Welcome back. I remember it's entrepreneurship Tuesday. Thank you very much Barrio on that interview a pertaining pension plan So we have to be on the lookout on the days where when we retire So at Michela Shirazere, you can find me across all my social media platform Remember you can also equally follow us across social media platform That is at Y254 channel. You have a question on our Facebook page and we are asking Do you think the ad actually does pay? Do you think actually the ad does pay? And we are going to check into that your comments coming in and what are your thoughts pertaining the ad business So in studio today, we have our She's a very beautiful lady and not just looking at the challenges women But also the achievements. So our lady in the house She's going to talk about the challenges and the achievements She has actually going to receive during the interpreneurship journey and We know for that do welcome to Y254 channel. Thank you. I'm happy to be here. Thank you for having me. Absolutely Yeah, so like I choose this to meet you and introduce yourself My name is Lillian Muli from Hidden Tears Kenya and from McQuinney County Currently working at Africa Youth Leadership Forum. Oh, why? Yes. So before Before we got here civilization and you wear so many hats and I would like to I like our viewers to find out as a young person and you allow me to say your age you're just 24 years of age and You studied your interpreneurship journey from way back. Yeah, I like to find out. What was your first venture? Wow, that's very interesting Because I find it so funny sometimes and I'm telling people about it But my first hustle he look or I used to come up is a matter of Ali So you can have a matter of Ali and baby a neighbor matter of Ali not pelaki a quack So basically to look what we're talking about shambles to not pelaki a quack or compote your home So we were being paid for one one matter of Ali me 50 cents But then I think to look one of 50 cents. Yeah, 50 cents. So you carry two we get one shilling I carried 200 bricks to get 100 Bob and That was my first attempt into business and what I did with this 100 Bob Is it the wutambi? Yeah, the wutambi 50 Bob for the small one and then the 50 Bob in Elibaki Cheek a chick So after a period of time And then I used to sell those eggs from that I could buy things that I want for myself Not that because my parents could not buy books for me, but I feel like maybe I need something extra I could buy that I need some money when you're going out at least to know this kid and all that in addition to the money They knew my parents as so I also needed money. So I was like, okay, just also could work So that was my first attempt in business, which lasted for only one day Okay, well one day that I carried bricks. I never carried bricks again. What do you move to? All right. Yes. Now. What did you move to from the bricks? So from the bricks and and and the chicken the chicken, of course, I ended up eating that chicken That was the end of business So the next business that I attempted to do was in high school But this was because we never really used to have a lot of money in high school I was in Mutale Gals ki Tui So I used to write letters love letters. I'm very great comes to poems and poetry So I used to write letters for ladies to send to their boyfriends and all that and they would pay me or Give me a slice of bread Oh, why yes So most of them would prefer because bread was something when we're in school They would prefer to give me money. So at the end of the town, I have some cash From writing letters. So you guys when you're breaking to hope going home You're very much certain when it comes to I'm telling you I'm going to get the best things that I want for myself And also like get a gift for my parents because every holiday I used to go home with a gift for my parents so from there went to University and Now University now marked the serious bit of me starting business So I was doing I was selling accessories to students when I got to like keep University The first I think through when I got to like the first thing that I I did was to get into a competition for miss miss Likipia, which I won and from that repetition I was like now. What can I do one was this the miss Likipia? This was 2015 Do you feel like when you're starting off because you're ventured into a couple of businesses and now you went to accessal at the University, you feel like the previous ventures build your confidence to actually feel like I can actually own a business of my own I think well, I wasn't thinking that way back then Okay, back then I was like I need money to do some of these things that I would like to do as a teenager I Couldn't do it. I took fire, but you can't ask money for that So I think I had the wrong reasons to start those businesses But when I got to like keep a university and starting a business where I'm selling accessories Then I was sober. Okay, then that's when I was like, yes, I can do this The confidence bit was now checked and then I was like, but if I have to do this I have to do it in a manner where I am earning I can feel I can pay some of this bills and also save Alright Yeah, now we have one miss like keeper. Yes, 20 15 2015 I am given some money. All right from that competition So half of that money, how much was it? It was actually four thousand. All right And I know it sounds small. Yeah, I got that Bahasa and I'm like Jesus So two thousand of that of that amount I took two thousand came to Nairobi And went to River Rond Bought my first bunch of accessories. Eh money-minded Then went back to like keep here. So the cool thing is in like in Nya Hururu We don't have a big shop where you could get accessories like good accessories So when I used to come to Nairobi after before you figure Nya Hururu guys were already like one order Do you have this keep one for me? So after every two weeks I used to come back to Nairobi to pick stock until to a point I started having you know huge Odors like so many orders to to give and I decided well I could get a huge a bunch of Accessories where at least Naka for one month to save up on on the transport at this point. Are you still in school? I'm still in school studying studying English and communication why and I am still a Student leader in the aspect of being the miss and I was actually financed by your business small business ventures exactly Exactly, and at the same time I'm a class rep So I can't