Britain has erupted in protest against Israel's onslaught on Gaza. On Saturday, thousands of people joined a march in central London calling for an end to the bombing of Gaza and the occupation of Palestine. Organisers estimated that 100,000 people attended the demonstration, which was called or organized by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Muslim Association of Britain. Now, in terms of the size as this footage zooms out here, you can see that it's not just that initial crowd, but this march was snaking all the way down the road, all the way to Marble Arch down Hyde Park, so really, really huge. Now, also flying the flag of Palestinian Solidarity this weekend were two Premier League footballers. So after winning the FA Cup final, one of the probably the highest profile game in UK sport, Hamza Choudhury and Wesley Fafana held up the Palestine flag. Now, these are both players for Leicester City who had won the FA Cup and Hamza Choudhury went on to collect his medal wrapped in the flag. So really powerful image, super symbolic. To my mind, both those protests in London and across the country and the flying of the flag at the FA Cup final were really, really inspiring demonstrations of solidarity. People say, I'm willing to go into the center of town to take out time from my Saturday to go and walk in solidarity with Palestine. And then at the FA Cup, you've got people, it's probably the proudest moment of their life. And they're saying, what I want to, the message I want to send at this period in time is that right now, in a moment that my whole career has led to, I am thinking of the Palestinians. I'm thinking of the struggle of people I relate to when they are fighting against injustice. To me, that's incredibly powerful, especially in terms of the football example. It also follows in the footsteps of other footballers who we've celebrated recently for standing up for the cause of justice. You could think of Marcus Rashford with free school meals, an ex footballer Gary Neville, and he's talking about cutthroat capitalism. Very, inspirational really. Yet not everyone is happy to see these working class celebrities make their voices heard. Stephen Pollard is the editor of the Jewish Chronicle. And in response to the waving of the flag, Pollard wrote, the FA needs to act immediately to discipline them. So just the act of waving the Palestine flag, when Palestinians are being bombed, when children are dying, he thinks that should get you disciplined. Someone else who joined the cry of opposition and anger at these footballers for having an opinion was Gabriel Milland. Now, he's a former special advisor to Boris Johnson, now a someone who works at a PR firm. He tweeted, presumably those defending Chowdry and Fafana won't mind if Chelsea's Jewish owner, a resident of Israel, sends the team out wearing IDF uniforms when they play next week. Football belongs to everyone, not one side in a war. Now, that tweet is from, presumably a smart guy, lots of followers, he's worked in Downing Street, influential guy, and it's such a ridiculous argument. And I think it is quite telling of how desperate now the supporters of Israel and Israel's government are getting, because, most obviously, a military uniform and a flag are not the same thing. So he's saying, what would you think if they came out in an IDF uniform? If you said an Israel flag, maybe the comparison would work. If footballers wanted to go out holding the Israel flag, maybe they would have done. But no one really wants to, because the vast majority of people in this country can see that in this war, there is one side which is systematically bombing civilians and has killed over 200 people. And there is one side who is resisting occupation and has barely any power, barely any force. It's completely desperate. And quite rightly, the solidarity of people in this country lies with the people who are suffering occupation, who are suffering apartheid. And to me, it just seems, you know, both of those tweets, these people should be disciplined. This should not be allowed, because what if the other side wants to do the same thing? It's showing that there is no confidence among the advocates of Israel that they can rally any support for their cause. So what they have to, I suppose, fall back on is this idea that we have to ban any expression of support for either side. We are essentially going to call the manager if anyone comes out and tells us their opinion about this war, because they know that public opinion is going against them. Comparing them having the Palestinian flag to somebody having an Israel flag, I think is the right comparison. And of course, they can flow whatever flag they like. It could be the pride flag. It could be the Union flag, the St George Cross. People might disagree with it. People might think, oh, I think that's a bit wet, or I don't like that, or, you know, they might be homophobes, they might not like the pride flag. But the point is, there is an element of freedom of expression with regards to football, sport generally, of course. And the idea that we don't have politics in sport, well, okay, I'll remind you of that statement the next time we have, you know, November come around and everybody has a poppy on their shirt. And there's a minute silence, as I think is appropriate in a minute silence to remember the war dead. Then, of course, you have some players like the manager Matich or James McLean for personal reasons choose not to do that. And they get a lot of hassle from fans. But I think most intelligent people say, that's their choice, right? It's about freedom of political conscience and freedom of expression. This is exactly the same. And so, I mean, imagine if, for instance, a footballer, please one day, you know, the game isn't so inherently homophobic that people couldn't be outwardly, you know, expressive and open and honest about their sexuality, if a football has a pride flag. Now, imagine if a person on Twitter said, that's, you know, unacceptable, keep politics out of sport, I don't want to see that flag. Well, is it hurting you? I mean, a lot of these people claim to be liberals, right? If it's not hurting you, what's the problem? You know, I would personally find an Israel flag on a football pitch if the person wasn't from Israel. Okay, it's a bit strange. And so I can, if I'm trying my absolute best to get into the head of Gabriel Milland, maybe that's what you might say, well, he's not from Palestine. Why would you do that? That at least is a coherent answer. But I mean, what he tweeted and what a few like Stephen Pollard as well. I mean, like you say, Michael, I think it doesn't really say much about their intelligence, which is positive. But more importantly, I think it's, it's really illustrative of the levels of desperation we're now seeing, where people who've moaned about cancel culture, and their aggressive left, and how we don't protect freedom of speech, many of these exact same people who've apparently been exasperated by identity politics, and not being able to say what you really think. Many of the exact same people are now saying that it's appalling that these two footballers took a flag onto a football pitch. And not that you just disagree, they should be disciplined.  It's not congruent with anything we've seen in sports recently. And I think it shows the level to which the argument against that kind of gesture is kind of full. Nobody would say very, very, very few people in civil society would say that. But again, Michael, and finally, I think this is a really important point, people like Gabriel Miller and Stephen Pollard, they have been a variable in our conversation about Israel Palestine, I think to an unreflective extent, when you look at public opinion more broadly, I would love to see some polling on that. Is that okay for them to have that flag there? I think most people would say, well, you can have the St George Cross, or there was also a Nigerian flag. Why not a Palestine one? Sure. What's the problem? Who's being hurt? Apparently, that's too complicated for these liberals to understand. These people do seem desperate because the overwhelming majority of public opinion in this country and across the world, quite frankly, is with the people who are being subjected to occupation and apartheid because it's actually quite as much as there are people who try and obfuscate what's going on. It's clear what's going on. There is one side who is being bombed by the world's most advanced military who are being occupied, who are being subject to apartheid, and there are one side who is committing all of those atrocities. And yes, there will be some Israeli civilians who are subject to rockets from Hamas, and that's a tragedy. Anyone hurt in war, that's a tragedy. But in this situation, you have one side who have the overwhelming force and who are quite frankly perpetuating the war through this occupation and through apartheid, and one side who are being victims to it. I suppose that reality, that basic truth, is why 300,000 people plus have signed a petition calling on the UK to place sanctions on Israel. So this is a petition on the Houses of Parliament website. So this means that it should now be considered for debate in Parliament because it got over 100,000. At the time that we went live, it had 328,000 people having signed it. That's probably gone up slightly now. And the petition says the government should introduce sanctions against Israel, including blocking all trade and in particular arms. It's disproportionate treatment of Palestinians and settlements that are regarded by the international community as illegal are on a front to civilized society. Now, I think this is quite significant and quite important because that's, you know, I mean, I don't think that is a radical demand, but it would have been considered and is considered, you know, by many people in, I suppose, the establishment or people who try and set public discourse and say, what is legitimate and what is not a legitimate demand to say, oh, boycott, divention, sanctions, inherently suspicious. Now you've got 300,000 people signing a petition and saying, oh, let's do it. Let's put sanctions on Israel. There are a few things which I think are incontrovertible, which is that the United Kingdom should not be exporting technology to the Israelis, which can have military applications. So, you know, yeah, in Britain since 2014, we've exported that we know of around half a billion pounds worth of kit to Israel since 2014. Not huge sums of money. You know, it's not like the the BAE deal with the Saudis. And what does that consist of? Small arms, you know, guns and so on. But generally speaking, it's components for rather high tech stuff. So for instance, even with