Hey guys, it's MJ the student's act tree and in this video we're gonna be looking at artificial intelligence and American football and The reason being is that sports involves a certain element of chance But it's not like gambling, you know, you pull that slot machine and you just hope for the best When it comes to sport your choices can influence your chances and Whenever there's chances They're gonna be act trees So we've really I mean made like a little model on cricket and my friends done a model on soccer results So I thought why not make a model on American football? And there's two main reasons why you'd want to make a model The first is so that you can win at betting You don't make lots of money or the more interesting and the more enjoyable Reason is to make games and that's what we're gonna be doing with this American football model We're gonna use it to make a game So what we're gonna do is we're gonna start off very simply and we're then gonna Build on complexity as time goes by so we're gonna start simple And I mean what is more simple than rock paper scissors? So think of rock paper scissors American football and you get run throw kick We do add like on another layer, you know, so when you run or whether you throw You know, you can either do it safe normal or risky Just to add another just a little bit of complexity But remember this is still a vice simplification of American football because it is much more complicated, but remember We want to start with a simple model and then build on as we learn or at a later stage So let me show you The game mechanics what will happen is you'll make a choice your opponent will make a choice This will then go to a distribution matrix and the outcome will have various probability weightings So let me give you a quick little example Let's say for instance, I chose to run wide and my chosen my opponent chose to pass defend long what this means is as You can see it's highlighted in yellow the probability of me making a big loss or a small loss or nothing is zero I've got a high probability of making a small gain a big gain and a very small chance of making a mega gain If you go back to that previous distribution, you'll see that by going long You know, you had a much greater chance of making a mega gain, but then you could also fumble type of thing So what we're basically making is the yards gained is the random variable so and it basically comes down to this if You choose to throw that's kind of risky. There's a little bit of volatility in it It's more of a fat tail distribution. Whereas whether you choose to run. It's more of a thin tail It's a safer, but you're not going to make as many yards. So this is just an assumption I am making with regards to American football This is how the app is going to look we've actually got a Current version out. It's not on any of the app stores Just that I've been playing around with my friend who I've been making it with and we can play against each other And it goes to all of this and it's really cool But in order for us to play against each other we have to connect to the Google Play Store and We've realized that both of us have to be on at the same time in order to play the game So I thought why not make an artificial intelligence? You know for the computer to to play against us And I thought let's bring in some of the actual science that I've learned So we're going to be using a Bayesian principle Which means that the probability weightings are going to evolve and the computer is going to learn So if we have a quick little look at the mathematics For those of you familiar with Bayesian statistics We will have a posterior and we'll have a prior and we'll have the evidence. So what will happen is? I'll take real American football statistics and this will become the prior depending on how I play the computer will use that as the evidence and Along with the prior it will then create the posterior distribution Which will it will then use to make its choices against me So what is going to be doing? It's basically going to be counting The decisions I make creating a bit of a frequency Diagram on what I'm doing at various states on the field So if I'm very close to my opponents end zone and I always seem to run at that stage The computer is going to learn that and factor that in when it makes this decision Whereas if I'm throwing when I'm in the middle of the field, it's also going to take that into account So the idea is that if I keep playing the exact same way the computer is going to learn my strategy and I'm going to lose Now when it comes to artificial intelligence or machine learning or whatever you want to call it There's three key ideas the first is the learning rate and this is how quickly does the system learn so What emphasis does it put on the posterior data compared to the prior data? The more emphasis on the posterior data that means, you know, the more it's learning You know the more it's taking in the evidence and rejecting the prior information then we have the discount factor that is Not to be confused like with the time value of money discount factor. This is something else This is is your system focused on short-term goals, you know Like making as many yards as possible within that down or is it focused on more long-term goals? You know like scoring points and actually winning the game and then there are the initial conditions which is what you set the prior data as and This kind of gives the artificial intelligence its own personality and we're gonna see later We can you know, maybe mix this up and create different personalities to take on each other But let's say you you play against my system and somebody else plays against the system Each time Somebody plays with the system It's gonna learn that player's behaviors and so it's gonna become a little bit unique towards that player You know, it's gonna learn your style Whereas somebody else plays it's gonna learn that style. So we're gonna be creating Yeah, you'll have your own unique artificial intelligence that you'll be taking on and What will be cool is if we can gather all that data So you'll be playing online we capturing that data and we'll create this massive library of various player strategies and Then what we do is we take all this big data and We look for patterns and we use all the various actuarial and statistical techniques that we've learned To predict a new player strategy just from the first few players So if somebody let's say the the data identifies two types of strategy a player Who runs a lot compared to a player who throws a lot just as a very simple explanation or simple example And you come up and you're first two downs you decide to run it then the system might say wow this person is Incorporating this strategy. This is how we're gonna play against them So in effect our AR won't have to learn anymore It would become mature and it'll be able to predict your every move Otherwise, this is known as reaching the Nash equilibrium for those of you interested in game theory But that is the general idea of artificial intelligence and of the system we want to make The more people play it the smarter it becomes and Then like I said, it would be a lot of fun To you know get the AI's to take on each other You know have an AI with the various learning rates and different discount factors to play against other AI's with the different configuration and to see you know, which one is the best and Then once we have optimized our artificial intelligence We might be able to step it up make the system a little bit more complicated and the ultimate goal would be Possibly to replace an NFL coach So I know that's a big dream, but it would be pretty cool if in the American Football League You have all these coaches and then one team is run by an artificial intelligence And it will be really cool to see how it competes against the rest of them So yeah, if you guys are studying actuarial science, you will know that from subject CT6 You'll be learning a whole bunch of stuff Around this so that you can apply for artificial intelligence. You learn it for insurance But the same maths can be used in machine learning. I mean as you can see this decision theory There's Bayesian statistics. There's credibility theory There's time series Monte Carlo simulations all that stuff is for machine learning as well And job, that's basically the aim of this project is to take rock-paper-scissors American football thrown a little bit of actuarial magic and yet artificial intelligence Now I know this is a video a little bit off what I normally do But if you are interested in this, I will be making another video later on Just with regards to rock-paper-scissors. I've made it a slightly different version of the game We have scissors ones you get three points if paper ones you get two points and if rock wins you get one point And what I'm going to be doing is I want to make a video Explaining how I go through the mathematics of creating an artificial intelligence for this simple game And this is important for me because once I can do it for this simple game I can then step it up for this American football game Which we're gonna make and it's gonna be really cool So if you're watching this a little bit later You should be able to see a link if you click rock-paper-scissors But if you're watching this video straight away as it's just come out Then that video will only come on like maybe a few days later. So Subscribe then to get a notification Or otherwise just yuck come check on the channel a little bit later, but otherwise, that's all I want to say Thanks so much for watching and I will see you guys soon. Hope you have a merry Christmas as it's almost your Christmas season now. Cheers


The young, old women, men and every segment leave their homes and their every commitment to walk and take advantage of every moment people were taught a lesson.  Your benevolence shook the tyrant's government, thy Lord has chosen you because your life to him was an investment due to your refinement from the pleasures of the world and its enjoyment. Hence, you are rewarded with the most honorable entitlement. Thy Lord has gracefully blessed you as you are the gate of fulfillment. I beg at the steps of your shrine by the hardships of your imprisonment. And nourish us with your divine commandments, respected viewers, brothers and sisters in Islam. Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Welcome to another live coverage from the holy city of Ka'zumiyyah with Mir host Ahmed Ali. As you can see behind me right now, it's currently 7am Baghdad time and you can see the lovers of al-Bait al-Aliyya Muslim are not stopping. They are currently and constantly going and coming from cities within Baghdad, cities from all over Iraq. They have come walking to the holy shrine of Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam. And to mention that we are approximately 500 meters away from the holy shrine. So it's actually an honor to be where we are right now. Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam, I would like to narrate some quotes and then to find out why people actually come to flock towards Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam. I know that yesterday we talked about some stuff of his entitlements. So I would like to continue his other entitles that he was given by the Imams. Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam earned many nicknames amongst the people who are unique and refined character of the Imam, peace be upon him. He was called al-Abdu-Saleh, the noble servant for his perfect character and manners. We see that Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam, he was very devoted. I mean inshallah I'll mention an aeration by our scholars regarding this. But he's also mentioned as al-Ka'zum. Yesterday we talked about why he was named al-Ka'zum because he suppressed his anger. And that's why we need people when you walk around in the processions, when you interview the people walking to the Holy Shrine of Imam al-Ka'zum, they're filled with love, with compassion towards you, towards the Ahl al-Bayt, towards Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam that even if you insult them in any way, they will fly with a very beautiful face because they know that they're imam. The imam that they're here for to conduct had such noble character. He was also called, I would like to focus on this, he was also called Bab al-Hawaaj, the door of fulfillment, the door of fulfilling the needs and the wishes and granting the wishes of the Ahl al-Bayt al-Aliyya Islam and that's why it's very significant to touch upon that. Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam had many other names but Bab al-Hawaaj is very important. Yesterday I interviewed a little girl from Qadamiya, I brought her up on the stage with me and it's a question and answer type of thing and it really touched me emotionally because to see such a young girl, and there are even younger boys and girls, babies that can barely crawl, they're in the strollers but yet we do see them coming to the Holy Shrine of Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam and she said, when I asked her, what motivated you to come to the Ziyarah of Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam?  And she says that the motive behind my visitation to the Holy Shrine of Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam was to condole our 12th Imam, 12th Aweded Imam, and request from the 7th Imam to grant my wishes. I mean, when we do hear that, at such a young age, at the age of 10, a girl speaks with such, you know, with such nobility, you know, with such courage, she says that I am here to condole the 12th Imam. She has cognizant understanding of who the Imam is for a 10 year old to say this. It's very, very touching to the heart and insha'Allah it's a lesson for all of us to actually learn from such a young age to, you know, to love Ahlul Bayt al-Aliyya Islam and knowing that her walking to the Holy Shrine of Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam is, you know, a 100% guarantee that her wishes and her desires will be granted to her from Allah SWT by the will of Allah through Imam al-Ka'zum al-Aliyya Islam. But another incident which actually caught my eye it's, you know, you rarely see it in other cities but I noticed a lot in Qadmiya is that young women, young ladies walk with a white banner, they're rising a banner and, you know, money is attached to that banner. So yesterday, I wanted to know why, so I went on the streets and when I saw, you know, one, maybe that's a coincidence but a lot and, you know, numerous, you know women just walk by with white banners and money attached to it so I went and asked, I was like what is the reason behind you carrying a white flag with money attached to it and other things as well you know, such as, you know, gifts, small gifts but I'll share the answer with you is that she didn't want to appear on the camera because, you know, women in Iraq, you know, don't like to appear on cameras but she said the money which is on the flag represents the ill ones or the individuals who couldn't come to the Ziyara of Ma'am Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam and to the Holy Shrine so they hang it they hang as much as they can in money on the flag so when that person, upon reaching that person the Holy Tomb of Ma'am Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam he would, on that person's behalf you know, whether they're old, whether they're ill whether they have any situation that prevented them from coming to the Ziyara of Ma'am Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam upon entering and upon reaching the Holy Tomb of Ma'am Musa Al-Qadim they convey their salams on their behalf and then, you know, de-attach the money from the flag and throw it inside the Holy Tomb as a donation and as a sign that, you know, oh Imam, I couldn't come but I have sent you something, you know, that has my soul in it so you may accept my Ziyara and, you know my devotion towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and my dedication, you know it takes great honor and great privilege to be where everybody is right now because this area specifically, and as I mentioned we are approximately 500 meters away from the Holy Shrine of Ma'am Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam and to be in such an area is actually, you know very honoring, you know people can sometimes be in Karbala you know, I always, you know, in Karbala interview, go around the Mawakib in Ashura that has a specific atmosphere but in Qadimiyah, it's actually my first time since I believe 2007 it's a while ago and I asked one of the military people here I said compared to, you know, the previous years how do you see, you know, the security in Qadimiyah I know that the security of Iraq right now is kind of loose but in Qadimiyah, Alhamdulillah, we have the line of Baghdad I would also like to share why Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam is called the line of Baghdad but after this Imam Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam you know, he puts his love and shares his love over everyone in Qadimiyah and satisfies them and keeps it secure from any, you know, hatred from any person or individual or group or anyone who tries to harm his pilgrims that come to him you know, right now as I mentioned 7am 7.30am 7.43 to be precise and 500 meters away from the Holy Shrine of Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam but I would like to mention something is that when we do come to the Ziyara of Imam Musa Al-Qadim we should have one thing in mind that Imam Musa Al-Qadim, when he was in prison one of the spies heard him saying oh my lord you know that I had been asking you to spare me time to devote myself for your service you have done that praise to be, praise B to you oh my lord when we do hear that I mean Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam doesn't need to show us this no one needs to show us this to prove that Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam is devoted Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam you know, is honorable no, he is trying to show us that when we come to the Ziyara when we come to his Ziyara when we come to his pilgrimage when we come to his visitation whatever you want to call it we should hold that within us that bearing devotion in our hearts strengthens our soul and strengthens our spirituality now I would like to mention a short story why Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam is called the Lion of Baghdad one time Harun Rashid invited one of the supreme magicians and he invited Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam they sat on the same dining table and whenever Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam would go to become a piece of bread the magician would do something would do his magic act and the piece of bread would disappear from the hands of Imam Al-Qadim, alaihi s-salam once, twice, third Harun Rashid may Allah curse him and this magician started laughing you know, because they tried to humiliate the Imam when the Imam realized this there was you know, a carpet on or a picture on the wall in Harun's castle he told he spoke to the picture he said, oh the Lion of Allah take the enemy of Allah the Lion came out of that picture and ate the magician Harun Rashid passed away you know, he was unconscious along with his maids, along with everyone that was there, that was watching to see Allah coming out of a picture and going to you know, eat the enemy of Allah because he tried he tried to humiliate the Imam Harun Rashid went on his knees begging the Imam he said, I beg your forgiveness I didn't mean to humiliate you can you please return what the Lion ate can you return the magician Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi salam said, if the snake of Musa could return the ropes that it ate from the enemies surely this Lion can return the magician and so it happened we see various miracles from Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi salam I don't know how much time do we have but we have approximately more minutes but why I would like to go back to why he is entitled Bab al-Hawaaj people here, yes they do come flocking towards Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi salam everyone has its own desire their own desire, their own pleasure but they come here with a mindset that they have truly come here for their desires this is the place where their desires are accepted and granted sorry so to have that within our lives is actually a blessing so I would like to ask Allah to bless everyone on this yet it is the martyrdom of our seventh Imam Imam Musa Al-Qadim, alaihi salam so I would like to condole you my respected viewers but here with me a young girl from Afun how are you? how are you? I don't know I don't know she is not she can't talk or now she can't express maybe she is shy because of the camera and because of the people watching her but I mean speechless, yes you can say speechless for such a young age the girl yesterday was somewhat encouraged to talk in front of the camera are you ready to talk? where are you coming from? from Al-Azamiyyah hello, how old are you? 6 years so she is saying that her house is in the Al-Azamiyyah district within the few areas surrounding Al-Qadimiyyah and she is 6 years old her houses are decreasing from yesterday yesterday we had 10 years old now we have 6 years old what do you like to say about Al-Qadimiyyah? why did you visit her? why? why did you visit the Imam? so she is kind of shy she told us that she was prepared when you get in front of the camera you do become shy but she is saying I have come here to convey my salams to visit the Holy Shrine of our beloved Imam Imam Musa Al-Qadim to be in her shoes right now is actually a blessing and I would like to ask everyone the respected viewers to actually learn from this because at such a young age she is dedicated herself at what? Al-Azamiyyah is approximately 20 or less kilometers from Al-Qadimiyyah Al-Qadimiyyah so it's a long way to actually come to visit yet we do see her walking from her home to here but I think we are going to go into a short break and come back to you shortly so break respected viewers welcome back I hope you inshallah enjoyed what you have just seen from the streets of Al-Qadimiyyah but I would like to mention something before we go before we end this morning's program is that we need to preserve within our hearts the love and the compassion towards Ahid al-Bayt al-Alim salam to learn from this young girl that was just beside me 6 years old waking up in the morning some people can't wake up in the morning you know because they have night shifts or whatever but yet we do see this young girl 6 years old coming from Aadamiyah district from Baghdad to come in Kando Imam Imam Al-Jawad Imam Al-Jawad for the martyrdom of his grandfather Imam Musa Al-Qadim alayhi salam so I would like to thank you respected viewers for tuning in live coverage from the holy city of Qadimiyyah may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala honor you and bless you to come to the Ziyara of Imam Musa Al-Qadim alayhi salam whenever you can but it's blessed to be here where we are right now and thank you very much for tuning in assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh


Today's letter is M for mood. Nicotine and vapes doesn't actually relieve anxiety or stress.  There's more to vaping than you think.


