All right, you guys, you finally made it. This is the final talk of the day. And of course, we saved the best for last. And this is basically Chris Rock. He's been here for quite a while. It's probably the third time I've seen you here, third time. And he's been my personal favorite speaker, because the topics and the way he approaches problems are the most interesting ones. And I hope you enjoy it, like I will.  And you guys are in for a big treat, all right? Thanks for coming to my talk, everybody. Killer Hertz. You hear me all right? Yep, awesome. So for those who don't know me, I've been a cyber mercenary for 30 years. And I'm also the CISO and co-founder of Seamonster. I was at Defcon 23, where I presented I Will Kill You. This was a talk on vulnerabilities in the death industry. And I was also at Defcon 24 on how to overthrow our government with Simon Mann. So the reason I'm doing this talk is, as a kid, I grew up with terrorists on the news all the time. We had the IRA, Hezbollah. And in later years, we had Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Jama'i-Zamir. But it seems to have gone quiet. So where are all the good terrorists gone? Let's have a look at the numbers. Death from terrorism down 39% in Mina, Middle East North Africa in the last three years. And terrorist attacks in the West down 68% since 2018. So something's going on. The National Intelligence Report had terrorism as just a footnote. So we're going to have to give these guys a bit of a helping hand. And we're going to have to give them a bit of a hand, because if it's not considered a risk, we're not going to get a budget to do what we need to do. Just to give you some reference, in 2016, they were number one as the world risk. So they've had a bit of a downfall. So we need to give them a bit of a hand. In the good old days, you could just walk into a house of worship and pull the trigger.  But you can't do that anymore because of jammers. Jammers are being installed in churches, synagogues, and mosques. Not so much for the terrorist aspect, but to keep the audience from using their mobile phones. I originally got this idea from the talk when Julian Assange was in the Ecuadorian embassy, and they were using jammers to stop him communicating. So I reached out to Julian's team and said, what's the problem? And I said, we've tried everything, but we're being jammed. And that was a bit of a challenge for me. How do jammers work and how do you get around them? The thieves are using jammers to block signals going back to security monitoring stations. So for those of you who know jammers, there's a wide variety of jammers out there. There's jammers to protect military convoys, as the Humvees on the left. Also personnel. There's also jammers to protect the corporate sector as well, whether it be boardroom secrets leaking out. Drones, the spying. And also the prison systems using jammers as well to stop the prisoners from using mobile phones. So here we have an example of a Humvee jammer and being protected by using jamming signals to stop the ID from blowing up the Humvee and also the Talus Eclipse being protected by a wave to stop that jammer being targeted to being going off. So I'll give you just a basic overview of jammers. It's a complex topic but I'll just give you the basics. So we have what's called a spot frequency where if you know the frequency of the target like a mobile phone, you can just blast out a signal to that mobile phone frequency to block it. That's called spot. We have sweep where you're sending out signals across a wide range of targets whether it be garage door openers, baby monitors, digital phones, stuff like that. Or we have something called barrage where we send power across all signals all at once. Jammers are actually pretty smart and have evolved over the last 10 years where they actually have active intelligence where they'll actually look for a signal, record the signal and then play back the signal. So if there's something that the jammer's never seen before it can be used to record and play back for even pre-denonation. Here's an example of a jammer being used. We've got the Hurt Locker on the left there trying to disable the ID and we've got the terrorist on the balcony of Link trying to target to blow up the guy and he's got no protection. But on the right hand side we have again the Hurt Locker with a jammer protecting him from a detonation of that ID. Some of the big manufacturers of jammers, you guys will know these names. And the counter ID market is a $2 billion industry. Here's an example of a personnel jammer that the military will use and you'll notice the different antennas there, high, medium and low. We'll get into that more detail and you can see the specs beside it. Jammers need a lot of power so you'll actually see things like runtime and stuff like that. The commercial sector is exactly the same. You'll actually get spec sheets on what frequencies they protect and also runtime and wattage used per channel. Here's an example of a personal convoy, VIP jammer, to protecting VIPs and you can see the specs within there. I'll just expand on that a little bit there. You can see the channel one has a frequency between 20 and 60 megahertz. That gives you a 40 megahertz. Now if each receiver on an ID can be configured down to 10 kilohertz, that's 4,000 channels that this jammer must protect against just within that channel one frequency. So we're talking about five watts per channel. You're looking at 20 kilowatts of power just for that channel one. So that's why jammers will use different techniques whether it be spot sweep or barrage for protection. You guys would have seen this diagram before. It's a pretty much a radio frequency diagram all the way up from VLF to EHF. In the middle there you'll see stuff that we use every day for radio, wireless, mobile phones, shortwave radio and stuff like that. And you'll see the jammer essentially blocks out that frequency. You notice I haven't covered the low frequencies. I'll get into those a little bit later on. So jammers effectively block anywhere between 20 megahertz and 6500 megahertz. There is some specialist jammers that'll block down to one megahertz such as like radio frequencies. But that's huge scale jam protection. They're static, they're not mobile like we saw before on the Humvee. So I was interested in watts below 20 megahertz. Here's an example of an ID, how an ID is put together. Obviously we're not gonna go into all the details of an ID and we're gonna focus on the switch component but just so you know what we're looking at here. We have a container which essentially encompasses the ID. That can be anything, it can be a cigar box, it can be a steel box, it can be a dead cow on the side of the road or a vehicle. Obviously the shrapnel, the switch, the power source and essentially the explosives down below. I'm only gonna focus on the switch component. And you can see there, there's some military ordinance there that makes a good ID because essentially has some of those parts already whether it be the container, the shrapnel and the main charge. So all we need to do is add a power and a switch. So let's have a look at the different types of switches. We're not gonna go into all of them. I've written a paper, you can have a look at the other ones later on. But going from the bottom up, we have victim operated. This could be like a cigar box similar to what the unibomber used where the victim opens it up and gets blown up. And we have a timer which is gonna be anything from a kitchen timer, that can be a washing machine dial or it can be something as complex as a number 10 delay pencil which they use in World War II which is essentially a pencil with a copper section with a glass vial inside that when you crush the copper section, the vial would break and cupric chloride would then melt a striker and then kick off the detonation. The one we're looking at today is the command, the remote control component. So looking at the command, obviously we have things like tripwires and stuff like that. No, we're not looking at that today. We're looking at the radio control section. So in the red box there, you'll see things like cordless phone, mobile phone, garage door opens, baby monitors and things like that. Something that can be triggered remotely. Now the beauty of these technologies is when you're using things like mobile phone or cordless phones, digital phones, is they're been designed to put up with interference. So if they're being jammed, I'll actually switch frequencies. So jammers need to look at that and then move frequencies to support that. So I'm a bit of a practical guy. I'm happy to do the theory, but I like to look at the prac side together. So I've actually built the switch component of an ID with a garage door opener. But instead of having an initiator to kick the explosive off, I've just used a flashing light that seemed a little bit safer. So you can see there's no container there. There's the power source, the 12 volt battery, the initiator, which is actually the light in this case and the remote control garage door, which is the switch component. I've done the same with a mobile phone. In this case, I haven't used a light. I've used a piece of nichrome wire, which is to access an initiator. And I don't know if you can see that clearly, but it just lit up. So now that's the switch component. And then I'll show you how jammers work with that. So let's test our IDs out in the field. First with a garage door opener and then with a mobile phone. So that was shot with a phantom camera that does 1,000 frames per second to get that footage. So let's look at the counter measures. Let's look at the jammer. How does the jammer operate against these IDs? Again, here's our garage door and let's have a look at what a jammer does. So it completely kills the signal. Again, let's have a look at the same example with a mobile phone. So you can see the jammer is very effective. This is just a portable jammer, but very effective in blocking the signal from the phone. Now the jammer will either block the transmitter or the receiving device. Next we'll have a look at the jammer in the field. This case I've used a more powerful jammer just because the ranges that we had to do. So this is based on a Pelican suitcase