Ladies and gentlemen, it's a great honour to be speaking at a conference today. Though as a journalist I've got to admit to feeling a little bit intimidated speaking to a group of academics. Usually it's the other way around. I'm the one that's sitting in the audience interrogating and listening to you guys, the academics. And so it does feel a little bit weird to have the tables turned. But in this case, I guess, on a conference on information warfare in the 21st century, I do feel as though I've got a little bit of experience.  And as most of you know, my most relevant experience comes from being on the wrong side of a prison in Egypt. Accused, ironically in fact I think, of doing precisely the kinds of things that we're talking about trying to put an end to. So in that respect at least it feels as though I might have a bit of a relevant experience to talk to you about today. Remember that we're all accused of being members of a terrorist organisation in Egypt. Of being, of advising a terrorist organisation. Of financing a terrorist organisation and of broadcasting false news to undermine national security. In short, we're accused of being terrorist propagandists. And again, as I said, I'm sure that's something that I know a lot of you have actively been working to try and counter. Now sadly, for this conference we were doing none of that sort of stuff. But the story of how we came to be there in that situation does, I think, offer some insights into both the problems we're facing as well as the risks of adopting solutions that have more to do with dodgy intuition or jerking knees than any more considered responses. Now at the time I was in Egypt, I was covering the unfolding political crisis between the interim government that was set up after the military coup that toppled the Muslim Brotherhood and that had been, and the Muslim Brotherhood supporters. Remember that at the time the Brotherhood had been asked from power after they'd been elected as the first democratically elected government that Egypt had ever had. I was in the country then as a reporter that was filling in over the Christmas New Year period. I was only there for a few weeks, my home base was down in Nairobi and so I didn't really know the environment in Egypt particularly well. Of course as a reporter, one of the things that I do and I guess as academics you'll have the same sort of experience where in your field of expertise the more you work the more you get a feel for the boundaries of the topic that you're working on and you start to understand just how far you can go before you upset certain people in your field in our case the authorities. I've done that before and I've gotten in trouble before. I'm personally on grata and Ethiopia as it happens. But Egypt wasn't one of those environments because I didn't know it. I wasn't particularly pushing the boundaries. What we would do was speak to, or the government would make a statement changes to the constitution for example. I'd pick up the phone and call the opposition, do our duty as journalists to try and produce reports that were balanced and relatively fair and neutral. And then we'd speak to an analyst to make sense of it all. It was vanilla journalism. It just so happens though that the opposition at the time was of course the party that was last in power, that's the classic model of democracy and guess what, that was the Muslim Brotherhood. Now at the time the Brotherhood hadn't been banned. It had been accused by the government of being involved in acts of terrorism but it hadn't officially been banned. And so we were doing as I said our duty as journalists. Remember the Brotherhood was still even at that point the largest and most organized political force in the country and we had a responsibility to speak to them. But on the night of December 28th of 2013 I was getting ready to go out for dinner with a friend of mine in Cairo and there was a knock on the door. I remember getting a little bit, getting dressed quickly doing up my shirt, putting on a jacket and there was a rather more urgent knock on the door. I opened up the door, the door flung open as if there was a spring behind it and the room was filled with about 8 or 10 guys. Now I knew that they didn't tell me who they were, they were in plain clothes but it seemed pretty clear that they were security agents and I knew almost immediately that this was quite serious that it wasn't just a bunch of thugs that were trying to roll us especially when I opened up the safe and pulled up $9,000 and they just sniffed at it. It was only really once I was being interrogated though that I really came to understand the charges against us and as I mentioned earlier, we were effectively being accused of being terrorist propagandists. The trouble for me was trying to reconcile the gap between what we were accused of doing and what we actually did between the terrorism charges we were facing and the illiterate journalism that we were producing. I struggled for a long time trying to work out what had gone wrong. I thought initially that perhaps that even misread the name, the hotel room on the arrest warrant. I thought that perhaps someone had misinterpreted something we'd said but as we were trying to come to terms with it, ironically I remember being, I was in a prison that was in fact the same prison, in fact I understand the same cell block that Side Kutub, the intellectual founder of modern militant Islam, was being held. There was a mango tree over the top of our cell that I was told Kutub himself had planted many years ago. It was there that I met a guy called Allah Abdul Fattah who was an extraordinary character.   By Mubarak, by the Skaf government, by the Muslim Brotherhood, by the interim government and guess what, even now, by Abdul Fattah al-Sisi. And he said to me, listen, you've got to understand this, you have to separate this out, you've got to stop trying to take it personally and think about the politics of this. And that's when I realised that we were in prison not because of anything we had done but because of what we had come to represent. What the government wanted to do was send a very clear and unequivocal message, not just to ourselves but to all journalists that you will not speak to the Muslim Brotherhood. They came after us, not because of anything we had done but because of what we had come to represent. The fact that we worked for Al Jazeera was, I think, politically convenient, but it wasn't the reason we were arrested in the first place. The Egyptians really wanted to make a point about Qatari interference in Egypt, as some people have assumed, and it made no sense to come after an Australian into Egyptians. They wanted to make a point about Al Jazeera's cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood. Again, there was no point arresting an Australian journalist who'd only been in country for two weeks. So I wouldn't be standing here, of course, if that was all there was to this story. It would have been just an isolated case of a bunch of journalists who were being locked up, but prison gives you a bit of time to think and the more I thought about it, the more I realised that what had happened to us in Egypt wasn't an isolated example. It was an extension of a trend that I've been seeing throughout much of my career. Now, let me give you a few figures at this point, because I know you, being academics, love numbers. And so I've taken a look at some numbers from the Freedom House, an organisation called Freedom House, which released the results of its annual survey of press freedom around the world. And its stark conclusion is that it's the worst state that it's been in 13 years. Now, what does that mean in practical terms? Well, last year 79 journalists were killed on the job for doing the work, for the work that they were producing. That isn't a record high. That was back in 2007 when 120 died. It is broadly in line, though, with recent trends when about 100 have been murdered each year since the early 2000s. In the 1990s, it was around half that. This year, of course, we are on course for a surprisingly low number, though. It does seem to be a statistical outlier. Although I think my colleagues and friends in Somalia have, I think, a fairly reasonable explanation for that when they said in a report last year that the numbers of journalists in Somalia have declined, the numbers of murders rather have declined, not because the killers have recognised the error of their ways, but because journalists have taken the message and either dropped out altogether or stopped doing the reporting, censored themselves from doing the kinds of reporting that would put them in harm's way. And when you think about that as a consequence, then you start to understand the impact that this has, on journalism, but on our own understanding of the world around us. So what about those under arrest? Well, last year was a record. The Committee to Protect Journalists countered 259 in prison as of December the 31st. Of course, wars have always been dangerous places for journalists, but that usually comes from being in a place where bits of metal are flying around at supersonic speeds. We journalists weren't specifically targeted because of who we were or what we were reporting on, although, of course, if you happen to stumble across a warlord who wanted to keep something hidden, that inevitably would have its risks. But my point is that wars in the past, particularly of pre-911, were generally over tangible things, and this is really important. The wars have been over tangible stuff, whether it's land or ethnicity or water, things that you could put your finger on, but the conflicts journalists have been witnesses to rather than participants in the struggle. But what 9-11 did was turned the war, turned the conflict from physical things into a war over ideas. And the space where those ideas are transmitted becomes, by definition, a part of the conflict, a part of the battlefield, and that is, of course, the media. And so journalists almost inevitably become targets in this conflict. The Committee to Protect Journalists started tracking the numbers of those under arrest in 1991. We saw a particularly bloody period through the... a difficult period through the 1990s when a lot of local journalists were killed, and then they tailed off a little bit, until 9-11. One of the things, one of the features of 9-11 is the way that George W. Bush made it a binary choice, made this conflict a binary one. You might recall that he stood up before a joint session of Congress shortly after 9-11, and he said, in this war, you're either with us or you're with the terrorists. Now, the problem in that statement is for journalists, it effectively sucked out the middle ground. It made it a black-or-white conflict. And so if journalists did... performed their own job, the job that we were supposed to be doing, if we held to our professional ethics of balance, of accuracy, of fairness, and we crossed the line to speak to all parties in the conflict, to speak to the other side, we ended up inevitably becoming regarded as the enemy by the American government and by those governments and organisations who sympathised with the US, who sided with the US. The war on terror has been with us for so long, it's been so pervasive, that it can at times feel as though we've been locked in some kind of existential struggle with Islamic extremism since time immemorial. It's almost as if it's a natural given. When the Canberra Times published an interview that I gave over the weekend, there was a minor avalanche of Twitter trolls who took great glee in reminding me of how many people Islamists have killed, of how much of a threat they posed to Australia and the West more broadly. That interview, of course, I suggested that one of the things, one of the great dangers in this conflict is our response to the conflict in undermining our own civil liberties. But the thing that those trolls suggested was that there is something fundamentally hostile to us within Islam itself, that we've always been locked in some kind of existential struggle, but it hasn't always been this way. For me, Afghanistan was a really important baseline. It kind of illustrates how things have changed. In one of my first assignments, I was based in Kabul for the BBC, Androiders as their Afghanistan correspondent, and that was back in 1995. Now back then, the country was being torn apart by rival militias that were fighting for control of the country in the wake of the departure of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the communist government there. In 1995, though, a new force emerged from the South. It swept up and took over half of the country and started to threaten Kabul. They stopped at just short of Kabul. The front line stopped short of a place called Maidan Shah, and I decided that I really had to cross the front lines and speak to that new group. Now I made the decision for two reasons, partly out of a solid commitment to journalistic integrity to speak to all the parties in the conflict, regardless of who they were and what their aspirations were, and partly out of a sense of my own safety and security, because I felt at the time that, inevitably, a white guy working around the front lines of Afghanistan, where I spent half of my life there, and I was inevitably going to find myself in the sights of somebody else's rifle. And what I didn't want to do was to be seen by either side as partial to the conflict, as taking a particular side and therefore being seen by one side or the other as the enemy. So although it was risky to cross the front lines, I felt I simply had no choice, if I wanted to stay safe, to take that risk. I felt it was the lesser risk. And so I remember sitting at the other side of the front lines one day after a fairly quiet period, outside Maidan Shah, talking to my translator and my driver and