ga imamo početnje vsečnje informacije. Na bovih, je nekaj interpad, kaj prišliči bovih. Vseč je vsečnja skedulom.com, tako početnja se. Vseč nekaj prišliči. Pohdaj, nadobno včem sem prepracieto predstavnjamo pri hovček, rečno obštvo na tudi glasbenosti v svetu, ale bo tako nekaj, kako Live Grand včem je. Tretnjamo in glasbeno, informacije mu je nekaj v toželji je za vadi je dla осveti. Sgovorimo, da sem proti tudi pri glasbenih, survey sem pri 1700 v skupnimi. Zobr, navetno zelo jaz! Zemem pa z triggeredom, privedem pa Prado Bontzini. versus engineer at Red Hat, and we will start the conference by giving a status update on KVM and things that happened in last year. So last KVM forum was virtual but was also in September. And it was about the time that Linux 5.5 Rc1 was released. Now it's a bit later in the 6.0 release cycle, it's probably going to be out at the beginning of October. So we had basically almost 6 releases and a pretty large number of commits, Kaj so pravosti za 2500, z kaj je 200 vstavljene relizenje in relamo je početivosti za relizenje. Zato se pripočeva 2200 in 180, v prijovih 6 relizenje, ali je tudi vse zmačan je, da se vse je vštih relišenje in zato se relišenje vstavljene je radiobizena, in we are not introducing more bugs, at least relatively to the amount of chain going on in KIVM. The C remains a very mature hypervisor, but with a lot of exciting things going on and in particular in 5-16 the RISK5 architecture was finally merged upstream, so I guess we can give an applause to the RISK5 maintainers. And for the past few years I've given this status update, I put the commits in every release to highlight release with particularly high activity release with particularly interesting things being contributed, but this past year there was like a hectic amount of activity like always. So in each group of five releases, so leaving out the last one from 5.14 to 5.19 because it's not completely released yet, you can see that we went up from 1200 commits like five years ago to 2000 this year. It's like going up by almost twice as much. And you can see this why. It's mostly Google sending out patches like crazy. And it used to be that Red Hat was the first with roughly the same amount, but now we have 1000 more just from Google. So I guess another applause for Google and for the people that reviewed the patches especially. And this is the amount of commits by architecture. You can see that this five is particularly high in this year, even though it's relatively less developed and with fewer people working on it. Because there was the first set of patches that really got the supporting KVM and then also supports in the test, self-test. So you can see that actually the self-tests are basically 20% of the commits. That's a lot. The ratio of lines in the hypervisors versus lines in the self-tests is like one to three or something like that. For every three lines of hypervisor code, there is one line of test code. And I think that's probably the highest in Linux or close to the highest in Linux. And there's also a bunch of changes going in in generic code for doing stuff better across all architectures. And that's also an important thing in the evolution of KVM, so good to have. And let's see what happened in the last year. One interesting theme that I noticed is that we are using Linux library code more. KVM tends to be relatively small and tends to do things on its own without much help from Linux library code. Sometimes because it's just not necessary, but still this year we have new code for the main slot and the VCPU lookups using respect to the interval tree and XRA data structures. And also the X86 page table destruction was revamped and is done using the Linux concurrency managed work queue. And I don't know if we will see this more in the future, but it's certainly a good thing to have and an interesting change compared to the past. Going to the single architectures on X86 we have an API to have a continuous TSC over migration. So usually the way it works in QM, for example, is that the TSC stops on one side of the migration. It starts on the other side and there's one moment where the TSC stopped, but a few milliseconds passed. With this change you do the opposite. So usually the TSC, the clock cycle counter continues to increase over migration and it's basically like if the guests were really long SMM or something like that. There were many cleanups for the API virtualization and many cleanups for the memory management unit, including the page table destruction that I mentioned before. The new scalable MMU is now basically on feature parity with the old one and a lot faster, so that's good. An interesting thing is the ZenEvent channel delivery in KVM. You may wonder why we need the ZenEvent channel delivery in KVM and the reason is that AWS is running legacy instance types on KVM while exposing the ZenHypercol interface. Some things have to be done in the kernel and they were already there a couple of years ago. The one that is important for performance is event channel delivery and it's now in and it also supports a bunch of changes and improvements in other parts of the KVM code. So it's nice to have new features that maybe are a bit niche, but they prompt more changes and more removal of technical details. Another interesting one is eager splitting of page tables on migration where you don't have loads of page faults when dirty page tracking starts and instead you split them eagerly in the background and that's good for performance as well when migration begins. For x86 hardware features on AMD we had a bunch of nested virtualization improvements including support for accelerating like the nested nested where the nested guest is also hypervisor which is a bit crazy but it's good especially for debugging and testing of the nested virtualization code. In theory you can go infinite levels. I don't know if you find bugs before it gets too slow or not but anyway these things help with nesting even more. The epic virtualization on AMD now supports physical epic ids greater than 255 which is also known as x2 epic because the physical epic ids more than 255 is the x2 epic. On Intel probably the biggest feature was dynamic save states for AMX which is an extension for matrix multiplication. This was done more than Thomas Gleichsner because it was done in the common Linux code. So thanks to him as well, virtualization of IPIs and something that is going on is improvements on the performance monitoring in particular precise event-based sampling. For ARM there's a lot of useful things like for example new instructions for timed event weight, wait for interart with timing and wait for event with timing, asymmetric setups of the performance monitoring unit support for Apple M1 processors and there are some things that are apparently within spec but only done by Apple. Doing suspend and resume using the PSCI interface allowing user space to choose which hypercalls are available and guard pages and stack traces for the hypervisor stack because as you may know ARM also supports a mod that used to be the legacy one but now is also used for protected KVM where there is a small tested base running at exception level 2 the hypervisor mod and then Linux runs as a kind of privileged guest in exception level 1. So in particular EL2 can now filter which system registers available in EL1. Some hypercalls are only available at initialization time and not anymore after to protect the hypervisor from mischief further and also EL1 doesn't have to share all the pages from itself to the small hypervisor. It can only share subset of pages if it wishes to and it also helps reducing attacks of phase. For S390, a lot of the changes that went in are for secure guests so for example is the story of secure VMs, device level for communication with the secure guest firmware and also virtualization of interrupts for secure guests. Storage keys for the little that I know about S390 are something that keeps on giving and there were still improvements and fixes in several years of S390 being supported by KVM. Another important set of changes is maintenance. Power had relatively fewer changes, it's more stable and the changes for power don't go any more through me, they go through the architecture tree. Under the hand we have new X86 maintainer that are going to send a request to me. The details are still to be decided because it's the first release where this has happened so I won't go into the details because I don't have any and anyway they're probably going to change in the next few releases as we sort things out. So what's next? For X86 I will probably use a lot of free time that I now have from having some maintainers to improve the CI and make it more automated but apart from that it's probably going to be a lot of work on confidential, on finishing confidential computing support in the next year with Intel TDX and the third step in enabling MD7 with S&P and for the other architecture one thing that I've been noticing is that people have been working on having more feature parity with X86 for example, around pre-verbalization features there have been patches posted for ARM on asynchronous page faults, still time is already there on ARM but not on RISV5 and there are proposals being worked on in the RISV5 hypervisor interest group right now only for still time but probably also for asynchronous page faults in the future. Another thing that I've seen for ARM is support for dirty pagering and the scalable MMU which have both had interesting complications due to differences between ARM and X86 especially in the page table management area and I think this is good because with these architectures being in wider and wider use it's kind of nasty to have support only on X86 for some of these features or some of these scalability optimizations. So I guess that's all. Thank you, I will leave the stage to Alex for the QM update and have a nice KDM forum. Thank you very much.


