Happy Aloha Friday. Welcome to Perspectives on Global Justice Program. I'm your host, Beatrice Cantelmo. Today we have a very special guest, Peter Shimazaki-Dotta, who is a member of the Variance for Peace Rukukinawa Chepta and the Co-Founder of Hawai'i-Ukinawa Alliance. Pete's knowledge and advocacy work will assist our viewers to better understand important global justice issues such as Indigenous peoples' rights, militarisation, decolonisation issues and the human rights struggles for peace that the Indigenous people of Okinawa are faced with. Geopolitically, Okinawa is key to the American Japanese Alliance and the heart of American's military presence in Japan. Who should the Okinawa territory belong to? The answer depends on whom you may ask. Beijing continues to claim that Okinawa territory roots based on history from 1372 by that year the Ryukyu Kingdom was paying tribute to the Chinese court and Japan did not complete its annexation of the island chain until 1872. China also claims that the annexation of Ryukyu's islands constituted an invasion. Japan's defeat in World War II nullified the Treaty of Shimazaki of 1895 by which the Qing court formally renounced its claims to the islands. Every story has many sites to it and history provides us with additional information that undermines China's territorial claim over the Okinawan Islands. In 1609, the Japanese Philo Law that conquered the Ryukyu Islands allowed the Ryukyuans to also pay tribute to the court in China. The other point to be considered in history is the Qing dynasty's identity. Even though the Chinese consider themselves to be the rulers of the Qing dynasty, the Qings did not share the same belief, especially during the early time of their ruling. At that time in history, the Chinese were viewed as foreign invaders. To make matters more complicated, through the battle of Okinawa and the US military control of Okinawa from 1945 to 1972, the US current over-representation of the US military bases in the Okinawan Islands continued to be responsible for Okinawan civilian deaths, injuries and rapes, as well as environmental damages and the oppression of the freedom of assembly and the press for the indigenous people of Okinawa who are fed up with having to have their most human rights violated. The people of Ryukyu Okinawa self-identified as indigenous people. The United Nations Declaration of Indigenous People ensures that indigenous people have the right to self-determination, free, prior and informed consent, the right to protect the environment, including the protection from hazardous materials and the prohibition of military activities in indigenous territories. The people of Okinawa have never willingly provided their own lands to the US to use for military bases and they are not happy with the Japanese government for ignoring their collective will against the construction and the expansion of a new US military base in Okinawa. The collective will and voices of the indigenous people of Okinawa were shown during the Okinawan electoral vote, yet democracy for the indigenous people of Okinawa is not being respected by the Japanese government. As a result, a strong indigenous movement against the US military base expansion is growing in Okinawa. And on that note, I would like to welcome Peter to our program. Thank you so much for making the time to be here with us today. Oh no, thank you sister, for all you're doing and making these kind of programs available to the people. Oh absolutely, this is a joint effort and I would have not been possible without having the people who really are in the trenches of the metas to come and really talk the stories of the people that we are trying to support and share more of the highlights of what's happening.  Where does your family come from and how did you get involved with all of this? Yeah, why should I care about Okinawa, right? Okay, great question. Okay, well first of all, I'm a product of Okinawan history. My father was a Marine in the Battle of Okinawa and as a Marine at 27 years, three wars, he was in Okinawa quite a bit where he met my mother who is also a survivor of the war. So I am one of those byproducts of war. It even deeper though, you know, I still have lots of family in Okinawa. My grandfather was a, he passed away, but he's a, he was a principal and one of the schools he taught at Jetfire crashed into it accidentally killing children and staff. So in addition to friends and family connection, it's also just humanity. Knowing what I do know, having lived in Okinawa, bear witness on both sides of the fence, having a prior military service. It's my humanity seeing not just the compassion for the people, but also how inspiring Okinawan people are as well as other factors. I'm personally a Buddhist which, you know, is about compassion and wisdom and so applied to Okinawa, it calls for action. And then the last and probably most important thing is what Hawaiians call Kuliana or Okinawa Tsukibun, which is a kind of a responsibility I've inherited, you know, being a product of Okinawa part of its legacy. And yeah, I have a responsibility to address these past issues that continue to fester in the present and unfortunately in the future right now. Right, so like it doesn't get more personal than that. The fact that you are second generation of Okinawan and also the fact that you were in the military. So you can see both sides of this story and perhaps have a very bipartisan view both from the perspective what's happening with the people of Okinawa now and historically, but also from a military background. So obviously you do care about Okinawa and so how long have you been involved with Okinawan issues and activism here in the state of Hawaii in Uda? Well, in terms of Hawaii, I've been here about almost 20 years now. So I actually moved here from Okinawa with the intention to just go to grad school and head back and you know, here I am. So I'm almost 20 years later, Hawaii has that effect, but as soon as I learned about Okinawa, actually when I was using my GI Bill on college and volunteering for community events that I came across a delegation from Okinawa, actually was sponsored by Christian group and this was in 93. And at that time I was just learning all those things they don't teach you in high school, including what's really the agenda behind the use of military force. Yeah, so I'd say it was about 93, so almost 25 years. What did you learn then that usually it's concealed from history classes and what has prompted you to say, okay, I'm going to devote a part of my life, a big chunk of it, not only to bring awareness through education, but also through advocacy to have the history and the rights and the voices of people of Okinawa hard. Well, that's a good question.  I really should have learned from history. So it entailed going to Okinawa and just, you know, being with family and doing a lot of research because at that time there wasn't much information in English and there's a lot of things I learned, too much for the show, but I would say one of the biggest things that really had a major, a major example would be, okay, so as you know, I'm biracial, bicultural and my father being a marina 27 years would, since I can remember said, son, war is a part of life that's always been, always will be.  I went to the university, I really researched that question, is are humans truly just inherently violent? And very long, very short, my thesis concluded based on evidence we had available that there's too many exceptions to say that all humans are inherently violent and more is an inevitable part of life. And then I moved to Okinawa and where I could see an example of a culture that reflected perhaps the qualities of humans that allow us to evolve and, you know, unfortunately, for better or worse, become masters of this planet as naked apes. You know, what I'm saying is that what I learned in Okinawa, not just historically as well as in the present, is that it is possible for a society to live in peace and in fact it's in its best interest if they want to survive to live in peace with each other and with their neighbors.  We don't understand, you know, the identity of the Okinawan people. Do they see themselves, you know, like sovereign, you know, different from Japan, culture and country? Do they see themselves as more indigenous identity? And when you're talking about peace, what is their philosophy and belief in how to carry on with their own lives in Okinawa? Okay, well, you're asking me a lot of questions. Yes, and we don't have to answer all of that right now, you know, but that just to kind of frame a little bit of the thought, you know, as we go forward with the program. So, rephrase, because I've heard two questions and so one more time. The questions that you've heard, there you go. I have the tendency sometimes to just go off the tangent, you know, like, oh, I got like one question with like 10 parts to it. Okay, well, you asked about the identity. In terms of regionally, absolutely, we have a strong identity as most island people do.  However, it's more complicated having, you know, being a colonized island and colonized by more than one culture, as you mentioned historically, Japan and United States. So, as a consequence of colonization and the control of education system, which it's no different today, Tokyo controls the entire education system and they actually pride themselves that the kid, the third grader in the most northern part of Japan, Hokkaido to the most southern, they're on the same page in the same textbook learning the same Japanese history. And so they don't learn their own history, unfortunately, nor do they get to express it, you know, politically. So, what I might, what I'm getting at is, yes, there are a significant percentage that have a very distinct identity as Okinawans or Uchi Nanchi or whatever island they're from. But on the other hand, and it varies with generation from older to younger, more people have been assimilated into become Japanese. And that has had a significant impact on identity issues. And then the complicated, if I just add one last thing, is the Japanese government actually refuses to acknowledge that Okinawans are indigenous despite all the, you know, historical record and validation by the UN. Whereas well as, and it's probably because they did acknowledge the Ainu as indigenous people of Japan. And that's come with some consequences, you know, for the Japan lawsuits and other suits. So they refuse to recognize them as indigenous people, even though there's no question they are. And so that complicates combined with education that intentionally pits a national identity to essentially ethnically erase the Okinawan people and their identity and to become assimilated as mainstream Japanese. So we're going to take a quick break and we'll write back and then we're going to elaborate a little bit further on that. Okay. Aloha. My name is John Waihei and I used to be a part of all the things that you might be angry at. I served in government here and may have made decisions that affects you. So I want to invite you in. I want to invite you in to talk story with me and some very special guests every other Monday here at Talk Story with John Waihei. Come on in, join us, express your opinion, learn more about your state, and then do something about it. Aloha. Welcome