their nuclear capability, which includes a submarine element, some of that technology is being exported by British manufacturers, British companies. I think it's it's a perfectly legitimate thing to say. First off the bat, Britain should not be exporting technology to a country which is using its military like this. And I think anybody that would say that's outrageous, I just don't think they should be taken seriously. The idea that that's simply not on the table as leverage by which we can stop these atrocities against human rights. I don't think that's credible. After the military applications, I think you clearly have to say these are illegal settlements, therefore, products manufactured, made, mined, grown in these areas clearly, they should not be, I think, imported into the United Kingdom. Again, I think any of this is no, that's, that's terrible. How could you say that things produced from stolen land are therefore, you know, simply not permitted? There's again another, we talk about this tomorrow, there's a legal argument about this as well, you know, products made on illegally occupied land, you know, de facto, maybe illegal products. Of course, that doesn't really get applied, but it's a conversation to have. And then there's a broader thing, okay, well, beyond the settlements, beyond military exports, what's our economic relationship with Israel going to be? And I personally think, I think boycott divestment and sanctions is a really, really powerful way of going about things. You know, we're told incessantly, violence begets violence, you have to be peaceful. Well, BDS is peaceful. It's peaceful. So if you're really insisting people remain peaceful, and then you say, well, actually, sanctions aren't acceptable, you're not really talking about political tactics or what's ethically appropriate, you're trying to basically stop anything which may change Israel's behavior in Palestine, which right now is leading in Gaza to effectively an open air prison for millions of people. And it's clearly compromising inalienable human rights and rights to self determination self government. And I think that that clearly can change potentially if enough countries impose sanctions on Israel, and it's peaceful. You can't have one or the other. You have to be nonviolent, but you can't use sanctions. Because I think people that say those two things at the same time, again, not credible, not serious, ignore them. Now in this section, we've been talking about, you know, lots of the inspiring things that have been going on this weekend when it comes to Palestine solidarity in the UK. And the overwhelming majority of this is anti-racists who have solidarity with people who are subject to occupation and subject to oppression. It is, I mean, I think it's wonderful to see. But you probably will also have seen a video on social media this weekend of a convoy of cars with Palestinian flags driving through St. John's Woods. That's the majority, or maybe not majority, but it's got a large Jewish Jewish population. And there were people shouting, or at least one man who appears to shout really, really horrific, nasty anti-Semitism from the car, including rape threats, you know, the kind of thing that no one should ever say appalling. And it is worth saying everyone should 100% condemn what we saw in that video for arrests have been made by the Met Police. Now for me, you know, that obviously soured some of those events from the weekend. I don't think in any way it overshadows any of them because we saw 100,000 people, super peaceful, solid heuristic, anti-racist. It's super inspiring to see that. And actually, to be honest, I do think that the outpouring of condemnation that followed that nasty video, I think does show that the overwhelming vast majority of people involved in this movement have nothing whatsoever to do with anti-Semitism and condemn it outright. And that's what we saw happen. So yes, it was right that we saw so many people share that video and say this is wrong, but also that should absolutely not tar what is an anti-racist peaceful movement who are fighting for something positive and to end an occupation and apartheid.


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Agriculture on the move. Agriculture on the move. Agriculture on the move. Agriculture on the move. Agriculture on the move. Good day again, Saint Lucia, and welcome to the program Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move. Yes, we are on the move in Saint Lucia as far as agriculture is concerned and that is why today our topic is a very interesting one but more importantly it's a program that we must discuss at this juncture in Saint Lucia. Our food prices are rising our food import bills are soaring. So today with me are three gentlemen to have that important discussion and to my immediate right is Mr. Vincent Lacobinier who is the general manager of the Saint Lucia Marketing Board, Mr. Richard Edwin who is the president of the cooperative choice group CCG and of course Mr. Dean Averell who is the climate smart agricultural officer, Woosk Caribbean. Gentlemen, welcome to the program. There are a lot of people who probably don't know what is Woosk Caribbean and some people don't know what is cooperative choice group. So I think before we get there anyway let us get straight out so people understand who is who. Your cooperative, briefly. Okay, cooperative choice group is a cooperative of course. It was registered in 2018. We are strictly a farming organization farmers organization and we are interested or we are trying to promote farmers in Saint Lucia. Okay, that's good. Mr. Edwin tell us about Woosk Caribbean. So Woosk Caribbean is a Canadian NGO funded through Global Affairs Canada. We're implementing a five-year project called the Sustainable Agriculture and the Caribbean project. So I serve as a climate smart officer and we have two other officers in Saint Lucia. Miss Eugene who is the agribusiness and marketing officer and Mr. Aaron Brown who is assisting with gender and inclusion affairs. Great, okay, good. Nice balanceable marketing board is self-explanatory. Okay, I just want to get a clear idea of your own perception of food and nutrition security. I'll start with you, Mr. April. Okay, so basically we talk about the availability of food, affordability of food and access. Most importantly, so when we talk about a nation being food secure at any point in time all its citizens should be able to access good quality nutritious food at prices that are affordable and I mean by that definition alone you can tell that we are in some problems. Okay Miss Edwin, what's your take? Food security is an urgency in Saint Lucia right now. Not only in Saint Lucia but we are specifically focusing on Saint Lucia. And it has as you said in your opening, it has to be dealt with. We must discuss it and we from the G we feel that we are literally pussyfooting on it. We are not serious we are not aggressive enough in addressing that issue. That's why we're discussing it today. Right and we have to discuss it in a very aggressive way. And we also have to be serious about it. And we are not seeing the seriousness about you know in terms of you know the crisis that we are faced with right now. So Miss Edwin, I'm from a marketing standpoint. When is marketing both fixed in that whole equation? Well marketing really is making the produce for the crops. The food available to the consumer. That's basically what it is. Now if we don't have the food available to the consumer. The question is like where does the food come from? It comes from foreign it's imported. But our local producers don't have access as we would like them to have as far as production is concerned. So the the conversation should not just be for marketing. It should be for marketing and production. Because we need to understand for example the consumer consumes what the consumer consumes when the consumer consumes and in what form what form where does that consumer produce the food. Now this is where all this conversation must lead to. The quantity. That is what the problem is. Now how do you get all information? This moment must come from somewhere. It must come from data. It must come from who have who, who knows what when to produce, how to produce how much to produce. And that is something that should be established to facilitate the marketing of the produce. Because if you don't know what the consumer wants, you can produce for them. If you don't know what quantity they want, you don't know anything about it. You don't know any information about the consumer. How can they produce for them? And that is what the problem is. We do not know the regular basis consistently what the consumer needs when the consumer needs it in what volume the consumer needs it. So you find every so often you know what we have without cabbage, without tomato without carrots. It's fluctuating. So I mean, and we have the capacity the market has the capacity for storage but where the information must come from somewhere. So we need a system to collect data on the field and to transform it into what I call the consumer demand satisfying it. But also we need the producers to have the information so at what? So they can go and produce that. So that's where the marketing board comes in. And that's where marketing comes in. So marketing is really the tool to facilitate full security. Definitely. So I was told that there is a full security policy in the ministry which was established about seven years ago. I think it was a ten-year policy. There are three more years to go. In fact, I had a meeting, short discussion of my peers. And I think more so than now now, I think it has to be brought to the table. And I think there is a committee now looking at it from the ministry standpoint. But I'm putting it out there to ask the question, what do you think the ministry has done or have done or is not doing as far as full security is concerned? Well, if I can take a stab at it and it is very important that you mention that this policy is now being revisited and the action plan is being revisited because one of the things that we've been having this discussion ever since CCG had their consultation in June was, okay, we had an action plan. How do we go back to that action plan? What have we achieved from that action plan? We have policies, we have a lot of recommendations in that plan. Talking about revising legislation, what we do to tackle previous, what we do to tackle losses, how do we balance like my colleague said, balance production with storage, with market supply. How do we do all of these things? So if we had a plan there's nothing wrong now, we had a good junction now, 10 years later revisit the plan. What have we achieved? What have we not achieved? What is stopping us from getting to the targets that we need to meet? That is what we need to do. You see, that's why the conversation is so important. And we have to ask the question, where do we start? If we are talking about food security, who produces the food? We have to start with the farmer. And this is where I think that the greatest challenge is if it's not a problem. We have to start the discussion even in formulating the plan. When we have a plan and the plan is somewhere and nobody knows about this, how do you implement it? How does it come on stream? It's impossible to come on stream. I think what we are forgetting is that we are pushing the farmer aside or leaving them aside and not including them in the whole discussion. In the formulation of this discussion the policy formation. I'm wondering whether the farmers were involved or farmer groups were involved in actually creating that situation. Because the farmer is key. In other words, I'm seeing here when it comes to the annual work of extension, you cannot formulate an action plan without the farmers being involved. And that's where we are today. Coming from your consultation, what came out of that?  