Hi, everybody. Joe for jaspeascasebrakes.com coming at you with 2022 Tops Chrome Black Baseball, $12. Pick your team member, $35. We got more. We added another case in the store if you're interested. Go after it. Get after it. Get into it, jaspeascasebrakes.com, all-card ship. And big thanks to this group for making it happen. And thanks to Mark with a one, two, three, four, five, six Last Spot Mojos. 70% of the time, Last Spot Mojo hits 100% of the time. All right, good luck, everybody. And we got Cedric Mullins to $150. That will be for David M. and the O's. You're encased. Ryan Mountcastle, $65 out of $150, like a personal box for David. Got the numbered card. Got the encased. There you go, David. Max Scherzer to $199 for Greg and the Mets. Then we have Jake Berger, $133 out of $150. Bergers, Stephen Carney with the White Sox. There's Cedric Mullins. And here's Joe Adele, purple to $150. That is for Rob and the Angels. Cedric Mullins for David and the O's. That's to $75. And we got some gold to $50. Oh, this might be a future. Super futures, yeah, Videl Bruhan. Super futures, $21 out of $50. I agree, Gabe. Jake Berger and Seth Berger need to be on Team USA. Nothing more American. Few things more American than a Berger and a beer. And there has to be a rule, Gilo, that every time they're in public, they have to be wearing their jerseys. They have to be sitting next to each other. So it always says burger and beer or beer and burger. Bobby Wood Jr. nice. And Josh Lowe to $25. That would be for Tampa Bay, Lonnie and the Reyes. And this Bobby Wood Jr. is the one-per-case rookie card. I'm sure there's a specific name for it. I don't know it, but Gregory, you get this one. This is where they got the larger rookie logo on the left. All right, your encased card is Steve Garvey. Old school Dodger for David. Nice. Oh, nice. Gilo, you're gonna go to spring training in Florida next month and all the cool guys are probably gonna be in WBC. Well, we're in Florida. They've got WBC games happening in Miami. So you can see all the cool guys there. We've got Christian Jalic, $25 out of $50. And there's Bobby Dalbeck, $20 out of $99. Chris Parent, Red Sox. I did, Rex. I did say that. Just drive down to Miami. How far can that be? I have no idea of the geography, the scope, and scale of Florida. Tampa to Miami drive is, I say it's like driving from LA to San Diego. It's two hours. No traffic. Matt Chapman to $99. Toronto, Craig. And the encased card is Mike Yostremski. $4 out of $99. Giants. That's from Mark. That's one of his last spot mojo teams. Now I'm curious. Oh, it's $4 hours. Oh, it's a little over $4. Thanks, Gabe. Yeah. I just look now, too. About $4, $4, just to see how it's a shade over $4 hours. But that's with no traffic. So that's like from here to two wanders right here. One's out of $199, Lonnie. And one's the base. Could this be here to Santa Barbara maybe? That's about like three hours. Here to Vegas. And Vegas is like five hours. So just a little bit past Santa Barbara, an hour past Santa Barbara, or an hour short of Vegas if you're driving. No traffic. All right, next is Robin Yell. Milwaukee Brewers. That's going to be for Alexander. You don't want to go to Miami. You've got beef with Tyree Kill. You think, does Tyree Kill make his off-season home in Miami, you think? I mean, his off-season home might still be in Kansas City, in the Kansas City area for all you know. There's Aaron Ashby to $99. Next is Ryan Vallad. Rocky, Stephen Carney. Oh, you think he does have an off-season home in the Miami area. Got it. Got Brian Hayes to $199 for the Pirates, Joe Christian. Got Peter Lanzo, $17 out of $50. Greg with the Mets. O'Neill Cruz, rookie card, $36 out of $50 for Joe and the Pirates. Nice. Are you going to try to sell the sand, too, Jilo? Gabe said he's going to go to the beach where Tom Radio was at and sell that sand. Yeah, he's going to sell that sand. There's Louise Gill, Ed P and the Yankees. All those people selling that sand. Are there a lot of people selling that sand? I know one person was selling that sand. That's guaranteed non-paying bidder, right? However much that goes for, I think it was in the tens of thousands. That's definitely non-paying bidder. Dylan Carlson to $199 for the Cardinals. That'll be for Stephen. And Kibrian Hayes, Joe Christian and the Pirates. Oh, you're going to sell it to Panini. That'll be sand relics in the next flawless. All right, final box. Now, Gabe, if you were to go break into Tom Brady's house and get a jar from his house and then fill that with sand, maybe not break into this house, maybe just knock on the door and ask him for a Mason jar or jar that you can use. That's Kettle Marte to $99. And then fill that with sand, then sell it. You get a picture with Tony, like have a jar, picture Tom Brady, and like that day's newspaper. Last one, it's a big bull autograph. It's Joe Carter, Toronto Blue Jays. That's going to be for Craig and the Bluebirds. And that's that. Pick a team 35 of the books, another case in the store. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jasperyscasebrakes.com. 2022 Panini Certified Football just sold out. This is an eight box half case break. Pick your teams number 11. Again guys, all courtship. So this will be the first half of the case. Here we go, right here guys. So again, if you have a character sign that means you won those teams from a team random. There's everybody there. Boom, boom. So, let's move this camera over here to the side. That'll give me some room to unload this big old certified case. So again, we sold out that team random that sells out this break and then number 12. So, we'll run back number 12 right away. Back to back. All right, a little easier to see right there, right? We got 12 boxes total. Six on the left, six on the right. Let's choose the side. One, two, three for the left. Four, five, six for the right. And it's a three. So, we'll go with the left side. So these eight boxes will be for the next break coming up.  Yeah, dude. I'm just still amazed that the Phillies came back and tied this game. I mean, if they ended up losing this game, at least it wasn't a blowout. And you know, you can tell yourself you're the Phillies. You can beat these Astros. You can beat them.  Bases loaded. Just didn't go their way. All right, I'm gonna rip like three boxes at a time or four boxes maybe and then we'll go through those first four and then we'll go back to the next four after that. I have two outs, bottom of the eighth. So, four boxes here, guys. Here we go. Pierre Strong is the one that starts us off here. Little patch auto. Freshman fabrics number two, three, 99. And that's gonna go to the Patriots and Jared. Wondale Robinson to 199. Sam Williams, little Desmond Ritter. That's number to 249. Brody with the Hawks or Falcons I should say. Whoa. Wow, what a hit and it's a color match. One off the jersey number two, seven out of 10, rookie roll call Kenny Pickett. That is a beautiful hit right there. Steelers, Travis who won them in a team random. Well, that's a sweet hit right there. Malik Willis patch in here two as well to 349. Solid box. James Robinson, Tyler Lockett. Hey, this is Brody. And more Kenny Pickett to 399 this time. Our next box, Russell Wilson. We got Danny Gray to 199 for the Niners. We got Chris Olavi to 249. Man, I was about to say another Kenny Pickett, but this time George Pickins. What a break. For the Steelers.  Darnell Mooney, David Najoku. Mirror signatures out of five. That is for the Cleveland Browns. And Cleveland. This is for you, Patrick Davis. Zuccama to Fun Diggs. Miles Garrett, Evan Neal. All right, two boxes down. Next one, Darren Waller to 149. Zappy time. Will it be Zappy time after this weekend if Mack Jones doesn't play well? I know Brody, that's what I'm saying, dude. Kurt Warner, but the running back Kurt Warner for the Seahawks, not quarterback Kurt Warner. Five out of 20. But yeah, man, I got what I was saying earlier, man. Like, you know, if I'm the Phillies and I lose this game, I mean, yeah, you're probably pretty bummed because you were there. And Sauce Gardner to 149, nice one for the Jets. But this is a good kind of motivation with like, hey man, we were down five and nothing, we came back, like Astros are beatable.  But they had an opportunity last inning with those bases loaded, but couldn't get much. We got Ingram, Zach Wilson. This is Amir White. Jamal Williams, 75. Nice one there for Detroit. That's Ed. Kurt, cousins of that. And how about more Sauce Gardner? I feel like this is the same box, no? Yeah, well, you got something done early on to help get that game tied, so it's terrible. I think what they really need is like, Schwerber to do something right now. I don't think he's gonna hit yet. I just think Philly would have just exploded if like Bryce Harbor would have hit like a three-run bomb in that last inning when he had a chance, but they walked him. Actually, Schwerber's one for three. Actually, when did he get a hit? Must have got a hit in the last inning then. Last block chance, and then we'll go to the next four. And a four-five, that's a little T.J. Hawkinson patch. Detroit Lions with that one. Gabe Davis, Johan Dotson, three-color patch. That's to 199. Patrick Davis with that one. Oh, so it was more, was it an error then? I guess it would have been an error because if it was hit really, really that hard, I guess. They probably called it a hit. Christian Watson, Josh Bell, Aaron Rodgers, Kyle Hamilton-Ralloch, and Greg Newsom, mirror signatures to 50. Chase Claypool, is that foul? I think it was foul. Yeah, well, I think if the ball was hit that hard and it went out the pitchers, then I don't think they called it as an error because it was kind of just like too much heat in that sense where it was a good hit because they couldn't even, you know, the fielder couldn't feel it right because they hit the pitchers' glove or something like that, but either way, yeah. Schwerber, okay. Let's go to the next four, guys. Strike three. He was already walking away. I think he knew it. What's he saying, mother, mother trucker? Be the savior, Reese. Huh, did you see that, Fanny? I almost didn't catch it. I would have been in an error.  It's not a big deal, right? I didn't get the next foul, but that would have been obviously a very bad play right there because, right, let's just say this guy gets on base and then how about another hit or what about a home run? But yeah, it kind of seemed like he kind of meant to do that, right?  