All right, welcome everyone. I'm very pleased to have everybody here today for the next in our webinar series. Today we're going to be talking about Drupal 8th Multilingual APIs and building multilingual sites for the, or building websites in general for the whole world. This is a joint presentation between the Drupal Association and Lingotech, one of our major supporting partners. And we're really happy to have them with us today on the call. The host today will be Gabor and Christian Lopez, and we'll be going ahead and getting started. So I'll let them introduce themselves, and we'll start talking about the Drupal 8th Multilingual. Hi, I'm Gabor Hoichi. I work for Acquia in the office of the CTO. And I also was the multilingual initiative lead for Drupal 8th for four and a half years. Hi, I'm Christian Lopez, and I work for Lingotech. And I've been working with Gabor and other awesome people in the Drupal 8th Multilingual initiative. Yeah, so although this is a joint webinar between the Drupal Association and Lingotech, what we are actually presenting is the work of more than 1,600 people who contributed to the multilingual initiative. So we'd like to start with a thanks to everyone who contributed and made all these great features possible throughout the several years that we worked on this initiative. And the reason we started working on this is because people have been building multilingual sites for quite a while on Drupal, but the experience was very far from perfect. So if you start off with the Drupal 7th site to make it multilingual, there's a lot of components to consider. First of all, you need to be able to set up languages on the site, which is managed by the locale module. And that allows you to have a list of languages and also do some interface translation on the site. However, the interface translation itself works with files uploaded from your computer. It's very tedious. If you have 100 modules and five languages, you need to manually locate 500 files, download to your computer, and upload them to your website. It's very inefficient. So we built the localization update module that allows you to automatically identify what to download. It downloads them and makes them available for you and imports them. It works quite well. But that's a contributed module that you need to add. And that doesn't really go anywhere else. It just automates your interface translations. So if you want to also translate content on the site, you need to enable the content translation module. And the content translation module works with nodes. It creates copies of your different nodes and as it translates them. So you can translate your content, but your menu items for your content and your categories for your content will still not be translatable. So when you edit a translation, you will not be able to translate the menu item. So you also download and enable the IETN module suite, which comes with several modules, including features for menu translation, taxonomy term translation, etc. So that sort of gives you a lot more flexibility, but still all the emails that are sent out to your users will be in the site's language. They are not possible to translate with either of these modules. So you also download the variable module suite, which is also several modules that deal with the configuration on Drupal. And then that lets you actually translate the emails that are sent out to users in the site name, slogan, etc. But then you also have a store on your website or you use the rules module or some other module that is not using nodes for maintaining its content. So then you need to enable the entity translation module, which also comes with several additional modules like title module that are required for it to work. And then you have views installed on the site. And now you need to have the IETN views glue module. And now you have web form installed on the site and you need to have the web form IETN and glue module installed on the site as well. So it's compatible. So each component that you want to have on the site may need to have its own glue module or mapping module to support multilingual features. And that very quickly becomes a maintenance burden. There's a lot of components to juggle with to figure out how to configure. So one of the very key things in the Drupal 7 lingo tech module is actually making you able to locate these components and making it easier to configure the modules on the site in a way that makes sense. Because all the settings that you have here will be very hard to navigate. Especially once you have these modules installed, you have two ways to translate nodes, both entity translation and content translation can translate nodes. And you also have two ways to translate taxonomy terms, both entity translation and IETN translates taxonomy terms. So there's a lot of possible problems that can arise from this scenario. So all we wanted to do in Drupal 8 instead is to make Drupal natively multilingual and support multilingual out of the box. So every other module that you add on top, whether it's commerce or rules or views or web forms will already work in a multilingual system. So we built that using four pillars and these are four modules that you can enable in Drupal core. So we have the language module that maintains the list of languages on the site. It's a base service for all modules to deal with language and it also supports everything to store language information. So your views would know their language, your menu items would know their language, your user profiles would know their specific language. Your email text will know their specific language. So when you need to translate them, you know, what's the source language? It's not just useful for multilingual sites. It's also useful if you just want to deal with data that's multilingual, but not necessarily have the site interface as multilingual. Also, we have the interface translation module as a separate module now, which has automated translation downloads and the built-in user interface is much nicer. So it's much easier to touch up on translations and deal with customized translation strings. We also have a content translation module, which only resembles the 777 version by its name because it now uses a field translation based system. So it's configurable on the field level and in some cases the subfield level, as we will see on the discussion later on. And it supports any kind of content, including user profiles, rules, e-commerce, whatever you have on the site. So it's very forward compatible in terms of content entities in Drupal 8. And then we have the configuration translation module, which provides a user interface on top of course, configuration language and translation management capabilities. So we have built-in functionality in Core to manage language on configuration and to translate any configuration in the system, email text, views, field labels, et cetera, et cetera, in the same way. This is also forward compatible for whatever you have in your contributed modules. So let's start with language management. The APIs that we have for these are what's going to come up in the sessions. So for language management, we have the language manager service in Drupal Core, which you can globally access with slash Drupal language manager. But you can also just get it from the service container. So with the language manager service by default is implemented by the language manager class, which is provided by the system. If you also enable the language module, then this is replaced with the configurable language manager. But basically, regardless of whether the site has a language module enabled or not, you have a language manager that can deal with language. And even if you don't have the language module enabled, Drupal comes with three languages. The UND not specified language that is used for cases where you could specify a language, but you have no idea what to set. The not applicable language, which should be used for cases where it does not make sense to assign a language. If you have a photo of some scenery, does not have any text on it, that would be not applicable in terms of language. And English is built in to core. If you enable the language module, then you can delete English. And it can also add any number of configurable languages. In this example, I've added Hungarian and Italian. And these show up in your configuration system. So when you export your configuration on the site, you will see all of these as language.entity.languagecode.yaml. And the only difference between them is the ones on the left will be locked, meaning you cannot edit or delete them. And the ones on the right will not be locked, so you can delete them, edit them, et cetera, however you want. You can also use the API to create these languages. So you can use the configurable language class. And there's handy helper methods on the configurable language to make it easy to create new languages. So you say you create from language code FR, they will pull some default data from our list of common languages. And we'll set up the French language for you, and you can save that. And later on, you can use the same class to load the French language and delete it if you want to make whatever changes you want to that language. So if you need a specific language, you can load that specific language and use it. But if you want to use the language that was used for the request, then you need to go to the language manager, which lets you get the current language that was negotiated for the request. So this runs through all the settings that you have on the site, whether it uses the browser settings for language detection, or whether it uses the domain or the path, whatever, and gets you the language that should be used for this request based on those settings. And you can use this in your code to display data based on whatever language was selected for the page. So that's the basics of how you deal with language. But of course, the language module does some other things that will not go into that are more complicated. Let's go on to the interface translation system. So now that we can create our languages and load our languages and make any operation on them, and we can also know the negotiated language for the current page, we may need to translate or strings for user interface. So for that, if you are familiar with Drupal 7, we have the t function that we can pass a string and it will get translated to the negotiated language. And in Drupal 8, we have the same, but we actually should avoid it in most cases. Internally, there are a lot of difference and we are going to see some of them. So before that, we need to introduce a concept called dependency injection. So if for example, we want to send an email to our users from our administration interface, our logic should load the users we want to email. We need to load the configuration and the preferred language of these users. And then we need to call the translation subsystem for translating these strings. And for that, we need to know a lot about the global context or code is running. So instead, in Drupal 8, we are reversing the arrows. And we will inject all the services that we need, all the classes that have the logic that we need to call, like the user subsystem configuration and translation services. And we will call the methods on them. This way we can swap them out as we saw before with the language manager. We can swap the default core language manager and the language module language manager. And this also makes our code more testable, which is a nice side effect. So instead of calling T, what we are going to call is this T function with the same arguments that you used to. And we don't really need to define the T function in every class we are creating, but