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The Breakdown
A highlight from Congressional Republicans Lash Out At Gensler
"And at the end of it all, after dealing with several more non -answers from Gensler, an exasperated ogles closed the hearing with the call to open up the floodgates, hit him with subpoenas, get the information we need. The obfuscation, the not answering questions, I'm sick and tired of it. Dude, you wear tap dancing shoes better than Fred Astaire and enough is enough. It's time that questions are answered and that we have the information that we need. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, September 28th, and today we are talking about Gensler's combative hearing. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on The Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, we had yesterday another hearing featuring SEC Chair Gary Gensler. This was a House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing. And what makes this one a little bit more interesting, even in the Senate hearing that we heard last week, is one, it had some interesting lead -in in the fact that a bipartisan group had just sent Gary Gensler a letter encouraging him, in the strongest possible language, to approve a Bitcoin spot ETF. And two, it had the setup for some very interesting fireworks heading in. And indeed, that is exactly what we got. Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry set the agenda from the beginning with his opening remarks. He addressed Gensler saying, Last time you were before the committee, I voiced my concerns regarding your reckless approach to rulemaking, lack of capital formation agenda, crusade against the digital asset ecosystem, and unresponsiveness to Congress. So many things changed, so many things remain the same. Those are the same issues on the docket today. McHenry went on to accuse Gensler of doing nothing over the past five months to remedy the legitimate and often bipartisan concern expressed by this committee, adding that this is disgraceful and that their patience was wearing thin. Now, the Republican critique of Gensler's rulemaking agenda is that a huge number of rules have been proposed during his term without an economic analysis being performed on their cumulative effect. Regarding the crypto crackdown, McHenry rebuffed Gensler's constant assertion that the law is clear. He stated, your actions have created more confusion and lasting damage. Indeed, he said that contrary to the SEC's role of consumer protection, that Gensler's actions had, quote, pushed legitimate digital asset activities outside of regulated financial institutions where consumers are best protected. Keep in mind, this is all in the opening statements. McHenry went on noting that the SEC's regulation by enforcement agenda has been ineffective and has been on a massive losing streak in the courts. Still, the main point, the main thrust of McHenry's opening, was that it was unacceptable that the SEC had not engaged with Congress. Wrapping it up, McHenry said, the SEC is not above the law, nor is it unique. I do not want to be the first chairman of this committee to issue a subpoena to the SEC, and you should not want to be the first SEC chair to receive a congressional subpoena. Either we find a path forward where the SEC recognizes Congress as a co -equal branch of government and is responsive to our oversight duties, or my option is to issue that subpoena. It's time for you to consider the lasting consequences of your actions and what that means to the SEC's reputation long -term. While your time in this role may be temporary, the repercussions for your actions may be permanent for the agency. It was a fierce opening that sent the signal right away of what we were in store for. Now, a couple other quick notes around other opening statements. Democrat Ranking Member Maxine Waters used her time to rail against MAGA Republicans for pushing the government into a shutdown, and effectively defended the SEC's agenda on all fronts, and asserted that their rulemaking agenda was moving quote thoughtfully and effectively. Now, Gensler himself also got a chance to give an opening statement, and most of his time was spent on justifying the agency's regulatory agenda. He claimed overall that the rulemaking process had been measured with ample time and consideration given to public comment. Now, from there we moved into the question section of the hearing. McHenry as committee chair got to go first and used his questions to focus on Bitcoin. He asked Gensler whether he stood by his previous comments that Bitcoin is not a security, which Gensler evaded by talking in circles, never reaching a point. Notably frustrated by this process, McHenry snapped, I'm asking you to answer my question now. This is not supposed to be hard. Unable to get a straight answer, McHenry moved on to his point that there is currently no regulator with authority over Bitcoin's spot markets. He asked whether Gensler believed legislation should be passed to close that regulatory gap. To the surprise of no one, Gensler continued in his noncommittal manner, acknowledging the existence of said gap but failing to engage with the need for legislation. After that, McHenry left the crypto topic to press Gensler about when he can expect a response to document requests. Becoming ever more frustrated with Gensler's mealy -mouthed answers, McHenry said, This should not be the hard work of a chairman. You have 30 major rulemakings, but you won't even provide basic documents to us. Your unresponsiveness is non -compliance and we'll have to take action if you're not willing to comply. Now Maxine waters again as ranking minority member got to speak next. She, too, continued on the crypto theme, although she used her time to accuse the industry writ large of quote gross violations of the law that end in investors getting ripped off. She asked Gensler what the SEC has done to quote shut down crypto firms and whether quote crypto firms are getting the message. This, of course, mainly served to set up Gensler's usual sound bites. This is a field, he said, that's rife with fraud, manipulation and scams, and the American public is still getting hurt by the non -compliance in this field. Waters also used this chance to castigate Republicans who quote too often protect crypto firms. Now it was very clear listening to Waters that she wants the public to see the crypto industry as just Luna and FTX, to extrapolate them to everything and effectively shut the industry down. Now moving into the rest of the questioning, much of the substantive discussion centered on SEC staff accounting bulletin 121. Better known as SAB 121, this measure requires financial institutions to place intangible assets on their own balance sheet rather than in segregated customer accounts. The rule has been widely criticized for making crypto custody essentially unworkable for banks. Dissatisfaction was expressed from numerous representatives, including one of Gensler's usual allies, Brad Sherman. Sherman noted that the rule lumps all intangible assets together from real estate to crypto. He suggested that specifically designed rules for vastly different asset classes would be more appropriate. The most robust questioning on this topic, however, came from Republican Mike Flood. Flood put to Gensler that his staff did not consult with prudential regulators on SAB 121, which Gensler acknowledged. After stating that he had personally looked into this issue, Flood noted that the Accounting Standards Board had not published any guidance around crypto custody. This contradicted Gensler's comments from a previous hearing when he stated that the SEC was simply applying existing accounting rules. Flood said quote, With regard to SAB 121's potential effects on a bank's balance sheet, it's fair to say that fact pattern we have is that the SEC is not just going out of its lane, but it failed to comprehend the existence of any conflict with prudential rules. He suggested that there are only two explanations for this action. Either the SEC knew there was no justification for SAB 121 and chose to do it anyway, or that there were fairly obvious mistakes made during that process. Flood concluded saying quote, The case of SAB 121 raises the question of whether the SEC is compromised. Now, as you might expect, minority whip Tom Emmer lined up to take his shot with a series of rapid -fire yes or no questions. The main thrust of his questioning was around whether Gensler's history as a partner at Goldman Sachs had colored his agenda at the SEC. To get a sense of Emmer's opinion on this, just look at his tweet from yesterday where he said, Fact, Gary Gensler is not an impartial regulator, and his answers to my questions today prove just that. He's made a career of being relentlessly loyal to the largest institutions in America at the clear expense of innovation, competition, and everyday Americans. One example, Emmer presented Gensler with a quote he previously gave about bank executives being concerned about depositors moving money into crypto. Emmer asked, Can you assure this committee that your style of regulation by harassment towards digital asset innovation is to the benefit of every American and not driven by your desire to protect industry incumbents? At another point, Emmer asked whether Gensler believed that all crypto tokens were securities, which was, once again, avoided with a rambling noncommittal answer. And all of this built up to the big finale in which Emmer said, Mr. Gensler, despite your years of rhetoric, I'm convinced you are not an impartial regulator. Instead, it's clear you are working to consolidate your own power even though it means crushing opportunities for everyday Americans and, frankly, the financial future of this country. Even the federal courts are highlighting the damage you, sir, are doing to our constituents and they are telling you you don't have the legal authority to accomplish your goal of squashing competition in the financial markets. Now, while this was extremely satisfying to watch if you happen to agree with Emmer, in general, I find that this type of interaction is exactly why these hearings are so much about and not really about productive anything. This was a chance to articulate the Republican position against Gary Gensler. There's no real place for listening. It's about laying out a narrative. Now, in this case, I happen to agree with Emmer's narrative, but it still doesn't make for the most effective governance. Another notable line of questioning came from Democrat Richie Torres. Torres used his time to dig into the issue of whether crypto should be governed by securities law. He said, I worry that the term investment contract has become so infinitely malleable and I worry that when it comes to crypto, your interpretation of the term investment contract has no limiting principle and therefore could invite arbitrary and capricious enforcement action. Torres referenced an August report from six law professors which examined the history of the Howey test. That report had noted that no Supreme Court ruling has ever determined the existence of an investment contract scheme without recognizing one or more contracts underlying that scheme. When pushed to provide a case that contradicts this research, Gensler was unable to do so. When Gensler began to waffle, Torres cut him off, stating that, This is a question to which you should know the answer because the definition of an investment contract is the central issue. That's what determines the extent of your authority. That's what determines the applicability of federal securities law to crypto transactions. Your inability to answer that question is baffling to me. Switching tactics, Torres asked whether purchasing a Pokémon card would constitute a securities transaction. Gensler, as always, was unable to give a straight answer, stating that he would know what the context was, although generally he acknowledged that it would not be. Torres followed up by asking whether purchasing a tokenized Pokémon card would be considered a securities transaction. He asked Gensler if, For you, the process of tokenization is what transforms a non -securities transaction into a securities transaction? Gensler, of course, did not get to a real answer and just fell back on restating the elements of the Howey test. One other topic that you might be wondering if it came up was the Prometheum question. Prometheum was, of course, the first crypto firm to obtain SEC registration as a crypto brokerage, despite the fact that that licensing seems to give them no ability to actually offer digital asset trading. Prometheum is also minority -owned by a prominent Chinese firm. After Gensler failed to express any serious concern with the Prometheum situation, Congressman Ralph Norman noted that the SEC had taken 10 weeks to respond to a letter on the issue. He said, Andy Ogles brought the four -hour hearing full circle, saying, And at the end of it all, after dealing with several more non -answers from Gensler, an exasperated Ogles closed the hearing with the call to, So, what can be drawn from this hearing, if anything? Well, Gensler appears to be stubbornly sticking to his plan to evade document requests and oversight from Republican representatives. Over the four -hour hearing, there were few, if any, answers from Gensler that produced any new information or even, frankly, attempted good -faith engagement with the questions. Throughout the hearing, Gensler acted as if he knew there would be no serious repercussions and he could continue to treat congressional oversight as a joke. Republicans, for their part, are clearly fed up and ready to act. McHenry began and ended the hearing with a threat to subpoena the SEC and Gensler to compel a response to the numerous document requests that have gone unanswered. The threat seemed to carry little weight for Gensler, who seemed more than willing to allow that controversial action to play out. Now, on the flip side, establishment Democrats appear entirely disengaged with the legislative process and committed to the current strategy of naming failed crypto projects and demanding that the SEC continue its rampage throughout the industry. No senior Democrats appear at all concerned that the SEC is losing in court, as long as that litigation remains a roadblock for the industry. Representative Torres remained a bright spot and one of the few Democrats breaking with his senior colleagues. His questions showed a deep understanding of the legal issues surrounding token lawsuits and the need for additional clarity and crypto regulation. Overall, the hearing really just confirmed what we already knew about Gensler and his leadership of the SEC, which is, of course, that it seems very unlikely that anything will change. However, Republicans have now clearly reached the end of their rope and are ready to play hardball by using subpoena power. As Bill Huizenga put it to Gensler, what's your plan? Because we've got a plan. Until next time, guys, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
Bitcoin Audible
A highlight from Read_768 - Living Through the Fall of Rome
"Today, historians focus on the symptoms of Rome's fall, the consequences, the moral decay, the economic decline, the fall in public safety, the multiplying plagues from dysfunctional public services, the hollowed out military that ultimately invited barbarian invasions. But we know these well, in fact we're living through many of them. What's a lot more interesting is the why, because that's how you stop it. The best in Bitcoin made audible. I am Guy Swan and this is Bitcoin Audible. What is up guys, welcome back to Bitcoin Audible. I am Guy Swan, the guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anybody else you know. And we've got a great read today. Are we living through the fall of Rome? We have Peter Saint -Ange making it back to the show today, which we had an interview with him, which I will have in the show notes. In fact, let me mark that down so I don't forget it right now. Article interview, blah, blah, blah. And yeah, so that was a really fun episode actually. I really, really had a great time with Peter and I've read a couple of his articles on the show, but he just has an incredible kind of a catalog of videos and explanations and breakdowns. He has like weekly things. One of my favorite things to just actually stop and watch on Twitter. Always has really great bite sized analysis of kind of the stuff that's been going on and just spot on with Austrian theory and the way to think about things, I think. So highly recommended. And then there's this everybody think about the Roman Empire meme going around, which is hilarious, but it's a perfect analogy. And I think there's very good reason why it's a popular meme right now is because for all intents and purposes, it's accurate. And I think Saint -Ange makes a really great case here. So we're just going to go ahead and jump right into it. Just a heads up. Don't forget to subscribe to stay tuned. We have a another really fun guys take coming probably in the next day or two and an interview finally that we're actually having to redo. But it was so good that I cannot, I can't lose it. I can't lose it. We lost the audio or the video of like a huge section. I lost his thing. So it was just like me weirdly sitting there and making a comment every like five minutes while he explained a bunch of things. So and we lost a big enough section that we're just gonna have to redo the whole thing. But trust me, you're not going to want to miss this one. This one is Bitcoin hyper decentralization. Why I think there is an incredible opportunity and why this person is potentially finding a way in to capitalize on this opportunity to actually figure out how to produce and how to spread this as quickly as possible. Make mining Bitcoin more decentralized than it has ever been. Trust me, you don't miss this one. Stay tuned. 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Use my link right there in the show notes to do it. Don't forget your 9 % discount on your cold card. With that, let's turn this over to Peter Saint -Ange in his article and it's titled, Are We Living the Fall of Rome? By Peter Saint -Ange The parallels are ominous. History says they can be reversed.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Christ and Evangelism: Prayer
"We are going to be in Colossians, chapter 4, verses 2 through 6. There'll be two sermons on this section as we kind of talk about mission as a part of our living a gospel life. All right, they're out of here, let's go. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us that God may open to us a door for the Word to declare the mystery of Christ on account of which I am in prison, that I may make it clear which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. Let's pray. thank Father, you that this was written for our instruction, that we might endure and through the encouragement of the Scriptures have hope, as the God of endurance and encouragement grant that we would see Jesus, the one in whom we hope through the Scriptures this morning, that the Spirit would enable us to trust in him as he is presented to us in the Scriptures. Amen. It's kind of weird, I think, when you look at this text and you recognize that the little chapter headings and things like that are not in the Bible. We have added in our translations to understand what's going on there. So it's not in the Scriptures that it says further instruction. That just sort of seems like this is something that's kind of added on. Like it's just sort of tossed in there like Paul's like, oh, well, what should I say next? Oh, yeah, I'll tell him to pray. I think this is thoughtful on Paul's part because as we look at the structure of the book, it really reflects, I think, the structure of how the Gospel works, at least how I understand that it works. Because he talks about how Christ has worked for us, the objective reality of the person and of the work of Jesus Christ. He's talked about how Jesus is supreme over all things as the firstborn of creation, as the one in whom the fullness of God dwells bodily. All of these things, he focused first on the objective reality of who Christ is and then also what he has done with his death upon the cross as an atonement for our sins. And then that second section where he talks about Christ's work in us, where he's talked about how we, because we are now in Christ, now that we are the new man, we were to put off the sin, things associated with the old man and put on things that are associated with the new man in Christ. And so he focused on our work, sorry, Christ's work in us. And now I think he's moving into that realm of Christ's work through us.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1414: Bitcoin Will Reach $10 Million By This Date - Adam Back
"In today's show, Bitcoin priced the $30 ,000 in October, says analysts as the Bitcoin price climbs 2%. And check it out, Coinbase CEO slams Chase UK for a totally inappropriate crypto move. And I'd say the same thing. Also, breaking news, the SEC chairman Gary Gensler says Bitcoin is not a security, but refuses to say it's a commodity. Max Keiser's response, Bitcoin is a synthetic commodity willed into existence by humanity's greed as a species for perfect money. It regulates itself, and it obviates the need for the nation state preach. Also in today's show, we'll be discussing the SEC pushes back the deadline for ARK 21 shares, spot Bitcoin ETF to January, continuing to kick the can down the road. However, breaking news, US lawmakers call on the SEC chairman Gary Gensler to approve a spot Bitcoin ETF immediately. Key word, immediately. Also in today's show, we'll be discussing Bitcoin price can hit $10 million within the next nine years, according to the Blockstream CEO, Adam Back. And speaking of a $10 million Bitcoin price, did you know Hal Finney was calculating a Bitcoin price of $10 million per coin just one week after the Genesis block on January 3rd of 2009? Talk about an absolute legend. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome to everyone just joining us on our live stream. This is pod episode number 1414. I'm your host JV and today is September 27th, 2023. We've got another action packed show for you today. Let's kick it off with our market watch. It's good to see a lot of the cryptos are back in the green with Bitcoin holding on to $26 ,200 as support and checking out coinmarketcap .com we can see the crypto market cap pretty stagnant at just above a trillion dollars, we're roughly $28 billion in volume in the past 24 hours with a Bitcoin dominance pretty stagnant as well at 48 .9 % and the ether dominance at 18 .3 % and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours. We got Bitcoin cash leading the pack up 7 % trading at roughly $230 followed by the infamous Pepe up 5 .6 % followed by Chainlink up three and a half percent trading at $7 .65. Which altcoins if any are you most bullish on right now? Drop it in the comment section right down below and at the end of the show I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week we can see it's a mix between a sea of red and a sea of green. We have Bitcoin cash up 7 % again link is up three and a half percent and RLB up four and a half percent and checking out one of my favorite indicators which is the crypto greed and fear index you can see we're currently rated a 46 in fear yesterday was a 47 last week a 46 and last month a 38 in fear so there you have it fam how many of you are bullish for this upcoming October which is only a few days out? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below and speaking of technical analysis let's dive into today's ta and check out the charts and what is popping with the king crypto.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Rising Auto Theft Rates: Urban Consequences and Solutions
