The oil state government has presented checks worth 500 million Naira to microfinance banks across the seven geopolitical zones in the state as loans to small and micro-enterprises SMEs on that its sustainable action for economic recovery, safe approach. The symbolic presentation of the checks to the microfinance banks was held at the conference hall office of the secretary to the state government, secretariat Agode Ibadon. While presenting the dummy checks to the representatives of the microfinance banks, the chief of staff to the governor, Shagun Ogumuwi, noted that the funds would cushion the difficulty induced by the removal of fuel subsidy. He said micro-businesses could access between 50,000 Naira to 250,000 Naira, while small businesses had the opportunity of accessing 250,000 Naira to 1 million Naira in loans under the scheme stressing that the participating microfinance banks selected beneficiaries without any political influence. Earlier in his remarks, the chairman, safer SMEs subcommittee professor Mo Si-bao Ba Soon-dei explained that the loan support would not only boost SMEs, which are the baseline of the state economic activities, but also help in achieving sustainable development goals, which is to cushion the effects of hardship on the people. In other states of the federation and even within the federal palace, everybody has been talking about palliative, palliative, but as a state, its Excellency Inginashi Imakide, our I'm able to have no ambitionary leader, said we don't want to give our Indians or our citizens palliative, what we want to do is that we want to teach them how to fish so that they can have fish for the rest of their life, rather than give them a fish for one day. So we are enjoying our beneficiaries to make sure that they deploy the loan to productive economic activities, and they also try to fulfill the obligation of making the agreement and self-waint you so that other beneficiaries, other citizens of your state, can also have access to this particular loan.


Good morning, good morning, good morning, it's time to rise and shine. Good morning, good morning, good morning, I hope you're feeling fine. Good morning, get up, get out of bed, it's time to wake up, you sleepyhead. Wake up, it's a brand new day, and we can't miss out on that day to be at your best. And you gotta make sure you got the right back test. Like this sleep away, make sure you're awake, cause we don't have time for fat finger mistakes. And ratio condom, quick, small gap. Good morning everyone, happy Monday. Today is December 18th. Hope everybody had a good weekend.  Pretty minimal, just a little over 16 point expected move on the day. But it is Monday my friends, it is Monday, I'll be doing my AM ratio. I will be doing my 9.45 AM iron condor. I will mix in some re-entries. I've got to close out my 3.5 and my 3.7, those both should be profitable. I will also be entering a 3.4 DTE this morning. So that's what I got on the docket. Market opens in one minute, the $4 strikes will be about 15 wide. Maybe 20, no news today, really no news today or tomorrow. Yeah, these are power hour premiums, which does not look good for power hour unless we crash today. So it looks like we may get 20 wide. My order will start coming in here. I forgot, I used the White Tiger's little auto expected move indicator. Oh wait, I got to put it in though. So let's see, 16.3. So the upper expected move, a little over 47.47, lower expected move about a little over 47.03. Okay, so it's not accurate yet. Yeah, yeah, it's still showing, still showing Fridays. Okay, I'll wait. I usually don't plot it till a little bit after anyway. Here comes my AM ratio. Looks like we'll try to get filled on the 47.40 calls and the 47.20. Just trying to replace the trade, prices moving higher. Looks like the 47.40s and the 47.20s. So 20 wide, filled at 17.30. Actually, it seems like it should have filled me on the 25s, not the 20s. Look closer to four on 25s. Chris, did you get filled on the 25s? On the put side? Let me see here. Monday AM ratio closest to four. I got me the 47.20s for some reason. All right, so I'm in the AM ratio. I got to jump over to my other monitor and close out my double calendars. Meach, the only difference is the number of bots you can do. So I would just start with the, depending on how many bots you want to build, you want to build a million? Yeah, they need better go with the big dog. I think I started with the one with three or whatever it is. And then I quickly realized. So I think I upgraded three times within three days. All right, so here's my three, five exit. Hosting in the calendar channel. That was a nice winner. Three, seven will be a little winner. Build on my three, seven, posted my three, seven as well. I've also got a four, seven and a six, seven. Four, seven is up about 13%. My six, seven is up about 14%. I already closed half my six, seven and half my four, seven on Friday. River 10, so they're up a little bit more. Dick K got the enterprise package. Call for custom quoting, please. All right, so S&P up a little bit at the open up 17 from Friday's close. Yeah, so also Meach, if you turn a bot off, that doesn't count against your number. So it's however many bots you have running or enabled at one time. So even if you do the 30, you could have 60 bots, but if only 30 of them are turned on, then that's all. That's all that matters. So if you're just going to use the bots to enter, yeah, you wouldn't you wouldn't need to turn it off. Then if you're going to use the OCOs to exit, you would just need to set the bot up just to enter and just don't set an exit. Well, actually, now that I say that out loud, I'm not sure if that's right. Because if you close, if you close the order and toss that you've entered in a bot. Yeah, I guess if you turn the bot off, that would work. You know, volatility pumped into my AM ratio. Cosmo, I will potentially, I kind of, I'm kind of using my re-entries a little bit more discretionary. I just put on my AM ratio. So I'm not really interested in loading up on top of that at the exact same price level at the exact same time. So on Mondays, I've also got a 945 central trade. So in about an hour, another one will come on. So depending on what happens here, I may wait on my re-entries till later. I just don't want to get too overloaded at one price level or one kind of area. Let's see, White Tiger, if it'll update now. There we go. So the upper expected move is around 47.42. Downside 47.09. Opt for dollar. What is that? Is that that charting service? I think I used them in like 1994. Yeah, it's been a long time. It just gives me an idea of what the expected range is for the day. Sometimes I will do some discretionary, like futures trades around the expected move. But it's really just as reference. It it's not anything critical that I absolutely have to have. I just kind of started doing it a while back and I just like it as a reference. And it kind of alerts me to, you know, for I mean, it's not the exact criteria, but it kind of alerts me of, you know, if it's above that, it's typically going to be, you know, we're in the kind of the up day type territory. Or down day type territory if it goes to the downside. OK, maybe I maybe I didn't hit apply or something. I put it in right at the open and it still kept my value in the settings as of what I had in there for Friday. And I just did it and now it moves. So I don't maybe I did something wrong. I like it, though. Yeah, I mean, I think that's fair. Dale, I but I think I think of support and resistance differently than other people, you know, I mean, I. You know, I use it as a kind of a line in the sand. So it's not something I do every day. You know, I'm not shorting at the upper one. I'm not buying at the lower one. It's just it's just reference. Oh, I got to do my three four DTE. Give me just a second. All right, so we go. We said it's sixty five trying to get filled in my three four. This six eighty. Sorry, guys, I was trying to I had some overlapping strikes and trade ears. So I'm going to try to get my three four filled in toss. There we go. All right, just posted my three four in the calendar channel. Check on my four or five DTE. It's down a little bit with this push up. You kind of move down would work nicely on that. By the way, if you're new here and I know I'm kind of jumping around, it's typically got a lot going on on Monday mornings.  From a zero DTE perspective, all I've done is enter a AM my AM iron condor that's on my trade plan. All the other stuff is trying to get filled on some double calendars from Friday and entering a new one this morning. What do you mean? I don't know what you're saying, Chris. Can you translate retranslate for me? SPX hovering around forty seven thirty three. Yeah, I haven't seen any decay. Kind of some juice kind of got pumped in to the AM ratio after entry. Now it's pretty much where we got in. It's the same expiration, but, you know, you're choosing different strikes, you're getting in a different time. Volatility levels are different.  