back to Prospectors on Global Justice. This is Beatrice Cantalo, your host. And we are back to our conversation with Beat, daughter. And we were just talking about the identity of the Okinawan people and how difficult it's been, not only for recognition of the Japanese government that the Okinawan people are actually indigenous people, but also to teach history as it should be. So, Beat, moving forward, what is the real problem with Okinawa right now and how do the Okinawan people feel about it? Well, you know, often it's just framed as military bases, but what's missing is like, well, what's the problem with the military bases? And we can go for hours talking about them. We don't have the time, so I can just summarize. It's a human rights problem. Okinawans are subjected to the threat of war every day. In fact, when World War II ended, it never ended in Okinawan. And on the contrary, they expanded the bases and never left. In all, that was 1945, we were in 2017. It's a matter of political rights. Consistently, Okinawans in the local elections, vast majority have supported some form of demilitarization between 70 and 80 percent, depending on, but in the span of the last 30 years, yeah, it's always been about 80, 70 percent, of which doesn't get recognized. Despite what the people elect and why they elect people, the efforts to demilitarize are always stymied by Japan and the US. There's a cultural genocide going on, as we mentioned, the ratio of the identity. For example, language, you know, the U.K. languages are highly endangered as is the culture. Is there like any effort for the revival of Okinawan language and culture from the Okinawan's perspective in real history? Like it happened with Hawaii in the 70s? Not to the flourishing of the Hawaiian language, renaissance, but there is a small effort and it's growing. And actually, identity is actually taking a more center stage with the current governor, Onaga, who part of his campaign, including one of the issues that we're going to talk about is the imposed construction of a naval port in Henukau and rural Okinawa. Part of his campaign was, you know, all Okinawa together. So this is not ideological, it's not left-right. It's back to conservative and, you know, progressive factions that are united on this for different reasons. So, you know, since we're going to be talking about the US militarization expansion in Okinawa, I don't know, could we have the picture of Okinawa and our train islands for our viewers to take a look at it? So we have the US spice in Okinawa. You could see that about 18 percent of the land is occupied by military facilities. That's not counting the air and sea space. What's really significant about this, to show the discrimination that's behind this, is that Okinawa is really smaller than Kauai and Okinawa is the big island, if you will, of the island chain. It's despite being 0.6 percent of all Japan landmass, they host almost two-thirds of the US military in the entirety of Japan. So in other words, it's unwanted in Japan the basis, so they put them in someone else's backyard, namely, you know, indigenous people they conquered. Japan did give up their colonies in Korea and China from their expansion as an empire, but that's one that people have forgotten in history books, is they never restored the UQ Kingdom, you know, the sovereignty of the people. So now there is a big push and it's almost in its final stages to get the expansion of the military base in Okauai. They actually started construction this week, unfortunately. And I am so sorry. And I know that prior to that, there are several peace activists and human rights activists in Okinawa protested. So now can we have some pictures of, you know, these moments so that people can have a... Well, that's funny because that is Henoko and when you think of protests, you don't usually think of people dancing, but that would be Okinawa style. That's New Year's, watching the first sunrise. That is one of many elders being accosted by Japanese riot police. They don't use the local police because they respect. You can see it's a case study and civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance. Those are everyday people putting their bodies on the line to defend the land. This picture I took, actually, this was when Clinton was president. As you can see, very inspiring to see entire villages hold hand in hand and encircle entire military bases. That one right there is Kadena Air Base, the largest air base in Asia. That's a recent rally. As you can see, this is not a fringe group. This is the mainstream of the people who are united for self-determined peace. That's an example of Asian Orange found at Kadena School, one of the many problems that the military either unintentionally or intentionally cover up. In their pictures, more than a thousand walls. When you see so many hundreds, thousands of people holding hands together in peace, asking to just have the right to exist and to be self-sufficient and to have democracy respected in their own land and not having that. And if I may, to have just basic security. That's what's ironic is those that support the bases tend to focus on is for the security and or economic security. So let's elaborate a little bit on that. So for those who are full military base expansion and presence in Okinawa and their arguments, look at its full security of the United States and also Japan and if it's for economic security of Japanese people. Give me a couple of examples. What's the regular rhetoric that's being used? Well, you stated that so when you know they'll say China or North Korea, right? Well, if that's the reason of having military in Okinawa is to prevent missiles flying over Japan or to prevent Chinese moving in the South Sea, apparently it's not working, is it? Right? And so instead of being a deterrence, actually exacerbating tensions, much the way Pueblo, well known as Pearl Harbor was attacked by their Imperial competitor, Japan, and they didn't attack the people. They were focused on military targets. So the issue of securing Okinawa is very grave, especially now with all this tension, because, you know, there's many reasons why. Why are so many Okinawans, you know, opposed to militarism and this military perforation? Well, part of it is having survived so many wars, the Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest land battle in the Pacific, almost one in three civilians were killed. And so that's what modern warfare shows, is that despite all the focus and worship of the military, of course, you know, which military focus on one nation, that the bulk of casualties in modern warfare are actually civilians, as we saw in Okinawa. So it doesn't bring them physical security.  So they really depend on the environment, the Aina, to survive. And so it seems like the Japanese government have considered the environment destruction and impact of having the military base expanded on Okinawa, like on the corals, on the fishing industry, and also the land itself. So that makes it really hard for the people of Okinawa to, you know, exist and carry on with their own traditional, you know, culture and cultivation of fishing. I mean, it's a very big part, a staple of their diet and the difficult to do. Absolutely.  Just, first of all, the argument that you should have military because it brings jobs, it's up there whether we should have, I don't know, selling, you know, harmful drugs because it brings in income, you know, it's very harmful that another side do it. It's insulting for a culture that's historically been very peaceful. In fact, during the Ryukyu Kingdom you mentioned, when it was unified, they actually disbanded their military because they were surrounded by Japan, China, all these regional empires. And so they realized, oh, we're done if we go to war with these huge nations. So they found that the foreign policy was best done through economic exchange and cultural exchange and just maintain peaceful relations with your neighbors rather than the standing military. And fast forward, now we got the culture that's only, it thinks that the military is the only way to have security. And we see it not spring in the region, but actually the world in great danger, you know, of a potential world war. But I just want to point out very specifically what's interesting about the argument too is that they have found, make it short, that in areas of land that were returned to civilian commercial use, have much increased the commercial output, much increased more jobs than the bases ever have. So the argument, I'm sorry, I'll just say this, like even the conservative, you know, chamber of commerce type folks are also against the military because the, not just the inefficient use of land, and it really holds back the local economy and local planning and so forth, which you can imagine. Very hard. So we are almost at the end of our program and I would like to leave our viewers and you with an opportunity to talk about what can people of Hawaii or around the globe could do to support the people of Okinawa and, you know, since the military expansion is happening and there is a big cry, you know, for indigenous people's rights to be heard and respected and unprotected, what would be that message? Well, I mean the first thing is to be informed. So in terms of being informed, you know, the DQ SHIMPO, there's some Okinawan newspapers, they might have some English sections, but our Hawaii-Okinawa Alliance, we have a Facebook page where articles are posted. That's probably the most one direct way I can guide people to just sign up on there if they can to get information, but aside from just being informed, just caring to do something and I know that's what you're asking about. Definitely we need to hold our government accountable. Those are not Chinese military, it's not Russian, that's US military, so we need to hold our ourselves accountable and address our representatives. And also, you know, we're just trying to pull together, Hoa is pulling together the Okinawan community and allies, so we have some events coming up this Sunday, on the 30th, yeah, at the JIKO and Hongwanji and Like Like and School Street at 430. We have some information there. And then just keep posted, we have some more events coming up next month and some films coming up and so forth. We would like people to get in touch because we are making appointments with representatives, federal reps to address our concerns and so forth, as well as holding the Japanese government also accountable. That's what makes it so complicated, there's two occupiers and they just blame each other so they can get away with what's happening. But I think that the better future is coming for, that's the good of the bad and the ugly of what we're seeing right now in the US history and government, is that more people are becoming aware, more civically engaged. All my darling brother, it was wonderful having you here today and I hope that this may be the first of many visits that you have and that we can talk a little bit more in depth about all the aspects of Okinawa and the beautiful work that you do as an advocate and activist. Well, thank you so much for being here and to stay with us on Global Justice, prospectus on Global Justice, and I hope to see you again next Friday at four o'clock. Until then, who we hope.


