Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Your weekly movement news roundup. People what they want coming to you this week, the 20th of August 2021. Almost a week since the Taliban has returned to Kabul. Extraordinary news week for us, for people around the world. You're listening to Give the People what they want coming to you from people's dispatch from which we get Zoe Alexandra. Hello Zoe and we have Prashant. Nice to see you and I'm Vijay from Globe Trotter. Can't start anywhere else this week but in Afghanistan. It is Friday, a very significant day in the calendar of Afghan politics and of the Taliban because on Friday at the main mosque in Kabul, all eyes were on who's going to give essentially, well, what is tantamount to being the sermon or the speech. This is the first Friday since the Taliban entered Afghanistan on the 15th of August which was a Sunday and standing up at the principal mosque in Kabul was Khalil Haqani. Very interesting that Mr. Haqani long considered a terrorist by the United States government, takes the floor holding a US made automatic gun, stands there and gives a speech and says our first priority he says is security. The Haqani family, very powerful in the borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Jalaluddin Haqani, perhaps founder of the Haqani network, close ally of Osama bin Laden. Mr. Khalil Haqani has been a wanted man, a real fighter, but on the other hand, Siraj Haqani is the number two in the Taliban after Mullah Baradar alongside the son of Mullah Umar who's the other deputy leader of the Taliban. We have Anas Haqani, the third member of the Haqani family making a personal visit to Hamid Karzai in his residence to talk about the need for a broad based government. Interesting developments in Afghanistan. Western media focused on the airport in Kabul where the United States, the UK and others are struggling to evacuate their citizens from Afghanistan. That's been the focus of the Western media. That's not our focus. Our focus is what's happening to the Afghan people. What can we anticipate within Afghanistan? The first signs show that the Taliban of 2021 are not that different from the Taliban of 1996. There's been some discussion about maturity of the Taliban and so on. That may be so, but the anchor of the Taliban remains in a very serious commitment to their worldview, to their ideology. Mullah Baradar, for instance, who returned from Doha Qatar, came into Afghanistan is one of the founders, the original founders of the Taliban. The Haqani family, deeply ideological, not interested in modulation or nationalism. They were protests immediately setting the mark properly that this is going to be a struggle. Protests in Kandahar, surprising. Protests in Kabul. Protests, yes, in the Panjshir Valley and we can get to that in a minute. Protests around the country on the 102nd Independence Day of Afghanistan. People should know this is the 102nd Independence Day from the British war. The 3rd Afghan war in 1919. 102nd Independence Day, the battle was over the flag. Should it be the Afghan national flag which was unfurled across the country? Should it be the flag of the Taliban, of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan? It is a contest. These are two contrasting visions of where Afghanistan should go. Now, the Taliban, they have not yet fully announced what a government will look like. It's likely that Mr. Hamid Karzai will play some role. The visit by Anis Khalil demonstrates that the Haqanis will bring in perhaps Hamid Karzai. It's likely that Gulbuddin Haqmatyar might be in this government. Mr. Haqmatyar, one of the most notorious men of the Mujahideen of the 1980s, a protege of Buruddin Rabbani, likely Mr. Haqmatyar will be in this government. It is also likely that Abdullah Abdullah who ran the National Reconciliation Council under President Ashraf Ghani will be in this government. It's a very interesting development. The Taliban would likely like to have a broad-based government. Please, it's important that nobody be confused by this because it will be a government dominated by the Taliban. Important to know, during the Taliban rule between 1996 and 2001, they abolished any shoes with the color white. The reason you were not allowed to wear white shoes was because it was seen as an insult to the Taliban flag. That's the kind of ideological commitment that the Taliban has. They also banned chess. Now, question of women on the table once again, it's very interesting. In the lead up to the 2001 war in October, lots of noise about women's rights and the importance of preserving women's liberties. This was long forgotten when the United States allied with the Northern Alliance. A rebranded version of the Mujahideen of the 1990s, they came in. Now, don't forget when they were in power in the camps in Peshawar in the 1980s, a survey from 1986 showed that in the schools only 1.4% of girls in Peshawar went to school. This is not the camp of the Taliban. These were the camps of the Mujahideen. During that long period of the United States, 20 years didn't think about women's rights. Now that the Taliban is back in power, language of women's rights back on the lips of policymakers. Again, I caution you, don't be misled. We've been down this road before. It's with a great sense of personal feeling that I say to you that Kabul beautiful city enjoyed walking those streets once again under the grip of the Taliban. It also does appear that I should focus on what's happening in Pakistan, in what's happening in China, what's happening in India. All of these countries, including Iran, are putting pressure on the Taliban not to go too far, not to allow terrorism to flourish on Afghan soil. The meeting between Mullah Baradar and Chinese external affairs of Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the 28th of July in Tianjin, very significant, don't know exactly what they decided. But friends, keep a close eye at the government when it is in fact announced. The Chinese, for instance, they don't need to recognize the Taliban. The Taliban exists. They will only withhold judgment till a government is founded. So we'll be looking carefully at this following the government of Afghanistan, what's happening inside Afghanistan. Our eyes friends are not focused only on the evacuation of Western aid workers and troops and so on. That's a Western story. Our story is a story that starts in the byways of Afghanistan and will continue in those byways. Meanwhile, in Belmarsh prison, sitting is a man who has a big role to play in this war on Afghanistan because he revealed several of the