أسعد الله ومساقكم شكرا لكم على نظمامكم إلينا في هذا المؤتمر الصحفي الثاني الذي يحتث في اليوم الأول من هذه القمة أرجو أن تكونوا أكثر Welcome to Mr. Ilvez C presidents of the European Commission 2014 and a member of the global agenda council to talk about the european perspective on the outlook هو here by pulling over 1,700 people from our community that the global agenda is much more shaped by global geopolitical situation which is really strained this year. We've seen it in events in East Asia, in Ukraine, in Russia of course, and the Middle East as well. And what is really new here is a much more complexity and volatility in the situation. والأشياء الأخرى التي يقوم بها على الأجنب والذين يقوم بها على أجنب المساعدة من أجنبنا are inequality and the risk of jobless growth. These are the two major trends and risks that our community sees on the agenda for the next 12 to 18 months. What is really interesting here is that these socio-economic trends are creating a danger cycle. The lack of employment and stagnant wages are contributing to rising inequality as well as holding back consumer spending and ultimately growth, which creates more problems on the road for many of the countries that are faced with this. It's really a truly global phenomenon which is so interconnected and while we're seeing maybe a better economic integration across the world, there's much more fragmentation on a political level, which in turn creates also a very, very vicious cycle and much more independence across the world, but also much bigger risks because no one's in charge and there's no leadership, which leads me to the third most important trend this year, which is the lack of global leadership. This was again a major, major issue and was actually the fastest rising issue in this year's report. It's jumped from number 7 last year to number 3 this year. So a significant jump in terms of what matters to people in our community and what they see as the major issues going forward. It's also one of the issues that I think connects so many of the other trends from inequality, all the economic trends, but also geopolitical ones, but also health as we've seen with the recent Ebola crisis. This lack of leadership and global leadership is a real problem. So another interesting dimension maybe in the top 10 is the list related to the environmental issues. We have a large number of issues actually or trends that we think matter on the environmental agenda. One is the increased water stress, particularly for this region, obviously a key issue. The other ones relate to the increasing occurrence of severe weather events, an issue that's much more prominent now around the world, but particularly in Asia. And also the rising pollution in the developing world, again something very prominent in Asia particularly. And what is also new this year is the feature of health. We've never had health featured in our top 10 trends and this is the first year we have mentions of the growing importance of health in the economy. And with some of the pandemics that we've seen recently from the Ebola crisis to others rising on the agenda is clearly very timely to have that feature in the report. And this brings me also to today in this event that we're here. These are all going to be the basis for discussions amongst our 1,000 participants who will join us to really try and understand some of the dimensions and complexities of these issues, but also to try to come up with innovative ideas and solutions which can move the dial on some of these issues as we've seen in the past this network has already done. Thank you. It's a dark prognosis, but let's hear about some of the solutions. President Ilves, you're the head of one of the most tech-savvy countries in the world. Give us your views on how technology can be leveraged to address some of the challenges we're looking at here. Okay. Before I talk about the solutions, I think one of the paradoxes we're in is that we're actually dealing once again with 19th-century problems with, say, the rise of China with the metastasization of al-Qaeda into ISIS. I mean, these are all really 19th-century problems. And then, of course, the other way we're looking, which is I hope forward, is that at the rate of technological growth today is so great that there's a whole wealth of possibilities. I mean, what I think we are seeing, to put it in a nutshell, is that those of you who know what Moore's Law is, that every one-and-a-half years the power of computing per unit price doubles. And if you recall the old story about how chess was created and the Shah asked the creator of chess how much do you want, and he said, oh, a grain on the first square, two grains on the second and four on the third, and the Shah thought, oh, it's no problem. Except by the time they got to the 32nd, would have gotten to the 32nd square, that would have included all of the rice in the world. Now, the same thing is happening in technology. I spoke recently before the European Parliament, a small committee, and I said, by the time you people are running for election again in four-and-a-half years, computers will be eight times faster for the same price. Think about that. So what we can see now, this enormous explosion of the power of computing in ways that no one could have predicted before. The positive side of this, in terms of say even healthcare, being able to track the genome, being able to track major medical issues. We've already seen Google be a better predictor of the flu than any other source, any medical source. The power of data and data processing, more importantly, is going to allow us to do things we have never been able to do to make life better than ever before. But even this has a downside, because 20 years ago, Jeremy Rifkin wrote a book called The End of Work in which he predicted that people will be losing their jobs because of computers and automatization. But I think he wrote the book 20 years too early because at that time computers were not that powerful. This year, Andrew McAfee, who was actually featured in this global agenda book himself, published a new book basically saying the same thing. And this time it's looking like it's true, which is that the way technology, especially with underwater laws advancing in 10 years, maybe we won't need taxi drivers anymore. And Mercedes or Mercedes is already producing a driverless truck that will completely revolutionize the way we drive. Now, if you think about what that means, that there will be a huge hollowing out of jobs. There will be high-tech jobs and then there will be people who work figuratively in McDonald's because no computer can produce a big Mac. But in between, more and more jobs with this dramatic increase in computing power will be better performed often than by human beings. And so this will lead to an even greater degree of income inequality, which then I guess leads me to say that what we need to do is to really rethink our approach to education. There will be no jobs in the future that will not be impacted by the latest in high technology, especially in computing. If we do not really think more about what is in the US is called the STEM subject, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and making that a greater part of our curricula, we will find life in the future really very, very binary. Either you know something about technology and can deal with it or you do not, in which case you will be left out or you will have only low-paying jobs. I mean, that's a bleak vision but I think that's something we can avoid if we start paying attention now to the right kind of education which is in many ways quite different from what we have been used to in the past. Mr. Barosa, I can think of few people better qualified for a perspective from Europe on the trends and challenges outlined in the outlook on the global agenda. Thank you. First of all, let me say it's great to be here in Dubai and have this opportunity to have three days to think to think and to interact with very, very bright people. In fact, when you look at the trends that have been presented some of them very worrying, we see that this is happening in Europe but indeed, some of those problems are common to the rest of the world namely the two trends that have been signaled so deepening income inequality and persistent jobless growth and of course this is having today a very negative impact in Europe. Why? Because it has been in fact one of the causes for what is perceived as the weakening of representative democracy, the intensifying nationalism including sometimes xenophobic movements and this is of course a matter of concern. So my first point is the following. While in Europe the economy is probably going to improve the politics may become more difficult. We have basically solved I think the issue of stability so we are much better now than during the financial crisis but because of the relatively low growth and because of perception of inequality it will not be a surprise if while economic problems get smaller the political problems get bigger it can appear as a paradox but it is not a paradox. So we are in a situation of transition where in fact the perception of lack of leadership is increasing why? Because governments are seen no longer able to solve the problems the so-called man of the street the common citizen feel but while the regional or the international organizations are not yet ready to do it and this is in fact one of the concerns we have also globally because indeed some of those global problems we are facing from international terrorism to climate change it is quite obvious that a national government on its own cannot solve them but we are not yet in a situation where the global community has the instruments to solve those problems so we are to some extent I believe in a transitional phase with a lot of anxiety and this is increasing problems of legitimacy because the problems of legitimacy are linked to the perception of lack of effectiveness a citizen in the streets looks to the situation and says they are not delivering I mean those who have power be it in the governments be it sometimes in the supernatural institutions they are not able to deliver and that's why for instance we are seeing increasing nationalist attitudes xenophobic and immigration movements in fact I contributed to this outlook with an article on migration that does not appear as one of the ten most important trends I will say probably because those who are responding have no problems with freedom