Hello, everyone. My name is Erika, I'm CEO Slush, and I'm here with a special guest, so Sanna Marie, the Prime Minister of Finland. Thank you so much for coming here today, Sanna. Thank you so much, Erika. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so excited that we have this great event, Slush, in Finland that gives opportunity to new startups and also founders, investors to meet and create new things. I'm so excited. Thanks. We're excited as well. So we'll be discussing the concept of strategic autonomy in the European context and also the role of governments in creating an environment for innovation. But should we start with sort of a warmer question? So you've been in your position for three years now as a Prime Minister, and I would guess that the past years haven't looked like exactly expected. So how would you describe the past few years for yourself and for Europe? The past few years has been years of crisis. First, when I started as a Prime Minister in 2019, in December, the COVID pandemic came through and swiped the whole world, so it's been filled with crises. COVID, of course, touched everyone's life in many different ways. We have to put many things in our societies. We have to close many things in our societies that we never thought that we would have to do. And the situation was very severe and still is. The pandemic hasn't gone anywhere. And after the pandemic, the war came. So Europe is now in war, something that we didn't want to see, but this is the reality, what is happening right now. And then the energy crisis. And now we're looking forward and hopefully not, but it might be that there might be economic crisis as well coming up. So we have lived through many crises, but I think we will still survive these crises and be more stronger afterwards. Yes, that is definitely true. You've actually recently said that the past few years have proven Europe's ability to act on crises, but also they revealed some vulnerabilities. So should we set up the scene with this? So what do you specifically mean with the strategic autonomy of Europe? And what is that an important topic to discuss right now? Well, as you mentioned, these big challenges that we have faced has shown us our vulnerabilities. And I think this should be a learning point for Europe and for the whole world that we should build our own strategic autonomy and our own capabilities when it comes to the critical issues. When the pandemic hit us, we saw how dependent we were on medicine and also medical applies, for example, the imports from Asian countries, especially China. So we were too vulnerable. And at the beginning, that really caused us a lot of trouble. We didn't have, for example, mask or other gear that we needed for our healthcare workers and for the people to keep them safe. This was a great vulnerability and we had to put up our own production very fast. And actually, we worked in Finland very closely with companies to do this. And of course, the same situation was in all of Europe. So that showed that one vulnerability. And now we are in war in Europe and we are seeing how heavily this hits not only Ukraine, but all of Europe because of energy. We are too dependent on Russian energy and this is causing us a lot of trouble. We should cut these dependencies once and for all, but of course, it takes time. It doesn't happen overnight. But this shows us a great vulnerability in Europe. And this, of course, has a big economic impact as well. We have to put a lot of money to new investments, especially to renewables and other energy sources right now that we can make sure that we will cope this winter and the upcoming winters. But it causes a lot of money and we weren't prepared of doing this so fast. And also, one vulnerability is defense capabilities. We cannot be dependent as European Union the help that we are now receiving. And thank God the United States are so involved in the situation in Ukraine, but we cannot be so dependent on the help of others, United States or other countries. We should build up our own capabilities as well and be better partners to the States in NATO and otherwise. And also, we are seeing how the energy crisis influence or impacts food security in the world. So there's another vulnerability there. So if I would collect all the vulnerabilities that we have seen during the crisis, there are the medicines, the medical supplies, vaccines as well. Then energy, food, clean water, these are vulnerabilities that we have to make sure that we can in every situation make sure that our citizens have the capabilities to access these goods and necessities that we all need. And then the defense capabilities that we need. But another one, and this is a crucial one, then this is something that I really want to discuss today. It's about the future and actually it's about today. And it's the digital capabilities, the technological capabilities that we are depending right now. Our societies are digitalized and will be even more so in the future. Our societies will be totally digitalized. And if we don't build these capabilities beforehand right now and make sure that we are investing in new technologies in digital solutions in Europe, together with the public sector and the private sector, then we will create vulnerability that will be a crucial one in the future if there would be a crisis concerning this. So this is something that I want to highlight the know-how, the knowledge, the technological capabilities that we should have and make sure that we are not making the same mistakes with technology that we have made with energy that we have made with medical supplies and that we have made in many other areas. Yes, I think we are in a right place to discuss, especially the technology part right here. So as you said, you want to focus on the future and I guess that the audience and I as well, we share an optimistic view of the future of Europe. So what should we focus on next to make sure that we don't make the same mistakes in the front of technology? Well, I think the starting point should be that we should be very open, we should be very open and honest to notice what are the mistakes that we have made. If we cannot make this knowledge of ourselves that where we have made mistakes, then we cannot learn. So first of all, we have to look at the world, we have to look at the situation and say, we made mistake in energy, we are too dependent on Russia. This is causing us a lot of problems and it's causing us a lot of money as well. So that was a mistake and now we have to learn from it. Now we have to do something else. Now we have to build our own capabilities when it comes to energy production and also make sure that we have all the great their story technologies and that we are working together as European countries, we are grading new energy market in Europe. So we have to look about the situation very honestly and say, we made mistakes, now we will learn from it and now we'll do something else. Now we will fix the situation and learn from it. So this is the starting point. But I really worry right now that not every European country is on the same page with this. I understand that especially to politicians, it might be a bit hard and also everybody else. It might be a bit hard to say, I made a mistake. I thought the situation differently. And for example, when we look at the energy situation about Russia and the connections that Europe and Russia has about energy, there was a logic there. There was logic why we built these close and tight connections with Russia, Germany and others as well, Finland as well. We thought that creating these very close connections, economic connections, energy connections, we would prevent war. It would cost too much. So there wouldn't be a war, there wouldn't be conflicts because our tides would be so tight economically and also otherwise that it would cost too much. So it was an act of peace. But we didn't notice that the Russian logic don't think like we do. They don't think like we do. And this is something that we should learn. Our Polish friends, our Baltic friends, they were right. They thought and said all along that Russia thinks differently. Their logic is different than ours. And we should have listened to them. But we have to look at the situation now and say, we were wrong, our logic was different. It was logical, but it was different than the Russian ones. And we should learn about the situation. And I