jammer. So that jammer essentially blocks the communication. It's essentially a 10 to one mute ratio. So now that we know how jammers work, where are the holes in the technology? So we can see the jammer blocks those frequencies. We talked about it before, the 20 to 60 to 500 megahertz. But what about these other frequencies? VLF all the way down to ELF. You can see the wavelength size. I think that might be the problem of why jammers are not configured to work at those sort of ranges. Taking a closer look at these, the frequencies or wavelengths, you can see that they're used by the military, VLF, ELF and ELF. And you can actually see that it's actually used from a military point of view for things like navigation. There's also a way of communicating to submarines underwater. So these wavelengths actually travel around the world. In the 60s there was actually a project called Project ELF, where they actually built these arrays. And you can see the sizing there's 6,000 miles of buried cable and 240 mile antennas to actually transmit. So you can see now why the jammers are pretty much not configured below 20, just because of the size of the antennas required. Just to give you a visualization of how VLF works. Here's a cross section of the earth, 400 kilometers. On the top, Z, that's our ionosphere. That's 40 kilometers above the earth's surface. On the y-axis, the lowest point is the earth's surface. And you can see the VLF wavelength actually propagating or going around the earth's surface. So it's great for communication around the world. Okay, ULF, lower than VLF, range from 300 hertz to three kilohertz, wavelength 1,000 to 100 kilometers in length. And the two kilohertz which is gonna come up during this talk, the wavelength is 150 kilometers long. And you can see by the antenna size of the half wavelength, we're looking at a 75 kilometer antenna. Now having an ID with a 75 kilometer antenna up is pretty obvious. The signal travels through earth and through water. I need to explain something called near field and far field. Some of you will already know what this is, but I need to cover this in depth so you can see what technology we're using here. I'll use the duck in the water example. So picture a dead duck that you chuck in a pond. When you chuck the duck in the water, it will bounce left and right up and down. Away from that duck, you'll see ripples or waves, away from that target. That where the duck's moving left and right up and down, we call that near field. Where it has those nice waves, consistent waves, we call that far field.  That's radio comms, but it's the near field part that I need to communicate to you guys on what this tech that I'm using. So here's a more technical than the duck view of near versus far. In this case, instead of the duck, we have the antenna. We have the wavelength reactive. I'll get into that a little bit later. Moves into fractional pattern, then far field. Another technical view, we have just before the transition period, that's our near field range. And you can see something called an E field, electrical field, and also H field, magnetic field.  It's 90 degrees out from phase, as it moves into far field, which is essentially two wavelengths from the antenna. The reason I wanted to show you this is the H field is something that we're looking into, the magnetic field. We're not interested in the E field, it's the magnetic field we're after, before it reaches far field. Again, another diagram there. The point that I wanted to show you this diagram for is just where you can see where two wavelengths out for far field and one to two wavelengths for near field. And that reactive zone there, near the antenna, is actually a transmits power. So we can actually transmit power in that reactive zone. And this is the far field. This is what we use pretty much every day with wireless comms. You can see we've got the electrical field and the magnetic field working at right angles, perpendicular to each other, with a clear path. This is like the waves from the duck. It's just a clear communication path. And we use near field every day. You guys use it for payment processing or proximity cards running at 13.56 megahertz or the older 125 kilohertz. You notice the antenna is a coil. And that coil used to pick up that H field that we were talking about before in the near field range, not the E field. Now all our lives in security, we were taught near field, great for security communications at short range. And that's true. It's got a great range from one to five centimeters. But what happens if we change that? What happens if we use two kilohertz? Our near field range is 75 kilometers. Now I can work with 75 kilometers. That gives me a communication channel that I can use as long as I can get a large enough antenna to communicate at that range. So how do we create a wavelength without the massive antenna? Something called earth mode. We're essentially using the earth as an antenna. So NATO defines earth mode as three separate ways. We've got to make sure that you guys know which one's which. The first one is up and over. A large antenna is inserted into the ground and the VLF, that large wavelength or ULF, will move up, across and then down. That's not what we're using today. We have our deep strata mining comms, the one that actually goes through the earth. This is used in the mining industry. Up to eight kilometer loops on the surface of the earth and uses a magnetic field to communicate down to minus. You guys may or may not be aware that you can't use radios underground. So there's ways of getting around that using magnetic fields. It can also be used for blasting as well. So if you've got a blast caps underground, you can actually send a signal which is safer from above the ground to blow it up. You can also communicate to miners on one way communication or use for asset tracking as well for objects that are under the ground. And the third one is the one that we're looking at today. It's an adaption of something called conduction current mode where two electrodes are inserted into the earth with a voltage applied to both electrodes and a magnetic field is created in the earth's surface to a receiving target. Now that can be either picked up by an E field and another two probes at the other end are not interested in that. That was used by Morse and in World War I to communicate between bunkers. Or the one that we're using today is a magnetic field loop antenna. So before we create some hardware, we're gonna have to do some simulations to find out what's the best frequency, what's the best distance between electrodes and what's the best voltage to apply. So I use three different programs to do this. One's called ANSYS, one's REST2MOD and one's CS2Studio. You can see the block of the earth we use for the simulation, nine by nine by two kilometers, the two kilometers deep. And we use electrodes that were two meters in length, one meter into the ground and they were started off as 10 meters apart from each other. This will give you an idea of what the signal actually looks like. So from the simulation, you can actually now visualize to see that the signal not just travels along the surface of the earth, it travels in the earth itself. Again, radio frequencies don't travel underground, but at least low spectrum, it does. So the first three frequency we use were 73 kilohertz, nine kilohertz and 0.1 kilohertz. And that shows you the bit of the range that we use. So 10 meter electrode separation, only one amp was applied. We're using no modulation, no preamps. This is just basic, which frequency can generate the most amount of indistance for signaling. And the 0.1, as you can see, was close to a kilometer in length. Here's a spreadsheet, more details in my paper, about 73 kilohertz. We can effectively get a range of 1600 meters using 1000 meter separation between electrodes, 3600 watts of power, and that's the usable distance. At nine kilohertz, you can see we can get further distance. We can get up to 2,800 meters with nine kilohertz. Again, this is with no modulation. This is with no impedance matching. We'll get into that a little bit later. And finally, 0.1 megahertz. You can see there we're getting ranges of up to five kilometers in length. And that was the simulation based on 0.1 megahertz. Now, why don't we just use 0.1 megahertz? It obviously goes really far. The problem we have is that at that range we're dealing with all the other nonsense in the world. So we're dealing with natural and man-made noise, natural being lightning strikes. So a lightning strike, I couldn't even believe this figure, eight million strikes per day hit the earth. And like I showed you with that VLF wavelength that goes around the earth, exactly the same thing happens with lightning strikes. And we're talking like a billion volts. So the signal goes pretty far. Man-made noise we're talking about things like utilities, transformers, stuff that is a side effect of man-made equipment. So instead of using 0.1, which has a lot of noise, the best range was one to four kilohertz. In this slide you can have a look at what it looks like between low power versus high power. Obviously the more power you submit, the longer the signal. So you can see one kilometer at 20 watts, whereas we got 2.5 kilometers at 3,600 watts of power. Also TX electrode separation. We've got one at 10 meters and one at 100. So we're starting to see a pattern here. Something I'll get into a little bit later, but it's something called normal versus tangential. Normal means an antenna is lying flat on the ground. That is that loop antenna lying flat on the ground. Tangential is when that antenna, that loop is actually vertical, 90 degrees from the earth's surface. Now why don't we use tangential? I'll get into that a little bit later. We obviously get more distance, but we absolutely have some issues with an up and down. Especially with an IED, I don't want that standing above the earth's surface, but there's other reasons as well. We did some e-field tests as well. You may remember from the picture I showed you before, and actually there's a tiny little picture there where we've got the e-field up the top in near field and also the H-field. This was done previously through history, as I said, Morse during World