Hi, everyone, and welcome to our session on Core Web Vitals and Search Engine Optimization SEO. Today, we'll be talking about what SEO is, how the Core Web Vitals play a role there, and how you can use Search Console to help track and improve your site's metrics. For many, SEO is a weird collection of black magic spells. But once you dig in a bit more, it's not at all that. You've heard that Google is pretty good at figuring websites out, and it's tempting to assume that having a clean website means you don't need to think about SEO. But it's not that simple. SEO is all about improving the quality and quantity of the traffic a website gets from normal search results, so excluding things like ads. There are multiple things a website can do to achieve that. It differs a bit by search engine, and I can only speak for Google. In general, the main aspects are the same everywhere, though. Make relevant content. Users go to search engines to find out more, and your pages might be the resource that they're looking for. This is more than just writing well. It's also about picking topics and phrasing that's used by your audience. Make the content accessible to search engines. If search engines can't understand your content, it'll be hard for them to recommend it. Show why your site is awesome using the various signals that flow into SEO. There's a lot that plays in here. A good way to think about this is, given there are multiple good and relevant results, how can you show search engines that yours is particularly good and useful answer for users right now? The core web vitals flow into that last group. For the other aspects of SEO, I strongly recommend checking out some of the SEO starter guides and getting help from experienced SEOs. It's useful to think of SEO a bit like usability. A little bit of information is helpful, but when it gets serious, you want to get the help from experts. Over to the core web vitals. You've heard a lot about the core web vitals today already, so this is really just a super short overview to help get you started. The core web vitals focus on three aspects. First, how quickly the page loads. Second, how soon you can interact with the page. And third, how stable the page is as it's loading and as the user is interacting with it. If you're curious about more details there, be sure to check out the other sessions and our documentation. When it comes to data sources, we differentiate between field data and lab test data. Field data, also called real user metrics or rum data, is collected from users over the course of about a month and is based on what they experience when viewing your site. This is a part of the Chrome user experience report in short crux. Lab tests, on the other hand, are generated on demand with testing tools in your browser or on a server using settings that try to approximate what users would see. For search rankings, we use field data as this is what your site's users have experienced over time. This makes the data more representative for your site, taking into account where your users are located and how they access your website. The core web vitals metrics are then combined with other signals for search. We call this combination the page experience ranking factor. The additional signals are mobile friendliness, safe browsing, HTTPS security and compliance with our intrusive interstitial guidelines. These have all been around for a while and there's much written up about them so I won't go into much detail here. We plan to adjust these signals over time to best reflect a good user experience for users. We'll give a six months heads up before any change. The data is split by mobile on desktop and applied appropriately for search ranking. When a mobile page is shown as a separate amp URL to users, that's what will be used then. In other words, if you're on a mobile page, the ranking is only affected by mobile data and the same for desktop. So in short, for search rankings, we use the page experience set of metrics. These include a few existing signals as well as the core web vitals. We track these based on what users would see separating mobile and desktop experiences. Cool, we looked at page experience, the core web vitals and how they're used in search. Let's take a look at Search Console now. Search Console is a free tool for site owners that gives insights into Google Search for your website. Once you've verified ownership and given the tool a bit of time to collect all the metrics, it's time to head over to the core web vitals report. In this report, you'll see graphs for mobile and desktop showing how a relevant sample of your site's pages score. This sample and the scoring is based on the Chrome user experience report data. That's the field data collected over time. Because of that, any changes that you make on your website will take about a month to be reflected here. Clicking through to one of these reports, you see a graph of the total number of URLs tracked and can see the individual issues flagged below. Going to one of these issues, you'll see a similar graph on top, together with a list of sample URLs for that issue type below. Keep in mind that these reports are based on the field data, so not all of your site's URLs will be available here. It's often useful to focus on the bigger buckets of issues across both the poor and needs improvement categories. We try to recognize patterns, such as shared templates, and group those URLs together as fixing the issue once can improve large parts of your website, which is pretty awesome. A good approach to improving these issues is to take a bigger issue type and to work to resolve it. After recognizing the issue, the first step is usually trying to reproduce the issue locally or within a testing tool. If that's not possible for bigger issues, it's worth narrowing things down using the various tools and scripts available elsewhere. Once you've reproduced the issue, you can work to improve the vitals. I won't go into details here, but be sure to check out the other sessions for more information. As an aside, sometimes you may notice that other Google products or services are slowing down your pages. Google Search doesn't give any special treatment to these, just like users generally won't care why your pages offer a bad user experience. Treat embeds from Google just like you would treat any other embedded resource. Once your live website is updated, you can tell Search Console that the issue is fixed. This is done in the appropriate drill down report that we saw before by clicking the Validate Fix button on top. Search Console will then start a review of the URL's flag and let you know how your improvements turned out over time. Let's get back to SEO. As mentioned in the beginning, there's more to SEO than just page experience. Some of the factors are listed here. When determining the rankings, we have to weigh these factors appropriately. In general, we prioritize pages with the best information overall, even if some aspects of page experience are subpar. A good page experience doesn't override having great relevant content. For example, if someone is searching for your company's name, it would be expected to show your company's website, even if it's slow or otherwise provides a subpar page experience. In cases where there are multiple pages that have similar content, page experience becomes much more important for visibility in Search. It's not the only factor. And of course, there's much more to a website than just Search. We found that when a site provides a good page experience, it generally performs well with users, too. For example, we found users are 24% less likely to abandon page loads overall. In particular, we saw 22% less abandonment for news sites and 24% less abandonment for shopping sites. There are few changes that can show this level of improvement for online businesses. And results like these are part of the reason we prioritize the web vitals metrics. The search ranking change is currently planned for the first half of 2021. With this change, we're also making all pages eligible to be featured in the Top Stories carousel of the search results using page experience as a guide. If you're curious about the details, be sure to check out our blog post. Well, that was it. Our short excursion into the world of core web vitals and SEO. In short, while there's more to page experience than just SEO and there's more to SEO than just page experience, SEO is also definitely a good reason to work on improving your site's page experience. I hope you found this session useful and insightful. Don't forget to check out the other sessions here to find out more ways to improve your website for users. Bye.


