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The Anointing Of Recognition Is Upon You
♪♪♪ Lance Wallnau: Hey, I’m Lance Wallnau, and welcome to today’s Bible study by Lance Wallnau’s Bible study, most unusual kind of Bible study I know of.
00:26 - And the reason it’s unusual for me is because I believe that we are living in unusual times, and the spirit of prophecy is also speaking and hovering over the Word of God.
00:42 - You think about it, we’re living in those times which are, if we’re living in that accelerated period of the last days as we all believe, then I’m counting on the fact that these books are gonna to be open.
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កូនខុសគន្លង - Wrong Path ភាគទី៨ - (Life Series Ep8) - [Sastra Film]
Nit! Wait! I forgot to tell you. I’m seven months pregnancy He is my husband, Phealey Let’s go inside! I’ll tell you You haven’t come home and now you got pregnant Don’t you feel pity me even a little bit? Do you want me to die soon I haven’t heard about both of you Come faster Hurry up! Is that home? It’s hard to enter this home We will be dead if someone comes Don’t say it!
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Critical Reflections of Being a Professional with Visual Impairment
Where we last stopped with this idea that I want you to take away this whole experience, that the point of departure for me is having an impairment and seeing the world through that lens but the bigger question which has to be understood for all of you as researchers, professors, administrators is the question of diversity inclusion and I’m going to come back to that and I’ll present perspectives which are multi-layered.
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Hicks – Open science can’t solve the replication crisis – DS² 2021
Live now. Wait just a second always working on a tape delay I have I have a lot more respect now for like radio DJs Oh, yeah, sure.
00:14 - It’s this weird kind of out of body disconnected like all right, yes, everything should be good. Now I believe everybody’s pulled across into the session. So without further ado, the last talk of the of the meeting, PS stick around, we will do a little tiny, I promise not too long.
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The Next Big Thing: Redistricting In Michigan And The Role Of Communities Of Interest
in 2018 michigan citizens passed a ballot initiative that would take the redistricting power out of partisan politicians hands instead a non-partisan citizens commission would redistrict the state of michigan in a way that truly represents the diversity of michiganders this commission will listen to testimony from historically underrepresented communities to ensure that everyone has a voice now we will hear from representatives from communities in other states who can speak about the importance of being part of the redistricting process redistricting is an exciting opportunity for communities to think about what representation means for them what do we want from our elected officials what’s important to me what’s important to my family what’s important to my neighbors and other folks in my bigger community one thing that’s really exciting about redistricting is it’s a really important opportunity for people to collaborate and coordinate across different communities and groups one thing we see in california and i know exists in many parts of this country is a tremendous diversity from the navajo nation um redistricting in the navajo language is called it’s important that we participate in the entire process of redistricting and we learn about the various principles that take place it’s also important to understand how the voting rights act of the 1965 protects indigenous peoples blacks hispanics asians and other minorities and that helps people such as indigenous peoples to formulate maps that we believe gives us a chance to elect candidates of our choice why is it important to participate why is it important to define yourself and your community because if you don’t define yourself then someone else will try to define you only you can keep your community together the people trying to create new maps need your help to understand your community boundaries use this opportunity to engage with the commissioners and educate them about your community sell your story we need to hear from you with your help those creating the new maps can understand and implement new districts that keep communities together it’s time we draw the line welcome and thank you for joining tonight’s policy talk at the ford school on redistricting in michigan and the role of communities of interest i’m john chamberlain a professor of emeritus at the gerald r ford school of public policy and i will be the modder for the moderator for the event the introductory video we just watched was produced by two ford school students molly kalp and mario syed and i think provides a great introduction to what we’re going to be talking about tonight i want to thank connie cook of voters not politicians for recruiting and coordinating this evening’s presenters and a special thank you goes to the sponsors of tonight’s event will be shown on this slide before we turn to the presentations i’d like to note that we’ll have about half an hour of q a following the presentations we have already heard from quite a few questions with quite a few questions from nearly 1 000 individuals who registered for tonight’s event if you would like to submit a question you may do so in one of the ways shown on the slide so what will be covering in our time together tonight as you must know if you’ve tuned in in 2018 michigan voters approved proposal 2 which amended the michigan constitution to bring about important changes in the process for during the districts for our congressional delegation and our state house and state senate the new process open and transparent and places citizens to the center of redistricting it replaces a process in which political parties legislators and their allies selected new districts behind closed doors the role of the citizens in the 2021 region streaking is twofold first final decisions on the three districting plans will be made by the michigan independent citizens redistricting commission or the micrc for short which are randomly selected from more than 9 000 citizens who applied to be on the commission they have been meeting regularly since september second the constitution assigns a high priority in the criteria that govern redistricting to public input submitted by communities of interest or cois for short we are interested in hearing from these communities about how they would like their districts to look this allows citizens to communicate directly with the micrc about how they would like to be represented in congress and the state legislature tonight’s event focuses on these communities what they are