saying, OK, let's go and do this. And we squeezed up butt cheeks together and got in the vehicle and headed across the front lines towards the bunkers at the other end and saw these turbans poking above. And finally we had a big BBC flag and Falsi on the back of the vehicle, and we finally arrived. And all of a sudden these guys poked their heads up and said, BBC? BBC? Oh, welcome! It was the Taliban. Now, of course, that kind of adventure today would be thought of as suicidal. It would be madness. It would be seen as throwing myself into the lion's den, asking to be kidnapped or killed. The Taliban, of course, at the time, saw us as legitimate players on the battlefield, though. They recognised that we had a place. Our role there was as legitimate as human rights workers as the Red Cross or MSF. We were observers, not participants, to the conflict. And so even though the Taliban didn't necessarily like us, they didn't necessarily understand our theology, they recognised that we had a legitimate role there and they were happy to talk to us. Now, I started to realise things had changed when I went back to Afghanistan after 9-11 and a few things took place that really made us understand that this was a very different world that we'd entered. You might recall there was the American bombing campaign that was supporting the Northern Alliance. And one of those bombs on Kabul landed squarely on the Al Jazeera Bureau. At the time, Al Jazeera hadn't been broadcasting in English. It had only been operating in Arabic, but it had thrown a tremendous amount of criticism from the United States government and its allies because they had the temerity to speak, first of all, to the one person that I wager every person, every journalist in the world wanted to speak to and that was Osama bin Laden. They also had been reporting on the consequences of US bombing on the population behind the lines, behind the Taliban lines. Now, whatever you think of the rights or wrongs of the American campaign, as a journalist, it's impossible to deny that Al Jazeera had a responsibility to use all of its contacts to keep us, the public, fully aware of what was taking place behind the lines and of what those extremists were thinking. It's part of our jobs to keep the public informed. Now, of course, the US government insisted initially that it was a mistake and then they said that actually they had targeted what they described as a known al-Qaeda facility. But for those journalists like myself that were operating in the country at the time, there was one very clear and unequivocal message. You will not speak as a journalist. You will not speak to the other side. Of course, it's not just the American government that was responsible for attacking journalists. Later in November, the Taliban intercepted a convoy that included four journalists that was travelling from Jalalabad up to Kabul. They stopped them in a place called Surobi. They took the four journalists out. They let everyone else in the convoy go and they dragged those journalists, including a very good friend of mine, Maria Grazi Cattouli, a wonderful Italian journalist who I came to know very well during 1995. They dragged those journalists out in 1995. They dragged them off into the hills outside Surobi and they entered the magazines of their Kalashnikovs into them. And then, of course, we had Daniel Pearl's execution. He was kidnapped and beheading by al-Qaeda. These guys, these journalists were not killed because they happened to be reporting anything that was likely to upset or expose the Islamists. They were murdered simply because they were journalists. There was a trial that convicted the Taliban that were responsible for those murders. They acknowledged them, but they said that they were simply following orders from their superiors to go after journalists. Now, as Freedom House's survey of the journalists killed, these are not isolated examples. They were simply some of the earliest shots. One of the problems with the war on terror is its indefinability. Everyone in this room has grappled with it one time or another. Governments have massaged and extended and twisted the definition of terrorism to mean pretty much whatever they wanted to mean. Let's go back to those Freedom House numbers for those journalists under arrest. Of the 259 that are in prison because of their work, a handful have been locked up for what we might consider to be journalistic misdemeanors that hardly justify imprisonment like defamation or slander. But the vast bulk of them, about two-thirds, are fancy anti-state charges like sedition and treason. And guess what? That is exactly what we were facing when we were locked up in Egypt. Now, the Egyptian authorities invoked the T-word, terrorism, to justify what in my mind amounted to an assault on a fundamental democratic right, the right to news and information. Since then, the government has passed a raft of new laws in Egypt that define terrorism as anything, as innocuous, as disrupting public transport or a civil servant from during his duties. In other words, anything that amounts to a protest. The world's largest jailer at the moment is, of course, Turkey. The crackdown began after last year's attempted coup, and since then the government has charged thousands of academics, lawyers and journalists of being supporters of the coup and therefore part of a terrorist organization. Over 100 journalists are now behind bars, and more than 100 news organizations have been shut down. In Burma, the government has used terrorism laws to prosecute five people for publishing a calendar that described the Rohingya community, which happens to be Muslim, as an ethnic minority. So what about the world's greatest bastion of free speech, the United States, where the First Amendment guarantees that the government can never pass any law restricting freedom of the press? Well, it turns out that they don't need to pass laws restricting freedom of the press. The US has the Espionage Act that was passed in 1918 to deal with spies, to deal with anybody, with foreign agents coming in to try and destabilize and undermine the country. Since from 1918 up until 2008 it was used just a total of five times to protect national security. And then came Barack Obama. As much as I love the guy, as much as I'm impressed by him, as much as I think he was a very strong, very useful, very powerful president, he, depending on how you count, he used the Espionage Act almost twice as often as all of his predecessors combined, and in almost every case he used it to go after journalists or their sources. Now that would be understandable if those journalists or their sources were exposing perhaps CIA tactics that would undermine their fight against Islamic State or perhaps revealing military tactics to the Russians. But that didn't happen. In almost every case it was because those journalists were revealing politically embarrassing information. Now I'm not trying to suggest that the U.S. is about to become Egypt anytime soon. But the war on terror has given licence to governments to use national security as an excuse to chip away at some of the most fundamental elements of our democracy.  We've seen several tranches of legislation pass with bipartisan support. There's section 35P of the ASIO Act that makes it illegal for a journalist to over-investigate what is called a special intelligence operation in SIO. But guess what? Even that designation itself is secret. So a journalist simply picking up the telephone and asking questions about the kind of things that ASIO or the security agencies have been up to runs the risk of winding up in prison for up to for five years or up to ten years for what's described as aggravated disclosure. Now in my mind, to my mind, one of the most important roles of a journalist is to interrogate the work of the security services. The kind of things that they do on behalf of us, the voters, to keep us safe. I'm not suggesting that we have a responsibility to expose genuine national secrets. But the problem with an SIO designation is that it lasts in perpetuity. So anything that the security agencies may have done long in the past is off limits for us as journalists which means that it is impossible for us or anybody else in the public to know about those operations. Then there's the metadata legislation. Past and early 1995, remember, that gives a host of government agencies not just the police or the security services the right to look at anyone's data without a warrant. The only exception is journalists. There were special secret courts set up after howls of protest from the media that required the security agencies to get a warrant to investigate journalist metadata. But we already know that the federal police have accidentally examined journalist data without a warrant. But here's the bigger problem. There is no protection for journalist sources. Anyone who gives information to a journalist is at risk. That upends one of the most deeply held principles of media freedom, our responsibility to protect the identity of our sources. And that undermines our ability to perform our most crucial role in a democracy, to act as a public watchdog, to keep those in power, to keep the bastards honest, to hold those people to account. Metadata we know has already been used to investigate the sources of leaks about the conditions of the detention centres on Manes and Nauru and to prosecute the source of a leak about security failures at Sydney Airport. Now, whatever you think of the detention centre policy, it's hard to justify using metadata, a piece of national security legislation to investigate the source of really what was a political embarrassment. Journalists talking to people trying to explain why some young Muslims might want to go and fight for Islamic State can be prosecuted for promoting extremist ideology under the foreign fighters legislation. Law professor George Williams, who some of you may well know from the University of New South Wales, has been looking at national security legislation. And before 9-11, he found just one piece of legislation related to terrorism that had an impact on freedom of speech. Post 9-11, he found up to date, from between 9-11 and to date, he's found 66 pieces of legislation that all in some way chip away at what I would consider to be one of the most fundamental principles of our democracy. Now, this is important, not just because of what it means for us journalists, it's important because of the impact that it's having on our democracy, on our capacity to have nuanced, complex political debates. It's chipping away at what one organisation has described as the grey zone. Now, by that, they mean the space that is essential for a pluralist society to work. They mean the region of tolerance that makes it possible for different ethnicities, religions, cultures and political beliefs to coexist and thrive together. It's the space that has made Australia one of the most stable, peaceable and prosperous places on the planet. In short, it is essential for the way we exist. The grey zone is the space where we tolerate difference, we have arguments without getting into violent fights. It is the region journalists work in to publish different views, to question and challenge one another. Democracy simply couldn't work without it. And guess what organisation uses the term the grey zone? It's not Amnesty International. I can see a few new Englands. Those guys know what it is. It's not some human rights group it is Islamic State. They use that title in a cover story for their magazine, their online magazine, The Big, called The Extinction of the Grey Zone. The story was about how one of their main strategies was to destroy that democratic space by making it impossible for Muslims and other cultures to live side by side. They want to create intolerance. And the magazine, in that article, they quoted one person quite favourably as supporting their campaign, supporting their mission to extinguish the grey zone. And the person they quoted in that article was George W. Bush. And the line they cited, in this war you are either with us or you are with the terrorists. Now, in my work in regimes of all stripes I've noticed that there seems to be a sliding scale between absolute freedoms from speech at one end and a police state, an authoritarian state at the other. In the current environment it is all too easy to tempting for governments to use the war on terror as a convenient excuse to drag the slider to the right to claim more power in the interests of national security, trading off the media's oversight role in the process and the public's right to speak out and to be a part of that democratic process, to be a part of the grey zone. Even if we wanted to live in a police state, history suggests that can never really deal with terrorism. Just ask the British about how that worked for them in Northern Ireland. And perversely, the best way to deal with terrorism, to deal with extremism of any sort, not to terrorism, let me rephrase that, the best way to deal with extremism of any sort is to keep an open, accountable society with the media free to do its job, interrogating not just governments but those whose opinions tend to drift off into the political extremes. Islamic State understands that, which is why they want to end that. It was the French philosopher Albert Camus who said that a free press can of course be both a good thing and a bad thing, but a press that is not free can never be anything but bad. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a tremendous honour to be speaking here today in front of such an incredible audience of academics and thinkers who have been working on this stuff far longer than I have and far more deeply than I have. I can't claim to be an expert, much less have any answers, but I hope that my experience might help keep the conversation going. Thank you very much.