miss classes and I have to give reports to lecturers all the lecturers and I have to run initiatives back in school It could sound tricky, but this is the thing when I got to University I really was sober to make my life different So I every decision that I meant was very intentional So I managed my time so well that I couldn't actually any part of God When it came to the important things that I was doing. Okay, let's look at now From the accessory business miss like keep here now you starting a non-profit Venture an organization. Okay. What does this nonprofit deal with before you actually even get to your farming business? Okay, so From selling accessories it funded my campaign Just to close the gap to where the NGO came from Furnished my campaign to become a student leader in Kenya in nothing Next to miss president So it funded my student leadership and then from there now That's when hidden tears Kenya was born in the vision of hidden tears Kenya because we realized people really wanted needed a safe space where they could have conversations and feel safe and feel like they're not judged, you know and Getting to hidden tears Kenya sounded really huge in my mind because I was like How are we going to make this work? But at the end of the day, it's all about displaying How do you discipline yourself and the sacrifices you're ready to make? So now in hidden tears Kenya we realized as much as we're having conversations We need to be able to mentor young people. So now we focused we have three pillars so the first pillar is education and mentorship and then we also learned for me to be able to run a business and To actually make it successful. I need to have an innovative mind and I need to be a leader Oh, why no at the same time, okay before we get to the you being a leader and gain to mentorship Your program which is the nonprofit program is you're going to talk about I like to find out at the point where you Student leader did you feel the need to give back and that's when the organization started off? Yeah, there was the need to give back and that's when the now the safe spaces I was talking about who are born because as much as we were in school and we looked Comfortable that people were not comfortable because of different issues. Maybe social issues. Maybe mentor issues Maybe financial constraints and all that So we felt the need to be able to live as a community With one voice and at least hold each other's hands because it was so sad to see at the end of four years Can I try? Really bad because maybe I wanna school fee. I'm a maybe I'll come going to I'm a maybe Something I'm a quite depressed and for one year they come out and all that so you are like no this can't keep happening We need to start something and that was the bath. How did you come up again? Getting getting a team. It's tricky.  And then what next there's no clarity. There's no clarity in it But there's a vision that some but somebody could share with you and you're like, I like it. I like it And I want to be part of it. Yes at the end of the day. It's How does it connect when it comes to that vision between you and another person? Do you have a value that you share or a common interest? So having So many students talking about all these all these things happening We had a common interest and we shared one value all together Which was humanity. Why we wanted to do good for people Okay, because to us that the first the first team that I got of three people and Actually for because of the person was doing the coverage and then the team They were really really so much into how can we make each other valuable in this community and how can we add value in our institution by making each other Empowered and more relevant to what they want to be or the best version of who they want to be Okay, so here is you found a team and there was clarity and you are ready to work and give back to the Society and address social issues. So what was the name? What is the name of this and I'm profit organization and what are some of the issues that you guys have addressed? So the name is hidden tears Kenya Some people Oftenly ask me why he didn't why he didn't yes Why he didn't because you'll find in the different spaces that we have in the society There are those things that we kind of Just leave them in the gray area and not give a lot of focus to them But at the end of the day they give us pain In one way or the other you get losses in businesses you lose friends in when come to social life Maybe you get to depression and some health issues because you ignored some of these things in life All right, so this pain is going to give you a little bit of tears Whether we see it or not You have some tears in us in your life in every life story. We have a tear So that's where the name came from and at the beginning of those conversations.  We also tackled parental rejection I mean parenting rejection where parents were so Reluctant to just be concerned about their kids and we've talked about Depressions on our platforms and we've talked about suicide actually yesterday We had that we had an article it's on our Facebook account about suicide as much as we are talking about the person Attempting to commit suicide from one What happens to the person who is actually the support system of this person? You are my family member and you're trying to commit suicide What does that make me feel and how does that affect me? That is an article that was written by one of our members She's called Valerie and it's a very good article because it opens our mind to that to a point where you get to Ask some of these questions that they're never asked We are always focusing on the person committing suicide, which is good But what happens to their family members or the friends associated to this person because in most cases when someone commits suicide There's a possibility for either a friend or a family member to end up committing So basically looking at the hidden issues that influence productivity of a person exactly Okay, but now just to make it as Comprehensive enough we have we've had three pillars in organization And one is education in mentorship and then we have leadership and innovation and then we have super kids connect We're in mentorship We tackle young people and try to work with them give them information Network them and our program called machine and youth program And when it comes to leadership and innovation it's business now as much as you are