Good morning everybody I'm Tommy O'Brien coming to you live from TFNN at 9am eastern time Tuesday morning 30 minutes to go until that opening bell folks quite a market to the upside we got retail sales surging 17.7% in May that beating expectations of about 8% the market was already S&Ps were already about 60 points in the positive when we got that number at about 830 they've charged higher since then now up 88 points in the S&Ps that's up a solid 2.8% the NASDAQ up 203 points right at almost 10,09990 you got the Dow up 931 points trading at 26,609 oil trading higher about $1.43 at 3855 we got the gold contract up $5 right now 1732 and notes and bonds we're getting some lower price and higher yield the 10 year right now off 14 ticks at 138 you got the 30 year off two full points and four ticks at 175.07 and you're looking at a yield of the 10 year 0.77% talk about some volatility in that 10 year yield and talk about some volatility in the S&Ps you back it up as I was just talking about on my program to where we were early Monday night as in excuse me yeah early Monday morning I guess two in the morning Sunday night coming into Monday morning the lows of 2923 folks you just traded up 225 S&P points from that price level we're now trading at 3148 the Dow we're up more than 2000 points from where we were on Monday morning just remarkable we're up 21 2170 points to be exact 24,400 we're at 26,588 in the Dow just crazy action even crude oil up about $4 from where we were on Monday to 3855 right now the lows back it up to Monday morning and about two in the morning 34 36 in the price of crude jumping over the VIX as you may expect that VIX pulling back we were at 44 44 when the markets were all at lows on Monday early two in the morning and we're now trading at 32 39 as the market chugs higher folks stay tuned should be an interesting market open Larry Pezzavento coming up live at 9 o'clock I'll be back at 10 o'clock with Tom fast market by TD Ameritrade think or swim at 11 talk about a fast market Basil Chapman Steve Rhodes Dave White Tom O'Brien all this afternoon stay tuned folks we get Larry Pezzavento coming up live right now we'll be right back stay tuned


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Hi, welcome back. Today I am going to teach you a really simple breathing technique called box breathing or square breathing. That's a square. Okay, so the point here is that I'm going to teach you this simple breathing technique which is one I like, I find useful for calming me at moments when I feel my anxiety rising and it can be something that is useful for people of all ages and just a great tool to have in your toolbox. Now there are loads of different breathing techniques out there and you know go and find the one that works for you. This is one that I found to be super helpful. I've been able to teach it to massive groups of people or use it one-to-one with people and also use it for myself. So the thing with breathing and anxiety and stress is that if we can kind of try and help our body override when we begin to feel a stress or anxious reaction that can help us to kind of keep our kind of emotion and feeling and physical response in check. So our kind of anxious response is both it's kind of a mixture of physiological and an emotional response and by focusing on our breathing and having a kind of go-to way of managing that we can begin to override that kind of you know very very fast breathing, heart getting faster and faster and then the sweaty palms and all the different kind of anxiety induced responses that come on. So if we can just then take check, take control of the breathing that can really help. It's helpful to try and do this as early on as possible when you feel anxiety rising and it can also be done as a kind of preventative measure. So you might do this when you know you're about to enter an anxious situation. So if you struggle with social anxiety you might do this. I do this quite often when I'm going somewhere else in the car and I'll do my box breathing just for a couple of minutes so that I'm then like really nice and calm and I've got a good base to start from. Equally you might do it just before going into an exam or you know whatever you know are the things that you know when you're more likely to feel slightly anxious. So it's kind of yeah your prevention just think of yourself as you're trying to like bring down the stress level get yourself into this kind of nice calm state ready ready ready. So box breathing or four square breathing or whatever you want to call it's really really simple. So first of all we just want to get ourselves I feel very very self-conscious about this but when I get ourselves in a nice kind of comfortable position you want to be sitting up nice and straight you're going to be thinking about breathing in and out so you don't want to be all slouched you want to be nice nice and straight. I find kind of having my feet on the ground so I'm a little bit grounded I can feel the the feel of my my feet on the ground and then I sit with my palms up so palms up on my lap that's that's my preferred way um you don't want to be kind of again anything that restricts your breathing not good. So you're basically like nice and open body language nice and calm so even thinking about the positioning of your body is helping to get that feeling of calm. Um so you start off by breathing out and you can do this either through your nose or your mouth and you're trying to expel all of the oxygen from your lungs and you're thinking about your lungs as you focus on the outbreath by just busting through the capsule up there just to kind of break the moment. Okay let's get back to our calm so we're sitting we're ready and we're going to breathe out for a count of four and so you're trying to get to think of every last bit of oxygen removing itself from your lungs so it's one two three four and it's or you can think of as a box so one two three four and sometimes with younger kids I might literally draw this or have them trace it with their finger while we're doing it so you breathe out and then you're going to breathe in through your nose and you're going to count to four slowly and you're going to slowly feel your lungs fill with air so again one two three four as you breathe in through the nose and then you're going to hold that okay so you've inhaled you felt your lungs really fill you're going to hold it for four one two three four and then you're going to exhale through your mouth so again for the count of four one two three four and you're thinking about that air leaving your mouth leaving your mouth and then again after that exhale you're going to hold for a further four one two three four okay so we're going to do it again um because obviously I was chatting a lot there which didn't really help um but this time I'm going to print the instructions on the screen because with the magic of movie maker I can do that and we'll do it together and we'll go through a couple of times and the prompts will be down on the screen and hopefully you'll kind of get a feel for it um after a while so okay we're starting with the exhale so okay so I look like a complete idiot doing that but hopefully it gave you a bit of an idea uh you can try it see how it works for you it's funny actually I wasn't feeling at all anxious before I did that breathing exercise with you um but just doing it really made me kind of feel calm you might notice I'm even like talking a little bit more slowly and stuff so yeah give it a go try it for yourself try it with people that you are working with try and introduce it into that toolbox of different things that we use every day just to help us cope and yeah remember where possible try and use it as a preventative measure to try and get you nice and calm before you enter a situation which might be likely to impact on your anxiety good luck hope you found it helpful if you've got other things that you find helpful like this or other breathing techniques that you think we should try then leave a comment down below if you want to hear from me in the future then please subscribe and if you liked what you saw today please give it a thumbs up I love it when people take a moment to give videos a thumbs up or leave a comment of any kind because I sit here in my little shed kind of talking to the ether um and so it's really really nice to know what impact the videos are having so yeah please take a moment to do that I love it thank you bye


Welcome to what the F is going on in Latin America and the Caribbean Code pinks weekly YouTube program of hot news out of the region in partnership with common frontiers council on hemispheric affairs Friends of Latin America Interreligious task force on Central America Massachusetts peace action and task force on the Americas we broadcast weekly at 4 30 p.m. Pacific 7 30 p.m. Eastern on code pinks YouTube channel You can also find us on Apple podcast Spotify telegram and at radindymedia.com Today's episode is Brazil's presidential election goes to a second round. I'm really pleased To have two guests join us today. Both were on the ground in Brazil on election day October 2nd Joining us from Brazil today is Camila escalante a costume news and Joining us from the u.s. Just returning from Brazil is Craig Jardula of the convo couch I'd like to give the audience just a brief background before we start our conversation So here we go Brazil's presidential election is headed for a runoff vote Electoral authority said on Sunday October 2nd after president Jair Bolsonaro's surprising strength in the first round spoiled Lula in Nassio Silvas hopes for winning outright with 99 point seven percent of the electronic votes counted Lula was ahead with forty eight point four percent of the votes Versus forty three point three percent for Bolsonaro the national electoral authority reported this on Monday as Neither got a major Supporter majority of the support the race will go to a second round on October 30th Several opinion surveys had shown Lula who was president from 2003 to 2010 Leading the far-right Bolsonaro by 10 to 15 percentage points ahead of the October 2nd vote The much time to result