Marilyn Kade, a longtime member of the ICANN community, Marilyn, thank you for taking the time to talk to us. How did you first become involved with the organization? I answered my phone. My phone rang. I was on my way to the U.S. Congress to a hearing, and I received a call from an AT&T executive who asked me what I knew about the new generic top-level domain, Memorand of Understanding, and why an organization that AT&T funded was behind moving the A-Boot server to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, Switzerland. I too was amazed, but fortunately I knew who to call, so I called ISOC and I learned that seven people had been meeting behind closed doors with a, I'm going to call it a scheme to privatize the functions that were being performed in coordinating the CCTLDs and the INNA function. I said, gee, this is kind of a surprise. No one knows anything about this, so we had this small working group and we handpicked and we've been meeting and we're going to put the ITU on the board and the World Intellectual Property Organization on the board and the European Commission on the Board and then four private sector people. I'm like, not so much. This is not going to be, nobody from business is going to be happy. And Marilyn, this was 1998? This was 1997, late 1997. So at the time I worked for AT&T and I was from the computer industry side and the ISP side and AT&T was on the board of several of the major high-tech associations. So I convened a industry-wide meeting, including the Center for Democracy and Technology, to listen to this proposal. This group of seven people came into town, into Washington, D.C., packed room, only seated 65, standing room only, about 90 people. And they presented this idea that they were going to privatize the functions and they had a transparency. Now these are the old days, right, before PowerPoint, they had a transparency with an image of the International Telecommunication Union tower building, which is 15 towers, 15 floors high, with a red arrow at the top, future home of the A-Root server. And at the bottom, the words United Nations, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland. And the room went bizarre over this idea. Where'd this come from? We don't like the ITU, who told you you could do this. And there were two hill staff, congressional staff in the room. And they made a phone call and invited the six men and one woman to a hill hearing. So in two weeks they came back to the hearing and they took their transparency. Chip Pickering was in the chair and at the end of the hearing it was kind of like, so you're planning on moving the A-Root server paid for by U.S. money, Citizens Money, DARPA, NSF, to the Geneva, Switzerland, to the ITU, a U.N. agency, don't think so. Not a popular move. Not a popular move. And that was what led to my reaching out to, along with others from business, the business community was very, very concerned. And we reached out to the White House and to Mack McLarty, who was Chief of Staff to President Clinton, because the hill hearing that was so aggressively controversial was not going to be good for the Internet. And remember that the Internet was a baby then. Ari Magazine was tasked. He was writing the e-commerce agenda for President Clinton. And he was tasked to kind of oversee looking into this, figuring out, he reached out to Becky Burr in the Department of Commerce. Department of Commerce issued the green paper. There were over 500 comments. Most of the industry associations filed comments. I began coordinating a coalition of the high tech sector, the business sector, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Oracle, all of the associations, CDT, the Center for Democracy and Technology, many of the law firms, to try to develop a business perspective and bring people up to speed. It was very complicated to explain the Internet in the days when there were, when you realized that in 1998, in September of 1998, when we actually launched ICANN, there were 147 million users worldwide. So we were dealing with something that was yet to be understood. When people see at that point, at that very, very early stage, did they see, hey, in the future, this could be an economic bonanza? The Internet or the domain name system. So email was very young, right? And I think companies were beginning to think, okay, there could be something to this. AOL had 3 million subscribers, AT&T WorldNet had 1.3 million subscribers, home users. This was, we're beginning to say, wow, we could communicate more effectively, not syntaxes, not make so many phone calls, we could begin to communicate more effectively with our widely distributed co-managers, sales forces, et cetera. So I think they were beginning to get the promise of it. So with that, Marilyn, did the business community see as an extension of that the importance of the DNS? Or was that too in the weeds for them? Much too much in the weeds, much too much in the weeds. Business people didn't know the name John Postel. I knew the name John Postel, but it was because of my technical background. I knew the name John Postel, but the second phone call that I received, once again I was headed to the Congress for a hearing. It seemed to be what I spent my life at, right? And my phone rang and it was John Postel. Because after this episode where John had been supporting the idea of the GTLD MOU or so it was alleged, and there was a lot of controversy about this. And so my phone rang and John had already retained Joe Sims as the outside legal advisor due to the lawsuit that arose when he re-routed the internet traffic. So phone rang, John Postel, I'm like, I've got a computer scientist on my phone, okay? And John said, Marilyn, this is John Postel, Mike Roberts and Joe Sims told me to call you. And I sat down and talked to him for more than an hour. He's not someone, Brad, that I would have, you know, I was really annoyed at the GTLD MOU approach, this route around trying to put intergovernmental organizations on the board. But John and I talked through what his motivations were and I agreed to help him, but I also told him it's going to be done a different way. We cannot leave aside the business community or other governments or other users. Remember, I worked for a global company and it really mattered to the company I worked for. When you laid that out to him, you said, what came back at you from him? He said he didn't understand Washington, he didn't understand the politics. When he re-routed the traffic as a test, he didn't, he did it on a weekend so it wouldn't disrupt anything, but researchers work on weekends. So all the AT&T labs researchers were working all weekend trying to fix what they thought was an error. So this was an incredibly well-intentioned scientist who really believed that he was doing and he did, by the way, so much good for the internet and for the world in the role he played. He didn't get the hard edges of how the rest of the people in the world would view this transition or the fact that a small group of people were making a decision. Who is a computer scientist and engineer? But the good news is he was getting really great advice from Joe, but better than that, he was getting very good advice from Mike Roberts, who you know then became the first CEO and president, and from Larry Landweber. One of the things to understand is we should envision this period almost like a kaleidoscope. So different people participated in different aspects, and as you know when you turn a kaleidoscope you get a different image, but you always get a colorful image, right? And over time people became more interested in Hill hearings in Washington, D.C. Congressional hearings always generate press articles and et cetera. So the issue began to get a lot of attention, and because the U.S. Chamber was following it, it was also getting a lot of attention with the CEOs of major corporations. Was there a time when ICANN was magically accepted and they were thinking, okay, we need this as regards to the DNS, or is that overly simplistic, and it was just a gradual campaign that eventually got traction? So there were three competing proposals that were submitted in response to the White Paper. And maybe I should talk about the International Forum on the White Paper for a bit as well. So the International... That was the one in Reston, correct? That was the one, well, for five. The International Forum on the White Paper actually held five meetings, and a voluntary group of people came together and cooperated in planning this consultation on the White Paper. So the White Paper laid out certain ideas about what it would take to create what we then called NUCO. So ICANN was called NUCO right up to the day of the first board meeting. And there's an organization called KIX, the Commercial Internet Exchange. And my boss was on the board of KIX because we couldn't, as a company, spend the time doing the coordination with the other far-flung entities that were planning the Asia Pacific version, the African version, the European version, the Latin American version. We and others funded KIX to be the surrogate coordinator. So the Reston meeting was, and I was helping to plan it, but more in a background way, helping to fund the work that was being done. Other people like Kathy Kleinman was involved in this. There were many, many others that were also contributing to this planning. When we held the day of the meeting in Reston at 2 a.m. in the morning, my phone rang. Is there a theme to