young person and you mentored You need to pay your bills and then you need to live, you know Yes, so guys make sure you follow us across all social media platform That is at why 2 5 4 channel as we continue with this conversation. I like to find out how can people? Reach out to this do you guys have a website on social accounts where we can actually have a visual of these? Stories that are actually being told. Yeah, we have a social account In a Facebook it's hidden tears Kenya in Twitter is at tears Kenya We have a Instagram hidden underscore tears underscore Kenya, and then we have YouTube hidden tears Kenya basically just go to any platform and type hidden tears Kenya Oh, why so girl you hustler? Get some money Let's look at you getting into the farming business. Yes. Yeah, so alone you went to a chicken Farming but didn't go well They're small animal exactly so now into the farming business. Yes So what exactly are you involved into when he talks about the the farming business? What exactly do you do? So I keep ship So I sell them. All right each year. Okay, so not all of them At the moment have 12 12 because last December I did sell some of them How many do you sell last on a festive season six six of them? Yes, okay? Yes, and it's some reasonable money because each you sell at at least 45 how do you start on the on the ship business? This is how I started how much is your capital? 5000. Okay When I was in first year in our village We had a school that had been started and they needed a teacher So when I went for long holiday, I was employed there Hey, do you have a social life? Yes, I do. I'm listening to you and every single break. You're just getting into a different venture I have a specific period of time another venture. So you have a social life. Yes. Okay now you you want to break and There's an opportunity for teaching. Yes I loved it. So they used to pay me 5000 per month. Okay, and of course these were two months So the first month I was like, this is my first official salary Apart from says as well as you know, Nageethaftiyo Koinjee. So with the first 5,000 that I got I bought two Sheep and from that the male and a female and from that For four years. I didn't sell them. Okay, so they got up to 16 Oh, I'll be hold it there. Yes, hold the spot there. So let's take us back to hidden tears Yes, and let's find out The couple of projects that you guys have have done and the impact that has that has had in the society So this is hidden underscore tears in instagram. Yeah Okay, so This certificate of registration Those recognition recognition. Yeah, sorry. These are On on friday. All right. We were recognized the Zuri awards. Oh, nice. Yeah We were nominated and we were recognized at the Zuri awards Which for us was I had not seen that that's amazing Which for us was a big win because it gave us a voice In aspect to what we are doing and exactly what we've been championing for Yeah, so this is where it's coming from. It's Zuri awards a recognition What was the feeling when you guys got nominated and walked away with that award? I mean getting this certificate for us as a team We were like yes Now we can see that it's actually making sense to people Carrying the value that we hold most dear to our hearts to understand the importance of every human In our communities for us. It was a big win And we were like for a moment through the challenges of course everything has challenges the challenges We're facing we were like, you know what we can do this. We can still go on and achieve more So it was one a kick to do more and more and two That gave us a sense of connection with people That they understand what you're doing. All right. I see projects where you're working with young the young people Yes, the young kids. Yes, uh, still under. This is my queenie. Yes So this is my queenie and we're having a summit with young young, uh, women because in 2017 we had 11 cases in a village Where young ladies were pregnant while doing their ac But last year we had zero from these sessions. We've been able to have Constant conversation with young people from my queenie and having this conversation. They've made them more Relevant when it comes to decision-making and the choices that they make in their lives here All right So guys make sure you follow uh hidden underscore tears underscore kenya.  Thank you. Give him back to the society Uh having your own business venture. Do you look forward to ever getting employed? I have a career I am looking forward to make it, uh More comprehensive by getting more opportunities before I completely walk out of employment So, yes, I have a career that I want to grow. Oh, right. Yeah, just as we wind up. I'll let uh early on we were having a conversation prior to our Entrepreneurship Tuesday fans get to see us. So there was this particular Information that you gave me about your love for fashion and getting back to the fashion industry So is that another business venture that we should look out for that lillian mule will be getting into a very soon Yeah, yeah fashion industry. I'm coming back. I'm coming back for a while We started the book back when I was in school But it couldn't survive because of some of the challenges that we're facing So we hold it a little bit, but this year we're coming back strong Yeah, we're coming back. So watch out the book is coming back. The book is coming I'm so excited because our first design is actually out this month. Yeah, so we're keeping it Calm until we're ready and then we'll be out for business Yes I give a social handle so that people can keep tabs On all your produce that are coming up and other new ventures because lillian mule is full of new ventures every single time So probably use or coming number four and you just give us Your social accounts and how people can reach out to you. Okay. So in facebook is lillian mule if you want to Have a conversation on a personal space when you want to have a conversation when it comes to hidden tears, kenya It's hidden tears kenya in all platforms Twitter it's at claudaline, but my name is lillian mule so you can also find me there When one thing I really want to tell young people when it comes to entrepreneurship It's all about using the resources that you have At that moment Don't look out to wait to get more resources use what you have right now to build your tomorrow and Discipline yourself to be able to follow the dreams and the chances and opportunities that you have at the moment Be very intentional to note the opportunities that are there Why yes because opportunities are there for young people But they pass by because people are not very intentional at noticing these opportunities The moment you pass by an opportunity that's gone So you need to be sober buddha You need to be sober to see these opportunities and invest invest wisely And make decisions that are more important to you have the courage to stand for what you want Not what other people want. There it is. Those are the final thoughts of So that's all we had time for Looking forward to doing this again. We have more time Yes So make sure you follow us across all our social media platform that is at y254 channel At michel asher is where you can find me across all my social media platform very more. We'll be coming up with another interview


