All right, recording has started. Okay, welcome back everyone to second lecture today on Christian apologetics and Thank you for the discussion of the earlier session on science and faith We've been through some thoughts on that. I'm going to go forward to the next chapter which is chapter four on creation and If there are any questions that come up, you know, we will keep some time today to discuss that and also You know, we will continue this next week. We want to address additional questions on creation From a scientific perspective. So we will do that as we go forward next week. So let me just share my Screen this PDF is available has been made available to you in the One minute. Sorry That's I can't show you a screen. Let me try again. All right So we went to chapter three science and faith and we had some time for the discussion. Let's move forward now to Chapter four may want to talk about creation, but we want to look at it from from a science science perspective a scientific perspective now If you are interested you could Read the book the case for a creative by Lee Strobel He's written a series of books on the case for various various things So, you know, that has a lot more information and if you want to look at it But I want to just give us in a you know in a one lecture format or maybe it might spill over to two lectures Let's see but in a very simple way here are some things to keep in mind from a scientific perspective that are actually pointing us to a creator and Creation right now each of these can be explored further. There's a lot more information. You could get into but we'll highlight a few things right, so As we have already says stated right that You know, the more we make advancements in science The more amazing God is to us right sciences is just confirming more and more to us About our belief in God and we don't see science as an Conducted tree to our faith now. Yes, there are questions. We There are big questions that science puts forward to which we should handle and to the extent we can now Science I like this quote science does done, right is Actually pointing us to God and not away from God So let's look at You know, we will go through six of these six perspectives of the six different streams of science Which and we may look at from all of these different streams There are things that are you know, there are there are pointing us to God and so we just want to highlight that So first from cosmology. So cosmology is the study of The origin of the universe. So there are people who dedicate themselves to the studying a lot of that has to do with Astronomy and it's it's a combination. You're bringing in a lot of things together in order to try and understand How did the universe come about and therefore what are some of the Things that are happening in the universe that would eventually of course be beneficial to the human race so Cosmology is studying about the origin of the human race Now What are some things to keep in mind? So first of all In this whole field of cosmology Uh There is no such thing as Actually practically physically in the physical realm Infinity So infinity is a concept But in the real world Everything has is finite In the real world Infinity doesn't exist. We everything is finite. It's just a concept Infinity is a concept The real world things are finite so When we look at our universe and again, this is Based even on Einstein's theory theory of relativity He's saying okay, the universe is constantly expanding If the universe is constantly expanding if you go backwards in time, we can go back to a single point For its beginning of when we say t is equal to zero time is equal to zero It goes back to a single point when everything started Right, and so this is the concept that astronomer fred hall Called as the big bang So he was he coined it as the big bang. That means Going back in time. So what we're saying is As far as our time realm is concerned, there is no Infinite past God is outside time. So he is eternal But in the realm of time We go back when t is equal to zero Because the universe is always expanding if it's always expanding then it goes back reverse to say that there was a time when it began and according to The big bang phenomena that when you go back to t is equal to zero. What what was there? There was timelessness but there was Great amounts of energy At t is equal to zero Time was zero that means beyond that you're stepping into something unknown That's timelessness But at that time There exists to this huge amount of energy Which then caused you know the whole Release of that energy caused All of these things to eventually come into existence so But the presupposition there is There was this existence of so much of you know When he crossed over t is equal to zero there was the existence of all of this energy Which somehow Was able to express itself In what we are seeing today as the universe the world that we know of So we are saying that at that instant in time Something so powerful it happened and you know the scientists will calculate the amount of energy that was expended and This was when t is okay. So many billions of years ago That's back in time and things began so on all that's fine Okay, the calculation is done. This is our estimate of all the energy Okay But the presupposition is Not just energy But a lot of other things came into existence It wasn't just energy crossing over time and coming into Matter as we see it There's also a lot of other things that came into existence Intelligence came into existence There was life forms that You and I life forms came into existence There was order that came into existence So How can something so the big question in cosmology is We are saying, okay, we agree that there was a time But nothing existed So science tells us there was a time nothing existed Or that t is because of this only energy we agree but Our question is When that energy was expended or released How did our intelligence come how did order come How did life come How did Everything all of this come into existence because the universe is not a chaotic disorderly place It's extremely Ordered and you know, it's just amazing. So how could energy Cross over at that point into something that is so amazing So intelligent so full of purpose Is our question in the study of cosmology The good thing is they're saying there was a time way back when when Nothing existed, but there was All this energy that caused some all of this to come into existence So it was in the christian faith He said, well, that's the time god created. I mean that's god the creative act of god God is light I mean the bible uses those that language god is light god is power god is infinite and so When god spoke things into existence That was the time all the energy and all the intelligence and all The everything the design of god was released in that energy That was released To cause all these things to come into Place the way it is So it's not just a random explosion that suddenly came out so beautiful now the almighty god He was a source of both the power And the design now we can call it t is equal to zero. We call it the moment of creation fine But god for us god is the source of both the energy and the intelligence That we see today that has come into existence So from a cosmological perspective the study of the origin the universe That is how we can approach things Okay second Is and so we you know, we to believe that chaos was The chaos could birth order or lifeless matter produces these things this counterintuitive. It's actually irrational Okay secondly evidence from physics. So when you look at physics and you study things that are around us Again, this is just a summary. There's a lot a lot of things you can get in physics What we are saying is when we study the universe and the world around us that There are you know, we refer to them as parameters or constants in our worlds and even the universe at large That are very very precise precise values as physicists or people study all of these point out It's because these are so precise and are at the value that they are That life is possible Or the universe is the way it is that even a small change in the values of these Parameters or these constants even a small change Would be devastating. So for instance Gravity We know yeah, that's it's it's part of our world and It's so fine tuned that even it, you know, even if it's changed by Small small in a billionth upon a billionth of an inch Even if it moved by that it changed by that So to speak It Life on the planet would not exist And like this there are many more I think about 30 some parameters or maybe more That are so precisely tuned or set In our universe, so we're not just talking about gravity. We're talking about 30 or more parameters Another one we could reference is the cosmological constant Which is the energy density of empty space that the energy in empty space energy density in empty space Is so precise so fine tuned that If that were to change The universe would collapse So when you begin to look at all of these constants and say hey This is like at this. This is at this and we can study We can evaluate we can arrive at You know these values or we have arrived at these values and then we see how Important they are that if this if it wasn't