of movement but I can tell you many people have problems 5700 people have died in the training recently and we are seeing even in traditionally very open countries like Britain now resistance not only to migration but even to freedom of movement inside the European Union and this is linked with the rise of nationalistic or at least xenophobic or sometimes even let's say parochial forces so this is a matter I think for all those concerned for all those of us that care a sense of fairness and we believe that these basic freedoms including the freedom of movement is important in today's world and this is why I believe the report this outlook in fact gives us a lot of food for thought and I really hope that these three days of reflection will come with some solutions for me the solution is leadership leadership so first of all political choices that are well-informed but also leaders that have the courage to take decisions that sometimes are not popular in the short term before we go to our last panelist I'd just like to mention that we do have a hard finish at half-past we all have to get ready for the opening plenary so start thinking about your questions now I'm just going to turn very briefly now to our final panelist before that Q&A session I was a head of a successful business organization based here in the Gulf what kind of impact are you seeing of these trends outlined in the report sure well I think first of all what is interesting despite the fact that the media headlines tend to be dominated by conflict and geopolitical tensions the 1,000 plus experts across the councils clearly have prioritized socioeconomic issues and deepening income inequality and persistent jobless growth being the top two and turning to the Middle East region and again despite conflict in the region the number one issue highlighted is the persistent youth unemployment it's close to 30% it's been a chronic problem in the region for some decades now but actually combined with the political upheavals and the world economic crisis it's become an acute problem and it's worsening and fundamentally the economic progress is required for the political stability the causes are the same as everywhere including Europe or Africa or other regions that are affected by this issue which are insufficient economic growth the skills and education mismatch and rigid labor markets and I think looking at this problem and the trends overall it's clear why not only such a report but this sort of multi-stakeholder approach is required these are problems that you can't tackle only in government or only in the private sector or only in the academic sphere and that's what is special about the summit on the global agenda and the idea behind the councils is that over a thousand thought leaders will be meeting here in Dubai in 3 days in over 80 different councils and from a broad variety of backgrounds I mean my own council on the Middle East, North Africa region has a former prime minister former minister senior officials from international financial institutions, academics business leaders who get together in an intense environment for 3 days once a year and we also have monthly meetings but this is really the annual meeting to try and come up with innovative ways to not only analyze these challenges but come up with concrete solutions for tackling these challenges speaking from the UAE point of view we're of course honored that to welcome the summit again here and the UAE and particularly here in Dubai you see how openness globalism and economic dynamism is an important solution to many of these challenges particularly looking at the Middle East, North Africa region and of course the UAE has always been proud to be that bridge between the east and the west so from a private sector perspective from here and the region we're very honored to play a part so it's a sort of corporate responsibility a moral responsibility to have the private sector's voice actively heard and helping shape some of the solutions and it's interesting to see from the report also the different confidence level in different institutions and clearly as Mr. Barossa has said there is a challenge a crisis of confidence in leadership and particularly the governments in many parts of the world let's have a quick show of hands before we do Q&A let's try to do two in the remaining seven minutes this gentleman here first can you please give us your name and your affiliation and also make sure that your question is relevant to the outlook if you have specific questions to any speaker they are available throughout the summit thank you my name is Peter Vanham and I'm the director of the summit which are the organizations that you think in the future are best suited to provide that leadership what is the road to get there and when will we get to leadership of those organizations according to the survey it's interesting to see that naturally most popular are non profit that is not should not be a surprise فالإنسانية الحديثة يتحدث فيه الأ quarto شراء والإنسانية يتحدث فيه الأ seventh شراء. حينما في العالم التصريحي في إلسانية أوراق أما يوجد العالم الأوراق أن بإمكانها نؤمن إلسانية أوراق يجب أن نرى مشاكل يضب معدل مشاكل يقوم بكالدان يقوم ب إلساني when it comes to national politicians than to supranational ones. So I believe that we need stronger mechanisms of global governance. And I believe that to reach that level, the regional level is very important. For instance, what we can do at the European level through the European Union or Southeast Asia can do it through ASEAN, African Union, the Gulf Cooperation Council, for instance, Mercosool, and in fact I'm chairing one of the Global Council on these matters now. I think we should do more there because we are not yet ready at least in the global community to let's say a mechanism of global governance even if you have of course the United Nations, this is the base of legitimacy كما رأيتنا, عندما كان هناك فرصة حقيقة، يجب أن يكون لدينا جي 20 لأن جي 8 كانت تعتقدت بشكل كبير، ولكن الناس كانت بشكل كبير، لذلك سنذهب إلى الجي 20 ولكن الأجهزة الارجانية يمكن أن تكون بسيطة لأسفل الأجهزة بشكل كبير وإذن يمكننا أن نفعل أكثر هذه الأسفل مع العمل والأجهزة الأسفل لأنه يجب أن يكون لدينا جيدا أن يكون لدينا أجهزة الأسفل بشكل كبير ونحن نحتاج إلى أكثر مع أجهزة الأسفل والأجهزة الأسفل وإذا كانت هذه المشكلة لدينا today ونحن نتحدث عن هذه الأسفل، أجهزة الأسفل سيكون لدينا أكثر لذا، إمكانت الأجهزة الأسفل بشكل كبير، ولكن في أوروبا أعتقد أنه مهمة ولكن نحتاج إلى تجمع أجهزة الأسفل بشكل كبير، مع أخر أسفل مع أجهزة الأسفل والأجهزة الأسفل ونحن نتفعل سواءنا في أجهزة الأسفل وإمكانت هذه المشكلة وإمكانت أجهزة أسفل وانتما يجب أن يكون لدينا أجهزة أخر أسفل شكرا لك، سأخبركم أكثر من الأسفل يدي هذا الأجهزة الأسفل here شكرا لك، أعطيك أسفل أجهزة أسفل شكرا لك، إفتاعت أسفل كيف أodar أوروبا هل هذه المستخدمة بالنسبة to these infrastructures, is this enough, the right step, and question to Mr. Excellency Mr. Barroso, how is Europe's response to the rise of East Asia as an economic powerhouse, as the report also states. By the way, my name is Shira Al-Feeel from Shinohua News Agency Dubai. Great, thank you. When we talk about Asia more generally, so it's not related to just China, it's really all Asian nations, and we're seeing this as a major issue because they're obviously coming out of many of the developing countries, and they're starting now their growth path, so there is a natural link to their growing middle class and what this means now to the larger growth of their economies. Clearly infrastructure investments are going to be very much needed and they're going to be key to putting them on the right path, but when you look at the responses also when we look at what are the solutions that are needed for bridging this gap in terms of inequality, education is the number one aspect of this, and while education isn't mentioned as one of the top trends, if we look at the responses in terms of solutions, it's almost featured in every single trend that we need much better education and much more substantial investments and funding into education that's fit for the new century, not just from the past, and I think we have a very outdated education system that needs real reform and a new look at not only how technology plays into it, but also how it can really be adapted to the skills that are required on the job and labor market and what this means for how we educate our people. That will be my take on this. Regarding the rise of Asia and how Europe is reacting to it, I think it was your question. We have been reacting to it. In fact, Europe remains the biggest economy in the world, biggest even in the United States and much bigger than China, but of course, the trend is different. The trend is China being the biggest winner of globalization, and that explains why the European Union last year has been investing so much in trade with Asia. In fact, the first agreement of new generation on trade was made with South Korea, and we have now negotiated, we are now given a very big impulse to Japan. We are very close to conclude with Vietnam. We are negotiating our investment agreement with China, so certainly we are perfectly aware of the rise of Asia, which by the way is good for Asia, because many people were able to get out of poverty, in some cases extreme poverty. For instance, what happened in China, it's really inspiring, I think also for other parts of the world, from that point of view, but we believe, at least I believe, that it can be and should be an agreement for the global economy. But that's something that is to be honest controversial. There are people in the developed economies, not only in Europe but in the United States that look at the rise of China and the rise of Asia as a threat. And let's be honest about this. So can we make it a win-win? Can we make it of course good for the countries themselves, but also for global economy, for sustainable growth? I believe we should do everything to make that a very important contribution for sustainable growth. And so far, I think it has been a very important contribution for growth globally. I get the feeling we could go on for hours, but we can't. We have an opening plenary when you need to get your seats and our panel here need to get their seats too. So I'm going to close now. Just to remind you, our panelists are here for the coming three days and will be available for an interview. Just come and see us in the media center if you want to put a request in. Thanks very much for joining us and thank you as well for joining us here today.


