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Ben Thompson explains why Amazon may have the most interesting setup in big tech today and what makes its moat so difficult to replicate “The answer is always Amazon. The reason Amazon is so compelling is the extent to which they build for themselves. They are their first, best... customer." "They provide the scale to get basically anything off the ground, which they then sell to other people." "AWS is the most obvious example. AWS, contrary to popular thought, was not spare Amazon capacity." "Actually, it took a long time to get Amazon[.]com onto AWS. But what it drove was the understanding that we need to have something scalable. We can’t be having so many meetings. We need to have compute that you can plug into, purely an API surface. You don’t need to talk to anyone. It’s just there." "And, by the way, if we do that for our internal retail teams, we could do that for anyone. It turns out retail is so big, we have to start with everyone else." "AWS actually started serving external customers before it served internal ones. But now it serves them all." "You have other products, like logistics, where it was the opposite. We’re using external providers for logistics--UPS, FedEx and USPS--we need to build this ourselves. Now they’ve built it themselves and they’re offering it to third parties. Other people can use their delivery services. You see this in market after market.”show more

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Jeff Bezos explains Amazon’s process for expanding into new products like Kindle and AWS “I would definitely advise a small startup company to be as narrow and as focused as is possible to be. If you look at the original Amazon business plan, there was no hint of anything other than books in it… I wanted to build an online bookstore, and that was it.” But the online bookstore worked better than they thought it would. So Amazon launched music, and that worked better than they thought. Then video, and that worked too. So Jeff sent an email to customers: “I picked about 1,000 customers and I said, besides the things we sell today - books, music, and video - what would you like to see us sell? And the list came back incredibly long-tailed… So it’s been kind of one foot in front of the other.” As Jeff explains, Amazon expands into new businesses in two ways: “One is from a customer need. We will work from a customer need to the skills that we need. And the other one is skills forward: from a skillset we have to a new set of customers.” Kindle is an example of a customer need - Amazon had no hardware team at the time, but to make sure they didn’t miss the transition to ebooks, they built one. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an example of skills-forward: “We had probably more distributed computing expertise than anybody else in the world because of transactions. Transaction systems are so complicated and hard to build, and we had a service-oriented architecture of great complexity - probably before anybody else. Because we were doing that, we could see the future a little bit and decided to build AWS, which has turned into a huge business in its own right.” Jeff concludes: “Business is very situational. Rules of thumb are good, but they have to be applied to the right situation. Sometimes the old maxim that you should stick to the knitting is correct, but sometimes it’s wrong. And a senior leader’s job is to figure out: Which situation are you in?” Source: Business Insider (Dec 2014)

Jeff Bezos explains Amazon’s process for expanding into new products like Kindle and AWS “I would definitely advise a small startup company to be as narrow and as focused as is possible to be. If you look at the original Amazon business plan, there was no hint of anything other than books in it… I wanted to build an online bookstore, and that was it.” But the online bookstore worked better than they thought it would. So Amazon launched music, and that worked better than they thought. Then video, and that worked too. So Jeff sent an email to customers: “I picked about 1,000 customers and I said, besides the things we sell today - books, music, and video - what would you like to see us sell? And the list came back incredibly long-tailed… So it’s been kind of one foot in front of the other.” As Jeff explains, Amazon expands into new businesses in two ways: “One is from a customer need. We will work from a customer need to the skills that we need. And the other one is skills forward: from a skillset we have to a new set of customers.” Kindle is an example of a customer need - Amazon had no hardware team at the time, but to make sure they didn’t miss the transition to ebooks, they built one. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an example of skills-forward: “We had probably more distributed computing expertise than anybody else in the world because of transactions. Transaction systems are so complicated and hard to build, and we had a service-oriented architecture of great complexity - probably before anybody else. Because we were doing that, we could see the future a little bit and decided to build AWS, which has turned into a huge business in its own right.” Jeff concludes: “Business is very situational. Rules of thumb are good, but they have to be applied to the right situation. Sometimes the old maxim that you should stick to the knitting is correct, but sometimes it’s wrong. And a senior leader’s job is to figure out: Which situation are you in?” Source: Business Insider (Dec 2014)

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This is not fair Andy Jassy cc Jeff Bezos Amazon is charging my company money to answer customer questions and then directing our customers to inferior competitor products who have paid Amazon. We never signed up for Rufus ads. The customer is already on the Amazon page for Brain Flakes. We may have even already paid for an ad for them to get there. And then Amazon shows them an ad designed to answer questions that are already answered by us directly on the page they are on? And then Amazon sends them to another “brand” which is advertising on our product page. Look, I get it. Amazon is a big company with lots of people, lots of teams, and lots of AI, but you can’t keep doing this. You have to rethink your approach. The more you squeeze sellers, the higher prices will go on Amazon, because we don’t have the margins that you do (or the access to capital). This combined with Amazon’s market share and pricing policies mean that when you force us to raise prices by raising our costs, pricing across the entire ecommerce ecosystem rise. In other words, all Americans pay more when shopping online. You need to rethink these policies and the endless backdoor price increases. Thank you

