Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Ayes Academy for the date 13th of July 2020. The list of news articles along with the page numbers of five different editions is given here for your reference. The handwritten notes in PDF format and the timestamping of all the news articles taken up for today's analysis is available in the description section and also in the comments section in the best interest of the viewers. Let us now begin our analysis. This news article is about an inspiring story of Kalmejwara Farmer Producer Company Limited, which is a farmer producer organization located in Dharwad district of Karnataka. Know that it has become the first farmer producer organization in Karnataka to become a certified seed producer. Now, in this context what you need to know from exam perspective is about the farmer producer organizations. Let us discuss in detail now. The syllabus that is relevant to the analysis of this news article is given here for your reference. First, let us understand a producer organization. Know that it is a legal entity that is formed by primary producers namely farmers, milk producers, fishermen, weavers, rural artisans and craftsmen. Producer organization can be producer company, cooperative society or any other legal form that provides for sharing of profits among the members. Here producer company means body corporate that is registered under the amended companies act of 1956. Now, why do we need producer organizations? See the main aim of producer organization is to ensure better income for the producers through an organization of their own. Small producers do not have the volume individually both in terms of inputs and produce in order to get the benefits of economies of scale. And besides, if you see in agricultural marketing there is a long chain of intermediaries that is middlemen who very often work in a non-transparent manner. So, all these leads to a situation where the producer receives only small part of the value that the ultimate consumer pays. Say for example, if a product is sold at 20 rupees in the market the farmer will receive only 3 to 4 rupees and the remaining money all goes to the middlemen. Now, through aggregation of such farmers who are the primary producers they can avail the benefit of economies of scale and they will also have a better bargaining power with respect to the bulk price of produce and the bulk suppliers of inputs. So, it is in this juncture the producer organizations become important. Know that farmers producer organization is one type of producer organization. In this the members are the farmers and know that small farmers agribusiness consortium is providing support for the promotion of farmer producer organization in India. Here I have an idea that this small farmers agribusiness consortium is an autonomous society that is registered under Society's Registration Act of 1860. It is promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and it is governed by a Board of Management which is chaired ex-officio by the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare. See this small farmers agribusiness consortium is a pioneer in organizing small and marginal farmers across India as farmers interest groups, farmers producer organization and farmers producer company for endowing them with bargaining power and economies of scale which we just discussed. Also know that this consortium implements the national agricultural market electronic trading that is the ENAM platform. The purpose of this ENAM platform is to provide a single unified market for agricultural products with much higher price discovery for the farmers. We saw that the producer organizations are not only for farmers it is a generic name for an organization of producers of any produce like agricultural, non-farm products, artisan products etc. The objective of the producer organization is to ensure better income realization to its producer members through aggregation and if feasible value addition. Know that the ownership of the producer organization is with its members so it is an organization of the producers by the producers and for the producers and if you see one or more institutions and or individuals will promote the producer organization by way of assisting in mobilization, registration, business planning and operations. However the ownership control is always with the members and the management is through the representatives of the members. So these are some of the basic concepts that you need to know about producer organizations and about farmers producer organizations. As a conclusion let us discuss the essential features of producer organization in a nutshell. First of all it is formed by a group of farmers for either farm or non-farm activities. Secondly it is a registered body and a legal entity. Next the producers are shareholders in the organization and it deals with business activities related to the primary product. Then it works for the benefit of the member producers and the part of the profit is shared amongst the producers. Finally the rest of the surplus is added to its own funds for business expansion. So this is all about the discussion of producer organization. To summarize we have seen the concept of producer organization about its importance and need and also we saw about the farmer producer organization which is a subset of producer organization. In this context we also saw about the small farmers agribusiness consortium. Now have a look at this practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. This editorial discusses about the importance of tapping solar energy in India and it has been written in the wake of the inauguration of solar power project in Rewa Madhya Pradesh recently by the prime minister. The syllabus that is relevant to the analysis of this editorial is given here for your reference. See recently the prime minister inaugurated the Rewa solar power project which has 750 megawatt power generation capacity and this solar power project will reduce the carbon emission equivalent to 15 lakh tons of carbon dioxide per year. This project exemplifies India's commitment to its nationally determined contributions under the 2015 Paris Accord that is the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. In this India pledged to attain 100 gigawatts of solar installed capacity by the year 2022. But if you see the timeline is almost nearing and as of June 2020 India has only 35 gigawatts of solar installed capacity. We were on the right path to achieve the targets but due to pandemic which affected all the sectors the author notes that the projected addition of capacity until 2024 is estimated to be 50 gigawatt only. So you can see that the projection shows a sharp deficit and it indicates the need for indigenization of solar power production. Other purposes which necessitate the indigenization of solar power production are first to attain a green deal for the future that is to draft a pact or a deal for accomplishing a greener future by using renewable energy especially the green power. Here the green power or the green energy or the clean energy is a subset of renewable energy and it represents those renewable energy resources and technologies that provide the highest environmental benefit and this includes electricity produced from solar wind geothermal biogas etc. According to the author of this editorial the COVID-19 pandemic provides a critical opportunity for India to plan a green deal in line with European Union's European Green Deal. It provides roadmap to European Union countries to boost the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean circular economy and it outlines investments that are needed and financing tools that are available and it explains how to ensure a just and inclusive transition. Secondly the indigenization of solar power production provides a path for self-reliant industrialization and energy sector to achieve these we need to build domestic solar manufacturing industry that delivers increasing volumes of quality photovoltaic cells and the quality photovoltaic modules and associated equipment but even though it is being proposed for a long time still India has low domestic cell manufacturing capacity which is at 3.1 gigawatt only and this picture will give you an idea about the present install solar photovoltaic manufacturing capacities in India. So from this we can tell that India relies heavily on imports in case of solar cells and modules India imports about 85 percentage of the total requirement and India heavily relies for the same on China. So the high ambition of solar power production must be supported by aggressive official policy for this the author suggests learning from China itself because if you see China had a steady rise from insignificant manufacturing capability in the 1990s and in the recent years it is virtually dominating this market. This happened because of active Chinese government support in identifying and acquiring top technologies globally during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 if you see China strengthened its grip on the export markets in 2009 its government identified solar manufacturing as a strategic industry and it unveiled many national solar PV subsidy package which subsidized PV demonstration projects and provided low cost financing. So all these encouraged installation of PV technologies and increased the solar PV installations to 6500 megawatt in 2012 in China and along with these schemes China also imported critical raw materials such as poly silicon for its manufacturing then if you see it acquired solar manufacturers abroad and it invested in third world countries with ready capability for manufacturing and more importantly Chinese domestic market was treated with great importance and the exports were also promoted. In the same lines the author of this editorial calls for a strategic shift of policies in India for rapid progress in solar related industries and to aid domestic manufacturing. He suggests Indian government to make solar energy a strategic sector and give equal importance as then the author tells that integrated policies need to be framed fully supported by the states and then since India is the architect behind international solar alliance the author calls the Indian government