14 Things Proven to Make You Happy We all want to be happy, but then again, it's funny how we all have different ideas of what can make us happy or how we can achieve it. Well, regardless of the things we want, because we think they'll make us happy, there are some interesting ways that we can become happier and be happy people. Abraham Lincoln, an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States once said, folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. Although we often think happiness is about what we have and the things we achieve, it is more of a state of mind. So, unless you make yourself happy person, you'll never find true happiness in your possession, qualification or achievement. In this video, I'll share with you 14 Things Proven to Make You Happy. This, I believe, will help you become a successful person. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you won't miss other interesting videos like this. 1. Practice Gratitude According to Brini Brau, a research professor at the University of Houston, she said on I quote, in 12 years of research, I have never interviewed a single person with the capacity to experience joy who does not actively practice gratitude. People who actively practice gratitude or people who are aware of the things that they are thankful for are usually happier and feel less depressed. Hence, they are more likely to engage in healthy behaviors. You can also stop practicing gratitude as well. For instance, when you wake up in the morning, start by thinking about a few things that you are grateful for, such as the roof over your head. You can find more stuff to be grateful about in this video. 54 Reasons Why You Should Be Grateful 2. Do What You Love Doing something that you love and even getting paid for it will boost your happiness level by far because what you love feels like play and you're more likely to enjoy other aspects of life as well. 3. Learn to Enjoy Some Alone Time It's important to learn how to be in the company of yourself because that's where you find happiness. Remember, happiness is a state of mind. How do you find out what that state of mind is when all you want to do is be with everyone else but yourself? Spending time alone will help you understand who you are, the things that you like, what your strengths and limitations are, what you love doing, how best you like to have fun and a bunch of other things that can only be gotten by self-discovery. 4.  Well, it's true. Your health is one of the things that can make you truly happy or sad. So, when you are healthy, you'll feel good, especially when you consciously take actions such as eating healthily. Also, aside from the psychological benefits of eating healthy meals, there are physical consequences. When you spend most of your time eating packaged food, you'll begin to gain some extra weight, feel sluggish and possibly experience some health problems. When you eat good and healthy meals, on the other hand, you'll feel fit and healthy. 5. Exercise More Often In a study cited in Sean Ackosburg, the happiness advantage one, three groups of patients treated their depressions with either medication, exercise or a combination of the two. Six months later, the groups were tested to assess their relapse rate. Of those who had taken the medication alone, 38% had sleep back into depression. Those in a combination groups were doing only slightly better, but a 31% relapse rate. The biggest shock, though, came from the exercise group. Their relapse rate was only 9%. When you exercise, you're doing what the human body was designed to do, to move around and dispense energy. When you do this, you relieve stress, making you feel better.  6.  One interesting experiment showed sleep-deprived college students who try to memorize a list of words. They could remember 81% of the words with a negative connotation, like cancer, but they could remember only 31% of the words with a positive or neutral connotation, like sunshine or basket. When you deprive yourself of sleep, you'll experience higher levels of stress, and also feel sluggish. 7. Spend More Time With Your Loved Ones Spending time with loved ones is one of the greatest gifts anyone should wish, because people who do not spend time with family and friends are more prone to loneliness and depression than those who do.  Have you wondered why the first thing that comes to mind when you receive good news or even a bad one is to talk to someone? It's because no matter our level of achievement or the position we hold, we always need people around us as a support system, which is why you should value your relationship with your family and friends and ensure you foster the relationship. 8. Don't Compare Yourself To Others This is one of the toughest things to do, but it is very vital to our happiness. We all have different desires, goals and ambitions, and we all define success differently. Although we all hope to achieve our dreams and be happy, dreams differ. So why compare your journey with someone else's journey? Because you think you are of the same age. Perhaps you grew up together and did so many other things together. The only person you should compete with is yourself. Strive to be better than who you were yesterday. The most important thing is to focus on your growth and development, instead of focusing on your growth in comparison to someone else's. 9. Don't Go Over Grets And Past Mistakes The truth is that we all make mistakes, and we've all made mistakes at some point in our lives. But guess what? It's a sign that we are growing. I mean, we now recognize it as a mistake because we know better than we did when we made the error, isn't it? So on the bright side, it's a good thing. So let go of your regret, forgive yourself and learn from your mistake instead of dwelling on it. 10. Help Others Have you asked yourself why well the people like to give? I mean, why are there so many millionaire philanthropists? The truth is that giving is a way of helping people. And when you help people, it makes you feel happy, knowing that you just added value to someone else's life. Adam Grant, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, recommends one of his favorite techniques, the 5-Minute Failure. What if I just took a couple of minutes every day to try to help someone in a way that is sort of a small commitment to me? But could be of a large benefit to them. 11.  Because when you laugh, you release a happy hormone called oxytocin. 12. Meditate Meditation is a self-awareness exercise, which is why it is highly recommended if you truly want to be happy, because you'll get in touch with your inner self. And invariably, you'll get to know yourself a little better. According to Sean Aka, the author of the Happiness Advantage, studies show that in the minutes right after meditating, we experience feelings of calm and contentment, as well as heightened awareness and empathy. And research even shows that regular meditation can permanently require the brain to raise levels of happiness. So if you want to experience happiness from within, start practicing meditation. 13. Specific Goals You Know You Can Achieve The joy that comes with achieving a goal can boost not only your happiness level, but your confidence level as well. So when you are set on a goal, be specific so that you can measure your progress until you finally achieve it. For instance, you can start by making a good-to-do list that outlines your goals in an organized manner. You'll find out that if you're able to complete your to-do list by the end of the day, you'll be happy with yourself and your ability to do things that you set your mind to achieve. 14. Volunteer When you give your time, money, and energy or anything else, your focus shifts from you to others, and it makes you feel good to know that you are willing to help others without getting paid to do so. Science shows that taking as little as 30 seconds to help someone will instantly flawed your brain with feel-good chemicals and set you up for a great rest of the day. Happiness is your responsibility and you deserve it. So ensure that you work towards being a happy person all day, every day. Thank you so much for watching our videos. If you like this channel, we're happy to announce to you that our team has launched three other interesting channels. 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So this might be a touchdown. I just oh my god. Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God Got a grind bro. It's all about grind. Do y'all work? That's what I asked you the chair all the time Do you guys work?  Who am I just cuz I play a game? I don't I don't got a grind. This is a grind too. So I never I'm the people say I respect your grind I say this is easy dude Like this is a blessing for me to get up and play Madden. All right Never take this for granted cuz you guys work you guys got go to work during the week You'm saying it's a blessing to be able to get up. This is never a grind.   I play Madden. I have fun Talked to a bunch of degenerates in the chat. I don't have my headphones on so Come on Aaron Donald like That's not what you want to do. That's not how you want to live The buyers is getting a workhorse, huh? We got seven touchdowns Everybody was every single person on the field was a touchdown every single person on the field was a touchdown That was the worst man coverage. I think I've ever seen in Madden. That was the worst man coverage I think I've ever seen wow absolutely everybody was just wide open. Just terrible man City lamb I'm playing the past.  