"Well, you see how easy this is now. Now you look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks, this is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporations, but guess who's getting the guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton Foundation gets paid the rebuild Welcome right. to the podcast. We are in the same studio today, which is kind of nice. So thanks again for downloading. If you're just listening, if you're watching or watching the clips, uh, thanks for watching as well. And just for a quick mention, so I don't forget, if you haven't downloaded our app yet, I'm noticing we're getting a lot of downloads and the cool thing is when the morning Mike's program is going Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I'm the, seeing the view count go up and up and up, which is awesome. So I know we're only, you know, we're still in the dozens. I'd like to get into the hundreds and eventually thousands, um, but it's a cool program. If you haven't listened to it, it's a quick 15 minutes to quick by morning, run down three days a week of the top five topics, three minutes each. Do a great job. They do an awesome job when we're, when we fill in the stuff. We screw the whole thing up. Yes. Yeah. We, we blow the whole, the whole, uh, the schedule, but, um, but they do awesome and they're funny. I love it. It's a quick, you know, down and dirty 15 minutes, top five items of the day. And now you get your day started off on the, uh, they, you know, I think on the right foot, they were saying this week, like, Oh, it's so negative all the time, but I think they're hilarious. They take the negative stuff that's going on, but of course the negative stuff isn't the news. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we're seeing. I mean, carjackings again, Rochester had another, you know, record night. I mean, it's incredible how that was going on. And so it's amazing is, is like the Democrats just sit around and watch this happen in every city and every city. It's insane. Yeah. I sent you an article earlier this morning about Philadelphia. Let's see. I can find it. It's, uh, not that it's anything out of, you know, anything that we don't know about, but let's see here. Philadelphia swarmed by alleged juvenile. Come on, come on. Juvenile looters targeting the Apple store, Lulu lemon and footlocker. Yeah. So, cause they're starving. They're starving. They just, just need a little piece of ham and some Turkey. They need clothes and food. That's, that's only fair. I mean, they, you know, and once again, I know we've all heard this joke, but footlocker is not missing one pair of working boots. No, no, all the Nike's, all the Nike. Yeah. Well, some of those Nike's, I mean, Oh my God. Crazy. You know, talking about like, you know, thousands of dollars for a pair of, thousands, thousands of dollars. I was talking to my daughter and she said to one, one of her friends has a, as a pair of shoes were $1 ,200. I'll never forget the most expensive pair of shoes I ever bought. We were just starting a business. This was like 30 years ago now. Right. Crazy to think. And I remember somebody told me that maybe my dad was like, you got to have a decent pair of shoes. Right. And so I went up and I bought a pair of Justin and Murphy's. They're like 120 bucks at the time. Yeah. The most money I have ever spent on a pair of shoes. Now boots, I've spent more money on since because boots are more expensive, you know, hunting boots. Well, there's a purpose to them. I still don't spend more money on shoes. Like I'm wearing like Skechers or like $40. Like some of these Nike's $500. You can't tell me you're running faster. It's different when you're going to go out and buy a pair of like waders or something. You're going to use them. First of all, you're going to use them for the next 30 years. Right. And there's a purpose to them, right? Like, okay, they're more expensive, but I can walk through the water with them. Right. But if I bought like, if I had five, 600 hour pairs of shoes, I'd be afraid to leave the house. I wouldn't, I wouldn't get off the carpeting. Well, they're targeting the Apple store here, Glenn, because they'll buy jobs. And that's the only way to get a job is to make sure you've got an Apple iPhone. So it'll be like Chicago. We talked about this the other week with, with, uh, with Mike Speraza, Chicago is now forced to open or, or just talking about opening, you know, a, a government run grocery store in the inner city because they've all that. Well, they're going to, so they're going to, they're going to, the plan is to fight the communism with more kind of communism, right? That's going to work really well. But could you imagine how inefficient, first of all, Walmart's pulled out, Costco's pulled out, all the stores have pulled out because now target, have you heard targets now closing stores across the country? So target is now going through and discussing all the stores across the country, liberal target, liberal target. They put a black lives matter that they ripped down the smash of the window. I thought that'd be some sort of a shield or that we're just going to put up this, uh, this plywood and we're going to spray black lives matter on it. Hashtag hashtag BLM. And we'll be safe as they rip it out and use that same plywood to smash the window with. It's pathetic. There'll be nothing left in these inner cities. The problem is when it starts to spill over into the, into the, Oh yeah. This is, this is where it gets ugly. Well, they want it. That's what they want. That's, that's why people like, uh, the governor of New York, uh, you know, Kathy, the ice queen, Kathy Hochul is, is, you know, they first tried the push for section eight housing in the suburbs because that was only fair. Yeah. Now they couldn't get that through because the people in the suburbs are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now they're busing in illegal immigrants in the middle of the night. And I tell you something, if these Democrats like Mark Poland cars were proud of what they were doing, they would have a welcoming party at noon at noon, high noon. They'd have a press conference welcoming our newest community members off the bus so that the whole community could see these family units that are getting off. You got the husband, the wives, the two kids, you know, the things that we see in our country, right? No, it's not happening. They're bringing them in at two o 'clock in the morning. So nobody sees, they're all, they're all 23 year old males, right? Or 18 to 25 year old males. Some of which are from the Congo. I don't know about the, uh, you know, the, some of the social norms in the Congo, but I'm just thinking that maybe they're a little bit different than the Western world. I don't know. I'm just thinking maybe not. Maybe they're exactly like us. I don't know. But they're exactly like us. Why would they want to come here? Why are they aspiring to come here? I don't know. Anyway, it's a fentanyl fentanyl up again, by the way, there was another report. I think it was on a Fox news. Well, good for the Republicans. I mean, at least part of them, I should say good for the five or six Republicans that are the extreme right wing, according to the media, that's holding this garbage up. No, shut the government down, shut it down, shut it down until there's no more money. Take the money, go into Ukraine and send it to Texas, which they did right to the border, which they didn't do last time. Right. Kept it open. That's what do you need? What do you need? We're out of control. The founding fathers gave the power of the purse to Congress and the, and the Pentagon, the Pentagon goes, yeah, you know what? We're just going to exempt Ukraine funding from the budget. So ha ha. We just went over 33 trillion. If you go online and look at the clock, it's moving fast, right? So we're on our way to 34 or 35. Can you even see the numbers anymore? They just blur blur now. So, so fast. Oh no. And, and good news, by the way, we're refinancing this debt at 5 % now, not at 1 % or zero like we were doing. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense. Yeah. It'd be great. Yeah. The fence talk about keeping rates higher for longer. I don't know. They're not going to be able to do that. They'll be cutting interest rates by next year. Mark by where? And the number one reason I say that is because when you talk to every economist, I say, that's not going to happen. And they are typically wrong. So if you take the, it's like saying betting against the casino, it's like saying, you know what? I don't think MGM is going to make money in the sporting books next year. Ma, they're going to figure out a way to make money. They'll rechange the lines, right? Well, you, all you need to do is look at it and get a bunch of economists in a room and ask them where they think the market's going to be and then do just the opposite and you would be way better. Yeah. Pretty much that's usually the way to go. No doubt about it. So the, the, the, the Pelosi, we were talking earlier about the Pelosi stock trader. Yeah. You can follow online. Now, some of these folks, we did the game show game last week. We talked about the, uh, the net worth. I picked the poor ones too. They were like 23, 21, you know, $20 million. Some of these folks are amazing. I mean, really just, you know, the wizards of smart on some of these are just really, timing is impeccable up here. This is somebody who is selling some software that I'll track it, which you can, you, you've pointed out, you can get it for free online, but, but the, the numbers are really astonishing. This Democrat Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million. That was just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Well, by the way, why, why do they own these big $25, $36 million homes? Well, a big, big part of it is because the taxation of it, right? So a Feinstein who's telling you your ordinary income tax rates are too low. She's shifting that to a capital asset, which is going to create a capital gain in the future or no gain. Or no gain. I mean, they're 10, 10 31. This is why when Donald Trump looked at Hillary Clinton right in the eye and said, you will not get rid of the carry interest deduction and you know it because all of your, I use it, of course, all of her bigger donors donate money to Hillary Clinton. And this is exactly the truth, right? They will never get rid of some of these things. Like they talked about, we're going to get rid of the 10 31 exchanges. Yaha. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. So the big developer strokes a giant check to the, to the Democrats off the table. Let's listen to her success though. Amazing. A Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Only two years earlier, Diane Feinstein has been a member of the political scene for 32 years and her salary is only $130 ,000 per 130 grand a year. Now it's more now. That's a little bit dated, but it's up, it's up to probably 180 now. But, but listen to this. First of all, if it was up to 580, you're not buying $23 million homes, $36 million homes. No, no, we're going to put in multiple homes. We're going to, we're going to put the Paul Pelosi onto our research committee. You make a million dollars a year. First of all, most of, most business owners that make that kind of money, they didn't make it throughout their whole life, right? They didn't start making a million dollars at 20 years old. They started making a million dollars at 50 years old and it took 30 years to get to that point. Right? So my point is, you're not at a million dollars a year at age 50. If you did it the right way, the hard way, and you did it yourself, you're still not affording a $23 million home, right? Multiple ones. Yeah. Multiple, multiple. Right. Those aren't even her primary residence. Those are her vacation homes. She lives in, she lives in California. Listen to this though. And it's, it's all of them. It's all of them now. This is a, this is from Nancy Pelosi, stock trader. Uh, this is a tweet, uh, a Twitter feed. You can follow Pelosi tracker is what it's supposed to track or underline or something like that. You'll find it. Anyway, uh, three weeks ago, sitting politician bet against the U S economy so far. He's been right. Tom Carper bought $45 ,000 of PSQ and inverse ETF on the tech sector on eight 23, August 23rd. Since then he's plus 3 % while the market is negative 4%. Go figure. Wow. Go figure. Man, these guys are so good. Yeah. And they're not by, they're, I mean, these are, that's some pretty technical strategy. You started getting into options strategies and stuff. I mean, yeah. Yeah. These guys have become very, very slick. It's not just about buying a, you see, it used to be, okay, I'm going to buy X, Y, Z. Then I'm going to vote for or against something. You know, I'm going to short the stock and then I'm going to vote against them for both that, that, that. So the stock goes down or I'm going to vote for something, knowing that it will benefit the company. The stock will go up and in a sense front running. No, they're, they're in the options strategies now. They're in the market. Yeah. They're doing butterfly spreads. Yeah. Crazy stuff going. They're very sophisticated. They shouldn't be allowed to two things. When you go into Congress, I, you know, I would love to have a Congress person run on or present around the following platform, right? Number one, term limits, term limits, top of the list. Number two, though, while you're in Congress for the eight years, or wherever we allow you to serve 10 years, 12 years, whatever it is, you could not invest in a stock market at all. All your investments are frozen or your choices, a model, some kind of a model liquidated go to cash, or you could buy the fidelity balance to counter. You could buy the, you could buy the T -rope price, you know, target retire, whatever, you know, or you go to goes into a blind something or other where you have no idea. Right. It just goes into what you picked a one through five tolerance for risk and somebody else invest. Maybe it's just broad indexing. Maybe that's it. Right. Something that doesn't allow this kind of garbage to go on where, you know, they buy, you know, Tesla stock and then approve a huge, you know, oh, we're going to, guess what? We're going to build a, you know, for government funded battery stations all the country. Of course, Elon comes out and goes, we already got those, you idiots. I did that like four years ago, you morons. Amazing what Elon can do and what the, what the government can. Going back to target for just a second, not to digress, but I found WGRZ, thankfully came up with a list of the, uh, the target stores that will be closing, Mike, the full list of locations all in, all in Republican run. You'll be shocked. Yeah. Yeah. Right in the, uh, the thriving, the, uh, you know, thriving, the Minneapolis, uh, location, the retailer said the decision, the close was really difficult. I wonder if that was after half. That was the one they put the BLM on. Yeah. Oh, that was the one they put the sign on that said, please don't burn our store down. We love you. I hashtag BLM lit it on fire. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Uh, let's see. I'm shocked though. I wouldn't, I'm surprised you wouldn't stay. I mean, you know, like just collecting, you love them. You love, you support them. This is what you supported. Remember you, you, you raised money, you gave money. Yeah. And guess what they did with that money. They agitators hired to whip up people in the community to smash and burn down your store. You idiots. So there you go. There you go. Nice, nice work. What else do you think, Mike? Uh, New York city's East Harlem neighborhood. That's going to be one that's goes down. I wonder why. Chicago, San Francisco for sure. San Fran. Yeah. San Fran. Uh, by the way, before I forget San Fran, Democrat San Francisco mayor, announces plan to require drug testing, which is good in an effort to, if you're going to receive homeless benefits. Right. But the funny thing was in this same passage, they're going to Texas to try to recruit police officers. The funny thing is is that the people they sent from San Francisco to try to recruit people. They didn't come back. They defected like North Koreans. Some of them got jobs. They get over the wall. They come out, they get over the wall. It was hilarious. No, they didn't go back. Well, the other five stores, Mike, three in Portland, Oregon and two in Seattle, five, three in Portland. They're pulling out of Portland together. All of these inner cities folks will be food deserts. You're going to hear that term. It'll be business deserts. It'll be nothing. Well, business deserts, nothing left, but there'll be, but target, don't forget target. Does target sell food? Yeah. Well, yeah. They sell food. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Well, I don't go on target. So Walmart I know does Costco for sure. Costco is a food store. I don't think target is as big as Walmart as far as like fresh fruit, but definitely frozen food, all that kind of stuff. You know, aisles of pop and water and chips and right, right, right. And all that kind of stuff. But you can definitely frozen food. You can buy bulk frozen food there. So, so there's going to be food deserts, all over the place, business deserts, whatever you want to call them. You know, it's amazing because you know, the, there's no policing. And the sad thing is that is the problem. It's not, there's no policing. I shouldn't say that. Excuse me. No, you're policing your asses off. I get it. There's no ability. There's no prosecution. There's no bill. You guys are arresting people, putting them in and they go right back on the street. They're getting, they're getting appearance tickets. It's a joke. Your point is no, there is no policing anymore because of the system, the Democrats put together where the police officers aren't going to bother. If you're a police officer and you know that somebody is going to be this, this carjacking or whatever is robbery. And you know that there's a potential, you're going to get an altercation where you're in New York state. There's two police officers that have been brought up on charges recently with almost a hundred percent chance that if you do catch that person, that person will be right back. Yeah. A hundred percent. Why would you bother? Why would you bother? You're not going to put your life in line. No way. You want to go home to see your wife and kids too, and your mother or your husband or whatever. You want to be able to spend your Christmas with your family. Why would you do that? And they know that, right? The Democrats know that. This is, you can't be this stupid. I mean, who allows these people to go right back on the streets and say, this is a good idea without correcting this right away. You can say, okay, bail reform. Our intentions were one thing, but when you look at the fact that in New York state, we are now breaking records in towns like Rochester and Buffalo for the most amount of vehicles being stolen. We can say, okay, look at bail reform, put it in place. It clearly did not work. It's been a total disaster. These towns have turned to shit. We absolutely need to go back in the other direction. They're not doing that. They don't care. They want to, and they're doubling down, tripling down on it, tripling down. We invited this liberal on, you actually were on the show with him and he said, things are actually safer since bail reform. That's what his argument was. His argument was, and by the way, his argument was if we have even less police officers, cities like Buffalo will get safer. Well the thought was less police officers, less arrests. Less arrests means less crime. Dude, you got the whole thing backwards, bro. And not only that, but now we know that, right? Now we know, now you can, I mean, literally auto thefts are up 360 % in Rochester. They're not up 3%. You can say, well, you know, in Buffalo and we're in second place. And they can't play, they can't play in COVID. They're trying to like, well, it was a lockdown. People were at pent up, whatever. Remember that was the, that was the reason for the rioting and the ballooning and burning like, well, people had a lot of pent up. We probably should have locked them down. That was a little bit of the reason for the increase in suicides. You guys, you guys increased suicides because you locked kids in their homes, but it wasn't the reason that they went and decided to steal Nike sneakers from a footlocker. So check this out. Speaking of COVID, this is huge. This is, I don't know if you saw this or not, but this is absolutely ginormously huge. Dr. Fauci was smuggled into CIA headquarters without a record of entry where he participated in the analysis to influence the agency's COVID -19 investigation according to the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. Did he need to do much with these left -wing CIA agents? Probably not. No, no, no. That's what they're smuggling him in for. Well they smuggled him in because they didn't want anybody to know that he was part of the PSYOP operation, which was hydroxychloric. By the way, the I think it was a Mayo clinic and some other hospitals now have come out as well as the CDC and said hydroxychloroquine, yes, indeed is an effective treatment for COVID. Oh, by the way, ivermectin also an effective treatment. The CDC now approving that. Now mind you, we're going to keep in mind that if there was any other treatments that couldn't get the emergency use authorization for these vaccines that clearly don't work. Amazingly, I'm still seeing people online go signing off my sixth booster on our way for the sixth shot, proud to get our sixth shot. How about how about one the other day, local left -wing nut job got her sixth booster shot, six shot and she still got COVID and then she said, well, I was so good hiding and it got all my shots and then I went to a concert and I got it at this concert. Well, first of all, you don't know that, but second of all, if you have six shots and you six shots and you still got COVID and you actually think that was a good idea, you don't need a vaccination. You need a mental, you need a mental check. I tell you, I know people during the during the COVID, the height of the COVID that were older, some of our clients actually that were prescribed by a doctor a hydroxy quirk when they were taking it once a week as a as a preventative measure. Yeah. And they, to this day have never had COVID. Yeah. And it's, it's, I mean, so it, but the sad thing is again, you know, we couldn't, it's all about the money now. And that's, you know, when people talk about the evils of capitalism, you're seeing some of that. Now, capitalism is the best thing on the planet, right? As far as, you know, lifting the masses out of poverty and creating amazing amounts of wealth. But the problem is this isn't, this isn't capitalism. What's going on. This is cronyism is what's going on. It is, Hey, look at, I will give you these government dollars. You're going to get this patent. You're going to get this. Unholy marriage between business and government. Mark my word. We were talking about Feinstein selling 25, $30 million homes. This Fauci will be on the board of Pfizer. He'll be on the board of Moderna. He's going to get shares of those companies. He will be blessed with with with millions and millions of dollars. His family watch and see, we'll be talking if we're, if you and I are fortunate enough to be around 20, 30 years from now, we'll be talking about the Fauci trust and watch and monitor that trust and see how big that family trust. Well, you see how easy this is now. You look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks. This is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporation, but guess who's getting the, guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton foundation gets paid to rebuild it. Right. And guess who's going to get the contracts to rebuild. Oh, that'll be probably one of the Biden family members or somebody else's politically connected. Right. Remember it was, it was a Joe Biden's brother who got the contract, the multi -billion dollar contract to rebuild Iraq. No building experience, never been a contractor, right? No idea. Right. This is why these projects cost 500 times what they're supposed to cost. This is why when money comes into Buffalo, for example, $25 million to build homes, five get built. And you were, wait a minute, five, are these $5 million homes in the East side? Each of those homes would have been built for a quarter million dollars or less. And yet where did the rest of the money go? And the, the answer is never, we don't know. We don't know. We can't account for it. Or we'd have no idea. Or I mean, how many times have we've seen that in so many places that whether right down the local level or God forbid at the federal level between, you know, Iraq and others. I was telling you last week on the radio, I was reading an article about the grants that were coming into the city of Buffalo to plant trees. And I thought, okay, wow, like this could be sweet. Okay. You know, like I'm a big tree guy. I love trees. I plant trees every year. I do think, okay, that's one way to, first of all, I think it's one way to make a community look great. When you, when you drive around, let's say North Buffalo, all the streets are all tree. They look beautiful. You drive around the East side, it looks like shit, right? So, okay. You're going to take some of my tax money and you're going to directly plant trees. Okay. It's a win for the environment. It looks nice. It's going to bring things together. I'm like, well, where's the catch? This is a government agency. Where are they going to screw it up? You read through and you find out that they're paying $1 ,000 a tree. Now you and I both know that if they're saying it's $1 ,000 a tree, by the time it's done, it'll be two to $3 ,000 a tree. Now you, you're talking about $13 million worth of trees. You and I just planted trees. Every year we plant a few trees around our office, you know, three, four in the spring, three, four in the fall, just so they can start to grow and work their way in. And then, you know, plant more. We pay $250 a tree, plant it. Right.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Episode 12 The Drama of Atheist Humanism Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J., Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce FBC Podcast
"Welcome to the Foreign Book Club where David Duda, Joseph Pierce, and I, Father Fassio, continue to discuss Henri de Bloch's classic work, The Drama of Atheist Humanism, where he takes three great figures of the 19th century, whose thought influenced the whole of the 20th century, and is still influences now. We've covered Nietzsche, and then Feuerbach Marx, trying to take it as one moral person there. And now we're about to finish, the least known, I believe, in America anyway, Auguste Comte, who is the father of sociology. We're on page 248, in this chapter, positive transpositions, that is positivism, which was the form of thought and practice that was developed by Auguste Comte, transposed many elements of the Catholic church into its own humanist church. And we'll continue seeing how that happened on this section called Sociocracy, page 248. In the middle of that page, Lubbock says, in the last analysis, Christianity in general had been looking forward to the kingdom of heaven. Positivism in general, in the last analysis, an organization of the kingdom of the earth. That kind of sums it up. And then at the bottom of that page, the last word, if, and to the next page, if the advent of sociology had meant the elevation of politics to the rank of an exact science, the advent of sociocracy was to be the religious consecration of the said politics. It becomes a religion. Joseph, you're leading us in this book. Yeah, well, that's actually a good introduction to the first thing I had highlighted, which is really just three words, but I think very, an ominous few words. This is the middle of page 250, where Comte says that he has given his creed, that the motto order and progress, both words are capitalized. And in one sense, if you're going to look at those words sort of amorphously or ambivalently, everybody believes in order and progress, in the sense that the Catholic church will say an ordered life is a virtuous life, and that's progress towards the kingdom of heaven. No one's going to argue, if we're going to use the words very amorphously, what that means. But when you capitalize them as something subject to this sociology, the order is going to be state imposed order, and the progress is going to be worship of a utopia in the future for which everybody can be sacrificed. And that's what happens when you suck the divine out of notions of order and progress. So the next thing I have is 253, so I don't know if anybody beats me there. Well, the very last line of 252, I just barely squeezed in ahead of you, Joseph. The box says, since nothing could be done unless a, quote, proper nucleus of true sociocrats, those quotes, was formed. But in the field of action, the watcher was politics first. From the very outset, the new system must seek to lay hands on power. And, well, you, you may have done the same thing I'm going to do, so you take it away with 253, Joseph. Well, yeah, I mean, just commenting on that, that's the whole point is that we saw this with Nietzsche and with Marx, that it's no longer about truth, objectively understood, but about subjectively applied power and that in itself. But what I felt further down here is very interesting. This is different from Marx. Marx obviously believed somehow that the working class were going to be the people that would gain power, at least in theory, were very much an elitist. And for him, halfway down page 253, and this is ominous, it's almost like exactly what we're seeing in the capitalist ideologies, bankers. So it's actually the international financiers, the super rich, like the George Soros's. These men possessing great wealth must, provided they keep us to the pitch of their social vocation, also have the leading part in the government, that they are naturally trained for this role, by their habit of seeing things in perspective and by the spirit of calculation, that the middle classes are to disappear, leaving only a patriciate and a proletariat, that for the whole of the West, with its 120 million inhabitants, the patriciate is to number 2000 bankers. So he's actually saying that we're going to hand over the government of the world to 2000 super rich financiers. That's his idea.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Leading Edge Defi Leverage Trading! (Apex Review)