war crimes conducted by the United States and Britain. And that's of course Julian Assange. Prashant, what's happening to Julian Assange? Right Vijay. It's very difficult to talk about Afghanistan, like you said, without talking about Assange because the Afghan war logs actually presenting a very detailed picture of the kind of complete chaos. The kind of complete disorder, the complete broken down nature of the system that was the US and Western occupation of Afghanistan. And those who went through those war logs, those who went through those documents, it was clear from a long time ago that this invasion was this occupation was bound to fail. It happened in 2021, but the seeds were sown not only in 2001 when the US invaded but even before that like to point it out. On the other hand, of course, the United States has continued its war against Julian Assange. There's no other way to describe it. The latest is the fact that a British court has expanded the counts on which the appeal against the appeal of the recent judgment on Assange's expedition will happen in October. So as we remember in January, the judge had denied the expedition, citing that there was a legitimate risk that he might attempt suicide if he's extradited. Now, what has happened is that the United States and its allies in the British prosecution have been trying to appeal this decision and have been trying to increase the scope of this appeal. So initially it was a very technical aspect. Now they've got two more counts on which they can appeal this decision by the judge that is denying the extradition. Now, there is a lot of legalese here. I'm not really going into it. I think the broad point that we need to note is the arguments presented by the United States and the Crown prosecution were really appalling because what they basically said was that a psychiatrist who had treated Julian Assange did not reveal enough information about his partner and his children while he was testified. And the cynicism and the cruelty of this is appalling because basically Julian Assange's partner, Stella Morris, his children, all of them have received threats. There was this company, UC Global, which was monitoring his family very extensively, even an instance of one of the baby's diapers being stolen so that there could be a DNA test of who the kid's father was. So that was the extent and that is the extent of the threats that are taking place. But the prosecution basically trying to discredit the psychologist's analysis of Assange's mental health by saying that he did not talk enough details about his partner and his children. So that is the extent to which the United States is stooping on this count. And they're trying to muddy the waters by defining what constitutes a valid suicide threat. They're saying that there's not enough expert opinion that has been taken into account. And all this really at one level is insanely shocking because what we have is a journalist who is being prosecuted, a journalist who has been for over a decade, continuously in incarceration for revealing facts about war crimes and atrocities. And that is his original sin, so to speak. And today we are having all these discussions about the failure of the United States. The Western media has, every newspaper has a columnist talking about this, the past, the present. But the person who, one of the people who first talked about it, there is an outright attempt to bring him to the United States, give him, prosecute him. He could spend close to one, the punishment could be 175 years. And there is actually very little connection being drawn between the two. The fact that Assange is that this process is going on with respect to Assange and that he was the person who actually brought out a lot of these details. So the hearing will of course be heard, it will happen in October. And the US is going to appeal this judgment on various counts. They're very determined, they want to bring him back to the country and face prosecution. And I think the coming months are going to be very important for those defending pre-speech, those defending history for that matter, because what the US would like by targeting Assange is to basically make sure that there are no more Assanges, there are no more people who tell the truth. There are no more people who come out with uncomfortable and inconvenient details. So I think it's a very essential battle for all those who are fighting for pre-speech, of course, but also history. You know, if you criticize the CIA, you are therefore criminal. It's not just Julian Assange moving to Peru. A man critical of the CIA is given a senior post. By the way, an author of superb books, I learned a great deal from Hector Behar. He's an amazing character, very critical of the CIA. But that apparently is enough to not disqualify you from a government post. Zoe, what happened in Peru? Sorry, so as we spoke a couple of weeks ago about these really important appointments of ministers in Peru and the new government, Hector Behar was someone that we highlighted. A long time leftist in Peru who has been fighting within Peru, across the continent of Latin America and the region of Caribbean for an alternate path for Latin America. And he was assigned the Minister of Foreign Affairs. And since those appointments, there has been just constant attacks, just broadly in the sense of saying that all of the appointees of the Peru-Libre cabinet are under experience, that they, you know, how could they lead the government? Who are these people? What right do they have? You know, but specifically in the case of Hector Behar, he came under very, very sharp attack from sectors of the right within Peru, specifically the popular force party, which was of course the opposition to Peru-Libre in the last elections. And this was because Hector Behar, in a press conference in November 2020, highlighted that the Peruvian Navy had collaborated with the CIA in carrying out terrorist attacks and involved the detonating of two Cuban fishing boats. And basically these declarations, which he said that the CIA worked alongside the Navy to divide the Peruvian left, he also alludes to the shining path and what role that had in the history of the left in Peru. And he had faced constant attacks from the right wing. And it got to the point where the popular force party said they were going to have a motion of censorship in the session of parliament, that they were going to block his appointment. And essentially the prime minister in Peru, Guido Beigo, just asked Hector Behar to step down and to not present himself as the minister of foreign