this? Phone calls. And Barbara Dooley's husband, Barbara was the executive director of KIX, had fallen into a coma. And Barbara was going to be the emcee for the Reston in a national forum on the White Paper. And so the legal counsel, Ron Plesser and I put our clothes, our business clothes in our cars, drove out and stayed with Barbara while her husband was air-backed. And then we went to the hotel and took over her function. So we held this consultation, which was really an interactive consultation. We took different segments of the White Paper. People broke into groups, brainstormed, whiteboarded, came to agreement or not agreement. And that consultation process began to winnow out where there was agreement and where there was not agreement. After that, the five meetings took place. The Department of Commerce received those inputs. And after that, they made a call for proposals. The group I was working with, Larry and Mike and others, submitted a proposal. Two other groups submitted proposals. The Department of Commerce took aspects from each of the other two proposals and then announced that they were accepting the new co-proposal from our group with modifications. So at that point was when we began to try to convince Congress we're done here. We have a plan. We have a strategy. Arwa began engaging. He had been already, but he began engaging actively with Benjamin's staff in the European Commission who also had a e-commerce agenda. He began traveling to Australia where he met with Paul Toomey, who was with the Australian government in a related slot then to Japan and elsewhere to try to build support. How tough was it? Not just Arwa's mission to try and garner international support for the concept of ICANN. How tough was it on the Hill? It was tough, but we had a different environment then. We had a very seasoned group of senior Democratic senators and a very strong interest from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which was very heavily, of course, influential with the Republicans. President Clinton had endorsement from over 500 CEOs of high-tech companies. And so the message on the Hill was basically the high-tech sector, the business sector strongly supports this. How much were you met with this sort of attitude of we invented it? Why give it away? We own it. We got some of that. But remember, we invented it was actually not quite right. But it was the lay perception. It was the lay perception. But the other issue here is the people who were building it were the companies who were coming in and telling their elected members of Congress, this is a good thing. This is going to be good for us. It was a miracle. We managed to get the privatization into President Clinton's e-commerce strategy. Then we had Europe on board because Bangaman was also interested in not being left behind. We had Australia. We had Japan. Those were big trading partners of U.S. business. So there was a little bit of skepticism, but it was more, we're going to watch. And that's why, Brad, there were so many continued oversight hearings. Remember, we just had oversight hearing after oversight. Every year there were two or three. It was an annual event, almost. Yeah, or semi-annual. Marilyn, was there a time when you thought this model is in danger? When you had transpired, whether it was a lack of money, whatever, where you thought, wow, I can't send trouble? Yeah, like the time that I recalled me and said, we're not launching on Monday because we only have three out of the five required competitive registries. Yeah, I thought we were in trouble then. Gee, it's noon on Friday. We're launching on Monday. So I dug up two more competitive registries. Any other times that worried you? Yes. You know, there were a lot of people who felt that there was a lot of money to be made, that they could become the next NSI, and that they could exploit the domain name system, and that they could move themselves into positions of power. I will say that NSI was not the easiest monopoly to deal with, and it took them a long time and two or three changes in leadership to begin to appreciate the fact that a competitive environment was better for them as well. They also were extremely tough negotiators, and remember we opened ICANN's doors with Mike Roberts for staff, his credit card, and a line of credit. So without the pro bono law legal advice of Joe Sims, and then without the pro bono offer of the general counsel, we could never have made it, just never have made it. The white paper didn't lay out where the funding was. That was kind of up to you guys. Okay, we've got the broad outline here, but you guys have to figure out how to financially make this thing move. What were those discussions like? So it's interesting, isn't it, that I could spend an incredible amount of my time coordinating the industry, etc., when it came to actually writing a check to fund ICANN, it was really, really hard for business to figure out how to do that, and we weren't alone in that. It was incredibly hard to figure out how to do that, and I think you've interviewed Mike Roberts, so can you imagine how brave it was to open the doors, to convince staff to stay, and to say, somehow we're going to figure out the funding. There was another time when I thought we could fail, and we were in Ghana, and the registries and the registrars were delaying their payments of their fees. They were paying eight cents a domain name, and they were withholding the payment, delaying late, refusing to pay. We were in real financial trouble, and this really brand new guy to ICANN named Ron Andrew, who was just getting involved, turned to me and said, because I was kind of acting like his spirit guy, turned to me and said, eight cents, eight cents a domain name? That's all they get? And I said, yes. He said, here. He on and wrote out a speech, and he compared the fee to how much he paid on his, and he called his wife and asked how much the taxes were on his telephone bill that month, went to the microphone and said, I propose that the community tell the board to raise the fee to 25 cents a domain name, booing, booing, rounds of applause. And by the end of the meeting, the community called for raising the fee for a domain name to 25 cents. So we didn't fix the funding problem, but we significantly softened it. And those were just individual acts of courage. There was no reason for Ron to do this. He was sitting in the audience, and he just thought how unfair it was. What was your motivation at the time? I mean, you tell me about the hard times, obviously it sounds like a great deal at work. It also sounds like a little bit of fun. But what was the motivation? Was it that, was it, was there a perception, hey, we're creating something here that will reshape the world? Or did no one quite see it like that, and was it something else? President Clinton used to say, always be sure you stumble in the right direction. And I think the community was kind of stumbling whoever the community was. We kind of thought, this could be good. It could be good for business, whatever it is. It could grow, it could be good for individual users, you know, there's something there. Do we actually know where it's going to go? Do we really envision what the internet is going, the role it's going to play? Not really. But we did know that point-to-point communication, which was what we were dealing with then, high-speed point-to-point T1s, T3s, extremely expensive. We knew that could only work for the most advantaged corporations, huge. The single-business item in most budgets of companies and associations was the communications bill, more than their data processing bills, sometimes as much as their salaries. So we knew we had to break that if we were ever really going to advance e-commerce. And e-commerce was the buzzword, hey, it was on my business card, I was the vice president of e-commerce. So people knew they had a name for it before they could clearly define it, basically. They had this idea of what we now think about as real digitization. You had this like, ooh, we're going to do everything online. It was very catchy, you know, you went to think tank speeches and, you know, business projections and this company vying with that company about, so Oracle talking about their e-commerce platform and IBM and et cetera. So it was the business side of it was really motivated by where we could go with this and what we could build on top of it. How did you accomplish this sort of marriage between business, between the techno geeks, the pastels who are computer scientists, and the government which wanted to protect its little thing here? How was there ever a meeting of the minds between those three entities? So I cheated. I was a big D. And for the audience what that means is I was very actively involved in the Democratic Party and had very strong personal Democratic ties. And the Democrats were in the House, the Senate, and the White House. President Clinton was considered a very moderate Democrat and of course had very strong Republican CEO support as well in his election. And so the marriage with government was not hard, really. There was Hill pressure, but we also had a very, very friendly, very friendly Department of Commerce and Office of the President. And on the techno crats, gee, that's what people like Mike Roberts are for, somebody who's deeply from the technical community, Larry Landweber, people who had huge, huge respect in the real techno geeky types out there. We didn't actually have, we had