I was dusty big, I slapped the sliver at him.  All right, here we go, guys. Last four here, and then we'll go with the next four, next eight and the next four. Traylon Burks with 35, nice patches in there. Pieces of the game for the Titans, Ed. Kenny Galladay, mirror signatures to 20. That's for the Giants and Ron. Gabe Davis to 275. Little D. Henry. Mack Johnson, 149. We got Cade Alton. Jalen Tolbert to 399. Stroh's just need a couple hits for our walk-off home run. That's all I need. Pascal, Lewis assigned. All right, next one, Aiden Hutchinson, Relic. Jeremy Chin to 75. Cooper Cope, Treston. Johan Dotson, Josh Jacobs. We got Aaron Donald. And Jalen Tolbert to 199, nice two-color patch. Well, I love him because he's short and stocky. Little Tom Brady, bachelor again. His love, you know, he's actually in love. He's in love with football. Two more boxes. We have certified gamers, Jordan Poyer. And yes, Brody, that's a good point. It's been a lot of repeats. Like it's like the same players in the same box or every other box. Travis Scott. So hopefully, I mean, it's just this break, of course. We have teams in the second half. We have Duvante Adams. Skymore to 50. Three-color patch to the Chiefs. Saus Gardner. Chris Godwin to 175. Zemure White, new generation's relic. And Khalil Shakur to 149. Drake London. Mack Daddy Jones. Hopefully he turns it around this week. And Josh Allen to 199. No bueno, Brody. I mean, if it was to Drake London's, that'd be okay. Shuck Swing. Not today. All right, here we go. The last box here, folks. Aaron Jones. Jeremy Rucker. Kelsey. Matt Corral to 299. Alvin Harper. Cowboys old school right there. To 125. Another cowboy there, Dak Prescott to 149. Corey Davis to 35. J.J. Watt. Romeo Dubs to 349. This one. Andrew Booth Jr. Alrighty, folks. Well, hey, kind of a couple of repeat autos here, but we did get one big rookie early on, which is that Kenny Pickett that was really nice. And amongst others, but that Kenny Pickett at 10 was a really big one. So, quick, do a quick recap of the autographs. So we just said there were Romeo Dubs. So there's Shakur. Alvin Harper. Sky Moore. Jaylen Tolbert. Jeremy Chin. Kenny Galladay. The Tolbert. Greg Newsom. John Dodson. Jamal Williams. Sauce Gardner. Kurt Warner. Another Sauce Gardner there. Joe Goodifive. Pickens. There's that big one there at a 10. Then Pierre Strong Jr. And of course, we had a lot of relics here that will obviously top load as well. Some more hits going out there. And a ton of numbered cards, of course. So I appreciate you guys. This was break number 11. If you do have the same teams in the second half or you have teams in the second half, that's coming up next in a separate video. Good luck to you guys and have a great night, guys. Thanks.


What's going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cars doing a two-box break of 2022 top Star Wars chrome black hobby for Jimmy C. Good luck here and Jimmy Do it buddy Gonna keep the encased card in there because I don't want to spoil it. So we'll do it this way Lama Sue Cut lucking and or a saying blue 15 out of 75 Not all things show and then we've got crosshair on the auto D. Bradley Baker very nice That's crosshair We'll take that. I think it's all animated stuff Yeah, sure so yeah, you're right so far well to cross the Star Wars saga So There's a real one may felt it's Bill Burr right there Funny as I love him grief cargo and ray on the gold five out of 50 nice one there Ray gold And then we've got our encased auto it's gonna be Peli motto Amy Sideris That'll work right there to Peli motto not numbered on your auto That'll do it for your break there Jimmy. Thanks again for jumping in congrats on all the hits. We'll get them right out to buddy Jimmy


Do you need to do things there? Or can you hold this one? Anna Maria, will you do the countdown when we are live? Me? Yeah. Okay. No, no, no, no. I don't know. Last second producer. No. Re-name, yeah. No, Anna Maria. Anna Maria, can you hear me? Will you do the countdown? Sorry for that, Maria. We can hear you now. I'm trying to give the sound a little bit louder. Okay. Earphones needed. Okay. Yeah, we hear you. Okay. You have to give me a second. Welcome to the museum of movements and freedom talk number three. This time in collaboration with London Bay. Index and censorship. My name is Anna Maria and I'm very happy to introduce her moderator, Sandra Tivison. Sandra is a very experienced moderator, specializing in culture, politics, media and artistic freedom. I will leave the work now to Sandra to introduce her amazing panel for this important discussion. Welcome. Thank you very much, Malme. And hello from Stockholm. And I'm very happy to introduce you to Sandra Tivison. And hello from Stockholm. We have a panel here with us from different parts of the world. I will introduce them, each one. First, we have Maria or John Kiddse. From the... You're working... Justice for journalists. Justice for journalists and you're based in London, but you're from Russia in the beginning. And welcome as well, Mark Freire. You're from Index, an associate editor there. Warm welcome to you as well. Thanks, Sandra. It's good to be here. But like many people, I'm actually out in the countryside at the moment because we're not going into the office. Okay, great. And as well, we have from Nishti Novgorod. We have Alexander Pishguin. Is that correct? Hello. Pishguin. A very warm welcome to you as well. We're so happy to have you here. Hello everybody. Thank you for this opportunity. Just to say as well, you are the journalists who will give us some witnesses from the ground here today. Maria and Mark has been working together on a project, the censorship project, disease control, that they will give us more information about soon. As we all know, we are affected very much during this pandemic time. Since mid-February, Mark and Maria's organization, Justice for Journalists and Index on Censorship, have been working on, because they're so experienced monitoring these kinds of situations. They knew early on that something was going in the wrong way. So they made contact. I have asked the three of you to give some three, four minutes keynote, like a point of view from your position. What has been happening? Why did we have to start monitoring the threats to journalists that we already before knew was so bad? What was going to happen even more in a pandemic situation? Maria, could you please start with giving your history? Thank you very much, Sandra, and thank you very much for inviting Justice for Journalists Foundation to be on this panel. We are a rather new organization. We're just two years old, and we were found after the group of Russian investigative journalists was ambushed and murdered in the Central African Republic. And no official investigation followed. As a result, the foundation deemed its purpose to issue grants for investigation of violent crimes against journalists. As well, we are providing educational resources and courses for journalists to help with their security. And we also, the third kind of big area of our work is monitoring of attacks and violations against media workers in the former Soviet Union. So when index of censorship approached us in mid-March with the idea of monitoring the situation that was unveiling around the COVID-19 and following violations against journalists and the freedom of speech, we thought that it's a brilliant idea because we were already monitoring the situation of violations and we are uniquely positioned with a very large network in this 12 former Soviet Union countries from which we receive daily updates and alerts on various types of attacks on journalists. So we... Excuse me. These countries are, could you tell us? Yeah, 12 former Soviet republics. So these are everything but from Baltic states that are now part of the European Union. So the biggest being, of course, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Armenia, Georgia. So these countries, sorry? Belarus? Belarus, of course, yes, yes, 12 countries. So, yes, so we were monitoring them already and we contacted our network and they happily agreed to monitor all the violations that were taking place in their countries as it was already quite noticeable. And, of course, we will probably speak about the details later on on this roundtable. But the main conclusion that we came up with is that in this unprecedented situation with the pandemic, the autocratic regimes of the Central Asia, of Belarus and Russia, used the pandemics to suppress the free speech. So the goal was not to eliminate the fakes as it was claimed, not to eliminate the false statistic as it was claimed. The goal was to suppress the free speech to ensure that there is no other information coming out about the situation rather than from the official sources. And the official sources were not interested in producing correct information. They were just interested in silencing the truth, unfortunately. So the main two violations that the journalists received were spreading fakes and disinformation. And the second one was just breaking this freshly introduced rules of self-isolation, guaranteeing emergency, et cetera. This was the main finding. And I will let Mark speak about the wider world because this obviously the index of censorship was initially they intended to monitor just Europe. But as they started doing this job, they have received alerts from all over the world. So it became a global project. Okay, thank you, Maria. Mark, let's move towards you. Index organization has been around for a much longer time. Could you give us the context of your organization? Yeah, sure. So index on censorship in 2022 will celebrate its 50th anniversary. So we were set up really to give a voice to censored artists and activists. And we have a very long heritage with the Soviet Union. We were one of the publications that published the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, for example, from captivity there. So that's something that we've been doing for those five decades. Media freedom has been something that we've looked at very carefully over that time in addition to artistic freedom. And what we know is that whenever there's a crisis like the COVID crisis, although many say that's an unprecedented one, authoritarian leaders use that as cover to clamp down both on activists and on journalists. And unfortunately, that's proven to be the case. I think we didn't have a crystal