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WIRING FOR DOLLARS: The Electronic Money Revolution
with Richard W. Rahn, Peter A. Thiel
Guests predict that, in the near future, most people will no longer use cash, but rather conduct all financial transactions electronically. These transactions will be instantaneous, secure, and invisible and will remake the entire global economy. What will happen when governments can no longer control or tax the flow of capital? According to our guests, nothing less than a revolution.
Recorded on Thursday, October 21, 1999
Peter Robinson:	Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. Our show today, High Technology and Money. We being with a brief history of money starting when there was none. In those days of course people had to engage in barter. A bag of rice for some firewood, some firewood for a sheaf of wheat. The problem was of course a bag of rice was hard to carry in your pocket and you should just try putting wheat into a wallet.
Money revolution #1 - currency. The Sumarians, the Babylonians, the Romans, all the ancient empires figured out that if they established a standard unit of currency, a store of value, they would revolutionize commerce. And if this fundamental idea that persists through our own day, even if nowadays most of us carry more value in the form of paper than in the form of coins. Benjamin Franklin, I just love that boy's face.
Money revolution #2 - digital money. These days many of us carry even more value in the form of plastic than in the form of paper or coin. But although credit cards free us from the need to carry cash, they tie us to something else -- the banking system. Every time I engage in a transaction using a credit card, a bank gets into it one way or another.
Money revolution #3 - electronic money, E-money. It will soon be possible for me to have a store of value on a little computer like this one. And if you have a little computer of your own, then when I want to buy a house or a car or a sweater from you, all I'll need to do is press a button on my computer to send the e-money to your computer. No coins, no paper currency and no bankers.
Now as this begins to happen our two guests contend the world will be changed. With us, Peter Thiel, the CEO of Confinity, a company that is working to make electronic money a reality and Richard Rahn, an economist and the author of a book entitled "The End of Money."
Walter Ristin, former chairman of Citicorp, banker, he knows a thing or two about money, has written a book called "The Twilight of Sovereignty." He argues that the high-tech revolution in finance will mean the end of the nation's state as we know it. Does electronic money, E-money, pose a threat to the sovereignty of the United States? Richard?
Richard W. Rahn:	Yes, and to every other government.
Peter Robinson:	And you're happy about that?
Richard W. Rahn:	Yes. Because it powers people. It liberates people.
Peter Robinson:	Peter.
Peter A. Thiel:	Yes it does. Although mostly to emerging world governments as a first step. US Government probably the least threatened, but they're all threatened to greater-lesser degrees.
Peter Robinson:	Let's establish a beat--right off the bat there. The two of you are talking about a revolution then.
Richard W. Rahn:	That's right.
Peter A. Thiel:	Well it's happening right now, whether people realize it or not.
Peter Robinson:	My sinuses are now clear. We're ready to go. That's--I was expecting somewhat more measured responses to that question. All right. How does E-money work?
Richard W. Rahn:	It's not more than electronic representation of paper currency and coin. You know credit cards and debit cards, electronic transfers are already doing it. Smart cards and the direct transfer from computer to computer, like Peter is doing. That is coming next.
Peter Robinson:	And what is it that your company does exactly?
Peter A. Thiel:	Well, we're developing a means to making payments on small devices, such as the palm pilot a personal data assistant, cell phones, the Internet enabled cell phones which are going to be rolled out in the next few months--
Peter Robinson:	Instead of reaching for my wallet and pulling out a dollar when I have to make a payment, I can pick up a device like that--
Peter A. Thiel:	--and make a payment using infra-red beaming, like your garage opener, or you can pick up your Internet-enabled cell phone and make a payment to Brazil.
Peter Robinson:	And this is a secure transaction?
Peter A. Thiel:	It is a far more secure than cash or credit cards.
Peter Robinson:	Secure to the extent that a hacker can't steal my money from that device?
Peter A. Thiel:	It involves something called strong encryption and it basically means that it's virtually unbreakable.
Peter Robinson:	Secure to the extent that I can engage in transactions that are invisible to the government of the United States?
Peter A. Thiel:	Just about. We have a system that's transparent to our own company, but basically you could set it up so it would be completely anonymous.
Peter Robinson:	So people can now begin engaging in transactions that are completely invisible to other parties, including governments.
Richard W. Rahn:	What is happening--you'll soon be able to move money basically around the world at the speed of light. Computer to computer. All encrypted so no government can read any of this.
Peter Robinson:	Okay. Let me challenge you a little bit on this point. Steven Levy Newsweek magazine's technology columnist, I quote him …"…within ten years there will be a major successful counterfeiting of electronic money…" he speculates that it will happen in one of two ways. That in fact the encryption, although very powerful, is not quite impossible to crack. Somebody sooner or later will crack it. Or, in one of these pieces of software that's being rolled out, your company, someone else's, there will be a flaw that doesn't get detected until too late. You just don't buy it.