relations. And this is seen as an enormous blow, I think, of the Peru-Libre party and the government that's being formed right now because as we've talked about on this show, there are going to be very, very strong attacks from the sectors of Fujimoriismo, which is of course the legacy of Alberto Fujimori, the former dictator in Peru and the far-right in Peru, which has for decades enjoyed impunity, has enjoyed the access, the coffers of the state to be able to carry, just rob the money of the Peruvian people. And so Hector Behar, as the foreign minister, was also not only part of this government that wants to attack the local interests, but also international interests. And so he had spoken about Peru leaving the Lima group, the popular force party also hid back at that very hard. They don't want Peru to be part of the continental project that is represented by Venezuela, by Cuba. And so for these comments, Hector Behar was taken, essentially removed and forced to step down from being part of this government. It's a very curious thing that the disqualification rules include criticism of the CIA as a red line. It's news to me, frankly. Not news to me that elections are a tough business. Certainly something that one has experienced in India, one has experienced around the world. It's not news at all. Very tough business. You're listening to give the people what they want brought to you from People's Dispatch. Zoe Prashant and me, Vijay from Globetrotter. Elections are a tough business. You get reports of People's Dispatch on the elections. There's been an election recently in Zambia. Prashant, what's the story from that election? Vijay, yeah, very important election in Zambia. How can the Hilema becomes the president after the election that took place on August 12th? He's contested multiple times and it's after a very long time that he's after many, many efforts that he has become the president. So there's been quite a lot of celebration from his supporters, of course. The end of the reign of Edgar Lungu, who is president since 2015. His rule has been definitely marked by quite a bit of repression. For instance, internet services were cut in Zambia on the day of the election. There's been a lot of use of colonial rules against those who have expressed their views, who have been critical of the government. A lot of whole violence as well. What lies ahead for Zambia is a very difficult question because Hilema is also as committed to the same IMF run neoliberal policy that Edgar Lungu was. He's indicated that one of his first priorities will be to basically try to get a loan from the IMF, which is especially important because Zambia was the first African country to default during the pandemic. They have absurdly high rates of public debt. I think the ratio is about 115% to the GDP. And of course this connects to some of the earlier discussions we've had on why debts are not being waived at this time. But nonetheless, it doesn't look like Hilema's policy trajectory is going to be very different. So whether the Zambians are going to see a huge change is actually a very important question. The interesting thing in this election, like we have been consistently covering, has been the entry of a new party. That is the Socialist Party of Zambia. It's candidate Fred Bemember came fifth. But I think from the coverage in the reports you have received on the ground in Zambia, what we have seen is that this party really bought a lot of new aspects to electioneering itself. It was one party which was really centered on campaigning around the rich poor divide. It was one party which had a very different economic perspective and the rich poor divide is very important because it encouraged people to go out. Their slogan was vote for yourselves because they were like all these years you had people from outside, from the city's urban centers coming in, becoming your representatives. This is a time to change that. They had a very different perspective on the economy, especially of the development of the copper belt region where minerals are, say, really called, minerals are very abundant. Most importantly, they had a huge number of young people and especially young women's candidates. Very, very interesting, the kind of, we had a lot of posts in recent times on their Facebook page for many of these candidates, how the election campaign has transformed their perspective, their lives. So it's a great thing when young people, especially young women, are going to be active in the political scenario. And I think that was one of the great achievements of the Socialist Party. Fred's speech, after he lost the election, I get a master class because he specifically talks about how the constitution, the mandate has to be respected. Very warm wishes of congratulations to the winners. Very different from Lungu who immediately claimed that the election had been rigged. He was in power, but he was like the election has been rigged. So whereas Fred's message was, you know, warm, there was a sense of how the most important thing is to continue the struggle. The most important thing is to stick to the constitution and how it's not only a five year thing that politics and social service, working for society is not just something you do once in five years. It's something that is enduring. So I think all in all, it would be very interesting to see the trajectory of the Socialist Party, all these young people who have come into politics who have, you know, been the voice of the people. Many of them I'm sure will go on to very interesting achievements in later years as well. So definitely the elections are over, but we at People's Dispatch will be keeping our eyes on Zambia because both for the politics, the economics and the role the country plays in the continent as a whole. Elections are a tough business. Fred Mbembe concedes with a great deal of dignity and so on. In Bolivia, we earlier saw an election which overturned a cool regime, pretty powerful statement made by the people of Bolivia. Now there are retrospective investigations of the horrible nature of that cool regime. Zoe, bring us up to speed on that. For sure. Well, as you know, we've spoken about on this show, of course, in November 2019, there was a, you know, violent coup in Bolivia which removed Eva Morales as president. And leading up to his coup and then of course, following his coup, there were mass protests across Bolivia, not only in the capital, but really all across the country.   