the role they play in the new process why they should want to participate in the redistricting process and how they can do that effectively the presenters tonight will focus on four topics the role and structure of the new micrc the criteria the commission will use in drawing districts and the description of communities of interest why communities of interest want to participate in the redistricting process and the information for communities of interest about how they can communicate effectively with the micrc our first two presenters are from no voters not politicians the organization that organized the campaign for proposal 2 and is now working to support the participation of communities of interest in the new redistricting process we will hear first from nancy wang the executive director of legislative politicians who will discuss the background of the miss or m-i-c-r-c and bring us up to date on his progress sandy sereni elser a vnp volunteer who is leading the np’s educational training program will follow nancy with a discussion of the criteria the commission will use in drawing districts and the description of communities of interest i’ll now turn the screen over to nancy thank you so much john i’m nancy and voters not politicians is the grassroots non-partisan group that formed in 2016 over facebook to end partisan gerrymandering in michigan and our dream was really to replace what we had which was our partisan politicians were taking redistricting which is a process where every 10 years we take the census data from the federal government and we need to redraft or redraw our election district lines to make sure that our congressional districts state house and state senate districts have the same number of people them and the politicians were taking that power and giving themselves an unfair advantage by kind of splitting up you know taking voters and really splitting up our communities or whatever they had to do to make sure that they could create safe districts for themselves and their political parties and what we wanted to see our dream really was to replace that and put in place citizens whose whose goal was really to take us back to um representative democracy and kind of what redistricting is supposed to do which was to keep our communities together and to um to help us you know stay with people that are in our geographic area that share interest with us and allow us to elect a representative that would take our interest and advocate for us in lansing and dc and to be sitting here now and for all of us to be sitting and talking about the new citizens commission that we have in michigan and to talk about how the job of that commission is to in fact go out this year and take input from our communities to find out where we are in order to draw maps that keep us intact well that really is um that’s really exciting and um and surreal but in fact we do have a citizen commission now thanks to the vote of 61 of michiganders uh in 2018 to adopt this constitutional amendment uh we had a super majority of michigan voters that were in independence democrats and republicans all throughout the state that wanted this reform and um and it’s and it’s you know first started meeting in september it’s got 13 members um and it’s got four republican members four democrats and five that are neither republicans or democrats so they can be independents or they can be third party um supporters and in their diverse group um you know geographically they represent kind of the diversity of michigan um and they’ve been you know they have regular meetings every thursday anyone can tune in you can watch in real time on youtube or facebook um they they um welcome public comment you can submit public comment either by requesting to speak or submitting a written comment and their job is to to carry out the requirements that we put in the michigan constitution and that really is you know to draw maps again around public input they have to learn for themselves um you know from the public where our communities are where our boundaries are what interests are at stake why we want to be kept together and then they need to draw the maps that reflect and respect our communities instead of splitting them apart um they need to take you know public input all along the way they need to act in a way that reinforces the public trust so there’s no more backroom deals there’s no you know there’s no um decision making where they can be taking political parties or candidates and trying to give them an unfair advantage that’s explicitly prohibited now by the constitutional amendment um and you know they have to be 100 transparent which is is definitely you know absolutely the opposite of what we used to have um every every conversation they have about redistricting matters you know every conversation they have amongst themselves or any member of the public um has to be in an open meetings and the commission um there’s other requirements in the constitutional amendment as well that governs their conduct so they can’t you know the commissioners themselves can’t kind of draw maps however they want um they can’t kind of replace their own values you know and and inject them into the process um they can’t like i said give one party or their preferred candidate an advantage over another all of that you know they need to follow to the letter exactly what’s in the amendment and yeah and and it’s going very very very well i’m happy to say heard time and time again at their meetings um all of the commissioners really stressing how seriously they take their um their duty that they know that you know they really are carrying out the will of the voters and i think it’s going to be a really exciting process and i hope that programs like these really encourage all of us to participate and to give our input so that the maps really respect us and allow us to elect the representatives of our choice so with that i will turn it over to sandy sereni elser of vnp good evening and thank you nancy and thank you john um my name is john mentioned my name is sandy cerini elser and i’m a volunteer with voters not politicians and this evening i’m going to just run through the seven criteria that the commission has to follow when it draws voting district lines and uh the criteria are in rank order of importance so not only do they have certain criteria they have to follow but also they have to give a higher weight to certain criteria that more more weight to federal laws than um to uh compact districts so as you can see from this slide the seven criteria are listed here the first one is they have to follow federal laws and the two most important components of this are equal population in voting districts which we all know is why we have the census every 10 years so that we can re balance the district so that my vote in district 1 is the same as your vote in district 2.
