Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is one of the all-time great business books One of the all-time great life books really and Today I am going to read out my personal notes that I typed out from this book about six years ago And I give away these notes at my website JamesSwanick.com In the form of a PDF so if you want to get these notes and a follow along Go to JamesSwanick.com and I will send you my notes, but Think and Grow Rich is a very famous book by a former journalist called Napoleon Hill back in the day and It's pretty much treated like the Bible of Business books in terms of mindset getting your head straight for success developing persistence overcoming obstacles And Napoleon Hill was Like I said, he was an American author and he became Very much an early producer of personal success literature. So You know today we've got you know people like Tony Robbins and the motivational coach and Jim Rowne who passed away a few years ago and all these people who are you know into personal development and Goal setting and they got Brian Tracy, but Napoleon Hill back in the early 1900s was very much the first author of Kind of like self-development mindset He died in 1970 But Think and Grow Rich which he wrote in 1937 has sold 20 million copies 20 million copies He was also an advisor to two presidents of the United States Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, so Yeah, I'm gonna read out these notes and what we're gonna do a little bit of commentary on them, but if you are wanting to I wouldn't say tough enough, but if you're wanting to really have a refresh if you like on staying positive and Understanding your goals and desires and staying on track and you're wanting to create a winning mindset for Growth whether it's in your finances whether it's in your spiritual life or your relationships then think and grow rich is one of the all-time classics And we're gonna get into my notes here and about Well, let's we'll start in about 90 seconds. I just want to give you a little bit more context on on on this as well because Napoleon Hill wrote this Well, he wrote rather that the turning point in his life Came in about 1908 when he was given an assignment to interview Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Carnegie is one of the great industrialists and philanthropists of our time and At that time he was one of the most powerful men in the world And if we just go if we go to Napoleon Hill's Wikipedia page here, I'm gonna pull this up and I'll just read it in 1908 Carnegie was among the most powerful men in The world he'll claim that Carnegie had actually met with him at that time and challenged him to interview wealthy people To discover a simple formula for success and that he had taken the advice to interview successful people of the time So, yeah, he he The polling he'll set out and interviewed People like Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford Edwin C. Barnes who was an associate of Thomas Edison Apparently Carnegie had given Napoleon Hill an introduction to Ford and He'll then introduced him to Alexander Graham Bell Creator of the telephone Thomas Edison and a few other people. So essentially Napoleon Hill interviewed some of the world's greatest Business people most successful people in history really around that time in the Sort of, you know Early to mid 19 1900s So He collated all of the great Thought processes from some of the world's greatest entrepreneurial minds at the time And put them into this book thinking grow rich And Now I'm going to read you my notes and you can pick out some of these things that are relevant to you And Let's do it. Okay. So I'm reading from my notes thinking grow rich by Napoleon Hill. I'm not reading from the book I'm reading from the notes that I took when I read the book six years ago, which you can find at James swanick com And I will send them to you So you can print them out and stick them on your fridge or stick them on your bathroom wall Or stick near your workplace I keep mine in a drawer in my in my bathroom and I pull them out in time to time Just to give me a reminder and I pulled them out today and I thought, you know what I'm just going to do this I'm just going to go over him. So here we go Write down a written statement of purpose. It should be similar to the following So this is like a statement that he's saying by the first day of such and so Include date. I will have in my possession $50,000 or you just input any amount of dollars in here Which will come to me in various amounts from time to time during the interim in return for this money I will give the most efficient service of which I am capable Rendering the fullest possible quantity and the best possible quality of service in the capacity of salesman of And then that's where you Describe the service that you intend to sell I believe that I will have this money in my possession.  It is now awaiting transfer to me So what this is is a written statement of purpose. So he's encouraging You to write down almost like a contract to yourself saying that I will have by this date This amount of money or I will have by this date a certain Health or a certain weight or a certain relationship So it's a written statement of your purpose Let me just go over it again and again You can just copy and paste the version that you get when I send it to you from a website But I'll just verbally say it again. This is an example of a statement of purpose By this date I will have in my possession This amount of money which will come to me in various amounts from time to time during the interim in return for this money I will give the most efficient service of which I am capable Rendering the fullest possible quantity and the best possible quality of service in the capacity of salesman of My product of my service I believe I will have this amount of money in return for this money My faith is so strong that I can now see this money before my eyes. I can touch it with my hands It is now awaiting transfer to me So what Napoleon Hill was encouraging us to do here was to write it down write it down And when we write it down and forms in our brain and we sort of subconsciously and consciously think about that goal as we as we go along I believe I will have this money in my possession My faith is so strong that I can now see this money before my eyes I can touch it with my hands It is now awaiting transfer to me So let's subconsciously and consciously think about that goal as we as we go along and we start to take the actions towards that goal All right, let me go on here He's talking about persistence here the hidden guide that's no one enjoy great achievement without passing the persistence test Those who can't take it simply do not make the grade Those who can take it are bountifully rewarded for their persistence They receive as their compensation whatever goal they are pursuing So he's talking about persistence here That is not all they receive something infinitely more important than material compensation The knowledge that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage So two main themes here to be successful we must be persistent Those who can't take it simply do not make the grade Those who can't take it are bountifully rewarded for their persistence They receive whatever goal they are pursuing To put this in context in my own I guess business life You know I've created the 30 day no alcohol challenge I've created Swanee's glasses The 30 day no alcohol challenge did has done particularly well There's been a couple of changes to it in the last two or three months And it's gone backwards in terms of the number of people and the number of sales who've gone into that program And because I've experimented with a few changes I wanted to experiment a few structural changes a few payment changes and a few marketing changes And as a result not as many people have got into that program in the last two or three months That's been frustrating but at the same time I keep reminding myself persistence Persistence persistence maybe I needed to go two steps back in order to go one big huge leap forward And so the persistence is keeping me continuing on it's not like throwing in the towel and going this is all too hard I'm being persistent now you don't want to be so persistent that you're flogging a dead horse As we say in Australia it's like if you've got a dead animal you know you're trying to beat it and try to get it to get up But if it's dead it's not nothing's going to happen right so you have to identify that But if you can persist and overcome setbacks and obstacles and keep going according to Napoleon Hill who interviewed Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford Graham Bell Thomas