What they are saying to assist moving forward? We have a critical problem here. A problem for our organization. We have to find a vehicle through which we can bring the farmers together. And at this point the only thing we have is the cooperative organizations and look at the state of cooperative organizations in this country. They are not involved in anything. The farmers are fragmented. There is no attempt in actually bringing the farmers together. Who is supposed to do that? Everybody. Everyone is supposed to be doing that. But most importantly is the department of cooperative. They have to do that. We have been trying. I mean the CCG has been trying for a number of years now about three or four years now. Trying to bring farmers together so that we can better represent the farmers and use the cooperative as a vehicle to actually generate interest in producing. And in seeing what it is is needed in addressing the whole problem of insecurity. But the support is not there. The support is not there. And we feel at CCG that we are even being ostracized. Because we are too aggressive. We talk too much or something like that. You know. But we are not giving up. I mean we we say that we don't care. But we are unafraid, I should say. So who are you all targeting? What organizations are you all targeting? Where do you think that that writing should start? Is it from the ministry standpoint or from the cooperative department standpoint? Because there's a lack of education as far as cooperative concern. We have to be able to determine what is the role of the cooperative in the economy of this country. Where do we stand? As a sector of what value it is to the national economy. If we are not able to determine that then we treat cooperatives as an afterthought. As if they are not important and so they have no place in the economy. So the farmers must be isolated and they are fragmented and they don't know what to do. Farmers know how to plant. They have to know how to produce. But at the same time, if we are addressing a problem and we need collective action we have to as a unit. That's not true. While he is talking it brings back the conversion from a historical perspective. When we wanted to expand the development of any crop in the old world where the Americans had to use the founding fathers. The founding fathers were instructive enough to have created the cocoa boil the agricultural association the race association to know what to facilitate the production of the crop and the marketing of the crop. But you see we have to look at what are the structures that we put in place to do anything in this country. And that is where he is talking about the cooperative. The cooperative movement is a structure that should be put in place as a methodology of work. Because you must have a structure to facilitate the production. Now if we have to look at banana production banana production there was the company the company had the transport sector it had the financial sector it had the export sector technical work Now tell me what other commodity have the privilege I use the word privilege also the structure and that is what we are talking about when we are talking about cooperatives and even the marketing board every country at some point had a marketing board to facilitate production to facilitate the movement of the produce from the farmer to the market. Now look at the state today the marketing board look at the state of it if you are struggling you have no technical support from anybody in terms of an organized way marketing board have no nano they don't have even a copy of the plan you are talking about what is the plan in terms of one way the marketing board knows the target marketing board knows the crop and marketing board knows the farmer that we are full secure can healing feed itself that is where we are coming from with a discourse national dialogue we are not coming to step on anybody but we think and it is very important not that you mentioned there is a committee I think the committee needs now to examine what has to be inspired or it is not productive but even if it is not productive how can it be more productive because our food import will continue to tell us something is not right something is not going right something is not efficient something is not consistently efficient and that is where we need to begin so the convention where we talk in the talk it is not anything why we have to be afraid of anybody to me to my mind I look at the food on my table and I also look at the future of my children and to me there should be no compromising on this thing there should be no sugar coating on this thing we need to seriously and critically go down to the belly of the beast and examine the the national food policy or the national gene policy and dissect it and see where we are at what have we done wrong what have we done right let us multiply and move forward at this juncture we will do for our break you are watching agriculture on the move stay tuned we will be back soon don't go away the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries Food Security and Rural Development is placing heavy emphasis on the concept of food security it's our prosperity our future the farmer incentives program of the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries Food Security and Rural Development is aimed at reducing the cost of production and promoting food security and accessibility all farmers fishers and agro processors who've registered and own a farmers registration card qualify these incentives include the percentage reduction of excise tax and import duties for agricultural and fisheries production inputs which are imported and include approved agricultural products for an approved agricultural project for example vehicles fishing vessels animals animal feed planting materials and other farm inputs farmers can apply by completing the application form and submitting with all relevant documents attached for further information contact the deputy director of agricultural services at 468-4125 food import bill is soaring and our inputs are also soaring so we need to add that conversation I'm happy that you Mr. Edwin you all had a consultation but what I want to find out is that you had a consultation is it dead after that I mean what came out of it okay what came out of it was it documented and to who sent to for discussion for the discussion maybe to look at the policy again and to see how we can implement something positive moving yes it was documented we have transcript we have video and it was live stream as well the video has been edited and completed so we are now ready to share the information the next step we wanted to do with the transcript and the video as well was to print it get it printed we have not done that yet we are looking for funding to do that but what actually came out of this is that we wanted the conversation the outcome is conversation to continue we wanted a kind of structural relationship with the participants the people who came in to continue the discussion and we are looking at how do we cultivate the new generation of farmers we are looking at that and we are actually in fact yesterday we had a discussion about how to bring in the younger people or new farmers on stream the other thing we are looking at is to how we get the powers that be to take this thing seriously because we are not going anywhere we are sitting right here when is the powers that be government officials and so on how long ago you had that consultation in June it was in June so it's just a matter of a few months in September what have come out of this have you had discussion of the powers that be as a matter of fact we were at a meeting a national cooperative meeting just recently I said the minister and we had a short discussion and he said he's ready to talk and interestingly the cooperative department was there and also the minister of cooperatives she was also there and they have agreed to put something on the table to assist the development of cooperative you know interactive with the farmers and the cooperatives so that's a good sign okay Mr. Ethrel climate change is there you involve looking as the climate smart agricultural officer what is WOSC doing to help the farmers move forward to mitigate climate change so in order for us to arrive at a meaningful solution to a lot of the problems that we face and climate change is only one of them and when we have the discussion about climate change I also like to talk about the economic climate and other factors other than just the physical environment because a lot of things are happening while we sleep the physical climate is changing currency devaluations inflation all of these things are part of the climate it's part of the environment that the farmers and everybody else has to operate within so in order for us to tackle issues correctly we take on what we call inclusive market systems type approach so what that does now especially from the standpoint of food security help us to identify what exactly is the pathway that the country is on towards food security who are the actors that have a part to play because we can't leave it on the back of the farmers alone okay are the roles being fulfilled all of the different actors that have a part to play are the roles being fulfilled what services is there does the legislation actually support the food security policy are they working in tandem so a lot of our analysis comes from being able to identify what are some of the root causes of the problems that we face from the climate standpoint how do we