ball. When we started this project, we started discussing it in February. And the reason we were doing it then is because we could already tell that China was not revealing everything that was going on in Wuhan, as was widely covered at the time. And there are those who argue that if they had been more open and they'd allowed journalists and doctors to speak rather than silencing them, then the world wouldn't be in the position that it is today with most of it in lockdown and economies in free fall. Journalists and bloggers having been attacked, detained and in some cases disappeared as has happened in China. And so, as I say, we've seen this in the past. We've worked on media freedom projects in the past where we see authoritarian leaders using these opportunities to clamp down. And so, it was very good to start a collaboration with Maria and JFJ on this. I mean, we had originally thought of targeting just Europe. We weren't sure exactly what we would see in Europe, but it became clear very quickly that there were going to be media freedom restrictions there as well as all around the world. Yes, the former Soviet Union has probably had the most attacks that we've recorded through this project, but they have occurred all through the world. So, I just sort of be useful just to talk a little bit about how we actually did this project. So, my background is really as a... I'm actually a scientist by training. I'm a nuclear physicist back in the 1990s, but I then moved into journalism and technical journalism particularly. So, I have a sort of fairly strong grounding in technology. And one of the things that I've been doing is sort of data journalism over the years. And I've worked for newspapers like The Times and The Sunday Times here in the UK as well as with Index on Censorship. So, it seemed logical to me that we should do an interactive project looking at this and obviously with the nature of it being global, that we should do a global map illustrating some of these incidents. So, the way it worked is we set up a form where people could report their incidents. We obviously have our own team in the UK of staff, but also an extended network of correspondents, just as Maria and JFJ do, that we use on a daily basis, not just on this project, but to inform us of what's going on in the world. So, at the moment, we're hearing from people, not as part of this project, but we're hearing from people in Belarus and the Philippines and all over the world, lots going on right at this moment beyond what's being restricted during COVID. So, it's important to note that the report that we've come out with now, it doesn't represent every attack that's occurred on journalists and bloggers over that time, but we think it's important to verify these incidents. So, whenever we're informed of one by one of our team or network or a reader of the magazine, then we have to investigate that to make sure that it's actually a legitimate report of attack because there's lots of disinformation as we know a lot. And so, that involves looking for independent media sources and witnesses and statements and speaking to the individuals, like Alexander who's on this call with us now. And the way we've dealt with those incidents is we've categorized them in lots of different ways. So, we've categorized them as attacks on journalists. So, whether that's a physical attack, a verbal attack or a mental attack, we've also looked at things like changes in legislation that make it more difficult for the media to report. So, one example of this that we've noted a lot of is restrictions on freedom of information, for example. So, many countries around the world have freedom of information legislation allowing journalists to ask the government what's been going on and what the official response is. And a lot of what's been happening is that that's been very restricted during COVID partly. Some say because it's physically more difficult for those people, the politicians and the authorities to provide this information, but some are using it as a cover to not provide this information because they don't want the official line to come out. And then, the other thing we've noted a lot of as well is, and Maria alluded to this in her introduction as well, is the restriction of reporting to official state journalists as well. And I'm sure Alexander will talk about this as well. So, in many countries, even in the UK, which relatively is free in terms of its media, we've seen restrictions on the questions that people are allowed to ask and who's allowed to ask those questions. In terms of actual incidents, the most common has been detention and arrest. So, people being detained by the police and arrested often on trumped-up charges relating to the states of emergency that often have been introduced around the world. But we've also seen more than 50 physical attacks on journalists as well. I think Donald Trump needs a special mention here. I mean, he hasn't been physically attacking journalists, but his verbal attacks have increased during COVID, as many reporters have challenged him on his handling of the COVID crisis. And the last thing I probably want to say in this introduction is really, you know, this report that we've released today, and you can see that on our website, at indexonscensorship.org slash mediafreedom during COVID and also on the JFJ site. They've produced their newsletter today. So, you can see the copies of that. That report relates to the period up to mid-September when we have reported more than 240 verified incidents around the world. So, you know, what we thought of back in February and March, it's really been borne out by the evidence. This was really a huge problem that was waiting to happen. And we recognize that, obviously, there's a global health crisis going on and that certain individual freedoms need to be restricted. But, you know, it shouldn't extend to media and bloggers because, you know, unless we have open, transparent discussion of this information around the pandemic, how are we going to get through this? How? Yeah. Great. Thank you, Mark. I will get back to you with some questions with what's presented now. But first, Alexander, I want to say hi to you and welcome again. You are just for backdrop information. You are the first journalist in Russia to be put on trial for writing journalism about the COVID with the new law regarding to fake news. They accused you of fake news when you reported on COVID, the pandemic situation. And you're just waiting for information about how the trial has been going these days. Yes, the decision will be, I guess, in mid-November. So, please tell us how do you work and what is your background and give us the context of your situation. I'm working in Nizhny Novgorod. It's quite a big city, east from Moscow, 300 miles east from Moscow over a million habitants. We got a lot of newspapers, TV channels and internet sites, but all of them actually just rewriting the official information about the coronavirus. And it's not a problem for journalists if they just rewrite all the official things. But if you want some exclusive information, you got to be very careful because we got some new articles in the Russian criminal code and the authorities issued that article as a part of preparation for the pandemic. And they say that it needs to prevent panic among people. And right now I got one of these articles and they accuse me in spreading fake news. Although it wasn't news, it was just my personal opinion about the whole situation at the start period of the pandemic. I saw a lot of people gathering in Russian churches on April 12th. That was some kind of traditional Orthodox rituals a week before Russian Orthodox Easter. And we got all the cafes, all the restaurants, all the parks closed at that time and only the churches opened their doors and welcomed people. I was actually very angry because it was completely against all the rules and all the barriers that local officials tried to set to prevent spreading of the coronavirus. So I was disappointed a lot and I just couldn't be silent. I wrote about this situation in all my official resources and after that I just tried to express my emotions to describe this situation in a more emotional way on my anonymous telegram channel. That was a small quote, a small article, but it was maybe a little bit rough, but I just can't hold it inside because I compared all these churches, all these rituals and crowded churches to the planned action of infecting people. Actually that was true because I think it's an exhum because every scientist will tell you that if you got a lot of people in some narrow space you got high risk of spreading the infection far beyond that place. And I must admit that I was right because two weeks after this situation after my article was wrote we got some big source of infection in the largest local Orthodox monastery. It was the town of Divevo and the whole town was set on quarantine and I know I think that that was the direct result of the violation of the epidemiological rules on April 12th, the day I wrote my article. It was emotional, it was maybe rough a little bit, but I must mention that I deleted my article the day after writing because I got a call from FSB, a former KGB organization. They told me to delete it and in a few minutes they called me back again and said, hold on, don't delete, let it exist for a while. So I realized that they had some kind of plan about me and I deleted my text but it didn't help and just in two days later there was a knock on my door, it was a squad of nine people, an investigator, FSB officers, people in camouflage who handcuffed me and scared my pregnant wife and took my phone and my laptop and two months later my case was sent to court. Despite an explanation given by the Supreme Court of Russia back on April 30th, the Supreme Court has explained what kind of news the police can call fake news and they told that it should look a lot like real news, it must include all the quotes, names, documents, possibly fake videos and all that stuff. And none of them was in my article. My article was an emotional point of view but it did not stop the investigators and now I'm in waiting for the court decision. I guess I will be fined by a big sum of money and I must admit that my colleague and my friend Irina Slavina who tragically died on October 2nd here in Nizhny Novgorod also was fined and they accused her of spreading the fake news about the coronavirus but it was a so-called administrative article of Russian administrative court and I'm actually the first journalist with criminal code on me. I don't know what decision to expect but the independent experts said that my article wasn't news, it was a personal opinion. It's very hard to expect how Judge will plead me guilty but I guess I need to save a lot of money right now to be ready.  