Welcome. Thanks, everybody, for coming out. Really appreciate you guys being here. This is the invisible hands tending the secret greens. We are at DEF CON 26. And maybe next year we can go to Caesars, but we're glad you guys are joining us right now in the Valley of Fire. So essentially what we're going to do today is we're going to give you guys a quick kind of high level macroeconomics slash strategic thinking talk. And typically macroeconomics are made very boring on purpose to kind of keep things obfuscated. And a lot of what you hear and see is not the truth of what's really going on. So instead of like a conspiracy theory talk like you may have heard, this is actually a conspiracy fact talk so you guys can take your tinfoil hats off. And what we wanted to do is give you guys some tools that are actionable to actually start seeing the patterns that are actually going on in the world to kind of see social engineering at scale. So I'm Keith. My background is in user experience, film sound, astrology. I did a talk last year in the SD village about how to hack corporate culture. So if you Google DEF CON change agents you can check that out. So we rolled that into some of this. But I look at a lot of things very systemically and into complex systems. And this is Frank. Hey, everybody. My name is Frank. Cosmovaultron is my handle that I'm going through identifying myself as for this talk. Basically I come from the side of marketing, strategic branding and the consumer experience. Now basically this talk is going to educate you on a few things about how cannabis has changed the world and how it will change the future of how humanity will continue through. But basically this is a disclaimer. These opinions are our own. It's not legal advice, not investment advice. It's up to you to make your own decisions. Think for yourself. They'll be evil. So the basics obviously of what we're all here today is because weed. Weed is becoming mainstream. Is cannabis plus a look at what is our social contract going to equal a new awakening, a new enlightenment, a renaissance 2.0. So again the purpose of this talk is to entertain you guys, educate you on how to look at the world and to see through the narratives and to empower you with that knowledge so that you can as an individual be yourself and empower the free will. Now basically we are all players in this game. Each individual has their purpose to forward this experiment that is called humanity. We find ourselves stuck in a system where we are balancing the love for love and the need for money. I used here a line from Jackson Brown called caught between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender. Now it's pretty much always been the same from the beginning. Neolithic man started out as individuals. They came into clans. They found that collectively they can become more than just individual. Through time and space they found that certain things they could unlock the secrets to. The stars, fire. These were very important things that created civilization and allowed us to move forward.  Now this enlightenment carried in through to free thought and individualism. It carried through and through medicinal purposes, medicines. Basically cannabis all of a sudden became really the bread basket of civilization. It's what brought humanity to be civilized, to start hunkering down and creating homes, farms specifically. No more hunting and gathering. They could just grow their own things. And it said actually one of the first plants that was ever grown by man specifically and farmed was cannabis. Now cannabis aside from clothing ancient man building their homes and creating what is our modern day farming societies. It also enlightened them. Through the use of cannabis revered priesthood class. People that were pretty much in charge of keeping the knowledge for all of humanity society used cannabis to really open their minds and hearts to what is the ability to think. Now this free throw and knowledge created the ability to persevere past just what is the scene to the unknown. It was cannabis that was responsible for empowering past man to go beyond the borders of what he knew or they knew I should say. It allowed them to create these I should say time machines or future exploring machines. Now back in the day these things were boats. These boats were made out of wood that was then sealed with cannabis tools. The ropes and rigging was made from cannabis. The sales and the money derived from all of these products are directly responsible for us going beyond what was the unknown. So for since the beginning of time in the beginning of humanity cannabis really was the foundation of what is civilization. It created this wealth and it became the king of commodities. A hundred years ago it really empowered the wealth of what is our own creation here in the United States. If it wasn't for hemp we wouldn't have had the wealth or the wherewithal to forge on and create a new society based on the enlightenment. Now cannabis afforded the ability to go explore the world. Empires were built and these empires then centralized wealth based on the king commodity of cannabis. This wealth generated power and that power translated into control. Now basically what that represents more is about how to control society but then to empower as well. There's a famous line from the margin call the movie and it goes something along the fact of money was created so that people wouldn't just shoot themselves to buy a sandwich or shoot each other I should say to buy a sandwich. So in essence the social contract that was created through nationalities was based upon the backing up of wealth and the empowerment of the individual. Now the empowerment of the individual had everything to do with making sure that the man could have free will and also the wherewithal to have the protections of justice and be able to live free and think free. Now we are at a precipice where 10 years ago 15 years ago legalization is actually coming to the forefront. Now today we have the ability to see that the future may be actually driven by cannabis but that remains to be seen. Now as marijuana goes main street we understand that it's more about a war on cash. I mean cannabis is the last of the commodities to be strictly derived and traded through on legal tender cash. The beauty about legalization is that it's now becoming a backdoor to renegotiate all of what is the social contracts around the world. It also has the ability to put humanity towards a path of renewable instead of finite. And through legalization you're going to find that it's really about backstopping control and backstopping the existing social contract. It was such an important commodity to our founding fathers that they 100 years ago saw fit to put it on the back of one of the most important bills they had, a $10 bill. Now in 1919 a $10 bill should be got probably about $10,000, probably more. So for them to depict this cash crop as the bedrock of the foundation of their nation and really the fuel to empower the world and humanity via the industrial revolution it was really the building block of what is our present day future. But what happened? Well you're going to find that because we are going on a path of legalization that the social contract that nation states have with their citizens needs to be renegotiated. It has to be. And it's actually being forced. Now this nation state versus globalism is where it's really the nexus of all of what is wealth, power and control. Now legalization really is about redefining the social contract between people, state and the world. I think a future of cannabis is really the future of humanity without it. We don't have a way to change ourselves from a finite to renewable future and really what it does is empowers humanity to then build the wealth and centralized with information which is the new two commodities that will be the bedrock for our future. So why legalize now? Well it really is going to empower the future of humanity and the individual. It's going to be the vehicle of free will versus feudalism. Now again the social contract that we have today really is about the nation states contracts with their citizens. By legalizing cannabis the United States and other countries are putting themselves in direct contrast to what are the international norms and laws that are put in place. Kind of like what this dude was talking about a few years back. A new world order. What will that be? Is cannabis the antithesis of that or is it a way to empower people or will it then be used as a locus of control as it has in the past? Do you really want a future where the one person decides everything for it all or are we going to have to build a future that we empower each individual to really go after free will, free market and freedom of thought? Now again the basics of what we're going to be covering is everything needs to be negotiated. Commodities, information, data, energy, petrochemical versus renewal. The social contract. All these come into play with legalization. What's really at stake is independent thought and individualism. That is what legalization really in its most pure form is about. And with that I'm going to pass it back to Keith. Alright so to contextualize this and kind of ground this a little bit we're going to break this down into kind of like five sections. One, the ultimate social contract. Two, you should never waste a good crisis. Three, we're going to look at entitlements, taxes and payments. Fourth, we're going to look at renewables. And finally we're going to look at what the small market today is going to be a massive market and then that's a distant future. So the ultimate social contract. When we talk about a social contract it's this ethereal idea that we basically pay taxes and for paying taxes we get protected by the government, we have a military, we have a strong rule of law. If you go to like Venezuela or other countries like say Iran or wherever they don't have the exact same kind of freedoms or abilities that we do and that's a social contract. It's a social governing thing that we all agree to. So the ultimate social contract is the dollar because it's basically backed by confidence. It's not backed by anything anymore. After World War II in 1944 right at the end of World War II there was a meeting in Bretton Woods New Hampshire and all the superpowers at the time got together and said look we're going to exchange for all global trade being done in dollars. We're basically going to, the United States is going to protect the trade routes of the world. And what that means is that we get to print as much money as we can or as much as we want because if the world is going to use dollars whether you're Japan trading with Europe or whoever we have to have enough liquidity or cash out in the system for them to trade which allows us to run deficits. So you can make an argument that debt is actually our biggest export and it's what affords us the ability to have a reserve currency status because we just need to put so much out there. So fast forward to 2008, everything collapsed, people got greedy and essentially central banks you could say colluded or collaborated to print 20 trillion plus for US equivalent in dollars. If you're really into this there's a woman named Naomi Prins. She wrote a book called Collusion It's Really Good. She's an amazing researcher. She did a ton of work on this. It's awesome. It explains how it all works. So now we don't really know what the hell's going on. I mean the derivatives markets what crashed, housing at least and now there's over 600 trillion they think still out and all that fake money creation just totally inflated asset prices. So last year a Da Vinci, Salvatore Mundi sold for $450 million and it doesn't make any sense. And then if you look at how we also calculate unemployment say for government statistics we count people who are collecting unemployment insurance and aren't actually looking for work. So it's a way to kind of the statistics work technically but they're not actually what's reflecting reality. So we could run deficits meaning we could print and spend more than we can actually create in terms of GDP or economic wealth. But now deficits are going to matter because we have uncoming law liabilities with Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and then demographics meaning all the baby boomers