like this The result could have been so devastating Are things would not be in existence the way they are So then you need to ask the question, you know The fine tuning of the universe whether it's what have what is here on our earth or in the universe at large That when you look at all of these parameters and you're saying everything is so perfect. It's so fine tuned Then how could all of this have happened by chance it had to be the result of an intelligent work or an intelligent designer god As a creator as a designer so from a cosmology perspective second from a physical physics perspective Third Then we want to look at it from a study of astronomy That means you're looking at the universe but from From an astronomers perspective We look at the location the planets Look at the location of all the suns and you begin to Look at things and then we say look even from an astra astronomy perspective If you just look at one of this The solar system you look at the sun Look at the earth You look at the moon and you look at just how this These planets Are revolving around the sun just this just we're just looking at one Solar system you're not even looking at the whole universe, but just look at this I'm looking at How this has been so precisely positioned And If the earth's position from the sun The earth's position from the sun But to be altered Even by five percent this is mentioning this If our position the position of our planet From the sun was to be altered even just as little as five percent Life would not be possible we get too close If we too hot We just move five percent the other direction be too cold Life would not be possible So can you imagine The earth's position just where it is So that life we can live It moves a little closer to the sun Everything will be roasted Little bit away Everything will be frozen now It's there And it's staying there Let's not you know randomly shifting this and that's a The earth is revolving and it's precise orbit around the sun so Could this happen by chance Could this Or was this intentional And then you look at the composition of the sun and Again, it's the right mars the right Amount of light and distance from the earth and All of that right amount of gravity so on So that life on earth is possible Could that happen by chance Or was it intentional design So we looked at cosmology. We looked at physics And we looked at astronomy now. I'm just giving a high high level, you know from all of these perspectives when you're looking at creation You're looking at things around us, you know, these are things we need to think about Or when you look at it from A biochemistry perspective Looking at a cell a single cell right, so Those who look at the cells A single cell you say look How complex a single cell is one cell right And we know the the human body is You know, it's just made up of thousands of these Cells But we're looking at one single cell And a single cell is so complex in its design that For even a single cell tiny little cell It's got these Celia, which is like the hairlike structures on the cell. They're about 200 of them on a single cell And they they serve certain purposes in protecting the body the cell Now A single cilia There was one hairlike structure on the cell has about 200 pieces of protein in it which are all Connected there to make up that single hairlike structure on the cell And then that single cilia or cilium right So these things are so connected Together that you see like how did all the all these proteins so connect in such a way to create the single hairlike structure and We're just talking about one small piece of the cell Which is so intelligently designed. So we're saying now well if That little part of the cell has been so Precisely connected or design Then you can see how all the other systems are very so complex systems Which you know so many cells They make up the organs tissues and organs and systems in our body human body and they're not to think how to count all the other animals that are there You look at all of the plant the vegetation and everything's again. There's lot lot lot to talk about you can talk about But going down to that single level to this level of that Cilium there is intelligence In one piece of the cell The cell itself has so much intelligence Then all that is made up thereafter The organs and the systems in the body There's so much intelligence Where could all this have come from could all of this happen by chance that You know if you go down to the smallest level you find Intelligence and thereafter, you know in the composition of the entire human body or body of animals or birds or plants or vegetation. There is so much of intelligence could all this have happened by chance Or is there is it the work of an intelligent designer whom we call God last two things so Now from biochemistry you go down to genetics or biological information so You know a lot of the study in genetics began The previous century and Watson and Crick Are Understand about the DNA which is the genetic information that is in Every cell that comp composes our human body So that trillions of cells and every cell has this DNA and this DNA has 23 pairs of chromosomes about 30 000 genes which then give the information to produce over 20 000 different kinds of proteins in the body So there is information here in the genes Which result in the production of these 20 000 different kinds of proteins So When you begin to look at that I mean look at the proteins that are formed the proteins are really made up of The the right amino acids that are linked together and for a single protein molecule A single protein molecule you need to have the right bonds between amino acids and they need to be connected in a specific sequence to form that protein So for just one molecule for just one protein molecule Yeah, sorry for just for this What am I saying here? Yeah So For one protein molecule you need these amino acids connected And a single cell A single cell would have about say about 500 protein molecules a single cell one cell is going to have 300 defined protein molecules But for a single protein molecule You need these amino acids coming together in a certain sequence That means The probability that these amino acids would just connect in that sequence when somebody's Determined it. It's like 10 to the power of You know one out of 10 to the power 25 I mean it's it's so improbable That these amino acids would come and connect in such a way To create that one protein molecule and a single cell simple cell Requires about 300 of these protein molecules We're not talking about complex cells doing simple cell So basically what we're saying is look when you go down to The level of genetics and you look at what's happening at the low level Even in the formation of these protein molecules Which are composed of these amino acids that are connected in a certain sequence to say that these Things would just come and connect like this In such an intelligent way Is there is such a high level Of improbability that makes it Impossible Therefore We are saying that There has to be design For these amino acids to come into place And then for these Right amino acids to come and connect to give rise to that protein molecule And for the right combination of those protein molecules to form the cell We know That the information to do that is in the dna but Where did the information come from where did the design come from The DNA is carrying the information But how did the dna how does the dna know I have to carry this information? How do the amino acids know that we have to join together to form this protein molecule And how do all those protein molecules know they have to come together to form the cell? And we are talking about A single cell And the human body has so many different kinds of cells So how did all this happen? Good all this have happened by chance or Are we going to be convinced that there is intelligence even at this level? Within the cell and lastly and we touched on this in our class last week When we look at it from a psychology perspective, so we're looking at different streams. We looked at cosmology. We looked at physics We looked at astronomy. We looked at biology Our biochemistry and then we went down to genetics And when you look at from a psychology perspective And you say well of course in In in creation we have Us humans and all of us have a brain and For all of us the brain is designed the same way the physical brain But yet And I'm sorry again. I'm just speaking in general terms Now we know that there could be variations But in generally speaking our brains are all designed the same way But Our minds are all different That's what makes us all different our thoughts or beliefs or passions or emotions each one of us, you know Have different expressions. So we are the physical level Generally speaking the brain is an organ That has similar structure for all of us But we're all not the same you know We have A different expression of what we call as the minds Which is expression of our thoughts or feelings and our temperaments all of that which is very very different So there's something there's a there's another level that is different Even though the underlying organ is the same And then in addition to that This is a physical organ But there is the