It's time for Interactive. Download the Sportsmax app from the Google Player of the App Store and watch a variety of live sporting action, including the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations and the Winter Youth Olympic Games, where three Jamaicans and a Puerto Rican are representing the region in Korea. Also, check out our clips on X, Instagram and YouTube. And remember, if you missed it, is now on Sportsmax, CNTV and YouTube. This week, Mariah spoke with the head coach of Jamaica's national senior men's football team, Haimahal Grimson. Please do, coach, because that passion, of course, as I said, comes from a place of care. Are you pleased with what you've been able to achieve with this team so far, with a little time? No, I can't say. I wish we were in a little bit better place in everything. But I know as well that what I have to work with and what the GF has to work with, I need to be respectful that things will take time to develop and change. I think in the past, the growth, especially in the infrastructure has been slow and the pandemic hit really bad here in Jamaica. So we just need to be respectful of the situation and work with what we have. Yeah, Mariah, with Mr. Hal Grimson, you'll definitely want to see that one. Of course, Mariah took an early day today, probably has a party later on or something. All right, it's time to show you the nominations for this week's Sportsmax class moment. Five kilometres an hour and so hit that. The most brilliant reflex action from the Lex and Azical. Jack Edwards. Cracker Jacks had quite the night. Is that a beauty in the field, hasn't he? He's made a huge difference for the Sydney Sixers and, tell you what, catches win matches. Look at that. That is an absolute stunner. Well, we put that one in the highlight reel, not even for just this year, next year. That's one of the best calls. That pressing, that pressing is just, it's amazing really. You can see they've worked out their game plan, their strategy is working for them and if they continue doing this, they definitely, definitely they're going to have a future to play. One and a half seconds, Isam, a brace and we'll finish. And I suspect the assistant referee has got it just right. There is VAR in operation of both these, at all these matches. But that was sensational. Delivering test cricket. Degrade Steve Smith. Edges straight to second slip. That will go on the record books for that young man and what a start to his career. Steve Smith. Edged and taken. What a start. The nomination is extremely strong on this fantastic Friday lands for the sports max class moment. Tough one. Although it's not really a tough one. Brilliant big bash catch by Edward. That was a fabulous catch. Great goal in Afghan. I rather enjoy that, although it was disallowed for offside. That's the best non goal I've seen ever. It was tremendous and bought with a brilliant finish as well in the EPL. But there can only be one winner. Shamar Joseph, the guy in his fastball. On the navel, on the navel, the moment was was euphoric and four good contenders for the sports max class moment this week. But Shamar Joseph aces it for me, but he has he has beaten a good group of contenders. But again, it speaks to how good Shamar Joseph was this week. And to dismiss Steve Smith, one of the best batsmen in the game currently, one of the greats of the game. First ball of your test career is immense. Yeah. On the part of Shamar Joseph and you spoke about his star quality. Lance fans spoke about it as well. And that by the end of the second day of this test match, maybe even out of the first day, he was the one being applauded off the park by the Australian fans. And incidentally, when he went to South Africa on the A team tour, a similar thing happened there as well. And when he arrived in Australia, when he played the warmup match, he was speaking about a number of kids coming up to him and saying that and had pictures of him performing in South Africa and asking him to sign. So this guy is already a superstar and he's he's not played 10 first class matches yet. You know, he hasn't. Yeah. Wow, incredible. X, West End is all around the Deandra Dottin posted this on X. She says I said this one year ago, one year and six months ago, and no one had heard to what I said. So here it is. Now tell me, doesn't it look like something's wrong? Yeah, and she's responding to the fact that four West Indies women cricketers retired from the international game or announced their retirement yesterday led by Anisa Muhammad, twin sisters Kaysia and Kaishona Knight in that list as well as well as Shakira Selman. What do you make of this lands? Well, Anisa was always going to retire soon. I think Shakira has had some injuries and so on. And those aren't but the Kaysia Knight and Kaishona Knight double for me was a little bit unexpected. They're only 31 years old and to me still have a lot to offer. But there were things that Deandra Dottin had been upset about or uncomfortable about in the West End is set up that she didn't elaborate on. And I think she's trying to highlight that there's something in their environment of the West Indies women's team at the moment that isn't conducive to growth of the team and efficient performances. But you'd have to explain what what what those are because we are we aren't sure. Yeah, I know she probably won't but I'll say the same thing to her that I said to the regga girls at some points last year that she should come forward and have a conversation with us here on the Sports Mag Zone and let's hear what she thinks is really going on and why she felt a year and six months ago that she had to step away from the game and why she feels that the four retirements have a connection and specifically a connection with what is happening in the West Indies women's set up. So I would love to hear her elaborate on what she really thinks is going on. Well, it is rumoured that Arsenal is looking at a potential loan agreement for Karen Benzema. Let's see what football fans are saying on X. Yeah, if we allow this to happen, it just tells me everything I need to know about the direction of our club says Gabby. Madrid night, the only way they can actually win something is by signing him. If our Teta can't manage Benz's ego, I don't think he's gonna be top coach any day. Joe Ben, I hope so because then Arsenal fans will finally be able to witness what a prodigious attacking talent actually looks like even after he's left his prime. It's sad to say, but Benzema in 2024 would legit raise the level of our club for years to come. Shake my head. Lance Whitaker.  I think that's a little illogical. Yes, maybe they're talking about the last ten years. Okay, maybe they're talking about the no generation. Yeah, it would have to be. It definitely would have to be. So that one is a surprise. Yeah. You know who I would love to hear on this? Brent Sancho. Yeah, because I know he has high regard for Benzema. Yes. And he feeds Arsenal needs something. So maybe maybe the next time we talk to Brent, we could get his view on that. Yeah, whether Benzema is actually it is another thing. What? Can you believe it, Lance? It's almost six o'clock Jamaica time, seven in the Eastern Caribbean. That means it's time for us to go for this week. And if things were different, we would be saying that join Adelaide for some test cricket in another half an hour. But we can't. Lance, did you really bring that up? We're all out of time. We started the show that way, so we can end it that way as well. We're all the time. Enjoy the music.