that push the massive expansion post World War II they're starting to retire and they're living longer because technology is enabling us to live longer and have better quality to life. So the dollar is going to break sooner or later and it's really about hegemonic control and our thesis is that by legalizing cannabis you're actually simultaneously legalizing the potential for industrial hemp and this is where the next big commodity like gold or oil is going to come from. So oil and gold used to back the dollar up until about the 70s. I mean oil still does to an extent. You can make an argument about that but our bigger argument is that it's going to be your data, your information plus industrial hemp that's going to be the next wave. And so we're not going to do details now but Frank's going to get into it in a second about the actual market opportunity is in the trillions of dollars if you calculate food, energy, new scale composites and the carbon neutrality or beneficiality you get from growing. So when you legalize something and the whole world says it's illegal, what you would get to do is you get to go open up the world trade agreements and it's a really clever way to back hack the whole system because instead of electing officials who are supposed to represent your opinion and, you know, vote in what you voted in, you're changing the standards that govern the system. So it's kind of like changing the laws of gravity or physics for how everything kind of interacts. So it's very clever but changing standards is essentially what's going to happen. And the real game is about who's going to get hegemonic control. Is it going to be, people will argue is it going to be the U.S. stills? Is it going to be China? This is a whole other conversation. But after all of central bank collusion, all this money printing, everybody got kind of synced up.  He's the guy who coined the term millennials and he wrote a book called The Fourth Turning. So essentially humans live about 80 years, give or take in the modern world. And Neal Howe talks about there's four cycles, 20 years each that happened at the end of the fourth turning, it always ends in revolution or war. And our argument is that we're actually in the middle of a revolution right now except instead of bombs, it's bits of information that's being leveraged to control and essentially SC the world at large. So I also study astrology and you can believe what you want. But for me it's very interesting. It's an interesting way to look at long-term cycles over periods of time.  But so the way to read this is this little green P guy and the black guy. So the black guys on the inside, those are the cross section of where the United States, if it had a chart was born at that time and the green on the exterior is where the planets are now. So the two P's are Pluto and it's inside Capricorn. Capricorn basically represents the patriarchy, the structure, the system, the monolith, the top down hegemonic control and Pluto is all about transformation. And so when these guys line up, which takes 250 years, it's essentially like a phoenix rising kind of baptism by fire moment and everything's being renegotiated right now. So even over, according to the stars, if you believe this kind of thing, temporally, we're right on point for that too. Now on the bottom this little green dude looks like a little trident, that's Neptune. He's about to go into Aries and the last time this happened was a civil war in the United States. So you can believe what you want but I think it's interesting looking at long-term cycles.  And this is in New York City and you know this is like one of those little walk-not-walk signs but the text says until there's equal accountability for murder, it is totally fair to kill cops. And if that's not a crisis of the social contract, I don't know what is. Politicians never let a good crisis go to waste. That's one main thing you learn from studying the narcotics specifically, the legalization or the prohibition of cannabis. The whole reason we're in this pickle today is because powers that be wanted to move us forward very slowly, very calculated to a global world dominated, controlled, centralized force. Now the clever viola they used was drugs. Most famously. Oh, there you go. It was about 120 years ago. Country starting to get together to discuss about how to trade certain things internationally, specifically narcotics. Now they used the guys of an opium crisis. That sounds familiar. Today we're seeing the same headlines. Politicians are pushing that like it was the new bread and butter. Oh my god everybody, the opium crisis. Well the opium crisis we've been under for about past 300, 400 years turn of the century into 1900, scientists were synthesizing opium into heroin and other byproducts that became extremely addictive and were scourges really on the society. So how in the world did cannabis which represents zero deaths when used? I mean literally you can smoke as much as you want to.  How in the world has cannabis been grouped into this large hemogenist narcotics moniker? And specifically how in the world did hemp get there? Hemp doesn't even have any psychotropic effects. It's all about control guys. It's interesting too because we find today that we'll be controlled by language. We're being pushed narratives here and there and it's always being about labeling something or someone as bad and using that label then to not really see them as human anymore. So the powers that be as time progressed from the Hague on through World War One and then after World War One into the Roaring Twenties, the world was going through dramatic change. Specifically the United States was really putting themselves out there as the dominant world power. They made sure along with partners in other nation states to put forward language that held their ideas in place and specifically to control populations. Now the language that was used was to then bulk hemp together with cannabis. Cannabis being a cannabis indica and cannabis sativa. Now hemp is actually a cannabis sativa offshoot but that's another story. Now they cleverly disguised what was the top king commodity, the builder of wells of nations. They disguised that and brought it down to the most ethereal level by demonizing the user. Users were depicted as crazed lunatics. Basically any scourge in society was blamed on marijuana. Now what the real fact was and what they were really hiding was that during the same time prohibition of alcohol was a huge failure. Now what prohibition did basically was overnight created a swath of population that was once legal and law abiding to then all of a sudden criminals. Just because of consuming something that was legal a few months before. This gave rise to a huge gray market and really changed the flow and direction of not only this country but the world. And now we find ourselves a hundred years in after prohibition of marijuana in a system where the user is demonized, controlled, held away from holding a job, held away in prison. Over 50% of people that were arrested over the past hundred years were arrested over marijuana charges. Now if that's not control, I don't know what is. So as time progressed I mean the user of marijuana again labeled as a degenerate. I mean we all know Spicoli. Spicoli was a burnout. And basically that narrative was then continued through in the counter culture to control that population just the same. And really at the essence of it all is it's all about narrating and controlling the message. And media is just slapping us down and really piling us into the mat and just shredding our brain and the ability to really think and free thought for ourselves. I mean man has forever been trying to consolidate their information and knowledge and pass it on to future generations. In our lifetimes that was left mostly to what is the mainstream media. But now we find ourselves and mainstream media should say finds itself more as a paid PR machine. They're really a shell of them former selves. I mean this is the magazine rack at the very back of the CVS. They're not even in the front anymore. Consolidation of all these media companies too shows centralization of control. But what's ironic is these guys were the ones that for the message of the evil crazed madness marijuana user to forward the prohibition of marijuana. But then ironically today these companies are the same ones that are putting out these kind of population propaganda. What is their motivation now? I mean back in the day Hearst basically lobbied because he owned all the paper interest to get rid of marijuana because he didn't want hemp to be messing with all the forests that he was getting his paper from. Point being we have come and have grown up in society where aside from debt up until ten years ago the number one export in the United States was entertainment industry. And it brings us to today like I was saying every population or every publications now are really just embracing weed. Why? I mean what's interesting enough too is that today I think we are in a special place in time in humanity. There's no more hiding the truth. I mean we have information at our fingertips and really it travels at the speed of light. It encompasses all of what is the knowledge of humanity at the hands of just a quick search and a search engine page. Now imagine that control I mean what what kind of control do these companies really have? Now we find ourselves in the same kind of position we were a hundred years ago when legalization wasn't a thing. I mean when such say prohibition of marijuana was coming into play. These same forces now are leveraging their control to control humanity through different ways. Specifically I don't want to beat up on Google because a single one of these tech companies are guilty in their own right. But what's happening is the same ways and uses of controlling humanity are being played out today but just on a different scale. And what this means is that we are again finding ourselves as humans as individuals being controlled by greater forces beyond us. If humans aren't allowed to get information and spread their free will how are we ever going to become empowered? How are we ever going to head towards the future and really get past what is the level that we're on now? We're never going to have a renaissance to pour on when you can never share what is your thoughts with the rest of society. The problem here is that now these companies are worth more than nation states. These nation states are the ones that created what is the social contracts that we live on today. It's a race to the top and at the top you don't want to give up your control. So a lot of these companies are leveraging that to make sure that they're always in place. And nation states are leveraging their partnerships with these international entities to control their populations. What's at stake?  Am I going to be charged a token every time I say those kind of things? Like demolition man? Am I going to be threaded and put to jail just because of my thoughts or what I may be thinking for the future? Are we all and we are going to become victims of manipulated media? The pen is still brighter than the sword. So this is why these controlling companies really are fearing the individual freedom of humanity. It's always been about control. But without understanding the individuality and the essence of what is the enlightenment, the Magna Carta, the social contracts that really are the bedrock of our society today, we will not be able to get into what is the future of renaissance 2.0. So it's up to each one of us to take off the blinders and start seeing what is the reality because if we don't we won't understand the true costs of what we're doing and how we are taking the direction of of society and most importantly about empowering the individual and free will. These are part of the bedrocks of the social contract that we live under today. And those very foundations are what are being attacked and eroded daily. What's it going to be? Because if we don't start talking about renegotiating the social contract and weigh things that are happening today others will do the thinking and changing for us and you might not like the outcome that they bring. So it takes us back to the root of the enlightenment the creation of what is the social contract we live under today. Will hemp will cannabis and legalization bring us to the next revolution? I should say industrial revolution or the revolution of free thought and humanity? I believe so. Alright, so entitlements, taxes and payment systems Alright, right now we have not had a national debt this large since World War II. We're in the hole for over $20 trillion that's a crazy amount of money. So on top of that we can't afford all our liabilities meaning Social Security, Medicare Medicaid and depending on how you look at the accounting we could basically be bankrupt by 2030. So when you look at accounting, accounting isn't true. Accounting is how you count numbers and it's very easy to hide things and this is basically what's been going on to breach our social contract and right now politicians are gaining steam for new cohorts based on new ideas to try and, you know, better humanity but you have to find a way to pay for all these things. Not everything. You can't do it for free. So when you have all this debt there's only three ways in economics to get out of it.  