dashed hopes were a quick resolution in a deeply polarized election So welcome both of you and let's talk about this this deeply polarized election Which came down to neither came it it achieving greater than 50 percent and Basically 48 to 43 percent much closer I think than any of the three of us had imagined going into Sunday October 2nd both of you were there. I'm sorry. I was not able to join you and was really looking forward to Sharing the the observation and experience on the second with all of you, but I'm really happy both of you are here today with us And so where should we start? So we maybe have a little bit of background of what the Context of Brazil looked like prior to October 2nd and then a discussion on on how things actually unfolded on the second maybe can Camilla you could Give us a quick background as to The lead up to October 2nd Yeah, absolutely. Well, you know, I think but a good place to start is in 2016 we witnessed the coup against Dilma Rousseff and that was a you know Very important point because people see it here as you know, the first coup against the Brazilian people You know followed by that. We saw Michelle Temer Absolutely slaughter You know the Brazilian state that continued under Jair Bolsonaro, which was the second coup against the Brazilian people in which former president please Ignacio Lula de Silva was He was jailed Which prevents him from running in the 2018 election. He was already a pre-candidate for the workers party And you know, that was a formal thing. So this truly is a case of you know, the oligarchy and the far right and numerous individuals within different institutions, you know getting together and barring their political opponent from running for at a time when he was polling as the most popular potential candidate to run in 2018 as president all polls Said that Lula de Silva would actually win if he were to face off against Jair Bolsonaro or anyone else in that race uh, so he landed himself or he was Taken to prison a federal prison in Curitiba for three 580 days during which You know, the workers party had to They had to decide another candidate. It was Fernando Haddad who today is a A candidate for governor of the state of Sao Paulo and someone who's just you know, really just not as popular Lula left office During his two previous mandates as the most popular president According to surveys in the history of brazil the highest approval So, you know, people were prepared to bring him back to the presidency when When Dilma Rousseff was coot And so, uh, you know, there were a lot of slogans that came out around that time 2016 Which were like, you know, brazil Urgent lula is brazil or gente Lula presidente Those sorts of chants that were you saying me to bring lula back to power um for you know, numerous reasons, but You know, because kind of flagship policies were poverty alleviation and uh, you know, kind of bolstering the state industries um And institutions in order to work for the benefit of the brazilian people It's something that we've seen work very successfully In bolivia and something we've tried to highlight as kaos had to news But what a lot of people don't know is a lot of those same types of policies Were applied here in brazil under lula's government and lula had a very, uh, good relationship with ugo chavez Christina kitcher and all the other, uh, you know pink tide leaders of her continent in the early 2000s And so, you know, that's the sort of thing that people wanted to see back. They have been saying, you know, Uh during this campaign period which launched on august 16th officially That they want to see the refrigerators full once again They want to be able to dress the way they used to dress and have nicer clothes They want to be able to afford gas be able to vacation. They want leisure time People want decent salaries and with that dignity and they say, you know, people are juggling Like three four gigs, uh, you know precarious type of work Not very strong salaries And and you know, there's this uberization of the economy that people have been talking about a lot where young people Particularly young men find themselves working as delivery food drivers That's literally what a whole bunch of people do in this country And so people understand that it's not acceptable unacceptable Uh structure for an economy and there's not a whole lot of opportunity for young people So, you know, there's two Different uh candidates here. We also had, you know, some third party candidates that have played a role as well Uh, but you know, the two were louise, Ignacio Lula de Silva who represented, you know, bringing back those policies that tried and true that, you know, worked for the benefit of the people And the the failed policies specifically economic policies of gerbil sinaro Who has In the polls gained a lot of resentment There's a lot of people who have said in the polls that they would never in any circumstance Vote for for bolson aro and that's those are that's what's, you know, indicating to us that going now into the second round As you kind of said Bolson aro actually won a greater share of the vote than anyone had predicted lula received about, you know About what the the main pollster is ipec and data folia said he was going to receive But it was a little bit of a surprise that bolson aro seems to have Picked up some of the support that uh, siro gomez a third uh, a third place was supposed to be third place in the polls that actually he came in fourth uh to a woman uh named tebet And it seemed like siro gomez's points went over to Went over to bolson aro when a lot of people on the left An analyst of the workers party had already Suspected that they were that that siro gomez was in some way supporting bolson aro by trying to frame himself as alternative So, um that being said I'm just trying to summarize here because they know we don't have a super long show But uh, we saw that result on sunday on monday morning the pt Campaign coordination hold held a meeting and they talked about how they're already they've had already spoken to Numerous parties and candidates and figures to try to receive to get their endorsement for the second round That's going to take place at the end of the month And then in the last two days we've heard that some of those endorsements have been secured that includes the party of siro gomez and uh tebet woman who came in third place, which is about four five percent Of the vote and you know lula and his campaign are You know strategizing right now bolson aro is doing just the same They're looking at that big Abstention the people who didn't vote and going to go after them the people who are undecided for the second round And numerous groups such as evangelical and other christian groups um And other people that they would like to target because it's you know, going to become very Strategic at this point to try to get every last vote And we're going to see a lot of fake news and a lot of rumors and a lot of attacks Uh between you know, the bolson aries says and the you know, the sort of pro pt or pro lula Um sectors and we're seeing that unfold on social media right now um, you know a lot of interesting things calling both bolson aro and lula satanists Um saying that bolson aro is a freemason among other things So that's kind of what's happening right now lula is kind of back on the campaign trail at the same time today He held um a big rally in San Bernardo de Campo, which is his hometown with the abc metal workers It's really important and you know, it just goes back to what what lula even stands for and what he comes from Which is the trade union movement that he is one of the greatest trade union leaders labor leaders of our time alive right now in the americas That's his background and that's actually the background of the foundation of the workers party It's not about you know all sorts of random things I don't know a lot of people in the u.s. Have tried to Compare the workers party to for example the democrats in the u.s. That absolutely doesn't make any sense whatsoever When you look at uh, you know, a lot of the the candidates for the workers party come from Union background or student union background They come from labor and lula was a very important figure of that in the last few decades And so that's where he started He's sort of starting his campaign for the next four weeks is there with with the labor Sorry camilla, there's one thing Interesting to me that you that kind of leaped out that you said kind of people are voting for A return to the economic policies they had when lula was president 2003 to 2010 food and their refrigerators Access to better paying jobs to afford and a more of their necessities This is one of the things that has continually come up Throughout all of these elections and I would share with the audience that the three of us speaking today have Served as election observers either as international observers journalists and our work has overlapped many many times across the americas I'm really honored to say that and that I have gotten to know the two of you Much better over the course of the last year and a half But one of the things I think we could all three Agree on as we've watched elections unfold from bolivia in november of 2020 all the way through Uh this past um sunday october 2nd People are voting for national sovereignty natural resource sovereignty And governments that are proposing an economic plan that benefits the majority of the citizens And those economic plans range from anywhere from one step Left of center being more social democratic all the way to revolutionary left is become economic plans And it's it's it's a consistent theme I I feel and um And it will be really really fascinating to see how These campaigns unfold between now and the 30th of october it seems to me but brazil To me But how they're going to vote ultimately, but that's a that's me hoping you know as a white person in the north not a brazilian So craig you have you were on the ground october 2nd you your work specifically focuses on Electoral observation and specifically the technicalities and the procedures that other countries constitutions And shrine