Richard W. Rahn:	No. What happens is right now you've got counterfeiting of all kinds of paper currency. When they came out with our new $100 bills with the thread in them, it was claimed that the Iranians were starting to counterfeit that within about six weeks. When you have electronic currency--
Peter Robinson:	--right--
Richard W. Rahn:	--yes, occasionally there will be little incidence, but again, Peter and other people will make their system more robust. But this is a constant cat and mouse game.
Peter Robinson:	You're suggesting that we give up our currency, our traditional currency, to throw ourselves into this sort of technological arms race in which the good guys try to stay one technological leap ahead of the bad guys. But it's just leap--leap--leap--
Richard W. Rahn:	It's much easier to counterfeit these things than do the electronic counterfeiting. So it's going to be far rarer and far more difficult to do than counterfeiting we have now, and we're going to have far less counterfeiting. This is much more secure.
Peter Robinson:	Much more secure. You're both--that's your position. All right. You both agree it poses a threat to the sovereignty even of the United States, but you said it poses a threat to the sovereignty of Third World countries first, so--
Richard W. Rahn:	You shouldn't use the word threat.
Peter Robinson:	Threat? No.
Richard W. Rahn:	No. Because we're interested in individual liberty. It increases the sovereignty of the individual and reduces--
Peter Robinson:	--the corollary of which--
Richard W. Rahn:	--reduces the power of the State in the ability of the State to engage in tyranny and theft through inflation.
Peter Robinson:	Peter Thiel mentioned Third World countries. Wouldn't E-money damage their fragile economies? Let's take a country more or less at random, let's say Uruguay. It's like a lot of Latin American countries. It's very sharply divided into the haves and the have nots. What I put to you is, the haves, the well educated people, sophisticated in financial transactions will pick up devices like yours, begin engaging in transactions to avoid taxation, avoid the regulatory overhang of Uruguay. And the government will see its tax revenue shrinking, its ability to control the money supply undermined and who will that--that will hurt the have nots. What you're going to do is de-stabilize Third World governments. In Uruguay it's going to hurt the poor.
Peter A. Thiel:	I don't think that's the most likely impact of this at all. I think the likely impact is that it will liberalize free trade around the world. It will enable the poor to get payments from not just Uruguay, it'll enable them to make money selling things in the United States and all over the world. The biggest wealth inequities in the world are between countries. They're not within countries. And it's comparing how well does someone do--let's say a software developer in India. They make about five percent as much money as a software developer in the United States. That's why I think we have some real inequities and this kind of global electronic revolution is going to probably collapse those tremendously.
Peter Robinson:	Richard.
Richard W. Rahn:	Already the wealthy in the upper classes in these countries protect themselves. They have Swiss bank accounts. They already operate in dollars and--
Peter Robinson:	In Uruguays of the Third World.
Richard W. Rahn:	--yeah in the Third World. And so it's the poor who are the ones who are suffering. This enables, the electronic revolution enables many more people, the middle classes in this country and eventually many of the poor because these devices become very inexpensive to protect themselves against flirtatious governments.
Peter Robinson:	Now around here in Silicon Valley what you'll hear over and over again is that technology is neutral. The technology doesn't mean or do anything in an of itself, it's what people do with it. If this really is not an ideology free technology. This is a libertarian technology. Both of you are demonstrating, you're showing a little inkling, you're showing some enthusiasm here for actually overthrowing governments. Undermining particular Third World--
Richard W. Rahn:	Peter, you're not overthrowing governments.
Peter Robinson:	No?
Richard W. Rahn:	You're reducing the ability of governments to engage in bad monetary and fiscal behavior. You're forcing governments to be more responsible. Because then people will find it easier to opt out. If a government starts to inflate--
Peter Robinson:	How does the government of Uruguay become more responsible once people start using these devices?
Richard W. Rahn:	Because people can flee out of the currency almost instantaneously when they have these devices. They can move into any currency they want.
Peter Robinson:	So either the government of Uruguay holds the Uruguan peso stable or people simply stop using it.
Peter Robinson:	Let's get back to E-money in the United States and explore a few issues beginning with crime. We in the United States have a regime of all kinds of disclosure laws that apply to financial institutions. The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, the Money-Laundering Control Act of 1986 and on and on and on; which mean that the FBI, other law enforcement agencies, if there is evidence of money laundering, drug trafficking, terrorists getting money from the United States. They can go in, trace the transactions and go after the bad guys. That is a good thing, is it not?
Peter A. Thiel:	It is a good thing although that is not the way they normally do it. Normally we catch bad guys doing bad things. You don't catch them spending the money they made doing those bad things.
Richard W. Rahn:	Most of this is totally ineffective. You've got these laws as you just pointed out. A huge body of regulation which is immensely costly to the banking system. Last year, there were only 932 convictions for money laundering in the United States. But if you go to digital money, just think of the huge reduction you'll have in crime. Most crimes are people trying to steal this. If you go to digital, electronic money, there's not going to be the opportunities to go in and grab things of the cash flow. The convenience stores, the banks, the gas stations, all the other places where robbers come in and hold them up, and there's millions of these occur in this country each year. There were 18,000 murders last year in the US. A good share of those were caused by people trying to steal this. Yes, it's true that some money launderers can take advantage of it. But any smart money launderer already knows how to get around these regulations.