really worry about this technology part because I fear that we are making the same mistakes with technology, with digital solutions, also with all the natural materials that we need to build these technologies. And I want to make sure and discuss in the European Union and with our democratic partners that we should cooperate more. We should make sure that we have these trading routes and all the critical issues solved within the democratic countries, cooperation with democratic countries and not be dependent on authoritative regimes. That's logic is very different from us. Could you give us an example of a mistake we're about to make in terms of our digital solutions? About technological solutions. Well, we are seeing already, we have vulnerabilities here. Let's be honest, we have vulnerabilities already. For example, when we're looking about chips or semiconductors, we are too dependent. We are too dependent on Taiwan. We are too dependent on specific sources. So we have to versatile. We have to, first of all, these sources. We have to make sure that different democratic countries, companies are building their capabilities and that they are investing in Europe, that they are investing in United States, that they are investing in different democratic countries. Also, in Asia, Japan, South Korea, India, then we're looking at the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand. We have partners, we have the countries and we have the capabilities. But we have to make sure that we are now investing and we have to invest right now because these capabilities aren't built overnight. It takes time. If we want to build, for example, production facilities for semiconductors, I think that takes about 10 years to be top notch. So it doesn't happen overnight. And we have to make sure that we are investing now in energy and we are investing now in new technologies. We are investing now in production. We are investing now in new innovations because there are also new technologies coming up, such as, or they're not even new now, but they are, of course, been building right now. AI or quantum mechanics, quantum technologies, these are the new ones. And we have to make sure that we have the capabilities and the knowledge to build these technologies and not be dependent on China, not be dependent on other countries that have different logic than democratic countries have. And it doesn't mean I don't mean that we should cut all trade or that we should cut all ties, economic ties. I don't mean that. I only mean that we have to make sure that we are not vulnerable, that we are not, that no authoritarian countries could blackmail us, like Russia is doing now with energy. We shouldn't put ourselves in that position where authoritarian regimes could blackmail democratic countries by saying that, okay, then we will make sure that you won't get any semiconductors or chips or any other crucial materials that you need for your economies to work. We shouldn't put ourselves in that position, and that's why it's so important right now to discuss about the European strategic autonomy and also the vulnerabilities and also what we should learn from the crises that we have faced and make sure that we are smarter in the future and that we have this capabilities to face crises. Yeah, the audience seems to agree. Yeah, so you mentioned collaboration on the EU level earlier to make all this happen, but I think we often run to the same challenge. So EU is a complexity, 27 member states. So how do we ensure that we get all of the member states on the same page to work together? Well, this is the million dollar question. How can we make sure that we as European countries that are different, we have different cultures, we have different backgrounds, we have different languages? How can we make sure that we are on the same page that we are noticing the situation and how severe it is and making sure that we will make the right decisions right now for the future? This is the million dollar question, but actually we have already started the discussion. Just last European Council, we have very good strategic discussion about China and the vulnerabilities that we have. We are not, I will be honest, we are not on the same page yet. We are not on the same page yet, but I was positively surprised how many countries, majority of the countries saw these vulnerabilities and said that we should make sure that we won't put ourselves in the same position that we have put ourselves with Russia. So I see hope there, I see hope there, but we have to continue discussing about the topic and at the same time make sure that we will work together. It doesn't mean that we would cut economic ties with, for example, China or some other country right now. Of course, with Russia we should cut all economic ties right now and make sure that they will lose the war and we should get those troops out of Ukraine as fast as possible because it's also causing us so much in Ukraine human lives, but elsewhere, it's causing us a lot of money. But it doesn't mean that we would cut all economic ties, for example, with China, but we have to make sure that we are investing. We are investing right now in new technologies and digital solutions in green transition that we will put our money where our mouth is. We are discussing about digital transformation. We are discussing about green transformation. We are discussing these important issues, but we have to make sure that we are also making the work, that we are also making the smart investments that will help us in the future. And we need cooperation. We need cooperation because it's only smart. It's only smart to cooperate, to work together. For example, Finland, we have the top notch, top edge technologies concerning AI or 6G or 5G technologies. We have Nokia, for example. We have been building our own quantum computer and we have great technologies and great know-how and great knowledge, but we as a small country of only over 5 million people, we are using this much money.  There, I will show it like this. This much money, Finland, this, Germany, this, but they are not producing, I would say, as Finnish Prime Minister. They are not producing as good quality technologies that Finland is, so we should use those resources together, put our minds together and make sure that together we would create these high tech solutions for all the European countries and for all the democratic countries. And we should work with the United States as well and other democratic partners to make sure that we will win the race when it comes to new technologies. And let's be frank, there is a race. There is a competition. There is a geopolitical issue there. There is a race between, for example, China and democratic countries. There is a race between China and United States and we have to make sure that we are winning. Yes, definitely. Yes, so to move the race, we win the race, we need to a environment that allows innovation. So let's move on to the role of governments in creating that environment. So I'd like to ask from the perspective of Finland that what should we do to create an optimal environment for innovation and also how is that visible in your government's policies right now? Well, actually, this is one of the key issues that we are focusing on and I'm very proud to say that we have a parliamentary and agreement to raise our research, development and innovation funding up to 4% of our GDP by 2030. And that is very, very inspiring and also very ambitious target for Finland. I don't think that there are many countries in the world that are using 4% of GDP to R&D and innovation. So this is a great target and we have a parliamentary agreement. So not only the government, but also the opposition shares this goal and that means that we have the site to the future also for the companies, also for the private sector to invest as well because we cannot make this ourselves. The government or the states cannot make this ourselves. We need partnership, we need the private sector, we need the companies, we need the businesses, we need all the key players in the society to work on this target. And we have worked together also with the private sector and actually two-thirds of the money are coming from the private sector and this is why it's so important that we have this broad political understanding, parliamentary understanding about the goal so that the private sector and the companies can rely that