As we said in Russia, I need to prove that I'm not a camel. The whole situation here in Russia for journalism is getting darker and darker every month, every day. I find the police searches and all the state of pressure in general it's a huge part of our journalist's life. I'm not an optimist about the near future. If I will plead not guilty I will be very, very... Excuse me, I'm a little bit emotional right now because it's the longest English speech in my life and thank you for this opportunity to tell you about this situation. It's very good. It's not good to have a criminal article or a criminal case on you. What I expected 20 years ago when I decided to be a journalist. Have you been able to work with other journalists during this period since you were accused of this? Yes, I'm trying to work but I need to hold some information because I don't want to be a repeat offender in the authorities eyes. I got some exclusive information about the real situation of the pandemic here in the Nizhny Novgorod region but now I'm trying to hold it inside because it's quite dangerous right now. Because you're waiting for the verdict? Yes, I'm waiting for the decision. Do you get support from other media platforms in Russia like Novaya Gazeta and others? Lots of media resources platforms wrote about my story but actually I don't need to be very famous in that case. I just want to continue my work and continue my job and do it as usual. Maria, can I ask you regarding... Your organization is covering 12 countries. I asked you before when we talked maybe this is the thing that sticks out or have you seen other things that really stick out during this pandemic situation regarding the 12 countries that you cover mainly? Sound. Yes, as Alexander was just explaining the criminalization of fake news just was swiftly introduced by the Russian authorities and as people were getting an accusation under the administrative code before once this new criminal code article number 207, I think. Point one, yes. That is specifically about writing fake news on coronavirus. Since it was introduced Alexander was the first one to be accused under it and then 15 more cases followed whereas on administrative charges about 50 journalists were accused so that's if we talk about Russia but if we look elsewhere for example countries like Belarus and Tajikistan and of course Turkmenistan initially for the first several months of the virus they just said there is no virus in our country they completely refused to acknowledge that there is such thing as global pandemics that of course doesn't exclude any country the borders are not stopping it and of course that resulted all the journalists who tried to write about the real situation and here we're talking of course about Belarus mainly because in Turkmenistan there is no independent journalism there is absolutely dictated countries so nobody writes about things that are happening there from inside there are some independent media from outside so in this country the situation got really awful because people didn't know what is going on and they didn't take any precautions so what happened is that fake information distributed by this particular country killed a lot of people because people didn't know that they have to take measures to protect themselves so yes and in terms of violent crimes against journalists that was not that active mainly in the countries that we were looking in these 12 countries the main problem with violent crimes against journalists I mean meetings that was surprisingly Ukraine and in this country the owners of small businesses were the ones who would beat up journalists for independent journalists mainly again who were covering the situation with the lack of precautionary measures the lack of masks not following epidemiological rules and these were subjected to violent beatings in Russia there were also some violent crimes against journalists but in the registered three cases and astonishingly all three cases of beating up journalists happened in Russian Orthodox churches where either the priests themselves or the church goers would beat up the journalists exactly for uncovering the real situation with lack of measures but in majority of cases the perpetrators of attacks against journalists and here we're talking about the legal or quasi-legal attacks were the governmental bodies the police the parliaments the various embassies and departments that they were the ones who would be the perpetrators of attacks in Russia there was three quarters of attacks came from the authorities in Belarus 90% of attack were coming from authorities in Kazakhstan 55% of attacks and that sort of thing so what is obvious here is the impact on the health and safety of the populations of this countries of course because fakes that were distributed by the official channels kill and in Russia again the main fakes that were distributed through official channels those that were spread by the Russian federal TV channels like the virus doesn't exist or the virus was created by Bill Gates or you know that sort of things so yeah and just as a result this control really covers two levels and then the killing of ordinary people on the ground as a result of lack of independent information the Russian population for example the official prognosis this year is that the Russian population is going to shrink by 350,000 people so roughly the population of Malmö it's 11 times more than in 2019 and this is official figure so we can understand that unofficially it's going to be even more this is the result of suppressing the independent reporting and truth thank you Maria, Mark I wanted to move further to you we talked about journalists becoming scapegoats in this situation and we really see it in the context of the situation with the Trump in his rhetoric and so on blaming journalists with the message could you give us could you lay out the words about the situation yeah sure Zandra so I just sort of want to go back a little bit on what Maria had said I mean we noticed that fake news thing happening a lot around the world not just in Russia but in many different incidents related to fake news and that brings me nicely onto Donald Trump obviously who's really sort of popularized that idea that you can decide if you're an authoritarian leader what makes fake news and by the very fact ever since he came to power he's been denouncing what his critics have been saying about him as fake news it really it's enabled an environment in which attacks on the media have become acceptable I think you know particularly in the US obviously and we've seen this with one of our other partners actually with the US Freedom Tracker who've been tracking attacks on journalists well for the last few years but specifically this year in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protest so you know they recorded hundreds of attacks on journalists during those protests and many of them were from security forces the police but also worryingly many of them are from members of the public as well and I think you know this is something that we've certainly noticed over the period of Covid is that the media has been allowed a target of people's anger against the restrictions being placed on them so you know obviously we're all annoyed by having our restriction the freedom of these restrictions on us not being able to see our families and things like this and so clearly that's you know people don't like that but I have certainly noticed and maybe this is anecdotal for me as well but I've certainly noticed as a journalist that people treat journalists in a different way now and I certainly from the start of Covid I've started noticing people being more critical of journalists on social media and about what they're reporting I mean certainly here in the UK we had very early on in this we had this meme going around on social media saying that journalists haven't got the mood for their country they don't know what they're reporting they shouldn't be reporting these negative things about Covid and that they should be producing positive news and helping with targeting the Covid virus but the reality is that journalists have a job to do they're independent as Alexander is here it's about telling the truth I mean I know that we can't be solely responsible for telling the truth but we have a really important role in democracies for the press and that's about keeping an eye on the people who are in positions of power and revealing things when they're not doing what they should be doing and as journalists I think we need to look at that how we present ourselves a lot more so Donald Trump has made it acceptable for journalists to attack their work and which has translated into physical attacks of these Black Lives Matter protests but we need to do a better job of saying actually what we do is really important as journalists we're not saying we're not trying to be negative all the time but that's naturally the way it comes over sometimes I think that we're reporting these negative things and there are a lot of negative stories around and yes we do try to cover positive news stories as journalists anyway not necessarily in my role at INDEX but journalists in the wider sense they are reporting these positive stories but there are a lot of negative stories around but we need to actually say to people out there say look we're just doing our jobs I know it's a very negative story that we're relating here to the reality on the ground you know whether that's the number of people who died from Covid or that there's been corruption which we've seen all over the world in the awarding of huge contracts like here in the UK to people who have close connections with the ruling Conservative Party for example multi-billion pound contracts that are being awarded with very little scrutiny and we've noticed what's going on and at that large scale but also the small scale and that's just in the UK and we know that that's going on around the world and that there are stories that because journalists are being attacked and