expression of what we are talking what we mentioned last last week Of morality and rationality So not only do we have the mind But then we also have Morality a sense of right and wrong And we have the ability to reason rationality Which is all coming out of this physical one physical organ Or you know and and of course psychologists started to study that whole area of the mind and trying to understand how all of that happens So That becomes another question. How come? you know Matter and the same matter for the most part Is being expressed in so many different ways Or there are these expressions of the mind of morality of rationality coming out And where did that come from? And how you know where could it could it have come from? So What we're doing is what we are saying is that And we've just picked six of these That you know you look at different streams of science Whether you're talking about cosmology astronomy physics Are you talking about biochemistry? You're talking about genetics. You're talking about psychology. You're looking at different streams of science that in each of these There is the opportunity to encounter God Because you come down to the same question that There is so much of intelligence. There is so much of design in I mean in all of these things in every every every stream of science you're coming face to face with Intelligence you're going face to face with design and and for that intelligence to happen by chance We're so improbable So improbable highly improbable that we say that it's just say it's impossibility so therefore That has to be a god And so our responses look the scriptures are telling us, you know that We we must encounter god in his creation and you know, then He's a personal god. He wants to relate to us and help us understand him at a personal level Okay So there are books that you can read there's places, you know, you could explore this even further I'm going to pause here and I want us to just you know, have some discussion and answer You know questions on this, okay I see several hands up. Um I don't know who put the hand up first, but Whether it's samuel or christopher, please go ahead one of you and then the other one can ask you a question Go ahead samuel Christopher Sorry Or samuel go ahead. Yeah, okay. Thank you. Thank you Uh, my meal goes on. Um Supposed to there's one branch of science That that I find is bitch. I like like for with physics biology. I don't see these branches of science directly Uh, you know contradicting existence of god But but I see them as magnifying glorifying god when you know Biology takes us deeper into cells and how they are structured in so much order It's uh, it's just so marvelous um However, uh, I think uh, there's this branch of science called anthropology, uh, which seems to be catching up a lot these days Which is nothing, but uh, it's it's archaeology history sociology all of that combined But it's it's a it's a study of how human beings came to where we are right now And this is the branch that uh, and it even combines evolution and what not so I think it's talks about java man neanderthals All of that like where civilizations started from and off and uh, and uh So this is that branch which Advocates a lot that human beings were The the most logical conclusion as human beings were hunter gatherers When they were initially coming together as tribes Because agriculture happened very late so People initially they would hunt Or they would gather foods, you know, so so that and uh, this kind of the the story of Anthropologies, I think completely opposite of the bible where Uh, it I think the study goes to say like how people From hunter gatherers or they even call them foragers How they would you know occupy a place uh hunt and gather in that place Completely deplete that place and then move to another place And and and so on they moved on in in that context and so So the values that they had systems that it has were Different meaning like one one value that the the prime prime prime I mean the most Primary value that they had was of sharing like if I kill an elephant and I get it I can't consume the whole elephant by myself. So I share it with the tribe Uh, similarly one who gathers a mango and brings that mango will not fulfill his stomach. So I share it So so that whole study goes into you know sharing being the primary value Um, uh, there's there's no marriage And kids who ever kids are born. It's like the whole tribe is just sponsored to raise the kids until uh, the agricultural revolution comes into play somebody discovers agriculture and then uh, the person says it's like, okay I'm not going to go hunting and gathering. That's too dangerous. Like I'll just Uh harvest wheat uh in my backyard. So this land is mine And I'll I'll I'll uh labor on this land and whatever fruit will come So I'll consume it for myself, but I need help us. So then then agriculture then goes on to Institute other components of society like marriage religion country region Tribe and so on and so forth. So So that is um something and that's catching up like these days you pick up any book you pick up The best sellers of these days that talk about humankind and whatnot Generally have their context based on anthropology. So So but when when you look at bible bible starts directly with agriculture with with adam being given instructions from god to Toil the land and and harvest and then keen and able being agriculture. So I think that I see that As a direct contradiction. So so even the answer does not deny Bluntly explicitly the existence of what but I think in in all its presentation in terms of how human beings From java man and caveman 20 and it also became civilized society. I think it uh, It goes on to imply that uh, religion was discovered by man Born out of the agricultural revolution Okay, um, yeah good. So To some extent we are going to address this. So what we are going to do is um, we're gonna talk about Um, actually what we have done in the past and maybe I will expand it for this year Is we we look at darvin's theory this whole theory of evolution how things have evolved And we will well be and and we will also look at the big bang theory of cosmology So we look at those two. We really I try to understand that so the big bang theory is talking about how everything started darvin's theory is talking about how man evolved And now when we talk about that I will expand it to include What you have mentioned To see, you know, what what is being presented to us Here in this whole field of anthropology and and and it relate, you know, and and you're combined in with Sociology and how like exactly what you said Uh, so how do we respond to that from a biblical perspective? And I'm not saying that we are going to have answers for everything Uh, because you know, some of the questions that we will talk about later on is for example Uh, things like The age of the earth and the age of things that we find, you know, how do we respond to it? We're not saying that we will have, uh, you know Great answers, but we will have our response To to these things, right? So we will um, uh, uh expand on what we have been typically doing to include that this, you know In our I think next lecture When we cover we look at Darwin's theory and then we also look at big bang And we will expand it and then and then we'll answer these questions. We will say, okay. This is how we respond to it Uh, or this how we understand it? but from the information we have in the bible and from what is being presented to us through these various streams of science Okay, so, uh, thanks for bringing it up and we will address it Thank you Christopher, I think you've uh, the next one who had to raise the hand and I see Charles also So Christopher, you want to present your question or discussion? Yes, um in relation to uh, maybe you're already, uh, answered back to the decision in relation to the, uh, you know, when uh, you know when Adam Was created and in a sense when when the But Christopher you are far away from the microphone Yeah, so we can't uh, so faint. Can we hear you? Yes, so I I wanted to just uh, I mean this is actually in reference to you know when when adam was created and in a sense when when the when the when the world was created and uh in the bible so With science, they have they have tried to establish through through through research uh, you know Trying to uh, you know Look at rocks and look at you know, uh, you know, I look at uh different natural Structures and it goes back Uh, many many many, you know, uh centuries uh, many many years before before that. So, uh, how does that kind of uh, you know, uh, you know Tally with you know, what what what? What the bible says and what? You know what what science? Comes up with So this is a question we will we will address which has to do with time, right? so the bible in in genesis one and two is describing for us A six-day work of god That took place Bringing in man and you know, all of the things that we see on the planet And yet so therefore we're saying okay people are only so many years old So many thousands of years old and so on and then we have um Science like chris was saying, you know that that when we do those dating to the scientific process we say, okay, the earth is so many Thousands of years hundreds of thousands