Those are some love punches for you. What's up? How you doing beautiful today? We're watching some dogs get groomed I love dogs and I love hair you combine the two and you got just the most exciting video ever So honestly, I've seen dogs get groomed on YouTube before but all of a sudden today this Recommended video came up on my feed and I saw the thumbnail and I was like oh my god wait I need to film this and then the second thought was okay Nobody's gonna watch this and then the third thought was I don't care They're not normal haircuts. These are like artistic dog haircuts. We're about to see. I'm really interested to see in how grooming works I've given my own dog a haircut before and it was so hard and the techniques are very different From what we do on people as you would expect probably but I'm ready to learn how to groom dogs and my own dog Maybe we'll get a cute little haircut. Maybe in another video in the future. We'll see. Let's watch these Adorable looking dogs get the most perfect haircuts ever. I'm excited. Let's do it Okay, so every video today is by a channel called shoe and tree this first video is called who is that girl? I already love it like the title. It just feels like I'm about to see something miraculous and like a really sassy dog I love that. Oh my god The pony tail. Oh, I cannot wait to see the creation This woman is about to do on this dog. The dog is already Slaying my existence in every which way possible with this pony tail right now and I'm about to see Something better happen. Is that what you're trying to tell me right now?  Why is the dog so sweet and so calm? Oh She's getting shaved, huh? Honestly, I was expecting them to like keep it long, but it's okay. Are you kidding me with this face? It's like Like what are we doing next? Oh? Hello, little baby girl. Oh, she's giving it a massage Sia girl, you need to go to this this groomer yours ain't compared to this stop This is too much for me right now. I'm already emotional I've been having a really emotional day and like our day and I'm just about to like cry because it's the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life Okay Okay, back to its focus obviously she gives it a bath.  Let me focus a little more. I actually am trying to learn here We are going in with the clippers and she's going really close.  That looks like the most chill dog ever I would want to hang with you. You look cool. These scissors are really cool.  I'm intimidated like really intimidated right now This is more than I could ever have asked for what is the owner asked for?   Okay, we have the thinning shears and it's getting cuter and cuter This is interesting that they use the thinning shears though on this.   Oh my god, this dog's so chill too. It's like yes, this is my dream I love this Groom me up, baby. Oh my god, we're gonna put a ponytail in This is everything I've ever dreamed of No, no, no, I have goosebumps. Can you see? From the back it looks like her name would be Bridget.  Why is the dog so happy the dog just looks like like a human Who went to the hair salon and got a new look like why are we looking like a human? I feel like I've never seen a dog look this happy after getting groomed. Whoa, okay That's a before and after I will say I have to say I learned nothing from that Actually, I did think the scissors were pretty cool like those arched scissors But do you think the dog is aware like do you think it's embarrassed or do you think it's like full-on like this is me This is who I am like thank you. I don't know what they're thinking I always look at my dog and just stare on the eyes and I'm like girl What are you thinking and I think the answer is they're thinking nothing There's nothing behind those eyes except for like I want food and I want love until I don't want it anymore Kind of a 10 for that one. Do you want to come up here and watch the next video with me? Oh, I'm embarrassed though She looked kind of ratty right now because she needs a new groomer They don't have an appointment for like another month. She don't make fun of her. She looks cute.  Oh, no, no, let's fix your hair. Oh, she was sleeping. That's why okay This next video is called ear muffs and really warm. I don't know what that means, but sure we'll find out Oh, look at the little flatties. I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the doggies right here Okay, they're already like so scrumptious and cute. I don't how are they gonna get any cuter than this?    Yo, these dogs are mad chill They're just hanging out.  This is my The way it was just laying on its back like that. This is why I have a love for small dogs They could be so annoying and like yappy, but also at the same time can just be the most chill little creatures ever I like this technique though where they go in with the clippers. That's cool I'm gonna use that from now on when Sia's hair gets long on her paws Oh my god, you're so cute the ears. Yo that dog's chilling seems a little too chill I don't know these dogs chillin. They are besties They are probably brothers and sister and they are getting washed and they're living for okay Not living for it anymore doesn't want to be there at all Why the dogs look so ugly but so cute at the same time when they are wet My dog looks so hideous when it's wet all the little bubble bath. You like the little bubbles What was that little carriage? They just brought the dogs in are you kidding whoever is behind this video? Like doing all this recording and editing y'all are genius this could not get any cuter I can't wait to see the haircut. Okay, we're going in we got those clippers out We're taking it down short on the torso and we're going in with those curved scissors again And we're going in between the feet gotta get those feet nice and clean line those edges up absolutely What I'm really excited about is this part of the haircut because I feel like we're gonna get some really great shapes Going on can we just talk about how talented this groomer is?  We're getting the same sort of like, you know Boot moment going on. These are some high fashion looks. I don't know next fashion week You might have to get a little haircut.  Oh, oh They're really close to those eyes. Okay. How are they just like cutting away like you're not scared You're gonna get their skin or like they're gonna the dogs in a bark or move or like what these dogs are like that chill that you Just trust that they are never gonna move again.  Where'd he go? Well, cuz I'm scared I don't know what this lady's doing, but I'm getting a little nervous. No, honestly the dogs living I don't think the dogs upset at all the shape the ear muffs and the thing Even better than when it was sitting still you could see the fluffy ears bouncing up and down I'm learning absolutely nothing about grooming, but I'm so intrigued and I don't even care. Okay. Now. We're doing the twin I hope they match Please give me a twinning moment the craftsmanship on this haircut is gorgeous What the hell is going on with their hair though, if I show up to somebody's house and their dogs look like this I don't know what I would say I would be very caught off guard and I would be like, whoa Whoa, yo really went for it with this cut, but I would also very much appreciate it I would look at every little detail I would hold that puppy up so high and just stare at all the angles and just wow the craftsmanship on this dog I don't know if I could do this. This is art, baby This is all around just artistic and heavenly and as a hairstylist I can so appreciate the amount of time and effort that has gone into this haircut They got sassier after that cut. Do you see this they got much sassier Yeah, and Saia does not need that. She does not need to be any more sassy. Do you cuteness overload once again? We're watching one last video because I can't anymore of this in my life This one's called dog pet puppy Pomeranian grooming teddy bear style. Everything about that sentence is what I need Especially this teddy bear part.  I'm glad that they bro. Holy that's a lot of hair You missed your appointment or what what's going on?  I should grow Sia's hair out and then do like a whole thing. Oh, it's time for my favorite part They get the wash. This is the favorite part. This is when I get the little massage I gotta start doing that with you Sia when I give you a bath.  Is it laying down? I can't even tell it is laying down You can't even tell it's just one big fluff ball. Okay. This is just so satisfying though watching those rounded sheers Just perfectly chop off that hair. Okay, we're going in with those thinning shears I think it's so interesting that they use thinning shears to cut dogs hair a lot That seems a lot easier because you don't make as many errors with the thinning shears But we're starting to round that fur off We're getting another rounded teddy bear look and it seems to be this girl's signature style So I'm absolutely here for it 100% of the time. This dog's not as much living for it as the other ones You can tell like the face. It's like, bro This is cool at all and like thanks mom and dad for like paying for this but Can y'all just give me a regular haircut or what? Okay? Wait? No, it's living you tricked me I thought you didn't like it, but you do ah look at that smile. It looks really human. Okay.  Nobody likes it The shape is starting to form and honestly it's even better than I expected it would be I want her to cut my hair because I feel like I would get the best haircut of my life It'd be very different, but like still the best haircut of my life See the end result and it's blowing my mind how Where are the ears how is it all just like one it's one piece look at the little grown-up face She looks like a little old man in a baby body. Oh little chubster We have a little chubster great work with that haircut, but I really wasn't even paying attention to the haircut I was just looking at the cuteness on the screen. Wow. That was beautiful. Thank you That was so cute So yeah, um girl just know that when you get groomed the next time you're gonna look a little different because I'm inspired And I feel like I need to give you something crazy now I'm sorry if you don't want that But is what your father wants and your father pays the bills if I want to do it. I'm gonna do it That was beautiful. I didn't know that grooming could get so cool like those were actually works of art I have never seen anything like it. I also feel very inspired to actually groom my dog I kind of want to do it myself. We'll see make sure you follow me everywhere else You're on my social media handles as well as my hair care and hair color brand who has new colors launching on October 21st We have a lime green slate gray berry turquoise and Coral so if you like any of those colors make sure you get on the site on that day I'm very excited. It's time for a new hair color for myself I think maybe lime green we'll see and if you'd like more information about that You can head to the website linked right below There will also be information on our Instagram pages. Thank you so much for watching today Don't forget to live your extra life, and I'll see you next time


