Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we are going to be discussing the Indian government's decision to ban 59 Chinese apps. Now this is being seen as a retaliatory measure following the recent tensions in the border between India and China which peaked on June 15th in which Indian soldiers were killed and there were casualties on the Chinese side as well. There's been a lot of discussion in India about what kind of steps the government will take. There's been a lot of jingoism in the media also and right now yesterday we saw that this was a measure announced by the Indian government. We have Prabir Prakash start to talk more about this. So this is a bit of an unusual measure, it was kind of unexpected. There's been a huge campaign going on in India of course among certain sections of the right wing saying that this is the time to boycott Chinese goods which you can come to later maybe. But how do you see especially the technical and technological implications of a move like this? See the argument seems to have been in Indian at least policymaking circuits that this does not affect our economy, it only affects some people and who can do without the apps. So you know there's nothing critical about these apps. So yes people may be little unhappy who use TikTok or other apps but it has no economic implications for us. That seems to have been the consideration under which we have really banned the Chinese apps. Of course we can talk about what are the possible Chinese responses later or about the larger geopolitical or the geo-strategic context itself including the border standoff which certainly is by no means over. But the point very narrowly focused if you want to ban Chinese apps, how do you do it? So effectively what you do is say that all the ISPs should block certain sites where you might have to go if you have to use the app like Facebook even if you use the app you essentially go to Facebook. So if Facebook is blocked the app doesn't help you because you're either looking at others or you're trying to livestream yourself both of which then uses the Facebook servers. So blocking TikTok servers effectively could have the same purpose that you would actually not be then able to either see or publish on TikTok. So effectively you get cut off from TikTok if all the ISPs block TikTok servers which is it seems to be the intention. The second is those apps which are kind of standalone apps say you want to use your phone camera to do certain things. Now those once uploaded do not need connection back to a server they work from your phone. So if you don't delete them those apps will tend to be still there but as other things happen newer versions come you will not be able to access them. Therefore effectively over a certain period your apps may indeed be dead but for the time being it may have no impact that you don't access the either the Google Play Store yourself for an update or if you are using it the apps it doesn't really have an effect on you. The second thing that happens is in this particular case the Google Play Store or whichever other store you may use you can use for instance the iOS store also that any app that you download can be blocked by the government saying the Play Store these apps will not be downloaded and I presume that if we tend this to the major Play Stores that they will accept this and they will not therefore allow if an Indian IP to access these kinds of downloads that I think is possible. So effectively serve notices on the Play Store in this particular case the Google Play Store being the most important one and then also block the ISPs is probably presumably the next set of measures that will now come in what I call the when you flesh out the order. Now you have passed an order but you need to then put the skin bones and other things flesh into it. I presume that that's what it will do. So effectively all the Indian users of TikTok would then not be able to use TikTok. So TikTok is one of the most popular apps that are being used but particularly younger people in the world. It has one of the highest downloads amongst the apps again as I said the global population and particularly the young population who have been who have adopted to TikTok partly because of the much smaller segments it tends to use much more. So you can see that there are certain kinds of Instagram TikTok becoming more popular particularly younger people. So yes it will ensure that we have the American Facebook Instagram and others who are going to rule the roost including YouTube who are going to rule the roost and the Chinese companies will not have it in in rest into the Indian market if this ban continues. So that's that's where the situation seems to be. I think we are going to see a set of measures how to flesh these this ban out. Of course young people will always find ways to get around to this kind of internet bans because as you know internet allows a certain degree of flexibility and being people being able to bypass various things. As you know the US tried to stop WikiLeaks. They even took it out from the domain registry but they still couldn't stop WikiLeaks from being available globally. So I'm going to leave those longer time frame issues out but it is true that TikTok as a major emerging player which it is at the moment and a certain set of other things will not be no longer be accessible in India if this ban continues. So one of the concerns or points raised by many critics is the fact that the government has of course cited threats to security threats to the integrity of Indian cyberspace has pointed to the fact that data is being siphoned off to servers in countries outside India which makes it kind of appear like this is of course a Chinese conspiracy without of while we do know that the situation is that this is a global trend that almost every app does collect a huge amount of data and the way it processes the data is actually shrouded in secrecy. As you know data is the new as global economic forum said world economic forum said the new oil and then the modified it later saying it's more important than oil because oil is finite this is infinite okay. So global capital has been salivating on the issue of data as a commodity for some time and data is a commodity not only comes from apps it comes from websites you go to they embed cookies on your on your device whether it's a computer or a smartphone and that's primary task of those cookies which is essentially small bits of code which are embedded into your system is to send data out that's how Google knows you even if you don't log into Google Google will immediately know that you are on live at the moment. So these are all the things that Facebook and Google do as a default and this is how they have become really the big data monopolies in the world. So the Indian problem that we have created is we have siphoned out only China as a country which is not allowed to do it only Chinese apps are not allowed to siphon data out of the country all other app can do that all other apps or cookies or anything else that you have including of course Microsoft if you have Microsoft Windows or Microsoft any other application software of course that sends data out in fact it says I'll update your software and the rise of which of course it also checks your software it in fact checks whether you have a legal copy of that software or not so you know if we say that all companies in the world are allowed to do it except Chinese companies you have created a situation which in world training terms would be called an exceptional statement and then such an exceptional statement would require exceptional circumstances for it so if you say it's because of a border clash that we are having that we have introduced essentially sanctions on China this would amount to a unilateral sanction on China and its data applications in this case the apps that we are talking about I think this would be considered an exceptional step that India has taken in trade terms and the fact that it we if you're so cautious about our data security then why is it that this is not extended to other countries other apps that is the key problem we are going to get that if it is not extended to other countries this then comes under a virtually the security exception that we are taking that we are in a condition of virtual not exactly war but a warlike scenario and therefore apprehension of our security breach from China is much higher so you are taking in what in WTO terms is called the nuclear exception that this is a complete exception that you are taking and this then is not subject to any trade review of course the trade WTO trade review mechanism is virtually dead for other reasons which are not going into here mainly because of the United States but you are creating this this principle that you can retaliate against China because of the border tensions on any count that leaves China then open to retaliate against you on any other count as well so it is in in fact the start of a trade war now earlier you had banned them from you know free entry of capital you had said any capital that comes from India from China will need special sanction this is again extended only to China then you have now introduced this specific thing you are striking them off from various tenders which are global tenders so you are creating an exception China exception in your trade terms so then the question that arises is what will China do and if we look at the terms of trade between India and China the point is the Chinese trade export trade we are I think seventh in the list of countries and we have 3% of their exports for India though our exports are much smaller than the Chinese exports to us but as a fraction of our total exports it is still larger than what we are as a fraction of China's exports but we are 3% of China's total exports China for us is roughly about 5.5% of our total exports which mean that if they decide not to take it we will lose 5.5% of our exports and China will lose roughly 3% of their export market so this is the what are the how much damage you can inflict on each other the point is for us China is still a big market for China we are still not such a big market for China the third largest export destination for India so that is the other issue that will come up and if we look at the kind of exports we do to China it is possibly much easier for China to switch those exports to other countries import from other countries while in India's case they are exporting critical components to us which are critical for a whole range of industries for instance Rajiv Bajaj has already said that we export or you know two wheelers in large numbers that's 15,000 crores of two wheelers which go out from India we are the largest exporter in the world we have beaten China in this area but we need components so 15,000 crore worth of exports need 1000 crores of imports from China and if those components are not available then being able to source them from some other country is not only going to take time we'll have to see whether they're available because most of the components in certain sectors come from China that's true for for instance our pharmaceutical APIs a large number of APIs in the Indian market today come from China and we are the biggest drunk exporters in the world from the generic market but the generic market exports depend on Chinese APIs so it is not that you know it's going to be as easy as the Modi government seems to believe that China will not retaliate except against our apps that they will fight one Mahabharata time the dharma yudha that the rathi fights against rathi the the those who are on foot foot soldiers fighting as foot soldiers so that's not the kind