Inflation means you print a bunch more money which is basically it lowers the cost of what you have you grow or you have more economic power or you actually produce more stuff or you tax and what's going to happen if we don't do that is essentially you default depending on who you talk to whether it's like a Jim Rickards kind of guy or other economist, what the real game is about is the race to the bottom right now because if it's Japan or the Bank of China or the EU, whoever's going to default first is going to precipitate a larger kind of crisis but that's what you're seeing in all the trade wars going on right now is who's going to push you over the brink first. So we're talking about taxing. That's obviously what's always been sold before. So for example in Colorado, when you look at the whole supply chain, the grower gets taxed going to the retailer and the retailer gets taxed going to the consumer but this isn't going to pay for what it was promised to pay for because what happens is in the 40s and 50s, once all the soldiers came home from World War II, there were promised pensions because legally according to the law that got passed, they couldn't raise rates or you couldn't have a better wage. So what they did is they had these things called fringe benefits where you have social security, you have healthcare and pensions and that's what we can't afford to pay right now and this actually happened in Jersey too where the lottery was created and it was supposed to pay for all the stuff for education and it didn't really end up making that much of a dent at all. So the other side of this too is a war on cash and a war if you if you think back about how can you do actually transactions that you don't want to be traced, it's either with cash or pretty much gold right now and the cannabis market at least that we found was a billion dollar industry which is the biggest cash only market that's untraceable in the world save for elicit markets or black markets and you can't get in the banking system because no one wants to touch the whole KYC and the Know Your Customer and all the regulations that go with it because the banks are so large right now that they'll just essentially cut you out and the banks can do that even on the personal level.   So all this means that everything gets digital, it's all traceable and therefore it's all taxable and this is what the United States actually does. So there's a thing called the Swift Payment System which is created that countries and big corporations pay each other and Russia and China have actually called to get out of it because the United States put political pressure on Russia after Crimea to try and control them and instead of enforcing hard power with the military or soft power through sanctions, Europe didn't want to do it because they're getting all their energy from Russia. So the US said alright, screw it, we're going to do it this way and this is why if you do the research all these countries are buying crazy amounts of gold right now. So the idea is that they'll default on dollars at some point and say alright, thanks, call me back and then they'll do what's called a collateralized loan based on gold so they'll take the gold and say okay, here's how much we have and now we're going to renegotiate back with a crypto backed SDR. So it will go digital but it's basically going to be a non-country backed social contract. It will be like a world backed money. Renewable energy. We got 15 minutes alright. So looking ahead, there's like 15 people that haven't come online yet and we're here at DEF CON hacking badges and looking at the wifi and what not but there's still half the world is not on the internet yet and we just can't provide the same lifestyle for the whole world that we've been used to with air conditioners and all this power consumption because our energy needs are growing exponentially. And that's the problem. Basically we built this past 150 years industrial revolution on finite instead of renewable and this needs to change. It's very clear. We have garbage patches full of plastic the size of Texas in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Hemp has a unique ability to change that and to empower again nation states humanity to move forward and pass the finite history that we've built are now society on. There's no longer you can't turn away from what is the problems anymore. I mean humanity has made their mark on this planet. This planet is going to be here regardless if we're here or not we need to make a change and we need to choose a direction that is about empowering futures for generations upon generations of generations of humans moving forward. So was the word plastics derived in the wrong way? Was it derived from the wrong materials? Today really hemp allows us to change the way we are impacting our environment in a very unique way because it's a renewable resource and renewable commodity. The beauty of hemp in cannabis is that specifically hemp it can be used to really backstop what is our social contract the dollar. Now how it's being used today as far as legalization goes if you look on Twitter every single politician keeps on pushing out hey farm bill this farm bill that look we got hemp for you. The beauty of it is it literally overnight we can turn a zero or I should say about a billion dollar a year commodity into trillions within a year to three years time. Aside from the economic impact of course the environmental impact of growing all that hemp in cannabis is greatly beneficial aside from aerating soil and all the other important things that it does as far as for the environment it actually cleans the air better than any other plant that exists, period. So in essence why wouldn't we embrace hemp? Why wouldn't we embrace cannabis moving forward? Oil resources are being depleted ironically enough the United States now finds itself as a lead exporter of oil and petrol. Together with cannabis and usurping data this puts the United States and the dollar in a unique position to really float itself into the future. Now what that future will be? God knows but we all can understand that marijuana is going mainstream and the other day my grandma asked if she could get some CBD. I mean that to me, wow. So we find ourselves today where more than half the population here domestically is in favor of legalization of cannabis being the consumable products. Now if you really look at cannabis specifically here in this little diagram over here it's more about cannabis indica sativa. You really get to see the size of cannabis relative to all other cash crops. I mean it dwarfs. I mean all other crops are dwarfed by cannabis. You literally can make 20 times the amount of money growing cannabis on the same plot of land that you could growing corn or soybean. Talk about really empowering our farmers. Marijuana is everywhere. I mean in Los Angeles while presently I just pull up my weed maps. I can see a doctor right next to me. I can get any delivery service. I look at them all it's right at my fingertips. Literally. I don't even have to leave my home. The things can come to me as long as I put the order and actually it's kind of cheaper because you don't have to even deal with any retail space and all that stuff. But really really comes down to cannabis, the smoking, the edibles, the medical side of it is just a fingernail on the body of what is cannabis as a whole and as a cash crop. The golden commodity. I think I should say the nation got a little bit of God I guess back in World War II when they needed hemp. So they actually went from prohibition to 10 years later saying hey go for it guys grow as much hemp as you possibly can. Even Ford got on board. They built cars in 1941 built solely out of hemp. Hemp is 10 times stronger than steel when it's composited material. Hemp can be used as ethanol. Way more efficient than using corn. And what do we find ourselves today? Mercedes-Damler, BMW they're actually making all their new renewable energy conscious cars out of hemp. Hemp really is the building block for our future. It can go into almost anything you can possibly imagine. From lightweight hemp crete to medicines to ethanol to energy uses to plastics you name it. And it's becoming part of mainstream culture as well. I mean this is a screenshot I took from Elle magazine. Elle magazine actually printed a woman in weed article in a whole publication like this one this past month with supplementary web page that literally went through all the nice and neat cool things that cannabis can do for you for the new millennial. But really at Harvard all it's about harvesting liberty. And every company and their mom is getting on this board. Patagonia of course. So really we're getting back to the essence of where we started. And I believe that the world is going to need cannabis in order to spring forward and they're going to need that in order to backstop the social contracts they have with their citizenry. But the beauty of it all is about empowering humanity. And through that is about sharing the free flow of information. Now the antithesis of that is the controlling of that very information and data. Now we're at the precipice of understanding all the secrets of the universe. Here right here is the whole genome sequence of man humans mapped out. Basically what is going to be our future? I mean every company is racing to make sure that they control whatever is their bedrock to wealth. Today we find that is knowledge, data genome sequences. But really in reality if we leverage all this information if we leverage the king commodity and all these commodities together it will take us to the stars and beyond. Imagine being able to populate the billions upon trillions of universes around the world and being powered and being brought there specifically by cannabis. Alright so the social contracts of the future. So we talked about how the dollar is breaking down and everything is being called into question at large. So in order for anything to really improve you really need to have human centered design systems. And if you read any corporate monologue they talk about being customer centric, human centric but they're not really doing that. They're not really looking at what are the unmet needs, how do you solve them simply how do you look at this idea of shared value creation. So as a real simple rule or a kind of model you could look at this idea of simplicity, convenience and trust. So simplicity when you have an unmet need how do you solve it really simply. So like Amazon does this good with like one click, Wikipedia does this with like one click editing, it's literally how do you get rid of as much friction as possible in the system. Convenience is really simple. It's the idea of how do you improve my length of quality of life or how do you give me my time back.  And lastly it's trust would you actually advocate this to friends and family and are you being consistent along the interaction. So when you do that this is how you actually unlock real novelty and creativity and add value back to society and that's what this is all about is by empowering people to be free to speak their truth and to do things that actually resonate with what is their quintessential being. Thanks. We'll open up the floor to any questions if you have. And I guess with that cannabis is a future. Embrace it. Thanks guys.