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🗣️ Mikel Arteta on the message around the training ground after becoming champions: “They don’t need any kicks. If they need a kick, believe me, they will get a kick! But they don’t need a kick. “What they need is a realisation that the energy, the desire and the passion that they have to go again this season is there. Certainly there. And [they need to] look after each other every day because we have built something that is special. “It takes a long time to build it, and we need to make sure that we look after it daily. “That’s the most important thing.”

🗣️ Mikel Arteta on the message around the training ground after becoming champions: “They don’t need any kicks. If they need a kick, believe me, they will get a kick! But they don’t need a kick. “What they need is a realisation that the energy, the desire and the passion that they have to go again this season is there. Certainly there. And [they need to] look after each other every day because we have built something that is special. “It takes a long time to build it, and we need to make sure that we look after it daily. “That’s the most important thing.”

Connor Humm

38,634 views • 1 month ago

This is Whitney Webb explaining the Israeli AI that they call the Gospel. It eliminates targets based on conditions harvested from the data they collected on the Palestinians. This is what they are trying to build here in America if we don't stop it. They need the surveillance first, so we need to destroy it. It isn't for your safety. These are the new weapons Bibi mentioned. They won't have to do anything. Just automate it and unleash the fleets of drones. It will start out innocent, with things like Walmart and Amazon delivery drones, but will be turned on the people once we relax again. I am pretty sure! This is what I have warned about.

This is Whitney Webb explaining the Israeli AI that they call the Gospel. It eliminates targets based on conditions harvested from the data they collected on the Palestinians. This is what they are trying to build here in America if we don't stop it. They need the surveillance first, so we need to destroy it. It isn't for your safety. These are the new weapons Bibi mentioned. They won't have to do anything. Just automate it and unleash the fleets of drones. It will start out innocent, with things like Walmart and Amazon delivery drones, but will be turned on the people once we relax again. I am pretty sure! This is what I have warned about.

Mofobian

31,962 views • 13 days ago

Eric says the biggest mistake investors made in cloud was undersizing the market, and everyone is doing it again with AI: "In 2014, a really common narrative was AWS is going to eat everything. There's no enterprise opportunity left. Think about 2014 to now. You have Snowflake, direct competitor to Amazon Redshift, ran on Amazon. You're out-Amazoning Amazon on Amazon. Confluent and Elastic and Mongo, Databricks. Then you have the whole app layer. Datadog, $100 billion company. The view that AWS was gonna eat everything was massively wrong because Azure and GCP were irrelevant then. Fast-forward to 2026, you ended up with an oligopoly. Even outside of those big three, you have Cloudflare, which is another $100 billion company. The biggest mistake everybody made was they just undersized the market. The market was so big that one vendor could not scale and consume it all. That whole notion right now with what you and I are seeing in AI sure feels like it rhymes. The takeaway to me is "What if it all works?"

Eric says the biggest mistake investors made in cloud was undersizing the market, and everyone is doing it again with AI: "In 2014, a really common narrative was AWS is going to eat everything. There's no enterprise opportunity left. Think about 2014 to now. You have Snowflake, direct competitor to Amazon Redshift, ran on Amazon. You're out-Amazoning Amazon on Amazon. Confluent and Elastic and Mongo, Databricks. Then you have the whole app layer. Datadog, $100 billion company. The view that AWS was gonna eat everything was massively wrong because Azure and GCP were irrelevant then. Fast-forward to 2026, you ended up with an oligopoly. Even outside of those big three, you have Cloudflare, which is another $100 billion company. The biggest mistake everybody made was they just undersized the market. The market was so big that one vendor could not scale and consume it all. That whole notion right now with what you and I are seeing in AI sure feels like it rhymes. The takeaway to me is "What if it all works?"

Patrick OShaughnessy

92,119 views • 1 month ago

Catherine Austin Fitts argues that Donald Trump was installed by bankers to construct a digital control grid comprised of programmable money, digital ID, and a social credit system. She maintains that Trump is expendable now that the infrastructure for this system is complete. "So let's look at the control grid. There are three general baskets of what you need to do. The first is programmable money. The second is digital ID... And then the third is you need the hardware and the software infrastructure to do the social credit system." "And so you need all the data centres... But you also need a surveillance infrastructure and enforcement infrastructure to back it." "So how do you persuade conservatives... to embrace building that infrastructure? The way you do it is you say, oh, we have election fraud, or oh, we have an immigration problem. And so we need a digital ID to identify who everybody is so we can't have fraud." "If you look at everything [Trump has] done to build the control grid, or to put the conditions in place to do it, they now have what they need." "Trump is basically expendable now."