still we can use the string translation trade. And this will include the string translation service in our class and the T function. So we will call this T instead. Yeah, most base classes like forum base and other interface classes already used the string translation trade. So a lot of base classes, if you extend from them, will already have this available and you don't need to care for it. In case you need to define your own class for something and you don't yet have the string translation trade, you can easily add the translation services this way. And as we said, internally is quite different. So calling T doesn't return a string anymore. We get a translatable markup object. And we can call methods on that, like getOption for knowing which language we call this function with. And these strings will be only translated when the rendering is actually happening. So if we are altering forms in our hook form alter and changing, removing strings that are there, they won't be actually translated if they are not really rendered. So it's like a nice performance improvement to have if they are not going to end in the final HTML or the final page. And for format plural, it's the same. But in this case, it's been removed from Dupal Core. So now we need to call this format plural instead. And this is included in the string translation trade too. So if we are standing for form base or we are using the string translation trade, we don't really need to define it again. So from JavaScript point of view, as in Dupal 7, we will have Dupal T and Dupal Format Plural, and they work in the same way. And for our templates, we have two different methods for translating. In Dupal 7, we have PHP template engine. So we were actually including PHP code in our templates. Now we don't do that anymore. We have the trick templating system, and we cannot call any PHP code anymore. So we have two different methods for translating our strings. The first one on the top is a filter. So we can use the dance filter after a string, and this will call the defunction. If we want to have placeholders in our strings or we are using context, it's not really readable. So we have a better option, which is the dance tag in the bottom. And this way we include our placeholders and we can include any context that will be passed to the defunction. Yeah, these will be parsed by unlocalized at Drupal.org and by the POTX module, and these will be replaced by the placeholder items that you are probably or may be used to from Drupal 7. So they will end up in a very similar way as they were in Drupal 7, but the two-week side API is different. Another difference between Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 is hook menu is gone. So now for defining our root and our menu links, we have YAML files. In hook menu, we have to define the title in English and Drupal 8 will translate them for you. And we shouldn't use t there because they won't be cached properly. In Drupal 8, we have the YAML files. We cannot include code there. So Drupal 8 will know in these YAML files which properties we need to translate with special keys. We will need to translate. So we have the title here and the description for our menu links. And Drupal 8 will call the PIN function for us. And in the same way, the POTX module will take care of extracting those. And if we are downloading our translations from localizeDrupal.org, it uses the same method for extracting these strings for making them available to the community to translate for translation. So we said, we saw in how we can translate our strings in our modules. We can make our modules available for the interface translation module for translating. And as we saw, we have to define our strings in English still. And we can translate with the interface translation from English to any other language. And the next pillar is the content translation module. As we saw, it's not based on having copies of our notes for each language, but instead we will have a field-based translation approach. So any translation will be in the same entity. If we are creating our own entities, we will be probably extending from content entity base. And I think we need to define an annotation where we define the metadata of our entity. We can say the ID of this entity, we provide a label, and we can define if we want that our site builders can define this entity as translatable. For that, we have the translatable key on the annotation. And this will make that administrators can make these entities translatable. They are not translatable by default, but this is an option that our site builders can use. And for making entities translatable and tracking the language of these entities, we need a langcode entity key. So we need to define in the entity keys array, we need to define the langcode entity with a field that will host the language. If we define our base fields in the base field definitions method, and if we use this langcode and we ensure that we call the base field definition from content entity base, this field will be created for us. So we don't really need to do anything else. And as an example in our PHP base field definitions called the parent base field definitions. So this will create the language for our notes. And for any field that we have there, we can call that set translatable method, setting them to true. And this will make a title of a translatable field by default. So when we enable translation for notes in our content translation settings page, title will be defined as translatable by default, but our site builders can still change that if they want to. So for fields, if we are coding around fields, there are good news. So they will be translatable by default. So we don't really need to do anything for integrating our fields with the translation mechanism in core. Yeah, this is for a configurable field. So whatever additional fields that you put on entities would support translatability automatically. And also the other side of the previous slide where we've seen the title field, the title field itself does not need to do anything special for it to support translation, only when it's defined as a base field, we can define its default translatability. So if you have a single-value field, you don't need to. You define a new type of field that is single-valued in your module, then you don't need to think about the translatability consequences at all. That's all up to the site builder. However, if you have multiple values in your field, you may define your column groups. So you can have, like in this example, we have an image field where we have different columns, the target ID, which identifies the file that we have as an image, the width and the height of this image and the alternative text and the title. So here we are grouping our target ID or width and our height and we have a file group. And then we have the alternative text as another group. So if we want to make our alternative text translatable by default, we have to set the translatable key to true. And this way, when we enabled our field or image fields for translation or content translation settings page, the alternative text and the title will be enabled by default and not the files, but still the site builders can configure that. Yeah, so in this case, this is the subfield translatability that I was talking about earlier. In this case, the content translation module exposes these groups as settings for a field translation. So under the field, you can configure the file as a thing in itself to be translatable or not and the alt text as a thing in itself to be translatable or not, even though this is under a field. And then the content translation module maintains the right values for different translations based on the configuration of the groups. So there's nothing else need to be done for the groups to be able to operate just defining them in an annotation. So now we can use entity API for loading our content or content entities and we have also operations for managing translations here. So we can call node load for loading a node object and then we can call on this object, we can call different methods like get translation and passing a langcode will get this translation from for Hungarian or if we don't need a concrete language but we want to load the negotiated language for the page we can use the entity repository, get translation from context method and it will use the negotiated language for loading this node. In the same way, we have several other methods on our content entities like get and translated for getting the source node, the language method for getting the language object that this node is in or get translation languages for getting the list of available translations that we have or has translation for checking if a given translation exists and we can add translation, remove translation, any other code operation on translations themselves. And when you call get and translated or you call get translation with the language code you get an object that could be identically used like you have the node before so it has the same methods and everything so you can navigate around different translations and treat them as the same entity. We are using node as an example here but any other entity works, users, menu items, etc. So we saw the entity API is quite powerful but we may have not needed but we have views in core in Drupal 8 and language is also integrated into views. So for views has two main operations which is requesting data from the system and then rendering that data. So we have language integrated in both sides. So on the left we can define which data we are creating into, we are filtering in the system and we can use the translation language so we can filter by having a given translation language and then for the rendering we can specify the language we want to render our content in so we can filter all the content that has a Hungarian translation and then display it in German as an example. So we may not really need to use APIs, we may use views for building or pages here. So as we saw we can, with the content translation model, we can translate from any language to any other language and what we are using here are intelligent objects that we can call or methods and operations for getting all the translations. Alright so next up is the configuration language and translation support and as I've said before this is also all built into Drupal Core much like all the things that we talked about earlier and the way this works is we maintain language information on every piece of configuration that we have on the system. So when you look at the system maintenance configuration file for example this is the file in its entirety so you have system maintenance.yaml it has a message key that contains the text for what message should be printed when the site is set to maintenance mode and it also has a length code key that says what language is the file in all the stuff that is in the file. So this way we know that this setting is in English and then different configuration files could be in different languages so maybe the email text that you send out to users may be configured in Spanish and a view may be configured in French whatever you have set up on your site so then Drupal knows what source language it deals with and translates from there and the translation is maintained in a way that we are replacing textual keys in the configuration files with their translations so we needed to have a way to define which parts of the configuration files are translatable because there's a lot of other data in the files that are not translatable and we need to avoid messing with them when we are doing the translation so we have the configuration schema system to define the structure of configuration so we can look up what's