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Open Scholar Café: Prioritizing and Supporting Open Access through Publisher Agreements
Well, welcome, everyone, is is Abby said I’m the AOL for Scally Communications and Collections here at Iowa State. So with that, I oversee the collections program as well as lead our scholarly communications program, which includes our work around open access, open data and work with Abby on our open educational resources work. So today, what I’m going to be talking about is a pretty significant trend in academic research libraries, and that is the transition away from paying for traditional subscriptions to to to journals, to publishers, and instead doing new agreements that are basically open access agreements.
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Hydroponics Food Safety
good morning i’m glad everybody’s here we had a good uh registration returns we had over 22 people who signed up for this program today this program is going to be talking a little bit about uh some of the regulations and food safety aspects on on small scale aquaponics and and hydroponics units that we need to be aware of so we can mitigate any kind of pathogens human pathogens that may be in the system so we don’t have food that are contaminated with e coli listeria salmonella that can get out so we can do produce safe and healthy food for our consumers out there so we have three presentations today the first one’s going to be on aquaponics and hydroponics and fisma regulation by dr laura strawn associate professor extension specialist at virginia tech followed by reza ovissipour i hope i got your name he’s going to do a food safety program for aquaponics and last is dr kim is going to present some of the stuff that you’ve been working on we’ve been going out doing some surveys of small-scale aquaponics and hydroponic units out there throughout the state we’ve been all over the state haven’t we dr kim yeah yes so he’s going to produce cover some of the research data that we have collected so far so with that uh dr strawn i’m going to turn it over to you so you can present your program each of you got about 20 minutes so don’t let that be a hindrance so we’ve gone over a little bit on these programs so uh it’s all yours now perfect and all of you can see my slides and hear me okay yes ma’am sorry i have a roomba in the background that keeps turning on so all right today i wanted to kind of give you guys just a really quick um overview of the food safety modernization act specifically the produce safety rule because i believe that is the one for aquaponics and hydroponic operations that you may encounter um we’ll talk a little bit about the regulatory requirements um it’s actually not terrible so i’m hoping that with this 20 minutes i can give you a nice overview um some information and then also if you think any of this applies to you um you have so many people on the phone as well as myself and dr ovissipour dr kim who would be more than happy to kind of walk you through the specifics or uh what not to your operation so with that the food safety modernization act as fisma as the acronym you guys probably most here um this is really the biggest revamp to our food safety um in this country um in about 70 plus years since the food drug and cosmetic act of 1938 and it really shifts um our food supply to be more of let’s prevent this right versus responding so much um of our food safety in this country has been responding to outbreaks um whether that be uh something um in like 1993 where we saw jack in a box with all the um e coli o157 h7 infections due to undercooked uh hamburgers where now we see um it’s very important to cook your hamburger meat and we see a lot of regulations that came out of that we’re really going towards more of that preventative framework i tell people all the time it’s sort of like putting on a seat belt when you drive a car um there are seven regulations that are part of fisma um they span every aspect or corner of food safety or food in this country all the way from produce safety which would be you know growing and packing holding different things for produce uh to prevent the controls for human foods animal food foreign supplier verification rule um third party accreditation sanitary transport um and adulteration of food so it really encompasses everything and again it was all about shifting that framework to prevention let’s think about it before it happens and that will hopefully make us not have these large scale issues as when we see some of these contamination issues um really it’s a lot of things that go wrong not just one little mistake it’s several mistakes so the produce safety rule in particular um is really uh basically the first time ever that produce has been regulated in this country before it was all voluntary it’s a science-based minimum standards for the safe growing harvesting packing and holding of produce it addresses several major areas from worker training health and hygiene to water to biological soil amendments of animal origin animals equipment tools and buildings as well as some other things and if this sounds a little bit similar to gap which would be good agricultural practices it is it is very similar the foundational practices and principles are very very similar however this is not a gap certification unlike gap the fisma produce safety rule is a federal regulation we’re going to talk about kind of how it’s mandated in virginia but um it’s actually a food and drug administration fda um regulation gap uh good agricultural practices is a third-party audit system um it’s voluntary it’s required often by buyers so i think that’s where sometimes people think it is mandatory but it’s not you don’t know you don’t have to have a gap audit that means that you don’t have to sell to that person um but this is typically something like i said that’s mandated by buyers um asked by buyers uh and it really opens up your market access so something to think about the fisma produce safety rule like i said while they have overlapping elements this is really the floor or the foundation of your house for food safety anything in terms of gap or getting more complex those are really just other levels right putting on a second story of your home