Oh my god. I don't know why this audible giving me something annoying Dude like I feel like we're there's so many people there Like can somebody shed or like everybody's shedding the other gap like come on man Playing a good game There we go.  Oh my god. It's just no way That's what we went to This is a nasty situation. We're going through right now boys. Absolutely nasty. Yes, sir. Let's go. Oh my god There's just no way game Of course, he went to the middle.  He could actually like run run it back past for a couple yards here. Get out. Get out.  God man.   He's right there. It's just make a play for me and Donald. Come on Is it this might be a touchdown? I Just oh my god, I just can't believe it. Oh, thank god. Oh, thank god I can't believe I just gave that up bro. This autumn been around is actually giving me a nightmare It's just I it's actually giving me a nightmare.  That's why we don't use Tom Brady. Oh I can't lie. Oh, it might get that there. Oh, it might get that there. Come on, man We got a touchdown just block. Come on boys that time Plexigo didn't want to run his route that time Plexigo said no I'm good dog. Come on boys. Holy man. I just like bro. We need some time I have so many big plays. Oh my god. I have so many. I just take what's there And I keep rolling out to the wrong side The three-man rush is legitimately giving me way too much problems right now These dudes are so like God. I stopped running that plug. I can't get a slant open. I can't get dog. Oh my god Look at this guy blitzes when he blitzes. I got a shot Dude two men under is giving me a nightmare though, man. I need like I'm trying to go deep too much I'm trying to go deep too much in two men under and I'm getting too much pressure And I'm really not used to this guy I never cared about lefty righty, but whether you're left-handed or right-handed you got to be used to what you are I'm spending way too much time rolling out to the right with a left-hand quarterback Dude Aaron Donald is right there and just won't make the play dude. This is way too many yards right now, man Come on like what is going on that the run is just gauging like come on running run again. You might run counter Thank you boys. That's called rock. Come on. Yeah, sir That's why we got pick artists and lurker on the D line Just like dog like just a luck at the run is so lucky man. It's so sad Brunel. I Just no way dog. There's just no way. This is a hard pass for you Brunel. Easy one actually, dude, man Tell you that's where Elway just dominates Elway just dominates in those situations, man My settings are different.  My settings are like my settings.  I swear to God. I like the way he throws the ball real fast I don't know if it's a lefty righty thing. I don't know what it is. That's that makes this dude Dog the run game is killing me. It's Dude Stay in bounds Me they get beat that bad, but I was on the two-yard line I had to like and he's been putting hard flats to try to stop the quick passes So that's why I just put a streak and I didn't want to hold the ball right there So I just really got rid of it.  Come on, man. The run like I we got inside stuff. I feel like it just hurt me more I don't know boys to do you do you do you do you I don't know boys I don't know. What do y'all think chatters?  We got bagged a little bit


The U.S. government at the end of the day, when it comes to working class people going broke, is always saying, well, we don't really have the money, but when it comes to banks taking insane risky bets and completely collapsing, they say, don't worry, you're too big to fail and we got you covered. There's another banking crisis in the United States. The crash of the Silicon Valley Bank has set alarm bells ringing people and experts wondering what this means for the banking sector at large, even for the economy of the United States at large. Now, this is a complex subject. There's a lot of debates around interest rates. There's a question of how such a big bank crashed. The fact that the government was quick to come with the bailout for Silicon Valley Bank as well as offer similar facilities for other banks. To explain all this, we have with us Eugene Pridham, Breakthrough News. Eugene, thank you so much for joining us. So, news of yet another banking crisis, I mean, we're hearing a lot of terms about interest rates, about collapses, bailouts, et cetera, et cetera. But for the benefit of viewers, could you first maybe just give us a definition of or a description rather of what exactly is the crisis? Who are the players and what has brought us to this situation? Well, the current banking crisis or at least potential banking crisis in the United States is really centered primarily around one bank, Silicon Valley Bank, which is one of the major banks that facilitates the growth of the technology and biotechnology, biopharmaceutical industries. And other similar banks like Signature Bank in New York that serve a similar purpose. By and large, these are the banks that are used by the biggest investors when they are looking to facilitate the growth of the companies they're investing in in those sectors. They say, go bank with Silicon Valley Bank, go bank with Signature Bank. They are our friends and they do a very good job in this space in this sector. So, they're narrowly focused in that sense, but also very much embedded in the heart of the economy of the 21st century, if you will, and very much embedded in the heart of the speculative aspect of that because many of these companies, some will succeed, but many of them are companies that are being seated by these larger venture capital firms they're called or VCs that are big, multi-billion dollar behemoths in order to sort of see if they can find the next big app or the next big technological stock. So, the basic factor of what took place here is in Silicon Valley Bank in particular, which is where the contagion started. Like many banks in the United States and around the world, they of course do not hold the exact amount of money on hand as they actually technically are holding in deposits, which is never a huge issue as long as everyone doesn't ask for all of their money all at once. But what took place is the book value, if you will, the face value of a lot of the so-called safe assets and banks in the United States, including Silicon Valley Bank treasury bills from the US Treasury Department, government backed mortgages, things like that that are considered very safe because ultimately the government will pay, so you're more likely to get your money because interest rates have been raised by the Federal Reserve, their value is going down over time. So Peter Thiel, who is sort of like a dark prince of the VC world, very right-wing, pro-Trump guy, but very involved in the technology industry, big time funder, for whatever reason, and many people think he had his own sort of schemes here, he told all of the companies he invest in, pull out a Silicon Valley Bank all at once because they don't have the amount of money that they say they have and who knows what's going to happen with them over time. And the other people got worried of that, so then they start pulling their money out. So you have this situation where Silicon Valley Bank and then banks like Signature Bank and other technology-focused banks that are close to them investing in similar companies tied into some of the companies that are working with Silicon Valley Bank then also have a similar factor where people are like, whoa, well, if this is happening to them, I'm going to take my money out of here too because the two things are too closely connected. And so then you had this greater fear because of how deeply interconnected the banking system is that there was going to be a broader bank run. And that's where the US government stepped in to do this bailout of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and to also create a new what's known as a facility, basically a loan program from the Federal Reserve for all other banks in America to actually appeal to if they also felt that they were having similar problems where because of the book value of their safe assets going down, they would not actually be able to meet their deposits if a significant percentage of their customers asked for their money or even just not all their money, but a substantial amount of their money all at one time. So basically what we have is a classic banking run, but it's one that's centered very much in the technology sector of the economy and in the subsector of that part of the economy that is very much the so-called emerging markets, which really mean the biggest and the riskiest bets on what the next new big technological innovation is going to be. Even of course in this context, a lot of people noting that the government was quick to intervene with bailouts for many of these banks, whereas when it comes to of course the issues of the poor people, when it comes to student loans for instance, you know there's very little of that concern, there's suddenly a lot of debate about whether people deserve bailouts, whether they're not working hard enough etc etc. So there's a very clear class angle when it comes to many of these issues it seems. The class element of the financial infrastructure in America is on such full display here when we look at what's happening. I mean the issue of student loans and the hundreds of billions of dollars, there was all this conversation about well is it fair for people who have paid off their student loans for other