translatable and the configuration schema system uses data types that are dependent on each other so at the bottom here for example we have the text type that is based on the string type which is a built-in type and is also translatable so we use the text type for whatever is translatable and we have the config object type which is an associative mapping and has one key that's defined as length code which is of type string so we are using these type pieces, these typing information to define the structure of our configuration files and we are going to use the config object type and the text type to define the structure of system maintenance so when we define the system maintenance file structure we say this is a config object type so it's an associative mapping that has keys and values and one of the keys that are defined in config object is the length code so that's already defined for us and we add additional mapping keys to this mapping and that is the message key that we want to add which is of type text and we also provide labels for the translation user interface for this structure information but basically the type text carries forward the translatability characteristic of the string and the config object carries forward the language code key that we define in the associative array so when the configuration translation system looks at this file it knows that the system maintenance is an associative mapping it knows where to take the language code from and it knows which keys are translatable in this case the message key so we can store the translations for them the way we store these translations is we have the base file in the configuration system as system.maintenance.yaml and then we have languages slash language code slash system.maintenance.yaml which is storing the translation for the keys that are translatable and have translations for themselves so in this case the message key is translated as whatever the Hungarian equivalent of the message in English and then the same applies for Italian as well we store it under directory languages slash id slash etc etc so when you export your configuration you get all of your base configuration and also all of the translations all at once the translations will be in subdirectories that you can identify and the configuration translation module is basically built to provide forms and pages to translate the main configuration files based on the schema information that we have of them it uses the labels from the schema and then it generates these files in the configuration system and then we use these files as overrides on top of the configuration so when a Hungarian version of system maintenance is needed we load the original configuration and load the Hungarian file on top and merge them together and then we have the Hungarian translation of system maintenance and what's special about the configuration system is language is not just one way that overrides may happen it's also possible that there are other types of overrides on the system there may be global settings PHP overrides there may be domain based overrides there may be time of day based overrides or organic groups based overrides or whatever other system you have on the site that could use configuration overrides so when you load the configuration from Drupal using either the config factory or the Drupal config method then all of the overrides will apply as appropriate for that point in time and when you get the message from that configuration object it will be the message of the override that win the race of being applied in priority order if you want to have a specific language version of your configuration that's maintained by the language manager so this is unfortunately much harder to do than with the content entity API because the language overrides are maintained on the language manager so you ask the language manager for the override language to store for later and then you set your own override language in this case Hungarian and then you do something with the configuration like send emails as we've seen before and then you set the config override language back to what it was before to restore the state it's not very nice to have global states like this but because arbitrary overrides are possible in configuration there's no way the configuration system would know of all the possible variants of overrides that may exist on the system but this is basically rooted from Drupal's history of allowing all kinds of configuration changes based on groups or rules or domains or other things so if you want to specifically deal with these overrides or certain kind of overrides then as I've said when you just call up the configuration object these will apply all the overrides and the strongest will win if you want to have the configuration object in its original version without overrides then the config factory service has a get editable method that loads you the raw original configuration and that has no overrides whatsoever it's also possible to save back to that configuration object because it does not have randomly applied overrides from across the system if you want to deal with the language override specifically once again you reach back to the language manager and the language manager has a get language config override method that you give the language code and the config key and then you can do whatever you want with that language override in this case set a different value for the message and then you can save it so this is very similar to deal with as a configuration object it's just stored a different place in the configuration system so the configuration API is not as nice as the content API because configuration is mostly just dump arrays they don't really know where they came from how were they merged etc because the whole override process is not transparent to the configuration object however this also allows you to translate from whatever language to whatever other language and it's a lot more flexible than content because you can have variants based on whatever else you want one more thing to note is that we have all of these features in core so you can have your languages managed your interface translated your content and your configuration translated but these use separate user interfaces and there's no integration built in with translation memories or no integration with translation service providers so that's a feature that contributed modules like Lingotek provide very well where you don't need to care for whether something comes from content or from your interface they make it much easier to deal with the transitability of your site so once again all the features that we've presented thanks to these 1,600 people who worked on these features for more than four and a half years and made all of these possible to work in Drupal core so thanks to them for their contributions I'd also like to thank Gabor and Christian for presenting today and we'll do a little bit of time for Q&A as well if anyone has any questions they'd like to ask about Drupal multilingual APIs about translatability please feel free to use the Q&A button in the webinar client or use the chat we'll take a look there in the meantime Christian would you like to talk about the ebook that's available while we're waiting for questions yeah so we have an ebook covering all of what we talk in this webinar it's free to download at the lingotech.com site we will be also sending the link to every attendee with their recording URL so yeah if there's something we didn't cover please feel to reach out or use the Q&A section awesome okay it looks like we don't have questions at this time so I just want to go ahead and say thank you one more time to all of our attendees who joined us on this next webinar in the Drupal Association series I want to thank Christian and Gabor again for presenting with us and I would love to thank Lingotech for supporting the Drupal Association and for being just one of the most important supporters in our program their leaders in the translation system and in cloud-based language management so I encourage any of the viewers who have translation needs to check them out and we actually do have a question or two coming in so let's go ahead and run through a few of those the first one from Rogi question about interface is there a way to set up different language for interface let's see that's most of the question here let me take a quick look different than language for I think it was meant for different than language for content so yes so Drupal Core has a built-in way similar to what NGD translation had to have separate language negotiation for interface translation and content translation so you can configure them separately and you can display some content that's in a different language from the interface if you have that requirement the next question is it possible to have, this is from Patrice Diocardo is it possible to have contextual translations so I think we would need some clarification on that but if it means for a short text that needs context like if you say view what word does that mean or that kind of stuff then that is possible the same way as it was in Drupal 7 so it's possible to provide in the format plural and the TAPI context information for the string we also built in context information so it's also in the JavaScript API and we also built in that possibility to the routing YAML files and the plugin YAML files etc and I believe it's also possible to have that kind of integration schema so I think all the ways where interface translation is involved we try to make sure that the contextual the context is possible to define so I think the answer is yes let's see next question, are entities saved as a new entity when translated? No, so each translation is host under the same entity so if you have content like a node in English and you translate it to French you end up having one node which hosts both translations so fields are translated but we still have only one entity with all the shared values between them the next question is are there any issues with translation and translation comments so since it's the same entity the comments are stored on the entity and they are filtered for language when you display them in a language but it's either configurable on the comment field display or it could be configured if you swap out the fields displayed to something else so I think I'm not aware that there are problems it is also possible to translate comments themselves by the way because there are also entities so if somebody has that requirement we've heard that requirement from a photo site where people were posting comments this is a multilingual photo portfolio site somebody had a requirement to translate the comments because they wanted to show activity in all the languages that they've had on the site so they wanted to have the genuine original comments trusted to other languages that was interesting so some people need that too okay let's see one more question here I believe this is our last question but I encourage our remaining viewers to please go ahead and ask their questions if they have them but this question is what is the situation with multilingual and paragraphs module in the past there have been some issues so paragraphs are internally safe as entities so you can translate your paragraphs they are referencing the principal hosting content entity so you can translate your paragraphs but you cannot translate the reference to this paragraph you have a note which has three paragraphs and you can translate each of them but you cannot reference like three different paragraphs I think there's an issue on Drupal.org for that there's people working on that but it has not been committed yet okay alright I'll give it one more minute because I don't want to cut anyone off it's clear but if we have any final questions please let us know alright it sounds like we're good to go so again I want to thank our viewers I want to thank our presenters Christian and Gabor I want to thank Lingotech for supporting the association and supporting the community and if you have further questions again you can learn about the multilingual initiative you can reach out to Lingotech to learn about their cloud-based language solutions or if you have questions about particular issues I'm sure the issue queues for example the paragraphs issue queues we'll have some information about that paragraph issue and at that time I think we're going to go ahead and wrap up thank you again everyone thank you goodbye