Edison some of the greatest business people of our time then people receive as their compensation whatever goal they are pursuing He goes on to say a few people know from experience the soundness of persistence they are the ones who have not accepted defeat as being anything more than temporary Exactly so defeat is nothing more than temporary how many times do we just go man it's too hard that sucks I got defeated and then we just go that's permanent If we treat it as temporary and we get up and we go again then we move forward And then he Napoleon Hill goes over four necessary steps here to develop persistence They call for no great amount of intelligence no particular amount of education and but little time or effort The necessary steps are a definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment That's the first one number two a definite plan expressed in continuous action Number three a mind close closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences including negative suggestions of relatives friends and acquaintances Number four a friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage one to follow through with both plan and purpose These four steps are essential for success in all walks of life So let's go over that again to develop persistence the four necessary steps are number one a definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment So what's your definite purpose what's your burning desire why do you have a burning desire to ask ourselves what your purpose is it's like what do we really want what do you really want out of life Like what's your purpose is it just to build a business to make money or is it to build a business to make money to have a lifestyle or is it to have a lifestyle because you value freedom Because you want to change the world because you want to help the most people You got to have a definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment Number two a definite plan expressed in continuous action a plan a plan a plan a plan do you have a plan Or are you simply just going through the motions and bouncing from thing to thing and there's no real directions no real vision you just kind of like going with the flow This is an interesting one I got to tell you for many years I loved just going with the flow I loved the fact that I didn't know where I was going to be a month from the day that I was saying it I didn't know I love the fact that maybe I might be living in Columbia one year in Argentina the next London and Los Angeles and New York and Austin and moving around and I was quite proud of the fact that my plan was really to have no plan it was just to kind of bounce around So I guess in that sense you could say that my definite plan was to have no plan and I expressed it in continuous action well now it's changed a little bit now I have a definite plan And the definite plan is to be more settled in one place my definite plan is to work on my relationship romantic relationship my definite plan is to Is to build business to two of these businesses 30 day no alcohol challenge and this one is be like blocking glasses and to keep helping people and keep working in the self development space where I'm learning new things and educating myself that is my definite plan expressed in continuous action Now you can break that down and even more specifically I could break that down into my 30 day no alcohol challenge I can have a definite plan so on this month we're going to test this and then on this month I'm going to test paid advertising and then this month I'm going to try and set up affiliates That's an example of being more specific but according to think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill the necessary steps include having some kind of definite plan Expressing continuous action and the continuous action means just always be doing things always be taking action don't just look at the plan and go all that's nice and do nothing actually express it in in in action. I think I'm pretty good at taking action. I'm also pretty hard on myself and the fact that I often think that I'm not doing enough. But as long as you're taking some form of action you're moving forward moving the needle. Number three, a mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences including negative suggestions of relatives friends and acquaintances. This is a good one. People will always tell you shouldn't do that. Oh that's too much or even if they don't say it they'll think it and you can sense that they think it.   And according to Napoleon Hill you got to have a mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences including the negative suggestions of relatives friends and acquaintances. Now you could argue that my mom's not really being negative because she's just wanting to encourage me to change locations but for me that's not what I want to do. And so every time she says that it's for me a negative suggestion from a relative in this case in this case my mother. So you must have a mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences according to Napoleon Hill. So in that sense you know I have to block it out and just go whatever I'm living my own life I'm doing this and I'm staying saying true that's just one example. Other people will question. Your choice of romantic partner. People raise eyebrows or even if they don't say anything you can just sense it they'll make a little little remark a little joke here we kind of just straight away know that. They're thinking that you shouldn't be doing that we shouldn't be dating that person. Maybe they're right I'm not saying that you got to completely discount their their thoughts. But if you are persistent and if you're developing persistence and you are you genuinely believe in whatever it is that you're wanting to believe in then you must have a mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences. As Napoleon Hill states. Number four was a friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage one to follow through with both plan and purpose.  You have to have friends. Business associates you got to reach out to people. These four steps are essential for success in all walks of life. Let me continue on here when one makes an impartial study of the profits philosophers miracle men and religious leaders of the past. One is drawn to the inevitable conclusion that persistence, concentration of effort and definiteness of purpose with the major sources of their achievements. When riches take the place of poverty, the change is usually brought about through well conceived and carefully executed plans. Anybody can wish for riches and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth. One of America's most successful and best known financiers followed the habit of closing his eyes for two or three minutes before making a decision. When asked why he did this he replied with my eyes closed I'm able to draw upon a source of superior intelligence. I've been trying to get better at meditating using the calm app and the headspace app. It's still a struggle for me but when on those occasions when I actually do it, I feel amazing having done it. So try sitting with your eyes closed even for two or three minutes if you're trying to make a tough decision you don't know the answer. According to Pauline Hills think and grow rich closing your eyes for two or three minutes before making a decision will draw upon a source of superior intelligence. So give that a try. Let's go on here make your desires clear and reduce them to writing. You will also understand the necessity of persistence and carrying out instructions. So yeah just this morning about 20 minutes before I started preparing to record this episode. I actually did some freestyle writing I had out got out a book and I just wrote down some desires and put them in writing. Apparently that's a good thing. Apparently that'll help trigger things in the brain as well in persistence. It begins with study analysis and understanding of three enemies which you shall have to clear out. These enemies are indecision doubt and fear indecision doubt and fear how many times have you been indecisive not made a decision. I'm constantly going back and forth should I shouldn't I this indecision is a huge enemy to success doubt scared of what might happen. Not backing yourself fear fear of consequences. Napoleon Hill goes on here says there are six basic fears with some combination of which every human suffers at one time or another. Most people are fortunate if they do not suffer from the entire six named in the order of their most common appearance they are. The fear of poverty the fear of criticism the fear of ill health. The fear of loss of love of someone the fear of old age the fear of death. So the six fears of poverty criticism ill health loss of love old age and death. Fears are nothing more than states of mind one state of mind is subject to control and direction. Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in the form of an impulse of thoughts. Every human being has the ability to completely control his mind. And with this control obviously every person may open his mind to the tramps thought impulses which are being released by other brains or close the doors tightly and admit only thought impulses of his own choice. So he's saying here that he's starting to move into thoughts here in that it's our thoughts that are the reason for our health or our wealth or our relationships. It's just everything that we think master the fear of loss of love by reaching a decision to get along without love if that is necessary. That's interesting master the fear of loss of love by reaching a decision to get along without love that is necessary. Kill the habit of worry in all its forms by reaching a general blanket decision that nothing which life has to offer is worth the price of worry. Kill the habit of worry in all its forms by reaching a general blanket decision that nothing which life has to offer is worth the price of worry. So that song what's the world what how's it go what's the point of worrying it never was worthwhile so I've got the troubles in your old kit bag and smile smile smile. I can remember when I learned that probably 1985 when I was 10. Yeah, we all know this like this. There's no point in worrying it doesn't get you anywhere but we still do it anyway. Don't we I mean even this morning when I woke up in bed to 10 minutes and just sort of lay there I was worrying about how my paid Facebook ads promotion was going to go. In terms of driving traffic to the 30 day no alcohol challenge and worrying about whether I was going to spend a lot of money and get and get no return on investment. What's the point of that what was there any point there wasn't. But we do it anyway don't we we just worry. If we can control it as best we can then obviously we're going to let go of the shackles and we'll be able to get up and kick ass. In fact, the other thing I was thinking I've been watching the show lately called billions it's on showtime. And I mean I've sort of got into the practice of watching a little bit of late night like a indulging in half an hour 45 minutes of late night. TV show because now it's sort of like Game of Thrones season Game of Thrones is on on a Sunday night now got to watch Game of Thrones but I slipped into the habit of watching a TV series here and there.   Go and see her when they're worried and stressed and she sort of like gets into their head and reframes their thinking. To the point where they walk out the door five minutes later ready to like go and kick ass and there's no worry and there's no stress and they're just like yes let's do it and because of that they're able to make good decisions and. Be aggressive and make good trades and therefore make millions of dollars for the company. So. What was the point of that. Well that character that psychiatrist kills the habit of worry. In all the people who work in that hedge hedge fund. That's an extreme example but if we were able to get inside our heads or have a psychiatrist psychologist or someone or head coach or whatever just help us eliminate that worry and be fearless. Wow would be Superman or super women wouldn't we because as Napoleon Hill says we you may control your own mind you have the power to feed at whatever thought impulses you choose with this privilege goes also the responsibility of using it constructively.  You may influence direct and eventually control your own environment making your life what you want it to be. Or you may neglect to exercise the privilege which is yours to make your life to order. Thus casting yourself upon the broad sea of circumstance where you will be tossed hither and young like a chip on the waves of the ocean. You have absolute control over but one thing and that is your thoughts so our thoughts are thoughts are thoughts. You have absolute control over but one thing and that is your thoughts. That is one of the tricks of opportunity it has a slight habit of slipping in by the back door and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity. Know what you want and have the determination to stand by that desire until you realize it. So now he is talking about failing and success he says one of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another. When riches begin to come they come so quickly in such great abundance that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.  Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win essential to success. Let me repeat that success comes to those who become success conscious failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious. Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win essential to success. I'm on the last page of my notes here. Success requires no apologies failure permits no alibis. If the thing you wish to do is right and you believe in it go ahead and do it put your dream across and never mind what they say if you meet with temporary defeat. For they perhaps do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. I like that. Never mind what they say if you meet with temporary defeat for they perhaps do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. I like repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary voluntary development of the emotion of faith. Faith is the eternal Alexia which gives life power and action to the impulse of thoughts thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions constitute a magnetic force which attracts on the vibrations of the either other similar or related thoughts. So yeah it's talking about positive thoughts attract other positive thoughts positive emotions create positive thoughts. That's why if you let me just use an analogy here if you hang out with positive happy people you will be happy and positive. If you hang out with six guys you will have six packs you'll likely get a six pack. Because you'll it's like attracts like there's that magnetic force. If you're always wanting and complaining then you're likely to always hang out with people who whine and complain. My dad used to always say to me the phrase if you lay down with dogs you'll come up with fleas.  These people that you're spending time with thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions constitute a magnetic force which attracts from the vibrations of the either other similar or related thoughts. Excuse me. So there you go there are my notes on Napoleon Hill's book Think and Grow Rich. I would encourage you to either get the book or if you want those notes which are my notes in PDF form reminder you go to JamesSwanick.com and I will send them to you. Let me just go to my website now make sure I tell you exactly where it is so you can you're not like searching for it. Let's go to JamesSwanick.com let's have a look here. There it is right on the top it says get my book notes on three life changing books and says enter your name and email address and I'll send them to you. So yeah just put your email address in there and I will send you those notes but they are the books from Think and Grow Rich. Persistence. A plan. A mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences. A friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage you to follow through with plan and purpose. Making your desires clear and reducing them to writing. Overcoming those six basic fears poverty criticism ill health loss of love. Old age fear and death. You have the power to control your mind. Burning desire to win success requires no apologies failure permits no alibis. It's good stuff huh. I bet when you were listening to that you were thinking about how this can work in your own life. Yeah. What's your definite purpose what's your definite plan. What are the negative and discouraging influences in your life that you can close out. Who are some friendly people that you can get involved with to improve your business or your relationships. Persistence. Persistence. The good notes are like this. You have absolute control over about one thing and that is your thoughts. 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Lies and the lying liars who tell them Hello everyone Dylan Schumacher Citadel Defense and today we are going to read this article And it is titled Opinion here's the reason people tell me they want to buy an AR-15 and it's simply Ludacris I print it out so we can read through it first off I just like to point out and I'll try to post a screenshot here when this article first popped into my Twitter feed It was titled. I own an AR-15. Here's why you should not Apparently they decided that title was a little bit too honest and later edited it So by the time I clicked on it that the title had changed. So this article is by Michael Finoni finone. I don't know how to pronounce that.  