Had a really weird experience today definitely first So as I told you I'm bipolar, so I take lithium which is literally the metal lithium and You have to take blood tests every quarter of a year Just to make sure that you know your kidneys aren't fucked up or something so I went to get a blood test and I needed to take a lot of blood because there were a lot of tests. I needed to do You know most of them were kind of useless for example They wanted me to do a cholesterol test So I told them look I'm vegan for two years. I Don't consume cholesterol So there's really no reason I'd have a high cholesterol and They're like no no, but your body can overcompensate and Yeah, don't the doctors don't only don't always know what they talk about. Anyway So I went to the blood test You know things as usual. I know I look sit down look to the other way Get punctured No, as usual. I don't really feel it Starts taking my blood and then I look at it, which is actually a first first time I look at it But I know that you know, I always take a bit of blood, but this time She had like a whole vial like this big and started filling it up. I'm like Okay You sure you're not taking too much. He's like, no, no, it's fine. I'm like, I feel like you're blaming me dry and What happened was I started getting really Shocked It's kind of a shock that I didn't feel in many many years Like when you look at something, you know, so horrible that your buddy shuts down and I literally Know I finished it and I felt like I was in in shock. I told her like, you know, I need to Yeah, I mean I'm in shock. That's what I said And I think I'm in shock and I'm really really really in shock and She she said are you okay? I'm like, yeah, I'll just get up and sit outside So the other person can actually come in and also get their blood Taken and she's like no, no Sit so I sat down and From the moment I sat down maybe five seconds later blackout Like I was I was in La La Land at that point and I just I was in I Don't know if I'd call it a dream, but I wasn't there and then I opened my eyes And it felt like I felt like a computer that got, you know, restarted like everything was just booting up For the first time. It was the weirdest thing feeling I felt like I felt like I I Didn't know who I was It's like I opened my eyes. I was like What Like I felt like I was born like I was in another reality But I knew It's like I knew I was in another like I opened my eyes. I was like I knew it It's not even the real reality. This is the real reality and Took me like five ten seconds to really kind of catch myself together and Everybody's like, oh my god I have like five six people around me like two doctors and three nurses for nurses and I was like Opened my eyes and when I got it together. I was like That was awesome. I I just started laughing and they're like you fainted.  That's so cool. And they're like, oh my god. He's in shock And I'm like, no, no, I'm not in shock and I'm like laughing really. It's really funny to me They're like, oh my god Something is wrong with him. Why is he laughing?  I Passed out No And I took it as a joke and they're like you have to sit. Don't move Don't don't put your head down.  And I'm like, no, I feel fine because I did I felt perfect so I I just got up and started dancing. Oh God it was such a weird experience Sorry for the wind So yeah, it was a really really funny experience first time in my life there were plenty of First things that happened in my life this year, but This definitely wasn't one I was expecting But I got a cool lesson out of it.  No no, but You know how there's fears that you kind of know you want to face and And they're really like, you know, it's a positive thing.    How does it look? Bad But yeah, I mean I'm just kind of gleaming a lesson out of it, but this was more of a Funny experience than an educational one for me So this is my first video There's no lesson Just a funny story. Hope you like it. Let me know what you think. Let me know if it happened to you Talk to you


Joe Becker is a Mises U graduate and a Mises Institute-associated scholar who earned his master's degree in economics under Murray Rothbard at UNLV. Today, Joe heads up the Nevada Public Research Institute's Center for Justice, where he sues government agencies on behalf of plaintiffs with sympathetic libertarian causes. Joe is a dedicated Rothbardian libertarian, and you'll enjoy his thoughts about the illusion of judicial remedies for most Americans, how he's attacking cronyism in Nevada, how a Rothbardian legal system might deal with torts, crimes, and externalities, and how the state's 20th century course created a phony legal distinction between fundamental liberties and economic liberties. Stay tuned. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to Mises Weekend. I'm your host, Jeff Dice, and I'm very pleased to be joined this weekend by not only an old friend of mine, but an old friend of the Mises Institute, Joe Becker, who is calling us from Reno, Nevada. Joe, how are you this weekend? I'm doing all right. Of course, the person with an old friend is old, and I don't especially like that, but it's supposed to attack him, Joe. Well, I prefer the term middle age for both of us, but let me ask you this. Joe, you sue federal and state agencies for a living, as we alluded to in the intro, and of course, many of your clients themselves don't have the financial means to hire private lawyers and protect themselves against government agencies that aggress against them. Let's take, let's say, Mark Cuban, who has billions of dollars in armies of lawyers and he was able to successfully defend himself against the SEC. I just wonder if, for the average American, the notion of redress in court has become an illusory remedy, so to speak. Yeah, well, it's certainly tough. I mean, we're what's called a public interest legal foundation here that I had, and we represent people with no legal fees to them, but of course, that means we have to find donors who are willing to contribute to help stop the expansion of government. We sue people, we sue government. I should say when government sees its constitutional limits, which of course is very frequent. I'm reminded of a case I did in Arizona a few years back where we had the first past food owner in the town of Page, Arizona, just on the southern tip of Lake Powell. And he hired 95% Navajo from the reservation around him, and at some point you got a couple of bad hires, and they started sexually harassing the customers as well as their fellow employees in Navajo. So in order not to run afoul of the EEOC's hospital workplace regulations, he decided to implement a language program where when they're on the clock, they could speak English, so he and his manager could monitor what was being said to try and protect against this hostile workplace. So of course, in fact, he got sued for natural origin discrimination against Navajos. He wound up trying to do that on his own, and he racked up about $150,000 in legal fees before he finally decided to let the public interest firm represent him. And I mean, that's kind of what happens. In fact, in that vein, what the government does in that case is there's no, the law was on its side, but the problem is that they try and bully the EEOC who tried to bully people in the settling because they liked the idea that language is a protective class or a discriminatory class.  So yeah, it could be daunting and almost impossible for some people to stand up to their constitutional rights. That's why organizations like ours is this.  Tell us a little bit about your master thesis at UNLV and having not only Murray, but also Hans Hermann Hoppe on your thesis committee. Yeah, that was a conscious decision. I mean, this goes back to the 88 libertarian, the president campaign of Ron Paul. That's kind of how I first got introduced to the Austrian school and Ron sort of directed me towards the Mises Institute and the Mises University, which back then, of course, was being operated out at Stanford University. I went there, I met Murray and Hans and just became, I studied a lot of undergraduate economics. I think I had probably 24 hours of undergraduate econ at the time, but no mention, of course, of the Austrian school or curriculum. Those days, I understand it's slightly better now. Thanks to your group. But yeah, so I got directed towards them and I made a conscious decision that I would go to UNLV where they were and that's where I would do my graduate work in economics and it was turned out to be probably one of the best decisions in my life. You mentioned the master's thesis. What I did, you know, and in retrospect, it probably wasn't as good as it could have been because I hadn't yet been to law school, but I certainly had a sound understanding of real economics by the time I got through two years with Hans and Murray and I wrote a master's thesis. It was an Austrian examination of a recent Supreme Court decision at the time, which was Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Commission. This was a, I don't know, a landmark regulatory taking case. The regulatory taking being distinguished from the per se taker, the physical invasion take because, you know, here we had a guy in South Carolina that spent, I think around a million dollars for some lands to develop and through the time he bought it and when he first put up the structures, the Coastal Commission has enacted a law that prohibited any permanent habitable structures from being erected on this particular piece of land that he bought and he's like, wait a minute, I mean, sure you didn't physically come on my land and put some government device there, but he in essence regulated away my right to make certain physical uses of that property. And of course, you know, the government didn't want to pay him because they said, well, you still have files of the property and the decision was good only in a factual way, but it's not a bad precedent.  And of course, then you've got to fight between the center majority with the same thing. Hey, you can still fit your tent on that property. It's not worthless. And so you get sort of a bad rule, but because the court determined it was a factual matter that they had denied him all economic liable use of the property, you know, he wound up not being quite as bad off as he could have them, but yeah. So, you know, I looked at the, you know, kind of applied the Austrian school methodology to, uh, you know, that opinion and, uh, you know, came up pretty hard against both majority and minorities. I recall. So later you go on to law school and you wrote a law review article also featuring an Austrian school critique of I guess the legal cases behind this phony distinction we now suffer under between so-called fundamental freedoms, let's say personal freedoms and what courts increasingly call mere, in quotes, mere economic freedoms. Yeah, that was, uh, I think that was a much better piece in retrospect. I, you know, I can still hear Murray Rothberg was talking about, you know, what good is freedom of the press if you don't have the right to own paper and ink. And of course, you know, we're, we're a number of years later. So maybe we would say, uh, like to own a laptop and, and, uh, an ISP, you know, service with an ISP, but no, I mean, the distinction between so-called fundamental liberties, which get a completely different level of protection, uh, under constitutional reviews and economic liberties, uh, it's senseless to try and say, you know, that economic liberties are entitled to certain protections and personal liberties are entitled to more. And that, yeah, that was, uh, that was, I, I did an end because it wasn't really an economic journal. I did a good amount of explaining the Austrian School of Methodology and applied that to, you know, sort of the, uh, the New Deal court's treatment of, of these two different liberties, which are, yeah, inextricably in a time that can't be separated and given different levels of judicial scrutiny. So, yeah, that was, uh, but again, that was, you know, that was, uh, the time