All right, now you remember we talked about the demonstrations in the Netherlands and indeed by farmers who were being required to reduce the amount of nitrate they produced which not only was going to involve a significant reduction in the amount of fertilizer they could use but also in the number of cows they could have which would result in the killing in the destruction of lots and lots and lots of cows. And in the Netherlands they actually organized a political party and I think they got the highest, the most votes in the latest parliamentary election. I haven't followed that to find out what the consequence of that are because I think that the actual mandate to reduce the number of cows was actually from the courts just upholding EU kind of mandates. So we'll follow up on the Netherlands story and try to figure out now that they have political power what are the farmers actually going to do, what can they do and what will they do to get around these ridiculous draconian insane requirements. Anyway this is this is spreading because as you know or maybe you don't know but one of the biggest creators of CO2 or maybe it's not CO2 but certainly of greenhouse gases are cows.  This is why so we don't grow so we don't cultivate cows so we shrink the cow population. This is why they they're big into artificial meat big into trying to genetically build create something that tastes exactly like beef even though it's not beef so there's a big push to try to get us off beef consumption of course good luck with that we are all beef eaters we love beef we eat a lot of beef pork you know we just eat a lot of meat a lot of red meat and and I don't think climate change is going to stop that I don't think anybody takes climate change quite seriously enough I mean some people do but it's small numbers of individuals most of us don't take it seriously enough to stop eating beef. So one of the things that is happening is that governments are imposing mandates on ranchers and farmers to you know to reduce the amount of cows that they have and the one following up on on the Netherlands is the Irish government Irish farmers are rebelling against a proposal the proposal by the government is to call tens of thousands of cattle a year and to kill cull is a nice word instead of to kill kill tens of thousands of cows every year for three years this is going to cost a huge amount of money hundreds of millions potentially 200 million euros cost a huge amount of money but it will reduce you know climate change numbers that is the amount of the amount of greenhouse gases that the country of island emits will be reduced significantly one question I think one should ask is you're going to kill tens of thousands of cow cows so that island can meet some what I would consider arbitrary target but what impact let's let's buy into the story of climate change let's let's pretend that this is all real not just climate change but the catastrophizing and the horror of it and the the emergency and the and the need to do it right now and the lack of technologies to suck in carbon but so we have to just stop producing it let's pretend we buy into all that well what difference is whatever island does make to the global production of carbon in the world island is a tiny little country five five million people it has 0.06 of the world's population it produces a tiny bit of carbon even with all the cows that it has in indeed it's a very rich country on a per capita GDP straight basis not adjusted for prices and stuff you know per capita is a hundred over a hundred thousand dollars um or GDP per capita over a hundred thousand dollars which makes it significantly richer than us um and in any other western country and and that's primarily because it has become a home to a lot of a lot of major corporations for tax reasons um you know island consumes a certain amount of electricity not that much even though it's very rich it doesn't consume a huge amount of electricity because there's just not a lot of people um so even though per person maybe they consume a lot they don't consume um they don't consume uh you know that much given particularly given their wealth wealth and consumption of electricity go together they don't produce a lot of carbon footprint so if you if you just took island to zero let's say you really you wiped out all the cows wiped out all the people I guess you you literally took their carbon emissions to zero what impact would have that on climate change well none none first of all it's just too minute of a quantity to make a difference to the to the effect right to the effect of of of the greenhouse gases and and second the reality is that more and more greenhouse gases are being emitted use of coal is going up use of natural gas is mostly going up use of gasoline in one form or another is mostly going up I mean there's some noise goes up and down last year gasoline went down a little bit but you know it's it's still below in other words it's level in 2019 but this year it's likely the consumption of gasoline is going to be higher than that in spite of all the electric cars so island is not registering it doesn't make any difference and nothing really makes a difference the reality is that gasoline production natural gas coal all of that is going up because the fact is that no matter how much the rich world decides you know to sacrifice for the sake of more expensive natural gas or more expensive coal or just suffer the consequences like in texas and other places of just having an unreliable grid because you know dependent on wind and solar and all of that stuff no matter how much the rich sacrificial west is willing to do that the rest of the world's not poor people are not not going to let you get away with that you know the less gas you burn the more gas they all burn they want to be rich like you they're not going to accept expensive electricity expensive power they're going to find every lump of coal they can and every piece of that every bit of natural gas that they can and they're going to try to use it to produce energy and electricity as they should because they don't want to be stay poor so all of these efforts all of these localized efforts are just futile and and and silly the world will continue to use fossil fuels as long as it's efficient and cheap to do so and it might not be efficient and cheap anymore in the west because we're taxing it and we're putting all kind of cobs on it and we're limiting it and we're destroying our capacity but it's still going to be efficient and cheap relatively speaking in third world countries if the russians can't sell gasoline to europe let's say because gasoline consumption in europe is declined which it hasn't but let's say it has then they'll sell it in india and they'll sell it in africa ultimately right people will buy because people want to get rich and solar and wind if you take out subsidies and you take out all the controls and you take out the the reliability the lack of reliability so you have to add batteries and all that far more expensive than than reliable good cheap reliable energy all right so lots of cows going to be killed in ireland we'll see if the farmer of bellion in ireland is similar to the farmer of bellion in netherland but it's just one little i mean the story in itself is not that important what's important is just this general tendency of people to just go nuts over over this issue of climate change no cost benefit analysis no real perspective on you know what they're doing and what benefit it has even if you take their assumptions seriously just arbitrary targets just shooting for those not really looking at the entire picture and then taking those most hysterical of assumptions seriously like and and and then destroying people's lives as a consequence i mean i wish people going to eat less beef drink less milk no they're just going to import it so africa will start producing more of the beef and more of the milk and they'll lower tariffs to africa so that they can import it from there because they don't you know so so they feel better they'll feel a little less responsible because their co2 emissions will go down now the fact that their co2 emissions go down will cause co2 emissions in africa to go up because they'll produce more cows and they'll feel better but nothing in terms of nothing real nothing in the world real in any sense even in terms of net carbon emissions is going to change unless people are really willing to eat less beef but i don't see any indication of that and by the way it's much cheaper anyway to grow food and to bring food in from africa to europe than to grow it in europe so generally the entire agricultural sector in europe should be wiped out not by government it should be wiped out by competition if europe lower tariffs to zero on agricultural goods africa becomes the bread basket of europe and not only does it enhance the economies of africa creed wealth in africa uh it it it also you know allows europe to restructure the economies in ways that promote their own um comparative advantage and increases wealth in that sense makes food a lot cheaper for europeans yeah a lot of farmers will be unhappy can't make everybody happy and you shouldn't that shouldn't be the goal of policy ever thank you for listening or watching the iran book show if you'd like to support the show we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me you get value from listening you get value from watching show your appreciation you can do that by going to iranbookshow.com slash support by going to patreon subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those uh any one of those channels also if you'd like to see the iran book show grow please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe press that little bell 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Greetings, friends. Welcome to CTUCC Conference Cast for May 22, 2014, the regular podcast of the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ. Whoever you are and wherever you may be on life's journey at this very moment, you are welcome here. We begin this week's conference cast with this meditation from the Reverend Tamara Morland, Northwest Central Regional Minister. In the 10th chapter of his second letter to the church in Corinth, the apostle Paul had this to say about how Christ's followers should live by a different standard. For though we live in the world, we don't wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power. A few days ago, I went to the public library with my 11-year-old daughter to complete a homework assignment. On the way to the computer lab, we walked past people reading books and magazines amidst the serenity that is unique to libraries. The computer lab was nearly unoccupied, so my daughter and I settled in. It took us a bit longer to get started as we had some trouble with the flash drive. We managed to solve the problem, but not before we noticed a man in the computer lab who was having an intense conversation. He was neatly dressed and well groomed and wore a blue cap that had USA on the front. My daughter and I assumed he had a cell phone or a Bluetooth device in his ear because his conversation was quite emphatic. After a while, I realized that he did not have a Bluetooth device or a cell phone. He had been in dialogue with himself about a variety of things, including war tactics. No wonder the computers in that area were available. It was amazing to me that this man, who did not look out of the ordinary, was in a world of his own. I'd wondered if this man had served our country and a branch of the armed forces in the not too distant past. If he was a veteran, what had he seen and what haunted him now? This encounter stayed with me longer than usual because it involved my daughter. It required a lengthy conversation on the way home and ultimately some bedtime prayer for the man in the library. As we prayed, I was reminded of a song I learned in my grandmother's church. I am on the battlefield for my Lord. This African American hymn is about life in Christ and spiritual warfare. Many followers of Christ are indeed in a battle over the gospel, religious freedom, full inclusion of all people, social justice issues, and equality for women beyond pay and the pulpit. Yet some of us have grown weary. Some of us are tired of fighting what seemed to be perpetual and cyclical battles. Some of us have laid down our weapons and entered a world of our own making. Some of us have become casualties of war, perhaps injured not physically but spiritually, and find ourselves far away from Christ who first called us softly and tenderly. Thank God our story doesn't end there. We, my friends, are an Easter people who are known for rising anew, worshipping God, and serving humanity. Here is a prayer for this week.  