Catherine Austin Fitts argues that Donald Trump was installed by bankers to construct a digital control grid comprised of programmable money, digital ID, and a social credit system. She maintains that Trump is expendable now that the infrastructure for this system is complete. "So let's look at the control grid. There are three general baskets of what you need to do. The first is programmable money. The second is digital ID... And then the third is you need the hardware and the software infrastructure to do the social credit system." "And so you need all the data centres... But you also need a surveillance infrastructure and enforcement infrastructure to back it." "So how do you persuade conservatives... to embrace building that infrastructure? The way you do it is you say, oh, we have election fraud, or oh, we have an immigration problem. And so we need a digital ID to identify who everybody is so we can't have fraud." "If you look at everything [Trump has] done to build the control grid, or to put the conditions in place to do it, they now have what they need." "Trump is basically expendable now."

Wide Awake Media

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Arteta: “We need everything. We need the first of all, we need everybody fit and available. So the ones that are not involved, the ones that are not with us, that are really big, important players, we need them immediately with us because then we're going to be much stronger. “And then, the other ones, they need to stand up me, the first one and embrace this challenge and go for it. So today we have to suffer. It's painful. It's a terrible feeling. But tomorrow is a different day and if somebody would have said to me in August, 'You are in this position right now in April,' I'm sure we would all take it.”

Arteta: “We need everything. We need the first of all, we need everybody fit and available. So the ones that are not involved, the ones that are not with us, that are really big, important players, we need them immediately with us because then we're going to be much stronger. “And then, the other ones, they need to stand up me, the first one and embrace this challenge and go for it. So today we have to suffer. It's painful. It's a terrible feeling. But tomorrow is a different day and if somebody would have said to me in August, 'You are in this position right now in April,' I'm sure we would all take it.”

Connor Humm

59,738 views • 5 months ago

A Democrat Tennessee state rep. just openly called to abolish ICE on CNN. Scott Jennings let him hang himself with his own words. Scott Jennings asked Justin Pearson a series of questions — NONE of which he had an answer for. PEARSON: “This administration cannot be trusted and they can’t be trusted to hold themselves accountable.” “Even after the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, they didn’t want to share information about what was happening, which is why we have to abolish ICE.” “We have to abolish the Customs and Border Patrol and the way they currently exist, and replace them with something that actually does the work that we need for them to, which is why we need a Congress—” JENNINGS: “Which work is that, by the way?” PEARSON: “I’ll tell you what the work is not, the work is not killing American citizens.” JENNINGS: “No. You said the work we need them to do. I’m interested in your opinion. What is work we need them to do?” PEARSON: “The work is not killing American citizens.” JENNINGS: “No. What is work we need them to do?” PEARSON: “Well, first let’s look at what they don’t need to do. They don’t need to go into communities like Memphis, Tennessee.” JENNINGS: “Do they need to deport illegal aliens? Do they need to deport illegal aliens?! Can you say it?” “Can you say it?” “Do we need a federal law enforcement agency to deport illegal aliens, yes or no?” PEARSON: “We do need a federal law enforcement agency that deals with immigration that doesn’t kill people.” JENNINGS: “Is there a single illegal alien that you would deport?” “Name one. Is there one?” “So the answer is no?” “Is the Democratic position for 26, that there are no illegal aliens that should be deported?”

A Democrat Tennessee state rep. just openly called to abolish ICE on CNN. Scott Jennings let him hang himself with his own words. Scott Jennings asked Justin Pearson a series of questions — NONE of which he had an answer for. PEARSON: “This administration cannot be trusted and they can’t be trusted to hold themselves accountable.” “Even after the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, they didn’t want to share information about what was happening, which is why we have to abolish ICE.” “We have to abolish the Customs and Border Patrol and the way they currently exist, and replace them with something that actually does the work that we need for them to, which is why we need a Congress—” JENNINGS: “Which work is that, by the way?” PEARSON: “I’ll tell you what the work is not, the work is not killing American citizens.” JENNINGS: “No. You said the work we need them to do. I’m interested in your opinion. What is work we need them to do?” PEARSON: “The work is not killing American citizens.” JENNINGS: “No. What is work we need them to do?” PEARSON: “Well, first let’s look at what they don’t need to do. They don’t need to go into communities like Memphis, Tennessee.” JENNINGS: “Do they need to deport illegal aliens? Do they need to deport illegal aliens?! Can you say it?” “Can you say it?” “Do we need a federal law enforcement agency to deport illegal aliens, yes or no?” PEARSON: “We do need a federal law enforcement agency that deals with immigration that doesn’t kill people.” JENNINGS: “Is there a single illegal alien that you would deport?” “Name one. Is there one?” “So the answer is no?” “Is the Democratic position for 26, that there are no illegal aliens that should be deported?”