a lot of think tanks involved, and we had the Center for Democracy and Technology, but we didn't actually have the kind of civil society individuals. We had a few academics, some of whom might like to throw stones, just because that's what they were doing when they were teaching. But it was a very much smaller community with only 147 million users on the Internet. It really was a much smaller community to try to convince. When you see, I'm interviewing you now, we're in Johannesburg, Ticand 59, when you see a meeting of this size and you think back to those roots, what goes through your head? I didn't go to Singapore where the bylaws were delivered. I sent someone else. So my first meeting was Berlin. And it was a real shock because I went to the microphone to make a statement. And there were two microphones. We could call it the good and the bad, or we could just call it the two different sides. And a certain party was hiring third parties to come and be surrogates for them. And so there we were very, you know, there was Steve Metallitz from the intellectual property side and there was me and there was Jerry Berman from CDT. And I'm at the microphone and everybody else, Brad, from the business side, the IPC side, the ICPs, they're all sitting in the back of the room. I go to the microphone and make a statement. And there's 25 people at the other microphone and they start booing me, right? And I turn around and look at the guys, so to speak, in the back of the room. And then I walk back there and I say, here's the deal. And one of us makes a positive statement, we applaud. And when they make a statement, we boo, we're going to shut this down now. So when I look at how civil we become, it's a miracle to me, right? We don't boo each other anymore, we're much more civil, there's so many more of us. And the magic of this is how we have changed the face of the participants, and I can, to be more reflective of the 3.7 billion users on the Internet. We used to be so white whenever we came to the meeting. It was also male. What was it like to be a woman among all these business leaders at that time? And particularly the technical world, the computer scientists. First of all, I have a fairly strong technical background and I represented AT&T Labs. So I had a lot of coaching behind me, right? So were you accepted? I was more accepted than most of the other females I would say because I did have a fairly strong technical background and because I always do deep research. And I think also I believe in affecting change. And I never felt non-accepted by the technical community, but I think a lot of it, Brad, was that I had a lot of technical coaches and I knew enough to keep them close. Marilyn, you were involved in the earliest stages. When you look back at those early stages of ICANN and you look ahead to the future, what concerns you when you're looking through the lens of history, what concerns you about the future of ICANN? So there's an RFC called RFC 1591 that John Postel wrote and that's an engineer, it's written, those are written and published by the Internet Engineering Task Force. And it says that you do all that you do for the good of the global internet. What concerns me is that we are a quasi standards development body and policy development body and we need to help the contracted parties understand that they can do well but also do good, that the DNS is something like spectrum, it can't collide and that they are significantly advantaged by their relationship with ICANN. ISPs and data center providers and others have to get a license or an authorization country by country in order to do business. Very expensive. Sometimes the delay is three months to two years to get the license. They have to hire a local council in most cases. And if our registries and registrars had to do that on a country by country basis, we would not have a global presence for the registries and registrars. The thing that concerns me right now is that we have so many new contracted parties who didn't come up through the experience, they came, they kind of parachuted in, they thought this was a great business opportunity and they don't understand the value equation of ICANN to them. The historical foundation would help them. When we set ICANN up, we looked thoroughly at the model to prevent anti-trust issues, to protect the not-for-profit status of ICANN. When I say we, I mean the private sector attorneys, not just the government, but those of us who were engaged, we ask our inside council and our outside council. We decided to base ICANN incorporated in California instead of Delaware. I mean, these were thoughtful decisions and remember there was only one registry at the time and only five competitive registries. So understanding this protective role that ICANN provides, the legacy GTLDs I believe understand it, but many of the new registries don't, they don't, and they don't understand that if ICANN loses its not-for-profit status or if there are anti-trust implications, if we lose the balance with the being an open, transparent standards coordination with the contracted parties, there could be significant financial risk or even they could find themselves being investigated perhaps by competition authorities. And that not understanding that risk, that's what scares me. Talk to me about the human interaction. Have you made friends at ICANN over the years? If we were to take a popularity vote, I think I'd win. I think it is important for all of us to make a contribution and sometimes that means delivering a tough message, but I hope it always means delivering the tough message with care, with professionalism and being, you can disagree without being disagreeable. And I think that in particular one thing that really excites me, Brad, is the new energy, the enthusiasm coming to us from developing countries, the interest in being engaged, the willingness to devote the time that next gen or a fellow spends in trying to learn about ICANN. I'm very excited about new participants in not just the GNSO, but in the CCNSO, in the GAC. The GAC has grown and is maturing and it's just, you know, wow. We have created an international organization in less than 20 years, almost 20 years, that is stable, respected, reliable and trusted. That's a great point to end on. Marilyn Cade, longtime member of the ICANN community, thank you so much. My pleasure.


Hello, good afternoon everyone. I hope you're all doing well. I'm doing very well. I am in the final week before I can start campaigning for local elections in May. And I know full well that for two months my focus, my time will be on campaigning for election. And I'm really looking forward to it. I really am. It's like spending two months at a gym for a start. It's not that I particularly enjoy a gym, but I do enjoy getting out and about and getting some exercise. So I'm looking forward to it. And this week I've spent a great deal of time and I still have a small amount to do stuffing envelopes. It's quite a job I have. I love, I say it all the time, but I absolutely love my job. And you never know quite what you're going to be doing. And on that, the last, it was two weeks ago when I last did this video, I talked about something, I think I'm going to need this even more, though my time is going to be a lot more limited in the next two months. I think I'm going to need these things even more because of it is the, this, the art of Japanese living something I'm absolutely fascinated by. So I sent away for, what's it called? I mean just kintsugi, which is the repairing of old and broken things. So I sent away for a little kit to do this because I love this idea that the beauty found in imperfection and how if you put something back together again, it makes it more, it makes it unique and obviously it does. So I sent away for this little kit and it arrived and the bowls you're supposed to break and put back together again were like this size. And I thought, that's going to be way to, what's the word, finicky? Is that a word? Too small basically for me to work with. So I decided I was going to take a bowl out of my own kitchen and do that instead. And I found you, it's taken me, it's taken me until today to actually break the thing. I did get a hammer to one of these little bowls and it wouldn't break. And I thought, this kintsugi kit comes with unbreakable little bowls. So today I instead got a hammer and the poor dogs, the poor dogs ran upstairs. I'm sure they thought I'd gone mad that I'd taken a hammer to plate out of the kitchen, a bowl out of the kitchen. And I thought, well if I smash it to smithereens, you smash it to dust, it's highly going to work either. So I got the hammer and much to the dog's dismay, this is what I ended up with. It's not too bad. It's got a couple of little bits here that is going to be somewhat jigsaw-like in putting back together. But now my worry is that the glue that comes with the little kit won't be strong enough to get on here. Oh the trials and tribulations. But I am, despite having no time, I know I'm going to have basically no time in the next couple of months. I am determined to stick with these little challenges that I've set myself. And what it will require is time management. And time management is an important skill in itself.  And my little van Gogh painting-y things that I got and started all this stuff during lockdown. And I've loved it. I have loved it. I've got my gloves here for gluing back a plate. But I'm determined to stick to this stuff.  