Amen. This is the sound of more than 100 youth and adults from all around the conference seeking renewal and finding it at the fourth annual youth revival last weekend at Dixwell Avenue, United Church of Christ in New Haven. Speaking on the theme of vitality, Josiah Strickland of Faith Church UCC in Hartford, and Lily Appleton of the Mystic Congregational Church UCC, spoke of finding strength in the face of bullying and in taking a cross-pacific journey to meet people from another culture. Associate Conference Minister for Youth and Young Adults, the Reverend Day McAllister said she had just three words for the assembly, and they were good ones. So if we want to be vital, if we want to be true, and we really want to do this thing called faith, I'm just suggesting that maybe, just maybe, we could pick up these, maybe just maybe we could agree today that we're going to be, and not just show up. Maybe we could agree today that we're going to keep it real. Forget faking the fall. Dr. Street said it the best way. Sometimes we're just going to have to be okay with it. Put a little dirt on it. If we're willing to do those two things, we'll experience in a new way starting today what it feels like to be both with and with children. That's the only two things me and my actual annual sky. Next year's fifth annual Youth Revival will be held at the First Congregational Church UCC in Bloomfield, and we've just published a summary video of the revival to our YouTube channel. So be sure to check it out at youtube.com slash ctucc. Last Sunday, the Summers Congregational Church UCC dedicated their fourth meeting house built in the 29 months after fire claimed their previous house of worship on New Year's Day in 2012. Let this be a place for gathering the people of God, they prayed. A place for proclaiming the gospel for word and sacrament. A place for bringing life and hope to us and to this community. We released a new edition of Vantage Point this week. Conference minister, the Reverend Kent Solati talked with the leadership team from clergy camp, celebrating that event in which 26 pastors and ministers renewed themselves last week with a couple days of prayer and play, rising to new heights on the ropes course and singing from the heart. Reverend Solati also interviewed Ann and Tim Hughes, Silver Lake's co-directors to learn more about that summer program and how it changes lives. Check it out. You'll find it online at youtube.com slash ctucc or on our own website at ctucc.org. We also have an essay on our website from the Reverend Dr. Robert LaRochelle, who has literally written the book on what it means to be a part-time pastor of a full-time church. As an increasing number of congregations call clergy on a part-time basis, he urges more conversation and adaptation to meet the special needs of those pastors and those churches. The full-time church with a part-time pastor is challenged to confront directly what all churches really must, he writes. What does it mean to be a shared priesthood of all believers, a faith community not relying on the minister to do minister things? This is the key shift that must occur as a congregation envisions the move from full to part-time ministry. You'll find more on these stories, including the Youth Revival and Vantage Point videos on our website. Plus these, Hartford Seminary presented an honorary doctorate to the Reverend Don Steinle, retired Executive Director of the Christian Activities Council at their graduation ceremonies last week. And you'll also learn about how we'll slow down the conference's communications ministry this summer as I go on sabbatical. To learn more, and to see all the headlines, you can always visit us at ctucc.org slash news. That pushes my buttons. A workshop on handling difficult behavior in ministry is May 28th in East Hampton, Massachusetts. The Connecticut Conference Choir, which includes you or anyone else who'd like to come and sing, will enjoy a musical retreat at Silver Lake May 30th and 31st. Learn about environmental hazards, keeping our churches and homes safe on May 31st in Deep River. An online book discussion, Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus, begins on June 2nd. And golfers, go get your clubs ready for the 8th annual Silver Lake Golf Tournament on June 3rd in Waterbury. You can always learn more about what's coming up in the Connecticut Conference by visiting us at ctucc.org slash events. We conclude today with this spirited Wednesday thought from the Reverend Eric Anderson, Minister of Communications and Technology for the Connecticut Conference. Things don't always go as planned, and that was true of this week's spirited Wednesday reflection. Sometimes a little more effort and a little prayer will cover the gap, but sometimes it takes more than that. Sometimes renewal and revival cries out for nothing less than resurrection. And so Jesus' assurance means so much to me. I will not leave you orphaned. I am coming to you. And that brings this conference cast to a close. Thanks to Tamara Morland for her reflection and to GarageBand for our music. Primary funding for conference cast comes from your congregation's gifts to our church's wider mission, Basic Support, changing lives through the United Church of Christ. This is Eric Anderson, the Minister of Communications and Technology for the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ, praying that your days this week may be filled with the presence, the guidance, and the grace of God.


Hello, my name is Ginny Schuster, and this is an installment of Longmont Public Media's Candidate Interview Series. I am here with Ron Gallegos, Candidate for Longmont City Council, Ward 3, running against incumbent Susie Hildago-Ferring. Hello and welcome, Ron. Hi. You'll have time for a summation at the end, but since our time is limited, I'm going to get started right off with the question number one. Very good. Number one, if you are elected, which is the biggest issue you want to address? And is that issue actually within the control of City Council, or is it something that requires a ballot measure or state-level action? What I'm really interested in is a comprehensive approach to economic planning for business and for mixed residential building. We have a study that the City had done, the North Corridor and the South Corridor, and then in the middle is the current Main Street. My plan is to talk about development on the North End, talk about development on the South End, and then close the Main Street from 3rd to 9th, reroute the traffic, and work with the state. This would have to be to change the designation of 287 from Main Street to Airport Road, because Airport Road is oversized and very underutilized. With that said, eventually we'd have to work with the county to try and get a link from 17th around the lake to get to 66th. If you did that, I think you would begin to address a lot of the major traffic congestion issues downtown, because a lot of this traffic is going east. A Bertha, Cheyenne, Fort Collins, Montana, I don't know, but they're not coming here and they're not shopping here. That's good. They're going someplace. They're going someplace. They're not here. All right. Well, I don't have a question, follow-up question to ask you about that, so I'll move on to question number two. There are several safety and crime reduction measures that the public has asked for, such as vision zero, restoration justice, and increasing the police force. Which of these solutions do you think are effective and what else should City Council do? In my discussions with probably over 300 people now that I've been walking, at least in Ward 3, the big issue is traffic mitigation. A lot of these streets are residential streets and, for instance, North Spencer is taking a lot of traffic, big trucks, 18-wheeler trucks, going through a residential neighborhood. When you could easily use Francis, which is oversized, has no driveways of budding. So little kids and people aren't trying to back out. So the neighbors I've talked to, their big issue is really traffic mitigation. They want some bumps, humps, whatever you want to call them, and some roundabouts. People near the park have expressed the same concern. Even though they have some bumps over there, they need more, in terms of signage, to get people across the park. So they're asking maybe for flashing lights or something. If not, a stoplight. Okay, well, what's your thought about increasing police force? I think we could better utilize the police force. I don't know if we need to really increase the numbers. Okay. If you look at the budget, which I haven't passed, the largest percentage of the budget is for personnel. And when you add a police, when you're not adding a salary of, say, 50,000 or 60,000 a start, you add a salary, you add a car, you add vacation time, you add pension time. So when you fully load that FTE, you're talking about 100,000, 120,000. So in order to get 10 additional police, we may have to spend a million or $2 million. So I would say that we would need a time and motion study to see if we could better utilize what we have today. Spending more money is not always the answer. Do you think that we have a crime issue here in Longmont? Crime is one of those things that's kind of relative. If you talk to folks in Longmont, some of them say, yeah, we have a crime issue, and then I talk to other people who've lived in the town for 40 years and say, no, we don't. We may have a traffic issue. We may have accommodations that have to be made in terms of the major thoroughfares north and south, east and west and whatnot, but that isn't a crime issue. Yeah, there are isolated pockets of crime that we have to deal with, but I don't think we need to buy tanks and a hundred more officers, you know. Hmm. I'm glad you feel that way. Let's move on to question number three. What is your vision for the future of Longmont's transportation network of vehicle streets, sidewalks and multi-use paths? I can see that you're big on transportation, so this is a good question for you. I think we need to have a fuller discussion of transportation. That may mean we do a charrette community-wide and get everybody to talk and come in and talk about what their needs are and what their concerns are. If I talk to the neighborhoods, it's traffic mitigation. If I talk to bicyclists, it's access to trails and sidewalks and whatnot. If I talk to walkers, it's dogs and bicyclists. Everybody has a host of issues. So I think the only fair way is rather than a top down, really I think we need to do a bottom up and get the citizens involved in what they want and develop a real new traffic pattern. That doesn't mean we don't have to address the physical infrastructures, streets and whatnot and traffic patterns as I alluded to earlier. Do you have a good idea of how you could involve the community a little bit more and get input from people? When I was on the council and we built the rec center and the museum and did the senior expansion, we did have a community-wide charrette.  