of battle that's that we have started we have started asymmetric response because a border clash really led to a border standoff and we are now converting it to a trade retaliation which opens it out for other kinds of trade retaliations as well so I think this is very very uncharted territory which India is heading it seems to me we are upping the ante because we want China to give us some concessions we believe those concessions cannot be got through basically military means I think I hope that both sides are clear that the military uh a standoff should not lead to war and if that is so then what are the instruments at our disposal so we seem to be taking the root not of negotiations and trying to solve this to bilateral discussion with maybe between president Xi and Prime Minister Modi but we seem to believe that if we pile on the pressure that we side with Americans and the NATO countries against China then possibly they will start you know accepting what we are asking for and back down on the border and backing down on the border is these this is this seems to be the game plan with trying to up the ante in various ways unfortunately this is even if it was a even playing field which it is not in trade terms even if it was an even playing field it means I will inflict damage on you and I'll accept some damage because of that that is cutting off both our noses and it doesn't really help either India or China so I will say just as the border standoff doesn't help us either of the countries I don't think this new trade war which we have initiated in this particular case will not in the long term help us unless Indian side believes that this is the only way to get a settlement on the China and we do have the example of course of the US attempts in the recent past both of the trade war itself and in its context a tech war against Huawei especially which really does not seem to have paid off after all making all those aggressive moves nothing much has changed as far as the Chinese strength in that sector is concerned so that's probably a lesson for India. A lot of it has got covered up because of the pandemic so after all the US today is in one of the worst case scenarios for the pandemic well China seems to have come out of it so China is at least internally recovering export markets are also at the moment quite weak for China partly because no country at the moment is seeing an economy which is revving up in any sense in fact most countries have cut back heavily industrial production is down therefore both exports and imports both are down for all countries or at least most countries given that Chinese recovery will be largely geared for the internal market and their export market at the moment is really down as also the US whatever they were exporting nobody's going to buy fancy aircraft and other goods at the moment and stop it for a few months at least so given that I think the trade war it's difficult to assess the state of the trade war with while the economy is in this condition so in some sense we have yet to assess how much damage each one has inflicted on the other but it is very clear that the damage that the United States thought they would inflict on China which will bring China on its knees to the US this is Trump's belief that did not happen and China has made very clear that even if they suffered the consequence of the trade war that it does damage the economy they are not going to give in they're not going to succumb because if they do they accept the position of US pre-eminence that whatever US says unilaterally will be accepted by everybody in the world including China that's a position they're not going to take so I think India's therefore belief that to trade war and we have much less clout in global economic terms that China or United States has therefore to believe that we can do something which the US could not do or Mr Trump could not do in spite of all the bluff and bluster I think that's a lesson for us that that root does not seem to pay much dividend and I think this this level of jingoism is also a part of it is also due to the fact that we don't seem to know what to do so I think the Modi principle which has worked internally internal politics bluff bluster threat you know take it to the edge and then people back down because they cannot really go to that level particularly when you're a ruling government at the moment so you have all lot of instruments of power so this kind of attack tactic you can see if Rahul Gandhi makes a criticism Sonia Gandhi makes a criticism any opposition party makes a criticism they really immediately start not answering the question raised but what you did 50 years back what you do 30 years back what you do 10 years back and so on so you get a start of name calling of a certain kind so I think this kind of politics which they have sort of grown up with when it comes to international arena I don't think it works that easily but hey we never know maybe the Chinese will say look we don't want to really get into an angle with India at this point let's give them some in concessions and then maybe Mr. Modi will get some concession and declare it to be victory the reality is the border standoff has largely issues related to the India's building up the border roads infrastructure at the border and China after particularly the change of Ladakh status for a part of JNK to a union territory they and Mr. Shah's statement in parliament that we will take back Pakistan occupied Kashmir as well as Akshay Chi. I think that this is what Mk Narayan the national security advisor there is former NSA has also said that we did not seem to have factored this aspect that China might misread the situation or read the situation that India is actually now posing a threat to the Tibet Sinkiang road or the CPEP and given this threat that they perceive therefore they have started building up and capturing I'm quoting here General Panang capturing the strategic heights on in on the border so this is the reason for it or it could be perception that India and China both are now looking at each other through strategic competition and building up on the border whatever may be the reason the reality is that will China back down because tiktok is been stopped in the Indian market along with 58 other apps but as you know tiktok is the key is the biggie in this case and it is it is emerging in the world as one of the competitors of the other big app players so will that happen that's a question to really answer my answer is in strategic terms no country backs down because you have stopped a particular product import or the particular export and you will see that the that Chinese will probably retaliate but they will retaliate in their at their own time and of their own choosing so they will also not be silent to this already reports are there before this itself that China is slowing down its exports to India so all of those things are now on the on the table we'll have to see what how they respond but not a very not a very happy situation and it doesn't look like we want to negotiate both sides one side we don't know want to negotiate the border crisis at the moment thank you so much for being for talking to us that's all your time for today keep watching you


Good morning, everybody. JR Fisher here on a bright Wednesday. It is June 16th, 2021. My gosh, we're almost halfway through the year. Let's see here. James says, good morning, JR. 84 Fahrenheit and cloudy here in the low country. Man, I want me some shrimp and grits. James, I know that's what the low country has. Man, they got great shrimp and grits. We tried to get shrimp and grits in San Diego and it was a fiasco. It was terrible. Terrible. Let's see what we got going on here for weather. Guys, if you're new to my channel, if you're new to my live streams, do me a favor and subscribe. Don't forget to ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live. And James, you know what? I've got exactly the same thing. I've got some fog and it's 84 degrees here, so it's very similar. And thank you for letting me know. You can hear me. I do appreciate that. Sometimes we have little audio glitches where somebody can't hear me. But if James is cool with us, then we're good. We're good, okay? Like, if he's cool, everything's fine. And today we're going to talk about SEO, guys. If you don't know about SEO, it's pretty important stuff. I'll define what it is. I'll also give you about six steps you can use to really improve your SEO. This is probably, gosh, one of the best things you can do long term for your business. If you get your SEO squared away, you're going to be in really, really good shape. So I can promise you that. And if you have any other questions about starting running and growing online businesses, feel free to put that in the chat section. Matter of fact, put stuff in the chat section. Say hello. Let me know what the weather's like, whatever it is, what business you're running, which you're trying to work on. I want to help you out. And the only way I can do that is if you reach out to me just listening. Sometimes it doesn't want to work for you, right? I was waiting to see if you were going to mention the like button. Ah, you got me every time. Don't forget to give me a thumbs up, guys. Click that like button there. James always reminds me, I guess he's my producer or co-producer here, but he always reminds me of this stuff. You got to hit that like button. Super important that you do that. I guess it's an algorithm thing with YouTube. The more people click that like button, the better off I am. So yeah, I appreciate that. Don't forget to click that like button. So let me get going here. Let's talk about SEO. First off, let's talk about what the heck it is. SEO is an interesting thing. It does take some skills, but anybody can learn this. It's not that hard. It's not a really cut and dried subject. When you first start out at it, it can seem like it's overwhelming because you go, oh, gosh, SEO. That's what I have to do for my pages. And I've got thousands of them. Well, you don't have to do every single page. You can do your most, I guess, visited pages or the pages that you want to be visited. So what it really is is that SEO is search engine optimization. It allows the search engines to be able to find your pages. That's all it really is.  And I just kind of want to go through all the steps first off. You got to kind of understand the goal of SEO. Businesses have different marketing goals. But every company shares the same desire to boost revenue. Okay, we all want to make more money. Improving your site with SEO allows you to rank at the top of the search engine results page. That's called SCRPS. So that helps your revenue and your traffic. Before that completely sinks in. Okay, before you think about that, you have to grasp the inner workings of search engines. Google and other leading search engines have what's called spiders or bots. Okay, and what they do is they kind of crawl the internet, they find the index, they rank sites. When somebody enters a search, search engines actually deliver a list of websites to you, you know, the one of the results page, right? And that's got all the relevant content that they think that you're looking for. Search engines first need to be able to find your site, though, so that you should be the first in order of business, you can ask Google to index your URL with their URL inspection tool and Bing with their Bing webmaster tools. There's a lot of them out there. Google has webmaster SEO starter guide. Web FX has an SEO explain how to search optimization works. There's a guy out there called Matt cuts how search engine works video. So you can take a look at that.  