"DeFi leverage trading is the hottest thing in crypto right now, and Apex is the top tier platform to use. I'm going to tell you why. It's time to discover crypto. Apex Pro, which is currently ranked fourth in 24 -hour trading volume on CoinGecko's list of DEXs, is a multi -chain, permissionless, non -custodial, decentralized derivatives exchange, also known as a DEX. That's a lot of words, so let's break it down. Multi -chain means that Apex supports multiple blockchains, and so far, you can trade using ETH, BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, C -Chain or Optimism. And permissionless basically means this platform is open to anyone. No one is going to come along saying you can't trade due to where you're located or force you to complete KYC, otherwise known as that thing we all love to hate. Know your customer. It's not chicken. Giving all our personal information over to giant companies makes a lot of us feel less secure. Plus, one of the biggest benefits of crypto is privacy, so I'm always a fan of platforms that don't require KYC. If you feel the same, make sure to slam that like button and subscribe if you haven't already. You can also click the link in the description to sign up for Apex. The other great thing about Apex is that because it's non -custodial, you are in charge of your crypto. We've seen with so many exchanges plummeting during the bear market that the old adage, not your keys, not your crypto, really stands true. And finally, Apex is decentralized, meaning it isn't owned by one particular company or individual. Apex is backed by a plethora of distinguished global investors from Dragonfly Capital to Kronos to Cyber, so a lot of people in the know are excited about this exchange. Apex uses Starkware's ETH Mainnet Layer 2 scalability engine StarkX. And because most of the transactions take place on -chain, the fees on this platform tend to be much lower. It offers instant settlement, and the speeds are top notch, supporting 10 trades per second. Apex is a derivatives exchange, so let's go into what that means briefly. Derivatives are contracts between a trader and an exchange where the trader speculates on price movement without actually having to own the crypto. This is where you hear terms like short and long. A short means you expect the price of the asset to go down, and a long means the opposite. You think it will go up. And what makes this kind of trading extra attractive to traders is the possibility to trade with leverage, aka borrowing funds from the exchange so you hopefully make a bigger profit. So, say you have $100 to trade and decide to use 5X leverage. This means you would borrow $400 from the exchange and trade with 500 bucks. Your gains would be five times more than they would have been without the leverage, but any potential losses will also be five times greater. Apex offers up to 30X leverage on Bitcoin and ETH and 15X on all other assets, but I highly recommend using much lower leverage, especially if you're new. You need to be careful when doing this kind of trading because it is really easy to get liquidated if you don't know what you're doing, so have a stop loss. Remember, don't invest more than you're willing to lose. Okay, so let's get started. First, make sure you go to the correct website. You can click on our affiliate link below, so be extra cautious. Then you'll see the Bitcoin chart. At the top, you'll see the dashboard that gives you an overview, your profile, any orders, transfers, fundings, and even a community section where you can follow Apex on socials. You can also check out the leaderboard where Apex has the top traders listed, as well as ones you follow. And again, the link's in the description. Make sure to check out the Apex rewards section when you can earn for trading. And there's also a referral section where you can earn for inviting new people. And the best part is your friends will get a special offer too, which is another reason why you should click on our affiliate link in the description. You can also earn by holding Apex's native tokens, Apex and BANA. Apex grants governance rights and protocol incentivization, and right now you can earn over 15 % APY from staking it. BANA, on the other hand, is a trade to earn reward token that gives you exclusive perks. All right, now back to the charts. All right, so right here, you can see the pairs you can select. You can also take a look at the depth, funding rate, details, and risk limit. Then down below, you got positions, closed order P &L, profit and loss, active orders, conditional orders, which are waiting for the conditions to be right for the trade to close, filled orders, and the total order history. Currently, it's blank because we haven't connected our wallets yet. So head on over past the order book where you can see the current longs and shorts, as well as the oracle price of the asset, which is pulled from a bunch of external nodes. Then you can choose the blockchain you want to use and press connect your wallet. Click next, click connect, agree with the terms and conditions, then send the request to verify ownership and enable trading. Finally, you press sign and you're all done. If you don't want to connect a self -custodial wallet for some reason, you can also connect your Bybit wallet to Apex, but we aren't going to go through that in this video. Throughout the connection process, Apex may prompt you to make a username and provide your email, but you don't have to. Remember, privacy is one of their top priorities, but if you want notifications about your trades, go ahead. Then you'll see where you can place an order. You'll need to deposit funds, and for your information, you can only trade with USDC, so make sure you have some of that in your wallet. Now, Apex will allow you to open a limit, market, or conditional markets trade. A limit order basically waits for the price to come to you, and a conditional order means your trade executes when certain conditions are met. So if you think Bitcoin will plummet if it hits a certain price, you can place a conditional short. However, most people place market orders, which mean the trade will immediately execute at the current market price. That's what I use. I highly recommend taking profit and setting up a stop loss, so if you start losing money, you can stop the bleeding, and you can close your trade with either a limit or market close. Well, that's all I got for you today. Are you a fan of leverage trading? Have you tried Apex for yourself? Let us know in the comment section below. That's all from Deezy. Thanks for watching Discover Crypto. Hit that like button on your way out, and we'll see you at the top.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Public Evangelism & 1st Amendment Seminar - Part 2
"They look at, you know, what is the environment? What kind of forum are we in? Is it a traditional public forum or something that is where you would have less protection for your rights? And then the next thing they look at is, is the restriction on speech content -based or content neutral? Okay, so content neutral, typically like a noise ordinance, it'll say that you can't have, you can't make noise in a certain place at a certain time over a certain number of decibels, or sometimes they'll use, you know, unreasonably loud, you know, or something like that. And those kind of restrictions are content neutral most of the time, where it's not, depending on what is being spoken, it's just the manner that it's spoken, and you can have content neutral restrictions on the time, the place, or the manner of the speech. And then on the other hand, you may have content -based restrictions, which can either be viewpoint discrimination or topic discrimination. And, you know, a viewpoint discrimination is where a particular idea or a particular point of view is being prohibited, that's being selected for a restriction by government the policy or ordinance or whatever it is. And sometimes it'll have topic discrimination, where, for example, I'll give you an example, if they say, you know, you can't preach that Jesus is the only way to heaven, we're not going to allow you to do that. That would be viewpoint discrimination, okay, because they're taking a particular point of view and say, you can't say this, you can preach about Jesus, you can preach about Muhammad, you can preach about, you know, whatever you want, but we're not going to let you say that one religion is right and other religions are wrong. So that would be a viewpoint content -based discrimination. On the other hand, they may say, you know what, just don't talk about religion at all. You can talk about politics, you can talk about sports, you can talk about, you know, social issues, but leave religion out of it, okay. That is a content -based restriction. It's taking a whole topic, a whole, you know, area of ideas or of speech, and it's saying that that's off limits, whereas, you know, other things are allowed. In either case, whether it's viewpoint discrimination or topic discrimination, it is a form of censorship which violates the Constitution, usually, okay. If there is, if the court determines that there was content, a content -based restriction on speech, they apply what's called strict scrutiny when the court is looking at, you know, how to evaluate this law or the ordinance. The court applies this test, that it was necessary to serve a compelling state interest and that it was narrowly drawn to achieve that end. Okay, that's a lot of legalese, a lot of legal terms, but what it's saying is it's very difficult for a law or an ordinance that restricts speech to pass this test. Once the court says this was a content -based restriction on speech, they're almost always going to say, therefore, it's unconstitutional because it can't meet the strict scrutiny test. A compelling state interest is a very strong state interest. Necessary is a very strong word and it has to be narrowly drawn to achieve that end, which means basically it's the restrictions that the state has imposed are the least amount of restriction that the state is not being any more restrictive than absolutely necessary in order to achieve that compelling state interest. And so the courts have said content -based restrictions on speech are presumptively unconstitutional, that they're almost always going to be held unconstitutional. Off the top of my head, I can only think of one example where it was, where a content -based restriction on speech was upheld, and that was in the case of, they had restrictions on political campaigning within a certain distance of a polling place on an election day. So you, once you get within whatever that zone was, I don't remember if it was 500 feet of a polling place or 200 feet, whatever it was, once you get within that zone of a polling place, you could not be in there with your campaign signs and your megaphones and your campaign speeches, and that is a content -based restriction. It's taking the whole topic of political speech and making it off limits just in that one location, and the court upheld that because another, you know, free speech of course is a very fundamental right, constitutional right that we have, but voting is also a very fundamental constitutional right that we have, and they felt that this was necessary in order to prevent voter fraud and voter intimidation, and they had a list of reasons why they said, we need to have just kind of a sterile zone around the polling places so that people could go there and not feel pressured or attacked or whatever the case may be. So that's very unusual for the court to say, okay, we've got a content -based restriction on speech and we're going to uphold it anyway. Almost all the time, if it's content -based, the court is going to strike it down, okay? If it's content -neutral, if it's not content -based, but it's content -neutral, such as a typical noise ordinance, then it has to, it's a different test. The court doesn't apply reasonable time, place, or manner restriction that is narrowly tailored to serve a significant state interest, and it leaves open ample alternative channels of communication. And again, that's a mouthful of legal terms, and I go into a lot more depth in this in the booklet. So, you know, if you pick up one of these booklets, there's, I have a section in there on content -based versus content -neutral restrictions, and we go into a lot more detail. And I not only, you know, I give statements of what the law is. I give you footnotes. There's hundreds of footnotes in this booklet, and I also give you examples at the close of just about every section. I give so the court in each of these cases is, when it talks about strict scrutiny or intermediate scrutiny, this, the court is scrutinizing the government's justification for making a law or an ordinance that restricts speech, and the government is on the defensive. If you're the government has to explain to the court what is its reason, what is the purpose, what is the interest that it's trying to serve, and convince the court that that is a significant enough interest or a compelling enough interest to justify restriction on speech. And then once the government says, okay, well, this is the goal that we're trying to accomplish with this restriction on our citizens' liberty, this is the goal that we're trying to accomplish, then the court looks at, okay, well, that's your goal. Now we analyze the law that you've made and determine, you know, does that law accomplish the goal within the framework of these various constitutional tests. So my purpose today is to not make you all legal experts on how this works, but I want you to have, you know, at least a basic understanding of some of these constitutional issues so that you can at least, when you come up against a restriction on your speech, that you'll have some idea, does this, you know, does this seem right or not? And I'll go into, you know, some other examples. But anyway, so that's how the intermediate scrutiny works. There are other constitutional challenges besides just, you know, whether they meet the strict scrutiny test or the intermediate scrutiny test. There are various other types of challenges. One is when there's a prior restraint on speech, which, again, is not, sometimes they're valid and sometimes they're unconstitutional, but the fact that there's been a prior restraint, such as they say you have to, you have to go get a permit in order to do whatever it is that you're doing. You have to get a permit to pass out literature or you have to get a permit to, you know, to gather together and have a street meeting or whatever it is that you're doing. That is a prior restraint. And if there's a prior restraint, then there are some restrictions that the court has imposed that the government has to meet certain restrictions in order for that prior restraint to be legal. And again, we go in, I'm just going to go through this part kind of quickly because it's, we go into a lot more detail in the booklet and I want to get to the more practical parts of the thing. But another avenue of attack for a restriction on speech is if it allows unbridled discretion to either the official that is granting or denying permission for something, or if it's unbridled discretion to, it gives unbridled discretion to a police officer in enforcing it. In other words, a law has to have some certainty to it. And you don't want to have a situation where somebody, a lot of times this comes up in a permit situation where the law doesn't give sufficient guidelines to the official that's granting or denying a permit. And so then the court says, well, that's unconstitutional because the official has unbridled discretion. If you have to go to the chief of police to get a permit to use amplification, and that ordinance says that, you know, here's how the chief of police is supposed to determine that, that, you know, based on, and then there's certain criteria, then, you know, that may be fine. But if it just says, you know, the police chief has to consider these five factors and any other factor that the chief of police feels is relevant, well, that gives the chief of police carte blanche to total say of whether to grant or deny something that invites censorship. It invites discrimination where the official can just say, well, no, I'm not granting to you, but I am going to grant to them. And there's no way to, you know, to tell whether they're exceeding their authority, you know, or violating any guidelines because there haven't been sufficient guidelines. So that's a problem when you have a permitting scheme like that or some other restriction that gives the official, you know, too much leeway as far as what to allow or not to allow. Another thing, and this is kind of related, you can have an ordinance that is too vague. It doesn't give sufficient description of what is being allowed or what is being restricted. And again, that causes a problem because, you know, somebody that's wanting to speak or exercise their free speech rights and they want to do so consistently with the law, if the law isn't clear on where the lines are, then the person may violate the law without intending to, or even more important to that from a constitutional point of view, the person may censor themselves and restrict what they say because they don't want to get, they want to be sure they don't go over the line. And so now they've got, you know, restrictions on what they're doing because the law was too vague. And so if it's too vague, it's unconstitutional. And a lot of times a vague, you can have a vague law and it also be overly broad. Or you can have an overbroad law that's not vague at all, but it's just, it's just overbroad. It restricts way too much speech than is necessary for the purpose that the government is trying to achieve. A law that's too broad is, I'll give an example. We had a noise ordinance in the city of DeLand that prohibited quote, loud, disturbing, and unnecessary noise. And we had a young man that was cited under that ordinance and his case came to court. So I said, I'll take care of it for you. And I filed a motion to dismiss the charge, claiming that the law was overly broad. And I think I said it was vague also.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Light of Nature & Natural Law
"But then, after these first principles have arisen, he reasons from them with the help of reasoning to certain conclusions, okay? Now the way this works is, it's sounding maybe more complicated, it's simple. It works kind of like a syllogism, okay? A syllogism is just a way, it's a logical way of argumentation. So we could say Texans are born in Texas, Dennis was born in Texas, therefore Dennis is a Texan, right? There are many ways you could prove that Dennis is a Texan. But that's kind of what you're doing. You're moving from the principle Texans are born in Texas to the conclusion through reason Dennis is therefore a Texan, okay? For example, listen to how Andrew Willett explains this. And just as he has a good book on Daniel, he has a really good book, commentary on the book of Romans, and he has a whole section on natural law in that book. But he says this, he says, natural law teaches that parents must be honored and that they which disobey parents are worthy of punishment. That's the principle, two principles, okay? Parents are to be honored and they which disobey parents are worthy of punishment. Then he says, but the conscience of the guilty person comes along and supplies the conclusion.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY) on the Crack-Up in the House GOP Caucus
"United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay, outstanding federal benefits, and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at CBP .gov slash career slash USBP. Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale, Hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at Q4Hillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Hi Canada, Hugh Hewitt live inside of Studio North here and on the Salem News Channel. Good morning. A lot happened overnight. The Ukrainian armored columns pushing towards the Sea of Azov broke through the last line of Russian defenses. It's a narrow breakthrough, but it is a breakout. The Telegraph of Great Britain reporting that the Ukrainian military punched through a section of Russia's main defensive line on the southern front with an armored assault for the first time. Video footage from the front lines is seen. The Wall Street Journal followed with Ukraine sends first armored vehicles through breach in Russian defenses. That would be a significant milestone in the three and a half month counter offensive aimed at cutting Russia's occupying army in two. Too bad they don't have the attack. Joe Biden has refused to send. This would be over at this point. Senator J .D. Vance made a good point yesterday that Joe Biden wants blank check. Doesn't have a strategy. Well, he's incoherent. That's why I didn't have a strategy. And as a result, some Republicans, I think up to 30 of the 265 senators and Republicans who are up there are turning against Ukraine aid because Joe Biden can't lead. He can't articulate. Speaking of which, presidents in a world of hurt this morning. I mean, a world of hurt. Not only is he getting crushed on the migrant invasion, it's not a flow, it's not an influx, it's not a new wave. It is quite simply an invasion. Hundreds of thousands of people, 10 ,000 people a day are being met, greeted and turned loose. And those are the people that we see at the border. And President Biden got up at a fundraiser last night, repeated the same thing twice within two minutes. John Lemire of AP reporting, giving people pause. Then he went over to the Congressional Latino Caucus to address them. And he said this again. It's the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that he's talking to, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Joe Biden says this cut number 12. I mean, this is certainly my dad. You say everyone, everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Braun Joins the List of Woke Companies in Horrifying Way
"Some sicko at Braun decided that this would be appealing. I don't know who it appeals to. Hey, you too. You too, girl, lady. You too can have your breasts removed and think you're a man. And then you can shave with a Braun Shaver when you have your breasts cut off, your healthy breasts. This is the Braun message, my friends. This is from the Telegraph in England. Braun has been called irresponsible for advertising men's trimmers using a trans model with surgical scars. A model photographed using the Series X hybrid trimmers for men is seen with surgical scars from what appears to be a double mastectomy operation. Campaigners have claimed the advert breaches the advertising standards authority guidance, which warns against glamorizing or trivializing cosmetic surgery. The advertising standards authority and its social responsibility section of its website states, quote, marketers should take care not to trivialize the decision to have cosmetic surgery. Procedures should always be portrayed as something that requires time and thought and should never be portrayed as safe, easy or risk -free. Maya Forstater, the executive director of Sex Matters, said promoting the removal of healthy breast tissue is not only shockingly immoral, but against advertising standards guidance to not glamorize or trivialize cosmetic surgery. Can you imagine, by the way, if some advertiser years ago had used a model for whatever reason, a female model who had had a breast implant and said, isn't this great? Aren't I better looking or cuter or sexier now with bigger breasts? You know the panic that that would have induced? But removing breasts, that's fine.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Ethereum Activity Lags Despite Network Upgrades, Altcoin Volatility Surprises