fearful as Alexander has very clearly stated to us that he's fearful about this he knows the information but he's fearful to tell that but without people like Alexander there are stories around the world I mean how are we going to hold them to account I know that they have a very difficult job to do I wouldn't like to be a political leader right now trying to deal with this but we're not the enemy as journalists This comes to my brain to think about the 240 incidents that you are covering in the disease control you told me about Tanzania I wanted to leave the US and the UK a little bit and look out in Europe and the other continents and we spoke upon the authoritarian leaders Yeah so I've been writing this week about Tanzania for example which like the US has been having elections so earlier this week they had an election and you know it was fairly clear early on that John Magafuli who's the incumbent president there the opinion polls were saying that he would get re-elected he had a very very strong lead but it's interesting to see why that has happened and so early in the year in January he said he was committed unlike many leaders in Africa to free and fair elections you know the evidence since then is that actually he's not so he's closed down independent media his political rivals have been prevented from registering for the elections but then there's also the matter of his response to Covid as well so it's interesting to look at those statistics we've talked a lot here about official statistics they've stayed at something like 500 cases since June and the government might have you believe that that's because they've somehow miraculously succeeded in beating Covid unlike every other country in the world maybe apart from Turkmenistan as well but you know the reality is that John Magafuli feels that Covid has been overblown and it may be in the news and so there was a case earlier on in the year where he set up the public health authorities to do some tests and they carried out some tests on some samples and they came back with Covid but it turned out that they'd actually been provided from animals and fruit and things like this so this discredited the whole testing regime in the country and shortly afterwards they stopped producing official statistics but he then sort of turned this around and said well actually this is God helping us here it's the power of prayer that's saved us from Covid and so Tanzania has effectively returned to normal everyday life and people are congregating and the independent journalists say you know the reality is that tens of thousands of people may have had Covid and may still have Covid in the country but because no one's talking about it John Magafuli is reaping the benefit of that because people believe that he's actually helped cure it with the help from God The religious leaders around the world are using this situation as well as the dictators they make a good club together right now Alexander, can I ask you what is the main thing that you see that organizations like JFJ and index on censorship can do to help a person like you reporting from the ground Actually I didn't think about it but I feel great support right now so I guess that's already quite enough for me Picking part in seminars like this maybe as well I didn't know what to expect about this seminar but it's because of my English level I just don't know are you understanding me at all We are But it's a great thing these seminars have helped me to get through this situation and try to forget about all these perils try to continue my job my work Any of you panelists have any questions to each other Are you thinking about anything that you want to ask one of the others I think from my perspective I just want to thank Alexander for doing this he's one of many hundreds and maybe thousands of people around the world who are doing this I do consider myself lucky to have people like Alexander all the time we recognize and appreciate the strength and fortitude that you show you're doing this it must be very very difficult I cannot understand the challenges you must be facing in your day-to-day work if there is anything that we can do to help you we will obviously do that what we do is telling these stories to a wider audience so that people are not overlooked and forgotten so many of these people we talk about in these stories one of the Chinese bloggers who disappeared at the very early stages of this it's important that we remember who they are and remember their names it's this person I'm hoping that that's one thing that we can do so that people like that are not forgotten but we welcome any input from people like Alexander to say how we can help you Thank you Mark for your support there's a lot of things here in Russia that I just can't explain but I know that I got some strong support from the other journalists from lots of my colleagues they wrote letters to Russian authorities to stop my case they actually didn't react but I feel the support of the whole Russian journalism and right now I feel that I get support from all over the world that's great Alexander, when we talked before you said that working from Novgorod it's a bit different from working from, for example, Moscow yes, Moscow is now the Russia as we used to say here because everyone knows each other like members of families own companies and so on I can imagine it's like a small country as well where everybody knows each other and our family, politicians and company leaders what is the biggest difficulty with working in a smaller town with one million it sounds strange but I got quite good relationships with local officials two days before my article I actually had a Zoom conference with the governor of Nizhny Novgorod region and he looked very confused about the whole situation and he asked all the journalists and the bloggers to find some new words about this pandemic this virus to make people stay home to try to make it be more careful and think about self-safety so I wrote some of these articles and now I got the court case on me what has that person said anything has that person backed you because he's a people that wasn't officially he said that he tried to help me in this situation the investigators got worked very quickly about my case and they I don't think that the governor has any influence on this case even if he said about it to me maybe he just wanted me to believe in this we have some minutes left I wanted to ask you Mark how has it been working with the data journalists that you have been doing mapping 230 incidents I think the challenges I referred to earlier about verifying the stories sometimes that is the hardest element the technology is relatively easy we use standard Google mapping the verification process is often the hardest thing because that's reliant on traditional journalism skills like picking up the phone and talking to them a lot of things I can remember talking to people in the Philippines and the difficulty with the pandemic is you can't physically go to places to meet people in some ways it's been made easier with tools like zoom enabling us to talk to people about why we use things like telegram and signal it's really that element of it that's proven the most difficult in a lot of these countries the authorities don't want you to contact these people because they don't want that story to come out there are cases we have reported we haven't been able to put on our map it's sad that that's the case but obviously we try to put on as many as we can the other before we end as well it's worth mentioning there's another hidden thing particularly in countries like the UK and US where journalism is at risk because of the financial situation economies are really struggling at this time the media industry is really struggling a lot of local newspapers have been forced to stop printing for example so they can't gain the money people use to buy that newspaper the other source of income decimated that's advertising revenue because all of the businesses that were advertising the newspapers have stopped doing that because they can't open so we've seen many many newspapers closed down here in the UK and it's not just in the UK it's all over the world often it's those sorts of publications it's very localised and it's not just newspapers it's bloggers who rely on support from links and things like this everybody's had their income from these things massively reduced and they're the ones who reveal these stories very often the stories you see on the national news very often come from people on the ground people on their hyperlocal blog and they're not able to do that anymore because they can't get any income for it so I think we're going to have a huge deficit here and it may not ever come back either a lot of these newspapers for example have been around for hundreds of years and they've been forced to close by this and may never reopen again and some of those stories that they covered will never be reported on I think that's a very sad day for democracy It really is I got so many thoughts from you who started to talk right now so I forgot what I wanted to ask Maria you told us about when laws are getting back like we see in Hungary and Poland has been changing the laws during this pandemic situation we can't get those situations back is that a thing you see in your countries as well the sound Maria Yes, I mean introduction of all the laws that are suppressive we don't believe that they will be then turned back to normal because this is so convenient for the authorities they are not unfortunately interested and I'm talking of course about countries like Russia and Belarus and Central Asian countries and Azerbaijan countries that are not democratic and the governments are just using this situation as they would use any other crisis to further suppress the independent reporting and what it leads to of course in countries like that and we are seeing it now is that the depletion of trust between the population and the authorities leads to more and more aggression and in Belarus for example there is a big belief that this lack of trust to the government was basically the last drop that led to the current revolution that is going on when the government was telling one thing that was completely different from the real state of things and the population just had enough and decided to take it onto the streets and is still there until the illegitimate president leaves and same