I spent with Murray Hond is invaluable in law school as well as, you know, what I do now, like, I'm always making economic arguments as to why the constitution be should pass to the interpretive, uh, to mean the government should be entered into the marketplace. And of course, that was the constitutional doctrine at the time as well. Well, we were speaking off Mike about the lawsuit that you're currently prosecuting involving the Nevada, Nevada, Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development, which from what, how have you described it sounds like a cronious office designed to subsidize politically connected companies. Can you tell us a little bit about this suit? Yeah, I can certainly do that. It's kind of this race to the bottom that, uh, states seem to be engaged in. And, uh, you know, many of the western states, including Nevada, perhaps all of the states, uh, to some, I don't know, they have something in their constitution called the gift clause, which prohibits the state and sometimes political subdivisions from giving gifts to, uh, to private corporations unless they're charitable or educational, so sometimes there are exceptions for those. So, you know, here we have a situation where, um, the state of Nevada just decided to give, you know, millions of dollars to various companies. Uh, we represent an alternative energy entrepreneur who is, you know, doing everything he can to get his business off the ground without subsidies. Meanwhile, a company named Solar City, uh, is being subsidized between the 1.2 million, you know, clearly competitive disadvantage. So they're taking his tax dollars, giving them to, you know, private corporations to, you know, to compete against them. So, both of, you know, to statusize a taxpayer as well as his, as a disadvantaged competitor gives a standing to, to see the government to invoke this, you know, this, to challenge, you know, what the, what Nevada is doing. And like I said, it's not unique to Nevada, but, uh, the organization right now is, is focused on what's going on in Nevada, so that's, that's what we're doing. Well, it's interesting to me that your client, even as standing to see the state of Nevada, given the doctrine of sovereign immunity that in effect protects the political class and protects government against lawsuits by private citizens. I know that in your line of work, you have come up against the doctrine of sovereign immunity quite frequently. I was hoping you could discuss and elaborate on what the doctrine means for us. Well, it's really a nomination. And, um, you know, it's, it's a holdover from a market at times when the notion was that the King could do no wrong.  Now it's a little bit easier in the case of, uh, the, the GO, the GOF case, the governor's office of economic development because they were operating under, directly under a, you know, challenging their unconstitutional action. The thing we're really asking for and not money down is we're asking the government to stop violating the Constitution. We're looking for a declaratory relief saying a declaration from the court saying, hey, this is unconstitutional and that injunctive relief. Well, what we're doing is we're asking for the court to enjoin the other branch, another branch of government, the executive branch from carrying out this, uh, this violation of the Constitution. When you run into sovereign immunity being a bigger problem is when you're looking for monetary relief from the government, that's especially tough. I'm doing another case here in Nevada which is suddenly split into three courts and, uh, in that case, we're definitely looking for financial relief. I represent the church camp down in southern Nevada that spent half a million dollars for a 40-acre, uh, camp where they could operate the church camp and, uh, in the name of this case, the ministerial request to meet a person in the U.S. And the reason against, it's against the U.S. is because shortly after they bought the camp, uh, there was this beautiful, uh, spring-fed strain that ran through their property since at least, at least the 1870s and perhaps earlier, uh, shortly after they purchased the land, U.S. Fish and Wildlife dammed up the water where it entered their property and they routed it completely around and outside their property but through the high side of the property and then they reconnected it at the other end of the property where it used to flow. So in essence, they stole, they stole the spring which was the baptismal water for the church camp as well as recreational and spiritual, provided spiritual benefits. They did it in such a way, in fact, that the first time that it rained after, uh, they, uh, diverted the spring flow, it flooded their properties and tried to go back to its historic path. They did about $90,000 worth of damage. So, you know, here we have, of course, a free exercise violation because they took away their baptism by immersion. Uh, we have the torrid negligence because they negligently rerouted the water. Of course, it's a taking in addition to that because, you know, water rights in Nevada is such that, you know, respected water rights have been appropriated by the agricultural use of this water, you know, years and years and years ago, going all the way back to the 1800s, taxes paid to show that. So when you go out to the government for the torque damages of roughly $90,000, and you ask for a taking, you know, because the government took the money, or took the value of the property as well as the water value itself, now you run into a problem because getting money damages against the government, you know, that's where sovereign immunity comes from. As a bar, you can only do that when they say that you can. It took until the mid-40s post-World War II for sovereign immunity to be, or for you to be able to see the government in negligence or in tort when recovering money. In fact, it was a result of a plane crash into the impact state building in 1945 that actually finally prompted Congress to pass the Federal Torque Claim Act to allow that. And as far as taking, you know, when you're trying to, even though there's a constitutional provision that says government, you know, can't take for anything but public use and when they do, they have to pay for it.  