also to show leadership in advancing the manufacture and absorption of solar photovoltaic infrastructure and low-income and middle-income countries like China. Then policies should be framed by the government and FTAs may be encouraged for helping Indian solar industry for setting up facilities for availing low-cost financing and for investing in intellectual property then slowly industry should start incorporating emerging trends and it should deploy solar innovatively such as aesthetic photovoltaic window and roof tiles for buildings then greater use of residential and commercial buildings to deploy more panels etc. But remember some of these suggestions are already being implemented by the government of India through various schemes that are launched under the national solar mission as you can see here. So all these suggestions given by the author will increase the use of solar energy and promote domestic solar manufacturing industry as well. So our reliance on imports will be decreased and if opportunity presents India will also become a leading exporter in solar power market. This is all about the discussion of this editorial to summarize we have seen about the importance of tapping solar energy for India where author has presented many suggestions to increase the capacity of solar energy in India. Now have a look at this practice question let us move on to the next news article. This news article discusses about two methods of showing the rise it speaks about the advantages of direct seeding of rice versus the traditional transplantation method. So try to have a general understanding about this topic what do you mean by direct seeding and what do you mean by transplantation. See transplantation process includes growing of seeds indoors under controlled conditions which will give baby plants and this will be transferred to the fields whereas direct seeding means sowing the seeds directly in the field some advantages of direct seeding over traditional transplantation method is given here it has increased the crop yield number one number two there are savings on labor number three less water is required for irrigation number four very less post harvest stubble has been generated and number five early maturity of paddy crops. This news article tells that they mature early at least by 10 to 11 days so that there is time to prepare the field for the next crop season. So this news article speaks about the impact of COVID-19 pandemic which has forced the farmers to adopt direct seeding of rice technique in this current season due to various issues including labor shortage. So from this news article try to know the difference between direct seeding and transplantation and the advantages of direct seeding over transplantation which is mentioned in this news article. Now let us move on to the next news article. This editorial is with reference to improving health infrastructure and livelihoods in the urban areas. In this editorial the authors substantiate that public health is not given the required importance in the smart cities mission. Also the author gives few suggestions to improve such situation so we shall know more about this editorial now. The syllabus that is relevant for the analysis of this editorial is given you for your reference. See the author states that the COVID-19 pandemic has largely been an urban crisis so far with four mega cities accounting for most of the positive cases recorded in India. So because of the pandemic and the restrictions associated with it the Indian cities are facing public health crisis and also economic and lively hoops crisis. In this scenario let us see whether Indian cities are equipped to deal with these crisis or not. Firstly the author analyzes the status of the smart cities mission in urban development. As we know the smart cities mission sought to make 100 selected cities into smart cities primarily through an area based development model and this mission was launched in June 2015. But if you see in the last three years the mission has lost its enthusiasm particularly at the level of political leadership. Also if you see many of the projects undertaken under the mission are behind schedule. The author states that according to the ministry of housing and urban affairs out of the planned 5,151 smart city projects across 100 cities only around 4,700 projects have been tendered and out of these tender projects only around one third of the projects have been completed. So you can see that many of the projects under this mission are behind schedule. Next if you look in terms of expenditure out of the total investment of around 2 lakh crore rupees only projects worth 13 percentage of its expenditure have been completed. So this is the general status of the smart cities mission after five years since its launch. See in few cities under this mission projects related to integrated command and control centers has been set up. Now these centers are serving as war rooms to monitor the real-time data regarding the spread of COVID-19. This is one way how the smart cities mission has enabled few cities in tackling the crisis. But largely if you see the smart cities mission has not given public health the much needed importance. So what about the status of the mission with reference to health? Of more than 5,000 planned projects under this mission only 1.3 percentage or only 69 projects were for health infrastructure. Also these projects amount to just around one percentage of the total mission cost as well. As a result the author opines that the public health seems to be a major blind spot in India's smart city dreams. Now let us come to local capacities in urban areas with reference to tackling the pandemic imposed crisis. We should know that within seven schedule the entry public health is an entry in state list. At the same time health and sanitation is part of the 11th schedule and public health is a part of 12th schedule that is health and sanitation comes under rural local bodies and public health comes under urban local bodies. This is because of the 73rd and 74th constitutional amendment acts of 1992. From here we can understand that the local bodies have major role to play in public health. But India's urban local bodies continue to be financially and administratively weak and they are heavily understaffed. There is also high level of vacancy of accredited social health activist workers the frontline public health workers in urban areas. This means that the urban local bodies and local health infrastructure lack capacity to fight against the pandemic. The author highlights the relative success of Kerala in this regard mainly because of the decentralized political and administrative system with strong local governments and high investment in local public health care. With reference to loss of jobs and livelihood opportunities in urban areas the lack of an urban employment guarantee program in many states is the cause of concern. If you see Kerala has been running a scheme called as Ayyan Kali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme since 2010. This scheme is somewhat similar to the Mandrega scheme for rural households that if you see states such as Odisha, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand have also recently launched similar such initiatives in the wake of COVID-19 crisis. But if you see an all India coverage is the need of the heart. So finally the author of this editorial suggests to increase projects and to increase expenditure for public health under the smart cities mission and then to strengthen the local bodies and local health infrastructure and then to bring an urban employment guarantee scheme with an all India coverage. So this is all about the discussion of this editorial. To summarize we have seen the points jotted by the author why the public health is not given the required importance in the smart cities mission and finally we also saw some suggestions to improve the situation. Now have a look at this practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. This question has been framed based on this news article which speaks about National Intelligence Grid. As per this news article Nat Grid has signed the memorandum of understanding with the National Crime Records Bureau to access the centralized online database on FIRs and stolen vehicles. See this MOU will give Nat Grid access to CCTNS database that is Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems Database which is a platform that links around 14,000 police stations. So in this context let us discuss in brief about this CCTNS and Nat Grid. First let us see CCTNS see it aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing in India. What it will do is it will automate the police and it will create facilities to provide public services like registration of online complaints, providing the status of the registered cases, then verification of persons etc. And know that National Crime Records Bureau is the central nodal agency which would manage this CCTNS. Next let us see about Nat Grid which is the National Intelligence Grid. It is an attached office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. See it has been created as an IT platform. It will assist the intelligence and the law enforcement agencies in India in order to ensure national and internal security of India. The ultimate aim is to counter terrorism in India. Know that it was initiated with a budget of 2800 crore rupees. See this Nat Grid connects the approved user agencies such as security law enforcement agencies with designated data providers like airlines, banks, SEBI, railway, telecom etc. So the received information would be analyzed by the security agencies and it will be used for synergizing the efforts. That is the data would be pooled and analyzed at one place in order to enhance India's counter terrorism capability. As per this news article Nat Grid will be operational by the end of this year that is December 2020. Then all the security agencies instead of asking the airlines or railways for information will have to route their requests through the secured Nat Grid platform. So how this Nat Grid platform will function? See it will link 21 agencies which has citizen databases like banks, telecom firms, tax bodies, immigration department etc. This data