this doesn't shift or change when the government changes, when we have elections. So I think this is one of the things that I'm very proud of, that we have this understanding and that we have a clear target, clear goal and if European countries would use 4% of our GDPs to research development and innovation, the European situation would look very different. Then we would win the race. Yeah, definitely. And I also think that talking from the perspective of startups, we also need dialogue between regulators and the startup ecosystem as those both function fundamentally differently. So what do you think, how successful are we in that dialogue in Finland and how could we improve? Well, I think we could always do better. I think we have, because Finland is a small country, so all the key players know each other. That's the strength that we have. We can gather around in the same room and actually when I go outside and be in the public library or in the street or jogging or go to the supermarket or whatever, people are always so happy that we live in a country where you can see the prime minister in a public library like everybody else. So we are a small country and we are very down to earth and you can meet the politicians, you can meet the CEOs of companies and you can meet all the key players in the society in ordinary atmospheres. So we have a good ground for cooperation, for discussing different matters, to know each other. And I think this is a great strength for Finland and also other Nordic countries, but we could do more. We should do more. And I'm so happy about Schlage as an event because this is one platform that enables and gives the startups that are source of innovation. You are creating new things, that's amazing. So this is one platform where we can meet, where we can discuss, where we can create new ideas, new innovations. I'm sure that there are many startups here that will meet and actually create something together. You have your own ideas already, you have your own products already, you have your own apps already, but when you meet, when you discuss, you can create something new, something bigger, something more interesting. So I think that when we discuss together, when we meet, when we cooperate, that always creates possibilities for new innovation and for new amazing things. Definitely. I think we have time for one final question. So let's fast forward 10 years. What's your vision for the Finnish and European startup ecosystem? How does it look like and what's its role in tech ecosystem? Well, I think I should ask you the question from Schlage. What is your vision for the startups? I would say my vision for the whole society is that Finland has created itself. We are still a welfare state, but we are a welfare state that is green, that is digital, that is on the edge of new technologies that has a lot of possibilities, that is a success story. This is what I want to see as a society and we need the startups also to make this happen. We need the new innovations, we need the new ideas, we need new things in our society to make sure that we will not only manage and survive, but that we would thrive and that we would succeed as well. And I want to see a society where every child can become anything and in a society that is green, that is sustainable also from the climate and environmental perspective. And I think this is also a key issue when we look at our competitiveness. I think the countries that will make this transformation and change earlier will be the ones that will have the best competitiveness also in the world. Yes, that is definitely so. So thank you, Sanna. This has been a really, really interesting conversation and I want to once more thank you for joining us today. I want to thank the audience for joining to hear us today. I hope you have a good day. Thank you so much, Erika, and thank you that you are here. It's so nice to see you. Islash.


Chris Bumstead might not be a bum himself due to all the trend baloney sandwiches and duck eggs he can afford but does his diet say otherwise? Is his diet up to the standards of Mr. Physique, Mr. Olympia and for anyone unfamiliar it's a category of bodybuilding that basically means you don't use as many drugs as the other bodybuilders so let's take a look at his day of eating on a bulk. Alright so meal number one super basic it's two whole eggs 190 grams of egg whites some turkey bacon two slices of turkey bacon and then I have two of these little oat bars that Courtney made I don't know the exact what's in them but she put them in here in my fitness box I'm gonna have to get it from her but she the total tray she made with 1300 calories divided by six I'm eating two pieces so it's like 430 calories and then I put this into my fitness pal this is 278 calories so my breakfast is only 711 calories normally it's a lot more than that and I'm actually like starving right now so if you're someone who has no appetite in the morning which I know a lot of people do especially once you've been bulking for longer that that's when that morning cardio really helps if you wake up and you're just not hungry wake up like 30 minutes earlier do a little cardio and it will help you eat more I mean I've watched a couple of this guy's videos in the past and I don't ever remember him having this much energy when talking you know like he's caffeinated out of his mind which clearly he didn't show us something he had before but this first meal is basic conventional wisdom like what people think is healthy basically low fat whole grains you know at least he did put some whole eggs in there but we know the food quality that he's using here is definitely not you know from a local farm organic the best you can get you know he has the bottle of ketchup there which is you know clearly not some type of homemade or organic ketchup generally speaking when the food quality is high you don't really have anything to critique anything to worry about you remove all of those negative pollutants and chemicals that plague the modern food supply and you increase the vitamin mineral and fatty acid content balance everything out so that your body can function at its optimal your conventional eggs are throwing your omega fatty acid ratios out of whack they have estrogenic herbicide concerns and of course probably hundreds and hundreds of minor concerns we can't even list egg whites in that high of an amount definitely cause gut issues for most people they deplete biotin turkey bacon is like the pinnacle of you know like soccer mom health like oh pork bacon's bad for you let me get some turkey bacon and it's just the same omega six laden crap because you know they feed turkeys and pigs basically the same I mean obviously this is better than a standard American diet but I wouldn't say it's exceptionally healthier than most people eat these opars are so horrible for your gut you know bananas have lectins and certain anti nutrients that are horrible horrible horrible really do cause leaky gut on their own the egg throwing the omega fatty acid ratios off even more those negative things we previously spoke about and peanut butter is not a great choice you know I guess it's not the end of the world if you have some organic peanut butter once a week a couple times a month but having that much peanut butter hundreds and hundreds of calories on a daily basis is just putting your omega six so high the mold the microtoxins the other stuff that's typical to peanuts something that's harvested conventionally sprayed with so much stuff stored in you know low quality conditions not ideal I made those opars Courtney made them should post them on her channel but this is a boring little chicken and rice sadly I ran out of broccoli so I had some peas and carrot frozen mix in the freezer I'm trying to get my veggies in still in the off season because I neglected that a little bit last year this year I'll be better 230 grams of white rice 165 grams of chicken breast and I put in 10 grams of ghee butter this is like clarified lactose-free butter and it tastes fucking good my parents used to always put butter and rice when I was younger and it tastes amazing so this is just a little extra fast 10 grams of it is 90 calories so a little bit extra in there and yeah this is what meal number two looks like keeping it hey you would think someone whose livelihood depends so much on what they eat would know a little bit more about food and nutrition and ghee