Ya, mtuku so much, I think that has gained a lot of content, a lot of discussions all over the country and right now we are thinking of how probably we can get into it, so we were talking about that. Mzi gaut na kumuza, lemi na saya yasu na. I go in any of the it's very good in the social media platform and it's always a pleasure to hang up with you every single Tuesday for entrepreneurship Tuesday and today being entrepreneurship Tuesday I know these matters on the headlines all over We are going to narrow it down probably later on. But for now I want us to do Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Roteach and his principal secretary Kamal Thuge. We will spend the night in police custody yesterday. Actually today they spend the night at the police station. And after they were arrested in connection with a multi-billion shilling, Ara and Kimura's dance scandal, the two were among the 28 top government officers who the Director of Public Prosecution ordered for their arrest. Now, all these guys have been arrested yesterday and they slapped Quasal. I want us to watch probably this clip before we proceed. And of course once we come back, we'll be bringing you into detail how did it all begin, how was it and of course we'll get to narrow it down. Let's first of all have a look at this. This decision has been made professionally, independently, devoid of any external influence, political consideration or any other extraneous matters. Consequently, I have today directed the DCI to effect the arrest and immediate arraignment before court of the accused persons. In Eldorat, another group still on the DPP's wanted list was also arrested and taken to Central Police Station in town. KVDA acting CEO Francis Chepkonga keep catch, planning manager David Onyango and deputy procurement officer Charity Mui were among those arrested by CID detectives. Nine other senior KVDA officials listed in DPP Nordin Harji's list of suspects took to their heels to evade arrest. Head of investigation Bureau John Karuki said the suspects are expected to be arrained in court on Tuesday. Directive of public prosecutions Nordin Harji calling for investigation saying that the conception procurement and payment process for the Arraa and Kimurel Dam projects in Elgeo Marakwet County were redod with massive illegalities. Upon investigations by the DCI it was established that the conception, procurement and payment process for the Arraa and Kimurel Dam projects in Elgeo Marakwet County were redod with massive illegalities. Harji timing the charges as tantamount to economic crimes. And in concluding that it is in the public interest to prosecute these cases, I have considered that such infractions are crimes against Mauna Inchi individually and collectively and the decision to prosecute is in line with safeguarding the public good. Harji's list of wanted persons is the principal secretary at the Ministry of East African Community. Alright, Barry, this has become so much of an issue. The issue when we talk about scandals, they are ever rising. I don't know what you think about this. Alright, these are conversations I hear on a day-to-day basis from Matatu's, the Matatu I applied it in the morning. The conversation was the issue of corruption. The conversation was 63 billion. And this is quite a sad story to see that people are going to politicize it after. Definitely, you know, when I'm trying to look at it statistically, 63 billion is not just a little money.  And I don't know probably where we are heading in terms of these scandals because we're still talking about wage bill and how to reduce the wage bill. And this scandal now comes in and we're talking about 63 billion shins and it's one scandal that's going to cause the taxpayers. Alright, and they claim to have compensated people. They look acquired the land. They claim to have paid insurance. They claim to have had to pay some money to secure more money to do this. And my biggest worry at the end of the day is Kenyans cannot even conceptualize How big 63 billion is? How many zeros are there? How many millions it takes to make 63 billion? And the reason I say this, some people are already saying that 60 billion has been lost. We have lost after 60 billion. They forget that this 3 billion It really matters a lot. It's quite a huge amount of money. We can get into the facts of the story. Yes, I think we need to break it down for you of course of our viewers. And in May 2018, the National Land Commission was in the process of acquiring land for construction of Aral and Kimura dams in Kereovali in Wasengishu County. So 643 million shillings is said to have been released by the National Treasury meant for compensation and resettlement of displaced residents but to date there is no evidence that the land was acquired. Aral and Kimura dam are now synonymous with a mega scandal that has 21 billion shillings and accounted for. Yes, and the project at a projected cost of 38.5 billion shillings for Aral dam and 28 billion shillings for Kimura dam was to see a 60 megawatts of electricity added to the national grid. According to the Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich Italian farm CIS was paid 7.8 billion shillings in advance representing 15% only 15% of the contract amount. Probably before we proceed having a look at it very we are talking about the project at the projected cost of 38.5 billion shillings and it was released we were talking about electricity it was supposed to add to the national grid on the contrary the Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich actually says that they gave it out but as probably let's first of all proceed before we can do even the analysis of it. In March this year the national treasury denied reports that up to 21 billion shillings had been paid out in respect of the construction of Aral and Kimura dams before commencement of its works. Now this how it goes Rotich is on record and this what he says confirming that the government had spent 12 billion shillings to secure funding for the construction of the two dams had been paid out to meet certain conditions before the actual funding the 12 billion shillings entailed an arrangement fee of 545.9 million shillings bury and these are some of the statistics that we are having the 12 billion shillings entailed an arrangement fee of 545.9 million shillings are 359.5 million shillings commitment fee 3.5 million shillings agency fee and 11.1 billion shillings insurance premium paid to an Italian contractor. The figures provided by the treasury inclusive of 12 billion shillings loan facilitation fee at up to 19.8 billion shillings with Rotich saying 7.8 billion shillings advance payment was in line with section 147 one of the public procurement set disposal act the director of public prosecution Naudin Harji they even took some time out to go and do their own investigations and they took criminal investigation George Kenoti and of course Naudin Harji contingent investigative officials had gone to Italy just to try and piece up what these scalo all about before they made the arrest another issue that is arising that a lot of resources and money was spent in investigating who is going to finance this process of investigation of course the government because DPP of course is on a government office Kenoti still is on another government office so all of these will be funded by the government of which now is down to the one inches because the taxpayers will have to fund for this so we lose money to get started of all these things and what stands out for me is this section where Rotish says the payment of 7.8 billion shalings advance payment was in line with section 147 of the public procurement disposal act is even as a constitutional and it's sad to see all these big digits being played around with I think probably just to make it look appealing even to us young people I think in Kenya you're talking about millions you're joking and talk about billions now you're talking about business and scandals for millions are not a thing nowadays people just brush them off people forget that millions can do a lot to the economy and millions can do a lot in terms of service delivery it takes a shaling for it to be called a billion just one shaling if it lacks can never be a billion so even a shaling really matters a lot if it's one shaling less it's 999 million million probably just away from this story of course it's a story that we are following up for you and we'll be bringing up to speed probably later on on these very buttona president Mosisi is explaining the country today alright and this bilateral talk so many presidents are streaming into Kenya as we speak and Kenya is very promising if you ask me despite the 63 billion we are going to get back and it seems the DCI and the DBP are really determined to win this or to get this money back and these people are going to be arranged in court before we talk about the buttona president these people are going to be arranged in court today and we hope something is going to come out of this because we have seen people being arranged in court and nothing always comes out and Kenyans have been complaining about this no convictions and the cases never get concluded but what they say in the law until proven guilty so every even the accused even the criminals have a right and we welcome the buttona president to the country despite the reckless remarks by the starier we welcome all Africans and all voiders to the country and do business something to note about the president requested president Mosisi and some business persons from Botswana because the president says that we believe in bilateral talks of which we can come to an agreement and probably we can have some agreements on how to do business together and I feel that's a good thing for the country respective of how things are happening deep for entrepreneurs will get to learn and this is entrepreneurship