will be available for at least 10 central agencies like Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing that is raw etc. So when they need information on a suspect they will request Nat Grid and the Nat Grid will then provide information from its database like the mobile call details, telephone connections, bank account details, passport details, immigration entry and exit data, income tax returns etc. of the suspected citizens. So the availability of real-time information in common secured platform of Nat Grid will actually help in enhancing India's counter terrorism capabilities. So Nat Grid is basically a technology tool to enhance India's counter terrorism capabilities. This is all about CCTNS and Nat Grid that you need to know from exam point of view. With this information let us look at this question. It is a two statement question about Nat Grid and you need to choose those statement or statements which are incorrect. Be careful when you read the question. Look at the first statement it tells that Nat Grid is an IT platform to assess the intelligence and law enforcement agencies in ensuring national and internal security with an ultimate aim to counter terror. Yes, this statement is correct. This is the aim of having national intelligence grid in India. Look at the second statement. It tells that Nat Grid is an attached office under Ministry of Defense. This statement is incorrect because it is an attached office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. So here the second statement is correct. The correct answer option be two only since you need to choose those statement or statements which are incorrect. Now let us move on to the next news article. This question has been framed based on this news article. This news article tells that a controversy has broken out over construction of a mansion close to the backwaters of Kabini reservoir. See this is an eco-sensitive zone of the Nagarhole Tiger reserve. Know that eco-sensitive zones are basically transition zones from areas of higher protection to areas of lower protection. They act as shock absorbers for the protected areas. If you remember we have discussed in detail about eco-sensitive zones in our 13th March 2020 the Hindu news analysis. We request the viewers to have a look at it to know more on eco-sensitive zones. Now from this news article try to know where this tiger reserve is located. Know that there are 50 tiger reserves in India which includes these three tiger reserves as well Nagarhole, Kamlang, Anamalai. Nagarhole Tiger reserve is located in the state of Karnataka. Kamlang is located in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. Anamalai Tiger reserve is located in the state of Tamil Nadu. So here all the three pairs are correct. The correct answer here is option D one two and three. Have a look at this map to know about rest of the tiger reserves. Kamlang Tiger reserve is the latest addition in 2018 so you might not see this tiger reserve in this map. Now let us move on to the next news article. This question has been framed based on this news article. This news article mentions that an online campaign has been started to gain support for the inclusion of Gondi language in the 8th Schedule of Indian Constitution. See for past several years there have been demands to include Gondi language to 8th Schedule of Indian Constitution and according to this news article various Adivasi organizations representing different states are going to observe the Gondi language stay on 21st of July. So in this context let us see about Gondi language and then about Gondites from example perspective. See Gondi language is spoken by the Gondi tribe across the Gondwana region that spans several states in India. It is said that Gondi has more speakers than some of the languages listed in the 8th Schedule of Indian Constitution but still Gondi language is not included in the 8th Schedule. Moreover if you see it is listed as vulnerable in UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. See this Atlas is intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world's linguistic diversity. It is used to be tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level. Now if you see Gond people speak Gondi dialects and these are derived from a mix of languages like Tamil, Kannada and Telugu know that the Gond tribe migrated from south India to central India. Thus they belong to the Dravidian descent or origin and they can be traced to the pre Aryan era. The word Gond comes from Gond which means green mountains in the Dravidian idiom. They are called as Gond since they lived in the green mountains. Know that at present Gond's are one of the largest tribal groups in the world and they are one of the largest adivasi communities in India. They are mostly found across these states and they are listed as schedule tribe in all these states as well. Know that Gond's are subdivided into four tribes as you can see here among them only the Maria Gond's from Maharashtra have been given particularly vulnerable tribal group status. Next the family system of Gond's is patriarchy. Usually the Gond tribes are engaged in agriculture. They also engage in other occupations like forest farming hunting fishing etc. So this is in brief about Gond language and Gond tribes. Now look at this question with reference to the Gond tribe considered the following statements. Three statements are given and you need to choose those statement or statements which are correct. Look at the first statement it tells that Gond tribes belong to the Dravidian descent. Yes this statement is correct. Look at the second statement it tells that Gondi the language spoken by these tribes is listed in 8th schedule of Indian constitution. No it is not listed. So the second statement is incorrect. Look at the third statement it tells that Gond tribes are mostly found in north eastern states. It is wrong because they have spread across central India and in parts of western and eastern and also parts of southern India. They are not majorly found in north eastern states. So here only the first statement is correct. The correct answer is option A one only since you need to choose those statement or statements which are correct. Let us move on to the practice questions discussion session. Look at this question which is about small farmers agribusiness consortium. Three statements are given and you need to choose those statement or statements which are incorrect. Here the first and the third statements are correct. Small farmers agribusiness consortium is a pioneer in organizing small and marginal farmers as farmers interest groups and farmers producers company for endowing them with bargaining power and economies of scale. And it is this small farmers agribusiness consortium which is the lead agency in implementing the national agricultural market electronic trading platform which is nothing but the enum platform. Here the second statement is incorrect. The board of management of this consortium is chaired ex-officio by the union minister for agriculture and farmers welfare not by the union minister for food processing industries as given in this question. So here the correct answer is option B two only since you need to choose those statement or statements which are incorrect. This question is about international solar alliance. The question is which of the following statements is not correct with reference to international solar alliance. Option A tells that it is a treaty based intergovernmental organization working to create a global market system to tap the benefits of solar power and promote clean energy applications. Yes, this statement is correct. See this international solar alliance creates a multi stakeholder ecosystem where the sovereign nations, multilateral organizations, industry, policymakers and innovators work together to promote the common and shared goal of meeting the energy demands for a secure and sustainable world. Now look at option B it tells that this international solar alliance was established by the 2015 Paris agreement. Yes, this statement is also correct. The Paris declaration established the international solar alliance. This declaration states that the countries shared the collective ambition to undertake innovative and concerted efforts to reduce the cost of finance and technology for deployment of solar generation assets. This ISA aims to pave the way for future solar generation storage technologies for the member countries needs by mobilizing over 1000 billion US dollars by the year 2030. The vision of this alliance is to enable one world once and one grid. So here option B is also correct. Look at option C tells that India's only a signatory to this international solar alliance and it did not ratify the framework agreement of this alliance. Note this statement is incorrect because India is a signatory and it has also ratified the agreement. If you see the launch of this alliance was announced together by the prime minister of India along with the president of France in November 2015 at the COP 21 which was held at Paris in 2015. So India is one of the founding members of this alliance. So here the correct answer is option C since option C is the incorrect statement. Option D is correct. The headquarters of this alliance is located in India. It is located at Gurugram. So option C is the correct answer. Now have a look at this main question under general studies paper two. The question is as is the role played by the smart city's mission of India in public health. In this context suggest few measures to address the crisis faced by urban areas in public health due to the COVID-19 pandemic. You can mention the points that we have discussed during our editorial analysis. It is a 15 marks question and you need to answer this question in 250 words. Please post your answers in the comment section. Suitable suggestions and feedback will be given by us within a reasonable time frame. With this we come to the end of the analysis of all the news articles taken up for today's discussion and also the practice questions discussion session. If you like the video press the like button, comment and share and do subscribe to Shankar IAS Academy YouTube channel for latest videos and updates. Stay focused and motivated friends. Thank you.