of years old and so on so forth. So that there's a there's a huge discrepancy between the six thousand years time that presented to us in the bible and What science is presenting to us of hundreds of thousands of years? So how do we respond to that? We will so I will share with you maybe yeah in the next class We probably do those questions first and then move into the chapter on darvin and big bang So we would pick pick up these questions in the next class will pick up these questions then move into the chapter on darvin and big bang so How do we respond to that and I will also share With you some of the different christian perspectives. I just to give you an idea We will get into details next week There is and again, uh, I don't want to say this conclusively but I'm just giving you presenting to you some of the different christian Responses to that. So one of the christian responses to that is between genesis one one and genesis one two There is the possibility of or what people say That There could have been a long time period before we see The Creation of man and and and things on the earth. So that is one perspective that which you may read So I will share with share this with you and then I will say with you what I how I would respond to this time question So that is one perspective that between genesis one one and genesis one two and you may read You know some of these christian responses some in some places. So you'll find some christians will say that Between genesis one one and genesis one two, uh, there was a big time gap Uh, that's why we have The earth Being dated as so many thousands hundreds of thousands of years back Or They may even state that they could have been a prehistoric a preadamic race especially when you come to you know, the fossils and even The fossils of some animals like dinosaurs and others which are dated To many hundreds of thousands of years now. We are saying From genesis one one at six thousand years But the fossils are dated many hundreds of thousands of years or So how do you account for that? So one christian response Is that they must have been a preadamic world? So I'm not saying this is true I'm just saying this is a response that you would read um There is uh, there was a preadamic world That existed before between genesis one one and genesis one two That's why genesis one two says the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the tea so that means There was water so that god had destroyed the preadamic world with a flood. Okay, that's one now I know time is running out, but Do I you know personally do I believe that I don't maybe next next class? I will explain it But that is one response people have but just Say this, you know There's the other thing to consider which I did mention the last class which is That in the creative work of god every time energy and intelligence or design was compressed in a moment so even if The earth was created in an instant And then you examined what was created you would say well, this is a product of hundreds of thousands of years But in the creative act of god hundreds of thousands of years was compressed into an instant so That is another response And I personally like to take that response as opposed to the previous one that I mentioned Right, we will consider both we will consider both of these next class and as a response to the time question And we will you know, we can look at both sides and see the pros and cons And evaluate it. Is that okay christopher? But I think we will pick it up next class because it does require some amount of discussion Okay This whole issue of time and how do we answer When things are dated hundreds of thousands of years. How do we respond to it? Okay so Charles can we take your question next class? I see your hand up as well Okay So what we will do next week Yes, we will continue this discussion and answer some of the questions that come in relation to creation Then we will proceed to talk about this whole theory of evolution of things evolving over time it's From davenspice on daven on We will spend some time on that And then we will spend some time on the big bank theory. Let's understand it and say, okay. This is what they say so what right And along the way, I just make mention of some hard books that That are out there. I'm not saying you have to go read it. But just just for us to be aware Authors like Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawkins and others that these are books that You know, just be aware that these are kind of books out there which generally people are reading from which their questions would come and You know, we need to understand where they're coming from And Be firm in where we stand and understand where we stand. So we will go through that next week And probably another week after right? So we will spend maybe two more weeks on this whole aspect of science creation and related matters related issues and address them So, okay Come with your questions take some time to think we will ask questions discuss And then move forward it to other topics We're going to bring this lecture to a close. So, um, I just was Okay Sure, Charles will pick up your question next week. So I'm going to stop the recording. Let's close in prayer And we'll take our break and get ready for


And then you realize, oh my gosh, there's some amazing Nintendo news coming your way because that's what we have today. Surprisingly, quite a few things surrounding Nintendo Switch 2, despite there not really being a new leak or anything. Sort of weird because level five did an event this morning that involved a ton of game delays that has everyone talking about Switch 2. And then we have some interesting news dealing with Sonic of all things.  Well Sega gives us some details there and then what is going on with this? This is the one that I may be most confused about today and I'm so confused. I might need to take some pills and calm myself down a little bit. Just pop them, pop them. Okay, okay, okay, we're not poppin' pills today. But what's interesting here is that Xbox has now spoken publicly that they wanna bring all of their games, even Game Pass, to Nintendo. And well, Nintendo's next platform. What? Wait a second. We're about to get a... Elder Scrolls 6? Okay, calm down, Nate. Oh, and by the way, yeah, we do happen to have some brand new Switch 2 rumors courtesy of a channel friend. So you know what? What are we waiting for? Let's dive right in. First up, level five had a bunch of news dropped today and let's start with Professor Layton. So Professor Layton and the New World of Steam dropped a brand new three minute gameplay trailer today. And it's pretty great considering everything else seen from the game before it was cut scene. So it's nice to see gameplay. There are some differences this time around from what the series was on Nintendo's handheld systems. The gameplay is a slightly different angle with Layton and Luke now standing at the bottom of the screen. There also is an interesting shop and we're gonna look at one of the game's many puzzles. Of course, given what we knew about this game for some time, many anticipated it were releasing possibly in the first half of 2024. Unfortunately, they have pushed the release window of the game as announced today to 2025. Level five boss, a hero, Hino, made clear the delay was simply to ensure the game could be the best it possibly could be but made no indication on what the actual issues are. As many are guessing, there is a lot of speculation that the game will be moving to Nintendo's next hardware making that the primary brux of the delay. Also add in that while prior cutscene trailers had Nintendo Switch logos, this gameplay session mysteriously is absent of Nintendo Switch references. Of course, the game is likely to release on Switch. They seriously don't need a powerhouse piece of hardware but they likely want it to be a cross-gen release to maximize sales on new and old hardware alike. Another hotly anticipated game is the detective RPG Deca Police which was supposed to release this year. Some confusion around the release date happened today, however, because during the presentation they clearly said the game is scheduled for release and now post 2024. This led people to wonder how a game scheduled for this year is suddenly a 2025, maybe even a 2026 release. However, the official X account for the game did post a clarification that it wasn't meant to say post 2024, just 2024. Again, this is viewed speculation. They are pushing the game until Nintendo Switch choose expected launch next year and likely again a cross-generation title. Now, we're not done because you cozy game lovers out there, maybe remember a familiar series from level five as well in fantasy life. And today we got another look at fantasy life, I, the girl who steals time. It's a direct sequel to the beloved 3DS original and one huge thing they really focused on in the trailer was the massive visual overhaul, really emphasizing how much better this game looks than its original 3DS prequel. One of the more interesting aspects is the release timing of the game yet again. Yes, it said in the trailer it was summer 2024, but during the presentation level fives boss added that they actually have decided on the exact release date already, but they won't