so how do you even know if the produce safety rule affects you um that would be a completely entire lecture on its own but um typically uh you fall either into you’re covered fully by the rule you’re exempt where you don’t have to worry about the rule at all or you’re this qualified exempt category and there’s two things i’m going to draw your attention to one there’s the fda coverage and exemptions flow chart however vce or virginia cooperative extension has really decided to make this even easier for uh folks to figure out we’ve developed a qualtrics survey um stuart bermack put that together with a team we have it in english and spanish you can take this survey online it walks you through your operation and it’ll let you know at the end where do you fall are you covered are you exempt are you qualified exempt we also have this uh is a paper copy if you’d like to print it out or contact one of your local agents to print it out for you and walk it through i’m happy to do this with you as well so those links are on the screen and i’m also happy to share this presentation or post it online um here is just a really quick snapshot of what the um fda that’s the color one with the gold red and gray that’s the fda flow chart as well as you can see our virginia cooperative extension um it’s very smartphone friendly and we have a lot of resources for fisma if you are uh in fact covered by the regulation or in that middle category where you’re kind of covered but not really how is the produce safety rule regulated in virginia well like i said it is under fda’s authority however uh the virginia department of agriculture and consumer services vdacs has established an agreement with fda um and passed legislation a couple years ago where they are gonna do the enforcements in virginia this is fantastic news for virginians um because it allows us to work with um locals uh where market access and uh you know virginia grown and the economics of actually growing and producing food is so important right so uh vdacs i’ve worked with several of their staff they are very friendly all about education before regulation and it’s a great thing for virginia and the inspections that they’ve done thus far have been very very successful um i’ve also included a link uh to their produce safety program and on this next page i’ve also included some direct contacts eric bungo is the program supervisor anne mcgee is the assistant program supervisor they are very very friendly they have a lot of forms and information and resources on their web page this is just a snapshot of a resource that would help you figure out where are you covered are you not and then if you fall into that category where you may only be partially covered uh or you’re exempt you can actually have this form on hand and do an annual um check to say uh to make sure that you’re still in the right category so it’s very very nice and again there are a whole host of extension agents around the commonwealth that are very familiar with helping you figure out determining your status and then what you need to do in terms of the compliance dates if this is the first time you’ve heard of it no big deal you’re probably because you haven’t heard about it might be on more of the smaller side and that’s sort of where we’re seeing uh we just started enforcement on that in 2020 um they won’t actually start real inspections until 2021 so and that is important to know that just because of what’s going on with covid they are still uh very focused on food safety so i had someone asked me recently well with everything with covid are we kind of not caring about food safety um that’s not true we’re still very much concerned with food safety and having different um issues and you know focusing on that um but you can see if you’re a very large business where you bring in over a half a million dollars a year they’ve already had inspections um they’re probably now on their second or third inspection but the very small businesses which are that twenty five thousand to two hundred fifty thousand range they will just be starting to get involved in it so if this is the first time you’ve heard of it um it’d be really great um if you think it’s um something that applies to you or you want to learn more about food safety um i’m going to talk to you at the very end about a class we have coming up in november which is going to be held all virtually where you can learn all about the specifics and ins and outs of this regulation what you need to do and even if it doesn’t apply to you right now you never know your business could grow to where you might be over those financial thresholds where you might need it and it’s a really great class and we offer it a really nice discounted rates right now in virginia so i’ll give a pitch on that later so let’s talk a little bit about what is that rule um the produce safety will say about aquaponics operations um and there’s not a whole lot right they focus a lot on growing crops um in traditional uh outside mediums fields a lot of greenhouse um production but they do mention aquaponics and hydroponic operations and there’s really a couple things uh that they key in on and that’s what i want to highlight for you all today to just start thinking about so like i said they’re not excluded from the rule that was one misnomer is that aquaponics you don’t have to worry about produce safety but if you are growing produce absolutely this is something that you do need to think about if you are potentially um covered by by the rule um there is no specific section for aquaponics you have to kind of go on a little bit of a hunt and find uh mission but again i’m gonna make it really easy for you and and show you all the the certain parts that you need to care about um sprouts if you are growing sprouts they actually do break out sprouts it’s its own separate sub part in the rule and they actually have their own specific sprout classes um for food safety because sprouts are considered a bit more higher risk here are the preamble comments um where fda addresses aquaponics and hydroponic operations but again i’m going to give you the cliff notes version uh today but if you like to see that codified language um this will make it easy for you to find so let’s talk about fda’s comments