Welcome to Jalassette News to get top stories and cryptocurrencies in Jalassette's and bring them down to bite-sized pieces. Today, interesting stuff. First off, Bitcoin miners earn over $1 million per hour. That's a revenue increase of 105% since the 2020 halving. And what this tells me is that there is big business behind the doors of just hodling cryptocurrency also. Continuing on with the same theme, publicly listed Bitcoin mining operation C shares skyrocket. Riot blockchain market cap reaches $1 billion. And we're going to take a look at two to three other mining operations and one that I'm actually investing in as far as the stock market goes. And finally, more bullish news. A physical crypto bank opens in India. 14 locations offer in-person banking lending crypto exchange. And the question has to be asked, how far behind is America as India, which just legalized cryptocurrency not too long ago after it was banned, now has 14 locations for physical banks for cryptocurrencies? Before we get into that, let's take a look at what's going on in the market. So today, it is December 30th. It is 1 p.m. El Paso, Texas time and Bitcoin is on yet another tear. Looks like we are almost hitting the 29,000 market, 28, 20% for the week. And it's just been amazing growth.  I think what was going on, it really all started with grayscale. It seemed like all the different companies that have been buying up Bitcoin, including PayPal and MicroStrategy and MassMutual and of course grayscale, it seemed to me like they had this like this unwritten rule, which was don't buy more than the daily allowance. Well, just about a week ago, grayscale said, you know what? Forget you guys. We're going to leave you in the dust and they bought up 13 times more than the daily amount that is produced for Bitcoin. And I think that's really what's going on with the institutions. Now it's just a buying frenzy. And once we hit 30,000, that's when I stop dollar cost averaging Bitcoin. Because if you've watched my videos before, I have a theory that Bitcoin is going to go to around 150,000 in 2021. And then it's going to come right back down to around $30,000. So I'm not going to dollar cost average out for that. So we're almost there. And once that happens, then I will allocate funds to other cryptocurrencies or assets that I have in my portfolio. And I'll just write this one out. This is going to be a huge year. I think 2021 is going to be enormous. The only things that I really worry about, one is scams. That's one of those things. And two really is the SEC and what they're doing with Ripple and XRP. Now I think Bitcoin and Ethereum are pretty much safe, because Jay Clayton, the SEC chairman, just stepped down and he was the one kind of responsible for kind of spearheading this whole lawsuit against Ripple. He came out in 2018 and said, look, Bitcoin is on a security. And then they kind of alluded to Ethereum the exact same way. So I'm not really concerned about that. But there's some other things also stellar. I'm kind of looking at to where they could say, hey, we can go after these types of things. Now I'm not trying to fud. I'm just saying that that's what I see. I think Ripple is a special case for what they're going on because it was two things. One, there's a problem with securities and maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But the second one, I think it's the much bigger part is the leadership or the CEO and co-founders of Ripple and how they were selling off their XRP. I don't really want to get into that part, but I think that is an issue. But again, I think this market is going to do very well in 2021 and I can't wait to see what happens. So Ethereum, looking at man, 750, 2.8% for the day, almost 19% for the week. Again, 10 to 10, nobody cares and a free fall. And I had just recently sold all my XRP because I want to take a massive loss. And just to reiterate what happened, I don't think people, I think people just saw my thumbnail where I said I'm selling my XRP and they went out of their mind, especially the XRP army. So if they would have watched the whole video and seen what I did, I don't think they've been that much of an issue, but apparently it was. So I'm going to break this down real quick. So what you do is that you sell all of your losses for the calendar year for tax purposes. So I sold all my XRP at 9am, got it? And then five minutes later, I bought some back. So you can do that. That's called wash trading, but it doesn't apply in cryptocurrency because crypto is a special piece. It is actually concerned, considered property. So in this situation, that is what I did to help me out with my taxes. I'm a small business owner and I need massive tax deductions. So that is what happened. So again, let me reiterate that because I think people just don't understand. I sold the XRP for tax reasons so I could get a tax break. And after that, I bought some back. So when people say, oh, you got weak hands and you said you never sell, look, I can't make it any simpler. I don't know what to tell you. I need tax breaks. That's what I did. So let's move on. Litecoin, 1.4%, 12% up for the week. That's pretty good. Polkadot, we just did a nice little video this morning about Polkadot and staking and things like that. And some people said, you know, they said, hey, this is really easy. You can crack and you can do it in two minutes. And some people were like, hey, why do you do that? Just use a wallet. You can use a wallet. Some people don't want to do that. That's why there's different options for everybody else out there. But check that video out. Pretty interesting and makes things super simple. Polkadot, you can stake it for like 12%. It's crazy. Bitcoin cash up 2%. What else is up? Wrap Bitcoin. And it's amazing that, you know, you've got Bitcoin 1, Bitcoin Cash 2, Bitcoin SV3, Wrap Bitcoin 4. There's four in the top 20 and they're all rated Bitcoin. So what do you know? Let's see, Stellar. Stellar's down. I can see why. Monero, that's weird. Monero's usually up. Celsius Network, just an absolute tear. I mean, they're going to hit $6 at no time. I remember buying Celsius under $1. And now here we are. 81% for the week. I mean, that's just unbelievable growth. Is this sustainable? Maybe. We'll see. Theta, another one of the great buys. 10.6% for the day. Man, 46% for the week. That's amazing. And we're going to see these numbers again and again and again in the history of 2021.  And that's really about 14% for Uniswap. Back to above $4. What a yo-yo. Zillica, gotta really look into that. I say that every time and I never do. I know it's a great project. I don't know. One of these days. All right. Let's move on to today's top story. So before we do all that, I forgot one thing. 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Congratulations, you won three months to trade the chain, as well as Mark Vozo. You guys are both winners of trade the chain. Again, just go to damteachescrypto.com, click on contact, send me an email with your information, and we'll get you all set up with Alex Mascioli, and that great platform where they use sentiment analysis, market rebellion, get technical analysis, trade the chain and get sentiment analysis, you put them together, unbeatable. And then lastly, for the shield folio winner, it's going to be megabytes mining bar. So again, you know, damteachescrypto.com, send me an email, and we'll get you all set up. So again, thanks everybody for making this a success for 12 days of Christmas. We'll do it again in about another year. So all right, this was a great story. Bitcoin miners are in over a million per hour. And I, when I'm looking at this, I mean, we all know what's going on, right?  We know that Bitcoin is going to be big this year. The only question is how big I have a frame of around 100,000 to 150,000. Some people say 300,000. Some people say 500,000. Some people say a million in 2021. I don't know. I hope I'm wrong. I hope it goes to like a half a million. That'd be awesome. But who knows? But there is so much money in this space that is rippling over into mining, mining operations, stocks. There's a lot of ways to get into cryptocurrency. And this is just one of those ways. So what's going on here? Well, this according to Glassnode, BTC miners are currently earning a million per hour, meaning an increase of 185% since the having happened in mid-May. I had no idea how profitable it actually was to be a miner until I take a look at this. Now, I know some miners and it's not easy. And it's not, that's not my forte and not my thing, but that's why it's so lucrative. So if you're into those types of mining operations, sure, go ahead for it. I don't know how anybody would do that without actually hooking up with a mining pool, but sure. But again, tons of money in here. And there's going to be a way we're going to talk about in just a second about not about making money investing in the cryptocurrency, but not directly in the cryptocurrency. So continuing on this story, the last time miners revenue was hovering around such highs was in July 2019. Adding that block rewards were twice as high than today, obviously because we just went through a having in May of 2020. Overall, Glassnode estimates Bitcoin miners total revenue stands at $13 billion, making it a heavyweight industry within the crypto sphere and an attractive one for businesses looking to invest in the crypto mining industry. I think this is one of those things that people are going to start to really take a look at. When we look at the big picture about what is going on, it's not just the cryptocurrencies and what they can do in the digital assets and using Bitcoin as a store of value, using Ethereum, building everything on top of that, using VeChain as tracking different things throughout the globe. There's a lot of things that can be done. And when you are an investor, you're looking at, well, how can I get into this? Well, cryptocurrency is kind of unstable as far as the price action. I don't know what's going to happen in six months. Nobody does. But I do like this mining industry. Maybe I'll invest some money into that. Not a bad idea. So finishing up, I didn't know this, but the latest generation mining rigs prices have gone up 35% since the beginning of November. The observed price increase comes as Bitmain and MicroBT are reportedly sold out until May 2021. So that's how you know industry is making huge strides. There's just not enough to go around. And that is a shortage. Supply and demand just like Bitcoin. As of past time, according to BitInfo charts, data, Bitcoin average transaction fee remains at $8.70, still off from the highs, reached on October 31st at $13.15. And I got to tell you, I'm glad that we are not in December 2017 because back then people were still touting Bitcoin as like a cryptocurrency and using it to pay for goods and