continue to build more climate resilient agriculture systems how do we make our farmers more climate smart and in essence try to build on systems that can continue to work for us even though the climate may change it would not be a problem even though there is a war tomorrow and there are supply chains disruption it will not be a problem something else like COVID comes it will not be a problem these are the systems that we have to build for ourselves so that is the path that we are on throughout the life of this project in particular and it's more about not being able to help one and two people by tank and no not like that help them to build resilience of the systems so the systems can withstand the test of time it can withstand changing climate it can withstand the rising cost of inputs and other things like that so far so good and we are getting a lot of cooperation I mean of course it's no easy fate but you see a lot of cooperation from persons who understand that hey we cannot continue with business as usual and that is what we ought to change we really need a different approach I know you are going into a consultative sort of situation marketing board bring in stakeholders, tell us about this okay well coming from the I would like to call the CID that CCG so a marketing board looking to nurture it a little more and we believe that the conversion must continue so we are looking at there is a collaboration between the marketing board and Taiwan's mission for us to continue the conversation so on Friday the 30th of September what we are going to have is a full security consultation we are looking to approach it from a production pre-production post-production kind of strategy because at every stage you have issues what are the issues of pre-production and I mean I didn't mention climate smart solar rivers are drying up isn't that the pre-production you know no we have problems with labour is that the pre-production what are some of the issues the soil, the inputs and all these things post-production of course we are marketing marketing board comes in do we have storage, do we have delivery for example it is easier for you to get a cabbage a carrot from South America, South America to be consumed at Bhutan or to be consumed at La Clare why? so this tells you that we have a lot of work to do we have a lot of discussions to get involved and a lot of conversation so on Friday we are going to trying to bring all the stakeholders like who are the stakeholders the farmers cooperative trying to bring a lot of advocacy to the rural women network some of the ministries we are looking at finance insurance we are looking at all the various players in the process that will impact on food security in the country because we must have the conversation so that's a Friday, Saturday we are going to have a farmers market and on Sunday we are going to have a family food fair so I mean for you you have seen some of the progress in terms of the agri-business people the farmers that have been there produced and then the calamities within the family you know seeing some of that stuff you are not able to see some other food and you know I mean that cannot be that's what the intention is but I say we are putting a lot of emphasis on the dialogue for food security in the country yes and I think the ministry is well that's the mantra in the ministry now food and nutrition security and I think he cannot do it alone the ministry cannot do it alone and of course that's where you all come in marketing board, you know, you come in and you come in to ensure that we need to speak or to sing from the same name him now we have to do it final words from yourself we come to the end well I want us to take the food security in a context that it is for our kids it is for our health it is the revenue of the country if you look at that that is a way that we can probably move forward food security is a matter of survival it's a serious matter of survival we have to take it seriously and we should never never give up in pushing the agenda food security from my standpoint is the power of a nation and we have the capacity to do it for ourselves but we need to, like my colleagues have said we need to get it right so it's about time we have that yes and I think that will not be the last time we will have that conversation in fact after that consultation I think we need to come back again and look at the results by then I'm hoping that the ministry with its team looking at the next three years the policy we will be able to see something tangible some good return so I really want to thank you for being here I also want before I end remind persons about our CMOS fiesta on October 16th World Food Day at Fodor it starts at 10 o'clock and it ends at 6 o'clock everything to do with CMOS definitely come down there and see it the various derivatives of CMOS from the CMOS other processors from the farmers from the school children we want to have a family day of course with entertainment you know complementing the activity so be there in large numbers so that you can enjoy yourself again thank you for viewing the program and remember agriculture is our business eat fresh St. Lucia's Best the money stays right here thank you for viewing and thank you gentlemen thank you Mr Kopin here thank you


Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to my channel. So for today's video, I'm gonna start kind of fast because I have a really long video for you guys It is a humongous haul So I went on vacation to Los Angeles and Las Vegas for nine days I hit up a bunch of beauty shops So I'm so excited to show you what I got and where I shop So if you are shopping in those places, I am going to be talking about Where I went from what I can remember. Um, yeah, the amount of makeup I bought was ridiculous tomorrow I start my nine-hour five-day week Job I'm not ready, but anyways, let's just get straight into this haul I'm gonna start off with Los Angeles where I went in Los Angeles. So the first place that I went to so exciting you guys I went to the KKW pop-up shop. I believe it was called like Westfield Mall or something like that You can look it up. It's still open. It's open until July 27th So you still can go if you want to she just so happened to open it like when I just so happened to be in LA and So I just so happened to go I had to wait an hour and a half in line because they let so few people in or at least they did when I went which was I thought very very rude They only had like one little setup and they only let like 10 people in at a time So that's why I waited in line for an hour and a half. It was kind of ridiculous I was kind of mad about it because normally I wouldn't be mad because Like I know it was gonna be a high volume of people and I was going to have to wait and I was prepared for that But they knew a lot of people were going so I don't know why they only set up a small Display that could only let a few people in the store at a time The workers were lovely, but I don't know. I just think they weren't very smart about it But that's just me so on the third day though I did only have to wait an hour and a half So I'm sure by now most people have gone that have wanted to go so there probably won't be crazy lines anymore But I picked up the light Contour stick well in the shade light number two I love contour sticks and I like this one because it's very gray undertone. It's not too warm So it's really going to sculpt my cheek. It blends pretty well. It's not the best blending Sculptor I've used but it definitely does its job and I do like it And I do like the shade that I got I'll show you I Did do a tutorial for me trying out these things It's what one of the things I have on my cheeks So check that video out and then I got the concealer I was so happy I got to go to the store and actually get color match instead of buying a random color So I got number four which still it's like really bright for what I'm used to but it Works because that's what you're supposed to get with this product really bright under eye so I got that and then I got the powder and the Pull it out brightening powder in shade number one I'm not gonna show you just cuz I'm sure you've seen enough of it already, but I do like the under eye products I mean, they're not the greatest I've tried but they're not bad. I'm just happy I got to go and get color match So I'm very into Korean beauty. It interests me. I don't know much about it But Korean beauty, I know just something that interests me So I wanted to go to Korea town and try out some of the things So I went to the beauty palace and then another store called the Aritaeum I don't know how you say I kind of picked random things. I know rhyme or reason as to why I got them But the first thing I got this was like 10 up for $7. This is at the beauty palace I think that that's kind of the best place to go. It's really awesome They have a lot of super cool things and it's just a bunch of sheet masks I just thought it was a really good deal to be honest. They're in English though So they're made in Korea, but they're like English, but I just saw it It was a really good deal for some sheet masks. So 10% come on. Also really random that I got was Cody airspun powder. I've never tried it and I've never seen it in store So even though this isn't like Korean or anything. I wanted to try it I got it in the naturally neutral random that I got that but I'm happy I got it because I've always wanted to try that powder. Um, I got a couple lashes. It was two for seven They're by this darkness brand and I'm just gonna you can take a look. I really like this one I'm excited to try it. So the reason why I wanted to try Korean lashes is because I have really small eyes I'm half Asian and I'm hoping that these fit Asian eyes well I don't know. We'll see and then also really exciting is by the brand beauty people This is a brand made in Korea and these are really interesting. I can't wait to try them. They're flash fix pearl Pearl pigments and they're like literally The most beautiful things. I don't know. They're not like the super shock shadows But it's like a similar idea because it's really soft. Come on. It's literally a pressed pigment It's not pressed very hard or manuals. It's not pressed very hard. It's just like loose flakes almost So gorgeous. This is in the shade sugar light So this is in the shade sugar light the pigmentation on these guys is insane I'd be had to put them on my eyes But you can have this actually for $11 on Amazon and I paid 13 for them But I got to swatch it in stores and the other shade I got is starlight Which I would leave these plastic things on to keep it pressed because I can see this drying out Or all of these like falling out because it's not really heavily pressed, but