Okay, that's the important thing. Next up, number two, you've got to master keyword research. It takes research to pick the keywords that you want to rank for. So you got to figure out what those words are, you can't just grab them out of the sky. I know when I first started doing SEO, it was like, I don't know, survival food, you know, and it wasn't really that cut and dry. And now I finally figured out, you know, can meet survival food is what I rank for because that's what we sell. Also known as keywords.  And that's the key.  There we go. Now, let's talk about keywords for a second. There's two kinds of keywords. There's long term, or excuse me, long tail keywords that span three or more keywords. And there's short tail keywords that hold only one or two keywords. Now, long tail keywords, focus your pages, and generate better interest. Okay, so that's what I would go after. You know, if you try to focus on one or two words, it's gonna be really hard to compete. It's probably not even gonna happen. For example, if somebody searches, where to buy magazines, okay? It's more precise than magazines, right? So you can appeal to their expectations better. And you'll get a better click through right to with these long tail keywords. So how do you know the top searches that relate to your industry? You can use keyword tools like keywords everywhere, solve keywords FX, as you learn SEO, you can use all those tools to kind of figure it out. And those will help you. Let me put some of these in the comments section, because when I'm saying it, it may not be coming out everywhere. So we're going to use keywords everywhere. You can search that one, you can also search and I'm not to type this one here again, instead of saying it, because I know it's not going to pick it up. So you can use that one right there. You can use keywords FX. Yep, those are the ones I would suggest you using. They can help you out tremendously when doing your keyword research. You can also get a glimpse of the keywords with these tools of your competitors. So you can look at the competitors that are coming up high in the search engine ranks, put their website in, and you can see what they're doing. Keywords are really central elements for SEO, because you'll weave them into your content titles, meta descriptions and the URLs, it'll get you familiar with keyword research as a foundational step in your keyword journey. Okay, now, other, I guess resources web FX has something called beginner's guide for keyword research for SEO. So let me put this in here web FX. Ooh, it didn't, it didn't do what I want. Web FX. There it is. And they have something called a guide to keyword research for SEO. Let me my spell check is changing everything I'm saying here. There we go guide to keyword research for SEO. There we go. I'll put that in the chat section there. Moz, let me put Moz in here. Moz. Let me see. Is another good one. They have keywords and keyword research. That's another good tool. So you know, use some of those when you're starting out. Now, number three, know the difference between on page and off page SEO. These are two different things. SEO happens in two different places.  What takes place on page is what you can directly change when you learn SEO. While that takes place off page is up to other sites.  It's not surprising that on page SEO is easier topic to cover and understand because you manage multiple parts of your pages to please visitors and search engine box. So that part's a little bit easier.  Also your keyword usage, navigation, URLs, meta descriptions, and image descriptions or alt text. Sometimes you'll see this alt text where it actually describes what an image is. But it goes far beyond this handful of factors to which takes a lot of careful work. For off page SEO, you have to rely on others opinions of your online content. So obviously, you want to have good online content, authoritative links to your site mentions about your brand and social media marketing all contribute to your off page presence. I put in the comments there guys, have you done any SEO? Are you doing any SEO? Do you understand SEO? Check off the boxes on both fronts for vital use of SEO. It's super important. Okay. Also, I told you about web FX earlier, they have a free on page SEO checklist you can go to. Also, hrefs. We put this in here. hrefs. There we go. We'll put that in there. hrefs. They have an actionable on page SEO guide. And then Neil Patel is really good. Let me put him in here. Neil Patel. Check him out. He has off. Let's see here. Has off page SEO guide. He keeps wanting to put SEO. Why? I don't know. That's a good one too. I would suggest that. Number four, learn to identify UX signals. What's UX? What is UX? If you know, you can put it in the chat section there. UX is simply user experience. Okay. So search engines aim to satisfy people with the right results. So the user experience plays a substantial role in SEO modifications to your site should prioritize users, making the design functionality and material fulfill their expectations. Algorithms like Google's rank brain, analyze user behavior to measure their level of satisfaction and performance. So you want to look at all those things. Perry Marshall. James bring yes. Perry Marshall is very good at what he does. I do recommend Perry Marshall.  Yes, he knows his stuff. I do recommend him.  You got to have a website made you got to apply the stuff, buddy. You know a lot of this. Through machine learning, there's now a closer look at pattern practice of users. The percentage of searchers who click on a search engine result, or the organic click through rate, which is your CTR is one area of user experience that Google checks, it helps to show the relevance and attractiveness of a result compared to others. Other UX signal dwell time, which is how long they're there, which is how long somebody actually stays on a page before returning to the SERP or search engine results page is also recognized by search engines. It can influence your SEO performance too. So depending on a type of search query, a longer dwell time can demonstrate their interest in your result or show that they have trouble finding a clear answer. The keyword in material can indicate which response is more accurate. So to me, another zip. These metrics, these metrics guys, reflect the condition of your SEO as you make tweaks and you seek to optimize. Now you want to pay attention to the UX or user experience signals during your SEO education to evaluate your rankings. HubSpot, let me put them in here. HubSpot, okay, they have a what's called a simplified guide to rank brain. So that's something you want to check out. Also WordStream, put this in here, WordStream, there's so many tools out there. WordStream, they have one called Battle Tested Ways to raise your SEO CTR. So you want to check that out. Lucy, what's going on Lucy? Lucy's jumped into the mix there. Good to see you. I don't know what JSJSJS is. But okay, so that's that's your number four guys. In number five, embrace SEO friendly content creation. So when you're creating your content, you want to make it SEO friendly. The content you craft for your site, including blogs, I don't know informational articles, news releases, videos, whatever you're doing is the prime way to charm your searchers and search engines. Okay, so skillfully creating this content can draw in traffic from Google if you follow SEO best practices. The one thing I'm going to add is don't try to cheat the system. Too many people try to cheat the system. And you don't want to do that. Written content is a convenient method for search engine crawlers because they're proficient at sifting through text. They're looking for a balance of keywords, comprehensive information and a digestible layout. It is essential to learn that SEO friendly content correlates with length. So longer posts, for example, have a better chance of assisting searchers in their hunt for knowledge or products. Content needs to address the chosen topic thoroughly. And Google looks for polished articles, rather than sloppy, churned out posts. So you know, there's these, um, I guess article, excuse me, spinners or generators, you never want to use them. They're garbage. Okay, you can tell when a spinner wrote an article that these things were big, like, gosh, 2010 or 11, I don't know if there's many out there now, but they actually will hurt your site. So don't go for any programs that are going to pre write your stuff. I even saw ads the other day for AI that was going to pre write your sales copy. I don't I don't see it guys, I just don't. It always comes out sounding funky. So don't use it. So search engines also require fresh original content. And they will penalize results that only duplicate or copy words from other sites. That's called duplicate content. Don't do it during the process to learn SEO, be aware of these penalties because let's say in the beginning, you're doing this SEO, and you're starting to put duplicate content, and all these things on your site, you're doing it wrong. That's actually going to hurt your site in a long run. And even if you start doing it right, you still got that bad content up there. So you don't want to do that. Search Engine Journal has one called tactics to create engaging and SEO friendly content. You may want to check that out. Web FX, which I talked about earlier, has one called how to write SEO content that users love. You may want to check that out. All those things are really important. Let me get another sip here real quick guys. And before I get to number six, I am going to be doing my videos today, the recorded ones that we upload. So I'm not going to try to go too long. So if you have any questions, it'd be a good idea to put them in now. And if you're watching this and it's not live, that's cool too. You can put it in the comments section. I'll come back and answer your questions and comments there. So feel free to do that. But yeah, I've got a full day of recording videos today. My wife had to leave early this morning. Our dog's got some problem with her ear, and she's been whining and scratching at her ear for a couple of days since we've been back from the East Coast. So she's over there with her today. So when she gets back, she can help me film and do my stuff. And I actually had to shave and do my hair and all that stuff today because I'm doing actual content today. Paul, you woke up Paul. One content is shorter or longer better. I'm seeing more long sales pages as of late. That, you know, I get that question over and over again, and there's not a quick answer to that. You know, I've got sales pages or opt-in pages that are very short, you know, that say like one or two headlines and click to get access. I've got pages that drone on and on and on, but you have to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll. The only thing I would tell you, if we're referring to SEO, is be cautious on shorter content of keyword stuffing. That's where you're going to get tripped up. If you have a page that doesn't have a lot of content on it, you really can't do a lot of SEO on it. You can't put that many keywords. You can't over put keywords in there because if you do, you're going to get caught in a keyword stuffing thing.  