on fish um fda got a lot of comments from different folks that fish do not carry e coli and that’s one of the things today that i wanted to kind of put that myth to bed fda has shown data as well as other literature that fish can become carriers of human pathogens including some of those that dr crosby mentioned in the introductory talk um some pathogenic e coli uh salmonella and if especially if they’re exposed to these contaminated um types of products it could be uh the water is contaminated and the fish pick it up that way it could be sediment it also could be a feed so it’s also very important to think about things that those fish can be exposed to and why it’s important to minimize cross contamination but because we know that fish like other animals could in fact become carriers of these human pathogens this is why it kind of all plays into making sure that they don’t have any potential cross contamination with that produce being grown in those systems so the subparts uh specifically uh with aquaponics comments i mentioned there’s three of them agricultural water biological soil amendments and domesticated animals and wild animals and i’m going to give you just a really quick overview of what each of those has to say about an aquaponic or hydroponic operation so when it comes to agricultural water this doesn’t matter really what your system is it’s all about understanding if you meet the definition of agricultural water and does it apply to you so agricultural water under the rule means water used in covered activities on covered produce where water is intended to or likely to contact covered produce or food contact surfaces so there is a quite extensive list of covered produce there’s only about 34 commodities that are not covered but any kinds of leafy greens strawberries things that are likely consumed raw are typically covered produce covered activities are really growing the harvesting the packing all those typical things that we would do to grow and produce good wholesome food is the water likely to come in contact this is the big question right and you could make the case that it’s not but i’ll give you some things to think about you really have to think about your system and if anything goes wrong in it could that water come in contact with that product and if it does then it would fall under agricultural water and you’d need to follow the requirements so like i mentioned um covered activities uh all about just growing harvesting packing covered produce um they do define it in the rule and you can see a list of of commodities but it’s typically anything that’s normally consumed raw um strawberries apples carrots um to fit the definition of agricultural water it’s got to come in direct contact with that harvestable portion of the produce so we’re not talking about the roots um so if you have something like a system with a raft where you might have the leafy greens growing on top with the roots exposed to the water if you can ensure that that water is not going to come into contact then maybe agricultural you don’t meet the definition of agricultural water so this is where you have to really think about your system and the potential risks and these are the things that i want you to think about when you decide do i meet that definition of agricultural water are you spraying produce mist overhead applications it would be agricultural water are you inspecting your system to ensure no leaks sprays can water potentially come into contact if there’s an issue how when you harvest or pack would it ever come into contact so oftentimes you might lift up the raft um and that’s a potential cross-contamination there where that water could come into contact with the other growing uh produce on the other rafts potential contamination from fish splashing water uh again depends on your system so really important to think about do you meet that definition of agricultural water if you do then what do you have to do you have to make sure your water has zero detectable generic e coli and then there are some testing frequencies but right now they are under consideration at fda um so right now we would just want you to be testing maybe once during the season or at the beginning or the end and i would really defer to dr ovissipour and dr kim for those specific recommendations maybe based on some of their research with biological soil amendments this is subpart f they basically say liquid only matrices uh they’re not growth media they’re going to be kind of under your agricultural water because they’re liquid um any growing substrates um that would include like raw animal manures things like that they might fall under biological soil amendments of animal origin but most growing substrates that i reviewed do not really include what they would define as a biological soil amendment of animal origin which would be those raw animal products that haven’t been uh treated also for domesticated and wild animals um this typically when you think of a field being grown uh outside that makes perfect sense right you’re gonna have animal intrusion and whatnot if you’re in a greenhouse you’re probably thinking of pest management um this really um is basically if you’re being if it’s grown outdoors at all it’s grown in a partially enclosed building um you’re going to need to think about domesticated wild animals because they could potentially get in if your aquaponics system is in a fully enclosed building this doesn’t apply to you um and that’s mostly because you can control what comes and goes and you’ll be focusing more on uh sanitary practices in that type of facility and it doesn’t necessarily also apply to the fish clearly they’re there for a purpose um so they’re they’re not considered any type of animal under this subpart but you do have to think about the risks from fish in that agricultural water section that we spoke quite a bit about so our kind of summary and take home message since this was sort of our really quick uh overview in 20 minutes is that aquaponics and hydroponic operations they’re not excluded from the fisma produce safety rule um it’s really important whether you are very small or a different size medium large to determine if your operation is covered please use those virginia cooperative extension