Overton

224,199 views • 7 months ago

Newsom: He basically took water that was set aside for this summer’s farming from one part of Central Valley and dumped it into another part—without giving them a heads-up—on water they didn’t need and didn’t even know how to store. They had to turn off the pump because it was starting to impact the levees. None of it went to Southern California. But what Donald Trump did was flood the zone with disinformation and misinformation, celebrating as if he somehow solved the problems in Southern California—somehow equating it to fire hoses and fire suppression. And again, facts get in the way. Narrative matters. Illusion so often rules. The challenge we have—and you know this—is that they dominate right now by flooding the zone and weaponizing misinformation and disinformation. They do it with an asymmetry in communication capacity that we have to address. You are addressing it, and we have to own up to it. We’ve got to build that architecture so we can compete in this space. Because what you just said is not commonly known by the overwhelming majority of people who voted for Donald Trump—people who actually believe that water was sent to Southern California, even though we know that demonstrably was not the case.

Newsom: He basically took water that was set aside for this summer’s farming from one part of Central Valley and dumped it into another part—without giving them a heads-up—on water they didn’t need and didn’t even know how to store. They had to turn off the pump because it was starting to impact the levees. None of it went to Southern California. But what Donald Trump did was flood the zone with disinformation and misinformation, celebrating as if he somehow solved the problems in Southern California—somehow equating it to fire hoses and fire suppression. And again, facts get in the way. Narrative matters. Illusion so often rules. The challenge we have—and you know this—is that they dominate right now by flooding the zone and weaponizing misinformation and disinformation. They do it with an asymmetry in communication capacity that we have to address. You are addressing it, and we have to own up to it. We’ve got to build that architecture so we can compete in this space. Because what you just said is not commonly known by the overwhelming majority of people who voted for Donald Trump—people who actually believe that water was sent to Southern California, even though we know that demonstrably was not the case.

Acyn

316,744 views • 1 year ago

Culture is genetic because behavior is genetic. This beaver never saw a dam in its life. No beavers or anything else ever taught it to build a dam. It wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Many beavers together build a big dam. That is beaver culture. Humans are not different. Nothing is different. This is what life is. This is how life works. Your body is your mind. A caterpillar wants to build a chrysalis. A bee wants to build a hive. A lion wants to build a pride. You are not special. You are not above your nature. you are INSIDE of it. The thoughts that we think are genetic thoughts. The crimes we commit are genetic crimes. The art we create is genetic art. Just like this beaver, you can give the animal different sticks and it will build a different dam, but it will always build a dam. And you can give humans different "education," but the human will always use it to do what its genes tell it to do. This is the first big answer that you need. This is the biggest piece of the puzzle. This is how to understand people 90% of the way. You just... notice what they do, and get out of the way, and watch them do it. And if they need sticks, you give them sticks. And if you don't like what they do, you have to get away from them. You cannot train dam-building into them or out of them any more than you can with a beaver. A beaver wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Whatever you see people build, that's what they wanted to build from the sticks they got in the river they were in. Stop pretending you can change it.

Culture is genetic because behavior is genetic. This beaver never saw a dam in its life. No beavers or anything else ever taught it to build a dam. It wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Many beavers together build a big dam. That is beaver culture. Humans are not different. Nothing is different. This is what life is. This is how life works. Your body is your mind. A caterpillar wants to build a chrysalis. A bee wants to build a hive. A lion wants to build a pride. You are not special. You are not above your nature. you are INSIDE of it. The thoughts that we think are genetic thoughts. The crimes we commit are genetic crimes. The art we create is genetic art. Just like this beaver, you can give the animal different sticks and it will build a different dam, but it will always build a dam. And you can give humans different "education," but the human will always use it to do what its genes tell it to do. This is the first big answer that you need. This is the biggest piece of the puzzle. This is how to understand people 90% of the way. You just... notice what they do, and get out of the way, and watch them do it. And if they need sticks, you give them sticks. And if you don't like what they do, you have to get away from them. You cannot train dam-building into them or out of them any more than you can with a beaver. A beaver wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Whatever you see people build, that's what they wanted to build from the sticks they got in the river they were in. Stop pretending you can change it.