Previously, I wasn't doing a lot of three fours for that reason, just because kind of doubling up on the getting more exposure in that same expiration. But I just as we've seen, calendars are doing well in this low vol environment, so just kind of loading up with more exposure. Next week, I will not be. In fact, I'm not sure what I want to do on Friday, going into Christmas week. Tend to not do very well. Probably won't do any one, probably won't do any B and B's. I made it. I may skip calendars all together on Friday. I got to dig in a little bit more to see if my thesis is correct. My AM ratio condors at forty five dollars. I know it wasn't kind to B and B's. And I'm pretty sure I remember it being pretty bad for all. All double calendars. Yeah, I want to go through the trade logs, Cody, exactly. Pull up the back tests for that specific week in the past and see what see what happened. Yeah, you can see VIX is just kind of climbing all morning from the open. VIX is up two and a quarter percent now. We can look at some other positions here. So time flies. We've got the D's twenty two. Yes, I'll continue to hold this until one DTE. Best case scenario would be we're just kind of chopping around this area and then one DTE, which would be the twenty first. We start to get a little profit-humped building. And that's ideal. Will that happen? I don't know. Got the D's twenty nine similar scenario. So we have no risk to the upside on that one. The D's twenty two, we've got a little bit of risk to the upside. So ideally, we kind of chop around here and then push a little bit lower as the profit-humped builds to the downside. Got the GN five, not too far off from where we put it on. Got an ES hedgehog. Just put that on last week. We've got our gold strangle. It's profitable after adjustment. We've got a reverse hog in gold. That's just a little over break even. We've got a short strangle in MES. We've adjusted that one. Natty Gast is up a little bit. Well, I was thinking about it, Dayow. But because of the low expected move, meaning they would. I haven't even looked at it, but it'd probably be fairly cheap. But now we got VIX expanding instead of contracting. Usually on Mondays, volatility starts high and contracts. But we're seeing a little different story today. So definitely not interested in jumping in now. Possibly later in the day, depending on what happens. Rick's trading at about 925 right now. I mean, you'd need about a 20 point move. Up or down to hit a profit target in Rick right now, based on the current pricing. And the expected move is well below that. So yeah, so Dayow, I mean, the pattern is that. Obviously, this is not every single time, but the pattern is, you know, the market makers pump up the VIX over the weekend. You know, I mean, you think about it, you know, a lot of a lot of new traders will think, oh, man, I get free theta decay on the weekend, right? So they will sell premium on Friday and try to take it off Monday. Well, if you've ever done that, you know that that just is not really a good strategy because there is no there is no free lunch. You know, so what you'll see a lot of times is volatility actually contracts at the end of the week, and then they pump it up at the beginning of the week to kind of compensate for that. So that's that's kind of the quote unquote normal pattern. My six seven is getting close to 20 percent. SPX pushing higher, SPX up 20 now, or ES is up 20. I'm starting to see a little bit of decay in the AM ratio ever so slight. You can trail my AM down a buck. Sure, I must stop down. Nasdaq up 70, Russell the strongest up almost three quarters of a percent. Dow just slightly green as PX. Really 64, 74, about 91 points away from all time highs, getting a new high of year as we speak. So somebody was asking about reentry. So I'm going to go ahead and now we've got, you know, price has moved at a center. Volatility is actually staying a little bit bed. So I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and turn on my reentry is just to add a little bit more. My reentries are coming in at forty seven, forty five, forty seven, thirty. Six sevens get close to 20 percent. Let's see, where did I get into that one? Yeah, trading naked, so I just toggled it on. And so if the criteria fits, then it'll. It'll enter the reason it I mean, the VIX, you know, I have a VIX filter on there. So VIX is down more than point two five percent at the open that it wouldn't wouldn't trigger. But other than that, I have my entry time window set from the open until two thirty. So we're obviously still in that window. So that's why it just went right when I toggled on. That's why it entered six seven. I got in three eighty five, sixty five. I'm going to put an order in it for seventy to close my six seven. VIX futures are just slightly red. Spot VIX is up two point three six. Dark of Endra just posted in the calendar channel for seventy is where my order is. Wouldn't be a close debit close it for credit. Buy it for debit close for credit. Meach, I use the. No, I use the other one. Whatever they call it, I use the bot algo. Yeah, I'm trying to remember why there's something. Is it with the broker resting? You can't adjust your like so if you have a trailing stop. So I have to manually trail my stop in trade steward. If I have a strategy that I'm using a trailing stop on. So I think you have to use bot algo if you want to do that. If I'm not mistaken, I could be wrong. So that can, you know, it can be good and bad. I wouldn't say it's better necessarily, Chris. It's just what depends on the strategy and the. What you're trying to accomplish with it. But you know, it's so it's submitted as a market order. From trade steward to toss. So you need to make sure you understand, like it's going to be a little bit more delayed than if you had a resting stop market order in toss, which obviously, like I said, you know, that can be good or bad. You can see I've seen more slippage than I probably would have gotten. And I've seen less too. So it just, you know, kind of works both ways. I think that would be accurate. Meach, I just developed, I've just been using bot algo because a lot of my trades, I'm still adjusting the stop down, but I think it was just fixed. I don't, you know, you may, you may post that to Jordan. Tag him at go big orange in the trade steward channel just to confirm. But I think that's, I think what you're saying is accurate. Uh, side to stop. I do, um, I do net position. So here's my AM ratio, for example, I'm not sure what you're on. Oh yeah. It's a stop based on net position. Okay. Yeah. That is, that's right. If you have broker resting and that pops up, then I would assume you only do short only. Yeah. That's what it looks like. No worries, Meach, ask away. This, love it. That's, that's what this time is all about after we get into orders. Yeah. And anybody, anybody else here after we get into positions and we've got downtime, feel free to ask any questions.  So definitely want to confirm anything with, uh, with Jordan. He's pretty responsive. Uh, I think, are you, I think maybe you're talking about the FOMC trade Meach. So with the FOMC trade, if I had been using the bot, it would have worked fine. I, I, I manually put that one in and was using an OCO and I put my OCO on the full iron condor as opposed to, uh, just the shorts. Cause I just, I wasn't even paying attention. I wasn't thinking about that the, um, that the bids would be gone on that trade that quickly, which I should have. So I bought the 5 cent wings, but I just, I just, it was just me not paying attention. Yeah. So the way the way the bot works is if it, it has the stop on the full iron condor, but as soon as a leg goes bid less, it takes that out of the equation. So you'll see sometimes that the bot will close the two shorts and the call and the long call, but it won't close the long put cause it has no bid. So it's constantly updating and checking that for you, which is nice. I just didn't have an FOMC bot set up. Yeah. The net position and the bot algo will take care of that. Yeah. He just posted something I saw, nothing definite, but I was in their discord yesterday. What did he say? Said something about, oh yeah. He said in the verified user chat in the trade stir discord, he said, aware that money, many of you got emails about the May 10, 2024 final transition or TDA to Schwab. I heard from TDA today that they are beginning to process onboarding of commercial API products to the Schwab API and more information should be coming quote very soon. So whatever that means, if that should work. Meach. Yeah. Any kind of urgent or technical questions, probably best feature request that all can be done in their discord. If you tag Jordan, his handles go big orange in our trade steward channel, he's pretty responsive that way too. If you tag him. All right. So my AM ratio is at 12%. My re-entries are hovering around unchanged. S&P is chopping around 4735. Got a few points away from the upper expected move. Yeah, Chris. I honestly, I don't know how they are handling the moves. I don't know what the order, there's a specific order. I heard at one point, you know, if you traded futures or futures options, they would be later because they hadn't gotten all their systems fixed in a couple of, but I don't know.  So it may be a good idea. I'm not sure. I've also heard people being told that they're not going to be moved until one date. And then all of a sudden they opened up their platform. They were moved. So take that for what it's worth. So I've trailed my stop on my AM ratio, about three bucks. Three bucks so far. Four dollar strikes are about 10 wide on SPX now. All right, my friends, anything else before we sign off? I've got a 945 AM iron condor that'll come on 945 central. So that's in about 20 minutes. I've got a quiet lunch. If that qualifies, then we will be back for power hour and we'll probably have four dollar straddles at power hour. So be ready for that. All right, my friends, have a good day. See you in power hour.