services. That's not going to be that, let's just be honest. People talk about, ah, there's these second layer of solutions and lightning and I just fell asleep when I hear it in my, okay, sure. It's a store of value. And let's just stick with that narrative. It wasn't what Satoshi had in mind, but it is what it is. And that's what we're going with. That's what the institutional investors are doing. Nobody's using their Bitcoin to buy coffee. No one's using Bitcoin to buy a car. Well, maybe a car, I don't know. But I mean, daily transactions, it's not going to happen. At least not for a long time until someone figures out something better. But for right now, store of value, everybody's happy. Great. Let's put a bunch of money into it. Go to the moon. Fantastic. Let me just think what your comments are in the comments section below. But this, I think, is the real money winner. And it comes down to publicly listed companies and what people can get into as far as the stock market, because let's be honest, stock market's going to, it's going to bomb this year. I think there's going to be a lot of problems. We can't keep up this, this breakneck speed. But with cryptocurrency coming along, I think people can find an outlet. So publicly listed Bitcoin mining operations, C shares skyrocket, riot blockchain market cap reaches $1 billion. And I had heard about riot from the guys over there at Market Rebellion. And they were talking about this when I was in their show with Alex Mascioli on his channel, and they kept talking about riot, riot, riot, and I was like, I don't know what you guys are talking about as usual, because usually what they're talking about goes over my head. But with this one, I'm like, what is so big about this?  I'm like, sure, whatever. And sure enough, they're right yet again. So this is what's happened. The US based firm riot blockchain's market valuation recently attained a 1 billion capitalization. That's not easy to do. And here they are doing it in a very short amount of time. A number of other Bitcoin mining business operations have seen colossal demand for company shares. The company has recently captured a 1 billion market cap after trading for three bucks, around three bucks. In November, which is just, you know, a month away, shares climbed all three X and are now trading above the $15 range of December 29th.  So I'm going to get into it. And you buy in at 3,047 cents. And within a month, you're at 15 bucks, 15 bucks. That's insane. In the traditional market, you would have lost your mind. Of course here, it's like a Tuesday, so no one cares. But for this one, I mean, fantastic. And this is what I'm talking about as far as making big strides. So I think that moving forward, there can be a lot of different companies that people can actually get into, but not be in the cryptocurrency. So Riot's not the only publicly traded listed Bitcoin mining operation that has seen shares swell immensely in value. On December 11th, hut eight shares, I guess the same type of thing. We're swapping for a buck 46 per unit. And I have increased 154% to 371. And this one is the one that my friend George told me about months ago, Mara. And I have been investing into this through Robinhood. I have been dollar cost averaging, just like the cryptocurrency, I've been putting 25 bucks a day and it's been pretty great. So the public listed firm Marathon patent group Mara has seen shares jump in value by over 156% since December 11th, when shares were swapping for 463 under those prices. The time of publication of Marathon shares are trading for 1187. Marathon is another firm that just recently announced the largest acquisition of next generation miners when it settled a deal with Bitmain to buy 70,000 ant miters for 179. This is great news. And when my friend George told me about it, I'm like, I don't really deal with stocks. I buy Amazon and I buy Tesla. That's pretty much about it. Cause that's, I believe in both of those and I have a business on Amazon. So why not? But when he's talked about this, I'm like, that makes sense. And it just made sense to me. And I'm going to link these, the description of this company and underneath this video, but I mean, they've got a pretty, a lot of good branches. They're based on Nevada. They probably incorporated over there. They're also in Quebec and they have a stable farm in South Dakota, probably cause it's cold and it looks like a pretty good one. I'm not telling you what to do. I'm just telling you, this is what I do and this is what I invested into. So Riot or Marathon, sure, but I just see this as a great opportunity for people to really get exposure to crypto without doing crypto. And I think it's going to be big, but there was one more thing that I thought about, which was there's a company called Layer One. And Layer One is here out in West Texas where I'm at and they are doing a ton of Bitcoin farming or Bitcoin mining. And Peter Teal is the background. I want to know just what the heck is going on with them. And I saw some pretty bummer of a news. The CEO of Bitcoin mining startup, Layer One, resigns in a settlement replaced by ex-president. I'll link this as well, but I got a little, I'll leave between the top brass. And that is the problem I think with some of these companies is that people get in the way of the company. And I think it was the most genius aspect of Satoshi Nakamoto just to disappear, even if he's alive. And I will just tell you this, because he is not around, everything works great for Bitcoin. If that guy was revealed, he was like, Hey, it's Pete on the Satoshi. Like, God, that sucks, because now we know the guy and they can go to the guy and they can, you know, probably even like Sue. So that guy doesn't exist. And it was just a genius move. So when, you know, you have something like this, and they also have something like with Ripple, and they do all their, whatever they're doing, watch blockchain backers video. If you want to learn a little bit more in the insights of that case, he breaks it down beautifully. I think people get in the way with Satoshi just disappearing. Great. Now we know how these issues that you've seen all these companies. So anyhow, that's it for that. So let me know what you think in the comments section and off to our next piece. So this one was good. And it made me realize just how slow America is. Physical crypto bank opens in India. These 14 locations offer in person banking lending crypto exchange. Fantastic. So if you don't know, India had actually the central bank of India had gone to the Supreme Court and they had banned cryptocurrency. And they said, Hey, we're going to shut down all these exchanges and they did it. And then it was actually put forth by, you know, to the Supreme Court of India and for the reserve, excuse me, the reserve shut them down. They came back and said, Hey, this is illegal. You can't do this. And now it's flourishing India. Like nothing happened. That's amazing. So we haven't shut anything down yet. But yet we can't seem to get things together. And here's India doing the right thing. So good for you guys. So everybody who is in India listening to the channel, welcome. You guys are doing the right thing. Congratulations. So crypto bank Unicus has begun rolling out physical branches in India. The first branch opened in Jaipur, the bank announced Monday. I think I said that right. Unicus is initially opening its services online and through 14 branches across Rajathan and Gurat by January 2021 and plans to rapidly expand to 100 branches by the end of 2022. That's amazing. So now they're going to open all these things up like, you know what, let's fast track it. Let's just roll this out and just push. And then we'll, you know, just kind of decrease the amount of banks we have for these new better banks, which do everything a typical bank can do on top of cryptocurrency assets, win, win. Unicus CEO Dinesh Kukra. I know I did not say that, right? This states this will allow us to build, scale and offer customized financial and crypto products for the local Indian markets. The next 13 branches will be rolled out between four and 22nd of January. So you're looking at two to three weeks and the 14 branches, including their addresses and phone numbers are listed right here. So this isn't like a pie in the sky type of thing. This is something where they're like, you know what, we're going to do this. Here's where they're coming. Here's the phone numbers and expect this to happen. That's amazing. So congratulations, India, for doing the right things and getting things done. So all right. So more great news.  Sorry. And that's all for today. So thanks for watching. I really appreciate it. If you like these types of videos and two months going to pop up on your left and right and let YouTube do their magic. Also for all the winners, don't forget, go to DanTeachersCrypto.com. The link is in the description below. It's the very first one and click on the contact tab, contact me, email, and then I'll send everything out to you. And that is it. All right. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it. See you on the next one.


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Ukraine's counteroffensive is finished. Russian governor, Moscow's forces have stopped the Ukrainian counteroffensive dead in its tracks. Evgeny Balitskiy, the governor of Zaporizh region, has said. He further described what he called Kiev's last ditch attempt to breach Russian defenses as not particularly impressive. In recent months, Zaporizh has emerged as a scene of some of the fiercest fighting. Speaking to reporters, Balitskiy stated that the enemy has been halted, as has been its much-hyped counteroffensive. He said that the ongoing fighting near the settlements of Rabotino-Skebaki and on the Vramievsky ridge was almost an agony for the Ukrainian regime. The official declared that Ukrainian forces, which have been trying to storm Russian positions for months, have completely run out of steam. Now, when the enemy launches an attack, they deploy only small forces because their companies are under strength, he added. According to Balitskiy, the plan to reach the Sea of Azov and cut Russia's land bridge to Crimea, widely seen as the main objective of Kiev's summer campaign, has been thwarted. He also claimed that Ukrainian attacks are now largely unsupported by armor, as Russian forces have knocked out many vehicles. The governor stated that the current meat onslaught had been organized by Kiev's Western backers, suggesting that the latter would prefer to lose Ukrainian soldiers rather than their own expensive military equipment. Ukraine began a large-scale offensive in early June. Last week, Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Valery Zalozny characterized the frontline situation as a stalemate due to the level of technological prowess of both sides.