hoe_math = PsychoMath

1,191,649 views • 1 year ago

PM Frederiksen: we have to recognize, we have to understand, we have to learn that Russia will not change and they are not interested in peace, unfortunately. Can you imagine? I mean, it's like minus 25 degrees and then you attack the energy system. I mean, it's so crazy that only Russians would do such a thing. But this is how Russia is and it will not change. And I think our problem in Ukraine is still that there are still red lines when it comes to the weapons they can use to win this war. And you cannot win a war with the one hand tied on your back. We need to give them weapons so they can strike into Russia. We have had this discussion for several years. We are still discussing it. I mean, for the last three years on this conference, I have said, why are we not providing them the air defense that they need? And everybody is doing like this. They still lack air defense. You cannot protect a country without air defense. We know exactly what we need to deliver, including, of course, membership of NATO, because if they were a NATO member now, we would be in a completely different situation now. So, we know what to do. But first of all, we have to recognize, we have to understand, we have to learn that Russia will not change and they are not interested in peace, unfortunately.

PM Frederiksen: we have to recognize, we have to understand, we have to learn that Russia will not change and they are not interested in peace, unfortunately. Can you imagine? I mean, it's like minus 25 degrees and then you attack the energy system. I mean, it's so crazy that only Russians would do such a thing. But this is how Russia is and it will not change. And I think our problem in Ukraine is still that there are still red lines when it comes to the weapons they can use to win this war. And you cannot win a war with the one hand tied on your back. We need to give them weapons so they can strike into Russia. We have had this discussion for several years. We are still discussing it. I mean, for the last three years on this conference, I have said, why are we not providing them the air defense that they need? And everybody is doing like this. They still lack air defense. You cannot protect a country without air defense. We know exactly what we need to deliver, including, of course, membership of NATO, because if they were a NATO member now, we would be in a completely different situation now. So, we know what to do. But first of all, we have to recognize, we have to understand, we have to learn that Russia will not change and they are not interested in peace, unfortunately.

Anton Gerashchenko

105,935 views • 7 months ago

🛑 Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 - Captain with school boys and girls! The young Captain was having a conversation with the pupils, and here is what he saying, “I was telling you a while ago, in school they were telling us that we couldn’t do it here. They lied to us. We grow wheat here, and it works well, and we will develop it. Some people have started, this year, I was able to see people who did it, as part of the presidential initiative, and I was told that in the past, some were able to do it and they produced it well. Currently, we are sowing wheat in some farmlands as part do the presidential initiative. What you eat must be produced here. So, this is why I say that we will teach you many things, and we will review the curricula they teach you. For those who drink coffee, they told us that your coffee, chocolate, it is only in the countries with abundant rainfalls, that here is only savanna, desert, it does not rain, we cannot farm. Again, they lied to us. It’s not true! Coffee grows well here, cocoa grows well too. There are people here who have the farms here, even in Ouagadougou here, there are people who have cocoa trees in their yards. This means that, chocolate that children envy those from well to do familes can be manufactured here in Burkina and all the children can eat chocolate in Burkina. We found out it is possible. As for milk, why do we have to import it? We can do it. I just want to tell you that there are many things that they never told us the truth about. You guys are lucky, we are now teaching you, and we promise you that we will do all we can so that you can eat your fill. As we say, you will eat well in the morning before you go to school, you will go to school for free, you will eat lunch, you will have fun, and in the afternoon, when you return home, you will have fun in the neighborhood, then in the evening, you will learn and review your homework and sleep. This is the dream we have. As long as the children in Burkina are not in these conditions, our fight will not stop. Ok? (Claps). So, we know these are your aspirations and it is right and legal. Any parent is fighting for this. Even those who do not have children fight in the hope of having children and to take care of them, so that they can live in better conditions, and be better than them. This is the fight of everyone, this is the fight of every generation. We are lucky God gave us everything. Do you know that everywhere in Burkina we can farm? Everywhere! In the Sahel where they tell you it is the desert, it is only sand, we can farm. As for us, we have been lied to so much, it is the brainwashing of the colonizer. He did that so that we may not think 💭. But we finally found out that everything was a lie ( damn lie, emphasis is mine). If God left many lakes in that desert, He knows why. We can farm everything in Burkina, we can do everything, the land is fertile. And there are so many natural things in Burkina that we never planted but they were here, isn’t it ? Have you ever learned how to plant a shea tree in Burkina? You were born and found them already here right? It is there in the wild in nature. You know it is a gift from God. There are many things in the shea fruit. You have the shea butter, that is oil; do you know that there is chocolate in it? There are seven derivatives in the shea fruit. You also have the Parkia biglobosa (also known as the African locust bean) which is a natural fruit. We have many things, it is not only the minerals in the soil. Even with the soil, we were told that it’s ferralitic soil, that it is not fertile, everything is a lie. You see that today there is so much gold in Burkina. But it is just poorly managed. Our mission is to well manage these resources, and to take good care of you, so that you can be in your basic rights, to lead a good life, to go to school, and that we may protect you. And also that you may fulfill your duties, because your duties are very important, aren’t they?…