situation in Kyrgyzstan where people took it to the streets again there is a belief that the suppression of information about the real state of affairs in terms of the pandemics in this country contributed to this situation so yeah that's what it leads to we have a big struggle with the freedom of information and the freedom of speech and people using their voices out in the streets aren't possible right now in the normal way around the world we saw that in the BLM situation as well a big contrast situation yeah so Alexander I was just talking to you I couldn't stop by thinking about the other main big situation that happened in Ukraine the Chernobyl situation in the media cover-up that situation do you feel have you the same sentences in your stomach about the situation actually no I think that the situation here in Nizhny Novgorod and here in Russia is more ridiculous it's about it's about proven as I already said I need to prove that you're a normal human being it's kind of anti utopic as I think about it right now we just try to survive here in local journalism we don't think about the global situation and don't actually compare us to some other cases I understand what you mean it's hard to explain I know that you just want to go on working as a professional journalist in your city it's the main target I need to go on we hope that of course you will different thoughts about it I had no chance as my job I must earn some money I listened to what Mark said and I know that these kind of problems I know it very well because I got three internet sites and we got all these advertising troubles and we got all the troubles with the money for people who worked on us that's the global situation in that case I feel that we're in the same boat thank you all three of you for joining me today thank you very much thank you thank you thanks for your time and Alexander we wish you well in your court appearance as well do keep us informed on that I will tell you of course do believe that we are in the behind behind the scenes we are here thank you thank you thank you Anna Maria thank you Maria, Alexander, Mark and Sandra for this very important discussion the museum of movements will continue operating for the rest of the year and we are going to be spearheading the conversation regarding safe havens so let's stay in touch the next freedom talk will be in November with Ui Groupen so stay tuned have a good evening everyone thank you so much thank you bye thanks


Greetings and welcome to the Astronomy Picture of the Day podcast. Today's picture for March 18th of 2024 is titled Comet Ponds Brooks' Swirling Coma. So what do we see here? Well, here we see the comet known as Ponds Brooks, and it's looked in great detail here and specifically colored to highlight various parts of the comet. We can see the tail in the blue stretching back. This is what is known as the ion tail of the comet, which is individual atoms and ions pushed back by the energy of the sun. So they will always be directly behind the comet and making the comet then point toward the sun in the sky. So where is the sun? Well, the sun is somewhere well down to the lower left hand side here. Obviously not up above the horizon as we can see plenty of stars visible. Now in the green, we see the coma. That is the area around the comet and is material that has been vaporized off the comet and then is pushed back around forms kind of a halo around it and then some of that is pushed back into the tail. But that's what makes the comet actually visible is having all of this material that has been expelled from the comet. Otherwise the comet is just a ball of ice and dust that would just be orbiting around. It's only a few kilometers in size in general and would never be visible to us were it not for the energizing nature of the sun. It would just be this chunk of ice. In fact there are many comets that stay well out in the depths of the solar system and would never be visible like this. Now as we look closer in we see that reddish gas around the coma which is actually in a spiral pattern. Now what might cause this? Well it could be the nucleus of the comet rotating that could cause material to come off in this kind of spiral pattern. Now this is not known for sure but that's a current explanation that would explain the type of pattern that we see here. So Comet Ponds Brooks is currently visible in binoculars or small telescope to observers and is actually relatively close to the sun only about 25 degrees away from the sun. What does 25 degrees mean? Well if you hold your fist at arm's length that's about 10 degrees so it's not very far making it difficult to see because it's going to be visible only when the sun is up or just below the horizon. Those are the only times you'll be able to see it not seeing it in the middle of the night in a dark sky. However we do have an event coming up in just a few weeks now which is the total solar eclipse which will block out the light from the sun for a period of time for parts of North America and therefore could make it more visible. Now currently it's at the very edge of naked eye visibility and we don't know what it will be like in a couple of weeks so it's still possible that it could brighten enough to actually be visible during that eclipse but that would only be if you were on the path of totality and that means you need to be in that small band where the moon will pass directly in front of the sun blocking out its light completely. In that case then Comet Ponds Brooks would be more visible and we'd have a better chance but it's been a very erratic Comet sometimes getting outbursts which means it could be a little bit brighter or it may not be so it's something that we really won't know until that time on April 8th when the sun is eclipsed by our moon. So that was our picture of the day for March 18th of 2024 it was titled Comet Ponds Brooks' Swirling Coma We'll be back again tomorrow for the next picture previewed to be sounding out a cosmic jellyfish so we'll see what that is about tomorrow and until then have a great day everyone and I will see you in class.


Hey, what's up everybody, it's Tico from IDTV and this is Use The News. So after felling multiple times, the UK based marketing agency fanbites gives their tips on how to be successful and reach your audience. Now business is business is business. So ultimately, reaching your target demographic and converting them into active consumers is what we all want to do from a marketing standpoint. So what is fanbites take on how to do this? Now this is one of the co-founders of fanbites whose name is Timothy Armuth. His take is the reason why fanbites is now a multi-million dollar company is because number one thing they started to focus on one thing and they started to do it well. Originally fanbites used to offer all these many different services to artists like they can help them convert their fans into purchasing things. They can help them grow their crowd from the fan base. They can help them monetize their audience, engage their audience, a multitude of things. Now their focus is in driving engagement to your music or artists with Generation Z. That is their main focus and not to say that they don't do any of the other things helping people monetize their audience, helping people engage with their audience. But they sell one specific thing and that is what has helped them garner a multi-million dollar revenue generating business. Are you making music and thinking like, well let me not make it to hip hop because I don't want to lose a pop crowd. Let me not make it to R&B because then you know hip hop may or may not be into that. Well let me not make it to soulful because I don't know if R&B people want too much soul in the new R&B music and ultimately what you're trying to do is kind of service everyone and not servicing anyone at the same time. So this often happens to artists and it has their music fall flat. It doesn't have as much filling in it, it seems misdirected, it's like it's trying to reach into too many directions and it's kind of something that you really want to consider focusing in on and doing what you truly feel. Music is about feeling, art is about feeling. So what you feel, someone else will feel. So at least use that gauge and don't try and cater to everyone because when you do that you end up kind of catering to no one. Number two, focus on a small audience. Now when you double down on your music and you try and make it a little bit more focused you inadvertently create a smaller audience for yourself which can be good because you have the chance to be omnipresent to this audience and you have the chance to market to this audience in a more feasible way. It's a lot easier to market to a smaller amount of people and it takes a lot less money to do so which in the acts need to really consider whenever they're considering their marketing efforts. And last tip number three is try to plan only three to six months ahead of time. Since the music industry changes so much you don't want to be too caught up in this whole three, five year plan or a year plan when next thing you know Spotify doesn't exist anymore. Next thing you know we have a new streaming service that's dominating the industry or it's some crazy buyout that occurs and now you have to reconstruct your entire strategy. So ultimately one thing he's saying is that we stopped planning so far ahead and now we just focus three to six months in advance. And these are all the things that have led us up to being a multi-million dollar company.  This is the music business 90% business 10% music we all heard of that. So I mean not to say that you have to adhere to like bad business practices or ruthless business practices but ultimately you have to understand it is a business. You got to approach it as a business and you can learn lessons from other successful business folks. Let us know in the comments section which companies or which entrepreneurs you have learned some special tactics from. This could be Steve Jobs. This could be Elon Musk. This could be Damon John. This could be whomever you wanted to be but just let us know if you have a tendency to pick apart information from businesses and entrepreneurs below because I personally feel it will be advantageous to you in the end. Beyond that be sure to share with the front like and subscribe for more videos. Once again my name is Tuko from MusicIDTV and this is Use the News people. Bye now.