everybody, Andrea Majeski here. Let's talk about the quality assurance written assessment exam, and how I can help you guys. So in Ontario, if you are a dental hygienist and you've been audited, you have the choice to either submit your portfolio or you can take the quality assurance written exam. For the purpose of this video, I'm going to talk to you guys about the quality assurance written exam, how it works, how much time do you have, and at the very end, how I can help you. So if you guys look in the description of this video, I have a course link for you. So I do offer full quality assurance prep courses for this exam. So you don't have to worry. You don't have to stress. I tell you exactly what to study so you can pass this exam. But let me talk about it a little bit first. So basically, you have from September 1st, until January 31st to take your quality assurance exam. So you cannot take it before September. You find out at the beginning of the year if you've been audited, but you have time to think, do you want to submit your portfolio or do you or do you want to take the exam? There is a fee to take the exam. There is not a fee to do the portfolio. The portfolio takes a lot of organization. I do offer a course to help with that too. If you've decided to take the portfolio, I'll leave that in the description box down below. But taking the exam, obviously, you're taking an exam. And not a lot of people like to take exams. It's kind of stressful, but you don't have to pay for it. And it's another option they like to give you. But you cannot take the exam before September 1st. So that's just kind of why I have this kind of highlighted for you guys.  So either the quality assurance exam or the portfolio, and then you click I'm all done. You cannot change that. So please keep that in mind. So the CDHO suggests taking 75 hours to actually study for it. I think they say that because to do the portfolio, you need 75 hours over three years for your quality. Sorry, your continuing education. So that's what you need to pass your portfolio. So I think that's why they say the 75 hours. It's really hard to say how our DHS study for this exam. Some might say it took them 10 hours. Some might say it took them 100 hours. Everybody's different. I do offer that full quality assurance prep course. I've had dental hygienists tell me that them studying for that course took about 30 to 60 hours. So it really does depend, but I offer all of that for you so you don't have to worry. So the rest this is just saying is how they came up with the questions. It's not like the board exam. Those questions you don't have to study as if you were taking the board exam. Obviously the board exam has a lot more questions. So this is in a way easier, but you still have to study for it. I have had dental hygienists tell me or come to me after they have failed their quality assurance exam and then say I failed the first time. I need to pass the second time. I didn't study. Can you help me? So you don't want to go through that stress. Just study the first time. So how many questions is it? They mentioned that a little bit here. The test is 100 questions multiple choice. It is open book, but don't rely on the open book. Every dental hygienist has told me they felt they had to do the test so fast because there's 100 questions and it's about a minute per question. So that's not a lot of time. So if you're just relying on that open book of yours, you're not going to pass. Trust me, you do have two and a half hours to complete the quality assurance test. Dental hygienists have told me that it's taken them two hours. So even after I have prepped them, they've taken the course with me. I find on average dental hygienists tell me it took them about two hours. Some say it took them the full two and a half hours, but just because they were so nervous. So what type of questions are on the exam? They say dental hygiene theory and practice is about 20 to 30%. Application 45 to 55%. Critical thinking 20 to 30%. So you're probably thinking, huh, what does all of that mean? What topics are on there? Let me help you. So let me move down below here. So they really do break it down for you, which is fantastic. So community health, emergency protocols, health and safety, women's infection prevention and control, pharmacology, process of care, professionalism, radiography, special needs and ethics. So all of these topics you will see once you log into your course. So I'll leave the course link for you guys down below. I make it very easy for you. I shouldn't say very easy. You still have to study. It's not easy topics to study for, but I give you the information so you don't have to open up your 800,000 page textbook and try to study that way. You're not going to know what to study. You're not going to know how to study. So let me help you. I have taken that 800,000 page textbook and brought it all into my course. I have used several textbooks. I have used comments from past hygienists who have taken the quality assurance exam. So I can help you guys really prepare in the best way possible. If you don't know much about me yet, I have been a dental hygiene tutor. So I tutor dental hygiene students past the board exam for the last 16 years. So I've been teaching dental hygiene. I am a consultant to help dental hygienists start their own business. I'm a mobile restorative dental hygienist myself. I've been working for probably about 16 years. So a long time since I was 19. Well, that's a long time. So you guys, I can help you and I want you to pass. Okay. So I go through all of this with you. How do you prepare? This is how the CDHO suggests you prepare. Instead, I suggest taking my course. I have all of this inside the course for you, but an easier modules to really study. Of course, look at all of these two, have these open, have these things saved to your computer. I can help you with that. I have links to all of that for you inside the course. Now, I'm glad they had mentioned this because this is a very common question is, are they going to ask questions on local anesthetic? So in Ontario, we cannot give local anesthetic. I live in St. Thomas, Ontario. I can't administer local anesthetic, but they do ask some questions. So I help you with that. Don't you worry. They just basically say no cheating here, obviously. But I have this inside your course as well. They do offer some practice questions for you. So you have an idea what might be on the exam. I do have a free practice test for you as well. I can leave the link. Oh, sorry, guys. I kind of hurt my tooth there. I have no idea how. Anyways, I will leave the link for the practice test for you guys as well on the bottom. Definitely check it out. I can leave actually the link for this too if you want to check it out. I'm copying it right now. You can take these questions, do the answers, all of that fun stuff. Now, you guys let me know if you have any questions I'm here to help. The course is on sale, depending on when you're watching the video. In September, it does go up to full price again. I do that to offer a great incentive for you guys who want to sign up early and get started studying early. You have full access to the entire prep course until you pass your quality assurance exam. So don't worry. If for some reason you don't pass, you have full access until you do pass, but you will pass. I'm here to help you guys. Okay. Thank you for watching. I'll talk to you very soon and have a great Monday, depending on when you're watching the video. It's Monday today. So have a good Monday and please click like to this video. If you haven't already, that does truly help my channel. Thank you, everybody. I'll talk to you very soon. Bye.


Okay. This week in Python on hardware news, you can check out the patch release for MicroPython, we're a sponsor and supporter of MicroPython. We have a neat article that I put in there. It's a crazy supercomputer comparison against the modern Raspberry Pi. How does it compare? If people want to build retro computers, we have a cool thinking machine build that uses a Raspberry Pi as the brain. In 1978, the Cray supercomputer cost $7 million and it weighed 10,000 pounds. It was the fastest computer in the world. Now Raspberry Pi computers about 70 bucks, and according to this article and more, I mean, there's specifics that you have to look into, but it's about 4.5 times faster than the Cray one, which is kind of cool. A little bit of recap from our pseudo editorial where we talk about Arduino and manufacturing and counterfeits and clones and all those things. Interesting discussion if you want to tune into it. It's from last week's show. And then more Python on hardware. There's Python on kids. You can look at the use of Python inside of Google Sheets. You can look at what your most popular programming languages are. It's so cool how old they are. So, 70, 77 years old, Fortran is 70. So, it's like, it's interesting. It's like, Fortran, like, which is still used by some people, is like ancient. Yeah. Like it really is. And a little bit of a recap of our shows and more. Lots of stuff in the playground. You can see your projects or others. I'll talk about that with Learn.  I did want to talk about one thing, which is it is 2024, where we're putting up the new graphics in this, but this is the start. For Circuit Python, for every single year, we have a post about Circuit Python. So, let me find the, I think I have it up here. Yeah. I didn't pull out the post up here. That's OK. You can go to our blog, and we'll also get the word out more and just search on any search engine and search for Circuit Python 2024. And you can see our post about this. What type of things do you want to see in Circuit Python in 2184? What things do you want us to work on? What things do you want to see updated or changed? My big thing is, now that we have an open source Python powered camera, I really want to see maybe more stuff that we can do to expand that. So that's my, oh, I'll write that up more later. But now's your chance, everyone, to do your part, which is ask away. Yeah, we're nine versions in. We'll talk about, we have the coming soon poster. We have the Circuit Python poster that we'll be, yeah, that we'll be putting in store soon. So we have nine versions. We'll probably have, you know, 90 more, 90 plus more, and how long we want to. Can't we feel Circuit Python is 70 years old? Yeah, 70 years old. And it's your chance. So check out the blog post. We'll get the word out more. Scott's out. There's a family thing that came up. So we'll make some noise about it, you know, even more. You have plenty of time, but do check it out. This is all delivered to your inbox every single week. Spam free, adafordaily.com. We do not spam you. We do not want this part of your customer experience. So this is why it's a separate website. And that's an Adafordaily.