is clarified butter and all butter is lactose-free I don't know why he said lactose-free the difference between ghee and butter is that the milk proteins are removed not the lactose which is the milk sugar and on paper if this entire meal was organic and he removed the vegetables it would actually be pretty healthy but it is kind of hard to source chicken that is of high quality since he's not using high quality organic ingredients you know what type of feed was the chicken getting what type of water was the rice grown in how polluted is everything you know throwing a bag of frozen vegetables into your meal is worse off than not having them at all most people are not deficient in the nutrients that are contained in vegetables I mean you could go your whole life without eating them as most of our ancestors did and be perfectly fine you know the ghee on paper is a good source of fat because you know it's not super high in omega-6 usually grass-fed is pretty accessible and it keeps things in balance I'm now eating meal number three I have 156 grams of gram turkey to be specific and 300 grams of raw weight sweet potato I wait me sweet potato raw because you only cook one meal at a time and it would just be weird to not do it any otherwise and I'm putting my sriracha up combo on this and it actually tastes so good I lather in sriracha and I'll catch up to like dim down the heat because I'm not very good with hot sauce this is typical bodybuilding stuff what the average person thinks is healthy ground turkey oh lean protein no fat sweet potatoes oh of course they're healthy I'm not a fan of either of these sources of caloric energy or nutrition in general I think you know beef venison some type of ruminant meat or you know the highest quality poultry or fish that you can access is a much better source going conventional is always gonna have omega-6 concerns the meat is just so full of chemicals and antibiotics and stuff you don't want to be consuming and I've never found one person that digests sweet potatoes well I'm kind of against them as a carbohydrate in general I think white potatoes are okay like russet and red potatoes work for some people but the rice the grains seem to be better on most people's stomachs if they're prepared properly especially you know from what I've seen when people eat sweet potatoes in large amounts free workout snack is going to be a little apple before I head to the gym I like having fruit because fruit with health and health as well and some of none other than the sea bum pre-workout so he's saying very very very taken for granted appeal to authority stuff oh apples are obviously healthy because fruit is healthy apple a day keeps the doctor away it's just nonsense just look up an apple on a nutrient database and all you really see is that it has a small amount of vitamin C which is negated by the high sugar content and a very small amount of B vitamins you know apples are great for the high water content the volume the fiber the gut motility but you know some people don't digest them too well and of course it's not organic so you know how many chemicals are in it I mean I've eaten organic apples over the past few months myself you know I think it's a food that you can certainly include in your diet it's just it's overvalued for sure I've been filming the day after that launch and it went so well I'm so happy with how everything went it's completely sold out of this in the protein in like seven and a half hours or something a little over seven hours so that's insane we were planning on like talking about if it went a week how long it would take to sell out and everything and it just blew up straight out of the gates so thank you guys this is how most of these people get successful you know they work very hard they have good genetics they do want a couple bodybuilding shows and then they work with some co-packer manufacturer to launch their own supplement now I mean there's nothing wrong with that because a lot of people do it but you know he's not making a lot of that money you know the supplement co-packing company is he's kind of just the face of it and is unlikely that there is anything high quality or special in these it's basically a generic pre-workout supplement or a generic protein powder with his face his logo slapped on it nothing special you know when I started all of my companies organ supplements Frankie's naturals the reason I started those companies in the first place was because there weren't products available like them on the market in general you know and I have ideas for my own natural pre-workout as well it's just you know I didn't do it to slap my face on the label and say hey buy Frank's products no buy these products that you can't find anywhere else because we're missing these aspects of health in our life so you know it's a little disappointing but you can't expect anyone to to have such an understanding of health and nutrition as it wouldn't be approachable compared to what everyone else is doing makes me wonder if this is really what this guy eats if he's just putting on an act who knows so much for that I really appreciate anyone who got one anyone who supported me it's the only reason I can do stuff like this and make my own products and have fun like that because of you guys so I appreciate it and a huge thank you to Jack Factory for entrusting me to put my literal name on a product with theirs beside it so I really I think it's really cool that they trust me with that I don't know if these people are just like not business minded or they're in a position where they're not allowed to do things on their own this guy could literally take you know what I'm sure he has plenty of money saved up launch his own supplement line with a private contract manufacturer and make most of the money himself it doesn't seem like he's making that much money off this deal all right to post workout meal this is one of my favorite meals in the off season because it's easy to get a lot of calories in I used to eat like this meal but like double the size back in my heyday of bulking last year and it's just brown rice pasta ground turkey and some marinara sauce this Steffano Steffano's marinara sauce is fucking it's just amazing you don't get sick of it I eat every single day and it tastes really good every single time and with ground turkey and this brown rice pasta it's really good company of this one it's called pasta joy or tinkyada one or two of those some people say that brown rice pasta gets soggy this one does not get mushy at all it's like just like real pasta I actually can't tell the difference between this and it's just made out of brown rice so double bonus for me I'm cooking this up right now and I will show you the meal when it's ready here is the final product bowl overflowing this isn't even that big that I used to eat it but for reference this pasta 80 grams of it dries 300 calories and I used to have 200 grams of it this time I'm having 140 grams because I'm not quite back at that point but 140 grams is 575 calories from the pasta alone you know he's getting a lot of his calories from that ground turkey which again is not the ideal source of protein for reasons we already stated brown rice pasta I mean I guess if you get some organic stuff it's decent but I wish you know we had legitimate data and there was actually research done on what's going into the conventional modern food supply because we really don't know how many pollutants how much stuff people are consuming every day especially these bodybuilders that are eating incredibly high volumes of these foods you know you really want to go organic you really want to go high quality even as the average person let alone when you're consuming five six seven thousand calories per day which is never healthy and it's even worse when you're overeating low quality crappy food meal number five this is where things get even more exciting than pasta look how delicious that is I have to hide my face so facial recognition but this meal is quesadillas two quesadillas to be exact and just look at that again that's fucking heaven right there this is the favorite thing I eat all day I've been eating this every day for like two weeks and I do not get sick of it and I've been dipping it in guacamole or it's homemade it's just one full avocado with like a lime squeezed in there and a bunch of cilantro and I dip the quesadilla in there and it tastes absolutely amazing