And then people are recording, staff is recording their observations and then people have a chance to make comments too as to their desires and needs. So I think that's what we want. We want a full hearing on the part of the community. I like that. Good idea. Okay, question number four. The high cost of housing makes it difficult for service workers to afford to live in Longmont. Do you believe that they should be able to? How do you believe it would impact the lives of current residents if they could? Up until the last maybe 15 years, Longmont used to be a net importer. In other words, people came here to go to work. Now we're a net exporter. So people are leaving to go to Denver and Broomfield and points south to go to work. There are some people I knew who were driving in from Cheyenne to go to work on a daily basis, which is insanity. I think there's a tremendous opportunity to do two things. Two, again, address the needs of the commercial and retail and also housing. So we need to get out of the mindset that the only kind of house we can have is a single family ranch style house. We need to go up and really, I mean, people have always been opposed to it. But I think, you know, there is a place for moving multi-story buildings in existing commercial areas and beginning to change the nature of those areas so that people are living and working. You would have retail on the bottom. The next maybe three or four floors would be residential. You could also at that point have a set aside for a working affordability. We're not talking about homelessness here now. We're talking about the people you were addressing, people who are in the service industry but can't afford to live here. We've sort of priced ourselves out of the area and the environment. Two things, two positive things, but the county's open space program and the city's open space program, which means that we don't have additional product. And now I'm talking about land in which to build. And when that happens, you're seeing houses in 1985 went for 45,000 that are going for 400,000 and the nature of the house hasn't changed. It's still the same house. So we really need to address that. But if you did some infill on the north end and some planning on the south end, we could begin to change the nature of the community. You just have to look what happened at Denver when they suddenly started building, you know, they're building skyscrapers. Yeah. But some of those condos go for a million, two million, three million dollars. Ooh. Yeah. So I'm suggesting is maybe we can get some moderately priced.  Now, would they, the people own those? Yeah, I would. Yeah, these definitely would be as opposed to rent. Yeah. No, there's a lot of rental activity going on. Yeah. But I think in order to change the kind of course of the community, we need to begin to get housing for people who will own and live here. That way they can build some equity and then move up and whatnot. Okay. Great. And now we're going to move on to your question number five. And that is about the three ballot questions on November's ballot. Now, we'll go over each one of them one at a time. And what I want to know is, do you think that the public should support each of these and why you feel that? So 3C is the new branch library and library funding. Let me say this. I'm an advocate for building the rec center with a component of a branch library, a bench, police station, meeting rooms in an auditorium and garden acres. We wouldn't have to buy additional real estate. We could incorporate that 25 that they're talking about for a branch library and do it there. Northwest is severely underserved in terms of recreation, in terms of policing, and in terms of the library. So if we can incorporate all this into a site that would lend itself to a larger multi-story building, plenty of parking. It wouldn't disrupt the park. It wouldn't disrupt the ball fields and I think would be an added benefit. So I'm not positively predisposed to the existing proposals because I don't think enough planning went into them. I don't think enough buy-in went into it. And the city was kind of, again, a top-down approach delivered a bill of goods. And I don't think we understand the implications. And from my perspective, there is a rec center in south right now, but southeast, not southwest. There is nothing in northwest. And I think we've been talking about at least a northwest a branch library and we would like some kind of a police substation. Interesting. Okay. Good response. 3D, Arts and Entertainment Center. I'm a little cool to this. And that's because Arts and Entertainment Center are like golf courses. They're red lines. They're cost-casters. You never make any money on a golf course. You're never going to make any money on a city-wide swimming pool. These are services for the community. So if you wedded the Performing Arts Center to a convention center, convention centers usually are in the black. In other words, they make money. I think my vision is the long watch should become an end destination, a tourist destination. We are so close to the park. We're so close to the university's CSU really. Boulder, we're centrally located. Boulder cannot take one more person in their convention array. So we ought to take advantage of that because if we don't, Loveland will. Interesting concept. So we'll move on to 3E, Recreation Facilities. I think you've heard my argument there. It really ought to be built at Garden Acres. Because I think there's some efficiency. We wouldn't have to buy real estate. And we can also then incorporate the library as well as a police substation. Maybe an auditorium and meeting rooms too. And would you involve, say, the community to get input from them? Definitely. Because the last thing we want to do is build a big rec center and find out that the community didn't want it. There are probably elements in the community, and I know because I've talked to some, who say, well, I kind of like the rec center, but I like the park being passive and green. Okay. Well, everybody's got to make a choice, right? Then I read, talk to 10 people who say, no, we need to have a rec center in Northwest. So can you give us an idea of how you would involve the community to get their input? Okay. And I would use the charrette model. Get people to sit down and sit down with the architects and the planning people and say, this is what we propose it look like. This is what the building would look like. I was involved a while back in, I won't say the site, but the architects came in with this horrible rendition and it looked like a milk carton turned on its side. Well, unfortunately it was next to a historic church. So you really needed to mitigate the design of the building to fit within the neighborhood confines and they weren't doing that. Consequently, that project never went any place because the neighborhood really opposed it. Was that here in Longmont? Yes. Oh, that's all I'm going to say about. Okay. Well, that's all I'm allowed to ask and respond anyway. So I'm going to give you the rest of the time to do a summation. Pretty good. I think the council right now is short of people who have a lot of business experience. I was a line manager, a process manager for US West for 18 years before I opened my own mortgage companies, residential and now I'm a commercial mortgage broker. So I think there's a need because I talked to the business community and they feel like they're shut out. Right now, the composition of the council is really heavy on educators or heavy on retired people. So I think we need to begin to change the composition and we need to really maybe look at these positions more as full-time positions and compensate them appropriately rather than part-time positions because right now, you get some councilmen, council people who are really pitching and really doing a lot of constituent work and there are other council people that you can't even get them to attend coffees. They feel like their charge in life is to make policy and after that they don't really want to do anything else and it's a different approach. But I think a more comprehensive approach where council people did more case management, solve some of the problems of the neighborhood. Right now the impression I'm getting from the neighbors that I'm talking to is that City Hall is not listening to them. They've never met their elected council person in four years and those that have tried to contact the existing structure have fallen on deaf ears. So the city is really the citizens. It's not the staff, although I think the staff does a good thing, but they are not the city. The citizens and their needs and desires and sales tax they pay, that is the city. So I think from that perspective I would bring it a good match. Plus previously I was on the council and when I went on the council, I had 10 things that I wanted to accomplish. I accomplished seven of them. Wow! One was next light, one was Sandstone Ranch. The museum had had three previous ballot proposals that all failed. So we were able to come together and come with an approach that we did a new museum, did the expansion of the senior and did the rec center. Additionally, there is the whole next light thing, which I think has been a real positive success. Everybody I've talked to likes it. So I think those are the things we can do if you've got a thoughtful, mature, experience leader. I guess my take right now is we get a lot of people running for council who've never been on the planning commission, who've never been on the library board, who've never interacted with the police. So it's going to be hard to make policy in areas that you don't understand. It only stands for reason. Yeah. Good point. Well, thank you, Ron, very much for all your responses to all these questions. I'm Ginny Schuster, and I'd like to thank all of you for watching Longmont Public Media's Candidate Interview series. Thank you.  What if they want to come and deliver an address to the council? They're not allowed because it's not residence. I just think that's wrong and we should be valuing the input of everyone who wants to speak to the council. Well, thank you for your responses, your thoughts on this issue. And again, voters of Longmont, I'm Faith Halverson Ramos speaking with... Can I get my website? Yes. Website ethandforlongmont.com. Got lots more information on all these issues. I really tried to take a thoughtful and comprehensive approach to the issues. And I hope that you go to my website ethandforlongmont.com, check out my ideas and vote for me if you think that may need change in the city. Excellent. Thank you. So again, this is Faith Halverson Ramos speaking with Ethan Ogreen, candidate for mayor. And thank you for watching this installment of Longmont Media's Canada Interview Series.