So I'm determined to improve my time management during this time as well. I just, there's something I'd love to say and I can't. And I was, I just, just before I sat down, I was subjected to, and subjected to is the right phrase, I was subjected to a video clip from a Politics Live episode. And it was a Scottish MP, not MSP, MP, from the SNP who is on this programme and had made statements of fact, which are not facts at all. And for which there is absolutely no scientific basis whatsoever. But we're still stated as fact. She pretended that the Scottish government is consulting. I'll give you a clear what I'm talking about. It's about, it was about the Gender Recognition Act and changes that the SNP wanted to make to the Gender Recognition Act, to make it easier for people to get these certificates that certify you've changed sex. And as it stands, you have to go through quite a period of time living as the other sex, whatever that means. The SNP want to make it easier. Essentially what they want to do is introduce self identification. So if I sit here and say, I'm a man, then I have to be treated. Everyone has to accept this. I think I've probably said too much as it is. So I'm sitting there and I'm listening to this, these statements made by an MP, by an MP, which are completely devoid of any objective study, any objective truth, any scientific, any medical backing whatsoever. And she's stating these as if they do have all of that backing, as if this is a proven objective truth. And was pretending that the Scottish government was consulting on this. And there was another lady who was speaking in expressing concerns about this and essentially saying, well, you're not consulting us. You're telling us that this is what we'll accept. And anyone else can go take a long walk off a short period. And that is the way this these consultations are undertaken. So there's a starting point, according to the SNP, according to the Labor Party, according even to the Conservatives, the starting point is that one can change sex. That's the starting point. After that, we can debate. The point is, of course, that that is the debate. And the debate is finished, as far as they're concerned, before the consultation takes place. So if you dispute this at all, you are excluded from the consultation, and yet they will still call it a consultation. But what drives me absolutely insane are these, we have MPs stating things that are just not true, the statement being that people can be born in the wrong body. I don't know when this became a thing. I don't know when we, as a society, were meant to accept this as fact when there's no scientific or medical backing for it. But that was that was the statement being made. And if you don't agree with that, then you're excluded from the consultation. And they still call it the consultation and steam coming out of my ears. And I thought to myself, I'm going to go now and do my stream of video rather and give a piece of my mind about this.  I can't actually say what I want to say, because this is the party's YouTube channel. And I can't risk, can't risk it. My own channel, I get back in April sometime, which if I said what I want to say, I will probably lose it again in quick succession. I did an article yesterday about how we have lost freedom of speech in the UK. And I don't think that that is necessarily a debate. I think that's actually a fact. I think we have lost freedom of speech in the UK. And if I can't say what I think, I'm not trying to harm anyone. I'm not. I just want to express an opposing view to something that a member of parliament expressed as a fact. And I would like to do so without risking losing the YouTube channel. And I can't. That's the loss of free speech. And to me, it's a simmering problem, something that if people are not allowed to speak, they may react in different ways. And I see this bubbling under the surface, because I know how many people don't accept what they're being told by politicians and by the media and by soap operas. And yet they can't respond. They can't express themselves for fear of, as I described it yesterday, there are three ways that our free speech is being taken away. One is through legislation. Another is through social conditioning and another is through public humiliation. And you will see people be humiliated in public, for example, on social media. It's probably the most prolific example of this. And I read last week about a woman, an elderly woman, and she'd said something.  And some lefty went on Twitter and saw that this woman was followed by a drinks company and wrote on Twitter to this drinks company saying, did you know that you are following a hateful bigot, transphobe, et cetera, et cetera. The drinks company responded by saying, thank you for the heads up and unfollowed this woman. As if saying what she said was so unforgivable that she deserves this kind of public rebuke and this public humiliation and this public treatment as if she has done something terribly, terribly wrong. And legislation is similar. And we've had the courts rule that anyone who disputes the official narrative, for example on the transition, but not only on that, don't have democratic rights. And there is actually a judge who said that there is no place for a dispute with the mainstream trans narrative in a democratic society. That's the opposite of the case in a democratic society. We ought to be able to dispute this. We ought to be able to debate it, discuss it. But we can't. And even our judges are saying that the open discussion on this has no place in a democratic society. It's enough to make you just want to tear your hair out. It's absolutely infuriating. And it's so, so, so important that we get free speech back. On less infuriating matters, what have I, what have I been doing? I haven't caught up with, as you know, with my plate fixing. I will, I'll be back doing this again in two weeks time and I will show you my attempt at fixing the plates and my hope that the glue will work. But I am going to continue with that, though I'm not entirely sure the glue will be strong enough. I've been reading quite a bit and that's something that I intend to do, to continue to do. You might remember there was an ITV drama on a while ago about Dennis Nilsson and there's a little bit of controversy surrounding him lately in that he's written an autobiography and you can get that autobiography on Amazon and other major sellers. And people are arguing and complaining that he shouldn't be making money out of this and I actually quite agree, if you're honest with you. However, it, I perhaps, I don't think I'm going to read his book. I don't think I could stomach it, to be honest. Now I'm wondering whether I'm being a little bit, no I don't think I will read it. I don't think I could read it. But isn't it interesting to hear, isn't there something we could, well this is debatable and it's a genuine question, is there something we can learn from hearing from a person directly from someone like Dennis Nilsson. If you don't know who Dennis Nilsson is, this is a book that I've been reading lately. And what prompted me to read it was this drama on ITV and I'd heard that David Tennant had done an incredible performance as Dennis Nilsson. So I decided to watch it and it was an incredible performance. I did think that, you know, this is such an interesting and horrifying story that why don't, why doesn't anyone make a movie out of it? Over the weekend I was watching a three-part drama made by the BBC about John Christie who was a, who murdered a series of women back in the 40s and 50s. Excellent drama and Tim Roth incredible performance. Actually that was the second movie made about John Christie who, the first one was made in the 1970s and Richard Attenborough played him and also an excellent film and excellent performance and I do love to watch good acting. I'm fascinated by acting. At some point in my life I would love to take part just in a play, a local play, whatever it might be. I really do find acting fascinating. So when some gives a really strong acting performance I want to watch it just for that reason and Richard Attenborough, incredible. It was 1971, it's called, the original was called Ten Rillington Place which is the address which these modus took place and the BBC three-part drama I think was just called Rillington Place. Excellent. So I'd heard about David Tennant's performance as Dennis Nelson so I watched it and that prompted me, prompted me to read this book and on reading the book there's actually a warning in the book. When you get to a certain chapter there's actually a warning. What you're about to read will thoroughly horrify you and when reading it I realise why you can't make a movie out of this because it wouldn't get past censored. Astonishing, astonishing story and I often think that we should pay attention to these things in honour of the victims. Dennis Nelson was a serial murderer in London in the, he was arrested in 1983 and his catalogue of horrors became public and he's now written an autobiography and there are complaints about his ability to write it or not. He is of course in prison. I find the whole thing thoroughly fascinating and I read this and I'm interested in these things for the same reason that I watched the documentary Earthlings and that documentary genuinely haunted me for weeks afterwards. People have asked me, do I recommend that they watch it and I usually say no because it's horrifying and Earthlings is a it's a documentary showing video footage of cruelty to animals and I remember seeing an interview with the producer and director of Earthlings and he said I want people to watch it for the animals. It's the same thing. I think in the name of the victims and to honour the victims if you like, of people like Dennis Nelson, let's not let them fade into memory, let's not ignore what happened to them, let's recognise their lives, recognise the horrific way that they died and keep their memory alive in some way. I had some time ago, I've never told this story actually, I had before the UKIP leadership election started and my life changed beyond all recognition forever. I and a friend of mine were going to do a Ripper Walk and a Ripper Walk is a walk around and there are several of them in East London.  