Stands and daughters of Saint Lucia, wherever you may roam, happy new year. This is my first opportunity as Prime Minister to personally extend the best wishes to you and your family for 2022. We all want 2022 to be a brighter, happier, healthier year for ourselves, family and country. This year is pregnant with opportunities for our country. The people of Saint Lucia vote for a substantial mandate through the democratic process, a new slate of men and women to plot a different political, economic, social and national agenda for our country. As a country, you must ensure that this opportunity given by the majority of the people creates an agenda of transformation of our country. The year 2021 saw the COVID virus mutate into several variants. These variants created an atmosphere of illness, fear, loneliness, social economic despair brought on by the restrictions and protocols that hindered our natural tendencies to be social human beings. Now we enter 2022, a fifth wave is almost inevitable as other countries experience rapid spikes due to the American virus. Indeed 2021 was very difficult and challenging for our country given the negative effects of the pandemic on the health sector in particular and the entire economy as a whole. Every tragic was the death and grief felt by families and friends on the death of their loved ones. We extend deepest condolences to these families.


Hi everyone, this is Dr. Ahmed Ergin. I'm an endocrinologist and I'm a diabetes expert. Now today I'm going to talk to you about erectile dysfunctions super common in men. In my clinic, I deal with that pretty much every day. And today I will talk to you about why erectile dysfunction happens in men and I will talk to you about your treatment options. Let's get started. So erectile dysfunction is very common. It can happen in men even before the diagnosis of diabetes. So erectile dysfunction happens as a result of damage to your arteries and your nerves. Now as you can imagine, diabetes does the same thing to pretty much every other artery and nerve in your body. So actually if you have erectile dysfunction there's a good chance that you may have other arterial problems.  So what do you really do? So if it is already at that stage where you're experiencing erectile dysfunction, you may have to look into a few things. Number one, you have to control your diabetes and get your diabetes under control.  So I sometimes watch some doctors saying that each salt is good for you or just eat all the grease and each steak every day. That's not going to help your erectile dysfunction. So your sugars may be okay to eat steak every day but you will still have erectile dysfunction. So let's get this straightened up. So you have to control your blood pressure, control your cholesterol and control your blood sugar at the same time. It's like a little tripod. If you do not fix one leg, you still fall. So you have to make sure that you fix all the legs and you control all three conditions at the same time. Now, what are your options? Number one, talk to someone. Don't be shy. Just talk to your doctor. Say, hey, you know, I'm not happy. My wife is not happy. You know, somebody's unhappy. Let's do something about this. What can you offer to me? Also, make sure you check your medications. Make sure you ask your doctor, is there any medication that's affecting me? There's some antidepressants that actually a lot of people are on can cause erectile dysfunctions. There are a lot of blood pressure medications that can cause erectile dysfunctions as well. So you have to kind of make sure that your doctor is paying attention to your medication list to make sure these medications are eliminated if possible. And of course, you may want to seek counseling.   And asking for help is not always a bad option. Now, let's talk about the options. What do you need to do to get that fixed? Get this going, buddy. Now, so number one, of course, everybody knows this, but I'm going to give you a couple of tricks here. Viagra, Cialis, the most common drugs that can help the erectile dysfunction. Of course, you can use, you know, all the counter stuff if you if you like, but typically we use Viagra or Cialis. Now, some people take Viagra, for example, anywhere from 20 milligram up to 100 milligrams, depending on how much they need. Some people just need 20 milligrams. Some people will need 100 milligrams, and they take it a couple hours before the expected sexual intercourse. Now, sometimes it works like that and sometimes it doesn't. And interestingly, sometimes people take the medication every day. It could be 20 milligram, 40 milligram, 60 milligram, 50 milligram, whatever it comes with, you can use it every day. And sometimes that works better. And some of my patients actually will take the drug every day and will take a few extra before the expected time as well, which also increases the chances of working. So if you started taking Viagra one way or the other or Cialis and it didn't work for you, just don't trash the medication. There are other ways you can try to make it work. And of course always make sure that you're informing your doctor what you're doing with your medication. Do not do anything based on my video only. Make sure you get your doctor's consent, because your condition may be different than somebody else. If the pills are not a good option or they're not working, sometimes people who are on nitrates, for example, should not be taking together Viagra and nitrates. The nitrates are certain chest pain medications that may be used. And if you have that condition together, you may have to be very careful with these drugs. Now if these are not an option for you, if they're not working, then you can use suppositories or even needles.   Your third option is Vatum.  It is an option. Yes, it's again not the most sexy option, but it is something to consider. It's better than nothing, right? Well, the last option is Penile Implants and I think it is, it sounds like a drastic option. Yeah, it is a drastic option, but it is an option. I even had some patients who came to me without diabetes asking for implants. I'm like, you're not in the right place buddy. I don't do that kind of stuff. I'm an endocrinologist, I'm a hormone doctor. So that guy was just looking for some other purposes, but in any case, Penile Implants can be an option if you are having problems and everything has failed or other options may not be good for you. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video and if you did, give it a thumbs up and share this video if you are comfortable with it. I'll talk to you later.


The steadily growing population of tourists and visitors to our islands during the past five to ten years has also increased the demand for fresh produce, in particular fruits and vegetables.  At the same time, to try and maintain the level of nutrition in the soil in order to maintain a high yield. Over the last four to five years, through our training programs to make farmers more aware of the many benefits of organic pesticides we have seen a 20% or even more in some cases of the use of organically based pesticides by our farmers. We continue to see this positive trend where more and more farmers are using organic and biological based pesticides. The Ministry also promotes the use of other methods of managing piss in crops including adjusting on spacing, using machinery to manage weed problems and also how we were possible where farmers are able to utilize these means which are non-chemical. The Ministry together with the financial and technical support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of FAO was successful in implementing a project that enhanced crop production while at the same time improving soil resources management for sustainable livelihood. The project largely focused on improving soil resources management through increased use of organic matter, use of cover crops and minimizing soil tillage. Farmers were trained on the importance of improving soil health in order to improve the tolerance or in order to increase the tolerance of their crops to pests and diseases. Currently the Ministry is working on a project with FAO and also the Secretary of the Pacific Community, an originally based organization that works together not only with FAO but with other donor partners and other implementing partners on many agriculture projects. The current project will help us look into our legislation and how we can improve our legislation to try and address the current issues in particular around the invitation and use of pesticides especially moving towards looking at safer alternatives or alternatives based around organic pesticides and biologically based pesticides.