Tuesday and we so president we are going to Tanzania to solve the small issue that we had with Tanzania despite beating them we are still friends and we are still doing business together but yes bilateral talks and I feel like the president is determined to do something before his term comes and we don't know about what's going to happen in the referendum or if we are going to have him after 2022 but I like what he's trying to do in terms of unifying Africa and unifying the black people at large I believe that Africa is going to grow but Dr. Kwanzaan he says that Africa will grow respective of how people want to see it downfalling Africa is growing and it's going someplace Kenya is a huge country Kenya is a leader we are the G8 of the African Union we are members of the G8 of the African Union and we contribute a lot to the African Union Kenya is leading by example and I like what president Uru is doing so much when it comes to international relations and matters of international relations and I hope leaders are not going to follow after the reckless remarks of the Australia NP we welcome Africans to this country because Kenyans can go to anywhere in Africa and do business and the environment is being set and the environment is quite conducive in Africa right now and that's where I say when entrepreneurs are given a good environment to do their business the economy any particular country will grow because the environment that you give to the entrepreneur really matters a lot of course we'll get to expand on these later on the guests that we have but for now I think it's good for us to first of all wind up the introduction and probably come on later who do you have as a guest for the day my guest of the day we will pick who to host but we have two people we have a music producer so we'll decide behind the scenes but as of now I'd like to leave people with a food forethought we have 40 million people in this country right that means your market is 40 million people and if we were to unite Africa imagine how big that market would be if you were to sell something for one shilling to each Kenyan that is 40 million Kenyan shillings if you were to sell it that is billions and when we are talking about growing the art in Europe is quite a good deal yesterday happened to me somewhere in some place in my local area they are doing good art and he was telling me the guy that I met art is really growing in the country even if despite the people think that most often time it's growing in the slums even in the other areas especially in Europe it's really growing and it's finding itself some roots so that's what we'll be having a look at after we are done with this introduction as we get to take you along of course for entrepreneurship Tuesday it's that day we call making money


Bonjour! Bonjour, mon nom est Michel Blume. I'm, again, switching to the wrong language. Sorry, my name is Michel Blume. I'm used to doing these in French and Montreal. So today, we're only going to be skimming the surface of how to prepare, think about our content that is not posts and not pages. Anything else would probably be something that we want to plan in advance and that we want to just think about to save time down the road, because any decision we make will impact many aspects of our projects. It's going to impact the wireframe aspect, it's going to impact the design, because all of these properties have to be applied and shown on the page itself. It's going to be impacting page templates because, as you can imagine, you probably want a special template to display the special data. It's going to affect all sorts of parts, including also thinking maybe of your web content people, the webmasters, because you want to make sure that it's easy for them to work and enter this data. And also, one of my roles is that the other than strong and italic, you should never have to write any HTML as a web content person. If not, it's that your back end has probably not been prepared accordingly to the project that you're working on. So what are we dealing with is the first thing you're going to be thinking about. It could be anything, because just to be clear, I'm talking about custom post types, but it's more of a concept than having to think about WordPress itself. This will apply to any web project, whether you're using WordPress or not. This is sort of the catalog of objects, of entities that you will be presenting. What is it? Is it a book? Is it a recipe? It doesn't have to be a physical object either. You could be selling e-books, tutorials, mp3s. It could be anything. So that would be sort of like our... Sorry, I'm not used to this microphone. It would be used, it would be like the base. Think of it as your archive pages. Think of it as the singles of books. Once we figure that out, what we're going to start thinking about is two main things. There are other considerations, but the two main things you want to think about is how are we going to sort this information and how are we going to filter it? Think about, again, just to take a random example, because I have not been thinking about books at all, how would we sort books? Do we care about sorting by ISBN number? Probably not, but we might be thinking about how to sort by author, but also by date of publication. If you were to enter this data into the, let's call it dumb content, not that it's dumb, it's that it's not useful for any queries. If you put it within a paragraph, it's going to be a horrible experience to try to sort it by that. So you want to think about, okay, let's make a special field just for our author. But once you do that, let's say I had three books, and my name is Michelle Bluma, chances are you don't want to sort by my first thing. So that's another consideration. How do we break down this information to make it easy to display, catalog, query, sort, and also filter? So you could go with Bluma, Michelle, but still chances are that it's going to be even easier down the road if you just break it down into two fields. So considerations that you might have about sorting. For filtering, again, just to take a random example, a book, you might want to filter by fiction, nonfiction, biographies. All of these are probably going to be set up as taxonomies, but how you do it is not really important today. It's just planning to do it because any of these steps might involve back-end code. And that one little bullet point in your project description when you're talking with your customer could end up being a 20-hour job, just a part of your project. And that's not something that's really fun to discover when you're at 65% completion and, of course, 95% budget. It's not really great to realize, oh, zut, I'm going to have to pay a subcontractor to do this, and it's going to really cut into my profit margin. So what we're going to start doing is just thinking about things. That's all. Today, that's all I'm talking about is thinking about anything. You can look around you. Anything that you're looking at is an object, an entity, and not to objectify anyone. It's really more that if you're looking at people and you see they're lanyards, you can just think to yourself, what is this? What is this lanyard? So it's a piece of cardboard. It is square. It's not really heavy. Most of these properties are uninteresting and useless. But some of them, mine is an X-Men one. I know you guys all seem to have a blue one. I don't know where you got yours. Those would be two products, and you would want to see how do I separate those, or how do I make it easy for the visitor to as quickly as possible get the information they have and do exactly what they need to get to that. As you can see, all sorts of examples. Some seem dumb. But the thing is when you're thinking about this, when you're in this process, don't try to be smart. What I mean by that is don't easily dismiss stuff. Earlier, I was talking about the ISBN number on a book. If you don't know, it's just a way to internationally catalog books, and I'm not going to say more, because I'm probably going to make a mistake. That is not useful for your visitor. It is honestly not useful for your designer, because they're just going to, even if you show it, it's just going to be a quick echo, and that's it.  I would really like to tie into Amazon's API for this. Well, the ISBN is probably a great unique identifier, and it won't have anything to do with your development or what you thought you needed to build a site. But tying into this external API might be two, five, 10, again, 20 hours of development time. Probably not 20, but just to give you an example of things that you don't think about necessarily in the beginning that might end up taking a lot of time and a lot of chunks of your budget. So that is the part about the little properties. Of course, this will also impact the web contents, the entry. I'm not going to go into how we enter this information, but as you can imagine, there are ways to make it a lot easier, again, for your web content person to enter them, classify them, and make it just pleasant for everyone. I was a little scared of running overboard over my time. I guess I'm not going to be, so this is going to go real quick. Just today, if you can, when you're walking around, like I was saying, just look at stuff and just try to think about it. And it'll seem like it's a futile, sort of boring thing to do, but after a while, all of this just comes too naturally, and it'll be super easy when you're planning, estimating, and preparing your project. I don't have a Q&A, but I... Hey. A random example, we have a book. Or rather, it would probably be a book publisher, so it would be a collection of books. This is a collection of things that we're talking about, right? So what is a book? Actually, I'll... Can anyone name properties of a book? Numbers of page, excellent. Paper. Language. Paper. Title. That is a very useful one, usually. Very good, very good. Un morceau de rebots. Which of these... You're publishing, and that is important, because we're probably going to want to look at books chronologically, and perhaps not the way you think. It might not be on the Show Us All Books page. It might be because you also entered authors as a piece of information. Maybe it takes on to me or a custom field. And on their page, you probably want to show their bibliography chronologically descending. I don't know if you've ever tried to sort information when it's like a random date within a piece of content. It's not going to happen. It's not going to work well. What you want is, first of all, a date entry field for your web master, or web content person. You will want to prepare queries. So that's for your back-end person. And all of this, if you prepare it, it's super quick to do. But not at the last minute when... We should have thought of that first. The paper or binding chances are that it's not really going to be useful. And I thought of those, and I thought, they're great, because sometimes, if you are a prestige publisher, if you're McSweeney's or something, you might want to present. But you probably won't be filtering by... I really would like a Stephen King novel, but only if it's on a beige stock. Otherwise, no. So all of this comes with... You just start realizing what is useful, what is not, and once you do that, you've planned it out. So as I was saying, I don't actually have a Q&A.  