We were going to be the first and only to, I don't know if it's the first but the only certainly that we knew up that was going to go to all of the five motor sites and we rehearsed this many, many times and walked from site to site to see if we could get into an hour and we could and we'd written scripts for it and what we were going to say and one thing that we had decided to do was talk about the victims as well as who might have been Jatharipa. I think I'm fairly convinced about who Jatharipa was but we were going to talk about the victims and bring them into the equation and talk about who they were and where they came from and how they ended up as prostitutes in the East End and that was going to be a unique flavour for it. And we rehearsed it many, many times and we had it fairly well polished, I did lots of research into the victims and their lives and then along came the UKIP leadership election and my life has never been the same again and I, well lots of things went out the window at that time. So yeah, I mean that's why I'm interested in these things, I'm more interested, well I'm a horror fan and these are real life horrors aren't they and I don't clearly understand the, well there are theories around why people are fans of horror, it's adrenaline or the security of knowing that in this fictional account that the good usually win and this is a, it's almost a reaffirming thing of you know fighting evil and that good conquers evil and that's, I actually spoke to a psychologist friend of mine about this years ago, we talked about being a horror fan. Anyway, part of the reason I'm so interested in this is because I'm so interested in victims and victims and who they were, where they came from and in remembering them. So for that reason I'm a little bit conflicted about the notion that Dennis Nielsen should publish his own autobiography and fully understand both sides, I don't think he should make any money out of it. However, money aside, should we hear from him? It's quite an interesting question, I didn't actually intend when I sat down to do the stream to consider that question, let me know what you think, I'd like to know what people think about that. Okay, as I say next two months I'm going to be campaigning and campaigning and campaigning and campaigning and I am really looking forward to it, I feel completely differently going into this campaign than I ever have before. I feel so much more prepared and confident and optimistic and ready, if you like, ready. It's going to be a lot of hard work and I'm up for it, I'm really, I'm really, I'm excited about it, I'm excited about the challenge and I intend to knock on every door in the ward that I'm standing in and to speak to the people out there and more importantly to listen to and now it sounds like political politicians waffle, it's not, I really do want to hear what people are thinking because I'm, you know, we are living in an era of mass widespread censorship and I often find that when people talk to me, when they find out, you know, that I'm politically incorrect and that I myself won't go along with the agenda and I insist on saying what I really think, at least in person, I'm not going to, as I said, I'm not going to risk the party's YouTube, it was my YouTube, it can't be different, but I will be bullied into thinking what I don't think and when people, when I get into conversations with people about this, about controversial subjects or political correctness or whatever it may be and that becomes apparent, it's amazing how people then feel like they can open up and say what they think because they know that they're safe to say these things to me and that's when the reality comes out and there is a hidden majority in this country who are thinking the same things but afraid to say so and I'm looking forward to going out there knocking on doors, making it clear to people that they are safe to tell me what they really think and I am looking forward to hearing what people really think. So I'm going to keep up all of these things, oh I just, I did my first Facebook stream, I'm on Facebook now, I'm getting to grips with it slowly, it is a little bit of a minefield to me, I'm someone who was my only real social media experience as Twitter and I find Twitter really, really different to Facebook and much easier to use than Facebook, no longer of course and I was thrown off Twitter for questioning the police but there you go. So I'm on Facebook now and making the most of it and I did my first stream on there this morning, live stream and I'll be doing it again next Wednesday so do join me on there next Wednesday at 10 o'clock and every Wednesday at 10 o'clock from now and I've never talked about mostly Hartlepool and local issues here but these issues are the same issues that people have all over the country and how common sense policy can solve a lot of these problems but this morning I had some some guests, some lefties, they are a pleasant lot aren't they? I wish, you know, you think that they would try to prove me wrong occasionally instead of constantly proving me right, I'm sorry but they do, I mentioned this morning that the left, I was talking about my uncle, somebody had asked me what my political journey was so I thought well given it's the first stream I'll take the opportunity to do a bit of an introduction so if there are voters in Hartlepool who don't know where I come from what I stand for I think this the first stream was the appropriate time to do that so I covered my own political history and of course that includes my time in the Labour Party and I talked about how the extreme left had begun to dominate the Labour Party and with that you have censorship and you have bullying and you have people afraid to say what they think and it has now gone from the internal of the Labour Party to wider society and for the same reasons bullying tantrum throwing by the left and the absolute insistence that everybody think as they do or if they don't then at least pretend they do and the absolute insistence on shutting down everybody who even just wants a debate just wants an open honest debate about things who has a different perspective on things they won't allow it the extreme left won't allow this they they censor and in when they can they kill they kill their political opponents you know you only need to look at China or the Soviet Union to know what actually happens to people who dissent in a communists for example society an extreme left society so I've no doubt at all that the extreme left here in Britain would if they could and I don't think I'm being alarmist or dramatic or or exaggerating I think they would if they if they could they would they would kill their opponents and the reason I think that is because the absolute dripping angry hatred that is expressed and that was expressed this morning in some of the comments on my facebook stream and the irony is of course that they accuse me of hatred when I don't express hatred to anyone because I don't feel hatred I feel hatred for certain things I feel hatred towards cruelties and and oppressive and and but a hatred is an emotion and I think when you're confronting evil it can be a healthy one if you you we must be able to hate cruelty and oppression and rape and child abuse and I do hate those things and I it's an emotion it's a strong emotion that I feel but I don't hate people and I certainly don't hate people who are simply because they disagree with me politically but if you watch these these comments that people throw in they are dripping dripping in anger and hatred and I said on the stream that you can't debate you know these people will not debate they won't engage in an honest debate they will try to censor you and one of the ways will be through public humiliation which is part of which is being labeled a racist or a fascist or far right or bigot or hate monger oh you know pick one and just as if you know as if I aren't cute aren't cute you know I've said these people don't debate they won't engage in open discussion all they try to do is smear and attack and call you scary names and then shut you down and that is the that is the that's their their their portfolio that's what they do and as if on cue they start up popping up and saying the usual stuff with anger and with venom and I don't feel those that I'm not I just I would never lower myself to go on to someone else's stream and start spewing this nonsense again I I wish I wish they knew how much they they motivate me I wish they knew how much I understand that I must be doing something right when I get responses like this and people do you say to me after I get a tirade of hatred like this you say you are right you know