So I would say if you have a lot of keywords you want to put into an article, it's going to have to be long or a sales page. It's going to have to be long. You can't do it on short pages, but there is no cut and dry answer to what you're saying. I think the design of the page, like if it's an opt-in page, were they just opting in for something free, I would say short content is better. If you're trying to sell something that sells for $2,000, I would say you're going to need a lot of content. It's going to need to have a lot of detail to it. It's going to need to answer every single question on there. You're going to need a whole bunch of different areas where they can opt in. So I would say that's my overview of those two things. That's what I look at. Number six, number six, you need to start this early. Start link building. In the collection of 200 plus ranking factors for Google, links still remain one of the top three. Links from other websites to your pages indicate to search engines how trusted and useful your site is to users across the web. So building links is super important. However, search engines can be extremely strict when it comes to questionable link building tactics. Okay? There's black hat and there's white hat. White hat link building means you're learning, excuse me, you're earning the admiration of other industry authorities, trusted reviews, their general public, that type of thing. You can construct a beneficial reputation by strengthening your network and boosting brand awareness. Natural links can also come from guest blogging and requesting links to existing mentions. So all those things are important. Engaging in social media is an effective way to encourage people to read, share and talk about your site. The proactive approach often leads to link building when customers discuss your business with other people, their friends and family and all that they share this stuff. So that's important. James Breen says, Jim Edwards says he reduced his website from 26 pages to a single page in sales quadruple. Yeah, it depends on what you're doing. I know a lot of sites do that. Some sites cannot. Let's say you're an e-commerce site. You really can't reduce it down to one page, obviously. You know, we have an e-commerce site, which is Survival K Food, and that's got to have pages for every single product. I mean, it just does. Now, jrfisher.com, that doesn't have that many pages. Okay? I've pretty much got a blog there and I've got some of my courses there, stuff like that. It doesn't need a lot of pages. So the size of your site really has to do with what your industry is too. Okay? If you're just trying to get people to opt in for a webinar, that's the only thing you're marketing. Yeah, you have one page is great. You can do that. Does adding multiple links in a sales letter affect sales engines? Research engines. It only would if you overdid it. Okay? In other words, you didn't have enough copy to support all those links. So if you've only got one page of copy and you got like nine links in there, yeah, you could have an issue.  You're going to be okay. Let's see. Do you do much guest blogging? 100% no. I don't, Paul. I'm asked to do that stuff and I'm asked to do sponsorships. I got an email from Nike the other day and they wanted me to do a sponsored video. I think it was a 30 second spot for 1500 bucks. And I said no. And I said no because it doesn't even match up to my business. But as far as guest blogging, that would just take time and I'm not a blogger. So I just I wouldn't do it. I just don't have the time for it. Not that that's not a good thing. If you're starting out and you are trying to build your brand and you've got a lot of time to do that stuff. Hey, more power to go ahead and do it. But as far as, you know, you actually going out and doing blogging for other sites, you got to have a lot of time to do that. I just I don't have the time to do it. So it's it's out of my realm to do that stuff. Let me switch over here real quick, guys. My throat is still clearing out as it does every morning. It's always tough first thing in the morning. But the good thing is when I do one of these lives before I record my videos, I kind of clear my throat out before I start recording my videos because I had the same problem recording the videos. And you know, a lot of you guys work man is throat's rough in the morning. Well, you jump out of bed in the morning, you try to start talking a lot, you're gonna find out your throat does the same thing. My wife does the same thing. It's like it takes a while for your voice to get going. Do you still do much blogging? And if so, what do you find for sweet spot for distribution? I do more vlogging. I'll put it that way. What we do is we put videos on YouTube. We upload them three days a week. And those links in those videos also go into my website. So that's primarily what I do. I myself do not do a lot of blogging anymore. We've got our business built up enough. I've got a good name recognition enough now, not that we shouldn't. I'm not saying that. As a matter of fact, as I'm hearing myself talk today, I'm thinking, hey, there's some things I can do on the site to help it. I'm redoing survival cave food. And I've almost got that completed. So we'll have that live soon. Just did some minor tweaks. Basically, we're upgrading to the new Magento two point whatever it is for thousands of dollars. And there'll be no difference. I don't know why, but we just kind of have to do that stuff. So we're doing that. What other questions you guys got before I get out of here? Like I said, I need to record videos today. So unfortunately, I can't stay too late. But if you got any questions, Paul always has good ones. James always has good ones. We have a lady in here a couple minutes ago. I don't know what happened to Lucy Hill, but she was here for a split second or two. And also, don't forget, guys, do subscribe, do ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications, because even if you subscribe, it won't let you know when I upload a video. 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Everyone see y'all tomorrow. So James is going to go. He knows what I'm winding down. He can tell what I'm winding down. So guys, I really appreciate each and every one of you here. I really do appreciate your support. After this video is already on and it's not live anymore, you'll find links in the description to many of the things I do, many of my courses, that type of thing. On a separate note, do you feed the raw to the cats too? Here's the deal with the cats. Paul, we have elderly cats. Okay, so Jessica has had some cats since before I knew her and they're all 1213 years old on up and they're extremely finicky. So some will eat some of the wrong. We try as much as we possibly can.  And we feed our dog a raw food diet. And some of the cats, Paul, they just won't eat it. So we have to unfortunately give them some of the canned stuff.  And since she, you know, for years fed on the wrong diet before she studied all this stuff, she kind of trained their palates. So I guess I would say start them as a kitten. She just did a video, I think with raw foods. So you may want to check that out on your channel. That is Jessica Elf Fisher, the furry family coach. I have a great week ahead gang. Good luck when packing for the move. Paul don't even bring up packing. Don't even get up to a nightmare. It looks horrible in here. And we have people coming to look at this house that we have to show it. And oh my gosh, you know, it's just it's it's tough walking around boxes. I can tell you that, but it is what it is. Guys, thank you so much for being here. I appreciate it. I'll see you guys tomorrow.


Thank you so much, sir, for devoting your precious time and entering us with your words of wisdom. Professor Mohantha highlighted on the increase in the crime against women in Assam and even a comprehensive picture of the same domestic-wise data. He also highlighted on the role of fast-trackers and how we can go beyond the fast-trackers. It was indeed a pleasure listening to you, sir, and thank you so much for giving your valuable insights on the field. Now, I would like to request the keynote speaker for today's seminar, Srimati Rumi Kumari Phukon, to deliver the keynote entrance. And we look forward to get an exposure about this very dynamication on fast-track codes. Hey, good morning to all of you here. So perhaps it is bit difficult to speak after a good speaker concluded. But I am not so acquainted with those giving deliberations. But in a code, we generally use to listen and to write through the appeal. But the reason to speak is cute to judges. Anyhow, I am happy to attend a seminar with a very relevant topic organized by this university. I would like to welcome Mr. Kishnakanta Handik, the Vice Chancellor of the R.P. Das Institute. Mr. Kishnakanta Handik, State of the University. Mr. Kishnakanta Handik, the Vice Chancellor of the R.P. Das Institute. Mr. Kishnakanta Handik, State of the University. R.P. Das Academy of Bi blessed KK Handik University. Osim Samod, High Court. Approcame from the high court, present here. Officers from the Special branch. And dignitaries on the guys and the participants in the occasion. I sincerely appreciate the effort of our Haudenosaam Institute For choosing very crucial topics, the role of first aid food in delivery of justice to women for delivery. As we all know that women in our country having an exalted position in our society, crime or violence against them is increasing day by day. Episcopies in the women on the women engulfed is so rampant in India that the laws enacted to counters its behavior has been rendered toothless. Many times crime against women engulfed remain unreported and victim suffer in silence. Some of the causes for violence against women in the state of Assam include population explosion, immigration, illiteracy, unequal power, equation between man and woman, social norms, use of internet, unemployment, economic dependence of women, alcohol consumption, etc. In the words of Kofi Annan, former Indian Secretary Zanayam, violence against women inspires the most sinful rights, female rights, higher mission and it perhaps the most progressive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace. The idea of establishing the first aid code in India was conceived in 2000 by the National Science Commission to give speedy justice to the teams of sexual organs. With this objective in mind, the Indian government has been taking steps for setting up 1,023 first aid special codes, including 389 exclusive hospital codes across the country. For example, this has drive the cases pardoning to sexual organs. As per the data published by the Department of Justice as on June 20, 2022, 721st aid special codes including 408 exclusive oxo-coach are functioning in 28 states, Indian territories, which disposed of more than 1,00,000 cases, pending cases. Insofar as the Assam state is concerned, the first aid codes are being set up in every district except newly created ones. According to the National Department, 29,374 cases strived by code of cessation, inclusive cases strived by the first aid codes are pending for disposal in Assam. As on August 20, 2022, 5,427 cases related to the offense of rape under section 376 and 6,677 cases related to the offenses under oxo-aid are pending in our state. The memo to financing indicates that crime is going in current syndrome and in this many forms. Against the rate of conviction of curfews is very minimal. The reasons for such dismembered condition rate in which can be summarized as under 40 investigation by the police. This is that of rules and improper, unsatific method of evidence collection. That of modern and wealthy forensic lab suffered in well-trained investigative officers in the police department, lack of well-trained knowledgeable and competent public prosecutors, lack of coordination between the police and public prosecutors, delay in filing the file, delay in investigation, and filing of searching by the police. Crime it means turning hostile in the trial, victim detecting from her statement in the trial. This is the reason