and often contradictory to what we believe is democratic voting in the united states So let's talk about what you saw on On october 2nd. Yeah. Yeah, I mean Me and fiorella put this on the map quite some time ago Obviously, you know, I get educated from you ladies and what goes down in the global south and it's always a pleasure to follow And get such an understanding. I did predict that uh boston arrow would make it to the second round You know, I couldn't put my finger on it before I went and you know I have a theory on why maybe he did get to the second round But a lot of the reasons that were told to the states the conservatives why they go boston arrow crazy I really didn't have it I don't think they had any effect on what the actual decision making was going on from the brazilians down In brazil, uh, and that was evident when I went there the things that are important to the people in the west aren't necessarily Important to the people of brazil and I you can see it clearly. There was so much homelessness people digging in trash cans, you know, and uh Um people saying that they used to have bread and eggs and milk in their refrigerator. Now they ain't got nothing Uh, and it was evident to see that in fact that of all the last six countries. I went to I saw more homelessness and poor there and you know lula Uh from what I know, you know from being a westerner was always a champion of the poor He'd always, you know speak about how we can get food and resources into those people's hands and When I visited the favelas that's what they had mentioned that before in the past lula was a champion of the poor Their kids didn't have to share an egg or eat crackers for dinner Back in the days and when balsun arrow became, you know, president that had all gone away and all that money Who had been directed into other areas also, you know, I mean, I I don't know I'm still learning a lot about brazil, but I understand my country and my uh, uh, I don't want to say the necessary that the intelligence communities and what goes on and their involvement in jailing lula It was you know, we had gotten the proof right there So I understood there was an involvement from the united states Going to brazil it was the same as far as what people are voting for not only just for national sovereignty But resource sovereignty because a lot of the resources in brazil are shipped out of the country You know, there's like six or seven multi national corporations that are now taking all these resources And they're being shipped away while the small farmers being driven off their land and big agriculture has taken control of the situation So, you know, we concentrate on the process making sure no matter what that brazilians decide That brazilians choose. Thank you for sending me straight. I am a boomer And looking through this process was very interesting because it was very different than a lot of the other processes We saw in nicaragua Colombia for that matter where they don't have a handmarked paper trail However, they have a dre system, which I would never ever Stand behind I would never endorse a direct recorded Electronical system is what brazil has but their system is open source So in other words all the candidates all the parties they have a right to look at the software The machines are not connected to the internet I went into a polling place when it opened and I went from room to room And I had my internet on to see if any of the machines Would would catch an internet service like we was easy to catch in the united states None of the machines were connected to the internet. They weren't plugged into the internet whatsoever Each machine printed out a tally showing you that it had zero tally zero votes on it at the very end I went back to the same polling place and it had the actual mark results in which they post on the door So even though balsunero has made this claim and it's a claim he made to the system that is the same system He won under it's very different when donald trump when he has his complaints Donald trump complained because the system was turned upside down. They had a drop boxes nats mailouts Uh this and this nat balsunero had won under the system. It was the same system he won on So for him to complain about it now seemed a little bit hypocritical And like I said, it is an open source system and and it's a transparent process process is as whereas Where the vote is cast it is also counted It's not taken off to another location and counted and that's something really really important So we were able to see this system in play Like I said, you can't 100 trust a dre system But it seems like they had all their checks and balances and when a lot of brazilians have faith in the system And I have faith in the system I would take this system over the united states system any day of the week So the process itself seems fair balsunero won under that system So it's hard to see him have a gripe on it But I did going back to the electoral system itself I did say that balsunero would make it to the second round for reasons. I don't think I played a part So that's what I'm curious to try to figure out because I do feel Going back to when When a jailed lula had an interview with glenn greenwald something he said stuck with me And I kind of saw that evident when I went to brazil He said that You know glenn People at the airport would see these indigenous people these poor people for the first time getting a chance to get on a plane and fly And they get to experience stuff They never got to experience again And you can see the working class kind of looking them in the middle class look at them with disdain And I don't know if that played a part to why a lot of people voted for balsunero But I did find it very funny that every single uber driver I talked to every cab driver I talked to the majority of them were for balsunero So here these guys are working in a gig economy probably driving that car all day just to get some food on the table But yet They would buy into the marketing and I don't know if it was confirmation bias Or they really believed the marketing that jula lula was a criminal because we'd say you know lula was acquitted on all counts Oh, no. No. No. He's a criminal. But I don't know if it's a disdain between the working class and the peasants and the poor people But balsunero did get a lot of votes and i'm still trying to analyze that and still try to figure it out Right now because there was 55 million votes. So that's a lot of the population And I did predict he would make it to the second round I thought it was a win for him that day that lula didn't wrap it up I still think lula was going to win But uh, these are some interesting things to analyze and some interesting things to look at moving forward to the last uh till october 30th and to get that second round This is interesting to me what your comment about working class versus poor So poor So perhaps can all of the poor people how is a demographic that needs to be pursued more By the working class. I'm not sure what I'm hearing is that is it because I know we have seen in other countries as People move out of poverty into working class into middle class They tend to forget where they come from that is not country specific. That's not culturally specific It seems to be what we human beings do Once we move out of poverty get into working class get into middle class you tend to forget where you came from And that's not a that's just a personal observation of my own That's not a judgment against any particular country political system or culture But what what is that it is that Is that did that I think it's I don't I don't know if that's like the how I would frame it. I think it's better Analyzed as you know regionally there are certain You know certain stronghold it depends on where people Are you know where the people are Based around the country then within like the state or even the city it depends on where they're located there It's not only about you know what their income level is but also like if they live in a rural area A semi rural area the periphery or the sort of you know the the urban center of a city I know these are all different Factors that weigh on the sort of you know the tendency for people to vote And also, you know Bolsonaro has done quite a job Of you know luring in certain people who are perhaps less likely to pay attention to the facts of his economic mismanagement by some of his rhetoric. I mean there's hate speech. There's You know racism and other forms of bigotry there that he really plays on because he knows that you know, there are several Areas of the country Sao Paulo is one of them where there is like a little bit of you know some currents of right wing extremism I mean in the state of Paraná and you know to the south of us even The state of The capital is Puerto Alegre there where there are neo-nazi groups and there are a lot of people who support You know Ukraine and NATO and so, you know, these are the sorts of things that you know They're not necessarily voting based on their own class interests. They could be people who are from lower class Background and make very little income, but they're actually being you know appealed to in a very you know strategic campaign or at least it's deliberate You know to play up on these things like Islamophobia the speech that's anti communist They say things, you know against Venezuela. This is what you know, brazil's going to look like brazil's kind of turn into argentina Um, you know with the hyperinflation that argentina is experiencing right now We hear a lot of that on talk radio on the big networks where they have right wing analysts They're really fear mongering and they believe that you know, they believe that that information you know those tall tales about The workers party leaders being corrupt specifically lula and tilma But they're also, you know, but they're also being brought in by a whole lot of other things And one of those things is covet, you know, the bolson are out took advantage of the fact That you know the whole this whole conversation was going on in the us about covet Um about vaccines or not lockdowns or not and things