Hello, and welcome to NewsClick's International Roundup. Today, we look at the United States, where Donald Trump's proposal of a border wall has led to a federal government shutdown, which is likely to be the longest in the country's history. We also look at Syria, where the United States has started withdrawing forces and the implications it will have for the region. To talk more about this, we have with us Prabir Prakasar, the head of the chief of news media. Hello, Prabir. Prabir, let's start with the government shutdown in the United States. So it has been largely portrayed as a battle between Donald Trump and the Democrats. A lot of people are working without salaries. They have been protests by federal government employees, and there's a lot of stories about the kind of impact it is having in the United States. But at the same time, there is also a larger perspective in the region, if we can call it so. And the fact that a lot of this also stems from the fact, from the United States policies towards countries in the region, whether it be Guatemala, whether it be Honduras, whether it be Colombia, for that matter. So how do we see this issue also from the perspective of the region, per se, and not just as an issue between two parties in the United States? That's always the problem of looking at the United States. You get drawn into the internal politics of the United States. And we know so much more about the United States than any other part of the globe. It always seems interesting to the people. But if we take this issue of the government shutdown, et cetera, all of these extend us to what rest of the world should consider, because after all, we have no role in that. That's something they have to resolve, the American people have to live with. So we leave that out for the time being completely. That yes, there is with the government shutdown, it continues. Who will blink in the United States? That's an open question. And also that the United States people, the government departments, all of them will have to suffer the consequences of a shutdown in the United States, which means a lot of the government salaries expenditure will not take place. The question is really the famous Donald Trump's wall. That this would be a wall which would isolate the United States from the rest of the continent. And in some sense, the white states, America and Canada, the two settler colonial states, if you will, in the region, want to secede through this symbolic wall as well as a physical wall from the rest of the America. So that's really the crux of the imagery of the wall, that can the white settler colonial states, i.e., the United States, and of course, the Canada goes along with it, virtually as its satellite, though Trump has made noise about Canadians as well. But essentially, they will be insulated from the rest of the region. Now if we see what you raised earlier, what is the relationship between the rest of the world, the rest of the Americas and the United States? You know, this whole issue of why the United States is a favorite destination is on two counts. One is, of course, it's much richer. And it is much richer because it has actually feasted off the rest of the continent, as well as you now know on the Persian Gulf oil, on the kind of treaties it is imposed across the world. So there's been a lot of the consequence of that, which we'll also discuss when we come to Syrian issue and what Pompeo has said. But by and large, you can see the destructive impact of the American policies in the region that it has had coups repeatedly, not once repeatedly in the region. It has forced governments to surrender to itself, if not through coups by other coercive means, including economic ones. At the end of it, the destruction of these countries meant that they also create what would be called economic refugees who are fleeing. Now if you see the, for instance, the state of Mexico, which of course shares the border with the United States. Mexico, as we know, has been first dismembered by the United States through some colonial wars. Forget about that. More recently, it has interfered repeatedly in Mexican elections, prevented democratic progressive forces from winning. It has supported brutal, shall we say, gangs, criminal gangs, who have held the very Mexican government hostage. And the close nexus between crime in the United States and drug mafia in Latin America, in which Mexico is also a conduit. All of this means that, as we can see, a certain number of states turn into what are called narco states. That essentially supplying, shall we say, various opiates to the United States becomes their main business model, at least for the criminal gangs, which also wield a lot of economic power in the region. So a lot of this is economic destruction of these countries. We can go back to Arabians and Guatemala, 1953 coup. You can go to the war. It waged against various left and progressive governments. It's the fact that it had, it's through the what are called the CIA run and military establishments. It supported a whole range of military coups in the region. Brazil, Argentina, Chile, of course, the famous Chilean example, and this government being overthrown. So if we see the recent past, we can see it's attack for us in Honduras. The fact that Zalaya was overthrown. He took refuge in Brazilian embassy that he was finally through a constitutional coup.  He didn't want to let go power. Honduras continues to be destabilized with crime as well as with assassinations. You can go down or up, shall we say, Central America. And you will find the same pattern. Now, all of it means, of course, there's a huge difference between the American standards of living and what is happening elsewhere. So there is a flow of refugees created partially by the fact that the United States has neocolonial policies in the region. And I think that's a significant part of it. But I also think the imagery of it is very important, wanting to secede out of the Americas. And I think the fact that you have a settler, colonial state wanting to secede out of the Americas is as much a part of Trump's electoral imagery that the white population wants to secede from the rest of the Americas. But also it's internal politics of turning against the quote, African Americans and Hispanics who in, say, 20, 30, 40 years down the line may have as much political power as the white population. Therefore, this is also, in some sense, shall we say, the racial war inside the United States, which is also shown by this war. So all this is basically completely obscured by the fact that this ends up in just being a debate over, say, whether it should be a wall or a fence, whether it's 1.5 billion or 5.7 billion. And this entire politics completely gets obscured by that. So let's move on to Syria where the United States has technically started withdrawing soldiers. They're moving gear out, not soldiers yet. And at the same time, we've had two interesting incidents in the past week. On the one hand, Mike Pompeo went to Egypt and he gave a very bellicose speech, in fact, criticizing Obama's earlier speech also and talking about how the US was a force for good. On the other hand, we have John Bolton going to Turkey, trying to set up conditions for the withdrawal of the US from Syria. And he was, and Erdogan and the Turks didn't really pay any attention at all. So even as the US is thinking of withdrawing, how do we see these two, what do you call it, very verbose, belligerent declarations by these two important characters? You know, one thing we should be very clear about that the US, if it gets defeated, it looks like its policies are slowly getting defeated in West Asia.  We are not going to have an easy, shall we say, transition to peace and prosperity in the region. You are going to see that the United States, its imperial or neocolonial policies, in its withdrawal is going to be as bloody, bloody as it was in its expansion. So I think that we need to understand. When you look at what Pompeo and Bolton have said, that while paying lift service to Trump's withdrawal, they are actually putting conditions for withdrawal on powers which are not within Syria. They are talking about Turkey. They're talking about Iran. And Pompeo went one step further. He talked about essentially a West Asian or an Arab NATO, which would fight against Iran. According to him, Iran is the big bad player in the region and everybody is a nice guy, including the United States. What they did not say is also very important. Yemen is not mentioned by either of the two. So in all this good that the United States has apparently done in the region, Yemen is not even mentioned. Now let's look at what Bolton said. Bolton said we want to withdraw out of Syria but there are two conditions. One is Iran must withdraw completely. Now Iran is there and the response of a sovereign country is called for help. Whether Iran leaves or not depends on the Syrian government. The United States as a sovereign power cannot have the right in another sovereign country to decide what will or will not happen here. So US is certainly an extraterritorial right over Syria, which it doesn't have in international law and at the moment physically also does not really have. All it has is the ability to bomb. That's what it really has on the ground. Now it wanted to use this to say that the Kurdish militias over there should not be attacked by Turkey. And what it is again looking at is can the Kurdish forces take over entire east of Euphrates, which you've discussed earlier. Now Kurdish as we know have a presence in the northwest east part of Syria but this is not more than say seven percent of the population of Syria. And it's a thin strip of land which you can talk about Kurdish majority. It's not contiguous. There are other ethnicities in this region as well. But certainly the amount of land today, the Kurdish and its supported SDF control is completely out of proportion to the numbers it has or the influence it has. It's spread shall we say over a much larger part which is not Kurdish. So that's an inherent problem that the US supported Kurdish SDF has in Syria. The Kurdish have read the writing on the wall. They're already talking to, from what we understand, to Russia and Syria and maybe through them to Turkey. And they are in fact trying to join the Astana process which the United States completely disregarded. It's also interesting that Bolton was rebuffed rather sharply by Erdogan refusing to meet him, take his comments seriously and saying Bolton putting conditions on Turkey unilaterally that is not going to work. That if something has to be decided it cannot be through preconditions of the United States. So that was one thing. Of course, Turkish forces have not entered Syria, not after this disengagement shall we say. And there is clear discussions going on what will be the future of Manbij when whether it will be handed over to Syrian government forces or not. All these discussions are going on but certainly Bolton's condition regarding the Turk what they should do has been disregarded by Turkey and Pompeo has not repeated in Egypt. Pompeo is interesting because there is a huge amount of American exceptionalism that he talks about how we are good, our wars are good wars and other people's wars are bad wars. So apparently when America bombs, it's good. When others fight, it's always bad. Others don't have the ability to bomb that way in West Asia, it's only Israel and United States which has bombed other countries. It has also, here the severity of the cheek shall we say not only to condemn Obama, which he did, talked about how Obama basically mistaken completely, dismissing entirely his policies which I will again leave to the internal politics of the United States, we're not really concerned. What he talks about, have we controlled, have we acted hegemonically unlike Iran? Well, they were in Iran. They overthrew the Mosaddegh government. They were the hegemon in Iran for a huge number of years before the Iranians really overthrew their puppet Shah. So for him to come and say this in West Asia seems to believe that the region's people are as ignorant as probably most American people are because American people never learned the history of different parts of the world from their history books. So what they have learned is shall we say the Pompeo Bolton doctrine presented as if it is truth. So I think what we are seeing is the myth making powers of the United States are increasing as its forces on the ground weaken. We also see that Saudis are no longer, Saudis, Israeli, United States alliance today does not seem to be getting more traction. We see people sort of getting away from it trying to work out their own relationship. And Turkey, don't forget, Turkey is the second biggest military power in NATO. If we take soldiers into account, the number of armed forces, the people in the armed forces. So I think Turkey not willing to tow the line is a huge defection shall we say from American policies, the region. Now what Turkey will do, how it will play its cards, I think is not going to determine by the United States. So the events in Syria no longer depend on the US. It's really now the course of this is going to be set by the Syrians themselves. It's going to be set by Turkey. It's going to be set by Iran. And of course Russians who have relationship with all of them and trying to build a certain kind of shall we say understanding in the region. And the other important part of it which we shouldn't forget is Israel is getting slowly frozen out of Syrian airspace. And that is a major game changer because Israel's ability to hit Syria is what kept it in the game. Once that ability goes away, Israel is not going to intervene militarily in Syria. And if it doesn't enter Syria militarily, its air force has really very, very little shall we say traction anymore. And if that happens Israel as a player in the larger West Asian process will certainly seem, you know, will certainly get more marginalized. I think we are seeing a transition from a US centric West Asia to a more regional balance in West Asia. But as I said, the spoiler is what the US does. I think Trump's decision to withdraw is de facto what was happening anyway because the United States really did not have anymore a dog in the game because more or less every player was working independently of the United States. And their locus of having 2000 soldiers over there with probably another 3000 shall we say mercenaries, you know, the Eric Prince kind of mercenaries over there, that really did not give them traction. The only traction they had with their force and with the Russians now giving slowly the Syrians more and more S 300 and other batteries, more and more the ability of the United States attacks in Syria against Syrian forces was weakening. Let's face it. When Syrians, Americans talk about ISIS and Al Qaeda, they've never fought either of the two in Syria. In fact, one could be argued they in fact have helped as a lot of times it has been said they have acted effectively as an air arm of Al Qaeda by bombing Syrian forces, particularly at times that they were moving against ISIS or against Al Qaeda, that they have ended up by at that point of time bombing the Syrian forces. So I think the de facto Trump's policies is a recognition that this cannot continue. The United States has to withdraw but Papua and Bolton are making that process painful and longer drawn out than perhaps it had otherwise. Thank you for that. That's all we have time for today. Keep watching news click.