🛑 Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 - Captain with school boys and girls! The young Captain was having a conversation with the pupils, and here is what he saying, “I was telling you a while ago, in school they were telling us that we couldn’t do it here. They lied to us. We grow wheat here, and it works well, and we will develop it. Some people have started, this year, I was able to see people who did it, as part of the presidential initiative, and I was told that in the past, some were able to do it and they produced it well. Currently, we are sowing wheat in some farmlands as part do the presidential initiative. What you eat must be produced here. So, this is why I say that we will teach you many things, and we will review the curricula they teach you. For those who drink coffee, they told us that your coffee, chocolate, it is only in the countries with abundant rainfalls, that here is only savanna, desert, it does not rain, we cannot farm. Again, they lied to us. It’s not true! Coffee grows well here, cocoa grows well too. There are people here who have the farms here, even in Ouagadougou here, there are people who have cocoa trees in their yards. This means that, chocolate that children envy those from well to do familes can be manufactured here in Burkina and all the children can eat chocolate in Burkina. We found out it is possible. As for milk, why do we have to import it? We can do it. I just want to tell you that there are many things that they never told us the truth about. You guys are lucky, we are now teaching you, and we promise you that we will do all we can so that you can eat your fill. As we say, you will eat well in the morning before you go to school, you will go to school for free, you will eat lunch, you will have fun, and in the afternoon, when you return home, you will have fun in the neighborhood, then in the evening, you will learn and review your homework and sleep. This is the dream we have. As long as the children in Burkina are not in these conditions, our fight will not stop. Ok? (Claps). So, we know these are your aspirations and it is right and legal. Any parent is fighting for this. Even those who do not have children fight in the hope of having children and to take care of them, so that they can live in better conditions, and be better than them. This is the fight of everyone, this is the fight of every generation. We are lucky God gave us everything. Do you know that everywhere in Burkina we can farm? Everywhere! In the Sahel where they tell you it is the desert, it is only sand, we can farm. As for us, we have been lied to so much, it is the brainwashing of the colonizer. He did that so that we may not think 💭. But we finally found out that everything was a lie ( damn lie, emphasis is mine). If God left many lakes in that desert, He knows why. We can farm everything in Burkina, we can do everything, the land is fertile. And there are so many natural things in Burkina that we never planted but they were here, isn’t it ? Have you ever learned how to plant a shea tree in Burkina? You were born and found them already here right? It is there in the wild in nature. You know it is a gift from God. There are many things in the shea fruit. You have the shea butter, that is oil; do you know that there is chocolate in it? There are seven derivatives in the shea fruit. You also have the Parkia biglobosa (also known as the African locust bean) which is a natural fruit. We have many things, it is not only the minerals in the soil. Even with the soil, we were told that it’s ferralitic soil, that it is not fertile, everything is a lie. You see that today there is so much gold in Burkina. But it is just poorly managed. Our mission is to well manage these resources, and to take good care of you, so that you can be in your basic rights, to lead a good life, to go to school, and that we may protect you. And also that you may fulfill your duties, because your duties are very important, aren’t they?…

Sy Marcus Herve Traore

95,027 views • 2 years ago

Bill Maher: “The nuclear program isn’t destroyed…” Vice President JD Vance: “What part is not destroyed?” Bill Maher: “Well, we didn’t get in there. The whole thing is we have to get in there and see otherwise we wouldn’t be doing this.” Vice President JD Vance: “The thing that you have to destroy is their ability to destroy their enriched uranium, which has been destroyed.” Bill Maher: “How do we know that?” Vice President JD Vance: “You need functioning centrifuges that can actually spin, [and] we know that they’re gone.” Bill Maher: “We didn’t get in there so how do we get the dust?” Vice President JD Vance: “That enriched stockpile is something we want to get, but Bill, if we never get it, and the president wants it and we are going to get it... it’s buried deep underground and they don’t have the ability to turn it into a nuclear weapon.”

Bill Maher: “The nuclear program isn’t destroyed…” Vice President JD Vance: “What part is not destroyed?” Bill Maher: “Well, we didn’t get in there. The whole thing is we have to get in there and see otherwise we wouldn’t be doing this.” Vice President JD Vance: “The thing that you have to destroy is their ability to destroy their enriched uranium, which has been destroyed.” Bill Maher: “How do we know that?” Vice President JD Vance: “You need functioning centrifuges that can actually spin, [and] we know that they’re gone.” Bill Maher: “We didn’t get in there so how do we get the dust?” Vice President JD Vance: “That enriched stockpile is something we want to get, but Bill, if we never get it, and the president wants it and we are going to get it... it’s buried deep underground and they don’t have the ability to turn it into a nuclear weapon.”