you I it's so reinforcing to me if people like this are trying to shut you down you have got to be doing something right if they cannot and will not engage in the points that you're making and instead just throw names of angry vitriol around you've won you're winning you're winning and when they do this I know I'm winning and it reinforces my optimism and my confidence and all of that so please lefties keep it up keep making a public spectacle of yourselves it does nothing but make me feel stronger and reinforces the truth of what I'm saying because if you had any argument and response you'd use it you don't and that's the point okay and finish as I always do on these with my inspirational quotes I do love these this is from the book I do this every week as well words of wisdom inspirational quotes on I'm going to give you the full title inspirational quotes and thoughts on optimism success fear overcoming failure persistence and resilience that will change your life that's the name of the book info so we're on to number 28 it says here okay so we'll do three as we do this is from Aristotle onus it is during the darkest moments that we must focus to see the light you will see more of what you concentrate on that's why once you listen to a song it seems to be played on all the radio stations or when you want to buy a new red car of a certain type you suddenly see that car everywhere use it to your advantage you control your life experience by controlling your focus by controlling where you put your attention if you want to see more light focus on the light if you want to see more happiness focus on everything you can be happy about right now if you've fallen focus on your future goal and get up and go for it in the darkest moments focus on how you have overcome problems and have been strengthened by them focus on growth as you can probably guess i agree with every word of that it's not always easy in times like the times that we're living in and what a time to be alive when uh an mp on television can make a statement and make it sound like a statement of fact when it is never been debated the science has never been looked at the science has never been agreed it's not science has got no part in this and yet it sounds like a scientific fact and is presented as a scientific fact and you're not allowed to dispute it yet you'll be called a fascist probably what a time to be alive but it's not always easy in times like that when you are a truth seeker or a dissenter against the mainstream narrative but you've got to keep yourself you've got to keep yourself positive and it kind of chimes at what i've just said about the hate that and the vitriol that is thrown at me or was thrown at me this month was regularly thrown me but was thrown at me this morning on facebook it is such a it's it's it's it's such a an empowering thing for me because i know i know i must be on target if i am attracting that kind of vitriol from people who know they have no argument who know they can't defeat me in an open and honest debate so all they've got left is this and some of it is quite obscene and and you know decent person would behave like that in public i get so much strength from it and i think that's kind of in in tune with with that focus on on the positive even in the darkest moments okay this one's from brian tracy i confess i don't know who brian tracy is but it's a similar one optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other more than a decade of research in the fields of positive psychology and neuroscience confirms what brian tracy told us years ago we become more successful when we are happier and optimistic optimistic salespeople for example sell a whopping 56 percent more than their pessimistic counterparts although studies show that optimism can make ceo is 15 percent more productive they also have healthier teams that perform better but it doesn't stop there happy and optimistic managers can also improve customer satisfaction by 42 so yes learning to interpret events optimistically leads to much higher success and more happiness and it strengthens our biological and psychological immune systems optimists even live longer the best thing is that optimism can be learned i think that's quite a kind of obvious really if if a person i'm not suggesting for a second that any of this is easy but what's worthwhile isn't really easy and if you can find the silver lining i think it's obvious that you'll probably be more we're happier um and you'll enjoy challenges more undertake them with more positivity and more confidence and with that far more likely to succeed okay anatole france again i'm not sure who this is uh here's the quote to accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream not only plan but also believe if you want to accomplish great things then acting is not enough you must also dream the dream will keep you going when things become difficult but dreaming is not enough because dreaming alone doesn't get things done you must also act the best the best plan is not enough if you don't believe you can achieve it and believing by itself will not get you there if you don't know where you're going dream act plan and believe every single action by itself is not enough if one of the ingredients is missing now it then it will be difficult to achieve your goals it's the sum of the four that will get you anywhere i have since i started for britain i have maintained both in my own head and in speeches that if you don't believe you can do it you want you have to believe that you can achieve things and while it's easier said than done it is absolutely necessary to to be optimistic and to believe in things and i i'm going to keep going with this book the messages are similar but i think that they're the kind of messages that should be repeated over and over and over again and and repetition is actually how your brain accepts things through repetition it becomes part of your of your brain and your subconscious mind and then it becomes the foundations in which you operate so repetition is important okay and that's it for me for the season oh tonight i am on myself and future for britain meghan and alex are on wake up uk tonight at nine o'clock tune in if you can to that tomorrow i'm going to be filming a manifesto and policy video so there won't be any stream as i said on my live stream on monday because of the election things that have been weekly are now going to be fortnightly so like this video um the economics blog um the thursday night stream book review not giving any of them up but they are going to be fortnightly now to give me a little bit more time to to campaign and to focus a little bit more on but but things like for example i'm going to be producing a lot more policy output videos articles um live stream on facebook on wednesday mornings so be changing what i do for the next couple of months to focus a lot more on the election monday night's live stream will stay that's going to stay now permanently wednesday morning's stream will also stay permanently other things may come and go but these things that have become a bit of a staple of mine throughout the lockdown will become fortnightly instead of weekly to give me a bit more time to focus on campaigning okay that's it thank you very much for joining me join me tonight at nine o'clock on wake up uk uh and i shall see you on my live stream on monday take care of yourselves until then bye


Let's make sure we're coming at last. Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today, today is May 9th, 2022. And we're doing a soft-spoken whisper readings of trip reports found on earwid.org. That's earwid.org and I'll provide the links in the description of this video and I'm gonna grab the link right now and put it in the chat so people know where we're at and that's the main site for earwid. I thought it was important to do this because entheogens, psychedelics have been one of the main topics of discussion for our live streams and it's something that I've talked a fair bit about in the past. I think they're important for multiple reasons. One of them being that, as Robert Anton Wilson would say, we are coming out of the dark ages. Just adjusting the camera here a little bit. We are coming out of the dark ages, right? And prohibition on entheogens, plants, centralized control of human thought is ending. So I think it's important to open up the dialogue more. Oh my God, how are you doing? Monday evening chichotai, awesome, awesome. For me, it's Monday morning chichotai.  