Peter Robinson:	Let's press down a little bit on this question of taxation. Let me list to you the taxes that I pay and you tell me under a regime of E-money, which taxes the government will still be collecting. Income tax.
Richard W. Rahn:	Limited amounts.
Peter Robinson:	How?
Peter A. Thiel:	It'll depend on your job. If you have a job that's geographically bounded where a large employer--
Peter Robinson:	I work for General Motors and they withhold something from my paycheck just the way they do right now--
Peter A. Thiel:	The government will still be able to go after General Motors and therefore they'll still be able to collect those kinds of--
Richard W. Rahn:	They will have payroll taxes for jobs that cannot usually move to some other locale. For people who are working for governments or big corporations, universities and so forth, clearly it's going to be easy. For those people who can move any place in the world or are self-employed, who I'd say intellectual workers, software writers, architects, lawyers and so forth, it'll be easier for them to evade.
Peter Robinson:	So what's going to happen? Your regime of E-commerce is going to stratify society and the really smart swift people who get to disguise all of their transactions in their income so that the government can't even find it. And the poor drones like me--
Peter A. Thiel:	Well it's a political--
Peter Robinson:	I mean isn't that--go ahead, go ahead.
Peter A. Thiel:	The political choice is whether you want to increase the burden on other people. On the blue collar workers. I don't think that's a political choice the government should make. I think the political choice should be to just cut taxes across the board. Now I will note that one of the great ironies of the Clinton Administration is that they have in fact done exactly that. If you look at 1986, marginal tax rates in the US, 28% on capital, 28% on income. Today it's 20% on capital, that's gone down. On income it's gone up to 39.6%. What they have effectively done is shift the tax burden from capital on to labor. It's the last thing in the world they would have thought of--
Peter Robinson:	--and if people had been using E-money, they wouldn't have been able to do that? How does your argument apply here?
Peter A. Thiel:	If we would downsize the government, they wouldn't have had to do that. But it's a political choice. They decide to maintain the welfare state at all costs, even at the expense of going after blue collar workers.
Richard W. Rahn:	Things like Social Security and MediCare, they can be privatized and people will not have the incentive to go ahead and escape that kind of taxation, that's a major part of the tax burden right now.
Peter Robinson:	I am telling you that you argue from a little device that lies flat on the table like that to the overthrow of the largest social program in American history in the blinking of an eye. I mean, this is lightening speed revolution, it's not electronic money, it's speed revolution.
Richard W. Rahn:	It's not us who are sort of deliberately doing this. The technology is coming along. There's thousands of people around the United States who are already working on aspects of this. It's just happening. Technology evolves. When the automobile first came up, states and localities in some places wanted to damn that. It doesn't work that way. You can't put it back in the box. So you've got to face the realities of the new technologies and you have to design your tax and other social systems to face the technological reality that is there.
Peter Robinson:	It is going to happen whether we like it or not. It happens that the two of you like it very, very much.
Peter A. Thiel:	I think unbalance is a good thing, yes.
Peter Robinson:	But that's a separate point. No matter what.
Richard W. Rahn:	The one thing I'm arguing for and I did this book, The End of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy. My argument is because this is happening that members of Congress, the State Legislature and others, have to understand the reality and begin to redesign the systems to make them compatible with the digital age. Because if they get into denial they'll force everybody to become criminals and people will just go ahead and evade it. Now that's not a desirable society. We want a civil society and we can design tax and other structures to fit the digital reality without destroying civil society.
Peter Robinson:	Next issue--how is E-money going to effect the financial markets? The government is able to tax my capital gains because we have the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Stock Exchange, all of these file copious records with all kinds of regulatory authorities including the IRS and so I just get a statement telling me effectively how much I owe the government. Now we'll be able to exercise this huge capital markets on Wall Street, regulation free--
Peter A. Thiel:	No, that's not the way it works. The way it works Peter is you have people can choose what country to invest their capital in. And they will choose to invest it in countries where the capital tax regimes are the most favorable. Capitals globally mobile. That's why we no longer--if we had capital tax gains rate at 40% or 50% in this country, sure that can be enforced. But it would be devastating to our markets.
Peter Robinson:	If I understand you correctly, what's likely to happen is that Wall Street will sense that it's losing ground to what? Hong Kong? Singapore? London? It's hard to imagine that the Europeans would de-regulate before we would, isn't it?
Richard W. Rahn:	Oh we've had people in Australia and New Zealand, there's lots of areas around the world, Chile. You know they catch on to what is a market opportunity and they begin to reduce their tax rates or capital begins to flow there, then you have competition between countries. One reason the US has done so well over the last 20 years since the Reagan administration is because our tax is particularly on labor and capital, have been substantially lower than that in Europe, and other places in the world. That is forcing other countries to reduce the size of their governments and governments compete like corporations do.