And, you know, these mass protests, which saw, you know, participation of students, of peasant organizations, of indigenous organizations, trade unions, you know, all sectors of life in Bolivia were met with very, very high levels of repression. And so, you know, this, you know, we saw, we saw images of, you know, the Bolivian army open fire against the people on the street in two of these instances in Sacaba, which is in Cochabamba. And in Sencata, which is in El Alto, which is a city next to the capital, there were massacres that took place where, you know, the army open fired and, you know, killed dozens of people.  And so, you know, we see this in a lot of countries. We've seen this, you know, of course, the past couple of months in Colombia, we see this in Chile. We see a lot of instances of, you know, governments repressing their people who are demanding freedom, who are demanding that their rights be respected.  It stays in recommendations and it stays in this happened. It was, you know, we lamented a lot, but this is what happened. In Bolivia, we've seen something different. So, you know, what happened this Tuesday is that a report was launched from the group of independent experts, which was, you know, essentially assembled through an agreement between the government and the international, in the Inter-American Human Rights Committee, which is, of course, a body of the Organization of American States, which is interesting because, you know, of course, they were, you know, the organization that kind of gave way for the coup to happen, gave the data for them to say this was a stolen election. But essentially this, and this group that was formed was not even able to start their work of investigation of interviewing victims of interviewing family members, interviewing the organizations that were on the ground participating in these protests because the coup regime of Jeninanias, you know, said, we don't really want this investigation to happen and that was blocked. And the group started these investigations a week after Luis Arte and Dovi Chokwanka took office in Bolivia and, you know, they did extensive investigation and, you know, found that, for example, what happened in Senkata and Sakao were massacres and that, you know, the army and the police used unrestrained violence against protesters, but also, you know, parallel to these investigations taking place. And I think they're very important, but the government of Bolivia has been, you know, prosecuting members of the army, members of the police. And of course, you know, Jeninanias and Arturo Murillo, who are, of course, sitting on the top of this government, has taken legal action against them. We've also seen the investigations in Ecuador, in Argentina about these governments even being complicit with the actions of the coup regime. So I think it's really important to point to these advances. You know, their support is very important because it gives, you know, the institutional recognition to what Bolivians have been saying for the past couple of years, but that they're actually taking action. The government of Bolivia is also saying that it will give reparations to these victims. And this is what happens when there's a government that's committed to justice and committed to truth. You know, let's keep following this story because issues of looking back, history and so on, very important for Bolivia. But imagine if somebody had to do this for Afghanistan. If they had to go back and look and we know that a special prosecutor, Fadi Ben Souda, at the International Criminal Court has an open file on war crimes in Afghanistan. I doubt very much that will proceed further. Now, little known, very, very mysterious developments. If this was happening to any other country, it would be front page news. In the last two and a half years, 20 Iranian oil tankers have been sabotaged on the road between Iran to Syria. 20 Iranian oil tankers to the cost of at least half a million dollars of damage, if not more. These tankers aren't sunk. They are sabotaged. This is a message sent both to Iran and to Syria. Herat's newspaper on the margins, not on the front page, seems to indicate that the likely perpetrator is the Israeli government. Maybe others. We don't know. Striking. If this had happened to ships carrying any other flag, there would be outcry. Meanwhile, and who knows what this is all about? Meanwhile, on the 29th of July in the Gulf of Oman, the MV Mercer Street, pay attention, friends. This is interesting. The MV Mercer Street carries a Liberian flag. It's owned by a Japanese company. It's managed by a London based company called Zodiac Maritime, which is owned by Al Offer, a big Israeli shipping family, the Offer family. This is the ship, the MV Mercer Street, going from Dar es Salaam Tanzania to Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. Striking through the Gulf of Oman, it has a Romanian captain, a British security officer. They see a drone nearby, a strike on their ship. The second strike kills both the Romanian captain and the British chief security officer. Even the hue and cry, not on the front page of the reports. Anthony Blinken, we're confident that Iran conducted this attack. UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab, highly likely that Iran carried it out. And then what do we have here from Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett? Iran knows the price that we exact when someone threatens our security. Our security is a Liberian tanker. Our security, not sure what's going on, friends, very little coverage of all of this stuff. But these are the provocations that lead to further escalation into conflict. 20 Iranian vessels sabotaged as they took oil from Iran to Syria. This is over the past two and a half years. Now, 29 July, one ship mysteriously struck by a drone. Nobody has claimed responsibility. The Iranians who are in the middle of serious negotiations in Vienna and have a new president say that they did not do this. Dangerous times in the waters, not only in the Gulf of Oman, where the Americans have started talking about freedom of navigation. Once again, freedom of navigation. This is the term of art used by US and European warships off the coast of China. Pay attention to these things. You're not going to read them on the front page of many newspapers, but you will get these stories at Globetrotter. You will get these stories at People's Dispatch. You've been listening to give the people what they want. We come to you every Friday, half an hour, high quality, credible, believable news about the world from the perspective of our movements. We come to you, we being Zoe Prashant and I, Vijay from People's Dispatch Globetrotter. See you next week. Thanks a lot.