people to have them forgiven? We saw the issue during the pandemic right after Joe Biden comes in of whether or not there's going to be another direct payment to citizens here of the United States to help with the rising cost of living and that became this whole big issue and ultimately there was one payment but it was significantly more pared down in 2021 than what we saw in 2020. So when it comes to working class people no matter how dire the situation there's always this conversation about whether or not they're deserving enough to get this money despite the fact as we saw during the pandemic the government has all of these myriad of different ways that they can make sure they get money directly to people. But I think as we can see and as many people have pointed out the role of the Federal Reserve in particular but even just the broader structure of US politics is 100% biased towards the interests of the ultra-rich Wall Street in particular the needs of the investors and that is identified with the quote unquote economy like the economy as it exists this Wall Street casino gambling is allegedly the whole thing it's the only way it can work and if you don't save these big banks everyone's life is going to be over despite the fact that there are multiple other ways that even if these banks failed the government couldn't provide money directly to individuals who have lost income to small businesses who need assistance in order to make sure that the actual economy and the actual people who need help keep going but instead there's this sophistry to try to make it seem like helping the big banks is actually helping the working class people and I think the quickness with which the Federal Government stepped in here is really indicative of so much in particular the fact that they spent all this time saying well we're not bailing out Silicon Valley Bank and sort of hiding their hand that they had created this new Federal Reserve facility that any bank can come to and seek loans from which is backed by taxpayers which is essentially a bailout and in fact a stealth bailout of potentially huge swaths of the banking system including the largest banks who knows how many tens of billions of dollars it could be they've already set aside 25 billion dollars to backstop this new program and so you can see right there the US government at the end of the day when it comes to working class people going broke is always saying well we don't really have the money but when it comes to banks taking insane risky bets and completely collapsing they say don't worry you're too big to fail and we got you covered you know of course the other aspect I wanted to talk about is something we've discussed in many of our shows you've been talking about it for quite a few years now which is the issue of interest rates and we have often discussed how these interest rates are very much an increase in interest rates so very much an attack on the poor on the working class but although in this case it seems even the big banks have suffered in their own way due to this so what really is the politics behind the interest rates here you know the politics of the interest rates is basically the politics of who's going to bear the most chain I mean the real issue becomes who the working class or the capitalist class who is going to have to take the biggest burden in terms of the impact of trying to quote unquote curb inflation now we know that 54 cents out of every dollar of inflation is going to profit so in addition to supply chains in addition to the war in Ukraine a huge amount of inflation that's happening is actually just the outright greed of corporations that are taking advantage of these broader situations in the world in order to jack up prices to keep their profit margins high so obviously the most effective way to address inflation over the past two years would have been windfall profit taxes higher taxes on the richest people maybe price caps or something like that that would have ultimately put the lid on profiteering but that would mean that the whole capitalist class would lose out on this massive bonanza of the most profits they've ever had in the history of capitalism in America which is what happened in 2021 in 2022 was a little less but it was just like the second most profits that they had ever made so of course the broader ruling class does not want to see something like that so raising the interest rates is a way to essentially put the burden on the back of the working class because raising interest rates essentially means what we saw with Silicon Valley Bank that all of the rot in the economy all of the risky bets that really don't mean anything all of the companies that are so-called zombie companies that are only able to survive because their debts keep rolling over that those would be just wiped out because they wouldn't be able to get any more financing and they would be wiped out millions of people would lose their jobs according to the Federal Reserve they think as many as 2 million people could lose their jobs based on how they want to raise interest rates over the next several months or over the rest of this year 2023 I should say as many as too many people losing their jobs and that ultimately this will bring down inflation because it will slow down the economy when you slow down the economy it brings prices you know quote unquote back down to earth but by and large even though some capitalists will lose the Silicon Valley banks of the world and some of the companies that are in there some of them will lose they'll be brought up by bigger corporations the capitalist class overall will take the lesser burden of the pain where if you put the emphasis on taxes the emphasis on price controls then it would be the capitalist class that would have to bear the majority of the pain so even though some capitalists are bound to get hurt and this interest rate increase that's okay to them because that's essentially the sacrifice that is being made and the biggest players are of course going to be protected by the government which they know so some people are going to lose out but by and large the biggest people are going to be protected and the biggest losers are going to be the millions of people who lose their jobs as their companies go under thank you so much Eugene for explaining the crisis as well as I think aspects which a lot of the media are not talking about which is it there are clearly some people who are benefiting and some who are suffering from this crisis thank you so much thank you so there we have it a bank crash which is more than just about one bank shows more about the entire economy and as well as how the economy of the United States is structured that's all we have time for today for more such issues for more such analysis from around the world do keep watching People's Dispatch


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So recently I saw a video that Zodin made where he added heart reloading to his game to his Musializer project and I thought maybe I would implement that into one of my projects whenever I feel like I need it. And so I need it now because it's really annoying. So basically what heart reloading allows you to do is you can recompile code while it's running and you can see the changes in real time. So normally what I would have to do is in order to, let's say I wanted to change the color of this. So right here. Let me just look for the yellow. Alright, let's say I wanted to change this to blue. I could of course always have some sort of editor, but I hard coded it in this case. So if I wanted to change it to blue, I would need to close the program. Turn it back on, recompile, change this to blue, then recompile it. But instead I can just run, just recompile this rendering file into its own library that the main function runs. Then I press H because that's my key bind for a heart reload. And there we go. Yeah, blue. Let's turn it back into yellow. Okay, so I'm going to be showing you how to do this. It's actually pretty simple. It's got a little bit of boilerplate though, which is a little annoying. So what you need for, let me turn this off. I'm going to do a little zooming in. Alright, what you need for heart reloading is you need your main .c file and then library files. So in Linux you're going to be SO for shared, I think shared object files are coming. All the point is they're dynamic libraries. So let's make our main so that for our library file we're going to want to, we're just going to want a, that's all we're going to need for our, now this is going to be, let's do, we're going to have to do a type def. You don't need to do this, but it's just a better work. We're just defining a type. It's just a function pointer to a function of type void. Do I need to do this? Maybe I do. I'll just do it just in case. Okay. Okay, so we're going to need a pointer called library handling and we're going to set that equal to, we're going to need to do dl open and then our file name. So we're going to compile it. We did a hello, a while loop. So our while loop will just be, it will just be coming. Actually we should just um, let's just get rid of this. You don't need to do this, but it's good practice. That's all the code now. The only thing to do left to do is compile. All right. So let me zoom out a bit. You can see the whole thing better. So I think this is, I think this is the whole thing we need to do. Uh, not 100% sure yet. Guess we're going to have to try. Now, usually I should probably learn CMake. I don't, I don't want to feel like it. Build SH files work for me. So yeah, that's what I'm going to do. I don't know, shared, shared goes for the, for the library. Okay. I think I only need to do that shall deal. So up and ready. So one thing you might have noticed when I did the other thing is that I did this said dash and two people this age and I bet into SH. Basically what that means, what that does is I'm only, I'm only running the second line of the build script. So if I just did the whole bill that stage, I would, I would have compiled the whole thing and I don't want to do that. So, maybe that's what CMake is best for. Either way, I think I got it all right. Let's do, okay, we're going to do the whole thing.  