announce it right now for quote unquote strategic reasons. Again, this fuels the Nintendo Switch 2 speculation all over again where you likely don't wanna drop exact release dates until after the system is revealed if you're making a game that's cross gen. All in all, it was a really good show for level five, even if mysteriously everything seems to be working on now is being pushed back for reasons unknown officially. Look guys, I don't know if this has anything to do with Nintendo Switch 2, but I can't deny that it's pretty suspicious. Now unfortunately for the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Sonic Superstars apparently has underperformed. We actually have a quote from their recent financial briefing, so let's just dive right in. Sonic Superstars was released in October, which is a slightly weaker start than we had anticipated. But in reality, when Sonic IP sells the most is mainly November to December, and more than 90% of this title's marketing cost will be spent in the Thanksgiving and holiday season from November onwards. Although in the financial results announced today, we are forecasting this title sales slightly weaker with the view of the status of the start mentioned above, we plan to continue our marketing efforts to sell on the same level as Sonic Frontiers. Now just to give a little update on Sonic Frontiers sales, it sold roughly 3.5 million earlier this year. It's probably creeping a little bit closer to 4 million, but we didn't get a big update on that. But hey, you know what? They also want the Sonic series to eventually become as big as the Mario series. So who really knows what they're doing? We're just here to deliver the news. And I guess Sonic Superstars is underperforming. I guess that's what happens when you launch the same week as Mario Wonder and Spider-Man 2. I think gamers were a little busy. Now this is maybe the most interesting story of the day because it deals with Xbox, because you know what? It turns out that they are really wanting to bring all their games, including Game Pass over to Nintendo. And not just Nintendo, what is happening? Now all of this came from Xbox's chief financial officer and corporate vice president of finance and operations, Tim Stewart, during a Wells Fargo TMT summit. Here's what he had to say specifically regarding Nintendo. While I'm not announcing anything broadly today, we want to bring our first-party experiences and our subscription services, like Game Pass, to every screen that can enjoy those experiences. That means smart TVs, mobile devices, and yes, it means places we once viewed as competitors in the past, like PlayStation and Nintendo. We're trying to get things on NVIDIA's GeForce Now service. Yes, that means Microsoft is talking like a third-party entity. Of course, we don't know if this will expand beyond the current deals for Call of Duty or anything, but it's clear Microsoft's focus is shifting. Though it's a weird speech he gave at the summit because it also includes mentions that they want to strengthen Xbox system sales, which could be weakened without exclusive content. However, them expanding beyond their own console has been happening for a little while now, so again, as he said, this isn't an announcement, but clearly it's a long-haul goal. They someday want their games and Game Pass on Nintendo and PlayStation and anywhere that can handle it, just like a multi-platform studio. And I gotta say, it's pretty crazy to think about Microsoft, the multi-platform studio, after all of these years. Look, the Xbox sales are actually like down 50%, year over year. Switch sales are down in many countries, year over year by 20%. Ugh, man, the Xbox sales were never really that great in the first place, so I could kinda see where we might get another generation of Xbox systems, I don't know, but it's gonna come with the caveat that they really don't care if it sells. So it is what it is. Guys, we might get Microsoft games on Nintendo Switch 2 at some point beyond Call of Duty, who knew? Now lastly, we're gonna have some fun talking about some Nintendo Switch 2 rumors, because you know what? We don't have that many going on out there, and this does come from a friend of the channel who always likes to note that he is not a leaker, but somehow still continues to occasionally put rumors out there about things he's heard. But again, these rumors aren't super crazy, so I think they're in the realm of believability or expectations, especially if you look at what other systems are doing, but it is something that I do think is interesting to talk about, and so we're gonna dive into it, and these rumors come from none other than Mike Odyssey, and what's interesting is he put out a post on X that said the following, he was told a big feature for Switch 2 will be the ability to livestream on Twitch and YouTube, and personally, I presume locally from the system, like I don't know how else he would do it. Either way, the feature will be integrated within the Switch 2 operating system. There is also something about a new reward system. Now, we've actually talked about a reward slash achievement system being a possibility, but it is interesting thinking about the live streaming space. This functionality is already built in to and supported by PlayStation and Xbox, and has been seen for some time now over multiple generations of systems. So I would say that this is a quote unquote big feature as Mike put it, but I do think what's big about the idea of them supporting it is they may finally be fully modernizing their online services. As such, I'm actually more excited for what this could mean beyond this solo streaming feature. Now, just as a general reminder, Mike Odyssey has put up rumors and stuff in the past, and some of the stuff hasn't been true. Some of the stuff was true. So look, he's a friend. I don't really know what's going on. I didn't reach out to him about this because frankly, he already posted it publicly, but what I will say is we will discuss this further on the Nintendo Prime Podcast tonight. Now, did someone say the Nintendo Prime Podcast? That's right, I just wanna end this show by reminding everyone we have a live show tonight for the Nintendo Prime Podcast featuring Mike Odyssey, Andres Restart, Jake Randall, Eric Moore, my co-host, myself, and for the first time ever, Nintendo Land coming on. We have a killer show for you guys. I'll give you a little preview of what some of the topics are here. We're gonna be talking about the big games Nintendo's gonna be having coming in 2024 and making some predictions there. We're gonna be talking about Nintendo Switch 2 features including the stuff that Mike Odyssey brought up, and on top of that, we're gonna talk about our wants and desires, maybe dreams, hopes, or expectations for the next Mario game, and yes folks, the next Mario Kart. Oh boy guys, it's gonna be a pretty exciting episode. Hope to catch all of you guys there. Look, I'm doing all right over here, all right? Hopefully you're doing all right too. Catch you in the next video.


get some prep table here and change an evaporator out. I wasn't the one that diagnosed this so I'm not really sure what's wrong with it but I'm gonna assume that it probably has a leak. Generally we find it to be smarter to change the capillary tube whenever you change the evaporator or compressor just to prevent the callbacks. Sometimes you can get it right in there with a suction line, sometimes you can't. It just really depends on whether it's been ran through the wall or not. These are pretty simple to do. Always keep an eye on your door seals and door seals are all good. That'll cause you some condensation build up if they aren't good. Alright, looks like we got a little bit of oil here on this capillary tube. I'm gonna pull the thermostat out. This senses coil temperature not box temperature for the shutoff point. I should actually rephrase that. This senses the coil temperature to turn off and it's a constant cut in at generally 38-39 degrees. That way you know that the coil has defrosted before allowing the compressor to come back on again. One thing I've ran into when I first started on these was they got enough refrigerant to freeze up but they don't have enough refrigerant to get the coil cold enough to actually reach the 18 to 17 degrees depending on how it's set up to shut off so that it's run run run run run. That's the most sensitive thing in the world. Looks like we got a couple spots there in the coil so we can not just right here. Man, this thing is so slow to respond. That's why I like my H10. I just thought I'd give it a benefit of the doubt. Looks like they changed this a little bit. Now it's plastic. Usually that's aluminum and you got this out.  And get our cap tube cut. This little bulb over here, that's your accumulator. It's just a copper pipe with one tube going down, one coming out. It's kind of almost something you could easily make yourself. It's just something the factories do that helps give it a little extra protection. This will be an easy one to change as far as cap tubes concerned. It's just attached to the suction line here for barely a foot. You don't clamp on taps. That'll be gone but I might get done. We're gonna put that on, raise that on solid. We'll be changing the filter dryer of course and we're gonna put a cap T, an O32. That will also give us a high side port so we can charge it a little easier and it also helps tell us whether or not we're getting a restriction. Yeah, I really like these cap T dryers. They're made for capular tubes. Basically comes with a straighter core. Says it's specifically made for it, basically meaning it has more filtering capabilities. It's got a high side port here on it.  