Hi. Thank you, everyone. I think we can reconvene and move into the report back. We're just, we're just going to ask each of our breakout groups to, to for one person to kind of give a brief three minutes summary of the key takeaways from your breakout group so we can take down these slides actually since we're not going to be sharing slides for this one. I might first ask the, we can start the virtual breakouts and we can do the first room the climate macro modeling group I think that was Bob sorry, was that your group. Oh, Adele I'm sorry Adele. Sure yeah. And thanks to all my virtual participants to talk about climate and macroeconomic modeling. We didn't necessarily follow the full script so apologies if we deviate from the prescribed outline, but a few, a few things in, in not any real particular order. Some of the questions that came up for our group participants related to macroeconomic forecasts and projections is that for those that use econometric models for their macroeconomic projections. How should they incorporate climate related factors, and this might be in the context of other countries or applications. And what would be the appropriate methods to do that. And what do you do if you don't necessarily have a long time series for the relevant data to do those more standard econometric projections. So those, those question arose. Another question was, what could be the roller example of model inner comparison and improvement projects. So there are a number of these groups. One of the early ones was the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum that convenes modelers to look at stylized scenarios of policy and technological futures that help develop these models and identify strengths and weaknesses and and fruitful solutions for growth and development of those models. There have arisen similar inner comparison projects in climate science, and in agricultural models. And these, these meetings of modeling teams I think can be really fruitful. I think there's a question there for the macro modelers. And just to give an example, we talked about agricultural models because that was one of the areas of expertise of our participants and looking at, you know, how you model crop productivity in in a context of climate, and how you convert that into economic productivity, and how and whether that gets translated into total factor productivity in in your macro economic projections. And then how do you deal with the, the wide variations in crop production and what in figure out what drives those also in the context of climate variation. Adding a whole, you know, whole new levers of variation and trying to figure out how how to insert all that one one kind of proposed assertion that came up in our group and I'm going to just try this out. It's not necessarily a consensus view, but here it goes. It's the perception that the macro economic projections the GDP forecasts in particular that we were talking about yesterday on the factors that go into determining output, very importantly, spatially and sectorally within the United States. And this is going to be especially true when those factors are driven by climate related considerations, and whether it's climate damages or, or transition factors. So all those things that go into those, those inputs to macro economics whether it's labor supply, or productivity or capital, there are complicated things behind there. And accordingly, I guess the question we're asking is whether these traditional person monies macro models are really going to be well suited to a low carbon and climate disrupted future. And, and whether or not it makes sense to try to, you know, retrofit those with climate factors, or whether it makes sense to consider new classes of models for macro economic projections. And I'm not enough of a macro economist to know just how inflammatory that possible suggestion is, but I, I'm just the reporter here so and then in the category of, of limits and opportunities. Again, we talked about agriculture, and in one example in ag models is just like, these are really important for, for farm credit oversight, regulators and, and project projecting productivity and an important sector, but when you start adding climate in there, everything gets even more crazy complicated. And if you just take livestock. So, you might have a relationship of heat and and livestock production but with climate. It's not just heat, it's generally it's heat in the nighttime, and how often, and how, and how many nights sequence, you've got hot nights. So just like adding these new factors like how do you even do that and how do you get the right data and so on. And then one final thought is just looking at the example of the creation of shared scenarios. So the first convene and create like these representative concentration pathways, and the shared socio economic pathways that the IPCC is developed. And these illustrate narratives of future outcomes. Perhaps there's a question of whether stylized macroeconomic now narratives and scenarios might be useful. I realize this is kind of at odds with the idea of forecasting, and they are really different exercises. Perhaps there, there, I guess the question arises, is there any model in this convening of macro modelers to talk about illustrative narratives that might be incorporated in these projections. So I'll stop there. Thank you. Thank you, Del. Can I now ask the whoever was the self appointed rapid tour from the in person breakout on the same topic that climate macro modeling to to give your summary brief summary. It is I were okay. I'll wait for the camera to find me. Yes, there I am. Okay, I'm going to be a bit more brief. So, let's see what did we talk about one thing we talked about is that some, you know, an existing in the administrations macro modeling framework supply side factors matter a lot. The economy in general and so migration is very important, and it's not explicitly represented any of these climate macro modeling connections yet. And probably probably won't be for political reasons but that's something valuable to think about. We had a long discussion about what type of climate data is most useful for kind of macro economic modeling. And in particular we discussed how correlated events and extremes or estimates of the duration of exposure is very valuable. Those are like moments of the distribution of weather exposure that are really challenging to model. But those are probably moments of the distribution of other exposure that have the most influence on the economy. So, to the extent we can improve our modeling of those moments we'd improve our modeling of the economy. And we, we talked a little bit about some some other things that aren't included in macro models right now like effects on human capital accumulation, which would arguably be very important for economic growth. There's, there's very little research on that. The research that exists is, is like pretty good in my precipitation is. That was, that was a very, that was a very Noah moment. Is good like in my evaluation but yeah I feel like we just need more need more research on human capital effects of climate that's probably very important. And then we had talked about how distributional consequences of the energy transition and of physical climate damages are really interesting the policymakers both on like on a spatial and a sectoral basis. It doesn't feel like existing macro models. I might just hazard making a similar suggestion that we just throw throw them out but you know I don't think that's, I don't think that's going to happen so maybe it doesn't make sense to have one model, maybe instead we should think about having multiple models one kind of an administration model for the net effects forecasts, and then one that can get more at sectoral or spatial details that could be housed some more else it would it would be, because it's talking about distributions it probably has more political weight and so it might make sense to house it, you know somewhere else in the government. That's just me. That's my personal glass on that. Those are the main things we talked about. Neil and Rita, Peter, if there's any if there's anything I missed, feel free to to mention that. Great, thank you. And then moving back to the virtual breakouts for this breakout to on modeling economic damages, or I think Bob is the repertoire there. So I think you're going to start to see some commonalities with the previous two groups. In terms of key questions. We had a bunch of questions that I think can broadly be put under the category of cascading risk. If we have, you know, does the idea that aggregate national damages in the US are small aligned with the fact that we have regional damages that can be quite substantial to regional damages in fact interact with under on another so they add up in a super linear way. Our compound extremes. are economically significant at a national scale. Our physical temping points potentially economically significant so if you, for example, have brought shift in the North Atlantic Sempolar gyre, which would have concert climatic and sea level consequences for Europe, North America. Africa with that. Would that be economically significant. But that the distributional lens was really an important lens to bring to all of this much and maybe it's much more than the aggregate perspective and therefore you need models capable of addressing distributional questions, and yet has both of the previous approaches already noted current macro models often lack that needed regional resolution. And also both macro models and climate damage models often lacked both adequate sexual resolution and treatment of intersectoral interaction which are another pathways cascades might happen. So we also talked about the importance of uncertainty characterization. And again we mentioned the need to think about higher order moments not just mean invariance and the need to think about ambiguity and misspecification as well as quantifiable uncertainty, and also to think about how uncertainty is communicated and not just how it is characterized and technical documents. And finally, I think the main new thing we have to add to the discussion so far as we talked a little bit about computing opportunities. So opportunities from open science through sort of modular open systems like Freddie that can bring in modules, other from a variety of sources. Cloud computing opportunities bring together large climate and socioeconomic data sets to make it easier to do new climate econometric studies. And potentially using of AI to help with sort of scraping and cleaning new socioeconomic data sets to look at. I think that's super thanks. And then the in person self appointed repertoire for the second group on modeling damages. Hello. Yes, my name is Daniel from SF. So our group had a very rich discussion on this topic. And there, I'm going to report on just a few key takeaways I think. But we recognize that a lot of models that we currently use don't have important feedbacks. So that's really, it's difficult to capture the changes in human behaviors in response to either the single disaster events or to long term climate change. Also it doesn't capture the reaction from the different sectors to the impact of the climate change. So as a result is very difficult to derive the actionable policies or, or programs based on those very aggregated models so one possible solution or opportunity is to to develop more flexible models that can really link to each other's or perhaps some new causes of models that are better suited to answer some of