RedWave Press

1,639,675 views • 2 months ago

🚨🇷🇼PRESIDENT KAGAME: AID CAN BECOME A LIABILITY ”I don't want to put words in your mouth, but aid could become a liability for a country based on what you're saying.” President Kagame: "That is an understatement. In the long run, it is. It depends on how it is managed, and that has been our position from the beginning. We have told people we appreciate aid—we needed it, and we still need it to an extent. But we need it to build capacities so we don’t need it in the near future. That is our standard. That's what we say, and that's what we do." Source: Paul Kagame

🚨🇷🇼PRESIDENT KAGAME: AID CAN BECOME A LIABILITY ”I don't want to put words in your mouth, but aid could become a liability for a country based on what you're saying.” President Kagame: "That is an understatement. In the long run, it is. It depends on how it is managed, and that has been our position from the beginning. We have told people we appreciate aid—we needed it, and we still need it to an extent. But we need it to build capacities so we don’t need it in the near future. That is our standard. That's what we say, and that's what we do." Source: Paul Kagame

Mario Nawfal

81,019 views • 1 year ago

For decades you guys we been dealing with this! Y’all so scared to lose your Guns! Seriously that’s the real reason we can’t fix this. Talk to people who own a gun and see. That is the fear not that their kid could die or their love ones can die not that. Losing their right to carry a gun is the bigger fear! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH US!! It seems to me we still in the “they can’t do that or that can’t happen” phase BUT IT IS HAPPENING WAKE UP! You will have to explain to the next generation why it’s so fucked up now. We can be the ones to change this. But we are PUSSYS! We are so scared of change that we don’t realize that change don’t give a fuck about our fear. It’s gonna happen with or without you. But we have the chance now to work with change to make it better. If not get ready for the fuckedupness(yea I made a word) that’s about to occur! Not one of you, NOT ONE OF US, can say “how did this happen” we know we let it happen! GET OUT OF YOUR OWN SHIT AND PARTICIPATE YOU LIVE HERE TOOO!! UGHHHHH! #sosickofus

For decades you guys we been dealing with this! Y’all so scared to lose your Guns! Seriously that’s the real reason we can’t fix this. Talk to people who own a gun and see. That is the fear not that their kid could die or their love ones can die not that. Losing their right to carry a gun is the bigger fear! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH US!! It seems to me we still in the “they can’t do that or that can’t happen” phase BUT IT IS HAPPENING WAKE UP! You will have to explain to the next generation why it’s so fucked up now. We can be the ones to change this. But we are PUSSYS! We are so scared of change that we don’t realize that change don’t give a fuck about our fear. It’s gonna happen with or without you. But we have the chance now to work with change to make it better. If not get ready for the fuckedupness(yea I made a word) that’s about to occur! Not one of you, NOT ONE OF US, can say “how did this happen” we know we let it happen! GET OUT OF YOUR OWN SHIT AND PARTICIPATE YOU LIVE HERE TOOO!! UGHHHHH! #sosickofus

Leslie Jones 🦋

217,765 views • 2 years ago

WOW! NBC’s Tom Costello: “Does it hurt your investigative process, maybe for the chairman, does it hurt the investigative process to have the President already suggesting possible causes here as you try to keep an open mind and begin this investigation?” NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy: “Tom, with all due respect, I think the press also likes to state what probable cause is before we get to at probable cause, so what I'm going to say is you need to give us time. You need to give NTSB — it's not that we don't have information. We do have information. We have data. We have substantial amounts of information. We need to verify information. We need to take our time to make sure it is accurate. That's best for you. That's important for the families. It's important for legislators who are seeking answers to try to figure out what they are going to do about this and so, it will take time. We do have a lot of information, but we need some time to verify that.”

WOW! NBC’s Tom Costello: “Does it hurt your investigative process, maybe for the chairman, does it hurt the investigative process to have the President already suggesting possible causes here as you try to keep an open mind and begin this investigation?” NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy: “Tom, with all due respect, I think the press also likes to state what probable cause is before we get to at probable cause, so what I'm going to say is you need to give us time. You need to give NTSB — it's not that we don't have information. We do have information. We have data. We have substantial amounts of information. We need to verify information. We need to take our time to make sure it is accurate. That's best for you. That's important for the families. It's important for legislators who are seeking answers to try to figure out what they are going to do about this and so, it will take time. We do have a lot of information, but we need some time to verify that.”