for lower conviction in our state as we have collected from the data that is always under research and scrutiny in the high court. I want to inform here that in the high court there is a justice committee who took over all the cases from the independent district and always overview over the tenancy of cases and to issue let us say direction in this regard as to how to equate the case distribution and the result of all the cases in proper manner. And the approach factors that I have mentioned places a pivotal role until the trial in favor of culprits leading to their acquittal. Needless to mention that fear of punishment acts as a deterrence in the society. How come? Due to frequent acquittals or accruals it is obvious that fear of law and signature and culprits are embedded than ever to commit heinous crime against women and girls and children. Many times we find that police officers being busy in law and order guilty and other VIP and VBIB security which leads the officers with little time to focus on investigation. A critical and heinous crimes like rape, murder, etc. which begins the case and eventually leads to acquittal in the court. In order to make the police department free from political and executive interference and to make it more effective and efficient and to strengthen the process of rule of law the Supreme Court in the way back in 2006 by Judgement in case of Prakash Singh v. Indian of India, 2006, 8 a.c. held that investigating officer investigating police must be separated from the law and order police to ensure speedier investigation, better expertise and improved report to the people. How? How? It is unfortunate that enforcement direction has not been complied by the state till now in its tourist period. Even the state rise in crime against women and children it is imperative that the state government should take active step to create separate wing in police department to investigate such crime with utmost diligence. It may not be out of place to mention here that domestic evidence or forensic evidence is very crucial in the trial of sexual offense. Therefore persons' manings as separate wing must be competent to collect such evidence. It is also incumbent upon the state to establish modern state or forensic laboratory in every district of Assam so that investigation is not delayed and the police are able to file a search explicitly. Insofar as the performance of the first state court is concerned it is up to safety. First state court are not so fast. It may be noted that in most of the courts penency is very high and the procedure governing the first state court and regular court are same. Another reason for delaying trial is a gentleman due to absence of witness in the court or a gentleman shot by the lawyer. Mass timing is to span in the high court and the supreme court when the order of first state court is silenced in such high court. So far as the rule of first state court is concerned that such advocacy is to ensure that survivors can rely on their impartiality and neutrality at every stage in a criminal proceeding. The first state court must ensure speedy and effective dispensation of justice. This such type of courts must not ensure speedy justice but also sensitive handling of such cases and prevent re-ictimization of sexual assault, survival. The judges are required to identify gender stereotyping and to avoid use of reasoning, language, who is demonetized the office and trivializing the serve of law. At least I think it fit to reproduce the extract from the banal principle of judicial conduct 2002, who is provides as an example. Is thus say not knowingly required proceeding is before or could came before make any comment that might reasonably be expected to affect the outcome of such proceeding or impair the meticulous fairness of the process. No other judge shall make any comment in public or otherwise that might affect the fair trial of any person or the issue. A very important judgment of the supreme court in this context is O'Connor Hart versus state of Maharashtra, state of multiple days to 2021 SCC 230. The O'Connor Hart Supreme Court has given certain guidelines to the courts dealing with the sexual offenses. So let me repeat the same for the benefit of the participant in the seminar in understanding the role of officious. Firstly the bad position should not mandate or permit contact between the accused and the victim. Such conditions should seek to protect the complainant from any further harassment by the accused. Secondly there are circumstances where the circumstances exist for the court to believe that there might be a potential threat of harassment of the victim or upon apprehension expressed after calling a report from the police. The nature of protection shall be separately considered and the appropriate order be made in addition to direction to the accused not to make any contact with the victim. In all the cases where bail is granted complainants should immediately be informed that the accused will be granted bail and a copy of bail will be made over to him within two days. Bail conditions and orders should avoid reflecting stereotypical and patricial notions about women and their place in society and must strictly be in accordance with the requirement of the services. In other words, discussion about the dress, behavior or past conduct or morals of the prosecutors should not enter in the verdict in grant will be. Next, the court while executing cases involving gender related crimes should not suggest or inject in any notions or encourage any steps towards compromises between the prosecutors and the accused to get money. Suggest or mandate mediation between the accused and the survivor or any of compromise, any form of compromise as it is beyond their power and jurisdiction. Next, sensitivity should be displayed in all the times by the charges who should ensure that there is no privatization of the prosecutors during the shooting or anything that say during the argument. charges should specially not to use any words spoken or written that would undermine or shake the confidence of the survivor in the fairness or impartiality of the court. To tackle all this situation, the Supreme Court has given various direction time to time so that the court can adjudicate the cases properly because no such specific guideline or rule has been embodied in the legislation until now. Even in law amendment 2018, what about several amendments in the IPC? With the insertion of 376AB, 376DA, 376DB and with the amendment by inserting 166A of section N section 228A of the IPC. Punishment for providing life imprisonment, this means imprisonment for remainder of the person's natural life and they can finality also provided in the newly amended IPC. Similarly, amendment of court criminal procedure has been provided for recording statement of victims of sexual assault and investigation of such cases by woman police official and most medical attention to the victims, immediate recording of statement of victims under section 64 of the IPC. Special procedure for recording statement of physically and mentally sentenced victim by audio-visual electronic means and trial of such cases should be tried by woman judicial official and duty of the court to awarding compensation to the victim etc. Amendment also brought in section 173 CIPC, which provides the investigation of the apposited offenses of the IPC, shall be completed within two months. By criminal amendment 2013 and 2018 respectively, it was provided trial of such cases so far as possible be completed within a period of two months from the date of filing the surrogate. In section 374 CIPC, after section 163 and 4 has been added, it is where it is provided that the appeal in such cases shall be disposed within a period of six months from the date of filing the appeal. Sentences are also secured in the provisions relating to 1438 and 1439 aspect. Similarly, the protection of children from sexual offenses act mandates that investigation of such cases are to be completed within two months and trial to be completed within six months. The special proxy of courts is also vested with minister powers should accept the report in final form submitted at the end of investigation only after proper application of mind and after ensuring that no culprit has been left unscathed. It may be the special proxy of court can also direct further investigation under section 173A of CRPC and the court can monitor investigation in excess of power and excess of market disease through CRPC and NCFAR and speedy investigation. Along with speedy trial, the first step court should also render justice in a sensitive 15 friendly manner. The Poxpoic remains contains provisions for recording statements and propositions victims in a side friendly and comfortable environment. In a recent decision, now Supreme Court in Sumiti, Tukaram, Sumiti, Tukaram, Badadi curses data Maharashtra and another 2022 life law SCFT. Directed the recording of evidence of unlawful witnesses in unlawful witness deposition centre. The victims of a sexual assault including victims of a Poxpoic, section 354 of CRPC caused in the category of unlawful witnesses. The first step special courts must ensure that evidence of unlawful witnesses are recorded in such unlawful witness deposition centre so that the witness can propose in a comfortable manner. Three from all field, three from the accused. Two will be connected by a remote audio visual linkage and the victim cannot see the accused at any time of deposing as a witness. In order to ensure expeditious disposal of cases, the Supreme Court in the state of Kerala first received 2018 SCC online and held a certain practice the headline have to be followed by the trial court who is include detailed case along the must be prepared. At the commencement of the trial the specific days on this examination of SIFT and cross examination will be conducted. Testimony of witnesses deposing on the same subject matter must be approximately scheduled. Request for different must be appropriately made before deposition of the calendar. Next grant of request to be promised unsufficient reasons and the date of cross examination after the trial so specified. Case can under to be followed strictly and witness to be said guarded. The above guidelines may be religiously adopted by the first state special courts in order to ensure expeditious disposal of secure offenses against women. The role of first state court now not only confined to the trial of cases but also to ensure that the victims are compensated and rehabilitated. In this regard there are various provisions that has been incorporated in the CRPC like TPC-7A TPC-7D and TPC-7C CRPC which provides for rehabilitative compensation to the victims. First state or medial medical treatment free of force to the survivors of sexual assault cases including rape etc. These are the mandate of the law then it is to be followed by the IP court into spirit. Further National Legal Service Authority formulated a compensation scheme detailed as below to be provided to those victims. I can summarize here what a ganglion compensation can be granted minimum 5 lakhs to 10 lakhs for minimum 4 lakhs to 7 lakhs for various physical injury or mental injury requiring rehabilitation it is up to 2 lakhs from 1 lakhs then victim recidivated in case of disfigurement of face compensation it is 7 lakhs to 8 lakhs in case of any more injury 5 lakhs to 8 lakhs then again the simple injury it is simple injury that is less than 50% it will be around 3 lakhs to 5 lakhs in case of injury less than 20% 3 lakhs to 4 lakhs these are the beneficial provision has been made under the law so that the victim can be compensation in real sense whenever