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Friday, September 22nd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Cryptos Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about Ethereum activity, altcoin volatility, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. Just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Markets this morning seemed to be recovering after a rough few days. Bitcoin has been fairly range -bound for the past 24 hours and at 10 am Eastern Time this morning was up 0 .6 percent, trading at $26 ,607 according to CoinDesk indices. Ether has been doing better so far today, up almost 1 .1 percent over the past 24 hours, trading at $1 ,595. On the week, Bitcoin is up 0 .4 percent, while Ether is down 1 .8 percent. In traditional markets, yesterday was the S &P 500's worst day since the aftermath of the S &P 500's steepest drop in over 100 days. This morning, however, stocks are recovering, with the S &P 500 up over two -tenths from yesterday's close, NASDAQ up almost half a percent, and the Dow Jones up one -tenth of a percent. In Europe, the FTSE is also recovering after yesterday's late trading slump and earlier today was up two -tenths of a percent. This comes in spite of economic releases this morning showing contracting activity from the service sector and a steeper -than -expected year -on -year slump in UK retail sales. Eurozone data out this morning showed a deeper -than -expected contraction in manufacturing activity with new orders declining the most in nearly three years. The German DAX index dropped sharply on the open today but has since largely recovered. The Euro Stoxx 600 index is down almost two -tenths of a percent. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index fell just over half a percent as the country's year -on -year core inflation came in slightly higher than expected. This is fueling speculation that the Bank of Japan could end its negative rate policy early next year. However, economic growth is a concern. Data out today showed that business activity in Japan slowed to a seven -month low in September. In China, the Shanghai Composite closed up over one -and -a -half percent yesterday. Recent data suggests the growth slump has bottomed out. This is fueling optimism that recent stimulus measures will speed up economic growth. Hong Kong markets also had a good day with the Hang Seng up over half a percent. In commodities, the Brent crude benchmark continued its pullback trading at $93 .27 per barrel, down almost eight -tenths of a percent over the past 24 hours. Concerns about global economic activity are outweighing concerns about tightening oil supply. Yesterday, the Russian government announced gasoline and diesel export restrictions in order to stabilize fuel prices in the domestic market. Gold lost some ground yesterday as investors reacted to the prospect of a stronger US dollar, reaching a weekly low before climbing again. Earlier today, it was trading down almost eight -tenths of a percent at $1 ,927 per ounce. Stay tuned. After the break, we'll take a look at Ethereum activity and is the crypto market's largest meme coin becoming stable? Meet the all -new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools, all in a redesigned, modular trading interface. So head to pro .kraken .com and trade like a pro. Not investment advice. Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits, maybe subject to capital gains tax. Welcome back. In this section, we're going to look at what's going on with Dogecoin volatility. But first, despite network upgrades, Ethereum's activity is not picking up. In a recent report, JP Morgan analysts noted that Ethereum's Shanghai upgrade, implemented in April to enable the withdrawal of staked tokens, has not delivered much of a boost to network activity. Ethereum's daily transaction count has fallen 12 % since the upgrade, according to the analysts, and the number of daily active addresses has dropped nearly 20%. To be fair, the purpose of the Shanghai upgrade was not to boost Ethereum transactions. It was to encourage staking by making it more flexible. Ethereum's security depends on the spread of its staking network. It has succeeded in that. Since the upgrade, the number of validators has increased by almost 50%. Also, the circulation of Ether has always been heavily influenced by DeFi activity, which is still grappling with regulatory uncertainty, recent exploits and last year's market shocks. But network activity is an important part of liquidity, which is significant for investors. And Bitcoin's activity has been recovering. The average number of daily transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain has more than doubled over the past few months, while the number of active addresses is more than 10 % higher on a seven -day moving average basis. Looking further out, Ethereum has some more upgrades in the pipeline, which will be focused on increasing throughput and therefore also, in theory, network activity. Given the community's success so far in implementing ambitious changes to improve the blockchain's functionality, Ethereum's declining activity now should not necessarily be taken as a sign that the network is less interesting. And finally, just in case you needed more evidence that these markets are, well, strange, this morning Omkar Ghoboli reported that Dogecoin, the largest meme token by market value and typically one of the riskier crypto investments, now has a lower 30 -day historical volatility than Bitcoin. Normally, a decline in volatility signals deep market liquidity and maturity. With Dogecoin, neither is the case at the moment. So, as with Bitcoin, below volatility is yet another sign that investors are staying away. That's it for today's show. I hope you all have a great weekend. You can reach us at podcasts at coindesk .com. Do also please send us questions you'd like us to address on the Spotify Q &A. Follow us and, if you like the show, please leave us a five -star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and edited by Michelle Musso with executive production by Jared Schwartz. I'm Noah Latcheson for Coindesk. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Ethereum Activity Lags Despite Network Upgrades, Altcoin Volatility Surprises
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Friday, September 22nd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Cryptos Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about Ethereum activity, altcoin volatility, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. Just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Markets this morning seemed to be recovering after a rough few days. Bitcoin has been fairly range -bound for the past 24 hours and at 10 am Eastern Time this morning was up 0 .6 percent, trading at $26 ,607 according to CoinDesk indices. Ether has been doing better so far today, up almost 1 .1 percent over the past 24 hours, trading at $1 ,595. On the week, Bitcoin is up 0 .4 percent, while Ether is down 1 .8 percent. In traditional markets, yesterday was the S &P 500's worst day since the aftermath of the S &P 500's steepest drop in over 100 days. This morning, however, stocks are recovering, with the S &P 500 up over two -tenths from yesterday's close, NASDAQ up almost half a percent, and the Dow Jones up one -tenth of a percent. In Europe, the FTSE is also recovering after yesterday's late trading slump and earlier today was up two -tenths of a percent. This comes in spite of economic releases this morning showing contracting activity from the service sector and a steeper -than -expected year -on -year slump in UK retail sales. Eurozone data out this morning showed a deeper -than -expected contraction in manufacturing activity with new orders declining the most in nearly three years. The German DAX index dropped sharply on the open today but has since largely recovered. The Euro Stoxx 600 index is down almost two -tenths of a percent. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index fell just over half a percent as the country's year -on -year core inflation came in slightly higher than expected. This is fueling speculation that the Bank of Japan could end its negative rate policy early next year. However, economic growth is a concern. Data out today showed that business activity in Japan slowed to a seven -month low in September. In China, the Shanghai Composite closed up over one -and -a -half percent yesterday. Recent data suggests the growth slump has bottomed out. This is fueling optimism that recent stimulus measures will speed up economic growth. Hong Kong markets also had a good day with the Hang Seng up over half a percent. In commodities, the Brent crude benchmark continued its pullback trading at $93 .27 per barrel, down almost eight -tenths of a percent over the past 24 hours. Concerns about global economic activity are outweighing concerns about tightening oil supply. Yesterday, the Russian government announced gasoline and diesel export restrictions in order to stabilize fuel prices in the domestic market. Gold lost some ground yesterday as investors reacted to the prospect of a stronger US dollar, reaching a weekly low before climbing again. Earlier today, it was trading down almost eight -tenths of a percent at $1 ,927 per ounce. Stay tuned. After the break, we'll take a look at Ethereum activity and is the crypto market's largest meme coin becoming stable? Meet the all -new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools, all in a redesigned, modular trading interface. So head to pro .kraken .com and trade like a pro. Not investment advice. Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits, maybe subject to capital gains tax. Welcome back. In this section, we're going to look at what's going on with Dogecoin volatility. But first, despite network upgrades, Ethereum's activity is not picking up. In a recent report, JP Morgan analysts noted that Ethereum's Shanghai upgrade, implemented in April to enable the withdrawal of staked tokens, has not delivered much of a boost to network activity. Ethereum's daily transaction count has fallen 12 % since the upgrade, according to the analysts, and the number of daily active addresses has dropped nearly 20%. To be fair, the purpose of the Shanghai upgrade was not to boost Ethereum transactions. It was to encourage staking by making it more flexible. Ethereum's security depends on the spread of its staking network. It has succeeded in that. Since the upgrade, the number of validators has increased by almost 50%. Also, the circulation of Ether has always been heavily influenced by DeFi activity, which is still grappling with regulatory uncertainty, recent exploits and last year's market shocks. But network activity is an important part of liquidity, which is significant for investors. And Bitcoin's activity has been recovering. The average number of daily transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain has more than doubled over the past few months, while the number of active addresses is more than 10 % higher on a seven -day moving average basis. Looking further out, Ethereum has some more upgrades in the pipeline, which will be focused on increasing throughput and therefore also, in theory, network activity. Given the community's success so far in implementing ambitious changes to improve the blockchain's functionality, Ethereum's declining activity now should not necessarily be taken as a sign that the network is less interesting. And finally, just in case you needed more evidence that these markets are, well, strange, this morning Omkar Ghoboli reported that Dogecoin, the largest meme token by market value and typically one of the riskier crypto investments, now has a lower 30 -day historical volatility than Bitcoin. Normally, a decline in volatility signals deep market liquidity and maturity. With Dogecoin, neither is the case at the moment. So, as with Bitcoin, below volatility is yet another sign that investors are staying away. That's it for today's show. I hope you all have a great weekend. You can reach us at podcasts at coindesk .com. Do also please send us questions you'd like us to address on the Spotify Q &A. Follow us and, if you like the show, please leave us a five -star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and edited by Michelle Musso with executive production by Jared Schwartz. I'm Noah Latcheson for Coindesk. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Growing Unease: Current Administrations Approach to Security and Travel with David Bellavia
"What do you think they're doing with cash, right? What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? Yeah. What do you, it's, this is a state sponsor of terrorism. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens. America's comeback now. starts right Welcome back Financial Guys podcast. Mike Speraza in studio live today with a guest in the studio. I haven't had this in a long time. Staff Sergeant medal of honor recipient David Bellavia joining me for about a half hour today. David, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Absolutely. So I'm going to stick based on your background. I'm going to stick with a lot of military stuff today and I want to start, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of the Joe Biden presidency. The Afghanistan withdrawal, in my opinion, did not go very smoothly. I'm sure many people listening agree. What were your overall thoughts of that withdrawal and how it actually ended up happening? I know we lost, you know, sadly lost 13 soldiers in that, in that withdrawal. People say we went off the wrong air base. People say that we shouldn't have gone out in the middle of the summer. There was a lot of different things there. What were your overall thoughts on that? I think it's like the worst day in American history since Market Garden. Just absolutely. And the reason why it was so difficult was it was totally unnecessary. So let's rewind to the Obama trade, Bull Bergdahl and the three first round draft picks. They get Marshall, they get MacArthur and they get Patton that end up the resurgence of the Taliban. These men not just go back to the enemy, they go back to the battlefield. They're in power when the government falls. You have misinformation coming from the White House that the president of Afghanistan is leaving with billions of dollars on his plane, which wasn't true. And then you leave the equipment, the cash. There's no recovery. We're getting reports of sales of American equipment left in Afghanistan in Southeast Asia. We're moving material across the globe. Our children will fight and pay and have to atone for these miscalculations. Let's talk about that. You being in the military and you knowing that area too, why did they just find it the easiest way out to just say, you know, just leave that billion dollar billions of dollars of equipment there and not think, again, if it was me and I'm speaking that someone that's never been in the military, but if it's me and I'm the president, I'm thinking, OK, I don't want to leave all our weaponry there. I don't want to lose any of my men. Number two. And number three, I want to make sure that everybody knows when and how we're getting out of there. And it just felt like poof. One day they said we're getting out of here. Well, it's because the military didn't make any of those decisions. I mean, look, Millie, it can criticize him. You can criticize Secretary of Defense worthy of criticism. However, none of these individuals are making decisions. This is about NGOs on the ground. This is about the State Department. So you've got Bagram Air Base, the equivalent of JFK. You've got Karzai International Airport, the equivalent of Teterboro. Right. Why would you ever do an exfil out of Karzai International Airport? It makes absolutely no sense. It's tactically unsound. But and then you've got all the ISIS -K. We retaliate from the murder of 13 of our bravest and we drop a bomb on a guy delivering water. He's on our payroll and we kill children on that. Then we take out Borat on a tuk tuk driving around like that wasn't even really what was happening. It's just a den of lies. And Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, all the heroes that brought us, you know, the Bergdahl deal, the Iran nuke deal. This is these. They the State Department is running all foreign policy, including what the DOD used to run. Well, that's I was going to say. I mean, I know Biden's the president, but do you blame him at all or is it everybody underneath him that, you know, maybe was giving him bad information? And again, some of these decisions, David, is Biden even involved in some of these decisions? Like, I don't even know anymore. Is he around? Is he paying attention to anything going on? Well, I mean, just from the press conferences, it was apparent he didn't know what was going on. And the great irony is that they actually were predicting that Ukraine was going to be invaded and, you know, no one believed them. So it's like you can't influence your friends. The allies don't trust you. The enemy doesn't respect you. You know, I mean, you've got Ben Rhodes is really proud of this State Department. Susan Rice loves what they're doing. But, you know, again, Americans died. And, you know, and what is the perfect culmination of the adventure in Afghanistan? Looking at your watch at Dover Air Base when bodies are coming home. I mean, nothing could you couldn't ask for a just it's it's a debacle. Yeah. And it's sad that that's that's the leader of our country there. Let's move in. You brought up the Ukraine there. So the Russia Ukraine conflict will get to Zelensky in a minute. He is as we speak in New York City right now. But so Trump's in office. We don't see many of these conflicts or any conflicts actually started under his watch. And then we have the Biden administration come in. And a year later, we have Russia invading Ukraine. Why did this happen and why? Why the timing of February of 2022? So let's go back to when we were fighting ISIS. Trump engaged and destroyed estimated some say 300 members of Wagner forces. But those were Russian nationals. We engaged. We destroyed them. What was the response from Putin? Nothing at all. So what do people in that section of the world, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, what do they respect? They respect power. They respect authority. You're not going to get any respect if you don't engage the enemy when they present themselves. I don't understand the calculus of again, I'm trying hard to figure it out. I don't get it. I don't. You know, Romania and Hungary and Poland, you're letting them unilaterally decide whether or not they want to send reinforcements into Ukraine. That's an act of war. If NATO members engage the enemy, all of NATO is engaged against the enemy. Poland doesn't unilaterally make that decision. Hungary and Romania don't unilaterally make that decision. We can't even articulate what the mission is. And if you look, go to the Institute for the Study of War, there's a plug for them. Check out their overlay from when the battle started, when the war started with Russia. And tell me what success this offensive in Ukraine has produced. I mean, let me ask this question, because I get confused. The answer is nothing. I asked this on Twitter, X, whatever it's called, all the time. What is the end game and how do we get there? Because all I see the answer is, hey, just blank checks. Hey, just write a check. Hey, here's a billion. Hey, here's 20 billion. Hey, here's another 10 billion. I don't actually see a look. I mean, like anything, right? If I write a business plan of what I want to do in 2024, my goal is X. I write down my steps to get X. I don't just write down X and say it's going to happen. I don't really know. And then the answer always is, well, we have to fight. We have to back Ukraine. Okay. But when does that end? Because the Afghanistan war and the war in Iraq lasted 20 years plus, right? And was there a real end to it? I don't know. That's where it gets frustrating for me, Dave, where I'm like, how do we know what the end game is? Do you win or lose? When does that happen? I don't know. I don't know. At least you're thinking about it. And I have fear that our leaders aren't, and that's the problem. So here's what this comes out. You're going to get a negotiated settlement out of Ukraine, right? But you talked about the billions of dollars that we're spending and giving to Ukraine as a blank check. First of all, Zelensky visited Ukrainian soldiers in the United States. Did you know that there were wounded Ukrainian soldiers in the United States? I did not know that. Well, today he visited them. So what's happening there? So that's a cost that no one is putting on the ledger. So now let's look at the blank check that Ukraine is getting. And by the way, I'm pro Ukraine. I want to fight communists all day and night. So let's punch Putin hard in the face. However, you're giving them a blank check and you're giving them munitions. Now here's the problem. We have to replace those munitions. Those munitions were purchased for 20 year global war and terror. And let's be honest, inflation is involved. So what you purchased for $10 is now $17. So you're not just giving them the money. You're giving them the equipment and the munitions that you have to replace yourself at the value of what is valued today. We haven't scratched the surface for the amount of money. CBO absent at the wheel. No one is tracking this. 2024 can't get here fast enough. How does this work, though, when you talk about some of these NATO nations coming together and making decisions, but us not just giving weaponry, giving everything money, whatever we're giving there? Is that not an act of war, too, though, David, at some point? We're continuing to fund Ukraine continuing the war in Ukraine. I mean, that to me seems like we're backing a war. Well, I mean, by the letter of the law and NATO charter, it's not. But here's the problem. It's schizophrenic because we were told that what was an offensive weapon was going to mitigate, you know, that wasn't going to help peace at all. So we went from, I don't know if they should get tracked vehicles to I'm not sure an artillery piece is what they need to high Mars rockets being launched. And let's be honest. I mean, the Ukrainians are I mean, the payload that they're going through, what you would have to have cataclysmic casualty numbers to be able to to the spandex that they're doing on the ground that they need to replace Patriot. If you're going through thirty five Patriot to, you know, missiles, I would expect to at least the C 20 makes that are shot down. They're using them for air artillery. They're using there for indirect fire. I don't know what they're doing, but this is going to end with Don Boss going to Russia. This is going to end with that land chain that Putin wanted through Crimea. And again, our friends in NATO, what are they even doing for Ukraine? What? Look, if you they said that Trump wanted to kill NATO, Biden did it. Right. Biden did it. And now Germany. And so Putin was selling oil at thirty dollars a barrel. What's it at ninety six? Yeah. He's making more money than he did before. And he's financing a war and killing innocent people. You mentioned before, too, and I think this is a good point. Everybody on the left and I'll say the media, the establishment, whoever you want to say, says that if you don't agree with the war in Ukraine, you're like pro Putin. Right. And that's just the most outrageous thing in the world, because I agree with you. I feel for the people of Ukraine. I don't want this for them. I don't want this for innocent people. However, at some point, the world's every every one of the world's problems can't be America's problem when we have a border crisis. And then I think they said yesterday ten thousand people came across. They got, I think, eight thousand of the ten thousand. But you see the numbers day over day. It's a problem. We have crime that's rampant. We have overdoses that are at record numbers. We have we have suicides at record numbers. At some point, we have to maybe just think about ourselves and not everybody else, because if we fall, sadly, I think the world falls at that point. Amen. The thing that I would add is I love the way the Ukraine refugee has been crowbarred into the migrant crisis in the United States. New York leaders from the city to all over Kathy Hochul, the governor of the state of New York, mentioning that, you know, like the Ukrainians in Poland, the the Polish have no intention to keep Ukrainians forever. That's a temporary you know, they're leaving a conflict to return to their country after the conflict is over. Again, this is just we're we're putting a round peg into a square hole and just hammering it away. But but there's no the media. There's you're our destroying military. I go to parents all the time around this country and ask them to give us their sons and daughters to join the military. And the one thing they bring up is Afghanistan. It's not about anything. It's Afghanistan. How are you going to assure us that you're going to maintain your commitment to our son and daughter when you betrayed us in Afghanistan that has lasting effects? And there's not a I'm trying to find a segment of our of our of our nation that's functioning. I don't know what it is. I saw in Chicago, they're going to have municipally owned grocery stores. Maybe that will figure it out there. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Real quick, do you think and we'll finish up on this topic, but do you think that they will we will ever have boots in the ground on Ukraine? I mean, I hope not, because I just don't know what the I mean, look at I'm I'm we're getting ready for China. We're trying to revolutionize everything. I don't know what the what the plan is. I mean, again, if you want to put a base in Ukraine, and you want to make that a sustainment operation going forward, that I here's the point. I don't understand what the inactive ready reserve call up was for. Why are you bringing those troops in the non combat support? Why are they going to Ukraine? What are you building infrastructure there? Here's what I do know. We're talking a minimum of $11 trillion to build Ukraine back. That is cataclysmic amounts of money. There isn't water, electricity, internet, you know, you want to help Ukraine. You're going to Russia is not paying for that if you negotiate a settlement. So I don't know what the plan is. But I hope we never see boots on the ground. I could guess what the plan is. I won't I won't say for sure. But I could guess that we'll be paying a chunk of that. And I do have one last one. So I did interview Colonel Douglas McGregor a few months back. And he talked about he's a real optimist. But he is really very, very bullish on Ukraine. Yes, very, very optimistic. I'm dropping some all over the place. But he brought up some staggering numbers, though. And even if they're half true, it's a problem. The amount of casualties and wounded soldiers on the Ukrainian side that we're not hearing about the media. I don't know if you agree with some of those numbers or not. But he's saying, I mean, it's people are acting as if this is an even war right now. And it's not even close. First of all, McGregor's a stud. I mean, he's an absolute, you know, that we're glad he's on our side. He's a military mind. I don't know if those numbers are accurate. I could tell you they're juxtaposed to almost everything we're hearing from every institution that we have, including a lot of our intel from Germany and England. But again, I don't know what to believe. So when you don't have when you don't have transparency, when you're not holding regular press conferences, when your Pentagon spokesman is now working in the White House and now you're getting a triple spin. I mean, the U .S. Open double backspin. You've gotten so many spins on the narrative. I don't know what to believe. But if he is even close to what is a segment of truth, you know, then look, Ukraine needs an investigation. There's a lot of investigations. We've got to start on Afghanistan. We were promised that by Speaker McCarthy. We need a hot wash on Afghanistan. And then we need to go to what who is oversighting the money that's going to Ukraine. And what have we got for our return on investment? Yeah, I'm not asking for much. Really, all I'm asking for in this conflict is can we just talk about what the end game is? And to your point, can we get an accounting of where the money's going and what's being spent in a real accounting of it? The Iran deal that just happened last week. First off, the fact that that was negotiated and completed on 11th September to me is just the ultimate slap in the face. But you again, you know more about this than I do. We do a five for five trade. OK, I'm going to use sports analogies. We trade five for five. And then we also approved of six billion dollars that apparently wasn't ours, but it was in a fund that now they can release to Iran. How are we winning on that one? Well, first of all, I was hoping that at least it was a digital transfer. The fact that it went as euros in cash through Qatar. And OK, so what happens the 24 hours after that deal is made? We're now getting issues in the West Bank. We're now hearing about issues in Yemen. We've now got Hezbollah that's reinforced. I mean, look, what do you think they're doing with cash? Right. What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? What do you it's this is a state sponsor of terrorism. They haven't changed. By the way, their president is now in New York City addressing the United Nations. This guy's killed 6500 of his own people. He admits to it. He killed the students that revolted and wanted democracy when we did nothing. He killed 5000 of his citizens in 1988. He's killed over 300 Americans. There's no accountability whatsoever. I don't understand what it is about Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken that believe that Iran is a partner. All you've done 10 years ago, they were refining 10 percent of their oil. And now they're a force. Now they're working with Maduro in Venezuela, and they're a huge part of their members of of the international community. They're in good standing there. I don't get it. Does anyone believe that the Iran nuke deal? Look, we got hit with cruise missiles under Trump in Iraq. How did they have those cruise missiles? Those cruise missiles were illegal under the Obama nuke deal. So how are you refurbishing missiles in two years? Do we believe that their centrifuges have stopped? That they won't have a program if they don't have one already? No, I mean, I guess my question, David, is how I mean, I know that you pay a lot of attention to this stuff, but how do people like in the media not ask these questions? Right. I mean, these are legitimate. I mean, we just traded to I put this on my notes here. This is on the heels of trading a WNBA basketball player for the Merchant of Death like six months ago. Right. I mean, and again, I'm glad Americans are coming back to America. I don't want to sound pessimistic on that. That's great news. But we also I mean, this this stuff just seems like I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. It warrants questions, but nobody seems to care. I'm in the world that if you take hostages, we take hostages. You want to exchange people? We'll exchange people. You know, we definitely have the partners in the area to do that. For whatever reason, this administration, they're they're they're contrarians. They're contrarians to you know, they claim Bush and Cheney are their best friends, yet they just go 180 degrees from that doctrine. I don't know what the Biden doctrine is. I don't know what Bidenonomics is either, but I could tell you that they believe that Iran is a partner. Now, here's another thing. Our envoy to Iran not only is no longer the envoy, he doesn't have a security clearance. Does anyone curious at The New York Times as to what happened to the lead negotiator in Iran that is escorted off a bus, taken into American custody, given a job at Yale or Princeton or wherever he's working now? I've never heard of a person going from top secret classified negotiations to no clearance whatsoever and in the custody of American intelligence community. No one cares. No one cares at all. It's fascinating. And again, for me, I mean, these are big decisions that we're making. And correct me if I'm wrong, but it used to be, you know, maybe we did a two for five deal and then we made the six billion. Now we're like, we're giving stuff away and we're on the losing end. Correct me if I'm wrong, but America was never, you know, America losing. It was always America winning, right? America getting the best of deals. At least McDonald's has a five for five. We didn't even get that. You know what this does though? Honest to God, if you're thinking about traveling overseas, things go sideways, cartel, South America, Mexico, wherever you're going, you have a price in your head now. No one in their right mind is going to bring you back whether it's Haiti or wherever you are, you're worth $1 .25 billion. And thugs and scumbags are going to take advantage of that. I mean, that's a great point too. Do you think about leaving the country? I don't know anymore. That's a little bit concerning. I don't care where you're going, right? That's concerning. This one I just had to bring up because it happened two days ago or yesterday. How do we lose a plane? And I heard that's like a third one in the last six weeks that something like this has happened. How are we losing $80 million planes? Well, they're not $80 million anymore because they've got a new engine and all this other stuff. Look, the F -35 program is a complete disaster. You want to talk about why our allies think we're crazy. We sold them a plane. This program has been around since the early 90s and we've got nothing on return for it. So basically two planes are flying in a buddy team. They're doing training and a guy punches out. We don't even know why he punched out, but that plane could have easily hit a building. It didn't, thank God. But the wingman didn't follow where his buddy went. So what is he doing? He just kind of went on and did his own thing. And now the Marine Corps put a Facebook post like a dog is missing. We're expecting the Ukrainian farmers to carry the F -35 out with their tractors. I don't know what the point of it's wild. Look, stop embarrassing us. Just stop humiliating us. That's all I'm asking. Just be the army and the Marine Corps that we know our men and women are capable of being. Get out of their way. This gender garbage, this social experiment nonsense, stop humiliating our military. That's all I ask. Why can we not get the... I mean, I know why we can't get the answer, but I'm asking this to you. But why can't we, at a press conference at the White House, why can't we say, I want to talk to the guy that was in the other plane, or you can tell us the transcript of what happened when that happened. Talk to the guy who jumped out of the plane. Why did you do that? And again, I'm not trying to put our military on the spot, but these are kind of big questions to ask, right? I mean, if I do something in my business, I have to go face the music on that. Why doesn't everybody have to face music for their decisions or why things are happening? I think it's kind of important. Well, you don't want to talk to generals because they're going to tell you the truth and they won't be generals anymore. True. And you don't want to talk to enlisted people. Because look, I mean, let's be honest. How many people are... Is this a merit -based military anymore? Do we have a meritocracy? Are we promoting people based on pronouns? Go figure. When we're putting politics above military strength, accidents happen. We don't know the facts, but the fact that nobody cares about getting to the bottom of it, the day of the Pentagon paper reporters are gone. Yep. Yep. Let's just talk about the 2024 race quick, and then we will wrap up for today. So your thoughts on the Republican primary so far, I'll stay away from the Democratic side till the very end, but your thoughts on, you know, there's obviously Trump who is now in a, has a huge lead. Ron DeSantis seems to be crumbling underneath himself. Vivek Ramaswamy has jumped up in the polls. Nikki Haley's there. Tim Scott's there. A few others that probably aren't going to get a lot of votes. Chris Christie's the anti -Trump candidate. Mike Pence is, I don't know what Mike Pence is. I'm not really sure. Your thoughts about the whole field so far? I mean, look, it's impressive. They've got a deep bench. There's a lot of diversity. I, you know, none of it matters. Trump is the guy. The more you indict him, the more you empower him. You know, I'd like him to work on his communications a little bit better. You know, but if Trump is Trump, Trump is a Frankenstein monster of Barack Obama. As long as you have that faction, you're going to get, you know, Trump is going to be empowered. I just don't want to see Governor Noem anywhere near the White House. And I, if he's going to pick a running mate, you know, it's hard to find an ally here, you know. But it would be nice to find a governor. I don't want to take anyone from the Senate. I don't want to take anyone from the House with the margins that tight. But I mean, the idea that Governor Noem is being floated right now. I mean, I'd rather take North Dakota. Yeah. A little sled there. You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I saw a lot of that this weekend. I mean, can we just, for lack of a better term, keep it in our pants for about a year and then do what you got to do? It really is. I mean, every time you turn, somebody's doing something idiotic, whether it's Boebert. And again, I say this, David, a lot of people know who you are. A lot more know who you are than they'll ever know who I am. But when you go out in public into a movie theater like that, and I'm going to Boebert, not Noem for a second, you're, you're extremely well known. I don't care if it's dark or if it's as light as it is in the studio right now. What are you thinking? I, you know, she's, she's, she's an embarrassment. She is. She's bad, too. Who would have thought that Marjorie Taylor Greene would have been the, the oasis of the Maryland? I mean, seriously, I, again, you're, you're in Congress every day. You're out in public, you're on the job. You know, at least she wasn't wearing a hoodie, you know, that's all in shorts. She was at least dressed for the occasion, but I, it was, it's wildly embarrassing. Vaping, singing, whatever you're doing. Getting groped. Yes. Who is your VP candidate then? Because I think, you know, you have names thrown around. There's, there's, the vague has been thrown around in there. You know, Byron Donald's has been thrown around in there. Carrie Lake has. I don't know. I love Carrie Lake. I just don't know that Trump needs to go with somebody so divisive there. I think he's got to go with somebody that's, that's firm in their beliefs, but also not maybe going to turn off half the country. Well, you know, it's, it's impossible. One of the, one of the problems with making Trump, you know, the, the enemy of the state that the left has done is that you've really made it difficult for him to even put a cabinet together. You know, I mean, what are you going to do with it? You've got a lot of loyalists out there. You know, the vague is, is I think maybe the most intelligent dynamic candidate we've ever seen run for president, but experience does matter. But you know, I love the way he thinks. I love the movement. I don't know if he would even take the job to be honest with it. I don't think he needs it. But you look at a Tim Scott, I think Tim Scott is, you know, there's a whole lot to his message and I think he's, he's got the experience in the Senate, but honestly, you could literally take the Clint Eastwood chair and, and throw it in there as vice president. I'm going with that because this, this from top to bottom, we have to have seismic change in 24. Do you think he would ever choose Kristi Noem at this point with all that now? Yeah, no one knew Mike Pence was a, was a 24 hour story and then he was the vice president candidate. So who knows? I mean, a lot can happen between now and then, but I just, I don't need, you know, let's just pick people on their merit. Let's pick people that are ready to be the president. Imagine this, imagine picking a vice president that can lead the country. If something happens to a 75 year old president, you know, like Kamala Harris. Yeah. Someone like that.
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A highlight from Crypto Update | Championing Crypto Causes and the Latest DeFi Breach With Host Noelle Acheson
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Wednesday, September 20th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of The Crypto's Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about crypto activism and another DeFi hack. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a new source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto assets were mixed today. At 10 a .m. Eastern time, Bitcoin was up almost eight -tenths of a percent over the past 24 hours, trading at $27 ,164. Ether, on the other hand, was down four -tenths of trading at $1 ,631. Ether's underperformance could be a market reaction to a series of reports from blockchain sleuths of large transfers of the asset to exchanges. While it is hard to know exactly what is behind on -chain movements, the reports could be enough to spook some investors into getting out ahead of what might be potential sell pressure. Meanwhile, Bitcoin trading volume continues to fall. A report from K33 Research published yesterday shows that Bitcoin spot volumes dropped a further 8 % over the past seven days. This has been driven largely by sharp declines in activity on Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange in terms of trading volume. The seven -day spot volume average on Binance is down 57 % since the beginning of the month. Most other exchanges are flat over the same period, with Coinbase registering a 9 % increase. It remains to be seen where the volumes leaving Binance will end up, if anywhere. Much of the drop could be from more liquidity providers leaving the platform in the face of intensifying legal pressure on the exchange from US regulators. This is likely to have a further dampening effect on liquidity, which could further delay the entrance of large investors. Institutions generally need a certain amount of liquidity to be assured that their orders won't unduly distort the market, and that they could exit easily if necessary. In traditional markets, US stocks are heading up this morning as traders brace for the FOMC rates decision later today. The S &P 500 was up over 0 .3%, the Nasdaq up 0 .2%, and the Dow Jones up almost 0 .5%. While the market is pricing at a pause, attention is now focusing on the likelihood of another hike before the end of the year. CME futures show odds swinging in favour of no more hikes this year, implying that the peak is already in. This would be good news for stocks which are already looking ahead to the likely timing of rate cuts. The bond market, however, is signalling that it expects US rates to be higher for longer. This morning, the yield on the 10 -year US Treasury reached its highest point since 2007. The updated FOMC summary of economic projections due to be published today should shed some light on the Fed's expectations for rate cuts next year. In Europe, the FTSE 100 jumped this morning on news that UK inflation came in lower than expected. The year -on -year increase for August was 6 .7%, notably better than the consensus forecast of 7%, and the lowest level in 18 months. Tomorrow, we hear from the Bank of England as to the outlook for UK interest rates. Odds for another hike tomorrow have dropped to below 60 % after being an almost sure thing just a few days ago. Earlier this morning, the FTSE 100 and the German DAX index were up almost 0 .09%, while the Euro stock 600 was up just over 1%. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index was down almost 0 .07%, as data out earlier today showed the country's exports dropping for the second consecutive month. In China, the Shanghai Composite fell more than 0 .5 % after Chinese banks left their benchmark loan prime rates unchanged in line with the central bank's oil prices finally seem to be taking a breather, with the Brent crude benchmark down almost 1 .5 % over the past 24 hours, trading at $94 a barrel. This comes as Goldman Sachs raised its forecast for crude to $100 a barrel, citing strong consumption coupled with production cuts. Gold saw a sharp bounce this morning, with the price jumping over 0 .5 % in half an hour, trading as high as $1 ,943 per ounce. This has led to speculation of a large buyer entering the market. It could also be a reaction to a decline today in the DXY dollar index. Stay tuned. After the break, we'll take a look at investor trust in DeFi platforms and efforts to mobilize crypto Meet voters. the all new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools, all in a redesigned modular trading interface. So head to pro .kraken .com and trade like a pro. Welcome back. In this section, we're going to look at crypto activism. But first, another DeFi attack hits crypto. This morning, decentralized trading protocol Balancer said that its web front end was suffering from an exploit and urged users not to interact with the website. According to data platform DeFi Llama, Balancer has a total value locked of about $700 million, making it the fourth largest decentralized exchange. The attack comes roughly a month after Balancer warned the public about an unrelated vulnerability in the protocol's pools. On -chain data show that, so far, over 200 ,000 has been stolen in this exploit. This is not a large amount by crypto hack standards, but it is significant in that it could further weaken investor trust in DeFi platforms. Crypto exploits have caused losses of over $1 billion so far this year, according to blockchain security firm Certik. Recent hacks have highlighted that there are many potential vectors of vulnerability. It's not just the core application code. This further complicates DeFi utility for investors looking for yield, especially given the high yield available now in traditional markets with much lower risk. On a more uplifting note, Coinbase is rallying grassroots activism. Yesterday, the crypto exchange published a blog post urging crypto's 52 million users, according to the company, to call their congressman. The company's Stand with Crypto Alliance will be organizing events across nine states. Coinbase is also launching a paid media campaign that aims to show how powerful the crypto lobby can be. On December 27th, Stand with Crypto Day will convene entrepreneurs and developers from around the country in Washington DC to meet with government officials. And the platform has also launched an app to make it super easy for users to reach the right people in Congress. This could have an impact. After all, if only 10 % of the reported 52 million users make a call, that's a lot of collective phone time. It should also send a strong signal that crypto users have political opinions and that pro -innovation candidates are likely to win their support as the US elections approach. That's it for today's show. You can reach us at podcasts at coindesk .com. Do also please send us questions you'd like us to address on the Spotify Q &A. Follow us and if you like the show, please leave us a five star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and edited by Michelle Musso with executive production by Jared Schwartz. I'm Noa Latcheson for Coindesk. 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A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Championing Crypto Causes and the Latest DeFi Breach With Host Noelle Acheson
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Wednesday, September 20th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of The Crypto's Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about crypto activism and another DeFi hack. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a new source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto assets were mixed today. At 10 a .m. Eastern time, Bitcoin was up almost eight -tenths of a percent over the past 24 hours, trading at $27 ,164. Ether, on the other hand, was down four -tenths of trading at $1 ,631. Ether's underperformance could be a market reaction to a series of reports from blockchain sleuths of large transfers of the asset to exchanges. While it is hard to know exactly what is behind on -chain movements, the reports could be enough to spook some investors into getting out ahead of what might be potential sell pressure. Meanwhile, Bitcoin trading volume continues to fall. A report from K33 Research published yesterday shows that Bitcoin spot volumes dropped a further 8 % over the past seven days. This has been driven largely by sharp declines in activity on Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange in terms of trading volume. The seven -day spot volume average on Binance is down 57 % since the beginning of the month. Most other exchanges are flat over the same period, with Coinbase registering a 9 % increase. It remains to be seen where the volumes leaving Binance will end up, if anywhere. Much of the drop could be from more liquidity providers leaving the platform in the face of intensifying legal pressure on the exchange from US regulators. This is likely to have a further dampening effect on liquidity, which could further delay the entrance of large investors. Institutions generally need a certain amount of liquidity to be assured that their orders won't unduly distort the market, and that they could exit easily if necessary. In traditional markets, US stocks are heading up this morning as traders brace for the FOMC rates decision later today. The S &P 500 was up over 0 .3%, the Nasdaq up 0 .2%, and the Dow Jones up almost 0 .5%. While the market is pricing at a pause, attention is now focusing on the likelihood of another hike before the end of the year. CME futures show odds swinging in favour of no more hikes this year, implying that the peak is already in. This would be good news for stocks which are already looking ahead to the likely timing of rate cuts. The bond market, however, is signalling that it expects US rates to be higher for longer. This morning, the yield on the 10 -year US Treasury reached its highest point since 2007. The updated FOMC summary of economic projections due to be published today should shed some light on the Fed's expectations for rate cuts next year. In Europe, the FTSE 100 jumped this morning on news that UK inflation came in lower than expected. The year -on -year increase for August was 6 .7%, notably better than the consensus forecast of 7%, and the lowest level in 18 months. Tomorrow, we hear from the Bank of England as to the outlook for UK interest rates. Odds for another hike tomorrow have dropped to below 60 % after being an almost sure thing just a few days ago. Earlier this morning, the FTSE 100 and the German DAX index were up almost 0 .09%, while the Euro stock 600 was up just over 1%. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index was down almost 0 .07%, as data out earlier today showed the country's exports dropping for the second consecutive month. In China, the Shanghai Composite fell more than 0 .5 % after Chinese banks left their benchmark loan prime rates unchanged in line with the central bank's oil prices finally seem to be taking a breather, with the Brent crude benchmark down almost 1 .5 % over the past 24 hours, trading at $94 a barrel. This comes as Goldman Sachs raised its forecast for crude to $100 a barrel, citing strong consumption coupled with production cuts. Gold saw a sharp bounce this morning, with the price jumping over 0 .5 % in half an hour, trading as high as $1 ,943 per ounce. This has led to speculation of a large buyer entering the market. It could also be a reaction to a decline today in the DXY dollar index. Stay tuned. After the break, we'll take a look at investor trust in DeFi platforms and efforts to mobilize crypto Meet voters. the all new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools, all in a redesigned modular trading interface. So head to pro .kraken .com and trade like a pro. Welcome back. In this section, we're going to look at crypto activism. But first, another DeFi attack hits crypto. This morning, decentralized trading protocol Balancer said that its web front end was suffering from an exploit and urged users not to interact with the website. According to data platform DeFi Llama, Balancer has a total value locked of about $700 million, making it the fourth largest decentralized exchange. The attack comes roughly a month after Balancer warned the public about an unrelated vulnerability in the protocol's pools. On -chain data show that, so far, over 200 ,000 has been stolen in this exploit. This is not a large amount by crypto hack standards, but it is significant in that it could further weaken investor trust in DeFi platforms. Crypto exploits have caused losses of over $1 billion so far this year, according to blockchain security firm Certik. Recent hacks have highlighted that there are many potential vectors of vulnerability. It's not just the core application code. This further complicates DeFi utility for investors looking for yield, especially given the high yield available now in traditional markets with much lower risk. On a more uplifting note, Coinbase is rallying grassroots activism. Yesterday, the crypto exchange published a blog post urging crypto's 52 million users, according to the company, to call their congressman. The company's Stand with Crypto Alliance will be organizing events across nine states. Coinbase is also launching a paid media campaign that aims to show how powerful the crypto lobby can be. On December 27th, Stand with Crypto Day will convene entrepreneurs and developers from around the country in Washington DC to meet with government officials. And the platform has also launched an app to make it super easy for users to reach the right people in Congress. This could have an impact. After all, if only 10 % of the reported 52 million users make a call, that's a lot of collective phone time. It should also send a strong signal that crypto users have political opinions and that pro -innovation candidates are likely to win their support as the US elections approach. That's it for today's show. You can reach us at podcasts at coindesk .com. Do also please send us questions you'd like us to address on the Spotify Q &A. Follow us and if you like the show, please leave us a five star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and edited by Michelle Musso with executive production by Jared Schwartz. I'm Noa Latcheson for Coindesk. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insight.