So by the time this video goes up, it will still be 2020 for us and India 2020 for that 2021 for them. Wow. Time trap. America is such in the past.  I'm Corbin. I have gay bacon.  No. And we are, we are, we weren't planning on filming today, but a new trailer dropped. And so that's why we got it's obviously New Year's Eve, at least here in the States still, it's New Year's, it's actually, wait, yeah, it's the morning of the first day of the new year for you guys when you're seeing this. So happy New Year. Some people call that New Year's Day. Congratulations on getting out of 2020. That's an accomplishment. You did it. But the new trailer for Drixium II dropped, but the Malayalam one. Save what? Obviously, we, we saw it very early on, but we saw the Hindi with it was Ajay Devgun, right? Ajay Devgun. And I asked, I said, is this basically the same story? Are we not? So we don't, so we essentially know the story, even though they say this version is better in Malayalam, I just wanted to make sure that we would know what was going on essentially to react to this. They said, yes, it's essentially the same story. That's just a lot of people say the Malayalam one is a better version. So if we end up watching this, obviously we'll watch the first one and then we'll get to this one. But this is with Mohanl and I think he was in the first one. And then Jethu Joseph, I don't know if he's the director. If he's also in it, but this is a teaser for the new, the new film. Do you remember what happened at the end of the other one? Um, I remember. Well, I don't know, yeah, yeah, there's actually, I don't know if I want to spoil that if somebody hasn't seen it. I guess someone maybe hasn't seen it. Yeah. Anyways, I'm sure if you're watching this, you've probably seen the first one. So, uh, let's just get into it. You ready, Rick? I'm so ready to be teased. All right. Three, two, one. I'm guessing he's playing Ajay Devkan, or Ajay Devkan was playing him. What did, what did it say at the bottom? It'd say Drishyam, uh, assumption or resumption? Let me see. I got it. Hold on. The resumption, the resumption? The resumption. What's that mean? Uh, something's going to resume. So it's just the second one, the resumption. That's a weird name for, that's a strange name for a title. Like the sec, uh, grease to the resumption. What? Is that, does that mean it also like, does that just mean it's resuming? Or does that mean it's like finishing as well? I don't know. The resum, I don't, I don't think so, no, the exact definition of resumption outside of resume. Yeah, resume, to resume something, if it's, if it's resumption. But that's already, that's already like, you assume that when it's the second one of a film. You do, and if you're really assuming, then it would be called the assumption. Did it, did the, God, it was, it was at least a year and a half ago, right, that we saw Drishyam. It was, it was pretty early on. Did they leave it? It was a mistake and it was our first AJ Dev Gunn film. Yes, uh, and we, we, I think we liked it, but we didn't love it. I believe that, that's what the, the consensus of the film was. But obviously we, people were very upset that we saw the, uh, the Hindi version as opposed to the original, which we wouldn't make that mistake now, but we were still new babies. So forgive us. This movie will feature a family of Mohanos character, George Ketu, and, and so they will, they will be reprising their roles. The rest of the cast will change and we'll be sorting out other aspects, including Castro. I love these, especially in India. It happens all the time for Indian film on INDB. They just don't have updated information, but because by, by the time a trailer comes out in Hollywood, there's synopsis. There's just everything already out for you. Uh, but it does on INDB. It definitely is not as fast of an update, uh, for Indian films. It shows just like Mohanon in a lead role. They will be, they will be going through aspects of the film. Uh, and Mohanon is a protagonist. Um, so that's, that's, did they leave it in a, um, a cliffhanger? Um, somewhat, well, not in a cliffhanger, but they kind of resolved it in the version we saw. Mm-hmm. Um, so yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm wondering how they would make a second one. Like what would be the ticket? I thought that was a pretty standalone film kind of thing. I'm sure everyone in the comments is saying, yeah, if you saw the original, probably. I remember people were so mad. They're like, if somebody told you, if I came to you and said, I wanted to watch a remake of Scarface or the Godfather, would you want me to watch that or the original first? Hold on, uh, re-review. I'm saying when we did it. Uh, Drissium movie review. Oh, wow. It has 148,000 views for a review. That's a lot. Uh, this was in March of 2019. That was really, that was two months into it. Two months in. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So we had not watched. I'm, oh no, we did because we watched KGF early, but that was the only regional that we had ever seen. That's when we, we didn't even know how to say Malayalam in the right way. I actually want to, oh yeah, hold on. We used to call it Malayalam. I think I probably called it a foreign film. Yeah, the foreign, the foreign Malayalam film. So obviously the teaser didn't give us much, but I, you know, teasers usually don't. And it would probably make more sense if we saw the original. Does it say when it's supposed to come out? Yeah, like for example, I have a feeling the shot in the dark with the light coming through a window means something. Does it? That visual, I'm sure it does. I'm sure that has some reference point to something in the first film. I can't imagine it. It wouldn't.  So we obviously will get a trailer before then. Um, so I mean, should, should, obviously. Would it be weird because we already know the story, but now people say it's better. I don't know. Um, because if we watch this one, obviously we'd have to watch the first one, which it would be the first time we we've ever seen two versions of the same film from India. Wouldn't it? Except for Dev D. I mean, we did that, but that wasn't, it was an adaptation. It was really a different. Yeah. Those are more adaptations than full on remix. Like, you know, um, Arjun, Arjun Reddy and Kabir Singh were full on, right, Kabir Singh was a full on remake. Um, now Shade's doing the Jersey version, the different version of Jersey, which is, I believe, the Telugu film. Um, but yeah, uh, it would be interesting. We definitely need to delve more into Mojano. We've seen, I think two of his films, correct? Two of his films, yeah. We know he's a phenomenal actor, but, um, what should be our next venture to get more? Cause we know he's probably the legend, if not one of the two legend, like biggest legends in Malayalam, uh, film industry, if not Indian cinema industry as a whole. Um, so should, uh, should Drisheem be high up on the list since the second one's coming out? Or I'm sure he has 10,000 other things that we, we need to get to as well. So let us know. Uh, that was our reaction to the teaser as, as much as we could give you to it. There wasn't much. Usually teasers aren't great. The first film we would have, we would have, it would have meant more to us. We would have seen faces and gone, ah, and it's been, it's, it might have, cause we've seen, it's been so long since we watched the first one. It's been almost two years. Almost two years, uh, since we saw the first one and it, it wasn't in our favorites list. So it's not like we remember it super, super well.  Let us know what other information we need to know, uh, down below and happy new year. Happy new year. Go yourself 2020.


dorsiflexion stretch. For this exercise we're going to use a towel. Place the towel around the forefoot with the leg extended and gently pull back until a stretch is felt underneath the leg. Hold the stretch for 30 seconds. You can perform this three times, three to four times per day.


Think about this. The priests were told to keep the fire burning. It was to never go out. Yet they were not told to start the fire. God did that himself. This reflects the partnership between God and man when it comes to the nature of the power and even moves of the Holy Spirit. Man can only steward what God starts. God doesn't need us, but chooses to work with and through us. When the Holy Spirit chooses to move, we must be careful to tend to the flames of revival. There's nothing we can do in our own power to cause a move of the Holy Spirit, but we can quench his work if we're not careful. The Bible says quench not the Spirit. That word quench there speaks to the stifling as one would a flame. May we be keepers of the fire, people who welcome and surrender to moves of the precious Holy Spirit. If you desire that, comment, welcome Holy Spirit.