So a moisturizing honey oil mask honey has tons of benefits as you can see here I'm gonna be using a organic honey that I just purchased from a local grocery store and then the oils well That's just your choice. I use sweet almond oil olive oil Jamaican black castor oil jojoba oil I use tons of different oils you guys and I place everything in an applicator jar to make it easier for me but you're gonna see here that I'm gonna put everything in another container and I would say I used about one cup of honey and I don't know one fourth of a cup of the oil mixture who is my oil mixture I keep in an applicator jar and this is what the honey and all mixture looks like together so let's just go ahead and get started okay alright so I have my mixture here and I have it in a bowl of warm water because I want to ensure that this is kind of warm when I apply it now I'm going to apply it to my hair my hair is already wet it's already been cleansed and then I'm going to allow it to sit on my hair for about 15 to 20 minutes okay so let's go ahead and get started all right you guys so don't know if I mentioned this but I am applying this to freshly washed hair and I am going to say this towards the end of the video this is more of a moisturizing mask than a conditioning mask okay one thing you'll want to do and I'll show you an example here is that while you are applying as you see how the oil is sitting on top of the honey this is due to the molecular weight you want to make sure that you shake this up as you are applying it to your hair okay so I'm gonna go ahead and apply it to my hair and then leave it on for about 15 to 20 minutes and I'm gonna put on a plastic cap to help with that heat all right it just got off the shower in yes yes my hair feels very very very soft this is what it looks like up close doesn't it look soft and very moisturized very very soft now with that being said if I were to do this again I would do this after I conditioned my hair because I didn't condition my hair yeah I didn't condition my hair I literally just shampooed my hair and I thought that this would condition it but it didn't it acted when I should have known better especially with the honey and the oils it acted more as a moisturizer more so than a conditioner does that make sense you guys wish it perfectly makes sense to me given what I used so try it out let me know how you think it will work on your hair I definitely think this will help for those of you who are high porosity and those of you who are having some issues with your hair being dry I would definitely excuse my glasses I would definitely be coming back with some other DIY hair products that you could be using so that is it thank you so much for watching and thank you as always to all my subscribers take care bye


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All right. Hey, guys. We're in a new segment, Toka the Town. Today, we have a special guest, Trappley and Pat from Florida. So how are you liking New York right now? Man, I like the vibe. It's kind of fast. A lot of traffic. A lot of traffic. Yeah. Is it worse than Florida? Yeah, a whole lot of walking too. Yeah, it's worse than Florida. I know it's hard. It's no parking lot, yeah. Florida, y'all be having space. Yeah, we got space. So tell us how you got into music. Well, I was already into music. I used to freestyle all the time. I wasn't in too deep, though. I was pretty shallow, but I always used to hit the studio. But when I left college, a little setback at the college, I wasn't able to return to the campus. I really took it serious. It became my first priority ever since then. I've just been going at it, trying to elevate every time. OK, so when did you was done with basketball? I wanted to seriously go here. And I was the best footballer. Football. Yeah, I played football. No, you're right. I was really briefed in. So when did you was done with football and wanted to go have you on the music? As soon as I left, the first semester of college, my freshman semester after that, it was time to take music more serious. I couldn't return. So it was my first priority. That's what I wanted to do. And I just substituted school for rapping. OK. So you remember your first song, you mean? Yeah, I do. What was it called? It was called, it was like, what it was called, different breed. You remember it? It was called different breed, yeah. So like, you said you remember it? Yeah, I remember it. So how do you feel like you grew as an artist from your first song as to now? Like, where do you feel like you improved? I used to rap with no hooks. I never had hooks on the songs. I used to just flow through bars, just the whole thing, like 60 bars. But now I'm able to like lay out hooks, choruses, and everything I got to do is like, it's more established. It's more, it's more flowing. Everything flows more better than me just flowing straight through a beat. So your structure definitely improved? Yeah, my structure improved. So you feel like you learned that over time or? Yeah, I learned that as I like, as I go to the studio, I look at the studio as like practice, like where you go to like get better at certain places where you like, you stumble. Do you have a favorite place you like recording? Yeah, but I don't want to say favorite, but I actually do. Yeah, the first place I ever started recording that, that's where I usually go the most. So you have a set engineer, producer? Yeah, it's an engineer. DC, I use multiple engineers, but DC, he was the first one that recorded me. 808 Nate, J-O, DJ No Limit, Hall of Fame. Yeah, so we'll keep right up. So you buzzing now. So when you see like your type beats on YouTube, you ever check those out? Yeah, I'd be freestyling to them all the time. I must say you feel like those definitely capture your sound. Yeah, I do, some of them do. Do you have like a favorite producer? Yeah, Pepper Jack, Joe. He makes most of my beats. I'm still open to other producers though, but yeah, he makes majority of my beats. Okay, all right. So when did the success start picking up for you? It was like, when did, it was like, oh, I can't just walk to any store in the world. Like when did this start happening?  