Hello from the library. And as you can see, it shows up. Pretty, pretty handy. This is pretty useful. I think it might prevent me from doing bugs for making more bugs because typically what would happen is I would write about 300 lines of code without testing them first because I felt too lazy to turn off the computer, not turn off the computer, turn off the program then rerun it again and then do everything. So yeah, let's just do a quick, quick review. We can shut this off now. So we're going to have two things that we're going to be doing. We're going to, this is pretty simple. It can lead to a lot of way of playing. Like in this other case, like in my game. That's not really good. This is what I have to do to reload the library. And all these lines right here, this is what I have to do to initialize it. So let's go back here. So you're going to want to, so first and foremost you're going to want to include DLFCN. And you're going to want to have a pointer called the library handler. I think this just points to the object or to the library, I'm pretty sure. And we're also going to want a function pointer for the function we want to run. So in this case, so these are the, these are the only two things we really want to do. We should have actually just covered this a lot. Now, the function pointer has to be of the same type as the one you're looking for in the library. So in this case it was just a void. Alright, so after that we open, we open the library in the lib handle. We do using DL open, then the path to the file. So in this case it was in the same directory so you just do dot slash. And I'm not really sure what this is for. Let me check. Lazy function call binding. Immediate function call binding. I'm not exactly sure what these do. But yeah, just use lazy. I guess that's the one I saw being used. And then handle the errors. Alright, and then to open the, and to get the function, what you do is you look for the, you do dlsim, the lib handle, and then polo. Actually, I want to, yeah, so dlsim, the library handler, and then the function name. So, you know, and then handle the error as well. Then you could just call the function anywhere as you please. When you want to reload it, you're going to want to, you're going to want to close the library handle and then open it again. And do the whole thing again. So, it's pretty simple. I don't know why I didn't really hear of this before. It's a really useful, it's a really useful thing. Maybe it makes your codes lower. I think everything might just be faster if you statically link it for compiler optimizations and such. Yeah, how long have this video been running for? It's 18 minutes long. All right, you should have gotten the idea by now. I'm just going to wrap a little bit. So yeah, dynamic programming languages aren't all that. You can do this in Windows, Windows MathLinux. This is just a basic functionality that every modern operating system needs to have, the ability to dynamically link libraries. I think that's it. Thanks for watching.


So it was Ashley Babbitt, the hero. So Ashley Babbitt was the woman who was shot dead by, I think, the secret service agent on January 6, 2021 during the Capitol Hill riots. And if you think she was a hero, it's just all a matter of your perspective. So if you believe in QAnon, then you're very likely to think that she's a hero. If you believe that the 2020 election was stolen, then you're very likely to believe that she was a hero. So if she becomes the martyr for some kind of right-wing revolution that makes America and the world a better place, then she was a hero. So heroism is not usually an objective thing. It's usually highly subjective. So some of the nutters who set off the American Civil War, in retrospect, they may become to be seen as heroes if you think the American Civil War was a good thing because it ended slavery. So we have no idea what will happen. So if the January 6 riots set off some kind of right-wing revolution that ends up improving this country, then the January 6 riots will come to be seen as a good thing. So right now, I think the January 6 riots were a disaster. I don't think she was a hero. I think she was a silly woman who charged a law enforcement officer who had a gun drawn on her. So it's not a good idea to charge law enforcement officers who have a gun drawn on you. So it reminds me a bit of COVID. You may not believe in COVID. You may be tired of COVID restrictions. You may not believe that the world revolves around the sun. You may not believe in the laws of gravity. And you may not believe that a law enforcement officer who's got a gun drawn on you and is giving you instructions, you may not believe that that person needs to be obeyed. But if you disregard reality, you're the one who's going to pay the price. Like, reality just is. Like, we have no idea what's going to happen with COVID. So I notice in many of the comments on my videos, people are very confident that this is the end of COVID. We have no idea. We could very well have a much more lethal strain of COVID sweep the world starting next week. We have no idea if this is the end of COVID. We have no idea if Omicron will provide a substantial protection against future variants of the coronavirus. We just don't know. So reality just is, the coronavirus just is, COVID just is. And whatever our emotions are or whatever our thoughts are, whatever our opinions are, really irrelevant compared to the force of this disease. So we have no idea what's coming next. We may well need more restrictions going forward. The first wave of the Spanish flu was not the most deadly one. It was additional waves down the road. Yeah, Ashley Barber got played by Trump. So she was credulous. She believed in QAnon. Someone who believes in QAnon can believe in absolutely anything. Can believe in a flat earth. Can believe the 2020 elections were stolen. Like if you believe the 2020 elections were stolen, then Ashley Barber is going to be a hero to you. If you believe in QAnon, Ashley Barber is going to be a hero to you. If you believe that Donald Trump is going to save us from satanic pedophiles, then Ashley Barber is going to be a hero. Now, I don't believe any of those things. So to me, she was a silly woman who made a big mistake. And you read a little bit about her, and it appears this wasn't her first mistake. I mean, she made a lot of mistakes. She had a bankruptcy. She had a long criminal record. So this is a good article from the Associated Press. The first time Celeste Norris laid eyes on Ashley Barber. So how did Ashley become Barber? This is the story. Her future insurrectionist had just rammed her vehicle three times with an SUV and was pounding on the window, challenging her to a fight. This is not a normal woman. Ashley Barber was not like a normal law-abiding citizen. So Celeste Norris says the blood between them began in 2017 when Barber engaged in a months-long extramarital affair where Norris's long time live-in boyfriend. When she learned of the relationship, Norris called Barber's husband and told him that she was cheating on him. So Ashley Barber pulls up yelling and screaming, Norris said, about the July 29, 2016 road rage incident in Prince Frederick, Maryland. It took me a good 30 seconds to figure out who she was.  All right, this is not a normal healthy woman. So Barber was later charged with numerous misdemeanors. So the attack on Norris is an example of the erratic and often threatening behavior by Ashley Barber, who was shot by a police officer while at the vanguard of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. So she was an Air Force veteran.  