like that and he really used that to his advantage at the time when a lot of the people Even within the workers party that is a you know, a party of the masses It does have its own bureaucracy with a lot of people who come from the city some of which are middle class And so, you know, they might be thinking right now about the fact that they need to strategize about how from The campaign they need to be speaking to more regular working class brazilians and not You know continue to allow themselves to be portrayed as any sort of elitist because even in latin america A lot of left-wing parties are, you know, are kind of uh portrayed as elitist as a strategy By the right to try to say that bolson aro is like a regular dude He understands regular brazilians and things like that when it's, you know, absolutely There's no basis to that actually bolson aro's family owns over a hundred properties His immediate family not his extended family and they're all paid in cash Which is, you know signifies that it could be, you know part of some sort of Uh, you know mafia stuff. I mean quite frankly, there's a lot of illegal activity going on there as well as The people around him who own large areas of land So, you know, there's nothing relatable between bolson aro and his family and the people around him and the people who support him And regular working class brazilians But they want to put out that image and people a lot of people are buying into it A lot of people are saying that they don't even really like bolson aro because they can see and feel That the economy has tanked But they say the only thing we can do at this point to stop Communism and to stop brazil from becoming venezuela as they like to say Is for us to to give our vote to bolson aro even though we don't wholeheartedly support him So there's a range of reasons why why he's getting that support And this is something that currently the the pt has to sit down and this alliance of parties Which is about 10 parties who are supporting lula Formerly giving their endorsement in this election including some major parties like the posal The pesadobé and the prodigal verde They're all having to think about how to speak to the people And not let you know not let bolson aro to kind of have that you know that communication with people and And misconstru who he actually is but just not a regular person not someone that anyone in brazil can really identify with Is that trick is used all the time right like oh, you just sit down have a beer with george w bush The bush to campaign was that yeah, he's exactly So what do we see what what what are the two of you see camille? You've been rated explaining the coalition building and the and the messaging that has to Come out of the lula campaign between now and the 30th. What should we is there anything? else we should be looking for between now and the 30th of october and i guess top of mind would be oas and or uh the us nato What came from the secretary of state earlier this week uh about russia in the americas Is that going are either one or both of those issues going to affect the campaigning between now october? Well, I think that on lula's part um and from you know from the campaign's uh standpoint they have tried uh to the extent possible to kind of stay away from some Big issues that could be divisive or overly political quite frankly. They don't want to say too much It's safer just to go with you know With reiterating how successful lula's economic program was previously And a lot of people from you know who do work for for example petro brass Or in different factories who are members of unions and were the unions overwhelmingly You know support lula and the workers party They say that the only way to strengthen the economy is to invest in national industries national industries and say companies that were closed down Uh since 2016 by the two successive neoliberal governments first the coup on and then the second coup on which was bolsangaro And that the only way that um, you know the entire country can Uh recover and prosper is to have those those strong industries. And so these are the sorts of things that lula has been Uh promising and he he's going back to talking about you know the welfare subsidies and different programs that benefit Uh women and families and that's their focus. I think that they're you know really they have said In terms of internationally that they do want to have be respected by russia china and the eu and the us and also have a good relationship of all of the neighbors that includes venezuela and uh those sorts of things but he hasn't gone into great detail And you know for good reason. I mean he is he is popular for his domestic policies And so that has to be his focus however now You know, he does have to they do need to spend a little bit more time focusing on these different sectors Unfortunately, it is going to you know, just turn a whole lot of time over to this massive population of evangelical christians and to try to Take some of those votes away from bolsangaro and um Yeah, I it's one thing that uh, I I haven't confirmed this but you know bolsangaro I think has like part made a purchase of Gas from russia recently just before the vote he Um, you know lowered the price of certain uh, essential goods from the grocery store and things like that Also that people can feel temporarily relieved Uh from the financial hardship so many families are facing so that they'll think that the situation is not bad As it is, but I don't think that's going to work And I don't think there's enough time in the next now three and a half weeks for bolsangaro to just start You know giving out handouts Uh, just to flip these votes. I think it's I think it's going to be very difficult to achieve Whereas there's this whole like machinery behind lula very much. It's a it's a very sophisticated operation with lots of lawyers and advisors And he has received very important endorsements from essentially centrist center right even parties and and candidates and Uh and sectors of the of the country's oligarchy and all sorts of figures that you wouldn't expect To have seen support lula before have come on board. So I think it's you know I think I think it's a huge uphill climb for For bolsangaro at this point and of course the polls had said that he would have a much tougher time in the second round yeah so Craig you uh You and I were talking before we went live about what's that technicalities the the actual physical process of voting In brazil versus the united states and camilla you were mentioning bolsangaro buying You know cheap russian gas and getting gas prices down and And creating the illusion that the economy is benefiting the majority of brazilian citizens in the run up to the election I would argue we are seeing exactly the same thing unfold in the united states Being led by by the biden administration And let's kick craig. Can you just give us a quick? Comparison of what you saw in brazil versus what is playing out today in the united states with us midterm elections coming up in november because i think that's a really A big part of your work is being able to observe and critique foreign elections But also bring that knowledge back to you know a valuable critique absolutely of our own elections in the states Absolutely, and you know a lot of you know bolsangaro people who you know All we were talking about some endorsements, you know, uh Bolsonaro's got the endorsement of steve vannon and crew and that's like really strong Like he talks about that on the regular basis But you know, it's like when I when I was in columbia.  You have your your second round coming up You can have a petro supporter at every single mesa out there that can Report the results to eliminate a process of cheating as they move these votes along the bolsangaro people can do the same thing They have no excuses here. They can't sit there and blame the system Especially a system they want under so they can do that themselves So I would say well then tell bolsangaro to get his people out there Haven't met every single voting room and look at the votes and therefore you guys can get your own tally before it even gets Moved off to the next spot But I do also want to point out really quickly Aside from that that coming out of bricks bolsangaro did make a deal for diesel gas when it with lula Uh, not excuse me with uh, putin Coming out of bricks to get lower gas prices and whatnot I think in a gig economy right when you have a bigger gig gig economy And there's a huge gig economy in uh, sol paulo when I was there every so many uber drivers Everybody's running around delivering food. What not? I I think that if and maybe i'm wrong and you guys can correct me if i'm wrong But if lula can can can somehow address that people working in a gig economy You know i'm saying and somehow he can Find some relief for those people as far as when they file their taxes or whatnot Or find a way to concentrate on those people maybe pick off some votes there for people who are looking at that economic Situations maybe he can find some more votes over there as well I don't know why so many uber drivers were so supportive and believed in the marketing of lula being a criminal despite him being acquitted But it seems like an area that's ripe for the picking right there because they do look at the gas prices And they like oh look at that gas prices are coming down So maybe that could be an area that lula can concentrate when it comes to the economics As the people working in that economy and find some votes right over there as well Emily did you want to add something? Yeah, he has included that in his campaign. He has he has said that he would improve You know living standards for the brazilian people generally, but also ensure the rights of you know app and gig workers And I think that you know, there's a large Large section of the population here who don't haven't normalized that they don't think it's Normal for so many young people young men to be driving pizzas around for rich people for a living And um, so so I do think that that is something that he would address but he would not address it, you know Not only specifically