This is the story of both parties working together against us.  It is so flagrantly dumb, both parties are forced to agree here, from Reagan and Trump on the right to Obama and Bernie on the left. Everyone's on the same page, yet this problem keeps getting worse. Here's what happened. It's the 90s. The internet is created. Suddenly we can all file our taxes online, which could save the IRS millions of dollars because paper returns are a nightmare. So Congress decides it's time to modernize the IRS, and there are two ways to do this. Two ideas so exceedingly simple and obvious, we're going to pretend that this goat came up with them. That's right. It's just like TurboTax, only without TurboTax. You file directly on the IRS website. If you don't like the service they offer, you can still use TurboTax if you want Very simple, or idea number two. Reagan had this idea all the way back in 1985, so I'll let him explain. We envision a system where more than half of us would not even have to fill out a return. You would automatically receive your refund or a letter explaining any additional tax you owe. Should you disagree with this figure, you would be free to fill out your taxes using the regular form. What Reagan is saying is the IRS already does our taxes, so when we do them they're just making us play guess what number I'm thinking of. It's an unnecessary redundancy, like the phrase shrimp scampi. Why not have the IRS just send us our taxes? Scampi means shrimp. You're just saying shrimp, shrimp. Thirty-six other countries already have systems like this in place. It would save us and the government time and money, but we'll never get it. And this is where TurboTax and H&R Block come in. At first glance, these companies seem like Ben Affleck from the accountant. Super smart, math wizard, you kickass. But after a closer look, you'll see they're a bit more like Ben Affleck.  Anything that saves us money costs them money, so they had to kill those policies. And in order to do so, they pulled a real Ben Affleck. They assembled Earth's mightiest embarrassments, 12 tax prep companies who call themselves the Free File Alliance, and they waged an all out war on common sense. Over the past two decades, they have spent millions upon millions of dollars lobbying Congress to great effect and to keep these movie references rolling, it was almost an Ocean's 11-style heist. They snuck into our legislation, repealed the stuff we liked, replaced it with policies that scam us, and snuck out without anyone realizing Ben Affleck was never in that movie. It's called Free File. It's supposed to let 70% of us file online for free. Only 3% of us use it. Here's how this epic scam works. When you go to a tax prep website, for example TurboTax, you will see TurboTax free edition. You could be forgiven for thinking the free edition is free, because it's called free, and it says free, guaranteed, and it all seems very, very free. It's not. The free version of TurboTax is called TurboTax Freedom. It's really hard to find on their website because it's not there. In fact, it's nearly impossible to find. You'd have to Google it by name, but how would you know what it's called? It's not mentioned on their website, so you'd probably Google something like TurboTax free, which will return you to the non-free version. Fun fact, if you Google free TurboTax, you'll turn up all kinds of results about how TurboTax actually hides its free version from Google searches. TurboTax is funneling people into their paid services. For example, say you made $30,000 last year, but you didn't have health insurance. Well you have to pay to submit that form. Or say you were a private contractor, like a house cleaner, you'd have to pay for that. Or say you wanted to itemize your deductions, like a teacher does, you'd have to pay for that. All of these people are eligible to file their taxes for free, but they end up paying because TurboTax hides that service from them. It all amounts to taxes that are more expensive and time-consuming for the people who can afford at least. Meanwhile, TurboTax's billionaire addition just wires your money directly into a suitcase handcuffed to this guy in the Cayman Islands. This free file system has failed us for 20 years. Yet every few years, Congress has to renew the agreement. So every few years, Congress has a chance to get it right, but they never do. This issue is a perfect example of something we'll call the stupidity paradox. It's a catch-22 that traps our policies in a cycle of utility and corruption. And the way it went down in tax land is just so dumb. One, legislators craft bad policies like tax policy that, two, cost us time and money. So we, three, spend our money on places like TurboTax.  It's just a, you know, you get it. It's a cycle. Yeah, sure, tax prep is not the most important issue we face as a country. But the stupidity paradox is, in a broken system, every policy is trapped in that cycle of utility, whether it's education, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, debt, the environment, you name it. The cumulative effect of that is devastating. Our political system has been completely overpowered by special interests. Money is more powerful than common sense. It's more powerful than public support or bipartisan consensus. It's more powerful than three ex-presidents who all vowed to fix this problem. It's more powerful than the very ideals our nation was founded on that our government should be of, by, and for the people. We have to fix this problem for Republicans, for Democrats, for everyone's sake.


Thanks so much for coming to our opening event for the exhibition, Survival in Sarajevo. And the exhibit, Survival in Sarajevo, is on display in the Skylight Gallery, which is on the sixth floor, from now until March 16th. So I hope you all get a chance to see it. It's a really, really wonderful story. And so anyways, it's my great pleasure to introduce to you, Ed Sarada. He is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker, and Ed founded Centropa in 2000. So please help me welcome Ed Sarada. I'd like to thank you all very much for coming tonight. And I will be something of the master. I'll play Ed Sullivan, introducing our guest. And what we'll do is as follows. We'll hear from a couple of people who I've asked to say a few words. And then I'll speak about this project a little more. We'll watch a short film that is now being used in more than 250 schools and a dozen countries. It is narrated in English by me, except in England, where we have a Downton Abbey type narrator, because they don't like my accent there. And then we also have it's also in German and in Spanish and in Hebrew. And we have versions with Albanian subtitles and Arabic subtitles. And I know that because the time is short, I'll introduce someone to say a few words at the beginning. And that is Eil Noor is the deputy consul general here in San Francisco. And we met in an auditorium like this in Belgrade two years ago when my institute created a multimedia film about two sisters, two Serbian girls, two Jewish girls, who were saved during the Holocaust by a Catholic priest. And that film, we launched it in Belgrade. And that film is now being used in more than 100 schools throughout Serbia. And as a matter of fact, I'll be in Serbia in two weeks to conduct a seminar about it. The Sephardic history of the Balkans is long and it's extremely complex, as you all know, and I'll go into a few things. But I know that, Eil, you have to leave soon. But I'm glad that you've rushed back from Sacramento to be with us. And if you would just say a few words of welcome, because we appreciate very much your support for this event. So thank you very much, Eil Noor. Good evening. The war in Yugoslavia started in 1991. First, Slovenia, followed by the bloody conflict between Serbia and Croatia. And in 1992, the war in Bosnia began. This exhibition, the 64, tells us how a tiny Jewish community with around 1,000 members helped save a multi-ethnic city of Sarajevo by working with all the neighbors of every religion. For the first time during a modern European war, Jews in danger had a place to go to. They had a state of their own, the state of Israel. Although most people don't know, Jewish organizations like the Jewish agency and the Joint Distribution Committee set up offices in Belgrade, Zagreb and Sarajevo so that the Jewish families could be quickly processed and brought to Israel. There, they were welcomed. Schools welcomed their children. Language lessons were provided for everybody, as well as housing. But were they all Jews? If you believe so, I recommend you take another walk around the exhibition upstairs. All of these refugees waited for the war to end so they can go home. But it went on for years. Many of those Yugoslavs became ex-Jugoslavs and have enriched the Israeli society ever since. The story that means the most to us, I think, is the story of Zeyneba Hardaga. And her story is on one of the panels up there. In 1985, Zeyneba became the first Muslim to receive Righteous Gentile Award. She saved a Jewish neighbor during the Second World War. Israel's Museum of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, has given out thousands of such awards to those brave non-Jews who risked their lives, their own lives, to save a friend, a neighbor, or a complete stranger. But this story has a twist. Because seven years after the hero was recognized, it was she who needed saving. And Zeyneba, her daughter, and her son-in-law and granddaughter were all brought to Israel. She was then invited to Prime Minister's Robin's office, the late Prime Minister Robin. She was, as you can imagine, overwhelmed. My friend Ed tells me that the event took place on a Friday afternoon in Jerusalem in May 1994. Zeyneba had been in Israel since February that year. And you can say that those two months left quite an impression on her. Because after the ceremony, she turned to the reporters and told them to go home and prepare for Shabbos. She was a Muslim Bosniak, by the way. This exhibition is mostly about how Jews and their neighbors and friends in Sarajevo who were serving in Orthodox, Catholic Croats, and Bosniak Muslims all worked together to help save their city. As a representative of the State of Israel and as somebody who served in the Balkans until recently, and try to make friends with all different people there and try to have them be friends with each other, I'm proud to say that in the quietest way Israel played its part. It gave those who needed help what they needed most. A place of refuge. Thank you. Normally, I'm certainly not a war photographer. I made my name photographing Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. And to be honest, chubby little rabbis who sat in their chairs and served you ruggola and tea were my kind of people to photograph. It was easier. And you ate better. But in 1993, I was in somebody had from a museum, and I won't say which, thought that the Serbs were going to come back to Dubrovnik which had been surrounded and attacked in 1992. They thought they were going to come back and attack the city and they were going to destroy the synagogue which I thought was the stupidest thing I ever heard except they offered me a job to go there and document the synagogue in Dubrovnik, which I did. And when I was leaving Dubrovnik, I was changing planes in Zagreb and I saw someone from the Jewish community of Sarajevo, one of the leaders of the community who looked at me like a favorite student who had gone wrong.  