Welcome back to our API series And I just want to share with you how we're going to try to structure our data Of course I shared with you in our first video However, I just want to let you in on the big details about this before we dive into our code So classic press by default gives us posts It gives us media, it gives us pages, it gives us comments As default post types to use However, we can create our own post types and quite easily by writing a few lines of code Why would we need our own custom post type? It's because we're going to be collecting new data And I don't want to mix it with all the other things However, we shall be able to structure that post type And then send it to our endpoint or what we call our namespace So this is how we create our own custom post type So we're going to go to the right plugin And the first thing that we're going to do is make a function That creates with the name of create post type So then the next thing that we're going to do is actually we're going to By adding action And then in the add action we're going to just say Whenever we initialize Never initialize classic press Then we should call this function The create post type function So when we save that We'll be Oh, we need to add this in brackets And when we save that, that will be ready to go Next thing that we're going to do right now is We're going to call a function in WordPress Which is actually called register post type That will take in a number of variables in there So first things first It's going to take the name of our custom post type Which we're going to call villagers for now And then the next option that it takes It will take in an array of information actually So this array of information Includes a couple of things Fast and foremost in this array We're going to collect the labels The labels are basically how The labels are the things that allow us to Call things like you see how we have pages here Add all pages, add new If we quickly go to pages here This information we see here is pages And all pages and add new And edit and quick edit All this information can be shared through the labels So as for the labels We're also going to have an array Of those labels And giving the name The name which is going to be villagers And then we shall also give Something that is really needed Which is the singular name So that when we are calling for one item We have that already in So we're going to just give that And we're going to call that a village So after the singular name We'll go out of the labels section We're going to make it public Because we want this to be accessible To the public And this we shall activate By saying true If we changed it to false Then the public couldn't be able to query this So we'll leave it as true And then we will just say Whether it has an archive And for now We'll set it to true And leave it as that And then the other thing that is important Is what happens when we are going When we want to have a slag At the end of the day So this requires an array And inside here we'll need an argument For a slag And the slag we're going to just call it Villages So now that we've closed off our arrays Was closed up well Raise done We've executed this We're now going to just save this And what happens is When we go back and reload our page here Our village is coming in here It has a default icon We have villagers We can add a new village As you see And if you look here We have the slag Which is villagers For last here Now we have a couple of things here That are still saying something different Like adding new posts or whatever But we're going to correct that By adding more levels Into our Our poster registration And that will help us clear All those other things that Are quickly needed in there


Good morning. Today. I'm going to share with you some bougie items bougie is kind of a new word for To me, it's kind of like luxury things that are kind of extra Extra extra. I'm gonna announce the five one hundred dollar winners of my giveaway And like always there's always gonna be a little bit of chit chat But first of all, I hope you all had a lovely and blessed Thanksgiving I'm filming this before Thanksgiving about seven years ago. I started only buying cruelty-free makeup and At the very beginning when I first started buying just cruelty-free makeup There weren't very many brands that I kind of considered department store or more on the luxury side I did find one that I liked a lot and it was by Terry and I'll type that in up here And I loved all the things that I tried from her brand But I found that it wasn't cruelty-free and all the things that I am going to mention are things that I truly enjoy using and Before I get started. I'm gonna share with you. I have a ring light I bought one a couple of years ago For like 70 some dollars and I never used it. So I put it up today. I'm gonna see what this video looks like Today it's dark outside. I mean there's no sun and I know that last video I had I had lamps and anyway I just thought I'd try the first thing that I thought of when I thought about things I truly love using is Our glass ambient lighting palette and I'll show it to you. It doesn't look like it's real special Here are the shades in the palette and what this is it's a finishing powder Now today, I just have a little powder on in some blush And I don't know if you'll be able to see a difference or not But like when I'm wanting to go someplace and look better than I do I use this and I've owned this for probably six years and it's still going strong But what I do I take a big fluffy brush and I just brush back and forth and I just go around my face and It usually I don't know what it's gonna do here, but it usually just gives me a real Soft finish and I just like it a lot and I enjoy using it You can buy these in singles, but I've never needed to I've just kept using this and I probably will use it for a very very long time You know, I realized that all there's all sorts of blushes in so many different categories Expensive inexpensive and they all bring color to your cheek. It kind of reminds me of my vehicle situation I have a 2017 Chrysler that I absolutely love I get in it. I love driving it It gets me everywhere. I want it to go wherever I want to go I met Jim in 2006 just shortly