the questions that we're interested in. I think we have mentioned that there's some new research on embedded models or agent based models that definitely has a potential to to play a role in this space. The other takeaway is that when you look at the, especially the impact from the extreme events like hurricanes or flooding or wildfires. And we just don't have enough historical record that we can use to train a lot of empirical models. So projecting their frequency and and intensity into the future. We feel that there's additional research required to look at the impact of climate change. Those events end up happening at the same time concurring concurrence or cascading facts is one disaster lead to to another and end up creating a much bigger effect on the US economy and abroad. And also, there's also some interest in look at how the those extreme events become more clustered either in the temple or spatial dimension so they happen to, you know impact on certain part of the United States or the space between those events, you know we have seen the that got hit by hurricanes back and back and you know that is definitely something creating additional challenges to those committee while they were recovering from the previous one. The last thing I want to mention is that we also recognize there's already a lot of models out there. In addition to what we discussed in the past two days, but they are very specific to either individual sectors like energy or agriculture or, or food systems so perhaps there's opportunity to, you know, bring those kind of model models together to compare and see what we can learn from each other and also related to that we also already have some models really have a more granular spatially so there's models for regional economy or even for certain watershed so but within that region there's a lot of different industries or different features being a model so so we're hoping that we can really find some kind of synergy between those different models in order to move the conversation forward. Thank you. Thank you. So for our virtual rooms we combined breakouts break rooms three and four so Emmy will will be the repertoire for both of those. Okay, our discussion was a fairly small group and it was very interesting discussion but it's sort of straight away a little bit from the main topics that we've been talking about here I thought it was very interesting, but different perspective on some of these issues. So the conversation really focused on the role of community in some of the questions that we're discussing I mean we're discussing them in a very quantitative way. Thinking about aggregated statistics either the national level or at the regional level but you know of course these are real people who are involved. And you know real people who are who are proud of communities and those communities are being affected by climate change and by the energy transition so that was sort of one focal point. There was an emphasis on the connection that people have to places and to the possibility of solutions to climate change and the energy transition that help support communities. So in addition on the idea that some of these solutions should focus not just on disaster recovery but also on forms of proactive resilience building. And there was also an emphasis on on the idea that many of the issues we're discussing have have broader impacts beyond the economic impacts that that were focused on measuring. And then for the, the third in person group. What, what was that the energy transition group. So I am presenting. We had a great discussion I have to say I only learned at the very end that I am the one presenting. And I wasn't, I wasn't able to connect with everybody so hopefully I characterize folks contributions correctly. So let's start with a basic premise that under current law, what if we project that over the next decade we go from 60% of electric electricity generation from non renewables to 20%. So how do we incorporate that transition into economic projections, an important input, so maybe the basic way to do it is that an important input renewable electricity falls in price. And then becomes relatively cheaper to another input that is substitute non renewables. So we have basic models that the, you know, tell us what to do with that news. I think a big part of this is that the assumption is that the, that the decrease in prices big enough that investment increases to take advantage of that change in price so think of electric car plants. You want to think about just incorporating that price correctly and having everybody respond to that price. We have lots of off model ways of thinking about how to how to project productivity growth. So maybe thinking about the effect of total factor productivity just in the energy sector, but aggregating up from the renewable and non renewable. And how that then affects overall productivity. And a couple of other ways that you want to think about the distribution, you know, both to think about the distributional effects, but then outside the model but then also think about how to get them correctly into the model in aggregate, I should say, you were, you were invoked many times in our conversation of what would, what would we, what would we suggest to Steve. So thinking about the labor share. We have lots of experience as modelers thinking about the labor share in different sectors thinking about the labor share in the manufacturing sector and the service sector different parts of the manufacturing sector and how those have changed over time and then what we think about then the labor share going forward so you might similarly do that thinking about the labor share in the energy sector, and in other sectors and how labor reallocation will matter for the labor share, and then making sure you have all of the effects of trade in terms of trade to help to help incorporate it into the model. There are. So that was one big way that we thought about how to incorporate these changes into an aggregate model. So I think it's wonderful about the distributional effects along the way. There are past experiences that can help us to calibrate, you know, or at least how to inform how to model this. So, we talked about, like, what you might think of as the China shocked, which I would characterize as a reduction in production of imported final goods and how that affected manufacturing in the US, but then sitting here typing that up. I thought maybe it was, it's better to think about also because of trade, a reduction in cost of inputs and there I had in mind like semiconductor chips. So maybe think about how the reduction in the cost of semiconductor chips. And you know you got to do some quality adjustment there because it's not just that. I mean, chips today are not the same as chips from 20 years ago, how that created just a massive change in the way we produce things in the United States. So you can look at these big past transitions and decide whether or not. There was a problem, just looking at aggregates or whether whether or not you had to get under the hood. Okay, then I'm going to come to the risk word in the part of transition risks. And the way I thought about this and people sort of seem to buy is that there are both intended and unintended consequences of this transition. So, unintended consequence would be like, we fully intend through this transition for fossil fossil fuel assets to become less valuable. Like that's just an intended consequence. And unintended consequence what we don't intend but will happen, unless policy mitigates it or undoes it. I mean, actually the one I'm about to explain is just an unintended consequence that would happen is that workers in the fossil fuel industry would face a need to switch industries. So you need to think about what the intended consequences are what the unintended consequences are and then how policy wants to lean into those mitigate those prevent those. Somewhat similarly expected and unexpected consequences. So unexpected consequence would be we fully expect that we're going to need a significant amount of construction and non renewable infrastructure. And that will create land use issues like they're all sorts of things that we fully expect are going to be consequences of this transition that we need to think about in the models. And they're all and we also fully expect, I think that this transition is going to change geopolitical power dynamics. But then they're unexpected consequences. And just because things may go wrong, there may be shortages, there may be price spikes, you know here I was thinking about like intraday price spikes in particular, like, it turns out not everybody wants to use, you know, energy when this ends up. And of course they're unknown unknowns. And so you want to incorporate this is the true idea of transition risks you want to be thoughtful of what these risks are. And then beyond all of this I feel like everything that I just talked about started with current law. And if you're not, if you're not, you know, the administration trying to create its forecast you want to think about policy risks. And that policy risk can also add to the transition both. I mean, I, when I was saying that I meant domestic but then it occurred to me that we as well think about global policy risk as well. Thank you, Wendy. And then we have one more group. This last one, the public and financial sector risk and response who I think is rapid, rapid toward by Eric, and if I can ask you to try to be brief so we can get to our last panel. I'm going to be super brief, especially since the previous group encroached on our space. Yeah, policy risk is very important. Okay, there we go. And one thing I just want to start with was something that came up at the end, which is that at least in our sample of four researchers we couldn't identify scholarly work that focuses on how uncertainty about future climate provides fiscal risk at federal agency and state level, there's literature on fiscal risk. There's literature on climate, but there isn't a literature on that ties those two together with that we are aware of, and a couple of folks in the group had been looking rather intently. So this is, this is something to pay attention to. And as a result of that so this is this is just the kind of a large area. Moreover, there's the issue of transmission of risk from one level of government to the other. And that raise came back to a couple of our key questions who is paying now, since these are perhaps, you know, uncosted risks and who should be. And a number of different topics, but I'm just going to jump to the risk between of the strong divergence between audiences and actors. So this is, this is a part of the policy public risk is that communicating these is vulnerable to very different reactions to what we're communicating and that is in particularly in particular true as Rachel Cletus emphasized earlier on talking about risk. There's a risk and talking about risk because people don't understand it. And one other that I'm going to mention is that there is a risk that modest GDP deltas translates and this is what we've been talking about the whole time translates into serious local and regional impacts. So this is just for interpreting models. We have a lot more though my gosh it's just beautiful there's lots of stuff. Thank you. All right thank you everyone I will now turn it over to Bob and the, the we have three panelists for this final discussion to just kind of have an open discussion trying to trying to synthesize some of the discussions that came up in the past two days.


Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here and this is another compare and contrast between a modern GI Joe action figure and it's vintage equivalent. These are usually kind of fun and since we've been talking about tripwire a lot lately let's go ahead and compare a modern GI Joe tripwire action figure with the first version of tripwire. This modern GI Joe action figure is tripwire version 5 from 2008. It was in a comic book 2 pack packaged with a modern version of the hooded Cobra Commander. He is standing next to tripwire version 1 from 1983 he was GI Joe's mind detector. At first glance you can see they were trying to translate that vintage figure into modern form. We've got basically the same colors basically the same accessories and basically the same details but of course the modern figure is taller it's in a slightly different scale the modern figures averaged 4 inches tall rather than the vintage 3 and 3 quarter inches and of course they had updated sculpting and articulation. Let's take a look at these accessories because I've got to make a comment about them. The accessories are basically the same you have the mind sweeper you have the backpack and you have three minds but this mind sweeper the modern version has this bend doesn't stay in the figures hand very well for one thing. The vintage one didn't either which I guess that's no loss there the modern version isn't necessarily worse than the vintage version but this cord is kind of short it actually makes it quite difficult to connect the cord to the backpack and to get it in the figures hand so I guess that's not necessarily worse than the vintage figure but this is a modern update and I would hope to have a bit of an upgrade rather than have the same problems you had on the vintage figure. Also this plastic is a bit flexible it has a bit of bend in it so that's why it kind of has a curve here. You can flex this plastic a bit without breaking it and that is one good thing about modern figures the plastic does tend to be a little bit more flexible than the vintage figures but you can end up with a bend in your accessory that looks a little bit odd on the figure. Looking at the modern accessory next to the vintage accessory let's go ahead and pull that out and as you can see it dropped right out of his hand so that was a problem on the vintage figure as well and it is almost the same accessory in black instead of dark gray. We still have the wire that connects to the backpack I would you have a bit of an additional detail with this kind of read out screen here on the side otherwise it is basically the same as the vintage figure just some minor updates and differences otherwise obviously they were trying to translate the vintage accessory into modern form. Now let's take a look at the backpack and the backpack again is basically the same a very slightly different shade of green and of course they are not interchangeable the modern backpack has a smaller peg for a smaller hole in the back. The vintage backpack had the classic standard peg that was a bit lower down and a bit bigger. They had to interchange these they don't you can't switch them around but you can see they did use basically the same mold for the modern version as vintage with some very minor updates otherwise this is the same accessory on the vintage accessory you had three mines that were stored in the backpack and they were removable and that is the same on the modern accessory you can pull all three mines out of the backpack. These mines are very close to the vintage mines in fact the main difference would be the color the size they look really close to the same size the details also very close to the same but you can see the modern mines are in a slightly different shade of green they are different on the back to you can see they changed the back but otherwise again basically the same accessory out of curiosity I decided to see if you can fit the modern mine into the vintage backpack and no it does not really fit it is just a little bit too big so there is a slight size different between vintage and modern and the modern mine will not fit in the vintage backpack let's go ahead and look at the figure itself starting with the first version of tripwire here you have a figure that in 1983 was made of entirely original parts and you have basically a green figure with a non-removable helmet black goggles you have a little bit of a red tampo here on the right arm then basically he's just different shades of gray gray padding lighter gray gloves and boots but fairly plain figure appropriate I guess for a minesweeper but not a very exciting figure with modern figures though that gives them the opportunity to update the detailing and really bring out some additional details that were not present on the original vintage figure and obviously they are trying to copy the same basic style you have a mostly green figure a non-removable helmet with black goggles and you have some gray padding and gray gloves and boots so really basically an update of the vintage figure but I got a little bit of a problem with this the vintage figure was made of all unique parts on that vintage figure you have kind of plain gray padding not a lot of detail there on the modern figure you can see there is a bit of a texture pattern on that padding and he has some additional padding on his arms well you may view this as an attempt to add some additional detail to the plain vintage figure but that's not really what happened here what actually happened is they reuse the body from sergeant flash they just changed the colors for tripwire and they gave him a new head and new boots other than that it's the same figure now you can see why there's this texture pattern on the tripwire figure and why he has these additional pads on his arms and his legs those are not details from tripwire those are details from the vintage flash and grand slam figures for the modern flash figure they updated those details for the modern figure but what they've done here is they have created a modern tripwire action figure on the cheap they gave him a new head which is a good looking head there I really don't have a problem with the head they gave them some new boots but otherwise they just reused flash I'm a collector of vintage gi joe action figures I am not a modern collector although I have looked at some modern figures I'm somewhat reserved about my opinions on modern figures because I do not want to foment any rivalry between collectors of modern gi joe and collectors of vintage gi joe it's really just not worth it I have tried to point out the virtues of modern gi joe figures even though again I'm not a collector I've tried to minimize some of the problems I have with modern gi joe figures but the tripwire figure is going to force me to talk about some of my problems with modern gi joe toys the reuse of parts in the vintage era was a problem and I have tried to point that out the reuse of parts of the modern era though is rampant and gratuitous and I think less excusable than in the vintage era these modern figures in my opinion are not created or marketed as toys for children to play with they are marketed more toward adult collectors collectors who are nostalgic for the vintage figures they are modern updates and translations of the vintage figures and their articulation their sculpting their accessories reflect the fact that they are really intended toward adults who were fans of gi joe back in the 80s and 90s if I were a collector of modern gi joe figures I would have a problem with paying full price for these cheapy figures that very little work went into and this problem continues to more premium action figures like figure subscription service figures and convention exclusives the vintage figure had that vintage articulation which was pretty basic but adequate for a kid to play with the modern figures have a lot more articulation at the arms and the legs and the wrists and the ankles and all that so we have much more updated articulation and for posing that's pretty good I mean a modern collector can pose these figures in lots of different ways they also came with figure stands that had their name on them the vintage figures did not have that but I have a few other problems with the articulation and sculpting on these modern figures a problem I've always had with modern figures is this cut right here across the chest that is a point of articulation and sure that's good articulation but it breaks up any details on the chest details like this pad here on the vintage tripwire figure you do get the full sculpt without any cuts on the chest instead you have a cut right here on the waist at the belt level which to me makes a lot more sense and on a figure like flash here that's supposed to have a solid detail right here on his chest to have that cut there where it bends and moves while the solid piece is broken up that is very distracting to me and it's kind of a problem I have with all modern figures that articulation point is less of a problem on figures that do not have a detail that's supposed to go over the entire chest or figures that have vests that cover that detail but for figures like tripwire like flash or like bazooka who has a big number printed on his chest that articulation point is very distracting and in my opinion makes the modern figures look less attractive than their vintage equivalents collectors of modern era gi joe toys apparently don't have a problem with this or they may even prefer it and if they do that is fine they should stick with what they like and the vintage era figures had plenty of flaws on their own however in my opinion the flaws on the vintage era figures were acceptable for toys