Okay, so right from the start right? He sets it up incorrectly our rifles every year kill less people than hammers More people are beaten to death with hands and feet then are killed by rifles by all rifles So right from the start you can see where this is gonna go The AR-15 has the dubious distinction of being America's most popular semi-automatic rifle Let's talk about that dubious distinction I looked that word up just to be sure it wasn't crazy and the word means fraught With uncertainty or doubt doubtful or of questionable character, right? We would say someone has the dubious distinction of being a mob boss or the dubious distinction of writing an opinion piece for CNN We would not say that a rifle has dubious a dubious distinction What they're trying to of course slightly work in there slowly is to get you to doubt that the AR-15 is a valuable tool Which we're gonna get to in a bit, but even from the start his language is this subtle attacking Well, it's a dubious distinction. Why why should that be the most popular rifle? I'm more familiar with the gun than most people I own one Just one what kind of rookie numbers are those and one thing I know for sure is that this weapon doesn't belong in the hands of the average Civilian okay again. He's subtle with this terms to manipulate you average civilian. What does that mean? Is it what about an above average civilian doesn't belong in their hands? Of course not what he means is all civilians, right? And again, this is why I disliked this word civilian What he means is people that aren't law enforcement like he's a former law enforcement officer or Military right if you're not one of those two jobs and you don't deserve the tools to save your life You're just a civilian You don't of course have rights and your rights are determined by your job And since you don't have one of the special government jobs then of course you shouldn't have these special tools I have multiple firearms for most of my life I spent two decades in the Washington Metropolitan Police Department in a number of different roles as a street cop walking the beat and on various special mission units So he's trying to set up his credentials here He's trying to show you how much he knows so that he can then tell you don't get rights I'm also a card carrying member of the National Rifle Association and when I wasn't at my job doing police work I worked part-time for several years in firearm sales as well as training law enforcement officers members of the military and Civilians again notice how he lists civilians last right? They're not important You have the police which you know either former police officers of active blue and then the members of the military They train them how to do the pew-pews and then you know well I mean the civilians I'd be really curious to see his numbers and as far as how many people he's trained and what he taught them I purchased my different guns over the years for the same reason that you might purchase a flathead screwdriver along with a Phillips screwdriver each one serves a different purpose as an avid hunter I've got a gun that I use for turkey hunting one that I use for waterfall and one that I use to hunt deer and larger game like elk I Mean okay, that's that's fine. This is one of the true things he says in here right people use different guns for different purposes I agree Notice again though guns are for hunting right that's where he's going back to well I have different guns because I go hunt different game and that's why I have different guns But you know nobody needs an AR-15 right I purchased my AR-15 because I was assigned one as part of my police duties But officers weren't allowed to take a department issued weapons home Now again, he says department issued weapons now That's probably not true more than likely took his pistol home I don't know of any police department that does that Correct me if I'm wrong here But also what he means is they weren't allowed to take the patrol rifle home right because the patrol rifle sticks with a car Tip I felt it was my responsibility to become proficient with any weapon I've been assigned to so I bought one and I've spent hundreds of hours training so I could properly use it Okay, now hey credit where credit do I agree if you're issued a weapon you should know how to use it So I guess I'm glad he bought one in that sense However, he says he spent hundreds of hours training the average police officer in this country gets about 16 hours of firearms training a year Okay, that's average across the board 16 hours of firearms training That means with an instructor telling you what to do helping you become a better shooter 16 hours It's a two-day course. I just took a three-day course recently. I'm more trained this year than most police officers in the nation Okay, remember 16 hours is average So I mean some get less than that maybe some get a few more maybe 24 right, but that's not happened So he says hundreds of hours So keep that in mind 16 hours a year and that's not of course not all rifle right that's all pistol So if you got rifle training every year for 16 hours, then I guess you could hit that hundred hours mark more than likely What he means is hundreds of hours Practicing now practicing is of course good, but he did not I'm very doubtful Received hundreds of hours of training on the rifle Furthermore, I teach a one-day rifle class lots of people teach one two three five-day rifle classes You can learn how to use a rifle in an eight-hour block of time shit You can probably learn how to use it in four hours and be pretty proficient enough with it proficient enough to not do anything Stupid and shoot intruders are coming to your house rifles particularly air 15s are incredibly easy to shoot Meaning to hit what you want with them, right? They're not that difficult and it does not take a lot of time on a rifle to be able to use it correctly and safely So this idea that I while I had hundreds of hours of training because I was a police officer So I know what I'm doing, but you're an incompetent civilian. That's of course a lie He's going on to talk about his qualifications here I've sold guns at big-box retailers and I've sold firearms at a small retail gun store I Be really curious to know what small retail gun store existed in Washington DC area, right? I mean it was probably an outlier town But again in that part of America, I'd be real curious to know what store that was some gun buyers have been misled into thinking The AR-15 is somehow practical for self-defense Okay, let's stop right there. Of course. It's practical for self-defense I have taken I don't know well over a dozen training courses now from very high level guys You can check it on my website at least every class I've taken Even the best pistol shooters that I've taken classes from use rifles to protect their house Why because again, it's easier to use it's easier to hit what you want with it And it's a more effective cartridge against bad guys than a handgun cartridge So that's why we use rifles the better at stopping people from trying to kill you That's why the police carry rifles. They're better at stopping people that are trying to kill them I want the gun that the we pray the police show up with that would only make sense So again, this whole idea that people have been misled into believing that they're they're actually used for self-defense That's a lie and he probably knows it's a lie He's gonna go on to explain it and it'll get more interesting, but frankly, it's the last gun I would recommend for that purpose He doesn't mention what the gun is that he would recommend for that purpose. He just says AR-15 bat I've pressed some customers about why they want an AR-15, but no one could ever come up with a legitimate Justification for needing that particular weapon Here's a legitimate justification. I want one That's a perfectly legitimate justification. See this is America and in America You don't need to explain to people why you deserve the right to self-defense We believe that it's an inherent human right that you are endowed with by your creator Therefore, I don't have to explain shit Not only that let's be honest if even if there was a reason no reason would ever be good enough for these people Except hey, I work from the government and I'm here to oppress you in which case they would say well, of course We need to give these people weapons that they're