And if you want, we can just try to map something out on paper real quick, because, yes, the main tools you will need, I know, it's really expensive, but you will need a piece of paper and a pencil or pen. That's about it, because all of this is just done really free-flowing, but then all your meanings are going to be so much easier to get through. Does anyone have any questions? I will prepare a Q&A just for you. Any question at all? I know you're all waiting for Catherine. She always gives amazing talks. I get it. It's fine. I'm just the opening act. So, well, in that case, thank you very much. And really, I mean this. It's not just to be polite or something. Come see me. I'll gladly look at this stuff with you. Thank you very much.


Jamaican race car driver Fraser McConnell is inked to deal with the Akshiona Science team for the 2024 Xtreme E-Season. He had a successful debut campaign with Sir Lewis Hamilton's X-44 Vita Carbon team last season, having earned two first and two third place finishes for a total of four times on the podium. McConnell will partner with Laia Sanzu who has been with the team since its inception. He will depart the island on Saturday for the series that starts on February 17 and 18 in Saudi Arabia. He joins us now via Zoom to discuss this latest move. Welcome to the Sports Mag Zone. How are you doing today Fraser? Good, good. Always a pleasure to be on. Thanks for having me. Yeah, always a pleasure to have you on the Sports Mag Zone. Talk to us about this latest move. I thought you were happy with Sir Lewis Hamilton's team. No, it's a big deal. Firstly, we need to thank Sir Lewis again for having me on his team. They unfortunately departed from the championship, so they're no longer competing in Xtreme. The announcements were quite back to back, but there's been a lot of behind the scenes work making this happen for a long time. Carlos Sainz, another childhood hero of mine, is the owner of this team, I say owner of Science Xtreme. He was at all of the races last year, so I was able to get those hero moments out of the way and not before long he became just another legend in the palette. He must have just seen the speed and the talent that I was able to show while racing for Lewis's team, and he knew I didn't have a seat next year and called me up and when the phone rang and he said, I'm afraid that this is Carlos Sainz, I almost dropped off my chair, so it's a really cool experience and I'm going to take this opportunity and make sure I'm in the best of it. Yeah, so many questions. First of all, how long did you know that Lewis Hamilton's team would no longer be part of Xtreme E and was there ever a point you were concerned about whether you would be able to land another team? You know, no one to get into exact timelines, but you know, when you're operating with such a small team, you kind of know what's going on behind the scenes and kind of get hints that you need to start looking elsewhere. Obviously, they were telling me for my best interest and they just started some conversations and a couple, I would say about a month ago, a little bit of a month ago, started conversations with Carlos and Asiyono. So a lot of back and forth. Very cool part is that Red Bull is going to be sponsoring the team, so they'll be a team sponsor. So it'll be the first time Red Bull is coming on board with a team for Xtreme. This is the fourth year and this is the first time it's going to be a Red Bull team. So very big, very big milestone for myself. I'm going to finally get to take that checkbox off my bucket list of putting on a Red Bull hat and a Red Bull helmet before I race. And yeah, that's going to use every opportunity that I have to continue this relationship. Yeah, and first of all, I think it's important to highlight here that you have not been taken up by a low-ranked team. This is a team that was second last year, I think. So I think it says a lot about how they feel about your driving skills that you have been bought here by a top two team. For sure. Last year, I joined the championship winning team. Luis's team won the championship in season two, brought me on board for season three. And we were able to have a lot of great success together. We got two wins as well as two other podiums, third places. There are ten teams in the championship and only four teams for the entire season were able to score a podium. So very, very tight at the top. We really showed class. And it was my rookie season. So racing against a lot of people that had experience within the car, had experience with the race format. And this year, Carlos and Asiona signs have, you know, they trust in me that I have what it takes to help them win the championship this time. And it was a bit, it was a very bitter ending for them last year. It went down to the last race and the position they had in the final would allow them to win overall championship. But mechanical issues and just, I guess, crunch time pressure stopped them from doing that. So they're all going in this year with one goal is to win the championship.  But the Nitro Rally Cross that you, you know, had, you know, come to the fore with, is that still part of your program going into this 2024 season in any way, shape or form? Yes, definitely. So those, those highlights that are playing in the background there now, that's actually my first blog. So go check it out on YouTube and you'll get to see what Nitro Cross is about. So those clips are Nitro Cross. The season is a two year calendar. So this, we're still in the current Nitro Cross championship. It's a 23-24 championship. So we're in going into rounds nine and 10 in Vegas. That's going to be in March 1st and 2nd. So we're at a very tight battle in the top three for the championship. Again, within that series, I've had two race wins and two other podium finishes. So really in the fight, really up in the mix at the top. And to answer your question, yes, we'll be continuing Nitro. And you don't anticipate any clashes because your Saudi Arabia trip for your extreme e-outing is next weekend, but the Nitro Rally Cross assignments will slot in, you know, seemlessly for you that you don't have to, you know, stride the both. Yeah. Thankfully, thankfully, the championships do work very closely together when they're making the calendar. Yes. Some of the races are very tight. So for instance, there's a race in Phoenix. They're planted quite well actually. One weekend is extreme e in Phoenix and the following weekend is Nitro Cross extreme edge in Phoenix. They're exactly in place. So they work well together. Some of the drivers do both. So they don't want to, they don't want to put anything at risk with having one driver to choose between the two. So they know it's better if they work together, which is very good. Yeah. And I put this to you a couple of times that we spoke before, but the stories keep, keep multiplying for us as, as Caribbean potency continues to show itself in the motor racing world because we see what Sarah Mazira has been doing with the Formula Woman Women's Circuit. Alex Powell just last weekend won an F4 event and the Barbadian Zane Maloney now signed up with the Sauber Academy for F1 as a reserve. This is, these are tremendous stories for Caribbean motor racing, aren't they? Fantastic. And also need to mention Sena Somerbel and Tommy Gore. Yes. They are going to go compete in the German Touring Car Championship. And you know, it's, I love this seat. I wish there were more, but you know, this is such great steps in the right direction. And I always say it. And I will always say it. Jamaica is so multi-talented. The Caribbean is multi-talented. You know, once we put our mind to something, we're going to go there and make sure we find our way to get to the top level. And you know, great results for everyone so far. And I'm wishing them nothing but the best going forward. Yeah. You know, we had Alex Powell here in the studio and not this studio when we were at, or old studio at Chalmers Avenue. And it was one of the best interviews I'd ever done. He was, I think, just 14 years old at the time, Alex Powell. And to see his growth and his continued strides in the field of motor racing. I can't say I'm surprised because this is a teenager that is obviously highly skilled and talented. Is he someone that you talk to and encourage as he goes along as well? I have spoken to him a few times. Like I said, you wouldn't think that he's as young as he is. He's so well spoken. You know, he's very experienced as well. He's been doing racing internationally at the top level for a very long time. He has the right support with him. The Mercedes Junior, the Formula One Mercedes Junior Academy has taken him at a very young age and leading him in the right direction with the right support.  And it's obviously not easy. But if I was to, if there was a bet for it, I would definitely put my money down. All right, Fraser, we know that you'll travel this weekend and Saudi Arabia is your next stop. We wish you all the best. And of course, we will continue to track your performances on the Extreme E-Circuit and when the Nitro Cross is on as well, because Sportsmax covers them both. And all the best and congratulations once again on your new signing. I appreciate it. Yeah, man. It's a Spanish team, but you can definitely come to see that Jamaica flag flying high on the top seven. As we as we usually do, thanks, Fraser.  We go to break now. We'll be back with more on the Sportsmax zone after this.