War I. The range was not as good. Another thing we had to take in effect before we designed our hardware was impedance matching. Impedance matching means matching the soil to what you're using the device in. By matching the impedance on the receiver and the transmitter, we actually got further gain from the hardware device and also within the simulation. So we can see we got 1.5 kilometers in dry soil with matched impedance, but we only got 0.7 with non-matched. So in the hardware, we needed to actually put in some impedance matching. Another thing to take into account because we're using frequencies which have a lot of noise is modulation techniques. The best one to use through the earth is something called ANC, adaptive noise cancellation, MLD, maximum likelihood detection, and DAFB, decision-aided feedback. We could double our distance by using the right modulation techniques. In the paper that I've written, which is on the DEF CON media server, I've actually got schematics for different modulations so you can try them out. We talked before about using power through the earth. We can actually transmit at 3,600 watts. We can actually move power through the earth at about 50 meters. It's not a huge range, but we can actually move power through the earth. And you might think, well, what's the point of that? Well, it can be used in things like agriculture. We can actually run this across a farm and have sensors underground without power. I talked before about normal versus tangential antenna placement, where tangential had better range than normal. The beauty of normal is if you're lying at flat on the ground, it's immune from jammers. With tangential, in the unlikely scenario that someone's running a jammer that's, we're talking thousands of kilometers away in far field against the one to four kilohertz range, what we need to do is use two antennas at right angles to each other. And sometimes we would need a whip antenna to confuse the jammer. And just using the simulation software, we can actually see that by using the right frequency, the right separation, the right modulation, and upping the power, we can actually get big ranges with this thing. That's 4,200 meters. That's without preamps. Okay, that's enough of the simulation stuff. Let's go to the hardware. This was my prototype using those simulations. So on the left, we have the transmitter, which has got a signal generation power pack modulation. And on the right hand side, we have a circular antenna. I'll get deeper into that. A laptop for doing modulation, as well as de-logging, encryption, and stuff like that. And battery and analog. A lot of this can be replaced by using things like Arduino where we can use pure synthesis. So here's our transmitter with a commercial version where we've replaced a lot of those parts with smaller parts, obviously. When I design hardware, it's always best to build big, make it easier on yourself, and then shrink it down when you know it actually bloody works. So in this case, we're using the Arduino or Pi to do the encryption and processing. And here's the RX component. We shrunk that down quite considerably, again, using a Arduino. You can see on the ground there that circle. I'll give you a close-up on that in a sec. And an LCD display. So you can actually communicate, not only on an IED, but you can actually communicate messages between transmitter and receiver at those distances. And on the one on the left, we have the transmitter. This is the electrodes. In the real world, in an IED setting, you're not gonna use electrodes. You're gonna use things that already exist, stop signs, picket fences, stuff like that. And on the right, we have our antenna, which I'll expand that out. So there's a one-meter diameter antenna with copper wire that's rounded. That is our loop antenna at large scale. Here are the field tests that we did in Australia. TX electrodes 50 meters apart. We only used 20 watts of power because we were in the middle of nowhere. And we received, we got to at 923 meters in distance. And that was with basic ASK modulation. Something interesting that did pop up was this result here. And on closer analysis, you'll see that red line just going across from east to west. That was actually some fencing wire underground. So you'll notice the signal being a H field magnetic field actually transmitted along the wire. The beauty of that is, you can actually get longer distances by using something called utility assisted mode. And there's actually some literature on the internet where you can actually look where hobbyists are using underground pipes in the UK to get longer signals with even basic equipment that I'm putting forward here. So in other words, if you're using an urban setting, you'll get further distances. Everything I've built is homebrew so you can build your own, including the schematics. And again, they're all on the media server. So in summary, this is what we've built. We've got a commercial transmitter with two electrodes in the ground at varying distance. We've got a large scale jammer and we've got our loop antenna under the ground. So let's have a look at it in effect. Besides the ID component, we have other use cases for this technology. Again, agriculture, as I mentioned before, about communicating underground sensors. Again, you don't need power. You can actually communicate short distance with power. Also another use cases spying. We're running at one to two kilohertz. The jammer, like I said, is not listening at 20 to 65 megahertz. And you need large antennas to pick these sort of signals up. Also in a war setting as well. So just to summarize, the device will communicate up to seven miles in length. It operates at one to four kilohertz. Conductive current magnetic field, ULF in near field, not far field. Jammers work in far field. Configurable from 20 watts to 3,600 watts and scale up to 20 kilowatts. Obviously, the more kilowatts you're running, the more difficult hardware it is to manage at the transmitter end. Our RX only runs on 20 watts. Impedance matching for different soil types, whether it be dry, sand, or wet soil. Encrypted message. We've got modulation options, as I said, jammer fruit. And that's the end of the talk. If you've got any, do you want any further details on the tech, you can have a look at the paper on the media server. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Hello everyone, this is Dr. Michael Greger coming to you live from my treadmill For my monthly Q&A session just did a Just did a YouTube but not YouTube Facebook live And now doing this for those who are familiar with my work every year I read through every issue of every English language nutrition journal in the world so busy folks like you Don't have to and then I can follow the most interesting most grand-bytes most practical findings the new video is not because I upload every day To my non-profit site nutrition facts org Everything on the website is free. There are no ads no commercial sponsorships strictly non-commercial no corporate sponsorships Everything's free no ads I Just put up as a public service as a labor of love as a tribute to my grandmother's right I do everything that I do let us get to these questions and so I can answer them up for you They are flowing in all right so I'm going to go to the top and Hopefully they won't flow too fast Richard ass if a smoothie contains buried beans and greens Wow That's how I'm do you're making me hungry. Is it okay to blend oats into the smooth here? It's better to stir them in after blending so they're not ground into flour It would be kind of weird. How would you drink a smoothie with raw? Are you spinging like? Cooked oatmeal. I Mean you could you could pour your smoothie onto oatmeal I think what Richard is talking about is a video. I did talking about how even How there's a tear even healthier than a whole grain so obviously we want to stay away from refined grains We want to stick to whole grains, but there are whole grain flour products and then intact whole grains and so ideally Instead of just using You know whole grain products. We should use intact whole grain products So for example, you know oatmeal and Keemots et cetera as opposed to something like whole wheat spaghetti or a whole grain bread I'm where the grains are powdered and the reason not only because of the glycemic response, but Then we so thoroughly Digest those foods when it's powdered like that That we leave none for our gut bacteria We are essentially starving on microbial cells. So they did a study where they compared eating I Will turn that ringer off. Sorry about that. I've had interviews all day long So there's a study that looked at for example eating chickpeas versus eating hummus eating You know tahini versus sesame seeds things like that and they found that indeed There was a greater stool weight meaning a greater growth of bacteria of a good gut bacteria When you eat the exact same foods but in unblended form because then some of those pieces make it down and can feed our Good bacteria which starts so? intact grains are good, but doesn't have to be at every meal necessarily You can blend your oats up or just eat them You'd think you'd enjoy them more if you just took some steel cut oats and added some berries and nuts and seeds and cinnamon Also, it's wonderful things on top So that'd be my recommendation and then you can have a smoothie next to it with your all the other wonderful stuff. Anyway, all right Richard asks another question. Say wait a second two in a row. Well, hey, he got here first and next time you get here first You can ask multiple questions. Oh Oh, so the question from Richard is Oh for my optimum nutrition recommendations, are there Target quantities for smaller children and indeed. Yes, there are different recommendations for v12 D etc The there's a good list at the website by Jack Norris called vegan health org and so as a has a Basically a chart says that this many kilograms at this age you take this amount for whatever so although there was a new study Just came out suggesting that Children I believe 8 through 14. These were in Pittsburgh needed Yeah, 2000 international units a day during the winter months. I think was from October through April to get their vitamin D levels To good and so 2000 my international