I already get messages in my Instagram, like I see you man, keep it going though.  Yeah, one time I pulled up to a gas station and it was nowhere near. Somebody just walked up to me, like out of nowhere, my homeboy like, damn, you knew him? And I'm like, nah man, but he knew me and he was like, damn, you see what I be talking about? It was funny, yeah. Taking everything's game, people don't know you for real. It was definitely at that time. So what do you feel like attracted everybody to big business? Cause people would say it's your eyes, but I really think it's a good song. So what do you think it was? Could be the beat, the scenery, the thumbnail to the thumbnail played a role. My manager, she always was talking about thumbnail. I never knew anything about a thumbnail. Yeah, I really never know about that type of stuff, but the thumbnail, all of that, everything played a role. So when did you start doing a thing with your eyes?  So everybody has stuff that they do recreationally before they go have a good time. I don't really, I don't really gotta get too deep into it, but before the music videos, everybody hangs out, enjoys it so. So this is having fun? Yeah, hanging out, yeah, enjoying it so. Okay, okay, okay. So how did you get into Alfredo? Like, how did you guys meet? Well I met him before at a video shoot and I took a little picture from him. It's still on my Instagram, it's probably the last picture. But yeah, I met him there. We ain't say too much, exchange a few words. But recently, last year in November, somebody from the scene reached out to me. We connected, you know, we met up at the office, came to a conclusion, you know, who was able to like make ends meet and ever since then. We been aiming for the stars, for real, damn best. It's crazy. So a lot of artists are like against, I guess, starting to other artists and things like that. What would you say is the plus to being with big artists, you know? What is the plus though? Not only you wanna get in depth though. I'm saying everybody got their own route. I don't feel like there's a flaw in doing anything. Everybody got a different situation. So at the end of the day, it's whatever you gotta do in order to make ends meet. So that's how I'm gonna get it. So definitely one step going up the line. Yes, a step is going on. Okay, okay, okay. So what inspired Do the Door project? Oh, I mean, I mean, okay, the people around me always said I gotta make a statement. So we came to the conclusion that we could call the mixtape Do the Door. Like we here, we're showing them why we should be Do the Door and stuff like that. And there was a lot of doubt and stuff. So we was able to like pick a lot of, pick songs that were on the same type of like scale, format, same vibe and Do the Door came out good for real. So you have like a certain, so it definitely captured a certain sound, the whole project. What would you say is your favorite song on the project? Hustler. Hustler? And what about that song is like, make for your favorite? I like that song. That is when I made that song. It's me, like when I listen to that song, it takes me somewhere that only I know what's going on. So it's like. I feel like that whole vibe on there was like. Yeah, that thing was there. So what's wrong on the set? We feel like needs more recognition or a song that you feel like it's slept on on the project. Or you can't tell just yet. Oh, no heart. You feel like they sleeping on that song? Yeah, no heart can't slept on, but it's okay. It probably needs a visual, you know, sometimes, but they sleeping on that song forever. I think the students don't know how it kind of looks. Okay, okay. So tell us how some of your features came about. You got to cut em' Reese. You have a lot of features. But yeah, cut em' Reese by you. I wanted to do the song with him. I felt like he could lay out a verse that could really be good on the song. So who was able to connect and get that done? Trunks, he's kind of from the same area. So reached out to him. I like his vibe. You know, he's like kind of like emo, emo type music, dark music. So you're into tapping into blue sounds and different people and things like that? I like challenges. So I like putting myself in uncomfortable positions or adapting to somebody else's music just to see if I could do that. Who was able to do that without a problem? So what's something on your bucket list when it comes to music? Bucket list when you say bucket list life. Like what's one thing you wanna accomplish? Like once it's done, you're like, yeah, I did that. Gotta hit that billboard. But not just one time multiple. Like the first one, the first one, billboard. Then what's one more? Billboard. People say to go plaque, people say. Oh, with a million streams, platinum, diamond. Olat, Olat stuff. Yeah, stuff with serious royalties. Olat stuff. Like big businesses running though. Yeah, I need to get going. Yeah, it's just not getting started though. Okay, so what's next 2021? Well, I got another project on the way, but I'm touring next month, so I'll be touring like June, July, everywhere, all over the U.S. right now. All over the U.S.? Yeah, all over the U.S. Okay, so tell the people where to find you and how they could get in tune with you. A lot of people want to get sent to B.C. too. But we ain't gonna go. Okay, you can find me on every social media platform at Tracklandpad, T-R-A-P, L-A-N-D-Pad, everywhere. Oh, and if you want to send me beats, I got the email beats for Tracklandpad at gmail.com, B-E-A-T-S, for Tracklandpad at gmail.com. I'm taking every beat, drill beats and everything. I know the New York light drill. I'm trying to see. Yeah, how do you feel about the drill scene? I feel what drill music, yeah. Who you listen to? Who you been to? I actually listen to Five U a lot for real, though. Oh, yeah? Yeah, my homeboy got me listening to Chef G, Cappello, a type of people, Sleepy Hollow. Yeah, a whole lot of people, y'all know. Okay, okay. Lucky Shrula, everybody. Are you tap into the music scene? Oh, yeah. People are going to come to New York some more? Yeah, I like it. Okay. We outside. We outside.