So, we are now moving into the concluding session. We've agreed between Tony and I that I will focus on just concluding. I have a couple of words to say about the wrapping up. Let me start these concluding remarks by thanking, first of all, all of the speakers today, the authors from a global network of researchers, policymakers, and say that it has been both extremely interesting, but also very educating to be here today. I'd like to appreciate the participation of all of those who are available in this room, but also those who have followed in other ways. Thank you very much to our donors. Thank you, Danita, for providing these facilities. Here we can actually, even if it is a bit dark outside, we still have had light during the day, and at least we have seen some strikes of light hitting on occasional insights into these very difficult issues. Thank you very much, Karen and Joel, for doing all the hard work on organizing, on getting the themes together, on getting the discussions panels lined up. Thank you very much to key participants throughout the day. I would also like to use the opportunity to express my thanks to the wider staff who have been supporting the implementation of this in collaboration with other partners. And sitting behind there in the back, I'd also like to say that it's been a pleasure that we've actually been able to communicate today, both because we want to communicate, but also because you've taken care of the technical aspects of the meeting. That is appreciated. Now, if I may, I'm an employee of a UN organization, and we do have something that's called the Declaration of Human Rights, and it is meant to be a universal document. It does transpire values. It does transpire values that cuts across gender, religions, peoples, nations. I think it's important for all of us to remember that that document has been signed, and at least as far as I'm concerned, is a reference document for all of what we do. Having said that, whether rights are then an easy tool, an easy operational guide is a slightly different question. But equal rights is core business of the international development community, and it's core business throughout and should be. But of course, it's not always easy to say exactly how you achieve these goals when you are in concrete situations where there might be trade-offs involved. It's not always easy to decide whether you provide water in a distant rural locality, because that may come at a trade-off with other things that you can also do. But human rights are fundamental to the work of the UN, and it does transpire values that cuts across. Now, when I think about operational guidelines, when I think about how to achieve gender equality, well, one thing that comes to mind, and that may reflect my professional background, but it actually also does reflect quite a lot of field experience, quite a lot of grappling with household surveys and what they tell me, and being out there observing what people actually do, is that time is of the essence. How you can liberate pressures on women's time and choices, as far as I understand it, are fundamental. How you can make sure that you get those cassava roots into the production system, such that women are not tied to making sure that the household survives, but actually through better root crops has to use less time on survival, and has more time for pursuing other needs, I believe is part of the fundamental challenge that we are all facing, and I actually tend to believe that that is an essential element of promoting gender equality. Now, choices can be extended, choices can be made possible through family planning, they can be made possible through availability of employment, they can be made possible through investment, such that you can easier have access to services and so on, but I do believe that these two things, time and the possibility for making your own choices are fundamental in all of this, and that obviously leads to a very large agenda of things, of policies and concrete measures that can be done. Out of today's deliberations, as well as the background work that has been happening within WECOM, there will be a so-called precision paper on aid and gender, it is being finalized, and I'd like to encourage everyone who has not had a chance or upon reflection after this meeting, has something, has a comment, has an input into that, that they please send it to us, and if you do forget an email or so, let me say that there will be one address, which is Finn, my first name, ertwider.unu.edu, and I will make sure that those comments are on the one hand both posted, but also included in the synthesis document. We will be trying to synthesize those lessons, and we will be doing that over the coming month. Now, today's BESALT meeting, it is the last WECOM meeting of this nature, but obviously, and that has been clear throughout the deliberations today, it's not the end of the work. In many ways, it's only the beginning, or at least the continuation. At wider our 2014 to 18 work program will begin on the 1st of January, 2014, it's based on the following premise, is that development involves transformation, inclusion, and sustainability. We hope that we can jointly with our partners continue to build on the work done in WECOM, and build on the premise that development involves transformation of economies, but also human lives, of relationships between the gender. It's not always that men don't understand. I think it's important when we are reflecting on these things is that there are costs and there are benefits involved, and sometimes the benefits, they come maybe only in the longer run. That is a comment as to when men oppose, we need to figure out how we can make sure that those short run costs that they sometimes face, that they are minimized and that they are removed. Some of us have been fortunate to be in situations where we see the long run benefits from gender equality. Let's try and make sure that that's also kept on the agenda, how we minimize those trade-offs that are there, perceived or real. Now, I sort of, when we're thinking about the post-2015 development agenda, I've actually been sort of reflecting quite a lot on it because I do happen to be the UNU representative on the UN task team for the post-2015 development agenda. And yes, I can certainly confirm that from wider perspective, we are trying to provide a platform. We will be available as a platform that can be used by all actors in this to the extent that this is desired. And that's a confirmation that I would also say that I am making available that platform to the extent that we can. This is fully supported by our board and it is written into our work program that this should be core and center over the coming years. Now, reflecting more broadly about the 2015, a post-2015 development agenda, I kind of have to admit that while, yes, my professional background is an economist, so I do like numbers. I do like indicators. I think it's very important that we do not get hung up on one or another specific indicator. In my understanding, the development process is actually quite composite. And when we try to do studies and analysis of how different indicators relate and we do something that's called First Order Dominance to try to figure out whether we can come out with unidimensional messages, we do face some difficulties. So I would suggest that it's important in this post-2015 development discussion that remember that any successful progress will need to be based on national plans, national priorities in partnership with the international community. Only through that partnership can one actually ensure that success is what we get out of it. I think that that is at least one of the things that I am trying to suggest is let's try to make sure that we keep in mind the transformation issues. That's transformation of economic economies, of the structures, the relationship between sectors and the relationship between men and women, between different societal groups. Transformation cuts across all of that. Inclusion has to be fundamental because if there are smaller or bigger, the biggest parts of society that are not included, development is not occurring. Then we are not living up to our obligations to promote human rights. The general principles that we have all signed to. I hope that you have enjoyed the day as much as I have. I've certainly learned a lot. I realize that a lot needs to be done. Let's all continue the work and I would like to thank you very much, all of you for your active participation and engagement and I wish you all a very good evening. And before we conclude, may I ask you to think about whether you would spend just one minute, maybe even less, there is a feedback form lying on the table in front of you. We would appreciate if you would fill that in. Thank you very much all and have a good evening.