units That's what I encourage people to everyone the adults to take so it may be for kids over eight that 2000 would apply all the way down to that age bill as dr. Graham Bill says dr. Greger for Surgeon General make eating plants cool again Sounds good to me. Mrs. L So asks if I have any advice for people with thyroid issues. Oh specifically don't have a thyroid What and your thank you you're welcome for your for the work? So yeah, I mean well thyroid issues, I mean if you don't have a thyroid they need to take a thyroid hormone replacement therapy something like thyroxin There's not much more one can say about that if one however But for people who still have a thyroid which is either underactive or overactive The advantage to data now coming out larger study of plant based you just suggest that those Who eat healthy are more likely to be used thyroid meaning healthy have a healthy thyroid levels less hyperthyroidism for example There's actually new data on actually treating lowering one's thyroxin dose I've some for someone with hypothyroidism Through a dietary intervention. What's funny? I was on Facebook An hour ago half an hour ago, and I couldn't remember which of the topics I'd run across that You know what I do is I go through I have an army of volunteers retrieving articles for me So I send them list I want these thousand articles They bring them back to me and so I can just read the abstracts and forget which of the topics that was helping but Stay tuned and I will and And in the daily videos and blogs I will eventually get around to that one. And so if you're subscribed you get an email about it Bill again is back saying questions and actually an efficacy from ground spices So I say I should get our antioxidants from real foods and to avoid supplements Well ground spices are real foods when I say real foods I mean whole food plant-based a ground spice is a whole food Ground up, but it's there.  That's a whole food I mean they grind it really small so cooks quickly, but it's still a whole food now We still cut out to be better to feed your gut microbe sure But and are I mean, but I know ground spice is good Yes, you can take them in a capsule or something if you wanted to because you're so potent You can just take small amounts of them like a quarter teaspoon of turmeric every day But no reason you can't just sprinkle that turmeric onto your food Bill again asked we had some amla and ground cloves to morning smoothie Disgusting, but very healthy should we consider them real foods or bad supplements? No, that's real foods Amla is just a fruit that's dried cloves. I don't know what botanically that is, but it's It's a healthy morning as well. In fact the most potent source of Antioxidants right clothes All right, Jen G asks that It's been her experience the endometriosis and fibrocystic breast symptoms switched off by a plant-based diet and on by an animal-based diet I have some videos on fibrocystic breast disease Do I have endometriosis? I know I have either they're coming or they're already on the site. I get mixed up often But just type in endometriosis and pop right up.  Adolescents get every day No 600 milligrams should do it Um And of course that's from whole foods right like low octalate dark green leafies That's the best source of calcium because of all the wonderful things that come with it Um, what uh gen g is back asking is that what's her little icon flowers pretty I thought was pumpkins for a second Um, what do I make of the claim that the b12 and algae diminishes by the level b12 in the blood? Um, uh, that's only if you don't have a source of b12 So there's uh, there are b12 analogs in certain seaweeds sea vegetables That are unusable by the body and in fact If you are critically low on b12, you can actually interfere and actually kind of Kind of clogged up some of our b12 receptors But that's only a problem for people not getting b12. So as long as you're getting b12 So I recommend 2,500 milligrams once a week. It's a chemical bomb. I get all the b12 You need then you need not worry about consuming animal. Excuse me, not animal b12 analogs Okay Jen g also asked What is it in animal bioparks specifically that cause the lactic acid type sensation? a swinish and sluggishness in the muscles Uh, I don't know of anything that would cause like instant swinish and sluggishness in one's muscles um Whatever if you eat something and it causes that stop eating whatever it is regardless of what it is. All right hike vegan asks Uh Understands the folic acid something to be avoided meaning synthetic folic acid pills But uh, and it's found in many brands and nutrition use is worth to get Towards as a brand without um folic acid. So if you eat lots of nutritional use, so I give it the daily thing um, then yeah, um taking uh As long as you're getting enough food fully I mean you need lots of beans lots of greens every day um, then uh, then yeah getting a non folic acid supplemented source of uh, uh, nutrition used to be great If you're not taking a b12 supplement though, you want to make sure it is b12 fortified nutrition use if that is your only source mrs. L asks Do I have advice for oh this is this is mrs. L without a thyroid? Do I have any advice for um people without a thyroid regarding b12 d selenium iodine iron? Well, I guess I I mean the only thing it would really matter is um I guess you throw your iodine requirements off because the principle Reason we need iodine is to create thyroid hormones, but you're actually taking thyroid hormones Um because you don't have a thyroid and so presumably you would not have the same requirements Barb Hanley asks does nutrition use turn folic acid into folate?  Yes Um, uh, bm a a is made by blue green algae um, and so that's why I need um, it'd be ideal to stay away from blue green algae supplements So stay away from seafood stay away from spirulina Which we contaminate with blue green algae, but chlorella is okay because it's a green algae not a blue green algae and the Dha is from golden algae completely different and so don't have to worry about bm a a myriam Asks what is the best whole food plant-based advice for women getting off the pill and looking to avoid weight gain and acne The best advice is to eat healthy Um, and so eat a whole food plant-based diet. What else do you need? Um, and that should take care of both the weight gain and the acne um, nicole Newington asks I mentioned in the book that I don't recommend kambucha. Why? Um, big guy just type in kambucha kambucha into nutrition facts.org and see there's a uh case report of lactic acidosis Um, resulting in a coma from kambucha consumption Um, and so I prefer my foods not to kill me or not even give me the risk of dying Um, and so that's why so it's extremely rare. But why take the risk? Um, unless there's something you can't get otherwise Um, and the other fermented foods the problem is the salt so the reason sauerkraut Um, kimchi other things highly salted the salt isn't good for you It's not that the cabbage isn't good for you or the lactic acid bacteria are in good for you um But if you really really love sauerkraut then fine take sauerkraut put it in a colander Um, rinse it under running water and get rid of at least some of that salt I mean you still have that nice tangy flavor But they'll dramatically decrease the salt content and sodium is not good for us We should really try to stay under 15 million 1500 milligrams a day. Which is the american heart association recommendation Mary margaret salters asks Um, she enjoyed my video on advanced glycation end products and polycystic ovary syndrome Do I have any other recommendations for p costa? Yes um In fact, I think in this new volume. So I just released volume 35 Um, and these are the videos that will be coming up on nutrition facts. I think I have a whole video on p cost um, so Stay tuned. It's popping right up Richard asks is folic acid found somebody really likes folic acid questions Folk acid found nutrition is something we started. Oh, yeah, we already did that. Okay Renata Sorry if I pronounced your name wrong mega six to three disbalance Um in spite of a hopeful plan based on 20 20 grams of plexi daily Are you eating too many mixed nuts? Um, well, you could I mean if uh, if that was the if you're in a most uh, people get a mega six is from junky oils concealed oil Corn oil safflower oil sunflower oil And junk food that contain those oils because they're cheap. Um, but if you're not eating oils um Well, first of all, I wouldn't worry about your ratio and you're getting your flax seeds But if for some reason you wanted to change your ratio You could choose nuts that are higher mega three versus mega six is like one that's won't say healthy anyway But it's not something I would worry about if you are eating a whole food plant-based diet synthia RN nurse synthia ass Is there a plant source for effectively healing a leaky gut? Whereas bovine Colostrum The only food that heals is commonality. Why would the uh, why would Colostrum from a bovine help human gut leakiness I would be surprised if that were the case, but I've not done research into bovine colostrum. So, uh, we'd have to look that up um gut leakiness The best way to heal gut leakiness is to keep your gut microbes happy your gut microbiome Is uh, one of the roles is to maintain that nice barrier function um in your epithelial lining of your gut and so keep our Gut flora happy. How do you do that? Do you take probiotics?  