So we'll grab our evacuation bucket here and we'll go ahead and get started on some of that stuff. I'm gonna head and bent this up to there so we can get the new dryer in line with it without any major problems. You don't want to open this until it's time to brace it in. Now the thing I've noticed with this, that aluminum that they're putting on there, it's a dissimilar metal. It says it tends to see to corrode on the copper. So it's great that it's conductive value is there but honestly it really ain't too impressed the way it turns out. Great, there's your capular tube. What I'll do sometimes is, you know, if the factory don't have the specs, I'm gonna just measure it out. Make sure it's the same length as the other one because I don't want this matched. But we'll match it up, make sure it's the same. Sometimes it'll give you a little extra. So basically we've got four inches extra here. I'm gonna go ahead and cut it like that. That's gonna smash the in there together. I'll take it off about a quarter of an inch. So there's that, that's gonna be pitched together. Now we can send it down through there. One majority of my line to be back here in the cooler. So we're gonna shove that down through there, down to here to there. What I've done in the past is I've actually wound it around the accumulator on the inside and then insulated it. I'm gonna sleeve it with that clear plastic tubing I got so that way if any vibration happens here that we don't rub it into one of these sharp edges. Let me see I'm able to slide that on over top of it. It's hard to make it the whole way. So I'm just gonna do a couple strips here. That's gonna protect us as we go through the sharp edge. There we go. Make it a little easier. I may have to trim it back a little bit so when I braze that in there I don't melt the plastic too much.  Now one thing you gotta keep in mind if you're gonna try to unbraze that there's a good chance there's oil buildup in here so you might have a little bit of a flare up. Also we don't really want to melt the plastic. You can see some of the crud that's getting down in there in that drain. That's gonna cause it to plug up later. A lot of times I don't worry about nitrogen on the unbrazing. I mean I try to do it as best as possible but sometimes it just doesn't get done on every little spa piece. I'm not going to say I do it every time but I do try to do it 98, 99% of the time. Alright that looks a lot better now.  Just a few stains left. Now's the time to get it all cleaned out.  I screwed over there holding it. Gonna put a wet rag up there. Get that braze in position. Alright we got her all in there. It's all nice and ready to go. Now we can run some nitrogen back through through here. Okay I have my dedicated line here to a little purge. Get everything out of the coil and all that. And once that's done go down to purge only. Wet it and then I can feel it and I know it's coming through. Get the rag on there. That's gonna help protect the plastic over here. It's also going to help protect that insulation that's on the suction line. I see it looks fairly decent. Good uniform connections all the way around. Got a little bit warm there on that part which that pain is to try to protect the copper from the vinegars and stuff that tends to be inside the coolers that tends to make these leak. Make a nice little loop. Here's your cap tube cutters. Basically it's just a V-shaped cutter. You can do the same thing with wire strippers just not as nice. So we said we had about a couple extra fingers lengths. So we're gonna go ahead and cut that. That puts a nice circle cut on it. I'm gonna keep that back here a bit. Then we're gonna stick this inside of the coil about two to three inches. Right now we've got nitrogen coming through. What I'll do is I'll do a large blast of nitrogen and then I'll go ahead and braze it. I'll actually shut it off and then braze it. That'll just place the oxygen and then like you're gonna remember it's gonna be coming in from the capular tube into the coil. So anything that might have got in there is going to get caught in the suction side into the compressor. It's about the best way I can figure to come up with a way of doing it. You figure I would say a good majority of everybody doesn't even do this. So I just try to do my best. Gotta get that base metal one first if possible. That time you didn't see anything at all. You can melt the paint on the tube there. Okay now I can feed from the suction side and I can feel the air coming through nitrogen. So I know that we're clear. I know we're not restricted. There's nothing worse than getting this thing together. Charge it up and it's restricted because you've got the cap tube gum shut. Okay the thought process behind this is that we're going to get this part here brazed in first. That way any carbon is going to get caught back here, not here. I'll sit there and hold my finger up there to see about how far I'm into the filter dryer. I want to be in there far enough that I'm not going to have any capillary action pull the braze into the cap tube. We're purging through there get that dryer nice and cleared out. I'm going to drop it down to the lowest setting on my building regulator. Now I'm just trying to keep the dryer somewhat cool here. Not making shooting for perfect. I'm going to let that cool for a moment. I don't want to rush into it and cause a crack especially with a small as a pipe that is. Everything looks pretty clean and clear there. We'll trim off that little burr piece there. Okay my feelings on this right here is yeah it's three-eighths but you're reducing down to a capillary tube right here. So I'm not too overly concerned about it being on the inside of the pipe and this has just helped make my seal around the edge pores. I'll crank that up again. I don't like getting it too close because it will pull down the joint to the point where it'll actually be on the joint longer and that actually takes more time to do it to get it warm enough. Got all the way underneath and all the way on top. I'm going to clean this up a little bit here so everything looks pretty decent for an amateur. I went ahead and pulled this out a little bit. You know one thing my dad taught me and he's a welder is that if you can't see your work you can't see what you're doing you can't do a good job. So if you got to bend things a little bit within reason to get to them properly and not burn things up and torch the product you're working on go ahead and move it around a little bit. It's filling up now and we'll check her out. We just scan it with the ultrasonic leak detector. I did not hear anything. Pressure's not dropping. I'm gonna go ahead and soap it just in case. Here's a little hack that you can do your light tube to magnets on it. That makes it so much easier and holds it wherever you need it. I went ahead and just did it with the aluminum tape again. Got my cap tube all done up there. All right got her all insulated. Added extra wire ties to it just to make sure that it did come undone that it's gonna hold there. Got that loop insulated because that's gonna possibly condensate and sweat. All right if you want to see something massively overkill. We've got the turbo of 6 million here. A refrigerant in it. All right that cap tube there from the thermostat goes into this little tube there and then you're supposed to seal that with a little bit of cork tape so that you don't get moisture in there. These monster hoses and at 21 minutes it's only hit around 600. I found it off. It rose up to about 1350. Then it dropped down to about 0.8 0.9 microns a second on the rise rate for the Blank-off test. So the only thing that's left in there now is the refrigerant because the leak it just kept on rising. Okay we're at 443.  Like I said I've already done my Blank-off test once before so I know that it's gonna rise some. Here they're only gonna get so far when it comes time for moisture when it's peal of the oil. So we're at 1,020. It's massively slowed down compared to what it was before.  You only talk in probably a tenth of an ounce, quarter of an ounce when you're talking vapor not liquid. Yeah it's definitely not going in as fast as what you'd normally see but because when we purged our nitrogen through there we knew that it only went one direction or the other. There's high pressure.  We're going to get closer to our negative there so we're gonna go ahead and throttle this in slowly. I don't want it to appear in the compressor. So it's gonna be a little low on the suction pressure because we've got liquid from here to here that needs to be pulled back into the system yet. So we're running a 98 degree liquid temperature incoming refrigerant. So we're isolated into this punch here. I'll just valve it off here.  