Peter A. Thiel:	The opposite version of this is something that is euphemistically called tax normalization. The European--socialist governments in Europe have realized they need to hang together or they will hang separately because the kind of regulatory arbitrage Richard just described. And so they basically created the European Union--the common currency, one of the main reasons behind it is to push for a political integration and have the same high tax rates across the board. Not have unfairly low taxes and this is what they call tax normalization, is raising the taxes the same level everywhere. The Socialists position of this is basically that because the economy is global, government has to become global and have to turn the entire planet effectively into a prison and prevent people from escape. That's the alternative.
Peter Robinson:	And it won't work.
Peter A. Thiel:	I hope not.
Richard W. Rahn:	No. We have to resist it.
Peter A. Thiel:	I certainly hope not. I think if you're a Socialist it will no longer work on the level of a nation state, that's the part that definitely will no longer work.
Richard W. Rahn:	People can opt out in any digital hole, anyplace in the world, everything can flow through. So you've got to really get almost every government in the world to agree in order for the governments to maintain that kind of controls and high tech regime--
Peter Robinson:	So what you're saying is you're saying capital gains and five years from now if the people of Uruguay, the government of Uruguay is looking for a way to make up its lost revenue, it may actually institute a regime of half a percent capital gains taxes. And the markets will shift to Montevideo and I'll be able to invest by my computer--
Peter A. Thiel:	There are about thirty countries in the world today where there are effectively no taxes on capital.
Richard W. Rahn:	Most countries don't have really capital gains taxes. We have some of the highest in the world and that's one reason we were forced constantly reducing. In 1978, the capital gains tax was 49% in this country. So we've steadily gone down. That's one reason the markets have taken off. We have had much greater wealth creation by reducing these taxes. It's been a good thing.
Peter Robinson:	Let's move on to the Federal Reserve. Will E-money take away the Feds ability to regulate the economy?
What will Alan Greenspan do? You gentlemen are proposing a money supply that can't be measured let alone regulated.
Richard W. Rahn:	Well the function really are, I think, of central banks in the future.
Peter Robinson:	Tell us the function of central banks now, just to establish that.
Richard W. Rahn:	Well they have to define the value of the currency and hopefully control the growth of the money supply in order that we don't have inflation or deflation.
Peter Robinson:	So it's Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Fed, it's his job to keep the dollar worth a dollar--
Peter Robinson:	--as best he can.
Richard W. Rahn:	But there's another way to do it.
Peter Robinson:	And what's that?
Richard W. Rahn:	And that would be a modern version of the gold standard. And I think what would evolve to is that the central banks will come up with a commodity basket. We'll have gold and petroleum and other traded commodities throughout the world. A sense of commodity prices, and they'll have an index, sort of like the Dow Jones index. And they'll define the dollar in terms of an added stock of these commodities. And then the private market will go ahead and actually produce the dollars. There will be a defined measure for the dollar, but our wealth will be kept in productive assets. This thing here is not productive. Americans carry lots of money in a wallet, and each year it goes down by one, two, three percent. We're going to be at the end of carrying around non-productive assets. In the digital age, you could make a settlement--if Peter and I want to do a transaction, I could have my stocks security account, debited and he is credited instantaneously if we're going to make a sale between each other.
Peter Robinson:	Let me quote George Will, your fellow conservator. I quote, this is his observation on our knowledge about how to run the economy, …"between 1890 and 1945 the business cycle was convulsive and destructive. Twice the economy contracted 10%, twice it contracted almost 15%, yet since the second world war, there has been a single contraction of a mere 3% and today we find ourselves in the 17 year expansion, we have in short learned a thing or two." That is to say, using fiscal policy, taxation and spending; and monetary policy, the Federal Reserve through a long century of hard lessons, the government of the United States has actually learned very substantially how to keep the economy stable and growing. And now you two want to see its tools of fiscal policy and monetary policy yanked away.
Peter A. Thiel:	The real question with respect to Will is whether this improvement is caused in the global--whether the more stable global economy with few ups and down cycles--
Peter Robinson:	He's talking about the United States.
Peter A. Thiel:	--in US is caused by the government. Or whether it's caused by technology. And the technological interpretation of this is that we have a far more stable economy because people know what to do with inventories. We have just in time factories. We don't produce too much or too little. All these things are measured much more precisely.
Peter Robinson:	Nothing to do with welfare state.
Peter A. Thiel:	Absolutely not.
Peter Robinson:	Taxation--fiscal policy--
Peter A. Thiel:	Fundamentally, you've got Food, Economic, disequilibria--
Peter Robinson:	Alan Greenspan isn't a better Fed chairman than Alan Burns was when he—Arthur Burns rather-
Peter A. Thiel:	Well Arthur Burns was perhaps the worst one in US history, but Greenspan is not God. Peter, he's not God.
Peter Robinson:	Well now that's an even more revolutionary statement.
Peter A. Thiel:	I realize that may be a heretical thing to say but he really isn't.
Peter Robinson:	Last item--as tax revenues decline as a result of E-money, how small will the Federal Government become?
Today Federal tax revenues run in a little more than a fifth of gross domestic product. In 15 years from now, as your technology takes off, what will Federal tax revenues be running? Richard?