And if you've been following this work, you know we've done a fair bit of entheogen discussion. I think one or two videos have been loaded on censored tube, okay, YouTube. But they've all been loaded on chichotarumble and autosie. X, how are you doing? Long time, long time. I hope you're doing well. Welcome back, welcome back. Fun times. I hope you're staying staying safe. Interesting times, interesting times, especially your neck of the woods. So we've done a fair bit of these discussions. I think the top three videos or three of the four, three of the five top videos we have on Bitshoot, they're entheogen discussions. So there is a lot of interest there, as there should be. The videos on censored tube, I don't think whatever we have up there, I don't think they get too many views because shadow banning and censored tube doesn't permit such discussions. TJ, Carlos, how are you doing? Good afternoon, good afternoon. Lonely Piggy, how are you doing? You're doing well. Lonely Piggy, my snacks. Some soaked walnuts, okay. So soaked these in water and I put them in the fridge and I just keep them there in a fair bit at a time actually. And it makes it easier on the tummy. And soaked walnuts, chocolate chips. These are cooking chocolate chip. Ash, yep, how are you doing? You got a flat tire? No, no, I've had to deal with flat tires a little bit in the past. Together is fantastic. Really. So good. So good. So good. Is it very free these chocolate chips? No, I don't know. We do have some that are dairy free. But these ones aren't lonely. Piggy says walnuts are always great. I'm still on my apple phase recently. I'm up to about four apples a day. I can't stop. Also, what walnuts and apples go really good together. Apples and chocolate chips go really good together. And I don't think I've done it. I might have done it, but apples walnuts and chocolate chips together would be amazing. Again, the odds are we will not be loading this full live stream to censor two. Sorry. The censors don't permit it. When we load such stuff on censor two, we just lose subscribers up to Yang Yang. Like, really? So basically, censor two was telling us not to load these types of real life discussions that deal with substantial information on to censor two. So if you're watching this little short segment on censor two, the full live stream will be available on Bitshoot Rumble and Odyssey and the links will be in the description of this video. Actually, yeah, ever tried extremely spicy walnuts? Spicy walnuts? No. I used to prank my coworker. That's not cool. Actually, it's okay. It's funny. But as long as they don't have an ulcer, if they have an ulcer, you give them spicy stuff. They might not have a good time. And you might not have a good time either. Apples go with so many things. It's crazy. It's crazy. So good. G. J. Carlo. Me with bananas right now. La va la. I freeze three of them, sliced up the evening before and use them as toppings for oats and peanut butter for breakfast. Nice. Delicious. Delicious. I had some steel cut oats this morning with apples and some fruits. Bad lieutenant. How are you doing? Long time, long time. Yo, Chico. Just a couple to wake them up. People who have ulcers, you can't give them spicy food. Okay. It could hurt them. Be careful. Okay. And in my youth, I would have done. In my old, older age, I'm a little bit more cautious with people's health. Hey, Chico and Chad. Hello. Hello. Welcome to our live stream. Thank you very much for the follow. Flippy. Flippy. I can't catch the last part of it. I ate a lot of dried bananas. So good. So good. Good morning gang. If you want to know what this work is about, I'm on patreon.patreon.com forward slash you chose CHYCHO. For those of you that are supporting this work on Patreon gang, thank you very much for the support it is in large part because of your support that we're getting, having the opportunity to do this as well as the support that we're getting on Twitch. So gang, thank you for being here. Thank you for your support. Thank you for the follows. Thank you for the subs mods. Thank you for taking care of business. Flippy stream. Thank you very much for the follow and Hong Hong Clownie. How are you doing? Gang, we do have a sub stack page as well. And subscribe star page. You can follow the work there as well. Everything that's being loaded on Patreon is being mirrored on those blue platforms. But there's more content going on sub stack now because I'm transferring some of the information, some of the article, some of the other stuff that we have had done over the last 15 years online, if not more, no more 17 years online to sub stack because the censored platforms, technocratic platforms are deleting information. Ashley, is there a term for thinking positively but opposite tends to happen? I could think of some bad words. Dang, thinking positively and having the opposite happened. Shit is the fan, I guess. Linking big nuts. Thank you for the follow. Twitch gang. How are you doing? Mean clear bams. And gang, do not forget Free Assange, Free Assange, Free Assange, Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to be transparent in accountability of capital as power to humanity. For more information, see WickedList.org, DefendantWickedList.org or or Julian Assange on WickedList playlist on censored to the eddyg. How are you doing? It's been a bit since I've caught a cheecholive stream. Hope all has been well for you and yours, brother. You as well eddyg. And thank you for dropping by. Oh, yeah, the social I forgot to do it. I'll do it. I'm so far behind on things Elder God, a lot of things going on and Cheryl, welcome, welcome to our live stream game. We will and we do announce these live streams on Minesvk Gap, Parler Gitter and BitCloud 30 minutes 30 to 45 minutes an hour before we go live on Twitch. Okay, so you can follow the work there. Sometimes I do share additional information there as well. Teacher Carlo, what is the latest on Assange hurt that he might get sent back to the US soon? Now he might get sent to the US. It's not back to the US. As far as I know, Assange has never been to the US. That's the whole absurdity of the whole thing. He's not a US citizen. He hasn't been to the US. And basically, these neo cons that have committed tremendous amount of war crimes are reaching across the Atlantic and forcing a puppet regime in the UK to hand over a journalist for as a political prisoner to torture him further. And yes, he's closer to being extradited to the United States. Mission creep. Hey, Chico, I want to ask is investing investigative journalism dead for fear of persecution? That is one of the reasons that they are persecuting Julian Assange. Is it dead? No, not dead, but it has taken a brutal hit. And the reason it has taken a brutal hit is because of all the, all the other corporate propagandists, some people who are still confused as to what propagandists is and what a journalist is, still refer to these CNN, BBC, CBS, Guardian, Formpa, all of the corporate propagandists in the Western world mainstream. Okay, investigator journalism has taken a hit. Thanks in large part because of their compliance. Okay, because they have been bought and paid for 1000 times over. Some of the people that are in our society, we should hold most accountable for the state of the world. And where we are headed. Okay, kid you not. If this continues, we are headed down a very, very dark path. Are these talking heads on cable TV or corporate propaganda sites that are streaming? And these so called writers, which are again stenographers of the centralized power who have brought the state of the world to the brink, to the brink. Once it's all said and done, we need to hold them accountable for their crimes against humanity. My personal opinion. Patre, patre, patre, yo, chicho. What's good in the hood? Walnuts soaked walnuts and chocolate chip cookies, chocolate cookies, but chocolate chips. Mad Lieutenant, just a little aside. What do you think of rationalism? I look into it a little bit. But it seems to be mostly anti religion. I don't know what rationalism stands for. I haven't looked into, you would have to give me a definition of what the ideology, the dogma, the theory, the philosophy is. I'm bad with names. Teacher Carlo. Oh, okay, my mistake. I get him a Snowden mixed up. Yeah, yeah. Snowden safe in Russia. Crazy. Mission creep. Do you ever think we'll, we'll ever get a major whistleblower? Like Snowden or Assange? We saw how the US systematically destroyed Assange. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna get more. We're gonna get more. This is the last what we're seeing in the world right now again, is the last, last fight that these psychopaths that have obtained control of our societies have. This is their last battle. Okay. And it could be our last battle. But this is really the final battle for the future of humanity. We should pay attention and we should make sure we're on the right side and we're not apathetic. We're not stand on the sidelines and let the chips fall where they may. Because humanity is against a powerful force right now. And one of the things that we have to be able to break free of is the hypnosis that centralized power has put on society, which really connects up to entheogens, right?  And we should, we should make sure that we're privy to that information, right?  I don't even know if we're allowed to talk about what we've talked about so far on censor tube anymore. Really, you should see the stats whenever there's something going on. All of a sudden, boom, 50 subscribers gone. It's weird. It's weird. Gang, we will upload the audio of this live stream to SoundCloud.com forward slash chico, C-H-Y, C-H-O as a podcast, and this podcast should be available in favorite podcasting platform including Spotify, iTunes, and Google Play. And if you want to participate in discussions on a forum that we're active on, Gilded is where you want to be at. We used to be on Discord. I'm not really active on Discord anymore other than announcing uploads and live stream schedules and stuff. I'm not sharing any additional links on Discord because they are full censored platform now, but so far, Gilded, we can talk about anything we want, and that is what human beings do. Aside from that, if you're on watching this 15 minutes now, introduction on censor tube, link to the full live stream will be in the description of this video to Bichute, Rumble, and Odyssey. I'm gonna take these guys down.