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What is up my Cranky Crew? It's Ethan from CrankGameplays and today we are here in Apex Legends Season 7. I'm in a giant call with like 200 other streamers right now and I just got super worried and we're all in voice chat but everybody is muted or deafened and I got super worried that I was just gonna be unmuted and everyone in the voice call would hear me do my intro. Anyway, huge huge thank you to EA for sponsoring this video. We are here early. Well, by the time this video comes out, the embargo has been lifted but I am way early. A ton of new stuff coming in Season 7. This new legend, Horizon, right here. Wow, look at you science lady. Excited to try them out but also what I'm really really excited for is the brand new map, Olympus. This map is a floating city in the sky which is sweet and also extremely dangerous because there's places where you can just fall off to your death. And this is a battle royale game so once you die, you're pretty much done so don't fall off by accident. Ooh, look at you floating around. You is. So not only do we have the new map, the new legend but also there is Apex's first drivable vehicle in the game now which I'm super super excited about because it used to be you'd have to like do ziplines and stuff across the map if you needed to rotate but now they've got vehicles so it's a little bit easier and probably a little more hectic too. So we are queuing up for trios on Olympus, super super pumped. I don't know if I'll play Horizon immediately. We'll see what happens but I'm excited to get into Apex. Get back into Apex, it's been a bit. Mess around, maybe get a dub. Probably not. I'm not good at games but you know maybe the other people that I queue up with will be good. Also something that I'm really excited about is Apex is coming to Steam as well. So if you're playing on PC, you've been using Origin, you can transfer everything over to Steam.  So you know whatever level you are on Origin once you transfer over to Steam, everything that you, all of your progress will be transferred to Steam as well which I'm super pumped about. Really really like that. As well as crossplay over pretty much everything. Here we go. I'm excited, I'm nervous. I'm pumped to see this new map. One because I love me a new map but two it looks extremely different from the original map. A lot more colorful, a lot more vibrant and you know I like that kind of stuff. I'm gonna just be lifeline. I do like me some lifeline. One because, oh that's right. I forgot that everybody was given new accounts for this like preview play thing that we're all doing. So this will be interesting. Alright, let's check out this new map. I am nervous. Let's get some loot, baby. There's the vehicle. There it is. I want to drive. Oh great. Awesome. Already enemies. I don't have anything. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming.  Yes, best guy in the game. Dead. That's what happens sometimes, you know. You get into a game. You know my settings weren't configured yet. So I think that was probably mostly why that went the way that it did. So I don't want any judgment is what I'm saying. Alright, let's get back into Trios. It is very nice that all of us have the S7 play number and not just usernames because I don't want to get. People would be like, wow. Yeah, I played some Apex with Crank gameplays and the thing and boy oh boy was he bad. Nobody will know. It's our little secret. Alright gamers. Alright, maybe I will try Horizon if they're available because Horizon has, what is it?  How does that work and how is it? How do they balance that? How is that not just completely OP? Here we go. Let's try out Horizon and see what happens. We got Revenant. Oh, right. Lifeline question mark. There we go. Let's get into it. Let's get into it. Let's loot a bunch of stuff. Let's loot a bunch of stuff. So there's a few other people that definitely dropped with us. I honestly, I don't even remember what good weapons are. I'm going to try and loot as much as possible. Okay, okay. I will come. Okay, I'm coming. I don't know how to do any of my stuff. I don't know how to. Oh God, everyone's going to hate me.  Oh God. I don't know how to get out. Everyone's going to hate me. Everyone's going to say that great gameplays is selfish. He's selfish and he only thinks for himself. I feel so bad. Oh, no. They can't see me. Oh, no. They do know me. Oh, no. Oh, no. I thought that I was a number and I just I just could see my own stuff. Oh, no. This is bad. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Just got to collect some stuff. I like these little pods. This is nice. All right, we got to have it. I'm coming. Hello. I just shot at my own guy. Don't worry about it. Use, use, use, use, use. Oh, no. Bad time to reload. Use your shield. Nice. Oh, no. Oh, no. Where? Where? Please? Nice. There we go. Let's use those real quick. God, I don't remember how to play this game. It's okay. I need some, some Whatchamacallits, you know. And what am I calling it? I don't remember. Med. That's what I need. Okay. All right. We got full shields. We got, we got a bunch of stuff. This is good. This is good. This is good. Still don't really know what the best loadout is right now as far as weapons go. I wish we could ride these little bikes around. I love riding bikes, don't you? Let's go up seas. Where? All right. Let's play this a little quiet. All right. Don't necessarily need to go to blazing. Octane fast. Okay. Seven squads left. I've got two kills. Not too bad. What if we tried the little ship boy? Huh? Why not, you know? Let's have a little fun. Yeah. How are the driving mechanics? All right. Get on. Oh, yeah. Oh, that was too close. That was way, way, way, way, way too close. All right. We not doing too bad. Six squads left. We in the end game. I don't like being out in the open like this. I really like this map a lot so far though. I just really enjoy how vibrant it is. Here we go. There's so much recoil. I do not like this gun. God, this is bad. This is bad. There we go. There we go. There we go. Wonderful. Love to see it. Oh, God. I'm about to get finished. I'm about to get finished off. Nice job, Bryce. Look at this teamwork. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. May I crawl to you? May I? Oh, patching yourself up. Nice. We might just be able to survive. You were wonderful. Thank you so much. Oh, my God. What a teammate. What a teammate. What a teammate. Oh, I'm so sorry to my teammate. That wasn't bad though. Placed four. I got two kills. That's where we're landing in a spooky, spooky, big, big ball. Going around, looting, getting everything we can. Okay. Okay. All the way over there, huh? Don't have any scopes or anything. All right. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. Ooh. Oh, no. Oh, no. Gamers, this is not good. Well, that's game-best game. I'm going all out this round. I've been holding back, and I'm ready to unleash the beast from within. Let's be horizon. I haven't even tried using her abilities yet, so let's do that. 28. We just started.  I think Johnny should decide where we're going. Because Johnny's obviously got the... But Johnny might be kind of sweaty though. Well, Johnny is kind of sweaty because Johnny has 28 kills and I have two. Or maybe I'm just not sweating enough. Maybe it's time for me to be a real big sweatman.  Guys, I said I wanted to try and be sweaty this game. But what? Well, hey, hey, hey. Here we go. Ah, you're just going to jump with yourself, huh? Oh, good. Oh, good. Oh, good. Oh, good. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, Juan. Oh, my God. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no.  Please don't kill me. Please. Please.  Juan, come back. Come back. Please, Juan. Please, Juan. Big, big thank you to EA for sponsoring this video. Apex Legends season seven out now. The new map Olympus with the new legend. Out now. Go check it out. Very, very fun. I'm excited to play with some friends because again, I did get access early, but I'm excited to hop on season seven with a bunch of my friends and hopefully get some sweet sweet dubs. So thank you guys so much for watching. Check out the link in the description below to get Apex Legends for yourself. Again, it's across basically every platform. It's free and it is a wonderful time. So check it out. Season seven out now. See you guys later.