Richard W. Rahn:	Well, the studies have been showing what the optimum size of central governments and it appears to be between 10-15% of GDP.
Peter Robinson:	How do you possibly study something like that? What we have is a democracy, voters vote on what they want and--
Richard W. Rahn:	You look at both time series studies where governments were at various times in terms of their public sector's percentage of GDP and what the growth rates were and you look at longitude at some of these governments around the world where they are. And there's a lot of empirical of this. Now we know there's a large amount of waste to government spending. Everybody understands that to the extent you can force that out, you'll have a rise in real incomes, rise in employment and people are better off rather than worse off.
Peter Robinson:	You buy that?
Peter A. Thiel:	To answer your question directly I think about a fifty percent cut in spending by the Federal government. And maybe the time horizons a little longer, maybe 20-25-30 years.
Peter Robinson:	Twenty to twenty-five years, all right. This is big stuff you're talking about here.
Richard W. Rahn:	When we talk about cuts, we're not talking about a cut in nominal spending today. We're talking about a slowing down of a growth of increase in government spending at the same time the private sector is growing more rapidly and so government has a smaller pie.
Peter Robinson:	So this one won't feel like a revolution.
Richard W. Rahn:	No. You're not going to have massive numbers of government workers laid off and all that kind of thing, that's not going to happen.
Peter Robinson:	And overall then your view is the economy will become more efficient, the government will become more efficient, we'll all be better off. You really believe that?
Richard W. Rahn:	Yeah, well Peter, you hit the key thing, and that is information. Because in information economy when everybody knows most anything they want to know, then they don't make as many mistakes. Like the unintended inventory build ups, they cause a big recycle--
Peter A. Thiel:	And corollary to that is that there's less role for government. Because one of the functions of the government in say, the mid-20th century, the ideal type world was incredible lack of information and if you had a few government bureaucrats who had more information, you could argue that there was more for the government to do. In an economy where everybody has access to the information why should a few people in DC make decisions over twenty percent of the GDP?
Richard W. Rahn:	And that's also true for the corporate sector. You'll notice that big corporations have a smaller segment of the total private sector pie, because they no longer have the information monopoly they used to have. And it's one reason we've had this entrepreneurial revolution in the last twenty years. Is that small companies now have the same access to information that only big companies or big government used to have.
Peter Robinson:	Which government should be most worried about this?
Richard W. Rahn:	Which government?
Peter Robinson:	Let me put it to you this way. It seems to me that the European Union, the very moment that they finally begin to be clinching all this thing together, your technology--
Peter A. Thiel:	Their timing is completely off--if they finally figure out how to basically create fortress Europe, at that point the economy had become global.
Richard W. Rahn:	Those governments were the big--those countries with biggest government sector, like France, they'll have the hardest transition problems and those countries that have relatively smaller government sectors such as us, such as Switzerland, New Zealand, they'll have an easier time with the transition.
Peter Robinson:	Richard Rahn, Peter Thiel:, thank you very much. As you heard, our guests envision virtually no downside to the E-money revolution except for governments. But sports fans, I can think of one--how's a ref ever going to decide who gets the first kick off, no heads, no tails. Thing doesn't even flip right. I'm Peter Robinson, thanks for joining us.
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October 4, 2021 – With the group stage of the UEFA Women's Champions League officially kicking off, global sports streaming platform and host broadcaster DAZN together with partner YouTube are thrilled to begin live broadcast coverage for fans around the world, marking the official start to the landmark multi-year deal announced earlier this year. From tomorrow 5 October through to the finals in May, all 61 matches will be available live on DAZN and free globally on DAZN's new UEFA Women's Champions League YouTube channel.
As it's the first time UEFA has centralized all Women's Champions League matches, through the partnership with DAZN and YouTube, fans for the first time will finally be able to follow every single match, throughout the entire season, all around the world, in one single place, for free – making the best women's football monumentally easier to watch than ever before. This type of universal availability and exposure is long overdue and essential to grow the competition and ensure women's football overall rises into the ubiquitous mainstream – where it belongs.
"I am thrilled about this partnership. For people to have access to our games wherever they are is a massive move in the right direction, which was long overdue in my eyes. And looking at the content DAZN is planning, to put the spotlight on players and stories across all places, will take things to the next level too," said Ada Hegerberg, all-time highest scorer in the UEFA Women's Champions League, Olympique Lyonnais superstar, and DAZN's first ever season-long global women's football ambassador who is eyeing a long-awaited comeback soon. "UEFA Women's Champions League is coming close and I can't wait for this season to start and show the world what we are made of!"
Building on a long-time commitment to women's sport and long-term mission of growing the women's game, DAZN has now also unveiled its initial content, broadcast coverage, talent, and social plans that will bring even more visibility to players, clubs, and the elite competition itself.