Okay, moving on to beef helps Have been eating all fruit plant based diet for one half year still have high triglycerides um and uh wondering if uh He or she is eating too many whole fruits The answer is no so the studies where you give people whole fruits and triglycerides. I should go down Now if too much fruit juice would do it and if you If you have high triglycerides, I would encourage moving to attack grains away from Even whole grain flour products Like bread And that should bring your triglycerides down What would I recommend and also, you know, no added sugars, etc. Okay Mrs. L is back and asked what would I recommend? Oh for vegan with high cholesterol because they have low thyroid hormones You treat the cause and get your thyroid hormones fixed either by Um, you know, uh presumably in your case without the thyroid. I'm taking an adequate source adequate level of thyroxin hormone replacement therapies Victoria asked do I know if there's a natural way to avoid getting loose skin when losing a lot of weight Or to tighten it after a significant weight loss? No, the only way is to not gain that weight in the first place um, otherwise, um, there's surgical approaches Or you just don't worry about it and be happy that you've lost all that weight All right, victoria Asked another question heard that. Oh, um, oh, yeah, that's awesome. Oh, yeah So she's saying that I am going to be on an upcoming show a tv show from the creator of the biggest luthazur jd roth absolutely um, and I'm very excited about that. It should be out this year Uh, I think I'm gonna be a couple episodes. Okay thomas Or says, um thomas has a bad upset stomach Probably from some over-the-counter cold medication It's a good whole food plant based treatment for an upset stomach slash diarrhea Those are kind of two separate things if you look for dyspepsia dy sp e p s i a Um, that is the kind of medical term for upset stomach Um into nutrition facts. It'll pop right up. I think the dyspepsia video that most recently was On carbonated water. So drinking like club soda or something for dyspepsia. Don't quote me. Check it out on the site and make sure Um, listen to the videos don't necessarily listen to me live Because there's just with how many videos I must have one two thousand videos Um, and uh, sometimes I can get things mixed up Particularly under an avalanche of all the new studies that are coming out So I don't want to mix things up always go to the site because that is something that's fact checked Um extensibly. Okay, Sylvia Spelled differently than I'm used to Um says she he or she it looks like she from picture Um, is that been a vegan for a year and a half with abthus ulcers? Um, but there's better now, but what more could you do? So after social social is a little a cold sorry to see the inside of your lip um Do I have uh look up abthus on uh nutrition facts dot org I don't know if I have any videos on that Check it out. Uh, let me know if I don't then type in abthus And uh dyad into bub med dot gov and see if anything pops up and if it does and if there's paywall Let me know I'll get the article for you if something good. I'll do a video about it Super bruba Asks our vegan protein powders derived from peat protein unhealthy They're unhealthy. Well, some foods aren't unhealthy or healthy. They are healthier or unhealthier And so is peat protein healthy compared to what compared to peas? No way. Eat your peas, right? I mean they say peat protein They don't mean like green garden peas or talking about like yellow split peas Yellow split peas as opposed to a peat protein powder because then in addition to getting the protein You get all the other wonderful nutrients found the whole being you're not just getting isolated peat protein Um, again whole food plant-based. Um a peat protein isolate is not a whole food robert um Says He loves how life is so simple exercise. Any healthy two simple things we shall be doing anyways. Yep I couldn't agree more steve So not really a question yourself statement steve asks does the antioxidant level in green tea fall with repude with repeated brewing in the same leaves absolutely Um, but uh, it doesn't go to zero so you can keep re brewing over and over again And you'll get less and less but is better than nothing. It's better than just drinking water um, uh, all right A steve re asks would I recommend more? Uh Is uh, uh, capitalized m or e I don't know if that's an acronym for something um Oh, uh, he or she is saying they get plant-based and lifestyle health advice from a dietitian nurse practitioner or a Physician are you asking who to get it from? Um, uh, you would get it from someone who knows the most um Both dietitians and p p a's and physicians would typically know very little about Healthy diets surprising Um, especially since dietitians, that's all they do is study nutrition. But unfortunately um, they're being taught And funded in many ways by the very food companies that are trying to confuse the public rather than educate the public There was just a story today of I guess the new head of the I have looked at the story new hand of amd the uh, academy nutrition dietetics and some ties to the soda industry That so does not surprise me Super blessed says um, he or she would like to know what Things really causes melasma And more importantly how to get rid of it Not on What is mel- okay, that's all right.   Um, yeah, I that's a good question. I do not know I've never run across that my research again If you do a PubMed search for it and any dietary studies come up. Let me know. I'll do a video about it. Absolutely. Sorry I can't be more helpful Um, uh, you know, we just don't get enough good dermatology in medical school. That's one of that's one of the things Let's actually do a dermatology rotation, which I didn't Um, uh, you just don't run across a lot of these things Um, Serrano asked do I know of any specific foods that can lower bilirubin levels? um bilirubin levels, um so There certainly are, you know, I talked some videos about um, bile acid sequestration which like cooked beets versus raw beets and things I don't know if that would actually lower bilirubin levels again something I would have to look up If you find a study yourself pass it along and I will look at it Marie asks is ingesting a slowly cell mental iron in the supplement as safe as ingesting non-human iron implants No supplement is as safe as just eating it where From its produce isle source Of course me the acceptance exceptions being vitamin b12 is not made by plants Not made by either made by little microbes and blank of the earth I'm best gotten from a supplement form Vitamin d not really a vitamin at all.  Unless you are deficient for some reason if you are deficient you gotta find out wait a second. Why are you deficient? Maybe you're losing iron. And so you may want to see a gi doc To make sure you're not bleeding in your gastrointestinal tract, which can be a sign of disease Um, uh, my blue heaven ass is amla powder, which is dried Indian gooseberries ordered off the internet safe Um, well, I can tell you that all the studies have been done on Ayurvedic supplements Which include amla have found no heavy metal contamination of amla They have however found heavy metal contamination of some trifola supplements, which is a combination of amla with two other plants Um, and but it seems like if they're just doing a one ingredient thing rather than a mix that they don't add Heavy metals. That's how heavy metals end up in Ayurvedic supplements. They actually add mercury and lead um, which is just Crazy, um, but they don't seem to do that with amla or at least that hasn't been ever tested positive for those heavy metals And so, um, it should be safe Um Steph asks How to lower test stop high testosterone levels in females? Um, so for example a p cost is associated with higher, um, kind of male hormone levels Would a liver cleanse help? Um, uh, your liver cleanses all the time. That's what livers do. You don't need to clean your liver You just need to eat healthy. Um, there are um, so if you look at my p cost videos There are some things, uh, like experiment tea, etc. That can lower testosterone levels Um, and so just type in p cost and testosterone Integrogen facts and you get all those videos with more on the way And That's a good question Shane about intermittent fasting, but unfortunately it's 1 30. I have got to go I've got interviews packed till nine o'clock tonight from nine to nine 12 hours. And so I've got to run and uh But thank you everybody until next month where I'll do facebook lives and youtube lives and answer all your questions Thanks so much. Have a wonderful wonderful month


Before I commence my speech, I want to make a statement about the situation in the Middle East. The slaughter of more than 30,000 innocent people, including children when they were born in Gaza, is nothing less than genocide, but where there is to be arrested and jailed for life. The fascist state of Israel has continuously bombed and shelled Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem for nearly five months. These territories are the land of the Palestine which Israel has unlawfully occupied since 1967.  If the United States, the United Kingdom can unlawfully invade states like Grenada, Iraq or Libya, there shall be part and parcel of a force together with all the Arab states, driving Israel physically back from the occupied territories of Israel. 1985 fought the greatest workers' fight since the days of the Chartists and the Paul Bournemars to save jobs, pits and communities. I especially want to pay tribute to the young miners in 1984 and 1985 who in every sense fought for the future. And of course, like Bernadette, I want to pay especially tribute to the magnificent women against pit closures, who had a forefront of our struggle on film. But on the 12th of May 1984, parcel of the planning of trying to bring together these brave women who would establish support groups in every coalfield, bringing them together and one national body was done on the 12th of May. When in Barnsley South Yorkshire we staged a march, more important, they staged a march. I confess that I anticipated, if we were lucky, 500 would appear. I arrived from a meeting with the government appointed national coal wood to greet them. I couldn't believe my eyes. 10,000 women were covering the area in Barnsley. The route that the march was to take had been planned by the police. But of course, women didn't do what men always do. And they totally get it achieved constantly. We're not going that way, we're going that way. And he said, but that's the centre of town. That's the reason we're going that way. They marched and as we came to the public hall, not only did we feel it, or they feel it, over 3,000 people packed in, an equal number outside. But on arrival, they were told by the assistant chief constable, oh, you can't bring Barnsley into this place. They just brushed him aside. There were only two people, a male, allowed into the meeting. Jack Taylor, the president in Yorkshire and myself. And as we got to the podium, we were approached by the police and the fire brigade.  