it's a beautiful gold color. Oh excited So that's all I got at the beauty palace, but then at that store This I believe is their house brand. It's the R&M color live tint or live tint in the shade number nine coral on top This is a very Korean Product, it's just like a lip tint Coral color. It smells like gummy candy. That's why I got it and It makes you look like you just ate a popsicle. It's kind of cool. I really like it very sheer It's just a lip tint and then I think $18 dollars It's by the brand Mamonde. It's a flower pop blushers what it's called I don't know why I got this. I was just really attracted to the color It's literally just this peachy coral blush. It just looked beautiful to me It probably it's not worth $18, but it's a Korean brand and I saw a blush I liked so I picked it up and it smells very like clean. It has a scent to it and I'm digging it So I've used it a couple times. It is nice Probably not worth $18, but I had no idea what I was doing So and then I only picked up one thing in Sephora in Los Angeles the artist couture Illuminati Diamond Golo powder I'm so late on the bandwagon on these and they are so beautiful. It's what I'm wearing today You can see it in my tutorial coming up. Holy Moly This is beautiful. Okay, so this is actually the last makeup item that I bought in Los Angeles. I was on Melrose I did their trading post on Sunday really awesome You should go if you're into like thrifted fashions basically like a really neat cool hipster kind of place And I was walking down Melrose and I saw the store and I was like, oh my god That's so cute. I walk in and it was freaking Urban Outfitters Anyways, they have lime crime and I'd never seen lime crime in person And so I picked up the Venus XL palette. Look at this Guys, this is stunning and the colors blend amazing I love this color scheme I'd seen it on like Instagram and I did like it, but I just had never tried lime crime before so I didn't want to Purchase it, but it's what I use today for my crazy hot pink look and I'm really into it. I'm so excited So that's all I got in Los Angeles. So Las Vegas low key kind of I had more of a better time And when it came to makeup shopping besides the KKW shop So I'm gonna start off with what I got at Sephora. So I got the YSL Tushy Cloth all in one glow I got mine in the shade B30. I think this is probably a shade too light for me, but it's fine I can make it work. This is like it's a very glowy foundation. I find that my formula I don't know if it's just mine that I kind of need to mix it together Feel like the whale didn't really blend into this that well So I have to kind of separate it so I have to blend it all over my face First and then use a sponge. Don't know if that's normal. It doesn't bother me that much the finish on it It's really pretty if you're looking for a good glowy foundation. I highly recommend this. I also I also got the Tom Ford Traceless foundation stick. I got mine in the shade 4.5 ivory This is a really good color match for me, and it should be because it's a lot of money $85 My mom bought it and it looked fabulous on her skin like fabulous And so then I bought it. I've yet to wear it So maybe it might not wear that well, but I'm really excited to try this really expensive foundation Okay, I didn't get this at Sephora, but you can get at Sephora got at Nordstrom But this is the Estee Lauder double wear foundation cult classic. Everybody loves this foundation I can't believe I haven't tried it yet. So I've just been wanting to try it I got mine in the shade 2W1 Dawn a little bit yellow for my liking, but it works. It's a really good foundation It really does wear super well like it's not my favorite finish on my skin as far as foundation goes But it really lasts all day in the Vegas heat It did a really good job from what I can tell from the one time I wore it I think it's really good and then I got this at an actual Dior Beauty boutique Which was an amazing experience. It was like a beautiful shop. The worker was lovely So I got the Dior skin forever foundation. This is what I'm wearing today Literally the perfect color match for me. This is 025 Perfect color match for me and it looks beautiful on my skin. I haven't worn it yet, but I think I really like it I didn't set it because it is a matte foundation I have dry skin. My skin is so dry from Vegas continuing on I went to the NYX store. I'm I've been a NYX fan for forever It honestly holds a special place in my heart because I was a fan of NYX before they even sold in store Like I ordered and they were online only just starting out brand NYX products Don't have the best quality if you ask me like even though they're drugstore I still don't find their quality to be better than a lot of other drugstore I like their brand though I like how like on trend they are with their products So if there's like a new type of product out then I want to try but I don't want to spend a lot of money on it I just want to try it out I always go for NYX like NYX is the reason I got into brow pomade So yeah NYX says I love the NYX store even though I don't love the quality of their products I'm usually disappointed by a lot of their products, but some of them are really hidden gems So I picked up the goth covered concealer in the shade natural I've heard nobody talk about this and there's probably a reason for it because it probably sucks But I've never tried concealer in a tube and I wanted to try a tube concealer So I picked this up and I will have to try it. I'm so excited to hopefully um, I'm not disappointed And then I do really really love their butter glosses So I picked up two I got matte line and fortune cookie I just like to throw these in my purse because if I lose them, they're like six bucks It's no big deal and I love these I wear them on the time. They're such a good gloss and for such a good price Okay, and so these next items from NYX are their new releases So I'm trying some of the new stuff. So the first are their suede lipsticks I got the shade dainty days, which is their I believe it's the lightest color they have It's what I'm wearing right now under fortune cookie gloss and then free spirit, which is a little bit Of a deeper nude now these are such an interesting texture. They glide on the lips so smooth and for a matte lipstick They're not drying at all. They're so smooth Putting them on I was so impressed by them. However, they last like five minutes So that's kind of the price you have to pay with these if you want them to last Long they're just not going to but they're very comfortable on the lips. So I like them But like I said, there is a catch to them. Then I got the sliptease lip lacquer was really excited to try these They had a bunch of amazing colors. I picked the shade camel Now when I first put this on I was like amazing love it and buying them in every color Five minutes later. I changed my mind these they're called sliptease. They have so much slip to them They all over your face don't even think about eating with them Don't even think about talking with this on this is a strictly like instagram lip product honestly Like beautiful so pigmented so glossy I wore it in one of my most recent instagram pictures that I took it just beautiful But don't leave the house with them. Don't And then I got the foil play cream eyeshadow. This is in the shade steal your man and as you can see it's like a glittery Gel basically it's like jelly this I think is copying the butter London glaze and eyeglasses these aren't quite as jelly like but it's definitely it's More wet than a super shock or a cream shadow. It's that jello jello-y jelly Formula it's not nearly as pigmented as the butter ones, but it's still good. It's really really pretty the shade in particular I was wearing like a all matte orange look and I popped this in the center of my lens really pretty So I don't have anything to complain about with these. It's just not as good or as pigmented as butter ones And then the foil play cream pigment. What is a cream pigment? Um, I don't know. That's why I got it It's like just really soft honestly just a really soft pigment. I haven't put this on my eyes yet, but this is the most Just unique color I it's I know I have a bunch of stuff on my hands, but it's this color. It's like a gray green Silver color. This is in the shade radio cast. I can't wait to see how this looks I don't have anything bad to say about it though. I haven't tried it yet But it's beautiful and the last store that I went to was the new morphe store Not only did I go to a morphe store, but I went to a brand new open last week morphe store Fortunately, I was supposed to be there when the jacklyn hill vault released and I was like Yes, but they pushed back the release date, but I still had a lot of fun So they had some non morphe brands So I got the liquid sugar like I don't know. It's like a glitter adhesive or a like I don't really know what it is. I I don't know why I picked it up Um, it looked cool. I used it today. I think I used it wrong I need to play with this guy some more because I have no freaking glue how to use it But I also got a few glitters to go along with it because all of my glitters are from mix So I did want to get kind of another brand in there. So I got Double bubble, which is a pink. It's what I have on my eyelids right now sugar cane, which I can't really show you the colors hard to tell This is like a I don't know if you can see but it's like a I don't really know what color it is to be honest, but it's like a dark silver Gunmetal color. I just think that it would be really beautiful with a smoky eye This one is candy corn kind of a copper color. Don't worry about it. It's just a copper color Yellen melon. I got it because I just kind of like the name.  These are hard to show But this is like it you see all the reflex in it. So cool. And then this one's my favorite one This is jelly bean. It's a purple with so many blue and Gorgeous duo crumbs in it Yes Um side note my mom picked up the Jeffree star Thirsty palette and the androgyny palette. So I'm gonna nip those from her and do a couple Stay tuned for that. I also picked up like mad brushes. I'm not even gonna go through them all but Being able to see them in person. I just went a little buck wild I wanted a lot more detailed brushes so I could do more detailed eye looks and so being able to see Like their actual size in person was amazing because some of the blending brushes I would order online. They looked really tiny and then I got them and they were like huge So i'm just gonna go for some of my favorites the Gold line that they have beautiful. Um, I think this is my favorite line of brushes that they had Anything from this line is so amazing so soft because there's a lot of morphe brushes that I have that I don't like this gold line is legitimately good the y14 amazing highlighting brush Um the r2 this is from the rose gold line I got this to do bronzer and so far. I'm really liking it.  