And I hope you made a lot of money from your first book. And he said, but we really need you now. And I said, well, I couldn't possibly come to Sarajevo. I have a terrible allergy. He said, what kind of allergy could you have? I said, I'm allergic to bullets. And he said, oh, we have aspirin for that. And I was so charmed by that answer that I decided to get on a UN transport and flew in with him. And what I saw in Sarajevo was simply really unbelievable or not unbelievable for anyone who's from Sarajevo. And what we had is an old synagogue from 1903-1908 when it was built, the Ashkenazi synagogue of the city built by the Austrians to make it look like a Sephardic synagogue and insult the majority of the Jews there back at the time. And who was working for the Jewish community inside? It was, we now use the term Bosniak instead of Muslim, Bosniak Muslims, Catholic Croats and Serbs and Jews. And I remember I sent Peter Schneider, who was a very big German journalist from the Holiday Inn where all the reporters were saying, I said, you got to go and take a look at that place. And he came back and said, what did you think? And he said, it's so noisy there. Everybody's yelling and they're so valuable about everything. And what we had here is the war itself could not have been worse. The city was besieged in May of 1992. Now, if you went home tonight and you went to get to turn on the tap of water and nothing came out, you went to flush the toilet, didn't work, you went to turn on the heat or the air conditioning, the electricity was out. And know that it wouldn't come back on for the next three years. And it gets a lot colder and a lot hotter in Sarajevo than it does here. An entire society had been surrounded and was being starved. From the outside, the West sent in food packages from time to time. But by and large, twiddled their thumbs, agonized over what they should possibly do, and we see this kind of thing happening today in other parts of the world. And this was in the heart of Europe. And 11,000 Sarajevans were either shot down or blown up. Tens of thousands were wounded. Bosnian Serbs surrounded the city and lobbed grenades up to 1,600 a day into the city. And from Belgrade, coming from Serbia, men would come for the weekend with their hunting rifles. And sit above on Vratse and other parts of the hills. And for sport, shoot down people. This is how it was. The trauma of families who went through this still have to deal with it. As you probably know that during a war, during a siege, during a war, very few people actually commit suicide because you're so worried about existing that you don't think in those terms. It's afterwards that the emotion sweeps over you. The people of Sarajevo who refused to leave the city and many didn't refuse to leave out of moral standing because nobody wanted them. They couldn't get out for most of them, but they didn't. Zina Baserovic is one of those people who's not Jewish, who came from Sarajevo. She's now on the staff of Berkeley. And I've asked Zina to share some of her stories as a 13-year-old girl growing up in Sarajevo, and she'll say a few words to paint in a couple of the pictures for us. Zina? I want to say, I just want to start with something that just kind of this is totally unpremeditated, but I just want to mention something that happened just 10, 15 minutes ago. So while we were all upstairs mingling, this gentleman comes up to me and my friend who's standing there and talking in this elderly gentleman comes up to us and he says, is there anybody here who speaks Bosnian? So I go, well, I do. So he introduces himself and immediately we kind of get into a conversation and in the first three minutes of the conversation, so he tells me that he's 85 years old and in the first three minutes of the conversation he really basically in such a poignant way sums up how ironic and ridiculous that whole conflict was. He says, you know, I am 85 years old and I was with the, back in 1945 in the Second World War, I was with the battalion that came into Sarajevo and freed the city. And I was, my commander was Pedro Kosorich and I think for me as a child, as a Sarajevan child, I think, oh, well that's the name of, used to be the name of one of the main squares in the city. And he says, you know, back then it was all about brotherhood and unity and all of us Serbs and Croats and Muslims, we were all together and we were fighting the foreign enemy and because we were together we repelled this foreign enemy and then a few decades down the line I lived to see a complete reversal of the situation where we turn on each other and the outside forces tried to intervene to keep us together but we repelled them because of that. So I thought that that was such a, it was really such a good way to sum up the sort of, the paradox of the conflict and we both kind of agreed on one fact that during that time Sarajevo was, it was a little world unto itself and there was no, I mean it was, there was like, there was an immediate agreement between an 85-year-old and a 30-year-old that yes, you know, there in Sarajevo we all stuck together, didn't we? It was, there was no difference, there was no, it was not really, it was irrelevant what your name is and what your background is, we all suffered the same and we also all tried to help each other in the same way and I think for me as a child growing up in that situation and it's no exaggeration anything that Ed was trying to sketch for you briefly just now about the conditions of life and how horrendous it was I think for me that experience kind of, it is, of course it is horrible to, it is undescribably horrible to grow up under threat and under bonds and under, you know, really living as a hostage for three and a half years of your life and being hungry and being cold and being just stripped of any kind of notion of future and dreams and sort of as a child being just limited in what you can dream about but that sort of, that spirit of Sarajevo, that spirit of togetherness that kind of, that community that we've built and that we stuck to and that we really stubbornly stuck with and did not want to renounce that was the kind of, that was the shred of decency and the shred of humanity that pulled us through all of that. I think that is the reason why we survived what we've survived because if you think about it in terms of what it was for all that time it's hard to imagine that anybody can survive it and remain sane so I think it's that kind of, that spirit of togetherness and sort of just joint humanity it's something that not only kept us alive and strong but I think it has made a whole generation of young people like myself really into the sort of individuals that I now when I think about my generation about my friends spread throughout the world into extraordinary people in terms of the passion and the drive and the compulsion that we have to make a difference in the world not to make a difference just in Sarajevo to go back there and to make a difference there yes sure but to make a difference in the world and to also stand as an example of how you can get through that and how you can make a difference. So in my work I work here, I teach at UC Berkeley and my whole sort of when I talk on this topic I usually have like a repertoire and I say well you know this is really about, this is about my past because it's what I've been through, this is about my present because it's about the work that I do and this is about the future that defines the sort of changes that I want to make in my life in this world in as much as I can and I have been in it, I have worked in the field of human rights my whole life and I intend to stay there not because it's a deliberate career choice, it's a labor of love and compulsion and when I talk about these things I often think okay well I can take several different perspectives I can talk from a professional experience because I've done all this work with all these international organizations and I can talk about development and post war development and problems and what not I can talk from an academic perspective because I've studied it so much I can talk from a personal perspective and that's when everybody's attention sparks up because that is the story that people usually want to hear what is it like, what was it like to be a child in that situation and how does a child in that situation become this kind of an adult who can really stand on her own two feet because believe me the experiences that people have been through you would think that it would be difficult to do even that much just stand on your feet for the rest of your life so what I thought I would share with you is when the war started I was a kid much like if you remember the picture on your invitation of that little boy who was looking out of the window and crying it's a picture of a boy whose parents have decided to send him away a lot of kids ended up in that kind of a predicament and this is such a familiar picture of these buses bus loads of kids being sent away from the city and now as a parent myself I can appreciate how devastating that is but a lot of the kids remained and have gone through that experience and myself like a lot of other kids we wrote journals every day and I remember it's totally coincidental but it's also very ironic just before the war started one of the last books that we read at school as assigned books to read for homework was The Diary of Anne Frank and it was totally, you couldn't have planned it better because shortly after that the war started and when I started writing my journal as a 13-year-old I remembered how Anne Frank used to write to this imaginary friend so I started writing my diary to her and I would start my entries with Duran and kind of also respond to some of the things that she was talking about and try to kind of talk to her and tell her how in some respects you know Anne the situation for us is worse and then I would kind of elaborate why I think we're having it worse than Anne Frank so because I still kept all my journals when we talked about this event I thought well maybe it would be one thing that would be interesting if I found a little snippet out of my journal and shared it with you so I found something and well obviously given the time it was written in Bosnia but I've tried to translate it as kind of literally and true to the spirit as I could so I'm gonna read it out and okay so this is dated January 13th 1993 that says Duran I was thinking about what you said how boring it is to be locked up and hiding to not be able to go outside there's only so much you can do and it isn't much now when the days are so short in the winter it gets dark at four in the afternoon and it slides out for any reading or writing I tried to sit by the window to catch the last drops of dusk light but then my mother starts shouting are you out of your mind? get away from that window before a bullet gets you you know they can see us I wonder who they are and why it bothers them that I'm sitting in the window and reading Dad says it bothers them because they're not the reading sort he says that they are a bunch of thugs sitting up there in the hills getting drunk and firing out bombs just to meet the daily requirements for carnage there are also no more candles the Catholic Church is not giving them out anymore they say they've handed out all they had they've none left I think they're lying maybe you need to be a crott to get some it would be nice to have some light because in the dark I really get bored then I think about all the other stuff like how cold it is then mom starts to lead her exercise time jumping up and down and all that we all feel stupid you're right Anne the worst thing is the nights are so long we got a Red Cross message from my aunt she says she sent a package through benevolentia it's love benevolentia but I'm saying benevolentia so that's the Jewish organization that we're talking about here mom's been going around there checking the lists every day but there's nothing yet they don't open the packages the Jews don't like the others so everything that is put in the package you get seven exclamation marks if my aunt has any sense there'll be some chocolate in there well I can't write anymore it's too dark there's nothing important happening anyways when I read this I really paused over and I thought there's nothing important happening this is a teenage perspective I couldn't get over the road today to CJ that was my best friend I don't know anything about her boyfriend situation but I'll keep you posted on that and that's the entry for that day and it kind of just as a footnote to the love benevolentia thing so the organization was and the reason why I was so excited was that it was true like all the packages that we would get somebody on the outside sends you the food packages that would get through various aid organizations would be at some point somewhere stopped and ravaged and anything that is anything excitement inducing would be taken out this was another way of kind of a psychological torture that was being placed on us so you would get this package and you would be over the moon there's going to be stuff in there and then there'd be the same kind of stuff that you get in humanitarian aid the only packages that never got stopped