I looked around, I said, you're asking me to go out, you've got nothing coming. But if you want to try it, try it, you'll lose. That particular police officer had a grain of intelligence. He said, I note the points you made, and I will give you time to vacate the hall. He said, it's 12 o'clock and I want to see this hall completely emptied by six of the Women Against Preclosures. A lot of them, unfortunately, no longer were deficient. For the first time, we had women in attendance who never left a little village. But here they were exercising for the first time their right to be equal to men. And more important, to support men who were on strike. The minus strike of 1984-1985 brought our union unprecedented support from workers in Contrerasal, including the Tory government, that we had a right to strike in accordance with the United Nations Conventions 87 and 98. We had support. Irrespective of all their attempts to stop us of receiving from people in France, Spain, South Africa, yes, the Soviet Union, the Eastern War countries. And on Christmas, when people in the media say it was the bleakest time in the world, and the happiest moments have been in. 40 juggernauts, growing into Britain for a change by their doctors. They brought food, medical supplies, and a Christmas present for every child of a striking minor. And the women were magnificent. One of the most interesting things, we had the leading bands in Britain, the leading soloists being ready for their concerts to come and perform before them. We had some of the best. And they didn't want to go. It was a great day, and I'll never forget it. The French FGT were magnificent. They primarily did things that were against the law. Bow lords of coal loaded in France, coming from different parts of the East, suddenly got sunk in the same. In other words, they exercised the piggy right to stop them. Like hundreds of thousands of trade union and labour movements, they provided support for us throughout that dispute. The option being said in the smears that have been made against certainly one leader of the NUM, what we got, where we got it, despite the fact that everywhere we went, we were exonerated. But we raised over 10 billion pounds in money that was distributed to every area in the British coal field. Like hundreds and thousands in the trade union movement, they provided for us throughout the dispute. 14 years ago, the Tory government, led by Margaret Thatcher, declared war on the NUM. They'd been preparing for a showdown with the union since before the 1979 general election. They couldn't forget the victorious minor strikes of 1969, 1972 and 1974. And no, I haven't made a mistake. In 1969, we had an unofficial strike, no balance, no conference decision in support of surface workers having the right to an eight-hour day. We won it in 1972. I had an experience that I lived with for the rest of my life. I went down to a cork depot in Birmingham. We'd been in the Sunway. Pickets couldn't just stop. A small picket line was all we needed for a cork depot. It was that man at Mount Everest. For four days, the miners from different parts, but primarily Yorkshire and South Wales, fought another way I got arrested. By Tuesday, it became apparent to me that something had to be done. And I addressed no fewer than 13 meetings in one evening. And I asked the movement in Birmingham, don't give us sympathy. Don't give us pounding notes. And all though they are, what we want is you to come out on strike and join the picket line. And the lad who led them after Harper said, when do you want us there, brother? And I said, Thursday. And on Thursday, find this most fantastic thing I've ever seen. 20,000 Birmingham workers down tools and joined the miners in the process. If Tasha was determined, it would never happen again. Of course, she also remembered that in 1974, we didn't only bring down the government in debt pay policy, we brought them down completely. I think this is going to strike. It's often to be said that the miners failed in 1984 and 95 because we didn't have a ballot. It was the wrong law. It's a lie. We took action in accordance with our rules. And rule 41 gives an area the right when it's under attack to take industrial action. Therefore, we called a special conference in October 1983. The miners' dispute didn't begin in March 1984. And for the benefit of a representative from the sun, if one scrap, break it, break it. 1983 is before 1984. They said it's the wrong time of the year to have a strike in March. We started it in November. At that conference, unanimously, we voted to have a national overtime back. It was a success. Within a period of four months, we had reduced the stocks of coal in practically every area, including power stations, ports, steelworks and other organisations. But it wasn't enough because the coal board under government instructions intended to try and destroy the union. On March the 1st, the National Coal Board of Directors in four areas announced the immediate closure of five pits. Caught in Wood and Bolcliffe Wood in Yorkshire, Harrington in Durham, Snowdown in Kent and Paul Mays in Scotland. On Tuesday, the 6th of March, the act that they brought in to run the coal board I'm talking about that. A board swearing, confirmed the further 20 would be closed. That decision was unanimous. A National Executive Committee meeting two days later, Scotland and Yorkshire saw endorsement in accordance with the rule for permission to take action. They were given authority. Within a week, we had 180,000 miners on strike. All of them taking decisions within the area by a show of hands in meetings. I'm fed up of reading and listening to critics who say we picked the wrong time of the year. What better time to start an industrial dispute in an industry that provided heat and warmth than November of a year. I say that same principle to record straight. It was from March to start picketing on a wider scale. We have a special National delegate conference and I want to pay tribute to the way that that was run and the decision that was taken on the 19th of April, 1984 for any historian that's here. Delegates rejected a call for a national strike ballot. It was debated and put to the vote and the vote in the conference was to support the 190,000 or 80% of Britain's miners who were already on strike in accordance with National rule 41. But we also had to pick targets. I haven't said this before but I'll say it now. I was convinced that the steel industry should be the area's main packaging target. Far more important than power stations. Far more important than other targets such as going to Nottingham. Important though they were. I didn't just pluck that idea out of the air. I had information from a minister. A minister in the Tory government what the position was. The television and radio broadcasts were telling people that they're up to nine months supply It wasn't that but it didn't matter because I knew that at the steel plant they'd only got three weeks and I know that had we had mass picketing from the start that picketing targets in Rayman, Sprague and Scotland, Port Talbot in Wales and Scumptop in Yorkshire that strike could have been over within two months. Who supports that? Ironically and I don't ask you to buy it for God's sake. Fascists out of biography. She admits the normally three weeks supply and at all costs she says we had to do everything we had in our armory to defeat the NUM. She devoted an autobiography a whole chapter to me. I think she folks in me. You're going to bury your eyes up to me now. Immediately was because there were people in my left who didn't share my view and it wasn't until British coke broke an agreement that they'd reached without authority from the national NUM that they'd be taking coke from depots like Orbrief that they began to realise there was only one way to stop it and stop it we did and I'll tell you why in a minute. The decision of the mining zillion on the 19th of April advised areas that picketing must be confined on an area basis because we knew it was both legal and morally right. It was obvious that if we could master enough pickets in this case in Orbrief we could have a chance. What's not already known is that at Orbrief it didn't start on the 18th of June it started on the 23rd of May and all because I was there. I've always believed that a leader of a trade union shouldn't sit just in an office. He should be at the front and going to the point of production or the point of conflict. A principle I've kept all my life. We arrived at a situation where on the 27th of May we had a mass picket. Not as large as the 18th of June would be but nevertheless one that terrified their authorities. My contact in the ministry told me that the consideration had been given to deploying large numbers of police from all police forces and if necessary employ the army. Of reading and listening to historians and media experts saying we've walked into a trap or the welcome does with open arms. Well if that's the case somebody's got to explain to me why they arrested me on the 33rd of May. Not exactly a welcome but by the time we reached the 18th of June we had thousands of people at Orbrief. From all over Britain it was a magnificent display. By the way we were not fettled and certainly couldn't have been in an area with about 10 acres of land but we had a military police force out of the teeth with steps, trunches, dogs, shields, long shields, short shields and boy did they intend to use them. The things that you've seen on television are only part of the story. BBC for example both filmed that night turned the film around to purport that the miners had charged into police lines. It's a lie. The virus would be battered and I mean battered in a way that one could not believe and hasn't happened certainly since the 1980s. Of course police numbers grew. By the 30th of May they knew that we weren't meaning business. But the planning for the 30th of May appeared to be insignificant alongside the mass picking on the 18th of June. The planning was broadcast to the world and I personally acquired from a small old shop down at an embankment part of the Wichechfield some loppy talkies. I got about eight and I was sure not to operate them because electronically I'm a failure. Is that