Hi, how's everybody doing today? This is Rich here on behalf of Rich2VLive with our very special guest is Danny Callow, the Chief Operating Officer of African Gold Group. How are you doing today, Danny? Great, thanks for it to them. Thank you for having me on. Thank you for joining us. Why don't we get started and you can tell us a little bit about African Gold Group and how you got the company started. Great, thank you. Well, the African Gold Group is around for a while. In its current rise, we re-initiated work in August of 2019, but prior to that, it's been around 125,000 metres of drilling that's been carried out on this flagship asset and the feasibility study. Obviously, when we came in in August 2019, we had the benefit of a gold price that was moving in the right direction. And my background in building and developing minds in Africa meant that the board was keen to bring somebody on board that could help them take this to the next level, which was to take it through into construction, ramp up and then producing gold. So we've been busy with this since August of 2019. And in the last seven months, we've been very busy in getting ourselves ready to deliver a definitive feasibility study, which will take us to the next level in able to raise money and build the mine. So that's what we've been doing for the last three months. Very good. And we've been noticing the stock has been doing extremely well over the last little while. So congratulations on the success of the market going in the right direction. Now, AGG African Gold Group is focused on its Kobata Gold project in Mali, West Africa. Can you tell us a little bit more about the project? Sure. So as you mentioned, it's Mali. Mali is one of the larger producers of gold in West Africa. We are situated around 120 kilometers away from the capital, Bamako, to the southwest. We're in the region called the Sikasa region, which is a prolific gold producer. We're smack going in the middle of the Burimian Greenstone belt, which is a prolific producer of gold assets in the country. And mining in Mali has been going for many, many years. So it's a very mature mining country and I'm very used to mines coming in and starting out. Our project is, as I say, in the southwestern part. We aim to produce 100,000 ounces of gold. We've undertaken a large drilling program over the last few months to develop a definitive feasibility study. And this will enable us to raise the project finance to go forward and build it. It's in a very, very accessible part of the country. The grades are reasonable for that area. And the mining and the processing methodology is very straightforward for West African gold mining companies. So I believe that we have a great asset with a multi-year, 100,000 ounce production and plenty of upside. We've drilled around 15% of this whole deposit. Four kilometers of around 30 kilometers of exploration potential on the property. Our concession is around 300 square kilometers. So I think that we have massive upside here. So even though we're ready to go and to start construction, we'll continue to drill and continue to upgrade our resources to make sure that we have a much longer mine life. That's great. And what are the benefits of developing a gold project in Mali, West Africa? Mali is one of the larger producing countries in Africa, is I think the third largest. It has a great pedigree of gold mining in the country. Anglo-American gold, gold shemti, iron gold, Eric, are all there. A lot of the mid-tier miners are there. The government is very investor-friendly and it has a very investor-friendly mining code. The government are accessible and the Ministry of Mines is made up of geologists and mining engineers, which is unusual for Africa. And the Ministry of Mines actually worked on this concession. So she knows the concession well and she's visited the concession.  And the government are very keen for this project to come into construction and production. Wow. Now, African Gold Group has been conducting an extensive diamond drilling program at Kobada. Can you tell us about the most recent results and what they mean for the project overall? Sure. So I think I mentioned that from the cap, the company has done around 125,000 meters of drilling historically on this property. And it produced a 2016 feasibility study which we inherited in 2019. When we had a look at that, we realized that we would like to do some more drilling so we engaged in the 12,000-meter drilling program which takes us up to around about 140,000 meters of drilling. And that 12,000 meters was focused on the very small area of our concession within a range of about four kilometers. Now, the intention there was to upgrade the resource both structurally in terms of the geological sense and also to do infill drilling to be able to convert these resources into reserves and obviously reserves are what you find. So when you can get a better conversion rate from measurement-indicated resources into reserves, that gives you a much, much better opportunity to produce a good operating mind. And that's what we've been doing. So that 12,000 meters of drilling was completed in around about January of this year. What we did do, however, is we started to investigate some of the other areas of the operation that haven't been drilled before. And you might have seen some of the press releases that came out over the last three or four weeks. That was the final three holes that we drilled in this campaign, and we hit some really, really exciting gold grades. So much higher than the average gold grade that we've been seeing across the concession. And this is to the north of where we expected the main open pit to go. So this means that we have some really great upside potential in some of these holes. And we're talking five, six grams a ton over 15, 20 meters. So this is really, really good discovery. And one of the things that we will be doing as we start to construct this mine is to continue drilling in this northern area. The other thing that is really, really interesting here is that we have 30 kilometers of identified geological structures on our concession, which are mineralized and able to carry gold bearing material. We only drilled four of those. So we have another 26 kilometers of additional exploration and drilling to do to upgrade this resource. And when you have a look at it like that, at 2.2 million ounces and only 15% of the concession, I really think that we have some massive upside here as we continue to explore this property. So really, really very exciting times. How has the coronavirus, the coronavirus pandemic affected the development of the Kobara Gold Project? Well, look, I think first of all, I should say that this coronavirus of COVID-19 took everybody quite by surprise. I think the reaction of governments to shutting down pretty much their economies almost overnight was quite a surprise. And Mali was no different. My heart goes out to all the frontline workers that have really put their best foot forward in trying to fight this thing. And I guess we complain about being stuck at home and knowing that we can't move around, but really these are the heroes of this. But Mali made a very quick decision to shut down the country towards the end of March. They had one or two cases only, but they did realize that in a country like Mali when they have a fairly large population in some very closely ported sort of villages and towns that this could get out of control quite quickly.  And that's really done quite well for them because they really haven't had many cases. Fortunately, all of our guys on site doing the geology and the exploration were allowed to stay on site in the camps. They were locked down inside the camps, but they continued to operate. We've had no cases, thankfully, of any of the coronavirus in any of our workforce on site, which is great. The only thing that it has done is obviously inhibit our movement in and out of the country. But the good news really is that in this stage now where we're going to complete the definitive feasibility study, most of the practical onsite work has been done by the drilling and all the geotechnical test work. So most of the work now is behind the desk and finishing the reports and analyzing the data. So thankfully, we've been able to continue to do that. And we don't believe that we're gonna lose any time in delivering the feasibility study from what we said, which is the end of Maya this year. So that's really good news. Now, it's vital when you're doing business in places like Africa or third world countries that you do community initiatives to really build that relationship with the people that you're going to be mining in their country. So what type of community initiatives are you guys doing in Mali right now? Richard, I'm pleased you asked that question because for me, there is an absolutely fundamental question for anybody that is mining in a developing country. You know, we have to see ourselves as good neighbors. We have to see ourselves as being part of this