it is necessary to provide and the court as is another regular court the court has to comply with this provisions and this is the difference some here, some here, some difference between the trial general court and the first court because in case we have found even in the victim reported that one has been assaulted severely assaulted there need to indicate the treatment the court without waiting for any report can direct for compensation direct the to provide such adequate compensation in 15 days that is also provided but all are actually nothing less than now in the state of guidelines for the victim court so the appropriate law is now is to be formulated in force of trial products no discussion of role of first step special court would be complete unless references made to the dinty of such courts in assuring coordination with other related functionaries like Sai welfare committee special juvenile police unit district trial protection officer support person district legal service authority the first step special court can also take support and assistance from various agencies while recording evidence of victims of sexual offenses providing them with legal assistance including medical treatment awarding compensation providing protection from treats harassment and creating awareness about the offenses against women such integrated effort will enable the first step court in regular injustice to the women last but not the least the least is a mass endeavor to recommend the existing procedure to bring the new the first step court in the line of wisdom and peace to ensure that in cases relating to crimes against women, girls and children hearing take place in a time more manner and the same are disposed within a stipulated time so that very purpose of establishing first step courts are not difficult with these words I conclude my duty I am thanking you all thank you so much man for giving your valuable practical insights on the theme and you enlightened us with the scenario of the crime against women and you highlighted also the scenario of the past type courts all the valuable insights provided by you gave us a perspective that one should love while discussing these issues in the technical sessions and on in the in the near future thank you so much may I now request our Honorable Vice Chancellor and the President of the seminar to kindly deliver the presidential address Thank you Good morning Namaskar Respected Chief and Education Advisor Prasad Nani Respected Keynote Speaker Rumi Khokhan Our registrar Aalup Jyoti the convener of this program Prasad Nani all the distinguished speakers for this one day national seminar the director of different schools of our university the participants from different parts of the state and media friends and it is a great privilege for me to join this program this one day national seminar because this is my first program after taking over the charge of Vice Chancellor of this prestigious university I was the organizers have been working day and night to make it a land success so if there is any lapses in organizing this program this credit should be given to me if there is lapses the credit should be given to my team who have worked day and night in fact what Prof. Mahant Ji said that he is not an expert in the subject but I could see that he has collected data information practically he has presented a research paper on the theme which has given a detailed picture about the first role of first report in delivering justice to women in the state of Assam and madam has given the judicial aspect of the issue which is perhaps unknown to many of us and I as a person to deliver the presidential address I am nothing to speak but since I have been asked to speak so I have to give a brief view about my own on this issue we have born and brought up in a very unique country like India where we are talking about delivering justice to women but since inception it is perhaps our country which has given maximum justice to women maximum respect to women we say sitara that you know the women come fast our goddess our women come fast we have we say we have given enough respect we have been giving enough respect to women in our country starting from the beginning of our civilization but today whenever we are talking about justice to women whenever this seminar is addressing this issue unfortunately why, how it happened where we talk about need for justice to women in fact with the passage of time anything happened and the theme which was submitted to me that I have to speak I found many of the issues are stereotype I was just asking to Dr.Mohan that my impression about Assam is very unique because Assam and Odisha have very unique culture very similar culture in terms of food culture language celebration and respect to women and whenever I was told that the women justice to women is relatively less in Assam I was wondering that how it is women harassment is more in Assam I was wondering that how it could happen in Assam state like Assam I was thinking deeply about how it could happen it can happen because in Assam in terms of its culture in terms of religion in terms of its religious heterogeneity it could be one of the very important reason for which it might be happening but if it is happening because data says it is not happening in the entire state but it is happening in some districts of the state it is an issue an issue which cannot be addressed because now perhaps for the last one decade we are living in a country in a state where the things are better controlled better managed in comparison to previous administration previous government and now every step is taken by the government in the state in the country so that women should be respected women should be recognized and if we look at the things the justice to women I was just enquiring about what percentage of the employees of KK Handy state open university are women it is 60 percent more than 60 percent when the university from which I have come I was just before coming I was asking that what percent of women are there in in dranandhe national open university it is 86 percent where is injustice you look at it if you look at the results of UPSC or PSE of a different state or if you look at any competitive examination in the state you will find that the women are extending women are doing better than better than men look at us in front of us sitting an IPS officer region women and whenever we talk about injustice to women there are many reasons because we have a national commission for women there is a demand for national commission for men so whenever these things are going up if at all it is it has increased the injustice to women has increased in some corners some pockets of PASA now as a state open university it is also we have some role to manage this issue so I feel that as a state open university we should also take up this issue we should think of how we have to sensitize the people of the state the educated mass of the state how we have to control this issue how we have to reduce this issues which which are there in the state we can even start a certificate or a diploma program on this issue that empowerment, women harassment and all these things we can think of doing this beside that all of you will be happy to know that in the last 10 days our admission has gone up like anything we are touching 40,000 from 13 to 13,000 to we are touching 40,000 so if 40,000 people will be given a project that they have to find out what is the cause of women harassment in their respective villages or in respective towns and they should come out with what is their suggestion when we have to ask our evaluator to find out that what is the suggestion people at different corners of the state are thinking about starting out this issue perhaps we can come out with a solution which can recommend we can recommend to the policymakers and government they can address it at a macro level and as well as at micro level to show that the problem if it is going out of hand it can be controlled number one, number two that thus this seminar which is addressed going to be addressed by very immediate speakers from judiciary and from social society they should the recommendations which they are going to give let us come out very transparent and objective conclusions recommendations which we should again submit to the policymakers that what A, B, C, D like that what the government should do as policymakers how to sort out this problem and I believe that the if at all this is the responsibility of the high court to create fast track fast track codes and as has been told that there is derailment of fast track code from their main purpose of giving justice to women let us also talk about it that how government should look at these issues and particularly what professor Mahant Ji said that this is a not a common problem in all parts of the Assam and wherever you know he was giving data that in which district there is maximum in which type of crimes against women let us focus on those issues how we can sort out those issues different types of crimes against women because you know we are not here to create problem our government is not here to create problem government is concerned to solve the problem so we have to give appropriate suggestions appropriate recommendations not very subjective recommendations very concrete suggestions recommendations to the government through this seminar event through our students recommendations event how government should tackle this issue government is serious to tackle this issue a very sensitive government has to tackle this issue let us come out with conclusion so that you know we can also as an university as an educational institution we can also solve we can contribute to solve this problem and there are many things which have to be discussed in the whole day and I believe that this seminar the recommendation of this seminar is going to be a great help to the policy makers and government to improve the situation to provide justice to the women of the state so that it will be a better society the public opinion the public image which the state has outside the state and in the country that should be improved further so I am really thankful to Dr. Mohan for expiring his valuable time with us and giving every thorough research paper and issue which needs thorough research and I am also thankful to madam for expiring her valuable time with us I am also thankful to all the speakers who have spared their valuable time to share their views on this issue in this seminar and I wish this seminar a grand success thank you very much so much so for your valuable insight on the topic she already definitely mentioned about how our university can look into this issue for justice for women and thank you so much for entering us with your words of expiry so before we conclude we would like to offer a memento to our chief guest and keynote speaker as a token of our sincere appreciation for their time and effort they made to be with us this morning I request our Honourable Vice Chancellor kindly to do the honour Srimati Rumi Kumari Phukon and I request Dr. Rotiti Choudhury to deliver the mode of thanks Honourable Vice Chancellor Professor Nani Gopal Mohantho Mrs. Justice Rumi Kumari Phukon Distinguished guest and dear participants from the deliberations in the inaugural session it has come to light that the right to speedy trial is the most significant dimension of the justice delivery mechanism in a democratic polity like India but at the same time sir there is another the term that is justice hard it is justice buried too on the one hand we have justice delayed and justice denied and on the other hand we have the justice hurry and justice buried so I think the need of the hour is to strike a balance between the two so that an appropriate mechanism could be evolved for justice delivery when we are talking in terms of providing justice in fast track codes certainly we are not talking in terms of a mechanism that was available in Hitler Germany or in Saddam Hussein's Iraq or in former Soviet Union we are very much concerned about a system where justice would be delivered within the broad framework of the democratic nuances of the philosophy and the procedure of the country we are thankful to Professor Nani Gupal Mohanta to the Honourable Bicensular of this University Professor Rajendra Mardas and the keynote speaker this is Justice Rumi Kumari Phukon for setting the agenda for the coming discussions in the subsequent sessions and finally kind of forgiving as you are I am sure you won't mind any lapse on our part while elinging the event so thank you, thank you very much once again with this we have come to the successful the inaugural session thank you all for being present in the inaugural sessions