Cinemavino
A highlight from Battle Royale
"And welcome back to Cinema Vino. It's another Two -Man episode with Sean Jordan and I. Two -Man, yep. Exactly. That's all I got. Oh man, I need to record that. That could be our thing. Our little blurb. Our little bumper. Yeah. So this will be the penultimate episode of our Summer of Chaos with Battle Royale, which is Sean's pick. This is my pick? Yeah. This is one I've wanted to get on for a while. This has been on my list to like throw in here. I'm glad we did it. I'm glad we covered it. It's the perfect format to do it too, you know, where anything goes. It doesn't fit many other places. It's a weird kind of wheel that we, you know, spin the wheel. Strangely enough, pick two whites, two French whites. Just like this podcast. Exactly. Oui. Oui. So this is Sauvignon. So S -A -U -V -I -O -N. Sauvignon Vouvray. Vouvray is going to be the name of the region where this comes from. I was going to say is Sauvignon the winery? Sauvignon is going to be the winery. Kind of pretentious to call it Sauvignon. Exactly. I know. But it's not Sauvignon like Sauvignon Blanc. It's like Sauvignon. Yeah. But again, my French just can't do that justice. No. Nor can mine. So Vouvray is going to be Chenin Blanc grapes. And these are going to be on the right bank of the Loire River. Chenin Blanc, 100 % one grape? Yeah. That's a varietal. It's going to be in kind of west central France. And a lot like Riesling, these Vouvrays will cover a wide flavor palette. They can be dry. They can be sweet. They can be in between. This to me is kind of in between. Definitely. I mean, compared to the Bordeaux that we drank earlier that's dry, this is way, the sweetness is way more pronounced on this one. I think overall, I would classify this as probably off dry. If one is bone dry and 10 is super sticky sweet, I would put this at about a 5 .5. This is right in the middle? Mm -hmm. Right down the middle. But yeah, most of the... What have you got going on here? If you go to your wine store now and you see a lot of Vouvrays, a lot of them are going to be bubbly. They're going to be sparkling. They're going to have the champagne method. You'll see, there'll be some still wines. Oh. But you'll see a lot more sparkling Vouvrays out there, like Champelou. That is definitely less dry than the last one. Yes. You'll get more sugar on that. It's also got... Feels like more... It's like almost a minerality of like the... It's not bubbly. It's almost just like a soft water, you know? Well, this also has kind of a floral... Like an effervescence. Yeah. Yeah. It has a real floral kick to it. And you look at the... It has more of a hay color. Like the Bordeaux that we had was a lot more light pale. This one has a little more haze and a little more of a kind of bright hay color, a little more yellow to it. Yeah. But it has a little more body. It has a little more of a creamy flavor to it, a little more creamy texture. But I mean... But not buttery. No, it's not buttery. It's not chard buttery. No. But it also has kind of a honeysuckle texture, I think, to it. There's some... Honeysuckle? You are breaking out the big guns. I'm going big. Wow. But yeah, it's definitely sweeter. But not sticky sweet. There's definitely sweeter stuff out there. Yeah. It's not like a Moscato. It sticks out more because of the Bordeaux. It's kind of like if you're in a really cold pool and you get into even a lukewarm hot tub, it's going to feel really hot because you've been in a cold pool. I was in the pool. But drinking that fairly dry Bordeaux makes this one feel that much sweeter. It does. But it's pleasant. I like it a lot. Yeah. It's a good companion with that. It's two different tastes completely. So we talked on the last episode about the white Bordeaux being paired well with fish. Yeah. I mean, same thing here? I think this is another one of those that I would do with Thanksgiving stuff. I would do... I was going to say turkey would be really good with this. It'd be a great pair. But pretty much all that stuff, cranberry. I mean, pretty much anything would go well with ham. Yeah. Any of that kind of stuff because of the honey flavor that you'd get from it. But I think it would go well with salad. It would go well with the entire holiday meal that you would do. A little cranberry sauce? Yeah. I think that would be a perfect pair. A little creaming casserole? We're about two. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think it would go well with dressing, stuffing, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. I think there's a difference between dressing and stuffing. There is. Yeah. That's a different podcast. Yeah. But we're a couple of months out from Thanksgiving, but if you're looking ahead, vuvre would be a good choice. If you're looking for something to do kind of before the meal, a sparkling vuvre would be a good way. Or even after the meal when you're settling down to watch the game or whatever, a bubbly vuvre would be a good pick. What I like about this is it's not super bubbly. It's not bubbly at all. No. No. It's going to be still. It has that lightness of like almost an effervescence, but not an effervescence. Yeah. It's kind of, it's refreshing, you know, but it's unlike the Bordeaux, which was refreshing to kind of a dry, crisp way. This one has a little more bright, fun, like fruit. This is kind of more... The other one's more tart. Like you feel like that, like unripe and peach. Yeah. You know, this one's more like ripe, sweet, grassy, kind of like a ripe fruit. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, two completely different personalities between the Bordeaux and the vuvre. And I'm kind of glad we got contrasting French whites. Yeah. But yeah, so you'll see a lot of sparklings out there. So when you see these, they're on a scale. Brut's going to be the driest. Demisek's going to be sweeter. And then you'll see everything up to like Moliot, which is very sweet, the sweetest of all the vuvres. So if you're looking, then that's going to be your scale. Basically, it's the like higher the scale, the more sugary sweetness is going to be on them. So they do vuvres? Yeah, they do. Because they're made in the Champagne method, they'll have a lot of the same scale when they do bubbly. But yeah, in a bubbly section of a good wine store now, you should see a few vuvres, sparkling vuvres. They'll be cheaper than Champagne, so they're actually a good pick if you're looking for something on a budget. Champagne is only from the Champagne region of France. Exactly. And so yeah, these will be made in the same style, but not the same region. No. But anyway, yeah. So this one, the Sauvignon runs around 20 bucks. I think it's like 22. Pretty good buy. Yeah, it'd be a good holiday wine if you were looking for something that it's good, it's well made, but it's not crazy expensive. Impress your wine friends with this? Exactly. Yeah, it should. And you can impress them because it's a good wine. You can say, I didn't spend a whole lot of money on it. It's like, it's one of those deals where it really helps to know what you're looking for. Oh, this is a real, you know, it's a real hole in the wall kind of wine. Boutique. You know, it might not be a wine you really heard of. Yeah, exactly. It's like the kind of the hipster thing where it's like you impress people like you found something that they didn't know about. Yeah, it's underground. Yeah, exactly. So Battle Royale. This is a it was restricted, not released in the United States until 2010. Many countries did not release it due to its violent subject matter. This is probably, in my opinion, the most culturally touchy film that we've examined. Probably the most controversial film that we've examined for this podcast. Really? Because it was not released in quite a few countries because it was so violent, so graphic. Which after watching it, do you feel like that's this movie now would not be considered super violent? Yes, which is one of my, which altered my perception of it. Had not having seen it before, having seen it now changed my opinion of it. So we'll get to that in a minute. So this received a direct -to -video release in 2010. It's received strong reviews, 88 % Rotten Tomatoes. Quentin Tarantino declared it to be his favorite film released since 2000. It set the template for The Hunger Games, which came later. A lot of people commented when they saw it. The Hunger Games came out in what, I think it came out around 2010. Yeah, somewhere in that range. A lot of people said that it had a lot of similarities to Battle Royale. Yes. I don't know when the books, the Hunger Games books came out. Definitely after the book that this was based on came out. Okay. Because I think the book that this was based on came out in 1998. I don't want to, I don't want to definitively say that The Hunger Games was based off of this, but. Definitely inspired by it. Yeah.
The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
The Legendary Trucker Ed Spills Secrets From the Early Days of Hair Radio
"Is my great honor to bring back to the broadcast one of the original players in the HairRadio .com story, Trucker Ed. Good morning, Trucker Ed. Good morning, my buddy. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Well, I'm doing great. One of the reasons why I invited you on this morning is I want the fans of the Hair Radio Morning Show to get to know all of us, the hosts, the program folks. And I think that the best way to do that was to just talk to the folks who know us best, folks in our everyday lives, when we turn the mic off 9 at o 'clock Eastern and we go about the other parts of our life. And you are one of those members of my extended family. Sure. So I have to go back a little bit. And we call you Trucker Ed, because you've been on the show and our fans know you as Trucker Ed. Well, Ed and I go back decades. Ed, I don't even know where to begin with the Hair Radio story, but you've been there since the beginning. The beginning. Yes, I remember that. What can you share with folks about the early days? Feel free. Go ahead. Don't get so many trade secrets away. No, that's too many. Take it away. Oh, man. Yeah, I remember us back in the day, like we was in Newark and we had our, you know, that's where it all began, down there in Newark. That's right. And the Ironbound section of Newark. Yes. Uh -huh. Yeah. That's right. It really was. It was so much fun back then. And it was a third floor walk -up, if I recall. It was like, I think it was the third floor, second or third floor. It was way up, many steps. And I remember we were doing, we didn't start with the Hair Radio show, we were doing center stage. And we would have on the celebrities like Little Susie and Local. She had a big hit record though, back in the day. Yes, she did. Oh yeah. She was popular back then. Exactly. She was popular. And we, uh, CeCe Tennyson came and brought her manager. Oh, I remember that. Yes, that was the early, early days. Yeah. I was able to shake her hand and everything. Oh my. Yeah. Oh yeah. You remember that? You were, were you at the office when she came? You're kidding. Yeah, I was there. Yeah, I was there when she came. Wow. I can't forget that. Wow. She was so, she was beautiful, still is. Yes. And her manager, quite a nice fellow. And we all were, we, Ed, I don't know if you remember this, but they used to, we, we had our office on the third floor. Next to us were these guys who did the weather. That's all they did. Oh, I remember that. The radio. Remember the, so they gave me the microphone to use for CeCe Tennyson's interview, her very first interview. Not the one that you guys hear now on the Hair Radio Morning Show, but the very, very first time she ever did our show. And we were all huddled around one mic, literally all huddled around one microphone. I'll never forget it. That was the beginning of Hair Radio, man. That was the beginning of Hair Radio, and she arrived in a big limo. Do you remember she arrived in a big limo? Oh yeah, I remember that. Yeah. That's right. Oh yeah. She was, she was fantastic. I loved it. It was really a great time.
Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
"each section" Discussed on Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
"Let's see. So each week I have been sharing, because this is something I just started doing. It's basically new. I used to do them before COVID, but, you know, COVID kind of threw a wrench into everything. But I started doing a workshop. It's an online workshop. It's called Manifesting Through Gratitude, A Visual Journey. And it runs Thursday evenings, 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern time. And it's a five-week start-to-finish course. And it's about living a grateful and creative life, which is about following our hearts and embracing more of the things that light us up from the inside. It's about seeing all the wonderful things that we already have in our lives. Many times we forget, I'm guilty of it too, to see what is right in front of us. And by finding the courage to prioritize, nurture, and express our creativity, we add more play and joy in our lives, and we get to experience that which we love and cherish in greater depth. And then what happens is the universe has a wonderful way of surprising us with even more magic. So in the workshop, we're gonna cover living in gratitude by using writing exercises and doing a daily visual gratitude practice by, and I wanted to incorporate this, being a photographer myself, and I do this, by using our camera phones because it'll help us get into alignment with the energy of abundance. So each section, we're gonna focus on a different area of our life to be grateful for. Week one focuses on worthiness and self-love. Week two covers health and wellness. Week three looks at our money story and financial abundance. Week four, we go into our personal relationships, romantic, family, friends, co-workers. And the final week, we're gonna be dedicated to a personal check-in, sharing our experiences, what comes up for us, and of course, an open Q &A. And there's always gonna be an open Q &A at the end of each section, so we can always talk about whatever's coming up. I have a lot of creative projects and fun photo prompts that will help us shift our thinking and start living in gratitude. And each week, I'm gonna give homework. I give homework, which is using our camera phones and also making a manifesting postcard for each section of the course. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. It's a lot of hands-on work. And at the end of it, you're gonna have a beautiful visual gratitude journal. And you can find out more about the workshop if you go to postcards to the universe. There's a link for workshop, and it takes you to finduniquelyu.com forward slash melissacaprio. And sign up. I would love to see you there. So another thing that I do and I talk about each week is I share a magical message that I post on social media, and it's an image of a manifesting postcard. So what I just started doing is I'm re-photographing the postcards that are in my book because I decided to read my book, you know, just read the book from start to finish. And I'm posting videos. I'm trying to keep them. There's gonna be a lot of them. I'm trying to keep them like five minutes so they're not too long, and I'm gonna have them numbered so people can follow along. And the first one I just did this week was Terry's story, and her book, her story is about love, and it's we meet in the space and time we created lifetimes ago. Our knowing reflected in our eyes. From that moment, we create a story of love and beauty in Spain and Portugal. I'm here. I'm waiting. I'm ready for this chapter to begin. My deepest gratitude. So her story is the first story in the book, and each week I'm gonna be doing each person's postcard over again, photographing it again, and I'm gonna be reading their stories. So you can find that on Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn. I'm posting the videos there and YouTube.
Home Gadget Geeks
"each section" Discussed on Home Gadget Geeks
"When you're viewing the guide and channels, you have a way to pick sections and each section has a different set of channels in it. When you first start using the app, we have pre made sections for you. For new sports, kids, et cetera. And we use that based on what's currently airing. And what their genres are, because channels don't really have genres. So with channel collections, we let you create your own groups. So you can have dad's channel's mom's channel, sports channels, things like that. And those are hard coded channels. Well, this year, what we did was is we kind of went back to the way we did it before by using a dynamic and reading what's currently airing and pulling those channels into your channel collection. So you can create rules on your channel collections. For example, if you were to make a channel collection for sports, you probably have a pretty good idea of what channels are going to be there right off the bat, right? ESPN one, two, maybe Fox Sports one, CBS sports, stuff like that. If you were to make that, that's great. Well, if there's sports on CBS, they don't show up in your sports section. But with automatic channels, you can add a rule that says, also, any current airing that is a sports event bring into this channel collection. So then now your channel collections are very dynamic. And you can set all kinds of rules. You can set it by genre, by content type, like movies or sports, you can exclude some of your sources, a lot of our customers and fans have many,
Newsradio 700 WLW
"each section" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"And that can have a lot of times the airlines will review that and like with the mass situation, they're banned from flying the airlines until the mass policies go away. And once that's done, they'll They'll invite most of these people back, willing to take their money because they don't want to ban somebody forever because you had a situation over the mass thing. And you know the airlines are going to respond accordingly. So it's not like you know, you act up and boom out of the pool. You're you know, you're 26 years old. You'll never fly whatever airline ever again for the rest of your life, But they're trying to put a little bit more teeth into this. And I know a lot of the flight attendants are demanding an air marshal on every flight. That's not going to happen because we have less than 5% of the flights right now that have air marshals on board because it's just too costly for the airlines to do it. We just logistically can't do that. But I tell you what. I'm seeing a lot, and I really like to see it is when people board airplanes law enforcement military Myself other people, they ask you the lead flight attendant is and they simply say, Look, I'm seated here If you need an extra set of hands, let me know that type of thing. Lets the flight attendant no. Okay, They've got people there who are willing to come. Their aid in the event that there is some sort of an in flight situation, and they appreciate that because one of the things they do when they're walking the aisle Scott section by section Yeah, they're doing account to make sure before departure, they have the right number of passengers. But they're looking for able bodied men and women in each section that if there's a situation that they can go to and ask for help there also think there's any doctors or nurses on board. They're also checking for child trafficking and a whole bunch of other things that we don't understand what these men and women do. If we did we give him a heck of a lot more respect than what we do. Yeah, And I think a lot of I think a lot of people step up and help subdue a passenger has seen in recent days simply because I just want the flight to take off Sometimes. You know, I'm going to be late for my badly need vacation. I'm gonna beat the hell out of you were not allowed to strike were only allowed to restrain, but you can restrain. Fortunately, my favorite example if you google the images of duct taped passenger, right? There's an international flight a non us worthy passengers duct tape This poor guy to his seat. He acted up so much. Give me some luck. So maybe if we made it an entertainment type thing onboard supplies that you know passengers could get involved like that scene out of airplane, you know, and they try to get the ladies calm down. I've often said this J. If you want more polite drivers, safer drivers. Every car should be equipped with a sharpened stainless steel spike protruding six inches from the steering wheel, everyone but no. After you, please, If you put Porthole on the floor of the of every passenger jet in America with the option that if you're acting up, you get thrown out of the hole that would solve the problem. It would. It would. Yeah. And then your flight since having a bad day. Just hoping somebody acts up so they can push the button. Right. Let me put you in the hole. Exactly. You don't know what that to happen. All of a sudden you're sitting there having your bacon and I had a body comes flying through your house. Now there's there's other problems there. But you know the Earth is what I think The Earth is 101% water, I believe is what the statistic is. So cancers of it hitting us are very, very, very, very. You know, you can just hit the water, but the I'm really hoping that this topic as far as disruptive Passengers and unruly behavior on board flights calms a bit, but I don't know, given the society they were in right now that once the Mass go away that it's going to solve the problem, I think we're going to continue to see issues where you know we had people get in a fight over. It's a flight attendant because their charger phone charger stopped working or the trash wasn't picked up fast enough. Or this person didn't respond quickly enough to me when I asked for whatever it was, so it's ridiculous. Scott and I just hope he's finds kind of help send a message. It's not going to be tolerated. Well, we want we demand low prices. But that also means the carp of humanity flies in in steerage with the rest of us making and miserable experience. Um, and that's unfortunate, right. So the bottom line here though, is it's a huge shirt off for summer travelers the industry needs and you look at it. Go, man. I hear all these horror stories. Why would I want to fly May not do the trip I may drive. And I think this is a huge boom. Quite honestly, for carriers like well, ultimate air shuttle. I think because of this stuff, it helps him tremendously. You know if you've not blown them, it's it's You're like my gosh, Why don't I do this all the time? They actually say thank you, and they appreciate you and it's you know that the hassles make it easier to fly and Scott, we have seen two days in a row last week, more than two million people flying a day. First time since the pandemic. We've had that now The norm is 2.7 million. So we're still a ways away. But a lot of leisure travelers coming back to the airport, which is good news. Bad news is not too many corporate travelers have yet to return from a large percentage standpoint, which is why airlines are raising the fair 70% of the revenue comes from the corporate travel side of the ledger. If those people aren't flying, you're going to make that money up somewhere else, which means Coming after those of us that travel on the leisure standpoint, which means we're going to be charging more affairs and get back at the airlines Buy your tickets so far in advance..