Ladies and gentlemen, Corrupted Strength Classic 2022 first annual, just chopped it off my boy Russ. We're here in H-Town.  Lipton's already started. We're about to get ready for the second session, I believe. We're here with the whole, all the boys, man, John, JP, Barton, and Eames running around. All the other homies are coaching. Okay. Diego and Joe are already in the mix. A lot of Lipton going on, so we're going to see, probably some big listeners, I think there's some big name Lipters going on, and see what the event's about. So stay tuned. It's good, man. Energy's good in there, actually. Energy's good. A lot of new faces to the sport, which is really dope. A lot of people, I can tell they're younger, they're excited, and that's kind of what you need in any sports.  It just naturally happens in other sports where, like, NBA, you retire, then the new freshman, the new rookies, but, like, in this sport, it used to be an old head sport.  Like, everyone's young and hungry. It's cool. That's what you need. A bit more diverse. Way more diverse. Age, race, where they're from, that's good. Dope, I love the powerlifting community. Maybe even a little bit more than the bodybuilding community.  Just because whenever you go to a powerlifting gym, everybody hypes each other up, so it's cool. It's like a little family, even if you don't know each other. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe two or three? Yeah. It's been a minute though, so I haven't been since college, because I had powerlifting buddies, but this is definitely the biggest one. Yeah. I don't think it would be fair to ask you to rank a woody. No, no, no. Okay, if I did have to rank it, this is number one. For sure, yeah, no. This is the biggest one I've been to, is dope. Okay. Yeah, a lot of people here. Do you plan on going to, like, more powerlifting? I mean, if you guys invite me. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll try. I'll invite you? Whenever I plan on a powerlifting, maybe, maybe. So, after I'm done with bodybuilding, I'm probably not going to compete again. So I want to go and do different things, you know, martial arts, maybe powerlifting. So I enjoy squat bench dead. So if I get strong and good at it, and I don't embarrass myself, then maybe I'll do it. You know, maybe if, uh, Tim and, uh, Joe, you know, then I'll do some with that. Yeah. Okay, cool. Here we are today at the Corrupted Classic 2022. Here we are. Okay. Yeah, here we are. How do you like this one for? Dude. Yeah, I pulled Russ aside earlier, and I told him, despite this being his first meet, this is probably one of the best, if not the best, local meet that I've ever been to. Now, granted, the last time that I was on Mike's channel, we were at PowerFest. And granted, that was an amazing meet that was run. But Russ and his team, like, I talked to him, they ran to a few hiccups, as any meet director does. We can tell you from experience, but, you know, him and his team, they really pulled it together. Gia's doing an awesome job. Hi, Gia. They're doing an awesome job and everything. And yeah, I would say this is my top three of local meets. Oh, this is... Top three. Top three. Okay, okay. Do you have a plan on coming back? Yeah, so I was actually talking to the guys a little bit, and I'll always love powerlifting, whether it's as a competitor or someone that's just trying to promote the growth of the sport. I'm going to come back to it. I kind of want to compete at least one more time before I turn 30. Then I take a look at guys like LS who were like mid-40s, and they're still PR-ing in the gym. So like I said, I'll always be passionate about it. I want to compete at least one more time. Emphasis on at least one more time, because I've got a vengeance for person goals. I was 0.01 away from becoming a pro. You know that? It was great from your last meet, right? 99.99, and I need the 100, because I got called on down twice. I'm going to say that pop-up. That's neither here. It's okay. But you're coming for it. I am coming for it. I would like to get my pro card, and I'd be happy. I'd be happy. Tintibito the pro? Tintibito the pro. Professional powerlifter. TTPP. TTPP. Tintibito professional powerlifter. Do you like how diverse powerlifting has become? How was it before when you came into it? So when I came into powerlifting, I would say it started growing a little bit, because I would say this is during the golden era of YouTube or social media fitness, and this is when I started watching Johnny Candido, and if you go to any powerlifter that's around my age, or has been competing as long as I have, chances are they're going to say Johnny Candido got them into the sport. And that's when a handful of people started signing up for USA for yelling everything. But then you get more and more content creators on the platform, especially today with TikTok. I saw a few very popular TikTokers competing in this meet today. I'm like, damn, we have something really special going on right here. I didn't know the powerlifting was going to get as big as it is today. Which is really one of the things that I set out to do. I care so much about the sport that I don't necessarily need to be the best competitor, but as long as the sport is moving in an upward direction in terms of growth and popularity, that's really all I care about. We're never going to be in the Olympics, that really doesn't matter that much. But as long as we get more of the general public competing in powerlifting, that's really all that matters. So I would say it's in a really good spot. I was actually talking to this one kid today. He came up to me, asked me for a picture, and I asked him how he did it at the meet. And he's like, oh, I took a couple of records, like the squat record, bench record, and the total record. And I asked him how old he is, kid 17. He's 17. I started competing when I was 21 or 22. And I told him that he's a really, really good spot. And his generation, they're responsible for this upswing in growth right now in powerlifting. So it's in a really good spot. I know that was a long drawn out answer. But I'm just so passionate about the growth of the sport that it's awesome seeing the younger population competing. So it's in a good spot. Thank you for being here, man. We appreciate you, Tim. Appreciate you, man. Love you. We love you over here. Can we get the, there we go. Nice. Tom, since I've seen, I don't even know, seven folks pull over seven in the same meet, and they're not all big dudes. They're all like 100 kilo, 110 kilo. So sports come a long way, man. It's kind of cool to kind of, obviously I've been in a long time. And then we're coming back from like the COVID sleepiness, opening third street stuff. I've been a little locked down on the grind there and getting things flowing. So now we're back on the road and getting our faces out to not only see old friends, make new friends, people I've seen on the internet. I see how far the sports come. It's pretty crazy, man. So shout out to the corrupted team. Give it a day, shout out to Russ and the guys for putting on the meet and having us out here to hang out. We'll catch you the next week. I'm going to go get some food. I'm going to go to bed. I think we're going to train with the boys to stay tuned for more vlogs, more training here from Houston, H-Town. Be apart of something bigger than yourself, man. We have a meet, we'll see you every Monday, Thursday.