doing our jackbooting job Point being a legitimate reason Isn't a thing Okay, that's not we don't need a legitimate reason other than hey, I want one and that's good enough Some members of the tin foil hat brigade have come up with a reply We need these weapons because we want to be effective against the government if it becomes tyrannical That's part of our second amendment right Personally, I think that's ludicrous But it has become an increasingly popular justification for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle Has this idiot never ever read a history book now again probably has he's just lying right We just lost in afghanistan being there for 20 years To some goat herders who have broken ak's and some cobbled together explosives The greatest superpower in history lost To again some goat herders with broken semi-automatic rifles and cobbled together explosives So don't tell me that they're somehow not effective for fighting the american military additionally Armed populaces Do not succumb to tyranny If you again read history Every population that's ever been attacked abused tyrannized was unarmed And populations that were armed have been able to stave that off It's one of the reasons we haven't fallen to tyranny here and afghanistan is an excellent example When the soviets invaded afghanistan in the 80s, they were armed to the teeth Also, we supplied them with weapons and they were able to defeat the soviets right same thing when we took our turn in afghanistan Point being that armed nations don't succumb to tyranny So i don't know why he calls it the tin foil hat brigade Because of course the second amendment exists so that the people are equipped to fight wars The thionic fathers didn't believe in standing armies So which is correct by the way. They were correct in that belief And so the people should of course be equipped and ready to fight wars So of course we want weapons that can Fight wars the air 15 was given to law enforcement because more and more frequently police officers were Encountering these types of weapons on the street and finding that they were out gunned One example that springs to mind is the famous 1997 north hollywood california shootout at the bank of america Okay. Yeah, that's been a thing since the 30s, right? Um Police officers have had started carrying a bigger guns long guns, right shotguns rifles bar's tomson submachine guns Because they had to get in gunfights with bad guys and bad guys had to go to equipment So That's part of the game If i guess if you're not willing to do that then find a new job. I don't know what to tell you I don't get to lose my rights because someone does something bad That's just silly in that incident two individuals cladden body armor held up a bank in los angeles neighborhood Police who responded to the scene literally had to run to a nearby gun store to purchase more powerful weapons I don't think they purchased them. I think they commandeered them And they grabbed guess wait wait for it air 15s Because they were using nine millimeter pistols while the bad guys were armed with semi-automatic rifles Okay, now this might just be an editor thing, but nine millimeter is nine space m m So again, it might be the original author It might just be the editor who doesn't understand But I find that really interesting standoff was one of the most infamous gun battles in american history with 11 officers wounded Luckily, none fatally and both robbery suspects shot dead while it's an extreme example It is in many ways the situation encountered by police officers all across this country Police are simply outgunned against semi and fully automatic firearms number one I'm pretty sure one of the hollywood shooters was done in through the head by our 357 magnum not Some a r15 that they had to go get from a local store, right? So that part isn't true. It is definitely true that these guys were getting pegged with nine millimeters And they had kevlar on and so you know if they were able to take it and just keep on trucking He says police are outgunned by semi automatic and fully automatic firearms one I'd be super curious to see the crimes or fully automatic firearms are used Show me the last police gunfight with a fully automatic weapon. There are some but however, there are not that many We're talking maybe a handful every year Those numbers are extremely low So that again, of course is a lie and semi automatic firearms pretty much all firearms are semi automatic With the exception of course like pump shotguns, you know, bolt action rifles or what say you but all handguns are semi automatic That's how guns again pretty much work in the modern world So this idea that if you have the same gun I have me being a police officer I have a semi automatic handgun you being a bad guy. You have a semi automatic handgun I'm outgunned all of a sudden because you have a semi automatic handgun again He's intentionally lying to you to just get you to do what he wants The bullet that comes out of the barrel of an ar-15 style semi automatic rifle can easily penetrate the target Okay, let's stop right there. That's actually not true The fbi did extensive studies on this And found that ar-15s and rifles tend to stop in the assailant And do not tend to over penetrate as much as wait for it pistols, right? Because ar-15, you know, we're just talking about the 223 round They're going so fast, right that they hit and they fragment and tumble into whatever it is that they hit, right? So they have a less tendency to go through bad guys. Can they still do that? Sure, of course However, they have a less of a tendency to do that They also have a less tendency to penetrate Walls and structures for the same reasons because they tumble and fragment Unlike again handgun bullets. So I'm just going to read that sentence again The bullet that comes out of the barrel of an ar-15 style semi automatic rifle again Notice he doesn't mention caliber there notice. He just says ah that style Can easily penetrate the target the intruder or whatever person you are using deadly force to defend yourself or others from Again lying, right because that's that's not the true and it's a police officer for 20 years He probably knows that but it will also go through the wall behind that person And potentially through that room and into the next wall that power and accuracy But it will also go through the wall behind that person and potentially through the room and into the next wall That power and accuracy are useful for military purposes, which is obviously what they were designed for But it's far more power that should be ever in the hands of the average civilian Okay, again, absolutely lying right that that's a verifiable lie. The FBI has done extensive studies on this It's just a lie straight up The power and accuracy I notice how he brings accuracy in here when it has nothing to do with what he's talking about The power i'm assuming again. He means the bullet, you know ripping through seven city blocks because that's what ars do Um and accuracy but accuracy has nothing to do with it. He just throws that in there for military purposes What what are military purposes? Shooting bad guys. What are self-defense purposes? Is it all shooting bad guys? There we go Again, he uses this term average civilian What is again above average civilian below average? What does that mean? What it means is people who don't have the special government job The bullet fired by the air 15 is capable of defeating the average police officer's body armor Like a knife slicing through butter. I really like that dramatic Example of a knife slicing through butter. Is it cold butter because cold butter is kind of difficult point being Right most police police officers wear soft armor and rightful rounds Penetrate soft armor because soft armors, you know what level 3a and of course rifle's gonna go through that That's just physics swat teams and some of the more specialized units typically are equipped with level 4 Kevlar or steel plated armor. Okay, so that's super interesting Level 4 Kevlar. I know what what is level 4 Kevlar? That's not a thing. We use ceramic for level 4 plates or there's maybe some kind of cool hybrids now, but ceramic right Level 4 steel plate again. What is what is what is that? You you're not gonna be able to find a steel plate. That's level 4 armor. You have to even ar 500 armor Uses ceramic plates for the level 4 armor because steel plated level 4 armor isn't a thing Again, he's lying to you or he's an idiot I don't know how you can be a police officer for 20 years and now understand basic armor level distinctions At least he gets the level 4 correct, which would maybe stop Which would stop maybe two or three direct hits But eventually our body armor breaks down after being hit with multiple rounds Okay, so if it's steel armor, right? We can get an ar 500 armor plate here and we can ding ding ding ding all we want on that sucker Now you might have some small issues or whatever, but that bullet is not going through that plate anytime soon There are tons of armor tests, right? You can watch level 4 armor tests where they are spitting like a full mag into level 4 ceramic plates and it's not Penetrating also, are you just going to stand there and let someone shoot you multiple times? That's just silly if you let someone stand there where they dump an entire mag into your chest Well, I'm sorry, but you probably are in the wrong line of work So again, he's doing everything he can here to make it as scary as possible by lying to you A person wielding an ar 15 has a range beyond 300 yards That part's true actually, so For an officer armed with a nine millimeter pistol again nine, it's nine space mm. I don't understand Hitting a target beyond 50 yards is going to be difficult That's because they suck at shooting Even for the most accomplished marksman Okay, I'm not saying a shot beyond 50 yards is easy. Okay, I would say that's when it starts to get good, right?  