They're terrible. See the ban y17 gray brush. I don't know. I've just got a bunch of random Brushes to try honestly, but the gold line is really good and then the elite line is also good But I like the gold line better I picked up the continuous setting mist because it truly does feel amazing I'm like kind of obsessed with it. I don't know if it does anything to my makeup, but it feels good It's like $15. I don't think that's not that cheap. This intrigued me. This was their bronzer I got mine in the shade celebutant and I used it today. I actually quite like it I think it's a neat little concept 12.  It was like seven dollars and I left my beauty blender at home and I don't really I'm honestly I don't really like it if I'm being honest. I like the shape of it. Maybe I just need to use it more I don't know actually I thought that was it But this is not I went to two englots I do have a englot like an arrow way from me here on the east coast But I still like never go and I'm just dabbling into englot products So unfortunately I threw out the boxes of the colors I got and I can't get the colors out But I made a little quad. So I got one color from the jaylo line, which is this one And then and then these three like I like the idea of these they're three in one Eyeshadow color. So yeah, I kept mine like really warm toned and then they're really pretty green So they're ten dollars each pan and so far from what I've used I really like them Like I said englot is a brand that I'm really trying to get into more and I've been enjoying their products quite a lot So I made this little guide to introduce myself to their powder products. So that is my los angeles los vegas west coast hall I spent a lot of money and um, I am cutting myself off from my own bank account because uh Yeah Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this haul if you have any questions about shopping for beauty in los angeles or los vegas I would be glad to help the best I can had an amazing time Yeah, if you want to check out this look like I said that video will be coming next I'm so excited. I got to share this all with you. I will talk to you later. Have a great day guys. Bye


all right time to finish the story it kind of doesn't make sense just uh you know part one i kind of like left out the karma like aspect to the whole thing so you have all whoever's watching this has all the right in the world say i'm a dumb ass because i was a dumb ass there was a sign when like the last few days riders couldn't even hear it because i was so frustrated and you know just everything clicked once i thought about it so used to live in a big house where four other people rented a room and she had cameras inside which i hate it you know what i mean but that also meant that nobody could possibly go in somebody else's room or there would be really no tinkering of any kind you know so i came into this house this new one and i got very very good vibes from pretty much absolutely everybody and everybody kind of minds their own business and does their own thing nobody would ever like go in there someone else's door or things like that i ended up hanging out with my roommates or two of them the ones like next door to me and everything was great everything was super chill and it was really nice because i kind of like got to be a little bit introduced to the house this and that i also was giving somebody a lot of information that i wasn't even noticing that i was giving and the whole time he was scoping me out and i had no idea it had to have been him like i don't even want to like entertain a thought that wasn't him because i feel like i would be disrespecting myself because of how obvious it was he doesn't work and of all the people that i've ever been in these room prevent situations with every single one of them works and it's like there's just kind of this no BS kind of attitude with people who work it's kind of like they can get things on their own they're used to doing things on their own like they don't really need to cut corners like stealing or doing any of this cheap stuff and it's like you don't have anything to do either when you're stuck at home and guess what you have your egos constantly growing you constantly want new stuff but you can't get any because you're not working but then it's like they don't want to get a job but then they need money and how do they do it they steal or a lot of times people do steal but i pay rent on the second and i go in and search around my room and i can't find it you know immediately think of like every single time that i've had somebody do this to me it's always been a pretty guy who i knew was pretty scummy that has been around me enough to understand my routines and like sick as it is he was scoping me out you know what i mean so i leaves lots of stuff just right around the corner like or like even out in the open sometimes and like when i don't talk to anybody when nobody knows most of the time it's left alone but it's only when somebody knows about it it's like a friend which is not really a friend so so it was gone i didn't say anything to him my first initial instinct was to do kind of like the silent treatment and then see if anybody brings it up and then trace it back to the source because i would will not have told anybody but to me i just i'd feel sick if i just don't tell him and it sucks so i don't want to deal with like the fighting or the arguing or like i don't want to say hi to him i don't want to shake his hand i don't really want anything to do with him i don't know if he's going to like turn it on me if he's going to because he's manipulative so like i'm just trying to break it off like i bought him a brand new tv i gave him a ps4 pro i gave him a lot of stuff you know what i mean and i like i don't think it's screwing him over in any way by not wanting to do anything with him just because i just don't want anything to do with him i gave him a bunch of shit i've known him for like a month you know what i mean so i just hoping there's no retaliation here because i don't see why there would be but like another reason is because i lost my phone and he found it like at that day i kind of seemed like really aloof because my stealing radar wasn't going off with the chick which i really don't understand why but with them to me it was so so obvious they weren't doing the things that they'd normally do 100% it was very very very obvious and then like i go and i put a new lock on my door and he doesn't say anything because it would draw attention unnecessary attention to his issue but anybody would bring that up he has such a weird cocky ego it's just like i need to break it off and i don't want any i don't want any communication i don't want to deal with any of this and i know how it's gonna end for him just because i'm older and i know how and i'm not gonna do anything i'm just saying i know how this naturally will come to an end i've thought about it so it's just amazing it's just amazing and i deserve it you know i 100% i've had lots of really big punches to the gut in the last couple years especially with money and maybe it's to stall the karma i don't know but another thing is that i 100% i believe in if you do a lot of good things good things happen to you and if you do a lot of bad things bad things happen to you most people understand that it's karma so i will say that i believe in karma but i just think generally there's an unseen force that sees absolutely everything and if you want to do a lot of good things good things happen to you if you do want to do a lot of bad things bad things happen to you so i don't have to do anything to him and i've i've already understood that i don't want anything to do with any bad karma any lying stealing i don't want anything to do with any of that so um yeah i really believe in that and i really think it's a real thing and if you're somebody who has these bad tendencies like stealing or just screwing people over i recommend stopping as soon as you can because if even if people don't see it you're not getting away with it you know what i mean and man i just can't believe this i can't i can't believe i can't believe this and like i would do the same thing this guy was doing too i would literally take of something big ruin the whole situation the whole like trust like it's this is a sick thing i couldn't never be friends with him like i would be one of my friends that we've never had this issue with like there's no going back from this kind of behavior and it's unfortunate and it's weird because i actually got passed it like you could trust me with any like i don't want to take any i don't want to take anything from anybody you could leave anything at my house or whatever i just literally do not want it so it's like somehow i came around i don't understand um and i was really bad i had really bad issues i'd even take from family and it's like it's sick for me to even think about that and i was just like it was like an addiction you know what i mean and like i'm so glad that i got passed that because i don't think i could have any real healthy relationships if that was going on and i think i would pretty much take it you know do that from with everybody and that's just it makes me say there's just this one incident i'm just so disgusted and it's like i used to do this like it's terrible i've never talked about this on this channel but you know i've tried to talk to my friends about it and i can't even get passed like i'm trying to say like oh i had all these issues and then i literally can't get passed that they're like oh we were you stealing stuff from my house like do i gotta watch you now and i'm like okay well just shut up like i i'm trying to get to the point where like literally like i'm probably the most trustworthy person like i know trustworthy people who would maybe take a little something here and there you know if it was easy you know what i mean but not me that's been thieves and karma part two just kind of like a full circle thing can't believe the situation i can't believe how it all ended um yeah i still have yet to talk to him it's gonna be like i had something i'm dreading because i don't think it's gonna go super easy but hopefully it does and like he has narcissistic tendencies which means he's going to kind of retaliate and try to basically burn the house down if he ever gets kicked out if he ever leaves so hopefully we could kind of like neutralize him or back off or kind of get him to think we're not engaging and just kind of back out so anyways part two let me know what you think of these stories let me know what you think of karma in general let me know what you think of thieves you probably hate them just as much as i do i can't stand them i don't know why i was everyone it's hard to admit that i was but you know what i gotta say it and uh probably getting what i deserve hopefully it's the last part though hopefully it's the last thing