Welcome back to New Mandala's live coverage of Thailand's 2011 election. It's been a big night already and here at the Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific in Canberra, I'm joined once again by my colleague Dr Andrew Walker. Andrew, very good to see you. It's been a long evening Nick. I've read a lot of tweets tonight. And so what have you made of Twitter as an innovation when it comes to type political analysis? Do you think it's been a good thing? Well, I think it's perfect when you're trying to track things that are happening in real time where things are developing very quickly. Twitter's been a great resource tonight to keep track of what's happening in Thailand. And so what do we know at this particular moment about the results and about how the type political landscape perhaps will be reshaped by the events of this evening? Well, let's just look at some of the numbers. I, Tuxin himself was just interviewed on Voice TV and he's predicting 250 seats for Puay Thai. That's exactly half of the parliament. So it's just about, not quite an absolute majority in the Thai parliament. It seems that the most likely coalition partner is Charthai Patanar who have another 20 or so seats. So that would give the government at least 270. I think the result seems a fair bit closer than it was looking early on in the night. Early in the night with the exit polls coming out was suggesting Puay Thai might win as many as 300 seats. I remember you predicted, Nick, 287. I did indeed. I think you were a bit over ambitious there. I predicted 272, which was a lot closer than you. But I still think a bit over ambitious. It looks like Puay Thai is going to get about 250 seats. But they've comfortably won this election. They're 80 or 90 seats ahead of the Democrats. And there's no doubt that they'll be able to form a coalition government with Ying Lak Shinawat as Thailand's first female Prime Minister. So with Ying Lak as Thailand's first female Prime Minister, do you think she's going to be in for an easy ride? I think it's going to be a tough ride. There's obviously still very significant political opposition to her in Thailand. I think it would have been a lot easier for her obviously if she'd got a real landslide. But it is clear the Puay Thai vote has fallen a little bit under 50% of the national vote. And in terms of her claiming any clear electoral mandate, there's always going to be some questioning of that purely on mathematical grounds. I think a real challenge for her government is how she's going to handle her brother. Obviously it's on the agenda to bring him back to Thailand and to perhaps give him some role in the government, to perhaps rehabilitate him in some sense politically. So Andrew, what kind of role do you think former Prime Minister Taksin might take on under the auspices of a new Ying Lak Shinawat government? Well I think it remains to be seen. I think the possibilities range from some sort of behind the scenes advisory role to the government, perhaps even with him still living overseas. I think at the other extreme and perhaps in the medium to longer term, there might be a full return to politics and perhaps even the Prime Minister ship for Taksin himself. I don't think we can rule that out. I think that's a little unlikely but anything's possible in Thai politics. Whatever the role is, this is going to have to be handled very carefully by Ying Lak's government. She may well claim some mandate for this. Her party campaigned under the slogan that Taksin thinks Puay Thai acts. That's a clear signal that he's going to have a role in the government. They may claim some electoral endorsement for his rehabilitation, but obviously bringing him back to Thailand would galvanise a lot of opposition, a lot of very vigorous opposition and I think they'd be wise to move very slowly on that. So Andrew, it's been a historic result. How do you think the Thai elite's going to react? Well, to be frank I think it depends a bit on how silly they are. I'm sure there'll be some within the palace network or within the military or even the judiciary who will be already starting to think about ways they could legally challenge this result.  And there'll be some who'll already be looking through the conduct of the election to find some way in which they could undo this result. Frankly I think that would be an act of national lunacy. Last year we saw what can happen in April and May in Bangkok when certain sections of Thai society are unwilling to accept election results. And I think if they go down that path again after this very strong vote for Ying Lak Shinawa let's remember that if she does get over 250 it'll only be the second time in Thailand's modern political history that a party has achieved that. This is a very strong electoral endorsement and I think attempts to subvert it would be very, very hazardous for Thailand's democratic future. Thanks very much Andrew. That's all we have time for this evening. It's been wonderful as always to get your thoughts on the amazing dynamism that tends to swirl around Thai political action. So thank you again. That's right. I think there's going to be need for a lot of commentary in the weeks and months to come. I think it's going to be a very interesting period in Thai politics. Absolutely. And we're looking forward to it already. Thank you all for taking the time this evening to tune in to this special broadcast brought to you from the Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific in Canberra. My name is Nicholas Farrelly and it's been wonderful that you've taken the time. Thank you. Thanks Nick.


2-1 Toronto as we head to the fifth inning on our Audi scoreboard and joining us once again and kind enough to join us manager Aaron Boone. Aaron, thanks for being with us. Still knows where the camera is. How are you guys? We're doing well. What did you think of the outing of Garrett Cole today? It looked pretty good. Yeah, I thought he was really good. Actually, and the good thing is I thought he continued to get better and even finished even better. So encouraging to see the stuff and obviously building him up a little bit. I think he got up in the mid fifties this time pitch count wise. So on track and we'll break down the outing a little bit later, but I felt like all in all he threw the ball really well. Yeah, I think he showed off more of his weapons today too. Yeah, he broke out some of the good stuff. I'll tell you, early in the game, he throws that little two-seamer, but he doesn't lose a velocity at 97 on some of the lefties and just locked him up. Didn't even know he had that pitch and then later in the game overpowering up in the strike zone with the four-seamer. Yeah, I thought the Blue Jays did a pretty good job of laying off some pitches up early in the outing, but he stuck with it. It's definitely such an important pitch, but yeah, he just shows you so many weapons that he has in many different ways of attacking and getting different guys out. Well, Jordan Montgomery, man, you know, he's in position to help the Yankees this year coming back from Tommy Johnson. He pitched a little bit last year and you mentioned that you'd help him coming into this year. Yeah, I thought it was important for his kind of mindset to get back the way he did last year, work so hard to get back and to get in some games there in September. I think it was good for him mentally going into the winter and he was able to really work out well.  