this meal consists of one full avocado two ten inch tortillas 160 grams of chicken breast and like a third cup of this dairy-free oh god cheese I'm not I try not to eat a lot of dairy because it doesn't sit well in my stomach so I got this dairy-free stuff and it actually tastes really good I haven't eaten cheese in so long I don't know if it tastes the same or different in real cheese but it tastes good as we've said with every meal if this was high quality it would actually be good and if he's going to eat regular flour tortillas why doesn't he have regular white pasta but you know even an organic durham wheat semolina would be much healthier than the brown rice pasta he had and for this meal you know you can get high quality organic tortillas at most health food stores now he's eating dia dairy-free cheddar cheese and if you don't tolerate dairy don't go to those vegan alternatives because they taste like crap and they're not good for you and you want to figure out what the reason you're not tolerating dairy is and start addressing that is it a past nutrient imbalance do you have toxicity of certain minerals or vitamins who knows because I'm not the best at eating a large amount of fruits and vegetables and not everyone is I'm gonna sip on this daily greens here oh my god I can't it's oh my god did big broccoli get this guy this is hilarious revive daily greens whole food greens powder daily source of micronutrients prebiotic and probiotic formula like I'm not going to look at the laundry list of ingredients here if you're taking like conventional modern vegetables and you're freeze drying them and you're grinding them up the only thing it's going to do is give you whatever pollutants were in those vegetables when they were grown and possibly the anti-nutrients the compounds in those really dark greens might cause some liver issues some overall metabolic dysfunction there's there's no reason you ever need to consume vegetables for any reason source of micronutrients no it's not prebiotic and probiotic formula the strains of bacteria they usually put in these products are not correct in the right ratios and even if they were the bacteria is usually dead by the time you get it and the amount of bacteria in these things is like putting you know a bucket of water in the ocean it's not significant it's not high enough volume it's not taken on a consistent enough basis you know this is chocolate flavored who knows how many chemicals and additives they're putting in this it's absolutely stacked full of greens fruits that you're actually dead on yeah let's put 40 pieces of crap in it so it's actually a really good product and this is the first chocolate greens that actually doesn't taste like absolute shit so that's also great marketing buddy i'm going to drink this watch sure they'll pay an extra for dropping a nest word like a protein ice cream in some certain that we'll see how i feel when the time comes delicious final meal a nice sandwich i missed wow all right so final meal slash snack of the day like i said two more years on this diet i mean i'm assuming this guy's taking some drugs to slow down his hair loss too but when you consume these conventional foods the omega-6 in the diet is so high he really needs to reduce that get some omega-3 in here and there you know reduce the inflammation go organic a lot can be done to improve this diet and he's drinking water and plastic he's got all this supplements and stuff in plastic i mean little plastic isn't the end of the world but if you're not injecting all the crap like this guy is you can go to frankie's free range meat and get some lamb testicles uh to replicate the testosterone that he's taken to counteract the estrogenic effects of the plastics i said often in my off season i have five meals and if i hungry after i'll squeeze in a shake and something like a peanut butter banana sandwich as i'm having today or i'll just have five big meals in a day and call it that but i was actually hungry right now and i just put this in my fitness column i did my caloric intake for the day it's higher than i thought to be honest and it's pretty crazy because i'm still hungry eating all this but this last meal is one scoop of this protein and this is one i love having a light protein this is why i made this because post workout and like late at night i just want like a light shake it's a vanilla oatmeal cookie flavor but one scoop of that in here it was just water and then i have a peanut butter banana sandwich there's like 34 35 grams of peanut butter in here half a banana two slices of it's like organic whole wheat bread like hey it's organic whoo very delicious we got something and that's it that's the end of the full day of eating and as simple as that i have ingested 4558 calories i mean i don't think this guy is actually eating a lot of calories for his size you know i was eating like 3300 3500 when i was doing my bodybuilding transformation and i don't think i have even half as much muscle as this guy and if you do want to know why protein powder in general can be bad for you i did a whole video on it i think it's titled is way protein bad for you that you can go watch i go over the additives the quality of the way used in the protein powder and we do have protein powder available on frankiesfreerangefoods.com you know i think i said in the middle of this video you know is this really what he's eating you know is he secretly eating super high quality organic foods i don't we'll never know we'll never know you know i mean it's unlikely considering you know the rest of the stuff he's doing but you know these people tend to put on an act when they get to a certain level of popularity you know just to fit in with the general population as you know god forbid everyone realizes how to be actually healthy uh so thank you guys for joining me today hopefully this gives some bodybuilders and some conventional thinkers insight on how they could change their diet to something healthier something that removes the negatives and improves the positives so if you guys could please drop a like on the video leave a comment down below subscribe so that youtube can unsubscribe you next week and check out frank-defaun.com for anything i've 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Good morning and welcome. Thank you all for joining us in these very eventful, highly charged times. We have the honor today, this is a special honor, of having joined us, Professor Randall from the University of Dayton School of Law, a noted author, and one of the leading experts on racism and the law, which is central to what we're going to talk about today. We have Ben Davis, recently retired Professor Emeritus of the University of Toledo School of Law, Jim Alpini, Professor and Dean Emeritus of Northern Illinois and South Texas. Now there's a combination for you. And to make sure that the communications exceed all expectations and bounds, First Amendment expert Jeff Fortnoy, one of our most respected attorneys, litigators, and who has recently managed to successfully get court approval to get access to State Department of Education records that may give us the first good look at what really goes on in there in decision making. Maybe ever. Way too many, way too many academics on this program today. It's hard enough, it's hard enough when they're just two, and now you've added a third eminent professor. I'm completely outweighed out person, you name it. Look, I want to tell you that my emeritus is still up in the air, you know, if this was what, nine days later, you wouldn't have a professor here. Well, if it helps, you can think of me as a nurse because I was a nurse for 20 years. There you go. I'm glad. So how did, Professor, how did that lead you into the law and particularly the study of racism in the law? Well, I grew up doing Jim Crow, and I grew up seeing my racial discrimination in health care.  