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Alrighty, let's go and play this first. So we got a front, a couple of views here, and then a side, and then a three-quarter. My main impression watching this is that it's a bit, it's almost like it's too fluid. I think it would be good to have a little bit of a rhythm in there. There's one from a technical point of view, on the side of you, you can see a little bit how on that up it has a little bit of sudden stop here, and then it goes up if you watch this here. That's my technical sound. Actually, that's the funny thing is I would keep that a bit more fluid without that sudden stop there. So it's how your arm here goes up, and you can see how it suddenly goes up and then ends here. Then we're kind of locked in this area to some degree.  I think I would keep that a bit more easy and then back, but generally it feels like you want to go up. It's almost like you want to hold here a bit longer if you can. It's almost like this section with this still going up a bit.  It's this moment of exertion. Okay, up quickly. Let's get ready. Instead of the constant up and down and up and down, that's kind of the feeling that I have. Same thing with this. It gets into a bit of this undulating and and and and like that where you want a moment of, but it feels like you're leading with the head. So it would be a thing of where it's like really the head goes up in a stronger move, and then you can have a little bit more of a rotation this way. It has a little bit of a curve like that in the head as well, and then I would offset these guys a bit. It feels like they're going down at the same time. You just have to look at, you have to kind of look at what is happening here. I feel like this is already going up, including the chest. That's a bigger thing, but to me, what I would tune in the the chest with the wing move. So it's ready to go. It's the dragon, and then you have that powerful flap down, and on this that's what also brings up the chest. So you have a moment of, this is not going up just yet. You can lead with the head, and then maybe start a rotation in the chest, but isn't going up just yet, because your up move is going to happen around here to me. It feels like we are still, we're going up with the wings, so there's there's no more up movement possible because of the wing flap here, right? So once we get past this, the dragon starts to fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall till around here-ish. So your move up is too soon. So I would delay that, and then really separate the chest from the hips. So you know, we're outside of the bird realm. Obviously we look at bird for reference, but now that we have kind of what's going on with the back to front, we can go a bit more outside the reference realm. To me, it's always like I want to separate this and this, where it's really the section of this shooting up is really the chest going up here with this a bit lower, and that's going to drag the legs first, the front legs, then as you have the separation and overlap and the offset between the chest and the hips, when the hips go up, that's what's going to drag the legs, the back legs. So to me, they're a bit too in sync.  This feels more like a dragon deciding what it wants to do when the wings happen to just flap, versus kind of the physics aspect of falling, falling, falling, falling, now I'm going back up. And then on the front view, as you do this, then you can start off setting things for like on this frame, this would be a bit lower, and then here this could be a bit higher. So it's not an overall only this side is two frames late. You kind of switch it up where maybe, you know, at this point, maybe they could be together slightly off and then up here, one is a bit stronger than the other. And then at that point, this one recovered and is a bit higher stuff like that, give a bit of an offset between where I can switching between left and right, where the asymmetry is. And then the tail is a bit loosen up the tip just a bit feels like it's very stiff, as it moves left and right, where you want to keep that fairly strong, but then towards here it gets a bit softer and you have a bit more bendy options. I think it's we can loosen that section up a little bit, especially in the left and right. This just feels a bit we're doing this with a fairly stiff tail there. Alrighty, definitely looking better. But I think the first thing I would change is the up and down when that happens because of what the wings are doing. It's the wings that are bringing this up and you want around here ish to me is when the when the up move happens. So some around here, which then it's a fine line, because then you're going to leave with the head like usually, the vanilla would be not leading with the head. So you have a stronger chest buckle, well, then the head is a bit lower. And then the hips are dragging a little bit for this big and all this is dragging there.  It's kind of like up with the head flap. It's just a bit more time together. Alrighty, that's that. Sorry, might be a little bit of a destructive note, but it definitely needs some fixing because otherwise, you're kind of in that wish dragon, Falcor, you know, more Chinese dragon have no wings where they just magically move around and they can riot type thing where they can just move versus a bit more physics driven, even though their structure is kind of bananas, it's the wings that will prevent it from falling and brings it back up. Anyway, rambling and we'll leave it at that. Let me know what you think. Thanks.


Hello there everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and I'm reviewing FDX, which was an option trade this week. And it was one of these ones that I called really tight because of the fact that I expected it to make the move very quickly after the earnings, which it did. If you have any questions, you can email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com or call me at 929-3200 Gap. And you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. If you decide you want a day trade, you can day trade options or you can day trade equity trades. Either way, it's a very nice way to make money because you can work from home and do it anywhere in the world. So if you've ever thought about trading for a living, if you're interested in more information, you can reach out to me and again, email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com. There are many, many different types of traders.  And today, I'm focusing on talking about day trading or option trading, but either way, you yourself are placing the trades when you were getting in the trades and you were getting out of the trades. You have to have a fixed risk no matter what you do and it should be similar to the risk. And I say you could be beginner or you could be advanced. So it depends on the amount of money that you're risking and the size of your account with your expectations should be for yourself. Usually in a day trade, we're looking for a one-to-one turnover and in an option trade, same thing.  This was one that was more, which we will go over. But before you begin to even risk any money in the market at all, you should have a strategy that you follow, which I do, which is the golden gap. And it's not necessary to have a mentor, but I do think it's helpful if you have someone calling the trades like I do for my traders. So how do I do it? I go through the checklist, boom, boom, boom. Go through the checklist in the morning, review it, and that's how I figure out what stock to watch and which gap to watch and which direction it's going. And in the case of FDX, it was a short. The difference between options, which we're gonna talk about here in a minute though, and day trading, as far as taking the equity position is, with the option you just pay the cost, you don't have to worry about margin or buying power. So that's nice for a lot of people, but the system itself is the same, okay? The golden gap reading system is how I tell that the stock's gonna go down and FDX is, for the example, it rated very high. So I could tell the stock was gonna sell off so you could have bought a put or you could have shorted the stock or you could have done both. So if you decide you wanna trade options, it's very interesting because again, you don't have to deal with the margin requirements in a stock like FDX, which is kind of expensive. It definitely helps you because you don't have to worry about having the margin or buying power. So I have a letter. It is a letter that I offer, it's an annual letter where you get the entire year for one cost for $49.99, it's five grand. You get all of my options calls for the whole year. Now FDX closed here the night before gap down. So I got up in the morning, I rated the gap and I called this option called before the open. You can't take it before the open but I called it before the open so you take it into the open. So you could have bought the FDX puts, if you were on the option letter, strike 170. This was the call. I sent it out right before the open here. 1221 was the expiration. So sometimes I call it out a week, sometimes two weeks, sometimes in this case the same week but I expected them to be big right of ways which it was. The stock is still even going here at the last day of expiration but I don't suggest people to hold it to the last day. The play was on the day or out the next day. And this was one where the market actually helped this trade go to. Now, if you were a beginner, cost to the option would have paid three, two contracts cost you what, 600, sold at 975. Again, this is still lower today on the last day but I don't think anyone should hold it the last day but you could have and made more. Profit $1,350 bucks. Return of investment in this case here at 225%. So that's a very, very nice trade. You will find that many, like I said of the options trades I call end up being more than a 100% turnover and that helps pay for the trades that do not work. Not every trade works. I have about an 80% win ratio for my system. So you figure out that every 10 trades, eight are gonna work and be winners and two will be losers. But the nice thing also about options too is that you only are risking what you are putting up for the cost of the contract. So in this case here again, advanced risk, same trade, different position just based on the size. 20 contracts cost six