You were just naming like different industries for that are potentially going to integrate blockchain for the better of everyone. Is there one healthcare government, is there one of those that you think needs it the most with that? Anything that's tied to data or the individual. So I think identity will be very important because the people who are, everybody who's affected by data is going to have a much improved situation because that data will be on the blockchain permanently there tied to each individual. And once that's the case that can help with all sorts of other industries, whether it's healthcare or commerce or improved retail experience, it could be any number of different things that could be helped just because they will have better data on you. And what do you think needs to happen to push this kind of adoption to make it happen faster? Is it the competition that you were talking about but what do people need to do to push it? Well that's great that you asked. I think that we are pushing, we who are in the industry are pushing as hard and fast as we possibly can. I'm sure every entrepreneur that was in that conference was really driven, pushing, making something really interesting happen. And it's just that there are all these uncertainties created by these governments that are run by like the grandparents of the people who are creating this new industry. And they don't get it. And it's very frustrating for the people who are creating the industry.  And now they're trying to tell them not to do something that is actually creating a whole new economy. I mean if I'm a millennial, I'm looking, I'm deeply in debt. I have an education that's not appropriate to the jobs that I have to go find. And I'm kind of, it's like I'm lost. But there's this big opportunity, all of a sudden there's Bitcoin, there's crypto. There's a whole new world out there that hasn't been destroyed by the regulators. Now the regulators are coming in and they're making it very difficult on people. But any country that gets highly regulated gets poorer, more poverty. And any country that's free gets richer. And I think the US is trying to figure this out. I know Japan has figured out, make it free, make us rich. Japan thinks I have to control and regulate, I mean China says I've got to control and regulate and they're going to create a bunch of poverty. So and it usually takes 20 years so by that time they've moved on.  So when you see the FDA or the SEC or FASB, any of these big institutional regulators come in heavy handed, they are destroying the potential for growth and wealth in their country. Let me just ask you about causes. So you ask the question, what's keeping this from happening? It's the uncertainty created by all of these regulators. That is slowing down progress. It is not allowing enough of this creativity to flourish and they're in competition with all the other countries and regulators of the world. And so the lighter touch, the more likely you and I are to move to those countries or to work with those countries or to be a part of those countries. Just to clarify, you have brought up Kazakhstan as an example. Can you explain that choice just because given in light of the recent sort of threat to ban exchange in the national economy? Right. I've asked about that because I talked to the prime minister of Kazakhstan and I told him about Estonia and all of these interesting, these virtual governance thing that can happen. And I said, and Kazakhstan means free. And this should be a free country, right? It's the Kazakhstan, it's the free country. And you want this to be free because you'll end up with a wealthier, more prosperous country. And why not have a certain number of Kazakhs but then a billion virtual Kazakhs and have them all be a part of your world and compete with all those virtual countries for them? And he was all for it. So I thought that was going to happen. Now some lower down regulator has now tried to heavily regulate crypto and that was, it's a proposal, it's not law. And hopefully he'll just be slapped down and sent on his merry way. And he's like the old world regulator who doesn't get that you've got to have a very light touch when you're regulating an ICO, for instance. It shouldn't be the equivalent of an IPO. An IPO affects hundreds of thousands of people. The companies are worth tens of billions of dollars. This is, an ICO is usually two girls and a dog getting something started. It's not like we have to protect everybody from themselves. It's just people just kind of getting going. Okay, so I'm curious since you've mentioned now some U.S. regulators, I'm curious what you think about the next step with regulation in the U.S., maybe specifically for ICOs, like what do you, yeah. Well my advice to the SEC is go ahead, regulate them all, but make it a one page document that anyone can fill out. Don't make it so that these two girls and a dog have to go hire a million dollars worth of legal work to just get approved. It makes no sense. Just have them go ahead and register so you have the data that you need, but then let them go. And then if they start affecting too many people, they become a problem, then go ahead and come in and say, okay, now you have to go our next level of regulation or you have something else. But easier in. Let's let these things flourish. Who knows what creativity is going to come out of these ICOs. I mean when the internet came along, the governments were trying to shut it down and all of a sudden think of what's happened with the internet. All of our lives are so much fuller and more interesting and more dynamic. And I remember I'd spend hours and hours waiting for somebody to come pick me up when my car broke down.  That never would have happened if the internet hadn't happened. So this is, and if we hadn't let the internet go, let it be free. The freer, the richer. The freer, freedom equals prosperity. Regulation equals poverty. Have you seen in your personal experience businesses moving away from the U.S., that's something like. Oh, tons. Yeah. Oh, and moving away from California. That's why I want three California's. I want a fresh start. Everybody wants to leave California. Anybody in business wants to leave California because even though the weather's awesome and their friends are probably here, all of the incentives are to leave. And also to leave the U.S., but that's a different set of incentives. Blockchain-wise or in general? In general. The taxes are higher here, the services are worse, education's worse, the roads are poor, all of that. You go to Texas, they have no personal income tax. They have great roads. They have a free government, encourages innovation. You need that. New York, where you guys are, they have the problem that California does. They are over-regulated, they're on top of each other, they don't let anybody do anything without filling out forms to do it. Yeah, another complicated thing about the states is that you have this micro government. It's a good thing about the states because they have to now compete for us. Used to be pretty much all the states were competing and felt that way and they worked hard to provide good service to you. When was the last time a bureaucrat said to you, what can I do to make your life better? How can I improve your business environment? They used to do that. 25 years ago I walked into a government office with my father and they said, how do I improve your business environment? How do I make your home life better? How can I improve your child's education? That was the attitude that government had and that's why my father has such great feelings about the government and the reason I don't is because I saw that switch. All of a sudden it went from what can I do for you to what are you going to do for me? When was that? About 20 years ago. About 20 years ago all of a sudden it was like, have you filled out form 12CB? I'm sorry. Oh, and I think you have to talk to this regulator too because I don't think we're going to allow you to have a party there. My question is, yeah, there's a lot of like, what I agree is sort of like false separation of these two things. You'll have countries being like, yes, blockchain, no crypto, like China kind of. I mean, that's a good example, but China's not the only example. So what do you, like, what would you say to that? What is wrong with that approach? China's new, China's old government under Deng Chao Peng was free. They said a few of you will get rich first. Let's create a harmonious environment. Let's grow. Let's have free markets, that kind of thing. That was awesome. And it created 40 years of prosperity. And China is like one of the most advanced countries in the world now. Well, now they have the opposite. They have a control-free government, or at least the guy at the top, and that permeates the government. They're not letting money out. They're not letting people use crypto. They're not letting people use Bitcoin to pay. And what that does is it pushes out all the best entrepreneurs, pushes them to wherever. And it creates more poverty there because all of those people then are constrained. If you're constrained, you're poorer. If they say you can't move, you're gonna starve. And that's pretty much what too much regulation will do for you. And so that's China. The separation of blockchain and artificial, I feel like, separation. Can you talk a little bit about that? Well, it makes no sense.  