I think he's physically came in very sound ahead of the game a little bit and it's shown. You know, the results have been there. You know, he's pitched really well. He's thrown the ball really well. And we've seen that little uptick in the fastball for the most part, which I think is obviously going to serve him well. Now, I don't know if Aaron or you or Paul have ever had a surgery where you had to come back from it as we've seen Paul strike three on McKinney. And it's a mindset that you can still play. I always thought that, I mean, the last hurdle was in your mind that, all right, this is gone. And it takes a while. And it takes getting back out on the field and competing at this level. There's no question. And to be able to, you know, I'll relate it to the first time I tore my ACL, the first of two was when I was with the Reds. And, you know, in spring training, I wasn't sure if I was quite ready to go and just kind of getting out there and realizing you can trust it. It's like, oh, okay, I'm good to go. And you kind of hit the ground running from there when your body shows you you're capable of maybe doing a little more than you think. And I think that that's a little bit what happened for Bonnie at the end of last season. That pitch misses low to Randall Gritchick. Now, Aaron, Gary Sanchez. I think I read where you said he was scheduled to come back on Friday, but now he's come up with his fever that's going to set him back a bit. I mean, I hope not.  It's always a concern, but we've had a few guys and it's pretty much kind of been an overnight 24 hour thing that's kind of run its course. We're hoping that's the case with Gary and that, you know, he was here yesterday doing his work. He did all his catching work. And so hopefully tomorrow he'll be good if he gets the clean bill of health and is over the fever and will come in with the expectation that he'll do his catching. He's going to catch Otto and get some live at bats probably Thursday with the hope he'd be back in there Friday. So we'll see how long this thing lasts as far as, you know, an illness goes, but hopefully it doesn't set him back from getting back on the field. So you think his back is becoming a non-issue at this point? It's, you know, I feel like it was, you know, fairly minor from the start and it seems like it's improved every day.  You mentioned what's going on in the world and this new setup with the media and the ball players and the managers and coaches. Do you think this could be something that would just keep on going? You know, I don't know.  That's, you know, a global and Major League Baseball kind of call. So I don't know where it's going. I haven't really been privy to that much information. You know, I got word late last night and even this morning that that was the announcement, but honestly I'm not privy to, you know, what are any future steps that are being considered. The precautions that are taken by the, you know, Major League Baseball, but is there anything that you've mentioned to the team to kind of watch out for what they want to do?  We call really good, you know, reminders to guys to, you know, make sure you're watching yourself and being careful and taking care of yourself and others right now to try and avoid getting it. Well, I was just looking at our interview here and we are way past the six foot diameter, so we're good to go with this one. That is true. Paulie, welcome back. Thanks Aaron. Thanks once again.


you know not a lot of people know this but the introduction of the Kamasutra is as fascinating as the text itself because this is where Vaatsya the author of the Kamasutra answers a lot of questions that he feels that society will potentially throw at him for writing this text and so he says at one point he says a virgin living in her father's house should buy her wedding night have all of the knowledge of the Kamasutra so that after this she can just focus on becoming an expert at it of course there are some people who say that women are not capable of understanding any kind of science so it is nothing but a colossal waste of time trying to teach them the Kamasutra but how absurd says Vaatsya to forbid the study of this science to women and yet encourage them to practice it you know 2000 years have passed since this text was written and we're still fighting the same battle we still have one half of society who feels that it's really important for a woman to understand her own pleasure to learn about it to explore it and the other half that feels that a woman becomes impure even by simply thinking about it that somehow a woman's pleasure depends on somebody else's permission you know I just want to add for that section of society who feel that it's such a sin if a woman has not learned how to understand her own pleasure it's not just a problem for her it equally impacts both people in the relationship and that's something for you to think about


Thank you very much for inviting me again. As you rightly said, I sort of have two areas of work. One is about war and conflict and security policies and the other is about civil society and social movements. I was going to start with a point. There's a very nice book by Auric Beck that has just come out called German Europe. In the book he says, Monetary union without political union wasn't a mistake. Now everybody is saying we should never have established a monetary union without a political union. It was deliberate. The idea was to create material interests in political cooperation. And I think that's actually a very important point because maybe if we do have a hope, it's people being very scared about what would happen if monetary union collapsed. It was, if you like, according to him, an extension of the Monet method. And the Monet method, as many of you will remember, was we're going to create Europe by economic cooperation of various kinds, steel, coal, agriculture, and eventually the politics will follow. And it was based on the assumption of what was known at the time as the permissive consensus, namely that we trusted our elites and they could go ahead and do what they liked. And actually politics was really neglected and that, I think, is the problem today, that the permissive consensus is evaporating. And the question is actually, are the material interests in political cooperation strong enough to preserve and extend the European Union? What I want to talk today about is some research that we undertook at my unit last year. And the aim was to try and uncover a new political basis for European Union. And, well, in a minute I'll tell you what we concluded. But then I want to reflect a little about the problems of political legitimacy and the ways in which we maybe do need to reconceptualise Europe if we are to have a hope of generating a new political basis for the European Union. So we called the study Subterranean Politics and we used the term because we weren't quite sure what we were looking for. And we used the term to refer to a range of new and interesting phenomenon outside the political mainstream. And I didn't want to use the term civil society, partly because people tend to associate civil society with NGOs. And we tended to think about NGOs and I'll come back to that later as actually part of the elite as institutionalised politics. But also we wanted to be able to include new political parties which are usually considered outside of civil society like the power party, like the five star movement in Italy. And we didn't want to use the term social movements also because we wanted to look at political parties but also because there's such a big scholarly literature about social movements in civil society that there's a whole theoretical apparatus about how you go about studying these phenomenon and we wanted in a way to start afresh. So what we did was we had seven field teams across Europe at looking at the emergence of Subterranean politics in different cultural contexts. And we had four country teams looking at Germany, Spain, Italy and Hungary. We had one global city which was London. Actually we started off with a UK study and then we realised London was so different from the rest of the UK that we decided it was going to be a city study. And we had two trans-European studies. One looking at grassroots activism, the other looking focusing on movements against austerity. So what I'm going to tell you really is what came out of those studies and I just want to really make five points and then I'll come back to the issues of political legitimacy. The first point which our chair mentioned was bubbling up or resonance also. Actually what we observed in Europe was not necessarily