two switches? One and two. Dave Douglas was given one in a meeting and told where to stand. One was given to the Yorkshire miners vice president and others to other pickets and we could communicate across this mass picking. We knew it was a matter of time before they clicked and got their technology working but it took them two hours to find out that we were working and they managed to jam it. So we all in accordance with brief plan switched and switched to that last up for about 15 minutes and then they blocked that. But during that time pickets were doing amazing jobs. We were standing firm and in particular Dave Douglas and the miners from Hatfield occupied the plant and they only wished to stay in. But it was an indication that we will not be battered all the time into submission we were fighting back and I'll tell you this if people are charging into members of my union and hitting them with truncheons and shields I'll advise them to fight back and not simply get conscious. I'm conscious on 18th of June and the chief constable, I said assistant chief constable told the world I had slipped down a bank and ninja myself and in a at least one biography the author said I was treated by the local brigade to help people in trouble. Paul Short no longer with us came to interview me and he said in that distinctive voice to see what we nearly need is some photographic evidence. We need a photograph of Arthur being hit. This lad was with me we had six witnesses but no cameras. The cameras have been kept back by the police. He's not said from South Kirby. He said I took a picture. Paul said yes but I'm talking about a picture of Arthur's cargo giving hit. He said I took a picture. He said can you go and get it deducted? He said I've deducted.  He said I've got it. He said well why didn't you publish it? He said I didn't think it was good enough. I can't believe it. I've got the original by the way and the guy who hit me with the run with the shield is as clear as crystal. I'm not finished up at hospital together with hundreds of others. 95 were really badly hurt. 95 by the way were charged with riots. I rate that if issue means life imprisonment. Michael Montsfield representing the NUM went to court and he was in possession of all the data that I was able to provide and he cross-examined this assistant chief constable and he said to him how did you know that Mr. Skargo slipped down a bank? He said I told so. So Montsfield said that's hearsay evidence. He said my officers don't lie. Montsfield says we shall see. The next one on was the police officer who had said in another case he had hit this bank at 8 a.m. and Montsfield said could you be mistaken? Could it be 5-2? No, 8. Montsfield said could it be 5-5? No, 8. He said could I have a little bit of a notebook? The judge said you've got to give it. So Montsfield opened the notebook of the police officer. He said I'm going to read it. 7-15, overview. 7-40, admission that there is police violence on the day. Then this 8 a.m. police station canteen of a breakfast. He said could you please explain to me at the judge how you could be arresting this man and at the same time I'm in a nice breakfast at 15 Malawi in the police headquarters. The judge said I'm stopping this at this point. He said you might be facing pagerry but in any event the case is dismissed and eventually of course all of them are dismissed just like Hillsborough. I've been 50 years to get the truth. I know exactly how they worked. I've heard a close friend of mine is Ricky Tomlinson and I've spoken all over Britain. I've often repeated in media accounts of the Battle of Aubrey but what is not reported apart from tour gowns one from me Douglas in his book Ghost Dancers. He said the police were forced to close the plant and that they did on the 18th of June. I can confirm it because Nicholas Jones the BBC Labour correspondent handed me a copy of the Telex from Hasland the chairman of British Steel closing the plant for that day. It was almost a replica of what had happened all those years before that's sold again but instead of repeating that by bringing more pickets as I urged from my hospital bed the areas for some reason didn't do it. I say relatively because I've got every faith in the miners who were there. They were courageous a lot of them very badly hurt you know people oxygen machines in the hospital where I was as it happened I've no doubt in my mind that if Aubrey had stayed closed on the 19th and onwards the strike would have been over. For 40 years I've been accused of refusing to negotiate well that's a lie as well. We met on five occasions and reached what we understood to be a deal that we could put to our members. What happened was contact was made by McGregor to David Hart and to Thatcher and the deal was stopped. It's a fact and the 2014 disclosure of Boundary Stream minutes demonstrate it was a lie. Who else stayed closed had it been for the effect of something else far more important. We agreed to go to Agas in order to try and negotiate a settlement in October 1984. The most important part of our agreement was to be to protect jobs of miners families and of course keep the pits open. We decided to approach the NACODS that the Deputy State Union who just had a ballot with a majority of 83 percent and were in the same building in a upstairs room and McGregor said well why don't we present a proposal and ask them to agree so we did and I can tell you I wrote it in my own handwriting and that result had it been accepted would have won the strike so you've a right to know what it was. I approached NACODS and they agreed word for word these words that I wrote quotes that the NCB withdraw its pick closure one given undertaking that the five collars earmarked for immediate closure will be kept open and guarantee that no pitch will be closed unless by joint agreement it was deemed to be exhausted or unsafe unquote this proposal was accepted by NACODS and accepted ironically by the consideration survey Acas it was then submitted to the adjoining rule where the National Cold War before I had a chance to even read it McGregor says I'm off I'm not participating and they just left the building and so there was going to be a strike at every pit in Britain on the following week and I knew and they knew that that would be enough to win the strike and again I refer you please don't buy the vote but get old of Thatcher's autobiography and Peter Walker the energy secretary's autobiography they both admit that they couldn't have carried on and in fact the minister who had to become a friend of mine for industrial purposes confirmed to me that they discussed in cabinet that they couldn't carry on they would have to settle but something strange happened two days before the meeting in Acas to settle the agreement NACODS told us that they changed their mind it was ironic because for the first time in my history the TUC urged them to carry on and go on strike I've never known it before we were saying to them we've got a proposal that Acas can live with that they don't want to live with so why pull out and to this day I've never had an answer but their decision to betray that agreement led to the Tories deciding to carry on and they they said we won't have to carry on if it takes a year but in 1985 it's significant that even then they were beginning to run out of coal for even for power stations despite the fact that they were receiving coal from places like Poland or should have been better no better but no explanations have been given as to why NACODS performed this which had terrible consequences which led to the destruction of the whole of Britain's deep mine coal and industry so almost in Nottingham and South Derbyshire and Leicestershire with the exception of those courageous miners who ignored the decision to keep working were on strike to know that victory was taken away by a decision of the deputy's union and as they carried on they also knew that the chairman of the CGV that was a power generating board had confided and again take it from me and know that they couldn't carry on for another three months because the stocks were in law even at the power stations over the over the years I've repeatedly said we didn't come close to within we did win we'd won in October with the deputies understood by the agreement we would have won at the areas inexplicably decided not to increase the number of pickets after the 18th of June and it led to a big bizarre situation and you've got a right to know not just commemorate which is really important but over 21st of February 1985 we held a special delegate conference and on the basis of much of what I've just told you I explained to that conference and they decided unanimously to carry on with the strike within five days exactly by 28th of February five areas had written in asking for a recall conference to agree to an immediate return to work without a settlement now the excellent thinking through one would be bought on the 21st of February to carry on with the strike and five years later change their minds not just in one area but in five different areas including of course primarily south Wales I've never understood it I've never understood the thinking or the forces behind it whether they were working fully union in those areas or whether they were being supported by MPs in form in those areas that conference led to a special conference on the 3rd of March 1985 the NEC position was for a continuation of the strike the resolution to call off the strike was put to the executive committee and we explained that the conference decision that had taken place on the 21st of February bound us to support our members who fought for bravery in bravery for a year to decided to recommend make no recommendation we went into the hall at the TUC and from the floor these areas were voted to consider calling off the strike and went back to work five areas it was put to the vote that the NEC should be compelled to take a decision we had in the middle of the conference to have an adjournment and we met again the vote was for a return to work 12 for continuation of the strike 12 the vote to go back to work was 12 the vote against was 12 and I've often been asked including Barnard Wansson where he was writing for his thesis the university why didn't you