Right? So she was a complicated woman. She became consumed by pro-Trump conspiracy theories. She posted all these angry screeds on social media. And she had this long history of making violent threats. Right? Someone is making a lot of violent threats. That's not a well woman. Normally not a healthy thing to do. So she was 35. She was fatally shot while attempting to climb through a broken window at the U.S. Capitol. And her husband said there's never been a person who actually ran across in her daily life that didn't love her. Well, yeah, that's obviously not true. So she was a woman who made a lot of terrible decisions. And participating in January 6 riot was just one of them. But once you believe the 2020 elections were stolen, then participating in a riot like that makes sense. Because there are no moral restrictions on you once you believe that American democracy is being hijacked. So I think Trump bears some responsibility for the January 6 riots. So on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being a nuclear war, and say 5 being 9, 11, like I view the significance of the January 6 riots as about a 1. I view them as much less significant than the Black Lives Matter riots or the Antifa riots. And the thousands of extra dead Americans as a result of the Ferguson effect and Black Lives Matter and Antifa. But on the other hand, I don't think it was nothing. I don't think it was a false flag operation. And I think the people who participated in it used really bad judgment. Now I'm hanging out at Kudji Beach and I was on Bondi Beach on Friday and I left my $70 gimbal behind. Like after I took a swim in Bondi Beach, I realized I was late. So I got out of the ocean, checked my phone. It was 1.40pm and I had a 2pm appointment with a bloke who was about three kilometers away. And so I rushed to take a shower and like I washed the sand off my gimbal and I put it down and I forgot it and left it there. And when I came back about three hours later, it was no longer there. So I left a phone message with the North Bondi Life-Saving Club. See if anyone turned it in. But I'm thinking of getting the $400 DJI Creator combo. So they have all these external audio options. So I guess the airport's reasonably near here. I think it's 20 minutes away so the plane's going over. Oh, so for the first time yesterday, I heard sirens. I've been in Australia for seven weeks. Haven't heard any sirens. Not ambulances, not police. So yesterday, around 3pm, I heard sirens for the first time. So apparently someone fell off the cliffs by the Kudji Beach. So I made a lot of videos walking by the Kudji Beach. And some man in his 20s either fell off the cliffs about 15 meters, about 15 yards, about 40 feet to his death. Someone either fell off the cliffs or jumped off the cliffs. But first time I heard sirens. I heard like three different police sirens and an ambulance siren. And he fell about 40 feet to his death, went into a cardiac arrest and died. So that's the one bit of drama and excitement and sirens going off and police being caught into action that I've seen while I'm in Australia, mate. Okay, so I used to think that Sea of Sailor's comment section was like the smartest comment section around. But now I'm realizing a lot of people who are drawn to dissident politics are also drawn to like dissident science and dissident understandings of history. And all sorts of like wacky views. So Sea of Sailor made a very reasonable blog post about January 6th. Not the biggest deal ever. That was his point. But there are about 140 comments on this blog post. And only one of them made the argument that the January 6th Capitol Hill riots were a bad idea. I used to think Sea of Sailor commenters were, you know, about the smartest people around. But the overwhelmingly didn't think that January 6th was such a big deal, shows me not so smart. She was a fine person. So this is what Sea of Sailor says, wake me when January 6th is over. The commemoration of the mostly peaceful protest of January 6th, 2021, is too important for just one day. We need Congress to declare a January 6th history month or maybe a January 6th history quarter that runs through March every year. Or perhaps channeling January 6th into any part of the calendar is a threat to our democracy. So we should have ongoing, never-ending year-round blanket headline coverage like that of Emmett Till. Who, in case you missed it, is all over the news 67 years after his tragic death. So we need blanket headline coverage of long-ago, head-touching incidents. So one good thing about being in Australia, very little news coverage about Emmett Till, very little news coverage of anything like Emmett Till. So constantly being bombarded with Emmett Till news. So tell me if you can see this clearly. Oh no, you're not going to see it clearly. So yeah, Sea of Sailor is just making fun of all the January 6th hysteria. Right-wing calls to celebrate January 6th anniversary. Just ongoing blanket coverage of January 6th.  But then, okay, I thought that was a pretty smart Sea of Sailor comment. But then the comment section is crazy. Kyle Rittenhouse needs to go after some broadcast licenses. Sea of Sailor moderates his comment section. Why on earth would he allow a comment like that? An instruction where nobody was armed who said that America couldn't innovate. Well, we often make fun of the argument that an unarmed person was killed by the police. Unarmed people can do a lot of damage. Just because you don't have a gun, don't have a knife doesn't mean you can't do a lot of harm. And then, remember this, when the leftists were chasing the politicians in halls. Yeah, in Wisconsin, exactly. So I would feel the exact same way about Ashley Barber if she was for Black Lives Matter or Antifa or for Trump and QAnon, right?  It's all part of the plan. It's all part of the plan to cheapen and punish white lives in perpetuity. No, it's an understandable reaction to a Capitol Hill riot. We haven't had a Capitol Hill riot like that before. It was not an insignificant event. The January 6 riots to me were a top 10 2021 event. Not as big a deal. I would say they were about one-tenth, one-twentieth as significant as Black Lives Matter or Antifa riots in the racial reckoning after George Floyd's death.  Yeah, don't take law enforcement's job into your hands. Defund the police and prohibit the citizenry from doing anything to stop crime. Sit in your discomfort and watch sullenly. This is absurd and this is like a hugely praised comment on Steve Saylor's website. January 6th mattered. It was significant. It's not the most significant thing ever. How about it had moderate significance and it's not all part of the plan to prohibit the citizenry from doing anything to defend themselves. You can still legally own a weapon, buy a gun. You can get training in how to appropriately defend yourself. You can join a group, a neighborhood watch. Wake me when Steve says a name. Yeah, like Ashley Babbitt. That's the hero that we need to rally around. That's absurd. People who want to rally around Ashley Babbitt as a hero are low IQ or just delusional. Here's a comment. Person can love the USA of many generations ago just like an elderly man can reveal the memory of a wife decades before. The deceased beloved cannot be brought back.  She has nothing in common with the beloved. America is not quite that bad. In some ways we're far better off than the 1950s. In other ways we're far worse off than the 1950s. The United States is improving in some ways, getting worse in some ways. It's not all over. The insurrection is brought to us by the same gang that sold us the steel dossier. Yeah, I think insurrection is a dramatic overstatement. It was a riot. It was performance art. And I would want them prosecuted like any other rioters, like the Black Lives Matter rioters and the Antifa rioters. The insurrection is brought to us by the same gang that sold us on the Scandemic. Okay, the quality of the Steve's comments, Sadler's comments section is either dramatically declined or I've dramatically changed. People who think that the COVID is a scam and a Scandemic are delusional. We're coming up on nearly a million dead Americans due to COVID. Well, you can say F COVID, but COVID is going to do its thing. You may say you don't believe in evolution. You don't believe in gravity. You don't believe the earth is round. You don't believe that the earth rotates around the sun. But that's reality. And you can deny reality, but reality will exact its toll. Halsey English got COVID and beat it in one day. Good for him. Ashley Babbitt died while exercising her First Amendment rights as a U.S. citizen unarmed. She should not be so quickly forgotten. That's not an accurate description about what happened to Ashley Babbitt. She participated in a legal takeover of Capitol Hill and charged law enforcement officer who was issuing her instructions and telling her to stay back. And then, I mean, the quality, the comment section on Steve Saylor's side has gone way down. The FBI can't track down which one of its informants or agents was behind the January 6th false flag up. It wasn't overwhelmingly a left wing or a false flag up. So what's with the, you know, the, I think, here's what I think has happened. People realize that they've been lied to about a lot of things, such as, like, I'm walking around the beach. And obviously, you know, different groups have different gifts. Like, who's more likely to wear a mask? Well, people in Northeast Asia, such as Japan, were wearing masks for influenza, like, long before COVID, right? Why do we have the cliche about Asian drivers being particularly careful drivers? Because generally speaking, Northeast Asians seem to exercise greater care, greater diligence. They seem to be more cautious in their approach to life. And so, obviously, different groups have different propensities to wear masks. Different groups have different propensities to J-Walk. So I'm looking out at a street here going past the Kujibeech. And who's more likely to J-Walk? Men or women? Obviously, men are.  If Aussies don't feel the government is serving them, can they form a new one? No. But most Aussies do feel like the government is serving them fairly well. So, you know, some groups have much more muscular definition. You know, some groups are much more assertive and aggressive. Like, men can met approximately 10 times as many murders as women.  So people realize that they've been lied to, right? And people realize they've been lied to because it's like racial discrimination that accounts for why, you know, different groups have different life results. So they realize that they've been lied to in certain things. They realize they've been lied to that the, you know, constitution is going to protect them. And then people overreact. It's like when you grow up as a kid, you think everything, a normal kid, you think everything that your parents do is the best.   