"We All Rise" Series – More In-Depth Storytelling
The debut content on DAZN's UEFA Women's Champions League YouTube channel was "We ALL Rise With More Eyes" – a campaign film conveying the brand's unwavering belief in the ripple effect more visibility will have on taking the women's competition to new heights. Building on this and a shared mission with UEFA and YouTube of turning more athletes into household names and inspiring the next generation of players, DAZN is unveiling the next installment of "We All Rise": a special six-part series that will shine a light on women's football in six influential European cities, from grassroots and local community to the professional game itself.
Each week of group stage play, DAZN will premiere a new short-form episode at halftime across all matches that features a diverse mix of locals from each city – including pro footballers, coaches, grassroots players, clubs, local officials, and more. Collectively, their unique voices and powerful experiences converge to tell the firsthand story of that city's rich history of the game and revealing how – finally – women's football is indeed on the rise.
The six-city tour will start in the UK, with the first episode "We All Rise: London" premiering tomorrow and featuring interviews with members of English club team Dulwich Hamlet, community girls football club Hackney Laces, Britain's first female Muslim football referee JJ Roble, former manager of the Arsenal women's team Vic Akers O.B.E., London Mayor Sadiq Khan, star players and legends including Katie Chapman, and more.
Next, the storytelling journey travels to France with "We All Rise: Paris"; this second episode will star freestyle footballer and Common Goal member Lisa Zimouche, PSG player Kadidiatou Diani, PSG Academy up-and-comer Laurina Fazer, PSG legend and Common Goal member Arianna Criscione, Muslim women's football community collective Les Hijabeuses, inclusive amateur women's football team Cacahuètes, and more. Following its broadcast premiere, each episode will also individually be available for fans to watch on both DAZN and YouTube.
Game of the Week – More All-Access Coverage
Continuing the showcase of the best of women's football throughout the entire UEFA Women's Champions League, DAZN will also travel to a different city each week for its official Game of The Week – giving viewers on DAZN and on YouTube an up close and personal look at all aspects of the game. The Game of the Week will be hosted by a rotating group of iconic faces from football and the wider sports and entertainment world and, beyond the live action itself, take viewers onto and beyond the pitch as well as behind-the-scenes with their favorite players.
The first Game of the Week will be Barcelona vs Arsenal on 5 October and the second will be Juventus vs Chelsea on 13 October, with both featuring a top-notch presentation team soon to be unveiled.
On-Air Talent Squad – More Expertise and Reach
Ahead of live broadcast kicking off tomorrow, DAZN is proud to have lined up the biggest on-air team ever assembled to cover women's football for a single broadcaster – including dozens of professional commentators all over the world, from former players to the biggest names in football broadcasting across England, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Portugal, and Ukraine.
With this historic women's football pundit squad in place, DAZN will guarantee every single match for the season to be available for global audiences in up to three languages: 1. home team language 2. away team language and 3. if not already covered, English. This marks a first in UEFA Women's Champions League history, as matches have never consistently been available in this many languages before for fans worldwide, and thus is another major step towards increasing the potential fanbase and growing the competition overall.
DAZN's new talent lineup includes such recognizable names as:
Pien Meulensteen (England): Seasoned sports broadcasting and women's football pro currently working with Manchester United TV, Premier League Productions and BBC Radio.
Romain Balland (France): Long-established women's football journalist and Eurosport women's football presenter since 2014.
Sandra Riquelme (Spain): Former pro footballer and current commentator for Vamos on Movistar and presenter for dedicated women's football channel El Patio on YouTube.
Pierluigi Pardo (Italy): Legendary broadcast vet universally considered "the" voice of football in Italy.
Verena Schweers (Germany): Former Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg star as well as German national team player.
Social – More Nonstop Football
Beyond broadcast, DAZN is also committed to keeping fans on the pulse of everything football with a steady stream of social content showcasing the breadth and depth of the women's game:
On YouTube, fans can expect hundreds of pieces of non-live content annually, including nonstop highlights featuring all the players, clubs, and goals from the season. Additionally, an ever-growing library of content will include the new "We All Rise" series, Game of the Week clips, player interviews and profiles, team highlights and best-of goal reels, a new "This Is" series that will help fans get to know each team in the competition, and much more to come.
On both Instagram and Twitter, @DAZNfootball will bring a global football audience the best narratives, highlights, clips, moments, and reactions around the beautiful game, covering the best of football – period – with both women's and men's football equally showcased on one single channel on both platforms.
Closing The Women's Sport Gap – More Industry Action
Underlining the vision and mission behind the UEFA Women's Champions League deal and partnership plans is a new global research report published today by DAZN and The Female Quotient. Titled "The Coverage Gap," it includes new data across eight countries including the UK, U.S., France, and Spain that uncover key findings around the lack of regular women's sport coverage (coverage defined here as broadcast, news, and social), how that translates for consumers into ongoing barriers to viewership, and why more visibility is critical to narrow and close the gap.
The full report can be viewed and downloaded HERE. Key findings include:
64% of consumers say they don't watch women's sports because they don't know enough about the athletes and teams, don't have as many opportunities to watch, or aren't aware of where they can catch the games that are available.
There is a 30% gap between sports fans that watch men's sports (93%) vs. those that watch women's sports (only 63%).