resources to help decide um again you can do a paper uh survey that walks you through it asks you some questions it’s really nice you can do it on your smartphone if that is uh something that’s available to you um and this way you’ll know right and you’ll kind of know what do i need to do if you think that you may be uh covered it is really important to get into one of our produce safety alliance classes and i’ll talk about that on the next slide it’s also important to determine um if your operation uses agricultural water as defined by the fda so we talked about under the fda produce safety rule fisma agricultural water is defined by coming into contact with a food contact surface or that harvestable portion of your produce so you have to really think about how am i using my water in my operation and does it meet that agricultural water definition if it does there are things that you need to do this is very different by the way than good agricultural practices because good agricultural practices like an audit which would be voluntary something you sign up for that you want to increase your market they always require some type of water testing it doesn’t matter if it comes into contact or not that is not how they define agricultural water um and so if you’re interested in uh pursuing gap um i know dr ovissipour has some great resources and my other colleague amber vallotta also has a mentoring program to walk you through those steps so fisma compliance has several parts but if you’re covered we have lots of resources and educational materials and people to assist you in virginia um here’s also some really interesting um good information uh as well on the resource tab um and with uh gosh just like the last 30 seconds i have i wanted to highlight we are going to have november 10th 11th and 12th from about 2 to 5 p.
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A DELUXE Penthouse in the SKY (Manta Ecuador - March 2021)
- Hola Unconventionals, I’m Amelia. - And I’m JP.
00:02 - - And we’re sharing our unconventional life with you.
00:04 - And today we’re in Manta, Ecuador. - Yeah, we came here last week to do some property tour videos both for sale and for rent.
00:10 - You guys are gonna love what we have to show you in a couple of future videos.
00:13 - - But today we have something very special to share with you.
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State Of The Race : Black Nation with Rabbi Kohain Halevi
the crime for freedom was free up the land free up the land that we can free the people so they were successful in many to aspects the land of direct occupation of colonial rule but that was the beginning it was not the end because the bible still continued because it wasn’t only our land that was colonized with false demarcations and borders more importantly than our land having been divided up and colonized and more criminal our existence with the colonization of our minds hey what’s up everybody thank you for checking me out my name is echo simpson i’m a ghanaian and i live in ghana well you are watching this channel because somebody introduced you to it it was recommended or suggested to you on youtube basically my youtube channel is to connect africans and the madeleine to africans in the diaspora so thank you for checking me out if this is your first time of watching my videos kindly subscribe to my youtube channel for liberation that continues we must continue to liberate our minds that’s why one of our greatest songsters of the 20th century robert lester molly when we called bob molly wrote a song that he called redemption song and within that song he had a verse of lyrics that said emancipate yourself from mental slavery none but ourselves can free our mind we cannot expect that the same people that came to rape and to rob our continent not only of our gold our diamonds and our backside but of the very souls of our people which is the greatest resource that this land ever had that he gave to the world was african people and in that process we realized that they also attempted to steal our minds and in many aspects they were successful but not our souls our souls remain within our own possessions and it’s with that soul with that spirit that if we recognize that our minds have been tempered with we can wake up and be on the quest to have our proper mind restored to us but we must first realize that our minds have been infiltrated i started off with time because we don’t know how to tell time we can’t operate at any other time you know when you go to sleep at night some of us you know you have dreams some good dreams some bad things and when you’re in the middle of that dream you have no idea that you’re in a dream because you think it’s real you don’t even know that you’re asleep you forgot that you fell asleep because you’re in the middle of an episode the only time that you know that you’re asleep is when you wake up no sleeping man though he sleeps a sleeping man only knows that he was sweet when he wakes up or someone wakes him up and as long as you’re in that dream you think that dream is a reality until you come out of that dream so we too must wake up out of the sleep and the slumber that we’ve been put in under somebody else’s dominance and rule today the topic was the state of the race so that means if we talk about the state of our race this is not just a gun in conversation this is not a nigerian conversation this is not a african-american conversation a jamaican conversation or brazilian conversation this is a conversation about the totality of our people in the four corners of the earth the state of our race each president of each country has a responsibility to give a speech of the nation but we’re here today been going to do somewhat touch on we will not finish this topic today just like nano mache asked our illustrious cultural group here to ginger here before i speak this is only meant to ginger you are as the first of a series of programs it took four to five hundred years to put us in the state that we’re in now it’s gonna take more than the 45 minutes that i’ve been given to bring 400 years of programming out of our minds it’s going to take a process when the assignment called dr comey and kruma the first president of the republic of ghana when he was