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I imagine that you are in the city of Medina in the year 11 after Hidra and our lady Fatima Tassahra, alaihi salam, has just been martyred. I want you to imagine that you are in the house of the Ahl al Bayt, alaihi ma'salaam, and Sayyida Zaynab, alaihi salam, she's just a little girl when this has happened and she's fast asleep in her bed.  I want you to imagine that Sayyida Zaynab has just woken up from a dream and she's crying and she says where is my mother, where is my father and you're the only one there with her, how would you comfort her in that moment? I think I might hug her, there's not much I can do with everything she's been through, everything that I know she's going to go through in that moment onwards. This is Umul Masaib, the mother of sorrows and no matter what hardships we go through in our lives, we have never even felt a percentage of what our lady, alaihi salam, went through. And now I want you to picture that you are in the city of Kufa. It is the 21st night of Ramadan and our master, Amir al-Muhmineen, Imam al-Muttaqeen, he has just passed away after being struck by a bin muljum. Imam Ali, alaihi salam, to say the Fatima was a father and a mother, she adored him. I want you to imagine that you're seeing her in so much pain and sorrow over the loss of her father, what would you say to her in that moment? I actually don't know, what can you say? Sayyida Zaynab and I think I'd be able to say anything. It's hard enough to comfort someone over the loss of their father. And yet this is Zaynab, this is the lady that our Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa aali, he compared her greatness to that of Sayyida Qadija, alaihi salam. As hard as this is sister and now I want you to imagine that you are on the plains of Karbala and it is the 10th of Muharram in the year 61 AH. Sayyida Zaynab has lost Imam al-Hassan, alaihi salam, years earlier to poison. She has just lost Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas and his body lies beside the Fort Art, without his hands. And now Imam al-Hassan alaihi salam is alone and he is going forth to the battlefield and he turns to Sayyida Zaynab and says, my sister, bring me my horse.  How would you feel? How would you feel if she said that to you? Heartbroken, I can't even begin to imagine how it must have been giving Sayyida Zaynab alaihi salam the horse to give to her brother and knowing that soon that horse was going to come back to the tents with no rider. The blood of the grandson of the Prophet smeared and it's made.  Everyone else is rejoicing. It is like a day of Eid but you can see the caravan of the Ahlul Reh, paraded in chains and you see Sayyida Zaynab alaihi salam without her veil. You see men slap the blessed cheeks of Zaynab. You see the whips of shimmer on her back and on the back of Sayyida Ruqayyah. You see the men poke the ladies with spears and swords into their wastes. You see men throwing boiling water at the Ahlul Reh, alaihi salam. If you were standing in that crowd, what would you do? I would want to run to Sayyida Zaynab. I just want to ask her what can I do now? What can I do for you? Do you want me? I don't know. I think I'll just go to her and I'd ask her is there anything you want me to do? You would want to do the right thing. You would want to do the thing that she would be most pleased with as such. Help anyway? Yes, anyway. As tragic as this is and by God we will never forget the tragedies of Sayyida Zaynab alaihi salam. Well, we won't. But one thing is important to imagine that one day these events will be avenged for by the Imam of our time, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala hasten his reappearance on the earth. We all hope to be servants of Imam Mehdi. And I want to know what qualities have you seen in Sayyida Zaynab alaihi salam that you would hope to show to Imam Isaman in yourself? I think all of Sayyida Zaynab alaihi salam's quality is amazing, but I think what I'd most want to get off her is when I learned from her, her patience, her bravery, and how through everything she went through, she never, not once, doubted God's plan, not once did she question. She always had patience. She was also, she was always grateful and grateful. I think I would want to be at stake. I pray sincerely sister that all of us, including the brothers and sisters watching at home, I hope that we can all learn from Sayyida Zaynab alaihi salam so that we may be to our Imam as she was to Aba Abdullah al-Hussein alaihi salam.


It's Papa Long Cassidy With action and suspense out of the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all Papa Long Cassidy starring William Boyd The ring of the Silver Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early West Papa Long Cassidy This famous hero thrills his 60 million fans with action and dangerous adventure In the role of Papa Long Cassidy is the popular star of the motion-fiction series William Boyd and appearing as that laughable old character California is Andy Clyde Now to our story the Red Death It was a long ride to make even for a friend like Kit Kavanaugh South from the cool rolling hills of the bar 20 to the Mesa country From a land marked with place names like Peep Sight and Deadwood to the Alkalai desert still carrying the stamp of the Spaniards To the arena de la Muerte the desert of death To ultimation to the Rio on the end all the mysterious stream which suddenly vanishes underneath the ground California we're happy that's it ahead that's what I had the real on the end all the earth The disappearing river He drops under the ground right there and never shows up again corn sharp nasty over considering the country to the south 120 miles of the gold blemish dry buzzard infested stretch a desert beside a How do you feel sore feet sore seat and the powerful Well, we'll be down at Kit's ranch in a day or two if we ain't buzzard bait for them Which way you reckon we're gonna push them Cadillac here's right up through the desert past here I know it. I know it. It's times like this one.  Just do me one favor you ride back in the dragon keep an eye out for straggling doggies If you see one flatten its face in that Alkalai dust just handle it gentle. Of course, it will be me Come on. Let's get out of the stream and fill up our canteen. It'll be dark in a few minutes We can cool off down there and hit the desert after sundown What's that Scott's over there? Come on No use California. He's gone. Did you get a look at each horse to guard? That critter was past as a streak. Hey, what you're picking up there in the trail? Oh, nothing Where'd the shots come from down there by the spring? Come on. Let's take a look Probably someone's partner to Jack grab it. Yeah, why do you write off like a posse with that? That's a good question wait hold it. Huh? Look You know against that rock over there next to the water. You're right. It warned Jack right come on Poppy a man. Yeah, but look at him red He's ready to beat clothes. He's face Everything yeah, and he's not only red. He's dead It's two days now since the shots and the fleeing horsemen led hoppy in California to their amazing discovery at the edge of the Rio and the endo the body of a man colored a brilliant red from head to foot Meanwhile at the ranch house of kid Kavanaugh, you know something kid I don't think you're being very smart. Why not? Well, you'll never get anywhere with this outfit. You know that I'm driving 500 ahead north in a couple of days. Cantrell. That's nothing to sneeze at Besides there's something else. What's that?  What do you mean? I just finished telling you Even if you are short of water, you've got some good grazing here my water. I can build this up to a thousand head Besides I need the right away. Now look, I've only been here a couple of years But I think I know what's going on around here The dozen ranches and one miserable town all squeezing out every drop of water there is This country won't support one more beef critter than is here already So don't you tell me you could put five hundred head more on this place if you bought it. I offered you a fair price didn't Yeah, they are too fair You've made it a couple thousand less. I might have thought you were on the square Okay, kid For now For now. Yeah, never can't tell something might happen to change your mind Yeah, what is it Martha? I don't know something's wrong.  No No, I don't just think it over with By the way, your friend Castle is in town. I just saw him heading for the sheriff's office Now take it easy gents if you think I'm gonna swallow a crazy yarn about a blood red cork But that's just what it was sure we don't burn him there right by the river mark the grave with a heap of rock red His clothes his hands his face everything We'd have packed him down here, but we were loaded up already and well a hundred miles a desert the cross Yeah, but red a dead man that's red ain't he what's that sir? Oh, oh this here's doc Galloway I sent from when you told me about this hello, honey. How do you dog doc? Would you say if I told you these jets run across the red corpse? Great. Yeah, where Rio on the endo right where she disappears near the water. That's right It it can't be Red death the one the red death it swept through this section years ago Sort of a legend now, but it does have a basis of truth What are you talking about the springs that water holes all through here suddenly turned red became poisonous Killed humans horses everything like the plague Probably a bacteria some kind of germ that suddenly increased beyond all reason and all this wasn't anything like that Doc this man died from something else entirely 40 poor either sudden Concentration led in the sacred Elias. He was shot. We got a glimpse of the killer as he rode off Well, I'll send a deputy up after the corpus delectae and maybe we'll know more about this red business Reckon we'll be able to find a grave if you marked it like you say Kid how are you boy? Okay, I hope California kid. You don't know how glad I am. You're here.  Yeah And a funny thing that's spring of mine the waters running red What do you make of it doc? I don't know kids and come on doc. Tell me please doc Well I'm afraid they are poison. I knew what I knew Please I can't help it kid. It almost seems like something's working again. Look dear.  It's just that it's happened this way every time We build a lot of hope we start out telling ourselves that this time we'll look at it What's the world got against us can't matter you don't know how you're making me feel like your Paul duck I sold you this ranch. You couldn't know about I know that but Look, let me do this for you. What I'm all alone. I have no family. I've got plenty to get by on What if what if we just forget there ever was a deal? You mean you know let me test the water first. We'll make sure before we go any further It's what I think it is. I'm willing to call it off You know the old saying satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. I Don't know what to say doc. Then don't say I'll say this much.  