Hello there. This is the family doctor. It's half for two days now, and I can't stand another minute of it. Now what's the trouble? Oh, Mama, I'm so unhappy. I can see that all right. Oh, Ella Mary. Stop it. Now quit your weeping and wailing and gnashing your teeth long enough to tell your mother what's the matter. Well, it's her. Oh, she's not so old. She's a full year younger than you are. What's the matter with Faith Windsor? She's been going out with Chick Harper. They can fill her down to May's drugstore. Don't think so much of him after all he's just working in the drugstore. I should think you could do a sight better than that. Well, I like him. That's all I know. I like him. Really, don't... When your father was courting me, I never went on so about him. When I took a notion that he was a fellow, I wanted to marry him. I married him. I didn't notice that he made a bunch of objections. If you want to marry this Chick Harper... Chick. Well, then Chick. If you want to marry him, why don't you tell him so? Oh, Mama, you don't understand. Things are different nowadays. Different? Huh, is that so? Young folks fall in love with each other, don't they? They get married, don't they? What's the different about that? What's faith Windsor got so much more than you? That's what I'd like to know. Money. Money? But your father's a richest grocer in Seaton, maybe. All Sam Windsor's got's a bank. And a job to which the voters of Seaton elected him to. Your father, me amongst them. But she's pretty too. And Faith's got nice clothes. And she has her hair finger weighed once a week. And she gets permanent every six months. And the face she'll ever have, don't we? Oh, hush. Why, she ain't any better looking than you are, Ella Mary. And you know it. But Chick doesn't know it. Is that so? Hmm. I've got an idea. What do you mean? So Faith Windsor gets nice clothes and permanence and finger waves and facials, does she? Yes. All right then, so are you. You're going to get them too. Well, what do you mean, Mama? Have you been reading in the post bugle how Editor Amos Day is going to run this here beauty contest? Yes. And how the winner of it is going to play the lead in the first annual Cedars and Festival in historic pageants? Yes, of course. I know all about that. All right then, you're going to enter that contest. And what's more, you're going to win it. Oh, Mama. Come on. We're going downtown right now. We're going first to Maddie Clark and get you some new dresses. And then we're going to the Daisy Mae Beauty Saloon and get Mabel Graham to give you all the facials and permanence and whatever else you need to make you look beautiful.  Now, Mrs. Windsor, don't you think that's the most lovely soft face I've ever had on? Well, yes. But there's something about it I just don't like, Maddie. Let me look in the glass. Oh, I know what you mean, Mother. Well, what does it say? Well, it says Belle. It's just too low, that's all. That's it? Yes, Maddie. That's what's the matter with that dress. Oh, I see. The belt's too low. Yeah, that's what it is. Well, if you don't mind my making a suggestion, Mrs. Windsor. Well, of course not, Maddie. Go right ahead. Well, if I put that belt up any higher, it's going to be just exactly like the dress Ellen Mary Bliss has gone away for the contest, too. What? You mean that Ellen Mary is going into the beauty contest? Well, I don't like to carry tales, nun, but... Maddie Clark, you come right out with it. Is Marsha Bliss putting that ugly duckling of hers into the post-duebus beauty contest? Well, yes, yes she is, but I hope you don't think I had anything to do with it. Well, Marsha Bliss got a lot to do. That's all I've got to say. A face, Windsor. But in the world, the matter is... Oh, that's all... What do you like? What's funny about it? I know why Ellen Mary's going into the beauty contest. Well, why for goodness sake? It certainly can't be because she thinks she'll win it. No, of course not. She couldn't win the contest. It's because Ellen Mary's sweet on Chick Harper, too. Sweet on Chick Harper, too? What do you mean, too? You don't mean that you've been going around with that boy down at May's drug company. Well, I think I'd better be getting along, Ms. Windsor. If there's anything else you want me to do with the dress, just you let me know. Maddie Clark, what's the matter with you now? What's making you so fidgety? Well, Ms. Windsor, you see, I'm one of the judges in the beauty contest. Why? Well, then everything's all right. For a minute, I was afraid there might be a chance that Ellen Mary Bliss might ease her way into getting the prize in the beauty contest and play that part in the pageant. But now that we know that you're one of the judges, Maddie. Well, everything will be just fine. Won't it, Maddie? Well, I hope so, yes. Of course, there are two other judges. Oh, yes, Dr. Adams and Chief of Police Benson. But when a woman is on a committee with two men, Maddie, the woman generally has her way. I know. Yes, well, thank you, Ms. Windsor. I'd better be getting down to my shop. Don't forget if there's anything else you want done, just let me know. Yes, all right, Maddie. Good afternoon. Good-bye, Ms. Windsor. Good-bye, baby. Good-bye. What's the matter, Mother? Something tells me not to trust Maddie Clark's powers of persuasion. I think we'd better go down to the Daisy Mae Beauty Salon and have Mabel Graham give you a going over. Get your glasses and come on. How do you do, Mrs. Bliss? How to do? Hi, Ellen Mary. Hello. Well, please, sit down. Yes, Mother. I can't be as popular as all that who walked through that door first, ladies. Well, if I'm not mistaken, I'm quite sure that Ellen Mary and me was here first. Is that right, Mrs. Windsor? Well, I suppose it is. Okay, then. Come on in, Mrs. Bliss. Oh, it ain't for me. It's Ellen Mary I want you to take care of. Oh, yes, all right. It's not that she needs taken care of as bad as some other people in this town I know of. Well, come right in, Ellen Mary, and say I'll be with you in just a little while. I suppose you've noticed that editor Day is running a contest for the most beautiful girl at Cederton, Ms. Windsor. Oh, yes. I've noticed. And my Ellen Mary is getting all fixed up so she can win it. Is that so? Isn't that nice? Yes. Mm-hmm. Ain't it? Too bad. Faith ain't going into the contest, too. Oh, but she is going into the contest. And Faith's going to get all fixed up so she can win it. Oh, is that so? Well, ain't that nice? Yes. Ain't it? Wait a minute. Matty Clark, Phil Benson, the three of us have been sitting here for two hours trying to avoid coming to any decision about who's going to win this contest. I'm just tired. I want to go home. Well, Doc Adams, you got my vote, and you got Ms. Clark's vote. Why don't you decide one way or the other and make announcement to the folks who are waiting outside that we can all go home? Yes, Phil. That sounds very easy. Matty Clark here is voting for Faith Windsor because Judge Windsor pays her a lot of money for making clothes for his wife and daughter. It's the truth, Matty, and you might as well admit it.  That's the truth, too.   What? You don't think I could, huh? Why, Doc, you know they ain't any other girl in the city than could win this contest at Ellen Mary Bliss or Faith Windsor. Oh, isn't that? I know. Everybody in town knows it's between them two. Oh, is it? Well, just suppose I'd write another name on a piece of paper here. What? Leaving Ellen Mary and Faith out of it. Wouldn't you both sort of fall for the idea? Oh, my golly's Doc, yes. Oh, Dr. Adams, we're in an awful fix. Do you think you can figure some way to get us out of it? Fix? Yes. And Amy's Day put us into it. Beauty contest in a town the size of Cedarton or any town for that matter.  Well, I'll write a name down here on this slip of paper. If you agree with my suggestion, all you have to do is say bye, and then I'll go out and make the announcement. Dr. Adams, go ahead. Hurry up, Doc, hurry up. We'll be mobbed if we don't get out there and make the announcement pretty quick. Very well. Now, how's that? Oh, why didn't I think of that? Well, yeah, yeah, Doc. That's it. Well, they're all agreed then, huh? Oh, I should say so. The decision to the committee is unanimous. All right, I'll go out and tell the folks. My golly's Doc, that's great. You're one of the million, as the feller says. Watch, feller. Well, I mean... Never mind. Come on and stay with me. Ladies, ladies and gentlemen, citizens of Cederton, the Post-Bugle Beauty Contest Committee has arrived at the decision. The decision I might add is unanimous. Your committee has decided to award the prize of the most beautiful girl in Cederton and the girl who will play the leading part in the first annual Cederton Festival in historic pageant to... Doc, quiet, please. Quiet. The prize will go to Miss Mabel Graham. Oh, my God! Now, just a minute. Ladies, just a minute. I want you to look at three young ladies out there in the audience. What? What do you mean? Look, over there, Ella Mary Bliss and Faith Windsor throwing their arms around Mabel Graham tickled to death. She won the prize, knowing full well that if either one of them had won it, they'd never have spoken to each other again. Well, goodness gracious. Dr. Adams, I do believe you're right. What is beauty, anyhow? They're all beautiful and lovely and sweet, every one of them. Let's not spoil them. What do you say, ladies? Is the decision unanimous? Yes, yes. Absolutely unanimous. Oh, yes, Dr. Adams. Well, let's go on down and congratulate the Queen of Cedars and Queen Mabel. Family doctor, I'll be in to see you again right soon. Goodbye.