bigger or more extensive or more organised or more transnational than in the past. I mean I've been running this Global Civil Society programme at LSE and we've tracked things like the movement against the war in Iraq, climate change, the World Social Forum and in many ways they were just as big. But what was interesting about the events of 2012 was the way they hit the mainstream. And I'll just give you a few little examples of that. One is that in Germany for example those people who were protesting were known as Wutberger, angry citizens. But actually it wasn't a term invented by the people themselves. It was invented by the press. And Wutberger became the new word of the year in the official German language society, the Gesellschaft für die Deutscher Sprache. And similarly, Indignados, which was the name given to the Spanish protesters, was not invented by the Spanish protesters. They called themselves the 15th of May movement. It was invented by the press explicitly referring, and some of you maybe have read this because it's really wonderful, a pamphlet by Stefan Hessell who was a French World War II resistance hearer. Also one of the drafters of the Declaration of Human Rights in his 90s who wrote a passionate pamphlet called Andignébu, Be Indignant. It's actually translated into English as Time for Outrage, but I think it sounds better in Andignébu. And so the press called them Indignados, the people who got indignant, which was actually an invented noun apparently. So that's one example. The other example I was going to give you was Occupy in London. Actually it was quite small, it was about 100 people, and most of them had either been in climate change camps as we discovered when we interviewed them, or they'd been sitting outside Parliament Square for 10 years protesting against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of you may remember that you saw them when you went, but nobody took any notice of them at all. But when they moved into the square mile and set up camp, suddenly they became a focus of mainstream interest. They caused a crisis in the Church of England which could not be a more establishment organisation with no less than three officials, I think, resigning because there was an argument about whether they should be allowed to stay or not. Bankers passed by and gave them money and even, which most activists wouldn't even dream of, they got invited to write an article in the Financial Times. So this is to give you... So what I really think is the first point I really wanted to stress, and of course it's reflected in also the rise of new parties, political parties like the Pirate Party in Germany, the five-star movement in Italy, is that what was really significant was the way it was bubbling up, the way it resonated. I have no idea whether it's bigger or lesser, but people took it seriously in a way they hadn't before. The second point I wanted to make is that these demonstrations were all about politics. They're often treated as demonstrations against austerity, but they were fundamentally all about politics and that was true of absolutely everybody we interviewed. And perhaps the best proof of that is the fact that so much was going on in Germany, which wasn't suffering from austerity policies, and yet they had the demonstrations against the infrastructure projects in Frankfurt and Stuttgart, they had a march against the European Central Bank, they had activists' synonymous, they had a whole range of campaigns which we found in our German study and of course they had the Pirate Party. Also if you look at the slogans, so the Spanish slogans were things like a caro in every neighbourhood. They think this is democracy, but it isn't. They were all very political, they were all about trust and I think the final point I wanted to make on this in relation to the politics is of course that if this view that there's no trust in government, that it's really about restoring political legitimacy is very much confirmed by Eurobarometer figures which are quite shocking actually at the ones we cite in our study are from last year, this year even worse. I'm afraid I've still got last years. So overall in Europe only 24% trust their government. And of our country studies this range from 32% in Germany to 12% in Italy. And for political parties it's even worse. Overall only 14% of people in Europe trust political parties and the high is Germany at 15 and the low is Italy at 9 which is quite staggering actually. So and this kind of lack of trust we found whether you were talking about left or right it was fundamental sort of sense that we know we can trust our governments that motivated these different movements. A third point I wanted to make is and this is not true for all movements it's not true for the right wing populist movements but for many of the other movements there's a preoccupation with democracy but a huge feeling of loss of faith in representative democracy. A sense they think they represent us but they don't is this Spanish slogan I mentioned. And this sense that democracy has to be about more than voting that it has to be about participating and particularly in the squares the emphasis was on doing democracy themselves what we call prefigurative action imagining how democracy ought to be and with quite complicated assemblies, debates all this hand language which you may have seen to express approval how you conduct meetings all of this was very very important in the squares and was one of the reasons attracting people to the squares and I took one quote from a German who was involved in one of the occupations and he said it was videos of the Spanish assemblies on YouTube that motivated him to join and he said, my heart was beating I couldn't understand a word of what they were saying but I thought awesome they meet in a public square and they talk to each other so I thought that was a kind of very nice sense of what people felt now the fourth point I wanted to make is about the role of internet and Facebook I'm going to say this rather briefly for time reasons but basically all of these demonstrations, parties make use of social media and social media has hugely facilitated their mobilisation, Twitter, Facebook but what we thought was interesting was not simply the fact that I don't know, the Spanish assemblies were started by a group of bloggers what's really interesting is what it means for political culture and we put quite a lot in our report and it's something we want to look at further that if you engage through Facebook and the internet you actually think about politics in a rather different way and there's a lot of emphasis among the activists on things like horizontality, replaceability, leaderlessness I'm not sure how serious all of them are I mean some people complained that leaderlessness actually means there are leaders that you don't know who the leaders are but at the same time what is very interesting is the sense people have where you can go in and do your bit and then leave it to somebody else to take over that you... we called it the two point nought culture because the idea is that the earlier internet culture was about reading and searching and the new two point nought culture is about editing and writing so you can go in and participate and then somebody else can take over from you and this idea that you can participate a bit and it doesn't matter who you are and you can be anonymous is creating something very different and more extensive than before and I don't really know what the long term consequences will be I think another aspect of that is that for all activists which I found very interesting internet freedom is a key issue and process is a key issue for all of them what they're concerned about is building this new democratic process and they're less concerned about outcomes a lot of politicians criticise the activists for not having a set of demands and they feel that misses the point because the point is actually how you reach an agreement how you reach a decision not what that decision is and so