setting down the foundation of this new nation he knew that it was not enough to sign documents in the parliament to say that we were free in fact in 1957 when the independence of ghana was brought into manifestation we realized that we still were not a republican it still had the queen as the head of state you still had someone that was not in the image and the likeness of any of our lovely and beautiful queen mothers so he said something was wrong that’s why we have an independence day and a republic day because it took to 1960 to get a republic because he realized that freedom the process of freedom had not been complete that we were still on a journey and he realized that one of the most valuable institutes that he established was the ideological institute the ideological institute was established because he realized like i said the signing of a document by a lawyer class or political class of our representatives did not represent real freedom in the minds of our people who had been under oppression and under attack for centuries so he realized that now that we have proclaimed that we’re independent and even three years later now that we have proclaimed that we are an independent republic now we must begin to work on changing the minds of the people away from the programming that has been put into them under a foreign rule and under british rule and under all the attacks that we’ve had of all the foreign nations that have come to the former gold coast to name us outside of our names we must have an ideological institute to work on changing our minds to think like free people and be apprehensive you see the experience that we had to undergo somebody named us after a commodity that they had interest in they named us gold ghosters like we had no name because they were after gold after the riches that we had that god had blessed us with in our soil they didn’t think about our persons they didn’t think about our personality they didn’t think about our humanity they didn’t think about our culture they just came to our land and named us the goalposts after a piece of metal went next door because we had fires and herds of elephants and they were after ivory and the valley of ivory they named our brothers and sisters next door the ivory coast the biggest area that houses us all where we have more africa than any other place in the territory of mother africa nigeria it’s called liver area you hear what i said nigeria is called [ __ ] harris that there’s more [ __ ] there than anywhere else in the world that’s the insult you know what caramel cameron means cameroon means shrimp because the breasts brought to me white man who went to that territory saw the biggest shrimps we’d ever seen in the lakes there so he named the people’s shrimp they stole our mind they made it a crime for you to remember your ancestors they made a crime when you performed rituals they called on your ancestors they gave you new ancestors they gave you new gods and while they flourished in our land they rose above us and put us under their foot in our land we all saw what the police officer did in the united states of america last year with george boyd the whole world story it’s only today they’re trying to choose a jury this week to bring that crime to was not just george floyd the white police officer was an officer he wasn’t a renegade he wasn’t a criminal even though that was a criminal act he wore a uniform he was empowered he was an officer of the law but the law of the land is you can do anything to a black man anything to a person of african descent and you have no dignity because you don’t respect your humanity they disreclassified us outside of the human family and they began to associate associate us with apes and monkeys and they have no shame with it it’s in their history books they write that we’re not even human so they even taught us to disrespect ourselves they even taught us not to like ourselves the number one cosmetic selling on the african continent selling in the world is skin bleaching cream because we want to be white because they taught us to hate our blackness they told us that black was evil they told us that black was a sin it told us that black was negative so we begin to hate ourselves our men and our women they know to address where they spend money it’s not even free they spend money to put cream on to be white even they look like spotted leopards look at their hands look at their ankles look at their feet they look deformed but they think it’s beautiful they even have white spots they think it’s the beginning of their path towards beauty they taught us that god was white we got a white man with long hair what a being and we say it’s jesus that is god it’s when there’s any white man in history that’s god yes sir yes sir boss we can’t do anything i’m talking about our state that we’re in i got some good news too but we gotta start from where we at the doctor has to do a diagnosis of what are we sick with before he can write a prescription about how to get better and we cannot be better if the image of god is not in our own image the bible opens up and says that man was created in the image of god are we not men are we not women cannot god look like us the very same patriarchs in the bible when they went to europe they went there with black images jesus was black mary was black all portraits are patriots were black but they were wise enough to know that if we are to accept this if we are to advance let’s paint their pictures white so they look like us so we can have some self-esteem and pride i don’t fault them for that but i do [ __ ] us how can we let the image of our oppressor who’ve never done anything good for us be the image of the worship god what happened to our ancestors when we ignore them they ignore us when we turn our back on them they turn our back on us they are there they are alive and they’re ready to assist us when we get serious of wanting to be ourselves but when we want to copy someone else and be like them we can never be the white blind brothers or sisters we can never be him as much as you try you can’t bleach you can’t learn his language you’re talking better than him you can’t walk like him you don’t want to walk like that he can’t carry nothing on his head which means he ain’t