after I had purchased a new minivan and I love my minivan. We still have the minivan. We have a three three vehicles Jim has his and then we have we both the drive the van and I love it And it gets me everywhere. I need to go, but it's a lot less expensive vehicle, but it still works So that's kind of what I'm talking about with all the with all these things I'm gonna talk about today the next item is by Hourglass and it is mood exposure blush and that's the color and that's what I'm wearing today my very very very favorite blush of all times I have had this for several years and I believe Natalie the beauty diva is a one That use this that I thought oh my gosh. I need to try that. This is the full size. I Would never I will never ever buy another way. I hate to say I'll never ever I probably won't buy full-size again because they also have the small size and this is in diffused heat and it's another blush Absolutely love it. I of course everything I mention I love so I better quit saying that But it has different striations of color in there. I think you you'll be able to see that and It's just a real good size. I did not mean for this to happen But we have a pattern going on here all the makeup products I'm talking about her from Hourglass and I did not know that when I sat down I went to my vanity And I thought what do I really enjoy using and I picked out these things and they all are from Hourglass The Hourglass unreal lip gloss is something that my older sister told me about and because of her I bought one I liked it so much. I bought two and I have repurchased this one And of course, you know, I always wait for a sale, but they're expensive I think they cost $32 if you don't get them on sale, but I like several things about them number one I don't have I don't I've seldom if ever use lip pencil I should but I don't but I want to know the products that I buy and when I talk to you about them I want to tell you if they creep up in the creases above our lips and these don't so you don't have to have a lip liner It's a nice shaped applicator and it just Goes on smooth and I love it and I love both colors now the next item I think is crazy expensive But the case you can get refills and this is by Hourglass and it is a Beautiful beautiful lipstick in a refillable case. This shade is if only and This shade is my icon is that is probably my favorite shade of red, but they're both beautiful But what I really like about them is you can put them on you can blot them and put another little coat over it And it will stay for hours and hours and hours and it's just beautiful and I love getting it out to do a touch up Sometimes I think I wish I'd need to touch up more often because it's just fun using it. This is a compact That's probably 30 years old One of my sisters got it for me I always love to take it out and Put my lipstick on using it and it just makes me feel Special even if I'm by myself. I enjoy doing that. I think the refills are $24 I have a refill of if only and one of them my icon is because that is my favorite I don't have any idea if they sell these anymore. They may or may not, but I just enjoy using them I was about 20 years old when I realized that the brushes that came with the blush with the eye shadow I needed something more than that that little sponge Applicators did a good job at doing a lot of things and I still I bought some sponge Applicators not too long ago and I am gonna wear eye shadow again. I just don't know when But I bought just a set at the drugstore and then when I saw Mary Kay sit brush set I bought that and I used that for years and years and years and the next thing I love using are Brushes and especially BK Beauty brushes. They have become my very top number one brushes that I own In fact, I've given away so many brushes it cosmetics I used to love their brushes. There's one double ended. I still use now for the rest of them I've gone to new homes because I like Lisa's brushes that much better I've had a lot less expensive brushes that I still think are good They do their job and then I've had some that were a whole lot more expensive I'm not I don't really like the real hair hair brushes Because you have to take special care of them The only thing you have to do with the BK Beauty brushes is when you wash it You just want to make sure you don't get it up in the ferrule and you wash it. I put mine flat to dry I know you're supposed to hang them upside down, but I've never had a problem, but I don't use that many brushes I don't now I own I bought these she they sent me two boxes and they're not gonna be given away now But I'm gonna be giving them away in a future video, but I love this brush I have three different sizes of it now and this is the smaller version of the 101 And even though I haven't been wearing liquid foundation when I use powder foundation like I put some I just put some powder on today I love this brush. The bigger one is the one I'm talking about. I love how soft they are I love how easily they clean up. They just have become my favorite. There's a sale that's going on That's 20% off site-wide and I think it's over tomorrow. It's through Cyber Monday. I got mine on sale But 20% off and it's also 20% off a bundle if you decide to buy a bundle It's 20% off that and I'll put a link below But these are four of the new face brushes and I'll just have you look at them online I won't go into detail, but they're all for specific things and then she added four more brushes to her eyeshadow Collection and two of them are smaller versions of larger brushes. There's no duplicates But I'm just really proud of her. I'm proud of her her business. I love her ethics. I love that she Donates money to the kindness campaigns and that she has a happiness guarantee And plus I liked her long before she started making BK Beauty I just think of the world ever and there's not very many people out there that want to send a 69 year old woman Some of their items, but she's one of the people that I I accept products from but I love using her brushes So I do appreciate a good brush I think it was last year when they had the Nord's not this year But last year when they had the Nordstrom sale I bought a set of the nest candles and I've used two of them and I truly love the scent My very favorite