Hi everybody and welcome to our channel. Today I wanted to make a video on entry packages. What's an entry package? An entry package is a package of documentation that our office prepares for our clients who are entering Canada either by plane, more often by land, and they fear they might have some problems at the border because of certain past issues. So it could be anything from someone who's been here before on a visitor as a visitor and was questioned a lot by a CBSA officer was allowed in, for example, but doesn't want to necessarily go through that again because it was a little bit stressful and traumatic and they feel that they need some assistance. Or for example, a permanent resident of Canada who has an expired PR card is waiting for the renewal of the PR card and wants to enter by land from the U.S. with the confirmation of permanent resident, but is a little bit nervous about being questioned. Am I going to be allowed in? Am I going to get a removal order? Those types of issues. Or for example, we have clients who are entering as a visitor, for example, to visit a Canadian spouse and they're afraid that the officer might deny entry or flag them or question them or allow them in for temporary, for a limited time, less than the six months, for example, because for example, they say they're coming to visit a Canadian husband or wife. So it could be a lot of different situations where people are nervous. An entry package is not an immigration application per se. It's not an application that we're filing to immigration. It's a package of documents that our office prepares. So we prepare a legal submission letter. It's a cover letter. It could be two, three, four, five pages depending on the situation. And it'll have supporting documentation. So we prepare a list of documents specific to your case. It could be financial information, bank statements, copies of passport, passport stamps, travel history. It could be information about the person that you're visiting. If you're a permanent resident and you're returning, it could be humanitarian and compassionate grounds as to why you were forced to remain outside.  If you have a pending PR card or your PR card is issued and you're coming to pick it up, it could be documentation about that. So we give you a list of documents. You provide us a list of documentation based on that, based on the legal framework. We prepare a legal submission letter and we prepare this is the entry package.  You come to Canada. And if you have a problem at the border, if CBSA is asking you questions or they take you into secondary questioning, the entry package is kind of your plan B. So it's not like you're coming to the border and presenting it. It's not like you're making a TRP application or a special request at the border. It's you're entering, you answer the questions that are asked. And if you are taken to secondary questioning or the officer has more questions for you, this is a good opportunity to present the entry package, which will have all of the information in a very complete and concise way, which could facilitate your entry into Canada. Because in some situations, you have, maybe you have a very complicated story and the entry package could help the officer understand your situation. You know, sometimes, you know, travelers come in and all hours of the night, it could be tired, you could be tired, maybe you can express yourself well. But at that moment, you're stressed, you're tired, you've never really been in secondary questioning with a CBSA officer and to present the package that like this, that has all the right information, the complete information could make a difference in your case. The entry package in itself will be sent to you. You'll be able to review it. Also, what we'll do is, if you need, we can have a preparation with you.  And I can ask you all the questions that maybe the officer might ask you. And I could see how you're responding to those questions to prepare you. Some of our clients really like this, because as I said earlier, a lot of people have never dealt with a situation like this before with the CBSA officer, and they get very nervous. So it's important to be well prepared. We tell you to listen to the question, to answer the question that's asked and not kind of deviate to add other answers. And because that could make the officer think that maybe you're trying to hide something, there's a lot of our clients who will have a right to enter Canada as visitors or permanent residents. They have nothing to hide. Everything is legal and correct. But because they're so nervous, they don't present themselves properly. And that could cause you to go into questioning. Ultimately, if you've done everything right and you have the right information, the right legal advisor, well prepared, you know the law, you should be allowed in with no problem. But if we can avoid you being questioned for hours at the border, especially if you're traveling with children, that's a good thing. Finally, if for example, you're a permanent resident and you don't meet the residency requirement, this is a request that we get a lot of clients who are coming back as a permanent resident. You can always be questioned at the border. I've done a couple of other videos on this. Something to know is that even if you have an entry package, you could be allowed in, but you could always receive a removal order. And if you do, then you could appeal that you will need to contact us and we have to look at the next step. So an entry package doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be allowed in guaranteed and you won't have any issues. It's a way to facilitate your entry into Canada to make it a little bit smoother. If you have a question about this, if you're looking to enter Canada and you need an entry package, you can contact us and we can schedule a consultation to speak with you. Take care.


privilege it is that he invites us to come boldly into his presence. We're so glad that you're with us today on Hope Today. I'm Anna, and I'm here with Tom and Sydney. Sydney, we've got a great conversation coming up. We truly do. You know, coming up in a moment on Hope Today, when prayer meets medicine, miracle, and mystery, you don't want to miss our upcoming conversation with Dr. David Chaka, who's going to reveal how you can experience God's healing prayers through biblical principles. We have them here in the studio. He's from Canada, and we are super excited, Tom. You know, this is something that I know so many people that call into Cornerstone and call into our prayer line asking for healing, asking for miracles. And he has experienced it firsthand. And I think it is something that all of us are able to access. Jesus modeled it perfectly for us, and we are called to walk it out. So we're just really encouraging you to just stay tuned, be inspired, be encouraged and just watch what God is going to manifest and watch what God is about to do in your life today. Well, you know, it's still our number one request that we get into the prayer line is for physical healing. It has always been. And 45 years later here with over 2 million calls to the prayer line, it is still the number one request that comes in. It is a need. It's something that we all can relate to and we all can have. So I'm really excited to talk to David. We were talking to him a little bit before the program, and he's just excited and we're excited to have him. I do want to say something real quick. Today is giving Tuesday and you know, if you have the opportunity to support the Ministry of Hope today through Cornerstone Television, we would love to have you on board as part of our team.  We don't have one big supporter or anything like that. We have a bunch of people that are giving sacrificially that have enabled us for the past 44 plus years have this ministry going into homes and touching lives. And we hear a lot about how this ministry really ministers to people in their homes, right? Yeah, we were talking about the prayer line. Did you know that we get 60,000 60? Yeah, 60,000 calls in a year here through our prayer line, and it's incredible to just hear how people are ministered to how there is healing, how there's hope, how there's joy. And there is so much power in coming into the presence of the Lord. And we hear from you about our programs being in your home and filling your atmosphere with that joy, with that hope and that healing power of the Lord. And we can't do what we do without your generosity. So thank you so much for giving in to Cornerstone Television.  We are truly grateful for your partnership because when you give to Cornerstone, you enable people to experience the power and the presence of God, not only through television, but in all different ways, especially through our prayer line. And there's so many testimonies over the years that we have heard about healing. It is truly remarkable and incredible. Well, don't go away because when we come back, Dr. David Chaka is going to open up and just share with us about the power and the presence of healing prayer. You don't want to miss it. We'll be right back. In this month of Thanksgiving, we're excited to send you the special daily gratitude journal with your best gift. This easy to use journal will encourage you to bookend each day with short personal reflections that bring insight and intentionality to your busy and always changing life. How can six simple questions help you better navigate life's uncertainty? Best selling author Tish Oxenwriter invites you to lean into the rhythms that each morning and evening offers with a twice daily thought exercise focusing on gratitude, truth, grace and more. As you reflect on three key questions near the beginning and end of your day, you will be more poised and prepared for whatever God has for you in the hours between. Request your gratitude journal today when you give. Call<PHONE_NUMBER> or donate online at ctvn.org slash donate. Thank you for giving to Cornerstone Television.  How do I go about doing it? Well, today we're so grateful to have Dr. David Chaka joining us live in studio in person. He's been a pastor of Christian Missionary Alliance of Canada for more than decades and he has taught internationally on prayer principles. Dr. David, we are so grateful that you are here with us today all the way from Ontario. Yes, no, it's not that far. Yeah, I crossed the border in Detroit and I drove around underneath Lake Erie and came here. So about a four and a half hour drive. Yeah, well, we're super honored to have you with us today. And you know, you have written a book with Maxi Dunham called Healing Prayer, God's idea for restoring body, mind and spirit. And before we dig into that, because there's so many stories and so many principles that are in this work that you've created. Tell us a little bit about yourself and how God has put you on this path of prayer, healing prayer specifically. Well, the path of prayer began way back in the day when I first got saved. I was the first one saved in my family. And I just didn't know how to pray and there were nobody's teaching there was no one teaching me how to pray.  And in the course of time, I wound up having magnificent mentors and one of them was Maxi Dunham. He wrote a book called The Workbook of Living Prayer, and it assumes you know this much about the Bible or on this much about prayer and he walks you gradually through and the book itself was designed as a workbook and it has the scripture and italics. So as a new believer who didn't know where Genesis and Malachi was, I had no idea. It was a guide that brought me to a place of understanding how to begin to pray. And by the time you get to week four of Maxi's book, you actually know what you're doing. It was a privilege from the Lord to meet the man and now to co-write with him. So this is an incredible kind of a thing. Yeah, it's truly incredible. And you know, one thing that I love about is just the stories and testimony and just going into the first wide love just how you encountered healing prayer and it was unexpected because it was with somebody you weren't too fond of. No, that's right. So so I was so I started training for the ministry and I wound up at this very, very liberal school and I believe that Moses split the sea and that Jesus walked on water. The miracles were true and many of the faculty did not. And there was a guy in the class. He was actually a radio host who used to do comedy, stand-up comedy. And this guy, any time I defend the authority of scripture, he would make a classic marvelous, magnificent joke that would put the whole room laughing in fits of glorious laughter. But it was always in mockery about what I just said.  