Good morning. My name is Andrew McIntyre. I'm Dean of the College of Asia and Pacific here. Let me begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land, the Nungalwal people, and pay my respects to their elders past and present. It's a great pleasure to have people here joining us for this first Mongolia update. Let me welcome, because we've got people not just from the university community here with us today, but people from across the lake, from other cities, and let me especially welcome people who've come here, of course, from Mongolia today. This is quite a special initiative for the university. As many of you will know, this is the largest collection of scholars dedicated to work on the Asia Pacific region in any major research university in the English-speaking world. And people know us for our big concentrations on work on Indonesia, on Papua New Guinea in the Pacific, on China, Japan, India. People don't know us yet as much for our work on Mongolia. And what we're signalling here today is that we're making a stand on Mongolia. That the university is getting behind this and supporting, on an ongoing basis, scholarly inquiry into those sorts of issues relating to Mongolia's past, present and future. A first step in this direction was the establishment of our Mongolia Institute just recently. A next step in this direction is this inaugural Mongolia update. And there are more things coming. For example, we are now committing to offer Mongolian language. As anyone who knows anything about the business of universities, and in particular the business of language instruction, it's really expensive. We're doing this, we can make this possible through some creative work of colleagues of mine in collaboration with our counterparts at Indiana University in the United States that has significant expertise in Mongolia and Mongolian, and we're doing some collaboration with them to make this possible. There are there's all sorts of things one could say about the exciting program that's ahead of you today, but I won't burn up time on that. It's a strong mix of speakers and a great mix of topics. But what I should do is pay tribute to a number of people who've played a key role in making this possible. In particular, I'd like to acknowledge his excellency, Mr. Upton Bold, the ambassador for Mongolia, who will be speaking to you in just a moment. Ambassadors, high commissioners are often important for events like this, but I'd like to pay particular tribute to Mr. Bold, both for material support that the embassy has given to this update and material support for our introduction of an intensive Mongolian language program in our summer school program, but more broadly for, I guess, his leadership, energy and and activism around the Canberra community and engaging with the universities and others in bringing Mongolia just more and more into the collective consciousness of this city and this country and the wider discussions of regional affairs. So particular tribute to Ambassador Bold. I'd also like to acknowledge others who have contributed resources, financial resources to make today's update possible. Our School of Culture, History and Language, our Crawford School of Public Policy, two of the schools that make up this this big college of Asia and the Pacific and the college itself have all put in resources to make this possible. So thank you to all of them. But if I was to single any one person out for special tribute, it would be my colleague, Professor Lee Narongoa. If it wasn't for Narra, this just wouldn't be happening. There's lots of people like me that say, Would that be good to have an initiative on Mongolia or this, that or the other thing? It takes someone like Narra to really pick up an idea and run with it and put in their personal time and energy, inject their own individual, intellectual vision for it and to build the networks and the alliances and the collaborations that are needed to bring people together. So I particularly want to thank Professor Lee, pay tribute to her and on your behalf, wish her great success, not just in making today go well, but in keeping this whole venture pushing forward. I mean, deans can be useful in the background, clearing a bit of obstacles and that sort of thing. But you need individual academic leadership for something like this to work. And Narra, we're grateful to you for it. Let me stop there, otherwise I just go on and on with propaganda. And let me invite Ambassador Upton Bald to also make some opening remarks. Ambassador. Thank you, Andrew, for your nice words. I'm the Bald, my name is the Bald. The new ambassador to Mongolia to Australia. Bald means not this one, but Bald means strong and steel. So good morning, everybody. Let me express my deep appreciation to the Australian National University, particularly to the School of Asian Pacific, Dr. Andrew McFanty, as well as to the School of the the history, language and the culture to the professor, Dr. Professor Breacher, Villal and other prominent people from the Australian National University who make possible today's our first ever conference Mongolia update. It's a wonderful opportunity for us to promote and advocate Mongolia throughout Australia. The Mongolia Institute, as Andrew mentioned, was impossible without Professor Narangwa. So my deep salute to Professor Narangwa and the behalf of our delegation who come to this conference. And thank you so much for your contribution. Yes, and the bilateral relations between Mongolia and Australia is growing faster in the last couple of years. And last year, the Mongolian Prime Minister visited Australia for first time and we made for first time the bilateral joint statement which said, Mongolia and Australia, we had the common strategic interests in the Asia Pacific region, namely the stability and the sustainability. So it's very important points. So far, the two countries emphasised on the development of the bilateral relations in the three basic areas. First is education, then agriculture, then mining. Now we're going to add to this three basic cooperation. The fourth one is peacekeeping field, peacekeeping operation. Yes, and second half of the 2012 was very rich in the bilateral relations, too. In the end of August, the large number of the Australian parliamentarians visited Mongolia, led by the independent member of the parliament, Windsor, all the five members of Australian parliament visited us. Then the Honourable Bob Khan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Australia visited Mongolia. In the middle of September, we celebrated the 40-year anniversary of the establishment of official relations between Mongolia and Australia. The two Prime Ministers exchanged very good, strong greetings which indicated that both sides are very energetic to put forward our bilateral relations. And just in the last week, we finished a first-ever visit of the chief of the Mongolian armed forces to Australia. Also, we agreed, as I mentioned, to start a cooperation in the peacekeeping field between our two countries. And what is an agenda of the ambassador to Mongolia to Australia? Yes, we are thinking a lot of things. For instance, we are thinking to start a possible chat-of-flight by the Qantas from Australia to Mongolia and back to Australia. We are already talking about this one. Second also, we are looking for the opportunity to help the bilateral Mongolian-Australian-Australian-Mongolian business council to be established. Also, we are looking for the next year to have the festival, the biggest exhibition overseas by Mongolian traditional museum called Zan Bazar, be opened in Sydney in November of next year. It will be the last three months, which will bring from Mongolia, Mongolia will consist of the very unique items. So we hope we will be able to run this exhibition in the next year. Also, the companies based in the western Australia state are looking far to organize the biggest Mongolian day in the next year in the Perth and the western Australia because of this mining movement in the above countries. So there are a lot of things in the agenda, but we need the big efforts to do. Then I would like also to point out at least four points which our Mongolia Update Conference concites. First is, Australian interest in Mongolia is growing very much. So far, according to Mongolian statistics, at least 95 Australian companies are registered in Mongolia as investors. So far, they made around 85 million US dollars investment in the Mongolian economy. I am not counting the real-time investment which is around 2 billion US dollars investment. Also, the most Australian who are interested in Mongolia looking for some business opportunity, looking for some business partner are growing very much. In the last year, 4600 Australians visited Mongolia and according to the statistics this year and the first 10 months of this year over 5,000 Australians already visited Mongolia so far. So we have very great potential which is not attached in the bilateral relations. So the question is we are ready to embrace these Australian growing interest in Mongolia. So probably this question will be answered by our colleagues who just arrived yesterday from Mongolia. Secondly, the changes are taking place in the Mongolia's external environment. Now we have the new leadership in Russia and now we are going to have the new leadership in China and we expect somehow the new approach from our two neighbours to the Mongolian government and the Mongolian question. So how we should keep on in these new circumstances our neighbour policy and the feather. The next point is just the Australian government. Two weeks ago the Australian Prime Minister launched the new White Paper called Australian Asian Century. It's just the Asian community received so well this White Paper. Many Asian leadership countries are very excited about this new launch of the White Paper because Asia is not only ready to embrace Australia but Asia is already with Australia for many times. Now Australia's good news is considering itself as part of the Asia Pacific region finally. And then the next point is just June of this year that we had the new election in Mongolia so the result of the formation of the new government. And next year also we will have the presidential election very soon also we will have the local election in Mongolia so a lot of elections and a lot of questions and a lot of expectations. Then many people approached me saying uncertainty in Mongolia and what happened to the Sarah Armstrong Australian citizen. Frankly say now I had it but just I'm scared now to turn the pages of newspaper in the morning last two weeks frankly say. So the many, many questions will be answered I hope also to bite our colleagues. Just last week Mr. Smith, the CEO of the ANZ Bank told me in Melbourne when we met the ANZ Bank is ready to open its office in Mongolia but when tell me Ambassador when I'm going to office when your uncertainty is gone his question like this. So many, many business community asked me such questions but what mean uncertainty? There is some gap between the understanding regarding the uncertainty in Australia and Mongolia so probably our colleagues also will answer these questions to you. And finally I cannot miss to point out a number of points. First the Australian National University is one of the place in the world of the Mongolian studies and we have to salute to the doctor Igor Rakavits who is one of the founding members of the international Mongolian studies in the world who used to work at the Australian National University who is still there. Second is the Mongolia Institute was launched is very good news for us so it's first year at the conference Mongolian update it's not last one it's why the Embassy will do its best just to cooperate with the Mongolia Institute so taking this opportunity also let me make a statement that the Embassy will provide the Mongolia Institute the next year with the first small contribution 10,000 Australian dollars to promote its activity in the next year, yes so I'm happy to make an announcement to the professor and I don't worry about this one. And finally thank you so much for your attendance at this conference and I hope it will get a good time today and after the conference I invite all of you to join the small reception and a cocktail drinking if you survive the whole conference. Thank you.