process and how you involve people is absolutely key, especially for the panel and now the final conclusion that I want to talk about a little bit more was the one that was most disappointing for us is that among these sorts of people the people who participate in subterranean politics Europe by and large was invisible what do I mean by that? well of course we went out searching for Europe and that's why we ended up calling it subterranean politics because what we found was that among what you might call the elite NGOs, trade unions, intellectuals politicians who travel around Europe you can find dozens of appeals for a new Europe the manifesto of appalled economists and not the road to Europe there are so many and we actually have a subter... if you google subterranean politics you'll find our website which has a list of all these appeals but actually they're rather a minority and the appeals don't seem to have any resonance in the same way that subterranean politics does but among subterranean politics among the people that we interviewed Europe was simply not present we designed questions you know, what level of government do you think decisions ought to be taken which were designed to elicit a European response and Europe never came up and there were only a few exceptional cases the Greek demonstrations where things were blamed on the troika which was the European Central Bank the European Commission and the IMF and the demonstration against the European Central Bank in Frankfurt but by and large Europe was simply not there when we explicitly asked people what they thought about Europe we found differences that were both generational and geographical so older generation of activists by and large were rather pro-Europe and they saw Europe as very important in overcoming the legacy of 20th century wars and for them it was really important the younger generation, interestingly including UK young people took Europe for granted they said, you know, we travel around Europe with students in different universities we use the Euro, not in Britain but elsewhere we're part of the easy jet culture so they felt European but for them the European Union by and large was irrelevant to that feeling it was, if you ask them explicitly, they saw it as a neoliberal bureaucracy and you saw that there was also a geographical difference by and large Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans were more pro-Europe than people from France, Germany, Britain and particularly countries which had gone through a transition to democracy tended to be more pro-Europe now it's not that the activists were not internationalists on the contrary they were very internationalists I mean one of my favourite stories comes from the Barcelona Plaza de Catalunya which divided itself into three bits there was an Egyptian bit which discussed democracy there was an Icelandic bit which discussed the economy and there was a Palestinian bit that discussed justice and on the marches you saw no Spanish flags but you saw Egyptian, Icelandic and Palestinian flags so there was a lot of solidarity it wasn't that there wasn't solidarity but there just wasn't any interest in the European Union which was really a quite striking finding so now let me conclude because I know I was only meant to talk for 20 minutes I think the first point to make is that I do think the current crisis is fundamentally a political crisis I think the activists arrived to perceive it as a political crisis and I think it's about the collapse of the legitimacy of nation states which is extremely disturbing why do I think there has been this collapse in legitimacy well I think it's two reasons one has to do with globalisation which is that decisions that are supposed to be taken at a national level are actually taken in Brussels in the headquarters of multinational corporations in New York, in Washington and so however much politicians promise to do things they're actually confined by international agreements of various sorts and so it's extremely difficult you vote for a politician to change things and actually their potential for change is increasingly limited but I don't think that's the only reason so however perfect your democracy is nationally I mean if democracy is about the ability to change the decisions that affect your life and those decisions are not taken nationally then it doesn't going to mean that it's democracy but I also think we're coming to the end of a phase of history where the nation state was the dominant political form and there's a kind of sclerosis of the nation state it's got stuck in certain processes and ways of being and partly that stuckness is illustrated by the intermeshing of elites political, financial, media that make it very very difficult for ordinary people to penetrate that elite partly it's the sort of routines of bureaucracies and partly I think it's the technology of elections with all the emphasis on polls and focus groups politicians are focused on that tiny middle floating voter which means that parties are often not very distinct and it's very difficult to have a real, genuine public debate about things and that's why I do think the protesters' emphasis on process is so incredibly important that we do need different political processes so what does that mean? I mean if I'm right where are new sources of legitimacy for political authority to be derived from and could the European Union offer that alternative? Well certainly at the moment it doesn't and I think one of the things that came out is that the old narrative that people of my generation believe in that the EU was a peace project never again would there be a war in Europe never again would Europe become imperialist that narrative just doesn't resonate with the young so I think what we need is to think about how could the European Union become a kind of institution that actually protects democracy at local levels from the storms of globalisation makes it more possible for people because at the moment what the European Union is doing isn't exactly the opposite what the euro has done is removed the one mechanism of protection which is exchange rates but it hasn't offered another form of protection and so the question is how could it actually become a different sort of institution that does actually allow people to take control of their lives so I'm less interested in how do you democratise Europe though that would be good but more what sort of institution should Europe become if we see it not as a new nation state but as a kind of model of global governance a way of dealing with globalisation so that people can take reclaimed democracy and I think if you think of it that way then what it has to be is an institution that on the one hand taxis global bads like financial speculation like climate change carbon like multinationals who escape taxes and on the other hand promotes global goods like renewable energy health and education youth employment something of that sort so that the whole aim of it is not to be a bigger and better nation state which is what the United States is but rather to be a layer of political authority that could allow us to take back democracy not only at national levels but maybe at city levels and regional levels so is there a way that this could be achieved well of course I'm feeling very very doubtful I think this gap between the elites and subterranean politics is very difficult to bridge and I think we need a change in both I think Europe needs to become more visible to activists and activists actually do even though I do think process is important they do need to have they do need to be putting forward some alternatives they do need some policies and the elites have to introduce some of the changes that could resonate with the activists so not just the activists resonating with the mainstream but the elites resonating with the activists like atobin tax for example well will this happen who knows I mean I'm rather doubtful but I do think that's the way to go


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