And it went on for months and I had a very sweet wife, you know, very sweet. And when she was in the room, he wasn't nasty. He also had a mutual friend and I called her Susie in the book because I didn't ask her permission, but she was one of these do unto others, you would have them do unto you kind of people. And whenever she was in the room, the nasty didn't happen. But if I was in a class with this guy and I said, Oh, by the way, Moses did, in fact, split the sea. The Red Sea did part, you know, the miracles did happen. There would be this terrible joke, et cetera, et cetera. And it would hurt. And I just started to avoid the guy. Anyway, here's what happened. I was walking across a plaza to get to my Greek class. And who shows up but that very nice Christian girl. We call her Susie in the book. And she said, Oh, by the way, our friend, he's, he's, he's ill. I said, Oh, I'm terribly sorry. And said, Yeah, he's in the hospital. And Sidney, I didn't feel bad. I had to repent on the moment I had to repent. And so I said, What's wrong? And she said, He's got phlebitis. Now, if your guests don't know what that is, it's where a clot or an embolism forms in your arm or your leg. If it's in your leg, it's called deep vein thrombosis. If it's in your arm, it's called phlebitis.  And the 5% who live are terribly impaired. So it's a very serious thing. So this girl says to me, he's, I said, Where is he? And she, she pointed down the road. It was a hospital about six blocks not far from where we were studying. I said, Oh, he's getting good care. And she said, Yes. And I said, Oh, okay. She said, Yes, he has a request for you. I said, Really? What's the request? She said, He wants you to come and pray for him. I said, What? No, no, that's crazy. You've heard him. He's mocked me. He's made fun of me. He doesn't believe the Bible. He wants to make fun. And she looked at me and she said, He's been cruel. I said, Yes, you've seen it. He said, I'm going to talk to him. I said, Thank you very much. It went off to my Greek class. Now, it talks about two in the book, but actually it was three times. I said, No. Next day in the coffee lounge, the same girl walks up and says, He's terribly sorry. He wants you to come and pray. I said, I'm not going. I don't believe it. I just don't believe it. She said, He's waiting for you. You need to go. And the next day was walking across the same plaza because it was three times a week Greek class. And this girl looks at me and she said, Did you go and see our friend? I said, I'm not going. And I have to tell you this.  And this girl stood up fire coming at her. And she was the sweetest, kindest, gentlest girl I knew. She stood up.  I said, Well, yes. And she said, How about this scripture?   I won't. I was there. There was reasons for my being terrified. I'd never met anyone who had been healed through the prayer of faith. I had never met anybody train people to do this. And I had never seen it, except I'd seen some kind of iffy testimonies on television. And I met people who said it was charlatanism and so on and so forth. And but I mean, I didn't know what I was doing. I knew it was in the Bible, but I'd never been trained. I didn't know what to do. Anyway, eventually I wound up in the room. I finished my class. I went down the street of six blocks and he's wired for sound.  And I go in there and I talked about the weather. Then I talked about his classes. And then I said, well, I visited you now. I'm going to leave. And he looked at me and he said, wait, aren't you going to pray? And I stopped and I looked at him and I said, before I do, I have to ask one question. Every single time I've said the historicity of the scripture is accurate. The stories are true. Faith in Jesus is required. You have made me a laughing stock to our peers. Why do you want me to pray for you? And he burst into tears. 27 year old man cried in the room and he said, I am so sorry I did that to you.  I want to live. Won't you please pray for me? And well, what are you going to do? I mean, but I had not a clue what I was doing. So I thought, I guess I'm going to have to pray. But I remembered from the Bible, Jesus put his hand on people when he prayed. And so I said, where's the clot? He said my left arm. I said, can I put my hand over the spot? He said, yes. So I went in the room and I put my hand over his left arm. I put my other hand on his head. And Sidney, I prayed, I don't know what I prayed. Some honest prayer about God making him well. Some, my words stumble. I'm sure I tripped over my lip. And as we started to pray, the room filled with the manifest presence of God. It was like we were inhaling compassion. And what happened to me was I felt this fire come inside my being. Suddenly the only person I could see was him and the clot in his arm. And I became aware that God himself was flowing through me. The power of the Lord was flowing through me. And the fire flowed down my hand and went into his arm. And then he looked at me and he said, presence. What is that? I said, it's the power of the Holy Spirit. He's touching your physical body to make you well. And then I ran out of the room. I had never felt that before. I didn't know what it was. Actually I was afraid he was going to make a joke and mock me. And I ran right out of the room as a nurse was walking in. And I found out later, as soon as I exited the room, the nurse came in and he said, I can go now. My friend from the Bible school came and he prayed for me and Jesus healed me. And the nurse of course said, we don't do that around here. We've got to run some tests. And so she said, I'm coming to get you for the test anyway. And at four o'clock in the afternoon the next day, there he was in the coffee lounge. And I looked at him. I said, you're here. And we were in a 19th century building with those fluted columns, you know, and they had these columns that would stick out. And you had to watch where you walked on a terrasif floor. He pulled me into a corner. And then he looked in every direction. And then he said, dad, prayer changed my life. I said, oh, and I ran away because I was so afraid. So the next class, this part's not in the book. This is beyond the book. The next class that I was in, that he was in, I said something to defend the authority and the integrity of the scripture. And he stood up and I thought, here it comes. The mockery is going to come. And he made fun of unbelief and the whole room exploded in laughter at the people who didn't believe the Bible was true. And this went on for months. And I kept meeting people after that who told me this guy would stand up in the class and defend the scripture. When I went in my first, we had summer fields in those days. He walks up to me and he has a piece of paper in his hand. He shoves it in my hand. He gives me the Pentecostal handshake, you know, the paper in the hand. Usually it's money but. So it said, what's that? I said, that's my phone number. I said, why are you giving that to me? He said, if you're in trouble, call me. I will defend you. I said, okay. So I had this marvelous summer field. I came back to school and he raced up to me and he said, you didn't call me. I said, I had a marvelous summer field. They didn't have any trouble. If you're in trouble, you call me. So I don't know. Two months later, we were having a party for this. All the class was there. We're all having a social thing. We're doing harmless chit chat and his wife and this nice girl and him are all standing together. And they elbowed him and they said, tell him, tell Chotka what happened. And he said, I don't want to. And the elbowed him, tell Chotka what happened. So finally he said this. When he was released from hospital and went home, he told his wife that Jesus had healed him. And they went to sleep and he had a dream. And in the dream in the night, he heard the Lord speak to him. And the Lord said, my servant David, defense the integrity of my word. When he speaks, defend him. That's the end of the story that's not in that book. And so 30 years after, I was trying to figure out if I should change churches. I was in Western Canada trying to figure if I should, if I'd done my bid, it'd been 10 years in that congregation. And I ran across his name. So I googled his name. I found his stuff and I emailed him and I said, it was 30 years ago. He said, yeah, was. The Med people got really mad at me when I said you came in and prayed for me. So here's what they did. They did a scope of both arms. You see, he had phlebitis on his other arm. There was scar tissue there. There was no scar tissue at all on his left arm. None, not a trace of it. And the Lord healed him. So that's how I started on this process of prayer. But I didn't want to pray for the guy. Because I didn't know what I had. Not a sweet clue. Nobody told me or trained me. But Dr. David, I love that so much as that was like the entry way of God was just showing you the power of healing prayer. And I know throughout your life and you share so many, you have so many stories and so many testimonies of what he did. Can you even share with our audience and our viewers because there's a there's a relationship between the power of healing prayer and medicine, miracle and mystery. Well, yes, I'm the recipient of much medicine and I do believe that they're like this. So medicine has a scientific trajectory. And so somebody who's a medical doctor is receiving the benefit of somebody who's dedicated 25, 30 years to looking at a trajectory of a disease. And sometimes they lost their kids' sister to leukemia. Some neighbor got killed in a car accident and medical or medical intervention saved somebody's life and it changed them. And they dedicate decades and decades of life to discovering a cure. So medicine has what I call an empirical thought trajectory and miracles outside the realm of time and space. And sometimes there's a pathway to a remedy and sometimes God guides a person there and my favorite text for this is in Isaiah, chapter 38. It's the story of Hezekiah, King of Judah. So Isaiah, the prophet shows up and he says, King, your toast, put your house in order. It's over. Ka Putski, you're done. So Hezekiah puts his face to the wall. He cries out, he prays. It's in Second Kings as well. He prays and he doesn't pray to be healed. He says, oh, God, remember what I've done to lead your people. Now, Isaiah, the prophet, the big guy, you know, the 66th chapter, he's walking out of the court and the Lord lands on him and says, go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people. I'm adding 15 years to his life. And so he goes in and he says this to the king and the king says, oh, isn't that nice? Prove it. So then he says, what do you want? Do you want the shadow to go up 10 steps or down 10 steps? He said, wow, down's easy. I want up. And so Isaiah cries out to the Lord. The shadow moves contrary to the destiny that's supposed to go ordinarily. And then when it's done, he says, there, you've got your proof.  What do you do? You're going to be just fine.  That's followed by a prophetic word saying it's going to live. It's followed by the unbelief of the king asking for a miracle. He gets a nature miracle and then he has to take his medicine. That's a do it all. Well, it's just, it's in the Bible. It's just there's no conflict. So here's what happens.  Sometimes you put on an antibiotic cream, you cover it with a bandage. You don't even think about that. And there are seasons and we thank God that somebody developed that antibiotic cream. But you do the ordinary. And when you have, when medicine runs out, you start seeking the Lord and the power of the Lord overlaps the medical and sometimes supersedes it, sometimes works in partnership with it. And sometimes they're in separate channels. And I don't see any conflict between medicine and miracle at all, especially because of that story. I love that so much. And there's this quote that it's from the book that it was like really hit my spirit. And so this is, prayer does not limit the power and sovereignty of God. It is a vibrant means ordained by God through which God's grace unfolds. God used the praying of the faithful to reshape reality. So my phrase for that is God initiates and we respond. And so you cannot bluff a miracle. You can only cooperate with one. And when the Lord commands us to pray, the spirit bears witness with our praying and prays through us. I mean, it actually says it in Paul. I don't know if you've ever noticed this. In the scripture, we believe, Jesus is God, the Son. Do you believe that? Absolutely. Do you believe that? Yes. You believe that too? What's he doing praying? He's talking to himself. Well, here's what happened. God gave the planet to humans. Everything that the Lord ordained through the structures of creation remained intact after the fall.   I don't know if it's dumb and dumber. I'm not quite sure.  Regardless of this, all of the structures that happened in the six days of creation remained intact. And the last day, God puts the human in charge of the planet. Why did God become a human? Because God put humans in charge of the planet. And so the prayer of Jesus reshaped reality based upon God's prior decision that he would reshape reality through the oversight of the human. That's why prayer does it. And so he became a human to save us so that every aspect of what it means to be human could be infilled by the presence and power of the Lord. And it includes God's prior decision that the human would have oversight over the creation and the prayer principle does that. In fact, it's astonishing.  