is bamboo. I don't like a lot of scent in my home. I something I like is to light it for a few minutes maybe ten minutes and then Extinguish the flame and I just want a real soft subtle smell in the house Last year I bought two of the big nest candles and I was going to give them as gifts But I liked them so much. I got them something else and here's the size of them and this is the bamboo Are you sitting down? The retail price is $48 and I bought it from Ulta when they had ten times points So really basically I paid about half price so twenty four dollars is still a lot for a candle But it's worth it to me when I get them I burn them all the way across like you're supposed to and then I'll just burn it for like 30 minutes and Extinguish it if it ever gets to where I can't use it as a candle I can take some of the wax out and use it in a warmer just for a little while But it's something I probably will always want to have now I want to talk about bath stuff And you may be surprised. I like all kinds of bath bath things. I love bath products But taking a bath is just so relaxing I've always loved a good bath, and I take a bath in an anti-claw foot bathtub that seven generations of my family have bathed in so it's just Fabulous the hospital purchased my mother and father's home And I got to get in get in there and get woodwork and get the fireplace and the bathtub and all that So I'm just really happy to have it. So it's just a special experience Well years ago loxatone Sent me a some of their Almond shower oil bath oil. They sent me my first one I loved it so much that I got a second one as a gift and this year. I found it on sale somewhere I don't remember. I thought well, I'm gonna go ahead and get my back up and Here's my backup There is just something about this scent in the in the bathroom and how it smells on your body when you're done And you don't need much like this is the third one. I've had probably in seven years. So Yeah, it's it's one of my special things and I can't not mention another one the first one I received was a gift This is a so de Janeiro It's supposed to be the boom-boom cream. It's a they're moisturizing shower cream gel The first one, it's a gift the second one I purchased and I've just purchased a backup and It's just packaged a little differently. I love the smell. It's very unique The one in the orange. I love the one with the blue by so de Janeiro I couldn't get it out of my house quick enough My daughter liked it and the pink one I've smelled it and I have a sample and I like it but I like the original the best I think I've had this for about a year and a half. It is the t3 professional curling iron and I have mine in an inch and a half It's crazy expensive. I think it's probably around a hundred and sixty dollars Or seventy dollars. I'm not really sure. I bought it on sale at Ulta and I use some of my points But I'll tell you what I like about number one My hair stylist told me it was a really good one and that I needed to use the lowest setting I could on my hair to keep it strong and this goes for my 260 to 410 And I just have to turn it down here and it'll go on how many lights I want it to There's five and I just use it on the second one and what I like about there's a lot of things I like about it. I don't like it because I did burn myself with it I forgot I hadn't had a curling iron in forever, but when I use this color well on my hair I'm supposed to use a curling iron to after I blow my hair dry but what's nice about this is I can use it like this if I want to just go around like this or however they do it It's not hot now, but you can use it a lot of different ways and it has the You know the cord that goes around and around and I don't think I'll have to buy another I don't think I'll have to buy another curling iron and I'm real happy. I bought it be sure and watch for scammers I'm getting ready to announce the five winners from my last giveaway They're five people that are going to receive a hundred dollars or a hundred dollar deposit to their PayPal account And and I furnish the money. Nobody's you know, nobody's ever sponsored anything unless I told you like when I do have give Away with the BK Beauty brushes. I will let you know that BK Beauty is providing them I'm gonna announce the winners and then after that I'm gonna have a little chit chat and and we'll just go from there This is the first time this has happened in a while that my first winner is Ages just a number by Barbara Jean and she has her own channel So it's the first time in quite some time that somebody who has a channel has won my giveaway I am going to link her channel below because I know you will enjoy it. She does so many different styling videos She's a professional stylist and I just really enjoy her channel Congratulations Barbara Jean the second winner is Cheryl Priester Congratulations Cheryl Next winner is Cindy Price Congratulations Cindy the next winner is Nancy Davis Congratulations Nancy and my last winner is Peridot 500 Congratulations to you Peridot So congratulations to all five of you and make sure you leave a comment below So I can tell you how I want you to get in touch with me. That is the only way I'll ever do giveaways I'll announce them on my video and then I will have you leave a comment And then I will reply to you and tell you how to get in touch with me I hope it comes in handy for you. Well, everything's going fine here. Jim is doing so well we have in-house physical therapy and He's just Moving along great his next appointment with a doctor is on December the 9th and that happens to be his birthday So I think he'll get basically released and then he'll be able to drive That's what our plan is anyway, and he's looking forward to that so much I appreciate prayers that you all have sent the good vibes He could not be doing better. So I really really feel blessed I have a couple of household items that are I think bougie or kind of luxury But but I love them and I would purchase them again, but I'll do that in the in an upcoming video I can't wait to see how this video turned out with a ring light on with a ring light going I think that'll be interesting for me to see you'll see those circles in my eyes if I get up real close I think you will but anyway, it is all good. I appreciate you watching and taking the time to leave a comment it It's really special. It is I'll see you in my next video That'll be the collaboration that I do with Natalie the beauty diva and O carol from the O carol show and this year We're gonna do our 10 favorites from 2022 and it has been rough for me to narrow it down that I've I've got it there I will see you in my next video and you take care Not that anybody's been asking me lately and I've never and I enjoy


Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back to another video. The start-off, we would like to thank you all for the support that you've given us. Psych2Go's mission is to make psychology and mental health more accessible to everyone, and you definitely help us do that. Now, back to the video. Is there someone in your life who asks for your help a lot but then never takes your advice? Do they always talk about how bad their situation is but don't do anything to help change it? This person may have a victim-based mindset where they think that everyone is out to get them and that everything is out of their control. As a result, you may feel drained to constantly witness their perpetual state of discontentment. So here are 10 signs that someone is always playing the victim. Before we begin, we would like to mention that this video is for educational purposes only. It's not intended to diagnose. Please talk with a counselor, life coach, or other professional if you're struggling. It's also important to note that there are people who have hardships that are valid, even if it may be hard to understand. This video is not to discredit or devalue the experiences of others, but to shed light on an issue. Now let's begin. Number one, they try to manipulate you. Does it seem like there's always something bad happening to this person? While it may seem like someone is just going through a hard time, they may be pulling the victim card to manipulate you. Perhaps they always try to find ways to get you to feel sorry for them or they blame you for things out of their control. They may be trying to get you to believe that they are the victim, to get you to abandon your own needs to support theirs. Number two, they place blame elsewhere. Have they ever taken any responsibility for their feelings or made efforts to improve their situation? People with a victim mentality tend to blame their shortcomings on external factors. Perhaps they feel that a bad relationship from their past is the cause of their unhappiness. They may use this as a reason to explain why they are stuck at where they are in life. Number three, they hold on to the past. Do they hold grudges on other people and refuse to forgive or forget their wrongdoings? People playing the victim tend to hold on to past events no matter how big or small the experience was. They're unable to let anything go and may use it as an obstacle to stay where they are. For instance, they may talk excessively about an ex-partner long after the relationship has ended or ruminate about a past failure to the point that it interferes with them moving forward. Number four, they make excuses. Are they able to make an excuse for any situation? No matter what advice you give, they may deflect it by making some excuse. Maybe they think they aren't smart enough to pursue a certain hobby or that learning a new skill takes too much time, energy and money to learn. So they avoid it completely. This habit combined with a tendency to hold on to the past and placing blame elsewhere can prevent them from moving forward in their life. Number five, they're unhappy about their situation. Are they extremely dissatisfied with the way things are? Yet, do nothing to change it? People with a victim mentality often have an idea of the life they want to be living but find themselves unable to work towards the goal. Sometimes they may even use this dissatisfaction of their current life to make you take pity on them so you'll help them. Apart from hurting their own well-being, this can be especially damaging to their relationships. Number six, they don't trust you. Have they become needy and clingy to those around them? They may do so to get you to support them and their needs so that they don't need to actually work to improve their situation. No advice may ever seem to suffice and everything tends to stay at a standstill. As a result, you may end up feeling stuck along with them since you don't see them getting better. Number seven, they're draining to be around. Do you feel like you're always supporting this other person but nothing ever gets better or changes? It can be tiresome when someone is in a constant state of negativity and is hungry for compassion. It's possible to feel that you're getting absorbed into their world. They may become so dependent on you and others to the point that excessive neediness takes a toll on your energy level. Number eight, they're passive. Do they not take action even when it's absolutely necessary? They may let people take advantage of them in a work setting such as by refusing to speak up as they don't know how to stand up for themselves. They may internalize these events and lash out at others. These encounters may cause them to feel weak and powerless. Number nine, they're insecure and unstable. Do they have low self-confidence or self-esteem? This may come from constantly comparing themselves to others and believing that there is no way to change themselves. They may even sabotage themselves and their relationships as assurance that nothing will improve. It may be a sign when they always seem to be in some sort of distress and when the relationships never seem to last long. And number 10, they attract drama. Do they attract drama wherever they go? Is it usually one-sided? No matter what, it seems like there's always someone out there mistreating them. They make quarrel with others over seemingly small things all the time and say that the other person was completely in the wrong. This refusal to accept any responsibility of any wrongdoing, even in the face of evidence, may be a sign that they're purposefully trying to play the victim. Do you relate to any of the signs mentioned here? I have to admit, I do. Tell us about it in the comments below. 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