And so, so I, first of all, I grew up seeing that so that's what led me into health. And then I grew up in, in the, in the 70s, I was in Alaska doing public health nurse, and I wanted to go into the commissioner's office and as a black woman nurse, I ended up having three stereotypes against me, because I was not being very intelligent, woman, black, and a nurse. And so I decided to go to law school as a way to say, Hey, I'm smart. You know, so that's the truth of the matter. Now, it is a useful degree. It really has helped me work on racial discrimination in health care. So with the new leadership on your wish list. Revising the anti discrimination law for the 21st century getting making the most people think that discrimination is racial discrimination is illegal in the United States and it's not. You can discriminate as long as it's not intentional. We need to have a law that recognizes negligent discrimination, strict liability discrimination and reckless discrimination, like we do in torts and criminal law, and that would be at the top of my list. I want to ask the professor this, when you have a Senate which has a more than just a few Republican senators who have very strong views on religious freedom. And you have a Supreme Court, which clearly now has a majority in support of religious freedom, maybe over discrimination. How do you see the next couple of years playing out, particularly in the courts. The same way it's played out for the last 50 years, nothing. I mean, and it's not just the Republicans, the Democrats have been just as unwilling to do something to fix the discrimination law I mean if you look back and I'm kind of forgetting the name, but the Supreme Court case. Andrew versus Sandoval I may have that right so don't quote me, but it basically 2020 25 years ago, it blocked access to the court for disparate impact discrimination and no administration has been willing to fix it. So, frankly, I don't see it happening you asked me my wish list, not my, you know, what do I think is possible this. So let me ask this question, Professor real quickly, just to follow on that. Would you be comfortable with strict liability for racial discrimination. Yeah, I definitely would. I mean, not in every single instance it would be like strict liability and criminal law and strict liability in tort law, where you say things happen. We're not going to get it all into your state of mind. And what that would be in terms of racial discrimination would be something we would need to work out and think about, but I think it's possible to say, Dr are police, if you shoot an unarmed man. You know, we're going to hold you strictly liable for it. You know, something like that but I don't want to go into specifics of what be strict liability. I'm just saying that discrimination law should be structured like tort and criminal. But I want to get back to this distinction between racial discrimination and religious discrimination. And what we've seen in the K case what we're seeing more and more, where more conservative jurists are leaning towards upholding the rights of individuals to pursue their religious beliefs, even when it impacts racial discrimination and I'm just wondering whether you see the possibility of that trend reversing under the next four years. No, no, not at all. I mean, the courts are not going to reverse. I mean, the only thing is, if, if Biden and the Democrats feel up the lower courts district and circuit courts with progressive judges in some jurisdictions that could happen, the Supreme Court, they could step in and slap that down, but not with the Supreme Court destruction. They got rid of filibustering and put three or four more judges on the Supreme Court. Yeah, could be gotten rid of. So this reminds me of the UN Convention on the elimination of racial discrimination as a treaty obligation the United States has signed on to does speak about first the definition of racial discrimination that's really much broader than our law, and then purpose and effect. That's the, that's the magic words and also for discrimination against women and other setting. They focus on both purpose and effect and basically the US is a now over now version of intent within the purpose branch and leaves a lot of space for Now, as to the religious thing I think it was a descent of Justice Ginsburg in the hobby lobby, where she went back through the cases where people said their religious beliefs were the basis for which they were doing racial discrimination, you know that they learned in their way. And since courts are not going to really get into the, the nature of your belief, or the, you know, question the belief, you know, it's kind of a wide open road in and Ginsburg warned about that back in her descent, you know, didn't work but that's where I just would like to say, please. I want us to go ahead and convince in this after this impeachment. Okay, I just want that I want them to go through and have to convince. Okay, post After leaving office. It is possible under the Constitution to do this. And it is an important thing to disqualify as the person if they decided to do it from ever pursuing future office of public trust. And I think that that is important to have that happen have that vote and watch and watch I mean I'm like, I'm thinking to myself. If you, if I was sitting in the Capitol on that day as a representative or Senator, and that happened to me.     And I'm going to just high level analysis. Okay, I'm going to disagree with you. This is the first time for everything. I think going through with the impeachment is a very poor political decision. First of all, he's not going to get convicted. There are not 17 Republicans who are going to vote to convict. Secondly, you could argue, I think persuasively that all this is is an effort to embarrass 50 Republican voters, forcing them to vote up or down on impeachment at the same time, you need some of their votes to pass the progressive legislation that we have been waiting for for four years. I think this is a terrible political issue. There is nothing to be gained. Donald Trump's reputation is tarnished, ruined, etc. Either he runs again or not is up to the voters and I think when you need Republican votes to force them to vote up or down on this is a very poor political decision with little to be gained, if anything. Okay, Jeff, you're going to find this surprising, but I disagree with you. I think what gives me hope here is the charging document, the way the impeachment article was written. They're not charging him with insurrection, or even incitement. All they're saying is that he, let me say I wrote it down, he willfully made statements that encouraged lawless action. I think you can get 17 Republicans to agree that a reasonable person would believe that he willfully made statements that encouraged lawless action. I don't think that's too high a standard. And the reason I think that we should be doing it is that if we say we live in a rule of law democracy, then officials, particularly the highest officials, have to be held accountable. And the only way to really hold him accountable for what he's done is as they've done already is to impeach and convict him. Here's my position. I'm going to just say this and then I'm going to shut up because I got three professors and I'll never, never be able to out to date them. If he engaged in conduct, which is criminal and inciting a riot is criminal in most jurisdictions, then let the DC authorities and the US attorney charge him criminally and keep it out of the political arena. That's my position. I defer to all three of you. I mean, as a matter, I would like, I would not be upset if he got impeached, but what concerns me about going down about not impeach he's already been impeached, I would convict it. I am concerned that if it doesn't happen quickly, it'll get in the way of things that are more important to me than being done. And I think it's important to send a message. I kind of think it's like disciplining your child. If you got more than one child, you need to discipline that when one of them is behaving, you need to discipline that child in front of all the others so that they will know that that's not what to do. So to some extent, I can understand that we need to discipline Trump so that future presidents know what not to do. But I'm concerned that if it takes up time and energy and ability that we will do that at the expense of pest passing legislation and getting things done that helps people have a better life. So let me pose a question. Let me pose a question for you folks, because I think you've hit on something that has critical importance that we haven't yet articulated and that is one of the ways that Trump was able to manipulate everybody, including crude politicians like McConnell and others is he controlled the money and the donors for four years and he controlled the narrative, which the media let him do and help. If there is a process including possible conviction