community that we operate in. We're gonna be around there for hopefully 10, 20, 25 years, which means that when we go into these communities and we start setting up these green fields operation, we have to make friends and as I say, be good neighbors. And you know, there's a second issue around West Africa, which is good, it's not just West Africa, it's Africa as well, but and that is autism or mining. And what you have is a lot of informal mining happening on your concessions, which is obviously not great for you, but you know, these guys are just trying to eke out a limit. So there's two ways that you can deal with these things. And the one is through confrontation, which is always the worst thing to happen because if you're trying to be a good neighbor, that doesn't go down very well. And the other one is with conversation. And where we think have been quite successful here from August when we started this process up again, is that we've got all the chiefs of the local villages surrounding the mining area together. And we sat down with them and we asked them what they would like from us as a good neighbor. And clearly a lot of that is as you say, it's these social projects, it's these corporate social responsibility initiatives. And we've got them thinking about some of the things that we could do to help them. And a lot of those things are things like access to water, health, infrastructure, reduction in the malaria rate within the local surrounding areas. And then more simple things like employment locally first and buying goods and services locally. And it was amazing the change that came across the villages when we came in in 2019 and we said, right, this is what we intend to do. However, this is not a one-way street. So we would like you to engage with the autism or minors on that concession. And we would like you to assist in moving them along. And we will happily employ some of those when we get up and running, but some of them we won't be able to. But we need to move on now and get going. And it's been remarkable how this interaction right up front and this ongoing engagement has really, really bled through in terms of moving on the autism or minors. We've already committed to some promises in terms of employment and buying local goods and services. And obviously as we move more into construction, that will increase. And I think we have a really, really symbiotic relationship between ourselves and the local community. If you couple that with the fact that we are upgrading our environmental impact assessment to World Bank and IFC guidelines. So we will be operating at the best of environmental best practices worldwide by the time we start to construct this mine. And also the highest levels of corporate governance. I think that we're really tackling what they call these ESG requirements of listed minors these days. So I think it's not only something that's a good thing to do, it's something that's absolutely critical, not only in terms of your value and your share price, but also in terms of what the requirements of the modern investor is. That's great. Now, what upcoming milestones can investors expect from African Gold Group this year? Wow, well, you've hit the right year because this is the big year. So we've taken a project that's really been sort of stalled or on care and maintenance up until August 2019. We've had a very aggressive period where we've been upgrading the feasibility study to a definitive study. And that involved a huge amount of drilling, as I mentioned. It also involved doing a full suite of metallurgical test work to make sure that we come up with an optimized process plant. We've also done a lot of test work around the geotechnical aspect of the material to make sure that we build our waste dumps properly, our open pit mine slope properly, and obviously up to toiling down. So all of that's been going in to make up this feasibility study. So the first big milestone that you're gonna see is around the end of May, when that technical reported logic with the TSX, that will be a definitive feasibility level study, which as I've mentioned, takes us right through to effectively being able to go to the banks and the private equity companies and investors and start to raise the money for the main project. So really in the next two to three weeks, you're gonna start seeing a fairly good amount of news flow coming out of this company from the last good geological exploration information, probably in the next week, and then there's some pieces of the key components of this study. So watch this space, there's some great stuff coming. Obviously then, once that's done, there's gonna be a period of trying to raise the funds for this project. We believe that for a 100,000 arms project we're looking at in the region of 80 to 90 million US dollars, which is in the lower quarter of a project of this size. And we also believe that our all-in-sustaining cost will be around about the 800 to $850 ounce number, which is fantastic when you think gold at around 1750 and 850, of course, there's a fairly large free cash load model in Silicon there, which is great for investors. And we know that a miner that goes from explorer to producer has a very large re-weighting typically in terms of stock price. Things like that. So I think that's all that's gonna be happening this year. Obviously, I think longer term, strategically, I think that we're fantastically positioned in AGG for the next three to five years in terms of not just this project, but our other projects, and also other projects that come along. So I think that if we had a look ahead in three years, we could be certainly producing out of two gold producing assets in West Africa and in the following sort of three to eight years, I reckon we could be up there with a multi asset, multi jurisdiction, gold mining in Bromberg, which is really, really exciting. Wow. That's guys that are watching all over the world. This is the undervalued, underappreciated, underexposed mining opportunity that a lot of people don't really know about yet. And that's the opportunity for investors. So we've got investors all over the world that are gonna be watching this video, are gonna be learning more about your company. What's the best way for investors to get in contact with you? If they'd like to learn more, if they'd like to invest, if someone is a joint venture or an LOI potential partner, how did they get in contact with you, Danny? The easiest way Richard is through the website, www.AfricanVolkGroup.com. It's a nice website that has like, you can sign up to get newsletters and all the press releases. There's also the latest investor presentation on there. And it has all of our contact details. I'm very happy to take calls and queries from investors. It's, we have our Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Daniel Biazak, he's very active in following up and contacting people that visit the website. So, and then obviously we have, in the modern 21st century, we have all the social media sort of outlets as well, so you can find us on most of those. And typically, I'm fairly active on that as well. So, I keep an eye on what's happening there. And as I say, I'm very happy to jump on a call or to give people more information about the company. It's exciting times and we really need people to get on and visit the site. Fantastic. Well guys, thank you so much for watching and Danny, thank you for joining. Hopefully we'll have you on our show again. If you have any big news or anything you wanna talk about, we'd love to invite you back. I am very bullish on gold, very bullish on gold. I think we are going to see a record price of gold over the next few months. I believe the highest we've ever seen is around 1900. If I'm correct on that, I believe we will see 1900, 1950. I even think we could see 2000. So, that bodes very well for you guys if it's costing $850, right? And it's going to be $2,000 an ounce.  So, congratulations on all your success so far. We wish you all the best of luck in your future endeavors. Keep up all the great work. This is Danny Callow, the Chief Operating Officer of African Gold Group. Have yourself a great day, Danny. And is there anything else you wanna say to anyone that's watching? No, I don't think so, Richard. Thank you for the time. I look forward to coming back home with some good news. But I do agree with you. This is the right time for gold. Gold stocks are soaring. It's a much better place to be than physical gold. Get in there, have a look at it. I think after the lockdown, there's gonna be a massive re-investment program. And I think gold will be leading the charge. I agree with you 100%. Thank you for joining us. Okay, guys, thank you for watching. This is Richard from Rich to Be Live with Danny Callow, the Chief Operating Officer of African Gold Group, a company that you have to have on your watch list and you have to put it on your radar. Thank you for watching, guys. And thank you, Danny, for joining us. Thank you, thank you. Have a nice day, everybody.