got no balance we can carry something on our head because we are balanced and we’re balanced because we’ve been walking on this richmond culture that we’ve seen on display here is that an ignorant people is that of people that come out of jungles and forests and living in trees the display of that dance that has meaning to it the rhythm of those drums look at the resilience and look at the elegance and look at the majesty of the best of our kings and our queen mothers that’s the proud people but they lied to us those of us they took away from here they lied and said your ancestors lived like animals in jungles they lived in trees that they had no culture they had no language so when our people call upon capone and they don’t understand that they say you’re worshiping the devil kill them are you calling them young man they don’t understand your language they don’t know what that means they say you’re calling on a demon killer we have to suffer because of their ignorance that we didn’t call on god the way they wanted to call on him they say that he was a pagan but all of the same patriarchs in that bible that we read in the quran abraham made sacrifice to call upon god he was even going to expect of sacrificing his own son before god set this around in the thicket david solomon all of them poor libations they believed in sacrifice that’s how they called on god they believe in their ancestors that’s why the holy book calls all those ancestors our foundation is the foundation of spirituality in the world all of them come from us every meaningful spiritual denomination today that says it’s a credible has its foundation in african spirituality on this continent europe gave birth to not one single major religion our ancestors who brought to them the understanding of the concept of god and how to worship god and how to give reference to god so when we look at our situation i want to go back to an episode to further drive home this topic the state of the race we have a global pandemic going on now and beginning of this global pandemic all of the pronunciators have predicted that africa would have millions of people dying even laying in the streets african people will be dying so fast you couldn’t make it to the hospital you’d be driving dying your dog bill gates wife one of the biggest propagators of the vaccines and predicted that millions of africans would be dying all over africa but guess what the most high god and our ancestors had another plan we found out that millions of them were dying backed up in trucks refrigerated trucks people couldn’t see their ancestors in the hospital people didn’t know whether they were dead or alive they had a horror story coming out of the americas and out of europe now they’ve got money they got scientists doing research to find out why africans are not dying what’s wrong with them they’re not dying we spent all this money making this plan to send out a disease that we’re getting rid of them and they ain’t dying we dying now you gotta understand me now don’t think there’s no exaggeration because the only way that the united states of america is existing is because the europeans had a plan that that land is rich and most of us are poor if we can remove the people from the land and take the riches of the land we can be rich and they can be no more that’s why the average one of us don’t know what a native american looks like we discourage about the indians we america but you don’t see them they don’t count in our world because their homeland was taken away from them and it wasn’t only by the gun or by the spear or by the sword you know what it was the european came in contact with them and contracted their diseases and they died off 70 million indigenous americans died in five years after the white man made contact with america 70 million died in the 14th century had a black flag in europe that over half of europeans died from a disease in the flag they came into africa and came into the americas with that disease but even then africans didn’t die from their disease this melanated light scan that god put medicine in god put medicine in your black skin that melon that medicine is called melanin it’s put in there to protect you and keep you in contact and in tune with the universe but there’s something that you must do to maintain your frequency you have cell phones today and the cell phone is good to give you what’s up to give you facebook to give you internet but there’s something that you must do to maintain your frequency you got to keep buying those credits you don’t buy those credits you ain’t got no frequency in other words there’s a responsibility that you have to keep your frequency and there’s a responsibility that we have to keep our frequency with our melanin to understand how to let it talk to us and we talk to it and part of that is being upright according to the laws that our ancestors taught us and living correct with each other we’re not the people to learn the ways of the white mind where it’s convenient to lie to one another and it’s all right it’s convenient to steal from one another and it’s all right we come from a culture that we didn’t need locks on our doors because we believed that if you stole something something would happen to you we lived in a community that we were protected that we believe in ourselves we didn’t believe that our word should be contaminated by telling our fellow brother a word that’s not the truth so we got we’re comfortable with lying to one another who taught us that if africa is a corrupt country with corrupt politicians today who taught us that us how to take a corruptnbc if we come back to the original way that we know there’s a path in that that we can go forward and see the light.
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Podcast: Nutrition Facts Grab Bag 17
I know you work hard to make the best lifestyle choices so you can improve your health, destiny, and longevity.
00:06 - And there’s lots of information out there on how to do just that.
00:10 - So where do you start? Well – we start with the facts.
00:16 - Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast – I’m your host Dr. Michael Greger.
00:20 - My job is to bring you the latest peer- reviewed nutrition and health research and share it with you here.