somehow miraculously were the ones that came through love benevolentia because the Jews had a special arrangement with the guys who were at the stopping points somehow, I don't know how but we loved it so it was a daily routine to go and check the lists that love benevolentia would put out every day of what packages they received and you would go there like an excited graduate student looking for your name to see if you've passed and then when you see that you've got the package it is the most exciting news because you knew there was going to be stuff in there and it wasn't really so much for the food as it was for that sort of that touch, that connection back with the civilization with that kind of, you know a little sense of human dignity being returned to you so I think really when I think about it and when I talk about it and this is something that I think most of us who have survived Sarajevo and younger people especially something that we have in common often when we talk about that time we talk about it in terms of the best moments we've had in our lives and it sounds really strange to say that in a horrible predicament like that but I think that the experiences you have that are so much about people helping each other survive on such a basic level those experiences so much transcend anything sort of any other normal kind of daily joys that they become larger and larger and for the rest of your life they become kind of markers of I don't know I guess a sense of like a pinnacle that you've reached in feeling like a good human being if that makes sense but I think that's all for me for now thank you Before we screen the film I'll say something Zena and those are very poignant words you remind me of there's a Nobel Prize which was written in was won in 1961 by Evo Andres A-N-D-R-I-C and all of his novels are here in this library Evo Andres in his most famous novel is called Bridge on the Dreamer my favorite novel was the other one which was called has different titles one title is Days of the Consul and the other is American Chronicle it's the story of the French consul in Travnik Sarajevo was not the capital of the administration center for the Ottoman Empire Travnik was and at the end of the novel it takes place during the Napoleonic period and at the end of it the French consul Napoleon has fallen and the consul's name was David has to go back to France and he has absolutely no funds to get him there and he and he's worried about how he's possibly going to get out of Travnik and all the way back to France and into his courtyard steps a man by the name of Solomon Atias a Sephardic Jew the oldest member of the Atias family in Travnik and he offers to write a letter of credit and to loan Deville the funds to get home and Deville looks at him and says to him first of all this is nobody else has offered to help me at all but what I'm most curious about Mr. Atias is the the vizier had just been bragging to me at dinner how he had stolen all the money from the Jews and he had taken all of your money so I don't know where you are even getting any money to help me and Atias looks at him and you have to understand that this was written that he wrote his trilogy his Bosnian trilogy between 1942 and 1944 and he wrote this in 1942 exactly when the Jew he was living in Belgrade in his apartment exactly at the time when the Jews of Belgrade were being rounded up and murdered all the women in gas vans and their children and the men taken out and shot and he goes into a three or four page monologue by Solomon Atias and Atias begins his monologue by saying to Deville it's true that the vizier had come to us and he had taken quite a bit of money from us he said but viziers come and viziers go but we Jews remain we remember everything that has been done to us in our hundreds of years from our expulsion from our beloved homeland Spain and we record all of these things which is why our cash boxes always have two bottoms there's one for the vizier to scoop in and take what he needs but there's always one but there's always something below that for our families and ourselves and for our friends when they are in need I read that book in the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo during the siege and I couldn't believe the words that I had read because they mirror what you had said so what we'll do now is we'll take a look at this film that's based on the exhibition you don't get the Downton Abbey voice you get mine and we'll take a look at this it's short and then we'll have a little bit of a discussion of course being the kind of audience you are you probably won't have any questions you'll just want to correct me for hundreds of years in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo Catholic Croats Serbian Orthodox Muslims and Jews all live together but as Yugoslavia disintegrated in the 1990s many Serbian, Croatian and some Bosnian political leaders said we cannot live together many people believe that and war came but not everyone in Bosnia got that message here is one story between 1992 and 1995 for three years during the siege Sarajevo was cut off from the world its great buildings went up in flames more than 12,000 people were killed by mortars and snipers walls were built to hide people from the snipers signs were even put up to warn the population but it didn't always help the Bosnian Serb military forces cut off the water to the city so this park in the center of town is where people came to do their wash fill plastic jugs to bring water home to drink to bathe in to flush the toilet this is how they got it home an entire society was reduced to scrounging avoiding snipers selling whatever they had or hoped to sell and then coming home to burn a few books or a chair to keep warm and cook on a wood stove set up in the middle of the living room a great multi-ethnic city in Europe was dying the Americans and the Europeans sent in food from time to time and watched from the sidelines as Sarajevo was bombed people were losing hope holding on even though most Serbs and Croats had left Sarajevo some chose not to listen to their political leaders and felt that different people could live together so some Serbs and Jews and Muslims and Croats continued to live together in this war-torn city of Sarajevo and they were buried together too on the night the shelling started in May 1992 people from the neighborhood around the synagogue sought shelter in it that's when the community leaders like Ivica Choreshnezh, an architect and Jakob Finci, a lawyer offered them shelter for the night and food the next day soon others heard about what was going on in the synagogue and about Labenevalencia the community's humanitarian aid agency not only did people come looking for help they came looking to help so let's meet some of them the medical team this is surgeon who became the chief doctor for Labenevalencia he worked with Yadranka another doctor and Yasna was the nurse Mirjana was the pharmacist and for security there was Adnan and although he never had trouble with anyone Adnan called on sheriff whose job was actually cutting wood for the kitchen in the kitchen Tsitsko was the cook and Mara helped him serve and Novo brought in the food from the warehouse while in the office Slobodan ran the computers for the community and Atso was the secretary Vera was the treasurer and Sonja was the head of the women's club a Bohorete for communication Vlado worked the two-way radio while Timur kept the logbook in the radio room and Deion helped deliver the post which of these people were Jewish Catholic Croats Serbian Orthodox Muslim did Labenevalencia no one asked no one cared here's how Labenevalencia operated during the war surgeon tended patients in the community center and he made house calls to people like Donka Nikolich well into her 90s who needed an injection every week just to keep breathing during the war like the water the post was also cut off so the Jewish community brought in the letters for the city and journalists were asked to bring in the post and come to the synagogue where letters were filed then people were phoned and heard those wonderful words you've got mail since telephone lines were cut Labenevalencia even set up a two-way radio system to the outside world and families from all over Sarajevo came over to use it and to send messages to loved ones abroad with help from the outside world mostly from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Labenevalencia set up three pharmacies and everything in it was free even a dentist came into the community center every week as the children from the neighborhood who came in for puppet shows and celebrations to get their minds on what they could not have and so Labenevalencia could show them that someone cared many older Sarajevans sent their children and grandchildren abroad and remained alone so the Jewish women's group, La Bohoreta kept its members busy by creating treats for the children and spending their time together during the siege of Sarajevo Labenevalencia working with JDC arranged rescue convoys out of the city the largest was in February 1994 to make it happen JDC sent in logistics experts to meet with the Bosnian Prime Minister with the Bosnian Serbs and then with the UN garrison when permissions arrived lists were made the buses arrived and those approved made their way to the Jewish community center the old board of the buses the young and they prepared to leave the city where they were born in the city that they loved very much the UN escorted the convoy out of the besieged city they raced across no man's land and entered into Bosnian Serb territory that's where the UN remained and the convoy filled with 294 Sarajevans from every ethnic group made its way around the war zone and down to the coast of Croatia its final destination a journey that normally would take from Sarajevo to the coast of four hours took them over 20 of those who left on that convoy here are two stories you are looking at Zaniba Hardiga the first Muslim to receive a righteous Gentile award for saving a Jewish neighbor during the Holocaust her daughter Sarah and granddaughter Stella cared for her as did surgeon, the Serbian doctor who worked for the Jewish community and cared for his Muslim friends Zaniba and her family were invited to come to Israel and they left on that convoy in 1994 you didn't abandon the Jews Milton Wolfe, the JDC president, told her we're not going to abandon you and when she arrived in Israel even Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin welcomed her Dennis Karalic, also a Muslim was 13 years old in 1994 Dennis helped bring the water into the Jewish community every day and he and his father Harris lived with Nada Levy Dennis's father was also helping out in the Jewish community Dennis was his best friends with Rasho not his grandson and the two would study their school books even when they couldn't go to school in January 1994 Dennis was slightly wounded in a mortar attack surgeon picked the glass out of his shoulders and his back and Dennis's father told him you're going to go to Israel even though I can't so you can be safe it's not easy leaving your home it's not easy for a father to say goodbye to his son but Rasho and Dennis rode through the night and the next day for the very first time in 22 months Dennis was in a place where no one was shooting at him in the years ahead Dennis would live in Israel and finish school there and then he moved to Vienna where he spent a decade at the Holocaust Restitution Agency the National Fund when asked why a Muslim from Bosnia would work there Dennis said I remember when I was growing up in Sarajevo everyone I knew liked working together and that was what Labenevalencia was all about so by my working here today perhaps I can pay just a little bit of that back what makes it so interesting is that we're now 20 years out from this story and what makes it so compelling is that the it's being used of course because of social media and the way things are this is a story that has even more resonance now in schools everywhere then we had 20 years ago during the war what makes it so fascinating is that I neglected to say that the film also has Polish subtitles and Hungarian subtitles and we're asked now to make the film not just have subtitles but to put the film into a narration in Polish we're using it in Israel and the US Embassy in Tel Aviv we're going to have Arabic