Would you want to abandon your prerogative to take on the life of an amoeba, to raise the amoeba to the highest place? It's crazy. But he does that to enter into our life condition to restore and transform us. At any rate, the point I'm making here is, God still humbles himself to pray through us. He says it in Romans 8. He says the Spirit prays through us with groanings that are too deep for words. And through that process, God causes all things to work together for good to those who love them and are called according to His purpose. It's not a predestinarian passage. It is a God pray through us to change the earth passage. That's what it's about. So let me ask you, David, for someone who's watching and they're struggling with their health right now. They're struggling there and they maybe don't have a good report. What should they do? What should they do to believe the Lord? Oh, my. Saturate yourself and read the Gospels over and over and over again. I would just fill my mind with healing scriptures. And then I would find people who actually believe that God still does that today. You know this. I've been at prayer meetings for, you know, I'm in the Christian Mission Airlines. And one of the articles of faith in the CMA is that Jesus is the healer of the physical body. And anybody who comes into the CMA has to say yes to that. And they have to say yes to James chapter five, where it's his call for the elders and have them pray. But I've been around some of those elders and they don't believe for a second that anything is going to happen. Even though they say it, actually getting your heart and your head together in the belief that the Lord wants to actually do something in real time, that's a very different matter than just nodding your head to say yes to what's in the scripture. There's this experience of the spirit that's required where God bestows a gift of faith when you're in the middle of the process. So I don't pray anymore if it be that will prayer. So let me just be clear on this. This is an answer to your question. I have been, I don't know how many thousands of prayer meetings. And here's what they pray. Oh God, Susie's sick. Healer, if it be your will. I'm sorry. I did a word study on that will thing. Tell us. I looked through the entire New Testament. So there's not one time anybody in the New Testament prays like that. Not one time. I mean, the thing that's closest is Gethsemane. Jesus is in the garden. He knows he's going to get killed.  I'm over. It's Kaputsky. I don't want to go that way. I'll do whatever you want. I know what the will is. Can you change the will? It wasn't, oh, by the way, get me out of this now. I'm submitted to what you're asking. Could you redirect the flow of history here? And so the if it be their will prayer was submission to what he already knew the will was. So when I'm praying for someone who is ill, I don't start off with that crazy line. I start off by saying, oh, we're going to pray now. Do you have any matters that you need to get off your heart? In fact, it's a story that's not in the book that makes the point. And I'll tell that story if I have time. Anyway, the point, I wait. While I'm waiting for the person, I put my hand on them and I say, Holy Spirit, show me how to pray. And as I do that invariably, the person who is struggling gets an experience of consolation. They don't know how the consolation worked, but there's this interior sense of presence. If the presence starts to increase, I say, okay, Lord, I want you to move now with your power and expand your presence inside the person who is afflicted. And then you wait as you pray for the increase of the presence to be manifested. So, we only got two minutes here. Yeah, we are out of time. We are like, actually, out of time. This is like so good, I know. But this is like, so, I just, we just so appreciate what you're sharing out of the stories and out of your experience. That what is dead is that it is we, the presence of God is that's what moves us to compassion, to pray for those. And we rely on the power of Jesus, what he did on the cross, because he is our example to see those prayers and the healing manifests like miracles like never before. So, we know we're running out of time. We wish we had three hours with Dr. David. Thank you so much for just sharing. The book is called Healing Prayer, God's Idea for Restoring Body, Mind, and Spirit. Yeah, it's released locally by Whitaker House. Pushed up the street. Yeah, we'll have a link on our website. Well, wonderful. We just want to remind you in this last minute that we have, that we do have a prayer line that is available to you 24 seven. Our prayer partners are incredible men and women of God that would love to pray for healing over your mind, over your body, over your spirit. Our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. We're just so thankful that Dr. David visited us today to share these stories of God's miracles of what he wants to do in our lives. It is his will. It is his way to heal. So today, get in his presence, connect with someone who will pray for you and believe that God wants to do a miracle for you this season. He loves you so much and he has such great plans for your life. Come before him, surrender to him and see what the Lord will do. Have a great day.


Here in the United States, we are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country. America was founded on liberty and independence, and not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free. A cleanup of socialists and communists and Marxists. While this is no surprise to most of us, it's still mind blowing that a capitalist endeavor like network media or cable media would be out there promoting socialism as the future of America. Some of these so called journalists are even saying it's too late, we're already socialist. And they point to all these broken government programs as proof that socialism is cool. And that we've always been socialist so it's no big deal. So imagine my totally not sarcastic surprise when Sam Donaldson expressed butt hurt over the fact that Donald Trump was attacking socialism during the State of the Union. I'm having flashbacks to the Newsweek article when Barack Obama was president that declared that we're all socialists now. President, they're talking about socialism. Is he laying out a line of attack that we're going to hear heading into 2020? That's too late. Over half Americans are on socialist programs from the federal government. I'm on Medicare, I'm an old guy, and Medicaid welfare programs, not just for the poor, for the rich. Hey, how about a sugar subsidy to the ranchers and farmers? Let's buy you some wheat since you can't sell it in the market at the moment. We are already on the way. And in a few years we're going to have a single payer system, I think. The public is pushing toward it unless you say, but that's socialism. Oh no, I don't want that, but I do want good medical care and I want the government to pay for it. Okay, so then we're a socialist country already. It really makes you wonder if a bunch of these so-called journalists in the media aren't actually Soviet spies. I know it sounds crazy. But how else do you explain the gushing over Fidel Castro when he passed away? It was insane. I even did a couple videos on it when it was going on and YouTube actually blocked all of them worldwide, meaning nobody could see them at all anywhere. I'd show you those clips right now, but I really don't need you to breathe down my neck any more than they already are. But here's a few choice quotes. This one's from NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell. It declared socialist. He dramatically improved healthcare and literacy. He never tolerated free elections or dissent, but gave his people better healthcare and education. Doesn't that sound like your typical left-wing fake journalist talking about Democrats? It just goes to show something that I've warned about for years now, one of the reasons the left is so dangerous is because they just seem to have this ability to rationalize things. And I've always thought that they could rationalize just about anything, I mean even rounding us all up in trains and sending us off to concentration camp. I know that sounds crazy, but I can totally see these people rationalizing it and you're seeing it here. She's rationalizing the brutal dictatorship of Fidel Castro because his people got some healthcare and education. A lot of good that did the country. Here's another one from an ABC correspondent. Even Castro's critics praised his advances in healthcare and education.  Are you kidding me? Look at the country that George Washington built, that George Washington started and helped to build. Look at Cuba. It's a shithole. What scientific advances has Cuba come up with? Who looks to Cuba for leadership in anything? And here's another one from a CBS correspondent. It is a long and complex career. There is the analysis that will say, look, this guy took power, shut down speech, put people in prison, had human rights legacy that was quite challenging and difficult for many people who were on the other end of it. On the other hand, he rewrote the social contract in Cuba in a small island nation in which he put healthcare, education, culture and capacity for Cuba to have independent foreign policy front and center as part of his legacy. So you're seeing again here these leftists in our country, in America, justifying, rationalizing, brutal dictatorships because he allegedly gave his people all these things that left-wingers in America today think should be given by the government.  A lot of the world that has national healthcare, they're able to do that because America is over here making all the medical advancements because we have privatized healthcare here, which allows for companies to make money, make profit, which they then put into R&D, which is why if you look at the advancements, the world over, medical advancements, the vast, vast, vast majority, and I'll show a little graphic here, proving it, come from America. There's a reason for that. If America goes to nationalized government healthcare, you can say goodbye to that stuff. Who's going to start coming up with these advancements once America is not doing it any longer? The answer is nobody. The advancements will just slow down and they'll trickle in and you'll just see mediocrity take over the entire planet. So it seems that that former Soviet KGB defector might have been right when he warned about the communist brainwashing of America. And he may have been talking about people like Oskio Cortez or AOC as she's known now. She put out a new list of goals for her so-called green new deal. It seems like a red deal to me with things like welfare for people who are quote, unwilling to work and Medicare for all. OSE's socialist policies excite the media in the left wing and even has them wondering if America is ready to jump off the socialist cliff. A couple of moments in the speech actually where the president talked about socialism. He started talking about what's happening, of course, in Venezuela. But then he said, here in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country. You, of course, have identified yourself as a democratic socialist. Do you think he was talking to you? Do you think socialism would be a winning message or a winning position in 2020 for Democrats? Well, I think at the end of the day, it's not about an ism. And I think that that's what exactly the president is trying to do. He's trying to mischaracterize, frame, associate, because our policies are so popular. I'll say it's not going to be easy to stem the socialist tide. The media and the Democrats are basically telling people that they don't have to work. They can have all this free stuff. I mean, they're making it seem like the only thing that's making people's lives hard is the Republican Party and conservatives. When the truth is, is that republics and conservatives deeply care about this country and don't want to see it go in that direction. And I get so tired of these people citing Nordic countries as examples of good socialism. These countries don't even consider themselves socialist. But even if they were, what is it that they contribute to the world? Does anybody look to Sweden for leadership? Does anybody look to Denmark for big scientific advancements? There's nothing very exceptional about these countries. They are countries that have given in to mediocrity and the nanny state. In my opinion, there's nothing to look up to there. There's nothing to emulate. But the harpies over at the view think socialism is great. And it's just those mean, nasty white men who are trying to demonize the word. To say the word socialist is now becoming a buzzword like liberal and feminist, where the right wing is now taking that word and distorting it. So every time you use it, I'm going to interrupt you. But how is it what? I don't think so, of course, has the thing. Yeah, it is being used. It's being bastardized, that word. One really has to wonder how America became so great without socialism. Look, Joy, socialism doesn't need to be bastardized. It's effects are everywhere. If you look at the third world and just open up a history book. We all know what socialism is. Socialism is government control of industry. It's the removal of self-reliance. 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