It's gross to live under the U.S. Empire and spend your time criticizing other governments. The other day an Australian journalist was giving me a hard time for not criticizing Russia and China the way I go after the U.S. Empire, calling me morally bankrupt for not criticizing all governments equally. He said the ethical thing to do would be to criticize the U.S. but also criticize the governments the U.S. doesn't like for balance. I had a look at this fellow's work online and did indeed see articles sharply criticizing China and Russia as well as much weaker governments like Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and the Taliban. But guess what government I didn't see in his crosshairs? This to me is the worst kind of moral cowardice. To live in Australia, effectively a member state of the U.S. Empire, and yet spend your time criticizing far weaker and far less destructive governments, is like living in a Nazi occupied territory during World War II and spending your time shaking your fist at Brazil.  As I learn more and more about global power dynamics and interact with more and more people around the world responding to the things I have to say, I find myself growing more and more disdainful of those who live directly under the thumb of the U.S. Empire, and yet spend their time criticizing unabsorbed governments like Russia and China. It's literally the most pathetic, sniveling, power-serving position anyone can possibly take at this point in history. The U.S. Empire is indisputably the most murderous and destructive power structure on the world stage today. No other power has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression. No other power is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and working continuously to destroy any government which disobeys it. No other power is starving entire populations with economic sanctions, military blockades, and brazen theft. No other power has been interfering in foreign elections anywhere near as often. No other power is terrorizing populations around the world with wars, covert ops, drone strikes, proxy conflicts, and staged coups and uprisings. No other power is using its military, economic, diplomatic, and media dominance to bully the world into serving its interests. The U.S. exports most of its tyranny outside its own borders, though certainly not all of it, but it is nevertheless plainly the most tyrannical regime on earth. Everyone in the world should focus their scrutiny and criticism on the most powerful and destructive power structure in the world because that is the sane and normal thing to do. But those who live in the U.S. or its imperial member states have a special obligation to do so because focusing on far less powerful and far less evil governments when you live under the umbrella of the U.S. centralized empire is gross. Even if you don't buy the argument that those who live under the U.S. empire have a special obligation to focus their criticisms on that power structure, at the very least you should make your criticisms proportionate to the destructiveness. And because the U.S. is by far the most destructive power on earth, you should be criticizing it far more often. But it's worth taking time to do some honest self-examination on why you feel the need to even give proportionate criticism to empire-targeted governments like Russia and China in a society where every single one of the most powerful media and government institutions already criticize those governments constantly while ignoring the crimes of the empire. It's worth examining why you feel the need to lend your voice to a message that is already being amplified as loudly as any message could possibly be amplified when criticisms of the empire are so profoundly neglected in the English-speaking world and questioning whether lending your energy to those propaganda campaigns would have any desirable effect at all.  We are so accustomed to seeing the misdeeds of U.S. targeted governments grossly over-emphasized and exaggerated while seeing U.S. misdeeds grossly under-emphasized and ignored that it sets the bar for our expectations of what normal criticism should look like. This distortion effect makes an appropriate level of aggressive criticism of the U.S. empire look inappropriate and disproportionate. We've been trained in such a way that a normal amount of emphasis on the evils of U.S. imperialism looks freakish and suspicious. In reality, it is not freakish and suspicious when someone focuses their criticisms on the world's most powerful and destructive government. It's freakish and suspicious that that isn't the norm. It's a lot easier to criticize empire-targeted governments than the empire itself, because everyone we're surrounded by has been consuming empire propaganda all their lives, and will receive pushback from them when we say things that cause them to experience cognitive dissonance. And this is a major reason so many Westerners opt for the path of least resistance rather than shining the spotlight of truth where the real monsters are. But that's cowardice. It's bootlicking.  Don't facilitate the propaganda campaigns of your rulers while failing to criticize the crimes of those rulers just because it's easier than putting your energy where it belongs.   Don't serve power while pretending to oppose power. It's gross.


It's time for the lawn gene A television journal of the important issues of the art brought to you every Monday Wednesday and Friday Presentation of the lawn gene Wittner watch company Lawn gene the world's most honored watch Wittner distinguished companion to the world Good evening, this is Frank Knight Co-editors for this edition of the lawn gene Chronoscope From the CBS news staff Larry and a sir Bill Chanel our distinguished guest for this evening Lord Strauss chairman of the fair campaign practice A long time ago as far back as that anyway there was hope throughout the country that the campaigns would be conducted on a basis of Play without personal vilification and abuse in fact a committee was formed which are kept They got pledges from the candidates Understand that they would adhere to a Mrs. Strauss, what has happened to those pledges of fair play of honesty Decency I think we had a very percentage sign those pledges considering that this happened and Up till just recently they did very well in living up In other words you think that they haven't Well, if there were any violations, which side do you think they were on? It had been too many because I wouldn't like any violations at all That kind of mud slinging is not wise and I think Come election day that the voters will Well, in other words, you feel that it's possible that these But boomerang on a candidate why do indeed well faith in them in the people in this they like that kind of mud And I think that they show it in their vote well, I think they have in the past I Believe that most people Standards and this is a way of Opportunity of expressing what they want they never And drew them up themselves He's a care this code that our committee has presented I think put a lot of people have wanted and had in mind Is there any way of policing these this cold? No when the committee Make this code available we decided that we could But that we would leave it up to the Video and TV TV and to the people that Leasing and I think that that in the off is is the right way of doing it Mr.. I know that there have been violations of the code See and fair play Now would you pinpoint the blame at the candidates or on the national leadership Well, I don't think that's any one place from I think that many people can contribute to it and Think that it often is a move of desperation. I think that's why there's been more of it at the end of the campaign I think the fact that Some of these things that have been said at the very end when there really was Whether they were so or not and I think that's the kind of thing that the the voters Will learn to recognize if they haven't already and realize that kind of attack is not a justified one and they And on election day, they'll make it now cross when you have a chance to evaluate this campaign At another such campaign Their own fair practices. Well, we hope to we're not discouraged. Oh, we're not discouraged a bit and we hope Editors will help us evaluate. We have a questionnaire We want to find out to the editors asking them what they think about it and asking suggestions How it might be made more effective of the years. Ms. Stars, is it possible that the public themselves are guilty of? violating your pledges by exaggerated bias by Indulting in what have been called whispering campaigns, which is not due to the candidates or the national leadership Well, I think generally that the it was started by somebody who would be involved in a campaign You think there is an initiating force and in any of these campaigns of vilification personal abuse even whispering campaign Oh, I think that there is the original force and then I think that it is often taken up by the people but I don't think very often the people themselves have started it going and I think that the Unfortunately the press and the people and others contribute towards it but again, I think if we call it to their attention and and Show them how it's to their own disadvantage to have that kind of a thing happen that a Large majority of the people will not do it. I think it's an awfully small number Who do the name-calling and who liked that kind of thing? And I think those of us who don't have to get up and say we don't and say it Uncertain in no uncertain terms and that's why I thought this fair campaign practices committee is trying to do Ms. Strauss, would there be any? Would it be practical to try and get some federal legislation or perhaps a resolution passed by the Congress endorsing this code? Yes, actually that was what was originally thought of when the Subcommittee drew up what it was basically the same Code that we are using the subcommittee on privileges and elections But they didn't put it into legislation and so we just a group of citizens picked it up and said Let's do it by the force of public opinion to my mind. I want to like it when public opinion does something and Just speaks up and says we want the best of our candidates and we'll demand it of them Strauss now is the raising of false and misleading issues one of the dynamics of Politics or can politics be conducted on purely intellectual lines? I think it can be done on Intellectual if you want or all the facts of the situation because I think this name-crawling and mud-slinging gets away from the real issues and To my mind you can do a wonderful educational job in politics during a campaign and Give the people a real basis for making honest decisions It's a practical politician. Can you appeal to the people through their minds or through their emotions? Isn't it necessary to go to their emotions in order to get them to vote? Yes, but we have good emotions as well as bad night appeal to the good emotions when when you're making the emotional appeal I think it's a combination of intellectual and emotional, but Let's have it on the the higher emotional appeal and not the baser ones. In other words, you think you can make intellectual or mental issues Into emotional ones by good. Is that good politics? I think we've got to make it good politics and I think it is increasingly good politics We've just stated before that that some of the candidates