narration for Israeli Arabs it's a story that and perhaps not coincidentally I think we were all struck in this room at the death of Nelson Mandela and the outpouring of love and respect and awe and admiration for this great man because we got to revisit all that with him and the fact that he would actually turned around and reached out to his enemies and his jailers not only forgave them but asked them to work alongside him that's fairly remarkable what we there were plenty of people in Sarajevo and let me be very clear about this there were plenty of people in Sarajevo who thought that the idea of hating someone because of their religion was a pretty stupid idea it wasn't only the Jews it's just that this particular story resonates so greatly today in schools, in our public schools all over the United States we specialize in our big schools are in South Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama and Texas and where most of the kids by the way in our schools we look at the data free or reduced lunches and yet they find in this story Holocaust survivors who turned a synagogue into a non-sectarian aid agency where they worked with their friends and their neighbors no matter what their religion to work together and really to stand against hate it was a there's no such thing I believe is I know I work in education now and have been for a while I don't much care for the term genocide prevention it's something that man has specialized in since a man has been there but we must always fight the good fight we must always look for ethical models we must always look for those models that mean something to us morally and this is what we had 20 years ago in Sarajevo with with this little Jewish community I guess I would close by saying you know that for those of you who make bread you can have all the ingredients but if you don't have that little tiny bit of salt to put in it it'll taste pretty flat and I think that's perhaps what the Jews brought to their 500 years in Bosnia and I hope that they will continue to do that for a long time to come I want to thank you very much for coming and if you have any questions or would like to point anything out or make a statement or comment please feel free to do so be happy to hear from you we are videotaping this so when you ask your question and Ed calls in you wait for me to come with the microphone I actually have comments to make you know it started basically when the Serbians had against the Croatians for the slaughter in World War II at the hands of the Estasi and at the break of the Yugoslavia Serbians inherited the army they were the majority so they started that then Bill Clinton had his arms embargo that allowed the thing to grow out of hand the Croatians when they had weapons they could fight it back and that happened and if Woodrow Wilson had kept us out of war then Germany would have been totally defeated giving rise to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and it's traceable to Lincoln keeping the Union together and all traceable U.S. Constitution so I'd rather get to the virus that causes the trouble that alliances that are forged together by force of state that causes all the trouble and these people are very heroic but this is basically scratching the surface thank you as H. L. Menken said for every comment dear sir or madam you may very well be right what do you think was the overriding reason that it started I didn't really get that so much from the film and maybe that's too complicated but I just wondered if you could address that what you think kind of got things started and in general when I gave my speaking tours about this issue back in the 1990s the Serbian American community the Croatian American community always had people come to every one of my talks and of course everybody blamed everybody else and so although I do have certain opinions on them I'll say just a couple of things I generally tend to shy away from that because everyone else was talking politics and I wanted to concentrate on scratching the surface one microcosm of how this one group of people simply refused to hate their neighbors because of their religion the short point to make in regards to Yugoslavia and the war and the film doesn't address that because we use this film in schools everywhere and you're not going to be able to discuss the Balkan wars the Yugoslav wars and the disintegration of Yugoslavia in an 11 minute film basically Yugoslavia was an artificial creation that came about after 1918 it was fairly unworkable when it first started and there were many of those that artificial state that in 1941 when the Germans invaded who were happy to see the end of it that Civil War broke out among the players then after 1944-45 Yugoslavia was reborn as a socialist republic under Tito you could say that Tito was the last Habsburg in the sense that in the Austro-Hungarian empire no one had to be loyal to the empire itself which was a ridiculously complex multi-ethnic empire you just had to be true Kaiser Troy, they would say true to the Kaiser, the emperor and that lasted and Tito was everybody's favorite dictator with Sofia Loren on one arm and Gina Lola Bridget on the other on the deck of his yacht and his wife Scowling in the background and magnificent homes, everybody's favorite dictator and big Cuban cigars but Yugoslavia would not outlast him and it did not, it took only a few years before it collapsed nationalism works nationalism goes into play when you have to distribute losses Yugoslavia economically was a disaster zone under Tito he kept pushing things back by giving more power to each of the disparate republics they developed their own economies which were basically competing with each other in places where they shouldn't have had them anyway the point being is that Yugoslavia was held together with wild inflation or while excuse me, while there was wild inflation the only hard currency earners in the state were foreign tourists and the remittances that families were working in Germany and Austria were sending back and that was it and they made some really, really bad cars and we'll all remember the Hugo and the and what the country did what Yugoslavia did not need was a brilliant strongman nationalist which it got in Slobodan Milosevic the great men of history theory than many people would say that it was through him that this started and what he needed was a thuggish nationalist who wasn't as smart as he on the other side from the Croatian side and that's what he got in Franjo Tudjman and this is only my own interpretation and therein lies the rub and therein started the war the allies were perfectly the Europeans were perfectly happy to let this continue and they did it was in regards to the Americans who came in in 1995 never forget that it was Bob Dole who threatened to make Yugoslavia an election campaign an election issue for the 1996 election it was because he was making that noise that the Clinton administration finally decided to listen to the two biggest vocal supporters which was Madeleine Albright and Richard Holbrook and then acted very very very very late far too late and the Dayton Accords did a good job of stopping the war and freezing everything in Aspic and it's been a mess ever since and it's not a happy story now Well we'll have to end on that note but I want to thank all of you for coming I want to thank Ed for such a wonderful program wonderful exhibit I want to thank Xena for sharing her wonderful story


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Hey guys, welcome back to another week of What's For Dinner. My name is Aya Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. Our channel is all about the food. We do taste test recipes, grocery halls, and What's For Dinner. And we are kicking off another week of What's For Dinner with some Mississippi pot roast. Now if you are new to our channel, you may not know that we are in the middle of a freezer and pantry challenge. Reason being, we have a little baby on the way in January and I'm just trying to be a better steward of our money, not spending as much money on groceries when we have stuff on hand. Plus, I'm trying to clear out space in the cabinet for the baby's things. I've mentioned before that our pantry is pretty small and I've had to store things in the cabinet so I'm trying to, you know, free up some space. So let me show you. We are having Mississippi pot roast. I had the pot roast in the freezer and I already had the peppers in the cabinet. I had the mashed potatoes in the pantry as well. And then I went out today and I bought some frozen green beans because I needed those. So let me show you what the pot roast looks like in the crock pot. Here it is. It's really good, very simple to make. I had an almost three pound pot roast and to the crock pot I added some dry brown gravy and then a packet of the dry ranch seasoning. The original recipe calls for only six of the peppers but I used an entire jar of the peppers. I poured out the liquid. Howard and I really like these and they're not spicy. They just add a really good flavor to the beef. So here it is in the crock pot. I cooked it on low for about seven hours. So here that is and Howard has a preference for mashed potatoes. So I made him mashed potatoes as I mentioned and these are the mashed potatoes that I used. And then I am having the same thing except I prefer rice with my roast and so here is my plate. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll be having leftovers tomorrow and if you've been following our channel for a while you know I typically don't show leftovers. I just show them new meals that we're making for the week. So this is what we're having for the next couple of nights and we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys so I know it's supposed to be a pantry challenge week but I just did not feel like making anything tonight. I had an errand to run after work so I stopped by Little Caesars and I got their thin crust pepperoni pizza for $6.49 and then I got their three meat treat for $8 and here it is. It has I think it's sausage, pepperoni and bacon. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys we are back on the freezer challenge so we are having General So's Chicken and here is what we are eating. I really like innovation products. They're pretty good but this is General So's Chicken which is spicy if you've not had it in a Chinese restaurant before. It is pretty good and it says a lightly battered tempura chicken breast and a spicy Asian style barbecue sauce with sesame seeds and chili pepper flakes, medium spicy. So there it is and so this is what we're having for dinner tonight. I had some leftover white rice in the refrigerator so there it is as you can see jazz and rice. So this is what we're having for dinner tonight. There's a bunch of extra sauce because Howard really likes a lot of sauce on his food so I just basically gave him most of the sauce so that's why it's kind of pooled together like that. But anyway this is what we're having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys so Howard and I are out to eat with my aunt and her friend. We're at a Chinese restaurant that we really like a lot so my aunt ordered the crispy fried chicken right here and her friend ordered the fried duck. They already put some rice on this plate. Howard got the stir fried chicken with vegetables and spicy and I ordered the Mongolian beef and then it came with some steamed rice for all of us to share. So this is what we're having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys so we are having another meal from our freezer. We are using up these jumbo chicken franks that were in the freezer. Of course we've, well I shouldn't say of course, but we've never had chicken franks before. I tasted the bite and it's pretty good. So you probably already know this is Howard's plate so this is his hot dog. We are using the Kings Hawaiian's hot dog buns. They had a special at Kroger and their buns were buy one get one free. So that's his hot dog and he has some avocado.  You know he's a ketchup kind of sewer. This is what the Chipotle mayo looks like and of course Heinz ketchup. This is my plate and I just have a little bit of yellow mustard on there and then we are both having spicy Doritos. This was something that was in our pantry as well that we needed to use up. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time.