So there, even though there's a constitutional provision in order to recover money, you have to sue under the Tucker Act and of course this requires certain courts and certain limits and it's more technical than interesting, but what is interesting is that, you know, this whole doctrine of sovereign immunity, which really has no place in American jurisprudence. You know, it's very much alive and well. You know, it's a problem. You know, it makes things, it makes things tough. Well, you mentioned torts and externalities. Let's talk a bit more about, for instance, the torts system from a Rothbardian perspective. Many people on the right, for example, suggest that medical malpractice is out of control in the United States and the answer to that is to cap damages to set a specific cap on monetary damages for, let's say, wrongful death or loss of a limb. And I'd like to get your thoughts on tort reform. Well, you know, of course, every state has a little different approach. It kind of reminds me of, you know, the necessity emotion that there really are only two choices.  But when you deviate from capitalism, of course, that intervention results in negative effects.   I'm willing to, you know, agree not to sue you for punitive damages or something, but if something goes wrong, that's your fault.  You can negotiate some sort of a contract to the limit liability between, you know, the contracting parties where there's privity and that would be fine. But, you know, to the extent government has done that, now you wind up with government in essence stepping in and deciding for everyone what the right amount of damaged liability should be capped at. And, you know, I think that's a problem. Well, I know it's a problem because, you know, that's what you do then, maybe not in the context of medical malpractice exactly, but, you know, if, for example, you're going to be involved in some sort of a manufacturing project which ultimately winds up harming someone else's property in the libertarian sense, whether that be particular matter or, you know, some sort of scorched earth thing. And the government steps in and they cap the damages that someone can get against the corporation.   I mean, it's one of those, I suppose, quick legislative solutions that, you know, ultimately winds up resulting in yet another harm that needs to be remedied because then people, you know, because then the costs aren't internalized and someone, you know, can damage another without paying the full cost of it and you wind up with the distortion in the market of what resources should be used to what end because simply because someone doesn't have to pay the cost of their action. That's, I guess, sort of a general description or general answer to your question. But, yeah, legislatively limiting damages.  Joe, I will leave you with one last question. I know that you know personally Judge Andrew Napolitano, also a friend and a board member at the Mises Institute. He recently spoke at NPRI's annual dinner. You know, he gives a talk at the Mises Institute that really revolves around the famous Lochner versus New York case, which happened in 1905. Oliver Wendell Holmes had the famous dissent in that case. Can you just speak briefly about sort of what that case and its dissent has meant for, for really for economic activity in the U.S.? Yeah, it's, you know, it really was the turning of the tide. You know, I'd read some mankins. It's really good on all the Wendell Holmes. And, you know, people have tried to figure out to you as Holmes the liberal or the conservative, what, you know, of course, trying to pitch in Holmes. And what Mankin explained is that really Holmes was just an extreme, I don't know if this is even a word, but deferentialist. He was extremely deferential to whatever the, you know, whatever the legislatures tend to pass at the time. Of course, that's dangerous. And so far as the courts are supposed to check on the tyranny of the majority, you know, there are certain things that no matter how big a majority support, of course, there's the constitutional amendment process. But I mean, philosophically, you know, no matter how many people think some rights should be taken away, you know, that's a right that's inherent to the individual in the state of nature or God given rights. Sometimes people explain those. But in essence, the lock the decision was sort of the beginning of the end, because shortly after that, he had the Nebbi decision, which, you know, one year, same constitutional amendments, economic regulation of labor rates or maximum labor hours are unconstitutional. And then, you know, just a couple of years later, and the court turned suddenly sending milk prices or restrictions on milk production are constitutional. And what really happened, and this is what I talked a lot about, I wrote a lot about in the law school, is that when you give only rational basis for your audience, I'll explain basically what that was. Courts will, in essence, pass on economic regulation if there's any conceivable benefit that legislature could have had for passing some regulation of people's private property or labor. And it's not even necessary that they announce what that rationale is. The rational basis test simply means that the court is not going to strike down as unconstitutional legislation that may somehow, in the minds of some legislators, have had a rational basis. There's some, even if it's not about the only thing that will get stricken by the courts is unconstitutional for so-called pure economic regulation as something that's totally arbitrary and totally capricious. And that's a very difficult standard to meet. And remember when you're litigating against the government, they're given every presumption of legitimacy and the burden of proof is on, you know, the person challenging the economic regulation to win. Now, the other side of that coin is so-called fundamental liberties. The government has the burden to show that they're trying to satisfy some compelling governmental interest and they've chosen the least restrictive means by which to do that. But yeah, I mean, this was certainly the beginning of the end of economic liberty. And now here we are, how many years later, not so many, not even 100 years later. And we've got things like Obamacare, which require people to buy a product from a private company. Even that probably would have not passed much under, you know, under the Navier test. But you know, maybe like this, I just want to fight the boldest way to pass it to the government. Joe Becker, thanks so much for your time and for a fascinating interview. Ladies and gentlemen, have a great weekend.