If you're gonna do something in Bitcoin, it's using the blockchain. These are intertwined. Now, there are some other blockchains being created, which is great, competitive blockchains. I'm a believer in having competition because I, as a consumer, end up with a better service. But somehow trying to separate those and say, oh, we're gonna allow all the technology in. We're just not gonna let you use it. What are they thinking? They're basically saying, yeah, go keep creating stuff. We're not gonna let you use it. And we're not gonna let you have money leave our country. So where's the benefit for an entrepreneur there? That's why they're all buying houses in Palo Alto. All the Chinese are saying, well, let's get out of there. Or they're moving to Japan where they're welcome. All the young people are moving to Japan. They're saying, well, wow, this government accepts Bitcoin as a national currency. I want to be a part of that. And has just a more clear setup for regulations guidelines. Yeah, exactly. In terms of different cryptocurrencies, because you mentioned competition, recently, Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower, passed it out. He criticized Bitcoin's blockchain for being what he said was it was devastatingly public. I'm wondering, like, who's listening to him? This guy just opened up all that information. He made it dangerous, that information. He just opened it all up, right? So wait, this is totally counter his, what I thought would be his philosophy, which is, hey, we're open, transparent, we're, this is the way the world should be. It's open and transparent and decentralized and whatever. Bitcoin's perfect for that. So he's, I don't know, why are you even listening to that guy? It's a little like, do we listen to the guy who runs the biggest bank in the world when he says, we shouldn't use Bitcoin? Why listen to that? Because the guy is realizing that people are taking pieces, 1%, 2%, 5% of their money, out of his bank and putting it into crypto. So he's totally, you know, very interested in this and he is very nervous that he's going to lose all those customers and he will. Over time, he will. There's no reason. It just feels like crypto generally will replace all fiat because it's just better currency and all the best engineers in the world are working on that. They're not working on how to improve services for the dollar. So I'm curious, based on that, what you think, what you just said, that fiat will eventually be replaced by crypto. Is that what you see as like? By the way, that's a $100 trillion market. So that means that we have a long way to go in the crypto market. We're now in the hundreds of billions. It's like it's got 1,000 times on what it is now to go. But in terms of like how that happens, do you see it being important that like one currency kind of emerges? Like Bitcoin, it could be another. No, I like competition. I think it's great. I think Bitcoin is clearly the leader and it will be the standard by which all the other currencies will have to compete. It'll be the equivalent of Microsoft in software, that kind of thing. But it could end up being Yahoo for search, where Google came and got a bigger share. So things can happen. But when you have that front position and whenever there's a new technology, you add it to that currency. It's very likely that Bitcoin will be the largest and biggest currency because they have a network effect. It grows as the network grows. So you don't see there being any need for a universal, does it need to be one currency that becomes a universal? No, no, no, no. I like the idea that they'll all have to compete with each other. And I like the idea that they'll all be tradable into each other. And now they're tradable into fiat too, but I think that'll be less important over time, I think, more important. Once more companies like you can get a Kentucky Fried Bitcoin bucket, which is only available to be paid for in Bitcoin. In Canada, it's a Canadian thing. And then there are all these houses and yachts and whatever that are all, I get these email, only available in Bitcoin. You can't pay dollars for them. I think more and more that will happen and will be in a position where people laugh at you if you try to pay fiat currency for your coffee. Right. What about the volatility of cryptocurrency? How do you see that either being stabilized so that it can be used as money more easily? You can buy coffee and not worried about how much you're spending tomorrow, for example. Or is it going to be something that we have a currency that we use of money and a currency that we use to store value, like separate our produce cases of money? Whenever I hear this volatility question, I think, well, one Bitcoin is still just worth one Bitcoin. It is very stable. All these other currencies, these fiat currencies, are volatile against it and falling away over time. And so when they say volatility, I think, yeah, they're panicking. They go up, they go down. Bitcoin, one Bitcoin is still one Bitcoin, and it will continue to be. And so I think I'm not really thinking that it's volatile. I'm thinking it's Bitcoin, and it should be spent as you need to spend it. That's great. Thank you so much for your time. Yeah, my pleasure. Give you a fist bump.


Originally, there were a couple of drafts kicking around for part 8 that was a direct continuation of part 7. Mm-hmm. With the female character, right? With the powers and all that. The execs signed off on this Jason taking Manhattan. It's a great idea, let's do it. You know, and he was supposed to be in Manhattan for most of the movie, not an eighth of it. Yeah, he was supposed to do all sorts of cool things. He was supposed to, that the boxing match on the rooftop was actually supposed to take place in Madison Square Garden. Yeah, how they would have done that had gotten there, I don't know, but it would have been cool. There's supposed to be scenes shot on the Brooklyn Bridge, that would have been cool, like him I guess walking across it or... He was supposed to like scale the Statue of Liberty somehow, like come on, like that's a great image. Yeah, why again? I don't know.


I know of two people, two different situations, the exact same thing. One family, the son has a girlfriend and the other family, the son had a girlfriend and the parents found out about it. So family A, the mother told me, and I witnessed this myself and had seen it the entire time the kids were growing up, they did not teach their children the religion. They did not teach their children, Fik and Shadia was not a priority in the home. And so the mother admitted that she was disappointed, that that was a choice her son made and now he's even living with his girlfriend, he's in college, but they're a Muslim family. The mother said that I kind of feel like my hands are tied, my husband and I did not teach our children the deen at all, so how can I now tell him that he needs to fear Allah or that this is a sin or that it's hadam, so fair enough, fair enough. The other family, I learned a lot from their situation, so the other family actually always taught their children about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they taught their kids about Fik and Shadia and what Allah's rights are and what the sunnah of the prophet, sunnah and the sunnah is and they themselves followed the rules of the religion in the home. Despite all that, the son took a girlfriend in high school and the mom found out about it, the parents found out about it and I learned a lot from their response.  Your dad and I can go to Mr. and Mrs. Smith's home and we will give a marriage proposal on your behalf and the son was horrified he's like what are you talking about and the mom was like I know their address so this is not a problem and she was actually speaking very respectfully to her son and she said that I know their address and we can go and have a talk with the parents and explain that you're Muslim and we've raised you Muslim and these are the rules of our religion and she said to her son don't worry honey you don't have to live together you don't have to be a husband and wife the way your mom and dad or husband and wife you just have to make your relationship halal and if you decide to break up with her then you're going to pay her her mehar and she's going to have her rights fulfilled and then you guys will go your separate ways but she needs to know that she has rights according to our religion you're not going to hide that from her and so the parents made it about really about compassion and caring towards other people and she said I know that in you know other religions or other cultures it's okay boys and girls can get together before marriage and do whatever they want and they can have their hearts broken and there's no justice and everyone goes on but in our religion we have rules and so the son was like obviously not going for that he was completely terrified at the idea of his parents showing up to his girlfriend's home with the marriage proposal and the mom even painted a like a lovely scenario she's like you'll be able to go to the prom with her you know you'll be able to do all the things that you want to do you don't have to do it behind our backs and the community can know about it it will it nobody will say that oh look mr. and mrs. Muhammad's son is has a girlfriend behind their backs and they don't know this we will have dignity we will have respect she like painted it as something that was actually doable but what she did tell her son was she said you have let me see if I remember this correctly she said you have three options she said one you can end the relationship with your girlfriend and there are going to be tears and it's gonna it's gonna hurt it's gonna hurt her it's gonna hurt you but in the end you'll be choosing a law and you will be choosing to do the right thing and have a halal relationship by breaking up you can choose to get married and then continue doing what you're doing right now but it will be out in the open and it will be approved by Allah and it will be halal or the third is you can choose something that is going to take you to the Hellfire she was very very blunt with her language she didn't say you're gonna choose something we're gonna cut you off we're gonna have nothing to do with you and we disown you she said you will you can choose something that is going to take you to the Hellfire because you will be committing her up and she's like we have always taught you the rules of our religion these are your three options in front of you and she told him she had this talk with him and then her husband had a talk with them she said we're gonna give you a week to decide and he said okay I need a week he said I'm not gonna just give you the answer you want right now she's like that's fine and she they set a date they set a time they went out for brunch and she said in a week we're gonna go out to brunch and you let us know what you want to do and we will facilitate and he was not happy about it he met with them a week later and he accepted that he was going to end the relationship and it was not easy the mom told me there were a lot of tears and after the son ended the relationship with his girlfriend the mom cried with him she cried with him which blew me away because I was trying to think about how I would react if this was my situation and I don't know if I would have had that kind of empathy or sympathy I think I would have been like serves you right this is what you got yourself into now deal with the repercussions or the feelings but Michelle this mom had a lot of compassion and she held her son as he wept because it was so hard for him but what I loved about that example that I saw was she empowered him to make the right decision but it was only possible after a whole lifetime of showing that this is where the buck stops everything ends at Sharia and thick and what Allah expects of us if you haven't been doing that your entire life then all it then it's like the family a the first family I told about they their hands are tied what can they tell their kid now about what he can and can't do when they've never said anything before


Well, I think it's a few things. You, as an artist, assuming that you're tapped in enough and you're not necessarily solely relying on other companies to do this for you, you can have things at a baseline where you can see where you're listening patterns in particular areas or you can leverage some of that, map that with whether it's social data or if you have a newsletter or things like that, you can see where these things are and where these things all line up. That can help give you insights on where it may make sense to do the next tour stop, where it makes sense to have things. And of course, at a certain level, you do have booking agents and other partners that you can rely on for this stuff. But they're also looking at you as a thought partner to help make these decisions.