were guilty of introducing issues It could not be proved against their opponents at the very tail end of the of the campaign Well, isn't that good politics if if they go into the election day without being the other side being able to Disprove the charges that are made against them. No, I hope it's going to be Be shown that it's very bad politics because I hope that the people will recognize But it is name-crawling and that if those were Will suspicions they should have been brought out earlier. Does your committee have any plans for trying to evaluate a candidate losing because of unfair practices? Well, we shall do it for our own satisfaction to see the effectiveness of it But we as a committee are not doing any evaluating that We would make public as to whether a candidate had lived up to it or not That would put us on the spot. It'd be a pretty good lesson though, wouldn't it for some politician? Yes, it would. We hope that the the people themselves the voters on election day I got to do that type of evaluation for us and that's much better to give the Majority that opportunity instead of just a small committee when the straw speaking evaluation Do you think this should be a limit on how far back an opponent goes in? Using facts which are not or issues which are not related to the issues of the moment to a smear an opponent Well, I think there should there be a time limit No, I think that pertinent Facts should be brought out but I Don't think there's a time limit on pertinent ones, but I think that the the crux of the situation is what is permanent pertinent? Well, why haven't if I may ask Mrs. Strauss, Mr. Strauss, why haven't women done more to clean up politics? After all that was one of the reasons they gave For getting the franchise when they first got women's suffrage since there are more women than men Why haven't they done more to to wipe out by the force of their vote these candidates who? Who violate the pledges of fair play and decency? That's one of the reasons that was given for giving women the vote Actually, I'll go back to my own great-grandmother who was one of the first people to work for the vote and Her basis. She was a very strong Anti-slavery person was that women have a contribution to make and the vote is the crux of being able to make it and I will say that I do think that women do have somewhat higher moral standards That can be applied But after all, you know the old story of women were All angels the men would have a very dull life And I think that that the people that thought that the whole political scene was going to be made over just because women were given the vote Were being rather unrealistic at that point. Do you feel that our campaigns have cleaned up been cleaned up in the last 20 years? Oh, I do. I think that they are On a better plane, but not as good as they should be Well, Mr. Oste, you think actually you've seen a few campaigns, I suppose Campaigns are Getting better or worse. I think they're getting better with the present campaign that has taken place in The past few days. No, but I'm saying is I think that there is more honesty in campaigns now than they used to be and I'm not pleased until they're entirely cleaned up until This code affair campaign practices and is entirely lived up to but I think this is just another step That will help improve them. In other words, you think the force of public opinion as harnessed by the women in the League of Voters and this this committee of Affair play is gaining more and more power in the in the actual elections Yes, I think it is I think that Well, we know that there's a very considerable number of independent voters and Even within the party independence and that's a whole subject in itself how strict how much you should Vote as a party matter, but I think this degree of independence means that people are thinking on their own and making their own decisions And I think that kind of Decisions Will mean that the party will have to work with higher standards just as I think the League of Women Voters Trains people to go into their party and be more than yes men to really make a contribution of higher standards To both political parties. Thank you very much. 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In the last step then we created this wonderful landscape that you can see on screen and in this step We're going to look at the different ways we can manipulate this using the sculpting tools So we'll get straight stuck in with that So you can see that because we've now created the landscape. We've moved over to The sculpt tool over here and below that you've got lots of different tools here So you can see that you start with here and there's loads listed So we've got sculpt smooth flatten etc. And we'll have a look at most of these in turn As well as that you've got different types of brushes you can use now I'm just going to stick to the circle brushes what we're doing here, but they are worth experimenting with and you can also change the way that the falloff happens So that's to do with if you look here. Let me just resize this brush feel let me So you can see that The way that you've got two circles that make up this brush and the falloff between them changes based on this So we could do a linear falloff And that would to be fair you don't actually see much change here There you go That's a bit more of a change and and that will change the way that it transitions from kind of The center of the tool to the edge of the tool to keep things looking similar But again, we're just going to stick to smooth for this and I'm just going to bring the size of my tool right now I'm doing that when I change the size of the tool I'm using the square bracket keys on the keyboard as well, which is a nice little shortcut Okay, so we'll start looking at the sculpt tool So we're already on that and there are a few parameters for this so you can see that you can change this the tool strength Now you're probably looking at a default value of zero point three, which I think is a default I always bring that down to zero point one because I would rather build things up So I'd rather than just clicking and dragging once and like hoping that it looks okay I will click and drag over a few times and kind of build things up gradually and I feel that it gives me more control Here's another way of changing your brush size So I just put my brush there so you can see it and we can change the brush size using the slider as well and you can also change the fall off and which is How smooth or hard the brushes so if we go for Fall off of zero that makes it a really harsh brushing I get some really kind of steep slopes at the edge Or you could go crazy soft like that and that kind of is all soft But I'm pretty happy with the default value of zero point five right, so the sculpt brush is Additive and it is subtractive. So the additive part of that is if you just click and drag like this So as I keep going You can see that this is raising up and I'm just creating some nice hilly areas Let me just get in a little bit closer so you can see a bit better There we go. So as I click and drag I will create little peaks So that's the additive part the subtractive part Is the opposite of that? So if you want to go down you want to create like maybe a river or a valley or a lake Then you hold shift on your keyboard and do the same thing So I'm holding shift and this is now going to push the terrain down like that Oh, look at that. So I could create myself a really cool little downy bit. We'll call it a valley So I'm just going for that if I wanted to be quicker with this I absolutely would turn the tool strength up But I really am not a fan of having a higher tool strength because it just you kind of lose control Which I am a bit of a control freak. It's better to be in control in it. Let's let's be honest Right, so there we go. So You can see that using Those there's just this one tool I can do and the peaks over here and the valleys over here So that's kind of what the school sculpt tools all about and we're going to use that in a few steps time to create some kind of hilly terrain to Enclose our level And again, you can lower things and you don't just have to lower things kind of based on it being flat So I could also lower these these mountains that I've created as well just by holding shift And I could bring up the center of this by Not holding shift. So that's kind of what that tool is all about So the next tool we'll look at is the smooth tool, which is just below the sculpt tool in the menu And what this basically does is function is to smooth out what you've done So it kind of Relaxes if you've got something that's too harsh. It just relaxes that and makes everything look more subtle So let's just get in on somewhere. That's a bit more harsh I like the top of this particular bit here if I just run the smooth tool over that and It'll just chill it out a little bit and make everything blend together. So it's just kind of averaging out all the different Vertices around and just saying yeah, just just match up a little bit more guys. Don't don't be so different and Again, I can do that in here So if I just wanted to relax this bit that I've created here, just use the smooth tool It'll just chill out. That's nice nice and smooth So that's what that tool is all about and again, we'll be using that later Just to make sure that nothing is too harsh That's its function. That's where it lives for Okay, the next tool we'll look at it's kind of cool really useful and so The flatten tool Does exactly that so you can see that we've created kind of quite a random looking area here But maybe I want to put a castle on top of this somewhere. So I'll just bring my brush size down a little bit for this And the way this tool works is it starts from wherever you first click So if I say that I want the height of this castle area to be here I just start clicking on what that will do is bring everything up to that exact height wherever I click It will never ever go above that height. So because I've got it on a lower tool strength It doesn't necessarily do it all straight away But you can see it's just creating a nice kind of flat plateau here That I might put my brand new castle on And it blends it in kind of seamlessly With all the stuff around it as well So that's what the flatten tool is all about it makes stuff flat. It's a very descriptive name for the tool, isn't it? Okay, let's move on Speaking of descriptive names for tools. We now have the ramp tool. So let's check that bad boy out Here it is and Believe it or not the clues in the title what this lives for is to create nice little ramps So what you need to do first of all is click somewhere on your landscape So just here and that puts down the first kind of marker for where your ramp is going to be and Then I'll put another one here and that creates a second one and then you can decide how you want your ramp to go So I'm going to raise this side here. You can actually raise both sides. I believe Like that, but I just want let's see if I'm going back down. Maybe not I'll do it by hand. So you can choose two different points And the other thing you can do Is You can set the width of this ramp as well So you can have it be quite wide or quite narrow and you can also change the way that it falls off on the side So it can be very kind of sheer on the edge or it can kind of go quite near like that I think that's the technical term right. So once you're