The Pest Posse Stampede Podcast
"each section" Discussed on The Pest Posse Stampede Podcast
"That's awesome. He did that as an experiment just to show his people. Hey this is what happens if you don't clean. So what other equipment inside. These facilities are considered to be part of the pest management program. When you get raw grain goes through a some type of grain cleaner It's got screens in an and different kinds of holiday. Look like ping pong balls. But they're really hard rubber in they kind of shake and then they their main goal for that is to sit out foreign grain that you don't want if you're in a flour mill you what wheat to stay so it sits out like your corn and soy and different things like that. Rock fragments stinks. You know wheat chaff it and some of those screens and there are after shipped out the occasional insect. So it doesn't go to the holding ban where you're green that it goes into like an overflow trash feed flowed out type of thing or something depending on silly depends where it goes it. It gets it off the top of the raw grain that you're bringing in the elevator staff does a lot of that for you before it ever gets to the main processing part of the facility if you're talking about flour mill or any kind of grain mill Because that's almost familiar with so we're just gonna use that for example a or box works like your little hands tip or used or flour in it and then squeezes the trigger and you make cake batter using. It works like that. Each section of that box has like twenty to twenty five screens in it. Difference wits on the holes in it a lot finer than your screen on your front door or your living room window just so it can take out all the impurities that are in that product and it takes out into when it does that when it gets to that certain mesh screen. It'll sit out that insect and put it in the overflow trash batting and take it out to wherever so and the third there'd been wanting in a flour..
For Her Empire Podcast
"each section" Discussed on For Her Empire Podcast
"She gets the older people. Oh i don't do technology. Don't use social media yet our at facebook but see there's such a huge as you know abby. There's a huge difference between link and facebook instagram. Snapchat too car. Everything else right. So everything has its place and i think if you can get your head wrapped around the fact that lincoln is different world then is more. Manageable is more approachable as mark excessively. So that's where i say i would. I would coach him through all these things we talked about today. In fact you can tell your bags. I really take into you. I would do a session for him for free and not even charge him. Ninety dollars per hour senior rate number regular rate is hundred and fifteen dollars per hour season. We have a senior discount. That so i. I would really be happy. Helped him if he was open to it. Yeah So i can actually fun. I'm elated to people your age. Because really any millennials than someone heels. I say thank you different issues then. Tried to be Like lookouts that's me. The mean i liked the beating. Christians are my people in. I also like this youthful exuberance that i experienced with people in your generation identified with that so i'll is is really lovely but i do find that the people who are naturally drawn to me are like more like your asia and how does one work with you like do. They go like fine. We're just okay. Yeah so what we do. It's really pretty cool. We just you right now. And they They share their screen with me so they would be. They'd have brington oprah on their computer. They shouldn't be yana Obviously a fallen even ipad. I prefer them on like a laptop or desktop. So they're in their computer. They got their lincoln open. And then they share the screen with me and then we just painstakingly go. Through each section of the lead gen profile just boom boom boom boom boom and then we go over into functionality we talk about coasting. We talk about Searching we talk about notifications. I even go into the settings so low that has to do with the user experience. Some people don't like lincoln because they get too many emails. Yes they yes. You can actually go into those settings. Ngos really ratcheted down. So there's very few emails you get and your notifications are only things you want to read about. Then you have to go into settings and make the adjustments on your lincoln just well otherwise sort of inundate. You just too much for luxury. At the mets fan and jake sometimes a couple sessions But usually no more than a couple of like things. So that's how. I pay pal in one all these. What was that saying. Yes everyone newspaper these days. It's just connects to connect to your handles ever did for you. But now my next question has this Book that's zoom session with me. Which you do. I go do i also limited and find you it w the best to go negative their best way. Actually i should have mentioned this early to book a session where he would just go to my website. I don't have my calendar link on there. I probably you could do that. You know I think it will put. It will put it up there. But i will what i go to my website. And then there's a section in my website boomers social media tutor so be o. M. e. r. s. social media tutor dot com. Then it's very clear where to book a special joyce and then you pay to pay out at that time. So my By website has it pops into a scheduling Section where you pay and then you're in you're also set up for a pick your day your time that sets up the zoom meeting and then you're prompted to pay to okay so that's boomer social media Yup i'm going to have to ask in the description and individual thank you. I really that really will help. Yes and also see they can watch videos there and they can get a feeling for how i operate so i think that's another way persson would sell personal now. I'm helpful to some people not to others. You know every everybody draws to themselves those who feel a comfort level with them like you said nausea wrapping up. Is there One advice you'd give any not lincoln or they have an abandoned linden. Nikola has must see the light of these eliah. Sc i think just distill. It is to work on your attitude. I mean you have to start with your attitude and feel like you would be open to looking at lincoln. And i would encourage them by going to my website along you can give us some ideas and then through my website you can get to my linden and just look at what i just read about me as an example because there's more videos they're also youtube channel that you'll see when you get to one video so i think just go there and you know if you're older. Some older people like to read books are books about lincoln. Oh that's other thing they could do. They could could get my eba in fact when you go to my website. You are prompted to download my e book which is nine ways to stand out online. And there's nine little videos and there's texts that goes with a video and it shows a person how to do some of these activities that we've talked about a toxic posting articles. It you know how to accept in a weather to except somebody not how to ask to connect solo things. We talked about actually covered in my email street. Yeah yes it's about thirty pages if you printed it out so it's very short. I mean this is just is informative but it's not overwhelming. You're any questions for me or questions. That's I should've asked you want to answer you. Such you are such a good interviewer anymore. I think we've covered a lot of everything we talked about. I think to really to make sure they don't give up on them and that they If they had. I feels kind of weird just to keep you know acting as if just go there you know. I think if they could connect with some of their favorite people that they haven't seen pearl while and they start to see their post whom south. Now i all. There's you know there's so they start to get more of a warm and fuzzy feeling about it. I think we'll help. I think once you get are a rhythm going with it I think that will just make such a difference to people and but to really like media you know like maybe two minnesota time you know. So john realm yourself. Don't think you have to be everything in your news feed hall. No just go for what you can manage added time. Yeah yeah what questions. Just give it to my head right. Now shooed. You connected like your primary school friend. Your college friend a Actually or maybe fast ads like your first job and you go from. Oh no i recruits. Oh said i think about basic. I'm closer to some people from high school you know on facebook than was in high school but The going beds. This is lincoln. Oh i think that if he weren't let's put it this way. Are you interested in that person. There could be some people from primary school. That you really..
GamesMyMomFound
"each section" Discussed on GamesMyMomFound
"Shy guys. Bill tucker knows what i'm talking about i do. Love seig is always liked. What they're called shelters in this game. I love them and a little pogo sticks. I was just got here. So i don't know why you're using the whole town on bogo sticks. It's really funny. You can save you can either save certain people and get some items or just avoided when go right to the castle and fight. The i like mac. He's he's one that's always stuck with me. I really like his design is shy guy but he has like a more dard face or something. Yes we eat horns. That's what it is giant public sort. He was the because his feet kind of look. Like is one of those but now spray things we've talked about. Before like agamemnon link of the past and whatnot and a dog. Yeah yeah. That's what. I was just going to say. I am not nice. That i thought he was a dog for years here someday. We'll do a special episode of how people miss sea sprites probably a few for sure. And that's when you get your first start when you beat mcintyre link how this game is not always a drip feed of stuff happening. But it's not like overcome. He's not he's not an implicated. He's not trying to save the world he's just trying to get peach back from beyeler all. He really cares about just trying to do that. Mario thing yeah pretty much but it makes the game. Fund is not an over complicated story. It's just school and always stuck with me. Like that. And i think that even we play this time like i was just having so much fun going through this little story and how each world is kinda differently after beat the mushroom kingdom. You go to another area which. I can't know what it's called the sewers next the sewers. Your neck with the name of that whole section. Each section has a name. it's called ponda pipes. Okay oh i never did i. I saw a perreault sewer about carole. Sewers that don't like them. I spent a good ten minutes in the carols who were trying to make a jump on a corner that you're not full time. Somehow this is what i'm like. Oh god i hate this controls because in order for me to jump to hold down when my thumb or no with one finger why and then my other my thumb hit at the right angle the right time because he sometimes he doesn't wanna registered because you're holding on one but doesn't want hitting another one the running and jumping is really hard rogaine move. I don't play this touchscreen. That's not to say. I only did it for convenience so belong. Bosses are mini boston. How he's stuck with me to eat your characters and then it just just funny. He reminds me a lot of ultra else. Oh yeah i can see that. We stuck with me. Even though he's an asshole is this the first time we see the transformations or characters and get transformed scarecrows mushrooms. yes scarecrow. both are annoying mushrooms. Really this discussion wear off after a while. i think every says does but at least you recover. Hp when you're at least mushroom like all right. At least i'm like recovering a little bit of health. Scarecrows can still attack..
Fun Time Horror Show
"each section" Discussed on Fun Time Horror Show
"First things first. Who's janet. I did some digging but like everything with the story. I'm extremely think gun shy to put anything there. As quote fact with the story you can never really tell what's true and what's not but this is what i found on a very jenky looking wikipedia off site. Janet is a self-proclaimed on scientists including crop circles. ufo's in extraterrestrials. She has studied philosophy as well at the moment. She is mostly known as a maker of documentaries including the one in today's discussion a multi part series entitled the fall of the ball in another documentary called code nineteen where she discusses how bill gates along with other elites designed five g cellphone service in the coronavirus to slow down and even reduce the world's population. Now that you know we're dealing with in the way of the author. Let's proceed from this point forward. I'm only going to give you the information as presented in the documentary. Try to hold my opinions until the end of each section to let you know my thought process as i was watching this originally give details about how almost got sucked into the cunanan craze. I'll let you know what makes sense to me And why and as the story begins to kind of like break apart. At least for me. I'll let you know why then as well ultimately is a good exercise to see why so easy to find yourself in the middle of a colt or maybe i'm just dumb. Let's find out for this video. It's important understand that this video was released some time after president trumps election. If i didn't mention this some of my remarks as we go won't make any sense. The documentary begins with an introduction in white words on black silent screen which says the documentary was made by researcher and author janet osborne from the netherlands with the aid of countless anonymous across the world contains thousands of hours of research. Rg to accept nothing. As the truth please do your own research and double check everything i present to you. So that is the only way to truly wake up and become an independent thinker. Like tommy okay. It doesn't say like we had that then it goes on to say a warning. I urge you to watch documentary all the way until the end. You may find the first episodes shocking. Even unbelievable yet at the end everything will fall into place. The final two episodes nine and ten contain an unexpected twist causing face. The changes ahead of us with hope in faith in your heart remember earlier when i said almost got me mcmahon. I'm pretty sure the slap in the face for those two episodes so just wait part one the end of the world as we know it things that make you go The world is not going to change in. The majority of the world's population is completely unaware. It says there's been systems installed in our lives that have existed for thousands of years which are on the brink of destruction then says the video will uncover something so shocking and so evil. You'll be shaken to your core. It poses the question. Is this a good thing. And then she answers around question with. Oh yes there's e- what worked behind the scenes. That is so brilliant. Normal people don't even know they exist. She starts going into a story about recent force. Fires in california. That makes a comment about how the fires forgot to burn. The trees sure enough. There's a picture of homes completely. Burned to the ground while trees within feet are completely unscathed. The trees at were burned burned from the inside out. Of course there's picks of this as well which are definitely strange. She goes on to talk about mercury and says that his poisonous but we injected in large quantities to our children. I wasn't aware of the mercury booster shot but again. Let's just take her at her word. Remember guys we're going to go through this with an open buddhist like mine. We won't judge to. We have all the information at hand then goes into chemtrails which he says are chemicals that help prevent the onset of global warming but then let's several medals in which these substances contained which are ultimately what we breathe and then she says those medals begin to be stored inside of our brains. She talks about the current pope and says that he claims the hell does not exist but the devil is in fact. Real kind of weird. She said the vatican's hall is full of reptiles serpents which to video shares pictures of and then claims that at this giant telescope located at the vatican is named lucifer. Okay hold on to ship before we move on and holy shit checkout wikipedia for things i it says it's not in the vatican with located in arizona but it was designed by italians but in conjunction with university of arizona minnesota notre dame virginia ohio than it was like a ton of other research people in some germans. So that doesn't make sense. But there it is it was originally known as lucifer which was an acronym kind of in the sense of the full name. It was actually called large binocular telescope. The red spectra scope utility with a camera an integral field unit for extra galactic research. Okay someone is reaching a little here. I think it would be lucifer with like half of these words missing but again people keep an open. Mind all right. Let's get back to the show. Okay oda she just said nine eleven. I know that she's not about to talk some shit. Let's find out and play okay. So she shows a picture of a plane and the nose is it in and she says this was caused by a single bird then goes on to ask the question. How can the same plane cut. Its way through solid steel while another plane disappeared after crashing into a building referring to the pentagon crash while another plane just disintegrated into field without a trace of debris or bodies looking at these pictures. This is actually probably.
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
"each section" Discussed on The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
"Getting this right. I don't want to sound stupid. But anyway she was being stalked and it was like a huge deal and they kind of had her speak on at once and then they buried it and they had to. You know enforce it. And i guess at that time it was easier to enforce but nobody really thinks that. Now you know jodie foster. She said this huge long career but I think you have to decide where those things you'll talk about is and if you talk about something you're going to open it up to two everybody domain right so it's like are sometimes i'll pause before i post up the immi- willing to hear people's opinions on this aspect and oftentimes eric things that i really keep to myself to. Let's talk about this idea of the fear of not enough and use the fear of not enough as one of the most powerful of all fears because it's condition to us that were limited. I think that that's it's something that there's you know. There's a grain of truth to that on the flip side of that. I don't necessarily believe that we're all limitless either. I mean you saw the comment. I made about the fact that i'm never gonna play nba basketball. Because i'm a fucking scrawny indian. That's a pretty clear limit off. And i'm mostly interested in why you chose to put the various archetypes in each section. Because you know in this section you also mentioned the rebel and you at their best to rebel is someone who throws the rules out the window to inject playfulness into a situation. They love challenging authority in the status quo in an effort to seek justice so those are the two questions one is this fear that we're a limited are not enough in and how we overcome it because i think we all have to deal with this fear of not enough while also knowing that we do have limits Point as point. I'm glad you said that. Because i i mentioned these fears i call them the three fears of devolution. Right there they're going against our our evolution as we are now and yet at the same time. The fear of not enough as one of these fears of devolution. Also god is here. It also helped us evolve like you know being like oh. I'm afraid i won't have enough food for the winter. I guess i better stockpile got our ancestors through some hard winters for example are my ancestors anyway.