Minimal promotion for events, broadcast disparities, and lack of steady media and social coverage and storytelling creates a significant barrier to viewership.
To close the gap and further grow the sport, DAZN and partners UEFA and YouTube invite key industry stakeholders to join in committing to making it easier for fans to tune in and follow along consistently, by increasing the visibility and coverage of women's football and women's sport overall at the same breadth and depth as unfailingly seen in men's sport.
Because more leads to more, and we all rise with more eyes.
With UEFA Women's Champions League, it all begins tomorrow as the 16 top European contenders go head-to-head in pursuit of championship glory – live on DAZN and on YouTube. The full schedule is below (all times listed in CEST) and you can learn more about the entire competition HERE.
Matchday 1
Tuesday 5 October
Hoffenheim vs HB Køge (18:45), Häcken vs Lyon (18:45)
Barcelona vs Arsenal (21:00), Benfica vs Bayern München (21:00)
Wednesday 6 October
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Juventus vs Chelsea (21:00), Real Madrid vs Breidablik (21:00)
HB Køge vs Barcelona (18:45), Bayern München vs Häcken (18:45)
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Barcelona vs Hoffenheim (18:45), HB Køge vs Arsenal (18:45)
Benfica vs Häcken (21:00), Lyon vs Bayern München (21:00)
Hoffenheim vs Barcelona (18:45), Häcken vs Benfica (18:45)
Bayern München vs Lyon (21:00), Arsenal vs HB Køge (21:00)
Wolfsburg vs Juventus (18:45), Breidablik vs WFC Kharkiv (18:45)
Real Madrid vs Paris Saint-Germain (21:00), Chelsea vs Servette (21:00)
Wednesday 8 December
Servette vs Wolfsburg (18:45), WFC Kharkiv vs Paris Saint-Germain (18:45)
Chelsea vs Juventus (21:00), Breidablik vs Real Madrid (21:00)
Thursday 9 December
HB Køge vs Hoffenheim (18:45), Häcken vs Bayern München (18:45)
Arsenal vs Barcelona (21:00), Benfica vs Lyon (21:00)
Bayern München vs Benfica (18:45), Lyon vs Häcken (18:45)
Barcelona vs HB Køge (21:00), Hoffenheim vs Arsenal (21:00)
Thursday 16 December
Real Madrid vs WFC Kharkiv (18:45), Paris Saint-Germain vs Breidablik (18:45)
Juventus vs Servette (21:00), Wolfsburg vs Chelsea (21:00)
Following the group stage, quarterfinals will take place in March, semifinals in April, and the final championship match in May.
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Paul de Foix de Carmain (* 1528; † 29. Mai 1584 in Rom) war ein französischer Erzbischof und Diplomat.

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Paul war der Sohn von Jean de Foix, Graf von Carmain, und seiner Frau Aldonce. Er studierte griechische und römische Literatur in Paris und Rechtswissenschaft in Toulouse, wo er kurz nach Abschluss seines Studiums eine Vorlesung über Zivilrecht hielt, die ihm eine große Reputation einbrachte.

Im Alter von 19 Jahren wurde er Ratsmitglied des Parlement de Paris ernannt. Dank der Unterstützung der Königin Katharina von Medici erhielt er Dispens vom Empfang heiliger Weihen, was ihm die Möglichkeit offen ließ, später in den Laienstand zurückzukehren und zu heiraten, falls sein älterer Bruder, der Graf von Parmain, kinderlos gestorben wäre. Wegen des Verdachts, Sympathien für die Hugenotten zu hegen, wurde er verhaftet. Am 8. Januar 1560 wurde er nach siebenmonatiger Haft verurteilt, konnte jedoch später nach einer Revision seines Urteils seine politische Karriere beginnen.

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Les Lettres de Messire de Paul de Foix, archevesque de Toloze et ambassadeur pour le roy aupres du pape Gregoire XIII, au roi Henry III, wurden 1628 veröffentlicht, aber es gibt einige Zweifel an seiner Authentizität.

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 Gallia Christiana (1715)

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Now you can buy your own DIY self-driving car!
by Wynand Goosen | May 19, 2017 | Autonomous Car, Blog, GM, OSVehicle, Self-driving cars | 0 comments
The recent GM acquisition, OSVehicle, today unveiled the EDIT DIY self-driving car significantly lowering the barriers to entry for start-ups to develop autonomous vehicles. GM acquired OSVehicle in March 2017 for $1.1 billion in a bid to develop a self-driving "Vehicle-as-a -Service" (VaaS). OSVehicle had its debut at Y-Combinator in Silicon Valley where it introduced the TABBY EVO exposing the OSVehicle team to many conversations which they incorporated in the development of the EDIT.
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The Governor said the state's elevated positivity rate may be the result of some labs and public testing sites closing for the holidays this week, increasing the percentage of tests conducted in medical settings where patients are already experiencing symptoms and suspect they may have the virus.