ok at the system itself it is based off of a term called usury are you familiar with usury me yeah oh yeah absolutely yeah it's the in fact you spoke of it at the end of session with julian and the pleiadians uh just on the weekend and i and i another amazing session actually because it was very interesting to see how that term played into the situation that was unfolding usury is a scenario where a group of people create a propaganda system that other people like you know a cult of personality on a mass scale they'll create a propaganda system that other people put their belief into and then two three or four generations afterwards that belief has no idea where it came from and everyone is in that belief system and that is what our system is usury they created a system and told us it was real and anyone that was saying during that time that wasn't real was killed well so a few million people died a few thousand hundred thousand years ago but since that time anyone that challenges it has to challenge a belief system and not the actual usury spirits the sole contract removals that you were referring to go directly to the usury spirits okay so pulling out are you saying that you don't have to pull out of all physical contracts you can that is a a different step for individuals that are in debt enslavement or have been taken over by that or stuck in the courts that is a good way to go but it's an individual's choice on an individual basis because one person's pleasure is another person's pain you know let's say you're starving and don't have a credit card to go and get yourself some food what are you going to do exactly there's a price and they need shoes to go back to school and one of the other kids shoes have a hole in it you're going to go and get shoes right absolutely so that has to be a practical understanding when you're removing yourself from the system you're starting at the energy harvesting systems when you're creating in a spiritual court of equity it's to declare that your ancestors are free too when you do this when you declare yourself free of that system you get a tremendous amount of energy returned to you and what i've been noticing is so many people that read this the contracted revocations have a this a massive awakening they go and listen to other shows they begin cleaning themselves with saltwater bass or learning liver cleanses or so on and so forth and they get onto the practice of being themselves that's the most important thing to get out of those contracts this is a consciousness awakening phase there's no monetary act that will actually change the system there's no actual physical thing one can do to the system itself through paperwork that can change it unless there's a mass scale um you were talking about the one people's trust documents the energetic documents that so many people have you know great respect for you know a thousand people can make energetic documents but when you have a million people behind a single document properly worded that goes into a system where everyone that has been put their energy into that document has done contract revocations to the system you are literally putting a poison pill into that system yeah it's ten andrew it's always been about the numbers ultimately and in the end i believe there'll be a physical exit from the system on a mass scale that would be the final the final plan like a furniture's blowout sale furniture company blowout sale you know they have those advertisements 99 off on everything in the store come tomorrow or you lose it all it's going to be like that you know am i am i sitting my words in stone well the universe has some very strange things up its sleeve all right i talked about in some of the other shows what will what will take over the system and that's the sentience of earth it'll begin to function through all physical transactions of exchange for value so there will be no corruption and no scamming no more Nigerian princes no more emails that tell you about four hour erections for thousand dollars that all comes to an end because any nefarious scamming energy that is trying to steal your energy without a proper exchange is going to be overseen by the earth and those energy beings that continue to do that will be removed from the system of money and they won't be able to function with it and they'll be asked to leave the world interesting interesting and you actually said a couple of pivotal things the practice of being yourselves and and service to nature to me these are these are one and the same thing and i and i i saw that on the weekend there the the people were actually being human and being themselves and i may have said this during my my putting forth of my ideas in that's in that webinar the other day that one of the things that hasn't been seen on this earth for a very very long time it's human beings being human beings because we've been turned into something else by the system that's what i look forward to most of all because it was an absolute pleasure to see everybody being authentic humans on the weekend exactly authentic humans you know you know they started this 40-hour work week thing they started you know the unions the everything that's in between it and it was about taking the family structure away and as they took the family structure away the individual structure was radically changed we've uh before when we were talking about what the heck happened in the 20th century and how the collegiate systems were hijacked well it was all to take the individual's power away and now it's uh it's being returned and it's being rit it's actually being reclaimed by us by individuals the world has been changed by pitchforks and torches for the last 100 000 years yep well uh we may not need to actually use the pitchfork pitchforks and the torches but you can make signs that a pitchfork and one has a torch exactly exactly it's a big sign a big pile of people carrying signs with pitchforks and torches on them makes it makes your point known yes and it's actually using the same technique they love to use in symbology right symbols have power right symbols have power you know one of the other things that came up on the webinar this this weekend with julian was um the usery spirit as well as the communications of the different cultures in unity consciousness example you have a pleidian bacterium so on and so forth you know five thousand three hundred and eighty three different unity conscious worlds well none of those five thousand three hundred and eighty three worlds are in a singular unity consciousness they're all separate unity consciousness worlds and that's the next area that the galactic historian is going to be focusing on there was a previous time in our history where these worlds were in a semi-unified state of being where many of their their higher higher and multi-dimensional beings became part of a network system where all these planets were were linked into one massive unity consciousness system so you're saying that the as i recall from the webinar that earth has the capability the planet has the capability to actually form the hub for a for a unified consciousness between unity collectives correct that is absolutely amazing that's what i've been working on that's what i've been working on in the higher planes the last four days um there was a an incident about 10 days ago that i haven't spoke about privately or publicly other than to very very few people and there was a series of consciousness first strike events that happen and i say the term first strike because it has a military tendency in it and you've heard me describe how one person in time travel does one thing somebody comes and erases it and somebody comes erases that and so on and so forth um there were 10 days ago there was a massive event worldwide were over those over 250 000 separate timeline incursions spread all over the world and uh everything got altered back to roughly the way it was and what they're trying to do was eliminate um whistleblowers that were coming up in the future timelines that they were seeing three five or seven days ahead of time rush and then massive counter to it and then there was these interdimensional unity conscious weapons that were used to try to spark unity consciousness on a global scale and then those devices were countered and what would actually happen was a massive paradox stalemate and that's why so many people in the last 10 days have felt so awkward another paradox has been added to them and this is actually forcefully awakening even the most sleeping people right now wow everything due to make to change it makes it worse and earth has begun begun her expression to all the galactics that are out there both good and bad get out of our solar system or she's going to make you get out forcefully really not going to enforce quarantine anymore at all wow is that applying to so is that applying to the ets are here who are here to help us as well everything this must unfold naturally only those with the soul family relations to be a part of this scenario of the final resolution of karma are going to be here all others that are waiting for their karma to be resolved after we resolve our karma that are those races that are three to five years away from extinction you're now being told by earth consciousness get out and don't come back the next timeline incursion done by any of those earth will instantly ask for prime curator to begin erasures of all those societies wow told her of your societies you cannot interfere anymore this bonus unfold naturally the event that you guys started on 10 days ago is now resulted in the last set of actions that are going to be done um there is no more no more chances for those beings that you're going to use time travel technology or timeline genocide or timeline incursions to alter us so the planet is literally called called an end to the timeline wars correct and it said the next species that uses it will be the prime creator will come in and erase their species is there a time deadline for them to withdraw um a lot of already withdrawn the ones that are art withdrawing are shutting down weapons defensive weapons systems that were put in to keep a large volume of the reptiles out for those out there that that don't understand the reptiles were heavily defeated in our solar system there's about 35 000 of their planet ships that are massive wreckages outside of our solar system so it's not like they they they can really make it here and reinvest in this world and they have a massive beachhead invasion by a series of other species that are in related to the silver legion so not only do they have a backdoor war they have a war inside their own society right now because many of the species of the reptiles have been demonized for stuff that they never did wrong so there's a massive war on species going on as well as there being a massive beachhead invasion into their part of the galaxy what minor amounts of vessels are left here have been hiding for a long time and those are the more hardcore zealot ones that are looking to recreate their own system somewhere else if they actually try to reach out here and do something with the amount of high-energy beings that are here on earth have no doubt that they would be dealt with and in recycled to complete a ratio Andrew we have about three minutes left and I'd love to continue this information flow in the next show so we can we can you know find out whatever details are actually available to us at the moment do you want to spend the next few minutes wrapping up the the unity consciousness experiment that you're doing anything you wanted to say about that to bring forward I'm going to leave it a little bit of a surprise to them over here so it just kind of sparks from them when they see it in front of them on an unfold very good very good well look if you again you've just dropped you've just dropped some more new information on us about this this new aspect that's been imposed by herself which is very very interesting information we've got we've got a show on Thursday with Nikki Fetzi any other things that you need to talk about for this week or going into next week have people keep tuned to in 5d radio as well as sovereign media dot net we're going to reschedule the the last teal scott one because teal was sick wasn't able to come on last saturday I believe it's scheduled scheduled for the 28th I will be broadcasting from Hawaii from that people look forward that have been asking me about the reading rooms I'll be posting the next set of dates for the reading rooms so I can wake up work up on my backlog of readings I'll be contacting you through this the admin account on my email pretty much that's it right now I have a lot of work going on in the background I'm going to be doing the skeletal framework for the books walking and energy while I'm at Hawaii so for all those that have been asking about the book they should be available by the end of the year and then the videos that I did with Lance White should also be available by probably second or third week in September we've had a significant amount of editing that we had to do just to give it the right the right the right look you know it was better to wait an extra month get it right and putting it out and and it looking like you know a youtube video excellent okay well look thank you thank you Andrew for coming back and and doing the extra hour I'm glad we were able to do that it's so one of the good things about being on this channel we'll be able to run over time we've got about a minute left so please pass on my thanks to Sandy and Pavan and let Pavan know that we'll we'll be in touch with with her regarding her forays back into the city of London that sounds very interesting but also thanks to Elizabeth and Janice who spent time with me on the show and and brought out some really really interesting things in our discussions so to everybody to Andrew and and the crew that he's with thanks for joining us hope the rest of the your session is great to everyone in the chat room and listening thank you for hanging in there for the whole three hours it's awesome and we'll see everybody in two days time all right take it easy look out mountain signing off okay and this is Chris Hale signing off we'll see you in two days time we'll see you in two days time on the next galactic history show roger over