happy with your settings for your ramp You just click on add And that's it you get yourself a ramp. I Do believe you can edit it after the fact Yep, so you can just change the points and click on add ramp and it should update. So there you go So that's what that tool is all about and that can be really useful The next tools that we'll look at are the erosion tools and we will start with The first one in the list, which is dry erosion or thermal erosion and what this does is it simulates the kind of transfer of dirt and rocks And landscape kind of over time and the shape that that would create. So I will try and show you that I'm going to turn the tool strength up a little bit for this just so that it doesn't take all day And what I'm going to do is just paint over These mountain areas So what they're going to do is just subtly change the shape of this to try and Simulate the way that this sort of bit of landscape would have Formed over time and it tends to go a little bit sandy It gets that kind of look from it using this tool So I'll just go a little bit more. Oh, I think I'm shaking the camera. Sorry guys. I'm getting a bit carried away We'll go on the ramp as well. We'll get that To erode a little bit and you see it's just kind of making it look Oh, it's having a big effect on this bit here I like that and it just makes everything look a little bit more natural So that is the function of this tool There you go. I'm actually a big fan of using this it makes everything look a little bit more natural a little bit more realistic But you can go a step further than that with the next tool which is Hydro erosion And again, I'm going to leave a default setting on this and I'm going to have a slightly stronger tool strength But what this does it simulates erosion again, but based on water traveling Through the terrain for millennia So we'll have a go at this one. So we'll start over here and you should just see That makes changes to the train so you can see it's just creating some little indentations down there the bottom and generally You'll see water would settle where the The slope meets the flat so just around these areas here and you can see that that's happening there But it's a very cool tool. You can see that this area here is quite nice. See because these two Peaks have come together. That's where water would have flowed down So it's kind of picked up on that and again It's another tool that you don't really want to overdo But it does give quite a nice effect and it adds an extra layer of realism to your landscape So that's that one the next tool that we'll take a look at is the noise tool and don't worry. It's not loud It's like digital noise. It's visual noise So we'll change to that tool pop and what this one does is basically makes things bumpy That's kind of what it does. So I'll just use this tool over here.  It's got a real variation to it Which it's a little bit too harsh. It wouldn't be fun to run around if you're playing the game But I did leave the tool strength turned way up So I would now go over all that with a smooth brush and just get it to chill out a little bit Okay, the second to last tool that we're gonna look at is the read to apologize tool and the function of this is to Resample where your vertices are so that you reduce texture stretching. So if I can find somewhere that's quite harsh Hello, maybe I need to just turn my camera speed down a little bit for this So it's quite a harsh area here, I'll just turn this tool size down a little bit And what this will do is it will just move vertices around so that the texture will fit on them a little bit more evenly So I'm just gonna run the brush over this Like that and you don't really see much happening As you're doing it, but it's just making things a little bit more evenly spaced And that's going to make sure that your texture fits on here a lot better Like that and that's all there is to that tool if I press control and Z you should see it pop back to what it was originally There you go. So it's just made really subtle changes. So if I just keep stopping between those and It's just meant that there's going to be slightly less texture stretching and that's the entire purpose of that tool And the final tool which I can't actually demonstrate to you is the visibility tool And you can use this to like paint little holes in your terrain To create cave openings and stuff like that But as you can see by the error I've got on screen that red writing I can't use it yet because I haven't created a Material for the landscape that's got this landscape visibility mask node attached to it So it's worth playing with that kind of in your own time, but I'm not going to show you that in this video Okay, so that's a quick introduction to all of the different sculpting tools that you've got for your landscape So what we'll do now is we'll actually delete this landscape because all we've done is faff about with it It doesn't actually look good does it or mine doesn't so I'm going to get rid of it and in doing that I'm also going to teach you how to delete a landscape. So, you know, it serves two functions, right? So What we're going to do to get rid of this landscape them is go back to Place mode. So we're just going to go over here And once we've done that we can now select things within the world outliner So I want to select the landscape and also the landscape gizmo active actor Like that and I just held shift to select two things and I'm just going to press delete on my keyboard And it's gone which means that we're now ready to move on to The next step and what we'll do in that next step is we're going to create another landscape But this time we're going to use a height map. So we'll cover that when we move on to the next one Thanks for watching. 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Just a couple weeks I guess we did temples, right? Yes, a bunch of these right here. Yes, the one you don't have but yes the mysterious temples. One I'm still kind of confused by, it says the 10 richest temples in India. The 10 richest temples. I don't know what richest what they're talking about in terms of that. I think it's the the riches within it because remember wasn't there one in the mysterious temple? Wasn't there one that was like there was a bunch of gold in it? Harboring gold. Yes. Harboring gold. So like if like the harboring gold. So like the pyramids which everyone has the most jewelage and precious. Jewelage. Yeah, I think that's gem speak for how things are. Everyone, we're gonna give you a value on this temple. What kind of jewelage you got in it? So this one is called the 10 richest temples in India. We'll be the judge of that. We're going to see based on the jewelage. Here we go. 10 richest temples of India. Okay. Number 10. Kashi Vishwanath temple of our Nazi. It's a second computer.  One of the oldest and richest temples of Lord Shiva in India. Kashi Vishwanath temple still stands and glory despite being looted and demolished several times and passed. Okay. With a documented history of over 3,500 years, Varanasi is also the oldest living city in the world. It is estimated that around over 3 million domestic and 200,000 foreign tourists visit this temple annually. Number nine. Samnath temple, Gujarat. Gujarat. It is believed that the moon god, Chandra, created a temple of gold in honor of Lord Shiva here, presently built on the Chalukya style of architecture. Damn. The temple has been destroyed and reconstructed several times by both Islamic and Hindu emperors. The results of a recently conducted survey revealed that the temple has accumulated a wealth of around 17,000 million rupees. Jullet. Number eight. 17,000 million is how much I said. Amrit sir. Officially known as the Armander Sahib, the temple gets visited from over 40,000 people every day. Apart from its splendid exteriors, even the ceiling of this temple has been designed with gold. Despite the fact that the total temple assets remains unknown, experts claim that the golden temple is one of the wealthiest temple in India. Number seven. Oh, good. Vaishnodevi, Jammu and Kashmir. One of the oldest and richest temples in India, the shrine of Mata Vaishnodevi is visited by millions of devotees from across the world. Center of deep rooted religious beliefs of the Hindus, the temple has an annual income of around 5,000 million. Is this series? You're on a million pilgrims visit this temple and it is claimed to be the second most visited temple after Venkateswara temple. Go. Jognath temple in Puri Odisha. Temple number six is the Jognath temple Puri post a popular annual. The temple has been brought 18 times in the path. The temple received donation of around rupees 15,000 to 20,000 with six times more donations and more than 30,000 devotees throng the shrine every day and around 70,000 per day in festive season in 2011. So we have a stat that's nearly 10 years old. Stumbled upon 522 old silver slabs. Great name for a band of octogenarians. Old silver slabs. The old silver slabs. Meniksha another temple. Whoa. The richest temple in Tamil Nadu attracts 15,000 visitors a day apart from devotees. Thousands of tourists also visit this famous shrine to feast their eyes upon this splendid ancient Indian architecture housing. Look at that. I am. It's hard to do that and read the same. Well, you didn't like the voice. 60 million every year is also among the 30 nominees for the new seven wonders of the world. So they're nominating wonders of the world every year. Did they do that? I guess so. This one's in Mumbai. What did they disqualify one and then replace it? This is one of the most famous landmarks of the coastal city of Mumbai city Vinayak witnesses around 25 to 200,000 worshipers visiting the place each day. It provides their devotees options of entering the shrine faster through special paid queues, which also helps in the increase in the temple's income. According to a survey conducted in 2011, the temple earned approximately 490 million rupees in just a single year, of which 450 million were garnered through donations alone. So it's like tithes? I don't know. Yeah, we're offerings. The Baba temple charity Indians irrespective of the region they've had belong to have a strong belief in the miracles of Sai Baba. The temple gets donations with 350 crore each every year. The third richest temple in the country visited by the people of all religions. And what happens with those donations they're put back into the temple? I guess so. In what form? I guess we'll figure out. That's a lot of that's a lot of quiche. That's a lot of cheddar as Jesse would say. A Turamala believed to be the richest temple in the country, but after the reports disclosing the unbelievable amount of assets possessed by our number one, it's gone down to the second position. Dang. The most visited place of worship in the world. Really? Is that all money that they're looking at right there? That's definitely not. Hair. Wow. The temple makes some big mishties. Whoa. Is that a mishtie? Number one. 11 million rupees annually. This is in Kerala. Whoa. Wow. The richest Hindu temple in the world after its secret chambers were ordered opened by the Supreme Court of India. The amount of wealth found inside astounded the entire world. The treasure that was found was reported to include antique gold ornaments, golden crowns, golden bosa full of diamonds. Recently, treasures worth 22 billion were found in it. That looks like the treasure stack in Pirates of the Caribbean and Disneyland. Holy cow. Times current market price, not to mention. Oh, wait a minute. Hey. Is that a door? That's the vault. There's probably more in that other vault. So that's the same. That's the same place with a vault that hasn't been opened yet. They're like, well, we have enough here. Well, you get Geraldo Rivera over there. Open up that secret vault. There'll be nothing in it. Why, since India ordered it opened, why not order all of them? I think because we remember that last one, they said there's been bad juju. There's been people who've died when they've tried to open that up. So they've been like, we're not going to mess with that. Well, it's like in Indiana Jones, when you look at the art in the Covenant. Yep. That's exactly what happened. It's exactly what happens. It could be. Would you mess with that? Yes, you would, wouldn't you? Just to see what happens. What's going on? There you go, India. You need that opened up? Higher Corbin miles. What's the worst that could happen?  