Okay. I'm not making that up I've seen the video. It's actually pretty cool point being That for an accomplished marksman they can of course hit beyond 50 yards that that that's absolutely a thing But again, he's trying to make it sound as scary like pistols are basically useless and don't do anything All these people now they have 15s and they're just absolute murder machines And so that's what he's trying to do Lying is an effective tool if you just do it the whole article a bullet fired by an air 15 travels at three times the velocity as one fired by a nine millimeter handgun Again, that's that's actually mostly true And magazines that can feed dozens of rounds into the weapon in the space of minutes Clearly were meant for use only on the battlefield Okay, so that's just absolutely overly dramatic, right and has nothing to do with anything Notice he says dozens of rounds a mag holds 28. Okay, so I guess that's that's over two dozen rounds A pistol magazine holds, you know 15 17 rounds So that's that's more than halfway there depending on how you're going to count So i'm not And mag swap if you can't change your mag in a couple seconds Well, then I guess you're getting a wrong line of work point being he says minutes It can feed dozens of rounds in minutes I mean, I'm surprised you didn't go for like the seconds or milliseconds there because Again, it's just it's not that intimidating even in this dramatic retelling The prevalence of these weapons means police are sometimes overmatched as we saw with the mass shooting in Uvala, I don't know how to pronounce the city Uvala, Texas, I don't know how to say that last month in a situation where you have small children near the shooter You want to remove the threat as quickly as possible. Okay, we're going to come back to the police being overmatched part in a minute Okay In a situation where you have small children near the shooter You want the shooter removed as soon as possible So if the shooter is just not around smoke like again, that's a stupid sentence Of course, you want the shooter removed as soon as possible. That's what all active shooter training has evolved around For the last 20 some years you go in you find the bad guy you shoot the bad guy That's pretty simple and straightforward What gun they have is irrelevant Because the border patrol agent who actually did shoot the bad guy did it with a shotgun Which is probably one of the worst weapons you could have had in that situation But he got it done I have no doubt that police in uvalada wish they had weapons as powerful as the one carried by the shooter Who snuffed out the lives of victims in that school? But a far better outcome would have been if the shooter didn't have an air 15 in the first place Again, absolutely a lie. The police had armor and air 15s Stood outside for last time. I saw it was an hour and 40 minutes something like that Um, I thought the original lesson was 40 minutes at least 40 minutes Standing outside while they can hear the gunshots kids are calling 911. They have rifles They have body armor probably level four plates Standing around doing nothing. So he makes it sound like it was an equipment issue Oh, the police couldn't go in there because they were out gun because it was an equipment issue They didn't have as good a guns as the bad guy had again That's an absolutely verifiable lie. They had the equipment. They had the correct training They just did nothing because they're cowards who should never hold the badge again in their lives The fact that he brings up the Texas shooting is absolutely disgusting because he's lying to you about what happened And saying because these cowards couldn't do their job even though they had the air 15 The shooter had an air 15 and they were just too scared and and that's really not their fault It would have just been better if nobody had that gun. There are more air 15s in America I think at this point probably then there are people so good luck getting those out of the hands of everybody Now i'm no longer in the police force. Thank god for that My air 15 collects dust in my safe Rifle ranges that permit the type of training required to use this weapon system Effectively are few and far between and the cost of ammunition exceeding a dollar per round is more than this guy can afford Okay, first of all, I like how he makes it sound like the training is super complicated Like you can't just go to a range and plank with an ar which a lot of people do not my bag But a lot of people do that right also He doesn't mention that you know you could uh, I don't know gee dry fire And you could do that if you want to work on web manipulations and you know reloads tack reloads Malfunction cleanses, whatever so again, he's lying to he's making it sound like it's a super complicated system And it's a weapon system. You notice how he brings that term out there weapon system Like like bro, it's a rifle. It takes a magazine You run the bolt and you can party like I don't you this is not complicated But he wants to make it sound as complicated and complex as possible for you to you to understand You don't have the special secret knowledge You don't have the super secret knowledge that I have so you can't possibly understand how to use the weapon Also, I like his his attempt at trying to relate to the plebs, right? He's like, well, you know I can't afford more than a dollar around so first of all bullets aren't that expensive right now They are more expensive than they should be But they're not a dollar around and he kept lying. He's verifiably lying. I no longer need it But neither to be honest do most people flocking to gun source to buy one Well, so what? So what if you don't need it? So what if you don't have a justification? If you want it, you can buy it What's the problem? I don't understand If if good people have guns that actually is a disincentive to bad people doing bad things so What's his point? Banning these powerful weapons from the civilian marketplace is a no-brainer As our universal background checks Neither move is going to solve all the gun problems we have But it would be a start So again notice we want to ban it from civilian hands I mean not the military and the police obviously they need these guns because you know But civilians incompetent idiot Untrained civilians. They shouldn't have it because they don't have special government jobs He also throws in the universal background check thing which is which is cute, right? But what does that really have to do with what he's been saying up to this point because he's just pushing for all Gun control. So he's just trying to stuff some things in there. I'm surprised he didn't go for the red flag laws too And then this is my favorite that neither move is going to solve all the gun problems we have Then why are we doing it? But it would be a start all the gun control laws are a start There is no end game for them except of course complete and total confiscation And no guns in any civilian hands at all, right? That's that's of course their ultimate goal But if they always say it well, it would be a start Let's ban air 15s and have red flag laws and ban ammunition sales and allow us to sue gun manufacturers And you know creating national gun registry That would be a good start like it's always a start. It's never enough Well, what's the end like we know the end of course is getting rid of all guns forever Except of course unless you have a special government job and outlawing these air 15s would not require