Case Information
As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, Gov. Beshear reported the following COVID-19 numbers:
New cases : 3,784
New deaths : 29
Positivity rate: 9.09%
Currently hospitalized: 1,673
Currently in ICU: 433
Currently on ventilator: 234
Top counties with the most positive cases are: Jefferson, Fayette, Kenton, Hardin, Pulaski and Christian. Each of these counties reported 100 or more new cases; Jefferson County alone reported 527.
Those reported lost to the virus include two women, ages 63 and 75, and an 81-year-old man from Bath County; a 67-year-old woman from Bell County; a 96-year-old woman and an 82-year-old man from Boone County; an 86-year-old man from Campbell County; three women, ages 80, 88 and 91, and two men, ages 70 and 84, from Fayette County; two women, ages 69 and 73, and two men, ages 68 and 82, from Floyd County; a 96-year-old man from Hopkins County; five women, ages 54, 71, 85, 100 and 100, from Jefferson County; a 78-year-old woman from Johnson County; an 88-year-old man from Kenton County; a 79-year-old woman from Lawrence County; an 82-year-old woman from Lewis County; a 67-year-old man from Mason County; a 93-year-old woman from Monroe County; and a 90-year-old man from Perry County.
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Some of you have heard me tell my "camel story" when I realized I was oblivious about the world that God "so loves." From my nice, middle-class neighborhood, God's global concerns seemed far away. I was brooding one day over how the vertical blinds in my living room did not match exactly the paint on my wall. Had I mismatched the colors to begin with? Had the paint faded? The peaceful look of my home now seemed tarnished.
As I pondered this, I sat down to read Global Prayer Digest. The story that day was about missionaries who break into locked apartments in Bombay and steal children out of them. Missionaries? These children have been captured by traders and sold to wealthy people. After they're transported to another country, they're then tied to the bellies of camels so that during camel races, the children's screams make the camels run faster. Most of the children die, although some survive with deformities or brain damage. So these missionaries rescue these kids from locked Bombay apartments where they live among rats and cockroaches awaiting their sale. I collapsed on my sofa praying for these children and for the rescue workers who endanger their lives to do this work. Most GPD readings are not that heart-wrenching, but this one–like many others–pulled my thoughts away from my little world of me, myself and I. (p. 19 Growing Compassionate Kids).
I began reading GPD in 1988 when I heard about a plan for making the gospel available to each person on the planet. The idea is that people are most likely to understand who Jesus is from another person who looks like them, speaks their language and was born in their culture. What does that mean for overseas missions? It offers a strategy: make an inroad into eachunreached group of people on the planet and let faith spread from within.
Unreached people groups are those groups whose populations (which can range from hundreds to millions) contain less than 2% who follow Christ. Because this doesn't sustain a movement to Christ, those who are part of an unreached people group have little to no opportunity to hear a presentation of the Gospel that is culturally intelligible to them. In this case, the gospel must be presented and lived out by people from outside their people group (missionaries).
The folks from the US Center for World Mission who were sharing this then threw me my second big learning curve. Prayer for these groups really mattered. Their countless stories showed me that praying for these peoples and for those working with them was important. They believed this so much that they publish Global Prayer Digest, a small monthly booklet with background, statistics and stories (like the camel story), focused on a different people group each month.
Global Prayer Digest has since given me the opportunity to pray for many unreached people groups around the world. Because this has been a huge part of my life, I'm sharing this with special thanks to my friend Keith Carey, editor of GPD. As you can tell from the camel story, I have benefited greatly. I see the world differently. I absorb news differently. When I wonder, What breaks my heart that breaks the heart of God? it isn't about my vertical blinds!


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Home LATEST NEWS Moscow announces the end of military maneuvers near Ukraine
Moscow announces the end of military maneuvers near Ukraine
Tim Borlay
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that these maneuvers combat training had taken place on several military grounds in the Russian regions of Volgograd, Rostov, Krasnodar, and annexed Crimea, areas in close proximity to Ukraine.
The ministry specifies that exercises have also taken place in Russian territories further from the Ukrainian border, in the regions of Stavoropol, Astrakhan, the North Caucasus, but also in Armenia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
In its press release, the Russian army does not specify in which bases these troops were redeployed.
In order to ensure a high state of alert during the end of year celebrations on the military sites of the South Military District, guard units, reinforcements and forces will be assigned to deal with possible emergency situations. , she added.
A response to the West?
For more than a month, Russia has been accused by the West of having massed tens of thousands of soldiers near the Ukrainian border, with a view to a possible military intervention against Kiev.
Moscow denies any bellicose intentions and claims to be threatened by Provocation from Kiev andNorth Atlantic Treaty OrganizationNATO, and demands that the Alliance undertake not to expand into ex-Soviet UnionUSSR. These demands are to be addressed in Russian-US negotiations in January.
Relations between Kiev and Moscow have already been very strained since Russia's 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula and the start of a war between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists in the east.
In an interview on Friday with theFrance Media AgencyAFPUkraine's National Security Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov, however, downplayed the risk of an imminent escalation.
According to him, the number of Russian troops around Ukraine has increased only slightly, from 93,000 in October to around 104,000 today.
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