Whispering Huntys
"each section" Discussed on Whispering Huntys
"Solid candy. Did her dirty with that outfit. Put the biggest girl in yellow. Come on come on and white stockings white stockings. i i'm not. i've never been a huge candy fan. I could give her. I could leave. I thought another small wig really good. Try still had a hard time hearing roseanne. I like the verse. You're gonna wear the wig that you were in the joel. What is his name bossy. Rossi challenge your your redneck. Wig is going to be your finale number week. Yeah okay cool. Good verse would have liked a little bit Better more better more. That's your friend i i. I literally wrote down like a brown wig. I know i was surprised. And i was like actually big. I know a darker being edgy. Could've put any one of her lighter. Pink she's so many light pink wigs it what it been so much more her to do something pink and like i think it would have been right to what you're saying. General rose as makeup. This episode was the worst. It's been all season winner. Yeah it was terrible. And i thought should have been like red not black for runway. Look but anyway. Like moving along simone. I loved it. I thought i thought she was my. I mean she's probably my second favorite. But i loved it and i love again. The misdirect where she like not confident the dance and then she turns it out and she looks stunning. My my beautiful queen. Job literally absolutely stunning. That's relaxed just amazing anyway. So can you talk about the random dancers wearing fencing masks. I i think they were trying to hide their like double you. Oh this is a choice fencing. I mean not much else. They've done this. A lot with dancers like was like wearing like Be for vendetta masks during live performances. they're just. I think they're just trying to like make it look like everything's normal. Widow is hard to do but it was strange. Especially because it's like you know it's probably the same people that we've normally seen. It was probably like the pit crew. And they're like our favorite people so like why would we want to see them. But anyway i recognize some of the ads Okay obviously we get this runway and like you said the dominations have been found. It's not my style my favorite topic. I feel like she's been transcendent. Moving along you know. Candy looked like a livia on the runway. For some reason. I guarantee you. That wasn't outfit for a runway that lake. She didn't get to use great. That was andy's best drag. Y'all not candy spence. Look that was not a look that you save for the very end because you knew you needed to have something that was. I don't have a lot less. This is the best thing that i have left in this for. It's probably for the runway that she wasn't a part of in the episode. She wasn't it. Yeah i totally i. Yeah but i wouldn't even know what to expect for candies. Best drag. Because i can't identify kind of like jessica rabbit. It was probably you know probably was probably had Remember the one where she added a train to it. Yeah this is probably dress because yeah. That's kind of more her vibe anyway. I just signed who sees dress. Not gonna lie was made her look so big and i feel. She has the problem a lot. She doesn't understand how to deal with her own proportions. And this to me is like you need to figure that out. Yes she doesn't like to cinch in sometimes. The silhouette is like it's not. This wasn't even intentions. The way that they did the fanning out of the fabric. And the with the thing next to it. I was like that was done in a way that made her look twice as big as sheila fucking tablecloth. I was a little bit bothered by the hem on the top part. Which i guess it was intentional but it like looked a little afraid right at chest and i like about the wig took big and flat at the same time as you can see. I am a wig person. I the thing i notice. I about a drag queens wig is whether or not the base. Tease of the wig is like when a drag queens wig flops. Down like that. It's because it wasn't teased enough at the root and the problem with wearing that wig was probably two gigs with bundles. Sewn into it to make it that long like it just gets so heavy good for you that it went down your ask but what was the point if it made heavy in flop down in your face right also also best drag you doing up. Do you know that would have made her. Look a little slimmer with a with a with a little height added to the widest outfit. Ever because now i got. I got finale vibes from it. But i didn't get best drag vibes from an once. You catch my draft. What was going on with her eyebrow like it's like you have this big red wig you have blah blah blah and then you have this really hard black eyebrow yes was it was just like this you know. It was like a bolt of lightning shooting out of her often. Does like straight back line kind of thing. But i didn't serve well on this. I mean it didn't really match go along and the and the just bothered me. That the freckles were black exploded yet. It looked like fall out. I mean it should been like red or red. I will say as a dry queen sometime. I will always do my eyes browse brown no matter what color hair i'm wearing. I think if you are like if you're wearing a red wig you read eyebrows. it's like. I don't know it looked me goes into like ronald mcdonald territory. Matchy matchy. I mean red freckles. Yeah i mean you could have done brown eyebrows. It just didn't need to be black about the. I just wanted to be like look. You can find complementary colors and you can make things work but it was. It was really really frustrating. Because you had like candy there in looking pretty good besides the outfit but like the makeup great you a great makeup artist even with like weird skin holes situation. Her makeup still looked pretty good. And then simone's makeup was effortless. You know yeah. I mean like shakoor lays timelessness to it. That was so glamorous. Good yes yeah and then like carson said. She was like she wears clothes clothes. Don't wear her. Yes and she looked the best of the four. Yeah yeah honestly. They had them lip sing separately. And here's why because there's no way they got mick not being a performer is going to outlive sync. Those other people more to get to the finale next to a candy muse. Who's going to bum. Rush her bubble the block but in watching them side by side simone one. I agree with that it was. She was funny. She had she had a moment. She took her time she had a. I love i love it. What a drag queen has said this before makes strong choices right. We don't just a wash of things so she had. She had a specific choice for each section of a song. And i don't know how she does that. I mean she must really sit down and like.
The Puddcast
"each section" Discussed on The Puddcast
"When thrilled to welcome to the podcast. Thanks for joining me today. Welcome to the show. Thank you really glad to be here. And to make a new friend likewise likewise i have been reading the book and i'm loving it and it's it's giving me all these memories of my own life and so i thought i would. I would set the stage for this conversation with a memory of my own. Where it's about. It's gotta be nineteen ninety four and i am about eight years old nine years old and my grandfather was a what we used to call a lay minister. Maybe we'll just call him by vocational now in the presbyterian church and he had this study off his bedroom he was also an accountant and so in his office study he had all of his financial stuff for all of his clients and trusts and charities that he worked with and then he had all of his theological books and he was the only person i knew had computer my grandfather even up until his death always had the cutting edge technology and i used to go and play on his old. Ibm computer before he had windows. And i remember. He had this book on this bookshelf. This white and blue book cold the message and it stuck with me from like eight or nine years old often. As i was waiting for games to load. I would sit there and how would look through his book shelves and there was this. This book is white and blue book and some sometimes it would be up on the shelf and symptoms. It would be on his desk. And i often used to look at it and i used to go The new testament in in modern light. Whatever i forget the tagline that was on that for probably probably the first edition of the new testament that i realized in hindsight he would have had. I guess i guess he was reading all the new stuff as soon as it was coming out. And so it's really special me to start reading. Eugene story that you've so beautifully written. And i'm not. I'm not eugene peterson expert. I i have not read any of his other works. And i haven't even thoroughly read the message and i feel a bit embarrassed to say that i feel like it's a missing piece of my life that i've kind of orbited from a distance and so in a certain way i feel really privileged that i get to actually really stopped my journey with his whole story. Thanks to you're writing a burning in my bones so thank you. Yeah collect. I love that story and as you're telling it i'm thinking how much eugene would love that story because you know One thing that. I think a lot of people probably don't quite get because you know i don't know twenty million copies or something or sold at the message in but he didn't write that for the vast american really he. He wrote that for his his sunday school class. It's how he was. A lot of fear was happening. In the in the late sixties early seventies In the baltimore suburbs and he realized how overrun his own community was with fear. Buying guns and building bomb shelters and escaping the awful inner city in in he just thought about how unchristian this was and so he wanted to lead them through galatian book of freedom in. We're we're to be free. People not driven by fear and he was a mesmerized by the text of relations. And yet he said after three weeks like people's eyes were glazing over. There were bored out of their mind. He couldn't understand it at this. This text is liberating and so he. He said we'll next week. I'm gonna translate it in So they live in hartford county maryland. I'm going to translate this into hartford county and And he said he passed out. The the white sheets of paper had that little section translated for that week and like nobody even touch their coffee. They were in and he's like i'm onto something and so he kept doing that. In that ultimately made its way into a book he wrote relations called traveling light in the beginning of each section. He would he would offer the little translation he had done in an editor eventually Saul the book read. The book photocopied pages in cutout. The scripture part and pasted them altogether and carry them around for like a month reading and meditating on reflecting it and ultimately very long story. But that's how he ended up writing the message but it was very particular people it was it was for these quiet spaces for people who are hungry and he was hungry to when he wanted to share a conversation about the living word and and even when it expanded and he realized he's writing this full translation that was gonna hit the you know the market or whatever he would say you know he he would have in mind. He was translating for the truck driver that he knew in for someone who was sitting in the third pew you know and so all that to say i think he would absolutely love just this individual story of one person. One grandfather you sitting there really wanted to play a video game in something catching your attention that you just carry with you Eugene was known for his smile. I think he would be smiling really big at that story. Thanks that's such a cool Road there's this. I've heard seth godin talk about when we try to create something for the world doesn't work but when we can allow ourselves to just authentically create something for one person it so increases the likelihood that it will connect with them that that and then ironically that tends to connect with other people far better anyway. Which sounds like you. The message is kate is a is a proof text for that. Yeah and i would say that was eugene's kind of just who he was You know he he meandered through long wilderness of failures and rejections and he was never pastor of us ever be considered a large church. Never that he was just even toward the end of his life when people would ask him. Or what are you must grateful for about your life. In one of the things he would say is. Oh that i got to be you gene calm. And you know when you hear that and you can really Lived his life to have such deep gratitude that he just got to be the person god made him to be Because i think most of us actually spend massive amounts of our energy striving to be something. We think we're supposed to be or some image. And i do think it takes a kind of humility in and grace and just comfort with how god's made us to do the kind of thing you're talking about where we can. We can offer the one gift we have. The one person in front of us trusting that god will do something with that or not. And it's not in our making. And i think that's one of the reasons why eugene was so meaningful to so many people is because there was something that was deeply true about what he offered that felt like in a time. When christian publishing's specifically was exploding the the money around it the the celebrity the the building of the platform all the language you know.
VirtForce Launching Virtual Careers
"each section" Discussed on VirtForce Launching Virtual Careers
"Pro advisor certificate and circle back that last one and a second year. He'll touch on the first two in terms of bookkeeping accounting experience. Typically around the year. Mark with either of those Is what we're looking for. There's definitely some wiggle room there depending on your qualifications for sure but you have to know how to books and just the basic fundamentals of bookkeeping and accounting for these positions and then for the certification you can still go through the interview process and the application process without having the certification. It's just a requirement that you need to have completed prior to joining if he were to receive an offer and we can share information with you on that on how to get that done throughout the process as well the reason why we have that certification in place. It's a way for us to make make a promise in meet our promised to our customers that they're going to be speaking with an expert and by becoming quickbooks online pro adviser certified were deemed an expert and interred. You're able to offer the best service and solutions to our quickbooks online customers. Absolutely and i've been talking to a few of our community members who are pursuing that certification. And what i'm hearing is that you can acquire the certification. And i know quick. Buck says eight to twelve hours. I've heard one person tell me. Took them fourteen hours just because they were working slowly through the process but that means that's a saturday guys that saturday and a sunday. That's one weekend so that's an opportunity for you to go get certified and apply for this role. Mary go ahead. I was going to say one. Quick thing on the to the certification. It's free for you to do. It's up to you that you could spread out over a few days if you want to or you can try. Knock it all it all at once. The one piece of advice. I'll give you as there are training sections before each assessment for each module there. Six or seven of them for the two thousand twenty one version. Highly recommend going through this training sessions before taking the assessment for each section. So that will make take a little bit longer but hopefully set you up for success to pass each section right and blair. I've heard that this particular certification you can do the modules on your own but that there are also live webinars that you can join that correct there are. There's a couple live webinars. And then to boot camp type of sessions you can take and even just doing research on your own youtube google there some helpful links on there on how to prep and how to pass and so forth from there so and encourage them to take a peek into that..
The Bible Nerds Show
"each section" Discussed on The Bible Nerds Show
"And then each section is composed of eight versus and then each verse begins with the same hebrew letter Now it's likely that this was for both kind of aesthetics as well as a memorization tool this kind of poem is known as an acrostic and again each verse contains a special word that's pertaining to the torah and to obedience and commandments statutes in precepts into into crees burst. One of five is a powerful metaphor. For how the word guides us as we walk by faith. What was it like for david. As he and his mighty men were roaming throughout the judean wilderness on the run from a bloodthirsty king saw We know that david spent much of his time hiding in the beautiful oasis of and getty it is an amazing series of springs and waterfalls among the jagged eastern edge of the mountains between jerusalem and the dead sea. The beauty is truly overwhelming. But for david and his men the danger was also very real I imagined that after of the armies of king saw there were times when david had to find refuge among those caves just as the sun was setting. And most of the time i i i would expect david. His men would have tried to settle in the camp when it was still daylight but the reality of life on the run isn't always that easy There were probably times when david and his men were forced to make their way into the caves in the pitch black of night The only way to successfully navigate these treacherous paths would be by the light of a foot lamp. Lease small lamps were actually attached to a low hanging rope or in some cases even strapped one's ankles they would produce only enough light to guide the travelers next step and as soon as that step was taken then the next one would be clear. I wonder how many times those lamps protected david as.
How To Cut It in the Hairdressing Industry
"each section" Discussed on How To Cut It in the Hairdressing Industry
"In training because as you model isn't it. Yeah well. I think he can have a slight head. She overlying put just not how it is with sony story. Lines off it. It's like it's like break the head into three sections said it'd be you just have a line with the bottom section isn't it. It's a well actually have called each section it'd be color coded for each section and it'd be like the yellow area triangle and not trying drought and then that's it. You know what i mean. And then the next area need build it. And i think it could be simple now drip really think position for like they. They really saw of making it more accessible to the general public. Do not mean general political to general hairdresser. Feel like it needs to go bit more that way because as you said when you do go colleges and the envy if it's unless you've really works for someone who's really work that one of these big companies at some point or somebody with don't really learn this type of address in like it needs to be more of the standard across the to be honest with you as well as the coolest. God store the standard last year years. Gone ridiculous and it's it's really koji. Standard work is amazing. And it's gone. It's like console for fast and the same bothering him. Withdraw so much in the standard of bob brin scope and then standard. The coach doesn't see often eight site in needs. As you said well think it needs pushing out in a different way so people can be understood. Path that makes sense So you feel is the problem with got dyslexia zero. Not hit is actually. We need do. We are actually his haircut. Haircut in experts wikileaks. Nothing is a society. is that main in the. Do we over complicate something terminology. The sound the way we section it is actually what puts people off their case. We are going to drop out of the interview right there with dame prep well and we're going head into the green room for all our patriots members only and if you wanna taste of what we can expect from this extra show today then take a listen to this late ninety degrees court angle forty degrees this. This is like one section. Why he told me freed. All these has joy to be honest. I if not if he's going to be legislated by not really enjoy and not move and be obsessed might as well go on to tell you know the less. I didn't read i off from life. Said how do anything so she was like. I know being sold by consciously being told my bad cheap should be of worked in salons girls over the years. And he's like the one what she tori like. There's doing what i just really don't understand. He's feel a lot of time to give the industry as well because these people don't don't.
Ghost Town
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"The cia as outdoor secret. I'm rebecca leave. I'm jason horton and this is a ghost town. Cryptos sculpture located on the grounds of cia headquarters created by sculptor. Jim sanborn installed in nineteen ninety. This thousands of characters they contain encrypted messages in four sections three have been solved. The fourth section consists of ninety seven characters which remains on solved. This is cryptos. i love. I love this one. I find something to be so interesting. Can you imagine being the person hired to create the sculpture. And how much goes into it and how indicative it is of the mystery that surrounds the cia. Looked pretty much everything else. It's incredible especially because it's under lock and key very secretive. It's all hush hush but right in the front right there. It's there for really anyone to try to crack this code and they've been cracking the code since it's been installed only when you solve all four sections can you solve cristos. I again just the idea of having a coded sculpture outside. The cia is so fucking cool. I love it so much. I love the people probably work for such a long time to crack each quadrant. But of course want remains unsolved. That's for you listener. You're just solve a real quick when you have a minutes to let us know jim. Sanborn worked with the employees ed. She'd from pronouncing that right to come up with the cryptographic systems on the sculpture. It's twelve foot high. It's made of copper granite and wood and it kind of looks. I kind of almost a computer paper kind of woven. It looks really cool and it just has a bunch of rando letters. Sorry to get technical everybody. That's what's on there and each section is separate and how you decide how you're gonna crack this code is really up to the person trying to do it. And there's been different methods to crack different things. And according to sanborn the sculpture contains a riddle within a riddle which will be solvable. After only all four encrypted passages have been deciphered..
Veteran On the Move
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"Your old stuff that you've been doing and step into your newest version your greatest version of yourself and once you have that really slow defied as individual then. It's that much easier for you to build teams around you be that leader in your organization or if you already a an entrepreneur you're ceo. You're founder you're be able to take this knowingness this certainty of. I know exactly who. I am what i like to do how i how i operate. Under a bigger mission in the company and then be able to elevate different team. Members create a cohesive co creative mission and vision for the company and be able to execute be able to embed those high performance principles. And so empowering your team and then from there we just move out. So this is really a concept of you know the inside-out framework and once we developed at humble alpha mindset within the company or the organization and is that much easier for us to identify like minded partners joint ventures and collaborative partners in investment. Call best in relational capital. And be able to just take this same mindset and finding a people that are in a similar way of taking similar mindset and complementary skill sets that we can accomplish more together in a collaborative way than for us to try to figure out on her own or have this competitive for scarcity mindset and then finally we were we end the block with the quality of life and that was a really what our our our biggest aim is and how we define it is. It's really you being so intentional. About how you design your life that no matter if you're working you're playing with your family friends hobbies that you are fully engrossed in that moment. You're enjoying that moment. Because it's been specifically designed that. I i want to have this in my life about what it is and being able to have that utmost quality of life is what we all aim four and being able to put all these different principles and being able to put it all together as what the books is i do and i know it sounds like a lot for somebody to like. Oh man i don't want figure all that out. Well that's why we broke down into a concise step by step process and being able to take section bisexual and at the end to be sexually five sections that the end of each section. We have a very specific action steps. That you take exercises things that you need to do in order for you to keep moving forward and once again to the end of the book you'll be able to say oh. Yeah this is. How all this fits..
Charlotte Readers Podcast
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"You're you're less likely to be imperfect but you are expected to be perfect while you're there but i also like you didn't demonize palm beach. It is it is a beautiful place in yes. It is different than other places in the country in a lot of ways but there was still so much positive there and i really enjoyed it. I was ready to pack. I would go anywhere right now. But i was ready to pack my bags and and had to palm beach in and just ask the. I'm sorry i didn't mean to be the first time in my entire life that i remember not being in pump each yet and are our and it. It really feels like i'm missing something I believe that palm beach is as i said rarefied but i believe in a strange way having spoken s. I mentioned to a diverse group. A really just a group of women for each of my nonfiction studies that this could happen anywhere because women tend to judge and measure one another unfortunately wherever we go in wherever with women want to be part of group and i did a study toxic friends about female friendships and in it. Women reported that even when they were uncomfortable with one person or what was going on with the group they were fearful of pulling out or not really doing whatever was expected. It is so complicated. And that's why i was like i said i have to make sure that they don't just pick your brain about gender roles but this is why it's so wonderful in my opinion to have two sisters who are best friends because it's it's it's built in an easy and they don't get to go anywhere they just have to be my best friend so i value that but now i know a little bit more. Why value that so much after this discussion. So like i said one of my favorite parts of the podcast is when you read from your book because i feel like nobody brings it to life as well as the author. Because you knew exactly what you meant while you were writing it. So you said you've got two points of view in the book. Are we going to hear a little bit from each point of view today. yes we So we just a patriot to from each section. I from elodie. The older sister who starts so the syst- where is having dinner with her husband and he decides to tell her his idea that offers should be the surrogate after they've been given that low that this is not happening for Anymore and so they're they're added dinner together and james the perfect husband. The ideal has been springs dishonor. So here is is elegies. Aubrey wouldn't agree to such a crazy idea. Never aubrey will be giving you the greatest gift anyone can give a baby. Our baby more insistence from james. I imagine aubrey. At this hour with tyler prancing to attune that's favored in the clubs in miami. Something about her by the kent or everywhere..
Cork Talk
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"That is a four percent sugar with gemini. It's a good lineup. Everything from the whites to the reds and a little bit of suite at the end. They're to kind of finish off everything. It's time again for wind. Class with the vine mounts jesse and jessica welcome back for another season. It's going to be back. We talked about a variety of topics in the last season. So what's we're gonna be talking about this season this season. We're going to spend each section discussing one great and we picked an assortment of grapes that grow well in north carolina coup. So what's our first grade for this. We are going to kick off the year with chardonnay and we decided to pick chardonnay. Because that is the great used in champaign so happy new year's everybody and also chardonnays a good one to start with because it's one of the most widely grown grapes in the world and especially in north carolina to so so. Tell us a little bit about chardonnay and winter. The origins of shortening chardonnay is a french grape specifically from the burgundy region and even more specifically from a little village that were the name originally meant place of missiles twister. Yeah answer that kind of stuff. So fun fact Around eight hundred. The wife of the emperor. Charlemagne was disgusted by the red wine stained her husband's beard so that she ordered that white grapes be planted in their burgundy vineyard. Interesting at red wine stains on beards can't have that now. I've never thought about getting weinstein out of a beer just went mouth well passwords today and chardonnay is the bestselling one in america. Red or white americans consume over eight hundred forty thousand bottles a year which we contribute a small different has the name recognition going for it. Yeah it's you know it's easy to pronounce looking at wine list and you're gonna need a wine. It's a good approachable place to start. I suppose So we're going to move to the venue. Now talk about growing chard may. It's it's a easily.