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Okay now She might work or she might not work, but she still wants to know that You know, she's you know, taking care of because that is Her nature to want comfort. Okay, so key number two That that women want in men the ability The ability to build To create something To be you know to grow they want to see you become Someone that they can look up to and brag about okay, they don't they want to brag on you. They want to say ooh My man this my man that they don't want to make excuses for you. So Key number key to Women don't want to make excuses for you. They want to brag on you. So give them something to brag about Okay Key three key three Maintain you must maintain the comfort and Her ability to brag on you. Okay. You must maintain it. That means you can't come into the relationship strong and This isn't that and then lose your job fall off lay on the couch and then expect her to take care of you that is kind of like You know Not what women want at all.  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Okay So this book will change your thinking and how to gain success in all areas and not just money because in all areas, okay now another book I suggest This is more for the spiritual person. Like if you're just conscious and spiritual There are laws and Certain aspects of life that if you abide by Will lead you to success and some of these laws are called universal laws. Okay Universal laws Can also be Manipulated now if you don't know anything about that go look it up Basically The decisions that you make today Will affect tomorrow Okay If you decide today That you want to be successful and have money and be financially stable and take one step towards it and Then the next day take another step towards it and then the next day take another step towards it Eventually you're going to arrive At success.   Okay?  Okay, man. We already know that women know that. Okay? So think before you act. That's key Powerful many of someone I think it's number four key for think before you act Think if you do this in five years, what is the possible? outcome of This situation if I sleep with this girl unprotected in five years, where will I be? What if she gets pregnant ask yourself all these questions? Okay? And then make the decision a lot of you guys act without thinking okay a lot of you women do too So I'm not saying all I'm not saying most I'm saying a lot. Okay, I Know people will hurry up and rushing the comments and why are you saying that about I'm not saying all Because there are always people who are already there and are successful So that's not all obviously the people that need the info. Okay, the people that are not this way. This is what I'm talking to so men Women respect Financial stability women respect a man who is Able to take care of her women will respect and flock to men Who they feel safe with do you know? They're not and also these women are the high-quality women They're not the low-quality women that you don't want anyway. These are not the ones who got you know What you don't want.   Okay secretly you do Because men have egos and we already know But I'm not trying to put you down. I'm trying to help you. Okay, we all know even if you do it for yourself I don't care.  I don't care do it for yourself. You know I'm saying there's no reason why people should have a mediocre life When there's an information out there knowledge out there You know ways to change your thoughts for the better. There's no excuse There ain't no excuse. Okay, don't tell me there's an excuse People have read their way out of poverty Look at all the great leaders many of the great leaders and the great man came from poverty You know I'm not a lot of them Came from mediocrity because once you settle into that mediocrity You don't care anymore You have to be hungry a lot of men do not have a hunger for success anymore Because it's too easy Now because women are too easy women. That's what I say you gotta stop giving it up to broke men Okay You're just not helping them. You're telling them. It's okay to be broke, baby.  Do you understand please?  Why? Because they need motivation Okay, they need motivation Men do yourself a favor by stop getting women pregnant and you know you're broke.  Okay? Just don't do it. Even if you think the chicks not gonna get pregnant. What if she does? Okay? No No, if you're poor you need to invest in condoms Maybe there's a male birth control and you need to refrain from sex and or dating because There is no way That you should even be dating you should be out there trying to get money Okay, you should not even be dating if you're poor you need to figure out how to not be poor Okay, you need to figure out how to get to the next level Okay, this is the issue that I have Why are there so many broke people men and women? I'm not just talking about me anymore. Why are there so many broke people focused on finding? sex love or a relationship when they should be seeking self-love from self success You know getting out of their poverty situation. Why? Why aren't they focused on that? Because it's a challenge Anybody could get sex Anybody can get married Anybody can lay down and have baby, but how many people do you know that can actually become successful? Okay, so y'all need to stop being so lazy Y'all need to focus on what's important. Okay, and what is important is Making sure that you have what you need for yourself your future generations and If you need to help somebody you you you're able to do it, you know parents family members, you know Have enough self-respect To come out of Poverty to come out of mediocrity Move forward in life not backwards. Okay, and I'm telling y'all this because a lot of people will look at my videos and say Oh, you talk trash. You don't well. I'm trying to help y'all now.  Okay Do you have drive? Do you settle? Do you? Do you accept mediocrity if you do? Then certain women are just not gonna like you and Certain women will not respect you and certain women will not even bother with you Because there are so many other driven men that have that hunger that testosterone that male Mask that masculinity that is very powerful and will never be mediocre Okay, there are some men that are always just gonna be successful because of who they are Okay, so thank you guys so much for watching thumbs up. I know y'all gonna troll but I tried to help you


By popular demand, my name is Sam Bucking, and I'm the author of Malignan Selflam, Narcissism Revisited, and don't you make me repeat this. Today we are going to discuss regulatory loops. Every relationship has mechanisms for feedback. The partners in the relationship use these mechanisms to communicate with each other, and to modify the other partners' behavior. To regulate the relationship, there are two ways to do that, via intimacy or via romantic jealousy. Mature partners achieve a workable balance between togetherness and personal autonomy. It is not easy. Taken to the extreme, personal autonomy becomes freedom and then anarchy. Taken to the extreme, togetherness becomes clinging, suffocating and stifling. Finding the golden mean between these two is a task of herculean proportions. It requires awareness of subtleties and nuances. It requires fine tuning on a minute by minute basis, interaction by interaction, speech act by speech act. It's a full-time job. But these mature, healthy partners engender intimacy via communication and also via actions. They signal to each other. Intimacy feels so good, so warm, involves acceptance and creates such a safe and secure environment in which the partners can be vulnerable, naked, so to speak. So it feels so good, it feels like going back to childhood, that no one in his right mind wants to exit such a bond, a truly intimate bond. So both abandonment or separation anxiety and romantic jealousy are absent in healthy relationships because intimacy guarantees that there's no need for them. Object permanence or object constancy is accomplished and established in healthy and mature relationships. The partners trust each other to always be there. Separation is not a threat and abandonment is not on the cards because who would abandon again a truly intimate, functional relationship? Why would they do that? So such a relationship is devoid of anxiety and devoid of jealousy. But what to do? What happens when one of the partners is a co-dependent or a borderline and the other one is a narcissist or a psychopath or a histrionic? These are very common combinations actually. And what happens when both partners suffer from mood disorders, such as for example bipolar disorder? Well these kind of partners cannot achieve and if they do achieve cannot maintain even minimal intimacy. Instead what they do, they mesh, intermesh, get entangled, fuse, merge. They become a single organism with two heads. Normally such fusion fosters intolerable abandonment or separation anxiety. It's very simple. If you are part of one organism, any separation is the equivalent of amputation. It's intolerably painful. It could even be life-threatening with profuse emotional bleeding taking place. So all separation, even minimal, is perceived as an existential threat. The only way to regulate this kind of profound anxiety is to make sure that the partner doesn't jump ship, doesn't abandon you. But how do you achieve that if you cannot generate intimacy? What incentive or inducement does the partner have to stay in their relationship? If he is a narcissist, you can give him narcissistic supply. But even that has a limit. At some point he may devalue you or he may find a much better source of supply. So it's not a guarantee as far as the longevity of a relationship. So how do you kind of make sure that your spouse or intimate partner remains heavily involved, emotionally invested, infectious and will never leave you? This is done by provoking the partner's romantic jealousy. Jealousy of course is a reaction to anticipated loss. So the partner who provokes jealousy engages in indiscreet, extramarital affairs, adultery and cheating. She displays flagrant promiscuity. She is ostentatiously flirtatious or seductive with strangers. Her behaviors are provocative, as is her dress, her attire or her speech. And she all the time destabilizes the relationship by hinting at the existence of third parties by generating a doom and gloom atmosphere of an impending breakup. And she does that in order to provoke the partner into sitting up and paying attention. She wants the partner to value her.  Such a partner introduces insecurity and instability as means to create security and stability. It's very paradoxical. The instigator wants her counterpart actually to set boundaries. She wants or he wants his or her spouse to put his foot down to prove that he cares to say up to here, stopping, I don't accept your behavior anymore. She wants the partner to wake up, to become alive, to become invested in the relationship, to pay attention as I said. Of course such behaviors provoking romantic jealousy, triangulation, such behavior precipitate exactly what they had been meant to prevent. They have the exact opposite effect to the one intended. Many partners anticipating loss and with pain aversion, these combine to drive the injured parting away. Actually guarantee eventual separation and abandonment. If you play this game of romantic jealousy too often, if you triangulate too often, if you introduce third parties into the relationship too often by cheating for example, if you are flagrantly promiscuous ostentatiously flirtatious or seductive in public, if you misbehave, if you dress provocatively, if you upload photos of yourself half-maked or online and if you constantly hint that you're about, just about a second before breaking up and walking away, at some point you're taking the risk that your partner may say, well, good riddance. I can't take this anymore. So exactly like with intimacy, it's an act of fine-tuning. You have to find the balance between provoking enough insecurity and not too much of it. Again, exactly like intimacy. You have to find the balance between creating enough intimacy and not too much of it. Exaggerated regulatory behaviors, intimacy creating or jealousy creating, tend to kill the relationship, to terminate it, because no one in his right mind wants to live in an exaggerated, caricaturistic environment. People seek the middle ground. People want to feel sufficiently themselves and sufficiently merged with the other. They want to create a third entity within which both partners are separate but united. Not easy. And that's why well over 50% of marriages end in divorces and well over 80% of relationships end in separation. Finding this balance, this middle ground, this golden mean eludes most of us and it eludes most of us because of our inherent narcissism, including healthy narcissism. We don't know exactly how to keep our partner happy and ourselves at the same time. We keep failing. The situation is so bad that many people give up altogether and that's the saddest statement about the modern condition that anyone could make.