or 14th amendment that can quickly and cleanly sever him from the money and donors. But McConnell's already come out in favor of that. He's not only leaked that he feels those were impeachable offenses, but that Trump lied to the people and cited the invasion. He sent the signal to his people, not only it's okay. I'm on the record twice in favor of conviction. He knows that's the only way they're going to get back control of the money. If there is a possibility that Trump can run again in 2024. He is going to hold tightly onto that extremely wealthy role supported evangelical supported far right wing, often violent component that is also connected to some funds, some of the funders have backed off some have left, some have put it on hold. But I think what we're seeing is something needs to happen to prevent that kind of control of the money the donors in the narrative. I think a conviction will mean nothing to those people. Just look at the polls in the last few days about how many Republicans still believe the election was a fraud. Trump still support Trump, his support dropped 15% from 85 to 70 70% still believe Trump won the election. You think convicting him is going to change very many of their votes. I think it goes the other way. I think they find it to be something that gives them more reason to support Donald Trump assuming he ever gets off the golf course and gets out of Mar-a-Lago which I think it's very unlikely. But the conviction could, the conviction would be more than just a conviction. It would be a conviction on his ability to run because that's what they can do. Right. They said outlaw his ability to run. And I tend to think that if they go down that road, they might get 17 votes, but because there might be 17 people in the election in 2024. Right. They want that money. There may be, there may be 17 people that want his money in their primaries or to keep him from supporting an opponent in the primary. That would be my fear. I got a fear of Donald Trump running again. My fear is if I vote to convict Donald Trump will do what he can to get back at me when I run again in 22 or 24, either by supporting a primary opponent in a Republican primary in which I might well lose or otherwise. So, I, you know, that's just my view on it. I just think. Go ahead, Ben. I have a spirit of compromise here. No compromise. Compromise yet in the Senate, which is that on the day of the vote X number of Republicans have urgent family matters. Right. And as a consequence, it's only a vote of two thirds of the members present. So, you know, I had to take my kid to ballet lessons. I don't know what it is, you know, 33 of them. Yeah, I would have voted but you know I had to take care of my kid, you know I had had some shopping to do with Kroger, you know it's terrible I couldn't be there so it's a typical academic response. Thank you very much. My staff are tested positive I've been quarantine. There we go that's I'm in quarantine. And Chuck and Chuck for you to you for you to rely on Mitch McConnell is quite. Oh yeah. Guys, I thought, you know, lizards have various colors and can regenerate a tail but Mitch McConnell is, he's probably exhibit a of what a politician really is. No question. Lizards have more spine than McConnell. And Graham put together. I'm just in South Carolina by the way I just came back from being in South Carolina for 10 days and you know, Lindsey Graham country boy what a joke. Yeah. Okay Jim you've been strangely quiet. He's embarrassed. He's embarrassed about his position on impeachment. Actually, I'd like to defer to one of our, to our newest colleague and play to her strength here and her expertise and ask her what she foresees in terms of the Biden administration, moving forward on health care. Do you think there's going to be some significant positive steps there. Well, first of all, thank you for that. Thank you. First of all, I, I never liked Obamacare and so it's not I was been hoping that it would go under so that some so that when the Democrats got in power they could replace it with a good health care system. Unfortunately, I kind of think that I think the Democrats will protect Obamacare strengthen it to the extent they cover. But we have a bad health care system and it that does all that does is give insurance to people without really fixing the health care system. But don't you don't you think we're learning something with the way the vaccinations are going. I mean my God in some states they haven't even budged the vaccines are getting out there, but they're so disorganized. Isn't this can't we ease much more easily make the case for a national health care system. Yeah, I'm saying that it I do not believe that the Democrats want a national health care system. So I don't think any evidence put front in front of them is going to convince them to move to a national health care system. I think that they're quite happy with the system we have the way it is and they'll tinker around the edges on different things that need that come up and so that you know, but then I don't think that they'll use this to show because in my mind, this would have been a perfect time to do national health care as even if it was just in response to the pandemic. To say we have all these people out of work. We have all these people those that don't have good health care. We have what we're going to do is for the duration of the pandemic we're going to give Medicare for all this so that everybody will have access to health care. But they don't, but I don't believe the Democrats want that I think the Democrats have what they want, which is a Republican like medical plan, health care plan. Well, I don't think they have 50 votes for a national health plan, the Democrats, they're going to lose 578 votes at least on that and I don't think I don't think there's 58 Republicans I mean, you know there's this euphoria today. I'm not suggesting our group has this euphoria but there's this euphoria today that the world has changed 180 degrees. There are political worlds and all you have to do is start seeing what happened this morning in some Republicans reactions to some of the executive orders to know that we may have moved 30%, you know, not 180% and so those folks who think the world is going to be different in 100 days. I think they're going to be disappointed. Yeah. Well, a former president of France had a great line which was that a politician's promises only buying those who believe. Okay.  Let's see what happens with this 1.9. What is it? Trillion dollar whatever it is package. That is the first and most important, you know piece of legislation. See how far that gets in the next two weeks. Well, I mean, I would agree that Joe Biden, in retrospect, was among the least progressive of the Democratic candidates. He was not progress. And yeah, I think that's fair statement. On the other hand, there are some commitments he's made. I think he could be very aggressive on the environment and he's already started that. I think I agree with Professor Randall that he, you know, he's sort of committed to Obamacare because of his, his vice presidency and his involvement with that. But he's also made commitments to environmental actions, and he started it by getting rid of the Canadian pipeline, getting us back into the Paris Accord. I think he could really begin a Green New Deal. He's an old man that's looking that my, my son used to say to my kids about my grandkids about how not my grandkids, you know, like how that is so nice. My son that's an old woman trying to get in the heaven. He wasn't like that with us.  And he's like, he wants to build a legacy so there's a lot of things he might do just for his legacy sake. And that's a really good point we're in our last minute. Any last words. Thank you, Professor Randall. I agree with you. Welcome aboard, Professor Randall. You know, if anything could liven up these three elder men. Thank you, Professor. I took a tour yesterday an African American tour by myself in Charleston which was fabulous which I'm not going to get into but the driver said you know I'm going to be 70 and he said look to me and he said how old are you 45.  Thank you. All I can say is that guy knows a big tipper when he sees. Lady gentlemen. Thank you so much. We will see you again in two weeks. Come back folks. If you like this one. You're going to love the next one. Thanks Chuck. Don't make promises. Don't make promises you can't keep Chuck.