that were created and marketed to be played with by children also since in my opinion the modern figures are created and marketed to appeal to the nostalgia of older gi joe fans I do not get the same nostalgia bug from the modern figures as from the vintage with the vintage figure I don't just get a representation of the classic toy I get the toy itself I don't get an updated copy of the thing that was actually played with by kids at the time I get the actual thing with the vintage figure I'm not getting something that was made to appeal to nostalgia I'm getting the thing that created the nostalgia in the first place the modern figures for all their virtues which I have extolled in prior videos simply cannot do what the vintage figures do there you go now that I've pissed off a lot of modern gi joe collectors I would like to remind everyone that if you choose to collect you should collect what you like and you do not have to justify it to anyone and you should not let a guy on the internet change your mind I'd also like to point out that in several videos I have talked about the virtues of modern figures I've said they look very nice they have excellent articulation and all of that is true I stand by it so you'll have to excuse me if I take one video to point out where I think modern figures fall short and why I will always be a vintage toy collector also I have to say if you are a fan of modern gi joe figures and you would like me to review the modern figures keep in mind I would have to point out a lot more of these flaws than you would probably like that was a quick compare and contrast between the modern tripwire action figure and the vintage equivalent I hope you enjoyed it or I hope you at least didn't hate it too much this video is in lieu of a full vintage gi joe toy review this weekend I will be returning next week with a full vintage gi joe toy review so I hope you will tune in for that if you are new to the channel we do detailed reviews of vintage gi joe toys so I hope you will subscribe so you can see more thank you to all my subscribers all my supporters and all my patrons and everyone who makes this show possible I will see you next weekend with a full vintage gi joe toy review and until then remember only gi joe is gi joe


Hey guys, have you ever wondered how you could create passive income every single month now? I know what you guys are saying why not just invest into monthly paying dividend stocks But let me tell you something monthly paying dividend stocks might not be the best way to go The best way to go might actually be to invest into growth stocks Now I know what you saying growth stocks usually only pay their dividends every quarter four times a year or three times a month So how you gonna create that into monthly paying dividend stocks? Well, I've seen this cool tool that gave us 24 growth stocks that you could choose to pick from to create passive income every single month Now I say growth stocks because you're potentially missing out on a lot of money if you invest into monthly paying dividend stocks Let's say ten five to ten years from now that company only grows 15 20% over the last five to ten years Yes, you're getting paid out monthly dividend stocks But you're missing out on growth when some of these growth stocks that you can invest into can actually grow by two x Three x sometimes five extra money in just five years So the number one rule is always growth. Don't always look at the dividends You want to be invested to good quality companies that's growing that just so happen to pay dividends Some of these companies actually play a pretty sweet dividends other than just chasing high yield dividend stocks And that way you're gonna miss out on a lot of money. Hey dreamers. I'm Zeke and welcome to the Now this is the list that I seen on Facebook It's a list of 24 companies two companies each month now each month pays a quarterly paying dividend stocks So all you got to do is choose one in each row and they'll pay you out every other three months But we're gonna go by and look at the list and see which one would I choose? Personally and why would choose them and how much would you receive in dividends from each company? Now before we dive into the video this video is sponsored in brought to you by a long-time sponsor of this show Moomoo sign them down with the link down in the description deposit $100 and you can receive up to 15 free stocks Also, they have a very special offer going on right now with the cash sweep inside of there You're holding cash inside your account. You receive a 8.1 percent APY cash Interest on the cash that's just inside your portfolio. 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You don't want to miss out on this amazing opportunity 8.1% APY interest That's insane But let's go ahead and dive into this list Okay guys the first one on this list in the month of January is either PepsiCo or FedEx Tickle symbol PEP or FDX now between these two is a no-brainer for me I'm gonna go with one of my favorite companies and that is PepsiCo tickle symbol PEP now Why am I selecting PepsiCo is because they are dividend kings now What is a dividend king that mean they have increased their dividends every single year for the last 50 years in there And they are inside the S&P 500 making them dividend kings now That means they're able to increase that dividend growth during recession or depression or pandemic all of that So you're not at risk of them cutting their dividends so you can expect that every three months You're gonna receive a dividend check from PepsiCo now. Let's pull up PepsiCo or Moomoo. Here we are Moomoo We're gonna type in Pepsi so we can see what kind of dividend yield they have and there it goes Pepsi is at $164 and if you look at that dividend yield at the bottom left, it is a 3% Dividend yield that is amazing anything over two and a half around 3% 3.5 is amazing Especially for a dividend king like PepsiCo and now when we're looking at the charts We're not gonna look at the hour of charge and I don't look at the four-hour charge And I don't look at the daily chart We're gonna look at the weekly chart because remember we're talking about growth and we're talking about growth over a long term And if you guys can look at this back in 2019 it was at $89 and right now 2024 that $91 you will have doubled your money like remember what I said you doubled your money in Growth from PepsiCo so whatever you invested you double that and you're receiving a paycheck from them and dividends every single quarter And we're gonna select one of these stocks I look on this chart right here for every single month to where you could get paid Every single month from growth stocks So stay tuned all the way through the end of this video. So you don't miss out on any crucial information Let's move over to the next stop. All right, so in February, we got MasterCard or Apple No, Brandon, we're gonna roll with Apple because we're talking about growth They don't have the highest dividend, but we're talking about growth and with the growth of that That's gonna make up for that monthly paying dividend stock list. So let's pull up Apple right quick and show you guys APL Click them and yes, they do have a low dividend year to have a point five three So compared to Pepsi, it's completely different But Pepsi double their income in the last five years now we take a look at Apple Apple was at thirty four dollars in 2019 and now I'm there at 200-ish dollars in 2020 with all-time high of $199 right now at the time recording this video is at around $180 so you would have or extra money like I said You fold extra money in five years and in people that's chasing these monthly paying dividend stocks I guarantee you they do they're not making this kind of profit in just five years from monthly paying dividend stocks Where we're chasing growth stocks that just so happen to pay good dividends It's Apple the best dividend stock that's inside the S&P 500 not by far They're one of the top growth stocks absolutely and that's why we're selecting them for February All right, the next stock that we're gonna look at on this list in March is either Johnson and Johnson or Chevron And this one is gonna be a tight one because I do kind of like Chevron But we're gonna go with Johnson and Johnson just because they they are dividend kings as well So let's pull up Johnson and Johnson and I think they have a I know they have a better dividend year than Apple They have a 2.9% dividend yield and if we look at them over the last couple years back in 2019 there was around What's that a hundred dollars and now they're all the way up to 162 had an all-time high of 176 that is amazing growth almost double your money And guess what guys Johnson and Johnson have increased their dividend yield for the last 61 years so longer than most of us even been on this earth Been alive. They've been increasing their dividends for 61 years So you don't have to worry about them cutting their dividends I did like Chevron, but they haven't been increasing their dividend yield growth For as many years and that's why this month we're gonna roll with Johnson and Johnson Oh yo guys I forgot to tell you about all the other tools on here So of course you can see that but you could look at the overview of these companies on Moomoo And then you can see if it's a bullet signal or a bear signal right now Apple says bullet So there's a lot of tools on Moomoo that you can actually use that I that I use to help grow my portfolio over time So let's move over to the next month Okay, so in the month of April we got Nike or we got Walmart now me personally. I got a roll with Walmart Yes, they just had a stock split I just I just put out a video