See no liquid lost. Stuff like that. There's always a chance that maybe they didn't get you the exact one that you should have or maybe something's not quite right. So we may have to add a ounce or two to it. We're just gonna watch it for a bit and see how it reacts. One of the things you got to watch when you're checking super heat on these compressors is that you're actually doing it back at the evaporator not out here because you've already added heat to it or with the capillary tube hooked to it. So you don't want a false reading. So this is not gonna be a hundred percent accurate by doing it here. Right now it is coming back cool but you don't want to jump the gun and go changing things. The fan's running and we're just gonna watch our box temperature and see how things go. Things can change sometimes when they're running. You would figure it's gonna come down once it's running but we're just gonna give a second. This dryer here can possibly hold a little bit more than the dryer that was in there from the factory. Usually it will say on the dryer box itself what you have to add. I try to go with this 032 because it's usually pretty comparable to the pencil dryers. I don't like those pencil dryers because they got loose fill in there and they seem to get plugged up easier and that loose fill when these systems go low on refrigerant it'll bake that oil and it goes in there and it breaks those beats down because it's running so hot because it's don't have the refrigerant in there to cool the compressor and that goes in there and plugs up your cap tube and then the whole system is pretty well got to be tore apart and clean. Superheat's running 43. You wouldn't want real low superheat this early into the game. Generally I mean it's all interesting if you read the history on how the capillary tubes are calculated out because it's actually trial and error they'll get ballparked and then at the very end they'll actually have to trial and error it when they're engineering the box and because there's no exact perfect way to get it dead nuts on so that's why these critically charged systems generally need to be charged exactly the way they say to do it. About 10. That's definitely lower than what I like to see but it's not quite like air conditioning when you had to focus on your evaporator temperatures because this will defrost itself. Alright went out to the truck and she shut down came back in just checked the thermometer inside the cooler it's a 38 so it's soon to come back on here in a minute. I'm going to stop where we're at I'm not going to overcharge it. You have a miniature accumulator right here to help protect the flood back so I'm not going to take away that protection by overcharging it obviously it's reaching temperature. Alright that's going to wrap this one up I just want to take a moment to thank you guys for subscribing and wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving out there. I'm sure this wasn't exactly where I would have liked to have seen them at but at this point since it's cooling and everything looks good of course temperatures are concerned I'm going to go with the fact that I used OEM parts and there's no good excuse why it wasn't I primarily done everything I can do and it just kicked back on so if you liked the video please like share and subscribe and most importantly please click that notification bell because only 20 to 30% of you guys actually click that till next time we'll catch you on the next one


I'm an introvert, but I consider myself to be an extroverted introvert sometimes, where it's just like, if I'm with the right people, if I'm with the right friends, I am very social. But I also need time to just like sit back and recuperate or just downtime. I think it's interesting you say that because, you know, whenever anyone asks me about improving social skills are going out and doing quote extroverted things, it's always either important to have a place that you know that you're going to, or have people that you're comfortable with and that you know, and we kind of need that, right? Need that focus or we need some kind of control over the situation and being aware of the place that you usually go to, it's kind of like a grounding thing.


All this birth and death and cycles and it's all too big the whole thing. Let's try to keep it simple in this moment because when you when you move to this moment, then that eternity of Everything is with you in this moment You don't have to worry about births and deaths and cycles and and how to escape them And will I become a cockroach and all that can be left aside for the moment because the experience is now it's here This is the moment where you're living not what happens afterwards When you bring yourself to this moment life simplifies itself down into this this moment, you know


For those who don't know, Watson took on Jeopardy's champions and was crowned champion. But after being hammered with questions, like in this video... Watson decided enough is enough. And it's time for him to ask the questions. Although with an attitude, Watson's intentions are noble. He wants to help those seeking knowledge and make them experts. This work is entitled Time for Watson to Ask the Questions. And it's the joint work of myself and Summa from UIUC, Bob, Tankfei, and Jinjin from IBM. Filled through Jack and Ridge from Rice. Given any source of information, we want Watson to ask the right questions to maximize comprehension. Building the pipeline for this to work is challenging. Starting with resolving co-references, selecting the important sentences, followed by extracting relations, and morphing them into questions. Finally, we need to generate distractors, and this is the focus of this video. In such a sample question, distractors would be the wrong choices that distract the students from the right answer. Now they can't be too easy like cake, or too correct like O2. So to solve this challenging problem, here are our current contributions. In the past, people used to ask an expert to manually label the efficiency of the distractors, or experiment the distractors on students. We formulate an automatic way to evaluate distractors given the data set, and we prove its efficiency. This helps speeding up research in this field. Starting also with this baseline to generate distractors, whereby we retrieve all words near the answer in the embedding space as distractors, we showed that an embedding space trained on all of Wikipedia performs at 25.2%, whereas an embedding space trained on only the scientific subset performs at 52.4%. Also, the baseline only uses the answer as an input, and the average rank of the correct distractors sits at 99.9%. Whereas when we incorporate the question words in our method, the correct distractors are ranked higher at an average of 81.4, something no previous work has done. Thank you for watching, and Watson did not really stop answering your questions. Here's Watson.


Our next testifier is Jodi Evans. And thank you so much for being here. She is the code founder of Code Pink, Women for Peace, and campaign coordinator for China Is Not Our Enemy. She has been a visionary advocate for peace for several decades. Whether in boardrooms or war zones, legislative offices or neighborhood streets, Jodi's enthusiasm for a world at peace infuses conciliation, optimism, and activism wherever she goes. And she's a very, very generous woman who opens up her home to have the Code Pink LA meetings there. Very much appreciated. Jodi, your testimony. Thank you, Rachel. For this brilliant organizing, of course, you Frank for being just the rock star, tireless peace activist and organizer, you are. I'm blown away by this day. Thank you for inviting me to talk about China and their history. I want to start with a little Vijay Prashad who also warns that something gets lost in calling it a Cold War instead of naming it as an aggression directed from the US foreign policy that desires to rule the world. So call it by its name, barbaric imperialism. I was living part time in China before COVID changed our capacities to travel. And living there made me hyper aware of the propaganda of hate and lies that was flowing from scores of media sources toward China. It felt very familiar to the early days of the push for war in Iraq. That propaganda has already brought a war against Asians in the streets of the United States. This is a truth commission, and there has been so much truth and beauty shared today. I want to start by saying the names of the victims of the war this week that happened on the anniversary of the Mayline massacre. Soon Chung Park, Hyun Young Grant, Soon Chak Kim, Young A. Ye, Delania Ashley Yon, Paul Andre Michaels, Chao Ji Tan, Dayou Feng. May you rest in peace and love.  