confiscating them From people who already have them when I first read that I thought oh, oh, well, oh, that's so nice of you Once you've made these weapons illegal anyone found with one would be subject to arrest Since possession of these weapons should be a crime So we'll just make them illegal and then as these people deal with police officers They're going to get arrested when we find out they have an air 15 that'll solve it If you think that most air 15 owners are just going to hand them over I don't think you quite understand this country I think it's likely you would see a lot of people opting to turn them in I just I don't I don't know where you're getting that from bro. I don't again You're just saying he's lying to try to convince You know which is ban him people will turn him in and then it'll be all good When in reality, of course gun violence will spike through the roof Because they're going to send men with guns to take your guns If banning them outright seems to like too extreme a solution to be politically palatable or morally correct Here's another option reclassify semi-automatic rifles as class three firearms Oh, that this is going to get fun That would mean that someone wanting to purchase an air 15 would have to go through a background check Fingerprinting and a review by an official from the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms and explosives A process that could take anywhere from 12 to 16 months And since class three weapons can't be purchased by anyone younger than 21 It would solve the issue of emotionally unstable 18 year olds buying them But those same emotionally unstable 18 year olds can sign up for the military and be a tank gunner Fire a 40 millimeter grenade launcher Like what what see he's just swiping all anyone under 21 You're emotionally unstable and stupid and don't deserve to have rights If 18 year olds aren't adults then we can have that discussion But once you're an adult, you know, you have the right to do all the things that adults do I also like that his argument here is look if we can't just take him away and make it illegal Let's at least infringe on people's rights as much as we can by making deal with the ATF more A class three firearm reclassification would also make those who are approved to purchase these weapons subject to annual check That they are complying with federal regulations regarding secure storage of the firearm And to confirm their licensing and other paperwork is up to date All of these hoops and hurdles are sure to reduce the civilian demand for these weapons as I was cutting this together I noticed that I miss an important point here Which is that he talks about class three firearms and he conflates some terms So if you don't know what a class three firearms is that's actually a reference to an ffl type license If someone ever sells you a silencer or an sbr or something like that something that's regulated by the nfa That's like they have a class three license. So what he's saying is we should reclassify ar-15s to be class three Like silencers sbr's short-billed shotguns stuff like that So, you know, you have to go through the $200 tax stamp process. You have to get things you're printed You have to send your application to the atf. It's reviewed by an atf official like he says here Which just means, you know, some paper pusher looks at your thing and and approves it And then of course you get your can out of jail months later If you've never bought a silencer not familiar with that process. It's kind of a pain However, he then conflates all of that stuff With what the ffl dealer has to do which is annual inspections and checks and whatever Which again, uh, I don't actually know how much that actually happens in reality And the atf actually comes these places and checks them out as far as I know next to never However, he's conflating things.  That's the end of the deal But if you're a dealer, you have some extra regulations and whatever where the atf can come visit and You do have to make sure that you know, yeah, we store these things safely and whatever So he's conflating those like you the civilian should have both requirements You know, you should have all the fingerprint stuff and the atf should just be able to come into your house Any time to make sure that it's stored safely and whatever So he conflates all these terms together and makes up a reality which doesn't exist And says that's how we should classify ar-15s.  Listen, if we just, you know, lock it down and really Literally choke him with regulation then that will help crush people's desire and will the live, right? Now I find this ironic, of course, because silencers are highly regulated. However, you know, those are hitting record sales these days I can't overstate how dangerous it is to have semi-automatic weapons like the ar-15 in the hands of civilians Again, he's using that civilian word.  That that's the primary tactic for gun control advocates Fear and lies and they're going to combine those two and bludgeon you to death with both of them In order to get you to comply and for people who don't know Will of course it works our public officials have it within their power To help make it harder for people who have these weapons to get them So again, what he's saying is you our public officials should make it harder for you to get them Because that's who we need to take guns from You a police officer should never have to worry about being outgunned by the bad guy They're protecting the public against If you're afraid of being outgunned by a bad guy Carry a better gun wear level four plates Maybe you're in the wrong line of work. I don't know. There's some other things you could do there But notice then that he is at the end. He's bludging you. He's beating you up and then he's saying no Look, I'm here to protect you Just like those police in texas did when they arrested the parents who were trying to go in to save their kids They did their duty to preserve and protect the public I'm going to do that job and that's why you shouldn't have an air 15 Do brave deeds


So have a look ahead to this Saturday's trip to Rochdale. I suppose there's been plenty for you to ponder this week in terms of team selection. Yeah, as always. And we'll take the time to deliberate over that and endeavour to get the right team on the pitch. And we know what type of game it's going to be. We've played Rochdale a few times over the years. They play it with a certain intensity, 4-3-3. They'll get the ball forward quickly. And you've got to match that in the early part of the game. If you look at the Shuesbury game, Shuesbury were 3-0 down really before they realised they were in the game. And we've got to make sure that we start the game properly. And we certainly did that last season. Obviously good memories of going there and securing a 2-0 win. Yeah, we played well. Exactly what we set out to do on the day. And when the game opened up, we had the quality to go and get the goals to win as a game. So yeah, that's going to be important. We're going to have to have a team which can run and compete. Because that's what Rochdale are all about. They've got a physicality about them. But as we've shown at times this year, probably not consistently enough, so have we. And we'll be picking a team which we believe can go and do that.


Hello everyone, Myself Dr. Lal Chen, I am a consultant cardiac surgeon here in Manipal Hospital. On this World Heart Day of this year, I wish everyone a happy World Heart Day. The theme for this year's World Heart Day is Use Heart to Beat the Cardiovascular Disease. Now because of this COVID pandemic, those who have an existing heart disease, they are slightly at more risk to develop the COVID disease. So they have to take the same amount of precautions what everyone is taking like wearing a mask and sanitization, social distancing, all these things are very much important. But suppose if somebody develops any symptoms which are suggested of a COVID, they should not hesitate to come and visit the hospital where we have all the protocols in place one has to get screened for it. If you get diagnosed earlier, the outcome is far better because this COVID can affect more of a lungs and at later stage, heart gets involved where the tendency to clot formation is quite high. We have COVID packages in place for the cardiac care and we can avail for that. Another important thing is one has to eat well, good nutritious that is very much important, adequate sleep, regular exercise. These three things are very much important to reduce the risk of COVID disease. If somebody wants any more information or appointment, they can always visit our website and we have as well as toll free number for more clarifications.