cast the vote I said because I understood what was taking place the idea was simple if I had passed the vote in favor of going back to work the miners would never have forgiven me and I could never have held my head up again secondly if I didn't cast the vote it means that they had to move it and I told them that the areas who wanted it had to move it and the state of doing that would be theirs and not mine the three the three the three national officials supported the decision to remain on strike till we won and Gatley Heathfield and Scargill we refused to call off the strike and the vote was 98 votes to 91 seven votes in it and that meant we had no alternative to obey our own rule today my job is a simple one it is to say to you our privilege now was to be a part of that historic event for a year and four months the miners of Britain fought a battle that was alongside the greatest battles in history it was alongside the battles of the Chartists the diggers yes and the top of the writers and history of the judge who was right and who was wrong above all it will also result in doing what you have already heard about the magnificent women against big closures who stood up and I'll tell you this if you'd been left to the weary to have fought we'd still be on strike I tried to leave from the front because that's why I was elected that's why I was at whopping workers that's why I was at Groomwick getting arrested because of the Asian workers being penalised it's why all over Britain we take action I believe individual action and collective action go both side by side you can't tell people what they should do if you're not prepared to do it yourself it's a privilege to be here today 40 years on till the most historic dispute in the century it's a privilege to talk to you and to thank you for what you did not only the men and women involved but so the children a lot of them who are here today as adults I tell you what you did and what you've done you marched into history and you've entered the pumpkin of working-class heroes and everyone


It's going on guys, welcome back to another episode of making games and we have been making games but the problem is I haven't been able to tell you about it because I've had a bit of bad luck with my equipment, with my vlogging equipment so I thought it was about time I addressed the situation and sat down and had a wee chat with you guys so I'm pretty pissed off right now so if it looks like I'm sweating it's because I am, it's because it's about seven, no it's about 41 degrees today and it's fucking hot but with that being said let's get on to what this video is going to be about and it's about the fact that I'm going to have to be upgrading my equipment very soon or else I'm going to go insane because as of this point, as of today I don't have a computer to use and I don't have a phone to use so what that means is that I don't have anything to make videos on and I don't even have anything to shoot the videos on so my hands are tired right now, it really sucks but what happened was the computer I picked it up by the screen which was stupid I think my thumb went through the fucking screen and next minute it wasn't working so that was about two weeks ago for about three or four days after that I was using the HDMI cable from the computer to the TV and that was going all good in fact I quite enjoyed it because it was the largest screen and then lo and behold the whole computer fucked up so you know I've done some troubleshooting I think it's the hard drive, sorry not the hard drive, the graphics card which means that the whole thing is fucked it's basically fried and then I went to go and return it to try and get a replacement or something and it turns out it had a 12 month warranty but I bought it on the 26th of January sorry no I bought it on the 22nd of January 2016 and this happened on the 23rd of January 2017 so it was a year and one day after I purchased it which really fucking sucks which means that I wasn't covered so um so yeah there you go no computer and no way to replace it I don't have contents insurance so I'm fucked so for the last yeah for the last week and half I've been racking my brain as to what laptop I should get or what computer I should get and I went to go and get a MacBook Pro today I decided yeah I'm gonna get one of those and I went to go get the 15 inch and it is literally $3600 that's as much as I paid for my fucking Mac the whole computer the best one on the market like $3600 for a laptop you've got to be kidding me so I'm looking at around about the $2000 mark it's got to have a good graphics card I want a steady state drive steady state solid state solid state drive so that it's a lot faster so yeah haven't decided what computer I'm gonna get but anyway that leads leads me on to what happened today which was so fucking unlucky I had my phone in my pocket and that's that's what I'm using right now I'm having to use the front-facing screen because that's all that's left because I had my phone in my pocket and I leaned up against the corner of a table and the corner of the table went poke right into the camera and the camera smashed and so the back facing camera is fucked so I could continue using the front-facing camera and continue using my phone as per usual just carry on but I remembered that I did have some insurance that I put on this phone when I got it on the plan so turns out I can have a replacement which I'm gonna do it's gonna cost me a hundred and ninety bucks but I get a brand new phone because these phones are still worth like eleven hundred dollars so that's quite a good deal so I'm gonna do that tomorrow so yeah but like I said at this stage just feel fucking helpless man can't do shit I can't shoot a video well I am now but even so I've got I've got some video footage on this phone that I want to make into an episode but I can't even do that because I don't have my computer so tomorrow we've got a day off and it's been far too long for me not to have a computer so I'm going to look around a couple of places and try and find something that I want to buy as well as that I've got to get my old shit off my old hard drive and onto this computer because I definitely don't lose all those clips I've probably got like a terabyte with video including all my episodes all my videos that I've ever created this year since I bought that laptop are on that on that and we've also got you know training footage all sorts of shit this pictures is all sorts of crap so I've got to get that onto the new computer get a new phone and the other thing that I'm thinking about thinking seriously about doing right now is buying a proper camera so they're gonna go one of two ways with a camera now that this added cost of my laptop is is there as well I may go for the cheaper option but basically the two options are a Canon they're both Canon's I've done a lot of research I believe these are my two best options so we've got a Canon G7X mark 2 which is a point-and-shoot it's probably one of the best point-and-shoot so you can get it's great and low light it's got a good zoom 60 frames per second at 1080p which is all I need and yeah you guys will know what a Canon G7X mark 2 is but is felt so that's still around 800 bucks 850 and the other option is obviously the more expensive which is another Canon 80d I have been looking at a Canon M no a Canon 5 M5 or something I think I think that's what it is anyway it's basically the mirrorless version of the 80d so it's still a DSLR so yeah the main you know the main draw card about the Canon 80d is it's it's it's sturdy it's solid it's got that flip-out screen for vlogging you can you can plug in an external microphone which on the Canon G7X you can't it's just got the the mic on the camera so I don't think that's going to be good enough I really do want to you know raise the the quality of these vlogs and I feel like having a nice camera like the Canon with interchangeable lenses even though I'm just gonna go with the kit lens for a start I think you can either get 18 to 55 or 18 to 135 and I'm going to go with the 135 which is it's basically just going to allow me to zoom a lot further in and it's not going to be as wide of an angle so that's looking at about 1800 bucks for the camera plus a tripod plus a microphone and then I'd be sweet so it's going to be at least a $2,000 set up for that camera as well as the laptop which is probably another 2,000 as well as the phone which is going to cost me 200 bucks to replace so there you go and I wouldn't say I'm just buying the camera for the blogs because I mean $2,000 I'm never even going to make $2,000 from these fucking things but I do want a good camera I want a proper camera one that I can you know play with around here and get some good close-up shots of wildlife and things like that you know I really think that it's gonna be great it's got a it's got an amazing autofocus yeah like I said you can connect the microphone to it and obviously being a DSLR you can interchange your lenses so I'm really excited about getting that the computer you know I needed a new computer so I'm excited about getting that too but the thing that just put the icing on the cake today was my phone cracking I was just like fuck me now I'm now my hands of my hands are forced you know I'm like well yeah I can get a new phone but you know at the same time I might as well get this camera so right now I'm gonna forget about it all by having a few talks of this as you guys know so yeah that was today's story time I hope you enjoyed tomorrow I've got a day off anyways life is good regardless it's 42 degrees here in other springs today I really got to get out of the Sun but first so I wish you guys all the best tomorrow I'll be getting the replacement phone I'll be going to the camera shop and I'll be going to what's the other thing computer shop that's the one and it should be good so I'll see you guys when I've got my new camera I'm really not sure when to tell you a little bit of no I won't tell you that actually I know when I'm gonna stop cutting I know the exact date and I know what's gonna follow that the series I'm gonna be doing so that's exciting but I'll tell you guys all that in the next vlog so have a good night


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