to try to maybe implement some, you know push some of a You know structure for For making sure that there are some, you know better laws in place to govern over those sorts of jobs, but I think he would just You know get to the root of it, which is strengthening Uh, you know strengthening state Companies and industries so that people will no longer even have to work those because a lot of the people who do work those sorts of jobs Work other full-time jobs as well, and they're just having to work multiple jobs seven days a week They have a weekend gig. They have a night gig. That's been so many of the Uh, you know drivers that I've spoken to and so it's really just clamping down on precarity in general Um and ensuring rights of workers overall and that would uh, surely, you know at some point Help help these sorts of gig workers as well So the second round is october 30th. Where are the two of you going to be? On october 30th october 29th I'm going to actually be at a convention in Orlando speaking about election integrity So I will not be able to but I know they'll be all they're going to be talking about it there They were talking about it at the last Then I went to and I had to you know, once again, I don't know a ton about it But I know about 95 percent more than american people know about what's going on in brazil And I can explain to them what is going on and the importance of lula and why he is so popular there And what he has done for the poor in the past and how balsamaro has not so I mean Now that i've gone there and i've seen the system as well because they've balsamaro did complain that the system was rigged against them Even though he wanted the system and I can also point out and say no, that's not true. Are we able to witness the system? It's an open source system And it is it's going to be a fair system and I do think honestly that once balsamaro loses I don't think he's going to try to stay and maintain power regardless what you hear what's going on With bernie sanders and everybody else in our congress just trying to people distract people with all this bs I think you'll see lula win and I think you'll see balsamaro step away Maybe not gracefully maybe crying like a little baby, but I think they'll see him step away So craig's calling for uh craig's calling a lula victory later this month and camilla you're in Uh brazil now and you're gonna stay there No, i'll see you in a few days and i'll be coming back Okay, great. I believe and you know like you know our angle as kevs at june news uh obviously i'm also corresponded for press tv and reporting on this for press tv But you know first and foremost i'm the editor of kevs at june news and what's important to us is really just highlighting You know the project of the social movements because it is social movements that have been The most strong support base for the workers party and for lula's candidacy for so long And they have a much larger project than just electing This one person what they want to do is get this person in power so that they can start pushing from below And they have formed these uh, you know popular committees where people from different neighborhoods Or could be groups of artists or any sort of other agglomeration of people You know meet together in person it can even be online And they're discussing some of the most important issues and issues that they want to push from the base to uh to the government But you know these movements are quite large in comparison to what we see in other countries And they do have You know oftentimes in the case of the landless workers movement And some of the movements for housing against poverty Against evictions and to the right for food And things like that like they they have a very strong, you know ideological position And they actually in a lot of cases are to the left of lula And so they're going to have a lot of things that they're going to be fighting for And so this is something we would like to highlight Um, you know between now and the election. We've done a lot of interviews while I've been here some of them You know weren't able to get published before the first round vote. So we're going to be publishing that um In the coming weeks before the second round, but it's a really uh, it's a very interesting Um phenomenon that's taking place here. I do think that brazil is a model for the world It doesn't have an anti guerrillas government now and you know arguably it's not going to when Uh lula comes to power that he might not be the communist leader that Actually want he's no ugo chavez, but you know it gives an opportunity for Um, you know the movements that truly represent the interests of the people Begin to push from below. So that's what we're going to be covering We do believe that or I believe that lula will win and part of their strategy is of course using The these very robust movements as their foot soldiers in the campaign these go out every day. They fly or they sticker at Bus stops out in public plaza squares and they're speaking to people because they believe that we can't fight um, you know disinformation and anti communist propaganda and win this election solely by Creating means on the internet. Although that's one strategy and that's that's part of what they need to be doing Is disseminating information on social media? But that they do need to be speaking face to face with working class people They make up the majority of the country and you know trying to trying to convince them that it's only with a lula government that we're going to see the material conditions of the people improve and they have Their own strategies and methods for doing that they're having to sit down this week and devise You know a new plan for these final weeks and I believe that is very interesting And I think it will undoubtedly secure the win Well, let's let's finish this car continue this conversation after the second round election to be fabulous to have you both back and and uh, hopefully celebrate a lula win and probably You're both calling it and I'm hoping for it So let let's let's continue the conversation after the second round and And hopefully it'll be a celebration and deconstruct how how all of this Comes about and probably uh, and how it will affect the americas as well all of the americas So anyway, you too. Thank you so much for joining us for this episode it's always a pleasure to work with both of you and I just want to remind Our audience that you've been Listening to what the F is going on in lat america the caribbean code pins weekly youtube program of hot news Out of the region we broadcast every week on code pink youtube You can also find us on spotify and apple podcast and I also want to be sure To let you know about code pink radio which broadcasts every thursday morning 11 a.m. Eastern on wbai out of new york city And wpf w out of washington dc that project can also be found on apple podcast and spotify as well So thank you again to craig jargula of the convo count and amela espalante of costume news and We'll talk to you in a couple weeks Thanks so much for having us terry Thank you


Oh my god, does it feel good to do one of these videos again? Hi guys, it's Nerdiversal back here with another video trying to be quiet because this is calming music and that is what I should do to calming music. Anyways, how was your guys' day going? Are you happy to see that I'm back? Probably not. My two subscribers, you make me very happy. Thank you. So for today's video, we are, well I am, doing, so I bought this book at Target and it has 300 drawing prompts so I was like, you know what, let me get myself into the mess that I got myself into last time and I'm gonna do 10 of these a day so I can hopefully finish this within 30 days or, you know, a month. Obviously I'm not gonna get this done by a month because we're like on the 6th.  Anyways, I don't know where I was going with this but so I'm kind of doing this just to get back into the groove of drawing because I haven't done it in months because you know I'm a delinquent and I never do my work but look at me now, I'm doing my work now and I'm not gonna post all of these videos because, well, I have work and so I can't get home early enough to film but I can draw my, I can draw the things that I need to draw just, you know, not recorded. Wowee, what a concept. So I'm gonna do that and I'm gonna try my best. My question mark, gonna try my best and we'll see where this takes me. I really don't know what I was gonna say here. I kind of just threw myself into this and hoped for the best. So how was your guys' day doing? You guys come here often? You guys, you guys draw? Do you? Kay, well you shouldn't. You should just end that as, oh, I ripped my paper there. You should just end art as a career because you know what, we all just, we all just like don't art. I'm like five seconds away from quitting art. Haha, just kidding, I'm an artist and that's what I chose to do for the rest of my life.  Oh, I brought pretzels! I bought pretzels so I don't even have to be hungry tomorrow. I can eat my pretzels and just have a good time. See, this is the joy that comes to me in my high school years is yay, I bought pretzels. I get to eat those tomorrow. Those are going to be the best pretzels I've ever eaten in my entire life. So what do you guys think? Should I start an ASMR channel? I think I'm going to do that. I'm going to call it Yolani's ASMR and I'm just going to whisper weird things into the microphone. Oh dang, I can't say that out loud. That's a cuss word.  How do you guys enjoy that tree of life that I'm drawing? Freakin' fantastic, right? You've never seen anything better than that? I know. I know. Just kidding. These are all bad. Also the last... Wow, we're coming to the end of the video but the very last drawing because you only saw me draw 9 the very last drawing is posted on my Instagram for the next 24 hours because I livestreamed that one. Like a dummy. But you know what? It got done. ASMR for drawing video. I hope this was as equally as calming and weird for you as it was for me. Thank you. I enjoy your company and there's still time left in the video. Should I keep talking?