I really wanted to talk about today kind of a positive vision really I'm going to assume and granted is an assumption because until until the vote is certified until all these votes are counted I'm going to assume Joe Biden is going to be president because that looks like the most by a long shot the most likely scenario right and that the Republicans keep the Senate so they control the Democrats and prevent them from doing the crazy nutty insane things right and the question is what what do we do what do you do what all of us do to try to make the world a better place to try to diminish the negative the negatives in the political world in which we live now I said there's four I'll say it again the most important thing you can do the most important thing you can do is live is live is isn't take these ideas that you have and apply them to your life and make your life a great life enjoy living forget about these elections forget about politics forget about Democrats and Republicans and libertarians and and and think just just find something you love to do and do it go out there and and create a beautiful space for you to live in to work in to create in I mean I try and so that the primary focus you should have in your life is on your life and how to make the best of it how to make the most of how to enjoy it how to be productive how to have a great career how to make money how to find somebody you love how to create a family that you love how to live a happy life and politics should be third fourth fifth sixth I don't know 10th on the list of things to worry about things to be concerned about because you know what there are lots of things day-to-day in your life that you should be dealing with that you should be confronting that you should be managing that you should be improving on that you should do to make your life the best that it can be and that should be your primary focus and by the way that even that even just that helps spend good ideas because people will come to you and say how come you're so happy how come you're so successful what's your secret well I read I read here's out the shrugged you should read it I mean that's huge that's huge so first and foremost and always focus on your life make yourself a better thinker make yourself a better liver make yourself take take the ethics seriously live up to the ethics take pride we haven't talked about pride yet we'll do a show about pride soon but take pride seriously pride means living up to your best striving for perfection being the best that you can be and that's just a cliche but it's real it's what life is about but what do we do politically I am saving your super chat questions I will get to what do we do politically can we do anything politically and my answer is absolutely yes but before we get to the positive let me say something about the negative we will not move this country one inch if we play partisan politics we will not move this country one inch if we become tribalists if we embrace a political party because it's a political party and then we follow everything that it says we cannot move anything the world an inch forward for example by becoming Trumpists and supporters of supporters of Trump to the extent of never criticizing accepting everything he does and thinking that anybody who criticizes anybody uses is who is against him is the emphasis enemy don't think in terms of Republicans and Democrats think in terms of what you should always be thinking in terms of truth what is true what is right what is just is this policy moving us towards greater freedom or isn't it is this policy supportive of individual rights or violation of individual rights that's what needs to happen that's what we need to focus on so if a Democrat if a Republican does something good that promotes individual rights it's moving in that direction let's support that policy without enshrining the man as a super god and if that same Republican does something that's antagonistic to individual rights that's bad that's wrong for freedom then let's criticize that and the same with a Democrat no matter who is in power no matter what who's passing the bills we should support that not the party not the personality those bills that support freedom that move us in that direction and object to those that don't and look always keep in mind though the bigger picture so for example yeah we're always gonna support tax cuts but we should never be super excited about tax cuts because on their own they do nothing well we should really be excited about and emphasize and push and get people engaged on is on cutting spending which is what they don't want to talk about what they don't want to be engaged on so that's our job cutting taxes is easy every Republican in history has done it let's focus on the hard stuff cut the spending reform entitlement yes ultimately we want to get rid of all entitlements they shouldn't be so security this shouldn't be Medicaid but you're not gonna win that argument and you're gonna win it and you don't really believe it in the short run it has to be phased out so for now let's talk about reducing not reducing sorry restructure entitlements for example for example here's a great issue for us there is a massive redistribution of wealth going on right now and there's going to go on for the next 20 years from young people to old people from young people to old people so for example old people are using Medicare and the baby boom generation is gonna drive up the cost of Medicare to dominate the budget I mean all other spending will be irrelevant so security is bad but Medicare as much was and who pays for old people's Medicare and Social Security well don't let anybody fool you the money that they paid into the system has been spent a long time ago and so it's young people paying for their health care for their Social Security so we need to pick up the mantle and talk about phasing out privatizing reforming entitlements and the best way to do that is kind of let the old people with 65 already have what they were promised and privatize everything else yeah the left will say all kinds of things about us because the rights is the same thing it's not like the right will actually pass any of this they've had they've had the Senate the House and the presidency they had it under Trump they've had it under Bush and they did none of this none of it it's our job to talk about it's our job to bring it up it's our job to push these ideas constantly and nephatically and to create a momentum around it this is the way you get to young people your life sucks not because there's not enough welfare not because of I don't know systemic racism your life sucks because you're gonna be taxed so high in order to fund Medicare for people you don't know we have to get engaged in politics not in the little partisan stuff we have to get engaged in politics on the principled stuff on the big stuff on the stuff nobody else will talk about on the stuff where the only ones are willing to say yeah somebody says yeah we should be advocating for not how much the steel tariffs should go up or down on which country should we have it on there should be no tariffs zero tariffs across the board and then if you want to deal with China stealing this or doing that then you can have sanctions you can bring shut down the embassy you can surround them with the sixth fleet whatever six fleets in the Mediterranean so they'd have to travel over there but you know you can deal with them but tariffs is not the way tax is just it's anti-individual rights it's a violation of the rights of Americans it's a tax increase so but so many people in a free market world got up with the oil of Trump and you can't you can't criticize him and all of that that yeah no this time tariffs are good this time the Chinese will pay this time trade wars will work this time will be different great really it's just straight yeah intellectual poverty threat then sanction them or boycott them completely but tariffs are not the way you deal with intellectual poverty theft or anything else taxes of tax on your own people it's not a way to deal with other countries again this is one-on-one this isn't controversial this isn't difficult this is just this is why it's so frustrating and a whole Trump presidency was frustrating because he did stuff there was obviously anti-individual rights obviously anti-freedom obviously bad for America and people supported those policies because it was Trump so if you want a better world if you want elections in the future where you might have a candidate that you'd be excited to vote for then we have got to be principled and consistent and fight