I'm sorry Martha. Here comes can't thrill. Yeah Brace yourselves everyone What's the verdict doc read me if it is you'll know soon enough can't feel yeah When it hit this country last time it took every ranch in the district funny thing doc I'm not worried at all and kid. Yeah, the office still good. You want to sell out only the price has changed Goes down a thousand dollars a day under you make up your mind Maybe you'd better get out of here can't travel sure doc, but just remember that kid $1,000 a day Yeah, would it hurt too much for you to wise me up or should I go on John? Where we headed? Ah There is sure is What the Navajo saloon? Let's drink them for him and I'll to make that you're going in and another is desperately a bench I Want to talk to the proprietor your old friend of mine? For a teetotra, you know more bartenders than any man live and sometimes I've got my doubts Hmm his name is Eustace Eustace cult ever and if he ran for president, I'd vote for him. Well, here we are After you, California. Thank you, Mr. Cassidy Oh He knew me when my name was still California California Carlson used to call pepper. All right. Hey, I'll be with you in a shake, Bill. Sure. Go ahead No, Fred. What sit down in California? Oh Excuse me stranger not at all coffee. What's this got to do with them pys and steers? Not here You new in town stranger just coming through my name is Cassidy. This is California Carlson. I'm Mike Ritten. Howdy Just passing through you say that's right. You you and the cattle business written. No, I see Quiet in here. Hey, I like it quiet Yeah Now bill or hop along it is now It was bill when I know I'm up north now used to all them were the days they up along Let me tell you he was a tiger than church social You just ran the drugstore up north when I was a kid Well, I can't show her look your fish. Hey, maybe you and me quick.  Oh, still got her stashed away in the barn out back. You remember anything about the drug business? Sure do No, I wanted to patent medicine for a while put out the slickest concoction. You ever laid a tonsillon Tasted wonderful wouldn't cure nothing, but I sold gallons of it You're just a fellow I'm looking for California you sit here with Mr. Reardon while you just and I take a trip out to the barn Just let her set till she clears up you sure you're right why not Well, you haven't run a test like this for 30 years the equipment's rusty, but I ain't I hope not. This is pretty important Where'd you get this and a kid came when I was spring. He stopped turned up sick this morning What makes you think to see I don't think anything yet. That's why I got you to drag out this equipment Yeah Funny ain't it that pink color. Yeah, how's it look now? Well, I'd be able to Yeah All the lantern up so I can look good. There you are Oh What about it you're right about that water bill. What's in it arsenic? I'd answer your question that answers the little one What's the big one?  It is you sir. Indeed it is It's late in the evening and hoppy in California returned from Alta Mesa to Kit Kavanaugh's ranch at the edge of the desert Hoppy. Yeah, kid. Do me a favor. Will you stop pacing the floor shacking the motion? I'm getting nervous I'm sorry Things beginning to get me. It's simple enough. I bought myself a spring full of poison water It's not that simple. Why not? This isn't the first arsenic well around here I bet it's the first one turned arsenic overnight Now there's more to it than that Cantrell is still willing to buy you sell to him and I'll break your neck.  You mean you know, no, I didn't sign anything not yet But every day I wait cost me a thousand dollars. What did you tell him said I'd be willing to talk business in the morning Now wait a minute. You listen to me kid. I'm too listening to anyone Who's ran kids at yours? Who's gone broke of the cattle guy you kid? Oh, I Sorry, I Guess I'm falling to pieces. What would be Martin and all the things about sure. I know But there's something more to it something none of us know about Look the ranch goes sour spring runs poison That look at Cantrell willing to buy and at a pretty good price, too And doc ready to give you back your money and take title for the spread. Does that make sense? No I can't help feeling all of us has got something to do with that dead man. We found up north Oh, but dog gone hoppy. How can that I don't know all of a hunch if you want everybody's getting jumpy around here And I take that deadhead power we set with back at youth discol-pepper soon. What was that channel for you? That's howler. We sat with what did you call him dead head? Why dead head? Oh, well, that's about the only thing you tell me done always business or nothing But when I asked him how he got to out of major he said something about he dead headed in on the stage You're sure he said that yeah, but what that's it. I knew there was like an action between that man It's disappearing river and this thing here. What are you saying? I'm going down to the hotel He's probably staying there. I want to talk to that bird right now Sorry, mr. Jordan just checked out, and I don't know where he went. Could he leave town? I run the hotel here not the transportation business now. I don't mind telling you Yeah, sure Henry yeah, you just never get up to heaven that way Henry. What is it useless? Henry straying a mite from the gospel He knows he has was mr. Reardon out the back door of this flea bag not a half hour ago used to show Henry I've seen it with my own eyes The road all toward Lazy C Ranch with Steve Cantrell. Thanks, Eustace You just got right now you never busted your work to Cantrell Henry I mean for that five dollars.  I'm not used to being Shanghai. No bad feelings ridden. Just want a little private talk That's all I know why you're here, and I think I can help you that is if you play along with me Go on Cantrell. I can deliver what you want tomorrow morning at a price, of course There's only one thing. What's that? When are you planning to make this thing public tomorrow? I'm gonna call a meeting of the cattleman Suppose you would have holed off till I get this little thing of mine straightened up can't do that I'm afraid you'll have to What kind of a remark is that cantrell? It's all of the thread of your water.  I'm interested to Cassidy. Go ahead rich for your gun. Okay? Better trot home to the lazy see and poke your hand We'll be seeing you at the cattleman's meeting tomorrow cantrell maybe sooner than that Cassidy The man talks tough now you'll get over it. Now. What about you all right? What about me? Don't you think you'd better tell me why you're here sure at the meeting tomorrow night You already gave yourself away ridden when you told my partner you've dead headed into out of Mesa on the stagecoach Only a railroad man has say that All right So I'm a railroad man and the only reason I can see for a railroad man to be an Alamasa right now is to lay out the Location for a railroad across the arena at Dale and Wreckie To maybe link up with the line on the West End. You're a pretty good guess. I try to be So when you start thinking railroad you automatically start looking around for something out of Mesa hasn't got in quantity at least Water, that's right Okay, Cassidy you win. It is the railroad and it is water He sent a man here weeks ago to look the place over last we heard from him He said he'd worked out a brilliant idea to find it for us then what nothing dropped out of sight I think I know where you'll find him. Yeah in the back room of the sheriff's office That's down on a table covered from head to foot with red dye and pretty dead. You mean yeah Come on. I look California and I found him two nights ago 120 miles north of here at the edge of the Rio and Dandil You know ridden that's something else. We ought to take up at the cattleman meeting All right, doc good to see All right, now I have your attention, please You've already been told that the railroad I represent is planning a line across the arena del Muerte to link up with the other side I don't need to go into what that'll mean to this section Here at the edge of the desert a town will spring up that will grow into one of the big cattle shipping centers of the southwest But all of our thinking up to now has run up against a stone wall The one thing that keeps this section down the thing that limits the number of cattle You can raise the thing that keeps this town down to a crossroads is water Every drop of water available here now is being used We'll need a hundred times as much if we're to think about running the railroad through here or building the town to go with it Now let me draw a diagram on the blackboard here Here's a triangle At the point of it at the top is the spot where the Rio and the endo disappears into the earth 120 miles north of here. Well, what could that do in us if we could tap that river under the ground We'd have all the water we need and more besides Along the bottom line of the triangle is the alzamesa country right here with its dozen or so ranches all Existing on the seats that come to the surface The engineer we sent here a few weeks ago figured one of those seats might connect with the river itself under the desert If we could find which one it would be simple to develop it to drill down and tap the mainstream But which one of the seats So our engineer figured out a simple plan he rode north to the point where the river disappears and poured red dye into it for three days Sure enough day before yesterday the spring at one of the ranches here ran red the kept Kavanaugh ranch out at the edge of the Mesa Mr. Kavanaugh now holds the development of this section in his hand. I hope we'll be able to work with him in following it through There's one thing more Mr. Reardon left it to me to mention that the railroad engineer and will it tonight to see how his plan succeeded Because someone someone in this room Who had an eye on the money that watered bring here Murdered the engineer and left his body up there by the Rio and the end. Oh, I think we can find out who that is His horse dropped the shoe on the trail up there right at the killing He rode him over a hundred and twenty miles a desert trail on a bear hook the left hind one Everyone a peepee seat while my partner checks the horses at the tie rack outside If the horse isn't there, we'll all stay right here while the ranchers are searched till we find him Let me out of here Doc Don't get away I shoppy I don't know how to thank you for all forget it. Yes. Let's think about those cattle. We're gonna start north tomorrow Oh, that's not it Don't gonna copy sure pull the rabbit out of the hat where that cost you I was wondering what you picked up back there at the real. Yeah You know see an old use of cow pepper reminded me of something I learned when I was a kid and my mother made me go to Sunday school Something in the Bible that says the guilty plea when no man pursuers. Oh come well you saw that horseshoe in your California No, why? That's the guy picked up on the trailer bin there's a 49 and Besides it never belonged to a horse anyway. It's belong to a mule Ha ha ha ha ha ha Hoppy in California are hitting the trail homeward again and after this little adventure the bar 20 is going to be a welcome site Hope you enjoyed this friendly visit that you'll remember to tune in next time these two fighting cowboys get involved in another thriller Nascar page Up along Cassidy star and William Boyd is transcribed and produced in the West by Walter White Jr The Red Death was written by Harold Swanton all stories are based upon the characters created by Clarence E. Mulford This is a Commodore production