The draft of the resettlement and rehabilitation policy does not address the homeless population, nor does it talk about the lack of proper housing for lower income groups or about the large section of people living in rented accommodation in the urban spaces. In short, it does not address the urban housing crisis and nor is that the intention of the policy. Why is that the case? Why is the government bringing out a policy while more pressing issues of urban housing are not addressed? See, Gav, this is another major flaw with this draft policy itself. It is very clear that it is only talking about encroachers, non-titled holders who are living in the objectionable land. It is not talking about payment dollars, it is not talking about homeless people. That is why I said that the policy is not concerned about people who are homeless, that they have to find new houses, they have to build houses. It is not really on that note. The policy is very clear, they are interested in evicting people. So this policy has nothing to do with the homeless people and moreover, this policy has nothing to do with housing in Chennai or housing in Tamil Nadu. This policy is kind of a standalone policy in itself. There is a huge housing crisis in Tamil Nadu and I think a huge housing crisis all over India but if you look at the data of the latest housing survey from NSS Go, we can see that around 55% of the urban dwellers in Tamil Nadu is living in rented households. That is more than 50% of the population and if you look at some of the major cities like Chennai, I think that the number will be around 60% and 70% and most of the people are living in houses that has only one room, which means that they just have living room, they don't have any other. The housing crisis in Tamil Nadu is huge and Tamil Nadu is also one of the most, I think Tamil Nadu is the most urbanized state in India. The very census number gives you 55% but if you go beyond that, I think it will be around 60%. So the housing crisis is quite huge in Tamil Nadu but this policy has nothing to do with it. It is very clear. It is only about evicting people and you should ask the question why that is the case? Why are you not talking about homeless people? Why are you not talking about the housing crisis? Why are you just interested in evicting people? Then we have to look at it from a kind of global context because now particularly after the neoliberalism and after India opening up its economy, the competition to attract foreign capital is quite huge and the competition is not between Indian cities and Indonesian cities and Indian cities and other developing countries. No, the competition is also between the cities within India. There is competition between Chennai and Bangalore, there is competition between Chennai and Hyderabad. So these three cities like the states, Andhra Pradesh, then Andhra Pradesh, Andhra and Bangalore and Chennai, they are in huge competition to attract foreign capital. There are certain kinds of capital which only comes to South India. They don't go to North India except Delhi or Mumbai for some reason.  Every time when a politician comes and says, let's say Singara, Chennai, 2.4, we want to make our city like Singapore. So the question that needs to be asked is why should Chennai look like Singapore? Why can't Chennai be like Chennai? Why it should look like Singapore? What is the point of it? It is not just to put in such a, it is about giving a cosmopolitan character to your city and showing that this city can be something like your first world city. It will have all the facilities like first world city and people just forget that the first world cities are cities for the rich in the first world cities. You go to New York, you see people who are living in pavements. Homeless people are, because that's how the city is constructed. That is the case with most of the first world cities. So the idea here is also the same. So and also the idea is not about evicting these people from the land. It's not about just fake settlement. It's basically evicting a certain kind of poverty in the inner city. You are not just evicting those people. You are evicting the entire character that the city is built with. So you are evicting them so that in the inner city poverty won't be visible. And the poverty is now visible in one particular section. The idea of ghetto is not there in Chennai. If you look at Indian cities, we cannot say this is a ghetto. It's one or two places like Dharavi and which is a huge slum settlement. Particularly if you look at cities like Chennai, we have slum settlements, but they are small slum settlements. You have 2,000 households. You have 3,000 households. Next to a posh area. So when it is like that, when it is mixed, the public infrastructure, you cannot alienate the poor from that. Whatever the public infrastructure is enjoyed by the rich is also enjoyed by the poor. Because spatially you cannot do, you cannot alienate the and that's costly too. But now what has happened? You have evicted the poor and consolidated them in one particular space. So Kandeginagar has 30,000 households. Means how many slums that you have evicted. Perumbakkam has 30,000 households. So you have evicted slum populations within the city and packed them in one place. See that's why you can have a DLR right next to Perumbakkam. And Perumbakkam is completely different from DLR. Because the public services can be also different because it's 30,000 households. There's an economic scale that kicks in. So public services can be given differently to Perumbakkam and DLR. So this is the problem and this problem is not addressed in this draft policy. So one reason, one thing is to mention the size of the settlement. Let the settlement not be 30,000 settlement. Let the settlement be 2,000. Let it be small. Because once you have 30,000 households, there's a kind of social stigma that is attached to it. That is primarily because of the size, right? So if you do not have 30,000 households, you will not have such social stigma that is attached to these resettlement colonies. And there are probably we can discuss this further. There are multiple other problems that is there in this policy that is not helpful for the slum dwellers in Chennai or in Tamil Nadu.


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