I didn't know there were so many riches things. I will say that this video was awful. I think they all garnered from your reaction that you thought it was awful. Yes. Which is why I turned it off and made you work. I venture to say it's one of the most awfulest ones we've done. Most awfulest. Most awfulest. Must stop the please. Yeah, see how that worked.  I'm hungry. But the, that last one specifically, holy cow, because it was saying there was one that was worth like $145 million or something like that, just one statue. There's $22 billion worth of assets in those temples that were open. Which is impressive because the last one, it was mostly all assets. And they seemed the other ones were a lot of donations. Why do I feel like that's something, if the office was still on TV, Dwight would be completely fixated on the day. He's going to India just to have one of those things in his possession so he could be set for life. Fact. Yeah. Fact. I will go to India and I am going to get one of those artifacts and then I will be set for life. Fact. That's the reason you weren't an office writer. That's true. But yeah, because I am wondering, because it did include, I don't know if you call them in the Hindu religion or whatever religion it is. Well, that last one was a Hindu temple. But no, I'm saying the donations. Oh, right. I don't know if they could call them offerings. The only thing we know of is the Christian in tithes and offerings. Religion. Right. Yeah.  Which if you don't know what a tithe is, tithe means 10%. And so 10% of all earnings would be given to the church for the continuing support of ministry and stuff that's done within the church and then there's offerings on top of the tithe. So I'm guessing it's similar to that? Yeah, probably. Probably. I don't know if it's definitively a tithe where it's 10%. I think it's just come and bring an offering. Yeah. Which, but usually churches don't equate that to their earnings. I feel like you don't see that. Even though you could you know which churches are the richest churches. Well, the reputable ones will have open books near the US. The reputable ones will have their books open and anybody could go and look at what they make and where they put their money. Just like because they're non-profits, just like any non-profit, the books have to be opened and you have to see and show this is what we do with our money. And reputable places will put, like I know a few, they'll put like 75% of their total income. Some of them throw it right back into mission field stuff where there's physicians out helping sick people and helping with places that need adoption and doing medical ministries and things of that nature. And they'll keep a small percentage for their staff and keep their staff small. And then there's other churches that are just frivolously thrown it out there. But you could, you should be able to check all of them and see what they're spending it on. So I'm wondering if it's similar to that? Yeah, well they obviously know the value. So they clearly have to have people giving an accounting of what's coming in. I'd love to know how that's, like I know how that works in the United States with a non-profit. I don't know how that would work in India if that's considered income for them. I'd assume it's similar. I would assume it's a non-profit kind of thing. But yeah, that was really interesting. Also the, not the video, but the temples themselves. Yeah, exactly. But the, because they're so freaking old. And like, I don't know if you saw a lot of them. Like, because there was one that the colorful one, like it had ridiculously ingrained. I saw it for a split second.


I see people getting stuck on defining their niche, figuring out their target market, what should they offer, what kind of products or services or programs. Here is my suggestion. If you're stuck on that, then maybe just let it go for now. Yeah, you don't have to figure it out yet. It took me a long time to figure out my niche. Well, after I was already earning a full-time living from my business, how is that possible? Well, let's talk about it this way. When you try to figure out your niche in the beginning, what are you doing? You're journaling on your own? You're thinking on your own? Maybe you're working with a business coach or a marketing coach or a marketing expert? How many opinions do you have about your niche at that point? You and your marketing expert? Do you think that's enough to actually understand the market? Remember, your money, your income comes from other people's spending. It's not just one person spending. It's not your marketing expert spending. It's not your own spending. It's the spending of lots and lots of people who will be right for your offerings. So instead of trying to find a niche first, instead of trying to figure out your offerings, what if you build an audience first? You build an audience first based on your authentic expression, based on your exploration of your ideas and practicing your voice, whether it's through video or through writings. You build an audience for your personal brand. You, the things that you're interested in, the things that you're passionate about, the things that you're learning. You build an audience first and then you get to know your audience members through once-to-one conversations or through the comments that they're posting on your content. You're applied to them and you kind of get to know them better. And then, once you've gotten to know some of your audience members and you have a bit of a relationship with some of your audience, then you take a survey to say, what should I create next as an online course or as a one-to-one offering or as whatever? And you get their votes because now you're not just relying on the opinion of yourself, your own journaling, and your marketing expert. Now you've got the opinions of hopefully dozens of your audience members and dozens of people are a good reliable representation of thousands of people. Okay, maybe in the beginning you're only getting the opinions of 10 to 15 or five to 10 people. Still, five to 10 people, probably a good representation of hundreds of people. Okay, so this is the core, I guess, strategy that I've been using for myself and for my clients is to build an authentic audience first. Authentic audience meaning people, I should say, build an audience of true fans first. True fans are the people who just love everything you do. And yes, they are out there. They are out there, absolutely. The internet is such a big place. There are billions of people on the internet. Okay, think about it this way. Billions of people on the internet. What's, I think it's last I researched, I think it was something like four billion people on the internet, four billion. Okay, what's 1% of four billion? Just 1% of four billion. That's 400 million. Yeah, sorry, 40 million people. 40 million people. Okay, that's 1% of the internet might resonate with you. Maybe it's not 1%, maybe it's one tenth of 1%. Fine. 4 million people might resonate with you. Okay, and let's go even smaller. Fine. It's 40,000 people are going to be ravenously, you know, into your content. It's probably true. 40,000 people, you will find them in the lifetime of your business. If you distribute your content. So that's the, that's the sort of main question that a lot of you have is George, I, I want to build an audience, but how do I, how do I do that? Okay. Content, authentic content marketing and the simplest way that I know how to do that is through Facebook ads. I've said that before and I'll say it again and again and again until it's no longer true. Facebook ads is the cheapest online ads right now that are the most effective as well. So if you want to learn how to do authentic content marketing Facebook ads is my number one choice. Number two choice is probably Google ads Google ads is way more complicated and difficult to use than Facebook ads Facebook ads is much easier than Google ads. So Facebook ads, as well as collaborating with other people who have a similar audience that you want to reach. You do joint interviews together. Sorry, you interview the other person the other person interviews you. That kind of thing is how you build an audience. That's how you build an authentic an audience of true fans based on your authentic personality and ideas. And as you once you build in a bit of an audience where your, your, you know, every time you post something and do do an add to your warm audience, you get hopefully 10 plus comments on it. Then it's time to do a survey, a survey of your audience on what you should offer next. Okay, and then offer the thing that is most popular. It's really a very simple thing. Not necessarily easy, but you build audience based on your authentic content. You get to know your audience. You take a survey, and then you offer whatever thing they that they most want you to offer. Instead of the traditional way of doing business and marketing is to figure everything out in the beginning, figure out what your product is going to be figure out your target market. I just think that that is such an unproductive thing because here's what happens when you try to figure things out in the beginning is that you become so invested. You become so invested in the niche you've defined and the offering you've created and the beautiful website you've spent thousands of dollars making. And yet you have no audience. You have no audience. Nobody cares except you and your marketing expert. Okay, and maybe a few of your friends. Nobody cares.  