for the things we actually believe in fight for the ideas we actually believe in not the ideas that are gonna win not the ideas that this or that candidate might or might not support not get caught up in personalities but fight for the ideas that we believe in advocate for policies that move us there doesn't mean you have to get it all at once it doesn't mean so security goes away all at once doesn't you know on immigration which I know many people disagree with me on it's not that I'm advocating tomorrow open borders ultimately yes but in the meantime there's a phasing in and part of that phasing in would be for example that I've given is allow anybody who has a work permit so work on the principles work on the on the on the foundational ideas and whenever you're tempted because you like this guy or like that guy or because politically it stop yourself check your premises go back to basics and fundamentals go back to principles that's the beauty of principles go back to principles and say is this policy consistent with my principles is me supporting tariffs in China consistent with my principles somebody asked about the Lex Friedman interview I just don't know I wish I knew I thought it was gonna be I mean he's bouncing around some of the interviews he's releasing seem to be older ones others were from his trip to California and Oregon when he was traveling because you can see it's in a hotel room so I don't know at some point at some point the interview will be out it is a three-hour interview a little over I think three hours and I think it was great I think it was a really good interview I think Lex really enjoyed it there were a number of times where he was he seemed blown away by my answers so I think it's I think it's gonna be fun for everybody for you guys and and most importantly much more important than you guys sorry are the new people who this will expose expose them to me who probably don't know who I am and have never seen me before because he has a very unique audience so I'm I'm very very excited to see it hopefully we'll get good viewership you know Eric Weinstein just I don't know got 600 thousand views or something here's an interview with Eric but Eric Weinstein is huge I'm not quite as well-known and popular so we'll see how we'll see how well it goes so my point is that we need to start focusing on the positive on what we want stop playing defense focus on what we can get and where we can go focus on the issues important to us not on other people's issues focus on our principles not on their principles so the whole point has to be positive the virtues of capitalism the wonders of the modern world the amazing world we live in how you can make your life so much better how under freedom we succeed so even entitlements is not a big issue for us because the only reason we want entitlements to go away is that you young people can have more money to invest in yourselves invest in your life invest in what you want to do we need to be less negative and more positive we need to be more unique and less just part of the crowd we need to be more controversial we need to be more out there we need to be less less conventional I mean again what Trump did to some people call themselves objectivist is he made them conventional because they become they just became trump heads justifying everything he would do even shockingly for me hugging you know and hanging out with the with a dictator of North Korea they even justified that I mean that's again 101 so get away from the partisan stuff get away from the nationalism there the xenophobia that I the closed-mindedness which I see so much so much around me let's be positive in and on this positive and I want to make one more point I listened to I saw a talk recently by Peter Diamantes I don't know if you guys know Peter Diamantes you wrote a book called abundance and I read the book too and the book is is really interesting in the talk was really interesting and it's I'm so jealous of Peter and others like him in in Silicon Valley because he is so optimistic tell what politics tell with all this rioting and demonstrations in this BS we are potentially on the cusp of some unbelievably unbelievable technological revolutions whether in biotech or whether in AI or robotics or you know just technology more broadly autonomous cars we are on the cusp of amazing things of amazing achievements of amazing potentials I mean it really is true that it really is true that the potential for like fix tension is stunning in terms of what is potentially possible in the next to achieve in the next 10 20 50 years AI and robotics will increase what will dramatically improve health care will dramatically improve at the potential dramatically improve our lives dramatically improve how we do everything and indeed autonomous cars will reduce deaths on the road dramatically and save you huge amounts of time because traffic jams will be less frequent and you'll be able to work while the car is driving itself now again all these things depend on regulations they depend on politics and politicians staying away but our focus should be on that free up the mind free up the innovators free up these people to make our lives better yet we obsess and how evil these businesses men are instead of obsessing about how wonderful they're making life for us and how evil the people are trying to stop them all I mean there is you know again artificial intelligence robotics is going to take away jobs yes but they're going to take away the jobs nobody wants to do the jobs that are too dangerous one of the points Peter Diamantes makes I've made this point before but it's rare to find somebody make the point so I was so impressed that he did it is that AI makes us all smarter AI is a tool that makes people let's say with mediocre or even low IQ much much smarter and I'm not talking about the chip that you planned in the brain which wow I mean that would be pretty amazing if they when they do that I know alone Musk has a company called New Orleans that does that always working on it but I'm even talking about just the fact that I'm at a computer and I have access to all the information ever produced at my fingertips instantaneously easily I mean that's just made me much smarter I know more I have access to more I can do more and this is just the beginning of what these computers will be able to do we are just at the cusp of a potential revolution that will change human life in ways that I don't think we can fully comprehend we'd have to be a science fiction writer to fully get it and instead we you know instead of focusing on that we focus on this nonsense within the objectives movement we focus on this political BS we obsess about voter fraud and who gets elected president as if it makes that much difference we should be defending progress defending industry in the most important industry right now is technology defending and and allowing for innovation and for growth and for I want to live to be 250 years old in a healthy way not connected to machines and to do that to do that we need to be the defenders of technology the defenders of business the defenders of freedom the defenders of getting their regular eaters off of us again it was this administration that went after Google in an anti-trust lawsuits just a few weeks ago if you want me to answer questions you can have to super chat them because I can't see in the string of things what you're asking and why would I ask that why would answer them versus versus questions that are being posed that are being posed and dollars put to them yeah somebody says flying cars I mean drones look at the drone technology Amazon got a permit now look it needs a permit that's disgusting but got a permit to use drones to deliver to you to your doorstep the stuff you need I mean that's cool and that's what we should be defending that's what not just defending we should be fighting for it not defending we should be on the offensive we should team up with with the people doing this amazing technology and and and we should understand this technology and its impact on human life and we should be advocates for it now I intend to start doing that on a much more significant basis so I'll be starting a new podcast in January that has as its focus as its focus innovation progress what it takes what's required what's happening I'm gonna try to get some of the top innovators to come on the show and I'll do interviews the show will be primarily interviews there's a lot of stuff that I intend to do in the