Curtis Houck

28,287 views • 1 year ago

Nick Saban was asked a question after practice once. His response was 70 seconds of gold on what it takes to be successful in life. Here’s Saban on the Illusion of Choice: “These guys, they all think they have this illusion of choice. Like I can do whatever I want to do. “You have a younger generation now that doesn’t always get told no. They don’t get told this is exactly how you need to do it. So they have this illusion that they have all these choices. “But the fact of the matter is, if you want to be good you don’t really have a lot of choices. It takes what it takes. You have to do what you have to do to be successful. “You have to make the choices and decisions to have the discipline and the focus to the process of what you need to do to accomplish your goals. “All these guys that think they have a lot of choices are sadly mistaken. As we all have done with our own children, they learn these lessons of life as they get older. “Sometimes the best way to learn is from the mistakes you make, even though we all hate to see them have to make them, and we don’t condone it when they do.” – I’ve studied Saban for 12+ years, and the Illusion of Choice is one of the most powerful concepts I’ve come across. Some key takeaways: 1. Excellence has a price. We can complain about that, but it’s a fact of life. 2. Most people don’t want to pay that price. They just haven’t admitted it to themselves. 3. Saying you want to be excellent is easy. Becoming excellent is hard. 4. There may not be one way to become great, but there are very few. And they all have discipline and consistency in common. 5. Every action we take is a choice. We’re choosing to make progress, or we’re not. 6. The formula for becoming successful: Your Daily Choices x Time. It’s simple, but we make it complicated. 7. Sometimes we learn more by making the wrong choices. Reflect on them, pull out the lessons and move on. 8. You have to choose what you do every day. Don’t follow your feelings. Choose to do what will make you better. 9. There are no long-term hacks. It takes what it takes. ||| Hope this is helpful. Follow me Teddy Mitrosilis for more writing. I also write a weekly newsletter on the process of improvement →

Nick Saban was asked a question after practice once. His response was 70 seconds of gold on what it takes to be successful in life. Here’s Saban on the Illusion of Choice: “These guys, they all think they have this illusion of choice. Like I can do whatever I want to do. “You have a younger generation now that doesn’t always get told no. They don’t get told this is exactly how you need to do it. So they have this illusion that they have all these choices. “But the fact of the matter is, if you want to be good you don’t really have a lot of choices. It takes what it takes. You have to do what you have to do to be successful. “You have to make the choices and decisions to have the discipline and the focus to the process of what you need to do to accomplish your goals. “All these guys that think they have a lot of choices are sadly mistaken. As we all have done with our own children, they learn these lessons of life as they get older. “Sometimes the best way to learn is from the mistakes you make, even though we all hate to see them have to make them, and we don’t condone it when they do.” – I’ve studied Saban for 12+ years, and the Illusion of Choice is one of the most powerful concepts I’ve come across. Some key takeaways: 1. Excellence has a price. We can complain about that, but it’s a fact of life. 2. Most people don’t want to pay that price. They just haven’t admitted it to themselves. 3. Saying you want to be excellent is easy. Becoming excellent is hard. 4. There may not be one way to become great, but there are very few. And they all have discipline and consistency in common. 5. Every action we take is a choice. We’re choosing to make progress, or we’re not. 6. The formula for becoming successful: Your Daily Choices x Time. It’s simple, but we make it complicated. 7. Sometimes we learn more by making the wrong choices. Reflect on them, pull out the lessons and move on. 8. You have to choose what you do every day. Don’t follow your feelings. Choose to do what will make you better. 9. There are no long-term hacks. It takes what it takes. ||| Hope this is helpful. Follow me Teddy Mitrosilis for more writing. I also write a weekly newsletter on the process of improvement →

Teddy Mitrosilis

4,059,517 views • 2 years ago

Not nukes, not an imminent threat: “We did it out of habit… And by the way we have the Sugar King.” “So we don't need it, but we did it. It's almost, you could say we did it out of habit, which is not a good thing to do. But we did it because we have some good allies there. We have some great Middle Eastern countries there, Israel there. So we did it for a lot of reasons. But it always amazed me that we did it. We never asked for reimbursement, and it was really there to serve other countries, not us. And by the way, we have the Sugar King.”

Not nukes, not an imminent threat: “We did it out of habit… And by the way we have the Sugar King.” “So we don't need it, but we did it. It's almost, you could say we did it out of habit, which is not a good thing to do. But we did it because we have some good allies there. We have some great Middle Eastern countries there, Israel there. So we did it for a lot of reasons. But it always amazed me that we did it. We never asked for reimbursement, and it was really there to serve other countries, not us. And by the way, we have the Sugar King.”

Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸

32,025 views • 6 months ago