We have a national call to action March 27th with a big coalition of groups. It's across the country. We hope you will join us. I'll put the links in the chat, including reaching out to Kamala Harris and the White House about ending their hateful language towards China. So the desire to crush China is not new, and we in the United States know a little about China. So that's my offering today. The opposite of hate is love, which is compassion, and to be with another is to know a bit about them. We think of ourselves as affluent in the US, but we are impoverished Americans in our understanding of the world. Imperialist desires to own China go back to the Opium Wars of 1839. It starts with England wanting to dismantle China after raping and pillaging India. This is also the first invasion of Afghanistan to control the region by European powers. So let's begin with the awareness that China has experienced imperialist terror for a very long time. Before the Opium Wars in 1837, China represented 25% of global GDP and Beijing was larger than London. After World War II in 1949, China represented 5% global GDP and was one of the 10 poorest countries in the world. In China, World War II started in 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. This is when the access between Germany, Italy, and Japan were executing their plan to hit the Soviet Union from the East and West and crush China to take over the world. Before 1939, you can read in US foreign policy documents that they hoped Germany would take out the Soviet Union and Japan would take out China. It's interesting to note that at this time, both the US and Germany are giving military to support to the KMT in China.  What few Americans know is that many Chinese died, as many Chinese died as Russians in World War II. They say around 27 million Soviets died and over 20 million Chinese died. There was also barbaric scientific research and biological warfare that was carried out on the Chinese by Japanese. At a museum in Harbin, China, there are photos of Japanese science literally executing barbaric acts infecting living human beings with this biological warfare and leaving them standing in meadows until they succumbed to the effects and then burying them there. Those scientists went back to become the leading scientists in Japan. I bring this up in light of the Kwan Blinken gathered this week to remind us these alliances have a long history and how China might feel toward Japan. Another atrocity most Americans are not aware of is the rape of Nanjing in 1937, which also came to light in a war crimes tribunal, but that was in 1947. As we heard earlier, there was no need to drop the atomic bombs on Japan as surrender was near. This was also true in China. Nanjing had surrendered, but the Japanese entered and in the next six weeks, somewhere between 300,000 were beheaded, raped and subjected to barbaric violence. The loss of life close to that of the dropping of atomic bombs. Between the time of the opium wars in the Korean War, 100 million Chinese died in war at the hands of Europeans, American, Japanese and internal civil wars. A century of invasion and violence. In 1949, China was 450 million citizens. That means more than 15% of their population had died. Just imagine that. They know this as the century of humiliation. Then China gets pulled into the US war in Korea. The barbarism and insanity of the US war in Korea is a wretched and also not well-known. I encourage you to follow the women across the DMZ as this is another violence against humanity by US foreign policy. But it was also a huge price paid by China. None of the generals in China wanted to support the Workers' Party of North Korea. They knew it was a bloodbath that no one could win and preferred to wait until the US was at their borders where they felt they could be more defensive. They are defensive in temperament and training. But Mao had a commitment to internationalism, a commitment to others. Who are you if you abandon your friends, those who have stood with you? He knew it was a big risk and it could have been the end of China. It was the end of his son who died in the battles with the US and North Korea, a huge and painful price. China had no tanks and no airplanes and this was a loss of another million people. Here is when Sino-US relations fall apart because of China's support of the Workers' Party in Korea and when it's over the US sanctions against China are launched and also they block China from becoming a member of the UN. My friend Georgia Kelly at Praxis for Peace Institute has security clearance in the 60s working on more papers at Stanford. Where she read the intention of the US to isolate Afghanistan, Shenzhen, Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan as tools to take over China. These reports start back in the 50s. Shenzhen has long been under the effects of US infiltration including a request to the king of Saudi Arabia to bring mohabism to the Uyghurs, something the king even spoke about as strange. There was a plan to take over China and we saw in these documents later a question, who lost China? Imperialist language in itself as if they owned it privately. They felt that because Mao didn't like Stalin they could do what they always do as colonialists, divide and conquer. But here's where American foreign policy failed. Also the British had wanted Tibet since the end of the 1800s invading Tibet in an attempt to pull it away from China. But they were not interested in national liberation for the Tibetan people but colonizing them than Tibet, a theocracy with slaves. The infiltration of Tibet by the CIA is what provoked China's pushback. The CIA Tibetan program was a nearly two decades long anti-Chinese covert operation focused on Tibet which consisted of political action, propaganda, paramilitary and intelligence operations based on US government arrangements made with the brothers of the 14th Dalai Lama. And it states to keep the political concept of an autonomous Tibet alive within Tibet. This ended with Nixon's visit to China. Taiwan, there's no dispute is Chinese territorial under Chinese territorial control. But the US wants to use Taiwan as a base for military engagement and economic interests. Basically it's Miami next to China. China stuck. It can't allow US missiles sit in Taiwan. How long did JFK allow Cuba to keep those missiles? You know, China sees it has 1.5 billion citizens to take care of and it is not gonna sit back and let US aggression bring military presence closer to China. Cold War, this is part of a bigger international issue and we've heard a bit about this today but if the US crushes China it cripples the fight of people of the global South for possibly centuries. It cuts off progress for other ways to live together on this planet and for many would cut off hope for the human race and life on earth. A wave came from the West and destroyed everything lives, culture, community, connectivity and the health of the planet. We live in the dark times of this effect. We live in the belly of this beast. We need the wind that comes from the East to rebuild infrastructure and heal and create peace. European white maritime expansion started in 1492 to today with 500 years of European terror and white supremacy. Yet there was a Silk Road based on trade instead of war. Not the Europeans concept of trade which was slave trade but the exchanging of wares and creation. It is what we see from China an extension of the Silk Road. The question of how do we construct trade in a mutually beneficial way? Under the leadership of the CPC China is the only country in recent decades that has become the world's second largest economy without resorting to warfare, colonialism or slavery. For more than 10 consecutive years China has contributed to over 30% of global GDP growth. 850 million people have been lifted out of poverty. China is the second largest contributor to the UN and has sent more than 40,000 UN peacekeeping personnel outnumbering other permanent members of the Security Council. The CPC also enjoys the highest rate of support and satisfaction from the Chinese people over 90% according to the latest Harvard study. Another fact about China is it has had strong central government for 2,200 years with a responsibility to society and a concern for the whole. So let us call this what it is. Another boondoggle for the Pentagon and the weapons industry to distract, destabilize, destroy and clean out the funds in the US needed to invest in a functioning society. We must change the narrative. No money for war. Funds need to be redirected to the needs of the people. Cut military spending at least in security, death and destruction. Yes to respecting human rights starting with our own behaviors. We must not be used by the propaganda. It is being directed at the progressives and the lefts. We cannot spread hate. We must spread compassion. We cannot spread lies but truth. We at Code Pink are here to help with tools, actions and teachings. You can find them at Code Pink's China is not our enemy. We have to be fierce in the face of Biden's foreign policy as it is still mostly Trump's. I'll post ways to engage in the chat. And I thank you for attending for your passion for peace onward. Wow, thank you, Jodi. That was beautiful, devastating. Very beautiful testimony. Thank you so much. And for those of us in the LA area or even the West of the United States here we are benefiting financially from trade with China yet allowing all of this anti-China hate. And so Jodi, your talk, we've talked about this a little bit, but I'm recommitted, I say right now on this call to reaching out to the ILWU and the union that benefits so much from the trade with China and there's crickets when it comes to our aggression against them. So thank you so much. We'll do some organizing around that. Thank you. Frank, you and I wrestled on who was going to introduce John. Hello, John, but he gets to introduce you. Okay, well, thanks, Jodi. That was great.