You're like I've created this thing this is the greatest thing in the world because I've spent years creating it. The more time and energy you spend creating something, the more you're going to be invested in it and the more devastated you're going to be when people aren't totally into it. It's a human bias. That's why I'm very careful not to invest myself in any idea, unless you all audience members tell me it's a great idea. Then I invest more myself in it. But everything every idea that I put forth it's very casual, very casual, whether it's a piece of content casually I'm going to just write about it or speak about it very casually. If it gets traction, then I'll put my more energy into editing the thing, making a better video or whatever it may be. Same thing with offers. Very casually put it out there. If nobody buys, I'll cancel it. I'll cancel that course. Nobody buys it. Fine. I'll cancel it. Very casual. I haven't put a sales page together yet. It's all very casual. When people are buying without a sales page with just a quick blurb, people are buying. Oh my gosh. Okay, I'm going to put together a sales page. I'm going to take it more seriously now. This is the market driven approach. This is the market driven approach, which is what makes money. Okay, see, I'm not when people think George authentic business. You're not about making money. No, I'm about making money. It's just I do it in a very authentic way. And the authentic way is to is to be myself. I'm not trying to persuade you of anything. Okay, but just put stuff out there and see if you are you are you love it if you love it. I don't have there's no persuasion needed. I just put more effort into that thing that you love, and then I'll keep going and I'll keep scaling up and I'll try different things. So be careful of defining your niche in the beginning before you have an audience. Build an audience first based on your authentic voice and authentic style authentic personality authentic ideas. Okay, and then get to know your audience. Right, people who already love you. They don't know why but the things you say really resonate with them that your personality really resonates with them. Great, wonderful. Get to know them. And then make a survey of what they what they want from you in terms of a product or a service or a program or an event or whatever. And then make the thing that more most of them want from you. That's it. So because then you're not, you're not trying to defend an idea that you came up with in your own closet. You're not going to live with your marketing expert who you think is so smart and and if they and you think it's great idea must know it's two people's opinions. You need dozens or hundreds of people's opinions because that's where the money comes from. Does that make sense. So I hope this is helpful and it's a much more. I think it's a much more practical way of building the business. It's more likely to make money. It's more likely to be authentic because you don't have to try to persuade anyone of anything. Because when you first define your niche, you first create an offering and you try to push it down people's throats with marketing. That's that's the mistake that people make with marketing. They think marketing is about now that I've created this great thing I'm going to show it to enough people so that enough people will buy it. You've got to use clever copywriting clever language to get people to really salivate and really love that thing and really want it to create the demand for it. That's that's inauthentic. That's inauthentic because every time you're trying to if if I'm trying to persuade you of something. Okay, I become inauthentic. If I'm merely sharing my honest views on something, then I'm authentic. Right. But when you try to when you when you create an offer in the beginning to define your niche to find your target audience to create an offer in the beginning and then try to sell it. You now feel the pressure of my God I've spent so much time and energy and money on creating this thing. It's better work. It's better work. And so now I'm going to spend a lot of money on copywriting and funnel creation and try to force people to buy this thing. It's terrible.  That's why most marketing rubs us the wrong way.  You show up the world, blessing the world, not trying to sell anything.  You've learned so many things in your life. You're learning things now. Share what you're learning. Share what you're interested in. Share what you're passionate about. Distribute those things through Facebook ads until you find the group of people who just love you for who you are, who just love you for who you are. And then find out what they want from you and then sell it to them. That's it. It's very simple. All right, I hope this is helpful. I'm going to take a look to see if there are any comments and questions now from my Facebook live. I always welcome your comments and your questions. I'm going to go ahead and put that below below the video. And we take a look here. Let's see here. Thanks for joining me here. Kim and Lisa and Tara Arturo and Tracy Linda. Vivian, Wendy. And let's see. I already have a couple of people sharing this video. So thank you, Wendy. And thank you, Linda. Appreciate your shares. So yeah, I hope this is clear. This is sort of like an overview of my entire strategy. And I look forward to seeing how you, where you take this and take it and run with it. And let me know your updates and your questions as you as you go along the way. All right, I look forward to your updates. Take care.


Welcome to the wildest, wackiest, and furriest wrestling video on Earth! Get ready to witness the most outrageous collection of entrance-themed songs you've ever heard from where else but the deepest, darkest neighborhood in Western Connecticut! So hold on to your butts and get ready to rumble because here are the 10 Wildest Wrestling Themes Unleashed by WWE! Number 10 Unstable The Ultimate Warrior The Ultimate Warrior and his unstable entrance theme song were quite a wild combination.  With its pounding drums and chugging guitars, it was like the soundtrack to a really intense workout video, or maybe Sesame Street on steroids. I can only imagine what it was like to be in the audience back then, watching this muscle-bound lunatic charging towards you like he just chugged a gallon of Red Bull. Number 9 Too Much Mustard Miss Kitty A.K.A The Cat While her time in WWE lasted basically only 18 months, Stacey Carter certainly wasn't a flash in the pan diva if you smell what I'm cooking. Now her run as the cat, and Miss Kitty during the Attitude Era, was a young boy's wet dream as she was shown nude several times on paper views, including her infamous stunt after winning her first women's title after a four-way evening gown pool match. Let's give it up for Vince Russo, everybody. This feisty feline also had a wild entrance theme that her horny fans roared their approval for whenever she sauntered out in front of the camera. Number 8 The Red Rooster Terry Taylor Terry Taylor was a young baby face the chicks loved. Taylor was a nine-year vet when he was signed by the WWF to play the Red Rooster, strutting and crowing his way to the ring like the cock of the walk. Any chance at legitimate stardom Taylor had envisioned vanished when the Fed planted this weird gimmick on him, and the WWF audience didn't exactly know how to react to a grown man who thought he was a yard bird because fans refused to rock out to this bizarre, upbeat dance track that was truly for the birds. Number 7 Walk About The Bushwackers The Bushwackers and their entrance theme Walk About never ceased to put a smile on my face. I mean, have you ever seen two guys walk into a wrestling ring like they just got lost in the Outback? And that song, it's like a mix of didgeridoos and cowbells, had a baby and gave it a beat. It's so wild that I can't help but imagine Jim Johnston spending hours in the recording studio trying to perfect the sound of a kangaroo hopping. But hey, who am I to judge? The fans loved it and the Bushwackers always knew how to put on a show. Plus I hear that Walk About was all the rage in New Zealand in the 1980s. Number 6 Mantar Widely considered one of the most unorthodox competitors in WWE history, the half-man, half-beast, Mantar approached the ring wearing a ridiculous life-sized stuffed bullhead as his animalistic entrance theme song snorted from the speakers. What a shame too that after removing that cringe-carcass costume from his dome, Mantar was revealed to be nothing more than a bearded, doughy-looking man. Now a wrestling bull is definitely one of the wildest things you'll ever see in your life because, yes, I think that's what I'm going to call him, Manny the Mantar. He would pace around the ring, shuffle his hooves, and actually moo like a cow.  Number 5 Superfly Jimmy Snuka Not focusing on what the guy may or may not have done outside the squared circle, Jimmy Snuka may have one of the coolest entrance themes ever. Now at the time of this song's release in the late 1980s, Vince McMahon was beginning his cartoon-fest cavalcade of colorful characters, which we've literally seen scattered all over this list. And if you like what you've seen so far, be sure to hit the like button and consider subscribing for more weekly wrestling theme song content.   Number 4 Jungle Warrior Sabah Simba In the late 1980s, Tony Atlas was homeless, struggling with drug addiction, and in desperate need of work. So he contacted Vince McMahon about returning to the Fed, and Vince lent a helping hand and agreed to help Tony. But this time around, Atlas wouldn't be cast as Mr. USA, nope. Now he'd be Mr. Africa, portraying a stereotypical savage warrior called Sabah Simba. This gimmick was unpopular at best and racist at worst, but Tony credits the character with saving his life. However, the moment a lion's roar and generic WWE-generated tribal music came blaring over the arena speakers and Simba began twerking his way to the ring, he may have come in like a lion. But with Rowdy Roddy Piper on commentary, the hot rod made sure to slaughter this gimmick like a lamb. Number 3 Kamala, The Ugandan Giant During the early regional territory days of pro-wrestling, a lot of fans didn't necessarily know that much about the world in general. So when the Ugandan giant Kamala was announced as hailing from the deepest, darkest jungles of Africa, stomping to the ring with a spear in one hand, shield in the other, and an absolutely crazy-looking tribal mask, he scared the bejesus out of everybody. Now fans would normally flock down to the aisle to get a glimpse of practically every wrestler. But when Kamala made his entrance to this savage war drum theme music, well, they just hightailed it for the rafters. Number 2 Danger in the Jungle, The Head Shrinkers From the bloodline of Afa and Sika came another fearsome tag team from the Isle of Samoa, the head shrinkers Samu and Fatu. These dudes were so wild and untamed, they probably ate nails for breakfast and used trees as toothpicks. Now, they should have been called the head bangers, and I mean that literally because the head shrinkers name is sort of sus, but I want sort of rumor that their intimidating entrance theme called Danger in the Jungle with its tropical thunderbeats may have been the inspiration behind the Duggy. Number 1 Virtual Voodoo Umaga The Samoan bulldozer was a vicious giant whose raw power and speed made him one of the WWE's most feared super heavyweights. Another member of the legendary Anuai family, Umaga passed away far too young at age 36 and quite possibly could have been the real tribal chief of the bloodline. But it's his original entrance theme called Virtual Voodoo that is definitely one of the wildest unleashed by the E because this goes hard for one of the goat primal savage characters who was a legitimate scary monster heel. Plus, we need to acknowledge that this song is 100% better than his second theme, Tribal Trouble. And that's it for our list. Have any other weird and wild animalistic wrestling themes we might have missed? Then let us know what they are in the comment section right down below and don't forget to like, share and click on that subscribe button while you're at it. I've been Kevin from Wrestling Behind The Themes, thanks for watching and be careful to not step in any wrestle crap out there.