over the stock spill on Walmart You could click right here that'll take you to that video to explain exactly where the stock split is But they had a 31 stock split basically nothing changes about the company But historically speaking when a good growth company like Walmart have a successful stock split They usually outperform the S&P 500 or the market by six to eight percent over the next 365 days So of course, I'm going to be rolling with more Walmart in this situation Now we do like a Walmart that have a dividend yield of 1.2 9% and if we're looking at that growth from 2019 $26 all the way up to 2024 $60 you will have triple your money and also receive dividends every single quarter So of course we got a roll with Walmart in this situation And if you got still ones continue to go back you guys could see that Walmart has usually been just been growing every single year Over the last couple of years and not to mention Walmart is also a dividend king They just became dividend kings this year increasing their growth from 49 years all the way to 50 years So anything from 25 to 50 to 49 years is dividend aristocrats anything over 50 years is dividend king Now in May we got Lowe's and ET. I'm gonna have to roll with Lowe's of course guys It's a trend in this they are also dividend kings Let's click on Lowe's right quick. And we could also take a look at their growth LOW now knows they have a dividend year of 1.78 percent right now the recording this video They're 244 dollars and over since 2019 to 2024 they went from around 55 inch dollars all the way up to 251 dollars growth over chasing monthly paying dividend stocks all that good monthly paying dividend stocks out there that do grow Yes, they are I put out a list about that already, but now we're looking at some growth I'm talking about some real growth that just happened to pay dividends so the dividend yield is large no But if you know what you're doing inside the stock market, you're gonna make a lot more money from growth Than chasing just purely small dividends, right? So we take a look at Lowe's right now It's a little warning signal says it's bearish. I mean they're a little bit overbought Some people are going to expect Lowe's to pull back. So that's all I like about this right here They give me a quick glimpse at Lowe's should I be investing into it right now at 244 It's kind of high I'll wait for it to pull back a little bit and then I'll start buying no more shares of Lowe's When I'm when it's at a price. I'm comfortable buying Lowe's there So let's go ahead and dive into the next month, which is going to be June All right, so in June we have NEE and Johnson Johnson since we are already selected Johnson Johnson We're going to go with NEE. So let's pull up NEE right quick. All right Next era energy has a dividend yield of 3.3 9% the highest dividend yield yet since we've been looking at this sheet I think they've been increasing their dividends for around 20 ish years And of course looking at their growth. They had a major pullback over the last couple years 36% that's why compared to Johnson Johnson. It's not Johnson Johnson But it still has some major growth over the last couple years from 36 dollars all the way up to 88 dollars But it's starting to have a major pullback. Let's see what Moomoo has to offer. It says it's neutral for a bullet signal one bare signal Um, probably going to sit on the sideline for this one and wait to invest inside one of my favorite companies Johnson and Johnson, so let's go ahead and move over to the next month All right in July, we got MDLZ and Best Buy neither one of these are my favorite But if I had to choose just because they have a high dividend yield is Best Buy ticker symbol BBY Um, let's pull up Best Buy right now over the last couple of years. You guys can see 2019 2024 They had minimum growth, but you still would have dealt with your money from 40 dollars to 80 dollars And they have a high dividend yield of 4.72 percent And that's why I would select Best Buy for this month. Um in the month of july So let's go ahead and move over to the next stop All right in august, I will go with these two stocks. I will go with john dear ticker symbol D. E All right, dear is at 367 dollars and they have a dividend yield of 1.45 percent Um, 367 dollars at the recording of this video and you guys can see that growth all the way from 100 dollars back in 2019 to 400 dollars for xing your money for xing your money in just Five to ten years compared to um these monthly paying dividend stocks The reason why these monthly paying dividend stocks can't grow as much is because they're too busy paying out such a high dividend that They're unable to invest any of that money back into its own company when these growth stocks They're going to pay you a little dividend But they're saving a lot of money to reinvest back into the company in order to grow these companies And that's why john dear was able to increase their dividend They have a growth of four x over the last five years And if we take a look, um, I believe it's at a neutral right now. It's kind of high at a high price So we're gonna so we're going to keep an eye on john dear and add this to our portfolio when it gets to a comfortable price All right in the month of september is coca-cola and microsoft Got a role with microsoft even though I love coke. I love coke, but you know, it's it's not microsoft ms msft msft um, microsoft guys Microsoft went from 89 dollars to four hundred and twenty dollars in just a couple of years to have a low dividend year of 0.67 I believe coca-cola do have a high dividend year But when we're talking about growth, remember the point of this video is broke stocks that just saw having to pay dividends And we're going to select one each month in order to receive a dividend every single month. That's what we're doing But we're also going to maximize our Earnings maximize us becoming wealthy By these growth stocks and microsoft is one of the largest companies in the world And I believe they're going to do a Amazing things with ai in the future making us even more money So i'm going to be heavily investing into microsoft even though they're at all-time highs Uh, let's see what the market says. This is bearish because they are at an all-time high Hopefully do pull back a little bit and i'm able to get some microsoft under four hundred dollars Hopefully it pulls back under four hundred dollars, but if we do Um, i'm going to go in buy some shares. So in the month of september Um Microsoft is the way to go. All right, october. We got jp morgan and mrk. We're going to roll with jp morgan right here the bank jp morgan And pull it up to have a 2.2 percent dividend yield there If you take a look at that growth remember they was all the way back at 90 dollars nine day at 186 dollars doubling Doubling to xing your profit just like that So after you double your profit, you are going to receive dividends from them every single quarter So you haven't have a 2.2 dividend yield, which is a lot better than apple's dividend yield of half a percent But with 2.2 dividend yield awesome Hopefully over the next couple years that could get it up to 2.5 And make us even more money in dividends in the future All right, the next one is either Verizon or practically gamble and you guys know I got a road with practically gamble once again Practical gamble are dividend kings increase their dividends for 50 plus years Right now they're at 158 dollars growth over the last five years from 68 dollars 261 dollars from 2019 2024 And the reason i love practically gambles is because no matter what If you go to the grocery store no matter what aisle you walk down Practical gamble own something on that aisle if you walk down the soap aisle the chip out They're gonna own something on every aisle that you have that you walk through in a grocery store In a company with a big reach like that and a lot of products like that I love to have inside my portfolio I do own a couple shares of practically gamble looking to pick a war more at the time of recruiting this video Is that 158 dollars and 85 cents? So if I do see them on a sweet deal right now they're near their all-time high If I do see them at a sweet deal they just wonder i'm going to go in and pick up more shares of And I have a dividend year of 2.35 percent and moving on to the last one Which is going to be in the month of december is either going to be home depot or McDonald's now this is a real tough one But i'm going to roll with mcd McDonald's on this one because I have actually been picking up a couple shares of McDonald's over the last couple of months Now McDonald's in 2019 was around 148 dollars and now i'm dialing up to 300 dollars Doubling your profit in just the last five years alone was just absolutely amazing And I have a sweet dividend year of 2.14 percent And that's it dreamers If you made it to this part of this video go ahead and hit the subscribe button and hit that thumbs up button That is by far the easiest way to help out a content creator like me and it's completely free Let me know down in the comments section Which one would you choose either pick quarter one quarter two quarter three or quarter four and say hey I pick quarter one and stock a bnc. Hey, I pick quarter three stock a bnc Let me know down in the comment section I can't wait to see what you guys come up with and if there's a stock That's not on this list that you think should be on the list Go ahead put that down in the comment section And well who knows I might make a follow-up video Um a follow-up video to you guys come in and once again I would like to thank today's sponsors of this video moomoo. 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