One of the most important things that I tell folks is I don't want the lesson to be that more is better. I'm not here to tell a CEO that instead of working 14-hour days, you should be working 18-hour days, because I don't believe more is better. I believe better is better. But what Kobe did was he figured out a strategic way for him to have a competitive advantage and he went all in.  Find where you can have a competitive advantage and make massive investments in that.


For today's International Women's Day, I want to take a moment to add my voice of thanks and appreciation to all you amazing women out there that are really making the world go round in ways that often men are ignorant of or don't want to be honest about. I just came back from Australia and met so many amazing women in my event that I toured there. Many strong, powerful, clear and at the same time kind, vulnerable, open-hearted women who are making a huge difference in their respective spaces of their callings and vocations in Australia and of course all over the world. I want to say thank you to all of you, to you amazing women around the world that are showing up every day often in a male-dominated ego-centric space and bringing the love and light that you bring to our world that desperately needs that now, I think more than ever before.


I'm with Anthony Bobalo from Louis Institute on the sideline of the Crawford Leadership Forum. We just had a very lively discussion about the Middle East threats and opportunities. Anthony, what are the major threats that you see particularly to Australia's security from the Middle East? The major threat is the collapse of the regional order, the order within states. Now that's not been uniform across the region. In some cases we've seen a total collapse as in Libya. In other cases, like Egypt, you saw the overthrowing of the regime but now an effort by old regime elements to rebuild the regime. And in Syria, of course, the regime has survived but the country has been plunged into chaos. And the major threat for Australia, there are two immediate threats from that. One is obviously the movement of peoples, these conflicts and these gaps in governance that have been generated. Obviously it mostly affects Europe but we have seen flows of refugees from the Middle East to Australia as well. But more particularly has been the rise of extremist movements. And particularly in these ungoverned spaces that have emerged from the collapse of the old Arab states, those ungoverned spaces now have emerged as areas for these groups to train, to bring in followers from around the world and to promote violence and extremism. Is Australia's involvement in the US-led military coalition against us likely to be very productive? At the moment, the military campaign against Islamic State does seem to be working in that over time Islamic State is losing territory and I think there's a reasonable chance that over time Islamic State will disappear. The problem is this is a very narrow focus. We're focused on Islamic State and even if we defeat Islamic State, Australia is part of a coalition, the likelihood is that until the bigger problem of the Syrian civil war is solved, until governance is re-established in Syria, that Islamic State will disappear and new extremist movements or existing extremist movements will simply fill the vacuum. But of course it's going to be very hard to put a country like Syria or for that matter Iraq back together and of course the same thing applies to Yemen and Libya. So the international community has got a very big job in their hands and a very major challenge. It's an enormous job. At the same time as you try and deal with the consequences, dealing with the symptoms, you have to try and attack the cause. So at the same time as we are trying to mitigate the symptoms by targeting extremists, by giving assistance to deal with the humanitarian situation where also we also should be supporting and arguably doing more to support political efforts to solve the conflicts in these countries. How do you view the Iran's nuclear agreement with the world powers? Do you think that's likely to contribute to stability in the region or is it likely to cause more anguish on the part of the Arab states and particularly Saudi Arabia and its partners and Gulf Cooperation Council and that may prompt Saudis to seek nuclear weapons of their own particularly from Pakistan where they really have with which they have deeper strategic ties and at the same time Pakistanis are producing tactical nuclear bombs very madly in large numbers and there have been reports that Saudi Arabia has made possibly made a down payment for some of those nuclear weapons or there has been even a report lately that actually Saudis may have already laid their hands down on a couple of those tactical nuclear bombs. I think certainly in the case of Iran's relations with the West and with the United States, the nuclear deal has been a positive development in terms of efforts to slow down or restrain the Iranian nuclear program. I think you can argue it has been a positive development, but the nuclear program has clearly even stimulated even further the fears that Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia have of Iran. They feel that Iran now with sanctions removed will emerge even more powerful. So I think absolutely the Saudis are considering a range of options about how to counter Iran's kind of growing power and growing influence. I'm not sure that they would go to the full lengths at least in open anyway of obtaining a nuclear weapon from Pakistan because this would have enormously negative consequences for the relationship with the United States. So I think the Saudis would do it in circumstances where there would already been a breakdown in U.S.-Saudi relations, but I think the Saudis recognize the U.S. is still too important to Saudi Arabia in terms of its external security as an arms supplier, as a trainer, for them to risk such a move which would really badly damage their ties. Do you think the Saudis and their partners and the Gulf Corporation Council, particularly United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, exaggerating the Iranian threat just simply because of their own domestic problems? I think there's certainly an argument for that. I think in the case of Yemen, the Saudis clearly are worried. Other non-Arab observers have argued that perhaps the amount of support that the Iranians are supplying the rebels in Yemen is not as extensive as the Saudis fear, but you have to deal with the fact that this is the real Saudi fear. I mean, I think it's also the case that this is an important way for the Saudis to build unity and loyalty internally within Saudi Arabia, particularly at a time of leadership transition. We've seen the transition in the last couple of years to a new king. His son, the Deputy Crown Prince, is trying to push through a very ambitious reform agenda, but is also clearly building up his position as well in the succession. And I think these things are also linked to the way that the Saudis depict the Iranian threat. Saudi Arabia and Arab countries now they've really torn down their opposition to Israel over the Palestinian issue. But of course, Iran also been trying to do the same sort of thing. Where is that going to really leave the Palestinian issue? Well, the Palestinian issue, I think it will leave the Palestinian issue where it has been left for the last few years, which is very much on the back burner. Now, there are structural reasons for that on the Israeli side and the Palestinian side. There's been a lack of trust. There's no the relationship between the political issues of both sides is completely broken down. So the prospects of a resume negotiation are not very high anyway, but equally externally, there's no one really pushing for it, with the exception now of this French initiative. And even the US has, for all intents and purposes, seemingly given up on these processes. But of course, the two important parties that Israel and the Palestinians are not represented in the Paris talk. And that's the best, and that gives you the best sense of how likely those talks are to succeed.