years to come on this not objectivism but not inconsistent with completely consistent with objectivism but not objectivism not philosophy not but something positive about innovation growth progress success new technologies how far we can go and what does it take so it will very much be an anti-regulation podcast right we will talk about how regulations destroy destroy technological progress this is part of the thing yeah man really will be my really will be somebody I invite but there's it's I don't want to say too much because I've got big plans and it's bigger than Matt because Matt has some flaws and part of the thing will be to engage with Matt and then to engage with other people and to build towards a real understanding of innovation and progress a real understanding of and you know it might be in you some new terminology involved I mean there's a lot that we're gonna be working on in the next few months leading up to this January this January launch of the podcast and it's gonna be a multi-year project and ultimately there might even be an investment component to it and all kinds of things so I'm really really really excited about it putting plans together right now and by the way just so you know your contributions your financial support for the Iran book show makes all that possible right it's not gonna be in the early days a profit-making operations I think ultimately if we could create an investment product it'll make the doodles of money but originally it's gonna be all money going out not money coming in and that money going out is gonna be possible partially because of your support because you know you you're supporting the Iran book show which you can do on the super chat here it's being kind of kind of slow today and particularly with the big amounts we haven't had we haven't had though what Derek used to call the whales the whales have not showed up and of course more importantly in some sense is the monthly contributions and I know some of you have already added some of you've increased your contributions thank you for doing that we're still about 24 23 2400 short of our goal of increasing contributions by $3,000 a month so those of you can't afford to increase your contributions I'd really appreciate it from 100 to 250 or 250 to 500 or from 10 to 20 25 to 50 whatever you can do I'd really appreciate it you can do that on your own book show dot com slash support on subscribe star on patreon on locals any one of those platforms will work and of course you can do it right here right now with super chat that is that is fantastic also I want to remind you to like the show before you leave a lot of people are coming and going and see the numbers fluctuate a lot before you go if you like anything I've said please press the like button it helps the it helps algorithms of YouTube recognize the show as something that people value and therefore promote and of course if you're new to the show thank you for listening it's great to have you here and please subscribe subscribe and if you press the bell next to the subscription button you'll also get notifications when we go when we go live I mean I'm hoping to have people from the life extension companies come and talk about that there's a lot of exciting technologies out there I mean it's you know it's super cool it's super cool and you know too much of us activists philosophers people who deal with politics and it's it's too dark but there's a whole world out there where real progress is being made where the world is really being changed I mean we we take the change for granted we take zoom for granted we take this the ability to do this on YouTube for granted we take our iPhone to grant it we take all that for granted but what and all of that really didn't exist 10 years ago 12 years ago what happens in 10 years in 20 years how far can we go and why aren't we thinking about that instead of thinking about oh who won Nevada how many votes are still going to be counted oh oh you know it's close anyway I figured I figured we'd I'd make that pitch we're gonna we're gonna talk about yeah we'll talk about I think nuclear power is really really interesting and really a huge potential for the future I think that I think that you know we've got companies building supersonic jets we've got I mean there's really a lot of innovation going on that is exciting right now today what we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations any man or woman who values 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I am angry because, and you all, because I thought that you would have listened to the sources that are out there and would have been more angry at myself for the trust that I placed in your hands. I am tired of the conspiracy theories that are going around and the sources that are being thrown out there from YouTube videos or even journal articles where they're quoted but it's from the people who are serving and not the actual peer review part of these articles. I have heard multiple people quote the Constitution and the Bible and it states our rights and we're right to this. But this isn't political. And all of our children do have a right to medication and it has to be provided in a state manner. So I think at this point we need to re-evaluate what we're doing because it's not working. Now inflation isn't something that we've heard of in a while, is it? But last month the inflation rate in the U.S. had the highest rise in the last 29 years. You heard me right, the last 29 years. It's not too late. Noble Gold specializes in retirement planning and IRAs. So their team of experts is your first step. This month they're offering a one ounce American Eagle solid silver proof coin with every IRA or 401K taken out. Not many people can relax with inflation this high. Visit our website at noblegoldinvestments.com or just click the link in the description or pin comment. The kids are all wearing masks as they come to school because Columbus mandated them. They can care less. Making it mandatory is not a burden on them. It's the parents that are the challenge. And the last I saw there was something like 70 peer reviewed scientific research studies on the efficacy of masks. And something like four or five that say they don't work. The evidence is out there. It's all out there. If you choose to look at the scientific and medical evidence and not TikToks and Facebook and memes and whatever, it's out there. And we need to follow that because we've been in school what three weeks. And here we are already talking about it again. Are we literally just going to wait until a kid dies? The option is it's wonderful to wear a mask. The mask does protect. And we can see by all the news. Everything is going on with all the hospitals. All the staff.  It needs to stop. It is about the children. First, it's like if I'm driving in a car. I can't say I'm going to put a seatbelt on. The law. I will get it to take it. If I don't have a seatbelt on. This is common sense sometimes. What we need to do. There are laws. There are standards. You can't have freedom everywhere. Yeah, I'm here. Can I go in his place? Nope. Nope. Can I get on the list? I mean, Bill had a chance to go. So we're wasting his time. You can just let me go. Bill had a chance to go. He had. We're not. I'm not talking. Just. Oh my God. I need a. Hurry up. Hurry up. I understand. It's very hard. I'm going to tie an Irish man. And I'll be very quick. I just wanted you guys to. I just wanted to understand the parents that don't want their kids to wear masks.  Because I don't understand. It is. It is. No. Let me see. I'll wait on that. Well, it's that area.  I killed a lot of people. That's a bit much. Poland has killed a lot of people. And it's not going to hurt anybody by saying let's wear masks. Let's learn from history. The Spanish blue killed more people in the hope it. And they didn't have a vaccine in the 1918 through 1930. They did social distancing and mask. Why are we not learning from that? And they did lockdown. And if you went outside with a mask, without a mask, you got a ticket. You were getting a ticket as if it was like, the one that you said was more seatbelt. If you get pulled over, you get a seatbelt ticket. They were giving out tickets. So let's learn from history. The Spanish blue killed many, many, many, way before we went COVID. And they didn't learn until they enforced lockdowns, masks, and I don't care if it's a free country. I get that. But there's not going to be many people around if we all die from COVID.