So normally we grow up and we think everything our family does is right. Then typically we go after college and we start to think everything our family does is wrong. Right. And so it's like with, with dissidents, they discover all sorts of lies that have been pushed on them by the schools and by the news media and by, by the government and by our elites. And then they assume that everything that the schools and the media and the elites tell them is a lie. And it's like, you can kind of see this evolution with Godward. All right.   And then they start automatically assume that elites are always lying, that the media is always lying, the politicians are always lying. And it's just not true.  And so it's just like going from one extreme to another. So, yeah, we were lied to. Now, our parents lied to us about some things. Like our best friend, our spouse, lies to us about some things. That doesn't mean you automatically reject your parents or reject your spouse or reject your friends or reject your relays. That everybody lies. We just have to use good judgment, critical thinking and discernment. And so I'd notice all these people thinking, well, realizing that they'd been lied to by the schools and by the media and by the politicians, they'd then just take it way too far. You know, and they become QAnon types or flat earthers or, you know, just reaching for conspiracy theories to try to explain the world around them. How do we even know what the unelected staff infection is doing us the chat? So I made notes. You're lucky this live stream is going to be so rich. It's going to be so packed with comments. So what do you think? Is it the Steve Saylor's comment section has changed or I've changed? I think that's probably 50-50. I think I've changed. I've become more skeptical of dissidents. And I think people who have become dissidents, then, like most people, take things too far. And they start dissenting on things where they have no rational empirical basis for dissenting. So you may be tired of COVID. We have no idea if this is the end of COVID. We have no idea if Omicron will provide us with significant protection going forward with the coronavirus. So just because you're tired of coronavirus restrictions or coronavirus news does not mean that they are unnecessary or that they are wrong. So your COVID fatigue does not mean that COVID is over or that we just have to, quote-unquote, live with it without taking any additional measures. So it's like saying, Russia invaded our country or China invaded our country. Now we just have to live with it. Germany invaded our country. Now we just have to live with it. Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. This is the age of Aquarius, bro. Big cosmic stuff is happening. All right? The deadliest wave of COVID might start next week. Viruses don't only mutate to become less lethal. They can mutate to become more lethal. Eventually, eventually, but we don't know when coronavirus will mutate to be less lethal. So reality is COVID is. It's not changed by your feelings. So you might feel that you're over the demands of your boss or you're over the demands of public health officials with regard to COVID or you're over your spouse's demands or your rabbi's demands. Well, if you want to maintain relations and have a healthy, happy, good life, you need to take into consideration the wishes of other people, particularly those who have power over you. All right? Your relationship with your boss is the most important relationship you have at work. You may get along better with 50 other people at work, but it's your relationship with your boss. It's the most important relationship at work.  Oh, I heard a good comment from in a 12-step meeting by a woman. I had to quit Facebook. I'm not a normal Facebook user. It was like a vape pen. I was going on there every 15 minutes. So this is like adrenaline addiction. And I've got, I suffer from this, adrenaline addiction, love, excitement, chasing adrenaline, and adrenaline highs are really dangerous for addicts. So you may not be a normal coffee user. You may not be a normal YouTube user. You may not be a normal chocolate user. You may not be a normal porn user. You may not be a normal credit card user. Some people can't handle Facebook. Some people can't handle YouTube. Some people can't read a book without it driving them crazy. So we have to recognize when we can't use something normally. For example, my father would say, would never eat chocolate because for him, it was easier to abstain than to be moderate. So I've been staying in an apartment building for the last few days. And occasionally, there's loud talk outside.  That kind of confrontational talk that you hear routinely in Los Angeles and other big cities.  You don't hear that so much. I don't think I've seen an angry person since I've been here. Oh, everybody waits in line here. So I think in some ways, Australia's more egalitarian than America. So Australia's cricket captain, Alan Borda, he'd wait in line for a taxi. So everybody waits in line, usually patiently. Everybody queues up just like the English here. Oh, and another example of Australia's egalitarianism is that you call the Prime Minister by his first name or a nickname. So if you're meeting Prime Minister Bob Hawke, it'd be like, g'day, Bob. Or Scott Morrison at Scomo, right? So you would not call the American president by his first name. So Americans have, I think, more respect for the presidency and for politicians and for people in power. And Australians are more cheeky, more disrespectful, more egalitarian. You call the Prime Minister by his first name. Even Australia's cricket captain has to wait in line. Doesn't get special privileges. Oh, so I'm watching a sports doco on KO Sports. KO Sports is great. It's got a million subscribers here in Australia. Basically, all your live sports and sport documentary needs like the ESPN 30 for 30. They're all on KO Sports. And it's like only $26 a month and all your live sports streaming needs are met. So I was watching KO Sports, a cricket documentary. And it had this tagline on its cricket documentary, End Violence Against Women. Why not End Violence Against Men? Why not End Violence Against Jews? Why not End Violence Against Muslims? End Violence Against Children. Why on earth would you have a tagline End Violence Against Women in a cricket documentary? This Black Lives Matter stuff, End Violence Against Women, it just rubs me the wrong way. Like there's special pleading. It just goes against my Anglo heritage. So Kenneth Brown is doing this series, Liars on the Right, and it's really bad. Like the ones on Edward Dutton and Richard Spencer, he does nothing to establish his case that these people are liars.  He's about as honest and transparent as you could expect a public figure to be. So Kenneth Brown is becoming really good at doing provocative titles for his streams, but the content frequently just does not live up to it. So his series, Liars on the Right, particularly the two episodes I caught on Edward Dutton and Richard Spencer were really weak. Yeah, he does do an excellent Richard Spencer impression. He does a lot of good impressions. He is very smart and he sometimes has really sharp things to say. But there's just so much nonsense that it's often too tiring to try to sort through the nonsense. Oh, so if I disagree strenuously with someone, I don't necessarily bring it up with my friends. Like a lot of people I know are anti-vaccine or anti-the COVID vaccine. I just don't bring it up with them. So I'm surprised by how many people I know are anti-the COVID vaccine, but I just don't bring it up. So I believe in the traditional conception of marriage is between one man and one woman. But if I've got an acquaintance who thinks differently, I just don't bring it up. So I think adultery is a bad idea, but if I've got a friend who's an adulterer, I don't bring it up. So I notice that on the one hand, there are people who think that if they believe something strongly, they've always got to bring it up with a friend who disagrees or acts differently. And I think that's a mistake. If you've got friends, you should just drop topics that are not a useful basis for conversation. And then on the other hand, people are afraid to stand up for anything because they don't want to alienate their friends. And so they keep quiet about what they believe. So you don't have to bring it up to the people that you disagree with, but how about in middle ground? Like I want to get along with my friends. So I generally speaking don't bang on about topics that we can't have a pleasant conversation about. On the other hand, I don't abstain from saying what I think on YouTube or on my blog. Now, I still believe in the traditional conception of marriage. I still believe in COVID vaccines. But if I've got a friend who thinks differently, like Elliot Blatt, right? Elliot Blatt and I, we disagree about all sorts of things. And we have private conversations. We have public conversations. I don't bang on about the topics where we passionately disagree because there's just, there's no point. I don't send him links. It's like, oh Elliot, you need to see this link which shows that you're wrong about XYZ. No, I do that with virtually nobody. It's just, yeah, it's just not good etiquette. So, welcome to Beautiful Kujie. I'm going for a swim, mate.