grand, sold at 975, profit $13,500. Return of investment 225%. It's a nice move. And so this is a client actually that is on the letter. He's doing the options, he's doing well. He's making money and he's learned a lot. He's learned a lot about reading the market list actually based on my calls which is very, very interesting. So you will learn being on that letter too. What's the difference and the benefits and the difference again? It's really the same strategy. It's just you don't have a margin account requirement. So the benefits of trading options versus equity trades is what? No margin requirements, no day trading margin requirements. The only cost is the price you pay for the trade. You can make active money day trading just like equity trades, active money trading them in out, in out. You can make a good return on investment. So these are the benefits. Options are a way also to make money if you cannot be in the live trading room daily. And so if you honestly are at work, we trade between 9.30 and 10 a.m. Eastern time and you can't be in and out and watch the trades in seconds or minutes for the day trading and then sign up for the option letter. Sign up for the option newsletter. Again, it's 49.99 a year. It's five grand a year and you get all the trades for a year. You won't be doing the class. However, you will get the trades and if you don't have time to be in the room this is a benefit. Think about it. You can transition your way from doing the option letter and then taking the class later if you want to and then day trading into the room, make money doing options. A lot of people have done that and then transitioned from the letter to the class. In fact, I have some students signed up for the January class or better who were on the letter this year and now they wanna learn the system and they wanna do both. Day trade in the room and the options because they've made money on the newsletter. If you'd like more information and if you wanna sign up for the Golden Gat course and learn the system itself, the next class is January 12th and 13th, nine to five Eastern time, cost of the class is $59.99 U.S. dollars. The class is online. It can be anywhere in the world and take it. If you wanna do both, the combo for the trends and the gap class is $64.99. This class is online. Again, it can be anywhere in the world and take it. Think about what you wanna do for 2019. Think about your goals, what you wanna achieve. I'm doing a New Year New Year special and this is really to help people just get forward and get somewhere with their trading. You would get the trading room free for one year. If you sign up and sign up and pay by January 1st. This is not the option letters, it's a room and when I call a trade like FDX, you could do it as an option, as a put if you want. Now if you just want the options letter, it's $49.99 for the whole year and I would sign up for that as soon as possible if you're interested not to miss any more trades like FDX, which was a really good one. Have a fabulous, fabulous New Year's everybody. Have a fabulous holiday and email me if you're interested in signing up for the Golden Gat course or the newsletter. Have a great day.


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Hello everyone, from the outset our government has worked closely with the provinces and territories to support Canadians during the pandemic. Fighting COVID-19 has always been a Team Canada effort and it continues to be as we move into the recovery phase. We've been working with our provincial and territorial partners to outline what needs to be done over the next six to eight months to safely restart our economy and today I have some good news to share. Our government will invest over 19 billion dollars to ensure the provinces and territories have the support they need to protect the health of Canadians, help people get back to work safely and prepare for a potential second wave. As part of this agreement we've outlined seven priority areas on which to focus our efforts, like increased testing and contact tracing, securing more personal protective equipment and more support for the most vulnerable including for seniors in long-term care facilities and nursing homes. But COVID-19 isn't just a health crisis, it's an economic crisis too. So when we talk about the recovery phase it's not just about making sure we can detect, control and prevent future outbreaks. It's also about helping people, businesses and entire communities adjust to our new normal because when we find until we find a vaccine the daily threat of COVID-19 will not disappear. In addition to buying more PPE so workers can follow public health guidelines at the office we also have to make sure that people can get to work safely, that children are looked after and that those who can't find work right away are supported. So making sure there are enough safe childcare spaces available or supporting people who don't have paid sick leave those must be top priorities too. This agreement also includes more support for municipalities. Our towns and cities have been at the forefront of responding to COVID-19. Cities must remain up and running if our economy is to eventually get back up and running. If cities aren't equipped for a safe restart people will not be safe. That's why today's agreement provides municipalities with funding to cover operational costs. We're also going to give more support to transit specifically. If we want people to participate in the economy they need to be able to get to work safely. No one should have to turn down a job because they don't want to risk their health during a crowded commute. Investments in municipalities and in transit will be shared evenly between the federal and provincial governments. As we prepare our economic recovery all orders of government know we have to keep working together to keep people safe. On that note, I want to thank Deputy Prime Minister Freeland, the Premiers, and officials who have worked hard to support Canadians and lay the groundwork for our economic recovery with this agreement. Over the last few weeks we have worked with the provincial governments and territories to determine what we have to do over the next six to eight months to restart the economy safely. And today I have good news to announce. Our government will invest more than $19 billion so that provinces and territories have the necessary resources to protect Canadians' health and help people return to work and prepare for a potential second wave. In the framework of this agreement, we have established seven priority areas in which we must focus our efforts. We must, in particular, increase our capacity to dispatch and search for contacts, obtain more equipment for individual protection, and provide more support to the most vulnerable, including those who live in the CHSLDs or residences for elderly people. But COVID-19 is not just a health crisis. It is also an economic crisis. To get through it, we must not only improve our capacity to detect, cure and prevent COVID-19. We must also help people, companies and communities to adapt to our new reality, because the threat of COVID-19 will always be present, as long as we have no vaccines. It is not enough to buy more equipment for individual protection so that people can respect public health advice at work. We must also ensure that people can return to work in a safe manner, that their children are taken care of, and that those who cannot find work immediately receive support. So, making sure that there is enough room in the kindergartners or supporting workers who do not have any health problems, that must also be part of our priorities. The agreement concluded today also includes more support for the municipalities. Our cities are the first line of the fight against COVID-19 since the beginning. To open up the economy in a safe manner, our cities must have the tools and the necessary resources to prepare. Otherwise, we risk people's health. The agreement therefore provides more support to help municipalities with operational costs. We will also make investments in public transport, because no one should refuse a job because we do not want to risk our health every morning. Investments as much in municipalities as in transport will be shared equally between the federal and the provincial. All governments' orders will continue to work together to prepare and ensure the recovery of the economy. Canadians can count on us. I want to close this press conference with some news regarding the Canada-U.S. border. Once again, Canada and the United States have agreed to extend the current border measures by one month until August 21st. And we're going to keep working closely with our American neighbors to keep people safe on both sides of the border. We have also confirmed that Canada and the United States have agreed to extend the current border measures by one month until August 21st. Tomorrow, Minister Morneau will announce more details on the subject of emergency wages. We will also have more to say on the way in which we consider more people in handicap situations. We have already shared the bill with the opposition parties, so we will have more news tomorrow.


What we're announcing is a co-development agreement, one of our technologies from the Institute, that looks at delivering a new drug candidate to treat parainfluenza virus, a viral infection that has no cure and no preventative at this point in time. It causes croupin kids, causes bronchiolitis as well as pneumonia and bronchitis, both in children as well as in the elderly, typically with immunocompromised people and cancer patients. There's a greater than 50% mortality rate as a consequence of this virus when they get infected. Normally we would be investing in relatively mature, lay-stage development projects, but this one is of paramount importance to the general health care of a large population and we believe that this is the right place and the right people that we're working with to make this work. There are basically no competitive technologies in the development pathway that are small molecules and therefore we're very confident that we'll actually be able to take this drug candidate right the way through to market with China Grand Pharma as a partner. We know that China Grand Pharma have fantastic manufacturer expertise, they have fantastic global distribution expertise and using that expertise, once we've gone through the clinical work, we can actually get this drug out to the market and to the people, the patients where it's needed most. Using that structure-informed drug discovery process, this project is so much more advanced. We see now the end in sight to deliver a new drug candidate that can be ready for human phase one clinical trials in short time.