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Okay, welcome to this session. This is Erdio Continuous Packaging Platform Lightning Talk. So my name is Eichel. I'm Erdio Release Wrangler. So I'm here to present us how we package OpenStack Master. So if you don't, if you have never heard about Erdio, Erdio is just the RPM distribution of Danila OpenStack. Also a group of dedicated stackers and many, many stuff. We have 250 packages maintained and growing and it's not counting the dependencies. So let's start by defining what's a package. A package takes upstream sources. It also includes spec file, which are basically packaging recipes. So it details the building steps, the installation and removal steps, define dependencies and include the patches. So as you see, we've taken things from upstream and we have our own things. So the package is a person working on the packaging recipe, the spec file developer. So we spec file are maintained in a version control, what we call diskit. And also we have peer review. We automatically test and validate all contributions and we see later that it uses the same platform as OpenStack and also has merged management. And the thing is packaging OpenStack can be challenging. So we have to follow upstream changes very closely to validate our spec file against them. So OpenStack is very, very active project. We have like 2,000 contributors merging like three, more of about 40,000 commits across 6,600 projects. So it's kind of a very, kind of a heavy project. And the thing is that's very strong constraint for us package because, well, we used to package things but we used to package software after they get released but with this space we compelled to work very closely with master and with that many project, with very few people, it gets really hard. So one of the things that makes it difficult is the strong dependency between packages like Nova relies on Cinder for block storage and stuff like that. So when we have a change in Cinder it may impact Nova and Nova changes may impact for instance 12 or Sahara because they rely on Nova. So it makes things difficult for us. So we don't have just to both packages we also have to integrate their integration together as much as those upstream. We have to do it downstream too. So we bought what we call the RPM factory. So since we are using OpenStack and trying to integrate with upstream we decided to rely on the same tooling as upstream. But one of the first component we had to build was Dolorean. Dolorean is basically tool that tests the packaging recipes against OpenStack upstream master to detect packaging issues. I'll come back into detail later but thing is when we have a change upstream we rebuild immediately the package to see if it bolts. If it doesn't bolts we will fix it. And then after we build it we will run CI to test integration with the other packages. So we can fix things very early. It can also generate the full repository. So we have repository snapshots to test at the moment the whole OpenStack master as package. So this is used for instance in triple OCI and also pack stack CI. And I think that OpenStack Ansible is planning to use it or maybe already are using it. If you want to know more about Dolorean I'm sorry because this is lightning talk. You have a full blog post at this URL. I'll try to post on Twitter the slides. And we also developed a tool called AirDuePackaging which is a client that automate most of the tedious packaging tasks like updating versions in spec file, retrieving the sources and many, many stuff. So it also helps flattening patch changes for you. So we have to, since we are RPM distribution we have to rely on the same tooling but the other RPM distribution like Fedora or REL. So we use Kujie which is a building infrastructure developed by Red Hat for its family of distribution. Kujie is basically a sandbox environment to build things. So that avoids like any side effects during building packages. So we use it so we can ensure that we are building artifacts during master repository but as close as artifacts that will be shipped in released versions of AirDue. And for that we're relying on the instance setup by the CentOS project called Community Build System. AirDue has a particularity to integrate within the CentOS ecosystem.  And well, above that we have a software factory. Software factory tried to reproduce as closely as possible the OpenStack infrastructure. So it's a continuous delivery platform that use Garrett for code review. The Zulu and Jenkins for job orchestration. We are looking to transition to Zulu v3 so we can get rid of Jenkins as we do in OpenStack only infra. And well, we also use NotePool to spawn job executor and terminate vame. So basically just native OpenStack stuff. We also have the same smart gating and commit gating policies. And software factory can be deployed in your own infrastructure if you want to develop your own project as a software, it's a software factory as the name says. And all the config is done by code. So very useful and the workflow is quite flexible. So we aggregated all these tooling together so that we have jobs that will continuously build upon and get changes upstream, new packages. And we also have the platform to review packaging changes. We have CI relying on Zulu to test all of this packaging. So it looks kinda looks like that. And as you see, we put the Ansible logo where we use Ansible. Some of you may have heard about the project, the OpenStack project called Weirdo which we developed to run upstream CI testing against our packaging. So you can run OpenStack upstream testing in your local infrastructure if you want to using Weirdo. And then how we do test change happening in Upstream Master. So we have two git to retrieve, the upstream git and the packaging git. And then Dolorean try to both things. If it succeeds, it gets published. If it fails, then we will submit the place or the patch against the packaging repository so that maintainer gets notified that, hey, the package fails to build against Upstream Master, please fix it. And CI is supposed to fail so that we try to, so we can verify that it is not a false positive. We do also the same thing with stable branches. So we try to check stable branches. We are not waiting any release just to test also stable branches despite their very, very little breakage on stable branches due to the excellent upstream CI. And for these two specific patches, we do the same. The specific thing is that, or despite Weirdo doesn't have much patches, we try to manage patches as a chain of open reviews on Garrett. We're not closing them. That allows us to keep the full history of the patches across the versions. The rebasing is easier. If it's straightforward rebasing, you just have to click the button and it gets done for you. And it makes it easy to deal with patches with multiple packages. But that's the way we handle downstream patches. Despite currently, we have one or two downstream patches which are mostly integration ones. So return of experience. AirDew has like almost a thousand commits for the Yo-Kita cycle. Sorry. 86 contributors. And we code 230 bold failures through Doloran. Yeah. And I'm almost finished. And AirDew and Yo-Kita were available 12 hour after upstream release mostly due to publication delays. But that's it. So sorry. I have to make it a bit short but you can find any references you want about Software Factory on those links. Is the reviewer.project.org which is a platform I'm speaking about if you want to check it out. And if you want to discuss with that, just ping number 80 on IRC. I'm on many OpenStack channels in AirDew. So thank you for attending.